{"id":1039758,"date":"2021-11-21T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T15:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1039758"},"modified":"2021-11-21T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T15:29:03","slug":"san-francisco-police-to-investigate-officer-who-blamed-progressive-policies-for-burglaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-police-to-investigate-officer-who-blamed-progressive-policies-for-burglaries\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Police to Investigate Officer Who Blamed &#039;Progressive&#039; Policies for Burglaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-police-to-investigate-officer-who-blamed-progressive-policies-for-burglaries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1039758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Associated-Press-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said on Friday that the department has taken steps to investigate an officer who allegedly told a burglary victim that the city\u2019s crime policies were \u201ctoo progressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>San Francisco Chronicle&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/SFPD-officer-who-allegedly-blamed-burglaries-on-16635799.php\">reported<\/a> on Saturday:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"10.915811088296\">\n<p>Chief Bill Scott began the oversight process after The Chronicle asked questions about the experience of one burglary victim. Jenna Smith said a perpetrator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/S-F-s-pandemic-surge-in-burglaries-is-16633265.php\">broke into her garage nine times in two days<\/a> while she was out of town for her grandmother\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Smith watched the burglaries unfold in real-time through a phone app that linked to her home security cameras. She recalled stinging remarks from an officer who responded to the ninth burglary, whose name she did not remember.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"bc_inline_sub__copy\" readability=\"12\">\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p>\u201cThe officer said, \u2018This is happening to you guys because San Francisco is too progressive,\u2019\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Those words could be the focus of a probe by the city\u2019s Department of Police Accountability, an independent oversight body that investigates complaints about officers, reviews shootings involving officers, evaluates police practices and recommends new policies to the city\u2019s Police Commission.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<section class=\"relatedStories\" data-progressive=\"true\" readability=\"-23\">\n<p>Chief Scott said that officers are not allowed to make \u201cpolitical commentary\u201d on the job.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>The city has been the focus on nationwide attention due to a spate of shoplifting that has forced the departure of dozens of retailers, including pharmacies like Walgreens.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday night, looters in the city\u2019s iconic Union Square <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/11\/21\/watch-san-franciscos-union-square-hit-by-horrible-looting\/\">ransacked<\/a> a Louis Vuitton shop and other stores. On Saturday, looters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/11\/21\/watch-mass-looting-moves-to-san-francisco-suburbs-it-was-insane\/\">continued<\/a> into the suburbs, raiding a Nordstrom in Walnut Creek with a convoy of dozens of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco was among the many cities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/law-and-order\/2021\/02\/26\/san-francisco-to-redistribute-120-million-from-police-to-black-community\/\">consider<\/a> \u201cdefunding\u201d the police, and District Attorney Chesa Boudin \u2014 son of an imprisoned Weather Underground radical \u2014 has adopted lenient law enforcement policies. He now faces a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/09\/backers-of-san-francisco-d-a-chesa-boudin-recall-raise-1-6m-more-than-2x-his-supporters\/\">recall<\/a> election from angry residents.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said on Friday that the department has taken steps to investigate an officer who allegedly told a burglary victim that the city\u2019s crime policies &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}