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SFPD bias-audit review shows many "hits" but no confirmed biased messages; commissioners ask for outside review
Summary
Commander Peter Walsh presented the department's quarterly audit of department-owned electronic communications, reporting hundreds to thousands of automated hits but no confirmed biased content; commissioners pressed for independent sampling and better contextual review.
San Francisco Sept. 13, 2017 Commander Peter Walsh told the Police Commission that the San Francisco Police Department's quarterly electronic-communications audit found no confirmed biased messages in department-owned systems, but commissioners questioned whether the method and word list produced false positives that masked real problems.
Walsh said the audit examines three sources: the Level 2 CLUTS messaging system, departmental email (sfgov.org), and department cell-phone texts. He described a continuous passive search using a word list; when a word on the list produces a hit, internal…
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