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To take down the most violent criminals, the Miami Dade Police department turn to their special Response Team known as srt. Calvin sync srt responds to any situation that regular units on the road cannot handle. When they run into trouble, they call us. We are the last line of defence. Narr its the beginning of the day at Miami Dade Police department. Sergeant manny malgor leads one of the three highlytrained units that make up the special Response Team. Man sync sarge. Man good late afternoon. ...

Commissioner kingsley, present. Commissioner turman . 5 qzg] here. With have the cheese of police and directors of occ;e 8÷u ms. Joyce welcome to the wednesday, november 7,um scheduled San Francisco Police Commission meeting. We have ioa with matters involving patrol specials, and we have some closed session matters involving discipline. Without further ado call line item 1, the concept calendar. Received and file action. Request of captain david las ar to accept gifts of seven security valued ...

Next speaker. I want to ask the Police Department to learn the side step when someone is coming towards you, with a knife, you learn the side step. Im disabled and 79, and can do the side step, tasers and guns are not just about equal, or just about equal in the damage that they do to humans, not acceptable, period. The side step. And someone is approaching you with a little knife do the side step, thank you. Next speaker please . Michael lion, San Francisco, gray panthers are absolutely against...

Detections of any drugs or anything of that nature on board. And on all eight instances medical examiner, discovered multiple drugs on board of the victim in those cases. I think that there are a number of factors that contribute to the injuries that we may be talking about that i dont think will be captured in one paragraph of a report. And before we go to the public comment, one last question, what is it now that is driving a push within the department for tasers . Is there a. Has the human he...

With the civil rights implications that the supervisors spoke of today. You know, across the nation and in San Francisco, you will see the African American communities of color are impacted by accessive use of force that would lead us to believe that once they are instituted they would also be disproportionately used against the xhupts of color. Because they are easy to use it will increase over use and officers will be use it as the first line rather than reverting to what they used in training...

Supervisor eric mar, this is a hearing that i called forward in the context of having years dialogue about the use of tasers or electronic controlled weapons in San Francisco. This is something that has been taken up in this time, by the Police Commission, but since, it is discussion that is happening ongoing, with many of our committees across San Francisco, i wanted to bring it forward as a hearing to be able to get some input from the board of supervisors and also to hear what plans are from ...

The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the San Francisco Public Safety committe occurring december 6, 2012 will begin shortly. We are actually live now, and so good morning and welcome to the Public Safety committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors my name is john avalos, the chair of the committee and joined to my right by supervisor christina olague, who will be joined shortly by eric mar who is also a member of the committee and our clerk and erica and we are staffed by the sfgtv...

Task force and i would like to six points. Number one, the Police Assassination of vanbue and parong were nothing other an assassination and should not be used in this context, especially prolong whos family requested that the case nod not to be exploited for this. Two, as regards commander ali assertion that a person under the influence of drugs or experiencing Mental Health episodes would have a greater pain tolerance, the documented science regarding that point is inconclusive what is ininclu...

Center in washington following the tragic shooting in newtown, conn. That is guncontrol. The Washington Post said a bitter fight ahead. The numbers are on your screen. We look at some of the headlines on the sunday morning beginning with the connecticut post. You can see the flag remaining at half staff outside one of the churches in newtown, conn. Following the burial of 20 children and six women killed about a week and a half ago. This is from the front page of todays New York Daily News. Fina...

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