San Francisco residents have voted to recall the district attorney, Chesa Boudin, who was elected on an agenda of criminal justice reform but faced intensifying backlash from law enforcement, conservatives and residents concerned about crime. Boudin’s removal as the city’s top prosecutor in the middle of his first term is […]
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Op-Ed: If criminal justice reform can’t survive in San Francisco, can it survive anywhere?
On its face, the effort to recall San Francisco Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin is a debate over how a relatively small, atypical city battles crime, a philosophical dispute over how often to lock up offenders and the relative success of efforts to divert nonviolent criminals into treatment programs that keep […]