Criminal Justice

San Francisco's criminal justice system is under mounting scrutiny: courts haven't reported a single data point to the state in five years while resolving only 32% of cases, and the man who killed 84-year-old "Grandpa Vicha" Ratanapakdee just walked free after pretrial detention math erased his entire sentence. Meanwhile, new research confirms that less than 0.5% of Oakland's population drives the majority of its gun violence—and that targeted intervention, not broad policy, is what actually works.