i am happy that command ar lazar is here as well as lieutenant yolanda williams, who i think is a great resource and has worked with the youth in our community. i am looking forward to hearing public comment and finding the results in the m.o.u. efforts that will be made. thank you for in inviting me. >> supervisor peskin, do you want to ask a question before public comment? >> it might be helpful. let me associate myself with the comments of last speaker, relative to seemingly arbitrary age difference. i completely agree with. it seems like commonsense, i say that as the son of a social worker. i did, relative to supervisor ronen who said it or commander lazar, but it seems to me that when you are taken down to a station and then not charged with anything, that seems kind of strange to me. i just wanted commander lazar to explain the situation, if you know anything -- if you know more details. >> thank you for that question. as mentioned earlier, we not only had reasonable suspicion to detain and investigate further but we had probable cause to arrest the three individuals that we brou

today i have with me newly selected acting captain yolanda williams who comes with many years of experience and we're really excited to have her in this new role. she's off and running on different topics. very happy about having her with us here today. i'm going to briefly just go through -- make a brief presentation our policies, talk about detentions and arrests and parent involvement and things like that and take questions. i wanted to start out just setsing the pace on policy. really important statement on the first page of our general order which says when detaining, arresting or taking a university in custody, department members shall choose the alternative that restrict the juvenile eats freedom of movement with the best interest of the child and the community. members shall protect the constitutional rights of all individuals whom they come in contact regardless of age. it's really in line with our safety with respect overall philosophy with our department. that's our general order that speaks to that. specifically in san francisco in our police department, we have one general orde

further about what people feel, and i'd like to bring in other people, definitely acting captain yolanda williams. i know that captain hart got ahold of the father the next day and had a great conversation with him. but you know, the community today is talking about trust with the police. and we need to be about having -- in the spirit of procedural justice, we need to be about having a further conversation. i think none of this would do us justice if we walked away and said that is that. i offer that up. >> supervisor ronen: i appreciate that. i am personally ready to take you up on that. i don't know about the penas, but what i would say is i clearly have some disappointment. we clearly have some notice of what the hearing was about. i introduced the hearing request, what, five months ago, carolyn? i don't know. so it wasn't as if there was notice of what we would be discussing today, so it feels like there could have been more information provided at this hearing today about what the officers' state of mind was about why they made certain decisions. and again, as i said many, many times, this

. >> reporter: yolanda williams, now police lieutenant, said her family had to negotiate for their freedomtoday many said this day is also about atonement in the city. >> say that we recognize that you went through a traumatic, horrific incident and perhaps there were mistakes made on all different levels. >> jims jones had ingratiated himself with the political elite. >> reporter: today congresswoman jackie speier shared her story of survival, recalling that day in 1978 when she and congressman ryan tried to leave. >> i turned around and congressman ryan had been hit. and he was hit again and he fell. and i ran, and the wheel of the plane and tried to pretend i was dead. >> reporter: ryan was killed in an ambush. speier was shot five times. they went to jonestown to investigate reports of abuse under cult leader jim jones. more than 900 people died after being forced to take a drink laced with cyanide. >> i still grieve for all those children r children who lost their lives. they were murdered. their parents were murdered. >> reporter: speier talked about her memo, surviving jones town an