Here are reasons why San Francisco has a hard time convicting drug dealers
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2023
- San Francisco's fentanyl epidemic continues to devastate the city. We focused on why law enforcement says it's so difficult to convict drug dealers and who's ultimately responsible for allowing them to go back on the streets. abc7ne.ws/3ZLSJY3
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I haven't seen this kind of local reporting in a long time. There needs to be more classic reporters who pressure all parts of the government for accountability to the public.
If these politicians (and judges} see drug dealers deal drugs in front of their homes, they would be screaming at the police to do something.
Nah, they would be buying.
These woke DA and judges only care about crimes when it's time for election.
Those who have sympathy on criminals need to experience crime themselves.
oh, no one has ever experienced crimes. most criminals have gone through more in life than so called law abiding citizens. bunch of wussies.
Their children need to be the victims.
@@georgekazanchyan4976 such a harmful statement. to wish harm on others children. and then people wonder what would make a person break the laws. talk about no sympathy for people.
It's almost like if you don't enforce laws criminals just keep doing what they do.
It's funny how people don't believe in negative reinforcement, even though it's a biological mechanism that's been proven scientifically to work. In fact, humans can't live w/o it. Somehow people are brainwashed into thinking reality is racist.
They don't have enough room to lock up everybody
Make the names of the legislature who voted to reject the bills known and send a reporter to ask them why the voted to reject and get federal warrants from DOJ, DEA and FBI to wiretap and do investigations into their dealings with Cartels. It quite clear they have been corrupted.
The "reporters" are part of the problem.
So much untaxable untraceable income in bribes throughout our justice system. Drug cartels have even better lobbyists than big pharmaceutical companies.
Really good reporting here. Thank you, ABC for running this, and thank you to the journalist who created this.
I'm amazed the reporter actually tried to not let the interviewee get away with nonsensical answers.
@@indianatarzan8001 Agree, but she ignored the reporter and continued with her nonsense. Which shows two things to me.
a- She needs to be removed from her office.
b- We are NOT all equally responsible for the out-of-control drug dealers. The politician is a key factor.
Finally, some actual news for a change.
San Francisco controller says drug dealers are not to blame? What is she smoking and how in the world did she get her job? Please tell me she got voted in there. Oh my SF residents, you deserve credit for all the crime and deaths due to drugs. Wow
She conflated drug dealers with immigrants as a way to weasal out of the the discussion. That pissed me off.
Its the goverment and big pharma pushing oxys and getting are country addicted
"San Francisco jurors tend to be more liberal and sympathetic." They mean gullible and naive.
100% on point!
San Francisco can’t convict drug dealers because San Francisco doesn’t want too.
Useless law enforcement, judges, jury and DA. 🤬
I've seen no evidence the new DA, who seems frustrated that judges and juries won't convict on the cases she brings, is part of this problem. Chesa Boudin, of course, was.
Law enforcement and DA are making the arrests so no, they are useful. Judges, yeah kind of useless sure. Jury, lots of them try to weasel out of it due to work, etc. so whats left are not so great.
I wouldn't totally blame the juror pool. Those of us whom are harsher on criminals tend to get dismissed from jury service.
We have jobs, children, obligations. Those liberals are unemployed and most likely drug doers themselves.
Regular, non-retired people usually can't do jury duty because they won't get paid by their employer and most people are living paycheck to paycheck in California.
blue wave building back better. restorative justice. liberal progressive utopia. mccarthy out! pelosi evicted. biden/newsom 2024.. closer to wonderful drug infested, tent cities accross america
if thats your mindset I totally agree with you being dismissed.
you're not supposed to be harsh on criminals. you are supposed to decide if they are guilty and another person decides on the punishment.
@@Shorty_Lickens Actually, in some jurisdictions, a jury decides the punishment also
F Hilary Ronen. Wow.
SF: "We rather people die in our streets than putting a drug dealer who MAY be a POC in jail."
silly you think you can control what others do, keep building prisons i guess.
Why stop if no punishment? San Francisco need new judges
San Francisco needs a new everything!! The Voters aren't helping themselves out by Virtual Signal Voting! Just get someone who will actually tackle this crime problem in the city! They can be poke dot as far as I'm concerned!
Ohhh look at that, SF resident thinks criminals are the real victim and hence don't want them to face punishment, yet complain about crime.
Are you saying that Jenkins only has one conviction of a drug dealer?
It's ambiguous but I think the report was saying it was the 1st time she convicted that specific drug dealer. I googled and it said this: Jenkins office said they filed 819 felony narcotic cases in the last year which resulted in 38 convictions
police are making arrests and her office is prosecuting drug dealers but conviction 100%. I blame the judge, jury, some laws.
Refreshing and a 🙏thank you for reporting on this.
💀crazy how the mfs on the tenderloin seem more sane then suits in the courthouse
It’s as though California politicians have a meeting each week to discuss what they can do next to make society less safe, then issue another proposition.
Appreciate this coverage. Would like to see continued focus on this issue so people are informed where the breakdowns in the system are.
What you support and embrace will grow and flourish.
I remember when the crack epidemic hit San Francisco, CA in the 1980s, and there were no problems prosecuting drug dealers and people who get got buying the stuff and it can be done in 2023, also the judges who release criminals back on the streets they need to be confronted at a community meeting.
That's because they were Black people. Look at how this woman in the video fawns over the Honduran drug peddlers with that non sense they are being forced to murder their customers.
They don't have the space to lock everyone up for drug crimes
Cool story not goner happen. No way votes ever change there. Just relax and enjoy the show
Great Reporting LeAnn Menendez!!!!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Stupid law, need a Singapore law to America.✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
The message is clear: If you want to use drugs, come to San Francisco. If you want to sell drugs, come to San Francisco.
Don't need a fishing license to catch and release out here!
"Fool me once shame on you, fool me -you cant get fooled again" -G Dubb
SF and CA have shield laws and don’t like to jail illegals or anyone else for that matter.
this story is one sided, they cherry picked certain cases but omitted cases in which dealers are harshly punished for selling weed
1999 is a long time ago.
The blame game continues.Santa Clara County doesn't play games with repeat Offenders.
this is why san mateo has less crime
the part about not getting bail if you failed to report is a good point but everything else seemed filled with leading questions and half truths
great reporting
Don’t arrest the dealers, let them peddle dirty deadly drugs. Let the willful users keep using and die in the streets. When they die the dealers will leave because their customers are dead. I’ll be honest, if I was on a jury about drug users or dealers they’re guilty before I even serve.
Then they’ll just come back when the city is good again.
And what are their excuses for violence repeat, criminals continuously, releasing them to pray on the innocent law-abiding citizens.
And when they kill somebody, everybody points the finger at somebody else. Nobody is responsible nobody is held accountable.
We must adopt the rules, laws and punishments that Singapore and Dubai use against violent criminals and drug users and this problem. We’ll all go away really fast.
Thank you SF for sending Gascon to LA.
Keep voting for losers.
Put them all away or dont prosecute anyone!
If that is the case, San Francisco deserves what its going through.
Bad legal system period!
Why needs second time to jail the drug dealers.
God forbid they accidentally arrest the crack dealer that supplies SF's city council.
What laws?
He will be sentenced to probation and will continue to go about his business.
it's the voters who keep voting the liberal ideologies, liberal politicians
Arrogant pouring from mouth of that Sf supervisor
Suppose it's true that people are trafficked and forced into drug dealing. What happens to them when they are in the system? They go into witness protection? They lead law enforcement to the ringleaders? Or they're just released back? They should be offered a deal that is useful to the public. If they are later found to have lied to get the deal, they get penalties for that on top of what they originally got out of.
If people in SF think criminals are victims, they should at least be doing something about the other problem they are supposedly victims of. Add to this the people who get out on insanity pleas but then nobody monitors that they stay medicated after release.
Why were you interviewed the same board member who said defund the police? This is insane. You should just call her out on it
Drugs should be legal.
So you’re telling us it’s primarily an illegal immigration problem fueling some of the countries biggest issues!
YOU are all in THAT together. You made your bed San Francisco. Sleep tight.
Never understood the term "epidemic" used to describe an event where the "victims" are voluntarily taking the drugs
S.F needs some new supervisor.
As a former resident, let it burn! You voted for it.
Our politicians in this state are out of touch and useless. Just like the rest of the country.
Someone needs to take care of the problem.
Keep voting, Blue, get more of the same.
Is he even a legal resident?
Thanks Newsom
Excuses, it's time to restructure the government policies and laws. Governments are much like a business. Atm the current processes, personnel and resources are being misused as a result policiticans come up with excuses with no real solution.
If that's the case then restructure the business, personnel, process and technology.
If this keeps happening the only people getting hurt will be the citizens.
Too late. Maybe beyond the point of recovery.
Not explaining the reasons those bits of legislation were rejected.
Finally Wagstaffe is speaking up more. About time. Interview him
more and Mr. Wagstaffe thank you for being one of the few if not only DA who has a reasonable approach to prosecuting criminals. Not perfect, but much better than your counterparts.
Scrutinize the insufferable jury pool.
This is the catch n release system EVERYBODY has been bitching about for years. When will the judicial system and politicians understand this simple concept ......
who rejected these Assembly Bills????? What the actual F?!
So even if you get arrested and go to trial you will get off.
Fentanyl is killing every day.
PUT DEALERS IN PRISON.
Nah, it’s not everyone. It ain’t me.
Good luck. Honestly, you should run!
All those drugs in blister packs looks like what they probably hand out for Halloween in SF and Oakland.
San Francisco deserves this, hopefully they keep releasing them until the destroy the city.
Its tough when the Mayor has the corner on the controlled substances market.
Its the police. They don't intervene at all.
Corrupt system
Hillary is so disillusioned 😂
No kidding. Fantasy land B.S.
She is useless. One might wonder how this idiot get elected to represent district 9 of SF????
It’s the DOJ obeying a larger authority. Point the fingers.
01:30 arrested a man who said trafficked so released back to the trafficker and rinse repeat like where are the people taking his report protecting him using that to prove or disprove the story why go back and forth so many times did not even offer safety. good job DA
Repeal Prop 47
More plans that won't do anything until we get tough on dealers and addicts and those that are sympathetic to them.
Epidemic of drugs? Epidemeologists unite and save this city!
What is a naval gazer? Seriously.🤷♂️
Simply put, San Francisco is done and it's not coming back. Just one damn crazy place.
Do 1 for 1. Non violent cannibis offendee for 1 of these killers
They should move the dealers, junkies, and prostitutes to the neighborhoods of those jurors who decided to acquit them!
people vote for this, they must want it
singapore doesn't play this bs. capital punishment. time to evolve, humans.
Hillary Ronen is definitely a 'navel gazer'. Great terminology sir. Protecting individual central American undocumented immigrant drug dealers is definitely a single issue conceit that neglects the greater good.
Shit this isnt even the politicans anymore. Its the radical activist Judges and DAs.
where was all this concern when crack flooded the streets?
once u arrest one drug dealer their will always be somebody take its place
It's time to give california back to mexico seriously cut our losses sell california for very cheap Maybe even a dollar. It's not worth keeping that State.
Haha you wish without our tax money your states belly up no doubt .
families of criminals should be held accountable. They always sue and claim their POS relative or family member was a good-hearted Samaritan and wouldn't hurt a fly and they get MILLIONS.
Huh? Who are you talking about, who always sues and gets millions? First I've heard of it.
@@nancymcmonarch Many families have already sued police departments and got millions from their dead criminal loved ones. I'm surprised you haven't heard anything about that.
Are the lawmakers protecting the drug makers? Are they taking money for the drug companies?
Why on earth would leaders make it harder for them to get their back door payment
When it affects the politicians, judges and their families, they might then make a change. They don't care about their community.
Sounds like a judge problem
Criminalize the Victim and Victimize the Criminal. Well done San Francisco you’ve created your utopia!!
Any criminal who doesnt show up for court the judge who released them should be sentenced to a prison term.
Open up opium dens.
Almost all of these problems can be solved by half way intelligent people and common sense. they better start teaching common sense in schools or it's all going to hell...
Dea should not have anything to do with cleaning the mess san fransico brought onto their selves
LOL. Californians couldn't be more entertaining.
That SF supervisor is a joke. The dealers actively try to pseudo-befriend desperately lonely people on the street to buy from them, acting like they're helping. They're mindless scum who should just kill themselves if/when cartels pick them up to do their bidding.
The judges are jokes. 511 no-shows from people they let go?
The juries are jokes. I'm sure each dealer provided so much proof that they were being threatened. It is not a defense, otherwise they can all just say that. Everyone in prison could say that about their crimes. They broke the law by crossing into the country. Maybe they unsuspectingly got trafficked after crossing. But it doesn't matter. They actively hurt people, even kill people.
What a couple of cities we have here in SF and Oakland. Everyone in charge is bending over a barrel for those that would destroy civilization and do.
If there are illegals causing damage to society for their own interest, like drug dealers from honduras, the proper thing to do is arrest, prosecute, jail for YEARS, then deportation, not to give them the label "immigrants" and shield them from blame. When they were making their living, they were probably not thinking of their VICTIMS.
Recall all judges!
It's the stupid voters.