“California Forever” is dead. BAHFA is dead. Both met surprisingly unexpected ends. Why did they die, and what did they have in common?

Attitudes toward homelessness are changing, and not in favor of more services for them. While it’s true that there remains a sizable contingent of those who tell us we must be compassionate, recent developments are mobilizing public opinion against homeless people.

There wasn’t any huge news to break, but I hadn’t met him yet or seen him address the media, so I went to check him out yesterday. While we wretches of the Fourth Estate waited in the lobby of OPD HQ, on Seventh Street, to be brought up to the conference room, I heard one reporter ask another what the presser was about.

Have you noticed that progressives never like new technology that makes policing more effective? Surveillance cameras, drones, license plate readers—every time a great new tool comes along to fight crime, the wokes denounce it.

Back in 1993, San Diego gun store owner Ross Elvey was bludgeoned to death by two young men. One of them, who was sixteen, was tried as an adult and received a long prison sentence. The other was fifteen. He was tried as a juvenile, which meant he would be freed at the age of 25.