Karen Bass: “This is a child welfare crisis, and I am working with LA county leadership to address it.”

I’m not ready for primetime.

Bass wants to hire more police officers, and she has branded Raman’s views on policing and homelessness as “extreme.”

Bass stresses the city has cleared dozens of encampments and brought thousands of people into shelter, but data show nearly half of them dropped out of the system and presumably returned to the streets.

I have made enough progress to merit another term leading a city of 3.8 million people.