If, for example, the mayor of one of the most polarizing cities in the United States is violently attacked, nobody is going to say, "Yeah, but we saved $5,000 in police overtime." Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

"This measure is not about one elected official. It's about a practice that has gone unchecked for many years," said Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, chief sponsor of the proposed rule. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) ― Amid a fiscal crisis, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to appropriate nearly $2 million in an effort to postpone planned layoffs of city public health and clerical workers for two months, until after the... Full Article at CBS 5

The vote dealt a crushing blow to the politically powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1021, the largest city employees union that lobbied hard for passage and turned out hundreds of city workers to City Hall rallies and hearings. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Supervisor got it right! Community policing gets lots of points at the conceptual level, but suffers at the implementation level. We are chronic sufferers of lack of community policing in San Francisco. Full Article at Global Research

Text and images by Sarah Phelan Civil rights groups celebrated today, as the Board of Supervisors amended the city’s sanctuary policy to ensure that immigrant youth get their day in court before being handed over to the feds for deportation. Full Article at San Francisco Bay Guardian