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Google "Chesa Boudin," the current DA, who is ensuring that criminals run rampant throughout the city, if not inviting them to do so, if you listen to certain o
by rhizome 5y ago
Google "Chesa Boudin," the current DA, who is ensuring that criminals run rampant throughout the city, if not inviting them to do so, if you listen to certain opinions.
Find a news story about the current crime rate in SF that isn't framed by comments from carceral interests: the police, the police union, former police officers, former hardline prosecutors, and aspiring hardline prosecutors. Many if not most stories only talk to those people.
You may be surprised at the difficulty in finding an even-handed appraisal.
- Afton 5y agoAs a non-SF resident, doing useful research inspired by 'google the current DA' is pretty laborious. I found https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Francisco-crime-statistics-recall-16268178.php https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Fra... which seems sensible on the face of it, and doesn't sound at all like he's "ensuring that criminals run rampant throughout the city". The general problem of media assuming good-faith information from police is widespread and SF is no different from any other location in the US (or Canada for that matter).
- rhizome 5y agoSorry about that, I must have assumed the story was as big everywhere as it is here (I know). This is probably a decent start: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/14/bogus-backlash-against-progressive-prosecutors/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/14/bogus-bac...