San Francisco Mayor London Breed was paid $351,000 last year – double the average employee’s salary
San Francisco’s Mayor was paid $351,000 in 2021, more than double the salary of the average worker employed by the city.
Mayor London Breed earns nearly $100,000 more in regular pay than NYC Mayor Eric Adams, according to data compiled by The San Francisco Chronicle.
Government employees in San Francisco made anywhere between $36,000 and $601,000 last year, averaging around $127,000, the data showed.
It comes after Breed performed a dramatic U-turn on her ‘defund the police’ strategy as she called for ‘more aggressive policing’ to crack down on rampant crime.
Mayor London Breed, pictured, was paid $351,000 in 2021, more than double the salary of the average worker employed by the city
She had demanded cities defund the police last year, announcing that San Francisco would be one of the first to do so and promising to slice $120million from the budgets of its police and sheriff’s departments.
But Breed made a screeching U-turn and announced she was asking the city’s Board of Supervisors for more money to be given to the police to stamp out drug dealing, car break-ins and theft.
Announcing a crime crackdown, she argued that San Francisco officers should get aggressive and ‘less tolerant of all the bulls*** that has destroyed our city’, as she went back on her plans to defund the police.
‘It’s time the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end,’ she said. ‘And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies.’
Breed called for progressive policies that have allowed criminal behavior to make a mockery of the city’s famed tolerance and compassion to be replaced with ‘more aggressive policing’.
Breed said she plans to introduce legislation that allows law enforcement officers real-time access to surveillance video in certain situations, as well as measures that would make it harder to sell stolen goods.
Her comments were a complete U-turn from last this year, when she announced plans to redirect $120million from the police department to a combination of new and existing programs for the African-American community.
More than 45,000 incidents have been reported so far this year, up from last year when most people were shut indoors, but below the roughly 60,000 complaints in previous years
The movement to defund the police picked up steam during 2020’s protests following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
But as she called to redirect funds away from the police towards community ventures, it was revealed the city spent $2.6million on her security detail in 2020.
San Francisco spent $12.4million to protect Breed between 2015 and 2020, with the bill rising from $1.7million in 2015 to $2.6 million last year, according to information obtained by public transparency website Openthebooks.com and compiled by Forbes.
