trust between communities and the officers is the most effective tool for public safety and law enforcement both for the officers and the communities that they serve. in terms of the issues currently facing the department, there has been movement on the backlog of cases and that has been very positive to see. at the same time, i'm interested in seeing further progress on the backlog of police misconduct cases. it is relevant that only 25% of the officers' lives in san francisco. that is a problem. what can the mission due to address that? where are we on hiring? where are we regarding the grand jury reports? we have had two reports in the last five years.

why are we moving so slowly to address police department compensation issues? where are we ensuring compliance with the general order providing language access issues. where are we on the civil grand jury support on the americans with disabilities act? the report recommended that the city should have training programs in areas with people with disabilities. where are we on implementing the recommendation? the last six months from the police commission adopted a proven an effective offense fairfax fulfiling if 5-francis. -- adopted a proven

program in dealing with people with psychological problems. the human rights commission and the police commission held a joint meeting on racial profiling and surveillance family leave for referred to the fbi and the chief when they tell us that adequate measures are taken to protect our arab- americans? what steps are being taken place to make sure the state is in compliance with all federal laws? housing and urban development provides more than $2 billion a year to contract with the police of garmin. crime associated with public housing and assisted housing herds our entire community and it reduces the public's willingness to add more housing. we lose a generation of kids who drop out of school because there's not a good mentoring program.

the tracking shows that about 40% of all murders are within bullet range of public and assisted housing. the city has said they lack the money to upgrade housing. what is our plan be? where is the role of the police commission with regard to those issues? almost 10 million in losses came from two cases. that is enough to find it useful police academy classes which will now have to cancel phantom fighter training to save the city millions for. one for life, it will save lives. with regard to taser is. i know that law enforcement agencies have embraced these weapons as tools that save lives.

we need to find a solution that reflects both law enforcement needs for additional tools to the escalate dangerous situation but also reflects our commitment to safeguard the civil rights and human rights of our residents. in conclusion, the police commission is charged with setting policy under the city charter. this is not merely an advisory body. they can address serious issues and problems that have resulted in enormous damage to the credibility of the inter department. it has been 8 years since the voters approved a clear mandate for reform. why are we still seeing scandals and the press? the commission needs reform minded people. people who do not see this as merely advisory body. the commission these people live

and work a lever to leave the together -- the commission needs people who can live and work calabria's shall flee together. the board need someone who can work with people from different points of view. someone who understands the problem faced by historically marginalized communities. someone who understands that effect of law enforcement and public safety is on the strength and by police policy and procedures that increase trust and credibility. someone with a proven track record of accountability and transparency. respectfully, that person is me. i think you for your time and welcome your questions.

>> in district 6, there has been an issue with warrantless searches by sf tpd. what are your thoughts on this and how you would approach this issue? >> i would want to work with the chief and the other commissioners to investigate and figured out what the problem is. this is not one isolated incident of an officer, this has been many cases. last week along, 26 cases were dropped as a result of the particular issue with the violation of fourth amendment rights. it does go back to the master key issue. i would propose, at least initially, taking away the master keys from the police department. i don't know of a compelling reason for four officers to have a master key to the entire building of apartments. we have seen because of that

issue that there has been significant abuse of that. that has resulted in tarnishing the credibility of many officers. >> your position on centauries city ordinance amendments. >> century city ordinance amendments, this is one of the reasons i am proud to live in san francisco. this is essential to san francisco values that we recognize that immigrants have a right to be here, have the right to work, have the right -- i support center for a city ordinance. i have throughout the time i have been here. -- i support the sanctuary city ordinance. i hate support our sheriff's department and the juvenile justice department opting out of so-called secure communities. i would do everything i could to

ensure that we continue to support our center city. -- i offer support to our sheriff's department. >> -- post commission of a felony. >> i think this is good policy and this is the moral and right thing to do. >> thank you. any questions? ok, please bring of julius turman. thank you for being here. >> thank you. i am proud to stand here today as a candidate for the police

commission. i am a graduate of rutgers law school and the university of michigan. i am currently a partner in a law firm where i am a labor and employment attorney and i work for fortune 500 to mom-and-pop shops, helping them to create jobs, implement rules, policies, and programs to strengthen and better their workplace with more diversity. i am also a former federal prosecutor where i have supervised and worked with police officers in over 150 investigations. i also sat on the u.s. attorneys for the districts of new jersey in house committee to review cases against police officers for police misconduct. i grew up in detroit, michigan, where there was an active and vibrant police force.

as an african-american and an lgbt person understood the importance of having a sons of self and being expressed to a was even in the face of a strong police presence. during that time, i worked on several citizens committees to interface with the police and to train and to bring cultural competency to the police and working with local communities. as a member of the police commission, i would work strongly with the police and with the community to bring a sense a policy, program, and implementation of programs to the general public to work with the community to ensure that police mistrust is decrease and police also have a better sense of the communities they serve.

we need to find better training for diverse groups and their interactions with the police. the police need to understand the citizenry which they seek to protect and serve. we need to further reduce the backlog, which i credit jim hammer with creating programs to reduce the disciplinary actions so that we can review misconduct cases and returned police officers to the streets once we have dealt with their misconduct, retrained, refocus, and put them back in a position so that we can began to adequately staff the streets of san francisco. we need to find resources to use within the city and through private and nonprofit organizations so that we can create more programs and have

more resources so that we can increase the technology used so that the focus is not just on street crime but the level of white collar crime and other issues that plagued the citizenry of san francisco. i have several ideas based on my background both as a prosecutor in the criminal division as well as in special task forces on how police officers can work better with their citizens. as a member of the bar association in san francisco and the state bar association of california, i have won several awards for creating programs for diversity if, mentoring, job creation, models of training and implementation of workforce to create a workplace that seeks to

bring forth trust and cooperation. in terms of collaboration, i worked daily to build a strong relationship between the lgbt key and and the african-american community. i have done work with communities of color, both the latino community. i have traded programs for compensation for people with disabilities and i am proud to call myself broad minded, capable, able, san franciscan who would bring a wealth of talent to the police commission >> -- san franciscan who would bring a wealth of talent to the police

commission. >> can you speak to your position on centaurus cities and also -- >> privacy issues? as someone who is that the constitution, argued cases before the state, i will tell you that privacy is a fundamental right which i hold dear. the fourth amendment creates a judicial doctrine for the search and seizure of an individual's home. there is no place more private and sacred than once home. there can be no blanket rules to say that there are not certain standards under which the police must enter those homes, which is why we have judicially carved

out exceptions to the rules. i am concerned that such carve out are abused. this is a situation that must be closely monitored. the questions must always be asked, why would we allow an officer to enter a home without a warrant when we have such a vibrant doctrine that allows for and it is mandated and ability to search a home. with that in mind, if there are circumstances or if there are reasons that allow for a police officer to enter a home, regardless of the rules, which i am not a fan of. i want to be sure to be a commissioner that asks the questions the police officers, why are you doing this.

is this acceptable? this must be a question whenever we have a complaint of misconduct or a police officer doing something that strikes at the very heart of each traditionally mandated doctrine. as for centuries cities, i am a proud san franciscan. i believe that immigration and the presence of the individuals who are documented or not in this community is a grave benefit to san francisco. i believe that any action to discourage them from an active participation not only creates a mistrust in the broader community but it also has a chilling effect on us individuals and who are

documented. this has a chilling effect on the ability of san francisco ends to live a happy and free life. as for a century city, this is a strong doctrine. we should not be referring people to immigration because of an arrest. an arrest is by far not under any circumstances a conviction and even in cases of conviction i'm proud to say that i support supervisor campos's very well crafted compromise to allow immigration referrals once a conviction is in place foot even in such situations, and phil wants to live fully what is the underlying reason that we are referring people. seems that this questions come up under the heading of the police commission because in

looking at records, i don't believe there has been many referrals by the san francisco police department. in fact, the department that would have the most active is an ability to make such referrals would be the sheriff's department who is charged with the document in, processing, and fingerprinting of individuals actually arrested, which, by the way, has no civilian oversight. i'm strongly in favor of century cities and i applied supervisor campos for his very strong and well crafted compromise. >> what is your position on equipping the officers with taster's?

>> i think that the memphis model is an excellent model. i applaud -- bringing this model to san francisco. we need to make sure if policies and programs are operated around the mint this model that works great for san francisco. it is not just that we need training around police officer interactions, we also need cultural competency. we need the same kind of training around lgbt, communities of color. this was an example of following some very excellent policies and procedures from another jurisdiction and bringing them here. hard to think that another community that has greater

values and beliefs around training and acceptance than san francisco. in certain areas, we found that we can find it in other areas such as houston. the houston has done a great job of beginning lgbt training. there are many examples of cities that do things the right thing -- the right way when interacting. the intent to treat people the same. i would like to point to our community policing model which has too many inconsistencies to be effective at times. also, we look at police officer

interactions with african- americans. that should be the same model where there is a police officer interaction with african- americans in the fillmore. they're different people, they're different police -- beliefs. we need to do that kind of research and be that kind of policy implementing body that does that kind of job. as for the taser, i believe very strongly that these are dangerous weapons. they are dangerous weapons that have an unintended consequences that scar and maim and hurt the individuals there used against. they also scar and maim and hurt the police officers that

use them. we need to understand those consequences much more deeply. we need -- never mind that we don't have money in the budget to be able to afford to buy these but more importantly, aren't there other ways that we can instill so that we never have to reach the question if we want to alarm people with a taser. if we come to the conclusion that there is indefensible position for phasors, which many to be open-minded and here, if there is indefensible position, to make sure that the officers that armed with these taser is have the proper kind of training and proper kind of interaction with their communities. i think that communities of color will suffer more from the

use of tasters. >> thank you. we're joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen. thank you so much for being here. services has asked me to notify you that there is an overflow room and there's more seating. are there any more questions? seeing thank you very much. i would like to call but mr. philip hogan. if you could talk about your experience, your background, your interest for serving and dino the questions i will be asking you as well. >> my name is phil upload in, i was born in nebraska. my father is from lebanon and my

mother is from ireland and france. . i have been involved in government for almost 40 years, i work for the city county and state government in nebraska and i was a police officer and i made sheriff at 18. i've worked with training with law enforcement schools and i was appointed by the mayor in 2008 to be on the san francisco advisory board and shortly after that i went to teach a couple of classes at the academy here in san francisco. i'm on the board of directors with the -- association. i am a member of the russian hill association. we are doing a fund-raiser for

scholarships. i know what a police officer does when it does on the uniform. i have been to natomas classes for hoarding and collecting which is part of a mental illness. i deal with that in my buildings. i know the building codes, fire codes. i still with the police on a regular basis. the police commissioners should be going to the stations and talking to the officers and showing up at neighborhood association meetings. my experience since 2004, i've sent you tons of letters. there are over 150 references, citations, accommodations. when you read the law and for

our enforcement code of ethics -- law enforcement code of ethics, i was asked what my preference was. i said, it makes the difference if you are gay, straight, or otherwise and the reason i said that is because every citizen in san francisco needs to be protected and i will give you a little incident about how i feel about this situation. i have gate tenants, i have hired 8 people and in 2004, i happen to be back in nebraska. the university of nebraska was putting on a play and it was a gay play out of england. one group from kansas came down to protest said the lincoln police ask me, how do we reach out to the community. i got a hold of the two bars and lincoln and got them to sit down with the community. the chief of police wrote in the

front page of the journal star that there will be no citizens of lincoln arrested during this demonstration so we kept all the gay kids on one side and everyone else on the other side and 15 minutes, they were shouted down. in the middle of all of this was the omaha world herald and the journal star. two people came over and they held that the blackboards. we said, yes, on the blackboard as said, god and homosexuals eat at subway. this isthe youth suicide rate is skyrocketing. i have been involved with programs for boys in nebraska. all the people who wrote letters, that i had people --

that i had people there. when i see an officer on andy street, -- on the street, i stop and see what they are doing. i make it a point to call on certain people. eheather fong, i work with her all the time. constantly i see this. i have retired, so i can spend an awful lot of time reaching out to the public to take care of those things. i think it is important for the police commission because there is no one on there with that kind of background, who knows what these guys actually do. supervisor kim: any questions for our applicant? you know my question. if you could speak will -- speak briefly about the issue of warr

antless searches? >> ok, the key system -- they do not have these keys in any of my buildings. if they want to gain entry, they have to call me. i am against it. everyone has the right to privacy. that should be dealt with immediately. why is that going on? i am going, what? what? in shaking my head. i am thinking, that is not right. that is not how i was brought up. i am ok with it to the point that there is of violent crime involved, and then we need to seriously look at the bundy crime, because we cannot just take them back -- look at the bundy crime, because we cannot just take them back on the street again.