The first part of the article kind of pisses me off. Mary Jung and Lily Rapson only cared about the crime bills when it affected them personally…Had none of those crimes happened to them directly, and the victims hadnt been Asian, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that they would’ve just went on with their days and their views unchanged. Had the lady been Hispanic or Black would she have been affected by that? So policies have to negatively affect Asians or themselves for them to take a stand?
Robberies are theft have risen but violent crimes have not. How many of this has to do with San Francisco’s policies, and how much does it have to do with the pandemic? And further than that, how much of that has to do with insane CoL in the Bay Area?
I also don’t think people realize that stopping and lowering crime in the proper way won’t have immediate effects…For example, if SF decides to implement a “Broken Windows Policy” like in NYC in the 90s people may report their neighborhoods feel safer, but are they really? Ok sure, you don’t see the people committing crimes because they’re in jail, but how many families did you fukk up because of over-policing? How many homeless people did you end up creating because they served their time in prison but nobody wanted to hire them and/or their time in prison fukked them up to the point where they start using drugs? There’s also tons of studies that debunked the Broken Windows Theory too.
In the article it talked about the incident where someone who committed arm robbery got a plea deal and then got out, stole a car and killed some people..Of course if you’re being more lenient on crime, some people will go back into the streets and commit crime. But would you really hear about the opposite? Where being lenient on crime did a net positive? I guess you could look at what people committed crimes under Boudin and got lesser sentences and see if they committed crimes again…but even then you have to account for the environment of prisons which could fukk someone up regardless of time spent there which isn’t in the purview of Boudin. Since prisons are meant to punish and not rehabilitate then I guess you could argue that lenient sentences might be premature. And like I said, ex-cons have trouble finding jobs, places to stay etc. So if society still harbors negative views against ex-cons, we’re basically setting them up for failure when they get out. Recidivism rates in this country are awful…
But if you’re being too easy on crime, then of course people will keep stealing, burglarizing, etc. because there is no real punishment and therefore no reason to stop. The policies at this point should be adjusted but Republicans and conservatives believe that swinging in the opposite direction will fix things.
This is how we end up with rehashes of 90s crime bills. Liberals get stung by their own policies and then Republicans capitalize on the knee jerk reaction…All this will do, is kick the can down the road. Throw everyone in jail for 5 years minimum that steals..sure theft will drop but what happens in 5 years? I guess if you set them up for failure you can perpetually have them in jail and use that as evidence of “cleaning up the streets” if you’re a Republican. If its a Democrat by then, they’re stuck with a bunch of people who shouldn’t have been in prison in the first place, and they’re stuck with laws designed to keep them there…and then they're too soft on crime and don't have the political capital or will to attempt to rehabilitate the people who were thrown in prison by previous hard on crime policies.
An unseen issue that I suspect is a pretty big factor is the police themselves. We all know what way cops tend to swing politically. If they think the DA is being soft on crime and they dislike his views, what’s stopping them from telling victims of crimes “Yeah this is Boudin’s fault” and giving the tiniest bit of effort and then not giving a fukk because their laziness will only make Boudin look worse and strengthen their position about “police not being able to police”. It’s no surprise a bunch of psychopaths would be angered by accountability for their actions and limitations on their power.
I’d give the edge to a moderate Democrat over moderate Republican here, because I’d find it harder to believe that a moderate Republican would in good faith fairly attack crime and not be racist while doing it. Not that Democrats or liberals can’t be racist though…Ideally it should be up to the individuals policies and not what party they belong to…but unfortunately that ship has sailed a long damn time ago…
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