i think these are examples of how our organization has been able to solve some of our challenges. i think it would be a wonderful thing for community policing to continue. our advisory board has seen direct impact, using these methods. i would encourage all the supervisors to continue to encourage community policing. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is billy harrison. i have been listening and i really liked the concept of community policing, because in the world community is unity. today, my family and i cannot experience that unity, because my brother, charles harrison, was murdered in the tenderloin district on january 2 of this year.

i know that we can come up with all type of tactics to move on communities. we can come up with gang injunctions. the marjah district person said that him and his people feel safe. some of the people say they do not think it should be a hundred different forms of community policing, but it is a hundred different forms. it should be a standard. if somebody gets murdered in knob hill or the sunset, the response should be the same. we do not feel the response is the same. from my experience in the black community, it is not the same. the murder, from my understanding, was caught on tape. how could you have the people of san francisco feel safe if you

are going to have this big book event coming to the city? how are you going to secure these people if you have a murderer walking around in the city? we would like our issue addressed. we think the only way you are going to have balanced community policing is if it happens in nob hill and the same way in bayview. otherwise, it is worth nothing. supervisor campos: thank you for sharing your thoughts. i am going to read a few more names. bob hopper, richard alb, dinesh desai. >> my name is karen huggins, and i am president of the holland courts resident counsel, district 9. i am part of the -- i am a candidate for the cpap in ingleside.

i did want to applaud what the brothers said before me. it is very true. i believe that community policing should be district specific to the district. each district is different. it is not a dog without teeth. it has teeth. i would like to throw out the thank you's to officer heart and officer duffin. they have been great. they have met with us. i want to throw that out. i also feel that public housing should be on the board of the cpap. they are not, and they should be

represented, every public housing development in every district. i believe the philosophy of the department should be changed. where you have new officers coming in, you should find some addendum that will uphold community policing. that should be part of the application process. in your budget, i think it should be budgeted in that ongoing training for officers that are here -- it is one thing to walk the walk. but we need to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. it is one thing to stand up when everybody is applauding and feeling good, but when all of us get back home we want to be safe. we want the officers to be safe. we want to work together. officers have to come up. supervisor campos: you said you were an applicant for the citizens' advisory board?

can you say a little bit about that? is there an application process? >> a couple months ago, i picked up some documentation from the captain. he said he would get back to me, which i am pretty sure he will at his own convenience. i have been waiting. i would like to sit on that board. >> ♪ the best policing is yet to come and what it be fine you ain't seen nothing yet that badges going to shine happy retirement to you, to mark mcdunna in a couple of weeks you have really done your time i know you have water beat so many times down the line

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on such a winter's day and have a retirement, marked -- mark mcdunnah hope everything goes your way ♪ supervisor campos: thank you, mr. paulson. richard mcgarry, the josh man, carol holly. >> my name is ken craig. i am not as talented as the last person. i serve on the lgbt chips advisory board. i am one of the castro community patrol. i come at this from a couple of different angles. i want to say the advisory board works very well. it is a good opportunity for the police department to get different input on what is going on and what affect neighborhoods.

a month to bring a perspective we do not always get a chance to do in other forums. as far as community policing, i am from britain originally, hence the extra. there is one thing i think is important to this discussion. the community are the police and the police are the community. i think you have to recognize the two elements of community and police. i think that is a very important concept. the public has to become more involved. the youth were talking about the police being unapproachable. part of that is walking up to the officer will that are on the

beat and saying hello and getting to know them. that is on the community as much as the police department, to be approachable and to be willing to listen. i think that is all i have to say. thank you for having this. >> my name is alfredo najila iii. i am the third director of the mission to empower youth. i am also the former co-chair of the mission of peace collaborative in the first police advisory board be started last year. fundamentally, i think it is attitude in community policing. there is not one way to answer that. i am going to give some examples

of community policing in the mission district. the importance of keeping these captains at their post, when they are working with the community, is important. those are personal relationships. what we have done in the mission district, to give you some examples -- in 2005, there was a triple homicide in the mission district. all of the service providers got together and did peace marches, up one to address the mission district. they asked police officers to make sure the march was safe and everything was fine. we also had a mural, a community merrill that was there to highlight our culture and heritage. some young kids wrote graffiti

on it. we decided as a community to address that. the call the police captain for his help in being able to secure the area for us, because we were going to do a barbecue and address the importance of community murals to the youth. that was a success. during the easter egg hunt, the captain reached out to us and the public safety net work during that time. he helped us to get help. supervisor campos: i have a few more names. >> i am barbara kyle. i live in bernal heights. i am a homeowner. we have had some success with community policing. i thought i would tell you what that looked like. i think the comments people have made about the constant memory go round of captains is really

important. we have had for captains in our district in a few short years. it has very completely with the captain. it has not seem like something that came from the city would priority. it was really the training of the individual captain. i do not think that is the kind of program -- i think we can do better with that. relationships in the community -- you cannot have those relationships. it is the captain as well as other senior officers. it is different in every -- it has to be a different model in every district. there is different factors in different neighborhoods. we have a very active neighborhood center with a number of programs that work with at-risk communities.

having a community policing program their means working with those kinds of organizations that actually have the kinds of relationships and resources, and maybe case management are so far that people were talking about. where we have seen things work we have seen good communication, captains that can manage an e-mail list, that are able to get a message out to the community to take advantage and so it is not just one way communication. they can learn people when they see things happening. supervisor campos: thank you. a couple more names. next speaker, please.

>> my name is paulette brown. i come here all the time. i do support the police. if that had been going on, my son would still be alive if we had that. i am saying that because i am still looking for judgment. i am not just here for my son. i am here for other mothers and fathers that have lost their children to homicide, people of color. these are other young men in district 10 that have lost their life, and still those cases are

not solved. we are putting a band-aid on it. we can talk about community policing. if we do not solve these unsolved cases, you can do what you want, and families are still hurting. they still want justice. you can put a band-aid on it, but it is not going to work with that. you do not want mother standing over their child, grieving, like i do every day. i can still see it. this is what i have left of my son, lying on a gurney. this is what our children are going to look like if we do not do anything about it. i have to come here every day, whether it is at city hall, san quentin, or the jail to talk about this.

this is my therapy, because i cannot talk to someone in an office. i am also on the police advisory board in the northern panhandle. i live there and i had to fight my neighbors to keep my son's posters up. still today i have to fight my neighbors, and i have lived there for 30 years, and it is wrong. i needed to stop. if we want to be united, how can we? it is wrong. supervisor campos: thank you for sharing. i have a couple more names. >> thank you for holding this hearing. i am part of the upper panhandled neighborhood association. i am also on the cpab. since i joined cpab, we had

captain barak and now we have captain dennis o'leary. they have both done an outstanding job. it allows us to communicate better. we know what the problems are in our neighborhood. the beginning of the year, we sit down and set our priorities in our neighborhood. we have had some successes working with the police department in our neighborhoods. the drug dealing, we have been able to solve some drug-dealing problems. we are the ones who suffered a lot last year. really, community policing, our leader has taken a good

leadership. the police department did not have enough resources. anyone within city departments did not talk to each other. hopefully, this year, we do talk. i think cpab can do much better and has been doing a pretty good job. i think the foot patrol is a good thing to do. we are concentrating on that east of the divisadero. cpab has been successful for us overall. >> good evening. i am also a member of cpab,

central station. we heard that everybody wants community police. newmont officers of the peace -- we want officers of the piece to our fair to everyone. but we also heard chief godown tell us that his appropriation of funding will be shortened this year. i want to speak to the police commission. if one celery of an officer went -- if one salary of an officer will keepsake employees that can do a good job in every neighborhood and every meeting,

and there will help us keep a more peaceful city. we have to keep our city have the. -- we have to keep our city safe, and the police department needs the funding. >> police commissioners and the chief, i represent the buena vista neighborhood association. since the group was founded, the captain did a good job in getting a central outline of what cpabs do.

a couple speakers before me made some points i already had on my list. we represent a number of neighborhood organizations and other groups, such as youth and family service providers in the area, which includes the inner sunset, the haight, and portions of the western addition. we come together and move our organizations. we are trying to get more communities which have not always joined in these collaboration's before. two key changes in captains and command staff, our cpab has been building a solid working group that collaborates amongst ourselves. what we get as our community

knowledge and roots in the community, which adjust priorities. we do hands on problem solving. we have moved a dozen issues. we have suggested priorities for traffic enforcement. we have worked in facilitating high-definition video for merchants who have been suffering shoplifting. the cpab members will make sure a problem does not get dropped. >> good evening. my name is josh mann.

i live and work in the tenderloin neighborhood. one thing i see as a good example of community policing is the crisis intervention team model. in particular, i like the focus on violence prevention. but i would like to see a work group together. i would like to see more things like that. supervisor campos: mary harris, jed lane, arlene tran, terry frye. >> my name is frank kellum. i am president of the resident'' council. i am speaking on behalf of a lot of residents.

some of the basic concerns is beliefs. i remember a couple of years ago the police department was very welcome and a lot of the crime went down. now, a lot of the residents feel intimidated again. now a lot of them are afraid to be seen talking to the police. they feel like they do not want to be caught in between being intimidated and being profiled. i am speaking on behalf of the

police department also. the have been doing a very favorable job. we need to deal with this issue of intimidation. the community can still close to the police during the toy giveaway time at christmas. a lot needs to be done. i hope there can be more communication between the community and the police department. i believe in the foot patrol. >> daniel landry, for the record.

i was pleased to hear the young people speak earlier. anytime you see young people can come up and boldly say they have problems in the face of the politics in san francisco, gives them hope. we should learn how to hear that message and implement that message. what is happening in san francisco? it reminds me the department has been given information by the community for a comprehensive community policing plan. for some reason, the touchdown

becomes 5 more yards to need to go or even 10. it is upsetting and definitely -- i want to feel happy about this whole example. there should be more discussions, more reports, and we are getting nowhere. how many people have died since 2002, when we presented the community coalition plan? you guys, come on. if we want to save our souls, we have to dig deep inside ourselves and work together in a way where we do not affect each other. one of the most disappointing things in this city is that our department cannot talk about the

boundaries difference. there are people coming up and seeing how great the community is. one death is too many. it was the people that spoke it into existence. >> my name is emilio lawrence. i have spoken before this commission before. the have been in residence of the city and county. i would say if any police chief has been inaccessible, it has been george gascogne.

he walked around town with a motorcade. he barricaded himself into the hall of justice with police and telephone banks. do not cut me off. i have my full minute. supervisor campos: just focus on the topic. >> i am speaking about the pick for police chief. if you go on the president of the past four police chiefs you have selected based on community policy, those have been disasters as well. we are not hiring the police department to be social workers. the salaries are already fat as it is. if you keep pushing them in a direction they are not supposed to go into, you are going to have more murders unsolved. you will have the highest unsolved murder rate in the history of san francisco. i think you have to look at that. if you want a police to come get him from the wreck --