American Dystopia, Part 5: ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ examines San Francisco’s radical new district attorney
As a candidate, Chesa Boudin promised to undermine existing laws by not enforcing them.
New San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin sent an email to supporters on Friday touting his accomplishments in his first four months in office, including ending cash bail, opting not to pursue sentencing enhancements for gang members and declining to prosecute many crimes for which evidence was acquired during a traffic stop.
Boudin was sworn into office in January following posts as a public defender and with nonprofits, as well as two federal law clerkships in the past decade.
But notable in his biography are the facts that his parents are Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, notorious former leaders of the Weather Underground domestic terror group, and that Boudin formerly worked for the late Venezuelan socialist president, Hugo Chavez.
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, photo, San Francisco District Attorney candidate Chesa Boudin pauses during his speech at an election night event at SOMA StrEat Food Park in San Francisco. Boudin, the son of anti-war radicals sent to prison for murder when he was a toddler, has won San Francisco’s tightly contested race for district attorney after campaigning to reform the criminal justice system according to (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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Now about 120 days into his term, Boudin checked in with his supporters in an email that addressed his office’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, but also a number of other liberal reforms he promised during his campaign that led to fierce opposition from the local police union and vocal support from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other high-profile left-wing politicians.
“By replacing money bail with a risk-based system, people who are safe to be released get released quickly with appropriate, non-monetary conditions, and those who pose a serious threat to public safety are detained, regardless of their wealth,” reads a news release from January announcing the city’s new bail policy, which is highlighted in the Friday email.
Today we announced a formal policy ending the use of money bail by our prosecutors as a condition for pretrial detention.
From this point forward, pretrial detention will be based on public safety, not on wealth.
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Ending cash bail is a popular idea with the political left, which argues that it unfairly impacts minorities and poor people. But similar moves in New York City, for example, have led to criticism that it allows criminals back onto the streets with little or no repercussions, putting the public at risk. This has led to a number of examples of people being arrested, then released, and soon after committing more crimes.
Gerod Woodberry, for example, had been jailed for allegedly robbing Chase banks in several New York City neighborhoods between Dec. 30 and Jan. 8, according to the New York Post — and then allegedly robbed a fifth bank just one day after his release.
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