If you're a cop, why do your job if the people are just going to be released with no consequences? Police can't do anything if the DA refuses to prosecute.
Police abstention because other parts of the justice system refuse to play by their (cruel) rules is revanchism, nothing more or less.
Every time a police officer arrests someone they're risking life and limb. Whether you like cops or not, you've got to see that aspect of it. Why would you take that risk when you know the system is being operated so that there is literally no difference between if you make the arrest or not?
The ability of police to forecast complex systems so accurately is astonishing.
The change being blamed for 2020/2021 elsewhere in this thread is "catch and release without cash bail." It's noted that there's been a 50% charge rate for a while on things as well. So if the police make that arrest, and that 50% charge rate held, half the time there's going to be a charge filed and regardless of if the person was held in jail or has to be brought back, that's still not "literally no difference."
Even if a DA refuses to prosecute anyone, police could also still work to prevent crime in the first place, no?
Imagine I worked at a pizza shop and was getting $10 per hour to make pizzas. Every pizza I make my boss throws into the dumpster. My boss refuses to talk with me. The boss publicly tweets: he doesn't believe in pizza. This goes on for 12 weeks. It gets pretty hard to go to work and make pizzas.
Unless you are really attached to those sweet pensions, overtime and other union perks that your "pizza shop" job provides. At taxpayer cost.
I think most of this can be fixed with a little accountability; the same everyone else is subject to.
Is that really comparable to a police office in SFPD? "San Francisco offers excellent benefits and the current starting salary is $92,560 per year. After seven years of service, a Police Officer may earn up to $139,152 per year. You will receive comprehensive training, at your full starting salary." [1]
==This goes on for 12 weeks==
This seems like hyperbole. Has nobody been prosecuted in San Francisco for 12 weeks? Does a prosecution after-the-fact stop a crime from happening?
[1] https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/careers/sworn-j...
"This goes on for 12 weeks" i just make up some time not related ;)
$10/hr is the equivalent to $20k a year. SFPD officers make 4-6X that number. Then we can add the health benefits and pension contributions that your "Low Income Limits" don't measure. Not to mention the slight of hand where you turned it into a family of 4 to make the math look better.
==i just make up some time not related=
Another made up number. Making up numbers from thin air doesn't create a legitimate comparison for actual data.
Citation please. How much money was taken away and where was it put?
==especially those who are most vulnerable.==
Am I to believe that the staff who fled the department because they disagreed with the politics are now deeply concerned about the "most vulnerable"? Seems the best way to help them would be to focus away from after-the-fact prosecution and instead on community outreach.
etc etc
Citation needed.
Seriously. NO ONE has been defunded anywhere in the country.
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...
You got a citation on this? Because even my city is "defunding the police" because of a budget shortage. And defunding other city services for the same reason. Police leaving in droves, according to Fox News turned out to be 90% retirement.
> Cops are one wrong move away from being in jail themselves
Okay, Tucker Carlson, sure ;-)
Regarding defunding, a very quick google search will give you the information you're looking for assuming you are in the USA.
Separately there has been attrition at the SFPD due to people taking early retirement or moving to easier policing jobs elsewhere.
https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-budget-announcement-defun...
==The SFPD were defunded==
You have not provided any evidence of this claim, attrition is not "de-funding".
I appreciate the link for the article on a proposed budget. I did some google searching (as you suggested) and found some more updated information. The budget has gone up 50% over 10 years, hardly de-funded.
"For the proposed 2021-22 budget, the San Francisco Police Department’s allocation will decrease by $6 million, from about $668 million to $661 million. Those cuts can nearly all be attributed to decreased demand for police at the airport. However, in the following fiscal year, the city projects the police budget will increase once again to $689 million. That’s close to the police budget’s all-time high of $692 million in FY 2019-20. By way of comparison, in FY 2010-11, the police budget weighed in at $445 million."
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...
So what, I'm one wrong move away from being in jail. Everyone is. That's how law works.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/06/24/san-francisco-g...