Why Progressives Ruin Cities

San Francisco is filled with unpunished crime and people openly doing illegal drugs in tent cities. John Stossel asks, how did it get this way?

Author Michael Shellenberger says it was progressive ideas like the ones he used to believe that destroyed San Francisco. “My city is sick,” he tells me. “Progressivism has become the abdication of personal responsibility,” he says.

Even the city’s progressive mayor has now changed her mind,  and vows that policing will be more aggressive. We will see.

The author says he doesn’t think people should be locked up for doing drugs or for being homeless. But when they steal or threaten others, they should be punished. Protecting us is one of the few things government should do.

It’s an interesting take on a controversial issue, both in San Francisco and nationwide. The cities with the top murder rates for 2021 were all Democrat-led cities. Cities with the top crime rates overall were predominantly leftist cities. The policies do make a difference.

Stossel takes time to investigate how these differences impact city crime, revealing that if the left wants to change crime, its own policies are the place to start.

Find out more in the latest video from John Stossel as he investigates the crime of progressive cities.