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.
A woman connected to killing an Asian senior is about to dodge trial while BART attackers walk free. January 12 is the test.
The murderer walks free. The public defender wants charges dismissed. This is what "reform" looks like.