A rise in unsettling crimes like home burglaries and anti-Asian hate gave San Franciscans an overwhelming sense they weren't safe, and voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Now what?
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We must ensure merit-based admissions remain at Lowell High School and create more pathways and incentives to increase the diversity of applicants. We should also commit to creating more high schools like Lowell with high academic standards.
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Stop Crime SF spent six months pursuing a public records request to get case outcome data from District Attorney Chesa Boudin. After facing refusals and resistance every step of the way, we finally prevailed. Here’s what we found.
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Our children’s well-being and the future of our city is at stake. That’s why we won an epic school board recall. But we’ve only just begun. Next, we need to elect new city supervisors. Most of our supervisors stood by an incompetent school board, which became a glaring example of how they do not represent the will of the voters. We deserve better.
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When the story is written about the historic effort to recall San Francisco’s school board, it must include the Chinese/API parents and grandparents who organized their community to vote for the first time. It's a political earthquake in the making with no going back.
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San Francisco’s district attorney publishes a data dashboard called DA Stat. But there’s a problem. It doesn’t say what happens to cases beyond the filing of charges. This makes it difficult to measure Chesa Boudin’s effectiveness because the outcomes of cases — not mere charges — are what matter. And outcomes are a mystery on DA Stat.
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The greatest indictment against San Francisco’s school board is that it neglected its core job: Getting students safely back into classrooms to avoid the harmful learning loss and mental health stress of being isolated at home on Zoom for more than a year.
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A City Hall-commissioned study says police staffing in San Francisco is “severely inadequate.” Can we replenish the force with a new generation who embrace police reforms, are trained in de-escalation, and are truly committed to serving their communities?
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San Francisco residents are finally pushing back on elected officials who say things are fine when schools, public safety, and housing are in crisis.
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Transparent crime data that is easily accessible to the public is essential for improving public safety.
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Remembering Mark Lim on the 20th anniversary of his death.
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Walgreens blames out-of-control shoplifting for having to close 22 stores in San Francisco this year. While theft affects the bottom line of businesses big and small, residents are also victims.
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San Francisco’s school board remains defiant while facing a recall and refuses to change course in a fiscal crisis that threatens a state takeover. The result is continued enrollment decline, which further reduces revenue and puts the school district into a death spiral. Children suffer the most.
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San Francisco’s outdated and inaccessible criminal records request system is an obstacle to public safety. It leaves journalists and crime victims unclear about what is actually happening in our criminal justice system. Our court must provide clear records on demand for everyone — it is essential to hold officials accountable.
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San Francisco lacks a fully interconnected criminal justice computer database that shares information in real time. Good data that’s easy to access can help residents understand what is really happening in our district attorney’s office, the police department, and the courts.
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San Francisco’s school board suffers from a self-inflicted “crisis of governance.” Reform is needed, which starts with recalling the most problematic commissioners. The recall is down to the wire in the final month.
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There are 52 superior court judges serving San Francisco. They are elected. Yet most voters have never heard of them. The judiciary shouldn’t be a mysterious Star Chamber. If you care about courtroom outcomes, it’s important to know who the judges are.
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When a 94-year-old woman was stabbed on the sidewalk outside her Lower Nob Hill home, local media in San Francisco named the victim and the suspect — but curiously never named a central figure in the story: Superior Court Judge Richard Darwin. This is a disservice to the public.
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Two moms call out the politicians who played games with school reopening while exhausted parents had to organize and protest to become their own heroes in the fight to reopen schools.
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Is it possible to create housing in San Francisco that isn’t controversial? Pierce Smith and Ed Taylor discovered a way to quietly meet their housing needs while avoiding the city’s fierce political battles over where and what to build.
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