Criminal
Mar. 1, 2011
San Francisco Community Courts to Expand
San Francisco's new district attorney is hoping he can reform the city's criminal justice system and cut costs by diverting more cases to volunteer-run community courts.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney George Gascon is planning a dramatic expansion of a neighborhood-based diversion program that could reshape the office's approach to petty crimes while cutting costs.
Keeping with the city's rehabilitative approach to fighting crime, Gascon said he wants to divert thousands of low-level criminals - shoplifters, loiterers, minor drug offenders - out of the cri...
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