That’s gonna be a problem, unless one of them is inspector Callahan.
Posted on 03/02/2023 7:05:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Need a cop in San Francisco after a midnight crime spree leaves you splattered onto the sidewalk or showered under a sea of broken glass?
Good luck with that one.
Police understaffing has reached such levels that in one of San Francisco's largest police precincts, three cops stand between crime, chaos, and ... you.
According to a report in the San Francisco Standard, that's what one of the county supervisors found and he's talking about it:
On any given night, San Francisco’s largest and most populous police district will only have three or four officers on duty, Sunset Supervisor Joel Engardio told The Standard.
The Sunset is served by the Taraval Police District, which covers at least 130,000 city residents on the SF’s west side, from Golden Gate Park’s southern edge to the San Mateo County border. District 4 Supervisor Engardio says the city’s growing police staffing crisis has hit the Taraval District especially hard.
“It’s important for residents and business owners to understand just how short staffed our police department is that serves the Sunset,” Engardio said. “The staffing crisis is citywide, but it’s especially dire in the Sunset because [Taraval Station] serves 130,000 residents and is huge. But they’ve lost half of their force. On any given night, there might be only three or four officers to serve 130,000 people in the widest geographic area of the city.”
It doesn't sound as though your odds would be good for getting police to come forward for whatever victimization you may have endured at the hands of criminals if the crime occurs on the police night shift.
Oh, it looks like the police stations are staffed, what with 63 officers at Taraval. But Engardio, the county supervisor, said that that figure is misleading: Most are preoccupied with station operations.
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Keep paying your taxes!
If you’re near 77 Sunset Strip, call Cookie.
Looks like the residents are going to have to sit on the heads of the saintly, “gentle giants” and “mental midgets” while waiting for the cops to show up.
Don’t they have some Social Workers and Conflict Negotiators they can dispatch?
Stone and Keller would rack up insane overtime.
Oddly enough however, the police budget for the precinct comes to $7.5 million dollars per officer.
Since they believe that all cops are racists goons who are looking to kill citizens, they should be happy.
Stone was a writer https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0831694/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr81
Barry Kelly played a Keller. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445868/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t139
These references are far too obscure, you must mean something else.
Those I didn’t know.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streets_of_San_Francisco
A Quinn Martin Production.
really good to advertise this information...This tells the thugs you can rob, rape, vandalize, or pillage whatever you want after midnight in this district....No cops around at all....
Police Departments across the country are finding that nobody wants to be cops anymore. All the older ones are retiring as early as possible, and they can’t find any new hires. My city recently started offering substantial (I thing around $40K) sign-on bonuses to new hires with any LE experience. Of course, the most leftist idiot on our Council opposed it, despite years of the Chief explaining how desperate the situation is.
Oh, that Stone and Keller. Those young whipper snappers.
That’s gonna be a problem, unless one of them is inspector Callahan.
Maybe the Committees of Vigilance will make a comeback?
I lived in the Sunset district about 50 years ago, and it was a tad dangerous then!
“This tells the thugs you can rob, rape, vandalize, or pillage whatever you want after midnight in this district....No cops around at all....”
It also tells the residents, at least the ones with any guts, they are free to take care of business with relative impunity. 3-7-77
And those 3 should quit.
I lived in Outer Sunset a few years after that. A stone's throw from where I lived, a man was cut in half by a shotgun blast when a drug deal went bad. The area did not feel dangerous to me -- it wasn't like Oakland -- but in fact it was not safe.
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