i've also been working -- am currently working with the city attorney, the police department, d.p.a., and the rest of the commission regarding sb1421, which gives community access to the police officers' records which were held in private before and required a motion filed in court in order for the community to receive such information. and we are currently in the process of devising policies and procedures for that. i am also leading the revision on the bias and discrimination d.g.o., also known as the department general order. part of being a police commissioner, we are responsible and tasked with creating policies and procedures for our police officers. and we're also tasked whip with the disciplinary matters that come before us. the d.g.o.s are very important to the officers because they're their guiding force in terms of what they should do when they're out in the field interacting with the community. we're almost at the finish line in reviving this d.g.o., which wasn't revised since 1998. i believe that the two -- the other tasks that i have been able to accomplish is reaching o

my pleasure. >> and we have a representative from the department of police accountability. i believe director henderson is here to let us know how they conduct investigations. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> thank you guys for calling the hearing. i'm paul henderson. i'm the director at the department of police accountability. i'm not going to presume that everyone knows how my agency works and what it does. i'm just going to give you a brief overview of some of the work that we do, and then i'll talk a little bit about the conversations and thoughts that i had with the subject that we're here today for. so the organization investigates d.p.a., the department of police accountability, investigates complaints. we make findings about misconduct. we write and produce policy. and most recently we also do extensive and indepth audits. the agency has been around since 1982. the voters have -- the issue of oversight and accountability has gone to the ballot two or three times with two prop "g"s and one prop "h," and all of them collectively vote expanded and define what the au

but again, you know, you're talking about a chicago police department that's already been struggling with a sullied reputation after police officer jason van dyke was found guilty of shooting 17-year-old black teen laquan mcdonald. there was an extensive coverup. when it came to truth-telling and when it came to, you know, being the shining light of truthfulness, the chicago pd unfortunately was not it. >> but i can't imagine, when you're pointing to the situation with laquan mcdonald, to bring up an example of issues happening with police departments around the country but our justice department in general, again, we're waiting to hear from jussie smollett, but we don't necessarily know who is at fault for what took place and why it is we landed where we are, which is charges being dropped and the case being expunged with regard to jussie smollett. walk me through some things we know about the chicago police department. >> sure. they've been under the gun for a lot of reasons. the police chief we saw at that press conference, he became police chief after there were some changes made

walter o'grodnick/bre ntwood police department: "this suspect here is the one that was observed holding a semi-automatic pistol in his hand while committing the burglary">brentwood police lt. walter o'grodick is showing surveillance images of a pair of men who allegedly committed a series of three residential burglaries monday between 9am & 4pm. one burglary in the deer ridge neighborhood and two here in shadow lake. lt. o'gronick says it has been a while since he has seen burglary spree in brentwood, especially one involving a firearmsot one of those concerned residents is nigel jesson. he says some of his neighbors are thinking about leveling up their home protection on a different scalesotlt. o'grodnick says luckily no one was home during these burglaries. he is asking for the community

at the police department, you have the copy machines, e-mails, all of that is all property of the department, is that right? >> yes. >> commissioner dejesus: so i guess what i'm trying to get at is these are very important reports, they're confidential especially when there's an ongoing investigation. what do you have in place to prevent somebody within the department of making a copy or a transfer or e-mailing a report off the premises without going through the channels that you just described for us? >> the general order, which says that these are the ways that you release the record. but the whole thing that you describes as far as making copies, that is generally the flow of how reports are made. so for instance, officer writes a report, it is signed off by a sergeant and a lieutenant. from there, those reports generally get printed out to go to the investigative detail so they have that hard copy, for instance, at a c.i.d. unit. >> commissioner dejesus: so you have the report, and you printed out -- it's all within the department, it's for official business within the department. it is

the police department is subject to accountability with a commission, why is the sheriff's department any different? the elected leader of law enforcement bodies should not have the 100% authority to determine the consequenses, if any, of proven misconduct on behalf of deputies. nor should the elected leader conduct its own investigations because it is impossible, virtually, for independent, unbias investigation, if that just be on the elected leader of a law enforcement entity. that is why we do not allow the fox to be in the hen house. you don't forfeit your humanity because you are incarcerated. you do not forfeit your humanity because you are incarcerated. rehabilitation, restorative justice, these terms exist because we know people can change and should be allowed to pay their debt to society without fear of retribution during incarceration. we know that there are allegations of misconduct. we know that there are investigations. we know that these investigations are conducted by the sheriff's department. that can no longer happen. so this hearing is therefore necessary to address

that has nothing to do with the police department. this case stinks and somebody needs to take a look at it. everybody wants to talk about police reform, accountability, transparency. you need to look at some of these prosecutors' offices as well. something is not right with this and if there was new evidence that came forward, i guarantee you eddie and the mayor would not be as forceful as they were in their conference and why would you seal it? nothing has changed other than the fact that this guy got to a judge, got to the state's attorney's office and they worked out a back door deal that threw the mayor and the police department under the bus, period. >> and the $10,000 is bond that was forfeited, does that cover a cost -- >> that's a joke. that's a joke. that doesn't even come close to covering the cost. that's not one day, you know. come on. everybody can see through this, at least you should be able to see through it. you just can't justify, why would you not give the superintendent a heads up? why would you have the court reco

job, he confiscated copies of the press because it ran articles of chief dick conquisto in the police department. deget did he get fired? no, he kept his job and eventually became head of the police officer's association for many years. gary delanis was a dirty cop. now he's a retired dirty cop. he may be alive on the outside, but on the inside, he is diseased with his putrid hate. i wonder what people will say about him after he's dead. >> president hirsch: okay. thank you. any other public comment? >> my name is john jones, and may my comments please the commission, there's a message that you get on the municipal railway. it reads as follows: get where you're going safely. keep your eyes up and your hands down while riding on muni. now, i don't have a car. i get around on muni, and a bicycle. but this is san francisco, the queen city of the west. people would die to live here. why is it that we have this kind of message on the muni? i know my answer. my question is rhetorical. but the people who ride the muni are by and large the most vulnerable among us. i call this to the attention of the co

department from 7 months to more than 12 years. miss a county district attorney's office pillay hope police and its internal affairs department are all still investigating this case part of those investigations did all they could to prevent a shooting... and, whether or not they should have tried to get mccoy's gun and remove him from the car by breaking through the plastic material replacing glass on the front passenger side window. mccoy's family filed a wrongful death claim against the police department late last month.nats- "anyone hit? i'm good, i'm good." philippe djegal, kron four news. (justine) less than an hour ago the family of willie mccoy spoke alongside their attorney john burris. addressing the actions of police in the video. take a listen. (justine) his arm with a gun in it no one sees that. you don't see him pointing a gun at someone at the office is what you expect the note what you say is him movie and in in common and bought a way. and the officers just left a flight to there was an execute it was a fine squad. >>when he was a sitting duck to that call. he was sleep. and anybody can see that he was sleeping that h

and so what we think of is, it's great to have a department of police accountability. what we need is a department of criminal justice accountability. that is broad and deep. so that when you have a hearing, all the interested parties are here to begin with. but when we go home, we're problem solving not in our protective silos, but for broader transparency with your own website so we can find the documents. we don't need to be spending half the day looking for the public information. so there is a structural problem to all the incidents that you hear. we need to find champions among you who are going to spend real creative and transformative time to submit, whether it's charter reform or it's something else. but no ordinances that just solve a problem within a silo. thank you. >> hi, my name is steffey. i'm a member of the public. the cases of assault and abuse talked about today are egregious and horrible. i also want to say that all jails are dangerous and unsafe places. and i urge you not to separate this hearing from that hearing that happened in october about the

the huang and yee families would like to express the deepest appreciation to the san francisco police department, the community and the d.a.s office. special recognition goes to captain feliciano and captain hart and by extension the entire department who has worked tirelessly to help them in their time of need. the family would like to thank supervisor shamann walton and the president of the board norman yee for bringing attention to this case. please try tried and true programs in chinatown and visitacion valley. the family wants this tragic incident to be an opportunity to address community unity and safety both in the immediate and long-term. this has been a trying time for the family as the beloved mother and grandmother remains in the hospital. she's making slightly improvements daily, and out of the intensive care unit. deep gratitude for all the medical personnel. the family continues to be moved by the outpouring of support for the family and well wishes for grandma huang. thank you. >> thank you. >> i believe i forgot to welcome sergeant ware. good to have some fresh blood -- and i've

this is interesting no this is the same chicago police department that was back in two thousand and seventeen department just for support to have a code of silence in effect to cover up wrongdoing the poor was sparked by the two thousand and fifteen shooting of look on macdonald in which the chicago p.d. you know was found to have this code of silence regarding the acts of bad officers why does the media why does the media continue to take the chicago police department at their word when the d.o.j. numerous studies even the f.b.i. has found them to be untrustworthy and deeply flawed. i want you guys in the which you probably already know that the storage in the hypocrisy that exists within the chicago police department is this a story the corruption is the story of the corruption is that the problem is that they've got a whole television shows and movies dedicated sort of corruption of the department in the last few years they paid over three hundred million dollars in this kind of the settlement so it was kind of excitement so we know it's not a game it's a corruption very seriously. it's a

>> i have colleagues here from the police department. there are many open investigations through the end of february we had four fatalities. typically we rate. my reporting is not released until the end of the calendar month. i think pd is the better agency to answer. >> is pd here to respond? what is the fatality report so far in 2019? >> eight. >> yes, i am captain of the police department. i oversee the traffic investigation unit. there are eight fatalities to date. >> how many were pedestrians? >> five were pedestrians. >> then bicycles? >> i have one bicycles and two motor vehicles. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i appreciate that. do you happen to have with you the severe traffic injury report of 2018? i see that we have numbers only to 2017? >> i have the fatalities from 2019. >> i will speak to that. the 2018 data is a collaboration of police data and san francisco general hospital trauma data. we have requested that. they have 60 days to close the patient data. when we receive it we will add it to the report. >> super

i have been talking with some sources at the police department, the mayor and the police department wille a statement within the next hour. there is a graduation going on at the police department. hopefully we will have a statement from the city. there was some improprieties in terms of people calling. there are so many questions about this in terms of how you move forward. it would be interesting to see what happens next. it's anyone's guess at this point. >> it has been anyone's guess to this point. i don't think for our viewers we can under score enough how far out there the police superintendent and the prosecutors went in publicly detailing what they believe happened on that night and in the days afterward and in the days before when it came to the alleged attack on jussie smollett. the superintendent calling it a disgrace, calling it a hoax, calling it a setup saying that jussie had taken advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career. and now all charges dropped. the big question is why. is that what you are expecting to learn when they come out to speak? >> you h

walter o'grodnick/bre ntwood police department: "this suspect here is the one that was observed holding a semi-automatic pistol in his hand while committing the burglary">brentwood police lt. walter o'grodick is showing surveillance images of a pair of men who allegedly committed a series of three residential burglaries monday between 9am & 4pm. one burglary in the deer ridge neighborhood and two here in shadow lake. lt. o'gronick says it has been a while since he has seen burglary spree in brentwood, especially one involving a firearmsot one of those concerned residents is nigel jesson nats/nigel jesson/shadow lake resident"i actually have two cameras. this one here. and i have this one here">in fact jesson says most of his neighbors have security cameras. when it comes to protecting his home he takes it to the next levelsot

supervisors to review whether use of force is within policy, is available data relevant and has the police department implemented department of justice recommendations related to the use of force data reporting and collection process? as you can see, this is a chart and since we're focusing on calendar year 2017, this is from the early intervention's fourth quarter report in 2017 and as you already know, the police department's force and to get a true sense, there are 3,150 uses of force in 2017. >> objective number one to determine if use of force procedures are well-designed. what this means from our perspective is, we're evaluating use of force data collection and reporting procedures and determining if they're accomplishing objectivelies and consistently applied by police officers when they're reporting use of force and by supervisors reviewing the application of use of force. other factors that we're evaluating in the course of the audit are isn' are sfpd's cultue data reported and reviewed. >> for the se second objective we're reviewing whether the data is complete and accurate and looking at i

(vicki) (vicki) one of the police departments listed is union city police, and kron 4 reached out to them for a statement, but they have not responded. (anchor) taking a live look outside-- overlooking downtown san francisco. (anchor) time now to check on our weather... with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: it was a beautiful spring-like day for the bay area. there was plenty of sunshine and highs were mainly in the 60s. doppler radar is quiet for now and the winds have calmed down. it will be a clear and starry night with chilly temperatures in the 30s and 40s. on the satellite you can see high pressure sitting over california. it's going to stick around through the weekend. highs tomorrow will be in the 60s with sunshine and high clouds. this weekend will be even warmer with highs in the 60s and 70s. (vicki) still ahead... a homeless encampment could move to a quiet south bay community, and people who live there are not happy about their possible new neighbors. why "hope village" is being forced to move. (grant) plus, a replacement is named. meet the next leade

and there is now a lawsuit against the police department. kron four's philippe djegal shows us the police body camera video. (philippe)nat- "hey, keep your hands where i can see them. show me your hands. get your hands up ." the target of this barrage of gunfire... 20- year-old vallejo rapper willie mccoy. he was passed out and appeared disoriented when officers initially approached him on february ninth.nats- "i have a, uh, person, uh, unresponsive to car horn honks in my drive thru." a taco bell employee on admiral callaghan lane called 9-11 that night... alerting dispatch a man wasn't moving or responding to anyone in the drive thru lane.nats- "gun, gun. call it out. there's a gun in his lap." and, when officers responded, they saw a firearm in mccoy's lap. a gun later learned to have been reported stolen out of the state of oregon.nats- "if he reaches for it, you know what to do. yup." on friday, the vallejo police department released a half hour video, combining the body camera footage from the six officers who eventually opened fire. th

violence in our community there is property damage in our community and people expect their police departmenttry and keep them safeunder ab 392 - officers would only be allowed to use deadly force when absolutely necessary.sot:the bigger piece of it is to prevent these before they even happen. so with this law we will have police departments up and down california changing their practices, having their officers trained differently so they can look for less lethal alternatives when confronted with these incidenta potential path forward for a community trying to reconcile with it's past.

my view is that it was an overstep by the police department to come out. how does he ever get a fair trial when you have the superintendent going on "good morning america," blasting him, talking about he's from the community, why would he ever do this to the community? there's much more evidence so i think that played into it big time. the other component of, how do we know, i may have gotten this for the police. will the feds pur stusue anythi? with the case being sealed, it's done, it's over. i would look to the attorneys to see if they blast the police department. they didn't. time to move forward, time to heal chicago. >> what a fascinating end to this story. we'll keep you posted and update it as we get more information on jussie smollett and the charges dropped against him. >>> coming up, signs of mueller fatigue on capitol hill and at the white house. are lawmakers and the president ready to move on? with my annuity, i know there is a guarantee. it's for my family, its for my self, its for my future. annuities can provide protected income for life.

police department that we're talking about. the same energy when laquan mcdonald was shot and when that evidence about his shooting was taken away from people from seeing to the point where the family he had to sue for people to see the video. so i just think that the chicago police department unfortunately is not the shining example of credibility when it comes to telling the truth and you can believe that and also believe that there are certain things in jussie smollett's story that do not add up. >> but prosecutors say to defend themselves, this was the routine. it was a nonviolent crime. we often settle these, but this was not a routine kind of investigation. when you look at the number of police, the number of investigators, the number of manhours. >> i understand that and i remember when the when they gave the press conditions, the police officers said they had expended so many resources on trying to get at this story. that was their decision to make. the fact that they comrabed about jussie smollett taking resources away

the police department says all six officers are back on full duty. in vallejo, i'm da lin, kpix5. >> we have new details tonight about the sequence of events that ended with a little boy finding a loaded gun and the gun going off. >>> kpix5's veronica de la cruz has the court documents. >> liz and ken, 4-year-old nevon jackson remains in a coma on life support at children's hospital oakland tonight. he was watching tv alone in the bedroom wednesday when he shot himself in the head. the gun belongs to the man his mother lives with, 37-year-old terrance wilson. he is charged with child abuse, possession of a firearm by a felon and first degree criminal firearm storage. we've learned he has six prior convictions going back 20 years. wilson told police he slept with the gun under his pillow the night before and when he woke up to take his other kids to school, he forgot about it. according to court documents, wilson was playing video games in the living room and didn't realize that nevon was in the bedroom when the shot was fired. the mother told police

it seems that a lot of people just gave the c.p.d. a pass the chicago police department at the johnson a pass that we just bought it and people printed stuff so much false information got out that they put so much weight behind their story the same way it's kind of like we if this is what they bring into media we as our job to report what they bring now if it comes if it comes out that they're not telling the truth because we know it you know just the story gets messy and c.p.d. story is fishy as well as our job to give analysis and to talk about that and mention that i don't or you know not believing in what the c.p.b. said but reporting what happened because like i said i don't trust jesse and i don't trust to see one thing that really got under my skin with all this though is that everybody in the aftermath of that the prosecutors why are we involved in this immediately. and you'll get on t.v. with this idea we talked about it and you pointed it out brilliantly which was it's innocent till proven guilty technically he's innocent of this crime because they never actually went to tria

i want to thank chief scott and the san francisco police department for supporting this ordinance and for not engaging with the nra for years. we all know that words matter, and i want the nra removed from our police code to avoid any possibility of legitimizing this toxic and dangerous organization. my goal really is to make the nra the pay phone of lobbyists, rarely seen, hardly necessary, and ancient history. i want to thank my fellow members, chair mandelman and supervisor walton for passing this out of committee with recommendation and to the rest of my colleagues, i urge your support. >> president yee: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: could i get down as co-sponsor, please? >> president yee: of course. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: i just wanted to be added as a co-sponsor. >> president yee: supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: yeah, i'd like to be added as a co-sponsor, too, and thank supervisor stefani for her leadership on not just this ordinance, but these very important issues. thank you. >> president yee: okay, supervisor stefani, if i hadn't already indicat

and there is now a lawsuit against the police department. r's philippe djegal shows us the police body camera video. (philippe)nat- "hey, keep your hands where i can see them. show me your hands. get your hands up ." the target of this barrage of gunfire... 20- year-old vallejo rapper willie mccoy. he was passed out and appeared disoriented when officers initially approached him on february ninth.nats- "i have a, uh, person, uh, unresponsive to car horn honks in my drive thru." a taco bell employee on admiral callaghan lane called 9-11 that night... alerting dispatch a man wasn't moving or responding to anyone in the drive thru lane.nats- "gun, gun. call it out. there's a gun in his lap." and, when officers responded, they saw a firearm in mccoy's lap. a gun later learned to have been reported stolen out of the state of oregon.nats- "if he reaches for it, you know what to do. yup." on friday, the vallejo police department released a half hour de

she's been at war with the chicago police department since her election. she is part of a new breed of prosecutor. she's and concerned with justice, but with politics. she has literally spit in the face of the chicago police and you could tell the way she blindsided the superintendent of the police department and the mayor. she has waged war against the chicago police much like eric older weapon iced the department of justice under the obama administration against three forces around the country. tim fox weapon iced the cook county district attorney's office against police in chicago. shannon: is a chicago native with great love for your city, they've been through so much because of the jussie smollett investigation and all of it, does this reopen the wounds and cause new problems as people try to move ahead and feel there is a sense of justice somewhere in chicago? >> that is a very important question. what is problematic to me is i'm seeing social justice activists across the country saying what about the police department has done in the past, things you

i think the police department is. >> a u.p.s.river held hostage gives his thanks to the first responders who helped save his life. >>> a snowman a state university -- sonoma state university student is battling a flesh-eating disease. how he got it at a national guard training session. >>> plus, details we're learning about what's next for the controversial flintstones' home in hillsborough. sarah's last tuition payment, sent off. feeling good? oh yeah. now i'm ready to focus on my project. ♪ ♪ this is why we plan. ♪ ♪ you never cease to amaze me, maya. see how investing with a j.p. morgan advisor can help you. visit your local chase branch. >>> part two of an exclusive interview only on nbc 7 news. the u.p.s. driver who was taken hostage and forced to drive miles at gunpoint is breaking his silence. >> mitch ehlert was working a route when a man and woman approached. the incident ended with one suspect shot dead by >> abc7's reporter sat down for the wide ranging and extensive interview. >> reporter: we sat down for about three

. >> we have nothing to say to the police department except to investigate charges and not try theirases in the press, but to allow matters to be investigated, allow the state to investigate and to bring charges and not to jump ahead and utilize the press to convict people before they are tried in a court of law. >> all right. so now here's the thing. smollett told police he was attacked by two men mo put a noose around his neck at the end of january. two weeks later the two suspects in the case were released. in late february smollett himself was arrested and today the 16 felony charges against the actor were dropped. in the last half hour the chicago police commander spoke out saying what happened today was a punch in the gut, a slap in the face after investing three weeks and $10,000 on this investigation. he says they were ready to go to trial. smollett's attorney seems to point the finger at the chicago pd but did not answer the question of whether the actor will take action against the police department. laura. >> all right. thank you very much, kris. >>> and if you have our nb