Glenn, the newly elected "progressive" DAs don't have any trouble hiring. They either fire or force out career prosecutors, then hire replacements aligned with their views. They can be ignorant but at least they are aligned. It's true that some career prosecutors resign but the first thought is whether the good work can be continued or it can't. Some try to stay on and work to hold it together.
But after the guillotine falls, there's plenty of space to hire replacements. These are largely defense attorneys and public defenders. Boudin mostly hired his colleagues from the public defender's office in San Francisco. After his recall, some of these are going to Alameda County, across the Bay and where Oakland and Berkeley are located. Alameda County used to have an excellent DA's office. It is now experiencing the hostile takeover you suggest. But to your point about hiring, there will be no trouble at all.
Voters did indeed elect them. And the voters will experience the folly of having done so. The results on the street led to Boudin's recall. Enough was enough. But it is no small task to put a DA's office back together again.
But we expect that sort of thing in San Francisco, right? Why are these tropes-based fantasies selling elsewhere? Voters are pretty bad at prescience. Predicting the future is not a strength. But sensing something is not right presently is possible and I think we would all agree many things are not right. What is sad and disturbing to me personally is when fallacious conclusions are reached and courses adopted which will not work and indeed will make matters worse.
Glenn, the newly elected "progressive" DAs don't have any trouble hiring. They either fire or force out career prosecutors, then hire replacements aligned with their views. They can be ignorant but at least they are aligned. It's true that some career prosecutors resign but the first thought is whether the good work can be continued or it can't. Some try to stay on and work to hold it together.
But after the guillotine falls, there's plenty of space to hire replacements. These are largely defense attorneys and public defenders. Boudin mostly hired his colleagues from the public defender's office in San Francisco. After his recall, some of these are going to Alameda County, across the Bay and where Oakland and Berkeley are located. Alameda County used to have an excellent DA's office. It is now experiencing the hostile takeover you suggest. But to your point about hiring, there will be no trouble at all.
Voters did indeed elect them. And the voters will experience the folly of having done so. The results on the street led to Boudin's recall. Enough was enough. But it is no small task to put a DA's office back together again.
But we expect that sort of thing in San Francisco, right? Why are these tropes-based fantasies selling elsewhere? Voters are pretty bad at prescience. Predicting the future is not a strength. But sensing something is not right presently is possible and I think we would all agree many things are not right. What is sad and disturbing to me personally is when fallacious conclusions are reached and courses adopted which will not work and indeed will make matters worse.