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California violent crime rate : 25.2 / 100k
Texas violent crime rate : 24.8 / 100k
California property crime : 35.4 / 100k
Texas property crime. : 38.0 / 100k
Yep, trully a disproportionate crime rate that warrants narratives about "people fleeing", which btw is not happening, demographic movements have been pretty steady. Largest moves have been a few real state companies and some dudes with podcasts.
> at some point y'all have to look at SF and say "huh, maybe we weren't right about everything"
Is SF somehow not part of the american police state? Like what part of California is suddenly this leftist utopia and warrants careful consideration before american follows suit into hell?
Cali is notorious for NIMBYism, where police are called by rich white liberals to keep minorities, homeless etc away. Police action is as violent and as class aware as anywhere else in the US.
The SF police budget is 780 million yearly, that would put them above 60 countries on earth by gdp. The entire country of micronesia, with 500k people could work for 2 whole years and not be able to pay 1 year of the SF police budget.
Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/21/5-charts-that-explain...
That's why there are fearmongering billboards going up in SF: https://www.newsweek.com/billboards-warn-california-resident...
Pretending that the exodus isn't happening isn't going to change the fact that SF is a failing city. Seattle, Philly, and NYC have just voted in pro-cop mayors who are running on a "fund the police" platform. Most of that vote comes from minorities, particularly Black people (in the case of Eric Adams and Cherelle Parker)
Please, please, please try to address your problems today, before things get worse. Last time I was in Seattle people were shocked that I'd never seen someone shit on the street in Detroit.
Literally the same numbers as before the time frame. See how the number to Texas is a digit and not a percentage, because there has been no change.
Also the California population change is ridiculous, the biggest drop in people was out of state students/workers not coming in during 2020 and 2021.
The drop is entirely based on pandemic restrictions, by 2022 you can see the population line back to normal.
> That's why there are fearmongering billboards going up in SF
a yes a political stunt by a media company from Chicago, really a real problem and def something noteworthy.
Holy jesus media literacy is down the drain in this country.
> Pretending that the exodus isn't happening isn't going to change the fact that SF is a failing city.
Exodus, fleeing, failing city. Repeating phrases from a conservative focus group is not gonna make a city that makes 600 billion a year seem a bad place.
> Seattle, Philly, and NYC have just voted in pro-cop mayors who are running on a "fund the police" platform. Most of that vote comes from minorities, particularly Black people (in the case of Eric Adams and Cherelle Parker)
Irrelevant. and oddly seems racist
> try to address your problems today
defund the police, pay for social services, free mental and social healthcare and less people in jail in the land of the free.
You know, like a first world country might
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/texas-governor-seeks-to-pa...