SF might be the a progressive city for US standards but there are many cities in the rest of the western world with social democrat governments, sometimes even

SF might be the a progressive city for US standards but there are many cities in the rest of the western world with social democrat governments, sometimes even under social democrat national governments, which have much lower crime rates. If you're going to blame progressive politics in general, you need an explanation for that fact. It seems to me that rising crime in the western world is a general pattern. The biggest port city in my (European) country (still pretty small compared to big US cities, granted) switched to a right-wing nationalist government about a decade ago, after literal decades of unbroken social democrat rule. And gang violence has only gone up since then. I'm not blaming the current mayor for that, because other nearby cities are suffering from the same problem, including those run by social democrats. But the policies that the right wing have been shouting would definitely work to keep crime down haven't been working here, demonstrably.