What It Is Like to Be a Police Officer in San Francisco: Ex-Officer
A bar owner called the police at 1 p.m. and officers responded 14 hours later at 3 a.m. This is common today in San Francisco, according to a report earlier this year in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Such is happening, in part, due to a record low number of sworn San Francisco Police officers causing them to put aside calls that are not as urgent and dangerous, according to former department officer Joel Aylworth.
“In some sense, officers … just shrug our shoulders and say, ‘What can we do?’” Aylworth said in a recent interview on EpochTV’s “California Insider.”
According to city data, staffing for the police department has declined 20 percent since 2018….