also with us is chief scott and the director paul henderson. >> thank you very much, sergeant kilshawe to the january 9, 2019 san francisco police commission meeting. and ladies and gentlemen, we do have a lengthy closed session calendar, so what we'd like to do is limit public comment to two minutes due to the complexity and length of the closed session matters we need to deal with. >> and i'd also like to address the agenda before we begin. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: i'd ask that we continue item four until we have a full complement present. this was given over the holidays, and a lot of us didn't know this was going to be on. i think we need to have a discussion how we want to have it setup and how we want our officers to look like. i think we should do this -- take something off at the beginning of the calendar and -- [inaudible] >> commissioner elias: it was my understanding that the elections were going to be at the end of the month, not the beginning, so i would join in that request, especially because commissioner hamasaki is not h

with us today is the chief of police, william scott, and the director of police accountability, paul henderson. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the january 16, 2019 meeting of the san francisco police commission. without further adieu, please call the next item. [agenda item read]. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. before we proceed, just so you know, line item one is off calendar, the adoption of minutes. >> clerk: did i skip it? >> commissioner mazzucco: no. we can take it off calendar. >> clerk: no, no, it's okay. item one, adoption of meeting minutes of december 5, and december 12, 2018. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioners, in your packets, you have your minutes -- although i don't see them. >> clerk: no, they're there. >> commissioner mazzucco: they are? >> clerk: yeah. >> commissioner mazzucco: any questions or concerns about the minutes? hearing none, public comment? hearing none, public comment is now closed. let's move onto the next item. you don't need to read it. [inaudible] >> -- will present the sexual assault rape kit to our report. tr

i want to really express my appreciation to paul henderson and his staff at dpa. thank you for your time. >> vice president mazzucco: tha. good evening. >> good evening visioners and chief scott. -- good evening commissioners. i'm cheryl thornton. i'm part of the committee. we just had public hearings about systematic discrimination going on in all the departments of san francisco. i'm here today because of the article that was in the examiner about the racist texts. i'm hoping these officers will be held accountable. the city and county of san francisco needs to show fancier and equality t -- fairness and equality to all citizens. i believe we have

also with us is chief scott and the director paul henderson. >> thank you very much, sergeant kilshaw

the same thing with paul henderson. he should be out here in the audience. he is not a commissioner. it is very important, and it's not just for show that you guys are not sitting up there with the commissioners. thank you. >> thank you, mr. petrelis. sir? >> my name is norman sable. i was last here, i believe july of 2017. i discussed an issue with a d.p.a. report. i got no results then. i've got results now, i've written letters, i've written emails. the problem was then i discovered to open the report. to open the report for my case had no resemblance, it had some resemblance but it neglected a very serious issue. i presented a video that clearly showed what happened. and there was zero mention of this video in the openness report. there were five pages presented. zero mention of the video. what's going on? video was viewed by the investigators. i asked questions about it. i got no responses, other than the fact they viewed the video. the video was not mentioned in the report. what can we do? how does the report mean anything if it doesn't have all the in

regarding the letter from paul henderson that is up on the screen, i am going to point to a figure here. this is talking about the caseload. it is 40% higher than previous years. and then looking down at this half, you will see that on the left, the darker bar, are the cases from a year ago for every month, and then on the right, the slightly greyer area are showing a big increase for a number of months this year. that is it for the overhead to. back to me, please. i am greatly concerned that there is a 40 1% higher number of cases, and i think it is indicative of more people coming forward about more complaints with the cops and i hope the chief is paying attention to these complaints. forty 1% increase from the previous year in terms of complaints to the d.b.a. regarding commissioner's pushing for this body to take the sunshine ordinance task force seriously as a sentient advocate , i have to say thank you very much for doing that. i hope that your colleagues will take up this matter. i have had my own complaints with the sunshine task force before this body. and most cases you take i

foreign policy with the director of research as the foundation for defense of alongacy and ok henderson with paul steinhauser, political reporter for the conference monitor. we talk about potential candidates in the 2020 presidential election and then foreign affairs magazine gideon rose will discuss foreign affairs challenges facing the u.s. in 2019. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. join the discussion.

henderson. she is joining us this morning from iowa. paul steinhauser joining us. he is the new hampshire political reporter at the concord monitor. kay, we will start with you. elizabeth warren making a stop in several places, and iowa. how was she received? guest: she sort of set a marker down for the other candidates to follow in 2019. she had large enthusiastic crowds, overflow crowds. she will later today be meeting with a group of women to talk about issues. she is primarily focused on western iowa and central iowa. the thing that people don't know about the iowa caucus is this is a race for delegates. if you run up the score in the state's urban areas, that does you no good if you don't go any -- if you don't get any votes in the rural areas. in her first trip, she has gone to traditionally republican areas and rural areas. host: can you tell us off the top of your head, in addition to senator warren, who else of the potential democratic side have you seen through the state? guest: it is a long list. among the senators, senator booker was here. among the sen

foreign policy with the director of research as the foundation for defense of alongacy and ok henderson with paul steinhauser, political reporter for the conference monitor. we talk about potential candidates in the 2020 presidential election and then foreign affairs magazine gideon rose will discuss foreign affairs challenges facing the u.s. in 2019. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. continues. host: we're back with romina bo ccia of the heritage foundation and seth hanlon of the center for american progress. we will continue this discussion on the economy and the government shutdown. yesterday's job figures, and unemployment get lower in this economy? guest: i don't know if unemployment can get lower, but labor force participation can get higher. can more people find work, go back to work? absolutely, the answer is yes. even though labor force participation is looking brighter at 63% now, it is at a relative low. i think as more people are coming back into the economy, the unemployment rate might not budge, but we will see more people

kay henderson and the concorde monitor's paul steinhauser.ack to foreign affairs, we will hear from editor in chief gideon rose on foreign policy. there is more "washington journal" coming. >> media mogul sumner redstone and his battle for viacom. we talked with -- about her book the king of content. >> after he had a battle with prostate cancer and came through, he saw being seen with other young women as a sign of his vitality. being with them was a sign that he could tell the world i am going to live forever as he loved to say. he would go to these hollywood parties and sometimes he would go home with his grandsons date -- grandson's date. very awkward for the executives in viacom and cbs because he was still the controlling shareholder of these companies but would do really will -- really weird things. >> tonight on c-span's q&a. the senior members of the trump campaign, don jr., paul manafort, jared kushner, meeting with a russian emissary, who they were told was bringing them dirt produced by a secret operation of the russian government

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