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Supervisor Avalos urges Board to hold up to $100 million of SFPD budget until reform metrics met
Summary
Supervisor John Avalos outlined a proposal to place up to $100 million of the San Francisco Police Department budget in a reserve, released only as the department meets agreed reform metrics; commissioners and the department agreed to schedule follow-up meetings to define achievable, non-disruptive measures.
Supervisor John Avalos proposed that the Board of Supervisors place a portion of the San Francisco Police Department’s budget into a reserve that would be released in tranches only after the department demonstrates measurable progress on agreed reforms.
Avalos told the Police Commission on July 6 that his office originally discussed a $200 million reserve but had scaled it back in the draft to “up to $100,000,000” to make the idea more politically and operationally realistic. He described the reserve as a lever to ensure implementation of reforms—including use-of-force reporting, crisis-intervention team rollout, early intervention system implementation, and more objective hiring and promotion procedures—rather than a punishment to “make the Department fail.”…
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