Been in SF for 2 hours and it’s heartbreaking. Streets lined with people keeled over, worse than ever. Drugs everywhere. I step into one store where a shoplifter gets caught and beats up a cashier until the police come.
Heading back to the airport.
Congrats @chesaboudin!
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Dude has been DA for a year. Crime has been on the rise for at least a decade, likely driven more by other policy blunders than public safety policy. The problem with a simplistic narrative around soft-on-crime politicians is that it only leads to bigger government & no fixes.pic.twitter.com/dwA62XoM1h
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Selective data. Here’s the data from the source used by The Economist: https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/exploration/crime-statistics/crimes-clearances … Population between 2010 and 2019 has risen 9.5% in the same period vs. violent crimes at 4.8% (a per capita reduction) per Census data: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocountycalifornia/PST120219 …pic.twitter.com/oRscum7SC3
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