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evening and welcome. >> testifier: my name is -- mendez. i'm here on behalf of latino and black community. i am outraged to know that here in san francisco were only 7%, 7% i'm a resident of 20 years in the bay area. to know that the progress that i've seen through the please has dramatically changed from nothing with my family to killing my community it upsets me to know that i am unsafe in the streets to know that i'm a commuter to san francisco to my brothers and sisters here in san francisco and in oakland are in danger because of the police. it upsets me to know that the racist texts alex -- oscar grant, many more are being
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still being killed. the police have called the war on us. for the head board of the supervisors, london agreed to call the police on us yesterday while we are promoting black lives matter peacefully. i do not understand how peaceful protesters need armed officers to contain us as if we are not civilized. i do not understand that as we are students here. alex -- was actually a probation wanted to become a probation officer. but the police have shot him more than 5 times and once in the head. how does that make me feel to know that my brothers and my sisters are in danger here to
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be shot through the window sitting in a car. to be shot on campus. how does that feel? >> president: thank you ms. mendez. next speaker. any further general public comment? ms. bryson evening and welcome >> testifier: good evening.. as per usual, i been sitting and listening. one recommendation i have but of course it's going to be your decision and i am -- is to extend public comment to 3 min. i don't believe that there is to be special dispensation for people to be given extra time. there are people here who struggled to get here and they need more than 2 min. not all are as practiced at speaking
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as i am and as i put it, ms. -- is the mother of invention which allow me have 10 seconds i can do it. yes. yorty know that. the reason i'm here not only is for the redistricting which we later, but i need to have a police report taken for an incident that happened to me there was silly person who did this -- on sunday where i found a person -- i watched him go in slow motion down to the sidewalk and then he passed out and he had a gash on his head. well, being a concerned citizen i have my cell phone that i called 911 and i almost needed to call the police on him. when the ambulance did arrive, we had to seminars and the officer looking for the guy who then refuse to -- he refused all medical attention. he had a bloody gash. you really did need attention. the way i was
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taught in the girl scouts over 50 years ago, if somebody has a head wound you don't allow the person to -- so is vacant. anyway i'll stick around and hope somebody can take my report am happy to see that all of you are here tonight. i don't see you scowling. thank you. >> presidentthank you. there's a sergeant at the door collecting can help you. ms. brown welcome and good evening. >> testifier: is the or and working? review of the document camera. okay. there you go. >> testifier: hello everyone my name is pollock brown come here again concerning my son andre -- was murdered august 14 2006. the semiautomatic gun 30 rounds of bullets. to this day
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his birthday just passed april 6. i still have no justice for my son. his case is a cold case. i also fight for others mothers and fathers who foster children to homicide. these cases are all unsolved cases. i'm concerned about that. this really bothered me when these young men were murdered. i talked to the mother often. we were just at the supervisors meeting yesterday. she and i. i also want to say that i am a mother in rates. i raised to heal it's hard for me. and when i can look at this article that says, i know who killed her son did former mayor -- said i know who killed her son. the police
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know who killed her son. i mean, it's a slap in the face. he says on thursday the da knows who killed her son. these are his words. he was interviewed. these are all the names of the young man that murdered my son. and ubuntu jason thomas anthony hunter marcus -- excuse me. i'm a little upset today and tired. i come here every week. i am hurting., grieving mother. this is all i have left of my son. laying on a gurney lifeless. dead. emmy standing over my son what do we do? i need justice for my son.
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>> president: thank you ms. found that i would've to say anyone in the audience were anyone watching her home, there is an unsolved homicide into the -- there's an anonymous tip line 415 575-4444 if anyone has information into that murder please call that number it would be anonymous. thank you ms. dr. next speaker. >> testifier: my name is b davenport, community member. i don't actually ever come to please commission meetings but i'm here because i'm concerned about what's been going on in san francisco. so, assuming julie that she did not know about the texting back in 2012,
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which i don't even believe, i think there's a big problem with the internal investigations process. because if you google the names a lot of these officers this should be information of the finer 30 min. online. looks like about $118,000 in settlements paid to people involving the captain jason -- and officer -- michael -- try to use $100 to bribe his way into a hotel room where his estranged wife was back in 24 is able to stay on the force. a lot of these people it seems like they're already pretty big red flags and they're still working there. so, i'm disappointed that internal investigation isn't good enough. i think if you want to get the trust of the public back and i want to trust the police -- you need to have independent investigation. i don't think there's any confidence in internal affairs at sf pd anymore. i want to add that i think you need to extend the tablet for people to do. i think needs to be at least 2 min. that's all. >> president: favorite. any further public comments as of any further public comment?
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>> clerk: anyone else >> presidenthearing on public comment is now closed. inspector please call the next item >> clerk: discussion review recent activities >> president: >> testifier: to the training that was spoken to by myself along with other department heads to the implicit bias training a couple weeks ago. we have now contracted with that same bias trainer to train all captains and above and remain command staff members will undertake the training on may 5. the president of the -- will also be president as invited all the other had group presidents as well. there's a fine finite amount of space we are to grow that training to pair it with the racial profiling train fully reinstated in january. amongst other trainings that i -- but
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as far as the cultural sensitivity and some of the things were supposed to will be undertaking that on may 5. we did have a homicide on friday, may 10 in the morning at about 4:11 am that occurred in the 600 block of 40 fifth avenue. officers responded to a call and a man who's on the sidewalk he was suffering from multiple stab wounds that we were able to work that case and have a suspect in custody. also, on april 10 was the car chase that is been alluded to earlier. there was a vehicle that has been engaged in an armed robbery robbery series arounds have designated 3 arm robberies that have. the officers attempted to make a stop of this vehicle without a pursuant to the california -- when the vehicle bolted the stop went straight
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down california street. 3 firearms to were not authentic firearms one was a replica. one was a pellet gun. the other was an authentic firearm. at the very bottom of the hill is struck and killed ms. -- and then continued. the officers continued to chase. is this christian knows, our pursuit policy is very restrictive. we are only allowed to pursue violent felon and or somebody who cannot chase them because of greater danger to the public. we are prohibited from chasing nonviolent felons property criminals misdemeanors or traffic violators. so in this instance, we had armed robbers engaged in armed robbery and then after hitting this this platter with homicide suspect. the vehicle was abandoned on treasure island. we have several leads and were hopeful that
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will catch those responsible for ms. --. i spoke to mr. parker's crackers father back in north carolina on saturday morning. he obviously is heartbroken father. desperately wants us to get those responsible into custody to about doing that. we also had -- there are several things going on in the police department with regard to the community and get a community day at mission station that was hosted at -- park on-site. and just monday we moved into the new police headquarters which is located at 3rd and mission rock. the ribbon-cutting formal presentation everyone is invited to public will be tomorrow and i'm going to do
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for the rest of my time -- i know we have a busy schedule but have briefed a presentation that her it director susan merhige will make. commissioner -- was ask his question about racial profiling data. so to that end, susan, if you would present it. this data that director -- is about to provide not only provides the data on those arrested, but also the witnesses and report these data also provide data in the very and it speaks to the jobs program that within undertaking over the last 4 years and we give them racial makeup with the project. >> testifier: good evening commission. as chief mentioned we have done an analysis of a couple things in san francisco and attempt to assess where we are with grace and ritual predefine and who were arresting. i'm going to talk
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about a couple topics today. one is reston services that we have him broken out to couple different categories. i must can attach on a 5 traffic sucked every, please officers stop someone in san francisco required to document the race of the person they stop. then a moment about the future graduates program which is a program that -- children under the age of 18. in terms of the arrested a so about what we wanted to do is to look at the racial breakdown of the people that the police are resting in san francisco. we wanted to compare that to something. typically, what you see is a comparison with the racial percentages of the residents of the city in which the rest are currently in san francisco, about 100,000 residents. however, another 265,000 people commute into san francisco with over 100,000 people san
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francisco residents who commute out of san francisco and we have another one and 150,000 visited on any given day in san francisco we don't know the racial breakdown of the people in the city during the day so i didn't think i was an appropriate comparison. so, all we get is try to take at least sort of out of it. let's look at some and calls 911 the victim of the kind often times they have a description of the suspect. so what we ought to do is take a lock look at those 911 calls what is the description of the suspect given by the victim and you'd be start racial percentages of those and compare that to the rest that we are making san francisco because one would think there should be somewhat aligned with each other. so, that's what we did. >> president: us of the e5 85 which is traffic stops. the traffic stop --
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>> testifier: yes. every topics up. if you look at the slide the top information goes for the last 6 years. the race category were using are dictated by the president of the united states defines how we need to port on race. that's what you see there. then, the percentages are again -- this is the total number of incidents and concept san francisco were that raised of the -- was identified by the victim. if you look at the far right corner you can see the total over the 6 years. on the top. on the bottom were looking at a race at rest by race category. so sort of the important information on the slide is the differential you see on the bottom right corner. the extent to which one race might be bias going on. you would expect that differential to the 0 in a perfect world. or
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that's just sort of what you would think it would be. as you can see, there some difference is that you're the same data i do. i'm not sure what inferences we can talk. drop. >> commissioner: not every single person that's called in having committed an offense is arrested. so, that would also explain why there's a differential. the point of the -- of this presentation is this is not the officers are not acting autonomously. so the officers summoned calls and somebody says, princess, in this homicide a white whale white male was the suspect the officer try to find a white male so the suspect in this incident was a white male.
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>> presidentthough i had. continue. >> clerk: waders and gentlemen letter given the report you will have your chance to react. i'm not saying it does. i'm just saying let her give the report. let her get the report and you can comment on it. that's all masking. proceed ma'am. >> testifier: this excite basically a subset of the fireside. the subset this is all this is driver arrested again, the totals of the top is where the victim identified the race of the suspect totals at the bottom was her actual arrest. the differential is the difference between the 2 percentages. this is juvenile arrest. same format same slide.
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i'll give everyone a moment to look at it. >> commissioner the numbers are quite small for us. we don't have a printout so i think you can highlight the things you think are important and will try to track then we can get some time to look at the data. formulate our questions but let's treat this as a beginning of the conversation and not the end. >> testifier: i sympathize. this is a complicated subject images taken with numbers to compare to what is very very challenging. again, what you're looking at here is juvenile arrest in san francisco. the top part is where the suspect identified the race -- the victim identify the race of the suspect at the bottom is where
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the arrested soon expect that we should be arresting the suspects that were dignified by the victims and if not, than the percentage differential would be -- for example, a- 2% on this slide would mean >> commissioner: i was can make decisions that i think with airport important as this my suggestion would be that we table this for the day. there we get enough copies for everybody to see. have them resent and then come back and do it. i think that would be best. that's my suggestion. >> presidentall added for future date. thank you. can we also provide a copy online. thank you ms. merritt. anything further achieving your report to misread >> clerk: line item to be review recent activities. >> presidentgood evening.
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>> testifier: good evening. i've no reason to recent activities to report by next week i will present the occ 20 14th annual reports. >> presidentokay: i once a special thank you to director exterior help in identifying some of the policy pieces that we're working on some of your -- you and your staff cooperation and willingness always to be of help to the commission. is deeply appreciated. any questions for dir. hicks? inspector please call him >> clerk: line item to, c c commission reports discussion commissioner presidential report commissioners report >> presidentanything to report this evening? okay. inspector please: send >> clerk: to he commission announcements and scheduling of items defy for consideration of future. commission meetings >> president: colleagues their
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couple items to when we can schedule a time to come back and discuss racial profiling data that was just shared. so we need to get a date for that an inspector will secondly chief i know that you had shared an analysis of where the same physical police apartment is with regard to the president 21st century policing report and recommendation. this commission is very interested in the assessment of where we are with the gaps are and what needs to be done looking for. so i like to schedule that person is possible. >> clerk: >> commissioner the captains are at the district station are trying to match it but one of the 1st meetings is innate. >> president: some of the request that we've heard from the public would last 2 months i think those suggestions also contain a not reported it would be awful to have a sense of where we are at ship against that. and the last thing i have is i had a meeting with walk sf and the bicycle coalition and were due for
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quarterly report on what we are with -- cc for all and the citation collision vectors and more than ever there's ongoing concern about people treat satan respectively could keep in may in the progress with traffic enforcement. those are the items i have. folks. >> commissioner: comedy would like to actually get your hands a copy of that report? okay. let's tell them how they can get their hands on the report. it will be online i believe. generally, to report and make sure the next toggle the airport there so i'll be happy to entertain any of the suggested how we can get them the reports i have time so they can actually see it may make some available at the >> commissioner i don't know but that's generally what to put them online and we put him there. you should be able when you come and it is an agenda
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worried look at it so this is about racial prideful profile. very important sense of topical subject. should able to look at it. we prepared to ask questions during public comment. that's why wanted to be done in a way that you can have access to that kind of process. online is one way i do believe. having it here is another way. would try to let you know when it will be an agenda item so you will know that you have to probably check on the process for that. if anybody can come up with another way they can get a copy i would entertain any talk about that. >> president: the dinosaur in the likes paper making paper available to people. so i think working to try to make some copies. the some ways folks make copies tonight. hold tight and will notify you if we have paper copies otherwise will be available online. just give me a few minutes and i'll circle back on exactly how close can get their hands on a set.
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>> commissioner: i hope that's helpful. >> president: any further items to schedule for future consideration colleagues? inspector please: him >> clerk: >> presidentnext line i'm is public comment. is there any public comment? please come up. >> testifier: my name is -- myrrh resin either program called care. for mentoring at-risk youth in about on the racial profiling issue, i would suggest it was ambiguous at least in convoluted and most. was just too much there was no information antivirus can really disseminate and get a good answer saying from. if you look at it, more than half of the arrests on there were blacks. on each portion of the graph half of the arrests were a black man black youth. but
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the population of san francisco is still minute as far as people of this is serious issue and the people in the community know and recognize. we feel that we live it every day. when you come here and try to discuss it with fancy words and grass, it's insulting. so, if she does go shoot is another time when you do those make the population of african-americans in san
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francisco part of the scale so we can really see the difference. because is a big difference. >> president: thank you. public comment? next speaker. >> testifier: my name is -- and the lady here -- would like to make a comment about because of lack of time she needs to go about the changes in the district. >> president: welcome ms. welcome >> testifier: good evening. my name is [inaudible] i represent the latin voice of the tenderloin. as you know we as an organization have been
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involved in this project. why? for us is that it's very important. you've extended the limits up to polk street. the residence of the tenderloin are now starting to feel safer with this proposal that you took on. we are very grateful to you took the time and the dedication to listen to the voice of the community. let's
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hope that you been listening to us. we will continue [inaudible]. we will be fighting to have the best for the tenderloin. we are grateful to everyone of you here. i wish you a happy evening. >> president: thank you. next speaker. >> testifier: was a popular
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saving there are 3 types of lies in our society. a good light bad liar and a statistician. the report on race and that's exactly what the department is doing. one by including descriptions with arrests that skew the numbers heavy to lug people that might be described not arrested. so the number by favor certain white perpetrators who don't get arrested as we know the white -- as often as black criminals. so next time this report is brought that all requests that those numbers are separated to the lee know exactly how many people are being described, and peoples separately been arrested based on race. also, the separation i know you said earlier the races that are provided on the paper are following the regulation of the federal government on how describes race and i are stands that might be something that makes it easier for you, but is heavily inaccurate here in california, if you're applying