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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great title to this editorial:  "Refunding the San Franciso Police":

As crime has risen, the defund-the-police movement has become a political liability even for Democrats in progressive cities. Exhibit A is San Francisco, where Mayor London Breed appears to have had a law-and-order conversion for the ages.

That’s a welcome statement, but it’s a reversal for Ms. Breed, who championed sizeable cuts to the police budget in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. The mayor now says she’ll introduce a supplement to the current budget to pay for more policing. She also wants more funding in the next budget for officer overtime and police-academy classes.

She wants to target open-air drug dealing, and she’s also coordinating with police and the sheriff’s office on a felony warrant sweep. That sounds suspiciously like broken-windows policing.

What prompted this change of heart? Ms. Breed acknowledged Wednesday that “the fact is things have gotten worse over time.”

No kidding. By Dec. 12, San Francisco had 53 homicides this year, up from 48 in all of 2020 and 41 in 2019. Smash-and-grab robbery gangs and shoplifting in the city have become global viral videos, and police data show an 18% increase in larcenies since last year. Homeless camps on the street, drug use, and public disorder are rampant.

Residents are fed up with the lawlessness, and tourists are afraid to visit. San Francisco’s radical district attorney, Chesa Boudin, faces a recall election in June. There’s a lot of ruin in a city, but apparently even the progressives in San Francisco may have had enough.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/refunding-the-san-francisco-police-london-breed-crime-11639696468[/quote]

Weird that the mayor would think things were getting worse when the experts here know that it totally isn't.

Maybe someone should give her a ring and let her know she can stop worrying and enforcing the laws and all that.

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