San Francisco's Cops Aren't Waiting Around To Be "Defunded": They're Leaving En Masse

Police in San Francisco aren't waiting around for pandering politicians to "Defund" the city's police department, which has already seen a mass exodus of officers following the passage of a state law called Prop 47, a statewide criminal-justice law passed back in 2014.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 23 officers resigned during the first six months of the year, with many resigning even before Floyd's murder.

"The members are upset that the social experiment being conducted in San Francisco is failing, and they would rather work someplace that values them," said Montoya, a constant critic of City Hall's calls for police reform, which after the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis has taken the form of shifting money from the police budget to social causes.

Police Chief Bill Scott said there has been an "Uptick" in officers leaving this year but that many of the applications to leave predated the national unrest after Floyd's death.

One officer, who wasn't named, but who said he quit the San Francisco Police Department and took another job at a department in Texas summed up the department's retention problem in a few sentences.

"I was getting a great paycheck, but 20% went to taxes," said one former San Francisco officer now working at a police department in Texas who asked not to be named for privacy concerns.

"In San Francisco, everyone was mad. The homeowners would get mad because you didn't move the homeless who were sleeping in front of their house. Then, when you tried to help the homeless, someone would start yelling about police brutality."

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