He’s an obvious choice. No one has done a better job of trying to rescue Oakland from the blight of crime than former Chief Armstrong. He is “former” because, of course, Sheng Thao unjustly fired him, which is a main reason why we’re going to recall her.

Pro-homeless types are freaking out that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Johnson vs. Grants Pass, Oregon. At long last, we’re going to see a resolution of a question municipalities like Oakland have dodged for years: Does a city have the right to manage homeless encampments on public property, or is it helpless in the face of the 8th Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment?

Thao will do anything she can to keep OPD from arresting criminals. She doesn’t believe in prosecuting bad guys; she subscribes to Pamela Price’s Big Lie that our criminal justice system is so saturated with racism that it will never eliminate crime. So she’s out there throwing spaghetti against the wall, to see if anything sticks.

My T.V. viewing last night consisted of flipping back and forth between the Emmies and the Iowa Caucuses. The Emmies were more entertaining, but I forced myself to watch the Iowa circus, i.e. caucus. This Trump thing is like an ongoing television series, in its own way curiously addictive, like the O.J. slow-Bronco chase. You have to keep watching in order to find out how it ends. Will O.J. kill himself? Will the Bronco crash? More, after this brief commercial interruption.

We need to realize—and it’s not emphasized enough—that when we recall Price and Thao, Oakland’s problems won’t disappear.