thank you. >> i am a parent of a fourth grader at west portal elementary school. i want to thank you for having programs like this wilderness program. i was fortunate this last fall to be able to go on the trip as a chaperon, and it was a fantastic experience. it really became apparent that this was the first time the lot of the children got a chance to interact directly with a police officer. in the beginning, they seemed very nervous. they didn't know what to do and they didn't know what to say. by the end of the trip, they were having a great time with the police officers on the trip. it was a nice and unusually warm day. i would say for a lot of these

children, it was alive changing experience. i am here to thank you again for having a program like this. thank you. >> imf program manager for an organization called environmental traveling companions. we provide the rafting in the other trips we are hearing about. i grew up here in san francisco, and i got my first job in college with the wilderness program. i became a rough guide into a lot more kids out. this evening i have been surprised to hear a lot of people like the hiking bettas and rafting. how want to express sincere support for the wilderness

program, not just for introducing me to a life of working, but all of the awesome trips we have been provided. all of the volunteer guides are people like you. they go with the youth and officers, we do white water rafting in the skiing. i believe in my youth leadership program that i did what i was 14, it came from a partnership between the lotus program. the of the good work. i would love to see more youth leaders we can employ and the program and have them doing what we do. >> my name is brandon jackson, i worked at the end of side district, i am a case manager.

i've got the kids that were told they would never be nothing. and my goal at comes to that is to build self-esteem. it is hard to build self-esteem and the kids leave the center every day. they just bring down the self- esteem telling me they will be nothing. they think because they're brother of a mess of life, they will have the mass of life. i feel like i am putting the time and effort to build self- esteem, helping them feel good about themselves, and getting back to those that made me feel good about myself. they come and talk to me about some of the problems, i engaged with them and give them the best. they say it is hard, we don't do nothing to them.

they set us down, taking into the station, if we are over 18, and to me, i feel like that is the problem. the solution is that we have to find some sort of solution to engage the kids. did the police to place some kind of basketball, board games, card games. some way to engage the kids and let them know that people do change. just believe, think about like they can change. if you help me bring them up, you don't have to deal with them no more. they're appos -- opposed to messing their minds up.

>> i work as the senior case manager at inner-city youth. i want to take a moment to commend our station capt. for keeping an open line of communication with us and for the front-line people in the district. i want to say there is certainly more work to be done. it is important that frontline staff received a comprehensive amount of cultural competency training both in the academy at continually throughout their career. i am obviously a white woman that i built my career working in communities of color. i have to go through a significant amount of competency training. issues of race, class, and issues of youth and the socio- economic. i think the continued work, especially for people that are on the ground, are needed. i want to thank them for their

continued commitment on this issue. i would be remiss if i did not say that that makes high day looking at what your carrying on,. -- you are carrying on. >> i'm from the bayview district, i work with inner- city youth. i have had many confrontations with the police. some good, but unfortunately a lot bad. there are great, and there are bad cops sometimes. what i like to say is for the great cops, when they see something that is not supposed to go on with another cop, they need to confront that. people listen -- the police are not going to listen to me, but they will listen to another officer telling them something. i did not pick the background

that i have, i was born like that. everybody is not the same, just like all cops are bad. and we need to understand each other more, and i feel that to be more engaged with the community, don't be scared to reach out. when you see a kid growing up, not think that is fake. compliment them. he has been through a change and he has not been arrested. i would also like to shout out angel. he came from a hard change and i'm glad to see him on this right now.

>> i am the director of inner- city youth, and one of my commitments to this work was that there is a young man that did not have any parents. so i went through the guardian process, i got custody of him. i am the executive director. i am not going into my own horn, but i think i am very resourceful and i have a general good understanding of how to navigate systems. he has many co-defendants. he is not doing anything. because of his status, he cannot be separated. i don't know what to do. i don't know where to go. i thought he was kidding when he

told me that. he wasn't. hasn't come to see him, hasn't called me once. and so what do i do? do i go straight to the d.a.? do i say to take them off the case and prolong his day? these are different issues that i have, as a person working with families, i never thought i would have to go through this with them. we need more resources. sometimes that might be a phone call or bodies to actually implement real change, and really bring back the start of justice. young people need an opportunity to correct a wrong. young people leave an opportunity to be heard. sometimes they have to walk around with records the rest of their life.

thank you. >> i am a preschool teacher during the school year and i work with a middle school youth during the summer. i am here to speak about the sf fishing trip. it is one of the biggest trips my kids look forward to each year. the joy of them catching the fish themselves, being from the city, they kept the bait and cooking and everything. even the girls are ecstatic and overjoyed when they catch a fish bigger than all the boys. i want to thank officer bought for introducing me to this program because i used to be in a program underneath my mentor. i also want to thank the police department, hoffa's turkey's was

my football coach. he steered me the right way of where i needed to go to work and become like them. helen to give you props for being wary war. it took me a long time to realize that. i listened to the radio, it brought me to where i met today, and i am very grateful for being here and not having only one child, having hundreds of thousands of youth to look forward to getting on the right track. >> and good evening use commissioners in the police commissioners. i am the president of the boys

and girls club of san francisco. we have about 1200 kids a day in our care. a couple of simple point, stay on the path you are on. there is amazing stuff happening at the police department and i continue to engage. engage with young people, engaged with developers, get to know the staff. we have a closer connection with kids. great comments so far, training. i am impressed with the city. i am impressed with the the choice. i would encourage more and more training as we just heard four

officers as they are coming up the ranks so that they are engaged just as much as the captains are. in the back of the room, officer j.j. that guy is a hero. he is unbelievable and i truly believe he has saved lives, in gauging directly with kids and families. i also want to recognize someone else that is here today. a good friend. rick bruce did unbelievable work and he may have been the boys and girls clubs. when you get the leadership right and people want to engage with kids into prevention work, it is powerful, and i am grateful for those folks. >> i am the clubhouse's director of the boys and girls club at

hunters point. i would like to say thank you to the youth commission, i enjoyed incredible work, i hope your viewers take advantage of it. i want to echo of the great work that j.j. has done on the hill. and officer mike rivera. i have a chance to participate on a rafting trip and is one of the best experiences ever. there is good fun in the sun. and officer jackson, getting kids into the building and participating with the programs. i don't want to undermine it or take it lightly. it is easy to criticize and hard to command. thank you, chief, for the hard

work that you're doing. >> my name is james mcelroy, and i just want to talk about what the officer ford did with the fishing program that we have been participating in since 1988. we used to participate at a child program that has not happened a long time because of other reasons. a lot to talk about the fishing program with regards to what it does to build the interrelationships. as a boat captain frank says, that fishing program has taken over 1000 people, 1000 kids from hunters point fishing, dee psepa fishing. a lot of folks have never been

outside golden gate. the program has given children a whole expansion of what is out there besides in their neighborhood. just getting them out there, outside of the day, and also the personal relationships that come with communications between officers and the children while they are on the boat, i think it is very important and should be taken into consideration. i like to thank them for all the years of taking the kids out. >> high name is carlotta jackson lee. i would like to commend the youth commission, more power to you. and i would also like to commend the police commission and

specifically, the board of supervisors and our chief sir of the police department. i would like to say in support of the people doing work with families in crisis, specifically foster youth in district 10. i went to see the chief at his invitation and we were very grateful for it. he allowed us to a partnership with commander bill to do training on sexual explication, human trafficking, and i want to thank the chief for his concern and his support for us to actually have this training. the first training will be march 10, this saturday. it's candlestick cove, the clock

to 1:00 p.m. on saturday. there is also a counseling group at balboa high school. as manny scott was dating, it is really affecting the kids and the schools. of the last thing i wanted to state is that we are totally in support of the police officers that work in the schools. they are a cornerstone, and it has helped the children to have someone they know that they can count on. and one less thing, when the children go awol, the police officers find the foster children and keep them safe. we want to thank the department of for your devotion and commitment. >> it looks like we have to more

public speakers and we have to go to the presentation because the use commissioners need to go home and do their homework. >> they just popped into the tenderloin boys and girls club. the whole room was in disarray. i worked so hard to keep their attention, but it was lost. kids know you don't get up during the meeting. they could not stand it. they had to give a hug, a high five, say what the. i am the tenderloin clubhouse's director. i grew up in san francisco. by the time i was 12, the only cocci like to were the ones i knew, and i did not know very many of them. every cop by no i like. a lot of them are in this room. and of that was said is very true. not all police officers are good

with kids. we know that. i will make your job the very easy and you guys can all go home. put more cops where there are kids. you have already heard it. the officer called me and said, what can i do? that comes from other captains that no that is the way you do it. i work in a community where we are at mercy housing. we have a lot of kids in one place, a large population. he comes as an ambassador, not as a police officer. unheaofficer j.j. is just j.j. they know a cop they like.

>> 2.4 million children have been incarcerated parents. i had a parent get arrested in front of me a few times and it was either hurting me physically were emotionally. when my parents was arrested in front of me, the police barged through and wrote down the door. i was left with my dad's friend that i barely knew and was on drugs. i was waiting for my parents to return home. this automatically makes me want to put up a guard when police are around me and makes me feel unsafe. in order to improve the relationships of police officers, i recommend that officers do something. when people see police, the officers tend to have a look

that says they want them to do badly so that they can put them in handcuffs to they can throw them in the back of the cop car. especially for the minority group. also, if there were more programs where students can have a discussion with a few police officers to that they can have their voices heard, they feel the officers are there to help them and not just to take their parents away. or perhaps even a mentoring program where at risky and can be mentored by an officer are based on common interests so you feel more comfortable talking to them. thank you, i hope you take my recommendation into consideration. >> chief, share, commissioners.

thank you for letting me speak today. i have spoken before the police commission many times in the past, but never before the youth commission. i have that a resident of the city and county of sentences go for 43 years. i have daughters born and raised here. and in the of the graduating from college as well. if you look at the panel across from you, most of them are lawyers. it means their objectives were not just high school or college, but something beyond. take that as a direction. our chief of police is a graduate of city college. how lucky that as a steppingstone. politics start somewhere. you have already started your goal, believe it or not. i never had an opportunity at your age to get into politics.

i never really thought about it. but if you looked at the overall agenda, most police officers are good guys. you are going there right and to about double every now and then. learn to write a letter to the station commander, and get the badge number, and if they do something very good for you, do the same as well. write a letter praising them. i have done both. i think if you look at the future, your lucky that you have so many police organizations integrated with the youth. i don't think it is a normal situation in most cities. at least it wasn't in the town where i was raised. we didn't have any of those institutions. i wish you the best. [chime] >> good evening, everyone.

i am the manager for the youth. i just wanted to follow with the theme today about advocacy. when he talked about the police department and the youth across the city, the relationship comes from you. we talk about holding ourselves accountable, no matter what. for me, i have my run in with the police ever since i was a kid. at the same time, it was the police that gave me the opportunity here for different positions. i can contribute whether it is through suggestions or understanding politics of what is going on.

we all have to work together and be there for each other. i appreciate doing advocacy for the young people, i appreciate the resource officers having the open arm approach, especially with her leadership, that person in charge. and also with the asian police officers association in the bayview district, where they are willing to donate toys for young people. but what i do want advocate is about organizing the events coming to the youth and police, there is an ongoing dialogue and understanding about what culture competency is. it is not just about language,

is about the culture of your people, the culture that has been around for a long time. celeste advocate for each other. let's make this the city that we all want to live in. >> i am hoping this is with the right form to present a police complaint. i am here on behalf of my mom, this is her letter. it implied that i failed to stop a stop sign. the office of the cited me was parked at the corner next to the stop sign next to me. he was a caucasian male, grey hair, grey mustache, medium build.

i saw the patrol car approximately two blocks away for the stop sign. does it make sense that i was going to run the stop sign? the patrol car after spotting them, insists that i came to a complete stop alongside a large school bus. the second thing i want to protest is that at trial, a totally different officers showed up. he was a much younger caucasian male, how can complexion, black hair, about the same high. his testimony was a complete fabrication. he said that he had to chase me to issue a ticket. in my file protests is that the judge -- i was so upset that this was happening to me, it never occurred to me to have a

comparative signature or badge number for the period of court. any assistance you can give, i felt it was necessary to expose this injustice. this was only a traffic violation. officers should be exposed and it should be reexamined. president mazzucco: thanks, sir. next and last speaker. >> i am 18 years old with the bay area that they leave. i am also a youth ambassador that as a representative. i am here to talk about the ti