Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests
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“We need to give our officers the tools necessary to keep our communities safe and not leave them stuck behind a desk when they can be out on the street helping people,” BreedThe plan is needed because “There has been too much focus on adding bureaucracy to the work our officers do and putting up barriers to new technologies that can help improve policing in San Francisco,” the Mayor added.
A change to regulation governing the use of body camera footage is another part of Breed’s plan. The Mayor wants arrests made without injury or an officer having to draw a firearm to be exempt from writer reports, with bodycam footage lone sufficing the document the incident. The goal of the measures is to cut paperwork to 20 percent of an officer's time, she said.
Breed’s plan is unusual for appealing directly to voters, a process that means her ideas require only a simple majority is needed for it to be enacted.
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