i'm joining a public safety meeting for #SF's Noe Valley with Sup. @RafaelMandelman that may include DA @chesaboudin
in an overview, when crime is reported the primary responder is the SFPD, @chesaboudin says. when they solve a case (the term he uses is "clearing") then his office gets involved.
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"there's a lot of stuff happening in the chat ... i'm not following all of that ... but the perception if you're active on Nextdoor or Twitter is not always the same,"
@chesaboudin says, adding that crime is down overall by double digits in 2020.Show this thread -
he's shared
#SF crime dashboards: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crime-dashboard …https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/clearance-rates-dashboard …Show this thread -
"we have filed over 4300 new criminal cases since i took office" last year, says
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"i inherited about 5100 open cases" when coming into office," says
@chesaboudin, who notes that he can't prosecute unless there's an arrestShow this thread -
"when the police ID a suspect and present a case ... about 75% of the time my office is filing new cases in residential burglaries," says
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now DA Boudin is talking about parole system. "we all need to communicate on how we do our jobs," he says about the high-profile case that has taken place recently
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people's concern about Troy McAllister, says
@RafaelMandelman, is the appearance of a "revolving door" where suspects aren't spending time in jail. Boudin says "it is constitutionally prohibited to punish people until they've been convicted of a crime"Show this thread -
"we haven't been able to do a single jury trial since June,"
@chesaboudin says. "the court does not want to bring all of you in to sit in a box in a closed courtroom"Show this thread -
"in the context of COVID, people aren't waiving the right to trial" and people are asserting their right to trial. "we're in a real bind ... and there is no end in sight," Boudin says
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"without the ability to do trials, we don't have the ability to hold people on nonviolent charges,"
@chesaboudin says. but McAllister, the alleged hit-and-run suspect, was on paroleShow this thread -
"McAllister had a parole officer, and every time he was arrested ... we referred him to the supervising law enforcement agency. i'm not pointing the finger at parole," says
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"on Dec. 20, when McAllister was arrested, nobody told his parole agent he had been arrested. so you have to wonder what would have happened ... would they have put a hold? would they have tried to intervene in some other way?"
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@chesaboudin says "this isn't new" but "the answer cannot be, because there's a risk of someone committing another [nonviolent] crime is putting them in prison for life."Show this thread -
responding to a question,
@chesaboudin says violent crimes are not abstract. "a violent crime is what we all think it is, and those are my priority."Show this thread -
"most people don't understand the relationship between parole, police, the sheriff and the DA," says Boudin
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and now
@chesaboudin has left the call. the chat is full of comments about an allegedly violent skateboarder, which is fine. but looks like Boudin is sticking to his points about how his office works and what can and cannot be done. that's all for nowShow this thread
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