This is a question that the progressive prosecutors all across the country have to answer. They feel like it is not proven. And we should say, journalisticlly, we do not really have a causal stat to show that the policies of progressives are directly responsible for increases in crime and in violent crime. These things were happening in places that had not elected these type of prosecutors. So there there was not a one to one factual basis to say that the things that were happening in san francisco was the fault of the election of bludan.
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This week, voters in San Francisco ousted Chesa Boudin, their progressive district attorney. The move was seen as a rejection of a class of prosecutors who are determined to overhaul the criminal justice system.
But what happened to Mr. Boudin can be seen as more the exception than the rule.
Guest: Astead W. Herndon, a national political reporter for The New York Times.
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