{"id":2018527,"date":"2023-08-31T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-commissioner-creator-of-doom-loop-tour-resigns-in-scathing-letter-to-mayor\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:40:10","slug":"san-francisco-commissioner-creator-of-doom-loop-tour-resigns-in-scathing-letter-to-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-commissioner-creator-of-doom-loop-tour-resigns-in-scathing-letter-to-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Commissioner behind &#8216;Doom Loop&#8217; tour resigns, sends harsh letter to Mayor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-commissioner-creator-of-doom-loop-tour-resigns-in-scathing-letter-to-mayor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018527&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>San Francisco Commissioner \u2064Resigns, Blames Drug Crisis for City&#8217;s \u2064Deterioration<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San \u2063Francisco<\/a> commissioner who created \u2062the \u200b\u201cDoom Loop\u201d\u200c walking tour of San Francisco\u2019s most decrepit and drug-infested areas resigned this week in a scathing letter to Mayor London Breed.<\/p>\n<p>Alex \u200cLudlum, San Francisco\u2019s land use commissioner, resigned from \u2063the city\u2019s Commission on \u200cCommunity Investment and Infrastructure on Monday. \u200dBreed appointed the 35-year-old\u200b real estate \u200bprofessional to the commission \u2063last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his resignation letter to the mayor, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/sf-doom-loop-tour-commissioner-resigns-breed-18334470.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> \u2062 with the \u2063San Francisco Chronicle, Ludlum pointed the finger squarely at San Francisco\u2019s drug crisis for the city\u2019s deterioration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe \u200bunchecked drug dealing is \u2064plainly the root\u200c of our current problems,\u201d Ludlum \u2063wrote. \u201cAs Mayor, I hope you will continue to address these dire issues,\u2062 and will have my full\u200c support in doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs long as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-now-almost-impossible-to-get-arrested-for-drugs-in-washington-state\/\" title=\"It\u2019s Now Almost Impossible To Get Arrested For Drugs In Washington State\">open-air drug<\/a> markets continue their daily operations, we will continue to witness the misery of suffering addicts, the withdrawal \u2063of pedestrians and \u2062office-workers, \u2063the \u200bongoing closures of small businesses, and the\u200c stagnation of\u2063 our rich\u2062 cultural life,\u201d \u200dhe said. \u2062\u201cAll of downtown will\u2064 suffer until the \u2063markets are closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ludlum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2023\/08\/31\/doom_loop_city_149698.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologized<\/a> for creating the \u201cDowntown Doom Loop Walking Tour,\u201d which was advertised as a look\u2062 at \u200cthe \u201cworst of\u2063 San Francisco\u201d and \u2064the \u201cdoom and squalor of downtown.\u201d \u200bThe tour was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/sf-doom-loop-tour-18327646.php\">canceled<\/a> less \u200bthan 24 hours before it was to\u2063 take place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI regret that my attempt\u2062 to\u200c bring attention to\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-commissioner-creator-of-doom-loop-tour-resigns-in-scathing-letter-to-mayor\/\" title=\"San Francisco Commissioner behind 'Doom Loop' tour resigns, sends harsh letter to Mayor.\">deplorable street conditions &#038; rampant criminality<\/a> \u2062in my neighborhood has been\u2064 misconstrued as a mockery of\u200c suffering individuals,\u201d Ludlum wrote \u2064in his letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSatire is a poor way to address\u2064 the grave issues we face as a \u2064city,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The $30 \u201cDoom Loop\u201d \u200dtour,\u2063 which reportedly sold out, attracted media \u2062attention and backlash before \u200cit was canceled. The tour promised to show \u2062people the \u200dcity\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-homeless-population-sees-record-spike\/\" title=\"Homeless population in the U.S. hits all-time high.\">open-air\u200b drug markets<\/a>, empty office \u2064buildings, and the \u201curban decay\u201d in the\u200c Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and Union Square.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman \u2064for\u2064 Mayor Breed called Ludlum\u2019s decision to organize and publicize the tour a \u201cdeep error in judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working every day to address the city\u2019s \u2062challenges, and our focus remains on doing\u200d the work to move this city forward,\u201d\u2064 the mayor\u2019s \u200dspokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/sf-doom-loop-tour-commissioner-resigns-breed-18334470.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the San Francisco Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, it was not \u2062clear that Ludlum was the \u201cDoom Loop\u201d organizer, but his involvement reportedly came to light when refund\u200c notices for the tour\u2063 listed a person\u2064 with his email address as the\u2064 organizer.<\/p>\n<h3>Homelessness and Drug Crisis\u2062 Plague San Francisco<\/h3>\n<p>San\u200c Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-mayor-joins-hundreds-of-protesters-urging-9th-circuit-to-scrap-ban-on-city-clearing-homeless-encampments\">has been<\/a> \u200din the throes of \u200ca homelessness and drug crisis for years now.<\/p>\n<p>Homelessness\u200c has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About\u2064 38,000 people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge\">are homeless<\/a> in the \u200bBay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019. More than \u200c7,000 people are homeless in\u2064 San Francisco itself.<\/p>\n<p>Crime and open-air drug use often accompanies the homelessness issue, causing businesses \u2064to \u2062flee San Francisco\u2019s\u200b downtown, where foot\u2063 traffic has \u200cthinned.<\/p>\n<p>The drug\u2063 crisis is still raging as well \u2014 although overdose deaths have dropped from their \u200call-time high in 2020 during the \u200cthick of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, San Francisco saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge\/\" title=\"Residents of San Francisco and Oakland are increasingly anxious due to rising crime rates and homelessness.\">620 fatal drug overdoses<\/a>, down \u200cfrom 640\u2064 overdose deaths\u2062 in 2021. \u2062In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-midst-of-fentanyl-crisis-vulnerable-democrats-voted-down-opioid-detection-funding\/\" title=\"In Midst of Fentanyl Crisis, Vulnerable Democrats Voted Down Opioid Detection Funding\">overdose deaths spiked<\/a> to 725.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco&#8217;s land use commissioner, Alex Ludlum, resigned from the city&#8217;s Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure. Ludlum, creator of the controversial &#8220;Doom Loop&#8221; walking tour, stepped down in a scathing letter to Mayor London Breed. The tour highlighted the city&#8217;s most dilapidated and drug-ridden areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2018529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}