Chesa Boudin, who became a lightning rod for controversies over crime and homelessness in San Francisco, will not finish his first term as the city’s top prosecutor. But among the more than 123,000 votes tallied in the recall election, 60% of voters wanted to oust Boudin from office, an insurmountable margin. The recall campaign painted Boudin as a soft-on-crime prosecutor who doesn’t care about public safety. A San Francisco police officer stood trial for excessive force this year for the first time, though the officer, Terrance Stangel, was acquitted. “Voters were not asked to choose between criminal justice reform and something else.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 08, 2022 14:39 UTC