Not sure. I don’t believe most San Franciscans wanted someone like him to win. I suspect even fewer SFers want him to be DA now. It would be interesting to interview people who put Chesa as their #2/#3 choice in that race to see if they regret ithttps://maksim-ioffe.medium.com/chesa-boudin-a-district-attorney-without-a-voter-mandate-4c609a724940 …
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@chesaboudin's legacy will be that voters will assume criminal justice reform cannot be done without undermining public safety. DA candidates running on better criminal justice reform platforms will be compared to him for years to come.1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes -
Replying to @maksim_ioffe @kimmaicutler and
as a Canadian, with 1/4 the incarceration rate of California, watching people melt down because burglaries are up while violent crimes (mild uptick in homicides) are down is deeply confusing
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Replying to @phillmv @kimmaicutler and
Maksim Ioffe Retweeted SFPD Tenderloin
It’s true that many in prison are over-sentenced; that needs reform. But California has more crime than Canada (eg 3.5x homicide rate). In SF, melting down started in earnest after https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-driver-accused-of-killing-two-women-is-15840271.php …, “prolific offenders” aren’t getting punished: https://twitter.com/sfpdtenderloin/status/1340877753743118338 …. HTH
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SFPD TenderloinVerified account @SFPDTenderloinTonight, for the fifteenth (15th) time in 18 months, and the 3rd time in 20 days, we are booking the same suspect at county jail for felony motor vehicle theft. This motorcycle, stolen yesterday, recovered by TL cops and returned to its very grateful owner tonight. See thread. https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/1337280516609884161 … pic.twitter.com/1NvSbBL3341 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @maksim_ioffe @kimmaicutler and
violent crime is down, including in the tenderloin, and homicides are not as up as the US average. property crimes are a factor of the pandemic (they’re also way up here). it just seems strange to me that people who say they’re for prison reform are against, well, prison reform
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Replying to @phillmv @maksim_ioffe and
like, it’s not actually less safe in SF going by Compstat, and you’d have to free 75% of prisoners to get down to the incarceration rate i live with. incarceration is clearly not linked to crime rate, so why is this the DA’s fault?
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Replying to @phillmv @kimmaicutler and
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@chesaboudin is releasing repeat offenders. Reasonable for proponents of CJ reform to insist on competence of those in charge. Btw, tourists (25 mln/yr in 875k city) were targets of many pre-covid crimes. Would be interesting to see crime trends against locals1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @maksim_ioffe @kimmaicutler and
just walking thru this on first principles; if they were repeat offenders it’s because they committed a crime during the earlier, more punitive approach. if that’s the case, then is it fair to say that prison isn’t acting as a deterrent? again, SF afaik is technically safer rn
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Replying to @phillmv @maksim_ioffe and
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@phillmv, great to see you still defending my office by telling everyone in San Francisco how safe the city is based on your perspective from Toronto. Keep up the good work!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @commieboudin @maksim_ioffe and
Mr Commie you just never addressed how this increase in violence was not being measured by the cops, who also hate Chesa
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If you lived here, you’d know that most of my citizens have given up reporting crime because they know charges are never filed against accused. According to my office’s data, most police reports are filed by tourists.
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