<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-police-secretly-deployed-at-stores-to-catch-shoplifters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> cannot clear out its ubiquitous homeless encampments because it hasn’t offered shelter to their inhabitants, a federal judge ruled Friday.
The city had been conducting sweeps in which it took the tents and belongings of homeless people living in the tent cities until Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in the U.S. District Court in Oakland granted an emergency order barring the action, the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-could-be-banned-temporarily-from-clearing-17672846.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle reported</a>. The order was granted after a group of homeless plaintiffs sued to stop the city.
“Mayors cannot run cities this way,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-hammers-san-francisco-democrat-mayor-london-breed-over-new-investigation-into-twitter-offices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor London Breed said</a>. “We already have too few tools to deal with the mental illness we see on our streets. Now we are being told not to use another tool that helps bring people indoors and keeps our neighborhoods safe and clean for our residents.”
Ryu said the city’s own laws dictate that it offer shelter to homeless people before clearing away their encampments, and San Francisco would need to add thousands of additional beds to meet the requirement. Ryu cited evidence that the city regularly failed to offer shelter before clearing the encampments and improperly seized or threw out inhabitant’s belongings, including cellphones, medication, identification, and even prosthetic limbs.
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&quot;the stench from the bench is making me clench!&quot; IT&#39;S THE ACLU vermin who block cities from clearing homeless cesspools from our streets. ARREST THE ACLU lawyers as domestic terrorists. <a href="https://t.co/Aqf46aN9RY">https://t.co/Aqf46aN9RY</a>
&mdash; Michael Savage (@ASavageNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/ASavageNation/status/1606772001108299776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Breed said many of the homeless people whose encampments were targeted for cleanup people refused help from the city. She said some even have homes, but use the camps for “drug dealing, human trafficking, and other illegal activities.”
City attorneys said homeless people get fair notice the camps are being cleared, receive offers of help, and are only forced to leave if they reject alternative housing. San Francisco has an estimated 7,800 homeless residents and city officials acknowledge it does not have nearly enough spaces in shelters to accommodate all of them.
There were just 34 beds available as of Friday Zal Shroff, senior attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Coalition on Homelessness, one of a handful of legal organizations that represented seven plaintiffs, presented evidence that homeless people had their personal items seized and were and were left with nowhere to go.
“The policy isn’t the problem,” Ryu said. “The question is how is that policy being executed.”
Several Democrat-run cities that have been overrun with homeless encampments have sought to clear them out amid rises in crime and complaints from businesses and residents. But judges have increasingly said the cities cannot push out homeless people without providing them with alternative housing.
A federal judge issued an emergency injunction on December 15 preventing the city of Phoenix from clearing out a large homeless encampment downtown. The ACLU of New Mexico sued the city of Albuquerque last week, charging that officials destroyed homeless encampments without due process.

Homelessness in San Francisco

San Francisco Cannot Clear Out Homeless Encampments, Judge Rules

Homelessness

London Breed

San Francisco

U.S.

<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Technology</a> entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale provided a “translation” of a statement from <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> Democratic Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/london-breed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">London Breed</a> regarding the city’s collapsing tax base and budget woes.
Lonsdale attended Stanford University and launched Palantir, a defense software company, before starting venture capital fund 8VC. The libertarian-leaning executive said he <a href="https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1324824664804347904?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> the company from San Francisco to Austin two years ago because the Texas metropolis is more “tolerant of ideological diversity.”
In reaction to a social media thread from Breed in which she lamented San Francisco’s difficulties in funding government operations, Lonsdale <a href="https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1605078463098281985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> a “little translation” for those who cannot follow “California politician-speak.”
When Breed said that the “structure” of downtown San Francisco has “shifted,” Lonsdale translated the statement to mean “dozens of businesses have fled” because “their workers are terrified of being assaulted” by “criminals and mentally-ill homeless.” Indeed, an influx of homeless residents occurred as a $160 million <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-has-spent-billions-to-end-homelessness-and-its-been-a-total-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program</a> offered them shelter in local hotels: there are now 56% more homeless people in the city since the initiative began.
Breed also chalked up the city’s rapidly expanding budget deficit to the loss of FEMA funding received during the COVID outbreak and the lockdown-induced recession. As Lonsdale translated: “We used emergency money to operate the government, and without a permanent emergency, our city’s budget collapsed.” The second reason for the deficit, according to Breed, was a decline in business taxes and property taxes. Lonsdale’s translation: “It turns out that when businesses flee your city, they take the money with them! We didn’t consider this before we ran them off.”
Businesses such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walgreens-now-closing-stores-in-san-francisco-following-retail-theft-spike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walgreens</a> have closed several locations in the city, while retailers such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/best-buy-is-worried-about-san-francisco-employees-quitting-getting-traumatized-thanks-to-frequent-thefts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Best Buy</a> have been struggling with safety issues related to organized retail crime. Silicon Valley technology companies such as Tesla, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise were among the 352 companies that moved their headquarters from Northern California over the past four years, according to a <a href="https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/21117-Ohanian-Vranich-4_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Hoover Institution. As many as 25 million square feet of commercial real estate in San Francisco are currently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-commercial-real-estate-crash-coming-to-san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vacant</a>.
Breed said “focusing on public safety” is critical for “working with our business community to attract and retain companies and new industries.” Lonsdale said he is “skeptical” about the policy change since public safety means “you have to actually arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate serial criminals.”
Beyond issues related to the city’s large homeless population and drug use, storeowners have left San Francisco since the state <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/descended-into-a-city-of-chaos-ceo-closes-san-francisco-store-scorches-liberal-citys-lawlessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reduced</a> the penalty for shoplifting under $950 worth of goods. Countless viral videos have shown shoplifters emptying store shelves into garbage bags and walking out as security guards helplessly watch.
The San Francisco Police Department, however, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-police-secretly-deployed-at-stores-to-catch-shoplifters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it had deployed officers in stores across the city to apprehend shoplifters. Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who likewise eliminated cash bail, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chesa-boudin-soft-on-crime-son-of-terror-group-members-bitter-after-recall-as-san-francisco-da" target="_blank" rel="noopener">successfully recalled</a> earlier this year by the city’s voters.
The developments, however, might be too insufficient to save the metropolis: nearly 8% of residents plan to move elsewhere within the next year, surging past every other major American city, according to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-40-of-san-francisco-residents-planning-to-leave-deteriorating-city-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Census Bureau.

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Tech Entrepreneur Explains Why San Francisco Is Struggling

California

Crime

A program that grants monthly payments to black “pregnant people” will soon expand across the state of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a>.
The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> Department of Public Health partnered with Expecting Justice, a program from the University of California San Francisco, last summer to provide the “pregnant people” with $1,000 per month for one full year in the hopes of reducing purported racial health <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparities</a> stemming from childbirth. The program, which has aided as many as 150 residents of San Francisco, will expand next year to Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, and Riverside counties, where recipients can expect monthly stipends between $600 and $1,000.
“The Abundant Birth Project has proven to be successful in San Francisco and brings an innovative, equitable approach to addressing disproportionate health impacts largely among Black families, which is why I committed to investing $1.5 million over the next two years to grow the program in our City and neighboring counties,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed remarked in a <a href="https://sf.gov/news/program-providing-basic-income-black-pregnant-women-expands-help-mothers-across-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “This guaranteed income program helps ease some of the financial burdens that all too often keep mothers from being able to prioritize their own health and ultimately impact the health of their babies and family.”
Expanding the program through a $5 million grant from the California Department of Social Services will enable benefits for 425 more “pregnant people,” a term favored by Expecting Justice Director Zea Malawa. “For so long, Black women have been excluded from the resources needed to have safe and healthy pregnancies,” the University of California San Francisco visiting professor remarked. “This funding will provide pregnant people with economic stability during this critical phase in their lives while allowing public health institutions to test a novel and promising public health intervention.”
The San Francisco Department of Public Health claimed that black women are twice as likely as white women to have a preterm birth and experience “the highest infant and maternal mortality rates among any population” partially because of wealth and income disparities. The city <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-launches-program-to-pay-trans-residents-1200-a-month-for-18-months" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a similar initiative that will provide $1,200 monthly checks for 18 months to 55 transgender residents in an effort to fight “poverty our most impacted community members face.”
The maternal health program comes after judges <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-knew-its-racial-preferences-for-covid-relief-were-unconstitutional-went-ahead-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nixed</a> a Department of Agriculture policy last year that excluded white farmers from receiving debt relief. Judge William Griesbach of Wisconsin ruled that the Biden officials’ decision to use “race-based criteria in the administration of the program violates their right to equal protection under the law.” A task force <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsoms-reparations-task-force-kicks-around-giving-223000-to-black-californians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created</a> by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is now weighing a program that would grant each black resident as much as $223,000 as reparations for the country’s “painful legacy of racial injustice.”
Beyond the initiative meant to improve maternal health outcomes, the University of California San Francisco hosts multiple programs meant to train future abortionists, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-uc-san-franciscos-massive-abortion-training-network" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Daily Wire published last year. The school’s Fellowship in Family Planning, for instance, provides a two-year intensive complete with health insurance, loan repayment assistance, and a stipend so that participants can access “the opportunity to develop high-level research and clinical skills in contraception and abortion.” The program is offered at many of the nation’s most elite postsecondary institutions, including four of the eight Ivy League colleges.
The University of California San Francisco also made headlines last year after a pro-life group obtained <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uc-san-francisco-harvests-preborn-baby-genitalia-gonads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research logs</a> proving that researchers had harvested reproductive organs from preborn children for various experiments, according to Live Action.

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California Expands Program Giving Black ‘Pregnant People’ Up To $1,000 Per Month

San Francisco Program Giving $1,000 To Pregnant Black Women Will Expand Across California

Gavin Newsom

Social Issues

Systemic Racism

University of California

Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> slammed Democratic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> Mayor London Breed on Tuesday after the city announced that it was investigating reports that Musk had turned some of the offices at the company&#8217;s headquarters into bedrooms to accommodate his plans for an &#8220;extremely hardcore&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> workforce.
&#8220;San Francisco building inspectors are launching an investigation into reports Twitter has converted several office rooms at its headquarters into sleeping quarters for employees,&#8221; tweeted KQED Supervising Senior Editor Ted Goldberg. &#8220;&#8216;We need to make sure the building is being used as intended&#8217; [SF Department of Building Inspection] rep tells @KQEDnews.&#8221;
Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600272617759731712" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>, &#8220;So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?&#8221;
Musk&#8217;s response to Breed included a link to a news <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-authorities-investigating-whether-a-17621718.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from the San Francisco Chronicle about a 10-month-old baby who reportedly overdosed on fentanyl after being exposed to the drug at a public playground.
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The city launched an investigation after Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2022/12/05/elon-musk-twitter-bedrooms/?sh=5a1329f2d791" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that employees at the tech giant had &#8220;modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors.&#8221;
Another room had a plant, the article said, while another room had bright orange carpet &#8220;a wooden bedside table and what appears to be a queen bed, replete with a table lamp and two office armchairs just begging for convivial workplace collaboration.&#8221;
The slightly modified rooms were an upgrade from a photo that gained attention in November that showed one employee sleeping in a sleeping bag behind an office table.
&#8220;When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork,&#8221; said employee Esther Crawford. &#8220;Since some people are losing their minds I&#8217;ll explain: doing hard things requires sacrifice (time, energy, etc). I have teammates around the world who are putting in the effort to bring something new to life so it&#8217;s important to me to show up for them &amp; keep the team unblocked.&#8221;
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When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SleepWhereYouWork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SleepWhereYouWork</a> <a href="https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD">https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD</a>
&mdash; Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) <a href="https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1587709705488830464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I work with amazingly talented &amp; ambitious people here at Twitter and this is not a normal moment in time. We are less than 1wk into a massive business &amp; cultural transition. People are giving it their all across all functions: product, design, eng, legal, finance, marketing, etc,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I love my family and I’m grateful they understand that there are times where I need to go into overdrive to grind and push in order to deliver. Building new things at Twitter&#8217;s scale is very hard to do. I&#8217;m lucky to be doing this work alongside some of the best people in tech.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-launches-investigation-into-elon-musks-company-neuralink-report">Biden Admin Launches Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Company Neuralink: Report</a>

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Elon Musk Hammers San Francisco Democrat Mayor London Breed Over New Investigation Into Twitter Offices

Big Tech

Elon Musk

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> is being sued by several <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homeless" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homeless</a> people who contend that the city has violated their constitutional rights.
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2022/09/28/san-francisco-homelessness-lawsuit-aclu?utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> the lawsuit this week for the Coalition on Homelessness and seven homeless individuals.
“This is the accumulation of years of witnessing, documenting, and responding to fundamentally abusive human rights violations that unhoused people have had to experience at the very worst time in their lives,” Jenny Friedenbach, leader of the Coalition on Homelessness, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-sued-over-homeless-camp-sweeps-as-advocates-17471443.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We hope to accomplish a dramatic shift from a city that responds to homelessness with sweeps, with confiscation of property, with criminalizing folks for being poor to a city that is instead addressing the issue at its core through the provision of housing.”
The lawsuit claims that San Francisco acts against the Martin v. Boise case, the California Constitution and the Eighth Amendment. In <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-16/homeless-boise-ruling-case-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martin v. City of Boise</a>, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that it violates the constitution to penalize people for sleeping outside when there isn’t enough room in shelters.
The group reportedly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/san-francisco-sued-by-homeless-demanding-affordable-housing-2022-09-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that over half of the homeless population — at 57% — do not have shelters. On Wednesday, the group claimed that the city has not offered enough shelters for temporary housing.
&#8220;The City&#8217;s decades-long failure to adequately invest in affordable housing and shelter has left many thousands of its residents unhoused, forcing them to use tents and vehicles as shelter,&#8221; the lawsuit said, per Reuters.
The group also said Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed, law enforcement, and other officials took action &#8220;to criminalize homelessness through an array of brutal policing practices that violate the constitutional rights of unhoused San Franciscans.”
&#8220;The City has also embarked on a campaign to seize and destroy the property of unhoused people with the express purpose of removing visible signs of homelessness from San Francisco&#8217;s streets,” it noted.
According to one of San Francisco’s <a href="https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population" target="_blank" rel="noopener">websites</a>, the amount of people experiencing homelessness in the city was at 7,754 this year. Those who are unsheltered made up the majority of the group at 4,397. The number comes from a street count conducted on one evening in February.
San Francisco has been facing an intense homelessness issue. It has <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2022/08/19/homelessness-20000-san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gotten</a> a little better since 2019, but this year, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) said the city could have 20,000 homeless people.
The report also reportedly noted that for each person housed by the city, around four will lose housing since HSH has &#8220;not been able to keep pace with inflow of people who become newly homeless or return to homelessness throughout the year.”

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San Francisco Sued By Homeless People

San Francisco Sued By Seven Homeless People, And Coalition On Homelessness

Homeless

San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) recently announced a Drag Laureate program to be funded through the city’s budget.
The Drag Laureate <a href="https://www.ebar.com/news/news/316040">role</a> will receive $35,000 in an annual stipend. The funds will come from the San Francisco Public Library out of the two-year budget proposal put forward by the mayor this month.
A group will be formed by various city agencies that will consist of city employees and members of the community to create the format of the program with the first person to fill the slot likely announced in the fall of this year.
“San Francisco’s commitment to inclusivity and the arts are the foundation for who we are as a city,” Breed <a href="https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-first-san-francisco-drag-laureate-program-proposed-budget">stated</a>. “Drag artists have helped pave the way for LGBTQ rights and representation across our city, and we must invest in programs that continue their legacies and create opportunities for the next generation of drag performers to thrive. I want to thank the drag community, Human Rights Commission, and Public Library for their work, and I look forward to crowning San Francisco’s first ever Drag Laureate this Fall.”
The concept for the program came from San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy, a community-led initiative. Then-Supervisor Scott Wiener sponsored a measure to establish an LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Task Force, which examined specific issues and then created a list of recommendations.
“The new drag laureate program is a fantastic way to celebrate and support San Francisco’s vibrant and beautiful drag community. Our drag performers are part of the heart and soul of our city. This new partnership with the San Francisco Public Library is a wonderful way to kick off Pride Month,” Senator Scott Wiener said.
“Drag is central to San Francisco’s rich history of self-expression, counterculture, and queer activism,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey. “Though drag is a now celebrated mainstream art form, we can’t lose sight of our iconic queens who for decades contributed so much to our city’s cultural vibrancy even when it was unsafe to do so. Today, we’re committing to uplifting our next generation of drag queens, ensuring they continue to live and work in the City they call home, and inspiring others to live authentically and proudly.”
The topic of drag shows has made headlines this week after a drag show <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dallas-gay-bars-drag-show-for-kids-obscene-sign-draws-angry-protests">aimed</a> at young children took place in Dallas, Texas, prompting a state representative to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-lawmaker-to-introduce-legislation-to-defend-children-from-being-subjected-to-drag-shows">announce</a> he will bring a measure to protect children from such events.
“I promised my voters that I would stand up for their values and fight to protect Texas kids,” Representative Bryan Slaton (R-TX) said. “I was re-elected on that promise and I intend to keep it by authoring legislation to defend kids from being subjected to drag shows and other inappropriate events. I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass this important legislation.”

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San Francisco Mayor Announces Drag Laureate Position, Funded Through Public Library

San Francisco Mayor London Breed Announces Drag Laureate Position, Funded Through San Francisco Public Library

Drag Queens

LGBTQ

San Francisco Democratic Mayor London Breed proposed an increase in funding for law enforcement in a budget for the city’s 2022-23 fiscal year on Wednesday after severely depleting police resources two years ago.
Every year, the mayor puts forward a two-year budget <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/san-francisco-budget/">proposal</a> for the county and city of San Francisco. Breed’s most recent plan involves $13.95 billion for the 2022-23 fiscal year and $13.85 billion for 2023-24. The amounts are around 5% more than the prior year’s total approved budget of $13.3 billion.
The budget is categorized into department items, called “major service areas,” which are portioned down into smaller departments. 
In particular, the public safety area is looking at a steep increase in proposed spending. This year, the proposed total amount increased 10% compared to 2021 — from $1.75 billion to more than $1.9 billion.
Departments within the area of public protection are seeing the steepest proposed year-over-year hikes. The requested budget for the fire department <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/san-francisco-budget/">increased</a> by $59 million from $440 million last year to $499 million. The proposed budget for SFPD rose by more than $50 million, from $657 million to $708 million.
In 2020, Breed cut <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/white-house-lauds-defund-the-police-san-francisco-mayor-for-crime-crackdown/">reduced</a> the police budget by $120 million during the nationwide protests against alleged racially biased policing, saying she was <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1289224638468243458">“redirecting” $120 million</a> “from law enforcement to start addressing…disparities.”
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SF&#39;s Black community has long been unheard and underserved, creating huge disparities in wealth, public health, education, and countless other factors.<a href="https://twitter.com/shamannwalton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShamannWalton</a> and I are redirecting $120m from law enforcement to start addressing those disparities.<a href="https://t.co/EgL50Cg4L0">https://t.co/EgL50Cg4L0</a>
&mdash; London Breed (@LondonBreed) <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1289224638468243458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In December of last year, however, Breed changed her tune and issued a more aggressive approach to public safety in light of more crime across the city.  
“What I’m proposing today, and what I will be proposing in the future, will make a lot of people uncomfortable, and I don’t care. We are past the point where what we see is even remotely acceptable,” Breed said in a speech at the time. “It’s time the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end.”
The city is expected to have a <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-Mayor-Breed-s-14-billion-budget-would-17212579.php">budget surplus</a> of $75 million, which will aid in the increased funding proposal that could add more law enforcement officers, provide pay raises, and increasing the compensation of new hires to San Francisco’s law enforcement. 
There will likely be around <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-Mayor-Breed-s-14-billion-budget-would-17212579.php">200 officer job openings</a> at the end of this fiscal year, and the proposed budget would help secure 220 officers over two years with the additional funding. The sheriff and emergency management departments also saw an increase in funding, as well as the District Attorney, adult and juvenile probation, and the public defender departments. 
In addition to Breed’s two-year budget proposal, the mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sf-mayor-announces-5-year-plan-to-end-homelessness-for-people-with-specific-gender-identity-gets-blasted">added</a> a plan to eliminate “homelessness that would include transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) San Franciscans, a spokesperson for her office said,” per <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/mayor-breed-announces-budget-plan-to-end-trans-and-gender-nonconforming-homelessness-by-2027/2907417/">NBC Bay Area</a>. 
However, Twitter users <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sf-mayor-announces-5-year-plan-to-end-homelessness-for-people-with-specific-gender-identity-gets-blasted">criticized</a> Breed’s initiative for prioritizing certain homeless individuals based on their gender identity.

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed Wants More Funding In Budget For Police After Slashing Budget In 2020

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San Francisco Democratic Mayor London Breed announced a plan Tuesday to “end transgender homelessness” in the city by 2027. 
The plan would direct $6.5 million in the proposed budget to combat homelessness, specifically for people who identify as transgender, <a href="https://www.ebar.com/index.php?id=316007">according</a> to The Bay Area Reporter, an LGBTQ news outlet. 
“Today I announced my 5-year plan to end transgender homelessness in San Francisco, which includes investing in programs that support and create real long-term change in the lives of transgender people,” Breed tweeted. 
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Today I announced my 5-year plan to end transgender homelessness in San Francisco, which includes investing in programs that support and create real long-term change in the lives of transgender people. <a href="https://twitter.com/SF_HSH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SF_HSH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SF_DPH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SF_DPH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sfmohcd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sfmohcd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TransCitySF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TransCitySF</a> <a href="https://t.co/mdEPEx01TS">https://t.co/mdEPEx01TS</a>
&mdash; London Breed (@LondonBreed) <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1531668207005667330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The plan focuses on getting the transgender homeless population housed quickly, “making any instance of homelessness brief and rare, according to the mayor&#8217;s office,” the Reporter added. 
A 2021 survey <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/After-a-year-in-their-own-beds-where-will-San-16291005.php#:~:text=Based%20on%20survey%20estimates%20widely,San%20Francisco%20as%20of%202019.">estimated</a> there are roughly 320 transgender homeless people in San Francisco, compared to 2,800 homeless women and <a href="https://hsh.sfgov.org/get-involved/2022-pit-count/">nearly 8,000</a> total homeless people in the city. 
Twitter users were quick to criticize the mayor’s plan for prioritizing certain homeless people based on their gender identity. 
“What happens if someone is homeless and not transgender?” self-described moderate liberal Michelle Tandler <a href="https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1531680635261227008">asked</a>.  
Former UFC fighter Jake Shields <a href="https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/1531682562501857280">wondered</a>, “So if I’m homeless and say I’m transgender I get a home but not otherwise? Makes perfect sense.” 
Another Twitter user slammed Breed’s plan as divisive, <a href="https://twitter.com/pthread_join/status/1531681033963200512">writing</a>, “We speak about how division is bad for this country and yet here’s a mayor dividing the homeless. Does this make any sense? Are we going to differentiate addicts based on race, religion, eating habits, etc.?”
Homelessness in San Francisco has slightly dropped in recent years but the city still <a href="http://www.citymayors.com/society/usa-cities-homelessness.html">ranks</a> in the top 10 U.S. cities for the highest homeless population. 
Since 2016, the city has spent billions of dollars addressing homelessness with disastrous results, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-has-spent-billions-to-end-homelessness-and-its-been-a-total-disaster">reported</a>. One homeless man, Richard Brustie, told The San Francisco Chronicle that he moved into one of the city’s shelters with his girlfriend only to find “the kitchen sink had human s*** in it, and the hotel has black mold.”
“So we said screw that, and we started sleeping on the streets,” Brustie said. 
The mayor is expected to reveal the new two-year budget that includes millions of dollars designated for transgender homelessness Wednesday. The city’s Board of Supervisors can amend the budget proposal before approving or rejecting it on July 1.

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Twitter Users Criticize London Breed's 5-Year-Plan To End Homelessness For Transgender People

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed said that the San Francisco Board of Education &#8220;failed our children&#8221; after three members of the board were ousted by massive margins in a recall election this week.
Speaking with Chuck Todd on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; Sunday, Breed conceded that the recall effort was about parents&#8217; frustration with the school board for prioritizing progressive concerns over the need to put students back into the classroom.
&#8220;So, there&#8217;s all these array of takes,&#8221; said Todd after reading off several headlines from newspapers across the country reacting to the recall vote, &#8220;what&#8217;s yours?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, my take is, it was really about the frustration of the Board of Education doing their fundamental job, and that is to make sure that our children are getting educated, that they get back into the classroom, and that did not occur,&#8221; Breed responded. &#8220;They were focusing on other things that were clearly a distraction. Not to say that those other things around renaming schools and conversations around changes to our school district weren&#8217;t important, but what was most important was the fact that our kids were not in the classroom.&#8221;
Breed touted San Francisco&#8217;s record on handling COVID-19, saying that the city&#8217;s Department of Public Health had been a &#8220;leader&#8221; during the pandemic, that in some cases the city had put in place some of the &#8220;most conservative policies to ensure the safety of all San Franciscans,&#8221; and that the city&#8217;s COVID-19 statistics show that it is a &#8220;clear leader.&#8221; Breed did admit, however, that &#8220;we failed our children, parents were upset, the city as a whole was upset, and the decision to recall school board members was a result of that.&#8221;
Asked what she was looking for in replacements for the ousted members, Breed said she is looking for people &#8220;that are going to focus on the priorities of the school district, and not on politics, and not on what it means to run for office, and &#8216;stepping stones&#8217; … we need people who want to be on the school board to make a difference.&#8221;
Breed also took issue with comments made by ousted board commissioner Gabriela Lopez, who <a href="https://twitter.com/lopez4schools/status/1494341613593579522">tweeted</a> Thursday that &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; were aligned with the recall. &#8220;[I]t&#8217;s not the right kind of reaction,&#8221; said Breed, &#8220;and the fact that we&#8217;re still even listening to any of the recalled school board members is definitely a problem. &#8230; This person is making it about [her] when it really should be about our kids, who have suffered, not just in San Francisco, but all over this country as a result of this pandemic.&#8221;
&#8220;At the end of the day, our kids were not in school, and they should have been,&#8221; Breed said.
You can watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/hOkNfdOstR8">full interview here</a>.
The three school board members were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/revolt-against-progressive-agenda-san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members">recalled</a> Wednesday amid concerns that they had prioritized progressive politics over reopening the city&#8217;s schools, as The Daily Wire reported. San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga, and Commissioner Alison Collins were recalled by at least 70% of voters, in what one organizer called a &#8220;revolt&#8221; against the board members&#8217; agenda.
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Amidst a rash of property crimes and burglaries at high-end boutique stores throughout the city of San Francisco, Democratic Mayor London Breed announced that the city would restrict car access to the city’s Union Square district in an effort to curtail thefts.
Breed made the announcement at a press conference over the weekend. &#8220;We’re going to be making some changes to Union Square and how cars are able to access,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There will be limited access in terms of when you come to this area.&#8221;
Bill Scott, the Chief of the San Francisco Police Department, told reporters that there would also be a considerable increase of law enforcement in the neighborhoods “for the foreseeable future.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/changes-coming-to-san-franciscos-union-square-after-louis-vuitton-retail-theft/?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow">KRON 4 Bay Area</a> reported that it was unclear what the new restrictions are or when they will go into effect, as the holiday shopping season begins in earnest this week.
The new restrictions come as the Bay Area fell victim to a shoplifting spree over the weekend. Mobs robbed three high-end stores in the region over the weekend. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mobs-rob-three-san-francisco-area-stores-in-three-days">reported</a>: 
<blockquote>A mob of people armed with hammers entered a jewelry store in the city of Hayward, about 35 miles from San Francisco, at around 5:25 p.m. Sunday evening, according to local police. Police told KRON 4 that witnesses saw about nine people enter the store, smashing cases and taking an unknown amount of jewelry, then fled the scene in two vehicles …
⁩In the town of Walnut Creek, about 30 minutes outside of San Francisco, 80 people wearing ski masks and carrying crowbars robbed a Nordstrom store Saturday night. The mob broke into the store, assaulting and pepper-spraying employees, and grabbing merchandise before driving away. The incident was described as “clearly a planned event,” according to a press release issued by the Walnut Creek Police Department. Three people were arrested in connection with the break-in, all of whom were from San Francisco or nearby Oakland, according to the release …
Eight people were arrested Friday night after a Louis Vuitton outlet was robbed in San Francisco. Multiple people broke windows and “emptied out” the shop, according to Fox News.</blockquote>
The city has faced an epidemic of “organized” burglaries in recent months. According to a <a href="https://nrf.com/research/2020-organized-retail-crime-survey">survey</a> published by the National Retail Federation, San Francisco is the fifth-most affected city in terms of “organized retail crime.” As previously reported by The Daily Wire, Walgreens was forced to close 17 stores over a five-year period because of shoplifting, with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walgreens-now-closing-stores-in-san-francisco-following-retail-theft-spike">five more</a> planned to close this month because of the excess of shoplifting. 
“Organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,” a spokesman for the pharmacy chain said at the time. “Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average.” 
One affected store claimed to have lost more than $1000 per day in stolen merchandise. Scott suggested the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/after-san-francisco-shoplifting-video-goes-viral-officials-argue-thefts-n1273848">rise in burglaries</a> might be related to a statewide voter-approved law that raised the threshold for felony shoplifting from $400 to $950.

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed defended herself after being caught maskless at a city jazz club in violation of her city&#8217;s own strict ordinance, telling reporters that she &#8220;was feeling the spirit&#8221; and not thinking about masking, and claiming that San Francisco should not be the &#8220;fun police,&#8221; even during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Breed was caught, last week, &#8220;dancing behind a table full of drinks,&#8221; and &#8220;not wearing a face covering as she sang and posed for photos,&#8221; according to a local ABC affiliate.
&#8220;Unmasked, singing, and dancing with an equally unmasked crowd, cell phone video shows Mayor London Breed inside a club in the Tenderloin on Wednesday night,&#8221; the outlet noted. &#8220;Breed and others enjoyed a surprise performance by Bay Area R&amp;B group, Tony! Toni! Toné!, at the Black Cat on Eddy and Leavenworth Streets. But the maskless moment flies in the face of what [] Mayor Breed has been telling San Franciscans all pandemic long.&#8221;
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I chose to go to <a href="https://twitter.com/sfblackcat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sfblackcat</a> last night for my first indoor concert since the pandemic &#8230; and this happened 🤩🙌🏽🎶 <a href="https://t.co/x68lRya0Wh">pic.twitter.com/x68lRya0Wh</a>
&mdash; Mariecar Mendoza (@SFMarMendoza) <a href="https://twitter.com/SFMarMendoza/status/1438604391297126452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, Breed blasted back at her critics, claiming that she was following the rules, and also that, in the moment, she was not considering her own mask mandate.
&#8220;While I&#8217;m eating and drinking I&#8217;m going to keep my mask off,&#8221; Breed said, though the photo shows her dancing. &#8220;And yes, in the time while we&#8217;re drinking like everyone else there, we were all having a good time and again all vaccinated.&#8221;
Breed will likely know that San Francisco&#8217;s mask mandate does not take vaccination status into account. <a href="https://sf.gov/information/masks-and-face-coverings-added-protection-coronavirus">According to the city&#8217;s website</a>, individuals &#8220;must wear a mask indoors in public places, even if you are vaccinated &#8230; You must wear a mask even if you are vaccinated.&#8221;
&#8220;You should still get vaccinated,&#8221; the city&#8217;s guidance continues, &#8220;because it&#8217;s the best way to protect yourself from COVID-19, including the Delta variant.&#8221;
Those details, however, are immaterial when you are &#8220;feeling the spirit&#8221; &#8212; at least according to Breed.
&#8220;My drink was sitting at the table. I got up and started dancing because I was feeling the spirit and I wasn&#8217;t thinking about a mask,&#8221; Breed explained. &#8220;I was thinking about having a good time and in the process I was following the health orders.&#8221;
She and her friends, she continued, &#8220;don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact that this story became about me and less about the artists and nightlife, which I will continue to enjoy in San Francisco, is very unfortunate,&#8221; she said.
Local media quickly noted that Breed has, in the past, specifically addressed her own situation.
&#8220;You know wear your mask, look at the environment, and be aware that COVID is still out there,&#8221; Breed said back in May.
In July, Breed noted that &#8220;we are definitely close to a mandate of wearing masks and I know people are tired of being told what to do but the fact is this is where is are.&#8221;

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San Fran Mayor Defends Partying Maskless Despite Mandate: ‘I Was Feeling The Spirit,’ ‘Don’t Need The Fun Police’

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, was photographed at a jazz club earlier this week indoors and without a mask, despite a city-wide mandate. When asked on Friday about her defiance of the mask mandate, Breed responded with excuses that wouldn’t fly for anyone else, including a denunciation of the “fun police.”
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-maskless-nightclub-mandate-fun-police">reported</a> that Breed was photographed dancing and singing while partying indoors with a co-founder of Black Lives Matter. When Fox 2 asked the Mayor about defying the mask mandate, she was “steadfastly defiant.”
&#8220;While I&#8217;m eating and drinking I&#8217;m going to keep my mask off,&#8221; Breed, told the outlet, calling the story a “distraction.” &#8220;And yes, in the time while we&#8217;re drinking like everyone else there, we were all having a good time and again all vaccinated.&#8221;
San Francisco’s mask mandate includes those who have been vaccinated.
Breed also said it wasn’t “realistic” to expect people to put their mask on in between eating and drinking. As Fox noted, Breed’s own city mandate requires people to wear masks indoors unless they are actively eating or drinking. As Breed admitted, she was not doing this, yet still refused to apologize or accept responsibility for her actions, even though other people are supposed to follow her rules
&#8220;My drink was sitting at the table. I got up and started dancing because I was feeling the spirit and I wasn&#8217;t thinking about a mask,&#8221; Breed told reporters. &#8220;I was thinking about having a good time and in the process I was following the health orders.&#8221;
Breed also said that she and others in the club &#8220;don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact that this story became about me and less about the artists and nightlife, which I will continue to enjoy in San Francisco, is very unfortunate,&#8221; she added.
Breed also insisted that she’s “been very careful, not just because I want to set an example but because I don’t want to get COVID.”
“I also want to make sure that I’m not someone transmitting COVID to other people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This entire pandemic has been focused on keeping people safe.&#8221;
But even other Democrats see her actions as unhelpful and hypocritical. KPIX-TV in San Francisco quoted a person on Twitter as saying: &#8220;I am a registered Democrat and I voted for her. I love you Madame Mayor, but its all over the news. …You’ll need to address the public.&#8221;
Some residents also spoke out about the Mayor defying the mask order that others are expected to follow. Danielle Rabkin, the owner of Crossfit Golden Gate Gym, told KNTV that Breed has “been very clear that everybody needs to do their part, we&#8217;re not out of the woods.” Rabkin added that she doesn’t see Breed “playing her part in that photo.”

San Francisco Mayor Photographed Indoors Without Mask Despite Mandate, Responds By Denouncing ‘Fun Police’

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