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About a week ago, in an interview With the New York Times, billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he agreed with President Trump’s efforts to send National Guard units to “fight crime” in US cities. Specifically, Benioff suggested that the city’s slightly militarized law enforcement might be in effect as his company’s annual Dreamforce conference gets under way (“We don’t have enough police, so if they can be police, I’m all for it,” he told the newspaper). Since then he has been getting it from all angles.
Shortly after Benioff’s comments, wealthy venture capitalist Ron Conway, a longtime board member of Salesforce’s philanthropy wing, He announced his resignation The company’s Conway, who worked at Salesforce for a decade, told Benioff, in an email The New York Times found that the two no longer share the same values. “With your recent comments and failure to understand their impact, it saddens me to say, I now hardly recognize the man I so admired for so long,” Conway apparently wrote.
Benioff was chewed out by philanthropist Lauren Powell Jobs (also Steve Jobs’ widow), who criticized him. and op-eds Published in the Wall Street Journal. Needless to say, there has been a lot of criticism on social media as well.
On Friday, after an appropriate uproar, Benioff make a statement With a heart emoji where he appears to be walking behind his claim that the National Guard was needed in San Francisco:
“After listening carefully to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest DREAMFORCE in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address security in San Francisco. My previous comment came out of an abundance of caution around the event, and I sincerely apologize for the concern it caused. It is my firm belief that we operate when we maintain the greatest partnership in our city. Deeply grateful to Mayor Lurie, the SFPD, and all of our partners are fully committed to a safer, stronger San Francisco.
Critics have singled out Trump’s National Guard operation An authoritarian power move Against Democrat-run cities. Aside from the fact that using the National Guard as a form of local law enforcement isn’t a practical or necessary effort, it’s worth noting that the whole idea that democratically governed cities are the nation’s biggest havens for crime and violence (many targets A remarkably liberal city) is inaccurate and easily disproved. A Recent analysis shows that most of America’s most dangerous cities are not currently being targeted for National Guard deployments, and many are statistically dangerous cities is in “red” stateNot “blue” ones.
