general william caldwell: the police have to succeed. >> cooper: if the afghan police fail, we fail? per: lieutenant general william caldwell began overseeing training of the afghan security forces last november. he's the highest-ranking officer ever assigned to the mission, a sign of how important it is, and how badly it's been going. >> caldwell: the sooner we can develop an effective police force, the sooner u.s. forces will be able to have less of an active combat role. >> cooper: if we had a better trained afghan police, at this point, that would save american lives? >> caldwell: there's no question that'd be true. >> cooper: when general caldwell took over, he found more than half of the afghan police had not received any formal training whatsoever. most of them couldn't even read or write. some estimates say 90% of the police force is illiterate. >> caldwell: i would say at least 80% is illiterate. >> cooper: we visited the national police academy in kabul, and were shown well drilled officer candidates marching in unison. but this video tells a different story. it was shot by

you can still see the faded police decals. he nopd denied any reports of a police shooting that day. but my colleagues at the times- picayune found that wasn't true. the evidence? a police report of the incident that had been buried for more than four years. it said there had been a shooting that day, and it involved a 42-year-old rookie cop named david warren. on september 2, 2005-- the day henry glover was shot-- warren was on duty at the strip mall police substation. the report gave his version of events. he said in the police report, he came out of this office because he heard a ruckus. he heard a truck being driven really kind of fast and erratically. he thought these men in the truck were menacing him. he was scared for his life, so he opened fire. my sense would be that officer warren is coming over here, he's coming this a way, looking down and firing. he says he doesn't know if he hit anybody, he doesn't know if anybody was injured. it's a short distance. if you are from here to there, i think it would be hard not to k

that is the challenge to every police force in the country. and i think when you look across police forces and you see how many officers there are in h.r. and in i.t. and in back-office functions, i think we can succeed in this. >> harriet harman. >> but it's said that, of course, while there are efficiencies, beyond 12% cuts there will inevitably be cuts in front line police officers. and he's asking not for 12% but for 20% cut. as usual, the prime minister has ducked the question and he won't admit how many front line police he's cutting. he used to be very clear about protecting front line service. this is what he said on may the 2nd. any cabinet minister, if i win the election, who comes to me and says, here are my plans and they involve front line reductions, they will be sent straight back to their department to go away and think again. so what did he is to the home secretary? -- did he say to the home secretary? >> this is -- this is a question that's been asked of her own shadow home secretary. now the shadow chancellor. and this is wha

let's keep that in the hands of the police professionals, the police chief, the police commission. let's not allow politics to enter in to those decisions. this chief and law enforcement in partnership with the district attorney's office, probation and others, have proven they can get the job done. the last thing we need to do is bring it back to the hands of the san francisco board of supervisors. >> thank you. >> what i would like to do now is i would like to continue with a couple of presentations that are going to be very quick, but they have a tremendous amount of value for the public. first i would like to bring captain charlie orks that works in our community relations unit. >> good afternoon, the san francisco police department understands that it has a responsibility in educating the communities in public safety and in this area we understand that there is large volumes of community members in this city where english is a secondary language. some individuals do not speak english, read, write, or understand it. so we have the task of educating them. in a department, we have

>> that was the police commission. commissioner hwang: he said police. i was a little confused. that is okay, i think i understand. >> the issues in the letter were only address during the police commission. that letter was introduced and the planning commissioners were aware of it. commissioner hwang: ok. president peterson: thank you. >> thank you. president peterson: mr. sanchez? >> thank you, scott sanchez, planning department's staff. this evening i am lucky to be joined by the planner, who is involved and the legislation that led up to the requirements that we have, developed in 2005. if there are issues about the intent, it maybe he can address those. there were questions that came up during the testimony. i will jump around a little bit. bear with me. i want to begin with a procedural background of the application. the property is located at 2139 taraval street, between 31st and 32nd streets. the building is a mixed use building, built in 1924. that has a small retail presence at the front, and that is where the subject mcd would be located. it has one dwelling unit at th

the police say she was in her mid 60s. the intersection was shut down and the uniy service was rerouted for about three hours as a result of that accident. so far no citations have been issued and no arrests have been made. >>> i'm paul chambers live in oakland. one day after a man was shot and killed, the church leaders now say the new mayor and oakland police need to step up. >>> and it cooled off a bit today. there is even some fog, and chains i talked about last night, they're happening right now. i'm going to show you the weather system that will bring us some rain. woman: did you bring the camera phone? man: i did. do you wanna go first? i've been waiting for this all day. ok, this is from... aunt stacey. introducing chase quickdeposit. just photograph the front and back of your check using the chase mobile app on your iphone, and hit send. it went through. this is so cool. this is so cool. you wanna try it? yea. ok. all right. who's next? make a deposit from anywhere, anytime-- with your iphone. to mister and misses

to protest the police use of force. paul khapl bers is live on the scene with an update, paul? >> reporter: it also ended up as a candlelight vigil for derek jones. they are comparing derek jones with the grant family. it is now reopened now. it was closed earlier before the protestors we spoke with, derek jones's sister this is what she had to say. >> i want them to do jail time. they murdered my brother. >> reporter: jones was the unarmed man that the oakland police shot and killed on monday night after the officers responded to a 911 call. >> all they knew he assaulted a woman and that he was -- they wanted to make contact with him to further investigate and he ran from the officers. >> unfortunately the police officers have gotten comfortable with qualified immunity. they feel like they can manufacture the same generic story. >> justice for derek jones! >> reporter: securing others from the communities. gathering outside of the jones barbershop that is near the scene where he was killed. today's march is to get more

i got two orders from the police department on the same day. they're not lawyers. we don't need to their interpretation of what the lot is. >> he did call you. >> i am begging and hoping that we have some control. >> time is up, mr. washington. >> i don't think that i can talk about 1. i will talk about an experience that i brought with me when i was living in key west. i was part of a board or an international organization called crime stoppers. i was curious as to why there was not a crime stopper branch in san francisco. this is an international organization for crime stopping. the organization basically pays for tips that lead to convictions and crimes. with the economy in the situation then it is in, i am surprised that there is not already an organization that has been set up in the community. i downloaded the applications but because i've only been here a couple of years, i don't have connections to the leaders and individuals that would be supportive of the ideas of forming a board. i do come with experience. so, if anyone in those anyone who would be inter

these are the police department's recommendations to the commission. and this is for your entertainment only. this does not require or impose closure to your business in any way. this is related only to the addition of the entertainment. so does that make sense? >> it does. thank you. >> ok. >> very well done. >> i think what also needs to be said, you need to be aware that if this is all -- excuse me -- coming too sudden and you aren't prepared for this, you can always request a continuance. >> thank you, commissioner meko. commissioner meko: you do have the right to request a continuance to put this off to another meeting. >> ok. that's fine. we would ask officer dalton to come forward and discuss the proposed amendments by the bayview station. >> good evening, commissioners. officer dalton, bayview station. going back on the a.b.c. issue, i met with mr. rodriguez prior to him opening up the restaurant. we discussed his business plan. we talked about conditions that would be imposed. i sent my recommendation to our a.l.u. unit, they sent them off to

we did what we could working with the police to bring complaints. leslie, we have attached a continuing list of suspensions. suspensions that are relevant to violent incidents in 2010. all of the actions we have taken were swift. all of the cases have been followed immediately by the director's order. i have attached some other things in terms of citation and what it would look like and am happy to take any questions. supervisor chiu: a couple of initial comments. i think that the new form is based at forward from where we were had with previous reports. it had previously been a hodgepodge of data. for the first time this committee has been provided with a handful of nightclubs around the city's debt have created issues. it is good to focus attention on these clubs. i thought about moving to a more integrated data system with 311. coming up with certain metrics every quarter, i can count that. one of the steppes implemented by the police department is every month, every quarter of every year, you can compare numbers from quarter to quarter. i would l

we're going to be partaking in this with the new orleans police department and the manchester police department in the u.k. the justice department is basically funding mess with the intention of creating model blueprints for police leaders around the country. i think it is a tremendous opportunity for the san francisco police to permit to be at the cutting edge in the development of personnel training. that is a year and a half program. at the end of the process of those two particular projects real been selected, i think we're going to have an incredibly -- an incredible opportunity to move forward with training at the san francisco police department. it is very exciting. president marshall: if i may, can i sidebar? the meeting with the international plan -- the international chief of police? i've never been to an international meeting, but having been to several national ones, it was really great being in the room with other chiefs of police to get sort of a national perspective on things. if you could when you come back just give us what you have seen in trends. i know it was great

move on to the sidewalk we did you can see in the video that we were actually walking away from the police onto the sidewalk as they had instructed us and that's when i was arrested and then shortly after that my cameraman was also arrested john conway so you know we were we were doing our job we were being journalists we were not trespassing we were not violating any sort of line anyway we were not demonstrators were not at. we were there covering the event as press and we had our press credentials and yet we were thrown in the same category as the activists legally and obviously arrest wise as well i mean there were hundreds of people there so how is it that you and john conway and about two dozen other people were the ones that then became targeted and got arrested somehow block you off. you'd have to ask the police exactly how we were targeted of course but there were actually you know well over three thousand people there and they chose to sort of arrest as i think because you know in some ways they watch this film other people getting arrested they've been servicing people and so peo

phil, bring us up to the speed, will you, with what the police have been saying? >> sadly, the authorities here in new zealand say that there's no chance of survival for these 29 men missing now for more than five days after a second blast at the pike river coal mine, that news coming through in the last few minutes from the man in charge of the rescue effort, superintendent gary knowles. it's now quite clear that there will be no rescue, only now, the recovery of 29 bodies. those men mostly from new zealand, but with two others from the united kingdom, australia, and south africa. so the ripples of this tragedy, one of new zealand's worst ever mine disasters, will stretch far and wide. this is obviously a devastating moment for the families, agonizing days of waiting, sadly ending in tragedy here. >> phil, there was always, as we know, a great concern about the gas which was in this mine and clearly the authorities most worried about even getting the rescue operation underway until they managed somehow to clear that gas. but that, now, has obviously proved to be c

to the police, it looked like a single assailant. maureen evans was the lead detective. >> within an hour and a half of discovering the body, maureen evans asked the victim's friend, tamika taylor, "what's your hunch? what... what does your gut tell you about who might have committed this crime?" >> narrator: tamika taylor, a young woman who lived in the complex, had only known michelle for a month. she pointed to the next door neighbor. >> tamika taylor told detective evans that they should look at danial williams, because it appeared that he seemed interested in the victim. >> narrator: at the time of the murder, danial williams was 25 and a machinist's mate in the navy. he had been married for just 11 days. he and his wife nicole had thought they were expecting a child when they found out, to their dismay, that she was suffering from ovarian cancer. his parents were visiting them from michigan. >> my parents and nicole had gone to dinner, expecting me to join them shortly. >> when we were leaving to go to dinner, they asked him to