Complaints from San Francisco residents mushroomed into a recall campaign that, on Tuesday, removed Chesa Boudin as the district attorney, with approximately 60 per cent of the vote.
, Boudin had instituted some immediate progressive reforms: liberalizing bail, charging a police officer for murder for the first time in the city’s history, enacting diversion programs to reduce jail populations, and emptying the jails during the pandemic as a public-health measure. The scenario that Boudin’s allies might have worried about—a spike in violence, which can doom even the most tough-on-crime prosecutors—did not happen. There was no outsized increase in murders.
Here is what I remember from my conversations with Boudin: explaining, explaining, explaining. A natural student, Boudin had amassed an admirable amount of knowledge about crime in San Francisco, its details and cadences. People had started breaking into businesses and homes, he said, after they could no longer break into tourist cars by the water, because the pandemic had killed tourism.
On Tuesday, Boudin faced a recall from San Francisco voters. That morning, Vladimir Kogan, a political scientist at Ohio State University, argued on Twitter that some of progressive prosecutors’ favored interventions have been studied mostly as pilot programs, and that their effects when implemented at scale might not be so clear-cut.
The politics of crime aren’t just about justice. They’re also about cities, and about whether middle-class people feel safe, comfortable, able to thrive. To the end, Boudin argued that the recall campaign had asked voters to blame him for things that weren’t really within his ability to control as district attorney: homelessness, addiction, the state of the city.
Most American cities are among the wealthiest places in the wealthiest country in the world, and yet there is too much garbage and not enough housing, public transit is a mess, stores and garages are being broken into, and public schools, during the pandemic, were often closed. The message from Democratic voters to the politicians who run these cities is pretty straightforward and a matter of policy: these places need fixing.
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