The Los Angeles County Sheriff has slammed San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin for ‘flying in the face of common sense’ and undoing the work of police with ‘woke laws,’ as the state grapples with staggering

The Los Angeles County Sheriff has slammed San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin for ‘flying in the face of common sense’ and undoing the work of police with ‘woke laws,’ as the state grapples with staggering rates.   

Alex Villanueva, who was elected County Sheriff in 2018, took aim at Boudin after the liberal prosecutor called recent efforts to crack down on rampant smash-and-grab crimes a ‘knee-jerk reaction.’ 

‘There’s nothing ”knee-jerk” about it.It’s just common sense,’ Villanueva told host Shannon Bream on Tuesday. 

‘But when you fly in the face of common sense…I have a 92 percent increase in homicides in two years.I have a 16 percent increase in grand-theft auto. I have a ‘zero bail’ schedule, which means every person I catch with a stolen car gets a ticket, walks out of jail…in fact, they’re out of jail before [deputies are] even done writing the report,’ Villanueva added. 

The sheriff added that Boudin turned against police as part of their political agenda, but don’t realize how harmful it is for the community.  

‘And it’s people … They live in this ‘woke palace’ where they’re not affected by the policies, but the average person IS impacted by them.’  

Property and violent crime in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland have jumped seven percent between 2020 and 2021, reaching a total of 25,000 in October, the  reported.   

Boudin’s notoriously progressive laws, which are seen as lax on crime, have been blamed for the rampant crime in San Francisco, where looters have ransacked stores and broken into parked cars. 

Los Angeles has also been hard-hit by flash mobs that have rampaged high-end stores in what officials have called organized attacks.

San Francisco’s liberal Mayor London Breed has joined a growing number of Democratic mayors in the US who have performed a dramatic U-turn on the ‘defund the police’ strategy.In early December, she called for ‘more aggressive policing’ to replace ‘bulls**t progressive policies’. 

Sheriff Villanueva accused Boudin of disregarding the work of police and allowing criminals to walk free. 

‘This person just does not get it and I’m sorry to hear that,’ Villanueva said.  

‘And this person [Boudin] claims it’s a ‘knee-jerk reaction’ to go back to holding people accountable?I think the old-fashioned ”having people suffer the consequences for engaging in crime” means something.’  

He went on to say there have been more than 12,000 instances where Gascon has declined to prosecute suspects apprehended by deputies.

‘So that is disheartening for any cop to think all their work is being undone by a careless and irresponsible district attorney.But they’re not going to stop doing their job,’ Villanueva said. 

‘So we’re making the effort out there.What we need now is, we need responsible district attorneys who are going to file their cases. And if they want to play the role of public defender, they should just quit their job and go over to the public defenders – and everything they say makes perfect sense for a public defender, not a district attorney,’ he added.  

Gascon sparked outrage in early December for pushing a bill seeking lighter sentences for gun criminals, just hours after famed producer Clarence Avant’s wife was fatally shot during a home invasion in Los Angeles.  

The murder of the famed producer’s 81-year-old philanthropist wife, Jacqueline Avant inside her $7 million Beverly Hills home on December 1 is part of a recent string of smash-and-grab robberies plaguing Southern .  

Merely hours after Avant’s death, Gascon, who has been criticized for being ‘soft on ‘ and supporting the zero-bail policy, sent a fundraising email to promote a bill removing extra prison time for using a gun during a crime.  

Boudin and Gascon have been blamed by many for spiking crime rates in his city.  

According to Villanueva, his department has lost more than 1,200 positions after being defunded by the Board of Supervisions.   

There was a terrifying 15 percent increase in homicide across San Francisco compared to last year, with 54 cases recorded so far this year alone, compared with 47 the year before.

Assault in the city also increased by more than 10 per cent from 2,105 last year to 2,314 cases this year, while overall crimes shot up by 10.2 per cent.

Larceny theft also saw a massive 19.4 per cent increase from 24,899 to 29,741, according to crime statistics released by the San Francisco Police Department. 

Vehicle break-ins in San Francisco have become so commonplace over the past year that some desperate car owners have resorted to leaving their trunks open to avoid having the windows smashed by thieves. 

But Mayor Breed has backpedaled from her prior stance on police, acknowledging that the city desperately needs more law enforcement presence to tackle the rising crime. 

After Black Lives Matter protesters demanded cities defund the police last year, Breed announced San Francisco would be one of the first to do so and sliced $120million from the budgets of its police and sheriff’s departments.

In an emergency police intervention on December 16, Breed made a screeching U-turn as she announced she was asking the city’s Board of Supervisors for more money to be given to the police to stamp out drug dealing, car break-ins and theft. 

Announcing a crime crackdown, she argued that San Francisco officers should get aggressive and ‘less tolerant of all the bulls*** that has destroyed our city.’ 

‘It’s time the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end,’ she said.’And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies.’  

Breed called for progressive policies that have allowed criminal behavior to make a mockery of the city’s famed tolerance and compassion to be replaced with ‘more aggressive policing’.  

 All of our residents, our workers and everyone who visits our city should feel safe no matter what part of town they are in. I know San Francisco is a compassionate city.We are a city that prides ourselves on second chances and rehabilitation,’ the mayor said.

‘But we’re not a city where anything goes. Our compassion should not be mistaken for weakness or indifference.’

The emergency police intervention was aimed at curbing open drug use, brazen home break-ins and Ankara Oto Kurtarma other criminal behaviors taking place in San Francisco’s crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood and across the city. 

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Meanwhile, a report released by San Francisco’s Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) found homicides increased in San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland and Los Angeles by 17 percent in 2021.   

PPCI added that property and violent crimes still remain below than historic levels, but arrests also dropped significantly for a number of crimes this year.

This year, just 19 percent of shoplifting reports resulted in arrest, compared with 40 per cent just two years previously. 

San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged just 46 percent of theft arrests, a 16-point point since he came to office last year.

Boudin, 41, entered the district attorney’s race in 2019 as an underdog and won by fewer than 3,000 votes.

Voters were captivated by his life story.

When he was just 1 year old in 1981, his parents, who were members of the far-left Weather Underground, dropped him off with a babysitter and took part in an armored car robbery in upstate New York that left two police officers and a security guard dead.

His mother, Kathy Boudin, served 22 years behind bars and his father, David Gilbert, was jailed for life – until outgoing NY Governor Andrew Cuomo commuted his sentence for murder in August.

They didn’t fire shots that day and the victims were killed by the Black Liberation Army.

Chesa was cared for by members of a radical left-wing group and says his experiences of visiting his parents in jail galvanized his progressive views on law and order. 

But since he entered office, his opponents say, crime is on the rise and more criminals are going free. 

Boudin is now facing his second recall effort in his short tenure, with organizers hoping to oust him submitting 83,000 signatures to election officials to force him into a recall election next June. 

In October, San Francisco Police Officers Association President Tony Montoya said the city is crippled with open-air drug markets and homelessness, coupled with upticks in blatant shoplifting, residential and commercial burglaries, shooting and other violent crimes.

‘Police are the bad guys and the bad guys are the good guys in the mind of a progressive’ like Boudin, Montoya said, adding: ‘Chesa’s good at the blame game.We’re going to call him Mr. Deflector because he’s always pointing the finger left or right and never at the man in the mirror.’

And in September San Francisco Superior Court Judge Bruce Chan took the unusual step of criticizing Boudin’s office from the bench for ‘constant turnover’ and neglecting ‘the fundamentals of competent, professional prosecution.’

‘I cannot express in any more certain terms my disapproval of the manner in which the office of the district attorney is being managed,’  Chan said. 

‘We simply cannot have the current levels of inadvertence, disorganization and expect there to be any public confidence in what we do here collectively.’

Yousuf, though, defended Boudin saying he ‘has made it his priority to promote public safety for the people of San Francisco.’

She also underscored his efforts to protect San Franciscans by ‘expanding services for crime victims, pursuing meaningful accountability to address the root causes of crime, including by fighting for public health solutions to prevent crime from occurring.’

And, she said, Boudin’s prosecution rates are similar, if not higher, than both his predecessor ‘as well as other district attorneys in surrounding counties.’

The office is also fighting back against the recall effort, with Boudin telling his supporters at a recent rally: ‘This has nothing to do with the facts or the real challenges our communities are facing.

‘This has everything to do with disrespecting the will of the people,’ he said, describing the recall campaign as being pushed by ‘dark money’ and the Republican Party.