San Francisco voters got rid of Chesa Boudin -- and may soon face a recall hangover

Jun 09, 2022 View Original Article
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  • Politician Portrayal

    82% Negative

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"She wants to expand the police budget by $50 million to $708 million over the next year with the goal of helping the city hire 220 officers to fill vacant positions over the next two years."
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22% Conservative
"She will be given the opportunity to appoint someone that reflects the kind of politics and law enforcement she wants to project to voters, especially the opposition to Boudin, said James Taylor, a professor of politics and African American studies."
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-2% Liberal
"Asked if there could be more any type of criminal justice reform that involved more officers on the street, Ashley Morris, organizing director for the ACLU of Northern California, said, No.What we know from literally thousands of conversations that we've had with voters and ACLU members in the city over the past few months, Morris said, is that San Francisco residents still overwhelmingly support these criminal justice reform policies (that Boudin championed) and they really want them to remain in practice.She fears that the recall proponents next step will be to try to undermine the policy progress that's come really from decades of advocacy, decades of reform minded prosecutors in San Francisco."
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-12% Liberal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : She wants to expand the police budget by $50 million to $708 million over the next year with the goal of helping the city hire 220 officers to fill vacant positions over the next two years.
49% : "She will be given the opportunity to appoint someone that reflects the kind of politics and law enforcement she wants to project to voters, especially the opposition to Boudin," said James Taylor, a professor of politics and African American studies.
44% : Asked if there could be more any type of criminal justice reform that involved more officers on the street, Ashley Morris, organizing director for the ACLU of Northern California, said, "No.""What we know from literally thousands of conversations that we've had with voters and ACLU members in the city over the past few months," Morris said, "is that San Francisco residents still overwhelmingly support these criminal justice reform policies (that Boudin championed) and they really want them to remain in practice."She fears that the recall proponents next step "will be to try to undermine the policy progress that's come really from decades of advocacy, decades of reform minded prosecutors in San Francisco.
40% : But does Boudin's departure mean that the criminal justice reforms he started are a political non-starter?

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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