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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAt the close of the session, when all was said and done, the Supervisors congratulated each other for approving an approximate total $44.0 million or a 6.3% cut to the police budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2020-2021, compared to the last fiscal year police budget of 2019-2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is no change to policing as we know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonight, Wednesday August 26, 2020, the entire budget will be approved by the Budget Committee. The budget will then be sent to the whole of the Board of Supervisors for an expected rubber-stamp approval. Barring that we wake up in an alternative universe, SFPD\u2019s budget will only decrease by 6.3% from last year. Other departments including the Department of Police Accountability, Children, Youth and Families, and the San Francisco Public Library will face steeper cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will be no change to policing as we know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the budget discussions were ongoing, Mayor Breed cut a backroom deal with the San Francisco Police Officer\u2019s Association, without the knowledge of the Police Commission or Board of Supervisors, in which she agreed to delay a previously negotiated 3 per cent raise for officers in exchange for an additional 6 per cent pay increase in upcoming years. Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Sup. Shamann Walton already stated they will object to the contract. Peskin was scandalized that at the very least the Mayor\u2019s deal didn\u2019t include a negotiation to once and for all take out the meet-and-confer clause that gives the SFPOA the de facto right to change public policy approved by elected City officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is protection of policing as we know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mayor and Budget Committee\u2019s budget doesn\u2019t add up to a credible and balanced response to divest from police and invest in a robust social safety net for communities most impacted by legacy investment in violent, racist policing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This budget is a decision to keep the rotten core of the San Francisco Police Department intact.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The unconscionable execution of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25th caused a sea change in support to end the racist and brutal legacy of policing that impacts Black lives the most. Defund, dismantle and abolish police departments was the rallying call across the country. On June 3rd\u2014despite an escalating Covid-19 pandemic and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":45077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3551,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[18445],"class_list":["post-45264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-voices","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n