Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 24th, 2019 regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am not valemount and, the chair of the committee. To my right i am raphael mandelman. The chair of the committee. I want to thank San Francisco government tv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk, are there any announcements . Thank you. Please ensure you have silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 5th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call the first item . Number one is a resolution declaring a state of emergency regarding pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Supervisor haney . Welcome. Yes. Thank you, chair mandelman and thank you for having me back, committee members. I feel like i am an honorary member of this committee at this point. Thank y
Please ensure you have silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 5th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call the first item . Number one is a resolution declaring a state of emergency regarding pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Supervisor haney . Welcome. Yes. Thank you, chair mandelman and thank you for having me back, committee members. I feel like i am an honorary member of this committee at this point. Thank you for hearing these very important items. I authored this resolution with president yee declaring a Traffic Safety state of emergency on pedestrian cyclists pedestrian and cyclist fatalities with walk s. F. Immediately after the tragic death of Benjamin Dean and the injury of his wife in the tenderloin after a driver ran a red light and struck them both, but this is about even more than one death i
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Opportunities and resources. The Kerner Commission made the case we need to equalize opportunities, equalize resources. That is what we should have done in 1968 and we should seek to do today. Had aa historian, if you chance to sit down with dr. King, what would you ask . Thatld ask him whether he still felt his dream had turned into a nightmare by the time he died. King gave a prominent interview with a reporter where he stated my dream from 1963 has turned into a nightmare. Of course, the evening before his assassination he gave the mountaintop speech. He said i may not get there with you, but i have seen the mountaintop. I believe we are going to get to the mountaintop. It was a message of hope, just as the message in 1963 was i have a dream that i think will be actualized. In 1967 he was questioning that. Particularly as he was organizing the campaign and receiving resistance from a president that stated he was waging a war on poverty. I would ask what he believed. Is racism a nigh
Youre watching American History tv on cspan3. Elizabeth hinton, a professor at harvard university. I want to begin with something ago. Aid a while he said the kerner to a war on crime. Explain that. The kerner report itself was a response to the war on crime. New prioritynd of going on for two years. It basically involved unprecedented national investment. For the first time in u. S. History. This was a policy. Domestic policy. War on crime was a very important component to johnsons great society, but the kerner report identified the major problems that Police Department one countering and was much in line with the goals of johnsons police intervention, which was to improve relations between communities and Police Officers, and also make sure that Adequate Police force were in urban communities that were susceptible to urban disorder or rioting. In urban communities that were susceptible to urban disorder or rioting. The recommendations of the Kerner Commission that actually achieve le