San Francisco arrested car burglars, and car burglaries went down
Zachary Faria
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San Francisco has decided to crack down on car burglaries. Coincidentally, the city has now seen a drop in car burglaries. It may be impossible to know, but the two things may be related.
San Francisco renewed its focus on car break-ins, using bait cars, plainclothes police officers, and video surveillance to crack down on car burglaries. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who replaced pro-criminal District Attorney Chesa Boudin after he was recalled, emphasized vigorous prosecutions, hard-line messaging, and police efforts targeted at prolific burglars.
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Incredibly enough, arresting prolific car burglars and throwing the book at them has resulted in fewer car burglaries. Car burglaries throughout this year matched the numbers from 2022. Then, San Francisco pledged to crack down on these break-ins in August, and the numbers dropped dramatically. There were 6,703 reported smash-and-grab car burglaries from Sept. 1 to Nov. 26 last year. The number during that period dropped to 3,399 this year, again, after the previous eight months this year matched last year’s numbers.
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The San Francisco Chronicle, of course, found at least one “expert” to downplay the connection between prosecuting criminals and having fewer crimes, but it seems rather straightforward. If your city has “prolific” repeat criminals committing one form of crime, and those people are arrested, detained until their trial, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, you will have fewer crimes in that category than you did prior. The thing about career criminals is they keep committing crimes when they are free and can’t commit said crimes when they are locked in a cell.
This is what San Francisco has needed since Boudin decided that criminals were poor victims of society and should be allowed to do what they want. It took several years, but San Francisco has discovered the wild concept of arresting, prosecuting, and jailing criminals to ensure they no longer commit crimes. Several other cities could learn a thing or two from Jenkins and San Francisco, especially California’s other major city controlled by a pro-criminal district attorney.