cities threatens not only our physical health but our families and communities and social institutions and everything we partake in in this city our healthcare system as well. the violence that we're seeing is not only limited just to gun violence we're also seeing excessive rates of car break-in's and home break-in's and robberies and there are absolutely critical questions that i have on conviction rates and charges that are going through his office but i'm also here to really impress upon you that i'm not here to point the finger i think it's all within our best interests and responsibility even the folks that have come here for public comment to be mindful to be vigilant and pay attention and

i'm here to uplift the eighty thousand constituents that i represent their concerns we're definitely missing something i've got e-mails i wanted to turnover to you it's just a small stack but representative of some some of the concerns i'm hearing about car break-in's and for the record i represent the bayview and visitation valley and dog patch and each one of the corners is certainly touched by crime and not to say it doesn't touch everyone's lives but i'm particularly here to work on behalf of my constituents. chief, you foe the bayview i know it's a special place in your heart and you have i know a special commitment and i'm grateful for that and whether it's all hands on deck you saturate the neighborhood and i want you to know neighbors do appreciate and welcome it. and in 2013 there were over 400

calls for service around mendale plaza a small plaza. we've tried to act creatively with gospel music and chess and art and third on third and art installations i mean we're also building 12 thousand new homes in the shipyard and support the merchants along the corridor there's a lot of exciting momentum that's happening that's coming down and sweeping south down third third street but i'm concerned that that that he we just don't have enough officers and as you know i voted every year to support academy classes and i'll continue to to do that to do that as we continue to turn out talented young people and there's a couple of things i want to bring to your attention not only have i called an audit

on the city violence prevention services but also a request for a hearing just on police staffing levels as our city continues to expand we might need to revisit that 1971 charter mandate. >> our populations are growing and we need to make sure it's commisurate with the police force it's really critical. just this past tuesday that was yesterday i couldn't just yesterday i had the second reading on the gun violence prevention task force. this legislation passed unanimously with the support of my colleagues even a couple of my naysayers that's always nice when your haters say oh yeah that's a good idea. so the task force is going to be used as a vehicle to help coordinate

and strengthen some of the resources that i described earlier the public defender's office was part of this hearing i'm glad to see jeff here and i've introduced the hearing as to the result of the climate we're living in this is post prop 47 these are all general conversation happening but not coordinated so i'm bringing these issues and concerns to you madam clerk. these are e-mails that i want to just -- that's for me -- that i want to call in and list up these voices. this right here 91 pages of crimes that have been solved guns that have been pulled off the street but there's also calls of service that have been unanswered simple things like armed robberies and car break-in's and arrests all documented here

and i'm going to leave this for you too just a little something else to chew to chew and want to remind you the district is policed by 3. mission station on the north east side of side of the district bayview station and the ingle side station and the city's 4 largest housing districts are in this district and we need to to move forward this is critical people's lives are at stake and their quality of lives are at stake i believe we're moving but we need to move with urgency and purpose and i'm hear with an olive branch letting you know i'm a resource and i'm here to help you and will support you in any way possible and if we need to

go after federal dollars to strengthen our budget i'm happy to make that effort to our friends over in in washington, d.c. i appreciate you time thank you for allowing me a little bit over 3 minutes i hope you will listen with an open mind and heart. >> thank you supervisor. appreciate it. next speaker as speaker? >> my name is -- born raised work and live in san francisco the neighborhood where i work is represented by supervisor cohen. i work on utah street 101 utah street under the freeway been there almost 15 years and the and and the conditions there have been getting worse and worse and worse and you ask them where they are you will say they are in in a third world shanty

town it's no longer healthy there's garbage everywhere and i've been in contact with supervisor cohen and public works comes by cleans up the area and everyone comes right back in and we have companies there now it's called multimedia and all these huge companies in this neighborhood and it's not safe i don't feel safe in the neighborhood. there's tents, there's -- it's appalling an appalling situation the police officers do come but the situation is not getting better and that's why i'm here to express my deep concern. everyone in our building is concerned. all of our

neighbors we don't know what to do. we asked the police officers the regular police officers they say their hands are tied and i can i can understand why they might say that but we have to do something before something tragedy happens because at this rate something tragedy is going to happen all of the elements are there. that's all i have to say. >> thank you. next speaker? >> my name is carla and i'm here to echo pretty much what malia said and what the gentleman just before me said. i live on casada and third street for for 7 years i'm a property owner and i have a vested interest and i'm trying to open a restaurant on third

and i also have an arts studio on griffith and a day in my life is to wake up and say hello to the local drug dealer parked in in my driveway they get on my street at 6:00 a.m. we've documented this and there's crack heads and prostitutes and the younger kids all have guns and we all know them and the police know them, too. i tend to think this doesn't seem to be a police problem in the sense that they respond to us but they can't do anything. the people that are there come right back and there's no prosecution of anything. if a regular human being like me just an innocent bystander can see exactly who is responsible for what on a daily basis then

i know that the that the people that control things can see that also. last week my car was broken into wholly while i was walking my dog and the next day i was going around my corner and i was patient ly waiting behind a a truck that was blocking my street and they were loitering and talking which is totally normal my street is always blocked off by drug dealers and when the gentleman was going to drive away instead of driving away he backed up into my car and drove off. i got his license plate number and a photograph but the police station was too busy to take my report so i texted the captain the captain which i do quite frequently and then there

was no word on whether that person was caught you know i have good good insurance but 2 days later gun shots at my front door 1 week later a kid shot at my front door a person i could see. so this is what it's like in bayview it's gotten a lot worse it's easy to see who the perpetrators are and how to stop that particular little part but it seems that it's that it's a disaster zone and we need urgency we are scared i try to support and pay local youth to garden and i'm afraid to have them come out to the garden right now because i just don't want to be responsible for anyone getting accidentally shot you know? so it's really bad. >> thank you ma'am your time is up.

>> thank you. >> next speaker. >> my name is miss joshie i'm also from the bayview and i'm so glad to see our supervisor speaking on some of these issues that really concern us. i'm a business owner and i'm sad and frustrated by the recent gun violence in the bayview and as you know commissioner you are well aware of the work at the bayview children's wellness center. the impact is brutal and it lasts a lifetime over the past few months in meetings

and police captain robert owe sullivan robert the dna lab contracted by the sfpd is returning lab results from 9 months to a year after being sent evidence. in a city as progressive as san francisco such inefficiency is unacceptable and harbors on negligence. we want a 48-hour turn around at least for gun violence cases they are the most critical results to keep our kids and our families safe. requiring sfpd to contract with a more efficient dna lab is an easy fix and requires your cooperation and probably

lobbying for a little more money for the sfpd and it might be one of the easiest things you have run across all year and thank you for hearing us. >> next speaker? >> good evening commissioners. i am a member of bright same as the former speaker and i live at 4800 third street i want to talk tonight about the off the charts shootings in my neighborhood. unfortunately gun violence is an norm now and that that shouldn't be. this is bayview's town center close to the opera house where a lot of children's programs are and gun violence is common there and in fact a year or so ago a a 5-year old child was

caught in the cross fire between 2 dualing gangs and of course you know about the young mom killed last wednesday i guess the mother of 3 in broad daylight these things should not be, commissioners so i'm here to support the requests of my neighbors for additional officers for bayview and while i recognize more officers are not going to solve completely the problem i think it would go a long way towards helping and i'm advocating for more support for officers thank you again. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello my name is mike yoshioka i'm a resident and manage an underfunded community center. i just wanted to point

out quickly my 3 incidents i've had with the police there was some vandalism at our center and took over 3 days for the officers to respond to my first phone call and the second time was when the police officers broke over my fence trying to pursue someone which they that and then the third and most recent someone broke into our community center stole a flat screen tv and the call went in at 12:00 p.m. last friday and wasn't until the following monday that that the officers came out. the kids in the community are watching the reaction and it puts value on the community center but also puts a value on how they perceive their own community i'm going to leave it at that

i just want to reiterate everything said before we do need more police presence and support but i want to introduce a person from the community he's the only young person representing young people. >> hello my name is irir i'm just speaking on behalf of the bayview and the community center and we'd like you know more funding and on behalf of like -- trying to better ourselves and as me as coming out of bayview hunters point and artist i've got younger looking up to me and i'm trying to show them there's bigger and better things in life you know and i see so much talent in my area and it's so hard for people for people to be able to see it because there's no

support or funding in this -- just trying to better ourselves and move on not only from the violence and drugs and all that but moving on and uplifting our whole community. that's all. >> thank you. imir what's the name of the community center can you tell me again? >> oakdale barn? >> yeah, city of dreams. >> thank you. public defender. >> good evening. i'm here today to express my outrage and disappointment at the arrest of one of my deputies fellow city employee named jamie tillison an tillison an

18-year veteran of the public defender's office very professional and skilled and she was arrested and put in handcuffs and detained for over an hour last tuesday and i received a text that one of my deputies had been arrested by the police i responded to the southern station and asked whether i could see the deputy, received no response was told i could not speak to my deputy. i identified myself as her lawyer i do serve as a public defender in san francisco and i then contacted the chief who returned my call but he was in in washington, d.c. and he directed me to speak with his chief of staff who is here in the back. i did speak with her and we went down to the southern station together. i was still not allowed access

but she was and as she came out and told me that the deputy you know would be released she was detained miss tillison was detained for about an hour and subsequently released and afterwards it came to my attention there were several videos taken of the incident and i watched those videos and interviewed miss tillison and others and what happened one of the deputies came into the court and told her that one of her clients who had a matter on calendar earlier that day was being detained outside. she advised her client that he did not have to speak with the police at that point there were five police officers including a

sergeant inspect or in the hallway and was attempting to question her client. she advised the inspect tore and this is on the video i'm just curious -- has anyone seen the video? okay. she advises him on the video that the client does not want to speak with him and does not want the picture taken at which point she is arrested and she's -- just to give you a sense of what she experienced -- in front of everyone in the hallway there were defense attorneys and district attorneys i've never seen anything like this she was handcuffed and carted away and you can see on the video the look of shock by the client standing there and seeing the lawyer hauled away after she's

taken away, the sergeant questions the client as well as the other person who was the codefendant in the codefendant in that case and he's asked to pose for pictures which he does . this incident i think really reflects poorly on our city. you know, we have a reputation for being progressive and having a progressive police department yet what what you see in this video is the attorney whose responsibility it is to assert rights for clients that's what we do as public defenders advise clients of their rights, being hauled away to a court house of all places and afterwards i made it clear that we wanted angie and

an, apology and instead there was a public statement made saying what they did was completely justified and at that point the case was referred to the district attorney for prosecution and i had a videotape of the incident and i decided that we were going to show the videotape at a press conference i contacted the chief via text let him know hopefully you received that. we've always had a good relationship and i've always made it a point to communicate as he has with me and the defendant head and fellow department head. but you know, i did that because i really felt that we had no no choice so we published the video i did not give the video to the police department because i wanted to make sure that the inspector had written his

statement first before seeing the video and i thought that was very important but i did provide a video to the police department and they provided me with a copy of the report. in the report the inspector said something very different he claimed miss tillison was obstructing his ability to take photographs and if you look at the video you will see nothing like that and that she stepped in front of his client that wasn't true and miss tillison is all of 5-foot tall. he took pictures even before he interacted with her. i still have not heard what's happening with this case. i haven't heard anything from the police department or the district attorney's office as to whether this case has been

investigated what's happening. i hope you just don't remain silent the world certainly hasn't remained silent. 2 days after we posted the video we've had over a million hits we've received letters of support from all over the country and the next day after the incident we received 1700 e-mails from individuals expressing outrage and again i think this reflects poorly on san francisco you know i would hope this is not the policy of the police department. it's a supreme court case in case you are wondering -- if the police detain they must deal with the attorney that the attorney is the representative of that person and she was just advising them of their rights

they they are entitled to know. with respect to questioning them about another crime i, you know, would point out that the supreme court says that if they questioned them about another crime they have to obtain a waiver of the right to counsel there is nothing on the videotape that indicates this. i saw in a gossip column that some sources in the police department claim that the reason they were photographing these young men was because they had clothing that was similar to burglars wearing and i would note there's nothing in the police report that indicates that at all i'd question that again because the police report you would think if that was the reason he was taking these photographs it would be in the police report so i hope that as a commission that you just don't remain silent because your silence would speak volumes and i think

that at a minimum miss tillison is deserving of an, apology for what she went through for doing her job. >> thank you. we're still in public comment i think my my colleague wants to respond to one thing. >> i have a question for you i saw the video i didn't see the public statements. >> i read it on the sf gate. >> the second thing the supreme court case you are talking about do you have a site a cite r a cite for that? >> i don't have the cite i can give that to you. >> thank you. and to note -- i understand that there is an occ complaint that was filed which means there there will be an investigation from the occ's perspective and i'll certainly give the chief a chance to respond and share the

defendant's perspective. >> it was a 2009 supreme court case. i can e-mail it to you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi good evening this is my first time. my name is ricky chan i lived in san francisco 18 years just moved to the bayview district about 5 years ago and a lot of the activity on third and casada in the last year -- this past year alone there were 4 shootings that i actually through my encounter and i heard it from my house and the last one i heard, one of the kids got killed i think this part past saturday or

last week? the the two incidents that i saw i was talking to the neighbor you know since there's a lot of different groups of gang and drug dealing, i see the person draw the gun and start shooting down the block. luckily doesn't shoot my direction and also for growing up in the camirrouge i know what to do i grabbed a neighbor and it's just crazy so that's from past experience but in terms of the gang and the drug dealing i've been reporting to captain o sullivan and he's been receptive i appreciate it so we have the right number and he show up quite often i mean send the police over but the problem

happen again and again and this past year that block is really really bad. you can't even drive around the corner there on third and casada because there's so much cars a lot of gang there and i'm afraid i'm going to be cross fire and carla live right in the corner i always worry about her there's always shooting in that corner and i heard that's this year. i would like to recommend there's 2 banks on that corner and maybe it's a good idea to install a camera there maybe some deter ence this last incident i got an inquiry from the police to g