Chesa Boudin has rapidly become the scapegoat of San Francisco crime. I'm worried about his infamy reaching state and even national levels, because many of these reactionary arguments against him are either wrong or lacking better context. (1/7)

Crime is not increasing universally. From SFPD data it's specifically property thefts (and arson???) that have gone up. Assaults in general have seen a decline. (2/7)

In the same trend I also saw similar motor vehicle theft spikes in Oakland, San Jose, and Los Angles. (3/7)

https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/the-oakland-police-department-has-seen-a-38-increase-in-carjackings-citywide-over-last-year
https://www.sjpd.org/records/crime-stats-maps/crime-statistics-annual
http://lapd-assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf

Now while most violent crime in SF is explicitly down homicides have increased. But this is region-wide, with the biggest spikes in Oakland and Vallejo (and Berkeley by percentage).

SF's spike isn't even higher than 2017's numbers. (4/7)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/A-violent-year-Bay-Area-murders-spiked-36-in-15857202.php

This spike isn't even limited to the Bay, or even to California, but the entire country. (5/7) https://twitter.com/crimealytics/status/1343950694672379905

And the city is still in a historical low for homicide. It is fair to say that if you lived in San Francisco for as little as 5 years you have lived in a far more dangerous city. Just less chances your car would get broken into. (6/7) https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/With-41-killings-in-2019-San-Francisco-sees-14943532.php

You can call out Boudin like any other elected, but anyone ignoring the inequality, housing, and poverty crises at the core is being reactionary. More prisoners in the already most incarcerated nation will not solve anything. It clearly hasn't yet. (7/7)