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   SAN FRANCISCO — Hours after winning election as San Francisco   
   district attorney in 2019, Chesa Boudin stood, beaming, inside a   
   packed dive bar in the Mission District.   
      
   “What comes next is critical,” said the then-39-year-old public   
   defender, part of the nationwide movement to elect district   
   attorneys who seek to reimagine public safety and redefine the   
   role of a prosecutor. “In many ways, getting here today was the   
   easy part.”   
      
   Those words may have proved grimly prophetic for the newly   
   minted D.A.   
      
   Boudin’s 2½-year tenure as San Francisco’s top prosecutor has   
   resembled the “knife fight in a phone booth” adage often used to   
   describe Bay Area politics. He has weathered attacks from across   
   the city’s political spectrum; both the historically   
   conservative police union and more moderate politicians such as   
   Mayor London Breed have often criticized the would-be reformer.   
      
   His relationship with the city’s police department has faltered,   
   and dozens of his own prosecutors have quit — some to help oust   
   Boudin from office.   
      
   That fight comes to a head Tuesday, when San Francisco’s 500,000   
   registered voters will decide whether Boudin should keep his job.   
      
   The bitter, expensive recall election has turned into a   
   referendum on some of San Francisco’s most painful and   
   protracted problems, including homelessness, drug addiction and   
   property crime. The election has also become a test for a   
   liberal city’s appetite for continuing to pursue criminal   
   justice reform.   
      
   Boudin described his 2019 victory as a sign of a “massive thirst   
   for change.” But polls suggest he may not survive the recall.   
   His supporters now fear a result that could have a chilling   
   effect on the nationwide effort to elect reform-minded district   
   attorneys.   
      
   Boudin’s predecessor, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George   
   Gascón, is also facing his second recall attempt in two years.   
      
   Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascon delivers remarks   
   after he took the oath of office on Dec. 7, 2020 at the Kenneth   
   Hahn Hall of Administration in Los Angeles, Calif. He became the   
   43rd district attorney for the county during a virtual ceremony.   
      
   Boudin has sought to reshape a criminal justice system that he   
   and his supporters see as profoundly unfair. He has refused to   
   seek the death penalty or try juveniles as adults, significantly   
   reduced the use of sentencing enhancements and sought to push   
   people accused of low-level crimes fueled by drug addiction into   
   treatment instead of a jail cell.   
      
   But his message has lost traction among an electorate that has   
   grown increasingly concerned about visible crime and   
   homelessness. Boudin’s background has made him an easy target   
   for opponents who paint him as a fringe leader disconnected from   
   his city.   
      
   Boudin is a Yale-educated Rhodes scholar who worked as a   
   translator for Venezuelan socialist President Hugo Chávez. His   
   parents were members of the radical left-wing group the Weather   
   Underground. They went to prison when Boudin was a child for   
   their roles in a 1981 armed robbery in New York that left three   
   people dead, including two police officers. His mother, Kathy   
   Boudin, was paroled in 2003 and died of cancer last month.   
   Boudin’s father, David Gilbert, received parole last year.   
      
   Three polls funded by the recall campaign and its backers   
   earlier this year found a majority of San Francisco voters   
   favored removing Boudin. Polling paid for by the anti-recall   
   campaign last month painted a slightly rosier picture, with 48%   
   of voters described as pro-recall, 38% opposed and 14% undecided.   
      
   Criminal justice experts say a prosecutor’s policies are   
   unlikely to cause immediate shifts in crime. Property and   
   violent crimes fell in San Francisco during Boudin’s first two   
   years in office. Homicides have increased since 2019, when the   
   city had its fewest killings in 50 years.   
      
   But recall supporters have told a simple, yet effective, story   
   of a radical district attorney who has worsened many of the   
   city’s ills.   
      
      
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