Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco
There&#x27;s some weird push right now to advance not punishing crimes as a legitimate way to deal with criminals. If you Google Search right now for &quot;does punishing crime work&quot;, all the top results are studies on how punishing crime is evil, we need compassion not conviction, yada yada. People seem to be seizing on these studies to say &quot;look, punishing crime doesn&#x27;t work, and since you disagree with this study, you&#x27;re against science and you don&#x27;t deserve to be listened to.&quot;<p>Honestly, I think the reason there are no studies proving that punishing crime works, is because it&#x27;s such a brain-dead obvious conclusion that I&#x27;d guess nobody ever felt the NEED to make such a study. Society has been punishing crime for thousands of years. We&#x27;ve all changed our behavior to avoid punishment. If you&#x27;ve ever had a pet it should be perfectly obvious that avoiding punishment is an innate behavior baked into every animal and OBVIOUSLY it works to deter bad behavior. It&#x27;s something as obvious to me as 2+2=4, or water is wet, or the sky is blue.<p>Fortunately there are other cities out there with actual sane leaders. But as long as SF keeps pushing this politically-motivated, head-in-the-sand &quot;compassion not conviction&quot; nonsense their city will continue going to shit.