San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is the district attorney that the city asked for. He never met a criminal he wanted to incarcerate, but as “60 Minutes” explained, few prosecutors “have been as directly touched by incarceration” as Boudin. Boudin’s heart burst when then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo commuted the sentence of his father, who as a member of the Weather Underground took part in a 1981 robbery of Brink’s armored truck that left two police officers and a security guard dead. With both of his parents in jail, Boudin was raised in Chicago by Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, from whom he learned all about the justice system.
Boudin is currently facing a recall effort. More than 50 attorneys and other staff have left the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office since Boudin took charge, with one calling it “like the Titanic.”
The San Francisco Examiner is warning voters against recalling Boudin — if they do, Fox News might celebrate.
OPINION: If voters recall Boudin, San Francisco would be placed well to the right of many American cities and counties on issues of criminal justice and, indeed, civil rights. It would also be a signal that The City’s drift rightward has accelerated. https://t.co/C5qgv1A7dF
— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) May 18, 2022
Oh no.
I can’t believe you let Chesa’s team ghost write articles now.
— DolemiteSF (@DolemiteSF) May 18, 2022
https://twitter.com/BrickOverton/status/1527023407639846912
Yeah exactly, it's like "Why is this an issue?"
— Shane Hensinger 🌐🇺🇦 (@CaliforniaFirst) May 18, 2022
https://twitter.com/FamilyWhong/status/1526939348179898369
@LincolnMitchell When was the last time you talked to SF neighbors and small business owners? Claiming the crime wave is imaginary makes your opinion piece simply laughable.
— Mark Dietrich (@markdietrichsf) May 18, 2022
I don’t know you @LincolnMitchell but you seem pretty far-removed from the actual concerns of the vast majority of SF residents. Maybe you living in New York has something to do with it.
— Mark Dietrich (@markdietrichsf) May 18, 2022
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I'm sorry, where's the list of cities for which radical decarceration worked? I'm a little more concerned with results than with what Fox News thinks.
— Steve Adams (@SteveAdams80182) May 18, 2022
Is this supposed to be good, or bad? A drift towards the right center would be the best thing that could ever happen to the city…
— patrick vvvvv (@VvvvvPatrick) May 18, 2022
Apparently not wanting rampant shoplifting and open air drug use is “right wing”
— eggbagels (@egg_bagels) May 18, 2022
"If we start prosecuting people for committing crimes that makes us far right"
Hell of a take
— Bastard Child of Eris (@magnusiscariot) May 18, 2022
Public safety is now a "right wing" thing … well that's a hell of a hill to die on.
— Alexa*pushingsnoozeoverandover (@spiritfeeler) May 18, 2022
Or maybe it has nothing to do with left-right ideology at all? Maybe its just normal people wanting to live normal lives without unchecked crime all around them?
Is it really "right-wing" to expect that unremitting criminals get taken off the street for the good of everyone?
— Cisco Bhoy (@CiscoBhoy) May 18, 2022
I fail to see the issue here.
— Shane Hensinger 🌐🇺🇦 (@CaliforniaFirst) May 18, 2022
This is garbage 🗑
— Chief Boujietariat (@evanflow80) May 18, 2022
https://twitter.com/IronySoldier/status/1526972379498356737
https://twitter.com/KevinRushton64/status/1526992915888631808
As someone pointed out, who’s to say that Boudin’s replacement would be any less lenient on criminals? San Francisco already voted for this guy once.
Related:
BLOOD-BOILING: San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin under fire after a career criminal who should have been in jail was arrested on manslaughter charges https://t.co/kQ6o9PyRqJ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 5, 2021
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