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The stats on the previous DAs dramatic reduction in prosecutions are publicly available via Google search. If you actually cared about interrogating your own beliefs you would look this up yourself but you don't.

I don't waste time arguing with far left ideologues.

It's like talking to fundamentalist Christians about evolution: wasted time.

Your statement about it not being clear that crime goes up if less criminals are prosecuted is the most unintentionally hilarious thing I've seen in a long time. Do you even realize how utterly lacking in common sense the statement is?




Okay, I did the google search you mentioned. It says you're wrong:

"Overall Prosecution Rate in SF Remains Largely the Same Under Boudin" - NBC

Here's the raw data from the DA's office: https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/data-dashboards/

I'll also ask you to consider how this whole thread could have gone differently if you and everyone else had bothered to constructively engage with the discussion, and done the research you so dismissively told others to do.


Did you not see the note at the bottom of the dashboard that says it excludes murder, rape, and domestic assault? Did you unthinkingly look at the aggregate, and not click on specific crimes like commercial burglary and see a massive drop in percentage of reports being prosecuted?

"Guys, you'll never believe it! According to the DA's office, the DA is doing great!"


You're only looking at the first chart, scroll down if you want those other crimes included (you can even filter only on them). It's still level.


This post is a great example of performative outrage and the use of rhetorical fallacies as a distraction from the underlying facts. A+, would nod unthinkingly again.




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