SF mayor drops ‘defund the police,’ calls ‘bulls**t’ on Progressive police policies

[Counselor706]

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced plans Tuesday to expand the police budget to deal with rising crime, calling permissive policies “bullsh*t” and apparently reversing her policy this past February to defund $120 million from the police.

As the San Francisco Chronicle reported, Breed’s proposal for more policing is aimed at the Tenderloin, a notoriously dangerous and drug-ridden district near Market Street, the main road through the downtown area.

Crime has continued to rise, with major retail chains leaving the city because of the frequency of shoplifting, and high-end stores still reeling from a series of mass looting events, both in the city and the suburbs, in the week before Thanksgiving.

Rising violent crime has become a major vulnerability for Democrats, as the Biden administration continues to blame the pandemic; left-wing “progressives” like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claim that there is no problem at all; and Hollywood celebrities argue that urban residents simply need to become used to dealing with crime and stop complaining.

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[pecksniff]

Dammit, leave the Tenderloin alone! Every city needs a place like that! Manhattan hasn't been the same since they cleaned up Times Square!

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Even San Fran has a limit on what it'll put up with.

 

[Counselor706]

San *Francisco*residents are reportedly leaving their car doors and trunks unlocked or wide open so thieves don't smash their windows to break in.

Larceny theft in San Francisco has risen from 24,274 incidents in 2020 to 28,947 incidents in 2021, according to the SFPD.

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[ll74]

Good for her ...though she's really deflecting away from being blamed

And you Trumpies eat it up as expected

 

[pecksniff]

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24k to 28k is not really that much of an uptick. Just a normal year-to-year statistical variation.