COLUMN: After pushing a divisive campaign to blame the DA for every crime in The City, DA BrookeJenkinsSF and her supporters are adopting a softer tone. “No district attorney can snap their fingers and do away with all crime,” she told the nytimes
Though she distinguished herself through biting criticism of Chesa Boudin during the recall campaign, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins took a more conciliatory tone in her first meeting with the office’s senior staff last week.
“My view of accountability and restoring accountability is not a rejection of reform and progressive policies,” said Jenkins. “We have to continue to maintain as many as we can … but we also have a job to do, and that’s to clean up what's going on outside.” Not so fast. Breed appointed Jenkins in the aftermath of a bitter campaign that saddled the DA with direct responsibility for crime rates. Why move the goal posts now?
Her sentiments were mild compared to those Breed expressed in December, when she gained national media attention for decrying the “bullsh-t that’s destroyed our city” and declaring an emergency in the Tenderloin. Still, Jenkins reaffirmed her commitment to “making sure that we end these open-air drug markets, that we clear these streets.”
But if police could solve drug addiction, they would have done so by now. Decades of trying to treat the problem with incarceration just made it worse, and even the harshest of approaches have resulted in miserable failure.
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