Posted on 02/26/2021 10:48:34 AM PST by blam
San Francisco Mayor London Breed released a plan Thursday to redistribute $120 million from the city’s law enforcement budget to projects aimed at helping the city’s black minority.
Bay Area public radio station KQED reported:
San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced a plan for how the city will spend $120 million over the next two years, pulled from law enforcement budgets, to reinvest in the city’s long-underserved Black communities.
“The Dream Keeper Initiative,” as it’s dubbed, increases investments in workforce development, health campaigns, youth and cultural programs and housing support. The allocations reflect spending priorities conveyed by Black residents during a series of community meetings and public surveys led last year by the city’s Human Rights Commission, Breed said.
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Black people make up only about 5% of San Francisco’s population — a proportion that has consistently decreased in the last 50 years — but make up nearly 40% of its homeless residents. Black residents have among the city’s highest mortality rates and lowest median household incomes, and are involved in a disproportionately high percentage of police use-of-force incidents.
Breed is the city’s first African-American mayor.
The city’s plan follows similar plans in Los Angeles, where Mayor Eric Garcetti promised last year to cut up to $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department — more than 10% of the total — for investment in “communities of color.”
The move was a response to activists’ demands to “defund the police,” which accompanied the Black Lives Matter protests.
San Francisco is in the midst of a massive crime wave, with homicides rising 35% in 2020. The city has also become synonymous with petty crime and public nuisances...
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That’s a lot of basketballs.
what could possibly go wrong?
Black people in the area: Hey, we want reparations in cash to us personally. This indirect, symbolic stuff doesn’t wash.
Watch the crime rate explode.
Meanwhile, car break ins and Knockout Game beatdowns and Homeless colonies steadily increase in that city.
The Mayor is making a racist, myopic decision with city funds. Fiscal Windowdressing.
On one hand, I don’t care, it’s their tax money. However, how is this even remotely constitutional to collect taxes from the general public based upon a budget, I assume was passed, and then redistribute the money collected for one purpose based solely on race? How can you distribute general revenue with race being the fundamental testing criteria?
I feel for folks of every skin color who can’t afford to leave.
Black people in the area: Hey, we want reparations in cash to us personally. This indirect, symbolic stuff doesn’t wash.
They will get that and special free lodging at what used to be 4 or 5 star hotels.
what could possibly go wrong?
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(music, please)
If you’re going to San Francisco,
Be sure you watch your back and carry heat,
Cause if you’re going to San Francisco,
just one thing’s sure,
there’s no cop on his beat.
Will any of that money come from the mayor’s security detail?
Just curious.
Last I knew CA was getting over $400 bil a year from federal taxpayers.
Money is fungible.
Care now?
I guess Mayor Willie Brown was a privileged white dude. If they can call Kamala Harris black, I guess Willie Brown can be called white. Who hires these copy editors?
Well you could go nearly anywhere and find a lower cost of living....
So it’s actually bureaucrat support money.
I want them to stay exactly where they are and enjoy what they voted for.
I bet not a dime goes to the black community. It will only go to a select few. The common person will once again get screwed.
And probably 80% of the crime. That money should go to Asian, Latino and Whites who are victimized by the blacks in SF.
“Breed is the city’s first African-American mayor. “
Has anyone told Willie Brown this shocking fact?
Can’t afford to leave?
The problem is how can anyone afford to stay. Average rent for a Frisco apartment is $3,000 per month.
And that is 18% DOWN from last year.
https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/san-francisco/
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