Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Big news: San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed has just announced a major crackdown on crime, including open air drug dealing, car break-ins, & retail theft

The plan contains much of what I & my colleagues @calif_peace have been advocating

This is a big step in the right direction

https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1470830101348577285

San Francisco Mayor Breed has for years promised to crack down on drug dealing & crime, and things have only grown worse over, so skepticism is merited

But Breed's plan lays out big goals and makes very specific promises, including new funding for policing.

Most importantly, Breed frames her response just right: around the need for "tough love" not compassion-only

Breed breaks from progressive crime denialists in saying "people aren't feeling safe" and "we need to change course on how we handle public safety."

"I'm proud this city believes in giving people second chances. Nevertheless, we also need there to be accountability when someone does break the law...Our compassion cannot be mistaken for weakness or indifference."

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"I was raised by my grandmother to believe in 'tough love' — in keeping your house in order — and I believe we need a little of that, now more than ever."

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Breed stresses law enforcement:

"We will not just increase the resources needed for public health... We will devote the law enforcement personnel & attention they have asked for, and that is required, to end the culture of tolerance for illegal, unhealthy & unsafe behavior"

And there it is: more money for cops, made real by a supplemental budget request

Again, this is not the end of the story. Many progressives are likely resist this at every step.

But this could be the beginning of the end. Breed will need the public's support to do the right thing.

The good news for Breed is that the political winds are blowing her way

Crime is killing @JoeBiden approval rating and is set to cause sweeping political defeats for Democrats

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-democrat…

What's required now is real change, which starts with what Breed said, demanding that accountability accompany compassion at every turn

Leadership is needed to make sure social workers and police work together to shut down open drug scenes

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

SF Mayor @LondonBreed has literally just called bullshit on progressive criminal justice reformers

“It is time for the reign of criminals to end. It comes to an end when are more aggressive with law enforcement & less tolerant of all the BULLSHIT that has destroyed our city”

Breed's remarks are very similar to those by former Philadelphia Mayor @Michael_Nutter

Moderate Dems are seizing a political opportunity in the widening public backlash to crime and Wokeism

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-democrat…

Here’s former Philly Mayor @Michael_Nutter denouncing “white wokeness” and “white privilege” for resulting in more homicide and crime

Will progressives denounce SF Mayor @LondonBreed — who is black & was raised in public housing, whose sister died of drug overdose, and whose brother was in prison — of wanting to "cage" black people?

Will SF progressive DA Chesa Boudin go along with Breed's plan?

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And... there it is. A straight-up denial of the crime crisis

https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1470957052784791552?s=20

"Cages"

https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1470957050465333253?s=20

Stanford addiction expert @KeithNHumphreys describes the importance, and politics, of the promise by San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed to shut down the open drug scene in the Tenderloin neighborhood, which kills addicts and is ruining the city.

Keith Humphreys on why
- supervised drug consumption rooms won't play a significant role in saving lives
- Prop 47, which decriminalized theft up to $950, and possession of up to 3 grams of hard drugs, shouldn't be an obstacle to closing open drugs scenes and treating addiction

Here's the full interview with @KeithNHumphreys

"When law enforcement kills us we're in a major uproar, as we should be. But why are we silent when members of our community kill members of our community? My children have to grow up in this. If somebody don't make a change, it's only gonna get worse" - Oakland rapper @MistahFAB

Progressives say we need to "center" black voices describing the trauma & violence of the "carceral state." Will they acknowledge the trauma and violence of living in a community where the state has failed to protect it because we defunded, demoralized, & decimated the police?

Somebody please give @BettyKPIX and @KPIXtv an Emmy for bringing to us the story of musician @MistahFAB and his concerns about rising crime, violence, and homicide

It's a side of the picture of crime that progressives were all but blind to last year.

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/15/exc…