By Joe Eskenazi : missionlocal – excerpt
Robert Harold “Crazy Bob” Lee died on the pavement in the wee hours last Tuesday after being stabbed while he walked through an abandoned downtown street.
He was 43, a father, and while the moments after a man’s violent, senseless death are not ideal for gleaning unvarnished opinions, the heartfelt tributes emanating from his many friends and loved ones made it clear that this was a better world with Lee in it. And he deserved far better than this.
While the police insist this was the 13th homicide this year, the medical examiner provided only 12 names. This is an area in which you’d like to have everyone on the same page and police have not answered our questions about this jarring discrepancy; they are apparently very busy working on the present case…(more)
Cold dark empty abandoned streets are a good description of San Francisco’s problem. Those streets that Bob stumbled down were bereft of traffic because of city policies that cleared them. The only eyes that captured the distress and calls for help were the heartless digital ones our society has decided to trust. What is missing from this scene is a human heart and helping hand. We are losing our humanity as we quibble over priorities and process.