Addressing Public Safety Challenges with Funding
Police overtime funding is essential to address public safety challenges, including drug dealing, break-ins, retail theft, and violent crime. This $27 million budget supplemental will fund police overtime to ensure we have the officers to respond to calls for service.
London Breed
45th Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco.
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To address our public safety challenges, we need funding to support long-term strategies, including:
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•Funding Overtime
•Strengthening retention and recruitment
•Increase Prosecution of Open-Air Drug dealing
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Part of my $27 million budget supplemental will fund police overtime to ensure we have the officers to continue making arrests around drug dealing, break-ins, retail theft, and violent crime, and to be able to respond to calls for service.
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Today, to address our significant police staffing shortage, I’m introducing legislation to adopt a new 3-year contract with our police that will help keep experienced officers here, recruit new officers by increasing starting salaries & other incentives. https://t.co/p6DS8NNCkC
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Urban Alchemy and our Welcome Ambassadors have brought stability to some of our most challenging neighborhoods, including the Tenderloin, Mid-Market areas, and Downtown. If the contract extension is approved, we avoid layoffs and keep ambassadors on our streets. pic.twitter.com/M8d0n6jBGf
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We have a lot of work to do in the long run, but right now, we need public safety initiatives that will allow us to continue to have officers on our streets and alternative solutions working alongside them, in order to keep our residents, workers, and small business owners safe. pic.twitter.com/ARPcFWSaHH
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Last month, I introduced legislation that provides nearly $200,000 in funding for three additional prosecutors to the DA’s office who will focus on fentanyl dealers. Since @BrookeJenkinsSF took office, the City saw an 84% increase in felony narcotics arraignments.
— London Breed (@LondonBreed) March 7, 2023