>> and look up sheriff david clark as well. thank you for your time. >> thank you sir. >> [inaudible] than the people are to the animals -- >> thank you sir. your time is up. >> ladies and gentlemen and the audience and commissioners good evening. happy new year to you all. >> thank you disblim here for a couple of reasons today. there is a lot of news circulating about having police men helping in the assistant suicide. we know what is going on in the last weeks between police officers being murdered and various citizens of the counties and that they represent being shot by policemen. i brought today a couple of newspapers. one is from city college. these men do not have

guns. two, i also brought you a well known black newspaper in the bay area that shows a report. he felt that the police department had a bias that only black men get shot. no one else. here's his report. last but not least is from the journal of environmental criminology which isn't published in the chronicle but other newspapers on the peninsula they came up with a study that the bias is in reverse. they prefer to shoot a white person. there is no animosity in the police department of who was shot and how. in an view with 300 police officers it was stated not one of them complained when they shot a

white guy but they complained when they shot a black person and the bias across the united states in 50 states. i have an article out of the newspaper. i'm going to leave copies for you and kowps for the audience at large that there is something going on in the media that isn't being reported and we have a lot of anarchists that jump on to the bias when police officers claim they don't shoot a lot of blackos purpose. >> thank you. >> i have seven copies here for you right here. >> i appreciate it. >> i thank you for your time on this issue. >> hello welcome. >> welcome. hello i here with my colleagues in san francisco and addressing some of the issues with the police. the

one is the lack of community involvement specifically with youth. one of the only community actions that the sfpd does is the youth prevention program that involves hiking, backpacking and kayaking and people from imporished backgrounds or low income backgrounds can't get into and i ask you to work with hip hop for change and [inaudible]. these are peoples deal with black and brown youth in the community that sfpd is likely to harass showing they arrest youths in these communities more than any other in san francisco. other issue is the lack of data collection of the program on the website gives the public a list of arrests and crimes that within the city but it doesn't

break them down by gender, sex, age or race, and this makes it very difficult to track who is being arrested, where they're being arrested and by whom they're being arrested tmakes it hard to understand why some disparities within the city are being caused and this leads to -- this has directly lead to some of the issues that the sfpd has faced when people bring up the fact that black and brown youth are arrested by the sfpd more than any other demographic within san francisco and this trend has been increasing throughout the baft couple of years and it's startling because we're seeing these youth being murdered by the sfpd with little or no repercussions to these officers. thank you. >> just out of curiosity. thank you for identifying those programs and i think the chief pass you his card. i will give you my card as well but i would

like you to look into project genesis that the san francisco police department created and we take kids to africa to learn about their heritage and where they come from every year. it's an ongoing program started by one of the officers here in the san francisco police department. there are various programs that have just begun and under development so we appreciate your comments and i certainly would appreciate talking to you about it. >> chief, do you want to add anything about the programs that we currently do? >> if you would just email me to that address i will get you all the information that you need. i am happy to come to speak to the three groups that you talked about. >> [inaudible] >> i am here just to share some statistics on behalf of my colleagues and i. so i am here

representing [inaudible] and the youth of san francisco so some articles we were able to cite from on center on criminal yesterday and 2012 and african-americans experience felony arrests higher than others and 3.-- [inaudible] higher than others in california. the san francisco explosion and felony arrests of african-american in 95 and 2009 period didn't occur elsewhere in the state and other areas. 40% drug arrests and have arrest rates higher than 50% -- i mean five times than the counter parts are in other counties. more than half youth drug felonies involve african-americans who constitute 9% of the city youth and 1/3 latino males who compromise 11%

of city youth. despite this disproportionality drug arrests and rates young young african-americans in san francisco of more than 2,000 residents and non residents in the city who have died from abuse of illicit drug in the last decade six of 10 were non latino whites and more than seven of 10 were able 40 and older. in 2009 even though african-americans represented this% of the population they [inaudible] narcotic arrests. sf weekly and the data base stand out as of [inaudible] -- 59% of gang members are black and 31 were hispanic. it's a notable chunk of the city that is only 6% black. less than 20% of gang members are black. no one had a proportion higher than 29%. >> thank you for coming and i appreciate all the statistics that you cited and those have

been shared in the past as well. the 2012 report referred back to 2010 and nine statistics so i don't know if the chief -- you probably don't have new numbers for us but -- >> if you give me that card now i will write a different email on the back but i will give you the current numbers as much as i have, and the commissioner is correct. most of those numbers that you're commenting from 2009. >> and the report was written after that but thank you for raising it. >> actually she didn't have enough time but i will finish. jeff [inaudible] is going to pursue a study and he found -- this is recent. he announced this last month -- >> who is your name? >> anthony jones. >> thank you. >> i am with the [inaudible] movement with the church and i used to be on the youth commission here in the city and

we kind of going through the same sentiment, and specifically we're speaking on the killings of unarmed black men and sort of the racial disparities in the criminal justice system. we feel that the police department as a community and the police commission yourself could be a little more progressive on this issue, specifically with youth representation. we are looking on trying to get you guys to put a youth on this body. it is important that the youth that are highly interactive with the police department are representing on this commission itself. barack obama trips and trifs to. >> >> africa are good but engraining the youth into the fabric of the city and democrat in and more impactful than that. the youth commission has been helpful in the community and youth in the community would be very active here as well and one of the misconceptions about this

movement it's an anti-police movement. some community has painted -- you know, this is more true in new york city and even in some areas here but this is a better police department movement, a better services movement, better transparency movement, a better relations and government movement, hiring movement, accountability movement. we are a community of youth and taxpayers too and we call on this body to act within its authority to have a police department that is prudent and critical in interactions with youth and particularly black and brown youth and it shouldn't be a legitimate fear that we get shot and hurt. we demand the same thing that is afforded to those that are not black and brown like ourselves. [applause] >> hello. my name is rita

lark. i live down in north beach place. i'm a resident there and i would like to ask a question. okay. i seen two people they're running around and get arrested and charged and it seems like every time you come down and pick them up they get right back out. the address is 567 bay street apartment 1511. 21 victims had home invasions, rapes, molested and robbed and home taken over and it didn't make sense to me, and i also want to know down in mcdonald's at the wharf there are them hanging out there too and they come in different shades, hispanics and african-americans are hanging around that mcdonald's and it's so bad my daughter doesn't want to go there and she can point them out and show them to me and

it's side that fisherman's wharf is having this and you have the individuals in the area or trying to follow you home or sock you and rob you. i had an information on safe way on the 31st where twoed have the s individuals were in the mall watching people and he wtake the money from her and i followed him and he disappeared. like i said they have security there but they need to tighten it up and look at the whole mall. i look at who is shopping in the mall. every point from the mall to the parking lot -- all of that needs to be patrolled. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is -- yeah, i want to use the overhead. i am paula brown. i haven't been here and i have been in school.

i finished with my finals. i would like to use the overhead. again i am here concerning my son abbrew casa who was murdered 2006 to a semi auto gun, 30 rounds of bullets went into my son and to this day i have no closure, no justice and as you know i always come here every wednesday, and i am back again, and i just want to bring awareness that people know who killed my son. here are the names of all the men, the young men that was there who murdered my son. thomas hannibal, thomas moveet, jaim [inaudible] hunter, maurice quarter. they're running the streets except for one of them. i don't think they should get away with what they

did to my child. i am still suffering. i will still going through it and i am tired. i need justice. i need some kind of closure. i don't think they should get away with what they have done. they can't say i was young. i was high. you still have to be accountable for what you have done. we talk about unsolved murders. my son's case is unsolved and all these men on here cased unsolved. all lives matter. all lives matter. i say that. i have this picture of my son that's laying on the gurney dead shot full of bullets. this is the only memory i have. i worry about my children i

have left. i tell them you don't want your mother standing over you. you don't want your mother standings over you. for me to be eight years out of my son's death and i am still going through it. it's sad. just see what i have to remember. i wouldn't wish this on the perpetrator's mother to go through what i am going through. please help me get closure. >> chief, you have the award poster and there is an award for anyone that aids in the investigation. >> do we have a number for anyone that aids in the case? >> yes. as ms. brown said one of the suspects is deceased and the other five are out there and 575-4444. area code 415 and anyone watching who has information we would appreciate it as we need help solving the

case. >> and the case number is 060-86-2038. please use that if anybody have any information i want to thank the project dream for the toys for the healing circle. thank you for them. thank you. >> thank you ms. brown. [applause] next speaker. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is emanuel and i have a complaint with -- actually i have a complaint about the office of citizens complaints, two valid complaints. one was the complaint i had filed about how to request documents from the san francisco police department. the officer that signed the

release form on both situations signed the release of one form on the eighth of january 2013 and signed the release of the same request with other dates and numbers a week later. now considering the fact that the officer and i at the time were in mediation for a different complaint at the occ i would have presumed that the officer was aware of the name and would have paid more attention and would have come up why these documents were altered. also i have complained 2-8 14 with the office of citizens complaints. that was addressed against -- [inaudible] i'm sorry just her name she had signed the form, and that's why it was directed

towards the chief. nothing personal against her but the office of citizen complaints claims they haven't been able to investigate that even though the sunshine ordinance task force has found the chief in violation. the office of citizen complaints maintains they can't find the records from the sunshine ordinance task force. the investigator assigned to the case has called me and left messages about the different case all together. my complaints to the officer of citizens complaints has gone unzeroed. a request for a hearing after the first -- i'm sorry. i guess i am out of time. >> so they're are representatives from the occ that can potentially answer your questions in detail but the time is up for general public comment. thank you sir. >> hello everybody. i am here as a resident of potrero hill.

i took off of work to be here so you guys almost made a grave blunder by about to take our officers. we have thompson, cater, delusa and august. those are the officers for potrero hill and taken us time to build a relationship with them and you're taking the sunnydale officers and move them and put officers into the public housing that different dealt with it. i make a suggestion you get out of the desks and put on the tennis shoes and go into the communities you're making the decisions for. i am glad it's rectified and it's not going to happen but i don't want it to happen later on. like i said you're the babysitters. the police are the babysitters. and you don't just let anybody baby sit the kids. you interview them and train them. the

officers need to be trained. we worked with them to get better quality of police officers in the community but when you have a couple of people saying they're not doing all right but when you have communities and everybody saying the same thing where you have officers -- excuse for language for lack of a better word, acting like ass, and you need to take accountability and really look at that and also as far as getting out into the community and getting to know the young people i feel good to see the young people walking in the door. i just put on facebook for people to start coming to the meeting. you might get mad at me but you need to get to know the young people and even though they do bad things they're not bad. trust me. i used to do bad stuff but i'm not bad and everyone can change the stripes but you need to get out into the community and ask what is not working and the last thing is and i'm not going to

say names but out of respect when people come to the meetings and speaking from their hearts nobody should be reading emails or going else. you should be paying attention to what everybody is saying because everybody's voice matters. >> can i make one correction though. you like it right? >> yes, i do. that's why i emailed. >> i want to make sure everyone knew that. >> i wanted to point out something there is an aspect and you expressed concerns about the redistricting pieces in the draft phase and i think your voice was heard loud and clear from this body and also the police department and i appreciate the way you approach today and shared those concerns. we're endeavoring to have the process for 90 days and i am sure there are other blenders we made. i guarantee you and i

appreciate the partnership. >> >> and we will try to make it right on the best day. >> what hurt the people in public housing they knew about it for months and nobody in public housing knew about it until -- i am not going to throw them under the bus. i can't tell you how we found out. but there was someone that said this is going on. and we knew what was going on. we had residents to come down and it's the lesser of two evils. you keep the ones you have instead of the ones that have no clue to who they're doing and we're thinking of all the young people. if the new officers come in and never dealt with public housing and don't know anything that's going to undermine everything and the young people are already at risk. our young men are really at risk and not just african-american men. it's young people period that are at

risk so you really need to look at and get from behind the desk. come to potrero hill. i will walk you through potrero hill so you can see the obstacles they have to go through just to chase somebody seriously because it's not a joke. you need to come out and get to meet the community. >> i will make a date. you're going to remember that, you and me in potrero hill. >> young lady that is powerful. get on the block. know what is going on. know the streets like i know. know what is going o first i have been on the phone this afternoon with new york and you talk about drama. there's some drama there. thank god we have commissioner bratton. he's in charge and the best cop that wore a uniform. when you don the uniform you have a lot of

responsibility and second of all commissioner sir your staff sucks but that's another subject. but san francisco police -- i was on the east coast for two weeks. i was in boston and new york. i don't feel the tension here. i don't feel it. i walk around and don't feel the inter-tension between the police and the citizens. in boston -- i swear to god. i was in roxbury. i felt it and sense it. the brothers -- all right. look out. there's a cop around. i honestly don't feel it here. i could walk around the tenderloin and the castro and a credit to you and the police commission and the chief. that's great. there is no tension here. i feel bad for commissioner bratton. he's dealing with that but he can

handle it. he's the best in the business. he built with the l.a. case with rodney king. he came in after that happened and he said "i got a mess and i have to deal with it" and commissioner marshal your program and the poa -- hey i heard him the other day. he was on the radio. now we got a winner. the poa guy, the president -- hey -- >> thanks clyde. reverend brown. >> madam chair, members of the commission chief suhr, if there were an earthquake is there a second of size and proportion of

seven or an eight. this citizenry and the leadership would do the sensible thing. deal with the emergency. the african-american community, the brown community, and under served communities find it very interesting that with all the tension that is going on in this nation around relationships with police departments. unfortunately in san francisco we have not responded with a sense of urgency. for instance, one year ago naacp, the

african-american faith communities spoke with the leadership of this department regarding three simple things that now president obama and mr. eric holder have said represent the best practices that would possibly improve relationships. number one training with those that are cad ats and all officers and the nuances and the distinctives of the communities they serve. number two, make sure that all police departments reflect the demographics of the community and equal opportunity is provided for all. it's just saddened all of us that the most recent graduation ceremony -- i

saw it on television. the evidence was there. no hearsay. out of 50 plus who were sworn in only two were african-americans, and in this department you're now on the decline in terms of the number of african-americans, and we can give you the evidence and the facts. when you have an integrated inclusive force hopefully you can have -- now, wait a minute you had dialogue with that young lady and at least respect the naacp president and not cut me off. you gave her more minutes and don't cut me off. >> how did you let me ask a question so i can give you more time. student: yes. >> can you give the third point because i heard everything you have to say. >> >> the third point is quality community based policing and

we're not talking about as the young man said it's all right. many of us been to africa and paid our own way including myself. i have been there 22 times since 1964. it's all right. nice trip. it's nice to go fishing. nice. get some exercise and some leisure time. nothing wrong with that but when it comes to the matter of having community based policing in which the police personnel knows the community and the community knows them this department has been resistant to that, and we can't understand. it's mind boggling. it's confusing. a simple request. you have officers who serve in communities who don't even know where the basic african-american institutions are. if you don't believe it go to some of the

desks. let some of the pastors show up to register their concern. these are facts. now we would like to think that things are improving. the arrest rates going down, all that good stuff, but i did take social statistics thank god in college. if your universe is miniscule or diminished you're going to get different outcomes so [inaudible] maybe murders are down. why are they down in the african-american community? because black folks have been jairchged yanked out of this town based on public policy [inaudible] let me make my point. >> thank you. >> you yanked us out of here so there is no need for us to play the numbers game. still the