Chesa Boudin recall

COMPLETE SAN FRANCISCO RESULTS, ANALYSIS, MAPS AND GRAPHICS San Francisco is a mid-sized North American city. It has almost exactly the same population as.

On the same night San Francisco recalled its progressive DA, a progressive prosecutor took the lead in Alameda County — where violent crime well and truly is a problem both statistically as well as anecdotally. But, when it comes to less clear-cut and closer-to-home issues like criminal justice reform, San Francisco voters indicate they like the concept of them — but, it seems, only so long as they remain conceptual. For generations, the success of a DA was essentially gauged in how effectively he or she could do this. If you were to look at the professed interests of voters in Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s district on this handy dandy feature, you’ll find that police reform is a low priority. San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who is African American, never really defunded the police — but now she doesn’t even have to bother with any budgeting sleight-of-hand to even pretend we’re doing so. Symposiums could be taught regarding how to convince voters that the district attorney is the problem in a city where the police arrest rate is historically low and has been for years. And if the pro-recall forces end up spending $8 million to $10 million to win a majority of votes in an election where only 140,000 or so people bother to return their ballots, the cost-per-vote will be prohibitive. There is no indication this ever occurred: Boudin in 2019 won with a plurality of first-place votes in a razor-thin ranked-choice contest in a low-turnout election aided in no small part by the mayor’s heavy handed appointment of his main rival to the vacant DA post. Is San Francisco a template for other cities or states with vulnerable prosecutors? Things happen everywhere, but in San Francisco — Things Matter. “San Francisco” is a metonym. You don’t hear about “Columbus values” or a “Winnipeg liberal,” but “San Francisco” does serve as a modifier.

San Francisco residents voted overwhelmingly to recall progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a heated campaign that divided Democrats over crime, ...

While campaigning, he spoke of the pain of stepping through metal detectors to hug his parents and vowed to reform a system that tears apart families. Boudin shot back that he could not prosecute cases when police failed to bring evidence and made arrests in just 5 percent of cases. “In fact, San Francisco has been a national beacon for progressive criminal justice reform for decades and will continue to do so with new leadership.” They were sentenced to decades in prison. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, a critic of Boudin who ran as an independent, did not advance. They rejected Boudin’s efforts to paint them as Republicans.

San Francisco was conquered by the United States in 1846, and two years later, the Americans discovered gold. That's about when my ancestors came—my German ...

NIMBYism and fentanyl are as much a part of the San Francisco landscape now as the bridge and the fog. A landslide 76 percent voted to recall Collins, and the other two were recalled by about 70 percent each. In July, on the topic of the declining quality of life in San Francisco, she wrote, “I’m like, then leave.” A parent on Twitter accused López of trying to destroy the school system, and she replied with the words “I mean this sincerely” followed by a middle-finger emoji. Anyone offended by the sight of the suffering is just judging someone who’s having a mental-health episode, and any liberal who argues that the state can and should take control of someone in the throes of drugs and psychosis is basically a Republican. If and when the vulnerable person dies, that was his choice, and in San Francisco we congratulate ourselves on being very accepting of that choice. I don’t want to end up surrounded by a bunch of super-rich people and a farm.” They’re not the only people who live here, and they’re not the only ones who got angry. But the reality is that with the smartest minds and so much money and the very best of intentions, San Francisco became a cruel city. If you’re going to die on the street, San Francisco is not a bad place to do it. There is a sense that, on everything from housing to schools, San Francisco has lost the plot—that progressive leaders here have been LARPing left-wing values instead of working to create a livable city. They did it because he didn’t seem to care that he was making the citizens of our city miserable in service of an ideology that made sense everywhere but in reality. But it’s maddening because the beauty and the mythology—the preciousness, the self-regard—are part of what has almost killed it.