[HN Gopher] We're blaming the wrong things for San Francisco ret...
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       We're blaming the wrong things for San Francisco retail theft
        
       Author : frumper
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-12-21 22:07 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.sfgate.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.sfgate.com)
        
       | uberman wrote:
       | Oddly,
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       | The article seems to have forgotten to say what is/are the things
       | one should blame other than two sentences:
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       |  _- We must work to reduce crime. Investments in the social
       | safety net -- providing safety for all -- goes far._
       | 
       |  _- We should be focusing resources on opportunists who
       | intentionally seek out to commit these crimes_
       | 
       | but aren't the under-privileged and the opportunists already the
       | ones being blamed? If it is not these groups, what groups _are_
       | being incorrectly blamed?
        
         | nwah1 wrote:
         | He is saying that they shouldn't blame him. He is the district
         | attorney.
         | 
         | He is also the son of Weather Underground terrorists, and a
         | longtime volunteer and apologist for the regime of Hugo Chavez
         | and Nicholas Maduro.
         | 
         | Pondering whether a supporter of communist revolution is
         | committed to his role of defending property rights is not
         | unwarranted as he is implying.
        
       | clavicat wrote:
       | >Some have wrongly accused progressive prosecutors like me of not
       | pursuing accountability despite my office's high prosecution
       | rates on these kinds of crimes and our transparency on filing
       | rates.
       | 
       | Buddy, if you're so transparent, why are you [refusing to
       | disclose](https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/opinion-why-wont-
       | chesa-bo...) the outcomes of your prosecutions?
       | 
       | > Annie Gaus, of the San Francisco Standard, asked for the
       | disposition memos that reveal the final outcomes of criminal
       | cases. Chesa Boudin's office denied the request, saying there
       | were no relevant public records to her query -- and if any did
       | exist, those documents were "privileged."
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       | >"I can't emphasize enough what a load of horsesh-t this response
       | is," Gaus said on a Twitter thread that posted the letter she
       | received from the district attorney's office. "At a certain
       | point, you gotta wonder why they're so adamant about keeping this
       | info from the public."
        
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