next speaker. >> my name is angela jenkins and i appreciate the hearing today and i want to thank you for the opportunity to encourage our leaders to look fearlessly at the policing and congratulate this committee for voting to divest from funds that in part cruelty to animals is very important that we look at that and it's a big move forward. it takes tremendous courage to prevent cruelty to animals and proof that the city earns to be known as a humanitarian hero but if we invest time, energy and funds into systems, structures, organizations that repeatedly dehumanize african-americans, other people of color can we really truly call ourselves a humanitarian hero? my

suggestion of going forward have been reiterated and spoke of. in particular i would like to address the patrol specials, particularly under san francisco police department. i personally had an experience where there is bias there as well. i surface this and sent it directly to the internal affairs committee about five years ago and i haven't heard from it. there was a statement that was questionable by a person under the auspices of san francisco police department. i will follow up with that but i do congratulate the committee today. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. with a bay area organization. i'm going to talk about three stories which i

think exhibit both structural racism this the system, dehumanization of clients in the system and implicit bias. as far as racism one of the things the community can do to understand what is going on is literally walk into any of the departments in the hall of justice and look at the individuals coming out and question whether this is explicit or implicit bias in arrests or charging or in negotiations or is it a question of putting resources in the wrong area? maybe there should be more resources in youth development programs or things of that nature so young people are not caught up in the system. dehumanization and imagine a situation where your young son

or daughter has been accused of a homicide. a judge looked at the case and said there is no evidence and threw the case out and you're going to trial on a lesser charge and the district attorney comes in and says sorry i am charging with a homicide again and now plead to a strike because i'm going to use this as leverage against you and you're a parent wait a second. my child was looking at a couple years and now they're looking at life and think about whether that could happen to any individual in the city besides an african-american in a project here and that has happened to clients of ours. the last point is one of explicit bias which is there's something called gang task force in san francisco -- >> please wrap up. >> -- where they collect information not when there is an arrest but they collect information about young people to put in a file. the young

person with his siblings in san francisco and the entry by the police officer is "hanging out with future gang members." think about what is says about the explicit or implicit bias of the officer and labeling them a gang member. >> thank you very much. (change of captioners).3 4 f1

>> >> this becomes institutionized. my personal recommendation is there training that comes from the people institute for suv viling and beyond. i do want people to understand that to work on this, to understand and dismantle institutionalized racism one needs a analysis and understand how the race construct happened historically in this kuntgy how the police department and law enforcement

are one of many that carry on institutionalized racism with the city perepech waiting that. it is a fwo day training and don't think anyone can undo racism in 4 hours or a workshop so it thaz to be a commitment. i also cu-mind the [inaudible] police board and value input from the community. the community needs just js when the community sees justice maybe you restore the relationships between the police department and community. i reiterate the police killings that happened, there has to be a sense of justice from the community. >> [inaudible] attorney with

the drug policy allys. thank for start thg conversation about the issue. in order to get a broader picture to not only look at aarrests by san francisco fleece department that leads to state prosecution squz also those referred to federal prosecution. a recent filing by the federal public defends office indicated a joint operation between the san francisco police department and the fram drug enforcement administration led to 37 arrests which caeries mandatory minimum sentences mptd these are low level drug crimes. the startling thing about that statistic is all 37 defends are african american. now, all the data and the research studies presented in the federal case indicates that drug selling-it

knhs from all racial and ethnic backgroundss however these 37 cases are all african americans. i know the chief said drug arrests decreased in the city, but it is also important to look at the federal level because that is a critical component. thank you once again for the opportunity to present here today >> next speaker, mrs. cruise >> thank you. president breed, supervisor mar, i thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight and i'll be very brief. it has been a long evening. what i will say is i stood at this very podium months ago and said ferguson is everywhere and i was shamed for that. for saying that i may say that this structural racism

exists in our city and it does and we are seeing that come out of these investigation that are outside of the realm of the investigations that we can do inly. i urge city departments to look at the opportunity for having outside investigations that are not tainted by the culture and the ingrained racism, the cultural bias, the homeo phobia, the bias we see even just in how mentally ill people are treated by the police and how poor people are treated by the police. i think that when we can start to address the racism and address the bias at all levels, at all phases from beginning to end,

it is never ending battle that we face, a struggle. in my own self and grew up in a racially charged house in the deep south and i struggle with bias. we all do and if we are not willing to look in the mirror as you said, all of us, how is thishering going to move forward when this board was accused of being strong armed by the poa? how will we move forward and heal san francisco. >> thank you. mr. mohammed >> i got the answer to that. first of all, let me say supervisor mar and supervisor cohen and breed for calling the hearing. i'm representing san francisco black and brown alliance and stand with the

naacp and [inaudible] anyone and everyone who wants to see justice in san franciscof. let me straight forward. i received a letter from the department of justice in regards key documentation between 1995 and 2015 with the san francisco police department. the one thing is clear, they are speaking about no racial profiling in san francisco. that is interesting because when we request documentation from the sfpd, a lot of times they send us to the sheriff department and say these documents don't exist: want to know how many murders happened in san francisco from 1984-2015 and say they can't provide t. they provide it from pressure from a attorney. my point is this, san francisco has got to be aware that this is a monster that is out of

control. it is wise to bring in department of justice because pin other cities like cleveland and philadelphia where the chief at that time charles ramsy said we can't control this, it is too political so we need outside help. we shouldn't stress our resources and man power and woman power to disregard the fact that san francisco has a lot of issues that are happen ing in terms of black and brown and housing, drabrown was speaking of. it is wides for the mayor to step out of the comfort zone and say i'm calling on the department of justice because other cities have called on the department of justice. it only makes sense they come in >> thank you mr. mohammed. next speaker and if there is anyone else that would like to speak, line up >> good evening supervisors.

my name is arlong drummer and i was in the first class of women police officers back in 1975. during the week i came across some documents i came, some depositions and gaichb tothe federal judge in 1976 and 1978 and going through-i want to read this. i was a supervisor in the [inaudible] an office called up to the [inaudible] unit and he was giving a report of a stolen auto and he should have said v staned for victor and k standing to xng and when we got to the n he said the n talking about now has been going on for

40 years. i made a report then and nothing was done. the officers feel they can get away with saying things like this is there is no frowning-there is nothing-they were not punished then or fires. the racism continues so inyou want to do something about it you need to listen to [inaudible]iolaunda williams >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening i'm [inaudible] i just want to address something that i heard mentioned throughout not just this conversations but conversations throughout regarding law enforcement and the community and we heard a lot about law enforcement not being all bad, that there are just a few bad appms. i would

apples than we ithink and those that are not necessarily bad apples know which are and are not reporting that. i think that is problematic so when we talk about deal wg law enforcement who have actually been caught and engaged in homeo phobic and other behaveers i think we have to think about the culture we need to and that isn't addressed by single out a few folks. the second point is that i believe it was mr. dauchy earlier that mentioned a requirement for officer tooz report this behavior. i think it is equally important that the consequences of that behavior and not reporting the behavior should be looked at serious. the culture of lack of accountability in law enforcement will continue.

finally, there is a lot of conversation about [inaudible] and training which is great. we vamodel in oakland that integrated community actually leading the prestigeeral justice and police taining around bias directly with law enforcement which we found very effect chb in making sure community voiceerize at voices are at the sent >> if you can share that oakland model that is helpful. anyone else like to speak? colleague dooz you have closing remarks >> i have a lot of remarks, but want to start by thanking everyone who came out today. first, let me say i don't do my job in fear. whether it is the poa that is strong arming anyone or me or members of the

xhinety or killers on our street, i don't do my job in fear. people are welcome to have their opinions about any subject matter and i will do my job based on what i am responsible-what the people are district 5 put me here to do is that is do my very best to deal with issues when they come up and also be proactive about deal wg issues. that is how i do my job and not in fear so i wanted to make that perfectly clear. second of all, it is also clear to me that we do a problem in our police department. this isn't a new problem. i grew up in plaza east and oc in the projects and i grew up wincing violence

against family members. my normal is running frathum the police, you didn't talk to police about anything. fast forward to being a supervisor and being at plaza east and having the police aufsers there and the knhunty members are saying to the police we want you here and want a relationship with you. we want to trust you. we want to make sure that our community is safe. and that is what we need to be doing. we need to focus on making sure we have the kind of police officers like yo landa williams and miriam jackson, like the folks that care about making a difference in protecting our communities in our police department. when we have a situation like the

text messages or officer involved shootings we have to deal with that swiftly. i know there is process, but it is important to explain to the public what that process is. the chief doesn't have the power to fire someone, the commission has that. how do we deal with that swifter than in the past because it isn't moving fast enough. we need to make sure those thingerize clear and dealt with [inaudible] [inaudible] plagued

our city for far too long. so, i have a couple of things that i want to see happen and a lot of these rementdations have already been made both by the former community police relations board as well at the nacp when reverend brown talked about when we barack

[inaudible] the 300 new officers we expect on the streets. we need to make sure these officers are coming from the community and san francisco who understand the challenge of communities and how to respect while policing in the communities. the other thing is yes, we need cultural training. we need to make sure we are training people to understand we are all different. we expect you to reexpect those differences. not oppose those differences. if you have a problem with those differences, we are not indiana so you can kick rock jz

go somewhere else. the point is we need to make sure that training isn't a training that can come and go dependent on budget cuts. it needs to be a required training just like the academy has driving classes and all the other things, this has to be a natural part of the curriculum and need to move for ward in that direction. finally, one of the other recommendations i have been thinging about after meeting with daniel landry and maty scott and a couple other people that brought up the community police relations. i remember christopher mohammed, mareium jackson, reverend brown and others who came up with a very very long plan of over 200 something recommendations from brushing your teeth with your right hand-i'm just kidding

reverend brown. all these recommendations it was like a dissertation. i want to make sure shat we look at what those recommendations were and what are the ones we implemented, are they working and what can we continue to move forward to implement in the department. i think that we need to basically bring new life to the community police relations board. let me be clear, a community police relations board doesn't need to be created by the mayor. does not need to be created by the board of supervisors. the community police relations board needs to be created by the community and for the community of member thofz police department and the community who come together and meet regularly and who deal with challenges before they come with the department. that is what we need to do and so i'm committed to continuing to

work with you all to try and implement some of these recommendations and yes, i have gotten [inaudible] recommends. there are all these recommendings being done. we all have a role to play and this is the first step in moving in that direction. it isn't a perfect solution, but if we are committed with rolling occupy our sleeves i'm committed to doing my part to support the folks who are prepared to not only work today, but work tomorrow, work the next day, work the next day because you can never let up with a problem like this. this isn't a ovnight problem. this didn't happen in 1, 2, 3, years. this is embedded sadly inl the history of law

enforcement and slavery in this country, so it is up to us to be consistent and on top of the issue if we want change and i'm prepared to work with you with that >> thank you president breed. let me say i'll follow up with supervisor cohen and breed and avalos and campus. i think the hearing and the testimony has been valuable, eye opening. i'm in agreement with many from the community speakers that the racism and sexism home phobia and bias is systemic in the police department and other departments as others said. it is embedded in the culture and practices. there are patterns we have known for generation jz many years. suggestions have been brought before. my hope is the 5 of us work with colleague squz the mayor to think about how we dist rupt

these patterns. it is critical that we insure we have data. whistle blower programs and reporting conduct and racism comment is critical whether the cleef can do that as a directive or whether it happens at the board level, those are questions we'll look at. screenings of officers for red flags of biases and other patterns. trainings when the academy or field training program, how we sustain key antebias and bias free type programs is critical. i like that a number of people said when you do anteoppression and bias trainings you need to involve the affective communities. those are good session versus straight up academing training. i want to thank the officers and justice and leadership for being here.

reverend brown and others-[inaudible] revealed tremendous antemexican and latino and don't think that is brought out in the press as much as [inaudible] i thipg we are going look closely at the ovlap of the sessions. to daniels suggestion of having the department of justice or outside institutions look closely at san francisco, i think that is long over 37 do like other cities. i want to say this is the first of hopefully a number of hearings that we'll have. my hope is we come back in 2 month sometime in june to follow up, but i think emphasizeing the suggestions that came out of the hearings with the thought that the organizations put into are what i hope we can do with

the 5 of us >> one of the things i wanted to talk about it is, one of the ways we make our priorities know is through budget. what we fund and what we downtown fund. as weget to the budget season i want remind us of this hearing. there is a series of recommends made to us, some with budget cost and some without any. we need it make sure that these over site departments such as the district attorney office and office of citizen complate have the resources they need in order to conduct fair investigations within the sheriffs department, the police department and the fire department if ever necessary. so i just want to be mindful of that as woe go into the budget season >> i'll work with you and presid