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He said the police union and Suhr have insisted panel interviews go through the POA and must be conducted on the officers' own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6oG2sLtLBP3gdksZR2rX5HvvWqAhSfet\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not the type of transparency and collaboration we would expect from a department and a chief eager to improve,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee's office did not respond to requests for comment on Gascón's letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The POA sent a bulletin to members last month saying that it \"rejects [the] premise\" of the blue-ribbon panel and urging any officer contacted to inform the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA President Martin Halloran said previously that the panel has no authority to investigate individual officers or \"to go on a witch hunt of my members,\" though he acknowledged no such request had been made. He said the union asked to handle officer interview requests \"as a courtesy,\" and that in general the POA is not against officers being interviewed as subject matter experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halloran took issue with testimony from one current officer who has already talked to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, the head of a minority SFPD group called \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a> and a subject of some of the racist text messages uncovered last year, appeared before the panel earlier this month to testify on Police Department culture. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">She criticized\u003c/a> both the department and the POA for what she called \"disregard\" of black officers and minority communities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Halloran sent Williams a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153923/S-F-POA-Letter-to-OFJ-President-Yulanda-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> challenging her statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA is disturbed about some of your comments and accusations,\" Halloran wrote. \"For example, you claim that racism is 'widespread' within our department. The POA disagrees. While a handful of officers engaged in racist and homophobic text messaging -- and were condemned for doing so by the POA and by me personally -- there is no evidence that racism is widespread throughout the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Roth, an attorney serving as the panel's general counsel, sent the department a broad public records request Dec. 16 seeking documents from 30 categories, including officer discipline records, arrest statistics, department policies and an accounting of the department's internal affairs investigation into the texting scandal. A Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">blocked\u003c/a> any discipline for nine officers implicated in the scandal last month, ruling the department waited too long to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has not responded to questions about its cooperation with the panel, nor to a KQED request for documents and correspondence related to the panel's public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153985/S-F-Blue-Ribbon-Panel-Sunshine-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">complaint\u003c/a> with the city's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force Jan. 12 asking the oversight body to compel the department to produce the requested documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth wrote that the department responded to just seven of 30 records requests from the panel. And in three of those seven cases, Roth said, the department withheld the requested documents, citing various provisions of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD did not explain why these prohibitions apply or why, per department policy [and city law] such records could not be redacted,\" Roth wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has not updated its response, panel executive director Anand Subramanian said in an email Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the POA had provided a list of names \"they consider relevant\" and insisted that any interviews of those SFPD officers take place at the union's offices with POA attorneys present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law firm working groups are moving forward with these interviews, despite these constraints,\" Subramanian wrote. \"We are also working to set up an interview with POA leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr sent Subramanian a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153238/Response-to-Request-for-Interview-of-Chief-Greg-Suhr\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> Jan. 20 in response to a request for his interview, scheduling a one-hour session for Feb. 2. He also wrote that \"all requests on behalf of the Panel should go through the appropriate labor group or association representing an active employee,\" and that \"any member of the department who chooses to appear before the Panel would do so voluntarily, on their own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also noted that as of Jan. 25, the department was participating in a voluntary policy review through the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. A former federal prosecutor with knowledge of the Justice Department's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Reform\u003c/a>\" process said it is similar to \"pattern or practice\" investigation like those underway in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/06/justice-department-will-launch-investigation-into-practices-of-chicago-police/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1272364/ramsey-return-chicago-consult-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore\u003c/a>. However, the process is not as thorough and does not include the threat of federal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón noted in his letter to Lee that San Francisco ranked eighth in police killings among the 60 largest cities in the U.S. in 2015, and that the Police Department saw a 50 percent increase in officer-involved shootings last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from Gascón's letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If the promises you levied in your inauguration speech and in your letter to the Attorney General to repair the \"dissolution of trust between communities of color and law enforcement\" are genuine, and if it will remain should the impassioned pleas from the community for reform fade in the months ahead, then I would ask that you demonstrate an actual commitment to these issues by taking steps now to support the existing investigation. These problems are far too serious and far too systemic to simply pay them lip service. If you are committed to restoring trust between police and the community, I ask that you take the obvious and immediate action of directing the Chief of Police and SFPD to cooperate with the Blue Ribbon Panel. Public Safety in San Francisco can no longer afford decision making that favors the interests of the Police Officers Association over the interests of the citizens you were elected to represent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1:10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is questioning the sincerity of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">recent call\u003c/a> by Mayor Ed Lee for a federal probe of police practices and the Dec. 2 shooting of Mario Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/file/144/1/1441-DA%20Letter%20to%20Mayor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a letter released Thursday\u003c/a>, Gascón noted Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/no-funding-for-das-police-misconduct-task-force-in-s-f-mayors-budget\" target=\"_blank\">refusal to fund\u003c/a> a review of police incident reports and potentially tainted prosecutions involving officers who sent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, an ongoing scandal that has besieged the department since last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also accused the Police Department, Police Chief Greg Suhr and the San Francisco Police Officers Association of obstructing the work of \u003ca href=\"https://policylink.app.box.com/BRPFAQ\" target=\"_blank\">a blue-ribbon panel\u003c/a> the district attorney convened to investigate the department's culture and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the six months since forming the panel, the San Francisco Police Department and POA have engaged in a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics,\" Gascón wrote. He said the police union and Suhr have insisted panel interviews go through the POA and must be conducted on the officers' own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not the type of transparency and collaboration we would expect from a department and a chief eager to improve,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee's office did not respond to requests for comment on Gascón's letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The POA sent a bulletin to members last month saying that it \"rejects [the] premise\" of the blue-ribbon panel and urging any officer contacted to inform the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA President Martin Halloran said previously that the panel has no authority to investigate individual officers or \"to go on a witch hunt of my members,\" though he acknowledged no such request had been made. He said the union asked to handle officer interview requests \"as a courtesy,\" and that in general the POA is not against officers being interviewed as subject matter experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halloran took issue with testimony from one current officer who has already talked to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, the head of a minority SFPD group called \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a> and a subject of some of the racist text messages uncovered last year, appeared before the panel earlier this month to testify on Police Department culture. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">She criticized\u003c/a> both the department and the POA for what she called \"disregard\" of black officers and minority communities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Halloran sent Williams a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153923/S-F-POA-Letter-to-OFJ-President-Yulanda-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> challenging her statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA is disturbed about some of your comments and accusations,\" Halloran wrote. \"For example, you claim that racism is 'widespread' within our department. The POA disagrees. While a handful of officers engaged in racist and homophobic text messaging -- and were condemned for doing so by the POA and by me personally -- there is no evidence that racism is widespread throughout the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Roth, an attorney serving as the panel's general counsel, sent the department a broad public records request Dec. 16 seeking documents from 30 categories, including officer discipline records, arrest statistics, department policies and an accounting of the department's internal affairs investigation into the texting scandal. A Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">blocked\u003c/a> any discipline for nine officers implicated in the scandal last month, ruling the department waited too long to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has not responded to questions about its cooperation with the panel, nor to a KQED request for documents and correspondence related to the panel's public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153985/S-F-Blue-Ribbon-Panel-Sunshine-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">complaint\u003c/a> with the city's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force Jan. 12 asking the oversight body to compel the department to produce the requested documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth wrote that the department responded to just seven of 30 records requests from the panel. And in three of those seven cases, Roth said, the department withheld the requested documents, citing various provisions of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD did not explain why these prohibitions apply or why, per department policy [and city law] such records could not be redacted,\" Roth wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has not updated its response, panel executive director Anand Subramanian said in an email Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the POA had provided a list of names \"they consider relevant\" and insisted that any interviews of those SFPD officers take place at the union's offices with POA attorneys present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law firm working groups are moving forward with these interviews, despite these constraints,\" Subramanian wrote. \"We are also working to set up an interview with POA leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr sent Subramanian a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153238/Response-to-Request-for-Interview-of-Chief-Greg-Suhr\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> Jan. 20 in response to a request for his interview, scheduling a one-hour session for Feb. 2. He also wrote that \"all requests on behalf of the Panel should go through the appropriate labor group or association representing an active employee,\" and that \"any member of the department who chooses to appear before the Panel would do so voluntarily, on their own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also noted that as of Jan. 25, the department was participating in a voluntary policy review through the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. A former federal prosecutor with knowledge of the Justice Department's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Reform\u003c/a>\" process said it is similar to \"pattern or practice\" investigation like those underway in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/06/justice-department-will-launch-investigation-into-practices-of-chicago-police/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1272364/ramsey-return-chicago-consult-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>In his proposed budget unveiled Monday that includes a $37 million increase for the city's Police Department over the next two years, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has opted not to fund an ongoing probe into a string of law enforcement scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office requested funding for several efforts, including $383,315 to pay for a task force investigating misconduct in the San Francisco police and sheriff's departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just didn’t get anywhere near the funding that we had hoped for,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said. \"It’s really concerning that we’re not getting the adequate resources that we need to just function normally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the task force's work -- still underway in the DA's trial integrity unit -- is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/30/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals\" target=\"_blank\">reviewing\u003c/a> some 3,000 potentially tainted cases involving SFPD officers implicated in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that came to light in March, Szabo said. The task force is also probing work from the Police Department's crime lab and investigating allegations that sheriff's deputies \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">forced city jail inmates to fight\u003c/a> each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee touted multimillion-dollar allocations in other public safety departments in a speech before the Board of Supervisors Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My budget doubles down on our public safety investments to meet the needs of a growing city and the growing demands of our first responders,\" he said. \"We will through this budget hire 400 additional police officers, 198 firefighters, 55 paramedics, and 36 911 dispatchers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why he didn't budget any funds for the misconduct investigations, Lee said he didn't want to encourage legal battles between city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I don’t want to see is lawyering up on the public defender's side and the district attorney’s side just to battle against each other,\" Lee said, adding that he didn't believe 3,000 cases need review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the DA and the police chief and the Police Commission need to all work closely together,\" he said. \"I do believe there is a number they have to look at, and they can come to an agreement as to what that is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman with the public defender's office said prosecutors and public defenders are collaborating to review the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he announced the probe, District Attorney George Gascón said his office flagged 10 years of arrests involving officers implicated in the texting scandal and turned up about 1,600 prosecutions. Prosecutors did not file charges in the remaining 1,400 cases. Gascón said it was possibly more important to look at arrests that weren't prosecuted, indicating charges might not have held up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am disappointed that this was not included in the mayor’s budget,\" Supervisor David Campos said. \"I think that members of the Police Department and members of the community deserve that the city allocate the resources needed to get to the bottom of what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages were made public in a federal court filing on March 13. The city's public defender revealed on March 26 the allegations of forced inmate fighting at a city jail, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/DNA-lab-irregularities-may-endanger-hundreds-of-6165643.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> on March 28 on a breach of protocol at SFPD's crime lab, potentially affecting hundreds more prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our special prosecutions unit, which handles misconduct for the district attorney’s office, was underwater,\" Szabo said, \"and really needed additional resources to become adequately staffed and investigate these varying issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said at the time that he would seek additional funding from the city, but what became of the request was unknown until now. The mayor's budget would increase the DA's overall funding by $3.7 million over two years, mostly allocated for mandatory salary and benefit increases. The budget also includes funding for an additional attorney to work on the city's implementation of court-ordered, outpatient mental health treatment, or Laura's Law, and a boost for IT staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requests in other areas, like increased funding for processing untested rape kits and victim services, were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We requested four additional victims' advocates to serve this growing population,\" Szabo said, citing a 30 percent increase in victim services over the past four years. \"We didn’t get one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Szabo said the task force's work will continue. \"Unfortunately, it may take a little longer than we'd hoped and anticipated,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In his proposed budget unveiled Monday that includes a $37 million increase for the city's Police Department over the next two years, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has opted not to fund an ongoing probe into a string of law enforcement scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office requested funding for several efforts, including $383,315 to pay for a task force investigating misconduct in the San Francisco police and sheriff's departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just didn’t get anywhere near the funding that we had hoped for,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said. \"It’s really concerning that we’re not getting the adequate resources that we need to just function normally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the task force's work -- still underway in the DA's trial integrity unit -- is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/30/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals\" target=\"_blank\">reviewing\u003c/a> some 3,000 potentially tainted cases involving SFPD officers implicated in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that came to light in March, Szabo said. The task force is also probing work from the Police Department's crime lab and investigating allegations that sheriff's deputies \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">forced city jail inmates to fight\u003c/a> each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee touted multimillion-dollar allocations in other public safety departments in a speech before the Board of Supervisors Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My budget doubles down on our public safety investments to meet the needs of a growing city and the growing demands of our first responders,\" he said. \"We will through this budget hire 400 additional police officers, 198 firefighters, 55 paramedics, and 36 911 dispatchers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why he didn't budget any funds for the misconduct investigations, Lee said he didn't want to encourage legal battles between city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I don’t want to see is lawyering up on the public defender's side and the district attorney’s side just to battle against each other,\" Lee said, adding that he didn't believe 3,000 cases need review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the DA and the police chief and the Police Commission need to all work closely together,\" he said. \"I do believe there is a number they have to look at, and they can come to an agreement as to what that is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman with the public defender's office said prosecutors and public defenders are collaborating to review the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he announced the probe, District Attorney George Gascón said his office flagged 10 years of arrests involving officers implicated in the texting scandal and turned up about 1,600 prosecutions. Prosecutors did not file charges in the remaining 1,400 cases. Gascón said it was possibly more important to look at arrests that weren't prosecuted, indicating charges might not have held up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am disappointed that this was not included in the mayor’s budget,\" Supervisor David Campos said. \"I think that members of the Police Department and members of the community deserve that the city allocate the resources needed to get to the bottom of what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages were made public in a federal court filing on March 13. The city's public defender revealed on March 26 the allegations of forced inmate fighting at a city jail, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/DNA-lab-irregularities-may-endanger-hundreds-of-6165643.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> on March 28 on a breach of protocol at SFPD's crime lab, potentially affecting hundreds more prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our special prosecutions unit, which handles misconduct for the district attorney’s office, was underwater,\" Szabo said, \"and really needed additional resources to become adequately staffed and investigate these varying issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said at the time that he would seek additional funding from the city, but what became of the request was unknown until now. The mayor's budget would increase the DA's overall funding by $3.7 million over two years, mostly allocated for mandatory salary and benefit increases. The budget also includes funding for an additional attorney to work on the city's implementation of court-ordered, outpatient mental health treatment, or Laura's Law, and a boost for IT staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requests in other areas, like increased funding for processing untested rape kits and victim services, were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We requested four additional victims' advocates to serve this growing population,\" Szabo said, citing a 30 percent increase in victim services over the past four years. \"We didn’t get one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Szabo said the task force's work will continue. \"Unfortunately, it may take a little longer than we'd hoped and anticipated,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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I feel very strongly about that, and that’s why I agreed to come aboard.’\u003ccite>Dickran Tevrizian\u003cbr>\nRetired U.S. District Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If just one individual was wrongly imprisoned, that’s one too many,” Gascón said Thursday. “On the other end, if we have someone that actually committed a crime, but that prosecution is compromised because of the credibility of this individual, we have a guilty person that may be released and continue to present a danger to all of us. The impacts both on liberty and victims are similarly unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said the number of arrests and prosecutions affected is preliminary. He said judges and other members of a task force he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/30/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a month ago\u003c/a> will prioritize the 70 or so cases involving people currently in custody. The judges are working autonomously on cases affected by the texting scandal and culture of the police department, Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His task force is also investigating the SFPD’s DNA crime lab and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations\u003c/a> that sheriff’s deputies forced inmates to fight in one of the city’s jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the district attorney said prosecutors have so far dismissed eight pending cases involving officers implicated in the text messaging scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel of retired judges consists of Cruz Reynoso, LaDoris Cordell and Dickran Tevrizian. Reynoso is a former associate justice of the California Supreme Court and vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Cordell was a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge for 19 years and is currently the independent auditor for the San Jose Police Department. Tevrizian was a federal judge in California’s Central District for more than 20 years, retiring in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police officers have to abide by the constitutional protections that are guaranteed to each and every one of us as citizens or residents of this country,” he said. “I feel very strongly about that, and that’s why I agreed to come aboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”oLQT5degXnAtqYdXS9DwbnCQNfZ1aXs4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recommended \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firing seven officers\u003c/a> who exchanged texts with former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy to violate civil rights charges in December. Furminger was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced\u003c/a> to three years and five months in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the texts implicating a total of 14 officers were recovered from Furminger’s phone and made public in a court filing opposing his bail request in March. One officer resigned, and Suhr recommended discipline — up to termination — for two more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said that the remaining four officers’ conduct did not rise to the level of the other 10, and he would handle their discipline. In San Francisco, the chief of police can mete out discipline up to a 10-day suspension. Otherwise it is handled by the civilian Police Commission. The 10 cases referred to the commission are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco leads national conversations on equality and fairness instead of racism, sexism and homophobia,” Gascón said. “However, as recent revelations have shown, we’re not immune from this epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Rev. Arnold Townsend, with the San Francisco NAACP, said statements of surprise over the racist text messages underscore a divided consciousness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I doubt that there was an African-American in San Francisco that was surprised that we have bias in our police department,” he said. “That’s the amazing disconnect we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Amos Brown, head of the San Francisco NAACP, applauded the appointment of the judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pull the cover off this cesspool of injustice and the criminalization of black people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says he is reassigning staff and looking for more funding to investigate three separate scandals involving city law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find it repulsive,\" Gascón told a gathering of reporters at his office today. \"In my entire 30-year-plus career in law enforcement, these are some of the worst allegations that I have seen. And I find them extremely troubling, not only because of the incidents, but because of the potential repercussions for involving so many prosecutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he's forming a task force in the district attorney's office composed of three teams -- a team for each of three scandals that broke since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.'\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The first involved a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">series of bigoted text messages\u003c/a> allegedly swapped between several San Francisco police officers. The text conversations were recovered from former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger's cell phone, according to federal court documents filed March 13, but implicated at least four current SFPD officers, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">possibly more\u003c/a>. Furminger was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to three years and five months\u003c/a> in prison last month. He is appealing his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week and a half later, Public Defender Jeff Adachi released a private investigator's preliminary findings that San Francisco sheriffs' deputies at one of the city's jails were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">threatening and humiliating inmates and forcing two of them to fight\u003c/a> for entertainment. Inmates told Adachi and the independent investigator that deputies were betting on the fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four deputies were placed on administrative leave the same day the allegations were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unlikely that this case was limited to only four people,\" Gascón said. \"We want to know who else knew, when did they know, have there been other similar cases, are there any other issues going on over there that we should know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then over the weekend, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/DNA-lab-irregularities-may-endanger-hundreds-of-6165643.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that an analyst and supervisor in the city's crime lab had come under suspicion for submitting potentially shoddy DNA matches in criminal cases. Both the crime lab and SFPD texting scandals could impact hundreds, or thousands, of past and pending criminal prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Q7kWHlkQjEQxY2NzEeU7XvOH9cvtVsVh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know how long this task force is going to last,\" Gascón said. \"It may be months, it may be years. We’re talking about very complex issues, and frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said it appears the crime analyst, at least in one case, submitted findings that were helpful to the prosecution, and did not submit findings that would have helped the defense. He said either the state or federal department of justice, and not the district attorney, should investigate the crime lab and police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t like it,\" he said. \"I don’t think law enforcement should be investigating law enforcement. I have less of a problem investigating the problems in the sheriff’s department, but with the DNA crime lab, and the police, these witnesses are relied upon by the district attorney in seeking their convictions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón gave scant details about his newly created task force, declining to state even the number of people assigned. He said he would seek funding from the city's Board of Supervisors to pay for the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite members of the public and members of law enforcement to provide information to this office concerning any of these cases or any other allegations of misconduct involving law enforcement personnel in our county,\" Gascón said. \"San Francisco will have no tolerance for bad behavior or criminal behavior within our law enforcement community, and part of that begins with all of us standing tall and ensuring that these cases and any other cases that may be found are handled appropriately. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says he is reassigning staff and looking for more funding to investigate three separate scandals involving city law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find it repulsive,\" Gascón told a gathering of reporters at his office today. \"In my entire 30-year-plus career in law enforcement, these are some of the worst allegations that I have seen. And I find them extremely troubling, not only because of the incidents, but because of the potential repercussions for involving so many prosecutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he's forming a task force in the district attorney's office composed of three teams -- a team for each of three scandals that broke since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.'\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The first involved a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">series of bigoted text messages\u003c/a> allegedly swapped between several San Francisco police officers. The text conversations were recovered from former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger's cell phone, according to federal court documents filed March 13, but implicated at least four current SFPD officers, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">possibly more\u003c/a>. Furminger was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to three years and five months\u003c/a> in prison last month. He is appealing his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week and a half later, Public Defender Jeff Adachi released a private investigator's preliminary findings that San Francisco sheriffs' deputies at one of the city's jails were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">threatening and humiliating inmates and forcing two of them to fight\u003c/a> for entertainment. Inmates told Adachi and the independent investigator that deputies were betting on the fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four deputies were placed on administrative leave the same day the allegations were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unlikely that this case was limited to only four people,\" Gascón said. \"We want to know who else knew, when did they know, have there been other similar cases, are there any other issues going on over there that we should know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then over the weekend, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/DNA-lab-irregularities-may-endanger-hundreds-of-6165643.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that an analyst and supervisor in the city's crime lab had come under suspicion for submitting potentially shoddy DNA matches in criminal cases. Both the crime lab and SFPD texting scandals could impact hundreds, or thousands, of past and pending criminal prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know how long this task force is going to last,\" Gascón said. \"It may be months, it may be years. We’re talking about very complex issues, and frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said it appears the crime analyst, at least in one case, submitted findings that were helpful to the prosecution, and did not submit findings that would have helped the defense. He said either the state or federal department of justice, and not the district attorney, should investigate the crime lab and police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t like it,\" he said. \"I don’t think law enforcement should be investigating law enforcement. I have less of a problem investigating the problems in the sheriff’s department, but with the DNA crime lab, and the police, these witnesses are relied upon by the district attorney in seeking their convictions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón gave scant details about his newly created task force, declining to state even the number of people assigned. He said he would seek funding from the city's Board of Supervisors to pay for the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite members of the public and members of law enforcement to provide information to this office concerning any of these cases or any other allegations of misconduct involving law enforcement personnel in our county,\" Gascón said. \"San Francisco will have no tolerance for bad behavior or criminal behavior within our law enforcement community, and part of that begins with all of us standing tall and ensuring that these cases and any other cases that may be found are handled appropriately. The public deserves this and I will make sure that we do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón has determined that four of the city's police officers acted lawfully when they shot and killed 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto in Bernal Heights Park last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 12 letter to San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr (\u003ca href=\"#letter\">read below\u003c/a>), Gascón outlined the decision not to criminally charge any of the officers involved in the shooting. The district attorney's letter outlined similar circumstances leading to the shooting as those described by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr a few days after\u003c/a> the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department's and now the district attorney's view of Nieto has consistently contrasted sharply from the description of him by friends, family and others in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's letter describes a troubled young man with a somewhat recent history of aggression and mental illness. But in San Francisco's Mission District, Nieto was known as a gentle Buddhist, a successful community college student and an aspiring youth probation officer well known and liked by the probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters are calling for a protest at the Hall of Justice Friday afternoon, the latest in a sustained string of demonstrations since the shooting. To many residents of the Mission angry over the shooting, Nieto's death is a tragic \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">example of gentrification gone wrong\u003c/a> , because -- in their view -- those who didn't know the neighborhood well called the police on a man who was simply eating a burrito before going to work as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents filed a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/Nieto-parents-sue-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">federal wrongful death lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city in August, which is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nieto family refused to meet with Gascón today, according to a statement released this afternoon from supporters. The statement said the district attorney's decision was predictable, and that the family's lawsuit will proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand with the Nieto Family by turning our backs on the criminal justice system too,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The DA's Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gascon's letter, several people walking in the park noticed Nieto had what they thought was a gun and were frightened by his behavior. Family and supporters have said he carried a Taser for his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man told investigators Nieto pointed a Taser at his dog, shouted profanity, and aggressively challenged him. The witness attempted to notify police just after 7 p.m. via SFPD's non-emergency phone number, but was unsuccessful, the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of three separate witnesses who called 911 at 7:09 p.m. reported seeing a man with a holstered gun, shadow boxing . (Listen to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/16/sfpd-dispatch-audio-from-fatal-police-shooting-nieto/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD radio scanner audio\u003c/a> of the incident.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Sgt. Jason Sawyer (now a lieutenant) and Officer Richard Schiff responded to the call and encountered Nieto in the park sometime after 7:12 p.m. They stopped their patrol car 25 to 30 yards in front of Nieto, exited with their guns drawn and commanded him to show his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto pulled a weapon both officers believed to be a firearm, the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district attorney:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Both officers discharged their firearms at Mr. Nieto. After a number of shots were fired, Mr. Nieto continued standing with his weapon still pointing at the officers. Both officers continued firing towards Mr. Nieto, at which point he dropped to his knees and then laid down flat on the ground in a prone position with his head up, his arms outstretched in front of him, and still pointing his weapon at the officers. Officer Schiff thought Mr. Nieto might have taken this position as a tactical maneuver to make his body a smaller target. Officer Schiff then, for the first time, saw the red light coming from Mr. Nieto’s weapon and thought it might be a laser sight. Both officers believed Mr. Nieto was still trying to fire back at them and continued to fire at Mr. Nieto.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officers Roger Morse and Nathan Chew arrived at the scene in a separate patrol car shortly after the first shots were fired and began shooting at Nieto as he lay on his stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FT866T6lO6AV8aHyH1Ik7DeB7HT2r4Vk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All four officers continued firing until Mr. Nieto's head and weapon went down and Sergeant Sawyer yelled for officers to cease fire,\" the letter says. The DA found that the four officers fired a total of 59 rounds at Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysis of Nieto's Taser showed it was fired approximately five seconds after Sawyer and Schiff began shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Medical Examiner previously found Nieto had been shot 14 or 15 times. The medical examiner's report also included a description of Nieto's medical records obtained from San Francisco General Hospital, which included \"a history of aggressive and bizarre behavior and auditory hallucinations, and a clinical history of psychosis\" exacerbated by his failure to take medications, the district attorney's letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was twice taken into custody by SFPD in 2011 for a 72-hour mental health evaluation, according to the DA. The estranged husband of Nieto's friend also reported Nieto had shot him with a Taser just a few weeks before the Bernal Heights shooting. Nieto and the man filed dueling restraining orders against each other.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"letter\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\"The belief of each officer that Mr. Nieto’s weapon was a firearm was clearly reasonable,\" Gascón concluded. \"Under these facts, the use of deadly force was justified. It is, therefore, our conclusion that Sergeant Sawyer, Officer Schiff, Officer Morse and Officer Chew acted lawfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read district attorney's letter below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=255684604 key=key-2ktpw7kjaZSer8OBweZi mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Family and supporters have said he carried a Taser for his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man told investigators Nieto pointed a Taser at his dog, shouted profanity, and aggressively challenged him. The witness attempted to notify police just after 7 p.m. via SFPD's non-emergency phone number, but was unsuccessful, the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of three separate witnesses who called 911 at 7:09 p.m. reported seeing a man with a holstered gun, shadow boxing . (Listen to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/16/sfpd-dispatch-audio-from-fatal-police-shooting-nieto/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD radio scanner audio\u003c/a> of the incident.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Sgt. Jason Sawyer (now a lieutenant) and Officer Richard Schiff responded to the call and encountered Nieto in the park sometime after 7:12 p.m. They stopped their patrol car 25 to 30 yards in front of Nieto, exited with their guns drawn and commanded him to show his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto pulled a weapon both officers believed to be a firearm, the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district attorney:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Both officers discharged their firearms at Mr. Nieto. After a number of shots were fired, Mr. Nieto continued standing with his weapon still pointing at the officers. Both officers continued firing towards Mr. Nieto, at which point he dropped to his knees and then laid down flat on the ground in a prone position with his head up, his arms outstretched in front of him, and still pointing his weapon at the officers. Officer Schiff thought Mr. Nieto might have taken this position as a tactical maneuver to make his body a smaller target. 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The affected officers have been suspended without pay, effective immediately; and will remain so until this matter has been adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many concerns my administration inherited from past administrations, this investigation – by far as the public’s trust is everything to us (SFPD) – has been of the gravest concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I said on the day that I was sworn in as Chief of Police when asked about this ongoing investigation, “There is no place in the San Francisco Police Department – and shouldn’t be in any police department - for a dishonest cop.” Should these officers be proven guilty of any of the charges as alleged, I will seek immediate termination and expect that the Police Commission will agree and act expeditiously to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am grateful to US Attorney Melinda Haag, former Special Agent in Charge Stephanie Douglas, and current Special Agent in Charge of the FBI David Johnson for their thorough and comprehensive investigation into this matter.\u003cbr>\nAlthough federal authorities have represented that they found no evidence that the conduct of these few officers, as alleged, is an indicator of a larger “systemic concern” within the SFPD, I want to assure the public that policies, procedures, and on-going training to those policies and procedures; along with additional supervision of officers working in plainclothes was put in place during the first weeks of my administration to safeguard against even the suggestion of anything like this happening again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Next, Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who brought the alleged police misconduct to light in 2011:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Today's indictments are confirmation that the constitutional rights of San Franciscans matter. I commend the U.S. Attorney for taking seriously the reports from ordinary citizens who had been humiliated, stolen from and hurt by police officers sworn to protect them. For years, our clients told us their rights were being violated, and for years we raised the issues in front of judges. Ultimately, it took a federal investigation to hold accountable those who would violate the public trust.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Then, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who was police chief when the alleged crimes took place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am relieved to know that the officers have been indicted, after I referred the matter to federal authorities. It is extremely disappointing that the officers violated the trust of the community and tarnished the reputation of all the hard working men and women in uniform. 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I commend the U.S. Attorney for taking seriously the reports from ordinary citizens who had been humiliated, stolen from and hurt by police officers sworn to protect them. For years, our clients told us their rights were being violated, and for years we raised the issues in front of judges. Ultimately, it took a federal investigation to hold accountable those who would violate the public trust.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Then, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who was police chief when the alleged crimes took place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am relieved to know that the officers have been indicted, after I referred the matter to federal authorities. It is extremely disappointing that the officers violated the trust of the community and tarnished the reputation of all the hard working men and women in uniform. As law enforcement, we must all work hard to ensure our agencies operate with the highest integrity and are deserving of the trust the public bestows upon us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Finally, Martin Halloran, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, who told the Associated Press the indictments were apparently based on the questionable testimony of unreliable informant witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, we do understand that these are nonetheless serious charges,\" Halloran said. \"It is important to remember that the accused officers will have their day in court since federal grand juries only hear one side of the story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, KQED's Mina Kim spoke with Stanford Law professor Robert Weisberg, who co-directs Stanford's Criminal Justice Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't want to view this as an indictment of the whole department,\" Weisberg said. \"I don't know that this would be described as 'deep and systemic' ... One could still describe it as an isolated incident, but it's a really bad isolated incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/137124146&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>Federal prosecutors have announced the indictment of six San Francisco police officers, including a former officer, in a case in which police are alleged to have conducted illegal searches and stolen property from residents of single-room-occupancy hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate grand juries brought charges against the officers, including deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy against civil rights, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, falsification of records and extortion. Three of the accused officers worked out of the department's Southern Station; three were at the Mission Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Conviction on the most serious charges in the indictments would carry a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The indictments announced today stem from allegations made in 2011 by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. He made public \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/05/11/s-f-public-defender-releases-new-video-of-apparent-police-misconduct/\" target=\"_blank\">a series of videotapes\u003c/a> (including the one embedded at the top of this post) that showed police officers conducting apparently illegal searches, roughing up suspects and stealing property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's disclosures resulted in charges being thrown out against more than 100 defendants charged with drug offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers named in Thursday's indictments are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Southern Station Defendants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Officer Arshad Razzak, 41, of San Francisco\u003cbr>\n• Officer Richard Yick, 37, of San Francisco\u003cbr>\n• Officer Raul Eric Elias, 44, of San Mateo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mission Station Defendants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Sgt. 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(Courtesy, Alameda County District Attorney's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Human trafficking, the sale of human beings for labor and sex, is getting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/31/presidential-proclamation-national-slavery-and-human-trafficking-prevent\" target=\"_blank\">national spotlight\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area political leaders, law enforcement and survivors groups are launching public awareness campaigns aimed at driving the human trafficking industry out of the shadows in one of the country’s highest-intensity markets for modern-day slaves. The issue has garnered much more attention in recent years, but a full account of how many people are trafficked in and through the Bay Area remains elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is we really do not know the full scope of human trafficking in our community,” said San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. “We know that it’s large. We know that there are many victims out there. We know that most victims are suffering in silence, but we just don’t know how big the problem is because it is so underreported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gap between known trafficking victims and estimates of their total is staggering. About 40,000 of the estimated 27 million trafficking victims worldwide have been identified, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2013/\" target=\"_blank\">State Department\u003c/a>. The department estimates up to 17,500 people are trafficked to the United States every year, adding to a quickly growing domestically trafficked population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Human trafficking doesn't necessarily require smuggling people across borders. California and federal law define sex trafficking as forcing, coercing or transporting someone for the purpose of a commercial sex act. Labor trafficking is the act of forcing a person to work for little or no money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22009#.UtOMG_RDt7E\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations\u003c/a> calculates human trafficking as a $32 billion-a-year industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The reality is we really do not know the full scope of human trafficking in our community. We know that it’s large. We know that there are many victims out there. We know that most victims are suffering in silence.'\u003ccite>— San Francisco DA\u003cbr>\nGeorge Gascón\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In the United States alone there are an estimated more than 100,000 children currently being exploited in the sex trade, and the overwhelming majority of these victims, more than 80 percent, are U.S. citizens,” U.S. Attorney Malinda Haag said at a human trafficking awareness campaign kickoff in San Francisco last week. “Incidents of forced labor and human trafficking are hiding in plain sight all over California and in the Bay Area. Modern slavery here and in this time rarely involves shackles or chains, but it instead uses more subtle forms of bondage, including coercion, false pretenses, isolation, surveillance, threats of harm, economic dependence and threats to family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haag mentioned two recent high-profile trafficking cases in California. Federal prosecutors \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/usao/cas/press/2014/cas14-0108-PR_PittmanIndict.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">disclosed charges\u003c/a> against 24 alleged San Diego gang members on Jan. 8 for operating a prostitution ring spanning 46 cities in 23 states. They allegedly tattooed some of the 60 women victims, including 11 minors, with bar codes or gang symbols. Hayward police arrested two men that same day for running a sex-trafficking ring. Police say a 14-year-old girl who had been forced into prostitution led them to the suspects and two other victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials are stepping up enforcement of a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/human-trafficking/sb1193\" target=\"_blank\">state law\u003c/a> that took effect last April requiring some businesses to post phone numbers for national human trafficking victim services. The mayor’s office and police chief are mailing notices and posters to establishments affected by the law, which include adult or sexually oriented shops, airports, train stations, truck stops, bus stations, emergency rooms, farm labor contractors and massage parlors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said the Police Department identified 79 potential human trafficking victims in 2013. He said 380 human trafficking victims received services in the city in 2012. Estimates by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcaht.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking\u003c/a> include new and past victims seeking services. \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=5247\" target=\"_blank\">That number\u003c/a> approaches 1,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department on the Status of Women released \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov3.org/index.aspx?page=4740\" target=\"_blank\">this story\u003c/a> in August of a woman who survived sex trafficking in the Bay Area that began when she was 12 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 325 defendants charged, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office handled almost half of the state’s prosecutions under California’s human trafficking law between 2006 and 2013. There were close to 900 convictions in California between 2007 and 2012 for trafficking-related crimes, however, including pimping, pandering and procuring a minor for a lewd or lascivious act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day in the Bay Area and in the city of Oakland, children are sold, they’re beaten, they’re drugged, they’re hustled, they’re molested and they’re raped, and they’re exploited for somebody else’s profit,” Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'To each and every child who finds herself or himself in the clutches of a trafficker, unable to find their way to freedom, our bus shelters will send that message to them — there is a way out, and there is help.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Alameda County D.A.\u003cbr>\nNancy O'Malley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>O'Malley and an Oakland group that provides services to sexually exploited youth recently announced a sex trafficking awareness campaign that includes messages at bus stops and on billboards around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To each and every child who finds herself or himself in the clutches of a trafficker, unable to find their way to freedom, our bus shelters will send that message to them — there is a way out, and there is help,” O’Malley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland nonprofit Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.misssey.org/\" target=\"_blank\">MISSSEY\u003c/a>, partnered with the district attorney and Clear Channel Outdoor to create the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MISSSEY Executive Director Nola Brantley said her organization serves about 250 youth sex-trafficking victims a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope it will open up people’s eyes all across the city of Oakland to this horrible crime against children that is happening right here in our own backyards,” Brantley said about public awareness efforts. “We hope it will help to rescue more victims, but more important than this concept of the rescue, we hope that it will help to provide and connect victims with critical long-term and immediate resources to help them fully recover, heal and restore their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62422\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirkarimi2postsentencemar19mina-e1334617824926.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirkarimi2postsentencemar19mina-e1334617824926-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mirkarimi2postsentencemar19mina\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Mirkarimi (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Political analyst Corey Cook told me today in relation to the Mirkarimi vote that his \"hope is that last night ended this and now we can talk about other things ... rather than continuing to litigate this issue about whether Mirkarimi should be removed.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's may be wishful thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DA George Gascon today called on Mirkarimi to recuse himself from part of his official duties, saying that \"at a minimum,\" he is \"incapable of adequately performing the functions of his office that relate to crimes of domestic violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascon said, \"I will not allow the clock to be rolled back on thirty years of progress in protecting victims of domestic violence. No victim of crime should fear that their call for help will go unanswered. No victim should have to consider whether their claim will be taken seriously because they are reporting it to an individual who has committed the same crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascon listed seven areas related to domestic violence that he wants overseen by a high level administrator \"pulled out from under the Sheriff's supervision.\" (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/10/sf-da-gascon-calls-on-mirkarimi-to-recuse-himself-from-domestic-violence-duties/#statement\">Full statement\u003c/a> below.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a call out to Mirkarimi now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in other this-will-never-be-over news, Supervisor Jane Kim, one of four votes against removing the sheriff from office, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c161bfa7ff9163061f62e888f&id=51d23a6fcb\">statement explaining her decision\u003c/a> that she would support recalling him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recap, on Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declined to remove Mirkarimi from his position as San Francisco sheriff on charges, filed by Mayor Ed Lee, of official misconduct. The charge stemmed from the sheriff's guilty plea related to an incident of domestic violence against his wife. Four supervisors -- David Campos, John Avalos, Kim and Christina Olague -- voted against removal, depriving the mayor of the nine-vote super-majority he needed to prevail. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today on KQED's Forum program, Suzy Loftus, a member of the San Francisco Police Commission who has also prosecuted many domestic violence cases, also strongly questioned whether Mirkarimi could perform his job in relation to domestic violence...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been one overriding concern...from the moment we learned of the domestic violence that occurred... Can someone who is convicted of domestic violence, who has subsequently minimized the violence, who has been a part of vilifying witnesseses who come forward to report the violence, discharge the duties of sheriff in one of the most progressive cities in America, where we really believe we are leaders in the fight against violence, against women and vulnerable communities? It's been clear...he can't do that. We're scratching our heads at how the Board of Supervisors found otherwise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two domestic violence organizations, Domestic Violence Consortium and La Casa de las Madres, have sent out this joint statement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The advocacy community shares the concern of the San Francisco Ethics Commission, the mayor, the district attorney, the city attorney, seven supervisors and two out of three San Francisco voters--that a person convicted of domestic violence, and one who has consistently minimized the severity of this crime, is simply unfit to serve in a leading law enforcement role in our city. It is a conflict of interest to have the current Sheriff oversee San Francisco's pioneering domestic violence programs, and as a probationer, he cannot even access his own jail without special approval that he must give himself. San Francisco deserves better\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi, for his part, today \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/09/sf-supes-reinstate-mirkarimi/\">criticized both law enforcement and the domestic violence community\u003c/a> on Forum, saying, \"To this day, nobody from the domestic violence agencies, nobody from the police department, district attorney, has ever reached out... [to] the very person they claimed to defend, the very person that they have tried to use.\" That was a reference to his wife, Eliana Lopez, who disavowed the case against her husband despite willingly appearing in a video made by a neighbor in which she showed a bruise she'd received from Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"statement\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Gascon statement\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I believe I echo the sentiment of many San Franciscans when I say I have grave concerns about Ross Mirkarimi’s ability to manage the Sheriff’s Department. While Ross was entitled to the process that unfolded and it has been resolved with his reinstatement, there are serious public safety concerns that remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I appreciate the work of the Ethics Commission, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors. The Mayor sought suspension which the Ethics Commission recommended and the Board of Supervisors rejected. Ross is now reinstated as our Sheriff and I accept that. What I will not accept is any compromise of public safety as a result of his reinstatement. \u003c!--more-->Ross Mirkarimi is on probation in this county for a crime of domestic violence. He is, at a minimum, incapable of adequately performing the functions of his office that relate to crimes of domestic violence. I am calling upon Ross to recuse himself from the duties in his office that relate to the custody, supervision, safety and rehabilitation of domestic violence offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the remainder of his probation he needs to wall himself off from this conflict by appointing a high level administrator within his department to oversee all domestic violence related work. This independent authority should be pulled out from under the Sheriff’s supervision and be allowed to make all decisions related to domestic violence matters including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· The Domestic Violence Batterer’s Program that the Sheriff’s\u003cbr>\nDepartment oversees, both in custody and out of custody programs.\u003cbr>\n· Supervision of inmates for domestic violence related crimes\u003cbr>\n· Direct disciplinary decision making on Sheriff’s personnel charged for domestic violence crimes and any administrative discipline related to domestic violence incidents.\u003cbr>\n· Bailiffs in Domestic Violence Court including Dept 50 and Domestic Violence cases sent to other departments\u003cbr>\n· Sheriff’s classification services on all incoming domestic violence suspects booked into custody\u003cbr>\n· Investigation by Sheriff’s Department Detectives in pending or future domestic violence related matters by current inmates including monitoring of jail calls\u003cbr>\n· Process for serving civil restraining orders related to domestic violence proceedings in Family Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This request is specific, limited and operational. It is crafted to address the core public safety concern arising from the Sheriff’s criminal conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As leaders in public safety, we have a moral obligation to protect all victims of crime. These roles demand that we think beyond ourselves and prioritize the most vulnerable members of our community. These roles should not be self serving, but rather, a noble undertaking to give voice to the voiceless. I implore Ross to embrace this obligation and rectify what he has broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I will not allow the clock to be rolled back on thirty years of progress in protecting victims of domestic violence. No victim of crime should fear that their call for help will go unanswered. No victim should have to consider whether their claim will be taken seriously because they are reporting it to an individual who has committed the same crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chief law enforcement official in this City and County, I will stand unapologetically with the victims. I will work tirelessly to be sure both victims and witnesses know this city does not tolerate domestic violence. I will work to ensure that all of our public safety leaders and agencies afford these victims and every victim a safe refuge where they will be heard and protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our mission in public safety must be to protect and reassure the victims of crime over and above the individual desires of one elected official with a criminal record. San Francisco is better than this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff has another opportunity to act with grace and true compassion by recusing himself from the supervision of domestic violence activities in his department. He can begin to heal the divide in this city and reassure victims that he can be the kind of Sheriff they deserve. I hope he will take this opportunity and begin to rebuild trust with all of us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the eve of the San Francisco Ethics Commission taking up misconduct charges against Ross Mirkarimi, District Attorney George Gascon got in some last licks against the suspended sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/23/audio-gascon-blasts-mirkarimi/#transcript\">\u003cstrong>Transcript of Gascon interview on Mirkarimi\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi describes incident on KQED\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/04/22/kcbs-in-depth-the-san-francisco-das-office/\">interview on KCBS radio\u003c/a> yesterday, Gascon took issue with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">Mirkarimi's recent characterization of the incident\u003c/a> with his wife that led to a sentence of three years probation on False Imprisonment charges and an attempt by Mayor Ed Lee to permanently remove him from office. Mirkarimi made the remarks in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">\u003cstrong>hour-long interview\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> on KQED's Forum program last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He actually indicates that the reason why he bruised his wife is because he was trying to be a good father,\" Gascon said. The context on which he describes where this occurred is contrary to the evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/?podcast_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%2Fnyc.podcast.play.it%2Fmedia%2Fd0%2Fd0%2Fd1%2Fd0%2FdC%2FdD%2Fd7%2F10CD7_3.MP3&podcast_name=KCBS+In+Depth%3A+The+San+Francisco+DA%E2%80%99s+Office&podcast_artist=KCBS&station_id=&audio_link=true&config_file=config.xml&dcid=CBS.SF\">\u003cstrong>Listen to the full KCBS interview with Gascon here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This isn't the first time Gascon has criticized Mirkarimi for comments made subsequent to his guilty plea. 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