i do not know if that has been updated hear from the sfpd or the commission or to work on any of that but i would like to see it as a future topic of discussion if it has not been worked on in future meetings, of some sort of joint task force between all levels of a military and the sfpd and this commission, between lines of communications, particularly on anniversary dates of 9/11 and other events. thank you for a time. president mazzucco: next speaker. i > >> i am holding in my hand the same controller's report i held the last five other meetings i attended. it is over one-year-old. i apologize if i missed the meeting or you acted on its recommendations and disbanded the patrol special officers association which is constitutional and illegal and commits crimes. i hope you have done something while i have been away. i fear not. as bin over year. i am a patient man. after what i was put through by these criminals, i will keep waiting patiently. dr. marshall, you have been trying to get something done on this and hopefully, you can do so in the next three months before the end of the y

i explained to him that sfpd and bart have a contract. bart ks sfpd a lot of money every year to have officers on those trains. he said, "i did not know that." that answers the question. i think now it is bad for all police departments. a lot of bad things have come up. chp, 55 shots. everyone hears all the news. they want a reaction. people do not listen to facts. i tried to explain to some brothers the police commission fired two officers in the last 60 days. here is what they did and here is the fund -- the end result. he did not know that. a lot of times, misinformation can be traumatic. i understand, but the brothers are standing up. they are not marching down market street, breaking things. they're going to community meetings and coming here. that is a lot better than some people i have seen on market street. have a great evening. >> any further public comment? hearing none, it is now closed. >> item 3, reports and announcements. the first is the cheeks report, which includes recent activities and the first 100-day review by the chi

. >> reporter: blames sfpd and. >> before if you have a reason to believe your safety is jeopardised you cannot pick up. the new rule, you should pick up regardless. >> reporter: nta overseas cabbies detail. but it's unclear when cabbie warnings went out says mta. >> does this change anything you might do tonight? >> avoiding that area, maybe permanently. >> reporter: still sfpd is adamant that those warnings have gone out to each of the cab companies here in the city. meanwhile, it seems that that suspect may have been captured on videotape and that is because each of the cabs in the city carry their own surveillance camera. police tell us they are combing through the tapes. >> robert lyles in the western edition, thanks. >>> protesters marched through civic center b.a.r.t. station in yet another demonstration calling for the transit agency to drop its police wars. [ chanting ]. >> that protest began around 5:00 involving two dozen protesters marching along the underground stations and along city streets. b.a.r.t. says it's considering taking legal action to thwart further protests.

the sfpd handles all ois's. most recent history, last year we had the irs agent that was involved in the shooting in the bayview district and we have handled an officer involved shooting involving daly city p the and they wound up in our city limits. we handle chp shootings. five years ago, the bridge authority had an armed robbery suspect that the golden gate bridge police shot and it was within our city limits. any time any deputy sheriffs are involved in any type -- or if you get an in custody death, our homicide investigators investigate those. we have always taken them that evening. i prefer -- i made that decision that we should handle this case and we discussed that with the bart chief and it was determined that sfpd would handle this. >> you mentioned bart police interviewed several potential witnesses. does sf tpd handle that? >> we had the lead investigation. there is a liaison that piggybacked with our inspectors. they are allowed to have access to the information as we get it. they get it. they are p

body that is comprised of approximately 20 members, representing public safety entities including sfpd, the d.a.'s office, public defenders, sheriff, adult, and juvenile probation department, as well as social service agencies, including the human services agencies, the part of public health, sampras is a unified school districts, and of course, dcyf. we also included other entities such as the youth commissions and the board of supervisors. we want to make sure that this body that is going to direct the policy work for children within the city, has to be representative of the need and include all of our voices. just a little background. in 2008, the three departments represented here made a strategic decision with the support of our major to align our funding and policies and program development. this partnership led to many best practices that i can list and go on and on, but i'm going to call on best practices already recognize statewide. first of note, in 2009, we created a joint rfp, which is a joint solicitation process in which we blended the different funding streams that fund

well the sfpd said it had no report of a stolen phone.that got the rumor mill going, saying the whole thing is a hoax to help apple create a little buzz about their new product. well, a few hours ago, we heard from sfpd and they say employees did contact them about a missing phone and that those employees and police officers searched a home in the city, the phone was not found there. everyone left and apple chose not to file any report. >>> if you plan to be in downtown oakland in the next few days, you could get a contact high. medical marijuana users will be enjoying mother earth with herbs this weekend. don knapp on how oakland benefits by hosting the international marijuana street fair. >> it is just not out of the closet, but marijuana is about to be out on the plaza in front of oakland city hall. the international cannabis expo of 2011 promises to break new ground. >> it will be the first outdoor cannabis event that we know of that where we are closing down city streets to host a cannabis expo in a major city. >> last year and the y

>> we are working collaborative with sfpd to make sure we have the proper measures in place, which we just went through. you will see them implemented in this game, and we will continue to abound with them, as we do after every game. what can we do to make sure that this is a fun environment so that families can come out and enjoy candlestick park? >> i will be at the game myself and them very much looking forward to it. >> [inaudible] the number that were there on saturday night? >> no. >> do you know if the raiders perhaps agree with your thoughts on postponing the game? >> we have talked about that. this is our recommendation. we will continue to talk to the raiders about this as a pro- active steps to make sure that these incidents do not happen. >> a lot of the tickets that were picked up were going pretty cheap on the internet. the mayor talking about season- ticket holders being partly responsible. they are selling them on the internet, which is why you have the crowds. >> we need them to be responsible to whom they sell to. we need to hold them responsible as well, to a large

as he was wheeling himself away from the sfpd he was shot several times. you know, it's just over and over again. i feel that -- especially in a city like san francisco, this is an outrage. and we need to do something about it, so therefore i'm here in support of every organization that is calling out for reform, severe reform, significant reform in this area, and again, we want legislation. we want an independent investigation because the sfpd cannot independently investigate itself, obviously. it's not possible. so that is what i'm here for today, and i hope that we are able to get something done with regards to this. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm riadakiama with "revolution newspaper." i wanted to read something from basics. there would be no united states as we know it today without slavery and what we have, michelle alexander wrote a book and talked about after slavery, you had jim crow and lynching in this country, and now since the 1960's, you have mass incarceration. that is a new jim crow. what happened to edrus stelly and mark g

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in july, san francisco police and apple ep employees tracked to it a home of a vernal heights man, sfpd says four officers waited outside and two employees serged hi his -- searched his hougs and car and computer. >> the phone was never found, but now sfpd is facing questions about why they never made an official report. calderone says he was never told the guys who searched were apple securities. >> republican presidential hopefuls will debate for the first time since texas governor perry. the debate takes place in ronald reagan presidential lie brair yeah. >> the fellow texan congressman ron paul launch fd a series of stinging perry ads for being a chairing presidential campaign in 1988 when ronald reagan was president. pointing out paul became a libertarian but warned strategists worries about perry's fort yooun. >> what they've done thus far is i think inadequate. they're toxic in a primary. >> the debate comes one day after former massachusetts governor mitt romney unveiled his plan. the former front runner vows to overturn many of the president's current policy autos a 500 ton cra

your advocacy and promotion and also your balance in communicating with neighbors and working with sfpd to ensure that we are promoting safe night life that is fully in compliance. i appreciate all of your work in district 6. that is the one i am most intimately knowledgeable of. i want to recognize that joslin is here from the entertainment commission. thank you for all of your work on that. colleagues, we have a motion to move forward item number one. i believe that we tabled by the number two? all right, so i believe that we can do this without opposition. thank you very much, mr. joseph. madam clerk, item three? >> item three, appointment, veteran affairs commission, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending january 31, 2014, to the veterans affairs commission. there is one apartment. >> i am deborah dacumos, and i this retired in november, 2010, after over 30 years and the army. i joined the reserves, and i have been in the reserves ever since. my unit is still deployed. they are in afghanistan as we speak. this is their second deployment. i am very, very -- i know, ve

so this year, we are focuses on the summer safe passages that john is leading with the sfpd. we are coordinating sports and recreation and reviving the basketball which started out of mlca. which has signed up 5 hundred kids to reconnect them to baseball. this is a collaborative efforts from the giants and black aces. it's being held throughout the city. we are connected with pop warner here in san francisco that do football and cheerleading. we will be having alive and free. it's going to kind of be like i hate sara marshall. how many folks so that? it was all over. anywhere you saw it, you saw it. we have to create a culture where we won't accept that. >> you have listed a lot of things going on. where are we going to look to see when its going to start? where can we look to see this is going to start here. we can hold us accountable. >> certainly, so our intention is we are developing a summer resource guide. we will be giving to the community conveners and community builders. and with the san francisco housing authority. these will be saturated. it will be on the msclb we

the was sfpd see, the mayor's office of housing, mta, and the department of realistic. thank the commissions of the puc and recreation and park. it is our honor to introduce this. thank you. chairperson mar: thank you. >> now i get to do the fun part. i am going to give a quick presentation on the 17th and folsom project. i am here from the recreation and parks department, planning division. one of the things we are excited about is the idea of a new neighborhood park for the mission. i want to give you a quick overview of the really great funding story on this project. we have funding for all the different life expectancy of this park. i want to talk about that, about the community outreach, and an overview of going forward on this project. before the acquisition of the project, the total cost is $6.27 million. the rec and park portion is going to be coming from eastern neighborhood impact fees. the rest of it is from the mayor's office of house and budget. the buildup of the park is being funded by state grant money. we have already received that grant. it is very exc

i would ask all of us to join the velvet voice of the sfpd in singing "god bless america. " >> >> ♪ uswear allegiance to a land that is free let us all be grateful for a land sof fair as we raise our voices in a solemn prayer god bless america, land that i love, stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam, god bless america, my home, sweet home god bless america, my home -- our home sweet home ♪ [applause] >> present arms. ♪ [bugles playing "taps"] ♪ ♪ [bagpipes adnd drums] ♪ >> and now i have the pleasure to introduce to you the may year of the great city of san francisco, the honorable edwin lee, followed by the executive director of the interfaith council, michael pappas. mayor lee. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. it is my personal honor and pleasure to join you here today along with the interfaith council and our fantastic orchestra and opera and to celebrate and commemorate this 9/11 event. a decade after the terrorist attacks occurred on it 9/11, we continue to struggle to make

i would ask all of us to join the velvet voice of the sfpd in singing "god bless america. " >> >> ♪ uswear allegiance to a land that is free let us all be grateful for a land sof fair as we raise our voices in a solemn prayer god bless america, land that i love, stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam, god bless america, my home, sweet home god bless america, my home -- our home sweet home ♪ [applause] >> present arms. ♪ [bugles playing "taps"] ♪ ♪ [bagpipes adnd drums] ♪ >> i am the director of visual arts programming at intersection for the arts. intersection for the arts is based in san francisco and has always been an organization that looks at larger social political issues through the lens of practice, and we are here today at our exhibition of "chico and chang." the original inspiration was drawn from a restaurant chain in new york city. half of their menu is -- what struck me was the graphic pictures and a man in a hat on a rig truck carrying take that time is containers and in t

. >> reporter: still sfpd says the warnings have gone out. meanwhile the suspect may have been captured on camera because there is a camera in every cab in the city. police aren't releasing the tapes tonight but they fear this suspect is going to escalate from pulling a knife to stabbing. >> as soon as they release the video we will have it. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >>> protesters marched through the civic center bart station tonight in another demonstration. calling for the transit agency to drop its police force. o justice, no peace." ce. >> this began around 5:00 with 2 dozen protesters through the underground stations. bart says it is considering taking legal steps to thwart future protests. in the past individuals who harassed employees, you know, on a repeated bases there are remedy said to make sure they don't continually come to bart stations. >> "anonymous" was behind's today's protest. they say they will protest every monday till they demands are met. >>> there were no disruptions in train service no one was arrested. >>> skateb

when i came to the sfpd, one of the first things we did was create an internal affairs unit with the criminal section. i recognize quickly the sometimes criminal misconduct internally was not being handled appropriately. i am not an apologist. when i tell you that there are people in positions of authority that do not abuse their authority, there are. when people in positions of authority abuse their authority, you have to make sure that you have the fortitude to make sure the right things occur. >> what do the polls say about an initiative repealing the death penalty? you kind of address that a little bit, but i think you address it in -- addressed it in that it was based on financing and cost. the other question -- can you talk about what would happen logistically if all sentences were commuted to life without possibility of parole? >> the most recent poll i mentioned was on the question of the governor converting all the death sentences to life without parole and the potential cost savings of $1 billion, which shows 63% support. polls consistently show that when california voters

having jobs for the sfpd and the occ. nobody has ever utilized them. on the complaint i have against officer would where he assaulted me for a minute and a half in front of 12 witnesses, i was interviewed by telephone. and that was in. and then it got lost in a reshuffle. no one person came up to me an interview me at all. i did my interviews later by talking to people in the same room. 12 other hall of justice employees, no person can now to talk to them. those are just things i would like to bring up that can not only save money for the police department, but also can bring journalists and reporters out here doing a job for you. to help out. because reporters are trained in writing police reports. i have taken a few courses myself, i know what a police report is. so do a lot of reporters and journalists. commissioner marshall: further public comment? lieutenant, you can call item no. 3. >> occ director hicks. commissioner marshall: you have the priority list. you have the tiers about how to adjust . if we so choose, the priorities on this list. commi

the sfpd handles all ois's. most recent history, last year we had the irs agent that was involved in the shooting in the bayview district and we have handled an officer involved shooting involving daly city p the and they wound up in our city limits. we handle chp shootings. five years ago, the bridge authority had an armed robbery suspect that the golden gate bridge police shot and it was within our city limits. any time any deputy sheriffs are involved in any type -- or if you get an in custody death, our homicide investigators investigate those. we have always taken them that evening. evening. i prefer -- i made that decision

and we discussed that with the bart chief and it was determined that sfpd would handle this. >> you mentioned bart police interviewed several potential witnesses. does sf tpd handle that? >> we had the lead investigation. there is a liaison that piggybacked with our inspectors. they are allowed to have access to the information as we get it. they get it. they are piggybacking with us and assist us and they will report back to their chief and also to the board of directors. >> for members of the public and the press who are interested in knowing the findings of the department, when does not happen? >> we submit a report to our district attorney's office when the investigation is completed and we get all the information, that is shared with the d.a.'s office. the d.a. makes the determination if it was proper conduct. >> at what point is the information released to the public if at all? >> it will be released after that. if there is a determination made. commissioner chan: with the d.a. to the releasing or with this department? >> it depends if we want to do that. we coordinate with our public r

i would ask all of us to join the velvet voice of the sfpd in singing "god bless america. " >> >> ♪ uswear allegiance to a land that is free let us all be grateful for a land sof fair as we raise our voices in a solemn prayer god bless america, land that i love, stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam, god bless america, my home, sweet home god bless america, my home -- our home sweet home ♪ [applause]

it has to be a partnership with sfpd. >> what about community courts? supervisor kim: i visited the court it was modeled after, which is the red hook court in brooklyn. the judge will visit the apartments or the locations talked about in the case and he has evolved this relationship of trust with the neighborhood that think is really positive. i think we are not there yet, here in san francisco. i am not sure if that is a time issue or the tenderloin is a different type of neighborhood then -- than red hook. i think we need alternatives to our criminal justice system. i do not think our criminal justice actually works. many of the offenders to come through our system of flood started as victims of urea the community courts is a way of addressing those offenders, which is important and what i hope to see from the community court here. i do not think we are there yet. it does not mean we cannot get there. it took several years for the judge to develop a relationship with that neighborhood. >> what are your thoughts on the city's economic development? are