On July 7, 2022, former San Francisco assistant district attorney Brooke Jenkins was tapped by mayor London Breed to become the city’s new DA. This, after the ouster a month earlier of DA Chesa Boudin, whose progressive policies voters rejected after he’d served just over half his time in office. I was in San Francisco for the recall and wrote about Boudin’s tenure and perceived failings in “
Jul 8, 2022·edited Jul 8, 2022Liked by Nancy Rommelmann
Hopefully, Boudin will be just the first of a handful of “anti-DAs” elected by billionaires like Reed Hastings (NETFLIX) and George Soros, to be sent packing. Citizens in LA, where George Gascon disgraces that DA’s office (having defeated the Black, career woman DA Jackie Lacey in 2020) have gathered almost three quarters of a MILLION signatures on their recall petition. In sheer numbers these renegades are few in number. In Oregon, come January, only 2 of 36 DAs (Multnomah and Wasco Counties) are being mismanaged by ideologues. Nationally there are 2500 elected DAs and the Boudin lookalikes are prominent, but few in number (Philadelphia, LA, Baltimore, Chicago) but NOT the Bronx, San Diego, Sacramento, Palm Beach, or Minneapolis).
The MSM likes to hail these disrupters as “progressive reformers," even though they actually advocate for spinning the clock back 50 years to the laissez-faire, lazy policies that ignored victims. Nothing “progressive” about that.
The graphic of the Golden Gate is from WHICH DA? Boudin or the newly appointed one?
I ask because the two stated goals are “review all officer involved shootings…and unlawful use of force allegations” and create a “conviction review process.”
Those are certainly duties of any DA (I was an elected DA on Oregon’s North Coast for 25 years) but the FIRST priorities of any DA is to review and aggressively prosecute crimes. There should NEVER be a “liberal or progressive” or “conservative or patriotic” DA. It is a profoundly apolitical office. As filmmaker Errol Morris said, “there is no ‘truth for you’ or ‘truth for me’ - there is only the truth.”
Hopefully, Boudin will be just the first of a handful of “anti-DAs” elected by billionaires like Reed Hastings (NETFLIX) and George Soros, to be sent packing. Citizens in LA, where George Gascon disgraces that DA’s office (having defeated the Black, career woman DA Jackie Lacey in 2020) have gathered almost three quarters of a MILLION signatures on their recall petition. In sheer numbers these renegades are few in number. In Oregon, come January, only 2 of 36 DAs (Multnomah and Wasco Counties) are being mismanaged by ideologues. Nationally there are 2500 elected DAs and the Boudin lookalikes are prominent, but few in number (Philadelphia, LA, Baltimore, Chicago) but NOT the Bronx, San Diego, Sacramento, Palm Beach, or Minneapolis).
The MSM likes to hail these disrupters as “progressive reformers," even though they actually advocate for spinning the clock back 50 years to the laissez-faire, lazy policies that ignored victims. Nothing “progressive” about that.
The graphic of the Golden Gate is from WHICH DA? Boudin or the newly appointed one?
I ask because the two stated goals are “review all officer involved shootings…and unlawful use of force allegations” and create a “conviction review process.”
Those are certainly duties of any DA (I was an elected DA on Oregon’s North Coast for 25 years) but the FIRST priorities of any DA is to review and aggressively prosecute crimes. There should NEVER be a “liberal or progressive” or “conservative or patriotic” DA. It is a profoundly apolitical office. As filmmaker Errol Morris said, “there is no ‘truth for you’ or ‘truth for me’ - there is only the truth.”
If trauma can affect genetics, so must criminality.Boudin’s parents were criminals, and he must have inherited that tendency.