Chesa Boudin was supposed to be a good candidate for DA in San Francisco: younger, progressive, not a WASP male …
so this happens, on his watch:
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – DNA collected from rape victims is being used to help identify them as possible crime suspects, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said Monday.
Boudin said he has learned the police crime lab has tried to identify suspects through a database that includes DNA profiles from sex-assault victims. He said a woman was arrested recently for a property crime based on her years-old rape kit DNA.
Boudin said the practice could be unconstitutional and it could dissuade sex-assault victims from reporting crimes.
So let me get this straight.
When the rape kit’s use is to find /stop a crime against women, the police are “eh, we’ll get around to it.”
But when the rape kit’s use is to help the cops bust women for property crimes, the cops couldn’t be hotter to get the kits processed.
This is so effed up. Here’s more:
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced the bombshell during a Monday press conference, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. (SFGATE and the Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.)
Boudin alleges that he was informed of this police practice last week, the Chronicle reports.
If true, Boudin said, the revelation would further discourage survivors of rape and sexual assault in San Francisco from coming forward. SFPD has faced scrutiny in the past related to its mishandling of sexual assault cases. A 2014 KGO investigation found hundreds of untested rape kits spanning nearly a decade, and in 2019, a woman petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case against the police department for its mishandling of her rape.
I don’t want to defund the police. I want them to do their damn jobs.
If that means firing every motherfucker in a blue, tan, gray or black uniform in the USA and replacing them with somebody ELSE, somebody who will do the job, let’s start now.