If you don't take crime seriously and if you chase out your taxpayers, you get yourself into a spiral from which you will not recover. And this isn't theoretical. This just happened in San Francisco about 10 years ago. They got a progressive district attorney, a very progressive mayor, and only now have they dug out of the mess that was created by a lot of those policies by electing more common sense leaders for the mayoral and district attorney position. (05:22–05:26)
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