president mazzucco: director hicks, how are you? >> before i discuss the budget, i will discuss a complete activity in january and training in january. since i will be away from the office on february 15, i will provide you with detail of the march 7 meeting. in january, the occ open 66 cases, which is fewer than were opened in january 2011, when we opened 68 cases. also this january, investigators closed more cases than the open. the occ currently has 362 pending cases, compared to 439 last year at this time. we are doing much better at being able to manage our caseload because the number of complaints being filed are fewer. in january, the occ mediated 6 cases, 9% of the cases it closed. it also sustained six cases, giving us the same mediation and sustained weight. we have 362 pending cases. 61 were opened this year. 300 are from last year. one is from 2010. moving on to training. on friday, we hosted all day training on fair and impartial police and, conducted by dr. frudekkm -- fridell, former director of research at perf, a na

president mazzucco: thank you, director hicks. any other comments or questions before commissioner chan? >> i noted specifically with the facts about on lawful search, it seems a little more serious. >> commissioner chan, that would be something for the cheap, because he imposes the discipline. my choice with an advocate -- allegation is to indicate to the chief whether or not i believe it is chief level discipline, meaning that the chief has the option of imposing no discipline or up to 10 days of discipline or whether i have determined that it should be commission disciplined, and if i determined that that is what it should be, the chief has the option then, if he agrees that it should be sustained of filing charges with the police commission, if the chief chooses not to, then i have the option of filing charges with the commission, so these are chief level discipline. commissioner chan: so these two? >> yes. >> then i go to our schedule of discipline that and have in the internal affairs, and wherever it starts, that is where i

commissioner dejesus: thank you, director hicks. i think we need to be mindful of the 2007 audit. it was dismal. it was full of all these changes. we have made a lot of them. i was going to ask you about that $5,000. it covers 35 people. most courses are $500 easy, if not more with travel and food. that is horrible. more importantly, investigators have 23 cases where i guess the average is 16 cases. >> the practice, according to the controller, a 16 cases. commissioner dejesus: if will lose one clerical and reduce the second clerical to have, they will not only have a house -- a high case of all, but no help as well? >> that is correct. commissioner dejesus: this is not realistic. i think all we can do is a yes or no. we cannot approve a budget in such a shape, especially after the audit. to tell our director she has to conform to the audit without any money or staff is a recipe for failure. i think the mayor needs to be made aware of that. if it is just symbolic, and that is all we have, i would not support the budget as it is. i am happy to meet with anyone, if you think it woul

[laughter] president mazzucco: any questions for director hicks? line item 3c. >> commission reports. president mazzucco: i have some items to report. on friday, myself and commissioner chan met with the youth commission to discuss the march 7 joint commission meetings. commander veal was there, and captain para was there. the captain had some great ideas. we are getting ready for the presentation with the police department will talk about what they have available for kids and the kids will say what they are looking for. we talked about everything from brain development to interactions with police, resource officers, olice depar present how they talk to kids, how they talked of the mediation process, a general order of kids being transported to stations. at the end of the day, it was a healthy conversation and it will be a good meeting. on thursday, i met with the early intervention team. i met with some k urgencyil -- sergeants kilshaw and tane. another leading created by this commission, -- meeting created by this commission, whether it is a comp

commissioner kingsley: i just have a follow-up question to director hicks. was your presentation taped, audio or video, something that would make it accessible to those of us who were not able to attend, but could benefit? probably more importantly, to police officers in general? >> she does not take the sessions. -- tape the sessions, because it involves interaction with the attendees. we break into small groups and analyze hypotheticals. unfortunately, it is not available on tape. she does conduct workshops in the area periodically. i could put you in touch with her to determine when she might next be in the bay area, because she really encourages having more than one police department involved in in the training. she likes to mix it with civilians as well, so we can understand one another's perspectives. president mazzucco: i also gather she is a bay area native. she does make it to the area quite frequently. we can get a session together. commissioner kingsley: these speakers -- they are paid. is that correct? the department pays them? >> that is correct

>> director hicks is attending a function at the university california at berkeley. she will make that fine university even better. please call line-item 2c. >> commissioner's report. >> i have one report. in the joint meeting with the human rights commission, we have had some concerns, talking about general orders. i made a promise on behalf of the commission that if we signed anything we needed to look at that would affect the communities, that we would look into it. last thursday, there was a ninth circuit court of appeals opinion regarding an incident that took place in 2005, seven years ago, at the international airport regarding the graduate student on the no-fly list. there is in pending litigation against everyone from the fbi down to the police units. i was concerned about what i saw because i made a promise that as a commissioner, i would look into anything that causes me concern. i have spoken to the chief, the chief has a copy of the ninth circuit opinion. we have been working in a with the asian law caucus, one of the attorneys involved. they were one of

i used to be a sweet, innocent church going girl who believed volcanos happened when the devil has hick cups. then i went to college, and they exposed me to new ideas. literature, philosophy, something called science. and by the end of sophomore year, i was a black girl. >> jon: it was all true. >> it's absolutely true. if i would have stayed one more year, i would have looked like this. >> jon: jessica, you know, i went to college and that didn't happen to me. >> yeah, you're super old and you went to school like 60 years ago. they probably remade you into jimmy carter's image. >> jon: oh, my god. peanuts. where did these come from? wait. isn't the point of college to expose young adults to new ideas and new ways of thinking? >> see, that's the problem right there. young adults, kids turn 18 and all of a sudden they start thinking for themselves. but if they never grow up, they'll never get obama-fied. >> jon: are you telling me that santorum is naive 16-to 17-year-old girls in catholic uniforms who believes whatever santorum tells them. >> that is exactly what rick s >> jon: welcome b

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among those participating, colorado governor john hick hickenlooper and ohio senator ron portman. this runs about 50 minutes. >> it's my pleasure to introduce our panel moderator, bruce katt. bruce is vice president at the brookings institution and a founding director of the brooksings metropolitan policy program which provides people with policy ideas to preserve the health and pos terty of policy reforms. please join me in welcoming bruce and the panel. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. let's get started. i want to introduce the panel, but i just wanted to do this little preface. i think everything we've talked about this morning, whether it's technology, whether it's regulation, whether it's skilled workers, everything used to recharge american manufacturing is a federalist act. the federal government, obviously critical, states -- remember, we're a union of states -- broad towers of over mark market-shaping areas. networks a manufacturing firm and the ecosystem that supports them. we have a great panel here to have one of the few federalist companions. but critical to this panel, a

hicks' picture, the face has a somewhat more pleasing expression than i have. >> these photographs are quickly copied by prince makers, there's reveiling reports that president lincoln is just too ugly to be president. one effort to persuade pennsylvania learning the value of political image making. >> mr. brown's taken a miniature likeness of my husband which i think is perfect. i see no fault or defect whatever. allow me to express the great pleasure it has afforded us of seeing so excellent a portrait taken. >> to my unpracticed eye it is without fault. >> i scarcely know how i would bear up under defeat. >> but she does not have. on november 6, 1860 as mary waits nervously at home, abraham lincoln gets the news in the springfield telegraph office that he has swept the north and won the presidency. as the news reaches the thousands of well wishers thronging the streets outside, lincoln for understand refuses to mike a speech and instead hurries home alone. >> i guess i'll go down and tell mary about it, mary, we're elected. >> as lincoln prepares for a new administration, he begins

shadid's body was carried across the border into turkey by "new york times" photographer tyler hicks. reaction is pouring in on twitter, including messages from other journalists who con standpointly put themselves in harm's way. richard engel writes, what a horrible tragedy. a great man, a great reporter, a great friend to many of us. and anthony shadid was the gold standard of journalism because of language skills, hard work, examination, and toughness. rest in peace. and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. tweeted he is, quote, heartbroken by the loss of anthony shadid in syria. he leaves behind a wife and two children. anthony shadid was 43 years old. our condolences go out to his family, to the "new york times" family as well. >>> meanwhile, the killing in syria continues. nearly one year of the government's brutal suppression of protesters, despite new efforts by the community, the regime shows no signs of loosening its grip. the united nations general assembly calls on syria to stop the bloodshed. but the government purely symbolic world leaders at this point have no options in the

tyler hicks, who was reporting with him in syria. other details and the exact location of his passing are not yet known. mr. shadid is survived by his wife and his two children. he was just 43 years old. >>> signs of life? a fresh round of reports renew optimism in the nation's economic recovery. >>> dramatic destruction. authorities in mexico set fire to to a massive haul of drug-remitted munitions. >>> and safe and sound. a four-week-old puppy is pulled from a sewage drain in ohio. good morning, everyone. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. and we begin this morning with positive economic signs. the u.s. economy seems to be improving as unemployment claims last week were at their lowest level since 2008. and a bailed out american auto company is now showing record profits. nbc's michelle franzen has details. >> reporter: detroit's largest automaker, general motors, posted earnings of $7.6 billion last year, its biggest profit in nearly two decades. a lot g.m.'s assembly plant in

said his daughter is part ti, part laotian, part redneck, part hick. he said she would walk down the street and great people in multi-cultural phrases. he uses the story to say something that people often do not here when i say it. that there is such a thing as white privilege as much as there is male privilege. those with any sense of freedom and justice have to find a way to reconstruct their privilege, if we want to actually make the better world -- the world a better place for our children and their children. [applause] >> we have had pieces of these very interesting lives that can show us what the state of things happens to be. i year over year that the signs were up, of what you could do. the laws in some ways were clear on the books. one difference is that the laws are not as clear on the books, but just as active. here, people were struggling. they knew they had to fight. they knew they had to stand up, but we are still in a certain amount of denial about this. those of you who have read michele alexander's booke, it says that this needs to be

various reports say the social network will file the initial pub hick offering of stock. the preliminary target is likely 5 billion dollars. the markets are not waiting for facebook. wall street posted the best january in 15 years despite a small loss yesterday. dow up 3.4% and investors are encouraged by modest improvement the not so for the housing market home prices fell in nearly all cities hardest hit was atlanta where they hit the lowest level since the crisis began. a chicago zoo says a superbowl commercial featuring chimps is just wrong. the ad shows suit and tie wearing chimps playing tricks on a human coworker. the link says the spot will hurt conservation efforts and that's america's money. have a great wednesday. >>> now "good morning maryland." >>> if you want prost economy is improving -- proof economy are improving check out sales of boos -- booze. now this is the strongest increase in five years they say. sale of high end booze increased in some -- and some experts say this is a sign we are slowly returning to prerecession days. >>> if you are look for gre

gingrich, rick santorum, john huntsman and hick we arey -- rick perry all sued to get their names on the ballot. >>> in other election news in virginia, the state senate passed voter i.d. bill. the state senators were split right down the middle along party lines and lieutenant governor bill bolling cast the decisive vote to pass the bill. it requires voters to bring an i.d. to the polls or cast only a provisional ballot. the bill now heads to the house of delegates which passed a similar version last week. >>> the white house has closed the embassy in damascus and recalled all its diplomats from syria. the move by the u.s. is a diplomatic protest against the violent crackdown on desent by the regime of the president assad. more than 5400 people have been killed since the uprising began 11 months ago. >>> another diplomatic showdown is taking place just south of syria in egypt. egyptian military rulers say they plan to prosecute 19 americans, including the son of transportation secretary ray lahood. sam lahood heads the egypt office for the international republican institute. he is a

director hicks was present as well as others. we reviewed three cases.the bayview district, it involved plainclothes officers who were in the area because they were concerned about a retaliatory shooting that was to occur in the area. they conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle during the traffic stop developing probable cause and made an arrest on the driver. it was at this time that the driver who resisted the rest. the vehicle then started and move towards the officer. the officer attempted to move out of the way and was able to do so, and while moving out of the way, of mr. discharged his firearm at the officer. the round missed and did not strike any person. the suspect fled but was later apprehended along with a large amount of narcotics. the finding in this, the recommended finding, in policy, chief suhr concurred with the finding, and that was the review of that incident. the next incident that we reviewed was one that occurred on december 10, 2010, in the mission district in the garfield square park. an officer working by himself contacted seve

his photographer tyler hicks carried his body over the board interturkey. shadid also worked for the "washington post". he won two pulitzer prizes. he was one of america's best foreign correspondents with a keen eye and a beautiful way with words. shadid was 43. there was something remarkable and rare at the capitol today. compromise. republicans and democrats in the house and the senate to voted to extend social security payroll tax cut for the rest of the year and renew long-term unemployment benefits. both parties had to give up something. maybe it was the scrutiny of an election year that moved them. wyatt andrews is at the capitol tonight. wyatt? >> reporter: scott, the most important provision of this deal is a social security tax break for 160 million american workers. the average tax cut, $1,000 per family. the tax cut was also item number one on president obama's jobs agenda. the president gave republicans back handed praise for cutting the deal >> it is amazing what happens when congress focuses on doing the right thing instead of just playing pol

the governor of maryland, governor hicks came to lincoln and said i think your troops should go a different way. and lincoln got furious and he said my troops are not birds, they can't fly. they're not moles, they can't dig under the earth, they shall go through baltimore. and he decided he had to prevent the state from seceding and creating and isolating washington. it was now a war. this territory was threatening to join a rebellion against the constitutionally elected government. so he suspended the writ in maryland, arrested the editors, he arrested the famous merriman case which has inspired no less than two books in the last month. and, you know, whatever tone he ruled about producing the writ for merriman, he stayed in prison. he wanted the legislator -- if the maryland legislature had been allowed to sit, they would have voted for secession. so lincoln actively -- and this is beyond freedom of the press prevented the legislature from convening. >> so the question -- i want question i have goes back to what we were discussing earlier. my understanding there was this meeting in albany