what's enough for the da to prosecute is evidence. the burden of proof in court is a higher standard than the observation and the complaint that the police made. so, in the perfect world, somebody has called the police. the police are able to get there in time. remember they are extremely short staffed. the police are able to get there in time. there is evidence. there's an arrest. there are witnesses willing to testify. and the da gets the case. what happens then? the case will be brought to court. tried and a person will go to jail or prison for however long. how do we make this happen? in your office we have the neighborhood assistant district attorney program and we have assistant da's assign to the police districts there are 2-4 assigned to each district. within the assignments they break it up by neighborhoods so there are at least one assistant da assigned to work with the groups and the police in a particular neighborhood. the lower haight group has 2 people they are working with and others that have worked with them. what we h

we have a strong partnership with the da and the liaison with the da. there is a da liaison in every station. you need to get to know that community liaison from the da's office. they are an attorney at the da's office. we took this best practice from on hayes will valley. we have people in our neighborhood with their support, care and love are not coming through the door of light. and getting away from their criminal activity. when there's an arrest and there are repeat offenders. we have the officers tell us the arrest number when they arrest the person. then we hand over letters they are called stay away order letters. they are letters from the community, all of us. we are the ones that have to do all of this. that's an important message. we write letters to the judges saying that we would like this person this individual to be not be able to come back in our neighborhood. just because that disconnects them their community as far as the criminal community. the da hands the letters to the judges and the judges read the letters and realize it's a real

you think why are you sending officers to the bbq the da will have a festival at the african-american culture center on the 22nd. i'm sending officers to bashing bq and hand out hot dogs and be around. they will be the security but an invisible security and be participating with them. and we are sponsoring our of our station fund we are paying for that. that's our contribution to the event. our contribution is the security and the food. but it's to generally build up the confidence in the neighborhood and try to give something that will help break that cycle that exists that causes the gangs to develop. another specific point. supervisor mirkarimi and i took a walk around the housing projects. one big issue with plaza east was the community room is closed at 6 o'clock in the evening. the kids need to have the community room open until 10 or 10:30. we made noise about keep itting open. so i went back when the a lot of the young adults were there and talked to them and said. we have been making a video because we put the computers in there. i said, all right. i'd like to take a look at

from the da's office. the president of our merchant's association of the lower haight. ron, a beat officer and antoine another beat officer. the city attorney was at our morning session this morning and had to leave. regina and i work with the city attorneys office and will talk about that today in the lower haight or modo is to build a safe and caring neighborhood and foster that. we believe to build a safe neighborhood you have to build a caring neighborhood. it goes hand and hand. one of the things that when we started our neighborhood group which was a couple of years ago. we got together, we did small neighborhood building events like community clean up. started a neighborhood google group and tarted to out reach to the community in the neighborhood that nay not participate in the events or have a computer. we went to the senior centers. we hand fly erred public housing in our neighborhood. also we went to our surrounding neighborhood organizations like hayes valley association that has been around for many years and a strong neighborhood association. and collabora

. >> reporter: we spoke to the da, they say formal charges we can expect later this week. dan, kron 4 news. >> officer todd young remains in critical but stable condition tonight. surgery yesterday afternoon was successful but we will have to undergo additional surgeries next week. they used 60 pints of blood and that has led for a higher demand for blood donations. this is the red cross blood center where many from all over were coming in today to give blood. some entire departments are getting involved, giving employees time off to donate. the officers know they are supporting one of their own. >> when a shooting happens in the law enforcement community, it could happen to any of us, it's important knowing, you know, coming down and making sure, making an effort to help out. i know that the same would be done for me. >> the red cross is accepting any type of blood in officer young's name in any of its centers. >>> facebook fan page has been created to help officer young's cause. they are encouraging more people to donate blood in his honor. we have a link on www.kron.com

the da says two agents opened fire after the suspect reached for a silver object in his waistband. a shotgun was later found under the body of martinez. a second suspect was arrested that day. >>> a girl's soccer coach has been arrested. david garrison was arrested after a three month investigation. police say images on garrison's computer appear to be downloaded from the internet. there were no pictures of local children. >>> killed for nothing, that's how a family and friends are describing the death of javin clark. clark's family spoke for the first time today since that deadly shooting, john -- >> reporter: frank, this memorial for jamin clark has been growing every day. with people coming to write thoughts on t-shirts and adding gifts, including teddy bears. the track star's family came to the scene this morning and spoke out about their loss. >> it's crazy because we just don't know why. it's crazy how one day we see him smiling and laughing, then the next day we're looking at him laying on the ground with a bullet in his head. >> reporter: just before 9:30 wednesday night, j

. >>> san francisco's district attorney announce hundreds of charges today gents two men who the da says committed massive fraud. the case involves allegedly falsified engineering reports on hundreds of buildings that may now have to get reinspected or fixed. our consumer editor tom vacar has our report. >> reporter: two defendant, jimmy jen and gong mink phoning are charged with a combined 320 felonies spanning 20 years. san francisco's district attorney says the pair filed false documents with the city's department of building inspection. >> these defendants purported to be licensed and purported to be licensed to approve property lines, surveys, permits and inspectionings and they were not license todd do that. >> reporter: they falsified the signatures and stamps of two licensed engineers who were unaware it was happening. the most serious charges, conspiracy, filing false documents to a government agency, forgery, false impersonation and aggravated identity theft. it appears the people who paid for the work were victims too. >> as far as the evidence shows us at this point that the

. >>> san francisco's district attorney announce hundreds of charges today gents two men who the da saysmmitted massive fraud. the case involves allegedly falsified engineering reports on hundreds of buildings that may now have to get reinspected or fixed. our consumer editor tom vacar has our report. >> reporter: two defendant, jimmy jen and gong mink phoning are charged with a combined 320 felonies spanning 20 years. san francisco's district attorney says the pair filed false documents with the city's department of building inspection. >> these defendants purported to be licensed and purported to be licensed to approve property lines, surveys, permits and inspectionings and they were not license todd do that. >> reporter: they falsified the signatures and stamps of two licensed engineers who were unaware it was happening. the most serious charges, conspiracy, filing false documents to a government agency, forgery, false impersonation and aggravated identity theft. it appears the people who paid for the work were victims too. >> as far as the evidence shows us at this point that the hom

several agencies are investigating including the da's office. >>> san francisco police are trying to identify the person who stabbed a bus passenger. it happened just before 8:00 last night at sunset boulevard and yore baa street on the number 29 bus. police stopped the bus at 25th and fulton and the suspect had already fled. the victim was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. >>> businesses in oakland's chinatown are taking a big hit after crimes against asian americans in the city. >> reporter: good afternoon. with two less oakland police officers on the streets of oakland's chinatown, merchants are trying to protect themselves any way they can. oakland chinatown covers a 16 block radius. the police department cutbacks forced it to pull several officers away from these streets. >> there are resources that are not at the same level they were a couple of weeks ago. we're trying to work the best we can to still provide the same service. >> reporter: the incidents did not happen here, but two recent murders involving asian americans in the city of oakland have caused

the da's office also released a report to discuss how depends showed drilvictims should deal h instance is ofstalking. in terms of batterer accountability, the police department has made improvements in how they track batterers, how they are filling the requirements of their probation. so there are new methods of communication between the adult probation department, the court, and better intervention programs. field total cost to increase safety of -- increased safety of field officers. being able to assess risk factors in the field was a huge gap that was uncovered. the police department and 911 created a promised alert in the system so that police officers responding to a call would be aware of history of weapons charges, or anything else, before entering the scene. there is also more training regarding risk assessment for police officers. advocates are training officers on how to conduct risk assessments with the victims in the field to understand if there is any fallon -- fallibility in the case. the court is also going to create a number of new safety measures. there is a benchmark

the da told the judge, slater could have injured or killed a member of the ground crew by deploying thatslide. slater's partner declined to say anything about the incident. >> i have absolutely no comment. if you do me a favor, leave, leave, leave. >> reporter: a friend of slater says he's been under a lot of stress because his mother has cancer. she defended his actions, as did his ex-wife. >> i can understand why he snapped. i would have snapped, too. >> i find it more offensive this passenger isn't being put on trial. >> reporter: slater could face seven years in prison if convicted. manuel gallegus, cbs news, queens, new york. >>> in other news singer fantasia barrino is hospitalized after taking an overdose of aspirin and a sleep aid. the singer's manager says the former winner of "american idol" is in stable condition. he says fantasia was overwhelmed after being named in court documents in a divorce case involving her alleged affair with a married man. the 26-year-old is expected to be released soon from a hospital in north carolina. >>> straight ahead, your wednesday morning weat

the neighborhood association got a lot of big hitters to our meeting including the da's office and mayor's office and the police always come and park station is our police station and they are great. they care about us and communicate with us a lot. so, those are some of the few tools. we do things we have low income housing projects in our neighborhood as well. we have done family pot lucks events. until i got involved you don't realize how easy it is to do something to just organ event. create a flyer and set a date tell people about it. it's not that tough. we are doing you are all invited if you have kids. i just started a kids dance party at palang lounge. we are fortunate to have the new top 10 clubs in the neighborhood. we know the owner and pitched the idea of just letting the neighborhood invite the families and let the kids come and dance for 3 hours. noon-3 o'clock this sunday september ninth, tomorrow. that was something we came up with. we created a flyer and posted it. last party we had over 30 families there that was the first one this one we're xching a lot more people. we

the da's office also released a report to discuss how depends showed drilvictims should deal h instance is ofstalking. in terms of batterer accountability, the police department has made improvements in how they track batterers, how they are filling the requirements of their probation. so there are new methods of communication between the adult probation department, the court, and better intervention programs. field total cost to increase safety of -- increased safety of field officers. being able to assess risk factors in the field was a huge gap that was uncovered. the police department and 911 created a promised alert in the system so that police officers responding to a call

at that time the record showed two duis and then released but the da's office found seven more not listed on his driving record. mccrohan is now held on $250,000 bail. >>> an oakland police officer and two other people walked away from a violent traffic accident when the officer's patrol car collided with the van. oakland police say the officer was trying to catch up with a bus with a wanted parolely on board when the car struck the minivan. it happened at 10:30 this morning on 22rd avenue on east 24th street. the impact of the crash flipped the van on the side. the officer and the two woman inside of the van suffered minor injuries. the woman told the police she had music playing and she did not hear the police siren. >>> new details about a massive drug bust in southern santa clara county. coming up next, why investigators say the 100 million dollars in drugs may be tied to a certain gang. >> also tonight, bedbugs invade the workplace. why exterminators say they are seeing more of the in-- insects in the office. >>> now, look out to the lafayette area we have fog banks. cool temperature

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. >> reporter: where the da says gann continued to lie, giving this new york aggress that is actually st. luke's hospital in new york city. fearing out victims are out there san mateo county is taking no chances on this alleged con artist casanova. >> and in court today we made a request of the judge to increase the bail to $100,000. >> reporter: now gan is being held on charges including resisting arrest and he claims he is now indigent and in need of a public defender, that was confirmed today. they are also confirming his twin brother jordan is now in a florida prison on what charges? fraud. now jewel net, menlo park police say, for everyone watching if you recognize simon gann the police want to talk with you. >> robert lyles, robert, thank you. >>> a walnut creek man is in jail tonight facing charges in an alleged ponzi scheme. san jose police say raoul octavio vincent opened a business with offices in concord, coma and san jose. they say he defrauded 35 people of a total of $35 million luring some victims through live radio broadcasts on spanish language radio stations. >>> chao

the da has since added a death enhancement charge. and we've learned that the pit bull killed a parrot and a chihuahua prior to the boy. >> i think it should be voluntary. >> i think it's necessary to spay them if they are not trained properly. >> i don't think it's a right to force somebody to have their dogs spay and neuters because some people do want to have puppies running around. when i'm older, i want to have a dog to have puppies, because i love puppies. >> if the board of supervisors do in fact, vote for it, yesterday steven ayashi posted bond. mike mibach, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in a little more than an hour, san francisco's transbay terminal is said to be shut forever. it's said to make for a new transbay center. the old terminal was built back in 1939 to accommodate buses. a temporary terminal a few blocks away with serve passengers until a new terminal the opens up. >>> there's word that a federal aviation administration have agreed to build a new control tower. the faa will pay up to $4 million for the new tower. the ol

the da has since added a death enhancement charge. and we've learned that the pit bull killed a parrot and a chihuahua prior to the boy. >> i think it should be voluntary. >> i think it's necessary to spay them if they are not trained properly. >> i don't think it's a right to force somebody to have their dogs spay and neuters because some people do want to have puppies running around. when i'm older, i want to have a dog to have puppies, because i love puppies. >> if the board of supervisors do in fact, vote for it, yesterday steven ayashi posted bond. mike mibach, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in a little more than an hour, san francisco's transbay terminal is said to be shut forever. it's said to make for a new transbay center. the old terminal was built back in 1939 to accommodate buses. a temporary terminal a few blocks away with serve passengers until a new terminal the opens up. >>> there's word that a federal aviation administration have agreed to build a new control tower. the faa will pay up to $4 million for the new tower. the ol

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they will also have an afternoon rally outside the da's office along with a prayer vigil later on this evening. the vigil will be open to the public tonight. sherry lynn miller is one of the founders. they hope to reignite public interest in this case. >> this is a little child that went missing from our community. he was a foster child. every citizen in the state of california is responsible for him as tax paying citizens. we pay for the foster system. so he's our responsibility. and everybody should stay involved until he is found. >> reporter: hassani campbell was reported missing on august 10th, 2009. his foster father said he left the five-year-old boy in a parking alley behind a shoe store. they detained ross and the foster mother. the foster parents were later released. they left the bay area six months after his disappearance. later on this morning we are expected to get an update on the hassani campbell case. we will be asking for new information that was reported. the tribune reports that oakland police reinterviewed ross. and they are preparing to do another search for hassa

department report shows unemployment rising to 9.9% in >> in my day, i said he was and still is the best dressed daor in the nation. am i correct, everybody? willie brown. [applause] you will need him again, but please help me welcome send francisco assessor phil king, supervisor david chiu, carmen chu. [applause] supervisor eric mar, right here. [applause] public defender jeff adachi. it was just here. and from the city administrator's office, edwin lee. right here. [applause] and i would also like to welcome some generals who may be in our audience. i did not get a chance to see if you were here, but i know that the council general from japan was supposed to be here. if he is not here, though he is coming. the consul general from the philippines was going to be here. also, consul general also from the philippines, wilfredo santos was going to be here. give them applause. [applause] and we all know that an event like this, with your help, also, we need the help of our generous sponsors, and please, indulge me if you will, for us all to recognize some great sponsors. then, i am going to say who the