S.F. had crime problems long before Boudin

I have lived in San Francisco’s Mission District for 25 years and remember the time before it gentrified. Car break-ins happened all the time. Shoplifting and occasional robberies were part of our corner store’s cost of doing business. I had to be careful walking at night to avoid the risk of robbery.

Nobody blamed the district attorney or the cops for the problem. But now every crime in San Francisco is somehow District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s fault. In reality, crime is socially caused, and locking more people up will not stop it. Prison turns young people into career criminals and should be used only for the worst cases, as Boudin is doing. Vote no on the Proposition H recall.

David Spero, San Francisco