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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There are several LE types in Uvalde that could use a new job.
Welcome to San Fran Freako, where the mayor wants you defunded, where stealing under $950 at a time is allowed and encouraged, where the human excrement is up to your ankles, and where the gay area is like a visit to the Seventh Circle of Hell.
“That’s not really a lot of money to live in SF bay area.”
Who says they need to live in the Bay Area? You’d be shocked at how many S.F. city employees don’t even live in California let alone the Bay Area. They work a 3-day week, trade hours, sleep on a friend’s couch and then fly cheapo Southwest or Spirit back to Tucson or Vegas or wherever.
San Francisco needs not one, but *several* Dirty Harrys.
They should probably check with the Uvalde P.D. They can guarantee not to hurt any of San Francisco’s courageous criminals and most speak Spanish.
HOUSING is NOT affordable.
Safety isn’t present.
City support for LEO’s doesn’t exist.
LYON COUNTY, N Nevada would love to have trained officers-—and it isn’t that expensive to live here. WE LIKE OUR DEPUTIES.
STATE income taxes are also HIGH.
IMPOSSIBLE to get HOME OWNERS INSURANCE anymore,
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.
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A & M Corpus is 62% minority but only 4% black. 52% Hispanic.
In Prarie View, blacks are 7,942 out of 9,400 total enrollment with whites enrolled being 132. Women are 6,331 to males at 3,069.
So, SFO, obviously, is trying to recruit women and minorities to come to their decadent, feces and fentanyl ridden town so that they can be brainwashed and obey a book of Liberal rules and regulations and then be put in jail for violating any of them or shot dead by a depressed addict minority person while sitting in their patrol car.
What an insult to women and minorities.
Yep. I lived in the bay area, moved 10 years ago. Such a beautiful place, totally ruined by liberals.
A written test, physical ability test and an interview?
Obviously the SFPD isn’t as desperate as the article suggests.
That said, they ought to have great success at UT Austin.
Could make a great “fish out of water” “buddy cop” movie.
And the other perk is that they wouldn’t have to work too hard at enforcing laws.
Notice that SF doesn’t say what it amounts to after State/Fed /local taxes.
Sam Houston doesn’t seem to be a good fit with the other schools on the list. I can see them recruiting at the Black and Hispanic schools.
What they really need to do is recruit some New Orleans cops. They don’t wear kid gloves over there.
Any Texan would be out of his mind to accept this.
You can’t get enough cops in Austin.
All the cops I know, would NEVER work in CommieforniA
Dan Francisco needs cops to stand around while people are getting shot?
Considering the cost of living in that area, they’ll be living on skid row.
The cost of living in this state is increasing daily.
Yea, but what they don’t tell you is your $3000/mo apartment is in a crappy part of town where you especially don’t want to be an off-duty cop. Gotta shell out 50% of that salary for a one-bedroom in a decent area. And don’t forget CA income tax is what, 10% or so? And aren’t they one of the higher sales-tax States?
Only an “every shoot is a good shoot” will cure their policing needs.
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