Posted on 12/16/2021 12:33:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
After Black Lives Matter protesters last year demanded that cities “Defund the Police,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed held a press conference to announce that her city would be one of the first to do exactly that. Breed cut $120 million from the budgets of both San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments. A spokesperson for the police officers’ union warned the cuts “could impact our ability to respond to emergencies.”
This week, Breed reversed herself in dramatic fashion, announcing that she was making an emergency request to the city’s Board of Supervisors for more money for the police to support a crackdown on crime, including open-air drug dealing, car break-ins and retail theft.
“I’m proud this city believes in giving people second chances,” said Breed. “Nevertheless, we also need there to be accountability when someone does break the law . . . Our compassion cannot be mistaken for weakness or indifference . . . I was raised by my grandmother to believe in ‘tough love,’ in keeping your house in order, and we need that, now more than ever.”
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Her reelection polls must be in the toilet...
That’s how you fix problems in un-realville: you give the kaopectate AFTER the sh!tstorm.
How stupid can people be?
How many people were killed due to her “mistake?”
Second...third...
Eleventh chances
<< “Our compassion cannot be mistaken for weakness” >>
It’s not compassion, and only the foolish mistake it for weakness.
The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker's hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia!
The Democrat party is tough on crime. The Democrat part has always been tough on crime. It is a thoughtcrime to remember them wanting to defund the police just last week.
Yep. She's more concerned about her reelection, than the actual crime wave she helped cause.
In the words of Jao Xiden, “We have not yet begun to stupid.”
In my opinion, San Francisco is too far gone to be saved by more police.
It is time for the lefties to stop apologizing and start resigning.
“I f&^%ed up. I admit it. I hereby submit my resignation.”
She kinda reminds me of, as the late great Bob Grant called him, the “almost Mayor” Abe Beame. Whenever an NYPD officer was shot he’d use the funeral as a photo op. In front of the fake news media (it’s NOTHING new) the little mayor would ball up his little fists and declare, “I’M DAMNED MAD!!” while being totally oblivious, if not unwilling to address the crime problems exacerbated by turnstile justice.
I won’t believe her until I actually see some action, not just lips moving.
When you defunded the police, where did the money go?
Just wondering, since you say you need more…
Funny, I would have thought that Breed's "people" were the entire city given that she's the Mayor. Apparently not. Still, it isn't her reelection that's on her mind at the moment, it's Boudin's recall election. If he gets tossed, she's next.
I don’t know if she cares about Boudin’s recall. In San Francisco terms, she’s on the “conservative” side, and he isn’t.
Abe Beame was the last of the Tammany Hall mayors in New York.
Where does it say she admitted she made a mistake? Others are calling it a reversal, a turnaround, etc., but I haven’t seen her using that language.
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