> Bathrooms were reopened after people raised an outcry over a perceived racial injustice. "The new policy for Starbucks’ 8,000 company-owned US stores comes i

> Bathrooms were reopened after people raised an outcry over a perceived racial injustice. "The new policy for Starbucks’ 8,000 company-owned US stores comes in the aftermath of an explosive incident last month in Philadelphia, in which two black men were asked to leave a store after using the restroom without making a purchase, and were arrested for trespassing after they refused. The episode triggered protests as well as apologies from Starbucks officials and the Philadelphia police, and led the company to schedule a day of racial-bias training on May 29." It appears to me that Starbucks openly acknowledged they had a problem. Before this point, there was no official policy so it was up to individual Starbucks employees to decide whether you looked "too shady" to be allowed into the restroom, so the permissive policy was an improvement. Changing from that to an explicitly not permissive policy is also an improvement over how things were before, because now it's clear instead of subjective and down to individual employee biases. Clear policies are good that way! > the public is turning against San Francisco's Chelsea Boudin and others who tried to be permissive with the homeless. Chesa Boudin's recall was not meaningfully any representation of a shift in public opinion. He won his office originally with a small portion of the vote due to the ranked choice voting used for the office, and the recall was a yes/no. It was inevitable that once a well-funded recall campaign ran, he would struggle to get over 50% 'yes' votes when he failed to get 50% in his original election. In general, it is very easy to recall politicians in California, and the campaign to remove him was funded to the tune of over $7M usd - way way more than every other measure on the ballot put together. In practice the people who voted for him before voted for him again, and the people who didn't vote for him before didn't vote for him again. In the end, nothing is likely to change, since SF's problems are not something an AG can solve by themselves. The police were actively refusing to arrest known criminals even when his office asked them to.