as a member of the police commission, i would work strongly with the police and with the community to bring a sense a policy, program, and implementation of programs to the general public to work with the community to ensure that police mistrust is decrease and police also have a better sense of the communities they serve. we need to find better training for diverse groups and their interactions with the police. the police need to understand the citizenry which they seek to protect and serve. we need to further reduce the backlog, which i credit jim hammer with creating programs to reduce the disciplinary actions so that we can review misconduct cases and returned police officers to the streets once we have dealt with their misconduct, retrained, refocus, and put them back in a position so that we can began to adequately staff the streets of san francisco. we need to find resources to use within the city and through private and nonprofit organizations so that we can create more programs and have more resources so that we can increase the technology used so that the focus is not just o

the general orders of the police department are in fact the policies of the police commission, under the charter you set policies. signing a document with an outside agency undermining the concept of the police commission's authority and if a secret deal can be reached, maybe unintentionally, to undermine the policy on protecting the first amendment, what about the use of force policy? what about the deadly force policy? clearly even if you disagree on the merits of this, the police commission needs to reassert its authority. veena already talked about the local standards, they are significantly different. the command authorizations however are key. this is the specific matter that the special agent in charge told us directly that they will not allow or not allowing now the requirement 8.10 that officers involved in these activities get command level authorization. that's very important not only so officers stop and think and apply the policy and it allows supervisers to monitor and make sure it's being applied appropriately, but those authorizations in fact create the paper trail in

it will be at the police academy. i can get you the date and time to any interested commissioners to audit. the drafting of this order, there will be meetings in the community, meetings with electeds, meetings with the officers, input from the peg groups in hopes of making this department policy, all of which

it will be at the police academy. i can get you the date and time to any interested commissioners to audit. the drafting of this order, there will be meetings in the community, meetings with electeds, meetings with the officers, input from the peg groups in hopes of making this department policy, all of which commissioner chan just commented to is expected to be contained within this order for adoption by this commission as department policy. president mazzucco: commissioner slaughter. commissioner slaughter: i think in light of the process that the chief has just described that this working group is taking on, not sure if scheduling something before this commission in the near, near future, meaning the next few weeks is the best idea, perhaps letting this working group get some miles under their belt, so to speak, and then coming back to us perhaps in two months rather than a month but if people want to start it here in a month, that's fine. but i mean -- >> i'm happy to provide monthly updates to the commission as to

policy for the san francisco police department. and then i think the last thing folks were curious about was the realignment of station captains. capt. takini is now the captain of the central station, replacing now deputy chief kevin cashman. the captain has an extensive history in the police department. he was a prior capt. at center, he has been tactical, narcotics, commander, deputy chief. he is very welcome to buy the northeast community. the other capt. replaces capt. favio. i have been spending a lot of time with paul. he has hit the ground running and as well-received by the community. he was a fabulous community policing capt. at ingleside camera -- at ingleside, 40 years in the police spot. he has done investigations over four decades of service and he will be out dancing -- outstanding. keep stanford has gone in as the captain of the richmond station. -- keith stanford has gone in as the captain of the richmond station. he is active in the committee, and then captain dan mahoney has gone to ingleside station, very strong

that is really important in the, -- in the police commission. it is about being able to trust enough to dial the 911 call and to call the people into serving a community. julius knows the intricate intersections between health and public safety. he believes in providing the importance strategies and looking at prevention rather than reactions. [chime] julia's it would definitely take that job seriously. supervisor kim: thank you for being here. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john aitken. i first met julius in 2001, but we have been life partners for the last three years. i am here to talk about what i know of him as a man. he has a kind and generous spirit. he is eager to find solutions to problems. and he does this with care and intelligence. he serves on a host of community organizations, including the human rights organization, as former supervisor dufty had mentioned earlier. i am so proud of his commitment to the community. it inspires me and others to do more for our community and for our civic responsibilities. supervisor kim:

i am the secretary of the police commission. on behalf of the commission, i want to welcome everyone to the san francisco 2010 medal of valor ceremony. please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. mayor newsom was unfortunately unable to attend this evening. he sent his congratulations to the medal of valor recipients. we are joined by commissioner president thomas does it go, dr. joe marshall, commissioner james slaughter, commissioner petra dejesus. we are also joined by chief of police george gascoign. also with us are the it assistant chief. this isn't she said of the operation pirro. assistant chief denise schmitt. deputy chief john murphy, enforcement and security at the mta. commander sandra tong of the airport bureau. commander james dudley of the airport operations bureau. commander daniel mahoney, chief of the operations staff. co

the stories from our clients about police misconduct are commonplace. everything from a disregard for the fourth amendment, theft, perjury, and the stories -- when you hear them over and over -- there becomes a real ring of truth to them, a consistency that makes it impossible for us, as attorneys, hearing the stories to dismiss them out of hand. the videos are not the first time that misconduct has ever happened. they are just the first time for us. let me use the henry hotel incident as a case study. let's go out and amassed a bunch of videos. which is basically did our job to clients. the residents of the hotel told us what the police officer said was not what happens. we trusted them. we looked at the henry hotel. we got video from december 23. and lo and behold, every word of what our clients were telling us were true. two four two. the videos are just a small sample of what some would say is clearly a culture or pattern. and i do want to say that even in my short tenure as defense attorney, i agree with stuart. there are so many good officers, but

and officer for the san francisco police department for 45 years and worked in the d a's office for six years. i know that every police conduct is not good conduct, but i can speak for those that i know, whom i have seen, that had great concept. and for those that i see with bad conduct, they have also heard the voice my opinion. i am here because i love my community, i love my people, i love my children, and i am tired of seeing african american and young latino kids and adults of colored dining. i am tired -- and adults of color dollying. i am tired of the police taking in their doors and, you know, they are not able to have a say so because they do not know their rights. they do not know that they do not have to let them in. if it is not a legal search. as for me, i want to be there so i can empower them and i can help them. every time i looked at this board, i do not see any one of color. i do not see a woman of color. i think it is time for a woman of color to stepup to the plate. a thing that would play in great part, because people in the community look up to me and they know if

welcome to the wednesday, june 22nd, 2011 police commission meeting. the first line item will be general public comment and we will hear a quick briefing about what the comments should be about. >> i will look here. >> use the general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission on items that cannot -- that are not on the agenda. speakers shall address the remarks to the speaker as uphol a whole. now the police or occ were commissioners are required to respond to questions from the public. the commissioners and police should refrain from entering any debates or speakers during public comments. >> thank you very much, lieutenant. >> good evening, commissioners who shall remain nameless. >> i live in south of market. i am here to address two if near and dear to my heart. -- two issues near and dear to my heart. i have lived in oakland, which is where i am from. this really needs to be able to have a police officer that you can contact to tell us about things which are running the miss or amok in your area. i really appreciate the effort

i cannot imagine sitting at the table of the chief of police of oakland or sacramento, and the chief of police being here. it does not end the questions. it is a conversation that has to get down to important issues. it has to start and meetings like this are a start to recognize. i think it is a real positive step. [applause] >> and although i would argue many of the things that were said today on the panel -- and i cannot believe i am going to say this -- i completely agree with john burris and stuart hanlon. [applause] >> thank you for giving my closing comments from me. i would like to thank the public defender's office for providing the public and anybody he wants to come to this forum, hearing from these experts, and they help you take away some good things from this -- and i hope you take away some good things you take away some good things from this panel. >> so many people here. this is the third and final panel for those of you who have stayed. this is going to be an incredible discussion. leading the panel, this is the chief attorney of the public defender's office, matt go

. >> the missing persons case has now turned into a murder investigation, police have not found the body of michelle le, but they said all the evidence leads up to one thing. homicide. >> based on compelling evidence that we have recovered during the course of our investigation throughout the week, the hayward police department is now officially classified this case as a homicide. >> tragic news from hayward police monday night, though they still have not found michelle le. the detailed in general terms numerous pieces of evidence that suggest a missing nursing student was murdered. >> the results of forensic examination never car, and the area of the desk-of her car in the area of the parking where it was parked. including multiple interviews of those of friends, family and and others to. examination of things collected during the search of several search warrants. examination of videos from the garage and other places, examination of her cellphone records before her phone went dead last saturday. >> police say they believe she was killed in the kaiser hospital parking garages which wen

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 hand. you'll get a card from the usher. and you can ask your question. and if you would like to address it to a particular panel member, you can do that as. i believe we are going to have a video now. it is movie time. >> this was recorded on a c

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 two -- to death a gain man -- a gay man when they were off duty. i dealt with the consequences for many years. it was very lonely in that position. very lonely getting death threats. v

where the police officers enter the data, we're working on editing the front and so that we are forcing them to enter seven digits as opposed to just any number of digits. i am happy to answer any specifics that we might have. it is a lot of basic technology that we are putting in place for the next year. >> the implementation really depends on resources and whether or not you are able to get them? is it part of their plan and general strategic vision? >> i don't really know at the point at which it is a go. i am trying to get from you this funding for the top projects, it appears that i am going to be successful in doing that. so the funding we are getting and a headcount we are getting, a lot of this work can be done through headcount @ help desk people. a lot of it is password resets and network infrastructure, the internet based applications that we need are things that we are going to need on an ongoing basis. headcount is the hardest thing to get. >> you mean you want to hire more people? >> yes. we had something like 98 projects going on because we had vendors coming to the polic

the closest district police station rap sheet. hello, i have a nice one because of him. someday i hope to see it some time too. i think it's very creative. i said before about the creative report writing that was issued by him. the police are only playing down what he so stated. i have to say the police do a very good job. they don't need to be told from outside agencies what to do. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. mr. johnson? >> i'm not here to complain. i want to compliment director hicks from the o.c.c. on the mediation program. the mediation program work vezz well 6789 just as the director said, even though what the officer $was proper conduct, they get better perspective of citizens city. i want to help with the workload, which isy was here last week. last week i brought up a couple different issues that we don't think should be o.c.c. complaints, thereby freeing your investigators up to do other things, maybe more eedations. but what i would like to do with the blessing of the commission is maybe have someone from t

seeing none, we will go down to the police department. they are not here tonight, so we will go to item 5, hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. a, bradford, chelsea. >> good evening, everyone. even though the applicant is not here, and i recommend you continue this item to the next hearing, i thought it was important to put it on the agenda in case someone showed up for public comment, because the applicant did post a 30 day notice and after that found out he had some hurdles to go through at planning. that is what they are doing now. hopefully, they will be back. if not this month, then the first meeting of july. president newlin: ok. commissioners? did anyone come here this evening to comment on the permit application? no. okay. do we need a motion to continue this? >> i would like to move that we continue it. vice chair joseph: second. >> same house and called? -- same house, same call? but now we have a new commissioner, actually. [laughter] commissioner

the average police officer -- and so is the fire man. this cannot go on. that is the problem. it cannot go on past 2018 or 2019 or san francisco will be in bankruptcy. you have to understand that. this is not a joking matter. we sit and talk to a police officer cannot pay his mortgage. there are many people cannot pay their mortgages. 40% of the houses in the u.s. have to refinance or are under water. we are in a worldwide contraction. those are facts. the average police officer makes 58 or 65,000 a year with three to five years' work back up. we are in an area where is of a grand jury last year or in 2009 came out with a statement that san francisco by 2017 or 2018 will be in bankruptcy based on two pensions and salaries. i think you have to look at reality here. the city will either have to freeze the pensions and payrolls of 29,000 people or lay off 10,000 people. that is coming. while you sit here and pontificate about 3% or 5% cuts or whether the police department can have another academy, there are sheriff's out here talking about merging the police department and the she

they're regulated by the police commission. so there is no basis to go into closed session. >> commissioners? commissioner marshall: you have the information in front of you. we can have closing arguments from both parties here. president mazzucco: commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: i'm hearing the patrol special indicating he's not contesting whether or not he complied with the rules and in terms of uniform training and -- what was the third? i'm escaping it. oh, the insurance, that he's not contesting that. those violations that he's been charge with but rather the constitution, he's bringing in a constitutional issue as to whether or not he needs to comply with that. is that right? >> that is correct. if the police commission, police commission said i'm not a employee of the city, i'm not a member of the police department, how can be charged with violating rules and regulations of a department i'm not a member of and brought up with rules of procedures that don't apply since i'm a private citizen?it'd comment on th

goldberg and today is my 30th anniversary in the police department. they were hiring five classes at a time back in the early eighties. that has all come to a close within the next three to five years. >> commissioner kingsley. >> happy anniversary. >> the community policing, did i understand it correctly that that is being coupled with another schedule which is a tuesday at center something that will occur every week. >> there will be weekly meetings on the drafting of the community policing general order and then there is weekly meetings on the drafting of the career development. there are several channel orders not connected to one another. >> this is happening every week at what time and place. >> i don't know if this is a set date but i believe that community policing is on mondays and i want to say this is at 10:00 at the police academy but i can confirm that for you. >> was involved? >> whoever would like to be. there are various members of the department and the community. they will be coordinating committee meetings. the commissioner asked tha

people here want to see what's going on at the moment the police trying to. find it still breaking out no we. don't buy a lot of the people on the street she's the most people just them but when they got small still they really don't want anyone to believe but it's been said that the people you know behind the provoking the police people still missing back on some essential slaven that you can have it got still thinks that's off by the police they turned out a great time to get the proposal start their rags. about the economic situation that's been happening that country and they want it or not going to be able to. play for about twenty more to god we can really see the tensions between people breaking into the crowd the police out there getting ready to retaliate for stuff. that was. one of the situations that lead to kerry say they're trying to fight the fact that the police are trying. their managing by the looks of things to push back the police actually off the such and square itself there's a lot of the protesters who are throwing things wearing gas mask

bloody footprints on the floor. as police began to process the crime scene, suspicion soon began to fall upon amanda. partly due to what police believed was a faked forced entry through the window. observers also thought amanda's behavior was odd. she and rafael stayed in the living room while the others broke into meredith's room. francesco mareska is an attorney hired by the victim's family. he says amanda's behavior was enough to make her a suspect. >> translator: the famous behavior of amanda knox cannot be justifiable if we compare it to the way normal people behave. >> reporter: in this video amanda and her boyfriend comfort each other outside the house. but at the police station witnesses say they laughed and made faces, heightening suspicions about them. for them, the police station would become all too familiar over the coming days. her father, curt, recalls the week after the grisly discovery. >> between the time that they actually found meredith and when amanda was arrested, there was roughly a 90 hour time frame.

the police frantically shirt for mariana corona after the car that she was in--the police frantically searched for mariana corona we will tell you where she is at in a live report. >> you can imagine how the family fell today when that baby was missing. the little girl was in the back seat of her mother's car when it was taken from a parking lot in morgan hill. tonight the baby is safe, the car has been found. we are live in morgan hill and we have details on what happened. >> this is a happy ending to a story that started behind the church directly behind me. when this mother left her car running, the keys were in the ignition and the child was in the back seat. one month old mariana corona was found safe and sound. >> the child has been located. >> the story started here, a food bank behind st. catherine's catholic church. it was at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon in her mother left her in the running car, ran inside, came back five minutes later and the baby and the car will go on. >> the officers responded to gather information and then began a missing child investigation. >> an invest