San Francisco A Failure Of Democracy

I watched a repeat about the San Francisco Folsom St. Fair Aids benefit on the O’Reilley Factor last night and heard him comment on the fact that the police were lax in enforcing the law in that city even to letting people walk in the street naked and pee on the city benches. I decided to investigate the crime statistics for that city and see if his worry about the fairs effect on the general population respect for the law was genuine or not.

What I found was that San Francisco is in fact lax on enforcement as indicated by this report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. It is obvious the report is biased when it treads a 1% difference in crime decline as significant. I made one conclusion from the data presented in that crime is decreasing across the United States. My hypothesis is that due to abortion laws being relaxed in a few states and later abandoned all to together via a Supreme Court exercise of despotic power they younger generation of the United States was culled. According to a 2002 FBI press release in 2001 28.8 % of those arrested for violent crimes were 18 to 24 years old and another 15.4% were under 18 years of age for a total of 44.2%. The FBI failed to list the percent of the population in these age groups so I can not guarantee they are more likely to commit crime though I have heard it is so. 77.5% of arrestees are male and 69.5% were white. These two statistics indicated the possible presence of both racism and sexism in being convicted and jailed.

Now lets look at San Francisco’s actual population and crime data. It has a high rate of crime overall with a crime rate index of 5298.97 reported incidents per 100,000 people. The average U.S. rate during the same time was 4118.8 per 100,000. The nearby but slightly larger city of San Jose has a rate of 2601.69. The nearby but significantly smaller cities of Santa Rosa and Salinas have higher than average crime rates of 4268.13 and 4363.73 respectively. San Francisco seemingly destroys my age hypothesis with the 19.54% of its population of age10 and 24 years. Comparatively San Jose 21.05, Santa Rosa 20.43 and Salinas 24.95. I defend my hypothesis by assuming that an insignificant number of individuals under 10 are arrested for criminal offenses and citing the FBI statistic that 45.9% of total arrest were of persons under 25 years old. This means that these teens and young adults are committing approximates 2 times as many crimes for their number as older groups. I looked at New York City which has a low rate index of 3100.06 but a higher than normal murder rate of 7.26 per 100,000 compared to the national average of 5.6 but stiller lower than San Francisco’s 8.44.

So as you can see San Francisco’s lax police enforcement has resulted in a city where the population is not equally protected under the law and the natural human rights of life and property are sacrificed on the altar of greater liberty. It certainly has not noticeably harmed nearby San Jose though it may have hurt the smaller cities of Santa Rosa and \but the later has a larger percentage of males as well as citizens in the 10 to 24 year old range while the earlier has no apparent explanation in these statistic. Still they are ruled by a republic form of government and if they want to behave in a self destructive way they have who am I to say nay. On the other hand The Declaration of Independence states that is the duty of government to secure the natural human rights and when it becomes destructive of those ends it is the right of the people to abolish it. It seems that San Francisco is a benign tumor so it does not need to be surgically removed but hopefully the people change and exercise the self destructive nature that rules that debased town.