tonight we remember former san francisco police chief corneleous murphy who died in august at the age of 84. major dianne feinstein appointed him in 1980 less than a year after the riots following the involuntary manslaughter conviction of dan white who gunned down mayor gasconi and harvey milk. leslie led the city through many years including many big scandals. >> reporter: murphy's six years as chief was born from turmoil. he took over for reign, fell from political grace after the dan white riots. murphy came in as a cop's cop. the famous sex party at a restaurant, there were questionable police practices with a raid. and a mock raid into a fifth grade classroom followed by swift reorganize nay -- reorganization. >> the thing that i look at is the negatives actually turned positive to make differences in the department that we wanted to do. we took those and used them as opportunities and we've been doing fairly well for the last six to eight months now. >> reporter: murphy says there's been some high points. the democratic convention, the queen's visit. murphy says he takes pride