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 relationship between the youth in our community and the police. communities have mixed emotions about how they feel about police because just like our child represents his parents, a police officer represents his station or his unit, i guess you can say. we realize that every police officer isn't bad, but there is

a significant amount of police officers that play a role, thinking they are rambo or robocop inside of our communities. this causes people to fear the police. it causes a lot of depression and depression and side of our communities. -- and opression in our communities. the police usually use excessive force or verbal harassment with the youth, and we need police officers to be a lot more conscious of the decisions they make because they shape the thought a the mentality of the youth and the actions that they used to commit. police have a big role in shaping our lives. and the things that they do make us afraid of the people that are here to protect and serve us.

it would be a good thing for the police to establish a relationship with the youth and let us know their position. the need to actually check up on the status of the youth, not just health wise, but mentally. i think that the police should play a bigger role in helping sustain the community and rebuilding our community. when the youth see police, they only see them in dangerous situations or causing third or removing chaos within our communities. i think it is a bad thing because we need to see police and our communities when bad things aren't going on. when we are having community meetings, events, stuff like that. the police in there helping on a

daily basis. president mazzucco: i'm sorry, your time is up. >> we want to have a similar goal for police to better the community and we need officers to be more conscious of the decision they make -- >> excuse me, sir, your time is up. president mazzucco: thank you very much, sir. will move into another brief explanation. there will be expert testimony scheduled for 30 minutes and we have sfpd and ccp presentations scheduled for 30 minutes. maybe some people can read back there is or reduce its. please call line item # two, expert testimony. >> youth and youth serving organizations and academic

experts. >> i think they have done it. >> if we can follow the order, i think we have dan. the experts, thank you for we know each other's presentation. >> thank you. i am the executive director of the center on juvenile and criminal justice based in san francisco. we are an organization that provides direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis in the field of criminal justice. i have been around for 25 years , here in san francisco. i have a lot of institutional memory. i was asked to come and present.

i've taken a different direction. i would -- i thought what i would do is discuss crime in san francisco. i have a good story to tell. most people are not aware of how -- what has been happening with -- on the issue of youth crime. over the last 10 or 15 years. basically, this is the best behaved generation on record. we started to compile the uniform crime reports in the 1930's. that is our main source of information about youth crime. a collection of arrest statistics and reported crimes and clearances from police departments. in 1952, they collected

information specific to juvenile. it is our main source of information. since we have been gathering information, at least that is relatively accurate, use kraemer is at its lowest point ever reported. whatever has happened and no one has a complete explanation as to why that has occurred. it has occurred nationally and in san francisco. however, in saying that, i also may want to address some things that may be related and may not be related to why that crime wenrate went down. much of our public policy has been based on the idea that if you pass harsher laws, incarcerate more people, that will drive down the crime rate. i can tell you unequivocally, there is no research that

supports that and not in the area of juvenile justice. my agency has been tracking this for 15 years. as the state of california has been essentially eliminating its youth correctional system, what we used to call the california youth authority, we call the division of juvenile justice in our system -- our system of 11 institutions, there are three. we have gone from 10,000 kids in cursor did to 1000 today. it is continuing to drop and the governor is pushing for the proposal to close it completely. take as from a 19th century system hopefully into a 21st century system. specific to hear, san francisco is leading that trend. roughly in the 1990's, the san francisco juvenile justice system was the subject of harsh criticism.

it was two decades of harsh criticism for its monolithic practice that week -- kids would get arrested, police officers would take them into the youth guidance center and take them to the youth guidance center. they would be detained for some time and were released onto the street with you services and little follow-up. in the mid-1990s, it was decided that was not such a good approach. we needed to diversify our juvenile justice services and that came on the heels of a number of reports, a number of actions by the board of supervisors and various commissions. with the passage of children's fund in 1992, a new pot of money was created for the establishment of inti