we already do work with the police department in many areas as you know. in order to achieve our goals in trying to work on behalf of the mentally ill and to work on behalf of our citizens, we have collaborated with the police department in many areas. i would hope that with commissioner melara on the police commission, we would be able to help develop the same type of relationships or even an improvement of that beyond what we currently have with the fire department and with supervisor campos work on the health planning that we have put in place working together with the planning department. i therefore urge the support of her nomination put forth to the full board this coming several weeks. thank you very much. >> thank you, dr. chou. gabriel medina. >> thank you, members of the rules committee. my name is gabriel medina and i wanted to speak on behalf of sonia melara for her appointment and support to the police commission. i can attest that sonia has great and longstanding history with latino community in san francisco and that is a voice that we need a

>> i think one of the things that has come to the table several times is police patrols. and i would like to see how that it can be moved forward within the operations of the department, obviously looking at the different priorities that the department may have at this particular point. public safety, pedestrian issues, i think should be at the forefront of what we need to address and this planning process in the tenderloin that has come to very much the top. because we see so many of those fatalities happening, primarily in the tenderloin, but throughout the city. those would be the two areas that i would look at. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. thank you very much, miss melara for being here and for your interest in serving the city. just wanted to in public talk to you a little bit about a couple of the points that i raised during our conversation. if i can get your thoughts. one of them is the five-year plan to end violence, if you will, peace plan in the mission that was put together by the community after a long almost multi-year process. wondering what your thou

the police department is an integral part of this planning process. i have served as member and president of the parking and traffic commission, the immigrant rights commission and the health commission. i believe that my colleagues have elected me to these leadership positions because i have demonstrated my dedication to working on and solving difficult issues, as well as representing and supporting those who may not be able to speak for themselves. in those positions of responsibility, i have demonstrate the fiscal awareness and constraint, especially during these difficult budgetary times, ensuring that we address priorities without hurting those who need the help the most. i appreciate that the police department has a difficult and dangerous job in these trying times and that the job is to balance the safety of the community along with enforcing the law. i believe that i have the understanding and background to be a productive and useful member of the police commission. thank you for your attention. and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> supervi

vice president marshall and commissioners and chief suhr and captain silverman and the rest of the police department. i unfortunately 2 1/2 months ago after 2 and a half years of looking closes on a house in the richmond district i'm delighted to see the rointdz here. i first want to 88 thank you for having this meeting i really appreciate it, it's delight full to subcontractor with the folks serving this community. i just want to say first of all, thank you, again it was great to see all the great important statistics on violent crime being down thank you my family appreciates that and as a new homeowner here in the neighborhood we have a lot of friends who are also young families and a lot of them them frankly are thinking of moving out the city we've urged them not to and vice president marshall give me a lot of good advice not moving to the east bay we're glad we stated we're members find zoo of the academy of sciences i the exploratorium we try to urge our friends to stay as well. one of the concern is crime and the statistics is debris really want to share them unfortunately, i live

the police call this a difficult, complex situation. at the moment, no motives or suspects. ive in alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. >> d.c. police are looking for two men wanted in connection with a burglary at northeast early in the morning on to rhode island avenue. by theas captured building security camera. if you recognize either of these men, contact d.c. police immediately. >> shifting gears, what everybody is talking about today -- i cannot wait to talk to you about this -- i know leon has been wanting to talk about this, lebron james will be going home to cleveland after leaving, of course, for miami four years ago. >> scorching the europe behind him as he left to go to miami. his time, a big difference. announcementcial on a special "sports illustrated" article. horace holmes has the story. >> it will be a heroes walk him when he arrives back in ohio. some people close to lebron james say this is a movie began seriously considering at the beginning of this past nba season. there were strong family considerations and his love for northeast ohio. once he made up

the police don't stop the operation.ead on foot together at the front of the house. sensing something is wrong are, two of the men run off. >> i've got two subjects running west. running west into the trees. >> reporter: 30 seconds later -- and you are about to see something quite violent. the third home invader darts in front of the house holding a gun and is shot down by a sergeant. his gun later found where he fell. that left only betancourt, the informant at the corner with 70 seconds to live. >> i've got one guy with his hands up. >> reporter: he surrenders, getting onto the ground as instructed by officers. but the only cop there to give a statement swears betancourt was silent, not identifying the disneyworld code phrase to identify himself to police. sergeant malgore told him to roll on his back. he said the surrendering informant made a quick move to a gun in his waistband. cops fired 23 shots. >> so the informant surrendered. his hands clearly in the air, and on the ground. police say they saw him reach for a g

this is a police officer, and this is the police, and i don't want to hear that, all right? i don't want to hear it. this is a police officer, sanctioned by the police chief, okay? and so it may have been the gray, and it is a great public relations thing for the department. other departments might want to try it and we know that we are doing it in san francisco and we applaud you and the chief for backing this thing and i can't think of anything, for these young people, a better thing to do and the key thing is to do it again and again and again and again. so we are going to work on that. >> okay. >> and just real quick, the or another thing that the kids came up with, after experiencing that they all have jobs this summer, they decided to pitch in and put a kid through high school. i would be remiss in our other partner in the back there being all quiet, sullivan and the current captain in the bay view and we were both on our, and saying our, come on, jj please come back with 7 kids. anxious moments for the bay view station, but we never had to doubt, rod? >> yeah. >> yeah.

complainant and the police. here in california law enforcement agencies must have a premiered to investigate complaints from the public by peace officers in san francisco the ocii serves that purpose. the ocii has a staff of diverse civilians who have never been san francisco police but could have been police officers or other law enforcement officials in other agencies. we have 35 employees the majority of our employees are investigators and the balance of our staff economists of lawyers and the port staff. we conduct investigations when we receive a complaint to find out what happened. we follow the evidence by interviewing the person that made the complaint essence as the complainant and talk to the officers and we have speak up power to obtain evidence we obtain additional evidence from the police department in the form of incident reports and other documents generated by the department. we make visits to the site of the alleged curtains and during those visits we might take paragraphs of persons or places ca

in the san francisco police department. i'm now in the top 20. to indicate how much seniority has gone out the door, so, i'm old. as far as our sworn hiring plan, which is very critical to get totion that 1971, i know that every member of the board wants to have more police officers on foot and they want them yesterday. so, to that end we've been hiring in earnest. in 12-13 we hired 183, 30 of those were paid for by the airport and 13-14 we hired 157. in the next two years we will hire about 165. we have about a 10% attrition rate that don't make it through. we try to get the people that we hire to be people that we think can make it through, but we want to get folks that are going to make good police officers. 15 of those are funded by the airport. the next graph says where we were, where we would be without the hiring plan as approved by the board. this slide is pretty graphic. as you can tell, last sum early and this summer will be as low as it's ever been for police officers on the streets of san francisco and yet as you

you can see the police officers as the investigation is going on. w been told police received a call just after 6:00 a.m. of a man down. when the police arrived on simonton street, they found an adult african-american man who was shot in his upper body. the man was between 20, and 25 years old. police don't know who he is right now. he apparently didn't have any i.d. on him and they don't know if he lives in this particular neighborhood. now, ktvu's brian flores is out there as well with the police. he will bring you information in a live report in the next half-hour. >>> we're also following developing news from the south bay. an hour ago, sheriff's deputies in santa clara county confirmed a woman missing on mount hamilton has been found alive and minutes ago, she was reunited with her husband. ktvu's janine de la vega joins us live from the search command center where that reunion just happened. janine? >> reporter: we're here off mount hamilton road at the smith's creek calfire station, and about 20 minutes ago is when the reunion took place betwe

you've seen the increased militarization of police departments. they are like seal team 6 coming into a personal residence. >> there's no legitimate reason for the way they carried this out. >> in oakland california, gunmen have taken over a passenger train. an elite swat team moves in to neutralize the threat - highly-trained units like this are crucial in such situations. this time it's just a drill - part of a law enforcement training event called "urban shield". it's the kind of scenario for which swat teams were first formed in the los angeles police department in the 1960s. >> and so swat had its genesis with that philosophy and the philosophy of protecting life. >> stephen downing was there at the time, and says these units were only meant for the worst-case scenarios >> these are military type responses, military style tactics and military types of weaponry that are very dangerous in a civilian population. >> nowadays while swat teams are still trained - and equipped - to deal with the very deadliest threats, what's changed is how they're b

the police. >> he is looking at us. >> policing america, where is the line between security and liberty? i want the police to be better armed than the bad guys, but today what does that mean? more than 100 square blocks were decimated by fire and looters. >> after the los angeles race rights in the '60s, some say they created a special armed team, named s.w.a.t., for special operatives and they were called out in special emergencies where there were bank robberies and hostage-takers. but their use has increased, from one a day, to maybe 100 raids every day. including cases where i have to wonder, why call out the s.w.a.t. team? >> is anybody going to be afraid of me if i tried to menace you in some way. >> joe lapari is a stand-up comic. he caught the attention of a s.w.a.t. team in new york city, why? >> i had a really mind-numbingly bad experience at the app store. so what i did, i went home and grouped about it on facebook. >> joe paraphrased it as, might walk into an apple store with a gum. >>

sonia melara to the police commission will be very important. >> thank you doctor. any more public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you to the public for making these comments and your testimony means a lot. i also want to thank commissioner melara for her statement. i felt it was very well-done, shows your passion to do this work and certainly what i have heard in your statements is the connection between your past experiences and how it could be a very useful and helpful to the police commission. so commissioner tang. >> thank you, supervisor yee. again, i want to thank you everyone who came out. i think i have seen many very well-respected communities members here who are in support of miss medical examiner yawn melara and thank you very much for coming out. i am very supportive of this nomination and we heard the depth and breadth that they bring she brings. really public safety is hot just about law enforcement it's about so many other things. it's about as we mentioned about health, the health community, it's about issues that

signed by one of the store's customers. when police contacted the woman, she said she was in the store that morning, but no one was there. she found her clothes, wrote a check for the amount she owed and was about to leave when a man came out of the back room and asked if she needed help. >> she told him at that point she was there to get her cleaning. she assumed he was an employee there, she had no reason to believe otherwise. >> the witness described the man as 30 to 35 years old. 6'2" tall and weighing over 200 pounds. >> the police realized that she had come face-to-face with the killer. g, to just losing their balance. and not being able to get up from a fall can have serious, lifetime consequences. being prepared is important. philips lifeline with autoalert is more than just a medical alert button. it's an advanced fall detection system designed to get you help quickly. if you fall and you're unable to push your button, the fall detection technology within autoalert can trigger the button to automatically place a call for help.

thanks to users that put two and two together and call the police. m looking at the background we were in of a point where she was at. they rested her and found she was had a warrant out for her arrest. let's give you a live look outside. bay bridge looks like a light commute will be right back. best record in baseball. .hosting the orioles this afternoon. and that's nick legrand.standing alongside a's reliever ryan cook a's/orioles nick legrand the young man with a life-threatening blood disorder who threw out a "virtual" first pitch from 1,800 miles away last season thew out the first pitch at the coliseum today to a's reliever ryan cook who has befriended nick since learning about his condition bottom 1st john jaso hits one into the left-centerfield gap coco crisp is all the way around from 1st to scotre jaso into 3rd with an rbi triple 1-0 a's bottom 3rd 1 out the orioles centefielder adam jones makes the catch of the josh donaldson fly and starts jogging toward the dugout like it's the end of the inning. yoenis cespedes tags and scores even he se

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a lot of the vandal's work is now in the trash. police say this was a deliberate attempt to destroy the baseball field at the college of alameda. thousands of gallons of water soaked into the field >> the idea of them kicking off the sprinkler heads shows they knew what they were doing to ruin the field. it was thought out, how to ruin the game for the wknd. alecia>>this wasn't just a prank, authorities say there was malicious intent behind it. alameda babe-ruth baseball league banners were ripped from the fence, the main water valve was opened, and 6 sprinkler heads smashed. >> unless you've played on this field before you don't know where it is. alecia>>bags of chalk were ripped open and scattered in the dugout and on the field. the pitching mound and home base now have to be rebuilt. whoever is responsible is facing felony vandalism charges, because all this damage costs more than 5- thousand dollars. add that to all the revenue lost from canceling all the games.it's the players that have to suffer. >> they give scholarships and bats t

a motion detector signals the alarm and the police arrive. now he faces a real possibility of getting caught. the thief stashes the stolen merchandise under the counter and waits. >> police officer comes in, he opens the shutters from the outside. they took a peak inside and didn't find anything. that's when the guy was hiding back there. >> after a few tense moments, the burglar gets a break. the officer can see into the store, which is undamaged, but according to police, the door is locked and he cannot investigate further. so the officer is unaware that the back room is ransacked. >> then came the light for him. the police stated that they had a note they hung on the door, stating that everything seemed fine. >> thinking he locked the hurricane shutters, the officer returns to his car. however, the teen not only unlocks the front door, he is now able to open the shutters and crawl out of the store. >> and that's when this guy is like, i'm home-free. the guy crawls all the way to the corner. >> the thieves get away, but they are not done yet

you don't know if you can trust in the police or in the-- >> and so, how does that make you feel, as a young honduran? >> hopeless. hopeless. honduras is really a nice country, and we have really a nice people here, hardworking people. but the situation that is going right now here is really a difficult one. my parents, they have speak to me. after i finish college. they will send me. 2 or 3 years more, and i'll be gone. my sister this year, she's leaving to panama. my brother, maybe in 5 years, he is moving to panama. >> but they want to keep you safe? >> they want me to go out of honduras because the situation here is getting worse every day. we can't trust anybody here. only family. >> you look really depressed, actually, as you're telling me this story. >> yeah. and now, you open a newspaper, and it's like, death everywhere. >> tegucigalpa looks almost tranquil from up here, the highest point overlooking the city. but at street level, beneath the embrace of the giant christ figure, extreme levels of violence have become endemic. [gunfire] in 2009, a military coup against presiden

. >>> good evening, a routine arrest goes very wrong, and a man seems to die at the hands of the police. the apparent chokehold now going across the country. and as the victim's family gathers, the issue is fraught with race and public safety. >> reporter: this is the dramatic video that is triggering a wave of controversy. a violent confrontation on a new york city street that ends with one man, a black man, dead. and police accused of using excessive force and even racism. so just how much force is too much for police departments across the country? >> this happens every day in detroit. in chicago, in los angeles. you know, in atlanta. this happens all across areas where there are large populations of people of color. and in rural areas. it is ugly, it is mean, we've seen this over and over and over. >> reporter: it all unfolded in a matter of minutes. two plain clothe police officers confronting eric garner, for allegedly selling cigarettes, a misdemeanor. there is a tense standoff as he protests. watch as the two officers move in and try to physically arrest him. garner seems to res

another man comes from behind the door. police say so far they haven't received calls about the video. >> a mob attacking this loan motorist. and then you see the motorist coming out with a weapon. >> reporter: i spoke with several workers off camera who witnessed the incident. some say they are troubled and disturbed. others say he was only drying to defend himself -- trying to defend himself. >> one thing to chase after somebody with a weapon as we saw. both parties were in the wrong. >> reporter: since the video starts, police say it is hard to say what led up to the chain of events. officers say what the man should have done was stayed in his vehicle or leave the scene and call 911. >> a dangerous situation. you know, you don't want to engage with people. you don't know what weapons the suspect might have as well. >> reporter: police say a crime was committed. if you know anything about this incident or have seen the video and you were here call san francisco police. paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a student has been a

you've seen the increased militarization of police departments. re like seal team 6 coming into a personal residence. >> there's no legitimate reason for the way they carried this out. >> consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the growing controversy. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >> in oakland california, gunmen have taken over a passenger train. an elite swat team moves in to neutralize the threat - highly-trained units like this are crucial in such situations. this time it's just a drill - part of a law enforcement training event called "urban shield". it's the kind of scenario for which swat teams were first formed in the los angeles police department in the 1960s. >> and so swat had its genesis with that philosophy and the philosophy of protecting life. >> stephen downing was there at the time, and says these units were only meant for the worst-case scenarios >> these are military type responses, military style tactics and military type

enforcing this i need you to consider how you can maybe on the record get some acknowledge if that's the police department after but not inserting something that's problematic like the in door commission. >> i want to amend my motion some of the conditions already exist point out no third party's unless by the entertainment commission exists and guard cards exists so let's leave in i'm going to change my motion in two seconds here i want to let's leave in the party buses, security cameras and e-mail the calendar, and that's it. >> that's it. >> i want to amend my motion i move to approve including police conditions number 5, and 7 and number 6 to be amended to say outside. that's my motion >> exterior. >> what. >> exterior cameras. >> outside cameras. >> so you want to say outside. >> you want to second. >> is it clear to people barbara you look a little bit confused. >> all right. so we're going striking number one which talks about after hours. >> extended hours right. >> because it was never applied for they can't do it. >> right. >> i also see there's a requirement in the neighborhood so he

the arrest. corporal brown's police powers have been suspended." he was suspended with pay until the administrative hearing. he faces charges in the district with assault and assault with a deadly weapon. the victim was taken by ambulance to the hospital to be treated. he is out of the hospital but says he still has pain in his head, neck, and knee from the attack. we are live in northwest d.c., roz plater, abc 7 news. name of a learned the 12-year-old boy who was killed that can't in carroll county. he is justin diggs of baltimore. his family described him as an upbeat young man with a big heart. he died when a tree fell on him as he ran for shelter at the river valley ranch camp. eight others were injured. camp organizers will review how they deal with these things going forward. charles county sheriff's deputies released a composite of a man wanted for an attack at a storage lot. he grabbed the woman as she walked into her storage unit in white lanes. the man forced her to the ground and try to remove her clothing. she fought him off and he fled

they raided the home of a former cia employee. a police offer spotted bob and his kids coming out of the store and told the sheriff's department they left with a small bag of merchandise. eight months later. >> a raid to our house. >> we hear banging and screaming on the door. i'm hiding under the covers. >> reach out and open the door and i'm on the ground staring at this guy's boots and everybody is yelling are there children in the house. >> he didn't know about their work history? >> we have had top secret clearances. >> they kept us under armed guard while they searched every square inch of the house. >> we didn't find out why this team had come to the house. >> they must have told you. >> no. >> all they were told was. >> there are narcotics in this home. >> but they didn't. >> they gave the harts a receipt, no items taken. why the s.w.a.t. team. >> one of the guys said that marijuana seeds and stems had been pulled out of our trash. our minds go crazy, the trash people, the neighbor kid is throwing their stuff in our trash. >> but w

the police officers were in hot pursuit at the time.ideo that we want to show you with our partnership abc 7. this started at a bank about 2 miles from the location where i'm going live. they left that bank with 3 hostages, 2 employees and a customer. they went on the freeway for a brief moment, went to low dive and they're not sure why they went to stockton. they're familiar with this area. 2 women were thrown from the car or i should say they left the car. they're not exactly sure if the suspect through the women from the car or they jumped. once they got to this location here, the shootout really intensified where there was a 3rd victim. they're not sure if she was shot by the suspect or the police officers accidentally hit her in the exchange of gunfire. we have learned her identity. her name is misty sting. we had a chance to talk to her family. they believed the police department could have done better in trying to protect the other two victims as well as their family members. let's listen in. apparently we don't have the sound at

the spike belt. but does not slow down. police deploy more spike sticks over the next several miles. >> struck another spike belt. i believe it's in the truck tires now. has no front tires anymore. he's running on the rims. >> but the driver speeds on. >> we're getting into the city. this guy is not stopping. >> the school bus is now inside the city line. just miles for albuquerque's most congested areas. a state police cruiser attempts to ram the bus off the road with a pit maneuver. but after three miles of vehicle to vehicle contact, the cruiser's front end is heavily damaged. hoping a bigger vehicle has a better chance, a police suv takes the lead. the pit maneuver is successful. police immediately sur round the bus. inside, the driver revs the engine as if trying to escape. officers respond with a nonlethal bean bag rounds. suddenly a member of the sheriff's office fires real bullets into the bus, striking the suspect three times. immediately a state police officer is seen shouting at the deputy sheriff. the suspect, meanwhil

and it hits me all the time that i miss christina so bad. >>> up next a woman goes missing. police find hints of a secret life inside the victim's computer. the internet opens up a whole new highway of super suspects. >> and disturbing evidence in an unsuspecting location. >> something happened in the basement. scientists provide answers that no one wanted to accept. >> when they introduce you to the chaplain, you know the news you're going to receive is not good. >>> it was a february morning in sioux falls, south dakota. a routine work day for jds industries, a company that makes trophies for sports teams. routine except one of their most dependable employees darlene vandergiesen didn't report to work for a second straight day. >> on friday when she did not show up for work, her boss called her parents, dee and gene. >> darlene's parents immediately drove to darlene's apartment since they had their own key. >> went to her apartment and we saw her cell phone. we knew something was wrong because she never traveled anywhere, never did anything without having that cell phone so peopl

even though actually the first police report about it did down play the role of the police in garner's death. it's worth noting that thousands of new yorkers have raised concerns about this kind of conduct. 53% of the 5,410 complaints last year were charges about police brutality. but nowadays, sometimes it's a single cell phone camera that's more powerful than any complaint or protest people lodge with the government. joining me now, jim cavanaugh, former police officer and atf agent, and, of course, msnbc law enforcement analyst. good evening to you. mark thompson, host of "make it plain" on sirius xm radio. here, michael, editor in chief of "global grind" and documentarian who's been an advocate. how do you define accountability and success in what the mayor and police commissioner are doing? >> i want to commend the mayor. he came back from vacation yesterday and went right to business. the mayor has taken proactive steps to address this case. i do think as the mayor said, everyone deserves due process under the law, but this police officer has to be charged with manslaughter. he h

and the police have shown up in force. but so far at least, the situation seems to be calm. >> just down the road is one of the encampments students have built to keep the protest movement in the streets. one of the camp's founders, gerardo says his people carried out the attack in response to arrests of their supporters earlier today. >> the site is tightly guarded, and there are shrines displaying evidence of government repression and commemorating protesters killed in the violence. though there have been deaths on both sides, gerardo says the responsibility lies with the government. >> he has hundreds of pictures of people he says were injured by security forces during the protest, collected from social media. >> but it's photos of people he calls "colectivos" that carry the most sensational allegation - that the government is using armed gangs to repress and intimidate protesters. >> suddenly, word goes out that police are on their way. >> protesters scramble for their gas masks, and gerardo runs for cover...but only af