so thank you very much for considering julie soo for the commission. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is julie wong, and i've known gloria berry since high school. and i'm lucky my job is relocating and under construction, so i'm able to hangout with her more. and i was -- it's because of her i've learned and become more aware of some of the police issues and abuse in this city. and i feel she's very strong minded, and i know she can handle pressure 'cause sometimes i disagree, and we'd be at it. and i think she'd also possibly be great because she is very interested in the city and the issues, and i know she really cares and could be dedicated. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you so much. next speaker. >> good evening, honorable supervisors. my name is nelson lum. i'm a resident of san francisco. i'm here to endorse the candidacy of miss julie soo for the seat of commissioner on the police commission. i grew up in san francisco. i raised all three of my kids in san francisco. i went -- i went to college here in san francisco, i left and joined the a

. >> next applicant is julie soo. >> supervisor safai: miss soo, please come forward. you have five minutes to address the body maximum and then we will ask you questions. >> thank you, supervisors. i come before you today because i have the experience and the capacity to serve in this very important commission. since 2009 i've served on the commission on the status of women, i've served on the saint francis memorial hospital board and i also serve on state and national boards where i fight hate crimes, look at racial profiling. i've worked -- i've been a professional for the last 18 years at the department of insurance as an attorney. the last 16 which i've been an enforcement attorney levelling disciplinary actions against agents, insurance agents and brokers. it really takes the community and that's why i'm here bridges with the police force. i believe with everyone at the take we have better results. so for example with the domestic violence homicides, for a while we had at least a dozen domestic violence homicides per year. only with the justice encouraged panel c

cohen, i wanted to thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of police commission candidate julie soo. as you know her qualifications, her experience and her fortitude is represented in the application, and we feel she has the qualification to conduct the job in a thorough and beneficial way for the communities of san francisco. she's spent 30 years -- she's spent most of her life in an understanding, contributing to community service and trying to understand and reengineer structural biases, and i think that these are some of the issues that are important in trying to resolve -- in order to resolve at the police department. she also has -- she also has worked with the police commission on domestic -- domestic violence issues, as well as on human trafficking issues with -- with -- directly with the police department, so her experiences are relevant for the police commission. she also has -- she also has a tremendous amount of relationships within the community and respect. i think that these qualifications is going to serve the police commission well. and i also do have to say that th