After Chesa Boudin, San Francisco Looks for a Way Forward

Reform might be laudable in theory, but when your child finds a dead body in the park, politics go out the window.

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The San Francisco district attorney, Chesa Boudin, and his wife, Valerie Block, leave an election night gathering June 7, 2022. AP/Noah Berger

When San Francisco’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, was voted out of office in a recall election, it was hailed on the right as a rebuke of radical criminal justice reform and anti-incarceration policies, but his replacement will need to balance a tough-on-crime stance with these same progressive ideals.

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