Another Democrat is currently dealing with the terrible effects of the policies she previously fought for.
This week, Hillary Ronen, a City Supervisor of San Francisco made the announcement that she is “pleading” for additional police officers in her city, which is rife with crime, especially in the district she is in charge of. This frantic appeal was made only a few years after the Dem. demanded that the police be given less money and said that half-measures would amount to a “slap in the face.”
How it began
On the 11-member city supervisors board, Ronen represents District 9 of San Francisco. She took office in 2017. In Nov. 2020, the 47-year-old Berkeley Legal alumnus was re-elected.
She has supported Chesa Boudin, the George Soros-backed socialist district attorney, during her term in office. Boudin has been charged with directing a rise in crime in the city because her parents belonged to a Marxist terrorist group.
Ronen ran for office in 2016 promising to “make police a part of our community,” but in 2020 she got on the BLM train and fought for budget cuts for the police.
In the midst of the tragic BLM riots, Dem. Mayor London Breed suggested cutting the San Francisco Police Dept.’s budget by $35 million over two years. Ronen felt that this 2.6% cut was insufficient, according to Mission Local.
“We can not just give lip respect to this period and this movement,” Ronen said, calling the budget cut “a slap in the face.”
She also recommended that law enforcement “get out of the business of reacting to homeless individuals for being homeless,” that there should be less law enforcement near public schools, and that there should be a rethinking of the use of mounted police officers altogether.
Ronen emphasized that repurposing a “system that is corrupt to its core” was ultimately the goal of defunding the police.
Ronen reaffirmed her stance in an August 2020 tweet, “To be clear, I firmly support cutting the police budget and staffing our force with fewer personnel. Our city’s budget has been unbalanced for years, with hundreds of thousands of dollars that has been going to the SFPD to pay them to perform tasks for which they aren’t qualified.”
In the end, Breed stole $120 million from the sheriff’s and police agencies in 2020.
What’s happening
According to Mission Local, Ronen obtained her desired outcome.
As of last week, there were 1,514 full-time SFPD officers, down from 1,840 in 2019 and from 1,872 in 2017.
According to the San Francisco DA’s Office, only 3.9% of all the 58,681 reported occurrences led to an arrest in 2022.
On the crime index created by Neighborhood Watch, San Francisco receives a score of 2 out of 100 (100 being the safest). As a CNN reporter recently discovered, the odds of being a victim of a violent crime is 1 in 186, and the probability of being a victim of a property crime is 1 in 20.
Between January 1 and March 12, the SFPD received reports of 66 arson incidents, 5,505 larceny-theft incidents, 1,062 burglary incidents, 428 assaults, 525 robberies, 39 reports of rape, 1,123 vehicle thefts, and 9 murder cases.
During that time, Bayview, Mission, and Ingleside—all under Ronen’s supervision—were responsible for 41% of the city’s arson events, 18% of the larceny thefts, 29.8% of the burglaries, 38% of the assaults, 37% of robberies, 36% of rape cases, 50% of vehicle thefts, and 66% of homicides. This year, roughly half of the reported San Francisco cases of human trafficking have also occurred there.
Two sites in Ronen’s district are listed by Only In Your State as being one of the “most dangerous places in San Francisco,” especially after dark.
Ronen pleaded with the SFPD to prioritize presence of police inside her district above investing overtime in an anti-retail theft initiative during a meeting of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on March 15, according to Fox News Digital.
“I’ve been pleading with this agency to provide the Mission with the level of police support it merits for the whole year,” Ronen added. “And I’ve been informed again that we can’t deploy any officers to Mission,” she continued.
While having previously said that anything less than a significant reduction in police expenditures would be a “slap in the face,” Ronen stated on Wednesday that she thought the SFPD had really let her down.
“It aches. And I believe the department has betrayed me. I believe the mayor has betrayed me. I feel cheated by the city’s priorities,” Ronen stated.
Ronen is currently promoting racial reparations while working to undo the harm her prior proposals have caused to San Francisco. She recently said she can’t “wait to start” putting plans to send out $5 million to selected black residents, forgive their debt, and provide them with income guarantees into action.
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