San Francisco is launching a "poop patrol" next month to help deal with its human feces problem on streets and sidewalks, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
"We're trying to be proactive," said Public Works director Mohammed Nuru. "We're actually out there looking for it."
Clean streets seem to be unusual in San Francisco, despite the city's budget of more than $10 billion, and the issue was a central focus of the mayor's race – Landon Breed, elected in July, told NBC Bay Area "there's more feces on the sidewalks than I've ever seen growing up here."
According to the Chronicle, the city receives about 65 phone calls a day with reports of human feces on streets and sidewalks.
The poop patrol – a group of five Public Works employees – will ride around in the Tenderloin neighborhood in a vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner and clean piles of poop before anyone has a chance to complain about them. Their shifts will start in the late afternoon.
Breed and Nuru helped come up with the solution.
"I've been talking to the Department of Public Works director on a regular basis, and I'm like, 'What are we going to do about the poop?'" Breed told the Chronicle.
"He and I talked about coming up with some different solutions," she continued. "I just want the city to be clean, and I want to make sure we're providing the resources so that it can be."
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