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Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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Re: Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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>Crime overall has fallen since Mr. Boudin took office in January 2020 lol, that's pretty easy to do when you just stop prosecuting people. Same way graduation rates increase if you just stop failing people. Who cares about the actual purpose of institutions or whether goals are being achieved, just make sure the numbers are what we want https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1533544746173571079

This can't be simple as a corrupt or lazy prosecutor, right? What is the full story here?

Re: Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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>Crime overall has fallen since Mr. Boudin took office in January 2020 lol, that's pretty easy to do when you just stop prosecuting people. Same way graduation rates increase if you just stop failing people. Who cares about the actual purpose of institutions or whether goals are being achieved, just make sure the numbers are what we want https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1533544746173571079

This can't be simple as a corrupt or lazy prosecutor, right? What is the full story here?

A prosecutor who was captured by ideology.

Re: Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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Have you tried putting weed in your carry-on on any foreign airline? The drug laws in many America cities and states are "far left" relative to the rest of the world. Coincidentally, lax drug laws have caused many issues in SF that led to Chesa Boudin's recall

Stupid drug laws cause the problem. Criminalizing drugs creates crime.

We do have a drug epidemic happening but the answer certainly isn't locking people up.

Re: Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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>Crime overall has fallen since Mr. Boudin took office in January 2020 lol, that's pretty easy to do when you just stop prosecuting people. Same way graduation rates increase if you just stop failing people. Who cares about the actual purpose of institutions or whether goals are being achieved, just make sure the numbers are what we want https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1533544746173571079

Judging from the chart, looks like about a 20% drop in felony prosecutions in 2020/2021 compared to a typical previous year, plus a larger drop in the number of misdemeanor prosecutions. (Which, note, are separate statistics from the number of reported crimes.)

The once-in-a-century pandemic also had significant effects here, both on the DA office and courts, and on the level/types of crime in the city, making it hard to get a clear causal story about the relation between prosecution decisions vs. crime rates.

What is the “actual purpose” of the DA’s office in your view: to prosecute as many cases as possible, irrespective of circumstances?

Re: Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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I’m curious how many people would agree with this comment. If Chesa and his policies are not considered far left, who/what is? It seems that his polices were on the extreme end of the progressive spectrum, and that both his supporters and critics would agree with that statement.

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Re: Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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I’m curious how many people would agree with this comment. If Chesa and his policies are not considered far left, who/what is? It seems that his polices were on the extreme end of the progressive spectrum, and that both his supporters and critics would agree with that statement.

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Re: Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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Chesa being thrown out on his ear just means a slightly more moderate liberal will be installed in his place. Your belief that this represents a swing to the republican party is outlandish and deranged. This is San Francisco we're talking about.

Yes. Meanwhile across the bay in Alameda County the criminal justice reform candidates are doing quite well.

Coincidentally, crime rates in Alameda County are anecdotally only getting worse. I've never seen it as bad as it is now, in terms of blatant property theft, armed robberies, and mentally deranged homeless.
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