On monday an undercover officer was shot the arm about a mile away. Abc7 News Reporter allen wong reports. Reporter place say this camaro ran a stop sign and got broadside bid this chefly impala at east 12th street and 37th avenue. Witnesses say the driver of the camaro didnt have any id and he was behaving erratically. They said he tried and failed to open the door after passing car and then left the scene on foot. During the course of that investigation the officer heard several gunshots several blocks away. The police chief Howard Jordan tells us two officers left the crash scene and headed toward the gunshots. They were confronted by a gunman who shot one officer in the leg and then ran away. The Police Caught up with him two blocks away. At that time one officer fired his weapon at the suspect. They did not hit him. The suspect immediately surrendered, dropped the gun and was taken into custody. The witness said the initial gunfire happened when a man matching the description of t
Jap japan. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. All right. Welcome to the start of this week on Worldwide Exchange. The olympics is on, did you catch any over the weekend . I caught a little of the snowboarding. I was watching the luge yesterday afternoon. The speed they go around 80 miles an hour or something. You head back its amazing. I watch the jump in the u. K. Yikes they were jumping 30 meters. That chap set the world record about 250 meters. A little difference on that. Plenty to come on todays show. The golden arches, its in vietnam. Mcdonalds opening its first restaurant there as hundreds of fans line up to get their big mac. Well bring you an interview with the ceo from mcdonalds later to find out why it took so long to open in the country. And what deals may we find in airways . And how is this going to impact relationships with brussels . Emerging markets stabilized toward the end of last week, but as tapering continues, ques
Rounds. Shot guns, are also assault weapons, if they are again, the foldings stocks, a pistol grip and to accept the detachable magazine or a shock with the revolving cylinder, that is what they called the street sweeper, it is a wicked looking magazine. And it can just put out round after round after round. So, i told you, about our gun laws, and about who cant have a gun, and what guns cant be possessed. Thank you, is there any questions about that . Thanks. Thank you. Thank you very much. That is great presentation, thank you very much. Captain. Okay, so now we talked about weapons, and we talked about our gun laws and now, i am going to have captain joseph mcfaden is going to address you and show you number one how we track gun violence in our city and also how we respond to an act of violence involving a act of a weapon or a gun in our city. Thank you. President mazzucco, commissioners, director hicks good to see you. I have been in front of these commissions just over the past se
With the total of 193, however, there has been a slight decrease over the years since 2008 of shootings, that can be associated to whether sometimes people will point to sfgh or medical care that is provided directly upon the shootings, some of these victims walk in and are provided medical attention and a lot of them are surviving. Some people say bad shots, whatever you might want to think, but that is our stats now for shooting victims for 2012, all wait from 2008. The next thing that i want to talk about is the tracking and cases and i am just going to show you something that i have here. Here is a list, and it is 9 pages long with about 36 people on each page and these are just the arrests with firearms of people that we find in the city of San Francisco and this is just for 2012. So out of this, there were 314 guns seized in arrests in 2012 of the people on the streets and some of them gang members and others caught with weapons. And here is our, here is the break down in a pie c
Francisco . And now, commissioner mazzucco they have changed the laws and the numbers are different. So what used to be like 12025, and 12031 is now a new series. But any way, the most common guns are carrying concealed with firearm and carrying a loaded firearm, someone that is prohibited from carrying a gun is caught carrying a gun and then carrying a stolen gun and that is what the 496 charge is. And california has like angela was saying, has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the state that makes it and it is difficult to buy a gun, where people have to in california, the Firearms Dealer has to be licensed and there is background checks and tenday waits. That has been standard for many years. And there are limits on how many guns can be purchased and it goes on about the Record Keeping and particularly it talks about our gun laws penalize access for children due to negligent storage. So there was mention of the new york law, i believe was modeled on the california law. And th