THREAD: It's sad to see what has happened to the @sfchronicle, whose "crime" reporting is now a Willie Horton-style tabloid peddling hit pieces placed by the police union and wealthy white elites. This latest piece is one of the worst ones yet. (1) https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/After-death-of-baby-S-F-domestic-violence-16125362.php

First, the article cynically weaponizes only a small portion of "domestic violence victim advocates" to argue for more police, prosecution, and punishment. The article doesn't mention that there is not a shred of evidence that carceral responses reduce domestic violence. (2)

Second, the article doesn't interview, quote, or even acknowledge the existence of the large movement of "domestic violence advocates" and "victims" in SF who reject more police, prosecutors, and prisons as the solution. Not a single critical voice is interviewed. (3)

Third, who the article portrays as "experts" and "victim advocates" erases the Black people, Asian people, and working class people fighting against toxic masculinity and harm in San Francisco without increasing the power of the carceral state to brutalize their communities. (4)

Fourth, article exploits anecdote of the death of a baby to criticize a supposed lack of prosecution. But the evidence doesn't match. Prosecution is basically in line with historical numbers. Article doesn't even try to link changes in prosecution to increases in "violence." (5)

Let's be clear: the article is one-sided, violates basic journalism norms, insults the movement of survivors of violence, etc... This is intentional. It's a cop hit piece designed to reduce popularity of DA who police hate because he is caging fewer poor Black people. (6)

Luckily, the brilliant @ayagruber has written a new book about this. Please check it out. (7) https://twitter.com/SaferSocietyFI/status/1385632052817629187

And if you live in San Francisco, understand the copaganda campaign being waged for your mind. Thankfully, @prisonculture has produced many resources to help understand how to end harm/violence without cops and cages. Start here and share widely. (end) https://transformharm.org/ 

I should have noted, there are numerous other problems with the article, I only picked the highlights that also reflect other recent Chronicle reporting. https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1385992431091421185