District Attorney @chesaboudin is the most talked-about lawyer in #SanFrancisco. Tonight, he takes the mic
@welcometomannys to reflect on a year in office, the well-publicized recall effort & the future of criminal justice in San Francisco. We're listening IRL & virtually. 
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But who is Chesa Boudin? Some background info as things get started.https://heresaymedia.org/chesa-boudin-explainer-district-attorney-san-francisco/ …
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A softball question to start.
Manny Yekutiel, the proprietor of @welcometomannys, asks Boudin how the pandemic has changed you as a person? "It's forced us to be creative and innovative in how we do our work... it forced me to learn how to cook sourdough at home."
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On a more serious note,
@chesaboudin says he took the past 18 months to "center" his criminal justice work on victims. In the wake of#GeorgeFloyd, he said he wants to make sure that all victims are treated equally under the law.
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Next question: What is something that you surprised in a good way and what is something that was harder than you thought it would be?
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Boudin: "I would say the negative has been getting things done during a pandemic is really slow. Even when we have great ideas... in the last 18 months it has been difficult getting everyone in the same room and on the same page."
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"It makes it hard for my staff to prosecute things effectively," said Boudin. "When I took office I inherited over 5,000 open criminal cases. On average they were over a year old. 20% were two years old. But we haven't had courts open to process them."
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The average age of a case is about double, says
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More on the backlog: "Every day my lawyers are going to 6 or 7 courtrooms," says Boudin. "Most of the time the judges say come back next week." "We're reopening... but it's going to be a slow and difficult process as we sort through a backlog that was already a massive backlog."
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Next question and it's a loaded one. Is San Francisco getting less safe? Boudin: "Some categories have gone up and some have gone down," he says. Overall, he says crimes are down by about 20%. We'll fact-check that one and get back to you.
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He said crime has gone down by historic margins, that it has nothing to do with him, that it was driven by the pandemic. He said we should expect that crime will probably normalize (go up) as we reopen.
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I'm just not in the mood for The Hilarious Waiter Brothers.