Posted on 03/19/2023 6:07:12 PM PDT by grundle
A San Francisco district supervisor is calling for more policing in the crime-ridden city – despite advocating to defund the police in 2020.
Hillary Ronen, Democrat, represents District 9 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. During a Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting on Wednesday, she made an impassioned plea to add more officers to the Mission District, which she represents.
Ronen was attacking San Francisco's police chief for spending a large amount of overtime on an anti-retail theft program instead of prioritizing police presence in her district.
"I've been begging this department to give the Mission what it deserves in terms of police presence all year long," Ronen said. "And I have been told time and time and time and time again there are no officers that we can send to Mission."
"It hurts. And I feel betrayed by the department. I feel betrayed by the mayor. I feel betrayed by the priorities of the city," the Democratic politician added.
The speech contradicts her stance on policing in 2020. After the George Floyd protests, Ronen tweeted that she believed "strongly" that San Francisco's police force needed to be reduced.
"I want to make it clear that I believe strongly in defunding the police and reducing the number of officers on our force," Ronen wrote. "For decades we’ve had an imbalance in our city’s budget, with hundreds of millions of dollars going to SFPD to have them do work they are not qualified to do."
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boo freakin’ hoo
Embrace the suck, Hillary. You idiot.
Ronen’s father immigrated to the United States from Israel in his twenties. Her mother was a school teacher.[2] She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego and her Juris Doctor from University of California, Berkeley.
She has a very similar background to just about every loyal apparachik of the American Cheka. I know we’re not supposed to notice these things, but it has gotten so “in your face” it hard not to notice.
As Dave Barry used to say, "You can't make this @#$@% up."
You made your mess, Hillary, now sleep in it.
Hillary Ronen is the waste of life leading the $5m to each black person in SF.
She should eat a big plate of fresh bum excrement with a side of used hypodermic needles.
Evil commie whore.
She makes it sound like everyone BUT her was against the police.
Liberals can’t take accountability for anything, and they smear other with the problems they made.
they forced all the regular Joe’s and Jill’s out and now they can hire their “special” people....
Lock her up.
“Defund poor people’s police.”
“Cheka”
2nd Time I’ve seen that term/org at FR today.
Was the first time you?
[No doubt you have it right either way...]
Defunding the police? Supes push for more cuts to SFPD
By Julian Mark
August 20, 2020
Mission Local“We can’t just give lip service to this time and this movement,” said Supervisor Hillary Ronen — whose home was this week visited by demonstrators calling for deep cuts to the SFPD budget. Ronen called the mayor’s proposed 2.6 percent reduction of the police budget “a slap in the face.”
Amid a national re-examination of American law enforcement, calls to “defund the police” have resounded on the streets, and on Thursday that sentiment was reflected in city legislators’ scrutiny of the San Francisco Police Department’s budget ask of $674 million dollars moving into fiscal years 2020-2021 and $676 million the following cycle.
(If compared to the proposed budget of 2019 — roughly $739 million — the mayor’s cuts represent an 8.7 percent reduction in the police budget.)
Activists blast supervisors' approval of police contract and wages without advancing reforms
By Daniel Montes
December 2, 2020
Bay City NewsSAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police reform activists on Tuesday blasted the Board of Supervisors for approving the city's renegotiated contract with the Police Department amid ongoing efforts to reform the department, which the activists say aren't moving fast enough.
Supervisors approved the new contract 9-2, with supervisors Hillary Ronen and Dean Preston voting against it, on second reading.
San Francisco police budget hearing swamped by cavalcade of callers urging department’s defunding
By ANNIKA HOM
July 8, 2020
Mission LocalAs members of the Board of Supervisors and the police chief today discussed the SFPD budget during a hearing at the Budget Committee, it soon grew clear that our elected and appointed officials’ definition of “defunding” the police greatly differs from the hundreds of progressive activists queued up to speak at public comment.
The supervisors held their third meeting on Wednesday to identify possible cuts to the police department’s roughly $700 million budget by August, some of which may later be redirected to Black communities per the mayor’s order. Hiring freezes, changes to airport police support, and increased civilianizing were a few areas that might facilitate the $23 million budget cut the mayor demanded earlier this year.
“It feels like you’re not listening to us,” was a popular refrain these activists repeated. “It’s infuriating to me,” Ronen said. “This is one of the city’s top priority policies.”
The folks of which you speak are a danger to themselves as well as others.
They are just “whitey” to anti-white racists.
That poor, poor little girl. She is doomed with a mother like that witch.
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