The Miseducation of George Gascón

I’m not hiding the fact that George Gascón tried to ruin my life, it’s no secret, I <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07THM13RH" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">wrote a book</a> about it, and I <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-cyclist-prosecuted-for-fatally-striking-15036938.php" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">ran political attack ads</a> against him during the primaries. Of course I’m biased beyond belief, but that’s because I had a deeply personal experience with him. He’s literally all over the news every day and I guess I’m just not educated enough to keep my mouth shut. So here goes: this guy is rotten to the core. With my apologies to the law-and-order cohort, it’s actually not his policies. In addition to lining up with all of the modern criminal justice research, Gascón’s “radical” platform doesn’t seem quite as crazy if you accept the premise that the criminal justice system is little more than the modern extension of slavery, which it unquestionably is. But he’s in a tough spot, because there are a lot of centrists from both parties who are having a hard time parting with their outdated notions that punishment deters crime. (<a href="https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterrence" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">It doesn’t</a>.) In fact, nearly 30,000 of them have already gathered in a “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/recallgeorgegascon" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Recall George Gascon</a>” Facebook group, hell of a first week on the job, even by Gascón standards. <a href="https://bucchere.medium.com/the-miseducation-of-george-gasc%C3%B3n-77619be15879">Read More</a>