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$576 Million Given to SF Police Dept

by SF Taxpayer
Tonight, the SF Police Commission heard from the public about deadly tasers. This was followed by a budget report. In big numbers on our TV screen it said we taxpayers loose $576 MILLIION to the police department, mostly in salaries & benefits to some 2,000 police, while the Democrat-Republican Party of San Francisco just cannot seem to house the homeless. The obvious solution is to CLOSE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT since they are not social workers and to give that HALF BILLION DOLLARS to social services to PERMANENTLY HOUSE THE HOMELESS.
The police chief receives $307,450 annually. See
http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2012-08/san-francisco-police-chief-to-be-nations-highest-paid-for-overseeing-14th-largest-force

Most of the police in San Francisco receive at least $100,000 per year plus extraordinary benefits, including receiving some 90% of their salary as pension, retiring at age 50 after some 30 or so years as an SF cop, and of course, medical coverage while employed and retired. They start at $81,000 plus benefits. For this, they have not yet been told how to disarm a person with a knife without use of force, something any self defense program could teach in 1 day. In many countries of the world, the police have no weapons and manage to cope with something so simple as a knife.

Judging by the song and dance act by the police commissioners, all of whom have to be Democrats to sit there, this grand larceny from the taxpayers is not about to stop, but instead, will increase. They will be getting help to spend more of our money on police and weapons from the Democratic Party's US Justice Department. That is why we call the Democrat-Republicans the twin parties of war and fascism. If you are horrified at the execution of Mario Woods, the use of weapons by the police, the spending of $576 MILLION on 2,000 police, the police state dress rehearsal using Stupid Bowl 4 block Plaza as a cover, the ticketing of homeless people for being homeless and jailing them instead of permanently housing them in decent housing, change your voter registration today to Peace & Freedom or Green, which oppose the police state, tasers, executions, attacks on the homeless, and much more. You can register online at:
https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
For more information, see
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
http://www.votepsl.org/ (Gloria LaRiva for President)
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
http://www.jill2016.com/ (Jill Stein for President)
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