Advocates say San Francisco's electronic monitoring system has reduced incarceration and brought important reforms to the city criminal justice system, but critics say it's led to increasingly violent offenders being released who are committing violations with little consequence.
When San Francisco began thinning out its jails in recent years after the state’s cash bail system was upended – judges and prosecutors looked to another system to keep tabs on potentially violent defendants awaiting trial: electronic ankle monitors.
People who are placed on ankle monitoring are ordered to stay within a 50-mile radius of San Francisco as they await trial. Some are placed on house arrest or have curfews that require them to be at home certain hours – for which they earn credits for time served. Among that group, 220 people are awaiting trial for violent crimes like rape, attempted murder, robbery, kidnapping and more. Another 31 had illegal weapons charges – like being a felon in possession of a loaded firearm. And 17 others had violated domestic violence restraining orders.
KTVU went on a ride-along with the sheriff’s department to see the system in action. Kuhns arrested one defendant who is accused of choking his girlfriend with a dog leash. . He picked up at least two more cases after being release and was eventually put on an ankle monitor while he was ordered to attend a drug treatment program. He was arrested in February and charged in the killing of retired police officer Kevin NishitaHale is now serving his full 7-year sentence in state prison in Kern County while homicide charges are pending in Alameda County.
"What we know is the drivers of crime are things like addiction or poverty, economic disparity, mental health – electronic monitoring addresses none of those things," she said. One man who only gave his first name, Frankee, said he understands why many people cut off their monitors. He said he’s consumed by the thought that he’s being constantly tracked by the device.
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