San Francisco Police Department overhauls Special Victims Unit
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr is consolidating four sections of the Special Victims Unit scattered in offices throughout the city and combining them with human trafficking investigations, which...
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The need to focus investigations on cases of suspected human trafficking was one of the key reasons for the reorganization of the San Francisco Police Department’s Special Victims Unit starting this...
View ArticleA candidate for S.F. prosecutor makes human trafficking an issue in campaign,...
The reorganization of the San Francisco Police Department’s Special Victims Unit has become an issue in the November vote for district attorney — at least for one contender in the race. But in doing...
View ArticleAfter anti-trafficking team shifted focus to prostitution arrests, police...
Special victims unit to take a new victim-centered approach to human rights violations The little-noticed use of San Francisco’s human trafficking task force to arrest street prostitutes over the...
View ArticlePolice catch kidnap suspect after monthlong human trafficking investigation
UPDATE 3/14/12: Charges against Trammell were dropped.The arrest last week of a suspect in a violent San Francisco kidnapping capped a monthlong investigation headed by human trafficking and domestic...
View ArticlePoor Record Keeping Hinders Analysis of Domestic Violence Policing Practices
As statistics go from tick marks to laptops, police struggle to make sense of trendsThe San Francisco Police Department cannot precisely measure the number of domestic violence cases it handled before...
View ArticleKQED Radio Interview: Public Press Domestic Violence Report
Editors’ note: This report aired on KQED News on Sept. 26, 2012.KQED's STEPHANIE MARTIN: A new investigative reporting series is questioning San Francisco's record in tracking and prosecuting domestic...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Record-Keeping Still Flawed, but Police Say Fix Is Near
Some cases were not referred immediately to Special Victims UnitNine months after the San Francisco Police Department fully implemented a new digitized case management system, inspectors were still...
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