"San Francisco's political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city's streets. By late Sunday Benioff took to Twitter to clarify that he believed the best people to manage public safety in San Francisco was... San Francisco, and that "Salesforce is proud to support the Mayor through the Partnership for San Francisco.""
"Benioff, previously seen as a broadly liberal benevolent benefactor to the city by the bay, seemed to follow the path of his fellow tech CEOs in cozying up to the Trump administration, just ahead of the company's Dreamforce conference in the city. In an interview with the New York Times, published Friday, Benioff said he avidly supported Trump, who has said he was considering sending the National Guard into San Francisco, as he has to other Democrat-led cities."
""We don't have cops, so if they can be cops, I'm all for it," he was quoted saying. He noted that Salesforce has to pay for "hundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers" to patrol the convention area. He also said San Francisco needed to "refund" the police, and said the City needed to add another 1,000 officers to the police force's current 1,500 strong workforce."
Marc Benioff publicly endorsed the idea of deploying the National Guard to address San Francisco street problems and expressed strong support for President Trump. He later tweeted that San Francisco itself should manage public safety and stated that Salesforce supports the mayor through a local partnership. Benioff criticized local policing levels, saying the city needed to "refund" the police and add roughly 1,000 officers to a roughly 1,500-strong force. He noted that Salesforce pays for hundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers during conventions. San Francisco's visible homelessness and open-air drug use drew sharp political criticism.
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