July 26, 2022 - Epoch Times
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| San Francisco's police department is at the verge of losing a significant number of police officers. | |
| A poll from our police union that they did and it talked about people thinking about leaving and the plans on leaving. | |
| And right now they're coming back with 54% are saying they're looking to leave or planning to leave in the near future. | |
| According to San Francisco City's Controller's Office, the median response time of a police officer to urgent prior DA calls has increased by roughly 30% since 2015, from about six and a half minutes to eight and a half minutes. | |
| Is policing becoming impossible in San Francisco? | |
| We've had incidents where entire watches from the station have been basically stuck or relegated back to the station because we have to review force on something that used to not even be reportable at all. | |
| And now we're all stuck in the station doing administrative tasks. | |
| According to SFPD, only 8.1% of all crimes and 3.5% of property crimes in 2021 led to an arrest. | |
| This is the lowest arrest rate in 10 years. | |
| You may wonder, how will this impact the city? | |
| We all feel it. | |
| We see it every day. | |
| We see the city, you know, kind of falling apart and going down into the gutter. | |
| And we're, you know, basically the last line of defense for civilization when it comes to that. | |
| I sat down with Richard Sabati, Sergeant from San Francisco's Police Department. | |
| Today, he will discuss with us his insider perspective on why SFPD is facing such a big exodus and what it will take to turn things around. | |
| I'm Siamay Korami. |
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