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SF Business Hiring Cops as Security Guards:  In the face of skyrocketing property crime and increasing threats to the safety of workers, San Francisco businesses are hiring off-duty police officers to increase security.  Michael Cabanatuan of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that police records show 203,000 hours in off-duty overtime was logged in the city over the past year, up by 32,000 hours from the previous year.  Unlike private security guards, off-duty officers carry firearms and maintain direct contact with the police department via radio.  Retailers have been impacted by increased thefts since the 2014 adoption of Proposition 47, which basically made the theft of goods valued at less than $950 a misdemeanor that is rarely charged.  Instead suspects are ticketed and released.  According to the former head of the San Francisco Peace Officers Association the increased crime "..goes hand and hand with the homeless problem and the drug epidemic in the city."  

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