For many weeks now, it’s been clear that the southwest plaza, where the San Francisco Police Department has parked a mobile unit, is close to pristine. The northeast plaza, however, sits worlds away. The nook at the north entrance of BART is basically an encampment without tents.
Often, the men and women there are using drugs, pipes out. Others are just hanging out or slumped over. At 6 a.m today, it appeared that many had been there all night.
When I asked a man wearing a black Pismo Beach hoodie if he had slept there, he said, “This is where we are,” and punctured the bottom of a cannister that then spewed what appeared to be nitrous oxide. He declined to say…