it was very important to balance this hearing out with not only with those in law enforcement but those that work as the complement to law enforcement from a community perspective, so i am delighted that you are here. i want to recognize the fact that we are going to hear from the budget access coalition after this presentation. i want to know what we can do better and what are some of the policies helping us reduce crime and are there any programs that are especially effective that we should be paying careful attention to. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak. i think going from the police department what chief scott was talking about the response team, that is a group that happens every wednesday that several

groups come together to talk about violent incidents that happen over the weekend, juvenile pr probation, departmet of public health, sa san francio school district and clergy that come. we discuss who is going to take the lead to support that person or victims that have been affe affected. we touched base about what kind of retaliation could happen between the different sets that happen, so that kind of communication is very effective. i know that it's a unique service that many other cities don't have.

they have been coming to us asking about more information on how that happen. from the police department they have had ten or 11 coalition meetingmeetings with different cultures, african-american, latino, pacific islanders. a lot of coalitions happening. i happen to be one of the persons involved in the community policing rollout and that is an excellent process with bringing community folks an san francisco police department, from a police perspective, it's policing community and community policing and some of the things that we have to do a better job as a community is how to get trained on policing ourselves and to develop the relationships that we have with the police department to be able to work in

collaboration, so not just from a police perspective but also from community perspective. those things are going well. i don't know that the police department is informing the community enough about all the trainings they are going through within the department. there is a lot of findings that happen with doj and that is understandable, but the community doesn't know what's happening and more information should be passed out about what's going on. a little bit about street violence and intervention strategize, some of the things that are working well is with the unified school district. it has a tough job trying to manage youth who have constant conflicts with each other whether young ladies or people who come from different sets, different neighborhoods who have conflicts with each other. we get called in a lot to do conflict mediation and

collaboration. we are not securit security butt called to be supportive in high school events, the proms, garage graduation because our team has a good way of doing mediation without getting the please involved,s so that informing is real good. >> is that a specific program or just an enhancement of what you do? >> it's not really part pouf our function but we have been adding more of it to be able to support the school district. we found it happens from the school back into the neighborhood to be able to do a continuous outreach because kids live in a certain neighborhood and they come back to the school and we try to work with those youth in the school and then back to the neighborhood. we have added our own street

outreach workers and we are wo workinworking with the school dt to have a team that will do that. we have 30 outreach workers focused around san francisco focused in the western edition, the bay vie, the third street roarie dor, harbor row, west dal. ga knegeneva, we are desperate t pretty thing. strategize thastrategize workinl there are peace soup, there is

peace park. we have multiple outings with agencies such as turf, mission neighborhood center, icy, united players and success center and year around we are doing a lot of outings to provide services to the youth. the community pacific islanders association is getting ready to move out services for them. community pacific islander association. it's in the beginning stages but a big need for the city. >> i would agree. do you know who is funding this association? >> dcyf.

another thing that's working is workforce development, i am sure that supervisor you know ipo, city build is working with developing a hybrid from an 18-week to 8-week certification to be able to help at risk youth to be able to get training for job development is really important. department of public works with it's year-around program. one stop. those are good programs that happen. another one that was mentioned earlier, a lot of services from dcyf, services from dph and services from housing. they are not cal all connected. someone talked about the issue

of sharing data. if you are looking at services on demand at 2:00 in the morning and if you have a lady that's stoned out of her mind and needs a bed, well, we can't get it until the morning, until monday, there needs to be a better collaboration to be able to provide those service. the last one i want to mention is the need for housing. i know there is housing developments that are a 20 year plan which is great. thank you for doing that. a lot of the youth we deal with, we ask them what will it take to get you off the block and 90% say a job. we find them a job but then they have to go back to the neighborhood where they are from and it's a constant, you know lifestyle change, change in behavior, and it's about life skill. it would be nice to be able to

move them out of the location into a new place to start a new life and housing as you all know is a big problem in san francisco. >> what if we were to identify housing in other parts of the bay area? >> that would be great. there are times when people who have committed negative behavior and they say i want to change and that behavior follows them so to get them out of sight out of mind is a good thing. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. does that include your presentation. mr. caldwell you can come up and share some wisdom too. >> thank you. we just dealt with the six shootings that happied in the bay view. i had a conversation with one of the probation officers of the young man and he called his probation officer to look him up because he didn't feel safe. i met with him today and he said something about housing an

employment. he doesn't feel safe in the place he is living in. he said if he was to be moved he would be moved into a rival territory where he cannot go. >> supervisor cohen: is to the answer to move into alameda county. if we moved here near stonestown but on the other side of the town from sunny dale and bay view, would that -- >> that would work because he would be out of the danger zone. we have five zones and they are in a ten minute radius.

even moving out of county and certain parts of -- some that have lived the antioch. working on how do we place them out would be good. that's coming together with housing and police department and making sure when we do a plan it's not just us providing a plan, but this is barriers and this is where we can go and the can't go. if he goes over here we have to look at where are we putting him and where are these young men being sent. you have to look at section 8 and being moved out there and a lot of them are taking the problems out there as well. the man that worked for dpw changed his life but the young

men that came home still had the issue but he had been out of the home that wouldn't are happened. we are greatly trying to work on that. >> is there any other insights you want to share? >> right now no. we are going to continue to build a relationship. we did mention this in the police meeting we had on wednesday looking at service providers that are providing services in the bay view and fininfinding out who is doing wt and being able to access those services like if we have a situation at 1:00 in the morning and fine find a person that we o go to. >> supervisor cohen: another question. you heard early from the city service auditor and about the

different people that don't feel safe in san francisco. what are things that we can do to help people feel more safe in the neighborhood and in the city overall. >> i heard the question being asked as far as losing recruits and i think one of the thing to not lose a recruit is bring them into the neighborhood they are going to service while they are in the academy and understanding the people with the culture and the history and they get to meets individuals and families and communities they are going to service and build a rapport so if they do become employed they have a relationship, s. they can continue to build a relationship like i know that officer i watched him go through the academy. from a community outreach and

violence prevention program, we have 30 staff for the whole city and in some aspects that needs to increase. if you look at bay view alone we have 8 staff members, two vans to cover the whole p patrill hil over. >> supervisor cohen: so more resources. >> yes. >> supervisor cohen: the next and final presenter is going to come from the budget justice coalition i want to welcome them down. we have invited members of this coalition to share their community based perspective on public safety and youth developmendevelopment. we are looking for your policy level priorities and we are not looking for line item expenses

or individual cbos but really a policy direction that you can give us so that we can move in that direction. welcome. >> we had a slide presentation. >> supervisor cohen: no problem. sfgov tv if you could. is your presentation loaded on the laptop in front of you? if not, we can do it the old school way, we have the handouts in front of us.

>> i have it on the screen. >> all right there it is. put it in the slide show for mat. format. all right take it away. >> my name is krista denao i am the manager of youth environment board. we are seeking support to build youth leadership which will create and promote -- for our

community. bodies like these advisory boards work we know this. i would like to introduce you to one of your young people anuvis. >> hi, i am a former homeless youth of san francisco. we the youth have motivated or community to fight for safe and healthy schools for generations. thousands of san francisco youth have jumped up to join the mas masses against violence. -- false quick fixes, efforts like

bringing more guns into school. you cannot let us walk alone. >> we urge our city leaders to take this opportunity to advance the unit for our young people and lead us in a society without all forms of violence. thank you. >> i am alexa and this is mj and this is the moment that these leadership organizations in san francisco are growing. (. [reading] ing] we believe that san francisco can effectively address violence in our lives by investing in our leadership. we believe that san francisco should invest in programs that amplify the voice of young

people who are often at the margins of society including youth from low income backgrou background, youth of color and lbgtf. >> the youth who participate in community organizing build long-term leadership skills and promote deep critical thinking. being part of -- has helped me become more passionate about engaging in my community. we currently advocate for better street lights in my neighborhood. we are hosting a youth conference which addresses situations that youth face. we believe that san francisco can effectively ay address viole in our lives that engages young

people in building power for social change. >> hi, my name is leroy. this is what youth leadership looks like and how it work. we identify in the youth empowerment program and we identify many issues an and concerns that our community has and we analyzed the root causes within those problems because if you don't the core it will emerge like cancer. we conduct education and outreach, build programs to support our 'cause and we influence policy and system changes because we believe that everyone deserves this and we

believe san francisco should invest in our programs and what matters -- we are also building power in social change right now, so we ask you to look luridly on our vikings an goalsu to increase -- by 300,000 this year. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. is there any last minute remark. you have a few more minutes, if not thank you very much i appreciate your presentation. a question for krista and some of the leaders about the over all policy conversation, so youth leadership is a big topic

what i heard was a request for 300,000, but to go where and to do what and how does that youth leadership relate to public safety? >> so their request would go through dcyf and we have had conversations with maria sue. they put out a rfp for youth organizing and they were unable to accommodate the surge of youth that really want to do organizing and change san francisco. >> supervisor cohen: let me see if i can rephrase my question. what kind of leadership or youth organizing is going on that relates to public safety? >> leroy was talking about

specifically a walkout. he was saying that youths think about what is impacting them. leroy, you want to help me, and find the root causes. >> find the root causes to these problems that we have because if we don't figure out these different problems and issues that we have they will only continue and perpetuate as we live on in life and no one deserves a life like that. >> supervisor cohen: how long have you been affiliated? >> only this summer but overall feels like my whole life. >> supervisor cohen: so what are some of the root causes to violence. >> for one capitalism. we learned how they try to diverge society as like a

scientific way of socialization as in race and they try to diverge us and it's under families that way, but we are all about unity and solidarity, which is like empowerment way of showing that we can all stand together no matter what type of policies they throw at us and that we can overachieve. >> supervisor cohen: what kind of advocacy have you done on specific policies? >> i know specifically we worked with the gentrification within minority community. right now we have the bpp, the black priorities project that focuses upon the huge gentrification and displacement going on around the bay area

within these historical black and brown community. >> supervisor cohen: what are some of the gentrifying forces that you have studied and come to understand? >> i have learned that they will create like, for example, a lot f peoplof people are moving wite city and moving a lot of people out of their homes and that creates inflation upon the communities which many people of working class can't afford. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> so i few of the things that we have talked about like gentrification and the forced displaguesment of people from their homes and small businesses is not like just new people coming in but histories of under development and under resourcing in communities of color and not

a lot of accountability and landlords not doing repairs and increasing trent arbitrarily and we don't have strong rent policies and we can't protect ourselves to stay here in the cities and communities that we have been built up and the people that created that are pushed out. when we are not able to have stable homes it's harder to feel safe in our neighborhoods and hard to get a good education it's harder to focus if you fear that your family is going to get pushed out. there is a bunch of policies that we are trying to report and the voting registration and democracy coming up we are pushing for that to go through

for the right to participate and engage in society, so a big thing for us is to be against like who is deserving and who is not. how can we as a community lift up and each and protect each other when there is a lot of forms that are making us unstable and the way to do that is build up the folks experiencing that first-on, and us young people often are not listened to and we have a lot of say and we are experts of our own experience and it's important that youth leadership development programs have the support so we are not carrying on these issues and trying to move forward and trying to survive all the time.

>> would you say that we need to have a redistribution of wealth in order to keep communities safe we need to close this wealth gap that is caused by capitalism. would you say that is a policy issue that you might work on? >> to address the concerns of supervisor asking question, i know there has been a lot of concerns about public safety in the city recently. when i was homeless for six years what a lot of me and my friend did in terms of crime was out of desperation. i did things when i was hopeless that i don't like talking about and keep me up at night and i did it so i could eat and have

shelter and clothes on my back, and as my colleagues here have been saying that there is a wealth gap that is caused by capitalism, and i think that san francisco and really the government in general should be in the business of projecting the marginalized people, such as the poor, the middle class, people of color, lbgtq etc., and until the government and we as a people realize that there will always be these problems and issues of public safety because like i said, a lot of crime comes out of desperation. you rarely see crimes because people do them. people don't break into cars because they feel like it. they break into them because they are yo you hungry, they sur

from addiction because their life is so screwed up they don't know how to get out of it besides doing those drugs and they can commit these crimes to feed themselves to support their habits, to put clothes on their back or just to get shelter. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. i think that there are no other questions so i will close out the hearing at that point. i am grateful for your perspective. thank you for bringing it to us. i hope you guys got something out of the longer hearing. so what we are going to do now is we are going to go to public comment. i have a few public comment cards.

>> i object to that presentation by the police and the district attorney's office. i believe the females who were rapes and had kits sit in the hall of justice for 15-20 years should have priority. testing female for foreign dna on her body and putting rape kit in a storage location at the hall of justice is not the true and correct way to take care of that process. after dna is e extracted from te outside and inside of the female's body, the next step the to enter that into a codus

database which is nationwide throughout the united states that has the dna of felons and rapists that have been convicted. by punching that information into that computer is called a hit and it's a match. the rapist cannot say he did not rape that female. if he does, he has to explain why is he having sex and contact with this female. my point is if you don't complete the process of punching the dna into the system, you are

not testing the matter and dna that comes from the perpetrator of a female that's been raped. [bell ringing] >> supervisor cohen: thank you next speaker please. >> good afternoon. cassandra cost ste costello fro- travel. i want to thank the women and men who serve every day in the public safety sector. we need more of what they do. we work a lot with the police department, the district attorney and i think they have very charging jobs and we definitely need more of what they do to keep up with the ever growing population of our city.

when you are looking at more police controls we hope you would prioritize. we did see a difference when they doubled their current foot beat control and that gives them opportunity to build relationships with the resident es and provides that feeling of safe thasafety that people are g for. i want to point out that san francisco is a walking city so our visitors have a relationship with what is going on on the street. the feedback that we received we just met with key convention

clients yesterday is that they don't feel safe when they are here and that is concerning for us. we have such a high property crime rate. [bell ringing] >> supervisor cohen: that was two minutes. >> my name is ace and i've been on this case, some of those people are dead are all in this place, no mystery just check the mystery. i have been working on a lot of cases of conspiracy.

[ singing] don't you want to know what goes on down here in city hall? don't you want to know what goes on in city hall. i am getting ready to start my own tv show you all about what goes on in city hall. i have seen it all. i will be here at every meeting to find out what is going on because you know what? even though these youth and everybody get up here, black folks aren't in the budget anywhere you all, you got the asians and you got the gays, and you got the this, and that, but no one looking like me in the budget. [singing] [bell ringing] we worked together when he was with the hrc.

it's no mystery, just check the history. i have been working on a lot of cases involving a conspiracy, but it's going down, down in this down, the black population is going down. ooh, ooh, ooh. down in city hall, would you s say. [bell ringing] >> supervisor cohen: next speaker please. >> my name is lordis. i am a caseworker and i am here in support of the budget request from the justice coalition. it is vital that we collaborate

and come together worke with the of the funds and allocation of the funds and it helps our communities grow in a healthy way. it's been proven over and over again that enforcement through punishment doesn't work. it is consistent dialogue and access to communication. i want to talk about the youth camp. one of the most important things i have seen is being involved with the youth program. not only does it provide a safe space for youth in the community, they are a proactive movement. there have been critical thinking skill. johannna has developed into a

program that the youth run the program and it's powerful to see that the youth that are engaging in the community. this is one of our coworkers here. [please stand by]

-- i wanted to say that i support the budget justice coalition request and want to respond to a couple of things from earlier. we must address things outside of public safety, as people said earlier. so we should consider that perhaps part of the reasoning

some people don't feel safe is because of increased police presence. that in regards to existing strategies to address property crimes like foot patrols, the board has to consider other strategies that address violence that don't prioritize policing and people of color. when we talk about civilianization, it must address what would be placed into the environment and when police are administrators and sworn officers working in the service of policing and so san francisco should prioritize shifting this. when thinking about the sheriff's budget, san francisco

spent $22 million on people in jails. san francisco should prioritize enclosing 850 bryant to reconfigure the jail and consider alternatives to incarceration. thank you. >> i'm kamala walton, transgender inter sect project. i want to echo support and lift up that we want to encourage everyone on the board to honor the city's commitment to divest from the jails and commit the next three years of declining

people locked in cages for re-entry, support needs, and other community-based resources as recommended by the working group to reenvision the jail replacement project. i want to name that it's really important to acknowledge that while you are trying to tackle all of these different issues, it's really, really, really important to listen to the people that are being impacted, the young folks from earlier and if you are invested in building out the future of the city, so that the people that are here can still be here, it's important to ask folks what they need to feel safe not just if they feel safe because a cop is on a block. i, myself, don't feel safe when a cop is on the block. it is deeper than needing to get to know the person that has a

gun that's trained to put me in a cage. it's important to look at affordable housing, access to quality jobs and food and people are desperate because they're not getting their basic needs met. instead of increasing what happens after their basic needs are not met, i think that we should do the preventative measures and invest in people's needs now. >> hello, super viewsovisorsupe. i am jesse stout. i'm part of san francisco no new jail coalition founded after the sheriff's department put in a capital plan to build a jail in soma. i understand that the sheriff and police department want to do a lot to prevent crime and all all about that.

and it talked about preventing crime by making people's lives whole and healthy, instead of punishing people after harm has been done. so i really appreciate that there are efforts in san francisco to make it so that people are safer, less likely to be punished in that way and appreciate that the board is willing to look to alternatives to incarceration instead 7 funding additional resources to incarcerate people. thank you. >> any other members of the public that would like to speak? >> hello, again. i just wanted to say that a lot of the fine people have been saying -- i want to agree that i don't think the solution to our problem is more enforcement or incarceration. if we look at history, we know

it doesn't work. in fact, it can exacerbate the problem. it of not only does it tear up families and have people come back and rejoin our society, because we know the goal of the prison industrial complex is not to rehabilitate people but to keep them coming back so they can continue to make profits. so it's not the right solution. really, what the right solution is is to provide for our low-income, and middle-income and marginalized people in our city. i'm sorry, but for lack of a better word, the american dream. a good job, a house -- well, we're in a city, i guess something comparable -- >> an apartment. >> something comparable to a house that they own. that's what people want. they want to be able to take care of themselves and their families and this city has not

been prioritizing that for our most vulnerable populations for the middle class, for the poor, for people of color, for lgbt or etc. and i feel that trying -- and i feel that if you want to increase enforcement and incarceration, that would send the wrong message to the city. thank you. >> thank you. anyone else that would like to share their public comment? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. just want it say thank you, colleagues, and to the staff for another very good policy discussion. i want to recognize supervisor yee at this time. >> thank you, chair, for, again, another great discussion. and i want to thank the public and all the departments that came out to present. this has -- this issue is

probably dear and near, near and dear to all of our hearts, as to what we can do when it comes to public safety and there's, as you can see, no one approach that will make this all happen overnight. i agree with chief scott and the justice coalition that there is -- we should put resources into prevention issues. and i'm glad that dcyf was able to appropriate $75 billion into projects and that many are probably prevention. unfortunately, not much was put into early education, even though we authorize the funding, supposed to have half the increases go to early education, which has never happened. and early education, as you

know, is a prevention program. in regards to the departments, there were many asked. and i want to state in public what my support would be. i think the sheriff's department with the -- maybe i'm not framing this right, but talked about the restraining order/firearms issue, needing more marshals to work on that a little bit, which is about 2 1/2 deputies, i believe, that they mentioned. i would be very supportive of that policy. the academies we should look at more closely in terms of how many were funding to catch up. every year, i've been supportive of increasing the police academies and the sheriff's academy to make sure that we can replace the officers that are leaving. and i -- i -- at the end of the

day, i'm not sure how much i would support what the police staffing of 80 or 100 and whatever, because i pushed the task force to look at it a year ago and they barely got it started. chief scott knows where i stand with this. i want to support staffing, but it has to make sense, too. it's not when you ask for 100 or 80 or whatever. maybe it's justified, but let's hurry up and have these task force start meeting and say, these are the numbers. we need 300. and then all of us could support that. so i'm willing to support some increase but not if it's the full ask. with the unit -- which one is that, the district -- district attorney, right? >> yes. >> he asked for two units? >> yes. >> human trafficking and -- so,

again, he's asking for complete units and i'm not too sure if i want to go from where he is having one staff member look at the break-ins or crime unit from one to having seven more. it doesn't make too much sense to me. i don't see the number of arrests being seven times as much. i can see a literal increase and see if that's going to be enough for them for -- and then come back next year to say, hey, look at all the stuff we're doing with the two or three people we're increasing. and the trafficking piece, i'm enough more supportive of possibly looking at fully funding that. one more thing. the justice piece, which i mentioned earlier, i really would like to know from the city

administrator, who is in charge of that, to see what that would cost to move us forward. >> thank you. supervisor stefani? >> thank you. and thank you for all the departments that came out and people from the community that presented. i just want it reiterate that public safety is a huge priority of mine. with regard to staffing, increased staffing, with rationale behind it, and i know it's being looked at the mayor's office and they're looking at how we will increase our police force and how they will be deployed. that's a huge priority of mine. as we increase our police force, we've to be mindful of how it plays out with the d.a.'s office and adult probation and things like that. and also an investment in our fleet to modernize and maintain it. lastly, i just want to mention domestic violence temporary restraining order process. i think it's something we

absolutely need to fund and need to figure out how to do it. we need to expand our ability to serve t.r.o.s, check for evidence of firearms and retrieve the firearms. domestic violence perpetrators with firearms pose a serious threat to their partners, families, and communities. in 55% of all known female homicides in the u.s., it's d.b.-related. and victims of domestic violence are five times more likely to be killed by their abuser if the abuser owns a firearm. 57% of mass shootings in the u.s. involves a domestic violence-related case. it's not a question of if we fund this but how we fund this, so it's a huge priority of mine. thanks. >> thank you. supervisor sheehy. >> i would like to echo supervisor stefani, the

necessity of funding the t.r.o. unit at the sheriff's department. i would be supportive of the academy classes. let's see what the mayor does. it may be on his list. i really would hope that we would make sure that rebooking is included in this year's budget. it's not really a financial issue. it's a justice issue. and this was routine, that we had people from the district attorney's office available on the weekends, so that individuals who are arrested on the weekend didn't have to stay in jail if they were not guilty of anything. sentencing people to jail simply because during the recession we cut back on district attorneys -- it's just totally unfair. and it's wrong. and i think that that

contributes to problems with people being able to work, being able to take care of their families. it creates a cascade of negative outcomes. i think the human trafficking unit at the d.a.'s office is something that we should look into and we should also -- i think this idea of family violence, sexual violence, clearly there's a gram -- gap in what we're doing. they didn't have anything specific to that, but i would be looking for something. and then the other piece that i thought was really interesting that i think we should seriously look at was the suggestion of housing, especially. that's the way, to me, i think, to end some of the cycles that lead to people being caught up in crime. and that may be one of the more cost-effective things we can do is to provide housing for people who want to change their lives. so those are the areas that i

thought were very interesting. thank you. >> thank you. i appreciate the summary. i was going to ask, overall, colleagues, what are some of the things that you heard so we can memorialize them and you did it automatically. i appreciate that. we have completed public comment. madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? >> yes, madam chair. would you like to file this hearing? >> yes, i would like to file the hearing. >> is there a second? >> second. >> okay. seconded by supervisor stefani. we'll take that without objection. please note that supervisor fewer had to leave. thank you. >> and there's no other -- >> ladies and gentlemen, we're adjourned. thank you.

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