A Gen Z activist has slammed San Francisco’s woke lawmakers for allowing the city to descend into a ‘fourth world country’.
Soft-on-crime policies in the West Coast hub have allowed rampant lawlessness and open-air drug markets to take over the city, leading disgruntled resident Darren Mark Stallcup, 26, to admit he ‘can’t keep living this way’.
‘We are witnessing the collapse of the Paris of the West and potentially the decline of Western civilization, with San Francisco being the first domino,’ he told Fox News.
‘I am personally witnessing a fentanyl genocide, every night I’m going to sleep to the sound of sirens and waking up to people screaming for their lives.’
His remarks come as over 70,000 residents have fled San Francisco since the start of the pandemic to escape the crumbling city’s drug and crime crisis.
San Francisco has become overran with rampant crime and open-air drug taking
Stallcup, who recently launched a fundraiser to help him move from San Francisco after fentanyl made the city ‘uninhabitable’, frequently documents the ugly scenes on the streets to bring awareness to the issues.
His videos frequently show streets lined with tents, open-air drug taking and homeless addicts terrorizing people without consequence.
‘When I go out every morning and count the bodies, when I’m documenting the fentanyl genocide happening in our community,’ Stallcup said.
‘My goal is to show the world what’s really happening on the streets of San Francisco.’
Darren Stallcup said he is ‘going to sleep to the sound of sirens’ every night due to the city’s untamed crime wave
Earlier this year, embattled California Governor Gavin Newsom pledged to crack down on the metro’s untamed drug and crime wave.
But Stallcup said elected officials are to blame for the ongoing crisis, where lenient policies and underfunded police forces are unable to bring the city back to life.
‘It seems as if local leaders and local news are working together to kind of just sweep this under the rug and pretend everything is fine and dandy, when in actuality thousands of people are dying from fentanyl,’ the 26-year-old Bay Area native said
‘We have a beautiful city. Generations of people, good men and women, built this city. Generations of blood, sweat and tears.
‘And I hate to see it all crumble in a decade just because people can’t stop voting for this chaos.’
Stallcup said he frequently witnesses crime in the city, where homeless rates have skyrocketed
Addicts openly smoke drugs on the sidewalk of the Tenderloin area of San Francisco, where overdose deaths have rocketed upwards in recent months
A drug addict is pictured strung-out in downtown San Francisco in April
Stallcup has focused his activism on tackling the effects of woke policy making, which he says has made his hometown unrecognizable.
In July, he launched a campaign to lobby officials to declare a state of emergency in San Francisco, feeling its drug and crime epidemic has become a ‘humanitarian crisis’.
He said he frequently witnesses crime throughout the city, and claims he has even fought off robbers himself after falling victim to criminals three times in the last year.
‘I want women and children to be safe again,’ he continued.
‘Children are having to walk to school and having to navigate the trenches of San Francisco, tripping over bodies, fecal matter, needles, crack pipes, you name it.
‘These sidewalks are haunted with the spirits of lost souls.’
Drug addicts and the homeless in the Tenderloin District, San Francisco
Drug addicts litter the street in a stupor while soft-on-crime policies worsen the issue
The streets of San Francisco have become overran with lawlessness and drugs
Since the start of the year, San Francisco has seen a disturbing crime spike that looks set to continue through the summer.
According to official police statistics, homicides are up five percent on last year, while robberies are up a startling 16 percent.
Some indications show rates for crimes such as rape and larceny are down. However, a former prosecutor said last month the city’s liberal DA’s decision not to prosecute many crimes may have skewed the numbers.
San Francisco’s drug deaths have also skyrocketed in the wake of the closure of the closure of a drug treatment center in the Tenderloin area.
The Californian coastal hub saw 200 people die due to overdoses between January and March, compared to 142 deaths in 2022, according to recent data from the city’s medical examiner.
That amounts to one overdose death every 10 hours in a city that has seen its reputation as a coastal gem ravaged by worsening crime, drugs, and homelessness rates.
San Francisco saw a staggering 41 percent surge in the number of drug-related deaths in the first quarter of 2023
Despite struggling to clamp down on the spate of crimes plaguing the city, last month local leaders launched their most expensive campaign yet to try and lure people back to the city.
The campaign, called ‘Always San Francisco’ cost a whopping $6million and is being spearheaded by the city’s tourism bureau.
Officials decided to focus the advertising campaign on the quirkiness and diversity of the city, however businesses have flooded away from the crime hub in their droves.
In recent weeks, Nordstrom shuttered both its stores in the crime-ridden metro, joining other brands including Whole Foods, Anthropologie and Office Depot in abandoning the area.
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