San Francisco board rebrands 'convicted felon'

[WNYresident]

San Francisco board rebrands 'convicted felon' as 'justice-involved person,' sanitizes other crime lingo

Crime-ridden San Francisco has introduced new sanitized language for criminals, getting rid of words such as “offender” and “addict” while changing “convicted felon” to “justice-involved person.”


The Board of Supervisors adopted the changes last month even as the city reels from one of the highest crime rates in the country and staggering inequality exemplified by pervasive homelessness alongside Silicon Valley wealth.


The local officials say the new language will help change people’s views about those who commit crimes.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san...nvolved-person

The local officials say the new language will help change people’s views about those who commit crimes.

If someone commits a crime and many do it multiple times why change people's view?

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, from now on a convicted felon or an offender released from custody will be known as a “formerly incarcerated person,” or a “justice-involved” person or just a “returning resident.”

So will a pedophile no longer be on a watch list and be allowed to live next to a school or daycare because they are now just a "returning resident"? No different than someone who moved away and decided to move back to an area?


I saw this comment on the article

Victims are now to be referred to as "Recipients of unrequested violence."

[grump]

By any chance did they come up for a new nomenclature for the hundreds of people who routinely take a dump on public sidewalks there every day of the week? Hey, I’ve got one. We’ll call them Democratic Totalitarians because that’s what they are.