Vote YES on F for a fully staffed SFPD
Proposition F is the police full staffing and deferred retirement Charter Amendment that will enhance oversight of recruiting and civilianization; incentivize veteran officers to postpone their retirements; focus on neighborhood safety; and accelerate efforts to fully staff SFPD.
Prop F will fully staff SFPD and enhance public safety.
San Francisco isn’t unique among major cities competing to solve a once-in-a generation police understaffing crisis nationwide. But in a City as economically invested in being safe and welcoming to commuters, tourists, conventions and our own residents, San Francisco simply can’t afford an understaffed police department.
Yes on F will:
Incentivize experienced officers to postpone their retirements for up to five years
Emphasize deployments to neighborhood patrols and investigations
Minimize costly overtime, while improving oversight of police recruiting
Expand efforts to recruit more women officers and increase civilianization
Fulfill the promise of 21st century police reform
San Francisco’s
Police Department
is severely
short-staffed.
SFPD is short more than 500 full-duty officers of the 2,074 needed to adequately protect San Francisco.
Even more alarming: nearly 450 more officers will become eligible for full retirement by 2030.
Since 2019 SFPD has been unable to recruit more officers than it’s losing — mostly due to retirements.
Without bold action, the pace of attrition could leave SFPD short-staffed by more than 40 percent within five years.
Endorsements
Supervisor
Matt Dorsey
Supervisor
Rafael Mandelman
Board President
Aaron Peskin
Supervisor
Myrna Melgar
Supervisor
Connie Chan
Supervisor
Ahsha Safaí
Supervisor
Joel Engardio
Supervisor
Catherine Stefani
Prop F is a consensus plan to achieve full police staffing.
Co-authored by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Board President Aaron Peskin and Supervisor
Catherine Stefani, Prop F is co-sponsored by a Board supermajority — including Supervisors
Myrna Melgar, Rafael Mandelman, Ahsha Safaí, Connie Chan and Joel Engardio.
Chronic police understaffing endangers public safety.
01
It delays 911 response times, enabling low-level lawlessness, public disorder and criminalenterprises like open-air drug markets and retail theft that overwhelm our public services.
02
It forces taxpayers to spend heavily on police overtime — nearly 20 percent of SFPD’s salarybudget! — to pay fewer officers more money to meet our most basic public safety needs.
03
It overburdens our emergency response, risking burnout and taking a needless toll on thephysical and mental well-being of all our City’s first responders.