San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said this week that she has changed her office’s policy and will prosecute children as adults in broader circumstances than what she campaigned on three years ago.
When she ran for office in 2022, Jenkins said she would only try juveniles as adults for crimes that “shock the conscience of the community;” crimes like murder and rape, if they are of a “heinous” nature.
Now, she told the Juvenile Probation Commission in a meeting Wednesday night that the DA’s office will review all murder charges against juvenile defendants, and potentially seek to transfer them to adult court…