Some say the SF Police commission's work is an impediment to crime fighting
With crime concerns looming large over San Francisco’s March primary, one government body has found itself at the center of The City’s supercharged public safety debate: the Police Commission, a citizen oversight group that sets policy for the San Francisco Police Department and conducts disciplinary hearings for officers.
The commission’s defenders, though, have been shooting back, accusing the mayor of using the group as a convenient scapegoat for The City’s crime problems during an election year. They warn that if Prop. E were to pass, the measure would roll back hard-fought reforms that they say have helped bring The City’s policing practices more in line with modern standards while reducing use-of-force incidents.
It’s a change that supporters say would push commissioners to engage more with the concerns of officers and average residents. Supporters of the measure say that such stops do little to prevent crime or traffic accidents but can open the door to racial profiling, citing data that shows that SFPD stops people of color at disproportionately high rates.
Experts say Uber, Lyft drivers' protests have a point “These are pretty unprecedented practices in terms of the history of capitalism,” one researcher told The Examiner San Francisco’s traffic-stop policy has yet to be enacted because it was held up in a lengthy bargaining process with the Police Officers Association. The POA broke off talks earlier this month, and the commission was scheduled to discuss and possibly vote on the measure during its meeting Wednesday evening. That vote had not been held by the time this article went to print.
Since then, the department has been working to update its policies, including how and when officers are permitted to use force.
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