Embattled San Francisco prosecutor Brooke Jenkins says don’t blame her for the zombie infestation. You really need to take it up with the liberal judges who won’t grant her requests to keep the dealers behind bars. The District Attorney was pulled in as a replacement for soft on crime Chesa Boudin. After doing her best to make a dent, Jenkins realized Boudin wasn’t the only problem.
Prosecutor points a finger
San Francisco’s top prosecutor, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, was elected in 2022 “after voters, fed up with crime, recalled previous district attorney, Chesa Boudin.”
The Tenderloin area remains an open air drug market despite everything Jenkins has thrown at the problem from her end. She can’t clean up the city all by herself. Especially not when the judges she argues in front of seem to be on the other side.
“We appear to be failing as city leaders,” the frustrated prosecutor relates. “I want them to know that I am working every day to ensure that the situation changes. But I’m only one part of this system. I have had to be very vocal about the fact that there is another part of the system right now that is failing them.”
It’s common to see people using and selling drugs. Human waste, used needles and bullet casings litter the sidewalks — all a short walk from the city’s popular central shopping district that attracts tourists to its upscale hotels and stores. https://t.co/4Iv8kZi4lJ
— CNN (@CNN) September 3, 2023
The zombie mob seems to be endless because nobody has tried to stop it until now, often creating city policies to encourage the crisis.
Jenkins pointed out that “her office has filed almost 1,000 drug dealing cases, and she’s tried to detain the most serious offenders pending trial.” The word there is “tried.”
“Unfortunately,” she explains, “they’re cycling back out onto the street almost immediately after the arrest in our cases filed to date.” The prosecutor blames Superior Court judges.
Only 17 of 200
Last year alone, the prosecutor “filed motions to keep 200 of the most egregious drug dealers behind bars while they await trial.” These weren’t Fred down the street peddling a little happy-grass, they were known dealers of hard-core death. Jenkins knew exactly what they would be doing as soon as they hit the streets.
Despite her arguments to keep them locked up, judges set all but 17 of them free to return to work. Dealing fentanyl and tranq. They didn’t even need to post bail. “Judges allowed the rest out on their recognizance.”
It’s no wonder that one retailer after another is closing their doors. The Department of Health and Human Services has their Headquarters in the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building. They’ve been advised not to try to work at the office because the building is infested with zombies.
He looked dead when wheeled out to the ambulance, but you can hear his struggled breathing. The alleys of the Tenderloin will steal your soul and leave you for dead in the gutter. Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. But rest assured, the streets will consume you. pic.twitter.com/zgDuPoNE8E
— FriscoLive415 (@friscolive415) August 29, 2023
Meanwhile, the prosecutor notes that many of the suspects she wanted retained who weren’t “did not return for hearing dates or broke the law while released.”
“I’m not going to take the blame when my prosecutors are going in and arguing that these people have to remain in custody. The judges are not doing their part and that has to be revealed.”
Until someone actually starts taking some of the worst offenders off the streets, the California Highway Patrol will continue “patrolling the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin as part of a multiagency effort to crack down on rampant drug dealing that’s decimating the 50-square-block area.” They won’t do much, since the prosecutor can’t prosecute even when she wants to, but they’ll be out there watching it anyway. Like an endless rerun of “Night of the Living Dead.“
