A rise in unsettling crimes like shootings, home burglaries, and anti-Asian hate gave San Franciscans an overwhelming sense they weren't safe, and voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin this week. Now what?

Stop Crime SF spent six months pursuing a public records request to get case outcome data from District Attorney Chesa Boudin. After facing refusals and resistance every step of the way, we finally prevailed. Here’s what we found.

Will we hold deadly fentanyl dealers accountable in San Francisco? The human cost is a record number of overdose deaths. Yet police arrest the same dealers repeatedly while time in custody has plummeted under District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Read the data memo on drug dealer arrests released by SFPD.

San Francisco’s district attorney publishes a data dashboard called DA Stat. But there’s a problem. It doesn’t say what happens to cases beyond the filing of charges. This makes it difficult to measure Chesa Boudin’s effectiveness because the outcomes of cases — not mere charges — are what matter. And outcomes are a mystery on DA Stat.

A City Hall-commissioned study says police staffing in San Francisco is “severely inadequate.” Can we replenish the force with a new generation who embrace police reforms, are trained in de-escalation, and are truly committed to serving their communities?

Much of the publicly available crime data in San Francisco doesn’t tell the full story, especially when it comes to domestic violence crimes. Transparent crime data that is easily accessible to the public is essential for improving public safety.