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I don't see the connection you are making. The DA elected two weeks ago can hardly have caused this issue. Putting enforcement priority on burglary and vandali

I don't see the connection you are making. The DA elected two weeks ago can hardly have caused this issue. Putting enforcement priority on burglary and vandalism (the problems mentioned in the article) instead of the issues you listed seems like the right thing to do.

dmitrygr 7y ago
The DA was freely elected by the people FOR these views. The previous DA had similar views. SF needs a DA who will actually prosecute crime, not make excuses for it. My car has been broken into multiple times in SF. Once in front of a police station. Once near a school which had security cameras rolling which filmed the entire thing. Police are uninterested. They told me "these people have it hard enough, we're not going to make things harder for them"
- wahern 7y ago
  > The DA was freely elected by the people FOR these views. That's debatable. Another perspective: Boudin was nobody's first choice, but because of ranked-choice voting and some political infighting among moderates that split the vote, Boudin took home the prize. See https://missionlocal.org/2019/11/s-f-election-wrap-how-could-this-happen-and-what-are-we-in-for-now/ https://missionlocal.org/2019/11/s-f-election-wrap-how-could... Which is not to say that he wasn't fairly elected, just that I seriously doubt he was specifically elected for his platform. The man is a Rhodes scholar, a great speaker, and got a lot of press, precisely the kind of person you vote for in ranked-choice after you've checked off your top pick(s). For example, Boudin did well among the Chinese community, which is generally conservative. But their first choice was Tung, a moderate-conservative who supported prosecution of quality of life crimes at least as strongly as currently. As the SF Chronicle put it, "Tung was a natural choice for Chinese voters, who make up a third of the city’s voters, and Boudin campaigned heavily in the Chinese community. He speaks some Cantonese and Mandarin and won the endorsement of the Sing Tao Daily, the largest Chinese language newspaper in the Bay Area. That could be a reason he won a lot of Tung’s second-choice votes, even though their politics were at opposite ends of the candidate spectrum." https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/How-Chesa-Boudin-a-public-defender-who-never-14826323.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Ho... As the Mission Local implied, this is the sort of oddball result you can sometimes get from "the fetid rabbit hole of San Francisco club politics, that perfect amalgamation of Tracy Flick and the Soviet politburo." (That quote is just amazing. Are there journalism prizes for soundbites? 'cause that journalist deserves one.)
jeffrom 7y ago
there are plenty of cities doing broken windows policing if that's the kind of place you'd rather be in.
throwGuardian 7y ago
You should move to SF and open a restaurant. Maybe, just maybe, when your entrance has used drug needles and homeless camps, you'll figure out why the restaurant has break-ins. And then maybe this nonsensical rhetoric from the DAs will add up
- perl4ever 7y ago
  In a hypothetical free market, you have to expect that opening a new restaurant is a very marginal thing to do, no? I just checked Yelp and it said there are 2,642 restaurants in SF that are open right now. So maybe they just have enough restaurants?

dmitrygr 7y ago

The DA was freely elected by the people FOR these views. The previous DA had similar views. SF needs a DA who will actually prosecute crime, not make excuses for it. My car has been broken into multiple times in SF. Once in front of a police station. Once near a school which had security cameras rolling which filmed the entire thing. Police are uninterested. They told me "these people have it hard enough, we're not going to make things harder for them"

wahern 7y ago
> The DA was freely elected by the people FOR these views. That's debatable. Another perspective: Boudin was nobody's first choice, but because of ranked-choice voting and some political infighting among moderates that split the vote, Boudin took home the prize. See https://missionlocal.org/2019/11/s-f-election-wrap-how-could-this-happen-and-what-are-we-in-for-now/ https://missionlocal.org/2019/11/s-f-election-wrap-how-could... Which is not to say that he wasn't fairly elected, just that I seriously doubt he was specifically elected for his platform. The man is a Rhodes scholar, a great speaker, and got a lot of press, precisely the kind of person you vote for in ranked-choice after you've checked off your top pick(s). For example, Boudin did well among the Chinese community, which is generally conservative. But their first choice was Tung, a moderate-conservative who supported prosecution of quality of life crimes at least as strongly as currently. As the SF Chronicle put it, "Tung was a natural choice for Chinese voters, who make up a third of the city’s voters, and Boudin campaigned heavily in the Chinese community. He speaks some Cantonese and Mandarin and won the endorsement of the Sing Tao Daily, the largest Chinese language newspaper in the Bay Area. That could be a reason he won a lot of Tung’s second-choice votes, even though their politics were at opposite ends of the candidate spectrum." https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/How-Chesa-Boudin-a-public-defender-who-never-14826323.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Ho... As the Mission Local implied, this is the sort of oddball result you can sometimes get from "the fetid rabbit hole of San Francisco club politics, that perfect amalgamation of Tracy Flick and the Soviet politburo." (That quote is just amazing. Are there journalism prizes for soundbites? 'cause that journalist deserves one.)

jeffrom 7y ago

there are plenty of cities doing broken windows policing if that's the kind of place you'd rather be in.

throwGuardian 7y ago

You should move to SF and open a restaurant. Maybe, just maybe, when your entrance has used drug needles and homeless camps, you'll figure out why the restaurant has break-ins. And then maybe this nonsensical rhetoric from the DAs will add up

perl4ever 7y ago
In a hypothetical free market, you have to expect that opening a new restaurant is a very marginal thing to do, no? I just checked Yelp and it said there are 2,642 restaurants in SF that are open right now. So maybe they just have enough restaurants?