paul busy. okay. any questions for director henderson? if not, we're ready to move to the next item. >> clerk: item 2 c, commission report, commission president's report, commissioner's report. >> president turman: commissioners, i have no reports. any commissioners? next item. >> clerk: item 2 d, commission announcements, and item scheduled for consideration at future meetings action. >> okay. secr secretary kilshaw, in light of what we have heard, and i will work with you on the date, i would like to, in one meeting, schedule the -- the dgo that commissioner hing is in charge of. i'd also like a report on our preparedness for these ice raids and specific training and information we're going to be giving out to the department. i'd like to hear something about that sooner rather than later. we're going to schedule that sometime in february , but i'll get with you tomorrow for an exact date. anything further? . >> commissioner dejesus: yes. >> president turman: commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: so i sat in with the joint commi

also with us is the police chief and the interim director of accountablity, paul henderson. >> thank you very much, secretary kilshaw. >> president turman: members of the public, welcome to the december 6, 2017 session of the police commission meeting. we'll jump rite? >> clerk: item 1, request and file action. request from the chief of police to accept $6,000 in gifd cards from target to help 40 under privileged and disadvantaged children. >> president turman: commissioners, are there any questions or comments on this particular consent item? if not, i'll move in favor. >> move. >> all in favor? >> president turman: any opposed. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: [ inaudible ] presentation of safe place initiative. >> good evening, chief scott. >> good evening, commissioners. commissioners, presidenture man, vice president mazzucco. i'll start this week with crime and then talk about some significant events that have happened over the past week. start off with our homicide rate. i know that's really been a huge issue for us this year. we are at 56 homicides year to date. last y

. >> you have a quorum and with us tonight is the interim director of police accountability paul henderson and chief of police william scott. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, members of the public, welcome to the first meeting of the police commission in 2018, for wednesday january 10th, 2018, meeting of the san francisco police commission meeting. so, to begin with, a little bit of information. yesterday and today i had to have some emergency oral surgery, so i am a little out of it. so i may have to at points turn this meeting over to our vice president. so i apologize if it is at all distracting. looking at the agenda, there are going to be a few changes we have now made note of. first of all i want to say that we have eight very large and very long closed session agenda we need to move. so public comment on all matters and within all categories will be limited to two minutes because of that. also, because i need to participate in this item and i want to do it before i pass out and the ems comes in. i'm going to take item number 2, first, on our agenda. also it is my understanding an

let's bring in the political panel, diana grubez, van jones, jack kingston, veronica henderson, paul begala, and jason miller. and go. what do you make of the reporting tonight? >> well, i mean, this is disturbing. first of all, just the idea that you have the president of the united states saying, i want someone to protect me. sir, you're supposed to be protecting us. you're the commander in chief. so just already we're way in some bizarre world. and then for him to mention president obama and john kennedy. president obama was never accused of cuddling up to an enemy of the country like osama bin laden. president obama had osama bin laden killed. john kennedy was never accused of cuddling up to castro. he confronted castro. the problem is you have a president that's not confronting our enemy in russia, but seems to be trying to cuddle up to them, through the campaign and after, which is why he's under investigation. so we have a situation now where the president of the united states wants protection, rather than trying to protect us, and is -- can't make a distinction in his mind be