For philadelphia itself it will indicate we expect a coating to one inch of snow and the gfs at one inch and nam and euro less than an inch, just a nuisance event but it will create slick travel later this evening. When we come back well talk about a sharp shot of arctic air coming in for the weekend and another round of snow possible for the weekend. We had an active pattern coming up in the forecast. 6 abc Storm Tracker app has you covered this winter showing you the path for the snow and the hourly forecast, its free to download for your apple or android device. Action news learn that Pennsylvania State treasure rob mccord is under federal investigation, sources tell us that the widespread probe is looking into whether mccord used funds. And he is stepping down in two weeks despite the fact that he has two years left in his term. It will be up to Governor Tom Wolf to appoint a new treasurer. A local doctor and his receptionist are accused of selling Prescription Drugs out of his off
Police commission for the Police Commission to resolve. I not only speak to you as the director of the San Francisco office of citizen complaints but also as a board member of the National Association for civilian oversight of Law Enforcement. Our president Brian Buckner was invited to testify before the president s task force on 21 ftd Century Policing on a segment that dealt with civilian oversight of Law Enforcement. As a result of that testimony and also the testimony of char charlie beck, the l. A. Pd chief and others one of the recommendations from that interim report of the task force is that every Law Enforcement agency should have some form of oversight of Law Enforcement. San francisco has that by charter, but i think sometimes its forgotten that not only does the office of citizen complaints investigate matters which are confidential and protected by the Public Safety officers procedural bill of rights you, but we also make policy recommendations for improvements in the Poli
Do we make change . I can tell you how horrified we were and the reaction in my home but if we dont change it we will experience the same problems. The issues that were facing in San Francisco we have insufficient oversight over the Law Enforcement agencies and dont have a culture of transparency around disciplinary actions and problems that maybe brewing in the multiple agencies that we work with. Number two we dont really have meaningful mechanisms to force reporting of misconduct other than obligations we have under brady to turn over potentially excull pitory information and we have limited information on misconduct in the Police Department or Sheriffs Department or any other, and third theres too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct here in San Francisco. Its a rare situation that someone is fired for the conduct. There are few cases reported to us for misconduct and the discipline that is meted out is rare, relatively weak and uncertain, so those issues i t
Explicit bias is just the beginning. You learn what it is and how it works. The rest of the workshop is about understanding how it works in our minds and the ways that we can interrupt it, understand it and flip it, so that is what were seeking to do. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it. The last Department Speaker is joyce hicks executive director of the office of citizen complaiptds that was here at 2 00 p. M. And thank you so much ms. Hicks. Good evening supervisor mar, supervisor cohen and president breed, and i do appreciate you inviting me to speak with you this afternoon to address issues about bias in the San Francisco Police Department and how to restore the Publics Trust after the horrendous racist and homophobic texts that have now seen the light of day, but which the office of citizen complaints was privy to a short time prior to their release, but we were not able to comment on them, and i will say it has been an incredible burden for me to live with t
Do as City Employees so i am hoping that when you review our request for funding that you will join us with that in that effort. One of the other things we asked for this year are is funding for hearings on structural bias. The relationship between explicit and implicit bias and the resulting structural bias that gets there are issues to address and we hope in conjunction with the board of supervisors to hold hearings so the various city departments can come and things exist that and the people of city and county of San Francisco tell us what needs to done and also the kind of struck uferl issues they have confronted so we hope deeply to work with the board and the rest of the city supervisor cohen. Thank you. Just a quick clarifying question. Could you define for us structural bias . I actually i can give you an explanation that someone that has been given. I think the naacp actually gave defines it as bias is legitimizing a a rare of dynamics and paused . Now racism isnt the only for