Posted on 03/08/2023 3:42:56 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Mayor London Breed is asking the Board of Supervisors to approve a $27 million budget supplemental to fund police overtime citywide. The money would also go toward recruiting more officers and adding more prosecutors as well as extending the city's Ambassador program.
Breed discussed her plan in the Tenderloin District which continues to see open-air drug dealings.
What happens in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood often has repercussions in the rest of the city.
At the heart of the problem is the open-air drug dealing.
"We are short 541 cops, and we are feeling it. Because as I said, it's not just about showing up and the arrest, it's also about the investigation," Breed said.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins says since she took office, the number of cases filed for drug sales has doubled, but it all comes at a cost.
"I shouldn't have to take prosecutors off murder cases. I shouldn't have to take prosecutors off of vicious assaults against our elderly community in order to staff these cases," Jenkins said.
The previous District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, came under fire for failing to prosecute many drug dealers coming from Central America, whom he said were themselves victims of trafficking by drug lords in their countries.
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Government creates and problem then demands more government to fix it.
What happened to defund the police? What kind of example does this set for woke mayors seeking role models? Where are the social workers?
Seems like someone in power has hammered home the importance of law enforcement.
I hope it won’t take away funding for reparations.
More prosecutors? To do what?
They want more prosecutors why? So they can release criminals back to the community to prey on the law abiding faster? Or so they can try more law abiding citizens who commit the heinous crime of self defense?
Well, what do you know? Even SF liberals have a threshold for how many muggings, car break ins, rampaging through stores, sidewalk s**t, etc they will tolerate.
Who could have predicted this?
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