Comment on S.F. supervisors call for domestic violence panel to reconvene

Following the fatal shooting of a San Francisco woman in her South of Market home this month — the city’s fourth domestic violence-related homicide this year — Supervisor Jane Kim introduced a resolution Tuesday calling for the reconvening of the city’s domestic violence fatality review panel. San Francisco just ended an unprecedented 44-month streak in which no domestic violence-related deaths were reported within city limits. Because of this streak, the panel — which includes members from the Police Department, the Department of Public Health and the Department on the Status of Women — has not met in almost four years. Officers booked Young into County Jail on suspicion of public intoxication, but he was released from the “drunk tank” a few hours later, and went on to kill Lam and himself.