San Francisco police to stop responding to non-criminal calls as part of reforms

[dalton99a]

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-francisco-police-to-stop-responding-to-non-criminal-calls-as-part-of-reforms/

San Francisco police to stop responding to non-criminal calls as part of reforms
by: The Associated Press
Posted: Jun 12, 2020 / 07:08 AM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – San Francisco police will stop responding to neighbor disputes, reports on homeless people, school discipline interventions and other non-criminal activities as part of a police reform plan the mayor announced Thursday.

Mayor London Breed said in a news release that on calls that don’t involve a threat to public safety, police would be replaced by trained, unarmed professionals to limit unnecessary confrontation between the police department and the community.

“We know that a lack of equity in our society overall leads to a lot of the problems that police are being asked to solve,” she said in the release. “We are going to keep going with these additional reforms and continuing to find ways to reinvest in communities that have historically been underserved and harmed by systemic racism.”

Breed’s said as part of police reforms, the city will also strengthen accountability policies, ban the use of military-grade weapons and divert funding to the African-American community.

[sop]

1. This should be the Progressive approach.

Defunding police is the Libertarian approach.

[Hoyt]

2. That might work. I guess they could always call for backup if necessary.

[Cha]

3. Wow.. that's progress!

[Laelth]

10. Yes. It is. n/t

-Laelth

[jmg257]

4. Sounds good. Stop them having to deal with stuff that just ties them up for

Hours. That others can deal with better. Around here they closed the institutions troubled folks were bought to.
Hopefully they can get a good system of people to handle the calls and places to help them.

Hopefully they’ll get to sell the weapons to get the cash back.

[Yavin4]

5. In NYC, we have a 311 line for noise complaints.

There's no need to call the cops for a noise complaint.

[ret5hd]

6. What a goddamned concept!!! Don't send ---LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS---

to calls that are ---NON CRIMINAL---!!!

Man, why didn't we think of that earlier???

[The Magistrate]

7. This Is An Excellent Idea, Sir

It should work well, and ought to spread.

[Renew Deal]

8. There is a cat in a tree holding a gun

[Laelth]

9. Awesome! Give me the hippie patrol! n/t

-Last

[Brother Buzz]

11. This is fantastic, but I understand it isn't necessarily being implemented today

It could take days and weeks to work out all the minutia and keep the whole system working. Lots of training and retraining, and hammering out consistent SOP's so everyone is on the same page.

Here's hopping the transition goes smoothly, and San Francisco's plan can be used as a template across the nation.