Douglas Murray: “No Tolerance for Lawbreakers” — The Lie of San Francisco and NYC

The 43-year-old founder of Cash App was found dying on a private block in San Francisco on Tuesday night. Bob Lee had received numerous stab wounds.

Passersby ignored his pleas for help and drove on.

The police called in too soon.

As a result, the father of two bled on the streets of Nancy Pelosi’s’s former neighborhood and passed away before the police could arrive.

Lee had recently relocated from San Francisco to Miami because he thought the city was” deteriorating.”

I was instantly curious to hear what the neighborhood district attorney had to mention after learning about this.

We do not handle these horrifying acts of violence in San Francisco, Brooke Jenkins wrote, and it turned out that she had a quicker reaction time than the crisis services. She jumped onto social media and other platforms to offer” sympathies” to Mr. Lee’s’s family.

I was instantly reminded of another DA’s’s and other officials’ statements made in New York a day earlier.

Because on Monday, Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell had made their own public statements to the people of New York prior to Donald Trump’s’s arraignment.

They spoke as though Donald Trump and his supporters posed the greatest danger to the lives of New Yorkers, much like DA Bragg. While the media and political carnival was in place, they advised us to take the train but then try to conduct our daily activities.

Sewell, however, made the most notable remark, warning Trump supporters that violence and destruction are rarely acceptable forms of legal representation in our city.

When I heard that phrase, I nearly threw up my chocolate. What? Violence and destruction are not tolerated in New York?

Since the summer of 2020, has there been any significant change in policy?

Was that summer’s’s crime, smashing, and looting a figment of our creativity?

Do Sewell and people believe that we all possess a goldfish’s’s social consciousness?

Maybe they do. Okay if that’s’s the case.

Because we don’t need to go up three years in time to know that Sewell’s’s assertion was false.

Any time, we can see it all around us.

It is evident in the chaos that is permitted on the streets.

We can see it in the empty drug trade, the subway threat, and the promoted violence of being a” shelter place.”

We are aware of what occurs when individuals like Bragg are in possession thanks to daily news and events.

We don’t require statistics knowledge.

That during Bragg’s’s tenure in office, he chose not to bring 35 % more felony charges against him than his predecessor, or that 52 % of cases involving felonies were downgraded to misdemeanors.

Since everyone in New York lives it, we do not need to be aware of this. We can see it everywhere we look, in the crime and violence that goes unnoticed.

This fact has been expanding for a long time.

Do you recall the 2018 murder of Army vet Hason Correa in Harlem after he was stabbed to death?

Two of the other crew members involved received appeal deals from Bragg, despite the fact that one of his killers was found guilty and imprisoned. What a waste of Bragg’s’s conviction that” no one is above the law” is.

It appears that you can be a criminal if you are one.

When I hear assertions like those made by Bragg, Sewell, and Jenkins, I’m’m reminded of a friend’s’s insight who spent his entire career practicing medicine in prison.

He quickly revealed to me how many of the prisoners he worked with have an entirely different perspective on themselves.

from the fact of their actions and life.

So, for example, someone who believes they are a good and faithful partner despite being in jail for causing life-altering damage to their lover.

Quite the capture, in truth.

It is an intriguing aspect of people.

However, it doesn’t just impact those who are incarcerated.

Many of those whose work it is to take people there are also impacted.

Perhaps Alvin Bragg has an image of himself as a stony-eyed Batman-like figure who searches the city for wrongdoing and is even willing to prosecute an ex-president on an old charge involving campaign finance.

However, the truth is that the DA is blatantly social, utterly cynical, self-advancing, and obviously unconcerned by the daily violence that occurs while he is on duty.

In a similar vein, I have no doubt that San Francisco’s’s DA Brooke Jenkins thinks her city isn’t” deteriorating.”

She undoubtedly believes that” tragic acts of violence” are not acceptable in San Francisco.

They are, though.

Even the most infrequent user to San Francisco can see that they occur frequently.

Both the Bob Lee and Sgt. Correa families are aware of this.

But that’s’s how these” progressive” DAs and their allies operate.

They are aware of the buildings they are expected to maintain.

And that notion is a myth.

It’s’s unfortunate that the rest of us must endure the reality they produce.

Put an end to the threat of the eating shed!

Are some of the city’s’s food storage facilities now being demolished?

I’m’m hoping so. This day, one of those on my wall was taken apart.

Of course, there are others, some of which are decorated in a more ornate manner.

However, unlike a motorcycle and scooter, every place burrito shop does not require its own wooden house on the sidewalk.

The sheds were essential to getting the industry through the COVID era of 2020 – 21, but they are not essential today.

They are actually an annoyance.

They result in single-lane traffic on numerous blocks, sad traffic jams, and even worse driver behavior than usual.

Perhaps leave some up, but it’s’s time for the majority of them to descend.

I, for one, didn’t miss them any more than I miss wearing masks or having to show proof of immunization each time I want to eat food that I have not prepared myself.