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Today's episode is about two California elections that have captured the attention of the media

and the message they send to the rest of the country. So this week in San Francisco progressive

district attorney Chesa Boudin was recalled by voters after years of infamous complaints about

the rise of disorders, shoplifting, homelessness and violent crimes against the Asian community

of the Bay Area. In Los Angeles this week the Republican turned democratic billionaire Rick

Caruso had a very strong showing running as a crime fighter in the LA mayoral primary.

This is interesting to me because two summers ago protest across the country and around the world

in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder made it seem to many people including myself.

Like we were at the cost of a criminal justice reckoning. You would slogans like defund the

police that were going mainstream. Progressives felt like there was this once-in-a-generation

opportunity to really move policing politics strongly to the left. But then violent crime rows

and rows and rows. After decades of decline shootings surged by their highest annual rate ever

in 2020 and by most accounts gun violence has just continued to increase in 2021 and 2022.

By the way I say by most accounts because for various stupid reasons we have terrible up-to-date

data on violence in America. But in any case it seems clear that violence is increasing and at the

same time homelessness is increasing especially in California and especially especially in the

major cities like LA and SF. Now I don't want to make things over simple here. The theme of this

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