Posted on 06/05/2022 6:48:37 AM PDT by devane617
Hours after winning election as San Francisco district attorney in 2019, Chesa Boudin stood, beaming, inside a packed dive bar in the Mission District.
“What comes next is critical,” said the then-39-year-old public defender, part of the nationwide movement to elect district attorneys who seek to reimagine public safety and redefine the role of a prosecutor. “In many ways, getting here today was the easy part.”
Those words may have proved grimly prophetic for the newly minted D.A.
Boudin’s 2½-year tenure as San Francisco’s top prosecutor has resembled the “knife fight in a phone booth” adage often used to describe Bay Area politics. He has weathered attacks from across the city’s political spectrum; both the historically conservative police union and more moderate politicians such as Mayor London Breed have often criticized the would-be reformer.
His relationship with the city’s police department has faltered, and dozens of his own prosecutors have quit — some to help oust Boudin from office.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Turns out putting criminals back on the street results in more crime, who knew?
I work in the Tenderloin area of SF and it’s pretty unbelievable. CROWDS of people shooting up and snorting stuff on aluminum foil in front of my building (and even in the wells of the windows) all in unison. Either they do it all day long or they time themselves to shoot up and snort all together.
“...reimagine public safety...”
I told my son-in-law to never take us through that area again.
I'll never forget the lamppost that fell over a few years ago because there was so much HUMAN urine on it.
Urine-Damaged Lamp Post Almost Crushes Driver in San Francisco
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/urine-damaged-lamp-post-almost-hits-driver/114583/
This is what the people in San Francisco continue to vote for - their city and parks taken over by aggressive homeless, mentally ill and drug addled. They have more rights than the homeowners and tax paying citizens.
NO wonder so many conferences have pulled out of the area.
The LA Times is really trying to be the most far left lunatic “newspaper” in the world.
What you reward you get more of, what you punish you get less of.
There is an unwritten compact between the citizens and the government.
The government takes on the task of providing justice for the citizens and in exchange the citizens do not take the law in their own hands.
In many cities around our nation, that compact has been broken. It is ironic that vigilantism had it’s birth in San Francisco of the 1850s when there was no law and the citizens enforced frontier justice.
I wonder if we might see it again in the future.
It is clear there’s a “Who’s the most immoral DA in California” contest between SF and LA. It’s neck-and-neck at this point.
He says it is hard to be a DA reimagining the justice system.
It’s not hard at all. Every time a criminal commits a crime, he says it’s no big deal and lets him go.
The city's demise is a perfect illustration of liberalism. Regardless the mask they wear (liberal; liberTARDian; RINO), it does nothing but destroy, decay and demolish.
Do the windows in your building open?
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Suspicious.
code for "Defund the police."
The issues get conflated by the left. True, if there is a crime problem, there is some sort of role for government to to play try to reduce what’s causing it. For example, if there is a problem with car vandalism or car jacking or armed robbery, the Gov should figure out why their citizens are going off in that direction and work, to the extent possible, to try to reduce it. But, if you commit a crime, you should face an appropriate punishment. You shouldn’t be let go in the name of reform.
At best, the political left is a bunch of idealist and at worst they are stupid idiots overly impressed with their bonafides and virtue signaling. Either way, they don’t have a freaking clue and they need to go.
I’m trying to reimagine a nation without freak misfits in charge.
The Left makes “democracy” it’s idol, but sees democracy at work (e.g., a recall election) as a threat. It’s almost as if their commitment to anything is based on tactics, not principles...
You might want to think about this. San Francisco is what you get when the government sees no limits to their ability to spend public treasure to implement their grand solutions.
Those who want to “re-imagine public safety” actually want to make “safety” a figment of their public’s imagination!
By Austen Hufford
Feb. 7, 2018
One of Los Angeles’s richest people, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, is the latest billionaire to become newspaper proprietor, joining Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos, who bought the Washington Post, and Boston Red Sox owner John Henry, who bought the Boston Globe. Dr. Soon-Shiong’s Nant Capital reached a deal Wednesday to buy the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune and a group of smaller newspapers for $500 million and assume $90 million in pension liabilities from Tronc In a statement, he committed himself to “continuing the great tradition of award-winning journalism” at the publications.
Began left and has moved even father left.
nationwide movement to elect district attorneys who seek to reimagine public safety and redefine the role of a prosecutor.
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