critical resistance and advocacy project. the western regional advocacy project is an organization that seeks to cite the roots of homeless causes. in san francisco there are ordinances upon ordinances that restrict what visibly poor people can do in public including essential things such as eating, lying and sharing food. the san francisco police target poor people through these ordinances. this is not a problem of more training for the police or more technology for police accountability. this is a problem of people who have access to the things that they actually need to survive to exist and to thrive. we do not need more police training or the new proposed jail. we need real solutions for the people in san francisco for the people in my

community. thank you. >> hi, any other name is jess feigne with the political justice commission. i hope you saw the people's report which we gather together from the input of a lot of community organizations in this room to expose the human impacts of building a new jail at this moment in san francisco. it's available on our website. i will leave a copy for reference. so it's shocking that the city is entertaining a massive increase of sfpd while it's very clear that the police department resistant to investing $5,000 compared to the million dollars for the cadet schools

for these training. this demonstrates that there is a deep rooted unaccountability. i'm not advocating for accountability as the answer. we see this in splikably linked to serves that they need to thrive and to resources such as housing, education and other things we are seeing dwindling in the public at this moment. also the d. a. spoke at the link of people convicted in the jail system. i heard repeated baffle by folks by the way the police are unaccountable to the d. a.'s office. we know this is why there was cage fighting instigating by the sheriff's system. i'm begging you not to expand this system. that

this system is going to continue to function as it is doing very well. so i have heard you say before, if any city than san francisco would, so if any city is going to -- >> thank you. could you leave the report? >> yes. >> hi, my name is cameal oligo . this is my second time here this week. i'm really amazed at the level of hypocrisy going on. it's one thing to come here and talk about our status. we

know what happened in south carolina. we need to talk about white supremacy, i'm talking about the board of supervisors. ms. julie christensen. you talked about dead black people. >> please do not address individuals. >> a deputy to get a new microphone for people who were speaking after a mother who talked about being here for 4 hours with her son who police officers pulled guns on him. wiener asked for a new microphone. are you people serious? is it just me because i have been here

twice in a week so maybe my level of tolerance is lower for this ridiculous of white supremacy like for more officers when it was intentional when you came out thursday evening and only gave us 3 days to do it and it was to organize and in those 3 days somehow malia cohen had 20 minutes to listen to multiple police officers but less to public comment. when you put this much money into a city, we could not act that the outcome is white supremacy and racial profiling and hatred of people. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i'm morgan hughes of industrial workers of the world. i was a member of the general executive board of

the union. basically what i have witnessed today is a lot of radical language that came from you all that is basically here pacify people to make people feel like this system can be reformed but it is inherent that these police and this process is made to disempower working class people. what we need is is a strong community accountability to come together as communities to self organize to drive out violent police from our community. we don't need to call the cops. we need to call our neighbors. we need also to get the different

unions to disbanned the police union. because the police union is one that is used to escape accountability. they use this union to pressure the state to be further oppressive to people. also i wanted to say that the sf labor council was harassed by the police union for just considering the resolution to shutdown the port on may day on solidarity for the black lives matter movement. this is a level of intimidation that is beyond reform. with all this during pride last year, abolitionist were attacked by the san francisco police department who

were at the same time claiming to the lgbtqa accountable to those people and inclusive. what we really need is direction actions with the union and intersectional coalition like the new jail coalition to block the development of the jail because i don't believe that we are, that this system is meant to listen to us. we as a community need to organize autonomously to stop this jail from reconstructing. body cameras can be turned off with no accountability and a tool for surveillance and police lawsuits. the

whole civilian review board, it's all corrupt because all that evidence and all those testimonies and the surveillance footage is used against people who are survivors of police brutality myself included. >> thank you very much. please wrap up. >> so, body cameras are just a part of the national reform called by the president pacify the masses. >> thank you very much. please respect the other folks behind you in line. thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name is jamie, here with critical assistance. deputy chiefly said there is not enough time to give every police officer bias training. he also reported the police department is going to hire 250 officers by

the end of the year. he can't address bias, why are they hiring more officers, that's dangerous and reckless. when we talk about bias in the police force, police chief suhr explained that since marijuana was criminalized. he said "when we replace 300 officers between now and 2018 there will be 60000 more shifts by police officers a year. they are going to make arrest. he then predicted that officers might make one arrest a week at a minimum. we are looking at 12,000 more arrest a year at least. this cancels out the drug war

legislation. it's simply to arrest. who are they arresting? hiring more police officers does not see justice. building a new jail for those officers arrest does not seek justice. justice looks like pretrial program, justice in community organizations that are responding to people for health care and after school program job training for people coming out of prison. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> hello, my name is okay den peters and a teacher in san francisco. as an abolitionist and educator i'm calling for a halt on this jail system. we need more public education and after school program. i see day after day students coming to school with little to know

sleep because they don't have a safe quiet place to get rest. i see students not able to stay after school because they need to make it in time for the shelters they live in. i see them terrified and traumatized because they have seen their mother, sibling, taken away because they are criminalized for being black or brown. i see students who are not able to complete their iep plans because of mental health issues. at least one in five people in the sf jail system suffer from mental illness. jails will not be a safe place to treat people with mental illness. this is pretrial. they have not been convicted or sentenced for any time but locked up because they can't afford bail.

there are more viable, equitable and economical solutions that san francisco can use instead of building cages. if this city is vaguely interested for the issues that are kachd to -- attached to and created by this system you will listen to the people of this room. >> hello, my name is annie fisherman. i teach in san francisco city college. what i want to say is it's not about addressing individuals but about the harm and policing and the poverty criminalized mental illness. so, we know that policing, that incarceration doesn't make our community safer. we

know what does make our community safer, things like access to jobs and education at city college to affordable housing to opportunities to mental health treatment and community based services and that fill the infrastructure and the support and connectedness to community that drive incarceration and this increase in policing that really does destroy the thread and the community that are most impacted by them. to me that's what we should be spending those resources on and not increasing policing and not increasing incarceration. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker? >> hi, my name is irvin from the justice project. we know that the proposed increasing in policing is intimately tied to the jail

expansion. he said that the jail will justify every new jail. we facilitate each group every friday and we are clear about the conditions of our community. one of our members was interested as a result of a situation and not offered services and one was harassed by an officer and told he would be put in a tank if he didn't comply. 1 person was there because they had no where else to put her. we had to advocate for gender appropriate clothing that they are supposed to get and given to them. we have to advocate for them to have access to more than one bra so they don't have to be naked in front of guards while changing and now

to the women's facility, and potentially for women who have access to choose their facility based on their gender. these are much needed reform and long over due. and once had access to these reforms and access of reconfiguring the population and it was intentional. these issued would not be resolved by building a new jail. this is for programming that is accessible. alternative sentencing through the sentencing commission and reentry programming and housing. affordable housing will serve the community instead of more police and new jail. >> what is tci justice again? >> the transgender variance project. >> thank you. >> next speaker. my apologies.

>> my name is francisco garte. i thank you supervisor campos and mar for holding this hearing. i work at the public defenders office, i'm the immigration attorney. we already know that african american people are arrested disproportionately in this city. but when it comes to latinos, we don't know because this city is violating the law in not maintaining statistics. we've heard this before. we heard the undocumented fear of police. why is it there? it is very real because police have been away to put people into deportations proceedings. and for 8 or 9 years we've seen people arrested for crimes, not formally charged with crimes, but ice

detainers are issued because the fingerprints are shared with immigration. thousands of people of these communities have been deported from local law enforcement. we don't know the disproportionate levels of latinos." it's not often that a public defender will refer to a representative of a district attorney to quote them. but kristin said she supported transparency and accountability and not to consider the review of our work with hostility. the police department is not the only department that suffers from endemic racism. it's endemic to our society and we all have an obligation regardless of our skin color including white people to challenge this. we desperately need you as leaders of this city to

make change and to hold people accountable. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> the gray panthers of san francisco strongly oppose the construction of a new jail. i have the testimony i was going to give on that. otherwise there is 3 points we need to say. one is we have to is to the the rhetoric of san francisco that is not ferguson. with no charges against alex diego's murder is exactly like ferguson. the second thing, this has to start from the top. on the murder of perez, that he charged the police with a knife raised over his head and yet an independent

autopsy shows perez was shot in the back. where is the retraction from that statement? where is the apology? in addition is chief suhr has also said that it's going to lead to the continued increase in population of homelessness and black and brown and poor people in areas where they want to -- 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