>> it is anecdotal. currently, there is a sense that many of the vehicles to spend a lot of time in the shop. beyond that, it is anecdotal evidence. some complain about the priuses, that tit takes -- that it takes week ss to replace a battery pack. president goh: thank you. >> good evening, everybody. based on the last meeting, what we have, we just talked about times to prove the accurate information. through 2009, the car was in the shop. it was accurate evidence and proof that the car was broken. that is why i used a spare for that. in the rules, 1104, only written ones can be submitted. it is like any other country's. i have my experience how to work. many times, computer will be broken also. i will have to go back to the garage and fix it. speaking of accuracy, [unintelligible] i have 81 log in periods of time. it is completely accurate. speaking of -- the rules are that four out of five calendar years. we talk about 2009, 8, 7, and 6. i have evidence for 2005. nobody asked me to provide the others.

>> it is anecdotal. currently, there is a sense that many of the vehicles to spend a lot of time in the shop. beyond that, it is anecdotal evidence. some complain about the priuses, that tit takes -- that it takes week ss to replace a battery pack. pr

the issue has, about anecdote vs fact. as someone who works weekly with police abuse, i ask you to look very deeply where you find the truth. accountability has come up in this discussion, and we are far more interested in accountability before people are attacked with weapons. i appreciate the contributions concerning the tactis and the focus on tactics. frankly, i get threatened nearly every week. i was told, i am going to come find you and get you. a direct quote. frankly, as a black man who has low body mass and a history of epilepsy, i have a huge candidate for having fatal results. with me or anyone else in this public, i would ask each one of you to please explain [unintelligible] thank you very much. >> throughout the meeting, it seems like we were having this great conversation. they were having to listen and we would have this great discussion or counter argument. in this case, children are getting tasered. we have families, too. i think the problem is, we are people. we have communities and a voice, too. we work

we need to deal not in just anecdotes, but what the actual facts are. >> i think dr. sang can tell you about his peer-reviewed study, which showed a significant increase in custody deaths following the introduction of taser products in california. there is a real dearth of data. there is no good tabulation on when these are used, how they are used, and what the result is. there is too much anecdotal data. the bozeman study, like any study, has strengths and weaknesses. i think it was too small. it covered only a few departments in one region of the united states. in one of the studies, he arbitrarily excluded two cases where the guy died, and said the medical examiner did not conclude it was a taser, which i find a skewed his results. i wish there was better data on this. there is no question that usually people are not going to die if they are tasered. but there are cases where they are. that makes it different than some of these other devices. commissioner slaughter: thank you. president mazzucco: this was supposed to be a 45-minute presentation. the police departme

you have facts on one side and desires and anecdote on the other side. it was mentioned a few times that the only time it should be used is in situations -- it was mentioned earlier that [unintelligible] there is one thing that has not been talked about tonight. looking to the disproportionate impact on communities of color. it's happening with tasers, too. the only time is really rational is -- it came up a few times. the last point is about the budget. there is the republican congressman in the state of ohio. there is probably not one republican on the commission and we are considering this. it seems irresponsible to me. i am here to emphatically ask you to oppose the taser and ask you to stop studying tasers. thank you. >> i'm a triple-bypass about two years ago. i would be at risk. former mayor newsome and the former police chief argued that it would reduce officer related shootings by 1/3. this argument is false. if they are genuinely in danger by an armed suspect, they will

the next speaker then presented anecdotal evidence about robberies in the sunset. also, i would like to echo my experience that these are not dangerous places. the fact that they have cash and valuable items on premises does not make them unique to business. you could say the same thing about a jewelry store or a liquor store. the liquor store across the street from my house is robbed. there was a daytime murder in bread and butter cafe on polk. i do not think anyone could draw from those things that bellies inherently create crime -- delis inherently great crime. >> my name is matt lee roy. i have been a san francisco resident for eight years. what it boils down to is that we are in a sanctuary city. california state law allows people with a medical condition who need to use cannabis to use cannabis to treat their conditions, as does san francisco law. we are assigned to rossetti. it is important that patients in all parts of the city have equal access to their medicine. the other thing that concerns me is that one of the complainants in this case happens to be a

>> it is anecdotal.soon as the sfmta took over the taxi industry, it was obvious this was the biggest concern the industry had. this represents, for the taxi industry, people competing for scarce resources out there. spçtaxi drivers are not highly d individuals. in order to make their work profitable, it would be important to reduce the number of illegal vehicles operating. and to the public, itç is critically important because of the personal safety issue. i feel very concerned that there are a lot of people out there getting into vehicles and the driver has not been screened by any regulatory agency, the vehicle has not been inspected, and you do not know if there is any liability insurance if injured. >> in an urban areaç like ours, certainly in the high tourist areas, this would seem to be more of a reality in different pockets. but i would also think that this is true for the airport. airport. >> absolutely. i do not think anyone can deplane in san francisco without being approached by an illegal

i think we logged in, but i want to make sure that they are empirical and not anecdotal. supervisor mirkarimi: that would be helpful. 120 hours post-training, is that combined? in a consecutive three-week process? >> yes, we do a three-week academy. we call it an academy, and it is 120 hours. we have to agree that we will follow the guidelines and mandates. we do that training at our facility in our training room. once they successfully complete the process, they migrate out on the floor where they work one- on-one, and it takes about three rotations of four weeks in each rotation to where they are qualified to answer phones, but we do not allow them to answer phones on their own, and and then migrate into a time where we monitor them one-on-one to make sure they are capable of understanding the process. once that are successful, we allow them to answer phones on their own while we bring back into the room here at all in all, it takes about 11 months to fully train a 911 dispatcher. supervisor mirkarimi: the funding needs you were referencing as the commission was contemp

i do not think there are aware of this bias for the most part, but i'm speaking from my own anecdotalexperience. my reason to get into the business is to counter that bias. i came from a car rear as a criminal defense attorney. the bis filters into the programming, reporting, coverage of cases. most of the cases do not have a camera present. even when the camera is present, it cannot entirely help to filter of bias. how many of you can sit at home and watch the robert blake trial from gavel-to-gavel, even if it is televised? when the camera is not present, you must rely on the boarding -- the reporting. i have had many instances where i was reporting on a trial and i will listen to my colleague on my right and left and wondered if they had been in the same courtroom that i was in. their sense of what happened in that room was very different from my own. i often feel that they're pro- prosecution bias is present. there is an assumption that they must have done something wrong or they would not have been charged in first place. maybe that is human nature, but it certainly makes its way

here is a quick anecdote. i was fortunate enough to get some letters that the sister of homer lea route for an article in the 1940's for life magazine that was never published talking about some aspects of his life. his sister wrote about how he was involved in a duel. right before his first book cannot. i just showed you, his first book came out in 1908. i looked to the newspapers that i had access to from california and los angeles at the time and could find nothing. a bit, okay. he must've done this to the early 1908. so i wrote that section into manuscript. i had information no one had ever seen before. i was calling to corner the market on new authoritative and homer lea information. a few months later the library of congress which is digitizing newspapers as we speak digitize the los angeles "herald". lo and behold a see a front-page story on homer lea having a dual, but it's in 1906, 1908 and had nothing to do with his sister's recollection. her memory was completely a skewed. so, it gives you pause for

i asked earlier if there was staff and you said only anecdotally.derstand better what the universe of trouble is that we are dealing with. >> çit is a universe that is difficult to eliminate, that we can only minimize, i think. it is a very attractive thing, especially in these times, for someone to get an illegal vehicle and come to san francisco and take the chance of getting caught. it has been a serious problem for decades. it is a problem in every major municipality that has a taxi regulators. ] citation that has been issued by the police department. i can tell you in 2010, i believe the police department issued -- i think it was 125 illegal vehicle citationsç, about 300 citations to legal vehicles that were acting outside of their charter. so that is about 400 citations issued by the police department during one calendar year. but that does not account the degree of the problem. that is simply what the police department has been able to apply. >> the revenue generated from the citations, does it then return to the mta? >> the $2,500 fine wou

anecdotally, i don't think it is anything like 20%, but on a regional level this is a bigger question, to what extent when we did this planning did we think about all of that vacancy? the problem is an enormous amount of vacancy. it gets to what brad paul talked about. yes, there is a lot of vacancies in antioch, tracy, and stockton, but it comes at a significant cost. the question is whether it is really available for households looking to live in it. i will try to get you better information, but the best i could do on short notice. commissioner moore: i appreciate that, that should factor how we look at the region. we cannot leave that unanswered or unaccounted for, because at some point if we have national migration, people coming to california, that is a huge amount of housing that we need to fill. president olague: commissioner miguel? vice president miguel: just as an example of some of the thinking, i have a daughter who is living in santa rosa, just moved back into the city last year, but for 15, 20 years, santa rosa, sonoma county in general experienced tremendous growth in t

maybe you can add an and a better -- anecdotal story. aggravate of assault -- aggravated assault, how you rationale the change? the percent change is small. why is it down? >> that small of an increment can come over 28 days -- i cannot tell you why they are down. these range from everything from a bar fight to a person being shot at, maybe grazed. a grazing wound or a non-lethal wound, it could be a punch to the face, a kick to the shin. these assaults are very wide- ranging. we take reports like that every day, probably -- we do probably 10 a day in san francisco. that is throughout the entire city. supervisor cohen: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: think to come supervisor. i don't believe we have any more questions for you. i did not see your name. >> one of the issues that has come up before is the issue of the assault rate with some of these crimes in terms of having an arrest and then having an actual conviction. is that information included in this report? i know that is something we have asked for in the past. when i was chair,

. >> there is actually some great anecdotal sort of stories from the whole newspaper, the old californian, the original chronicle. people making to bog answer, people who knew what to do with snow. >> on that cold february afternoon 3.7" of snow fell downtown, more than 7" up on twin peaks. >> some great stories about the cable cars which were running then. they had no problem with traction because the cable was down underground but the problems the drivers had then were people throwing snow balls at them as they were going up california street. >> a rare event indeed due to the insulating effects of the pacific ocean. it just doesn't happen here that often? only in the last 150 years there have been a dozen times that they have officially reached 52 degrees in the city. >> go to cbssf.com. click on "connect" to send me your good question. >>> can the warriors overcome a 15-point deficit? i'm dennis o'donnell and this show has gone to the dogs. the westminster champion is next. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the internet on a plane! are you from the future? um, no. cleveland. listen cleveland, your