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Supervisors and SFPD spar over proposed cuts as BLA offers $2.6M reductions
Summary
San Francisco supervisors and Police Chief Bill Scott clashed over modest Budget and Legislative Analyst cuts to SFPD’s two-year budget, with the department warning cuts could hurt recruiting and reform work while supervisors urged using alternative response teams to reduce officer duties. The committee did not adopt final changes and recessed to June 25.
San Francisco’s Budget and Appropriations Committee spent the bulk of its June 24 meeting debating the Police Department’s budget and a set of modest reductions proposed by the Budget and Legislative Analyst (BLA).
Police Chief Bill Scott told the committee the department "does not agree with the BLA’s recommendations," arguing that the suggested reductions would undermine recruiting, training and technology needed to implement reform. "We are talking about human lives," Scott said, warning that cutting support for academies, materials and…
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