A proposal by Mayor London Breed to provide a mid-year boost to the Police Department’s budget, as well as extend the contracts of community ambassadors, has sparked furious debate about The City’s deployment of public safety resources.
Although the Board of Supervisors appears poised to pass Breed’s spending plan, many lamented that The City ignores the needs of neighborhoods and overemphasizes its resources on tourist and shopping hotspots.San Francisco police will dedicate more than 100,000 hours of officer overtime to guard retail centers — primarily The City’s heart of tourism and shopping, Union Square — in a single year.
Under Breed’s proposal, $27.8 million would be pulled from reserves to cover the overtime, while the remainder would be covered with the savings from unfilled positions in the department.The department has 1,777 sworn officers, far short of the 2,119 it had in 2019. But critics question whether policing is inherently the best way to address The City’s ailments as well as the department’s broader strategy.
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