Responding to calls for help from San Francisco’s mayor and Board of Supervisors, the U.S. Department of Justice has launched a review of the city’s Police Department, which has been under fire for the shooting of a young black man in December.
The two-year review will be conducted by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, which provides grants to improve policing. Its reviews are meant to change practices collaboratively rather than by punitive measures such as a consent decree, Director Ronald Davis said at a news conference here Monday.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.