Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin takes new job, won’t run for office

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco’s polarizing former top prosecutor has announced he will not run for his old job in 2024. Chesa Boudin said Wednesday he starts a new job as executive director of a new criminal law research and advocacy center at the University of California, Berkeley’s law school. Boudin was ousted as district attorney in a divisive recall election last year. His critics said his progressive attitude toward crime was making the city less safe. Boudin’s parents were leftist radicals who spent decades in prison for their role in a botched 1981 heist of a Brink’s armored truck. Boudin was replaced by Brooke Jenkins.