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San Francisco leaders present integrated plan to implement DOJ police recommendations
Summary
City officials told a joint session of the Board of Supervisors and Police Commission that they have organized an implementation matrix to act on the Department of Justice assessment and related reviews, and outlined near-term steps on data collection, training and body-worn cameras.
During a joint meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the San Francisco Police Commission, city officials described a structured plan to implement recommendations from the U.S. Department of Justice and several local reviews of San Francisco Police Department practices.
The plan matters because the DOJ assessment, the Blue Ribbon Panel and other reviews together generated hundreds of recommendations — officials say the combined set totals about 479 recommendations — and the city outlined how it intends to prioritize and verify work to rebuild public trust.
Diana Oliva Arroche, director of violence prevention services in the mayor’s office, told the hearing the DOJ’s collaborative assessment produced “94 findings, 272 recommendations” and that Mayor Ed Lee accepted and pledged to implement every recommendation. Interim Chief Tony Chaplin and Captain Michael Conley (Connolly) of SFPD’s Professional Standards and Principal Policing Bureau described a project-management approach to do that work.
Captain Conley said the department created an “integrated matrix” that groups all…
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