i understand that there is a committee policemen advisory board that has been intact for a number of years. i also understand that it is like straining and structure, to carry out the duties that should be. i would like to urge the supervisors and i would like to say to the next police chief coming in, a community resident board, we need this board. we need this board to be intact and be strong. i need to be able to take the information to my residence when we have our resident meetings. without this, we can't get the

information now. i understand it is short here and short hair, a lot of things are tight. we are not talking districts here tonight. we are talking communities and communities coming together as a whole. we can't do that after the action in separate communities in a separate district. we can get it out to the community. we have to get it to our residents at the board meeting. thank you for letting me have this time. >> next speaker. >> good evening. june 18, 2010. my apartment was broken into

twice. and a few months during relocation that mr. mirkarimi knows about our building that was under the redevelopment processing under the martin luther king apartments. there was a situation where i did not get the police report because of what i suspected to be a at the time, on june 18, 2010, the officers who were circumvented from getting a police report taken care of that i needed to get. i never received it until several officers [unintelligible] i have a statement about things that are happening to me. and i know for sure, i have been through the occ. i don't like the police that much.

i am not talking about every police officer. i am talking about the things that make you very upset. i was racially profiled by a couple of your officers. officer anderson, officer etia. i was denigrated. racially profiled. all of those negative words when it refers to a person like myself. a good person of good standing. what are you going to do about it? i don't think you have a definition of community policing. we need to try something new. the newness would be respecting those that are respectable. i should never have to feel like i am being threatened or someone threatening [chime] me] -- threatening me.

[chime] >> thank you. next speaker. good to see you again. >> i want to second supervisor cohen in saying that the police is not the first line of defense. the community is. on my block, we don't call the police and that is -- unless it is a last resort. i am talking about neighbors taking care of neighbors. if the kid is on the street when he is not supposed to, either walking to his house, that is community policing.

if there is a stray dog and we know the owner, we call the neighbors to take care of it. we do not call the police. we don't call the police now. one of those officers [unintelligible] that might seem irrelevant, but in poor communities of color, we take care of each other. in spite of the hype of the corporate newspapers, we know each other and we take care of each other. we call the police as a last resort. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, supervisors and commissioners. thank you for having this

meeting. it is very important. if someone could put an iridescent thing on the tops that, i just fell on it and that i had -- hit my head an hour and a half ago. it renders me not responsible for anything that i say here. [laughter] i am a journalist in san francisco for about 10 years, and what i just said is not irrelevant to something that happened to me in a building that i live in. i was physically attacked by someone in the building where i lived, and when i call the police, they came out and told me that i was crazy. they did not believe anything that i said, they resisted -- supervisor macaroni, could you listen, please.

i'm not responsible. i hit my head back there. supervisor mirkarimi: some housekeeping, sorry. >> oh, housekeeping. they told me i was crazy and did not -- they really were profiling me. i know that is true based on my age because i live in a disabled and senior community. i have found it is very checkered, it is very different. the police are very approachable and very friendly. we know the cool ones, the ones that are sincere.

and we know the ones that are violent and involved in controlling everything. [chime] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, commissioners, command staff. i do a lot of things in the community, but my agenda is really a community building. i am currently the president of the board. i served on the initial side. i do other work in other aspects of the community. there is a definition for community policing, it is solving the problems of the community within the community. that is paraphrased correctly,

the doj, the accepted definition. i know san francisco is different, i was born and raised here, but we can use the accepted definition. what is the definition of police power? how does police power, about? just as the community gives it to the building department. it is not that difficult. when you take into the community level, neighbors meeting neighbors, going to them and saying, this is me. who are you? how can we get together? how can we deal with this problem? that is the basis of community. it goes back to the command staff. that voice will also take it when [unintelligible]

you have different things. it covers visitation valley. most communities have very different needs. the need to have put patrols and other areas. there is no one aspect of what is the right thing. it is definitely not. although it seems to be touted is the only thing. [chime] >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is mary harris. my husband and i were told we could only be on one. the first thing i wanted to talk about was the chief. i will say it over and over. i would like the new chief to stop the revolving doors of the police captains.

it doesn't work. they have been able to move along ok, it is such a large geographic area that just having that institution, and knowingly relationships, it is really hard to get them to focus on the west portal and the omi. i am glad the use came to speak. i am a little worried about how we are allowing or not telling the youth -- is not a broad strokes. it is the police department. many of the officers i have seen go out of their way to get the children in a program.

i think we can't just a broad stroke anything. we need to teach our children that we developed those relationships. as parents, we should help our youth develop those relationships. with people of authority whether it is teacher's or principles. lastly, as far as the calves go, i think they are a great thing. laid-back, years ago, we call that the public safety committee. [chime] >> thank you very much. thank you. >> can i just say it needs trianinaining and funding -- >> thank you, miss harris. thank you.

>> good evening. i'm marlene tran, a member of the community board and the asian pacific island task force. i want a show of the good work. these are recently produced. we have it translated, and this is our poster. this will also be translated as well. the board of supervisors should consider this effort and have the work translated to all of the residence in san francisco because everybody tells me [unintelligible] we just saw the power poinpoint

presentation by the captain. tonight, we haven't seen any resident to provide any input to this important process. how can the san francisco police department in the trust of our residents -- gain the trust of our residents. it's english only. is it out of compliance? the latest census paint a good picture of our changing demographics. it must provide a viable venues to be properly notified and be encouraged to provide input in such meetings. in my 20 years, i hope the year

of the rabbit makes meaningful changes for community policing. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i have heard a lot of talk tonight about summits, and some very wonderful, excellent programs. i believe that community policing starts in the street with 2 feet on the ground. foot patrols, that is not real community policing. that is what we used to call a beat. i don't see them, i lived in that. i saw them three times last

year. i see them almost every day in union square. why are the tourists more important than the citizens? in philadelphia -- i believe the chief should be hired from within. a looked down and i noticed that his night stick had all the paint off of that. you can see the wood grain. i asked, what happened? he said, that's from beating heads.

what do you think that before community relations? what kind of attitude is that? i am a citizen coming out of the store. i just want to see beat cops walking real beats. it might not be the thing to do it in outlying areas, but in dense areas -- [chime] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> the evening, supervisors, and some of our police commissioners. i am -- >>-share of the northwest alliance. unfortunately, i am a former member. i served in 2009 and 2010. when the chief had his summit, he handed down a guide or rules.

we read we could not serve on two cabs. we had to live within a police precinct in order to serve at that station. that meant that people that live in a supervisory district may not be able to serve on the police cap that the neighborhood group serves. i am rather surprised. i did not really picked up that the police were supporting having a definition of community policing. i don't get how you can have a conversation without defining what you mean by community policing the. i won't repeat what a lot of people have said. i know karen has spoken abou t this. there is no liaison to the cab. i was a member at the agency,

they lost some funding, and that person was never appointed. we don't get information from cabs any longer. i did serve on a cab, really informed. i wonder if there is still a cab. we need more trust in the police department. we need more transparency. we had a foot patrol removed while i sat on the cab. [chime] >> next speaker, please. >> how're you all doing? >> into the mic, please. >> the elephant in the room as far as this conversation is, when i was growing up, i was the

enemy. if you go to the high schools and ask them how they perceive the police, i would like the next police chief to keep that in mind. if you don't close that gap, we are not getting anything done as far as community policing. we have to work with our people and we have to educate the usyoh about what the police do. how many people, when police get behind you, check to see if you are speeding? a teacher asked that oat a city college. if it wasn't for a police officer, we would probably not know who muhammad ali was.

that is what community policing is about. the the use in mind. -- keep the youth in mind. they feel like the police are the enemy. i felt like that at one time. >> if there is any other member of the public that would like to speak, please come forward. next speaker, please. >> i am the executive director at safe. our services are an essential component of community policing. we would not be able to do what we do without the support of the police department. i commend the community for being here today because i feel that community policing has significant strides.

i do feel that programs such as neighborhood watch and the programs that were mentioned by these today need more support. more recognition will allow the community to be more empowered. the more they are recognized for their good work, the better they will do. we have been in the fortunate position to be involved for the past year-and-a-half. it has been an arduous process. if we did have little bit more direction and support on what the new program was about, i think that more would come out of that. they have made a tremendous success in the past year-and-a- half. as a supervisor is on the public safety committee, i urge you to support some of these efforts. i think it is a great

partnership. >> the next speaker, please. >> we look forward to having you at our next meeting. it is important for officers to live in a community when it is an emergency. first responders are present, and they are a number model for people. my question is, what percentage of officers live in san francisco. what strategies are being implemented to increase that percentage? >> next speaker, please. >> i am the executive director at the ymca. a resident of the western addition as well as the community advisory board. i was born and raised here in

san francisco. the relationships that i developed it with the police at a very young age was in my neighborhood where i knew the officer that was patrolling. as well as the officers that were involved with the schools. it is those early relationships that i developed with the police the allowed me not to be afraid of the police or dislike the police. it was very sad to hear how they use at the beginning of this meeting -- youth at the beginning of this meeting felt as respected by the police. they allow them to be able to make those relationships at a young age. that is where those feelings developed, at a young age. i know that with all the cbo's,

working with the youth, we need to keep up with the police to have them develop those relationships with the use of the way that the cbo's do. thank you for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> i work with the coalition of homeless here in san francisco. we are the community. lead the committee and the commission to understand. a community differentiated by and come, race, culture, or language gets divided. -- income. and the rest of us that are considered de facto criminals. they are part of our communities. they are most negatively

impacted by violent crime. the issue literally thousands of tickets for being homeless. black people are cited seven times more frequently for jaywalking. there is a legitimate fear of being deported. we are not criminals. it is not equality found inside -- a quality found only inside ethnic communities. [unintelligible] we need you, but we are frustrated with you. as members of the community, you a was the same accountability that we owe one another. [unintelligible]

you become divided from our communities. that accountability is an essential element of community policing. it is radically different from policies like tazer implemen tation. a deep commitment in the community is a structural element -- [chime] >> next speaker. >> i had a couple of comments, but i first say that it is the best practice of community policing, there would be no need for [unintelligible] i work for sf safe. it was a great organization. one reason why it worked, they were trying to get an impact in public housing where they don't feel like they have that impact.

i was lucky enough to be working on the advisory board. i was the person that set of the western addition. it is an excellent idea and it should stay. the one thing that concerns me is the list for people to be on that board seemed like it appeared from nowhere. the police department decides who gets to be on the board. maybe that should be stated. another thing i noticed is that most people have a lot of political power in the community. if each person has political power, it is seen as someone that can bring in a whole group. it didn't have the grass-roots elements. they already have a bunch of hats. there is a lot of people from

the community that can make an impact. the final thank is that with foot patrols, i feel like ross mirkarimi is trying to get foot patrols. the gang injunction was on, the police department started posting police officers. that was a great idea. you did not feel right. the foot patrol as when it is convenient for the police officers. [chime] >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors, commissioners. my name is david elliott louis. i have practiced psychology for many y