done a good job in the past ten years in this city. yet they have been hopping around and collecting their paychecks as if they're some royal entity. i watch them walk around town or drive around town like mr. gaston. he thought he was some sort of royalty. the problem i have with the police department, with officer woods in 2010 was the fact that mr. gaston was inaccessible. so i ran into a racist cop that o.c.c. won't give me any records on right now. that's what you have here. i suggest you start looking at it in that light or i'm going to be standing here for the whole year. thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners.

member of the committee, congratulations for your appointment. we trust you will serve and put all segment -- protect all segments of our community. i'm the co-director of education not incarceration and founder of the inner study foundation. since we're talking about sunshine ordinance as many of you may have seen or saw last night, a couple of violations of the ordinance to text messaging between you, commissioner hammer -- i should address you normally and former commissioner david compos about the contract. we trust that this time during the search for permanent chief none violation will be done, let alone seen by the public.

pardon me from being naive but i don't understand why the o.c.d. director and the interim chief or the chief will be sitting with you commissioners at the same level when, as you may remember well, all of the brass and o.c.d. director was here on the bench. to me this body was meant would be misconduct. i do not see it appropriate or symbolic of the confusion of meddling to see the director andp chief properly sit athis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. hello, ladies and gentlemen, i'm

christine harris. i'm the victim of police brutality by sergeant beasley and his teammates at san francisco police department. he stalked me and burned by vital organs to near death and wiretapped my phones. still, my phones are still tapped. the san francisco police department has done nothing to help me to date and has covered up his crimes and his accomplices. i have never done anything to him or his wife except make requests of his wife when she was a property manager via e-mail. it is in the news too often another human being or animal is murdered and terrorized by a police officer, unarmed men like derrick jones, oscar grant, rodney king and most recently a man in a wheelchair. the videos tell the truth. police officers need to be trained foreeemectively and learn ho to deal with all kinds of people. they need to be given ample tests to show their worthy of protecting and serving the public and carrying lethal weapons. they need psychiatric evaluations before entering a police force and they need to

learn how to deal with people who have physical and mental challenges. when will the san francisco police department and city of san francisco make the brutal police officers who abused their position of power accountable and fire those who did not protect and serve our society. i guess you have to experience police brutality to understand the blue mentality. >> commissioners, chief, my name is jeremy miller. i'm codirecter of education. and i wanted to comment on the process here of selecting a police chief. i understand that there are

concerns about compromising us in the line of duty but i find it to be a huge threat to echo comments that have been stated before. i find it a huge threat to freedom of speech and to open government that this -- that the candidates -- the identities of t thedates -- the identities of candidates -- the identities of the candidates for this office are to be considered an internal personnel affair. also, as a member of the media, i absolutely refuse to not speculate on what is a very important public position that will affect all of the citizens of the city and county of san francisco. and, finally, i think that we are in unfortunately a very tense situation right now between certain segments of the city and the police department in light of the police shootings. i believe the formal term is officer-involved shootings of

two mentally disabled people in the last couple of weeks and i want to say that recently departed chief gaston, i felt, was very out of line in referencing his campaign for tasers for police officers at press conferences directly after these officer-involved shootings. that's insulting as hell to the victims and the families of the victims to be asking for more weapons at press conferences addressing the attacks against them. so in light of this, i would like the commission to keep this in mind in the selection process for a new police chief. we need a police chief to respect the lives of each and every citizen and resident of the city and county of san francisco. [applause]

>> sir, that was a great, great speech. as we all know, we had four officer-related shootings involving mentally ill in the last year. all three are dead. i think chief gaston not only is a great person, he's a great law enforcement person. i have spoken to gaston many times. let me tell you all something, that man took $100,000 pay drop to become d.a. you all think about money, that man is enforcement of the law. i don't agree with chief gaston a lot. but chief gaston, think about it, he didn't want that job. it got thrown on his plate. he and his wife talked about it and he accepted it. so come on, give him a break on that. as far as the other issues, we need to focus on other issues. the new police chief, we have to deal with this show in -- we

have 30% in homicides if we're lucky. hello, houston, we have a problem. where does that problem lie? us, for citizens. we're not talking to our police department. so i think there's a lot of blame to go around but we as citizens share a lot. thank you. >> thank you, clyde. >> evening, rath, how are you? i'm just trying to add-to-on to what christine harris was talking about the mind control reference threat. i will be addressing this matter for the police commissioners for the past six months and since january of 2010. it's been a year now and nothing has happened with this at all whatsoever. daily calls to the commissioners, the chief, d.a., various police officers and all police stations, n.s.a., homeland security, even the white house and the defense department have failed to

respond, not only this, they have not investigated the matter in any way at all. i can't say what's happening but -- i mean i'm sorry, i know what's happening. they're all under attack by this thing. and nobody is responding at all. there's huge flow in investigations. i can't call it flows. i don't know what to call it. the heavens interrogated -- they haven't interrogated me. they haven't questioned any of the victims. they've arrested me many times. they've put me in the 5150 mental ward. aside from that, they have not done anything, not questioned anybody and every time i go to see them, they're affected by the weapon. it's like they can't think, they can't maintain the phone calls, nor can they even get somebody to come and help them out with this. the f.b.i.'s is not responding, the white house nor the defense department is responding.

i have also sent letters to other countries informing them of this matter written in a way where it's extremely, you know, dangerous, you know, criminal dangerous, you know, criminal wise in which they can be attacked and nothing has happened. so i really can't say what's going on. and i can say for a fact you yourselves, the commissioners, the d.a., anycommissioners, the d.a., anybody working near the commissioners, d.a., even the chief and their assistants and various police officers, the sergeants and all, you know, government personnel are affected by this weapon. remember what i say, you're all atected by this company. there's nothing you can do. meanwhile i'm getting pushed out of police stations and nobody's responding and there's a severe torture unto myself that hasn't

stopped since 2007. there are many people in the same situation. christine harris talked about her lungs getting burned. have i never heard of anybody like this. there are officers with family, relatives, cousins and friends and family have been killed. i'm talking about death here and there's nothing you all have done. i have a lot of information regarding this matter and i can't say what you're all doing about it. >> thank you, time's up. >> please do something. sime otherous, do something about this. >> >> good evening, commissioners. i'm david fairchild, the director of the party of san francisco. and i would like to generally just speak on what i think are some changing rules of the game here. i haven't come to a lot of these meetings. i don't know how much anger you

typically hear from the public. but definitely as you heard, a lot of people are upset and i think that moving into the era we're in, people are increasingly dissatisfied with the current state of government at all levels in this country. and the profit in government at the expense of the public and the growing loss of civil liberties in this country, it all kind of ties in together. and on behalf of the libertarian party, members of the city u. i'm here to express my concern on these areas regarding reflection -- the ding reflection -- the selection of the police chief, i think i agree with the previous speakers, it should be as open and public as possible. i think also it would be worth trying to save the taxpayers some money here, you know. don't strictly look at a person's competence. look also at their willing noss do the job for less money. say would you be willing if appointed police chief to take

$100,000 salary cut and put that back into the general fund, for instance? i think these kind of things should be on the table. it should be an open and public process. ideally the police chief today is such a political position, i think it should treelly be elected rather than appointed. but as long as it's appointed, yes, let's get the public in on this as much as possible. we're also very concerned about the ongoing abuse of force by some officers, unfortunately, the public doesn't know to identify the bad apples and so the whole department gets a bad rap because the department isn't compelled by your commission to disclose kind of information to the public. we would like to see a website online where going down you can see each department officer's record, how many shootings have they been involved with, how many complaints are againstshoo they been involved with, how many complaints are against them, all of those kinds of things should be transparent and open to the public. and i think there should be more emphasis on giving officers

hand-to-hand combat training and not rely on tasers and guns so much. we don't even think they should be having tasers at all probably. it seems to lead to more problems than it solves. and when suspects, you see their names in the paper immediately, you know, i think it should be the same thing when officers are involved in possible, you know, misconduct or use of excessive force. their names should be immediately released to the public. let the public know what's going on. they should be held to a higher standard than other members of the public. not a lower standard. right now we have a lower standard and they are allowed to operate largely in secrecy. this should change. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> any further public comment? hearing none, please call line item one. >> item number one is approval of consent calendar. it's an action item. 1-a is request by inspect are john keane for approval to 0

accept a gift basket valued at approximately $25 from miss lizza pa drosia. and 1-a to accept the donation of $6,000 from the supporters of the san francisco police department wilderness program wilderness program. >> thank you very much, lieutenant. commissioners in why are packets, a little brief description why these gifts were given. the basket from rosa pa drosia -- pedrosa to officer keane and line item b, $6,000 an incredible program where many of the children that rarely have an opportunity to leave their neighborhoods get to go camping and they do with san francisco police officers. >> i would move to approve both. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i have a question prior to approving it, i didn't understand from the wilderness program letter, who's giving the money? who's accepting the money?

that's confusing. >> we have someone here from juvenile. >> yes. >> we have someone here from juvenile. >> yes. wilderness program. >> we will taye public comments before you go. >> commissioners, chief, i'm the director of the wilderness program. the money is coming from supporters of 501-c3 and they raise money for the program and they are the ones who donate money to the program. >> which 501-c3 is it? >> supporters of the san francisco wilderness program. >> and they're giving it to the wilderness program? >> to the police department. >> in support of 501-c3? >> yes, in support of it. >> thank you. >> any public comment regarding these two donations? >> commissioner, yes, my name is amill lawrence. once again i have one quick short comment. going back to last year, i called for and audit of what happened to a miscellaneous $1.5

million given to the police in golden gate park and whatever happened to that money, this goes back 15 years ago, there's no record of where any of that money was spent, on what, how, whether it was spent on the mounted police or not. it's not available. i would say if you're going took september money from the public, you should have a special audit of where this money goes, how is it applied and definitely is it applied to where it was donated or do-to-what it was donated for? i have yet to get a copy back of the million and a half dollars to the mounted police in golden gate park. have i done my own audit. there are 17 new saddles. when you go down there, they bought 17 new saddles over a period of x number of years but when you go down there, there's not 17 saddles, there's 12 or 13 older saddles. so this type of thing has to stop also. you get donations. they have to be accounted for and applied to a proper agenda.

i suppose you can add it also