By Julian Mark : missionlocal – excerpt
The San Francisco Police Commission on Wednesday night unanimously rejected the police department’s budget proposal, which would lay off 167 police officers, cut technology to aid reform efforts, and reduce the department’s overtime funds.
But the commission’s vote against moving the budget forward was a largely symbolic action that will signal to Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors that the commission was unhappy with the proposal as currently drafted.
In other words, the mayor and the supes will receive the budget no matter what — with a somewhat negative recommendation from the commissioners.
It seemed everyone agreed that such dramatic reductions to the police budget were unacceptable and at least needed deeper consideration. In urging the Police Commission to reject the budget, Chief Bill Scott repeatedly called the cuts “devastating.” …(more)
Did we just hear that a police chief complained when a citizen took a dangerous situation in hand by firing a handgun at an intruder? This is not going to end well.