Op-Ed: Progressive approaches to justice leave Californians less safe

This article originally appeared in The Orange County Register on June 21, 2023

This month marks one year since San Francisco voters recalled Chesa Boudin, the city’s notoriously progressive district attorney.

One of a string of liberal “reform-minded” district attorneys throughout California who seek to replace punitive justice with a sense form of equity, Boudin presided over a predictable crime surge in a city plagued for years by drug use, delinquency, and organized crime.

Beyond signaling to criminals that he would not prosecute certain property crimes and other “non-violent” offenses, Boudin used COVID as a pretext to empty San Francisco’s jails, terminated cash bail, and ended the trying of minors as adults – all tried and true initiatives to deter lawbreaking.

Read full op-ed in The Orange County Register