speaker shall address the commission as a whole or dpa personnel. under rules of order during pubc comment, police or dpa personnel nor commissioner required to respond to questions presented y the public. individual commissioners and poe and dpa personnel should refrain from entering into any debates r discussion with speakers during public comment. >> vice president mazzucco: thak you. jeremy, welcome back. >> my name is johnny miller prom director. well over a decade now i worked with families victim of police terror and violence. today i spoke with the family of derek gaines and the family of travis hall and authorized to sk on behalf both their family. they are horrified and disturbed that officer joshua academic has been allowed to harm people aga. in 2011 he's accused of burglarizing for $1000 in cash. of course june 5, 2012 was whene assassinated 15-year-old derek gaines. april 10, he beat travis hall alongside sergeant at the time anthony montoya who is now headf the president of the poa. both who have been promoted sine this time on januar

. >> line 1b, dpa director's report. report on recent dpa activities and announcements. >> good evening director henderson. >> thank you. we are at -- i like to start off with the stats. we're at 279 cases open this year. just by contacts, we have surpassed the number of open cases from last year already at this time. which was 267. we have closed 220 cases. there's still in my open cases are 290 as opposed to 401 open cases from last year. we are still holding at 23 cases that are past 270 day mark of those 23. we still have a number of positions i won't repeat the same ones from last week that have still in background. we've been having series of meetings with my chief of staff and with the department on amending trying to streamline our background process. those conversations in that meeting will continue the first part of next week. wile keep the commission updated. there was a big issue for us. one of the solutions is likely to include us independently doing our background with structure and guidance from the depart

if it help to ensure the safety of our dpa's partners. officers will also respond to 911 and 311 calls while identifying cases requiring and interdisciplinary approach. allowing for consistent communication between sfpd and other city service providers in points of contact. that includes dph, fire department and shf. if you add all those ftes up, it equates to the 250 that we're asking for. we do believe this is very vital in terms us being able to meet the demands that are asked of us. this is separate from the sector patrol. the officers -- they pond to call to service. that's about 30%. this is separate and apart from that. this will allow us we believe to be successful and addressing these many complex issues our city. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for the policy and explanation. this is the first time i heard it. it's first time it's been presented to this committee. what i see is a policy and i see a request for 250 officers and you kind of created policies to back into 250. what concerns me is, there's no data that's driving this.

how, the dpa service division also created thousands of professional jobs group town employed people with special training. i can't even begin to tell you all a of the different kinds of projects but let me give you some examples. they set up hundreds of free health and dental planning. nursery schools, after-school programs, adult literacy classes, they copied thousands of books and maps into braille. and they established any number of new public libraries which are still around today. but started under the wpa. and that brings us to the arts, also in the professional division -- now all of the professionals who were out of work in 1935 tens of thousands of them had previously made their living or tried to in the arts. so when the wpa's professional projects were being planned, it made since to include jobs for people in the arts. as harry hopkins said hell, they got to eat just like other people. now, the directors ultimately decided that there would be for arts projectses one for music, one for theater, one for writers, an one for the visual arts. all operating under a single umbr

our officers will work escort dpa two days a week to perform outreach to these individuals that i mentioned. if itp

according to new reports, immigrant children separated from parents at the border are now having their dpafficial as saying the tests will be used to reunite families and help ensure schirn aren't released to human traffickers claiming to be parents. the immigrants advocate are concerned that the collection of dna information from children could be used against them for the rest of their lives. >>> new research somethings that wormed famds dirist anne frank tried to escape to the u.s. but stopped by the restrictive immigration policy. the anne frank house in amsterdam says that the father tried to get needed papers to go to the u.s. and also appeared to have applied to a visa for cuba. 76 years ago they went into hiding in amsterdam. they were eventually discovered by the nazis and deported to death camps. >>> 6:40 now. a woman under arrest accused of stealing a police car driving to san francisco and back to oakland before finally getting caught. but they didn't realize there was another occupant in the car. a dog. yesterday afternoon the suspect talked her way into crossing police lines

this is from the dpa, german news agency. he is threatening to pull out due to defense spending.lier today, he is not asking for the 2% target to be reached. he wants it to be 4%. we need to take us with a grain of salt. we have not confirmed this yet. this.pa is reporting it shows you the confusion surrounding president trump's presence and nato. allies are unsure. peter had a brilliant essay overnight about the absolute comedy about calculating defense spending nation to nation, for is heavilyeece weighted by pension benefits and military salary benefits to their military. no one has any certainty to what anyone is actually spending. what is the pushback of the european nations against the president's criticism? reporter: a lot of european nations agree with him and continuously go back to the 2014 wales meeting are they all agreed within the decade they would increase 2%. you make a good point. a lot of these countries, some of the money is not directly for military spending. it is pension spending, for example. what nato needs to do, if it wants to have a more specific target