so anything to add to dispute that statement by assistant chief cashman? >> you know, i don't recall exactly what was said. i depo recall -- do recall that you said that police currently have the power to tell someone to move if they're blocking the sidewalk. and that is not true. i understand where some confusion on this comes from. let me just give you the short version. we wouldn't be here going through all of this trouble if police had the power to solve the problems that we're talking about. that's the shortest and most clear explanation i can offer. we would not go through all of this and sfpd would not leave law enforcement powers on the table that solve the problem if they could do it without going through a ballot initiative process. chairman campos: colleagues, any other questions? thank you very much. is there any other question? we'll open it up to public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is bob. i am working with the sidewalk coalition whi

i said cashman. >> thank you. [laughter] there is no dispute that foot beat is an essential part of community policing. i'm not going to argue that. i am well aware, and i don't think, supervisor mirkarimi, you need to refeet to me that this is not los angeles. i'm well aware of that. that is why i'm here in san francisco. the issues i have is we're trying to intertwin community foot beats with the sit-and lie and that's not the case. i'm going to allow captain lazar to talk a little bit about what we're doing in the community policing realm, talk about the fact that i am overseeing operations, the day-to-day operations of patrol foot beats is my responsibility. i have never been called by supervisor mirkarimi's office. i've never been discussed with what are we doing in community policing, do we have foot beats out there, what are we doing in the community policing realm? there is brand new to me. but there's a ballot in november to talk about community policing but yet sfpd has never given any input as far as co