The cynical take: there's a distributed & diluted sense of responsibility for our safety, the public's malaise implies that heads won't roll until this individual kills someone, & the next victim will more likely than not be homeless herself & unlikely to draw so much attention.
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Maxwell Szabo
They requested that he not be released? That’s not the DA’s role.https://twitter.com/maxxszabo/status/1161814822830272514?s=21 …
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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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uh, isn't it the DA's job to prosecute people not operate the jail system itself? He's saying he requested to not release this guy and the judge didn't agree.
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Maxwell Szabo
Also, it's state law that prevents compulsory treatment, not local.https://twitter.com/maxxszabo/status/1162149760645513217 …
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Read Lanterman Petris Short -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman%E2%80%93Petris%E2%80%93Short_Act … When it passed, California voters were supposed to substantially fund community-based mental health centers to replace state mental institutions. Shocker: they didn't.
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Interesting cite. But main thing is SF residents are paying for a basic service that many other cities deliver without issue. Internal bureaucratic reasons don’t matter. If a product doesn’t work, you may try fixing it but eventually you switch vendors. So too with cities.
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Kim, you have done some of the absolute best writing and research on the reasons why SF is dysfunctional. But so much of SF tech are hardworking people (many immigrants) who simply don’t have the time to sit in line at some council meeting, and often lack a vote as well.
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Laura Foote 🌃
If you’re out-organized by other interests and don’t consistently vote or at least get others who share your interests to vote, then the whole apparatus will dismiss your preferences.https://twitter.com/neversassylaura/status/1147560217527246848?s=21 …
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Or if you can’t do the labor to organize, stop whining on Twitter and write some big checks to candidates / political action groups who *will* wait in line etc. So tired of tech people kvetching on Twitter and you look up their political giving efforts and it’s a big goose egg.
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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.