Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE Full Board Of Supervisors 20161004

[gavel] good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of october 4, 2016. Mdm. Clerk please take roll call supervisor avalos, here. Breed, present. Campos, present. Cohen, present. Farrell, present. Kimnot present mar not present peskin, present. Tangpresent weiner, present. Yee to present you have a quorum ladies and gentlemen please join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] campos of aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye avalos aye there are 11 aye those items are finally passed unanimously. [gavel] clerk please call item number two item to ordinance authorizing the settlement by law food filed by Jack A Frazier against the city for approximate 5 million filed in october 20 820. 13 in San Francisco superior court entitled with personal injury with a fighter truck supervisor avalos of the voting, no, i guess this. Ive had many meetings with mr. Fraser who be party to the settlement. Im not urging anyone else to vote with me on that in any way. But based my conversations with mr. Fraser it was expressed differing opinions about whether he should accept the settlement or not. I felt important to weigh in on what my vote of no just what is his attitude run the settlement itself. But i do believe that this is a settlement that is a big one and worth voting for. Thank you. Seeing no other names on the roster item number two speaker please call the please take roll call supervisor breed aye campos. The i cobbel cohen aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye avalos nay there are 10 ayes and one nay the ordinances finally passed [gavel] clerk can we please go to item number 18 item 18, he ordinance to amend the ministry to go to require the prevailing wages be paid for the driving of commercial vehicles and for the work loading or unloading materials goods or products for special events and shows on City Property. He was rollcall vote item 18 speed read aye campos aye cohen aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye avalos aye there are 11 aye the ordinance is passed unanimously [gavel] next item, please item 19 is a ordinance leaving the computer processor, and for of administrative code for Lease Agreement between a more international and San Francisco supervisor peskin thank you for this thing to continue to one week and its minor say that a representative of the airport is here to answer a question. Ms. Kathy weidner. I believe last week when it was continued the Airport Commission was going to consider the item earlier today , not the waiver, but the lease. I believe it was going to get rid of the two one year options. I just wanted a status report on that from ms. Weiner good afternoon president breed and members of the board Kathy Weidner without Even International airport. This morning and more commission did vote unanimously to amend the proposed lease to remove the tube one year options to extend it ive copies of the resolution for the board and copies for the clerk. Okay supervisor peskin with that, uncomfortable and want to through the president as my appreciation to the airport staff and commission for working with us on this matter. Thank you. Would you like us to review the amendment of first or would you like to move them . We dont have to mend the waiver. The waiver and release of two separate instruments so we dont have to make any changes in the i will deliver those items to the clerk for our records but will take ms. Weidner at her word okay thanks. Supervisor campos i appreciate the amendment that i think makes it better but i still have a problem with the fact that were waiting the competitive bid requirements. I think this should have gone out to bid up to our way, San Francisco establishment to actually have the opportunity to compete and without a going through a competitive process theres no guarantee that we in fact are getting the best deal possible. All point of Competitive Bidding is to let the best deal prevail and thats not happening here. So ill be voting, no. Thank you supervisor campos supervisor cohen i, too, will be voting oh i believe in Competitive Bidding and we need to push the airport to do a competitive bid. Theyve done it before and regional to Diverse Communities get minority warned those misses as well as womenowned business but dont push them to do so they will notthey want not. As we see today a Pilot Program has been in existence for five years but i think that is a symptom of a problem sweetie to prioritize and send a message to the airport staff and to the commission and let them know the board of supervisors is interested in seeing competitive bids to go out. Thank you thank you. Supervisor kim this a slightly separate issue but the conversation about getting other Small Businesses and local businesses opportunity compete. Rings up actually the recent process around come i believe you are van services that assess permits and i know that weve got somewe feel emails to our office complaining that sf drove after many many years this into in its contacts with some of our local small locally owned Airport Shuttle services that used to provide Transportation Services to sfo but no longer will be good i was hoping you could talk a little bit about that because i think this brings into the overall concern the board may have about the ability for mother locally owned businesses to provide services to sfo which of course a big business for any company. Understood. Supervisor kim through the chair, Kathy Weidner with the airport. This morning also at the Airport Commission there was a vote to reject an rfp process and reject all bids on a process that we were trying to do to consolidate some of our doortodoor vans that at the curbs in response to the Community Concerns over the Small Companies. The now canceled that rfp process. We are going to cancel the permits that all the companies of operated the airport currently hold in the issue to all the companies that currently operate at the airport a permit that has some of the Customer Service standards we were hoping to achieve to the rfp. We believe that we have come to a place where we can get some of the improves quality standards we were looking for as well as maintaining the Small Companies presence in their ability to operate at the airport. I appreciate you explaining the issues on both sides. Im its actually great to hear this concept at some resolution on keeping our smaller shuttle doortodoor service monies that are here locally and hire locally to continue to provide services to sfo while also i guess improving the quality of service which was a concern of the airport. Im glad to see that move forward this morning as well. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other names on the roster nay mdm. Clerk on the names mr. Buhler john gibner nert. The board actually should amend the ordinance today to reflect the changes on the lead term. Ms. Weidner has given me a copy but essentially its Commission Adopted a new resolution and that the lease will not be a threeyear term without the two options. Thank you. I would like to move supervisor peskin i would like to move what deputy City Attorney gibner nert just a different record supervisor peskin is a motion to amend. Moved and seconded. Colleagues, can we take that without objection. Without objection that passes unanimously. [gavel] mdm. Clerk on the item as amended can you please call the roll item 19 as amended, supervisor breed nay, campos nay cohen nay farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye avalos nay there are seven aye and four nay good supervisor breed Campos Avalos in the design the ordinance passes on the First Reading as amended [gavel] next item please item 28 ordinance would mend the measured go to brave it city funded travel to todays enacted with the laws after june 26, 2015 reversing antidiscrimination protections for lgbt individuals permitting discrimination against these individuals to prohibit City Contracting with companies cornered in states that enacted such laws where work on the contract would be performed in such states. He was vocal about on item 20, breed aye campos aye cohen aye farrell aye kim [background noise] mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye avalos aye there are 11 aye the ordinance passes unanimously [gavel] please, call item 21 and 22 together item 21 and work next ordinance, item [reading ordinance] item 22 is against the city for three and 25,000 filed september 27, 2014 in superior court to create three earned 25,000 from the Water Enterprise Fund balance in both settlements allege Property Damage arising from flooding. Colleagues can we take his items without objection there passed unanimously [gavel] item number 23 item 23 is a ordinance woman the planning code require inclusion in the housing balance report data but the withdrawal of Housing Units from the rental market ion means including owner move is a tool from the planet permits sql determination make the required finding same house, same call without objection the ordinances finally passed unanimously [gavel] item 24 item 24 is a resolution to urge the San Francisco youth Public Utilities commission to provide enhanced Public Access to existing roads and trails in the peninsula watershed lands this is with the goals of protecting the water supply the entire mental quality of the area. Supervisor avalos thank you president breed colleagues come i like to thank you for considering this resolution. I been working on this issue, the watershed on the peninsula including axes there for about 2. 5 years now. Weve had two hearings at the board of supervisors could ive got to do on down to visit this item number of times. With the community needing down in the peninsula and what you have before us is a resolution urging the Public Utilities commission to do exactly what they been doing for two years. Ultimately, i would like to see that we have greater access on the peninsula. Right now theres a dosing program you have to reserve space to walk along the pathways in the peninsula watershed area. There are some places that have limited access good that can go from one into the other. But this is actually supreme public land. This is a land that is owned by the city and county of San Francisco. By the Public Utilities commission. Its also when thats available for people who take the Drinking Water from christmas springs water and San Mateo County of this land belongs to all of us and i think i think this land is actually sorely underutilized in the way that we can create a greater understanding of what is their terms of the four and, in terms of what we have for our water system thats there in watershed that serves it as well. We bring in water from hetch hetchy to Crystal Springs. And that makes it super important but its also important to note that even in use at many where we have our Hetch Hetchy Reservoir the source of our water is not hetch hetchy. It is actually further up about 40 miles into the watershed. That is an area that has tremendous amount of people coming in every day, some without permits, some under a quota system and the land is actually pristine. The water we drink from there is in Great Condition to actually create a similar but limited system for people to access in the Crystal Springs watershed area and peninsula watershed is not to create devastating impacts as people are saying. I think when it comes to our work around entire mental regulation its really important that we are looking at how economic interests take over our environment and destroy our environment to disrupt our environment. Climate change being the most supreme example of that. But access to people who will be on foot and possibly on by, into this area does not cause the same level of alarm and should not cause the same level of alarm has industry moving in. I would like to think that the Public Utilities commission could work with the park system is golden gate recreation ctr. , San Mateo Park system down there as well to create the program where people can have no access in the Crystal Springs watershed wraps under a quarter system but access that would be unaccompanied. That, to me would give people the sense of solitude that would allow them to really appreciate what is down there. That currently is really cut off from the public. I believe that our environment to work should also be about Public Access public education. I know that the way that politics seems to be aligning on this that this measure might not pass. So actually i dont think it has to. I think what the Public Utilities commission is already done, what theyve committed to exploring is already addressed in this resolution. Therefore i really dont think you need to be voted on. I motion that we table this resolution and go on to the next item. Second supervisor [inaudible] us otto is made a motion to table. Clerk please take roll call seconded by peskin abag good on a motion to table not to table. Breed aye koppel aye cohen aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner nay yee aye avalos aye there are 10 aye and one nay with supervisor weiner in the design the was this item has been tabled [gavel] next item please item 25 is a ordinance woman the planning code but revising the zoning map to rezone all lot numbers listed on the current designation as residential house one family to residential house one family, detached loans and to work with buys zone map for access souls part 2640 3b lot number eight from its current designation as public to rhwendy and plan the sql determination make the appropriate findings. Rollcall vote item 25, supervisor breed aye campos cohen aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye jan east aye avalos aye there are 11 aye the ordinances finally passes unanimously [gavel] lets go to new business. Item 26 is a ordinance to amend the mens fate of code require prevailing wages in city contracts for Security Guard services for such services at certain events on City Property to amend the police go to make technical clarifications regarding worker retention requirements for Security Guards. Supervisor kim thank you president breed today im seeking your support on a ordinance there were establishing prevailing wage in city contractor Security Guard services. Which will require rebellion wages to be paid for Security Guard service that certain copy of events on City Property. Weve also proposed a amendment to the police go and make a technical clarification regarding worker retention requirements for Security Guards. Presently there is no prevailing Wage Ordinance covered inSecurity Guard services. The bureau of labour statistics reported in 2015 there are over 1 million sick 30 guards in the us. 151,000 of whom work in california. Everyday Security Guards worked to protect our communities businesses. It is a growing and diverse job industry. Africanamericans are 11 of suit San Franciscos workforce but up 25 of the citys Security Guards. Unfortunately without a prevailing wage this workers have been vulnerable. While many unionize should 30 workers make in excess of the 60 master contracts with the city awaits that includes healthcare and paid sick days, nonunionized Security Guards contacted the city received only 13. 34 per hour. For the minimum conversation ordinance which is below the nationally hourly wage of 50. 34. A nonunion sick 30 guards not received paid sick days and do not receive healthcare. Theres no protection against having their wages cut in order to win the city contractor no security for their family were themselves should they fall ill. Setting a prevailing wage will prove quality of service as was the quality of life of our security workers by ensuring these workers receive dignified wage and Fringe Benefits batching equivalent for private work. We set prevailing wages for certain types of works connected with City Property including janitorial services, parking garage attendant, theatrical Worker Services and tradeshow and special event work. Although the city relies on its security workers to ensure his assets remain safe, we fail to protect the Economic Security of our security workers by setting a prevailing wage. Today we can change that and secure more stable future for all of our workers. I want to recognize seiu ww whose numbers have worked closely with our office and of course our City Attorneys office to develop this legislation and i want to personally thank rob lopez my legislative team who spent months making this seemingly simple ordinance make it through the finish line. I also want to thank the budget and finance committee for unanimously supporting this ordinance and colleagues i ask for your support. Thank you. Can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection this ordinance is passed unanimously on the First Reading [gavel] next item, please item 27 is a resolution to find terminal toterminal three security connector project to be fiscally feasible and responsible pursuant to administrative code chapter 29. Same house, same call . Without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously [gavel] next item item 28 a resolution to authorize the Sheriffs Department to enter into a contract with the california almond corrections and to expand 1. 7 5 million to house state inmates who are within 60 days or less in the state prison in the secure Reentry Program facility for term commencing june 30 same house, same call without objection adopted unanimously [gavel] next item item 29 is a resolution authorizing authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of Housing Community developed to submit an application related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to permit the issuance Residential Mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 95 billion ford 210238 k st. Same house, same call without objection adopted unanimously [gavel] next item item 30 a resolution approving the authorize agent to enter in a seventh amendment to the Management Agreement with the moscone the center. To require the contractor to make certain capital contributions to the city and amount of 50 million and revived certain contractual clauses regarding the calculation and payment of fees for food and beverages Internet Services or financial records and reporting same house, same call . Without objection resolution is adopted unanimously [gavel] next item item 31 is a resolution authorizing the apartment how to submit a oneyear application for the hiv Prevention Grant from the center of Disease Control in the amount of 5. 7 million for hr people for hiv prevention funding for december 31, 2017 speed same house, same call without objection adopted unanimously [gavel] we are now at the 2 30 pm time and we have two commendations for today and will start with supervisor avalos. Thank you mdm. Clerk. First off id like to inviteto come to the podium and other members of the community that want to stand with them. This past sunday the hindu temple in my district held a Tribute Assembly in memory of its holinesswho passed away unexpectedly during our legislative on august 13. Is a social speak Hindu Organization and or the guidance of his holinesshas become a vibrant Hindu Movement focused on spirituality and social services. His holiness with the fifth spiritual successor to thegood he was known to be peaceful, humble, simple and spiritual. He dedicated his life to the Selfless Service of spirituality and uplifting others. Over his seven decadeshe inspired counsels aspirants and for the betterment of humankind is visited over 17,000 villages, towns, and cities in these gifted the world with over 1109 years. These are Cultural Centers for preserving culture and performing social services. His work lives on in San Francisco in my district mayor mclaren park. Were they have truly lived up to their social service teaching. Organizing walkathon to benefit local Elementary Schools, environmental causes, and Public Safety organizations. They have also participated in neighborhood cleanups and planting days. They held their ceremony in commemorating the life ofthis past sunday. I apologize i was not able to attend but i know was a very very special event. I look forward to the hindu new year event on november 6 and i know that so many people have come here today to honor the maharajahs work and i want to say that youre always welcome in our district and were so grateful that you are there. We look forward to all the work that you do drop a lift our community and the memories of. Thank you. [applause] good afternoon. That president and Board Members board of supervisor behalf of temple located in San Francisco i think Supervisor John Avalos forgiving tribute to his holiness life and work. In this meeting today. [inaudible] this maximum is not only an inspiring call for all humanity also reflects the spirit of his humanitarian services to humankind and society. Through his Selfless Love he inspired thousands of children teenagers youth adults and citizens to Serve Society as a dedicated volunteer. All over the world. Whether was a drought or flood eight tsunami were right is compassion has reached out to all those in need. Doing such National Disaster to very Service Programs hes helping hands have assisted hundreds and thousands of people provided them comfort and support. It is compassion, humanity hes made over 70,000 villages towns and city visits. Over 250,000 homes in india and abroad. He read and reply to over 7000 letters personally consulted over 810,000 people. In the year 2000 is only this address the millennium world peace summit of spiritual leaders at the united nations. With a message of love for mankind and respect for all religions. A striking humility, wisdom and simplicity touched many. President obama has written in distribute to his holiness by paying tribute to a man who believed in the worth of all people. Dedicated himself to serving those in need we are reminded of the ways our common humanity will always bind us together. And of entering obligations we have to love and care for one another in the world we share. Everyone throughout north america take part in the annual National Walkathon is supervisor avalos mentioned. To promote family values and raise friends for charitable purpose. In San Francisco by inspiration in San Francisco we felt 11 walkathons. Supporting various National Benefits such as American Red Cross American Diabetes association, common for a cure and National Conservancy just to name a few. His holiness inspired us to think globally and work locally. This is no ensure the community we live and work also benefits from the spirit of service. In addition to [inaudible] San Francisco chapter has supported the Elementary School for art and musical supplies. A local Indian Classical Music center and ucsf are walkathon. We also partner with urban force than our neighbors to an excelsior to plan over 15 trees and the sidewalks in her neighborhood on avalon avenue with grant and ingrid his holinesss teaching and inspiration will be a Guiding Light for many generations to come to Serve Society live peaceably and spiritual. Once again, thank you for giving us time today in your meeting to give tribute to his holiness. Thank you. [applause] tank you for your service and we can meet outside to take a photo together. Thank you for being here and congratulations and thank you for your service to the city. We appreciate you being here today. Thank you supervisor avalos. With that, i would like to recognize supervisor david campos for a special commendation. Thank you very much mdm. Pres. Did i like to call upon the amazing Pablo Espinoza. Is pablo here . There is pablo. Come on up. Colleagues, this month of october we celebrate latino heritage and its also month where we raise awareness around the issue of Domestic Violence. It is therefore only fitting that todays we honor the incredible work of Pablo Espinoza is been supporting latino and lgbtq communities for 25 years here in San Francisco. Pablo has served Domestic Violence survivors for the past 19 years in the city. Is a Current Operations director at Community United against violence. Which is the oldest lgbtq Violence Prevention Organization in the entire country. They just to remind you that they started in 1979 as a grassroots safety Monitoring Group that followed in response to the white night riots sparked by the murders of harvey milk and george mosconi. The Organization Since that time have worked tirelessly with lgbtq survivors of Domestic Violence, he bounds and sexual assault. In 1997 pablo began serving at as a hotline operator in its 24 hour crisis line. He was of course given his talent soon hired under the Domestic Violence Survivor Program where he continued providing social services, training providers, and designing outreach campaigns that were focused on latino queer and transgender survivors. For more than eight years pablo was the go to person in San Francisco to build capacity around the serving lgbtq Domestic Violence survivors. Throughpablo led an innovative project that increased access to the 94 shelters across california by training the staff on how to work with lgbtq people. Especially transgender women and gender nonconforming individuals who experience Domestic Violence. Pablo, on behalf of the district i represent but of the entire city, i want to thank you for the work you have done. Your work is intersectional work that looks at interconnection between the Lgbtq Community and also the issue of Domestic Violence. I want to thank you for the way in which of approached the very important to work and i can only imagine the number of lives that are then saved and impacted by your work. Before i turn it over to you, i know there are couple of folks from the department on the status of woman who want to say a couple of words right before you spoke. Ameritrade over to them. Before i turn it over to you. Good afternoon supervisor. Department of women get him to speak on behalf of myself and carol and the audit. We just want to say congratulations, pablo. So welldeserved. Ubiquity agencies women has funded for over 20 years and their amazing partner dividing Domestic Violence services in the community and they do willy mason work because they really get the intersection now the of oppression and so theyre out there fighting for all kinds of other immigrant rights and other issues that affect people connected to Domestic Violence. Also impressive because they bring that antioppression work into their own organization and of a nonfire up her whole structure which is for nonprofits is pretty unusual. Could not be more welldeserved. Congratulations thank you. Pablo, the floor is yours. Thank you from the department. Thank you for this recognition. Thank you to david campos office. To the board of supervisors, to the amazing staff thats here somewhere. Thank you for this priest moment in your meeting. I want to use this on to talk about not all that ive done but why i did it. Why i continue to do it. I do this work because im part of a beautiful intricate complex and Resilient Community of survivors of Service Providers of activists and revolutionaries worriers and teachers. Im in service to those in our community walkup avenue towards healing and to reach out to those who us who can provide sheltered by a listening ear, and you and a space to cry. To dream, to build skills, and to celebrate both our mistakes and our accomplishments. It has been an honor to work atto or for the Lgbt Community a community of survivors of violence and of the community of dedicated caregivers. I will use this brief moment to continue to advocate for what these communities need for my 25 years of service has taught me will diminish violence in how peoples lives could more housing including transitional housing for queer and trans survivors of domestic pocket proper and Sustainable Health care for all queer and trans people including Mental Health. Renters protections. Job opportunities and training. Programs for people in our communities who cause harm good free and of able city college and other school opportunities. Thank you very much for this moment of recognition. Thank you, david. [applause] thank you for being here and congratulations again. With that i like to record eyes supervisor kim bar last commendation of today. Thank you president raveche for accommodating our request. Today is Filipino American History Month andbut completely separate from the month before us we want to recognize the Small Business woman and woman leader in the south of market. Whose restaurantin the south of market has made history in terms of its area achievement and community work. Jennifer the lumen [sp . ] who is here today began restaurant with a vision. She thought Filipino Food was not being represented in the mainstream rappers on scene consecrated restaurant that could bring Filipino Food culture into the forefront. She open a restaurant with a mission of opening minds and hearts to filipino cuisine using the restaurant as a space to give back to the community. She has a long history of volunteer work with Community Organizations including asian women shelter in a volunteer capacity with Filipino Foodie events likefilipino and the festival. When she opened the restaurant a year ago she envisioned a becoming a space where she together generations of Community Members to celebrate and enjoy Filipino Food and culture. The restaurant also recently partnered with Betsy Carmichael school dilating a program where children are now learning how to makeactive light snack dishes with the framework of the program established jennifer hopes to extend the program into an intergenerational program, connecting children with our Senior Community the Filipino Community to put cook and eat together. In one year the restaurant has made strides in bringing the right re heritage of the filipino into the spotlight on fulsome street. Within the First Six Months of its opening the restaurant became the first filipino restaurant ever to be featured on the front page of the San Francisco food section. The restaurant also made history would became the first latino restaurant recommended in the Michelin Guide and within its first six lines of business. As we all know, is tremendously hard to open and maintain a Small Business here in San Francisco and even with our booming economy many of our Small Businesses struggle to maintain the high rent many of us are paying as well good unfortunately, had to close its doors last weekend. But we want to recognize jennifer for your contribution both to the city and the south of market and also to recognize that you be continuing to help overly fine and new space for the vision you have but also thank you for the over the years akin to getting so much to see carmichael to the south of market or Filipino American community that we support you and your continued endeavor throughout the next few years. So just want to be here to wonder you today on behalf of the board of supervisors. Groundbreaking contribution to the San Francisco food scene as well as to our larger filipino, Filipino American community. Thank you, jennifer. Thank you so much. [applause] i just want to say a few words good the restaurant was never about me. It was more about how i can get back to the community in a big lake is going up i never saw filipino and i lived in six different states. I moved around a lot when i was a kid i never saw my culture were cuisine anywhere represented that left its mark on me so restaurant reflects everything i went through growing up as an americanborn filipino here in the United States. The restaurant was more for just a getting the president of filipino cuisine in the society and also for a way to be a resource for me to get back into the community much bigger way than it ever been able to do through volunteer work is my volunteer work was always been part of me but was never enough for me. Being a Small Business owner committed resource to be with to get back much bigger way. Unfortunately, i chose to open in San Francisco in summer the most typical typical neighborhood the most in the country but i did close but am determined to reopen. I really want to continue my vision of giving back to the community and giving an outlet for people cuisine to have it spotlight. So thank you for this reckon it it was unexpected i actually just on out a few hours ago last evening so i dont have anything prepared but i want to say thank you for this recognition get its really an honor. Thank you. [applause] thank you good with that speaker can we please return to our agenda is item number 32 item 32 is a resolution to authorize the opposite of Small Business to spend grant funds in the amount of up to 1 million to disperse grants to qualified legacy businesses who apply persistent spends between october 1 and december 15 when he 16. Supervisor campos thank you mdm. Pres. Just briefly colleagues, this item allows us, through the commission to ensure as many businesses benefit from the legacy business program, which essentially, implements the law that we passed unanimously and also the Legacy Business Grant Program that was created by voters who proposition j. We need to ensure legacy business, that this program has helped as many businesses as possible good that these grants are remaining relevant and they remain accessible to businesses that are to this day struggling to survive here in San Francisco. So with that i ask for your support and again i want to thankrows on my staff for the work youve done to make this happen today. Thank you thank you. Thank you supervisor campos for your leadership on this issue. Its a really important thing for many of our Small Businesses that are definitely struggling to keep their doors open the city and county of San Francisco im just grateful that so many of the businesses in my district potentially could benefit from this great fun. With that, please add me as a cosponsor mdm. Clerk and colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection the resolution will be adopted unanimously. [gavel] item number 33 item 33 is a ordinance rezoned 2470 fulsome street per current designation is public and 50 x to urban mixeduse and 80 5x to affirm the ceqa determination make it clear finding same house, same call without objection the ordinances passed unanimously on First Reading [gavel] x items item 34 excuse me can you call item 3436 together . Yet. Item 34 is a motion three point Jeffrey Morris and Eugene Volokh to the assessment appeals board. Item 35 is a motion to appoint john lee to the assessment appeals board number two. Term ending september 25 19. Item 36 is a motion to appoint shawn vigil and James Reynolds to the assessment appeals board number three terms ending september 5, 2019. Colleagues can we take this item be same house, same call without objection the motions are proved unanimously [gavel] item 37, please item 37 is a motion to appoint janel white and wave wave the residence through common for the following individuals janel white deniseeastern definite terms same house, same call without objection the motion was approved unanimously [gavel] next items item 38 is it a motion to approve jesse stout there appears and kevin read stern patent duncan lay solely John Ballesteros tom e wright were Thomas Terrance alan Sarah Shrader and easy ozone to the canada state legalization passports term ending august 31, 2017 supervisor cohen we heard this item in committee and believe it or not there many people that are interested in seven on the Cannabis State Legalization Task force. That which would work great for is eight around the guys asian with extra look like. Would you need to develop all season regular shoulds where everyone can participate equally. That said, i would like to make a correction mistake i made in committee and committee exported kevin read like to make a motion to replace kevin read with Michael Nolan four seat 11. Supervisor cohen is made a motion to strike kevin read and replace kevin read with Michael Nolan. Second by supervisor farrell. Mdm. Clerk before we move forward, theres comments on the amendment or the actual legislation. I will start with supervisor mar thank you. I want to thank my colleagues katie tang and melia cohen on the committee could we heard a number of applicants in the meeting. Supervisor tang had to leave the meeting early but i moved kevin read because of his longtime experience with green cross and dealing with different neighbors in the city. I didnt want to say that there were lots of great candidates, including mr. Terry oh sorry on the visit arrow but i think kevin reads experience with not only green cross but also with supporting city efforts to clean up event like for 20 day in Golden Gate Park and other efforts make him a great candidates with lots of Community Engagement experience i think you would be valuable for the committee. Thats why i moved him and i would urge support for kevin read and i know theres a couple of other colleagues that no of his longtime work as well. Thank you supervisor mar. Supervisor campos be think that i surely dont have any issues with any other people that have applied but i do believe that kevin read is a good choice. For this role. I have worked with kevin over the years on the issue of cannabis and i think hes the kind of thoughtful smart individual who knows a lot about this industry, this business and also understands the importance of being responsible later relative to a neighborhood a community. So i certainly will support kevin read and while i respect what everyone else brings to the table i think the committee made the right choice. Ill be supporting kevin thank you. Supervisor kim thank you. I actually want to specify support for kevin read. He actually owns one of his businesses in the south of market in the district i represent. Cream cross has been an important element in western soma. Often adding to it would safety and also creating many jobs both in my district and other places of his business. They been a tremendous amount of work in bringing together our neighbors and our residents and our Small Businesses to make the 11th st. Corridor satyr on nights and weekends by adding lights and security cameras and also just working in partnering to be a good neighbor. This is exactly the type of individual honesty about Cannabis State Legalization Task force. As we talked about what the future legalization means here in the state of california we joined a Small Business owners that not only have done the work but also understand what it means to provide a business that is a good neighbor. Those are except the types of individuals that we want to seek on this passport because as this industry gross, its legalization is approved in november 8, we will make sure we have folks that have done this work for many many years and have that experience could finally, i would just add that kevin has already served on the legalize asian passports and i dont see a reason to discontinue only his service amongst many others. I think the supervisor mar said theres many many qualified people that want to serve on this task force but i think to take off someone whos currently been serving and has been doing a good job and is been attending all the meetings i would need more reason as to why we would not support his reappointment. Thank you supervisor kim. Supervisor weiner i completely agree with everything that supervisor kim has said. Where of the same mind on this. I think mr. Reid has been not just a strong leader in the community but a strong member of the task force. As in any reason to make a change. I do want to say occurred very very good things about mr. Nolan of this is not a situation where you have as we did remade the original claimants, many more exceptional candidates of the we have slots unfortunate. So this has nothing to do with 8 to mr. Nolan could im sure youll be a phenomenal member of the task force met up at some point maybe if theres an open we can put him on. But i dont see any reason to make a change good i will stick with the recommendation of the rules committee in other words mr. Reid thank you. Seeing no additional names on the roster, mdm. Clerk on the amendment can you please call the roll supervisor breed nay campos nay cohen aye farrell nay kim nay mar nay peskin nay tang nay weiner nay yee nay otto nay theres one aye and 10 nay supervisors breed campos in that his son. The amendment or fails. [gavel] mdm. Clerk can you call the roll on item number 38 item number 38 breed aye campos aye cohen aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye korea avalos aye there are 11 aye the motion is approved unanimously [gavel] is now 3 pm. We will go to speaker please call adam 39 pursuant to approve the motion number m116 132 approved on september 27th way 16 the board of supervisors will convene in the committee of the whole per item 39 but is been called from the Public Safety committee to the full board of supervisors pursuant to board rule 3. 37 eight hearing on the final report the findings and recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Panel transparency accountability and fairness in Law Enforcement requesting the Police Department and the Police Commission to report. He was thank you mdm. Clerk. The purpose of this hearing is to hear testimony on the Blue Ribbon Panel transparency accountability and fairness in Law Enforcement. Thank you supervisor cohen this hearing and ensuring we hear it as a committee of the whole with a full board of supervisors. With that, supervisor drennan alternates over to you. Thank you very much mdm. Pres. Good afternoon everyone. Could you see so many people in the chamber. Colleagues, thank you for allowing me an opportunity bring this important subject matter to you. Theres a few things i like to listen to for today in the discussion on the findings of the Blue Ribbon Panel. First, i want to frame the conversation and point something out that may not be in the forefront of your mind. 50 years ago on september 28 almost 50 years to the day where we are today, bayview Hunters Point erupted in what has historically been known as i was a local civil unrest. What happened was sfpd shot and killed a young man and as a result of that the community reacted to what was interesting about this potato time that although the shooting took place right off of third street, the entire city felt the vibrations of this action. Ultimately, the mayor and the governor ended up calling in the reserves to help bring peace. The city underwent several days of a lockdown of a whats the word . Thank you supervisor peskin several days of late curfew. Mr. Peskin you might remember . Several days of a curfew of whats interesting although the shooting took place in bayview Hunters Point the Mission Neighborhood felt it. Across the whole city even worse than the school stood up in revolt. I use that to begin the conversation because there we are 50 years later still dealing with some of the same symptoms of the problems that we were doing with 50 years ago. With that said i like to begin with my prepared remarks acknowledging that we are in the midst of a difficult debate and conversation about the inequity in the basic functioning of the criminal justice system. This debate includes General Police practices might use of force, and most important a aggressive policing. But it also includes arrests prosecution policies, the severity of the criminal sentences, and the desperate impact many of these policies are having right here on our community. The Blue Ribbon Panel was worked on by seven law firms, to policy firms, and three very well respected judges that collectively have over 75 years of experience between them. They have built a career very successful career, on the impartiality. This report also includes interviews with countless Community Members as well as the Police Department. I want to take a moment and i want to read knowledge although we have a long way to go from i want to knowledge of the we have come a considerable way in less than a year weve seen reforms been implemented. Language not have the time the weve not had the time to analyze the results in the efficacy yet. I want to it knowledge the Community Get the committee here with us today at home watching. The community that is not given up that is pushed the city and the Police Department towards these reforms. Want to thank and acknowledge the parents and families that lost loved ones. These families also serve as a reminder to all of us as to why we are here, why we are called to serve. I cannot call this hearing to make them relive their lost loved ones over and over again. Instead i called this hearing so no one else has to feel that herbal pain, that sadness, that deadness, that families feel when they lose a loved one too soon. This keyring is not about providing a venue for people to talk about all of the great work they are doing. I called the series so that we can continue to Work Together collaboratively towards solutions to ensure the public is aware of the solutions and the work being put into the process to bring justice for all. While there is rightfully a lot of anger and frustration they use opportunity to listen to the findings and the recommendations from this incredibly thoughtful report. There will be an opportunity for everyone to share their thoughts and suggestions during Public Comments. We, all of us in this chamber, are tasked with the obligation working together with communities legislators the mayor office, the Police Department, with figure how to learn from these incidents. Thats critical to your we need to learn how to have it learn from these events so we can move forward and turn anger and frustration and hatred and bitterness and resentment into an opportunity to make positive changes in our department in our Police Department, and the criminal justice system. I want to go over quickly the organization of the hearing the word of speakers. We have a lot of information that we want to present to you today. In order for us to get through this long agenda i ask that everyone be mindful of their time. First, we have excuse melove six speakers was after. First i want to organize mr. Hes the executive director of the Blue Ribbon Panel on transparency accountability and fairness in Law Enforcement. Want to organize justice crews reynoso also a blue panel member. The Blue Ribbon Panel working group will have five presentations from first one will be from in from morrison and foerster. We discussed the subject matter of stuff searches and arrests is Jamie Bartlett from simply also be discussing personnel and internal discipline. Ray marshall from shepherd bolan would talk about the culture within the San Francisco Police Department. Richard karen from Baker Mckenzie will share with dos findings on the brady policies and practices. Nicholas fram from under toll and olsen will talk about external oversight. Finally we were from judge Doris Kordell was also Blue Ribbon Panel member. We will then hear a short presentation from acting interim chief of police tony chaplin. The community has overwhelmingly elected chris for mohammed to bring thoughts [applause]. To bring thoughts from the Community Perspective to the discussion. On that note i lecture my people weve a long day and applause is welcomes but in the form of spirit fingers. Fingers is positive because allows the people at home or watching or large hearing impaired to also feel the back and see the impact of spirit fingers. Would you encourage when you hear something you agree with please move your fingers like that and your something you disagree with Something Like this. My friends, are you guys ready . Okay. Lets start. Supervisor cohen 1 second supervisor campos wanted to make some comments i just want to add one think it i want to thank supervisor cohen for the staff and the work shes been doing not just work on the new ribbon panel on the issue of Police Reform and accountability. I just want to say that i see the work of this Blue Ribbon Panel as an opportunity for San Francisco to show the rest of the country how to deal with the issue of Police Reform. Being a Police Officer is a tough job. But i think that so far its been unfortunate that the Police Officer association is taking the approach of responding to the Blue Ribbon Panel by attacking the da and attacking the panel itself. When anyone who looks at the three judges that are involved, justice ran onerous kordell,. It doesnt get better than that. That is as stellar and superb group of individuals as you can find and the involvement by these otherwise highly paid attorneys is also i think speaks to the excellent work that has gone into. So i would simply ask the Police Officers, the poa that we figure out how we can learn and take this not in the defense of weight but as a way of actually making San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department and example of how to do policing because i think if anyone should be able to get this right it is San Francisco. Thank you thank you supervisor campos i appreciate it. Want to give some background to everyone. The Blue Ribbon Panel was assembled through the leadership of the dist. Atty. George gascon. With that i like to regard mr. Who was the executive director who led the formulation the methodology and ultimately, the drafting of this incredibly important report. Turn the floor over to you. Thank you supervisor cohen. Thank you president breed for voting to conduct this hearing. I want to just really provide some background before the judges and law form working groups. Tell you more about the substance in the report. The panels job was to investigate the extent to which christ might be institutionalized in the department. Not to investigate officers were incidents. The panels goals not to fund salts were cast blame in the spirit of the city and its residents report ideas structural errors within the San Francisco policewoman and related city bodies that need immediate attention and improvement. The very high level, the panel found the San Francisco Police Department is in need of Greater Transparency lacks robust oversight, must rebuild trust with communities of it serves and must play a greater attention to issues of bias. Both within the department and interactions with the community. The report lays out 72 findings and 81 recommendations can we honestly one of time to go into all of those today. Bank urge you to please, look at the report to recall the findings and recommendations are extremely important and urgent. Today we would like to focus on two themes. One is one major shortcoming of your site that is no city agency currently audits that apartment in any systematic way. Theres no city agency that analyzes the carmens policies work or even what that apartment is properly Holding Accountable for existing policies. This makes San Francisco an outlier amongst major cities to the stakes are too high to not prioritize robust and consistent oversight. This includes regular auditing the policy and policy compliance with the current oversight structure is not set up to perform these functions. We, the panel, myself the judges and the law firms come here today to share information about the report in our investigation also to offer our support and help to the city to the board of supervisors in any way you see fit to implement the recommendations. We have met with the represents from the Mayors Office commode represents from the Police Commission and the Police Department and we understand these bodies plan to respond to our recommendations. We urge the board of supervisors to really show some bold leadership and set up a regular schedule with status reports and status hearings to hear from these departments on the status of their implementation. We urge the board of supervisors to request that the Police Department, the Police Commission, and other bodies named in the report indicate that, and for implementation to the communities can understand what expectations are. With that alternate over to Justice Reynoso. Thank you thank you very much for having us. I want to emphasize that the very beginning that if anything is going to happen with this report i believe its up to the board of supervisors. Otherwise, i think nothing will happen. This report looks at three major matters of interest. The issue of transparency, so we know what is going on, the issue of oversight that needs to be done on a regular basis and the reforms that have to be made. So that the people of this city and county have trust in their Police Departments, that there isnt what we have found to be bias against people of color, and preps even more important, institutional bias. Sad to say, but the report indicates, thereve been many troubling incidents in the history of this city and county. Theres been a invariably an outside review by federal officials. Many recommendations have been made. Sad to say, theres been very little implementation. So i trust and hope that there will in fact be a followup and implementation terms of the recommendations that this report makes. In terms of whether or not there can be Better Police policies and police practices, and there being no institutional bias, i think the answer is clearly, yes. It seems to me that we need to work on that. Sad to say, it has not been an easy task for us. First of all, the District Attorney asked the mayor for some money to do this investigation the mayor said, no. Thats always been volunteered good law forms we individual. Nobody pays us for our common even for the expense of coming here by train. But we have done it because we think the issue is very important. We have heard a disturbing testimony during that time that we have been functioning. Sad to say, we have not had cooperation either from the Police Department or from the poa, the rep union that represents the officers. There has been, in fact, a series of incidents that have been disturbing to me individually. Thank you. Can you hear me now . Thank you very much. For example, we heard testimony from a sergeant, an africanamerican Police Officer who testified before us in fact that there were issues of bias in the department. After that the president of the pa 08 sent her and published a long letter disagreeing with everything that she had said. My own reaction and this was an effort by the poa to intimidate her and to intimidate anybody else would dare say anything contrary to the views of the poa. It was sad to say, the poa did not cooperate with us. Neither, in fact did the Police Department. So everything that we did had to be on a voluntary basis. In that regard, we end up with a series of recommendations good as youve heard the city five but let me just suggest two or three. One, that the Police Commission which plays an Important Role, should review the department gen. Orders on a regular base. We cannot sometimes memos have gone out changing the regulations or the general orders and so the public cannot even know about it. With respect to Community Policing, it seemed to us a very important and those who testified before us agreed Community Policing is very important. That officers ought to be assigned to areas where they live. That they should be a longterm assignment heard that one should even get out of a police car from time to time and have Police Foot Patrols good so that the officers can get to know their communities and the communities can get to know the officers. We have recommendations with reference to stop, search, arrest situations which sad to say theres a great disparity in terms, for example, the africanamerican population is 5. 8 in San Francisco but 14. 9 of those stop search and arrest incidents happen to africanamericans. So theres much work to be done in that respect. And we heard a great deal pertaining to the use of officer involved shootings. We see a disparity of those who, sad to say, have been the victims of that with a disproportionate number of africanamericans and latinos being the ones who suffered from that. But you know, we can all of the good regulations intact and yet, without having a change in the culture of the Police Department things will not change. So i think it will take really quite constant evaluation and oversight by the board of supervisors to make sure that as time goes by even if changes are made they dont then returned to the way things have been done before. As i say, without this board being actively involved, i dont think anything is going to happen could very pleased to be here and very pleased to have this hearing so you can hear the seriousness of the matter as we heard. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much, jeff. Next speaker we will hear from will be first from ian. Im on up, ian. Good to see. Em took on the subject matter of stop searches and arrests. Correct, then get on ian from him with a stop searches in, pull the microphone a little closer . How is that . Better. All right. There are two issues i like to address in the time i have. Stop data and stop and frisk. The first issue i have to preface by saying we are not data experts. Thats why whenever recommendations is engaging outside experts to analyze the Department Stop data especially given the complexity of conducting meaningful analysis of stop data. That said, based on our analysis of the Department Stop data for 2014 and 2015, africanamericans and latinos are more likely to be searched without consent than other groups. Of all people search without consent africanamericans and latinos have the lowest hit rate. That is, the rate at which searches found contraband. An analysis of the Department Stop data by the San Francisco chronicle had similar funny. Agree to experts over it rates for certain groups are led by for racial bias and suggest of those groups or search the lower levels of evidence than other racial groups. We also found compliance with the terms Data Collection policy has been lacking. Incrementing the system to monitor and fizzled a compliance is key to the effectiveness of the data questions because passed last year. Moving to the second issue i want to clarify what we did and did not find regarding stop and frisk. There is anecdotal evidence that stop and frisk occurs in San Francisco. We heard this in interviews with Community Members as well as public defenders whose clients complained about stop and frisk. But we do not find any policy of stop and first did the woman has stated he does not practice stop and frisk. The mayor has considered and rejected stop and frisk policies in the past. The sf pd members we contacted including those who trained new officers did not respond to our interview requests were declined through poa counsel suite largely did not get to share the perspective of sfpd officers on this issue. One officer dude have the opportunity speak with stated the department does not practice stop and frisk but he also described practices that could be interpreted as stop and frisk. So we found anecdotal evidence of stop and frisk we did not find any policy any stop and frisk policy in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you. Next, will hear from Jamie Bartlett. Jamie took on the subject matter personnel and internal discipline. Welcome to the chamber. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I made my name is Jamie Bartlett get on with a lot from of Sidley Austin sibley was asked to look into hiring emotions process was internal discipline process at the sfpd. Im going to focus on the highlevel finding made thats applicable to both buses is. Specifically, both the hiring and promotions process and the internal discipline process within sfpd suffer from a notable lack of transparency. But interferes with the ability of the department to self regulate with external oversight with public trust. I will provide a few examples. Background investigations at unit within the sfpd is tasked with investigating all applicants and plays an Important Role in the hiring process in determining whether a candidate is eligible for hire. Despite Important Role we found that the unit is largely a black box perspective how background investigators were selected, how the background investigator makes his or her decision, and whether a background investigator with the relationship with the candidate being investigated with disclose a conflict of interest. Similarly, with regard to promotion, we found that ultimate selection of candidates for promotion is highly discretionary which increases the risk of bias in favor they buddhism in the process. As with hiring the chief of police makes the final decision as to what current officers will be promoted but the criteria he uses to select from a list not published or known by others. The role of the candidate disciplinary history in the promotion process is also very unclear. We believe that a lack of any structural processes were written policies or procedures by which the Decision Makers must consider disciplinary history in the promotion process allows for the distinct possibility that candidates the disciplinary issues particularly in the bias related conduct will stamp through promotions and ultimately occupy positions of power. In regards to internal does when its process highly okay. Theres very little public bid material that describes the internal discipline process or how internal decision affairs fund. 2. 7 says a portion of the disk when i system does not expand the investigator procedures and is not been updated since july of 1994. Iad processes and actions of contractor reported in any publicly available weight could be published no statistics about the numbers or types of cases investigated, the percentage of complaints of sustained, factual summaries of the complaints investigate. This general lack of transparency is inherently detrimental to the fair and effective officer discipline. Both because it hinders external oversight formal and informal, and it suggests a lack of self evaluation through past and regular audit for Statistical Analysis which is essential to a Police Departments effective discipline of its officers. Contribute into the lack of transparency is the fact theres no conference of system used either department for collecting data related to either the discipline process itself were the outcomes of those proceedings. Either originating to iad or in connection with processes in place at the occ. Worked for Early Intervention. The tracking system used for these different groups are not uniform or openly shared. It is not appear information contained in the Early Intervention system seeks into the system used by the internal discipline division. It does not include data regarding occ complaints that are not sustained. Audit is not conducted by the sfpd or the city comptroller of the system and the system is not well designed to conduct Statistical Analysis that would support regular and competent reporting. These examples illustrate the efforts to formalize and document hiring promotions and internal discipline process and outcomes are critical to the future progress in connection of pious within the sfpd. Thank you thank you very much. They marshal from Sheppard Mullin scored to talk what the culture. Good afternoon. As indicated my name is ray marshall. Im a partner at a law firm Sheppard Mullin witcher and hampton. Im the past president of the Bar Association of San Francisco in the past president of the state bar of california. Our group looked at the issue of culture and there are 3. 0 would make today. First, is what we called a tale of two cities in San Francisco. That is, that there is a split within the department as to whether the scope of discrimination and bias is individualized or whether it is widespread and institutional. At one level, those officers im sorry, those officers that has abide and testimony facilitated by the poa gave the view was in on an individual basis that was not widespread. On the other hand, those officers that testified that interviewed which were not facilitated by the poa stated unanimously that based upon their own experience and their own observations, guys in the department was institutional, widespread, and rampant. Second point. There is a blurred line between the poa and the San Francisco Police Department. Blurred line which allow the poa to take on an outside role inside and outside of the department. Making it more difficult to address the issues of bias within the department. That is a major problem that exists. The third point that it would leave you with. The San Francisco Police Department needs and should actively demonstrate in a proactive weight, leadership in the elimination of bias within the department. Needs to take this action in a topdown perspective at every level of command. Any new chief that is ultimately determined to work for San Francisco needs to exercise in a very public way leadership on reforming the department and illuminating bias that the face of the department becomes the Police Department and the police chief and not the poa. Those blurred lines of fact both the running of the department and its respect and community at large. It should be addressed by whoever is elected or appointed as our new police chief. Thank you. [applause] spirit fingers, folks. Remember. Next speaker will be robert tarin. He will be speaking on brady policy, the practices. Good afternoon. Thank you for having us. I was chairman of the brady versus maryland working group. For those of you did not go to law school, went to law school a long time ago, brady held in 1963 that the prosecution was obligated to turn over exculpatory mature ill to defendants. The california courts have held that duty includes turning over evidence of racial bias. He races Text Messages that surfaced in United States versus ian firm and your included Text Messages of 14 Police Officers and those Text Messages were not turned over by the San Francisco Police Department to the defendants in cases in this dish. District. The Police Department receive those messages in december 2012. Two years later they were finally turned over. In the meantime, defendants went to trial. Defendants of color went to trial that did not receive the evidence that they were entitled to as announced by the spring court 50 years ago. In short simple terms, the lax and legal system here meant that defendants of color did not receive brady material in the form of racist Text Messages. By officers who were instrumental in charging him. Defendants in this city were denied due process under our constitution. To redress the brady violations that took place here as a result of the Police Departments failure to timely disclose brady materials to the district Attorneys Office , are working group into live proposed 13 basic recommendations. 12 of them involve the Police Department and the district Attorneys Office. One involves the citys Attorneys Office. On august 30 the District Attorney responded to the seven recommendations we made as to his office agreeing to six and modifying one. The Police Department, to my knowledge, is not in over two months responded in writing to the eight specific recommendations we made as to its. Finally, i want to address those with claims that this panel and the working groups were a stalking horse for the District Attorney. To be clear, i never knew who George Gascon was. To be more clear, i joined and committed to this group when i read races text and homophobic attacks by Police Officers in federal court proceedings. I thought those sickening tax and no place in Law Enforcement anywhere, especially in this city of tolerance and diversity. My colleagues and i felt it was time to act to donate our services. To view local lawenforcement procedures both the das office and the Police Department and to consider constructive recommendations that would benefit all citizens. As a formal federal prosecutor worked closely with Police Officers the major american city, which now has troubles, i urge the city and its Law Enforcement to not wait and to not just be reactive when Law Enforcement practices delays and transcripts surface to call for action. I urge this board of supervisors to take the bull by the ones and direct Law Enforcement both the sf Police Department and the sf district Attorneys Office to be proactive, to Work Together and to adopt reasonable recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Panel. Thank you. Thank you very much. Our next speaker will be nicholas fram. Mr. Fram is presenting on external oversight. He was thank you supervisor trenton. Not a present, thank you all for having tested by name is nicholas fram. A maternity motor toll and also an offer here in the city. In addition to working on the external Oversight Group of law firm is served as counsel to the remote panel. Just to echo what just said on a personal note, we do not do this because the District Attorney asked. We did this because this was an issue important to us. I grew up here. I work here note that plan on living here for a long time. I want to leave this city better than where we found it. Our group spent a lot of time looking at the Police Commission , the offices of compliance and a couple other agencies such as the Comptrollers Office to investigate external oversight of the sfpd. The main conclusion the central conclusion, we came to is there is no external body that systemically recites the sfpd. The Police Commission conceives of its primary role as making policy disciplining officers that doesnt really have the resources to conduct periodic were systematic audits. The Comptrollers Office has the authority and some staff and resources to conduct audits of the department but is generally has really been asked to do so in the past that when it has is only audited it disagreed portion, on discrete issues. The occ, doesnt perform audits and to date been fairly a body thats mainly responsive to citizen complaints. As a single policy analyst that makes set Department Policy that generally is reactive, two. So the upshot is we dont know if officers are complying with policy or if the policies we have in place are effective. To very basic things that the public should know. So this lack of an audit function has been in stark contrast to what exists in other major cities. For example los angeles has a 35 office of Inspector General that routinely fulltime basis audits the lapd. The california Highway Patrol the California Department of corrections also of Inspector General and because of the federal Inspector General act of 1978, passed in the wake of another scandal in watergate, the 72 Inspector General in the federal government. So having an Inspector General having an fulltime audit function is something that is a well worn path that many other jurisdictions think its worthwhile. We think the most important reform at this body can achieve his implement an independent audit agency. Its really important that agency has full access to Department Records and personnel be charged with making periodic reports to the public and the independent of the department. Its important for legitimacy and its importance for that audit agency has the right perspective. To effectively counter the selfinterest of the department that it is overseeing. With that we are happy to answer any questions you have now or later. Thank you. Thank you. Colleagues, weve a few more speakers. Then we will go into a discussion. The next speaker i like to call up as judge doris cordell. Thank you for being here, judge. Thank you supervisor cohen and thank you to all the supervisors for the opportunity to speak to you this afternoon. I come before you not to lecture you come in october rate you but to him for you to initiate real and lasting changes in the operation of the San Francisco Police Department. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It is critical that all of us San Francisco leadership and the community, know the history of Police Misconduct in the city and how it has been addressed in order for us to move forward. For 79 years im a from 1937 until the present, the San Francisco Police Department has been involved in several major incidences of misconduct and Racial Discrimination all of which have been well documented. In 1937 the mayor and da working together uncovered Police Corruption including payoffs and staged raids. Officers were fired. The entire Police Commission was forced to resign the skating 2 million word report was issued. That report was stolen from the City Clerks Office is not been seen since 1937. In 1943, the San Francisco chronicle when an expose on Police Corruption. No officers were disciplined. In 1955, they ran a 12 part series on Police Corruption get no officers were disciplined. In 1965, San Francisco officers arrested a group of civil rights lawyers who refuse to allow the police to enter a fundraiser for the gay community. At trial, all charges against those lawyers were dismissed. No officers were disciplined. In 1966, San Francisco officers targeted the Transgender Community by resting and mistreating customers at the canton cafeteria good rioting follow. No officers were disciplined. In 1973, Public Advocates found a lawsuit against the city for racial bias in the Police Departments entrance exams and in the premise promotion policies. That lawsuit resulted in a federal Consent Decree was not lifted until 1998, a period of 20 years that included continuing litigation. In 1998, the city of San Francisco pledged that 45 of all new recruits in the Police Department would be people of color. In 1979, after the manslaughter conviction of dan white in the ensuing rights, several lawsuits were filed by protesters against the Police Department for Excessive Force. No officers were disciplined. In 1984, four officers were fired for penne prostituted to perform sex acts on an unwilling cadet. In 1980, the lower square was beaten by police at a peaceful protest that was caught on video and televised widely. The city paid a substantial settlement. No officers were disciplined. In 1989, an act of protest was interrupted by Police Beatings and arrested a Class Action Lawsuit followed along with suspensions and resignations by officers. The office of citizens complaint found that the deputy chief jordan had ordered the sweep and recommended he be demoted. In 1992, during the rodney king demonstration, San Francisco officers made widespread arrests as well, and 2000 copies of the San Francisco bade times they ran an unflattering story about the department were stolen and found at a police station. That led to the firing of chiefand an officer who was involved in the theft of the papers became the poa president. In 1995, San Francisco officers raided a new years eve aids benefits. The Police Commission found four officers used Excessive Force. None were fired. Also, at that time and williams a black man died in Police Custody and officer was deemed to have been involved in the death for which he was not fired. But suspended for 90 days. In 20022003, in 2002 three offduty officers one of whom was the son of the then assistant chief assaulted two civilians who refuse to give them their fee he does. The theaterdata grand jury indicted the entire airship of the Police Department for covering up that incident. However, all of the charges were dropped. A civil jury awarded damages to the victims of the beating. In 2005, was videotaped and officer of the bayview station posted a video that parried racist sexist and homophobic subject. The result was that over a dozen officers were disciplined. The officer who made the video resign could he was not fired. Two other officers were suspended each for 360 days. 20062007 the San Francisco chronicle ran a three month long series on the departments use of force. Then chief fong dismissed the report and no changes were implemented. In 2009 the attorney for the Police Department internal Affairs Division brought a case against the then deputy chief for failure to follow the departments policies on how to deal with allegations of Domestic Violence. As a result, a Police Commission demoted him to capt. The city subsequently promoted that capt. To cheat. After which, the city lawyer web brought the case against that officer was fired. Chief sued for wrongful termination received a settlement that cost the city seven or 50,000. Finally, in 2011 three officers were indicted by the federal government for illegal searches that can robbery at all were convicted and the feds release of information from those cases led to textgauge and two report by the Blue Ribbon Panel. So, thats the history. 79 years of lawsuits, settlements, officer disciplined, promotions, exposes by newspapers, city issued reports, grand jury indictment, designation of an entire Police Commission, and a 25 year long Consent Decree and sadly, little has changed. What we know from this history is that these instances of misconduct are not isolated incidents were aberrations. Rather, they are part of a 79 year pattern of systemic misconduct and cultural entrenchment within the department. That history reveals the many obstacles to reform, among them, failure of city leadership, politicized nation of Police Commission, failure of police leadership, failure of the effect of israel civilian oversight and resistance from the police union. I believe that resistance from the police union poses the greatest obstacle to reform. Now i am a staunch supporter of unions and ive never crossed a picket line and i never will get that being said, Police Unions are unique. Police officers are not like other workers. They have a state sanctioned power of life and death over all of us. While most unions in the United States have grown weaker since the 70s, Police Unions have grown stronger. We all know that they can make life very difficult for elected officials by attacking them as soft on crime and they have deep pockets to fund political candidates who do their bidding. Sadly, police units throughout the country over the last 50 years have opposed Police Reforms ranging from having to wear name tags on their uniforms to the use of body one cameras to documenting uses of force. This year, newark new jersey created a civilian review board was acclaimed as a model of oversight. The citys police union immediately announced it would suit to shut it down. Here in San Francisco the new use of force policy unanimously approved by the Police Commission in june to my knowledge has not yet been implemented because is being held up in the poas meet and confer process. Prof. Samuel walker and american emeritus professor of criminal justice at the university of nebraska at omaha and an expert on Police Accountability says that Police Unions have created a culture of impunity. It is this culture of impunity that permeates the San Francisco Police Department as has been welldocumented in our report. The San Francisco Police Department has eight not on my watch pledge. It says i pledge to serve the people San Francisco safely faithfully and honestly without prejudice. I will not tolerate hate or bigotry in our community or from my fellow officers. I will confront intolerance and reports any such conduct without question or pause. I will maintain the integrity of the San Francisco Police Department and safeguard the trust of the people of San Francisco. I would treat members of the community as i would hope to be treated myself. I will pursue justice with compassion and a respected the dignity of others. Those who would suggest theres any place the stain of intolerance i pledge not my watch. [applause] the departments former poa president and current paid consultant to the department on his Facebook Page derided that pledge. He called officers who reported misconduct of other officers, trained snitches. Commenters on this page undoubtedly Police Officers, one of the names of the snitches so they could be taken care of. Characterize sensitivity training as bull shipped and about officers who are whistleblowers said i hope it doesnt get ugly out there. Somebody could get her. This is talk it one would expect from gain members and from the thugs, not from the leadership of a police union. I believe that the great majority of Police Officers in San Francisco babylon to the poa are not like those who made those comments. So it is my hope that the good people in the department, the officers who see the form as a positive for the department will find their voices and will join together to bring new leadership to the poa. It is also my hope that you, the city leadership, will find your voices and display the political will to stand up to intimidation by that you will say, no, to those that oppose the meaningful and tool reforms that we recommended and the community supports. I implore you to put aside your political inferences and stand united in moving forward to implement these recommendations. Do it because the lives of the people of San Francisco are at stake. Let us not be condemned to repeat the past. The time is ripe to do right. Thank you. [applause] thank you judge kordell. Who said that . Supervisor kim thank you get out of the user much for being here today. May i ask a few questions . Absolute good judge kordell were now asked you to come back down here. We have a couple questions for you. My apologies. Judge kordell. Thank you for your presentation. I just had a couple of followup question did you mentioned that when San Francisco was being released from the federal Consent Decree we made a commitment to ensuring 45 new recruits are people of color. Could you let us know how close to that goal we have met since 1998 . I anticipated a question i was endeavoring to some research on get out of any the folks here are able to respond to that to having the numbers. Perhaps someone from the department i apologize that was not my area. I dont know if when i get that information for you. Great. I also see our deputy chief and chief here today and i assume they have that data . Deputy chief thomas supervisor, if youre done with the judge we can move on to the presentation is to come from the Police Department i will say my question for them. My next question is given your body of work in this arena, do you see cities and municipalities actually implementing reforms successfully . The answer is, yes. Oftentimes because the be made to do it because of federal court orders. Thats really sad because that means theres been resistance, fighting litigation now theyre being made to do it by judge in a black robe sitting somewhere else whos telling departments to be rugged i dont think that is the way to do it but sometimes it has to be done. Now there are some cities as a result of writing, upset, who had Great National focus on them where they have stepped up because they dont want to be sued in federal Consent Decree coming in. Finally, there are those departments large and small, by the way theres 18,000 Police Departments in the United States. They are each autonomous unto themselves. No one entity can require them to do have any oversight any kind of accountability at all. It has to be by community by community unless theres a state incentive for them to do it. If there way law in california that said every Police Department had to have some measure of accountability civilian oversight that would happen. Its up to each community. The two leaders like you all to decide, this is really what we want to do never done effectively. So the short answer is, yes, there are departments engaging in this in different kinds of ways to bring more transparency and accountability to policing. You think the primary means, what often initiates reform in other cities that are doing it has been either through federal court order or 420 through some type of citizen protest or riot. Something that is when the more extreme actions like me taken. Thats not necessarily lower senior in San Francisco today. If there is a commitment to pursue these reforms, like those 2 actions taking pl. , what are the reforms that you think would go successfully help support reform in the Police Department. Because i agree with you. I think the vast majority of our members in the Police Department want to see your form implemented. What transparency and accountability are the two pieces that you talked about. Specifically, what are the actions we can take your the board of supervisors the one sure. If you look at the recommendations of the report may start on page 159, been there done in categories. Overall, i think the first major important step is having oversight. Civilian independent oversight over what this Police Department does good by the way, oversight is not micromanaging a Police Department i was the independent Police Auditor for the city of san jose for five years. I wasnt interested for running a Police Department could pass on my expertise to what others interested in is ensuring what was done was being done in objective and proper fashion. San francisco we recommended for the Police Department and office of Inspector General. That would have the function a civilian independent, independent not beholden to the chief, not beholden to anybody but reporting to you all in a public fashion on various aspects in the Police Department that you heard already the deficits the lack of election of data. We dont even know informational what happens to officers, their discipline records did a lot of that is because of the Police Officer bill of rights seeks peace so much confident. Just as an aside, believe that locke needs to be repealed and we need to open these things out. [applause] thats the first image i think the community is saying and the use of force policy. Things that are happening are in the works that have been in the city but they have not happened yet and thats part of the problem. Theres no sense that things are actually moving the direction that i think they should have been in quite a while go. So we do technically have a citizen who oversight body here are Police Commission were appointed by the mayor and three by the board of supervisors. What forms can we provide to the citizen oversight body that can get it more of the teeth better needs to actually implement the reforms we talked about today . Thats the good question. It gets back to new york your definition of oversight is. You have a Police Commission could i have heard from some of them particularly when we were having hearings during all this is the one concern that came up from you. When you have civilians who are appointees of the mayor from the board, quite frankly theyre beholden to you all. They have to kind of told the line. What my vision and what weve done in san jose, we dont have a civilian portrait we have my office. But it was a decision of the entire body the city council and mayor after a National Search to appoint me and then leave me alone. Them you run this office look into those matters that im permitted to look into. As i see fit. So i do good others may disagree with me on this one but i have a problem because i believe its in your charter that you have a commission that are political appointees. I just think going in that doesnt begin to build the trust. Im not impugning the reputations of those on the commission. Im talking again about an activity in an oversight body and how a few it can be best do its work and do it in a transparent and trustworthy fashion. I apologize for keeping pressing on this. He was still appointed, though by the mayor and that body as well. So what provides you the buffering or independents to go about doing your work, a and then b to provide the data and information to local government and the Police Department on deficiencies you are seeing, then what is the cash that actually gets them to implement changes in response to the accountability youre not providing . The two questions. First one was about i was hired by the mayor and city council and 11 boston. First of all, no one can work for the city and lesser hired by the city. You all will have to make a decision about who gets hard so you will be the boss of whoever it is. So i had a contract with the city could i was a city employee. It was a fouryear contract and i could be let go at will but only by a vote of a super majority of the council. So thats just a given. That aside, given how my responsibilities were laid out and written i had the ability to look into whatever i deemed appropriate. So everything was in right. Nothing was made up. Yes, i had to be accountable not only to the community but those two hired me. So it takes someone has to be able to walk that fine line. Im dealing with a political body at the same time im dealing with issues of policing and i also had a very Good Relationship with the Police Department. So its about thats why i truly believe most of the officers hear the good people. I actually believe that. I believe that in my heart. When you talk about how you make the changes . The key to making changes is sunshine. Putting the light on deficiencies. My office when i was making but i was the ip 810 came out with the report that said, well, these are all the complaints that were sustained. All the information given to the public. Heres what the officers did i get without naming them because of poa. We also listed was an annual report on discipline again you can name the officers but you can see how many were fired or suspended. In addition, the event conditions that our office made were in writing and presented annually to the city council and mayor recommendations like san jose Police Department does not have anything in its duty manual cricketing chokehold. So our recommendation that after the eric garner case you note there was no chokehold incident in san jose was to have a wall that says you cant do this. It was in our recommendation. That was up to the police that say we support it or dont. As we want to be able to use chokehold. What happened to going on that one is that the Police Department said, fine. We should have a will. Now theres a rule. So its really bringing this information out so everyone can hear it and also having the police giving them the opportunity to weigh in and thats how we were able to bring these kinds of changes in san jose. It doesnt work. It can work. Thank you supervisor kim. Judge kordell i just have one followup question. You talk about oversight and making sure theres an independent body. Have you had a chance to look at proposition g the Police Accountability ballot measure and whether or not that particular opposition is the right tool and if it goes far enough . I have not okay if you look like i shall. All people are happy to give my thoughts on it that would be great. Your presentation was very well done. Thank you so much for giving us a complete overview with a history in helping us to really understand this is not an issue that just happened recently. This is something thats been going on for far too long and you just really put it into perspective and i truly appreciate your work. Thank you, judge. I think were ready to move on to hear from the interim chief of police 20 chaplain. I want to give you your answers supervisor kim for the breakdown of racial breakdown in the police among its 49 deputy chief garrett tom professionals and is the San Francisco Police Department is currently 49 white. 9 African American 60 hispanic, 22 asian , 1. 5 other. 83 is male and 16 female. That breaks down our Police Department. Possibly 2100 officer. Really quickly on the question of i guess your most recent recruiting class or the last few years, what is the percentage of people of color recruited in your most recent classes . I dont remember i dont know the breakdown offhand but i know one of our recent ones were most diverse in history of speaks San Francisco Police Department do you also identify lgbt as well . We dont because some people do not want to disclose that. That data point is not collected by sf pd correct thank you just the clarity of the Data Collected is provided as optional from the individual, correct yes thank you. Supervisor weiner thank you very much. Just to followup on what chief deputy chief tom mentioned, you dont need to come back upi did attend the last graduation of the Police Academy and actually, i peered up we go and speak to the academy and it was in my experience progressively every time i walk in there more and more diverse than the last one was the most diverse class that i had ever seen in the 56 years that ive been going to the Academy Going to graduations. I think there needs to be recruit more women. That is definitely a continuing challenge. In terms of lgbt although there is no official data in thei didnt know a lot of the open the lgbt officers and we definitely have seen in my anecdotal experience an increase in for a long time because of the hiv aids epidemic there was very very few gay men in that apartment. The result generation gay male leadership that was stopped in its tracks. There were lesbians who are able to make it very very senior the command staff but gay men were sent back. That started the change in weve seen more and more game in particular we for example in the castro and in the mission i see gay men on patrol could weve seen promotions. The of transgender officers including transgender officers who been promoted to sgt. , believe even to lieut. At this point. If you Academy Graduations ago they transgender woman was elected to be the president of her Police Academy class. So those cadets, 4550 of them a letter transgender woman to be class president which i can even imagine happening 1015 years ago. So the department has serious continuing challenges that we need to continue work very hard on reform but there are some bright spots. When i see these young officers coming in were incredibly diverse in a number of respects, that gives me hope for the future when we talk about change and changing culture i think one of the strongest ways to do it is bringing young diverse officers into the apartment. Department thank you. Supervisor campos thank you. I know we want to hear from our chief. But i want to say i do think that diversity is important but i think sometimes on the issue of race and after the city even diversity around Sexual Orientation doesnt necessarily provide the level of cultural awareness did i say that as a gay man. The my experience is that sometimes even members of the Lgbtq Community by virtue of being lgbtq you would think would get some of these issues dont actually get these issue. I think its a lot more complicated. I think its a lot more complicated than simply saying we need more representation from this group for backward. Quite frankly, i say this is a man of color, we ourselves have our own issues in terms of internal bias because we are ultimately the product of society. Thats part of the challenge here but i want to think the chief are being here so ill turn it over to you back to you that impressive because i know we want to reaffirm our chief on this important issue thank you supervisor campos. Welcome chief chaplain thank you for being here today thank you for having me here today. I was close to not be here in my deputy chief gary tom was going to do the presentation. But i do pray for my schedule to come down because i think is very important to be here and i also agree with supervisor campos. I think thats a huge statement because one of the things weve rolled out is our bias training and one of the things they tell you at the very first sitting for that train is we all have them. The biggest challenge is admitting we all have them and thats huge for you to admit that because most people will not and dont want to until they take the training which im making a devil to anyone sitting on the board of supervisors that wants to attend. Per supervisor weiners comments, about lieut. Promoted to capt. Of tenderloin station and my jeopardy chief of administration is chief denise schmidt, and so we do are making a lot of inroads. We do need to hire more women. Our class is a bit more diverse than ever before but all that is a product of the reform and changes we been implementing in the last 1824 months and one of the things i will say listening to judge kordell and it was enlightening to hear say the great majority of these officers in San Francisco are good because that something unknown and its good to hear that admission. The one of the things i did when i first came became the interim chief of police i met with some of the groups that were marginalized or represented. Those marginalized some of those groups are presented sitting behind me today we has frank and robust discussions about some of the reforms in nicely to than some of the things i was a moment in doing and i just want to make sure that were supervisors are where there is a want of change. The winds of change are blowing through good judge kordell is absolutely right. There has to be sometimes outside push to get these changes done but in San Francisco one of the things weve done with our Police Department and i cant accredit it start with my predecessor we invited department of justice to come in and do a Collaborative Reform Initiative and Technical Assistance review of the San Francisco Police Moment from top to bottom. Now i know the process has detractors but it probably can be harder on us than some of the other folks that have taken a look and i welcome that because i think sometimes you have to build your things down to build them back up again. Thats part of the process am undertaking as the chief of police for San Francisco right now. One of the issues we ran into which is why were waiting for that import to come out is because judge kordell is that it best when she said you need somebody to come in here and take a forensic look at your department. That is the department of justice. The team thats on the ground now are the same ones will be on the team view at eight [inaudible] they are the same team. With that said, with that said, you taking testimony from the civil grand jury. Theyve given some critiques of the department theyve also given some things weve done correctly. When you look at the blue ribbon report, theyve also done the same thing with recommendations and findings. Not saying the department disagrees with them. Im not saying we agree with them. If not stopped going out necessary change. We talked what the use of force policy. Copying implemented. 8085 is rolled out by me in the form of a department bullet to get one of the things the blue event panel says we should do away with. What are the functions that apartment bolton is to affect quick change. So you dont get bogged down in a process with the labor group. When you have to push this change like the sanctity of life. But the escalation. Like mandatory coming to the aid of someone when someone is using Excessive Force on him. Those are the type of things you can roll out quickly with a Department Bulletin. Thats not the best practice. I think the best practice is actually said at this podium earlier. To rewrite our general orders and that is a massive undertaking and one were doing right now. We have a policy team now thats put together and were looking at just about every general orders San Francisco Police Department has. We are reengineering our use of force. We ruled out body cameras. Most of the things in this report youll see at some point we been before you touching on them talk about what were rolling out. If you have any doubt that this is successful look at the last five months. Look at our contacts with people and Mental Health crisis. Situations that arguably 18 months ago wouldve resulted in officer involved shootings. Massive protests, damage to City Property. We successfully deescalated those situations and im not talking about people that were just standing in the middle of the street. In one case individuals armed with a loaded firearm and another one just across the street from this building just a couple weekends ago same exact scenario. Whereas, turn on cnn your hearing these things are still happening nationwide another place. Nothing are right or wrong but their occurring. In San Francisco we are not just talking about this. Were doing it. It got a long way to go and i dont doubt that the group stand a high meet with doctors agree with that statement. We do have a long way to go but am committed to the process. The San Francisco Police Department is committed to the prospect Mayors Office is committed to the process and by virtue of having these hearings i know youre committed to these prospect would come in and tell you today about heather tuber rate anybody or so anybody either. Im here to say this a collaborative effort meeting these groups behind me and i know we dont always agree so i say that to say, we are sitting down and talk. I met with each of you to address your concerns as well. Amanda continue to do that and continue to rollout the change because ill be the first one to admit that apartment needs change. If the second Oldest Department in the nation and it shows. Just for the record, i came in was hired in 19891990 under the Consent Decree referenced earlier summa product of that. Ive not forgot where i came from. Thank you thank you very much. Next up i would like to bring a minister Christopher Mohammed i asked the chief question he was before you start supervisor kim has a question for the police chief the was think you supervisor cohen. I just want to acknowledge the comments you made about trying to swiftly move through the reforms that talked about neck and bogged down in the process. But i do think the Blue Ribbon Task force recommendation report is worth responding to. Im curious if sfpd in interim chief would commit to respond to each of the recommendations by the Blue Ribbon Task force so that we have a response to each of the recommendations that were made and we know what the department will be following through on . Absolutely. When you look at those particular recommendations for the supervisor present for that here and youll notice a lot of them to mirror the civil grand jury. Or not that dissimilar and thats what were trying to wake the were not standing before you towing the same thing over and over again. I know theres a lot of eyes on San Francisco Police Department this reference before theres 18,000 apartment in this nation. I dont think any of them got to the skirt meet swoony weve got to look onto the view from different panels and groups reviewed the speed San Francisco policewoman. Again we welcome all the help. The Blue Ribbon Panel did a fantastic job. But the people did disagree to my nose. I think thats to mens amount of work that went into this undertaking and apply them for that appreciate the work theyve done. I dont problem at the end of this process responding to the recommendations that i think youll find out a lot of them are even responded to the civil grand jury response what do you mean by your spine at the end of the process . Youre asking for a day to come back i think the doj findings will be out in the near future and so with that in mind i dont think i mean i think coming here to respond to that and im sure youre going to want us to come to respond to the doj as well. I think it would be more prudent for everyone involved believe all the ports in the we could just come in with a response to everything. When does the department of justice report coming in . I apologies i dont know the answer that question theyve not yet given official release date but its coming very soon according to them supervisor kim are probably Cities Committee is 01 when that report is released as also were all informed. Okay. The commitment is to respond to each of the recommendations by the Blue Ribbon Task force when you also receive the department of justice recommendations as well . Absolutely just for housekeeping purposes when we receive the report we do not ignore. We read it. Then we forwarded to the department of justice to be added to their process of reviewing San Francisco as we did with the civil grand jury report austria everything we got we invited them to be part of the we provided the doj with copies for reference purposes just to follow up on a couple points you just made when he said that are Police Department is probably one of the most scrutinized of the 18,000 existing throughout the country, what leads you to believe that . I dont know any better so i just want to know what we have done that its allowed us to it so much review one another city . First of all we have some fantastic People Volunteer with the Blue Ribbon Panel and in the civil grand jury but then we invited the doj into a conference up with you. This utmost competence of review department of justice is done for anyto give you an example of a good las vegas metro. The only look at officer involved shootings good they looked at several things with the San Francisco Police Department. This is supposed to be whether most competence of an indepth reviews of that apartment and thats why i think its can be all comrades of allencompassing of the reports we arty have in addition to the personal work theyve done because they quite frankly had asked. Bill to look in our internal affairs five. The mayor signed off i sign off everyone gave signed up and give him total access. Whereas some of the groups they were able to drill down the doj cut to the bone. Again it is a huge undertaking and it was painful for that apartment but we agreed to it we give them total aspect they showed up to these hearings in these chambers. They went to the Police Commission hearings. They showed up at Community Events and they hosted Community Events and listening sessions more importantly, they went out to our Police Commissions in the community. Some of them got contentious or not to be shut down. They attend some of the officer involved shooting town hall meetings. They were there there were boots on the ground for a lot of things absorbed it all insureds all going to be incorporated in the reports and think when we get these together its probably could have recommendations that are similar to the ones we saw from the civil grand jury as well as the Blue Ribbon Panel. It does make sense to keep coming back tell you the same things over and over again. If you wanted to, i will my final question, chief and by the weight we settled yesterday and really one appreciate your candor and a personal commitment to reform. I believe it to be genuine. I think its interesting you said that you feel the least apartment has moved on many of the recommendations that were listed by the Blue Ribbon Task force report which only came out very recently. The full report about two months ago. So im curious as to how we were able to address many of these issues so quickly, really within the last few months. It makes me question how meaningful the changes were. I dont mean to question your leadership because i do believe her and tends to be genuine but it leads me to my next question which is that, i think one of the things that surprised me the most and this was during the whole frisco five in that engagement with many of the folks that were asking, demanding four, the forms that because it is about saving lives about the safety of our community is that when we look through a lot of the Police General orders, that would actually surprised me with that much of the reforms the community is amending is already in our general orders. The back she put it into place years and years ago because we are progressives. The have a Progressive Commission the other progressives board of supervisors in yet they were not implemented. So its one thing to put it into our code into our general orders him up but its a completely separate thing to actually make it a reality in our community. So the beats arent answerable question today but i just want to be careful in saying were dressing many of the Blue Ribbon Task force recommendations already but yet were not actually seen that on the ground. Thats the big question is how do we get from writing to practice . To answer your question, he was i apologize supervisor cohen supervisor cohen if i could just a couple things. Last a very pointed question about the report has not been delivered yet. How could youve implemented it can be only thing that i want you to consider is that the point that we are raising the delete members of the africanamerican committee have been racing for generations. This been many reports that in britain the really mirrored many the recommendations that weve heard today and so does the unfinished agenda thats the first one that comes to mind there are still a lot of reports that already have been published. What we need to do i think is except these reports, read subtopic meeting all the reports but you heard judge wardell talk about the history of abuse. Theres been a history of reports. Assured mr. Kristol talk about that in his remarks. So a lot of this information is not new. We are just now stepping up and starting to implement. I think youre asking the right questions. Why now . What is happened that is brought us to where we are today. I want to just give you that Background Information for you to be aware of. Baby i do not speak clearly. I understand what we are talking about has been around for a very long time. So not implying that this is a new problem is only trying to address it. I guess what i am asking is, we know what the issues are pure weve known for a long time. I know our chief knows these issues have been ongoing for a long time. The big question for me is i actually believe probably much of the Blue Ribbon Task force recommendations are in place in writing various parts of our general orders and police code. What is actually going to get us to the place of writing to actual implementation so that our constituents and residents feel that these are truly being felt throughout our Police Department . I guess once a narrow simply call the Blue Ribbon Task force. Ini, check, check, check were doing all this already. I dont want that to be the hearing in a month or we are doing all of this. Then were not actually seen it. How are we going to get there i guess is the question im asking . By doing what we are doing a. By changing the spouses making sure there in force. Because by the department general foreigners but a fourth. There in force every time were sued every time for Excessive Force and were put on trial. Thats what i used to punish people in the department. Unfortunately i cant tell you how many people i punish but its a lot. Since ive taken this job i do not know how many people in the daytoday papists were punished for minor conduct all the way up to recommendations of the commission for termination. There are a lot. We are in a process now of putting that data out an anonymous format so we dont violate state law. All into your other question but how do we know these things about getting done good supervisor cohen has legislation mandating reports of our use of force data and we never reported before. We had our first reports. It required that we hit certain metrics. Was late because i took a look at what was asked for my card should be way more robust. So a month later i think it was, we added a whole bunch of other data sets into that announcer robust report published and its on a website. Our website is radically different from just saying eight months ago. Your part of the white houses open Data Initiative we publish our demographics, all the published online. Officer involved shooting as a matter fact civil grand jury commended us for that for the updated website. This is the time were you can hide the reasoning could you cant do a supervisor campos or avalos i forget who set up a talked about reports being put on the shelf collecting dust. You cant get away with that anymore. But behind me these folks will not accept that anymore. You have to take action and thats my commitment is to take action. Its why im sitting right now negotiating use of force and try to get this thing done and you are right. There is a policy that has been passed unanimously by the commission. The problem isnt subject to a meet and confer prospect these are rights conferred to workers and theres no getting around it. So the way i did it was i issued a Department Bulletin after i got a person agreement across the board on the things we passed and the Department Bulletin put 80 of those things in place. Thats how were saving lives right now but thats actually been taken and like i said before, 18 months ago [inaudible] everything the Justice Movement for mario was a murder victim in the city has been saying to this immunity to this body to the Police Department, to all of those entities that have a stake in proper relationships between the Police Department and community , everything that we have said, this Blue Ribbon Panel of experts said it very cogently, very precisely, very definitively they should be applauded with a real applause. [applause] thank you. Respected men and women, judges , experts weighed in in such a way that i can only echo what they said and implore you to really go back and review some of what they said. They said that the bias in sfpd is institutionalized. Thats very significant. This is not just bias growing up in the barrio were in the hood were someplace where you have learned about another group through television, watching good times where sanford and son were some tv show. This is bias that connected directly to the culture of sfpd. That is critical. Because then that deals with the question that supervisor campos raised, which isnt really that significant drive so many been so many latinos, African Americans, asians, women, when you are getting these people of color into a culture. The culture has gone rogue. Everything about this report from this Blue Ribbon Panel says that this is a department gone wild. They are not transparent. They are not accountable. They are not fair and unbiased. So our chief is a decent man could i count him as a friend. But like all chiefs, there between a rock and a hard lace. Because you cannot talk about sfpd as one of the panelist experts said, the lines have been blurred. Between the pla and sfpd. He can try to differentiate that all he wants but at the end of the day, he cannot get nothing done without the stamp of approval of a recalcitrant hardened and even racist pla. Now that is reality. I dont care how you twist it. He cannot speak independent of an entity that is entered flying itself into the very fabric of sfpd. It did not just start with our chief. He is the latest chief that has to deal with that. This started way back in the 1800s. When there was a San Francisco Police Department and then there was another group called the office or committee of vigilance. Which was a Vigilante Group that meted out street justice and at a certain point i got the bright idea why dont we work ourselves into sfpd. Then the vigilante mindset came into the apartment and became the department. Thats the history you can google that. Why is that important . Because you have now an elephant in the room that nobody is talking about except the Blue Ribbon Panel. They said that this po way, which operates unfortunately, as a game within sfpd where, yes, theres good officers but the good officers are silent. Because they are afraid of retaliation. Theyre afraid of their good name being this march. There are afraid of the reputation being destroyed. Some of you have felt the wrath of the road po eight. Some of the other dealerships the Police Commission is cowered in fear. They dont dare oppose the political will of the power that are in place at that particular time. So the judge reynoso said to you stands. Be open by saying, i am afraid none of these good recommendations will be implemented, though they are good. Unless the board of supervisors takes action. And enforces this. Now you have a half 1 billion budget, taxpayers money. I dont believe that taxpayers are pleased with the way their department has conducted itself. Secondly, judge kordell said that sometimes department have to be forced. This chief, hes supposed to tell you what he told you. Otherwise he will have to face the poaif he does not show that number one we appreciatethe Blue Ribbon Panel has done but were already doing that. We are waiting on the Justice Department. Stop right there. The program initiated by the Justice Department was not with the Community Called for and is not what you called for. You all called for an independent investigation. Into this department. What the department of justice gave you was something called cops. Community oriented policing what is it . Services. Were they make more recommendations. Thats not what this Department Needs. This is not san jose. The doll do respected san jose does not have the problems and the history of San Francisco. Cops is only going to come in take 23 years. He did not want to say thatbut it slipped out, three years, some of you wont be even the supervisors then, they will come out with these recommendations that mirror. Why do you need to wait to every three years or 18 months or 18 more weeks when you have a Blue Ribbon Panel that was well thought out in their recommendations. Why would this department, disrespected this panel as was said, did not even cooperate with them at the behest of the poa and those few courageous officers that did cooperate they got paraded, called out in name, threatened, etc. What we are saying, board of supervisors, is this. This department, we believe has gone rogue. Not that there are not good people dont want to do right but the culture of this department has taken this department into an area and a direction that can be called back with the nice words and the nice intent of this chief. This chief owes his job to his community. Who demanded that the previous chief be fired because we have a conflict crisis in confidence. So he is only here the cousin of the communities demand. Now we already know what she does not a panacea as many of you suggested changing the chief is not going to change much of anything. We bear witness. The problem is this chief and any chief that comes after him has to have their feet to the fire by an independent body in addition to an Inspector General if you can insulate this person properly if you cant then youve got to have a Consent Decree, a civil rights investigation pattern and practice where they come under court order and supervision to do what they dont have the will to do. This is a question of will. [applause] lastly, in the state of alabama in our africanamerican history, the governor stood at the steps of the university and segregation then said segregation now and segregation forever. They had now determined in order to integrate the university of alabama they had to bring in federal troops to force the state to do what it did not have the will or desire to do. Today, you can watch the university of alabama on television with a black quarterback, 9 black athletes, white people in the stands cheering as number one in the country. Showing you change is not easy because there are people sold to the status quo. But sometimes youve got to force change because these people dont have the will or the courage to challenge the status quote. We are calling on you, no. Youve got the report. Dont disregard these judges. These stellar men and women of note and consequence by allowing the report to be put in a place where, yes will look at it we will consider it. When you have it already by offering them full access unfettered access to this department when you disrespect that process you already said we disrespect your report. Thank you for listening. [applause] thank you very much. With that, we have a number of members of the board that would like to ask questions of many of the speakers originate before we open up to Public Comment. Supervisor avalos from i think the Blue Ribbon Panel further hesitation it it was very powerful and i appreciate the work youve done. Clearly theres been talk about recommendations of the report sitting on shelves and all that. This report can do that. Should not do that. It wont. I want to thank you for your work and its very comprehensive. I dont believe that theres a lot of recommendations are implemented. They have to still be implemented. Im also concerned. I three months left on the board of supervisors and ive seen a lot of lip service and i do appreciate the chief coming forward actually glad you came because i felt like you needed to be here. Thats certainly true but i know the buck has to go beyond you. You are certainly be case of the department but where we have deceived the changes that to go throughout the department through your leadership command staff all the way down to the street level officers. That is monumental work. That has to happen. So we have our work cut out for us. But im really concerned that theres a lot of talk about what weve already done were going to do but its very general the conversation having right now but the blue ribbon reports. So what i like to ask is the department actually prepare a written response about a timeline for implementing reform based on was provided by the ribbon report. Because without that i feel like were just getting more lip service and then we have a timeline about what are the parts of reform were going to implement first. What a way going to prioritize to make happen . That is before us we can havewe can put forward some transparency and we can have a timeline that we did hold the Police Department accountable to. That would actually help you, chief, junior be the permanent chief, do your work to upgrade this reform. Because if we dont have this level of scrutiny and transparency in these chambers which i was trying to get earlier this year, and we dont have a timeline to act, of action, we will see these recommendations start to underway on shelves. Collecting dust. We cant have that. We cannot have the kind of violence that many people in a community of color have experienced the hands of the Police Department to continue. So i would like to see if you could respond about what is the intention of the Police Department to give us a written response about Implementation Plan for the Blue Ribbon Panel. To you agree with the Blue Ribbon Panel, with a plan for implementations . Just for the record i stated earlier we came here with civil grand jury. Theres a lot of similar similar findings. We gave up hesitation on whats implement. Its not lip service but the proof is in the pudding. Since we rolled out this training the last five months situations were weve had people in crisis that historically responded to and quite frankly we have not. It is working and is being rolled out in implemented. If you want us to respond in a matrix format like we did with the civil grand jury, which i think you can overlay those reports, there are a lot of similar findings and recommendations in both reports. You can see what weve done from what we presented you from the civil grand jury. Visually look at this you have the report now for two months. You also earlier this year we have legislation that we pass the required reports on the use of force. A new report was twomonth late. Nuking it to the board of supervisors meeting to talk about bopping fourday reserve to old the Police Department accountable and transparent way to actually other than implement reforms and then we were told you said you did not have a ready yet and now ashley were passed to the second date for the second report you still dont have that report and were getting close to the date for the third report. When only canaveral port. Were getting all this talk about things happening in implementation but ill see implementation actually occurring. [applause] what is it . What you refer to when you say it . I dont want to disagree but im going to disagree with you. When i contacted supervisor melia cohen her legislation [inaudible] when i first came in and look at that information it wasnt as robust as i want. I want to include more data sets. We did and we gave a robust supervisor cohen is sitting right here if you want asked about legislation. The was was actually supervisor cohens legislation but approved by all the board of the members of supervisor. You report to all of us about it. The was true. Im just unpleasing i can she can vouch and explain why you was late. I got a scolding once the next report to . We are in the proper prices of getting the second data set together happily we stop time for that. Ill check but i believe we have time for that. Yes. You get that one in on time when its due . Your department both in utah 12 thats demanding a portion of use of force policy. There is that rigid . I cant find it anywhere ill provide you with a copy if some reference to it every day when in the report but actually theres nothing for the Police Commission since july. Of this year. We have no record about whatsoever. In the Police Commission minutes i presented this to Police Commission there the body no one has this know what record of it. I can be response for the Police Commission. We presented that cater to them as a matter fact it was done in a open session. We explained that we were going to move forward with everyones feet to the fire to come in and admit it percent of this was already approved and not subject to the kever. Poa everyone has to agree to that once they agreed we went, i went forth and issued a Department Bulletin pushing through 80 of the principles for the new use of force policy. That is real change. Its measured in how we are not shooting people we dont have to shoo. We are going out now i appreciate that were not shooting people. That should not be the standard of use of force. Excuse me. Him and asked members of the audience if you could please refrain from using vocal expression. While were in the middle of this hearing. We all i know are really passionate about this but i would ask that you please respect the chambers so we can have a thorough discussion on this a really important issue. Thank you so much chief, could you share with us the board of supervisors tomorrow your bulletin on the use of force . You cannot copy today thats great. There has not been we cant find a record of it in my office. Im glad that exist. Last question i have know the other people speak. There was a lot of discussion today, members of the Blue Ribbon Panel who talked about the power of the Police Officers association. That created a culture of recalcitrance of cultural prevention of transparency in ability to create real change. What iswhat is your strategy around getting around the poa . How is it we are notwhat is our progress on new use of force pause. We store that restraint and should not be cause that still has to be discussed. Was a meet and confer process post to initiate in june im not sure where that were so many months from june 90 1c new policy. What is the approach to do that and meet and confer zombie meet and agree. It does not mean meet and agree. If we wanted to put a new policy for dont have to have the approval of the poa but it seems after the approval of the poa in practice. What is your way of getting around the poa and how are you working through the poa on the 10 confer to have a new for use of force can policy policy the with them met with the City Attorneys Office Yesterday and another meeting scheduled with the poa next week. Were just a few Sticking Points were working out now. Those sticking bounce will then be provided to the Police Commission for their approval. Its a most of you were at the finish line. Were forcing our way the was why are there any Sticking Point . This is the poa for told about is been a fight every measure reform all along the way we need to stick it to the poa rather than have Sticking Points with them. The was i totally agree with you but heres the other side. I think anybody can wait for a Court Process of them challenging this in court the last onetwo years. Id rather get this done now because white frankly the main Guiding Force behind all these reforms are police shootings. Thats directly tied to use of force. I would rather get this policy done and completed in this process instead of weighing in on this and 2017 or 28 injured a rather get it done. You belong gone up three months ago. Ive got several years of my career left like to get this done earlier rather than later. So i think apostles were undertaking out the thoughtful process this first the poa goes there a union. That certain rights. Answer privileges afforded to them we have to go through the process. Thats what this party stands for. This whole building stands for processes matters partner process last question on profit. Prosecute i asked a written report on your timeline movement to reform based on the Blue Ribbon Panel. Well even throw in the civil grandeur get is that something you can do and have for us within a months time . If you want another data set i would like there to be a timeline that talks about the reform measures your implementing and by when. Thats what i want to see. Thats what i wanted to see in july. Thats what i want to see now because otherwise i just happen to see that this just gets, put on for ever and ever until people stop paying attention. We can have that. So when can you give us some kind of timeline about the reforms are going to implement just for the record we been implemented. I provided your office when you try to take funds and set them to the side i was not taking funds when you are trying to i was not trying to take funds. I presented a packager reforms we already implemented when we first met some of the things women doing in San Francisco Police Department to where the biggest centerpieces for this entire used issue is use of force. This to sit there were not doing it when we appear were 80 to the prosecutor document being photocopied and had to each person tell me how far you are with the process not just use of force him asking about several policy measures you want to put in place for achieving reform. What are they whats a timeline for implementing them. Thats all masking for body cameras already started. Will be finished by the end of this new. Huge transparency piece. Theres a lot of measures on the blue ribbon report. Thats what im asking for. Not what you party dumped it i appreciate some work with him asking for prospectively what are you working on. Share with us that information. What is important to you were the biggest priorities in which atomic for implementing that asked and is. Use of force, body cameras, and all the other reforms the percentage you. Presented to you. Yorty said the body cameras. The be completely rolled out by november. Im tired of going around with you chief america want to the next person. Ill answer the question lets stay focused this is getting out of control here. We can call another hearing to talk about this issue. Undone. Thank you supervisor avalos. Actually supervisor cohen, supervisor campos i dont think i see her. I know she was here earlier. I just want to acknowledge whowho is one of the first 05 hunger strikers. Chief, i appreciate. We met we spoken a number times and i certainly appreciate what you are doing and i said this to you and i say this publicly. I think the biggest strike you have against you is the fact that the poa has said good things about you. Notwithstanding with the po way has said about you i do think that youre a good person that we need to give you a chance to do your job. So i believe that. But i want to ask a couple of points. The poa has said this about the Blue Ribbon Panel. I want to make sure i get the words right because i think this provides some context to the work that we have in front of us. I quote, this is martin have around the president of the poa. Quote, gascon organizes whole charade to publicize his inflammatory claims of widespread racism in the Police Department when in fact, the problem is much more limited in scope. The panel is nothing more than a Kangaroo Court orchestrated by gascon and the three puppets he handpicked. I want to ask you, as the interim chief, what you have to say to that kind of comment from the Police Officers association . Im a huge issue with it. When i met with the mario woods comment. I then issue with that as well. Also say publicly any day of the good iv issues with that. The problem i have is everybody wants to be the couple is from the poa but they want to becouple as well as convenience. We are not the same they represent the majority of our members like any him. There been a fight for the rights and benefits they do it but i am chief and i to do what i do and that is make sure i implement policy that is going to save lives in the city and county of San Francisco. Thats why been forcing through the things of enforcing to have sat down taken a hard line. The poa endorsed me know you said that was a blemish but i can control endorses. Christopher mohammed scott up and said a good guide and a friend. We were together in and out for probably almost 2 decades to my time when i worked with gains in fillmore until right up go to a lot of people in the room so i come from a different background when i look at how the Department Needs to be shaped and changed. Im not coupled to the poa. I sit down at the negotiating with him to get they are the negotiating body just likethe poa is going to get when i sit down and renegotiate a negotiator from the lens of, first, whats good for the citizens the city and county is San Francisco because thats what were sworn to protect and serve. Like i said, i am committed and willing to give you the benefit of the doubt notwithstanding with the poa has said about you. I also do want of knowledge by the Christina Gutierrez thats back in chamber. I want to thank her for being here. [applause] i want to just make this final point in this appointment would make to my colleagues on the board of supervisors. I appreciate the focus on the interim chief but i actually think important player that is not in the audience at least i dont see anyone here that i think has to be involved and especially you have to remember that the Police Department is the Para Military organization in the way that apparent military Organization Works to regina commands and within the chain of command a key player is the San Francisco Police Commission. I personally believe that what we need to do as a bodyi dont know the best mechanism to do thati dont know if its a hearing or a committee of the whole the board asks the commission to come and present or if its a joint meeting between the board of supervisors and the board Police Commission because to me, the questions being asked by supervisor avalos of having specific detailed responses to the Blue Ribbon Panel, that should be asked, not so much of the interim chief but of the Police Commission. I want to hear directly from the Police Commission what they are doing to respond and you with every one of the 85 recommendations that the Blue Ribbon Panel has provided. So i believe thati would pose this question to my colleagues that i think we should do a formal request from the board of supervisors to be San Francisco Police Commission as the governing arm , governing body of the San Francisco Police Department and the occ to provide a formal response to the Blue Ribbon Panel and to present that response to the San Francisco board of supervisors. Thats what id like because i ultimately we can as that of you but you actually work for the Police Commission. So i want the body that you report to to come and reports to this board of supervisors and quite frankly we appoint three of those seven commissioners and if we are not satisfied with the responses, then we as the appointing body have the obligation to make sure that we get the right people in those positions. So thats what i would ask of the board of supervisors. Thank you take you supervisor campos. Supervisor peskin first let me start by thanking supervisor cohen for having us meet was a committee of the whole and let me also state extend my thanks and appreciation to the members of the Blue Ribbon Commission and also think the da forgetting that started. I want to agree with judge kordell about many many of the working men and women with the Police Department of San Francisco are good people and good officers have certainly experience that on the corner of the city are represented on and off for the last 15 years. I was going to ask a number of questions but i think the two previous supervisors asked them and maybe a for militant questions but as justice minoso said the influence of the poa i believe Justice Reynoso said was outside. I dont know whether was the marshalls comments or counselor comments comments topped and this was mentioned again about the blurring of lines. Indeed, i do not need a blue ribbon report to tell me what i already knew which is that those lines have been blurred for a long long time. Indeed the influence of this organization, that yes, the right to exist my guess, has the right represent its members, yes, it is right to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in elections as its doing right now, as it did last. Attempting to defeat my return to the board of supervisors, yes they have that right but we as the governing body, the chief as the chief, the commission as the commission, has to be very clear that those lines cannot be blurred. That is on us to make those lines very clear. There are come i think this is perhaps an investigation of its own but ive been interested to see that in some stations the poa has a role in giving a report at lineup. I dont see that practice with other unions in other departments and organizations. I think that we have an obligation that would look to you, chief, particularly if you become the permanent chief, to really figure out how to make those lines clearer. I have to say, what troubles me is that we are having all whole new generation of q2 officers coming into that apartment. If there was ever a moment in time to change that culture, now is that time. As there is a fullscale change and if we do not do that at the academy, it we cannot do that in the culture, if those blurred lines continue to exist this will perpetuate itself for another generation that will last the rest of our lives. Now really is the time to do it and i agree with the commenters, the presenters that said a lot of that has to be done here in the peoples chambers by the board of supervisors and i for one before to working over the next 12 years with supervisor cohen those of you who will be around in implementing those reforms and staying on top of this thing because now is the time to do it. Thank you supervisor peskin. Supervisor cohen thank you. Are you guys ready for Public Comment . All right. Theres a few things i want to touch on. Supervisor avalos is not here but i want to in the interest of full transparency the Quarterly Report was due on october 1. October 1 was a saturday. Thats thus making it to yesterday. Monday, october 3. Second, supervisor campos to the point you raise, i want to about the Police Commission pres. Susie loftus was not able to be here today. She did for a onto this body a letter that the commission wrote in response to the Blue Ribbon Panel report in the letter she indicates the Police Commission is in the process of developing a matrix that consolidates all the various recommendations from the president , pres. Obamas 21stcentury policing task force, the civil grand jurys report, the department of justice reports, as well as the office of citizens complaint and report as well as the blue panel we parted so what they are process of doing is consolidating all these recommendations into one document so that we all can digest and begin to work to implement the recommendations. I want to bring your attention to that. Again, for the folks in the chamber, the Police Commission did send over that letter. I also want to recognize that District Attorney George Gascon sent over a document highlighting seven recommendations that the blue panel made to his department that directly implicates the lady policies of the dist. Atty. s office during seven of them. Thats also a Public Document my office can work with you youre working for a copy of what that response is. Mdm. Chairman i am done. Thank you. Supervisor kim i just want to give members of the Blue Ribbon Task force and opportunity to speak. Now that the San Francisco Police Department has responded and i know that you had sat down after the report was made and the chief had talked about some of the progress that has been done during the time that you are either doing research on the reports were after in i just wanted some clarification on your thoughts on the progress that is been made thus far over the last four months. Im sorry. After the last sixmonth good i do not hear in your presentation they felt the progress has been made since these meetings so would be good to get a sense of your thoughts . Thank you supervisor kim. In response to your question, i just want to point out that according to my understanding as a civil grand jury report focuses officer involved shootings could our report covers officer involved shootings as part of the use of force in officer involved shooting which is one of eight chapters. Although i appreciate that interim chief chaplain has worked with the commission to put together use of force policy, that will hopefully focus on deescalation, the seven other chapters in this report is not responded to that the department has not responded to. I just want to make you aware of that. We did the best we could to Pay Attention to it that apartment was doing up until about a week or two before the report publication date. That includes modifying the crime data chapter to acknowledge that the department had signed on to the white house Data Initiative which it had not done up until late june. So from early july until now, weve not issued any updates regarding with the department has done what is the interim charlies set himself theres been focus on the use of force and body chemistry the seven other chapters in here with associate recommendations we recommend the board of supervisors implement no one actually spoke to the meeting that occurred after the report with the chief and that apartment. Im curious about in response to the conversation that was had do you feel like weve made significant steps to address the concerns you brought up . Are we moving in the right direction and i guess also in response are we one of the most scrutinized Police Department in the country . I cant answer that question on foretold but i believe that this scrutiny here is because the presence of San Francisco believe that the Department Needs to represent the people. Its progressive tolerant city has been said and youll note in the report that the racist text is actually in one of the appendices, they are horrific. To see that coming from a department that represents the city of San Francisco i think is partly why theres so much scrutiny in the Department Good i think that alone is representative of the scrutiny thats deserved. Ive not seen in a speak on behalf of the panel any substantive indications that any of the reports recommendations, are being considered and implemented. Ive heard promises they will be concerted and implemented. The letter from pres. Loftus supervisor cohen alluded to ashley talks about that apartment responding to the recommendations not necessarily the commission is funding as i read it. The commission ashley responded to the recommendations may be something the board of supervisors could still request. Im hopeful. Im hopeful that part of justice report will incorporate all of our findings and recommendations. I am concerned if they dont though be a gap that needs to be addressed. But although i trust that apartment and the commission are taking this seriously theres nothing concrete in place to reassure me thats happening because what i just heard before you spoke 90, to the members are here, the chief made it clear we party been doing this work. Solve the recommendations in this book before us were getting out work done. We met with them and we let them know the work they did not know about over the reforms are getting implemented. I would just like to respond to that because im greatly concerned if we are presenting the we are actually responding to this and implementing it and you dont feel that we are. My interpretation of that meeting is quite different. I believe interim chief chaplain has a view of the report that is focused on use of force and thats not what this report is about. It includes use of force and representatives of the panel been working with the commission and the city to implement our recommendations into the use of force policy. Overall, i believe the response to the findings and recommendations to the recommendations for either were already doing that or we cant do that. That was the tone of what i was hearing at that meeting that interim chief chaplain referred to. So, i just dispute the idea that the department has fully consider the recommendations and has implemented them i want to give an opportunity to your fellow members to respond as well i want to respond to supervisors avalos and campos the right question. When are you going to answer the anyone recommendations. The District Attorney did a timely within 30 days. Theres no reason why either the commission or the Police Department cant within 30 days say, these are our answers to the 81, perhaps the we agreement perhaps the be modifications, perhaps the ba, nope but why cant we have progress now. We dont need a rope a dope. Nicki 10 address two things. The first is wildly like that apartment of the Police Commission to respond to the report, not all the recommendations are within their power to achieve. Some of them can only be achieved through action in this body were from the voters. Those especially pertain to the external oversight recommendations. So why the department should respond theres more work that can and should be done. That ties into the second thing i want to raise wages opposition g which i think pres. Breed brought up. To be very clear, the panel doesnt have a view on proposition g but a couple observations might be useful. Ugly doesnt go far enough. Only requires an audit of use of force and disciplined and only requires every two years. Second, it merely transforms the name of the occ about transforming the agency are giving the agency any of the tools it needs to be a true auditor. Auditors have special training. Biters that audit Police Departments have especially very special training. It doesnt mandate that other parts of the department are audited. It doesnt have dedicated funding could it take the funding out of the Police Commission but it doesnt provide dedicated funding weight controversy officer many auditing agencies around the country have it. Thank you for your feedback on that. I appreciate your response. Very concerned that were all alarms and im concerned about many of the recommendations that were made. The responses that were doing it be good enough. By the way, being critical does not mean that any member does not highly appreciate and respect the work of the Police Department. I think its the one most troubling aspects of the discourse that any type of questioning, the accountability or request for transparency is viewed as being almost unpatriotic and not respectful of the work that a Police Department do. Im incredibly appreciative of our Police Department. The men and women that serve. This is such a difficult job the families that support them dont know third to come home every night is an immense sacrifice to our community. I think that you have to be able to say that to also be able to say, that reform is needed because we are talking about lies and were citizens on a daily basis and balancing that with Public Safety needs for our city and county. I want to appreciate this report and i am hopeful that we can move through some of the reforms. I appreciate the comment thats not just the Police Department but the board of supervisors and the mayor office also asked to implement many news accountability and transparency mechanisms and i also encourage the community to come out not just to our committee as a whole which is great when uploading on anything to get to it about the Budget Committee because one of the biggest levers we have is an elected body is your money. It is our general fund. It is what funds this department. I know its on wednesdays in the morning the soccer Community Members to make it but its really important that we use our investments in this department is a form of leverage to get the reforms that we want to see good supervisor avalos had proposed something at Budget Committee were we put dollars on hold so we could get the reports we wanted to see on time on deadline to actually find out what the priorities are the timeline and how that is cutting get implemented that amendment is not approved by the board of supervisors. We need the community to be there as we vote on these things too old to be accountable to get i do think thats important that spring is coming up next year. Is something i think we should all be keeping in mind and again this is not to say that the Police Department has to be put on a short leash because not doing a good job. Theyre doing an amazing job and we want to see these reforms implemented and that involves all of us making that happen. Thank you supervisor kim. Now at this time that seeing no other names on the roster, we will open it up to Public Comment. If theres members of the public would like to speak please come forward at this time. Galicia jones a great leader of the Mario Woods Coalition. Good afternoon madame president of the board and board of supervisors. I name is felicia jones. Im with seiu 1021 and justice for Mario Woods Coalition. Going back to one of the things i want to do is first and foremost commend pres. Breed for our conversation earlier talking about inclusion and transparency of the issues around the city that would include the community. Especially justice for Mario Woods Coalition wouldve comes to Police Brutality will since we have been the leading coalition, leading this fight, being consistent in this fight around transparency and bringing these issues to the forefront good i dont really truly believe it wouldve been a committee as old if in fact justice for Mario Woods Coalition wouldve lobbied you the week before last. With that i just want to make that known. The other thing is thatim glad supervisor cohen is backover the last 52 years, 52 years, theres been reports on black people. What we could do, what we should do, the disparity, the inconsistencies of black people as a whole. 52 years. From 19641990 it was the unfinished agenda which supervisor cohen mentioned earlier. Then the africanamerican outmigration in 2009. In 2012, the Community Empowerment initiative. It progress report. So now here we are with the Blue Ribbon Panel. We and justice for Mario Woods Coalition we are not can i let another report that is so important say on the shelves in the city and county of San Francisco and continue to collect dust. We cannot do that. Ms. Felicia, we will have to wrap up. Finish your point the acluthank you pres. Breed the aclu sent out a letter to the board of supervisors that no one in the city and county of San Francisco really took any part of the Blue Ribbon Panel to talk about it to bring people together to talk about it. As we move forward, pres. Breed, i think one of the things that should happen with us in the board of supervisors is that we need it working group to look at these 81 recommendations and find out which ones are the most important thats going to continue to save black and brown lives here in San Francisco i do hope that the community they would have justice for mario woods sitting in the room with you when you begin to do that. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Supervisors, for the last 35 years ive been addressing violence and every aspect of a. To date youve heard the experts talk about our Police Department, our Police Commission, and the other entities that are linked with Law Enforcement. What i want to talk to you, supervisors, is that not one of you have mentioned about the mothers. The pain and the suffering, the blood that has been shed and i have seen many of you all when theres been the death of our young men and women, none of you have come to the front and spoken with some intensity. As to the department of justice, as has been stated, cops, they do the interviews. They have no ability to investigate and no ability to adjudicate. Then our six supervisors who have their heart in the right place. So to the people at home we dont need to come to the budget meetings. You just need to send a letter to the mayor and to send a letter to the president of the board of supervisors to do what you think is right because after all, you are the taxpayers. Finally, to the mayor, mayor lee, you are a disgrace to the human race. For you to say that youre not going to fund an entity thats going to do good for the city when you should be doing it is a shame. If i was a mayor step down. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Avalon jean bridget justice for the marital Woods Coalition at our hazard an answer at supervisor kims question. About why perhaps this department is so scrutinized on a national level. To me that would be because in the year 2015 if you look on Mapping Police dock funds violence. Org San Francisco made the top 10 worst cities in the entire country of 100 largest us cities for per capita killings by police. So worse than 90 some cities in the country. Including some weve seen on the news, baltimore, minneapolis, new york etc. In a statement here i want to read from the American Federation of teachers local 2121. Upset to read this resolution is for the july 26 include ribbon panel report transparency accountability and fairness in lawenforcement. Whereas San Francisco dist. Atty. Gascon convened a Blueribbon Panel 2015 on transparent accountability and fairness in lawenforcement to respond to the following, demands for justice by organizations and individuals disruptions at civic and sporting events lawsuits rallies prolonged hundred strike a contentious town hall meetings, caused by San Francisco police, and all skip some of it. It goes over with the report found. The 81 recommendations. The Blue Ribbon Panel report realistic achievable plan to transform the sf pd into an institution of the people about racial and cultural diversity. Therefore be it resolved the executive board of the American Federation of teachers local 2121 endorses the findings and supports the recommendations of the july 2016 Blueribbon Panel report. Therefore, the local 2121 urges the supervisors mayor lee and San Francisco Police Commission to support the panel recommendations. By unanimous vote on september 6, 2016. Thank you. Before i call up the next speaker i want to let members of the public know this is a hearing and the Public Comment is only for this particular hearing could this is not general Public Comment. Next speaker, please. Im chuck from justice for Mario Woods Coalition. What needs to happen is the poa needs to be dismantled, removed. Taking down. It has way too much power in this city. It seems to be controlling the da. It seems to be controlling the police chief. Chief of police. The Police Commission. They throwing a Monkey Wrench continually. They bought any kind of reform in the city. We dont need that kind of power telling us what to do. We need to be telling it what to do. We the people. Im tired of it. It needs to go down. We need to find a way to do that. Im sick of it. I know the rest of us are sick of it. We dont need that kind of crap. Its disappointing to me. We should not even be having this discussion. All these officers need to be indicted. They need to be indicted. We have the poa cant continually controlling that. Throwing in a Monkey Wrench nonstop. Take it down. Do whatever it takes to take it down. Tickets power away. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you pres. Breed and the rest of the board of hypocrites. This issue has been around for decades. I know it. You know it and you have been sitting here seven years come a six, i dont know all the rest of you but you had no excuse and this gentleman even longer being faced with this very same issue and youre still here and youre still whining. I dont know why you cant fix it other than being spineless and greedy, but maybe thats sufficient. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is jose perez and im just concerned that with the whats going on between the Law Enforcement and citizens of San Francisco of lawabiding citizens are not getting access to Law Enforcement. Things that are going on in our neighborhoods, criminal activities happening in front