San Francisco is shelving the idea of moving the crime lab out of the police department. The reason stated is not only do they plan on moving the lab out of the police department figuratively, they also want to move it out literally — as in build a new crime lab.
San Francisco supervisors on Monday slowed down a proposal to transfer control of the city’s crime lab from the Police Department to the Office of the City Administrator but said the idea is not dead.
“It’s clear that reform is necessary,” Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, chief sponsor of legislation to make the switch, said during a Public Safety Committee meeting Monday. However, he said he thinks it would be best to tie reform to a future bond to fund construction of a new crime lab.
Read more on the San Francisco Chronicle.
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