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
"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.
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:
"From NYC to LA, in cities that had some of the largest Black Lives Matter protests... departments are seeing their finances partially restored in response to rising homicides, an officer exodus and political pressures"
Look at how the @sfchronicle columnist minimizes & makes vague what happened
"Groups like the Anti Police-Terror Project, and Oakland’s City Council, all pushed for extensive police budget cuts last summer that never materialized"
They never materialized BECAUSE MURDERS SPIKED
Here is a summary of the evidence that defunding, demonizing, demoralizing, and delegitimizing the police is a major factor if not most important factor behind rising homicides:
The columnist writes, "The right won the PR battle," not: "We were wrong to demand defunding the police and I'm sorry," or "People are dying and we all have to work together to stop it." Nope. It's just, "Drop the slogan & attack your enemies." Sad.
The decision by SF Mayor @LondonBreed to shut down open drug scenes is right, but SF lacks shelters, rehab clinics, group homes, and hospital psych beds. SF can’t solve this alone. We need a single state agency, Cal-Psych, to centralize care at facilities statewide at a low cost
Cal-Psych would be able to purchase shelter space, psychiatric beds, board and care facilities, and treatment facilities from across the state.
Cal-Psych would do as much as legally, ethically, and practically possible to establish voluntary drug treatment and psychiatric care. It would also work with the courts and law enforcement to enforce involuntary care through assisted outpatient treatment and conservatorship.
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“Breed was pushed to act in part because of Tenderloin leaders telling her ‘these conditions have made our lives almost unlivable, and damaging the psyche and well-being of our children,’ said Miller.
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
"If one wanted to destroy an economy from within, it would be hard to do a better job than what Germany is doing. Shutting down nuclear plants & replacing them with intermittent renewables, Germany has left itself and the EU vulnerable to shortages."
"One need look no further than the explosion in the cost of electricity for proof of what this blitzkrieg of stupidity has accomplished. The full fallout from these blunders will continue to reverberate for years to come."
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
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.
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
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.