our good commissioners here, commissioner larry yee and at this time i will ask commissioner deborah walker to say a few words. >> thank you. thank you. thank you mayor breed. i think for appointing me to the commission, but also for this really important effort. i have been on the police commission for a little over a year, and on a weekly basis if not daily basis i'm really frustrated by the current system that allows police commissioners, which should weigh in to have a opinion representing the communities we live in, but none of us are law enforcement, none of us are training law enforcement and yet we are dictating policy that tells the police how they are supposed to enforce the law on the streets. i spent time recently at the invitation of the department to meet with the new officers who are working on policy creation, and that's where the dgo's get discussed and we were discussing the department general order about writing department general orders and we went around in a circle for at least two hours and everything in it was contradictory as the schedules and who is supposed to wei

. >> police commissioner deborah walker and supervisor matt dorsey backed the mayor's measure. >> we are short in officers. there is a way to use technology to help us enforce the law and deal with the issues the mayor outlined. it will enable our police officers to do their jobs for us. >> more effectively. san franciscans deserve a police department with the same access to surveillance technology as every other county in california. >> today, the spoa, the city police officers union released this statement about safer as a baot initiative. the cpoa supports common sense approaches that help us do our jobs more efficiently. this is about giving our officers the tools to do our job safely and to apprehend suspects before they cause serious harm to innocent people and several organizations say they don't want to comment until they see the ballot measure in writing. however the president of the bar association , san francisco, did offer a statement. quote, it says in part, much of the progress on police reform is due to the police commission and the department of police accountability.

. >> police commissioner deborah walker and supervisor matt dorsey backed the mayor's measure. >> we are short in officers. there is a way to use technology to help us enforce the law and deal with the issues the mayor outlined. >> it will enable our police officers to do their jobs for us more effectively. san franciscans deserve a police department with the same access to surveillance technology as every other county in california today, the cpoa the city police officers union released this statement about safer sf ballot initiative. >> the cpoa supports common sense approaches that help us do our jobs more efficiently. this is about giving our officers the tools to do our job safely and to apprehend the suspects before they cause serious harm to innocent people. and several organizations say they don't want to comment until they see the ballot measure in writing. however, the president of the bar association of san francisco did offer a statement. it says in part, quote, much of the progress on police reform is due to the police commission and the department of police accountabili

our good commissioners here, commissioner larry yee and at this time i will ask commissioner deborah walker to say a few words. >> thank you. thank you. thank you mayor breed. i think for appointing me to the commission, but also for this really important effort. i have been on the police commission for a little over a year, and on a weekly basis if not daily basis i'm really frustrated by the current system that allows police commissioners, which should weigh in to have a opinion representing the communities we live in, but none of us are law enforcement, none of us are training law enforcement and yet we are dictating policy that tells the police how they are supposed to enforce the law on the streets. i spent time recently at the invitation of the department to meet with the new officers who are working on policy creation, and that's where the dgo's get discussed and we were discussing the department general order about writing department general orders and we went around in a circle for at least two hours and everything in it was contradictory as the schedules and who is supposed to wei

i just want to thank deborah walker for bringing this up. patrol special program has just been put back, like with one patrol special looking at the new package or actually the new data that we just received here today. i guess to echo what commissioner benedict said is there's a lot of things we probably need to talk about in discussion with the community as well and the policies of the police department as well, and how you married both of them together. so there's a lot of work to be done on this, i believe. and looking forward to seeing more data on there, too, as well. thank you very much. thank you. sergeant, could you take us to public comment? members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item six. please approach the podium. commissioners chief, thank you for having this discussion in front of us here. when i became patrol special in 1977, it was 450 patrol specials. that was assistance and beat owners. you had approximately a little over 1600 regular police officers. and at that time there was 200 reserve o