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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What is your proposal? What the OP is suggesting is that a DA who was tough on crime probably would have created more safe streets - despite the policies in place today. Fine for you to disagree but don't leave it at that.
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My proposal is that we address causes of diseases not symptoms. Much of our public safety policy amounts to handing out cough drops to cigarette smokers. Simple answers are for politicians. I’m here to tell you this is a generational tax & economic development problem.
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I'd be curious what specific policy decisions you are talking about here. Also, it ain't clear why we can't do both? A DA who is tough on crime could go some ways while at the same time policy discussions can happen in parallel?
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Maybe unrelated to this but NYC had high crime rate/stark homelessness in late 80s/90s. What solved it? Was it Bloomberg/Giuliani being tough on crime or were there policy changes too?
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