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Gears are in motion to select a new Nevada County district attorney, with five people under consideration for the job.
There are two methods of filling the spot in anticipation of District Attorney Cliff Newell’s departure having supervisors appoint someone or holding a special election.
County officials opted for the former, and issued a call for applicants shortly after Newell’s March announcement that he’d retire, effective July 10.
A public vote on the new district attorney is set for June 8. That person would have to run for election in June 2022 to keep the job.
Five candidates met last Thursday’s deadline to apply for the position, Human Resource Director Steve Rose has said. Supervisor Dan Miller, chairman of the board, has said he’d like someone in place by Newell’s departure date.
De-escalation mandatory in California but training varies across police departments
De-escalation mandatory in California but training varies across police departments. Evan Sernoffsky reports
SAN FRANCISCO - The man is wildly swinging a crutch, saying aliens are trying to kill him. Bystanders try to help while recording this bizarre scene on their phones.
Then the police show up.
The chaotic and volatile scene has all the elements of an unfolding tragedy, potentially leading to an injured bystander, or worse, the next viral video of a fatal police shooting.
But in this recent play-acted scenario at the San Francisco Police Department’s training facility – complete with a cast of cop actors it’s a chance for officers to practice getting it right.
Illustration by Adrià Fruitós.
“Politics is often defined or understood as the art of making a deal. But I think, at its best, it’s the art of making possible tomorrow that which we can’t even imagine today,” says Chesa Boudin, the district attorney of San Francisco County. The son of two members of the Weather Underground sentenced to long spells in prison, Boudin was narrowly elected in 2019 under San Francisco’s ranked-choice voting system. He talks of the pain of growing up with imprisoned parents; of the collect calls he still receives every Saturday from his incarcerated father; and of his belief, inculcated in him from childhood, that simply locking people up is a failure of the political imagination. “My personal experience shapes me my worldview, my fears and hopes, my dreams and aspirations,” he acknowledges.1