San Francisco Voted for Progressive Policies and Witness the Result

Progressive policies always sound good, at least to people with no experience in the real world. 'Traumatized' residents of wealthy San Francisco neighborhood resort to using CHICKEN WIRE to protect their homes against intruders as crime spirals - with even 'hard-core natives' feeling so unsafe they want to move | Daily Mail Online

Citizens in a residential area of San Francisco are bolstering their homes with chicken wire in a bid to keep out intruders.

Happening in the city's Richmond District, the safety measures come amid a recent jump in burglaries, robberies, and homicides in the affluent neighborhood.

They were shocked to discover that they were not protected by their zip code. When the state of California, and the City of San Francisco, voted for soft-on-crime measures, they should have expected an increase in crime. Everyone else did.

The people and the businesses in Richmond are complaining about an increase in crime, and a decrease in policing. No mention is made of the fact that in 2020 San Francisco "defunded" the police (county and city) to the tune of $120 million.

San Francisco was among cities across the country that saw some crimes increase in 2020 compared to 2019. Homicides increased by 20% that year compared to 2019, and by 17% in 2021 compared to 2020. While crimes such as rape and robbery decreased in 2020, burglaries increased by 47% in 2020 when compared to the three previous years, data complied by SFGate shows.

Really, it had nothing to do with defunding and vilifying police. It was part of a national trend, that's all. All the Blue Cities were defunding and vilifying police, and the fact that they all saw an increase in crime was just a coincidence, nothing more. Nothing to see here. Move along. </sarcasm>

If you make something less expensive, you will see more of it, and defund-the-police policies made crime less expensive/less risky to the criminals. The Progressives were shocked to discover more crime.

There is more, click thru. There are even some photos of the more minor mayhem.