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flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you madam president i'd like to take roll please you commissioner president loftus commissioner turman is excused commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus is excused commissioner mazzucco commissioner hwang commissioner melara madam president you have we have quorum and with us this evening is accident police chief chief suhr and the director of office of complaints sfgovtv.org welcome everyone to the wednesday, june 24, 2015 meeting i'd like to make a special welcome to our community safety interim they're first meeting the police commission so

welcome to everyone and everyone watching at home inspecting. >> presentation of certificate of appreciation action to angela rodriguez and please council and dan and michelle colleagues opportunities this commission has to mr. farrell recognize certain officers for doing exactly with we expect them to do and above and beyond the call of duty but it was really important i know to this commission that we actively recruit folks from communities that don't typically see themselves in community of color we've talked about that a lot i was impressed impressed to get a

role that rodriguez played with one person seeingism in law enforcement dan and michelle tells us what happened. >> so my name is michelle an covert with the forensics the urban forest we green team an sgrirm for high school students from san francisco we get to learning urban forestry sclerosis as part of this last semi tar officer rodriguez talked about the career in law enforcement. >> what that means and we had one student ms. smith was interested in pursuing this and sergeant rodriguez expended her you know here all the information she could give and mentored her into the sfpd and

actually give her the information to look at being a cadet so that's what she's doing in the cadet program i have a letter if i could read that arrest my name is jess schizophrenia smith i want to thank you for the opportunity to share the information that the individual without our mentoring and guidance it wouldn't be possible to take on this position roll call. >> i'm dan of the friends of urban forest thank you commissioner loftus for working this out this program is over 20 years we've been in business for 34 years committed to working with kids of need explicitly from the southeast section of

inform and it is a paid program we've really tried to train them to be tree care specialists i'm thankful to you and the police department and i'm looking forward to keeping this relationship going in the future so thank you very much. >> thanks dan and chief you want to read the certificate. >> it would be my honor i share everyone's appreciation for sergeant rodriguez agreeing does she's a perfect fit this young lady decided to do this and you took action i'm i have to tell you there recent tens and tens of scores of kids a bunch standing behind me will hopefully be able to release whatever they want to do what

angela does sergeant angela in recognition of our outstanding performance and discharging our duties with professionalism in the finest serves you're here by awarded the certificate of appreciation this wednesday, june 24, 2015, signed by all 7 police commissioners (clapping.) thank you. >> would you like to say anything sergeant. >> i'm overwhelmed i want to the boys and girls to talk about life skills in the end you know, i said hey by the way we're going to start a cadet program and they were kind of like okay. okay when the program opened up for application i make sure i called the friends of urban forest and make sure i saw josh

and the lady as a cadet you never know who you're going to touchy didn't think of i was toughing anyone so thank you. >> colleagues anything you want to say. >> thank you for doourgz to go bring people go into the department one person you never know when you're making a difference and chief you're responsible for recruiting a lot of people i hope you continue and thank you guys from the urban forest you guys rock (clapping.) >> let's get a picture. >> pictures.

>> all right. thank you thanks for being the fester thanks everyone. >> okay. i'll let everyone get back to where you were inspecting next line item. >> jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their comments to the commission as a whole and neither the police commission nor the commissioners are to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response are to respond to

questions by the public but may provide a brief response. any individual and police should refrain from debates hold your comments to 3 minutes, please. thank you. >> good evening and welcome. >> ladies and gentlemen of the audience and commissioners good evening foreclosed i'm mr. lawrence i've spoken before this commission and been a recipe been 0 residents 40 years to emily one reason i'm a avid reader i don't

throw anything away we came up with the san francisco examiner the city takes a hit but the first page item i've been a proponent of the police department hiring more policemen to take overstaff and put more officers on the street and keep them trained better and a an article in the newspaper relates to the fact this police department attempts to hire more policemen but they have a lot of them sitting in chairs at the hall of justice doing administrative tasks and i think that is a mistake by training those officers to sit on their butts they do the paperwork one of our finest officers for the secretary of

the police hearing was more qualified for a better job as my take. i think this commission should push to get the police department hire upwards of 1/3rd of their payroll to be administrative staff to take over the paperwork related to to the police department especially them to be better police officers and put more minute open the street without bloating over bloating the payroll i think one of the problems the police department payroll is the fattest in the city there's no police making less than 3 hydrothousand dollars a year i think this can change by puttingadmonish administrative staff in positions of police officers don't need to do and put more on the street you should honestly

push this before the board of supervisors upwards of the thirty percent of the police department to be turned over to private administrator and that's all i have there's been enough in the news i'll not make any other comments of any other departments i think the cleaving /* police excessive is good. >> i'm michael a government accountability activist i made a mistake and took 0 picture in the men's restroom added city hall with supervisor wiener i'm going to show this photo i hope you can get it well, you can see the supervisor is at a sink and

he's holding a toothbrush i found myself arrested after i took this picture the issue is i don't believe that justice is blind in san francisco if i'd taken a picture of an average joe and put it on my blogging i don't believe i would have been arrested after that arrest low and behold photos were in the photos of folks using the room the top photo is the public library at the main branch those photos appeared on august 5, 2015 in the chronology the fester was not arrested for taking pictures of homeless people washing up in the restroom the bottom photo

the man the gentleman using an urinal this photoer was not arrested and more photos were in the chronicle from the public library again, a man using a urinal the credits we're talking about the men's room at city hall the chronicle wanted a crack down of homeless people washing in the booms it is illegal to take a picture in the lobby library 9 chronicle didn't get permission in march 9, 2015, more photos in the chronicle showing homeless people changing their cloths in the room at the library other photoer from the chronicle

not arrested why did i get arrested and went 0 through a whole process of being charged i believe that what happened was because the supervisor wiener has control over our budget when we said arrest the gentleman for taking a picture the police department jumped which the chronicle does it sea repeats the problem of taking those photos nothing happens this is one small example i believe that justice is not blind in san francisco. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. pa trellis. >> next speaker >> thank you, mr. lawrence welcome and good evening. >> i'm homeless because this faceish police the

united states is the most faceish in the world the gas to that two police officers the judge and gave permission okay. and i was evicted on the streets naked 85 years old is a survivor in world war ii at 12 clock it is how the gas gsa to that this is sitting here i asked him a few times to help me to find out why the police reached out without

court ruling evicted me on the streets why i'm 85 years old now open the street for one and a half years okay. again, i say to god it is only could be in one country in this faceish country with the country that was germany where i survived during world war ii again, i can't believe how could 6 police come not found anything okay. and throw out 85 years old with 6 people you know, i was dressed in underwear without medicine without anything and they put me on the street and

this is how i was god will punish you. >> sir, you can't address any commissions but the commission as a whole. >> okay. thank you very much. >> i want to remind you senior inspector is here if you have a complaint inspecting and for you, mr. pa triplets the issues you brought before us. >> next speaker. >> and good evening mr. miller. >> good evening commission and executive officer and community i'm here in response to a series of events that culminated in the wrongheaded past resolution by the board of supervisors to augment the staffing levels of

san francisco police department. >> it was done without proper communication of this body and community the police budget is bloated at offer half a billion dollars for the one fiscal year i believe the figure is $548 million the chief makes over 3 times afternoon of police chiefs the gentleman earlier spoke on the high wages for the staff by private civilians beyond this look at the record we should look at the fact the same week money was blocked for a training on racial sensitivity the same day a report said san francisco police black people are 7 times more likely to be arrested by san francisco police and ten times more likely to be courtyard and convicted while we

live in the city with the fast golden state and the text messages how about the recent exposed police assassinations of the jar for the text messages the lopez was shot in the back i have 4 less serious thank god complaints about san francisco police i've witnessed in the last several most we don't need more police people in our neighborhoods are over policed all right. and abused by law enforcement in this city we need more accountability for where our money goes in the city, we need more accountability for the actions of officers bay less than 50 percent resolution of homicide is not a success we need more

cops and get rid of the bad ones i can't impress this point this city is bleeding and dying forerunner to some sort of assembles of morality coming from the public officials and it's public servants i get calls from crying family members all the time you know what i do and last note he was personally assaulted by the san francisco police a couple of months pepper separated awhile breaking up a fight between teenagers go in my neighborhood with no weapons and successfully. >> sir. >> arrested and attacked by police. >> we need. >> sir. >> thank you, mr. miller. >> next speaker >> good evening ms. brown.

>> hello, i'm paulette brown and i'd like to use the overhead i'm here again concerning my son excuse me. i just ran up here to catch. my son aubry that was murdered august 2006 to thirty round of bullets my 17 year-old boy to this day, no justice cold case and i'm still a grieving mother and i'm looking for some information concerning my son to this die there's still no information concerning my son i am concerned about that

i've been doing this for the last 9 years august 14th of this year is 9 years since my son is begun i come here to keep my sons memory alive i don't want none to forget about him, i want his case closed so i can have closer i go around everyday thinking of him everyday and bring my pictures? all i have left of my son him laying age a journey lifeless full of bullets my son in the casket and as i say all the time i'm not only fighting for any son there are several unsolved cases if i'm standing here imagine how

those mothers are feeling also, they don't want to come out i'm not saying they're not strong maybe suffering from a mental issue homicide is a mental issue i do want people i want people to see my pain i can sit here and talk about this all day with nothing and that's why i keep my pictures i want the people to see my pain i didn't have this child 9 months in my stomach for this to happen to him i have to daughters left that are still suffering they call me everyday someone tore down aubrey's picture i live in a praurm white neighborhood there's no statute of limitations on homicide there is

a law we should have there still walking the streets and living their lives wheelchair we're in pain and it is not fair please somebody think about us. >> thank you, ms. brown we'll ask the chief for an update on this case during his report. >> is there any additional public comment tonight further public comment. >> are you coming up for public comment hearing none public comment is closed. >> line item 3 chiefs report. >> good evening chief maybe you can started with an update and phone number. >> we're still waiting to get

help from the public mr. brown has the names of the superintendant that were involved and one of the suspects is disease isle i've asked homicide for an ailed update with no new information but knowing ms. brown is the devoted mom anybody that has information call your tipline (415) 575-4444 we need help on this case and any other case if anyone has it please call that number. >> there's a 2 hundred and 50 thousand dollars reward for motivation. >> anything leading to an arrest of a suspect a 2 hundred and 50 thousand dollars reward i see some of our young folks are leaving i'll update you, we

started another pay off crass at the academy that is i believe thirty young people high school kids that go both our cadet program our summer jobs program is one thousand kids 90 percent are kids of color and 50 percent african-american and while we've made an impact we have a disproportion violence playing out in a small part of san francisco in hopes of without or our way out we're trying to do this to education those people in the a back are great testimonies and real quickly we close out the u.s. conference of mayors

over the weekend that was a big success 3 hundred mayors and president obama was in on friday and left saturday and secretary clinton with the one hundred anniversary and million visitors crisscrossed by dignitaries over the united states we had time to do our torture run on monday all went well and relatively without incident i think we had one lady slipped on the stairs at the academy of stairs and another hurt his hand on a ride but that's it all in all great job by the plod it was spoken to about the hire plan the one that was referenced over the charter made out 1971 tofu

to the mayor and board of supervisors that puts 5 academy officers in the physique budget and the director will hub the resources but i know that is cops on the street do count and copies in the street engaging young people count and we can impact and change the situation without having to arrest our way out some of the unfortunate numbers were recorded and some half the homicides this year are committed against african-americans that are 6 or 7 percent of the population that's not okay we're committed to making it better we have pride week is upon us the u.s. supreme court comes down thursday or friday that will obviously mark for more

robust celebration more than ever events are on friday also the supreme court decision is on thursday i believe the parade starts at 10 and director hicks is welcome to join with our group is a fun group it will be a warm day and there will be events throughout the weekend all over san francisco we're asking the public if you see anything please is so we'll be out in numbers but not as well as the tens of thousands of people celebrating with us on a final note the documentary if you recall bat kid a little boy that was