One store’s decision to leave San Francisco over crime
I sometimes feel it&#x27;s as if we were having a conversation about fire, with one side advocating for having building codes so fires are less likely to start in the first place, and the other advocating for having fire departments put out the fires.  Or one side was advocating for safer road and car design so that people don&#x27;t get injured in auto accidents in the first place, and the other side was advocating for emergency rooms to treat people who get injured in auto accidents.<p>Clearly we need both long-term solutions and short-term, and the police and jails are not the long-term solution but they are necessary, like fire departments and emergency rooms.  If we have more fires or more auto accidents, we need more funding for fire departments or emergency rooms, at least until the longer term solutions have time to start working.  I don&#x27;t see why this is even a partisan issue.  San Francisco (and many other cities in the US currently) need an increased police presence and more dangerous people put in jail, as a way of coping with the short-term consequences.  We need improvements in police and especially jails, but that doesn&#x27;t change the fact that an increase is needed in the short term at least.