https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/31/897835937/san-francisco-proposes-to-shift-120-million-from-police-to-tackle-rac

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/31/897835937/san-francisco-proposes-to-shift-120-million-from-police-to-tackle-racial-dispari https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia... Not sure how much of these cuts were achieved by the time they reversed the course, in 18 months, but that certainly was the plan, it was announced as such, and had full support of the police chief. Not that by 2020 SF wasn't drowning in feces anyway, so the defund itself certainly wasn't the cause - just another brick in the wall.