corporation wants to have a separate training. it is a second example of excellent community policing. finally, the work of pop -- captain paul chanel and capt. sur are doing, following the wednesday meeting where people went crazy, the san francisco organizing project primarily baptist church, true hope, and kept school had a meeting with 160 people that were there because they wanted more police in the neighborhood, they wanted to continue the relationship they have had under captain sir. they wanted to address the root causes of crime, but they wanted to see violent people taken off the street and guns taken off the street. 98 percent of the crowd was african american. there will continue to work with capt. chanel. right off the top there are

three examples of community policing better hope are replicated in other neighborhoods. >[applause] >> my name is karen huggins, president of the holly courts resident council. i have three of my board members here with me. will you please stand? thank you. thii just want to say we totally except and would request that this general order be accepted tonight, 1.08. we would like to think captain sir -- you have been doing community policing ever since he became captain for us. this is just secondary. i would like to also thank officers that we have for holly

courts. hopkins and supervisor davit compost, thank you for returning. thank you so much for opening your door of your office. every month we meant there for many months, 20 of us, sometimes 30 of us. we all got it done. thank you so much. i would like to also personally think capt. was oulazar. he was a great asset to our ad hoc community. and we meet every month. we meet with the d.a.'s office, the housing authority, a community people, and other groups are welcome to join us at bernal heights community center.

thank you for opening the door for us every month. i think that is all i have. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, can i interrupt public comment, there is someone who has a cake for of david compost. and whoever has the cake, please step forward. ♪ [singing happy birthday] >> of birthday surprise. >> thank you very much. -- a birthday surprise. >> i have a prior commitment

where i have to speak, but i want to say it is greatly appreciated. thank you. [applause] >> any other public comment? we can continue on the community policing general order. come on up. >> good evening. i run a program on 24 entry street, and i also live in the mission. i am here to ask you to please approve the package you have in front of you, because it will help us. i i as one for sure want to see community policing and

community involved in all of the districts, and i know all of you have been reading all the problems we have been having in the mission, and i think it is time that something be established to stop the problem, because i am at 24 entry. never before have i kept my doors locked because i have children that come in for after- school tutoring. -- because i am at 24 and tree. it is all types of people that are walking the street on 24. i hope you do approve it tonight, and i really would appreciate it. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening, commissioners.

i had opportunity to speak for you guys once before at city hall. what i have here is a photograph of documents dated back to february bu5th on every piece of community policing. i have never done anything but this. and i enjoyed working with david compos' office. i am not going to go through all these papers, because you will run me out of here, but i would like to sit this is what it led up to. this is already working. this is already happening right now. it is happening in my community. it happened in holly courts.

i enjoyed working with the community center, but this is what it all came down to. i beg you to please pass this. it is already in motion and are ready happening. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, a distinguished commissioners. i am a native san franciscan and lifelong mission tete. i work for the san francisco public defender's office. i am also the chair person of homie, and volunteer with the cnn. . i want to speak to you as a

parent and urge you to approve this measure tonight, and i want to let you know about something that was really amazing that happen to me over the weekend. i knew keep sir when he was the captain at the station. i have had the privilege of travelling across the country with the captain, but i have to tell you, community policing began under captain paralycoral leadership. the backpack of the way was so amazing to see that officers genuine engagement with the children at the park that day was spectacular to see. there were talking to the children about public safety and safety tips, and i could tell you that one of my daughters was super thrilled to engage with officers that day, and i encourage you to approve this measure. thank you. [applause]

>> good evening, commissioners. and distinguished guests. i have had the privilege of working with the captain as well in community policing, and also with david campos. we have been writing this community policing paper where we wanted to plan a partnership with the police department. now that we have chief sir, it is a thrill to see it is growing. community is the way of the future at every level. community policing is the one forum for the youth. this is a good, historical moment. i grew up -- i was born in 1974,

and i still have a transitioning era. i remember certain things and behavior's of the policing department in the past, and it has changed dramatically to where we are today. i think we are always making progress, because we're all human beings and people. we all have children. we are all fathers, mothers, daughters, etc.. i think it is all about community. if we can take this and everything we do, i think it will make our community better. i ask for your support. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners feare and. . i wanted to say you should really pass this bill, because not only are your voices in it, our voices are in it, too. the interaction with youth will

make such a major change. please pass it. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> i am rob connolly, president of the boys and girls club in san francisco, and we of nine clubhouses around san francisco. i do not know much about this piece, but i wanted to say it -- if the cheap believes in it, then i think it should be passed. i have worked with him for seven years. he gets community policing through and through. this done through and through. we have had a chance to work with the captain and with chief suhr when he was here as the captain of mission and when he was the captain of the bayview and cmdr. unbelievable emphasis on prevention. and when we have a great chief and when we have great captains, and we do not always have great

captains, i am sorry to say, but when we get it right, it is unbelievable what goes on in news organizations like the boys and girls club. i know that with chief suhr in place, it will be great. when we get this community policing thing right, we will get police officers that understand kids and not to engage in kit to do prevention work, it is beautiful. chief, thank you for all you do. captain, thank you for all you do. [applause] >> are there any other public speakers? one more. >> hi. i work at community united against violence. we do lgbt violence prevention and intervention work.

this definitely sounds like a great effort to continue improving our relationship with the police department. i wanted to bring a little bit of a lighter question to a concern regarding implementation, wondering if there will be indicators to make sure that the general order is being implemented in the right way, i ain't the way that the communities can be looked at as an expert -- in a way that the communities can be looked at as an expert, and make sure that with in that partnership, there's a relationship with the police being the expert, but it is a little more mutual. we came out in june, together with other organizations in the nation, with the hate violence report.

ha it is regardingte violence in the lgbt community. we found that violence from police officers continues to increase, and we just wanted to bring light to that. you can check it out at www.coop.org, which is our website. now in october, we're also going to publish the dv, must violence a version, of the same report. thank you. [applause] >> the good evening, commissioners, and chief suhr. congratulations. when chief suhr was a captain in the mission district, he really did community policing. i am a lifelong resident of san francisco, grew up in the mission. i do not live in the mission, but i spend every day of my life

in the mission. i am happy that there is community policing, but it is not about what is on the paper. it is about the respect that is given to every single community, and it is about how the policing is distributed to the captains, to every single officer, and how it is communicated to the community. i do think there is a huge disconnect between what is happening at the police station and what is happening in our community. a couple years ago, i saw a great deal of violence right outside our window. we were conducting a workshop. unfortunately, the police did not take any of our testimony and we had at least 30 witnesses. i went to david campos and i spoke to heather. i am hoping that with these violence issues that they are actually doing the correct police work and investigation and handling evidence in a way that helps them find the

culprits. because, honestly, i am really tired of this. i have felt safer in the mission and i have felt in any their part of the united states that i have traveled or europe, and this has been my home. i want to feel safe. but when i tell people that i work in the mission, my family, friends are all telling you that i am crazy. and i am not yet i am not afraid to work at 10:30 p.m. at night and walked to my car, but i want to make sure that i do not have to be scared every single day of my life when i am going to my car it 10:30 p.m. at night. so i want a police department that is going to connect with a non-profit and let us know what is going on. i do get the captain's weekly report, but that is not what i want. i do not want a list of times and to look at the prostitution. i want a list of connections. i want to know what is going on in the mission. i want to know what strategies are being enforced, what kinds

of policing their doing and with which organizations, because all of the nonprofits are involved here. it is not just the people who are being violently attack. it is the people that have to come to our nonprofit to seek services. they are afraid to go out at night. it is the low-income families that did not have opportunities to have great jobs, were coming to us for training. it is the child care providers that we're helping. it is the children that we're taking care of in our organization. it is the people that want a better life, and did they have to come out to our workshops at night. i do not want to see that go away because policing is not being taken seriously and the committees are not being taken seriously, and we're not being treated with respect by the policing. i notice today for the first time in probably years that two police officers this morning, at 8:30 a.m. and was heading to my office, on 19th and mission. there were doing community policing, and they're walking

down the streets checking their cell phone. i think that is great. it is the first time i have seen it. i am sure happens more often, when i am stepped in the office. but it is not just for today and not just for tomorrow. there has to be some oversight. there has to be some communication with you folks. because it has happened a lot, and we have had some great captains at the mission station. i want to make sure that we continue to have a good relationship with the police officers. i can tell you, i am terrified of police officers. i see one behind me and i immediately walked away. i do not want to have that feeling because i have known a lot of great police officers. but i know what it is like for women who is educated and has had a good career. i also know what it is like for poor people who cannot speak the language. i want them to be treated with respect. [applause] >> hello. i live in district 6.

i come here with community and i am against the violence. i come here because, you know, the community today reminds me of chicago. you can feel culture coming from 24th street. i thought, man, i think i am home. but this is san francisco and i do not come here much. i want to thank the chief, who celebrated the 60th birthday on thursday. i am here today because as an lgbt person, i want us to take serious the hate crimes and anti-bullying. people have given up their lives. i hope this committee joined all communities in san francisco to make us be a city and county that really makes sure that no one ever has to go through hate crimes or bullying. because it is going on, and sometimes it is not reported. but you are doing a good job with community policing, because i can feel it. makes me think of chicago, old

style home. thanks for letting me be here, and i will talk with you later on about other things. but it is very serious to take injustice against anybody because of their race or sexuality. if you do not do that, there are other things that will come. that is what we have seen in san francisco with certain communities or districts. it grows. terror is not good for anyone. please join us to make san francisco hate-free and make sure that map the shepherd and -- matthew shepherd and the other memories are never forgotten. thank you. [applause] >> if i could have a moment, there's a four-door black toyota camry parked in front of a shopping needs to be moved. if you have that car, you might want to move it. thank you. go ahead. >> i am an immigration attorney.

i want to thank the police commission for the great work that it does. i really do respect the community building and prevention focus of the work and the human security that we are striving to build here with our communities. i did want to put out one question for the police commission. and that is, why is it that you will can offer to the undocumented human beings in our communities who are afraid to come forward, who are afraid to come to the police and file reports because of federal programs that mean that this undocumented person may have to be fingerprinted did they come to the police station and that they may have to have those fingerprints sent to the fbi and

the fbi share that with ice and perhaps have this person in deportation proceedings, rather than affecting more secure communities? i will leave that question out there, and i hope that that is something that perhaps, if you cannot address tonight, that it is something that is considered. thank you. >> actually, commissioner chan has that well-covered. >> i would love to -- i am is already working with this community to tackle this issue, and i would love to continue to work with the department on this. with this program, secure committees to the it is operational in san francisco as of june of last year. there was hope that it would end at some point this year. unfortunately, it is still very much operational right now, and i think there's more that this department can do, this commission and the community can do to push back against this

program. san francisco has been a leader on a national scale to push back against this program. the fear that you just described is a real fear. i know of someone who is a domestic violence victim whose store was highlighted in the " the l.a. times" who was -- who is now facing deportation and separation from her 3-year-old son. we will really focus on this another day. >> are there any more comments on the general order? hearing none, the comment is closed. commissioners, i was not here last week, and i do want to say i was reading the general order. and i want to say for the people in the mission that we have, as a commission, struggled to get the department to talk about codifying it or putting it in actual order. this is a huge step.

it is a general order that those that to the higher department, all the command staff, goes to the captain's. it is something that has to come from the head. if the chief does not support it, it does not get done. the good thing is that we have chief suhr who really believes in community policing, and he has taken the initiative to put it in the general order. that is the first-ever in terms of codifying it. the second step is implementing it. i am sure we will hear about that. i think the chief strongly supports it. actually, this is a good first step, and i hope it will continue and to see it implemented in the way it is meant to be. >> and do we have a motion? >> i wanted to make one more comment here. some of the folks who came up to speak tonight i ask the good question about implementation. i pressed the chief about this last week. it is an ongoing question of mine. because i have seen this

commission pass a general orders in the past when i was not on the commission, including the language access order that is coming up for us to talk about again. unfortunately, i have seen those general orders not fully implemented. i know what this -- and this has so much goodwill behind it and it was created in strong partnership with the committee, and that the verse section of people that spoke to that is very impressive. it has a strong possibility of success. but i want to make sure it is implemented. i mention this and i went through it again today with a fine tooth comb. there are so many lines that require a person to be assigned to do this work in a written plan with the timeline. and a strong partnership with the community and with specific organizations within the community to get this done. some examples include the training for officers and for the community. where the training will be, who will put them together, if it is a group that does this.

there's a community policing in resourced manual. who will help compile it? when will it be compiled? what will be in it? once it is compiled, it looks like it will be available the officers. but what will be done with it? is there a directive as to what to do with this? it will probably be a nice looking resourced manual. there's also community resources to be put up as a data base open to the public. when will that be up? how can we work with the committee to make sure all the appropriate resources are in there? i could go on and on. i think it is really important that there are concrete plans and that this commission revisits the general order in six months to see where we are and ask the community to come back and see if the community is happy with what is happening and if the department is half the -- is happy with what is happening. >> cute, feel free to respond. >> making something department

policy, the director will assist me in making sure there is compliance with that general order as well as all the other general orders. i can assure you that, as commissioner dejesus said, it comes from the top-down. this is a monumental first step. this is no small measure to get a community policing general order. there probably many reasons across the country why no other general order, such as the one this commission will hopefully put into practice tonight, exists. because we are accountable to our department policy and a parent -- as a paramilitary organization. >> there have been a lot of meetings and a lot of work, and this stuff has to happen for the next steps to happen. but i just want to make sure we keep that in mind that us passing this tonight does not mean that this commission has accomplished community policing. it is just to the first step,

and it lays out a lot of work that needs to be done by somebody. >> i would echo that. maybe somebody in charge of this can continue meeting with the community. do one day at a time. working on the manual in training has always been an issue. >> i have always wanted more training. i know there is training, but i want more and more. it is good advice. i really want to commend you for this first step. >> chief, would you be willing to have somebody from the department come back in three months may be, sometime in december, and give us an update on some of the specifics? >> sure. >> you know, some of those line items and an update for the community and for us. >> yes, as often as you like, commissioner peter >> fair

enough. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> is there a motion? >> i move to pass this the department general order, and i commend the chief for getting this done. >> i second. >> can we clarify if this is going to replace general order 3.11? >> the passage of a general order 1.08 will be replacing general order 3.11. >> ok, should we take a vote? >> roll-call vote. >> on the motion to adopt g.o. 1.08. >> aye. >> aye. >>