Welcome back to america reports. Im John Roberts in washington. And this has been quite the afternoon, sandra. Sandra it has. Remember the moment where a reporter didnt have anymore questions . We all have so many more questions especially after what we just heard. Im Sandra Smith in new york, this is america reports. Takeaways from the Secret Services conference, Secret Service has President Trump right now the highest level of protection, Ths President biden. John the first Assassination Attempt on July 13th and butler, pennsylvania, investigation finds Communication Gaps and a lack of diligence from The Agency. Sandra lets get right to david spunt, who was in that room. For the news conference. David, we learned a whole lot more but possibly it is one of those moments where it raises a whole lot more questions. Yeah, sandra, john, i think it really does. I have plenty of more questions to ask Director Rowe and we are waiting on this interim report from internal report from the Secre
P president driscoll, you may start the migrant. Meeting. Due to covid19 and the Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the tre tree restrictionn teleconference, this meeting is being held teleconference. In our published notice and on the web page we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or by leaving a voice mail manage. I will ask all members of the board to mute themselves to minimize background noise and keep your cell phone remote, as well. Board members will unmute themselves to comment. There is staff in the background managing the Technology Functions during the meeting to switch from my slide presentation to whom ever is speaking at that moment. Thank you to all who have put this meeting together. Technology and this device is increasing and there will be more changes, all to make the meeting and the interaction go smoother. At this point, can we ask ase commissioner to unshare his screen. Square with arrow and not an x. Thank you. Item number 13
The strategy, a sharp crime drop in the city of the last 20 years but it had some witnesses that became more and more apparent as time went on. That sort of numbers oriented strategy had some problems because it inspired the commanders to, but the way to make crime look better without actually ways to make room look like it was going down without actually doing the work, manipulating the statistics. The degree of crime, lasordas level should. These zero things the better parent. My journey to the story began in march of 2010 when i and a cryptic email from the Police Officer. Just one paragraph with an audio file attached to it. It was a sergeant telling the Police Officers not to take crime reports under certain circumstances, not to take robber reports of the serb circumstances. And that was amazing to me because the analyst talked about reporters. Just to have a commander actually saying that on tape was amazing. Now was intrigued. Those expecting deal of brooklyn or queens and he w
As the phoenix va employee i have suffered retalation for speaking and out section four and five outlies the specific things the va uses to realitate against whistle blowing. The va has routinely intimidated any employee that brings forth information that is contrary to what they would like to submit to the public. Ten days after the national va received my report i was placed on administrative leave for a month and investigating for misconduct because i provided limited amounts of patients information in order to support my allegations of the suicide trend and the facilities inappropriate response. I would receive a written counseling stating i have violated a policy but do this day they will not tell me what i violated. This is minor realitation given the last three years. During that time we were understaffed and there wasnt staff to wash beds, answer telephones, deliver patients and transport labs. Doctors and nurses were pulled away from direct patient care to perform these duties
Blowers complaints seriously. Within vha, the problem of intimidation, retaliation may be magnified by what some consider a protective culture of the medical profession. It is often thought to be against the code to point out colleagues mistakes or where a nurse or a tendant is told it is appropriate to question a physician or surgeon. The natural tendency is to close ranks, to not die that problems exist or mirs stestakes were ma. So after we listen to the testimony before us this evening from the whistle blowers, the office of special counsel and the va will anything change after we hear what the whistle blowers have to say and how do we fix this culture and encourage all va employees to step forward to identify problems and work to address the problems. Changing a culture is not easy. It cannot be done legislatively or 33inthrowing additional resos at it. Talk is cheap. Real solutions are hard to find. It is clear to me that the va as it is structured today is fundamentally incapabl