As a bay area native, i believe he did a good job. I’ve spent my life volunteering in the community, and i think my most radical take is that i don’t hate street criminals because i mean the life is miserable. Its easy and understandable to fear being robbed (been there), but really, those kids get murdered quick. Nobody i grew up with that wanted to live crazy made it past 21.

I’ve always felt that the increase in crime was a direct result of the fucking rent. Its been empty for a minute now, it reminds me of disneyland in the sense that people all go in to shop and work but leave back home at night, leaving a ghost town. So it’s community got weak, lost the electorate to protect itself.

I do get frustrated by outsiders making fun of us. Its a complex problem that you can’t solve with a gun like some other commenters are suggesting. Try saving a life for once and then get back to me on how to make my city less miserable. I also get frustrated by the outsider voyeurism that comes with suffering.

I like how another commenter put it. Its as if we took a really painful fall off a cliff, alone. The only way out is to slowly crawl back up.