Comment by shuckles

> In San Francisco specifically, crime also increased due to police officers quietly going on strike against policies they disagreed with.

People love repeating this point with absolutely no evidence and then asking the world of those who disagree. Beware, selective calls for rigor.

> Crime has been on a downward trend for a generation, outside of a few areas.

This is basically untrue. The decrease in crime that began in the mid 80s more or less bottomed out in the early 2010s at rates much higher than comparably rich nations. This doesn't include the huge reporting issues with non-violent crimes that manifests in low property and drug crime data juxtaposed with crackheads clearing out any products not behind plexiglass in major American cities.