Pushback over S.F. Mayor Breed’s police spending heats up as supervisor lobbies for $10 million for alternatives in Tenderloin

I'd support giving that money to the FBI to come in and sort the fuck out of why our police / polititians are so dysfunctional.

Supervisor Dean Preston has unveiled a proposal to pump $10 million into non-police interventions for drug dealing and public safety in the Tenderloin, a pushback against Mayor London Breed’s campaign for police overtime spending.

What's a "non-police intervention" for drug dealing or public safety? Saying, "pretty please don't hurt us"?

Drug dealers and thieves make it clear they'll use violence to get what they want. Only the threat of an opponent able to unleash more violence deters them. That's why we have police, or will unfortunately have vigilantes.

Non-police intervention is just a way to pretend to deal with crime, while in fact encouraging it.

When asked Tuesday why he was among the minority of his colleagues opposed to the overtime supplemental, Preston pointed to politics. 

“It’s become highly politicized, with a massive public relations campaign to convince everyone that unless they support endless amounts of money for the police department they somehow don’t support public safety,” he said. “I don’t think that’s a fair framing, but it certainly works to put pressure on the politicians.”

This part really caught my attention because Preston constantly uses this strategy when talking about homeless spending. He frames the conversation as "Unless you support nearly a billion dollars a year as a blank check to homelessness, as well as multiple business taxes giving the city even more money to spend on homelessness, then you don't support homeless people."

I'm okay with 10m on non-police alternatives if he gets behind the police funding.

Of course he won't do that, and will earmark all 10m to Larkin Street Youth to not spend on the homeless.

How about: housing with drug treatment and mental health facilities? Built outside the city. Like in one of those unused areas right by the edge of the water, where there are now just the empty shells of warehouses.

Someone is homeless, they get taken there. Someone leaves the facility and goes back to sleeping on SF streets, they get taken back there. Until they either heal up, or get tired of being taken back and go somewhere else.

Can’t we do both? Or 20 mil to police and 8 mil to more support?

It's amazing that 10m is such a large sum.

There's another thread on this sub about the plan to give each black resident $5m in reparations: https://www.reddit.com/​r/sanfrancisco/​comments/​11rk720/​are_there_people_actually_in_favor_of_sf_passing/

If reparations pass, they can just find two black people to personally fund this!

Man it’s a good thing we pushed all those people trying to raise kids out of SF with all our family unfriendly policies. They were only heading towards their highest earning and taxable periods of their life. It’s a good thing we replacement them with deranged drug addicts. I am sure that’s a really solid tax base for us to pay for all these programs!

People forget that Mayor Breed redirected 120mil during the “defund the police” craze for the dream keepers initiative to fund black empowerment… kind of makes sense that we need 27mil for SFPD overtime