i am calling to advocate that we replace police funding for funding for public safety and social services, and as a result defund the sfpd -- may have been trying to scare us when they said not cops but social workers should respond to crisis on the street. that's exactly the future we deserve. we could invest in real solutions with the money we save by defunding police. a $43 million increase for sfpd is obscene, especially in this moment as many of my colleagues on the phone have decried. black and brown people are heavily overrepresented among those arrested, cited and killed by police, despite being under-represented in our community here in san francisco. i was disgusted and ashamed by the racist text messages that have been discussed earlier and horrified by every innocent life taken by the sfpd. we deserve better as a community, and i expect that our supervisors will deliver a better community for us. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. before i call the next speaker, let's see, there are 205 listeners and 148 in the queue. your participation is important to us, so we do app

i am calling to advocate that we replace police funding for funding for public safety and social services, and as a result defund the sfpd -- may have been trying to scare us when they said not cops but social workers should respond to crisis on the street. that's exactly the future we deserve. we could invest in real solutions with the money we save by defunding police. a $43 million increase for sfpd is obscene, especially in this moment as many of my colleagues on the phone have decried. black and brown people are heavily overrepresented among those arrested, cited and killed by police, despite being under-represented in our community here in san francisco. i was disgusted and ashamed by the racist text messages that have been discussed earlier and horrified by every innocent life taken by the sfpd. we deserve better as a community, and i expect that our supervisors will deliver a better community for us. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. before i call the next speaker, let's see, there are 205 listeners and 148 in the queue. your participation is important to us, so we do app

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health, housing, education, social services. days ago the city said they didn't have the money to reopen the bus lines that have been closed. i don't know how you are going to raise the s.f.p.d. budget $23 million. that is not hard to figure out. i hope tomorrow morning we wake up to a city that has defunded reallocated those funds. thank you. i yield my time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i am judy, resident district 11. defund, disarm and abolish police. [ inaudible ] to date s.f.p.d. completed only 6 of 54 reforms. hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. they did not use due diligence. about lawsuits they had to pay out. they are no number. it is $27 million. look at the historical data that is almost 50% of the lawsuits spent on s.f.p.d. reinvest in the community, disarm police, have a good night. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. i am a resident of district 1. i would like to say i think it is ridiculous that $43 million is to be allocated to the s.f.p.d. it is taken away from the public library, t

that unit would be a team of social service workers. david here harris of the council spoke at the town hall meeting and give an overview of what that service might look like. >> we do need to have alternatives for things that don't go to the police that really are the foundation for us building a healthy community where we have civic support and responsibility for each other. >> the oakland city council began working with the urban strategies counsel little more than a year ago to figure out the feasibility of implementing the program. since i, there have been calls nationwide to defend police departments and replace officers with trained mental health and social service workers. >>> we are getting close to 5:00 and dave clark will join us then. kyla grogan already year for steve. what kind of weather are we expecting today? >> we are expecting very nice weather today. similar to yesterday which was absolutely gorgeous. we had a cooler feeling and in some beautiful sunshine out there. but what i want to start off with this morning talki

david: by the way you know who gains by that in the social services, switching money from the police?ecause they're not just eliminating billion dollars from the budget. they're moving it to social services and a lot of that money, the mayor himself admitted today will be going to the mayor's own wife who is already put new yorkers in a hole of about a billion dollars with her thrive nyc campaign. that was funded about two years ago. despite various efforts by the media and by independent auditors, they're missing hundreds of millions of dollars from that program. so waste ad billion dollars on a program that his wife headed up. now she is heading up another program called the racial inclusion and equity task force. apparently some of this money from police is going to be going to that. so there is a scandal in here. >> there is more than a scandal. there needs to be an investigation. what are they doing over in the eastern district of new york? you have a case here of taxpayer money gone by the hundreds of millions, a mayor, his wife, you have people ho will not comment for fear of r

cinema off the prison we got to defund the military and direct a lot of those resources to the social services so those are some of the things we would do to deal with the systemic racism that has left the speed racial wealth gap in employment gap and wage gap and opportunity gap. do you think any of those changes are possible and trump stays in the white house or even if biden does win in november. it depends on the social movement i mean i'm very encouraged that for the 1st time the movement for racial justice i mean people of color and know about police brutality but now it's all living color on the t.v. screens and a lot of white people are upset about it suit and we've just got to persist and push whoever is in office to follow through on these programs and a lot of this can be done locally like community control of the police. but no trouble i mean he wants the mobile as a racist vote that's his game plan that's what he's talking about that's what he's that's what all is messaging is is right out of george wallace back in the sixty's and joe biden is kind of tone deaf when he shoots the

meeting the demands of the protesters and defunding the police reallocating those resources to social services community services you know while that sounds like a radical demand or the democrats that are public. i want you to believe that and back it becomes a whole lot less radical when you actually realize that that's what they've been doing to education that's what they've been doing to social services for many years they've been funding them and so that the man has to shift the resources back to where it is to actually helping people and not just militarizing the responses to communities that need help you but a big proponent of 3rd parties over the years you would have 3rd party be able to fix those kind of racial problems and institutionalized racism better than the 2 parties that we have no. those who parties have built the system of sensually systemic racism that upholds the system that we have now and the wealth inequality is just galling police violence of course but it's as well the fact that we have. black families in the united states with children have just one sense of wealth t

budget to houston and social services los angeles mayor eric garcetti bouts of call $150000000.00 from the l.a.p.d. to fund health care jobs and peace and others philadelphia canceled a planned $19000000.00 increase for the police department and shifted $14000000.00 of the police budget elsewhere including affordable housing but not every city is welcome the shift in police funds st louis missouri is on the decent in a big way st louis mayor little cruising with full on race stoking the flames of hate and putting a target on the backs of protesters in a facebook live appearance seen by thousands crewdson was asked about a meeting she'd had with protesters at city hall after grabbing papers and reading through a litany of activist requests she became agitated at how they wanted police budget spent groups and went on to announce the names and home addresses of those seeking to be fun the police the video has since come down and kristen has apologized after the a.c.l.u. civil rights groups activists and elected officials far and wide condemned her. is it so wrong to ask that $15000000.00

and those voter registrations come back from the department of motor vehicles and the social service agencies and they get dumped into the voter registration rolls. and many of those are not eligible. it is a federal crime to register to vote in a federal election if you are not a u.s. citizen. it is an additional federal crime if you're not a u.s. citizen to cast a ballot in a federal election. and it's important for election's integrity for the election officials to make certain that they run those lists that come back from motor voter or other sources and make sure that they run those against the list so that they make sure that they're citizens, they make sure that people who are not eligible under state law to vote, some states have different rules about who is eligible, and the election officials are supposed to, under federal law, clean their voter rolls. they're supposeded to run their list against the national change of address data base. i mean, there is a-- the post office does maintain a national change of address system, and there is-- you know, the social security admin

it would be a team of social service workers. ey gave an overview of what the service might look like. >> we do need to have alternatives for things that don't go to the police where we have a civic support and responsibility for each other. >> the oakland city council began working with the strategies council a year ago to determine the feasibility of implementing such a program. so far there have been calls to replace officers with trained mental health and social service workers. >>> still to come at noon, cracking down on manda tore ri facial coverings. >>> plus -- >> this year's 4th of july will look a lot different than usual. i have that story coming up. >>> the city of pacifica has closed it the beaches for the upcoming holiday weekend. the mayor made the announcement yesterday ordering beaches and beach parking lots closed through monday morning. california state parks has shut down all beaches. some say they understand the effort but think there should be some except >>i think it's a good idea to close the beaches with p

permit that will make it ease for nonprofit agencies providing arts, cultural, philanthropic social services. provide to covid-19 public health pandemic, san francisco was reeling from affordability crises that was destabilizing our city business and nonprofit. the global economic crises we find ourself in has exacerbated our condition. anywhere you go in the city you see dozens of empty storefronts lining our most commercial corridors and these will only be expected to grow in number. we begin the challenging process of restoring our economy, the blight these vacant properties create will undermine the healthy and vitality of the neighborhoods. this legislation seeks to create an efficient solution by establishing a new use permit, option that will allow nonprofit agencies providing arts and social services to operate in unused vacant storefront throughout the city for a period up to two years. this new temporary use permit would offer faster and lower cost way of activating vacant store front properties with uses that support the health and well willing of the surrounding community. this l

these are all fail year and we need to stop them and fund adequate social services. step one is reducing this massive overhead of the police. thank you everyone, i yield my time. >> thank you. i would just like to note, that we have 24 people in the queue waiting to speak. can we have the next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is jess. our suffering in the pandemic and hearing everyone's one minute makes me realize that you know, we definitely need to have more of a conversation and realize the cost at which funding is police has cost the rest of our community. i'd like to share a quote. the best math can you learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions and right now we're prisoners to the arbitrary staffing minimum from 1994 by the poa. lives can't be replaced. black and brown lives matter. trauma lasts a lifetime. it gets passed down generations. it's not fair for our fellow neighbors living with this and it should not throw money and to bullies with guns. time has elapsed. thank you. >> can west next speaker, please. >> i'm calling to support the c

the unit would be at pima social service workers. david harris of the urban strategy council spoke at the town hall meeting, and gave an overview of what the service might look like. >> we need to have alternatives for things that don't go to the police, they are the foundation for us building a healthy community, where he have each other. >>> they started working together a year ago to figure out feasibility of implementing the program. since then there have been calls nationwide to defund police departments and replace officers with trained mental health and social service workers. >>> police and the east bay want your help, they want to find the driver of a van that had a seven-year-old boy and drove away. this happened in martinez, just before 4 p.m. near leslie avenue. the chp has said that the van that was seen on surveillance cameras at a seven-year-old boy who was riding a scooter. the child was airlifted with serious injuries, and expected to recover. if you have any information, call police. >>> san francisco police made an

entered the jail system or would have been arrested and book order the charge is diverted to social services. then from there instead of them going through that system, which hasn't shown itself to be an effective way to deal with people suffering from suable stance abuse issues they can be connected with case management. they can offer services based on their needs as individuals. >> one of the key things is our approach is client centered. hall reduction is based around helping the client and meeting them where they are at in terms of what steps are you ready to take? >> we are not asking individuals to do anything specific at any point in time. it is a program based on whatever it takes and wherever it takes. we are going to them and working with them where they feel most comfortable in the community. >> it opens doors and they get access they wouldn't have had otherwise. >> supports them on their goals. we are not assigning goals working to come up with a plan what success looks like to them. >> because i have been in the field a lot i can offer different choices and let them decide whic

the unit would be a team of social service workers. d harris of the urban strategies counsel spoke at the townhall meeting and had given an overview of what the service would look like. >> we need to have alternatives for things that do not go to the polisse, that are really the foundation for us to building a healthy community, where we have citic support from responsibility for each other. >>> the oakland city council began working with the urban strategies counsel, a year ago to figure out feasibility of implementing this program. there have been calls nationwide to define police departments and replace officers with a trained mental health and social service workers. >>> kyla grogan is in for steve paulson. we are talking about friday and weekend weather. kyla? >>> i am, indeed, it will be a beautiful weekend. we will warm up for saturday and sunday. speaking of saturday, something interesting is coming our way. penumbra lunar eclipse. that is when the outer edge shadow of the earth will cast itself onto the base of the moon. it is

hostility towards lawyers journalists environmental activists people who are providing local social services you know any sort of organizing capacity outside the state or outside the party is considered problematic and so you know even people who are you know engaged in behavior that's as simple as helping people get health care or you know challenge local corruption which is a goal that the national government says it share it is considered problematic and so we've seen dozens if not hundreds of people who are peaceful activists or community organizers be prosecuted on very harsh charges and get very long sentences why what do you think beijing strategy is here well i think beijing doesn't like any kind of challenges at all it especially doesn't like any kind of you know organizing its network and so to the extent that some of the lawyers had worked together or had a common purpose across the country that was considered problematic. at the end of the day it's ultimately that the chinese government the communist party don't feel like they should be beholden to anyone and so when they're chal

business agency, my agency, the health and human services with the department of public health, social services, aging, a broad range of individuals who will come with boots on the ground to look closely at every issue from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities to how we improve our messaging and communication to increasing texting, to making sure we have the staff necessary to do that contact tracing and disease investigation and finally, and very importantly, building our efforts to make sure individuals who are positive can successfully isolate and quarantine in a safe and supported way so that we can reduce the lanes of transmissions in our communities. today's high hospital numbers really came from infections weeks ago. if we want the situation in our hospitals here in the central valley and throughout the state to improve, especially as we are knocking on the door of flu season and the normal amount of surge in those hospitals in the next few months, we need to do today, redouble our efforts to improve our own behaviors, the behaviors in our community, so we can get the transmission dow

protesters are calling for systemic change in police departments and the redirection of funds towards social services. they are made up of thousands of individuals, each have their own reasons for being there. >> do you hear me? this is really sad in 2020 we are still fighting to be treated equally. >> we won't change. >> today we want everybody to hear our voice. to understand that black lives matter. >> i -- police officers need to become human. they need to stop stereotyping our children. when they see our children they always say they feel like they are being attacked. we have been seeing videos saying he has a gun but there is clearly no gun. african-american kids either die or go to jail. that's sad. their job is to fear black people. that is sad. they shouldn't fear black people. black people shouldn't fear the police. our tax dollars pay for police protection but instead they are paying for the police to bully us. it is not fair. they approach african-americans as unlawful first and then arrest and then it becomes a big thing that we either end up dead or in jail. >> change is coming. i want

. >> reporter: she agrees social services need to be funded but she does not agree the money should come from the police department. >> i just don't have any more wiggle room in terms of what our budget is, and how we can provide just emergency services. >> reporter: her immediate goals within a male-dominated field? >> my goal is to really work with the women in our department to make sure they are comfortable and feel included in everything within the department, which i have not always felt throughout my career, here. >> reporter: she alluded to a tight budget, they have already made cuts, as she said. even today in the interview i said, so what is your typical day like? she said well, so to speak, today i am putting together presentation to present before the city council tonight about the police budget. upon their request. showing them where all of our resources are and just how lean we are right now. >> right, all right, thank you. >> we have a building collapse, i need you away from the building. we are in defensive mode. >> we have a clear area, we are going to lose another power

>>> empty store fronts could soon house displaced arts organizations or even provide covid-19 social services, that according to the examiner. the legislation from hillary roanen was introduced before the pandemic hit the city. aims to convert former store fronts into art studios or creative spacers and backers have now added in possible virus testing and social services as potential tenants. now, san francisco's planning commission needs to approve this temporary rezoning before that becomes a reality. >>> just ahead, the brand-new abc news poll on the black lives matter movement. jobina is back with a look at what kind of impact it is having so far. >>> plus, dining at disney world reimagined. wat the most magical p >>> abc7 news. >>> all news all morning. ♪ we shall overcome ♪ we shall overcome some day >> this was really such a powerful moment in portland, oregon, where city and state officials continue to demand the removal of federal agents. they've been harassing protesters in the last week. more than 1,000 people came together last night as they sang "we shall over come." demonstrator

sheriff david livingston says the post something meant to alert crime victims and social service agencies that help prisoners with reown industry. but this supervisor thinks there's an alterior motive. >> shortly after state law went into effect in 2018, many sheriff departments around the state instituted this new practice of posting release dates publicly in advance. and so many of us believed that was an intentional act to get around this new state law. >> the sheriff says they are converting to a new jail information system that could eliminate the public posting but that could take up to two years to complete. not everyone thinks letting us pick up released prisoners is such a bad thing. >> for those individuals who are committing crimes in the community and continue to commit crimes in the community, have no sympathy or me rights as a law-abiding citizen because they're not here legally in the first place. >> the law says police can't be too chummy with ice. so they looked into the idea six months in prison is the sen tension for a financier. he paid $450,000 to boost his caught 2 d

maybe they're too much involved in social service stuff and wouldn't want to be involved that way. i think it's a long process and everybody should be talking about it. >> reporter: those who drafted the proposal acknowledge there had would be upfront costs associated with making the shift but they did not specify exactly how much it would cost. councilmembers will present this proposal tonight and given the pandemic that conference would, of course, take place over a teleconference. that meeting begins at 6:00 p.m. we're live in berkeley, cierra johnson for "today in the bay." >> if it passes, it will be interesting how that all works. thank you, cierra. 4:37 this morning. the search for the missing naya rivera comes to an end. >>> plus, one of america's airlines warning about potential furloughs. what we're learning about potential cuts. you're watching "today in the bay." >>> good tuesday morning. let's get a look at our temperatures you'll feel as you head out the door. most of us in the upper fifr50s. we'll get a look at our high temperatures for today and our microclimate for

it would take years to staff social services to the point they can be first responders and then you can't divorce it completely because some of the calls are dangerous. social workers are not going in by themselves to deal with it. >> stand by. we have many others here as well. crime and gun violence are adding to the gun violence facing in community of color already being hammered by the coronavirus. let's hear now from a doctor. dr. brian williams associate professor of trauma and acute care surgery and codirector of the surgical care unit at the university of chicago. doctor, good to see you. you have been listening. i want to you weigh in. you have shared some data with us from your hospital that shows the increase in gun violence over the past several months. tell our viewers what we're seeing and you're seeing in this data. >> thank you for having me, don. this is from the university of the chicago trauma center, which serves on chicago's south side. and if you look at when the stay-at-home order went into effect in chicago, and we accept that crime, like interpersonal violence requ

operation ceasefire as its data-driven violence reduction strategy coordinating law enforcement, social services and the community considering this major rise in shootings machine or in eyes of the coalition for police accountability questions why the chief still has faith in the program the cease-fire program is supposed to be reducing. >>homicides its specific focus is to reduce gun violence and the police department touts it. as the reading strategy that they years to interrupt violent crime, especially gun crime. apparently it's not working or not says the fact that the community did not report 86% of this year's shootings points to another problem, the whole point of community policing is to establish trust. >>between the community and the police that is clearly not the case. i think they're trying to push back against the defund or movement, however chief manheimer rejects the idea that these opd press releases were politically motivated. i think it's interesting that and oakland and the bay area it's looked at as some political statement or responsibility is to our community to ensure tha

when is posted online and the sheriff's department says it is meant to alert crime victims and social service agencies but immigrant rights advocates and local leaders say this policy really just a nice to detain people for deportation.>> shortly after the new state law went into effect in early 2018, any sheriff departments around the state instituted dispute practice of posting release dates publicly in advance. and so many of us believe that was an intentional act to get around this new state law. >> for those individuals who are committing crimes in our community and continue to commit crimes, i have no sympathy or tolerance. >> they don't have the same rights as a law-abiding citizen because they are not here legally in the first place. >> after county meeting the sheriff agreed to look into the idea of directly emailing people with an interest in someone's release. >>> take a live look across the bay, things are pretty clear looking that way., if we could turn the camera around, most of san francisco is pretty socked in. >> that's that camera looking east, the one looking west is a comp

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operation ceasefire as its data-driven violence reduction strategy coordinating law enforcement, social services and the community considering this major rise in shootings machine or in eyes of the coalition for police accountability questions why the chief still has faith in the program the cease-fire program is supposed to be reducing. >>homicides its specific focus is to reduce gun violence and the police department touts it. as the reading strategy that they years to interrupt violent crime, especially gun crime. currently it's not working or not says the fact that the community did not report 86% of this year's shootings points to another problem, the whole point of community policing is to establish trust. >>between the community and the police that is clearly not the case. i think they're trying to push back against the defund or movement, however chief manheimer rejects the idea that these opd press releases were politically motivated. i think it's interesting that and oakland and the bay area it's looked at as some political statement or responsibility is to our community to ensure that