Transcripts For SFGTV Mayors Press Availability 20160304

Superintendent thank you for being here today all right. Richard carranza and i want to welcome yet another great partner in addition to superintendent on the mayors Education Leadership council thats charter schoncellor i want to thank to our state senator by way of there is football being played there is games games on the field but another field sometimes you have to play Serious Games someone who has been made tackles in sacramento who is game manship made us proud because senator leno has been making dont plays up that to mr. Chaprotect the accreditation senator leno thank you. clapping. i told you, i like mayors i also like restortired mayors mayors know what i am going introduce because they went through the same thing and good advice but a great mayor as a matter of fact, one of the greatest mayor a mayor, i had explained to other newer mayors walking through your beautiful city hall who knew who did that with the gold trimming the mayor i yet to know other mayors with a bridge named after them former mayor willie brown thank you. clapping. Supervisor Scott Wiener the board of supervisors hes here today to join us been a great supporter of the education and the open space for the youth to be more to be successful ive got two great 3 great city College Treasure troves 4 oh, my gosh all 4 of them and the president of the our city College Treasure troves thank you for being here hes on the field with us making good tackles and hes making sure that our city college is lead properly making sure that we got our accreditation and restored by many years thank you treasure trove interpreter and selby thank you treaty simulating but for being here interpret trustee randolph and recessing do uo is hereby theyre very presence 31 they understand what a Championship Team is and a championship city college is as well i have the privilege of also recognizing that the 49s are here to join us and i think that this gentleman who is part of 4 49ers marcus coming e on in and down we have to have shouome ren the house here clapping. and later on im going to hand over the baton to marcus he knows how to handsome a ball hes 66 center of our great 3 49ers i know that this is a great weekend as i said earlier it is a great weekend in great part because we ca as a city have been preparing for over 3 and a half 4 years trying to most of the best super bowl ever we want that standard because this is what but u you all strove for to be part of best team and part of best Education Institution and in San Francisco government thats what we strive for to be the best in San Francisco a person that is contributed to this worldclass event weve lost that load the effort for a philanthropic and exciting for all the free concerts in super bowl city by the nfl experience and complimented by so many thousands of volunteers from all over the countrys to help make that an exciting super bowl it is our ceo and wanting of our Super Bowl Host Committee keati keith bruce come on up. First of all, welcome to super bowl 50 and it is my hounl a custom max or a 2 1 2 year journey we were awarded super bowl thanks for the hundred and 49ers and this was our gun control to make this the most celebrated super bowl and one city agency whoevover t years and thanks to the be of mayor ed lee and, of course, mayor brown and so many others that worked tireless ore the last 2 and a half years i id like to take this opportunity thank the desientire city and cy of San Francisco and the other mayors like mayor ma card and mayors matthew and mayor schaaf out of the oakland to make that the bay area super bowl. Sustainabper bowl city it g and nfl is strooifl enjoying a beautiful bit of weather well happily take thank you for ord that mayor ed lee were benefiting from that and on the word stage starting today take great pride in hosting the super bowl 50 and congratulations to the two teams here do your champions and another champion on sunday but until then congratulations on our accomplishments and again, it is such an honor and privilege meeting the super bowl on behalf of the region we have two days to go delivering a worldclass super bowl for a worldclass city and thank you. clapping. you know i take this opportunity keith you and the Host Committee the reason why it is so special we actually decided to make it special because with keith has done when you host those events like super bowl we decided to raise the money in which it will be more trophy 25 percent of every dollar raised for the super bowl 50 goes to Nonprofit Charities in the bay area never been done before brown this is what distinguishes super bowl 50 from any other 49 super bowls the history nfl were going to change the game and rules i offer heard the nfl commission saying the rules will change from what we did in San Francisco those dollars are going to Youth Programs and organizations like boys and girls club and the bayview and the areas where we got some additional work to do to help kids become for successful so i wanted you to know that it is special and thank you keith before us and the Host Committee and as i said earlier we have 9ers the house and march mark come into the 49ers a couple of years ago i know that hes part of rebuild of the 9ers hell get there and help the team get there and the center of our 9ers number 66 please welcome mark smart clapping. first and foremost id like to thank everyone for having me here emigrations congratulations to the two teams First Mission high school i want to crenshaw and had high own city complaining with the black folks and winning a high school complaini championship is an experience youll not forget no business involved no academics i mean academics but no pressure like you get to have fun with our friends thats should go something youll remember for the rest of your lives congratulations the college the ballers i mean state, national, you all doing big things man, i want to graduating graduacongratulate ys keep up the good work and work hard youll be remembered and having that legacy is something that is what we descriptive for a legacy your doing great things congratulations to you guys as well clapping. so ear here to honor all of you and i got to hear some stories from you so sacrifice stories about what you had to do to be champions because bears turkey day one point you oneonone won by one point this time didnt that scary and be exciting at the same time you cant when a victory get won by a small margin would you agree that is more precious because everything that everyone did had to contribute for margin of victory and you know youre not i think that game is the option how the warriors won 20 points a game but one point it means a lot to friends and people watching to our parents and brothers and sisters it has to mean that more on turkey day i want to get out there but so many events to go to you thought no, no well do Something Special get you on Super Bowl Weekend and celebrate with that, i want to have the coach come up and on behalf of our city we want to give you the give the team through you the recognition that it deserves this is to recognize Mission High School for its trillion a Championship Football Team for this past year and because it is super bowl week we have something for the entire team because we have a great super bowl host what do you think of this for the entire team . Is a gold football clapping. for for the Mission High School bears as i way of recognizing each of you, you deserve this is yours forever super bowl 50 it is meant for you to be complains for two years in a row we want to recognize you at city hall congratulations Mission High School bears. Thank you. Want to say a few words. On behalf of the principle eric and our Athletic Director arrest in addition, and the entire Mission Communities High School Community we would like to thank mayor ed lee for honoring us and in addition thank hydra mendosa and her staff for organizing that id like to congratulate coach collins and his coaches and players under tremendous assault weapon this year acceespecially formal anton 0 porter clean sf. My one question to coach did you get a moment to wait you didnt wait at mission high scho school. laughter it has been 85 years since Mission High School won back to back city championships i look forward to up and running well be the first team in School History to win back to back to back championships thank you very much clapping . Okay well had had photo later okay. Were going to get everybody into a great picture be patient here as i said earlier someone that makes good tackles in sacramento he loves our city college hes been working with me to make sure everything is done so that you city college county of college is successful and solvent and invites the future generations of the people that will be really successful not only in their own lives but help our city be successful sxhooienator leno come on up senator leno. clapping . Thank you, mr. Mayor for the warm welcome and gracious words since weve already provided the appropriate recognize to the gentleman allow me to add my inspiration force 40 for those out of town this is a school that is as opposed to be a challenged school and continuing you break all the records and achieve not only athletic but skillly and youre the little engine that could and does and repeated does it you lead the way congratulations to you, you all and i know that many of you will be sitting on this side of the room in successive years a changed institution with a rogue commissions throwing blocks and running trenches trying to really intentionally cause as much trouble to this esteemed institution as possible and one out of 7 san franciscans has been attending continental this is a Major Institution for us and so again both state and National County jails this is a remark xhoiscommunity. This is a college that will continue to strive and continue to set up Higher Standards as i learned years ago whether our nonretiring willie l. Brown, jr. Appointed me at the board of supervisors an important part of life winning is better than losing i want to offer my congratulations ive brought prajsdz from the state senate from San Francisco Football Team coach collins if i may present to you on behalf of the city College Family a little love the California State Senate recognizing our ongoing opportunity and years ahead well be gathered back to here to present more awards i will say that clearly were backing the sunlight of our super bowl 50 here Mission High School and city college you are the main troifksz with or without the assembly we wouldnt have assembled because youre our private joy thank you. A photo op clapping. coach thank you senator leno, coach id like to add our certificate honoring your entire team and the supporters everybody that deserves the recognition and, of course, let me hand t this off to you the gold football laughter clapping . What a special gift id like to thank everyone involved special hydra mendosa and mayor ed lee and everybody that helped out this is a special day not just receiving the recognition but all of us to participate with the opening of super bowl 50 is a experience well never ever forget thank you and coach to touch open anton hope well have better luck with anthony when we comes next week both teams have brothers and captain we expect a lot of you to be sitting with us as we try to didnt find defend the complaining the life lessons you learn and one of the things you learn is many there is no accomplishment with worthwhile that can be achieved without help and support of others and senator leno for our entire county college to we could thank you enough on behalf of the entire college thank you to chancellor and the administrators especially overseeing who support us nursing us to be who way are and were grateful and proud to stand here as of 2015 national complains thank you verhomplai well, thank you for coming this morning ladies and gentlemen, our city over the past few months had not been grammatic grappling with a crisis in far too any citys between the trust of color and Law Enforcement in the breakdown of this trustee can most awe kufl the shooting death of mario woods this past december and since that sdooub incident ive ordered a number of reforms to the use of force policies to prevent Police Officer involved shootings whenever possible ive proposed comprehensive farmz removes the department of justice own recommendation and the president obama to rebuild the Community Trust im joined by many in our community more calling for an independent review of the Police Departments policies and of the death of mr. Mario woods ive asked and tasked achieving chief suhr and others to submit a detailed plan for further reforms after a series of Community Meetings around the city and with stakeholders input this is not been an easy task by any means i want to say first hand a deep gratitude i have to the volunteers of our Police Commission of who spent count countedless hours working with volunteers from the communities, to make sure that this reflected deserv desires coming from the community as well as professional ideas and today, i accept their comprehensive reform packages it youll hear in detail in a moment a reformed package that is developed in partnering with the community and already directed any budget direction to incorporate those into the Budget Planning i believe because of the input that has been given by countless hours by you are africanamerican reform and review form and also by a number of conversations ive had not only with this forum but engages engagements throughout the community substantial and meaningful changes to policy to training, and to equipment and they do sdmafkt have agree change in craigslist as to how and when offers use force already, weve seen the benefits of those new tactics earlier this month for example, the Police Department encountered a man with a knife and the man didnt drop the knife avenue verbal very clear verbal instructions or after getting hesitate that beanbags and pepper stray our Police Officers retreated in this incident to create time and distances and eventually were able to apprehend the superintendant without firing the guns our policewomans protecting did public without using life or death force we are fundamentally reengineering the ways Police Officers use force awhile at the same time increasing transparent and other within our San Francisco Police Department we already have one of the most transparent process hes and open processing for governing the police the country and this comprehensive reform will build on the foundation and help our sworn officers to strengthen their ties with the community while keeping e keeping the city save this is a time to rebuild and build and go forward it is a time we recognize we must hell the wounds and at the same time bridge the challenge between our communities and those scorn to protect them and again, i acknowledge this is no single task it requires the continuous efforts on Police Reform and job training and violence protection but has to do with education, housing and Violence Reduction the communities i and many of the other standing behind me representing our communities and our departments h are committed to the work i know everyone here as well is committed i know that more is needed to be done and more needs to be said well continue this dialogue and this action and also wanted to make sure you know that with us today are march and Deanthony Jones a couple of the youth leader that are part of that process we engaged our youth as ma many along with our faithbased leaders and the Community Advisory form weve been working hard at with that, i want to let you know this document that is presented to me does reflect what i asked for mayor ed lee and it reflected an approach that im proud has been reflected of our Community Input and, in fact, stat through a couple of the sessions including the one last week to march or make sure theyre on track and d to go into detail will be the Police Commission and police chief let me introduce exclusively greg suhr. Thank you, mr. Mayor and good morning years weve been working as a Police Department with the Community Members many standing behind me and many more that will end up finishing this story to foster trust and good relationships with the Community Realm in policing without the trust the community we cant best do our jobs that trust was shaken for many recipient especially in communities of color on december 2nd with the use of mario woods and weve been working hard under the leadership of the compamayor an commissioner president loftus to try to get to a place where we can minimize that force with regard to weapons and other situations we need to figure out a way to reengineer force weve collaborated with experts from around the country around the world and met with people from the United Kingdom and members and 3450i67 have been back eatist tries the main goal the sanctity of life for everyone that everybody walks away whenever possible as the mayor stated on the story 90 on february 8 Fourth Street officers enoccurred a superintendant of 6 foot that mr. Plus with a knife in one hand and a key the other and wouldnt surrendered the weapons we tried the tools and were unsuccessful used the language were talking about the deesclation practices where we wanted to create time and distance to formulate a plan and tried to deescalate those are makes sen things weve been training for the last few weeks and the day ended they realized what was not going to work and plan b getting an arsenal of the superintendant and wrestled him again sanctity of life, deesclation, proportionality and the time for distance are the basis for everybo everything tweezer talking about with with any weapon short of a firearm the vast majors of shootings that have happened in San Francisco by a recent study inside 5 minutes and 19 months create time 15 and distances 15 yarld we can avoid the officerinvolved shooting short of a firearm weve made the planning of a firearm with the use of force it might not seem significant to a regular person but meeting with the community they want an explanation every time an officer points a firearm and will get it supervisors are not required to respond to an incident to take over and hopefully get inside of the 5 minutes that is the firearm qualification to a from a one or two basically just confidence for the firearm to a 8 firearm training with the first half of the day everybothing on but ucll force the officers will carry the helmet and explosive and batons anything that creates the time and distances and double did capacity the way of beanbags and climate devices over the same amount of time weve putdown for the under surveillance nufl cis an activiy and declapgs within the policy an officer against a danger to themselves this is a policy driven but not institutionalize as a policy as from 2011 it laid the deesclation and bans the use of restraint or choke holes and prevents the officers from shooting other vehicles the vehicle itself is the only means of assault and were asking for additional tools including that training with shields i know much is on for the the swat teams and phenomenal o only for use when someone is a danger to others and staexpanded the cris intervention i wish for members from the community withat were helpful 5 hundred officers tracing e training in intervention and every recruit graduates from the academy and the trainers we want to come up with advanced crisis intervention short of hostage norts for an aptitude for preservation there is as call for independent review and the Department Department of justice the cops office formed an initiative is coming to San Francisco theyve been here well have one meeting in las vegas and other plaza places and asked for a command level that person was appoint and stands behind me Deputy Director tony can capita r chaplain for the mr. Nolan and will speak in a minute on those subjects and transparency asia accurate data and technology is Something Else that the community is calling for well collect the data in realtime using the webbased whatever and smart phones the officers ahave been issued to process the tickets detentions and field intervienss over time he we believe will come in ahead of the supervisor cohens bills hoping to improve the transparency, of course, body cameras and hopefully the first body worn camercameras in maybe sooner with everyone the San Francisco mr. Police department barbecue being a Body Worn Camera by the end of 2016 and opted into the capitol Hill Initiative were additionally posting Public Information on that website with regards to arrests, demographics within the department and on and on so regardless of there is a disparity the numbers in their transparently posted and working to address any disparities weve tried to identify and improve the Culture Committee we have the officers sworn and services taken an oath to each sought bias and speak to it but inside the department and outside the department all officers will receive preschool judged training by the end of the year and partnering with the Community Leaders some will be instructors the training and the indict level captains with the we respected community to identify hot spots and Senior Officers to resolve conflict where people might have neighbors in their community that might need special attention doing everything we can to create a devised workforce it is critical that the splpd look like San Francisco for the first time pretty much ever we have a 24 7 application process whereas it was not that long ago that was a two week window to apply to be a San Francisco Police Department now pretty much anyone can apply around the clock were we having an 8 Human Resources credited course to help people fought u figure out what they need to do to become an mrofrd and africanamerican restrictions have a workshop we have barriers to entry to get to people to a place to become San Francisco Police Officers im going to turn it over to commissioner president loftus to speak about yards in regards to policy and introduce chief capita listen. Thank you chief suhr and mayor ed lee and sheryl Brown Community parts on december 9th of last year a week after the use of mario woods the Police Commission challenged and heard speak a speaker express anchorage, frustration, grief and sadness what they saw the video of the use of mario woods ill say this again 3 separate investigations that are ongoing into the actual shooting and thorough and complete the commission, however, would not wait for the conclusion before opening a discussion of policies and procedures used regarding use of force on the Police Department we commit to joining the naturional forest t ve reengineer the ways that Police Officers use ellis weve been meeting no small and large groups at the Police Commission to work with the Community Members subject matters and commissioners to chart a path forward a lot of what the chief mind is true ear boring context from the achieve from the wants 21st century on task force on 126 policing but it has to fit San Francisco in order to rebuild trust it is a relationship and it requires all parties at the table. And the thing im proud of in this effort the words on that paper and the path 10 headings and thirty sub blues with the result of communities across San Francisco what that takes to rebuild this relationship of trust in particular i want to thank the young people from the Community Safety initiative that facilitated those discussions if you were there those were tough and lead by young people prominently the Public Housing in San Francisco who lead the conversation with grace and a real commitment i want to thanks the Community Members the consortiform the ch africanamerican forum and those who spoeak out everor come up t myself or fellow commissioners weve heard you all of you loud and clear as a result of the conversations suggests and discussion temple areas of focus as was move forward and it comes down to this regardless of the zip codes everyone deserves to have a relationship of trust with the police this plan recognized that while there are countless neighborhood cross San Francisco the communities they enjoy that relationship many have that relationship disabled and the mayor has directed us to work on rebuilding that relationship that it it will require everyone as the chief mind 10 areas i invite Police Officers and advocates join us first, as a chief indicated reengineering the use of force the commission has asked the department to redo the policies around use of force in this process what weve learned if we can train the officers with the skills, equipment and tools needed to create time and distance with suspended armed with a knife we can see a reduction of up to percent fewer officerinvolved shooting s as the chief indicated month officerinvolved shootings happen within minutes of patrol recording to the scene if we put that poorer at the frcenter tha person might be under thirty years of age the question does that officer have all the training skills and equipment to have the time and distances khacan they create a safe perimeter can decree bye time to allow a senior officer to arrive someone that is crisis interferenventio trained to further preserve life at the heart it is considered now sanctity of life everyone decision is around preserving the sanctity of life and the commission has a group of stakeholders to review the policies and the United States department of justice acholic beverage reform has reviewed the policy and the focus a accountability youll hear from con in any chaplain and asked for the staff to support our Initiative Data and transparency is the next focus on our path forward the commission has directed the department to have a study to disagree gait the studies specifically we need to better understand the gpa disparities in particular the Africanamerican Community with the less rates to do better to close the gap the chief said Body Worn Cameras have been a proprietor of the department and the commission we believe in 2016 all officers had been armed with body cameras and the next focus is eliminating bias referred has said it is sometimes a motivatatter of com sense but it is understanding the community your sworn to serve and train on the justifies will be infected a Community Partnership to have the confidence that reverend brown discussed in Community Forum to those hospital to identify the officers that are struggling before theyve gone too far and want to make sure it works and the next phone call focus sheryl davis will talk about the process with the young people prominently in this community that came in and talked about the relationship with trust our relationship of trust it can work for one of the ears of focus is the sustained effort to recruit the young people to identify ways to do better the chief talked about recruiting a exists wvng and represents for obama 21st Century Policing and the last 3 things ill mention when we had those meetings the community we vaufld them a survey how effective you think that was we heard loud and a clear we loved you asked our opinion by excuse me. Criticisms the ideas will be action and as a result of that weve commit to establishing an academic constitution it actually evaluates plenty of time but the commitment to evaluate it live or die with the results were left to hold ourselves account and allow the commission to hold the Police Officers accountability and beyond the scope beyond the scope one is Community Member after Community Member addresses if we dont say where a community that addresses the realty that violence destroys communities and in certain communities in San Francisco without intervention we Opening Statement awill havea 6yearold that witnessed hom homicides we do want to work with the Police Department and improve the procedures and Public Health response in community effected by violence we can enter keyed the cycle of violence and create save communities for everyone and finally we have asked the mayor to identify the Additional Resources to help us to comfoer additional Police Officer in Foreign Languages that is another way to build trust thats the final recommendation and as we moved in the prelims of those paroles that we have one of the most open and transparent processes for governing police the industcry invitation lets use it to make sure our city lives up to its values thank you my job to introduce deputy chief. Thank you, commissioner the mission has a new bureaucracy to contributor to excellence in Law Enforcement but increasing professionalism and maintaining high levels of accountability within the San Francisco Police Department through theus of doj finds the bureaucracy was created by the chief suhr for the policies and procedures and allow and implement changes to bring San Francisco Police Department into the 21st century of policing a major component of that to pass the doj acholic beverage or more process that lets us to see what good and not working with that said, President Obama Task force in 21st Century Policing had 48 represents and 91 action items the report the department agrees with has implemented and or will implement all the recommendations or the action items directly related to Law Enforcement one of the main point is having Additional Resources phenomenfor unsolved s most impacted by violence were committed to take the doj recommendations and implementing them this is a two year process well will not wait for completion we intend to begin immediately during the review process itself this way as issues or deficiency are identified they can be creating corrected at the request of the mayor well have a dashboard available on the website to monitor the process of implementation of the Task Force Recommendations and keeping with the transparency and the accountability of the San Francisco Police Department if so a challenging undertaking this is a browsureau not before existed this is will be for the whole department and have issues push the change to them i say what were doing will be for the good of the city and county and most popular for the people we serve the fact that the chief is involving a deputy chief and bureau it an credandle stick th bureau adds bureaus as part sfpd those vunts i units are the Youth Community engagement that gives of i us access to proactively have the members of the department y c e opens up the lines of communication between the police and the community to have a better rapport and trust the Services Unit that allows to modify the certification and training needed for training with althsd mental states that archives the goal of 100 percent cit certification and gives us our offers an additional tool for time and distance in terrible situations the third and final unit the directed unit that is responsible for facilitating the review, development and publication of the policies and manuals and forms that concludes my report the delivery method to push the change to 9 desire department while San Francisco has seen measurable drops in 40e7homicid weve seen the trust that needs to be mended and it will be more Community Involvement and day to day operations with that, ill comploos my introduction to the standards and principle relationship bureau are a reminder that, plea police are public and the public it the police i with that, im going to turn it over to reverend brown. Thank you, very much. Dpw chief capita listen mr. Mayor, i should like to first commend you for responding to the appeal that came from the wom womb or Africanamerican Community that appeal was that we should in times of crisis and tragedy not turn on each other but turn to each other and because we turn to each other in this city of strans we have really created a dream team team that has been referenced in terms of persons and personalities who came together, secondly, as a history buff i want to make sure there will be no redacting on this matter we will San Francisco Transportation Authority set the record straight chief suhr 20 months ago assembled the Assembly Hall of historical Third Baptist Church with his command staff and at that time, the wake of the fallout staten island, ferguson, and many other communities were there have been unfortunate expressions loss of life and violence chief suhr responded to the call of the naacp that we will get involved in a difb active focus intentional endeavor to make sure that San Francisco would not be a republic indication of what happened in other areas of the country, however, i unfortunately missed the process we lost life one mario woods we again were confronted with a apparent grieving, a community disturbed and some folks are getting on the defensive rather than coming togeth together. And before i end my remarks i want to say that i am issuing now a respectful, loving appeal to the San Francisco Police Officers association to come to the table, come to the room and lets sit down and talk we are not your enemy we are your friends. We with you, when youre right, were still with you when our wrong to make sure you get right. I did not feel it is disrespectful to make this comment at this time the naacp has unsuccessfully reached out to the Police Officer organization that put up a firewall rather than to see all humankind as members of the team of our maker and that people tend to hate each they dont know each other they dont know each other because of a lack of conversati communication it is time i repeat that the Police Officers association join this dream team and agree to disagree about being disagreeable. I pledge to you our dream te team. The naacp will be looking, well be watching to make sure that these plans, these words will not ring hallow but we are going to in the words of nike just do the right thing we must move beyond truth telling, meetings, and engage in counters of scene of this accident we are on our way and hold out hope and not let go of justice rose down like waters and rightness in this Police Department and this community will offer flow as a great moving mighty stream and now i present to you ms. Sheryl District Attorneys Office as she comes let me acknowledge that the moral campus of this dream team is expanded, strengthened and shines brightly we have here the room rabbis anthony and beth singer of temple manual representing the Interfaith Community who are standing with the mayor, with the chief, with all people of goodwill and justice. Thank you reverend brown. As reverend brown made his appeal to the piaoa i worked an the appeal to make sure that the voices of community were included i wanted to thank the chief and commissioner president loftus and the mayor for providing that space also that first time want to thank the people that host those xhfgdz to take the reflex to challenge in a space they invited people to come in and share the magic shawn helped to rally people and boys and girls club in the tenderloin, reverend brown and third baptist that hosted the first workshop and i see others here those were some hard conversations to have and begin i want to acknowledge i know that D Anthony Jones grew up born and raised in the western edition in a couple of Housing Developments and morgan ran deep in the Hunters Point those people leads those working groups and managed the break out groups and the hard conversations they were hard because they were critical this was not a come and sit thouhow t San Francisco and the Police Department lets talk about what that needs to change and what we do to change it i want to acknowledge some of the other folks folks that are here km africanamerican young men germany that led the working Group Working Group i love the story of germajeramy a man was accept and the voice was louder and louder and germany went over to talk with him i dont know what 83 he said the man sat down and laughed germany what happens how were you able to calm the moment he had did pins on his shirt and asked him one of the pins frhe skmd asked him what d you know may i angela would do she wouldnt be happy and calmed himself and reengaged those who attended the working groups and sessions appreciate the space to talk e talk to be heard and respected the youth that facilitated the conversation it provided an opportunity for young africanamerican youth who are most likely to be impacted a lot of time we talk about be those conversations were doing the work and forget the voice of folks and it allowed them to have voice to lead the conversation to be part of there were 4 sessions led by the youth kichr, i want to recognize that whasn reactive those were since this summer and 3 forums that interviewed hundreds of people across the city and two documentary movie how people feel about the police and change the place was an honest critique as commissioner president loftus mentioned people are concerned those will be more conversations that go no where were hoping that today is really not symbolic of moving forward but some movement to happen and some may disrepair ibut ill agree that is a National Model to engage with young people and giving voice to communities can shift the dynamics so take the recommendations from community and implement them we can see the change we want to acknowledge many of the young people are criminal justice involved they have been on probation or over probation for them to come in and lead the conversations to be in the room with the Police Officer is huge and to also feel like those Police Officers are hearing what they said reverend brown talked about the idea of coming together with visitation e reconciliation that was humanizing on both sides the young folks got to see the Police Officers as human and Police Officers got to see everyone as human we are hoping this is the giving up of more conversations and not the end especially with lead by as you kn young people a comprehensive approach that xfrz the most impacted by the failing system i think we cant stress the idea and notion we engaged the community in the process to define how things can improve will help us to improvement i wanted to hangith the mayor, the chief, president and the Police Commission for leading the effort and time will tell but based on what has transpired were looking at a pro tem and hopeful future. Thank you sheryl and thank you reverend brown and deputy chief chaplain and commissioner president loftus theyll be here along with others to go into dependent on the package of reforms weve committed to and against with the budget you i assure you that shortterm rental and everyone well followup on every single one of those as the commission has done a lot of work with the Community Folks we have to honor that and our youth abowill know whether t of the matter we dwekeep our wo by implementing those changes those are not going to be easy this is what im getting everyone ready a change that will effect the officers and the training will effect the way we hire and community and certainly the incidents were seeing are trauma we know of others youre welcome to talk with the chief about other incidents that have already shown the results of those changes take place with the officers and the criticized Response Team with that, ill open up to a couple of questions and i invite you to follow up with the individuals yes, maam. inaudible . We dont have a total amount weve already ive gone this document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howard and were the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what ive already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the Community Organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing the number of homicides but areas of our city weve yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the Reduction Program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more were in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas theyre implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the Community Based Violence Reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education were always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didnt reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both public and private resources that hopefully can be aimed at the Health Crisis in our Africanamerican Community as was stated earlier the trau traumation of kids who see this over and over again, we cant dismiss that as being simply a scientific later xrerpt that effects kids going to School People we sadont want to drop t we can reduce that and make sure we have healthy environment that takes a lot of coordination and cooperation no objectithats wa this takes everybody and the youthism about being a village it is true everyone has to work at higher levels in order to get a better result. inaudible . Well again and heres where i will accept the criticism ill be deliberately slow in talking about tasers because i didnt want othut of respect for all t communities input we dont believe that tasers is the panacea the answer to reducing violence we dont believe that that is a truth here it is one tool it can be valuable in certain situatio circumstances but time and distance, retraining, backing off and having other alternatives are more than being studied theyre actually being implement that is why i want you to talk to the chief about other things that show really good lifechangi league of wom lifechanging results. inaudible . Well you know, i think reverend brown respond to it let me add we respect the poa and the officers need to be represented but like we said on those crisis situations we have to come together and figure out we have to go forward not accusing each other of having different views but having a commitment to a overall goal of reducing crime in the city the poa has a very Important Role in rebuilding trust this is what were trying to do with the collaboration we have retirement boaverend brown thank you, mr. Mayor the cleric said no men and women is an island into themselves as the bell told us is tolls for thee now it is unfortunate that the poa took issue a life was lost that should be the busy business of all were all part of human family i hope theyll rethink that position the Board Members were expressing sympathy and support for the mother it was to condone the actions of this young man at all and i think what we are doing as a team would indeed less even and stop this unnecessary force that destroys human life i hope well not phone cafocus on tase it is about trust, it is about Police Officers getting into the community and the Community Getting to know the Police Officers and working together as a team and i wiant to acknowledge the presence of Shawn Richard that put his life in hormonarms way the midst of this great tragedy and that is were saying to the Police Officers association dont relate to us through the past come and sit down and talk with us as weave sat down and talked with each other over those two months 20 most. One last question and ill over offer you the opportunity to talk with everybody. First of all, let me say this ever life it is lost is a very big tragedy and while that is under investigation i want to appeal and join our commissioners and our Police Department and Community Members we have to reduce violence the circumstances here call for our community to come forth with any information they might have in order to assist us in making sure the individual or responsible wiare held accountability it is break in in a neighborhood we are embraced with trying to change for the better and have a lot of challenges the fillmore and this is obviously a tragedy and this represents the reason why we have to keep and have strong group of people to prevent those tragedies and getting the guns out of the hands of folks that will misuse them and making sure that people have a way to resolve their differences without shooting each other and making sure we hold those individuals accountabilile and is a young person a 20yearold was a victim and how much time have we eaten even that and have to work more conservatively with that, i invite everybody to followup with the members of the community thank you, everyone for being