not just, you know, it's not thinking on -- picking on this police department. there are many departments that probably have not thought about that piece when i asked them to think about it. and it's just for me a priority because in order for the justice system to work between the different departments, you've got to have better communication so people don't fall through the cracks and get rearrested for no reason and things like that. so, if your staff can actually put some time into that now. i would be very supportive and argue that you need to support that piece of the budget. >> yes. >> president yee: can you explain, the cost that you associated with the covid response, the 4.something million, what do you do differently that is costing that amount of money? that is not police work? >> yeah. so, let me go back to the slide. i'm going to slide over and let patrick go into the details on that. >> hi, supervisor yee. so the largest portion out of that $4.7 million is salaries. and a good chunk of that is related to personnel hours where the person is on paid

we have a completely understaffed police department, handcuffed police department, proactive policingne. we are excited we are getting more federal partners to combat violent crime in this community. todd: why are you handcuffed? >> coming off of the previous mayor that defunded our police department, wasn't worried about staffing or growing our police department, we have the same politicians crying about federal assistance, we are asking for the civil rights division to reform our police department, we are one of the highest police department in the nation, we are trying to grow our police department, violent crime is out of control, our cops are handcuffed, we need all the help we can get. todd: you want federal agents on the ground. how will they help you? >> the mission in albuquerque will be different. these will be investigators, law enforcement professionals working, partnership with law enforcement agencies throughout the state to combat violent crime. the irony is we are already working with these folks, we have partnerships with the dea and secret service. this is absolutely

a new report is shedding light on the use of force incidents within the valais how police department in the last 3 years there have been more than 400 use of force incidents, including 4 officers who used force at least 20 times each vallejo police are not revealing a new tool for tracking use of force in the move comes after some backlash over recent fatal shootings by vallejo police officers kron four's dan kerman joins us now with details on this report and also how a local civil rights attorney is reacting good evening. dan. >>meaning justine this data is online at least some of the debt is online some of it is behind the scenes which only the police department has access to the management back there at the police department. the bottom line here is this data is just a tool they say the police department has to really analyze it and decide if any changes need to be made. like many agencies the vallejo police departments use of force is currently under scrutiny as many question. >>whether the department is crossing the line. now the department is collecting data and sharing some of

minneapolis, the city where george floyd was killed, there's been incredible tumult over the police department. the mayor of the city who ran as a reformer was shouted down by protesters for not doing enough to reform police. there's also been a spike in shootings since memorial day, with over 100 people shot. like many other cities, atlanta also saw huge protests following the killing of george floyd and the tension in the city only increased after atlanta police officers shot and killed a man named rayshard brooks in the back as he was running away after he failed a sobriety test and grabbed a taser from an officer trying to arrest him. one officer charged with felony murder and the city's police chief resigned. in los angeles, where 30 years ago the lapd was the central focus of the last round of major unrest in the wake of police brutality. police also came under fire for using what seems like using obviously excessive force against protesters. the mayor proposed $150 million in budget cuts to the police department that had been met with outrage by local law enforcement officials. los ange

not just, you know, it's not thinking on -- picking on this police department. there are many departments that probably have not thought about that piece when i asked them to think about it. and it's just for me a priority because in order for the justice system to work between the different departments, you've got to have better communication so people don't fall through the cracks and get rearrested for no reason and things like that. so, if your staff can actually put some time into that now. i would be very supportive and argue that you need to support that piece of the budget. >> yes. >> president yee: can you explain, the cost that you associated with the covid response, the 4.something million, what do you do differently that is costing that amount of money? that is not police work? >> yeah. so, let me go back to the slide. i'm going to slide over and let patrick go into the details on that. >> hi, supervisor yee. so the largest portion out of that $4.7 million is salaries. and a good chunk of that is related to personnel hours where the person is on paid

we're prepared. >> mayor cantrell just talked about some of the reforms to -- to her police department, under the supervision, that consent decree and her leadership, mayor garcetti. it seems there are a few categories people are talking about. training. changing the way police are trained. what -- decriminalization. there is also the idea of police departments are too big. they do too much. we -- we put too many resource in the city to them. you have just proposed a budget cut for the lapd that has been met with quite a bit of anger from some law enforcement and spokespeople in la. what caused you to take that up? what do you think you're doing, in proposing that budget cut? >> well, thank you, chris. and let me join the chorus of thanking you for doing this and it is always an honor to be with my brother and sister mayors and all the viewers who have shown up tonight to take this conversation from a moment to a movement. and make sure we meet this moment, and not miss it. here, in los angeles, we're pretty resilient. not because we're any better than any other city. we just went thro

from the san jose police department now using the system to improve things. reporting live dan kerman kron 4 news. thank you so much dan we go now to the east bay where there has been nearly a dozen homicides this month in the city of oakland among those is the july 17th fatal stabbing of jeffrey chambers. >>an oakland police department spokesperson says investigators need the community's help in solving these murders. >>we have 10 homicides for the month of july and that we really need are he can't do it ourselves. >>how these killings come admits city council approval of a task force with a goal of cutting the police department budget in half kron four's haaziq madyun has the story. >>city of oakland just got one step closer to significantly defunding its police department oakland city council unanimously approved the re imagining public safety task force the re imagining public safety task force resolution was co-authored by oakland city council member nikki fortunato bad as she says the aim is dramatically reducing the police budget. >>and what we're goin

we're prepared. >> mayor cantrell just talked about some of the reforms to her police department under the supervision that consent decree and her leadership, mayor garcetti. there are a few categories here, training, changing the way police are trained, what decriminalization -- there's also the idea of police departments are too big, they do too much. we put too many resources of the city into them. you have just proposed a budget cut for the lapd that's been met with a lot of anger from law enforcement officials and spokes people in l.a. what caused you to take that up -- what do you think you're doing in proposing that budget cut? >> well, thank you, chris. let me join the chorus of thank you for doing this. it is an honor to be here, to take this conversation from a moment to a movement. and to make sure we meet this moment and not miss it. here in los angeles, we're pretty resilient. not because we're better than any other city. we just went through this pain that other cities are going through in past years earlier. before we had camera phones, we had rodney king. we had watts b

policing. chief scott, you've been a member of the department for a few years now. you've been criticized about the implementation of the reform. the obama administration, in 2015, issued recommendations around 21 century policing, and we committed, in san francisco back then, that we are going to implement those recommendations. there have been a lot of criticism because out of the 273 recommendations, san francisco has only been able to implement 61. now it's not about checking a box. we want to make sure people understand when they're doing antibias training, when they're doing deescalation training, that they get it. so tell us why things are moving so slowly, and what can we expect moving forward, and how are we going to get to a better place around policing in our city? >> yeah, thank you, mayor breed. let me start off by answering your question about reform. 272 recommendations, that process was a long-time process in terms of what got us there. and really, what got us there are the officer-involved shootings that san franciscans were outraged about. so of tho

was crazy and they do not think we can get this done. >> but it did get done, the camden city police departmentisbanded, it was replaced by county police force with a new mindset determined to integrate police into the community, regain their trust and de-escalate situations before they turn violent. it seems to have worked. >> we really have been able to change this dynamic doing community policing. >> what do you say is community policing. >> it's a culture, about being part of the community, there is no crime, to be the steady quarterback between kids playing one-on-one football, this is the most violent section of camden, look at it today. let's walk the street. >> let's do it ♪ ♪ >> there has been a lot of talk about camden getting rid of the city police and they laid the entire police department off, i was here 21 years on the job in a defiled application, i was not sure what was going to happen. >> since 2013 the murder rate has fallen more than 70%, blood grease are down 67%, robberies down 60%. >> what change. >> the culture, working with the community. >> they did not defend the polic

details. >> reporter: the obama administration launched the program to bring together local police departments and communities on a voluntary basis. when the justice department overhauled the program three years ago, it left one town fighting for data and prompted a lawsuit. captured on video, the 2015 fatal shooting of 50-year-old walter scott, an unarmed black man in new orleans charleston, south carolina was the community's breaking point. michael slager, the office who shot scott, was later sentenced to 20 years for violating his civil rights. >> walter scott wasn't the first officer-involved shooting in charleston. >> grace be shown for the community. >> reporter: thomas dixon is a local pastor. >> the evidence from the community. the reports from the community were longstanding. >> black lives matter. >> reporter: vigils and protests followed as grief gave way to hope that a new approach was imminent. >> today we're here to formally announce -- >> reporter: a year after scott's death, local officials and the justice department launched a collaborative review of the north charleston polic

i love the new york police department. the police, when you dial 911 and you need a police to come to your help, when the tragic event, and that was a police department and fire department and it now look at this leadership. look where they have taken us come in to the point where they cut a billion dollars and they want to pull the police out of the school system? how about that little 13-year-old girl who is going to go to school and not have a security officer there? that's a real ramification. and the democrats still won't on this. they taken a position on whether or not they want to fund the police, but this will hurt the police and that it's that simple. >> melissa: emily, i guess my last question would be to you, if black lives really matter to you instead of cutting the police, may be as bill de blasio is here finishing out his second term, it's been an eternity. we have the is a very elite public schools that kids test into in this city and leicester even though the public school system has made up over 70% of bla

a spokesman says the berkeley police department will take a wait-and-see approach. quote, it is too soon to determine how these referrals will inform how we provide police services to the community. the department will continue its commitment to public safety and evaluate calls for service. that perhaps another city service could handle safely instead. the vote taken by the city council last night just sets the goal of defunding berkeley police by 50%. whether it actually happens will play out over the next year as part of the budget process. berkeley's mayor believes shifting responses to nonviolent incidents away from sworn officers might actually free them up to address more serious crimes. in berkeley, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >>> the attorney for the family of a san francisco man killed by vallejo police last month is questioning whether the department destroyed evidence. police say he was crouching down moving his hands toward his waist revealing what appeared to be the butt of a hand gun. it turned out to be a hammer. abc 7 news i-team reporter melanie woodr

defund and disband the police department. under be the brown act you cannot censor. fuck the police. thanks. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, i am didi. i want to say what they have been saying all afternoon and evening. defund, disarm s.f.p.d. now in the budget and redirect to public house, and those of col color. i yield my time. >> thank you for your comments. >> before i call the next speaker, we currently have 122 listeners, 55 in the queue. we appreciate your patience. next caller, please. >> hi. so there is a boy who died on july 4th. he was 6 years old. his name was jason. you are asking to raise the police's money. that is unacceptable when there are children dying on the streets. you are asking for more money. are you serious? i yield my time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, caller. next caller. >> [ inaudible ] >> i am elizabeth. [indiscernable] can figure out what we should do. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] >> next speaker, please. >> hi, curtis, district 11. i see comparisons to the local $700 million police budget to the federal military budge

i haven't heard from the mayor, the police department, no city, nobody, nobody. only thing i heard is what you hear from me now. >> seattle police finally given the green light to dismantle chop yesterday. officials say they have made at least 44 arrests for failure to disperse, assault, and malicious mischief. the mayor who has been reluctant to shut the zone down since it began weeks ago is sounding off. >> from conversations over the weekend it was clear that many individuals would not leave and the impacts to the community could not be reduced and public safety could not be improved until they did leave. >> police took back the precincts but they won't be removed just yet. chief, and best slamming the city for allowing the zones to remain far too long. >> what has happened here on these streets is lawless and brutal and bottom line it is simply unacceptable. black lives matter and i too want to move the movement forward but enough is enough. jillian: following the removal the leader of chop said, quote, we are going to have to work 10 times as hard to get our

defund and disband the police department. under be the brown act you cannot censor. fuck the police. thanks. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, i am didi. i want to say what they have been saying all afternoon and evening. defund, disarm s.f.p.d. now in the budget and redirect to public house, and those of col color. i yield my time. >> thank you for your comments. >> before i call the next speaker, we currently have 122 listeners, 55 in the queue. we appreciate your patience. next caller, please. >> hi. so there is a boy who died on july 4th. he was 6 years old. his name was jason. you are asking to raise the police's money. that is unacceptable when there are children dying on the streets. you are asking for more money. are you serious? i yield my time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, caller. next caller. >> [ inaudible ] >> i am elizabeth. [indiscernable] can figure out what we should do. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] >> next speaker, please. >> hi, curtis, district 11. i see comparisons to the local $700 million police budget to the federal military budge

this oversight needs to be stronger and independent from the police department. we have a letter from the department of human resources to msa validating we acted in good faith and dha rejects. the deputy sheriff's association has participated in this as well as the sheriff who we will continue to work with as we move forward. last night after public comment the message from the community is very clear. law enforcement transparency and accountability is a must and this ismenmeant to give communia path. our final changes are on page 1, line 15 changing section 15.505 to section 15.105 and on page 1 line 24 on page 2 line 2 changing four to three appointments for the board of supervisors to support appointments from the mayor office. this is in line with most of our commission appointments and how we operate here in the city. that said i want to thank you and ask you accept those minor changes so we can move this. >> is there any questions on are comments from members of the committee? can we please open this up for public comment. >> yes. members of the public who

>> well, we are setting up a system of certification of police departments, and part of what our charter is is to come up with criteria that will be used for certification, including limitations on use of force, specifically including st sent policing act, part of it called for a national registry of law enforcement officers as a resource for police chiefs to determine who the best candidates are for jobs. as you may or may not be aware, tamir rice might be alive today if the police chief who hired him had known that that police officer had been fired from another department. what is your view of a national registry of law enforcement officers? >> the second aspect of the president's executive order is to set up a database like that, so that all determinations of excessive force around the country go into that database. if police department's aren't reporting that information, they wouldn't be certified. so, we do believe in one national point where you can go in and get determinations of excessive force on law enforcement candidates for jobs. >> good, thank you. i do want to comment on

>>delay has police chief says this is just another tool they can use to move the department towards the philosophy of 21st century policing. dan kerman kron 4 news. >>also the vallejo police department has come under scrutiny in recent years because of deadly shooting for solace of the money and joins us now live from the newsroom taking a look at some of the other high-profile use of force incidents l a. >>havoc and we're highlighting 3 incidents of controversial use of force by vallejo pd all happened within the same timeframe that was analyzed and that report. most recently the shooting death of sean monterrosa on june 2nd. the 22 year-old was suspected of trying to steal from a drugstore during a night of protests over george floyd's death. body camera video shows an arriving officer shooting through a car windshield and killing monterrosa the police department reports of the officers mistakenly thought the monterrosa had a gun. here's holding hammer. the pd is now undergoing a criminal investigation over the destruction of that windshield that is considered evidence in february of

take it from the police department. they are the ones that are not protecting our children and are harassing homeless families. defund the sfpd as much as humanly possible, if not get rid of them all together. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. >> yes, we can hear you. >> okay. hello, i live in district 5. i am calling to demand the defunding of the sfpd and ask that the money be put towards education, public health, housing and specifically youth to aid communities of color. sfpd search arrest and kill people people of colour in our city. this is not something we can ignore or expect to change. this is how the police have always acted, what they were designed for, and without radical changes it is how they will continue to act. we need to use this moment to redefine our priorities as a city, and we should start with the budget. my hope is that you take every dollar possible from the police budget, drastically reduce the size of the police force and use that to fund communities th

cities around the country are talking about reforming police departments. it's an effort for racial justice. after the death of george floyd. berkeley's george floyd community safety act includes hiring an auditor. for police cars calls in police responses and creating a special care unit for noncriminal crisis response. and reducing the police budget to allow more funding for community programs, health care, violence prevention, and other programs. >>> another part of berkeley's newly passed proposal what a allow an arm city workers to make traffic stops. instead of police officers. the berkeley police revealed the commissioner is among the supporters. the head of the berkeley police union says taking police out of this doesn't make sense. >> the mass majority of cases to harm an individual -- >> what if a driver is a dui? what of a driver is combative? what a driver does not pull over? what if a driver is armed with a weapon? >> this move would be very drastic when it comes to making car stop. a lot still has to be worked out. the city council will be deba

she has been spending her adult life, have her adult life here at the police department, working on the law enforcement side, internally and now, she is the top cop. she says she is ready to take on this job. 10 months as interim police chief has given her a head start. she stepped in after a vote of no-confidence for the previous chief. do you feel a lot of pressure? >> a lot of pressure. i am the first woman in the city, i am a woman of color so i have the community that received a tremendous amount of support. >> reporter: what is your definition of defunding the police? what does that mean to you, personally? >> so, you know, initially when i heard it, i thought, the mone somewhere else, and they don't want the police department. now, as i understand it, what it means to me is that people are calling for services, to be provided with resources. >> reporter: she agrees social services need to be funded but she does not agree the money should come from the police department. >> i just don't have any more wiggle room in terms of what our budget is, and how we can provide just emergency

there was -- there's a moment in the film where arshay invites the police department, chicago police rtment, to train, and to actually get in the boat with the team. and that was a beautiful and important, powerful moment in the film that i think really will resonate now, in the world that we're in. soledad: arshay, why have the chicago police department in on this? 20 years later, after you'd all gotten out of school, and now you are coming back to do this race, why did you think that they needed to be part of this? arshay: to move forward, right? to truly move forward. what i learned from rowing is -- is to get together and have a conversation. and they don't know our names, right? they work in this community from 8:00 to 5:00 every day for years, and there's no relationship. but sports unite people, just like grant said. so if i can invite them, i'll -- while we row, the conversation will start, and they will have to learn from us -- meaning the ears will be open. and that was an opportunity to get to know who we are, and how we contribute to our community, and how much we care. an

we know that in los angeles when they announced they would be defunding their police department, they basically immediately after saw a 250% increase in homicides. when you have people like representative omar saying we have to completely dismantle the police, police are a cancer, this is not how we should be talking about our heroes. you have congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez saying defund the police means defund the police. she criticized the announcement of $1 million being taken down from nypd. there were 28 shootings in new york. 600% increase from this time last year. you have representative of casio cortez saying this is because people are trying to get food for their families. that is preposterous. 63% of americans in this country fear that criticism of our police departments will lead to no public safety in their streets. this is a real issue when you call our police cancer, when you talk about dismantling them, and in new york you see a one-year-old in a stroller -- not only that, you see officers garza and chavez. enter your question about how we should talk about the

this oversight needs to be stronger and independent from the police department. we have a letter from the department of human resources to msa validating we acted in good faith and dha rejects. the deputy sheriff's association has participated in this as well as the sheriff who we will continue to work with as we move forward. last night after public comment the message from the community is very clear. law enforcement transparency and accountability is a must and this ismenmeant to give communia path. our final changes are on page 1, line 15 changing section 15.505 to section 15.105 and on page 1 line 24 on page 2 line 2 changing four to three appointments for the board of supervisors to support appointments from the mayor office. this is in line with most of our commission appointments and how we operate here in the city. that said i want to thank you and ask you accept those minor changes so we can move this. >> is there any questions on are comments from members of the committee? can we please open this up for public comment. >> yes. members of the public who

i think we need to have the police department remain the police department. some things we can change. one of those things, for example, is we need a division of the police department to deal with calls to, you know, move someone with a mentallal problem to another situation, to a hospital or something. i don't -- i think we are unfair to police to send them on domestic calls, somebody suffering from schizophrenia who has a knife but who if he or she had their medicine would be calm, i mean, i don't think we just end send them out on every single call. it's unfair to them, and they were not trained to deal with all of those circumstances. so i do think we can make some changes in the police department. when people say we must defund the police department and then, you know, just kind of clamp down on that, i mean, let's defund the police department, i think that damages what many of us would like, and that is to see a new vision or to create a new vision for the police where, you know, they are part of the community. i am a big advocate and i started this whe

she's also a former sergeant with the sacramento police department. so renee first. been calling for change in modern day policing. what do you think needs to be changed? >> so i think really right now where we're at in the united states is that we need to be using research and data, which you heard all the speakers talk about and use that to drive policies and practices and our decision making. but additionally, one of the things people don't realize when it comes to research and data is that part of being the american society of evidence base is evidence base means you're take ing the research and applying it to practice. one of the things about implicit bias train iing is it's not wel researched. there's not a lot of evidence that the training actually works to reduce like the use of force incidents to reduce some officers-involved shootings. what i would really say is we need to see when we apply the research in the field to do controlled trials to determine if the use of our resources and our taxpayers' moneys are being spent sktively and efficiently to get the

tell us about g that, that would replace the police department with the department of committee safety and violence prevention. is that likely to pass? does your office have any role? do you think it would be a good idea to defund the police? so let me tell you this. i think what i have done is try tose interpret what some of the community and local officials are saying. i will not claim i am the author of this but i listen to it i think what they are saying is this is about more safetyw, right now there's one for race in minneapolis for this a lot of gunfire north minneapolis it's not nearly as much as it should be on it goes with some degree of regularity. was all kinds of problems for this was not designed to take away an agency addressing m these things. it is designed to be more effective and simultaneously reduce human rights abuses. that is why the charter, they're not going to call the institution the policee department a they will have all of these things but they will reorder it with a different set of priorities somewhat alarming they need to be provocative, why? because the

activists the demanding the city reduce funding for the chicago police department and devote more money to social service programs citigroup's with starkly different views on the police confronted each other in the city's grant park with officers standing between them in an effort to keep the peace. tensions remain high in the u.s. city of portland over the deployment of armed federal troops they were sent in earlier this week by president trying to quell anti braces and protests during the week security forces was in firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters. more than a dozen u.s. mazz most of them democrats have voiced concern about the federal crime down a president trump said more troops would be sent to u.s. cities. i think in their own way they want us to go in and they'll be a time when they're going to want us to go in for blast but right now we're sending extra people to help i've been very clear. not happening in chicago we don't need federal troops when i spoke with director of the department of homeland security last week i told him to go home and to take his federal

because in in in in place of the put the police department in the system now so it just raises a lot of issues i think in terms of local control and their behavior just needs a lot to be desired when we start talking about for example how they surely did that navy veteran when he was just asked the question clearly that was excessive force gotcha ron sticking with you because because you were a cop. police departments across the country are coming under scrutiny for these heavy handed tactics as it is doesn't this case in new york city this video that surfaced doesn't match prove the point. but i think it does and you would think you know i often have this conversation with some of my colleagues you would think that in terms of the national pressure that being put on police departments about their behavior as a result of what we have captioned they don't care for like the instance in new york we're seeing this on camera and and their cameras aligned the other matter of fact leaving court a young lady with her camera out at me you would think that the police would be conscious that th

line shopping during his plea we're going to show that to you then over to san francisco where police departments there are changing the way it releases mug shots to the public we'll tell you what's behind that sudden move. in the senate kills an amendment to the n.d.a. that would have ended the u.s. war in afghanistan we're going to discuss that with our panel all right it's time to boost removed i. have seen the viral video of a black man in baton rouge louisiana calling out of school board member for ignoring calls to change the name of the robert e. lee high school in his town listen to what he said. so i had intended to get up here and talk about our race is robert e. lee we're gonna talk about. never shop and while we talk about robert e. lee bush supporter you sharpen robbie talking about racism in history of his country i only write members of his brother got a problem get up you're talking to because you don't give a damn and it's clear but i'm a tell you go to slays my ancestors say it about robert e. lee since you don't know history system let me tell you that i said when he got the pl

>>laos police chief says this is just another resource to move the department towards the philosophy of 21st century policing. dan kerman kron 4 news. >>in san francisco, the cleanup and the investigation into that massive fire in the south of market neighborhood continues. this is video from our quad copter 4 and gives us a look just at how devastating yesterday's fire was it destroyed 6 buildings and displaced some residents. fire officials stayed on the scene today putting out hot spots and will remain there for the next couple of days. so in the area you can expect some road closures as the cleanup and investigation goes on let's step outside and see how things look as we give you a view of mount temple pious and a marine headlines with a big thick layer of marine layer clouds fog to wear whatever you want to call a just and i called cold, know just lawrence kinder is here now to look at how far that fog will go tonight. yeah, it is going to surge well on shore the fog and low clouds the stratus. >>making its way on shore right now flowing like a river you see that that motion to

so that particular police officer is a cancer within the department. so having that to be weeded out pretty went to the mayor, the chief of police and we just get very passionate type of will, we go through a process. they need to have a zero policy where they're going at him and think that we are not going to tolerate this. you cannot bring on this type of behavior poison the other officers who were trying to do the job. >> thank you. can you discuss there only a few bad apples in the police departments that need to be identified and removed. other larger issues or is this true. >> i do not to believe that the average police officer is a bad person. i have family members and loved ones who serve with honor and distinction. but i do need to say however that the culture of policing turns too many good people into bad officers. we must reckon with this ugly truth. 300 years of policing, we have yet to reach a consistent see in this country that you cannot be a racist and be a cop. not a religion cannot be a cop and affiliate with white supremacist groups

black lives matter to the san francisco police department. >> he was unavailable for the interview but sent us a statement reading in part, the police commission should put away their soap up boxes and put their grandstanding away. it is time to get beyond hashtags, posters and protesting. >> that is not what this is about. >> the posters will have to be displayed within 30 days. >> yes, we will support. yes, we are committed to implementing the resolution. >> the union stand is clear but they said make no mistake about it, they support the notion that all black and brown lives matter. in san francisco, kpix 5 . >>> charges filed against a contra costa manning man with a loaded gun at a group gathered around a black lives matter mural in martinez. the 30-year-old was arrested shortly after the july 5 incident. he faces several charges including possessing a gun not registered to him. >> this is a serious crime. it is one that is caused public alarm. there is a lot of attention around the street mural that is in front of the courthouse. this has raised community interest for all residen

police department is one of the best police departments in the united states. they got on this right away. they were able to pull camera footage from the community, which had very good cameras, and they used that by putting it on youtube to people actually started reporting that they knew who the guys were. and because of the reports that came in, the detective was able to start getting really close on the case and was able to pick up two. and of course we have two more that have been identified that they are looking for. and there's a third one they are trying to get a warrant for. >> i want to -- john stand by. i just want to bring everyone back into the conversation, because i want you guys to contribute as well. and listen, all of you who are listening, unfortunately what happened to john's grandson isn't an isolated case. he mentioned some kids that died, you know, in previous years but multiple children as young as 6 were killed by gun violence during the holiday weekend alone. it doesn't end there. this past sunday, a 1-year-old was shot in killed in his

reform the arbitration process and reworking public safety response such as by replacing the police department's response to many non criminal matters with civilian response instead, and also examining how and whether to order expedited public viewing a police body cam footage of incidents such as major protests or controversial uses of force. you can find the mayor's full plan for police reform on our website at kron 4 dot com. and we'll take you outside for a live look at the east bay and walnut creek there you see the 6.80 a freeway traffic moving smoothly in both directions start sun is starting to poke out just a bit too we'll be right back. motorcycle riders love the open road. and geico loves helping riders get to where they're going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. and because we're committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. the geico giveback. helping riders focus on the road ahead. >>new this morning more bad news for major league baseball has tonight

cities across the country are talking about reforming the police departments in a national effort for racial justice in the wake of george floyd's killing. berkley's george floyd community safety act includes high hiring an auditor for police calls and responses and creating a specialized care unit and reducing the police budget to allow funding in community programs, healthcare, violence prevention and other programs. >>> another aspect of berkley's newly passed proposal would allow unarmed city workers to conduct traffic stops instead of police officers. the police review commissioner among the supporters but the president of the berkley police union says removing police from the equation doesn't make sense. >> the vast majority of cases in unharmed vinls can lead to a better outcome than someone armed that can only write you a ticket. >> what if a driver is dui? what if a driver is combative or does not pull over? what if i driver is armed with a weapon? >> this would be a drastic new approach to car stops in berkley and supporters say a lot still needs to be worked out. st city ko

behind the policing departments is a fallacy once you pay. back the onion and look at the data that is so true and what really also kind of bothers me this too as i understand as well police are also put under that pressure show me results politicians always run on top on crime if you don't show me the results then we're going to cut your budget going to cut so that's where you get a lot of these things where you're seeing evidence being planted you're seeing you know cases being solved you're seeing that thing happen because of what happens well they put all this pressure on them to solve cases because the politicians promise law and crime lying to the public when crime is already falling exactly it's an easy thing to read all of people love to vote and say they're reducing crime but it's something that was happening years ago years ago. u.s. president donald trump is once again on the deepness helps claiming he was not made aware of a report that russian g.r.u. unit pay pal of on militants to kill u.s. troops in afghanistan this comes on the

these police departments and mayors have been asking us for help. we have put in additional federal agents and investigators to help deal with it. >> yes or no. have you discussed the president's re-election campaign with the president or with any white house official or any surrogate of the president? >> i'm not going to get into my discussions with the president. >> have you discussed that topic with him? yes or no. >> not in relation to this program. >> i didn't ask that. i asked if you discussed that -- >> i'm a member of the cabinet and there's an election going on. obviously the topic comes up. >> so yes. >> the topic comes up in cabinet meetings and other things. it shouldn't be a surprise that the topic -- >> i didn't say i was surprised. i asked if you had done that. as part of those conversations with the president or his people about the re-election campaign, have you ever discussed the current or future deployment of federal law enforcement? >> in connection with what? >> in connection with what you just said. in connection with your dis

>>for >>the lay of police department facing a criminal investigation for destroying evidence in the shooting that killed sean monterrosa and new tonight. we're hearing from his sister that describes the department has quote incompetent plus a 32 million dollars settlement reached in the ghost ship warehouse fire with the attorneys for the victims families. >>has to say about the deal. >>and she needs being blamed for last year's kincade fire in sonoma county by that announcement does not come as a surprise to the people impacted, but first. >>we need those who are tampering with evidence to be fired and convicted because this is a crime. >>tonight we are hearing from the sisters of sean monterrosa he's the 22 year-old man who was shot and killed by a boy who police officer last month. good evening, everybody, i'm vicki liviakis and i'm grant lotus the city of vallejo is now investigating its own police department. >>for destroying evidence in the case kron four's michelle kingston is live for us outside the lake pd with more on this investigation michelle. >>a really huge car key part of the

charter, theye are not going to call the institution the police department. they are going to call it the department of public safety and violence reduction. they will have people who investigate theft, domestic violence, sexual assault, all of these things, but they will reorder it with a different set of priorities. it is somewhat alarming when you hear about it. the people who propose that kind of label need to be provocative. why? because they have been calling for reform measures for 20-30 years and they haven't gotten anywhere. andou things about training civilian review authority and that got demoted. they are of a mind now where they want to say we have to keep -- but in lineat with that mission, we have to look at some of the fundamental historic subdivisions that prevent us from being able to do it as effectively as we could. they began a year-long series of conversations. they have a trip planned to go visit new jersey. it anotherstitute agency that does the same thing and they have had some very good numbers. it is not perfect. it minneapolis is no

care jobs and peace enters philadelphia canceled a planned at $19000000.00 increase for the police department and shifted $14000000.00 of the police budget elsewhere including affordable housing. but not every city is welcoming shifting police funds st louis missouri is on the defense in a big way st louis mayor little cruising with full on race stoking the flames of hate and putting a target on the backs of protesters in a facebook live appearance seen by thousands crewdson was asked about a meeting she'd had with protesters at city hall after grabbing papers and reading through a litany of activist requests she became agitated at how they wanted police budget spent groups and went on to announce the names and home addresses of those seeking to be fun the police the video has since come down and kristen has apologized after the a.c.l.u. civil rights groups activists and elected officials far and wide condemned her. is it so wrong to ask that $15000000.00 go to nonprofits with a history of violence reduction like your violence is it wrong to ask that $60000000.00 go to health and human servic

this coincides with the national movement to defund police departments after george floyd was killed a police officer in minneapolis this past may. according to "the east bay times" this new reimagining public safety task force aims to overhaul public safety by findinglt 911 calls and reallocating money to underfunded programs in the city such as housing, health services, jobs and homelessness. the paper reports opd's budget is about 44% of the city's general fund budget. you compare that to other similar sized cities whose police budgets register in the high 20% to 30 percentile. they voted down reallocating another $3.4 million. they decided to slash $15 million from the opd budget. this new task force is supposed to present its final recommendations in march with a final vote in june. bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thanks so much, bob. >>> firefighters still not confirming the cause of yesterday's massive fire in san francisco near the central freeway south of market. it destroyed six buildings in the area of folsom and 13th street sending huge plumes of smoke across the bay.

>>and this one only free up money inner city budget 44% of our general fund funds are police departments so it's unsustainable long-term. but also this will enable police officers to focus on what they're trained to do which is addressed serious and violent crimes. the new plan believed to be a first of its kind in the nation is aimed to curtail racial profiling citing the names of people who died at a routine traffic stop across the country. the plan comes as cities around the united states are looking at ways to scale back on police in the wake of the killing of george floyd we and listen to the community and the call for change. >>and the national to demands for transforming policing and i really think now is the time to innovate and that we must meet this moment terror to gain says berkeley is not proposing to abolish the police we have to have police to address serious and violent crime. but is it doesn't make sense for police officers to be responding to somebody who's in a mental health crisis merkley police department responded to the mayor's plan in a statement saying quote. >>a

police department or cut funding to a police department, that would put them at risk of losing some federal grants. i think we have to step back and a knowledge that our law enforcement does by and large a very good work. most officers served with dignity and respect. these are very difficult times that our country is going through right now. we should be having conversations about how we reform policing. i don't think we should be doing that at the expense of cutting back on things like community engagement programs or body cameras that hold bad actors accountable or training the police need to protect and ser serve. >> charles: we have already seen where individual cities i've already taken the initiative. in new york city, $1 billion c cut. alc demanding a lot more. you think this will be enough of a incentive? or do we need a bigger public relations campaign? >> this is part of the whole push, charles. i have been a career fbi agent. my goal is to build a bipartisan coalition here in washington, d.c., to make sure that we have a voice defending our police officers. if they need