In reply to raymullensf.

It should be mandatory that police do chase criminals that are running/car chase and all, citizens have to be careful of there surroundings. The police use this as an excuse not to chase or do there duties. The criminals know that the police are sluggish and they capitalize on that. If they football out,football right after them. If someone gets hurt or killed in the chase even more reason to catch them and charge them with felony assault or murder, we won’t see that/those criminal(s) again in our lifetime.

This article ignores half of the risk assessment. How much will the public’s risk of being a crime victim, including a victim of a violent crime, be reduced if the pursuit policy is loosened? No data on that side of the equation is provided. Criminals currently know they can commit a crime then flee at high speed and they will almost certainly avoid arrest. I’m Yes on E just because it seems intuitively wrong to forbid the police from going after criminals whom they saw commit a crime. It is a near certainty this will result in a higher arrest rate for criminals, and therefore increased public safety. And I’m highly skeptical it will result in appreciable added risk to the public. But if that were to materialize, Prop E does not bar scaling pursuits back. Our SFPD leadership are not idiots. And the current tied hands policy is plainly not working.

Or will criminals continue to know they have a green light on getting away.

But Bullitt was such a cool movie.

Campers,

I’ve got a bad feeling about this one, Will Robinson.

I’m hearing otherwise intelligent people repeating the Prop E talking points.

I saw a very well done ad done as a documentary in the Loin with addicts saying they need tough love and to take away the clean addict gear and let us die.

Really.

Point is that I think we’ve long passed our ‘tipping point’ (no offense, Daniel) and the Talking Points of the Billionaire hires are almost all you see or hear and to many they become axiomatic (that the word?) … true.

What a world for a Cowboy Cop.

I read the entire Prop E a couple of times and there’s a lot of …

“by permission/decision/approval of the Chief”

Then, since the Chief can’t make all of the decisions the power to decide starts being held by ‘Command Staff’ then Captains and then Lieutenants (no ‘Inspectors’ which were first included and then marked out throughout entire document and does someone have problem with them?) …

It ends up that a Sergeant can approve an entire operation to follow Daniel Lurie and his family and friends wherever they go and no one at the top of the Brass has to know about it.

That’s CIA shit.

h.