🚨 CALL TO ACTION: Don't let the @sfbos DEFUND the District Attorney's Office!
Supervisors who opposed #RecallChesa are now proposing severe cuts to the District Attorney Office budget...including several *key* positions in Victim Services Division! 🧵
2/ This is a cynical ploy by politicians to hurt the next District Attorney & punish SF voters for voting for the recall. It's a clear set-up to pave the way for @chesaboudin to run again in November.
3/ Don't let the Supervisors get away with it! We need your help: Please email the full Board of Supervisors TODAY and tell them to FULLY FUND the District Attorney's office. Voters have made their feelings very clear: they want a strong DA who will bring reform & safety.
I am emailing you today to urge you to FULLY FUND the DA's office! Voters have made it clear that they want a strong District Attorney that will balance reform & public safety. Do not defund the DA!
1/ @chesaboudin proudly announced this week that he has finally started prosecuting car burglaries. But he left out a critical truth: Chesa deliberately sat on the case for 2 years - only pursuing it now to save his career. Let's review the facts:
2/ The offender in question, Quoc Le, was originally charged in January 2019 - a year before Chesa took office. He was charged with 8 felony counts of buying/receiving stolen property - VERY similar to the case Chesa is touting now. (Case No 19000446)
3/ The case was actively prosecuted throughout 2019 by @ThomasOstly in the Crime Strategies Unit in the DA's office. But Ostly was fired by Chesa in Jan 2020 and the Crime Strategies Unit was dissolved in 2021. See Ostly's statement about the case here.
1/ “I think San Franciscans are just tired of all the nonsense. We’re tired of asking for progress and results and getting excuses and slogans. People have had enough, including me.”
Stefani pointed to figures that showed police had made 131 arrests for domestic violence cases in the last three months of 2020 and that Boudin’s office had dismissed 113 of them.
3/ In a particularly tragic case, a 7-month-old boy was allegedly killed by a man who had been arrested twice in recent months on charges of felony domestic violence, and who was released without charges.