[leephillips]

> This has nothing to do with the DA and everything to do with the SFPD being a civic cancer who refuse to do their jobs.

Maybe...but the two might be related, no? After some years of the police observing that the people they arrest are released with no charges and no prosecution, why would they bother to keep arresting people? It sounds demoralizing.

[jeffbee]

Now explain why the same decline is seen across every urban police department in the nation regardless of local politics.

Police productivity and effectiveness is a nationwide crisis.