Director early independence award and this is a highly competitive award for scientist and identified them for the award is a proposal for a grapt aimed at intersection for binge drinking men who have sex with men and a five year study to evaluate taking a medication on a asneeded basis to reduce binge drinking and we will also learn a lot from his work, and also we did get an award to expand on the prescribing of aloxon and this was a pilot and to increase it for opiot overdose and considering the length of the last report i will leave it there, unless you have any other questions for any other report. Commissioners any questions . On the remainder of the report, was there any Public Comment on the directors report . No, there was no, Public Comment request for this item. So we certainly would appreciate the update, on the virus, and we anticipate that we will get further updates as warranted. Thank you very much. Next item, is general Public Comment and we have several folks who have
Fostered by the personnel wherever the lines are drawn therefore i must ask the commission to respectfully request of the our chief to when is he going to do implement the comprehensive program we requested him to do offer a i dont know on the africanamerican Faith Community nation for the association of colored people and all the things you see this this audience this evening im a member of black and Latino Alliance and all people who are concerned about justice december citizen sky and fairness in this town thats also for black people are underserved and many times disrespected most recently is this document i passed out hot off the press from our San Francisco Unified School District your Department Arrested 37 students since september up until now of the 37, 26 africanamericans, 7 latinoss 3 whites, one asian something that rotten with that picture we say its time for us to put the brakes on and run to the rescue and give the emergency treatment and mr. Chief were asking you for se
During my 23 years as a Police Officer from the oldschool you didnt see that but now you do. You see that probably because of social media and more exposures to a bad health can do to you. I think also young officers are more apt to go for psychological help if they need it. Again the oldschool probably not so much. One of the sad things i have seen in my research into ptsd is that when they look up a mortality studies of Police Officers, Police Officers compared to the general population die at a younger age. Some 10 years younger on average than those in the general population. So we are seeing greater numbers of death of cardiovascular disease among younger officers which is kind of surprising and kind of shocking. The thing you should understand about stress is its cumulative as you are continually exposed to trauma day after day and stress day after day eventually is going to wear your system down. Some of our Research Shows for example the body becomes this regulated under chroni
Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated some of them in my written testimony. I want to just spend a moment though reemphasizing the leadership that the attorney general of the United States eric holder, has focused on issue of officer safety and wellness. Im not sure he is getting enough credit for his leadership. Just a few years ago, when deaths were spiking, 171 officers killed in 2011 he held a summit in his office with about 40 L
The data complex e collection and that we spent time with the work group to the maps to ultimately get to the fall where the Steering Committee has chosen those maps and now were in the 90 day period where the Public Comment is provided some of the objectives the work H Working Group parities how often are calls coming in the station and whats the officers typical day Response Times and preserve the integrity of the neighborhood and district specific operations logical alignment with the community and something that can be implement in the shortterm that the working Group Considers a number of available a whole bunch of bullet points those represents the Foster Service the data points you theyve looked at but all of those on the list were considered and things they thought about the process went as such in wants on the board the focus groups have multiple single line changes throughout the city a number of maps thirty were presented to the working groups and the working groups edited t