Posted on 06/13/2020 6:30:38 AM PDT by Enlightened1
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officers will stop responding to non-criminal activities such as disputes between neighbors, reports about homeless people and school discipline interventions as part of a police reform plan the mayor announced Thursday.
Mayor London Breed said in a news release that on calls that don’t involve a threat to public safety, officers would be replaced by trained, unarmed professionals to limit unnecessary confrontation between the police department and the community.
“We know that a lack of equity in our society overall leads to a lot of the problems that police are being asked to solve,” she said in the release. “We are going to keep going with these additional reforms and continuing to find ways to reinvest in communities that have historically been underserved and harmed by systemic racism.”
As part of the new police reforms, the city will also strengthen its accountability policies, ban the use of military-grade weapons and divert funding to the African American community, which comprises less than 6% of San Francisco’s population but nearly 50% of those involved in the criminal justice system, Breed said.
It could not be immediately determined how much time and resources the San Francisco Police Department spends responding to non-criminal calls. But a 2016 report from the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office estimated that the city incurred nearly $21 million in 2015 to enforce quality of life laws against homeless residents. Police accounted for more than 90% of the costs and responded to more than 60,000 incidents from January to November 2015.
The proposal follows weeks of demonstrations nationwide demanding police reform and an end to racism after the May 25 death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes.
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Professionals until they refuse to go.
Haha!
Pure lunacy!
The city is about to get a harsh lesson.
Yeah. Know what leads to a lack of equity? It's when one race generally obeys the law and the other refuses to. And within that latter race, the ones who obey the law run cover for the ones who don't.
It can still work out. The conflict resolution facilitator will come over, and either the argument escalates and they beat each other up, or the facilitator annoys both of them, and they bury their grievances temporarily and beat HER up.
I think this is FANTASTIC!!
Now all the cops have to do is go to where the unarmed professionals have had the crap beaten out of them and simply make arrests, not settle disputes. It’s much quicker for the police. Easy-peasy.
I can see it now, a domestic dispute is called in, one of these so called professionals get dispatched unarmed....when they arrive on scene, there is a man who beating the crap out of a defenseless woman....
So are they going to talk the guy down or physically confront the person ??
What could possibly go wrong except a woman beaten senselessly and a so called professional joining her in the hospital.....
“...the African American community, which comprises less than 6% of San Francisco’s population but nearly 50% of those involved in the criminal justice system.”
Therein lies the real problem.
Which of theses poses a threat to the public safety and gets the police response?
Professional WHAT???
Also note that this will mean the police will have to deal with more violent criminal acts that threaten public safety as a percentage of their daily work. The unarmed professionals will deal with everything else, the more safe jobs.
Why not? It worked fine in Mayberry.
Yeah, that'll work.
Somehow I think that unarmed "conflict resolution facilitator" job will have a high turnover rate.
Send the homeless:
“Report to this address and receive a free sandwich”.
Cool.
Starting salary, $250,000 a year with a million dollar pension after one year.
recall the demographics of mayberry.
Send in public school teachers...
Domestic disputes can turn deadly in a heartbeat. Unarmed? This won’t last long.
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