Beaten, worked up. Guest thanks for the kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book, i think about it as having three major parts after you sort of introduced the situation now, you do a really good job of talking about three stories about how workers struggle and built the middle class by organizing and bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding policy changes. And then you go through a lot of thhard times is what i call the reagan era that we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States who attacked workers a lot in their unions and then you telling the hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways and make some policy recommendations. A lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations i hope we get into that because you paid quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done to restore the voice of power and workers in this country
Reached in the meeting. I have no speaker cards. Any member of the public wish to address the commission on nonagenda items . Seeing none, close Public Comment. Very good. Placing us under department matters. Good afternoon, commissioners, i have no new announcements today. Its good to see you again. Past events, staff report, and announcements. Did the Planning Commission meet . Clerk very good, commissioners. Under item 3, president s report and announcements. Hi there. Just one comment. Director rans departure. So the Planning Commission has calendared a couple closed sessions for review of candidates for his replacement and they have invited me to participate. F. Y. I. I wont have a vote. The city charter doesnt allow me to vote, but ill at least be at the table representing us. Great. [ laughter ]. Just to clarify. They havent formally adopted their procedure. On their agenda tomorrow they will endorse their procedure. Thank you for the clarification. Yes. Clerk commissioners that
Nonagenda items . Seeing none, close Public Comment. Very good. Placing us under department matters. Good afternoon, commissioners, i have no new announcements today. Its good to see you again. Past events, staff report, and announcements. Did the Planning Commission meet . Clerk very good, commissioners. Under item 3, president s report and announcements. Hi there. Just one comment. Director rans departure. So the Planning Commission has calendared a couple closed sessions for review of candidates for his replacement and they have invited me to participate. F. Y. I. I wont have a vote. The city charter doesnt allow me to vote, but ill at least be at the table representing us. Great. [ laughter ]. Just to clarify. They havent formally adopted their procedure. On their agenda tomorrow they will endorse their procedure. Thank you for the clarification. Yes. Clerk commissioners that will place us on item 4, consideration of the draft minutes for september 26 joint hearing with planning, t
We have, you know, reviewed evidence after evidence that shows because theres this myth that tasers are less than lethal, that they often are used more regularly than guns and, therefore, lead to more deaths. We, you know, just from statistics from 1983 to 2017, there are at least 155 People Killed by police where tasers are a primary or contributing cause of the death, and then what we also know, its not only dangerous for the person thats tased, its dangerous for the officers themselves. Because they are ineffective 45 of the time, and when you have to get close to tase someone, so if an officer, instead of creating that time and distance, is getting close to tase someone and its ineffective 45 of the time, its putting that officer in as much danger as its putting the individual being tased. And thats a real, real concern. And then finally, you know, i was just listening to an npr report the other day that said because of the substantial risk to life that tasers cause, because of the
Significant, exciting, and meaningful progress on police reform. We you have lowered the amount of use of force significantly and substantially. The amount of officers that have been cit trained continues to go up, and instead of, you know, what we had had before your arrival, which was a whole series of officerinvolved shootings, what weve seen lately is the regular use of time and distance that leads to the peaceful resolution of crises, often with people with mental illness, that have gotten those individuals the treatment they need with nobody, no officer, no civilian injured. And its just incredibly exciting. Its a tremendous testament to your leadership. I cant tell, you know, to your officers, i cant tell you how many times recently that captains in my district have called me and detailed incidents that in the past could have led to someone getting shot and killed, but instead, through time and distance, and working with dph and deescalation, led to successful outcomes. And its