Despite spending over $94 million - or around $257k per day this year, San Francisco is still a needle-infested, poo-covered, failed experiment in tolerance that continues to scare major conferences and their tourist dollars away from the city's $9 billion-a-year industry.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "while progress has been made, the effort remains a losing battle," despite paying 'poop patrollers' nearly $200,000 to manage the town's fecal fiasco.

Hilariously, while Mayor London Breed participated in a media blitz in response to software giant Oracle's decision to move their massive annual convention to Las Vegas after two decades in SF, an image of a guy taking a shit in a local Safeway was going viral. Like hepatitis C.

Deborah Kan @debkhk

.@LondonBreed here’s a pic of a man on drugs taking a poo in aisle 10 of @Safeway Marina Sunday morning in #SF. Why is this okay? @KTVU @kpix @kron @KGOdesk @sfchronicle

"We don’t want Oracle to be the beginning of a trend," said SF Travel CEO Joe D'Alessandro, adding: "If that becomes the case, San Francisco will be in for some very tough times."

D’Alessandro noted that 33% of the 1,282 tourists questioned in a survey this year commissioned by agency cited homelessness and dirty streets as the least attractive aspects of visiting the city. Other dings against San Francisco — traffic and parking came in second, at 29%, and the high cost of visiting the city was third, at 13%.

That said, the survey, which was done by market researchers Destination Analysts over a 10-month period, found that despite the homelessness, dirty streets and expense, 97% of the hotel visitors said that they are likely to return to San Francisco. -SF Chronicle

"Do people love or hate San Francisco? Well, it’s really both," D'Alessandro opined. "What concerns us is that convention planners are a much more selective breed. Our street conditions and costs could tip the destination selection to somewhere else that doesn’t have these same issues, and we could lose significantly."

Poster Comment:

Breed is a black lesbian. And was the conservative candidate for mayor.

As mayor, Breed took several unannounced walks through different neighborhoods of the city. She created a task force of members of the San Francisco Department of Public Works to clean up feces from city sidewalks, known as a Poop Patrol.[43][44]

Breed made homelessness an early focus of her administration. In October, she announced plans to build 1,000 shelter beds by 2020.[45] To help achieve this goal, she introduced legislation declaring a shelter crisis in San Francisco,[46] which allows the city to waive certain permitting and contracting requirements for homeless services. She also has worked to expand mental health and substance abuse recovery beds.[47] When the Controller found an extra $415 million in property taxes, Breed introduced legislation to fund housing and homelessness programs with the discretionary portion of the funding.[48] She also authored legislation with Supervisor Rafael Mandelman to expand San Francisco’s conservatorship laws,[49] based on California Senate Bill 1045, authored by State Senator Scott Wiener.