Police
Department POL · Public Protection · $651.8M adopted (FY2021)
In fiscal year 2021, San Francisco budgeted $651.8M for Police, 4.8% of city spending, against $142.9M of revenue it brings in. Source: San Francisco adopted budget (Controller open data), data as of 13 July 2026.
Adopted budget (FY2021)
$651.8M
Share of city spending
4.8%
Budgeted revenue
$142.9M
Service area
Public Protection
Spending by category — FY2021
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$16.1M
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue$64.3M
Adopted vs executed — FY2021, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$641.7M
Executed (operating)$588.4M
Deviation−$53.3M (−8.3%)
Every comparable year
2019−44.8%
2020−3.7%
2021−8.3%
2022+3.1%
2023+4.2%
2024+1.3%
2025−0.1%
Outline = adopted budget · fill = actual spending · ochre = spent above the adopted figure.
Operating funds only, transfer characters and related government units excluded — the one perimeter where adopted and executed are the same thing (measured; capital and multi-year project funds spend across years by design).
Source
Adopted budget lines for department POL, fiscal year 2021, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗