San Francisco kicked out its progressive DA...and violent crime went up
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2023
- It’s been over a year since San Francisco ousted progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin over crime concerns. So what has happened since? Spoiler Alert: Violent crime is rising. Mehdi breaks down what the backlash against progressive DA’s, including Boudin, is really about.
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Violent crime did NOT actually "go up", there was only an increase in existing cases getting prosecuted because the old prosecutor was letting people go free to keep the numbers down. Then those people went right back out on the streets and committed more crimes, that also never got prosecuted.
If you don’t report it then it never happens.
@@henrymerrilees9066 The statistic was not a measurement of police incidents, it's arrests and prosecutions. Plus, when the cops stop being dispatched, that "incidents" number goes down.
You're asking for logic from the same people who refused to prosecute crimes all the way up to and including MURDERS just because the criminals weren't white.
Nah. That’s not how crime is measured. Reported cases are what are measured whether prosecuted or not. Don’t make up things.
@@pasphilc7994 That might be the case in other states, but California changed things years ago by changing which crimes police were allowed to be dispatched to. If the cop never gets to the crime scene, the police report never gets filled out so the "reported crimes" number drops.
The only accurate measurement of crime after that is prosecutions. If the DA refuses to even bring the case to court, the numbers go down but the crime level doesn't.
The new DA comes in and starts prosecuting as many cases as possible, the numbers go up.
California has been manipulating information like that for decades just so democrats can keep power by lying to the people.
MSNBC didn't do their homework.. Crime goes down when you don't record it. MSNBC is doing a disservice to their audience by reporting on this progressive nonsense.
Just got smashed and grabbed at Stonestown Galleria on Wednesday. Drove from Anaheim to SF to enjoy some truly wonderful Japanese Souffle Pancakes at Gram Cafe before returning home after having a blast at DisneyLand. Tow truck driver said we were his 7th victim. One victim was standing beside his car when it happened. Brazen. They target rental cars in case 'I' didn't know. It's sad that the ultra rich are pushing the working class out creating a multitude of problems.
You were in my neck of the woods. Wasn't aware of Gram Cafe & Pancakes.
@@RaymondHngMmm, I highly recommend Gram Cafe! We'll be going back again soon, but not in a rental car.
Pointing fingers isn’t governing. Governing is cooperating to achieve agreed up aims. Politicians are forgetting they are stewards of their offices… these offices are not made just for them. It’s not about tenure, or personality, it’s about effectiveness.
LOL. So we can't discuss responsibility? You must be a Republican. Why do you hate freedom of speech?
When criminals go to law schools to be better criminals, then get in office not to serve the people but, create more crimes under the guise of being tuff on crime; we get immoral people in office!
On a side note, ALL public servant's shall disclose their own personal stock portfolio's and, especially those with massive amounts of money in the private prison system!
That a conservative talking when he s ideology is a looser
Not sure they're forgetting, they just don't care because they are getting personal benefit from the office.
This man is not honest. The Crime rate is being counted and prosecuted where it was being ignored.
It's a team effort, the mayor, governor, and city council must ALL do their jobs.
All citizens must act in good faith to serve and protect our covenant of public trust, must choose citizens wisely to service in offices of public trust and must hold citizen-public trustees to account for their abuses of our public trust.
@@michaelccopelandsr7120- Don't know much about the differences between federal, state and local government, eh?
@@babuddha No, I do. I just blame Pelosi and Feinstein. As evil as Trump is, they've been doing it to us for decades.
Anti-socialism doing great things. Tech dipsh!ts and STEMcells like Musk, AI, CPUC, and robocars will fix it all. kekl.
So their job is to clean up after capitalism fails? Nothing is *your* fault, it's not like we went to war on a lie and wasted....oh sorry, you forgot that sin.
I’m from the Bay Area- there’s nothing left in SF- it really is a nightmare- lying about it makes your side seem disingenuous- all the stores left…you want to talk about two systems of justice? a crack addled Hunter took a firearm and put it into a trash can next to a school….🤦🏻♂️
He keeps saying "violent crime!" and doesnt mention shop lifting.
He is shifting the goal posts to avoid talking about the real problem and instead defeating a strawman he created.
His job is to push failed progressive policies no matter what.
Anybody drive through downtown San Francisco lately. Almost all businesses have closed there doors and left. This is a good example of democratic control. Don't let it happen to your cities people.
Unfortunately, you're posting common sense onto a communist website. The only thing that motivates the MSNBC audience is handouts. Anything else is irrelevant. It doesn't matter how out of control democrat cities become, they will just keep voting for the party that they think will give them more handouts. It never dawns on these idiots that the party whose voter base is the poor is the last party that will ever do anything to reduce the number of poor.
Democrats flee and bring that policy with them
Claiming the crime rates are up for a couple of things doesn't mean crime is up. Secondly, so many crimes went unreported under that DB. Now, there's more response from law enforcement and less ignoring.
California’s economy has to support the red states which receive more federal dollars to support them because they produce little tax revenue
It’s not federal dollars it’s the people of the USAs dollars from tax revenue . Everyone’s dollars goes in to the pot . We are one country the UNITED STATES .
😂...derp....that's why California's state budget is cracking a 100 billion deficit....😂....OK good to know.
@@danielbrown7535 its $32B not $100B
@@danielbrown7535 32 Billion. Nonetheless, the reason the deficit is growing so fast is due to inflation and opting to defer tax payments to help people struggling due to issues arising from several unexpected winter storms. California's economy itself is still the largest state economy in the country (in fact if California were a country instead of a state in the US it would be the 5th largest economy in the world).
California's state tax funds may be in deficit, but OP is correct, the state's overall federal income tax is subsidizing many of the conservative states' federal infrastructure funding since their overall federal taxable income is lower than the cost of their infrastructure needs.
@danielbrown7535 That's literally a lie. They have a $32 billion deficit, and that's following twp years of historical record budget surpluse. And the budget proposal for 2024 closes that gap
As a home owner in San Francisco I can tell you it had part to do with the DA, defunding the police allowed the crime to sky rocket when hundreds of officers retired, went to other departments that lured them away with large bonuses and better retirement matching funds. Then the board of supervisors strongly supported these actions instead of saying NO this will hurt us they jumped on the band wagon! The Mayor, Supervisors and voters are to blame if they voted for the candidates who thought this was a great idea! The experiment has failed!
The DA neither decides nor executes police funding. And even if it did: police funding has increased since 2019. Seems your homeownership in San Fran does not translate to a strong understanding of the city’s governance.
Being a home owner doesn't make you an expert. Most cops felt demoralized after SFPD was busted with a massive racist texting scandal around the time they shot a few mentally ill people who posed no threat. You right-wingers always fail to mention that and love to compartmentalize blame onto people you don't like. Tedious.
When were the police defunded???? SFPD's budget went up this year.
@@andretemplet2578 Right wingers these days just say things, it doesn't matter if it is completely untrue because no one looks anything up. Ignorance is bliss I guess.
@@andretemplet2578 this year, what about the lat 4-5 years.
Murder and violent crimes arent the only measure of public safety!!! Yes, SF has relatively low violent crime rates compared to other cities, but property crime is through the frigging roof, and that is a big drag on the quality of life to all SF citizens. If your narrative is SF is cant be that bad since you are not getting murdered then that's a really low bar to have.
Exactly.
At least they did a recall. Florida just sacks them and puts who they want in positions.
Both leading to the same results.
Good for florida. They do not want Florida to turn into California
Like FL Desantis who bullies by removing office officials that were elected by the ppl, bc they didn’t follow his extreme far right ideology & as an authoritarian can do what he wants. This is dangerous ideology.
It will be that way in every red state, if people don't vote them out. @@DoahnKea_Tuber
Philadelphia can't recall its progressive DA, btw.
Pretty convenient to compare Boudin to Jenkins crime figures during Covid. Since I live in the Bay Area, I talk to police officers and they don’t want to stop the crime from happening because they know once the criminals are arrested they will be out again on the streets in several hours. It’s frustrating for them to not make a impact. What if the police use rental cars, put luggages with AirTags in them and track down where the criminals hideout. The DA probably would say it’s a bait car, that’s not fair for the criminals. What about the people that are paying your salary and taxes to keep the city afloat. That’s too easy to do, politicians want to destroy the city and then gentrify the city with only filthy rich neighborhoods like Atherton, Palo Alto and Woodside
Those arrested get arraigned by judges. The DA is not the boss of a judge. Some connecting info is missing here. The jail can't house every user. There's news today about quite a sweep of the retail "snatch-n-grab" gangs with a multi-agency task force. (LA?) Not enough cops able to be where they need to be is not the fault of any given DA philosophy. No resources for the mentally ill started with Ronald Reagan. Mehdi's reporting is valuable in recognizing that cheap scapegoating by a slogan/stereotype is not meaningful.
@@daphnewilson7966 users arent arrested. dealers are. mehdi's reporting left out tons of salient facts. it's not reporting...it's propaganda
I guess you didn't watch the whole video where he gives further evidence accounting for pandemic differences that progressive policies like Boudin's are associated with lower violent crime rates.
And so the police get a free pass to not do their job because they don't feel like it? Their job is not to determine who is guilty or innocent or lay out the punishment. People who just decide they don't want to do their job for no reason should get fired. Ridiculous that you support them doing nothing....
I'm pretty sure the reason the police union contributed to getting rid of Boudin was because he prosecuted a cop. Now they've got a DA who won't. Everything else is just propaganda.
What's wrong with Bait Cars?
A week ago I was thrilled to see Moscow Mitch LOUDLY booed at Kentucky's annual "Fancy Farm Picnic". It warmed my heart. That turtle hasn't been right since he fell and cracked his big fat noggin. I was concerned about the floor. I'm glad to say the floor sustained no injuries.
i couldn't understand a garbled word he said he "uh wahmwsaf buhhtre fardoytnuuuu"
I sure hope you leftists dont continue to play in traffic like Heather Heyer did😂😂
@@mobilusinmobili8321 i sure hope you insurrectionists don't get shot in the face like ashli babbitt did...😂😂
You're a Marxist Dem, right?
That guy was never ‘right’.
Über right wing....but never ‘right’.
So gross for this guy to mislead and make excuses. Crime had skyrocketed. People were too afraid to go out after countinually being robbed, assaulted, etc.
I like how he ignores multiple major companies shutting operations due years of crime and street conditions. But that’s what hacks do.
The damage has been done. Nothing will help San Francisco now
What's happening in SF and elsewhere is the result of decades of bad policy decisions made by our law makers. Our culture requires every human to be autonomous and successful -- that can't happen when there is poverty, illness, mental illness, etc. The disenfranchised are completely left in the lurch. OUR CULTURE HAS ALWAYS BEEN CRUEL THAT WAY -- spend 5% of our military budget on housing and services for these people!
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This is what I loved about Bernie.. If we cut our Military budget by just 5% we could take care of SO MUCH!! I hate, HATE a thief but at the same time, I understand some too! People are tired of just being alive instead of living..
yes, what has happened in SF and other jurisdictions is inequality. and that is business-induced policy not just political incompetence.
@@Swnsasy ❤
Thank you fellow human!! 🫂
Crime is tied to poverty. Cops and punishment doesn’t stop crime.
It’s time for america to grow up.
@saramill2097 derp, yeah that's why rethugs wanna defund fbi and justice dept 😂
A large amount of violent crime is domestic violence. Poverty would definitely be a factor there. Relationship stress and so on. Unsure of the US, but here in New Zealand most violent crime is domestic. Likely to be the same in the US, I'd imagine.
Crime is tied to straight-up criminality more than it is to poverty. But you're right - punishment does not stop crime when the punishment is toothless.
Actually it's sometimes tied to societal decay and greed too. That's why white collar crime exists.
Punishing criminals works every time.
Brook Jenkins isn't for the regular people.
Sure, she IS.
In the November 2022 Election, the People of San Francisco County CHOSE her over the "Wannabe BOUDIN" challenger.
...And Jenkins will WIN again in November 2024.
@CurtisELeMay-wr5mi Brook Jenkins is only for the Police Officers. She hasn't brought down the crime rate, especially homicide.
Sounds like Jenkins is more interested in long term career goals than actually cutting crime.
Jenkins is a nightmare. I'm in SF, Chesa was the BEST we've ever had. Big Realty paid for the smear campaign and the recall.
@@alioxinfree Lol, what are you even talking about? Boudin was letting murderers walk with "time served." He was releasing repeat offenders who immediately offended again. It will take Jenkins some time to erase all of the damage that Boudin caused, but she's already 100x better.
Your boy lost. We all hated him. Sit down.
she is a good da
mehdi is a jihadist
@@alioxinfree hopefully, with Medhi starting here, she's put on blast!
@@TohaBgood2Care to back that up with some actual sources and case examples?
The Boudin recall was funded in large part by the SF police union, who stationed petition workers throughout the city, and paid them $10. a signature. He was prosecuting cops, and that was not okay in the City. He is 100% correct that there are two systems of justice in the US, one for the rich and one for the poor - and San Francisco has *lots* of both.
Well, I guess for not prosecuting shop lifters he fixed the 2 systems problem. The good thing is there's no stores left downtown so the shoplifting problem is fixed.
@@billdelk5111 Exactly!!!!!!! The Dems/Leftists Utopia!!!!!!! Drug users and no stores!!!!!!!!
Boudin recall was successful because of organizing by the Asian community. Because they became the main victims of shoplifting and hate crimes; committed by a certain demographic treated as victims.
San Francisco has ONLY both. Rich and poor. No one in between.
1 year is not enough time to solve a years of bad policy and defunded police departments.
Well, other issues aside, Boudin’s refusal to prosecute was a REALLY bad policy. Reasonable ppl dont disagree on this one.
Jenkins changed nothing
You do know that the decrease in violent crime in 2020-22 was largely due to the quarantine...
No I don't. Do you have a study that shows that that I can see?
lot's of crime goes unreported
Stop gaslighting. The current SF DA is cleaning up Boudins mess. SF needs to recall their Mayor and most of their BOS.
Baltimore during covid was letting small pretty crime go with a fine and were only seeing cases of major offenders. Seen their crime rate go down, because turns out by focusing efforts on major offenders and not overloading courts with minor crimes, their got the real nasty people off street.
So certain crimes are okay? Your crazy
OR the society could function like NORMAL and have little petty or major crime.
But Baltimore became a shthole these past few years. Don't be so naive.
San Francisco as all big cities worldwide live in cycles - this great place will live
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Change what counts as a crime and your numbers change
Correlation doesnt equal causation.
It was not about crime go up or down it was about crime reaching the rich. They finally had to deal with criminals in their fancy shops.
And his lack of action on anti Asian crime got him voted out.
that was a big part of it
We have the same problem in Portland too. Crimes against Jews, and other Asians, are completely ignored. A synagogue was burned down, every Jewish building was vandalized, no investigations. A black woman was attacking elderly Asian men, putting them in the hospital, and was instantly released each time. If you belong to some minorities, you are released no matter the crime. If you're in other minorities, the police ignore hate crimes against you. And the more programs for homeless, the more homeless appear from other states, and the more crime.
No
who cares about that
@@bastianbezon2687 Anyone who experiences empathy cares about that.
At what point do we consider the DA and Mayor are apart of the criminal organization, by letting the criminals do their crimes as long as long as they get voted in to keep the laws lax ?
Most of the crime is property and quality of life related. SF is simply a convenient target for RW talking heads.
Nail on the head.
It's wild that your average liberal is so disconnected from actually dealing with criminals that they think cars are getting broken into because of "quality of life"
typical rich people
So do you think that property and quality of life aren't important? Is your only metric for success that you didn't get murdered today?
I’m in SF this week and did all of the touristy things mentioned at the beginning of this video. Had a great time, zero issues. Still a great city to visit as long as you don’t have a rental vehicle to worry about getting broken into.
@@truthhurts9246 I don't think he meant his comment as a literal ringing endorsement or that SF is perfect. Now, do I want to go there? Heck no...
30yrs in SF and see it every day: it's a problem but nothing like what Rs describe. Most SF crime is RICO of big Realty: finance recalls and smear campaigns, lobbyblock housing+rent control expansion, profit from empty "investment" property. Making profit from space and housing is as immoral as profiting from denying healthcare (often the same people: interchangeable suits).
@@truthhurts9246anywhere in america your car will be broken into if you leave stuff in it.
@@truthhurts9246 Yeah, bud maybe you shouldn't try to drive to the second densest place in the country and expect your car to be fine. That's not how reality works.
Our car was broken into in South Dakota.
A country ( and it's people ) do not get the leaders it needs, it gets the leaders it deserve
The reliance on Retributive Justice (which when fully examined is revealed to be no justice at all) is not about dealing effectively with crime, but all about protecting the lives and assets of the wealthy and the APPEARANCE of dealing with criminality by harsh measures.
What nonsense. I'm sure middle and lower income people would like their lives and property protected from criminals too. San Francisco is getting what it voted for, and it's tax base is leaving. Once crime hits a certain point, it is time to leave for greener pastures. May the "progressives" enjoy the crime - ridden remnants of what was once a beautiful city.
So true. One millionaire Realtor who didn't like Chesa's policies single-handedly funded the recall AND the smear campaign to guarantee its success. Until big Realty is just money laundering, white collar RICO crime gutting SF.
Truer words never spoken. ⚖️
@@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 Yeah right. Only the wealthy want their lives and property protected. Middle and lower income folks don't.
Absolutely on point
I live in Salt Lake over past 3 years homelessness has dropped significantly! It was pretty bad in 2020, looked like hobo Woodstock. What did Salt Lake do? Gave them a home. Because people who are homeless are usually fighting many issues from mental illness, drug abuse, criminal records. Just finding a place to sleep and to eat or bath would take up entire day and never could address other issues. It been pretty good they are off street and alot eventually get out of program and back there feet.
you can only help those who want it
If CA built a house for every hobe who dragged themselves across state lines we'd have a population of 1 billion
That's fabulous. But you really can't compare the population of salt lake city and its tiny homeless problem to sunny California's. California has 34 million people. I think LA alone has 60 000 homeless people?
San Francisco is still happening. I go the Richmond District near the Sutro to see my buddy quite often and it's really nice. The Balboa district is pretty nice to hang out. Golden Gate Park is nice too!
except when chesa was da, he had multiple murders in this area and tons of break ins
one murder, that i believe led to his recall, chesa said the perp was having a "temper tantrum"
@@thewkovacs316So, murders and violent crimes _weren’t_ down? The data is wrong? Anecdotal instances with press traction are more important?
Paint me a picture.
@@AngeloBarovierSD yes, the data that mehdi shared is wrong
Yes, I love it there....
No place is in a "good place" right now. Yes, San Francisco is just one of them. When the rich, the corporations, pay off politicians to keep minimum wages down, while the cost of living increases, people aren't able to afford food, afford rent, can't buy houses, and they will do what they must to survive.
This isn't a "omg look at the crime" issue. This is a "when you drive people to desperation, you are in the wrong" issue.
sf has the highest wages in the nation
burger boys like you make 17 bux an hour
So you think we aren't having enough sympathy for the thieves?
Its unbelievable you are framing this this way. I am from los angeles and just got back from SF.... its mad max out their.... horrific.
THANK YOU! I voted to support Chesa Boudin and was extremely suspicious of the recall election.
I still support Chesa Boudin. SF is being remade by big Realty.
The recalls of Boudin and the school board (and the attempt on Newsom) were all funded by out of state republicans
@@alioxinfree Oh, so you're one of those NIMBYs, huh? How's your million dollar home doing? Still sitting on all that money that you never earned and pretending to be "middle class"? We'll eat all the rich, not just the ones that you dislike, bud.
you kidding right😅
why do you think he got recalled.?
Me too.
Last I checked the DA doesn’t carry a badge, gun, or cuffs.
DAs are a part of law enforcement 🤡
They do have a badge
As a democrat, this report feels desperate and disappointing. I am not convinced.
I lived in SF for decades. The rich have too much control over politics in SF. These recalls always happen by the rich against the democratically elected official. The outrageous cost of housing has created great homelessness which increases crime. I felt politically powerless in SF and I moved.
I was there a few days for business and found it gorgeous. With thoughtful planning, work and time, she'll come back.
I lived in the city for 6 years in the 80s. The parts of town (Tenderloin and parts of Market street) that get shown on the media were seedy and dangerous places back then. The only difference I can tell is the increased number of homeless. I've been back to the city recently and, honestly, it didn't feel that different to me compared to 30-40 years ago...@@truthhurts9246
the great homelessness you ellude to occured because the "rich" are supporting the "democratically elected official", which is typically left leaning, through donations. The last recall, of boudin, occured and passed because the people who live here (and so are not you) are fed up with leniency on crime.
@@PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr Especially the Salesforce park! I hope it gets better soon.
@truthhurts9246 Have you been there or just being contrary for sport?
Mehdi is one of the best Journalists around, he needs his own show.
He has it on MSNBC on the weekends🔊😁🧢🙋🏻♀
He's not a good journalist. He just set up a straw man here...he might make a good politician, though.
@@jamieostrowski4447Mehdi IS a good journalist. He might have progressive tendencies, but he equally applies criticism to all parties in a story.
🤣🤣🤡🤡
@@jamieostrowski4447 he did not set up the strawman, he exposed it. review your fallacies.
Progressively not holding criminals accountable, you mean? I never thought I would be disgusted by an MSNBC reporter. I thought that's FOX's strategy, by stirring the information to create hearted audiences towards the other half. Society and morality are getting worse day by day, Anyone who lives in the US experiences it ourselves, no doubt of that, but what's the reason behind that? How to objectively process all the factors, I thought that's the Media's responsibility, to inform and educate the public, not twisting the stories to suit what you believe in. Why don't you report what Boudin has done instead? Why don't you do some research on where the disconnection and dysfunctions are of public services? David Simon connected the dots of crimes, public services, education, resources, and politicians in The Wire by accumulated experiences of reporting. You stir the public to gain clicks and streams, and you feel good about yourself, and blame others are fake news.
I'm so disappointed, journalist ethics are a joke to you.
Who's gonna do what, when and how to correct this? Enough talk.
Of course it did. When will our "political civil servants" learn that preventing crime is not just about locking people up?
It's why arts education is so important. Practicing or continuing to practice art (cuz we're all born artists) leads to being aware of subtlety and contradiction and using them to find solutions.
It is about locking criminals up. They need to locked up or we are just going to be a bunch of victims out here. Soon enough you'll be a victim. What would you like to do to criminals? Reward them? That sounds like a idea that SF has. They pay criminals to mug someone if they don't use a gun. That went over well.
They need to lock a bunch of Dump ,s inablers up .
Come on now! I still glory in everything that San Francisco has to offer. Just went to Ghirardelli Square a couple of days ago for a hot fudge sundae
People really need to do their homework these days from credible sources to get the full picture of what's really going on in their community, in their town/city, in their state AND in their country!!!! Good people are being destroyed because we're only looking at the surface and not digging deeper to get the full story!
You actually believe that you said something. You've said nothing... and that's how liberal get over. (to their fans but not the players)
@@wolfgangk1"that's how liberal get over"
"to their fans but not the players"
You actually believe that you said something. You've said nothing...
@@tim3172 What are you babbling about?
If you don’t think people care, you obviously aren’t here and reporting incorrectly. The problem are the criminals and the existing laws. They need to be updated AND enforced
After being open for 1 year only, even Whole Foods closed down in SF. Just that tells everyone what they need to know about SF and California.
That mayor is a coward.
My friends who live there are stepping around human 💩 dumps on the sidewalk.
They’re not political - they’re just disgusted.
He’s right about two systems of justice - which must be corrected.
I don’t know what’s happened in SF or seattle - but it’s a huge mess.
except dealing with homelessness is not the job of the da's office and that wasnt what chesa was recalled for
and most of the homeless arent from the city
go look at the eviction rates compared to the number of homeless on the streets
What's happening in San Francisco and Seattle is happening everywhere. You're only hearing about it because right wing media is pushing it. Guess what city has the highest crime rate? Seattle sometimes cracks the top 50. San Francisco is way down on the list. Try St. Louis. St. Louis is more dangerous than Detroit, and far more dangerous than Chicago, San Francisco, or most of the current cities right wing media is telling you are apocalyptic wastelands.
And people will want to make things political about who is Mayor, or who is Governor, but the biggest factor in crime is poverty. You want less crime, reduce poverty. But helping poor people isn't something people want to do. They want to punish people.
Wealth inequality is what leads to crimes.
Fix that, and you fix crime.
100%.
Criminals are what cause crime. It doesn't matter how society is organized, there will always be people who lack morals no matter whether they are rich or poor.
America kicked out Donald Trump and the rate of COVID cases went up.
The policies of the predecessor have an immediate effect on the successor's administration. It takes time to see the effect of the administration change.
When you replace a democrat with another democrat, what did you expect?
America law enforcement is like a military institution. what you call progressive prosecutor is actually what other countries called proactive policing.
If you are homeless in Los Angeles there is no on-ramp to employment and housing. In every way the establishment is designed to keep the homeless homeless, to keep the poor poor, poverty is perceived as an infectious disease.
It’s funny how this channel attempts to gaslight the residents of SF that lived with consequences of his approach
Chesa Boudin should run again and make his case clearly.
He now has a cushy job at UC Berkeley. As a California taxpayer, I find that very irritating.
@@fixpacificawhy?
I'd vote for him again, I don't know he has the stomach to fight the single Realtor who financed the recall. But if he did, we'd be lucky to get him back.
@@jonunderland1297 I don't like my tax dollars being used to push failed policies.
I believe he is
Facts💯💯💯💙💙
Jail drug abusers then bus them to Texas and Florida. What's the problem? Chesa fumbled the bag
In July 2023, SF DA Brooke Jenkins said that her office filed 800+ drug cases during her 1st year in office but blames judges for allowing dealers to go free.
Putting everyone in jail will not solve the problem. Drug problem aside, the fundamental problem is sky high cost of living in that city makes everyone could be a homeless any given day.
Thanks so much for this segment. As a former (but born and raised) San Franciscan, what happened to Chesa Boudin was both heartbreaking and infuriating.
Makes me sick that cops get by with stuff EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK! And I guarantee you that the self righteous that ousted Boudin are Christians. What a bunch of crap!
I don't agree. Getting rid of Boudin was a good start, but there is much more to do.
Still here San Franciscan. Come back and join the fight, it's still worth it.
Chess Boudin was a threat and getting rid of him was the right thing to do
Chesa was a complete nutjob. I'm far to the left of you, probably. I can tell you that what Chesa was doing was completely insane. You can't let murderers walk with "time served". That's not "progressive policing" that's just insanity.
🧞♂️ ~ Ummm, I think you’re missing some honesty here. People are not computers, they don’t check with the prosecutor before they commit crimes. But once a door is opened it’s hard to shut it. So once people decide being Lawless is the right thing to do, they don’t reevaluate every election. So this seems like either a blindspot or a way to indemnify progressive policy.
And I also just saw a graph on the local news channel from California they said crime is trending down throughout the United States, but in California it is extremely high compared to the last five years. Only five years as what was on the graph, I don’t know about before then. But hey, no need to mention that. I’m sick of MSNBC just becoming the left-wing version of Fox.
Maybe evaluate after the current DA had the same amount of time in office as Boudin???
For the record, I, as a San Francisco resident, voted against the recall.
San Franciscan who voted against the recall. Chesa was the best we've ever had but big Realty paid to smear and recall him.
@@alioxinfree Lol, what are you even talking about? I'm pretty far left, but Chesa is a nutcase. He was letting murderers walk with "time served." He was releasing people pretending like there were diversion programs to take them in and they immediately reoffended again and again and again and again. He has mental issues.
I also voted against the recall. The cops wanted Boudin out because he was prosecuting cops. He was a good DA and didn't deserve the crap he got
Brooke Jenkins is garbage. She's done nothing and the cops walk all over her
Me too pally.
@@alioxinfreethat makes so much sense. I punched up "Bay Guardian Recommends" and was shocked they encouraged voting for the recall only to realize later, it was a real estate syndicate that hijacked the browser.....
Just imagine what San Francisco would be like if we hadn't kicked him out ???
Judging by the numbers they would have remained nearly flat or would have come down gotta love when conservatives clown on themselves after getting exactly what they want
@@danesullivan5151 ever hear the term "juking the stats"?
@@thewkovacs316 yup any evidence it is happening here? Or just wishful thinking?🤔
@@danesullivan5151 is or was? i watched chesa take home invasions and turn them into simple trespass. i saw chesa send drug dealers to drug court so that they wouldnt be charged with felonies. ya, it was happening here. you just werent paying attention
@@thewkovacs316 also wouldn't it be more likely that a conservative/republican would be more apt to juke the stats to maintain that veneer of being the law and order party
Why are you trying to somehow spin this. Ask anyone who lives here, it’s a complete disaster.
kick out every woke DA unwilling to enforce the law
Here's what happened: Brooke Jenkins was a prosecutor under Chesa Boudin. She decided she wanted his job. She told the police to stop doing their job and they went along with it.
Eventually Jenkins got Boudin kicked out, she took his job and said "let's get back to work" and the police said "actually we like this thing where we don't work and you pay us more, we'll keep doing that."
So we have a city where the police don't work. They don't show up.
That said, violent crime is NOT a thing. People smash and grab stuff in people's cars. Violent crime is at its lowest rate since the 1970's
Also in SF, support Chesa, Jenkins is a nightmare. But she had help. The Realtor millionaire who met with him to threaten him to change progressive policies that were working PAID for the ENTIRE recall filing and smear campaign. Realty is just RICO. We need to get big Realty out of SF.
This is complete nonsense. Chesa was letting murderers walk with "time served". He never mentioned that he'll be letting out repeat violent offenders and murderers. As soon as the public understood what he was doing we kicked him out. That's it.
@@TohaBgood2 No he wasn’t. You’re lying.FOH.
that isnt what happened
and you have zero evidence to prove it
@@TohaBgood2 this is closer to the truth. mehdi wont show boudin on the campaign trail openly lying about what he intended to do as da.
Brooke Jenkins is not an improvement
Build more prisons and jail the criminals.
Yeah NOW IT WILL CHANGE.
SFO is where the homeless and drug addicted go to die
That's Florida where they shack up in busted up home and mangroves!
@@saramill2097 Faux entertainment again?
Boudin was on the right track. Restorative Justice is the way to go. I hope his career isn't over.
and he is now in a position where he can do that
legalizing crime as da wasnt the way to go
I feel the same.
As the cost of living goes up crime will increase. We can sit up blaming political partys but if you go to the streets where the crime is its the simple fact people are struggling to live plus the idealizing of crime in American culture is steady going up. It would take way more than one person to make a change.
I stopped watching MSNBC a couple years ago. I got tired of the over-the-top, way out in left field, separate reality liberal propaganda and gaslighting (nobody should be surprised of this rubbish)
Yet you're still here, wasting everyone's time with your blather.
I remember encountering a number of Boudin opponents, and when I asked them what exactly Boudin was doing wrong, they couldn't come up with a coherent answer. Apparently, they didn't like success. Now that Jenkins is in office, the crime rate has increased. Well, at least now I know who to vote against in the next election.
He was letting murderers walk with "time served." He outright did not charge many of the crimes that were brought to him. He was releasing people supposedly into "diversion programs", but the diversions programs either did not exist or were a joke. Those released immediately reoffended. He did not charge or undercharged repeat offenders. He'd let them go and they'd immediately victimize another person, and Chesa would let them go again, and they'd immediately reoffend again. Sometimes this happened half a dozen times before he'd finally throw in the towel and put the perp in jail.
Make no mistake, we know exactly why we got rid of Chesa. He's a nutjob that wants to impose his crazy ideas on society at all costs. He'll lie anything to get the power and then play his cruel experiments on us. He's crazy.
Pretty simple: Not holding criminals accountable after victimizing people. It's a very basic duty of government.
I doubt you actually asked anybody
ill give you a coherent answer
chesa legalized crime
when cops made arrests, he found reasons not to prosecute, or turn felonies into misdemeanors
that is how he juked the stats
and then cops just stopped arresting folk...cuz why would they bother
now the cops are back to arresting folk and we have a da who actually prosecutes and doesnt drop charges
@@TohaBgood2 Congratulations! You succeeded in recalling Chesa. So now, under "Law & Order" D.A. Jenkins, violent crime has increased by 3.93%, homicides have increased by 7.27%, robberies have increased by 15%, and smash & grabs are still happening. If that's your idea of success, I think I prefer Chesa's "failure." It looks to me like the recall was done in bad faith, for purely political reasons, and now the crime rate has gone up. That's not a good look.
Biden/Harris '24
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The DA being progressive isn't the problem, it's defunding the police policy and politicians living in safe gated communities where they cannot see what their wokeness is doing that's the problem
BAKERSFIELD CA not on the list? How convenient
Wasn’t this the guy that allowed people who committed non violent crimes to get off Scott free
Wrong
Thank you for the truthful persoective on progressive policies .
This is biased propaganda.
He told you what you wanted to hear.
You are a progressive. It is upsetting to hear your ideas are wrong.
He told you that you are actually right, so now you feel better.
Doesnt matter if it isn't true.
The whole world 🌎 knows about San Francisco, except "ELECTED OFFICIALS " and the decline continues.
We want crime up here !
I live in SF. F'n love it here.
Ditto.
Me too.
Mehdi does great reporting, he just gets better year by year. I remember him as a young journalist when he was very green and he has gone so far since then..
He lies too much. The numbers that he cited to do not match the charts that he showed. He's among the most "activist" and dishonest hosts. You might like that he lies for causes that you agree with, but lies are still lies.
He doesn't mind lying, to stir the rubes up. And he's far too racist to be any good. He should be fired and deported.
Seriously🤣🤣🤣😂😂
Yes, I can see him getting the Order of Lenin before much longer.
they failed to get rid of the rest of them
Brooke Jenkins has failed.
Our new DA is a freaking nightmare! When the teenagers did their yearly skateboard down a big hill our supervisors didn’t reach out to work out a way to make this event safer (rich jerks would experience road rage and one finally hit a kid). So our new DA sent in 100 riot cops in full riot gear to push them into smaller groups to zip tie them, hold them for hours (illegally). It was a nightmare! She’s part of the corrupt political machine here. But I still love SF! The arts! The Buy Nothing communities! The music! The bookstores! Like the nation we are suffering with the wealthy buying our politicians…..
you think that makes her a nightmare?
i think that was a great move
what she did wasnt illegal
what they did was illegal
i bet you love the illegal sideshows too
GET OUT OF MY CITY YOU CRIMINAL
All the more reason to keep up the effort in fighting back. We gotta retake our country from these right wing snobs; Voting blue wont be the ONLY measure i resort to; Im willing to chip in some spare cash towards progressive ideals and those who fight for them.
Hello fellow San Franciscan!! ❤❤
Yes. It’s out of control but the residences and citizens are trying to right the wrong. Problem won’t be solved overnight but the issue is not to be soft on crime and to get DA’s that will push the rights of the victims.
Being soft on crime and being too expensive to live there is hardly a good combination.
Why don’t victims just start hurting the criminals? Hopefully they let you out the same day too
The DA doesn't prevent crime. Their job is to prosecute it. Unfortunately this report makes no mention of that
Of course!!! Violence begets violence, peace begets peace.
Chesa Boudin is a visionary who has walked the walk.
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