Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Appropriations Committee 20240712

5 million and 10 million here. That is 700 million budget. Supervisor ronen complains. The board should said fuck the p on. Ppoa. It is to protect the public. Defund the police. Reimagine Public Safety. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I am tim. I am a resident of district 8. We demand complete defunding of the s. F. P. D. And redirect to Public Health. We must reimagine Public Safety. This is one way. Half than half of the budget we can house every unhoused person. Why should s. F. P. D. Get the increase while schools get 26 million in cuts . Cancel the upcoming Youth Program to cost 2 million that is peanuts compared to the Police Budget. Defund and disband the Police Department. Under be the brown act you cannot censor. Fuck the police. Thanks. Next speaker, please. Hi, i am didi. I want to say what they have been saying all afternoon and evening. Defund, disarm s. F. P. D. Now in the budget and redirect to public house, and those of col color. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Before i call the next speaker, we currently have 122 listeners, 55 in the queue. We appreciate your patience. Next caller, please. Hi. So there is a boy who died on july 4th. He was 6 years old. His name was jason. You are asking to raise the polices money. That is unacceptable when there are children dying on the streets. You are asking for more money. Are you serious . I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. Next caller. [ inaudible ] i am elizabeth. [indiscernable] can figure out what we should do. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] next speaker, please. Hi, curtis, district 11. I see comparisons to the local 700 Million Police budget to the federal military budget. Increases every year with no assessment if what we are funding is keeping us safe. How radical it is to not support defunding the police. If you accept that we need police, they should be abolished. You should see how over bloated the Police Budget is. We should defund the police because it is racist that cannot be reformed. You cant reform the police because it is like you cant reform White Supremacy. It must be abolished. What is your legacy. What will your position look like 10, 20, 30 years down the road from now . A side note. None of the cops wear their masks. I see them at the farmers market. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am charlie of district 5. I echo what people are saying about de funding the s. F. P. D. Now. We need more funds for public transit. Reparations for communities. People of color. Thank you so much for listening. I urge you to please listen to the people talking and to the protest movements. There are so many that is choice is clear. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I am jordan harville resident district 4. We will defund, disarm and disband s. F. P. D. The budget raised 76 in 12 years. Now when your constituents suffer you want to raise by another 43 million. We demand defunding of s. F. P. D. In this years budget and redirect to Public Health and housing and reparations to people of color and transcommunities. We have identified cuts right now. Defund s. F. P. D. Now. Com. In 20 years we will remember what side you are on. We look forward to seeing you at the ballot box. Fuck the police. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I live and work in San Francisco. I want to echo what everyone has been saying about abolishing the police. Folks said Police Target people of color and trans people. I think a shout out to mandelman from one gay person to another. It is time for you to show up as a gay person for our black and Brown Community members. Police are terrorizing them. Shut the fuck up. Please invest in black folks, queer and trans. As a young person we are watching. You need to pick it up. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am lindsey williams. I live in district 6. I agree with the facts that have been said in this hearing tonight. We should get rid of the s. F. P. D. I call for the defunding, dismantling and abolishing of the police. Black lives matter, poor lives matter, indigenous lives matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Defund, disarm the s. F. P. D. I have been here for 22 years. I have been around so many so killings. I avoid calling the crimes. They will escalate the situation and someone could end up dead. I want to lead in a city with the lowest numbers in the nation of homeless and incarceration and highest numbers of high school graduates. Civic engagement. This would mean a healthy and thriving city. For everyone to be the best they can be. We can take a step by taking this moment of power and leadership by the movement for black lives. Invest the money in housing, transit and education. It is the community that San Francisco wants and needs. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Please begin. I am district 5. Supervisor mandelman i voted for you. I want to relay a message for a member who did not want to call in for fear of harassment from the police. To expect support every set of of the reinvestment of funds to people of color in the city. The fact this person is afraid to speak at a Budget Hearing indicates the facts the relationship between the s. F. P. D. To protect is broken. Defund and disarm the s. F. P. D. Black lives matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. This is thomas omalley. Member of the San Francisco Police Department Airport Division. I just want to address the disrespect that the Airport Division has gotten. You think 260 officers. This last year i ascertained six vehicles stopped in the passenger dropoff zone. You think it is funny people might transport marijuana from San Francisco to los angeles. What if they go in the airport bathroom and panic and put the leg in the toilet and now they have a blue dial. Thank you very much for voting for the budget and increases. I need the overtime to buy a nice house so i dont have to live in the city any more. Keep doing what you are doing. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am gavin meadow in district 5. Calling to defund, disarm and disband the s. F. P. D. And redirect it toward Public Health for communities targeted by Police Including black, indigenous, people of color. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Cool. Hello. One of hundreds to a abolish the fucking police. This is stolen land. Channel the money towards supports instead of murdering women of color and trans women. I would lik like you to reflectn the hundreds of calls to demand you at minimum defund the police. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am brook williams. I am a member of socialist. I live in district 6. I am calling as a black queer woman do urge you disband s. F. P. D. Now and redirect it towards Public Housing and reparations for communities targeted by policing including black, people of color, transcommunities and our neighbors. We have identified cuts. We made it easy for you. You can take a look at those at defund sfpd now. Com. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Yes, i afafricanamerican woman in San Francisco. I want to echo the call of people to defund the police. I myself personally feel unsafe leaving my house at night. I feel like that is a horrible feeling to have. I want to echo what everyone else says. Defund the police. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am emma agnew. I am a social worker living in district 2. I work with communities and families of color in San Francisco. We knew never to call the police when we needed help where a kid or family in crisis. If the police were called it would lead to harm or death to clients. We would never use the police. That is tragic. They do not help. I am here to demand defunding and bottomlishing of the s. F. P. D. Put the resources into communities where they can help. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I have something slightly different to say than anybody else. Put down your phone for 30 seconds and stop playing candy crush. Listen. Outside there is a protest. It is not a movement. It is a revolution. You are on the wrong or right side. Defund the police immediately. The outcome of tonights meeting is going to determine what people see you, vote, whether or not you can leave your home. We will be there. We out number you. We out number all of you. I yield my time. Good night. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am lilly, educator and resident of district 1 and member of sunrise bay. I am calling you to defund s. F. P. D. And support our communities rather than oppress and harm them. It is immoral the budget cuts proposed for education and transportation but s. F. P. D. Is expected to use 736 million to tear other rise our black terrorize our black and brown. Black and Indigenous People of color and transand unhoused neighbors. This is a problem that cant be involved by reform. I urge you the board of supervisors to listen to the people you represent or we will vote you out. Now is the time to be bold and to build a future where people dont live in fear of being murdered for existing. Black lives matter, black translives matter and defund the police. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am katie. I am a social worker in district 8 in San Francisco. I am calling to ask for the defunding and disbanding of the s. F. P. D. From experience this is not safe. It is difficult for anyone invested in keeping the Community Safe to talk to the police. They act violently. They cause problems. Thank you very much. I yield my time. Defund the police. Thank you. I am charlotte quinn, i grew up San Francisco and went to Juvenile Hall at 16 for sleeping on public property. The residents of San Francisco live in fear of the police and unavoidable interactions with them. The resources are under funded and giving away our homes. Defund sfpd now to learn how the city can use my tax dollars by abolishing s. F. P. D. Now. The existence of s. F. P. D. Provides harm. They have settled 665 litigation claims at 33. 4 million to taxpayers. This is top of the budget. In the past 13 months we paid out 14. 7 million to settle lawsuits related to racism and sexism and police brutality. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors. I am kelly peterson. I love the city. I am disappointed by the failure and leadership in the budget presentation. I am calling to urge you to defund the s. F. P. D. With intention of abolishing. Proposal for 40 million while cutting 26 million from education is disrespectful. The dollarrance of police tolerance of police is unfunded. Any other form of reparations with neglected to adequately serve for decades. Reform is not an option. Police will not be the solution to problems they have created. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is. [ inaudible ] i work in Housing Services in San Francisco. It sickens me that increasing the budget 43 million is even thought of when there are 10,000 People Living on the streets and not having basic needs met. I demand defunding and dismantling and abolishing of s. F. P. D. I think that if nothing changes after hundreds of San Francisco citizens voiced their pinto defund the s. F. P. D. We do not live in a democracy. Thank you. I yield my time. Next caller, please. Hi. I am a resident of district 6 calling to defund and disband s. F. P. D. And redirect toward reparations by people of color and trans. There are a cuts a s. F. P. D. Today less than 5 of the services. [ inaudible ] 95 are not. When police speak in code public does not have people. [ inaudible ] officers who murdered in the crisis. Every unhoused person in the city with the s. F. P. D. Budget. Defund s. F. P. D. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am naturalli nat natalia. There are so many things that the Community Needs other than s. F. P. D. Millions of dollars for Public Transportation and Mental Health and medical help for people of color and low income and also an education. Reform. We want t to defund s. F. P. D. It is terrible to see teachers providing for students because there was not enough funding for Community Events and programs and take into consideration the community requests. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi there. I am Michael Garcia district 11. I tell people that San Francisco is where the future comes from. We have an opportunity right now to embrace the future and embrace justice. I beg you to please defund the police in this years budget. Save the schools and save the community. Black lives matter. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I want to echo the voices of the people before me calling to defund, disarm and disband the s. F. P. D. I believe San Francisco. [ inaudible ] in the 736 million budget for s. F. P. D. It is atrocious. It can bow fo can be for homele. [ inaudible ] it is time to abolish s. F. P. D. Black lives matter and black translives matter. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I live in district 1. I call to fill in gaps. Most overtime hours are not spent doing critical work. Planned events and rent a crop. A little planning over time can be avoided. It should not cost 20 million. From the labor perspective these can be salaried. Over 14 million the city had to pay out to settle lawsuits related to misconduct by s. F. P. D. By law offers came out of the general fund. I am calling to demand you demand and abolish the s. F. P. D. It is not a reason to keep it. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am sarah. Resident of district 2. Calling to demand you defund, disarm and disband s. F. P. D. In this years budget and redirect to Public Health, housing, reparations including black and people of color, trans communities and unhoused. There is a list of identified cuts at defund s. F. P. D. Now. Com. We must reimagine Public Safety for all. The s. F. P. D. Harms black community. Black people make up 5 of the population in San Francisco but 35 of the homeless, 54 of the jails and 40 People Killed by police. If black lives matter house black families not murder. Is budget of 763 million comes at expense of housing and social services that create Public Safety for all. We can all say a lot of pretty words about San Francisco values. The proof is in the budget. The top paid are sheriffs deputies and Police Officers. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am the devil. Thank you police chief scott for the murder patrol guardians of community. I want to reiterate reform. I enjoy the trauma s. F. P. D. Enacts and love the reform angle that they do nothing about it. Every other caller wants to defund s. F. P. D. It not fun for me. Reform for me, lucifer. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Resident of district so. I joined this call after attending the board of education trying to stretch the budget of 26 million in cuts. Trying to provide quality education under extraordinary challenging circumstances. Why should s. F. P. D. Get a 43 million increase . What does this say about values. Do the right thing. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am sylvia in district 3. I work in education. I demand the funding of the s. F. P. D. Because Police Presence in schools is upholding the present pipeline. You need to educate not criminalize youth. Not only does the Police Presence not belong in schools. They are cut by 26 million. By cutting the budget to give the Police Department millions of dollars. If you could have the city deependend on the s. F. P. D. Defunded not reformed. The funds need to go to healthcare and child care and train social workers, Mental Health and alternative programs to keep the residents of San Francisco safe. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am anna. Resident of district 2. As an early child educator i know that the police are not equipped to respond to the needs of children, families and communities. I have seen the first hand the fear in children as young as 2 years old retell harmful interactions with the police. How can supervisors allow 43 million while schools are facing 26 million in cuts . What does this say about values . I demand the San Francisco board of supervisors defund s. F. P. D. And redirect funds towards Public Housing and reparations to black communities to promote wellbeing of the communities. We spunked the communities and refund the communities. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I live in d4. The only way forward is to defund and disband s. F. P. D. And all police in San Francisco including the sheriff. Abolish in this budget and put these public funds to the community housing, health care, food, child care, transportation and direct support for the marginalized. The 350 million cut will be minimum and take funding back to slightly less than what supervisor proposed would in 2016 which was considered moderate. Criminal justice in the 70s [ inaudible ] are you a white supremacist or part of creating without police. Be bold and listen to the people of San Francisco. Police are trash. Are you going to take the trash out or be garbage, too. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I am angela. Professor at San Francisco state. I am in district 11. I am calling to check in on the supervisors it is about two hours since you were checked. Are you all present or playing angry bird . Lets hear a roll call for all 11 of you. There are only five of us on the call. We are all here. We are still here definitely. Well there is five out of 11. Very interesting. Anyhow i am glad you are here. It is a meeting with only five members. It is a committee meeting. That is fine. Defund police, abolish, listen to the community. Black trans livings matter. What side of history are you 5, 6, 11. We have to be on the same side together. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Before i call the next speaker. There are currently 128 listeners and 47 in the queue. If you had already spoken, you can only comment once. We will skip over you if you are trying to speak again. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I would like to say it is very clear what this community is calling for, and i just want to remind every one the average Police Salary is 180,000. Your salary is 140,000. There are people out here the educators teaching your children supervisors, we are making less than 50,000 a year and being asked to pay the highest rental prices in the country. What are you doing . What are you prioritizing . What do you care about . Do you care about anything other than yourself. Black lives matter, abolish aye and prisons. We are coming for the government you dont listen and dont care. It is clear. We are coming for you, too. That is that. I dont yield my time. It is in silence and think about your shame. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I live in district 5. What a lot of people are saying disarm now and redirect it towards Public Health, housing, reparations for communities targeted by policing including black and people of color, trans, it is for all. You have a great chance. Please listen to the people on the call. Lets move towards justice. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am sarah. I live in district 5 on industrial land. We need to invest in our community and not against it. Police do not keep us safe. Defund s. F. P. D. We need to stop policing up housed people. They are black and r. F. Q. Plus. We need to remove s. F. P. D. And provide care not cops. Supervisors be on the right side of history. Defund this and disband. Black lives and black trans lives matter. Thank you. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I am julie. I am a San Francisco native, resident district 2 and work in district 3. I am calling to demand we de stand, disarm the s. F. P. D. And redirect towards reparations for communities most targeted by policing and imprisonment. We are in a position of having well equipped social workers that we need to fund. Muni needs funding. By rejecting this increase this can be your legacy. Reject the proposed budget. Defunding police is not about leaving my communities to violence. It is using a more effective intervention and recovery. This can be our legacy. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. Hi. I was part of the police scandal. I want to say the police never pay sex workers. They bribe them. The sex sucked. We have a right to be respected and do what they do. You know, the Text Messages were racist and sexist. Defund the police. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am jeff. I live in district 9. City college of San Francisco student. I have been to too many budget budgetings begging for money for Public Education. We dont have a fulltime africanamerican studies teacher at our school. We cant wait six more months for someone to hire someone. We dont have a counselor to help students right now. We need to defund this arm and abolish s. F. P. D. To get the police out. It is the police that mead 430 million. Hold a bake sell and sell doughnuts. If you are in support go out on the street and do it. It is not on our community to keep begging when the citys general fund pays for these crimes that have been committed by such a racist institution. We need to get rid of this now. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am a lifelong district 7 voter. All of my life i have witnessed s. F. P. D. Abuse the public with no commences especially back, brown, homeless people. I urge everyone to. [ inaudible ] everyone should read the mayors text. Please come and get these people laying on the sidewalk at 800 market. She texted the police. There is a man sleeping on the bench on height street. She seeks the s. F. P. D. On homeless residents and lies about it. We need to defund this year. I know you claim to have histories and have done work in your youth. Now is your time to act now that you have the power. Defund the s. F. P. D. Today. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. [ inaudible ] next speaker, please. I am becky. I work at the just cause. I have lived in San Francisco six years. I join the others on the call t defund the s. F. P. D. At a time when more support and services needed and departments are asked for large cuts. S. F. P. D. Is asking for more funding. It will not change the function of the police. They do not serve the plaqu thek communities. It poses a risk to their lives. I demand this vote to defund ths. F. P. D. And invest in a methd to keep us safe. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am john titus, resident d9. Happy to hear from neighbors to disarm, defund and disband s. F. P. D. Defund s. F. P. D. Now, if you want mormore details. We are telling you that s. F. P. D. Is going to be defunded. The question is whether it is this board or another board we vote in if you do not listen. We are not going away. You have seen hour quickly this has grown in the last few weeks. We are getting larger. If you want to keep your large then defund the damn s. F. P. D. Our schools are facing cuts. Give me a break. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am appointed by the board of supervisors. I help coordinate efforts for incarceration something that is near and dear to me by a personal experience. I am speaking to you as a San Francisco resident and on behalf of the center for human rights that i organized. The truth is that our nations long history of Racial Injustice created a criminal inJustice System that targets black and brown and low income communities. The rest of the nation the San Francisco i know has never valued black or brown lives. Decades it has divested from Health Resources in our community and doubled down on funding the harmful systems of policing and incarceration. S. F. P. D. And the sheriff serves no purpose other than to destroy black lives, dreams and futures. We have an opportunity to reckon with this and reinvest in communities. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am with. [ inaudible ] i will say this hearing of the supervisors is a bad joke. It is around the Country Police violence and racism. They dare to call a meeting to increase the budget of the San Francisco Police Department. We are for defunding 100 the Police Department and abolishing and replacing with Community Organizations. The supervisor investigate how they claim the cops are still trained on racism. They train new police on the fact the blm is a organization. [ inaudible ] it is the Training Facility showing how Police Department expressed every moment for free speech. Abolish police now. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am nick child in district 6. I would acknowledge we are on foreign land. I am voicing support for defunding and disbanding s. F. P. D. They are not protecting our communities. They terrorize the people of color and especially our unhoused neighbors. They terrorize. No more bs. We need to defund and invest in things the San Francisco Community Needs. Public health, housing, education. We need this this year. We are waiting. Defund now in this years budget and redirect towards reparations for communities targeted including black and people of color and transand unhoused neighbors. You can view it at abolish s. F. P. D. Next speaker, please. I am cameron resident of district 14 calling as so many others to support defunding s. F. P. D. Now. You are not calling for reform abolition. You cant reform a system that is racist. In 2019 only 5 of the city population, black people accounted to 40 of all police searches. 735 transgenders were stopped and searched in 2019. S. F. P. D. Pointed guns at 2. 4 times every day and only 14 of the 868 times in defense of selfor others. Five out of five of the officers who shot marie woods had undergone training. You may ignore your issues in purchase. Peoples lives are at stake. Invest in education, housing, transportation, social services and reparations to communities targeted to the police. Thank you. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am rafael. I liv live in d8 i am here to support the Cost Savings Solutions we have given to defund the police. How do you feel knowing your tax money supports suffering and death in the communities you serve . There is a chance to make peoples lives better. We are afraid of the police and you are, too. Good luck getting reelected. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I live in district 7. Thank you for listening to Public Comment. The community is united. Defund s. F. P. D. We have been telling you all afternoon the city relies on transit to be safe. They are expecting 500 million loss of revenue for the transit. Healthcare, black people without housing have no healthcare. Rather than making housing safe, you are considering investing in the spud interested. When i was in the tenderloin i saw them harass the homeless once each month. I urge you to defund s. F. P. D. And put money to house homeless and remove lead paint to make housing safe for all. Defund the police. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am hello, im a Student Living in district 11 and i want to say fund the police. Increase the budget because San Francisco is the leader of property crime in america. Despite that, i still love my city. When im walking downtown, no matter what time it is, i see a cop in the area, i feel safer. I never felt threaten by the presence of police. I like to walk without worrying about a victim in the city. Im hispanic. So this is absolutely hilarious. I havent been the only one sees our elders being harassed by thugs. I demand for the sf board of supervisors to fund the cops. I yield my time. Thank you for your comment, next speaker please. Hi everybody, my name is alley aldridge. Whats up, defund sfpd now. Im a district 5 resident. Thank you dean preston for your words calling for apolishment and not defunding of sfpd. I was going to spew a bunch of stats illustrating the way which the Current System of police is failing, especially our black and brown, but honestly we heard this. Chief scotts report on reform has provided the best case for abolishment i heard to date. Its long, expensive, piecemeal and ineffective that is proven to be more expensive and less effective, building safe and supportive communities. Reform efforts are backwards in looking at this issue. We need to create a brand new system to meet those needs. Defund and abolish sfpd now. Thank you for your comments, next speaker please. Hi, hola. Aloha. Less than half of the supervisors to hear us directly, im a copilot. Im a 15 year resident out of district 5 in San Francisco and mom of a rising second grader with brown skin, brown eyes with brown curly hair. Im calling you to defund and disarm the San Francisco Police Department this budget dear. I stay in solidarity with the black and brown lives matter move. I dont know why San Francisco police get 43 million increase while the Public Schools are experiencing a 27 million cut in their budget. Thats insane. Here are some projects in which we can do instead. We can restore the native habitats in our community. Next speaker please. Oh, hello . Hi. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Hi, my name is lisa and im a student teacher at sfsd. Increasing the budget of a police force that terrorizes and murders black and Brown Community members and defunding Life Sustaining Nursing Services like Mental Health and education is an act of violence. Who are you protect . Whos security . You have to power to do it right for the people that need it most. Fund Community Reparations for black, indigenous, and people of color for trans communities and our neighbors. Thank you. Thank you for your comments, next speaker please. I dont know, from the outside [inaudible] thank you for your comment, next speaker please. [inaudible] hi, my name is ann. Im a resident of district 7. I am a retired person and i know that my neighbors are very concerned with property issues. The positive interactions that we had with police could have been done with someone who is not a gun wielding person. In fact, our neighborhood has been treated by the police with harassment. People of color who are just passing through. I am definitely in favor of defunding the police and coming up with more Creative Solutions and more Just Solutions that address Public Safety as many of the callers have talked about. Thank you for your attention. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi, this is emma of district 8. I also want to agree with the airport cop and the rest of the Community Calling to defund the sfpd now in this years budget and redirect it to the communities that have been most targeted by policing, including black, indigenous, and people of color, trans communities. In this historic movement, we need to reimagine what Public Safety for all looks like and who are the Police Serving and protecting . I am from a country with a less Brutal Police force and we have been fine. Public safety for all, we must defund sfpd and refund our community. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you for your comment. Before we queue in the next caller, there are approximately 126 callers listening and 43 in the queue. Please queue the next caller. Hello. My family lived in the Mission District their whole lives. My parents know tom, and the universal healthcare policy piece was the instrumental i was a huge beneficiary of the piece on free meals for low income youths. Hillary, my question or my hope for you is that you will continue this long legacy of Mission District supervisors who have done the right thing, moved the city towards more progressive angle and work towards defunding the police in what is the easiest time ever to do so as an elected politician. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi, my name is robin and i live and work in district 9. I want to take a quick trip down memory lane. The sfpd was form in 1849 and two years later a frenchman wrote about the police force saying its made up of exbandits and theyre interest in saving their old friends from punishment. Policemen here are quite as much to be feared as the robbers. If they know you have money, they will be the first to knock you on the head. Many years must pass before order can be established. The sfpd has never been about the people. Im calling to defund, disarm, and disband sfpd now and this years budget and redirect it towards Public Health, housing, and reparation for black, indigenous, and people of color and trans communities. I yield my time. Thank you for your comment, next speaker please. Hi, i live in district 8. Im calling to demand that you defund sfpd. Over the last decade, my partner and i considered calling 911 many times but we never really feel safe doing that. When we find a person lying unconscious on the sidewalk, we dont know if calling for help is going to escalate the situation. This has happened. As a white person, its good that i have the privilege of making the choice. Many people of color know better and they dont think thats an option. This community should be able to dial 911 and get a good response. Fund Mental Health services, fund school services, dont give money to an organization that shoots people and doesnt care about people. Thank you for your comment, next speaker please. Hi, i want to echo the demands i heard to defund the sfpd. Now im in the district 2 and i lived in the tenderloin for years. I seen the sfpd harass my neighbors on a number of occasions. I never call the police because i knew it would escalate the situation. Instead of continuing to fund the police, we should distribute that money to our community, in housing, Public Health, and education. Its not about individuals and their intentions, its about a system. Its not something you can reform. Black lives matter. Black trans lives matter and must be protected. I yield my time. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi, my name is amanda. Im within district 3. I agree with the community that we must defund and disband the sfpd. Why should they get a 43 million increase when schools are facing 26 million in cuts . What does this say about who we are . We think this is more important than education children or harassing poor people. Our Biggest Issue is housing and half of the pds budget we can house every unhoused person in San Francisco and have money to invest in transit, universal child care, and education, and programs that keep us safe. The top paid employees in our city are Police Officers and sheriff deputies. What does that say about San Francisco . We must defund the sfpd this year in this years budget. Thank you. Thank you for your comment, next speaker please. Hello . Hello speaker. Yes, hi. My name is jason, i live in district five. I want to make the point that i heard asserted earlier is that the more money on sfpd, the safer someone feels. Over the last four years, the city paid 90 more Million Dollars than there were and property crimes have remained stagnant. Money well spent. I dont know what else to say. I work in social work and i watched the same people cycling in and out of the criminal Justice System that are committing crimes they are committing through a need to survive. We need to devote resources to housing people and feeding people and give people reasons to get off the street. Thats it. I yield. Black lives matter, power to the people. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. [inaudible] hello speaker . Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Can you hear me . Yes, please proceed. Shit, fuck. Fuck. Hello . Hello caller . Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Hi, im alley. Im a resident of district two. Supervisor Catherine Stefanis district and i know that supervise stefani as a gun safety advocate that we cant address gun safety without addressing police brutality. We continue to have our black and communities of color harassed by police and to be on the official budget. This past year alone we had to pay out 14. 7 million in lawsuits related to Police Misconduct, brutality, and discrimination. We can all say a lot of pretty words about San Francisco values, but the proof is in the budget and where were spending our money. Right now our budget of 736 million comes at the expense of social services, housing, and the thank you for your time. Next speaker please. Hello . Hi, please begin. Hi, my name is monica and i live and work in San Francisco. I want to echo the previous comments that now is the time to defund sfpd and not institute reform and invest the money in the community, especially black and brown communities. Police abolition repulse me. In reality, the police are a placebo. Calling them felt like something and something felt like everything when your option is nothing. I think about it as an invitation to create and support lots of answers to the problems of harm in the society. Its an opportunity to eliminate harm in the first place. If we care about reducing neighborhood killings, we must invest in Community Development and peace program. We can eliminate violence sorry. We can provide communities with opportunities thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello, im a district four resident and chair of the San Francisco youth commission. Im calling to demand the defunding of the police and abolition of Law Enforcement in our city. I was born believing that San Francisco was progressive, but the exact same Racial Injustices happen here, whether its racism, police brutality. We need to end this to ensure equity in our city and our first step is defunding the police. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. [inaudible] hello speaker . Hi, im a resident of district one and i work in district six. Im calling to demand that we must defund, disarm, and abolish the sfpd now. The system is murdering black, indigenous, and people of color. Our education spending per capita is half or less than other cities. The violent mismanagement of our money and the reflection of the governments white supremacist values. Abolishing sfpd now would house every houseless person in the city. We could invest in education, transit, child care, and programs that keep our communities safe. Fund education, Fund Solutions for housing, defund and abolish the San Francisco Police Department. You have the responsibility to stop the traumatic impact thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello speaker . [inaudible] hello speaker . Hello speaker . Hello speaker . [inaudible] madam clerk, do we have a technical problem . Yes madam chair, i am checking with our i. T. Staff on the issue. Hi, i heard mine is unmuted. Yes, please proceed. Hi, im a long time district six resident, the district where sfpd decided to push many of the citys most difficult issues incredibly on top of their 700 million budget. They paid nearly 15 million this year to settle misconduct claims. In 2016, the department of justice made 272 recommendations for sfpd reforms and less than a quarter of that has been completed in four years. We demand that the supervisors defund the department and redirect the money towards Public Health, education, housing, and to communities most targeted by policing, including black, indigenous, and people of color and our unhoused neighbors. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. [inaudible] hello . Hi. I am a district six resident and i just wanted to call in to say that quite frankly even if there are no replacements of the police, it is better when they dont do things. Like the safest and the best i seen has been wherever the Police Stopped harassing people for the fear of covid on the street. People started forming communities and building stuff and actually able to live their lives, doing absolutely nothing is better for people than the police. Thats not counting the fact that there are all sorts of things you could be paying people to do. That would be helpful for the city. So, like everybody says, disfund, disarm, abolish the police. They dont help us. They dont do the things they say they do. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi, thank you. My name is tyler. I live in district six. I want to encourage you to check out defund sfpd. It doesnt just say defund the police but it has detailed proposal that list almost 300 million in cuts. Please check it out. So i want to address the implication that there is a shortage of patrol officers. I think thats what i heard the police say. If you walk around the tenderloin, you see three or four police cars, just to arrest or question one person. So i just im sorry i dont buy it that there is a shortage of patrol officers. I also have to admit that tonight was the first time i heard the phrase Public Housing officers. The fact that thats even a specific category of officers suggests that those who live in Public Housing are more likely to be criminals or need to be policed and that doesnt make sense to me. It seems that thats an obvious place to start with making some cuts thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello, can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Hi, my name is michelle and i live in San Francisco in district six. I demand you defund, disarm and disband sfpd in this years budget. Police do not keep us safe. One of the least safe feelings is when i walk down Market Street and see 12 Police Officers surrounding a vulnerable, unhoused person, just sitting on the road. Are they helping this person get housed . Are they making anyone safer . Supervisors, i think you know the answer is know and this budget calls for 43 million in increases. We are giving you permission to invest in building a more just and equal community. If youre scared out the p. O. A. Will react. We have your backs. If you ignore the demands of your constituents, then we dont have your back. If Catherine Stefani took thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello speaker . [inaudible] hi, my name is kate and i am a resident of district five. I am calling to defund to ask you to defund, disarm and disband sfpd now and redirect it towards Public Health, housing, and represent appreciations for those communities targeted by police. Were asking for Public Safety for all. Specifically i dont understand why sfpd should get a 43 million increase while schools are facing a 26 million cut, especially during times of covid when schools are needing more resources than ever. What does this budget say about our values . What is more important, educating children or harassing and policing people. How are people supposed to get to work . This will impact 99 of citizens in this city. Thank you for your ticomment next speaker please. Hello speaker . Hello. My name clark, and ive been on this call for basically four hours and this isnt my job. I want to let you know that many people said this before me but muni is thinking of cutting 40 bus lines from the 60. Thats crazy, and the Education Department is facing 26 million in cuts, and we continue to fund the police. They arent even solving any of the problems we have. So i just want to take the rest of my time to have you guys think about this. Just really think about it. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there other people in the queue . Yes, madam chair. Before we queue up the next caller, there are approximately 115 callers listening and 37 in the queue. Please queue in the next caller. Hello. My mic was muted while you were speaking, can i still go . Yes, please proceed. Im going to use my Public Comment time to make some instruction. I hear 143 people are still listening. This might mean that its you, but you wanted to speak. Please dial star 3 until you hear your hand has been raised. If you do not hear that your hand has been raised, then please hang up or please push star 3 again, try that a few times and if you dont hear that your hand has been raised, call back. Sometimes theres interference from air pods. Again, i would not like to use my time on this moderator but your instructions have been unclear. If you are not sure whether you heard your hand has been raised, make sure you press star 3 until you hear that. It might move you back in line. Thank you for making your Public Comment. Defund sfpd. We appreciate your time and we hope you understand this is serious. Thank you for your time, next speaker please. [inaudible] my name is julie and im calling on the board of supervisors to defund sfpd. Anything less than a 100 million cut wont be a significant reduction. That would be following the covid instructions. Im urging the abortboard of supervisors to invest in black folks in San Francisco, including sfusd called on the city to get rid of sros and it will be 3 million to fund restorative practitioners, social workers, and other efforts that are more effective and less damaging than police. They also deserve the staff, and to be fully funded and not be in a closet. Likewise, black students at sf state thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Hello . Hi, my name is ron. Im a district one resident. Sfpd and their honorable chief. Our Police Department does one of the most important jobs there is, protect job creators like me. I am a democrat and i think its sad that there are bad apples in the police and im glad were working on reform, but we cant get rid of them entirely because they have an important job. They protect job creators like me. Go nancy pelosi. Go sfpd. Thank you. Thank you for your comment, next speaker please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Can you hear me . Thanks. This is from district six. Decades to attempt to reform the sfpd has failed, followed by the california doj has been trying to reform sfpd after multiple incidents of use of force and Text Messages between officers. Sfpd completed 6 of the 54 reforms and these reforms have failed. 76 of all use of force by sfpd was against people of color. Last year, despite San Francisco looking at 5 of the city population, black people were 40 of all police searches. 5 out of the 5 officers have gone under crisis intervention training. Sfpd settled claims that cost 33. 4 million to taxpayers thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Oh, hi, thank you. My name is lindsay. My brother was homeless for many years throughout the bay area and died of an accidental overdose last year at the age of 29 after finally getting housing. He was stopped by the police constantly and his property raided. He faced violence on the street and felt that no one was there to help him. Even the Police Officers that were friendly to him were unable to do anything for him. I can imagine a world where people like my brother are helped instead of harassed, given options for treatment and housing. I can imagine a world where people like my brother are supported and not harassed constantly. Defund, disband, and disarm the sfpd. Thank you. Thank you for your comment, next speaker please. Hello, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Okay, my name is lauren, im from district nine. I demand that we defund, disarm, and disband the sfpd now and redirect it to community that have been most targeted by policing. The sfpd is antiblack and thats not something you can reform or train away. The only way to do this is to get rid of the armed agents attacking and arresting all our black neighbors. We must refund our community. Set an example for the rest of the country so they can do the same and fix our policing system. Thank you. Thank you for your comment, next speaker please. Hello . Hi, we can hear you. Hi, im a district one resident for eight years. I like to address the overturn budget specifically, which you said was over 20 million, while keeping in mind that 5 of sfpd calls are for violent crimes. Align that with whether or not youre capable of correcting that package. There was an incident in my neighborhood regarding an unhoused man, experiencing a Mental Health episode which escalated to a panic attack. He had a small sharp object which prompted the sfpd to have 25 officers on site. The situation was a human being going through a health episode. How does sending 25 officers with guns that resemble weapons of war help someone with a panic attack calm down. They didnt know what was happening and didnt know what approach the police were taking specifically. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello, my name is mariah. Im a resident of San Francisco and i work in the city as well. I encourage the supervisors to consider what is the maximum you can do, and lead the way for the rest of the country and the state and show that you care about peoples lives. How are they a benefit . People are saying theyre not. [inaudible] you have a great opportunity. Please dont waste it. Think about what youre willing to do and what you can do. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi. Hi. Im a district nine resident, im an immigrant. Im speaking on behalf of colleagues who arent able to stay on this call for nineplus hours. Im calling to request that you defund and disband the sfpd and not reform it. Defunding the police is about refunding our communities. I like to raise the fact that Police Lawsuits cost sf taxpayers an additional 15 million above and beyond the official budget in this past year alone. These funds should come from Police Pensions and salaries as represent pragues and not from taxpayer pockets. We should raise the salaries of those providing essential services. Police officers receive salaries three times of those of Health Workers and teachers. It should be rediverted thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Shoot. Hi, im calling from district 11. Im a teacher. I think the one common thing that everyone calling for defunding, disbanding, and disarming the police. Were talking about the people who are advocating for keeping the services of the Police Department are talking about property. The earlier caller was talking about a clear divide. You can align yourself with an abolition movement. This is the second time that you can be a frederick douglas. If you dont take this opportunity, it very clearly shows where you stand when you could be funding the unified school district, or you could be employing the youth, or you could be housing every single houseless person in thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi, im calling from district nine. Ive been a resident here for 10 years. Im calling to disarm, defund, and disband the police. All the things that could make San Francisco a leader in this country and in the world of how our Community Takes care of it seriously, and i hope the supervisors take that into account. This is about taking care of our people over property or anything else and i hope thats what happens. All right, i yield my time. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello, can you hear me . [inaudible] hello, there is a lot of feedback. Okay, can you hear me now . Yes, please begin. Can you hear me now . Yes, you may begin. Okay. Hi, im a black woman in San Francisco. Police dont value my right because of my skin color. People here are systemically raci racist, terrorizing us and destroying our community. We are suffering and its disgusting and we have to beg for the right. Passing this budget would be clear of the cowardice. You need to defund, disarm, and disband the sfpd this year and redistribute the funds thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello, my name is erin. Im a resident, educator in district one, San Francisco. Im calling like everyone else to demand that San Francisco, defund, disarm, and disband sfpd. I am disgusted to learn that San Francisco spends more per capita on policing than most major cities. At the same time our education spending per capita is half or less than that, that than other major cities. San francisco should divert funds away from sfpd and towards supports that focus on Community Success and wellbeing. I want to reiterate the point that we must listen to our black community now more than ever. Our White Supremacy culture, it looks like those without positional power, not knowing how decisions get made or who makes those decision and they are familiar with the impact of those decisions as seen by t the thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello. Hello . Hi, we can hear you. Hello my name is fay and im a resident of district nine and im a historian of the city and county of San Francisco with a specific focus on the citys racist policing of its the 19th century. I want to reiterate what robin said. The history of sfpd is fundamentally racist and there is no way to reform that out. The Police Department has had over 150 years, a century and a half to reform itself out of its racist roots and it has not done anything. If it hasnt changed in 150 years, its not going to change quickly enough to keep the people of San Francisco safe from this violence. Thank you, i yield my time. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. [inaudible] hi, my name is susan. Im from district five. Im appalled that San Francisco spends more on policing than most major cities. We spend more on sfpd than house and recreational programs and the homeless combined. Can we really say were progressive let alone leaders . Black people make up 5 of sf, but 40 chose by police. If we truly want to make our city safer, we cant just reform. We seen reform time and time again. We must defund sfpd and district funding towards Public Health funding and Mental Health support to take this opportunity to reimagine what true Public Safety and terror looks like for everyone. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments, next speaker please. Hi, this is martin from district five. I was calling to demand that the San Francisco board of supervisors defund the police. It was really heartbreaking to hear that youth was taken away from the budget and it would have cost 2 million. It really inspired me to call for just some of that Police Budget to go directly to that program. With that being said, there is a tragedy in our School System that we are severely underfunding on sfusd. It would be imperative on the board of supervisors to look at where Police Budgets could be shifted towards. Furthermore, our black community is 5 today so represent prettiuations would be taken out of the budget. I would like to see thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hello boot lickers, i mean supervisors. Im an educator living in district 11 and occupied land. Im here in support of defunding, disarming, and disbanding and demanding that you redirect the funds towards Public Health, housing, and to those communities most affected by police. We identified changes you can make right now at defundsfpd. Com. Sfpd is racist and you cant defund racism. Take cops out of our schools. Take cops out of our community. We wont forget Jessica Williams who was houseless and kill in 2016. Black lives matter. Black sex workers matter, black transworkers matter. I dont wave my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Hello, i just wanted to note that an earlier speaker was making a great point. The police were made to protect him and his stuff. That just goes to show that sfpd is reinforcing White Supremacy, protecting wealthy white people and their property at the expense of everybody elses lives. I want to reiterate the point that people who are cycling in and out of the Justice System are not there because they want to be. The cost of our criminal Justice System is spiraling out of control. Without a change to our safety, the criminal Justice System is a danger to our community. These funds could address the community directly instead of wasted this way. Disarm and defund the sfpd and redirect it for represent thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Great. Hi, my name is catherine. I live in district four. Im calling to demand that sfpds budget be cut immediately. The fact that you would think to increase the budget right now, not only when the public is calling for defending and abolishing the police but during a global pantoja pandemic is a disgrace. You want to increase the Police Budget right now . All we ever hear from politic n politicians from San Francisco is how theyre going to solve homelessness and every single new person that comes into office has a plan to fix things and you know what would fix it . 320 million, which is less than half of the Police Budget. No, you choose to increase the Police Budget, ignore your constituents, and you are absolute hypocrites. Were not safe and youre not solving shit and were all watching. Thank you for your comment. Before we queue in the next caller, i wanted to update everyone that there are approximately 100 callers listening and 32 in the queue. Next speaker please. [inaudible] hi, i live in district eight. Since 2013, sfpd settled 665 litigation claims. In if last 13 months, the city paid 14 million to police lawsu lawsuits, and police brutality. You have the power to replace officers with trained deescalation specialists and Mental Health counsellors. Some worry that defunding the police may lead to chaos. Were not asking for chaos. Chaos is 20,000 People Living on the street. Police are ordered to make routine sweeps of encampments and people dying because they cant afford healthcare. Defunding the police may sound radical. That shouldnt stop california policymakers from defunding education for the last several decades. You have an amazing opportunity. You can reimagine how we value life in the city thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Great, yeah, i tried earlier. Anyway, my name is aiden. Im a resident of district nine but im a lifelong resident of San Francisco. I completely support the message. That was great. Yeah, what is up with that comment about the police just protecting the property. Its so true. That guy i dont know where he was going with that. We need to protect the people. We need to protect black people, trans people, black lives matter, its coronavirus right now. We need all the support we can get for the people of San Francisco. I waive my time. Thank you for your comment. I just want to remind those who are interested in commenting on this item to press star 3. Next speaker please. Hi, im a resident of district three. We have black lives matter painted on our roads. Do you know how painful it is for black women and men to see these signs everyday as theyre trying to go to work and just live, and black people continue to die and get hurt on our streets. The actions were taking are only hurting more. We need to take the right actions and attempt to change the justices which this country was created. No more objects. We have a black mayor and black chief of police, the data mentioned is in the place of San Francisco. Its time to invest in our community and build safety in our neighborhoods together. Stop killing black and brown people. Start building a world where you are proud to leave for your children. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Hi there. My name is destiny. Im a resident of San Francisco. I suggest that we demilitarize, defund, and disband the sfpd. Not a Single Person said theyre in favor of this projected budget. Sfpd is directly responsible for the issues we face in this city. Most calls for Police Services is related to Public Health. Abolishing sfpd would allow us to reallocate these funds directly to those resources and social services. Sfpd has been reformed. We are willing to acknowledge the harm of racial and motivated 911 calls, but who we call to report to when our Police Department is antiblack, racist thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Great, hi. Im a resident of district 11. I hope you are all listening to what people have been saying because theres been really good points being made. We need to defund, disarm, and abolish the police. Everyone is paying attention. This is a historical moment and you need to do the right thing. We have so Many Services that are helping people, that are being that are not being funded. We need education for our children. This past semester there were kids that didnt have internet, so they werent getting the education. They werent getting educated. You have the ability to redirect this money and do whats right with it. We spend 6. 6 million a year to the Public Housing community over policing of black and brown families. We need to defund s. F. P. D. Now and redirect it toward reparations towards communities targeted by policing including black, indigenous, and people of color. We have identified cuts that you can make now. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I live, work and vote and pay taxes in district 3. I am calling to urge you to defund and abolish s. F. P. D. Is budget is double what it would cost to house every one of our suffering neighbors in the city. The s. F. P. D. Is racist, classist and broken. It needs dismantled. They protect White Property more than black and brown. You know the right thing to do. Defund and abolish s. F. P. D. And reinvest in the community with those resources. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am isabel. I am a resident of district 4. I demand you defund and disarm the s. F. P. D. Budget. We must work to build alternatives. This begins with defunding the racist institution. The s. F. P. D. Does not protect the black and indigenous and people of color. We saw this with the murderings of black and brown lives. This does not mean making meaningless cuts, slashing personnel that is to terrorize neighborhoods. Commit to redistributing funds to Public Education and reparations. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am a proud residence of district 3. I am calling to defund and abolish s. F. P. D. Enough. I work in the tech industry. They love to protect us. When the police talk about Public Safety they talk about people like me not the people of color who they harass every day. Just today i came across two policemen talking to a black woman. They saw my phone and backed up. We need to reimagine what Public Safety looks like and who is included in the definition of the public. Defund and disarm s. F. P. D. Or we will vote in people who will. Next speaker, please. I am kelly walsh. Resident of district 8. I am calling to the board of supervisors to defund, disarm the s. F. P. D. Black and people of color and transcommunities and unhoused neighbors. As the parent of a biracial black student i have seen firsthand the criminalization, over policing and pushing out of black persons at s. F. P. D. I have seen cuts to social workers, Community Coordinators and other critical conditions. We need to dismantle the pipeline to defund the police and aand al locate the funds foe black community. Next speaker, please. I am kelsey. I was born and raised in district 7. I am calling to demand you disarm s. F. P. D. Now and redirect the funds to Public Housing and reparations by those targeted. Less than 5 of s. F. P. D. Calls are violent crime. The word Public Safety is not referring to the blacks. They are referring to the wealthy homeowners. Police cannot be transformed. They have undergone crisis city. We could house every unhoused person in the community. Refund our communities. Please visit sfpd now where they have identified cuts to make right now. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I live in d10. I want to say we need to work on building the communities up. The s. F. P. D. Has proven they cant do that. In a way they are in a position to fail. We are asking them to do what other people in the city are more qualified to do. What s. F. P. D. Does right now and when they respond to unhoused folks, it does not add value to the community. Certainly not to our most vulnerable neighbors. The s. F. P. D. Needs more money to police itself is ludicrous. They will not police themselves. It is a cultural problem. You cannot solve cultural problems with money. Public safety needs to be rethought and not breakdown our neighbors. Stop asking the rest of us to do more with us while continuing to feed the s. F. P. D. Give money thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am lauren. I live in district 8. I am calling to demand the board of supervisors disarm s. F. P. D. They are calling 40 million from the department when my neighborhood is covered in tent cities and unhouse folks. It would negatively impact neighbors doing with less, less than a quarter of the proposed budget would cover that. There are a few examples where they would be directed. Choose to support education of youth, invest in black and indigenous and people of color communities that have been strategically devalued and terrorized by Police Officers. We are past reform. Now we want to stand for the rights of the citizens. Many of whom we do not support next speaker, please. This is katie burn strum, district 4. Anyone who has looked at the reports know the reform is not working. The s. F. P. D. Is ineffective. They only filed 18 of rapes, 9 of Motor Vehicle thefts. We are activated, all eyes on you right now. We ask you to do something drastic to improve quality of life. I do encourage you to visit defund sfpd now for our demands. We will keep calling, hang flyers, defund sfpd is on twitter all night. We are going to do it until we get what we need. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Let me get this right. You fools are going to cut 40 bus lines and increase the Police Budget 43 million. It makes no sense. People are not paying attention to local politics. We have to Defund Police. If you dont we will vote you out. My supervisor doesnt have policies on the website. You will be replaced. Hand in your badges. Black lives matter. I dont yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am a queer in district 9. Why do we ask for an increase in budget. Michael t run man makes 360,000 a year. Carmel is charged making 215,000 a year. 1 77,000 a year. James. [ inaudible ] black lives matter, black translives matter. Abolish sfpd now. I do not yield my time. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am maria. I am a resident district 9. I was born and raised in San Francisco. I am calling for the defunding and disbanding of the s. F. P. D. In 23 years living here i have never been helped by the police. I have been helped by muni and education and housing. This is where we need to invest. In addition to reparations for black and brown people who are forgotten by s. F. P. D. They are racist and you thes know this. Mario woods was married five years ago. Is that not enough reason to believe policing does not work, then i question your leadership. If you all dont do anything we will vote you out. Okay . Your careers are on the line here. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. This is caroline cochrane, resident of district 1. As pregnant woman it is distressing to know a black infant in San Francisco is twice as likely to be born prematurely than white. You are continuing to put money into s. F. P. D. It is disgraceful we are progressive when we pushed out and oppressed the black Community Since the 1960s increasing the economic gap between white and black residents. De fund and abolish s. F. P. D. Now. Housing, social services, Public Health and muni. Think about the preterm babies. Address the 23,000 on the street and the black people represent on even 5 of our city. Refund our community. Reform does not work. Stop policing the protests. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I am kiley. I am calling to request the s. F. P. D. Be disbanded. It is to redirect resources. The black, trans, and it is important that it is safe from violence and antiblack Police Department. It is working as it was originally designed. Discriminate. Black folks are 5 but account for 54 of the jail population and 40 of the People Killed by police. Black lives matter. Stand for the system which cannot be reformed. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am calling for district 6 to defund, disarm and disband s. F. P. D. Now in this years budget. I learned from a caller earlier on the line that for 2 million we could feed kids in s. F. U. S. D. Schools. We are spending the money on police. That is ridiculous. The Police Budget should be redirected to Public Health, housing, reparations. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thanks for your patience tonight. I am calling for you to defund s. F. P. D. , reform has failed in 2015. My quote half breed son, according to the s. F. P. D. Was unjustly beaten and arrested at our home. There was a lawsuit on our behalf. The settlement barely covered medical cost. It was to highlight s. F. P. D. Abuses. Nothing changed. We still such deep trauma. Update on the status of the violent officers who the d. P. A. Told me were on the radar. Montoya is now the president of the poa. A murderer, joshua, went on to commit further abuses resulting in two more lawsuits, one involving shooting a citizen in a back. Consider the majority of money thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello i am brandy markman. District 1. I am recommending that the s. F. P. D. Be defunded. I am a parent in the district school. Our school is heading into the possibility for reopening for in person classes this fall. We do not have a nurse. Think about safety. This is the situation at a lot of Public Schools. It is because we are so under funded. I dont think that is the situation with the s. F. P. D. I know we have three on the Budget Committee former school commissioners. We look to you to do the right thing for our children. Thank you for listening to my comments. Next speaker, please. I am in the 12th district. I wanted to urge you to defund the s. F. P. D. It is almost 11 00 and people are still calling in. There is a lot of support and outrage. I work in data. [ inaudible ] there is no reason to keep funding the s. F. U. S. D. Education and libraries and muni for the city. [ inaudible ] that money can be better used. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I want to thank the moderator. You have been here for a long time and the supervisors for listening to us. I am sure you recognize the gravity of the situation as do all of us calling in, hoping we can have a progressive and historical moment for San Francisco. I am also calling for the defunding of the police. I am gabriel dover, a resident of district 2 and lifelong resident of San Francisco. When i was 15 years old i was invited to a house party and had police bust in. They pointed at my chest because i was drinking a beer. Sorry. That was inappropriate. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am joel medina. I think what we need to do is defund the police. I think the s. F. P. D. Is doing such a great job what they are doing which they are not doing anything. What they need to do is divert the money away towards Affordable Housing and people of color in hour community. I in our community. I think that being on muni i see how the cops are completely racist to people of color. I think that, you know, coming from being a latinamerican guy and seeing people treated like this is very hard. Thank you. Thank you. Before we go to the next caller. There are approximately 104 callers and 36 in the queue. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am a homeless resident district 6 in the tenderloin. I honestly we just want you to get the police out of here. They have been tear or rising us for over 100 years. Stop. I dont understand why this is so complicated when we have been discussing over 60 years prison and police abolition. You havent been listening to us. We beg you to help us. All you do is send them in heretofore torture us. I dont think you are going to do anything except sending them here, taking our stuff and throwing us in jail. We hate the police. We dont want them anywhere near us. They cause trouble for everyone here. The violence is caused by them. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am chris and i am calling from district 5 to support the hundreds of callers tonight speaking up of disarming and defunding the s. F. P. D. I think they have done a great job of filling out the ways the police are harm full and racist and delays like addressing homelessness, transit, housing and reparations. If you go back and look at the s. F. P. D. Budget over time. Since 1980 that budget has nearly doubled. That is nearly double in that time. I am watching every supervisor. The reason this has happened, the reason is out of control, every mayor and supervisor who voted for that budget is comexplicit. If you increase the budget and cut muni and people are dying on the street. I will watch you. You should be starting at 50 budget cut thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. I am nina. Resident of district 4. Calling to demand defund, disarm and redirect the budget to uplift and help our community. Every election i vote to Fund Programs to help our communities. None of those are close to the 700 million the s. F. P. D. Has. Instead of funding s. F. P. D. Refund communities. Reform will not work. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I am alex. Resident of district 9. Calling to disarm and dismantle. I had an incident where a neighbor across the street,eldder lehman was pleasuring himself outside. I had the presence to see that he was having dementia. I knew that i could not trust the cops. I brought him inside and took care of him. I knew the cops would not take care of him. I had no one else to call. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I hope everyone is having a good night. I want to reiterate the hundreds of my comrades have been saying. Right now in america we cant go a week without publicly funded terrorists murdering black and brown people in cold blood. In San Francisco we spend more per capita in any city in the country on a murder squad and we cant fund the housing for homeless and schools. You could fund all of those fully. It is embarrassing really. Right now for me there is no reform, no reimagining. We need to defund, dismantle s. F. P. D. Burn it all to the ground. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. A quote. Alex was a young man with big hopes. A young buddhist. He wanted to serve communities to great people. He worked as Security Guard and took care of his parents who were retired and was loved by a lot of people. Participated in political campaigns. He really felt at home at the hills. He went up to eat a burrito. A series of things happened. He got at tacked by a out of control dog. The dog cornered him and lunged at him that turned into an altercation with the owner who texted a friend that he wished it was florida to he could do what George Zimmerman did. He was wearing a 49ers jacket and there is a gang that wears red. Some other man decided he was dangerous and called 911. Police arrived thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am dillon. I was born and raised in San Francisco. They were intended to maintain the racist institution of policing. We dont want reforms. Body cameras on supervisors for accountable. The s. F. P. D. Must be zero dollars. Until they are disbanded make them on vacation. I want them to stay off our streets. We must defund the sheriffs and empty the jails. We need to provide reparations to those impacted by the complex. Abolition is the floor, not the ceiling. San francisco could be the city the rest of the country. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am pat. Resident of district 8. I am calling to defund, demand s. F. P. D. And redirect it to education to communities most targeted by Police Including the transcommunities and unhoused neighbors. For less than half the budget 320 million you can house every unhoused person in San Francisco and still have money to invest in healthcare, education, child care and safety programs that keep adults safe. We are not asking for chaos but Public Safety. Refund our communities. Our amazing organizers identified cuts. Defund s. F. P. D. Now. Com. Thank you for taking my comments. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am don from district 7 calling to demand s. F. P. D. Is defunds, disarmed and dismantled. With corruption in city hall i would like to remind you we voted you in and we can vote you out. The people are not going to deal with bullshit any more. The funding you serve us. You have to make that clear. We will march and we will put up signs and come to your houses. This is not acceptable. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am ben paul, resident d5. Calling to defund the police and invest in black communities. They are 10 times as likely was white folks to be arrested. 12 times to be subject to police use of force. This is the same when Data Collection started in 2016 through the most recent data in 2020. Despite reform, the disparity is the same. Time to stopper pe stop the perg this. Look at this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am bill birch. Current district 4 resident. Calling to voice support to defunding s. F. P. D. We have the budget to help and serve our communities. Depending on education and muni, libraries, community outreach, Public Health. Get with the times. Do what is right for San Francisco. Defund s. F. P. D. Now. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am steven. I am a resident in district 5. I am asking you to reject this Budget Proposal and commit to defunding s. F. P. D. I am not able to say anything you havent heard in the last 8 hours. I will say this. In the face of such overwhelming onesided support you have to acknowledge this is now a broadly supported mainstream position. I have only called like this once before. In this moment i need to do something. I am asking you to defund s. F. P. D. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Like the last caller, this is my first time to call for Public Comment. I am in support of defunding. I am asking the mayor to. [ inaudible ] during this pandemic with the projected budget shortfalls it was unsound. I dont see how giving the s. F. P. D. 43 million. Lets invest in communities and stop cutting classes from Public Schools, lets put social workers on the streets. This is no longer the state of ronald reagan. To hell with austerity, defund s. F. P. D. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am killda. I am a resident of district 6. I am calling about this reform to dismantle the s. F. P. D. Decades every form failed. A masters tool will never dismantle the masters house. If you cannot see how that money is better spent we need to invest in transit, reparations, healthcare, Affordable Housing, schools. We could do so much to benefit the blacks and vulnerable. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am calling from district 10. I demand we de fund, disarm s. F. P. D. Now and redirect towards Public Health for communities most targeted black and indigenous and people of color and unhoused neighbors. We must reimagine what Public Safety looks like. [ inaudible ] today less than 5 of the calls for service go for violent crime. Police speak in codes. Public does not refer to woods. It is the slave owner or wealthy homeowner. All five officers who murdered mario woods had undergone crisis training. We are asking for Public Safety for all. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am josh black. I am a member of San Francisco socialists of america district 7 in the sunny side. I want to echo what all of the other great callers said on this meeting that we need to defunned, disband and disarm the police. I never had a good interaction with the San Francisco Police Department. One of the most memorable ones is i was required Fire Insurance company to file a Police Report for a break in that we had. The Police Showed up. Even though we told them that we did not the person who had taken something was not on the premises. They showed up 7 hours later with guns drawn and attacked the maintenance people in the building. I found out the following day. My thought was thank god thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Please begin. Good evening. This is a constituent from San Francisco. I wanted to call as with almost all the other callers to say abolish the police, defund the police using our own money to oppress us with evil and cruel. You dont want be this. The will of people is clear. This is not where we want our money spent. If this was in person we would have filled the halls. We would be standing there with signs. Shout out to the politicians that care about this issue. Newly chairman walton. Thank you very much. You are making a difference and your words are changing things. As for the rest of you, you are use less. Please stop oppressing the american people. Next speaker, please. I am tanya. I am calling like every person on this call for the past 8 hours. Proposed increase to the s. F. P. D. Budget. Defund the police reallocate to public services. Health, housing, education, social services. Days ago the city said they didnt have the money to reopen the bus lines that have been closed. I dont know how you are going to raise the s. F. P. D. Budget 23 million. That is not hard to figure out. I hope tomorrow morning we wake up to a city that has defunded reallocated those funds. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, i am judy, resident district 11. Defund, disarm and abolish police. [ inaudible ] to date s. F. P. D. Completed only 6 of 54 reforms. Hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. They did not use Due Diligence. About lawsuits they had to pay out. They are no number. It is 27 million. Look at the Historical Data that is almost 50 of the lawsuits spent on s. F. P. D. Reinvest in the community, disarm police, have a good night. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am a resident of district 1. I would like to say i think it is ridiculous that 43 million is to be allocated to the s. F. P. D. It is taken away from the public library, the department of homelessness. In the pandemic. [ inaudible ] it is shameful. Defund the s. F. P. D. Thanks. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am robert. I live in district 5. I want to say that i am pleased to hear my representatives supervisor preston ask to Defund Police. I am upset to know my tax money instead of paying for transit and homeless Necessary Services is used to pay for the police to murder black and indigenous and people of color. Muni is Cutting Service to the bone. They have cut like twothirds of bus lines and the department of homeless Necessary Services is cutting the Pilot Program to help families suffering from homelessness. Why are we spending more money on the police . The answer is please stop hurting the black and indigenous and people of color and defund the police. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am elementary schoolteacher in district 9. Defund the s. F. P. D. Less than half of the budget of 20 million we can house every unhoused person in San Francisco and have money to invest in health care and child care to keep us safe. Make better schools and transportation and make this a better city. I yield my time. Before we hear from the next speaker. Press star 3 if you wish to comment. There are approximately 101 callers listening and 22 in the queue. Next speaker, please. I am a resident of district 8. I ask we defund and disband s. F. P. D. Now. Redirect the funds towards Public Health, education and reparations for communities targeted by Police Including black and people of color and unhoused neighbors. Black people make up 5 of the population but account for 35 of homeless. 54 of jail and 40 of People Killed by police. If black lives matter, help black families. We must reimagine Public Safety for all. Defund s. F. P. D. And refund our communities. Next speaker, please. I am matthew. I am a scientist and resident district 7. Defund and dismantle the s. F. P. D. With the budget shortfalls to come in the next year, it is crazy to spend more money on police. Please spend this on buses, housing, schools, anything to make the city more livable. To mayor london breed. Instead of texting the police chief to get the police to harass home less. Text the sf Public Housing to find that person a permanent home. Black lives matter. Thank you. Nex next speaker, please. I am calling from district 1 to say defund the police. We need mo more money for libras and parks and there are bigger priorities than funding the police. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am elaine. I am a resident of district 10. I am calling to defund s. F. P. D. Also, these funds need to be allocated to community services. Removing s. F. P. D. From the schools is critical first move and must be followed by investing in them not cutting budgets. Schools are where students can learn. There was a school with zero nurses for 400 students. Class sizes are massive. Counselor ratios are twice what is recommended. We need to reinvest in communities. Thank you. I yield my time. I am lawrence from district 1. I am a 10 year resident of San Francisco. I went to city college, sf state, lon long time muni rider. Defund the police. The budget 736 million is ridiculous. We should be cutting that in half at the bear minimum. Why do we need a tank on the streets of San Francisco . In the recent years, Police Budget increased but nothing has changed. Reformings do not work. We should invest in the community. Free muni, education, reparations for people of color, education, housing. Police are the biggest gang in america and help to reinforce White Supremacy. The system is beyond saving and must end. Black lives matter. Fuck the police and abolish ice. Next speaker, please. This is diane from district 6. We need to defund, disarm and disband be the San Francisco Police Department now. Redirect the budget for reparations for communities targeted including black, indigenous and transand unhoused neighbors. We must reimagine Public Safety. When the police talk about safety they speak in code. The wealthy homeowner. We can house every person in the city with the budget. We are asking for Public Safety for all. Refund our communities. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I am emma. I am a resident of district 8. Also a member of the Community Development. I am appalled the starting point of this is 46 million increase in funding for s. F. P. D. While schools face cuts and bus lines are eliminated. The need is tremendous. Get out to the neighborhoods to see it. I encourage the supervisors to reach out to homeowners and listen to us. Defund the police. We will organize and support new candidates for the board of supervisors. The time is now. Dont be tonedeaf. We need real change. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, i am jeremy. I work in district 9. Calling to demand we defund, disarm s. F. P. D. This budget is ridiculous. The overtime hours along with the s. F. P. D. Doing during this pandemic is absurd. There is no data or numbers to show. [ inaudible ] black lives matter. Next speaker, please. Hi, i am a master student in biomedical research. Police dont keep us safe and harm our communities. The s. F. P. D. Is about 700 million is coming at the expense of housing and social services which are resources creating the real Public Safety for us. Beyond the official budget this year we have paid more than 13 million in lawsuits related to Police Misconduct and brutality. The s. F. P. D. Is antiblack. This is nothing we can perform. Black lives must be protected. Get rid of armed agents killing black neighbors. Defund the Police Department. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am joy from district 1. Born and raised in San Francisco. I grew up attending Public Schools. I demand you defund, dismantle the s. F. P. D. And redirect towards Public Health, education, reparations, anything but policen and prison. I am one of four daughters to a man who forced guilty to a crime he didnt commit. The police were judge and jury. A well funded Public Health expert for problems, Affordable Housing available we could have had a father. I see the housing in mission bay and w we are ok with thousands n the streets. I love Public Transportation. We know those people will benefit because they are the ones calling. Thanthank you for your comme. Next caller, please. I am on the board of supervisors. They elect me and pay my salary. When it comes to Public Comment we shut the cameras off. Send the police the horses defecate in the street. It feels good. Every cop should have 360degree helmet and playstation 5. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I live in d5. Today the breed act was introduced in congress in massachusetts and michigan. It would effectively answer the Community Call to Defund Police and invest in alternatives for public city. The city of minneapolis will de fund the police. The Vice President of the board of supervisors talked about the leading roll the board of education has played to get police out of the schools. The city of minneapolis and our own board of education can show up. Defund the police. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am marlena, resident of district 7. Born and raised in San Francisco. I am calling to demand we defund s. F. P. D. Polices is not making our city safer. Police culture is full of bias and white supremacist structur structures. It has been proven to keep everyone safer, education, Public Health and justice. Every person in our society right now, to you, supervisor, needs to do a gut check. Look at your personal values and are you fulfilling those in your role in our society . Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am scott. I am calling from district 8. San francisco is a city of entrepreneurial spirit. We should look at the police as entrepreneurs. If we abolish who will trash the homeless property, harass latino and black population and ride the horses. Who will give me a lot of money . I am scott wiener and i approve my message. A vote for me is vote for big business and landlords. It is fun calling my old job even if most of you left posts hours a ago. Next speaker. I am holing wood. I am a resident for 11 years. I will echo the other residents and citizens of San Francisco. To dismantle the s. F. P. D. My experience of serving on a jury two years ago. I took a week off to experience a case where a victim was not pursuing the prosecution. In that time i had a Police Officer lied not only to the jury then exposing that many Police Officers lied to us in that investigation. That resulted in a hung jury which i find out about weeks afterwards. I wont forget that and i will tirelessly fight to change the administration and what we currently have. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am calling from district 9 in San Francisco. I am calling like everyone else to disarm and disband the s. F. P. D. It is ridiculous this is happening when the education budget and transportation budget are struggling and we have a huge homeless problem. The fact the budget ise is increasing. 8 or 9 hours of Public Comment is ridiculous. I am calling on supervisor ronen to take action on this budget. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am chris. I live in district 3. I thank everyone involved in this discussion, especially the callers. With that said, Police Departments across the nation have had 50 years to reform and failed to do so in a meaningful way. They are operating as institutions of oppression. Provide healthcare, housing, education and good jobs to marginalized communities in San Francisco. Defund, disarm, disband. Thanks. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am from distribute 6. I am calling to defund, disarm and abolish police. We must redirect funds toward Public Health and housing and reparations for black and indigenous and people and transcommunities. San francisco loves to brag that it is a liberal bubble. It is a system through White Supremacy of policing of Public Housing and communities of color. This is a result of the city and whole country. [ inaudible ] if we are progressive we must abolish the police. Maybe if the government workers werent so stupid they would know this would help our people. Thank you. Before we go to the next caller. There are approximately 88 callers listening. 20 in the queue. Next speaker, please. I am a Third Generation born and raised in San Francisco. I am calling to defund, disarm and disband sfpd and redirect to Public Health, housing, reparations to black, indigenous, people of color and trans. I have a kinder garner. They are operating an 80 million shortfall and unfunded is inexcusable. I do not feel safe sending my child to the schools. We have seen buses cuts. The s. F. P. D. Can continue to terrorize people. We have been told it is too cost low to house the unhoused populations. The budget is asking for 736 million over 40 million increase. No, take that money back to spend on the people. Abolish police. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am a black woman in San Francisco. I recently listened to a video by a black activist that posed the question what is wrong with you. Black activists ask to defund the police. What is wrong with you . Look at yourself. What is wrong with you for being so complacent that black people have to convince me to protect their rights. What makes you think you have the right to think that black people can live in an environment where we feel safe. What is wrong with you . Who do you think you are that you can be in a position of power and not act. How much blood do you have the nerve to demand . This will not childs you from the society. It is our duty to fight for freedom. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am calling from district 1. I am calling to tell you to defund, disarm and disband police in a meaningful way. S. F. P. D. Budget received more funding than parks and rec and libraries put together. Totally unacceptable. We can house every person in sf if we redistribute that money back to the communities. Black lives matter, black San Francisco lives matter. Do the right thing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am caylee. I am in district 4. We need to defund and abolish s. F. P. D. Now. I am disappointed you consider raising the budget in these circumstances. Black people make up 5 of San Francisco population but account for 35 of homeless population, 54 of the jail population. If black lives matter house black families, not murder. In 2019 they made up the youth arrested or detained at school with only being 7 of the student body. Black residents make up 20 of the population but account for 78 of individuals booked for drug sales in 2017. We need to abolish police. Black lives matter. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I would like to request since we have been waiting hours to address the board that at the end of the call the Board Members take over to thank us for the calls so we can feel ensured they are hearing our comments. Thank you for facilitating. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I would like to check in the supervisors are still listening. I am. I am. I am. We hav have been on for hours. We are all here. We have been on for over six hours. I am glad that everyone is still listening. I am from district 11. I work in Public Health with marginalized communities. From firsthand experience the police have never helped us. We have helped us because we take care of ourselves in these communities. I have been listening for hours. I want it clear we the people do not need to explain why the police are bad for us, especially for black and brown folks. If you do not represent us and our interests then we will vote you out. We will find you when we are walking in our neighborhoods. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am david. Like many other callers i am calling to defund, disband s. F. P. D. And help our community. [ inaudible ] i could never understand how people. [ inaudible ] after listening to the budget increase and oppression you havent moved past the history. I would ask you consider how you want future generations to look at your legacy. [ inaudible ] thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am emma. I was born and raised in vernal heights. I live and study as law student and i love my community deeply. I demand we defund, disarm and disband s. F. P. D. Police do not represent the public interest. To call the Police Peace Officers is miss leading and wrong. They do not protect people of San Francisco. As a citizen i demand the board of supervisors and my supervisor, supervisor ronen disband the police. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I am alexa. I believe we need to defund s. F. P. D. And redirect to Public Health and education. Crime control is a small part of the u. S. Police officers make one felony arrest on average. S. F. P. D. Do not need new toys. Teachers have to pay for nice. 8,000 people with homeless. Police should respond to substance abuse. We should have Mental Health resources and support and restorative justice. At least 25 of the People Killed by police suffer from mental illnesses. They protect each other. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I amva i am valerie. We need to abolish police. I am not surprised that San Francisco be is failing to live up to the progressive reputation. The evidence is overwhelmingly against the effectiveness of the police to serve anyone. I hope the supervisors will take this as an opportunity to do the right thing and step out and show that San Francisco really can be better. I also like many others know that if you dont, we will vote you out. You represent us, and as the people tonight have shown, we do not support continuing to fund the police. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I live in district 8 San Francisco. I am calling to defund, disarm and abolish the police. The Police Officers of San Francisco as well and they are coming out muc out to the peoplr violence. I dont feel safe around the Police Officer. We shouldnt put more money in their hands. Put that funding into housing for the homeless and education for our youth and to more social services and transportation. We are wasting money on the police. I yield my time. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. This is rusty from district 6. The time is now to Defund Police. Take the funding to do Something Else with it. Voting for expansion is morally bankrupt. They had four years to reform. The only managed a pit tense of training. The time for reform has passed. They had a chance. Fire them all today. What is left with other services. People are not getting moneys worth. The drug dealers are trusted more than the police. Next speaker, please. I am andrew dye. Voter in district 9. I support calls to disarm and disband the s. F. P. D. I listened to the Police Commissioners meeting about staffing and budget. I was shocked to learn how much government leaders miss the point. We send so much money on the police with so little value. So many members in the process. Budget increase now in the face of public pressure in the middle of a Global Pandemic is absurd. None of this would be necessary if we knew the money wasted we could house every unhoused person in the city with that budget. Defund the s. F. P. D. And refund our communities. Do the right thing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am an employee the board of supervisors. I am calling to defund and send to s. F. M. T. A. I find it disgusting and despicable this board decided t defund the s. F. M. T. A. Consider increasing funding for sfpd and financial crisis for the city and ex uber rating the covid19. Police terrorize people. I advocate for defunding of the Police Department by half. I hope you guys do that remembering they are constituents that will vote you out if you dont do so. Thank you. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. I am laurie. I am calling from district 9 to defund and disarm s. F. P. D. Now and redirect towards Public Health and housing for black and indigenous and people of color and unhoused neighbors. We must reimagine Public Safety for all. Police harm our communities. American policing began with union busting. Less than 5 of the calls for service are in response for violent crime. When police speak in code. The public is not referring to mario woods. It is referring to the slave owner and wealthy homeowner. Policing cannot be reformed. Those officers who murdered mario woods went through training. We are not asking for chaos but Public Safety. Defund s. F. P. D. And refund our communities. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I was born and raised in district 11. I live in g7 and work in d6. I demand we defund sfpd and invest in the Public Schools. To have grown up in San Francisco Public Schools and watched black and brown children be violently policed was disgusting. They were racist. Whewhen i was mugged last year i thought how young the teenagers that mugged me were. When i later called the police they just racially profile suspects. I found this to be racist. They do not need more money. Justice for woods and a native my age. Defund and i yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. This is martha from district 1 demanding we defund the police. [ inaudible ] we need to expand or idea what is possible and what is Public Safety. Defund police. I suggest bad apples redo the whole system. [ inaudible ] thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. [ inaudible ] i am calling for defunding s. F. P. D. [ inaudible ] this does not keep our Community Safe. What is wrong we are not investing in communities and addressing homelessness issues that police are poorly equipped to handle. We cannot trust the police to keep us safe. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am jeremy. I work in district 9. Defund, disarm, abolish s. F. P. D. Six hours on this call is just one day of your life. If you serve the people you dont need to be here. The daily lives of the black, indigenous you have criminalized and terro terrorized for livingr lives. Reallocate funds to s. F. M. T. A. , back to s. F. U. S. D. It is the ridiculous that we are talking about this right now. Abolish the police. I yield my time. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. I am mary. I would like to remind you you work for us. If you would like to keep your job you can do the right thing. Kindness to all of us and hard work now to pay off later. You can become a hero or do what you are doing. We will out last you, you will lose your job and will become part of the forces you seem to throw under the buses we can no longer afford. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I understand you have been here six hours. It is your job to be here for six hours. You understand some people work 12 or 14 hours a day. If you dont keep your camras on we dont know what you are doing. You could be looking at your phones. You dont listen to us. How do we trust you with any of this. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am calling from district 8. I wanted to say to the supervisor who said they have been listening for hours that pales in comparison to the centuries police have been terrorizing black and brown people like myself. If you want to go to sleep say we will abolish the police tomorrow and i will hang up and nobody else will call. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I want to say we are demanding you do not increase the s. F. P. D. Budget and you abolish and al locate that money to the communitybased Law Enforcement people. We demand you defund s. F. P. D. And invest in the community. If you have any questions for what Public Safety can look like read the end of policing. Listen to the students of San Francisco. We are calling to disband, disarm and defund s. F. P. D. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, i am amber calling from district 10. Defund, disband s. F. P. D. And redistribute funds for communities most targeted by policing including black, indigenous, people of color. S. F. P. D. Did not mead nor money. They do not keep us safe and harm our communities. Invest in education, Public Health and housing will support the communities you plan to serve and the time is now. Defund and refund our communities. I yield my time. Next speaker, please. [please stand by] hello, caller. Hello . Please begin. Caller im calling to stand in favor of abolishing the police. Its insane that such a large amount of money is going towards an institution which only exists to su subjakate a lot of people. Weve seen the Police Department is only doing more harm than good and i also think that the supervisors should turn their cameras on so we can hold them accountable and make sure theyre actually paying attention. I yield the rest of my time. Thank you, next caller, please. Hello. Its unfortunate that i only have a minute to talk. The fact this call has gone for so long, should show we people support defunding the place. These old bald white men do harm to our black and brown communities by terrorizing them for blatant white zo black ad brown folks. The only people keep safe are the rich, white ass holes and filled with generational wealth. Turning your cameras on and listen to the people you work for. You are your boss and you better work, bitch, i yield my time. Before we cue in the next speaker i want to inform everyone that there are 78 callers listening and three in the queue. Next speaker, please. Im just calling to say defund sfpd now is a grassroots led organization. We couldnt do this with only activisted. Pee are mad. You are not listening to we have gang unit for million, swat, we agree with the budget and eliminate Community Engagement and 3. 5 million cookeries and staffing 2. 6 million and admirals that are ratio based so cut admin and freeze overtime 31 million and im rest of my time to say where is rah yall l mandelman. You are my supervisor. Why arent you saying black voices. Where is mandelman. Where is Rafael Mandelman. Where is Rafael Mandelman . Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. We can hear you. Caller my name is claire i am a resident this district 2. Im an immigrant and new mom. I wonder how a city as rich as San Francisco has such poor Public Education and lack of resources to help our unhoused neighbors. Ive been learning the issue is our prioritizing our funding. So i am done with my municipal tax dollars going towards paying police who terrorize San Francisco of color and unhoused san rans and towards covering costs of lawsuits by out of control Police Officers using force situations where theres no reason to do so. We should not be doing right now is considering increasing the budget for sfpd so listening to the cuts to our transportation and Homeless Outreach programs that ive heard on this call is insane. Looking at budget short falls as a result of the covid19 pandemic and at this stage it should be obvious how we make up. Its time to demilitarize and defund next speaker, please. Caller hello . My name is angela and im a proud resident and active voter in district 5. I would first like to say thank you to supervisor preston for actively speaking for defunding the police and i hope you remain steadfast when it comes to vote down any kind of budget increases to the sfpd. To the rest of the supervisors and especially the moderators, i do appreciate your time. I am tired as well. Ive been here three hours. And i can definitely emphasize if you are feeling tired. We should all be tired of systemic violence which is largely held up by Police Departments and various cities. We woke up this morning to learn that schools were going to be pushed to reopen in the fall. Our scoops are not adequately funded. The Supreme Court ruled its a lawful for employers to restrict contraceptive coverage and we need healthcare for our citizens and we have a president to likes to push funding on monuments instead of people. I think everybody is spoken here tonight that we strongly, strongly are against any kind of funding. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, im a chinese american, a fourth generation San Francisco resident and a taxpayer. As a member of the Chinese Community i, feel responsible Holding Members of our my community account. They limit Public Comment to one minute excusing your power to limit the voices of our marginalized neighbors and their allies. Im calling to address the anti black sentiment i heard from these supervisor fewer. I heard you frequently advocate to increasing the presence of police on our streets and including anna tree anxious and 200 airports cops to our streets. I understand that you sympathize as your husband was a Police Officer with his own history of both on and of off of off the rd misconduct and i hope you recognize the harm your husband and police have done to our community. This year the sfpd bias trainer described the anti black bias as extreme and yet you continue to advocate spending hundred of millions of dollars to fill our streets with predators to prey on our most marginalized communities. Sandy fewer doesnt care about black people, i yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller happy thursday, this is jesse stout in district 6. I wanted to call and ask you to defund the San Francisco Police Department. I was reading the budget and annalist report and i see about shifting with the Airport Police responsibility to the Sheriff Department so i wanted to call them and say, we want to defund the Sheriff Department too, it won be acceptable to the people who have called in for the past several hours to shift resources from the Police Department to the Sheriff Department. Rather, we need to demilitarize our society, not fund the Police Department, nor fund the Sheriff Department. Well be asking to close San Francisco jails so tonight please defund sfpd. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, i want to school at marrow woods. Reallocate the School Budget and so some cant use videos in Public Meetings and police. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is zar and i also live in San Francisco. Born and raised. Im calling to say defund the police. Are there any other callers . Hello caller. Please begin your comments. Caller also. I live in San Francisco. Adding my voice to the chorus you today demanding you slash sfpd budget and invest in real solution thats will benefit the people and build real Community Safety. Those Solutions Must be designed by the black and brown communities in San Francisco. Our current structure is that you have we under fund schools and communities and we criminalize homelessness and criminalize survival economies and we use it as justification to create ungodly system of bloated policing and targeting of vulnerable folks in caging them. So, what might bloom in San Francisco if invested in schools, children and family services, what might bloom in San Francisco if we funded housing for the unhoused at three times the amount we fund police in. Thats the reverse of our current ratio. You have the power to reflect the Culture Shift that the people are clearly demanding. We are calling on you to take bold action and reimagine what is possible. People are raid and you will have your back. Thank you for your time. Nex next speaker, please. This is a plan district one and im calling on stolen land inaudible heard them they defund, disarm and disband the San Francisco Police Department. Now, fewer and all supervisors and you too london mayor breed. Now in this years budget we districted towards Public Housing, publichealth and reparations for communities and targeted by police and black, indigenous and our unhoused neighbors and this is a black call again. We have cuts at defund sfpd now and we must row imagine what Public Safety for all looks like. Police do not keep us safe they harm our communities. They have slave patrols and today less than 5 of sfpd calls resurface our response to violence crimes and most are publichealth and traffic. When the police talk about Public Safety theyre speaking in codes. The word public is not referring to next speaker, please. Caller hello. My name is inaudible also known as e. P. I live in the north market. I just wanted to show my support in defunding the police and redistricting those funds towards Community Organizations that deal with publichealth, housing, target bid policing including black indigenous and people of color. Trans community and our unhoused neighborhoods. I support this action as it sets towards abolishing the police because all u. S. Police, especially sfpd is rooted in racism and misogyny and they have absolutely no place in any of our communities and when these institutions are in our neighborhoods it brings more violence to our people and especially the black community. We need funding for free housing for all our houses, neighbors and for all Healthcare Services in our neighborhoods and we need funding for schools and Education Programs like blacks and indigenous and use of color can learn their true histories as a former resistance in order to achieve both things from the police must be defunded completely and more specificall next speaker, please. Hell oh caller. Next speaker, please. Caller hello. Please road. Are you there . Am i next . Yes. Hello . Yes, please begin your comments. Can you hear me . This is dwight from district eight. Yes, we can. Can you hear me. Here we are again dealing with modern version of slave catchers. We need to slash the bloated police by at least 50 and distribute where it truly belongs. Even some of you socalled progress i was are responsible for this on going travesty. I guess you must be afraid of the p. O. A. Or something, since we cant jail killer cops we have to get rid of them. By giving the money to social services schools, et cetera, some of the tragic outcomes the disease of Police Violence could be prevented in two ways. Fewer homeless folks, fewer to harass and kill as in the case of fewer cops and the trudy escalation then maybe no excuses of mario woods thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, i live and work in sf. All of you city supervisors and Police Department are meant to be public servants. You are elected are paid to serve the public. So the choice to increase the Police Budget is this huge public demand to defund the police and invest in our communities would be a gross misuse of power. We demand the defunding of the sfpd in this years budget and ask it be redistricted. Police dont keep us safe. Healthcare, housing, public transit, education, childcare and alternative safety programs keep us safe. American police began control and modern policing with the response to labor unions and less than 5 of sfpd calls for service are in response to violent crimes. Most calls related to publichealth, unhoused people, traffic and noise complaints. It doesnt stop there. Police dont just fail to keep us safe they actively harm our communities. And the past year alone we have to pay other Million Dollars in lost wages with and those are the only cases that were caught and charged. Marginalized communities will never be decriminalized until we. I live in district 7 of San Francisco and occupied on lonnie land. Ill calling to defund the police. If black Indigenous People of color are not safe, if trans people are not safe, unhoused people are not safe, if incarcerated people are not safe, the community is not safe. To support the people we need to house and we need to stop with the most vulnerable and hope it trickles dune to them. Im a Proud Union Member and no other unions pay for their lawsuits. Why doesnt sfpd . It takes Union Members accountable and it makes them accountable when it comes out of their Health Welfare intention plans. Police until the union do not align with labor or the people. For all my black kin still on the line and everyone who is marginalized and labeled a. I lovother,i love you and supportd your existence makes the world better. Thank you, next speaker, please. Hi, my name and i live in district 2. Ill calling in support of defunding sfpd as well. The Police Officers dont keep us safe. They actively harm our communities and especially target folks that are already marginalized in other ways. The sums unti from sfpd should e publichealth, housing and reparations for communities non targeted by policing and criminalization. Including black, indigenous and people of color, Trans Community and our unhoused neighbors. There are cuts you can make right now at defund and i really encourage all of the people to look forward to this. Next speaker, please. Hi, this is joshua and i live in district 5. Im calling in support of defunding the sfpd. Yo part of the union and the iow to keep it somewhat clear but straight up weve been killed back in the day in 1934 when we had a general strike. We dont stand by police, we dont want police in our unions. Im going to straight up say, fuck police, yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. The completes the queue. Ok. Is that the end of Public Comment . The queue is complete. Ok, Public Comment on item number 2 is now closed. I want to thank, actually our two clerks and i apologize that during the budget meeting my camera malfunctioned and so i cant turn it on, as guys know. If you watched the meeting, so, i want to thank brent and also linda wong, our clerks that have been monitoring our Public Comment is and thank you colleagues, thank you to the speakers, and colleagues, any comments . I know its late. We have heard a lot tonight and we had a good discussion today about the Police Budget. We did not vote today to increase any Police Budget. Today it was just informational. It was an informational hearing and there was no action taken on any budget item today. That was not the purpose. Today it was a herring. In the beginning of this meeting, it is the third of four hearings that we have heard about departments and so it was to get it a deeper understanding. Madam clerk, is there anymore business before us today . Yes, madam chair. We would need to take action on this item. Would you like to continue this hearing or file this hearing . I think i would like to file this hearing, please. Id like to make a motion to file the hearing. Could i please have a second. Second. Roll call, please. Thank you, very much. Roll call vote, please. On the motion. [ roll call vote ] clerk there are five ayes. Supervisor walton, i see your name in the queue. Did you want to Say Something . Just very briefly, chair fewer, i like you, wanted to thank ms. Wong and mr. Jalupa for standing with everybody tonight and just their dedication and commitment to tonights process in committee hearing. Thank you. Thank you, supervisors. All right. With that, i believe this meeting is adjourned. Good night. Thank you, very much. Thank you, everyone. Good night, everyone. Good night. Kids, night terrors. We see again, across youre watching coping with covid19 with chris manners. Hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, my guest is an infeshttious disease specialist and leading the covid disease tracing team for the San Francisco department of Public Health. Shes here to talk about the citys Contact Tracing program and how to slow the spread of the virus. Doctor, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. Can we begin by talking about when the citys Contact Tracing Program Began and what are the services . Sure. So we began Contact Tracing on the first day that we had a case here in San Francisco, so that was march 5 of this year. The purpose of our program is to provide comprehensive services to people who are close to and diagnosed with covid. This includes anyone whos newly diagnosed gets a phone call from our Trained Health professionals in which we talk more about their diagnosis, make sure that they have accurate information. We then go into understanding a little bit more about their symptoms and trying to better understand when they first may have become infectious to others. As part of that, we will then talk about anyplaces they may have visited for an extended period of time and people they were in contact with. We then seek to better understand the individuals that they were in touch with by collecting names and phone numbers so that then we can reach out to these individuals and make sure that they have the information that they need in order to quarantine and get access to immediate testing for covid. How does the program work . How many people are actually acting as contact tracers, and what do they do . So we had over 100 people activated with the city to provide active Contact Tracing actions for san franciscans. So this team is highly trained in being able to provide everyone diagnosed with covid with information about what this means to them and make sure that they know the resources that are available to them so that they can safely isolate. This team then also has worked with several social workers as well as other city departments to make sure that this individual has Wraparound Services in order to complete their isolation in quarantine. In general, we have staff that represents all diverse backgrounds in San Francisco, and they are also able to provide linguistically appropriate services to make sure we are able to meet the needs of the people being diagnosed. Thats great. When we run a huge program in the Mission District, what role did Contact Tracing play in that effort. Was there anything notable . So previous to this pandemic, San Francisco Public Health has been tracking communities disproportionately affected by covid19. We provided a large communitybased Testing Campaign in the mission. As part of this campaign, we found that while latinos made up 44 of the people who were tested, they made up 95 of people who ended up being diagnosed. We also found that 90 of the people who were diagnosed with covid19 could not work from home, suggesting that this disease is impacting communities that may be unable to work from home or have the resources to stay at home during their shelter in place order. So as part of these activities, its really a reflection of what were seeing citywide in that we need to make sure that people who are at the greatest risk for covid have the resources needed in order to take time off of work as necessary, as theyre diagnosed with covid. I think as weve seen in new york, density is a huge factor, so it makes sense that there would be quite a few cases in the Mission District. Yeah. We did find that the median size of the household was greater than three, and the majority of people who had been diagnosed with covid, so this does go back to the fact that covid is really likely to transmit within households, and we need to make sure that households have the information that they need if somebody is diagnosed with covid, and that they can appropriately cleanup, clean their spaces, and they can selfisolate, and as necessary, they have access to city funded hotel rooms where they can safely isolate or quarantine for the required period of time and reduce their risk of spreading covid to others. Just to confirm, these tests are completely free, right . What kind of turnaround do we have . So fortunately, San Francisco offers free testing to san franciscans who have even one symptom consistent with covid19. What you need to know about this testing is that you have to schedule it online, but that you dont need any medical insurance, and you dont need a doctors note. In addition, testing is available to all san franciscans regardless of immigration status. Youll be able to get your test results in just one to five days after getting a test, and youll get follow up through the Health Department if youre found to have covid19, including access to all of our tracing activities that ive talked about today. So if you have an opportunity to test for covid, i recommend that you go for it because its important that we all really understand that testing is part of our new normal and a really Important Pillar for our fight against covid transmission here in San Francisco. Now, some communities have been responding differently to the virus. Some have been asking their citizens to keep a diary so they can remember who theyve seen, while others are encouraged to download an app to their phone so they can keep track of tracing. Have we considered any of these steps. So a major part of tracing is to talk to someone about where theyve been and who theyve been in contact with prior to developing symptoms or on the date of their test. This requires jogging somebodys memory, and as we all know, it can be hard to recall all of the things that one has participated in days in the past several days. So we recommend that everyone Pay Attention to what theyre doing as we lift our shelter in place orders, and we are carefully looking at the possibility of being able to support and being able to understand where someone may have been and who else may have been exposed to covid. But as part of that, were keeping careful caution and doing our Due Diligence to ensure that peoples privacy and confidentiality is maintained. This is the number one priority for us in the department of Public Health. We want anything that we offer through an app to be supplementing instead of replacing our currently Contact Tracing efforts. So it seems like any appbased program the city might offer would be on a strictly optin basis . Absolutely. We would want people to choose whether or not they want to participate in any of these appbased programs, and it would strictly be voluntarily if they were diagnosed with covid and they wanted to share information with the department of Public Health and others. We really want to make sure that any app that we recommend as a department is completely confidential and maintains the highest levels of privacy, and also is able to supplement our current offering of Contact Tracing and not become a distraction whereby people are getting notified that dont have contacts or information that they need in order to take the appropriate next steps. Yeah. I think it would address peoples concerns if its strictly voluntarily whether you use the app or not. So finally, what would you say to our residents is the best way to stay safe during this pandemic . Well, i like to boil is down to a short little phrase. Cover your face, test early, and trace. And what i mean by that, as well as our shelter in place restrictions, we really want people to continue into their new normal life wearing a mask. We know that this is a very protective way of preventing the spread of covid, and we want everyone to adopt this practice in their life as they move forward. We also want people to pay a lot of attention to their bodies as we begin to get back into the world as well as any symptoms that may be consistent with covid19. Fortunately, we have the tests here in San Francisco to make sure that every san franciscan can access a test if they have symptoms. So if somebody is experiencing any symptoms, we want them to seek out those Testing Services immediately and isolate and note their results. And finally, if somebody is diagnosed with covid19, we want to make sure that they have been paying attention to who theyve been spending time with in the days prior to their symptoms or the days prior to their tests. So that includes an element of tracing your foot steps, as i like to say, and being mindful of your actions, particularly any interactions where you may not have been masked or may have been spending time with people over ten minutes and less than 6 feet apart. By keeping track of people you may have been in contact with, itll be much easier to work with the Health Department and reach out to those individuals to make sure that they know that they were exposed to somebody with covid19 and they can get the appropriate testing and quarantine so we can ongoingly reduce the risk of transmission to others. Thats really fantastic information, doctor. I really appreciate the time youve given us today. I know youre really busy. Yeah, i appreciate the conversation. Thanks again. Thats it for this episode of coping with covid19. For sfgtv, im chris manners. Thanks for watching. Welcome everyone to the Health Commission meeting on tuesday july 7th. A special note our meetings will continue on the first and third tuesday of every month at 3 00 p. M. Until september 1st, when well going back to a normal schedule as we have seen before and all meetings will be conducted virtually. It is also a great official and personal privilege of mine to introduce the newest member of the San Francisco Health Commission susan christian. Susan joins us for her first meeting