it all could have gotten suhr fired. and o'hare says she was threatened. her lawsuit claims an attorney for the police union said she was going to be sorry and that o'hare did not know how this city worked. >> were you ever out to get greg suhr? >> i didn't know the man, didn't know him personally, had no complaints. >> reporter: o'hare's lawyers won't say how much money they're seeking but the city attorney's service says it's ready for a fight. >> i can say that we think that the lawsuit lacks merit. the city attorney is prepared to agressively defend the police department and we're gonna do everything we can to protect taxpayer dollars. >> reporter: no word from chief suhr himself. but late this afternoon, sfpd did send out a statement saying that o'hare was among several let go as part of a cost-saving move. but her attorneys did share with us this city document that shows she was specifically terminated, or fired, and not simply laid off. >>> more details now on the so- called fajita gate scandal that embroiled suhr when he was a deputy chief. suhr wa

i'm greg suhr, chief of police for san francisco. it is important what commissioner marshall spoke to earlier, and echo about the tragedy in kansas city. we are talking about the 22-year-old mother who was killed and leaves a three-month-old baby. that is with these conversations are about. even though we are in a staffing crisis, the mayor and the people who sit on these chairs will address this but we are still down about 300 officers. thank you for your comments and the material beverly upton who keeps moving around back there. concerning our most vulnerable. in october we built a space in our most secure floor, behind locked doors, a place for children, and many of the folks behind me tr everybody has been sitting together, we are altogether all the time anyway. in october, domestic violence, elder abuse, missing persons, juvenile violence, came together under one roof. a putting the human trafficking task force regional effort. even though we are in the middle of hiring 1000 officers over the next six years, a critical piece of

and by golly, with chief suhr and the commission, we have it with you, the men and women of the policeepartment. and i can vouch with this, having hatraveled as mayor brow and witnessing all the other cities and what they are going through. there extreme jealousy of our city. we get the best people that live here and work here and a part of this great teamwork we are building in san francisco. and not just what we are presently doing. but building for the future. and in working for the chief and the police officers association. we have already established a six-year hiring plan. many cities across the country haven't figured out how to do that. we have did so. this january i was so proud to see 43 additional officers graduate from the police academy. how long ago have we seen that happen. we are investing in you, the police department. because we know that if we have a successful police department, one that is growing, and one that incurs faith and confidence from residents and friends and businesses. we will be that much more successful. it's my personal pleasure to join you today. i

i haven't had an opportunity to thank chief suhr but i'm going to do it now and in 2012 there were no barricades around the music area so it was easier for people to dance and not feel as if they were pinned in and it was a suggestion i made in 2012 and we hope to see that happen again with 2013 and i see that the sergeant is in the room and tad i want to thank you the service you gave and despite management and the social services and i said at another time treated him badly and ask him to leave our so-called community meetings want i stopped attending those after they treated him so badly because we are in the city and county of san francisco. we have the right to be safe and that includes our police officers, so again my thanks to all of you for being on time and we have our quorum and i will look forward to seeing you i guess in june. >> thank you jackie. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners, staff and members of the public and we have members of organizations here and supporters and friends. i am david [inaudible] and the executive director of the community leadership and

police chief greg suhr will join phil matier to talk security at 6: 45 this morning. we have complete coverage of bay to breakers on our website, kpix.com. >>> all america's cup officials are telling teams to immediately suspend sailing ac catamarans until next week. british sailor andrew simpson of the artemis racing team was killed in an accident last week. meanwhile, the head of the italian team is on his way to san francisco to discuss safety and whether his team should stay in the competition. >>> cyclists in the amgen tour of california will roll into san jose today. the 19.6-mile course will start on bailey avenue at the ibm silicon valley lab after noon. the finish line santa clara county motorcycle park on metcalf road. if you are planning now on checking out the race, keep in mind, parking is limited. cyclists have been racing for five days so far. this is file video of last year's race. the big challenge the climb to the top of metcalf road. the race ends on sunday in santa rosa and includes a big finish atop mount diablo on saturday afternoon. >>> 6:10 now

[applause] >> and now i would like to ask the chief of police, gregory suhr to come up and speak. >>uld ask everyone more time, i think we short changed chanel silas on that national anthem. [applause] she actually stood in sergeant jerry darcy who laid world series fame and lore was going to sing, and has the same cold that everyone has, and channel showed up. i want to thank the families and friends that are here, and dignitaries. and the board of supervisors who are represented. supervisor campos and weiner, great friends of the department. and commissioner loftus, needs no introduction. and willie brown, tremendous friend of the police department. i don't know if we have been blessed to have a mayor more supportive in our hiring plan, than mayor lee. i appreciate everyone working together to support us here in san francisco. now to the matter at hand. we are privileged to be here of the 56 sworn officers that are sworn to the rank of sergeant, captain and deputy of chief. in all endeavors leadership is critical to success. as we move into the first half of 2013, solid and sound l

they plan to deliver 1500 signatures on a petition inviting police chief suhr to tour the tenderloin.want the chief to look at the level of public safety in their neighborhood. a police spokesperson says chief suhr walked the streets of the tenderloin tonight and more officers will be assigned there when the current graduates join the squad. >> i think the level of drug sales is still very intense in tenderloin. tenderloin. >> the organizers say the tenderloin has had double the number of police staffing cuts as the entire city. >>> coming up in two minutes, demanding answers tonight in the south bay. why some say crime in san jose is at a crisis level, and what's being done to make the streets safer. >>> and the rise of the working woman. the record-breaking number of mothers who are now the bread winners in their family. ♪ ♪ so you can make easy, no-fee reloads with cash and checks... and know you're not on your own. so you can get the reloadable card that keeps up with you. chase liquid. so you can. ♪ [ engine revs ] [ female announcer ] small... [ engine revs ] wicked... ♪ and now

at mccuvey cove, greg suhr today taped a special greeting to visitors to san francisco. >> we have visitors from all over the world. the last thing we want is from them take away from san francisco is that they had something taken away from them. >> reporter: the chief is asking tourists to put away their cell phones during their time in san francisco. >> robberies are up 13%. arrests are up over 45%. >> we're here for two days, but for the moment we are safe, yes. >> reporter: the department doesn't keep statistics in the number of out of town theft victims but officers in union square told us tourists are more trusting and more easily distracted than natives, often leaving luggage and purchases unguarded just to take a picture. >> they get careless. they get so engrossed with what they're doing with their iphone, and they're not paying attention to who's beside them or who's behind them. >> the phones are taken right from them unsuspected. >> reporter: they hope the video will be played in hotel rooms and the airport. >> you're texting your friends to find out where they're going to be, l

corredores con un chaleco de participante, y quien no lo tenga no podra estar en la carrera dijo greg suhriudad de oakland llego a tener una de las celebraciones mas grandes del 5 de mayo en el area de la bahia. pitch - cesar ---pero en esta ocasion, por cuarto aÑo consecutivo no se realizara un evento de esa magnitud. ---pilar niÑo nos cuenta que algunos buscan rescatar take 2 box el evento y la celebracion, entre ellos los jovenes....adelante pilar. take pkg ;01 ;06 ;11 ;18 ;38 1;14 2;07 asi es, pues estos jovenes culpan a los politicos de dejar morir el evento y no querer resucitarlo. aracely carvajal/residente de oakland :16 como recuerda usted las celebraciones del 5 de mayo aqui en oakland? anteriormente muy bonitas muy grandes santiago caceres/vendedor ambulante :23 se extrana el cinco de mayo mucha gente de todos modos viene a ver si se va a celebrar algo pero ya no se estan haciendo los cinco de mayo como santiago algunos extranan las grandes celebraciones de cinco de mayo en oakland. entre 90 y 95 mil personas en este ano en el 2006 entre ellos hugo guerrero quien lidero la organ

chief suhr sees video technology as promising. >> they have cameras now that are so sophisticated that they have video analytics in them where you can say things like a package cannot be on the ground for more than 30 seconds, and the camera will actually box the item and send off an alert to whoever i theni cameras >> reporter: that's the kind of techniques they're developing at 3vr. using computer programs they can search large quantities of video looking for people, or cars, or objects without someone actually looking at the screen for hours. >> it would allow you to cut down on your search time exponentially, by the power of ten. >> reporter: and it's all done by the machine, by the computer. >> yes, that's correct. >> reporter: i don't have to look for this guy, oh there he is, there he is. >> correct. once we have this facial biometric parameters captured, its indexed within our database, then we match similarities to that facial profile, if you will, and bring up all the similarities to that face. rerter: and they can do the same thing with suspect cars that are recorded on a gi

try the whistle-blower program with the late example of the police department, police chief fong and suhr, and let's talk about other things like why the 49ers left san francisco? the previous speakers said it was a win for san francisco -- excuse me, let's remember the san francisco 49ers are headquartered in santa clara. they have a mayor. the closest major city, which is bigger than san francisco is in san jose. if i remember correctly, a lot of those super, superjumbo jets fly in and out of san jose and i predict there will be many more flying in and out of san jose than the jets coming into sfo. it's a win for everyone, not just san francisco and let's not forget when we have an audit for this? why did the san francisco giants stay in san francisco? can they get a new stadium with the city's cooperation? i don't think so. why did the warriors leave san francisco? why did the warriors leave san francisco? they had a central location at civic center. why did they leave? please audit. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. and i thank david chiu because this is distri

also tomorrow san francisco police chief greg suhr will be joining us with everything you need to know about the race. it will be a very busy weekend. >> very busy. >>> 4:37 is the time right now. hopefully it's not a busy friday. >> it's actually good. and i will say it before dave clark says it we have made it to friday. >> we've made it to friday. >> good morning, everybody. we have made it to friday. pam brought up a good point the last few fridays we haven't had the lighter conditions. right now it is light on 80 westbound. heading out to the mccarthur maze. no major problems and when you get to the bay bridge toll plaza it will be light. something that will start happening in the next few weeks is people get off for school we will see lighter than usual conditions. northbound 280 getting up to highway 17 that traffic is looking good. 4:38 let's go to steve. >>> and making it to friday beats the alternative. >> not making it to friday. >> all right we have a cool pattern in place. that system yesterday well the clouds are gone. expect for patchy low clouds but it's a cooler mornin

. >> reporter: chief suhr tells phil matier what runners will see. >> more uniformed presence and 80demy classes out there and then they will see a lot of dogs. they will see people from other jurisdictions, 16 other agencies contributing to our bomb support. >> reporter: there will be cameras and realtime monitoring at the start, finish and hay street hill where runners bunch up. >> the level of preparation has been elevated for bay to breakers this weekend. the fbi, of course, will participate in any way that we can. we'll bring additional resources whether it's special agent bomb technicians or dogs. >> reporter: 30,000 runners, up to 100,000 people in all a good indication that the boston attack hasn't scared any away. >> i'm pretty sure that people are paying attention to it. >> the smartest time to run. >> reporter: what's that? >> after something like that's happened like in boston, i think it's a better time because security will be height ebbed. >> i'm feeling comfortable. we have had a little bit of time go by since that incident. people are comfortable. >> reporter: this m

i would like to go forward with someone else and i support greg suhr for chief and i am aware of a case about him from an employee. dimy background. and i went through every article about the case and see the young lady, the victim stand here and address the police commission about the situation at hand. i totally support the chief on this. my knowledge of the case is i am [inaudible] and some people just what they are. now on to the great subject, the occ. i would like to address the occ. there was a young man two weeks ago and sat there and gave the dialogue how the occ treated him. two weeks ago i met a lady in the cash room and transgender and she told me about something that happened with her. young lady sit down i will explain how the occ works and this is how you should do it and please get back to me. she called me the other day. she said "clyde, i got a letter. i got a phone call. they're on it." great job thank you. >> thank you clyde. next speaker. please come forward sir. good evening. >> yes good evening police commission. together can we be allotted three minutes each. >>

police chief greg suhr withdrew his proposals saying the public suggestions were more harmful than helpfulthey wanted restrictions that he said would harm officers. the berkeley police association hopes to go to city council to hope to find support from the city for taser use. live in berkeley, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> the police association survey was based on nearly 600 responses. >>> he may be the best dressed bank robber we have ever seen. campbell police are looking for this man. he slipped a note to a teller at the patelco credit union last friday and left with cash. there is no sign of a gun or a getaway car. investigators are hoping the clear distinctive picture will help them get their man. >>> and another robber caught on camera, this guy grabbed handfuls of mail from the back of a delivery truck while it was stopped at a red light on 36th and market in oakland. it happened may 13. federal authorities are looking for help in finding him. >>> an unusual bird rescue. the bay area group that helped a duckling hatch after her mother died. >> with a lot of the rule changes they made

chief suhr says officers will be ready. >> we have told the officers they have to engage the crowd early and often. this is a great event. it's over 100 years old. we don't expect anything different. >> he says you will see police academy cadets helping out with patrols and 16 other law enforcement agencies helping on sunday including the fbi. we have posted a complete race guide on our website, kpix.com/baytobreakers. >> reporter: two men are dead overnight after a shooting on 880 after the end of the golden state warriors game. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec tells us why investigators don't think this is a random act of violence. >> reporter: the two men who died on northbound 880 around 10:30 last night were on the way home from the warriors game at oracle arena, wearing warriors gear and driving this white porsche when someone in a dark colored suv pulled up to the driver's side and started shooting a semi-automatic pistol. the driver died at the wheel. the passenger on the road. >> the passenger at some point exited the vehicle and was struck by another car. >> reporter: the chp shut

san francisco's police chief greg suhr says his department has been briefed by the boston police and this is what race- goers may notice sunday. >> pretty much everybody in special operations will be working, whether there are tactical teams, motorcycles, horses. we'll have our bomb techs on scene to allow for rapid response to any package. >> reporter: look up. live security camera feeds will show images to a remote surveillance center. >> those pole cameras will be located at the start line, the finish line, and on the hey street hill where the crowd figures to be the most thick. >> reporter: the person running next to you could be a police officer in running gear or even costumed. if you don't have a number, you will be asked to leave the course. and don't even think about bringing a bag bigger than this. >> about this big. that's the kind of backpack and plenty can fit in it. >> reporter: a runner tom sweeney plans to leave the bag at home. his costume weighs enough without it. >> my best time in bay to breakers is 53 minutes in normal clothes. in this, an hour and 15 minutes. >>

san francisco police chief greg suhr told us this morning about new measures in the wake of the boston marathon attack, including the use of undercover officers. >> i don't know if we're going to have anybody run start to finish, but we'll have officers in the crowd and on the race course that won't be in uniform. >> other security measures include see-through trash cans, forbidding large backpacks, and setting up surveillance cameras along the course. >>> now to a story you'll see only on 2. a showdown today on the baseball diamond at san quentin. this is between inmates and a semi professional team from the north bay. the game offers prisoners more than just camaraderie. >> it's a beautiful day. >> reporter: the team names are familiar. the giants and the a's. >> play ball. >> reporter: the difference? this is the san quentin prison team. today for the first time they played a semi professional team, san rafael pacific. >> i was a little nervous at first, but these guys are humans, just like me. i feel like it's just, just another day playing baseball with other guys. >> reporter: th

the police chief suhr has been great focusing that technology gear and they are focused on it on streets. be aware your surroundings and make sure your ipad and iphone are not out there, ready for people to say hey, i'm going to take a quick opportunity to do something about this. and just be aware of your surroundings and have everybody more aware about that. so it takes education around people as well to quell it. having said that as well, big investment in entities like the boys and girls, omega club and our police department working together with them. we have gun buyback programs. i have been putting money into gun buyback programs to get the guns off our street. while we advocate for that, i think the gun buyback program is important. i think educational is important. i think community-based organizations are important to get the barriers and isolation out of there, as along as good community predictive policing. >> let me ask you one final question, and i think it's one question that a lot of people have when they attend the town hall meeting or listen to one online as we have tod

chief suhr and president mazzucco and commissioners and director hicks, john from the department's officer-involved shooting team. shooting investigations team with the internal affairs and tonight he willing presenting the summary of officer-involved shootings investigations for the first quarter, 2013, where they are to date and the armed discharge review board summary. >> the first quarter of 2013 firearms discharge review board met on march 19, 2013 and reviewed two complete investigations the first was 11-004, and second was discharge, 001-13. as mentioned it convened on march 19th. the voting members were deputy chief tom yoka who chaired it from the administrative bureau. and the deputy chief loftus from operation and deputy chief shmidt from deputy operations and the members, president mazzucco was present and represented the occ for director hicks and katherine from risk management was present and sergeant wally james from the sfpd range was there as well. the two cases the first was 11-004. which occurred july 16, 2011, the location was approximately mendell plaza and the defendant was in

. >> reporter: san francisco chief of police greg suhr says banging into another person may or may not be a big deal. but walking into an oncoming car is. >> our parents have been preaching and we're preaching now, look both ways before you cross the street. >> reporter: elementary walking knowledge you learned in elementary school. but it takes on a whole new meaning when everybody is looking down instead of both ways. staring at a smartphone on the street is dumb. >> she got hit by a driver. it was her birthday. it was really bad. >> reporter: so robert wong of lincoln high school joined some classmates and others passing out these cards to distracted walkers. one side said, you've been hit by a car. the other, you've been mugged. distracted walking. mugged? >> all over this country 50% of the robberies or more involve some sort of a mobile device. >> when i was on the l train, there is this kid from si, he was sitting and playing with his phone and then this one kid just snatched it really quick and it happened in less than a second. >> they are worth somewhere if the neighborhood o