So they will be ordering extra “comfy chairs”?
stop letting people piss and crap on the street
It is basic officer safety to get the person down and under control. Sitting is preferable to the person than prone laying face down
It’s to make it harder to run...
I guess they can fill the trunks of the squad cars with folding chairs, but maybe those are not “nice” enough.
Los Angeles and San Francisco fully endorse bummery.
I got cuffed and made to sit on the ground once. I was actually a tangential witness to the fight but they just cuffed everyone. I could have made an issue of it (hell, I was just packing up my gear from playing) but A) I get that cops can’t take chances and B) that’s the breaks for playing a biker gig, adds ‘cred’ plus C) I’m 6’, 200 pounds, look more bad-ass than I am - especially when dressing for the crowd (nice old school American made motorcycle jacket, bandanna).
It’s a fine line - cops need some safety but ACCUSED (or in the wrong place at the wrong time), or even arrested is not the same as being GUILTY of a crime, and sure as hell not the way to engender support for your local police.
OMG!! DO NOT STEP FOOT IN THAT HELLHOLE, SAN FRANCISCO!!
Whether or not it is demeaning, in San Francisco it is certainly dangerous!!
Officer safety is subordinated to prisoner’s comfort. Perfectly consistent for a city that lets bums crap on the sidewalks but will ticket the owner of a dog that does. That’s what they think about people. Not demeaning at all!
So the police chief is a PC snowflake. Great! As an aside, being in san francisco is demeaning.
Fine, hog tie them and feet to hands and lay them face down on the ground. They’ll complain less about sitting when that’s an option.
So mount cargo boxes on the tops of cop cars and fill them with lawn furniture and beach chairs.
So when the perps take off running—which if course they will do—it’s more respectful to tase them and/or sic a K-9 on them?
Police chief is. MORON.
He’s kind of got a point: Making someone sit on a gross San Francisco sidewalk is more than demeaning, it’s a health hazard.
It’s San Francisco, so sitting on the ground is very likely to result in sitting in poop.
But, it’s San Francisco, so sitting in poop may be a sexual turn on to the suspect.
Fat 6 digit salaries for police chiefs like this? Duuhh.. Only in SF? and Select Liberal Bastions of SnowFlakes globally.
The police chief must have hired Cardinal Biggles as a consultant.
It’s a feint so they can get them in caged vehicles for safety and control