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The man suspected of stabbing two Asian American women on a San Francisco sidewalk was reportedly released early from a 25-year prison sentence due to a left-wing criminal justice diversion program. Years before allegedly stabbing two elderly woman at a Tenderloin bus stop, Patrick Thompson, now 54, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon in 2017 and sent to a mental institution, according to the San Francisco Chronicle – but he was granted entry into a mental health diversion program in 2019, "successfully" completing it in August 2020. A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation deferred...

A city police officer charged last year with stealing more than $300 worth of Harry Potter merchandise from Universal Studios Florida returned to the force Friday, after completing a diversion program for first-time offenders. As part of an arbitration panel's 2-1 vote to reinstate him, Officer Henry A. Rogowski, 50, will not receive back-pay and will be monitored through the city's Track 3 program for rehabilitation, police union attorney Bryan Campbell confirmed. Assigned to the warrant office, Officer Rogowski risks termination if he receives discipline within a two-year probation period.