Omni Consumer Products, Delta City:

Why am I the only one in the news media who seems a bit concerned that a crypto billionaire is housing the city's new high-tech police surveillance unit in his downtown building?

Mayor Daniel Lurie announced in June that Chris Larsen has donated $9.4 million to allow the Real Time Investigation Center to operate in Ripple Labs San Francisco headquarters. [...] The RTIC is also funded by Larsen's San Francisco Police Community Fund and billionaire Michael Mortiz's Crankstart Foundation.

In other words: The high-tech unit of SFPD is funded almost entirely by two tech billionaires, and the surveillance systems it operates will be housed in one of those billionaires' offices.

This is another big step in the privatization of San Francisco policing and the overall move by Lurie to rely on voluntary gifts from the very rich instead of taxes and democratic budgeting by elected officials to fund services in San Francisco.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.