SFPD Dreaming About How They Will Spend All The Overtime They Are Milking from the City

by upton sinclair (irlandeso [at] riseup.net)

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 1:13PM

This is a picture of SFPD officers lounging after they had arrested 5 people during last Saturday's breakaway march. They went a bit overboard on police presence on Saturday and have continued to do so the rest of this last week, which is nice for them when they get their next paychecks, but means a lot of money being sucked from the city budget.

Around 5pm yesterday, Tuesday the 8th, when bicyclists began riding around SF City Hall. SFPD began to follow in one of their Paddy[SIC] Wagons and a cop said "thanks for the overtime" over the PA system from the wagon.

Later on in the night, another SFPD officer told a friend that he would be spending his overtime money on a nice vacation.

What about all the folks that are being laid off because of budget problems? All the city workers that are getting paycuts? Why not lay off some police? Especially the ones that are more of a liability to the city - aka the cops who killed Cammerin Boyd, Idriss Stelley - and especially Captain Martel, who should have been layed off a long time ago for his mistakes(which costed the city over a $1 million for one mass false arrest of folks during a Mumia demo).

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