Transcripts For SFGTV Transportation Authority Full Board 22316 20160224

So i hope that is kept in mind for the next big event. Thank you so much thank you for sharing that. Your experience in observations i had similar experiences. I have product in the castro and at the Ferry Building and i know that our partner in the Ferry Building their business was down and go to the Ferry Building every weekend for Farmers Market and go to restaurants there and the Restaurant Business was down. Their report off the back of the envelope was 30 percent and we went the weekend after it was over and they were thank you god, it is back to normal and get tips again and our seats are full. These are very popular places and they were in the blast zone and people didlocals avoided it and whether it was the dem graphic for attendees of superbowl city they didnt overflow and not the halo effect hoped for and think that is important for us to acknowledge and really dig into that and quant ify it so Going Forward we know that we go in eyes wide open next time and brain storm with the people who are putting on the event and endorsing the event both on the superbowl side and city side, how we try to get more benefits for all businesses in San Francisco and how we try to mitigate the negative impacts because sometimes you just will be too close and have to know how to prepare. Shut your door and take a vacation, what do you do because you incured additional cost by having to over staff and you dont think about the additional cost that are incured. It isnt just the loss it is the additional stuffwe built more product to make sure that our local retailers wouldnt be short. It was highly unnecessary because they sold less than they normally do and we sell a lot of product at the farey building and it is very consistent and have multiple years of data so can easily quantify the effect over that period of time. Even [inaudible] the chart er Yacht Companies were down. They closed the office. They were not havingyou think a company like that would have just have their [inaudible] they left considerable revenue i think there was a lot of just sort ofit easy to wave your hands and say it is all good for San Francisco and in fact it wasnt all good for San Francisco. I think we can all talk about the benefits for the city as a whole and think as was said by someone in the press, great cities throw great parties. Im totally down with that and we are a great city and should be a host for great events but understandif you have a great house and want to make it available for parties you want to know what the damage will be because there will be damage. Dont treat your house the way they treat their own house. They love going to other peoples houses considering the demographic does it make sense to have it so squarely in the sent center of town where it interrupts commerce . That is the biggest thing we need to learn from isyou could argue if we distributed throughout the city we distribute the pain but it was very intensifyed there and in fact they probablyit became known that the voneue got too full and they turned people away and talked about how difficult it was to get through the security gauntlet. I think a lot didnt show up for that reason. I would love to go but wont go because i may be one standing there after being in line for a couple hours so there was that problem for those people that would attend. For me made the mistake of getting off thegetting off at the embarcadero station instead of going one station up or getting off a station earlier and got in the mix of the security and was late for my appointment thinking i was smart where i got off and got off at the wrong place so there were no advisory how those of us who did need to conduct business maneuver around the venue. Hands were constantly chaipging and couldnt depend on any set plans. I think the big thing for bed wiser and union square, i dont think that was planned until 3 weeks prior. We were told hour by hour everything was changing. Obviously it was a new venue for them so they didnt know what they didnt know, now we know a lot so again, fortunately we are all still alive. We have pain to get over but in the process we should definitely be putting together a good objective report about how we were effected and offer up suggestions how to change things or convene a discussion well in advance to the nex event like this how to address some hof the issues. Thank you for comments. I lot had to do with the media and road closures. I work downtown. I went to work and did drive downtown but it was a cluster you know what downtown. It was, the traffic was horrible and every time you turned on the tv or radio traffic jam downtown and tell you dont come to work if you work downtown which i thought was crazy. Thank you for your report, it is very informational and that needs to get out there. They do want to come back and think they should come back but no superbowl city at market street. Keep embarcadero open. If you had that open i think people would have gaunl to the Ferry Building but everyone was freaked out. Stick in the att park or civic center. Superbowl city was a celebration of superbowl and the nfl, it wasnt a celebration of San Francisco and i walked through there and found there was a way to get in very easily, you went up stairs at embarcadero. As i walked through it i felt this isnt about San Francisco. Im all for championtion games, not a huge fan but okay, someone coming into the the environment are not experiencing San Francisco superbowl, they are experiencing superbowl. Pure and simple nfl experience. It was the nfl experience and sure it was very carefully coria grched as that. One advice to any city hosting the superbowl it needs to be turned inside out and needs to be a celebration the city in addition to the nfl. Right and hopefully nfl funded. I think that again i think we can in going through this cathartic post game show that we can provide some guidance to the cities to come after us and our own city as this is forgotten in the past and say it fs so awesome. It wasnt so awesome in every dimension. In no way do i say we dont invite events like this to the city but knowing how to best host them and that we understand it is to the benefit of the event as well as our city that we celebrate San Francisco for the uniques quality because that was the stated reason for coming here. We lucked out on the weather but we didnt i dont think get to show case our city the way we like to. Thank you so much and getting your survey started and quickly outd there because i talked about it at cdma and the commission and said we whether we sponsor it ourselves we take the survey to the the not only the Merchants Association but Small Business community. Sure. It was a ref draft so it does need a lot of work. We would like to support you in doing the survey and getting it to a big group and convene a working group where we collect ivly put the results together and feed it back into the system thank you. So commissioners im happyin the binder under number 5 is copy of the survey that the south Beach Mission bay merchant distributed and happy if you want to start jotting down ideas of things to ask in the survey to collect them and i would like to recommend that wewhether we author a survey ourselves which is totally fine with me or whether we do a [inaudible] on what is already done. I dont want to take over the effort from anybody else who wants to do t i want to say we are available here as a place to convene that study and that we are here to assist in any way we can whether it is actually being the people to push that survey out or whether it is collaborating with someone who has already doing it or wants to do it. But i do think we should do a city wide survey of Small Businesses to understand and all Small Business, not just merchants, to understand what the impacts were and to convene a working Group Discussion of what we would recommend for future other cities and ourselves to consider changing some of the things that were done. What was good and what wasnt so good how would we as a commission spread the survey . If we can help in the drafting of it, i just out of curiosity for we can all go to every Merchants Association. Regeneina attends the merchant community. It turns out like in our Merchant Association we have a lot of other business practitioners there that know the Small Business owners kind of association and so i think first going there. Those are the organizations that and some better organized than others where people come together and getting the people who are coming regularly to those meetings to reach out to those they know are not attending. Dogpatch isnt well represented at the potraro hill dogpatch meeting when i have something can go into dogpatch and talk tabusiness owners they can spread the word. Getting someone to take a on line survey is a easy thing and there are a bunch of mailing lists out there. We use our mailing list and organization. Right, so we have not only merchant organizations but business organizations. We have a list of the small chambers in addition to the chamber. And then of course our own outreach list. I think also we could use the survey done to get leverage in the press. The Small Business commission is conducting a broader survey and maybe will getthere is a survey coming, great. I want to participate in that so see what we can do. Maybethere were some programsi think one the benefit of the commission convene thg survey or providing some direction to the city as they meet with these folks to design agreements when we go to bid is im interested in hearing the program of the super communities. It roles out a little late, but there is a concept like that work . Like super castro. [inaudible] brilliant and other than high tops getting a booust with michael sams, the rest the weekend was dead other than the regulars. It is good to know because if we talk about neighborhood engagement then what is some of thewhat are some of the recommenditions if we have any that we can provide to the city entities or individuals who engage either start putting together the bid packages or whatever have you to start engaging in the activities much earl ier on the in process opposed to later as we get close toor the activity happening a lot of the changes came fast and furious. Whether they were road closures or organizational things or whatever, so i think also again there was a lot of controversy around certain aspects so it caused last minute changes so we all watched it play out like a slow motion train wreck in some regards. So, lets conduct a survey have a report with results of the survey and recommendations and i think if the commission can play a role in convening that i think that is fantastic because i think that is a good role for the commission. As i said, im welcome towilling to collect your ideas and aggregate it and figure out how that we as the commission can send it out or partner with other entities to design the survey. If you would like taparticipate that is fantastic, not to distract further from your business but. Thank you it would be good to get those probably in the next week or two if you have any ideas so we can keep them going. We need to get on this quickly while it is still fresh in our minds because this is wrun one we want to push it sadis cushion item like to make sure we keep it on the agenda for continued discussion and actionby action i mean authoring a survey and get tg out and promoting it and putting a timelineoon it so it is done the time line is within 2 weeks the commissioners give you their ideas and you spread it out . And we can work with those in the community that we already know of that are already active in the area. The process is to get back the feedback and do what with it . I think probably to really make it useful is to do maybe a written report to the mayor and board of Supervisors Office of economic and Workforce Development this is a great agenda item for the quarterly meeting with the mayor. Debriefing because it was a big deal. I think that would be a good venue once we have put together a good solid survey and report to start that dialogue. Because the next two years a already decided whether we come back in the short period is 3 years is probably unlikely but we will be a candidate again within the next decade. It isnt just for the superbowl too this is using the superbowl as the best case and worst case. The biggest case we have seen and how does this apply to other large events whether it be oracle world or dream force or large concert or sporting event that we have the regular ones with the giants and hopefully soon with there warriors but lots of events will happen in these venues and other venues in the city and think there are best practices we could use even in the smaller blast zones, if you will. Alright. So , thank you kim for being here and providing that information. We will move to item number 6, which is directors report. Commissioners, i will just provide due to the sake of time and us needing to be out of the room for the Ethics Commission to meet i will provide you a report in writing. Item number 7 is president s report. I dont have anything to report this week. Thank you item number 8 is Vice President report i have nothing to report this week, thank you. Item number 9 is commissioners report. Commissioners any reports . Seeing none. Great. Item number 10 is general Public Comment. This is the time when we allow for general Public Comment on what you heard today. Not what you heard today what you would like to consider in the future. Have at it. We have someone. My name is irene boke squn resident of sun set park side district. I am urging the commission to request that the sfmta make a informational presentation regarding its muni forward projects. Particularly the proposed [inaudible] geary bus Rapid Transit and van ness bus Rapid Transit projects. Indications is the proposed [inaudible] project would have a Significant Impact on neighborhood serving businesses. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public like to comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. New business. Any new business anyone want tooz propose . I dont. Seeing none. Sf gov tv if we can have our slide again, please. Waiting for that slide. Live 23r5u78 city hall we begin and end each Small Business meeting with reminor the afs of Small Business is sth only place to sfart your business in San Francisco and get answers about doing business in San Francisco. The office of install business should be your first stop when and have a question about what to do next so if you need assistance with Small Business matters start here at the office of Small Business. Thank you. And we shall move to item 12 adjournment motion to adjourn i second. All in favor. Aye. Adjourn at 4 41. [meeting adjourned] 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 gete 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 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 not 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