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Originally posted by SeaCliff:
His cohort down below in Los Angeles, DA George Gascon is next.

Before his L.A. job, he was San Francisco's D.A., appointed by Newsom .

An incestuous crowd, these CA commies.

He was so terrible in SF, Mayor London Breed did not endorse him for his run in L.A., instead choosing his opponent, a pro-capital punishment, pro police, tough on crime black woman link

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Originally posted by Russ59:
However, what will actual change in SF? Feces, open drug use and distribution, property and personal crimes, retailers fleeing the poorest neighborhoods, cops not bothering to make arrests, bums and junkies being bums and junkies......

The changes will be more internal with some noticing from the outside.

* Straightening-out the DA office, its no secret that Boudin, upon taking office, brought in his own cadre of hard-core social-justice lawyers replacing over half the ADA's that had been in the office for years. Boudin ran the DA office, as if he was still a public defender, viewing all criminal acts through the lens of racial and economic disparities, rather than individual responsibility and legal precedent. His leading methodology was the implementation of 'bail reform', utilizing 'restorative justice' and broadening diversion programs rather than seeking sentencing; all of this under teh guise of reducing prison populations. Neighboring DA's were either envious or, were put-off by how his office dealt with criminality. Thus certain cross-county crimes that involved San Francisco, the leading LE agencies would pursue charges in other counties and avoid SF.

* Boudin still clinging to his public defender ethos, was very, very confrontational with law enforcement at all levels. The MO for his life, is about confronting and challenging anybody wearing a badge and uniform. His inability/refusal to work with LEO's and his snide commentary created one of the most contentious civic relationships SF politics has seen in decades. 'Police reform' was one of the pillars he pursued mainly due to decades of sloppy investigative work and juvenile behavior by LEO's that the local press framed as a 'bigger cultural problem'; the George Floyd-incident reinforced his position and became his hammer in his dealings with the SFPD. Basically over the last year, the two departments barely communicated outside of legal requirements.

* The criminally insane will be kept locked-up...well, that's the hope. Boudin's office was making very little effort to detain and separate from society any law breakers who are Black or, Latino regardless of their mental state. Its also no secret that the 'homeless advocates' who've become an all too powerful voice in politics to which Boudin is a saint, are willfully blind to the fact that the vast majority of those 'living on the streets' have mental issues. No amount of shelter/roof-over-the-head, situation is going to change the fact that there are a disproportionate number of people, on the streets who need to be separated from society; not only for the safety of the citizens but, for themselves as well.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Against recall:
1. 34% North Bernal Heights (lesbian epicenter, gentrified from working class)
2. 42% Mission (center of gravity for West Coast hipsters and urban techies)
3. 43% Haight-Ashbury (wealthy aging hippies and those clinging to the late-60's)
4. 43% South Bernal Heights (lesbian epicenter, gentrified from working class)
5. 45% Inner Sunset (bedroom community of non-parents)

This is where the criminals should be released into. Let them victimize those people and see if they change their minds.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
This is where the criminals should be released into. Let them victimize those people and see if they change their minds.

Pathetically, those neighborhood residents view the criminal element as merely local color and character of urban living.

HOW SAN FRANCISCO BECAME A FAILED CITY

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Because yesterday, San Francisco voters decided to turn their district attorney, Chesa Boudin, out of office. 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. It’s not just about Boudin, though. 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. And many San Franciscans have had enough.

The author (wife of Bari Weiss) paints an accurate picture of the current state of San Francisco. Her portrayal of the city in her youth is different than my experience as a native however, she nails the observation that the progressives are more obsessed with roll-playing their positions than actually solving problems. Their ideas, when pressure tested, fail.

^^^ Alas, they've been destined to fail upward historically, even when their objectives actually made sense. I can still remember DiFi's attempts to resurrect the middle class in San Francisco, and her efforts to get drug stores and grocery stores into rough neighborhoods back in the 80's were a lesson to everyone except Dem politicians.

I really like the last sentence of the article. We'll have to wait and see just what comes out of that sausage machine.

According to another I saw, the dean of the law school, Erwin Chemerinsky (who writes opinions on a regular basis for this paper, and whom I don't think I've ever agreed with), was very interested in starting this project with Boudin.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/na...rticle275950021.html

Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin takes new job, won’t run for office

San Francisco's polarizing former top prosecutor announced Wednesday he will not run for his old job, choosing instead to serve as executive director of a new criminal law research and advocacy center at University of California, Berkeley's law school.

Chesa Boudin was ousted as district attorney last year in a divisive recall election, driven by critics who said his progressive attitude toward crime was making the city less safe. He was replaced by Brooke Jenkins, who promised more consequences for criminal defendants.

Boudin is the son of leftist radicals who spent decades in prison for their role in a botched 1981 heist of a Brink's armored truck. Kathy Boudin died last year, soon after David Gilbert was granted parole.

Boudin said in an op-ed published in the San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday that his new job “is still consistent with my lifelong commitment to fixing the criminal legal system, ending mass incarceration, and innovating data-driven solutions to public safety challenges.”

He said the Criminal Law & Justice Center will evaluate the outcomes of specific policies and communicate to the public just what is needed to make communities safe.

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Originally posted by SigSAC:

Boudin is the son of leftist radicals who spent decades in prison for their role in a botched 1981 heist of a Brink's armored truck.

By "botched" they mean two cops and a security guard died but why taint the good news for Chesa.

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Originally posted by SigSAC:

San Francisco's polarizing former top prosecutor announced Wednesday he will not run for his old job, choosing instead to serve as executive director of a new criminal law research and advocacy center at University of California, Berkeley's law school.

Chesa Boudin Brings a Lifetime of Experience to Lead New Criminal Law & Justice Center

When Kim Foxx and Angela Davis are publicly heaping praise upon you, then you know where things stand, and where they're going to go This is how ideological lawyers, incapable of seeing past their own bias and refusing to uphold the law are born and incubated. See recent Stanford Law students disrupting guest federal judge smh.....

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This is how ideological lawyers, incapable of seeing past their own bias and refusing to uphold the law are born and incubated.

That's just how they want it. The left controls the institutions. Particularly Berkeley's law school.

San Fran's dying downtown: Westfield stops making mortgage payments

Comment – There’s a really nice upscale Westfield mall here in San Diego that’s doing great business. But lots of libs are fleeing failing San Fran & LA and coming to San Diego, figuring that they can make liberalism work here. They never learn.

“San Francisco's struggling downtown has been dealt another blow as Westfield has stopped making mortgage payments on its massive mall due to crime and tanking sales.

The firm has defaulted on the $558million loan and is handing it back to the lender, which will appoint a receiver. The mall will remain open for now.

The decision was sparked by the decision from Nordstrom, the mall's anchor tenant, to close in August.

Last month, Westfield blamed 'unsafe conditions' and 'lack of enforcement against rampant criminal activity' in large part for Nordstrom's departure.

Westfield said the 'unprecedented' poor performance in San Francisco was a sharp contrast to the rest of its properties. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/12187671

^^^
Every article about this cites a “reduction of foot traffic”, or “decreased sales”, or “everyone using online purchasing”. None refer to the truth- leftist liberal policies.

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Comment – There’s a really nice upscale Westfield mall here in San Diego that’s doing great business. But lots of libs are fleeing failing San Fran & LA and coming to San Diego, figuring that they can make liberalism work here. They never learn.

Well, at least they are not moving out of CA, so there is that positive....

History has shown that Marxism and Communism are nice in theory, but in the modern world it simply does not work.

I posted about the Westfield Mall in the Prop 47 thread. As a companion, here is a video on store closures in SF



This building on 550 California St, a 42 floor business building was on the market for $160 million last year and finally sold for $42 million. Other commercial building are also taking a massive dive in property value.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Comment – There’s a really nice upscale Westfield mall here in San Diego that’s doing great business. But lots of libs are fleeing failing San Fran & LA and coming to San Diego, figuring that they can make liberalism work here. They never learn.

Well, I think they are making it work in San Diego You now have the first openly gay mayor, a hispanic Democrat, in San Diego history, and to go along with that, 100% of the city council seats are held by Democrats. Quite a change from the days of Pete Wilson.

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Originally posted by Ripley:

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Originally posted by SigSAC:

Boudin is the son of leftist radicals who spent decades in prison for their role in a botched 1981 heist of a Brink's armored truck.

By "botched" they mean two cops and a security guard died were MURDERED but why taint the good news for Chesa.

Fixed it for you. It's not like these victims just coincidentally "passed away" of natural causes while the robbery took place or following the crime. They were brutally murdered. They and their loved ones deserve more notice than the scumbags that committed these heinous crimes and their enablers felt they deserved.

not sure that any prosecutor you put into power in the larger cities of CA will make a difference until Prop 47 is repealed

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Originally posted by HRK:
not sure that any prosecutor you put into power in the larger cities of CA will make a difference until Prop 47 is repealed

California is too far gone . It is not repairable .

I don't understand how these people elect the morons they do. What does that say about them?

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Originally posted by oddball:
This building on 550 California St, a 42 floor business building was on the market for $160 million last year and finally sold for $42 million. Other commercial building are also taking a massive dive in property value.

I don't know how you avoid a death spiral with businesses closing, taxpayers fleeing, and property values tanking - the reduction in the city's tax base is massive. I wouldn't be surprised if San Francisco declares bankruptcy in 3-4 years.

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Originally posted by DaveL:

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Originally posted by oddball:
This building on 550 California St, a 42 floor business building was on the market for $160 million last year and finally sold for $42 million. Other commercial building are also taking a massive dive in property value.

I don't know how you avoid a death spiral with businesses closing, taxpayers fleeing, and property values tanking - the reduction in the city's tax base is massive. I wouldn't be surprised if San Francisco declares bankruptcy in 3-4 years.

As long as Democrats control the purse strings on a State and Federal level , the carnage will continue .