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> The police have by and large abdicated any sense of personal, professional or civic responsibility. The SFPD police department are heavily scrutinized, unde
by dimitrios1 5y ago
> The police have by and large abdicated any sense of personal, professional or civic responsibility.
The SFPD police department are heavily scrutinized, understaffed, underfunded, undertrained, and unsupported by higher levels of political officials, whom ironically carry around their own private security detail wherever they go in SF, who seek to villainize them for their own political gain. The DA's office throws everything out. You have "defund the police" clueless types abound.
The fact that SF has anyone who is willing to do that work in that city is nothing short of a miracle.
- blululu 5y agoMaybe, though as a taxpayer, my perspective is more that they are overstaffed and overfunded since I see next to nothing in services coming from that department. Maybe throwing more money at an inefficient government agency will work on this one, but generally it’s not that hard to find people who will do nothing for good Union wages (would be different if they were doing their jobs). Yeah Boudin sucks. Even Gascon was perhaps too lenient as well, but the Union is also just using this as an excuse to justify their refusal to enforce any laws. It’s possible for multiple levels of government to be broken, and I see no reason to think that SFPD deserves any benefit of the doubt here.