Enforcement in creating systemic change toward that goal. However, to have full conversation about policing it is imperative to deeply understand the system of policing and its budget, and that brings us to our hearing today. My office worked to include questions in the report that would give this committee as much insent insight as possible into the Police Department inned a vance of the process in august. I anticipate there may be questions asked today that there arent immediate answers to. My staff will be tracking the inquiries and work on the followup report and that the board has the information it needs. I would like to remind the committee that the Police Department budget would come before this committee again and come before us two more times and in august and engaged in the full budget process. I want to turn over to the presentation today nick menard from the budget analyst and chief William Scott from the Police Department. The San Francisco Airport Authority is also here
Policing, its never been an Institution Designed to keep us safe and used as a tool for those in power to keep the marginalized people from rising up, going all the way back to the slave patrol. Sharing im the policing unfairly targets marginalized communities, injects massive amounts of people into the prison system. We heard about reform from chief scott today, but all those measures ignore the fact that reform is not effective. We need to defund and sfpd and invest in our communities immediately. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. It cannot force you to create money in a budget. Cut the budget and cut the numbers of police and Fund Services that help humans. End the violence against black and brown people that is built into policing. I disagree with supervisors assessment of what his constituents want. We want services, not Police Officers. I have heard on this call that over time sfpd at the airport, the focus of sfpd and the mandated reforms are not well understood by s
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But just in the context of this hearing, id like to point out that the board has been so far, from what ive heard, asking a lot of questions about identifying sort of superfluous elements of the Police Budget such that can be cut, particularly in the light of this budget deficit. And these are only symptoms of a much broader problem, and lets not forget that the Biggest Issue with the police is that this is an institution that directly targets black and brown people and that the time has concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is ryan. I live in district 4. I urge for divestment of the sfpd. [indiscernible] and how education and Community Empowerment are how societies grow whereas reaction during punitive and literally oppresses people and holds bias for those struggling in so many areas in the city that needs massive homelessness, education, come full front. That is essentially all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good aft
Karen bass, and several other members of the black caucus who you will be hearing from momentarily. Thank you for joining us on this emergency town hall meeting, living while black in america, 401 years later after our ancestors were first brought to the shores of america in shackles, we now that while we have come a long way in this country, we still have a long way to go. We are living with the legacy of slavery and jim crow and racial oppression that continued to permeate every aspect of american life. And we have seen that over the last several months in such a stark and striking fashion. The covid19 pandemic, a twin crisis, both a Public Health crisis and an economic crisis, has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted in an adverse fashion the africanamerican community. In terms of pain, in terms of suffering, in terms of economic dislocation and in terms of death. And then, of course, youre dealing with the continued epidemic at the same time of Police Violence, Police