Clinic and the house, and the futures without violence, and glide, womans shelter and i have a problem with the glide womans shelter because she get a half a Million Dollars to run that organization over there. They dont donate it to anybody. And then we have the jewish and the Childrens Services out of oakland and what are they doing here, and the justice and diversety center and they are all in line, to promote their agenda and i have nothing against promoting the decline in the violence towards the children. And but most of these directors make two or 300,000 a year doing it, i thank you for this time on this matter. Thank you. I will exercise my discretion to provide a brief response which is for the people at home, you will hear from some of the women in particular, and can judge for yourselves but i can speak based on my experience that you will hear from Beverly Upton and cathy black and baxter and they are well known for being incredible champions and advocates for victims, sur
Testifying to not only the expertise and the dedication of the women that were mentioned but they are not just local leaders and expertise, we have National Model problems here and so what we are discussing today, and in terms of what types of policies, and what types of practices, that we want to have implemented in San Francisco, and under the command and the direction of our chief, we know that it will not only have impact here locally, when we all Work Together, collaborativively as a community and we know that we have the great local impact and we also know that it has incredible impact beyond San Francisco. So, that is something that we should all be mindful of. And very quickly, i just want to also make known that i chaired the justice and courage Oversight Panel on Domestic Violence for the types of policy reforms, that we are discussing today, for the past 12 years, and just encouraged the panel has existed and focused on the San Francisco response to the Domestic Violence, an
All right. Good evening, commissioners. And chief. And members of the Police Department. And i also want to first of all let me introduce myself to the members of the public that may not be aware, of me. And may want to also verify my background and my credentials. And i am andrea shorter and i have the pleasure of serving as the Vice President of the commission on the status of women. Where i have served under three mayors. First appointed by brown, and then now, Lieutenant Governor nusom and now the current mayor ed lee and i am the most veteran member of this commission. And i also want to echo what president loftus has said, and testifying to not only the expertise and the dedication of the women that were mentioned but they are not just local leaders and expertise, we have National Model problems here and so what we are discussing today, and in terms of what types of policies, and what types of practices, that we want to have implemented in San Francisco, and under the command and
And chief. And members of the Police Department. And i also want to first of all let me introduce myself to the members of the public that may not be aware, of me. And may want to also verify my background and my credentials. And i am andrea shorter and i have the pleasure of serving as the Vice President of the commission on the status of women. Where i have served under three mayors. First appointed by brown, and then now, Lieutenant Governor nusom and now the current mayor ed lee and i am the most veteran member of this commission. And i also want to echo what president loftus has said, and testifying to not only the expertise and the dedication of the women that were mentioned but they are not just local leaders and expertise, we have National Model problems here and so what we are discussing today, and in terms of what types of policies, and what types of practices, that we want to have implemented in San Francisco, and under the command and the direction of our chief, we know tha
Item number three. I know we understand the importance of the work here, but certainly the recent incident in can kansas city is glaring, the foot ball player is a tragedy. I talked on the radio about it and talked about it at the club with the young men and women. That is certainly on my mind and not that we need more focus but certainly thats why were here. Thank you. I just want to reiterate the women that came forward there has been substantial changes in the way Domestic Violence cases are prosecuted and vghtded. You will hear more about that but when i started out there was Domestic Violence department and it was in the general Works Department and now there are victim advocates. We have come a long way and one of the things the article says you need to bring Families Together for financial reasons and other reasons and those are the reasons that hold people in battered relationships and when the police come the first time its not the first time it happened and people need to be