SF voters appear to approve measure changing police policies, reject minimum staffing level

San Francisco voters in Tuesday’s election appear to have approved a measure to change some Police Department policies and sharply rejected another measure that sought to set a minimum officer staffing level for the department.

Proposition E, which proposed modifying SFPD’s use of force and vehicle pursuit policies, among other changes, had nearly 60 percent approval as of late Tuesday, well above the simple majority needed to pass. Mayor London Breed, who had put the measure on the ballot, thanked voters for its apparent passage.