Posted on 11/29/2023 12:40:50 PM PST by Glennb51
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a city charter amendment that will allow voters to choose whether they want to pay for new police officers, Bay City News reported.
If voters approve the amendment, a tax will be added to create a police staffing fund. The fund would reach $16.8 million within the first year, according to the report. The fund would allow the city to set a minimum staffing number of 1,700 officers in the first year.
The minimum staffing number would increase every year until the city reaches a maximum of 2,074 officers, according to the report.
“The proposed measure provides voters with a chance to express whether they desire more police presence,” said Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who voted for the measure.
The department has about 300 fully funded positions currently vacant in its budget, raising concerns that the staffing shortage has more to do with a lack of applicants than a lack of funding, according to the report.
“We have not provided young people and people in community with the excitement of becoming a police officer,” said Supervisor Shamann Walton.
Citizens can vote on the measure March 5, 2024, according to the report.
This should be interesting.
I wonder if the liberals are tired of getting their exercise stepping over needles and piles of sh!t?
They’re screwed.
Felons get to vote on this?
If a Policeman doesn’t get shot in the back by crooks and gangsters, the City of San Francisco will do the shooting.
I, too, wonder if the citizens of SF have any neurons still firing. Judging by my visit two years ago...no, they don’t. They keep electing the same clowns to run the town and the state.
Do it SF! Do it you cowards. Defund the PD. Get rid of every last one of them. Live the life you say you want to live.
What a ripoff. Sucks to live in libtard land. Pay for the suck you stupid idiot libtards
That’s supposed to be one of the reasons people elect Mayors and Governors. Is Mayor Breed now afraid to make any decision at all?
It ain’t about the money.
The cruel truth is that there are people - a significant number - who don't want things to change for criminal reasons or ideological reasons or both. As everyone predicted, it's a lot easier to destroy something than build it, and rebuilding is more difficult still.
"Your family and my family and everyone here tonight made their money out of changing a wilderness into a civilization. That's empire building. There's good money in empire building. But, there's more in empire wrecking.... This empire we're living in--the South--the Confederacy--the Cotton Kingdom--it's breaking up right under our feet. Only most fools won't see it and take advantage of the situation created by the collapse. I'm making my fortune out of the wreckage."
— Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind
So, the great politicians can say, “We didn’t raise your taxes. The People did.”
The desire here is to not vote on something that the liberals might not like. Therefore, they’ll defer to letting the voters vote for it. That way if the funding is increased, they won’t take the heat for it. If the funding is denied, then they’ll have to come up with an alternative plan to get more cops on the beat. It’s the cowardly way out. It’s definitely NOT representative government.
“We have not provided young people and people in community with the excitement of becoming a police officer,”
*And being sent to prison for doing the job* is the unsaid part.
How long before they have to hand out new names and identifications like the old French Foreign Legion in order to recruit the criminal element that will take the job?
SF is going to let them...
I really do not see where a police force of ANY size is useful——
AS LONG AS D A’s do not prosecute & incarcerate for LONG time periods...
CATCH & RELEASE ISN’T WORKING
It is ONLY a case of smoke & mirrors.
So the city will allow the citizens to pay an extra tax that will build a police fund to pay for the police. This allows the city to use the current police funding for pet projects and kickbacks.
Once the funding can support the set number of officers; all remaining funds go to the pet projects and kickbacks.
What could go wrong.
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