SCSF Blog
What Happens After Chesa Boudin?
A rise in unsettling crimes like shootings, home burglaries, and anti-Asian hate gave San Franciscans an overwhelming sense they weren't safe, and voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin this week. Now what?
Extracting Data From the District Attorney
Stop Crime SF spent six months pursuing a public records request to get case outcome data from District Attorney Chesa Boudin. After facing refusals and resistance every step of the way, we finally prevailed. Here’s what we found.
Will We Hold Deadly Fentanyl Dealers Accountable in San Francisco?
Will we hold deadly fentanyl dealers accountable in San Francisco? The human cost is a record number of overdose deaths. Yet police arrest the same dealers repeatedly while time in custody has plummeted under District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Read the data memo on drug dealer arrests released by SFPD.
Why Won’t Chesa Boudin Make All His Crime Data Public?
San Francisco’s district attorney publishes a data dashboard called DA Stat. But there’s a problem. It doesn’t say what happens to cases beyond the filing of charges. This makes it difficult to measure Chesa Boudin’s effectiveness because the outcomes of cases — not mere charges — are what matter. And outcomes are a mystery on DA Stat.