To prepare for the streets, recruits in the SFPD Academy must pass periodic “simulations,” whereby current SFPD officers act as role players imitating real world situations, like pretending to be a crazy person. Recruits do have the underlying security that simulations are scripted, and the SFPD role players are really rational people that won’t physically harm them. The simulations are only intense because failure equates to the recruit being released from SFPD.
Hi Lou - I didn't realize this Mr. Short was that connected by experience, but its not shocking. He seems like he's in the top tier of violent offenders, and needs to be removed from polite society. I'm
sure he has lots of company.
Mayor Breed to her credit, has done a little personal recon in the streets of San Francisco when she was first elected Mayor. Though she and the S.F. BOS have not been willing to employ the tough love strategy to the homeless, she has apparently committed some funds to creating a new poop patrol.
How sick is a city that can't provide free toilets for tourists and shoppers, and expects wacked out homeless people to bother to use a toilet if one is even available?
Just as we have all earned our personal reputations by the way we live and behave, so it is for our city.
San Francisco is the tale of two cities - one the fantasy playground for rich and famous where anything is possible, and they can afford any price to get what they want. And the other being the real would where working people, retired people, and criminals live. The working people just want to survive, the retired people want to enjoy their golden years, and the criminals target both of these groups as the ones most easy to prey on daily.
One the most basic level the solutions are always clear and easy; stop the insanity. Then why hasn't that happened in decades? The answer to that is the root of our problems. San Francisco politicians reflect the values of San Francisco voters; confusing compassion with enabling anti-social behaviors, refusing to harshly judge others perhaps because because they fear being judged themselves, kind and generous to a fault, refusing to accept that the more they give, the more the feed the beast of anti social street life criminals. And then there are the gangs who's primary business is selling drugs.
Their spill over activity is shooting and killing people.
What does it take to put a STOP to all of the above? A Mayor who is just as tough as he/she is compassionate, a BOS that backs tough policies rather than road blocking them, an expansion of SFPD services, facilities, training, and equipment so they are state of the art in every area, an expansion of mental health rooms. beds, and high security wards, and mental health doctors and courts that work together to isolate dangerous violent people from normal society.
That doesn't seem like it should be too difficult, but with the prevailing attitudes up and down the line, the reality is nothing but more and more of the same exercises in futility. Soylent Green - here we come!
Oddly enough, Speaker Pelosi's house is located in one of those fantasy areas where the commoners can only walk by and wonder which rich people live there, and what they did to be able to afford property taxes higher than many people's annual income. A break in that is common in low and middle income neighborhoods is a rarity here. Here homes are commonly monitored by sophisticated alarm systems, and public figures may have personal security personnel as well. For some reason, Mr. Pelosi seems to have not taken full advantage of his ample resources to protect himself. Does getting your head cracked make you one of us, someone who actually gives a damn
about those who have to live in fear every day of what you sadly experienced once in a lifetime? Or does it mean nothing more than a reason to be glad that you also have multi million dollar home in the wine country, and can also afford to drive or jet off to any location in the world anytime you wish to, and just leave all of the dirty details of your base camp for the working poor to deal with? Nancy! Nancy! Where's Nancy? Don't ask me. She's most likely in Washington D.C. thinking up new schemes take money from everyone, and get more for herself.
I'm really curious to know how often defendants fail to appear given that there is no bail. I assume that if defendants don't appear, our shorthanded PD is not going out to find and enforce the warrant. Back when we had bail, the bondsman had an incentive to go find the defendant and get him to appear and none of that was at taxpayer expense.
Hi Lou - I didn't realize this Mr. Short was that connected by experience, but its not shocking. He seems like he's in the top tier of violent offenders, and needs to be removed from polite society. I'm
sure he has lots of company.
Mayor Breed to her credit, has done a little personal recon in the streets of San Francisco when she was first elected Mayor. Though she and the S.F. BOS have not been willing to employ the tough love strategy to the homeless, she has apparently committed some funds to creating a new poop patrol.
How sick is a city that can't provide free toilets for tourists and shoppers, and expects wacked out homeless people to bother to use a toilet if one is even available?
Just as we have all earned our personal reputations by the way we live and behave, so it is for our city.
San Francisco is the tale of two cities - one the fantasy playground for rich and famous where anything is possible, and they can afford any price to get what they want. And the other being the real would where working people, retired people, and criminals live. The working people just want to survive, the retired people want to enjoy their golden years, and the criminals target both of these groups as the ones most easy to prey on daily.
One the most basic level the solutions are always clear and easy; stop the insanity. Then why hasn't that happened in decades? The answer to that is the root of our problems. San Francisco politicians reflect the values of San Francisco voters; confusing compassion with enabling anti-social behaviors, refusing to harshly judge others perhaps because because they fear being judged themselves, kind and generous to a fault, refusing to accept that the more they give, the more the feed the beast of anti social street life criminals. And then there are the gangs who's primary business is selling drugs.
Their spill over activity is shooting and killing people.
What does it take to put a STOP to all of the above? A Mayor who is just as tough as he/she is compassionate, a BOS that backs tough policies rather than road blocking them, an expansion of SFPD services, facilities, training, and equipment so they are state of the art in every area, an expansion of mental health rooms. beds, and high security wards, and mental health doctors and courts that work together to isolate dangerous violent people from normal society.
That doesn't seem like it should be too difficult, but with the prevailing attitudes up and down the line, the reality is nothing but more and more of the same exercises in futility. Soylent Green - here we come!
Oddly enough, Speaker Pelosi's house is located in one of those fantasy areas where the commoners can only walk by and wonder which rich people live there, and what they did to be able to afford property taxes higher than many people's annual income. A break in that is common in low and middle income neighborhoods is a rarity here. Here homes are commonly monitored by sophisticated alarm systems, and public figures may have personal security personnel as well. For some reason, Mr. Pelosi seems to have not taken full advantage of his ample resources to protect himself. Does getting your head cracked make you one of us, someone who actually gives a damn
about those who have to live in fear every day of what you sadly experienced once in a lifetime? Or does it mean nothing more than a reason to be glad that you also have multi million dollar home in the wine country, and can also afford to drive or jet off to any location in the world anytime you wish to, and just leave all of the dirty details of your base camp for the working poor to deal with? Nancy! Nancy! Where's Nancy? Don't ask me. She's most likely in Washington D.C. thinking up new schemes take money from everyone, and get more for herself.
I'm really curious to know how often defendants fail to appear given that there is no bail. I assume that if defendants don't appear, our shorthanded PD is not going out to find and enforce the warrant. Back when we had bail, the bondsman had an incentive to go find the defendant and get him to appear and none of that was at taxpayer expense.
No surprise here. I carry liquid pepper spray whenever I leave my apartment. Same as the old Americans Express ad…..don’t leave home without it
Sadly Lou, there is no plan. The exodus will continue!
Thanks Lou. I can’t believe people vote for this insanity…or do they.
Stuffing ballot boxes, dark evil money, and a complicit enabling media create this environment of
Lawlessness…it won’t stop until people stand up,wake up or to many just die.