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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I don’t think this data is proving what you think it does. How long does he need to show even the slightest of improvement?
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Tell me what you think it shows? It seems there's a modest upward trend for property crimes, with the last year being 2017, 3 years before Boudin started as DA. All we have in this thread is an anecdote. So maybe we could wait for any amount of data?
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I see no improvement. I lived in SF for 20 years and moved away last month for this reason. I love SF. But its undeniably worse and particularly bad since
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I would hope any person who bases their beliefs on evidence could see the flaws in that conclusion. Why not compare with perhaps the most successful criminal justice system in the world? Sounds a lot like Chesa Boudin's plans:https://impactjustice.org/reflections-on-the-finish-justice-system/ …
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Also, he just started in January, if it's been slowly getting worse for years, wouldn't the culprit be the former approach of criminal justice in SF? Where's the evidence that a focus on punitive policing has been successful in reducing crime?
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