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District Attorney George Gascon, left, and Public Defender Jeff Adachi speak at the University of San Francisco's Law School on Thursday, April 7, 2011

He said his son's belongings were never returned to him. His son was later arrested in March this year on drugs-related charges, and was due to be released Friday after his case was dismissed Friday afternoon, according to Adachi's and Gascón's offices.

"If we have officers that are in fact stealing property, that obviously questions the credibility of everything else that they do," Gascón said.

A total of 119 cases involving alleged misconduct by San Francisco police will have been dismissed as of Friday afternoon, according to the district attorney.

"The officers in these videos have the same rights as any other citizen," the Police Department said in a statement.

"If it is determined through the investigation that any officer is proven to be dishonest, in any way, they will be disciplined," the statement said. "This discipline will be swift and severe up to and including termination."

Adachi also highlighted another case that was dropped last year, when officers at the city's Mission Station wrote a report of events that apparently does not match up with a video released Friday by the public defender's office.

The footage shows officers performing a drug bust on a suspect, Jesus Inastrilla, 50, who was allegedly selling undercover officers cocaine.

In a police report written by police Officer Peter Richardson, he said on April 22, 2010, the night of the bust, Inastrilla raised his hand to his mouth and spit a substance believed to be cocaine into his hand and gave it to another suspect, Simon Hernandez.

But in the footage released Friday by Adachi, Inastrilla is never seen raising a hand to his mouth.

"The case involving the newly released video is nearly a year old and has already been investigated through the appropriate channels," read the statement from the San Francisco Police Department.

Adachi and Gascón said they first saw the video on Thursday, and Adachi said these cases can no longer be considered isolated incidents of misconduct because they have now spread from residential hotels to undercover street operations.

The videos that have been released have prompted the indefinite shutdown of plainclothes operations at the city's Southern Station, as well as the placement of eight officers on administrative duties pending an investigation.