San Francisco goes from 'defund the police' fiasco to recruiting in Texas

 John Sexton:

Three years after “defund the police” became a BLM rallying cry, San Francisco and other Bay Area cities are still trying to recover from the brief popularity that phrase once had with mayors and city councils. San Francisco is still down hundreds of police officers and has come up with a new plan to attract more recruits: Go to Texas.

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The San Francisco Police Department is visiting four Texas university campuses through September as part of new recruiting efforts to find candidates outside of California.

For the first time, police officer candidates will be tested outside of California, with a written test, a physical ability test and an oral interview.

An announcement was made on X a couple weeks ago.

You really have to soak in the comedic aspect of far left San Francisco going to bright red Texas to try to find officers. For six years, San Francisco had banned business with Texas. This was part of a 2016 brainstorm by Scott Weiner, though he later came to have second thoughts.

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So the city has gone from rejecting any official travel or business with the state to traveling there to beg for new police recruits. Granted, police officers aren’t all conservatives but there is definitely a strong conservative aspect to policing which is about maintaining law and order. Even if the SF pay scale is pretty high wait until the recruits find out how much rent costs in the city. It’s hard to imagine a lot of people in Texas are going to want to move there, a place where police will always be seen as a necessary evil at best.

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I used to enjoy my business trips to San Francisco before the city became a liberal sewer.  I especially liked to take the ferry ride over to Sausalito.  It is still hard to comprehend the "defund the police" nonsense that was imposed.  It made the city less safe and also led to many wanting to leave the place.  "California crazy" is one reason the population of the state is shrinking.  Texans should be wary of how they will be treated as police officers on the West Coast.

See, also:

As Los Angeles County zero bail rules go into effect, prosecutor calls it 'invitation' to commit more crimes

More California craziness! 

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