i'm going to turn it over to commissioner yanez. >> commissioner yanez: thank you, commissioner elias. good evening, chief, acting director rosenstein and community at large. my -- i did want to say that i worked with a large part of the community and young people. that was a large part of my career for the last 25 years. this lack of an understanding of how to file reports has come up, and lack of just access to that information. i'd like to know what we can do to continue to promote, you know, access to the system proposed to our reports and how to promote reports, whether it's at the school district level or community level for how people can continue to file reports. it's great that those numbers have been steadily decreasing as far as the number of reports that have been filed, but when we hear comments from the community about their lack of understanding or there even is a place outside of the police department to file reports, we need to continue to work on that. so we can go on that just to strategize, but it is something that has been brought to my attention outside of commis

commissioner yanez? commissioner byrnes. no. commissioner benedicto. >> yes, just a quick question which i think director henderson answered. in addition to being on the website, the faq document which i agree is excellent is given as a document when people file complaints? >> correct. when you get documents back saying thank you for making a complaint or thank you for talking to us, this document will be provided as well every single time. and by the way, the third arm, these are also many of the questions when members of the public come to the commission as well as from the board and mayor's office and so just seemed like a good idea, rather then continually train our staff to say the same things, to have this forward leading document to answer the questions that we know people ask over and over. the e-mail you got will be forwarded to those agencies as well, the board of supervisors, mayor's office and folks that refer cases to us on regular basis. it is supposed to live on the website and i'll find it before the meeting is o

. >> jesus yanez. we have the commissioners here. >> thank you, we have debra walker here to introduce herself. then we'll move to the next item. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate this opportunity to work with you all. i am honored that the mayor appointed me to join you in discussing public safety in our city and the police commission. i have been at several commissions before. the building inspection commission for several years and the arts commission for several years. i know at least procedural meetings and especially zoom over the last two years. i spent the last few years doing ombudsman work between tenderloin and doing looted of work where there are a lot of issues that face a lot of people down there. as i was talking to the mayor about the issues, she asked me to serve in this capacity, and i hope that i can bring something to the conversation. to be working with so many of you amazing folks who work on these issues from the chief to all of you commissioners, i'm excited to be talkin

it's going to be called touch yanez bayou adventure and they navigate through the bayou. the other characters to this. was that the log ride that terrified me as a so it looks a little less all which is yeah, you are afraid of the steep drop is due a let's take a peek at the forecast because it's all important on july 4th, for many reasons for a lot of reasons. yes, we don't as much wind as yesterday. okay. temperatures a little bit warmer, which is ok because this got, you know, it's a little chilly and some 70's and 80's sounds perfect, ok, that's good for prey. this is no. but what about now? the next step is tonight. we can't have when we fog. we can't have clouds. exactly. so not a lot of wind. a little bit of fog trying to get to the golden gate. >> i'm anticipating it should stay right above us, though. so you should still be able to get a good view of the fireworks. and if you can, to sf, you know, there's like a dozen other options like john, how could i watch all of the fireworks shows in one place. leave it here. kron fou. there you go. watch our special tonigh

commissioner yanez? >> commissioner yanez: thank you, vice president elias. thank you. i just had one questions. the retired investigators that are a part of this team, is this by design that they are retired or is that because of the challenge that we're having with staffing right now? >> no, sir. it's pretty much something that we've always done in homicide. i don't know how far it goes back, but we've always had retired officers come back when we had the 960 unit. >> commissioner yanez: thank you. it makes sense. institutional knowledge is valuable, and i know that the chief has highlighted your work, oftentimes, and i commend you for the work that you're putting forward, and obviously, we field questions have community on these cold cases. if we could develop a funnel system. obviously, when people experience a loss, communication is important to them. i hope you can take those things into consideration. thank you for your work and your presentation. >> if i can say, sergeant leavy did a great job and the retire members that are in our cold case unit, one retired as

i met officer yanez of the southside irish parade in a golf cart with his dad and she had a positive spirit and determination. with every disturbance call, every domestic violence incident, every 911 report of shots fired officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us. let me be clear and i've said it many times before. i condemn all violence and threats of violence or its anti-on the left for donald trump's january 6 insurrection on the right no political or grievance can ever justify attacking police officers. and we should honor the service and sacrifice not just with words with action and may this committee reported five bipartisan bills to increase adderall support for officer hiring and retention support for officers who suffer job-related trauma. congress significantly increased federal funding for state and local law b enforcement in a march on the bus spending bill. the more than $10 billion from last year's american rescue plan has been dedicated to unity policing in over 300 communities. president biden has called for more further funding his new safer america plan. t

it's going to be called that yanez by you adventure wires will navigate the bayou it and other charactersjustments to the ride as splash mountain contain some controversial elements from disney's 1946. film song of the south, not myself have written on splash mountain, probably 5 or 6 times its quite frankly, it was not my favorite, right? simply because you just splashed down at the bottom of the mountain. but it will be really interesting to see they remodel goes. and i'm a fan of the princess and the frog. so excited about this. still ahead in the next hour on the kron 4 morning news. less than 24 hours to go to independence day. >> what you need to know to stay safe this holiday weekend. plus, fire crews in the east bay already responding to fires started by fireworks. the warning for people ahead of the holiday. >> from the area's local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at no. >> good morning. thank you so much for joining us on the kron. 4 morning news. >> i'm stephanie lin. it's sunday, july 3rd and we have a lot to get to for you this morning. but let's start