tv Police Commission SFGTV July 20, 2023 7:00am-10:01am PDT
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true. >> great. prithink those are my questions i know commissioner walk are mentioned working to make it safer in the future. and we only over see 2 departments. buff i believe that whatever part of the of city leads this effort not the police department. that the sploept play a role in the sponse to future events. i think other departments p and rec come to mind. so go to their meetings member of the public than i have a commission should be lead by other agencies and multiagency and will should be didn't to mech it safer in the future. >> deputy chief i have a couple questions for the fourth of july. thank you. i know we did not have mass
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rests. 24 and 26 how many were made after that midnight. yoochl there were not any >> okay. >> how many were made citywide on the fourth? i can't think of any. and then apologies in in the written document we did not have. i know for the hill bomb dpubl deploy managements and 3 physical you know how many use of force for the upon event the 24th and hilariouson. i don't i have an incident report here i can i will spends the time to add that and up coni have that information. do you know what the chief exit discussed that when eiw's
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deployed there was not a cover officer who had a side arm out. i am not aware of of whether one was or not. i. comfortable saying it is like low there was not one out. >> also like i said that's good. >> if i can add one thing. there --ful eriw's used for very specific situations ands in this case people about to or engage in the lighting or throwing fireworks or other objects at the officers or in the crowd. in terms of shooting lethal weapon in a crowd situation they are very few circumstances where that would even be a
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forethought. few circumstances that is the reasons that i know that is something we need to. y was about to ask a policy the commission needs to clarify discretions or not. >> yes. . they are in today's world with the shootings happening. ure never say, never. people are [inaudible] but there are few circumstance this is we would want to draw a gun in a crowd controlled situation. very few. draw a gun you are already at that point where can be a loathal situation we have to be thoughtful. you asked the question i support that decision. >> absolutely and this commission does as well. thank you. >> you are welcome.
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why commissioner byrne. . there were reports of a number of young juveniles rested do you have the age break down of urn 18's. talk of 12 and then year olds. why i do. the break down is 1, 12 year old. 8, 13 year olds. 7, 14. 27, 15, 24, 16 and 18, 17 year olds. >> shame on you. >> my next question. there was no use of teargas by the police? >> correct. >> then -- i thank you, chief for recognizing the drill in the release. of the juveniles. when i responsible rest in the
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san francisco, if's minor offense, and the person is fingerprint fist the sudden front police i know from experience don't always turn the fingerprints over to the california department of justice. and as a result, drunk and disorderly that time thing. outside the city of can fran the person does not have a record the upon fingerprints if they are not reported to the d. justice in sacramento. then reports to the bureau of investigation. will person person directed say a bar fight or whatever does not have a record because the fingerprints stayed san francisco. when they were arrestd and fingerprinted were they forwarded to the department of justice? >> i don't believe so i will follow up and clarify.
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that is a worry of the parents the parents that believe and you pointed out there is probably some we don't know the number. there are probably innocent of the sxharj got caught up they did not disburse. there is another number the evidence is clear there were up to no good. and give satisfaction to the parents to than. the fingerprints stayed in san francisco. the other thing was was the belief they needed to be fingerprinted. enough just sited and released i parent. why correct. that caused the delay because you had to get them to mission station to fingerprint and photograph them had they were
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psieded and reled they valid got out quicker. and i understand the police rock and a hard place. god forbid another person injury anded died and the police stood by and did not do combulth be in front of us again, chief arounding a different set of questions. because of the what happened in the past. so i than put the department and the captain in an awkward situation. to which do nothing, expose the manage this i talked to people that have gone down that hill and explained, it is dangerous. all that guess with it i know the department was in an awkward situation to do nothing and
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something happened you would have been here you are here you prevented 19 inference france believe manage that far worse could have happened. i wish that -- as i said there was a way to release them senior. at least the evidence so far to me the police department had a difficult choice in not an easy choice. thank you. >> can i clarify if anybody does have children who were rest exclude concerned about fingerprints the luchanges quickly in that area. i recommend you condition tact the cleanly slate problem. they seal records of arrests. if you have tissues they will be
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the most updated public agency on how to deal with juveniles who has been arrestd and upon fingerprints. sorry. on very tough situation. men deegs asked seeing when we at the event in a more safer manner. without the mass arrest of juvenile its breaks my heart. raising 3 kids in know front it see so many arrested. a thought going forward. in the coming years. will you have to event again some how in way. is there will may be a thought and policy that may be to if
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there is juveniles in the arrest to how would you say it. make make it simpler you don't take it book them and take fingerprints and photograph them prearrest or diversion that is my concern and see what your thoughts on that >> with diversion. for juveniles. i'm all for will diversion. and i one of the things we will do is continue investigating the general thought as well. decisions can be made what is appropriate. and but -- this does give us more mote vision to get this program over the finish line. i think that is gives us -- a better way to deal with this.
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i guess looking at, too. the holiday -- on the forthp fourth you had dintss. there was no rested or actually -- on the fourth of july that you usually have what was the upon difference on the bomb hill incident. versus the previous the 49er's championships you have this situation it is -- people go out and take up the city. thank you for menninging the game. will feeshgs and eriw. use of force.
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all those happened but once the orders were read. we were able to in the sxent people left. so the rests were made and there were a few and few for other xhinl accystment this fourth of july. had a fireworks and all that dangerous. you know we shut it down. people like to not all do it at once when you are managing and the incident commander managing these things per of your job to have i good assessment. when you see that people are leaving. violence is down special deescalation is happening you don't have to be quick to make that decision. that's what happened and others know that happens.
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this was not that the crowd this remains did when they were doing. if not getting better it was getting worse. that's yet decision to arrest was made. you wanted to end by saying regards to the community, at -- part of the bomb hill. hopeful reach out to the department to build this bridge and have i great and event safe for kids and our residents. that participate. hope the next i don't recall be a success. thank you. >> mr. [inaudible]. >> thank you. one question i forgot to ask
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earlier, chief. what were the demographics of young people and total arrests the make up of the demographics. >> for the will -- -- for the young fooem people 5 race unknownful 2 american indian. 8 were asian, 42 were latino. 18 were white. for the adults i don't have the demographic break down of races. and but i can follow up and get you that. i do have the major of them were males. will 22 were male and 12 female. and i do -- before closing i
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want to be solution or yentsed i hope when people give public comment we generate recommendations and solutions. use an example of an effect in the mission district every year the last twenty-30 years. we will have a procession with aztec dance and ares cell brit day of the dead. the police department steps aside and have community members chaperoning a group of 20 or 100 vsed all community lead and driven. never had an incident as far as i know. i encourage them moving forward we engage the members of the community part of the culture of skate board nothing san francisco. should not forget this sport is one of the san francisco the mecca of skating. we will continue to have people
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come in here to bomb the hills. >> all we should do is figure out how we do this to protect the community. and young people doll what they do and part of skating can falling and breaking a bone and some choose not to do it i want to work in that spirit generate solutions to make this safe for everyone. some of the young people psychologically will have an obstacle when they innerface with police. that say dfrj this department experienced. we want to improve community relations. thank you. i wanted comment on commissioner
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benedicto. the clock is closed on the weekend this one thing that as we work through our diversion policies that's one thing i hope we can resolve well is a resource on the weekends we can draw from. often times they happen on the weekend. that is manage that will sit down with and others to see if we can figure out. thank you. chief i don't see other -- commissioners in the queue. sergeants. the public is welcome to comment regarding item 9 and 10. if you would like to comment approach the podium and line up to the side where well is recommend for people to approach.
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>> we will thrown everyone. >> >> >> 900 members i urge the >> police officers doing their job at the delores riot. thoughtful policies and implementation appears to be part of that that is not to say that complaints not investigated. or immovements can be made. here is when we and not what i knew before the chief reiterate some.
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2 weeks ago rioters damaged vehicles and muni trains and passengers. some came to skate others k ka came for violence. started fight and let off fireworks bombs and assaulting people of sprayed graffiti on homes and businesses. the police recovered 2 guns, 6 knives and back packs full of illegal fiching and spray. the previous evans they killed machine and pair likewised and other here they have slashed the face of a police officer. . sending him to the h. sfmta i'm told reported 3 estimates upon 70 thousand dollars in damages and sick vehicles out of
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service. san francisco must set limitos how people misuse public property, streets and damage property and treat our police officers. we urge the commission to support the police protecting residents i'm glad to hear that and preventing violence and vandalism. thank you. good luck evening. am i'm having healing problems but i came to tell you. i'm pissed. you the police escalate third degree boy not subpoena nothing a humane manner. caused the fireworks and graffiti. upon up caused the boo-boo on
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the officer's face du allow transgender female juveniles to be transperked to if there were transgender people. du gift water to the youth or adults? chief scott you are a liar and goons lead kids in a trespass. you are a disgrace. i field my time. f-you. >> i had manage prepared you talk the merchandise unpermitted i hope i did not let the cat out of the bag here. the dyke match is my family's christmas. 90's % of my family are queer women it that event was met with the same type of resist mans that same time of prevention
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tactics, pripainted train the least of the city's problems. this incidents talk about out roach this was prevention not out reach i saw the same video everyone saw. we'll never know how much violence occurred without a police presence. what i saw in the video was escalation of violence. yes result in the violence and never know who was responsible buzz there was multiple riligzs happening in as naacp violence escalates. safety is hay bails and helmets not zip ties and batops. right? no one here will get what happened was wrong i will say it to the people watch and to hear the people in who were there. this should not have helped to
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you. and i'm sorry it happened to you. now -- we can heard about and exsponging records we can derest and i encourage the police commission. the da's office encourage torn derest the kids get their mug shots gone of the i don't want to see the kids in line ups or photos shown when they committed no crime now and are not -- 82 good evening. it st. john'ses like this was unfortunate event all around and seems like everyone has a part to play.
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the role of government the most upon one of the most important roles if not the most is to keep the peace. the people who affect that on the grounds are men and women in blue. they have a tough job. . and they are not appreciated. i do appreciate them. i don't know if anything that occurred was correct and i then and there there are some bad apples we root on the the bad apples. there are, lot of good police in the vos i saw were membership on line it did in the electric like the police were escalating the events locked like the police asked people to leave. gave people opportunity to leave and there was a subset of the group of 400 or so that were originally there of wonderful kids and adults.
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there was a subset that were there for violence. and that is profound low unfortunate everything this happen friday there. that is not necessary low police's fault. there is joint claim there is. i agree with commissioner walker that we want skating in san francisco to be fun and safe. . i think commissioner benedicto asked a few questions and make it better in the future. one way to ensure it is not attempted to be a secret even. one video i saw one of the skate irs said when he saw the police a mole in the skate community. that tells you a lot. they were trying to keep it secret. they were trying to ensure the police did not.
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>> here is the solution. the mission local got it right. sfpd planed shut down hill bomb missed key tail telling anyone ahead of time of he said we went in to prevent the hill bomb from happening a planned ambunch our children. who have a tough time live nothing the westerlied they don't know they have a future and want one dave freedom. so far -- this was a planned to insight a riot by the police. starting as -- bill scott said in youn. you did not get told. hum. wonder why? did the mayor order this? i'd like to know that detail. probably so. don't you think? okay. so when we need do to shield in funt all charges dropped for
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children and adults. left week a program about youth and a section, prearrest kids. is that what we tell kids. prearrest kids. irrelevant? okay. we need an apology and all charges drop exclude need the community people that come here and spoken the teachers, social work exerts they will host a meeting that you can attend to find out when we want to do to make this good for our kids. do you understand upon we are not going to let this stand am all do you want the steet to spend lawsuits that years. we want this rights of way and start fresh like they did in the cast refor halloween. months of prep rig. posters every wrchl 200,000 people to 1200 that's right.
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they were overwhelmed boy children other cop's plan to insilent a riot. un holding people without food and water is torture. you are saying that one officer being alleged low letter justified the torture. i hate to break it to the chief the person when broke the law has rights you can't [inaudible] guilty people. you should be embarrassed. when a legacy you and the breed administration is building. torturing kids i don't want to get in the traumatic at parents will talk about that under chief scott's leader ship zip tide the 12 year olds until 4. . 30 in the morning if a paraphernalia upon had done that the stealed call cps and have their kids traen away.
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you >> and they are trying to charge adults and 30 adults i heard one was there taking photos. you want to recommendation. determine all the charges and abolish the police. >> good eviling. commissioners and cho scott ooem christopher kline 25 years of investigative w with law enforcement. cyber stalk category a crime and influencing someone to commit a
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crime is a crime. become in july 2022, an recall about sfpd deplaying spectrum the situational awareness software program. accept 11th upon 2022, you were aware of this chief scott and david and the mayor to put on every first respond are and every citizen in san francisco. a 44 page document from the department of home land security talking about using social media to enhance or alter situational airness. because the mayor need an event to get her budget passed. also -- on your own document, 7 where are 9 declaired unlawful assembly.
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mic. >> go ahead. >> i wanted peek for most of the kids who were there this we were -- i'm max reyes from san bruno, california i was at the mission delores hill bomb most of the kids well a lot of them were scared and vulnerable. i understand that there was heckic going on but i don't understand why the police treated us the way they did. for in the knowing who did what and when it happened.
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um -- that's you will i have to say. thank you for sharing. mruz i'm from san bruno and i say i was scared and i really don't understand why we were treated like animals and where i want tied. even though behavior was not acceptable i did not know why i was treatd that way or told at that mobile home. that's all i have to say. let us skate, please. mooim milany and i want to say that we were not allowed call or parents if our phone was dead or did not have a phone mine was dead my mom did not know where i was until i got in the station. i was allowed after i was processed. that took many hours. i was on the first bus but i
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know kids were not until 4 in the morning. there was default we have to talk about this. thank you i'm jennifer i'm a trustee for the san bruno park district and 7 kids were treated that way here in the city i gradual up i'm appalled with the treatment the kids had and i thought person top have 2 of the then came out to share with you of how our kids were treated. i'm all in support of something p and rec organization to plan manage. buzz we shut down street in san francisco for carnival and heritage. you know parade says and i mean there are many. pride parades. we can do it for our kids. i'm a paraphernalia xu know i'm
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all for safety make it safe and plan it. let them have fun. >> i'm so far why. my son was one the kids arrested we got him at 2:30 in the morning. all the folks said the stuff i wanted say i wanted to say that i read know article today in mission local. thank you for clarifying the police policy doling with youthfuls. stip lites a snack, bathroom, phone call and none of those themmings were done example nothing can change the look on my sons fits when we got him this night. the kids have risen -- up throughout pandemic they notice. and they create beauty where
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they go. when i see when they do i'm amazed by them and the way they ride the bart and thrift store clothes they are not part of this consumer stuff and the kids look watching men in the communal killed by sfpd 60 killed since upon 2000 without a conviction of officer i'm not insulting individual officers. i put moiz in the accomplice of those kids had they saw the -- ratifies when they might have thought the outcome would be. i want you to think about the kids grew up seeing men in communities unarmed die at the hands of police and no troen think than i may not die then. thank you. >> hemo~ i'm francesca. in previous year the delores
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bomb result in the serious injury including a fatality prevent thanksgiving dangerous and unlawful even kept your children from serious injuries. there were no injuries it kid during the police action. you rather have the possibility of serious injury or death to your kids or other in than the invoens of being detained by the police. to the police commission, laws need to be enforced to exist in a civil society. or you accept a state of lawlessness. you condition have it both ways. right now san francisco suffers from out of control graffiti, shop lifting, open drug markets and array of crime fist petty to organized it is time to turn this around. by allowing the police to do their job i support chief scott,
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captain harvey and the sfpd and i also want to say this urth close to 24th and harrison street and left year's situation was horrible. so our leaders and communities got together, with the police, to make it better. it was initiated by us our community and we worked with each other and the community. to -- create >> create i refrain my time we worked with the scomplees with the supervisor and it was a much better outcome there was not the violence and the destruction of flap we saw last year because we initiated it. the commune initiated it. >> hi. i'm will lisa paraphernalia i
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was here last week. first i want to say i don't condone violence. and the fire crackers they drive me crazy. i live come potrero hill and dealt with them. i want to say this. i appreciate you know anything we can do with that. however, relate to this and i wanted share my son's scooter route. and 8:45 the san francisco police arrested my son. i have all his phone record. i'm telling you captain scott there were kids swept up in this
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arrest. he was at gerrero going down 17th. there was 2 others with him a fwirl and i boy detained. my son was detained until 3. . 30 in the morning. 2 neighbors in there a 60 year old man they let go he was not a teenager. i'm upon concerned that we are novelty able to look at your only videos. they are juveniles. how are we going to know what happened? how are we going to think? we couldn't see videos how will we see what happening good luck to us knowing what happened. i got a good samaritan that sent me 7 videos this week, a neighbor including twhoon showed and than i are not on social media i sudden them to the
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police. >> good evening. ladies and gentlemen, cho scott. i'm simon i will be short. i live on mission in the mission delores on delores street. a member of the neighborhood association. mission delores i'm a board member and live next to the delores p for over 26 years. at many festive occasions around the park i watched the revellers become selfish, destructive and unresumey.
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the rules during the. >> >> side shows and fireworks. and on july 8 the pd stepped up to protect the public and had a difficult situation and had to make difficult decisions. we encourage the commissioners to make wise decision for the message. >> >> general public. police officers and00 autopublic are person and on a positive note to the kifrgz will say every even should be permitted
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>> factor and traffic flow. every other events in the town. thank you. >> hello i'm leah. i hope your investigation includes machine man's office. here is an e mail sent from his office to just real tumlin. on or before june 26. titled urien meeting on delores hill bomb all. our team got an announcement for july 8 of 23 see attached concern despite covering the meeting last year to prepare for future events we don't have any aadditional safety measure in place. feign additional [inaudible] added they will arrive too late
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the event is announced we have a doz edge neighbors met with mta and waiting and plan of action following the last meeting on may 9ful mandelman like to have a meeting to discuss preparations for the hill bomb or public safety liaisons pointed out the event can organize spontaneously and prepare it could take place before the 8. let us know to meet monday june 26 between 1 and 5. . 30 perform. i'm going out on vacation and the noted havearc sesz to e mail the next few weeks i'm [inaudible] to help upon schedule. thank you. ross, green legislative aid of the office of supervisor mandelman. district 8. i will read the names i have 30 seconds when are on the e mail and sent to which jeffrey
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tumlin. sofia. ricardo. upon steven prosecute and they may be able to hum you with your investigation. i'm a 45 year resident of the mission delores neighborhood. i prepared a comment but decide it change it. i hear so man of the mothers talk about this mistreatment of their children. i would like to ask them and i'm sure they will not be happy to hear this. my big question is. if you knew i wonder how many of you were at the event. if you knew that hill bomb is
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very dangerous are you, wear in the a single skate border was wearing a helmet. protect or knee pads not a single one. they never dom that's unsafe situation and the city would never in a million years sanks an event like this nor should they. my question to the moms is, why would you allow your children 12 year old 15 year old dhield go to an event like that that is unsafe. how dare you. >> you know -- i guess the concept of responsible parenting can no longer a fact of life anymore you allow a 12 year old to go to an even like that and you think you are being a good paraphernalia, i'm i was an eyewitness to the even the whole day. i live in the neighborhood. i have seen how hill bomb the
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participates behave and bis disrespectful and destructive they are. i'm sorry. this is not an event i want in my neighborhood if the city could do it in a safe way and get the hill bombers to practice safe, the city requires public sanctioned skate boarding even to have a helmet and knee pads and elbow guards. thank you your time is over. >> good afternoon. i'm steven martin firefighter for san francisco station 17 in bayview. i'm here to speak in support of the police and conduct during the hill bombingents. police
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departments respondsed a chaotic volatile situation with uncertainty. 3 occupied vehicles stopped and vandalized kazing thousands of damage and terrorizing passengers. fireworks launched at roch and by standsers and residents needed escorts to homes due to safety. it was not sanctiond and chaos and high profile skaters saying so. founder of tomo skate company suffered an injury says the delores bomb skate event it is done you have people hor not from sf putting locals in a bad light. side shows, fights. skaters jumping on ambulance. as a firefighter i responded to severe injuries. to include open tibia fractures conbeing cushions and brain judicious puts the public at
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showedllow to make sure participates were safe. a corbi dense the people participating it harm after office officers got involved. >> that's right. >> community is not a crime. the community dmansd that any and all charges dropped. tht police commissioner rekosovo who is made the call to make the rests the delores p hill bomb a sanctioned community events. and that independent vkz investigation. instead of giving officers more money and gear for terrorizing tones in the poor. the government use that money to give people housing and improve services. and e readicate poverty. let the teens have fun. community is in the a crime.
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>> so. i ooum erika and i'm host of the san francisco boat and independent reporter. following what has been going on in san francisco for 35 years. as a resident. first i like to say thank you to san francisco police department and chief scott. i do think it was well handled i saw the video. it was dramatic, it was terrifying to see people throw bottleses, fireworks, and any projectile anything like that is terrifying i don't care what you are. what you are wearing it does in the matter it is scary. for people in the neighborhood who had to dweel that mayhem it is worse. they are not protected. what they were faced with was mihem. chaos. so. i commends the police department
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for doing that you did it was a tough job. i do going to turn my attention to the commission. your job is to help san francisco police department function better. if you don't you are not doing your job and you are making san francisco in i less safe city. that is a place that people don't want to live. that includes children, families, visitors and everybody else. so we are looking to you to make the right decision to help san francisco police department do their job and do it well. there is i reason that there is a call for you to be disbanded. thank you. >> good evening am
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commissioners. i for one thing i say tradition is in the excuse for anything. we have to remember that slavery went on for as long as it did in the nature tradition. i find it ash toundzing this commission and so much of the public is not defending the police. chief scott made a great explanation of everything. come on we will be respectful. >> you saw the videos you saw the graffiti on the municipalityy vintage streetcar, fire crackers in this day of global warming should not be allowed. people came from san bruno bringing fire crackers in. and this is when you have skate boarders put paint in their back pack and come here with fire crackers when they are illegal all are illegal in san
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francisco. we lived here for 60iers. it is irrelevant will the intent. you are not intends to just have fun skate boarding you saw someone said the youths are not wearing helmets. speeding down the hill a skate board does not have brakes there is physics. speed kills i car being bicycle and there was a bicyclist killed years ago. that does that not mean anything. even the -- someone said the form upper skate boarder said that this was out of control this is a mob mentality. it was again -- you have to fight fire with fire sometimeless and the police did a wonderful job. and then by the way we should talk about again the assaults on the police officers which is against the law as well as resisting arrest. it is in the about zip ties nor
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on the able to pee it it is throwing fire crackers at police officer and throwing projectiles at them to like you said permanently ruin hearing. there are multiple conversations about multiple things. there is whenned at the event. after the events. i don't want to poke on behalf of anybody's parent i don't have i parent i'm not a parent of a child there. i don't want to speak for anybody the facts can't be ignored in the narrative. ways to make it safer, well, you know 70 thousand in damage to muni. 6 taken out of 7 out of service
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for a week. the fireworks the fight and assaults and graffiti. recovery of loaded firearms and sick knives. that is in the safe. right. i don't think anyonements their children skating around that. the police gave orders for know hour to disburse if you don't disburse there is going to be a consequence. if you don't want that consequence you might disbufrms any commissioners all that aside upon any commissioner who supports any person of any age jeopardizing safety. . vandalism, firemans or assaulting the police i would find that shocking. i think this blaming the police for enforcing the law, which is their job is in opposition of your role as commissioners and the over all oshjectives of the stele and county if you object to law enforcement enforcing the law you should be removed from
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your seats and investigation of you should take place i think we learned from the past and from the recall of da that san francisco does not want anarchy. anywhere in the government. listen even if we don't agree we need to be respectful i don't want people remutualed i don't want to take a break i want us to get through to listen even if we don't agree or agree whatever we need to be respectful. why love to hear me. >> all right i'mric i live adjacent to delores park since 1994. lawlessness is mob violence stop penalizing the police for protecting public safety a group came armed with gun and
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fireworks and spray paint. possession of these items evidence of premedication fora disturbance they afacted muni bbs bus started fight and vandalized property. sfpd deployed a team to restore order. no one was arrested for skate boarding people were arrested for assault, vandalism and other crimes the juveniles detained should have followed instruction and gone home i can't believe the commentses from the pirnt miss this room. if my teenage son had ignore order and taunted police he would lose his phone and grounded for i year or his life. why those complaining about police deescalation tactics. those complaining about police deeffect lagz in response it premeditated mob violence are delusional.
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dean preston is welcomed to host skate board riot in d5 we don't encourage criminal activity in d 8. thank you very much. skwoo i'm with the party of socialism. you want to talk about respect but we are asking where was the respect for the kids and the parents that night. that's whyy wor here and why wore angry. one of the commissioners said, there is nothing you could have done e it is i difficult choice. i assure you scott you did and your crew did worse than engine you got in the way and insighted the riot. nothing would have been staying out of that area would have been you made the kids go to a more dangerous hill. you did worse than nothing. so we demand to seat footage and demand to know who made the exteriored all of the charges
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dropped. >> and i want to -- i want to say, to all of the people saying. we, thank you for your service. it was difficult. i want tos say how ridiculous that there was criminalings in the crowd to justify what happened and i say that is in the a new tactic than i used that before and that the tactic than i used to divide us so we are less powerful. we stands with every person that was harassd and tortured that day we don't care when they the criminals are y'all. the torturers the police that is you. if you want to protect our community and keep us safe y'all need to get out and all that extra money you need to give it become to the sxoem make stewart that your funding programs this serve our communities. give us food and housing. that's when we need that's what keeps us safe you should be
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wee have eye long line and are more outside i don't want to take more breakis purthrough i appreciate the comments and the experience and shirring your storieseen if we don't agree. okay. >> i have been 17 years cocaptain neighborhood watch on 20th street. don't shout at me i appreciate it. i'm a mama bear, too. so you know my neighbors and i dread this event. each year. we really do. and it is -- it is not the skate boarders it is what happens after. and we have been preand he heard it all tonight i will not list.
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i will mention the death that was a soul. i have to just mayhem. chaos and just so hard. it is so hard. i really want to acknowledge. our sfpd officers that showed up. on july 8. i dochlt i want to acknowledge. chief scott. tonight. all that you brought forward and you all on the commission for listen to each other. asking questions. you are i great role model for this man there who i advocate for i'm an educator. i have been a special educator. i have worked with children. who have had i skate board injury. . i am everwant to acknowledge supervisor mandelman and captain harvey.
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we need our police. we need to all get along. we need to talk to one another. with respect. no f words in this room e approximately from this sweetheart. i know you are heated. i know you life your kids. i life my kids too and i love my community and i value our sfpd. so. [applause]. >> >> good -- okay. i'm a commune organizer nert better than and raise in the the city. there hen, lot of talk condemming the youth and people who participated not having organized leadership. lost direction. sfpd no room to talk about organized leadership. talk about safe and legal event come with riot gore who has gun
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and weapons you think you are coming in with positive reaction you came in our space knowing you did want the event. you came the kettled them and pit for themselves lack of rights and communication and there are pleviny when don't believe in policing talk about the dangerous behaviors of kids electric at yourself and the actions you are destroying our neighborhoods. you have resources to asemble you responding when are you doing. for your over time of sfpd shows up the racist neighborhood association not communities opportunity to meet and plan with the naeshgdz association for more policing why it happenos harrison and 24. drop the charges, protect youth.
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presence to >> it does sound from the questions from you guys and also behind me that there will be improvements. i thought a couple thing in my minds the first one just preevent communication. seems like communication is one to me. about -- engaging with the community and letting people know we care and want to be safe. i take a chapter from halloween and pride. may be it is not the mission department to takeos that communication. men a citywide police officer. and number 2 struck me was post arrest engage am. and the time it tax whether you are a child or an older person or 55 years old like me i don't need to wait for 4 in the
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morning to get released. i appreciate our community having a forum like this. i'm appalled at disrespect happen in the this room with people yelling while people talking. cussing. just general disrespect. and i appreciate everybody's time. thank you. [applause]. >> hello i'm kevin ortiz copresident of latin x democratic club. let's not, we grew up in the mission. and we lived in gun violence and police violence. i understand the anger of our youth who in developmental years
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special state sanctioned violence upset with i commune lead event squashed by the police. skating is in the a crime and it is a latino issue that's why they did mass arrest it is. how many fireworks caused fires. how many officers lost fingers over the dkdz and hearing i love to seat numbers. community out reach abysmal and the fourth meeting happened the thursday before. there was a lead community lead press to shut down the borrows and businesses but not the mission neighbors. it was the guys in the latino cultural district. the same way we reached out to leaders in the community and businesses in the communities, sfpd did not do this than i roached out to white. healthy on delores park instead
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of leaders in the skate funts evercommunities for the hill bomb. first people i called was leaders in the skate community. sfpd could have done the same if a supervisor was doing the j.w. could have done the out roach. to cancel the events. instead we are spending thousands of dollars on the staffing and over time costs for july 4 and 8 events the resources in juvenile probation and public defend are wing over time and staff time and litigation of lawsuits that money spent on a sanctioned events. the police lucked this up not the youth. thank you. [applause]. hello i'm guard robinson i'm here someone born and raised in san francisco i'm appalled by the police department's actions
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on july 8. kids treed, busively in the city in the name of public safety. given the reporting the city plans to drop charges that night i believe that the city government knows this there was in reason to treat children this way. i work at the giant's stadium we had a grateful dead concert and had tons of people camped out enengage in the unpermitted illegal activity. all weekend. so i know the police department hand was not forced like they are trying to tell us it was. if it is trough this we the police and the city wants to teach kids about following the rowels. why don't you star by modeling this behavior. treating youth with respect. additionally, from the vo the
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department themselves chose to show i was disash pointsed seat sarcastic tone officers took with youth because i don't believe it shows officers trying to engage with the youth. but rather the contempt we see police treat our youth with. thank you. good evening i work for a dey bayview newspaper. today i speak because i'm a parent. of 3 children i grew up in san francisco for 40 years from china. i enjoy the public process. there are no china government can dare do things lect this. that monies that i all a member
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of san francisco [inaudible] orthodox church. we had the privilege to provide the funeral service for pablo. i know that skate boarder. you know pablo the parents came to say the story. pablo lived in seattle. we came here sought hill and says no. you want to come here you can but i'm not going back i love the hill. possible low all of us san francisco because we love the hills. you have russian hill. knob hill and all hilless. let's use the hills, see i think we close the street for restaurants. we close the street for cars and close for the motorcycles. why not close for the youth to
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next speaker, please. >> chief. good to see you again. i'm jay o'connor ortega i'm a copresident of d 3. there is a lot of emotion around this issue. now i enjoy events everyone in the community can enjoy events as well. but understanding how historically dangerous this events was and seeing the body cameras of the sfpd, this is why i say. thank you to chief scott, thank you to sfpd. for taking steps it ensure no one was critically injured or killed. ending with a situation a lot of hurt feelings. here is resulted. one receive injured. thousands in damages that city
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cannot keep paying for. fireworks used as weapons. vinyls. guns. i don't endorse the idea sfpd doing nothing this is san francisco not syria. we are a democratic run city not bananarepublic. chaos and danger everyone. . the sfpd is the only job in our city where the employees are asked to risk their life, to protect the public. to protect those who hate the police with a passion. but protect the public and jobs for those who cannot dot job. thank you sfpd. thank you, chief scott for keeping us all safe. i'm brianna a member of socialism liberation i used to live on delores and lived by the
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firework. the streets i think it is beautiful that people come out together. and i think it is in the a crime should be an events with community over side. the community are not my enemy they are constituents you can't arrest them on false pretenses and claim they should have came to you first >> days before the social media how hard to talk to the community and talking about communication in the room to talk to you you could not talk to them? that is easy. and you know what is more resources paying sfpd over time for this. muni resources to hall kids spending tw million dollars. of our money on every day.
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and not as if they don't have enough. they ngo shown us what their job is. the tradition is police were born from slave patrol. and mir breed increased the budget a year annual deficit projected of equal to the pd budget. and we say we don't have money and other resources we need to dpe funds sfpd drop charges shame on the mission in if you think this is acceptable and order it it is planned who gave the order. >> >> you need to protect public safety that is the police job. in year's past this event killed and pair likewised people.
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no one was rested for skwat boarding residents have been enters and said lead be homes and had rased. until organizers are willing to take responsibility for protecting people in the area, take out insurance and permits and cowherd nit with the police, and mta. peoples lives are at risk. don't blame the police they gave the order to disburse following the luand people will not be arrested. san francisco residentsment public safety and lus obeyed. thank you very much. >> rich order per purain't i'm 70 lived my life in san francisco in d 3. i will represent seniors in this city. there are in the men of us here
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today. i interact with seniors every day in various organizations. they tell me exit know from experience this we are very vulnerable now. well is an element enemy this stele that is praying on seniors. see this. i got mugged and assaulted twice. the last 7 months use my pepper pray twice to ward off another assault. a young woman looked at my hat you so what it says? vote nap vet republican and she said i wish you had died in vietnam. this is when we are dealing with. a disrespect for seniors. and i believe if we don't do something tell be open season on us. we have seen it in the asian community and it will be seen
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with us buzz we are considered privileged white people. well, i'm sorry. i'm not going to put up with it i hope you will not put up with you i hope you will not put up with it. >> we deserve respect, and we deserve your protection. we livid here all our live and built this city. thank you for your time. thank you for your service. hi. everyone i'm [inaudible] i'm the director of justice programming with public yuth program and over see the okay. and one of the programs this will we over see is the p program. community assessment and resource center where we work with all young people arrest in the san francisco regardless of resident or not.
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agencies 11-17. we are open monday-friday 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and so when an incident happens on the weekends when happens when young people are cited and rested is they go through probation and probation confirms based on the charges young people cited with what will happen. young people will upon except for 2 were cited for misdemeanors this means they are handled informally through our program and that monies they get intervention. education. assessment. case manager and agreements for them to be held, countsability and get connected with services and reconnect with their community if they are not already. and some of the things i want toup lift what some of the commissioners have is 20 of the young people are out of county.
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than i north sudden front residents i hope our system partners can communities with those counties to not file charges on the young people they don't have our program there. dp all the young people that were cited misdemeanors we support they don't get processed through our program but and if than i are we are happy to support and w with them we don't think based on information it warranties that. young people to the what does this mean? briefly i thank you. we mentioned clark and all --
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great commune stake holer for our dgo. thank you. >> hi. i'm a hill bomb 15 year old son was detainod eighth of july. he showed up to the party late. did in the get to seat events. which that's one of the things we is bum about. will and -- i don't have anything planned to say going throughout paperwork check out notice to appear i realized sfpd handed us this brochure with the citation as he was released 3. . 30 a.m. on sunday warning the last to be released after held for 8 hours. i want to address the things in your prosure. and -- will safety with respect
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and safety. it should be mutual i don't feel and my son does not feel the officers who were working that evening showed respect to the rights of the detained children or to us as the parents who were -- answers from the outside of the barricades. we spoke to several police officers who -- were not respectful. and someplace themmeen one called us bad parents for being in that situation. when our child was not bombing down the hill he went to see an an event he heard about and doing manage he loves which is skate boarding. which you know -- it is not a bad thing or a crime they were not read i warning. my son says they never read his rights the police never notified
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us and never got a call from the police the reason we knew my son was there he used his phone. caught and getting should the by the police. thank you. >> >> good evening. it is almost 9 i want to had i ever a statement from the youth i get to work with they have gone home. for the last several weeks the ability. and this is their statement recognize weez share transit mobility in our neighborhoods young people attended i skating events delores high school july 8 met with violence police, occur willing and mass arrests. than i are contradictions in the city wanting to promote active transportation and criminalizing
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youth had they practice active transportation. we are with the young people and families affectd and rested. pleas accountsability and defunding of police is how we commit to environments on climate justice. this is me talking now i want someone mentioned climate earlier. it is police, u.s. mitt is the biggest pollower the war criminals hereby. humanor this we want to talk about public safety and protecting mounts from climate chaos that's a start. born and raise instead city i'm embarrassd and committed to protect young people. in the city. and the true goal with safety why not use that budget this the mayor increased for the police to buy helmets to bring trained medical, cystances to the event so people would feel protected in the corraled or rested not
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met with violent force. this is an example and we don't need any we know why we should abollish the police. mruz mrauz. >> hi. i'm a parent of a child that was detained and arrested unclear if detained or rested i hashed detind and my son-in-lawing was arrested and thrown arounds detained it should be addressed as arrest exclude not read his rights. we parents were not contacted in any way. that statement was a half truth or mistruth. and also you know the rights thing parents not contacts the violations and children i bring it up the rights thing you spoke
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to and contacting parents is not truthful. so in the investigation that helps know this had th it is already helping. so we need to make sure we get the truth all the truth and don't get pitcher white. washing or lie says. thought i bring this to the attention of the council. i believe -- sir. sir. i believe there is depa investigatedor. all right. >> hello i'm jason. and i want it talk more about the failure that this was. since the passage of prop between in 2000 defined a gauge 3 or more people wearing the same mission youth. parent and organizers. add are indicating per sfpd mission station to receive
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training on youth development. time and again the community stepped up at this time play to offer that training free of charge and time and again sfpd mission station bust efforts for trainingful spoed speed opted for former commission president susie's child development training this training significant condition broadly child development sees children needing protections they develop special don't play an irrelevant in decision make youth develop. sos youth active criminalitiors to development and plays i irrelevant in their decisionmaking. than i are not the same trainings. they don't upon have the same out come. since then, sfpd passed a commune pleasing dgo and strategic plan dialogue with the
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department and community. trained bit community it serves increase safety through working per inships with the department, community members and organizations. and strong, trusting and respectful reps. it seems to mow that begin the way sfpd handles the delers hill bomb there hen little to no action worked toward the goelts with the youth or state communities this is shame. . demanding improve relation and pregnancy to young people ciprofloxacin 2,000. >>. the kids want have din and snks and schedule can we. sfpd climbs the hill bomb stop so nobody killed or hurt.
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sfpd shot impact weapons in the cloud. if this hit someone in the head when would have happened? they could have been killed. police department failed here. not only a system or individual police officers but as adults. being an adull in the community means opinion for the children in the community and sfpd failed. i find it fun competence convenient all the people that peek in support of the police actions were in the here last week. they suddenly, arrived once the false heros critiqued and have a scarcity minds set rot in the fear. seek help, please! [applause] the people shared their opinion we have the facts. sfpd violate the pages of codes of conduct policy and must be held responsible. shame on sfpd for their treatment of the victims here.
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file complaint and sue sfpd. >> >> i want to thank everyone for coming out public dpe fender's office. first youth and parents of youth, rest of the night if you were told your child will not be charged condition tact to be sure your rights are being protected. jobs and grants don't let something lone on your record and thank you to the clean slate unit. i want it address the slide that claims upon training on duty that night. and confirmed.
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telling her sfpd was on the seep the officer said there would be a follow up call to protect the youths right and she can make advisements. no follow up call came and no one was interrogated. third, something i entered in my office police departments are in the facts. they are documents this are written to justify an outcome. this is important to learn on of the face police departments may make sense. so for people who watch this and thought the police response was roenl it was i week after the incident, 12 minutes of a 5 hour event and eyewitness a counties refute the facts related. and against people impacted contact and dpa it is a slow process.
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it is what there is for now. make sues use. thank you >> mr. dylan provide the staff with the clone slate link to post it if parents want to ewe likewise that. thank you. >> good evening. commissioners chief scott thank you for time here tonight and the opportunity to peek to you. i'm the parent of one of the app upon henlded childrens well. unlike majority of the children mine happened to be over 18 he is an adult. in the case in the discharged yet. he is like probably the majority of the remaining adult in this incident equal low innocent if in the more then and there many what i seen on tv. in the case of my son he is starting phil school and a phil students in the area observing as a photographer grew up skate
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boarding. he was not part of the crowd i want to make the point there is a similarity a lot of the cases i imagine mag he was making his way to another part of town for a show he heard to photograph turned down 17th street and walked met a 70 year old man down the street wondering when was going on and the camotion and my son said this is there is something going on the police are trying to disburse best we get out and during the conversation, they were encircled and here we are. i'm not doing going to take time there is i big are anywheretive that is i'm for law and order. i respect the police. you do god's work i imagine how difficult your jobs are. however what you did was a dragnet and not everybody caught in this is guilty.
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and also a big are narrative at play nile son suspect raiseed respect police and here to protect and serve and friends he now feels fearful and you are out to get this and it bricks my heart to hear that it is something you should consider how you dot tactics in the future. thank you. >> upon this started because the police made the decision cancel the events of the sfpd should not have the authority to shut down community events. >> if there is a concern an event will result in injury emergency medical services can be on stand by or the road can be blocked to cars to protect the participates if the city can't provide these resources from 700 million dollars police budget wasteod brutalizing
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children. i again ask this commission to investigate how much monand he nime spent boy agencies at request of sfpd. >> regardless behalf safety and be measures the pleas must not come in with weaponry. and self defense it is legal to carry a small knife and many do for self defense. this is not an indicator and the discovery the defense weapons cannot be used to skwloif the of deploy am of a gang of cops armed with loathal weapons the police showed up kids of recall of colors organizeed are fun. . make no mech they abuse and
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traumaticize children a frid to payment in the next event for rich, white homeowners don't have discomfort. i wanted say i never, ever got i call from the police. the whole night i did not know he actually texted my daughter he over 18. to go and get him. he texted called her and said this you guys were trespassing
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them. and later shy said issue you okay do you need a ride she picked up my other son they were leaving already. i never got i call. the whole night i did not know. she said i'm with him and did not want to scare me or me to get worry. when she picked him up waited for hours and hours without them letting telling her anything. they did not check if she was an adult. all i have i of him pointing at her. this one. he did not and get let out. no id, nothing saying you are an adult taking a moishe. am that the things than i are saying they called the parents.
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it it is a lie. i can we can go through like a statement on the companies of the say hag time you called i did not get a phone call. police have to be accountable for those mistakes and alls other things you did to the kid. my son had to hold his pantses they took his belt heffs cuff exclude holding his hahn pants why did they take his belt? i don't understand. jury room good evening i want to say i look live 2 blocks from p in the neighborhood and per of the community not, wear of any out reach or anything from sfpd
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that happened and the chief said poseed be a secret they would be there. that is interesting prop to public safety temperature is absolutely ridiculous to put the ownous on children to proactive low reach out to the police after this every time chief scott you or others said if anyonements to talk about next wore talk why would anyone talk to you after what happened here. you should tuck to the p's department. and roaching out to youth commission. peep are dealing with children and i'm thinking of the teachers who testified left week and how they deal with kids all the time they don't have guns or kettle kids arrest them. pay the teach and ares how much we pay police officer and get
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the point the public defender maed made the police department it is said. you were asked about deescalation. there was a question of why du wait for buses? we should have let the kids go or walked the kids down the street 11 p.m. and 2 in the morning and saw officers walk some kids per of the way down to the station. i don't know why some did that and others in the colds for hours. they didn't contact parents tweaks police policies is in the the answer.
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good evening i'm barbara tardiff wed at office of citizen complaint in 1983. i have been doing police ash countability work for a long time. you want to thank the press brought it to the forefront and concerns i wander why this meeting was not move to the board of supervisors chambers so people did not have to stand in the hull for hours. as a language time investigator of police misconduct i'm stunned the response to the hill bomb to the fourth of july. this goes become to the bad days of policing when prosecute testers for rodney king xr
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results ended up in learning numbers of people occur willed 24th and mission. and to the days when we stopped aids protesters in the castro and corraled people there. we cannot go become. i'm stunned, cho, by your misstating the facts what happened this night. i'm not sure where you got your facts there needs to be investigations before facts are told. we have really written general ords on use of force that talk about the high priority safe guarding life and dignity and general order and juveniles. this talks about the member of the pd unique opportunity to influence the life of children and young people. the influence that is helping is nowhen we want. needs to be a swift
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investigation. can dp ahandle this. i heard that dpa will. thank you. [applause]. good evening i'm gonzalez i'm the restorative justice coordinate at hubbingel beref cart. the delores hill bombing yielded no positive pregnancy from arresting consequently youth. we all recognize the need to alternative props to handling this event. the criminalizing youth and police hostility in the fostered positive out come. y urge the police to follow and impelement all juvenile justice
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xrers policies reviewed and adhereed before any events when procedure awareness exists. norm female uth everyouth are detained they are in the held for hours >> and guardians are contacted this youth are release immediate a timely manner. engaged allowing a deep are understanding of their experience so police learn from makes and take accountability for the physical and e megzal harm caused by sfpd. i believe this skating should not be criminalized and focus resources toward community program this is support our youth. thank you for your time.
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good evening. thank you. i'm [inaudible] local skate boarder and film make exterior bar tendser. agree with the skate boarding should not be a crime. can't skate board in the city things should be chinked i got cited before. like when you get cited for having a thing in your car. in roar view. it feels like this they want to stoup for skate boarding they comprehend but i feel like there could have been things changed on both sides. for what does at delores. andiel i have been well other years before and there were injuries. there were other sdwlars happen the skate boarding is dangerous.
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i'm thinking have less us versus them mentality. i feel we're are holted and everyone has different reasons getting riled up. but i feel there say common thing with everyone we love san francisco. and want the bet for the city. and per pectives what we approach that. cross the board on our side and your side. i should not be sides we are on the same side. iel. that's it. thank you very much. have i good night.
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>> good evening. elected member to the dem credit being per for identification purposes only. know issue i robbery regular issue with this body is >> remote call in taken, way. if was in the for this being the summing are time. i would not be here the left tw weeks during the school year we are children at home to cook for and do home work with grandchildren as well. i hope that we entertain that back board of supervisors still does it and other bodies do it reparations did it. the san francisco democratic party does it bring back remote call in. next. the announcement went over the seen at the far end that everybody needs to leave and this was i riligz and what in
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the this was go to statement to go ahead and rest everybody. did not look make sense to me my 13 years in the military and 8iers in law enforcement i could tell that if it was a 2 block event. and prebl big are than that. i know all those folk there is did in the hear this announce thereupon is no way. the officer was announcing it to the other officers more than the people i go out and goat that bull horn and hear 2 blocks down as well as the announcement of the route if someonemented to leave that was unclear. i doubt the youth pickd that up. also i wanted to point out the led's time line her child got there atave:25 and arrested 8:55 that child was not there to
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heart announcements and the lives boy our chief. on the everyone read rights. clear clear >> hello you poke about solutions one thing some brought up the team mind set and development stage. will not understood what you were staying. i don't know what extent that conversation happens when the police officer approached i don't believe that teents understood that message. it was a mess knowledge in legal say instead of teen say. which is different languages.
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i can say that i'm not happy about the reasoning. for the footage. will it is mitts representative. it shows life is valuable. and you know we hashed people dehave youing the children experience. not p.m. the police officers not take accountsable for that. and it is dis, pointing for me. adults are differents then and there teens i don't know. i don't know if this for policy and proper controls of person irrelevant addresses teens in any way. i think somebody needs to look into it is. thank you.
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of good afternoonful commissioners. long day. i'm anyone parks i sat on cannabis oversight committee and now participate in the justice for electron formation council by office of racial equity. i worked 7 years in youth development and organized young team to give input on the community police and general order in 2009 and 11. and this time period after month of had aresment by sfpd youth center targeted and our youth were zip tied for things like jay walking or throwing candy wrappers on the street. i am thank you for your time and investigation the issue now is long standing and not new. i hope the violations are taken
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seriously i "investigation look to the chief establishments about community engage and want who were the people they were in conversation watch dgo1.08 a few mechanisms. commune engagement and there is a community engage am. i want you ton the community strategies. also the effectiveness of identified consults per ins like the field operations bureau. airport. special operations and what are engaging with the parties. also the 2 other bodies of external review are only have police folks and tw members should beeen amount of community body and police bodyos that to
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be effective or it is still like you not guard talking to the old guard. i'm young but i'm not. i have experience working with students and have negative experience with police officers trauma and ptsd and anxiety. difficulty trusting adults, depression. and these symptoms lead to students struggling to graduate and contribute to the prison pipe line. school pipeline. and -- teens detained or
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arrested are like low to be involved in the justice system. so my questions are like is the role of sfusd or sfpd traumatize and harm children and how to hold police accountable for children forced to urinate on themselves if we don't have access to body cam footage. [applause] >> good evening i'm sabrina i'm also a teacher in sfusd. and i see first hundred how violence and traumatic advances affect over all well being daily. this looks like depression, anxiety, sleep, challenges with memory recall and i deal with
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emotional disturbance and kids working navigating the system. every time sfpd miss handled our youth neglect and insights violence shows up in the class room. jeopardizes youth's success. i witnessed teens do humanizing job de~esque litteding situations than spoed speed did this day and witnesses spoed speed endanger and disrespect citizens. this is am novelty -- like upon red light when is halfway through come rest and neglecting youth. teachers, social work and organizes do hard work to support our youth. and come pounded trauma. we don't have the opportunity to
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heel. of the preplanned actions once again left imprint of violence and dehuman zigz of citizens directly de feoeding another generation with other [inaudible] energy. we need transparency. the truth. communication and collaboration. how much money did you misuse this day? thank you. >> i'm here representing will
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the people who have fit description their life. that's what i have been detained, questioned, put, side and asked where you are going, why are you here this is not your neighborhood question. i was in it richer side, of course. i know i am the image of long standing what happens after awhile you get arrested. when makes mow mad now i seen more evidence when i was before 18 when i got detained the cop took me and take out the card and read it line by line or 3 do you understand this. do you understand this. do you understand this. as muchs a got mad i felt safe these kids i don't know i irrelevant how to feel if it was me. i don't know how i would turn out if that was me.
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luck low i learned because after i read the rights it was thellow lute like you gotta call the parent. i was scared my mom. i called my dad and he said my grand paand the most embarrassing experience of my life this changed me the issue here weep did not have this for these kids we grabbed them and put them in the bag and toss them the people complain for luand order. to learn, yea. give that scare tactic to be better not round them up and give them i horrible experience if we are trying to be i better stele and the police and the city wing together gift kids the future to like the police. you know. thank you.
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it is it is late. i'm clairea i'm the director of add rokaes the san francisco bicycle coalition. we are here today to stand with the skating xunt to say the force shown by sfpd was unethical and misuse of police resource. unacceptable to arrest 81 commissioner and unacceptable we spent limited police resources on this. skating with active transportation and for far too long skaters and skate boarding criminalized or viewed negatively by this department and others. people on bike congregate similar to the delores hill bomb all the time and not met with
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use of force from sfpd. it is easy and safer for i young fortunate roadway a skate board and stick if in a locker the skate nunt are commune has a long history in san francisco and part of the active transportation met network newscast future. time and time again this department said we cannot prioritize. focus on the 5. speeding and running red lights the types of stops that prevents fatality and injuries because resources are limited. those other stipulate this is keep our young people on skate board and those on act itch transportation safe on streets not over policing black and brown joy. our organization always advocates the safe youth of
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active transportation trying to achieve there through foreand mass arrests is wrong. thank you. we stand with the skating community. it is treed lect a 1 pressure is out of control gentleman. police abuse is all over the world where gentleman has power it results in police abuse i watch an antitax prosecute test in ken why and police using teargas there. peaceful civilians, with skating people act this is harming
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things should be normal. instead they spent everspends. blacks on ledge and no treen disburse others noted the event should have been protectd and enhance safety. closed street for otherentses people should not ask for permission when you can permission to hold a commune events you are novelty in i fro soite the permission society by timothy i encourage to you check out. martin luther king unjust laws deserve to be broken. unjust luis no lu. order to disburse was unjust. public space belongs to everyone i agree, drop the charges. stop criminalizing victimless
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crimes. i agree with the woman from the democratic party bring back we mote public. i want to thank you for making this the first item on the agenda it would have been -- i appreciate the opportunity to peek. i don't think we have an issue here. weave have 3 issues here >> panama river is the skate boarding. the second is the destruction and lawlessness and third is handling of the individuals in irrelevant support of stopping the violence and graffiti.
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it is. we are to are people wearing helmet and knee guards and signing a release that allows us. i would be fine it is a perfect situation you got delores p sunny p. delores street. that is number one. i don't know whether it is the police commission's responsible. the second per with the total graffiti. side of mission delores was covered the apartment how was next to it covered. and graffiti. we seen the pictures of muni trains that -- that was not pon tainious and nothing to do with skate boarding that got to do with the vandals who really, really had an empicture the
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third per is the youths detained. and frankly the chief, i commends the police departmented for handling it. wish you done more in communication the woman who read the memo from mandelman's office was terrific we knew this was coming. that's the police commission's responsibility. and the third per of handling the children >> thank you. hi. folks i'm douglas. i live at the p. i have so for 27 years. delers p is my neighborhood. i love delores p i left mission. i love the castro and noe very well. it is tremendous low unique and wonderful low diverse.
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with that said, i'd likes for to you understands that my son was born here. he is 23 at this time and goes to school in oregon. heave made himself a skateder i was first to provide him a board and helmet. and all the things he needed. san francisco is a wonderful accomplice learned how to skate at potrero street skate park. like some of you with kid was
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rested as a senior in high school falsely they found out who did the crime charges were dropped it still affects mow today in my late 60's. i appreciate that while it affects me, it affects mow in a way i think about i don't feel traumaticizing i do keep it close to me. i would like for to you know that this event is tough on the neighborhood. error tough on our neighborhood.
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why thank you. >> i want it say i grew up in this p i have been to that event. i seen police officers support the young people at that event for mull pull years i don't believe this should be a san francisco event that come with it a bunch of permit and everyone will be expected it come up with i bunch of machine tow pay for to make it happen. when you will of the things the young peoplemented to do was things they do regularly. a lot of what people said adults do this all the time and nobody bugs them there were, did you tells and families at the even together. this was a thick they were going to do together they left scared
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when they started seeing the police. so a lot of this i irrelevantment to say one, about your hiring practices. i would love to see a community effort on who you hire and. and see people remember that alegality of the police that were there there were pictures of them scowling, living. looking at the photographers and the young people and acting so entitled. and this is what is the most saddest part about this the young people were going to have a beautiful weekend. if you look at what san francisco wants to do, right. saying let's get and saying let's make up the businesses. all of the kids got new skate boards that weekend or before and all were so excited got new
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trucks. all of it and the skate shops. this is a revenue stroll thanksgiving nobody wants to reallyarc knowledge because in neighbors that are part of the problem. that in in neighborhoods and gentified it. upon thank you. >> thank you. 2 minutes is over. any other speakers. line itemly consent receive and file action.
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gift card incentive policy and 3 access patches for valued 3, 897. >> motion receive and file. >> second. >> the motion if the public like to comment regarding the condition cent calendar prop the podium. on the motion commissioner walker yoochl yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissionerians everyanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. why yes. commissioner yee >> yes >> president elias. >> yes. >> 4, choef's report weekly crime trends and public safety occurrence. commission discussion on limited determining whether to calendar for a future meeting.
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>> thank you. sergeant youngblood. good night president and commission and acting executive director and public. i will be broef in the chief report i anyhow woad have time to present the presentation i will go over the main highlights. and starting with over all crime trends we are down totally sick % in part one crime that is i difference of 15, 1600 crimes from this time left year inform terms of homicides none for the weekending sunday july 16th there was one this happened on tuesday and will present this in the next month that was tuesday tuesday july 17th we have an investigation going on. hopeful low report the progress on that. and we have i 15% increase in
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homds over 20 top and clearance rate is 86%. others highlights to talk about they were a couple of significant events including a -- hi valued -- retail staff at the westville mall. value of the property taken 30 and 50 thousand dollars. evidence on that we are going through and we will keep the commission support public updateod that as well. last thing an update on the drug market work we are dog with the command centers. . to date. we have increased the number of arrests over narcotics sales almost double. in addition a strategy is to
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affect the supply fence until begin how much the defytation and death it is causing that has increased as well. since mi30, we seized 17, 692 grams most of this 70% is fentanyl we are wing to address the issues of addiction and the like. our prior now is impact the activities on the streets. this is when our deploy am is our officers asked to do. with that, i will stop typeset there. of there is highlights. thank you. >> commissioners? commissioner walker? >> yes. sorry. i have a question i saw an
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article that than i were we have a different version of fentanyl fund in the cases tested. i was curious if the narcon work on that. not the tranquilizer i'm not sure. we are seeing that it is we had upon in the d. public healing. we are seeing mark for identification this. we have not had a high volume. i'm not sure if it is effective i continue is not on i'm not sure. . have to learn more about this drug. why thank you. commissioner yanez.
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>> thank you. president elias. i'm looking at numbers over doses 406 projecting to be at 812 for the year if we -- clez out on such i tragic manner. a few weeks back i spoke about a study done about the impact of the tactics and -- the resulting increases in deaths. ? jurisdictions. you did not have time to read it i like to know whether you reviewd that and have comments about how we will reconcile the add refers impacts of strategies and when point we kershaw till that approach. i have commissioner read this and several others similar colors.
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this is something in terms of understanding the impact. i don't think that we can say in this city that what we are doing is caused the over dose we did this 6 weeks ago. the people who are useings it in public. what i there are the studies out there. i would -- like to see, i don't think we have i have not found. i electron is hrm reduction i do understands and have vum in harm reduction strategies there has to be something more this we can do other than happening people using in the street. and so i there is a lot of w to
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be done we are working with per ins at public health and roaching reaching out to people all over the city. los angeles, problems not the police department that is others as well. see if we and come up with manage this works. y don't have the answers now. i have read the study and will work at this until we figure it out. >> thank you. your comments i want to -- clarify that even though this strategy of arresting people for public use started 6 weeks ago there has been an enforcement in the tenderloin since left year the up tick in over dose deaths
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correlates with that increase policing strategy in the tenderloin. i want top dispel that those prochs only started 6 weeks ago. i would agree with some of this. leftier about this time left year we were doing alost citations and releasing people not booking unless warranties or other than the misdemeanor. that did help left year and trailed off on that this is -- so i partial low agree and as far as of the narcotics enforcement. yes. we have been focusod that for i long time. that conditions and there are more arrests now then and there the left few years on that >> and i will you know pumentioned reaching out enengaging additional partners.
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that was a piece from the chronicle saying reality not this we have not done anything original harm reduction and treatment but not and enough. let of public comment indicated there is i need and in your role. in our role we have influence. and we i think will beof us to advocate for more treatment and more were prevention of these problems ~esque lit to drug use and over doses. i hope when you nearest rooms you have those conversations. sergeants. members had would like to comment regarding item 4 the chief's report approach the
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podium. >> okay. gloria bari on the subject of drugs. been here since 19 sxien the crack epidemic was in the resolve exclude a lot of people are just in the same boat. new drug. that's not enough got on next and continues. i left south africa for 2 week and of the director correlation to drugs is poverty. so -- a lot you have, of course, have 9-5ions and innior capacity may be you need to try hard to see we are doing wrong when people are young and see what your capacity you can do to help with better education. housing. all the thing everthings that lead people to get depress exclude on drug and not so much
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focus on being used. like you said, over doses are highereen though the tenderloin looks better to people of and then let's not forget that most people are housed and prebl using in the house. made everybody feel comfortable. resolved and second low informing on how body cam are footage would convince anyone that people urinate on themselves. i look at the cameras and yen if they can tell when i was doing if i had any fact if leaving my bud need to learn more about this as well.
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thank you. >> good evening. i don't thank you is public comment but this statute police cho's report. we are talking about homicides. my son was murdered august 14, 2 where are 0 seck next mont will be the 47th on i monday. his case is in the solved. every witness stand huguys are open. to talk about my child. i'm so i wish this my son had been at that skating board thing in 6 feet under at a funeral home i rather him be in jail than dead. but that's not my happening. i'm talk about this tip sters that should come forth woeful
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talked about last time have been had been zero dollars paid out for unsolved homicides and a decade we talked about finding ways to pay people it come forth. said than i wanted pay people will that were i was thinking about a way to pay the person this killed miami son for a plea bargain or find a way to pay female come forward. y know i'm blank tired i'm so tired. i'm tired tonight. >> i need solutions about my son. i need his case solved not just my son all the mother and fathers that are suffering in silence. with that [inaudible].
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members this have information about the murder of you believe real call the tip line. >> good evening, commissioners star child. lpsf. org. i like to reminds you and the public that the entire worry on drug the criminalization of people choosing what to puff in their body system unconstitutional when the counsel row presented sales of april from 1933 they passed the amendment first to make that legal. that ma'am was rescinded with the -- amendment. allow the pleas or anyone else to criminalize people for the sale or use or manufactureering everer our agreeing of
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marijuana, cocaine and other drugs. asking when can we do about the drug and the big per is decriminalization. if the safer more beneficial drugs were in the criminalized. then more people do those truths there is i great movie the path of the shawmachine talk about experience getting off hard drugs loig meth by saking it. other psychedelics shown promise in this regard. public into beingcasion is in the i crime. nobody should be rested for choosing had to put in their body if they are not hurting everyone. people don't like to see it on
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the streetis don't like needles but don't look if it is in the hurting in public space the space belbgts to all of us it it is in the a role crime there is not consensus they should be criminalized. i resent and the party wants. >> thank you. director's report of the discussionarctivities commission discussion if issue raised for a future commission meeting. >> good evening. president elias and chief scott and member of the public. a long night. did not expect to be here, here i am. i will keep it short our
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numberers the same as left week, case numbers are up. and as are our case pending. we have 20 cases past 270 mark. 17 are told and unlike last week. the number one complaint we received is the officers were driving improperly and the come mranlts the district station the most complaints this week has been central station. don't have much in terms of updates on out roach or the audit program miscarpenter our senior investigator was here with us she left but has provided information to the public here today about how to contact us in case you did not get an opportunity to peek to her you can reach us by phone
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415-241-7711. or google sfdpa and website is sfgov.org/dpa. i'm happy to answer questions but -- i did make note for -- the executive director you are interested in a report in august we will be sure to provide that to you. and keep you updated on this massive investigation we are under taking. am with the help of the police department. thank you. commissioner benedicto >> a couple of quick questions does this case load this week represent the hill bomb complaints not yet? probably. i don't know off top i would anticipate at least one being related that.
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when we get multiple complaints we merge them. i'm not sure for that has been done yet. i, soup it has we started the initial complaint early -- right the week of. so far that would have been last week. so all the new complaints coming in are merged but each person complaining is getting their only separate investigate itch portal. urn one complaint number. >> that will be reflected once merged as one case for the purposes of the report you will not seat numbers drop because 100 people called us. even though we may be investigating you know 81 different complaints and upon 100 different specific incident in the indent tell come up b for uss one case.
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how does this look. would this case complaints when susstained numbers and or not how does this show up in the numbers are they --? so tell be we do it by cases. okay. often the break down of allegations verse you case in our quarter level and annual report tht difference everybody gets confused b. between the case versus allegation. had the case is done other there will be tell represent one case. the allegations will be in hundreds. am this is how you will be arab to see it. thank you very much. that's all. members withhold like to comment on item 5 please prop the
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podium. hi. i apologize you don't understand your report. i hope that the allegations per this one case is clear number to the public and not in house number it does in the show up as one case. also, i feel at each one of the youth served their own case it is les to do it all under one. i think there are so many types of situations from -- the injury we saw on one youth to urinating and not read rights all the items because it was all at the skate board event. i really have a problem with it being done you should one case.
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and i will give that honesty may be i don't understand the report and also because there is in the a clear number of how many people. have made a complaint as of last week. i'm concerned that your department is not doing enough of i goodion in clear to the youth and families the service is available. a lot of neap is their first commission hearing never care body police commission you know how empty this room usualy is. i saw the fortune from your office and impressed with this. however. numbers should go up in if we care to make thisave public service visible to those who have been harmed and us as taxpayers are piing for this to be available. especially for our babysit.
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thank you. item 6 commission reports discussion and possible action. limited to a description of activities, discussion limited to determine calendar issues for a future meeting. president's report. commission report and items for consideration in a future meeting >> commissioner yee. >> thank you very much. i want to reportom the 6 opinion within for you we going over the time limit. and language in the department so -- ask for extension and go back on there, so concurrency. so. >> a 30-day sdmepgz >> they talked about next week to meet back again. thank you. >> commissioner benedicto. why one item to report.
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from me. the dgo working group on body worn cameras the final working group i thank the community. i think we had a good representation of regular players, would have gone group and member of the community the first work group and hopeful low not the last and look forward to that. pleased with the draft. thank you. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you, president. quick report. still boog doing work around the prebook and referral center. presented and data that was imprifsz. and 2022, 78 opinion 5% of the young people that they worked with did not and low and had a high of 84% of young people.
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never everyoned the system by going in the diversion program. it spokes to the capacity that the city has for success when it miss to deterring and intervening in the prison to sorry. school to prison pipeline. so that was fruitful perform moving forward and meeting every other week to oyst best systems to be able to create and mou for this department to enter in with the community partners. someone in public comment i think misoffend when prebooking means it people will in the be adjudicated not that they will be rested before they commit crimes it means we have another alternative so they don't enter
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the system. and then i did meet with members of the mission merchanty association. and this theme of i don't want to call it harassment or resting or interfacing with the skater community. seems to be a big issue i did in the think was as big as it foals to them. it was very informational for mow ton there is a good community out there that the department can engage for future reference and the things happen. of and will i want to itemize one po item for the future and would like your comments on this, chief. left week's report there was an article in mission local. of that -- am noted that some of
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the. wait data presented either purpose low or -- over locked a very key slide. and that -- demonstrated that in q4, oib q2 an increase in the disprosecute potionate deattention of african-americans and increase was like 25-1. and i would like to get a sense of what we are still doing to address the minority impacts of the department. i do would like to hear your thoughts on that glaring increase inform the content with african-american community. we will agendize it we will address then it is in the on today's agenda.
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so. be prepared answer those questions, cho and sends him additional questions you have. and that way the department will be appropriated to answer. i will, thank you. >> definite low. commissioner walker. >> thank you. i -- we are continuing to meet original the patrol specially private security issue. i met with the city attorney our city attorney it get legal questions answered before we can talk about it with the chief and present to the commission. hopeful leave we do this when we come back from our break i was visited by sutter health. they would like to peek with our
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department and may be the department of health around the concerns about the safety of their nurses who are visiting. and how to how to -- figure out how to make that work. i think they do both programmed contract with us and the holings and their patriot patients. thank you very much is great i think the more we work with the private health care sector. in in helping street safety and mental health. tell be better. i will keep everybody posted. >> admissibility public had would like to comment on item 5 prop the podium. no public commentsful discussion and action adopt urging the
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board to authorize the police department to accept and extend i granted 7, 549 from theical cal office of emergency services for the confer daily forensic program equip for the laboratory beginning on april first of twe through june 24. discussion and possible action. where thank you for being here for questions we read the material. anyone have questions? none. upon get a motion? move to approve. >> second. >> second. >> for members when would like to comment regarding item 7 approach the podium. on the motion commissioner walker. >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. why commissioner yanez. >> yes. why commissioner byrne. where yes. why commissioner yee >> yes
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>> president elias. >> yes >> 8. discussion and action adopt authorize of the police department to accept and extend i grand 1, 407, premesis 75 from theicalical board of state correction's recover wellness guarantee program improve officer wellness and mental health sources for members july of 22 through december of 25. discussion and possible action. again here. present for questions i don't see people in the dias. megz? >> move to approve. >> second. >> anyone who would like to comment regarding item 8 approach the podium. >> star child.
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i 1.4 million dollars meth is, lot i wander if the commission going to monitor to make sure theory is not misspent or spend on things that are associated with that goal. it sounds great we want the officers to have good mental health and not react in appropriate low that will contribute to hrm reduction but you know grants you know accepting money. i wonder the about the left 1 this will go it now examine krienlizing people that should not be crimes. this one i just the i wonder when form all this spending is going to take place and to with 1. 4 million dollars tax money better spent. and something else providing
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safe injection cites go father toward reducing harm. i don't know. i would urge you to look in and not rubber stamp things it it is free monet taxpayers are it is in the irrelevant free. so far you know itemized shows you where the money got the police department website admit paperwork shows you exact low where it guess x. look at this after the fact to make sure that matches where it was going to go. the annual report. >> sergeant. on the motion commissioner walker >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. why yes. why commissioner yanez. why yes. >> commissioner byrne. why yes. >> commissioner yee >> yes >> president elias. >> yes. >> 2, yes or no public comment the public welcome to comment on
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items not on tonight 'agenda. prop the podium. >> upon i'm here to talk about my son i need to use the over head. this time. again my son. these are the names of perpetrators involved with murdering my son. thomas hahnbal. paris movet. andrew. jason thomas. an thon emhunter and america us carter one is deceased. i had also talk about cold case. there is other families all of these are cold cases. so -- on these cases these are
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bulletins you nayou guys made and none of these are solved. we will deal with maddy scott's son his case is not guilty solved. and i. -- deal work with her sometimes. this is when they left me with for my son. this is when i remember even though i remember his smiling face this is when the perpetrators left mow with. a corps:one wants to be standing over their child. and grieving. although i remember of the happy days, this is the worse per of my life. for my only son. this is the worse part of my
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as far as her concern over the grieving mother i think we feel for. but to disagree with her about the use of colorful language. you know i think part of being a public representative is take the heat that sometimes goes with that. sometimes people say rude things that should not be a crime or result in anyone getting evicted from a public hearing or free speech. things that government does are worse then and there someone simple low using foul language. so let's dheep in perspective. i want it mention 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 popular in uniform here today. i just wonder i realize folks are performing/khrerical stuff but if those are worn officers thinked the commission save
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money by using people who are novelty sworn officers to do these things is this taking officers off the streets better serving the opinion safety in not having them here. i don't know when they are doing i understand why the chief is here. . open low express vows, i think this should be take into consideration. and inpresent for the cho to sit up with yourself the commissioners posed to over see him on the same level. i don't think he should sit through with the commission i knoll is inappropriate. sends the wrong mess amming police should be accountable.
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i'm 13 public comments on 15 closed session comments on 14 vote to hold closed session if you would like to mech comment concerning closed session of course approach the podium. >> 14. vote on hold closed session and, cert attorney/client privilege. san francisco code 67.10 action. motion to hold. >> second. on the moefrgz commissioner walker yoochl yes >> commissioner benedicto >> yes >> commissioner yanez. why yes. why commissioner byrne. why yes. why commissioner yee. >> please stand
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