>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. president mazzucco: thank you. we will be taking roll call. president mazzucco, vice president marshall, here. commissioner dejesus is excused. commissioner chan, present.

commissioner kingsley, present. commissioner slaughter is excused. commissioner terman is an excuse. you have a quorum. president mazzucco: thank you. thank you for being here tonight and welcome to the wednesday, august 3 san francisco police commission meeting. as you see we have four commissioners, barely a quorum and we may lose our quorum at some point we have a lot of business to get through. i appreciate you being here. we will start with a line item 1. we do have members of our community ambassador program that has been given a big lease on life by the board of supervisors and we have a presentation about them. we will move that up after public comment period that will move to line item 3. let's move on line item 1, the

consent calendar. >> item 1 is the consent calendar. the police commission report of disciplinary actions for the second quarter and secure communities monthly audit march through april 2011 and may through june 2011. >> these reports as part of the consent calendar are in your packet. there will be commissioners -- questions about subsection 2. with regard to disciplinary actions, what i joined this commission, we had 77 cases pending and at one point we were probably close to 80. after this evening, we are below 20 cases. if all goes well. i have to thank my fellow commissioners. former commissioner hammer and the police chief who has been excellent at this new program we have and reaching resolutions

and this commission has made some tough decisions on officers but we have made the tough decisions and we are clearing the backlog and we're proud of that. any questions from the commissioners about that in that report? commissioner chan, anything about secure communities? >> commissioner chan: i have a pending question for the folks who put together this audit. statistics on immigration do not match the department pose a statistics. the level one offenses are the more serious. our matches are higher. quite a bit higher for this county. i ask that this be continued and they put on calendar at a later point once we clarify this -- and put on calendar at a later point once we cannot -- clarify. commissioner kingsley: i would

also request that when this report is put together, i liked seeing the term definitions. in addition to the term definitions that are included in the report, if some keys would be provided for some of the abbreviations under resolution no. 2a, that would be terrific. i can guess at some of them but not others. that would be appreciated. president mazzucco: we will move that to a calendar and future items -- to the calendar in future items. i would like to thank the commissioners for their hard work. we had a backlog and now the backlog is no longer a backlog, it is a dogged. it is good work and good for the police department. i apologize. i -- uselmann the case is with

us with this new program and is great for the morale of the department and great for the morale of the acc. commissioner kingsley: i thank the chief and the commission. it is important to resolve these cases as quickly as possible. itit is fair to the complainant and the officers. i thank the participants in this filing will machine. president mazzucco: thank you. >> we are severing -- accepting the consent calendar. president mazzucco: that should be a motion. is there a second? public comment regarding line item 1, parts and. >> i would like to say that i do

not know -- the got the 77 down to 20. -- and they got the 77 down 20. that was one of the things we heard from day one of the commission. that is a remarkable decrease and remarkable turnaround. i want the folks who criticize us and i am not saying unduly criticize us to get that we have done a fantastic job in getting it down. and declining further. it is -- has been a remarkable job getting those cases of the calendar and keeping things moving. i want to pass all laws on the back for doing that. president mazzucco: any public comment? hearing none, please call #2.

i'm trying to keep a quorum. >> this is a motion to except -- accept? you want to split the second one, we will take that up in the next item? president mazzucco: yes, please. >> general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speaker shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or occ personnel. neither police nor personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. public comment is limited to three minutes. president mazzucco: taking public comment.

>> i got to be brief, i got to meet the new d.a. i would like to say thank you, police commission, about the disciplinary cases. i follow them very close. i licked the name of an officer to the press -- leaked the namahbin of a search to the press. i told -- give me a week. you have a great evening. >president mazzucco: thank you. how are you? >> good evening. i am emile laurence. i would like to bring up the events of the last three weeks. an issue on the third straight rail. i was impressed by the new

police chief. going directly to the bayview and having a meeting and the police route -- work in terms of resolving the issue, who was shot by home. -- whom. i was impressed by that. i do not think that would have happened as rapidly previously. the new choice of police chief is a good one. i would like to bring up we are well aware of the fare violations on many but the taxicab industry has the same violations that go unnoticed. and unpoliced. they have no recourse. it is a waste of time to call on a police officer when someone takes a cab across town and gets out and flipped to the bird. or holds their crotch for you or

make some sort of asinine remark as a get out of the taxi. that is a big epidemic for the baby. i do not know how the police department handles it. i know most taxi drivers just needed -- eat it. you get fare violators on muni, and the taxicab industry as part of the transportation system in the city and it gets the same violations nonstop. it is almost an epidemic of some sort. we do not hear much about it in the police -- the papers. we do not get much in terms of police confrontations. the police are not called for the most part. it is something that has never been reconciled in the city. it is a big problem. the taxicab industry operates under an honors system. you get in and to pay the fare

and the fair is going up again. -- the fare is going up again. violations go unnoticed and not recorded. i would say off the top of my head there are 3% to 7% and that should be dealt with at some point in time. probably with more police on thursday, friday, and saturday nights trying to get cap violations, limousine violations, and that type of thing. i think it should be addressed. once again, i would like to say the new police chief did a helluva job in the last three weeks on that episode. thank you for a time. president mazzucco: thank you. any further public comment? >> hello. i am daniel [unintelligible] i have been wanting to say this for the last two weeks including the chiefs meeting at the bayview. -- chief's meeting at the baby.

i have been coming to police commission meetings often on since 1989, 22 years. the focus of my coming here is the need as i see it to push for reform of the sfpd. i came in response to police tactics against demonstrators from such groups as the original act up! i would as police brutality at the beginning of the first iraq -- witnessed police brutality at the beginning of the first iraq war. and at the beating of rodney king. i saw peaceful demonstrators cornered and beaten and arrested by riot police. i am not talking about letters and those disposed -- led ooters and those disposed

toward violence. a 17-year-old child was shot in the head by a plainclothes sfpd. that girl's name was sheila. the cop's said he was not in danger and they did not follow procedure. they got away with murder. they continue their career at the department without interruption. of course, there has been many unwarranted killings before and since then. soon after the killing there was a ceremony at union square to honor all the slain officers in the city's history. 92 of them. san francisco opposing political elite and hundreds of others were there. -- san francisco's political elite and hundreds of others were there. i held a sign, those who were killed by the police. there would never be a ceremony

like that for them. there are two sets of opinions. one is the police are always wrong. one is the police are always right. of course, that is ridiculous. [bell] however, in the situation and this is from several weeks ago that i held this opinion, kenneth harding. i feel sfpd at sutta properly and correctly. thank you. -- i feel sfpd acted properly and correctly. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. >> i want to address the bayview shooting incident. it is clear that there are some training issues that need to be addressed.

we only have the chronicle and that had five different stories. i went out and took a picture bride by the rec center and by the shooting. -- a picture right by the rec center and by the shooting. the individual was 5 yards away from a children's recreational center. and the kids were playing during that time. being an officer is a very tough job, you wear a bulletproof vest, they serve and protect and every day your life is in danger but what is the law when it comes to the line of fire? if there is a child or an is an individual in the line of fire, the radius, do they discharge the firearm? i would like the training manual reviewed and hire a consultant

to come in and help our police departm the world. right now, even in wartime, individuals cannot shoot if there is a child in the line of fire or innocent bystander. i am recommending that the commission looked through the training manuals. let's review them and have a good conversation about how we're going to receive -- proceed moving forward when an officer has to use his firearms because obviously he did not and he felt his life was in danger but he forgot about the child, and innocent by stender, in that line of fire -- an innocent bystander in that line of fire. if we're going to continue and there are children's rec centers, i recommend it will be built immediately. a -- a wall be built

immediately. i would like to see if muni's film is still available and at the same time, it is very important that in order to have the finest force, there is a big flaw there. a big flaw that needs to be corrected. president mazzucco: thank you. any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. we're moving to line item 4. i will turn this over to dr. marshall. >> thank you. very proud to introduce to the commission, formerly the community ambassador program. they are here and in a moment i will introduce, at turn it over. let me give you a little background about this. on my time on the commission,

there is a couple of times i have been asked to involved -- be involved in things i am pleased to do. both times were times of crisis. the first one was in the aftermath of the rnacanch shootg and i was helped to -- asked to help the board board who usher in a civilian review process. i appreciate that and they have one now her ray lahood the second time was last year when there was some terrible tragedy. the gentleman who was beaten to death, followed almost right and -- right away by the asian woman who was thrown off the t line. both of these instances involved young black men. a lot of attention in the area

in the city. and a few of us got together and tried to do something about it. i want to commend our former commissioner, vincent. we met every week at the boys' club. along with ed lee who was always out there every week. we tried to come out with some ideas in the aftermath of those tragedies. one of the ideas that surfaced was an urban peace corps. i think it was them that might have come up with that but we thought, well, what if we could place a group out there to begin the work of restoring faith and harmony in the community?