What about police breaking up sideshows as opposed to other large unsanctioned gatherings when sideshows primarily occur in low-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods mainly populated by POC?
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I don't know about sideshows. But I do know that the State's 2020 RIPA Board Report showed that, in SF, Black people were stopped at rates over 5X their representation in the city’s overall population. Which is a greater disparity than LA or San Diego.https://oag.ca.gov/ab953/board
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Replying to @jrwiese @nbay2nbeach and
They were search almost 3X as frequently. And narcotics were seized in approximately 1.3% of all traffic stops, and weapons or ammunition seized in 0.6% of all traffic stops.
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And the SFDA office's policy is limited. They have "a presumption against filing possession of contraband crimes when the search stemmed from an infraction-related stop, and no other independent probable cause (such as observed contraband in plain view)"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O5GqKD76M7ystoWaOnKnWnsne9D-hMx0/view …
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Replying to @jrwiese @nbay2nbeach and
The point I'm trying to make is that pretextual stops have targeted black people more than others in SF. They aren't a precise or particularly effective tool. And they feed distrust, which makes it harder to solve crimes and hold those responsible accountable.
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My point is that much of police activity is pretextual. But critics of tend to only bemoan pretextual activity when it’s convenient for them to do so. In this case, the DA, a critic of it, actually criticized the police for NOT engaging in pretextual activity.
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That same DA is a critic of over-enforcement of quality-of-life, low-level, and nuisance crimes, but in this case he criticized the police for not enforcing those laws, regardless of whether the 1 police car there would have even been capable of managing a crowd that size.
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It seems then that there’s a type and extent of pretextual activity that he is willing to accept and it may be the type that turns eyes away from him and the increase in shootings and homicides SF is experiencing.
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Once eyes start turning toward him, it seems the DA will try to turn them right back on the police for acting the very way he wanted them to act. Evidence of that is in his original tweet and that makes him a hypocrite.
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Thanks for taking the time for this exchange & walking through your reasoning. I don't see this as an effort to point attention away from his office. But that's probably because I'm a fan of his policies thus far & expect they'll ultimately help improve safety outcomes in SF.
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That said, I'll continue to track the sideshow conversation. I thought that criticism was confusing at best, and see the implied correlation between the sideshow and subsequent shooting as inconsistent with other things I've heard him say. Though not hypocritical.
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