Suzanne Theresa Loftus is an American attorney who served as interim San Francisco district attorney, nominated by Mayor London Breed after the resignation of George Gascón. Loftus ran in the 2019 San Francisco District Attorney election, losing narrowly to criminal justice reform advocate Chesa Boudin.
The 2019 San Francisco District Attorney election was held on November 5, 2019, to elect the next District Attorney of San Francisco. The election, which was held alongside the 2019 mayoral election in which incumbent mayor London Breed won her first full term, was won by public defender Chesa Boudin.
Kathy BoudinDavid GilbertChesa Boudin/ParentsGilbert and Kathy Boudin were unarmed getaway drivers. They were charged and convicted under New York's felony murder law, holding that all participants in a felony that leads to a death can be charged with murder even if they were not directly responsible for the killings.Oct 26, 2021
Boudin was elected San Francisco District Attorney in the 2019 election, defeating interim district attorney Suzy Loftus.
The 2022 San Francisco District Attorney recall election is a special recall election due to be held June 7, 2022. The recall, if successful, would remove incumbent District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was elected in 2019, and allow Mayor London Breed to appoint a replacement interim District Attorney.
From 2014 to 2019, between 56,000 and 63,000 total violent and property crimes were recorded. In 2021, there were a total of 49,685 recorded crimes. Burglaries are also still at high rates, with 7,217 recorded in 2021, just a few hundred fewer than the year before but more than 40% higher than 2019 levels.Jan 26, 2022
San Francisco reported crime trends since 2018 While the overall number of reported crimes has been lower during the pandemic, three major crime types — homicides, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts — have increased significantly since 2019.Feb 7, 2022
San Francisco's high property crime rate probably reflects the widening wealth gap that accompanied the tech boom, which flooded the city with jobs and money and drove up the cost of housing, said Magnus Lofstrom, a criminal justice researcher for the Public Policy Institute.Jan 3, 2022
Boudin maintains that the drop in charging rates for theft is mainly due to the reduced operation of San Francisco's court system caused by COVID-19 restrictions. The charging rate for both types of theft increased between 2020 and 2021 as the city reopened, the data shows.Nov 4, 2021
Chesa BoudinSan Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has sent a greater percentage of defendants in robbery, assault and drug cases to diversion programs than his predecessor, while obtaining convictions in a smaller share of those cases, according to data released by his office and analyzed by The Chronicle.Mar 4, 2022
Boudin served 22 years in prison, before getting paroled in August 2003 on her sentence of 20-years-to-life. She now works as an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City.Oct 20, 2021
Valerie BlockChesa Boudin / Spouse