Of course we will consult with our attorney to make sure we go as far as we can to do what we are allowed to do. Thank you, commissioner chan. Any further Public Comment on this . We will now have Public Comment on items b, c and d hearing none come forward. Good evening again, robert davis. I was wondering why dont we have more opportunities for the city to buy back guns instead of one time or once a year or twice a year, why not have a room where you are turn in a gun and why not increase the money, the money that you get when you turn in a gun . Make it a little bit sweeter to turn in a gun. This will not be the last gun buy back. But how many times do we do that in a year, gun by backs . This was the first gun buy back in some time. We used to do them, if i recall correctly, commander cepb shah when he was here was the last time we did them twice a year. Well, every Community Meeting at the bayview station we talked about guns, guns turned in, guns found, guns guns guns. If we were
Players in the city, the Mayors Office, the board of supervisors, occ, of course, and everybody to, you know, roll up their sleeves and look at the best of whats out there professionally to see if we cant improve on our statistics in San Francisco. So thats my proposal on the table. I agree. If we can have a presentation with the community present and have the chief explain about what our Police Department does, for example, with atf in terms of taking guns off the street, i know theres programs in place with that. Just anything we can do to help. As ill say, were going to close this meeting tonight and commissioner kingsley is going to close the meeting in honor of the victims in connecticut, shell have some things to say then, but gun violence has had an adverse impact on members of this commission and i see this as an opportunity to protect others from that. If i can add, i think anything we do in the city based on the recent collaboration we just had would certainly be welcome by e
The chief of police to retroactively accept and extend a grant in the amount of 200,000 from the California Emergency Management Agency for the antihuman Trafficking Task force program. Action. Thank you, good evening, lieutenant jean. Commissioners, i whole heartedly wish that you grant this expense for the department. As you know, Human Trafficking is becoming a very profitable means for gangs to make money. Next to Drug Trafficking id say human traffics is the second worlds most profitable crime at this point and a continuing problem thats growing as commissioner loftus does know. Theres different types of Human Trafficking. Theres sex trafficking, theres labor trafficking and Domestic Services so theres different types of Human Trafficking. Public perception is this is a problem from Different Countries and what were discovering is the majority of Human Trafficking is actually american citizens. They are being trafficked from state to state. As we do know, Human Trafficking involve
Proactive theyd be getting guns offer the street, wed get more guns back. Im sure theres money available for that. It just seems to be common sense. I think this is the kind of thing we would elicit in the open forum that commissioner kingsley talked about. But i think there were elements present in this that havent been present in the past. There was private do you knowers. The gpbs actually came from the Community People and we turned it over to the police. It wasnt initiated by the police. It may be on in the future but this is the kind of thing we talk about when we have a hearing on Something Like this so thank you for the suggestion. Again, logistically were not supposed to talk back and forth but we are on this issue. Is it fair to say if somebody has a gun to surrender to the Police Department without funds being available, how do they do that . Six people wouldnt take any money on saturday, they just insisted on turning the gun in. Anybody can turn a gun in at any police stati
Vanderbilt brought this forward. I think he has a lot of credit and commissioner loftus is holding the departments feet to the fire and rightfully so. Thats why were looking for this grant and well be actually at some point in time growing the Human Trafficking unit as we get our staffing up to speed. Also we do attend other meetings in the bay area so we attend a monthly meeting down in san jose, so were constantly in communication with other sister agencies, not only Law Enforcement but also other advocate groups like, for example, not to get in too much detail, i talked to an attorney down in san jose right now where this person is willing to come forward regarding an incident so they feel confident to come to San Francisco to talk about something that theyve been tracking through the state of california. San francisco has been at the forefront of this. When kevin ryan was district attorney, he did something called operation human cage. I was prosecutor interviewing women who have b