Peter: It’s interesting to hear you characterize it that way. My grandfather was murdered when my father was 15 years old, and that changed the trajectory of his life and that of his siblings and family. Pointing out this misleading use is of course not to minimize the harms represented by even those single-digit increases. He’s right, it’s 10 percent, but it’s dramatically misleading. What I found was that this double-digit percentage increase in homicides, for example, that he wrote about was an increase in the number of homicides from 10 to 11. I looked at crime in every single category and then did year-over-year changes from 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021, and then the two-year change from 2019 to 2021. I actually had to get a little help from an intern about setting up some of the formulas.
So that was the sort of trigger for me that caused me to, just after work one night, dig into the San Francisco Police Department data. And the use of that phrase seems obviously kind of intended to. Peter: What the reporter wrote was that crime in the Tenderloin, which by all accounts is the epicenter of the drug and homelessness crises in San Francisco, had in some categories increased by double-digit percentages. And tonight, you can see the result is resounding: Boudin is out.” NBC announcer : “ We begin with the local recall election that’s getting so much national attention: the effort to unseat San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin. Guests include Peter Calloway, a public defender who lives in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood California journalist Gil Duran and Jacob Silverman, who wrote about David Sacks, one of the backers of the recall, for The New Republic.
Now, a few months out from a successful recall, how is the city faring? What was behind the campaign to demolish the former district attorney-and, crucially, who was bankrolling it? On episode 57 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene discuss the flaws in the narrative used to unseat Boudin and what has happened since his departure. That was the story that ousted Chesa Boudin, the city’s progressive prosecutor: Get rid of Boudin and San Franciscans will be safer. San Francisco was in meltdown, and the district attorney had lost control.
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