San Francisco DA was recalled from office

[mastermind]

The hardcore criminal element will always be who they are, and their existence will always undermine efforts for criminal justice reform.

As long as advocates duck that reality, they will never come up with a work around. Instead, on the heels of the results they are juelzing in bad faith.

Will this police officer return to tell us why it’s crazy?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Will this police officer return to tell us why it’s crazy?

American police officer, specifically. Because criminal justice in the rest of the Western world is comparatively reformed and somehow didn't get stopped by this big scary criminal element that can only stop progress in America alone.

 

[mastermind]

NYPD did the same thing in 2018 or 2019—I can’t remember. Crime actually went down during that period lol.

It should be a bigger story but journalists only care about access.

In the week that passed after Lynch threatened a slowdown, arrests and summons are down compared to this time last year, but so are major crimes, (down 20 percent, according to the NYPD).

In a way, this is just a reprise of another Pantaleo-inspired slowdown. In 2014, two weeks after a New York grand jury’s failure to indict Pantaleo inspired large protests, two NYPD officers were shot in their patrol car. The seven-week slowdown that followed, according to a later data analysis, also showed a drop in reported major crimes along with a drop in arrests for minor offenses—those defined as “quality of life” issues that police have been told to target lest disorder reign. That was the idea behind the largely discredited “broken windows theory” of policing, like arresting Eric Garner for selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. The slowdowns that followed his death show what a city without broken windows policing can look like.

New Yorkers Should Thank Police for the Summer “Slowdown”

Arrests and crime are down amid cops’ protest of the firing of officer Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Eric Garner.

newrepublic.com

 

[nyknick]

Data released by the San Francisco Police Department in October 2021 did not support Walgreens’ claim that unchecked theft had forced it to close five stores. On average, the ill-fated stores had recorded two shoplifting incidents a month from 2018 to their shuttering dates in 2021.

Retail theft — particularly at Walgreens and other similar stores — ignited fear and anger at a moment when San Francisco seemed to be retreating from the progressive reforms instituted by Boudin, who pledged to fight mass incarceration and prosecute police officers.

The numbers used didn’t add up​

Though Walgreens may have overblown the shoplifting threat over the last few years, it’s true that theft has always been a problem for retailers — and that it often spikes during recessions and other periods of economic hardship, when people are desperate and may feel the need to turn to petty crime to sustain themselves. What’s more, recent factors like shortstaffed stores and self-checkout can make it easier for thieves to steal.

One of the shuttered stores that closed had only seven reported shoplifting incidents in 2021 and a total of 23 since 2018, according to the newspaper. Overall, the five stores that closed had fewer than two recorded shoplifting incidents a month on average since 2018.

Similarly, a 2021 Los Angeles Times analysis of figures released by industry groups on losses due to organized retail crime found “there is reason to doubt the problem is anywhere near as large or widespread as they say.”

 

[1thouwow]

I been to SF. shyt was safe as hell… Corporate America really be having their ways with the politicians

 

[Nero Christ]

The wealthy, the cops, & the news working hand in hand to keep the public dumb and scared.

Feels like this should have been a season of The Wire