there is a certain kind of mook (https://ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/) out there: he finds a community in the United States, or who talks about communities they've never lived in in East Asia, like Singapore, or talks about communities that lack free press or elections and therefore verifiable statistics, like most of China, or are closed communities, like some of the EU, who says: "If we only did X like they do in community Y, there wouldn't be problems!" And what I am saying is, not that San Francisco does things well, but that the homeless problem in San Francisco is coming for those communities too. They are in San Francisco's past. Drugs are coming for those communities, the K shaped economy is coming for those communities, expensive OT-based compensation, a bloated public sector, falling commercial real estate, NIMBYism, private schooling, way too intensively used roads... Obviously, a lot of good stuff is coming too - Section 377A was only repealed in Singapore in 2022 - but my point is that nobody gets it right. They are just behind in a certain sense of getting it wrong.

To fix policing, you have to look at things like a Darwinian system, rather than looking for antagonists or agonizing over statistics.