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New San Francisco police chief inherits city divided by race
AP via SFGATE ^ | May 21, 2016 | Paul Elias

Posted on 05/22/2016 3:38:49 PM PDT by EveningStar

First, police fatally shot two minority suspects carrying knives. Then transcripts surfaced showing officers using racial slurs in text messages. Finally, a young black woman was shot dead as police tried to pull her from a stolen car.

The woman's shooting death Thursday was the tipping point for San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who forced Police Chief Greg Suhr to step down after months of mounting pressure.

The new chief inherits the daunting task of turning around a troubled department in a city deeply divided by race — and doing it fast.

"Reforms, reforms, reforms," acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin said Friday when asked about his priorities.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: affordablehousing; afroturf; astroturf; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; california; demagogicparty; edlee; gregsuhr; leo; liberalhypocrisy; mayor; mayoredlee; police; policechief; redistribution; reparations; sanfrancisco; toneychaplin; whiteprivilege
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To: EveningStar

Impossible. Only racist, bigioted Republican areas have race issues. Smart, open-minded, inclusive progressive cities don’t have any issues with race at all.


21 posted on 05/22/2016 4:18:46 PM PDT by matt04
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To: EveningStar

Blacks make up only 6% in Sa Francisco. Yet they have to get a black Police Chief to deal with their problems?

It appears the objective is to treat black offenders, with gentle hands, when they are caught involved with crimes.


22 posted on 05/22/2016 4:18:58 PM PDT by truth_seeker (#NeverHillary#NeverBernie)
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To: truth_seeker

We need a national holiday for cops. Don’t show up for work. We will learn to appreciate them.


23 posted on 05/22/2016 4:25:52 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

the real division is people vs queers


24 posted on 05/22/2016 4:28:18 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: EveningStar

The last SF sheriff left for incompetence in the course of protecting the citizenry when he had a formal policy of not turning over illegal immigrant criminals to the feds as the feds requested and when ICE requested a criminal with a record of 7 arrests who had been deported 5 times be turned over he instead released the criminal who then killed a young woman in SF.

This last SF police chief is released for competence in the course of protecting the citizenry when one of his officers shot a fleeing criminal.

Seems to me whether a candidate is competent or not,the candidate would be ill advised to take a top cop job in a left wing loon city.


25 posted on 05/22/2016 4:30:45 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: EveningStar

As long as any blame can be assigned to the normal minority, things will go fine. Just never ever do anything to offend any cog the abnormal majority.


26 posted on 05/22/2016 4:44:55 PM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: EveningStar

“Reforms, reforms, reforms,” acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin said Friday when asked about his priorities.

Maybe the “people” (aka creatures) of SF should consider some “reform” in their “culture”.


27 posted on 05/22/2016 4:55:52 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The answer: To frustrate FOIA requests and conceal the money laundering of bribes thru the CGCI!)
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To: doug from upland
I thought they were divided by freak show people and non freak show people.

I was there last month, and I thought there were far more freak show people than non freak show people.

28 posted on 05/22/2016 5:10:55 PM PDT by Mark17 (I traded my shackles for a glorious song. I'm free, praise the Lord, free at last.)
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To: EveningStar

what “reforms”...decriminalize robbing people and carjacking?...threatening people or the cops with a knife?


29 posted on 05/22/2016 5:12:41 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Jack Hammer

Pass out free condoms, free needles, and free pipes....the police are cool again


30 posted on 05/22/2016 5:20:32 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: dfwgator

And to remain silent with glee as gentrification chases them to Oakland and Richmond


31 posted on 05/22/2016 5:41:54 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget #BoycottRoss Women & children hurt the most)
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To: EveningStar
I remember riding a streetcar in San Francisco when my car was on the fritz. The car was almost full of whites and Asians, and there was one black teenager. No one was arguing. The black kid got off at his stop, then immediately swung some sort of club at the window closest to the door. The impact was very loud, and the glass shattered. No one said anything. The streetcar driver started driving. Incident over.

Just another day in RAAACIST San Francisco.

32 posted on 05/22/2016 5:49:25 PM PDT by TChad
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To: EveningStar

Never trust someone who spells Tony, “Toney.”


33 posted on 05/22/2016 5:54:04 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary)
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To: EveningStar

SFO is driving out blacks as fast as they can. In five years or less, problem solved.


34 posted on 05/22/2016 5:54:13 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: EveningStar
So holding a knife is unarmed if you're black.

Good to know.

35 posted on 05/22/2016 6:08:00 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
First, police fatally shot two minority suspects carrying knives. Then transcripts surfaced showing officers using racial slurs in text messages. Finally, a young black woman was shot dead as police tried to pull her from a stolen car. The woman's shooting death Thursday was the tipping point for San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who forced Police Chief Greg Suhr to step down after months of mounting pressure... "Reforms, reforms, reforms," acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin said Friday when asked about his priorities.
Which means, SF will become the first gated municipality, even more segregated than before. What ratty housing left will be gotten rid of, and more posh secure housing. And even more liberal will be the demagogues there.
36 posted on 05/22/2016 6:20:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: dfwgator
Easy to be liberal when there aren’t a lot of blacks in your city, because you price them out.

I would challenge that statement. The blacks left by their own choice. They cashed out, selling high-priced homes for cheaper homes across the Bay. There has been an exodus in the last few decades, from over 15 percent to 6 percent now. Most decided to take the money and run to cheaper housing. Sell a home in SF for $800K, buy another in the East Bay for under $400K. Easy math. The other reason is that techies are moving into the city for the tech boom. Mostly whites and Asians taking tech jobs(I.T., biotech, medical etc.) A lot of blacks don't want to study hard sciences and seek those jobs. The industrial jobs are in the East Bay. Blacks aren't priced out, no more than whites and asians are priced out. Those that can do, stay, those who can't do, leave.

37 posted on 05/22/2016 6:26:14 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: dfwgator

I think the other slant to the issue is that only 38-percent of the residents were born there in California. It’s a city made up of people who moved there, and aren’t part of the traditional San Francisco culture. Almost a third of the city wasn’t even born within the US.


38 posted on 05/22/2016 9:05:13 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: EveningStar

hmmm “time and distance.”

The knife had not yet penetrated your throat, therefore you could have talked him out of killing you. Instead you shot him, now you have to stand trial for murder.


39 posted on 05/22/2016 9:05:52 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: EveningStar

What’s the problem, San Francisco is a Sanctuary City.

Murderers need Sanctuary, no matter what color they are.


40 posted on 05/22/2016 9:11:14 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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