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Seeing smoke after the crash, she worried that her car would set on fire. “As I was being loaded into the ambulance, I saw the other car completely \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-police-pursuit-after-chinatown-robbery-ends-in-fiery-oakland-crash/\">engulfed in flames\u003c/a>,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Cagle, senior staff attorney, Northern California chapter of the ACLU\"]‘The idea of having drivers flee police cars as well as having to look over the shoulder to figure out where the police drone is as well doesn’t seem like a recipe for safer police car chases or public safety generally for pedestrians and people in the city’[/pullquote]The chase ended in Oakland but began in Chinatown in San Francisco, where in March voters will decide on Proposition E. The wide-ranging measure would loosen restrictions put on police use of surveillance technology in 2019 and allow police to use drones in high-speed chases, among other things. The local measure could have statewide implications for law enforcement, as policies adopted in one California city can be copied elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing in San Francisco isn’t limited to San Francisco,” said Saira Hussain, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights advocacy group. “It has implications for other cities and jurisdictions as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and Proposition E supporters say using drones in car chases will reduce injuries. Keegan is skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried police chases will increase in frequency, and more people will get hurt, and there will be less safeguards for the general public, and San Franciscans will be treated like collateral damage,” said Keegan, who was born and raised in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-10/20231017_PoliceDepartmentMeasure.pdf?_gl=1*1giu43p*_ga*MzE5ODgwNzU5LjE3MDU5NTgxNTg.*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcwNjEyNzY5OS4yLjAuMTcwNjEyNzY5OS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcwNjEyNzY5OS4yLjAuMTcwNjEyNzY5OS4wLjAuMA..\">Proposition E\u003c/a> would allow police to test surveillance technology for a year or more unless the County Board of Supervisors intervenes and gives police the power to deploy cameras and drones without oversight. Proposition E rolls back \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.html\">a 2019 law\u003c/a> that bans the use of face recognition by police and requires public disclosure and debate before police obtain new forms of surveillance technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important moment where powerful interests are trying to attack oversight and limitations on their power,” said Matt Cagle, a senior staff attorney for the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is one of the largest major cities to adopt surveillance technology oversight championed by the ACLU. In recent years, half a dozen cities, from Oakland and Berkeley in the Bay Area to San Diego in southern California, have adopted similar policies, but efforts are underway to reduce those powers. In December 2023, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2023/12/22/gloria-pushes-for-substantial-changes-to-san-diegos-surveillance-technology-rules\">proposed\u003c/a> amendments that civil liberty advocates argue water down surveillance technology oversight. Hussein points to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2014#99INT\">AB 2014\u003c/a>, a bill proposed last month by Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen, a Democrat from Elk Grove, as another attempt in this vein. That bill would enable unarmed drone donations from the US military to state and local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco set a standard for civil liberties protections when it passed a law that makes public comment and local governing body approval of new police uses of surveillance technology, Hussain said. She said that if Proposition E passes, it has implications in other parts of California where lawmakers may consider a policy that puts unilateral decision-making power about tech adoption in the hands of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pendulum has swung toward public oversight in recent years and rightfully so, said Yes on Proposition E spokesperson Joe Arellano, but people are fed up with seeing small businesses get burglarized. He said Proposition E gives police the power to initiate the pursuit of people accused of committing property crimes but doesn’t make it a mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police currently have the discretion to pursue any suspect deemed a risk to public safety regardless of the crime they’re suspected of committing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our officers are highly trained and should be trusted to make smart decisions about these incidents,” Arellano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reggie Jones-Sawyer, the Democrat assembly member from Los Angeles and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/08/california-legislature-jones-sawyer/\">chair of the public safety committee,\u003c/a> said measures like Proposition E could have unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could implement this [Prop. E] and find out later that it causes more problems than you anticipated,” said Jones-Sawyer, who recalled being \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/california-at-crossroads-over-policing-and-facial-recognition\">falsely identified\u003c/a> as a criminal by face recognition along with other members of the California legislature back in 2019. “That showed a flaw, so with any new technology, whether it’s drones or others, we really need to look at all the ramifications that can come about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Drones in car chases\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There were 42 San Francisco car chases in 2023, according to California Highway Patrol records obtained by CalMatters. By comparison, 28 car chases a year occurred on average from 2018 to 2022. There was also a higher-than-average number of injuries and deaths last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Proposition E, which is supported \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/decision-2024/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-prop-e/3434049/\">by San Francisco Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and bankrolled with more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/march-2024-prop-e-tech-money-conway-larsen-police-18570659.php\">$300,000 from tech tycoons\u003c/a>, asks voters to change vehicle pursuit policy to allow police to chase suspects for misdemeanor crimes and use drones along with or in lieu of vehicular pursuits. Police in many major cities limit pursuits to violent crimes and suspects who pose a serious threat to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-speed vehicle pursuits resulted in 56 collisions from 2018 to 2022 in San Francisco. Forty percent of chases resulted in a collision, and 1 in 6 chases resulted in an injury to a suspect driver, police officer, or bystander, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vehicle pursuits of suspects led to 52 deaths statewide in 2021, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.chp.ca.gov/Documents/2022%20Police%20Pursuits%20Report%20to%20the%20Legislature%203.pdf\">highway patrol report\u003c/a>, and roughly 1 in 3 crashes involving police pursuit of a suspect resulted in an injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say drones can play a role in high-speed vehicle pursuits and possibly reduce injuries to bystanders and police officers by reducing the number of police vehicles involved. The ACLU and other groups that oppose Proposition E say it guts hard-won reforms and endangers the public, officers, and suspects by authorizing high-speed chases for low-level crimes in one of the densest cities in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle says he wants proof that drone involvement in police car chases won’t make things worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of having drivers flee police cars as well as having to look over the shoulder to figure out where the police drone is as well doesn’t seem like a recipe for safer police car chases or public safety generally for pedestrians and people in the city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/documents/eye-in-the-sky-policing-needs-strict-limits\">2023 ACLU report\u003c/a> found that more than 1,400 police departments in the U.S. use drones today and that drone-as-a-first-responder programs are on the rise. In 2017, the Chula Vista Police Department in San Diego was the \u003ca href=\"https://venturebeat.com/ai/drones-are-changing-the-way-police-respond-to-911-calls/\">first in the nation\u003c/a> to receive a federal aviation administration exemption allowing drones to operate outside of the sight range of their pilots. So far this year, the Chula Vista Police Department has sent drones in response to roughly a quarter of 911 calls for service. Elsewhere in California, police in \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/government/citywide-initiatives/public-safety-initiatives/drone-as-first-responders-dfr\">Fremont\u003c/a>, San Pablo, and Santa Monica are exploring drone-as-a-first-responder programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim that drones can stop high-speed vehicle pursuits features prominently in promotional material distributed by companies that sell drones to police. At a debut in San Francisco’s Marina District last fall, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/new-autonomous-drone-for-cops-can-track-you-in-the-dark/\">Skydio introduced X-10\u003c/a>, a drone that can fly in the dark at speeds of 45 miles per hour. Once X-10 locks on a target, the drone can follow people and vehicles from high in the air, so speed isn’t as much of a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skydio CEO Adam Bry discussed ongoing efforts to enable drone-as-a-first-responder programs in other U.S. cities, including New York, where vehicle pursuits are on the rise and police envision autonomous drone deployments. Skydio partners with Axon, a company whose AI ethics oversight board resigned in protest following a pitch for autonomous Taser-mounted drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol \u003ca href=\"https://www.chp.ca.gov/Documents/2022%20Police%20Pursuits%20Report%20to%20the%20Legislature%203.pdf\">found\u003c/a> that suspect apprehension is more likely with aerial support. In Los Angeles, police prioritize air support from helicopters when considering whether to pursue a fleeing suspect or known risk to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an LAPD review ordered last year by the Board of Police Commissioners following a rise in injuries found that 1 in 4 vehicle pursuits end in a collision, and half of the people injured are bystanders. Los Angeles allows high-speed pursuits for misdemeanors, as Proposition E would allow in San Francisco. San Francisco Chief Bill Scott told the police commission the department is developing a drone use policy but currently does not use drones or helicopters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same meeting, Department of Police Accountability Policy Director Janelle Caywood evaluated the department’s vehicle pursuit policy and compiled a report on vehicle pursuit best practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called the current vehicle pursuit policy average compared to other U.S. cities. She also noted that injuries and deaths are on the rise in some major cities. In New York City, police pursuits are \u003ca href=\"https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44477538/police-chases-up-new-york-los-angeles/\">up 600%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caywood recommended using drones to reduce the need for pursuits and de-escalate incidents. If use is limited to crimes in progress and vehicular pursuits, she told the commission that drone use may be worth discussing but that drones should go through the surveillance tech oversight process put into place in 2019 to ensure safe use and protection of civil liberties. She also recommends exploring the use of devices that shoot GPS trackers at fleeing vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle said he fears increased drone use could result in privacy violations and higher levels of surveillance of communities of color. Community members expressed a similar concern in 2022 when arguing that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/san-franciscos-killer-police-robots-threaten-the-citys-most-vulnerable/\">San Francisco’s police department should not have access to killer robots\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese for Affirmative Action is a civil rights group based in San Francisco that’s part of a coalition of community groups, including the ACLU, that oppose Proposition E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen how police chases have led to the deaths and injuries of our community members in San Francisco,” said the group’s community safety and justice policy manager, Nhi Nguyen, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen believes that if Proposition E passes, it could have implications for other municipalities when elected officials try to expand tools for local police in an election year. She argues the root cause of public safety concerns is access to housing, education, health care and economic opportunity. “We can’t police chase and surveillance our way out of socio-economic problems,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Body cameras and use of force\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If passed, Proposition E would also allow \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/04/california-police-shooting-videos/\">body-worn cameras\u003c/a> to satisfy reporting requirements in incidents involving police use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department is 18 times as likely to use force on Black residents compared to white residents and five times as likely to use force on Hispanic residents compared to white residents, according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/sfpd-cant-explain-massive-racial-force-disparities/\">data released in November 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2022.pdf\">2022 California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board report\u003c/a> also found that the department is more likely to use force against people who identify as transgender and people with mental health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition E will make it harder for community members to know how many use-of-force incidents are taking place in San Francisco, which puts lives at risk, said Sana Sethi, spokesperson for the SF Rising Action Fund, which also opposes the measure. She fears other cities may adopt similar policies and expand surveillance if Proposition E passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since crime in San Francisco attracts so much media attention, she’s concerned that passage of Proposition E will amplify a narrative that distracts from evidence-based solutions to crime reduction like access to housing, health care, and substance abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. E would bring a new standard of lack of oversight on harmful tactics, not only here, but throughout California,” Sethi said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The chase ended in Oakland but began in Chinatown in San Francisco, where in March voters will decide on Proposition E. The wide-ranging measure would loosen restrictions put on police use of surveillance technology in 2019 and allow police to use drones in high-speed chases, among other things. The local measure could have statewide implications for law enforcement, as policies adopted in one California city can be copied elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing in San Francisco isn’t limited to San Francisco,” said Saira Hussain, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights advocacy group. “It has implications for other cities and jurisdictions as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and Proposition E supporters say using drones in car chases will reduce injuries. Keegan is skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried police chases will increase in frequency, and more people will get hurt, and there will be less safeguards for the general public, and San Franciscans will be treated like collateral damage,” said Keegan, who was born and raised in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-10/20231017_PoliceDepartmentMeasure.pdf?_gl=1*1giu43p*_ga*MzE5ODgwNzU5LjE3MDU5NTgxNTg.*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcwNjEyNzY5OS4yLjAuMTcwNjEyNzY5OS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcwNjEyNzY5OS4yLjAuMTcwNjEyNzY5OS4wLjAuMA..\">Proposition E\u003c/a> would allow police to test surveillance technology for a year or more unless the County Board of Supervisors intervenes and gives police the power to deploy cameras and drones without oversight. Proposition E rolls back \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.html\">a 2019 law\u003c/a> that bans the use of face recognition by police and requires public disclosure and debate before police obtain new forms of surveillance technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important moment where powerful interests are trying to attack oversight and limitations on their power,” said Matt Cagle, a senior staff attorney for the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is one of the largest major cities to adopt surveillance technology oversight championed by the ACLU. In recent years, half a dozen cities, from Oakland and Berkeley in the Bay Area to San Diego in southern California, have adopted similar policies, but efforts are underway to reduce those powers. In December 2023, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2023/12/22/gloria-pushes-for-substantial-changes-to-san-diegos-surveillance-technology-rules\">proposed\u003c/a> amendments that civil liberty advocates argue water down surveillance technology oversight. Hussein points to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2014#99INT\">AB 2014\u003c/a>, a bill proposed last month by Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen, a Democrat from Elk Grove, as another attempt in this vein. That bill would enable unarmed drone donations from the US military to state and local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco set a standard for civil liberties protections when it passed a law that makes public comment and local governing body approval of new police uses of surveillance technology, Hussain said. She said that if Proposition E passes, it has implications in other parts of California where lawmakers may consider a policy that puts unilateral decision-making power about tech adoption in the hands of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pendulum has swung toward public oversight in recent years and rightfully so, said Yes on Proposition E spokesperson Joe Arellano, but people are fed up with seeing small businesses get burglarized. He said Proposition E gives police the power to initiate the pursuit of people accused of committing property crimes but doesn’t make it a mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police currently have the discretion to pursue any suspect deemed a risk to public safety regardless of the crime they’re suspected of committing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our officers are highly trained and should be trusted to make smart decisions about these incidents,” Arellano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reggie Jones-Sawyer, the Democrat assembly member from Los Angeles and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/08/california-legislature-jones-sawyer/\">chair of the public safety committee,\u003c/a> said measures like Proposition E could have unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could implement this [Prop. E] and find out later that it causes more problems than you anticipated,” said Jones-Sawyer, who recalled being \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/california-at-crossroads-over-policing-and-facial-recognition\">falsely identified\u003c/a> as a criminal by face recognition along with other members of the California legislature back in 2019. “That showed a flaw, so with any new technology, whether it’s drones or others, we really need to look at all the ramifications that can come about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Drones in car chases\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There were 42 San Francisco car chases in 2023, according to California Highway Patrol records obtained by CalMatters. By comparison, 28 car chases a year occurred on average from 2018 to 2022. There was also a higher-than-average number of injuries and deaths last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Proposition E, which is supported \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/decision-2024/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-prop-e/3434049/\">by San Francisco Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and bankrolled with more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/march-2024-prop-e-tech-money-conway-larsen-police-18570659.php\">$300,000 from tech tycoons\u003c/a>, asks voters to change vehicle pursuit policy to allow police to chase suspects for misdemeanor crimes and use drones along with or in lieu of vehicular pursuits. Police in many major cities limit pursuits to violent crimes and suspects who pose a serious threat to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-speed vehicle pursuits resulted in 56 collisions from 2018 to 2022 in San Francisco. Forty percent of chases resulted in a collision, and 1 in 6 chases resulted in an injury to a suspect driver, police officer, or bystander, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vehicle pursuits of suspects led to 52 deaths statewide in 2021, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.chp.ca.gov/Documents/2022%20Police%20Pursuits%20Report%20to%20the%20Legislature%203.pdf\">highway patrol report\u003c/a>, and roughly 1 in 3 crashes involving police pursuit of a suspect resulted in an injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say drones can play a role in high-speed vehicle pursuits and possibly reduce injuries to bystanders and police officers by reducing the number of police vehicles involved. The ACLU and other groups that oppose Proposition E say it guts hard-won reforms and endangers the public, officers, and suspects by authorizing high-speed chases for low-level crimes in one of the densest cities in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle says he wants proof that drone involvement in police car chases won’t make things worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of having drivers flee police cars as well as having to look over the shoulder to figure out where the police drone is as well doesn’t seem like a recipe for safer police car chases or public safety generally for pedestrians and people in the city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/documents/eye-in-the-sky-policing-needs-strict-limits\">2023 ACLU report\u003c/a> found that more than 1,400 police departments in the U.S. use drones today and that drone-as-a-first-responder programs are on the rise. In 2017, the Chula Vista Police Department in San Diego was the \u003ca href=\"https://venturebeat.com/ai/drones-are-changing-the-way-police-respond-to-911-calls/\">first in the nation\u003c/a> to receive a federal aviation administration exemption allowing drones to operate outside of the sight range of their pilots. So far this year, the Chula Vista Police Department has sent drones in response to roughly a quarter of 911 calls for service. Elsewhere in California, police in \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/government/citywide-initiatives/public-safety-initiatives/drone-as-first-responders-dfr\">Fremont\u003c/a>, San Pablo, and Santa Monica are exploring drone-as-a-first-responder programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim that drones can stop high-speed vehicle pursuits features prominently in promotional material distributed by companies that sell drones to police. At a debut in San Francisco’s Marina District last fall, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/new-autonomous-drone-for-cops-can-track-you-in-the-dark/\">Skydio introduced X-10\u003c/a>, a drone that can fly in the dark at speeds of 45 miles per hour. Once X-10 locks on a target, the drone can follow people and vehicles from high in the air, so speed isn’t as much of a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skydio CEO Adam Bry discussed ongoing efforts to enable drone-as-a-first-responder programs in other U.S. cities, including New York, where vehicle pursuits are on the rise and police envision autonomous drone deployments. Skydio partners with Axon, a company whose AI ethics oversight board resigned in protest following a pitch for autonomous Taser-mounted drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol \u003ca href=\"https://www.chp.ca.gov/Documents/2022%20Police%20Pursuits%20Report%20to%20the%20Legislature%203.pdf\">found\u003c/a> that suspect apprehension is more likely with aerial support. In Los Angeles, police prioritize air support from helicopters when considering whether to pursue a fleeing suspect or known risk to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an LAPD review ordered last year by the Board of Police Commissioners following a rise in injuries found that 1 in 4 vehicle pursuits end in a collision, and half of the people injured are bystanders. Los Angeles allows high-speed pursuits for misdemeanors, as Proposition E would allow in San Francisco. San Francisco Chief Bill Scott told the police commission the department is developing a drone use policy but currently does not use drones or helicopters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same meeting, Department of Police Accountability Policy Director Janelle Caywood evaluated the department’s vehicle pursuit policy and compiled a report on vehicle pursuit best practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called the current vehicle pursuit policy average compared to other U.S. cities. She also noted that injuries and deaths are on the rise in some major cities. In New York City, police pursuits are \u003ca href=\"https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44477538/police-chases-up-new-york-los-angeles/\">up 600%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caywood recommended using drones to reduce the need for pursuits and de-escalate incidents. If use is limited to crimes in progress and vehicular pursuits, she told the commission that drone use may be worth discussing but that drones should go through the surveillance tech oversight process put into place in 2019 to ensure safe use and protection of civil liberties. She also recommends exploring the use of devices that shoot GPS trackers at fleeing vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle said he fears increased drone use could result in privacy violations and higher levels of surveillance of communities of color. Community members expressed a similar concern in 2022 when arguing that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/san-franciscos-killer-police-robots-threaten-the-citys-most-vulnerable/\">San Francisco’s police department should not have access to killer robots\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese for Affirmative Action is a civil rights group based in San Francisco that’s part of a coalition of community groups, including the ACLU, that oppose Proposition E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen how police chases have led to the deaths and injuries of our community members in San Francisco,” said the group’s community safety and justice policy manager, Nhi Nguyen, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen believes that if Proposition E passes, it could have implications for other municipalities when elected officials try to expand tools for local police in an election year. She argues the root cause of public safety concerns is access to housing, education, health care and economic opportunity. “We can’t police chase and surveillance our way out of socio-economic problems,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Body cameras and use of force\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If passed, Proposition E would also allow \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/04/california-police-shooting-videos/\">body-worn cameras\u003c/a> to satisfy reporting requirements in incidents involving police use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department is 18 times as likely to use force on Black residents compared to white residents and five times as likely to use force on Hispanic residents compared to white residents, according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/sfpd-cant-explain-massive-racial-force-disparities/\">data released in November 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2022.pdf\">2022 California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board report\u003c/a> also found that the department is more likely to use force against people who identify as transgender and people with mental health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition E will make it harder for community members to know how many use-of-force incidents are taking place in San Francisco, which puts lives at risk, said Sana Sethi, spokesperson for the SF Rising Action Fund, which also opposes the measure. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ed Siu is a pro at giving Central Station police captains tours of Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this point, the chairman of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cmuasf.org/%E9%97%9C%E6%96%BC-about-us\">Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco\u003c/a> thinks he’s given too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, district police captains serve as public figures and tacticians for clusters of neighborhoods. Central Station, a six-story gray slab at the edge of North Beach, oversees Chinatown as well as the Financial District, Fisherman’s Wharf, Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill and Russian Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to ensure captains learn the safety needs of Chinatown merchants, Siu will walk them down bustling Stockton Street, jockeying between thick crowds of shoppers to arrive at the door of New Golden Daisy, one of those restaurants with ducks hanging in the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siu and the captain may amble over to the Sweetheart Florist, \u003ca href=\"https://sweetheartfloristsf.com/collections/blanketofferings\">which also offers traditional Chinese silk blankets\u003c/a>, before going down to Kearny Street, the heart of the neighborhood’s tourist offerings, to Hon’s Wun-Tun House for soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ed Siu, chairman, Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco\"]‘I mention it to the captains, the turnover is too fast. They should help us by knowing about Chinatown and the district.’[/pullquote]Siu has led tours for so many new police leaders that he can’t remember all of their names. The expansion of the San Francisco Police Department’s command staff has led to high turnover among captains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mention it to the captains, the turnover is too fast,” said Siu, who has owned a Chinatown travel agency for more than four decades. “They should help us by knowing about Chinatown and the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just a Central Station dilemma. Anecdotally, some San Francisco supervisors have long complained of turnover among station police captains, saying that as soon as they’ve got good footing in a neighborhood they’re already out the door, oftentimes by way of promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight captains have led Central Station in the past 11 years, an average of just over a year per captain. The swelling of SFPD’s leadership has also led to the swelling of salaries and pensions. According to SFPD data, the command staff’s total salary was just over $3 million in 2016, but is projected to grow to $7.5 million by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People cross the street at a city intersection.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People cross Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who represents neighborhoods served by Central Station, wants to stop the speedy promotions by eliminating four positions in the upper echelons of SFPD, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/leadership\">winnowing its size\u003c/a> and redirecting funds to pay for eight police officers to walk city beats. Peskin’s budget adjustment is set to be considered at a \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/committees\">Board of Supervisors Budget & Appropriations Committee hearing\u003c/a> on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A top-heavy, bloated command staff has grown exponentially in recent years,” Peskin told KQED. “This is something that I think makes policy sense. It makes economic sense and will lead to better policing in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the move sounds like a simple budget cut, it may significantly hamper police reform efforts in San Francisco, Chief Bill Scott said at an August Board of Supervisors meeting. He admitted SFPD had staffing problems, but said the force needs administrative support as it balances the competing demands of reform and public safety concerns in the Tenderloin and surrounding neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin\"]‘A top-heavy, bloated command staff has grown exponentially in recent years. This is something that I think makes policy sense. It makes economic sense and will lead to better policing in San Francisco.’[/pullquote]One of the more recently minted commander positions, for instance, coordinates the rollout of information to the public when an officer shoots a person. That transparency is a key part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/police-reform/cri-current-status\">U.S. Department of Justice’s reform recommendations to SFPD\u003c/a> in 2016, Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that goes for many of the newer command staff roles, arguing to Peskin that the department can’t just lop off a swath of commanders without consequences to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, there were only a handful of people who reported directly to the chief, according to Jim Wunderman, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/staff/jim-wunderman/\">CEO of the Bay Area Council\u003c/a>, a nonprofit representing business interests across the region. Wunderman served in a number of roles in then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein’s administration and as chief of staff for Mayor Frank Jordan, a former chief of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, many police captains stayed at that rank longer, even until retirement. But Wunderman recalled when Feinstein was first urged to expand the command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dianne’s first reaction to it was pretty negative,” he said. “Why do we want to add more administrative staff? Don’t we want to put more cops out in the stations where crime actually occurs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Feinstein was convinced. Jordan was promoted in 1978 from lieutenant to a newly created commander position. Three decades later, there are 16 sworn members of SFPD’s command staff: two assistant chiefs, five deputy chiefs and nine commanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961410 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses speaks to someone with long hair inside a store.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Store owner Tracy Liu (left) speaks with Edward Siu, president of the Chinatown Merchants United Association, at her shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. Liu worries about the safety of tourists affecting business at her shop. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wunderman said that when there’s leadership bloat “in any organization, whether it’s business or government for that matter, you end up with a loss of accountability. There’s too many people trying to talk to too many people and nothing gets done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Central Station captains include David Lazar, who now serves as an assistant chief and Julian Ng, who is now a deputy chief. Paul Yep is commander of the administration bureau and Garret Tom, who was the Central Station captain 10 years ago, is retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you as a district supervisor for most of the last quarter century that my go-to person on virtually a daily basis is the captain of Central Station,” Peskin said. “And we haven’t had a captain at all for two months, until last week, and had an acting captain for almost two years before that because of the misplaced priorities of the leadership of the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on San Francsisco Police Department' tag='san-francisco-police-department']And just like station captains, most command staff don’t stay in their roles for long, either. Data shows they don’t spend longer than three years in the positions before they’re promoted or retire. San Francisco’s pension liability for SFPD command staff has grown from under $100,000 a month in 2017 to a monthly cost of nearly $500,000 just this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want a revolving door” of top staff, Peskin said. “A revolving door is pension spiking, and yes, there is some of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Lo, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://bechinatown.com/\">BeChinatown\u003c/a>, a group that helps small businesses in the neighborhood, would like to see funding redirected to beat cops in Chinatown and other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have more police patrolling,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Chief Scott’s concerns over implementing hard-won police reforms, retired Judge LaDoris Cordell wonders if some roles could be taken on by less-expensive civilian staff. From 2010-2015, Cordell served as an independent police auditor for San José, a civilian position. That police auditor’s job was to make recommendations to the chief, like creating a new policy on chokeholds. In 2015, she served on the Blue Ribbon Panel that made reform recommendations to SFPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10454955/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\">after its racist texting scandal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While implementing reforms is important, a strong part of creating better bonds between police and Black and brown communities is true community policing, Cordell said. A key recommendation to SFPD by the Department of Justice was to craft a strategic plan for community policing. SFPD’s website shows this goal is still “in progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell, retired\"]‘I don’t know that any of these are contradictory. They can all be done. But it’s hard to do it in a system that says your best reward is being promoted and moving up as fast as you can.’[/pullquote]That was also a recommendation of the Blue Ribbon Panel Cordell served on, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BRP_report.pdf\">noted that community members desired (PDF)\u003c/a> police to serve “long-term assignments in a community to get to know and build trust with residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People “get to know them, then they get to trust them,” Cordell said. “And then, when issues come up regarding crime, they’re willing to go and talk to these officers because the officers have gotten to know them. And that is the key.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cordell, it’s not impossible for a police force to balance promotions and to provide longevity for neighborhoods. Cordell said SFPD may need to think more creatively, like offering incentive pay or other benefits if police stay in communities longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know that any of these are contradictory. They can all be done,” she said. “But it’s hard to do it in a system that says your best reward is being promoted and moving up as fast as you can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Kevin Benedicto, a member of the commission, helped draft a policy that the chief will introduce in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can actually work as a de-escalation tactic because it prevents suspects from fleeing at high speeds,” Benedicto said in reference to deploying spike strips.[aside postID=news_11959477 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/081723-CAR-BREAK-IN-BIPPED-AV-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Yet, Lara Bazelon, a law professor at the University of San Francisco, said it’s an expensive tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve gotta actually have the vehicle outfitted and then you have to stock it with all of this stuff that can be traced. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yet, Lara Bazelon, a law professor at the University of San Francisco, said it’s an expensive tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve gotta actually have the vehicle outfitted and then you have to stock it with all of this stuff that can be traced. Then, you have to actually trace it and you have to do it in significant numbers such that car thieves are going to be deterred,” Bazelon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the strategy is unlikely to be successful, especially when over 80% of San Francisco’s auto burglaries are currently unsolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bazelon noted that it is very difficult to get statistics for how well bait-car programs work, partly because only a small number of vehicles are used. This makes it harder to track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that the public perception and conversation around car break-ins began to ramp up during the pandemic and has only gotten worse since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think part of it is that it’s now part of an organized crime ring where it’s gotten incredibly sophisticated,” Bazelon said. “People smash and grab in a very efficient way.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>After three years of economic growth and historic federal pandemic relief, local budgets in the Bay Area are looking a little different this year. Much of that federal aid has been spent, and cities are grappling with the economic fallout of a rise in working from home and empty downtown office buildings and storefronts. Elected officials often say that budgets are “statements of values.” So KQED is checking the receipts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/city-budgets\">spending plans recently passed in San Francisco, San José and Oakland\u003c/a> to see how leaders in the region’s three largest cities are prioritizing taxpayer dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 26, San Francisco Mayor London Breed signed a $14.6 billion budget, after weeks of negotiations with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors over how to address a projected $780 million two-year deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that’s an eye-popping number compared to the budgets of San José and Oakland, it’s helpful to remember San Francisco is a county, as well as a city, and therefore funds additional expenses that Oakland and San José do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11957666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1.png\" alt=\"A graph that shows San Francisco's 2023-24 $14.6 Billion Budget\" width=\"1788\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1.png 1788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-800x186.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-1020x237.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-160x37.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-1536x357.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1788px) 100vw, 1788px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest budget battle in San Francisco centered on redirecting permanent housing funds to homeless shelters and temporary housing, similar to a controversial budget proposal in San José over homelessness spending. Breed proposed using $60 million earmarked by voters for permanent housing to fund her plan. Similarly, she also proposed dipping into a voter-approved tax that funds early childhood education and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors tussled with the mayor’s office over those proposed changes in negotiations for weeks. Ultimately, they reached a compromise using money they only later realized was available, using accrued interest from those two tax measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like San José, San Francisco’s budget also includes funding to increase the city’s police force. The police department budget grew by 8.5%, enough to hire 220 officers in the coming years. Public pressure to address a feared rise in crime prompted most lawmakers to back the mayor’s plan to increase the police department, one of the largest expansions in San Francisco’s spending plan, even as other departments were asked to take a cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-Time Funding Solutions in San Francisco's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cD4o8\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cD4o8/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"654\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s shrinking daytime population and vacant office space blew a $780 million hole in San Francisco’s budget. Escalating health insurance costs and pensions contributed, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way lawmakers plugged that hole won’t hold for long. The city’s two-year budget was balanced using nearly $1 billion in one-time funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This funding comes from a number of sources, including an opioid lawsuit settlement against Walgreens, FEMA reimbursements for emergency pandemic spending and various reserve funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of one-time sources to meet a budget need isn’t unheard of. And according to the City Controller’s Office, the use of one-time funding falls within the city’s legally mandated limits. But in a budget briefing letter, the controller also warned, “The use of one-time or nonrecurring sources to support ongoing operations creates a future budget shortfall, requiring expenditures to be reduced or replacement resources identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s the budget equivalent of using chewing gum to plug a leak. If downtown doesn’t boom like a Gold Rush in the near future, then San Francisco lawmakers will need to make drastic cuts in future budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-year budget is often revised in its second year so lawmakers can adjust it to the realities of tax revenue projections. If the projections don’t hold, Breed can look forward to a bitter fight over what departments to cut during her mayoral re-election bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco's Projected Deficit in Upcoming Fiscal Years \" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cMZn6\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cMZn6/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s budget process didn’t turn into the bloodbath many predicted it would. But that could happen soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A five-year estimate issued by the City Controller’s Office, Mayor’s Office and Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Legislative Analyst foresees growing budget shortfalls in the coming years, starting at $488.9 million in 2024–2025 and reaching $1.3 billion in the 2027–2028 budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some good news for the city, San Francisco’s tourism tax dollars are already rebounding. But it’s not enough money to offset a shrinking tax base from a massive dip in office use. A variety of taxes are tied to how many people work in San Francisco, from property taxes to various business taxes, and all of those have taken a hit post-pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing this all coming down the pike, Mayor Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin passed legislation to foster economic growth downtown. Much of that was supported in this year’s budget, including a program to waive city fees for small businesses in their first year of operation, and the “vacant to vibrant” program which will help artists beautify empty ground-floor spaces, and give grants to business owners to fill those storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have cited San Francisco’s reliance on the tech industry and the outsized impact of work-from-home as a major factor in its slow recovery from the pandemic. 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Ultimately, the Board of Supervisors reallocated $70 million after their weeks-long negotiations with the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that into perspective, that’s less than 1% of the budget.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101893348,news_11953006,news_11954871\"]And while it may be a small piece of the pie, the impact on the people and programs who need it is incalculable. Here are some of the program investments that caught our eye:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sisterhood Gardens near the Ocean View neighborhood received $115,000 to continue operating a community garden that serves the area’s large population of seniors and monolingual immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another $4.8 million went to the SRO Collaborative to keep up its code enforcement efforts in single-room occupancy hotels. 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Public pressure to address a feared rise in crime prompted most lawmakers to back the mayor’s plan to increase the police department, one of the largest expansions in San Francisco’s spending plan, even as other departments were asked to take a cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-Time Funding Solutions in San Francisco's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cD4o8\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cD4o8/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"654\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s shrinking daytime population and vacant office space blew a $780 million hole in San Francisco’s budget. Escalating health insurance costs and pensions contributed, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way lawmakers plugged that hole won’t hold for long. 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Much of that was supported in this year’s budget, including a program to waive city fees for small businesses in their first year of operation, and the “vacant to vibrant” program which will help artists beautify empty ground-floor spaces, and give grants to business owners to fill those storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have cited San Francisco’s reliance on the tech industry and the outsized impact of work-from-home as a major factor in its slow recovery from the pandemic. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Police Accountability and SFPD’s internal affairs division are separately investigating SFPD’s response to a youth-led skateboarding event that took place on Saturday, July 8, law enforcement officials said at a police commission meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this year’s Dolores Park “hill bomb,” more than 110 people — 83 youth and 34 adults — were detained for inciting a riot, as well as for remaining present at an unlawful assembly and conspiracy, after the annual skateboarding event was shut down by police. Most were cited for misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kevin Ortiz, co-president, San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club\"]‘They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth.’[/pullquote]“If there’s one group that the police should be trained to deescalate, it’s with the youth, and there is no excuse,” said Kevin Ortiz, co-president of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hill bomb is an unsanctioned skateboarding event where skateboarders test their tricks down San Francisco’s steep hills. It is not permitted by the city and is organized mostly through word of mouth and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents on Wednesday expressed outrage over the militarized police response to the annual skateboarding event this year. Video footage from July 8 shows officers in riot gear pointing less-lethal rifles at teenagers in an attempt to close down the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11956080 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with glasses and wearing a police uniform speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Chief William Scott speaks during a police commission meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of all youth arrested were Latino, according to demographic data shared by Chief Bill Scott at the police commission meeting on Wednesday. Scott says his department is reviewing its policies for detaining juveniles in response to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer body camera footage shows San Francisco police telling youth to disperse before the event spiraled into chaos. The videos show a can, a glass bottle and a firework launched toward officers. They also show an officer firing a less-lethal weapon at people climbing a Muni vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers discharged these “less-lethal” foam rifles 15 times that day, and used physical force to take down someone three times, Scott said. Only a small portion of the available video footage has been released. Footage of the juveniles’ arrests could not be shown due to state and local privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents and youth who spoke before the meeting described the youth waiting for hours with their hands zip-tied without access to bathrooms or the ability to call their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11955479,news_11955465\" label=\"Related Posts\"]One parent named Lisa E., who asked not to use her last name to protect her son’s privacy, said she was sitting with her son at home around 8 p.m. when he left to take a scooter to a friend’s house near the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They asked the policeman, where should we go? And the cops said, go that way. So they went that way right into the riot cops, where the riot cops grabbed the three kids,” she said to reporters before the commission meeting. “They were detained. They were told to stay. They were not allowed to call us. They were zip-tied and he was forced to stay with a group of kids, this very large crowd of kids, until 1:00 in the morning. No jacket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Lisa E. said, she received a call from the Juvenile Probation Department saying her son’s case had not been dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Blanco, a trustee for the San Bruno Park School District, said that seven youth from her district were caught up in the arrests, including her own daughter’s friends, who spoke at the commission meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her daughter’s friends included 16-year-old Lesley, whose last name is omitted for privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember when they were trying to close down the event, they were getting really aggressive. And when they closed the street they kept saying we are under arrest but not why,” Lesley told KQED. “Then they zip-tied us and put us on the busses. A bunch of people needed to use the bathroom and I got pushed into a seat and my elbow was bruised. The zip-ties were really tight. I don’t know why we were treated that way. There was a 12-year-old on our bus and she didn’t know why she was there. We had to wait until after we got processed to get a phone call. Probably like 12 to 1 in the morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956078\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people seated in an official looking building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members attend a police commission meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lisa E. said the event has warped her son’s ideas on policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a good kid. He gets straight A’s. He volunteers at the rec center and his perspective is changed now,” she said. “It’s been altered of how he thinks about law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges against the majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event\">teenagers swept up in the mass arrest following the skateboarding event\u003c/a> at Dolores Park will likely be dropped, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/hill-bomb-sf-to-dismiss-almost-all-charges-against-teens/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Mission%20Local&utm_campaign=2f38168f69-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_17_12_00&utm_term=0_-2f38168f69-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=2f38168f69&mc_eid=e089857c8e\">Mission Local reports\u003c/a>. Some families have already been told they won’t need to show up to a court hearing and the cases will be dropped, according to Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many parents at the commission meeting said they had not yet received that guidance. Many are still confused about the status of their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth,” Ortiz told KQED. “For the majority of cases to be dropped like that, it clearly shows SFPD overreached.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department did not confirm the exact number of people whose cases will be dropped. Officials from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office also did not confirm the number of youth whose cases would be cleared when asked by KQED on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one case involving an adult has been discharged, KQED confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each case will be assessed individually to determine if it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Randy Quezada, communications director for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. “All avenues to ensure there is appropriate accountability will be explored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth probation officials said they are still awaiting results of the police department’s investigation into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956084\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand behind a person speaking at a podium.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members hold a rally in front of City Hall before the Police Commission meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are in the process of contacting all parents/guardians to let them know that we will reach back out to them when we have more information,” said Katherine Weinstein Miller, chief juvenile probation officer for the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One attorney is exploring a lawsuit on behalf of the youth and families who believe they were wrongfully detained at the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, told KQED she had heard from multiple parents whose children were not even at the event but got swept up in the mass arrest when they were walking, or in one case riding a scooter, through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just appalled by this,” said Lederman. “I’m talking to kids who were simply passersby or were trying to go home, just in the general vicinity of where the event had been when they were trapped between police lines, not allowed to leave, [[arrested] and detained in appalling conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the police crackdown on the event said that it has been problematic in the past. Injuries are common, and one death took place in 2020 when a cyclist collided with the hill bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were correct to try to bring it to a speedy end,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, whose district includes Dolores Park. SFPD, he said, “will continue to need to do police work and I don’t think they could allow an event like this to go on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s hill bomb caused public transit vehicles to come to a halt as participants and onlookers crowded streets. Photos show one group of teenagers climbing on top of a Muni train and spray-painting graffiti on its outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be healing,” Ortiz said. “But there is a silver lining, and this kind of experience can lead to organizing that can push for more resources for young people”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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No jacket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Lisa E. said, she received a call from the Juvenile Probation Department saying her son’s case had not been dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Blanco, a trustee for the San Bruno Park School District, said that seven youth from her district were caught up in the arrests, including her own daughter’s friends, who spoke at the commission meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her daughter’s friends included 16-year-old Lesley, whose last name is omitted for privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember when they were trying to close down the event, they were getting really aggressive. And when they closed the street they kept saying we are under arrest but not why,” Lesley told KQED. “Then they zip-tied us and put us on the busses. A bunch of people needed to use the bathroom and I got pushed into a seat and my elbow was bruised. The zip-ties were really tight. I don’t know why we were treated that way. There was a 12-year-old on our bus and she didn’t know why she was there. We had to wait until after we got processed to get a phone call. Probably like 12 to 1 in the morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956078\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people seated in an official looking building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members attend a police commission meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lisa E. said the event has warped her son’s ideas on policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a good kid. He gets straight A’s. He volunteers at the rec center and his perspective is changed now,” she said. “It’s been altered of how he thinks about law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges against the majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event\">teenagers swept up in the mass arrest following the skateboarding event\u003c/a> at Dolores Park will likely be dropped, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/hill-bomb-sf-to-dismiss-almost-all-charges-against-teens/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Mission%20Local&utm_campaign=2f38168f69-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_17_12_00&utm_term=0_-2f38168f69-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=2f38168f69&mc_eid=e089857c8e\">Mission Local reports\u003c/a>. Some families have already been told they won’t need to show up to a court hearing and the cases will be dropped, according to Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many parents at the commission meeting said they had not yet received that guidance. Many are still confused about the status of their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth,” Ortiz told KQED. “For the majority of cases to be dropped like that, it clearly shows SFPD overreached.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department did not confirm the exact number of people whose cases will be dropped. Officials from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office also did not confirm the number of youth whose cases would be cleared when asked by KQED on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one case involving an adult has been discharged, KQED confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each case will be assessed individually to determine if it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Randy Quezada, communications director for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. “All avenues to ensure there is appropriate accountability will be explored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth probation officials said they are still awaiting results of the police department’s investigation into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956084\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand behind a person speaking at a podium.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members hold a rally in front of City Hall before the Police Commission meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are in the process of contacting all parents/guardians to let them know that we will reach back out to them when we have more information,” said Katherine Weinstein Miller, chief juvenile probation officer for the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One attorney is exploring a lawsuit on behalf of the youth and families who believe they were wrongfully detained at the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, told KQED she had heard from multiple parents whose children were not even at the event but got swept up in the mass arrest when they were walking, or in one case riding a scooter, through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just appalled by this,” said Lederman. “I’m talking to kids who were simply passersby or were trying to go home, just in the general vicinity of where the event had been when they were trapped between police lines, not allowed to leave, [[arrested] and detained in appalling conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event\">San Francisco police arrested over a hundred people in the city’s Mission District\u003c/a> Saturday night at an annual “hill bomb” event, where skaters and bikers ride down Dolores Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the individuals arrested were under 18 years old, and had been surrounded by police at the event and prevented from leaving — \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettling\">a law enforcement tactic known as “kettling.”\u003c/a> This police action has prompted severe criticism from residents and officials alike — plus a possible lawsuit by nonprofit legal organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.justiceonline.org/\">Partnership for Civil Justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kqednews/status/1678204378665168897?s=21&t=Zlo82S9jhTVmhzmwTP19nA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Lederman, an attorney with Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and with the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, says she’s hoping to talk to more of the youth who were arrested — or their parents — “to explore what to do to challenge this outrageous conduct” by SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#doloreshillbombonlooker\">What are your legal rights as a spectator at an event like this?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#childrendetained\">What should parents and caregivers know about their children being detained?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“You have a right to be an onlooker on the street, as long as you’re not directly interfering in a police action,” Lederman said. “The police can’t just round everybody up. That’s what this sounds like, to me, happened on Saturday night, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event\">they just simply kettled the kids in a number of different areas, by just closing off the block\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from @sfskateclub that reads: ‘If you or your child was arrested at Dolores Park this weekend, attorneys at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) would like to talk to you. They are exploring a possible lawsuit to challenge these arrests. Reach out to 415.508.4955 / rachel.lederman@justiceonline.org’ \u003ccite>(@sfskateclub on Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mission Local, a news organization serving the San Francisco district, reported that \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/breaking-sfpd-shuts-down-dolores-park-hill-bomb-arrests-teenagers/\">young people were handcuffed by plastic zip ties\u003c/a> and made to sit on the street. The story also quoted a 15-year-old named Carmen who told Mission Local that other girls there were hyperventilating, with several peeing their pants while being kept zip-tied on the bus that was used to transfer them to the Mission police station. The last person arrested was released early the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, SFPD said that they declared the event an \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unlawful_assembly\">unlawful assembly\u003c/a> after an officer was assaulted by a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old, according to police. An unlawful assembly is a gathering (of three or more people) with an intent to disturb the peace. In the same statement, SFPD claimed the skaters set off fireworks and vandalized Muni vehicles, and “it was decided that a mass arrest of the crowd was to be conducted to stop the ongoing unlawful assembly and destruction of property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said that in her conversations with the families of young people at the event, she talked to parents “whose kids were simply taking scooters to go to a friend’s house and they happened to pass by the area where this was happening. And they actually made the mistake of asking for instructions from the police and were told, ‘Oh, turn around and go that way.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, she said, those young people report being “confronted by another police line and not allowed to leave, and arrested and held for hours and hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mass arrest was illegal as far as I’m concerned … There’s no guilt by association under the United States law or California law,” Lederman said. “And the police can’t just simply kettle people and arrest everyone in order to get rid of an event that they don’t like [which] in this case, happened to involve primarily children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“I’m demanding that all of these charges be dropped, and I hope nobody will face charges,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the police have cracked down on the Dolores Hill bomb — and \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2023/07/09/annual-dolores-hill-bomb-shut-down-by-police-dozens-detained/\">the SFPD has faced lawsuits for use of force\u003c/a> when, in 2017, a skater sued the city and won over a quarter of million dollars after an officer pushed them down the hill and into a police vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/j_oelhamill/status/884970060237766656?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you — or your child — are ever an onlooker in the vicinity of an event like the hill bomb, or spectating an activity the police have deemed illegal: What are your rights? And \u003ca href=\"#childrendetained\">what should parents and caregivers especially know about their children being detained?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"doloreshillbombonlooker\">\u003c/a>What are the laws around being a spectator at an event like this?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s tricky — and not always clean-cut, legally\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, you and I, and everyone has a right to travel safely and freely in public places,” said Chessie Thacher, senior attorney with ACLU NorCal’s Democracy and Civic Engagement Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re walking down the street and you see something that’s interesting — or you’re worried that something suspicious or unlawful is happening — then you stop: You look at it, you’re standing there, you want to record it,” Thacher said. “You have a First Amendment right to do that. And if you want to publish that out to the world, the public also has a First Amendment right to receive that information about newsworthy public events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where it “gets tricky,” says Thacher, is if you’re planning to be present in a place that you know something unlawful will be happening. But even in those instances, Thacher says that the ACLU and other civil liberties organizations “believe that the laws that criminalize spectators are often too overbroad. They sweep in too many innocent people who are really not supposed to be caught up in any kind of a criminalization effort.”[aside postID=news_11871364 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1228205020-1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, “the government is always trying to take a run at criminalizing spectators, and that’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something that is clearer: Cities will have their own ordinances that say if participating in or spectating at a certain event is illegal, notes Robert Weisberg, faculty co-director at the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. And “if the city has that ordinance that you can’t do it, especially in a certain place, then you just can’t do it — and it’s not going to help you at all if you say, ‘Gee, I had no idea,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weidberg acknowledges that he finds these kinds of ordinances a “bit of a legal stretch” with the exception of illegal fireworks, given the elevated risk of wildfires in California. He said that that he can imagine a person challenging such an ordinance “ as unconstitutional, on the grounds that if you’re merely observing — and if the activity is not something that’s inherently illegal — then […] that’s a pretty rough ordinance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regardless of whether there’s such an ordinance in the place you’re spectating, ignoring a police order to disperse from that place — even if you think it’s without legal justification — remains something that can nonetheless get you “in big trouble,” Weidberg warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/Res%2023-14%20Approval%20of%20Revised%20DGO%205.07%20Rights%20of%20On-lookers%20for%20meet%20%26%20confer_0.pdf\">SFPD’s policy on the Rights of Onlookers here (PDF)\u003c/a>, which the department says it wants to revise once labor negotiations with the police association, according to San Francisco Commissioner Kevin M. Benedicto in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kinds of events can get onlookers in trouble with police?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Partnership for Civil Justice’s Lederman referenced the recent \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/sfpd-rushes-disperses-july-4th-crowd-in-the-mission/\">crackdown by officers on a Fourth of July firework display\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission District, calling it “alarming.” (In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954298/fireworks-near-me-fourth-of-july-safety\">being present at an illegal firework show is explicitly criminalized in San José\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a crackdown, she says, seems “pretty extreme to me … I saw a bunch right outside my window. I live in the Mission. So am I guilty of watching illegal fireworks?”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Chessie Thacher, senior attorney, ACLU NorCal’s Democracy and Civic Engagement Program\"]‘The government is always trying to take a run at criminalizing spectators, and that’s a problem.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like a slippery slope,” she said. Although experts disagree, as Stanford’s Weisberg points out the wildfire problem in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lederman, this kind of criminalization of gathered onlookers is “part of the mayor and the police department’s attempt to look like they are getting tough on crime,” Lederman said. But the hill bomb event, she says, “was really not a crime. It was simply a kids and youth skateboarding event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said often the risks of spectating is a “judgment call,” with most tools people having if they are arrested are to challenge it in court afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The First Amendment Coalition and the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists also sent a letter to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors last month expressing concern about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/supervisors-approve-law-targeting-sideshows-in-alameda-county/\">an ordinance that makes it illegal to be a spectator at a sideshow\u003c/a>, which was approved this week. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/article273963745.html\">Being an onlooker at a sideshow is already illegal elsewhere in California\u003c/a>, such as within the city of Turlock in Stanislaus County.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The First Amendment Coalition Legal Director’s David Loy argued it would allow the arrest of people simply watching the cars, even if they were trying to record or report on it. Loy also said it could open the county up to litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take no issue with appropriate enforcement of otherwise valid laws against unlawful conduct, but the First Amendment does not allow the government to punish the protected speech of observers or reporters as a means to address the illegal acts of others,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We therefore ask the Board to refrain from adopting an ordinance that would criminalize the exercise of First Amendment rights. The County need not and should not trample on freedom of speech to protect public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should you do if approached by police as an onlooker?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your main priority is keeping yourself safe, ACLU’s Thacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if the police attempt to interact with you at a public event, you should stay calm,” she said. “You shouldn’t run, or resist, or argue. Keep your hands where officers can see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a typical encounter, police may approach and try to talk to you. It’s important to establish whether you’re free to leave this interaction, or the police are in fact detaining you. If you ask an officer if you are free to go and they say yes, “just calmly walk away,” Thacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they say, ‘No, you’re not free to go,’ that means that you’re under arrest,” confirmed Thacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, if you are not being arrested, you do not need to show your ID or give your name to a police officer when asked for it “although sometimes it’s a judgment call about whether that might arouse suspicion,” Lederman said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights#:~:text=You%20have%20the%20right%20to,against%20you%20in%20immigration%20court.\">Officers can’t also ask about your immigrant status.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I’m arrested by police as an onlooker?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At that point, ACLU’S Thacher recommends that you reply, “‘I’m not going to answer any questions. I’d like to talk to a lawyer.’ Say this as respectfully and as calmly as you can at that moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if you end up being put under arrest, always ask the officers, ‘Why?’ Don’t try to argue. ‘Why am I being arrested?’ And then say you wish to remain silent after that,” Thacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main advice that I would give is for anyone who was arrested [at the Dolores Hill bomb event is] if they’re asked to give a statement by the district attorney or juvenile probation or the police there, they’re not required to give a statement, or submit to an interview,” Lederman said. She would advise not giving such a statement or interview “without getting advice from an attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are detained and the police say you’re not free to leave, you still don’t have to give a statement or submit or answer any questions,” said Lederman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If police are seeking to question you when you’re under arrest, when you’re taken into the jail, you will have to answer some basic booking questions,” said Lederman. “But you don’t have to answer questions about the incident that has led to your arrest. Only a judge can order you to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you forget this advice in the moment, and begin talking to the police? Even after you’ve done this, “you can still invoke your right to remain silent,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where can I find a free attorney?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are lower-income or if you are under 18, you’re entitled to a free lawyer, a public defender, or court-appointed free lawyer, affirms Lederman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Access-to-Justice/Pro-Bono/Pro-Bono-Directory/San-Francisco-Area\">find pro bono (free) legal services for the San Francisco Bay Area in this resource\u003c/a> from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can the police search my belongings?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because police may try to conduct a search, and track you down at an event in order to do so, Lederman said that “it’s a good idea to actually say out loud, ‘I do not consent to a search.’ Because silence can be interpreted as consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if your instinct is to cooperate, you can still say no, said Lederman — who also notes that “in general, police are more likely to ask for consent when they don’t have the legal right to do a search without your consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, she said, “it’s really best just to decline and say ‘I don’t consent to a search.’ Even if they start searching, it’s important to just verbalize that you don’t consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said it is important not to physically resist the search, because it could result in getting hurt or getting an extra criminal charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are actually under arrest, the police can search your person and they can search the belongings that you have with you without your consent, and without a warrant,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about your phone? Lederman said that if the police don’t have a warrant, they can take your phone from you, “but if they ask you to unlock your phone, you don’t have to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re heading into a situation that may potentially become intense or volatile, like a protest, technology and civil rights experts often recommend you investigate ways to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">temporarily turn off your phone’s ability to be unlocked with Face ID or your fingerprint\u003c/a> — because these unlocking techniques may allow anyone, including the police, to try to access your phone by holding it up to your face, or putting your thumb on it. Instead, you might consider using a multi-digit passcode to unlock your phone, which you cannot be forced to give.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I record the police?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a clearly established right in California, and pretty much all over the country, to record or video police action,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that if you’re so close to a police officer that you’re actually interfering with or obstructing their action, “You could get in trouble for that” said Lederman. “But you have a clear legal right — a First Amendment right — to video the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Videotaping and recording is a really good tool for police accountability,” Lederman said. “We can’t really count on the police body cameras to fill that need necessarily because police can switch them on and off. They don’t necessarily capture everything: So the citizen footage can be quite important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">KQED has a lengthy explainer on your rights to record the police\u003c/a> — and how to stay safe doing it and what possible pitfalls there are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thacher said people should remember the details of problematic encounters with the police they might be troubled by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Try to include the time, the date, the location, the officers’ badges and patrol car numbers,” she advised. “Just that information can be helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Document any injuries you’ve sustained as an onlooker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a person has been injured — “for example, by the plastic zip tie handcuffs” that appear to have been used on minors by police at the Dolores Hill bomb — they should document these injuries with photographs ASAP, Lederman said. People should document if they have marks or any continuing problems with those injuries and what medical attention they got to take care of them if they wish to seek compensation for them.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Rachel Lederman, attorney, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund/Center for Protest Law and Litigation\"]‘Videotaping and recording is a really good tool for police accountability. We can’t really count on the police body cameras to fill that need necessarily because police can switch them on and off.’[/pullquote]People should also document things like missing work, or having to seek counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If kids were forced to miss work, like older teenagers, or if parents have to take off work in order to deal with this? I would just document all that,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"childrendetained\">\u003c/a>What should parents and caregivers know about minors being arrested at an event like the Dolores Hill bomb?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lederman said while kids are being held by the police, “there’s just not a lot that the parents can do” — besides calling and going to the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a sizable group of parents who went out to try to pick up their kids, even while the kids were being held for hours and hours just sitting on the street,” Lederman said. “The police refused to release the kids to their parents, and instead put them on buses to drive them to Mission Station, which is just very close to where they’re being held [at the event].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of police choosing to do a full processing on these minors, Lederman said, “some of the kids didn’t get out until four in the morning. I heard about kids having to walk home by themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police didn’t call families until maybe just before they were going to release the kids and so, because they had taken the kids’ phones when they detained them, really a lot of these children were just held incommunicado — and parents didn’t know where they were,” said Lederman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what parents and caregiver can do in a situation like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seek counseling, document any injuries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman recommends that if possible, parents and caregivers explore seeking counseling for their kids if they were arrested at the Dolores Hill bomb — and again, that any injuries are documented swiftly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resist the impulse to insert yourself at the police station\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thacher said families should “not to try to go to the police station and explain your child’s current conduct, or what you view your child’s conduct was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”Really, it’s better to remain silent and get a lawyer and figure out what happened,” she advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prep your kids for a situation like this\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who’ve been arrested have the right to make a phone call, and for this reason, your child should be able to memorize their parents’ or caretakers’ number. Because of kids’ access to cellphones, knowing a parent’s number by heart is not as common as it once was, notes Thacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also,\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/stopped-by-police\"> make sure kids know their rights around the police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contact your local officials\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said parents should think about reaching out to their officials “demanding that not only the charges be dropped, but there should be some accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lederman, the police action at the Dolores Hill bomb is “clearly just using these children as political pawns to try to seem tough on crime,” and if people feel similarly, she advises them to contact Mayor London Breed’s office to communicate that this “isn’t something that the people that vote in San Francisco are going to tolerate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>To contact the mayor of San Francisco, email mayorlondonbreed@sfgov.org or call (415) 554-6141.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To contact the Department of Police Accountability, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/file-complaint-about-police-services\">you can file a complaint online\u003c/a> or call (415) 241-7711.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To contact the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/departments/police-commission\">San Francisco Police Commission\u003c/a>, email sfpd.commission@sfgov.org or call (415) 837-7070. Individual phone numbers are also made available to the public on \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/departments/police-commission\">the SF Police Commission site\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/meeting/july-12-2023/july-12-2023-police-commission-meeting\">The next meeting of the commission\u003c/a> is July 12 at 5:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Thacher said if people were to be swept up in an event like this, they are invited to contact a civil liberties organization for advice and potential legal next steps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/get-help\">ACLU Northern California’s page on needing legal help\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/legal-hotline/\">First Amendment Coalition’s legal hotline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to reflect that the letter sent to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors regarding the sideshow ordinance was sent by the First Amendment Coalition and the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and not the NorCal ACLU.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Rachel Lederman, an attorney with Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and with the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, says she’s hoping to talk to more of the youth who were arrested — or their parents — “to explore what to do to challenge this outrageous conduct” by SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#doloreshillbombonlooker\">What are your legal rights as a spectator at an event like this?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#childrendetained\">What should parents and caregivers know about their children being detained?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“You have a right to be an onlooker on the street, as long as you’re not directly interfering in a police action,” Lederman said. “The police can’t just round everybody up. That’s what this sounds like, to me, happened on Saturday night, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event\">they just simply kettled the kids in a number of different areas, by just closing off the block\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/ig-SCREENSHOT-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from @sfskateclub that reads: ‘If you or your child was arrested at Dolores Park this weekend, attorneys at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) would like to talk to you. They are exploring a possible lawsuit to challenge these arrests. Reach out to 415.508.4955 / rachel.lederman@justiceonline.org’ \u003ccite>(@sfskateclub on Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mission Local, a news organization serving the San Francisco district, reported that \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/breaking-sfpd-shuts-down-dolores-park-hill-bomb-arrests-teenagers/\">young people were handcuffed by plastic zip ties\u003c/a> and made to sit on the street. The story also quoted a 15-year-old named Carmen who told Mission Local that other girls there were hyperventilating, with several peeing their pants while being kept zip-tied on the bus that was used to transfer them to the Mission police station. The last person arrested was released early the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, SFPD said that they declared the event an \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unlawful_assembly\">unlawful assembly\u003c/a> after an officer was assaulted by a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old, according to police. An unlawful assembly is a gathering (of three or more people) with an intent to disturb the peace. In the same statement, SFPD claimed the skaters set off fireworks and vandalized Muni vehicles, and “it was decided that a mass arrest of the crowd was to be conducted to stop the ongoing unlawful assembly and destruction of property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said that in her conversations with the families of young people at the event, she talked to parents “whose kids were simply taking scooters to go to a friend’s house and they happened to pass by the area where this was happening. And they actually made the mistake of asking for instructions from the police and were told, ‘Oh, turn around and go that way.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, she said, those young people report being “confronted by another police line and not allowed to leave, and arrested and held for hours and hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mass arrest was illegal as far as I’m concerned … There’s no guilt by association under the United States law or California law,” Lederman said. “And the police can’t just simply kettle people and arrest everyone in order to get rid of an event that they don’t like [which] in this case, happened to involve primarily children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“I’m demanding that all of these charges be dropped, and I hope nobody will face charges,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the police have cracked down on the Dolores Hill bomb — and \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2023/07/09/annual-dolores-hill-bomb-shut-down-by-police-dozens-detained/\">the SFPD has faced lawsuits for use of force\u003c/a> when, in 2017, a skater sued the city and won over a quarter of million dollars after an officer pushed them down the hill and into a police vehicle.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like a slippery slope,” she said. Although experts disagree, as Stanford’s Weisberg points out the wildfire problem in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lederman, this kind of criminalization of gathered onlookers is “part of the mayor and the police department’s attempt to look like they are getting tough on crime,” Lederman said. But the hill bomb event, she says, “was really not a crime. It was simply a kids and youth skateboarding event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said often the risks of spectating is a “judgment call,” with most tools people having if they are arrested are to challenge it in court afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The First Amendment Coalition and the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists also sent a letter to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors last month expressing concern about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/supervisors-approve-law-targeting-sideshows-in-alameda-county/\">an ordinance that makes it illegal to be a spectator at a sideshow\u003c/a>, which was approved this week. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/article273963745.html\">Being an onlooker at a sideshow is already illegal elsewhere in California\u003c/a>, such as within the city of Turlock in Stanislaus County.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The First Amendment Coalition Legal Director’s David Loy argued it would allow the arrest of people simply watching the cars, even if they were trying to record or report on it. Loy also said it could open the county up to litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take no issue with appropriate enforcement of otherwise valid laws against unlawful conduct, but the First Amendment does not allow the government to punish the protected speech of observers or reporters as a means to address the illegal acts of others,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We therefore ask the Board to refrain from adopting an ordinance that would criminalize the exercise of First Amendment rights. The County need not and should not trample on freedom of speech to protect public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should you do if approached by police as an onlooker?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your main priority is keeping yourself safe, ACLU’s Thacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if the police attempt to interact with you at a public event, you should stay calm,” she said. “You shouldn’t run, or resist, or argue. Keep your hands where officers can see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a typical encounter, police may approach and try to talk to you. It’s important to establish whether you’re free to leave this interaction, or the police are in fact detaining you. If you ask an officer if you are free to go and they say yes, “just calmly walk away,” Thacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they say, ‘No, you’re not free to go,’ that means that you’re under arrest,” confirmed Thacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, if you are not being arrested, you do not need to show your ID or give your name to a police officer when asked for it “although sometimes it’s a judgment call about whether that might arouse suspicion,” Lederman said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights#:~:text=You%20have%20the%20right%20to,against%20you%20in%20immigration%20court.\">Officers can’t also ask about your immigrant status.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I’m arrested by police as an onlooker?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At that point, ACLU’S Thacher recommends that you reply, “‘I’m not going to answer any questions. I’d like to talk to a lawyer.’ Say this as respectfully and as calmly as you can at that moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if you end up being put under arrest, always ask the officers, ‘Why?’ Don’t try to argue. ‘Why am I being arrested?’ And then say you wish to remain silent after that,” Thacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main advice that I would give is for anyone who was arrested [at the Dolores Hill bomb event is] if they’re asked to give a statement by the district attorney or juvenile probation or the police there, they’re not required to give a statement, or submit to an interview,” Lederman said. She would advise not giving such a statement or interview “without getting advice from an attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are detained and the police say you’re not free to leave, you still don’t have to give a statement or submit or answer any questions,” said Lederman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If police are seeking to question you when you’re under arrest, when you’re taken into the jail, you will have to answer some basic booking questions,” said Lederman. “But you don’t have to answer questions about the incident that has led to your arrest. Only a judge can order you to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you forget this advice in the moment, and begin talking to the police? Even after you’ve done this, “you can still invoke your right to remain silent,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where can I find a free attorney?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are lower-income or if you are under 18, you’re entitled to a free lawyer, a public defender, or court-appointed free lawyer, affirms Lederman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Access-to-Justice/Pro-Bono/Pro-Bono-Directory/San-Francisco-Area\">find pro bono (free) legal services for the San Francisco Bay Area in this resource\u003c/a> from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can the police search my belongings?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because police may try to conduct a search, and track you down at an event in order to do so, Lederman said that “it’s a good idea to actually say out loud, ‘I do not consent to a search.’ Because silence can be interpreted as consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if your instinct is to cooperate, you can still say no, said Lederman — who also notes that “in general, police are more likely to ask for consent when they don’t have the legal right to do a search without your consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, she said, “it’s really best just to decline and say ‘I don’t consent to a search.’ Even if they start searching, it’s important to just verbalize that you don’t consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said it is important not to physically resist the search, because it could result in getting hurt or getting an extra criminal charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are actually under arrest, the police can search your person and they can search the belongings that you have with you without your consent, and without a warrant,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about your phone? Lederman said that if the police don’t have a warrant, they can take your phone from you, “but if they ask you to unlock your phone, you don’t have to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re heading into a situation that may potentially become intense or volatile, like a protest, technology and civil rights experts often recommend you investigate ways to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">temporarily turn off your phone’s ability to be unlocked with Face ID or your fingerprint\u003c/a> — because these unlocking techniques may allow anyone, including the police, to try to access your phone by holding it up to your face, or putting your thumb on it. Instead, you might consider using a multi-digit passcode to unlock your phone, which you cannot be forced to give.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I record the police?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a clearly established right in California, and pretty much all over the country, to record or video police action,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that if you’re so close to a police officer that you’re actually interfering with or obstructing their action, “You could get in trouble for that” said Lederman. “But you have a clear legal right — a First Amendment right — to video the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Videotaping and recording is a really good tool for police accountability,” Lederman said. “We can’t really count on the police body cameras to fill that need necessarily because police can switch them on and off. They don’t necessarily capture everything: So the citizen footage can be quite important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">KQED has a lengthy explainer on your rights to record the police\u003c/a> — and how to stay safe doing it and what possible pitfalls there are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thacher said people should remember the details of problematic encounters with the police they might be troubled by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Try to include the time, the date, the location, the officers’ badges and patrol car numbers,” she advised. “Just that information can be helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Document any injuries you’ve sustained as an onlooker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a person has been injured — “for example, by the plastic zip tie handcuffs” that appear to have been used on minors by police at the Dolores Hill bomb — they should document these injuries with photographs ASAP, Lederman said. People should document if they have marks or any continuing problems with those injuries and what medical attention they got to take care of them if they wish to seek compensation for them.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I would just document all that,” Lederman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"childrendetained\">\u003c/a>What should parents and caregivers know about minors being arrested at an event like the Dolores Hill bomb?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lederman said while kids are being held by the police, “there’s just not a lot that the parents can do” — besides calling and going to the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a sizable group of parents who went out to try to pick up their kids, even while the kids were being held for hours and hours just sitting on the street,” Lederman said. “The police refused to release the kids to their parents, and instead put them on buses to drive them to Mission Station, which is just very close to where they’re being held [at the event].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of police choosing to do a full processing on these minors, Lederman said, “some of the kids didn’t get out until four in the morning. I heard about kids having to walk home by themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police didn’t call families until maybe just before they were going to release the kids and so, because they had taken the kids’ phones when they detained them, really a lot of these children were just held incommunicado — and parents didn’t know where they were,” said Lederman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what parents and caregiver can do in a situation like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seek counseling, document any injuries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman recommends that if possible, parents and caregivers explore seeking counseling for their kids if they were arrested at the Dolores Hill bomb — and again, that any injuries are documented swiftly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resist the impulse to insert yourself at the police station\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thacher said families should “not to try to go to the police station and explain your child’s current conduct, or what you view your child’s conduct was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”Really, it’s better to remain silent and get a lawyer and figure out what happened,” she advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prep your kids for a situation like this\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who’ve been arrested have the right to make a phone call, and for this reason, your child should be able to memorize their parents’ or caretakers’ number. 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Individual phone numbers are also made available to the public on \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/departments/police-commission\">the SF Police Commission site\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/meeting/july-12-2023/july-12-2023-police-commission-meeting\">The next meeting of the commission\u003c/a> is July 12 at 5:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Thacher said if people were to be swept up in an event like this, they are invited to contact a civil liberties organization for advice and potential legal next steps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/get-help\">ACLU Northern California’s page on needing legal help\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/legal-hotline/\">First Amendment Coalition’s legal hotline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ office confirmed Monday she is dismissing charges against former San Francisco Police officer Kenneth Cha, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894821/sf-da-charges-officer-with-homicide-in-2017-on-duty-shooting-of-sean-moore\">fatally shot Sean Moore at his home in 2017\u003c/a>. Her predecessor, Chesa Boudin, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894821/sf-da-charges-officer-with-homicide-in-2017-on-duty-shooting-of-sean-moore\">filed voluntary manslaughter charges\u003c/a> against Cha in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s awful,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949359/i-need-to-be-able-to-go-on-with-my-life-sean-moores-mother-is-still-awaiting-justice-years-after-her-son-was-killed-by-sfpd\">Cleo Moore, Sean Moore’s mother\u003c/a>, told KQED. “He killed him. And I can’t change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Jenkins said she could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Cha did not act in self-defense. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23866697-screenshot-2023-07-03-at-32526-pm\">her explanation for dropping Moore’s case (PDF)\u003c/a>, Jenkins pointed to the fact that former District Attorney George Gascón did not originally prosecute Cha when he was in office. Boudin, once he took over the DA role, did later file charges against the officer. Jenkins has said Boudin took on the police shooting case for “political reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11949359,news_11950914,news_11950110 label='Related Stories']Jenkins has now dropped all three police shooting cases that Boudin initially filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Moore’s subsequent death, tragic as it is, did not change the analysis, which is grounded in the events that occurred at the time of the incident,” Jenkins said in an email to KQED. “At this time we draw the same conclusion that was explained in the declination under Gascón, and can not ethically prosecute this case in good faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/da-brooke-jenkins-to-drop-last-sfpd-police-shooting-case-family-says/\">Mission Local first reported Jenkins’ decision\u003c/a> on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, 46, was in his Ocean View apartment on Jan. 6, 2017, when police knocked on his front gate to respond to a neighbor’s noise complaint. He yelled at the officers to leave, and when he finally opened the gate and stood at the top of the stairs, officers yelled at him to get to the ground. Moore refused, and Cha’s partner struck Moore with a baton just before Cha shot Moore twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11267532/s-f-police-shooting-wounded-man-in-psychiatric-crisis-body-camera-footage-withheld\">Moore had been struggling with mental health challenges\u003c/a>, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and appeared aggravated when officers responded to the neighbor’s complaint, according to video footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He died of his injuries three years later, while serving an unrelated sentence at San Quentin State Prison. The cause of death was found to be an obstruction in his stomach related to scar tissue from the earlier gunshot wound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin took office in 2020, and in 2021 he filed a case against Cha for Moore’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins later replaced Boudin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">in a recall election in 2022\u003c/a>. This case is the third and final police shooting Boudin pursued during his term. Jenkins has since moved to dismiss all three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No district attorney has ever successfully brought charges against a San Francisco police officer for an officer-involved shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I will hold law enforcement or anyone accountable who violates the law, I have a sworn duty to follow the facts and evidence—period,” Jenkins wrote in her decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Jenkins dropped charges against a police officer who in 2019 shot Jamaica Hampton. Hampton survived his injuries but had to have his leg amputated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Jenkins also dropped a case involving former SFPD officer Christopher Samayoa, who shot and killed Keita O’Neil, who was fleeing on foot after a suspected carjacking. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942654/demonstrators-demand-state-take-up-keita-oneil-homicide-case-ahead-of-tuesday-deadline\">After public outcry\u003c/a>, California Attorney General Rob Bonta reviewed Jenkins’ decision in O’Neil’s case, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950226/judge-dismisses-case-for-san-francisco-police-officer-who-shot-and-killed-keita-oneil\">he ultimately sided with Jenkins\u003c/a>. 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The next year, then-San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged SFPD Officer Kenneth Cha with manslaughter, only the second time in city history an officer was charged regarding an on-duty killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11950921 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023.jpg\" alt='A group of people are gathered on the steps of the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. One woman is behind a walker. Many have signs in their hands that read, \"Justice for Sean Moore,\" \"Say his name Sean Moore.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family of Sean Moore and their supporters gather outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in this newest delay, the defense attorney for Cha, Scott Burrell, hinted how he may seek to have the case thrown out. In court Friday, which he attended via Zoom, Burrell said the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office under Boudin may have withheld evidence helpful to his client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m preparing a motion, an important motion, based on irregularities of this case, based on information I just received, related to Brady issues, related to how this case was handled from the very beginning,” Burrell told Superior Court Judge Loretta M. Giorgi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brady rule that Burrell invoked prevents prosecutors from withholding evidence that could help the defense in their case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Sean Moore' tag='sean-moore']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case was initially prosecuted by the previous office,” Burrell said, referring to Boudin, who was recalled by voters last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m aware,” Giorgi dryly responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s office is now under the purview of Brooke Jenkins. The prosecutor assigned to the case, Darby Williams, did not object to Burrell’s request for an extension. In fact, she asked for an additional week of delay due to what she called a “personal issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cha was responding to a noise complaint at 4 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2017, when he and his partner arrived at Moore’s front gate. Moore, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, argued with officers and a fight ensued. Cha shot Moore twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11950923 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023.jpg\" alt='People gather on the steps of the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. A news reporter holds out an ABC7 microphone toward a woman with shoulder-length, brown hair and a navy coat on. Many people surround her. Some people hold signs that read, \"Police accountability now!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Rebecca Young speaks alongside the family of Sean Moore and their supporters outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Young, a private attorney who headed the Cha case before being fired by Jenkins — among many Boudin-era staffers — said she believes Burrell will seek to dismiss the case using arguments from a letter Jenkins wrote when she sought to dismiss the Keita O’Neil case in February. Jenkins claimed Boudin acted improperly when he brought charges against SFPD Officer Christopher Samayoa, who fatally shot the unarmed O’Neil in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11950922 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023.jpg\" alt='A woman with a green headscarf and black face mask holds a green sign that reads, \"Justice for Sean Moore!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMoorePressConf_05262023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A supporter holds a sign that reads, ‘Justice for Sean Moore.’ Many gathered outside the Hall of Justice to support Cleo Moore, the mother of Sean Moore. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Think he’s taking his lead from what Brooke Jenkins said when she dismissed the case against Officer Samayoa,” said Young, who attended the court hearing Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore’s mother, Cleo Moore, 84, expressed frustration that the case against the officer who killed her son would be delayed yet again.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cleo Moore, mother of Sean Moore\"]‘That’s my child. He did not deserve to be killed.’[/pullquote]“I’ve heard from different people how sometimes [attorneys try to] delay the system,” she said. “They wear you out and you get tired, and then you don’t show up to represent. I don’t know if that’s true. But I’m coming. I’m coming. I’m not tired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s my child. He did not deserve to be killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new team of officers from the California Highway Patrol and the California National Guard will step in to train and assist San Francisco Police in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947448/there-to-save-a-life-san-francisco-bars-fight-fentanyl-overdoses-with-narcan\">disrupting fentanyl\u003c/a> dealing and trafficking, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobilization comes as overdose rates in the city have increased 41% across \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/2023%2004_OCME%20Overdose%20Report_0.pdf\">the first three months of this year (PDF)\u003c/a> compared with \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/2022_OCME%20Overdose%20Report_0.pdf\">the same time period in 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, when the city was operating a supervised consumption site. Trained staff at \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/reducing-fatal-and-non-fatal-overdoses-tenderloin#overdoses-reversed-at-the-tenderloin-center\">the facility reversed 333 overdoses in 11 months\u003c/a> before the facility closed, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those who traffic drugs, guns, and human beings are not welcome in our communities,” said Newsom in a press release. “That’s why we’re launching this operation. This is not about criminalizing people struggling with substance use — this is about taking down the prominent poison peddlers and their connected crime rings that prey on the most vulnerable, and harm our residents. While it’s true that San Francisco is safer than many cities its size, we cannot let rampant crime continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS31296_GettyImages-968048630-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a politician in a navy blue suit with navy and white tie, stands speaking from a podium with the U.S. and California state flags behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS31296_GettyImages-968048630-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS31296_GettyImages-968048630-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS31296_GettyImages-968048630-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS31296_GettyImages-968048630-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS31296_GettyImages-968048630-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Friday, April 28, 2023, that a new team of officers from the California Highway Patrol and the California National Guard will step in to train and assist San Francisco police in disrupting fentanyl dealing and trafficking. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Starting May 1, CHP officers will help investigate opioid trafficking cases and train local police in identifying intoxicated drivers, city officials said on Friday. The effort will have a particular focus on the Tenderloin neighborhood, where the majority of overdose deaths have occurred this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional CHP units will also patrol hot spots for drug dealing in the city “as workload allows,” according to the press release about the plan. So far, 75 CHP officers have been stationed in the San Francisco area, CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee told reporters at a press conference on Friday. He said he expects that number to increase to 84 in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 14 members of the California National Guard (Cal Guard) will work remotely with SFPD on non-patrol operations such as improving administrative systems and responses to drug-related crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, San Francisco police have made more than 300 arrests for possession with intent to sell and seized 150% more fentanyl in the first three months of 2023 compared to 2022, according to the mayor’s office. On Tuesday, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced multiple charges against a 23-year-old arrested for carrying 11 pounds of fentanyl, an opioid about 50 times more potent than heroin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fentanyl has been involved in the vast majority of recent overdose deaths in San Francisco, data from the Office of the Medical Examiner shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials on Friday did not state what the long-term plan for the intervention would entail, but seemed aware of how \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/city-hall/analysis-political-history-haunts-mayor-breed-as-she-attempts-another-tenderloin-cleanup/\">similar crackdown efforts\u003c/a> in the neighborhood in the past and even \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/da-jenkins-threatens-drug-dealers-with-more-jail-time-harsher-penalties-as-sf-fentanyl-crackdown-expands/\">more recently\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drug-overdose-deaths-2023-17904060.php#:~:text=Quarterly%20accidental%20overdose%20deaths%20in%20San%20Francisco&text=Deaths%20reached%20a%20peak%20of,in%20Quarter%201%20of%202023.&text=Fentanyl%2Drelated-,The%20numbers%20are%20preliminary%20and%20subject%20to,more%20death%20investigations%20are%20completed.\">not shown success at slowing down sales, public drug use or overdose deaths\u003c/a> in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Fentanyl' tag='fentanyl']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we deploy large amounts of officers, the problem tends to go away while we are there,” said San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott. “The last thing we want to do is clean the streets up for a week, a month, then everyone goes back to what they were doing again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Justice and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, both of which have called for tougher enforcement around drug dealing as public scrutiny over the overdose crisis mounts, are also supportive of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fentanyl crisis is impacting our residents, workers, and businesses, and it requires all of us working together to disrupt the flow of drugs in San Francisco while also making sure we have treatment for those struggling with addiction,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will send a strong message to those who are perpetrating these crimes,” she later said at Friday’s press conference.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘The fentanyl crisis is impacting our residents, workers, and businesses, and it requires all of us working together to disrupt the flow of drugs in San Francisco while also making sure we have treatment for those struggling with addiction.’[/pullquote]The proclamation Friday was reminiscent of Breed’s bold claim in 2021 that the city would crack down on the “bulls— that has destroyed our city,” which she said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/mayor-london-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-san-franciscos-troubled-tenderloin/\">announcing an emergency plan\u003c/a> to address the drug and overdose crisis in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That effort brought together multiple city agencies to ramp up enforcement of dealing, clear sidewalks and offer new public health responses to drug use such as opening what became a supervised consumption site called the Tenderloin Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility closed at the end of 2022, a few months after Newsom vetoed legislation that would have allowed San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland to pilot safe consumption sites. Breed said the plan was only meant to be temporary and, on Friday, added the center “didn’t quite work out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut.jpg\" alt='A blue and yellow sign reads, \"Tenderloin Linkage Center Entrance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents wait in line to get into the Tenderloin Linkage Center (also known as the Tenderloin Center), a now-defunct safe consumption site in San Francisco, on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the closing of the Tenderloin Center and the emergency plan’s winding down, overdose rates have again increased in 2023, data from the Office of the Medical Examiner shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, public safety advocates applauded the governor’s decision to increase law enforcement around the issue, at a time when the \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/03/police-staffing-crisis-san-francisco/\">San Francisco Police Department is struggling\u003c/a> to recruit and retain a full workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the mere presence of our officers we believe will help deter and disrupt criminal activity,” Duryee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said that his plan “will not seek to criminalize those struggling with substance use and instead focus on disrupting the supply fueling the fentanyl crisis by holding drug suppliers and traffickers accountable,” according to a press release on the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But addiction experts and advocates for people who use drugs say the move could nonetheless have unintended consequences, and negatively affect people who struggle with addiction and lack access to housing, health care or other support systems.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dan Ciccarone, professor, UCSF\"]‘The outcome they want is to disturb the fentanyl supply. But usually these events are short-lived, and when they go away, the drug supply rebounds.’[/pullquote]“The outcome they want is to disturb the fentanyl supply. But usually these events are short-lived, and when they go away, the drug supply rebounds,” said Dan Ciccarone, professor and expert in addiction at UCSF. “When that happens, people die. People reduce their tolerance during the prohibition and go back to normal use when the supply rebounds and overdose rates shoot up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporters on Friday asked Breed whether she shared concerns from some community members that the federal support and stricter law enforcement approach could replicate some of the devastation of the war on drugs, which \u003ca href=\"https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/the-war-on-drugs-as-structural-racism/\">fueled overrepresentation\u003c/a> of Black and Latino people imprisoned for drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have more concerns about the number of people who are dying of drug overdoses and the families and people struggling in their neighborhoods,” Breed responded. “I want the streets to be safe … and part of that includes all of the great programs we are doing, but there has to be accountability attached to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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A total of five supervisors who approved the “killer robot” policy, as it has been referred to, decided to flip the off switch on the literal remote-controlled killing machines this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has changed in seven days. San Francisco’s vote has renewed a fierce national debate sparked years ago over the ethics of using robots to kill a suspect and the doors such policies might open. Largely, experts say, the use of such robots remains rare even as technology advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael White, professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, said even if robotics companies present deadlier options at trade shows, police departments won’t necessarily buy them. 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