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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer approved a $1 million settlement Friday in a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and set a precedent for the rights of mentally ill people during contacts with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case stems from a 2008 officer-involved shooting. San Francisco police Sgt. Kimberly Reynolds and Officer Katherine Holder responded to Teresa Sheehan's apartment after she allegedly threatened a social worker with a knife. She was living in a supportive housing building, but her condition had been slipping. She was apparently off her medication for schizoaffective disorder and wanted to be left alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers forced their way into her room, Sheehan came at them with a serrated bread knife and was pepper-sprayed, shot in head, torso, arms and pelvis. She survived, and after successfully fending off a criminal charges for threatening the social worker and assaulting the police, her civil case began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer initially dismissed Sheehan's claims that the officers used excessive force and violated Fourth Amendment protections. But civil rights attorneys John Burris and Ben Nisenbaum appealed, and in 2014 the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/02/21/11-16401.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ruled\u003c/a> that the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to police encounters with mentally ill suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really says to police departments, if you have an opportunity to make reasonable accommodations, you must do it,\" Burris said after the settlement was approved. \"Don’t force a confrontation. Don’t yell and scream at them, and if possible make accommodations so that another person can come in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco and elsewhere, as many as \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill/\" target=\"_blank\">half of fatal police shootings\u003c/a> kill a person in psychiatric crisis. The ruling requiring police to keep mental disabilities in mind applies to the entire West Coast plus Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a milestone for people who have disabilities and for officers who now really must think about their actions and think about the consequences of what they do,\" Nisenbaum said. \"We have so many cases where officers simply rush in and they give no thought to what’s happening with the person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Disability advocates \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/09/disability-advocates-appeal-over-s-f-police-shooting-puts-ada-at-risk/\" target=\"_blank\">worried the appeal\u003c/a> would endanger the 9th Circuit's application of the ADA to police encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in what former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/23/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-sfpd-shooting-of-mentally-ill-woman/\" target=\"_blank\">called\u003c/a> a \"bait-and-switch,\" San Francisco dropped its opposition to the ADA's application by the time its attorneys argued the case before the High Court, so the 9th Circuit's ruling \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/18/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-s-f-cops-in-shooting-of-mentally-ill-woman/\" target=\"_blank\">remained in place\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a year and a half later, the parties again stood in Judge Breyer's courtroom to present their settlement. From the audience, Teresa Sheehan spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Objection your honor,\" she said arguing that she didn't need a guardian. Breyer invited her to join her sister, Frances Sheehan, before the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is apparent to the court, which has lived with this case for some time -- not the same as you have -- but from a humanitarian point of view, it cries out for resolution,\" Breyer said. \"I'm going to approve the settlement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained that he was simply appointing Sheehan's sister guardian over the settlement and not other parts of her Sheehan's life. All parties agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Teresa had her day in court, just what she wanted,\" Frances Sheehan said after the hearing, adding that she was thankful for Breyer's compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she's hopeful the settlement will allow her sister to move out of the single-resident-occupancy room where she's been living and into a more supportive environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Her goal was to be able to have a better living situation,\" Frances Sheehan said. \"She can look forward to a life that has been cut short for the last eight years while we’ve been in litigation with the city, so I think it was a win-win for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city doesn't plan to pay the settlement; the insurance provider for the supportive housing company Sheehan was living in when she was shot is footing the bill while it heads into its own dispute with San Francisco over that liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's been a lot of changes to how SFPD officers handle these kinds of encounters since Sheehan's shooting. The department has implemented Crisis Intervention Training -- a program to teach officers how to avoid violent outcomes with people in psychiatric crisis. A new program is pairing social workers with officers on some calls, and the department was recently recognized for developing a training video on de-escalating encounters with autistic people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Teresa Sheehan, she's not totally aware of her impact on the law and policing policy, according to her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She did see in the papers here in San Francisco that she did go to the Supreme Court, the case, and she bought two newspapers and asked my sister Patricia to hold on to them for historical purposes,\" Frances Sheehan said. \"We later would like to show Teresa a summary of what this has impacted. She’s a brilliant woman. She’s bright and smart. But I think it’s at the right time when this has kind of settled down, and she’s in a better place to live and she can have some of those services that we feel she so badly needs -- get her on track with some things and then we can show her a little history of what’s happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vast federal report more than nine months in the making found San Francisco's Police Department has \"concerning deficiencies in every operational area assessed,\" including use of force, bias, community policing, accountability, recruitment, hiring and promotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice report comes after at least 18 months of tumult in the approximately 2,000-officer police force, beginning in March 2015 with the release of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">batch of racist, homophobic and sexist text messages\u003c/a> swapped by a group of officers. The city reeled and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">unsuccessfully\u003c/a> moved to fire or otherwise discipline 14 officers involved, but a court challenge funded by the officers' union has kept them on the SFPD payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/287404508\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in December 2015, a black man suspected of stabbing someone earlier in the day was confronted by more than a dozen SFPD officers as a bus full of onlookers watched, many recording with their cellphones. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> was holding a knife, but \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing/\" target=\"_blank\">video analysis\u003c/a> of his fatal shooting by five SFPD officers shows he was not threatening anyone with it when the first in a barrage of gunshots erupted. Shortly after, then-Police Chief Greg Suhr \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/s-f-mayor-pushes-police-to-fast-track-use-of-force-reform-chief-calls-in-feds/\" target=\"_blank\">called for the review\u003c/a> that would produce the report issued Wednesday, while others in the city requested a stronger Department of Justice civil rights investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a civil rights-lite investigation,\" said Jonathan Smith, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney who headed the section of the DOJ that conducted those investigations from 2010 to 2015. \"It's not an alternative. It's something very different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the \u003ca href=\"https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-w0817-pub.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">432-page review\u003c/a> conducted by the DOJ's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) -- which includes 94 findings and 272 recommendations -- lacks any kind of enforcement mechanism that the Civil Rights Division carries out through federal courts. Smith said the COPS office has been very successful at instigating reform of individual issues in other police departments around the country since the creation of its \"Collaborative Reform\" initiative in 2011, but findings as comprehensive as those about the San Francisco Police Department represent an expansion of the office's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127414\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"COPS office Director Ron Davis shares findings and recommendations for the SFPD during a press conference where he was joined by U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, San Francisco Mayor Ed lee, and Interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11127414\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">COPS office Director Ron Davis shares findings and recommendations for the SFPD during a press conference where he was joined by U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, San Francisco Mayor Ed lee, and Interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin. \u003ccite>(Nicole Reinert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think the record on badly broken departments being able to fix themselves is not good,\" he said. \"The findings suggest a very serious problem with the culture in the department. It appears there has been a lack of meaningful accountability for a long time and that race bias is part of that culture. ... Without a detailed, enforceable agreement, I am skeptical of the ability of any chief to sustain the reform process over the years that it will take. This is a long, arduous process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the office stressed at the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department/\" target=\"_blank\">announcement\u003c/a> of their review in February that its findings and recommendations are \"absolutely enforceable in the court of public opinion,\" and that it would be up to city leadership, the Police Department and San Francisco residents to make sure they're implemented. Suhr and his acting replacement, Toney Chaplin, have committed to treating the recommendations as binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department will accept and implement every single recommendation,\" city Mayor Ed Lee said at a Wednesday press conference announcing the findings. \"We must restore trust and these measures are important steps forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s going to be painful up front but rewarding in the back end,\" Chaplin said. \"This past year has not been easy for any of us, not this department or this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's introduction commends the SFPD's \"courage and leadership to open [the] department to scrutiny,\" and \"[n]otwithstanding the deficiencies noted ... also found a police department wanting to provide fair and unbiased policing while protecting the community.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"xvYuhpLv9iIKMq0wMcwv0B1dP3sseouF\"]\u003cbr>\nBut in its findings, institutional foot-dragging is apparent. For example, the department committed early on to audit officers' text and email communications for evidence of bias, like that exposed by bigoted text messages exposed through criminal investigations. But the department never followed through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFPD members who were tasked with advancing the audit did not display appropriate understanding of the importance of such an audit. Members were more focused on explaining why such an audit was not a good idea,\" the report says. \"This type of disconnect between policy and action is unacceptable. The SFPD must be willing to become more transparent and accountable to the public it serves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said the audit had since been launched, and its results would eventually be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Use of Force\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COPS office found that nine out of the 11 people killed by SFPD officers since May 2013 were people of color, and years later all but one of those cases remain open, long after the involved officers have returned to duty. The report commends a redrafting of SFPD's rules governing use of force, but expresses concern that the new rules have not been implemented as they languish in closed-door negotiations between the city and the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department does not adequately document or investigate use of force, according to its own current policies, the report says. That's true for relatively minor incidents all the way up to officer-involved shootings.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"xLXvjUl0OJ7IcVTJ5YxxbqacjL0QaJKs\"]\u003cbr>\nThe department's officer-involved shooting investigation files \"are incomplete with no consistent report structure.\" The way the Police Department tracks use-of-force incidents defies scientific analysis, and the race or ethnicity of the people on the receiving end of force is not associated with the incident. In sum, it's difficult to tell whether SFPD officers use greater force on people of color, because the department doesn't track it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report encourages the city to again consider deploying electronic control weapons, commonly known by the brand name Taser, but does not categorically state that SFPD should deploy the weapons. It does recommend banning use of the carotid restraint (sleeper hold) and shooting at moving vehicles, both of which are points of contention in the city's negotiations with the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re now starting to debate about things that are just bad practices,\" COPS office Director Ron Davis said. \"The Department of Justice will not waiver in its position on the carotid restraint: It should be prohibited. We will not waiver about shooting at moving vehicles: It should not occur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, San Francisco Police Officers' Association President Martin Halloran said \"tremendous progress\" had been made in the closed-door negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe there are some good recommendations, and others that we don't entirely agree with,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bias\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COPS office found that SFPD has several policies that aim to root out bias and promote fair and impartial policing, but they are outdated and far from institutionalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Community perceptions that biased behaviors exist in the SFPD were exacerbated by the explicit bias demonstrated by SFPD officers in the texting scandals and the subsequent failure to take appropriate action,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It notes a dearth of official findings that any SFPD officer has engaged in biased policing in the past three years, while at the same time noting disproportionate stops, searches and arrests of African-Americans and Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found 37 percent of the department's nearly 550 use-of-force incidents over three years starting in May 2013 involved African Americans. Thirty-five percent involved whites and 18 percent Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black drivers were also disproportionately pulled over in relation to their overall numbers in the driving population, according to the report. Nearly 15 percent of 330,000 traffic stops involved African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Policing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's in its name, so you can bet the idea that police officers are dedicated to tenets of community policing is important to the COPS office. The report found SFPD's policies on the subject to be \"out of date and no longer relevant,\" and that if community policing exists in San Francisco, it is an exception rather than an institutionalized practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How law enforcement and individual officers conduct their affairs matters,\" said Brian Stretch, U.S. Attorney for California's Northern District. \"How officers speak to members of the community matters. How officers treat members of the community matters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like almost everything else the COPS office examined, community policing efforts in San Francisco are not adequately tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accountability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is sprinkled with damning anecdotes of things the federal reviewers encountered during their nine-month probe. In one example, an officer was tasked with reviewing his own use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It discusses internal affairs investigators being blocked by supervisors from interviewing officers suspected of misconduct, and a lack of collaboration with external oversight, like the city's Office of Citizen Complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At present, the culture of the SFPD is not directed toward building an environment of accountability,\" the report says. \"Policies are disregarded, and the investigations are not robust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recruitment, Hiring and Promotions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found \"disjointed\" recruitment and hiring procedures in the Police Department, and some background investigators may be able to derail a potential police recruit because he or she \" 'does not fit the image' or 'does not look like' what the investigator believes a police officer should look like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the COPS office found a high level of diversity in SFPD candidates entering the police academy. But that diversity is not represented in the department's higher ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On one hand, San Francisco does have more diversity than most departments around the country,\" Davis said. \"We don’t see the same diversity once you start looking at specialized assignments or promotional opportunities, and that’s significant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conclusions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COPS report provides an extensive evaluation of the SFPD, but experts not affiliated with the city, its Police Department or COPS itself question its feasibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney Jonathan Smith questioned whether the SFPD, even if its leadership wanted to, could really implement such sweeping reforms without federal court oversight. He said the COPS office has proved itself extremely capable at \"finding the problems and even identifying solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But it worries me, what a chief does when they receive a report like that,\" he said. \"There's a tremendous benefit to having a [court-enforceable] comprehensive agreement because it gives you something to rely on when you go to the City Council and when you're negotiating with the police officers' union. ... Unless you've got an extraordinary environment of political will, it's going to be very hard to make that kind of comprehensive reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated with comments from U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, COPS office Director Ron Davis, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin, and additional comments from former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney Jonathan Smith.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vast federal report more than nine months in the making found San Francisco's Police Department has \"concerning deficiencies in every operational area assessed,\" including use of force, bias, community policing, accountability, recruitment, hiring and promotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice report comes after at least 18 months of tumult in the approximately 2,000-officer police force, beginning in March 2015 with the release of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">batch of racist, homophobic and sexist text messages\u003c/a> swapped by a group of officers. The city reeled and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">unsuccessfully\u003c/a> moved to fire or otherwise discipline 14 officers involved, but a court challenge funded by the officers' union has kept them on the SFPD payroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/287404508&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/287404508'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in December 2015, a black man suspected of stabbing someone earlier in the day was confronted by more than a dozen SFPD officers as a bus full of onlookers watched, many recording with their cellphones. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> was holding a knife, but \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing/\" target=\"_blank\">video analysis\u003c/a> of his fatal shooting by five SFPD officers shows he was not threatening anyone with it when the first in a barrage of gunshots erupted. Shortly after, then-Police Chief Greg Suhr \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/s-f-mayor-pushes-police-to-fast-track-use-of-force-reform-chief-calls-in-feds/\" target=\"_blank\">called for the review\u003c/a> that would produce the report issued Wednesday, while others in the city requested a stronger Department of Justice civil rights investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a civil rights-lite investigation,\" said Jonathan Smith, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney who headed the section of the DOJ that conducted those investigations from 2010 to 2015. \"It's not an alternative. It's something very different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the \u003ca href=\"https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-w0817-pub.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">432-page review\u003c/a> conducted by the DOJ's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) -- which includes 94 findings and 272 recommendations -- lacks any kind of enforcement mechanism that the Civil Rights Division carries out through federal courts. Smith said the COPS office has been very successful at instigating reform of individual issues in other police departments around the country since the creation of its \"Collaborative Reform\" initiative in 2011, but findings as comprehensive as those about the San Francisco Police Department represent an expansion of the office's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127414\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"COPS office Director Ron Davis shares findings and recommendations for the SFPD during a press conference where he was joined by U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, San Francisco Mayor Ed lee, and Interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11127414\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21449_IMG_6828-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">COPS office Director Ron Davis shares findings and recommendations for the SFPD during a press conference where he was joined by U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, San Francisco Mayor Ed lee, and Interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin. \u003ccite>(Nicole Reinert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think the record on badly broken departments being able to fix themselves is not good,\" he said. \"The findings suggest a very serious problem with the culture in the department. It appears there has been a lack of meaningful accountability for a long time and that race bias is part of that culture. ... Without a detailed, enforceable agreement, I am skeptical of the ability of any chief to sustain the reform process over the years that it will take. This is a long, arduous process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the office stressed at the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department/\" target=\"_blank\">announcement\u003c/a> of their review in February that its findings and recommendations are \"absolutely enforceable in the court of public opinion,\" and that it would be up to city leadership, the Police Department and San Francisco residents to make sure they're implemented. Suhr and his acting replacement, Toney Chaplin, have committed to treating the recommendations as binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department will accept and implement every single recommendation,\" city Mayor Ed Lee said at a Wednesday press conference announcing the findings. \"We must restore trust and these measures are important steps forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s going to be painful up front but rewarding in the back end,\" Chaplin said. \"This past year has not been easy for any of us, not this department or this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's introduction commends the SFPD's \"courage and leadership to open [the] department to scrutiny,\" and \"[n]otwithstanding the deficiencies noted ... also found a police department wanting to provide fair and unbiased policing while protecting the community.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBut in its findings, institutional foot-dragging is apparent. For example, the department committed early on to audit officers' text and email communications for evidence of bias, like that exposed by bigoted text messages exposed through criminal investigations. But the department never followed through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFPD members who were tasked with advancing the audit did not display appropriate understanding of the importance of such an audit. Members were more focused on explaining why such an audit was not a good idea,\" the report says. \"This type of disconnect between policy and action is unacceptable. The SFPD must be willing to become more transparent and accountable to the public it serves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said the audit had since been launched, and its results would eventually be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Use of Force\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COPS office found that nine out of the 11 people killed by SFPD officers since May 2013 were people of color, and years later all but one of those cases remain open, long after the involved officers have returned to duty. The report commends a redrafting of SFPD's rules governing use of force, but expresses concern that the new rules have not been implemented as they languish in closed-door negotiations between the city and the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department does not adequately document or investigate use of force, according to its own current policies, the report says. That's true for relatively minor incidents all the way up to officer-involved shootings.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe department's officer-involved shooting investigation files \"are incomplete with no consistent report structure.\" The way the Police Department tracks use-of-force incidents defies scientific analysis, and the race or ethnicity of the people on the receiving end of force is not associated with the incident. In sum, it's difficult to tell whether SFPD officers use greater force on people of color, because the department doesn't track it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report encourages the city to again consider deploying electronic control weapons, commonly known by the brand name Taser, but does not categorically state that SFPD should deploy the weapons. It does recommend banning use of the carotid restraint (sleeper hold) and shooting at moving vehicles, both of which are points of contention in the city's negotiations with the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re now starting to debate about things that are just bad practices,\" COPS office Director Ron Davis said. \"The Department of Justice will not waiver in its position on the carotid restraint: It should be prohibited. We will not waiver about shooting at moving vehicles: It should not occur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, San Francisco Police Officers' Association President Martin Halloran said \"tremendous progress\" had been made in the closed-door negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe there are some good recommendations, and others that we don't entirely agree with,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bias\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COPS office found that SFPD has several policies that aim to root out bias and promote fair and impartial policing, but they are outdated and far from institutionalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Community perceptions that biased behaviors exist in the SFPD were exacerbated by the explicit bias demonstrated by SFPD officers in the texting scandals and the subsequent failure to take appropriate action,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It notes a dearth of official findings that any SFPD officer has engaged in biased policing in the past three years, while at the same time noting disproportionate stops, searches and arrests of African-Americans and Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found 37 percent of the department's nearly 550 use-of-force incidents over three years starting in May 2013 involved African Americans. Thirty-five percent involved whites and 18 percent Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black drivers were also disproportionately pulled over in relation to their overall numbers in the driving population, according to the report. Nearly 15 percent of 330,000 traffic stops involved African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Community Policing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's in its name, so you can bet the idea that police officers are dedicated to tenets of community policing is important to the COPS office. The report found SFPD's policies on the subject to be \"out of date and no longer relevant,\" and that if community policing exists in San Francisco, it is an exception rather than an institutionalized practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How law enforcement and individual officers conduct their affairs matters,\" said Brian Stretch, U.S. Attorney for California's Northern District. \"How officers speak to members of the community matters. How officers treat members of the community matters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like almost everything else the COPS office examined, community policing efforts in San Francisco are not adequately tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accountability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is sprinkled with damning anecdotes of things the federal reviewers encountered during their nine-month probe. In one example, an officer was tasked with reviewing his own use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It discusses internal affairs investigators being blocked by supervisors from interviewing officers suspected of misconduct, and a lack of collaboration with external oversight, like the city's Office of Citizen Complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At present, the culture of the SFPD is not directed toward building an environment of accountability,\" the report says. \"Policies are disregarded, and the investigations are not robust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recruitment, Hiring and Promotions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found \"disjointed\" recruitment and hiring procedures in the Police Department, and some background investigators may be able to derail a potential police recruit because he or she \" 'does not fit the image' or 'does not look like' what the investigator believes a police officer should look like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the COPS office found a high level of diversity in SFPD candidates entering the police academy. But that diversity is not represented in the department's higher ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On one hand, San Francisco does have more diversity than most departments around the country,\" Davis said. \"We don’t see the same diversity once you start looking at specialized assignments or promotional opportunities, and that’s significant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conclusions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COPS report provides an extensive evaluation of the SFPD, but experts not affiliated with the city, its Police Department or COPS itself question its feasibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney Jonathan Smith questioned whether the SFPD, even if its leadership wanted to, could really implement such sweeping reforms without federal court oversight. 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"content": "\u003cp>Advocates on Friday joined the family of a homeless man fatally shot by two San Francisco police officers in April at the location of Luís Góngora Pat's death to announce the filing of a federal civil rights lawsuit and to respond to details of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/29/autopsy-for-homeless-man-killed-in-s-f-police-shooting-released/\" target=\"_blank\">medical examiner's report\u003c/a> released last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"#complaint\">lawsuit\u003c/a> alleges \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/15/sfpd-names-sergeant-officer-who-fatally-shot-homeless-man/\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Michael Mellone and Sgt. Nate Steger\u003c/a> used excessive force and ignored SFPD protocols when they -- along with a third, unidentified officer -- arrived at a Mission District street in response to a call about a man with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers were captured on surveillance video on April 7 approaching something outside the camera's frame as they shouted commands to \"Lay on the ground!\" and \"Put that down!\" An officer armed with a shotgun that fired \"less-lethal\" beanbag rounds appears to fire four shots in quick succession, followed by the distinct sound of handgun fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Video originally published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Góngora died nearly three hours later at San Francisco General Hospital. He suffered six gunshot wounds, including one to the left side of his forehead, which advocates and family members have identified as \"the only mortal wound.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Góngora was not running or lunging at the officers when he was shot to death,\" civil rights attorney Adante Pointer said. \"Given the angle of the gunshot wound to his head, and you combine that with the video, it gives you a real clear indication that he was not only not standing when he took that shot, but he was below the angle of the gun. So Mr. Góngora was actually on the ground or going to it when he sustained that fatal injury, and that is clearly excessive and unnecessary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department and other city agencies typically do not comment on cases that are the subject of lawsuits. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Police Commission meetings aren't necessarily known for their civility and have several times in the past year erupted into shouting protests. But there's a general exception: When Paulette Brown stands up to speak, the room goes silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She testified this past Wednesday, like she nearly always does. But this time was a little different. The 10-year anniversary of her son's slaying loomed. Aubrey Abrakasa Jr. died on Aug. 14, 2006, after he was shot at least a dozen times in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want people to see what I have to remember every day,\" she said as she displayed laminated photographs of her son's dead body. \"My son laying on the gurney, lifeless. Me standing over his casket when he was murdered. I'm still in pain, even though it's 10 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown isn't always this emotional. She usually displays a list of six names, men she believes murdered her son. 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Jim Spillane is part of a special program that allows retired city employees to come back to work part time, a program the department is looking to expand. His work along with another retired homicide inspector augments investigations of the city's 14 full-time detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aubrey was a good kid doing the right things for the right reasons,\" Spillane said as he joined Brown, acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin and a handful of supporters at Abrakasa's murder scene Friday. \"He just saw something, and he had to take action. 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(Other than through an arrest, crimes can be cleared by \"extraordinary circumstances,\" such as the death of an identified suspect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national average for homicide clearances, according to \u003ca href=\"https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/clearances/main\" target=\"_blank\">FBI data\u003c/a>, is 64.5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commission President Suzy Loftus recently asked for a breakdown of killings and clearances by San Francisco ZIP code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certain parts of San Francisco [that] suffer the most violence then also suffer another injustice,\" Loftus said when she got the numbers. \"They suffer violence and then they don’t see a justice system that delivers any accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not surprisingly,\" she added, \"Bayview is at the top of this list.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bayview saw 139 killings from 2006 to mid-July of this year, and 50 of those cases were cleared, generating a clearance rate of 35.9 percent. The Mission District/Bernal Heights had the second highest number of killings with 97, with 34 cleared and a clearance rate of 35.1 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Alexa O'Brien heads the Police Department's major crimes division, which oversees the homicide detail. She told the Police Commission that the Bayview's slaying numbers reflect some particularly violent years and that much of that violence has subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, she said, 24 people were killed in the district. In 2013, there were nine homicides there. So far this year, there's been one, and police made an arrest in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My homicide investigators, they are top-notch,\" O'Brien said. \"It doesn’t matter what neighborhood they’re in. ... It doesn’t matter what color the person is or who they are, how old they are, if they were a drug dealer or a drug user, even if they were a murderer themselves, that homicide gets treated exactly like the next homicide because they’re methodical about it. They want to catch the bad guy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a case goes cold, that can become a tall order. Homicide Inspector Spillane says he'll follow any leads he can generate from Abrakasa's file. He didn't say whether suspects include the list of six names Brown often displays other than they \"may have been in one of the gangs who were involved in this incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's seeking tips, which can be made anonymously, and there's a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of suspects responsible for Abrakasa's killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But authorities know providing information in murder cases carries a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fear of coming forward in one of these homicides, it’s real.\" O'Brien said. \"These people who have no regard for life, who are murdering people, if someone’s going to give their name up, that person’s life is in jeopardy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spillane said there's always a concern for people's safety, including Brown's. 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