the very ordinary acts solutions engine -- institutionalization of violence in the police department. >> let's pull up this screen now, starting in san francisco, we see the population of police officers, 46% white, although the population is 37% white, black officers, slightly outpacing the percentage of black folks who now live in san francisco due to the push out obviously in san francisco. hispanic officers, sworn officers, about 4%, 3% higher than the city demographics but obviously sfpd has a long way to go in hiring more asian officers. many police officers have been trying to step up recruiting cops from the community that they serve. these officers in young, black, from the community, why isn't getting officers from the community that look like the people that they are supposed to be protecting and serving enough? >> because it's not about individual people. it's about the entire institution, right? race-based capitalism and that -- and its us, and now it is maintaining the status quo. what happened to tyre nichols is not extra ordinary. law enforcement has killed more people

changing the culture within police departments. tell me why. >> well, i think it's true that the term "community policing" has be around for a couple of decades now. cops show up and have a meeting and tell community what their problem is and what the police do about it and then serve refreshments at the end. and that's not what i'm talking about when i say community engagement. community engagement is particularly very important here in this city today. in minneapolis today, we have hundreds of fewer officers than we had before george floyd was murdered. and at the same time, we have the highest levels of gun violence and serious street crime that the city has seen in a generation. >> yeah. >> so when you have those two factors combining at the same time, you have a situation where it's very difficult to do anything other than respond to and hold people accountable for the most serious crimes. and the minneapolis police department today has a very negative perception. and i think it's very important that we do things intentionally

police department has its own set of ambassadors refired san francisco police officer who is have police radios and trained through long careers. to know what to do when they see whatever it is they are seeing and work with our patrol officers. to make sure we independent to incidents. as they occur that hen a tremendous resource i want to thank the mayor and everybody who hen a part of making that happen. lastly, our presence this this community. after the shoot nothing monterey park, i know assistant chief approximate deputy chief. the captain here acting captain, immediately put a plan in action it increase the presence and this community with police officers. the difficulty sustaining that type of increase in presence we are committed to do what we can do do that. if something the mayor talked about and we know we are facing staffing crisis but making when modifications weical to make sure in community in china town, the police officers do a tremendous job. they know the community and know people trust them. often time people call them directly than 911 i don't add sunrise if that's

,, we just launched a 30 by 30 initiative aiming to get police departments around the country to sign a pledge to have their police forces be 30% women by 2030. our federal law enforcement recently there are about 70 federal law enforcement agencies, some of the biggest ones now are signed on. women make up only 12% of sworn officers and 3% of police leadership. that is something. women are over 50% of the broad population, we do need to think about what we are doing to bring women into the profession. there's been a lot of research to show the impact of women in policing in departments and the like. being creative and making sure there are the types of family leave policies you are talking about, but also seeing what have -- thinking through what are some of the barriers in portland -- that are important. we are also having the challenge of making sure that our police department's are representative of the communities that they are in service of is always a challenge. there's been a lot of really innovative work with hbcus, etc. i think these issues are all

in san francisco in contact the police department there or part, you can contact the bart police department. but for now in the south bay, charles clifford kron, 4 news. all right, charles, thank you so much. >> and we want to show you these images. again, these are the last known pictures of the suspect leaving the apartment in san jose with her young child. you can see from these images here. but the suspect is wearing a white hooded jacket, black, skinny jeans and dark colored shoes. she stands about 5 feet tall. the stroller officials say is black and teal and the toddler tie on a was last seen wearing a white jacket with pink sleeves and blue color pants. if you see mendez or her daughter and you are urged to call 9-1-1, immediately. now to another big story we're following. the oakland police department needs a new chief. again a month after placing him on administrative leave. the city's new mayor shane tell fire on armstrong, the mayor making this decision after a report accused armstrong of mishandling and officer misconduct case kron four's. dan thorn has more on the mayor's decis

cases and part of that could be having money come from police departments budgets. part of it can come from local governments requiring that their departments take better account of the cases that are brought against and endeavor to learn more from those cases. i think that that that's system would make us come closer to a justice's outcome. i also think that plaintiffs should more often win these cases. i think that the states and congress and the supreme court could all roll back some of the protections that that the government enjoys include the interpretation of the fourth amendment, including immunity doctrine. i think it should be easier to sue local governments directly for the harms that their officers cause. and so i think there's a lot that could be done in terms of the the ability to get relief. i think that there's a lot that can be done at the state and local level and by listeners, people who are interested in making improvements. i think a lot can happen at the city level in terms of how police department budgets work and whether police departments are

to ensure the police department in the city can prove once and for all. that oakland is ready to ensure constitutional policing. without federal oversight. within days of being notified that the city needed time to carefully review the findings and evidence in these very serious cases. chief armstrong. made a number of statements that troubled me. in response to the public report that concluded that opd has repeatedly failed to rigorously investigate misconduct. and hold officers accountable. chief armstrong said these were not incidents where officers behaved poorly. he stated that he did not believe these incidents reflected systemic problems. instead chief armstrong described the underlying incident. as a minor vehicle collision. he said the officers made mistakes. he publicly stated that the sergeant involved in a vehicle collision was held accountable. disregarding the independent investigators findings a serious flaws in the disciplinary process. i've taken the time to review the cases and consider the evidence and conclusions as to each other subjec

it will be clear that i was a loyal and effective reformer of the oakland police department. we are at oakland city hall this morning where a rally of support for him is underway. >> the news of armstrong's firing has a lot of people here in oakland talking from city and community leaders. right now there is a rally beginning in the second tier where they will be voicing their support for the former chief armstrong. there are strong opinions. the oakland city council president supports the mayor's decision but this councilmembers reaction is opposite. we spoke to him about his thoughts. >> i think what the mayor did was a mistake, firing somebody for no cause is really unacceptable. >> reporter: he said that he has known the former chief for many years and has walked the streets of his district and he calls armstrong an honorable man and willing to work with anybody. he also said that the mayor never reached out to the city council that he is aware of when she was trying to make her decision. the report she referred to for her decision to fire him was one he said he never saw

the minneapolis police department, today, has a very negative perception. nd i think it's very important that you do things intentionally, to engage for particularly young people in the city to see police officers present in their communities and not law enforcement settings. the reality about being a cop is, you know, mom and dad do not call me over to the house to talk about how well the marriage is going. we show up, we get called when things are at their worst. so, it's problematic to me that , basically, young people see police officers only in those law-enforcement type of situations, where they might have to arrest someone or might have to stop someone, those types of things. law enforcement, in general, is all about collaboration. so, when you engage with community-based violence prevention groups, a lot of times, they're engaged with folks who have had non- interplay with the law in the past, who may not have had a clean record, but there are folks who are credible in their community, and there are folks who can speak to people and try and prevent t

because our police department was largely black and brown. i can go to a policing that is not black and brown, and it is critical in a community that is 85% black and brown. i don't see us getting better unless urban communities or under resourced communities find a way to work through some of those challenges. it's critical, there is more of an incentive for other people to transfer because the staffing levels became so low. mayor tishaura jones and i talked about us being the cop shop. when you're in an urban community, you have different taskforces and they have all of these great resources, other departments want to come and recruit them and they can recruit them for almost nothing. after you spend nine months putting people through an academy and doing street training, you are losing them a year after they get out of the academy. >> anything at there? no. go ahead. >> i believe part of the answer comes from down here, we are talking about leadership development with officers. it's hard, when someone is offering more, or offering more oppo

he was raised in oakland and joined the police department 24 years ago. then in february of 2021 he was hired as the top cop. >> he's the best police chief we've ever had. >> reporter: bishop bob jackson says armstrong was able to bridge the gap between communities of color and the police department. he sees armstrong's firing as a ploy for the federal oversight monitor, robert warshaw, to keep tabs on okayland and continue collecting roughly $1 million a year. >> robert warshaw, he's the one that needs to go. he's the one they need to get rid of, not leronne armstrong. i'm hoping that the community of color will rally more than ever before and support this man, chief armstrong, and demand that this lady, sheng thao, our so-called mayor, would reinstate him immediately. >> reporter: mayor sheng thao said she will work with the police commission in the search for the next police chief. >> in the past 90 minutes, the chair of the oakland police commission released a statement saying she didn't know about the mayor's decision to release the chief before her p

>> well, it is a mixed bag depending who you are talking to, and it is involving the police department with who you are talking about to federal police chief, and the civil rights here, and he is calling this disappointing, and talking to noah gile of the fifth district, and he says that chief armstrong is well respected. >> i have never met or seen a police chief that active in the neighborhood, but he also had the greatest respect for the police officers, and so i am disappointed that we once again fired another police chief. >> i am disappointed, because i did not think that it was sufficient evidence to terminating the chief under these circumstances. >> on the other hand, we have the anti-police terror project that is a bold and courageous move despite the attempts by armstrong who was more busy being a political activist than a police chief. there was concern expressed by former chief armstrong supporter saying that it is going to cost the city financially, and as you can remember, the former chief anne kirkpatrick was wrongfully fired, and cost the city thousands of dollars that

the police department case and police commission case, public safety now is i think if not the issue of the concern it san franciscans. they look to the mayor to set policy and run hear police department in a way that advances criminal yesterday reform and keeps francescas save. because of the way our charter works she no longer apores to be alined with the majority of the commission over seeing a department that in some version of a chart is above. >> that is challenging and i think when i think about the problem with san francisco i'm not seeing excess of executive mirrial authority i see a government disuneified. run through a number of commissions that you know that seem to independent. it took chair peskin a lot of work and effort to rairn in one commission that probably ought to be most low independent. it is not setting policy. general low should be insulated from us unless until they are doing things that are insane. so i thought this was an interesting issue a complicated one and was in the deeply oshg fenldzed by what the mayor's office was trying to do even though it was i

kron four's has he might do has the story. >> the police department is not the police department. but of the 2000 when i came on to the council, we were averaging 10 to 12 officer-involved deaths per year. >> former oakland city councilmember lynette gibson mcelhaney says that in the 18 months that oakland police chief leronne armstrong has been in charge. no black person has been shot by oakland police. it's this chief. >> the first chief that has brought us into full compliance and been placed in sustainability. >> however, the federal compliance monitor robert warshaw was investigation into cheap armstrong's handling of a pair of internal affairs misconduct investigations, places opd indian. 23 years of federal oversight in the financial burden to oakland taxpayers in jeopardy. now, why would a conscientious leader from the town risk that to protect some? >> that doesn't make sense. it defies logic. and i think that the people of oakland know that. >> she says financial incentive to continue oversight is the problem. we have no independent reason to question integrity of was sh

guest: i had specialized units in the orlando police department. when i was appointed chief we had an all-time high in the murder rate in orlando. the citizens of orlando wanted the police to do something about it we had specialized units as well. their purpose was to target the worst of the worst, the gang members, the drug dealers, those who committed gun violence in the worse of the worst and we have a list and we knew who they were. the specialized units target the worst of the worst behavior. it's something that discipline is appreciated because they wanted crime reduced especially violent crimes in their communities. i remember getting calls from our seniors and retirees who lived in certain neighborhoods and said they were tired of going to church and having to go through the drug dealers to get to church. they were tired of seeing their grandchildren walked to the bus stop and being accosted by drug dealers so everyone, regardless of who they are, everyone deserves to live in safe and secure communities. i had a specialized unit that i had

does it have the money necessary to add training for the police department? >> we have to -- we have to find that balance between providing the necessary training, and public safety. the police's budget has, in the time that i've been on the council, pretty much has increased without exception every year. so i'm not going to believe that there is not room in the budget for additional training. so the council will have to do so. the administration will have to present us a budget that talks about adequate training to prevent this from happening going forward. >> martavius jones, thank you so much. >>> a shreveport, louisiana officer is charged with negligent homicide for the death of an aarmed black man named alonzo bagley. when police got to his home, bagley ran off, jumped from a balcony and ran a bit more. the body cam footage is from officer alexander tyler, who has since been arrested. it is disturbing. this clip begins as tyler is exiting the apartment building and pursuing alonzo bagley. [ inaudible ] [ gunfire ] >> oh,you shot him. >> the body cam of th

i was a loyal and effective reform or of the oakland police department. it will be equally clear that i committed no misconduct. and my termination is fundamentally wrong, unjustified and unfair. >> lebron armstrong now joins a long list of oakland police officers police chiefs who have lasted only a short time on the job. kron 4 s ella sogomonian takes a look back at the last decade of the departments troubled history. >> the role of oakland police chief has historically proven to be a challenge. at 1.0, 3 different chiefs eat resigned within 9 days. former mayor libby schaaf was once forced to get her city administrator involved. here's a closer look at the tumultuous time line in the last 10 years at opd. that includes 8 police chiefs in 2010. anthony batts join the force after for opd officers were killed in a shootout. yeah, he quit abruptly the following year saying the job had changed, claiming he had limited control but full accountability that was proving to be difficult to implement his vision for reform. howard jordan, a career opd officer, then

. >> now for the 11th time in fewer than 15 years, the oakland police department finds itself without a police chief with merit singtel announcing today that lauren armstrong has been fired. thank you for joining us tonight on kron. 4 news at a time palmore i'm ken wayne, ron armstrong is out as oakland's police chief. the mayor made that decision a firearm strong today after a report found officer misconduct was mishandled. decision was made by mayor jean talon announced at a news conference today at oakland city hall kron four's dan thorn was there and he joins us live now with more. dan. >> pam and ken, the revolving door of police chiefs continuing in oakland since being put on administrative leave last month. armstrong has demanded his job back. mayor sheng tao today firing him and says it was not an easy decision, but it was necessary for progress to continue in oakland. well, today we heard from the mayor who is saying that this has been an issue that's been going on since he put it, the police chief on administrative leave on january. the 19th, of course he was put on administ

oakland police departments . trouble in turmoil began in the year. 2004 officers known as the riders were accused of racial profiling, beating people framing them and planting drugs . very disturbing tolerance for the actions reflected in the allegations. the scandal cost the city millions criminal cases ended in mistrials and federal oversight began. by 2013. the revolving door of chiefs was just beginning. howard jordan abruptly resigned. anthony toribio served just two days. then sean went took over for several years, but soon, multiple officer misconduct scandals, including a sex abuse scandal involving officers and the teenage daughter of a police dispatcher. i'm extremely angry. about the alleged misconduct in this department went was forced to resign. ben pharaoh took over five days later. it was paul figueroa replaced days after by city administrator sabrina landreth. we need to be a police department that is focused on behavior in 2017 and kirkpatrick was named the first female chief, your head. gun. a y

san francisco police department presentation and department of police accountability presentation. discussion. >> good evening, president, sorry, vice-president carter oberstone. commissioners, scott and chief of staff, and acting director hawkins. my name is dennis tumor and i'm a new captain of the professional standards and principle policing unit. i just want to say i'm glad to be here and thanks for having me tonight. my last assignment was with the office of equity and inclusion. i established that unit and implemented our departments racial equity and action plan. with me is sergeant daral and she's a supervisor in the unit and i just want to make sure that we acknowledge her because her efforts sometimes get overshadowed because she's working behind the scenes. and she's very important to the work that we do. so, i want to make sure that she's here to help represent that unit and to be acknowledged. going forward, our vision for the unit, we would like to continue to build relationships with the police commission and department of police accountability and we work closely w

when the kruzysk was joined by the operatives of the local police department , there was not a singleone could understand where such homely and quiet wife katya could go. orientations were hung on every pole. they are both sociable and sociable girls. here are the benevolent girls, and they didn’t do anything bad to anyone, therefore like this, and 2 weeks after the start of the search for a policeman, they received an anonymous letter from a drawn map of the serenginsky district. there was allocated a place for cranberry, pad, and a point was indicated where supposedly you need to look for girls. worst fear was confirmed. there was a hole in the square. in it, policemen found two mutilated female bodies stripped to their underwear with broken heads. these terrifying footage is shown on television for the first time as part of ethics. we are forced to process the photos with double retouching due to the extreme heat of the girls' bodies. completely decomposed, they could only be identified by personal belongings. for lipstick and a tiny wristwatch, that's why a clone with a moonstone

civil rights attorney john burris whose lawsuit prompted the federal oversight of the oakland police department. but again, oakland's next police chief will be its 13th. since 2009. developing news tonight, a san francisco woman had to be taken to the hospital over the weekend after she was beaten in the head. it happened at the intersection of 18th and dolores street in front of mission high school. the assault lasted less than a minute. >> or force rod nest but happened to be walking by the scene. moments after punches were thrown. >> he joins us now live in the studio with that story. what a what a horrible. the event it was grant. and vicki, as i was walking across the intersection near dolores park, a witness, a woman yelling at the 2 victims saying you did this. you did this over and over again. >> what i did not realize what happened moments before that and how serious the injuries were. what started as a walk to watch the super bowl for mateo and his wife ended with her spending sunday night in the emergency room, orbital fracture, fraction of the i. >> she couldn't see. you know, there

you're actually seeing the community support a police chief and support a police department. >> it's unclear what armstrong's next move is but he says he's evaluating his legal options to preserve his reputation. >> the voice of oakland speaks loud and will not be silenced by this monitor. >> in oakland, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. dan: new details about the effort to crack down on prostitution in san francisco's mission district, an issue first brought to light by abc 7 news. police say they issued more than 30 citations along cap street in the mission since traffic enforcement was increased a week ago. again after our reporting. more undercover operations are planned in the coming days. earlier this week, supervisor hillary ronan introduce a bil to introduce legislation to legalize sex work, allowing cities to set up so-called red light districts. ama: the man accused of the deadly home explosion will be release odd strict house detention. a judge said he believes darren pris didn't intentionally cause the explosion but acted out of negligence. investigators claim he ranked a hash

evening pick we begin with breaking development tonight regarding leadership at the oakland police department. after three years on the job, leronne armstrong was fired from his position as police chief. newly elected mayor sheng thao says she no longer has confidence that he will take the department in the direction that supports her vision for the city. andrea nakano was at the announcement which happened late this afternoon, she joins us live now with new information. andrea? >> reporter: juliet, mayor thao passed at this statement, read it word for word and then took questions from reporters but she says she was troubled by some of the comments that the chief made during the investigation, so she decided to fire him without cause. >> let me be clear that this is not a disciplinary action. i have lost confidence in chief armstrong to ensure that we move forward in the vision for the city of oakland. >> reporter: the chief was placed on administrator leave on january 19th for how he handled a police misconduct case. this stems from an investigation into a former oakland police sergeant accu

i want to acknowledge two community members who have been very, very engaged with this police department and policing in san francisco and i know one other thing we always try to do is get people to be engaged with this police department and our policy making and the commissions policy making and for the public, i want to just say that, this is what that looks like and i know they aren't the only two because we have many i'm in our city -- we have many people in our city who participate. but i want to gifrng than -- i want to give thanks to be ms. jenkins and rome jones. our bio took a long time for us to develop and there was a lot of community input it. there were workgroups and it was a lot of conversations, commissioner elias, and at the time taylor were the commission leads but what ms. jenkins and mr. jones did, they really started the conversation about the bias buy proxy and ended up in the policy and ended up being a big part of having a policy that actually the state of california and the ripa board held as a model and for those of you that aren't familiar with bio bi proxy, th

and that we cannot write them off as mistakes. >> for background, the police department has been under federal oversight for the last two decades, because of the so- called writer's scandal involving four officers accused of corruption. a federal judge put the department on probation last spring, a sign that the end of oversight might be nearby the latest report is calling all of that into question. kenny choi has been working his contacts all day today. he spoke with a former come police commissioner who says the stakes are high right now. i guess he is saying that the mayor made the right call? >> reporter: that's right, juliette. for the mayor's supporters this all boils down to a police accountability, especially for oakland residents who once back to the chief but also believe that the mayor made the right decision. this latest chapter detailing accountability issues within the police department is an extremely sad case. >> reporter: former oakland police commissioner jose dorado works full-time as a tax preparer in the roseville neighborhood. >> i was convinced given who leronne

in new york city has not been defended police departments across the country are not defunded. that is not happening number one.ta number two talk about public safety from the perspective of public health police respond at best after a crime has been committed and then they do their jobs to make sure the person is held accountable when i am saying is we need a proactive preventative approach and we know the majority of people who are incarcerated struggling with a mental health disorder or substance abuse or some form of trauma or learning disability with housing and the like that we went to invest money so people don't commit crimes in the first place. in addition there are many people who are just as entangledba for them to return back to their communities there are no resources for them and that's why they continue to escalate into other crimes. so let's take a step back and have a fresh look at public safety through the lens of public health. that's what we're pushing with the conversation we want to have. host: democrat shreveport louisiana. >>caller: i would like to make t

that's the person who oversees the oakland police department. but a police accountability group has a different view forces the eu. has that story? >> i found that to be really interesting. judge said in his last day he's like, oh, i'm so profoundly disappointed. each time we're just about to get opd in compliance. something happens that something according to former oakland city councilmember lynette gibson mcelhaney. >> is the federal monitor overseeing the oakland police department. robert warshaw, who hired an outside law firm to investigate how opd handled a pair of incidents involving misconduct of an oakland police sergeant. the he says warshaw has a financial conflict of interest to keep his oversight role at opd. they've been 10, 12, 13 chiefs. 3 mayors. >> how many successive city councils then he's being paid a million dollars and has the trust of the court to ensure that oakland's systems are in place to bring us a constitutionally sound high-performance team. and yet. every time we're about to come out from underneath his contracts.

. >> frustrating to not be able to lead the oakland police department. >>> microsoft and google made a major announcement about the future of artificial intelligence. why one company's stock tumbled after the live demo. >>> the city of oakland is being named one of the 13 best places to celebrate black history month. they cite oakland's black joy parade for february 26th. it's filled with live performances from musicians, poets, a celebration of black artists and culture. the report highlights the black power exhibit at the oakland museum of california. it focuses on ways black activists uplifted their communities and challenged the u.s. government. the "black panther" party as an example. >>> over the bay bridge a man suspected of arm robbery is in police custody. police arrived at 26th and mission around 1:30 to find a man robbed and assaulted. he was taken to a nearby hospital with nonlife- threatening injuries. officers found a car matching his description. the driver attempted to flee, lost control of the vehicle and crashed at vernal heights and parker. >>> the tesla drive accu