From what I've read, Jenkins had resigned from Boudin's DA office and was a leader in the effort to oust him. Giving the boot to some of his lackeys is a good start, albeit low hanging fruit. The day to day work of getting and keeping thugs and thug-wannabes off the streets will be the hard slog. I don't know whether her making a point about the skin color and gender of her hirees was an empty sop to SF Progs or something less good. A FB friend who works in SF mentioned an incident during their BART ride in which a crazy decided to spray pepper spray around the BART car. If Jenkins really does try to improve things in SF, that's going to take a lot of work ... and doing so might not make her popular with the various activist groups who are insiders with some Board of Stuporvisor members. IOW, if she simply tries to improve the safety of SF - within her role, of course - that will put a big target on her back.
Well, I applaud her efforts. It would've been easy to resign and go to work for a law firm, turning her back on a shambles of a DA's office. She did the right thing by resigning, and then fought the recall battle.
She's off to a great start, seems to me, and let's hope she has the fortitude to clean up the crap -- of course, politics come into play and if the mayor (London Breed) decides she doesn't want to play ball with the new DA, that could also get messy -- even though Breed is the one who appointed Jenkins for the gig in the first place.
Given all the ridiculous crap that usually comes out of SF, this is a step in the right direction for the city.