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that i'm back 6 years ago and here is hitler who put me on the street concentration camps in san francisco for -- i need help. six police came to my home at 12:00 at night and it's only to come at 12:00 at night. six police came. yes, my wife said to she wanted me to evict and she said to police that i'm a drug user and i never know. if i see somebody is using on this corner, i go on this corner.
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officer from richmond police station came. six people for me. okay? six police. like this. police. chief listen to me. they asked me if i'm using and i said never. >> sir, excuse me, sir. your time is up. i'm over here. thank you. your time is up. >> okay. >> it's up now. sir? your time is up now. thank you. >> sir, if a representative from the officer of citizens complaint, i think you might have talked before but you can talk to him about your specific complaint. thank you, sir. >> why are you here? >> sir, it's required 2
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minutes for public comment. we give everybody 2 minutes oovm good evening i'm with life science in mission bay. currently we are going to find ourselves in the bayview district. our request is a simple one and that is if you would consider moving the southern boundary from 16th street to mariposa to include all of mission bay and all of the life science community in one area. >> thank you, next speaker? >> my name is jake. i'm a new
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tenant for business and right next door to catherine. the warrior station or the warrior stad stadium -- i know it's going to cause a lot of confusion. there can be coordination with the police department but we can eliminate it by moving tools to manage the line to mariposa. i live in modesto but i work here. it's the first time i have been to one of these. i want to say i respect the police department and i love everything they do and love we said the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you, sir. ms. brown. >> my name is clet brown. all
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lives matter. i lost my son august 14, 2006 , to a semi automatic gun. 30 rounds of bullets went into my son. since then i have been fighting for justice for my son. i bring these pictures because this is how i speak and talk about my son. in the paper, former gaeven newsom said i know who killed your son. still no justice. i care the names and you -- around with me. all of these men. it's been 8 years. i get emotional. these are the names of the young men that murdered my
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son. andrew, jason thomas, anthony hunter. these people are still walking the streets and kill again. this is what i have left of my son that i walk around and that i have to see everyday. his body laying on a gurney. how long is a mother supposed to deal with this. i don't care if i have to come crying for the rest of my life i will do this. there are days i don't want to cry. i'm tired. i need justice for my child an not just my child. it's about every child here. we are traumatized. the four young men that got murdered recently traumatized me again. they died in a chair, a car where they couldn't get out of. young men. imagine what those mothers are going through. imagine what i go through.
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those bullets going through those children's bodies. if you can find people come here and solve these cases, solve our kids cases too. we need justice and i need to follow you for the rest of my life, i will. i'm not judging anyone and i'm not saying anyone killed my child here, but i need justice. >> for people who are watching at home, there is still an open investigation to the murder of ms. brown's son from august 2007. there is a $250,000 reward. if you have information it's 415-575-4444. an anonymous tip line. please share any information that you have in that case. next speaker? >> thank you for letting me know where we are at tonight. i'm a member of black and brown. in san francisco, i don't care where you put
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these damn stations at. we want safety in san francisco. i recently went online, you know when her son died, she opened the casket up so the world can see it. i always came in this world being non-violent like matter rtin luther king jr.. i have to defend myself. where they have fires and you can be hated for being gay. i fought through a great deal. >> you want everyone to hear you. speak in the mic. >> i'm like oprah, she said i'm speaking for people of color and everybody. this is the only thing i have left. somebody tried to set my apartment on fire before christmas. we know there are drugs and people with mental health, s ro's we
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don't get the security we need. it's time we have cameras and we want more police to work in the areas. we can't depend on you. we know san francisco can be better. if we don't get this, it doesn't matter. when you don't use technology to take people off the earth instead of pushing them out, then you are part of the problem. and we know that what's going on here in the tl and south of market, you know, you all let that go to people who don't want that. it's time you know, look at this audience here tonight. it doesn't look like you. it looks like the real earth here. we want to work and live safe in our houses and live safe in our community and known -- no one has a right to come here. thank
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you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> okay. i'm andrew brian here representing yerba buena gardens and mission bay park, we manage both on behalf of this city. we are thrilled to have the southern station boundaries include mission bay and we have one concern that is one of the cultural major parts of the city is yerba buena gardens that are in two different districts. we have a major relationship with all the three different districts and with response to the protest in yerba buena gardens we have found two challenges of being in the bay district. if the tenderloin is the best to redistrict. we
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ask you to consider that. i know the other thing that i worry about the kinds of response time that police have to get to that side. it maybe, i believe somebody said about the polk street boundary. i would rather see the tenderloin row at that end to provide better service at the civic center in the district and around the park and to have us be in 1st district. we know it's a challenging thing. i hope that the commander and the captain are very proud to someone who wants to fight and stay in the southern. i appreciate your consideration. >> thank you, mr. brian. next speaker? >> good evening commissioners, i'm alice rodgers, vice-president of the south beach mission bay neighborhood association and basically i just want to second the letter that we
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sent you and the comments the president made. we really appreciate the process that you've used to establish the boundaries. we think what you are recommending is good with a possible extension from 16th to mariposa. that said, we also firmly support all neighborhoods. if it comes to be that other neighborhoods concerns mean that you need to switch the boundaries again, we certainly support that. we just want to be sure that every station staff is adequately staffed so they can meet their obligations. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is kathy moffat, the director of the yerba buena district and also member of the
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commission advisory board with katie. i want to start off by saying that the ybcd has not taken an official position yet. we understand the neat for the change and feel that it's based on data that others have talked about. one of the things that happens to our boundaries because we are from second to 5th is we will go from being with 1st district to three districts and there are other areas in san francisco with multiple changes. somewhat difficult. we also have very close relationships with the police department and have an officer with us 10 hours a day and we are told that we will not have an affect on that we appreciate that very much. as you put the the final touches on this that you might consider looking at the boundaries of cbd's on the market street corridor when you
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consider your boundaries. >> thank you very much, next speaker? >> good evening commissioners, member of the police department, kim. my name is jordan lewis. i'm a business owner in district 6 and also represent a newly formed merchants association. we just wanted to speak to, appreciate all the hard work that the police department is doing and network that we are also trying to get online with our focus on the valley and putting up series of lights up and came raus -- cameras up as well inform -- to get data on crime to let the police department know so they can process some of these crimes. the car thefts
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and drug dealing and what not. we are looking to just get our alley clean and make district 6 a better place. >> thank you, mr. lewis. next speaker. >> my name is kathy, the president of the newly organize salvation called the -- fairmount residents. i'm here to talk about some resources i feel are very important. one, i understand they are retraining and it's something that hasn't been done for a long time especially the new officers and it's time to revisit it if it's been too long. this is sensitivity training for all officers whether new or old would be important. what about the southern district, you are talking about moving the line from market street down towards mission, but then
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you've got not necessarily enough in the south of market area that are visible because there are areas where there is a lot of stuff that goes on that is not necessarily good. to see more cops out there would be and if people in the community can respond better and know what this is all about. then, the west field mall that there should be they should hire more private security because this will help eliminate taking the resources from the tenderloin or soma and they should be able to sleep much better. to think about that machine with the phones, i agree with the gentlemen. remove it. that's in the basement where people can go where they have a phone and they can sell it. i would say
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have that removed because it's very bad right there and the substation on 6th street. is that going into tenderloin and then what about my concern is that the station, the new police station so far out that there is something there closer for this so ma. i would appreciate you address that too. >> next speaker. >> hi, my name is jamie wild. on mission street between 7th and 8th. i'm very involved in that spot between the tenderloin and southern district. i completely agree with some of the things you are doing which is keeping mission street and all the new residents literally thousands
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of people moving into that area, in southern. at least we have them in southern and we think it's going well. but i think you need to consider what a lot of the other people said about the borders of the tenderloin. it makes sense to move the market to tenderloin and keep the beet which is so crucial to the quality of life and you need to include the civic center all the way to van ness because having that center divided between northern and -- tenderloin doesn't make sense. there is activity there that needs to be handled by tenderloin. i think you need to consider that border. the other thing i ask is that we further
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activate the 6th street substation. we really need them in and out of that. that part of southern we need to concentrate in the mid-market, central market southern district. it's the headquarters is going to move to the mission bay, that's really far away. the big district. we need to put beats and we need them out of the sixth street substation. that is basically what i would like to ask for. we have huge quality of life issues in this little piece of central market. the camping the tents, the drug activity and the human waste and so on needs to be addressed. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> good evening, patrick valentino, the vice-president of the south beach
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mission bay merchants association. i agree with the comments made by the other folks in the mission bay about the boundary line. i want to talk about the resources. the city has become more complex, it's growing and it's a great place for everyone . we have some challenges in the south market area especially growing and becoming completely covered. the demand are high and we have an influx of people around town and this creates a great amount of challenges and they have limit confidence in the research that exist and don't take away but add as much as possible to the resources to the department over all
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and specifically southern station. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, mr. valentino. next speaker. >> i live up the road. i have a technical question. when you say the line is on mission street and you say that the whole street both sides of the street will be in the southern station, i just want to make sure that i understand that the properties that are on the north side of mission street who have front doors on mission street will those properties be in southern also? you have a front door on mission and that property is included, but stevenson will be in the tenderloin? okay. thank you. we have a lot of camping and a lot of tenting and a lot of drugs, a lot of needles, a lot of throwing up and a lot of urine. i would like to invite you down and walk through it with me
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sometime. thank you. >> thank you, mr. fink. >> welcome, hello. >> my name is jackie bryson and i have been sitting and listening and i learned a couple of things. i learned we have house boats and we also have a location where you can sell stolen, oh my goodness. you can't hear me? stolen cell phones for cash. that needs to be made go away. i love house boats. i also want to thank the chief for being here and listening to people from the district. their concerns are very different than from tenderloin although some of the tenderloin area is going to be taken over into southern and southern is going to need to expand an area of mission bay. i'm looking forward to the changes in how
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they are implemented. i also want to suggest that at some point there be an evaluation of how it's working. so, that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you, ms. bryson? any further public comment? okay. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. now people who have questions of chief of the captain do any of the members have questions for the captain or chief or controller. commissioner hwang? >> i want to say thank you for the comment we heard tonight. i heard a number of folks raise the 16th and mariposa and if the chief officer can talk about why the line was set at 16. >> it's a draft map. by know
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means, there were maps that went to 16th street. the line was set on 16, to my understanding, it wasn't that -- it's a cleaner line. it's a more major street to mariposa. it's common sense on what the neighborhood would have. i don't think it's going to shift the work load that substantially that the commission may not entertain that. >> could you also address the same issue it's dividing of civic center? >> the proposal that it goes on market street. the reason it was put there because to move it to polk street to van ness avenue would include 600 and the federal building and because of the literally scores of vaentsd demonstrations that take place in the areas, that would take
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substantial resources to put the officers from the tenderloin and they were adamant that they didn't want anything to take the officers away from them. because it's such a dense district for population that they cherish their beat officers than the cars than the officers travel by car. >> to that point, chief, i wonder if we can hear from captain deflippo. the concern of the residents is having this mall in this district and that they are competing with businesses in growing police resources and it seems like there is a consensus that nobody is crying alligator tears to losing west field mall from the district . i want to hear about that because we have a share of the reverse concern that they want beat officers and don't want to compete with the businesses that drive this.
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>> no officers in the area will not change. our chief said that's going to be the same. actually the number is going to grow as more classes, records, the number of officers in the area will grow and you will see more officers on the street, on the beat in vehicles in the future. that's good. as far as west hills mall there are a great number of retail thefts. it has been a great resource. it is the mall. they do have security. they are doing the best they can. we have met with the mall. i met with them just yesterday to discuss recent events and threats on the shopping mall itself. the beat cops are still going to be there. whoever that is mall it still that is same resources. it's not going to change. the calls for service will probably go from the southern district to the tenderloin. >> about the proposal around
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having more private investments for the needs of the mall, i think i read the letter about union square that there is a deal for the merchants. i don't know if that's appropriate for the chief to weigh in on. so one of the problems is that private security guards can prepare incident reports but they don't make arrest. so the officers have to come even if it's a citation. since this and this is what we are hearing a lot from the retail community, since prop 47, there is less custodial reps and it doesn't take the officers off the beat as much because they write a ticket. as they write the ticket, they leave the person that might be more prone to do more thefts and if it's a continuing offense, it never becomes a
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felony as it used to be preprop 47. that's a new landscape. however many security guards you have with more security guards present, there would be no need to make an extra report and accept the ca citizens arrest or the like. but the down side if there are more security guards, they are going to make more arrest so we have to define this. i would like to say that with regard to officers working we have a very aggressive highway plan that was unanimously approved by the board of supervisors in 2012 and we have been hired three classes a year. the mayor's office, we are working
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with a fourth academy class for the next fiscal year. which will be 100 more officers than anticipated within the next year. >> thank you, chief. colleagues, other questions? >> dr. marshall? >> no, again, just like all these meetings, thank you all for coming out. thank you for your concerns. i think we heard the major ones. if you didn't get any feedback on, you are welcome to do that when the meeting is over and continue prepping us or sending us your concerns and how you feel about the proposal. thank you >> anything else, colleagues? no. commissioner turman? >> i was thinking about his comments
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and if there was a way to arrange with dpw. i work downtown and i know the problems he's speaking of with the urine and people throwing up and needles being found. i'm just thinking that perhaps there is something that we can do and maybe we should arrange a trip down there to look at what's going on down there and see what other kinds of recommendations we can jointly come up with to address the quality of life issues out there. i will talk to detective monroe about that. >> great. okay, hearing no other questions. please call the next line item. >> line item 3, adjournment. >> colleagues, do i have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? okay. motion passes. thank you everyone.
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