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> off duty SFPD hired by the USBID Sounds like a perverse incentive to me

• alephnerd 3y ago
  Might be, but Union Square, Lower Nob Hill, and Tenderloin all fall under the SFPD's Tenderloin Prescinct - which has seen recruiting and staffing collapse (doesn't help that Tenderloin PD needs officers fluent in Arabic, Vietnamese, Teochow, Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin, Pashto, Nepali, Spanish, Mayan, and Khmer due to the demographics of the neighborhood). There's a very real issue of understaffing and underfunding which leads to the issues that exist with SFPD today. The exact same neglect and funding crisis is impacting SFUSD, SFMTA, and other public institutions in the city. Normally, I'm not a fan of privatization, but Rincon Hill and Mission Bay have both proven that public services are better provided by the private management those neighborhoods have.