{"id":1981263,"date":"2023-07-24T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chesa-boudin-ousted-san-francisco-da-now-pulls-six-figure-salary-at-uc-berkeley\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T16:23:16","slug":"chesa-boudin-ousted-san-francisco-da-now-pulls-six-figure-salary-at-uc-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chesa-boudin-ousted-san-francisco-da-now-pulls-six-figure-salary-at-uc-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesa Boudin, former SF DA, now earns big at UC Berkeley."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchesa-boudin-ousted-san-francisco-da-now-pulls-six-figure-salary-at-uc-berkeley%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1981263&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Chesa Boudin, Ousted San Francisco DA, Now Pulls Six-Figure Salary at UC Berkeley\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/israel-ignores-biden-and-passes-judicial-reforms\" data-post-url id=\"print-1771644\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>Crime surged in San Francisco after progressive DA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steve-cuozzo-san-francisco-canceled-its-da-who-should-new-york-vote-out\/\" title=\"Steve Cuozzo: San Francisco Canceled Its DA; Who Should New York Vote Out?\">eliminated cash bail<\/a>, refused to prosecute crimes<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>          \u2062 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA &#8211; JUNE 07: \u2063San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin speaks to supporters \u200bduring an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcauliffe-calls-critical-race-theory-a-right-wing-conspiracy-his-union-ally-says-its-needed-to-teach-the-truth\/\" title=\"McAuliffe Calls Critical Race Theory a \u2018Right-Wing Conspiracy.\u2019 His Union Ally Says It\u2019s Needed to \u2018Teach the Truth\u2019\">election-night event<\/a> on June\u200c 07, \u200d2022 in San Francisco, California. \u200bVoters in San\u2062 Francisco \u200drecalled Boudin, who eliminated cash bail, \u200dvowed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-dodges-questions-on-if-administration-should-be-paying-for-more-police-officers\/\" title=\"WATCH: Kamala Dodges Questions On If Administration Should Be \u2018Paying For More Police Officers\u2019\">hold police accountable<\/a> and \u200dworked to reduce the number of people sent to prison. (Photo \u2064by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n     \u2064 \u2063<br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Chesa Boudin, the disgraced former district attorney \u200dof San Francisco who was ousted in a June 2022 recall election, is earning \u200b$210,000 a year \u2063at\u2064 his new job leading a \u200bresearch \u2064and advocacy\u2063 center at UC Berkeley\u2019s law school.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>UC\u200c Berkeley \u200bannounced in May that Boudin\u200d would\u200c head a new center, the Criminal\u200b Law and Justice Center, at the\u2063 public university. Boudin said the \u200bcenter would give him\u200b a better opportunity to create\u2064 &#8220;lasting progress&#8221; than through\u2063 public service. \u200cThe <em>College \u200dFix<\/em> this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/leftist-prosecutor-booted-from-office-gets-210000-job-at-uc-berkeley\/\">obtained<\/a> his contract,\u2062 which revealed his\u2063 salary as well\u2063 as a commitment \u200cfrom the university\u2063 to give\u2063 the center \u200c$400,000 for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my new role, \u2062just\u2062 as I did as\u2062 district attorney, I will continue \u200cto draw on networks of advocates, activists, judges, and legal practitioners to\u200b support reform and advance \u200dsafety in ways that are rigorous, principled, and responsive \u200bto the lived experiences \u2062of\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/berkeley-hires-axed-san-francisco-prosecutor-chesa-boudin-to-train-california-law-students\/\" title=\"Berkeley hires Chesa Boudin, former San Francisco prosecutor, to train CA law students.\">directly impacted communities<\/a>,&#8221; Boudin wrote \u2062in the <em>San \u200dFrancisco Chronicle<\/em> when \u2064his new role\u2064 was announced \u2064in May.<\/p>\n<p>Boudin, who was funded \u2064by\u2064 groups bankrolled by \u200cbillionaire megadonor George\u200b Soros, was \u2063ousted last summer after 55 percent of\u2063 voters elected to recall him. His tenure as a \u200dprosecutor dedicated to\u2064 &#8220;restorative justice&#8221; saw increased crime in San Francisco, which has led to \u200cbusinesses fleeing the city. In 2021, he \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1595484\">prosecuted<\/a> \u2062only\u2062 three drug\u200c cases, zero \u200dof which involved fentanyl, the drug\u2064 that has led to hundreds of overdose deaths in the city in recent years. In\u2063 his first\u2062 year on the job, \u200che\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chesa-boudin-ousted-san-francisco-da-now-pulls-six-figure-salary-at-uc-berkeley\/\" title=\"Chesa Boudin, former SF DA, now earns big at UC Berkeley.\">eliminated cash \u200bbail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco\u200c has continued \u2064its downward\u2062 spiral since Boudin&#8217;s ouster. Office\u200b vacancies in San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/san-francisco-office-vacancy-rate-soars-to-record-high\/\">hit<\/a> \u200ca record-high rate in the second quarter \u200dthis year. Among the companies trying to ditch \u2062their office space in the struggling city that quarter\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/s-f-office-vacancy-record-empty-18171785.php?utm_source=marketing&#038;utm_medium=copy-url-link&#038;utm_campaign=article-share&#038;hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3NmL2FydGljbGUvcy1mLW9mZmljZS12YWNhbmN5LXJlY29yZC1lbXB0eS0xODE3MTc4NS5waHA%3D&#038;time=MTY4NzkzOTE2MTcwOA%3D%3D&#038;rid=YjBhNzE5YWEtNTg1Ny00ZjFhLWFhOTAtZTVmM2Y3MGFjNTYy&#038;sharecount=MQ%3D%3D\">were<\/a> Uber,\u200b Airbnb, and Salesforce.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Democratic mayor, London Breed, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/23\/us\/san-francisco-mayor-election.html?partner=slack&#038;smid=sl-share\">facing<\/a> early opposition in her reelection campaign, including from a former ally who\u200c is building\u200b a \u200dtough-on-crime platform.<\/p>\n<p>Many businesses have cited crime and homelessness in their decision to \u2062close\u200d up shop. Homicides in San\u2064 Francisco have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/tens-of-thousands-flee-san-francisco-as-liberal-leaders-struggle-with-crime-and-homelessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a> nearly\u200b 40 percent from 2020 to 2022, and deaths from\u200b fentanyl have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/california\/california-dems-go-easy-on-fentanyl-dealers-as-overdose-deaths-spike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spiked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Soros <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-i-support-reform-prosecutors-law-enforces-jail-prison-crime-rate-justice-police-funding-11659277441\">defended<\/a> his bankrolling of \u200cprosecutors\u200c in a July\u2062 2022 <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> piece. &#8220;The funds\u200d I provide enable sensible reform-minded candidates to \u200breceive a hearing from the \u200cpublic. Judging by the results, the\u200c public \u200dlikes what it\u2019s hearing,&#8221; Soros wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Law Enforcement Legal Defense\u200b Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/report-soros-prosecutors-run-half-of-americas-largest-jurisdictions\/\">revealed<\/a> \u2063 in 2022 that Soros spent more than $40 million in the past\u200c 10 years to elect 75 progressive prosecutors in half of America&#8217;s largest jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime soared in San Francisco as the progressive DA scrapped cash bail and declined to pursue criminal cases. On June 7, 2022, supporters gathered as voters recalled Chesa Boudin during an election-night event in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1981264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}