Extra: Why Blue Cities Are Backing Away From Progressive Crime Policies
There's pushback on some progressive policies lately\xa0in liberal strongholds, spurred by crime.\nIn San Francisco,\xa0voters passed two ballot propositions from the city's Democratic Mayor London Breed,\xa0\xa0including\xa0drug screening\xa0and treatment\xa0for some city welfare recipients, though sobriety is not a requirement.\nThe measure also\xa0changes police policy and procedure.\xa0Officers\xa0will now have\xa0more leeway\xa0to chase someone believed to be committing a felony or violent misdemeanor,\xa0\xa0and they can\xa0use drones, facial recognition technology, and public surveillance cameras.\nIn\xa0Washington D.C., the\xa0city council passed a crime bill\xa0that\xa0makes it easier for judges to keep certain violent suspects behind bars before trial,\xa0expands the definition of carjacking, and creates a new crime for organized retail theft.\xa0It also allows DNA collection after arrests--but\xa0it's\xa0limited to suspects in violent felonies and sexual assault misdemeanors--and only after a judge finds probable cause.\nOpponents of these shifts in San Francisco and D.C. have some concerns in common,\xa0including a focus on penalties instead of help and the potential for disproportionate impacts on minorities.\nEarlier this week, host Lisa Brady spoke to Rafael Mangual, criminal justice expert and the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, about these changes, how effective they may be, and why Democrats across the country are changing their messaging on the crime issue.\nMangual also weighed in on the\xa0New York Democratic Governor's decision to\xa0deploy hundreds of National Guard members\xa0to help crack down on violent crime in New York City\u2019s subways.\nWe made edits for time and thought you might like to hear more about this shift in how cities and Blue states are addressing crime. On today\u2019s FOX News Rundown Extra, you\u2019ll hear our entire conversation with criminal justice expert\xa0Rafael Mangual.\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: ASSOCIATED PRESS\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices