New SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is backing Mayor London Breed's plan to alter the city's surveillance ordinance.
."It does not set any meaningful limits on how SFPD can share this video footage. So, in practice, local police could conceivably turn over stockpiled and time-stamped footage to prosecutors from other states. It’s not hard to guess the potential targets: immigrants, religious minorities, LGBTQ people, abortion seekers, Black people, and any other frequent targets of state violence."
In her letter to Peskin, Jenkins said the revised ordinance"can also aid in conducting investigations into police misconduct" by"allowing the review of historical video footage for the purposes of investigations into alleged officer misconduct." "I support this policy because not only will it serve a practical purpose of helping us to deter crime and hold those who commit crimes in our city accountable, but it will also send a message to those scheming to prey on our city that there will be consequences for their actions," Jenkins writes in the letter's conclusion."Our tone and approach matters.
to review every case in which a plea offer had been made but not yet accepted by the suspect to determine which plea offers to withdraw. When someone in the room said that would mean reviewing thousands of cases, she narrowed the ask to drug cases.. Jenkins has yet to fire any of existing staff who previously worked under Boudin and past district attorneys but said a"reshuffling" of the office could be in the cards soon.
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