The California Department of Justice says the San Francisco Police Department is no longer under state oversight.
“It feels really good, feeling. It feels great honestly,” said SFPD Chief Bill Scott.
Chief Scott has been with the department for nearly eight years. He has worked with four mayors.
Chief Scott was brought in by Mayor Ed Lee back in 2017 to help reform the police department – a department facing a series of troubling fatal police shootings.
That included the 2015 fatal police shooting of Mario Woods in the city’s Bayview District.
“Over half of my 35 years has been spent doing this type of work. My fire department, lap was under a consent decree. So, I came up in policing understanding reform, the need to do it, and why it’s important,” said Chief Scott.
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On Tuesday, the California Department of Justice says the department has reached 264 of its 272 recommended reforms. Those reforms include reducing its overall use of force, driving down police shootings, and implementing new policies to deal with racial bias in policing.