mr. benedicto. public speaker: good evening, i'm here to discuss the use of force as the meet and confer. the use of force working group of the blue ribbon panel has prepared and identified several areas that we think are critical to be preserved as it goes through the meet and confer process and as this commission is eventually presented with a final version of adoption or rejection. the matter of language shall unreasonable force and commitment and unbiased policing. additionally, we believe the version adopted has to represent and it's critical that those improvements be protected as dgo goes through the process. in addition to those areas where we think language should be preserved; we have identified minor tweaks in the contacts to the meet and confer to identify in the supplemental submissions for example adding the word electronics for the use of force laws to be collected for electronic data gathering. and there are photographs required of injuries. we think photographs should be taken even

mr. benedicto. public speaker: good evening, i'm here to discuss the use of force as the meet and confer. the use of force working group of the blue ribbon panel has prepared and identified several areas that we think are critical to be preserved as it goes through the meet and confer process and as this commission is eventually presented with a final version of adoption or rejection. the matter of language shall unreasonable force and commitment and unbiased policing. additionally, we believe the version adopted has to represent and it's critical that those improvements be protected as dgo goes through the process. in addition to those areas where we think language should be preserved; we have identified minor tweaks in the contacts to the meet and confer to identify in the supplemental submissions for example adding the word electronics for the use of force laws to be collected for electronic data gathering. and there are photographs required of injuries. we think photographs should be taken even

mr. benedicto for all of your hours that went into assisting us with the report. thank you, sir. vice-president turman? >> i need to respond to one thing. first of all, i have read the blue ribbon commission's report. i'm reading it now. i think a response from us is necessary and we should do so. i want to clarify something mr. benedicto said, many of the reforms that the chronicle noted we have been discussing with the chronicle and other community stakeholders since before the blue ribbon panel was created. so it's not as if we began working on these things because of the blue ribbon panel pointed it out. we have been working on many of the issues and many of the issues noted for the reform in the report were things already on our list. we are glad to take guidance and information from every available resource, but we are not sitting by waiting for the blue ribbon panel or anyone else to tell us what we need to do. we are reaching out and we are constantly working. >> thank you, vice-president. commissioner dejesus. >> i'm half way through it. there is 250 pages. i do want to