Los Angeles continues to be a shining example of what happens when soft-on-crime Democrats are tasked with running a city.

The Los Angeles Metro system has become a hotbed of crime over the past week. On Monday night, two separate stabbing attacks on a Metro bus and a train station elevator sent three people to the hospital. On Tuesday, another person was assaulted and robbed on a Metro bus. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board members held a press conference to discuss crime and adding more law enforcement to the system. A few hours after that press conference, someone was shot and killed on a Metro bus.

The “spike” in crime, as Mayor Karen Bass called it, has caused her to reverse her own statement from last month that the Metro was safe. It is no surprise that Bass, with her “all is well” statement last month and her contributions to the demonization of police officers in response to George Floyd’s death at the hands of an officer in Minneapolis, has overseen this problem. It is even less of a surprise that it is happening under pro-criminal Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon.

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Bass and other Los Angeles officials have been focused as much on the “perception” that the city is dangerous as they have been on the city actually being, yes, dangerous. It was considered boast-worthy that homicides decreased from 2022 to 2023, even though the number of homicides was higher than in 2019 before the pandemic. Meanwhile, violent crime is going back up, with March 2024 being more violent than March 2023 and the first three months of this year having more homicides than the first three months of last year.

This has been the story for years in Los Angeles, especially under Gascon’s weakness. At some point, Los Angeles leaders should admit that this isn’t just a “perception” problem and that the city has a systemic problem with going soft on criminals, leading to a culture in which crime is more prevalent even in places that have typically been regarded as being safer. Los Angeles is continuing to fail on crime, and there is no sign that the widespread attitude change that is needed will come any time soon.