San Francisco police officers for years gathered information on city residents in ways that conflicted with department policies and other local regulations, as part of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, Mission Local and the Intercept have revealed. Mission Local reporter Julian Mark, who has covered policing extensively, explains what kind of work officers on the task force did before the city cut ties with it, and why civil liberties groups objected.
“There are irreconcilable problems with what the public wants in San Francisco versus what the FBI wants out of our local police department.” — Julian Mark
