dr. marshall? dr. marshall: we still have this, so if you want to go down the road one more time, and say this will be it, et you know, i do not see it, and i do not have a lot of faith in it. you know, mr. hammer, if you think you can -- commissioner hammer: i cannot do anything alone. i was just suggesting a way forward. dr. marshall: go ahead. >> commissioners, if i can address a couple of your questions? the training has always been paid for by the control specialists. this last year is the first time i can remember that they gave us training at no cost. we still paid for one-third of the trade. we paid for that. this was free of charge from what we were told. we have no problems with getting additional training and paying for it ourselves. dr. marshall: ministate. i am skeptical. if you did what he said, if you came back and showed me personally that i am serious, i really want to save this, -- does that make sense? commissioner hammer: i will stop smoking. dr. marshall: [laughs] president mazzucco

dr. marshall? vice president marshall: what is the committee doing now? we have you can agendize to open up the purpose of the committee, but i don't see why it can't continue doing what it is doing. let the committee do what it is doing. president mazzucco: commissioner hammer, i'm getting looks from the -- that we've really gone far astray. commissioner hammer: i think it is important that we have a brief conversation about that. not that any of us stop doing what we're doing but that we're of one mind about what this commission is going to do. commissioner chan: i agree with commissioner hammer we should clarify. president mazzucco: ok. we'll put that in the agenda. let's move on to commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. any commission announcements? commissioner hammer: no. president mazzucco: i think we have discussed this at issue so we can look at the perceptions of the community and provide them with facts and a response to the perceptions and allegations. i think we owe it to t

dr. marshall. vice president marshall: the gang homicides, that is primarily the sunnydale area? >> no, it is all over the city. it could be the western it could be the western addition, hunter's point. it's really -- >> that's what i wanted to know. >> and the nightclubs? >> yes, a few of those are nightclub related. >> you have two different components that work on these homicides. lee and her folks that go out and investigate the homicides, and then once a homicide occurs, the wheels that turn in motion on this department for most people that aren't on the police department and even for the commissioners, there say significant amount of resources applied to every run of one of these homicides. outside of the police department -- >> outside of the police department we have community efforts help us look at these. everybody does a really good job. >> commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: thank you for your report, commander and lieutenant. i appreciate it. it is enlightening to see this breakdown, but also the terrific work that's being done by your unit. just a question

dr. marshall said the uniform. i ask that according to the rules, each and every patrol special reports to the district station at the beginning of his or her watch for uniformed inspection and vehicle inspection to make sure they are in compliance. i have asked lieutenants of different stations, have passed on the sgt. i cannot be driving down a street and seeing a patrol special out of uniform smoking a cigar. i cannot be driving down chestnut street and see a patrol special out of uniform. that has to stop. now back in our realm, this is the police commission and need the full vote of the commission. i should relay this to you. this is my opinion. i think the police department has fallen responsibly to start doing this. i think you have an obligation to do it. commissioner kingsley: is there a separate breakdown for patrol special? >> and they do not have jurisdiction over patrol specials. commissioner kingsley: thank you very much. >> [inaudible] there have been nine complaints. they have received three telepho

dr. marshall. >> i don't have any problem with -- maybe 3 $4. if we have a -- 3/4. if we have a study guide. to all the lawyers that didn't want to be on the commission. really. this is a horrible document and i will have to -- i'm going to tell you why. a lot of times it is assumed that -- i know these things. it is assumed. i think a document -- it is important that we should provide something. it may be second nature to you. it is not second nature to me. what i think is important to do, let me just say one other thing. help me with this. this might summarize just a little bit of the confusion that i have around all of these procedures. legal terms. procedural trial of disciplinary cases. i thought these were administrative hearings and not trials. >> they are. but perhaps we should change that name. it has been there a long time. >> we're not supposed to be doing trials. we're supposed to be doing administrative hearings. back me up on that. >> legally, these are administrative hearings. administrative abjudicative hearings. it dates back to 1932. it is called a

dr. marshal, i don't want to address you directly, but i want to thank him for keeping on it and not like some of you others, looking for ways to let them off the hook yet again after years and years after following the -- refusing to follow the rules. i want to note one of the commissioners, this commissioner hammer, on three separate occasions referred to his devotion and love for jane warner as the basis for his support of the scoff law unconstitutional racketeers and doesn't care about the law and doesn't care about the constitution but only cares about his good friend the late may god have mercy on her soul jane warner. she is not in the law. i have checked the constitution and checked the statutes and your rules promulgated and her name isn't anywhere in those rules. she is not the law. the law is supreme. she is not. i wish you could put aside your friendships and if you cannot i wish you would recuse yourself. it is not proper to invoke her name as a basis for your justification for their criminal activities. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. my n

dr. joe marshall. >> in route. >> commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner james hammer. >> in route. >> commissioner angela chan. excused. commissioner kingsley. >> present. >> commissioner slaughter. >> present. >> we have the assistant chief thromace sawyer. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday, april 20th, 2011 commission meeting. we have an issue that we are going to move to the head of the line, item five. we have a large crowd to discuss the patrol specials and the recommendation of the pssg report. we will call that as the first item this evening. line item 1, the consent calendar. >> the police commission report of disciplinary action from the first quarter, 2011. >> any questions? hearing none, do i have any public comment regarding the consent calendar? hearing none do i have a motion. >> motion. >> second? all in favor. let's call line item number 5 now. >> discussion regarding the pssg group recommendations and the patrol special officers association's response. >> thank you lieutenant. before we move on with our lieutenants present, i wa

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dr. joe marshall, commissioner james slaughter, commissioner petra dejesus. we are also joined by chief of police george gascoign. also with us are the it assistant chief. this isn't she said of the operation pirro. assistant chief denise schmitt. deputy chief john murphy, enforcement and security at the mta. commander sandra tong of the airport bureau. commander james dudley of the airport operations bureau. commander daniel mahoney, chief of the operations staff. commander daniel lazard, chief of investigations. this is a time when we stop and offer special members of the police department. these are members who have distinguished themselves through their bravery and dangerous situations. it is important to note one of the criteria for the medal of honor this one failed to -- failure to take such action would lead to center. these are actions above and beyond call of duty. at this time, i would like to invite the chief of police, cheif gascon, to come up here and speak. >> thank you, everyone, for being here. this is a special moment in policing movie get t

i don't think that leaders of the civil rights movement, like thurgood marshall, certainly not dr. king, and others set out for it to be that way. they intended for civil rights legislation, for instance, for civil rights litigation to have a wider impact, but for a number of reasons, the civil rights movement did end up being most beneficial to members of the middle class. those were the people who were in the best position to take advantage of the opening up of the workplace to african-americans, the opening up of schools to african-americans, but for those like ethel may matthews who was the child of alabama sharecroppers, who just was not very well educated, she was very smart, but not very well educated, it was a harder thing to do to try to go in and interview for jobs and be successful even after the employment discrimination legislation was enacted for instance. i talk about those things in the book, why it was so difficult to have a successful movement that brought in black benefits for a greater number of people. >> we're talking with professor tomiko brown-nagin here at

i don't think leaders of the civil-rights movement like thurgood marshall, certainly not dr. martin the third came brothers said out for it to be that way. but former litigation to have a wider impact for a number of reasons the it did endeavor to be most beneficial to members of the middle-class. those were the people who were in the best position to take advantage of the opening up of the workplace to african americans or of schools to african americans. but for those like ms. matthews who was a child of alabama sharecroppers who was not very well educated. she was very smart but not very well educated, it was harder to do to interview for jobs and be successful even after employment discrimination and legislation was enacted. i talk about those things in the book korea was so difficult to have a successful movement that brings in benefits for a greater number of people. >> host: we're talking with the professor here at the virginia festival of the book. march 2011. what is your day job? >> a law professor at the university of virginia. a job that i enjoy very

marshall. >> present. >> commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner hammer. >> present. >> commissioner chan. >> present. >> commissioner kingsley. >> present. >> commissioner slauger. >> here. >> commission president you have a quorum. also on the dais, we have dr. joyce hicks, and would wow like to introduce our other guest? >> we have a very special guest tonight. our special guest tonight is our brand new, just sworn in, chief of police, greg suhr. i want to give him a warm welcome. [applause] just by way of background for those of you in the audience, there was a swearing in today, it was an honor to be part of that ceremony. the commissioners were president. we look at you, greg, as the reflection of the work we've put in for the past 100 days, a long, significant 100 days, and it was a very, very thorough process that led to your selection. we had 77 applicants. we interviewed an untold number of candidates. unlike last time, the commission not only interviewed the finalists once, but twice. commissioner chan and i had the pleasure. and it came down to three names presented to the mayor and this commission had some guidelines we were looking at, community policing, an inspirational leader, respect of the rank and file. as they said earlie