Oversight Groups Complain Of Lack Of Transparency, Closed Doors And Inaccurate Announcements From San Francisco's Police Department

San Francisco CA

09 October, 2021

3:35 PM

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By Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local October 7, 2021 While the San Francisco Police Department praises its collaboration with advocates of police reform in developing policies, those same groups – the Department of Police Accountability and the Police Commission – say that they have been shunted to the side, and, in some cases, excluded altogether. "The 'collaborative' nature of the police department's process is that they pick and choose who's at the table," Paul Henderson, the executive director of the Department of Police Accountability, told Mission Local in September. "And then we get a surprise whenever the department decides that, 'Here's the policy.'" And at Wednesday night's Police Commission meeting, some of the appointed board members were baffled by the SFPD's status updates of different policies being reviewed by working groups – and disputed the accuracy of the presentation. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.