SF police commission votes to implement policy against racially biased police stops

San Francisco Police Commission members have voted to enact a new policy aimed at curbing the San Francisco Police Department’s use of racially-biased pretext in stops, according to a press release last week from the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.  

The new policy, Department General Order 9.07, was subject to a public input process lasting over a year and almost an entire year of bargaining with the Police Officer’s Association.