{"id":8138,"date":"2022-02-05T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T21:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2022-02-04T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T22:05:50","slug":"mayor-glorias-citywide-vaccine-mandate-is-threatening-to-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8138","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Gloria\u2019s Citywide Vaccine Mandate is Threatening to Public Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by William Hale<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Todd Gloria\u2019s vaccine mandate for all city workers has generated shortages in SDPD personnel. With only 1,900 officers spanning across San Diego, officers are overworked, stressed, and unable to fulfill their duties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Diego Councilmember Chris Cate recently criticized Mayor Gloria\u2019s vaccine mandate in a series of statements, citing the Northeastern district&#8217;s failure to meet adequate staffing 70% of the time in the past month. Cate voted against the citywide vaccine mandate two months ago out of concerns for waning public safety enforcement \u2014 a legitimate concern amidst a general rise in crime in San Diego since the COVID pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Cate\u2019s district 6 \u2014 an area spanning from Clairemont to Mira Mesa \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjcate\/status\/1488991242792751105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488991242792751105%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kusi.com%2Fcouncilmember-chris-cate-blasts-mayor-glorias-vaccine-mandate-for-city-workers%2F\"> a serial arsonist has burned 33 cars.<\/a> With the absence of dozens of unvaccinated officers (and perhaps some protesting the mandate) unprecedented criminal activity like this shouldn\u2019t necessarily be surprising.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vaccine mandate has resulted in \u201cSDPD having the second lowest staffing levels per 1,000 residents in the country,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjcate\/status\/1488991367619514369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488991367619514369%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kusi.com%2Fcouncilmember-chris-cate-blasts-mayor-glorias-vaccine-mandate-for-city-workers%2F\"> said Cate in a Tweet,<\/a> \u201csince the enactment of the citywide vaccine mandate, we\u2019ve seen 50 SDPD members leave with an additional 37 currently transitioning to local agencies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Popular rhetoric amongst both liberals and conservatives has transitioned from \u201cstop the spread,\u201d to \u201cwe must learn to live with COVID,\u201d thus vaccine mandates seem less and less practical. Especially when mandates are directly leading to a lack of safety in the wider community, as Cate stated on Twitter, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis year is definitely a negative [regarding staffing levels].\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who want to get vaccinated have certainly received the jab, and those who are hesitant certainly won\u2019t have their minds changed due to mandates. Nonetheless, Mayor Gloria\u2019s citywide vaccine mandate seems to be set-in-stone with Chris Cate being the sole councilmember opposed to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: ABC 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by William Hale Todd Gloria\u2019s vaccine mandate for all city workers has generated shortages in SDPD personnel. With only 1,900 officers spanning across San Diego, officers are overworked, stressed, and unable to fulfill their duties.\u00a0 San Diego Councilmember Chris Cate recently criticized Mayor Gloria\u2019s vaccine mandate in a series of statements, citing the Northeastern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mayor Gloria\u2019s Citywide Vaccine Mandate is Threatening to Public Safety - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8138\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mayor Gloria\u2019s Citywide Vaccine Mandate is Threatening to Public Safety - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by William Hale Todd Gloria\u2019s vaccine mandate for all city workers has generated shortages in SDPD personnel. 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