i also assisted in guiding the implementation of the juvenile justice department general order which serves the safety for youth and clarifies their rights. i've attended monthly meetings of the working group between s.f.p.d., occ and youth providers. the working group [speaker not understood] referral center known as carc for officers to take youth to after they're arrested because it is a safe place for youth where there are community based resources for the youth. this is in place of taking the youth to district stations where actually adults were held and we wanted to keep them separate. so, i've also had the honor of working closely with the youth commission which i'm excited to cheer today to support me to revise and authorize a memorandum of agreement between s.f.p.d. and sfusd so the rights and responsibilities of officers and youth on our school ground are clearly laid out. luckily this m-o-u was just signed this year by both the police department and the board of education. we also piloted a training for youth if for enteration with

police and developed and distributed a youth guide which is also in your packets. ~ interaction one of the most important and tactful [speaker not understood] cit in 2011. the impetus behind this is there are several high profile and very unfortunate incidents of individuals in mental health crisis who were shot by officers. i have personally had a chance to meet with some of these families. some of them were asian families and i was extremely moved and i felt very deeply for what they were going through. and i also know in terms of these situations, the impact it has on our officer and the harm to everyone involved when there are these very unfortunate shootings. ~ officers i learned about the [speaker not understood] cit model in order to find a way to address the situation and under this nationally recognized best practice, an elite cad reof officers trained for 40 hours of on de-escalation skills and help have itionv with

appropriate serve is he. while all officers should be given a basic training in these skills, ~ not all officers have the [speaker not understood]. cit isn't a police department program. it's a community program. it requires the police to work in close partnership with mental health providers to give the training and to engage in a feedback for officers and mental health providers share lessons learned to improve the mercedes-benzv tal health delivery system overall. after three years over 240 officers have been trained. and now those officers wear pins to identify them as cit officers. however, progress needs to be made, more progress to make sure there is a system set up so that we actually deploy officers, cit officers to where they are needed and so we can increase referrals to mental health services and decrease use of force where it's possible. through this process i've helped bring together dozens of mental health service providers who previously have not had a chance to collaborate closely with each other, mess less the police department. today i'm proud to say we have

a really strong cit working group. we just met this morning that is commit today fully implementing the intervention program. one reason for reappointment i need to see this program through. i need to see it through. i need to see it through for the families that i have met who have been impacted by these shootings. i need to see it through for the officers who changed their entire life because of these shootings. i want to make sure that this program is fully launched because san francisco is a place where we have to have something like this. we have more mental health crises probably than any other city. i'm wrapping up. in terms of what i wanted to convey. but launching cit ~ and also through adjudicating officer discipline matters, i've come to learn about the impact of officer involved shootings and also just the everyday toll on the job of police officers. i've seen the heightened awareness officers have to have to protect themselves every day on the job so they can go home safely to their families at the end of the day, can have a severe impact on the physical

and mental well-being of officers. i collaborated with the president of the police commission who i have a lot of respect for to increase mental health service for our officers. there is a lot more work to be done there [speaker not understood]. we see the services they deserve after some of these crises. so, i've taken this responsibility really seriously of being a police commissioner. i have been serious about t. i have been dedicate today it. my overall approach is to take responsibility for every phone calls, every e-mail i receive, every community member, every community organization. i have an understanding how the system works and also make sure their voices are heard. i rarely ever miss a police commission meeting and often i complain if a meeting is canceled because i really want us to meet as frequently as possible because we have a serious responsibility as an oversight board. along with a fellow commissioner whom i'm glad you're considering today. [speaker not understood]

requiring all parties and all cases meet deadlines, set hearings in a very timely manner and set [speaker not understood] for discipline rule. finally i want to end by expressing my deep projection to the community leaders, [speaker not understood] domestic service providers, immigrant rights [speaker not understood] public defenders, youth commissioners, youth service providers who took their time out of their busy schedule today to support my reappointment. i'm humbled. i am honored to have your support and your friendship and anything i've accomplished in my four years would not have been possible without your hard work and your engagement. ~ appreciation so, i'd like to end with asking you to please give me a second term on the police commission if you so choose. and i will use that second term to continue to be a strong community voice that takes pride in our police department while also pushing it to be a better one. thank you. >> thank you. any questions? (applause)

>> supervisor campos? >> thank you, commissioner chan. and i want to thank you for your service and all the work that you have put in. i do want to ask every'ly ~ applicant, if you will, the same issue about staffing. one of the things i find challenging as a district supervisor is that we want to have more community policing, as much of a connection between the police officers and the community. and a lot of that has to do with staffing, what staffering is available, whether it's in the bayview, ingleside, or the mission station, for instance, the three stations that i have. so, i'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about that and sort of where you see things going and your strategy going forward on that issue. >> sure. in my time on the commission four years i've seen some really great officers, senior officers who have retired. and every time they retire, i'm sad because i know these are the folks who really have made the department what it is. but on the bright side, on the

good side, this board of supervisors and this mayor have supported a significant amount of funding to go towards new officer classes. and, so, every couple months there's been a graduation, a new cad re of officers. i've had a chance to go to the graduations and it's exciting to see the future of the department, the diversity of the classes we're seeing come through the police departments, females, males, asian, black, white, the background is amazing. the bilingual skills is amazing. one of the graduations i attended, award for the strongest officer course they do. i went to a female officer. i was particularly proud of that. i think our future is really bright. i think it's key. it's important. we can't be like some of our neighboring cities [speaker not understood]. but we also need to make sure these officers are coming -- really, a lot of new members, it's such an [speaker not understood]. but there is a lot of work to be done, a lot of training to

be done. that is part of the focus i have on language access. we were need to make sure our officers become just as great as the senior officers that have left. >> supervisor mar. >> i know that supervisor campos and i were here when you were first considered by the rules committee and we grilled you with lots of questions at that time around anti-asian violence and building better relations with african-americans and others. but i know firsthand from the meetings that i've been involved with supervisor campos' office on your work to strengthen the connections with youth and police and really bringing in some of the top experts and really developing that m-o-u and different programs, but i think from the four years on your service on the police commission that like dr. joe marshall, you've really put forth really great programs. i know that you mentioned the

crisis intervention team and really the focus on mental health services and also to officers, but especially the delivery system so that we're sensitive to people with mental disabilities. and i think you said that this is really critical for you to continue to work to fully launch it. but if you could talk a little about that crisis intervention team a little more so we understand its impact on communities? >> sure, i'd be glad to. a a mental health service expert, i really went into this seeing a problem i didn't expect to learn so much about. really because [speaker not understood] i met some of the families who are directly impacted by a couple shootings that happened a few years ago. and when that happened, i think everyone around was heart broken. these are he very unfortunate incidences for everybody, for the department and the individuals involved. i'm not saying it's [speaker not understood]. i'm saying it's unfortunate when there is a death. when i met these families, i knew something had to be done.

there must be something and something smarter than just tear. it must be there is a de-escalation plan, a way of delivering services. that's what lead me to look at the cit model and what was a team of officers as well as mental health service providers to go to memphis and learn about their crisis intervention program. i went on a ride along with one of the cit officers. i was blown away. i went with the officer. she was dispatched to a cit crisis involving an individual threatening to commit suicide. the way she approached it, the way she lead the team, everyone knew she was there because of her cit skills. she is still there and leads that effort. the way she talked to the young woman threatening suicide, we were in the hospital and talked her down and was able to get her to agree to take her medication, talk about her family. that was the work i said we have to have this in san francisco.

we've had a cit before, but it was just a training. it didn't include the role based training. it didn't include deploying a cit officer specifically when a cit officer is needed. in a city like san francisco it is long, long overdue. one of the great things in the [speaker not understood] department and mental health providers are at the table and want to get this done. it is hard, it is not easy to figure out a system to identify when you need a cit officer and make sure the officer is dispatched. you want those officers to stay within the district. you don't want them to go all the way across town to make sure you limit the response time. >> i just had one other question that's related to some comments from porsche lee's article from world health journal. i come out of asian law caucus. i was a law clerk way back in '88 or something like that. i know ed lee our mayor was a former staff attorney. victor hwang who i've known for lodger than i've known you comes out of asian law caucus as well. i think there are some

representations that asian american civil rights attorneys like you should really stand up strong for the chinese community. but i know that our framing within the asian law caucus and i saw [speaker not understood] taylor -- they go out and outreach [speaker not understood]. i know we don't just look at chinese and asian pacific islanders, but we relate in other low-income communities. could you talk about who you represent when you are a civil rights attorney or even on the police commission? i know you said you've been responsive. [speaker not understood]. >> thank you for asking that question. that's kind of the question that hits my heart. so, thank you for asking. so, i'm the daughter of chinese immigrants who owned a chinese restaurant in portland, oregon. the entire time growing up, i grew up in a place that was very white. there wasn't a lot of asian americans there, not a lot of other minorities. i spent the time thinking about what i should do with my life, especially given that my

relatives often had trouble understanding how the system works. there were very few services for them and i decided really early on in high school i wanted to be a civil rights attorney. and i just didn't know where i was going to do that. and when i went to -- i was at law school in harvard. one summer he i was at the asian law caucus and i was just amazed by the way we responded directly to community members, the way we showed up actually in the low-income apartment complexes in chinatown and went directly to the clients and asked them what they want and serve their interest. and, so, since then i've been engaging in that work. but i have to say in term of the criticisms that -- i believe in inter racial work. i believe in interracial collaboration. i think everyone should fight hard for your own group, i've done that. but i think you should reach across and help another group. the only way to achieve equality -- >> excuse me, excuse me.

excuse me, these people back here. if you're going to have to talk, go outside. there is somebody at the podium trying to communicate to us. thank you very much. >> thank you. to go back to where i was, i believe in interracial equality. i believe in interracial collaboration. i've worked closely with the latino community, the with the african-american community and the asian community. i feel you have to do that. in 2014 to make strides in civil rights you have to do that. i might get criticized for it, but i am proud of what i do. i am proud of serve my asian clients. 88% of our clients at the caucus are asian americans. i am also proud there are 12% we help that aren't. and, so, thank you for asking me that question. >> so, ms. chan, i know that you've accomplished quite a bit in terms of some of the projects that you mentioned when i was talking to you

individually. one of the things i'm going to ask is with these projects it seems a lot of time you end up doing it yourself. is, part of what i see like a commissioner or somebody on the board or whatever, is to direct. if you take the issue of the crisis intervention team, for instance, how can you strengthen from the policy level to actually have that, the policy take place rather than you have to sit in the car and make sure they do their job? >> that's a great question. i play a supportive role. [speaker not understood]. i research who the providers [speaker not understood] and said, what do you think about this idea? they're the experts. the department is the expert in

policy and tactics. i bring them together. you know, that's what i do. and i try to [speaker not understood] guide them. when i go to these crisis intervention meetings, i don't talk that much because i'm just there to show you that the police commission cares about this. this is a top priority for us and we want to see this through. and we know it's delicate. we know if you were not there, making sure that it's clear this is a priority for us, [speaker not understood], but i have to say in terms of who is doing the hard, hard work, that's what mental health providers and that's the department. and the long term for cit to make sure that it's fully, fully in place, the permanent thing regardless of who the police commission, regardless of who is chief, the department general order and crisis intervention. that is actually written into the resolution that i helped write and that received a unanimous vote from the police commission. that i have to say getting the department general order written and approved by all the parties involved is really hard and you have to do it. you have to basically show that it's worth it before you do it

so that you can get it passed. it's a part of what we're doing is training the officers. we're setting up the system and then that will be a place now where, yeah, let's have a department general order, we need one [speaker not understood]. that's actually written into the resolution that there is a requirement that the department [speaker not understood] be developed. they're detailed, they're hard and city attorney and everyone else in the program that i do, i am very hopeful that in a few -- a year, maybe less than a year will have a department general order that puts us permanently in place. >> thank you. supervisor tang. >> sure. thank you, commissioner chan, for your years of service and i can tell that you're very, very passionate about the work that you do. and, so, i'll be asking this of all the candidates as well. but in terms of the police commission, you know, it's a citizens oversight body. and it also serves a disciplinary role as well for the police department. i just wanted to know how it is that you interact with the various bodies. you know, you interact with the community members as you kind

of mentioned, the police department, your fellow commissioners, city-wide departments, just wanted to get a sense of how you envision or how you describe your ability to work with all parties to make sure that as a city as a whole in san francisco that we have, you know, really the best service that we can provide through our police department to our community. >> thank you, supervisor tang, for that question. so, i describe my relationship with the community and being responsive. so, i'll focus on another piece of it and that's with officers. when i first joined the police commission, i'm going to be very honest here, i didn't actually tell my parents that i was on the police commission. they're chinese immigrants and they're not familiar with the concept of a police commission and what is this. i went to the association meetings, i wanted to reach out to the officer group. i took a picture of them. i was proud to be in a city with a large police officer grouping. i showed the picture to my parents and they were proud. i've gone to officer for

justice meetings. those were the first meetings i went to. i meet with the different [speaker not understood]. it's a place where i think it's important that we recognize our officers are very difficult verse. they have different concerns. and they know just what community groups know. they know they can call me and i will respond. i will come out and i will talk to you to see what are your concerns and how can i help if it's possible. luckily i do have a good relationship with all the officers. one more piece i wanted to mention is i've had the chance to go to the life cycle of an officer. i've had a chance to go through the graduation. [speaker not understood] i've seen the rock stars of the department rise to the top. the other day i had a chance to go to the retirement ceremony where they gave the biography of each officer retiring. i was so proud. we have one of the best police departments in the country [speaker not understood]. >> thank you.

>> supervisor campos. >> thank you. thank you, madam vice-chair. i know that we're going to hear from the other applicant. i just want to -- wanted to ask my question and give my colleagues an opportunity to ask their questions. but i just wanted to just make a couple of comments. and first, i think what's hard about this kind of appointment is that you have two very impressive individuals who i think each would actually do a great job on the police commission. and, so, with respect to your appointment, i just wanted to just say a little bit about my experience, and i said the same thing about commissioner marshall. what i have found impressive, most of all, to be honest, the amount of work that you have put into this job. it is really impressive to see how much work has gone into everything that you have

focused on. and whether it's getting the 3:00 a.m. e-mails to calls, follow through, i think it's just very impressive and i have yet to meet a commissioner that has done that, in my estimation. i also appreciate going to the question that supervisor yee was asking, that you have an oversight role, you have a policy-making role, but you're also not afraid to rollup your sleeves and work on some of the substantive things that need to happen to get that through ~. i appreciate that. and one thing that has been very important to me in one area where i know there is still work to be done is in the area of how police interact with young people.

and to me that's a very important issue, and i've been very grateful to you for the work you have put into that because i think that is something that has benefited everyone involved. the department certainly has benefited from that and the young people have benefited from that. and, you know, one thing that i would say not just about you but about this police commission right now, is that i think it is impressive to see the way in which all of the commissioners work together. and even if you're not on the same page or you have a disagreement, you know, it's good to see you working with someone like president mazuko and other people. i think that's what you want to see. so, i just want to -- the same way that i thank commissioner marshall for had i service, i want to thank you for all the work i have seen and the work you put into it. it's very i have press i have. >> thank you. thank you for giving me the

opportunity. >> okay. any other questions he? seeing none, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> the second candidate is victor hwang. come on up. >> good afternoon, members of the rules committee, and members of the public. i do have a slightly modified packet if i can provide that. as to the members of the rules committee, i've met with each of you individually already and hopefully answered all of your questions. so, today what i really wanted to do, i also had a chance to speak with supervisor eric mar who i've known for i think about 15 years. so, today what i wanted to do is really address my remarks partially to the community of advocates who have come out here today and to those who are watching on our video in room

250 and introduce myself to those of you who are new to advocacy and reintroduce myself to friends like joe hadachi who may have forgotten what drives me to serve on the police commission today. i stand before you as a long-time san francisco an, a resident of district 7, a father of three children in the public school system here ~, as a civil rights lawyer for more than 21 years, to ask for your endorsement to go forward to the san francisco police commission. my parents came to the u.s. as young immigrants in the early '60s and attended school in north carolina. i remember hearing stories from my mother of standing, of pausing before a public rest room and wondering if she was considered white or colored. both were active in community struggles at the time. i remember going to rallies and protests from an early age, protests such as the case of vincent chin, which i know

supervisor mar has been very active in. my mom worked primarily as a public librarian a was growing up. my dad went on to research and became a teacher of math although i know his true love was creative writing. from my parents i inherited a strong sense of the need to serve the community and to always look behind to see who had come before us and to look forward to serve those still in need. i came out to berkeley in 1985 a the undergrad and declared major was electrical engineering and computer he science where i spent the vast majority of my time camped out in front of california hall urging for the divestment of university funds from south africa at the time and spending time in oakland chinatown for at-risk youth. [speaker not understood] i learned about community lawyering and chose to go to law school for the single

purpose of serving the community. i attended law school in los angeles in 1989 and spent the vast majority of time outside of the classroom working in the community and earning my credits through community service hours. i spent time in east l.a., in south central. i volunteered for the [speaker not understood] stationed in relief centers down there making sure folks got their meal tokens and vouchers for the night. i got credits working as a teachers aid in south central working with mono lingual teaching them [speaker not understood] while they were teaching me spanish. i worked for the asian pacific legal [speaker not understood] center on [speaker not understood] cases and finally i spent a year working for federal district judge robert tagasuki on a single case, the criminal prosecution of six l.a. county sheriffs for civil rights violation, for police brutality, for planting evidence on suspects and for stealing from the homes of the

folks they were investigating. my interest in the criminal justice system more than two decades ago lead me to become the public defendener los angeles where i tried 50 trials in the course of 4-1/2 years, mostly in east los angeles where i lived and where i worked. i dealt daily with complaints of police misconduct, of police brutality and racial profiling. i successfully defended a man who had been charged with assaulting a police officer who had suffered 20 blows of a baton, parallel marks left on his leg from his ankle all the way up to his inner thigh. [speaker not understood], i also found, initiated and offered a class action suit which challenged l.a. city's practice of targeting middle eastern cab drivers in sting operations. i have spent nights at mosques,

community hall [speaker not understood] to organize the community. as a result of the advocacy and the litigation, the city agreed to suspend its targeting of the middle eastern community. i was quickly through the public defenders office and tried my first homicide case in 1996. at the same time, i continued to be active with the community. i volunteered with the asian pacific american [speaker not understood] center. chair of the asian progressive [speaker not understood] in los angeles. [speaker not understood] i took a two third pay cut to lead the effort for $34,000 a year. at the asian law caucus i took on a range of cases ranging from the representation of seniors and senior issues which is why you see so many seniorses out here in support of me today, immigrant rights, race relations and police misconduct. in 1996 i was the national

co-lead counsel of the litigation challenging the 1996 welfare reform law which sought to scapegoat our immigrant communities, our seniors, folks with disabilities and our so-called immigrant vultures and [speaker not understood] queens. broad coalition of i am grant groups organized under umbrella, northern california [speaker not understood] immigrant rights, is i believe supervisor mar was vice director of. we challenged in court the idea citizens should be treated differently from [speaker not understood]. i filed a local class action on behalf of the loan community in the central valley area which was persecuted back in laos for rescuing downed u.s. pilots in the vietnam war. organization, lobbying, public pressure, congress ended up rescinding many of the harshest

provisionses and [speaker not understood] specifically for the mongh [speaker not understood]. we forced the housing authority to bring in a court appointed monitor brought to us by the lawyers committee on civil rights, to work on race relation wren the african-american and asian american communities, and forced the housing authorities to invest up to a million dollars in community organizing, interpreters, and community builder that would serve both communities and public housing. finally, while at the caucus, i represented the family of [speaker not understood], a 34 year old chinese american man, a father of three who had become intoxicated after learning that he had a new job that day. the police were called on a