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first of all I'll say no, it does not. Secondly, as far as salarno is concerned, he was as a member of the central intelligence of the new york police department at one time connected with the L. E I. U, which is law enforcement intelligence unit, which

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is an organization of intelligence units across the United States, Canada and Hawaii organized for the very specific purpose of coping with organized crime. In fact, Bennett was set up And actually initiated in San Francisco back in 1956 when San Francisco and Los Angeles got together with

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other departments throughout the West to make sure that they'd be able to keep track of any activities of individuals who might want to established roots in san Francisco or in California or any place in the west. And as a member of Ellie, I you uh he

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certainly had a duty to go through the proper channels to bring to our attention and certainly to mine as the Chief of Police, If there were operations going here, he should have notified my intelligence unit or through his commissioner notified me. I have never had any

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such communication. Salerno says that his information is that san Francisco does have organized crime, although it might be called by different names than it is in other places such as mafia. The syndicate Cosa Nostra might have another name. Ah well he's just talking in circles when

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he says that look, anybody in police sort of, this knows what you're talking about. When you're talking about organized crime, you're talking about the syndicated type of crime and you can call it mafia, you can call it casa Nostra. You can call it anything you like.

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But you're still talking about the major organized criminal syndicates and we do not have that type of operation in san Francisco. What about Salerno's idea? He has a theory that it's a dangerous situation when a city is organized in such a way that politicians control the

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police that is police are beholden to the politicians which nominate them, which appoint them. His theory is that the politicians often provide insulation for the criminal element and that when a city is set up in that manner, it's dangerous. He's not he's not talking about san

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Francisco. A city. Well, if a city is so set up that politicians do run the city, then there is a real problem. But nobody has ever tried to control the SAn Francisco Police department to prevent them from performing their duty. And certainly I wouldn't be chief

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here very long if such an arrangement or setup happened, there have been cities and towns in the United States. There isn't any question about it where certain individuals in positions of government were too powerful and did influence the actions of police and did enable some of

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these operations to to flourish. But that has not been the case in san Francisco and never has