Is Reviving a Private Police Agency in SF the Solution to the City’s Crime Woes?

This could provide a deterrent effect once SF gets saturated with concealed carry permit holders. I'm assuming not though since most of the crime is non-robbery theft, where use of deadly force wouldn't be justified.

Also, I am weary of "the standard" these days. IIRC their reporting of the Bob Lee murder was very sensational, and their reporting of Anchor's closing was superficial (they just repeated Sapporo's stance without seemingly interviewing anyone else, most importantly Anchor employees).

This “solution” is even worse than the problem.

“I’d love to help you citizen, but your policing plan is expired so you’re on the public plan which provides no help and support whatsoever.”

I actually feel for the SF police. They can’t recruit because police have a bad name.

Instead of trying and failing to recruit into the old guard the city should initiate community policing initiatives. Training and authorization for local communities to police themselves. I don’t need an armed response to go write my neighbor a noise ticket at 4am. I just need someone with authority to investigate and issue the ticket.

There are plenty of bike commuters who are infuriated that their bikes have been stolen, but they’re not allowed to investigate and follow up on their own. The police can’t be arsed about bike theft. Put the authority, training and funding into the community and let the community police itself.

This is the only way “defund police” works. If you don’t want society to collapse you have to allow communities to replace authoritarian external policing with locally driven initiatives that actually serve public order and safety.

Publicly funded community policing.

The answer is NOT pay for private. The answer is drastically rethink our approach to policing.

San Francisco’s “Crime Woes” will continue to exist until US National policy creates a stronger safety net for the least fortunate among us or San Francisco’s politics take a hard turn right toward protecting property rights over all else.

I don’t know which is more likely, but both will require systematic change, not a couple guys playing police.

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