take sot george gascon/ fiscal de sf in: 00;00;07;10 --- out: 00;00;20;22 george gascon dice: "es untragedia, y desafortunad amente en este caso tenemos evidencia que indica que el senor que estaba en la bicicleta, violo varias leyes del codigo de trafico." vo ---de acuerdo a la agencia municipal de transporte de san francisco, desde 2006, ha habido un incremento de un 7 porciento de personas que viajan en bicicleta... cu - anchor ---hoy es un dia muy especial para decenas de estudiantes de la academia "kipp heartwood" en el este de san jose ya que muchos de ellos logran el sueno de graduarse de la preparatoria... ---blanca garza se encuentra en el teatro california con mas informacion... ---blanca... cu - bump out ---tiempo de la primera pausa en noticiero telemundo 48 en alta definicion, pero mas adelante... take vo ---mire usted estas imagenes de un camion que termino literalmente encima de una casa en el este de la bahia... le tengo los detalles... take vo ---se publica el reporte independiente sobre el proceder de la policia de oakland durante las manifestaciones de los indignad

cu ---el fiscal de san francisco, george gascon....hoy que presentar cargos de homicidio vehicular contra chris bucherre, el ciclista que atropell a un anciano causandole la muerte. --el 29 de marzo, sutchi hui de 71 aÑos cruzaba la calle en la esquina de castro y market en compaÑia de su esposa, cuando fue impactado por bucherre. --el ciclista iba a alta velocidad y no pudo frenar a tiempo. ---hui... murio dias despues a raiz de las lesiones. take sot george gascon/ fiscal de sf in: 00;00;07;10 --- out: 00;00;20;22 "es un caso que es una tragedia, y desafortunad amente en este caso tenemos evidencia que indica que el senor que estaba en la bicicleta, violo varias leyes del codigo de trafico." vo ---de acuerdo a la agencia municipal de transporte de san francisco, desde el 2006 el nmero de personas que viajan en bicicleta subi un 7 por ciento. cu --varios vecinos de castro valley se llevaron un tremendo susto.... top vo ...cuando un camion recolector de basura comenz a rodar cuesta abajo y con 24 toneladas de peso, se incrusto contra u

the other is i completely agree with chief gascon. when he came in, there were 66 discipline cases pending. what i took over, there were 40. there are now less than 10. the turnaround time for captains investigations was 45 days. it is now 15. it is all towards dispensing the discipline, correcting any conduct that needs correcting, and getting the officer's back out on the street. some of the officers are subject to investigations by agencies outside the police department, for which i have no control, so those are sitting a little longer and are not subject to the expedited processes that have been put in place. i have to give credit to the police commission that came up with pretrial hearings. anyway, so we are expediting the process. there are not anywhere near as many cases hanging. they are turning them over fast, and i think that is the best way to do it. supervisor wiener: another question relates to cost recovery. i asked about this last year. i cannot remember if you were in debt during the last budget process. about the depa

gascon? >> i think one of the things i want to point out is that in terms of the changes currently taking place in california's criminal justice system is that we have embarked on a very, very large experiment and that's called realignment. prison population in california is going to approach by -- or sometime next year the federal mandate of 130,000. we've already released some 50,000 individuals to serve their time locally, and these offenses that we were talking about here are currently in the list of offenses that were to be served in county jails now. and if the notion here is to provide services and treatment to these individuals from a practical point of view, and i lean heavily on my experience as a misdemeanor prosecutor for all those years when we did possession offenses, when we tried many, many under the influence offenses, especially heroin, i don't see that under the current system that reducing these penalties from felony to misdemeanor is going to have any incentive for this p

gascon? >> i think one of the things i want to point out is that in terms of the changes currently taking place in california's criminal justice system is that we have embarked on a very, very large experiment and that's called realignment. prison population in california is going to approach by -- or sometime next year the federal mandate of 130,000. we've already released some 50,000 individuals to serve their time locally, and these offenses that we were

i would like to mention that on saturday, may 19 i attended the superintendent gascÓn pre-k-12 perfectattendance celebration in the boardroom. they had 70 awardees. it was a very nice family affair. we also had lunch for the families. thank you to the foundation for helping to organize that. i attended the graduation of trainings held by parents of our public school system. all chinese speakers. it was a five day series of training. every saturday for five weeks. they are now empowered it to be active participants in education. thank you. >> thank you. i wanted to acknowledge the 2011, 2012 teacher of the month award winners. we had 10 winners. i also wanted to thank the teachers' union for their support. all of the work they did to help support us. debra from the alternative school, mrs. rogers, jason thomas,laura from spring valley, marisa martinas, and robert. congratulations to the award winners. the principle of the year awards are going to be announced in the next day or so. one was already announced. it was announced at his retirement dinner by the mayor. he is our middle school

harris was elected to be the state of the new general, and gavin newsom elected george gascon to be the district attorney. when asked his position on the death penaltiy, hy, he said he wouldn't rule it out. this raised a lot of concern among opponents of the death penalty who thought this would be a step backward. he has written against the death penalty, and adheres to san francisco values. san francisco has not had a jury return a death verdict since 1989, which was 10 years before he said his office would not seek the death penalty. we thought this particular issue wanted a discussion and we are pleased to have a palace here today. let me introduce them more at length. geroge gastcocon has had a long career in law enforcement, and he works for decades in the l.a. police department, serving as the director of the office of operations in charge of patrol and detectives and special operations. he is considered to be an expert in matters of police accountability. john thompson spent 14 years on death row, and after his verdict was set aside he was then facing life in prison. he was fight

i just stepped out of a news conference with paul gascone. the defendants pleaded not guilty. this happened in the visitation valley of san francisco and meat avenue near jennings court just after 2:00 in the morning on june 4th. lupe mercado and barry gilton have been charged with the murder of calvin sneed. both say that sneed forced their daughter into prostitution. the district attorney says that they understand the parents' frustration if sneed were the pimp. however, the defense says they have had evidence that others who wanted to kill sneed. >> there were bullet fragments in him as a result of prior gang activity. >> there were other people with motive to kill mr. sneed. and the evidence produced so far does not prove that my clients are involved in this crime. >> we have evidence that the parents were in l.a., they actually attempted to kilt victim in l.a. there was a shooting there. >> reporter: the two will be back in court on monday in this case. i will tell you we will have more coming up tonight at 5:00 when ktvu's rob roth will continue the story. live in san fr

. >> again, a good example of this would be comstat, which did not exist until chief gascon established it. uniformed police officers went into the administrative job. so now you are not really civilianizing conmstat because it was never civilians in the first place. then, the officers came -- in the judgment of the chief, it was something that had happened, and it was a priority, enough to take folks off the street. i would love to have civilians do all the analysis so i could have those 13 officers back to do police work. >> i guess i could say of course that there is a frame of reference question here that the chief is bringing up. generally, for the reviews we're talking about, we have focused on the world as it existed in the year. the world as it existed last year had police officers performing these functions. the chiefs point is it did not exist five years ago, which is absolutely true, but it gets hard for us to perpetually reconcile back to a snapshot moment in time in 2004, so we continue to review the police department's operations in any given fiscal year and say where ther

herrera, also district attorney george gascon, and the mayor, they have violated my rights under the americans with disabilities act. they violated my rights, being a woman, being a black woman in the united states. i am appalled by this mr. justice. my case is much older than the case of ross mirkarimi. i should be here in the chambers with you against the

i also want to thank san francisco's district attorney george gascon who is at our public hearing at the safety committee a couple weeks back. george was there to speak on behalf of the bill we were working on together but he proactively came for this bill, s.b. 1506, to say that he's been law enforcement for 30 years and bring back 30-year experience to this consideration of this bill, and he said this bill makes sense because drug treatment works and this is in spite of the fact we'll be battling the district attorneys along with many other arms of public safety. [laughter] >> we've got the data, we've got the facts and we know this will provide great benefit to our communities, to our neighborhoods, and to all of california. thank you for your support. [applause] >> tal, i want to go back to the question that marty posed earlier, which is in effect this idea that in order to incentivize people making the decision to seek treatment that the fear of a felony conviction or possible state prison sentence could play a positive role. you talk to a lot of people charged with crimes who a

herrera, also district attorney george gascon, and the mayor, they have violated my rights under the americans with disabilities act. they violated my rights, being a woman, being a black woman in the united states. i am appalled by this mr. justice. my case is much older than the case of ross mirkarimi. i should be here in the chambers with you against the four supervisors, supervisors mar, cohen, scott, and wiener. it this case is recommended to go before the board, and the four supervisors that have a sunshine violation, 11048, i myself will file the complaint with the california state bar because it is a conflict of interest for them to pass judgment on ross mirkarimi when they have committed a misdemeanor, they have broken a state law, they are in violation, and i am appalled and outraged that they are not in here tonight. [bell] [applause] >> ice debusschere has been singled out, and i feel it is a double standard, including bias. in the past, but it has been 25 previous official misconduct cases referred to the thunder -- sunshine task force, which was discussed by the ethics

the district attorney george gascon says they were violating traffic laws and speeding when he plowed into a crowded crosswalk striking way. >>> attorneys for the san francisco couple jailed for allegedly killing their teenage daughter's pimp says the parents may have had a motive, but they didn't do it. friends and family showed up at the courthouse to show their support today. the couple is accused of gunning down22-year-old calvin sth eed in what they call a vigilante murder. they say sneed was a gang member who lived a dangerous life. >> he is a gang member. he has been involved in gang fights and shootouts in los angeles and there are many people who had a motive to do harm to him. we feel our clients are unfairly targeted. >> they appeared briefly in court, but the scheduled arraignment will be postponed until friday. >>> traffic is moving after a watermain break in san francisco. it happened just before 6:00 on market street. traffic was closed for about an hour as crews work to fix the break. still no word on what caused the problem. >>> coming up exin, pregnancy and -- coming

the district attorney george gascon says they were violating traffic laws and speeding when he plowed into a crowded crosswalk striking way. >>> attorneys for the san francisco couple jailed for allegedly killing their teenage daughter's pimp says the parents may have had a motive, but they didn't do it. friends and family showed up at the courthouse to show their support today. the couple is accused of gunning down22-year-old calvin sth eed in what they call a vigilante murder. they say sneed was a gang member who lived a dangerous life. >> he is a gang member. he has been involved in gang fights and shootouts in los angeles and there are many people who had a motive to do harm to him. we feel our clients are unfairly targeted. >> they appeared briefly in court, but the scheduled arraignment will be postponed until friday. >>> traffic is moving after a watermain break in san francisco. it happened just before 6:00 on market street. traffic was closed for about an hour as crews work to fix the break. still no word on what caused the problem. >>> coming up exin, pregnancy and -- coming

the district attorney george gascon says they were violating traffic laws and speeding when he plowedng way. >>> attorneys for the san francisco couple jailed for allegedly killing their teenage daughter's pimp says the parents may have had a motive, but they didn't do it. friends and family at the showed up at the courthouse to show their support today. the couple is accused of gunning down calvin calvin sth eed in what they call a vigilante murder. they say sneed was a gang member who lived a dangerous life. >> he is a gang member. he has been involved in gang fights and shootouts in los angeles and there are many people who had a motive to do harm to him. we feel our clients are unfairly targeted. >> they appeared briefly in court, but the scheduled arraignment will be postponed until friday. >>> traffic is moving after a watermain break in san francisco. it happened just before 6:00 on market street. traffic was closed for about an hour as crews work to fix the break. still no word on what caused the problem. >>> coming up exin, pregnancy and -- coming up next, pregnancy and drink

gascon, and i joined him when he moved over to the d.a.'s office. joining the office on his request, because i think we really have a unique perspective, having worked on the defense side and on policy issues, and i can attest that he is undertaking a wholehearted effort to really bring some reform to the criminal justice system on many fronts, this being one of them that we are evaluating. i hope that you as city and county residents will see in our work that we really take some efforts that will reform. anybody that has participated in the criminal justice system for any length of time knows that it does not work from whatever and will you are looking at it, so the question is how do we make it better? we hope to engage all of you in that. we are starting neighborhood courts, and a lot of efforts that we hope to engage the city and county in supporting us and looking at ways to move away from the over incarceration of people and look at ways to reform their behavior. the efforts we have undertaken when george was appointed to the position -- jeff

gascone says that chris bucchere will be charged for running down a 78-year-old people. he struck sutchi hui. the man later died. today, the district attorney says that bucchere was disregarding laws. >> we have an individual who had a need for speed. he was trying to break his own record >>> california democratic leaders say they will schedule a vote on the latest budget plan before tomorrow's deadline. that's before governor brown having said he will sign it. but lawmakers say they are on the same page. democratic leaders say their plan meets the governor's criteria for a balanced about jet but makes smaller cuts. >>> san jose police rushed to mallard court after getting reports of a fight. when they got there, a 35-year- old man had been stabbed. he was treated for serious injuries. police say the attackers ran off and are still on the loose. >>> the bay area nurses strike is over, but nurses who walked out yesterday are not back on the job today. nurses from 11 sutter hospitals staged a one-day strike yesterday. they had planned on returning to work today, but the ho

san francisco district attorney george gascon says the case is still pending and he has two more yearso decide whether or not to prosecute. the d.a. released a statement to ktvu says we encourage anyone with information to please come forward and contact the san francisco police department. meanwhile mcgovern struggles with his speech and has been forced to give up his dream job in environment seautys. >> i've had to put aside my education. >> reporter: he has dizzy spells, is prone to anger and has trouble concentrating. doctors told mcgovern that he will never be able to play futbol again because the risk for injury is too high. he does remain dedicated to the sport and plans to coach some day. but he realizes that his life has been forever changed. >> i just want justice to be served. >> reporter: tara moriarty. >>> a tour bus driver reports the scary situation he found on the road when two drivers were speed racing. the driver told us what happened near the high street exit. >> the guys were drag racing, they passed me on the left hand side. one passed the other one and they flippe