San Francisco Backs Off on Moving Crime Lab out of the PD

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.

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