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Board and Police Commission hold joint hearing on DOJ assessment and policing reforms; staff outlines implementation plan
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Police Commission met jointly on Nov. 15 to review the U.S. Department of Justice 's assessment of SFPD and other reform reports and to hear the department's plan for implementing 272 recommendations.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Police Commission met in joint session on Nov. 15 to review recommendations from the U.S. Department of Justice, the presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing, the civil grand jury and a blue-ribbon panel, and to hear from city and SFPD officials on the implementation plan.
Diana Oliva Arroce, senior adviser and director for violence-prevention at the Mayor's Office, opened for the administration and reviewed the city's acceptance of the DOJ's assessment. The DOJ report, delivered in October, identified 94 findings and 272 recommendations on policy and practice across five priority areas: use of force, bias, community policing, accountability and recruitment/hiring practices.
Interim Chief Tony Chaplin and Captain Michael Connolly outlined the San Francisco Police Department's response. SFPD said it has created a Professional Standards and Principle Policing Bureau to manage implementation and…
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