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Boudin on the Ballot: Defund the Police in the Balance
In San Francisco, voters are weighing DA Chesa Boudin and progressive efforts to defund the police in the balance. Will they be found wanting?
The pandemic did not impact every country equally.
Sometimes comparing nations isn’t an apples to apples comparison. For instance, comparing the universal health care they have in Canada to the lack of same we experience here in the U.S.
Canada has about 37,742,154 people living in it as of the 2020 census; the U.S. has that many…plus another 300 million people.
Other times, comparing nations can be an apples to apples comparison. For instance, most developed countries experienced a drop in crime during the worst months of COVID19 lock-downs.
The U.S. did not.
An outlier, the U.S. has been experiencing since mid-2020 what can only be described as a crime boom. Historians may eventually define our era, not by what we achieved or didn’t achieve, but how much human vice beset the time of COVID19.
From criminals and gangs of organized thieves who perpetrated the “biggest fraud in a generation,” by stealing over $100 billion dollars in COVID19 relief funds in almost every state from California to Kansas, to the national homicide rate swelling a shocking 29%; crime…