A devoted booster of San Francisco, Benioff has long been an advocate for public safety and a sponsor of increasing police protection and staffing levels. And his controversial interview was ambiguous on its face, and appears to have been parsed in a manner meant to capture headlines instead of providing the intricate truths. The key quote was about the National Guard: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they [the National Guard] can be cops, I’m all for it,” he said. This has to be understood in the context ...