San Francisco's criminal justice system is under scrutiny on multiple fronts: a judge just released the killer of 84-year-old Grandpa Vicha Ratanapakdee on probation after pretrial credit math made prison time impossible, while SF's courts have gone five years without reporting a single data point to the state and resolve only 32% of cases filed. Meanwhile, new research reinforces what Oakland's Ceasefire program proved in practice—less than 0.5% of a city's population drives the majority of its violence, raising hard questions about whether San Francisco is targeting the right people at all.
Less than 2,000 Oakland residents drive most of its gun violence. Oakland Ceasefire shows just how important it is to target the right people.
For five years, SF courts haven't reported a single data point to the state—even as they resolve fewer and fewer cases.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
Antoine Watson slammed into an 84-year-old man, left him dying on the pavement, and fled. Five years later, the system hands him the exit door.
An Asian American man was stabbed in broad daylight two days before Lunar New Year. The mayor's bodyguards got press coverage. He got bystanders who kept walking.
Now a civil rights lawsuit names the officials who told parole agents to look the other way.
A man caught with a loaded gun got diversion and a homework assignment. 36 days later, someone was dead.
The billionaire claiming to ‘always stand with labor’ made millions from private prisons and other aggressively anti‑union investments
California labor law says unions can only strike after completing the impasse process. UESF skipped the steps and called a strike anyway.
The SF Latinx Democratic Club reinstated its leader after sexual assault allegations—then fled the SF Dem party when Nancy Tung called for accountability