Police Commission Won't Force Chief To Stay In Agreement With DA Yet

San Francisco CA

18 February, 2022

6:28 PM

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By Annika Hom, Mission Local February 17, 2022 During a tense eight-hour meeting, the Police Commission declined to safeguard a Memorandum of Understanding that makes the District Attorney the lead investigator of police use of force cases by extending its expiration date 30 days. A last-ditch emergency meeting of the Police Commission is scheduled for Feb. 23, however — the day that MOU is set to expire. If Police Chief Bill Scott and DA Chesa Boudin do not make progress in bridging their differences, the commission may step in then. Scott earlier this month moved to unilaterally withdraw from the MOU after a DA staffer said she was pressured to withhold evidence pertaining to a criminal trial of Officer Terrance Stangel. The MOU, introduced originally in 2019, is a major tenet of police reform that ensured a body other than the San Francisco Police Department serves as the lead investigator in use of force cases. 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.