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SF police don't care period. It's a corrupt organization that simply exists to steal funds from the state. It needs to be burnt to the ground and re-created.

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It sounds like a very similar situation to Seattle. While living there, it was remarkable to me how useless and/or hostile the police felt compared to the police in other cities. I've been threatened multiple times while going home late at night and it was never the police that actually helped. I'm convinced we really need to get better at helping each other as a community rather than relying primarily on the police.

If you think SPD is bad, try Kent. [1]

A workplace of someone I know is constantly getting burglarized. They even found the guy selling their stolen stuff on Facebook. Kent PD, of course, won't lift a finger about it.

Yet, somehow, they manage to soak up half the city's budget, and also secure a million-and-a-half dollar settlement for a police sergeant who was fired over having a nazi poster in his office.

KPD doesn't even need to pretend that defund movements are to blame for their incompetence - because as far as I can tell, the mayor's full-time job is covering their ass.

[1] For people who don't live here, Kent isn't some liberal hippy paradise.

Ha, sounds like you know me and my business. Yeah, happens all the time. We have cameras and even know who did it. Doesn't matter. Cops don't do anything.

Seattle Police Department is terrible, but still the city keeps trying to give them more funding.

Giving it less funding won't make it better, nor would it magically make something else appear. You'd need more funding to have a program like "actually firing them if they don't do their jobs".

I think it extends well beyond SF. There’s a guy on my local Nexdoor whose car was stolen in Oakland; after waiting for more than 6 hours to file a report, he was told by an officer that they prefer to avoid reports as they have to do paperwork each time one is filed.

(As a counter anecdote, I’m further out in the East Bay, and when I caught a guy taking my bike from my garage, the cops stayed on the phone with me as I chased him down and actually arrested the guy when they caught up with us. I was surprised.)

You are correct. As a rule SF police do not live in San Francisco. So it's just a cash cow to them.

Make sure you tell your city representative. City level elections are generally easy to change if you put in effort to knock on doors.

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