Right: If we just stop testing, we wouldn’t have coronavirus. Left: If we just stop policing, we wouldn’t have crime.pic.twitter.com/CMpfjbBJ8s
No, they stopped making arrests in SF for things that wouldn't get prosecuted. e.g. theft under $900, etc. If you ask my Safeway downstairs, the short term effects of the policy have been negative. But long term tbd
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there's nothing in prop 47 that says police should stop making arrests under $900 tho, is there?
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It reclassified some felonies as misdemeanors, but SF also has a DA that doesn't like to prosecute many kinds of misdemeanors (and he makes some good points). The misdemeanor/felony delineation was how arrest priority was being assigned, that priority needs to change.
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