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June 08, 2022

Terrorist Princeling Chesa Boudin Deposed from Office, Women, Minorities Hardest Helped
Is Gascon Next?

A political obituary:

More people died in San Francisco last year from fentanyl overdoses than covid-19, yet District Attorney Chesa Boudin did not convict a single person in 2021 for dealing the lethal opioid.

This helps explain why one of the most liberal cities in America voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recall Boudin and repudiate the prosecutor's soft-on-crime approach.

Boudin's defeat is the latest wake-up call for Democrats, who have lost the public's trust on criminal justice and play down voter anxieties about crime at their peril.

Court records obtained by the San Francisco Standard show Boudin's office convicted just three people for the charge of "possession with intent to sell" in 2021 -- for meth, heroin and cocaine. His predecessor secured more than 90 drug-dealing convictions in 2018.

Fentanyl is widely available at open-air drug markets in the city, and the proliferation of the synthetic opioid is inextricably linked to other crimes. Junkies break into cars and shoplift from stores to feed their addictions. Many become homeless. They squat in tent cities, defecate on streets, trade sex for drugs, shoot up in front of children and, if they're not in some stupor, harass productive members of society who are trying to do honest work.

Burglaries are up more than 45 percent since Boudin took office in January 2020. Walk around, and it won't take long to see smashed car windows -- even in neighborhoods such as tony Pacific Heights that historically have been insulated from such hooliganism. Eleven Walgreens outlets have closed in the city since 2019.

Boudin ran three years ago on a platform of "decarceration," and he used the coronavirus pandemic as cover to enact his extreme agenda. He has bragged about reducing the jail population by around 40 percent and ending cash bail. In practice, Boudin almost seemed to care more about criminals than their victims, whether Asian Americans experiencing hate crimes or merchants suffering from smash-and-grab attacks.

Boudin insisted that he took the drug epidemic seriously but focused more on treatment than imprisonment. He said his office pursued diversion programs or agreed to lesser charges in many cases, such as "accessory after the fact," because drug-dealing convictions are grounds for deportation. "A significant percentage of people selling drugs in San Francisco, perhaps as many as half, are here from Honduras," Boudin said in a video posted to Twitter last year.

Even for San Franciscans, this catch-and-release approach was far too radical -- especially as overdose deaths snowballed. Boudin's performance prompted the Justice Department to pursue drug-trafficking charges in cases it would typically leave to local authorities.

Mayor London Breed, principally famous for ignoring her own mask mandates, will now choose Boudin's replacement. One likely candidate is a female black DA who used to work in Boudin's office but resigned in disgust, and then opposed him. I'm sure she's as liberal and soft-on-crime as you'd like, but at least she wasn't as radical as Boudin. She turned on him.

And who knows, maybe Boudin's example redpilled her a little. Maybe she sees now where leftwing ideas about infinitely coddling criminals take a society.


More:

The evening was a reprise of February's successful effort by San Franciscans to recall three school board members who were seen as engaging in progressive cultural issues while doing too little to open schools that had been closed by the coronavirus pandemic. Conservative outlets like Fox News gleefully covered the results, which coincided with voters in Los Angeles sending billionaire Rick Caruso to a runoff in the mayoral race there against liberal stalwart Rep. Karen Bass.

In both cases, Left Coast voters moved decisively to the right, animated less by ideology than practical concerns that had become unignorable. "People are not in a good mood, and they have reason not to be in a good mood. It's not just the crime issue. It's the homelessness. It's the high price of gasoline," a political consultant told the New York Times.

Progressives, meanwhile, downplayed the results as little more than the machinations of local politics that were not a referendum on criminal justice reform or policing. "Chesa Boudin's recall is being portrayed as a debate about approaches to criminal justice. It isn't. It's liberal San Franciscans recalling a liberal DA because he sucks at his job," tech entrepreneur Bram Cohen wrote on Twitter.

...

Boudin's troubles did not truly begin until the last day of 2020, when a driver killed two women in central San Francisco on New Year's Eve. The suspect, Troy McAlister, had been cycling through the Bay Area criminal justice system for years, but a plea deal earlier that year with the district attorney's office had freed him, and critics tied Boudin to the attack.

Just a month later, a jogger was struck and killed by the driver of a stolen car. The victim, Sheria Musyoka, had emigrated from Kenya to attend Dartmouth College. He had recently moved to San Francisco with his wife and young child. Suspected driver Jerry Lyons was, like McAlister, a repeat offender -- the very kind of person Boudin argued nonpunitive policies could help.

Instead, he found himself increasingly on the defensive after the two killings, his protestation of blamelessness coming across as callous to some. Musyoka's widow, Hannah Ege, bluntly said that Boudin was at fault. "This freak accident was no freak accident," she told a local outlet. "It was someone who was out in the public who should not have been out in public."

Boudin was also seemingly flummoxed by the rise in anti-Asian violence, describing the killing of 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee as the result of a "temper tantrum" on the part of the 19-year-old assailant. The following month, a man fatally shot six Asian women in Atlanta, bringing the crisis of anti-Asian violence to the fore of the national conversation. Though he tried to depict himself as an ally of the city's large and influential Chinese-language community, the effort fell far short.

He does have his fans, though:

His election was celebrated, among others, by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who praised his "personal strength and commitment to reforming and improving the criminal justice system" in a prerecorded video.

John Sexton wrote up this grotesque story: A homeless man used a steel pipe to beat in a taxi driver's head so savagely that chunks of either bone or brain (or both) wound up splattered on a nearby wall.

Boudin's office claimed the killing was "an accident" and only sentenced the killer to time served.

From Instapundit, LA official warn George Gascon: You're next.

Both prior to and shortly after the recall vote, one of Gascon's own prosecutors and the Los Angeles County sheriff indicated the top prosecutor -- one of Boudin's predecessors as San Francisco DA -- would face a similar fate.

"I think tomorrow Boudin is going to be recalled, and what I want to tell everybody and tell [Los Angeles DA] George Gascon is, you're next," Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami told Fox News on Monday. "The people of Los Angeles have had enough."

...

Tuesday evening, LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva issued a similar warning as he awaited early returns in his race to keep his seat.

"The DA of San Francisco just conceded he has been recalled," Villanueva said to cheers. "George Gascon, you're next."

George Gascon is defending his decision to give a "sentence" of just five months in a diversionary -- that is, non-punitive -- camp to the monster who deliberately ran over a mom and her eight-month-old child.

The monster obviously did it deliberately; he points his car directly into them.

Because he's not 18, Gascon is applying his robotic rule -- not the state's law, but his own Private Law -- that no "juvenile" can be charged as an adult. And he's also claiming that this obviously intentional attempted murder was just an accident.



The driver then attempted to flee his deliberate act of attempted murder, but a guy driving a pickup truck said "You ain't fleeing shit" and rammed his truck into his car to arrest his escape.


This is amazing:

That lady pushing her infant in a stroller did an amazing job of protecting her child and herself. She stepped into the path of the car to get leverage to be able to lift and turn the stroller and she turned her back to the car to save her legs and to be able to roll over the hood.

They're daring us to become vigilantes.
Posted by: bonhomme

Oh, via Jazz Shaw: now the mayor of New York, who pretended he would be tough on crime but is just another leftwing criminal coddler, is suddenly complaining about his own Soros DA.

Huh, I wonder why.

But he's still not man enough to criticize the Soros DA by name.

Say his name, pussy.

Mayor Eric Adams lashed out at prosecutors and judges Monday for cutting loose suspected shooters to unleash more gunfire on the Big Apple's streets -- saying the "bad guys no longer take them seriously."

The clearly frustrated mayor also fumed that soft-on-crime policies were turning the city's criminal justice system into "a laughingstock of our entire country."

During a news conference with NYPD officials in Brooklyn, Adams praised cops for being "laser-focused on the shooters" and making arrests but demanded that "the other team must do their part."

"The courts have to prosecute. Judges have to make sure they stay in," he said.

"Everyone has to do their part. If not, they go out and come back."

"People no longer believe that you can't do a shooting in the city," he fumed.

"No one takes criminal justice seriously anymore. These bad guys no longer take them seriously. They believe our criminal justice system is a laughingstock of our entire country."

Adams added: "We have to get serious about this 'cause innocent people are dying."

Not serious enough to say "Alvin Bragg" out loud though, huh, tough guy?

There is not a single Democrat who has yet called for voters to turn their backs on George-Soros-funded candidates. Not a single one.

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