Our DA is a joke. The cops don't make arrests. Judges don't do squat. The entire justice system is rotten here. You're free to openly steal from Walgreens and commit as much property crime or assault and cops will never do anything. Our joke of a DA recently refused to charge a repeat offender who went on to kill two others. I'm super progressive, but I cannot understand why the left thinks it's progressive to let people defecate in the street and that giving free needles and tents to that crowd is helping them. The left in America is sick sad joke. Compare SF to Amsterdam and it boggles my mind to see what the left in America does with unchecked power and what Amsterdam can do with similar levels of freedom and even lower income. We have no excuses for how filthy our city is. The only rationalization I can make is that somewhere someone is skimming off these funds and making money off all the homelessness.
Chesa Boudin was only fourteen months old when both his mother and father, members of a left-wing terrorist group called the Weather Underground, were arrested as accessories to the murder of two police officers and a security guard during the 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck. His mother served over twenty years, while his father is still incarcerated almost forty years later (Boudin was raised by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn). Boudin has said that his earliest memories are of visiting his parents in prison and these experiences formed his political views. Perhaps because of this personal history (along with a general commitment to doctrinaire leftism that saw him work for and praise Hugo Chavez long after he revealed himself to be a strongman intent on governing for life), Boudin has made decarceration — the reduction of the numbers of people held in jails and prisons — his signature issue.
This whole Batman effect of having their personal lives outwardly influence their professional-lives has dramatic impacts for everyone else.
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Our DA is a joke. The cops don't make arrests. Judges don't do squat. The entire justice system is rotten here. You're free to openly steal from Walgreens and commit as much property crime or assault and cops will never do anything. Our joke of a DA recently refused to charge a repeat offender who went on to kill two others. I'm super progressive, but I cannot understand why the left thinks it's progressive to let people defecate in the street and that giving free needles and tents to that crowd is helping them. The left in America is sick sad joke. Compare SF to Amsterdam and it boggles my mind to see what the left in America does with unchecked power and what Amsterdam can do with similar levels of freedom and even lower income. We have no excuses for how filthy our city is. The only rationalization I can make is that somewhere someone is skimming off these funds and making money off all the homelessness.
David Sacks wrote a piece about this: https://davidsacks.medium.com/the-killer-d-a-54d4c4a5135f
This whole Batman effect of having their personal lives outwardly influence their professional-lives has dramatic impacts for everyone else.