Former public defender Chesa Boudin’s victory in the San Francisco district attorney race being heralded as a victory for the progressive prosecutor movement.
When the district attorney-elect was still in diapers, his mother dropped him off at babysitter on New York’s Upper West Side. She never came to pick him up. Both his parents were imprisoned for their role in a 1981 armed robbery — characterized asThe young Boudin was adopted and raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, also members of the Weather Underground.
His mother was paroled in 2003, and his father remains incarcerated in upstate New York. Boudin was on a plane home from visiting his father in prison when the razor-thin race was finally decided on Saturday afternoon, four days after the election.Outside California, the progressive prosecutor movement gained steam with Kim Foxx’s 2016 election victory to lead the state’s attorney office in Cook County, Ill., and Larry Krasner’s 2017 win to lead the Philadelphia D.A.’s office.
The exact semantics of “progressive prosecutor” can also vary depending on the jurisdiction. After all, what’s possible in San Francisco is probably very different from Houston or St. Louis. But, broadly speaking, progressive prosecutors believe in adjusting priorities away from incarceration, reforming the cash bail system and holding law enforcement accountable for potential abuses.
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