EDITORIAL: The recall campaign’s case against DA chesaboudin tends to be light on facts but heavy on anecdote, emotion and accusations that usually prove untrue. But timing is everything, and he's become a scapegoat for rising public anxiety in The City.
than Sacramento, which has a supposedly “tough on crime” DA. Boudin does not take credit for these relatively positive statistics, but he gets blamed for nearly every individual act of crime even though his own critics admit that’s illogical.
Much of the criticism of Boudin hinges on “tone,” but his message of criminal justice reform is what voters chose when they put the former public defender in the DA’s office. It was an audacious victory for the national movement to elect progressive DAs. Now comes the backlash. After all, Boudin does not control the police department, which makes very few arrests for quality-of-life crimes and allows open-airto flourish in the Tenderloin. Breed does. Boudin does not play a direct role in solving The City’s crisis of homelessness and poverty on our streets. The mayor and the supervisors own that problem. Boudin has flaws, but any honest analysis reveals he’s being held responsible for the failures other politicians.
We locked up so many people — a large number of them poor Black and brown people — that in 2011 the United States Supreme Court found conditions in California’sviolated the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. This ruling kicked off a series of reforms, led by Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom, to improve public safety through criminal justice reform.
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