Expanded quote: > Rafael Mandelman, who sits on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which is responsible for legislating, said there are a growing number o

Expanded quote: > Rafael Mandelman, who sits on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which is responsible for legislating, said there are a growing number of children “doing these really awful things”. > “I think, what happened with kids not being in school, I think there may be something going on with that, that we’re going to be experiencing for a while”, he said. > He added: “Those couple of years where school was erratic or non-existent, where everyone was under stress, parents and caregivers were under stress. That was probably impacting vulnerable communities more anyway. Sociologically. who knows what was going on, but I would not be surprised if we are going to be experiencing the lingering impacts of that for a generation.” This is very clearly a "cover your ass" move, the hand-wavy "it's due to the pandemic" is just an easy thing to hide behind instead of actually doing anything about it. Even if it was "due" to the pandemic (I doubt that) it's a shitty non-answer, it doesn't matter what caused it, you need to fix it and you aren't doing that Mr. Mandelman.