{"id":7426,"date":"2025-10-16T05:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7426\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:57:24","slug":"san-francisco-leaders-reject-benioffs-comment-about-national-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7426\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco leaders reject Benioff\u2019s comment about National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8FD71D79A17B4A4860B72E51170781BF.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco leaders reject Benioff\u2019s comment about National Guard\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie joined city law enforcement leaders Tuesday to push back against the idea of National Guard troops patrolling city streets \u2014 a proposal that drew attention after Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff first suggested he\u2019d welcome it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Benioff originally told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/10\/us\/marc-benioff-san-francisco-guard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The New York Times <\/a>that he supported President Trump and would be &#8220;all for&#8221; sending in the National Guard if it meant more officers on city streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/marc-benioff-clarifies-national-guard-comments-dreamforce-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">walked those remarks back, <\/a>saying his focus was on the safety of the 45,000 people expected to attend Salesforce\u2019s Dreamforce conference.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Lurie, joined by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and Sheriff Paul Miyamoto outside the city\u2019s law enforcement training facility, said San Francisco doesn\u2019t need federal intervention to keep its streets safe.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We\u2019ve seen crime go down in Union Square by 40 percent. Citywide, crime is down 30 percent,&#8221; Lurie said. &#8220;We are at 70-year lows when it comes to homicides, and car break-ins are at 22-year lows. We have a lot of work to do, but I trust our local law enforcement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Jenkins echoed that message, saying scenes of unrest like those seen in Chicago are not what San Francisco wants or needs.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0DC5FA5423BD63A96635BF8883AC45D4.jpg\" alt=\"Dreamforce kicks off in SF amid National Guard controversy\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;To see tear gas and all the things that are happening \u2014 we don\u2019t want that chaos here,&#8221; Jenkins said. &#8220;Our job is to maintain order, and the public trusts us to get that job done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Lurie said he spoke privately with Benioff over the weekend after the interview drew widespread attention.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;What I said to him is what I\u2019m saying to you all right now \u2014 we are working relentlessly every day, and public safety is our number one priority,&#8221; Lurie said. &#8220;People are entitled to their opinions, but they\u2019re not entitled to their own facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At Dreamforce earlier this week, Benioff clarified his comments, saying, &#8220;The number one thing on my mind is safety \u2014 that\u2019s just what\u2019s coming out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Benioff also announced Salesforce will donate $1 million to the San Francisco Police Department to fund larger hiring bonuses for new officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">City officials said details about how and when that process would begin have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie joined city law enforcement leaders Tuesday to push back against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-7426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}