[wfhbata]

Is there any evidence that being soft on crime has been effective at reducing crime or improving quality of life in San Francisco?

Our DAs promised “restorative justice” but in practice criminals get caught in released without consequences or rehabilitation. Is there evidence that this approach hasn’t emboldened organized criminals and contributed to the rise in property crime in recent years?

[gnopgnip]

Is there any research that being tough on crime in San Francisco reduces crime or improves the quality of life?

[wfhbata]

The soft-on-crime approach taken over the last decade under Gascon and now Boudin coincided with San Francisco having highest property crime rate of any major US city.

Maybe that’s coincidence, but the onus is on those who brought us to this point: Where are the results that were promised? Where is the evidence that we should continue down this path, when by all metrics, it appears to be a disaster?

[gnopgnip]

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/grants/250872.pdf