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Gordon Strause's avatar

Ross wrote: "Who knew a single prosecutor wasn’t, in fact, the source of problems that had, in some instances, festered in the city for decades?"

Exactly no one thought that Chesa Boudin was the cause of San Francisco's challenges with homelessness, drugs, and crime. Those issues, obviously, all began before Boudin took office. The problem was that Boudin saw the police response, and not these problems, as the main challenge facing San Francisco and was essentially doubling down on the same approach that helped make these problems become uniquely bad in San Francisco in the first place.

A lazy take.

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Unset's avatar

"There is no single person or interest group to blame for what ails San Francisco, an otherwise very lovely city."

This is quite a breezy deflection. I suggest you read Michael Shellenberger and others for a clearer idea of how soft-on-crime wokery has been destroying the quality of life of so many residents. Of course Boudin wasn't the whole problem, but he was certainly part of it.

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