. >> commissioner carol kingsley? >> present. >> commission president, you have a quorum. president mazzucco: thank you. welcome to the december 12, -- the december 1, 2010 session. we have a light calendar, but we will have several hearings in closed session. we always move to be transparent, but these officers have rights and these matters are not for public consumption. with that in mind, please call line item number one, public comment. >> item 1, public comment. members of the public may address the police commission for a time determined by the chair, not to exceed three minutes, on items that are within the subject matter of jurisdiction of the commission but do not appear on the agenda. president mazzucco: i would like to note that with the commission tonight is the assistant chief and director from the office of civil complaints. any public comment on matters that pertain to the san francisco police department? good evening, how are you? >> good evening. my pleasure, as always. a couple quick items that came to mind. i speak for a lot of police officers. it right

ben kingsley, i know him and he's a wonderful actor and is, indeed, half indian. also i think he gave a remarkable performance. the problems i had with the film were not so much -- there, obviously, weren't too many actors that could are done it. he did it very well. my problems were more to do with its portrayal of the independence movement, you know, which i felt was sentimentalized a little bit. and, i mean, not in a hostile way. i think the film is, clearly, very sympathetic to the independence movement in india. but in a way that felt to me oversimplified. and, you know, what really happened in india is that gandhi's mystical rural ideas were, in a way, not the ideas that the newly-independent country took up. and his disciple who became the first prime minister of india was a much more technocratic figure who believed india move into the industrial age, you know? those are the ideas that the new country took on. so in a way the ghandian ideals, yes, people respect them as ideals, but they would not. what happened in india? so in a way government is left behi