Created a new City Department to take over the duties. Our coverage, dan thorn live for us tonight in berkeley he joins us now with more on this idea. Dan. Well they can grant this proposal centers around the idea of essentially re imagining Public Safety. The mayor and City Council Members are proposing that Police Officers focus solely on solving crimes as opposed to handling traffic situations and they believe this could save the city. A lot of money as well as limiting the number of negative interactions between Police Officers and people of color. A new progressive proposal in berkeley could ban police from enforcing traffic stops the move being considered by City Government would instead create an unarmed civilian division to handle the job, you know the calvary trying to cut co sponsor of the proposal Council Member ben bartlett would like to see changes to Public Safety in his city. Bartlett believes a new department of transportation would be better suited then police to take
Save the city a lot of money as well as limiting the number of negative interactions between Police Officers and people of color. A new progressive proposal in berkeley could ban police from enforcing traffic stops the move being considered by City Government would instead create an unarmed civilian division to handle the job, you know the calvary threatened to cut co sponsor of the proposal Council Member ben bartlett would like to see changes to Public Safety in his city. Bartlett believes a new department of transportation would be better suited then police to take care of broken tail lights fender benders and the like its like going to Fire Department lot of mass. Its not necessary. Some transportation advocates have been taking a more serious tone. What were trying to do is prevent an escalation of minor Traffic Violation in 2 that meeting number being or nelly gauche with walk bike berkeley says a new department made up of traffic experts would go beyond what armed Police Officer
Going on today to keep some areas of the bay at least somewhat controlled in terms of temperatures this afternoon but forget about an inlet it could be very toasty got the 60s all line up on the east bay shoreline 68 delay ho 68 for any aac 63 livermore 50s up to the north bay and 62 for san jose for comparison sake what you know what were just trailing a little bit up here in the north bay, but everybody else he is either the same as yesterday or degree or so ahead. Modest winds for now thats going to the case all this morning youre going to notice some of the afternoon 84 by 11 02 00pm lets do 95 back to you. All right dave, thanks a lot happening today, a large protest is expected to play and take place later on today and martinez following a number of hate crimes in that community kron fours reyna harvey live in martinez this morning, she has all the details for us reyna. Morning morning as thousands of people are expected to make their way here to downtown martinez, im standing ri
And iraq now committed to reduce the number of american troops in that country can we really expect that to happen though and if it does is it going to create a power vacuum in that region all right its time to move through news i. Q. Today marks the 21st consecutive day of nationwide protests following the death of george floyd over in minneapolis minnesota but now a Deadly Police shooting involving a black man in atlanta is triggering even more demonstrations all of this as new congressional legislation is being introduced to address Police Tactics across this country fronsac is outside of capitol hill with more on these developments there. Now and also in that building behind me Senate Republicans theyre getting ready to push out a package thats going to be all about policing. And what Police Officers can and cannot do now this is all coming forward from the only africanamerican republican in the Senate Senator tim scott of South Carolina which President Donald Trump has signaled hi
Sf sfg. Vice president taylor good evening and welcome to the june 10, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. Sergeant youngblood, can you please call roll . Clerk yes, can you, commissioner. [roll call] clerk okay. So commissioner taylor, you do have a quorum. Also with us today are chief William Scott and director Paul Henderson from d. P. A. Vice president taylor okay. So for members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on items on the agenda or during general Public Comment, the phone number to dial is 4084189388. Ill repeat that because our phone number has changed. 4084189388. The access code is 1469430274. I would remind the public to be in a quiet place. For the commissioners, ill ask you to mute yourself to minimize background noise, and if you would like to be heard, click your name or the emoji of your choice to be recognized. I would ask that you not put a full sentence because it makes it hard to know who wants to be heard. Okay. Go ahead, serg