The SFDPA is worthy of nothing; nothing other than special mention

The City of San Francisco claims that it has created an independent group to handle complaints against the San Francisco Police Department. Believe it at you own risk of embarrassment; embarrassment for unwarranted gullibility.

The SF DPA (Department of Police Accountability) was off to a spectacular start. In the first year of their existence, under the very noses of the RIPA Advisory Board, they reported zero complaints. I do not know what they did next, and do not care to know, for I do know their purpose and intended utility. The SF DPA exists to suppress complaints and/or to mischaracterize them; something that produces the same results. The following may have put a cap on my attempt to file a third party complaint with the bastards. 


Richard Hylton

From:

Richard Hylton <rhylton@san.rr.com>

Sent:

Friday, September 23, 2022 9:20 AM

To:

'AB953'; 'SF DPA'

Cc:

Nancy Beninati; 'Police-Practices'; 'Amanda.Ray@CHP.CA.GOV'; 'Allison Elgart';

'sfpdchief@sfgov.com'; 'SFPD.COMMISSION@SFGOV.ORG'; 'Cox, Brian (PDR)';

'Tehanita.taylor@sfgov.org'; 'David.Garcia@SFGOV.ORG'; 'BrianKennedy@gs.edu';

'mpochoa@aclusocal.org'; 'stevenraphael@BERKELEY.EDU'

Subject:

RIPA Annual report-Civilian Complaints. San Francisco is worthy of special mention

 

As the RIPA Advisory goes about fashioning the 2023 RIPA Annual Report, which report shall include a section devoted to civilian complaints, I ask that my experiences be considered for inclusion. They are deserving for three reasons:

1.       In one or more earlier RIPA Annual Reports, San Francisco was said to have the greatest year-over-year increases in civilian complaints for Racial Profiling.

2.       In the 2022 RIPA Annual Report, this Board reported that there were Zero complaints for Racial Profiling, in San Francisco.

3.       In or around April 2022, when it was reported that further reduction in vehicle stops were proposed for San Francisco, in an attempt to reduce disparities, I filed a complaint asserting that massive reductions were already done  and that the data showed that disparities had not been reduced; indeed the general trend is up , and that Asians seemed to be targeted for citation-derived revenue. The complaint was not promptly processed and required another complaint to get it started. The complaint was transmogrified, by some sharpie, into a claim, in effect, that complainant stated “reductions would not work.” After around 60 days, knowing the complaint should have been  handled within 30 days, without withdrawing the complaint, I asked that I not be notified of San Francisco’s findings. 

4.       The special mention given San Francisco, and its “independent” complaint handling group, in the September 16, 2022 RPA Subcommittee meeting.

 

Today, SFIST carried an article that disclosed something usually unheard-of, something unwelcome in San Francisco: independence of thought and action. One of Mayor “Bullshit” Breed’s appointees has dared to act independently, and the mayor seems displeased.

 

The spat is notable given Breed's about-face on public safety and questions surrounding how heavily she's guiding her appointees. She previously pushed for defunding the San Francisco Police Department, but said at last week's event that the police commission is too focused on reform and "has really turned a lot of people off," the Standard reported.

 

The Standard also reported that Breed "contrasted Carter-Oberstone with another one of her political appointees, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, whom the mayor said she could trust to deal with public safety and violent crime."

Carter-Oberstone told the Standard, "I think it’s important to be independent. It’s important that we each on this commission exercise our independent judgment to cast votes that we think are in the best interest of the public."

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I surmise that erstwhile “police defunder” Breed has her hand on the controls of the so-called “independent” group that handles civilian complaints; nothing critical get through them. Complaints go to that group to die. I believe that the AB953 Team has the full complement of my communications of complaints to the SDDPA.

 

I am tempted to say something about trusted-appointee DA Brooke Jenkins, the volunteer, but won’t. I am intrigued by a department where reported stops have plummeted from  108,000 in 2019 to the expected <14,000 for 2022. I am even more intrigued by a mayor who claims that a department that sits at the pinnacle of Use-of-force abuses of Blacks, can say that the police commission is too focused on reform.

Within a week, on September 29, 2022, a report of "Findings" was issued by the SF DPA:

From: SF DPA <sfdpa@sfgov.org>

Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2022 10:35 AM

To: rhylton@san.rr.com

Subject: DPA Case NO.00050747-22 [ ref:_00D2E1FED9._5002E1y6TeS:ref ]

 

 

Good morning, 

Attached is your findings letter for the case listed above. Please contact the investigator in the letter should you have any questions. 

This email account is unmonitored; please do not respond directly to this email.

Thank you, 

Department of Police Accountability, Admin


 


ref:_00D2E1FED9._5002E1y6TeS:ref



I hope someone too the time to read what the bastards wrote. I did not. These people just investigate themselves using a new name, and the outcome is preordained.


Meet the new boss

Same as the old boss.


 

 

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