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And when this behavior is being translated to more traditional city crime where residents typically are the ones calling the police for help, it also has the ef
by fosk 5y ago
And when this behavior is being translated to more traditional city crime where residents typically are the ones calling the police for help, it also has the effect of demoralizing the factual reporting of such crimes (because "nothing happens anyways"), further decreasing the statistics which just become fake.
Then fast forward a few years, you end up in a situation like in San Francisco, where crime is clearly up to the roof everywhere you look, but you have local politicians saying - with confidence - that it is down instead.
- rdtsc 5y agoI always imagine the DA people winking and nodding to each when they discuss the exciting downward trend in serious crimes due to their policy. They’d never put it “on paper”, so to speak, but they know exactly what’s going on.
- fosk 5y ago
- fmajid 5y agoThe LA DA was previously DA of SF, and he was the main proponent of Prop. 47 that essentially decriminalized property crimes under $1000 so yes, he has form.
- muzz 5y agoWrong. Misdemeanors are crimes
- josephcsible 5y agoThe point is they're being treated as if they weren't, even though they are.
- muzz 5y agoThat's not what GP said at all