"We don't have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I'm all for it,"
"You'll see. When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,"
"We are doing everything we can to drive crime down, and it's working. It's down 30% this year,"
"The good vibes in San Francisco are coming back. ... San Franciscans know that San Francisco is on the rise."
Dreamforce, expected to draw roughly 45,000 people to the Moscone Center, prompted heightened security planning around Yerba Buena Gardens. Salesforce funded hundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to patrol the convention perimeter because of concerns about insufficient local policing for large events. Marc Benioff expressed support for federal intervention, saying he would welcome National Guard deployment and advocated a return to heavier downtown law enforcement. City officials pushed back, noting crime is down 30% this year and that positive activity is returning to San Francisco. The exchange highlighted tensions between corporate security measures and municipal responses to public safety.
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