This is some dystopian cyberpunk bullshit. SF spends a crap-ton on policing. Spending which apparently doesn’t do any good since the police can’t seem to do any

This is some dystopian cyberpunk bullshit. SF spends a crap-ton on policing. Spending which apparently doesn’t do any good since the police can’t seem to do anything. Try calling the non emergency line. After an hour and a half of it blairing in your ear you’ll hear that someone might show up tomorrow. This “solution” is even worse than the problem. “I’d love to help you citizen, but your policing plan is expired so you’re on the public plan which provides no help and support whatsoever.” I actually feel for the SF police. They can’t recruit because police have a bad name. Instead of trying and failing to recruit into the old guard the city should initiate community policing initiatives. Training and authorization for local communities to police themselves. I don’t need an armed response to go write my neighbor a noise ticket at 4am. I just need someone with authority to investigate and issue the ticket. There are plenty of bike commuters who are infuriated that their bikes have been stolen, but they’re not allowed to investigate and follow up on their own. The police can’t be arsed about bike theft. Put the authority, training and funding into the community and let the community police itself. This is the only way “defund police” works. If you don’t want society to collapse you have to allow communities to replace authoritarian external policing with locally driven initiatives that actually serve public order and safety. Publicly funded community policing. The answer is NOT pay for private. The answer is drastically rethink our approach to policing.