Just in time for election season, San Francisco is confronting yet another spike in murders and shootings on city streets. Despite a tough new tone from District Attorney Brooke Jenkins — Mayor London Breed’s handpicked prosecutor — the cycle of crime continues unabated, providing a bloody reality check for voters and politicians alike.
The stubborn persistence of crime — both violent and nonviolent — exposes the ridiculousness of Jenkins’ claim that her aggressive “tone” will scare criminals straight and make the streets feel safer. Murder carries the most severe consequences possible, but nobody worries about the DA’s tone before they pull the trigger.
It’s a promise Jenkins can’t keep. If a politician’s tone could halt crime, then Breed’s expletive-laden Tenderloin emergency declaration last year would have done the trick. Having worked in politics for over a decade, I’m unaware of any instance in which a politician’s tone succeeded in solving crime, drug addiction or any other real problem. Other than tone, Jenkins offers no solutions besides a return to the same old policies that failed to succeed before.
Only 25% of all 1,650 city residents polled by the Chronicle thought Breed was doing a “good” or “excellent” job. Forty two percent said she was doing a “fair” job and 35% rated her performance as “poor” or “very poor.” Some argue that San Francisco simply needs more moderates — like District 4 candidate Joel Engardio and District 6 candidate Matt Dorsey — to solve the problem. But this is an easily disprovable delusion. After all, The City’s major problems have festered and spread under the reign of a feckless moderate mayor.
“Jenkins unable to solve problem Chesa spent two years making.” Fixed the headline. No charge.
Jenkins has a huge mess to cleanup and the mayor is still the inept londonbreed. BrookeJenkinsSF needs a much better partner than the Breed/Scott duo.
Jenkins has a huge mess to cleanup and the mayor is still the inept londonbreed. BrookeJenkinsSF needs a much better partner than the Breed/Scott duo.
Jenkins has a huge mess to cleanup and the mayor is still the inept londonbreed. BrookeJenkinsSF needs a much better partner than the Breed/Scott duo.
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What complete dishonest journalist wrote this?
They're failing at magic? Who would've thought.
What a load of crap (again) from gilduran76. Jenkins has been in office for 2 months and has to undo 2 years of deliberate sabotage of the justice system by Boudin.
Did I read the story too fast, or did it fail to make any mention of what's causing the crime? Isn't that an important part of the equation?
It takes time but she at least is prosecuting crime.
historically low violence but 2 shootings doesn't sound too bad.
SF Examiner is being disingenuous🤨👉they know the violent crime rates did not fall and they know why 🤨
she looks pent up can we send her a few girlfriends of a similar size to chose from to release some of her pent up stress. inbox her with naked photos any potentially interested lesbians. thanks. she looks way too stressed.
Didn’t recall the wrong person. Calling the DA a politician is the first problem. Maybe in SF this is what crime re-imaging has become👉political social justice activism that ran political campaigns on anti-cop, anti-white, anti-nuclear family and anti-American rhetoric was 👉(-)
Right
Weak, and going to fool no one.
If the writer of this article doesn’t understand that Brooke has barely had time to put her policies in action, and is undoing the result of almost a decade of bad DAs (Gascon then Boudin), he has no business writing about this topic. The Examiner has become pathetic.
Oh-My-GodOmniabsolute=Universe'sGravity: Thus, Earthlings only talk about others people dilemmas and only solve their OWN. (FYI, duh, & now you know)!$!$
What dumb opinion. She can't fix the damage Chesa did in 2.5 years in 2 months. Lol!
This is embarrassing to print: “The five murders so far this month represent a 66% in increase over last September, which had three murders.” Yeah, alarming increase of 2.
Clearly an “opinion” piece and definitely not mine! I’m smart enough to know that it will take more than a couple months to unravel years of damage.
You can't blame Jenkins who's just getting her policies in place. Breed and the Board of Supervisors need to go. Their policies have been in place for quite some time and have failed miserably. As a SF native I'm sick, angry and saddened by what these politicians have done.
This hit piece is on par with the Onion.
Give Brook Jenkins time to unpack the shit show her predecessor left!
the ratio on this is impressive
Real failure = Sf examiner and chronicle
6 months ago, talk of rising crime rates was dismissed by the progressive wing of the political establishment as just Republican fear mongering. So tell me, what changed?
Your opinion sucks.
This is dumb. 2.5 yrs v. 2 months? C’mon my guy- get a grip and write this in two yrs (after she is elected). Then let’s see what her record is.
You can’t “magically” reverse the damage done by Boudin’s 2 years of gross negligence. It will certainly take longer than 8 weeks. Voters are not stupid. 🤦♂️ safersfnoboudin VoteandChangeSF KarinaVlaw TMcGreenberg markdietrichsf
The paper of record is judging her after being in office for such a short time. It what really fair?
Gil Duran is such a joke.
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