2020: San Francisco mayor London Breed pushes policies softer on crime, vagrancy and social decay than even her predecessors. She literally raised not a finger – at best – against the decriminalization of shoplifting less than $900 worth of merchandise, leading to the gutting of much San Francisco retail and roaming gangs of smash and grab flash mobs of looters.
2021: London Breed turns into “Dirty Harriett“.
Mark my words: Law Enforcement in San Francisco, under pfogressive leadership, will be about as subtle and libertarian as Ted Nugent leading a band of saracens…
…although I suspect it’ll have little effect on crime.
There are two things you cannot do:
1) Sit on Queen Nancy’s chair. If you do, it’s 12 months and counting of solitary confinement in Washington DC’s, Zero Bail Jail.
2) Take a dump on her driveway. Obviously someone just did that…
Like they say, “a conservative is a liberal who just got mugged” or in this case…dumped on.
Conservatives moved out of San Francisco and left it to the Democrats.
More recently, the non-partisans like Mike Rowe have moved out of San Francisco.
The only people left in San Francisco are the Woke True Believers, those make the public obeisance to Wokeness, people that aren’t paying any attention, and those preying on everyone else with the tacit approval from the Woke.
Even money bet that London Breed gets outed from the Left.
It’s nice to read an example from a politician who represents a “liberal city” who still wants to enforce the rule of law. Citizens can maintain their “liberal” views and still follow the law. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. Mayor Breed has been consistently far more moderate on many issues as compared to the San Francisco DA, supervisors, school board etc…
Breed declares state of emergency to clean up the Tenderloin’s ‘nasty streets’
http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/breed-declares-state-of-emergency-to-clean-up-the-tenderloins-nasty-streets/
My money is on Breed will either recanting or leaving office.
There is no appetite on the Left for a law and order mayor. Or governor. Or president.
Biden was elected despite his 1994 crime bill, not because of it.
Citizens can maintain their “liberal” views and still follow the law.
a) It’s “progressive” and/or “leftist”. Not “liberal”.
b) You can be a prog and follow the law. Most likely, the law will be shuffled over to make whatever depravity you practice “legal”. See also: leaving “room to destroy”, at “mostly peaceful” riots.
MBerg: Much as the left has ignored/denied the rioting and burning, that provides no basis for a claim of self defense, no matter how bad it was. If progressives were principled, they would be liberals and would believe that the same principles apply to everyone, whether you agree or disagree with them.
There are millions of normal people in this country routinely forced to pick between BS like this on one hand and a party that thinks guys in “Camp Auschwitz” shirts are great patriots on the other.
This country needs serious help.
That’s an interesting argument: a riot provides no basis for a claim of self-defense.
Reginald Denny. Those Koreans on the rooftop. Kyle Rittenhouse. No rights. Go ahead and kill them. During a riot, you’re entitled to kill people. Really?
“I have a little list . . . they wouldn’t be missed.” I wonder how hard it would be to start a riot so I could do some killing of my own?
FIFY: During a left-wing riot, you’re entitled to kill people who have things you might want or might disagree with you politically.
There’s plenty of Silicon Valley Richie Rich’s in SanFran. I’d be willing to bet that one of them had a negative experience that was easily traceable to soft-on-crime policies, and either cut her a check to ramp it up a bit, or threatened to withhold some of that sweet sweet campaign cash unless she ramped it up a bit.
I’ll believe Breed is for real when the police start to arrest looters and rioters on a sustained basis, and don’t get thrown off task when someone shows pictures of when an arrest doesn’t look pretty.
MP ventured: Biden was elected…
No he wasn’t.
when the police start to arrest looters and rioters on a sustained basis
To what effect? They get let off with little or no bail, they aren’t prosecuted, they don’t do time. It’s the same around the Twin Cities. That coalition of mayors from wealthy Mpls suburbs is begging the Hennepin county attorney to do his job without so much of a peep about those judges who just let the criminals go.
Oh, and the Sentencing Guidelines Committee has been infiltrated by Soros’ sycophants. So now the judges can shrug and say that their hands are tied.
… it’s my understanding that the prison-for-profit in Appleton, MN, is empty.
jdm, correction duly noted. “When the police start to arrest looters and rioters on a sustained basis, and prosecutors do their job to put them in jail where they belong.”
Translation; when pigs start flying out of my butt.
Progressives are incapable of learning from others.
Europe has similar cities with similar populations, no “homeless encampments.”
That is because they recognize that the root problem of the people in “homeless camps” are drug addicts. In Europe they don’t call them “homeless encampments,” they call them “”drug markets” and treat them like drug marts.
So says journalist and activist John Shellenberg: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-radical-left-has-inflamed-mental-illness/id1375568988?i=1000545459283
Today’s progressives represent the old puritan strain in American politics. All of the wickedness of today’s world is due to other peoples’ sin.
From the Daily Fail:
Parents had to step over body of drug death man, 34, when they took their children to elementary school as LA’s homeless crisis spreads from Venice Beach to neighboring areas
The body of Brett Coleman, 34, was found lying on the ground outside an elementary school as classes began
Coleman, known as ‘Moose’ had died from a suspected drug overdose in a homeless encampment close to the Westside Neighborhood School
‘The people living on the streets with drug addiction and mental illness are not being helped, and the kids at the school are not being protected,’ one parent told DailyMail.com
All we want is for our children to be safe,’ said another
Moose’s mother said he suffered from bipolar disorder and didn’t like the way his medications made him feel
‘Moose’ had died from a suspected drug overdose […] Moose’s mother said he suffered from bipolar disorder
But remember, as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest so cloyingly showed, institutionalizing those with mental illness is wrong because all they need is love. And the freedom to be themselves.
Breed will talk tough, do nothing, and stuff her pockets full of cash, then say: “I’m outta here”.
Breed’s plans for SF include “Breed detailed a list of initiatives intended to disrupt street sales of stolen goods, expand police surveillance powers and pressure people who use drugs into treatment.”
“Expanded surveillance powers” means allowing the cops to view camera footage from stores that have been robbed (they aren’t allowed to do that, now). “[P}ressure people who use drugs into treatment” means confronting people using in public & giving them a choice between a jail stay and treatment.
SF’s commie DA, Chesa Boudin, opposes both measures, so they’ll go nowhere.
The rot is very, very deep. It is built into the structure of San Francisco, just as it is built into the structure of Minneapolis and Hennepin county.
Homeless drug addicts are the most difficult problem to solve.
“Drug addiction treatment” is not a solution to drug addiction. It is hand waving. Once they are not locked up, addicts return to using drugs. Addiction is a complex psychological problem, by the time a person is living on the streets they have burned through whatever social capital they have had. There is no loving family or community ready to welcome them and give them a place even if they stay sober.
You don’t solve the problem by putting the addict in a “drug treatment facility” for a few days or weeks.
So the real world solution has been to push the addicts elsewhere. Make it hard to be a homeless drug addict in SF, and they’ll move to Oakland. That’s easy to do, if the police and DA back you.
From the National Review, because the woke media is not covering it:
“San Francisco Leaders Oppose Mayor’s Plan to Clean Up Drug-Plagued Tenderloin District
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/san-francisco-leaders-oppose-mayors-plan-to-clean-up-drug-plagued-tenderloin-district/
This is the reality in totalitarian regimes.
This is not democratic give-and-take. It is the people with power enforcing orthodoxy.