. >> somr. chairman i will be voting against this i believe we need training because of the homophobic and other text messaging and the department needs to move aggressively in terms of anti bias training and other types of trains but to delay the hiring of police officers and this will have the effect of dlaif much needed police officers you have to ramp up to get to a police academy class the mayor i strongly support the mayors proposal to increase the numbers of police academy classes if 3 to 5 that is basically the most that the academy can handle we have a desperate shortage of police officers in the city even in the hearing when at land use we considered the resolution that supervisor cowen and i authorized to increase the minimum staffing to 22 hundred is appropriate even in hearing i thought we had consensus that the 5 academy classes this fiscal year and next year should perceive this has the effect of undermining two of the 5 classes i'm like i said in the hearing i'm sick of hearing p

. >> somr. chairman i will be voting against this i believe we need training because of the homophobic and other text messaging and the department needs to move aggressively in terms of anti bias training and other types of trains but to delay the hiring of police officers and this will have the effect of dlaif much needed police officers you have to ramp up to get to a police academy class the mayor i strongly support the mayors proposal