The Rise and Fall of Covert Surveillance in San Francisco

Some years ago, the then San Francisco police chief George Gascon tried to justify a massive expansion of police headquarters in San Francisco by pointing to the presumed threat of Yemeni terrorism. When people started organizing and protesting, this some civil rights and immigrant rights lawyers in San Francisco uncovered a secret collaboration between the SFPD and the joint terrorism training task force. And that agreement was eventually overturned as it was in the case of Oakland and its cooperation with the JTTF. But that surveillance has actually continued.