San Francisco is losing out on tax revenue as residents have fled the city over the last several years. Given how the city wastes money, it would be difficult to argue that it was a bad thing.

The city’s Department of Public Health paid researchers $500,000 to “determine the impact” of a “safe” drug consumption site called the Tenderloin Center “on the surrounding neighborhood,” according to the San Francisco Standard. Similar “safe” drug centers have, unsurprisingly, attracted drug addicts that make communities less safe, with residents having to walk over feces on the sidewalks and carry bats or tasers to protect themselves.