#1,611 - San Francisco official who pushed to defund police pleads for more officers in her district
A member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who previously called for "defunding the police" is outraged after city officials allegedly told her there are "no officers" to send to her district.
During a Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing last week, Supervisor Hillary Ronen voiced frustration that the city's police force appeared to be prioritizing retail theft over the safety of the residents in her district.
"I've been begging this department to give the Mission what it deserves in terms of police presence, all year long. And I've been told time-and-time-and-time-and-time again there are no officers that we can send to Mission. And then I see these numbers protecting shoppers, and it hurts. It hurts. And I feel betrayed by the department, I feel betrayed by the mayor, I feel betrayed by the priorities of this city," Ronen said during the hearing. "It is not this board of supervisor's priorities -- we want our residents safe."
But Ronen's comments have been earning her loads of criticism considering her stance on "defunding the police," which she shared in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
"I want to make it clear that I believe strongly in defunding the police and reducing the number of officers on our force," Ronen tweeted roughly three months following Floyd's death. "For decades we've had an imbalance in our city's budget, with hundreds of millions of dollars going to SFPD to have them do work they are not qualified to do."
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