My comments were about California overall, and San Francisco isn’t California. Even if it were, crime can be trending down over time even if there have been recent spikes that are worth addressing.

I just don’t think it’s fair to call the state a nightmare hellscape.

On Nurse Ratched … you’re twisting my words. I didn’t say the alternative was torturing the mentally ill, I said it was institutionalizing them. Deinstitutionalization had benefits and drawbacks, one of the latter of which was the severely mentally ill now being homeless.