On May 26, 2022, 12 days before the eventual ouster of then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin, Brooke Jenkins lashed out at her former boss for failing crime victims.

Make reference to a San Francisco Chronicle column citing five DA employees who said Boudin had ignored victims, Jenkins tweeted that Boudin was “twirling his pen, without eye contact” during a meeting with the mother of a murdered child: “These are the black voices he ignores and tries to silence because they do not feed his agenda,” Jenkins wrote.

In a subsequent tweet, Jenkins referenced reports from the Chronicle which found that 20 of the 42 employees of the District Attorney’s Victim Services Division had left the office. This, Jenkins wrote, revealed Boudin’s lack of commitment to crime victims.

“That is precisely why it should be removed,” he said. wrote.

Now, more than two years into his tenure and a day before Jenkins faces a re-election vote, his own Victim Services Division has seen an even greater exodus than Boudin’s, and has recently been plagued by missteps which critics call major mismanagement.

Twenty-eight of the 48 Victim Services Division staff members have left Jenkins’ office since he was sworn in on July 8, 2022, according to the district attorney’s office, eight more than the number who resigned under Boudin in a shorter period of time. and which, according to Jenkins, demanded his dismissal.

The Victim Services Division had 48 employees, meaning 58 percent of the office left Jenkins’ office for 849 days, compared to 48 percent who left Boudin’s office for 869 days. The unit currently has 43 employees, according to the district attorney’s office.

“Morale is at an all-time low,” said one former member of the unit, citing the high level of turnover. Like other former and current members of the office, they requested anonymity for fear of professional retaliation. “We used to help victims of violent crimes connect to services and begin their path to recovery. “Our unity is not about that anymore.”

Instead, the former worker said, the unit has become less structured and both advocates and leaders are “unprotected.”