As an outsider, the only real issue I'm aware of is the refusal to prosecute theft under $1k (edit: $950), which seems like something that is completely out of the police's hands.
For example, In the great progressive bastion of Texas the felony theft limit is $2,500, and also the current DA didn’t make the law.
The police have been caught many times simple spectating crimes in action. That’s not the da, that’s cops on strike.
Just because the DA will refuse to press charges doesn’t mean they couldn’t have still arrested the guy for the night and returned the property, not to mention intervening in a potentially dangerous situation for the shop owner and customers.
Are you saying that SFPD is not stopping crimes that are occurring in front of them because they believe that the suspect will not be prosecuted? The police are not prosecutors - if they are failing to stop crimes, the fault lies squarely with them.
Can you provide some examples of when this has happened?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
Some overlap with the prior one: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
There was also a video of cops pulling up and watching a dispensary get robbed
There was another account on next door of a neighbor pursuing a robber after a home invasion and had to pleas with the police to even approach the guy, and they basically just got him his stuff back and tainted all the evidence so no DA would be able to actually prosecute. Not even sure if they actually arrested that guy.
And then there is the fairly recent examples of extreme racism of some of the officers that tainted criminal cases leading them to be dismissed. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sfpd-racist-tex...
Not to mention the progressive solutions are all half-measures. Where are the solutions to the homelessness and poverty? Just reducing criminal punishment and enforcement does nothing.