resounding rebuke of boudin s soft on crime policies. many were blaming it for the city s huge spike in crime. it has been so bad some stores have been forced to close or severely limit their hours. they can t make any money in other words. that s what they are making they re spending on security. the numbers don t lie. larceny, theft up by more than 20% from last year. motor vehicle theft also surging. a spokesperson for the boudin recall effort explains why his success is bittersweet. it s a bittersweet victory. the reason is because people died, businesses have been destroyed, families have been uprooted. chesa boudin should never have been elected. ousting is an effort that s a year and a half in the making to bring it to the finish line. harris: let s get the news now. senior correspondent claude yo cowen has more from san francisco day one without boudin. that s right, harris. it was a decisive defeat. voters made it clear they wanted to see a change at the top of
a.m. picked up by police, transported to montgomery county police second district. we ll hear from law enforcement later today. dana: that took a turn. the hearings on capitol hill on school shootings as congress wrestles if anything what to do on gun control. harris faulkner is up next. harris: a fox news alert. with woke san francisco waking up to a new day after voters kicked out their progressive district attorney. their decision has national implications putting liberal prosecutors and defund the police democrats on notice. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . it wasn t even close. san francisco voters were fed up with d.a. chesa boudin. the vote margin 60 to get rid of him, 40 to keep him. he is gone.
what he s saying here. he s trying to actually save lives. right. they don t want to hear it. howard safer, bill bratton and ray kelly all says the climate in our country is affecting crime on the streets. so you can go and say it s political. but the guys who fight crime and do it for a living rose to the top of their profession, who don t run for political office, say you absolutely have to do with what s been going on in the country. it s a factor. the president of the united states is going to be out in chicago talking to law enforcement later today. will he say something about it? i sure hope so. he s got an opportunity. people listen. all right. heather nauert. i ve got a story coming up in just a second about a new threat to police officers. the latest on what you re talking about. in the mean time an update right now. a school district in kentucky closing its doors for the second day in a row. as that two-state manhunt for a dangerous career criminal continues