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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He ran on a policy of decarceration, rescued enforcement on quality of life crimes and an increased effort at focusing societal resources on decreasing violent crime.
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Does prosecuting drug dealers reduce drug use? As far as I can tell, illegal drug dealing is only legal in SF and it has extremely high fentanyl deaths
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I too am anti drugwar, but there is a diff btwn decrim and allowing people carte blanche on the streets. Many residents of the TL are less privileged than us. They don't deserve to have that in their neighborhood every day. I would hope we can recognize that together at least.
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The quality of life in the TL has generally gone down while it has improved elsewhere, I agree. Or at least we agree it is worse in the TL. There are no easy answers here. Our general unwillingness as a society to tax the winners to help the poor has led to widening inequality.
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