. >> commissioners, i'd like to have sergeant ray padmore and tony montoya from the p.o.a.o the podium and present their certificate. >> good evening, sergeant padmore and good evening tony montoya. welcome, good to see the president of p.o.a. at the police commission. >> good evening, commissioners, if you permit me to read the narrative of this incredible award for galls for their certificate of appreciation, san francisco police department recognizes galls san francisco in deepest gratitude for your support of the san francisco police department's pink patch project, to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. your generosity is greatly appreciated by the city of san francisco and the san francisco police department. awarded on the third day of october, 2018, signed william scott, chief of police. [ applause ] for members of the public, galls is the uniform store that provides our officers with all their uniforms and equipment, and they've been doing so for decades, so thank you. thank you very much. [ applause ] also to fill in some of the blanks for member

. >> tony montoya heads the police union. >> they're just literally, like a catch and release type program. there's no real incentive for the people to stop doing what they're doing. >> abc 7 news learned that 80% of the 63 suspects were out of custody one week after their arrests. documents reveal that the d.a. charged three quarters of the cases, considered a good charge rate. judges dismissed 15 of those charged. those out of custody made bail, were put on probation, had their cases dismissed or reduced or they're awaiting court dates. >> the people on probation, you'll see them add a second or third probation already or extend the current one they have. >> this man is with stop crime sf, a group that monitors judges' records. >> anecdotally, it seems like they might be too lenient when people are back out on the street over and over again. >> reporter: the city, as we all know has a lot of programs to help get the drug offenders off the streets. but you have to have the willpower, the will to do that. and the kind of money these drug dealers make, it's hard to pass up. vic lee, abc 7 n

. >> reporter: tony montoya heads the police union. >> it is literally like a catch and release programhere there's no incentive for these people to stop doing what they're doing. >> reporter: "abc 7 news" has learned that 80% of the 63 suspects were out of custody one week after their arrests. documents reveal that the da charged three-quarters of the cases, considered a good charge rate. judges dismissed 15 of those charged. those out of custody made bail, were put on probation, had their cases dismissed or reduced or they're awaiting court dates. >> the people who probation, you will see them add a second or third probation already or they'll extend the current one they have. >> reporter: adam mesnick lives downtown and monitors the drug dealing in his neighborhood. he posts what he sees on his twitter account. >> the other challenge is, again, trying to request or take a drug dealer off the street that has easy money coming into his pocket every day. >> reporter: he says he has heard out on the streets they are making at much as $1,000 a day, and it is all tax free. hard to give up.

. >> reporter: police union president tony montoya says they're often cited and released as quickly ashey're booked. >> you see some of these people with seven or eight stay-away orders from a particular location or particular people, and they're just getting released right away. >> reporter: take the case of darwin botanko. he was caught with 124 bindles of cocaine and charged with possession for sale. it was his third arrest in the tenderloin this year. mayor london breed walked the streets of the end -- the tenderloin in july. long time activist says the mayor is headed in the right direction. >> i am talking about real housing for people, careers, and we need to make sure everybody got health broken system. >> reporter: adam meznick lives downtown. he has seen the drug dealing epidemic. in fact, he monitors and spreads the information on his twitter account. with no consequences, he says, drug dealing is a hard job to top. it is a lot of money every day. >> 500 to $1,000, tax-free dollars, flexible schedule obviously. >> reporter: police officials and mayor london breed declined to

nearly 18 years later after toni fell off that cliff, the sheriff's office called patricia montoya. >tand why it took so long. >> reporter: emt roxanne burns got a similar call and had a similar reaction. when you got the call, was it, sort of like i was expecting this call? >> yeah. i did say that to him. is this about the car accident up on 67? and he said, yeah, it is. and i go, is it about that woman that the car fell on her? and he goes, yep. i go, oh, thank god. >>> coming up -- was there reason to be suspicious of this accident, too? >> it made the hair on my neck stand up straight. >> this guy was all over the map from the get-go. >>> it was 2013, nearly 18 years since she'd arrived as an emt at the scene of lynn henthorn's bizarre death, when the phone rang, a sheriff's detective on the line. roxanne burns felt a great sense of relief. finally sort of a chance to -- >> to make it right. to make it right, yep. >> reporter: she hadn't forgotten that night back in 1995. it wasn't just the horrible way lynn died, her own jeep crushing her, it was the husband, harold. roxanne reme