As San Francisco celebrates another Juneteenth three years after George Floyd's death, criminal justice reform advocates reflect on what has and hasn't changed in The City.
Monday marks the third celebration of Juneteenth since President Joe Biden declared it a federal holiday — and since Mayor London Breed formally recognized it as one in San Francisco.
“We’re still very much in this George Floyd moment, because this stuff keeps happening,” Brian Cox, a deputy San Francisco public defender in the office’s integrity unit, told The Examiner. “It’s not as if we had a moment where we said, ‘Yes, racism is bad. Black lives matter. We’re good now, right?’
Since Floyd’s death, The City has diverted certain calls from police, instead directing calls about people experiencing mental health crises or homelessness to teams that don’t include armed officers. The San Francisco Police Commission passed a resolution on Wednesday urging Breed and the Board of Supervisors to fund a pilot diverting other 911 and 311 calls to mental health and social workers.
Mayor Breed announced in 2020 that San Francisco would redirect $120 million in law enforcement spending to The City’s Black communities over two years. That year, she reduced the police, sheriff, district attorney and juvenile probation department budgets by about $60 million to fund the Dream Keeper Initiative, a program designed to reinvest in San Francisco’s Black community.
Jenkins’ office has diverted a lower percentage of cases to alternative programs this year than in either of Boudin’s last two years in the same position, according to city data, while convicting a higher percentage of cases than her predecessor. EU takes big step in regulating AI: 'A watershed moment' The EU approved a proposed law that would impose strict rules on the use of AI tools, including those that analyze human emotions in real time
In May, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office formally dismissed manslaughter and assault charges against former police officer Christopher Samayoa — who shot and killed Keita O’Neil, an unarmed Black man suspected of carjacking, during a 2017 chase — and negligent discharge and assault with a firearm charges against Officer Christopher Flores in the 2019 shooting of Jamaica Hampton.
Ahead of Boudin’s recall last year, The Examiner polled 541 likely voters. Sixty-eight percent said they supported sending low-level offenders to diversion programs instead of jail. Those decisions prompted a swift public and political backlash, with the Board of Supervisors asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta or the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate. Bonta’s office has opened an “abuse of discretion” probe.
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