@the_watcher, appreciate your spirit of self defense. Not a gun owner myself, but went shooting for the first time not too long ago. A couple of things I want to address from your tweets:
- Personally, I'm not too interested in the 60's. 70's, or even up to the early 00s.
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- The world was a lot worse on almost every metric, worldwide, the real miracle is how far we have come as a society. - Im interested in how crime rates change from one year to another, as its very easy to get used to life getting better, and much worse when it goes the other way
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Replying to @virtualvirtues @the_watcher and
- Considering the majority of these victims of violent crime are underserved and/or poc, I would think that any progressive would be sensitive to the a negative change, and don't understand talking about Dan White in this thread? Why? /3 (missed 2)
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Replying to @virtualvirtues @the_watcher and
- additionally, the pivot to your own protection methods? Aren't we trying to figure out to make people's lives better here? You're arguing crime is down and/or not a big deal, I think its more complex/alarming than that. - The general populace of SF and esp tourism are down /4
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- Seems relevant when we discuss data of total events that less people and less tourists will change the numerator. - Valencia IS a diff universe than it was when I started partying there in '09. Don't think its better in the last year and half (tho I love when it closes to cars)
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The crowd here likes to claim that the DA is the main driver behind these changes. I believe it is mostly COVID related. I am skeptical of anecdotes and prefer data. The data I have seen shows a modest decline in violent crime, a moderate increase in property crime.
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Replying to @the_watcher @3Sentinel4 and
Anecdotes vs data - 100% agreed w you! But its also ok to be suspicious of data, and hope we get better data. the story is not over here. And speaking of data, how many crimes did SF prosecute in the last 1.5yr vs Alameda? Seems like its probably a relevant data point
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Replying to @virtualvirtues @the_watcher and
My thread skills are terrible btw. Life, and the esp the TL were very bad before Chesa. But he is a person who's entire being, from his parents, to his book, to his current statements, reflect a world view that IMO has very very little little positive results to show for itself
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And, I'm tired of hearing about his policies. He is not meant to have policies. He is like the boss of the police. That he comports himself this way is very damaging for our polity, society, and the life of the most marginalized in this city.
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Ppl act like a vote against him is a vote against social justice. I don't see a single metric that makes him look good, not from anything he has done currently, to his support in S America, to his parents. Tired of being gaslit that a vote for Chesa is a vote for soc justice /end
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His entire term has been dominated by the effects of COVID. We don’t know if his policies would work or not.
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Replying to @the_watcher @3Sentinel4 and
Policy is not the right word imo. Not doing that which it is job to do, due to his ideology, is more accurate. Policy is not the job of a DA. Dropping crime cases that have multiple videos for evidence but no DNA, that is not policy. That is negligence.
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Covid has certainly changed the landscape, but if there are 30 drug dealers who have been working on the same handful of street corners for 36 months, that is a failure of epic proportions.
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