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Progressive San Francisco Prosecutor Resigns To Join Recall Effort Against Soros-Backed DA Chesa Boudin

Progressive San Francisco Prosecutor Resigns To Join Recall Effort Against Soros-Backed DA Chesa Boudin

“The D.A.’s office now is a sinking ship. . . . It’s like the Titanic, and it’s taking public safety along with it.”

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Back in 2019, I blogged about billionaire busybody George Soros successfully backing a district attorney in San Francisco: Socialist Son of Imprisoned Weather Underground Terrorists Who Was Raised By Bill Ayers and Worked for Hugo Chavez Elected D.A.  What could go wrong?

As it turned out, plentySo much, in fact, that at least 50 attorneys have left the DA’s office since Boudin took office in January of last year and began enacting his pro-crime and pro-criminal policies that have devastated public safety in the city.

The most recent prosecutor to quit is speaking out . . .  and getting to work on Boudin’s recall.  The recall has been brewing for months now, and it sounds like the effort just got a major boost from a young, progressive criminal prosecutor.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports (archive link):

Sitting on a bench in Golden Gate Park on a recent afternoon, Brooke Jenkins made clear the city’s raging debate over crime and how District Attorney Chesa Boudin responds to it is more complicated than left versus right.

Jenkins, a former homicide prosecutor, just quit. Her last day was Oct. 15. She’s now one of about 50 attorneys — roughly a third of the office — to leave since January 2020, when Boudin took charge.

But Jenkins’ decision to speak out about what she views as chaotic management, high turnover and ideologically driven decisions at the D.A.’s office sets her apart in the normally tight-lipped criminal justice community. And so does her new role: volunteering for the campaign to recall her former boss.

Jenkins, 40, is Black and Latina and — like Boudin — describes herself as a progressive prosecutor who has long sought alternatives to incarceration. She told me she agrees with the central tenet of Boudin’s campaign: that the criminal justice system is racist and needs reform.

Let that sink in. Jenkins is a progressive who apparently actually believes the criminal justice system is racist. She sounds like your typical San Francisco regressive social justice warrior.

And Boudin is too radical for her.

She is at least grounded enough to see that there are actually criminals and that crime is bad. She gets that letting criminals run around unchecked, unprosecuted, and free to commit further, even escalating crimes, is kind of a bad idea. Who knew?

The San Francisco Chronicle continues:

But she disagrees with what she sees as Boudin prioritizing ideology and politics over the day-to-day handling of cases, which she said has yielded an unorganized office, plummeting morale and bad outcomes for victims and their families.

It’s important to note that this is personal for Jenkins. One of those families was her husband’s — devastated by the slaying last year of his 18-year-old cousin and what the family views as an ineffective prosecution of his alleged killers.

“The D.A.’s office now is a sinking ship,” she said. “It’s like the Titanic, and it’s taking public safety along with it.”

The Chronicle, of course, does its duty in propping up Boudin as much as it can by claiming that he’s been “unfairly” targeted by inconsequential “residents concerned about crime” and by the evil right-wing blah blah. But they cannot ignore Jenkins, a fellow progressive, nor two of her fellow prosecutors who have also left the DA’s office to join the recall effort.

Up to this point, Boudin has been mostly criticized by residents concerned about crime and by the traditionally conservative police officers union. Less than two years into his tenure, he’s been blamed unfairly for everything from Walgreens closures to long-rampant car break-ins.

But this is the first time critics inside his office — including Jenkins and two other newly resigned prosecutors — have come forward to take issue with his approach to specific cases and his management style. That may pose a significant challenge if the recall goes to voters.

Interestingly, it seems Boudin (cynically?) promoted Jenkins to a cushy new position in homicide, and by his own account, he’s now surprised to learn that she has principles.

He told me he was surprised by Jenkins’ decision to share her frustrations publicly and work for the campaign to recall him, because he promoted her to the homicide unit.

“Usually when you promote people, they think you have good judgment,” he said.

Skeevy, right? I wouldn’t be surprised if he is so cocky and unbearable that he actually let her know that he promoted her in exchange for her gratitude . . . and her silence. Good on her for speaking out, if so.

Another prosecutor, Don Du Bain, has also quit Boudin’s DA office and joined the recall effort (which already, according to the Chronicle, has 32,000 more signatures than needed).

NBC Bay Area reports:

“Chesa has a radical approach that involves not charging crime in the first place and simply releasing individuals with no rehabilitation and putting them in positions where they are simply more likely to re-offend,” Jenkins said.

“Being an African-American and Latino woman, I would wholeheartedly agree that the criminal justice system needs a lot of work, but when you are a district attorney, your job is to have balance.”

Both attorneys accuse Boudin of making San Francisco more dangerous by regularly handing down lenient sentences, releasing criminals early, and, in some cases, not filing charges at all, despite sufficient evidence proving those individuals committed violent crimes.

“He basically disregards the laws that he doesn’t like, and he disregards the court decisions that he doesn’t like to impose his own version of what he believes is just -and that’s not the job of the district attorney,” du Bain said.

“The office was headed in such the wrong direction that the best thing I could do was to join the effort to recall Chesa Boudin as district attorney.”

Can you even begin to imagine how truly horrific and dangerous Boudin must be perceived that progressive prosecutors think he’s too radical?

NBC Bay Area continues:

Jenkins and du Bain point to specific cases:

In one case, a man charged with robbery, who had eight prior felony convictions, was released early by the district attorney. He was then arrested four more times for other crimes, but the district attorney’s office never charged him. Then, nine months after he was set free, he hit and killed two women while driving a stolen car, drunk.

“The fact that killers may go free, just doesn’t sit very well with me,” said Jenkins, who spent seven years prosecuting cases in the district attorney’s office, most recently serving in the department’s homicide unit, taking on the city’s most violent criminals.

In another case, prosecutor Don du Bain said Boudin ordered him to request a more lenient sentence for a man who was convicted of shooting his girlfriend in the stomach. The request, du Bain argues, would have been a violation of state statutes, which govern criminal sentences. As a result, du Bain said he withdrew from the case.

“I’ve done 136 jury trials in my career – never, never withdrawn from a case before,” he said. “I’ve seen decisions made in this office in the last year plus, since Chesa took over, that shocked my conscience – and I’ve been a prosecutor for 30 years.”

. . . . “Public safety is not his focus. That is not his goal,” said Jenkins, adding, “Chesa has a radical approach that involves not charging crime in the first place and simply releasing individuals with no rehabilitation and putting them in positions where they are simply more likely to re-offend.”

Note to Soros: it’s one thing to buy a DA’s office and plant your anti- and un-American radicals. It’s quite another to keep them there.

My guess is that Jenkins will run for DA after Boudin is recalled.

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Note to Soros: it’s one thing to buy a DA’s office and plant your anti- and un-American radicals. It’s quite another to keep them there.

I think you underestimate him.

My guess is that Jenkins will run for DA after Boudin is recalled.

Which means Soros will get what he wanted after all. And she’ll come in with public good will, even from the right, since she’ll be seen as the voice of reason and moderation, the city’s savior from the truly radical Boudin. Any complaints will be seen as carping from the “extreme right” who can’t be grateful for what they get.

Just like Eric Adams in NYC.

    daniel_ream in reply to Milhouse. | October 25, 2021 at 3:44 am

    She’s the Feyd Rautha to Boudin’s Beast Rabban.

      The Friendly Grizzly in reply to daniel_ream. | October 25, 2021 at 6:56 am

      Whatever that means…

        SeiteiSouther in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | October 25, 2021 at 10:36 am

        Dune reference. Have a depostic tyrant crush the people’s spirit and lives for a few years, and then replace the tyrant with a “savior” that still under the control by the people who set up the tyrant in the first place.

      Rufus6540 in reply to daniel_ream. | October 25, 2021 at 8:53 am

      Solid and timely Dune reference, well done!

        daniel_ream in reply to Rufus6540. | October 25, 2021 at 5:40 pm

        It originates in Machiavelli’s The Prince, but no one recognizes that reference so i went something a little more contemporary.

        I’m mildly amused by how much modern discourse is starting to resemble the Tamarian language in ST:TNG Darmok on the Ocean.

        “Feyd Rautha, replacing Rabban. The people, mollified.”

    DSHornet in reply to Milhouse. | October 25, 2021 at 7:55 am

    Indeed. The Overton Window just ratcheted another step. It will not change direction until another American Revolution.
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    It’s San Francisco, the best they can hope for is a progressive SJW who at least understands that rampant crime is not a good thing. Will she carry on with the justice justice (or whatever the hell)? Of course, but hopefully, the streets will be cleaned up and the most violent criminals locked up for more than an hour. We’ll see, but Boudin’s days are numbered. And that is a good thing.

We need more patriots with rifles to remove these “officials”>

SF IS NOW A HELL-HOLE

I was in SF recently. Crime is everywhere. Naked homeless men walk the streets. Drug addicts everywhere. Cops are powerless – neutered. Stores get robbed every day. Sometimes 2 or 3 or 4 times per day.

Even the super liberal city citizens are fed up.
All the reasonable/rational people have left – or are leaving.
I doubt any real business owner is locating there or opening there.

The tax base is quickly eroding.

I think the City is in a death spiral. It’s not a political issue – it’s purely a matter of public finance and public safety. Junkies and criminals don’t pay taxes. When junkies and criminals become a significant portion of the population – the City is done.

Remaining residents envy those who already left.

Progressivism is an ideology of unqualified monotonic change. It would appear that he has made a choice.

Destruction for what purpose?

Destruction?

What principles does Jenkins have? A progressive “black latina” prosecutor who thinks the justice system is racist is going to do the same thing Boudin does, give black (and presumably hispanic) criminals a free pass, the same thing we see in LA and Chicago. I’m not seeing the improvement.

    henrybowman in reply to randian. | October 25, 2021 at 3:45 pm

    It’s all about the journey, not the destination.
    They’re all going to the same place.
    But an increased rate of cannibalism during the quest has benefits for us.

Heh. The “evil right wing” in San Franfreakshow? Sure. Right up there with Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa still being alive.

San Fran Sicko? Meh.

“Usually when you promote people, they think you have good judgment,” he said.

And here we see the legendary Commie grasp of logic.

When you promote people, it means YOU think THEY have good judgment, you dips*t. It doesn’t say a damn thing about what THEY think about YOU.

And they do have good judgment… they’re recalling you.

Solid, unassailable argument for “absolute immunity”: A law enforcement officer who chooses what laws he likes, and whether to enforce any law or follow court orders.

Wonderful job Barry’s boy Bill and his significant other, Bernarndine, did as surrogates for Chesa’s murderer biological parents.

Why is it so many who should have been aborted were not ?

Finally, I note those that resigned are working on a recall effort, without giving consideration to whether the election process was rigged. Would not want to raise questions about systems and processes that worked to progressive’s advantage in all other elections (I’m guessing Nancy wouldn’t like that).