If you want to know why Asian Americans are abandoning the Democratic Party, look no further than San Francisco, where local community efforts to partner with the police to stop violent crimes against Asian Americans are facing strong pushback from groups espousing Black Lives Matter talking points.
“With anti-Asian hate plaguing our community, we rely on security cameras to act as a deterrence,” Delta Chinatown Initiative founder Lily Ho told the San Francisco Standard, “and to provide evidence to ensure justice can be served to victims of crime.”
Ho’s nonprofit group has been working with the Asian American community in San Francisco to install video cameras in the busiest parts of the city’s Chinatown. Video evidence is essential, Ho says, because many “victims and witnesses are too scared to testify.”
Now San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors wants to pass legislation that would allow the city’s police to access the footage from all of the security cameras that the Asian American community has installed in Chinatown.
“Many of these crimes were not reported because of language barriers and the lack of surveillance cameras to document the assaults and even homicides,” Marlene Tran, a Stop Crime San Francisco board member, told the Board of Supervisors in a public meeting.
Unfortunately, the usual suspects of soft-on-crime activism don’t want to help the San Francisco Police Department solve violent crimes. A letter signed by groups with names such as the “Racial Justice Committee” and “All of Us or None” claims that allowing SFPD access to private security cameras would “only further criminalize Black and Brown people … and other communities frequently targeted by the police.”
This “expansion of police power” would only “fuel inequality and criminalization without a justifiable public safety benefit,” the letter reads.
Putting more violent criminals safely behind bars is absolutely a “justifiable public safety benefit,” no matter what skin color the criminals convicted may have. Until the Left realizes that violent crime is what fuels inequality, not safe neighborhoods, then we can expect more Asian Americans to leave the Democratic Party.
