This thread is a bizarre read. The challenges involved with humanely detaining violent offenders with severe mental illness, ordering & compelling treatment, etc., are not new. SF is a very rich city within a very rich state with exceptionally strong public services, inc medical.https://twitter.com/GeorgeGascon/status/1162372342359527424 …
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"distributed & diluted sense of responsibility"
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What I find surreal isn't that the DA couldn't personally hold a violent offender, but that he's implying without *outright saying* that the state had nowhere to put him. It's remarkably tone deaf. Jail may be an improper place. Somewhere along my BART commute is worse.
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Bail decisions are made by the magistrate. The DA's office is the opposing side at the hearing. It's adversarial and the presumption is that bail will be granted.
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it’s not okay, which is why we argued against his being released. We don’t have authority to make pretrial release decisions.