Posted on 06/29/2021 11:19:40 AM PDT by Signalman
A new poll shows a majority of San Francisco residents think it is time to increase police presence in areas affected by high rates of crime.
The annual San Francisco Chamber of Commerce report found 76 percent of residents want more police in high-crime areas, and 80 percent believe crime has accelerated. Polling was done by EMC Research from May 25 to 31, and respondents affirmed this sentiment “across gender, age, ethnicity, party affiliation, and neighborhood, and homeownership status.”
250 registered voters were polled. 60 percent of respondents agreed the city ought to keep funding law enforcement academies and 88 percent indicated homelessness has grown worse. The city had the sixth-highest number of homeless residents in 2020.
San Francisco, a reliably left-wing stronghold, has been gripped by the “defund the police” movement. Democrat Mayor London Breed announced a plan last summer to slash $120 million from the police and sheriff’s department budget.
However, after a major crime surge last year that resulted in a 36.7 percent increase in killings and a 753 percent increase in car break-ins at the police department’s primary station, Breed seemed to regret her decision. The mayor unveiled a plan in May to increase police in high-crime neighborhoods.
“To sustain the Community Ambassadors’ efforts for the longer-term, the Mayor is including funding in her two-year budget proposal, including $5 million in the first year and $3.8 million in the second year, while UC Hastings has dedicated $3 million in State funding,” a city press release stated. “Working together in partnership with the Mayor’s administration, UC Hastings has sought and received the support of Governor Newsom, who has included in his May Revision budget proposal an allocation of $3 million over three years to fund Urban Alchemy’s services contiguous to its campus.”
Still, the money approved to be cut from the budget will go toward the “underserved Black community,” a broad term to be understood as taking the form of police being instructed not to respond to non-criminal complaints and conduct “anti-bias” training.
They got what they wanted now they have to deal with it.
They got what they wanted now they have to deal with it.
You drop a bowling ball. It lands on your toe. It hurts. A democrap would be totally surprised. Just like they’re surprised that getting rid of the cops and hamstringing the few left results in.. wait for it... MORE CRIME. DUH!
Breaking: A majority of San Franciscans are stone cold stupid.
A real life Mike Stone would be in tears over what SF has become.
They are seeing the results of the liberal policies which San Francisco lives under.
Maybe just maybe, some there will realize that liberalism is not the answer to our societal problems.
Bon apetit, losers.
Well F’n DUH!!
For almost 15 years back in the 1980’s, I went to SF for a conference and loved the city. Last year just before CV-19 hit, I looked forward to a trip that would take me back to SF.
I couldn’t believe what I saw.
A half block from the Wharf there was human excrement on the sidewalks, cardboard shelters, used needles in the gutters, liter everywhere, drug-induced bodies passed out in doorways.
I will never return.
Liberalism is the cause of our societal problems.
Paging Inspector Callahan . . . please pick up the white courtesy phone . . .
And now they are asking for "more police". No doubt they will get what they are asking for - good and hard.
"You can fix Ignorance. You can't fix Stupid". (Wisdom from somebody on the Internet)
A bet most people there have no F’ing idea police budgets were cut and now the media is making it sound like they did to cover the scumbag democrats who actually cut the funding.
Similar, the democrats are using the media to blame republicans for defunding the police by rejecting the last pork bill.
The stupid is strong with these people.
“Breaking: A majority of San Franciscans are stone cold stupid.”
They take comfort in the certainty that they’re Never Wrong. If things don’t go as expected, it’s not their fault, it’s someone else’s. Trump’s probably. After a while, it all goes down the memory hole anyway, and their perfect record of being right all the time is not threatened.
So, the people who run the city don’t care what the “citizens” want.
If they start to complain too much they will just replace them with “new” citizens.
LIBERALS ASSURE EVERYONE THEY CAN CLEAN UP THE ENVIRONMENT AND SAVE DE ERF, BUT THEY CAN’T EVEN CLEAN UP AND SAVE THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS dang, cps lock
“They take comfort in the certainty that they’re Never Wrong.”
It is the template for liberals. And if they are ever cornered into facing evidence they were wrong, their virtue more than offsets any errors.
I HATE them.
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