i am out there myself, risking my life, trying to solve my own son's case. i have this poster right here that was given to me that i cannot post anywhere because it is being taken down by my neighbors. i have been in my neighborhood for 25 years. i have a right to set -- to hang these posters up. he was born there and he died there. the schools are taking them down because they're worried about money. what about life? my son went to school there. we are talking about heritage. i'm african-american. my son is african-american. his father is a nigerian. what about that? we have a heritage. we have a family. what about us? it does not take just a skin color. it is everybody. what do i do? we mentioned that -- you

mentioned the suspect for the lady that was killed not too long ago was found. you have the names and you have the people that did it. they have the people who killed my son, too. six strong men and shot my son. they were out there. they shot my son, a 17-year-old boy that was on his way to work. he had no time for anything. he had a mother and father. now we are no longer together. here is his father from nigeria. here my -- am i. we had to pay tuition for him to go to school. this is what we are left with. we're left with this. this is my son's dead body. this is what we're left with, a

dead body full of bullet holes from a semiautomatic gun. they shot him with 30 rounds of bullets. what do we do? what do i have to do? why do i have to stand at city hall? it is the fourth year. this hurts. if my son was out there and my son hollered to your kid, run, you would be thinking me. why should i stand up and pledge allegiance to the flag? my son was a hero and he is not even honored. what do i do? i am out there fighting not just for my son. you have other mothers. the children are dying. i am talking about their heartache, not just mine. what do we do? where were you when i was murdered? what do i do?

i need help. somebody is saying the cases are being solved. i cannot wait. my son was 17 years old. he is 21 now in debt. president marshall: ms. brown? thank you. >> commissioners, i am a block captain of the tenderloin and a 30-year resident of the tenderloin. i would like to thank all of you for coming to our neighborhood. it is nice to see you here. i would like to thank the captain. i have known him since he started out. i have one thing to say. i was not brought out here. the tenderloin police district has the highest arrest record, the highest narcotics arrest record, the highest narcotics

prosecution record, and the longest sentences of any district in this city. we are unique. this neighborhood is proactive. the police department is proactive. the men and women of our department and the station deserve a round of applause for that pro-active work. thank you. president marshall: next speaker, please? >> commissioners, i don't live in this district, but i have e- mailed the captain of the station. i would like to have the newsletter's continued. it reminds us when the meeting is going to be held. i have not gotten my station's e-mail in months. i e-mailed the captain and got no response. i don't know what the problem is. they should work on that and see

what the problem is so i don't have to come down here to the police commission meeting and complain. look at the lieutenant. he always gets his newsletter route, all the time. he does an excellent job. he lets you know what is on the agenda and everything. it is really fantastic. i know he is busy. if he can do it, the captain of the station can. you're the captain of the station, you will have a good station. thank you. >> hello. a i amcarol -- i am carol johnson. i lived in the tenderloin 15 years ago. a lot of the crimes back then are still problems. i have had two cousins and a friend of mine murdered in the bay area. these two are unsolved.

there is a booklet put out by the brady campaign to prevent gun violence. more murder victims. quite a few of these are unsolved. i was curious earlier, how do we determine what is a priority case and what is a routine case? they all seem like priorities. i was curious about that. president marshall: we will try to get you an answer to that after public comment. >> good evening. have not seen you in a couple weeks, other than on tv. i am disappointed. the rumor mill had a different assistant chief. all of you people must have seen "the guardian" today. i want to commend the commission, the chiefs -- eye

was the first 1 months ago. when it first broke, i followed it like a rat. communicating, gary and i used to discuss this topic all the time. i call the tall. i called it six months ago. disciplinary action, everything was handled correct. i know the end result, but i will not go public. it was great work in a bad situation. the end result will be great. we will have the best crime lineup in the state. thank you. president marshall: next speaker, please? >> good evening, commissioners, mr. president. my name is rodney. i live a couple blocks down the street.

i tried to visit you every time you come to my neighborhood. i would like to thank the commission for invitee and chiefg gaston -- for inviting chief gaston. there is a different way the criminals react to your performance. i'm grateful for the chief, as my neighbors are. the last time i was here was the last time the commission was here. it was a subcommittee on violent crime. president marshall was here. i appreciate you coming in. the commander general did some work with us. there was work with

presentations. it helped tremendously. i would like to welcome the captain. he is a cop's cop. he has been here about two months. i have spoken with about 30 officers. people's faces light up and say he is a great guy. we have nothing but good things to look forward to in this district. it is probably the smallest police district in the united states. it probably makes the most felony arrests of any station in the united states. i would think the commissioner -- thank commissioner hammer.

this is the tenderloin. it will be dark where we live. be very careful when you walk home. i have two blocks to go and i am scared to walk back alone. thank god there are so many candidates for public office and so many lawyers in this room. thank god the room is full of cops. president marshall: the lawyers i cannot vouch for. >> thank you. i would also like to ask the commission and chief gascon, is there anything you can do for ms. brown and her son? that almost brought me to tears, and i have not cry for several weeks. is there anything you can do for ms. brown or other people? [inaudible] >> -thank you.

president marshall: thank you once again. any further public comment? >> good evening. my name is thomas and i am a resident of the tenderloin. thank you for coming to the tenderloin for your monthly meeting. i suggest that you meet in other communities when you have your monthly meetings, instead of meeting at city hall. you need to go out into the communities and see what people are thinking. president marshall: just so you know, we do this once a month in every district in the city. we do community meetings once a month. >> congratulations. i want to elaborate on a couple of things. first, prescription drugs. the people that live in the

tenderloin, we know the biggest drug dealer. that is the department of public health. this is what you need to do. when the police officers make arrests, they need to find out what doctors in the department of public health are prescribing medications. then you can make a referral to the attorney's office or dea so the doctor does not continue selling excessive oxycontin, ok? besides the police are arresting -- police are arresting -- police arresting people for selling drugs because they need to eat, you need to get the doctors. other point, the park. the police ought to be embarrassed that they cannot keep a public park that is across the street from the

police station open 24/7. it is sending a bad message that the police cannot protect the residents of this community. so, both the police department and the police commission need to work with the department of rec to get the park open. does everybody understand? finally, the police chief was mad as hell because of the unfortunate incident with the tourist from germany. i empathize with her. i am mad as hell to see children disabled and seniors that have to deal with the conditions of the tenderloin on a daily basis. thank you. president marshall: any more public comment? public comment is closed. commissioners, do you have any questions for the captain?

>> thank you for your presentation and welcome back to the tenderloin. you bounce back and forth often. what is your plan for the park? >> bodecker park, the hours were cut back. a couple of employees were laid off. the hours have been cut back because of the budget. right now, the friends of the park meet regularly. bodecker will be realigned for open space. they will take some of the big fences down and have more lawn areas. it is blocked by park and rec on the backside. there will be a clinic. for our plan, we have an event

there, we post officers at the area, we are right across from the police station. we were on the roof last week watching drug sales going on. there is a public right of way on the street out there. we ask the players to move down a little bit. there were cordial enough to do so. they decided to move down away from the gates. they thought they were intimidating. that was not any case at all. the perception was wrong. we have a lot of uniform visibility. we talked about the plan to elevate the security base line around the park. that includes the high street park.

i guarantee you that when the new place opens, it will be a different ball game up there. the patrolmen and the janitor will be out there to make sure it is done right this time. we put the clock up for the democratic convention in 1984. i was there for the christening of the children's area. we used to close off the street in front of the park. the kids would run a track meet, and would run races. mentioned earlier, -- i mentioned earlier, we want to make that a pretty safe open space for everybody. there was a bowling alley. >> my concern is, i work with

the academy. they do great work there. i want to make sure that the children who live in this neighborhood are able to go to school. you have a program for that. they should not walk by the drug deals, walk by the hand to hand sales. the children spoke about a day in the life of a child at the academy. the parents are trying to send them to school, but they have to walk by drug dealers, and walk by people shooting heroin on the street. i want to make sure children are able to get to their schools without having to see that. it has become part of their daily lives. i know you will do that, but that is my concern as a commissioner. i hate to ask this question. do you have enough staffing? do we need to go to a model where we have a police officer

standing in front of the park and the school to make our children safe? >> on staffing, it has been reduced somewhat, but less is more, is my theory. we had officers standing on corners this morning. i met with mr. daniels. the one thing we did not have was a safety plan for evacuation. we have that now. it is in the folder. john is the liaison to that school. we moved drugs away from the vietnamese children center. cindy young came to my office and i toured the facility. i spoke with the people at the women's center. it is run by the mary elizabeth society. we are on the same page. we are trying to get the resources. we are trying to compress everything and flatten it out a

little bit. the officers understand that and want to be involved, especially in front of that school. it has gotten better. we are not at a 4.0, but we are about a 3.5. are we getting an a? i would like to see it. a lot of people said -- i have not won many games yet. we are doing the best we can. we will stretch resources as best we can. >> we appreciate it. thank you to the men and women of your station who work hard. it will take a lot of skilled players to get the job done. thank you. i appreciate what the officers do. >> i have a question related to the district.

has it been a year yet now? >> it is a little over a year. it feels about 10 years under water without a breathing apparatus. >> you were targeting this district with extra enforcement. i wondered how that went for the district. how did it go for you? does it continue? could you give us an update on that? that is something you wanted, a targeted district, especially with the drug markets here. >> we spent a great deal of resources in the district, multiple operations. we are targeting the supply lines, a variety of drugs. prescription drugs are becoming a big problem here. we are looking not only at

doctors' prescribing, but we know lot of the prescriptions have been phony. we're looking at that. per capita, it is one of the largest densities of prescription drugs in this area. people are trying to get a license to establish a pharmacy here. we're looking at this from a lot of different angles. we are working with partners in the law-enforcement community. you will hear more as we move forward. it is important to deal with the sales. i agree that no young person should have to be subjected to walking to school and having to walk around drug dealers. we're putting attention there. we are looking for other avenues to prevent people from the outside coming in to do trade

here. also, buying and selling. there are lot of things going on that will continue to go on. >> thank you. appreciate that. president marshall: someone else? >> just briefly, first of all, i want to thank you and commend you. you can tell -- i was a cop for four years. i have been a prosecutor. you care about the nitty gritty of police work. it comes down to being safe. to see someone with your passion -- you will stand in the park if it takes that -- that is what the district needs. we have our work cut out for us as a police department. at the end of the day, we should judge ourselves how we treat the least among us, the elderly, kids who want to school. it is a sober reminder to me when i hear kids being afraid to walk to school, the gentleman

saying, watch yourself when you leave the police commission meeting. i am afraid when i walk home at night. we need to take a sober look at that and realize we have a lot of work to do. you are the right guy to do it. >> thank you, commissioner. that was the fact this morning. early morning, one guy. vinegar on a coffee bean and try to sell it as heroin. we have a pretty good handle on the men and women. we know what is going on. they know the difference between the saints and sinners out here. any questions? >> nothing further. all right. thank you. commissioner marshall: we will

move to, then, lieutenant item four. item four is routine administrative business. this is discussion and possible action item this evening. 4a is commission announcements, and 4b is discussion and possible action to approve commission parties for scheduling on future agendas. commissioner marshall: any announcements? now, all right. commissioners, in the packet -- you can tell me how much of this you want to do today. i can stay here until midnight. here is what we did, if i can find it. under tab four, there is the laundry list of things for future agendas, and i put everything in here. everything. you just tell me how you want to proceed. you want to do priorities, or do you want to fix up these dates?

it is an action item, so you can fix dates. it is up to you, and we can begin the lottery right now. >> i want to second an idea that commissioner marshall put out last week. i suggest we take it in bite size pieces, so perhaps we talk about what we will do in september, perhaps what our top issues are. commissioner kingsley mentioned the idea of perhaps holding a second hearing in september. but the cases we have, which need attention -- for me, that as a good idea, but i think it would be helpful first to talk about september and then move forward. that was commissioned air marshal's idea, but it. >> you have six, 12, 21, 24 things on here. let me know how you want to proceed. wiggling down, prioritizing? >> just a question for a couple of us that may be new on the

commission and may not understand how this priority list came about. i gather that except for the three new items on the fact that the rest of it was prioritized by the commission had a particular date, and i'm wondering if that is true, if that is accurate. >> we did do a, b, and c. maybe the attendant can help me here. the items we talked about last week i believe we put at the end of the list. >> that is correct, commissioner. some of the items that were mentioned last week wore on this list already. >> ok, so if they were there, they have been prioritized. >> so for example, the idea of a commission retreat.

has been on this list for some time. >> if you want to rearrange priorities, that is fine. i'm just bringing you what we have. >> where four of the commissioners, were they part of already listing this and creating the priorities? >> the whole list has kind of been growing and growing. >> and you can read you this. at some point, there was an a, b, and c priority. but you can change those if you want. >> another question, these parties and the items underneath them, where they based on other objectives or goals -- general objection of work -- were the based on general objectives or goals? >> they were based on what the

commission at that point felt work priorities. >> at the meetings, we discuss what the priorities were, but we did it, and the commissioners that were present said -- submitted lists of what they thought were priorities, and they were consolidated by how it was listed out by the majority of the commissioners. >> thank you for that input. >> that is how we ended up with these lists. >> which is the list? >> and then, we tabulate it. some of these priorities on this list have been covered recently, so it is kind of an antiquated list. i just talked to commissioner chan. maybe what we should do is we have taken a lot of time for people to be here, and it is

very costly. maybe we should look at this list hard when we have our commission retreat. i'd think it is a great idea. my opinion tonight is let's take our two most pressing priorities that we need to talk about within the month of september, and we will set our retreat date, and we can hash out what the priorities of the commission should be. that is my suggestion for this evening so we can do that, and since i have the floor here, i would like to say that we would like to as a first party, set the calendar and set a vote for the commission, following up with your idea. my idea is that we hold a joint meeting with the entertainment commission to deal with the night of violence. let's put that out their front and center. the other issue has been scheduled that is on the agenda already -- that is going to happen next week, so some of these things wil