[walkerk]

No mention of how the hiring of 200 needed officers is progressing.

[Uncle Hal]

The first thing he should do is fire the chief of police, Heather Fong. That would solve a lot of the problems, but this is is SF, so a lot of things are unsolvable.

[paul51]

"I hear that from kids in the community every day."

So that's where he gets his direction. That explains a few things.

[nwrep]

I really think the time has come for San Francisco to hire disabled transgendered cops.

[digger48]

Maybe a Pink Ribbon Panel would be more appropriate, considering the venue.

[NonValueAdded]

The Chronicle series also dealt with race, pointing out that typically more than 40 percent of those upon whom force was used were blacks, though they make up only 7.8 per cent of the city's population.

Interesting statistic but useless on its own. Perhaps if they told us what percentage blacks were out of the total number resisting arrest, we might see that the department shows remarkable restraint in the application of force in force-deserving situations. That's not to say that racism doesn't exist and a full view of the stats might bear out what the article is attempting to imply. But that use of a percentage-of-the-population stat is just another over-played race card and fewer and fewer people are buying it.

[TUAN_JIM]

The city is 7.8 percent black. The police force is 9.6 percent black. Therefore, blacks are overrepresented by 23 percent. Yet that scumbag Newsom says it is "unacceptable how few African Americans there are on the force." I don't want him doing my math homework.