San Francisco wants extra $27M to pay police overtime, hire more officers and prosecutors

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Mayor London Breed is asking the Board of Supervisors to approve a $27 million finances supplemental to fund police time beyond regulation citywide. The cash would additionally go towards recruiting extra officers and including extra prosecutors in addition to extending town’s Ambassador program.

Breed mentioned her plan within the Tenderloin District which continues to see open-air drug dealings.

What occurs in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood typically has repercussions in the remainder of town.

On the coronary heart of the issue is the open-air drug dealing.

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“We’re quick 541 cops, and we’re feeling it. As a result of as I mentioned, it is not nearly displaying up and the arrest, it is also concerning the investigation,” Breed mentioned.

District Lawyer Brooke Jenkins says since she took workplace, the variety of circumstances filed for drug gross sales has doubled, but it surely all comes at a value.

“I should not should take prosecutors off homicide circumstances. I should not should take prosecutors off of vicious assaults towards our aged group with a view to employees these circumstances,” Jenkins mentioned.

The earlier District Lawyer, Chesa Boudin, got here below fireplace for failing to prosecute many drug sellers coming from Central America, whom he mentioned had been themselves victims of trafficking by drug lords of their nations.

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Supervisor Matt Dorsey was heckled by just a few protesters on Tuesday, who got here to defend San Francisco’s sanctuary metropolis insurance policies in any respect prices.

“I’m combating for the lives of drug addicts and never the livelihood of drug sellers. I make no apologies for it,” he mentioned.

Dorsey helps the time beyond regulation pay for officers.

Noticeably absent was Supervisor Dean Preston, who represents the Tenderloin District.

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He didn’t reply to our request for a press release however simply final week mentioned, “It’s preposterous {that a} division that received bonuses, raises and a $50 million finances improve final summer-would come again seven months later for an extra $27.6 million.”

The police scarcity has been a difficulty for years now. Police Chief William Scott says his division is working at 75% of what has been beneficial.

“The one method that we briefly bridge that shortcoming, that hole, is thru time beyond regulation, and we want the funding — that is what this supplemental is all about,” Scott mentioned.

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