Ron,
Do you have a link or source for the news about Sgt. Gary Delagnes double-dipping? I hadn't heard about that. Doesn't surprise me though. He's always seemed willing to defend just about any SFPD action, so why should we expect him to apply a higher standard to his own behavior? I wonder if what he's doing is illegal, or just unethical?
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Dear Marcy;
On car searches or searches in general with or without out warrants it's directed by state laws as modified by the US Supremes. It's not a real local issue as to deciding how a search is conducted it's based on state guidelines.
The whole search situation is a snakepit morass worse than Pandora's box because of all the various challenges going on because of searches like the police did of the drivers car. There they had a "right" because the driver caused the accident and they could look for evidence of drinking drugs etc. The issue is so convoluted as to what happens and what the circumstances were what the probable causes were and were drug sniffing dogs used and yada yada yada.
On the project housing issue it could be to have the inquiries made into the Feds turning the government "public" housing over to the projects residents to buy t he property. The initiative would not have to direct it to happen by direct actions to be taken to have it > happen.
The basis would be by owning the residents would have a greater stake in what happened to them and their property and their local community. The emphasis would be on ownership and property rights and family cohesiveness and providing some centralizing point of stability in the local community.
Or another local issue would be something to require actual accountability within the SFPD. This is based as to why the officers in question who did the video taping and used police property to do so felt they could do this in the first place.
This is from todays Chronicle on the history of the SFPD and its scandals and gives two viewpoints about the problem.
As far as Sgt. Delagnes( president of the POA) is con cerned, the uproar over the video has gotten completely out of hand.
"Compared to other departments across the country, I believe the San Francisco Police Department has fewer problems and less serious problems," Delagnes said. "When mayors and other officials say there is a culture in the San Francisco department that needs to be changed, I don't have a clue what they are talking about.''
Another observer watching the department's latest turmoil has been former San Francisco Police Chief Gain, who left in 1980.
Gain, noting he struggled with a department badly needing reform, said: "In a professional department where there is an understanding there will be appropriate conduct adhering to rules and regulations, conduct of this nature -- producing a video ridiculing people because of their race or because they were gay or homeless -- simply would not occur. If office rs felt they could get by with this, what is wrong with the top management that word has not gotten down to the street?''
Delagnes is the same policer who took his full-time Sgts pay and the pay as the full-time president of the POA. The Police Commission is apparently going to have to tell him to return the sgts.pay no voluntary return the pay on his part.
Ron Getty
SF LibertarianDear Ron,
Ok, I understand. My daughter (the one who volunteers at the Tenderloin Tutorial Program) said the same thing as you -- giving does not help.
Regarding your proposal to privatize the projects -- sounds great, but I do not know enough about the housing programs to comment. I am wondering if you might not want to consider something easier.
By "easier" I mean a local law that can be whacked at. One idea: Fourth Amendment violations. Example: a couple of years ago, a young man tried to beat a light and I ran into his car; when the police came, they searched his car, but not mine. Why did they search his car? Yes, he clearly committed a traffic violation, but what does that have to do with the contents of his car? What does *local* law say about searches?
Marcy
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