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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It's patently obvious to everyone that releasing a violently mentally ill offender is unjustifiable. Taking 7 tweets to hand-wave about a vague general lack of services will not placate a public who would like to know what the >$10B city budget is for, if not preventing this.
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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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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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Yes, and I'm not going to keep arguing with someone who would prefer to build a strawman than to listen and respond to the human being in front of them. I find his comments surreal, not his actions as DA.
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have you... been paying attention to the DA's race at all? Gascon is stepping down. He's not going to be DA next year. Do you even understand what direction the conversation is trending in between Chesa Boudin and Suzy Loftus?
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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.