Mayor’s budget: Plenty for the cops, but no more money for social housing

By Tim Redmond : 48hills – excerpt

The plan is going to get a lot of pushback from the supes. So it’s far from a done deal

Mayor London Breed’s proposed budget for the next two years is a massive document, 386 pages of numbers, charts, graphics—and spin. It’s going to take all of us who follow these things a few days at least to sort it all out.

But some essential takeaways are clear.

The budget substantially increases funding for the Police Department, including a move to hire a lot more sworn officers, at a time when some of the supes are following national recommendations to shift work now done by cops in uniform, with guns, to civilian workers…(more)