🧵 3/3. The financial cost to the city's business community was over than $170 million a year in lost retail and restaurant sales, according to an April 1992 study, as visitors stayed away from “Camp Agnos.” Voters outed Agnos and brought in Frank Jordan, who created Operation Matrix: the city got tough on the homeless and serious crime dropped 25%.

During the 1995 mayoral race, Willie Brown made undoing Operation Matrix a priority, saying it was just people “in uniforms operating as if they are occupational officers in a conquered land." In one of his first mayoral acts, he dumped Matrix and the homeless came back.