Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened. On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238. On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097. Yesterday, it was 766. Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
SF has been releasing people who already had release dates, placing folks on electronic monitoring (mainly tose who couldn't afford bail) and adjudicating cases that were more than 2, 3, 4 years old.