Progressive Prosecutors: the unintended consequences of legal leniency

I came here after learning of Brooke Jenkins' appointment as SFO DA. She certainly seems very level headed and fair in her assessment of the situation facing SFO. I hope she will be very successful.

I think it should only apply to people of color, since they were subjected to slavery.

I love how you said addicts aren’t criminals. I couldn’t agree more.

I became an opiate addict after being r@ped and I got PTSD from it and I self medicated because my pain was too hard to bear. I’ve had depression and anxiety and ADHD since second grade. I’ve committed a few misdemeanors allegedly and sadly they all can be connected back to my mental health issues and sometimes my addiction. Every single one. I’m an extremely empathic person and feel remorse for the crimes I’ve done.

I live in Utah which is not a very progressive state, and I wish they did some more to make criminal charges progressive here. It seems like San Francisco are on one side and Utah is on the other side. I feel so sad for the homeless in SF and I hope you guys can find a middle ground where we can house the homeless and eliminate a lot of the filth and crimes there because of it. In Salt Lake City we have a huge problem with the problem too but it’s being handled way too authoritarian in my opinion. We have to find a middle ground!

You mean Liberal DemoncRats… like most attorneys are today. Disgusting policies. Lock them Up. There really are no "alternatives" for most hardened criminals. That is why we had laws like 3-strikes. I worked in a Maximum Security Facility for 25 years. I know. BTW, I was very respected by Most of the Incarcerated; because I was fair, consistent, and honest with them. I also did not judge them, that had already been done. I however, would not want them living in my neighborhood or around my loved ones.

I am a 62 year old Native American WOMAN.!!!! I know the difference between male and female, boy and girl and can certainly define man and woman in definitive terms that I celebrate as God's immaculate creational TRUTH.!!! I believe in the sanctity of individual sexual innocence and understand the importance of maintaining a society where NO ONE has the right to infringe on the sexual innocence of another, especially minors, and will see to it that anyone speaking to a minor about their "sexual orientation" will be prosecuted as a criminal sexual deviate.!!! I nominate MYSELF as a TRUE JUDGE by GOD.!

A progressive prosecutor is someone who believes in fairy tales and magic dust. Someone more concerned with the illusion of rehabilitating criminals than the safety, life, liberty of law abiding citizens. A progressive prosecutor is someone who does not believe in the agency of criminals. A person who would rather blame society than hold criminals accountable for thier actions.

Rich people bail themselves out all the time regardless of their crimes so maybe change the laws

When describing Sacramento you described Tucson AZ. Never had I seen so many homeless people, so many drug addicts, obvious prostitution, many with obvious mental illnesses and some obviously combine drugs are just plain scary. Many tent cities popping up around town everywhere especially because half of California moved over here. This started around 2008, when the market crashed and banks, big business, etc. we’re bailed out. Many lost their homes and banks sold them to realty companies very cheaply. Especially to wealthy Chinese, wealthy Chinese realty companies, etc. these raised the rental prices by almost doubling it. This hasn’t stopped up to this day in Tucson especially Californians moving here so rapidly, this includes homeless people. Wages paid in California can’t compare to what employees are payed here in Tucson AZ. Crime rates are up a whole lot, these people on streets stealing constantly and doings drugs among other intimate situations all out in public and accidents are now very common daily. Did I mention the disgusting filth everywhere? Trash, clothes, mattress, dressers, old couches, you name it. This filth and homeless increased greatly during the pandemic but this should of decreased all this not increase it. It’s ridiculous and disgusting. Never in over 40 yrs. had Tucson looked like this.

Gascon was bought by George Soros. Time to wake up Los Angeles.

My brother in law is a drug addict and constantly gets in trouble. Hes always in and out of jail because he’s always getting bailed out. I wish they would just keep him so he can get some type of help for his addiction. Instead he’d rather get out, roam the streets, steal in order to get high, get caught for stealing, just to get bailed out and do it all over again. Everyone has tried their best to help him sober up and placing him in rehab doesn’t help because he ends up leaving the very next day. I just feel so sorry for his babies. (This is in the state of Delaware by the way; New Castle County to be exact). I’ll never understand it in this state.

Wow

The criminal justice system AKA upholding societal acceptance. If there is a law and you break it, YOU THE PROSECUTOR SHOULD PROSECUTE.
How do you be a public PROSECUTOR but not charging 35 time criminal that IS A DANGER TO THE PUBLIC
STEALING, STABBING, HURTING, MURDERING, FRAUDING, SHOPLIFTING, AND ANYTHING THAT IS ON THE BOOKS SHOULD BE CHARGED.

So that explains all the yuppies in Dallas