Critics of Boudin, a former public defender whose parents were convicted of a 1981 armored car robbery that left three people dead, including two police officers, have argued that crime has reached “crisis” levels and that Boudin has failed to keep people safe.
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City officials said this year that certain crimes, including homicides and burglaries, have risen in the last two years, while other crimes have fallen. Rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies have all declined since 2019, the officials said.
Boudin, who ran on a platform of ending mass incarceration, eliminating cash bail and creating a unit to review wrongful convictions, has pointed to reform-minded policies as successes and pushed back against the campaign to oust him.
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