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15 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Critics of San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed claim that policing & jails never work anywhere to address drug addiction & dealing but that's ridiculous: nearly every developed nation arrests drug dealers and addicts and incarcerates them or mandates treatment

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It's true that sentences are not always long and the other developed nations have far better mental health and addiction care than we have.

But that's not an argument against arresting drug dealers and mandating treatment as an alternative to incarceration for addicts.
Moreover, California has a $31 billion surplus and San Francisco already spends between $80,000 and $100,000 on every "homeless" person in the city. Money is not the reason San Francisco doesn't treat addicts. Progressive activists who insist on special treatment of victims are.
European nations used *both* police and social workers to break up open drug scenes

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
What about how Portugal supposedly just legalized drugs and everything turned out fine?

It turned out not to be true

Here's the head of Portugal drug policy explaining why the arrest drug addicts

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17 Dec
Defund the police activist in L.A. now fears gun threats at child's school

Defund the police activist in Oakland now so scared she removes her jewelry before pumping gas

LA Times defund activist admits "even Black Americans" don’t want to defund police

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Last year, @latimes columnist @Erika_D_Smith called for defunding the police

She now admits that defunding the police was PR disaster but claims that covid is supposedly the cause of rising homicides, not the withdrawal of police & criminal emboldenment

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It'a all already over for the progressives on crime. They lost. Why?

— Record homicides in Philly+12

— Emboldened criminals, from Walgreens to Louis Vuitton

— And the progressive denial of crime, the minimization of crime, and the gas-lighting of the public experiencing crime
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16 Dec
Now that the mainstream media recognize that efforts to defund the police resulted in officer withdrawal & criminal emboldenment, progressives are attacking those who point out their complicity in rising homicides

Witness the making of a new Woke taboo:

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justin…
Look at this effort to deny responsibility:

"While there is continuing debate about what is driving the violent crime increases... we know for a fact that 'defund had nothing to do with it. Because defund' never actually happened."

This is sleight-of-hand misinformation. Image
The reason Oakland didn't defund the police is because because, in response to a massive progressive effort to defund the police, the police withdrew, criminals were emboldened, homicides rose, and the Oakland mayor sought to reverse the cuts to the police budget: Image
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16 Dec
Until recently, the conventional wisdom was that nuclear energy was all but dead. But now, The Netherlands has joined UK & France in announcing a major expansion of nuclear. How did nuclear go from the margins to the mainstream? Here's the inside scoop

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/netherlands-…
Four years ago, the conventional wisdom in Europe was that the continent was transitioning to renewable energies. The cost of electricity from solar panels, wind turbines, and natural gas had declined significantly, and lithium batteries could soon replace natural gas.
And, held the consensus view, nuclear energy was going away; the main question was how soon existing nuclear plants could be dismantled.

Today, the conventional wisdom has changed radically.
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15 Dec
Last year, San Francisco became one of the first cities to defund the police. Yesterday, the city's mayor dramatically reversed herself, calling for a significant increase in police funding, and an end to the city's deadly open drug scenes. Why?

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/victory-san-…
After Black Lives Matter protesters last year demanded cities “Defund the Police,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed held a press conference to announce that her city would be one of the first to do exactly that. Breed announced $120 million in cuts to police & sheriff departments
A spokesperson for the police officers’ union warned the cuts "could impact our ability to respond to emergencies,” but the police chief assured the public that the cuts “will not diminish our ability to provide essential services."
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14 Dec
Progressives say government-sponsored drug injection rooms will prevent overdose & poisonings without encouraging addiction, but the evidence from Canada & Europe paints a different picture

Join a discussion with @Jeremy_Devine_ & me tmw @ 9am Pacific!

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We will be joined by @beyondchron at 930!
This conversation will broaden to discuss crime, drugs, and homelessness overall, and a reflections on what SF Mayor London Breed announced today. Please join in!

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14 Dec
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
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."
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