Francisco police chief corneleous murphy who died in august at the age of 84. Major Dianne Feinstein appointed him in 1980 less than a year after the riots following the Involuntary Manslaughter conviction of dan white who gunned down mayor gasconi and harvey milk. Leslie led the city through many years including many big scandals. Reporter murphys six years as chief was born from turmoil. He took over for reign, fell from political grace after the dan white riots. Murphy came in as a cops cop. The famous sex party at a restaurant, there were questionable Police Practices with a raid. And a mock raid into a fifth grade classroom followed by swift reorganize nay reorganization. The thing that i look at is the negatives actually turned positive to make differences in the department that we wanted to do. We took those and used them as opportunities and weve been doing fairly well for the last six to eight months now. Reporter murphy says theres been some high points. The democratic convention, the queens visit. Murphy says he takes pride in the fact that over all crime in the city is down from what it was six interesting years ago. Chief murphy was on the hot seat in november 1984 after sfpd officers attacked both protesters and members of the media during a visit by casper wineberger. Here are our reports on what happened. Reporter 1,000 people stretched out. They marched round the block around the hotel. Then across the street to union square across from the st. San st. Francis where House Speaker casper wineberger was going to receive an honor. Protesters tried to freed those arrested for getting into the street or attacked officers and they too were arrested. Total arrest coming to 30 people or more. Then camera crews from channel 4, 5 and 7 came under attack by police when they turned on lights to film the arrests. Deputy police chief neil said the bright tv lights endangered the officers and interfered with the operation. So they took the lights out. A few camera operators got hurt in the process. A person from channel 5, his camera got hit. I dont know what happened but his camera didnt work after that. Reporter he was aware of the protest going outside but declined to comment. Saying through a press offer that press officer that today was a celebratory night. Today Bay Area Television stations were paying particular attention to the story because theyre camera operators and equipment were also targets of the police attacks. Randy shandobil has the reports. Last night according to demonstrators and members of the media, the crowd was provoked by the police. All of the arrests were false, unnecessary and brutal. Today police chief murphy said all of the complaints will be investigated and he plans to view all the video tapes. But he also defended his officers. People that cross police line. People that block the streets. People that throw missells. This clearly will not be tolerated. Reporter everyone though people were committing those kind of crimes, we didnt see anybody throw things. Was the Police Reaction excessive . Then media crews turned on camera lights, claiming the lights were blinding them, they ordered them off. Subjecting them to possible further injuries. I made every effort not to shine the light in the officers face. They had their backs to me. They were beating the woman. Badge number 1674 stepped in front of me and thats when i took his picture. And he shouted turn out the light and hit me. It was pretty excessive yes. Yeah. He just said, turn the light off. Im going to break it. And i turned it off and he broke it any way. Reporter the police do have a point when they say that camera lights can blind you. Lets say youre in a dark street or darkroom some where and your eyes have adjusted to the light. Then all of a sudden the camera lights come on and your eyes are overwhelmed. On this video tape if you listen closely you can hear a warning from officers before they strike a camera woman. But was she given enough time to turn off the light and perhaps the most important question is why the lights were knocked out in the first place. Was it because they were blinding the police or was it because Police Wanted to hide this kind of behavior from the public. Still to come on a second look. Rat skeller it was the name of a restaurant but it quickly became the name of a controversy. What officers were doing there. And George Watsons report shows that things have not changed all that much. Map tonight on a second look, the San FranciscoPolice Department in the mid1980s, in april of 1984 word leaked out that members of the department had hired a prostitute to perform sex acts at a graduation for new officers. The scandal became synonymous by the name of the restaurant where that controversy was held. The rat skeller. Reporter around 9 00, peter ballastrery and his partner both from the vice squat and both on duty pulled into this restaurant. They ran into a woman and asked them to go with them and took them to the rat skeller. On instructions from them the prostitute performed the act. One officer reportedly tried to stop the prostitute but heshen stopped him. Two recruits from the graduating class, lagarejos and mascall are charged of doing the handcuffs and there are peripheral charges. Sergeant mcneil is charged of bar tending. All six officers are charged with not telling the truth about the incident when they were questioned the same as code of silence. These are administrative charges not criminal. No one in the department would comment on camera but talk is that chief murphy is out for blood and will fire all six officers if the Police Commission upholds the charges. The rat skeller scandal did not result in any criminal charges but four officers were fired two were suspended and five others face departmental misconduct. San Francisco Police raided a popular singles bar called lord jims. Officers were looking r drs and held some patrons for as long as 90 minutes. Many of those customers were lawyers who later banded together to file a lawsuit. Reporter a controversial raid here at the San Francisco singles bar a week ago tonight has resulted in major changes. Some 60 customers say they were detained by more than an hour by gun wielding undercover officers and illegally searched before finally being released. The real target of this man was this man, esp era nzas owner of the establishment who was wanted for drug charges. Con murphy announced that he will not let no narcotics officer serve for three years in that division. I think the dangers of leaving officers in that division that when youre dealing with people, youre dealing with addicts and hypes that you tendo lose perspective of what the department is trying to do. Reporter the chief also said hes reassigning to investigations this man. Captain filpot head of the division which conducted the raid at lord jim. Its up for him to set the tone. Reporter will that change in drug crimes, the event at lord jims . Absolutely. Reporter one of the most interesting was the move of the captain of northern station charles schuller. Most of the officers charged in the sex scandal at the rat skeller were assigned to the northern station at the time. The chief apparently was referring to the transfers of schille and forpot as follows. Im not looking at them as punitive action. Im looking at a more efficient operation of the department. Reporter finally the police chief announced that he wants to rotate all Police Officers aside from narcotics from station to station or from division to division every five to seven years. That costs the more ire with some of the rank in file. Especially in places like the prestigious homicide detail. The head of the Department Says hes open for negotiations on the changes but indicated rough sailing ahead for some of them. You can have an officer at a district station for many many years and he does not become stagnant. In fact, its healthy, its healthier, better for the community. Reporter but mayor feinstein says she wholeheartedly backs the chief. Theres no reason for the public to lose faith with the San FranciscoPolice Department. The department is one of the best in the United States of america. When we come back, on a second look, dealing with the pressure of being a police officer. George watson shows us a test officers faced 30 years ago to measure their stress levels. And a bit later the uproar on understood cover Police Officers responding to gay bathhouses. Tonight on a second look the San FranciscoPolice Department in the early 1980s. Nearly 30 years ago in august of 1984, ktvus George Watson brought us a two part report on the stress that officers face every day out on the streets. The issues were much the same as officers endure today. Reporter anyone who joins a Police Department also joins a brotherhood. The comradery among Police Officers is one of the foundations of any department. But after a certain number of years on the job a certain feeling takes hold. An us against them mentality and when one of them shoots and kills one of us, all the stresses and dangers of police work come home to roost. Street confrontations are more or less taken in psychological stride. This is just about what every cop bargained for when he or she joined the force. But there are pressures within the very structure of the department that leads to the kinds of stress that show up in statistics cataloging the divorce, suicide and alcoholism rate. It seems that no cop is immune forever. Given enough time the job will change the person. Its not about the job itself but how the job has a tendency to change us. The biggest thing is what people learn when they come into this business is they have to deny and suppress an awful lot of emotions that were relatively common to a civilian. If you call an officer to your house you dont want someone whos fearful. Youre not going to want someone so tied into your problems that theyre going to start crying. And you want someone whos efficient. In order to be an efficient officer those emotions have to be put on the back burner. Unfortunately after a period of time they stay on the back burner then they start impacting the personal relationships that officers have at home. Reporter joe angler is a 50 year veteran of the force. He is currently in the union helping other crops. In the beginning angler was immune to stress. But time passed and joe changed. In my particular case i started having, i started staying away from home more. I started drinking more, i started you know escaping, you know. When i got to a point, and i happened in my private life when i couldnt escape anymore came the time when i had to stand and deal with reality or lose everything i worked all my life for. And i went and got home help. Reporter admitting to stress is no longer taboo. An officer can get help without losing his job or respect from peers. Most single significant sense of stress is dealing with their own bureaucracy, the court system that sort of thing seems to be honest stressful to them in a day in and day out. Certainly theres traumatic instances, the shootings. But they take those in stride. Thats part of what they bargained for when they took the job. The stresses you have with your superiors in the long one affect you more. If you have a confrontation with a sergeant or lieutenant you will feel that more. That is taken more seriously at times. It goes on sometimes for longer. If youre not happy with your assignment, where youre at youre going to be miserable. Reporter stress comes from the department itself but it can come from street confrontations as well. Regardless of the source it has to be dealt with. The Police Department also tests its officers to see whats physically when theyre put under stress. I took that stress, my heartbeat found that whether simulated or not, the test put me under a lot of stress. It was situations where the officer could be shot. This is an apartment search, someone reported hearing shots fired. Its a nerve wracking experience knowing the next corner you turn could be your last. No additional shots were fired. I passed the test on those grounds but other tests didnt turn out so well. [shots fired ] dont do it. [shots fired ] reporter at one point my heart rate has sored to 150 beats a minute. I eventually slowed down to a still fast 96 beats. It makes a point a lot of times when the action is fast and over with you dont get so jacked up as what you allow your own mind to do. It was your mind that was working with you to get through the apartment building. Can you imagine doing a warehouse search it takes you 45 minutes to an hour. Think about what your mind does to your there. Reporter on the streets has a profound effect. Just being part of a shoot out, makes the officer feel stress. You will start thinking, i dont ever want to pull my gun and shoot at anyone. But that can affect yourself, your partner. Reporter the unit is helped 100 stress plagued officer. With new cops taking advantage of the counseling. Basically officers talk to other cops who have been through it themselves. In the beginning asking for help is always the toughest part. When we come back on a second look the controversial role the San FranciscoPolice Department played in the fight against aids in the early 1980s. Unbelievable. Shhhhh in our day, we didnt have uverse high speed internet. Yeah, our babysitter didnt have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. We had to count sheep to fall asleep. And i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. In my head. Never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. Too much . A little. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high speed internet. Rethink possible. Welcome back, tonight we take a second look at the San FranciscoPolice Department in the early 1980s. In 1984 the city was trying to figure out how to deal with a fast growing health crisis, aids. City officials believed one of the places the disease was being spread was in gay bathhouses. Although there was no suggestion anything illegal was going on the Police Department sent in undercover officers to document what was going on. Ktvus Betty Anne Bruno brought us this report in may of 1984. Reporter chief con murphy this evening confirmed that his undercover officers did spy on gay bathhouses and sex clubs last march. This investigation was conducted specifically in response to a request to find out what was going on so that the mayor could urge the director of Public Health to take appropriate action reporting the aids problem, the medical problem. Its not a Police Problem at those bathhouses. Reporter purrty murphy says this wasnt the first time that police investigated bathhouses. They did so before in 1974. This was to document the kind of Sexual Activity going on in the bathhouses. Reporter murphy wouldnt discuss the details, he says the report is confidential. He did say however that the report did not reveal anything new or did it reveal anything against the law. Were talking about here at those bathhouses is, Sexual Activity between consenting adults. Reporter Health Director roberson said he knew the chief wanted ammunition to close the bathhouses but he was not told about this specific ammunition. The report which he saw for the first time yesterday was no surprise to him either. Ive been involved with this issue for over a year and was well aware of the activities that were tribed in that described in that report. This seems to be that the mayor is not happy with the speed youre proceeding in closing those bathhouses. Im proceeding with the city attorney. I dont want to do something thats going to be an empty symbol that close them today and reopen tomorrow. I have been informed that to close them down and open the next day will have no effect. What i want to do is reduce the spread of aids. Reporter less than six months later, the county ordered the bathhouses closed saying they contributed to the spread of the aids virus. Although a judge soon reopened the bathhouses, the court imposed new rules including room monitors to prevent unsafe sex. The county enforced those rules. Gay bathhouses in San Francisco closed over the next few years. And thats it for this weeks second look. Im julie haener. Thanks for watching. Hi, everybody. Im beth. If you want the best videos from the web, weve g he a terrifying sight after a sky diver is hit. Knocking him completely unconscious. What happens when the eerie scene turns to midair emergency . Hes not even on any drugs yet. Internet sensations charles and ally prepare for his second brain