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And I know that only the families of these two women truly appreciate the depths of pain and loss and suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what we’re focused on is three things going forward. First of all, supporting the families through the grief. Second of all, holding Mr. McAlister, the man we believe caused this harm, accountable for what he did. And third, bringing together all the different law enforcement agencies who were involved in supervising or policing or holding Mr. McAlister accountable and looking at what we did, what we could have done, what we should have done in ensuring that going forward, we don’t have agencies operating in silos, but that we have better communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There are many people, specifically Tony Montoya, head of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, who are saying you’re responsible. That you didn’t prosecute and should have.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s be clear about Tony Montoya and the POA. The leadership of the POA have been a really toxic part of San Francisco politics since way before I ever even ran for office. And they’ve been accusing me of horrific things and lies and spreading dishonesty. Not just about me, but about virtually everybody in public life in San Francisco progressive politics for years. It’s nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And much of the misinformation about this case is being spread intentionally by Tony Montoya and by the POA. Now, they can point fingers and they can try to get me to point fingers back. But as San Francisco Police Chief [Bill] Scott said, every law enforcement agency has to take responsibility for what they did or didn’t do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my case, of course, there are things in hindsight that we could have done differently. That’s true in every single case where someone who’s had prior law enforcement contact is involved in a serious crime. We don’t have a crystal ball. And the district attorney’s office in San Francisco handles thousands and thousands of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone is on probation or on parole, we often rely on those agencies. It’s a question of efficiency, it’s a question of resources, and it’s a question of prioritizing violent crimes. When Mr. McAlister was arrested earlier this year, his arrests were nonviolent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given those circumstances, it was standard practice in my office way before I was sworn in — this is true across the state — to defer to the primary supervising agency. In this instance, it was parole, and parole has tools and resources and options available to them, far more nuanced and individualized than simply filing a new criminal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we need to be honest about what filing a new criminal case in those first contacts he had this year after his parole would have done. Charging someone with a new nonviolent offense rarely results in ongoing incarceration absent a parole revocation. We trust parole and we continue to trust parole because they know the individuals they supervise and they have the tools and the expertise to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some have the perception that you are more of an advocate for people who break the law than the general citizenry of San Francisco. How do you counter that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"chesa-boudin\"]I’m really sorry to hear that that’s the perception some people have. I know that the POA has contributed to it. They tried to make that the perception even before I was elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m running my office as well as I can, and I’m working as hard as I can under historically difficult circumstances. Nobody predicted or anticipated the kinds of challenges that 2020 would bring us. And yet, we managed to transition my staff to electronic procedures, electronic case filing and discovery and court appearances. We managed to file 4,300 new criminal cases, and I personally took a murder case that had been languishing for years to a grand jury and secured an indictment to move that case one step closer to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m rolling up my sleeves and I’m personally doing the work to keep our cases moving forward and to help make San Francisco safer for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role should the DA have in investigating ongoing scandals at City Hall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we talk about crime and we talk about accountability, the system does a really bad job remembering the victims. In every single case, there’s someone who’s harmed. And when you talk about corruption, all of us in San Francisco are victims of corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen this year a really staggering proportion of scandals in City Hall. And it’s something that everyone in law enforcement, I think, needs to step up and do more on. I have a very small team working on those kinds of cases. Our primary focus is more traditional criminal cases brought to us by the San Francisco Police Department: burglaries, robberies, drug sales. Those are the cases that take up most of our resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do have a small, dedicated team investigating public integrity issues. And I can tell you that they are in many ways outmanned and outgunned by the U.S. attorney that has been working on this case evidently for a number of years with resources far beyond anything that the city allows us to spend on these kinds of cases. We would certainly like to do more. And it takes resources, it takes investigators, it takes wiretaps, it takes cooperating witnesses. And those are some of the things that we need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many SF residents feel under siege by break-ins and vandalism, and don’t think your office is willing to prosecute those crimes. What’s your response?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important that people be safe and it’s important that people feel safe. Both things are important. The reality is that San Francisco has probably never been safer than it is right now. But I also know that people don’t feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]‘It’s important that people be safe and it’s important that people feel safe. … The reality is that San Francisco has probably never been safer than it is right now. But I also know that people don’t feel safe.’[/pullquote]If you look at the data, it shows that in 2020, crime overall decreased in San Francisco by a historic 24.5%. That includes massive drops in auto burglaries, in petty theft, in assaults, in robberies — assaults and robberies, being the two most common violent crimes in San Francisco. Historic double-digit drops in those categories of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I want to be clear. I am not taking credit for those drops. We all know that the COVID-19 pandemic and the drastic reshaping of daily life in our city is what primarily accounts for those drops. And by the same token, we know that certain categories of crime have increased, things like burglary, residential and commercial, things like motor vehicle theft went up and things like discharge of firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, those categories of crime went up in big cities all across the country without regard to who the police chief is, without regard to the local politics of the district attorney or the police union. These are national trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was on the campaign trail last year, one of the issues that was front and center for most San Francisco voters was auto burglaries. Auto burglaries dropped by about 40% last year. Now, some of the people who in 2019 committed those auto burglaries earn their living off property crime. And with fewer opportunities to break into tourist cars, with fewer opportunities to walk into stores and businesses and shoplift, some of those people resorted to going inside, the same way that all of us have gone inside during the pandemic. And so, yes, we did see an increase in other kinds of burglaries. We saw an increase of about 2,000 more burglaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residential burglaries are a serious crime. It’s a crime that I take very seriously. It’s a case that carries a maximum punishment of up to six years in state prison. If we are given evidence from police sufficient to prove a case to a jury, we will file it and we will prosecute it. Having video evidence in a year where every single person is wearing a mask may not be adequate to prove who committed the burglary. Police may believe they know who did it, but it’s up to my lawyers to prove to a jury of all of you listening, beyond any reasonable doubt, who did what and what their intent was when they broke in and stole something. That’s the burden we have and we meet it in cases all the time and we prosecute those cases all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would you describe your relationship with the police?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was elected on a very transparent and clear platform to enforce the law equally and to fight for racial justice and equity in our criminal justice system. To focus resources on root causes of crime so that we can break the revolving door that has come to so epitomize the failed American approach to criminal justice from coast to coast. And I have followed through on my commitments, despite the obstacles and despite the real challenges that both 2020 and the entrenched bureaucracy in the criminal justice system and the attacks from people like [SFPOA leader] Tony Montoya have put in our path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]‘When individual police officers tell lies, like we don’t prosecute, that does damage to our ability to keep San Franciscans safe and it makes people feel unsafe.’[/pullquote]I think the district attorney’s office has a tremendous amount to be proud of this year. We responded aggressively and with leadership in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and a social justice and racial justice movement unlike any this country has ever seen. And we’ve played a leadership role in reimagining how we can promote public safety and support victims of crime while also decreasing our reliance on racist policies that have destroyed families and communities and bankrupted local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when individual police officers tell lies, like we don’t prosecute, that does damage to our ability to keep San Franciscans safe and it makes people feel unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the numbers: In 2020, we filed over 72% of the residential burglary charges the police brought us. But here’s the problem: They only presented us with 285 possible cases to charge out of the 7,391 burglaries reported to the police. So if 90% of people who commit that crime aren’t arrested, then people don’t feel like there’s a deterrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to support the police in doing a more effective job on the front end. And instead of having individual officers point the finger at me or my office, I’d love to work collaboratively with them. Chief Scott and I have a great relationship. We have regular meetings. If we could have that same level of collaboration and cooperation and collective responsibility all the way up and down the line, I think San Franciscans would not only feel safer, but they’d be safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are you doing to hold police officers accountable who use excessive force?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge challenge. We filed what I believe to be the first ever homicide charges against a San Francisco Police Department officer while they were on duty for a killing. In this instance, it was an unarmed black man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I want to be really clear, I don’t celebrate filing those criminal charges. Filing homicide charges is a very serious decision, whether it’s a police officer or whether it’s somebody else. And we make that decision after a careful and exhaustive review of all of the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11848521 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40220__M6A1817-qut-1020x680.jpg']But we have to have equal enforcement of the law. We have to have a system in which no one is above the law, regardless of their race or their wealth or the uniform they wear to work. And the reason that the POA has been attacking me since even before I was elected, the reason the kinds of lies were being told to residents and to crime victims even before I took office, is because of that fear of equal enforcement of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leadership in the POA is used to impunity. They want impunity, and they don’t want transparency or sunshine on the small minority of officers who engage in excessive force or explicitly racist and discriminatory conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal justice system and public safety depend on having trust between the communities and the law enforcement agencies that have sworn to serve and protect then. And we will never have that trust until everyone knows that if you commit a crime, you will be treated equally regardless of your job title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[POA leaders] are trying to exploit tragedy and fear, to roll back the reforms that are wildly popular across the state and here in San Francisco, reforms that are long overdue in terms of racial justice and racial equity and reforms that empirically have been shown to promote public safety. They are relying on fear mongering. They are relying on dishonesty and manipulation in order to go backwards in time to an era where state and local budgets were dominated by expenditures for prisons, for jails, for militarized police, instead of investments in public health, in drug treatment and safe consumption sites, in the kinds of things that San Francisco and good science and data tell us we need to promote public safety. And that’s simply not good policy. But it’s effective fear mongering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can San Francisco do to improve conditions in beleaguered neighborhoods like the Tenderloin?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin is the neighborhood that’s the most diverse in all of San Francisco. It’s also the neighborhood with the highest concentration of school-age children. And to see the state of affairs in the Tenderloin is really devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need a more effective approach and we cannot continue to recycle the same failed policies from the war on drugs. Now, to be clear, I have filed felony criminal charges in about 78% of the drug sales or possession for sales cases police have brought me this year. We are continuing to file those charges, even though we know they haven’t worked in the past and we don’t expect them to solve the problems today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]‘Right now in San Francisco, it is easier to get high than it is to get help. And it doesn’t matter how many felony criminal charges we file, as long as that continues to be true, the Tenderloin is not going to change.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we need to be effective in communities like the Tenderloin: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, safe consumption sites to prevent the horrific number of overdoses from drugs like Fentanyl. Second, treatment on demand so that when people who are struggling with and battling addiction are trying to get sober or trying to get clean and turn their lives around and get off the street and on their feet, they have somewhere to go to get help. Right now in San Francisco, it is easier to get high than it is to get help. And it doesn’t matter how many felony criminal charges we file, as long as that continues to be true, the Tenderloin is not going to change. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have filed charges. We’ve seen the U.S. attorney deport people involved in low-level drug sales, and none of it has changed the situation on the streets. What will change it is housing, treatment and safe consumption sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the cash bail issue?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a key issue for me for many years, as you know. Cash bail is a system really unique to the United States and the Philippines, where we have a for-profit private industry that basically buys people out of jail for a 10% nonrefundable fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have the money, you’re out immediately. If you don’t have the money, you languish behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s two fundamental problems with the cash bail system. First, it undermines public safety by allowing people, even people who are dangerous, to buy their way out and potentially go on to commit more crimes or harass victims. Second, it undermines the promise of equal protection under law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve got people charged, sometimes incorrectly, with things like shoplifting or drug sales. And when you’re charged with a nonviolent crime and you have a presumption of innocence and you don’t present a demonstrated public safety risk, the fact that you’re poor cannot, in a system governed by equal protection, mean you languish behind bars while you await trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when we ended money bail, we decided to replace a wealth-based system with a risk-based system. When my team of attorneys look at a case and look at an individual person accused of a crime’s history and circumstances and believe there are no conditions that can protect the public with that person on the streets, we ask the court to detain them. It doesn’t matter how wealthy they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if we look at someone and believe that it’s consistent with public safety, for them to be released, consistent with the constitutional protections and due process to which we’re all entitled, then we ask the court to release them on appropriate conditions, conditions that we believe are adequate to keep the public safe and ensure that the person obeys the law while the case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]‘When you’re charged with a nonviolent crime and you have a presumption of innocence and you don’t present a demonstrated public safety risk, the fact that you’re poor cannot, in a system governed by equal protection, mean you languish behind bars while you await trial.’[/pullquote]It’s a system that in some ways the entire state had to put into effect in response to COVID-19. We saw an order come out of the Judicial Council back in April, basically setting all nonviolent offenses at zero bail, meaning people would get released no matter how wealthy are poo they were. And what we saw, as in San Francisco, is that most categories of crime, crime overall, went down. And people continued to show up to court and people continued to do what they were told by the judges, for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are you most proud of in your first year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m proud of the work that we’ve done to support crime victims, particularly domestic violence victims, to provide them with housing. I’m proud of the fact that we’ve avoided an outbreak of COVID-19 in the jails, which we’ve seen happen all across the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin punctuated his first year in office by filing a series of criminal charges against current and former city police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That should come as little surprise. Boudin, a former high-profile deputy public defender, campaigned as part of a progressive prosecutor movement and promised to charge cops who used excessive force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series of recent charges filed has nevertheless drawn criticism from San Francisco's police officers’ union and raised some concerns with the city's police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month alone, Boudin has filed charges against three current or former police officers. He also, however, declined to charge three other officers connected to two fatal shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an obligation to seek justice, to do justice and to enforce the laws equally,” Boudin said in an interview Wednesday. “And that's exactly what we're doing in these cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"chesa-boudin\"]On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/DA-Boudin-files-criminal-charges-against-SFPD-15801780.php\">Boudin filed felony assault and battery charges\u003c/a> against Officer Terrance Stangel for allegedly beating a domestic violence suspect with a baton in October 2019 near Fisherman’s Wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin said body camera footage from the incident shows that the officers, who responded to a 911 call, “immediately escalated the situation, used force that resulted in multiple broken bones.” He also noted that officers did not actually see the suspect — later identified as Dacari Spiers — assaulting his girlfriend, as had been reported, and never arrested him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spiers required surgery on his leg and wrist as a result of his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after Boudin’s office filed charges, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/news/sfpd-chief-scotts-statement-charges-filed-against-sfpd\">released his own statement\u003c/a> and provided \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/491401547\">recordings \u003c/a>of the original 911 call and body camera footage. In a carefully worded statement, Scott gave his “full support” to the SFPD, while stopping short of either defending Stangel’s actions or directly criticizing the criminal charges. He stressed the need to maintain balance between holding officers accountable for violating the law and holding individuals accountable for attacking or obstructing officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the job of protecting public safety and preserving order becomes exceedingly difficult when that balance is absent,” he said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear in the body camera footage what transpired between Spiers and his girlfriend as the officers approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, the San Francisco Police Officers Association thanked the chief for his support and condemned the recent charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SanFranciscoPOA/status/1339327102781308928?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stangel’s attorney criticized the DA’s charging decision in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When District Attorney Chesa Boudin says there is no evidence of domestic violence, he is wrong,” attorney Nicole Pifari said. “Everyone in San Francisco should be concerned the DA can’t get his facts straight and is attempting to frame an innocent officer who was doing what society asks of him — protect the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Spiers filed a civil suit against the city. The suit alleges that a district attorney’s investigator tried to secretly record him in his hospital room, and that five officers later entered the room “and attempted to threaten (Spiers) to remain silent about the attack and to coerce (him) into not seeking legal representation for the beating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to those allegations, Boudin would only say that his office is not pursuing any additional charges related to this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin has also helped spearhead other changes to how police are investigated in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he restructured his office’s Independent Investigations Bureau — a unit at least four years in the making that was initiated by Boudin's predecessor, George Gascón. More recently, the bureau became the lead investigating agency in police shootings and in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a public Facebook Live discussion Boudin held on Wednesday, Chief Scott said that his department used to be more clued in to the information needed to make charging decisions, and it's now become increasingly challenging to be left out of “an information loop” and be “somewhat in the dark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1155px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-16-at-12.19.36-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11851991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-16-at-12.19.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1155\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-16-at-12.19.36-PM.png 1155w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-16-at-12.19.36-PM-800x506.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-16-at-12.19.36-PM-1020x645.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-16-at-12.19.36-PM-160x101.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1155px) 100vw, 1155px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from a Facebook Live discussion on Wednesday, Dec. 18 with San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin (top right), Police Chief Bill Scott (bottom) and DA Communications Director Rachel Marshall. \u003ccite>(Zoom/Facebook Live)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He added that although he may not agree with every decision the DA makes, he appreciates the faster pace of charging decisions, which in the past often languished for years after investigations were presented to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cases are hard enough as it is,” Scott said. “When we have to rise to that level of force, nobody's happy with that, and it's an ordeal. And so when officers can get closure, when families can get closure, whichever way those decisions go, I think that's a good thing, particularly when it's done in an expedient manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that it’s important for all stakeholders to have “confidence and faith that this justice system is fair, that this system is just, that this system is doing what it was designed to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]It's exceedingly rare for a police officer to be charged with committing murder or manslaughter, and even more unusual for one to be convicted. Between 2005 to 2019, only 104 officers nationwide have faced criminal homicide charges for on-duty shootings, and just 35 have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/health-and-human-services/document/Criminal-Justice-Program/policeintegritylostresearch/-9-On-Duty-Shootings-Police-Officers-Charged-with-Murder-or-Manslaughter.pdf\">convicted\u003c/a>, according to the Police Integrity Research Group at Bowling Green State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which makes Boudin's first year in office all the more noteworthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last month, Boudin brought manslaughter charges against former police Officer Christopher Samayoa who fatally shot unarmed Keita O'Neil in the city's Bayview District in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Dec. 7, just a week before Boudin filed charges against Stangel, a grand jury indicted Officer Christopher Flores for assault with a deadly weapon in connection with a 2019 Mission District police shooting that left a man — Jamaica Hampton — in critical condition. 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"content": "\u003cp>Three months after becoming San Francisco’s district attorney in 2004, Kamala Harris faced a trial by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first run for office in 2003, Harris knocked off Terence Hallinan, San Francisco’s progressive district attorney, by running slightly to his right, promising to manage a more professional office that would be tougher on violent crime, domestic violence and sex trafficking, and stand up for those who had felt ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had also promised never to charge the death penalty — a pledge that was put to the test just four months into her term when a 29-year-old police officer named Isaac Espinoza was shot and killed by a gang member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris ultimately kept her promise, announcing before Espinoza’s funeral that her office would \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-D-A-won-t-pursue-death-in-cop-2767716.php\">seek life without the possibility of parole\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jim Stearns, Kamala Harris' first campaign manager\"]‘Kamala has always wanted to have a seat at the table.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Harris said she believed that the majority of San Franciscans wanted to see “the most severe crimes be met with the most severe consequences,” and that in this liberal city, life without parole would likely be the most severe consequence a jury would hand down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But former police officers union President Gary Delagnes says the timing of Harris’ announcement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/S-F-police-push-hard-for-death-penalty-D-A-s-2765721.php\">alienated many officers in the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By having a press conference before the kid was even in the ground to announce that she was not seeking the death penalty, I mean, it was such a cold political move that I mean, it just showed a complete lack of compassion,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the timing of her announcement poisoned the young prosecutor’s relationship with the police union, even Delagnes acknowledged she made the right call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously no San Francisco jury was going to convict a 19-year-old African American man — they’re not going to give the death penalty to somebody in that situation and I said that from the beginning,” Delagnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ office did get the conviction and sent Espinoza’s killer to prison for life, without the chance for parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Breaking Boundaries\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Throughout her time in politics, California Sen. Kamala Harris has found herself caught between two very different groups, both of whom see themselves in her: law enforcement officials and progressive activists pushing for a more racially just legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834151/senator-kamala-harris-takes-her-place-in-history-as-vp-nominee\"> now the Democratic nominee for vice president\u003c/a>, and in recent years has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/harris-on-police-reform-this-movement-will-not-be-deterred\">outspoken about the need for systemic change to policing and criminal justice\u003c/a> in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before that, and before she was the second Black and first South Asian woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, Harris was a prosecutor: district attorney of San Francisco, then attorney general of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debbie Mesloh, one of Harris’ longtime advisers, said Harris was from the start considered an outsider by many in the world of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recall many situations where people who had been in leadership within the DA’s office or within the police department seemed to struggle with her leadership,” Mesloh recalled. “That first meeting with the District Attorney’s Association of California, she was the only woman to walk in that room. She was one of, I think, three people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"kamala-harris\"]Mesloh said Harris has had to absorb throughout her career “subtle and not so subtle messages that were sent to her of, you know, ‘Who do you think you are? You need to know your place. You know, you may have won an election, but there’s only one of you. We outnumber you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesloh said Harris never let those messages intimidate her.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Wanting a Seat at the Table\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Suzy Loftus, who worked under Harris as both a deputy district attorney and assistant attorney general, said the conviction was important to Harris — and consistent with her principles. And, she said, Harris learned from the Espinoza case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She made the decision quickly, announced it quickly and recognized later that there were so many people who were so deeply impacted in that moment and in grief and in pain. And that loss was exacerbated by an announcement in the middle of it. So I think she endeavored to learn from her mistakes,” Loftus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Loftus insists, it didn’t make Harris a different or more cautious politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think by function of being a prosecutor, you’re more careful,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Stearns, who ran Harris’ first campaign, added that while the Espinoza decision soured some in law enforcement on Harris at the time, it also won over many voters, making her something of a political star in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what galvanized the city for her was this was the first time people could remember that a politician made a difficult promise, like, ‘I will never enforce the death penalty,’ and actually did it under the most incredible pressure,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stearns said there’s been a tension throughout Harris’ career: between what’s expected of her as a member of law enforcement and what’s been asked of her by progressive activists who see her as an ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kamala has always wanted to have a seat at the table,” Stearns said. “So it would be a mistake to see Kamala or to expect from Kamala that she is ever going to stand outside of the system and demand the kind of wholesale changes that people who stand out of the system want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tension would play out most dramatically when Harris took on her next job, as attorney general of the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Someone Who’s Been So Vilified’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Harris won the narrowest of victories to become California’s first female and first Black attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a tough race. Law enforcement unions had overwhelmingly backed Harris’ opponent, Los Angeles’ Republican district attorney, Steve Cooley, who used those endorsements to paint Harris as anti-police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To build relationships with local prosecutors, sheriffs and police, the first thing Harris did as attorney general was visit all 58 California counties. Loftus, her longtime deputy, planned the tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was incredibly effective because I think there’s nothing like actually getting to talk to someone — especially who’s been so vilified,” Loftus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"LaDoris Cordell, former San Jose independent police auditor\"]‘There’s this fine line. You’re the top cop, but you’re also a prosecutor, which is representing the people. And oftentimes those two things are not compatible.’[/pullquote]Four years later, when Harris ran for reelection, police groups largely supported her. But she soon found herself at odds with another key constituency: progressive Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deadly police shootings were in the news, and Democrats in the California state Legislature were pushing a bill to require independent investigations of deadly use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Democratic Assemblyman Kevin McCarty authored a 2015 bill to require the attorney general to take police shooting investigations away from local district attorneys, who he said have an inherent conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, if you’re at a high school baseball game looking out there and seeing the umpire is the uncle of one of the star players, are you going to trust that umpire to call balls and strikes fairly? The answer is ‘No,’ ” McCarty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kamala-Harris-sees-safeguards-in-D-A-s-5972586.php\">opposed the bill\u003c/a> and it died. She also declined to support another bill requiring police officers to wear body cameras, even though she was the first to mandate that officers at the state Department of Justice wear them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, her opposition to statewide legislation \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-ca-harris-police-shootings-20160118-story.html\">didn’t sit well with the Black Caucus in the Legislature\u003c/a>, who saw her as standing on the wrong side of the fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles Democrat and member of the Black Caucus, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-ca-harris-police-shootings-20160118-story.html\">told the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> in 2016 that Harris’ “absence is noticeable,” adding that “people are looking to her for guidance and direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Now a Lawmaker, Not a Law Enforcer’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not surprising for an attorney general to face such pressure — especially one who is a Black woman — said LaDoris Cordell, who was an independent police auditor in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this fine line. You’re the top cop, but you’re also a prosecutor, which is representing the people. And oftentimes those two things are not compatible,” Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigations of police shootings are in some ways a no-win situation, Cordell contends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The feeling is that people are passing around this hot potato. When these shootings happen, they’re very controversial. The public is very aware. There are protests and it’s sort of like, you know, people just don’t really want to handle them,” Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said her opposition to the bill wasn’t based on fear of catching a hot potato, but rather concern about interfering with local prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew firsthand how that felt: In 2004, some San Francisco officials pushed the then-state attorney general to take the Espinoza murder case away from her office, after she declined to seek the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus, Harris’ longtime deputy, said that experience cut deeply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think she fundamentally always believed it’s a local prosecutor’s job to do the right thing and not to punt,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that she’s in the Senate and on the presidential campaign trail, Harris has been outspoken on policing issues, introducing legislation to ban chokeholds, racial profiling and no-knock warrants, as well as to make lynching a federal crime. In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, she called out systemic racism in America, naming two recent victims of police violence: George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesloh, Harris’ longtime adviser, said she’s taking those positions now not because she has changed her mind, but because she’s now a lawmaker, not a law enforcer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having worked with her for so long, these were conversations we would always have,” Mesloh said. “She may have not been having them externally, but this is the Kamala that I have known and seen for 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesloh says that because of who Harris is — a Black, South Asian woman, and the daughter of civil rights activists — she has often been expected to align herself with liberals pushing for change from the outside. But for most of her career, she’s been a prosecutor, working to change the system from the inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Brown was appointed to the seat by Mayor Breed, who easily won reelection Tuesday, but can’t afford to lose Brown’s vote at the Board of Supervisors, where the more centrist mayor has struggled to get a six-vote majority from that left-leaning body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race between Loftus, a former prosecutor and police commissioner who most recently worked as legal counsel to San Francisco County Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, and Boudin, a progressive, attracted national attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA) on Wednesday sent a sharply worded \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6541518-Letter-to-Supervisor-Sandra-Fewer-11-6-19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer, who led chants of “Fuck the POA” at the election night party for Boudin. 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The letter asked for an apology from Fewer and encouraged her to take “a 40-hour implicit bias training to better understand your apparent hatred of police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Fewer issued a public letter, saying “I would like to issue an apology to the 2,000 officers of the San Francisco Police Department; I am sorry for any offense that my comments may have caused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Boudin and Loftus struck optimistic notes Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a broad recognition across the country, and we know voters in San Francisco are on the same page, that the status quo ‘tough on crime; war on drugs’ approach is not working for anybody,” Boudin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Suzy-Loftus-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Interim San Francisco District Attorney Suzy Loftus at her election night party on Tuesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785438\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Suzy-Loftus-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Suzy-Loftus-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Suzy-Loftus-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Suzy-Loftus-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Suzy-Loftus.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim San Francisco District Attorney Suzy Loftus at her election night party on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Loftus has been acting as the interim district attorney for a month, following the unexpected resignation of George Gascón in October. 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"content": "\u003cp>A tumultuous week has put a new face in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office — and the race for the seat into the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, the four San Franciscans running for the office have duked out their differences on debate stages as they tried to engage voters in an off-year election. Now, they may have a more interested audience: The race has changed significantly in recent days, and activists across the country are taking note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was supposed to be the first time in a century that the race was open in San Francisco, with no incumbent in office. It was upended last week when District Attorney George Gascón announced he would step down on Oct. 18, nearly three months early, and weeks before Election Day. Gascón said last year that he wouldn't run for reelection but had been expected to serve out his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]The four district attorney hopefuls agree on many issues. Their differences lie in their experience and approach to the job.[/pullquote]On Friday, Mayor London Breed appointed the candidate she endorsed as interim DA, former prosecutor Suzy Loftus, to replace Gascón. The surprise announcement sparked a backlash from other candidates and their supporters. Protesters decrying election interference and Loftus’ time on the city's Police Commission stormed Portsmouth Square, where the announcement was going to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, at a Chinese restaurant where the event was hastily moved, Breed defended her choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have confidence in Suzy Loftus and so that's why I made the decision,” she said. “If there was anyone else that I thought was better than what she would bring to the table then they would be the person that I would identify today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Nancy Tung in downtown San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney candidate Nancy Tung in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move further cements Loftus as the establishment candidate. Although all four candidates are liberal Democrats, Loftus has the sole endorsement of the San Francisco Democratic Party, while San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin has been embraced by national reform-minded activists who also helped push unorthodox, progressive candidates to victory in cities like Philadelphia and Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Tung, a career prosecutor, is running as the most traditional candidate; and Leif Dautch, a deputy attorney general for the state, is trying to straddle the political line between progressivism and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, city voters can weigh in. \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/vote-voting-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early voting\u003c/a> started on Monday at two election centers and by mail, and will continue until the Nov. 5 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Mary’s College political science professor Corey Cook said the race shows how the ground has shifted around criminal justice since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorneys were about locking people up and would tout their high conviction rates and their success at getting people incarcerated,” he said. “That has been replaced in a lot of jurisdictions with, 'What are the diversion efforts that you have so people aren't going to jail?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Chesa Boudin in downtown San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney candidate Chesa Boudin in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is a city known for its progressivism but is also struggling with street crime, auto burglaries and a homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's an interesting time to be running for DA mostly because of the issues that are confronting San Francisco right now,\" Nancy Tung said. \"It's this confluence of crime, homelessness, mental health, drug addiction, open-air drug use. And just this feeling of like where is San Francisco? Where are we going?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung is a longtime San Francisco prosecutor who left to work for Alameda County over frustrations with Gascón’s leadership. She emphasizes her experience as a prosecutor on the campaign trail, promising to crack down on organized crime as a way to tackle drug sales and other street issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not done enough to really partner with our local law enforcement agencies to attack these issues around organized crime,” Tung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Leif Dautch in downtown San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney candidate Leif Dautch in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The four district attorney hopefuls agree on many issues. They all say they support reforming the cash bail system and keeping San Francisco a sanctuary city. They agree that the city needs to do more to divert people from jail into drug and mental health treatment. And they all contend that Gascón's leadership was lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their differences lie in their experience and approach to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus is a former San Francisco Police Commission president and longtime deputy of former DA, now U.S. senator, Kamala Harris. Loftus said she is seeking to strike a balance between rehabilitation and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's many different ways that we can divert people out of the system while we are handling the cases that we need to and prosecuting the individuals who do need to be prosecuted,” she said. “You need an experienced, competent DA who knows the difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Suzy-Loftus-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Suzy Loftus in downtown San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Suzy-Loftus-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Suzy-Loftus-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Suzy-Loftus-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Suzy-Loftus-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Suzy-Loftus-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney candidate Suzy Loftus in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boudin is an outsider in this group and a so-called “child of the left” — his parents are progressive radicals who were sent to prison when he was a baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin says that experience, as well as his work as a defense attorney, gives him a unique perspective on restorative justice and serving crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In instances of crime, he says, “We need to start by saying to the victim, 'Do you want this person to be punished or do you want us to focus resources and accountability on ensuring that this person fixes your window or does something else to make right the harm that they caused in your community?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='san-francisco-district-attorney' label='Related Coverage']Boudin is proposing strengthening the city’s response to sexual assault allegations and focusing resources on serious and violent felonies, rather than misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leif Dautch says he is the only candidate who is laser-focused on homelessness and mental health. The centerpiece of Dautch’s campaign is turning the nearly empty Juvenile Hall into a mental health center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dautch is also trying to walk a tightrope on addressing many quality of life issues plaguing San Franciscans. For instance, he supports safe injection sites for drug users, but says “that has to be paired with more of a stick when it comes to the dealers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it's just carrot after carrot after carrot without that stick, then we end up with conditions as they are on the streets right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Friday, Mayor London Breed appointed the candidate she endorsed as interim DA, former prosecutor Suzy Loftus, to replace Gascón. The surprise announcement sparked a backlash from other candidates and their supporters. Protesters decrying election interference and Loftus’ time on the city's Police Commission stormed Portsmouth Square, where the announcement was going to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, at a Chinese restaurant where the event was hastily moved, Breed defended her choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have confidence in Suzy Loftus and so that's why I made the decision,” she said. “If there was anyone else that I thought was better than what she would bring to the table then they would be the person that I would identify today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Nancy Tung in downtown San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Nancy-Tung-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney candidate Nancy Tung in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move further cements Loftus as the establishment candidate. Although all four candidates are liberal Democrats, Loftus has the sole endorsement of the San Francisco Democratic Party, while San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin has been embraced by national reform-minded activists who also helped push unorthodox, progressive candidates to victory in cities like Philadelphia and Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Tung, a career prosecutor, is running as the most traditional candidate; and Leif Dautch, a deputy attorney general for the state, is trying to straddle the political line between progressivism and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, city voters can weigh in. \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/vote-voting-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early voting\u003c/a> started on Monday at two election centers and by mail, and will continue until the Nov. 5 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Mary’s College political science professor Corey Cook said the race shows how the ground has shifted around criminal justice since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorneys were about locking people up and would tout their high conviction rates and their success at getting people incarcerated,” he said. “That has been replaced in a lot of jurisdictions with, 'What are the diversion efforts that you have so people aren't going to jail?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778711\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Chesa Boudin in downtown San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Chesa-Boudin-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney candidate Chesa Boudin in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is a city known for its progressivism but is also struggling with street crime, auto burglaries and a homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's an interesting time to be running for DA mostly because of the issues that are confronting San Francisco right now,\" Nancy Tung said. \"It's this confluence of crime, homelessness, mental health, drug addiction, open-air drug use. And just this feeling of like where is San Francisco? Where are we going?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung is a longtime San Francisco prosecutor who left to work for Alameda County over frustrations with Gascón’s leadership. She emphasizes her experience as a prosecutor on the campaign trail, promising to crack down on organized crime as a way to tackle drug sales and other street issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not done enough to really partner with our local law enforcement agencies to attack these issues around organized crime,” Tung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney candidate Leif Dautch in downtown San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/San-Francisco-District-Attorney_candidate_Leif-Dautch-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney candidate Leif Dautch in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The four district attorney hopefuls agree on many issues. They all say they support reforming the cash bail system and keeping San Francisco a sanctuary city. They agree that the city needs to do more to divert people from jail into drug and mental health treatment. And they all contend that Gascón's leadership was lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their differences lie in their experience and approach to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus is a former San Francisco Police Commission president and longtime deputy of former DA, now U.S. senator, Kamala Harris. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday appointed Suzy Loftus, a San Francisco attorney and former Police Commission president, to be the city's interim top prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement immediately spurred controversy, as it was made a day after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778096/san-francisco-district-attorney-george-gascon-resigns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surprise resignation\u003c/a> of District Attorney George Gascón, who was widely expected to serve out the remainder of his term through the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"S.F. Mayor London Breed\"]'When I received the letter yesterday from the district attorney announcing his resignation, I couldn’t help but get excited about the future because I know that Suzy Loftus is the right person to do it.'[/pullquote]The move also comes just a month before San Francisco voters head to the polls — on Nov. 5 — to elect Gascón's successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have confidence in Suzy Loftus, and so that's why I made the decision,\" said Breed, standing beside Loftus at a restaurant in Chinatown where the announcement was made. \"When I received the letter yesterday from the district attorney announcing his resignation, I couldn’t help but get excited about the future because I know that Suzy Loftus is the right person to do it. We don’t just leave an office open just because there’s an election coming up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press event, originally slated for Portsmouth Square in Chinatown, was abruptly relocated after demonstrators converged on the park to protest the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0644.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11778268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1410\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0644.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0644-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0644-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0644-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0644-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0644-1920x1322.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed announces the appointment of Suzy Loftus as interim district attorney at press conference at the Far East Cafe in Chinatown on Oct. 4, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Loftus will leave her post as assistant chief legal counsel at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. She previously led San Francisco's Police Commission from 2012-2017, a turbulent period when the city was shaken by a string of officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also worked for Kamala Harris in the state attorney general’s office, and before that, as a young prosecutor in the San Francisco's district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday’s event, Loftus told attendees that she would “work every day to build safety that is not predicated on ZIP code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I‘m accustomed to doing a lot at once and I have an incredible team both within the DA’s office and across the city and in communities, who care about this race and care about that office, and they’ll help me make sure I get the job done,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Appointment of Endorsed Candidate Spurs Criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Breed had already endorsed Loftus in the district attorney's race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus is running against Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin, Alameda County prosecutor Nancy Tung and Deputy State Attorney General Leif Dautch, all of whom slammed Breed's decision to temporarily fill the position with the candidate of her choice, so close to an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor London Breed appointing her endorsed candidate for District Attorney, just days before people start voting, reeks of cronyism and political backroom deals,\" said Nancy Tung in a statement released shortly after the announcement. \"This is a blatant move to inappropriately influence this critically important election, and yet another example of the District Attorney’s Office being politicized and used for personal favoritism. Enough is enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what impact the interim appointment of Loftus will have on next month's election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0482-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11778305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0482-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0482-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0482-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0482-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0482-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/M6A0482-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown on Oct. 4, 2019, to protest Mayor London Breed's appointment of Suzy Loftus as interim district attorney. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The throng of protesters, who reconvened outside Far East Cafe where the press event took place, chanted and held signs accusing Loftus of defending police officers involved in fatal shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Suzy Loftus was president of the Police Commission during the height of police killings, she did nothing, so all of this is more corruption,\" said Adrienne Fong, one of protesters. \"I think this is very unfair and it’s a bad move by London Breed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related coverage\" tag=\"san-francisco-district-attorney\"]Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696186/san-francisco-district-attorney-george-gascon-wont-seek-third-term\">announced last October\u003c/a> that he wouldn't seek another term, citing the ailing health of his mother. 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