from sunshine request that i had to start digging there. is no transparency, no open communication, and we were seeing what is happening on the streets. we see and i have been doing street outreach in some way in the city for almost 18 years now. it is not new. what we are seeing recently is officers going and i have got to tell you officers are being thrown under be the bus. they don't want to do this. they know they have got nothing. we wish there was somewhere that people could go. the numbers are really simple. it doesn't add up. it doesn't add up. refocus. what we are seeing now is where officers are going out because of the focus is so much on tents. they are saying give up the tents or you are going to jail.

the officers of shelter are not real. the rv count what is the city providing for people living in rv? safe parking? they do not have resources yet. hsoc is targeting people living in the vehicles. i meet with advocates across the united states are stunned with how harsh it is in san francisco. there are human rights violations taking place here. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you for having this hearing. i hear a lot from you guys about need for community policing, not enough money, this stuff. we have massive housing. we need funding to expand

treatment. nobody addresses mental health if they are going to the streets, not permanent housing. we have 75 full-time highly trained, highly expensive offerings responding to what is an economic crisis. a housing crisis. that is a lot of money over $40 million spent leading nowhere. that neighbor that commissioner taylor we were talking about that is frustrated. that neighbor's needs are not met by moving people block to block. those needs are met by moving people to housing. as long as we have a police response to homelessness we are not going to have the resources to house people. i think we are confused here. when we lead with services, that means you lead with services. social service provider is leading.

when you lead with police, that is not leading with services. leading with services is defined term. it doesn't work. you know, we had a police response is not correct when hsoc was first started we thought it was decreasing police. we went from 24 to 75 officers responding to homelessness. other municipalities are trying something different. citations are down. courts are no longer issuing warrants for unpaid citations. folk on the streets are not feeling a big gain. for them an hsoc policy is alone and unsheltered. >> all right. i have been waiting awhile. i want to say this. i am a formerly homeless individual. i am one that has experienced

life on the streets. believe me the last thing i ever wanted to hear when i was in crisis was get up and move along. i am sick and tired of hearing about the sweeps. i heard about the sweep. what is going on here? i want this to stop. i want things to be led with services. now, when i was on the streets, i was assaulted, victim of a hate crime. someone punched me so hard i almost lost an eye. i didn't go to the police because i felt i would be criminalized. it is real for so many people. it is time to cut the police funding. 23% of our funding goes to policing jails, that bullshit, only 3% goes to homelessness. we have to shift priorities here

and just stop the bullshit and get people housed, lead with services. we need navigation centers, we need supportive housing that is not some crummy bullshit which i live in. we need to change priorities. i know this is the police commission. we have to cut police funding. screw that. fuck the police. >> good evening. thank you for serving san francisco. i am ellen. i am a public social worker for public health. i am a candidate for mayor for november 2019 this year. the reason i am here is because we had a meeting in chinatown, and we have so many victims came out to report crimes.

>> let me stop you. we are just taking comments on homelessness presentations. general public comment will come after this. this is just on homelessness issue. >> one of the issue you talk about the homeless people have been staying overnight in chinatown that has bothered the merchants, elderlies that are afraid in chinatown. i came in today. i hear the deports. you and i just heard it tonight. san francisco has more than 21,000 homeless people. no matter what you do and what you do up here today, the homeless problem is not going to be able to stop. the problem is the question is where is the money? the city budget $3,900 to $17,000, homeless a month. where is the money? number two, democrats have been

in control of city hall for 45 years. we have no problem until one party policy that is dominated our city hall that is all democrats 100%. the homeless problem is created by no one but democrats. to protect human rights and human life. if you look around, what do you see? no chinese people. you see the homeless people. white people, black people, latino people, you don't see a lot of chinese people. why? you are racist, racist. >> your name. good afternoon commission i am angela jen kings. i want to thank you.

i haven't spoken for some years. i see spaces that make me smile. law enforcement and other people. i come in newly. david lazar charmed me to it is on for two years the community policing group. i learned a lot. i learned my most from meeting with the coalition of homelessness and seeing them stay in my district for the navigation center, brave people asking for compassion. i am a person that doesn't believe strongly in policing. i think there are alternatives. i have voiced that. i am looking for a nonlaw enforcement response to the issue of housing people, and i hope we arrive at that and thank you very much. >> i am martha.

i am participating in the coalition on homelessness, human rights work group. i have defended quite a few thousand infraction citations in the fairly disand past. i want to say the most important statistic tonight is from chris herring saying only 5% of the hsoc calls got the resolution care where people are offered the lovely thingsdescribed to you. a very lovely compassionate group of services are described to be offered. they are offered on a limited basis. everyone else, go away. we throw away your stuff, punish

you buy throwing away your stuff if you don't go away. this is just that the city is not thinking about trusting people enough to help them to survive on their own until there is enough of what is city has to offer to offer to everyone. there is a notion that people either receive something from the city or everything is the same. if you can help people to survive in place, you help people to survive a lot longer quite physically. i live south of market. i have lived there since 1996. i want to say my own experience is i see sfpd telling people to move, i see dpw throwing away people's things, a lot of plans. what i have not seen since abot 2015 when somebody was helping me with a neighbor still sleep

on the sidewalk, what i haven't seen is actual outreach workers. i would like to see those, survey people help them not hurt them. >> thank you. >> hi. i am flow kelly with the coalition on homelessness. i have learned a lot by doing that. i am very impressed with your questions and your concerns. this is very hopeful to me. i really like president hersh's idea that the coalition and hsoc should absolutely work together. i want to make clear, vice president taylor, that when people are told to move, often times it is only just a few

feet. they are told instead of being right here could you just move three feet over here? or it could just be going around the block. i don't see the point of that. supposedly, i have heard it said tonight an encampment is a bastion of criminal activity. when people are coming together, they are protecting each other, making friends, sharing resources. it is a very important support system that you have when people are together. breaking up people just because there is six or more tents, i don't understand that or making vehicles move because there are suddenly 10 on the block, i don't get that at all. i think that dpw has a lot of

vehicles in homeless folks. did i say bayview? i meant to say bayview has a lot of folks because it is industry. dpw tags only at the dpw yard. they do not tag anything that they take while it is on site. how could that possibly result in accurate tagging? >> thank you. >> may i use the overhead for video? i am taylor. i am a mission resident, member of the sf bike coalition and latino democratic club. i want be to share a quick video on the overhead from february.

this is pushing down rain. -- pouring down rain. there is rain on division and mission street. there are bicycles and tents inside the dpw truck facilitated by the police. this is unacceptable. it is a waste of money. resources should be towards services and housing and supporting people to live a better life with those services and not police intervention. defund the police activity on every homeless encampment and bring the neighbors to spaces they want to be. thank you. >> i am john jones.

i recently took a train tip from los angeles to san francisco and from bakers field to emryville one gets to see from the window of the train numerous homeless encampments. most of us get to see these encampmentses, congregation of tents from eye level. when you are on the train on top of the railroad embankment you see it from 10 to 15 feet. my impression of these encampments was these are horrific placement. this report is unable to capture

the horror of these homeless encampments. i felt that they were a threat to the surrounding communities. over a period of time, civilized society would be impossible given these encampments and how people inter acted with each other. the charge was made that the individuals involved in reaching to the homeless and meeting their needs are racist because of the lack of chinese being served. i would like to suggest another reason. the chinese have strong families. i have seen it time and time again. i live in excellin excel see or. that is why there are fewer receiving the services.

it is to their credit. i hope it is perceived as a compliment. >> next speaker. >> i am melody. i was born in 1958. in 1960 i sustained a brain injury and it was not diagnosed until 1997. if you google it the studies show that approximately 50% of the homeless population suggestion stained a brain injury prior to becoming homeless. of that 50%, 75% sustained the

injury prior to age 18. i started seeking services from the city and county of san francisco in the year 2000. and 14 years later not one agency offered me any kind of rehabilitation for brain injury. i have had a total of 40 years of talk therapy which did not help me learn my multiplication tables or skills of daily living. i have been living on the street since 2007, and i have a good rapport with jeff, a good rapport with the bayview police captains. i have been attending the police community meetings since 2009, and there is not any services for me.

we just need to somehow stop what the hsoc is doing. it is terrorizing me and not helping me get housing. thank you so much. >> okay. this is still homelessness. >> i would like to use the overhead. i had the opportunity to visit vision zero of homicides. i will bring this up. we are talking about homelessness. people are losing their homes because their children are being murdered. chief scott was talking about people dying on the street. we talk about homelessness and people are dying, but homicide is the same. people are losing their homes. they have to live on the street. the mothers can't stay in the projects because they lost their

home because of crime or whatever is in the house. you talk about mental health. yes, we are suffering. i haven't lost my home but i know people that are. we talk about zero tolerance. that goes for everyone. people are losing their homes. we need to do something. i do drive past and see those trucks picking up those homeless people's things and putting them in the trunk and i don't see them tagged. i feel sorry for them. i give them money. i shouldn't but i do. half of them have children and half of them are pregnant, and it is sad. we need to do something about it. thank you. >> thank you. public comment on the homelessness presentation is closed.

next item, please. >> item 7 general public comment. general public is welcome to address the commission on items not on the agenda. address it to the hole. during public comment neither police or commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and dpa personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. >> general public comment. >> it is against policy for a member of the commission to send e-mails to the members of the public via private e-mail. after the last meeting i received such an e-mail from

commissioner hersh. i offered to meet and have a conversation. commissioner hersh dropped the ball. i feel it is necessary to bring this before you all. at that meeting i stated that many members of the public that have just spoken were distraught about louise after arriving on the screen. no one showed any compassion. the e-mail from his private e-mail said these words. did you spit on my car? that's what i heard from the commissioner. did you spit on my car? my answer was i should not even responds to that because it is so insulting. no, i did not spit on your car. i am frankly appalled you would think that. i would never stoop so low to

hate you that you would make such assumption about the member of the public. it shows how little you respect us. i was calling about your lack of compassion for the families whose loved had been killed by the police. i cannot let stand such a breach of policy that is an insult not only to me but for the public in general. what will you do to rectify this? i don't know if he is telling you i pit on his car. i don't know what car you drive. thithis is an insult and against policy. i want to know what you are going to do to rectify this. >> next speaker. thank you. >> commissioners, i am gregory

leone a resident of san francisco and representing the chinese merchants. we feel there is a rise of violence crimes against the chinese, particularly we hope the police department will help before it gets worse. for the merchants, besides the crimes there are a lot of petty crimes on the chinese merchants like shoplifting, spit on, groping, racial slurs calling. we get that every day. i have had that since i was a child in san francisco, but i never reported it, and i never kept that in mind. i just hope that people will

learn to work with each other and live with each others. heart tread has -- hatred has been around for a long time and hopefully with this president that is having so much on race problems the department will do something about it. i hope that the chief and you commissioners would take time to visit chinatown with a rally with the concentration of chinese and spread the word that we can live with each other. we don't have to hate each other. i hope the department will support the ambassador program.

thank you. >> can we shut the door, please. >> chief scott, commissioners, i am a resident of china town. about three mondays ago, two seniors over the age of 60 just had their lunch and walk out from the restaurant and he was attacked and three guys picked him up and threw him down on the sidewalk again and took his role lex watch away. that is not only one instance, you know, earlier in the year

there was a 70-year-old woman, two of them being raped in parks and homes, one that the assailants released the dog to bite on their arms. one of them is still in the hospital. every time chief you assign good captains in every district, you know, they respond. they have community meetings and they are committed to, you know, find the perpetrators. they have received the high are authority with the detail in your department working on this, but, you know, these people are hard to find. we know that, and we just have to do better.

you know, we drink coffee and people know from time to time i come to city hall and testify. they ask me to relay the message that we need help. >> thank you. >> i want to second the two chinese people before me gregory and richard. we came from the community. i was at the community meeting july 22nd in chinatown. many of the police and mayor's office were there. the chinese people were not allowed to speak. you know san francisco we had about 900,000 residents. 35% asian people. within the 35% asian people,

chinese are the majority of that. look around. no chinese commissioner sitting up there. that is discrimination. we, the chinese americans contribute in san francisco for the last 150 years. what do we get? retaliation. many of the police they are trying to do their jobs. there are no one but democrats. police are not able to arrest because of popsition 47 -- proposition 47. they arrest perpetrators when they go to court, what does the court do? release them right away. chinese have been targeted for crimes. you as commissioners do something about it.

if the police chief right here, he is not able to do his job, leave san francisco. maybe you do not need to be in san francisco. we need people who care about san francisco, not for african-american people but chinese people and other people also. for many months we chinese have been targeted. [please stand by]

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here. i hope more police and more safety, you know, in our community, all the community, we appreciate it. >> president hirsch: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is paula williams, and i'm homeless in san francisco right now. i've been homeless since december of 2018. i've made numerous police reports. i've been harmed numerous of times by staff in the shelters. the police have did me no justice. i've went to the city attorney, i've went to the d.p.a. it's just plain corruption. it's five police officers that don't want to take a police report, made false statements

in my police report. didn't want me to file a police report and just was lying. i liked when miss taylor said they wanted to take a look at the shelters. every morning, i walk-through t.l. and encourage them, tell them to get up, all to -- it's numerous of stuff that whatever hsoc and all of them is talking about, i just called the police yesterday in front of walgreens and had the police come up and pick a lady that was laying on the ground. sometimes i just do field work all day and call 911, can you please get this person up, can you please -- so i don't know what they talking about.

every day, i'm in the tenderloin. whatever salary they getting, they know me down there. they know me really well. so i think you guys should look up all my police reports, go to d.p.a., and ask someone that's working in the shelters that's harming, it was a 26-year-old girl that sprayed chemicals in a 66-year-old's face this morning. >> president hirsch: thank you. any other public comment -- general public comment? >> my name is john jones. may my remarks please the commission. about two years ago, i was getting on a 14 mission bus at the corner of geneva and mission, and all of a sudden, i heard this scream, a woman scream. and i looked around, and there

was a chinese woman in the back holding a very well cared for child, and three black teenagers were running off the bus. i came face-to-face with one of the teenagers, and he was smiling. apparentl apparently, one of them had just ripped a cell phone out of the woman's hand. now, the witness to that was five chinese men sitting in the back of the bus. my impression was that chai necessary have very tight families. i could run through the numbers, but my estimate is that 3,000 separate individuals heard a full recounting of that crime and the effect upon that woman. you cannot buy that kind of bad publicity.

it's stupid. for a $25 cell phone, you alienate all those people? that's one fact in all this crime that we talk about that doesn't get emphasized, the effect it has on others, particularly others of different races. thank you. >> president hirsch: thank you. any other public comment? >> i'd like to use the overhead again. i'm trying to start it. wait a minute. >> president hirsch: we need you to talk into the mic, though. >> i'm trying to start my video, so could you -- so -- wait a minute. sorry. just a second.

i think it's ready now. so -- oh, here we go. >> 12 years after his son was -- her son was shot and killed in san francisco, tonight, she's still pleading for answers and hoping a huge reward will lead to an arrest. our crime reporter has the story. >> i'm here. this is the 12 year. i'm back again. >> it's a sad summer ritual, paulette brown, pleading with san francisco police after her only son was shot and killed back in 2006. >> i was told back when it happened, it's going to get easier, but it doesn't. i can deal with it. i'm functioning. i work -- i do everything that i need to do, but this pain never, never ends. >> on august 14, 2006,

17-year-old aubrey aberkacen approached several gang members. police say aubrey wasn't a gang member, but he yelled at his friends to run, and they shot him in the back for this. like she does each year, she passes out fliers, hoping someone will be brave enough to come forward. san francisco police say a $250,000 reward remains in effect. >> i know it's been 12 years, i know it's been a long time, but if we can solve a case from the golden state killer that goes back for decades, we can solve one that's 12 years old. >> i can't believe he's been gone 12 years and nothing's happened. >> aubrey's mother and the

police say if you have any information, call police. >> so i'm saying august 14 of this month will be his anniversary, and i'm looking for you guys to come -- i'm having media coverage on grove and baker. steve -- david stevenson has already given me the flier to pass out to faith-based people. i'm hoping that coming here for all these years that you guys would accompany me and stand with us concerning unsolved homicides and mothers and fathers who lost their children to homicide so maybe some way we can heal. >> president hirsch: thank you. >> i would like to see you there. >> president hirsch: the tip line is 415-475-5555. any other public comment? next item?

[agenda item read]. >> president hirsch: is there any public comment on us going into closed session? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> clerk: line item nine, vote on whether to hold item ten in closed session, including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regard to item 10-a, san francisco administrative code section 67.10, action. >> president hirsch: is there a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in favor? opposed? okay. we're going into closed session. thank you.