In reply to Leah.

I think folks missed the /s but definitely good points laid out above about a) less bias and b) widening the talent pool of applicants to address the staffing crisis that make this workplace issue salient

Interesting. This is a CA Labor Law issue that our own city law enforcement cannot seem to comply with.

Two sleeps til Super Bowl !!

This Assistant Chief is the guy who actually runs the department.

Peter Walsh with a JD from Golden Gate and pure Irish St. Ignatius College Prep High School pedigree de rigeur for ‘Line Officer’ (meant they could command a ship and weren’t just pencil pushers or window dressing in Navy) …

Been studying last Police Commission meeting (2-7-24) and he allowed that he’s the guy responsible for the department’s staff:

(as he interrupted Chief Scott)

“I have first hand knowledge because I oversee Background Checks.”

He keeps:

“2 or 3 Sworns in Backgrounds to oversee Laterals coming over.”

Those are the skull crackers and recruited from the ‘Underground Rogue Cop Railway’ where SFPD gets damned near as many of their cops as from the Academy.

I don’t know exact numbers but he hired 8 or 9 within last couple of months.

They graduated classes of 9 and 11 recently and Walsh allows that they’d like to graduate 50 a year but don’t make it.

What he doesn’t mention is that they don’t make it on purpose.

The Overtime is so reliable that they can plan a mortgage years in advance counting on it and that’s why they’ve pretty much strangled the Patrol Specials who were competition and far better cops to boot.

Out of 2,300 total cops counting SFO he has 10 assigned Permanent Foot Patrols.

They need a thousand on the pavement like their grandpas did.

Only an Elected Reform Police Chief with a steel backbone can Reform this department and believe it or not there are some people in this town already connected all around who could do it.

But, it would take a Charter Amendment and the Mayor and SFPOA will fight it.

Scott’s a pure figurehead and he clearly hates it when Commissioner Carter-Oberstone says ‘Chief’ and Scott defers to Walsh in a “Better let me take care of this one, ‘Boy Wonder’.” manner.

Hell of a hearing and ‘Lactation’ made headlines in local onlines.

This dawg’s eyes were on the Man behind the Curtain, Paul Walsh I think he said his name was.

In reply to Leah.

We can focus on multiple things at once.

No woman should feel uncomfortable for a perfectly reasonable biological process.

And woman’s health and wellbeing is important, and it does tie into recruitment and retention, they even have data for it.

Did not read article.

Well, THAT’s clearly the most important public safety issue in San Francisco.

/s