Kneecapping

I have known of many flakes who take advantage of the San Francisco rent control laws to stay in their apartments for years without paying rent.  I won't list the techniques, they are available with any visit to the Rent Control Board.

When I hear this from a landlord or about a landlord I always wonder why the landlords don't take advantage of the poor law enforcement in San Francisco. San Francisco is a Wildwest lawless town. It seems to me that the solution under these outlaw circumstances is force. San Francisco is a City without a functioning Police force or a competent District Attorney.

A justifiably angry landlord could take advantage of our rampant lawlessness and lease the property to a person who will use force to remove the tenant.  No tenant is going to stay long once a tough guy has approached the tenant and said 'you have three days to get all your belongs out of your apartment'.  When the tenant phones the police, he (no shes in this field) will be told the police don't provide protection.  Without proof of the threat or the name of the person who made the threat, the District Attorney will do nothing.  The tenant will move out. 

If he doesn't then one broken knee cap will get him to move out and the police and the DA will still do nothing.

What I don't understand is why landlords don't do this more often. Criminals get away with theft to their hearts content in San Francisco. Why don't we hear more about kneecapping...a time honored outlaw tactic? 

I've never had trouble with my tenants.  Probably because I pick them carefully. I once chased a tenant's noisy boyfriend out of the apartment but he was a coward and left with no trouble.