i'll note that joyce hicks the director is in route as well she'll be here shortly ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday, june 3, 2015 san francisco police commission meeting let's start off with first item. >> item one general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. neither the police or commissioners are required to respond to questions present by the public but any present a brief erroneous all some refrain from entering into speakers during public comment hold did comments to 3 minutes please thank you. >> good evening, sir. >> hello starting off we saying i consider the shooting to our people unarmed hundred and 37 times is not the behavior of professionals but ill trained gun cowards the vines the politicians e-mai

joyce hicks and deputy chief mckail alley and commander bob moser and city attorney alicia cabrera and district attorney george gas conand chonsey smith from california and angela chan, our former police commissioner and staff anding agent law office and kenneth freed box on the director on homelessness san francisco and francisco uggarte from sf island. lorena: a lead organizer for catholic arch diocese and lizey for cj for criminal and juvenile justice. the lawyers committee for civil rights coordinator and reverend smith and deacon wade from the episcopal church. this is to follow-up on to advance the racism and curriculum in police departments and other agencies and methods for officers to uphold civil rights and justice and free of conscious and unconscious bias. i also want to say the context that we are in as we'll hear in the next hearing is the growth of prisons and industrial complex as some call it with critical resistance to all of us or none that are in the chambers as well. advocacy to create a society that really having law enforcement that is serving communities and to

. >> the occ through joyce hicks has done research on body cameras and there are a lot of materials out there and the police department has done a great job of providing materials to the members of the task force i've reviewed some of the materials in advance there's a department of justice tool kit and certainly the preliminary information that i've received is is complaints have dropped as a result of body mounted cameras and my feel about all of that that will give the investigators more time to focus on their exist caseloads in terms of the technology you know we'll see it t is another piece of evidence and we will see in terms of the length of time it takes to conduct an investigation what that impact might be it can only be positive in terms of the having yet another tool it is not the final tool it is another amount of evidence i'm hopeful the occ will be able to make more deforgiven finding we don't have the evidence to make a- we don't have a preponderance of the evidence to determine whether or not the officer conduct was proper or improper so this leads both the officers and

. >> good afternoon supervisor farrell and members the budget & finance committee and i'm joyce hicks i thank you for the opportunity to address you i'd like to thank the mayor and his budget staff and harvey rose staff for working with me on the budget i'm continuing to be negotiate with mr. rose's staff with the senior investigator project not recommend by mr. rose we're norwalk over the start date for various positions office of complaints was created by the board of supervisors in 19982 we became staff and operational in 1983 we're in the jurisdiction of the police commission and independent of the san francisco police department the mission of the eject was to investigate civilian complaints and police misconduct and negligent of duty and to make policy recommendations on police practices i've been the director of the occ since 2007 hired on the heels of a audit report one of the finding was 16 cases per investigator is best practices. >> but in 2007 investigators caseloads ranged from 20 cases to 45 that's not the situation now but investigators cases loads are high as of today,

. >> good afternoon supervisor farrell and members the budget & finance committee and i'm joyce hicks i thank you for the opportunity to address you i'd like to thank the mayor and his budget staff and harvey rose staff for working with me on the budget i'm continuing to be negotiate with mr. rose's staff with the senior investigator project not recommend by mr. rose we're norwalk over the start date for various positions office of complaints was created by the board of supervisors in 19982 we became