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The previous DA was doing a fantastic job, he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and vandalism. Doing this is difficult because people will (as they did!) post videos online of petty theft or “unruly” people in the streets and people who do not understand how safety is actually created are never going to listen to people who are actually informed.
> he had picked a fight with the police chief.
This is not true. He prosecuted a police officer for murder and put pressure on the police, which have a long history of corruption and rampant racism, human trafficking, etc.. But police unions have a lot of power and influence, the average person thinks that police create safety (they do not! if they respond at all to anything, they respond after the fact with a pencil and paper, and their behavior is often very dangerous - e.g. speeding around the city running red lights when they clearly are not headed anywhere).
The police in SF do not have a tough job, and police everywhere, always slack off. The SFPD famously went on strike some decades ago and were basically shooting out streetlights and holding the entire city hostage, eventually culminating in a bombing on the mayor’s front lawn.
SFPD do not live in SF, almost any of them, they aren’t members of the community, they do not have the community’s best interest at heart. They are bullies who come from the suburbs and basically view all residents of SF as dirty miscreants. If you ask them for help in a violent situation, they will likely threaten you with violence or arrest yourself.
> he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and vandalism.
Please provide the data that shows this approach will work.
This has been tried for decades in every city across the world and it has been shown over and over again that simply being "tougher on crime" does not work.
What seems to work is a multi-faceted approach targeting root causes like inequality, drug use, homelessness as well as better policing.
> this disregard for the English language is truly despicable. You ought to be ashamed.
> Says who? Some prosecutor?
> If a man takes a Valium, he won't be charged with anything.
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