sfpd. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you for your call. next comment, please. >> hello? can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, you have two minutes. >> hello? thank you. hello. my name is jacqueline, and i live in san francisco's district 10. i'm calling you to, like everyone else, defund the police. the funds come at the cost of real housing and solutions that affect everybody. their budget is more than enough to how's every homeless person in san francisco while creating safety programs that actually protect persons. we've been trying to reform the police for years, and the sfpd has been laughing off this commission's attempts at reform. they even rang a ballot initiative to strip this commission of their powers. the police commission should not be responsible for -- police department should not be responsible nor should they be expected to respond to the money types of incidents that they respond to. you should not be doing homeless sweeps for optics. it's outside the scopes of your r

from schools of the sfpd. mou seems to be a piece of paper that doesn't actually represent the traumatic experience that black and brown students are experiencing with police presence in their schools. so it's not enough to edit this piece of paper and hope for the best. studies show that young kids of color have higher anxiety when having contact with police. this relieves ptsd, depression, poor school performance and school suspensions and expulsions and knowing this data, how can we place police in a place meant to be safe and one of learning if there are actual alternatives which people have mentioned on this call? if there was proof that any other thing, like a drug or a pill or a textbook had this federal government on the learnineffect on student's safei feel like the immediate decision from the school board would be to remove that factor from schools. it should be just as easy to remove police from sfusd schools. it's easier because the board has full control? will that be to maintain the racist enviro

sfpd should not use force on protesters. tear gas, rubber bullets and other crowd control devices may cause serious harm to members of the community and should not be used. secondly, due to covid-19 rapid spread details, sfpd should have a rescue book for nonviolent crimes, including resisting arrest. i urge you to act now to protect citizens by enacting the recommendations made by sf in crisis. thank you. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, commissioners, director henderson. i am from the public defender's office. [inaudible] >> this week, the san francisco public defender released a statement called for six reforms this department and commission can make. we know the whole office is eager to facilitate these changes any way we can. so first, thanks to chief scott for moving on his own initiative for explicitly removing the type of pressures from the neck hold seen in the video earlier last week. [inaudible] >> if you only walk around with a hammer,

have you met with any groups regarding their views on the sfpd?any organizations that work on racial justice and have concerns over sfpd? >> yeah. i recently met with the democratic club and we had a long discussion about policing and use of force with their political directors. >> any other -- >> i have talked to individual community leaders. so, yeah. i don't -- i don't know that i should say their names because they're individuals and i don't know how much they want their names broadcast. >> yeah, yeah. no. i'm not asking about individual names, i'm asking about the groups that work on police reform and racial justice, you know, all over the country, but specifically in san francisco. and you haven't met other than rosepac democratic club, any of those groups? >> not specifically. in several of your public statements you focused on equal of life crimes and you don't feel like they're being prosecuted enough and aggressively enough. and just wondering how you reconcile that with the fact that these quality of life crimes are most often committed

sfpd meets the criteria for fighting bias. but maybe at some point, you could comment why african americans are still being searched more, even though the stops are down and the data is down. those were my questions, but commissioner elias, go for it. >> commissioner elias: thank you, vice president taylor. when commissioner hirsch was on the commission, this was one of the requests that i had made to him, to have you do a report on the 96-a report so we can understand, and the ripa report because it's very important. while i thank you for this presentation, i'm a little concerned that we were asked to provide the police department several questions about the 96-a report and what we would like the police department to cover, and commissioner hirsch and i responded with about 20 questions that aren't necessarily addressed in the presentation. but then, i'd like to start with the presentation, and i'm going to talk to you -- well, i have questions about the 96-a report, and i'm going to ask if we can start on page 6 of the prese

sfpd meets the criteria for fighting bias. but maybe at some point, you could comment why african americans are still being searched more, even though the stops are down and the data is down. those were my questions, but commissioner elias, go for it. >> commissioner elias: thank you, vice president taylor. when commissioner hirsch was on the commission, this was one of the requests that i had made to him, to have you do a report on the 96-a report so we can understand, and the ripa report because it's very important. while i thank you for this presentation, i'm a little concerned that we were asked to provide the police department several questions about the 96-a report and what we would like the police department to cover, and commissioner hirsch and i responded with about 20 questions that aren't necessarily addressed in the presentation. but then, i'd like to start with the presentation, and i'm going to talk to you -- well, i have questions about the 96-a report, and i'm going to ask if we can start on page 6 of the prese

. >>> our top story on kpix 5, streaming on cbsn bay area, restructuring sfpd's responsibilities. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. kpix 5's andria borba is joining us now with why the mayor says some of the police's duties are better suited for someone else. andria? >> reporter: well, elizabeth and ken, during this era of change and calls for police reform, the mayor of san francisco has taken that to heart. she is sitting down with other leaders to try and figure out exactly how to make change happen in this city. to start, she has 4 plans for the police department. in a zoom racial justice forum with police chief william scott, van jones, and the board of equalization chair, the mayor leadout 4 reforms, including demilitarizing the police, limiting sfpd response to non-violent situations, addressing police bias, redirecting funds to disenfranchised communities. >> these are ideas that are not new, but i believe that at this point in time, there's an appetite. there's a realness, there's a real commitment. and we have fresh leadership. think about this. >

sfpd should not use force on protesters. tear gas, rubber bullets and other crowd control devices may cause serious harm to members of the community and should not be used. secondly, due to covid-19 rapid spread details, sfpd should have a rescue book for nonviolent crimes, including resisting arrest. i urge you to act now to protect citizens by enacting the recommendations made by sf in crisis. thank you. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, commissioners, director henderson. i am from the public defender's office. [inaudible] >> this week, the san francisco public defender released a statement called for six reforms this department and commission can make. we know the whole office is eager to facilitate these changes any way we can. so first, thanks to chief scott for moving on his own initiative for explicitly removing the type of pressures from the neck hold seen in the video earlier last week. [inaudible] >> if you only walk around with a hammer,

sfpd will you fire them?e job is being a cop is so difficult and confusing for you, maybe we should get other people who can do their jobs. thank you. >> next speaker. >> >> hi, my name is tyler i'm a resident in district 6. there's a couple things i want to bring up. at the sit-in -- there was a sit-in tuesday night after the board decided to continue this item. i would be good for the board to take some time and discuss what happened there and maybe ask the chief questions about that as well. i heard some rumours going around as far as that that there was a community roarer who was detained or maybe was about to be detained. so if we're going to be concerned about detaining journalists, which of course we should be concerned about, i think there should be some discussion of that as well. it may be that's just a rumour but we should find out. also, i appreciate supervisor haney's questions about the cost of all of this but the facts in that moment if the captain calls for 60 copps, 100 cops, how many there w

sfpd should not use force on protesters. tear gas, rubber bullets and other crowd control devices may cause serious harm to members of the community and should not be used. secondly, due to covid-19 rapid spread details, sfpd should have a rescue book for nonviolent crimes, including resisting arrest. i urge you to act now to protect citizens by enacting the recommendations made by sf in crisis. thank you. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, commissioners, director henderson. i am from the public defender's office. [inaudible] >> this week, the san francisco public defender released a statement called for six reforms this department and commission can make. we know the whole office is eager to facilitate these changes any way we can. so first, thanks to chief scott for moving on his own initiative for explicitly removing the type of pressures from the neck hold seen in the video earlier last week. [inaudible] >> if you only walk around with a hammer,

we don't have any sfpd calls going out to us. when we call them so i wanted to bring that to your attention. i hope you will look at this in the next couple months. how the san francisco police department will landelneighbor -- handle neighborhood concerns. >> next caller please. >> caller: i spoke a minute ago. i want to follow up because you are talking about black lives matter. you need to prove to the public and get the bad officers out there who abuse the black bodies and kill and traumatize them. when we filed reports with the d.p.a., they said the officers were on their vape dar. i don't know what it takes to get the violent officer off the sfpd. another situation. the aclu requested records. right when the law first passed. that request is not fulfilled. it is really wearing you down to fight for some justice. every time that same officer goes public and in the newspaper, the reporters calling you are re-traumatized. the chief said the bothered him to be called son in his mid-50s. think about what it does to a young man's

the tweet read we will no longer transport sfpd to antipolice brutality protests. it was part of a series of tweets declaring the agency's commitment to racial equity work. >> we absolutely want to support sfpd and the chief in their mission but at the same time we need to also respect the specific concerns of our operators and our passengers. >> reporter: in response to muni's tweets the poa tweeted back, hey muni, lose our number next time you need officers for fare evasion enforcement. >> you're jumping on the band wagon trying to vilify us in public but in private asking for our help. you're talking about something you never did in the first place. >> reporter: we reached out to sfpd for confirmation and they gave us this statement. we recognize we are all in the midst of a difficult, emotionally charged time. we respect and honor the actions sfmta is taking to advance the cause of racial justice and equity. the supervisor echoed those sentiments and condemned the polic union's tweet. >> that is dereliction of duty. i want to salute the fsmta for the courageous

we don't have any sfpd calls going out to us. when we call them so i wanted to bring that to your attention. i hope you will look at this in the next couple months. how the san francisco police department will landelneighbor -- handle neighborhood concerns. >> next caller please. >> caller: i spoke a minute ago. i want to follow up because you are talking about black lives matter. you need to prove to the public and get the bad officers out there who abuse the black bodies and kill and traumatize them. when we filed reports with the d.p.a., they said the officers were on their vape dar. i don't know what it takes to get the violent officer off the sfpd. another situation. the aclu requested records. right when the law first passed. that request is not fulfilled. it is really wearing you down to fight for some justice. every time that same officer goes public and in the newspaper, the reporters calling you are re-traumatized. the chief said the bothered him to be called son in his mid-50s. think about what it does to a young man's

is in charge, not sfpd and not the chief. have you -- is this a dialogue that you have had with the p.o.a. and have you expressed concern? ed >> you are on mute, chief. >> sorry about that. >> there was a dialogue and there was a dialogue that night and this was a conversation that night. and this is, commissioner, to your point, particularly right now it is really important that the lines are clear and made a statement and the police officer association does not speak for or on behalf of the department. they have a role as a unit and i respect that role and they do not speak on behalf of the department. we need to make that line very clear and bright that what the department condones and what we don't. and so hopefully i did that and if that happens again to be pointed out, hopefully that will be communicated and i have seen a lot of statements from them in the press about selling them and being silenced and i don't remember if this was one of the times they called for your removal. they do it every few weeks it seems. so i

sfpd will you fire them? if the job is being a cop is so difficult and confusing for you, maybe we should get other people who can do their jobs. thank you. >> next speaker. >> >> hi, my name is tyler i'm a resident in district 6. there's a couple things i want to bring up. at the sit-in -- there was a sit-in tuesday night after the board decided to continue this item. i would be good for the board to take some time and discuss what happened there and maybe ask the chief questions about that as well. i heard some rumours going around as far as that that there was a community roarer who was detained or maybe was about to be detained. so if we're going to be concerned about detaining journalists, which of course we should be concerned about, i think there should be some discussion of that as well. it may be that's just a rumour but we should find out. also, i appreciate supervisor haney's questions about the cost of all of this but the facts in that moment if the captain calls for 60 copps, 100 cops, how many t

sfpd will you fire them? if the job is being a cop is so difficult and confusing for you, maybe we should get other people who can do their jobs. thank you. >> next speaker. >> >> hi, my name is tyler i'm a resident in district 6. there's a couple things i want to bring up. at the sit-in -- there was a sit-in tuesday night after the board decided to continue this item. i would be good for the board to take some time and discuss what happened there and maybe ask the chief questions about that as well. i heard some rumours going around as far as that that there was a community roarer who was detained or maybe was about to be detained. so if we're going to be concerned about detaining journalists, which of course we should be concerned about, i think there should be some discussion of that as well. it may be that's just a rumour but we should find out. also, i appreciate supervisor haney's questions about the cost of all of this but the facts in that moment if the captain calls for 60 copps, 100 cops, how many t

appetite. >> reporter: they include demilitarizing the police of military grade weapons, limiting sfpd response to non-violent situations, addressing police bias, redirecting funds to disenfranchised communities. >> i think her approach was reasonable regarding the reforms she mentioned today. >> reporter: that's sf police officer's association president tony montoya who does worry about tools like tear gas being taken away from specialized tactical officers. >> they didn't use it in the recent protests. it's really only used during like severe emergency type situations. so none of that was deployed during any of this that's been going on the past 2 weeks. before we just start taking equipment away, let's understand what we have and be thoughtful about it. >> reporter: but he does support directing officers away from non-violent calls regarding the homeless or mental health crises. it's also supported by chris herring on the coalition for the homeless who says sfpd answers 8,000 calls on the homeless a month, with only 30 minutes of training in the academy. >> rather than having the po

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she has a close relationship to the sfpd. she is advocating to roll back initiatives like [indiscernible] -- mass incarcerations. [indiscernible] criminal justice reform ties the hands of law enforcement. the police commission does not need a member that believes they need to roll back these measures. sfpd is embedding twitter feeds on their website. we need an independent commissioner not one looking to boost these platforms. [indiscernible]. stop crime s.f. [indiscernible]. nancy tung argued that all sfpd shootings were [indiscernible] today she said she would not have disciplined any of these officers involved in the recent killings. as documented by the u.s. department of justice sfpd has a terrible history of excessive use of force. this is appalling. police officers should be held to the same legal standards we all are. police officers are sworn to protect and serve and when they abuse their authority, they must be held accountable. we need a police commissioner who exercise meaningful independent oversight over the pol

with the sfpd. schools are meant to be a place of learning. a lot of schools provide a stable environment as my schools are for me. police officers get 120 hours in use of force and eight hours in de-escalation and conflict resolution. what message does that send to our students when we send armed officers trained to brutalize disproportionately. i urge you to terminate the m.o.u. agreement with sfpd and support your efforts for the resources for teachers and programs that support our underserved youth. as another note, i would like to note how thorough the sfpd is in examining the training that the student resources receive in interacting with students and if you are providing specifics if you have them. >> [indiscernible] -- >> [indiscernible] confidence in what they're doing. thank you. >> elaine, are you back? >> yes. can you hear me? >> yes. >> i was calling on behalf of the possible closure for c.d.o. i'm a long time early education teacher. i know that many of the educators at the site. i've been up there several times. as a really, rea

supervisors planning to look at sfpd's hiring process.today in the bay's" sharon katsuda is live for us at san francisco city hall, and, sharon, i know this was all prompted by the protests we're seeing here in the bay area. >> reporter: that's right, marcus. when i covered the protests here yesterday, the one main thing i kept hearing over and over again from the protesters they want to see real solutions, real change. i spoke to a reverend who said this change needs to be made by community leaders, and that's what is happening today with the board of supervisors. san francisco supervisor shamann walton says holding officers accountable when they break the rules will lead to change. walton is introducing a resolution today urging the board to support legislation preventing sfpd from hiring officers from other departments with a record of excessive force. actor jamie foxx was at the protest here at city hall yesterday. he also spoke out against police brutality. >> really fight for prosecution and incarceration when our young people, our

>>thank you chief bill scott says he's now calling for sfpd the to be torn dow

chief scott says that it would not impact sfpd response times problem. >>san francisco, a string of financial lifeline to fisherman impacted by last month's pier 45 fire in san francisco. a move that mayor london breed says is essential to save crops season. let's check in with kron four's reyna harvey who is live in san francisco with that update reyna. good morning robin and just like you mentioned a lot of the fishermen that i met. >>lost everything in that fire. this is a lifetime worth of collecting fishing equipment so it devastated and i know you can see right behind me here over my shoulder. that's actually where that pier fire happened last month you can still see the damage. the roof there caved and so again a long way to go in terms of getting things fixed up, but we're going to show you that fire that happened a month ago and tell you a little bit about this relief that's going to come for the fishermen here now over 30 of them lost their here this is a about 8,000 crab shrimp and black cop traps that were lost pots as well. now the financial

we have sfpd and the sheriff's department staging. unlike last night, we've not seen any destruction as they're leaving, nothing new has been broken or battered in union square this afternoon. >> reporter: at west coast leathers, the owner got this call from sfpd last night. >> the police told me not to come down when the alarm went off, because it was dangerous. >> reporter: when the sun rose over san francisco, he came to see what was left, and it wasn't much. >> the amount is unbelievable. the front of the store is completely emptied. the middle of the store is partially emptied. the downstairs through the garage. >> reporter: $30,000 in merchandise and the cash register was pulled through shattered glass. >> destroy the shop, we were hoping to open on monday. as all san francisco retail stores have been closed to march 17th, which has been pretty painful. so we've been really hoping to open on monday, and obviously that plan is not going to work. >> reporter: the only thing left sparkling at swarovski was broken glass. the luxuryl

. >> london breed told the crowd that her cousin was killed by sfpd. >> yes, i'm the mayor, but i'm ack woman first. >> today was capped by a call to action. from the naacp's reverend amos brown. >> and black folks have that right, you better get with us and vote this man out of the white house. >> it is not enough to protest, he says, there must be productivity. in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >>> in many cities across the bay area, we're going into a second night of curfews. other cities called for curfews today and this is where they are. you can see in san leandro and walnut creek in blue. their curfew starts at 6:00 p.m. coming up in about an hour. most of these folks starting their curfew at the 8:00 p.m. hour, in green. that includes san francisco, oakland, hayward, santa clara, and san jose. also, late today, almeda county sheriffs announced they are going to enact a curfew for the unincorporated parts of the county. starting tonight at 7:00 p.m., pleasant hill that's when there is a curfew and when there is a curfew in place, that means you're encouraged to stay nur hous

we are a city department just like sfpd and sfpd officers are our colleagues. we collaborate with them every day on traffic safety and operator safety. but at the same time we also have to acknowledge and own the emotional impact of our riders seeing such visible partnership between the police and public transit. police for many people being a symbol of ongoing oppression and public transit which is a place where everyone needs to feel safe and protected and comfortable. so i am anti-police brutality and also at the same time not against the officers of the police who do seek to protect the vulnerable and regress police racism and cruelty. so this is one of the many challenges i get to face as a bureaucrat, and the only way i can do it is with stability, continuing to seek advice throughout the agency and the public about how to proceed, how to thread this needle, and how to at the same time keep trying to bend my own agency toward justice and while righting past harms. so that is a lot to say. i also need to cover the more cotillian work of our agency. i am co

full of people bringing signs like these ones, thousands of people there, you heard raj just say, sfpd, about 5,000, would say at least 5,000. >> it looks like we lost our audio and video from thom and we will get back to him in a moment. he said people were continuing to file. in and we will go to our nbc bay area sky ranger. back there, to that red carpet area, it looks like the main stage, for this rally, it started around 4:00, this evening, so about an hour ago. and again, organized in part by many high school students, and the plan here is to stay here at mission high school, and delores park, and then at some point, march toward one of the police substations just a few blocks away. we will continue to follow this sizable march, in just a moment and let's go back down to the ground level, and rejoin thom jensen. we have your audio and video back. take it away. >> reporter: -- >> we are having audio problems but you can see the size and scope of this rally here. from our sky ranger. let's go across the bay here now, where what we're seeing here, another diverse group of protesters

we will no longer transport sfpd to anti-police brutality protests. it was part of a tweet committing to racial equity work. >> we absolutely want to support sfpd and the chief in their mission. at the same time, we need to also respect the specific concerns of our operators and our passengers. >> reporter: in response to immunei's tweets, they tweet back, hey, muni, lose our number next time you need officers for fare evasion enforcement. >> you'reville identifying us but in private you're asking for our help and you're talking about something you never did before in the first place. >> reporter: we reached out to sfpd for come. they only gave us this statement. we recognize we are all in the midst of a dill, emotionally charged time. we almost and honor the actions sfmta is taking to advance the cause of racial justice and equity. the supervisor condemned the tweet. >> that's dereliction of duty. i want to salute them for that courageous stance. >> my relationship is with management. not the labor union. i believe as department heads, we will contin

sfpd took 20 people into custody for violating curfew orders there. protests around the bay area with mostly peaceful. demonstrators in fremont last night took a knee for nine minutes of silence in solidarity with george floyd and the amount of time police pinned him to the ground. the crowd then marched to city hall and the police station. in marin a large group marched to sausalito church where they sat on a lawn and speakers addressed the crowd. >>> now in oakland as well protests stayed mostly peaceful. no arrests or citations. some 300 people marched through downtown observing. one of the organizers told us what he'd like to see come out of the protests. >> we node to get rid of all these people here now because just restart that. get rid of them or keep paying them but we're not going to pay them. we can police our own community. >> it ended at 8:00 when the curfews kicked in and most of the crowds dispersed. >>> more protests are planned across the bay area today including one in los gatos. organizers plan to gather outside of a starbucks on bl

sfpd arrested protesters outside of the city hall last night. no word on the exact number this morning. meanwhile oakland police arrested 100 people, 80, for curfew and similar violations. >>> overnight thousands of demonstrators gathered for a peaceful protest in downtown portland and, meanwhile, most protests were peaceful mostly in new york city but there were still some reports of looting. vandals smashed the windows of some stores there and businesses were cleaned out as well because of that looting. protesters in providence, rhode island, also set fires. president trump is now threatening to call in the military. of course that brings a lot of pushback. chris pollone joins us live with that part of the story. >> reporter: kris, and that's not all that has democrats and some members of the clergy criticizing the president's actions this morning. they say federal police and national guard troops used tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters just so the president could hold a photo-op across from the white house. federal officers an

sfpd took 20 people into custody for violating the curfew orders but protests were mostly peaceful. demonstrators in free throw month last night took a knee for nearly nine minutes of silence and solidarity with george floyd. in the amount of time police pinned him to the ground. they marched to city hall and then to the police station. in marin they sat on lawns and speakers addressed the crowd. >>> in oakland, protests stayed mostly peaceful. police report no arrests or citations. some 300 people marched through downtown oakland. one organizer told us that he would like to see a lot come from the protest. >> restart that. either get rid of them or you keep paying them but we're not going to pay them. we can police our own rally. >> the rally ended at 8:00 when the curfew kicked in and most of the crowds dispersed. >> organizers plan to gather out-of-a starbucks on blossom hill road and march to the library. on the pep ins la a demonstration outside of san mateo city hall that will get under way at 5:00 tonight. >>> san francisco's district attorney is reportedly dropping charges a

no date set for when the board will vote on a new memorandum of understanding with sfpd.ob redell, "today in the bay." >>> protesters taking their message to the streets of oakland and oakland mayor libby schaaf. tonight they plan to call for defunding the oakland police department during a protest happening right outside of her home. in the meantime the city of berkeley plans to prohibit the police from using tear gas. councilmember robinson tweeted the city council made that decision last night. >>> startling new data out this morning showing the number of new covid-19 cases on the rise right here in the bay area. this has businesses start to slowly reopen their doors. santa clara, contra costa and alameda counties are all reporting double digit increases and the daily cases over the last week. while the number of those cases are going up governor gavin newsom says hospitals in california are better prepared to handle the sick patients and experts tell us that testing and contact tracing will play important roles in controlling the spread of covid-19. >> it's one thing

>>well sfpd says it values its relationship with the school district and would like to continue that relationship in a statement earlier tuesday, the police department said it quote firmly believes that our youth and school resource officer programs. service positive ways to build lasting and healthy relationships between our officers and you specifically youth and underserved communities where building relationships and mutual trust is most needed in quote school board commissioners have not yet made a decision. >>and there's more fallout from the arrest of former san francisco, public works director mohammed nuru who is charged back in january with public corruption. now federal prosecutors have charged news longtime romantic partner sandra zuniga with conspiracy to launder money. soon and also worked for the city of san francisco's fix a director and director of the mayor's office of neighborhood services. >>the fact the tone from the top under a number of administrations allowed this kind of behavior to fester is unconscionable. as the u.s. attorneys said if there are any city em

and the sfpd is responding to concerns over newly released body camera video we'll ha >>9.14 this friday morning we're turning the corner and heading into the weekend to let's find out the weekend forecast from kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr hi dave. >>hey good morning marty good morning, everybody and we are turning a leaf here into cooler temperatures coming this weekend oia don't worry though the summer time he'll be back again by the middle of next week in case you missed it. a live shot coming in from u c berkeley and we can still see the fog lingering around the immediate they onshore winds helping to keep that in place there. temperatures thus far when the 50's the most part up in the north bay, although 63 nevado 65 for polio 66, antioch and lower 60's line up the east bay shoreline in also too and somebody inland areas here. she has a comparison sake of how we stand in terms of highs today reducing those 80's. we have a couple of days still poking out here any are coming in and santa rosa. but elsewhere it 70's 60's across a good piece of real estate so much reduced temperature

>>san francisco mayor london breed says says she plans to redirect some funding from sfpd to support the african american community in the next budget. now this decision is drawing attention from the vice president of the san francisco police officers association lieutenant tracey mcrae she says she's concerned about the form these cuts will take. >>i really worry aboucutting their training but i because you want to stray in the de escalation want to bring in the experts in that field right to train us so what we do got him because it may have that component we have that right we have that tree and so it's just you know. it's a rough time for everyone. you know and we're just all trying to come to the table together and come up with the best possible solutions. >>well some supporters say it's not an elimination of law enforcement but a shrinking of the scope of police responsibility shifting them to other professional such as homeless outreach or mental health workers. on the state capitol california lawmakers held a demonstration in memory of black men and women killed by police. ca

sfpd is continuing to exercise their rights to put people in danger. frankly, i'm just frustrated that apparently there's no way to have any oversight over what curfew orders sfpd and the mayor put in place from our elected officials. it doesn't really seem like there's much point in attending city government meetings and supposedly having some kind of input on what the government does when the cops and the mayor do whatever they want regardless. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello? >> clerk: hello, we can hear you. >> great. i'll start now. hello. my name is celina, and i'm a student at ucsf. i'm also a member of the science policies of ucsf. we are a group of students, faculty, and staff. i'm calling in as a member of staff and as an individual, asking you to exercise your authority today. make no mistake, the curfew will disproportionately affect people of color. police will use their discretion, they will use use of force, and it will effect black and brown people. people have the right to protest and to

mccray says one was sfpd,pj@p t actions to advance the cause of racial justice.scussions8)2dz sn defunding police in a number of cities, questions about their role are highlighted, too. in san 9÷?áp'cisco, christy sm, nbc bay avi'ews. bowl proposal in oakland, some want to shut down the school district's police department. this was the force that patrols all the campuses in oakland unified. they plan to introduce the george floyd resolution at tonight's board meeting. ñ not t 4d the plan demands the district remove police officers entirely from schools to make campuses safer for black and brown students. 73% of the arrests by oakland unified police, despite being only 26% of the student population. >>> let's switch gears and go to our coronavirus coverage. as counties start to reopen, we are seeing more testing and seeing more cases of covid-19. so let's take a look at where the counties are when it comes to the number of cases. we'll start with san mateo county. we saw daily cases peaking around march. you can see it right here. and then the cases started to dr

. >> diversion of funds from sfpd towards a reparations program for the black community. our second demand is diversion of funds from sfpd towards a mental health program inclusive of the black community. and our third demand is a restortive justice program. >> reporter: and overall. >> respect. >> reporter: and these two days they're planning to come back here to the steps of city hall next friday and march from here to justice, their goal to end systemic racism. in san francisco luce pena, abc 7 news. >>> dozens of people took to the streets of alameda to show their support for a man who was arrested for dancing in the street. we told you about that last weekend as well. this is video of the dancing yesterday in front of the alameda police department. body camera video was released last week of five police officers detaining 44-year-old molly watkins last month. watkins says he's not angry about the arrest and wants to focus on reform. >>> now, a group of activists protested against facebook and amazon in menlo park on behalf of the black lives matters movement. they ac

i will have a hearing on the legislation was has asked the board of supervisors to redirect sfpd funding to the black community and act that he said should be viewed as reparations this is going to be a community that process where your son to beatings. >>over the next couple of weeks in the back leadership leadership or black me based organizations who should earn back its community. we're going to talk about it just as areas there. they identify and then we'll start talking about where resources will go hard to ensure that those resources once we go to the police department budget on hasn't gotten any pushback as of yet no magic and it's coming. particularly when we start saying this is where resources are going to be taken from this is we want to do a review last resources reporting in san francisco, i'm jason dumas scrum for news. >>and we're following breaking news right now san francisco police just posted this tweet saying outline has once again been spotted this is in the past hour. they've highlighted the area they're calling it the east cut neighborhood, it's basically south of

if you have anything that can help the investigators call sfpd. >> coronavirus case numbers are surging across the number and california is no exception. it's been a record breaking week for the state. over 7,000 cases. new cases reported tuesday, another 5,000 yesterday. today, governor newsome called on citizen scientists to help the state fight the virus. seems like a challenge made for silicone valley. scott budman is in san jose with the story. scott? >> reporter: well the governor is talking data and modelling, here at hospitals like good samaritan and san jose, they are talking about personal responsibility. like masking up and keeping the number of patients down. >> as concerns rise along with the number of covid cases, governor newsome is reaching on out to what he calls citizen scientists. >> expertise can be found anywhere and everywhere. >> reporter: opening up the state's data on a website called c calcass. >> citizen scientists. people doing codes every day. we want to give them access through an open source platform to all of the available data that we have that i have, t

just want to say that it shouldn't take a week for me living in the city to know the violence of the sfpd and what actually keeps us safe. it's not a curfew. there was a black man shot at 4:00 a.m. underneath my window. i woke up to cops screaming, stop or i'll shoot. he wasn't armed, he wasn't doing anything. this is why people are out. this is why people are protesting. you don't need a curfew to stop it. a curfew isn't going to stop it. it's going to make people even more angry and depressed. it is going to continue, the riots. a curfew only gives the police opportunity to oppress with impugnity. you have a chance to set the example for the rest of the country, defunding the police and funding housing, education, and welfare in this city. it is disgusting how much we spend in this city on policing and all it does it make the oppressed even less safe than they were. please defund, abolish the police. listen to what people out there are saying. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, sir, for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello, can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. welcome.

he's also asking for city funds to be redirected from the sfpd to the black community kron four's jason dumas says reports. >>over the past few years we have seen dozens of viral video in the form of people unnecessarily calling 911 on someone. one san francisco city supervisor wants to see these people face harsher fines and this is great because it's leading to death. >>every real harm. there should be some some some couples are using them. resources and leading to the armed people from these phone calls the next step will be to draft legislation must legislation has been drafted were to use it. normally we're super visors it will go to committee more like your own safety net never services committee. i will have a hearing on the legislation was has asked the board of supervisors to redirect sfpd funding to the black community and act that he said should be viewed as reparations this is going to be a community that process where your son to beatings. >>over the next couple of wins in the back leadership leadership or black numerous organi ations who should back its community. we're go

sfpd has been on the forefront of recognizing the need for change in police reform. some because of sfpd, some because of outside agencies that are required to be a part of the process, some because of the police unions, and frankly some barriers because of california d.o.j. itself, who took over when trump decided -- or after he became president and decided that police reform didn't matter. since the d.o.j. made those recommendations in 2016, the police commission has completely overhauled a number of sfpd policies, including the use of force policies which expressly banned knee-to-neck restraints and has since november 2016. so for those of you that have questions about that, knee-to-neck restraints are not permitted in our use-of-force policies. the sfpd has also overhauled a number of other areas, including bias policing, which includes bias by proxy because we all know part of the problem is people calling the police on black people. it includes discrimination and harassment within the department. we overhauled that policy, as well. the commission created a disc

no date set for when the board will vote on a new memorandum of understanding with sfpd. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." >>> black lives matter protesters plan to take their message straight to oakland mayor libby schaaf's neighborhood. tonight they plan to call for defunding of opd in protests outside her home. >>> in the meantime berkeley councilmembers approved a ban on police using tear gas. councilmember rigel robinson says they made the decision last night. there's some startling new data out we want to share with you showing a big spike in coronavirus cases in the bay area. this is as businesses are starting to slowly reopen their doors. santa clara, contra costa and alameda counties are reporting double digit increases in new daily cases over the last week. while the numbers are going up, governor gavin newsom says hospitals in california are better prepared to handle sick patients and experts tell us testing and contact tracing will play an important role in the spread of covid-19. >> it's one thing to test a positive case but you want to prevent

concussions last thursday mayor london breed says she plans to redirect some funding resources from sfpd. >>to support the african american community in the next budget, the vice president of the san francisco police officers association is concerned about the form these cuts will take i really worry about cutting their training but right because you want to strain in the de escalation want to bring in the experts in that field. >>right to train us so what we do got him because it may have that component we have that right we have that tree. >>and so it's just you know. it's a rough time for everyone. you know, and we're just all trying to come to the table together and come up with the best possible solutions mcrae says the police officers association is not opposed to making changes within the department in fact she says the city of san francisco is in a unique position to lead the way. >>the union just wants to make sure they're part of the conversation. maureen kelly kron 4 news new details tonight on what led up to a fatal shooting involving chp officers in oakland over the weekend