as commanding officer of park station i was looking forward to sharing with you the outstanding office actions of these officer. however, i will stand down for officer solomon. i would be remiss if i did not mention and acknowledge that this is the last medal of valor award ceremony that mark will attend as an active member of the standards as the police department. mark is retiring next friday after a 32-year career. at present mark solomon. [applause] >> please, it is not about me. it is about them. thank you. thank you. it is my distinct honor to stand before you and speak on behalf of these fine officers, sergeant scott ryan, a albertalbert lieu and reyes. tuesday, june 7, 2011, the fbi contacted the san francisco police department robbery abatement team providing them with specific information about two incidents that occurred in irvine, california. an armed white male suspects driving a gray bmw had committed to armed bank robberies. the suspect had already proven himself dangerous and desperate when he attempted to run down responding deputy sheriffs in order to effectively esca

((towing nats)) before it c to this...parking officers e - a >>> anyone looking to park in san franciscoware, think twice about how you park. kpix 5's anne makovec tells us why fighting a parking ticket in court just got more difficult. >>> reporter: before it comes to this, parking officers have one more step to take, a picture of the infraction in action. in san francisco, they are using these little machines to both write a ticket and take photographic evidence. >> this is a logical progression in technology that gives both parties more information about what happened in this incident. >> reporter: because the city that's infamous for handing out parking tickets also has a lot of drivers contesting them. >> we put a lot of resources into the hearing process when people complain. >> reporter: there are so many complaints one driver started keeping track creating a website. we spoke with him about the new policy by phone. >> surprised they haven't done it already. >> reporter: he thinks it will force officers to get real. >> they would have to stop and consider and say yes, this person

one case involving neglect of duty on two occasions the police officer parked in front of a building that he was not to be there and he was admonished. and a sergeant unlawfully detained a complaint while he was at the liquor store. he walked the complainant to his house. the sergeant and other officers seized items from the person's room and did not a search warrant. in our last case a sergeant violated a case by failing to notify the department he received a bad report and that includes my report >> any other questions for dr. hicks? >> line item 3 c. discussion for the commissioners report >> i have nothing to report in the president gave me nothing to report. commissioners nothing to report? >> this last week, i met the assignment patrol issues. i talked through the status of patrol officers comprising xhil with our rules. there continues to be issues. some people were working without approval of the commission. just to calendar this so we can all get the information and ask what's happening of the patrol specialists. i'm calendaring this for september 11th. i looked on the calen

. >> reporter: if bart does not destrike, drivers can expect to see chp officers parked right here watching for car violators like last month. and expects enforcement. >> know that we understand that there is going to be more vehicles on the road way. >> highway patrol officer driving to keep traffic going in case there is a strike. >> the bart strike, a lot of commuters are going to be switching to their cars because there is no good form of transportation especially from the far east bay, you are looking at people coming in from pittsburgh and antioch. >> nearly all day from 5:00 in the morning until 7:00 at night. officers are pointed out of several hov lanes violated without stopping them. >> is the truck behind me trying to get to the lane, he's also solo. >> boards already highlighting the changes. >> beside the boards the chp will be tweeting and following all traffic information through 511. org. >> well, i have no cars. >> she's all alone wait for her bus waiting to get to her sister, a trip that she moves on just in case. >> next week because i know it is going to be better this w

one case involving neglect of duty on two occasions the police officer parked in front of a building that he was not to be there and he was admonished. and a sergeant unlawfully detained a complaint while he was at the liquor store. he walked the complainant to his house. the sergeant and other officers seized items from the person's room and did not a search warrant. in our last case a sergeant violated a case by failing to notify the department he received a bad report and that includes my report >> any other questions for dr. hicks? >> line item 3 c. discussion for the commissioners report >> i have nothing to report in the president gave me nothing to report. commissioners nothing to report? >> this last week, i met the

unlike a parking enforcement officer you might see on the street you can't plead your case like this trying to do what are you doing? you see she parked in a commercial loading zone the red top is an indication she told the parking officer her passenger was disabled so she should get a break. nats: it has nothing to do with handicapped. she tried hard to plead her case but it was too late so she took her frustration out on the nearest person who happened to be me. nats: i teach ethics, don't you ever touch my camera and you just get that thing out of my face don't you ever touch my camera. again and you allow him to do that well i cant do anything about it you just wnt to provoke me that all. so the cameras on the bus do have a slight benefit on one is going to attack the bus unless the giants win the world series. the buses can only get you if you are double parked or parking in a bus zone, which by the way is a 271 dollar ticket. the buses can't catch city workers parked illegally and guess what the city worker has to pay the ticket not the city. so a little advice. as the sfmta add

the slabs are moving from an office park owned by a frankfurt native who bought the pieces after the wall fell in 1989. the city is expected to place them in front of the public library. i've seen those up close and personal. very cool. >> they're huge, aren't they? >> yeah. ten feet tall. that's times two of me. >> maybe three or four. >>> 4:39 right now. let's check in with christina loren to see what's happening outside. good morning. >> good morning to you. happy thursday. so close to the weekend now. we are going to get spoiled this weekend. the envy of the nation. what's happening is all that monsoonal moisture is moving north, headed out of here. that means our fire threat has diminished overnight. we still have some lightning strikes just to our east, especially over the spine of the sierra nevada just like yesterday. most of the thunder and lightning will be well north of the bay area today. the chance will continue to decrease as we head throughout the next couple days. no red flag warnings. our first time this week waking up with no fire danger in the north bay when it com

closer to home, police in palo alto on the hunt for two armed men who robbed a couple in a post office parkingot that married couple was dropping letters off at the post office on east bayshore road. this happened just after midnight. that's when a car pulled up next to them and two men got out. one of those men pointed a gun at the couple and demanded cash. the husband wisely complied. the gunman took the money and drove off, heading north to east palo alto. >>> and we are getting new images of the people who broke into a tiffany's jewelry store in walnut creek. this happened earlier this month. overnight, police releasing surveillance images of the thieves and their vehicles. they were shot just before the break-in actually happened. you can see them here. pictures showing six people meeting out in a parking lot where police say they removed the license plate from a white chevy trail blazer that was later used as a getaway car. >>> right now, a preview of an exclusive investigative unit report. paramedic inside one of the bay area's largest emergency response systems sounding an alarm. the p

you can't build a highway so that you can create another suburb, you can't build an office park coming you can't build an outsider of the boundary. there are ways to achieve that in the defacto sort of way through the regulations and these are the kind of plans that will come as sustainable community initiatives. another reason people don't focus on it is technically right now all of the plans will be voluntary. they won't have the force of law. one of the options the president will have when they begin to come out is conditioning the receipt of the various forms of the federally a local adherence to the plan so obama could say do you want your transportation money and federal education and federal housing aid? if you what came out in the federally funded plan and we don't know for sure if he's going to do that but that is what they have been pressing him to do, and if he does that it could have a transformative effect on the country. so that is one set of policies that stop people from moving at the suburbs or to press people from the suburbs back into the cities and i can give you mo

if someone tries to fight the parking ticket, officers have photographic evidence to justify it. parking officers issued 1.5 million citations in 2011. that's actually down from 2 million in 2005. >> kind of like rubbing it in. they got a big old ticket, here is a picture in case you didn't know what's happening here. >>> 5:25. let's check back in with christina loren to tell us what's happening for the weekend. >> it is going to be nice. it's going to be really nice, especially if you're looking for one last summer hurrah. temperatures coming up as we head throughout saturday and sunday. this morning we're actually tracking showers on the radar. so thanks for waking up with us each and every day, especially on a friday. let's find out if it's friday light with our own anthony slaut sgler things are pretty good. we have one accident on the altamont pass approaching dublin on 580 westbound, over near the 680 northbound connector. you can see it is starting to cause slowdowns as more traffic is starting the flow into this area. crews are in route because of the accident. the ambulan

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name is ian kalen, hottved by the department of energy and i suort thuous us chief technology officer todd park who is not the cto, but assistant to the president. >> and i'm peter hirschberg, run publicly a dozen hack-a-thon, [speaker not understood], build apps and explore what's possible. >> i'm chris, the co-founder and ceo of 100-plus and we use data from many different sources to try to help people be more healthy in their daily life. >> hi. [speaker not understood]. we're a mapping and location-based analytics platform. and we are working with open data and trying to see how we can turn data into information, data into knowledge, and the kind of decision products. >> hi, i'm john, ceo of motion loft. we're trying to understand how people move around cities and provide that data to the public to build new tools for public safety. >> hi, i'm [speaker not understood] with code for america. we're a peace core for geeks. we're trying to bring talent from the private second for and government to innovate. we work with dozens of citieses across the country and next year we should be working wit

seen increase in the number of security guards out here, and also we've seen a number of officers patrolling the parking lot here. one thing is for sure, now that baltimore county officials have stepped in on the problems that have been happening here, neighbors are breathing a sigh of relief. >> that leads nowhere. >> cell phone video shows the weekly hassle neighbors of skate land have dealt with. droves and drefs of teens pouring out of the popular venue and too often causing problems. >> it is chaos, and we don't let them in our business because they destroy things. >> scott works at denny's next-door, a fellow employee shot this cell phone video last week before things got out of control. after closing teens poured out of skate land, running onto the road and causing trouble. can you see officer has to face off with the teens. >> they'll come out in hoards, like 40 or 50 of them at a time and they'll jump on people's cars in the parking lot. >> skateland patrons have caused so many problems this week the county refused to renew the hall's license which allowed it to put on a popular club night. no

he spots an officer ticketing an suv illegally parked in a bus stop. er is followed to the next violation, she lets jimmy justice know he's in a no-standing zone. >> ow! what are you hitting me for? >> sir, move away from -- >> why are you hitting me? you have no permission to touch me. you just broke the law! you broke the law! you assaulted me. >> as quickly as she arrives, the parking enforcement officer moves on. again, no charges are filed. it's all just a typical day on the streets for a video vigilante. >> i've been assaulted, i've been spit at, i've been pushed and i've had cameras broken. i've been threatened with arrest. i've been threatened with bodily harm. the only way that i'm going to stop is when police officers and other city officials stop breaking the law. >> for anyone looking to follow in his footsteps, jimmy justice says he has some rules. >> never, ever interfere with the police while they're doing their job during an emergency. always keep a safe distance. and never physically confront the police. >>> coming up -- >> everybody si

by the foothills outside oakland o, california, the santa rita jail could be mess taken for an office park if not for the mile and a half or so of razor wire lining its perimeter. most o of the roughly 2700 male inmates and 300 female inmates are only charged with crimes and awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. >> some people think it is a joke and fun. it is not fun. it is not a game. it is not a joke. it is real life and i don't want to be here. >> deputies face new problems and challenges every day. >> stay down. >> among the most dangerous is when inmates bring the conflicts from the street with them into the jail. >> better keep gang banking gangbangers. >> deputies just separated two such jen mates who got into a fist fight. they are temporarily placed in different cells but that doesn't stop their taunts. >> a real life beating. >> i [ bleep ] you every time. >> you [ bleep ] >> he beat your ass in front of the please and everything because you already know what's up. >> hold on. hold on. >> the two inmates of cory long. >> have anything on you? >> no. >> and ivan robins

surrounded by the foothills outside oakland, california, the santa rita jail can be mistaken for an office park not for the mile and a half or so of razor wire lining its perimeter. >> hey. >> most of the roughly 2,700 male inmates and 300 female inmates are only charged with crimes and are all awaiting trial and the resolution of their cases. >> some people think it's a joke and it's fun, man. this ain't fun. it's not a game. it's not a joke. it's real life, and i don't want to be here. >> deputies face new problems and challenges every day. >> stay down. stay down until i leave the room. >> among the most dangerous is when inmates bring their conflicts from the street with them into the jail. >> [ bleep ] trying to keep gang banging. gang banger. >> deputies have just separated two such inmates who got into a brief fist fight. >> you just ran out to see him. >> they are temporarily placed in different cells. but that doesn't stop their taunts. >> that [ bleep ] a real life [ bleep ]. >> i'm on you every time. >> you a [ bleep ]. i swear to god i'll beat your ass right in front of the police a

the new tool parking control officers are using to keep you from fighting tickets. >> and a new weapon against cancer. how this dog's super sense of smell could save women's lives. park. kpix 5's ann makovec tells us, why fighting a pag ticket in cour >>> anyone looking to park in san francisco, beware, think twice about how you park. kpix 5's anne makovec tells us why fighting a parking ticket in court just got more difficult. >>> reporter: before it comes to this, parking officers have one more step to take, a picture of the infraction in action. in san francisco, they are using these little machines to both write a ticket and take photographic evidence. >> this is a logical progression in technology that gives both parties more information about what happened in this incident. >> reporter: because the city that's infamous for handing out parking tickets also has a lot of drivers contesting them. >> we put a lot of resources into the hearing process when people complain. >> reporter: there are so many complaints one driver started keeping track creating a website. we spoke with him a

the ten-foot wall slabs are moving from an office park.in front of the public library in march on a recommendation from the visual arts committee. i remember you out there on that day when they were putting them out, you had a chance to be up close and personal. >> they're huge. >>> still ahead, fighting a wildfire with limited funds. we'll tell you why the feds could be facing a shortfall as flames rage out of control near yosemite. >>> posing as utility workers to get access to your house. we'll tell you about a new twist in the old scam by the east bay. >>> first we take you live outside to the golden gate bridge in all her glory as traffic rolls into san francisco without any delays so far on this thursday. mike is checking bay area roads for you. christina loren has a full look at that forecast. it's almost the weekend. you alzu made it. thanks for waking up with us. right now it's 6:27. stay with us. >>> federal firefighting funds drying up as wildfires burn out of control in yosemite. we'll tell you why there's faunding shortfall up

park police? >> the accountability and responsibility for, this this instance, firearms, is starting with the officerpervisors, the chief, the director of the park service to whom she reports to directly, and my office has the responsibility to periodically ensure that -- actually, all the law enforcement programs in the department follow departmental policy. that's our role. >> mr. jarvis, we have a dispute here. explain to me how we can have two totally different conclusion s, who messed up here? chief chambers? is it inspector general? >> the way i see it, mr. chairman, is that we have a inventory management issue, and that is exactly what the ig found. they came in, they could not reconcile weapons they saw in the u.s. park police possession against what should be a computerized data base. just, there was no reconciliation. they backed out. >> chief -- chief, were you or were you not able to reconcile the weapons inventory? >> at the time that the ig was there, we were not in a position to say with certainty, but we can say now that it's been recop siled. >> when were you there? when were you doi

the health data initiative launched by then the hhs health and human services chief technology officer todd park, we sought to have a health data palooza proceeded by health data jambs or modeling sessions, jams sounded more fun, we can invite entrepreneurs in and see what can be done and created real products within a few months. that is being rolled out at education, energy, treasury, u.s. aid, other agencies as well. these programs are celebrating the use of open data and hopefully will provide some additional support. i think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. we're excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the neutral. -- future. >> so, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how san francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. more broadly how do you think san francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data? >> i should be clear. when san francisco is third, we have a pact. i'll add to that actually. what's great in san francisco is there is not ju

park. palo o alto police have more officers at the park after the arobbery. two men approached them, pulled out a gun and demanded money. his child was not physically harmed. >> it's something that i haven't heard of in my career. somebody being targeted as a victim for a violent crime when they've got a very young child with them. it boggles my mind quite frankly. >> reporter: the father describes the first suspect as latino in his mid-20s, about 5'9" tall and 150 pounds. with dark brown hair, clean shaven and wearing a black t- shirt and black pants. and the second man is believed to be a black man in his mid- 20s, about 6'1", 200 pounds, black shirt and black pants. >> i would rather not think of it. here's another look at the two sketches. >> reporter: police are looking into whether these men were involved in another crime. police says that rare in palo alto. maureen naylor. >>> an alameda county judge revoked parol for a convicted rapist. convicted in the death of sandra koch. she is the federal investigator who disappeared earlier this month and who's

dennis rader, btk, was a compliance officer in park city, kansas.one of the hillside stranglers, worked as a security guard in california and washington. psychopaths love official jobs and uniforms. where were you the night of the 12th? are you saying you think this was me? answer the question! are you kidding me? you interviewed every adult male in the community? more than once. they're all digitized. were all the interviews confrontational like this? is that wrong? you didn't get much out of them, did you? no. that's when i started thinking maybe i needed some help. they don't have anything? after the second woman was killed, detective ruiz said they had evidence. the police are doing everything they can. and now you're telling me you have nothing? you have no idea who did this? i don't understand how something like this could happen and no one heard or saw anything. it's because the kind of person who does this spends their life practicing. and what they're good at is getting away with it. yeah, well, aubrey never hurt anybody in her whole life.

park. palo o alto police have more officers at the park after the arobbery. two men approached them, pulled out a gun and demanded money. his child was not physically harmed. >> it's something that i haven't heard of in my career. somebody being targeted as a victim for a violent crime when they've got a very young child with them. it boggles my mind quite frankly. >> reporter: the father describes the first suspect as latino in his mid-20s, about 5'9" tall and 150 pounds. with dark brown hair, clean shaven and wearing a black t- shirt and black pants. and the second man is believed to be a black man in his mid- 20s, about 6'1", 200 pounds, black shirt and black pants. >> i would rather not think of it. here's another look at the two sketches. >> reporter: police are looking into whether these men were involved in another crime. police says that rare in palo alto. maureen naylor. >>> an alameda county judge revoked parol for a convicted rapist. convicted in the death of sandra koch. she is the federal investigator who disappeared earlier this month and who's

. >> reporter: according to investigators, the men fled in a vehicle but were spotted by officers in a parking lot. one man ran away, the other sped off. the driver crashed into a fence and in trying to get away pinned the officer with the car. the officer then shot the suspect several times and he was taken to the hospital. >> i heard the shots and somebody hitting another car of some sort and i came out and noticed the guy was across the street and he was screaming help me, help me i've been shot. >> it just happened, you know? i mean, i don't know why it happened. i'm hoping they don't live around this area. >> reporter: police have not released many details about the man who was shot except to say he was 23 years old. live in san jose for ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a san jose grandmother is in the hospital after she was seriously hurt in a house fire. flames filled the home. firefighters went into the burning home on their hands and knees and pulled the woman out from a back bedroom. >> she wasn't breathing when they got there. they had taken her from the shower, i suppose. i hope everything

the department testimony says the office of law enforcement and security will work within the park service to provide additional oversight. that suggest that the office has not in the past been conducting adequate oversight of firearms inventory. did you conduct any oversight in response to the allegations of the 2009 report to ensure that recommendations were implemented? did you do anything for the 2009 report? >> we issued a variety of , and then we have since also looked and compared bureau of land management, the bureau of reclamation, and the fish and wildlife office of law enforcement to ensure that they have policies in place that we in the department identified from the 2009 report. so why was he not able to find any of that stuff? >>reerent bureaus. -- the process for the park service and the park police and that follow-up is scheduled for the next couple of months. the capacity we have in the department with seven law enforcement programs, we are going through them systematically. >> so they are different than the others, and i get that, but in 2009, it was supposed to be -- the

first experience, we will in the afternoons, for example, increase the hours that we have, parking control officers to help with traffic flow to and from the bridge and along the key downtown streets. we will also expand the casual car pooling areas down there to help people get around. and our work force did an extraordinary job in coming to work last time to allow us to provide the extra service to help to ease some of the hardship that we're talking about. but we're prepared to do everything we can. we'll have our management team out as ambassadors to provide information. so, we're committed to helping to ease the pain as best we can, but clearly expect crowding and there will be pain and no one will have -- going anywhere in the region who will have a normal kind of day. we can be assured of that. but we're prepared to do everything we can. >> [speaker not understood]. >> well, we will -- we are going to be ready as early as possible. obviously we're very aware of what's going on. we'll set up -- we have all of our plans in place. we learned, again from what we did last time, so, we expected pe

officer but by a security guard. this happened about 130 when he came to visit his father. he noticed that four suspects were apparently trying to break in cars and a parkingording to the public information's officers. he stated that one. the security guard so that he was pregnant he fired shots in the direction of the vehicle. >> the bill " was set up in his direction and the vehicle then, cost momentarily and a passenger in the vehicle got out of the vehicle and reached for the guard. >> this is unusual for a security guard to carry a weapon? >> no, it is not unusual. certain security guards are allowed to carry a firearm. and again, whenever the cole's in certain cases and they can. >> here is this lows of the video of the car that was found a mile away. the car was stolen and the police officers when they arrive they saw the suspect about a short distance away and he was arrested, he was shot, he is at the hospital being treated and they stated that he will be charged with breaking and entering. as far as the three other suspects that cannot be found and it is not an active search because they believe the trail has gone cold. >> the ten year old boy wh

. >>> palo alto police are stepping up patrols near a most office on bayshore road after an armed robbery in the parking lot. officers say two people in their 50s were mailing letters after midnight as they walked back to the car, two men got out of another car and approached them with a handgun. they demanded property, the man turned over his wallet. police are working today to identify the suspect. >> they will go back out and attempt to look at surveillance cameras and possibly reinterview the victims at this point. see if we've had any other similar or same crimes, anything that might tie this together. >> police are working on a sketch of the suspect. they are described as african- american. one was about 30 years old. 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. the other appeared a little younger, slightly shorter and about 170 pounds. the victims were not injured. >>> today prosecutors in the east bay are expected to wrap up their case against a former contra costa sheriff's deputy. the deputy is facing seven counts of extortion and conspiracy. he's accused of taking bribes in exchange for setting up men for dru

. >> reporter: before it comes to this, parking officers have one more step to take. a picture of the infraction in action. in san francisco, they are using little machines to write a ticket and take photographive evidence. >> this is a logical progression in energy that gives both parties information about what happened. >> because the city that is infamous for handing out parking tickets has a lot of drivers contesting them. >> we put a lot of resources into the hearing process. >> there are so many complaints, one driver started keeping track. creating watch.com, we spoke with him about the new policy by phone. >> i'm surprised they haven't done it already. >> he thinks it will force officers to get real. >> they would have to stop and consider and say yes, this person really is in this other person's driveway. >> it's not like taking pictures is new technology, but only became mandatory in july. some officers we spoke with are concerned about taking extra time and the machines don't have flashes. but the municipal transportation agency says it is better than nothi