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SF Police Commission cancels five meetings, awaits mayor’s appointees

By ELENI BALAKRISHNAN  : missionlocal – excerpt

When the San Francisco Police Commission began repeatedly canceling meetings this spring, it raised questions about whether Mayor London Breed — who has made her disdain for the commission very clear — was behind it.

Breed, as mayor, appoints the majority of the Police Commission’s members. But ever since she fell out with her own appointee, Max Carter-Oberstone, in 2022, she has worked to stymy the powerful commission that sets policy for the San Francisco Police Department. In March, voters approved Prop. E, her measure to restrict the commission’s policy-setting abilities.

And then the cancellations started. Of the past eight scheduled meetings going back 11 weeks, five were canceled: one in March, two in April and two this month. The reasons: vacancies, and absences for personal and business reasons. Maintaining a quorum — at least four out of the seven commissioners are needed for the body to meet — became more difficult after April 30 when two of Breed’s four appointees, Debra Walker and James Byrne, vacated their seats…(more)

 

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SF Police Union President Steps Down Amid Claims of Financial Impropriety

by Michael Barba : sfstandard – excert

an Francisco’s police union has turned against its president, pressuring him to resign as rumors of financial impropriety upended his attempt to return to his leadership role from extended medical leave.

Tony Montoya has stepped down as president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, his successor Tracy McCray announced Wednesday in an internal email to officers obtained by The Standard.

Montoya’s departure represents a changing of the guard in a union that tried to rehabilitate its relationship with City Hall under his tenure. Montoya was by no means a champion of reform, but he struck a more conciliatory tone than his predecessors whose vocal criticism earned them a reputation for undermining change…(more)

 

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SF Police Commission rejects police budget and layoffs. Will it matter?

By Julian Mark : missionlocal – excerpt

The San Francisco Police Commission on Wednesday night unanimously rejected the police department’s budget proposal, which would lay off 167 police officers, cut technology to aid reform efforts, and reduce the department’s overtime funds.

But the commission’s vote against moving the budget forward was a largely symbolic action that will signal to Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors that the commission was unhappy with the proposal as currently drafted.

In other words, the mayor and the supes will receive the budget no matter what — with a somewhat negative recommendation from the commissioners.

It seemed everyone agreed that such dramatic reductions to the police budget were unacceptable and at least needed deeper consideration. In urging the Police Commission to reject the budget, Chief Bill Scott repeatedly called the cuts “devastating.” …(more)

Did we just hear that  a police chief complained when a citizen took a dangerous situation  in hand by firing a handgun at an intruder? This is not going to end well.