CDM: In 2020, San Francisco Mayor London Breed joined several other liberal leaders across the nation in deciding to defund the local police force amid pressure from Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other groups. Now, 3 years later what was once seen as a gem in California is now a filthy sewer with feces-covered streets, soaring crime rates, and a rampant drug problem. It should come as no surprise then that the city by the bay is seeing a mass exodus of businesses who once called its hilly streets and eccentric neighborhoods home. In a move that has probably come too late, Breed is now frantically trying to do a U-turn and increase police funding in an effort to attract new businesses to the city or to at least keep the few that are left from packing up and leaving, too.
In Breed’s new $6.85 billion budget, there is no shortage of struggles as it outlines dwindling tax revenue, both businesses and residents begging officials to stop the growing crime rates, and some of the lowest office occupant rates in the nation. The new 2-year budget calls for increasing the police force by 200 officers and refunding the department.
“We have been forced to make some really challenging changes to our budget,” Breed explained while introducing the new budget this week. “How we get people and businesses back on their feet is exactly what this budget is proposing to do,” she added. more
Good. Burn those shit hole down.
The damage is already done, any cop that was even close to retirement has turned in their chit. You know, the seasoned guys that would have trained the rookies for very dangerous jobs.
“what was once seen as a gem in California”, not in the last 20 years, not since Newsom ran the show. The slow crawl of neglect, decay, and despair started on his watch.
This “Come to Jesus” moment is a false flag. Sure, more affirmative action cops will get hired (only to fill diversity quotas) but it will still be business as usual; DA’s will not file on anyone, “no cash bail” means that any arrests that are made, the criminal is out before the report is written, shoplifting/theft/ car theft/car burglaries/vagrancy/any drug use/and anything to do with the homeless will not be policed. People will not be any safer, crime will still be rampant, and the thugs will own the streets, but at least the mayor can say she is trying to do something.
@Rich Taylor — I can attest to that with pretty good timing. I lived in the city off of O’Shaughnessy and BARTed daily to downtown from 2004 to 2008 (after which we moved to Boulder Creek where I worked mostly from home until 2012). San Francrisco was already a dirty, shitty, rude, drug- and sex-drenched Sodom when I was there. I can’t imagine it today.
I wonder if the new badge-wearers will be people who know how to shoot a gun, or “social workers” who know only how to shoot the shit?
There’s no point in having police if they aren’t allowed to do their jobs and even if they do, the prosecutor won’t.
Well I started visiting SF back in the late 70’s. I lived in San Jose so the 40 minute trip north was always entertaining. It was Sodom and Gomorrah back then. How can a city end up this fucked up? Here’s a list of mayors.
Dianne Feinstein, 1978 to 1988.
Art Agnos, 1988 to 1992.
Frank Jordan, 1992 to 1996.
Slick Willie Brown, 1996 to 2004.
Gaven Newsom, 2004 to 2011.
It gets worse from there. Back in the late 70’s itwas common to see people having sex right out on the side walk. The difference is back then it was hookers and their customers. Now days it’s all butt sex.
They won’t be serving the public.
Mom and Dad took my brother and me to San Fran in ’66 or ’67. My most vivid memories were of a bum walking out of the water past me at the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park and of an old Chinaman falling over next to me whilst waiting to cross a street. I wonder whether or not the old Chinaman had a colloid cyst of the anterior third ventricul like the one that knocked me down thirty-seven or thirty-eight years later.
Our family went to SF in the Summer around 1984.
We should have listened to Mark Twain because it was fucking COLD!
Bizarre since the surrounding areas it was 90 degrees?
I did enjoy Alcatraz & it’s history.
The Pier 39 area was cool too.
Most I knew of SF at the time was from Dirty Harry movies.
I was apolitical back then and faggots didn’t demand that I celebrate their hedonism.
Now I will be very happy when the San Andreas removes that blight from existence…
I used to go to San Francisco all the time when my brother and niece were going to colleges there. I stayed at the Holiday Inn in Van Ness and California and parked my car in the garage and left it there until I left if I drove down. I could walk out the door and get on the cable car and go down to Union Square or to Fisherman’s Warf and buses or walk damn near anywhere I wanted to go. I’d drive to the Cliff House or other places if they were out of the way.
I knew the city like the back of my hand. I wouldn’t go to that fucking shithole today if you paid me. Seattle and Portland likewise.
So what.
Seattle gets more police but they are the ones handcuffed to do anything. They can’t pursue if they see a robbery/car theft/assault/car jacking whatever. There’s no active policing at all. It’s window dressing for the Uber left crazy Seattle progressive city council to say they are getting tough on crime. Complete bullsh*t. The Left has ruined a beautiful city. I doubt I’ll ever see it reversed back to what it was.
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Watch ’em hand out one bullet to each cop in Barney’s Fiefdom…
More cops is only part of the solution. The liberal mayors, DA’s, school boards, and city councils would all have to go. That would require a massive number of people to stop voting Dem, and that ain’t going to happen. Many of those deny there are problems, and those that do not only cannot figure out the cause but think the solution is even more liberal policies.
After what the media and the courts did to Derek Chauvin I’m surprised most cops didn’t quit.
bitches looting money, bitches living (in) mansions
https://www.the-sun.com/news/8264898/walgreens-debuts-anti-theft-stores-customers-hate/
.response to obiden thievery
blacks losing money
https://chicksonright.com/blog/2023/06/02/san-francisco-drops-6-million-on-an-ad-campaign-to-attempt-to-boost-tourism/
.real time poop-avoidance maps available to qualified tourists
Well, at least all those plexiglass dividers will not end up in a landfill…
What did people expect? This put your order in at window #1, pay at window #2, get your order at window #3, has been practiced at fast food restaurants for many years.