San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has raised the city’s conviction rate for the first time in eight years.
have shown that completion of diversion programs can help to reduce recidivism, or the likelihood that a person will be convicted again of a crime — more so than conviction or imprisonment. The data from the DA’s office paints a mixed picture: While conviction rates have risen slightly, the total percentage of cases charged, or prosecuted, by the DA has remained relatively flat. And the types of cases being charged have shifted.
In fact, prosecution of the most heinous crimes, homicide and rape, fell between 2022 and 2023 under Jenkins’ watch. In 2022, the homicide prosecution rate dropped; this year and last year are the lowest rates in over a decade. “One of the ironies of the call to a more ‘law and order’ approach is that people often associate it with being more effective at trying to reduce crime,” Simon said. “I think we have to live with the fact that the actual effects on crime are going to be marginal.”
Simon said there is evidence that diversion programs and moving away from mass-incarceration could be more effective. “The policies that we’ve seen emerge in the last few years,” Simon said, “they didn’t just come out of nowhere.”
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