any other questions for miss everhart, right now? we will take a five-minute recess. please, thank you.

first of all, maisha everhart. we have shared visions regarding an apparent need for greater accountability and transparency and to ensure that justice is impartial especially when dealing with people of color. sexdly it's important that we have a strong police commission and have people that are dedicated and are here for the right reasons and attending police commission meet beings. miss everhart has shown that she has the understanding of treating people with dignity and respect and in her employment with b.a.r.t., she has responsibility the susuch do, to be a liaison to the community and many other business owners and ensuring that there's a greater understanding about procedural justice and knew trneutrality. i think she's been a strong proponent for the city of san francisco. and it's also, i believe, time for the voices of women of color to be heard within the police commission. also i'm here to support januar john hamasaki. who has attended police commission meetings despite the fact he wasn't selected the

my name is maisha everhart, i'm a san francisco resident and have long standing personal and professional rmgss in t-- relationships from the city. i currently work for bart where i work with san francisco elected officials and community stake holders. i'm currently working with bart pd to increase their coordination with sfpd to address public safety and quality of life issues in san francisco. i have applied for the san francisco police commission because i would like to see the city of san francisco set the standard for the 21st century policing as out lined by the d.o.j. during the obama administration and i'm interested in assuring that all of the remaining d.o.j. recommendations get implemented. i am most interested in focusing on use of force, specifically shootings and tasers, community policing, addressing bias, police hire and promotions. i was encouraged to apply to the police commission by former president of the san francisco police commission, julius turman. he emphasized to me that it was not only important to implement the remaining d.o.j. r recommendation but we also eval

any other questions for miss everhart, right now? we will take a five-minute recess. please, thank you. >> supervisor safai: the meeting will come back to order. please call the next applicant. >> the next applicant is and erwin. >> supervisor safai: please proceed. >> thank you. supervisors, my name is and, and i will help write a new chapter, a new future for san francisco public --'public --'s police foe communities it serves. i was born and raised in this city. i'm a proud product of a san francisco's public schools. i am now raising my two little girls here. i have dedicated my life to building a justice system that acts with humanity, with empat empathy, with fairness, and with equity. i wake up every day, and try to build a system that nurtures communities, instead of tearing them apart. policing is grounded zero in this struggle for justice. my story begins with my father. he served five years an in solo debt state prison for armed robbery. he then went to college, got a ph.d., became a professor at san francisco state university, and a prison reformed activis

here with me to discuss, ann everhart, and tammy bruce.f controversy about the tariffs and trade and upsetting the apple cart. a lot of folks say it works for america, look how great we are doing. what are your thoughts? >> american informationers and producers understand china for far too long has had an unfair playing field. if china were to control our agricultural economy our agricultural producers would be at a disadvantage and we wouldn't have a free market. president trump understands how detrimental this is. charles: you have a different take on this? >> sure. i think trump is risking a trade war and that could be disastrous. i will say my position has changed in that it seems like he's got be china to the table and we have an opportunity to explain ourselves. charles: do we have to explain ourselves to china or an opportunity to forge some sort of compromise here. >> it's an opportunity to get some sort of compromise. but we have the chinese at the table on thursday, i'm hopeful we'll be able to get some concessions and explain to

saying all that does not mean -- and i want to be clear, miss everhart, miss irvin, mr. rao, miss jones, miss murrillo, nana, all the other people, the experiences that you bring that the table does not mean that you have any of those things. i think as supervisor yee said, if we had 12 positions, i think each and every one of you would perform on this commission in your own way and in a positive manner, but we are tasked with the hard decision of choosing two that would be ready to -- to be ready day one. and each one of us that's on this commission -- excuse me, that's on this committee that's a supervisor one way or another have put in time and years of work and fine. it means stay engaged and stay active and stay informed and have an opportunity. and again, this is not over. this recommendation will be sent to the board of supervisors if we are in agreement today, and the board of supervisors will ultimately make that decision. but that's my opinion. supervisor stefani? >> yeah. i just want to reiterate, of course, that there's so many qualified candidates, and there