Richmond Cut Its Crime Cameras. Car Thefts Jumped 33%.
The city disabled its license plate readers to virtue signal national issues. Immigrant shopkeepers are paying the price.
AI-related violence escalated dramatically in April 2026, when a PauseAI member threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and was arrested carrying a hit list of AI executives—part of a broader pattern of ideologically motivated attacks on tech figures that authorities are now taking seriously. Meanwhile, San Francisco's public safety infrastructure is under scrutiny on multiple fronts: SF courts have gone five years without reporting criminal case data to the state while clearing just 32% of cases, Oakland's gang-focused Ceasefire data shows that less than 0.5% of residents drive most gun violence, and a leptospirosis outbreak at a Berkeley encampment festered for months while courts blocked cleanup.
The city disabled its license plate readers to virtue signal national issues. Immigrant shopkeepers are paying the price.
Now a civil rights lawsuit names the officials who told parole agents to look the other way.
A woman tears down his flyers in the Richmond. On camera. Then explains it isn't racist. This is what erasure looks like in real time.
Drug arrests collapsed to zero. Overdose deaths tripled to 810 per year. The data is in, and so is the body count.
A man caught with a loaded gun got diversion and a homework assignment. 36 days later, someone was dead.
Zohran Mamdani will increase net spending to defend 3 core policy pillars that are destined for failure
If safety is something you purchase—guards, gates, cameras—you've already conceded that public order has failed.
UESF is striking Monday—even though Union sources say they'll just accept the same deal in a few days they could take today.
Flock Safety just 7x'd what even the best homicide detective in America can do. The technology works. The question is whether your city will use it.
A drunk driver hit her and fled. Flock cameras found them. Now privacy activists want to shut it all down.