»In which our neighbourhood has a lot of nice people.

Two young men were shot in the head and killed early Sunday morning in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood. From the Chronicle's write-up on the shooting, we learn, unsurprisingly, that "A reporter who pulled up to the block at 10 a.m. this morning was immediately asked if he wanted to buy drugs as a teenage boy rolled a joint in plain sight on the hood of a car." Apparently some of the neighbours are less observant than others: 'A 36-year-old man who lives in an apartment above where the shooting occurred said the neighborhood was "usually all right. There's the occasional crack-head and what not, but it's a good place to live. There are a lot of nice people."' ... because we have more than the occasional crack-head on that block, and certainly more than a fair share of the number of drug-dealing louts in San Francisco. It's almost comical, how ubiquitous the cheap drugs are on the 400 and 300 blocks of Haight Street. Those blocks are distinctly unpleasant, and despite an impressively vocal Lower Haight community group, the city is acting slowly on the questions of increased police foot patrols.