So here it is, rebroadcast in HD: I haven't changed from my original position SUPPORTING Prop 1 (and 5 & 6) and OPPOSING Prop 2 (and 3 & 4).

This wasn't a back-door dig at Prop 2, but rather the fact that priorities are being ignored.

Public Safety is a core function of any level of state government.

I haven't even touched the problems faced by the DFD or the hilariously pathetic joke their EMS system is...more specifically, the equipment they send into the field.

This has to do specifically with the DPD.

Yes, this is part of a labor dispute. I'm not going to make any attempt to hide it. But in this case, they do make some valid arguments.

Their job is tough enough as it is.

The political correctness in the department overall and inability of the Command Staff to keep their pants zipped up (that alone will make one hell of a post just by itself), the boots on the ground, so to speak, the officers that you see patrolling the streets and investigating the reported cases, is a difficult and dangerous job as it is.

I'll most likely get some flak on this, but you do have people trying to do they best job that they can do, in an impossible situation getting made harder every day by people who cannot organize a thought, much less run a city government.

With the environment they work in and the type of people they interact with, the schedule that city hall is forcing them to work will burn everyone out over time. And in their line of work, I'm not exaggerating by saying that someone is going to get killed.

Instead of prioritizing its spending (i.e. public safety gets first dibs on everything, then the rest of city government) this is quickly evolving into a very dangerous situation that should never have occurred in the first place had the necessary actions been taken at the beginning.

But they weren't.