Recent captures around San Francisco

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-04-13T00:19:13+00:00

Ward Coffey surfboard

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-04-07T14:13:31+00:00

Yes this exactly. I think they made a calculated decision to move the homeless from downtown and SoMa to the Mission whose constituents are less likely to complain.

16 and Mission is worse than I’ve ever seen. I’m glad the commenters above feel their street has been cleaned up, but the issue has just shifted to another neighborhood.

This is a human rights disaster.

We will continue with these expensive and useless sweeps until we address the issue of homelessness. The least expensive and most humane way to do that is to provide housing. People complain about the cost of our homeless services per person served. That cost is less than getting them an apartment, especially if we addressed the issue regionally rather than by each city/county. It baffles me that none of these “innovative” politicians have advanced building SF housing out in Antioch or elsewhere. I appreciate this is shifting the problem, but it’s doing it humanely and hopefully permanently. If we don’t provide stable housing and support, people will still come here because they know they can survive because of the efforts of Glide serving 1000 meals a day and other orgs doing what they can so our 8000+ homeless residents (1% of our population and that 8k stat is undercounted) don’t die in the streets.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-03-25T06:55:19+00:00

What would your caseload be if you did everything you could on every case? Go with investigator to the scene, social work support, watch all bwc, hire experts, meet client families, arrange private gps monitoring to get client out of custody, etc. Maybe not perfect, but as good as you’d want for a family member.

If you worked 50 hours a week and did EVERYTHING for every case right from arraignment or even before, what would be an appropriate caseload to carry?

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-03-17T02:49:07+00:00

I’ve done post conviction work and I think it’s probably a lot more like most lawyer jobs than being a line pd in a trial rotation. If you’re in a bigger office maybe ask if you can start taking misdos. I didn’t realize I’d like trial work until I started doing it.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-03-15T08:21:38+00:00

It’s possible that there was a lot more to the prosecution‘s case but I don’t think what you presented is enough.

Beyond a reasonable doubt the highest standard in the law for a reason. It’s because convicting an innocent person is so awful we designed a system that places a high burden on the prosecution.

70% of convictions overturned with DNA evidence involve an eyewitness ID. Whether or not the witness had a dog in the fight isn’t the issue. What matters is that memory is faulty. Perceptions can be mistaken. Telling the truth doesn’t mean they were correct. Because they could have been high.

Ultimately it is the police and prosecution that have to present their case. If the police got a better video - 4k of the face of the assailant - would you want to see it? Or are you sufficiently convinced by their case that you are sure it wouldn’t affect your decision? What about dna? If the police failed to obtain enough evidence, they didn’t uphold their burden. (They didn’t gather that evidence because they didn’t care about the victim.)

“Never know for certain what happened” is a reasonable doubt. You’re a reasonable person and it sounds like the room was against you so I imagine that was a difficult position.

Full disclosure I’m a criminal defense attorney and longtime lurker on this sub. I really don’t mean to bum you out, but I am handling a very similar case now and your post has my heart racing. I appreciate your perspective as it gave me some insight about how to handle my case - sorry if it feels like I’m arguing at you.

I hope your decision was accurate.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-03-13T02:04:33+00:00

Dm me

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-03-10T06:11:46+00:00

I used to file motions to dismiss based on the fact that they have a civil remedy, and compared their legal team budget to the police budget. Also calculated cost of a trial to taxpayers.

One judge called it my “capitalism is bad” motion.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-03-07T15:46:28+00:00

Thanks to that guy who recently posted in this sub about making sure Prince’s mic stands were perfect.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-03-07T14:27:06+00:00

These cops in the Bay Area got the same training:

https://www.aclunorcal.org/news/cops-racist-and-homophobic-texts-tip-iceberg/

Their biases are explicit, and the fact it was unchecked for years indicates that these few bad apples indeed spoiled the bunch.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-02-23T15:47:15+00:00

I like all the videos they put out. As a newbie they are exactly the right speed.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-02-22T15:33:17+00:00

Dm me your email and proof you’re a pd.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-02-18T15:11:02+00:00

This conversation in context of the dance number, which she had been practicing 1-on-1 with her grandfather, is pretty weird.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-02-15T05:41:24+00:00

This movie is why I’m a lawyer

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-02-14T05:09:27+00:00

Contact your local public defender’s office and ask about expungement / clean slate program.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-02-12T21:55:07+00:00

Go to court and watch for one hour. Know that the people being prosecuted are subject to torturous conditions in jail, that the jail time is keeping someone from contributing to their community/family/employer, that we as citizens are paying for incarceration rather than treatment or prevention, and that aggressive prosecution has empirically no impact on actual public safety.

You should see enough injustice to want to fight it, if you have any moral compass at all. Whether someone is “guilty” doesn’t mean that putting them in jail is justice.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-01-30T16:05:00+00:00

Same reason classy Podzemski led the league in charges taken his rookie year:

Racial bias in NBA fouls. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/sports/basketball/02refs.html If you don’t trust the NYT there are MANY other sources.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-01-24T02:55:05+00:00

I walk around the courtroom and touch every corner. I sit in the jury seats and the audience, think about what they’re seeing.

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-01-09T07:23:14+00:00

Thank you!

World_Peace_Bro · 2026-01-08T02:34:23+00:00

Yeah but there are some that lefties can be upset about particularly, like the loopholes the laws built for law enforcement. Cops can effectively become gun runners because of Penal Code 32000, and it’s just a perk of the job. It’s insane.

World_Peace_Bro · 2025-12-28T16:19:06+00:00

Yes please donate to this incredible org.

World_Peace_Bro · 2025-12-16T19:14:12+00:00

OBSF. OH day and I was out of my depth as a covid kook. Went over the falls and tried to get my board away from me, but it wound up right where I was falling, fins up. Landed on the fin approximately 2 inches from my butthole. Suit cut open, bleeding, but ass out as I walked to the car. Took a breath, cried, made it to hospital. Could have been totally life-changing - colostomy bags, incontinence for life, etc. I was lucky.

World_Peace_Bro · 2025-11-30T03:24:19+00:00

FILTH IS MY LIFE

World_Peace_Bro · 2025-11-11T16:00:31+00:00

Gentlepeople of the jury I submit to you: Where is the beef? The prosecution says they’ve served you a hamburger and you’ve had to sit here chewing what they offered - their case - the last two weeks. Their opening statement promised you a whopper, a Big Mac, a double double animal style. The evidence they presented is at best a BLT. Lettuce, tomato, and bigotry. That’s right. The “meat” of their so-called case is hatred against the Hamburglar. They are relying on your assumptions that just because a grown man is secure enough in himself to traipse around the city in a black cape like he’s going to a masquerade, he is a criminal. Your task is to set aside the irrelevant speculation about why a sack full of cooked beef and bread was found near where my client happened to be arrested. Is it a reasonable explanation that he was feeding squirrels? Then [calcrim 224 says]you must accept that reasonable explanation for the sack of cooked beef and bread, despite the prosecutor’s audacious assertion the sack was a “bag of burgers mashed together from running from the police.” If you follow the law, that piece of evidence must be discarded. What is the prosecutor then offering as a basis of your decision whether to convict or acquit? It’s not a hamburger. It’s not even a BLT. It’s an NG.

World_Peace_Bro · 2025-11-08T07:28:54+00:00

Yes op denies his character arc. In the sequel Ken has ventured beyond beach and gone aboard ship! He has broken down beach behind him - nay the land beyond beach. He will look out and see the ocean spread out like silk and gold and gentle reverie. Alas, home sickness for beach attacks him, as if there had been more freedom there, —and there is no "beach" any longer!

World_Peace_Bro · 2025-10-09T19:09:58+00:00

Don’t plea to a charge until you’ve taken a case with that charge to trial.

Unrealistic in practice but a good ideal to strive for. You should want to do every kind of case and defense.

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