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’Frisco beat: The Wonders of Crime-Fighting

“Today, we have an exciting new report from Obvious Land,” scoffs Robby Soave at The Hill.

“San Francisco’s public transportation system has raised revenue, dramatically improved customer safety, and is cleaner and more orderly than ever, and they accomplished it all with one neat trick”: They racked down on crime.

Turns out “when you install new gates that it make impossible for fare-evaders” to “jump the gate, you magically improve everything about the subway.”

This finding “was bitterly opposed by so-called criminal justice reformers.” Yet “San Francisco has not solved its homelessness problem or its mental illness problem. It hasn’t addressed the so-called root causes of crime. It has simply installed gates, or walls, that the criminals can’t jump over.”

“Maybe there’s a lesson in that.” 

Sorry, Israel-haters — US aid pays off big for America and the numbers don't lie

Tick-tock, Tehran — Iran regime's escape routes are closing fast

The collegiality of the Supreme Court is under attack — and it's dangerous

City desk: Sealed Rap Sheets’ Deadly Toll

“A machete-wielding maniac,” shot and killed by police after attacking “three straphangers” at Grand Central Station,” had a rap sheet with “more than a dozen arrests,” yet was free to roam, sighs City Journal’s Rafael A. Mangual.

“Why does the city........

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