The only out member of the San Francisco Police Commission has stepped down as her term has ended.
Petra DeJesus, a lesbian and attorney, concluded her stint on the powerful oversight panel April 30. Speaking to the Bay Area Reporter on her penultimate day in office, DeJesus said, I ve been there a long time and my term is up.
DeJesus, who was initially appointed by the Board of Supervisors in 2005, has used her time on the commission to advocate for police reform. I think they are on the way, she said about how that is going, adding that in the past year Mayor London Breed s efforts to establish a street crisis response team to answer some 911 calls is a step forward.
Skip to main content
Currently Reading
W. Kamau Bell on why it was so hard to film the Bay Area episode of CNN s United Shades of America
W. Kamau Bell
FacebookTwitterEmail
W. Kamau Bell is the host of CNN s United Shades of America, which filmed an episode in the Bay Area to explore what defunding the police really means.CNN
People often ask me if I grew up here. Sometimes they outright assume that I did. The “city” that they “know” that I’m a “native” of changes. Could be San Francisco, Oakland or Berkeley. And even though I was born in Stanford Hospital and lived as a baby in East Palo Alto, I grew up back east. I lived in Chicago, Boston, Alabama and Indianapolis, like one does.
"United Shades of America" returns tonight with an episode on policing in America. And while that may seem like we ripped it from all the recent headlines, in reality the headlines just haven't changed that much since the show went off the air last summer.
"United Shades of America" returns tonight with an episode on policing in America. And while that may seem like we ripped it from all the recent headlines, in reality the