'The killing of Bob Lee appears to conform more to the truth about violent crime — that it most often involves people who know each other rather than strangers on the street.' Column by hiltzikm:
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The general public, moreover, agreed with many of Boudin’s signature policies, according to a poll taken shortly before the recall, including his efforts to protect worker rights, review past cases for possible wrongful convictions and end the practice of cash bail. His loss in the recall was more properly attributed to a focused campaign against him heavily financed by real estate developers and agents.
Jordan’s effort fell flat, however, in part because Jim Kessler of the centrist think tank Third Way came to the witness stand armed with data showing that “New York City’s murder rate was 18% below the national average” and that the murder rate was 59% higher in Ohio than in New York and 251% higher in Louisiana, another red state.
“In the elite liberal mind,” Karakatsanis says, “when people talk about ‘crime,’ what they’re talking about is disorder in the form of homelessness and schizophrenia on the street and drug selling. They’re not talking about child sexual abuse or tax evasion or environmental pollution. Whenever there’s a toxic dumping story, it’s not seen as part of a crime wave.”After decades of increasing longevity, Americans are facing shorter life spans than their predecessors and their rich-country peers.
San Francisco politicians were unusual in pushing back against the image of their city as a violent hellhole in the aftermath of Lee’s killing.
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