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"content": "\u003cp>The latest revival of an old San Francisco debate over Tasers dominated a Wednesday night meeting of the city's Police Commission, where the public got its first look at a proposed set of changes to how and when officers are allowed to use force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr presented four draft policies to commissioners at the meeting. Three revise and expand existing department general orders on use of force. The fourth would arm approximately 100 specially trained officers with electronic stun guns commonly known by the name of their dominant manufacturer -- Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/mayor-lee-chief-suhr-for-study-of-new-nonlethal-weapons-including-tasers\" target=\"_blank\">said shortly after\u003c/a> the fatal Dec. 2 police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> that the department would again seek approval for the devices. Suhr and three chiefs before him have tried to get approval for using the \"less lethal\" weapons, but public concern that Tasers can be fatal and could be misused derailed each request.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>San Francisco Police Draft Use-of-Force Policy Changes\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298964994/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Use-of-Force-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">Use of Force\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298965562/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Use-of-Force-Reporting-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298965450/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Firearm-Lethal-Force-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">Firearms and Deadly Force\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298965307/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Taser-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">CEDs (Tasers)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The limited pilot program Suhr introduced Wednesday met familiar opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unfathomable to me to think that adding another weapon to an arsenal of a Police Department that is out of control is going to solve our problems; it's not,\" San Francisco resident Nancy Reiko Kato told commissioners. \"The problem is with the policies that allow police to draw their weapons on unarmed people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broad changes to those policies are also on the table. The department's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298964994/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Use-of-Force-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">proposed use-of-force general order\u003c/a> emphasizes the preservation of human life and verbal de-escalation. It also introduces a principle that any force officers use should be proportional to the threat they're facing, especially if that threat involves a weapon other than a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Woods was armed with a knife and had stabbed someone less than an hour before he was confronted by a large group of officers. Bystander \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">cellphone video\u003c/a> shows Woods begin to stagger away from the main group of officers, but toward one who stepped into his path. Five officers fired a barrage of shots, hitting Woods some 20 times, according to attorneys representing his family in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s really kind of astonishing what a horrible time it is for this to even be on your agenda, how disingenuous it is to look at the killing of Mario Woods as being somehow related to the lack of Tasers,\" said Andrea Prichett, head of a Berkeley-based police watchdog organization. \"What killed that man was an incredible lack of sensitivity to the value of black life. That’s what killed him, and it is a deeply rooted culture in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the San Francisco Police Officers Association has repeatedly said that having Tasers as an option would likely have prevented Woods' death. The police officers union submitted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298977400/S-F-POA-Draft-Taser-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">separate, broader Taser proposal\u003c/a> to the Police Commission Wednesday that would equip officers specially trained for responses to people in psychiatric crisis -- members of the department's crisis intervention team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"17tO8dQa9689x1eoA9qA67UMxIPRukKp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA President Martin Halloran said the department should train every officer in crisis intervention -- a move already implemented for all new recruits -- and then immediately train and equip them with Tasers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are optimistic that, this time, this lifesaving tool will not be stalled by unreasonable opposition,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners didn't discuss the POA's proposal, but all the new draft policies are heading to a working group that will include police officers and heavy representation from the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Suzy Loftus said the U.S. Department of Justice would also weigh in as part of a recently announced \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">federal review of the Police Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners Petra DeJesus and Victor Hwang unsuccessfully attempted to remove any discussion of Tasers from the broader use-of-force policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is such a big and controversial issue, it's going to overwhelm our other discussion around the good stuff happening around use of force,\" Hwang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeJesus said that including the request for Tasers in use-of-force reforms is a \"backdoor way\" to push the weapons through approval when the public has said over and over again that it doesn't want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The real question is who's asking for the Tasers, and it comes down to the department and the mayor,\" she said. \"That is concerning that we're not even listening to the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10861198\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10861194\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10861198 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Prohibited uses of a conducted energy device (Taser) in SFPD's proposed policy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prohibited uses of a conducted energy device (Taser) in SFPD's proposed policy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the department's proposal is limited and would allow for only about 5 percent of officers -- members of the SWAT Team and others with specialized tactical training -- to carry Tasers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They would only be allowed to use the Tasers or the conducted energy device when the suspect is armed with a weapon short of a firearm,\" he said. \"They would be prohibited from using that [Taser] on an unarmed suspect or a person who is only a danger to themselves and a variety of other situations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Loftus said the process would go forward as planned, denying Hwang's request to split Tasers from use-of-force discussions and DeJesus' suggestion that the commission vote on whether the SFPD should pursue the devices before crafting policy for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process, including the Justice Department and working group reviews, should take about two months, Loftus said, at which point the policies will come back before the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is fundamentally about re-engineering use of force,\" Loftus said. \"Tasers are a part of it that have been requested by the department, but the opportunity is so much bigger for San Francisco to fundamentally lead and actually analyze how we train and equip officers to use force.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The latest revival of an old San Francisco debate over Tasers dominated a Wednesday night meeting of the city's Police Commission, where the public got its first look at a proposed set of changes to how and when officers are allowed to use force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr presented four draft policies to commissioners at the meeting. Three revise and expand existing department general orders on use of force. The fourth would arm approximately 100 specially trained officers with electronic stun guns commonly known by the name of their dominant manufacturer -- Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/mayor-lee-chief-suhr-for-study-of-new-nonlethal-weapons-including-tasers\" target=\"_blank\">said shortly after\u003c/a> the fatal Dec. 2 police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> that the department would again seek approval for the devices. Suhr and three chiefs before him have tried to get approval for using the \"less lethal\" weapons, but public concern that Tasers can be fatal and could be misused derailed each request.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>San Francisco Police Draft Use-of-Force Policy Changes\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298964994/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Use-of-Force-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">Use of Force\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298965562/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Use-of-Force-Reporting-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298965450/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Firearm-Lethal-Force-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">Firearms and Deadly Force\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298965307/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Taser-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">CEDs (Tasers)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The limited pilot program Suhr introduced Wednesday met familiar opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unfathomable to me to think that adding another weapon to an arsenal of a Police Department that is out of control is going to solve our problems; it's not,\" San Francisco resident Nancy Reiko Kato told commissioners. \"The problem is with the policies that allow police to draw their weapons on unarmed people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broad changes to those policies are also on the table. The department's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298964994/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Draft-Use-of-Force-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">proposed use-of-force general order\u003c/a> emphasizes the preservation of human life and verbal de-escalation. It also introduces a principle that any force officers use should be proportional to the threat they're facing, especially if that threat involves a weapon other than a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Woods was armed with a knife and had stabbed someone less than an hour before he was confronted by a large group of officers. Bystander \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">cellphone video\u003c/a> shows Woods begin to stagger away from the main group of officers, but toward one who stepped into his path. Five officers fired a barrage of shots, hitting Woods some 20 times, according to attorneys representing his family in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s really kind of astonishing what a horrible time it is for this to even be on your agenda, how disingenuous it is to look at the killing of Mario Woods as being somehow related to the lack of Tasers,\" said Andrea Prichett, head of a Berkeley-based police watchdog organization. \"What killed that man was an incredible lack of sensitivity to the value of black life. 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The police officers union submitted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298977400/S-F-POA-Draft-Taser-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">separate, broader Taser proposal\u003c/a> to the Police Commission Wednesday that would equip officers specially trained for responses to people in psychiatric crisis -- members of the department's crisis intervention team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA President Martin Halloran said the department should train every officer in crisis intervention -- a move already implemented for all new recruits -- and then immediately train and equip them with Tasers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are optimistic that, this time, this lifesaving tool will not be stalled by unreasonable opposition,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners didn't discuss the POA's proposal, but all the new draft policies are heading to a working group that will include police officers and heavy representation from the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Suzy Loftus said the U.S. Department of Justice would also weigh in as part of a recently announced \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">federal review of the Police Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners Petra DeJesus and Victor Hwang unsuccessfully attempted to remove any discussion of Tasers from the broader use-of-force policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is such a big and controversial issue, it's going to overwhelm our other discussion around the good stuff happening around use of force,\" Hwang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeJesus said that including the request for Tasers in use-of-force reforms is a \"backdoor way\" to push the weapons through approval when the public has said over and over again that it doesn't want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The real question is who's asking for the Tasers, and it comes down to the department and the mayor,\" she said. \"That is concerning that we're not even listening to the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10861198\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10861194\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10861198 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Prohibited uses of a conducted energy device (Taser) in SFPD's proposed policy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Prohibited-1.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prohibited uses of a conducted energy device (Taser) in SFPD's proposed policy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the department's proposal is limited and would allow for only about 5 percent of officers -- members of the SWAT Team and others with specialized tactical training -- to carry Tasers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They would only be allowed to use the Tasers or the conducted energy device when the suspect is armed with a weapon short of a firearm,\" he said. \"They would be prohibited from using that [Taser] on an unarmed suspect or a person who is only a danger to themselves and a variety of other situations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Loftus said the process would go forward as planned, denying Hwang's request to split Tasers from use-of-force discussions and DeJesus' suggestion that the commission vote on whether the SFPD should pursue the devices before crafting policy for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process, including the Justice Department and working group reviews, should take about two months, Loftus said, at which point the policies will come back before the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is fundamentally about re-engineering use of force,\" Loftus said. \"Tasers are a part of it that have been requested by the department, but the opportunity is so much bigger for San Francisco to fundamentally lead and actually analyze how we train and equip officers to use force.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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 road\u003c/a> to outfitting city police with body cameras appears heading for an anticlimactic conclusion, at least as far as which company will land the lucrative contract for the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Office of Contract Administration \u003ca href=\"http://mission.sfgov.org/OCA_BID_ATTACHMENTS/FA43757.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">announced its intent\u003c/a> to award the approximately 1,800-camera contract -- including subscription cloud-based data storage -- to Taser International Tuesday following a four-month bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to some observers concerned about a previous sole-source or no-bid contract with Taser for an SFPD body-camera pilot program that never launched, Taser's apparent win of the much larger contract came as no surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vkmKK3EPxg&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We obviously believe that there’s an unfair playing field out there caused by Taser and its behavior,\" said Thomas Heckman, chief financial officer for Taser competitor Digital Ally. \"I think most if not all the other body-worn camera manufacturers would share that same thought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kansas-based Digital Ally, which contracts locally with the Richmond Police Department, filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/298801378/Digital-Ally-Inc-v-Taser-International-Inc\" target=\"_blank\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> against Taser last month alleging patent infringement. The company amended its lawsuit in early February, alleging commercial bribery, unfair trade practices and unlawful business practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meat of those allegations: Taser is unlawfully inducing local purchasing authorities to \"treat or deem Taser as the 'sole source' of body cams, without any consideration of the competing products offered by Digital and others,\" according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"57LIg3F7vEqgiriVoieSYNGOprBOnett\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heckman said Digital Ally tried to bid for San Francisco's contract but was \"immediately knocked out of the running.\" City purchasers told Digital Ally, Heckman said, that the company did not have enough large contracts in major cities to compete in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got over 80,000 units in the field,\" Heckman said. \"We're the No.2 provider of body-worn cameras in the U.S. market, and we don't understand the reasoning here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"intent to award\" announcement comes as the city is likely to consider deploying a better-known Taser International product -- electronic stun guns best known by the company's name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dec. 2 fatal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">police shooting of Mario Woods\u003c/a> by a group of San Francisco police officers catapulted Taser stun guns, for a fifth time, back into the laps of city policymakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was captured on bystander cellphone videos -- not SFPD body cameras because they have yet to be deployed -- and it sent a shock wave through San Francisco. Changes in the wake of the Woods shooting include a federal Department of Justice \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> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/s-f-mayor-pushes-police-to-fast-track-use-of-force-reform-chief-calls-in-feds\" target=\"_blank\">revisions to police use-of-force policies\u003c/a>, which Police Chief Greg Suhr and officers union head Martin Halloran have said should include the deployment of Taser stun guns.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"iqJyePoYbIuxEyXcSRrDTKNalpdchujI\"]\u003cbr>\n\"The experts are in agreement that Tasers are a valuable tool that will save lives,\" Halloran wrote in an op-ed published in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/San-Francisco-police-welcome-federal-investigation-6808769.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> Sunday. \"They will not work all of the time. 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"content": "\u003cp>A crowd of several hundred people gathered on San Francisco's waterfront and near an NFL \"fan village\" Wednesday evening to draw attention to the city's homeless population and what they say was an effort to move homeless people away from Super Bowl events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers had hoped to set up a sort of Occupy-style tent city steps from Super Bowl City, an area brimming with corporate booths, football-themed carnival games and live music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Homeless people are telling us over and over again that they’re being cleared out,\" said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness and demonstration organizer. \"They’re feeling really squeezed by the Super Bowl and they’re feeling really upset about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of a protest encampment was short-lived, though. A San Francisco police officer warned protesters shortly after they gathered that a few tents erected on the Embarcadero's sidewalk would have to come down within a minute, or arrests would be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10853897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10853897\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10853897 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police officers keep a crowd protesting how San Francisco handles its homeless population corralled on a sidewalk across the street from NFL 'fan village' Super Bowl City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS18300_IMG_4292-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police officers keep a crowd protesting how San Francisco handles its homeless population corralled on a sidewalk across the street from NFL 'fan village' Super Bowl City. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's completely unnecessary,\" San Francisco resident Sylvia Smith said of the police presence that at times appeared to rival the crowd's numbers. \"It's a show of force to protect the property of the elite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr said at a Super Bowl security briefing earlier Wednesday that police would facilitate peaceful demonstrations \"right up until the point where they knock up against somebody else’s constitutional right, and then we’ll just have to make a call on a case-by-case basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters lifted their tents -- bearing scrawled messages like \"Tackle Homelessness, Evict Ed Lee and SFPD\" -- and carried them on a march around Super Bowl City. Hundreds of SFPD officers in riot gear kept the crowd on sidewalks and directed them away from any entrances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers say there's been a rise in \"quality-of-life\" citations, like for sitting or sleeping on a public sidewalk, around Super Bowl events in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, the mayor's director of Housing, Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement, said two dozen people living on the streets were relocated from the area that became Super Bowl City, and they were offered shelter beds. He said there was no systematic effort to move people from other parts of the city ahead of Super Bowl Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates said they're receiving reports from all over town that homeless people are being rousted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re seeing it,\" Friedenbach said. “I’m not sure what the disconnect is between what the mayor’s saying and what’s happening to homeless people, but the end result for homeless people is the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another protest organizer, Stuart Schuffman aka \"Broke-Ass Stuart,\" said the demonstration captured the attention of worldwide news media and was a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important to show that the people in power in San Francisco would rather hide our problems than actually fix them,\" he said. \"And they are fixable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos, who was at the protest, is among a bloc of city legislators critical of San Francisco's deal with the NFL to host celebrations with no reimbursement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco is not hosting the Super Bowl,\" Campos said. \"Santa Clara is hosting the Super Bowl. San Francisco is hosting the traffic of the Super Bowl.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>You could call it a sequel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embattled San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">last appeared on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in July, when he responded to a litany of issues -- and some high-profile scandals -- involving the SFPD and the chief himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr returned to \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> Tuesday morning to face an hourlong discussion of controversies hanging over his police department -- some new and some still dogging the chief six months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245108399\" 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>He began by addressing an announcement Monday that the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services would \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">review the SFPD\u003c/a>. If that sounds like strong intervention, well, it could be. But the COPS office isn't an enforcement wing of the Department of Justice, and city leaders, legal experts and activists said Monday that the collaborative effort Suhr requested falls far short of the civil rights investigation they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, in short, say COPS recommendations aren't enforced through a federal court the way a civil rights \"pattern-or-practice\" investigation is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I intend to enforce it,\" Suhr said. \"We’re going to fully cooperate. We’ve actually asked for the independent review, and I think it’s important that everybody realize that this is the Department of Justice, and that it is completely independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos told KQED separately that the lack of a federal civil rights investigation is disappointing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s actually not going to sit very well with a lot of people in the community, who are looking at a Department of Justice investigation about how the Police Department quickly moves to justify officer-involved shootings as within policy, and has a few very dubious officer-involved shootings under their belt right now -- including Mario Woods, Amilcar Perez Lopez and Alex Nieto at the very least,\" Avalos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Comments Have Been Consistent'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said his comments on officer-involved shootings \"have been consistent with what I know at the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Feb. 26, 2015, police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, Suhr originally told the public that Perez Lopez charged two officers in plainclothes with a knife raised over his head. When an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsy came out\u003c/a> two months later showing Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind, Suhr changed his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Later on in discussions with the officers, there was discussion that he turned to go after the man that he was originally pursuing with the knife,\" Suhr said, \"so that was consistent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence appearing to contradict Suhr's initial statements on the Dec. 2 police killing of Mario Woods came out much faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij5TZuohoRg&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting two days after the shooting, Suhr said cellphone video widely circulated online showed Woods' hand extend toward a police officer before he was shot. Woods allegedly had a knife and was a suspect in an earlier stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">others\u003c/a> analyzed separate cellphone videos, it became apparent that Woods raised his arm only after the first shots were fired, as he seemed to fall backward in reaction to being shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as interpreting the video with regard to Mario Woods, depending on who looks at it when you slow it way down, that’s going to be a matter for video experts because it appears to show some things to some people and some things to other people,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, who is representing Woods' mother in a federal excessive force lawsuit against San Francisco, slowed down the video and compared the audio sound wave of the first gunshot with when Woods' arm is seen rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was disappointed by the comments that he [Suhr] made shortly thereafter,\" Burris said, \"that sort of suggested he had not seen the video.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245139485\" 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>\u003cstrong>Local Changes Mirror National Shift\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the feds recommend, Suhr said he won't wait to make changes following the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most assertive may be a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/s-f-mayor-pushes-police-to-fast-track-use-of-force-reform-chief-calls-in-feds\" target=\"_blank\">reworking\u003c/a> of the department's use-of-force policies, an effort currently before the San Francisco Police Commission. New policies, which de-emphasize using a firearm when officers confront a suspect with a knife, are expected to come out by mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re committed to being better,\" Suhr said, \"and I think across this country you’re going to notice many, many other police departments adopting probably as much change as maybe we ever have in trying to better contend with people with weapons short of firearms with less than a firearm ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's talking about a national effort on \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineering training on police use of force\u003c/a>\" run by the Washington, D.C.-based Police Executive Research Forum. SFPD joined in shortly after the Woods shooting, and Suhr has made two trips to D.C. to discuss alternatives with police chiefs from across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since this shooting, we’ve put things in place like a policy that an officer even directs their firearm at a person, that’s a reportable use of force,\" Suhr said. \"We’ve re-engineered the way we qualify with our firearms to emphasize slowing down, constant threat assessment, minimizing fire. Because even my mother had questions as to why so many bullets in this particular officer-involved shooting of Mario Woods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigoted Texts Still a Scandal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been almost a year since federal prosecutors revealed a collection of racist, homophobic and otherwise \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">offensive text messages\u003c/a> swapped by approximately a dozen SFPD officers. Suhr says he wants to fire them, but nine of the officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">successfully challenged\u003c/a> being disciplined in court, arguing the department sat on the texts for more than two years before beginning an internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr filed a declaration in that case that he was \"walled off\" from the evidence, but experts find it hard to believe that the chief wouldn't know about a federal investigation involving dozens of his officers, and the argument failed to convince a Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe he got it wrong,\" Suhr said. \"We are appealing, and the only reason that they’re going to remain in that paid status is by order of the court. But they are not back to work, they will not be back to work, they will remain away from the San Francisco Police Department and the citizens of San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Cooperating with Another Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Suhr welcomes and requested the federal review announced Monday, he's consistently spurned a local review with similar goals, according to the attorneys trying to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">convened a committee\u003c/a> of retired judges and pro bono lawyers to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">investigate transparency and accountability\u003c/a> in the SFPD following the racist texting scandal. 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We’ve actually asked for the independent review, and I think it’s important that everybody realize that this is the Department of Justice, and that it is completely independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos told KQED separately that the lack of a federal civil rights investigation is disappointing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s actually not going to sit very well with a lot of people in the community, who are looking at a Department of Justice investigation about how the Police Department quickly moves to justify officer-involved shootings as within policy, and has a few very dubious officer-involved shootings under their belt right now -- including Mario Woods, Amilcar Perez Lopez and Alex Nieto at the very least,\" Avalos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Comments Have Been Consistent'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said his comments on officer-involved shootings \"have been consistent with what I know at the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Feb. 26, 2015, police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, Suhr originally told the public that Perez Lopez charged two officers in plainclothes with a knife raised over his head. 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Woods allegedly had a knife and was a suspect in an earlier stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">others\u003c/a> analyzed separate cellphone videos, it became apparent that Woods raised his arm only after the first shots were fired, as he seemed to fall backward in reaction to being shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as interpreting the video with regard to Mario Woods, depending on who looks at it when you slow it way down, that’s going to be a matter for video experts because it appears to show some things to some people and some things to other people,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, who is representing Woods' mother in a federal excessive force lawsuit against San Francisco, slowed down the video and compared the audio sound wave of the first gunshot with when Woods' arm is seen rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was disappointed by the comments that he [Suhr] made shortly thereafter,\" Burris said, \"that sort of suggested he had not seen the video.\"\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/245139485&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/245139485'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Changes Mirror National Shift\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the feds recommend, Suhr said he won't wait to make changes following the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most assertive may be a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/s-f-mayor-pushes-police-to-fast-track-use-of-force-reform-chief-calls-in-feds\" target=\"_blank\">reworking\u003c/a> of the department's use-of-force policies, an effort currently before the San Francisco Police Commission. 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SFPD joined in shortly after the Woods shooting, and Suhr has made two trips to D.C. to discuss alternatives with police chiefs from across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since this shooting, we’ve put things in place like a policy that an officer even directs their firearm at a person, that’s a reportable use of force,\" Suhr said. \"We’ve re-engineered the way we qualify with our firearms to emphasize slowing down, constant threat assessment, minimizing fire. Because even my mother had questions as to why so many bullets in this particular officer-involved shooting of Mario Woods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigoted Texts Still a Scandal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been almost a year since federal prosecutors revealed a collection of racist, homophobic and otherwise \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">offensive text messages\u003c/a> swapped by approximately a dozen SFPD officers. Suhr says he wants to fire them, but nine of the officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">successfully challenged\u003c/a> being disciplined in court, arguing the department sat on the texts for more than two years before beginning an internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr filed a declaration in that case that he was \"walled off\" from the evidence, but experts find it hard to believe that the chief wouldn't know about a federal investigation involving dozens of his officers, and the argument failed to convince a Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe he got it wrong,\" Suhr said. \"We are appealing, and the only reason that they’re going to remain in that paid status is by order of the court. But they are not back to work, they will not be back to work, they will remain away from the San Francisco Police Department and the citizens of San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Cooperating with Another Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Suhr welcomes and requested the federal review announced Monday, he's consistently spurned a local review with similar goals, according to the attorneys trying to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">convened a committee\u003c/a> of retired judges and pro bono lawyers to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">investigate transparency and accountability\u003c/a> in the SFPD following the racist texting scandal. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nOfficials with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing services \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2842\" target=\"_blank\">announced a review\u003c/a> of the San Francisco Police Department Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the announcement fell flat for many observers of the SFPD who have joined a growing chorus of calls for a federal civil rights investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244990349\" 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 difference between a review by the DOJ's COPS office and an investigation by its Civil Rights Division hinges on enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That difference dominated a press conference Monday afternoon where Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr joined the acting Northern California U.S. attorney and COPS office leadership to explain the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a work in progress,\" Suhr said. \"We look forward to this review and the help of the Department of Justice and doing what we can to rebuild the trust that has been shaken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The processes are similar, at least in the beginning, with authorities comprehensively delving into the Police Department's practices and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative reform\u003c/a>\" review is voluntary -- Suhr called for it shortly after the Dec. 2 shooting of Mario Woods that galvanized longstanding criticism of his department. And it also doesn't carry with it the threat of enforcement through a federal court that a Civil Rights Division investigation has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With our process, it’s voluntary, so they’re not enforced in a court of law,\" COPS Director Ronald Davis said. \"But I will offer this, they are enforced in a court of public opinion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney Aaron Zisser says that means the city will have to keep a close eye on the process if it expects accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is not going to be up to a court,\" he said. \"It's going to be the public paying attention over a two-year process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zisser said the Civil Rights Division also draws from attorneys with experience in disability rights cases to enforce better procedures when officers encounter people in a psychiatric crisis, which account for the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">majority of fatalities\u003c/a> at the hands of the SFPD and may have played a role in the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s just nothing that resembles those kind of remedies [in the COPS review],\" Zisser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Northern California District U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch said a consultation with the Civil Rights Division took place, and \"a decision was made to go forward with collaborative reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he couldn't elaborate on how that decision was made, or who made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we the citizens of San Francisco have confidence in this process?\" Karen Fleshman with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition asked, referencing noncooperation of the department and officers' union in local efforts to examine the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">said last week\u003c/a> that the department and Police Officers Association had engaged in \"a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics\" against his efforts to investigate bias, transparency and accountability in city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said that line officers would cooperate with the COPS office review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department has actually asked the Department of Justice to come in,\" he said, \"and anybody coming with the Department of Justice -- coming with the full weight of the Department of Justice -- wishes to speak to, that's going to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said Monday that Suhr's response raised more questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pleased that COPS is performing this review,\" he said. \"Regardless, the motives of a department willing to cooperate with some efforts at reform but not others concerns me. I believe a civil rights inquiry with enforcement authority is more likely to result in meaningful reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee, however, welcomed the review as a response to his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">request last week\u003c/a> for a federal probe of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the past, the DOJ had to kind of force their way into many cities without the needed cooperation,\" Lee said. \"This is a collaborative effort. We will give up the information that we have. We will allow ourselves to be exposed by way of practices that we have and the practices that we should end and those that we should adopt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 1:44 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nAmid a growing clamor for a federal probe into recent scandals and officer-involved shootings at the San Francisco Police Department, one wing of the U.S. Department of Justice is poised to announce a \"comprehensive review\" of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's likely the Monday afternoon announcement will not be the independent federal investigation that some city leaders, protesters, legal experts and the family of a man shot and killed by SFPD officers two months ago had in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is great in terms of a starting point, but by no means is this the top-to-bottom investigation and analysis the community deserves,\" said civil rights attorney Adante Pointer, who is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">representing the mother of Mario Woods\u003c/a>, the 26-year-old black man shot to death by San Francisco police Dec. 2. \"We're happy to see the DOJ is here, but there's more that we're asking for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's announcement will include acting Northern California U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, two officials with the Department of Justice's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Community Oriented Policing Services\u003c/a> (COPS), Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stronger federal probe into whether the way the San Francisco Police Department operates routinely violates people's civil rights appears unlikely at this stage. The Justice Department can do that through what's often called a \"pattern-of-practice\" investigation. The DOJ's Civil Rights Division has brought lawsuits that launched that level of intervention in Baltimore, Chicago, and Ferguson, Missouri, among other major cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something -- a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines'\u003ccite>Professor Franklin Zimring,\u003cbr>\nUC Berkeley Law\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This is much less than that,\" said Franklin Zimring, law professor at UC Berkeley. \"There is a marriage of more than convenience here because what San Francisco needs is someone to take the heat off its chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimring said San Francisco police had a very low rate of fatal officer-involved shootings between 2009 and 2012, when he studied use of force in 14 major police departments. But last year, use of deadly force spiked. Separately, the department was forced to deal with a scandal over a group of officers who were found to have exchanged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something -- a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines,\" Zimring said. \"It's doing something without doing a lot, and it's win-win. COPS looks good and doesn't invest anything, and the San Francisco Police Department can write a letter explaining that they're doing something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School, said a voluntary COPS review is the lightest of several actions federal attorneys can take. He said it's \"a kind of mediation\" that allows the Justice Department to offer assistance in improving a police department's programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes that carries with it the implication that it would be a good idea for the police department to cooperate, otherwise the Department of Justice might take stronger measures,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg said stronger action could include an investigation through the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, federal prosecution of individual officers for a particular shooting or incident, court-ordered reform and monitoring (as in Oakland) or a contractual agreement between Justice and the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What we’ve been calling for is an introspective look into the pattern and practices of the Police Department.'\u003ccite>Supervisor Malia Cohen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed says a voluntary COPS review isn't an adequate answer to calls she and \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4222075&GUID=07DD3884-E52F-4082-AA2C-F854CF8EDAA6\" target=\"_blank\">other supervisors\u003c/a> have made for a federal civil rights probe. She says she still wants that, and thinks an enforcement mechanism is important for the Police Department to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s good, but it isn’t completely our request,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen, who represents the Bayview neighborhood in which Woods was shot, echoed Breed's statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we’ve been calling for is an introspective look into the pattern and practices of the Police Department,\" Cohen said. \"I just want to make sure that the DOJ is not making an announcement of the COPS office in lieu of the Civil Rights Division. I welcome both to come in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most detailed call for a federal investigation of the SFPD since the shooting came Friday from the Northern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160129-aclu_letter_requesting_independent_investigation_into_sfpd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU's letter\u003c/a> documents concerns over excessive use of deadly force, biased policing, interactions with mentally ill people, and \"system failures\" around discipline and accountability in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also calls for a \"pattern and practice investigation into the San Francisco Police Department for civil rights violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Early indications show that this will not go far enough to fix the systemic racism and problems in the San Francisco Police Department,\" ACLU staff attorney Micaela Davis said. \"We need the strong DOJ investigation in order to have full accountability on those issues. Anything less is not going to be sufficient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis referenced Mayor Lee's and Chief Suhr's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">less-than-enthusiastic participation\u003c/a> with District Attorney George Gascón's initiative to probe the Police Departments culture and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are concerned that the mayor may be using this announcement to take attention away from an ongoing responsibility to cooperate with local efforts and reform,\" Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And it also doesn't carry with it the threat of enforcement through a federal court that a Civil Rights Division investigation has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With our process, it’s voluntary, so they’re not enforced in a court of law,\" COPS Director Ronald Davis said. \"But I will offer this, they are enforced in a court of public opinion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney Aaron Zisser says that means the city will have to keep a close eye on the process if it expects accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is not going to be up to a court,\" he said. \"It's going to be the public paying attention over a two-year process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zisser said the Civil Rights Division also draws from attorneys with experience in disability rights cases to enforce better procedures when officers encounter people in a psychiatric crisis, which account for the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">majority of fatalities\u003c/a> at the hands of the SFPD and may have played a role in the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s just nothing that resembles those kind of remedies [in the COPS review],\" Zisser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Northern California District U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch said a consultation with the Civil Rights Division took place, and \"a decision was made to go forward with collaborative reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he couldn't elaborate on how that decision was made, or who made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we the citizens of San Francisco have confidence in this process?\" Karen Fleshman with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition asked, referencing noncooperation of the department and officers' union in local efforts to examine the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">said last week\u003c/a> that the department and Police Officers Association had engaged in \"a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics\" against his efforts to investigate bias, transparency and accountability in city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said that line officers would cooperate with the COPS office review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department has actually asked the Department of Justice to come in,\" he said, \"and anybody coming with the Department of Justice -- coming with the full weight of the Department of Justice -- wishes to speak to, that's going to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said Monday that Suhr's response raised more questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pleased that COPS is performing this review,\" he said. \"Regardless, the motives of a department willing to cooperate with some efforts at reform but not others concerns me. I believe a civil rights inquiry with enforcement authority is more likely to result in meaningful reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee, however, welcomed the review as a response to his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">request last week\u003c/a> for a federal probe of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the past, the DOJ had to kind of force their way into many cities without the needed cooperation,\" Lee said. \"This is a collaborative effort. We will give up the information that we have. We will allow ourselves to be exposed by way of practices that we have and the practices that we should end and those that we should adopt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 1:44 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nAmid a growing clamor for a federal probe into recent scandals and officer-involved shootings at the San Francisco Police Department, one wing of the U.S. Department of Justice is poised to announce a \"comprehensive review\" of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's likely the Monday afternoon announcement will not be the independent federal investigation that some city leaders, protesters, legal experts and the family of a man shot and killed by SFPD officers two months ago had in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is great in terms of a starting point, but by no means is this the top-to-bottom investigation and analysis the community deserves,\" said civil rights attorney Adante Pointer, who is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">representing the mother of Mario Woods\u003c/a>, the 26-year-old black man shot to death by San Francisco police Dec. 2. \"We're happy to see the DOJ is here, but there's more that we're asking for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's announcement will include acting Northern California U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, two officials with the Department of Justice's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Community Oriented Policing Services\u003c/a> (COPS), Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stronger federal probe into whether the way the San Francisco Police Department operates routinely violates people's civil rights appears unlikely at this stage. The Justice Department can do that through what's often called a \"pattern-of-practice\" investigation. The DOJ's Civil Rights Division has brought lawsuits that launched that level of intervention in Baltimore, Chicago, and Ferguson, Missouri, among other major cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something -- a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines'\u003ccite>Professor Franklin Zimring,\u003cbr>\nUC Berkeley Law\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This is much less than that,\" said Franklin Zimring, law professor at UC Berkeley. \"There is a marriage of more than convenience here because what San Francisco needs is someone to take the heat off its chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimring said San Francisco police had a very low rate of fatal officer-involved shootings between 2009 and 2012, when he studied use of force in 14 major police departments. But last year, use of deadly force spiked. Separately, the department was forced to deal with a scandal over a group of officers who were found to have exchanged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something -- a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines,\" Zimring said. \"It's doing something without doing a lot, and it's win-win. COPS looks good and doesn't invest anything, and the San Francisco Police Department can write a letter explaining that they're doing something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School, said a voluntary COPS review is the lightest of several actions federal attorneys can take. He said it's \"a kind of mediation\" that allows the Justice Department to offer assistance in improving a police department's programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes that carries with it the implication that it would be a good idea for the police department to cooperate, otherwise the Department of Justice might take stronger measures,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg said stronger action could include an investigation through the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, federal prosecution of individual officers for a particular shooting or incident, court-ordered reform and monitoring (as in Oakland) or a contractual agreement between Justice and the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What we’ve been calling for is an introspective look into the pattern and practices of the Police Department.'\u003ccite>Supervisor Malia Cohen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed says a voluntary COPS review isn't an adequate answer to calls she and \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4222075&GUID=07DD3884-E52F-4082-AA2C-F854CF8EDAA6\" target=\"_blank\">other supervisors\u003c/a> have made for a federal civil rights probe. She says she still wants that, and thinks an enforcement mechanism is important for the Police Department to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s good, but it isn’t completely our request,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen, who represents the Bayview neighborhood in which Woods was shot, echoed Breed's statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we’ve been calling for is an introspective look into the pattern and practices of the Police Department,\" Cohen said. \"I just want to make sure that the DOJ is not making an announcement of the COPS office in lieu of the Civil Rights Division. I welcome both to come in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most detailed call for a federal investigation of the SFPD since the shooting came Friday from the Northern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 300 people peacefully marched from San Francisco's Union Square Saturday in protest of the Dec. 2 fatal officer-involved shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1726691647567538/\" target=\"_blank\">hoped to disrupt\u003c/a> opening day of a week-long \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbaysuperbowl.com/super-bowl-city#g7rmIVeUGMKWyt6A.97\" target=\"_blank\">free-to the public fan village\u003c/a>\" set up near San Francisco's waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Welcome to Super Bowl of Justice,\" Daniel Landry with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition said late Saturday morning, before the march left Union Square. \"This department, this Police Commission, this city refuses to recognize the will of the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6oG2sLtLBP3gdksZR2rX5HvvWqAhSfet\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition is calling for criminal charges against 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 fire on Woods, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/hundreds-at-meeting-call-for-suhrs-ouster-after-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">firing\u003c/a> of Police Chief Greg Suhr and an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> of the city's Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of police officers surrounded the small crowd as it clogged Powell Street then marched down Market Street to chants of \"Fire Chief Suhr.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police warned over a loudspeaker that protesters would be arrested if they refused to leave the street, and when the crowd approached the gates to Super Bowl City, they ran into a line of police officers with long batons and riot helmets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10850019\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10850019\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia Jones with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition talks to SFPD Commander Robert O'Sullivan at a police line blocking the march from the gates of 'Super Bowl City' on Jan. 30.\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10850019\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-768x545.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-1440x1022.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-1180x837.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia Jones with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition talks to SFPD Commander Robert O'Sullivan at a police line blocking the march from the gates of Super Bowl City on Jan. 30. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators moved to the sidewalk just before 12:30 p.m., but Market Street remained closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic for the next hour and 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's ridiculous,\" said Oakland resident Patrick Simmons. \"They're trampling on our First Amendment rights. I don't think this is a good use of city money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Commander Robert O'Sullivan told march organizer Felicia Jones that the demonstrators did not have a permit and would not be allowed to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's protest is likely just the beginning of demonstrations hoping to capture national attention as the Bay Area hosts Super Bowl 50 and related celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 people have responded to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/955997417814447/\" target=\"_blank\">social media call\u003c/a> to attend a protest on Wednesday that will focus on San Francisco's policies on homelessness and reports of increased citation of the city's homeless leading up to the Super Bowl celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They spent $5 million that the NFL is not going to reimburse them for to put on this party for billionaires,\" Simmons said. \"At the same time, they’re kicking out all the homeless people. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1:10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is questioning the sincerity of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">recent call\u003c/a> by Mayor Ed Lee for a federal probe of police practices and the Dec. 2 shooting of Mario Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/file/144/1/1441-DA%20Letter%20to%20Mayor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a letter released Thursday\u003c/a>, Gascón noted Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/no-funding-for-das-police-misconduct-task-force-in-s-f-mayors-budget\" target=\"_blank\">refusal to fund\u003c/a> a review of police incident reports and potentially tainted prosecutions involving officers who sent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, an ongoing scandal that has besieged the department since last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also accused the Police Department, Police Chief Greg Suhr and the San Francisco Police Officers Association of obstructing the work of \u003ca href=\"https://policylink.app.box.com/BRPFAQ\" target=\"_blank\">a blue-ribbon panel\u003c/a> the district attorney convened to investigate the department's culture and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the six months since forming the panel, the San Francisco Police Department and POA have engaged in a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics,\" Gascón wrote. He said the police union and Suhr have insisted panel interviews go through the POA and must be conducted on the officers' own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6oG2sLtLBP3gdksZR2rX5HvvWqAhSfet\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not the type of transparency and collaboration we would expect from a department and a chief eager to improve,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee's office did not respond to requests for comment on Gascón's letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The POA sent a bulletin to members last month saying that it \"rejects [the] premise\" of the blue-ribbon panel and urging any officer contacted to inform the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA President Martin Halloran said previously that the panel has no authority to investigate individual officers or \"to go on a witch hunt of my members,\" though he acknowledged no such request had been made. He said the union asked to handle officer interview requests \"as a courtesy,\" and that in general the POA is not against officers being interviewed as subject matter experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halloran took issue with testimony from one current officer who has already talked to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, the head of a minority SFPD group called \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a> and a subject of some of the racist text messages uncovered last year, appeared before the panel earlier this month to testify on Police Department culture. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">She criticized\u003c/a> both the department and the POA for what she called \"disregard\" of black officers and minority communities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Halloran sent Williams a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153923/S-F-POA-Letter-to-OFJ-President-Yulanda-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> challenging her statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA is disturbed about some of your comments and accusations,\" Halloran wrote. \"For example, you claim that racism is 'widespread' within our department. The POA disagrees. While a handful of officers engaged in racist and homophobic text messaging -- and were condemned for doing so by the POA and by me personally -- there is no evidence that racism is widespread throughout the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Roth, an attorney serving as the panel's general counsel, sent the department a broad public records request Dec. 16 seeking documents from 30 categories, including officer discipline records, arrest statistics, department policies and an accounting of the department's internal affairs investigation into the texting scandal. A Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">blocked\u003c/a> any discipline for nine officers implicated in the scandal last month, ruling the department waited too long to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has not responded to questions about its cooperation with the panel, nor to a KQED request for documents and correspondence related to the panel's public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153985/S-F-Blue-Ribbon-Panel-Sunshine-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">complaint\u003c/a> with the city's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force Jan. 12 asking the oversight body to compel the department to produce the requested documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth wrote that the department responded to just seven of 30 records requests from the panel. And in three of those seven cases, Roth said, the department withheld the requested documents, citing various provisions of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD did not explain why these prohibitions apply or why, per department policy [and city law] such records could not be redacted,\" Roth wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has not updated its response, panel executive director Anand Subramanian said in an email Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the POA had provided a list of names \"they consider relevant\" and insisted that any interviews of those SFPD officers take place at the union's offices with POA attorneys present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law firm working groups are moving forward with these interviews, despite these constraints,\" Subramanian wrote. \"We are also working to set up an interview with POA leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr sent Subramanian a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153238/Response-to-Request-for-Interview-of-Chief-Greg-Suhr\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> Jan. 20 in response to a request for his interview, scheduling a one-hour session for Feb. 2. He also wrote that \"all requests on behalf of the Panel should go through the appropriate labor group or association representing an active employee,\" and that \"any member of the department who chooses to appear before the Panel would do so voluntarily, on their own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also noted that as of Jan. 25, the department was participating in a voluntary policy review through the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. A former federal prosecutor with knowledge of the Justice Department's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Reform\u003c/a>\" process said it is similar to \"pattern or practice\" investigation like those underway in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/06/justice-department-will-launch-investigation-into-practices-of-chicago-police/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1272364/ramsey-return-chicago-consult-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore\u003c/a>. However, the process is not as thorough and does not include the threat of federal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón noted in his letter to Lee that San Francisco ranked eighth in police killings among the 60 largest cities in the U.S. in 2015, and that the Police Department saw a 50 percent increase in officer-involved shootings last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from Gascón's letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If the promises you levied in your inauguration speech and in your letter to the Attorney General to repair the \"dissolution of trust between communities of color and law enforcement\" are genuine, and if it will remain should the impassioned pleas from the community for reform fade in the months ahead, then I would ask that you demonstrate an actual commitment to these issues by taking steps now to support the existing investigation. These problems are far too serious and far too systemic to simply pay them lip service. If you are committed to restoring trust between police and the community, I ask that you take the obvious and immediate action of directing the Chief of Police and SFPD to cooperate with the Blue Ribbon Panel. Public Safety in San Francisco can no longer afford decision making that favors the interests of the Police Officers Association over the interests of the citizens you were elected to represent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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He said the union asked to handle officer interview requests \"as a courtesy,\" and that in general the POA is not against officers being interviewed as subject matter experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halloran took issue with testimony from one current officer who has already talked to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, the head of a minority SFPD group called \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a> and a subject of some of the racist text messages uncovered last year, appeared before the panel earlier this month to testify on Police Department culture. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">She criticized\u003c/a> both the department and the POA for what she called \"disregard\" of black officers and minority communities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Halloran sent Williams a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153923/S-F-POA-Letter-to-OFJ-President-Yulanda-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> challenging her statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA is disturbed about some of your comments and accusations,\" Halloran wrote. \"For example, you claim that racism is 'widespread' within our department. The POA disagrees. While a handful of officers engaged in racist and homophobic text messaging -- and were condemned for doing so by the POA and by me personally -- there is no evidence that racism is widespread throughout the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Roth, an attorney serving as the panel's general counsel, sent the department a broad public records request Dec. 16 seeking documents from 30 categories, including officer discipline records, arrest statistics, department policies and an accounting of the department's internal affairs investigation into the texting scandal. 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And in three of those seven cases, Roth said, the department withheld the requested documents, citing various provisions of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD did not explain why these prohibitions apply or why, per department policy [and city law] such records could not be redacted,\" Roth wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has not updated its response, panel executive director Anand Subramanian said in an email Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the POA had provided a list of names \"they consider relevant\" and insisted that any interviews of those SFPD officers take place at the union's offices with POA attorneys present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law firm working groups are moving forward with these interviews, despite these constraints,\" Subramanian wrote. \"We are also working to set up an interview with POA leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr sent Subramanian a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153238/Response-to-Request-for-Interview-of-Chief-Greg-Suhr\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> Jan. 20 in response to a request for his interview, scheduling a one-hour session for Feb. 2. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has requested a federal Department of Justice investigation into the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD's Dec. 2 shooting of a young African-American man\u003c/a>, along with a broader look into the department's practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee asked for the probe of the Mario Woods shooting in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch that was made public on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said that Lee is \"inviting transparency and accountability\" in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"oAGpKvZFKWpxmeif3qEJxutnYmnOmoDs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We seek answers, not just to the facts of Mr. Woods's case,\" Lee said, \"but also answers about how as a Police Department and a City we can build deeper, stronger trust between law enforcement and the communities they're sworn to protect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many, including Woods' family, had urged the mayor to ask for the probe, and Lee was joined in the request by city supervisors London Breed and Malia Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An after-hours message left with a Department of Justice spokeswoman asking for a response to the letter was not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The furor over the Woods shooting dominated the end of Lee's first term and the start of his second, which began earlier this month. His inaugural speech \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/08/mario-woods-protesters-crash-s-f-mayor-ed-lees-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">was interrupted by angry protesters\u003c/a>, as were remarks he made on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were responding to a stabbing report in the city's Bayview neighborhood on Dec. 2 when they encountered and surrounded the 26-year-old Woods. Five officers shot and killed him after he appeared to raise an 8-inch knife and approach an officer, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED analysis of an Instagram video\u003c/a> showing the fatal shooting appears to contradict claims by Police Chief Greg Suhr that officers opened fire only after Woods made a threatening movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ij5TZuohoRg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods' family has disputed SFPD's account of the killing and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the department. Their attorney has said he was not aggressively fighting the officers, who should have backed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video clips of the incident have circulated widely online, sparking protests and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/hundreds-at-meeting-call-for-suhrs-ouster-after-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">calls for Suhr's resignation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But so far, the panel's work has been dominated by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">the disclosure last March\u003c/a> that 14 officers traded racist, homophobic and sexist text messages, a sampling of which were made public in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The POA has been insensitive to the needs and the working conditions of the minority officers. They just don’t get it. They’re constantly antagonizing disenfranchised communities.'\u003ccite>SFPD Sgt. Yulanda Williams,\u003cbr>\nPresident of Officers for Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Just one current member of the Police Department testified before retired judges LaDoris Cordell, Cruz Reynoso and Dickran Tevrizian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, who was named in one of the offensive text exchanges using slurs derogatory to both African-Americans and women, said she's worried about retaliation for speaking to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because I’ve now spoken out, there will be some that will not talk to me,\" Williams said. \"I will be shunned away. And when I consider or want to apply for a position that would allow me to enhance my career, I’m going be denied.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, who is president of a police employee group representing minority officers, said the exposure of blatant racism within the department is causing her members to fear for their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After all, we need to call for backup and we need to know that it's going to come when we call,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her 26-year career, Williams said, she has seen institutional racism in the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have seen that the disciplinary procedures vary according to if you are part of what they call the 'good old boys group,' \" she said, referring to officers with generational ties to the department and those who attended certain schools in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Or perhaps something happened and you kept your mouth shut, and then you get a free buy, or what I call the halo effect, the freeway treatment, and you continue to advance,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PEkdycBubfiEGrJ4bvvDiHvTuLBzMI6r\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was the first of several witnesses to raise the subject of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, the union representing all the department's cops, as well as what she called its insensitivity to minority officers and communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Officers Association has been insensitive to the needs and the working conditions of the minority officer,\" Williams said. \"They just don’t get it. They’re constantly antagonizing disenfranchised communities. ... With the stance that the San Francisco Police Officers Association has taken, they have shown that they have very much disregard for the black officers in particular and they have shown disregard for minority communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA president Martin Halloran told KQED Saturday that he wholeheartedly disagrees with Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would challenge Ms. Willams to find another police organization that does more outreach to minority communities,\" he said, \"including her own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said a new $5,000 grant supporting access to healthy food in Hunters Point is just one example of approximately $200,000 per year the organization donates to charitable causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But its relationship with Gascón's blue-ribbon panel has been icy. The association issued a departmentwide memo instructing any officer who was approached by the panel to contact the union, according to sources working with the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA has indicated it wants us to go through them to coordinate these interviews,\" panel legal counsel Jerome Roth said. \"We are not inclined to do that. We believe it’s more important to speak with officers directly and not through the filter of the POA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said the association asked \"as a courtesy\" to be notified when the panel reaches out to any officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have often not complied with that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Godown, who served briefly as the SFPD's interim chief, testified about \"institutional pushback\" when he came to the department to improve crime data collection and institute a CompStat program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was kind of taken aback by the fact that the San Francisco Police Department at the time I came here in 2009 was as rudimentary as they were when it came to looking at crime data,\" said Godown, who is now chief of the Oakland schools police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had not even stepped into the city, and I had received calls from reporters from San Francisco because the department was concerned that there was going to be a CompStat process implemented within the department and they were going to be held accountable,\" Godown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"h6ocq4aIILjNP2a1x133gbD8ELzMGsf9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/sf-police-underreport-arrest-rates/\" target=\"_blank\">been criticized\u003c/a> for its statistics collection. CompStat reports currently available on the Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=4985\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> include just two months of data -- October and November of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said Godown and Gascón came to San Francisco pushing CompStat from a \"bully pulpit ... ramming it down our throats.\" He said he supports CompStat's data collection, though, and \"has no reason to believe it's not working well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office of Citizen Complaints Director Joyce Hicks told the panel that her office received 250 complaints that contained at least one allegation of racial bias since 2011, but the office sustained none of those complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Racial bias is very difficult to prove,\" she said. \"It is frustrating in light of today’s climate. It is painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said if and when the police in San Francisco are equipped with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">body cameras\u003c/a>, allegations of racism may be easier to prove or disprove. She spoke very slowly, seeming to choose her words carefully, when panel member LaDoris Cordell asked about OCC's relationship with the police officers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there is an issue that they identify, particularly around interviewing officers, they will contact the OCC,\" Hicks said. \"We do periodically meet with the POA to hear their concerns. I have an open-door policy, and while I may not agree with philosophies, I will listen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel tasked attorney Robert Tarun with investigating the SFPD's compliance with Brady v. Maryland, a far-reaching U.S. Supreme Court ruling that requires prosecutors to turn exculpatory evidence over to defense attorneys. In practice, police departments generally keep a \"Brady list,\" with the names of officers whose past misconduct makes them susceptible to defense challenges if they're called to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We sought to interview three attorneys -- not police officers, attorneys -- in the San Francisco Police Department, and each declined to be interviewed,\" Tarun said. \"We also asked for Brady policies and Brady training materials of the Police Department, and we have not received any of that material to date.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said department Brady policies appear to include only guidelines for officer personnel files, prompting questions from panel member Dickran Tevrizian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department only tracks personnel issues with regards to Brady, but doesn’t track other exculpatory information? That’s a major issue,\" Tevrizian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarun said that's what he could tell, given that the SFPD refused to talk to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re not stepping forward and telling you what they’re doing,\" Tevrizian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth told the panel of another instance in which the SFPD has been unresponsive. He said the panel filed a public records act request with the department for documents in 30 separate categories in mid-December, and SFPD is now well beyond the time limit under state law to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They responded to approximately three,\" Roth said. \"They provided some information, most of it public documentation. With respect to the documents they withheld, they did not redact as the act requires, rather they provided no documentation. 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They’re constantly antagonizing disenfranchised communities. ... With the stance that the San Francisco Police Officers Association has taken, they have shown that they have very much disregard for the black officers in particular and they have shown disregard for minority communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA president Martin Halloran told KQED Saturday that he wholeheartedly disagrees with Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would challenge Ms. Willams to find another police organization that does more outreach to minority communities,\" he said, \"including her own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said a new $5,000 grant supporting access to healthy food in Hunters Point is just one example of approximately $200,000 per year the organization donates to charitable causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But its relationship with Gascón's blue-ribbon panel has been icy. 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We believe it’s more important to speak with officers directly and not through the filter of the POA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said the association asked \"as a courtesy\" to be notified when the panel reaches out to any officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have often not complied with that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Godown, who served briefly as the SFPD's interim chief, testified about \"institutional pushback\" when he came to the department to improve crime data collection and institute a CompStat program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was kind of taken aback by the fact that the San Francisco Police Department at the time I came here in 2009 was as rudimentary as they were when it came to looking at crime data,\" said Godown, who is now chief of the Oakland schools police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had not even stepped into the city, and I had received calls from reporters from San Francisco because the department was concerned that there was going to be a CompStat process implemented within the department and they were going to be held accountable,\" Godown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/sf-police-underreport-arrest-rates/\" target=\"_blank\">been criticized\u003c/a> for its statistics collection. CompStat reports currently available on the Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=4985\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> include just two months of data -- October and November of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said Godown and Gascón came to San Francisco pushing CompStat from a \"bully pulpit ... ramming it down our throats.\" He said he supports CompStat's data collection, though, and \"has no reason to believe it's not working well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office of Citizen Complaints Director Joyce Hicks told the panel that her office received 250 complaints that contained at least one allegation of racial bias since 2011, but the office sustained none of those complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Racial bias is very difficult to prove,\" she said. \"It is frustrating in light of today’s climate. It is painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said if and when the police in San Francisco are equipped with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">body cameras\u003c/a>, allegations of racism may be easier to prove or disprove. She spoke very slowly, seeming to choose her words carefully, when panel member LaDoris Cordell asked about OCC's relationship with the police officers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there is an issue that they identify, particularly around interviewing officers, they will contact the OCC,\" Hicks said. \"We do periodically meet with the POA to hear their concerns. I have an open-door policy, and while I may not agree with philosophies, I will listen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel tasked attorney Robert Tarun with investigating the SFPD's compliance with Brady v. 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"content": "\u003cp>Activists from San Francisco's Arab, South Asian and Muslim communities are reacting with angry disbelief to a Police Department report denying it violated a city ordinance governing local law enforcement participation in FBI counterterrorism investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus and the Council on American-Islamic Relations lodged a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/complaint-alleges-sfpd-oficer-broke-city-law-while-investigating-with-fbi/\" target=\"_blank\">formal complaint\u003c/a> last March detailing Google software engineer Sarmad Gilani's encounter with a San Francisco police inspector assigned to the FBI's \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/terrorism_jttfs\" target=\"_blank\">Joint Terrorism Task Force\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups allege that San Francisco police Inspector Gavin McEachern and an unidentified FBI agent contacted Gilani, who is Pakistani and Muslim, at work on June 4, 2014, and told him they were there to follow up on a Freedom of Information Act request Gilani had filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups' complaint said McEachern peppered Gilani with questions about his \"delusions of being persecuted,\" travel to the Middle East, \"what restaurants he eats at in Pakistan, where he visits, who he sees, etc.\" -- all in apparent violation of the 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/ordinances12/o0083-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance\u003c/a>. The law mandates local police working with the FBI follow state and city law, including a Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=24722\" target=\"_blank\">general order\u003c/a> requiring requests for investigations of \"First Amendment activities\" to be run up the chain of command and reported to the city's Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law was the result of years-long negotiations between the city and Arab-American and Muslim groups concerned they were being targeted by federal law enforcement for acts protected by the First Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAIR attorney Brice Hamack told the Police Commission on Wednesday that Gilani's travel raised no reasonable suspicion, and he was targeted simply for being \"Muslim and Pakistani.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When he was approached by the SFPD officer in this case, he was asked solely about his constitutionally protected activity of religious practices, traveling association and the sort,\" Hamack said. He referenced the Police Department's annual report on counterterrorism activities last year, which contained no mention of Gilani's interrogation, despite city law and department policy that appear to require it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as we had heard, there was nothing wrong, nothing even remotely wrong,\" Hamack said. \"There were no indications that even approached violating the ordinance, yet that turned out to be false.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Lt. 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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco woman is suing the city and Police Department leadership for allegedly failing to test DNA evidence in her rape, compelling her to confront a suspect as a condition of continuing to investigate and generally botching a case that's gone unsolved for more than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiff Heather Marlowe drank a beer that an unidentified male handed to her at the San Francisco festival/footrace Bay to Breakers in 2010, according to the \u003ca href=\"#complaint\">civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> filed in federal court Jan. 7. She became \"much more inebriated than would have been normal,\" the lawsuit says, then awoke nauseous and in pain several hours later in an unfamiliar home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlowe went to the nearest emergency room and called the police. A nurse collected DNA samples for a sexual assault evidence kit, commonly known as a rape kit. 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