He had hitched himself to the urban renewal dreams that had percolated through Lower Manhattan in the late 1960s and ’70s, convinced he would make a fortune from his curate’s egg of a store in a location that was becoming a major tourist attraction.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/nyregion/joe-hill-dead.html

That corruption has been an undercurrent for a long time in places like DBI and in the restaurant inspection area, but since the mid-90’s, it’s percolated to most departments.

Source: https://missionlocal.org/2023/02/michael-moritzs-strange-and-terrible-diagnosis-of-san-francisco/