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f relying or whatever can buy it pharmaceuticals if you have the right amount of money awhile law enforcement law enforcement in the tenderloin is necessary the way we plan to use this resources the neighborhood is really from through cover officers they were charged and convicted of pleasing on the members of our community such a i want to increase the number of police officers to insure the members of my union nor meeting with the representatives and signing up for health care and childcare and healthy care and sat classes and other things i'm compelled to be weary of the for us we're asking to be protective of our neighborhood i'm histohoping this is a start of our conversations we're asking the officers in this community
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to undertake to be clear i'm seeking to reduce the crimes that are committed in this community and harmful effects and holy we can not only prevent the crime but more importantly create the sustainable development inside this community a neighborhood that improves of quality of life for all neighborhood but prelim i'm advocating for the smaller. >> thank you, mr. fuller thank you (clapping) >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> what a great turnout tonight commissioners, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak i'm steven tense i've lived on geary street for 10 years my hotel is served by the station in the intersection of the central and i and i'm
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involved with the community inside and outside the hotel through a collaborative and the organizes i'm a board member of state of california and been a fire captain for 2 years i'm with the heath store coalition i tell you this i'm deeply connected to the business owners and others on geary street it's been my experienced with when i call the police the responses have taken hours i speak about the businesses they tell me they need better response times and foot patrols i see kids walking to school they need protection from 9 tenderloin station as well geary street should building served by the tenderloin station the station best excepted to handsome the residents of the sro's and i'd
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like to add one thing silicon valley's as long as we view the tenderloin as a containment zone it will be a war zone thank you. >> thank you very much (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners thank you for having us here appreciate it i'm a tenant leader and resident of the hotel in my hotel the residents say they would like a safe neighborhood and the police have are not accomplishing this goal we live in the tenderloin and should be part of the tenderloin. >> thank you, david. >> many of my neighbors are formally homeless and disability struggling to overcome addiction and need mental health enters we need the police to respond to our needs right now they're not
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accomplishing this in the northern station being at the intersection is really a receipt for disaster people like me in sro's and others are concerned members of the community we expect even though police to protect and serve us as a community at this time. >> can we close the door so we can hear you. >> at many times we're asking for the sfpd to hear us and respond to our needs as a community tenderloin strict should include geary up to polk so that way we have a clear-cut boundary for our district thank you. >> thank you mrs. addicting son welcome (clapping.)
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hi, i'm sergeant lopez and i represent the latino people in the i want to thank you. good evening and a lot of people say doing a big campaign at the park this is on larkin so the latino is doing that that mother of pearl we started in 2014 until now and we're still doing everything at the mclaren park so our proposal is for the future for the kids and their families and all of you you know arrest because this park is on the edge of the north station and we want to see it's included
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in the tenderloin station but now i show you one of our things i was working this week here it is south and 14th (clapping) so, now i just want to say put your faith if you are with the proposal with the sro thank you. >> let the record reflect that's pretty much everyone. >> (laughter). thank you >> i'm going to help to
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translate. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good evening. i'm mar crews and it's a privilege to be here to represent the latino a. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm just here to speak about the importance of excluding larkin in the tenderloin police boundary.
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>> (speaking foreign language.) >> as a mother you know i'm thinking of any children and we believe that well, we see that there's rampant drug dealing and crime on larkin street we believe this is one step in the right direction for complend extending the boundaries.
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>> (speaking foreign language.) >> all right. i'm going to try to remember everything the jest she's urging you today commissioners to heed our proposal and really speaking from a place of love as a resident and mom it's incredibly difficult to walk through the streets with her children she's here to ask for your support we can work together and improve the safety of the neighborhood (clapping.)
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thank you very much thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so hello good evening. i'm here representing the latino as. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and we're here with the proposal of increasing safety in the neighborhood and unif you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them the community to have a neighborhood cleaner for our families and
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children. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you thank you (clapping.) >> next speaker. >> she says working together when we work together this makes us strong and gable of making the changes and in the tenderloin (clapping.) >> next speaker. >> thank you. >> good evening good evening, commissioners this is really a pleasure to be able to come before you i'm mr. gilmore a community organizer for the sro collaborative and one of the leaders spoke will the plans we have and so she mentioned there's other organized and individuals
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who supportive this so i'd like to share with you who those individuals organizations are so as follows: north of market and the tenderloin benefits district great american music hall and san francisco city academy mercy housing, chinatown community development center. >> reinforce market and sf c san francisco friends cycle and turner power restaurant and north bruce land and vacation cutting bell theatre kathy cadillac hotel aunt charles and rodman's market and j f development and jason man hotel management and cab by a hotel and siberia security and rod mini win hotels, yucatan and
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uc tobacco fox market uncle cafe and longs jury and the market, late income tax services and the owner of 493 eddy street and the delhi restaurant, brooklyn pizza and dollars and cents and snoom market and time foods market and jim coroner restaurant so if you're keeping score that's a total of 402 individuals or organizations i know they're staying in one collective voice they care about the community and this is their way of casting their support thank you very much. >> thank you and colleagues, we
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have a list of all the names so thank you >> next speaker. >> hi, i'm steven frosty work with the social services we deal with a lot of the neighborhoods when we first moved into this gardener told don't call the police will drug dealings because they're not coming down this was one of my concerns the other day i saw men shooting up in the halfway the other thing that concerned me too many tax breaks to places like twitter and corporations like nordstrom rock many of those make millions of dollars but want to take. >> police reporting and drag it
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down i have no problem i'm against shoplifting and the violence but no need to be distracting our police from the neighborhood we work and live in and we defer to have a safe passage around my neighborhood around pill hill we have 4 streamline schools kids have to walk to school i watch the kids if masonic to the civic center and come straight which len worthy they don't walk they run its american people unrespectable situations i've 2r568d around the country side and country side around the world and i've never never seen any type living situations as we do here in san francisco this is a disgusting deplorable way people are having to deal with on a daily base it it's unsafe
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and urban saturday morning we've people that come down troublgs to collect needs on the street did that make sense you you >> thank you very much. next speaker. (clapping.) good evening tenderloin good evening. i'm eco i'm in a supporter and in plastic two hotels one is the haiti harlan hotel when is on the corner of geary and larkin being a manager there i dealt with cars running into the this i've dealt with fire implosions and you name it the response time from northern. >> i don't know they're here.
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>> it's not as fast as it should be because being a supportive manager in my job creates hope and community and above all i need my tenants to feel safe right now i manage the seneca hotel i'm the manager on 6th, 346th street i just got there and love my hotel if the proposal excludes this it is going to be difficult for me to support any tenant and the other residents under the tenderloin that's going to interfere when there's robberies going on in front of my building and dope dealing in front of any building and all of those other things happening all i'm asking you,
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please reconsider stretching auto our proposed lines it excludes k includes polk street let's get shelter and i need my b cups i need them only 6th i need to create this hope my tenants some of them this is all they have and know so thank you. please reconsider. >> (clapping.) >> next speaker. >> hello my name is a mr. pickens i'm one of the people you guys are talking about i'm 2k07b8d open donald pickens a convicted drug dealer in the tenderloin i can the law what works okay. the beat cops work their front yard of the beat cops they're not front yard of
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your district plan because it's a joke because it opens up for the guys who lives in the richmond and west oakland not even the drug dealers live in san francisco they're not from san francisco i remember a time you got busted 40 in san francisco and not from san francisco you paid and high bill or sat in jail it is no alternative not to come over here anymore and that's real you know you know when you guys - when we used to take the rejects in the tenderloin people started and went home because they knows eventually they're to get service and ask them where
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theirs id that scares them more than anything that's all i have to say. >> thank you that's a lot. >> next speaker >> good morning, commissioners my name is michael hearing tony live at the seneca hotel on 6th and market i'm with the collaborative on third street we've spent countless hours putting the word out to that the street to our hotels and businesses about the new police boundary in the tenderloin be strict the central collaborative has their own proposal it makes it easier and more sufficient for the police to patrol the tenderloin better and serve our residents i feel like the shopping malls in the drug infested areas like polk street and geary right around in there
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it will take longer waste time for the police to come also, we have children in the tenderloin where children play they need to be protected and safe too the children are our future so, please reconsider and put the collaborative proposed boundary into effect as quickly as possible thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm kevin stall a pedestrian safety structure and a member of the pedestrian safety safety committee i fully emancipation proclamation enforce our plan to bring the border up to polk street and have one not two of the malls in our district having two malls will only double the cause of services for
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shoplifter and cvs on the job services to the neighborhood we desperately need as a pedestrian and safety organizer the one thing i deal with people who are injured and killed in our streets of the tenderloin which has some of the most dangerous corridors in the city so the one of the good things about having the extension of the boundaries the police will have no more resources to deal with the crimes which injuries and fatalities by cars is one the highest in the city especially, since some of the extended border elders are the most dangerous from the city i want to make sure that the police are focusing on the dangerous
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drivers are speed and run through the red lights and in the tenderloin you know dummies trying to run them over and stuff and make sure they keep our city and streets safe people are afraid to cross the streets they're afraid of getting killed we need a police force to stop those crazy drivers i endorse having more resources as they extend the borderers that's what i like to see happy. >> (clapping.) thank you. next speaker. >> you need any? yeah. thank you inspector monroe >> thank you. good evening commissioners i'm mary ingram i
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was compelled to come here and speak because the egregious behavior i've seen with people with district attorney handled by the pleased matthew hoff man was killed outside the mission police department he was showdown immediately by the police why was he shot should quickly in the police are spoemd to be trained in crisis intervention in the office that killed him was not trained in preservation and if increase not enough officers trained in crisis interference and the police use a shot first policy shouldn't all officers that interact with the public be crisis intervention trained i'd like to
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introduce the martin luther king where the police tried to hit a man out of his wheelchair despite him having a spinal cord injury being paralyzed when i was a commissioner on the marijuana oversight committee in san francisco i was part of a police mandated group with chef functioning and lawyers and medical cannabis patience or patient to address issues of people with disability people that use medical cannabis face if a in a police encounter encuriosity people with physical and mental and intellectual disabled 38 that's why i'm sickened and worried about involving mr. frier ton and hoff
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man it seems like not only crisis intervention for all officer is warranted that basic sensitivity training is needed for all officers dealing with the public so people with disability and people of color and all communities are not marginalized and endischarged when encountering police thank you. >> (clapping.) >> next speaker. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> hold on. >> hold it. >> good evening commissioner president loftus and
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commissioners chief suhr and captain char in his and supervisor kim still my name is carla johnson the director at the san francisco mayor's office on disability i am not a resident but work on market and the plazas i'm here to speak about the prior son as quay saw in a video that went environmental a person with a wheelchair person he was fined in an interaction with a police department officer that appears to be pushing him off a curve and tilt him out of his cheer it went environmental it's disturbing to see a person with disability treated that this way and san francisco is indemnify mire moot missouri or new york we have a police force i respect
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and trust this incident is linked to the boarder wide conversation about the civil rights of people that are blackwood and brown and white and disabled to be safe in their interactions with the law enforcement i know this case is under investigation by the intermittently affairs division and the office of citizen complaint i know any investigation is confidential while all the facts are being gather and no one here want to leap to community colleges until we know more i'm here to urge the commission and our police chief to make a statement about this case start with something like the mission of the san francisco is to provide for the safety of the entire community our officers are trained to respect the individuals and be
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sensitive to the diversity of the resident as the chief i don't tolerate any acts by any loving that violates the human right this will be thoroughly investigated i don't know what the outcome will be. >> ma'am our time is up. >> please set the tone for those contestants about rights. >> thank you. next speaker. (clapping) >> my name is lisa an artist and activist that lives in san francisco i have an address i have multiple disabilities on november around 2 amy was awe woinld from my sleepy heard screaming of a woman it was intense like someone was being killed i jumped out of bed and
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ran across the street i found a small body person with a bag over her head being held down by 5 cops i start filming she screamed and competed the officers to get their hands off the heads the police officers shown flashlights into my eyes i told him i live here and heard screaming and feared for that person's safety so i'm filming why did the police officers shine the light in my camera and uses it was scary i if people are not doing anything wrong they should welcome being filmed and it's our right to film them the police came