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.
They’ve been released. Dig deeper. The system is so out of whack they don’t punish true crimes like rape, sex trafficking or murderers like they do 1st time marijuana offenders. Meaning their time was close enough to finished so they’re out. Injustice to say the least