on behalf of the san francisco police commission and the entire police department, we wish to extend your sincere and profound gratitude for the time, effort, her professionalism and exemplary performance you have put forward in producing the "it gets better video. presented his twenty second day of february, 2012. [applause] >> i don't have a lot to say. i usually stand behind the camera and let the subjects do all the speaking and i do what i do. i am in front of the computers. i am so grateful to be here in this city that i have waited so long, meeting the people, being so safe and happy that i made it home. [applause] >> that video has gone viral amongst kids, schools, people i talked to want to play it throughout the state. when people join the police department, they joined have impact. hated to have an impact. how we are moving toward the academy awards and a weaker to for movies that who knows what impact they have had other than make money. the impact you have done this commission, the city, kids, officers and the police department, there is not a person that has not left cry

i would like to see the police department expands the special police -- the police officer is about that are doing the work, but that is being done by regular police officers right now. it would relieve some of the pain, where according to the civil grand jury, we will be phased into bankruptcy bose -- based but -- on those pensions of the policemen and firemen. if you look at the 10 most wanted men, you will not find any caucasians on it, or you will find one or two. they are mostly others. how are you going to catch these people. those are the facts. so to be sensitive about situations like this, i am not sensitive to the criminal. i am sensitive to the victim, regardless of the race that he or she is, and the police department has to look at that in that light. last, i have filed occ complaints, -- let alone hundreds. it will never functioned properly until it is separated from the police commission and the police department. investigators come up with the zero, almost nonstop, and particularly in sevener eight cases of mine in the over 40 years i have been in the city and county of s

they know they are going to the police department. there may be hours or a day of that nature. >> for clarification, how many of our clients typically know ahead of time that they are going to go to make a police report? >> for example, in the example that you made, there was a one- month period of time between these two visits. >> if they do not call 911 when the incident occurs, we arrange for that because that is something we need to schedule for internally, so we did but we have noticed a day or two ahead of time sometimes. i have seen it though where a client may be coming in for a case management appointments, so they might be scheduled with a staff person, and then they decide, you know what, we are here, let's just make the report. commissioner: is there a number available that they could call in advance if they know they will need an interpreter? >> certainly, we can arrange that if there is a workup case, but as commissioner chan said, we are committed to providing full language access 24/7. there are some major issues here.

what i would like to do is give the police chief that discretion. i don't know what the appeals process is if the police chief makes a decision that a party doesn't agree with, but i am happy to explore that. >> in fairness to the parking lot operators, sometimes we have more sympathetic people in the police department -- i don't know. you know that the relationship between the police department and places of entertainment has at times been very difficult and not as

former chief of police of tiburon and the former president of the california police officers association. next to mr. herley is sharon wu, the chief assistant of operations in the district attorney's office. she oversees the criminal division, including the victim witness program and the alternative dispute courts. anne irwin is an attorney in the public defender's office. ms. irwin was recently involved in several of the cases involving the videotaped evidence which resulted in the dismissal of over 90 cases. you've read about those in the newspaper. and finally, we have civil rights attorney john burress. he specializes in civil actions brought against police officers for abuse of power, brutality, and wrongful death. let me remind the audience that we will have a brief q&a at the end. if you want to ask a question, just raise your hand. you'll get a card from the usher. and you can ask your question. and if you would like to address it to a particular panel member, you can do that as. i believe we are going to have a video now. it is movie time. >> this was recorded on a c

it was the california police chiefs association. i spent 21 years in the city of torrance in southern california before coming up here, a city of to under 50,000, about 350 personnel. -- 250,000, about 350 personnel. much smaller organization. completely different type of agency. but one of the things we found was to my career and particularly at the beginning, there was really no classis% -- classes pe se, and we started a course on how to be a successful chief. a very strong component of that was an ethics, and what is the chief's responsibility within their department relating to at the experience included in that, it had to do with the abuse of power and misconduct. i was -- i guess you could say "a whistle-blower." i put together a case in which three officers i have worked with had been nearly to deaf a game and what they were off duty. -- nearly two -- to death a gain man -- a gay man when they were off duty. i dealt with the consequences for many years. it was very lonely in that position. very lonely getting death threats. v

it was the california police chiefs association. i spent 21 years in the city of torrance in southern california before coming up here, a city of to under 50,000, about 350 personnel. -- 250,000, about 350 personnel. much smaller organi

francisco police department. the training addressed foundational issues, such as what police and stakeholders think about biased policing. she discussed rethinking biased policing to use social and psychological research on human biases, and to refrain the issue. finally, she discussed intervention such as recruitment, supervision, and training. that concludes my report on recent the cavities. -- on recent activities. commissioner turman: i was planning on addressing this later. >> , then i will move on to the budget. you have in your packet a report dated today, substantially similar to the report on january 11. really, nothing has changed. we have a budget target with a 5% reduction of $124,920, both for 2012-13 and 2013-14, and a contingent to target of $62,000. all of these will be personnel cuts. really nothing has changed since my last report. president mazzucco: thank you. any questions? getting back to the budget, we are going to be your biggest advocates. we believe strongly that the caseload of your investi

about the police work? ause you have served, your life except for one interim, mostly in the new york city police department having come back from vietnam and great service to your country there, have been here first under mayor denkins .. and then after mayor giuliani came back to be police commissioner, how d how do you e this as different, if you do in terms of what you have learned about being a police commissioner in these demanding times, cheerily not 9/11 is a central point. >> the work has changed dramatically, and one of the big changes is the availability and the use of technology. we now have more information than we have ever had before, we are able to disseminate that information at a more effectively and i think we are doing smarter policing, if you will, and that is as a result of being able to gather information and distribute that. >> rose: didn't that begin under mayor den kins or not? >> i don't know when it began, but we put in a real-time crime center, didn't exist anywhere else in polic

the world. welcome to "newsday." dozens of police have moved in to clear up a camp set up four months ago outside a cathedral in central london. the occupy movement is opposed to what they say is corporate greed. some erected barricades to try to delay the police operation. the eviction, arranged by the city of london corp., began just after midnight local time. we have the latest. >> just after midnight, police set up security cordons outside of st. paul's, and then they lives moved in to remove the tenants. there was little opposition from the protesters there. >> to move sideways and be creative. this is not the beginning of the end. it is the end of the beginning. >> as the standoff between police and demonstrators. the mood was fairly relaxed, and it was cleared quickly. the protesters have been here since october, following similar situations in the u.s. and elsewhere. the protest left st. paul's cathedral in crisis, prompting a number of people to resign over the handling of the affair. for the protesters, their stand here see

i cannot imagine sitting at the table of the chief of police of oakland or sacramento, and the chief of police being here. it does not end the questions. it is a conversation that has to get down to important issues. it has to start and meetings like this are a start to recognize. i think it is a real positive step. [applause] >> and although i would argue many of the things that were said today on the panel -- and i cannot believe i am going to say this -- i completely agree with john burris and stuart hanlon. [applause] >> thank you for giving my closing comments from me. i would like to thank the public defender's office for providing the public and anybody he wants to come to this forum, hearing from these experts, and they help you take away some good things from this -- and i hope you take away some good things you take away some good things from this panel. >> so many people here. this is the third and final panel for those of you who have stayed. this is going to be an incredible discussion. leading the panel, this is the chief attorney of the public defender's office, matt go

i>> the police say the victim sustained minor injuries. the police described the suspect as a black male, 20-30 years old, 6 feet tall, with a muscular build. they believe that he injured a finger or his hand. they're hoping that residents saw him flee the building. if you know anything, call the police. live from prince george's county police headquarters, pamela brown, abc 7 news. >> d.c. police have released this composite sketch of the man they say sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint. this happened last month and 5000 block of northeast. he stands about 5 feet 8 inches 220 pounds, with a gap in his teeth and graybeard. anybody with information should call the police. >> district police hope that a surveillance video will be to the killer of a transgendered woman. the victim was stabbed in the head at a bus stop on east capitol street in northeast. the family spoke with abc 7, and richard reeve has the story. >> leon the police hoping the surveillance video will get them some new information. the family is in mourning tonight. there

>> for the police department, yes. vice president hwang: thank you. >> we can take public comment now. is there any member of the public who wants to speak? please step forward. president garcia: does anyone else intend to speak besides mr. castillo? just two? you may have two minutes, sir. >> mr. castillo was unable to bring a family relative so would like me to translate. president garcia: which gives you four minutes. [speaking in spanish] >> i asked him to speak in one to two sentences at a time. >> good evening, my name is julio castillo. >> i've come here concerning the permit i've applied for. [speaking in spanish] >> concerning this permit that i applied for, that i applied to the city directly. and in the papers that he has, the permit that mr. ascarrunz has seems to be for 24th and mission. and the other one that he has is expired. enkspired december 31, 2010. commissioner fung: say that date again? >> december 31, 2010. [speaking in spanish] >> and the other her mitt he has is for 2800 mission street. which i

will the police bust me? >> there are so many laws, everybody could be caught up in it. >> the avalanche of new laws, it makes criminals just about all of us. >> every citizen arguably could be shown to have violated some regulation in these stacks, that is the danger. >> police never told knees girls why they were shut down. >> we tried to find out but the city official, they said really they shut down our lemonade stand. >> we're not aware of who made the lemonade or what the lemonade with. you are still breaking the law and we can't let you do it. >> appleton, wisconsin shut down this stand and these kids were shut down, too. >> they said you need a permit. >> and hazelwood, illinois they settled on girl scout cookies from the front yard but the city said to stop. >> i said, what? cookies, come on. >> all has to people ran afoul of laws they didn't know existed and still don't understand. >> they are ununderstandable, not only to you but people like me, i am a lawyer and they are incomprehensible to me. >>

the police have moved in to protesters. the group has refused permission to appeal against the high court decision to allow eviction. they set up camp on october 15. it was inspired by occupying on wall street. within the last two hours, police moved in after instruction. our correspondent is there for us outside the cathedral. you have been following this for the last few hours. bring our viewers up-to-date. >> this began shortly after midnight, local time when the whole area that you can see over here behind me was covered with the tents of the protestors. they knew there was a court order saying they had to go. that court order could have been fashioned at any point. the police and the baliffs moved in after midnight here. and in a remarkably quick time, they have removed dozens of tents from the site. i should point out the eviction order, the clearest order was not about removing the protesters themselves. they still had the right to be here. the right to raise their voices in protest as they wish. what they did not hav

what i would like to do is give the police chief that discretion. i don't know what the appeals process is if the police chief makes a decision that a party doesn't agree with, but i am happy to explore that. >> in fairness to the parking lot operators, sometimes we have more sympathetic people in the police department -- i don't know. you know that the relationship between the police department and places of entertainment has at times been very difficult and not as collaborative in problem solving as we would like to see. now we are in a really positive period with the police department. however, having a path of appeal might be a good thing. >> i'm happy to look into that. my assumption is if we create some sort of wafer process is if the -- waber -- wafer process, there may be prima facie issues. but if there was something that created an issue and that gets bumped up to the board of appeals, i would consider that. >> i am not talking about a waver. >> i am happy to look into what that entails. >> thanks. >> this doesn't mandate attendance in all

the stories from our clients about police misconduct are commonplace. everything from a disregard for the fourth amendment, theft, perjury, and the stories -- when you hear them over and over -- there becomes a real ring of truth to them, a consistency that makes it impossible for us, as attorneys, hearing the stories to dismiss them out of hand. the videos are not the first time that misconduct has ever happened. they are just the first time for us. let me use the henry hotel incident as a case study. let's go out and amassed a bunch of videos. which is basically did our job to clients. the residents of the hotel told us what the police officer said was not what happens. we trusted them. we looked at the henry hotel. we got video from december 23. and lo and behold, every word of what our clients were telling us were true. two four two. the videos are just a small sample of what some would say is clearly a culture or pattern. and i do want to say that even in my short tenure as defense attorney, i agree with stuart. there are so many good officers, but