In 2020, Chesa Boudin became San Francisco’s district attorney, promising radical new policies that exemplified the city’s leading-edge liberalism. Cops would make fewer arrests, and more wrongdoers would be diverted to drug and mental health programs instead of prison. Prosecutors would be forbidden from seeking cash bail, and arrests for consensual sex work, “public camping,” […]
One thing that’s become tiresome, when it comes to 2022 progressive politics, is being told that what you’re seeing with your own eyes is not happening: That’s not a fire. That’s not a crisis. And even if it were a crisis, that’s on you; you and your privilege birthed this mess so just pipe down […]
With more than two thirds of votes counted, San Franciscans have voted by a comfortable margin to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Boudin, the latest in a trend of progressive prosecutors across the country, came into office in January 2020 promising reform. In office, he expanded diversion programs, like drug or mental health treatment, as […]