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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

SF considers bringing back 'patrol specials' from Gold Rush-era amid police shortage

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Short hundreds of officers, San Francisco is now looking back to a Gold Rush-era idea for a possible staffing solution. 

The police commission is hoping a new squad of officers will free up the police department to focus on more serious crimes.

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So San Francisco has gone from a regular police force to calls for defunding the police to considering using people with even less training to help clean up the mess.
All righty then.