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Special Police Committee meeting that just got underway. Officials are to vote on whether San Francisco officers should be armed with stun guns. For months now police chief William Scott has been pushed to get tasers into officers hands. He believes it gives them another less lethal option when trying to subdue a suspect, but protesters who are outside city hall right now think tasers are a bad idea. Unfortunately tasers are deadly. They do kill and they dont actually reduce incidences of shooting. So we think its really a step back from the deescalation and crisis intervention training the police are undergoing. As far as injury rates, the breadth of studies show it reduces suspect injuries and it also reduces injuries to officers. Back now to our live picture of the protesters, we are inside city hall right now. Were e ....
The chief is if we are going to get that equipment from the military. We do get some stuff, for instance, like it was just today, folks concerned about this asked me if was okay if we accepted some forklifts. And so i took a chance that it would be okay, that is not what they were talking about. Predating me, we do have two vehicles that would be used for rescue. But, those require a deputy chiefs approval under this administration to go out. And on occasion, those will be at events which will not be the case any more, those will just be strictly for Something Like a barricaded suspect and they are mainly to get between an active shooter and the team to try to neutralize such a threat, or trying to extract someone out, but the other things that we have like. And most of our stuff is protected like the vests and the night vision so that you can see at night. And one of our boats, came from surplus that sort of thing. Good. Well tha ....
Report, in another agenda item on the progress of our Domestic Violence and so i will refer the rest of my time to that presentation. Thank you, chief. And i was just curious, we did get these emails about a shooting that took place yesterday that never made the news that maybe is just because i found it significant. But there was a shooting, at involving the funeral procession of someone who was a victim and several guns were covered and there was a chase and there was a dangerous situation, apparently the news is reporting about the inaudible instead of doing out in the city. The officers did a good job on that on the bay view and also a shooting on the 900 block of Market Street and two groups got after each other one was a San Francisco group and one from the east bay and one person was struck, and he is now in stab ....
This evening, you would like that, or is this at a later date . You can do it at a later date if you would like. I just want people, i think that we should let the public know how the process works. And i will be happy to briefly address it. And when a civilian has a complaint of a Police Misconduct or a neglect of duty, the public can file a complaint, with my office, or we can file it with the Police Department and the Police Department will forward it to my office. And there are several different ways that that complaint with be filed, the most recent one, is we now provide for online, complaint filing. And i have a staff, of investigators who are assigned each case, and they investigate the case, by receiving information from the Police Department, a ....