San Francisco’s newly elected mayor is establishing a new clean-up patrol to keep the city’s downtown area free of human feces.
The “Poop Patrol” is a newly established pilot program geared towards battling the city’s increasing homelessness and resulting human waste problems. The group of feces monitors will consist of six people armed with steam cleaners to scour downtown neighborhoods, Fox News reports.
San Francisco’s 311 service line has received more than 14,000 calls about feces piles in 2018 thus far, according to the outlet.
Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru told Fox News that nearly $750,000 will be spent on the patrol team.
“So, what happens is we’re going to take one of those crews out and try to get ahead of those calls and look for these locations so that hopefully we can get less numbers of calls coming in,” he told KTVU.
Last month, the city’s new mayor, London Breed, also said the problem had escalated.
“We have the data that shows where most of the complaints are for poop clean up,” Breed told KTVU. “So, the goal is to make sure we have a dedicated team and they are focusing on those particular areas where we know it’s most problematic.”
