Bench Memo readers will enjoy this video, sent to me yesterday. The context is that San Francisco Police Officer Nick Birco was killed when his police car was struck by a stolen van occupied by suspects who had just committed an armed robbery and were being pursued by SFPD units. This video was of a press conference given by the San Francisco Chief of Police, who is quite unhappy – to put it mildly – that one of his men was lost because of the unwillingness of local judges to keep a dangerous criminal behind bars.