This was my reaction as well. The justification of this is pretty obvioulsy, police love [d-cking around with] Police State surveillance tools, which have as

This was my reaction as well. The justification of this is pretty obvioulsy, police love [d-cking around with] Police State surveillance tools, which have as much allure as their military cosplay as well as providing a rich vein of feeding off public funding and associated grift payback and political donation. The actual use case which translates into public safety, especially with respect to property crime and the cluster of adjacent unenforced lifestyle-degrading failures of SF policing, seem to in no way justify the expenditure. And that is 100x as true because plain old community policing consistently proves infinitely better return on value. Not that actual proven return on value ever provokes investment in plain old community and social welfare, in our current dystopia...