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The article you are citing shows that some crimes have increased (Homicide, Burglaries, Vehicle Thefts) but several other categories have decreased. If you go to the SFPD Dashboard linked[1], overall crime in 2020 was down 23% vs 2019.

For 2021, overall crime is up 10% vs 2021, but is still seems to be on track to be down 15% vs 2019.

A lot of this is probably due to COVID restrictions rather than any change in policing or enforcement, but using the metrics you've cited, crime is actually at a low.

If we follow your argument about adjusting police budget proportionally, we should have cut the police budget 23% in FY 2020, or $160M. FWIW, I don't think cutting the budget 23% in 1 year is a great idea.

[1] https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...

parent jljljl 4 years ago

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