San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
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Michael Shellenberger
Published 11 Oct 2021
Courtland Milloy, “Mitch Snyder Found No Shelter from Pain,” Washington Post, July 8, 1990, www.washingtonpost.com. 68. Phil Matier, “What’s the Answer to Quality-of-Life Crimes in SF: DA Candidates Give Answers,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2019, www.sfchronicle.com. 69. Gabe Stutman, “Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s D.A.-Elect, Talks Homelessness, Jewishness and Taking on the Establishment,” Jewish News of Northern California, December 26, 2019, www.jweekly.com. 70. Chesa Boudin, interview by Alicia Garza (Inforum series, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, February 13, 2020), YouTube video, 1:07:54, www.youtube.com. 71. Phil Matier, “Shopping in SF’s Tenderloin Is Wide Open—for Illegal Drugs, That Is,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2020, www.sfchronicle.com. 72.
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“The San Francisco County Jails,” San Francisco Sheriff, San Francisco Department of Public Health, April 8, 2016, www.sfdph.org/dph/files/jrp/WG-MeetingCombined.pdf. 26. Chesa Boudin, interview by Alicia Garza (Inforum series, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, February 13, 2020), YouTube video, 1:07:54, www.youtube.com. 27. Kate Wolffe, “‘Recycled Approach’: Some SF Leaders, Activists Bristle at Plan to Ban Dealers from Tenderloin,” KQED, September 25, 2020, www.kqed.org. 28. Michael Solana, interview by the author, January 8, 2021. 29. Lauren Hernández, “Chesa Boudin Offers Theories on Why Burglaries Are on Upswing in Bernal Heights,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 2021, www.sfchronicle.com. 30.
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After 15 years of trying to help such people, almost anyone would be depressed.”67 Arresting and prosecuting the homeless for things like defecating in public, injecting fentanyl publicly, and living on the sidewalk is unethical, say a growing number of progressive political candidates and elected officials, because the people doing those things are victims of racism, poverty, and trauma. When he ran for office in 2018, San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin announced, “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.”68 Enforcing the law contributes to further victimization, says Boudin. “Jails do nothing to treat the root cause of crime,” read his campaign platform.69 In early 2020 Boudin said, “There are people who are harmed by the addiction crisis in this city, by open-air drug use and drug sales.”
The Passenger
by
AA.VV.
Published 23 May 2022
One need only compare the similarities of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union to the United States’ liberal Democratic party to see how this ideological ambiguity makes political discussion outside the confines of our national borders difficult, but understanding this about United Statesians can help the reader to understand the following story. When Chesa Boudin was elected San Francisco district attorney with only a sliver of a majority at the beginning of 2020, the right-wing propaganda, from both parties, came thundering down from the skies. In the 1970s, Boudin’s parents were members of the far-left Weather Underground, whose militant use of political violence led to a domestic-terrorist designation by the FBI.
Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America
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William McGowan
Published 16 Nov 2010
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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Published 15 Nov 2021
Some officials, after the George Floyd rioting and arson, simply invented new statutes and discarded old ones. Especially culpable were dozens of state, county, and city prosecuting attorneys elected between 2018 and 2020 by a national progressive funding effort headed by billionaire George Soros. In San Francisco and Los Angeles, newly elected district attorneys such as Chesa Boudin and George Gascón declared an entire assortment of laws inert and announced that crimes from resisting arrest to prostitution would no longer be prosecuted.17 While rioting, looting, and arson plagued big cities—many under quarantine lockdowns—from June to November, very few Black Lives Matter or Antifa lawbreakers were ever arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and jailed.