If 2020 was a year of experimentation with a new model of criminal justice in San Francisco, embodied by the city’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, then 2021 is the year of backlash.http://nyer.cm/Z7PqEgV
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Replying to @NewYorker @chesaboudin
Between March and December of 2020, crime dropped by thirty per cent. The cause, he surmised, was the shutdown. shoplifting had become a raging problem in San Francisco, but, he pointed out, the official data showed that over-all theft was down from the previous year.
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Not all theft is reported. If the prosecution threshold is $950, you can bet known thefts under this are going unreported.
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