Okay, West Coast Progressives, it's time to show your work.
How's it going? By that I mean, how are empirical OUTCOMES of the programs you advocate doing in terms of metrics. In Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco, we've spun up programs. We've spent hundreds of millions. We've adopted well-intentioned policies like harm reduction, housing first, diversion from incarceration, decriminalization, and much more. No, these shifts were very likely not at the scale you'd like to see -- you want to see much more -- but we've done it more than enough to at least get a sense of the DIRECTION when in the field. Not in the lab.
So, directionally, which things getting better? What's improving? By how much?