London Breed is a bad mayor for SF. She defunded the police by $120 million during the movement [1] while she spent $12.4 million on her own personal security detail [2]. And now she pledges more police. It's a slap on her own face. She dances in a nightclub without a mask, breaking the very rule she set herself [3]. She partied at the French Laundry restaurant while she encouraged everyone else to shelter in place [4]. London Breed is a terrible mayor for SF. As the innovation center of the world, SF deserves better. Can anyone shed some light on how she got elected?
Based on this article, it looks like Y/Y spending on law enforcement was flat, maybe even up when you include funding to the SF Sheriff, DA, and Probation offices.
Given that the crimes in SF have spiked during Covid, a flat police budget is de facto defunding [7]. To keep up with the crimes, police budget should increase proportionally as well. Otherwise, crimes will not be controlled.
The article you are citing shows that some crimes have increased (Homicide, Burglaries, Vehicle Thefts) but several other categories have decreased. If you go to the SFPD Dashboard linked[1], overall crime in 2020 was down 23% vs 2019.
For 2021, overall crime is up 10% vs 2021, but is still seems to be on track to be down 15% vs 2019.
A lot of this is probably due to COVID restrictions rather than any change in policing or enforcement, but using the metrics you've cited, crime is actually at a low.
If we follow your argument about adjusting police budget proportionally, we should have cut the police budget 23% in FY 2020, or $160M. FWIW, I don't think cutting the budget 23% in 1 year is a great idea.
Some have increased while other have decreased. The total number of crimes have increased by my own experience. Many of the crimes are not reported. It is the experience of other residents as well [8]. For example, my experience is that car window breaking has increased dramatically. I did not have any car window breaking in the first 5 years in SF (I live in a relatively safer neighborhood). This year, my window was smashed. I see glasses all over the streets nowadays. I did bother to report to the police because i did not think the police would be able to do something about it.
Anyway, as a mayor, if London Breed promised to do something and she did not, it is a sign of incompetency. It erodes her own credibility.
It's been a while, so I had to look. It seems she was actually interim mayor, and was then recalled as interim mayor. After she was recalled, she won the special election.
Good catch; I remembered she wasn’t elected as an incumbent, and found a reference to Farrell as interim mayor at the time, but hadn’t recalled all the preceding mess.
I presume there was a line of succession like we have for the President and other public offices for these contingencies. Sure, she's had relationships with city officials like Mohammad Nuru, but I didn't get the sense that there was any corruption around her succeeding Ed Lee.
As a Canadian citizen myself, I firmly urge fellow Canadians to have their own independent thinking and policies. Canada should not be manipulated by foreign politicians. This is blatant interference of Canada's internal affairs by foreign politicians. If the US wants to fight China, Canada should not side with either. It is our best interest to stay neutral.
This time is quite different. When AMD beat Intel technologically, Intel still had the lead in process technology while AMD had better chip designs. Now, time has changed. TSMC leads Intel in process technology while AMD contracts TSMC to make chips. AMD will have both the advantages in chip design and process technology. It is more likely that Intel will fall further behind TSMC, as TSMC has been investing heavily (more than even Samsung).
One thing that stands out is that Alibaba has 18 founders. It is almost unheard of in the west. Jack Ma is a true legend. He has a humble background and failed college entrance exam three times before being accepted into an ordinary school (Gates and Jobs entered school without much a problem).
Agreed. AMD is the real threat. Lisa Su has done everything right in turning around AMD. AMD was on the verge of bankruptcy. Lisa Su took it over and now AMD is come back to life.
Doing more things isn't necessarily a good thing, doing the right things is.
AMD has a ruthless focus on a couple of markets, a competitive product and clear leadship.
That makes them a threat whatever the headcount.
If EPYC starts gaining ground in the high margin/high volume server market then Intel has to double down and they might, the Core architecture was a response to the AMD64 and a good one.
They aren't out the fight but they are taking a few hits at the moment .
There is not a lot of vertical integration in Apple's physical supply chain. Screens are sourced from Samsung (or have been last time I checked), phones are assbled by Foxxcon (same as above, might have changed).
Managing all that is what set's Apple appart from others. Besides brand, design and such. I'm in no position to judge the software part.
My experience with Prime Wardrobe has been negative. I ordered three shirts to try out more than a week ago. I still have not received them. With Prime, you can receive your orders in 2 to 3 days and return them if you don't like them. Wardrobe is slower and does not add additional values.
[1] https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-pl...
[2] https://www.thesfnews.com/mayor-breed-cuts-police-budget-hir...
[3] https://californiaglobe.com/articles/sf-mayor-london-breed-g...
[4] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-...