dr. marshall. but i thought it was worth pausing a second as we looked at these pictures. 3 president mazzucco: any further questions for director hicks? >> one final comment. first of all, thank you. the other comment is that the majority of officers who are eligible to go through mediation when a complaint has been filed, agrowed to do the mediation and i think mediations really help an officer to see things from -- complainants' point of view, even if the officer was correct in proper conduct. and it is an education process and i do believe that we have a well educated police force in san francisco with regard to interactions with the public. and that makes a huge amount of difference in terms of whether someone will or will not file a complaint. president mazzucco: great, wall, thank you very much -- well, thank you very much. plea call 3-c. >> commissioner's report, commisser president's report, commissioners' report. president mazzucco: thank you very much, lieutenant. this may fall under lin

dr. marshall? >> chief, on another note, although we have our challenge here's in the city, i'm very pleased to see that san francisco's name was not on that list. i was talking to my kids last night, there was an article about the ten most dangerous cities in the united states, according to the f.b.i. san francisco is not on the list. interestingly enough, a city in detroit, michigan, flint, michigan, number one most dangerous city in the united states, these formulas they have. there were a couple of california cities on there. stockton california and oakland. baltimore, sadly my home place, st. louis. memphis was on the list, which is not good. but, anyway, i just want to say not only credit to theaáf department but to the citizens of san francisco for us not making a list like that. and i don't know where we are in the safest city but we're not on the most dangerous cities. and that was good to see. >> i appreciate it. i would love to take credit but i will give it to the community and hard wor

dr. marshall? vice president marshall: the intern, the position that we have that we did not think we have? where we are going with this? >> we have been a long process searching for a court clerk helping with disciplinary matters, and we thought we had a kennedy. the turns out we did not. we're going to engage in the search again. i welcome any commissioner who would like to join me to interview the next round of candidates. we will try this again. this is the third try. vice president marshall: this is a court clerk position? >> that is right. court clerk, and cases are like a docket. we want to have it organized in the same manner. there are a number of applications. vice president marshall: we have existing applicants? >> yes. vice president marshall: people watching on tv did not have to flood as with applications? >> bacon keep track of it. -- they can keep track of it. >> what is the application deadline? >> it is already past. we have received a number of applications. vice president marshal

dr. marshall, this is your matter. i will turn the mic over to you. commissioner marshall: state your appearance, sir. >> i beg your pardon? my name vobt l. burns, control specialist, badge number 2595. >> this matter is set for disposition today. we received closing arguments from you. i i don't think we received a closing statement from you, mr. burns. do you want to make one before we begin to deliberate? >> i have a prepared statement, yes. commissioner marshall: go ahead. >> i'm here to make the full commission aware this case is a continuing violation of my constitutional rights under the 14th amendment of equal protection, equal treatment and due process of laws. for the record, my case is evidence of these violations, perpetuated by certain officials of the s.f.p.d. and police commission of previous members. accumeants through the call of law and authority through their abuse, misuse of san francisco control and special police rules and procedures. since december 2008, i have informed these officials of constitutional and labor violations in r

dr. marshall? vice president marshall: i know that it is a couple weeks away, but what you make the announcement of the committee meeting. president mazzucco: he did. vice president marshall: oh. sorry. president mazzucco: line item 4? >> item four, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 6 below, closed session, disciplinary cases, including public comments on the vote whether to hold item 6 in closed session. president mazzucco: ladies and gentlemen, any public comment on the item 6? any public comment regarding the confidentiality of these proceedings? hearing nine, please call the next item, please? >> a vote on whether to hold item 6 in closed session. president mazzucco: motion? all in favor? ladies and gentlemen, we're now moving into closed session. thank you. >> we are back in open session. item #7 is to vote to whether not to let to disclose information from the closed session. >>: item #8. and before no. 8, i would like to adjourn tonight's meeting in the memory of firefighters

dr. marshall, you have gone through all three complaints. as the sound accurate? >> -- does that sound accurate? >> there was a question of liability insurance, and the department did not have that on file very good -- on file, so there was a question of where it was supposed to be filed. the place referred to a previous agreement for order, so there was a discussion about how things had changed, and there was something that had been in place before but was not in place now. the department did not have general liability. i have asked him to provide the information to the department. gooi never saw it, so if it is provided, i did not see it. >> it was never included in our investigatory file. we would have marked that as an exhibit, and there seemed to be zero little bit of new information from the lieutenant when he testified he may have received from the interview, so he seemed unclear about whether or not he had received that information, but he was clear that he would have put it in his investigation. in regards to the suggestion regarding specification, when t

[applause] then we have our community grand marshals, dr. erin belkin, victoria korakowski, christiana remmington, therese terry st uart, dr. roland stringfellow. [applause] grayland k. thornton. [applause] these are our grand marshals this year. congratulations to each of you. thank you for being part of our city's official pride month and parade. [applause] hold on. then i would like to note that we have special certificates of honor ofrom my office and the board of supervisors to present these proclamations to the very special lisa williams and executive brendan bian for this year's honors. [applause] congratulations. we have certificates for each and everyone of you that are about to be passed out as well. once we do that, we can take bigger picture. -- we can take a group picture. we present to you all of the official grand marshals of this year's pride parade. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. i did think i might make a surprise announcement that i am running for mayor of san francisco. but

dr. joseph marshal, this commission took this [naming the commissioners] -- 100 days ago this commission announced they would be looking for a new police chief. we worked diligently and had worked with members of the family and i want to thank my assistances who ran the process, talked to the candidates and handled the interviews, transportation and to get us to where we are so i want to thank tanya for her help one of the unsung heroes. >> this process was thorough, as thorough as can be. we didn't interview the candidates once, we interviewed them twice. the mayor didn't but is the candidates once, he interviewed them twice. there is a joke in my law firm that who is the new partner that has been using conference room number one. i said that is mayor lee. he spent a lot of time there. but this was a thorough process and what we bring to you today is what we started out to bring to you. we told you we would bring a community focus, community policing and engagement, a respect of the rank and file and someone who is an inspirational leader. you saw him with his speech a few minutes ago.

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

dr. joe marshall. >> here. thank you. >> mr. petra dejesus is excused. commissioner angela chan. >> present. >> commissioner carol kingsley. >> present. >> and commissioner james slaughter is en route. you have a quorum of commissioners additionally on this evening we have ms. joyce hicks and chief of police. >> thank you very much, lieutenant falby. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, june 15, 2011 san francisco police commission hearing and tonight's agenda we'll have closed session matters to deal with discipline but the rest of the agenda seems light and we'll move to that. the commissioner is to the dayous. let's call number one. >> item 1 is general public comment. the public is welcomed to address the committee regarding items that don't appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. the speaker shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or the department or o.c.c. personnel. under rules of order, under public comment neither police or perso

dr. death." and generations knew him as marshal dillon. gun smoke's james arness has passed away. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> reporter: good evening. from wall street to main street, it has been a tough week. the economic recovery seems to be losing momentum. in may, state and local governments cut thousands of jobs so even though private companies added employees, there was only a net gain of 54,000. and as more people reentered the job market, the unemployment rate edged up above 9%. nearly 14 million americans are looking for work now, and millions who have found jobs are working for less. senior business correspondent anthony mason begins our coverage. >> this is the rare treat. we get a pizza once in a while. >> reporter: for nearly two years in st. clare shores, michigan, michael and melissa barone were both out of work. >> we absolutely had zero money. we could hardly afford to even buy food. >> reporter: michael, who was laid off by ford, just got a new job, but after half his old pay. melissa is still looking for a job. >> even though we