Campers, SFPD is more like that Mob Army in ‘Blazing Saddles’ than a real Police Force. They put 10 Officers on Foot Patrol out of 2,300 and brag about their Foot Patrols. They told Police Commission Vice President Max Carter-Oberstone that getting him some data he asked for would take 3 months and he sat down and hammered available Public Records on Google and got the stuff in 20 minutes. Worse thing is that they very recently stopped arresting felons (I’d call beating a 14 Mission Bus driver bloody a ‘felony’) standing right in front of them to make Chesa Boudin look bad. Cause their Union told them to. They don’t listen to the Chief. He was appointed by the Mayor and is an LA Out-of-Towner who didn’t attend a Catholic San Francisco High School and Gascon laughed and didn’t believe it when he heard that’s how they picked Command Staff then found out it was true. They are like a 2,300 Student High School that lasts for 30 to 35 years. They need an Elected Police Chief to get this directionless gang running around carrying guns. I walk through 16th and Mission at least couple times a day cause I’m a Local at 14th and Valencia and nosey and the cops should establish a Home Base even if it’s just a car and then one stand there and the others fan out in different directions for a block each around the BART Plaza and meet people. They all just stand around like a bunch of ducks quacking to each other. I know some of em and they are nice dedicated guys and gals. And, for gods sake they don’t know any better. They are poor led. Don’t give them or the Mayor any more power. I’m trying to get Lurie to offer to give up the Mayoral power to appoint the Police Chief if he’s elected and work for a Charter Amendment to make the position one responsible to the People at the Ballot Box. So far, he hasn’t taken any of my ideas but he’s leading in the polls so there’s that. No on E for so many many reasons, most of which because it gives the ‘Blazing Saddles’ gang more power. What’s that line ? Yeah … “Badge !!??!! I don’t need no STINKING Badge !!??!! Speaking of Lateral Transfers with Violent Pasts is another story … No on EEEEEEE Yes, on the Giants. Spring Training going yet ? h. 1 0 0 votes. Sign in to vote

Can we go back to the old rules where SFPD command staff had to, you know, live in San Francisco? I agree with SEIU that the city needs its workers living here.

I don’t think it’s fair to say Chris Larsen or other donors to Prop E and Brooke are supporting “law enforcement.” Larsen says efforts to control the police swung too far, and that Prop E is a corrective. Not true (you expect someone like Larsen to tell the truth?). When has the use of force policy impeded the cops from doing their job? When have the policies signed off by three separate independendent reports including one prepared by the DOJ and the SFPD themselves hobbled the cops from preventing property crime, or turning their backs when they see a Union Square store looted? Prop E has nothing to do with law enforcement and everything to do with tearing down provisions to make the SFPD more accountable to the public they are said to serve. In supporting these measures, they are supporting the Police Officers Association, which has been rabidly anti-transparency anti-accountability for the SFPD. Brooke has been from the beginning, no more than an opportunist poster girl for their show.