A San Francisco cop is in hot water for writing a letter to the paper, critical of the mayor's liberal policy of coddling the homeless and criminals.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Lewis' letter, published on The Chronicle's editorial page Aug. 15, questioned the Newsom administration's tactic of sending cops and outreach workers into the park before dawn to steer campers into social programs or, if they refused, cite them for quality-of-life crimes.
Lewis, who has 20 years with the department, wrote that the campers were neither interested in programs nor concerned about being cited, and that the real problem was during the day when drug use, drug dealing, drinking and fights were commonplace.
"Instead of sending a horde of people into the park at 4 a.m., the city should be sending this same horde into the park from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., when the real problems exist," Lewis wrote.
"It's funny," Lewis went on, "every time something is in the paper that makes this administration look bad, they throw a bunch of money at it and hope for the best.
"I won't go into how many officers have been taken off street patrol duties, because people in the city would go nuts," Lewis wrote.
Having worked both within a military and law enforcement sphere, I understand that front-line government employees can't always express their opinion publicly...at least, not if they want to keep their jobs.
But if this cop had already run his concerns up the chain of command (which would be the correct avenue) and got no results, he may have seen the problem as serious enough to risk the hot water.
His indictment of this policy sounds right-on, though. Many liberals mean well, but lack the courage to actually deal with a problem. Throwing money at a problem only serves as a bandage; it doesn't treat the infection or cancer below the surface.
Until that's dealt with, suffering--and societal decay--will continue.
HT to Free Republic.
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