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Supervisors press for broader bias training, data and DA review after SFPD texting scandal
Summary
On June 18 the Board's Public Safety Committee heard departmental updates and community demands for mandatory bias training, public stop data and a review of prosecutions tied to officers who sent racist and homophobic text messages; the committee filed the bias hearing and continued related jail deliberations.
San Francisco ' On June 18, 2015 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee heard updates from the Public Defender's Office, San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), the Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC) and the District Attorney's office on bias within the criminal-justice system and on steps the city is taking to respond.
Chair Eric Marr opened the session by placing racial disparities at the center of the discussion, noting that "6% of San Francisco residents are African American and 56% of the inmates in our jails are African American," and calling for improved data collection, training and accountability across agencies.
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi presented a multi-point reform proposal developed by his office's Bridal Justice Committee. The plan advocates set-hour implicit-bias training for officers (Adachi discussed "24 hours" as a target), routine reviews of field-training officers, quarterly public reporting of use-of-force logs, limits on school arrests and expanded mental-health crisis response. Adachi said SFPD has provided some…
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