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"content": "\u003cp>Friday marks an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/resolutions16/r0026-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">official day of remembrance\u003c/a> for an African-American man killed in a hail of bullets fired by San Francisco police officers late last year. The San Francisco Police Officers Association also held its own remembrance ceremony Friday for public safety officers killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more than 20 gunshots that killed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> on Dec. 2 as a bus full of bystanders watched, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">some recorded\u003c/a>, started a shock wave that continues to shudder through the mechanisms of the city that oversee police procedure, the people who comprise those systems and the people who want to see them change.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We're better than this as humans. We got to take a step back and realize that life is precious.'\u003ccite>Shante Williams,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco police officer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the dueling days of remembrance highlight a widening divide between law enforcement and communities, especially those of color, in San Francisco and across the nation. Despite \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/s-f-police-commission-approves-new-use-of-force-rules-union-has-sticking-points/\" target=\"_blank\">significant shifts\u003c/a> in policing philosophy and training, video recordings of potentially criminal police killings continue to surface, and law enforcement officers in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/baton-rouge-shooting.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Baton Rouge\u003c/a>, Louisiana, have been killed this month in what some see as retaliatory attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mario Woods Remembrance Day and the POA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Police-groups-opposition-to-Mario-Woods-8402040.php\" target=\"_blank\">day of remembrance\u003c/a> approached, KQED spoke with two black men from very different sides of the issue of violence by and against police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/dramatic-divide-between-cops-protesters-at-s-f-police-commission-meeting&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjO39G--IfOAhUMxWMKHbSXCwgQFggFMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNHbJt_gJejMTVJXd_GG2Bxz5bv5zg\" target=\"_blank\">Shante Williams\u003c/a> is a veteran SFPD officer who was among more than a dozen officers surrounding Mario Woods the day he was shot, but he wasn't among the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/two-s-f-officers-in-woods-shooting-have-faced-excessive-force-claims/\" target=\"_blank\">five officers\u003c/a> who shot at Woods. Tyson Amir is a teacher for the San Francisco jail's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fivekeyscharter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Five Keys Charter School\u003c/a>. He knew and mentored Woods into earning his high school diploma after meeting him in the jail, and he's a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/justice4mariowoodscoalition/\" target=\"_blank\">Justice for Mario Woods Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had goals and dreams for himself once he came home,\" Amir said. \"When he got out of prison, he completed his high school diploma. That was an agreement that he made with his mother, and so he had reached that. He had recently gotten a license. He had a new job. So he was really taking strides to become the person that he wanted to become, that his mother wanted him to become. I love that. I respect that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amir saw one of multiple videos of the shooting begin to circulate on social media the night of Dec. 2, he immediately recognized Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" src=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/-z3eBvPopx/embed/?v=6\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"738\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" width=\"100%\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I witnessed the death of my student,\" he said. \"That's painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pain is something Officer Shante Williams says he understands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I empathize for his family,\" Williams said. \"I'm not a robot; I'm human. There's a life that's gone. There's a mother who's grieving. There are family members that will never have their family member again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And there are officers who upheld the law to protect those people who were standing behind those officers so they could exercise their First Amendment rights and video record the entire incident. I'm all for that. Those officers put themselves in harm's way, whether people want to look at the entire totality of the circumstances or not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When it comes to everyday people, we have to be accountable for the things that we're doing. And when it comes to law enforcement agents, they need to be held accountable as well, and there should not be a double standard.'\u003ccite>Tyson Amir,\u003cbr>\nFive Keys Charter School educator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Williams started his law enforcement career in East Palo Alto before transferring to the SFPD. His former partner, East Palo Alto Officer \u003ca href=\"http://www.officerrichardmay.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard May\u003c/a>, was fatally shot in the line of duty after he approached a group of men fighting on the evening of Jan. 7, 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me it's a huge honor to do the job the way that Rich would have wanted it done,\" Williams said. He had just returned to San Francisco after traveling to a memorial for five Dallas police officers killed in the line of duty when a gunman took aim at officers at a peaceful July 7 protest over the recent, video-recorded deadly police shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/justice-department-to-investigate-fatal-police-shooting-in-baton-rouge/\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Sterling\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/philando-castile-minnesota-police-shooting-facebook-live/\" target=\"_blank\">Philando Castile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said he's glad his union is calling attention to public safety officers killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It stings, and this is just me, the fact that we're honoring someone who committed a crime,\" he said, \"where we've had officers killed in the line of duty within the past 15 years, and there's no day of remembrance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to Amir, who has dedicated his career to teaching San Francisco jail inmates, the fact that people may have committed crimes shouldn't dehumanize them. He mentioned depictions of Woods as a \"thug,\" \"gangbanger\" and \"drug dealer.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"5KaPl3MOkd9Q3N4s22kKi4x9c2P1mqAi\"]\u003cbr>\nThe city \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/11/medical-examiners-report-on-mario-woods-shooting-released/\" target=\"_blank\">medical examiner found\u003c/a> methamphetamine, marijuana and prescription drugs in Woods' system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does that define who you are as a human being?\" Amir asked. \"Why couldn't he have been a high school graduate? He had just obtained his high school diploma. He was going to be graduating in January. Why can't he be referred to as that? It's easier to demonize, belittle, degenerate someone, especially someone that you're willing to pull a trigger on, than to refer to someone in a way that's humane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humanity is a common theme for Amir, and it's why he thinks Mario Woods Remembrance Day is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see the statement that was made by the Board of Supervisors as a way to try to affirm his humanity, but it's after the fact,\" Amir said. \"We're doing that after this man has already been put in the dirt. But hopefully it's a sign that in San Francisco, in the Bay Area, in California, we're pushing for that. We're trying to see the humanity in people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that was lost in the hail of bullets that killed Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't treat people like beasts, or worse than that,\" he said. \"That's overkill. That's way too much. That's uncalled for. That's not seeing the humanity and dealing with the situation in the way it should have been dealt with. Mario should be here today. He's not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both days of remembrance are seen by some from opposing perspectives as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired SFPD officer and former POA president Gary Delagnes called the board's resolution that created the day \"a slap in the face\" and \"without a doubt, the most disgusting, idiotic and pathetic legislation I have ever seen in my 35 years of POA involvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD public information officer Carlos Manfredi tweeted Friday about Hayward police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/hayward-police-officer-shot\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Lunger\u003c/a>, who was killed in the line of duty on July 22, 2015. Manfedi included a hashtag, \"TheRealRemembranceDay.\" As of Friday afternoon, he was the only one who had recently used the phrase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OfficerManfredi/status/756483271324602369\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hear about this concept of Blue Lives Matter and people pushing back against these other movements that are trying to hold police officers accountable,\" Amir said, \"but when the offenses happen and we don't see any type of thorough investigation or any consequences to these investigations where people are being punished -- you can't just kill people and then hide behind 'I felt threatened for my life.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five officers who fired at Woods have long since returned to duty, but multiple investigations into the shooting are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it comes to everyday people, we have to be accountable for the things that we're doing,\" Amir said. \"And when it comes to law enforcement agents, they need to be held accountable as well, and there should not be a double standard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Williams and Amir said there's room for common ground in the national struggle over police violence, and both said those conversations need to happen now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're better than this as humans,\" Williams said. \"We got to take a step back and realize that life is precious.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had goals and dreams for himself once he came home,\" Amir said. \"When he got out of prison, he completed his high school diploma. That was an agreement that he made with his mother, and so he had reached that. He had recently gotten a license. He had a new job. So he was really taking strides to become the person that he wanted to become, that his mother wanted him to become. I love that. I respect that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amir saw one of multiple videos of the shooting begin to circulate on social media the night of Dec. 2, he immediately recognized Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" src=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/-z3eBvPopx/embed/?v=6\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"738\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" width=\"100%\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I witnessed the death of my student,\" he said. \"That's painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pain is something Officer Shante Williams says he understands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I empathize for his family,\" Williams said. \"I'm not a robot; I'm human. There's a life that's gone. There's a mother who's grieving. There are family members that will never have their family member again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And there are officers who upheld the law to protect those people who were standing behind those officers so they could exercise their First Amendment rights and video record the entire incident. I'm all for that. Those officers put themselves in harm's way, whether people want to look at the entire totality of the circumstances or not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When it comes to everyday people, we have to be accountable for the things that we're doing. And when it comes to law enforcement agents, they need to be held accountable as well, and there should not be a double standard.'\u003ccite>Tyson Amir,\u003cbr>\nFive Keys Charter School educator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Williams started his law enforcement career in East Palo Alto before transferring to the SFPD. His former partner, East Palo Alto Officer \u003ca href=\"http://www.officerrichardmay.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard May\u003c/a>, was fatally shot in the line of duty after he approached a group of men fighting on the evening of Jan. 7, 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me it's a huge honor to do the job the way that Rich would have wanted it done,\" Williams said. He had just returned to San Francisco after traveling to a memorial for five Dallas police officers killed in the line of duty when a gunman took aim at officers at a peaceful July 7 protest over the recent, video-recorded deadly police shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/justice-department-to-investigate-fatal-police-shooting-in-baton-rouge/\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Sterling\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/philando-castile-minnesota-police-shooting-facebook-live/\" target=\"_blank\">Philando Castile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said he's glad his union is calling attention to public safety officers killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It stings, and this is just me, the fact that we're honoring someone who committed a crime,\" he said, \"where we've had officers killed in the line of duty within the past 15 years, and there's no day of remembrance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to Amir, who has dedicated his career to teaching San Francisco jail inmates, the fact that people may have committed crimes shouldn't dehumanize them. He mentioned depictions of Woods as a \"thug,\" \"gangbanger\" and \"drug dealer.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe city \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/11/medical-examiners-report-on-mario-woods-shooting-released/\" target=\"_blank\">medical examiner found\u003c/a> methamphetamine, marijuana and prescription drugs in Woods' system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does that define who you are as a human being?\" Amir asked. \"Why couldn't he have been a high school graduate? He had just obtained his high school diploma. He was going to be graduating in January. Why can't he be referred to as that? It's easier to demonize, belittle, degenerate someone, especially someone that you're willing to pull a trigger on, than to refer to someone in a way that's humane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humanity is a common theme for Amir, and it's why he thinks Mario Woods Remembrance Day is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see the statement that was made by the Board of Supervisors as a way to try to affirm his humanity, but it's after the fact,\" Amir said. \"We're doing that after this man has already been put in the dirt. But hopefully it's a sign that in San Francisco, in the Bay Area, in California, we're pushing for that. We're trying to see the humanity in people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that was lost in the hail of bullets that killed Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't treat people like beasts, or worse than that,\" he said. \"That's overkill. That's way too much. That's uncalled for. That's not seeing the humanity and dealing with the situation in the way it should have been dealt with. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:25 p.m. Friday, July 15\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has minimized the extent to which a sexual exploitation crisis rocking several East Bay law enforcement agencies has touched its side of the Bay Bridge, but a KQED analysis of current and former SFPD officers' Facebook accounts shows the 18-year-old woman at the center of the sex abuse scandal was connected to dozens of people affiliated with the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273894127\" 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>A week after former Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> amid \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">revelations that several OPD officers\u003c/a> may have sexually exploited and trafficked a young woman -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">allegations\u003c/a> that he may have mishandled an internal investigation -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-reviewing-possible-connection-east-bay-sex-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">headlines blared\u003c/a> that SFPD officers may also have been involved. The woman, who calls herself Celeste Guap, claimed to have had sex with San Francisco officers who knew she worked in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'yow!!!!!' 'love the short shorts,' 'Beautiful!!!!!'\u003ccite>Retired SFPD officer's comments on photos of Celeste Guap.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Guap, who now lives in Richmond and is the daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher, were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Teen-in-police-sex-abuse-scandal-reports-sex-with-8335145.php\" target=\"_blank\">cited an\u003c/a> “open investigation to determine if any members have had any inappropriate contact with the victim,” while anonymous SFPD sources \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/sfpd-looking-at-possible-links-to-young-victim-in-oakland-police-sex-scandal-/1389158/\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly said\u003c/a> that the investigation focused on officers who had recently transferred across the bay from Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has learned that at least two dozen current and former SFPD officers -- as well as others affiliated with the department -- were at one time connected to Guap’s Facebook account. The connections point to officers with long careers in the Police Department and to a much more direct connection in the SFPD than just a handful of recent Oakland transfers. Guap's connections include at least three current and 21 retired officers. They include a former police commissioner and a recent member of the board of directors of the police officers' union, the Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One retired SFPD officer repeatedly “liked” and commented on some of Guap’s more suggestive Facebook photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“yow!!!!!” the former officer wrote. Other comments he wrote included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“love the short shorts”\u003cbr>\n“Beautiful!!!!!”\u003cbr>\n“WO(W!!!”\u003cbr>\n“Gorgous (sic)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach that retired officer were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is withholding the names of officers quoted in this report at this time because publication of those names could unfairly harm people whose connections may have been incidental and may not indicate wrongdoing. We are using \"Guap's\" pseudonym to protect the identity of someone who may have been sexually exploited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"uhQAx1tFKzRF3QFpDuqQLqMzQ83r8qjI\"]\u003cbr>\n\"The Police Department at a minimum should look at this Facebook page of hers, which shows this interaction with San Francisco police officers,\" said law professor and city ethics commissioner Peter Keane. He's also a former police commissioner, but not the one with a social media connection to Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane said investigators should interview officers to determine the \"extent of the relationships, if any, there have been between these officers and this woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak said the matter is subject to an open internal affairs investigation. He would not say whether that investigation might include a review of officers' social media accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-police-investigating-second-officer-link-oakland-sex-trafficking-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">reported Friday\u003c/a> that Officer Rodger Ponce De Leon is a subject of the department's internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many SFPD officers' Facebook interactions with Guap are inconclusive, and a large group of officers were simply “friends” with her at one point but never interacted beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case raised lots of red flags for me personally,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang wrote in an emailed response, noting that as a public figure, he receives a lot of \"friend requests\" on social media, sometimes \"from individuals with provocative profile pictures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to figure out what's what,\" he wrote. \"All I can say is that the department is honestly looking into this to see if any officer had more than just a Facebook acquaintance with the victim.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many interactions go beyond \"just friends.\" Several officers repeatedly \"liked\" or commented on suggestive photos of Guap, including one recently retired SFPD officer with more than three decades on the force, who agreed to speak to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police officers, being human, they do make mistakes,\" that former officer said. \"So they may 'friend' somebody who maybe they shouldn’t be friends with. We don’t always make the right decisions. We try to do what’s right, but it doesn’t always turn out that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer, along with many others, started to shed those social media connections with Guap as the crisis grew. A retired female officer broke ties with Guap in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's disturbing that officers' reputations are in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels very violating towards the police,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer had several friendly interactions with Guap on Facebook, suggesting they might know each other outside cyberspace. But she said she only knew Guap on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apparently there’s police involved that they’re dragging in that didn’t even have anything to do with it, except like me, just had a connection on Facebook,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I started seeing the level of multi-jurisdictions, people involved and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" target=\"_blank\">police chiefs being fired\u003c/a>, I was like, you know what? Facebook is supposed to be a friendly, interactive social media. It’s not supposed to be bringing me a big problem. So I was like, OK, I don’t need this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has no permanent rules governing officers’ personal use of social media, but they’re in the works. The department drafted a new general order that is currently the subject of negotiations with the officers’ labor union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commission President Suzy Loftus said Friday that she's hopeful the new general order will be finalized soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Part of this is officers are held to a higher standard,\" she said. \"On and off the job, there is an expectation of their behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Sgt. Andraychak declined to provide a copy of the draft rules, citing ongoing negotiations, and refused a request to speak with any members of the department involved in writing them. The San Francisco Police Officers Association also declined multiple requests to talk about the negotiations and draft policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did provide temporary rules governing officers’ personal use of social media -- a department bulletin issued by former Police Chief Greg Suhr in late 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Members are expected to be smart, thoughtful, and responsible in all interactions and to maintain the respect, dignity, and professionalism that is consistent with the mission of the SFPD at all times. ... We are here to help people and to serve as role models to children. If you would not want to have a child see and/or read what you are considering posting, transmitting, and/or disseminating, do not post, transmit and/or disseminate it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"It’s definitely time for the promulgation of some very definite, specific guidelines of how police should interact on social media,\" former police commissioner Keane said, adding that any contact with Guap now raises serious questions about whether officers are trading confidential law enforcement information, compromising themselves or abusing a position of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are explosive types of dangers that police officers can get themselves involved in unless they’re more cautious of and aware of some problems like this occurring with their contacts on social media,\" Keane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The retired officer who \"liked\" several of Guap's suggestive photos said he felt betrayed by the scandal and behavior of officers alleged to have had sex with the teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me angry, and I don’t know if it’s a generational thing. 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The connections point to officers with long careers in the Police Department and to a much more direct connection in the SFPD than just a handful of recent Oakland transfers. Guap's connections include at least three current and 21 retired officers. They include a former police commissioner and a recent member of the board of directors of the police officers' union, the Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One retired SFPD officer repeatedly “liked” and commented on some of Guap’s more suggestive Facebook photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“yow!!!!!” the former officer wrote. Other comments he wrote included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“love the short shorts”\u003cbr>\n“Beautiful!!!!!”\u003cbr>\n“WO(W!!!”\u003cbr>\n“Gorgous (sic)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach that retired officer were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is withholding the names of officers quoted in this report at this time because publication of those names could unfairly harm people whose connections may have been incidental and may not indicate wrongdoing. We are using \"Guap's\" pseudonym to protect the identity of someone who may have been sexually exploited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"The Police Department at a minimum should look at this Facebook page of hers, which shows this interaction with San Francisco police officers,\" said law professor and city ethics commissioner Peter Keane. He's also a former police commissioner, but not the one with a social media connection to Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane said investigators should interview officers to determine the \"extent of the relationships, if any, there have been between these officers and this woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak said the matter is subject to an open internal affairs investigation. 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We don’t always make the right decisions. We try to do what’s right, but it doesn’t always turn out that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer, along with many others, started to shed those social media connections with Guap as the crisis grew. A retired female officer broke ties with Guap in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's disturbing that officers' reputations are in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels very violating towards the police,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer had several friendly interactions with Guap on Facebook, suggesting they might know each other outside cyberspace. But she said she only knew Guap on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apparently there’s police involved that they’re dragging in that didn’t even have anything to do with it, except like me, just had a connection on Facebook,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I started seeing the level of multi-jurisdictions, people involved and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" target=\"_blank\">police chiefs being fired\u003c/a>, I was like, you know what? Facebook is supposed to be a friendly, interactive social media. It’s not supposed to be bringing me a big problem. So I was like, OK, I don’t need this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has no permanent rules governing officers’ personal use of social media, but they’re in the works. The department drafted a new general order that is currently the subject of negotiations with the officers’ labor union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commission President Suzy Loftus said Friday that she's hopeful the new general order will be finalized soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Part of this is officers are held to a higher standard,\" she said. \"On and off the job, there is an expectation of their behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Sgt. Andraychak declined to provide a copy of the draft rules, citing ongoing negotiations, and refused a request to speak with any members of the department involved in writing them. The San Francisco Police Officers Association also declined multiple requests to talk about the negotiations and draft policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did provide temporary rules governing officers’ personal use of social media -- a department bulletin issued by former Police Chief Greg Suhr in late 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Members are expected to be smart, thoughtful, and responsible in all interactions and to maintain the respect, dignity, and professionalism that is consistent with the mission of the SFPD at all times. ... We are here to help people and to serve as role models to children. If you would not want to have a child see and/or read what you are considering posting, transmitting, and/or disseminating, do not post, transmit and/or disseminate it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"It’s definitely time for the promulgation of some very definite, specific guidelines of how police should interact on social media,\" former police commissioner Keane said, adding that any contact with Guap now raises serious questions about whether officers are trading confidential law enforcement information, compromising themselves or abusing a position of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are explosive types of dangers that police officers can get themselves involved in unless they’re more cautious of and aware of some problems like this occurring with their contacts on social media,\" Keane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The retired officer who \"liked\" several of Guap's suggestive photos said he felt betrayed by the scandal and behavior of officers alleged to have had sex with the teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me angry, and I don’t know if it’s a generational thing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:35 p.m. Monday, July 11\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel appointed to investigate bias in the San Francisco Police Department says it encountered roadblocks throughout its yearlong inquiry, according to a hefty \u003ca href=\"#report\">report\u003c/a> released Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273240281\" 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>The Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">convened last year\u003c/a> by District Attorney George Gascón, said it encountered obstruction from both the department and its rank-and-file officers' union, the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA. ... The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one.'\u003ccite>LaDoris Cordell,\u003cbr>\nRetired Superior Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"[T]he Panel did not always receive the cooperation it hoped for from the SFPD management and the union that represents most officers, the San Francisco POA,\" the report says, cataloguing a back-and-forth between department command staff and panel attorneys in which former Police Chief Greg Suhr advised that any officer interviews be scheduled through the union, which had its own thoughts on the panel's legitimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [Blue Ribbon Panel] has no legal standing or authority to conduct an independent investigation of any organization including the SFPD,\" POA President Martin Halloran wrote in the union's \u003ca href=\"http://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/POAJournal_June2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">June newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran dismissed a synopsis of the panel's preliminary findings in May as \"a biased, one-sided, and illegitimate work of fiction\" produced by people handpicked by Gascón. On Monday, Halloran called the panel a \"kangaroo court\" and compared the release of its report with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">killing of five police officers\u003c/a> in Dallas last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Thursday, a sniper in Dallas took aim at police officers and murdered five in cold blood,” Halloran said in a written statement. “Today, George Gascón is taking aim at police officers in San Francisco with half-truths and distortions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's independence from Gascón -- and accusations that his criticism of the SFPD is driven by political ambitions -- was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly questioned by the POA\u003c/a> and, to some degree, by the department. The panel's report says the sustained questions of legitimacy and written responses to scant public testimony offered by current SFPD officers had a chilling effect on its ability to interview more current officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA,\" said retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell who, along with retired U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian and retired California Supreme Court Judge Cruz Reynoso constituted the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one,\" Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón appointed the panel, supported by attorneys from seven Bay Area law firms, several weeks after a batch of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist, homophobic and otherwise bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, swapped among more than a dozen officers, came to light through a federal court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11017250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017250\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawyers' working groups examined seven different areas of SFPD activity: stops, searches and arrests; discipline; use of force; external oversight of the department; compliance with the legal responsibility to make prosecutors and defense attorneys aware of officer misconduct; crime data; and the culture of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working groups' 72 findings and 81 recommendations form the bulk of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looks like it covers the breadth of issues that we’re interested in,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"It’s the kind of report that I wish we had the ability to generate on our own, if we had more staffing and perhaps a policy analyst working with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its review of SFPD culture, the panel found \"the SFPD blurs the line between it and the POA. ... Because the department has consistently ceded the ground of discourse to the POA, theirs is the dominant law enforcement voice heard on [reforms].\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"7toKMJE8WA8H3xjx3T8jkh3ifftCy4YO\"]\u003cbr>\nThe report adds that \"several witnesses stated that the SFPD and POA functioned like a 'good old boys' club,' making it difficult to impose discipline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 'code of silence' -- informal pressure for officers to 'fall in line' and not report observed misconduct -- makes it difficult to identify and respond to bias within the department,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel found the Police Department's internal disciplinary process \"opaque\" and the rules governing it outdated. The report says discipline -- i.e., findings of misconduct -- are not rigorously tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys found the same lack of reliable data when it came to how often, and on whom, San Francisco police officers use force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They collect data in a fashion where it would be nearly impossible for an outside observer, an auditor, to actually look at the data and see whether the SFPD is applying force more often, and more severely against people of color, gay people, LGBT people, and other groups,\" attorney Colin West said. \"There’s a saying that if you hide a flaw, people will assume the worst. This data couldn’t be collected in a manner better designed to hide flaws that might exist in the police culture when it comes to people of color and the application of uses of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel made 15 recommendations around improving use-of-force data collection, training and policies. But what could be the biggest change to officer-involved shooting investigations is listed as a finding, not a recommendation: \"Officer-involved shooting investigations conducted by the District Attorney's Office suffer from a lack of independence and an outdated notification system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón says both issues are currently at play in the district attorney's investigation of the fatal February 2015 police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a>. The district attorney recently told KQED that his office was not properly notified that an officer-involved shooting had occurred, and by the time a district attorney's investigator arrived on scene, Perez Lopez's body had been removed by the city's medical examiner. Gascón called the treatment of the crime scene a \"serious breach of protocol.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel report includes a memorandum of understanding drafted by Gascón's office that would make the district attorney's office the \"lead agency on the scene of any officer-involved shooting,\" according to the report. SFPD homicide inspectors currently lead police shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD and the SFDA understand that the public can no longer be expected to trust a criminal investigation of a law enforcement officer’s use of deadly or alleged excessive force led by that officer’s employing agency, or by a neighboring or allied police agency,\" the draft MOU says. \"As the chief law enforcement officer for the City and County, the District Attorney bears responsibility for bringing charges against any persons who commit crimes in San Francisco, and pursuing justice for all. Therefore, the office of the San Francisco District Attorney (SFDA) shall be the primary criminal investigative agency for all officer-involved fatal incidents and significant uses of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various city leaders have been seeking an alternative agency to lead police shooting investigations, but so far, suggestions of a neighboring law enforcement agency or the State Attorney General's Office have not reached agreement, let alone implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Commission has moved collaboratively with people from across our City to adopt meaningful reforms for SFPD,\" Commission President Suzy Lofts said via text message. \"That work continues in earnest as we embark on the search for our permanent Chief. As we continue the work ahead, we will carefully review today's report and these findings.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"report\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Mayor Ed Lee thanked the \"Blue Ribbon Committee\" for its efforts in a written statement, and noted a redrafting of SFPD's use-of-force policies that recently passed the Police Commission, enhanced bias and cultural competency training, body cameras on the horizon and increased funding for the department's civilian oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman said the department would analyze the panel's report and forward it to the U.S. Department of Justice, a division of which is conducting \u003ca href=\"http://contextly.com/redirect/?id=2RQIyqmnak:10848685:1026:6:IkNSfDEwODQ4Njg1Ig==::previous:57843b249ec154-37142143\" target=\"_blank\">a review\u003c/a> of the Police Department's policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=317973884 key=key-3HVx862HV76C85lpTB9b mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to include statements from LaDoris Cordell, Victor Hwang, Colin West, Suzy Loftus, Ed Lee and the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [Blue Ribbon Panel] has no legal standing or authority to conduct an independent investigation of any organization including the SFPD,\" POA President Martin Halloran wrote in the union's \u003ca href=\"http://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/POAJournal_June2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">June newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran dismissed a synopsis of the panel's preliminary findings in May as \"a biased, one-sided, and illegitimate work of fiction\" produced by people handpicked by Gascón. On Monday, Halloran called the panel a \"kangaroo court\" and compared the release of its report with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">killing of five police officers\u003c/a> in Dallas last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Thursday, a sniper in Dallas took aim at police officers and murdered five in cold blood,” Halloran said in a written statement. “Today, George Gascón is taking aim at police officers in San Francisco with half-truths and distortions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's independence from Gascón -- and accusations that his criticism of the SFPD is driven by political ambitions -- was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly questioned by the POA\u003c/a> and, to some degree, by the department. The panel's report says the sustained questions of legitimacy and written responses to scant public testimony offered by current SFPD officers had a chilling effect on its ability to interview more current officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA,\" said retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell who, along with retired U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian and retired California Supreme Court Judge Cruz Reynoso constituted the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one,\" Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón appointed the panel, supported by attorneys from seven Bay Area law firms, several weeks after a batch of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist, homophobic and otherwise bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, swapped among more than a dozen officers, came to light through a federal court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11017250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017250\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawyers' working groups examined seven different areas of SFPD activity: stops, searches and arrests; discipline; use of force; external oversight of the department; compliance with the legal responsibility to make prosecutors and defense attorneys aware of officer misconduct; crime data; and the culture of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working groups' 72 findings and 81 recommendations form the bulk of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looks like it covers the breadth of issues that we’re interested in,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"It’s the kind of report that I wish we had the ability to generate on our own, if we had more staffing and perhaps a policy analyst working with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its review of SFPD culture, the panel found \"the SFPD blurs the line between it and the POA. ... Because the department has consistently ceded the ground of discourse to the POA, theirs is the dominant law enforcement voice heard on [reforms].\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe report adds that \"several witnesses stated that the SFPD and POA functioned like a 'good old boys' club,' making it difficult to impose discipline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 'code of silence' -- informal pressure for officers to 'fall in line' and not report observed misconduct -- makes it difficult to identify and respond to bias within the department,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel found the Police Department's internal disciplinary process \"opaque\" and the rules governing it outdated. The report says discipline -- i.e., findings of misconduct -- are not rigorously tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys found the same lack of reliable data when it came to how often, and on whom, San Francisco police officers use force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They collect data in a fashion where it would be nearly impossible for an outside observer, an auditor, to actually look at the data and see whether the SFPD is applying force more often, and more severely against people of color, gay people, LGBT people, and other groups,\" attorney Colin West said. \"There’s a saying that if you hide a flaw, people will assume the worst. This data couldn’t be collected in a manner better designed to hide flaws that might exist in the police culture when it comes to people of color and the application of uses of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel made 15 recommendations around improving use-of-force data collection, training and policies. But what could be the biggest change to officer-involved shooting investigations is listed as a finding, not a recommendation: \"Officer-involved shooting investigations conducted by the District Attorney's Office suffer from a lack of independence and an outdated notification system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón says both issues are currently at play in the district attorney's investigation of the fatal February 2015 police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a>. The district attorney recently told KQED that his office was not properly notified that an officer-involved shooting had occurred, and by the time a district attorney's investigator arrived on scene, Perez Lopez's body had been removed by the city's medical examiner. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco police commissioners unanimously approved a new comprehensive \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2896325-EPSON012.html\" target=\"_blank\">use-of-force policy\u003c/a> for the city's Police Department Wednesday, updating rules that had been in place since 1995 with changes to constitutional law and policing philosophy over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process began over six months ago and in reaction to the fatal Dec. 2 police shooting of Mario Woods. The shooting was caught on cellphone video by multiple bystanders. The videos showed what one San Francisco supervisor described as a \"firing squad\" of officers shooting repeatedly at Woods, who was shot 21 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'What I see is a policy where de-escalation is front and center, and then there’s accountability throughout.'\u003ccite>Samara Marian,\u003cbr>\nOCC policy analyst\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Joe Marshall said at the time that if the shooting was in keeping with policy, \"the policy has to change.\" He referenced the Mario Woods shooting at Wednesday night's meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's one of the things that got us here in the first place, the insane gunfire,\" he said, during a discussion about whether officers should be required to reassess a threat after each round they fire. \"Because I have this image in my head of a bunch of shots being fired, and I think something should have been reassessed at some point, that's just the way I feel. ... I want them thinking all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the new policy was set into motion by former Police Chief Greg Suhr, who \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">resigned last month\u003c/a> under pressure after an SFPD sergeant \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview\" target=\"_blank\">fatally shot\u003c/a> Jessica Williams while trying to remove her from a car. An outright prohibition on shooting at moving vehicles -- absent some other weapon -- was one change Suhr reportedly pushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission was set to consider several different draft versions, but settled on a compromise draft with about a dozen sticking points delivered just hours before the meeting and replete with edit marks and comments. Confusion over the multiple drafts drew some criticism, but civil liberties advocates, including the ACLU, San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints and the local bar association, said the majority of the policy represents good compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think in a majority of places, we’re on the same page,\" OCC policy analyst Samara Marian said. \"I’m also balancing it out with the desire to get a policy in place and get training in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Police Commission's first vote is not the final word, and before they're codified, SFPD's new use-of-force orders are headed for a bargaining process between the city's Department of Human Resources and police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Suzy Loftus tried unsuccessfully to get assurance from the San Francisco Police Officers Association that they would not seek to bargain on points of the policy already agreed upon, which all parties estimated constituted about 80 percent of the document. POA President Martin Halloran refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qCWTHj9Vh2tsniOLIj8RrY97SS33yjbP\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The meet-and-confer process is not done here in open forum,\" Halloran said, adding that the commission's decisions on the sticking points could affect the union's position on the rest of the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus asked if the union would hold the policy \"hostage\" in negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand you have those rights, and they’re afforded to you, but this department needs the ability to move forward on this change as soon as possible,\" Loftus said. \"We’ll use any means that we have available to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not holding anything hostage,\" Halloran said. \"We would not vote against the entire policy, no. ... There is too much in there that has already been agreed upon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The points in agreement include a broad policy statement on safeguarding \"life, dignity and liberty of all persons,\" forceful orders to de-escalate potentially violent suspects (when feasible) and robust data collection and publishing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA secretary and SFPD Lt. Mike Nevin said he pushed for the inclusion of this line: \"The authority to use force is a serious responsibility given to peace officers by the people, who expect them to exercise that authority judiciously and with respect for human rights, dignity and life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that to my core,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I see is a policy where de-escalation is front and center,\" Marian said, \"and then there’s accountability throughout.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco's law enforcement and police accountability communities didn't agree on everything. Three issues emerged as major sticking points: the union's desire to include a state penal code section stating that peace officers do not have a duty to retreat when they encounter resistance; the prohibition on shooting at vehicles; and the use of a particular, but easily misapplied, control hold called the carotid restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the restraint is correctly applied, an officer's forearm and bicep compress the carotid arteries on either side of a suspect's neck, depriving the brain of blood and oxygen until he or she loses consciousness. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission was set to consider several different draft versions, but settled on a compromise draft with about a dozen sticking points delivered just hours before the meeting and replete with edit marks and comments. Confusion over the multiple drafts drew some criticism, but civil liberties advocates, including the ACLU, San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints and the local bar association, said the majority of the policy represents good compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think in a majority of places, we’re on the same page,\" OCC policy analyst Samara Marian said. \"I’m also balancing it out with the desire to get a policy in place and get training in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Police Commission's first vote is not the final word, and before they're codified, SFPD's new use-of-force orders are headed for a bargaining process between the city's Department of Human Resources and police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Suzy Loftus tried unsuccessfully to get assurance from the San Francisco Police Officers Association that they would not seek to bargain on points of the policy already agreed upon, which all parties estimated constituted about 80 percent of the document. POA President Martin Halloran refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The meet-and-confer process is not done here in open forum,\" Halloran said, adding that the commission's decisions on the sticking points could affect the union's position on the rest of the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus asked if the union would hold the policy \"hostage\" in negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand you have those rights, and they’re afforded to you, but this department needs the ability to move forward on this change as soon as possible,\" Loftus said. \"We’ll use any means that we have available to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not holding anything hostage,\" Halloran said. \"We would not vote against the entire policy, no. ... There is too much in there that has already been agreed upon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The points in agreement include a broad policy statement on safeguarding \"life, dignity and liberty of all persons,\" forceful orders to de-escalate potentially violent suspects (when feasible) and robust data collection and publishing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA secretary and SFPD Lt. Mike Nevin said he pushed for the inclusion of this line: \"The authority to use force is a serious responsibility given to peace officers by the people, who expect them to exercise that authority judiciously and with respect for human rights, dignity and life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that to my core,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I see is a policy where de-escalation is front and center,\" Marian said, \"and then there’s accountability throughout.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco's law enforcement and police accountability communities didn't agree on everything. Three issues emerged as major sticking points: the union's desire to include a state penal code section stating that peace officers do not have a duty to retreat when they encounter resistance; the prohibition on shooting at vehicles; and the use of a particular, but easily misapplied, control hold called the carotid restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the restraint is correctly applied, an officer's forearm and bicep compress the carotid arteries on either side of a suspect's neck, depriving the brain of blood and oxygen until he or she loses consciousness. Incorrectly applied, the carotid restraint can become a chokehold, in which an officer's forearm compresses a suspect's trachea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted against the POA on all three major sticking points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the POA said in a statement issued Thursday that it will seek to bargain over those points with the city's Department of Human Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevin and Halloran referenced a testimonial from an unnamed SFPD officer in support of keeping the carotid restraint as an option for San Francisco police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I am a 5'4\" female that has rarely used force in my 28 years of law enforcement. However, in moments where I have been attacked, the carotid restraint has saved my life. It has saved my life three times because the person that attacked me was huge and extremely violent. The carotid restraint applied correctly due to training was perfectly effective and caused no injury to the suspect. It is a tool that can be effectively used by all officers -- small, large, male, female -- to safely manage a violent suspect.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"To us, that’s an officer safety issue,\" Nevin said. \"We would want to discuss that [in negotiations].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco ballot measure mandating a civilian layer to police shooting investigations looks to be passing, according to the city's preliminary vote count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in favor of Proposition D's automatic investigations by the Office of Citizen Complaints -- following any officer-involved shooting resulting in death or serious injury -- outnumbered those opposed 4-1 in early results released by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfelections.org/results/20160607/#english_summary\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Department of Elections\u003c/a> as of 11 p.m. Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco has spoken,\" said the measure's author, Supervisor Malia Cohen. \"San Francisco has asked for accountability and transparency, and that’s exactly what they’re going to get.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, the OCC has investigated only when the office received a complaint, a practice that over the past five years resulted in civilian probes of just eight out of 35 SFPD shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people didn’t realize that unless there’s a request, the Office of Citizen Complaints doesn’t investigate an officer-involved shooting,\" said Board of Supervisors President London Breed. She, along with every other supervisor, supported Prop. D. \"I think this is long overdue, and I’m really happy that the voters see that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OCC investigators look for breaches of department protocol, and the office can recommend disciplining officers who break the rules. Its shooting investigations are in addition to criminal probes by the Police Department's homicide division and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. SFPD's internal affairs division also conducts an administrative investigation, per \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288238790/SFPD-OIS-Investigations-Process\" target=\"_blank\">department protocol\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police accountability groups and some former OCC staff have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-polices-toothless-watchdog-sfpd-office-of-citizen-complaints-ed-lee-greg-suhr-joyce-hicks-mario-woods-alex-nieto-police/Content?oid=4548631&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">criticized\u003c/a> the office for not pursuing less serious cases aggressively enough. The office found no official fault and recommended no discipline in six of the cases it investigated since late 2010. Two additional cases initiated in the past five years are still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/01/s-f-prop-d-would-require-civilian-inquiry-into-police-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the OCC's past police shooting investigations\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/01/s-f-prop-d-would-require-civilian-inquiry-into-police-shootings\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10981804\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-800x681.jpg\" alt=\"RS19746_alt_436\" width=\"299\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-800x681.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-400x341.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-1180x1005.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-960x817.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen says expanding the OCC's role in shooting investigations is just one small piece of a broader effort to change a city Police Department that's seen increasing scrutiny following several high-profile deadly shootings, multiple racist scandals and extreme racial disparities in arrest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Proposition D is like the little engine that could, very small shoestring budget, but incredible hope and incredible potential to really be that driving force to change the way we talk about officer-involved shootings, to change the way we investigate them,\" she said. \"This victory tonight is going to give us the momentum to go into the fall and to continue to push between now and November a whole other slew of reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen recently introduced another measure that would change the OCC's funding structure -- removing it from the Police Department's budget and the Police Commission's control -- and give it auditing power. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A San Francisco ballot measure mandating a civilian layer to police shooting investigations looks to be passing, according to the city's preliminary vote count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in favor of Proposition D's automatic investigations by the Office of Citizen Complaints -- following any officer-involved shooting resulting in death or serious injury -- outnumbered those opposed 4-1 in early results released by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfelections.org/results/20160607/#english_summary\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Department of Elections\u003c/a> as of 11 p.m. Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco has spoken,\" said the measure's author, Supervisor Malia Cohen. \"San Francisco has asked for accountability and transparency, and that’s exactly what they’re going to get.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, the OCC has investigated only when the office received a complaint, a practice that over the past five years resulted in civilian probes of just eight out of 35 SFPD shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people didn’t realize that unless there’s a request, the Office of Citizen Complaints doesn’t investigate an officer-involved shooting,\" said Board of Supervisors President London Breed. She, along with every other supervisor, supported Prop. D. \"I think this is long overdue, and I’m really happy that the voters see that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OCC investigators look for breaches of department protocol, and the office can recommend disciplining officers who break the rules. Its shooting investigations are in addition to criminal probes by the Police Department's homicide division and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. SFPD's internal affairs division also conducts an administrative investigation, per \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288238790/SFPD-OIS-Investigations-Process\" target=\"_blank\">department protocol\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police accountability groups and some former OCC staff have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-polices-toothless-watchdog-sfpd-office-of-citizen-complaints-ed-lee-greg-suhr-joyce-hicks-mario-woods-alex-nieto-police/Content?oid=4548631&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">criticized\u003c/a> the office for not pursuing less serious cases aggressively enough. The office found no official fault and recommended no discipline in six of the cases it investigated since late 2010. Two additional cases initiated in the past five years are still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/01/s-f-prop-d-would-require-civilian-inquiry-into-police-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the OCC's past police shooting investigations\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/01/s-f-prop-d-would-require-civilian-inquiry-into-police-shootings\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10981804\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-800x681.jpg\" alt=\"RS19746_alt_436\" width=\"299\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-800x681.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-400x341.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-1180x1005.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436-960x817.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19746_alt_436.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen says expanding the OCC's role in shooting investigations is just one small piece of a broader effort to change a city Police Department that's seen increasing scrutiny following several high-profile deadly shootings, multiple racist scandals and extreme racial disparities in arrest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Proposition D is like the little engine that could, very small shoestring budget, but incredible hope and incredible potential to really be that driving force to change the way we talk about officer-involved shootings, to change the way we investigate them,\" she said. \"This victory tonight is going to give us the momentum to go into the fall and to continue to push between now and November a whole other slew of reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen recently introduced another measure that would change the OCC's funding structure -- removing it from the Police Department's budget and the Police Commission's control -- and give it auditing power. She's also pushing another measure that would create a new wing of the district attorney's office to lead investigations in officer-involved shootings. Both propositions could go before voters in the November general election, pending Board of Supervisors approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reform that I’m working toward is huge, and it requires changes to the charter,\" Cohen said. \"The victory of Proposition D has been electrifying, and I’m excited.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/scrutiny-officer-involved-shootings-may-increase/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested in January\u003c/a> that the city's \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a> should investigate all officer-involved shootings, the local policing landscape looked very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But upheaval had already begun, sparked by the fatal police shooting last Dec. 2 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview District. Cohen was barraged by angry comments from her constituents there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267141814\" 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>“The one thing that I heard consistently is that there is no police accountability,” Cohen said, “or even perception of police accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments, or reprimands, and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.'\u003ccite>Barbara Attard,\u003cbr>\nPolice accountability consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says she started drafting the measure that would become \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/OCC%20Legal%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition D\u003c/a> after finding the Office of Citizen Complaints wasn’t immediately investigating the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s responsibilities are outlined in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://charter.sanfranciscocode.org/IV/4.127/\" target=\"_blank\">City Charter\u003c/a>, which means changing them is up to the city’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enter Prop. D\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s measure is simple. If Proposition D is approved by voters, OCC investigators would automatically investigate all officer-involved shootings for violations of department policy. Investigators could recommend discipline as well as changes in policy or officer training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civilian oversight investigations would thus become a permanent piece of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288238790/SFPD-OIS-Investigations-Process\" target=\"_blank\">multiple probes following a death\u003c/a> or serious injury at the hands of city police officers. The measure wouldn't affect other inquiries that follow officer-involved shootings, including investigations by SFPD’s homicide and internal affairs units and a separate criminal investigation by the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no organized opposition to expanding the role of the OCC, and in anticipation of Prop. D's passage, Mayor Ed Lee's proposed budget includes $1.8 million to hire five new civilian investigators and upgrade training and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC's executive director, Joyce Hicks, says the measure would allow her investigators to begin their work at the scene of a shooting, instead of waiting days, weeks or months to receive a complaint and then play catch-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974383\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"Ex\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigator would immediately begin canvassing the area where the shooting occurred, looking for witnesses,” she said. “Sometimes there are witnesses who feel comfortable speaking to OCC investigators but don’t feel comfortable talking to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigger Picture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D would likely quadruple the number of incidents investigated by the OCC. Cohen notes that of the 35 police shootings that might have triggered an OCC inquiry in the past five years, the office has looked into just eight -- the only ones in which someone filed a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of opposition to expanding the number of OCC investigations, some critics question whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-polices-toothless-watchdog-sfpd-office-of-citizen-complaints-ed-lee-greg-suhr-joyce-hicks-mario-woods-alex-nieto-police/Content?oid=4548631&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">the agency has any teeth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigates hundreds of complaints a year, and some of them are very serious cases,” said police accountability consultant Barbara Attard, who has worked for the OCC as well as civilian oversight offices in Berkeley and San Jose. “But there’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments or reprimands and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s officer-involved shooting investigations follow a similar pattern. A KQED review of the six completed investigations (two are still pending) between December 2010 and January 2016 shows no \"sustained\" complaints -- meaning the office found no fault on the part of officers involved and recommended no discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office found officers were legally justified to use deadly force in five of those incidents. The DA's office did not investigate the 2010 shooting of Vinh Bui, according to a spokesman, because District Attorney George Gascón had recently been appointed to the post after serving as police chief and there could have been a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>S.F. Police Shooting Investigations\u003c/h3>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Office of Citizen Complaints\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314413335/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Joshua-Smith?secret_password=jWFBg5kNG9a8VIhCSEbt\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314488644/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Kenneth-Harding?secret_password=4YUGAJyfmA95RwKH8sag\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489250/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Pralith-Pralourng?secret_password=6wSpwmhKRnMDQ7eYPOuG\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489739/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Police-Shooting-of-Brian-Cooper?secret_password=akbZpABvTJU2ZVUagI71\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314490313/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Alejandro-Nieto?secret_password=uLGGznfTZffKCPTFMzNU\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>DA's Office/News Sources\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-police-killing-of-mentally-ill-man-exposes-6797077.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/318-65%20Buena%20Vista.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/323-3rd%20%26%20Newcomb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/299-Washington%20%26%20Davis%20St._Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/321-15%20Dakota.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/305-Bernal%20Hill%20Park.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the criticism comes from a misunderstanding of the OCC's authority and the case law governing police use of force. But, she says, as SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/use-force-documents\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policies\u003c/a> change to emphasize de-escalation and other alternatives to firearms, the OCC's findings in future cases could also change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Lawful but awful' is no longer acceptable to the American public,\" she said. \"... The public is demanding greater transparency, greater explanations as to why law enforcement conducts itself in the way it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC plays a major role in changing police practices, Hicks says. The office's policy attorney was part of a broad group that debated and tweaked new rules for body cameras and use of force. And she says the office's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> into the December 2010 police killing of Vinh Bui found policy and training failures and recommended enhancing training for encounters with mentally ill suspects and the department's tactical reviews of shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges to Transparency\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D won't change one of the major challenges in bringing transparency to the OCC's work, says police accountability consultant Attard, because of the strong privacy protections for police officers embodied in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When all of your work remains confidential, I think it's hard for the public to really know what you're doing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RDXWXzCNh9gS825TpkA3nxzUIcjFNY8O\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following legal advice from city attorney's office, Hicks says, the OCC's summaries of police shooting cases are stripped of the names of officers, the names of those injured or killed and even the date and location of incidents. The investigative summaries are virtually buried in monthly OCC reports of all its recently closed case, documents that run to more than 100 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is one of the few states that has complete confidentiality around police misconduct cases,\" Attard said, \"and we're way overdue to change that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attard, Hicks and Supervisor Cohen all supported a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> by San Francisco state Sen. Mark Leno that would have eased restrictions on public access to sustained findings of police misconduct. The measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-california-police-misconduct-r-1464384312-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently died\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the OCC is as transparent as the law currently allows, but Attard says the agency could do more to push for stronger discipline and transparency. She says attention may shift toward the office following the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">May 19 resignation\u003c/a> of Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that he's no longer here, I think we need to look to the OCC and the Police Commission for their role in accountability and ensure that they're holding officers and the police chief accountable when there should be serious discipline,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Baby Step'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Cohen, Proposition D is just one \"baby step\" in a series of bigger changes she wants to bring to San Francisco policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465493&GUID=2B16E0C9-22B7-4AB1-965A-B4FC6EBFF9A7\" target=\"_blank\">second City Charter amendment\u003c/a> that would change the OCC's name to the Independent Police Oversight Department. The measure would also grant the agency authority over its own budget instead of making it subject to Police Commission oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465501&GUID=11974C06-B4BB-4388-A3AF-451E7C0955AA\" target=\"_blank\">Yet another charter amendment\u003c/a> Cohen proposes would create an independent bureau in the district attorney's office that would be the \"primary agency to investigate criminal conduct arising out of critical incidents in the city involving officer-involved use of force.\" That role that now rests with SFPD homicide investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen is seeking to put both those proposals before voters this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the OCC's part, it has received complaints and has opened investigations into the high-profile police shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Gongora\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Williams\u003c/a>. The office's findings in those cases will likely be heavily scrutinized -- if the public can find them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/scrutiny-officer-involved-shootings-may-increase/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested in January\u003c/a> that the city's \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a> should investigate all officer-involved shootings, the local policing landscape looked very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But upheaval had already begun, sparked by the fatal police shooting last Dec. 2 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview District. Cohen was barraged by angry comments from her constituents there.\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/267141814&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/267141814'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing that I heard consistently is that there is no police accountability,” Cohen said, “or even perception of police accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments, or reprimands, and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.'\u003ccite>Barbara Attard,\u003cbr>\nPolice accountability consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says she started drafting the measure that would become \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/OCC%20Legal%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition D\u003c/a> after finding the Office of Citizen Complaints wasn’t immediately investigating the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s responsibilities are outlined in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://charter.sanfranciscocode.org/IV/4.127/\" target=\"_blank\">City Charter\u003c/a>, which means changing them is up to the city’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enter Prop. D\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s measure is simple. If Proposition D is approved by voters, OCC investigators would automatically investigate all officer-involved shootings for violations of department policy. Investigators could recommend discipline as well as changes in policy or officer training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civilian oversight investigations would thus become a permanent piece of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288238790/SFPD-OIS-Investigations-Process\" target=\"_blank\">multiple probes following a death\u003c/a> or serious injury at the hands of city police officers. The measure wouldn't affect other inquiries that follow officer-involved shootings, including investigations by SFPD’s homicide and internal affairs units and a separate criminal investigation by the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no organized opposition to expanding the role of the OCC, and in anticipation of Prop. D's passage, Mayor Ed Lee's proposed budget includes $1.8 million to hire five new civilian investigators and upgrade training and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC's executive director, Joyce Hicks, says the measure would allow her investigators to begin their work at the scene of a shooting, instead of waiting days, weeks or months to receive a complaint and then play catch-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974383\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"Ex\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigator would immediately begin canvassing the area where the shooting occurred, looking for witnesses,” she said. “Sometimes there are witnesses who feel comfortable speaking to OCC investigators but don’t feel comfortable talking to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigger Picture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D would likely quadruple the number of incidents investigated by the OCC. Cohen notes that of the 35 police shootings that might have triggered an OCC inquiry in the past five years, the office has looked into just eight -- the only ones in which someone filed a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of opposition to expanding the number of OCC investigations, some critics question whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-polices-toothless-watchdog-sfpd-office-of-citizen-complaints-ed-lee-greg-suhr-joyce-hicks-mario-woods-alex-nieto-police/Content?oid=4548631&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">the agency has any teeth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigates hundreds of complaints a year, and some of them are very serious cases,” said police accountability consultant Barbara Attard, who has worked for the OCC as well as civilian oversight offices in Berkeley and San Jose. “But there’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments or reprimands and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s officer-involved shooting investigations follow a similar pattern. A KQED review of the six completed investigations (two are still pending) between December 2010 and January 2016 shows no \"sustained\" complaints -- meaning the office found no fault on the part of officers involved and recommended no discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office found officers were legally justified to use deadly force in five of those incidents. The DA's office did not investigate the 2010 shooting of Vinh Bui, according to a spokesman, because District Attorney George Gascón had recently been appointed to the post after serving as police chief and there could have been a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>S.F. Police Shooting Investigations\u003c/h3>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Office of Citizen Complaints\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314413335/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Joshua-Smith?secret_password=jWFBg5kNG9a8VIhCSEbt\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314488644/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Kenneth-Harding?secret_password=4YUGAJyfmA95RwKH8sag\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489250/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Pralith-Pralourng?secret_password=6wSpwmhKRnMDQ7eYPOuG\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489739/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Police-Shooting-of-Brian-Cooper?secret_password=akbZpABvTJU2ZVUagI71\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314490313/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Alejandro-Nieto?secret_password=uLGGznfTZffKCPTFMzNU\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>DA's Office/News Sources\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-police-killing-of-mentally-ill-man-exposes-6797077.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/318-65%20Buena%20Vista.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/323-3rd%20%26%20Newcomb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/299-Washington%20%26%20Davis%20St._Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/321-15%20Dakota.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/305-Bernal%20Hill%20Park.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the criticism comes from a misunderstanding of the OCC's authority and the case law governing police use of force. But, she says, as SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/use-force-documents\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policies\u003c/a> change to emphasize de-escalation and other alternatives to firearms, the OCC's findings in future cases could also change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Lawful but awful' is no longer acceptable to the American public,\" she said. \"... The public is demanding greater transparency, greater explanations as to why law enforcement conducts itself in the way it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC plays a major role in changing police practices, Hicks says. The office's policy attorney was part of a broad group that debated and tweaked new rules for body cameras and use of force. And she says the office's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> into the December 2010 police killing of Vinh Bui found policy and training failures and recommended enhancing training for encounters with mentally ill suspects and the department's tactical reviews of shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges to Transparency\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D won't change one of the major challenges in bringing transparency to the OCC's work, says police accountability consultant Attard, because of the strong privacy protections for police officers embodied in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When all of your work remains confidential, I think it's hard for the public to really know what you're doing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following legal advice from city attorney's office, Hicks says, the OCC's summaries of police shooting cases are stripped of the names of officers, the names of those injured or killed and even the date and location of incidents. The investigative summaries are virtually buried in monthly OCC reports of all its recently closed case, documents that run to more than 100 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is one of the few states that has complete confidentiality around police misconduct cases,\" Attard said, \"and we're way overdue to change that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attard, Hicks and Supervisor Cohen all supported a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> by San Francisco state Sen. Mark Leno that would have eased restrictions on public access to sustained findings of police misconduct. The measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-california-police-misconduct-r-1464384312-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently died\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the OCC is as transparent as the law currently allows, but Attard says the agency could do more to push for stronger discipline and transparency. She says attention may shift toward the office following the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">May 19 resignation\u003c/a> of Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that he's no longer here, I think we need to look to the OCC and the Police Commission for their role in accountability and ensure that they're holding officers and the police chief accountable when there should be serious discipline,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Baby Step'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Cohen, Proposition D is just one \"baby step\" in a series of bigger changes she wants to bring to San Francisco policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465493&GUID=2B16E0C9-22B7-4AB1-965A-B4FC6EBFF9A7\" target=\"_blank\">second City Charter amendment\u003c/a> that would change the OCC's name to the Independent Police Oversight Department. The measure would also grant the agency authority over its own budget instead of making it subject to Police Commission oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465501&GUID=11974C06-B4BB-4388-A3AF-451E7C0955AA\" target=\"_blank\">Yet another charter amendment\u003c/a> Cohen proposes would create an independent bureau in the district attorney's office that would be the \"primary agency to investigate criminal conduct arising out of critical incidents in the city involving officer-involved use of force.\" That role that now rests with SFPD homicide investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen is seeking to put both those proposals before voters this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">long languishing\u003c/a> effort to pin cameras on its police officers appeared close to completion Tuesday evening, with statements from the city's mayor and head of the police officers' union announcing a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">When should officers involved in a critical incident, such as a shooting, be allowed to view video footage of the incident?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the city Police Commission approves \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceCommission/PoliceCommission060116-RevisedDraftBWCPolicy052716.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the new policy\u003c/a> emerging from negotiations that for months appeared to be stalled, the first deployment of cameras could hit the streets by Aug. 1, according to the mayor's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are making critical investments in funding police department reform, rebuilding community trust, and bringing a culture change in how we handle conflicts on our City streets,” Mayor Ed Lee said in a written statement announcing the agreement, noting that he's budgeted over $6 million to fund the roll out of some 1,800 body cameras over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language in the final draft headed before the Police Commission Wednesday reflects a compromise on one of the stickiest points in the policy: When should officers involved in a critical incident, such as a shooting, be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/draft-when-should-s-f-police-involved-in-shootings-view-body-cam-footage\" target=\"_blank\">allowed to view video footage\u003c/a> of the incident?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When police commissioners initially grappled with that question last year they left any such \"pre-statement review\" to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-panel-votes-on-body-camera-policy-6672070.php\" target=\"_blank\">chief's discretion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The May 19 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">resignation\u003c/a> of former Chief Greg Suhr threw that compromise into question. But, the jointly submitted final draft body camera policy from the mayor's office and the POA ends those concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On pre-statement review, the final draft appears closer to what accountability advocates wanted than the union's previous position to generally allow officers to view their camera footage, even in shooting cases, and even before being interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the draft language laying out circumstances in which SFPD officers would not be allowed to view body camera, \u003cem>or any\u003c/em> footage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Following any (1) officer-involved shooting, (2) in-custody death, or (3) criminal matter, any subject officer shall be required to provide an initial statement before he or she reviews any audio or video recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial statement by the subject officer shall briefly summarize the actions that the officer was engaged in, the actions that required the use of force, and the officer’s response. The statement shall be distinct from the “public safety statement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After providing an initial statement, the subject shall have an opportunity to review any audio or video recordings depicting the incident with his or her representative or attorney prior to being subject to an interview.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This new, distinct \"initial statement\" may preserve officers' perspective of an incident unaltered by reviewing footage. It's an officers' state of mind, regardless of what video later reveals, that helps define the legal standard for justified uses of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"public safety statement\" is a set of mandatory questions an officer involved in a critical incident must answer at the scene if ordered by a supervisor. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 8:27 p.m. Friday, May 20:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office has identified the woman shot and killed by a city police officer Thursday as Bay Area resident Jessica Williams, 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An autopsy has been conducted, but further details of Williams' cause of death were not released, pending the completion of a final report, according to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Police Chief \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Suhr resigned\u003c/a> shortly after Thursday's shooting. Interim Chief Toney Chaplin \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/20/interim-sfpd-chief-says-hell-continue-on-path-to-change-department\" target=\"_blank\">said Friday\u003c/a> that he would hold a public meeting in the Bayview next week and provide updates on investigations into the shooting. The name of officers involved in the incident have not been released, but Chaplin said their identities would also likely be made public next week, per department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, Updated 4:12 p.m. Thursday, May 19:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police officers shot and killed a woman they suspected of car theft Thursday morning, the department's eighth fatal officer-involved shooting since the beginning of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Albie Esparza told reporters the shooting occurred just before 10 a.m. near the intersection of Elmira Street and Shafter Avenue in the city's Bayview neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr confirmed that the shooting victim, whom he described as a 27-year-old female, died after being transported to San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264958601\" 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>Suhr said the shooting occurred after a confrontation between the suspect, who was in a car, and two officers who were on patrol in the industrial neighborhood looking for stolen cars. He said investigators had spoken to a single witness who saw the incident from above. The involved officers have not yet given statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the woman fled from officers when they tried to detain her, driving about 100 feet before colliding with another vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unidentified witness, according to Suhr, saw the suspected stolen car \"going from forward to reverse,\" as officers \"were moving about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said officers were attempting to pull the woman from the car as it was moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point in this engagement, one officer, a sergeant, fired one shot, striking the suspect,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police didn't immediately know whether the woman was armed when she was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Officer-involved-shooting-reported-in-SF-s-7720605.php\" target=\"_blank\">summarizes the sequence of events\u003c/a> that led to the unidentified woman's death:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Two officers attempted to detain the woman after spotting the stolen car, said Police Chief Greg Suhr. She tried to drive away before the officers could talk to her, but only got 100 feet before crashing into a parked truck. While she was trying to dislodge the vehicle and not complying with police orders, one of the two officers, a Bayview station sergeant, fired one shot, striking her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no immediate indication that she was driving at the officers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Proposed changes to SFPD \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/use-force-documents\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policies\u003c/a> include a ban on firing at a moving vehicle “unless the operator or occupant poses an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the public or an officer by means other than the vehicle.” It's one of many proposed changes that have been \u003ca href=\"http://sfpoa.org/policies/050316/POAresponseto502draftproposal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">criticized\u003c/a> by the union representing SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Officers Association President Martin Halloran declined to comment on the shooting today, saying in a written statement that he will comment after he learns more details about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman who died Thursday was black. The San Francisco Police Department's seven other fatal shootings since Jan. 1, 2015, include two white, one black and four Latino victims:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>April 7, 2016:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Gongora, 45\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dec. 2, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods, 26\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Nov. 11, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/12/s-f-police-shoot-kill-man-in-confrontation-outside-mission-district-hospital\" target=\"_blank\">Javier Lopez Garcia, 25\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Oct. 14, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/15/san-francisco-cop-involved-in-market-street-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Herbert Benitez, 27 \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>March 17, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Driver-killed-by-S-F-police-identified-as-6142564.php\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Brown, 24\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Feb. 26, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez, 21\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jan. 4, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/man-shot-and-killed-by-s-f-police-appears-to-have-planned-suicide\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Hoffman, 32\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>An employee at a nearby business said he provided investigators with surveillance video of the incident. He declined to provide an additional copy, saying for now the business prefers to work solely with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said in a written statement that while details are currently scarce, he is \"deeply disturbed\" by what's been released so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was entitled to due process and, above all, she was entitled to her life,\" Adachi said, while reiterating his call for the state Attorney General's Office to launch a civil rights investigation of the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities with the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services are currently conducting a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">non-binding review\u003c/a> of SFPD policies, launched in February and in response to the Dec. 2 fatal shooting of Mario Woods in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said federal authorities were at the scene of Thursday morning's shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were in the neighborhood,\" Suhr said of U.S. Department of Justice officials. \"They have full access to everything right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD's latest fatal shooting is fueling speculation that Mayor Ed Lee is considering firing Suhr. He addressed the shooting during an unrelated event this morning, according to the Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/emilytgreen/status/733377483354050561\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mayor's Office did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists calling for Suhr's removal plan a rally at City Hall this evening, starting at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police officers shot and killed a woman they suspected of car theft Thursday morning, the department's eighth fatal officer-involved shooting since the beginning of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Albie Esparza told reporters the shooting occurred just before 10 a.m. near the intersection of Elmira Street and Shafter Avenue in the city's Bayview neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr confirmed that the shooting victim, whom he described as a 27-year-old female, died after being transported to San Francisco General Hospital.\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/264958601&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/264958601'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the shooting occurred after a confrontation between the suspect, who was in a car, and two officers who were on patrol in the industrial neighborhood looking for stolen cars. 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The involved officers have not yet given statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the woman fled from officers when they tried to detain her, driving about 100 feet before colliding with another vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unidentified witness, according to Suhr, saw the suspected stolen car \"going from forward to reverse,\" as officers \"were moving about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said officers were attempting to pull the woman from the car as it was moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point in this engagement, one officer, a sergeant, fired one shot, striking the suspect,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police didn't immediately know whether the woman was armed when she was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Officer-involved-shooting-reported-in-SF-s-7720605.php\" target=\"_blank\">summarizes the sequence of events\u003c/a> that led to the unidentified woman's death:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Two officers attempted to detain the woman after spotting the stolen car, said Police Chief Greg Suhr. She tried to drive away before the officers could talk to her, but only got 100 feet before crashing into a parked truck. While she was trying to dislodge the vehicle and not complying with police orders, one of the two officers, a Bayview station sergeant, fired one shot, striking her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no immediate indication that she was driving at the officers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Proposed changes to SFPD \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/use-force-documents\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policies\u003c/a> include a ban on firing at a moving vehicle “unless the operator or occupant poses an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the public or an officer by means other than the vehicle.” It's one of many proposed changes that have been \u003ca href=\"http://sfpoa.org/policies/050316/POAresponseto502draftproposal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">criticized\u003c/a> by the union representing SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Officers Association President Martin Halloran declined to comment on the shooting today, saying in a written statement that he will comment after he learns more details about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman who died Thursday was black. The San Francisco Police Department's seven other fatal shootings since Jan. 1, 2015, include two white, one black and four Latino victims:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>April 7, 2016:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Gongora, 45\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dec. 2, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods, 26\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Nov. 11, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/12/s-f-police-shoot-kill-man-in-confrontation-outside-mission-district-hospital\" target=\"_blank\">Javier Lopez Garcia, 25\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Oct. 14, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/15/san-francisco-cop-involved-in-market-street-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Herbert Benitez, 27 \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>March 17, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Driver-killed-by-S-F-police-identified-as-6142564.php\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Brown, 24\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Feb. 26, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez, 21\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jan. 4, 2015:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/man-shot-and-killed-by-s-f-police-appears-to-have-planned-suicide\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Hoffman, 32\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>An employee at a nearby business said he provided investigators with surveillance video of the incident. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The search for San Francisco's next police chief will be a closely watched process determined by the city's seven-member Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/20/interim-sfpd-chief-says-hell-continue-on-path-to-change-department\">did not comment\u003c/a> Friday on whether he wants the job, a position he was promoted to after Greg Suhr stepped down on Thursday. The Police Commission's next step will be to determine how it will conduct its search - which will likely be national.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with Petra DeJesus, a member of the commission who was on the panel to hire the last two chiefs.\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/265149066&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/265149066'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The text of this interview has been edited down from its full version.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED: \u003c/strong>You were part of the commissions that hired both police chiefs George Gascón and Greg Suhr. What lessons have you learned that will be applied to the next chief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DeJesus:\u003c/strong> We need someone who can embrace the policies that we're putting in place, embrace the body cameras. But we also need someone who can enforce changes in terms of changing that culture, rooting out people who make homophobic and racist comments. And how do we select our officers, going all the way down to the bottom process in terms of recruitment or training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED:\u003c/strong> Is hiring the next police chief under these recent controversies make it harder for the commission to hire the best person for the job?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DeJesus:\u003c/strong> No. I think we owe it to the citizens to conduct a national search. I think we really need to find the best person for the job and not only someone who agrees with all the policy changes but that can actually implement the changes and get it done. And that means looking in house as well as looking outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED:\u003c/strong> What might the selection process look like? What role might the police union play in deciding who the next chief will be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DeJesus:\u003c/strong> The way we've done it before, we (the commission) do the interviews and we send the names to the mayor and he selects it. I've been looking around and there are suggestions that maybe community members should participate. I don't know if that will go. Maybe perhaps the POA (Police Officer's Association) will have a say. It's something we have to talk about with the city attorney. Or maybe we get the finalist candidates and we have a meet and greet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED:\u003c/strong> What is your biggest concern about the next chief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DeJesus:\u003c/strong> It's really trust. It's coming down to re-establishing trust with the community and having transparency and having accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED:\u003c/strong> How soon would you like to see the new chief hired?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DeJesus:\u003c/strong> I'd like to see the new chief hired sooner than six months. I'm wondering if we can do this in a 60-day to 90-day period. I think it is possible.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco heard the first comments from its interim police chief Friday. In a nutshell, they were \"reform, reform, reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toney Chaplin is an Oklahoma native with 26 years on the force and a reputation as a skilled investigator with deep ties in some of San Francisco's lesser-traveled neighborhoods. He inherits a department that's in crisis after a series of police shootings and repeated scandals in which officers were found to have exchanged racist and homophobic text messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin, elevated Thursday from his job as deputy chief in charge of a brand new bureau created to reform the department, said Friday that he plans to focus on continuing that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The mission has to go on,\" he said. \"The department has to move forward, and that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to steer the ship in a direction that we already started in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265134382\" 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>Chaplin has some experience addressing racism in the SFPD. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/30/san-francisco-criminal-justice-leaders-push-for-change-at-race-summit\" target=\"_blank\">Last April\u003c/a>, he spoke publicly about what it meant to be a black officer in a department besieged by racist scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in the unenviable position of being African-American and being a cop, and this is a tough time for most of the members of the San Francisco Police Department,” Chaplin said last year. “There’s a lot of African-American officers that are doing some self-reflecting about people they call friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin's predecessor, Greg Suhr, started potentially sweeping changes to the department's use-of-force policies following fatal police shooting last Dec. 2 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>. Suhr tapped Chaplin to coordinate that effort with U.S. Department of Justice officials called in to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">review\u003c/a> the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee asked for and received Suhr's resignation Thursday, just hours after a sergeant \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed a woman\u003c/a> suspected of driving a stolen car in the city's Bayview District. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said Friday top priorities are finally rolling out body cameras for approximately 2,000 officers and finalizing the department's draft use-of-force rules. Body cameras are further along in the process, but their final implementation has stalled in a meet-and-confer process with the San Francisco Police Officers Association. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday, Chaplin was asked how he plans to accelerate the changes when the union wants to slow them down.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Toney Chaplin on homicide investigations in San Francisco's public housing developments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/the-forgotten-tracking-two-homicides-in-san-francisco-public-housing\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/forgoton-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"forgoton\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10962320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/forgoton-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/forgoton-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/forgoton-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/forgoton.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/the-forgotten-tracking-two-homicides-in-san-francisco-public-housing\" target=\"_blank\">The Forgotten: Two Deaths on the Streets of Potrero Hill\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Once we get through the process of this thing and get to a finished product, it will start steamrolling and moving faster,\" Chaplin said. Changes involving both body cameras and use-of-force policies went through a community input process Chaplin called \"historic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is huge,\" he said. \"We have people from the community that would never have had input into general orders for the San Francisco Police Department seated around this table giving input, and once all of that was done, it was forwarded to the Department of Justice for further review.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commission President Suzy Loftus said she would redouble efforts to accelerate change in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The situation we find ourselves in goes beyond one chief and one individual,\" she said. \"My focus today and as we move forward is really on coming together as a city and ensuring that we implement these reforms and get to a better place, because one thing we know is that the police need the community and the community need the police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said he would continue Suhr's practice of holding meetings in the neighborhoods of fatal police shootings, and the Bayview can expect a public gathering next week to discuss Thursday's fatality. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re almost at the finish line with this,\" he said of the coming policy changes. \"And once we get there, hopefully those new changes will prevent tragedies like what happened yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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