A year after the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, and 11 months into the tenure of his former-colleague-turned-bitter-opponent Brooke Jenkins as DA, reports of violent crime are up 5.5 percent across San Francisco…

Experts cautioned, however, that crime rates cannot be laid at the feet of district attorneys, despite politicians’ rhetoric and voters’ beliefs.

“The causes of crime and the causes of changes in crime rates are complicated, multiple and often mysterious,” said Professor Robert Weisberg, the co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.

Violent crime, in particular, is often “opportunistic and impulsive,” Weisberg said, and involves “gripes, insults, angry vengeance” where the prosecutorial conduct of the local DA is a far-flung concern for a criminal.