let me introduce you first to stuart hanlon, at my immediate left. stuart is a defense attorney of great renown. he has over 30 years of experience, including some of the country's most high-profile cases. including cases involving police and official misconduct. next to him is our san francisco police chief, greg suhr, newly appointed to that office last month. congratulations, chief. >> thank you, your honor. [applause] >> chief suhr has surfed in the department for 30 years. and as chief he will be overseeing a department of 1,800 police officers. next we have peter herley who is now acting as police consultant. he is the former chief of police of tiburon and the former president of the california police officers association. next to mr. herley is sharon wu, the chief assistant of operations in the district attorney's office. she oversees the criminal division, including the victim witness program and the alternative dispute courts. anne irwin is an attorney in the public defender's office. ms. irwin was recently involved in several of the cases i

hanlon? >> i think one thing to keep side of -- sight of, if we're giving people the power to carry a gun and arrest citizens and put them in jail forever. we talk about how we deal with this situation, to minimize it and say it is just a few officers, the department is generally ok, that there is not a culture here, whether it is a code of silence or a code that we can do what ever we want, it is not dealing with the problem. [applause] i believe that it has to be dealt with. but it cannot be dealt with by minimizing it and saying there's too much media about this stuff, that it is not fair. it is fair because the police are given this incredible power. more than anybody else. you know, i can deal with a cop in court, but i will not mess with him on the street, because he can tell me or arrest me. there has to be a standard -- he can kill me or arrest me. there has to be a standard. ianne is talking about her clients are basically on the street. this is not a minor problem. [applause] >> we

let me introduce you first to stuart hanlon, at my immediate left. stuart is a defense attorney of great renown. he has over 30 years of experience, including some of the country's most high-profile cases. including cases involving police and official misconduct. next to him is our san francisco police chief, greg suhr, newly appointed to that office last month. congratulations, chief. >> thank you, your honor. [applause] >> chief suhr has surfed in the department for 30 years. and as chief he will be overseeing a department of 1,800 police officers. next we have peter herley who is now acting as police consultant. he is the former chief of police of tiburon and the former president of the california poliff

and also stuart hanlon as well as the bar association of san francisco. so let's have a round of applause for our sponsors today . let's get down to it. so before we get started i want to introduce someone who's a wonderful leader in our community and that's the president of the bar association of san francisco. >> thank you. thank you, jeff, for inviting me on behalf of the bar association of san francisco. i'm priya sanger. i'm president of the bar association of san francisco. basf, as we note the bar association to be called, has had a long relationship with the public defenders office. it is crucially important for administration of justice. and so is san francisco conflicts panels where administration, which the bar association has provided in partnership with public defenders. so in san francisco when a public defender has a conflict of interest, criminal defendants and minors are represented by private attorneys from a panel administered by the bar association of san francisco. maintaining this independent body of attorneys is critically important

the only white beads group that president obama hanlon was 18-29 year olds. he lost every other age group. that may sound depressing but our young people are going to fix this. you know this. our kids are not bigots or homophobes'. they do not look at you with the grandparents did. this is going to get better. >> i want to ask about labor. >> i happen to be an african- american. >> that is because god made to a black man. [laughter] >> i am glad he did. i am glad he did. shout hallelujah. [applause] >> it is a wonderful thing. >> and did you all to seeing that song? made me ♪d god pentecostal baptist. my view, to your question, is a bit nuanced. i am glad that roger had this point about optimism and hope. to my mind they are different things. optimism suggests there is a set of circumstances or conditions, something that you can see that gives you a reason to believe things are going to get better. sri say i am optimistic. that has never been the case for negros in america. coke, the bible says, that faith is the substance of things hoped for. the evidence of

hanlon, but if someone is proven to be dishonest, it is my intention not to have those officers in the san francisco police department anymore. [applause] >> mr. herley, you have been a police chief and dealt with police conduct as a consultant. do you have anything to add to what chief suhr has said about preventing misconduct in a police department? >> thank you for having me. i do have to point something out. i was not the president of the california police officers association. it was the california police chiefs association. i spent 21 years in the city of torrance in southern california before coming up here, a city of to under 50,000, about 350 personnel. -- 250,000, about 350 personnel. much smaller organization. completely different type of agency. but one of the things we found was to my career and particularly at the beginning, there was really no classis% -- classes pe se, and we started a course on how to be a successful chief. a very strong component of that was an ethics, and what is the chief's responsibility within their department relating to at the experience include

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hanlon. by all accounts, you've stepped up to the plate and instituted a number of needed retomorrows, and i very much -- reforms, and i very much appreciate that. but as a recent gao report pointed out, we're not there yet. and when you're interested with sacred -- entrusted with sacred responsibilities, there is no margin for error. so this afternoon i look forward to your testimony and more forward to the discussion that will happen after that testimony. thanks, once again, thank you all for being here. >> thank you, senator tester. let me introduce the witnesses. our first witness is lieutenant general peter vangel. he was appoint today position on november be 14, 2011. as inspector general, he's responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct by army officials. most recently, lieutenant general vangell served as the deputy commanding general of the third army united states army central in kuwait from september 2009 to september 2011. i can also probably talk to you about contract