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Breed to Out-of-Town Criminals: Don t Come to Our City With All That Bulls t
SF Mayor London Breed had some words of warning to criminals, particularly violent ones, on Wednesday as she announced a change in how law enforcement communicates about repeat offenders.
As outcries grow among SF residents over both a rash of petty crime and several instances of repeat offenders being out free to re-offend in more violent or extreme ways, the mayor announced that police and the DA s office would increase their monitoring of parolees and repeat offenders.
In comments recorded by ABC 7 on Wednesday, Breed seemed to be addressing criminals who come into San Francisco from elsewhere around the Bay to commit crimes even though several high-profile incidents recently involved suspects who live here.
A little over a year after winning election to district attorney against an opponent backed by some of the most powerful figures in the state Democratic Party, 40-year-old Chesa Boudin, the Jewish former public defender and now chief prosecutor of San Francisco, spoke to J. about his accomplishments and some of the challenges faced since he came to office.
The son of left-wing radicals who were incarcerated when he was a toddler, Boudin, who went on to earn a Rhodes Scholarship and a law degree from Yale before joining the public defender’s office in San Francisco, has faced criticism since the day he announced his candidacy in January 2019. But after two high-profile tragedies this year, which critics of his progressive policies have laid at his feet, public opposition has intensified, accompanied by a recall effort led by a former mayoral candidate who accuses Boudin of “dismantling the criminal justice system” in the city.
Two lives were lost in the downtown crash a month ago. Were their deaths preventable?
Two lives were lost in the downtown crash a month ago. Were their deaths preventable?
A New Year s Eve crash on a downtown street killed two women, prompted the arrest of a man with a long criminal record, and ignited a broader controversy over whether progressive approaches to issues like crime go far enough - or too far.
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With eight hours left in a calamitous year, a stolen car sped through downtown San Francisco.
Inside the gray Honda HR-V, police say, was a pistol with an extended ammunition magazine, a cash register belonging to a vegan bakery and an intoxicated man on parole. He’d used the gun, they say, to steal the vehicle that provided the getaway from the bakery. Troy McAlister, 45, had been in and out of jail and prison since he was a teenager his most recent arrest just 11 days earlier.
A hot-prowl burglary suspect in San Francisco not only confesses to his crimes on camera to his victim, but coupled with new data from the city, highlights the way District Attorney Chesa Boudin is handling repeat offender cases.