San Francisco’s Progressive Nightmare
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When I look at clearance rates from 2019 vs 2020 as reported by the SFPD[1], they appear identical.
If I look at “action taken” and “filing” rates on the DAs website[2], the rates look down from last year, but so do the overall counts of cases presented to the DA by the police. Could be pandemic influence. Also, though the rates have dipped, they are where they were only a few years back and rather within what looks like a normal range, especially considering that 2020 was far from a normal year.
[1] https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/clea... [2] https://sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/da-stat/
The author attributes rising crime, homelessness, and anti-Asian violence to the policies of one DA in San Francisco. Yet, sitting here across the Bay in Oakland, I note that those things have been on the rise here as well, with a noticeable uptick starting around the time lockdowns began and many people losing their jobs and/or radically changing the way they spent time in society.
Is it all because of Chesa?
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/3/21334149/murders-crime-shooting...
The causes are unclear but the widespread effect indicates that they're systemic, not tied to the policies of an individual county or city. And they have nothing to do with increased or decreased aggressiveness in policing (the cops have certainly not backed off in my city, and are as aggressive and well funded as ever, but crime is still up)
There's maybe some statistically significant increase in homicides year on year but one of the many theories to explain that is that the same level of violent crime results in more deaths when you're in the middle of a hospital filling pandemic.
A chunk of the article is about the fact that it's odd other crime isn't up dramatically if homicides have risen.
You could easily get the impression that these were professional concern trolls.
How Stonewall have sacrificed gay rights! (Someone needs to look up the origin of their name)
How universities ruined feminism!
And SF is causing Asian Americans to be harassed by not locking up enough criminals. A black member of the LGBTQ community is quoted as saying it's gone too far! And we all know the first rule of progressivism is that you can't disagree with black people or minority sexualities, so that's like 200% settled. Let's not bother presenting facts or statistics to support the argument.
edit: just googled one of their contributors and their latest tweets are on the topic of "woke people causing a wave of anti-Semitism" and "trans-rights would appal suffragettes". You wouldn't think someone so concerned about such things would have recently admitted to posting racist and mysogynistic tweets after losing a court case.
Please don't post ideology to HN. It's about tech.
https://outsidevoices.substack.com/p/mounting-violence-casts...
I lived long enough to see a resurgence of big cities like NYC from the crime and depopulation of the 80’s.
I wonder if I’ll live longer enough to see it repeated?
Stores with higher lossage rates are probably first to go, which gives fuel to the fire that blames this on San Francisco's progressive DA. But how does that explain the closures across the rest of the nation happening at the same time? Walgreens is just struggling, and was before the pandemic.