tom gilberti.ed eleanor roosevelt a while back about how it would be appropriate to put a statue of her out on civic center, the plaza there. and it turned out that if you want to understand exactly why it would be very, very appropriate, turn to ken burns, the roosevelts, episode 7. it was basically all about her. and what this one woman was able to do. the united nations still is probably our best ideal. america probably needs to join it. instead what we're doing, we're fighting it. just the other day, the united nations has started listing where we -- the united states of america is in health and in poverty. the degradation of equal opportunity, levels approaching third world. and so it's at times like this i agree with the supervisor safai that our whole planning, our whole society is at risk. one of the problems i had with our late mayor was a lack of leadership, a void. the whole bay area needs to come together and develop a plan for what we need to do, coming here, looking out over the bay a

. >> thank you, tom gilberty. images, powerful images. white short sleeved-dressed man in the middle of a boulevard carrying a brief case. stepping in front of the leader of a platoon of tanks. anybody remember that? or do we have the courage to do that ourselves? i've remarked by mario woods in that statue of five policemen pointing their guns at him just before they fire and just after they fire when he is on the ground. it's a powerful statement. it's a harsh statement. i wouldn't want to go by it everyday but it happened. it's real. it's where we want to come away from. could we put a sculpture in front of 850 bryant as you walk in. one of those on the right. one on the left. and maybe that would encourage us to demolish that building. and we could demolish that statue and we could fly away. the next part, i'm not -- i don't really want to hire 200 police. there's 40-60% of the traffic on the street that the police deal with is with mental crisis people. let's hire 200 mental crisis people. if we are going to hire police, i agree with

. >> tom gilberti. we have a billion opportunity with our next mayor. an authentic voice from part of san francisco that will deal with the police officers association, somebody that knows what it's like to live in the city and be kind of looked upon by the police. we can have a dialogue. i wish the person that's going to be elected to the board can work with this mayor on changing that chat between our police and the people of our city. they need -- we need a new direction. i recommended supervisor kim working with our new mayor for the new jail and the crisis center as president of the board. that would help. whoever is going to turn to the board be president, i wish a certain maturity. like i said, an authentic voice. there's another statute that i've been thinking of. mario woods, with five offices pointing their gun at him while he's standing there, for mario woods as he's on the ground with the five guns pointing at him at the ground with the comment they were fearful for their lives. if we put that statue somewhere, that would be a recognition of