Poundin pound [pounding of the grasm] all right, good morning and welcome to the rules Committee Meeting of april 14th, twf im katy tang of this committee. To my left is malia cohen. Well be joined shortly by supervisor eric mar. Per his request. I with aant to announce first you have that oo hed like us to start with item 3. With that, mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. Any documents part of the file should be commit smipted to clerk. Clerk. Thank you and id like to thank sfgovtv and our clerk derek evans. With that if we could call item three first. Item testimony 3 is a hearing to point wum member to the Shelter Monitoring Committee. There is one seat and one applicant. Is katrina hall here . Would you like to come up and make a quick presentation . Im katrina hall. My qualifications is im a formerly homeless parent with a homeless child under 18. I had been in a homeless shelter two years ago. If elected to the committee, there is a lot of things that i would like to accomplish that ive seen fall in the shelter seven and a half months. These things were like related to the program areas, such as the conditions, sometimes the areas didnt really promote, you know, a safe and decent environment. For Program Activities to be conducted. The children sometimes played, you know, on things that broken furniture, staff would watch or if the children were going to fall or get injured or something, no one said anything. Thats the main focus. Another area that i would like to see improve would be reporting deficiencies like if there was an incident they didnt report it if a child was injured. The staff wouldnt file a report. It would look like maybe the parents did something. They wouldnt say your child got injured on a chair or got a scratch. There was no kind of reports. Also, i would also like to see improvements in the Performance Indicators such as compliance for reservation levels. Vacancy rates. Ive been shelter rooms vacant and talked to people who say they were on a list for so long and i ask, why isnt anyone in there . No one says anything. The other areas would be, i would like to see the abate of program risk. That would be, for example, you know, program risk would be repairs, stoppedup toilets. Tubs that are that wont drain appropriately. You cant see it in the bathtub because the tubs are rusty or stopped up to the point where its no use to even try to get in there. Then if you can file a complaint that you know, they need to, you know unstop the tub, nothing gets down. Its like seven months in the shelter going thraw these kinds of things. There was nothing, that we could do as shelter residents but let the staff know. So these are some things that i would like to look out for. Also that they have toilet paper and food, you know, the environment is clean. Basic things like that. And also, another thing that was important to me was the identification of management problems. Ive seen Children Play where staff would it was inappropriately kind of roughhousing. Nothing wasnt said or doing and theyre all standing there watching like its a sport. So i felt that was a problem. All right, supervisor cohen. Good morning, everyone. Good morning miss hall. I have a couple of questions. How are you . Good. Thank you for your interest in serving. Where are you living now . Im in the aroundette watson apartments on eddie street. Okay. So p. What shelter were you at . Connecting point. I was a stiened to compass then hamilton. Because my child had asthma and i had asthma. They couldnt do a reasonable accommodation with the carpeting in hamilton so sent us to ccr. Where is that located . Crr is on market. Market street. What does ccr stand for . Civic center residents. We had to be to hamilton for mandatory mitings three times a week. We spent a lot of time there in the program area and intd acting with staff and other shelter residents. You also talked about the vacancy rate. And in shelters. As a user, tell me why you believe that there was a vacancy. Because there were rooms neck to me, there were no one was in them to so i wonder. I would talk to people who said they were on the list. So this was your observation. Yes. It was my observation and i would ask and they said we have to wait and see what happens. Oftentimes we have to leave shelter beds reserved for to the teen or different reservations to fill them. Thats why beds are sometimes left vacant. You also mentioned in your remarks management problems. Are you talking about the management problems at hamilton or ccr . Where in the process is it was all three locations. I would say that hamilton, it was, you know, Children Playing inappropriately. And management standing there and watching. Dont you think that the children are the responsibility of the parents and not management . Yes, well we told them, to stop, stop. And theyre like, you cant talk to your children that way or theyll call child protective services. And they want to take full control when theyre running their program. Theyre in control of everything. Sometimes a lot of times the furniture wasnt really in good repair and some kids fell or got hurt off a chair that wasnt that wasnt stable. Have you ever to a shelter monitoring Committee Meeting . Yes i have. I was before i put the application in last year. What did you observe . I just observed, you know, they were talking about the seitz see thes and how they do their observations. I guess if they got a good grade or a ad about grade. If they had violations. I assume because the meeting. I would assume they had a are quorum. Do you anywhere ems that they had attendance . No. No. Thank you for your time. Im glad youre interested. Maybe you can talk to me about your understanding of the what exactly your role would be on the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Um, my role would be to i guess go to the shelter and observe for standards to5t p q sure things are appropriately like there is toilet paper and there is, you know, just everything that is working meeting their mission, basically. Had how did you hear about this opportunity . I received an email. The email had came from, i think it was someone at city hall. Im not sure. I received an email, then i applied for. And i was invited for a meeting. Thank you miss hall for your interest. Even though i dont have shelters in our district. We have can done some work with the Shelter Monitoring Committee. I know one of the things they pointed occupants with the difficulty in filling this particular se seethes because a lot of times someone who is formerly homeless may not be living with their child under the age of 18 so theyre looking into a change to see if there was someone who previously lived with a child under 18. Having that experience is important but we want to make sure we get enough people to be part of this committee. So im glad you were able to if it that role. And also had been working with the Shelter Monitoring Committee on policies around Domestic Violence, especially if you are someone who is a victim, we wanted to make sure that you dont get kicked out of the shelter system because youre involved in a dd situation. That is something i hope to continue working on with the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Were able to reduce down the number of days that someone would not be able to be in a shelter from 30 to 15, but i feel like 15 is not okay. Again, if you are a victim of it. You need to be in shelter. So that is something i will ton working on. I dont know if supervisor mar has joined us now. Thank you miss hall. Well on up item three to Public Comment. Oitch a comment car from someone named lee. If you would like to come up or anybody else who would like to come up. I was here for the excuse me, im lee. I was from pier 80. Another failure. Same thing she mentioned. No one is in charge. I went to the hot team yesterday to get my stuff. They said they have no idea where it was. That pier. Pier 80 was a failure. Its a failure because no one knew, hot team was scared to go there. They were. Because they brought me there. Theyre wandering around seeing who was in charge. Nobody was in charge in pier 80. You visited there. You saw how bad it was. It was to bad, they had put dogs with people, miking i miking it up and they had no idea how though do that because they keep piling people in shelters without any supervision at all. Its i was there. Very recently and what i saw, for example there was one rottweiler with a disabled man and it was their pride and joy because it kept the three men safe. Because one man was disabled who had to make sure the rottweiler didnt eat all the other dogs cad because there were chihuahuas running around. They have no idea how to handle dogs. That was a complete failure. Im so glad you need to make sure children are safe. She would be perfect for that, but there are two other people that kneeled sheltering and pier 80 did not work. If you want to ask a question about any of it, i just lived there. Yesterday i tried to get my stuff back and they couldnt find it. Thank you. Any other members of the public who wishz.  to comment on item three, please come on up. Im [inaudible] i did not come here it o comment on that. But a statement was made and i understand, so when you have parents who have children under the age of 18, when theyre in a shelter institution, or whatever it is. Parents have to walk on eggshells because of the rights the parents no longer have. So when we were younger, your parent could spank your behind because you got out of line and your neighbor could get on you as well. Parents do doesnt have the luxury now. A lot of shelter ive stayed in a shelter on my own. The hazards were very notorious. When you have a parent that is with a child in a shelter, they are walking on eggshells because of the pact they dont want cps not to take their child. The parents have to lessen on the activities as far as disciplining. Thats why i understand what she says about the staff stepping in. The staff has to take the role of being a parent because theyre licensed to do that. That way it takes the fear away from the parent of getting in trouble of disciplining a child whether its putting them on time out, spanking their butt or raising their voice and talking to them more harshly. Thats what we do in our own house. I want to make the statement of saying even though it is the parents responsibility in those situations, it falls a little more on the staff because of the rules and regulations that the government has put taken away from parents. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who wish to comment on item three . Seeing none Public Comments closed. Supervisor mar. I want to thank miss hall for her application. The shelters and families is critical. As she struggled to get her degrees in criminal justice, i think she would be a great addition to Shelter Monitoring Committee. I did visit pier 80. And i found it well staffed. With clear areas where dogs were and people and their belongings. I found it clean and where the showers and other places were a good Security System set up. There was an area in the outside of pier 80 where people could hang out so it didnt feel like you were locked into a big hangar where americas cups ships used to be kidd thought it was wellset up. I know there are areas for improvement. But that was my perspective, and imin sam dodge and his staff. Theyre doing their best but we need strong people on the Monitoring Committee like miss hall and ill support her. Im also going to vote for miss hall. I think its good when you have someone who has risen above difficult circumstances to be a champion to her children and family and a person who is willing to come back and serve. Thats why im going to support miss patrice hall. I too want to talk about pier 8 o. It is a 180 p bed shelter. Owners of dogs are able to bring their animals with them to the shelter. That is critical. Its one after the tracting features. In other shelters across the city, animals are not allowed and permitted. As you see the Homeless Population on the streets of San Francisco. Many people have dogs. Its their only form of companionship. It could be cruel to take their dog away when people are very, very close to their animals. The shelter, i too have po gone through a few tours of pier 80 as it rests inside district 10. Ive taken a particular interest inside 80. They have coaches. Its clean and safe. Theyre watching d. V. D. S and playing dominoes. I dont want to say its club med. Theyre not living the life of riley. However, we have gone above and beyond the normal accoutrements that youd find in shelters because we recognize that people need a handup. And we need to be supporting them. There is security 24 7 and staff that is trained and social workers. There are spaces where people can bring their belongings and theyll be locked and retrieveable. Im not sure why he wasnt able is to get his belongings. Im happy to talk to you after committee, mr. Lee, about your belongings but i want to set the record straight and getting good information about there about what is going on and how this city is addressing homelessness. Thank you. Thank you very much. Concur with my colleagues and id be happy to support did supervisor mar make the motion is this and seconded by supervisor cohen. Well take that without objection. Congratulations miss hall. [applause] so now supervisor mar has joined us, mr. Clerk if you could call item one. Clerk a motion confirming the mayors nomination in appointing suzy loftus for a fouryear term an ending april 30th 2020. Ill like to call miss loftus up. Good morning, mayor tang. Supervisor cohen and mar. Thank you for the opportunity to res you today. Im seeking reappointment to this post for Police Commission for one reason. I believe we have an opportunity to make sustained and important change for this Police Department. Its not only going to make a dmirches San Francisco but a model of collaboration for a nation that is struggling with addressing the issues between police and community. Im here with Many Community members with me so tea we can make change together. If we collaborate, seek the truth, and always remember the power of respect. We can build a community of trust between the police and members of the community. That i dont believe has ever existed. There is indeed much to do. We must identify and irradicate both explicit and implicit bias and rid this department of anyone who holds racist, hop homophobic or sexist views. We must hire, train and promote officers who are viewed by the community as neutral in their policing. Me must continue our work with the United States department of justice to fundamentally reengineer use of force to keep everyone save safe and reduce leeptal shootings. We must improve our data on police stop ts and searches and support supervisor cohen efforts to make sure we investigate officerinvolved shootings. Im happy to talk in more detail on policies from vision zero to improving Language Access. What i want to say most is any change weve successfully made has one theme in common. Engagement and relationships. As much as we would like, no one will be able to impose or force a better and deeper relationship of trust between people when t people and the police. It will required sustained effort. Dedication, it will take all of us. It will take men look mike hail from the bayview who is currently in high school and wrote to you and said i am hopeful or bridging relationships between both police and community for the simple reason that when we as youth worked so diligently with Law Enforcement over the summer, some actually starpted to explore careers in it. It will take people like vinnie who after experiencing the unimaginable tragedy of losing his sister jasmine who while in crisis was killed by a los angeles sheriffs deputy in an incident that unfolded in minutes. People like vinnie who after suffering this unimaginable tragedy has chosen to devote his, heart and sphirt so sa spirit to San Franciscos Crisis Center program. Demanding with love that the department move to deescalation. Not as a boutique offering but every day practice. It will take people like nicole and janice from walk sf and p Bicycle Coalition when too many people are dying from traffic collisions sit together with me, members of command staff and crunch the numbers and partner together to save lives. There is indeed much work to do. And im asking for your support to continue the work ahead to build a Police Department we can all be proud of. Im happy to take your questions. Thank you for your presentation and service. I know that there are a lot of questions, im sure, from committee members. Maybe you can just spend more time talking detail about what the Police Commission has been doing around use of force and certain policy changes and your thoughts around that. Thank you madam chair, of course. The december second 2015 was the night that mario was shot in bayview. It was also the night the Police Commission voted on our bodyworn camera policies. We concluded a ixmonth effort to work with everyone from public defenders to aclu to develop a policy. We voted on that in full recognition that the Department Needs more transparency and there were issues of trust we felt body cameras would address. That night an incident happened that rocked, i would say the trust that in particular members ever the Africanamerican Community have in the Police Department. While there are current investigations going on into that incident, we wont go into detail, i said publicly that watching that incident unfold, demanded a series of questions. Someone who a member of the community in bayview said if that was in policy, we need to change the policy. Search days later the Police Commission began a conversation around use of force. There were probably 400 people in city hall demanding change and what we promised was we would survey the best practices, what people are doing around the country, the president s task force, the United States department of justice and ask is there a better way in particular to train and have policies and procedures that reduce instances where an officer discharges a firearm and someone is ultimately killed. The incident that we are focused on and the policies that were endeavoring to pass have to do with what officers do when someone is armed with a knife. We travel to washington, i know supervisor cohen sent a staff gnome a conversation with the Police Executive Research Forum on how do you look at this differently . The reality is departments across the country for many years have been focused on training that tells officers if there is an active shooter, a danger, you pull out your gun and run to the danger. There is a growing recognition that in particular i people in cries. Rushing into the danger actually will cause the situation to become more lethal. The training is this, in san diego there was a study that showed most officerinvolved shootings unfold of two minutes of officers arriving on the scene. What were endeavoring to create the time and distance to get to 5 minutes, 10 minutes forker more time for a Hostage Negotiator so thats the only proven way weve seen a reduction in officerinvolved shootings. Its a time. Ceas a distance and allowing the scene to unfold. Thats the direction an vision of the policy before the commission. We are waiting d. O. J. s relingses. I understand from u. S. Doj that well get a notice on friday on the final recommendations. After that, madam chair, well take this policy to two Community Meeting andal it will come back to the commission. Weve worn body wear and we started with a Diverse Group of stakeholders on both policies for the use of force policy. The coalition on homelessness, bar association, aclu, Public Defenders Office, Police Officers association and all of the peg groups including the officers for justice and asian p. O. A. Any solution that comes out has to have buyin from everyone. So were canvassing with the support of officer commission mazzucco is here and we want to get the best policy to make a difference. Thats our commitment. Supervisor mar. I wanted to thank commissioner loftus, ive never seen this many letters of support for the work youve done. Commissioner mazzucco, i know that sometimes we dont realize how much hard work is going into dealing with departmental general order on use of force it other issues that came up. On the nights of horrible killings like mario woodsyou say that the work you get doing gets wiped away by the rage. Its not just africanamericans. Its latinos, women, lgbt and homeless that have a lot of attention on how the use of force order is drafted. I want to ask you, p is there specific language on directing officers to use reasonable force versus the Community Town halls where people say it should be directing officers to use minimal force and deescalating requiring deescalation of conflict versus may deescalate. I want to know how you feel about those issues and groups that have been organizing on these issue. I appreciate that question. Thats the question to illustrate how this pros its about different. It wasnt a secret wh policy. The reason folks know that, at the table, an initial draft said it should be minimum usual force. That got changed to reasonable force and organizings at the table say we dont like that. When did that change occur . Through the process. All the versions are on our web side. Benefit ever transparency, everyone see the idea of a deliberative group. If good ideas are taken, the department made those changes. But i dont agree. I think the policy of the Department Since 1995 has been you issues minimum million force as niece. Thats what if should be. Were in the process of deciding finally what the language is. But i would agree and i think th the organizers came and made their case and it was compelling. They also made the case that the current language says you should deescalate when possible. There was a big debate among the Police Officers groups and community groups. Community groups wand to say shall you shall deescalate when feasible and the Police Officers want should there is a conversation in light of instances unfolding, a true change in vision for the department. Im of the viewpoint well require clear language that its the expectation you shall deescalate unless its not safe for you to do so. This process has been designed to bring about, frankly. Dissengs in the way this unfolds. I have one other question. I know its not just mario woods but perez and other cases, sometimes Community Mental Health Services leave many mentally ill on the streets. I think the crisis training has been good. How do we get from theories to implementing it in practice. It sounds like there is a disconnect. I wonder how they can be better implemented in traffic on streets in. Thats the Million Dollar question. It came up last night. Because similar issues were raised when there was a motion there was a Crisis Development on the scene in the most recent shooting. Crisis intervention training is training. I can say what when we went to washington in january and had a conversation with over 25 other police agencies, the question is how do you operationallize deescalation . What are the tactics and procedures . It comes down to who takes over the scene. How do they do that . There are issues which are outside the purview for us. Were not trained peace officers. Thats why the message i have it must be a collaboration between the police and community to identify a way to make these scenes safe for everyone. I have explained its a leadership moment hell hear from peace officers here and members of the Community Given that there is an expertise in doing this job every day and we have to craft a new protocol. The question was raise the last flight, we cant go to anyone else to solve this problem for us. We in San Francisco are on the cutting edge of answering the question, okay, so when deescalation fails, what is the next thing that synapse and what are the tools and training and equipment that an officer needs to keep themselves safe and everyone at the scene safe. Those are questions and conversations that have yet to happen. Thats the part where it gives me hope that we have in San Francisco to say with our police leaders, with our Community Members, here is the challenge, how are you currently training in these situations which is run to the person with the knife. Were now saying that actually can creator in danger. Let as stop doing that. Nothing turns on a dime. When you talk about safety and lives on the line, were all committed to fete getting this right. We care about the sang at this timsangt at this time of sanctity of life. We want to look back and say we changed course. Are we sievely changing course so in 10 years when we look back, i the number of instances is smaller than today. Thank you. Supervisor cohen. Okay. Question. Im going to start i have a lot of questions. So everyone should make themselves comfortable. Those of who know or dont know know that i am committed to making this city safe for everyone. I think that you and i share that same level of commitment as being public servants. I want to start and this is more so for the edification of the sphoax here that are here in the Committee Room and those watching at home, can you tell me from your understanding what is the role of the Police Commission . Thats a great question. So essentially the role of the commission by charter has two main functions it is to do discipline on serious cases which means any anything more than a 10day suspension. The power to terminate is vested in the Police Commission. Say that slower. You said that too fast. Discipline. Thank you. I mean i got it, but i want everyone else to get it. Its discipline and policy. Those are the two pieces. We arent making operation the decisions around where officers are deployed on any given day, but we set the policy and conduct discipline. The discipline that we do is anything that is greater than 10 days sus spngs. Again, the chief does not have the authority to fire an officer. That authority is vested within the commission. The other thing that i would say is glin is an important par discipline is an important part of what we do. We are the hearing officer in the discipline. When an officer is charged with disconduct, they have a lawyer. The Police Department has a lawyer and we as the commissioner sit in a quasijudicial role and hear the evidence. We decide what evidence comes in and out. We as a commission have to sit and decide what we think happened. This is done in closed session. And we have to decide what the punishment is. I have experienced challenges in the last few months in the fact that part of the reason why youre not hearing fiery speeches from Police Commissioners around allegations of misconduct, we have a quasi judicial role. When you say quasi judicial, you have to remain impartial. Neutral. Thats right. Not just for appearance sake but due tros es i process is something we fundamentally belief in as a people. When things are so outrageous and hit you on an emotional level that you remind yourself your job is to impartially hear the facts. Follow them where they go and do what needs to be done. Thats my commitment when it comes to discipline. Okay. What about your philosophies on policy . Well, how much time do we have . We have all day. All right so look. The president s report on 21st Century Policing said something that is important. In the first page it says culture eats policy for lunch. I read it. I know you have. You have it probably tabbed as i do. So the notion is this. There are times when you can policy your way out of the a situation and times you have to address the role policy plays in addressing culture. My philosophy is the department is governed by rules, the departmental general orders are incredibly powerful. Should versus shall in a Paramilitary Organization is a directive. We have to make sure theyre thoughtful and with input. My view on policy, the commission needs to do two things. One is react to the moment of now. Policing is very reactive. Things happen and you must react. The commission has to do that, the other thing is to keep a sustained eye on the big picture and not get focused on something they expense of another issue. For example, i with talk about vision zero. When i was 9 years old in San Francisco, this is going to make my mom mad, but when i was 9, i was hit by a car on 24th and california. I was fine, thank goodness. The guy driving the truck felt so bad and brought me ice cream. Offer my adult life, i realized i dont think people got tickets in San Francisco as much as other places. When you dont get traffic tickets, there are a lot of us who follow rules because theyre afraid ofment consequences. What we saw in december of 2013 was 13 people died in traffic collisions and most are completely preventable. The folks from swritio swrition zero started working collaborativively with us to say this has to be a sustained effort where officers give citations for the things most likely to cause a collision. That is something we can do it save lives. Ive kept this commission september a focus on that threw so many challenges that are equally as important to everyone in this city. Thats how we we just got a reported that were nearing the 50 goal of officers giving citations on focus on the five. Were still seeing too many deaths on the streets but we have a partnership making the streets more safe. When you ask me my philosophy on policy, you have to Pay Attention to what is happening now and stay focused on the bigger picture. This is why use of force and relationship with the community is not something we should hope goes away. This is not something where we check a box and be done but any relationship that matters ask a sustained investment. The can question should be what are we all doing to build a relationship between the police and community . Because when that suffers, none of us are as safe as we should be. You talk about building relationships. First thing that comes to my mind is communication. Communication is critical and key to any type of a relationship whether its a relationship with your husband or lover or with your children or even with your constituents. I want to talk about that relationship. I want to talk about specifically when did comes to communication. There have been several two recent cases that have been brought to light about communications between officers that have been either racist, sexist, or homophobic. What do you think the communication policy should be for officers that are engaging in this, not only the officer that sent the message, but the officer that has received the message. Should there be some kind of a policy that would require officers to report this type of communication . There is a policy. But again, i know where youre going. There policy, but does it happen. Youre talking about culture. I greet compleetl completely agree. The chief of police is clear anyone who holds racist sexist homophobic view that should not be, they should be disciplined and terminated from the Police Department if they hold those views. Its inconsistent with being a Police Officer. Too much power is vested in you. If you hold those views, you fall below the standard what have is expected. Supervisor mar made the point. I dont expect everyone to watch the Police Commission on wednesdays. Why . I think there is its entertaining. Modern family competes with us. What i do think is that we have to do a better job and some of the pr proposals i put forward is we need a policy a analyst. We started a twitter account. Sergeant killshaw is great. Communication is essential. Were investing in that. The point i want to make is there is a pledge called not on may watch that every officer took. When i read the pledge it gave me chills. It says we have no tolerance for hatred. This is not who we are. When we see it, well do something about it. The question i got asked in the interview is there is skepticism in the community that if these terrible things are said, nothing going to happen about it. And so, the process that we have in San Francisco is both within the Police Department and the office of citizen complaints. Those cases will come to us and its clear if its proven again that those views were held, from my perspective, those folks are no longer Police Officers. So one of the things that i really have wanted to iterate with you privately and also with mr. Mazzucco but i want to bring to the public dialogue. This conversation is about not requiring the Police Commissioner to come and dwnd themselves, but it present the work that theyve done. Theyre asking to be reappointed to serve in the last for another four years. Four year commitment. This body as a rules committee, our responsibility is you come before us and tell us the work that youve done. There are people that have come before us that have not done enough work to justify being reappointed. Thats what this conversation is about. I want you to have an opportunity to tell me all the good things that you have been able to do in the last four years that either fall in communication, i particularly am interested in systematic changes that rest within policy. You mentioned policy recommendations and things that you made to the mayor and Mayors Office. Talk to us about the suggestions that you have made in the last four years that have been implemented then take the next step and tell us about what youd like to see be implemented in the future. In the next four yiewrs should you be granted another fouryear term. I bresh the opportunity to do that. If september of this career, i sent you a letter that laid out a recognition of where the department was jee visavis in the wake of growing distrust and i highlighted some of our initiatives. Im going to go through those and talk about the future. So in terms of Domestic Violence, we approved new protocols. Specifically about improving the response in situations where the victim has limited or no english pro efficiency. What we were finding in those instances where a victim did not have sufficient Language Access to translation, at biewzer who had better english skills was the person not arrested. We found victims embroiled in the criminal Justice System and stowbt immigration proceedings. We tackled that issue and chaiged the policy and changed the protocol for officers who have ever had problem problems with Domestic Violence. So we adopted a policy that recognizes how traumatic the arrest and incarceration of a parent can be in the life of a child in it charts and new protocol. Supervisor cohen. Youve been a supporter on this. A childhood adverse experience is a predictor. Education can be a predictor. One experience is the incarceration of i parent. San francisco has a model policy thats been promoted that actually addresses pow officers are supposed to interact with a child. What is happening in the life of a childs mind and what can they do to make that situation as supportive as possible. What was beautiful about the process, it was children had actually seen their parents arrested and worked with the occ and department to build that policy. The policy got local recognition from the Youth Commission. And the urban institute had a webinar to get other departments to adopt a similar policy. We redrew the Police District lines. We didnt just the controller gave us maps we had meetings and met with individuals. What was stunning is its a policy to your point, supervisor cohen. Policpolicing is a living breathing thing. There are people here that my relationship grew with them when they said i dont want to be if p that police station. I have this relationship with this officer. Public safety is not something they think about as an afterthought, its the beginning given where they live and their neighborhood is, its not an option but a fundamental. We did good work there. Vision zero another policy initiative. We laid out specific metrics to be reported regarding citations issues and operations. This is one of the policy initiatives weve done. One of powers of the commission is set a goal and have a reporter structure where it comes back. Back up a second. When you talk about setting a goal, reporting back element many departments fall short in this. Is there a way that is it a possibility that we can begin to share this information . So as a report is made to the Police Commission, perhaps we can call a hearing and bring them to the board of supervises as well as the Human Rights Commission to be a venue to connect and share reporting. I think transparency is critical when we talk about communication. And also repairing the trust factor. Supervisor cohen, i believe thats a great idea. The more forums where we have of we have thees conversations particularly in use of divorce is a great idea. Vision zero. We set it as a goal to get to this. There is pushback because ap captains know best. You can force or fe persuade. This was about persuasion and what has been interesting is the captains that started making the goals would get recognition with the commission. From their community and advocates. So it wasnt just its like the carrot and the stick. It wasnt just a constant beating but it was a recognition when you do something that weve asked, youre lifted up and we saw a i huge increase in the last quarter and something that is important to me and i think it comes from sometimes im accused of treating Police Officers like my children. But i do think a lot of parenting is dealing with behaviors you like or dont like. One of the ways that you have to make change is to lift up what works. There is a significant amount of that. But i agree with you, viewp visor, asupervisor we should collaborate to elevate the conversation so folks know what were doing. The final thing that i would say in terms of policy is the crisis intervention teementd. Weve supported the Mental Health working group and cohosted the first award program. That didnt get any coverage, but it was the first ever awards ceremony that honored nine officers that successfully deescalated situations and did not use any force. It stndz to reason that you obviously reward officers for all types of things. But never rewarded them for successfully taking it down. What i will tell you is privately, people say, man, i see officers on the street deescalating. Theyre doing a tremendous job. In terms of changing the culture, we want to lift up those officers that are successfully deescalate difficult situations and honor them. That work is underway. But that all was underway. We cant sweep automatic of the direction directions directions because were concerned about the future and we have o double down on what is working and collaborate more and engage more as we move ahead. We have to tighten this up. Supervisor mar probably has pay battery of questions. I want to thank, president lof loftus youve been president how long . September of 2014. So under two years. Youve been the president of a tumultuous time period. I believe that you have guided the conversation which oftentimes is a difficult and heated conversation. I dont know if anyone in this room or at home listening has attended some of the Community Meetings. But certainly posts an officerinvolved shooting. Theyre very, very volatile and tempers are running high. I just want to acknowledge the entire commission, the comirses tha commissioners here and the Law Enforcement that are serving in a very difficult time as well. I do have a few more questions about time and distance general order. I want to be specific. How can the Police Commission ensure that this particular general order and this is the time and distance general order is followed by our department . Well, thats a great question. The short answer is this, departmental general orders is not an option. Any violence of a general order could result in discipline. So discipline is one way. The better answer, thats one lever is that the United States department of justice is engaging in clap raive reform with us. One of the things i asked and hope they set as a goal is to be boots on the ground in the stations working with the officers and captains making sure its happen and helping us ensure its not just on a piece of paper but the policy is followed. The training allows officers to follow it. Im very hopeful about their involvement and where its not followed, the commission has discipline as a tool to use. Its currently my understanding that there are 368 active patrol officers that received craseis intd vengs training. Can you explain the can you explain to me the process in which these officers are dispatched to situations that may require c. I. T. Or deescalation much like the recent officerinvolved shooting on shotwell street. Currently its 524 officers trained. When a call came out and someone was in crisis, that question would be asked by the dispatcher if they had training and that information would be passed along. As we know from a number of high profile shooting, often time the information the officer is given is that what happened in the shotwell incident . I cant speak to that. I will say that the issue of how theyre dispatched, they are being dispatched, but the open question is who how are the scenes tactically take of. Is it the c. I. T. Officer in charge . Theyre questioning that are addressed to make sure that when you say currently addressed, by whom . Commission and department. Do we have any plans to train more officersos with c. I. T. Training . Every Academy Class is traine trained with c. I. T. And the goal is to train the entire department with c. I. T. The beauty of c. I. T. Is the its a department, its not Standard Police training, its done off site and people who have been trained in these instances. I want to talk about body cameras. What was your vote when this discussion was at the police station, the body cameras . I voted for them and voted with six colleagu that does yeah. When can we expect the policy of the crams and implementation to take place within the department . Thats my same question. The prose is at the department of human resources. Theyre in the meet and confer process. Iemp added to thed agenda for next week. Its imperative the cameras get on our officers. I want to talk about the blue ribbon panel. Can you ask the sta systematic process . I was invite to testify and i did. What will the Police Commission do with the recommends . Its to the clear what the recommendations look like. But i let the team of lawyers know and judges know were open to all ideas and suggestions. Al i asked if they wouldnt presented formally to the commission since we have the responsibility to develop policy. I said were open to all suggestions and ideas. All right. Next one is about tasers. What is your position on tasers . I think the suggestion that tasers is the sole answer to the situation we faind ourselves in, i dont agree with at all. Ive been in a number of Community Meetings where there are different opinions on tasers. I committed to a process that ensures the policy is thoroughly vetted from all the community groups. Im interested in what d. O. J. s recommendation is. Theyll let us know on friday when theyll let us know. I will say this, the department has put forward a policy that would have the most highly trained officers be given a taser. The suggestion in the policy is that a taser cannot be used except for a situation where it would be the last resort prior to leith force. Those are questions we ask whether we believe thats a part of the engineering use of force. Those are conversations that were in the middle of. Okay. Two more topics. Independent investigations. Ifts wondering if you support the call to Attorney Office har to perform a im not a part of the conversations on the attorney generals side. Im walled off from those. But as a commissioner, i welcome engagement from anyone who wants to get involved. I spent a lot of team with people from usdoj. They are a he going to bring in implicit bias training and theyve been clear to the extent to which the departments to not cooperate or they identify civil rights violations. If its the department of justice. No one can turn a blind eye to systematic civil rights violations. There is plenty of intentative for everyone in San Francisco to move in the Vision Forward because i think we have an opportunity to do it ourselves. Or we have an opportunity to have someone come if and do it for us. Great. I want to close with a couple of questions on the status of the officers in the text messaging incident. How many of the officers involved with the recently revealed homophobic and racist Text Messages are with the department or have they been dismissed . There are four officers and there thri are no longer with the department. One fl them is pending a criminal investigation. We have that what is their role within the department . Sus spenned without pay is my understanding. Im sorry. I just had a general question. I wanted to say thank you for answering my question supervisor mar. Thank you for your patience. Thank you. Supervisor mar. President loftus, i appreciate your hard work an the other commissioner. Since supervisor cohen brought up the text. I thought it was an april fools day article when i read the second set of texts. I view them as the tip of the iceberg as a culture that not just bad apples but rotten to the core at times given the horrible, not only racist and homophobic, but the first set of texts were antiimmigrant and antiwomen. Its the set of bigotry. You mentioned Peter Druckers statement. That they eat policy for lunch. They said reprehensible actions by a few officers do not retblect the overall blah blah blah. But theyre trying to say a few bad apples. Saying that is important, but theyre not acknowledging systemic culture. The Public Defenders Office said theyre trying different things. Im wondering, i go way back to 30 years when delores hiewrlt huerta had her spleen rushed and ribs broken and those advocating for police oversight. The police does what you can. But how do you deal with this decadeslong thin blue line of loyalty and this culture that needs to change now that weve seen the tip of the iceberg from these text message scandals . You reference huerta and john lewis. But Delores Huerta happened here during the Democratic Convention in San Francisco. 3 is years ago is not a long time and selma 51 years ago is not a long time. So policing on community is real. Im not here to suggest that there are not issues that we have to deal with of racism and hope it phobia an homophobia and the shamer this if country. They happen in many places. When i look at the incidents of identifying a racist Police Officer. The question i asked is what happened next. If there was a culture from the top down of sweeping these under the rug, those officers were not have charges filed against them or face a commissioner loftus and molt choose to resign because they know that theyre certain of what their fate is. I think speeches aside and poom who want to say whatever they want to say, the reality is we have work do do and relationship to builds theyve find the racic and assessic and homophobic Police Officers. Lets not castigate an entire field because of a shame of a few. You have my commitment to rid this department of officers who hold those views. Part of what we have to do is identify them and take action. President loftus, do you think everything youre he a doing is enough to change that culture of bigotry within the Police Department . I mean Million Dollar question, weve had cop watch, have we made all the progress we want . If that works, are we at the Promised Land yet . What i would offer is we need to take the best of our thinking in San Francisco. We need to ask the kids who live in bayview lupter Hunters Point point. Theyve written you letters. Ive asked of the housing project. Ive asked Police Officers. To suggest we know the answer on how to get out of what is a deeply troubling level of distrust between police and community is unrealistic. What i know is this, the progress that weve made goes back to engagement and relationship. And i think we have an opportunity in San Francisco to reject the namecalling and shaming. Certainly where there is reason to do it, again, you have no role in this Police Department. But how do we together build a department that were proud of. A lot of the models have to do with forcing things. Lets force them to do what we want. We force when necessary, persuade when we can and Work Together were all in this. Policing police and Community Need each other. It looks like weve ended all the questions from my colleagues. I want to thank you for your prens president loftus. At this time im going to call up any comments. I would like to thank my mother Maureen Roach and my husband tom loftus and my three beautiful girls its only because of them im able to do any of this. Thank you. [applause] i have many comment cards here. If i call your flame, please line up to the wall right there to the my right where im pointing. Marianne. Ya londa williams. Martin. David elliot le us. Brenda washington. Come on up. You dont have to speak in the order i called you. But if you called your name, please come on up. Good afternoon im here as the president of officers for justice to say we completely support the reinstatement of suzy loftus to the Police Commission. She has shown that she is a courageous woman who supports and understands impress it biased policing. She understands the need for accountability in situations likes textgate. She supports reform and procedural justice. She responding to our Domestic Violence calls and enhantsing the technology that is currently used by the Police Department so we can deliver more Quality Police service to the citizens that we serve. She has advocated as i and the officers for justice have done consistently that Police Officers learn to treat people with dignity and respect. And that were truly accountable for our actions. And that this Department Must be transparent. I have attended many Police Commission meetings where ive heard her not only take on the chief, she would take on Police Officers, and she will take on Union Leaders and officials who really dont get the message. That the it cannot longer be a situation where its us versus them. It has to be the we concept. She also understands the importance that cognitive training is needed within our department. Shes a role model for the women of San Francisco. I urge you to allow her to be reinnovated. Next speaker, please. Im Marion Johnson and a rez of the San Francisco. I am here to support suzy loftus. Ive worke worked with her for four years. Shes trying to chang the culture of the department and id like to see her finish what she started and i think another four years would be great for her to keep participating. Also finally seeing what i qant to see is this community policing. She is now involving the community in how the police is plition our communities. Policing our communities. I wont keep you long, but i do encourage this committee to give suzy loftus another four years. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors. Im brenda washington and im a tenant organizationer with the s. R. O. Collaborative. Im a board member of the uptown tenlder loin museum. Enough about me. Woor a here for suzy. I met suzy on a Police Commission hearings about the restricts in the tenderloin where i live. What they had planned for us was not going to fit into our program because we didnt even get a hello about what were doing and changing and we were tiertd of it. Peer tired of it. We came out in numbers to ask the commission though redistrict the redistricting plan that he had for us and involved us. Suzy loftus was one of those head people that kept it on track and listened to what he said and ultimately we came to an agreement and its working wonderfully. I would love to see her be reappointed as president Police Commissioner. We need her. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Im david elliot lewis. Im with the Mental Health board of San Francisco and a tenant advocate for the sro clab va rif ofive and im of the c. I. T. Worker and trainer who has been training officers as part of the Crisis Intervention Team training for two years. I had a chance to work request commissioner loftus in two comasities. One through her with k. O c. I. T. Ive been impacted by tenderloin crime and i was concerned when the tenderloin found out what the community wanted for boundaries was different from what the department wanted. Commissioner loftus has organized forums in the community to take our input about how these boundaries would affect access to police services. And i found her and fellow commissioners very receptive and ultimately we came up with boundaries that helped meet the needs of my neighborhood, the tenderloin. Im grateful for her support of taking Community Input in redrawing these boundaries. In the past, its been what the Police Department wanted without that much Community Input. Regarding Crisis Intervention Team training, that is a work in progress. Yes we trained 400. Yes, we have a long ways to go. Right now its not fully operationallize. Right now c. I. T. Training is not more than training. We need do more. Commissioner loftus has been supportive of that. I think the department has dragging its heels but theyre starting to see the light and shes been valuable in getting them to see the light of c. I. T. I hope youll reappoint her. Shes been a huge asset for the Police Commission and the community. Thank you. Thank you very much. Before i call up the next speaker i have a couple more cards. Looper. Davis. Beetle and michael patton. Good afternoon, im martin halloan the president of the Police Officers association. The p. O. A. Is in full support for another term for suzy loftus to serve on the San Francisco Police Commission. Siewtzsuzy has long demonstrated her advocacy for women as rights. Rights of children of arrested parents. Shes demonstrated that since she served on Police Commission. I was fortunate enough to work with suzy loftus when she was working in the San Francisco District Attorneys Office. I could speak to her ethics and her morals, theyre beyond reare approach. Since her service on the Police Commission, and these troubles times. Shed demonstrated strong leadership that is needed at this time when many questions are raised about the policies and practices of Law Enforcement. Not just in San Francisco, but nationwide. She is built bridges with the community while maintaining relations with the Police Officers association and all the other peg groups including the officers for justice. Asian piece Officers Association peace Officers Association. Pride alliance and womens Police Officers association. We work with bodyworn camera ras. Tasers all of these need strong guidance from the Police Commission. Her service as pre of the commission has proven to see us through this far and we need to see it through to the finish line. We strongly urge a reappointment of suzy loftus to the Police Commission. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im [inaudible] and im going to read the support letters i sent you all. I work for central city collaborative which is a Committee Housing i want to ask for the reappointment of suzy loftus. Ccro worked with tenderloin. Suzy worked with us closely to address issues in tenderloin. A prime example of her strong committeen put is when she got the boundaries for tenderloin. Many were upset about the proposed boundaries. Suzy met with us and our resident leaders on several occasions to hear our concerns. She worked with us on alternate bown dpris. The committee and large would support. During this proseshe demonstrated good leadership by listening to and addressing the community concerns. Shes been accessible, eager to hear resident concerns and work with them to figure out solutions. She never shies away from addressing controversial issues. She seeks Community Input and has willingness to figure out what works best for the community. We urge you to support suzy loftus for rea choiment can of bliss commission. Were confident shell continue to do good work. I dont see some of the folks i called previously. From speaker calls. Norm ma. Vinnie nng, Johnny Monroe and rachel killsock. Im mel beatle and im here as heart part of the collaborative. Ive seen suzy perform as president of the commission. More than once. I saw her perform today. That kind of leadership is necessary at the commission. I hope you will put her back. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im vinnie. I had the great fortunate of meeting suzy a few years ago. When i was seeking council, recovering from the unexpected and tragic loss of my sister, in an officerinvolved shooting. One of the first things that suzy said to me after receiving my store storry was how can we learn from this . This is the leadership that this Community Needs. Someone who is willing to look at tragedy and acknowledge that hope can still exist. So that others wont have to encounter the trauma that my continues to sustain. Lethal outcomes are preventable and wk only reform our Law Enforcement agencies by willing participation from every stakeholder and so i strongly encourage you to reappoint suzy to the commission so that we can continue to do the hard work necessary to restore dignity to our communities. Thank you. Thank you very much. For sharing that story with us. [applause] good morning. Im julius [inaudible] im the Vice President of the Police Department. There is not a word here today that i can expwree with. You heard a lot about the policydriven side of the work that we do at the commission. Because as you know, the other side, the discipline side is not a side that we can discuss publicly. Let me share a little bit more about suzys work if that area. The Police Commission, as you know, charged with disciplines officers for serious violations is work that we take very seriously. And it is a collaborative process in which we must meet and discuss what level of discipline, if discipline should be imposed upon an officer. I cannot tell you that we always agree, but what i can tell you is that suzy has a process in which she evaluates and treats every officer with fairness, with an open ear and weighing evidence in a way that both respects their rights and this process. Being a Police Commissioner is difficult work. Sometimes. Our ability to speak out on issues is limited. And sometimes people just dont understand. Understand underse dont speak out publicly on certain issues. Suzy has always walked the fine line of preexpecting both the public and officers, saving officers where she can but punishing those and believe me, we fired officers much more so than other commissions. Otheii cannot urge you more strongly than to reappoint suzy. Thank you commissioner. And for your service as well. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Where are my glasses. Can . . Supervisor cohen, supervisor tang supervisor mar. Suzy is great. Slee really is. She really is. Ive been on the commission a long time. I think there are a couple of things. Number one, i want to emphasize. Not only is she a great commissioner, but shes a great leader. When you get into these times, you need leadership. One the great qualities as a leader, you knows it all for one thing. That tax a lot of study. And shes a great convener. Shes been able to pull huge parts of the Community Together to guide us through what i call a Community Crisis. Youve seen her at the p meetings when weve had tough times at the Police Commission pleatings. But also, the way she put together the whole body camera piece and brought all the concerned folks together and we were able to craft something out of that and move things forward. Ill say this quick, the big thing now is were poised to make changes in our use of force policies that will be then have i of this nation. Im sure of that. My big concern is wed come out of it differently than any other city and were right there. We moved it this far. We cant stop now. We have to keep moving forward. We ever momentum. You have to move her in and get her back and keep it going. In a few months, people you talk about communication. San francisco is the one looking forwards as the expm for how to deal with Community Crisis and use of force policy. Please, lets get her back. Thank you. Commissioner for your service. I know we have another commissioner here pe troa dejesus and kevin stall and takai tyler. Im here for two i agree in terms of leadership for suzy. Weve sat in the Community Meetings. Many rock cuss and angry Community Meetings. We cant speak in the police role. Its important for us to be out in the Community Meetings to get that temperature and anger and heat and understand it. Ive sat with suzy and others and its been important to understand policy. Even though the worker eking groups have gotten tote. We exercise judgment when it comes down to minimal use of force versus reasonable force. Well use our intent judgment but its important to get the conversation going. I do support her and i think this is the time of crisis that we should maintain the leadership and continue to go forward and see if we can work. Its going to be a long, hard road but we need to go forward in pay uniform and thoughtful manner and put forward the reforms were trying to institute in the department at this point. Ill get back in line. Thank you very much. Good morning, supervisors im john monroe. Im the inspector for the Police Department. From january 2012 to june 2015, i was Police Commission secretary. I had the unique experience of being the secretary when commissioner mazzucco was president and loftus. Ill get back in line also. Commissioner loftus, before the demario incident. Before the second text gating incident. Before that. Her community was communitien gaugement always. As some members here alluded to and Commission Supervisor cohen alluded. The Police Commission had lively meetings. I knew on thursday morning first thing i asked the secretary, did loftus call yet . Because i know she would have something for me to do to reach out to members of the community and advocates. Her concern for community and policing is enormous. It was way before the headlines hit now. Ill expand more on ma swriewka but i urge you to reappoint commissioner loftus. Thank you very much. Next inteeker, please. Next speaker, please. Im rachel shaw ive a been a San Francisco offerser for 25 years. Ive known commissioner loftus for a few years. If our written directive unit which is our policy unit in the department and now as the Commission Secretary taking treeg to fill the shoes of inspector monroe. Ive been lucky enough to work with her in both roles both as Commission Secretary. When i first met her working in the policy unit on pretty innovative and groundbreaking policies that our department and under her leadership has taken the lead on, and she alluded to some children of arrested parents. The restricting, bodyworn cameras. Use of force. Domestic violence policy not only that applies general policy, but the policy involving members of our department. Is she took a lead on that as well. Her leadership and dedication and commitment to not only the commission but the people of this city. Is unrivaled. She constantly is working. Constantly in contact with us. Making sure that we are not only the commissioners, but the staff of the commission are responsive to the people who live here. She takes her role as Commission President seriously and is mindful of the importance of hearing all voices. And that theyre considered. She is it fair when it comes to discipline and it is important to her that the due process for all officers is followed. I urge you to support her reappointment. I think consistency is very important during these challenging times for the department. And i think she is a great commissioner. Jay hillson. [inaudible] green. James [inaudible] colet ground. I dont know if my name wassed called. Hell be up soon. And we have jeff montaheno. Im jeff monteno. Im here to speak on his behalf in support of suzy loftus reappointment to the commission today. He has been extremely impressed with commissioner loftus work on the commission. She has demonstrated time and time again that shes committed to fairness and justice at the commission. Through her action and words as well. Supervisor feral believes she has the right background to serve the public from her work in the Attorney Office ears office to her work with bayview. She is working deeply with the community. She focuses on women and childrens issues and offering support to those who dont otherwise get it. Most recently the most two recent involved officer shootings she has dmon stripted she has the be composure, compassion, reason and justice to lead the commission and our city through this morning and trying times. The Police Commission conducts glin ri hearings on charges of Police Misconduct and impose discipline as warranted. To hear Police Officers appeals from disciplineimposed by the chief. You can tell from suzys testimony today that she takes that mission seriously. Its something that shed committed to doing. We reflect fully ask you reappoint her today. Thank you. Next peeker please pd imoorch. Im cathy dliewka, im the policy and proposal marchger with walk San Francisco. Im here in behalf of walk s San Francisco to support liewz jiewrs i loftus reappointment to the Police Commission. Shes been a be champion for vision zero. We know we need to use all our rees sources. Engineering, education and enforcement is a crucial part of that. Because of suzy loftus work and passion for Traffic Safety within the Police Department and commission, the Police Department adopted a vision zero goal. The department has been working really hard to reach its goal also of focusing on the top five traffic violations. And thats because of really the support and work that suzy has done if the background. She also has set up that the Police Commission gets quarterly updates on vision zero. So keeping the commission involved. As everyone what has said here this afternoon, she is a a bridge builder. As you might not be surprised, sometimes advocacy groups look mine might have a hard time with a Certain Police captain or traffic citation behaviors and have that time working with the captain or officers. And commissioner loftus as been a god send in that way. An a mais amazing bridge builder. There is a respect and acknowledgment that we want to get to the same goals. So, i know that were going to have a better relationship between advocates and the police if we have commissioner loftus on the commission and beeo i know well get to vision zero quicker too. For those reasons, i hope you reappoint her. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Im kevin stall. Iim a member of the sro collaborative and swrition zero advocate. Last year a year or two ago when we were going through the restricting process of redrawing the police lines, suzy loftus was open and understanding to the communitys needs of making sure the lines are drawn to where our needs are met as well as making sure the Police Resources are assigned to where they need to be to make our Community Safer and im very thankful and glad she did that as well. As on the vision zero piece. I want to say that im glad that shes helping make sure the police are more accountable and citing unsafe drivers in the city to make sure our streets are safer. This is a goal that needs to be met to make sure that all people are safe on our streets now and in the future. I also want to thank the Police Commission as well for all the hard work theyve gun doing and you suzy loftus leadership and i hope they continue to do so under a strong woman leader and a woman who was raised by her mother who did a great job raising a strong woman leader in the city. I want to thank her personally as a great woman sha she is. Im going it call two more speaker cards. If i didnt call your name, please come on up. Please line up by the wall. My name is kat acres tyler. Im with the hunter point family agency. Were a communitybased agency. I met suzy loftus several years ago when i served on the Community Advisory councilor for the center for youth wellness. Im here today to voice our strong support for her reappointment to the commission. I feel honored to be in this long line of supporters and just to be able to talk about the work that shes done, hear what everyone else is saying and see the consistency in who she is as a person. I know personally in the work that i did with her how tirelessly she worked to build partnerships, and to make sure that there was Community Voice at the center for youth wellness on behalf of the children and families who had suffered traumas in the community, community violence, flame violence and working to enhance the possibility for them to have a more positive future. And soim excited to see that shes taken those same qualities and applied them to her work on the commission. I have always just admired her clear vision and her honesty in terms of the work that she does. And more importantly, i remember having conversations with her and have it come through clearly how much she loves San Francisco. I believe that love is what you have to to have any time youre going to do difficult and challenging work. I appreciate that about her. And i support her reappointment, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im jay hilton,. Im part of the ambassadors circle. I had the pleasure of doing this four years ago for suzy loftus the first time. I represent a body of people that have known her since 1992. Im here as a kind of be a led to to say that everything youre hearing today and for the people that have worked with her over the last couple of years have been true over the last 24 years since ive known soucy. I got back from sackmento where there is a conference for crime survivors. You ask about change and bringing about change. One thing that is beginning to be elevated on the National Scene is that our leaders must be able to connect the dots between institution thized racism and systemic bias and suzy can one of those cerebral beings that can connect the dots and has been in the community and worked with such a diverse population that she is able to understand how things are connected. And so, if there is anything we learned from watching the warriors game last night is when seth curry is hot, keep giving him the ball. I thank you in advance for reinstating commissioner loftus because i think shell do a great job over the next four years. You cant stop her. Shes hot, give her the ball. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Im zuri [inaudible] i met suzy a while ago. I came to i a Police Commission meeting and what happened is i invited some of the commissioners to come out to parolto patrol hill. I invited her to come out patrol hill and she took me up on that and she walked around. I echo everything that everybody is saying. Im going to whole another subject is with our young women. Our impressionable youth. We have our strong leaders by malia and yoa londa and takai and myself. Black africanamericans. Shes a white caucasian woman. For her to take to be around them and to take them up under her wing and to show them the level of respect as we show them as well is something that is needed to be seen in our community. My daughter had the unique opportunity of doing being in the mayors Summit Youth Program lastier. She still continued on and they made some different policies and procedures and different recommendations, the youth did towards the Police Department which the Police Department adopted if and looking at. Thats when my daughter met suzy. She didnt know that was my daughter. My daughter came home and talked about this lady and howen spiring she is. That he touched my heart adds a mother. To hear the other young lady takai about the other young women suzy took under her wing in the Hunter Bayview community. She touches on all different levels. For her to stop now would derail all the work that has been going on. And im on the chief africanamerican Advisory Committee and shoots been informational in changing the policies and procedures and working on that. Next speaker. Hello, my name is paulette brown. And we have a circle for mothers and fathers who lost their children to homicide. For me, i lost my son nine years ago. This year. August 14th will be 10 years. Ive been coming to the Police Commission for the last nine and a half years. Pleading for justice for my child. I want to say that since ive been coming here and ive been under several Police Commissions, when you tell your story, you want people to hear you and you want people to see you. You want people to feel how you feel. You want people to have empathy for you. You want people to have sympathy for you. I can honestly say that Suzanne Loftus the president of the Police Commission has given me that. When i tell my story, she doesnt look down on me. I still cry. I still hurt. When i show her my sons picture, her and her mother, they told me they put the picture in their house. That gave me hope that people still care about us. And theyre just not racial profiling us. Just like the lady said. Im an africanamerican woman. Shes caucasian and she cares. She cares about the community. She cares when i bring other pictures whether theyre glory or not. She has sympathy. She doesnt just say youve been here last week, you come here every week and were tired of seeing you. She listens to me and after i finish talking, you ask the public, if you know anything about this police, please come forth. That gives me hope. I have to look at her because i know shes going to Say Something about my baby. We need that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. I came here to speak about this. Can. Nie name is lee. I did 10 years in the military. I was also a Junior Deputy sheriff in bathen rouge. The solution is this. Maybe i should hold it up. I want to make sure your comments are about ite one. Yes it is. Its to give you a solution for the problem that youre having, not anything else. The solution is this. Maybe i should read it. Get rid of the bullets by getting rid their ability to get bullets. This is how you solve the problem youre having currently. This is what i came here o speak about. The way you do thatto stop people from being shot is you deregulate the dope money they use to buy bullets where you have to have a war. If you deregulate that, then you start deescalating the war to begin with. This isnt about, you know, hiring someone to try to find a solution. This is the solution. If you get rid of the money people get to shoot at you, you dont have to shoot back. In the mill ri, you get military, if you get rid of my bullets, i cant shook back. You deregulate the drugs. Now make them illegal for them to have it so they dont have the 20 to build up a cache of bullets. Maybe you dont understand what im saying. Its the only way you can stop the war is to damp it down by deregulating the dope they buy the bullets to shoot at you in the first place. Can you understand the solution in maybe you dont. You should actually try to understand that you have to have someone having law and order like the military. If you take away the bullets from me, i can shoot back to defend you. Maybe you dont understand ma im trying to say. Thank you vch. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Suzy loftus has done a great job. Please reappoint her. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Somebody you want to be the Police Commission officer. Someone like mohammed ali or bruce lee or james bond. But i support soozy loftus. For the Police Commission. , i would say Police Commission nominee must monitor peoples activities. Peoples civil rights, secure protection. Peoples civilized culture. Secure protection. Peoples passion or wisdom, or people heart of destiny. Pathway. All taken under consideration. To be Police Commission duties. Inside and outside police work. [inaudible] for good response of safety in action. Security and pro tengz. Should be having eye aspirations. Equality, liberty and just physical for all. Next speaker and anyone who wishes to comment on item one, please come up. My name is brown. President of the San Francisco branch of the National Association for the advancement of colored people. And pastor of Third Baptist Church for 40 years. I stand here to support not just miss loftus, but i stand to support mr. Swr mazzucco. Because dr. Martin luther king junior was right. When he said the measurement of a man or a woman not where he or she stands in time of convenience and comfort but where he or stands in times of controversy and challenge. I say without fear of contradiction. These two persons ive named have stood tall in the times of challenge and controversy around the issue. Specifically in the Africanamerican Community followed by the brown community. They possess the character, competency, chemistry, and the courage to do the right thing. I hope you will dot right thing today. I hope you will appoint them back the commission. Thank you very much. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item one . Seeing none, Public Comments is closed. Supervisor cohen will be back, but i think ill kick it off by saying i am so thrilled we have someone like suzy loftus in our Community Serving in her role as the president of the Police Commission. Seeing her work and being able to really deal with all the challenges that are facing not only the Police Department, but the commission as well. And to do it with grace, calmness, and without laser focus not only the issue at hand, but also on the future. It takes a lot of skill to be able to do that. I have certainly seen her rise ottocation it be able to handle it well in this role. So, you know, i wholeheartedly support her reappointment. Seeing everyone of you who have come out and the communities you represent says a lot of about her and her work on the commission. Im happy to support her reappointment. Supervisor mar. The public statements said it allth the stack of letters of support. Tremendous respect from so many different communities. I wanted to pay my respects by moving that we support the reappointment of president suzy loftus to the full board as a Committee Report for consideration on our april 19th 2016 board meeting. Thank ynnm supervisor mar. I want second that. Seconded by supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. Everyone for coming out and caring an being engaged. As you heard particularly one of the john hilton said shes hot, right . So i think we can continue to give her the ball and you should know president loftus we continue to keep scoring. Were not looking for any bricks here. Thank you. Thank you. And so, and i also want to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues as well for having a diplomatic and productive conversation and a difficult issue. With that confess there was a motion to send forth with positive recommendation as a Committee Report and well take that out objection. Congratulations. [applause] all right and now item two. Motion confirming the mayors nomination in appointing tosms mazzucco for a forker fouryear term ending april 30th, 2020. Blue ribbon panel. One the judges asked commissioner loftus if she could be king for a day what changes would she make. I set next to suzys mom and said it wont go well. That judge realized he crossed the line. Thank you suzy. Also want to thank reverend brown coming here to talk for suzy and i. That means a lot to me in going through the process. I met with reverend brown. I want to the church and met with him and had a very good and hard conversation along with reverend rick baker since i have known since i was 15 years old. We had a great conversation about the reading assignment. I it h to read a article about Martin Luther kings last speech and we had a great dialogue. I learned from it, it is a very important points came out. I want to thank you reverend brown. Im here to ask for reappointment for a 4 year term to what i think is probably the most important commission in the city because this is the leas onbetween the citizens and Police Department. The recent few years havent told us that, the leading agency in the city is the Police Department. We as a commission do the policy and procedure and the discipline. You heard about that. I thank commissioner loftus for filling us in. We cant go out and tell everybody what we do all day. This isnt a part time job, especially as president , i did it for 2 or 3 yours. It is a 60 hour week. Now as a commissioner it st. 20 hour week but 20 hours i enjoy. We do discipline and meet with incommunity and out in the community all the time. To me that is helpful because we have get the message and bring it back and forth. It is a great learning experience. Why do i want to be on the commission another 4 wreers . One, i am a native san franciscan and love the sit a. I raised my city in the sit a along with my wife who is a teacher. It is a city of Saint Francis and people care and dont care about your backgrown. The most open silty city in the world. We raised our children here and proud of it. I serve the city as a prosecutor in the District Attorneys Office and served as the United States attorney for department of justice. Now i served on the Police Commission 8 years. Im not the longest standing issue. Commissioner dejesus and marshal have be beat. 8 years. We have issues with use of force. We have issues with Police Officers texting not treat thg public right. Throughout my career every time i had a chance to talk to Academy Classes, new Police Officers, i start the speech off with, please treat everybody with the same respect you would hope somebody would treat your mother, father, brother, sister or children. That is the basic tenant and that flows through everybody we have done for policy, procedure and discipline. The sad part is not all the officer follow that. I get it, it is a 2300 member Police Department and there will be people that are a problem. One thing we have done as a commission under suzys leadership and prior leadership is we have been moving forward. We discussed department general orders regarding use of force when it come tooz shooting moving cars. One thing i thought was the silliest thing is shooting at a car. San francisco Police Department does want do that anymore because the commission looked at that. We talked about car pursuits and dont do tat because it puts the public at risk thrmpt are other things we have done, the crisis intervention training. You heard folks talk about that. That started during when i was the president. I remember when it was brought to our attention there was push back. I said wait a minute, we are seeing most the instance officers have to use force involve people in crisis. In fact, i was on dr. Marshals show street soldiers and they are saying why is this happening. The Common Thread of officer involved shootings are people in crisis. The crisis intervention became a important part of what we did as a commission. It isnt tradition for Police Officers but give them a cit badge. The interest is phenomenal. You heard the numbers a little over 500 officers trained and have seen it and gone to the class. I have seen in it in operation on street and it saved lives. When we had that Award Ceremony for the officers it a shame the public didnt see that. That was 9 officer involved shootings that never happened. I sat there and had tears in my eyes of the presentation and hear the officers and what they did. There is complete buy in. It has to be get better and need to protect it and when we wlook at the use of force policy wree doing that. It is a delicate balancing the officer safety versing Public Safety. Cit is a big component and will get better at that and think well get to a point where we love to eliminate the officer involved shootings. I have to tell you as a commissioner the worst thing we do is review every officer involved shoting. Every time we get the message a officer difeed ipa officer involved shooting we review and return to duty and fire arm discharge review board, we make policy recommendations made by the Police Department and by occ is and it is the hardest part because someone lost they are life in most instances. I investigated officer involved shootings i think i did 17. I will take you to what it is like. It is tragic, it isnt pretty. The officererize severely effected. The community is severely effected. The victims and families are severely effected and we are asked to take a look and say what can we do better. Every time we look at this we say god, what could we have done better . How do we approach the community but go into the community and take the communities fire and the sad part is i wish we could talk back and forth. Talk to you and members the board of supervisors because wecan tell what we do. We have to sit there and cant respond. I want to give commissioner loftus credit we did something unique after mario woods shooting and went out and met with groups to talk about officer involved shootings and it was the most incredible experience because it wasnt a crowd of folks screaming and us sitting there with a straight face but had a dulog along with members of the Police Department and it was incredible tosee what we learned about what people how they view the police and the use oof force. That was a incredible learning experience so hope fl more opportunities like that like with the buddy cameras, we have gone out to the community and get input. We go to cops for doj for their expert opinion. We welcome any look at it San Francisco Police Department because we can do better and will do better. You look at president obama 21 Century Policing and most of that we have already done. We put those policies in place and procedures in place. We backed the procedures up with discipline and here to tell you during my tenure as president in the last 40 years we have terminated 8 Police Officers. One the hardest things we will do, but we dont take it lightly and give them due process but be do it because we cannot have the Publics Trust unless we eliminate officers that dopet belong here. The other statistic is variety important thrks number of officers who resigned with charges pending because they know they would beterminated. That number has gone up substantially. My question is what is the number sp . The number of you said 8 officers terminated 8 officers terminated since 2011 after hearing. There has been 12 officers who resigned with charges pending. Since when . April 2011 to present. Nobody in the commission will tolerate if a officer is a racist. If they lie. If they use excessive force. Thauls commission that will help the officer if they have personal problems. Commission president sparks taught when a aufser hasnt done anything that is put him or her then position where they cant testify or not a racist or homeo phobic we try to help them and that is something this commission has done. We do not and will not tolerate officers who send racist texts. You asked a question about it department general order about social media. Im at the forfront of that department, that is assigned to me and working on that and waiting for drafts for city Attorneys Office and meet and confer with unions and it is a legal subject. Where do the officers First Amendment right end and meet that department general orders of conduct on becoming. The minute they express a racist view they dont belong in the San Francisco Police Department. My father served in this department and learned as a children that cannot exist. I give you our word, we give due process but if a officer is a racist the result is termination the best example i can give you is that in the last 3 months there are 3 officers who decided they can send racist texts wloo decide it terminate themselves rather than continue to embarrass the department. We have structure and discipline and know that is a the hammer. One thing in the multifaceted approach im looking at is how do officers get to the point after they join the San Francisco police deparlt with all good intentions they feel comfortable being a racist or feel comfortable using excessive force. How do we get there . We had presentations through the Police Department what happens to officers during their career. What changes them . 10 hours a day on the street and see the worst of the worst or cleaning up the mess. One thing i say about the proud men and emen in the Department Many when are behind us, they clean up societies mess. I told you most the officers if not all officer involved shootings involve people in minuteal health crisis. They are cleaning up it every day. Ironically last night and heard sirens and what i heard were officers calling for hot teams, saying can we move to a door step at 400 castro because he doesnt want to be in the while. What is the status at psych emergency. It is code red meaning no beds available. That is what the officers deal with. We ask them to be psychologist. How does that effect them and does it bring them to the point they make these mistakes. We also noted very significant statistic, a lot of officers awarding for harrowism end up in the discipline calendar a year and a half later. They have ptsd. I learned that from dr. Morgan peterson and he told me you do a great job after these oiss but guess what you talk at the 95 day mark . I said no. We dont. He says that is when they get ptsd. I dent care if they center to go kicking and screaming because they have to go to counseling because Police Officers are helper, not help seekers. I think it good of department and public. Some accomplishments that we have done, the disciplinary backlogged we cleared the calendar which is good thing because there was over 100 cases. We are probably down to about 12 to 14 cases, with those casesexclude thg cases that were taken away. We will have done that with the chief and union and council and make agmessage. Ia lie you are gone. You hurt somebody you are gone. A racist you are gone. Proud of that ft invention system i worked on. Those are factors we look at about whether or not the officers will have problems occ complaint, complaint from supervisors. We have that in plas but neat work. The acl u told us all most plea00 officers referred to the eis system and 6 counseled. It may be a inaccurate number and may not my gut is it is not so we need to perfect that. We worked oen issues where we had suicides by officers that we took head on and moved forward with improving the Counseling Program to make sure that doesnt happen. We have done a lot and have lot to do and very proud to serve the city and proceed to serve the citizens the city because you cant have Public Safety without public trust. I walk every day in the city, i take the bus. I walk back after meeting with reverend brown a few weeks and sow how fillmore street changed, one, two, three blocks. We lot more work to do. Im proceed to say despite the incident we are ahead of the curve. Like dr. Marshal said we want to be at the forfront and be the Police Department everybody follows. The department is like a fmly and that isnt a negative thing for a commissioner to say that because i know what officers go through. I know what their life is like y. Took my mom to the last academy graduation. She had just gone to a funeral of one of my dads former partners. We watched the most diverse class that ever graduated. I heard a mom screen and said that is my baby. It was just aone of my law partners told me he was driving by walking with his daughters and said it was incredible to see. I told my mom what do you think . She said this great, these kids are incredible. What a great agency, you should be proud. They just signed up for 25 years of heart break and that is something we need to balance as we move forward. I take the Police Department has been through a lot of changes and take it seriously and it is for the better of the community, but i brought something with me today that i think i will show you. I took this picture out of the frame. Im also here because of him. Sergeant inspector mazzucco and these pictures there is a difference i noticed this morning. When our officers take pictures now it is behind the american flag. Look at the pictures they to in the 60s their hands are folding and they are peaceful. That is how i want it to be. Thank you very much. I see that supervisor coh questions i feel like you got the answers to the questions given that you had a opportunity to hear my questions that i addressed for president loftus, so im going to ask you to begin by starting to talk about you have served for the last 8 years what are you most proud of and what have you accomplished and want to know should you be grantsed another 4 years to serve what you will continue to work on or order from the policy changes you would like to see . Im proud the crisis intervention training because that isnt typical and officers feel comfortable with and proud we are able to convince the officers and community to come together and make that happen. Im proceedit saved lives. I can put my headthen pillow and know pushing something forward where there was push back that i can say i helped save live jz that is what we strive to do in public service. Im proceed of the work and time and effort that went into that. Im proceed on the work of things that happened in including the video where men and women with the Leadership Department permission and Commission Involvement put together a video about what it was like to be bullied. I sent that to everyone i know. Im proud of the department general orders that i worked on about not shooting at moving vehicles because it protects community. Im proud being able to hire and encourage hiring more diverse Police Officers. Im proud of the fact we go then community and have Community Organizations we work with and can have frank conversations about re districting. Commissionering lot us led through the redistricting thing and that is incredible. They were saying you are not taking those officers from us. You wont do that to us. We want this and that and you hear how people are concerned about their district and station and officers. It is theirs and it is real. I enjoyed working on that. There is just a [inaudible] eis, push back on that [inaudible] nobody likes statistics but i think when we put together and put in place that showed there are indicators we need it look at. One of the leading indicators was a tragic incident and that is what we need to look at so the officers dont do anything negative in the community. Also we worked on the disciplinary back hog and a lot say that may bow the greatest accomplishment because there is nothing worse having officer in the department with pending charges. Under the prior system the officers would get paid to put in a position whether outside the public and saw them as a cancer in the department because they had a bad attitude and around new officers, hard working officers and said we need to elim nase the back log. There were tricked played by the attorneys, it was having a negative impactthen commission and community and the victims of the offenses wondered where wh will we know what is going on. That took a lot of work and commissioner hammer and chief gas onsaid take a lookt the cases closer and chief suhr he agreed the police chief can only give up to 10 days. A lot of the sense are essentially between the 10 deigns and termination but the chief cant make that termination so we have settlement conferenced and the chief says you did it was wrong and here is where i stand. I cant give more than 10 day but think it is 90 day or 30 day case. You need to retrain. We will terminate you and that is why you are probably seeing more resignations with charges pending. That is important because that is public trust. They need to knee the commission we are quiet and dont have much puplicity i think if you were to publicize or send out a press statement officer so and so is terminated the media would pick it up, social media would pick it up so i want to charge you with the duty of getting the social media policy in place because i think it is critical. Everyone is getting a amber alert. I think that important we do start to publicize that information t. Is quite and frankly the community receives it as a it being swept under the rug and i know no policy that prohibits the public knowing this information. I think that getmost are lawyers and thank god for dr. Marshal and commissioner [inaudible] who are the logical people. There is only so much you can say so we we have restrictions and dont put out press releases. Imagine the press release said 3 of the 4 most recent texting scandal have resigned because they had charges pending. The public need know that and love to the hear that and show the system is working. The question is, i had a conversation with supervisor breed which was a great conversation and she suggested we be better in public relations. Absolutely. People who are testifying about the information and is only because of the relationship that where have with you and other members that i am able toget the nrfgz information but think it is critical and builds the luvl of trust and transparency that people feel is just not in existence. We need to do a better job of communicating disciplinary actions. I want to talk about a disciplinary action that is recent. Earlier this year there was a officer that paroles the castro that was caught on video driving drunk and running away from the scene. Do you know the situation . I do and again, we are getting the quasijudicial capacity. [inaudible] what i know is what you know from the public im not asking for it details the case, what i do want to know is the processes to which the disciplinary process. I think you can talk to us about that. The process is that the Police Department has done their investigation and there is criminal charges filed by it District Attorneys Office. What happens is the District Attorneys Office, those charges stay our proceeding because the officer has criminal charges pending is the officer on duty . The answer to that question is no. Okay. Those are criminal chargespeneding so that takes precedence because the officer has a 5th privilege where we cant bring them forward in our matter. Suffice to say we are able to take judicial note js follow what happens in the courts and reach our disposition. Without getting specific if it is a crime of moral turpitude where one doesnt tell the truth it is clear and made to all officers Domestic Violence, job is over with. Move toog the next question, what type of bad behavior must a officer go through to reach a Termination Point . Before they get to a Termination Point i know there is due process. What takes place to prevent a officer from getting back on the streets and dog doing their job . The commission. Maybe you can talk about your thought and thought process because in particular i think about the officer involved shooting and that have happened in recent past and how the Bayview Community expressed out rage and disappointment there is a officer involved in a officer involved shooting at another location and assign today the Bayview Community. Does the Police Commission have oversight onthality . That . We do not. That is operational and for example the commissioner loftus told us we dont tell how tostaff people. At the ond thf day we get the problems when they make their way to us. Unfortunately we cant tell the chief where to put people or where not to put people but i think there is pretty strong policies in place that i dont know in the officers involved what the background or status nor can i comment until we see the case in front the commission but have to put faith in the command staff that they do the right thing who assign officers who have issues and if they dont it go tooz the commission and we make the appropriate determination you are unique in the sense that i believe you probably served under 3 chiefs as a Police Commissioner . Came in with commissioner fong andchief fong and then i was part the process that brought chief gas gone here and chief suhr. You had a opportunity to witness 3 different leadership styles. Has the commissionwithin the 3 leadership styles is there one that a better fit for San Francisco . I think all 3 are very different. Chief fong is probably one the most incredibly organized understanding of all the department general orders. She is a incredible leader andipe rr bias because my father was her partner so very bias about chief fong. She did a excellent job in a touch time. She came after a incident in the city and led the Police Department with a steady hand what was the incident . After the fuheata gate. I was a prosecutor but not involved. She was a leader, a quite leader. She turned all the disciplinary matters over to the commission. I think she wasnt a public personae and had chief gas gone that brought great change that were implemented about how the inspectors were move thood the district stations and he brought more of a los angeles type of policing does that work well in San Francisco . It worked to a certain extent in terms of he bettered the system that the Law Enforcement officers had. Brought in [inaand more accountability. Some will be critical that accountability may have caused problems. Police officers willing to complain about anybody or anything. That goes back to the the issue we deal with. What happens when they are in for a while . He was more of leader i call the la style. He wasnt like the next chief greg suhr. Greg suhr walks athround community and in the uniform 7 days a week. Greg suhr has a big heart and knehe is effected by all the things that happened more so than most people thenk. Greg led by what he did as a Police Officer on the street for respect for the folks on the street and greg is more of a compassionate leader maybe to his detriment. All 3 are very different and the question is what is there best leadership style for San Francisco. Maybe a question of all 3. I want to talk aboutwhat is your position on tasers and use of tasers by the Police Department . My position is we need one more level of use of force before the officers use their fire arm. I have been through the taser debate twice. Initially i didnt think it was a good idea and saw how the debate is frame jd narrowed and the chief made the recommendation that only used in circumstances with they deal with someone in a knife, not if a officer is taken by the street and fighting with them. Im not a Police Officer but i heard from the expert squz listened to everybody and if you could find me one more item whether it is a net, a shield, a magic wand that put our officers in a position where they are safe and the public is safe that they dont have to use the fire arm then we should have it. If that is a taser that could be the answer. Chief suhr put forward in a way that ges to extremely well trains cit Senior Officers so dont have to worry about patterns of abuse. Tasers have a camera and caept wait for the cameras by the way. I have asked for cameras for years. I learnedwhen i was a young attorney 100 years ago we represented a Police Agency and there were officers with tape recorders and taped people and every time there were a complaint they played the tape. I think the cameras are awesome. Commissioner loftus walked through the process. We will see things that are not pretty. The use of force isnt pretty but well see what happened i remember the diswugz about the body cameras there was a discrepancy i think within your board, your commission wherecorrect me if im wrong, it is some months, but if i remember thethere was a question whether the chief of police would have the authority[inaudible] the question is, does the chief of police have the authority to review the footage . The issue is twl officers have a opportunity to review the footage prior to drafting their report. I think everybody was inken census they do it in all cases but use of force or a officer involved shooting and heard from the expert squz had presentations from everybody involved and buy in from the community. Thepublic defender and aclu and San Francisco bar said they shouldnt have the opportunity and had professors on law if forcement side and persaid why not. We reached a compromise and the compromise is it up to the chief or his or her edesinginate to determine whether those officers can look at the video. I think that is important because if it is clearly a terrible incident that the chief said he thinks this is like the bart shooting, the officer shouldnt be able to take a look at that video. The bart shooting . In that case they would want let them see that. The question is it is a term of got yeah and my realty is the video will show what the video will show. My input is having investigative officer involved shooting and sat in that room all most 20 time squz the officer said i fired 5 rounds. They are never right, it is 2 round or 1 round. The officers are articulate their feelings but dont see why they cant see the video, it wont change anything. If it is a bad situation that is the chiefs choice to determine that. It voted unanimously on that. Thank you for that. Do you support the call for independent investigation to be conducted by attorney general california state attorney general [inaudible] harris to perform . Absolutely not. I think it is a body if prescribed by law we have no problem as a Commission Hearing from anybody else, any other investigation so you do support the call . Yes i do. Okay. You said no. Well list toon anybody we think is independent and think that is what well get if attorney general [inaudible] who where hold in highest esteem supervisor mar has a few questions. Thank you, supervisor mar. Let me start by thanking you for the years of work as president and all the work. I think your efforts to understand the officers and families and how incredibly stressful and the toll it takes on people is valuable for the Police Commission. I think as you humanize chief suhr who i like as a person i want to take a moment to humanize luis gon gorea who passed because of the police shooting. I bow that jenny freeden balk and coalition on homelessness have brought the issues up because he was from yuke tonprovince in mexico. There was Mental Illness involved in his killing and eechbthen Homeless Outreach team call d tin and there is dispute about the amount of time the 7 or sow round were fired at him. My question is the Crisis Intervention Team, why wouldnt they be at the scene and deescalation be used in that situation . I guess i have so many questions like many people raised in the town hall jz as a Police Commissioner i wonder how you balance thinking about lives and families of officers in the field but also people from the communities that may have Mental Illness. One concern i said is officer clean up the mess and i think i dont view people with in homeless encampments or Mental Illness or Substance Abuse issue as a mess. They are people that need support and help and just wondering if you may respond to that comment you made. Yes, supervisor, i saw a incident in the street and there a article where i watched a homeless man in the street. Im sensitive of the issue of People Living on the street. Im very bothered by it and come i talk about theophorouss are called in to clean thup mess that is term they have to deal with people that are at the lowest points whether or not they are committing a crime or homeless or Mental Health, we expect the officer tooz come to assistance and help them. I feel that every victim on the street. I spnt 19 years as a cross curt thinking about the victims, agonizing about the victims. We go to Public Meetings and had one in the richmond scr people say we see so many Homeless People that appear in Mental Health crisis and need our help. I think that is a huge issue in the city and something that bothers me as a commissioner in the city and catholic. With i sit there and get the officer involved shootings i cant tell you im not the only commissionerwe feel for those individuals and we do humanize them and why we do what we do. It is just the hardest part of being on the commission. We think about everybody. Mario woods. Alex nieto. After the shooting of alex nieto we had a Community Meeting probably the most contenses. I talked to his father and looked in his eye father tofather and saw his loss. That is something i went on my own and did because i cant imagine where he is at and hope i never have to imagine that. Can can ask about the question president loftus brought up about the culture needing to change and change needing to happen. You mentioned the second texting scandal at least 3 of the officers resigning. I think that is a good thing but not if we dont address the systemic and cultural problem. That is why i talked about multifaceted approach. I think every officer in the department with best intentions and have a good screening process. They go through a psychological evaluation and background check. Ium think that we are hiring a lot of officers. I would like to see go back to hire people that lived in San Francisco. I think that you are more sensitive to San Francisco values if you have been here for a prolonged period of time. I think that is the way it used to be about the law said you have to hire from different counties so think we need to be more careful because you will hear from rick baker who told me and spoke to reverend baker many times and he in is the bayview and can tell the young officers look afraid because they are not comfort in the city. Those are things we need to look at. We node oo continue to monitor in the Early Intervention system if there is a problem and sent the message if there is a problem you will be terminatedment we need to catch this and [inaudible] i think in my opinion there are 2300 officers and there will be bad apples. And hope and pray it isnt sustmic but well do our best to eliminate those. If that needs officers needs to be terminated well do that. You have view you are not sure it is a systemic problem . We talk to the officers all the time and hear there is problems. Is it 200 or 300 officers . I cant answer that. 50 officers . I dont know. Well route that out and figure what the issue is. Want to follow up with supervisor cohens question about the departmental general order. I think out of the town hall many people were concern about the Community Engagement on tasers, but now it seemathize departmental general order changes or revisions are being done with the tasers involved and they are urging pliting off of tasers. How do you feel about that . We are discussing that now. A lot of people are worried about having tasers as part the equation. What i am here to say is find anything that givers a level of use of force so the officers dont center to use fire arms, because fire arm is dead ly. A taser can be deadly, we know that. The arrest process people died from heart attacks without being taized or touched or hit so it a stressful situation so we need to find what is there and discussion and conversation will it effect the ability to go forward if we have the taser thrz and im open minded to see what direction we go. We sit and review this and wonder would we be here today thank you so much. Thank you. I have 10 more question for you. Any other comments or question snz seeing none i think im going to open up to Public Comment and i do have a couple cards. Several cards. Thank you very much commissioner. If they are not here ill go down had line. We had commissioner julius therman, Petra Dejesus and dr. Joe marshal. Reverend richard baker, reverend brown. [inaudible] john monroe and rachel killshah. Good afternoon supervisors tang, cohen and mar. My name is Julius Turman and Vice President of Police Commission. As you have seen here as emphasized, commissioner loftus approaches this commission from a very Community Based voice and as you can see balanced from the other side is commissioner mazzucco who focuses a lot on the department and how the policies and procedures effect the officer population. Together having served as a vice precedent under both of these commissioners i can telt you that it is a equal balance between the two to make sure that the outcomes, the work we do as a commission is both effective, audience driven and accomplishes the goal. There is a lot of work to be done in the Police Commission. We understand that we are at a critcome Time Critical time in San Francisco and the nations history. We need commissioners like commissioner mazzucco who understand the officer perspective from being raised in a house of officer to be a prosecutor and working with Police Officers. Commissioner mazzucco is a thoughtful, hard working person who gives so much attention to this commission. We would be a total loss without hisgoidance and urge you to reappoint him. Thank you very much. Petra dejesus is on the Police Commission. I know tippy from when i was a public defender he a honorable man, fair and smart and i whatia need to understand is Police Officers have a high rate of suicide and alcoholism and the First Responders on the street see a lot of misery and in [inaudible] people dont understand that and commissioner mazzucco is a champion taking caref the officers Mental Health. The Mental Health is what makes them get in trouble. I think you need to understand that. He is a prosecutor comes across as a prosecutor and stern and disciplined and compassionate. That is something you dont see and i see that. When we go to the Community Meetings we sit there stone faced but he is compassionate and takes it in and listens. I disagree with him many times but we are respectful on the commission and list toon each other and sometimes i move and he moves and sometimes agree to disagree. As president the commission when we brought george gas gone in a out sider that was huge and there was a lot of discussion and threats not to do that. The poa want happy but we did it and brought him in and commissioner mazzucco was part of it. He doesnt get intimidated and has a heart and compassion for both sides and need to lookthality other sides for officer safety and care and Mental Health and they are treated well and can make it on the streets. I am here to support him as bell. Well. Thank you commissioner. One more time. You know, i talked about suzy having great leadership and same thing with tom. He was the president for 3 years before suzy. [inaudible] president sparks was great. I think i did okay, but to tippy and now suzy. The commission is like a family and your family you have disagreements and so on so it sft so much disaguments but we get together and you really get to know somebody really closely when you work as a team and work out all the issues that come before the commission and especially disciplinary proceedings. I dont think it is inaccurate you see commissioners supporting the two of them because we rin the room together and know each other and know how we agree and disgrie and work things out and where fr the betterment of the citizens of San Francisco and i have been with tom for 8 years and reducing the back log was huge. Cant say enough about his guidance through that process and all the stuff we do on the disciplinary process and bouncing ideas back and forth. There is a San Francisco is a huge place with a lot of different personalities and people and they all come together on that commission and produce a great body of work. I said the family and we are a team and you heard about the warriors and say the warriors have a bench of different folks that come together and win and we have to keep the team together. Suzy and tomlets make it happen. Thank you commissioner and welcome back president loftus [inaudible] thank you. Again i just want to offer something about tippy mazzucco that he wont say about himself, she brilliant lawyer and so i said that about julius therman. We get the benefit of lawyers people pay unimaginable amounts. I dont know how much they make but it is a lot. When we talk about due process auch times tippy is the person to call and what is the right thing to do. We rely on the City Attorney and have not people [inaudible] to make sure we do things right so when we exercise discipline it sticks so it is a huge offering he is making to the sate to attorney to serve and ask you support him. Thank you very much. Good afternoon supervisor tang supervisor cohen and supervisor mar. Richard c baker and one 11 assisted minters at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco where pastor brown serves as the senior pastor. I have known tippy mu zukeee since 15 or 16 years old, played footple ball at sacred heart. At that time it was Sacred High School and have the distinction of law longer than you tippy. But im here because tippy is not only a friend but he a individual who i admire as a Community Serve chblt tippy at the ability and knowledge and skill tooz ask the right questions. Perhaps it isnt his skill and ability to ask the right initial question but has the ability to ask the right follow up question squz analyze the responses that are given. And his service on the Police Commission has been exemplary. I have been a way for a period of time but because of our network at Sacred Heart High School i know within days when tippy was elected president of the San Francisco Police Commission. Also want to say that his parents named him right. They named him after saint thomas and if you all recall saint thomas was a disciple who raised questions upon jesus resurrection and prior to asession. I believe you are jesus if i have to opportunity to analyze your hands and to observe the piecing in your side. Sorry, i have to give the same amount of time. Im wrapping up. Tippy asked the right questions in order to make our Department Better and i dont always agree with tippys perspective how the department is being reformed. My perspective and communications with him i encourage him to go beyond reform and enter into the realm of restructuring or Police Department. To be most responsive to the people who it comes into contact most. And for my viewing have lived in the heart of city in district 10 on oakdale avenue near the intersection with fellp street i saw the African American Community Comes into contact with the lease often. That isnt only a standpoint of the communitybying arrested or having violated the law but perspective of victims and we need someone like tippy who understands the [inaudible] with respect to what a Police Officer experiences but most importantly what the people of San Francisco experience when they come into contact with the police. Thank you for your time and have a plent day. Plesant day. Next speaker, please good afternoon supervisors. Miriam zukeo thomson and the are 3 of us, frank mazzucco, tip mu azzucco. If you imagine there was a time when my father who is a San Francisco Police Officer and parole man raised 3 children on a parole mans slry. Im here to provide a different perspective on my brother. I am here to bring perspective of a person i know differently than you know. Nothing ever ever has come easy for my brother, he has been the hardest working of all of us. That includes academics and sport, playing football, being a walk on at the Football Team at cal. Nothing came simple or easy and nothing was handed to him. He is a fighter and hard working person and that is why he is who he is today and so well respected. I think the truest measure of my brother is what a man does when else is looking. My brother is a person who buys two lunches one for himself and fwrun someone in need. He adopts families [inaudible] doesnt talk about it. He is the person who knes im a single woman raising 2 children by myself. When he realized my son needed to lourn how to shave he pulled him aside and had the talk with my son. The measure of a moon is what he does when he is asked to do it but when he is called to do it. I hope you will [inaudible] thank you very much. Next speaker, please. God afternoon supervisors. Rachel killshah. I have known commissioner mazzucco for over 20 years. I met commissioner mazzucco assigned to the San Francisco Police Department Inspector Bureau and commissioner mazzucco was assistant District Attorney and most recently i work with commissioner mazzucco with my role as a Police Commission secretary. I know commissioner mazzucco or children went to school, his two children and our one son. I know commissioner mu zekeo to be professional, hard working, fair and open minded. Takes the role a as Police Commissioner seriously with desire to keep San Francisco and people who live and visit here safe. I too like commissioner mazzucco am a native and one the few Police Officers who continue to live here. I appreciate the work he does not only on behalf of my role as a Police Officer but also as a native and resident of the city. I want to acknowledge that commissioner mazzucco long standing commitment to this commission, 8 years of dedication to serving the people of the city and urge you to continue that continuity with him on the commission to accomplish some of the great things the commission is working on. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. John monroe. I told you i was commissioner secretary for 3 years and was the commissioner secretary when commissioner mazzucco was present to commissioner loftus which was seemless. What i want to talk about is what mu zekeo talked about with commissioner mar about Police Officers being from here. Thursday morning at a Commission Meeting commissioner mu zusko called me and asked how do we hire more African American Police Officers and said is that rhetorical. No. But we fumbleed around that scr both agreed that if they are from here regardlessin a Perfect World we would have every station louded with every Ethnic Diversity in San Francisco that spoke our language but that wont happen but if they are from here you have skin in the game and it matters. There are officers that go to incident that may knehow to make that approach better than officers who dont. I have nuther against wallnut creek but it is a big difference. I also want to say by the way, i went to Public School office so i know San Francisco and it helped me as a Police Officer to get ajound to know who i was deal wg because i dealt with everybody. My brother went to galileo and bragged how he can speak mandarin. I was like are you kidding me. Where can you do that . You do that here. Commissioner mazzucco is right, we need him because he is the senior voice in the commission. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Martin halren president of San Francisco Police Officer association. I too went to sacred heart but think johnny was ahead of me. That is where i like reverend baker met commissioner mazzucco at sacred heart and reappointed myself with him when i became a Police Officers. Back in the days of sacred heart as in the da office and u. S. Attorney office, commissioner mazzuccos integrity and honesty was never in question. When i had dealt with him at the Police Commission the same holds true. Commissioner mazzucco spear headed the Early Intervention system which raises red flaigs when a officer is in crisis and that program has been very successful. Also spear headed the crisis intervention training in the department and is now spear headed both dgo associated with crisis intervention training. There will be a new dgo hopefully by the end of the summer and also regarding social media. Commissioner mu azzucco is at the forfront. He demonstrated twho things to me and have now doubt that will hold true. The rule of law demonstrated he is extremely fair in discipline and also firm. There are times to be firm with Police Officer squz they have to get the message and there are individuals in the department in the past that shoulden be Police Officers and that doesnt hold true with our entire department. We cannot paint it with a broad brush. Commissioner mazzucco has rin been very fair but firm, please reappoint him to the Police Commission. Thank you very much. Miriam jackson. Matthew [inaudible]iolaunda williams. David elliott lewis, [inaudible] i too went to sacred heart with tippy and here to represent my father dr. Hermann gieggose who was cofounder of lurosa and San Francisco Police Officer. Im honor rbd to recommend reappointment of tippy mazzucco to continue the service to city and county of San Francisco. As a long time civil rights advocate im impressed with commitment to building strong Police Community relations especially with communities of color and maintaining a solid balance of trust and confident with all department stakeholders. For me, it is truly a pleasureer and honor to be here. Im matthew gieggose and native of San Francisco. Im a educator for 26 years and know tippy over 40 years. I am fortunate to work with tippy. He is role model to me and San Francisco community and character and ethics are at a High Standard of excellence warrant reappoint to the commission. Commissioner mew zukeoes true measure as a person is compassion. Tippy is a advocate of improveic problems and bring forth police transparence and understanding the values and priorities and cultures that exist insuch residents. Mr. Mazzucco is a caring and disciplined individual that suggest continuity, success for the Police Commission. Commissioner mazzucco will continue to bring transparence and good judgment along with his experience and warrants reappointment apologize for mispronouncing your last name. Next speaker, please. Hello. Paul etbrown. Im also in sport of commissioner mazzucco being reappointed. I want to say that all the times i have come to the Police Commission and i look at all them that sit up there and as i tell my story i look at suzy loftus i look at the rest of them too and him being one. Like i said he is never shown anything that he didnt want to listen to my story and came down and acknowledged how i felt. Him and his sister. I always bring the names of the perpetrators who murdered my son and i try to ask all of them, they getting out can you tell me something even though they cant diverge information to me but they do give me hope and he gives me hope also. I dont want to see anybody else, i want to continue talk toog the same people i have talked to. Im scared to talk to anybody else. I want to continue seeing him up there because i know i can talk to him if i need to and know he can come down and consol me if he needed to. I built a relationship and dont want to lose that. I ask you reappoint him and keep them both there. Susan loftus and her mother. I appreciate them both. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon chair tang, supervaseer cohen and mar. Jeff [inaudible] legislative aid of mark farrell office. This was a tough one for supervisor farrell. Commissioner mu zekeo is a exception and mark is requesting appointment. President loftus supervisor farrell has deep respect commissioner mazzucco. It was clear from the testimony today know there is more work to come. Proven track record as a deputy district and dist rict attorney. Commissioner work would city Law Enforcement to reduce violent crime. Commissioner mu zekeo also helped implement the meaningful reforms to the Police Department including cit training adopting the vast majority of president obama policing and termination ofophorousers that violate duty as Police Officers. Just like commissioner loftus, commissioner mazzucco demonstrated he has compougz and passion and reason to lead the commission through these important and trying times and ask you send [inaudible] positive recommendation. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Supervisors my name is sergeantiolaunda williams and representing officers for justice. I stand before you because as a native san franciscan i didvent the privilege to go to a prope prok control school i have respect for tippy. I respect principles outstanding ethics and morals and values and most of all i respect his way of addressing a problem. When i brut a problem to his attention and thatbying i wasnt seeing much diversity in the Academy Classes and our complicated answers when asked why are there no black officers in the Academy Class. Tippy took the time all most a hour and a half after a Police Commission meeting to discuss at great length that problem with me. I must tell you within 3 months we had recruitment on board with the program but so did other Police Commissioners and to me that shows reform. That shows that he understand it. Im a member the cit team and crt teams. Tippy understand the importance of us bowing guardians in the Police Department and also understands prestigeeral justice. I thank him for advocating for speaking for serving as a catalyst for change for officers of color, women and lgbt. I urge you to reappoint tippy mazzucco to the position of a Police Commissioner. Thank you. J thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Supervisors my name is fran cisco decosta, first and formost i like to state categorically that when reappointing the Police Commissioner especially the Police Commissioners reneed to find another way. To be frank, when i see supervisors trying to adjudicate on the matter and i have imperical data that they themselves did want come up to a standard and i have datait isnt only the Ethics Commission and i find it very hard for the supervisors to extend something to the Police Commission. Having said that, i worked for the United States park police and i have been attending this Commission Meetings when they were first held at 850 bryant a long time ago. Normally at one time we used to have the whole command staff attend the San Francisco Police Commission and dont have it anymore. Maybe they sit at the back. Today this Police Commission and our office of citizens complaints need to step up to address what is happening in San Francisco. This isnt about being good or whatever, all of us are god. God. Good. I may not know commissioner mazzucco but i know his sister so i have a connection. I have never been introduced to president loftus but watch her in action and she is agood person. The supervisors have to have standard and my plea is that then you will always be able to help the San Francisco Police Commission. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. David elliott lewis. Part the work with cit i am a coauthor the cit department general order regarding institutionalizing now the deescalation and the process of cit. It is more than just training. Imeg rr grateful for commissioner mazzuccos support of cit including in 2011 as president he shepherd the original resolution to start the cit program. Wehad a cit program for all most 10 years run by the Mental Health board which im part ofgeorge gas gone was chief of police heeneded the cit program which was unfortunate and took wrongful shootings including a man in the wheelchair with a knife who was shot to doget to bring it back. Commissioner mazzucco was instrumental in that. I hope he is reappointment and hope he will reconsider statements on tasers. When you can click a button rather than talk somebody down it is too easy to click a button i hope hell ree reevaluate tasers. I have respect for him and hope you will approve reappointment. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. I support commissioner mazzucco. Police cleef leader style, together nsds, people, relationship, [inaudible] a man of trust. A man who doesnt perceive himself as a man of [inaudible] people have too much certain with power and too little interest with true principles. [inaudible] our passion and wisdom and destiny. Thank you any other members who wish to comment on this item . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Colleagues. Supervisor cohen. I like to make a motion that we move to full board with positive recommendation reappointment of thomas mazzucco. Second. I join in that as well. Thank you for your service. I think that we had really 2 stellar commissioners before us who work well with our Community Member jz Police Department, firm and compassionate and enjoy listening to the Public Comment. It wasnt just generic you had Great Stories and personal stories to share so thank you for that and so with that well take that as a Committee Report without objection. Congratulations. [applause] alright. Thank you everyone who is patiently waiting for your item. We took care oof item 3 earlier today so mr. Clerk you can call item 4 item 4 appointing one member term to bike Advisory Committee. Thank you is marry cay chin here . Please come up. Thank you for waiting. Good afternoon supervisors. My name ismery cay chin and live in the tindser loin and ride my bike every day. I believe we should and can build a safeer healthier future with bikes. In order for more people to choose healthy transportation we must provide safe and intentional infrastructure and experience of biking and walking on the streets must feel safeer. In addition to access to the bikesi feel access to bikes isnt always equitable and help address this i cofound the San Francisco yellow bike project a non profit bike resource located in the tenderloin providing low barrier bike resources education and shop space. Most reentsly i was also elect today board of director tooz San Francisco Bike Coalition and i San Francisco native riding my bike here since my mother let me ride bike by myself. If i would be appointed i will appoint Community Organizing and grass root [inaudible] toward safer and more livable city. The fwels are continue the work towards vision zero including smartder infrastructure, fair Police Enforcement of dangerous behavior and continuing Safety Education we provide. Thank you very much. Do we have questions or comments . Supervisor mar . I just want to thank mr. Chin for helping me get a bike through the yellow bike project two years ago especially for the organizing and advocacy you are someone who has taken great ideas and put it and taking into fruition as well aside from participating in the bake coalition and in this role on the Advisory Committee so cumind you for that. With thatee open for Public Comment. Anyone who wishes to speak to item 4 they can come forward. I see someone from supervisor kims office. I will be brief as you already had a very long meeting. I am here to spress complete support for marry cay chin and a qualified candidate. I think the most important thing spoken by supervisor mar. She is a founder of sf yellow bike project. We make sure we use parts in the Sustainable Way so i think her qualifications speak for themself so thank you. Thank you for coming out. Any members who wish to comment on item 4 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. If we can get a motion for that. So movered move aprovel of marry cay chin for seat 6 on the bike committee. Well take that without objection. Congratulations. [applause] very supportive crowd today. Jrkts item 5 is here hearing to appoint one member to 2c34 commission on aging advise rea counsel Diane Lawrence here good afternoon. Diane lawrence of district 4 and native san franciscan. I come before you seek reappointmentant to xhishz on aging and Adult Service for see 5 representing district 4. I served on the council since jan twn 14 mpt 2 and a half years on the council i learned btd aging adults and disabilities and my current appointment is expiring. 4 generation san franciscan lived in the sun set park the majorityf the my life. Educational is bachelor and mast rer from usf and [inaudible] 32 in the Insurance Industry requiring 3 years ago and working part time as a consultant in my previous employer. Prior to insurance i spent 10 years in education. My professional background helped Development Communication skills. Legislative analysis was also part of my wirk resume and being called upon in my capacity as cochair of the joint legislative committee. This committee made up of commissioners to the commission on aging and adults urfbs and Council Members and we are charged to discuss track support and report on key legislation impacting seniors and adults with disabilities. In my capacity as cochair i report to the commission monthly on legislation. As a life long san franciscan i have seen the city grow and change and aware the challenges. My 2 and a 4568 years made we aware the challenges facing department of aging and Adult Service. Challenges trying to balance citizen needs and fiscal challenges and competing priorities. In my two previous appearances i mentioned i want to be solution advocate. I took care of my mother and grand mother as they aged rchlt my mother had a brain disease and learned the challenges of navigating resources. This is back in the 1980s. Thing are much better now but still much work to do especially as the population ages. As a student of the [inaudible] institute for life long learning im wade made aware of what great resources we seniors are but mobility and transportation challenges we face 6789 in the first meeting i would never acknowledged i was a senior so i have come a long way. I visited the sun set Nutrition Program in my role as a Council Member and sponsored by self for the elderly. The joy laughter and welcoming spirit were palable. What strauck me is how they watched out for one another. They know who was there and wasnt there and who needed a little more outreach and couldnt have been more supportive. I had someone sing to me. They want today know quloo i was and willing to share thoughts and opinions with me and i was able to take those back to the council and that report is filed with dos. One of my major issueicize the accessible. Supervisor tang and i discussed this in my original interview. The architecture of homes where we live are at least one flight up stairs. Where mobility issues can make it difficult to get out and be engaged. Seniors, adults with disabilities become trapped in their own home jz isolation is no friend of the population the council serves. As i take walk squz as a Council Member along with participating in sun set meetdings i notice where the vulnerabilities for may be. The pot holes, uneven chroncrete and gophers and length of traffic light have impacts. Muni time needed for boarder and existing. The sensitivity of drivers and passengers are significant. Elder abruce and fraud. Robeee calls tell me my computer needs to be taken over by moo microsoft or action taken by the treasury department. The council dos and commissioncluberate with wesources in the city to educate Service Provider on the very topic. This was unknown a few years gow and it was outcome of council discussion. I was glad to be part of those to begin to make difference. The senior population is growing, 18 percent since 2000. The aging babeo boomers is impacting services more than expected thmpt question facing is how to use our resources effectively to meet the needs the greatest number of people we can. If i cr am reappointed ill continue work with legislative committee, visit more senior sites i report accordingly. These are in district 4 and outside. I will be a advokit for seniors and adult with disability. I take my role seriously and enjoy the work. When i spoke to the committee 2014 for my first appointment i said there were things i was seeing that concerned me and just grumbling and xum plaining avoiding the realty. I would have those same issues in the near future. Serving on the Advisory Counsel allows me to do something about it. To witness daily work invocation is serve those in need and see when the dos employee of the month is recognized by management and peers. To see San Francisco allocate money to take care of the most vulnerable and witness first hands the changes that can be made. It would be a honor to rebe appointed and continue to serve. Thank you very much for your presentation. That was very thorough. Do we have any questions or comments . Seeing none mrs. Lawrence is my district 4 appointee to this council and thrilled with your service so happy to see you continue in that role. I think well open up item 5 to Public Comment. Seeing none, so Public Comment is closed. Benefit of coming at the ofend the day. We are little more forgiving. We have a motion . I want to thank you for thoughtful statement and you covered so much and especially the growing population of seniors in our city that i know supervisor cohen and yee are trying to grapple with the budget realities but just incredibly thoughtful and thorough statement i was read thg report as i was riding muni and sorry i hadnt read more because i would have included but givethen length of time, it is daunting but happy to help i move we aconfirm appoint to seat 1 of Diane Lawrence to seat 5 for sun set dristricate. District im going to support this motion and it is most likely you will be reappointed but you want to challenge youself. District 4 appointee you serve the entire city and county of San Francisco and as you know in the southeast of San Francisco wlee are building the George C Davis Senior Center andill look at it. Get a tour of it and become familiar p. Also there is a project for senior lgbt in the works the [inaudible] supervisor wieners district we track that every month. Good. I just want to encourage you to step up out of the beautiful district of 4. I know it is beautiful my brother and talk about the fact there is a whole city out there. I agree there are some parnts when you develop a routine sometimes you dont deviate from it but when you are elected to serve or appointed to serve that is the great est ux koos to get out and ask question squz take what you learned or best practice from the west side to the southeast and be thg bridge. Thank you for the comments. We will take that without objection. Congratulations. Call item 6 hearing the answer appointling two members ending february 3, 2018 fooCommunity Development. Two seats and 4 applicants two seats, 4 applicants and one person peter cohen not attending. I dont know if [inaudible] if you are here please come up and we will hear your presentation. Thank you greetings some visors t. Is a honor to be here with you. My ancestor came to the United States and planted in south dakota living in a barn until they could afford the funds to build their own home and get their own farm land. My grands mother is a survivor of the depression and my own childhood is shaped by my parents violent divorce at age 6 and father received a 300 file restraining order from our family due to his life long battle with alcoholism. I came to San Francisco and bay area in the way many people who identify transjndser. They dont all go to seminary but knowing the freedom that can c34 from this area and destrrsty of culture and faith and life style that is practiced in this place was a large draw. As i came to School Missed the poverty i lived with and wanted to utilize the healthy baggage i had gained loving family members who struggled with addiction issues and began june 2002 serving the homeless in polk and tender line and castro. I have learned from the saints and pastors who organized in the tenderloin and created a federal poverty district and the ways they were able to inspire gentally agitate and provide ways that average ordinary people can instill in the homeless. I have so many years of experience and fanc aey certificates i thank my great est experience is someone who can listen. Every year for a week i would sleep on the streets to figure out in my bones a bit of what it feels like to navigate the continuum of care in San Francisco. I slept in shelters and held hands with people as they mourned and as faithful san franciscan without fancy caller yz know we can do a lot by cleaning the bathrooms so other people can feed and serve and work. I believe deeply that having someone on this committee who understands 30 percent the Homeless Population in San Francisco , lgbt, a number im [inaudible] the laws argued about in other parts of our country. Having someone who understands the difficulty of wondering fuf you will get hit in the head with a perceive en if you feel safe in the places you receive the care. I feel very inspired to think about not only the emergency of homelessness but the potential emergency of fires and homes of ether earthquakes and effects of global warming. I am usually covered in paint and worried ill track mud on carpet like this because when i learn how the system works will dig in and plant 500 plants for the city the week before christmas thank you for doing that you joined me. Because if we show through our doing and loving that things can get done it inspires people beyaunds the spaces they are in. I know the power of providing beauty in low income housing. I worked with the homeless onmunity gardening with support of mental helths Service Funds and know the power of letting people share their experiences and it is the only thing i have done for the homeless is to inspire Homeless Youth and work with them for two years and a intern in the project was appointed to the Youth Commission and was just eleblthed this week to be a grand marshal of the San Francisco pride par aid, i think that is enough. My hope is that we can draw attention and be someone who can communicate to people regardless whether they live on the lowest side walk or highest skyscraper about why we have to wait sometimes, why we have to follow building policy ies and push sometimes. I also want to bring attention to the dev stailting effects hof it changing of the formulation of federal funds for those living with hiv and aids which may result in millions of dollars in loss of funds. I hope my service will provide me opportunity to listen, to share wisdom and to empower others. Thank you. At this time well call up all the applicant at once. Who ever is still herethank you for being so patient. Thank you supervisor tang, cohen and mar for hearing my request for reappointment to the Citizens Committee on Community Development. My name is mu quell pin and work with her arrow builders, we are the general contractors building the hospital down the street and saint lukes. My role is to work with local hiring contracting program. I was before you two years ago seeking appointment for committee spot on the Citizens Committee for Community Development and come i spoke with you then it was more about me. I wanted to learn about the processes of how policy was put together. How infrasfruckture the city agency and i did. Came in at a aunique period with Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and oewd putting together the 5 year consolidated plan. Get brian shew rr director here and tip to the staff and the outreach they did to communities but one the joys on the committee was to also assist with outreach. There was 6 outreach events that brian staff organized and participated in 5. I wents in the community and get what the Community Needed. One of the most i think interesting and telling exercises that we had is giving each community 5. I wents in the community and get what the Community Needed. One of the most i think interesting and telling exercises that we had is giving each Community Member 25100 in 25 increment and put it where they thought the money should ge. Community involvement and being engaged with the community and Development Policy was a tremendous learning experience. I also sat in on 3 rounds of funding recommendations. One round where we had a cuts to different programs and saw the impact that had on our Service Providers. The organizations are strengths to San Francisco that they do incredible work and on the committee i gained respect for them. I really see highlights developing the plan and 3 rounds and being a advocate are 3 areas i feel i contributed in the 2 years but it was a lirning experience and learned so much in that time. If you were to reappoint me i have been thinking about what would i want to accomplish and one thing i would love to do is build bridges befwone the Philanthropic Community and cbo and government agencies. The general fund is able to back fill some of the work the grantees do, but those timeerize 23409 always good and i think we need to look to new partnerships to make our Community Based organizations whole i dhoo do work they do. The other is continue to support the burke at the economic corridor. O rks wd and invest in neighborhoods and anything that can be done to support Small Business with Technical Assistance and facade improvement because believe the commercial corridors the character of San Francisco. Supervisor cohen i dont get locked in my neighborhood, im from north beach to bayview and sun set to mission bay and we live in a beautiful place and those corridors are where Small Businesses and people get a opportunity to work and feed their families. The other area that i would like to see is are commitsy to expand and become a space for dialogue. The scope of the Citizens Committee on Community Development is so broad. Everything from homelessness to exnom nic development, Work Force Development. I believe we can open up a space for discussion on the challenging issues in San Francisco and hope to be able to make those spaces places to develop positive recommendations where we can develop solutions. Gordon from chinese Community Development center. Experts in their field wonderful discussion and coming out of that we can all agree the Small Site Acquisition Program is a big success battling the affordable crisis and like to see how we can get that funded more. Two quick points is i believe with the office of economic and Workforce Development putting out a request for proposals this year on the workforce side. I believe my experience in Workforce Development and understanding the Development Community can be very important to the committee and also my experience with Community Based organizations. I think i have a very unique perspective on the service that the cbos provide because i was a client and Service Provider and work for priferbt industry partnering with Community Based organization. I want to advocate for cbo like [inaudible] or chinese new comers, renaissance sents squr all the work they do. At this time ill wrap it up. I dont have any questions but i want to comment on the comments that pastor [inaudible] said and mr. Pin. I appreciate you sitting and listening through hours of testimonying and comments because your comments statements are so susinkt and to the point. While you were talking i wrote a note saying what have you accomplished or want to accomplish and you said what do i want to accomplish. It was as if you were in my head and was on the body when you before us the first time and you have grown tremendously in a short period of time. Im happy to support you today xae other applicants here today . It looks like just 2. Ill open up item 6. Wade woods, irene sands, Dennis Mar Zan andorian will is. Good afternoon supervisors. Im here on behalf of mu quell pin. I spent over 25 years as dweckter of development for [inaudible] committee and fillmore which is one of the first participation groups in the country and in San Francisco. I also have been a developer developed 40 [inaudible] commercial space on fillmore and suter and also recently a few years back developed over 100 unit of below market rate housing on [inaudible] i also my days in the fillmore was the founder of fillmore economic and housing [inaudible] save the victorian jz back then we also developed victorian square. In my opinion one the High Priorities in the coming years will be maintaining a neighborhood character of the communities and the area of rising rents it will be a challenge to sustain the long time family owned businesses along our traditional business corridors. This is especially true in working class and low income communities. It will take someone who can balance the interest of the developers landlords and community. Progress is seeone person idea of progress is destruction another persons eyes and [inaudible] i got mixed up. In my position at Mayors Office of economic dw Workforce Development i worked with miquell in the position as mission housingwork in the community on the development of the cpmc hospital and experience work wg the community and development of Construction Industry uniquely qualified for reappointment to the committee. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is irene pin and also kind of like supporting miquell pin. Im a supervisor for City Build Academy and [inaudible] in non profit that workwise miquell pin and [inaudible] so, mr. Pin has been a great partner as he brings a lot of clients. Sorry, students to meet with the cba staff1 second. He has gin been a great partner because he brought a lot of contractors to meet with the students to get them hired for construction jobs. He has been like a lot of clients have been hired throughout the years through [inaudible] and miquell pin. He has a history working in non profit sect squr continue tooz serve the community. During the past years on the citizen Community Development and [inaudible] urge that you allow him to continue to do good work for the San Francisco community. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please good afternoon you guys. My name isorian will isand manage a Work Force Development program at the Mission Economic development agency. I behave known mu quill pin 6 years professionally and personly and during those 6 years [inaudible] Community Development. Miquill wakes up every morning with bettering San Francisco his mind. Works long days and comes to committees like this. He is part of leadership sf. All the extracrim curricular activities revolve around bettering the lives of our community. Working in direct service managing programs and working in the prive lt industry i think his experience speak tooz the ability to remain a really strong part of this committee and coalition and on my behalf i ask that you reappoint him. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Din ismar zan and a program couns elor with [inaudible] it has been a priveolog to speak on behalf of mr. Miquell pin. I was present when he entered our organization as a client and it was amazing to watch him grow and development into to a Program Manager and leader and advocate for the individuals who went through the Construction Program he was managing at the time. Observing him in action his achievements cannot be denied. I feel he has gone well beyond where he started. Throughout all this how he maintained humility, he is always on the look out to how to learn from his experiences from what he does both professionally and with involvement with the Citizens Committee. I feel he is very much an asset to his employer and all the groups he serves mptd i believe his experiences and his tuchievements allow him to gave good perspective and can hope he can continue directing essentially helping direct the direction so to speak of the Citizens Committee and highly encourage you to renew appointment thank you very much. Public comment is closed. Have visor cohen. Thank you. In my previous remarks i forgot to mention pastor [inaudible] and her presentation quh she was presenting in my mind i was thinking how does your work connect with low Income Community and wnt into great detail. Dont think you can get more of a Vulnerable Community than the Homeless Community and i admire your story and your will to spend a week on the streets. That is remarkable. Few of us would do that including myself. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor mar. I wanted to first start with commissioner pen. I strongly support your reappointment. Pastor roar what an amazing story and experience you would bring. Im happy that you are applyi am still supportive of commissioner peter cohen who couldnt be here because he is speaking before us a sacramento committee on Affordable Housing development. Im strongly supportive of your leadership and hope yowl serve with distinction which your record shows you will. Ill move we support peter cohen for seat number 3 as he served before following in the footsteps of rena [inaudible] from affordable Housing Community and ill make the motion that we reappointment migel [inaudible] to seat number 4 and move that seat number 3 and thanks to [inaudible] years of service as well we appoint peter cohen. Thank you supervisor cohen. I was going add dlsh plosion for consideration and discussion. I was going to make a motion to appoint megan roar to seat 3 and miquell pin to seat 4. Alright. I will second that motion and i totally understand your perspective pr visor mar. I would say since pastor roar has come to our district at the Lutheran Church she is amazing. Grace Lutheran Church is alwaysope toon to the community but seeing pastor roar organize block parties, planting up a storm really, constantly holding drives to help the Homeless Community, your level of service is amazing so based on my experience i know pastor roar isnt a talker, she is a door and so i want to support supervisor cohens motion then to put that forth for megan roar seat 3 and miquell seat 4. Do we want to teperate it out sph go first with seat 3, megan roar. Motion to appoint megan roar, mar, no. Cohen, yes. Supervisor tang, aye. We have two aye and one no with supervisor in descent. Move to seat 4 on that motion, mar, aye. Supervisor cohen, aye. Supervisor tang, aye. 3 aye congratulation megan roar for seat 32 and miquell pin to seat 4. Call item 7 item 7 hearing to consider appointing 6 members ending march 1, 2013 to inhome Public Authority. Thank you. All of you who are still here. We have 3 applicants who stated they couldnt attend but i know i have seen rita simal waiting. Tatiana and [inaudible] mell vin [inaudible] come on over. Why dont you go first, rita. Good afternoon supervisors. I commend your patience. 2 years ago i was appointed to the position on the inhome Health Services Public Authority as a representative of the Human Service commission and 23 i said i didnt know what i was getting into i would be telling the truth it is a most gratifying experience to work with this agency and appreciate the work that they do, to appreciate the wonderful staff we have. Our director is kelly dermen, i think some know her. It has been a fascinating board to be on because the people who are on the board represent some of the people we serve and that they are caring and loving consideration for what we do is a example to us all. If i am lucky enough to be reappointing i will accept it gladly and say thank you very much. Thank you. Do we have questions or comments . Thank you very much for your presentation. Anyone else who is here please come on up. Dont be shy this your moment. I thought we had two other applicant. That is what where thought. Okay. Thank you supervisors. Good afternoon. First of all, i will say right off it has been a pleasure and honor to serve on this committee and have learned quite a lot. With little hezitants because as i talk and attend my health is being robbed of me and i cant really put things into words as i