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Government,
Criminal

Nov. 12, 2019

Boudin vows to transform criminal justice in San Francisco

Chesa Boudin, the left-wing insurgent candidate who was declared the winner of a hotly-contested race to become San Francisco County’s district attorney over the weekend, will face a host of challenges when he takes office.

SAN FRANCISCO —Chesa Boudin, the left-wing insurgent candidate declared the winner of a hotly-contested race to become San Francisco County’s district attorney, will face a host of challenges when he takes office.

Boudin is the latest candidate across the nation to win a district attorney’s race not by pledging tough-on-crime policies, but rather to reforming an office critics say incarcerates too many people and turns a blind eye to...

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