happened, and this is enormously disturbing and this is enormously disturbing, and i thank you, commander lozar for taking this seriously and for being here and for your openness to continue working with supervisor ronen to work on this. this was an extraordinary and we hope unusual situation, but i -- the united states being what it is, this is probably not the last time that a gun will be found or even discharged in a san francisco public school. >> unfortunately. >> supervisor mandelman: and i think that we need, you know, next time, if some of this is, you know, what folks are believe it to have been, then we need to do better. so thanks for taking the time, thanks for bringing this to us, and i'm super impressed by the youth commission and by this family. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> supervisor ronen: and i just want to -- this is just hillary ronen, supervisor of district nine, i want to apologize to the pena family, because everything i've heard and read about your experience, mr. pena, you and i act very similarly. that would have been exactly how i would have acted in the situ

no matter how hard, commander lozar, when you was our captain, and captain yepp come around to our seniorers and keep reporting the crimes, no matter how big or small the crimes are. when paul came to me and said, annie, you think you could rearrange a little bit of your schedule to accommodate our drop-in center, i said yes without the blinking of an eye. i know it will be a welcome sight. our merchants, our residents, our seniors who live around here, our children, you are welcome to see our police officers, especially those who speak the language. they feel comfortable of coming in to ask questions, and i think that through our work, we could also arrange for small groups of residents to come in to get some public safety education with our officers. so thank you, mayor. community policing is all about the community. and if we build our rapport with our police officers, i know that i am krcrimes reportl increase, and i thank you very much for all of your leadership. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, annie. and then, our final speaker from the community is executive director of the chi

this community with building good relationships with the people in this community and also commander lozar who was the former captain of this station has also been instrumental in continuing to bridge that gap. this is just the next step in ensuring that people feel safe, that people feel secure in their community. that they have a comfortable place to come and to meet with police officers. and i want to thank annie chung and the work of the self-help for the elderly and all that you do to also work with so many of our seniors in this particular community. we definitely have a lot of work to do, and this is just one of the first steps in trying to meet people where they are and come out into the community so that people are comfortable with having conversations and building relationships with our police department. it's something that is really important to me as someone bho grew up in the western addition and worked really hard to bridge the gap between law enforcement and one another. it's a way to stop crime from occurring, but once they occur, we have an obligation to work hard to addr

francisco police department command staff, deputy chief ann mannix, commander dan perea, commander david lozar. oh, and -- i'm sorry -- oh, and i'm sorry. reverend malcolm fong -- the latest commander for the san francisco police department, darryl fong. congratulations, darryl. this is about you. [applause] >> and of course the executive director for the ccdc, malcom yo. i am proud to share with you the grand opening of the san francisco police department public information drop-in center, and it was quite a collaboration between city partners and our community leaders. and i can't be more proud to have got this done with everyone in this room, so thank you for that. and let me go ahead and introduce our first speaker, the honorable mayor london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, captain. i'm really excited to be here because this is a really incredible opportunity for the chinatown community. what we ultimately want to do is make sure that people are safe, and part of making sure that people are safe is not only a police presence but it's also people feeling comfortable w

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this community with building good relationships with the people in this community and also commander lozarwho was the former captain of this station has also been instrumental in continuing to bridge that gap. this is just the next step in ensuring that people feel safe, that people feel secure in their community. that they have a comfortable place to come and to meet with police officers. and i want to thank annie chung and the work of the self-help

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officer lozar, could you come back up? i have some questions -- commander, sorry. so you've heard now the testimony of the parents and heard the written testimony of one young man. can you respond to that? i guess my first question is why would it take three -- if the father arrived at the same time as his son, why would it take three hours to allow the father in the room with his son? >> well, it shouldn't take three hours, and i think, as we talked about earlier, we have mentionedpress, i would be irate, irate, if my daughter was questioned without me being present. so i absolutely understand why this family is so angry. if it is true this family had to wait that amount of time, it is unacceptable. it should not be allowed to happen, and i will do whatever i have to do to make sure it does not happen again. parents need to be with their chirnt in these moments. they need to talk to a lawyer, as well. that should be a shall and not an option. but just hearing that there was a possible -- whether it was 45 minutes to three-hour delay that the parent was not allowed

this community with building good relationships with the people in this community and also commander lozar