San Francisco’s police department may get a reality TV show

District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey is sponsoring laws to permit the San Francisco Police Division to be on actuality TV.

Particulars: The present, tentatively known as “Actual streets of San Francisco,” would showcase the “day-to-day challenges and alternatives of twenty first century policing,” per the decision Dorsey launched to the Board of Supervisors final month.

What they’re saying: A actuality present concerning the SFPD would advance “the identical agenda the cops are, which is to color regulation enforcement in a light-weight that everyone knows to be inaccurate and unfaithful,” James Burch, deputy director of the Anti Police-Terror Challenge, instructed the San Francisco Commonplace.

• Burch says he is nervous the present would downplay situations of police violence in addition to use “the plight of the oldsters of the town” as leisure.

The opposite aspect: Dorsey says such a present, if picked up by a community, could be a possibility for elevated police transparency, “warts and all,” he instructed the Commonplace.

Actuality examine: The present may additionally support in SFPD’s recruitment efforts, per the decision.

What to observe: The fact TV present decision is at the moment within the Funds and Finance Committee, the place Supervisors Hillary Ronen, Ahsha Safai and Connie Chan will decide whether or not to advocate it to the total board for approval.

• The committee, nevertheless, has but to contemplate the decision.