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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Moreover, those who possibly could contribute greatly to that, store owners and the like, are very dissatisfied with her leftist blind eye to crime....
I wouldn't dream of attending an event in Frisco, and I suspect that few would.
Frisco is in Texas.
My mistake.
Maybe that’s why SF people don’t like it.
San Andreas Fault pick up the white phone, you are desperately needed .......
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