Yet another desperate move by San Francisco officials: cutting police academy training from nine to six months just to get bodies on the streets. While city leaders who once chanted 'defund the police' now scramble to address their self-created staffing crisis, they're willing to compromise on officer preparedness in the name of quick fixes. From offering $400,000 salaries to veteran officers to rushing rookies into service, this podcast exposes how decades of poor planning combined with anti-police sentiment has created unprecedented public safety challenges across major West Coast cities.Is anyone surprised that slashing police budgets and demonizing officers led to mass retirements and recruitment failures? Do officials actually care about public safety, or just the appearance of doing something?