Woke San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin faces recall

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Boudin was elected in 2019 promising to institute criminal justice reforms designed to keep low-level offenders from jail and spare juveniles from facing long prison terms.
43% : Boudin - a 41-year-old former public defender whose parents were members of the radical 80s activist group Weather Underground - was elected on a platform of criminal justice reform.
39% : The official has refused to seek the death penalty or try juveniles as adults, and his policies have sought to push people accused of non-violent crimes into programs to address drug addiction and homelessness instead of giving them jail time.
39% : Voters were taken by his unusual life story, which lends insight into his view on the criminal justice and prison system.
36% :San Francisco's woke DA: A former public defender whose parents spent decades in prison over an armed robbery that left a cop deadKathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Chesa Boudin's radical leftist parents, spent decades in prison after taking part in a botched armored vehicle robbery that left three deadChesa Boudin, a progressive Democrat, entered the San Francisco district attorney's race as an underdog, running on a platform of ending mass incarceration and addressing racial disparities in law enforcement, and won by fewer than 3,000 ballots.

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