stop crime s.f. and frank nodo and one of his proposed amendments. i think his suggestions are actually addressed in the legislation but also talked to the effect of this is still very important in terms of making sure that we protect civil liberties while we protect all of our communities and keep them safe. [please stand by]

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... the police officers did actively solicit video surveillance footage from the surrounding homes, including my home, in the investigation of that crime. there was a recent incident of vandalism where windows were broken. the police department did actively seek video surveillance footage from the surrounding businesses as part of the investigation. so i would agree with a lot of the people that i've heard from, that is really important part of the investigation. and pretty standard and important step that our police officers take. so, supervisor peskin, if you could explain how the legislation is able to happen? >> supervisor peskin: through the chair, to supervisor mar, the legislation as originally

drafted no way prevented the police department from gathering that information. the use policy makes san francisco safer. we all know, the board knows, the public knows, how long information can be stored, with whom it can be shared, who has access to the data. that is the fundamental underpinning of this piece of public policy. but last week, to make it abundantly clear, we added language that says nothing shall be construed to prohibit information gathered by a non-city entity or individual. so it is abundantly clear. what is important is that the department must not violate 19-b. they still have to have a use policy. but that's what is important here. and if i may, while i have the

floor, just reiterate things. first of all, while there is a bunch of thanks -- i do need to thank my staff lee, who has been accommodating the references. i want to thank administrator kelly and bill barnes who made this much more friendly. policies are not in place, is indeed in there, but it has to be read in conjunction with the fact that the amendments introduced here allow for 90-day extensions, unfortunately, perpetually. i expect when there is not good

cause -- and the department has utilized more than a couple of those 90-day extensions to introduce their use policy that will put our foot down, we'll stop issuing those, but it has to be seen in conjunction with that. there is nothing in this legislation that in any way thwarts the use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement. again, they should be subject to the use policies we've addressed. and relative to sfo and tsa areas, that is addressed and specifically exempted in the legislation, but the public will have another week to look at the amendments and if anybody wants more copies, i have them here. and if i run out of copies they will be on the internet for the next meeting, or come to my office and i'll print one out for you. >> supervisor ronen: wonderful.

can i get a motion -- >> supervisor peskin: you have to take the minutes. >> supervisor ronen: sorry, thank you. can i have a motion to approve the amendments? >> i move that we approve the amendments. >> supervisor ronen: that motion passes. i believe we do not have a meeting on april 29th. so i move that we continue this item to the may 6th rules agenda meeting. without objection, that motion passes. thank you. thank you, supervisor peskin. mr. clerk, can you please read item number 6? >> clerk: item number 6 is hearing to consider appointing one member, terms ending december 31, 2020 to the sugary drinks distributor tax advisory committee. >> supervisor ronen: thank you.

is aaron kuntz here? he is not here. he was nominated by the youth commission and comes highly recommended, so i'll open up this item for public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on the item? seeing none, public comments is closed. can i have a motion? >> i'd like to move that we set the nomination of aaron kunz for seat 6 for sugary drinks distributor tax advisory committee. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. without objection, that motion passes. any other items on the agenda? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> supervisor ronen: the meeting is adjourned, thank you. it.

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>> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone,

providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge? >> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a san francisco classic. we are celebrating bay area food.

we have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. we have some beautiful fresh fish here. it will come together beautifully. >> many to cut out all this talk, and let's go shop. yeah. ♪ >> what makes your dish unique? >> i like it spicy and smoky. i will take fresh italian tomatoes and the fresh seafood, and will bring them to other with some nice spoked paprika and some nice smoked jalapeno peppers. i am going to stew them up and get a nice savory, smoky, fishy, tomatoy, spicy broth. >> bring it on. how are you feeling? >> i feel good. i spent the $20 and have a few

pennies less. i am going to go home and cook. i will text message u.n. is done. >> excellent and really looking forward to it. >> today we're going to make the san francisco classic dish invented by italian and portuguese fishermen. it'll be like a nice spaghetti sauce. then we will put in the fish soup. the last thing is the dungeon as crab, let it all blend together. it will be delicious. when i could, i will try to make healthy meals with fresh ingredients, whatever is in season and local. those juicy, fresh tomatoes will take about an hour to cook down into a nice sauce. this is a good time to make our fish stock. we will take a step that seems like trash and boil it up in water and make a delicious and they speed up my parents were great clerics, and we had wonderful food. family dinners are very important. any chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal

atmosphere. one of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. hello. anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. all this double in view is this broth with great flavor. but your heart into it. make something that you, family, and friends will really enjoy. >> i am here with a manager at the heart of the city farmer's market in san francisco. thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about the organization. >> we're 30 years old now. we started with 14 farmers, and it has grown out to over 80. >> what is the mission of the organization? >> this area has no grocery store spiller it is all mom-and- pop stores. we have this because it is needed. we knew it was needed. and the plaza needed somebody.

it was empty. beautiful with city hall in the background. >> thank you for speaking with us. are you on the web? >> yes, hocfarmersmarket.org. >> check them out. thank you. >> welcome. the dish is ready. >> it looks and smells amazing. >> thank you. it was not easy to meet the $20 budget. i checked everybody out and found some great produce. really lovely seafood. i think that you are going to love it. >> do not be shy. cyou know this can run you $35 to $45 for a bowl, so it is great you did this for $20. >> this will feed four to six people. >> not if you invite me over for dinner. i am ready to dig in.

>> i hope you'll love it. >> mmm. >> what do you think? >> i think i am going to need more. perhaps you can have all you want. >> i am produce the that you have crushed this farmer's market challenge by a landslide. the first, we're going to have to tally of your shopping list and see what you actually spend that the farmer's market. >> and go for it. >> incredible. you have shown us how to make super healthy, refresh chapino from the farmers market on the budget, that for the whole family. that is outstanding. >> thank you peter i am glad that you like it. i think anybody can do it. >> if you like the recipe for this dish, you can e-mail us at sfgtv@sfgov.org or reach out to

us on facebook or twitter and we >> the goal is simple. it's to raise women's voices. >> learn a little bit about what you should be thinking about in the future. >> we had own over 300 -- over 300 people who signed up for the one-on-one counseling today. >> i think in the world of leading, people sometimes discount the ability to lead quietly and effectively. the assessor's office is a big

one. there are 58 counties in the state of california and every single county has one elected assessor in the county. our job is to look at property taxes and make sure that we are fairly taxing every single property in san francisco. one of the big things that we do is as a result of our work, we bring in a lot of revenue, about 2.6 billion worth of revenue to the city. often, people will say, what do you do with that money, and i like to share what we do with property taxes. for every dollar we collect in property taxes, about 68 cents of it goes to support public sstss, our police officers, our fire departments, our streets, our cleaning that happens in the city. but i think what most people don't know is 34 cents of the dollar goes to public education. so it goes to the state of california and in turn gets allocated back to our local school districts.

so this is an incredibly important part of what we do in this office. it's an interesting place to be, i have to say. my colleagues across the state have been wonderful and have been very welcoming and share their knowledge with me. in my day-to-day life, i don't think about that role, being the only asian american assessor in the state, i just focus on being the best i can be, representing my city very well, representing the county of san francisco well. by being the only asian american assessor, i think you have a job to try to lift up and bring as many people on board, as well. i hope by doing the best that you can as an individual, people will start to see that your assessor is your elected leaders, the people that are making important decisions can look like you, can be like you, can be from your background.

i grew up with a family where most of my relatives, my aunties, my uncles, my parents, were immigrants to the united states. when my parents first came here, they came without any relatives or friends in the united states. they had very little money, and they didn't know how to speak english very well. they came to a place that was completely foreign, a place where they had absolutely nobody here to help them, and i can't imagine what that must have been like, how brave it was for them to take that step because they were doing this in order to create an opportunity for their family. so my parents had odd jobs, my dad worked in the kitchens, my mom worked as a seamstress sewing. as we grew up, we eventually had a small business. i very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. we went to the restaurant every weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out.

it really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing public service the way that i do. one of the events that really stuck with me when i was growing up was actually the rodney king riots. we lived in southern california at the time, and my parents had a restaurant in inglewood, california. i can remember smelling smoke, seeing ashes where we lived. it was incredibly scary because we didn't know if we were going to lose that restaurant, if it was going to be burned down, if it was going to be damaged, and it was our entire livelihood. and i remember there were a lot of conversations at that time around what it was that government to do to create more opportunities or help people be more successful, and that stuck with me. it stuck with me because i remain believe government has a role, government has a responsibility to change the outcomes for communities, to create opportunities, to help

people go to school, to help people open businesses and be successful. >> make sure to be safe, and of course to have fun. >> and then, i think as you continue to serve in government, you realize that those convictions and the persons that you are really help to inform you, and so long as you go back to your core, and you remember why you're doing what you're doing, you know, i think you can't go wrong. it's funny, because, you know, i never had thought i would do this. i became a supervisor first for the city under very unusual circumstances, and i can remember one day, i'm shopping with friends and really not having a care in the world about politics or running for office or being in a public position, and the next day, i'm sworn in and serving on the board of supervisors. for many of us who are going through our public service, it's very interesting, i think, what people view as a leader. sometimes people say, well, maybe the person who is most

outspoken, the person who yells the loudest or who speaks the loudest is going to be the best leader. and i think how i was raised, i like to listen first, and i like to try to figure outweighs to work with -- out ways to work with people to get things done. i hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of city government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. >> take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the one-on-one counseling. >> i wouldn't be where i was if i didn't have very strong people who believed in me. and even at times when i didn't believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. if there was one thing that i

can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether it's being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think it's really to just trust yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are enough to make it work and to make things successful.. >> good morning everybody on this beautiful tuesday in the city and county of san francisco. i am so excited to be here. today we are proposing to remove barriers that prevent employment for thousands of san francisco for some people a speeding ticket or parking ticket are annoandannoyances. for others they can be a major

financial set back. in 2015, a report showed in cities and counties across the nation, thousands of people were struggling to pay their traffic tickets and court fines and fees. i have first-hand experiences how the fines can force someone to decide between paying their car to get out of tow or issues of that nature and paying rent. in san francisco before december of 2015, if someone could not pay the traffic fines, their driver's license were suspended. imagine already struggling to pay your bills, then you receive a notice in the mail your driver's license was suspended. not only can you not drive legally, but more and more companies now require a driver's license specifically for employment. in fact, studies show that people who have their driver's

license suspended, almost half will lose their jobs in a year. this is not equitable. i am grateful that supervisor walton is here with us today. sadly, we knew in bayview-hunters point they have three times the average of the number of driver's licenses that have been suspended statewide. that is why san francisco was the first in the nation to stop suspended driver's licenses for failure to pay fines. [applause.] over two years ago, we were the first to top suspended driver's licenses for failure to appeer in traffic court. after we discovered the biggest reason people do not show up for traffic court date is because they cannot afford to pay the fees. people are also worried if they show up, they would be forced to

give up their driver's license, and, sadly, some are afraid they might gee arrested. he on o get arrested. while we stopped the suspensions. we discovered 88,000 driver's licenses were still marked as suspended in the super-your court date take base. thousands of residents were unable to drive legally because they did not show up for traffic court date even though the super-your court no longer suspended licenses for this reason. when we looked into what it would take to lift those previous suspensions, we were told that the superior court only needed $15,000. $15,000, which we provided. for $15,000, we could create a

clean slate for everyone across our system. [applause.] it may seem like a small amount, but it is going to have a tremendous impact on so many people's lives. so today, thanks to the work of everyone here, i am proud to announce that all holds on driver's license for failure to apfear in traffic court have been lifted. [applause.] what is so great is that we are the first city in california, according to our research so far, the first city in the nation to do this. [applause.] now, to be clear, if you have had your driver's license suspended because you were driving recklessly or you have holds from other counties, your driver's license will be suspended until you resolve those issues.

if you are one of the thousands who could not afford the traffic convict and therefore did not show up for traffic court dates, you can take action to get your license back. we have flyers explaining how to call the dmv. how are you going to get through to the dmv? nevertheless, we have flyers explaining how to call the dmv to find out exactly what you need to do, and we will make sure that all of our city departments and websites have this information. while we need to have consequences and penalties for people who break the law, we do not want to do this in a way that makes it harder for people to get a second chance. in san francisco, we know that we can hold people accountable without putting them into financial distress. whether by eliminating wasteful administrative fines and fees in

our court systems which we did here in san francisco or getting rid of overdue library fees that prevent people from accessing our public records, or offering discounts for low income residents to pay their traffic fines. the announcement continues the commitment in this city to help lift people up. by taking this step, we are making it possible for thousands of people to get back to work, to grow our economy and create better lives for themselves and their families. i would like to thank everyone including the financial justice project. [applause.] the office of our amazing treasure jose and so many who have worked on these issues for

years, including many of the community groups who helped us to focus on the courts over the past several months, and members of the san francisco fines and fees task force that led the research on starting this effort. now our next speaker is someone who has dedicated her career to fighting for the legal rights of low income residents and working on a more equitable and financial justice policy. please join me in welcoming elisa from lawyers committee from civil rights. thank you. [applause.] thank you, mayor breed. it is wonderful to be in san francisco, which is a leader on common sense policies to increase public safety and

benefit and protect our lowest income residents. as many of you know, traffic tickets in california are expense expensive. we did a study that showed they were twice as much as places like new york. $500 for coming around a right hand turn for a red light. for many families that is out of reach. we have had person after person coming to us to say i can't afford $500. if i could have my driver's license i could keepny job, take kids to school and not risk arrest because if you drive on a suspended license, that is incarceration. that is a criminal offense. this step that san francisco is taking is saying we don't want driver's license suspension to be a collection sledgehammer. we want it to be about public

safety. we want those in san francisco and the bay area who drive here to be able to work. we want our residents to have fair and be common sense policies around driver's license suspension. san francisco is a leader in this. we call on other communities to follow san francisco's lead. 88,000 suspensions lifted. that means more people who can work. that means more people who can drive safely and legally. i will say one thing, if you go to the courthouse in san francisco and you are there right as the court clerk's office closes, then you have seen the person every day there is at least one person who took off of their work at risk to their job, tried to get to the courthouse and was two minutes late after they shut the door. when you see that look on that person's face, when you know what they had to sacrifice to make that effort, you know it doesn't make sense to punish

that person more than a person with money would be punished. you can mail in the pavement to avoid it. for low-wage workers and communities of color this is a punishment for being poor. congratulations to san francisco and all of the organizers who worked so long and hard to make this happen. we are grateful for san francisco as a leader. thank you. >> thank you to the lawyer's committee and all the work they continue to do. now, i would like to ask the supervisor from district 10 to provide a few remarks. [applause.] >> i am definitely going to be brief. i am trying to get my voice back for a long time. this is true equity at work. so many times we fine people for infractions and the punishment is to increase the fine.

the punishment for that is to increase the fine and take away the very things that allow you to be economically self-sufficient to put you in a place where you could possibly pay a fine. we have learned over the years that does not work. what does work is information and helping people learn how to be responsible so going back and retroactively eliminating the unnecessary fines that stifle folks who are trying to work hard to earn a living is the right thing to do. i just want to thank the treasure's office and everyone from the task force and committees that continue to work on equitable opportunity for low north carolinas to make sure -- low income communities to make sure they are not punished. this is important. this l make a major impact. i want to thank mayor breed for

standing up to lead the city toward these equitable policies in san francisco. >> thank you, supervisor walton. now, i would like to welcome the aclu of northern california. >> hello. i am the chief program officer of the aclu of northern california, but i have worked in civil rights and social justice for 20 years. i am the daughter of california and native of the bay area. i live here and raise my children here because we are a community that believes in diversity and equity and inclusion in our society. i think we aspire for what martin luther king talked about as the beloved community.

we aspire to create that community. we cannot do that if we punish people for being low income and poor. we live in a city, region, state and country with great resources and opportunities, the greatest. also, we have great and unanswered racial and economic inequities. as we invest in these wonderful programs, minimum wage and investment in education and training and wenvist in the folks left out of the prosperity of this golden state, we have to simultaneously route out and end these unjust practices and policies that drain financial resources from these exact communities. if we don't, we are trying to build a house on quicksand. we neat to stop and look how equity plays into the work we do not just in building community but making a solid foundation.

this is about economic and racial just tuesday. this is about civil rights and liberties, removing burdens that hold people back from jobs and education and from fully participating in the community. this is about moving closer to the dream of the beloved community. it is about smart on criminal justice. it is about bold leadership, and it is about time so thank you, mayor breed. thank you again everyone for being here. this is just bringing us one step closer to dealing with what we know are a number of inequitable things that exist in san francisco that we need to address. i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge cheryl davis. director of human rights commission, who has already started work and research on how

we can make sure that even be in the city and county of san francisco within our various departments that ther there is equitable access to job opportunities in our city. we know there is work to be done. today we celebrate an amazing accomplishment, thanks to so many incredible people who believe in the work we are doing and because of this work we are going to positively impact thousands in san francisco and hopefully change their lives and our city for the better. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause.] ♪ ♪

>> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. and that's what this little neighborhood support center is for. >> that's right. >> what are some of the services that might be provided in a neighborhood center like

this? >> yeah. so, we think of the neighborhood support centers as really being homes away from home. so, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. people are going to need to try to meet up with other people. they're going to need a lot of information. so, a lot of what the neighborhood support center is going to provide is that information. basically we're going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. what you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walki-talkies. this helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. we're really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. i know that i have a ton of

canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. and everybody should, but there's going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. so, that's what we've got right here. >> so, this neighborhood support center, this doesn't look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. it can be a small commercial space, even somebody's garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. >> that's right. >> thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. and probably be operated by volunteers. >> volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. so, if there is a structural engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs

might be needed. >> here we are with some of the things that you might find in a neighborhood support center. one thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. we say here's a charging station tied up to the generation. the essential coffeepot. >> yes. >> maybe a computer, you can check your e-mail with. >> yes. we have our charging station here. and then over here you can see we've got a whole variety of things, including the all-important different tags. so, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags? >> sure. people want to know what do these tags mean. is my building safe or unsafe. these are the city owe initial tags. staying in your home doesn't require that you get a tag. it just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether it's a safe place to stay. >> you might want to know because regular city services

are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. also in the neighborhood support center, that kind of information would be available and we've got a little of that up here. >> trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. >> that's right. >> please mark your human waste. >> that's right. >> so, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening city-wide. and, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. my cat is missing, call me. >> exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if you're really trying to save some of your precious energy minutes, et cetera, or it's not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people. and, so, that's what we're showing here. you can see people are going to

be looking for their pets. they're going to be looking for rides. people are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. another thing that you can see here is they're going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be able to stay safer within their homes. so, we're just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here. but then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. so, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these neighborhood centers are and help deliver some of these supplies. >> they could come from a neighbor, maybe not. thank you so much for allowing us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss

it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1.

my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan.

it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us.

i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me.

and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had

to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak

of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it never

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