Even San Francisco has had enough of being soft on law and order.

Something amazing happened recently in US politics. Chesa Boudin was the DA for San Francisco. He was a “progressive reformer” and got elected in 2019 on a platform of making it easier for people to get bail, refusing to work with immigration authorities, generally going soft on law and order.

Since then San Francisco has become terrible. Homeless people are living on almost every street. Drugs are everywhere, stores are being robbed brazenly, organised crime is booming etc. It’s what happen when you go soft on crime. We can see it happening in NZ also.

In a recall election they sacked him 55% to 45%.

The key thing is this happened in San Francisco – arguably the most left wing city in the most left wing state in the US. Only 8.6% of people in San Francisco are Republicans. The last Republican elected Mayor was in 1960!

So for them to sack a progressive DA gives you some idea of how bad things are there.