San Francisco paper blasts city officials' ‘competence’ in effort to recruit police: ‘Absurdly complicated'
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A San Francisco newspaper blasted city officials over a growing police shortage in the city, saying leaders had failed to effectively deal with the problem.
Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed was one of several city leaders across the nation who defunded the police in 2020, redirecting $120 million from law enforcement to fund other city initiatives. Kristine Parks is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Read more.
Since then, the city has increased police spending, but the department is still down nearly 600 officers and only has 75% of the officers needed to meet workload demands, the city announced last April. The Chronicle rejected the notion that the defund movement had hurt officer recruitment and argued the city had made hiring new officers too difficult.
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