Deescalation and alternative to guns. They have to be 100 focused on whats going on. Jim vera is ceo of Kingdom Group protective services. In april, one of his security guards shot and killed shoplifting suspect banco brown at a walgreens in San Francisco. And on monday night, another one of veras guards shot and wounded robbery suspect Jonathan Mackie at the home depot in san carlos. It is a huge responsibility when you put a gun in a persons hand to expect them to respond. Perfect every time, vera says he cant discuss specifics of the brown case, but says hes saddened by her death. It was an absolute tragedy for a loss of life. San francisco da Brooke Jenkins has declined to charge the guard who killed her, but the guard, michael earl, wayne, anthony has since left the industry. Hes also been fined 1,500 by the States Bureau of security and investigative services, not for killing brown, but for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. And for not wearing a required badge. Identi
Was more flexibility. I think to meet those needs. So just so i understand. So the reason that so much, um overtime is used in central is because of the robberies, primarily well robberies. Right now or one of the issues that we have to contend with. There is the other thing we know about the retail staff. Of course, we do still have um, safe shopper depart deployment and union square. Weve cut it down significantly from where it was, you know, a year ago year and a half ago, but its still there. Ah i think we have 10 officers. Now last assistant chief has already come up in a second. But there is a need and then you we hate. We ran tourism deployment for over a year. Ah lot of the spots that people go to when they come to San Francisco or in the Central District union square fishermans war. Embarcadero at least the central part district part of embarcadero lombard street. So what our experiences told us is that theres a lot of victimization in those places. So weve cut that down so we
Good afternoon and welcome to the may second, 2023 meeting of San Francisco board of supervisor. The you call the roll. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor chan. Present. Supervisor dorsey. Present. Introerz engardio. Present. Supervisor mandelman. Not present. Supervisor melgar. Present. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor preston. Present. Supervisor ronen. Present. Supervisor safai. Present. Supervisor stefani. Present. Supervisor walton. Present. Mr. President have you a quorum. Thank you. The San Francisco boards of supervisors acknowledging we are on the unseedan cest ral home land of the Ramaytush Ohlone original inhab tantss of the San Francisco peninsula. As indigenous sureds of the land and with traditions. Ramaytush ohlone have never seed, lost nor forgotten responsibilities as care tashgs and for all people hos reside in their traditional territory. As guests we benefit from living and working on their Traditional Home land. We acknowledgean cestors, elders of the recom
This year, and im not just talking about academy awards. Im talking about the progress that we re making after very challenging. Several years as we are bringing our Community Back after covid in the wake of anti asian hate, as we move things forward, and each of you again has been a part of that. I also want to say that San Francisco this year theres so much that we are doing to continue to anchor our status as the Asian American capital. And that includes the fact that this fall in november San Francisco is going to be the host city to apec, which is the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation leadership summit where we will be hosting literally heads of states from countries to our east, representing where our communities came from, and its going to be an incredible moment to showcase who we are. Um. I know today were going to be acknowledging a lot of folks and shortly were going to be hearing from our great mayor. Were going to be hearing from our city administrator. I want to take a m
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