{"id":10329,"date":"2024-02-19T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2024-02-19T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:50:38","slug":"police-and-crime-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/19\/police-and-crime-in-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Police and Crime in SF"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been all kinds of news about how the “defund the police” movement and “don’t stop shoplifters” laws is killing downtown San Francisco. Here is a more clear take, illuminated by cold, hard numbers.<\/p>\n

San Francisco police apparently started a work slow-down in 2020 and haven’t started again. Here is a chart of traffic citations issued:<\/p>\n

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(source: SFGov.org<\/a>)
\nSan Francisco has talked about changing police budgeting (“defund the police”) but is hasn’t happened (1<\/a>). Similarly, no shoplifting laws have changed in California despite talk about doing so (2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Why have they done this? There is much speculation, all of it centering around politics and money.<\/p>\n

Read more at JWZ.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There has been all kinds of news about how the “defund the police” movement and “don’t stop shoplifters” laws is killing downtown San Francisco. Here is a more clear take, illuminated by cold, hard numbers. San Francisco police apparently started a work slow-down in 2020 and haven’t started again. Here is a chart of traffic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10335,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions\/10335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}