Marc Benioff exposed himself as craven and hollow. He's not alone

Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Russell Benioff is 61 years old, which is too young to be bleating endlessly about San Francisco defunding its police and being overrun by crime. Vast wealth does not confer subject-matter expertise. It doesn’t make you a theologian or a doctor or a political scientist.

The objective truth is that San Francisco never defunded its police , as more than one mayor — the person responsible for San Francisco’s budget and San Francisco’s police —has made clear to Benioff and everyone else. The police budget is at an all-time high.

This barstool talk would be embarrassing enough at a family gathering, let alone within the pages of the New York Times just days before his own company’s sprawling Dreamforce conference, which commenced today .