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In most locations, police salary is public information. According to Transparent California, in 2019 the average salary in San Francisco for a "Police Officer 3" was $171,950.26 and their benefits were worth another $43,036.34 for annual total compensation of $214,986.30.

Police are generally the most well paid social servants anywhere in the US.

I'm not sure how owning a bike qualifies you as "the tech elite"

There's only two kinds of people in San Francisco: there are "Techie Scum" who are people who walk, bicycle, and ride buses to jobs where they work for a paycheck. The other class of people inherited fortunes from railroad barons, 19th-century bonanza wheat magnates, and Mexican land grants, who went to private schools, then Little Ivies, and have never worked a day in their lives. These people for some reason are known as "community organizers" or, weirdly, "tenants-rights activists."

Are there no restaurants in San Fransisco?