{"id":77779,"date":"2022-02-21T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77779"},"modified":"2022-02-21T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:04:24","slug":"77779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77779","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

These proggies voted their proggie goobermint in.
\nThey sowed the wind, and we know what you reap from that…
\nThe Whirlwind<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

\n

San Francisco residents report police doing nothing<\/a><\/p>\n

During the push to \u201cdefund the police,\u201d San Francisco was knee-deep in things. In fact, while few places actually reduced police funding,\u00a0they did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eventually, due to soaring crime, the city reversed that. They really didn\u2019t have a choice at that point.<\/p>\n

However, it doesn\u2019t seem to be helping. Why? Because the police don\u2019t seem interested in\u00a0actually arresting anyone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After weeks battling the bewildering bureaucracy of San Francisco\u2019s criminal justice system, Danielle Kuzinich finally has some answers in the strange case of the thrashed parklet and the do-nothing cops.<\/p>\n

Just before dawn on Dec. 31, firefighters witnessed a man wrecking the charming parklet outside the San Francisco Wine Society in the Financial District and notified police. Security camera footage from a nearby hotel shows police arriving, chatting with a firefighter, talking to a man sitting next to piles of parklet debris and leaving. It then shows the man continuing to trash the area.<\/p>\n

Now, a man police believe is the culprit is in jail \u2014 busted only because he allegedly went on to commit more vandalism days after the Wine Society mess. But the episode spotlighted an issue bigger than one arrest: a pattern of some officers on the San Francisco force seemingly uninterested in dealing with crime.<\/p>\n

Numerous readers shared stories of police indifference after reading last week\u2019s column about Kuzinich\u2019s frustrating experience \u2014 and how it adds to their feeling that San Francisco city government, and its criminal justice system in particular, is broken.<\/p>\n

They had questions. Is property crime in some ways allowed in our city? Are police on an unofficial strike or work stoppage?<\/p>\n

In a visit to The Chronicle newsroom Tuesday, Police Chief Bill Scott promised that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confidently say that\u2019s not happening,\u201d he said. \u201cI get a report every morning of last night\u2019s activities, and there\u2019s a lot of great work being done.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not officially, in any case.<\/p>\n

However, if this is a recurring problem, there\u2019s probably a reason for it. Scott knows this, too.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged, though, that the department has \u201cserious morale issues\u201d because of understaffing, intense scrutiny amid the police reform movement and tussles with District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Still, he said, that\u2019s no excuse for not addressing crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the reason that an officer may be in that mental state where they might think it\u2019s not a big deal for them to bother with it, it is a big deal,\u201d Scott said. \u201cAnd when they don\u2019t do their job, I have to hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem, though, is that they were thrown under the bus for something that didn\u2019t even happen in their city.<\/p>\n

Following the death of George Floyd during an arrest, departments all over the nation felt the heat. A few, like San Francisco, saw their funding cut by politicians who were essentially blaming them for something that happened in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

As a result, one shouldn\u2019t be surprised when the police are less inclined to engage with someone committing a crime.<\/p>\n

After all,\u00a0any<\/em>\u00a0criminal offense can result in someone dying under certain circumstances. Is it any wonder that these guys would opt not to do much?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not excusing it, mind you, just understanding it. They\u2019re paid to do a job and they\u2019re supposed to do it. Failure to do that should result in some degree of punishment. That\u2019s simply not a matter up for debate in my book.<\/p>\n

But the leadership in San Francisco needs to accept their own role in this. They need to understand that while the officers on the street need to step up, they\u2019re not doing so as a result of their own actions.<\/p>\n

Police officers aren\u2019t mindless myrmidons who simply do as they\u2019re told without thought or feeling. They\u2019re people who are trying to do the best they can in most cases, and they don\u2019t appreciate being vilified by their own leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These proggies voted their proggie goobermint in. They sowed the wind, and we know what you reap from that… The Whirlwind! San Francisco residents report police doing nothing During the push to \u201cdefund the police,\u201d San Francisco was knee-deep in things. In fact, while few places actually reduced police funding,\u00a0they did. Eventually, due to soaring … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,50,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-goobermint","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77781,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77779\/revisions\/77781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}