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Most of San Francisco’s firefighters and police officers live in the greater Bay Area, some in the city itself. But many drive in from distant suburbs, and we found that a few dozen live as far away as Honolulu, North Carolina or Alabama. What do commuter cops mean for community policing?
SFโs police watchdog found misconduct in five of the 12 cases it closed against sheriff’s deputies in 2022. The Sheriffโs Oversight Board still has no director to investigate the allegations, and no power to impose disciplinary actions.
The SFPD has defended its crackdown at Saturday’s skateboarding hill bomb. But several parents say their children were walking home or riding scooters through the area when the police trapped them between lines of officers.
More soon,
Sara
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Dozens of SF police, firefighters โsuper-commuteโ from out of state
When city workers don’t live in the city.
Police watchdog finds sheriff misconduct โ but canโt do much
Still no mechanism for discipline by civilian oversight.
Teens trapped, injured by SFPD in Dolores arrests, parents sayย
SFPD refers to the skateboarding event as a “riot.”
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