Re:How San Francisco became a failed city
by __derek__ on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:33PM
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Don't get me wrong: I empathize with not wanting to do parts of a job that feel pointless, but it's still not doing the job.
The city council, chief of police, and associated other folks elected to oversee and appoint them disagree, as does the electorate apparently, based on the recall election results.
If the police were refusing to do their jobs, ultimately it would be the city council held to account, and you’d see rather different types of political pressure being applied.
It seems instead that folks want a different DA.
How we got there and whatever finger pointing was happening and if it was justified is of course part of the debate we’re having.
‘Keep the streets safe!’ ‘Stop scaring people away by standing around all the time when there is no trouble!’ ‘Enforce the law!’ ‘Don’t arrest grandma because she was driving drunk, you’re scaring the old people’
They pragmatically have to pick and choose what to do based on what actually works. If the DA won’t prosecute something, arresting someone for it is just a bunch of paperwork, time, and effort that doesn’t accomplish anything most of the time, so will get deprioritized.