Posted on 09/20/2023 7:52:12 AM PDT by DFG
San Francisco is trying to recruit cops from Texas as it faces a shortage of officers, after businessman Marc Benioff slammed the city's homeless and drug problems.
The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is visiting four Texas university campuses throughout the month as part of a new recruitment drive.
Candidates from outside of the state of California will take a written test, a physical ability test and an interview to see if they make they cut.
A police spokesperson told the San Francisco Standard that the number of estimated applications this year is 2,104, nearly a 20 percent increase from 1,756 last year.
The recruitment push comes as the department faces staffing issues, causing it to pay out high amounts of overtime.
The Standard reported that between 2017 and 2022, cops spent $88.9 million more on its employees, despite working fewer hours.
The four Texan universities being targeted are Texas Southern University, Sam Houston State University, Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University Corpus Christi.
Following widespread calls for reforms that swept the nation following the murder of George Floyd, the department in the California city had it funding cut.
Mayor London Breed was one of the first to openly speak out in support of defunding the police.
During a July 2020 press conference, Breed said: 'We chose to change how this city and how this country treats our young Black men.'
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Texas? Better luck getting them from Mexico, and they already live in the area.
Yes, it’s a crap job, but the starting pay is $103,116 and nearly all S.F. cops make a lot more than that due to overtime. Not a heck of a lot of jobs a 20 year-old can walk into and make that kind of scratch.
What are you doing about it, Newsom?
Of course they can’t recruit in NorCal or Idaho.
We all know why.
“... businessman Marc Benioff slammed the city’s homeless and drug problems.”
SHUT UP! You and your ilk created this cesspool, now swim in it.
The numbers of police are not the problem.
It’s too bad San Francisco has no government
Leftists can’t be that stupid that they think that encouraging that kind of behavior is doing those people a favor and going to fix it.
Therefore, it must be deliberate and it is evil.
For all the condemnation of citizens protecting themselves as *vigilante justice*, there’s going to be more and more of it as people are not going to just sit back and take the assaults and robbery.
Self-defense is NOT vigilante justice.
What they will get is the bottom of the barrel types....guys with a history of disciplinary issues. If you were doing a good job, and happy in Texas...I don’t see guys packing for SF or LA.
Don’t they just need social workers? /s
That’s not really a lot of money to live in SF bay area.
Democrat assholes like Marc Benioff are responsible for San Fran being the way it is and now he cries about it. He’s super arrogant. Take your medicine, Marc.
Why would anyone want to risk their lives in a democrat hellhole that favors criminals, the ‘homeless’, drug addicts, and brain-dead ‘elites’? None of those groups are worth dying for...
That's what they are doing except instead of recruiting Mexicans in San Francisco, they're recruiting Mexicans in Texas.
Different branches of the cartels maybe?
That dump is a microcosm of America, viz. renegade officials ignoring the demands of their constituents. Just a big “FU!”
Marc Benioff is a hard-leftist fascist who can go F himself ...
Big problem.
If Texas law enforcement veterans want to enforce the laws on the books against the guilty criminals they will be thwarted, doxxed, canceled, suspended and set up by review boards for criminal indictments against them.
They aren’t used to counseling the thugs about overcoming their dysfunctional childhoods and letting them go.
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