Some committee members expressed concern about addressing the symptoms of the area’s problems without getting to the cause. Councilmember Larry Gossett said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.
Another council member, Claudia Balducci, suggested that the county consider using social-service employees in partnership with police.
Excellent. The sooner a pandemic breaks out, the sooner we’ll be shed of the left. And nothing encourages pandemics like people living in their own filth.