Brooke Jenkins took office one year ago this week promising more prosecution for drug and property crime offenders. Crime and overdoses still went up.
Research and data points may not be enough to persuade voters that something different is worth trying.
Prosecutorial reform is one thing. Chesa Boudin’s incompetence is another.
The recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin demands a rethinking of the "progressive prosecutor" brand.
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He’s been dismissive of fears of gang activity in the LASD and on the attack against critics and investigators. Voters have noticed.
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Mayor London Breed, who has herself recently pivoted away from criminal justice reforms, will select Boudin's successor.
In Los Angeles and San Francisco, voters face candidates who promised criminal justice reforms but whose records have been disappointing.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the nation's first Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender, and the first since Thurgood Marshall to have experience as a defense attorney. That's good.
"Progressive" school COVID policies no longer welcome in the capital of progressivism
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California's leaders can take the recent rise in property crime seriously without repeating the same "tough on crime" mistakes of the past.
Can Democrats stop acting as if all the governor's critics are Trump-loving insurrectionists?
They're mostly progressives, but their ideas about limiting government power and respecting individual rights sound almost conservative.
Pretrial detention is supposed to be for people deemed dangerous, not people without money.
District Attorney Jackie Lacey faces re-election today against a tough field calling for more criminal justice reforms.
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Voters won’t have to worry as much about having to choose between similar candidates or “throwing away” votes on third-party choices.
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