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SFPD Commander Mikael Ali defends Tasers to the Police Commission. Photo David Elliot Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The San Francisco Police Commission held its second of three ordinated community meetings at the Scottish Rite Community Center on Feb. 4 to allow for community input regarding the Police Department\u2019s proposed use of Tasers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the commission currently is a proposal to provide a certain amount of officers with Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs). We are taking that request seriously and are weighing that option,\u201d said Police Commissioner Julius Turman. \u201cWe want to engage the public to understand their feelings and concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposal, which recommends a pilot program that would equip a specially trained fraction of the police force with ECWs, more commonly known as \u201cTasers,\u201d has left civil rights and mental health advocates questioning the need for another \u201cless-than-lethal\u201d weapon in the hands of the San Francisco Police Department.<\/p>\n

According to the SFPD\u2019s working draft of the General Order on the Use of ECWs, Taser deployment is intended to \u201cbridge the gap in the use-of-force continuum between lower levels of force and deadly force.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause there is an assumption that Tasers are safer, police officers are more likely to use them\u2014which is what makes them really deadly,\u201d said Rebecca Ruiz-Lichter, an advocate for the Idriss Stelley Foundation and member of the Anti-Taser Task Force, citing the increase of police killings in Oakland after Tasers were integrated into the police force. \u201cI don\u2019t think the answer is to have these weapons that employ one-fourth of the shock of the electric chair on people that are suffering mental health crises.\u201d<\/p>\n

A main point of concern regarding Taser deployment was addressed during Monday\u2019s forum by members of the mental health and homeless rights communities, who fear the impact that the 50,000-volt device may have on a person experiencing mental distress, as well as on people undergoing the physical and mental hardships of homelessness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not want to see the police department use any of those tools that are in your toolbox on the mentally ill,\u201d said John Cooper, member of the Board of Directors of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

In the wake of an officer-involved shooting at the TCHO Chocolate factory last July, SFPD Chief Greg Suhr has expressed the need for additional \u201cless-than-lethal\u201d weapons at the department\u2019s disposal. Tasers, he said, could avoid deadly encounters with weapons that lead to more \u201clawful but awful\u201d shootings involving police officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI resurrected the issue of officers having less-than-lethal weapons as another tool in their toolbox,\u201d said Chief Suhr, emphasizing that the proposal would not extend to the entire police department, but only to \u201cthose officers who have had the most training in dealing with people in crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both the Coalition on Homelessness and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), two vocal opponents to the Taser initiative, have urged the SFPD to fully implement the Crisis Intervention Training Program (CIT), charging that many of the steps to bring the program to fruition have not been taken yet.<\/p>\n

Modeled after an initiative that originated in Memphis in 1988, the program was originally proposed for San Francisco in 2001 with the intention of training a portion of the police force on non-violent intervention. Over the course of 10 years, it was once cancelled due to a lack of funding, only to be re-established in February 2011.<\/p>\n

In order to be certified under the CIT program, selected officers are subjected to 40 hours of de-escalation training, with a strong emphasis non-violent communication with the mentally ill.<\/p>\n

To date, only five percent of the police department has undergone training in the CIT program. Chief Suhr estimates that a total of 118 SFPD officers are currently qualified to respond to crisis calls involving the mentally ill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at the militarization of the police department,\u201d said Ruiz-Lichter. \u201c[The department] wants more weapons as opposed to engaging in the CIT training that the commission ordered the police to do\u2014and still haven\u2019t done.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Suhr, implementing the CIT program is still a priority on the department\u2019s agenda\u2014with the additional enhancement of Tasers. Placing Tasers in the hands of specially CIT trained, senior officers, he said, would be a safer alternative to guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not unlike other models we have,\u201d added Suhr. \u201cThese officers have specialized training on how to deal with people in crisis and I believe that in fairness to them and the person they are dealing with, it would be nice if they had something short of a firearm.\u201d<\/p>\n

During public comment, ACLU attorney Micaela Davis questioned the guidelines and outcomes of Taser use as stated in the general draft order.<\/p>\n

\u201cTasers are not a simple alternative to firearms,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIn addition to the risk of serious injury and death, other risks [of Taser use] include the risk of litigation to the city, over use and unnecessary use, and the risk of disproportionate impact of Taser use on communities of color.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several community members also challenged the lack of transparency of the order.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou talk about restrictions such as pregnant, elderly people, skinny people and young people,\u201d said Virginia Marshall, a concerned San Francisco resident. \u201cI thought to myself, \u2018How skinny is skinny? How young is young?\u2019 And I do not believe that you should ever tase a child or a teenager.\u201d<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Police Commission is scheduled to vote on the Taser initiative sometime in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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