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SFPD, per stats, basically stopped enforcing traffic laws during Covid/BLM. This leads to an overall rise in crime, as traffic stops catch way more than speede

SFPD, per stats, basically stopped enforcing traffic laws during Covid/BLM. This leads to an overall rise in crime, as traffic stops catch way more than speeders. Criminals tend to break many laws habitually, so it is a wide net. The car bippers tend to speed off (with the famous car flying down a ramp last year as an example). The whole chain is broken though, Brooke Jenkins as the DA is running into massive issues with SF judges who simply won't prosecute. Big chance this will end up in another example of anarcho-tyranny. Lots of citizens will pay their fines, but the worst offenders will simple ignore the various letters - and nothing will be enforced. Let's see.

LeoPanthera 3y ago
The claim that SFPD ceased enforcing traffic laws, leading to a rise in overall crime, oversimplifies the complex factors influencing crime rates. While COVID-19 may have impacted police operations, it's unfounded to suggest a complete halt in traffic law enforcement by the SFPD. The correlation between traffic stops and a reduction in serious crimes is not straightforward. The challenges faced by the DA's office and judges in San Francisco are part of the usual checks and balances, and don't imply a systemic failure. The assertion that only law-abiding citizens face legal consequences while serious offenders escape is a broad generalization without specific evidence. Crime prevention and law enforcement are multifaceted and cannot be reduced to single-factor explanations.
- mike_hock 3y ago
  > Crime prevention and law enforcement are multifaceted and cannot be reduced to single-factor explanations. Huh.
- mint2 3y ago
  it would be wrong to say giving a starving man ten grains of rice is providing food for the hungry. It’s a meaningless amount of food. That’s just like how technically the sfpd hands out a couple tickets per day, it’s not meaningful enforcement. It’s splitting hairs to call that enforcement. The entire traffic enforcement division hands out an average of about 10 tickets in its entirety for the whole city per day.
olyjohn 3y ago
These aren't speed cameras, they aren't for traffic enforcement. They're for tracking location and movement of vehicles. Nobody's going to get a ticket from these. All it's going to do is push criminals to steal cars or steal license plates. Stealing plates is trivially easy. Only innocent people will have to deal with the aftermath.

LeoPanthera 3y ago

The claim that SFPD ceased enforcing traffic laws, leading to a rise in overall crime, oversimplifies the complex factors influencing crime rates. While COVID-19 may have impacted police operations, it's unfounded to suggest a complete halt in traffic law enforcement by the SFPD. The correlation between traffic stops and a reduction in serious crimes is not straightforward. The challenges faced by the DA's office and judges in San Francisco are part of the usual checks and balances, and don't imply a systemic failure. The assertion that only law-abiding citizens face legal consequences while serious offenders escape is a broad generalization without specific evidence. Crime prevention and law enforcement are multifaceted and cannot be reduced to single-factor explanations.

mike_hock 3y ago
> Crime prevention and law enforcement are multifaceted and cannot be reduced to single-factor explanations. Huh.
mint2 3y ago
it would be wrong to say giving a starving man ten grains of rice is providing food for the hungry. It’s a meaningless amount of food. That’s just like how technically the sfpd hands out a couple tickets per day, it’s not meaningful enforcement. It’s splitting hairs to call that enforcement. The entire traffic enforcement division hands out an average of about 10 tickets in its entirety for the whole city per day.

olyjohn 3y ago

These aren't speed cameras, they aren't for traffic enforcement. They're for tracking location and movement of vehicles. Nobody's going to get a ticket from these. All it's going to do is push criminals to steal cars or steal license plates. Stealing plates is trivially easy. Only innocent people will have to deal with the aftermath.