BREAKING NEWS – San Francisco, California – San Francisco’s district attorney is proposing creating an auto-burglary-assistance fund that would reimburse residents for the cost required to repair shattered windows from break-ins.
The DA, Chesa Boudin, is proposing using $1.5 million from the mayor’s office to fill the fund. If it passes, it could be the country’s first fund of this kind.
“Auto burglaries are the No. 1 way people in San Francisco are directly impacted by crime,” Boudin said in the San Francisco Chronicle. “However, we are also going to make it a crime for people to leave anything valuable in their cars, which entices crooks to bust out their windows. And the crooks will be allowed to sue the car owners, for contributing to their desire to burglarize the parked vehicles.”