my video is now in the police report. which is ammunition where i can have a problem with a neighbor people smoking outside and someone would say they have been in six police reports. it's a good thing. i have given video. how does the police address that because i do other venue owners that don't want to call the police because they don't want to be listed because abc says you have had this many calls. i want to be a helpful owner and want to ensure to help the police as much as possible. >> we stand with you. if you want a letter from me on department letterhead saying the circumstances by which you happened to be named six times that you are actually someone who is a pronator a friend to the victim it might help you more than hinder you. >> okay. anybody else? >> hello, my name is duncan. i own a few bars. i can consider serving until 4:00 a.m.. just being allowed to be open in the 3 or 4:00. not necessarily serving alcohol. but if you just force hundreds of people out on the street at 1:55 and causing chaos. i like the

surveillance in public being a reasonable part of the policing or police action and you get into the unreasonable police infringement of the 4th amendment. let me read you one of these conditions so you can see what i'm talking about. i have probably seen 20 of these in the last few years. if you have a conditional license and pretty much everybody does in san francisco, you can petition the abc to give you a license and in that petition they have give you the conditions. but this one says the petitioner shall utilize electronic equipment to record inside and outside of the premises and must be kept for 30 days and made available for the police department. that is pretty big brother and i will tell you why. i think berry is right. if there is some reason to have that surveillance, it should be made available. if you don't want to give it up, then a judge can get it from you. however, my job is to save my clients money and do the right thing for my clients. i tell everyone of my clients get video surveillance because in the last couple of years i have seen one client save a quarter mil

can you give me more details and what police means to you >> one of the times on the police commission there was armed robberies in a contingent i live near. we attended the meeting with the champion and the chief of police and we were able to talk the chief into for the time being while the robberies were going on to put more personnel into that crime area. that maids the mentors and community feel safer. i think when the chief came in on he brought in the realtime status so you can see where the crime is happening so you can shift folks where i need them. it takes care of this community that's in need at that moment pea that's been successful. i forgot what it's called by it's realtime statistics >> yeah. >> that hadn't worked but we did that before asking for more police services while that crime spree was going on. >> i know when i was at a community meeting last time people were complaining again crime and i asked him if they reported them and they said no. so even if people thinks it is a small crime we have to make sure we have the adequate services for police support >> one of

and the police pressure he confessed to everything and was sent to prison . the supreme court would overturn the sentence two years later after the details of his interrogation were revealed. the video recording of the interview was appalling. the pictures caused the worst police gondola in the history of the state of arkansas. to claim. december some of the story. and i'm going to tell it like it is your boy archie. where we're pretty intelligent . and the viral irony is you know that broken. there is no indication a british. show your sister died and it was only two people in the us it could kill. that the only way i can be a book there i go i don't like your shit ok the tone is set right from the start the police never question thomas about his movements all the facts but are relentless convinced of his guilt the basic era which should never happen during questioning so i was scared didn't know what was going on. didn't know what to do just there things were so fast and we just sat there for hours. not knowing what was going to happen. just i was lost it's

if the police departments took a standard strategy department-wide. sfpd staffing channels is moot matter we found it they have bicycle baiting where they'll you put a best of my knowledge out on the street with a poor lock and observe thieves but that's not something that can be done and it requires staff resources to do that but it's prove that to be a fairly successful unique. we did look at other cities and a bicycle programs are in place in a number of cities and a an important decision whether it's a volunteer or voluntarily involuntarily system. city of oakland has volunteer programs. predictability in trends where their reviewed and pro-active methods see are taken where the bicycle theft is expected to be in the future. city of santa cruz had a program and one precinct in the city of la had a program in place and found the same results. finally optioned for the board of supervisors to consider in dealing with the issue establishing a bicycle program would be a improvement and it would take some paperwork but it's not particularly hard for bicy

and the police pressure he confessed to everything and was sent to prison . the supreme court would overturn the sentence two years later after the details of his interrogation were revealed. the video recording of the interview was appalling. the pictures caused the worst police gondola in the history of the state of arkansas. is there a place. some of the story. like it is. where you were. in the army nobody broke in. there's no indication of a break here. so your sister dad. and there was only two people in russia could kill. here. that's the only way i can be book right oh i live you understand it ok the tone is set right from the start the police never question thomas about his movements all the facts but are relentless convinced of his guilt the basic era which should never happen during questioning so i was scared then i was going to. didn't know what to do just there things were so fast and we just sat there for hours. not knowing what was going to happen. just i was lost it's no longer an interrogation but a never ending series of accusations. that wo

the police are relentless and pressed until he cracks. eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank admits to the mudda his confession is recorded. many years later the murder of a four year old girl is arrested he confesses to the murder of viola manning and traces of his d.n.a. confirm the fact. frank sterling is released on the twenty eighth of april two thousand and ten after serving nineteen years now age fifty four frank has become frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings. april twenty eighth two thousand and ten the day i get released. the. freedom. for frank sterling obtained his freedom largely due to the vigorous efforts of his lawyer donald thompson under the war with the question remains why did he have a confessed to a crime he never committed. and beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really in the course of interrogation because there's been a sad light moment no because a psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse. i

i'm inspector fong with the san francisco police department. beth on behalf of the coordination has filed a request for a general license for the local shopping center. it is a building under renovation. from march 2011 to 2013 there are 32 police reports. and the no to the public was posted opening on march 12, 2013, this is located in a high crime area. it's in lot number 157 and the license is authority by the license district 4 so it's not located in angle undo concentrated area. one letter of protest is posted and no letter of support is noticed. there's no opposition if the target complies with the policies. the liquor shall not be solid but between certain hours. no more than that 5 percent of the scene of the crime of the premises will be used for the comploi of acholic beverages. and the bottles should be restricted in size. number 4 no more acholic beverages will be sold with an alcoholic content expect for organic and speciality manslaughter - this will not prevent the sales of craft beer products. the sale of beer or benches should b

i still haven't got the police report. and my deadline to file is complaint with the city which i don't want to do i'd rather resolve this and move forward with the extra training is provided inform the officers involved. we're all human and we all make mistakes i got that but this is a big deal. sorry. >> stay calm don't worry and i. i went and didn't have a police report at that time and received zero response on may 15 i opened up a file with the occ and 6/20 i received another form to request another copy of the police report from the occ which i mailed out a couple weeks ago and called the number on the form it goes to an automatic recording and it must be mailed in on a return envelope be stamped. i am going how much post age it requires. i have until friday to file a complaint i'd like to avoid that so can i get a response by tomorrow to take action. i know had it been the fashion police guilty. but just looking to resolve an issue >> thank you. >> any further public comment human resources hearing none - good evenin

trying to impress the police like he knows the stuff. hey, you know, i'm going to be a police officer one day. suspect this, suspect that, suspect that. fired one shot into his torso. you know, he's got all the language down. followed, had flashlight, but it was dead. you got a problem, no, you got a problem, all of a sudden he beat him to the ground. felt him slide his hand down, you're going to die tonight, m.f. i don't hear what he said. let's talk about -- >> there's been a history of break-ins in that building and i called previously about this house. >> right. >> when the police arrived at this house when i called the first time, the windows were open and the door was unlocked. the police came and secured it and i said, you know what, it's better to just call and i kept driving. i passed him. and he kept staring at me and looking around. to see -- i don't know why. >> did he walk off from there or did you stop there last night? >> he stopped. and he -- he like looked around. >> this is what he claims this criminal is doing. >> when

or police action and you get into the unreasonable police infringement of the 4th amendment. let me read you one of these conditions so you can see what i'm talking about. i have probably seen 20 of these in the last few years. if you have a conditional license and pretty much everybody does in san francisco, you can petition the abc to give you a license and in that petition they have give you the conditions. but this one says the petitioner shall utilize electronic equipment to record inside and outside of the premises and must be kept for 30 days and made available for the police department. that is pretty big brother and i will tell you

. >> you have to go, man, the police are coming. >> it's like a comedy routine. >> the st. paul police have released new video from an incident in august of 2012. in it shows 31-year-old eric hightower being arrested by st. paul police. the night before he made pretty serious threats to his girlfriend. you see the officer kick hightower before making the arrest. a lot of people were upset about this video. what's knew is the video from when they had him in the back of the squad car. >> can you please wipe my face, please. >> get in the car. >> what am i being arrested for? >> entering the back seat, this is an officer, he is trying to grab him by the shirt, he eventually grabs his hair. then he has pepper spray. the officer then drives him to the police station. the whole time, high tower is in in serious pain. prosecutors determined no charges should be filed against either officer. the update is, according to the "st. paul pioneer press" the chief has decide'd to fire one officer and sus penld the other. the officers are going through the union grievances process. eric hig

if the police departments took a standard strategy department-wide. sfpd staffing channels is moot matter we found it they have bicycle baiting where they'll you put a best of my knowledge out on the street with a poor lock and observe thieves but that's not something that can be done and it requires staff resources to do that but it's prove that to be a fairly successful unique. we did look at other cities and a bicycle programs are in place in a number of cities and a an important decision whether it's a volunteer or voluntarily involuntarily system. city of oakland has volunteer programs. predictability in trends where their

>> commissioner, it's been the policy of the san francisco police department since the sanctuary city ordinance was passed over 30 years ago, before i became a police officer, it isn't just something we need to train to. it's always know. i can assure anyone watching on tv at this commission, san francisco is a sanctuary city. we are here to help regardless of your country of origin or language. we are working hard as you can tell to figure out the language. chief beal spoke about me doing those interviews. i don't speak korean and chinese. we do spanish radio once a month, speak with marcos gutierrez about whatever they want to talk about; sanctuary city has come up more than once. it is not a training issue for us. it is department policy. it is city law. it is what we have been raised on. >> does the department have the authority to control that information within its own database so it is and shared with the federal authorities? >> what information is that? >> my understanding is there is no opt in and out. maybe commissioner chan can say something. >> secure communities is a post

right now the prosecution has called a police officer with the sanford police department, detective dorison. she's the officer who interviewed george zimmerman on the night trayvon martin was killed. she also returned to the scene of the crime the following day for a walk through and explanation of what happened. i'd like to bring in our legal panel for a moment. kendall coffey, faith jenkins, and lisa bloom are joining us this morning to evaluate what we're seeing and hearing here in sanford, florida. kendall, i want to start with you. and touch upon something that you mentioned earlier in a previous segment. you said to me that right now there's a problem in that there's no clear picture that has emerged. because we have heard so much contradicting testimony. who does that work in favor of? the defense or the prosecution? >> the uncertainty is what the defense is all about trying to create. the prosecution has to eliminate reasonable doubt. what the prosecutors hope is we're beginning to see now the prosecution believes they can attack as not being truthful. that they hope will provide

can you tell me about the staffing that the police department has. one of the points in the report by budget and legislative analysts there's a lack of an approach to bicycle theft i don't know what it means. is there a centralized way to do this is there any intent to create that >> good morning. i'm deputy of chief of operations. as we all know we're at historic lows we're got less officers and we are at a low point and we're going obviously going to increase our numbers. bike theft is an issue with our police department. we have matthew who is very passionate about bike theft. as our numbers increase i can very easily see us dedicating more resources to bicycle theft perhaps standardizing the procedures so when bicycles are stolen we have a standardized approach to how we check the bicycle owners. i think this program we're talking about today receive money that the board of supervisors so generally provided us is going to allow us to get the registration program off the ground. we're hoping this registration program will be a voluntarily program a

and each one of those in the police districts that's the foundation of the operation coupled with new and ongoing information received from citizens in a given police districts that fuel that particular most efforts. which is coordinated out of the pedestrian safety applications. thus far we've done some that 44 operations of programs with the department of public health. as you can see we've had over 6 hundred citations coordinated with the department of public health. this - during the most of may we began posting on line so the citizens can see the citations and in addition to other 6 areas. so if you went to sf gov. dot slash police heel e you'll see a monthly reports by the district and the violations. that will continue to educate the public and what the department is doing to address this. in partnership with our boys of the likes of the highway patrol and san francisco state and a city college of san francisco. we've done some 25 dui check points we want to do more. and that couped as a result of increased funding through the offices of traffic safety to fuel that effort. and

zimmerman is on his mobile phone with folks from the police department, and zimmerman the person the partment sayings, are you following him, talking about trail -- trayvon martin? and zimmerman says, yeah, and the person from the police department said-we don't need you to do that, and then there's a good cop/bad cop thing going on, which isn't unusual. phil keeting is outside the courthouse. i guess the idea is to get truthful information from the person. >> and get a suspect to contradict himself or herself -- get down into the nitty-gritty. the detective said -- how zimmerman, who is 28 at the time, and martin was 17, didn't seem put up much of a fight other than eventually pulling out his gun after taking what he describe as a beating. he was afraid for his life by trayvon martin. also, doris singleton, the other cop, said, well, maybe trayvon martin, who was doing nothing wrong, he sees you and maybe he is scared, scared of you. you never identified yourself as what you're doing, why you're staring at him, trying to get zimmerman to answer details about that. and one key part th

the police department is at the bottom of this page. the police department has three proposed classes each year. if you were to delay each one of those classes by one month over the two-year period that would result in a 1.27 million dollars savings in year one, and 1.3 million-dollar 17 in year 2. the 1.3 million in year one is three times that. we also provided analysis of the fire department and the sheriff's office. in both cases over the two-year period we find that the cost in overtime increases the results in delays, actually exceeds the cost savings. overtime costs will exceed the cost saved by having a later hire. we can see those numbers at the top of the page. i'll be happy to answer western you might have. >> supervisor avalos: we would have an increase for the fire department if we were to do that? >> that's correct. delaying their fire department's hiring actually results in higher cost. because the staff is not available to staff apparatus up until a month later and that results in more overtime costs. >> supervisor avalo

the scene. there are police on the roof tops. i think that was the rei building. police cordoned off the area. moved everyone back. and from then, the investigation was continuing. >> we're going show some of the video that you shot there on the scene. you mention that had you saw the person on the ground. police are saying that the person was covered in blood and initially they weren't sure if the person was injured. or perhaps that was the shoot yir but you saw that? >> yes it was difficult to tell who was a suspect and a victim. i saw two ambulance that's were loading up two was who. neither were flying away from the scene indicating they weren't in skin. i saw one individual on the ground. and an ochser asked me to stop shooting and move away. at that point i was taken away from that area. >> thank you very much for the time. and the video that you provided. let's go live to abc 7 news mark matthews. mark? >> the best information has been from chief greg sure. >> about 2:00 this afternoon officers responded to a call at 888 brannon. responding officers came on scene. and a suspect was cove

because he has to convince the police, and by virtue of giving the statement to the police, convince you, the defense has to convince you, he was just kind of walking and the victim came out of nowhere. >> object, your honor, may i approach? >> your objection? >> improper presentation of the case law and the law concerning my client's provocation. >> ladies and gentlemen, at the close of the end of the attorneys' closing arguments i will instruct you on the law applicable to this case and you will be given that law back to the jury room to compare with how you find the facts to be. thank you. good ahead. >> trying to convince the police he hadn't done anything wrong. >> my nose and on my mouth, and he says you're going to die tonight. and -- josh again, now he is saying the level of violence towards him is escalating. because trayvon martin just decides to shut him up by -- you know, the amazing thing -- and i'm going to get to this in one of the presentations -- he must have had ten hands or ten arms. able to do all this while the defendant is just sitting there, letting him put his

we are investing in you, the police department. cause 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 have a couple of officers i get to pin. they have sacrificed their time working with me on the security detail. they had get used to some weird things i had to do. whether it was eating chinese food and cheese cake at the same time. or trying to handle the very high levels of meetings i was required to attend. they were very forthright in their jobs and duties. and i have yet to get the pie in the face. you got to history for that one. anyway, i do enjoy working with the police department. the culture here is solid. the teamwork is no different than the best of the teams that work in san francisco. and someone, myself being a veteran of government in 23 years, i have always felt that our police department is not only the best but i am cer

in fact no killing has taken place and the police have made up the story to try and confuse done. and a few hours later she will be charged with attempted murder in this case it was the cross-examination that led to the truth and then eased the way to prosecution. among the police the interrogation process is considered a key element of the investigation where everything might fall into place which explains why in the united states this method of investigation has been pushed to its very limits more than anywhere else in the world how does the interrogation take place is it an exact science can you tell when the sauce is lying and can you trust the confessions. in the united states everything is aimed at making the suspect crime from the architecture of the interrogation room it's a small room that disorientate suspects and allows for physical proximity. but does it work tiffany pawson son has definite views on this kind of police procedure. after a robust session in the interrogation room she confessed to killing her best friend on the fifteenth of april one thousand nine hundred

it's the respondent is the police department. so technically there is no due process issue with the applicant. >> it's the interested party. she has a stake in this process. >> she was here and chose to leave. >> so under the board's rules people who are officers of the west portal merchants association are not allowed to speak under public comment because they are represented by mr. kramer, but general members arrest -- are allowed to participate under public comment. if there is anyone in those categories who would like to speak please come forward. can you raise your hand so i can determine how much time to let you have. this is only on the subject of continuance. i would like two minutes each. >> my name is caroline johnson, the reason why i would object to a continuance or at the minimum allow the people who are here, members of the neighborhood who have been waiting around for 3 1/2 hours to speak, to just be able to get up and say what they think or at least demonstrate by the standing, their interest in this process. so th

it mean, he even tells the police that. why isn't that consistent with what rachel jeantel tells you? didn't even the defendant in his statements to the police say, yeah, the kid or however he referred to him, the guy, whatever, he's running away. didn't she say that? i had a dream that today a witness would be judged not on the color of her personality but on the content of her testimony. on the content of her testimony. just because she's got a colorful personality, just because she referred to me as a bald-headed dude or whatever, that doesn't mean her story, her statements aren't accurate. was the evidence consistent with what she said? wasn't she on the telephone with the victim? isn't it true that the defendant was following the victim? didn't the victim attempt to get away? didn't the defendant confront the victim? i don't think the defense will admit that. the defendant and the police didn't admit that. but what did he say? oh, i was just looking for an address. oh, i was just looking for the street. oh. you were min

i do think we have to be careful in how that information is used by the police. i have had this conversation with greg, he is mindful of that and understand that you want to have rules so that if there is a need for the footage, you know that they can go to court and request it and that can happen very quickly so there is no time lapse between an incident and when something takes place. in terms of the general view of the around security cameras, i think that there are times when security cameras are appropriate and i think that in those cases it is, i'm supportive of the police department requiring those cameras for some of these liquor licenses where they are being requested. what i have concerns and supervisor wiener has concerns is a blanket rule that says any liquor license and you have to get a security camera. i don't think from a public safety standpoint that makes sense because i do believe that that for many businesses it is possible for them to operate without that. i understand maybe the availability of that footage can make people's lives easier in so

trying to impress the police. like he knows the stuff. know, i want to be a police officer one day. suspect this. suspect that. suspect that. fired one shot into his torso. you know, he's got all the language down. the detective or investigator followed him outside. had the flashlight but it was dead. you've got a problem? no. you've got a problem now. he beat him. started beating him. smothered my mouth and nose. felt him slide his hand down. you're going to die tonight, mf. you got me. i spread his hands away from the body. still talking but i don't know what he said. let's talk about -- >> there's been a history of break-ins in that building. i called previously about this house. when the police arrived at this house, when i called the first time, the windows were open and the door was unlocked. the police came and secured it. so i said, you know what? it's better to just call and i kept trying. i passed him. he was -- he kept staring at me and staring around looking around. to see who else was -- i don't know why he was looking. >> di