i am frank finn. i am here for the golden state warriors. it is a lot of years on that side and of course time on this side. you know i have done a lot of events for both mayors in the city. it is an honor to be here. i am a bay area guy born and raised here. we are bringing two cities together to do something positive and to make things happen in the bay area. we have the biggest champions from the neighborhoods and cities here for battle of the bay. we want to acknowledge the lovely mayor mayor london breed and from oakland to my right. it is a competition, folks. it is friendly. the smiles are great. you know we are rolling our sleeves in a few moments.

let's acknowledge from both sides. it wouldn't be a battle without or mascots. from the san francisco giants lucille. from your oakland as give it out for stomper. [cheers.] >> of course, we have community partners and we are going to hear from them to speak about the efforts. it is the city of san francisco and oakland, the two cities facing off right here. it is about the greening competition to take place saturday, september 21st as part of the annual california coastal cleanup day. there is a cool incentive that we will announce as well. lucky folks from oakland and san francisco will win on alaska airlines a trip wherever they want to go. make sure to sign up.

get teams ready, and you might win the tickets to anywhere we fly on alaska airlines. it also protects the san francisco bay. cleaning, greening neighborhoods. trash removal, habitat restoration, tree planting, neighborhood beautiful projects. we are going to hear more about the efforts, what the battle for the bay 2019 i is all about. we have a little coin to to see who will go first. it is a competition. this is game time. i have a coin. the mayors. let's hear it for them. ladies and gentlemen, from oakland to my right once again. please welcome our mayor libby.

from san francisco your mayor london breed. okay, mayors, we are all smiles. it is a competition san francisco and oakland. we will do the coin toss. to my left is mayor london breed. this is heads. this is tails. heads, you, tails you, ms. schaaf. this is a coast guard coin. here we go. what do you think? it is tails, lay or libby schaaf goes first for the city of oakland. >> that is a great beginning. we have already won. listen, this is a battle for the

bay because when the bay wins everyone wins. we are two cities, but we are sharing one incredible environmental asset, that is our beautiful bay. we really want to emphasize this year that every neighborhood has storm drains that flow into our bay so taking care of our bay is not just about cleaning up at did beach or on the coastline. we want people in our neighborhoods. we need our neighborhoods to be clean, healthy, shiny, beautiful. that is what this is about in oakland. let me be clear with you all, we have over 2000 volunteers already signed up. [applause.] i am happy to report oakland is in the lead as of now.

however, people,na lead is narrow. let us -- san francisco has twice the population, but oakland has twice the pride. [cheers.] there is no pride like an oakland pride, whether you are from the city or the town. i think we have to show the town shows up for its community, right? that is how we do it in oakland. i am excited after we hear from our mayor we will hear from a community leader. i want be to thank the people who don't just do picking up on earth day, they do it every day. we hope that coming out of our battle 4 bay you say i love this picking up trash. i want to do this all of the

time because it makes me feel good to make my beautiful neighborhood clean, healthy, and i connect with my neighbors this way. that is what is beautiful. now, mayor breed, we have been talking about a little wager, all right? mayor, i dare you if you lose in the battle for who has the most volunteers, i challenge you to come volunteer with me wearing all as gear -- a's gear. [applause.] this is a wager. i want you volunteering with me at a charity with me wearing

your a's gear. do you accept my challenge, mayor breed? >> mayor breed: that is hard. wearing a's gear? that is a bit much. i will accept. >> she accepts. >> i know we are going to win so she has to wear the giants' gear. >> no, no. nobody looks good in orange. before i give up the microphone i have to recognize a few important supporters. the california coastal commission facilitates this entire event all over our state. [applause.] >> our oakland parks and recreation foundation is a fiscal agent for both cities for this challenge. thank you. i also want to acknowledge our

council member from oakland lauren taylor. jason mitchell and his fabulous staff. what is your move? all right. and some of the top sponsors from oakland, waste management of al lameadda california, california waste solutions. argent materials out of east oakland, andy's construction, silver gates construction donating on behalf of the cyprus training program. i want to thank my sister across the bay, london breed. [applause.] >> all right. london, show me what you got. >> mayor breed: let me start by saying, i have never been this

excited since the oakland raiders and the 49ers played the last time at candlestick where we won. and we all know that in san francisco we don't talk big, we just do big stuff. mayor, my sister from across the bay, i accept your challenge because in san francisco we already make cleaning up and greening and taking care of our city a regular part of what we do. in fact, every single month mr. clean, our director of public works, mr. clean himself, organizations incredible groups like united players and other folks out there taking care of the streets. here is the thing.

we have amazing volunteers. we have amazing people who work for the department of public works and the rec and parks department. phil ginsburg is here, amazing people who cleanup the bay. we have to do more. mayor, i have seen you on more than one occasion wearing your love oak land t-shirt and i love san francisco. when people go around loving the city. proof that you love your city. roll up your sleeves, take care of your community, and you grew up in san francisco, born and raised just like may or schaaf. born and raised in oakland. one of the things my grandmother used to do is make us cleanup in front of where we lived. i did i kicking and screaming.

it is paying attention to making sure my actions reflect how i feel about my city, that i am not just throwing garbage on the ground or putting water bottles in recycle and doing things to keep the city clean but to protect our environment. in san francisco we have bee han doing an incredible job leading the way in a number of environmental policies. our director of the department of environment is here. thank you so much. the toughest band in the country, pushing for aggressive drug take off, continuing to work with the coastal commission to save our bay. yes, this is a competition and san francisco will win, but

ultimately, climate change is real, and we have to start with young people. we have to start implementing the kinds of policies in san francisco and throughout the world to make this planet the best place for generations to come. just think about it. in san francisco we never needed an air-conditioner before. we have had record temperatures in the '90s that are unprecise departmented. we have to start taking care of the bay, the communities, taking care of each other, and also winning the bet, more importantly. san franciscans, it is time to step up to show your love. step up to make sure you sign up and volunteer because you don't want to see your mayor wearing a's gear, do you? you do not want to see that

site. make sure we step up on the 21st. we will come out, clean, green, do painting of murals and do other things which not only take care of our city and planet, it also brings our communities together. i want to thank each and every one of you for being here. thanks to all of the folks who are here from the department as well as some of our major sponsors who have consistently supported projects like this on a regular basis. thank you to recology, emerald fund and alaska airlines because, you know, we have to feed volunteers. you know how that works. we have to have supplies and equipment.

ultimately, getting out there, doing the hard work, making it part of your lives and what you do every day to take care of the city and bay is critical to the success of protecting our planet for generations to come. thank you so much. let's win, san francisco. >> well said, mayors. that was excellent. that is a rally. oakland and san francisco if i haven't heard one like that. this is all about the pride, but we are doing this for the bay. we love the bay. no matter what side it is. we want to thank folks here and we will have a photo at the end with the mayors. we wouldn't be here if it weren't for the california coastal commission. let's hear it for them. the battle for the 35th anniversary of california coastal cleanup day. it is the largest volunteer day

in california. on this day tens of thousands of volunteers remove litter from waterways and shorelines and a thousand locations across california. how fitting on september 21st to do this coming together. california stands as one if not the largest contributor that takes place in the bay area. thank you to the coastal commission. we have folks behind me. thanks to the mayors, oakland parks and recreational foundation. jason mitchell, they are ready they are pumped. joe ginsburg is here. elaine thorn, tommy from california train, golden gate national park. california state parks as well. give them a big hand.

i might have mentioned there are more players involved in this effort. right now we will hear from community folks to start with the oakland side. we have a leader with faith in action. representing the east oakland congress of neighborhoods. put your hands together. (applause). >> all right. i am excited to be here. it feels awesome to be here. it is such a an on -- honor to represent our mayor. good morning, everyone. i am lydia. this wonderful guy says i am a leader with action east bay. i am proud to be here representing the east oakland

congress of neighborhoods. [applause.] i would like to thank everyone who made this event possible, and a special thanks to the work group for all of their hard wo work. [applause.] so as representative of the east oakland congress of neighborhoods including fade-in action and the residents we are excited about this campaign and to clean our cities. of course, oakland will fill up our streets, why not, right? this is going to happen on september 21st. we are going to fill up our streets. sorry, san francisco. sorry. residents who are part of the congress have been organizing for years to bring resources to increase capacity for the public works department in oakland. we are proud of this work and what we have accomplished so far. thanks to this effort oakland

has new street cleaning cruise and equipment to address the illinois leg gal dumping issue. we need each one of us in the city. it is not only oakland's responsibility. it is also our responsibility, right? our city and our families and our streets they are affected with this garbage. we must all come together as a community and show our love to our city and our community. so i am here today to challenge one of our city residents to come out on saturday, september 21st. invite family members, friends, neighborhoods, students, educators and community members to clean our streets, parks, community centers and sewers in every corner of our city.

[applause.] so we deserve to live in a clean city. our children and seniors deserve to stay healthy and walk along a safe street. let's put our action in oakland and our community. we love our city. we must be part of the city. thank you. god bless all of you. >> let's hear it for lydia leone. i love it. our other community side. this is a community organizer who has been involved with more than 100 neighborhood cleanups in san francisco. he has worked extensively with young people to clean up neighborhoods. he believes a clean community is healthy and it takes all of us to make that happen. please happen for the san francisco side the reverend.

please come on up. >> san francisco, are you ready? let's do this. we want oakland to know we won it all right. a men. don't forget i am a preacher. i need folks to talk back to me. are you ready, san francisco? clean it up? thank you, thank you. it is a great day to be in the midst of two great women doing a wonderful job in san francisco and in oakland. let's give them a hand. first time, first time. i am part of the trash trackers in san francisco. what i do. i track down trash. somebody auto say yeah. i track it down. i locate it, find it and clean it up. i have been doing that for 30 years.

we have been doing this a long time. we are glad to have oakland come to be a part of this. guess what? we are going to win! we already won it. mayor breed, we got this. we accept the challenge and we are going to do it. i am reminded of a homeless friend of mine. he has been sleeping in tents three years. he is a sad looking guy but a happy looking guy. every morning at 8:30 a.m. he gets up and cleans up around his tent. then he goes to the other block and cleans other homeless men and women's tents. that is a good example of a community. we are going to have the homeless folks get out and cleanup, too. understand this. our homeless folks aren't the only ones that are making the city dirty.

that is not the truth. it is construction workers, churches, ymca, it is all of us. it takes the whole community to clean up the community. wouldn't you agree with me? that is what we come to do today. i am proud to tell mr. smith on september 21st right here in san francisco you can come out and help us cleanup the city. (applause). you should be happy about that. i want to say that our lovely mayor. we really appreciate you. (laughter). you are our friend and oakland is our friend. we love you also much. what we are going to do.

once we win, we are going to come back over to oakland and help you all. we will help you out. we might go with you to all get together and cleanup. am i right? this is our city, this is our california. let's do it, san francisco and oakland, lets do it. i have a new thing to look at. i wish i had music. we pick it up and bag it up. you have to get rhythm. anybody have rhythm. here we go. pick it up, bag it up. pick it up, bag it up. ♪ pick it up, bag it up let's go san francisco!

that is catchy. ♪ bag it up, pick it up >> let's hear it for the communities in san francisco and oakland everybody. this is fun. in conclusion before the photos, give a big thanks to our community sponsors, ricology. they are bringing out hundreds of volunteers to serve lunch. thank you. a round of applause. waste management of alameda county and the solid waste service providers, give them a big hand. argent materials hosting the cleanup. alaska airlines for the round trip tickets. there will be four lucky winners, two on each side of the bay.

go to the battle for the bay 2019.org. sign up. we are still signing up for september 21st. we want to thank andy's construction in oakland. a round of applause as well. [applause.] >> clear channel, emerald fund, warriors and black and veatch and for hosting us here today. treasure island development authority. yes, thank you so much. what a beautiful sight to see the bridge, the bay, both mayors here. the city is coming together. battle for the bay for this friendly competition. i will close with this. encourage everyone to go on the website. battle for the bay 2019.org let

the competition begin.

>> please rides -- please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> should i call roll call? >> yes, please. [roll call] commissioner, you have a quorum. also present our chief scott of

the san francisco police department and director paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> okay, good evening, everybody this is the september 11th, 2019, meeting of the san francisco police commission, and i would like to say that we sit here tonight in memory of the people who died 18 years ago on september 11th, 2001. we have a long meeting tonight so we will allow two minutes for public comment, and we are ready for the first item. >> item one is adoption of minutes, action, for the meeting of august seventh, 2019. >> is there a motion? >> i so move. >> is there a second? >> second. >> public comment? >> public comment on the minutes

hang on, i don't think that is on. okay. go ahead. >> my family has been four generations in san francisco. i was very active in civic affairs for a long time and a federal civil servants and i spent -- i expect a lot. i really expect good service in san francisco, including the police. i believe that if i went to the special victims unit today, i should see a sign up there that says "abandon hope all you enter here." >> let me stop you for a second we're just taking comments on the minutes right now. >> i'm sorry. i thought it was general public comment. >> no, we haven't gotten there yet. >> i will come back. >> thank you. is there any comment on the minutes? hearing none, comments are closed. can we have the vote please? >> all in favor for the adoption of minutes for the meeting of august seventh, 2019

>> aye. >> any opposed? the motion passes unanimously. >> next item, please. >> line item two his reports to the commission, discussion. chief's report, weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offences acquiring in san francisco, including an update on overall reported human trafficking incidents and homicide clearance rates. significant incidents, chief's report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future commission meeting major events, provide a summary of planned activities and events occurring since a previous meeting. this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. overtime expenditures for fiscal year 2018-2019.

presentation highlighting the department's participation in the opportunities for all summer intern programs. presentation of the second quarter, 2019 audit of electronic communication devices for bias. and status update regarding building 606 located at the old hunter -- hunters point shipyard. >> thank you, good evening, chief. >> good evening, commissioners. i will start off with our crime trends for this week. overall, part one crimes are down 9%. our total property crimes are down eight% his and this includes -- eight% and this includes burglary, auto thefts, and arson. we continue to have fewer reported incidents. our auto burglaries are down 9% when compared to 2018, and 21% when included -- include -- compared to 2017. for violent crimes, the total

violent crimes is down 11%, led by our homicide, which is down 21% year-to-date. we have 207 homicides compared to 34 this time last year. this is a 20 -- this is a 21% increase. we did have one homicide in the past week and i will give more detail on that in a second. in terms of gun violence, we have a total of 94 victims of gun violence year-to-date and that is a 12% decrease from this time last year. of done violence, 16 of our students -- shootings have been fatal and there have been 75 shooting incidents causing injuries that resulted in injuries 278 victims year-to-date. i want to speak a little bit about the homicide clearance rates. we are doing really well with clearance rates for homicides, we have an 81% clearance right year-to-date, and i just want

to note that last year, we ended the year with a 100% clearance rate which is really, really good work by our homicide team. we will continue to reach out to the public and work the cases that we have not solved. there are a number of cases we have not solved and we are continually working on those cases, but we are really pleased with the progress of our homicide unit and their work year-to-date. i think a lot of that has to do with our outreach to the community, in addition to good detective work by investigators as i mentioned, we did have one homicide this past week. that was in the 300 block in ingleside district. it occurred on sunday, september 8th at about 9:00 p.m. two victims were sitting in

their vehicle one an unknown suspect fired in their direction. the male victim received multiple gunshot wounds and was declared deceased at the scene. the female victim was also struck by gunfire but she was transported to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. investigators are working on that case and we are asking for the public's help. if anybody has any information, please call the tip line at 5754444. we also had four other incidents, four shooting incidents resulting in six victims with injuries over this past week. we had a shooting last night at 17th and mississippi in the southern district. we had a shooting on sunday, the timber eighth, at union and poke and the north end district we had an unrelated shooting at golden gate and poke on sunday when the victim walked into the

hospital. on sunday, september 8th, we also had a shooting in the 300 block of venice -- van ness. all of those shootings are under investigation so we hope to bring them to resolution. again, if the public has any information regarding any of those violent acts, please call us. in terms of traffic, we have four major injuries collisions over the past week. vehicle versus pedestrian were our biggest causes of accidents or collisions. three of our four major injuries were vehicle versus pedestrian. we had a 12-year-old child struck at golden gate. this occurred on september 10 th, yesterday. it resulted in an arrest of the driver for driving under the influence. the child was transported and is in serious condition. we also had vehicle versus

pedestrian collision that occurred at sixth and harrison. almost 6:00 in the morning. that vehicle, that pedestrian also was transported with serious injuries and is expected to survive. on september 6th, we had another vehicle versus pedestrian on mission street in ingleside district. this occurred at 9:45 p.m. in the evening, and that victim is also expected to survive. the other incident involved three vehicles with critical injuries. this occurred on september 9th at 6:10 p.m. at san jose street. again, we are continuing with the focus on our vision zero. we have upped our vision zero team and our traffic company,

we have doubled in size from four officers to eight, and they will focus on the five enforcement areas where we see most of our traffic collisions occurring, and focus on high injury corridors where these accidents occur. major events for this week, the opening of the chase center occurred last week with the metallica concert. it was a very well attended event. a lot of excitement with the opening of the chase centre. we didn't have any major issues there. we didn't see any spikes in crime, and we did have traffic congestion, which we are continuing working with m.t.a. and the warriors and the giants organizations to make sure that we do everything we can to mitigate the traffic concerns, but so far, everything has worked really well and we are really excited to bring the words in and be a part of that.

next they want to give an update on the overtime expenditure. our 2019 over time, the budget is enclosed for that period for that fiscal year, last fiscal year. we closed within our general fund budget of $19.2 million, and we are actually $1,800 under with our overtime. i'm very happy to report that. i know that has been a big issue that the police commission has been following and we will continue to try to tighten up our overtime, our systems and controls, and stay with our taxpayer's money. this is a second year in a row that we have met our overtime budget. next, i would like to talk a little bit, this is a follow-up

for human trafficking. i know commissioner taylor had asked for follow-up with our human trafficking, and basically with the issue was, last year we saw a pretty significant increase in our human trafficking cases over the year before and this year we are seeing a significant decrease in the question was asked, what is the reason for? we really dug into it. a couple of things we have found. we spend a lot of time and effort because of the community complaints, particularly in the mission district, with focusing on some of these street-level activities that were happening in terms of human trafficking. as a result, we had an uptick in reports and arrests, and some of those, what we found is some of those reports and arrests were miscoded and some of them were missed.

the good thing is we have a backup of our human trafficking unit, led by tony florez to hand count these cases. inspector florez goes back and looks at each case, some of which had to be reclassified both ways. so we are in a process of updating our numbers to reflect the backup in terms of each one of those cases actually having human eyes on them rather than just relying on the coding and the reporting system. with that, what we have this year is 41 total human trafficking cases. if you look at the numbers, we only have 14 on the report from the original report. there were an additional 27 reports that had been upgraded to human trafficking after the

investigators looked at them. our total this year is actually 27. we also looked at last year's human trafficking cases and got eyes on each one of those and what we discovered. there were 37 additional reports that did not make last year's numbers. in total, they should have been -- there were 145 human trafficking investigations. moving forward, what we will do is do actual hand searches, and make sure those numbers are reconciled before they get on the report. we have had to do that in a couple of other categories in the past, including sexual assault, and we still do it with homicide. we will still do that until it fixes our coding issues with these reports because when they are coated, they automatically go into the statistics, but the hand count with human eyes on them looking at the reports is a much more accurate way to do that at this time. in the future, moving forward, we will have these reports hand counted before we actually

report them to the police commission, to correct the errors we found in this review of our cases. that concludes that part of my report if there are any questions. >> any questions from commissioners? >> thank you, chief. one thing that i'm going to be asking for in the future, and i thank you know at this point that i'm interested in these issues as a general matter. i know we had a presentation on the status of rape kits. they were incredibly helpful, but i would like a broader recommendation on the status of sexual assault and sexual trafficking in san francisco, especially with respect to vulnerable victims. lgbtq victims, victims were especially vulnerable to sexual assault, hotel maids, janitorial staff, people who work audit hours and are

largely unseen and unheard of in our communities. so, these kinds of folks are often victims of sexual assault i want to know, i would like a report on the status of sexual report -- sexual assault in san francisco as a general matter, but especially concerning vulnerable victims and what sfpd is doing to protect women and children with sexual assault and transgender victims , as well. >> yes, ma'am,. >> next item, i guess. >> presentation and the opportunities for all former interns program.

>> commissioners, good evening. my name is darrell fong, commander of the department of communications division. tonight i will be providing a brief overview of the department's participation in the opportunities for all summer intern program. i would like to provide a little history in terms of sfpd 's participation in the summer youth programs. the program started in the summer of 2010 with the garden project, in which there were 50 youth that were employed and they were -- they learned about horticulture and good planting in that particular industry. in 2012, the future grads program was developed and implemented. in 2015, the san francisco fire participated in a community safety initiative project program, as well as the mayor

youth works program. in 2016, the youth career academy, under operation genesis, was developed and implemented. since 2010, sfpd has hosted or supported approximately 2,000 youth in our communities during the summer months. they are still currently supporting all of the above summer job programs with the a section of the garden project. under the opportunities for all program, which was announced in october of 2018 by the mayor, the goal was to expand youth employment and opportunities within the city and county of san francisco for youth to create meaningful work opportunities for san francisco youth and this was seen as a pathway to economic inclusion through exposure, engagement, experience, as well as employment. in june through august of this year, the youth participated in sfpd's future grads program, which involved crew develop and

partnerships with tech companies, where you've learned about coding, a partnership with architectural foundation san francisco were youth also learned about architectural software design, and various sfpd units and administrative duties which included our passwords division, our academy training division, the information technology division , as well as other administrative functions. there was also youth community academy that was held one day a week for six weeks. in this academy, you the learned about their rights, about school resources and officer duties, community policing, first aid, the department of emergency management, implicit bias, forced options, tactical demonstration, and there was a chief's roundtable held, as well. this program involved 20 hours a week committed by the youth, and youth were recruited from the san francisco unified school districts throughout the high school -- high schools throughout the city. there are 37 heisel youth that

participated. twenty-five males, -- there were 37 high school youth that participated. also from june until july, the youth participated in youth career academy. this was a partnership between sfpd and operation genesis, spearheaded by officer jason johnson. this six-week program exposed youth to various career opportunities within the community. there were three cohorts that were held. one in criminal justice, one in medical health and fitness, and one in stem, which entails science, technology, engineering and math exposure and training. there were various city agencies that participated in this program. the sheriff's office, the fire department, the d.a.'s office, the public defender's office, idol probation and the s.f. courts. in this program, they were 36

students that participated. there were 305 african-american , one hispanic, 22 females and 14 males. and the youth primarily who were recruited from the bayview hunters point community. some of the highlights were youth having the opportunity to visit the state capitol, capital, visit the academy in san francisco, visit the olympic club and also participate in a mock court trial were youth are given the opportunity to prosecute and defend a case. in june until july, there was also -- sfpd also hosted the community safety initiative, which was also in partnership with magic. this is a programmer youth participate in group projects related to sfpd and plantation of programs and community police strategies. they had an opportunity to learn about affect -- sfpd policies and procedures. the goal is to build strong relationships with youth due to

increased dialogue. youth participated by interviewing officers and community members. the end result produced three small videos about their experience. there were also field trips to various sights within the department, both that our crime scene unit, our swats and technical division and our special victims unit his. in this program, they were heisel youth that participated. fifty-five in total. they were divided into three groups. in june through august, do you through also placed under the project program which is run by the p.u.c.'s public utilities commission where sfpd supported hosting youth by placing them in various areas in the department. the goal of this program was to expose high school aged youth to the various departments within the department.

youth participated in various departments learning about our training, our crime scene investigations, as well as our legal division. twenty youth participated in this program, with ten females, ten males, seven hispanic, seven asian, and six identifying as caucasian. finally, in june through august , the san francisco police department supported the youth works project by hosting youth, again providing exposure to high school youth to department policies and procedures, placements were throughout the department, in which ten youth right dissipated, four females, six males, four hispanic, five asians, one african-american, and they're exposed to various a ministry of duties within the department. that concludes the various programs that the purchase -- that the department participated in. it is my pleasure to introduce a few of the youth that participated in the program to share their experience within these programs. i would like to introduce first

randy ramirez who participated in the future grads program. >> good evening. >> hello. my name is randy ramirez and i have participated in the 2019 future grad program. over the summer, i learned a lot about the police department and their engagement in the community. along with this, i learned new office skills, public speaking and dealt with public -- with the public alongside the great people of the community engagement division. i also went on many public and private events, all of which i have enjoyed thoroughly. i have made good friends in my internship and i am grateful for this as i keep contact with

them daily planning for our next summer. this program impacted me and how to evaluate my life's choices. with this information, i can thrive on becoming a better person. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, randy. night -- now i'd like to introduce nathan howell and daniel collins to share their experience with the youth academy. >> hello, my name is nathan powell. and i participated in the program over the summer. for me, it was really amazing experience for the most part. we know that the media controls most information that people have. it affects their perception, and it affected mine. i knew that i didn't know

enough about law enforcement. that is why this program peaked my interest. as i started going through, i started learning more, things that i didn't know. i didn't know that law enforcement was a brought spectrum and there was only things that go into it, rather than just police and doughnuts, which is all you here on instagram. [laughter] we also got to go to places. we went to the firefighter placing treasure island. that was pretty amazing. i got to see that it's easier to understand why people react in certain situations because the situations that people are put in our so adrenaline pumping, it is giving you so much anxiety. it is really hard to make judgements in those split seconds. it was really fun for me. i got to meet a lot of people that i didn't actually know. we play games every other day so that is pretty cool. i like this program because you don't see a lot of really positive things like this. its