ms. brown. >> yes. you know, regarding the criminal rings that come in and bring the drugs, there's a real problem. i know i've been talking to supervisor haney about it. because the tenderloin is on fire with that. you have the criminal rings coming in. and i definitely feel law enforcement should step up. absolutely. then you have the street dealing. how this is where we need to have programs come in and take people aside and get them into programs, whether most of them have their own drug abuse issues. we need to be able to get them aside, get them into programs and then give them opportunities. you really have to work hand-in-hand. you can't just go out and do hard-core enforcement, without giving you want toos. and this is something that the city has been looking at and been working on. , but we definitely need to go after the criminal rings, because they actually -- they actually are predators to our people on the streets. >> moderator: thank you very much. okay. this next question. we're going to

ms. brown. >> yes. >> and we've spoken about housing, affordable or market. but the question that always comes up is how we're going to pay for it. so where would you look to enlarge or cut the city budget, to deal with the issues that we have within the city of san francisco? >> well, i actually worked on a housing bond with the mayor and the other board of supervisors for $600 million, that's going to be on the ballot, prop a. that's one way that we can help build affordable housing and buy existing buildings with tenants in them. but it's also looking at -- i actually did a blueprint and found city land, private land. i actually found private land over at mcdonald's, when they wanted to sell on haigt and stanyon. we should be looking at city land to build it on, too. that's a lot cheaper to do that. still because of the cost of construction, it's still $800,000. so we have to look many different places of how we're going to do this. but this affordable housing bond will help us with the start. we sho

ms. brown. >> yes. i mean, seniors are the fastest growing population in this city. so we really have to really look at what we need to do. we also, besides housing and on the housing bond, the $600 million housing bond that i actually worked on, there will be money for senior housing. we need appropriate housing. i talked to many seniors every day. and one of the things they say is like, look, i have rent control. but i have -- you know, 50 stairs up to get to my apartment. and i have a hard time managing that. so we have to build the right kind of senior housing, so people can actually have elevators with senior services on site. this is something that we're doing with prop a. but also we have to look at transportation, because a lot of seniors give up cars or, you know, or they actually start using transportation a lot more. we have to make it safe. unless we have safe transportation and it's reliable, muni is reliable, seniors, most of us won't use this, especially seniors. so there's a lot of thing

ms. brown. >> yes. well, i have to say 80% of my donations are from san francisco, unlike dean preston. and the majority of them are from district 5. so i am running and i have a community campaign and donors. so i'm not going to -- people that live in district 5, i'm not going to pit one person against another because of what you do. i feel like i need to bring people together. i don't divide people. and so that's my floss by. i -- philosophy. i came as a neighborhood activist, i worked with the community as a neighborhood activist. and i will do so always. i will never mislead you, like some people saying, when i get into office, i'll do this. i'm not going to do that. because you hold me accountable. i'm the supervisor now. and i am going to say what i'm going to do, i'm going to do. if i can't do it, i will tell you why and we will look for a way around it to make it work. but this is always been my policy, because i come from the community. >> moderator: thank you. [applause] thank you very much. o

. >> yes, two quick questions for ms. brown, first one is how many have been denied purchase firearm within the last year and the second question is how many of them turned to prison for attempting to purchase firearm, thank you? >> the questions are how many felons were prohibited from purchasing firearms in the last year and how many p of those hae returned to prison? so since the brady law was enacted there have been over 3 million purchases denied to individuals who are prohibited purchasers, on average annually iethat means about 200,000 background checks arepu denied o prohibited purchasers, that includes convicted felons, includes certain kinds of convicted domestic abusers, the issue of how many of those felons attempt to go purchase guns have been interesting question, we certainly need much more money and and focus on enforcement. the fbi runs background check system, in many cases background check that is come back that someone is flown or prohibited purchaser are not necessarily followed up by police, so brady suppo

ms. brown's, probably lieutenant falzon remembers ms. brown about 35 years ago. it's been various places, seven galaxies and most recent mission sports bar. these guys have done a really good job rehabilitates it. they are presently working on rebuilding the back wall on the second floor because there is a bit of a sound fleed there. we're also looking for ways to dampen the sound as youbleed th. we're also looking for ways to dampen the sound as you open the door because there is a very large condo complex across the street. you should have in your backet a copy of the flyer that was passed out in the neighborhood. i thought it was kind of interesting, these guys, they're pretty thorough but they went around to everybody in the neighborhood and they shot -- if i could have that overhead, crystal. they basically handed out the flyer to everybody in the neighborhood and shot pictures for their facebook. i love it. trying to be a good neighbor, trying to get people to come to their -- and they put it on all the doorsteps in the neighborhood. gave it out to the cook

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ms. karen brown for being named the 2019 federal law enforcement training center honor graduate of the year. he most prestigious award, she exceled with high marks, physical fitness and firearms training. she has worked at the n.s.a. for the last 15 years serving a number of roles, personal security, polygraph examination, counterterrorist examination and more. thank you, mrs. brown, to your service to our nation. a ceremony honored her on tuesday, august 27. in addition to mrs. brown's great work, i thank all of the students, recent graduates for their commitment to our nation and bettering their work force training. the federal law enforcement training camp does an tstanding job to give skills so students that they may face in the fieldment i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on september 11, 2019 a

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ms. garcia for brown, ng black and women, other individuals that may be profiled in different ways. have statistics -- ton toant reverend sharp indicate this, the higher number of african-americans killed by enforcement, i think the point i want to distinguish is, this whole question that comes black-on-black crime, what i hope is we'll pass study , the commission rep ration, so we can address the systemic issue and the impact on slavery. relates to this bias about, oh, black people kill distinctionmake the of color of law, because what we're talking about is democracy. e're talking about the response. so if both of you will answer law ifference when enforcement is engunshot in the of -- engaged in the likes tamar rice and michael brown and eric garner, the color of brown, goff. chair nadler: the gentlelady's time has expired. the itness may answer question. reverend n lee: sharpton. dr. goff: thank you for the question. t's different because it feels different for the community. there is a difference between a eighbor who is -- who is violent, which is obviously scary. says it ok,

ms. garcia for indicating black and brown women and other individuals who may be profiled in different waystics, and i want reverend to answer this as well that indicates a higher number of african-americans that are killed by law enforcement, i think the point i want to distinguish is his whole question that comes back about black on black crime, what i hope it will pass hr 40 and the reparations so we can address the issue and the impact of slavery. as it relates to the biased of all the block people kill themselves and make the distinction of color of law. we're talking about democracy, the response so the difference of law enforcement is gained in the lights of tamia rice and walter scott and michael brown and air gardener, the color of law. >> the general ladies time is expired and the witness may answer the question. >> thank you for the question. it is different because it feels different for the community. there is a difference between a neighbor who is violent and obviously it is scary when the state says it's okay and we see that both in the responses from communities and in respo