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’Frisco beat: The Wonders of Crime-Fighting

“Today, we have an exciting new report from Obvious Land,” scoffs Robby Soave at The Hill .

“San Francisco’s public transportation system has raised revenue, dramatically improved customer safety, and is cleaner and more orderly than ever, and they accomplished it all with one neat trick”: They racked down on crime.

Turns out “when you install new gates that it make impossible for fare-evaders” to “jump the gate, you magically improve everything about the subway.”

This finding “was bitterly opposed by so-called criminal justice reformers.” Yet “San Francisco has not solved its homelessness problem or its mental illness problem. It hasn’t addressed the so-called root causes of crime.…