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SF Police Chief Backs Plan to Hire Civilian Investigators
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San Francisco's police chief is endorsing a program to hire 15 civilian investigators to do police work. The investigators would be trained to gather evidence and write reports for low priority crimes where there's no suspect at the scene. We talk about the benefits and the drawbacks of the plan with two experts.
Guests
- Joseph McNamara: former San Jose police chief and current research fellow at the Hoover Institution
- Peter Keane: dean emeritus of the Golden Gate University Law School and former San Francisco police commissioner
