officials, the public, the community and really ensuring there is a robust public process. thank you. >> thank you. any other member of the public who'd like to comment. i have angela chan, but i don't see her in the audience. it is now open if people want to come up. if you're going to speak you could perhaps line up along the wall by the windows would be great. thank you. >> so i do want to say that this isn't a silver bullet. we have this idea that we do this, everything's going to be solved. it's not a silver bullet, but i'm here because i think this idea of privacy, like, my dad was a transvestite so say -- but he was closeted.

eded i think if he doesn't sign off on this, i trust him more than anybody, and avalos i trust also, and campos. these are the brightest people in san francisco and i volunteered on a campaign as a

number one volunteer [inaudible] so there are other people that can be at this table and we should include everybody and definitely the citizens because we are the ones that are going to be on the other side. and also pool tigss. politician. if this gets out some scandal, i don't want that kind of nasty polt ticks because i've seen an assembly race recently that has shocked me of the behavior of people. in terms of this kind of who else should be included, our sheriff has realignment has been very successful and probably body cameras are going to go over there in the future. we should get him in the loop right away also. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon.

my name is sophie and i'm vice chair of the san francisco youth commission and member of the justice committee this year. i'm in support of equipping police officers with body cameras. this has been a priority of the youth justice committee for several years now and seeing as there isn't youth training in the police department there's lots of room improvement. this step is a step in the right direction in terms of committing to better police interactions with youth in the community. we know this is a worth while investment as seen in rialto as we mentioned before they saw a 6 0% reduction of police use of force. i'd like to thank supervisor avalos for bringing this issue to the table and public defender for his continued commitment to the issue. thank you for your time.

>> thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is louis avalos, i'm the legislative affairs officer and a member of the immigration and employment committee. i'm here to just show my support for this new orpd nans police officers have body cameras. i've never had any issues with the police but from the info that my peers have given me, us peshlly those undocumented, for them because it's part of a major requirement to have a clean criminal record or not a significant felony or misdemeanor on their record they're apprehensive about approaching the police, not because they're the perpetrator, but because they're worried that by affiliation this will go on their record and prevent them from getting resources in the future. as my colleague said it's [inaudible] youth relationship so i think this is a step in the right direction, not just for youth, but for everyone

throughout the city. i think san francisco is a leader in a lot of innovation and i think this is just another great example of how we can do it. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, i'm here in support of the supervisor dave campos bill regarding the pge telephone poles as well as the police having cameras on them. i think they both are very vital pieces that needs to be passed because we're building police communications first of all for the community. they're needed and this is also to protect them so at the

end they can go home and at the end of the day our children can come home so this will work to benefit not only police officers but as well as the community as a whole and to, again, build cohesiveness and the trust that we need so much that has caused such a diverse impact in the department and peoples' biases against the police officers. also, we definitely need the telephone poles with pge. i lost my son july 17, 1996 to gun violence and i wish they had those poles at the time. san francisco had 96 homicides that year and i have a mother who lost three sons to violence and another mother that lost two. it helps us as residents who are working together with the police because we're all community is i'm in favor of both of these and i hope it gets passed and thank you

supervisor avalos and campos and everybody that's here. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm the director of [inaudible]. i would like to take this opportunity to thank both supervisors avalos as well as i wanted to stress to you the importance of both of these bills and in terms of youth, specifically what we see in foster care they have trust issues around authority and law enforce m. i would like to state that this is an opportunity for youth, as well as transitioned youth and adult citizens in the city and county of san francisco to actually have a good relationship with the police department. i'd like to state that i'm a

mediator for the office of citizens complaint and that whole structure was set up through the police commission so officers had a chance to communicate with the residents around how they felt they were being treated and it's a very powerful tool. i've been doing mediation in regards to that for over four years now. my father is a retired san francisco police officer for 35 years here in san francisco and i want to stress the fact that the cameras are vitale for both helping cases move forward around violent situations and can be seen as helping the police officers so they can feel that they can actually be heard as well. i any this is a phenomenal opportunity our residents

here and as was said, we are facing an epidemic around gun violence with our youth and we're just grateful that we have supervisors who are willing to open their mind vision that includes all the residents of san francisco. thank you. i want to thank everybody for commented today. i just want to reiterate that what's coming forward is a pilot program. it's not going citywide and i -- the pilot program will be two years i believe is what deputy chief had said and i hope that during that pilot

program you will have' i'm very glad to hear is that there's consensus that this program would be about building relationships between the police and the community and that can be founded on trust and there's an interest in making sure the orders are vetted with adoption of city departments and members of the public. i think the a clu will be good to be a part of that process and as a thorough vetting as possible that will enable the program to go quickly i think will help to enable that trust is made and the program can be effecttive so i was really happen p to hear that.

i do want to support under the right conditions the expansion of the program to citywide. i have concerns about the cost of that. $21 million citywide over the course of five years, a little over $4 million if i do my math correctly per year, might be something that could do down in future years depending on how much storage of data is going to be in the future. but could also be offset by lowered complaints that come forward in terms of litigation. so i think there's ways of looking at that cost as something that could be cost effective even under the current conditions. i'm excited about that moving forward and in the future. i'm not sure if i'll be on the board when that's finally enacted but it's likely to have my support if i'm still here. i want to thank everyone for your work, the commissioners

as well for weighing in on this and this item, i think we can probably file and come up with a new one if we want to review in the future the general order or policies around the cameras. >> great. thank you supervisor avalos. again, i really appreciate the leadership that you have provided on this issue and i think body mounted cameras makes sense as a matter of policy and i especially appreciate the members of the community who have come out to speak about this, especially our young people. i want to thank the young people who have commented on this. my only suggestion to the police department would be that as they're working with the city attorney's office to draft a policy, that they share the draft with folks before you actually bring

something forward to the commission or to this body so that you get peoples' feedback beforehand as much as possible. and i know that you work closely with the occ to do that, but some of these other agencies like the aclu. and in terms of cost, i think we have to provide some contest. if it's $4 million a year that's less than 1% of the total police department budget, as i understand. so i think in the end there's a financial cost that is significant, but in the larger scheme of things you save money because of the reduction in the number of kaess that are brought against the police department, but you gain something that's even more important, which is the

community trust or and the ability of officers to use this as an armor against false allegations as well so i think benefits do surpass the financial costs so i hope we pursue this as quickly as possible. i am very grateful that the youth commission noted we are still waiting to hear on the training around youth, police interactions so we will hear from police department on that very shortly. we have a motion, if we can have a motion to file this without an objection. thank you very much. mr. clerk, do we have any other business before the committee is this >> there's no other business. >> fwraet. great. the meeting is adjourned. thank you very much police department, occ. go giants.

>> good evening, everyone. >> good evening. >> my name is emily murase and i am the executive director for the department on the status of women here to welcome you to

our event marking the birthday of domestic violence awareness month. we have so many successes to report to you tonight. first of all before i introduce our speakers i just want to recognize that domestic violence survivors among us they deserve our continued support and applause. >> next i want to recognize the staff of our partner agencies and all of the folks here who work fighting domestic violence every day, many of them are holding our signs and let's show them our appreciation. without further adieu, please help me welcome our may or, lee, who in every year of his administration has invested greater amounts of public funding to combat violence against women and has been a

true leader in this area and please welcome mayor lee. [ applause ] >> thank you for you and the commission to do for the city, and just want to say that anita wanted to be here but she wants to give you her love and appreciation for all of the work that everybody does. this is our 20th, anniversary and celebration of awareness and it is serious business in our city, we have an impressable 44 months without domestic violence homicide in our city. impressive. and we had expressed how wonderful that feeling was just a year ago of course, this past year we have had three homicides domestic homicides in our city. and this means, for us, not a case of failure, a case of more work that we have it do.

and we are ready for this work. in fact we are so ready that emily says that we have increase that budget every year and we increased it by 1.6 million dollars and for our domestic violence programs. >> and it is worth t it is worth every penny of it and i want to thank every member of the board of supervisors who stand up here and work together as part of a city family and the police chief and the district attorney, and our commission on our commission on the status of women and all of our friends in the community, and the community agencies are so important for this to happen and more and more, we are recognizing that immigrant groups and the people who don't speak english as their first language need more direct help in this arena and the education, and the services, and the advocacy and we want to make sure that when we do have extra funds, to put to, and to the programs that we also reach

all of the immigrant families and we break every language barrier to make sure that the services and the programs are reaching but the most important message is violence is not tolerated in this city. all forms of violence. it also means violence is not permitted in any of our sports and their cities as well. and yes, and we will continue to ring solid and true on that, and we continue to want to be the national model that everybody can follow but we will also take care of local business, i very much appreciate a lot of faces that are standing up beside me here. faces that i have seen for many years working on this very, very hard program very hard topic, gut wrenching topics and every story that you read can just wrench your emotions

because they are wrong and they should never happen. but i also have hope that i see a lot of young faces, once that hopefully, we will be a part of their education and they will adopt what we do here today, and they will look forward and they will see, not only 44 months, but they will see 44 years of no domestic violence, how about that for our kids? [ applause ] >> i also want to give a shout out to everybody who worked on this justice and encourage panel that was started some 12 years ago. when we asked them to assemble to go through all of the work that we have not done and what we should do, and the private sector and the public sector with the city agencies and with the non-profits and with advocacy and they came up with 121 recommendations for us. and i am proud to say that today that we have our final

evaluation report for those 12 years work that we have been doing to tackle these 121 recommendations and this final report, is a part of the reflection of the work that we have been doing and i just want to say a big, big thank you to everyone who has been working on that panel and everybody, and all of us who are carrying out those recommendations and all across in our education and institutions and in our public safety departments and divisions, and in our communities, and every aspect must be covered. and that has been a valuable report and an extremely important exercise for our city to do, and in the form and to continue doing even more. and so i joined our board of supervisors and i joined the da and our police department and our fire department and all of the community agencies and let's continue on the trek and let's end the domestic violence, and everybody is wearing the wonderful colors of

purple to signify this moment, but let's keep this month, every month, of the year, and no matter of sports we are celebrating, and no matter where we are, and let's speak to each other and say, end domestic violence for men and violence and girls. and thank you, so much mr. mayor and i want to take a moment to recognize members of the elected family who are here with us today. and supervisor, and supervisor jane kim and we saw that he said here, and with this as well. and so really it takes a village to tackle this problem and you will see many crackers around and it represents some of the 121 recommendations that

were completed, in our final and you will hear more about that and next please help me welcome police chief who has shown his commitment to fighting the violence against women and, we are joined tonight by the first female president of the police commission, loftus, and many others, help me welcome police chief greg suhr. >> thank you and on every marked police vehicle in the san francisco police department there is one bumper sticker and on the back of every single car as you see the police vehicles traveling around and it simply says that there is no excuse for domestic violence. and because, there is not. and much has been made in the national media about how come this happened and that happened and how about just no, there is no excuse, period, for the domestic violence. >> and the san francisco police

department is a critical piece of that as we respond to any calls for domestic violence in san francisco and as the mayor pointed out, we did enjoy a period of some 40 plus months where there were no dow mist i can violence homicides in san francisco. and now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that have occurred in san francisco, have been domestic violence related. and we continue to provide the assessment for the training for the police officers and increased the limited accomplish training because we don't want somebody's inbility to communicate in english to be a deter and we want to insure that all survivors that san francisco is a sanctuary city and that there is status in the united states will never be called into question and they need to report, because again, there is no excuse for domestic violence upon anybody. our special victims unit

continues to thrive without 16 additional investigators to the special victim's unit just in the calendar year, 2014. and the things for most as we see it work here best in san francisco and as we continued to have the domestic violence advocates located in the special victim's unit and, the celebrates their 10th anniversary this year, and being, emerged in our 14 and the ten yard audit, and in the backlog and we contracted with the vendors to clear it back ten years by the mid 2015. we initiated an asap protocol,

in january of this year and so there will never be a sexual assault kit backlog again. >> so again, i know that there are other speakers and i don't want to take me more time and i just goted gonzaga the to keep saying it and we kelt that it was important enough to put a sticker on the cars when it is the only one there it speaks volume to have it committed we as a city and a police department and how much we enjoy the partnerships and we are committed to nobody being able to make a excuse for domestic violence, thank you. >> please help me recognize the members of the police commission and the police department. [ applause ] >> next is our district attorney george cascon who has championed effort to intervene and prevent acts of violence against women and he is exciting news to share, please welcome the district attorney.

you know, it is exciting to see it here today. and but i like to for a moment, all of us coming together and they see and that no more violence. come on. >> no more violence, you know, still, one out of every four women in this country, report being the victim of domestic violence some time in their life. and so while we often get together, and especially during this month, to celebrate the accomplishments and to talk about all of the great things that we are doing, and there is still a lot of work, and this year, and 3 homicides and do not indicate that there is a lot of work that still needs to

be done. and especially those, who are working in the domestic violence, and i want to thank the supervisors and the mayor for the monitorry support that we received last year, and to beat all of the resources. and for it to support, and insure, and in order to do the work. and we have the resources and the conviction rate and that are significantly increased. and we have it in front of and getting the victim services to the big victims and to the suppliers very quickly. and most people think that in the district attorney office is a prosecutor, and when it comes

to the domestic violence, and it is a great deal of, and and it to make sure that we get the restrainingorders and to make sure that we deal with the custody issues and and for the survivors, and to be able to move on with their life. and you know, recently, you know, we were just talking to some of the other people that we work with and some of the survivors and we have the women who said, you know, i was so, so afraid, of going to court and she walked in, and she met one of the victims services counselors, and she said that you know, i felt that all of a sudden like i was at home and that makes a difference, not only in being able to begin, the healing process, and but, also being able to hold the

aggressors accountable and you know, we tell the people that actually if we do our work well, and we intervene earlier, we have an opportunity and that all of us can prevent the future acts of violence and assuming that the family wants to stay together, we can actually help the families do it together. and that is not the cycle of violence goes on for years, and it usually does by the way, if you do not intervene early on, it will increase the frequency and it will increase in the level of migration, and sometimes by the time that the police and we get there, there is very little that can be done. and unfortunately that is not only bad for the family, it is bad for our community and it is bad. and you know, i have saw this before and you know, i have used it and i am stealing this work from everyone else and i heard once that a few, engaged in domestic violence in your home and you are almost