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Streets and Sanitation

ART CREDIT: Zahid Khalil
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The High Price of the City’s Shows of Force

by Jim Daley June 23, 2021November 26, 2025

Blocking streets with snow plows and trucks during George Floyd protests blew through half of Streets & San’s yearly overtime budget in one month, records show.

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