-- gentrify the situation. the latin member and women in the mission areas which is a huge area for gentrification has stepped up until it became an economically hot area. we have to say that police racism and profiling is economic. so no new jails, no new police. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. aroma gallo. you received our report today about the rebuild. i'm trying to link up the 2 two 2

points of the hearing. we appreciate that you rescheduled the hearing on the rebuild focus so we can have talks about alternatives to the jail because in fact of the jail situation we have almost achieved our goal of emptying out and closing the two jails that are now located at the hall of justice that the mayor and you are talking about rebuilding. >> there are 295 today. that means we need to have alternative sites and that means the hall of justice are

not full. this is problem solving at a leadership level that we are asking you to penetrate and resolve and not do what dorsi has noted that we are working on fear and putting people in jail that we don't need to. the other point we want to make is on bias which we have in the burns report will highlight this. most of the racial bias is helped by the health bias, transgender bias. you don't ask a sheriff to intervene. >> please wrap up. >> you just don't. it's inappropriate. we are inappropriately jalg people and we are asking the sheriff and the police to do the wrong thing.

we need community based intervention. >> thank you. ms. thomas next speaker. thank you, laura thomas with the drug policy alliance. thank you all for holding this hearing and thank you for continuing the jail hearing until july 16th so we can have a longer conversation about that. but on the topic of bias and the criminal justice system, one of our challenges is that we continue to use the criminal justice system to address problems that it was never designed to fix. we are asking our criminal justice system to deal with drug use, mental health issues and poverty and homelessness and the system is not designed to address any of those and unsurprisingly it makes the problems worse, it makes poverty worse and people lose their jobs

while in carcerated. people are traumatized during incarceration and that trauma leads to substance use well. those are primarily in our health care system for example our education system, other things we are do, so, we need to figure out how we address these issues that doesn't rely on the criminal justice system. we have not given them any tools to manage these problems and they are not doing it well. fortunately we have models, the country of portugal for example, seattle is getting people directly in services and housing which has shown great success in

addressed recidivism and reducing cost. i would encourage you to look at these models. >> thank you for this hearing. >> thank you. >> thank you, i'm amy, i echo everything said by the public defenders office and coalition of housing and speaking on the racial bias issue. i watched "take the hammer" where an african american author came to bayview and it was in the height of redevelopment. she talked to a group of people and said you can't even stand on the corner without police

coming to break it up. i would like to say it different in 2015 but it's not. i'm like to tell you about a text exchange by a neighbor. he's an artist and community minding and dark skin tone. he said we need to end this racial profiling. i'm getting tired of cops stopping me and harassing me. he asked does this happen on divisadero. my friends are having the same problem. i just want to ask everybody who is listening right now, if you have never experienced what it's like for anybody signature in your home and have someone tell you that you have to leave or that you are a problem, think about what that must be like? that must be really

challenging to be seen as a problem because of your skin tone. what i would recommend is a training issue. why don't we hire people who are unarmed and call it the peace program and train and employ people in our neighborhood. >> hi. i would like you to understand all of these points that the police officer is making it to where a lot of people get killed and not being aware of a lot of things that progress on this point. i had written out

25 pages and i wrote another. i don't understand why this is going on. the office of complaints about somebody else that made some reports. which did not say. they usually went to other major elements for them to go by. i hope that they can look at it again and be honored

when i get the degree to help police officers understand where these categories go into and make it to where they can do their job >> thank you. ma'am. there is five people left. if there is anyone else that signed up, please come forward. i should also remind you that item no. 3 is going to continue and will

meet thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. and we will let you know when that's happening. if anybody needs to speak, please come up on items 1 and 3. >> i really wanted to ask the supervisors that over the years it's gotten harder to do. we have no resources to help our clients. it's impossible to get somebody stabilized on treatment if they don't have a roof over our heads. the number of hospital beds has been slashed in half since 2008. we lost 25 beds, 7 a was closed this year. we are down to one.

basically the only option is to sit back and wait for somebody that will get arrested and hope that the police will take them to the general and not to the jail. at the jail people are languishing for months and months because they are not competent for trial. this is completely unnecessary and it's so costly and i just don't understand why we have millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on police and new jail and we've closed yet another unit just this year, just in january, i don't understand why we have money for police and jails and not money for treatment, why we don't have money for increasing residential treatment. why we don't have money for supported housing and we are going to spend exponentially more money on solutions that are not real. lack of treatment is a social problem, lack of housing is a social problem. it

cannot be criminalized, it can't be police. why not find money to solve our problems but to find for policing and jails. >> good afternoon, my name is emily harris and i work for the national and criminal justice policy. i want to talk about what is happening in san francisco into a larger perspective and parted of that being, that people across the country are watching what san francisco is going to do in response to violent and racist policing and jailing and the precedent we set here in san francisco is going to make a difference across the country. we pride ourselves as a county on our progressive criminal justice policy work and the county has done

really well on things like realignment and restorative justice and having the 5 keys in the justice system in the jail. as said earlier there is only 295 people left in the other jail to close it. so just yesterday and then last week both philadelphia and los angeles los angeles are really behind san francisco. city we have seen black

people around the country step up in black lives matter to call out the racism in the system we don't want jail and more police to be an extension of that racist social control we have to ask ourselves who is going to feel safer if that gets built you are not hearing voices from the black and broun community that's where safety lies no more jail no more police. thank you. >> thank you next speaker? >> hello my name is josh green i'm a transgender man i work with transgender in foma we're seeing that nationally and in san francisco i know from my work the way we create a world without violence is

transleadership organization a new jail is not going to make people it's other going to increase the staggering harm we're facing transgender are profiled by the police particularly transby color people are disproportionately unlikely to make jail 805% of people are in jail because they can't make bail 60% are african american this moves i do not see the jail as a criminal justice i see it as injustice poor people transpeople are disproportionally harmed we bail reform and housing and less harassment particularly at the hands of the police. if you are invested in and care

about the transjustice and safety do not built this jail if you invest in communities that is causing us such harm thank you. >> thank you. next speaker? >> good afternoon supervisors my name is jimmy louis i'm a retired board of directors of. i'm on the board of directors transgender law center i'm a member of the steering committee for san francisco hearing alliance to the point of police bias i want to speak to the notion of officers with justice i remember the founders lotao and sanders the cheap of police and someone you might be surprised about. richard hungista are foundings members for justice those

gentlemen were inherently felt bias on their own department so the bias that goes with the san francisco police department has a long history i met those folks in 1976 existed i will tell you in 2015 it exists that's my statement on bias in the san francisco police department it's not improving secondly i want to speak to the notion of jail i don't need to give you stattistics you have heard statistics as a farmer licensed therapist in san francisco people who are victims of persistent traumatic stress disorder not post it's persistent communities where stress continues every day those folks are often the folk you find in jail don't build a new

jail do the kind of things that helps folks live healthier lives in san francisco. >> thank you next speaker? >> hello supervisors my name is nanci rue bin aye want to thank you for holding this meeting today i started my career in san francisco 40 years ago on this very issue when i walked into county jail 1 and 2 on 1965 i was apolled i had a career where i ran the jail mental service and went onto be the deputy director for the community we are the only county in california who has a recent jail built yet our jails are empty i was asked about my colleague s

to today to appeal to you as responsible stewards for the county and city dollars 82 million p you amortization it's $600 million bail projects all of these issues would be resolved in a responsible way you heard the other people talking about today the only number jumped out at me in the reports i heard today there are 170 people in the jail today sentence those folks are going through the criminal justice system as the general public view it 1,030 people are awaiting processing the only reason they're there is because they're poor if you or i would be in the jail we would be out of there in 2 or 3 hourses these 1,003 people are there because they can't qualify for the small amount of programs we have to

get people out it's ludicrous to spend $600 million on a jail we don't need when we need programs i would like to thank you again and see you again on the hearing on the 16th. >> thank you next speaker we're going to close public comment in a moment. next speaker? >> my name is camille walt ton i'm part of resistance and black lives matter here in san francisco and work with the youth all across the city who are low income currently formerly homeless identify as lgbtq all of these people -- that is why i work with them i'm not going to talk about alternatives whether you follow through with those things is up to you i can take a wild guess how that is going to go i'm

going to name that black lives matter the whole movement the gal vin niezing happens in this country not only because of the murder of tray von martin and unindictedment of george simer man the kills of black people have been normalized since they came here on slave ships 80% are in jail that is broken down people it does not tell me why we cage people because they don't have the money to be tree. instead of investing for more black people homeless and transpeople in the xhupt to put in these camings, we need to invest in more opportunities for them to have affordable housing, living wages access to quality

education access after 6:00 p.m. when most of the after school programs are funded to be open it's also very clear to the people work in this building every day black lives do not matter seeing black lives are filling 56% of the jail population no new jail in san francisco thank you. >> thank you next speaker >> good afternoon my name is jessica san francisco taxpayers public safety thank you for having the hearing and continuing the hearing to july 16th we can have a full presentation on the report of the proposed rebuild. a couple of points what has brought me into this is my concern is how agnostic or projail city staff has been at the planning discussion and design related to this i think

because there's an absence of leadership to look at alternative policies what the solutions might be for 295 people i'm asking for your leadership in that it's been quite troubling to hear the comments and the regard with how people are treat this proposed jail rebuild. people have talked about it. as though the jail is building itself. it is not. there has been several allocationses at least 6.75 million has been aloe keaeded to date for planning and designed and the mayor's budget includes 2.5 million more in planning and design. second specific request i would ask that you hold a hearing on an accept and expend resolution prior to the submission of the $80 million grant proposal that

the mayor's office is planning to commit for construction for jail and construction costs sometimes you hold the hearings after the grant has gone in i'm asking you hold the hearing prior to the hearing. thank you so mch. >> thank you. next speaker? >> good evening. julie christensen -- [inaudible] a light to enjoy delta is away can end there. -- [inaudible] from u.s.a. back to hong kong four years why?

because the people still this no it's enjoyable. [inaudible] however prison is not so enjoyable. i was scheduled to a day no some how i lost track. leader yee is not a good guy. however he's not that much of that guy yee is a tough guy so set him free he's under the false ak cue indication of transporting admissible firearm and explosives >> thank you. anyone else would like to speak? come forward ma'am next speaker? anyone else we're going to close comment right after her.

>> good evening supervisors i'm my name is soe for san francisco teens with incarcerated parents there are 18,000 teens with incarcerated parents on any given day one of the arguments toward this jail is it's going to to support incarcerated people who are told time and time again to create a safer space for children for incarcerated parents to be in kwhiel we deserve to interact with their parents not in our name are you going to build a jail over and over again that's what the young people are telling us what they need more than a new jail and safe conditions to visit their parents is to let them go home.

not with the current rates of resittism is in this city i'm asking you not to build a new jail. >> thank you. with that let's close public comment i want to say before i give colleagues a moment to give closing remarks i will be moving that we continue item number three it will be transferred to the government audits and oversight committee thursday morning i'm not sure this one or the next one. but jane kim's office should no and i will ask my colleagues to file that item it will be by supervisor kim as well and there are two cards i have here i want to thank everyone for testifying i will say that the community remarks all of us or none to project what where