i was a little suspect because chief suhr was -- captain suhr was promoted to chief suhr a month earlier and was wondering if he was trying to tell me something. seriously, it is great, the relationship with the permission station, as well as with the current captain. i do not know what happened, but the man that was shot did live. so the emergency response team worked very well. i want the police commission to know that i feel very safe in my home because i always see the police in the area. i see them on the bicycles on third street. there's a lot of police presence. there is a good working relationship the police have in the bayview as a result of chief suhr's tutelage. thank you very much. [applause] >> hello, happy september could of the song always says, do you remember in september? this year, we all remember september. there was an eight-week course that committed the united against violence. i live in the sro's in the tenderloin. i heard good news that people will be working with the sro's in the tenderloin corporations, because bullying and hate crimes, they happen often. i let

[applause] >> chief suhr has surfed in the department for 30 years. and as chief he will be overseeing a department of 1,800 police officers. next we have peter herley who is now acting as police consultant. he is the former chief of police of tiburon and the former president of the california police officers association. next to mr. herley is sharon wu, the chief assistant of operations in the district attorney's office. she oversees the criminal division, including the victim witness program and the alternative dispute courts. anne irwin is an attorney in the public defender's office. ms. irwin was recently involved in several of the cases involving the videotaped evidence which resulted in the dismissal of over 90 cases. you've read about those in the newspaper. and finally, we have civil rights attorney john burress. he specializes in civil actions brought against police officers for abuse of power, brutality, and wrongful death. let me remind the audience that we will have a brief q&a at the end. if you want to ask a question, just raise your han

i trust the attempts to be done bechief suhr, but it is a long- range process. i am not an apologist for greg suhr or the district attorney, but they have to find a solution. without the state, law enforcement does not work. [applause] >> so, chief suhr -- [laughter] what do you do about this problem of the end justifying the means? so, how you teach your young officers or train them not to abuse their power and not to get these bad guys anyway they can and does not matter how they operate? how do you teach trainees about this? >> first, thank you for having me. this is a bit of an away game for me. [laughter] [applause] >> either way, it is your home town. >> that is true. >> you might feel like you're on the hot seat on this panel draws that is ok. i can handle it. >> the background is extensive. certainly, after i have come in, there are psychological profiles. there are lie-detector tests. so, we really do try to get it right. only one out of 11 applicants to the police department makes it through. yet, we still get some folks to do some things we would rath

chief suhr, do not take our captain away. we have our capt. for almost two years, i think, and his has been an incredible help to be able to work with him in this capacity from and not just me, but other non-profits that were mentioned here, and so i just want to encourage that. thank you. [applause] >> and the other public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. i forgot, commissioners. fo." >> are we going back to the section were commissioners can respond and ask questions? the kosher. -- sure. i know we gave you very short notice to come to the mission and this meeting, and you do very important work, so thank you for hosting us in setting this up and thank you for the outreach to community members. i think the most well attended community meeting we have had this year, so that shows your connection to the community. think you. i wanted to ask you if your mind walking us through what happens when there is a violent incident in the mission, such as a homicide we of scene and he laid out for us. what are the steps you take to debrie

i want to begin by thanking chief suhr for being here. i know it has been a busy day for him. i appreciate him taking the time to be here to discuss a very important issue. i also want to take the opportunity to thank my staff, specifically hillary for all the work that has gone into this, but most importantly to thank so many members of the community who have really been the catalyst for this effort. let me provide some context of what we introduced this legislation. i serve on the san francisco police commission for a number of years. by the way, i see that the assistant deputy chief is also here. i served for the police commission for a number of years. and one of the things that became very clear in my service as a police commissioner is that we talk a lot about community policing, but that community policing and different things to different people. and while that is in many respects understandable, the idea that community policing by definition has to reflect the specific needs of a community, and therefore there would be some differences, what i found frustrating is the

with that, if it is ok with my colleagues, i would like to ask chief suhr to come forward. again, i want to thank chief suhr for doing something that has not really been done, at least in my experience, here in city hall. good morning to you. >> good morning. i appreciate your comments. and certainly, community policing is an absolute priority for the police department. i believe in it always has been. i know that in our discussions that it was not defined, if you will, or codified so that no matter who the chief of police is, it stands. to that end, we said about together to define community policing. the process was long. it was inclusive. it started off with a proposal. then it through committee, it grew. we met with virtually every corner of this city. suggestions were made. then we took it back to the location of the first community meeting, which was that cesar chavez school in michigan. and we believe that if we could pass muster at a community meeting in the mission as far as no contrarians, that we would be where we wanted to be, at least as commissioner dejesus sa

i know that with chief suhr in place, it will be great. when we get this community policing thing right, we will get police officers that understand kids and not to engage in kit to do prevention work, it is beautiful. chief, thank you for all you do. captain, thank you for all you do. [applause] >> are there any other public speakers? one more. >> hi. i work at community united against violence. we do lgbt violence prevention and intervention work. this definitely sounds like a great effort to continue improving our relationship with the police department. i wanted to bring a little bit of a lighter question to a concern regarding implementation, wondering if there will be indicators to make sure that the general order is being implemented in the right way, i ain't the way that the communities can be looked at as an expert -- in a way that the communities can be looked at as an expert, and make sure that with in that partnership, there's a relationship with the police being the expert, but it is a little more mutual. we came out in june,

i am not an apologist for greg suhr or the district attorney,

i want to thank chief suhr. we said we would have to do more and do better with less. with those ideas in mind in knowing we have a dwindling force but increased amount of demand from our communities, we needed to do smarter things. it makes so much sense that this innovative idea of bringing the various investigative units together in the same space and under the same command can make the offer is even more resources put together. i want to thank the community- based advocates for their willingness to bring resources to work with our law enforcement. this effort is also a reflection of the commitment from our police commission. i want to thank each and every one of them and their leadership in working with the community and our police chief. it means so much to bring more and better resources and enforcement of our laws right to where the victims need it. this is a special time. we have the most vulnerable parts of our population, women, children, and elderly, who can get better service here in a culturally competent way. i am proud to be the mayor of the city who kno

being a whistle- blower, but encourage proper at 6, and i think -- proper ethics, and i think greg suhr stated very properly its starts in the police academy. u.s. no other position probably in the united states -- certainly not for some of our elected officials. yet no one who gets more scrutiny and more background checks and psychological checks and an 18-month probationary period. we as law-enforcement administrators hope that those kinds of people who do not meet on moral and ethical standard, we hope they do not pass or get through. sometimes they do. i find it interesting that this is the -- it has been 20 years, 15 months, and two days since the rodney king incident in los angeles. when i watch that incident. -- when i watched that incident, it gave me shivers. what bothered me -- it was not only the people hitting rodney king -- but it was the other 19, 20 officers who stood around and did nothing. and allowed it to go on. that bothered me as much. and i was a police chief at the time. one of the things a new chief and parents is the department culture -- inherits is the departm

do you have anything to add to what chief suhr has said about preventing misconduct in a police department? >> thank you for having me. i do have to point something out. i was not the president of the california police officers association. it was the california police chiefs association. i spent 21 years in the city of torrance in southern california before coming up here, a city of to under 50,000, about 350 personnel. -- 250,000, about 350 personnel. much smaller organization. completely different type of agency. but one of the things we found was to my career and particularly at the beginning, there was really no classis% -- classes pe se, and we started a course on how to be a successful chief. a very strong component of that was an ethics, and what is the chief's responsibility within their department relating to at the experience included in that, it had to do with the abuse of power and misconduct. i was -- i guess you could say "a whistle-blower." i put together a case in which three officers i have worked with had been nearly to deaf a game and what they were off duty. -- nearly

chief suhr, a ban has been called on the use of master keys at the sro. can you discuss whether this is a viable option or why the officers should use them? >> i am aware of that, but consent is also a lawful search, and i know a lot of these hotels would just as soon we not be breaking down their doors and paying to fix the doors or the police department can secure the door and then they have to put a person on the door, and that leads to other theft from folks in the hotel. so, i certainly would look at it and consider it, but i think that's if there is lawful consent given and the past key is used or the person's own key is used, it ends up being, as many things are in this day and age, a cost issue. >> i would like to weigh in. can you imagine police officers arriving at the ritz carlton, informing the front desk they would like a key that opens all the hotel rooms, and no, they do not need an escort. they just will be doing what they would like. there would be public outcry. and the only reason that there is a public outcry about the use of master ke