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Mark Farrell: “I will max out police-academy classes, bring in a new Chief ... and better management.”
The Examiner investigated Farrell’s claims and found them to be generally accurate. According to city employment data, SFPD has several hundred fewer officers on the streets now, compared to five years ago. In fiscal year 2024, city employment data shows a drop of about 25% from fiscal year 2019. Unlike Breed, Farrell has promised to immediately fire Police Chief Bill Scott, and promises to set a new tone in The City that he believes will make it more attractive to new officers.
Each police-academy class contains a varying number of recruits, not all of whom become full-time sworn officers. There were 15 people who graduated from the most recently completed academy, which began with 27 recruits. Farrell’s public-safety plan goes beyond academies and background checks. He has also pledged to immediately fire police Chief Bill Scott, and select a replacement who he said “is going to fight with me as mayor to grow the police department budget once again.”
The program — which Breed and Farrell also support — would allow older officers to delay retirement. While they continue to work, officers would continue to receive their salaries while the retirement pay they would have received is stashed away in escrow until they finally retire. “We’ve reached a point where the treatment for opioid addiction is much harder to get than the deadly drugs themselves,” Haney said in a statement. “Dealers are much better at getting fentanyl and heroin into people’s hands than we are at getting them addiction medication. We have to reverse that entirely if we want to save people’s lives.
Federal regulators loosened restrictions earlier this year around distributing doses of methadone, which is one of two medications — alongside buprenorphine — that public-health officials are increasingly turning to in order to combat the opioid crisis. “If a person wants to be on methadone and comes to ... and they don’t have enough spots in the morning, they’re all full, those patients can be redirected to the Bridge Clinic, and we can get them started on methadone that day, so that a person isn’t turned away and is able to actually get the services that they need,” she said
“Friday is a tough time to work in the addiction world, because so much of our ability to get people on life-saving treatment depends on our ability to access that treatment that day,” he said. “Right now, if someone comes into my clinic on Friday for whom methadone is the best choice, I can’t do it because I could give you a dose now, but then you’re going to be on your own over the weekend.”
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