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Peter Calloway

3 years

THREAD: There’s a lot of talk right now about crime in San Francisco. Almost everything you’ll read in the mainstream press is wrong. I live in the Tenderloin and work in the courts every day. Here’s my take on what’s happening and why.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

The Drug War is officially back on in San Francisco. For the first time in years, people are being prosecuted for simply using drugs or possessing paraphernalia. It’s hard to fully comprehend the harm this will cause. I’ll try to lay it out below.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Murder and rape are up double-digit percentages since last year! Well, he’s right about that. And it sounds scary. But what are the actual increases (# of incidents, not %)? Homicides increased from 10 to 11. Rapes increased from 22 to 28.

Inside the Tenderloin, can a city fix a neighborhood while staying true to its values?

In San Francisco, one of the bluest cities in America, leaders struggle to balance Democratic principles with the practicality.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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I think that’s true. But rarely mentioned is that the way people *feel* about crime is a direct consequence of how media/politicians talk about it. And when they lie about the #s , or ignore them, they manipulate people’s feelings twd anti-democratic + anti-poor political ends.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Now, the numbers: Citywide, from 2019-21, homicides increased 36%. That sounds significant, but the actual # increase was 15. SF has one of the lowest homicide rates among major cities in the US. Include rural communities, and San Francisco’s not even in the conversation.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Note that nobody is taking about criminal charges for this corporation that stole from its working-class employees. I’ve represented dozens, maybe hundreds of poor people who have spent time—sometimes weeks or months—in a cage for stealing necessity items.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

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A judge says San Francisco's Marriott Hotel illegally kept about $9 million in more than five years of banquet "service charges" that its customers reasonably understood to be tips for food servers.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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They are generating fear, creating a political environment ripe for a dramatic swing back to the tough-on-crime policies that have caused incalculable harm and suffering in poor and minority communities across the country for decades.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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What are those conditions? The literature is clear: Lack of access to affordable housing and good jobs, the absence of robust mental health care, wage theft (which dwarfs in dollar value all property crime across all categories), and other poverty-producing mechanisms.

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@petercalloway

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Instead, they can gallivant about the city eating at Michelin-starred restaurants riding bikes through the park and talking about the next startup they’re funding, all without confronting the human costs of enforcing their extractive utopia.

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@petercalloway

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Because in 2020, crime across the country reached historic lows. So while the city saw increases in crime (mostly marginal) in *some* of these categories from 2020-2021, that’s largely due to the fact that for most of 2020, everyone was spending most their time at home indoors.

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@petercalloway

3 years

I have to admit, even I was shocked to see numbers quite like this. The constant noise from well-respected media outlets affects the way we all view these problems, in obvious and subtle ways.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Over the same period, rape, robbery, and assault *decreased* by 47% (-191), 27% (-851), and 6% (-160). So, violent crime (which the SFPD categorizes as homicide, rape, robbery, and assault) decreased by 19% (-1187). Property crime over that period is down by 11% (-6083).

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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What about crime in the city overall? If you read the Chronicle (with some exceptions), or the recall campaign literature, or national outlets advancing the conservative claim that SF is a failed experiment in progressive policymaking, you probably think it’s out of control.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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They’re exploiting people’s perceptions of crime—that it’s going up, that they’re in danger, and that Boudin is responsible—in an effort to create a much more widely surveilled, unequal San Francisco.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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When I tell them what the numbers actually reveal, when I explain that actually Boudin is prosecuting most categories of crime at a rate higher than his predecessor, they’re shocked. That’s entirely inconsistent with what they’ve been told.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Let’s take a look at the actual numbers. First, a note on methodology: These statistics are generated from data provided by SFPD, so we’re playing on their field. And I’m using 2019 as a baseline. Why?

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@petercalloway

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San Francisco's progressive DA, Chesa Boudin, is facing a recall funded by right-wing billionaires.

The Republican billionaire behind S.F.’s recalls

Two-thirds of Boudin recall money, more than $1.8 million, comes from a single PAC

www.sfexaminer.com

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@petercalloway

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In their vision for our city, wealthy conservatives and mostly white liberals don’t have to look at homeless people, and don’t have to grapple with the conditions these recall proponents help create that lead to homelessness, drug use, and the like.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Let’s start with an example of the pervasive disinformation: In a recent piece on the TL—where I’ve lived for 4 yrs, and the epicenter of the city’s homelessness and drug crises—a Washington Post journalist, @PostScottWilson , tells readers that crime in the TL is out of control.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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It’s hard to see this as anything but intentional. It doesn’t take much to scratch the surface on these intersecting subjects. When you do—and if it’s your job to do so, I'd hope you could be bothered—the reality, and the reason for this disinformation, emerge pretty clearly.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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But, now they know. And hopefully, they will be less likely to support, knowingly or not, this vision for our city that so many seem committed to, a vision that is deeply harmful to so many more.

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@petercalloway

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It affects the way people *feel* about crime. And politicians love to say that even despite the numbers, the way people feel about crime matters.

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@petercalloway

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Imagine if cops protected unhoused people from violence instead of protecting the property of people who harm them.

Police Guard Gallery After Owner Turned Hose on Homeless Woman

The gallery has a smashed door and a deluge of one-star reviews after the incident.

sfstandard.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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This vision is only possible if supported by disinfo about what’s happening on our streets. Why am I writing this? Because I’ve had many conversations about these issues with a number of strangers in recent months. The extent to which they have been misinformed is staggering.

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@petercalloway

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Larceny (petty theft and grand theft)—which was heavily relied upon by the board and the mayor to justify their draconian anti-poor policing strategies—was down 6.84% (-173).

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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In the Tenderloin, as citywide, crime is down overall: a decrease of 3% (-127). Violent crime decreased by 14% (-134), and property crime increased by .24% (+7).

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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What about the TL? This is the neighborhood the board of supervisors recently voted to subject to the mayor’s emergency declaration, mobilizing more police to enforce anti-homeless laws and force unhoused people to disperse into other areas of the city.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

3 years

By the way, only 2 supervisors, @shamannwalton and @deanpreston , voted against this.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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When people ask me if I have any hobbies

Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

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The level of commitment here is both impressive and hilarious.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

A thread on San Francisco’s homelessness crisis: why it’s spiraling, why the city is responding so inhumanely, and what unhoused San Franciscans and their allies are doing in response. (With links to some great reporting and analysis.)

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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That’s because prosecuting drug users (and dealers, for that matter) goes against all available science and evidence on how to reduce drug use. You cannot arrest and imprison your way out of it. That’s been tried before—repeatedly, across the country, for decades. Does not work.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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As a nation, we’ve spend hundreds of billions of $$ over decades trying this approach. What do we have to show for it? More people in prison and jail than any other country in the history of the world. Entire communities devastated. Generational trauma. Incalculable suffering.

Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

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THREAD. As we hit an unprecedented 100,000 drug overdose deaths, I answer the following question in this thread on the "War on Drugs": are punishment bureaucrats incompetent at achieving their goals, or are they pursuing goals that are different from what they tell us publicly?

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Peter Calloway

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In the first week, she essentially disbanded units in the office responsible for things like undoing wrongful convictions, prosecuting cops for murder and excessive force, and sharing with the public all the data on who the office prosecutes, for what, and what outcome.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Something really important happened yesterday in San Francisco. For the first time ever, SFPD was forced to publicly explain why it has a nine-person propaganda team devoted to shaping the way the press covers crime and the way the public perceives it.

Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

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THREAD. Yesterday I was invited to testify at San Francisco Board of Supervisors about newly revealed documents showing big taxpayer expenditures on copaganda. The behavior of one the "progressive" Supervisors @RafaelMandelman was alarming. It's important to explain what he did.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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That’s like saying we should support Clarence Thomas because he is Black, or Amy Coney Barrett because she’s a woman. This type of neoliberal identitarianism is in part how we ended up in a world where women’s bodies are criminalized, and where all bodily autonomy is at risk.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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The effort to recall San Francisco’s progressive DA, Chesa Boudin, is not about crime or public safety. It’s not about reducing harm or helping victims. If it were about any of those things, it would have been over before it started. So what then?

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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The new DA, Brooke Jenkins, posed as a progressive while she was jockeying to be appointed to the office once the former DA, Chesa Boudin, was recalled with her help. It didn’t take long for her to show her true colors.

Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Update: Jenkins fired at least 15 people, and some of the decisions are extremely troubling.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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First, a bit of background. For a long time, San Francisco has generally declined to use armed government agents to enforce restrictions on what ppl can put in their bodies or hold in their hands.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Thread: Tomorrow, the San Francisco board of supervisors will consider the mayor’s request to increase SFPD’s budget by *$50,000,000*. It’s a shocking misuse of taxpayer money by a mayor pivoting hard to old-school tough-on-crime policies. Here’s why we can’t let this happen.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Thread: San Francisco's interim DA Brooke Jenkins has been credibly accused of numerous instances of misconduct (one criminal) in a complaint filed with the State Bar. This is a big deal. I’ll explain why below.

State Bar complaint filed against SF interim D.A. Jenkins by retired judge

A retired judge has filed a State Bar complaint against interim San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.

www.ktvu.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

But never fear, Jenkins has hired an all-female management team. Supporters will point to this, and to the fact that she is a Black and Latina woman, to justify, excuse, or ignore the harm she will directly cause to Black and Latinx and poor people.

David Menschel

@davidminpdx

2 years

Incredible: When Chesa came into office he fired six people and the Chronicle framed it as a loss of valuable experience and “devastating” for the office’s “morale.” Now when Chesa’s replacement fires 15 people (including many women) the Chronicle frames it as good for diversity.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Absolutely disgusting. And a metaphor for the city’s response to homelessness. More on that in the thread below. And to be clear, this is a crime. I have clients who have spent weeks, months in a cage for less. I doubt this will be investigated. Not the right kind of victim.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Now, she’s started charging people for possessing substances the government says it’s a crime to have, and for having paraphernalia. This will dramatically increase the number of arrests in San Francisco and likely cause the jail population to explode.

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@petercalloway

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Many people will remain in jail while they await trial because they can’t afford to pay money bail to be released (Jenkins announced she would again use money bail in this way).

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@petercalloway

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And consistent with SFPD’s well-documented track record, this will happen disproportionately to people of color, and exclusively to poor people.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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People will be beaten by the police. Some may be killed. These outcomes are inevitable when increasing # of police contacts.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

10 months

@Noahpinion @jjgittez “We should only talk about the most horrifying stuff” is an interesting take for someone who talks a whole lot about almost anything

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@petercalloway

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Families will be separated. Undocumented immigrants will be deported, where they may face violence in their home country after prolonged detention in horrific immigration facilities. Many, many more people will experience the trauma of being shackled and caged.

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@petercalloway

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Perhaps the cops should stop showing up 5-12 deep to every misdemeanor theft or vandalism? That’s not an exaggeration either. I read the reports, I watch the bodycam footage, I represent the clients.

Lee Fang

@lhfang

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SF is at a 300 officer deficit of “full time” police. And the far left voices on the Board of Supervisors have added so much new paperwork that officers spend hours filing out forms for every police-civilian interaction that most don’t even bother doing basic police work.

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@petercalloway

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And watch, Jenkins and her office will couch their cruel and failed Drug War offensive in the language of compassion. They’ll say they want drug users to get help. That is false. What they are doing is utterly inconsistent with helping anyone.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Remember when one 20-second video of a shoplifting incident in SF spawned more than 300 news articles across the country? Will any of those outlets write about the epidemic of cruelty against unhoused people? @sfchronicle @sfexaminer @sfstandard @nytimes @washingtonpost

Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Absolutely disgusting. And a metaphor for the city’s response to homelessness. More on that in the thread below. And to be clear, this is a crime. I have clients who have spent weeks, months in a cage for less. I doubt this will be investigated. Not the right kind of victim.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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San Francisco was far from perfect. Like anywhere, people suffer every day here because they are poor. The racial disparities in our criminal legal system are among the worst. But we have regressed immensely in just a matter of days. Things will almost certainly get worse.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

I’ve just read one of the most beautiful and important essays I’ve ever read on San Francisco, poverty, crime, race, and class. I hope you’ll read it too. Let me explain why.

The Only Way For Some People To Stay In San Francisco Is To Steal

As San Francisco’s wealthy residents panic over property crime, some of the city’s less privileged can’t find ways to make ends meet.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Are they going to house people? Address trauma and poverty? Of course not. Remember, this is about wanting to hide from public view the consequences of enforcing their extractive utopia. Mayor Breed made that clear in what should have been a scandal here.

Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

3 years

Thread: Curious what’s driving @LondonBreed to pursue a slate of draconian new policy initiatives targeting the Tenderloin, couched in the language of “tough love” and set to be rammed through in her just-declared state of emergency? There’s a pretty clear answer.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Brooke Jenkins receives ZERO votes for the Dem Party endorsement in San Francisco’s DA election. Instead, the endorsement went to John Hamasaki, a reform candidate who has emphasized police accountability and independence from city hall. Hard to overstate how significant this is.

David Menschel

@davidminpdx

2 years

Wow, San Francisco Democratic Party endorses reformer for District Attorney – to fill the position previously held by Chesa Boudin – and in doing so unanimously rejects Mayor London Breed’s “tough on crime” interim replacement.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

One by one, leaders of the Boudin recall are being exposed for corruption and fraud. An overview below, with receipts. First up, Leanna Louie.

Mission Local

@MLNow

2 years

The City Attorney has demanded a meeting with D4 supe candidate Leanna Louie at which she must prove her residency. The Department of Elections has referred her to the DA over potential voter fraud. from @esksf

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

This is not the same thing as saying that identity and representation don’t matter—of course they do. Only that they are not dispositive. For more on this I highly recommend Racecraft by Barbara and Karen Fields, or Asad Haider.

How Identity Politics Has Divided the Left: An Interview With Asad Haider

A new book, “Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump,” grapples with the shifting relationship between personal identity and political action.

theintercept.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Journalists absolutely cannot let them get away with this. When writing about this admin, they should ask basic questions about these policies: Is there any evidence they work? Has the office consulted any experts in relevant fields to develop responses that do? Other Qs below.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

1 year

On Banko Brown: I won't share the video, because people should get to choose whether they watch it. It's extremely disturbing. It's enraging. It's so sad. But Jenkins' decision not to prosecute here is as clear a statement as any we've gotten about who she thinks matters.

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@petercalloway

2 years

Absolutely wild that San Francisco's mayor and police chief held a private meeting with business owners where they announced a new initiative to ramp up—again—failed drug war policies. They literally denied the press access.

Mayor Breed and S.F. police launch new operation to target Tenderloin drug dealing

Mayor London Breed and her police chief have launched a new operation to target drug...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Thread: There's a human rights crisis happening in San Francisco's jails. Today, the San Francisco Public Defender's Office, our community leader allies, & impacted community members spoke out. My public comment is below, & comments from others are linked. First, some background.

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@petercalloway

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Set aside for a moment the many, many reasons we shouldn't allow cops to use armed robots to kill people. Here's one of the robots recently approved for such a task by our cowardly board of supervisors, first DROPPING a grenade it retrieved from a residence, then RUNNING IT OVER

Jerque Cousteau

@neo_antiquarian

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San Francisco’s Finest: can’t wait until this elite technology is everywhere.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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I’ve had dozens of clients whose sole possessions were stolen by the city and destroyed. Whose property was kicked around by police while they were belittled. This lawsuit is an attempt to vindicate their rights, to assert their humanity.

Coalition on Homelessness

@TheCoalitionSF

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We are suing the city on constitutional grounds for their persistent horrific practice of stealing unhoused people’s property and criminalizing them for having no home. Our hope for this lawsuit is a transformation of the city's street response.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Thread: Newly installed, unelected San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins has begun hiring and firing, and there’s a lot to dig into. She’s obviously misrepresented her “progressive” intentions, and the media has essentially given her a pass. More below.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

2 years

BREAKING: Newly appointed S.F. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has chosen a cadre of women to lead her management and transition teams. Here are the key figures:

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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The recall effort is about a small group of wealthy elites, along with the police, manipulating and exploiting public opinion because they are afraid of Boudin and what he means for *their* interests, rather than for the interests of a majority of San Franciscans.

Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

3 years

THREAD: There’s a lot of talk right now about crime in San Francisco. Almost everything you’ll read in the mainstream press is wrong. I live in the Tenderloin and work in the courts every day. Here’s my take on what’s happening and why.

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@petercalloway

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How do we know the criminal system is incapable of meaningful reform? A recent case involving a cop caught lying on the stand is an egregious example of how cops, prosecutors, and judges will always do whatever is necessary to protect the status quo. (1)

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He exposed the cops’ use of rape kits to investigate rape victims for petty crimes, and he got them to stop.

SFPD Backtracks, Will No Longer Use Rape Kit DNA to Prosecute Rape Victims for Unrelated Crimes

After a week-long public relations disaster over misuse of DNA evidence from rape kits, the SFPD announced Tuesday that it will end the practice, but it makes you wonder how many police departments...

sfist.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Overheard in SF: “yeah I don’t go to the mission because like, u could get stabbed outside.” Yes, and the next time you fly to Reno for Burning Man you could be sucked into the jet engine while boarding. They are equally likely, but relentless crime propaganda suggests otherwise.

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@petercalloway

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It’s no secret that homelessness in San Francisco is out of control. Nearly 5000 people a night are forced to sleep on the streets. Contrary to the claim advanced by people who want to otherize these folks even further, most are from San Francisco.

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@petercalloway

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It’s almost as if violently moving people around without addressing root causes fails to actually solve any problem, severely harms the people being violently moved, & exacerbates the trauma & other issues that can lead to someone being on the streets in the first place.

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@petercalloway

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Thread. Today in misadventures in journalism: The @sfstandard published a rock-bottom piece that makes an implicit argument for failed Drug War policies, and for the recall of SF's progressive DA.

The San Francisco Standard

@sfstandard

2 years

EXCLUSIVE: DA @ChesaBoudin ’s office did not secure a single conviction for dealing fentanyl in 2021. The reason? Many drug dealers in SF are undocumented immigrants & Boudin's office prefers a different conviction that offers a path to avoid deportation.

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@petercalloway

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Cops commit domestic violence at a rate around 4x higher than the general population. ~40% of police families have experienced it.

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@petercalloway

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Nothing makes these people happier than hurting homeless people. Look at the joy on their faces, the glee in the second photo as she mocks people with nothing to gain showing solidarity with the dispossessed. It’s sociopathic, and it pervades city government.

Jackie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

@JackieT_97

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Love to see the Castro community turn out to beautify the neighborhood with planters outside the Walgreens on Castro & 18th. Thanks @RafaelMandelman for making it happen!

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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How does he threaten their cushy status quo? He’s doing things that are unprecedented. He’s using his office in a way that no DA has really done before. He’s actually prosecuting cops for unlawfully killing on the job and for using excessive force.

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@petercalloway

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This is a lie. Shoplifting, even for necessity items, is prosecuted ruthlessly.

Zach Coelius

@zachcoelius

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Sadly, instead of thinking systematically they decided to simply stop enforcing “small” crimes. For instance shoplifting is decriminalized. This had led to an incredible explosion of property crime and escalating criminality across the city. Everyone in the city is victimized.

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@petercalloway

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The level of deception and disinformation from San Francisco's Drug War proponents is getting out of hand. For over a year, they've said their attacks on the poor were about treatment and compassion. Now, even the chief of police acknowledges it was a lie.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Recently, the mayor shut down what was called the Tenderloin Center, a place where people could go for food, medical care, connection to services for things like benefits and IDs, sanitation/bathrooms/showers, to use drugs safely, or just for a reprieve from the streets.

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Thread: Curious what’s driving @LondonBreed to pursue a slate of draconian new policy initiatives targeting the Tenderloin, couched in the language of “tough love” and set to be rammed through in her just-declared state of emergency? There’s a pretty clear answer.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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He’s suing corporations for violating workers’ rights, and suing manufacturers of untraceable “ghost guns.”

Rachel Marshall

@RachelRMarshall

2 years

Promoting Economic Justice: -Started Worker Protection Unit to prevent companies from exploiting workers -Sued DoorDash & Handy for misclassifying workers -Filed amicus brief against bail bond company --Cosponsored AB 1452 to promote economic & racial diversity in juries

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@petercalloway

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The proliferation of former federal prosecutors turned media legal analysts is really something to behold. It’s head-spinning to anyone who knows what’s happening behind the scenes.

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@petercalloway

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This is probably the single best thing I’ve read on the drug crisis in the tenderloin. The history proves that Jenkins’s and the mayor’s drug war revival won’t work. It’s been tried on and off for decades. Don’t believe the hype.

gil duran

@gilduran76

2 years

“You want to reduce crime in this country, by 70 percent, overnight, end this war on drugs." -- Mayor Gavin Newsom, 2007. 15 years later, San Francisco's leaders are still fighting, and losing, the Drug War. When will they ever learn?

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@petercalloway

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Uncritically framing this “new approach”—tried and failed for decades—as “tough love” is not journalism. It’s propaganda.

The San Francisco Standard

@sfstandard

1 year

NEW: SF Mayor @LondonBreed said Wednesday that 25 people have been arrested for public intoxication as the city tests the waters on a tough-love approach to the drug crisis. This strategy will be accompanied by “wellness hubs” and other alternatives.

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300 overdoses were reversed at the center in several months. The mayor has offered no replacement for the services provided there. People will die as a result. That is a fact.

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The Chronicle breathlessly and uncritically reported the baseless claims by SF’s moderate politicians and activists that this is more evidence that SF crime is out of control and so we need more police.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

1 year

BREAKING: S.F. police make arrest in connection with killing of Bob Lee; suspect is a tech executive, according to Mission Local.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Remember when San Francisco’s mayor personally texted the chief of police asking him to forcibly remove an unhoused person from the bench he was sleeping on because she was in the area having lunch?

Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

3 years

Thread: Curious what’s driving @LondonBreed to pursue a slate of draconian new policy initiatives targeting the Tenderloin, couched in the language of “tough love” and set to be rammed through in her just-declared state of emergency? There’s a pretty clear answer.

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Read this for a great look at the human costs of this closure. By @NualaBishari , who spoke to some of the 400 people a day who went here.

‘There’s going to be bodies everywhere’: Why S.F.’s streets are about to get even grimmer

The Tenderloin Center provided lifesaving services for homeless people and those who use...

www.sfchronicle.com

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@petercalloway

2 years

And the cruelty of the mayor and her allies toward our unhoused neighbors—as with the ineffectiveness of their response—has never been clearer. One example:

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@petercalloway

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@dizz_h broke the story a while back. I don’t think any media outlet picked it up, which is incredible.

HDizz

@dizz_h

4 years

Here's a bunch of texts SF Mayor @LondonBreed sent to the chief of police personally telling him to conduct homeless sweeps to cater to businesses, and seemingly because she didn't want to see them while eating lunch? Full text dump here:

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@petercalloway

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This is what they’re willing to put in emails they know could become public. Imagine what they say about unhoused people in private.

HDizz

@dizz_h

1 year

Public records show SF city Supervisor Mandelman plotting with residents to shut down wireless internet at public libraries to get rid of homeless people who rely on it, despite being told by the library that it is critical for equal access to Internet and has no impact on crime.

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@petercalloway

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San Francisco’s cruelty toward its unhoused population is limitless. The city continues to tear down encampments & remove ppl—under threat of police violence—despite a court order that they stop & amid storms so severe housed ppl waited hours for sandbags to prevent flooding.🧵

Alex Shultz

@AlexShultz

2 years

New: San Francisco is still carrying out homeless encampment sweeps despite a federal judge's preliminary injunction, according to 4 recently filed written declarations. One of the alleged sweeps was on morning of bomb cyclone storm on Jan. 4

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I’m a public defender. I don’t agree with everything he’s done or that his line deputies do. Far from it. But I know so much of what he’s doing is designed to create long-term public safety, and that he’s challenging extraordinarily powerful interests in important ways.

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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And of course, he’s done all of this while helping to safely reduce the jail population, expanding use of diversion (shown in study after study to actually reduce someone’s likelihood of commuting crime in the future), expanding victim services, and more

Rachel Marshall

@RachelRMarshall

2 years

Being a progressive, reform prosecutor is more than words. It is about actions. Criminal justice reform is the baseline for lasting public safety. This thread lists some (not even close to all) of the reforms & achievements of DA @chesaboudin in just 2 years. 1/

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Hard to overstate how consequential Walgreens’ scam on San Francisco has been.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

2 years

Last year Walgreens repeatedly sounded the alarm about shoplifting. But today, a Walgreens exec admitted that they might have “cried too much last year" about theft. What he didn’t acknowledge is that Walgreens is losing money because of billions in fines, not robbery. 🧵

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These decisions are consistent with Breed’s record of antipathy toward unhoused folks. She has historically used SFPD to remove unhoused people from areas of the city she was having lunch in, or from the blocks of businesses owned by her allies.

Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Remember when San Francisco’s mayor personally texted the chief of police asking him to forcibly remove an unhoused person from the bench he was sleeping on because she was in the area having lunch?

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“The city is punishing homeless people, including making arrests, destroying property and issuing thousands of citations, when it knows it cannot offer shelter beds to even half of encampment residents.”

San Francisco’s homeless sweeps are unlawful — and the city will pay for it

San Francisco’s campaign to remove homeless people from the streets clearly violates...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

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Shocked. I’m sure the person who said Chesa did it will be the first to apologize. I wonder how much violence & cruelty has been done to unhoused folks since the entire SF moderate political class decried this as a random street crime by some unnamed mentally ill homeless person

Mission Local

@MLNow

1 year

BREAKING: Mission Local has learned that San Francisco police this morning traveled to Emeryville to make an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech exec Bob Lee. The alleged killer also works in tech and purportedly knew Lee. From @esksf

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I’m excited, though, by the prospect of this lawsuit’s success. And extremely grateful to the unhoused folks brave enough to take the city on, and to @TheCoalitionSF , @lccrsf , and @ACLU_NorCal backing them up.

Judge bans S.F. from clearing most homeless camps as lawsuit moves ahead

A judge on Friday night temporarily banned San Francisco from clearing most homeless...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

2 years

Now, the city is being sued for conducting illegal sweeps of encampments and of individuals and small groups merely congregating on sidewalks. Here’s an excellent recent article on the lawsuit and the conduct.

San Francisco’s homeless sweeps are unlawful — and the city will pay for it

San Francisco’s campaign to remove homeless people from the streets clearly violates...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Peter Calloway

@petercalloway

1 year

An ancillary point: almost 100% of the times that cops lie on the stand (i.e. commit perjury) they get away with it. A couple stories below. 🧵

Spooky 🎃 Lolo

@LolOverruled

1 year

Public defenders interact with police constantly, whether through cross examination in a courtroom or secondarily through their overpoliced clients. You should listen when every single PD is telling you cops consistently lie and abuse entire communities

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The reason? She didn’t want to have to look at homeless people while eating lunch. Sounds comically evil, right? Look for yourself.

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