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while the thefts do effect businesses, the walgreens ceo later said he'd overblown them - perhaps it made a nice excuse to close stores and raise prices' https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Report-Top-Walgreens-...

But the locals are pissed.

The police may be understaffed but it's not budget issues or anything - it's because they've made their job unattractive by letting the bad apples spoil their reputation. The entire staff of 59 (about that number) traffic enforcement officers was found to give out on average only 10 tickets a day. That's not each, that as an entire department in a city with rampant traffic violations at all hours. The SF pd has been caught on camera watching places get robbed and not moving in until the thieves already leave. Two of their officers are currently being prosecuted over destroying evidence that they supposedly destroyed because cataloging it would take too much work.

You get the picture, the SF PD bad apples have really made the police force dysfunctional and unable to hire.

The police were wildly successful at shifting the blame to the prior DA, but the DA wasn't the problem. That DA is gone and nothing changed.