>> and their arrest rates are 50 times higher than their counter parts in california. >> i will make sure it gets around to other colleagues. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. i believe it's reverend smith and deacon

-- >> thank you for your leadership. i'm father j smith, an evangelist in the mission and san francisco organizing project. a few months ago i spent a week in ferguson and i listened to many young people describe what they had experienced at the hands of law enforcement. i listened to many of the mothers. this was difficult for me as a parent as they watched their sound at the hands of law enforcement. this is not how god intend us to live with all of these tears and all these fears. i did not have to going to ferguson to hear stories like these. i heard these word for word in my own neighborhood. this is not to say that ferguson is not us. ferguson is here. the

racism and homophobia is as it is in ferguson. firing these officers or a few bad apples. their dismissal alone is not enough. this is not just a matter of a few bad apples. these problems are both systemic and cultural and requires changes to policies and people's hearts. i endorse what angela said and with regard to changes, i realize these cannot be legislated but we can avail ourselves for sensitivity training and final the district attorney should be fully funded to discover and

rectify those prosecutions that have been contaminated. they can owes in south africa with the reconciliation. >>supervisor eric mar: thank you. i will call a few names. thank you, i am deacon in the episcopal diocese reporting to the bishop of california, i'm focusing on social justice. i want to speak very briefly to the funding of the select group that the district attorney has asked to receive the cases potentially affected by the homophobic and racist text especially because several

of the recommendations we heard today focus on training and information about how stereotyping and implicit bias can impact police work. i believe that an informed review of those cases will provide specific information on how stereotypes and bias manifest and play out not only in the actions of individual officers but also in the justice system. if there is systemic issue, this review should be most helpful in assessing, quantifying and understanding the root causes as well as helpful in developing specific corrective actions. i would urge at the review of these cases is essential to understanding the mechanics of bias and also to establishing the credibility of this system, the city's commitment to valuing each of it's citizens. thank you. >> my name is george nun with

legal services for children. i have been looking at this criminal justice system for approximately 40 years at this point. so, i'm sitting back there thinking, i'm sitting there waiting for item no. 3. and while i'm waiting for item no. 3, and listening to the testimony for item no. 1, i can't help but ask the question of how much racism need to be practiced for us to determine that we don't need the jail. so, like are we going to talk about transparency on some real level. we can't keep rewarding law enforcement with constructions of institutions that maintain a black people at a disproportionate rate. we can't keep rewarding them for stopping

more african american. stopping more african americans for smoking weed, arresting more african american, putting them in prison at a higher rate. at what point is it enough. so for political transparency, if we vote to give the sheriff money, that means none of what we have said, none of the reports we have issued accounted for anything. we just as well saved the paper, saved the people's time if the outcome is going to be the same outcome as if you weren't informed about anything. if there is anything that i want to really emphasize that i know that the jail that you build right now, you are actually considering it for my

kids. that's what i know. i was here and i fought the jail in san bruno, i fought the jail on 6th street. i haven't been to jail in probably 20 something years. my son has been to jail and my grandson has been to jail. i think the jail that you are considering right now must be for my grandchildren or great grandchildren. so at a certain point, i ask you to actually think about not building a jail because at a certain point, you are going to have to stop acting like slave catchers. >> thank you, mr. nun. i'm going to call a few more names. camilia johnson, joyce clag oz, people should come forward and lineup on the side

of the room. >> hi. my name is karen shaken, i'm from adult probation. i don't think i'm out of order, you called my name. i'm the staff at the san francisco reentry council. the public defender talked about a report coming out this tuesday at the meeting of the council. i don't want to steal their thunder about what is in here however the council asked as part of the justice initiative to look at three as far as bail, and sentencing. that, i have a draft here and the final will be released tuesday shows very clearly that everyone of those decision points, the

disparity continues to exist on in fact increases. and so i think it's an important point that people have been saying all along and especially most recently is that if we are really serious about ending bias, that's something that happened not only at the police out in the street level but happens at every step along the way. were you asking about if in terms of arrest, the disparity gap, this reports says between black and white arrest in san francisco continues to rise even as the proportion of black people in this city is decreasing dramatically. and also the rest of the state of california actually that disparity is going down, but not in san francisco. i think it's kind of shameful and time to figure out what's going on here. this report is the what and the next is the why and the solution