In today's San Francisco, there’s a car break-in
every 20 minutes. Public urination has gotten so out of control that the city
spent $20 million to build open-air urinals in different parks — an effort that still hasn't reduced the amount of human feces, urine, and vomit that can be found on the streets at any given time. And now there are
just under 10,000 homeless individuals living on San Francisco's streets — a crisis that
rivals homelessness in third world countries.
San Francisco's new district attorney plans to do absolutely nothing about it.
Chesa Boudin, a former deputy public defender who won the city's heated district attorney race last week, says he plans to turn his attention to police brutality and mass incarceration.
“When we started this campaign, we believed that the people of San Francisco wanted a different vision of justice,” Boudin
told the Washington Post. “We were right. In voting for this campaign, the residents of San Francisco have demanded radical change and rejected calls to go back to the tough-on-crime era that did not make us safer and destroyed the lives of thousands of San Franciscans.”
That new "vision of justice" does not include enforcement against the many quality-of-life crimes that are well in the process of turning San Francisco from a prosperous metropolis into a third-world dystopia. In fact, Boudin has promised that he won't prosecute these crimes at all.
"We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes," Boudin
said during the campaign. "Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted. Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted. We have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness."
