San Francisco

Compared to the other homes on my street, ours sits about 4-5 feet back with our bay windows providing shelter from the elements, which means we seem to attract a lot of homeless, either to camp out in front of our garage, smoke crack/meth, and defecate, besides the occasional package theft attempts (breaking/climbing over our gates) and vandalism.

In other words, I'm tired of cleaning up shit, hosing down piss, dealing with trash and needles, smell of drugs coming through our 100 year old windows, and dealing with property damage. There's also the risk when backing out of my garage, I could accidentally run over a sleeping vagrant backing out if I'm not careful and don't want to deal with a potential involuntary manslaughter charge / lose points on my license (sorry not sorry).

In the past, I've had a homeless try to break into my home during the day, heard him and scared him off, another grabbed my gate while it was closing and tried to follow me into my home, and another followed into our garage to charge their phone and refused to leave. Also had our garage windows broken though doesn't appear they got in.

SFPD is no use from past experience, so no point in even calling them / filling out a report. I'm in the newly redistricted D9, so no point complaining to Hillary "Defund the Police" Ronen.

We do have very bright lights and cameras, it doesn't seem to deter them.

My current approach is to first ask them nicely to leave, they always refuse, then ask more forceful, followed by screaming at them non stop till they GTFO, which usually does the trick. This leaves my throat irritated. Pepper spray and taser on hand in case things turn violent, so far it hasn't come to that.

Based on recent news articles, hosing them down will get you in hot water.

I'm thinking about buying a bear horn, this would have the same affect, but sparing my vocal cords. Anyone see anything wrong / potentially illegal with that approach?

Maybe I could jerry rig some sprinklers, though if we go back to drought conditions, I'd be more likely to get a ticket then those doing drugs, stealing, vandalizing, violating sit/lie.

How do others deal with this?