Former public defender in San Francisco. Now a visiting associate professor of clinical law.
Joined February 2009
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1 Apr 2022
THREAD: There’s a lot of talk right now about crime in San Francisco. Almost everything you’ll read in the mainstream press is wrong. I live in the Tenderloin and work in the courts every day. Here’s my take on what’s happening and why.
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Peter Calloway retweeted
25 Jul 2025
Always glad to see anyone wake up, but it’s an absolute indictment of the center-left, such as it is, that it took pics of dying, skeletal babies w trash bags for diapers to muster this pale response. Subtext: we can stomach mass bombings, but starvation is a bridge too far.
25 Jul 2025
Fascinating shift on Israel in the last few days from a very wide range of center-left politicians & voices that had previously defended the country’s conduct
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Peter Calloway retweeted
6 May 2025
🚨 ICE is conducting raids in DC today and they've been spotted in various spots, incl Fort Totten, Dupont Circle, and K Street.
DC folks in need of legal support can contact Amica Center for Immigrant Rights at (202) 331-3320. More via @MigrantInsider: migrantinsider.com/p/ice-rai…
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Peter Calloway retweeted
16 Apr 2025
This scene gets even worse when you read that ICE may not even have been going after the right guy and this man has full lawful status as a derivative beneficiary of his wife’s asylum win.
ICE hasn’t provided any reason for why they arrested him or why he’s being detained. None.
15 Apr 2025
A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive.
This is the kind of scene you’d expect in Russia. Secretive arrests, shattered glass, no criminal record—just fear and force. And now it’s happening on American soil.
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Peter Calloway retweeted
20 Mar 2025
I cannot begin to tell you how much community labor went into filing this. It is, to date, the largest civil rights suit filed in defense of Palestine solidarity activism on a university campus.
For more information, also see: peoplevucla.com
theintercept.com/2025/03/20/…
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Peter Calloway retweeted
19 Mar 2025
Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
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Peter Calloway retweeted
25 Feb 2025
Being a large corporation is great because when you steal money from people instead of prison or even a punitive fine you just say “oops sorry jk” and payback what you stole and everyone moves on. This option, weirdly, is not available for people who shoplift razors from CVS.
24 Feb 2025
DoorDash to pay NY delivery workers $17 million for using their tips to cover wages apnews.com/article/doordash-…
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Peter Calloway retweeted
19 Feb 2025
We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, @GlomarResponder as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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Peter Calloway retweeted
16 Feb 2025
You passionately supported the premiere murderer of the overwhelming majority of these journalists: Israel. It’s astonishing you would have the audacity to tweet this given your personal role in facilitating Israel’s killing spree unleashed again our colleagues.
15 Feb 2025
124 journalists were killed last year. The deadliest year for reporters on record.
A free press is at the core of democracy. It is necessary to safeguard human rights.
We must keep up the work to protect journalists from coercion and murder, and safeguard their critical work.
Community note
Out of the 124 journalists who were killed in 2024, it's reported from CPJ that 82 were killed at the hands of the Israeli military in Gaza and Lebanon amid the war.
Killings of journalists also occurred in Sudan, Pakistan, Mexico, Syria, Myanmar, Iraq and Haiti.
cbsnews.com/news/journalis…
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Peter Calloway retweeted
6 Feb 2025
The health, social, and economic harms of incarceration extend far beyond the people behind bars to their children, families, and entire communities
New data shows that as jail incarceration rates increase, so do county death rates
Mass incarceration is a public health crisis
ALT Graph titled: As jail incarceration rates increase, so do county death rates
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Peter Calloway retweeted
12 Feb 2025
Today I issued Letter of Inquiry into the dangerous San Francisco police chase that sent 6 people, including a mother and child, to the hospital, resulted in two car crashes, and destroyed a parklet on Super Bowl Sunday (1/6)
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Peter Calloway retweeted
11 Feb 2025
Nine paragraphs into today's NYT story on the situation with the Gaza ceasefire, readers are informed that Israeli officials and international mediators "said that Hamas’s claims were accurate."
11 Feb 2025
As it has been for 15 months, the narrative about who is obstructing a Gaza ceasefire is upside down. Since the ceasefire officially went into effect Jan. 19, Israel has repeatedly violated it by shooting & killing Palestinians and continuing to withhold aid, tents, mobile homes.
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29 Jan 2025
How do you think MLK would have voted on the Laken Riley Act? I wonder whether you seriously considered the harm your yes vote helped enable. Either way, you should be ashamed.
20 Jan 2025
Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
His words and actions remain an inspiration to us all as we work to build the future he dreamed of for our communities and country.
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28 Jan 2025
Nothing San Francisco has done to criminalize drug use and homelessness has helped anyone. Least of all those suffering. Incredible Dorsey wants us to ignore that his own past (and recent) drug use did not subject him to state violence.
28 Jan 2025
Nothing San Francisco has done to tolerate or enable public drug use has helped anyone — least of all those captured by deadly addictions. Thank you, Mayor @DanielLurie, for an ambitious start to bring solutions as big as the problems Sixth Street is facing.
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Peter Calloway retweeted
24 Jan 2025
Laken Riley is not a border security bill. It’s odd to see the Latino split when it’s Mexican nationals & Mexican-Americans who will be the most impacted by its enforcement provisions, based on the fact that Latinos in border states are already subject to warrantless enforcement
24 Jan 2025
Democrats can no longer afford to do nothing on border security. It’s not an option.
They played that game for decades and blew up in their face.
No more moral victories especially when real people are being hurt.
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Peter Calloway retweeted
20 Jan 2025
Protect your neighbors from Trump. Share:
🚨 If you or your loved one is *arrested by ICE, know this: YOU HAVE RIGHTS.
All 5 videos. 7 languages. At wehaverights.us.
Watch and share:
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Peter Calloway retweeted
21 Jan 2025
As long as you support Israel's genocide of Palestinians, the ADL will have your back no matter how big a Nazi you are.
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Peter Calloway retweeted
10 Jan 2025
"I have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research at Columbia." ccrjustice.org/home/press-ce…
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Peter Calloway retweeted
4 Jan 2025
Arresting people for drug use is not a serious strategy for San Francisco.
It has been the strategy for San Francisco since 2021. And it has FAILED.
The biggest problem? There is not enough treatment infrastructure!
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