San Francisco has had all the problems being blamed on the DA for decades. Things got worse during the pandemic in most cities, regardless of what DA they had. People act like Boudin personally emptied out the jails and stopped prosecuting anyone for anything but this is a ridiculous charicature - as you point out, the actual data says otherwise. He was enacting some reforms promised to us voters, and attempting to hold police more accountable turned out to be an outrageous notion to some. It hardly rose to the emergency people pretend it did, and for which the recall mechanism is intended. Far worse to me is that the police can do as they please and simply stop doing their job and get away with blaming someone else for the result. The recall process is being twisted into a do-over for wealthy interests who don't like an election result.
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