president cohen: all right, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. good afternoon. welcome to the october 2nd, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. i want to thank you for being here with us today. madam clerk, could you please call the attendance? clerk: thank you, madam president. [ roll call ] madam president, all members are president. president cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. p. president cohen: thank you, everyone. madam clerk, are there any communications? clerk: there are none to report. president cohen: all right. well, please call the consent agenda. clerk: items 1 through 7 comprise the consent agenda, items considered to be routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separate
madam clerk, could you please call the attendance? clerk: thank you, madam president. [ roll call ] madam president, all members are president. president cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. p. president cohen: thank you, everyone. madam clerk, are there any communications? clerk: there are none to report. president cohen: all right. well, please call the consent agenda. clerk: items 1 through 7 comprise the consent agenda, items considered to be routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. president cohen: all right, excuse me, madam clerk, on the questions, shall these items be passed? please call the roll. clerk: on items 1 through 7? president cohen: yes. [ roll call ] clerk: there are 11 ayes
need to restructure, we need to reconfigure the way in which we police. here we are still waiting for real reform to the way policing is conducted in this country. laura: actually the reform and al sharpton and others are pining for already happened necessity memphis. that police department already revised its policies following the murder of george floyd. the effort was called re-imagine policing in memphis. now, it was called reimagining policing but what was re-imagined? it was re-imagined with awful consequences. in addition to addressing excessive force the department also loosened its hiring standards. in fact, two of the five officers involved in the killing of nichols were hired during this period. so when folks like cory booker or al sharpton blame this this shows the overwhelming need for what they call police reform, i agree. we need to reform their reforms. like memphis, chicago lowered its hiring standards for police in 2022. they were following the likes of
availability, gun homicide rates were higher, not lower than communities in states with lower gun availability. it s your decision whether to buy a gun or not. there are certainly instances where it may make sense. and i don t begrudge the individual who makes that decision. but the data tells us only one story. the actual real live experience of living in a nation awash in guns shows that contrary to the gun lobby sloganeering, the opposite of their claim is actually true. the more good guys have guns, the more good guys die from guns. and we have no clear, more horrifying example of this truth than last weekend in dallas, texas. texas is an open carry state, meaning that anyone who can legally buy a semiautomatic weapon can walk around the streets of dallas with that weapon attached to them. reports suggest there were perhaps 30 people openly carrying ar-15 style weapons at saturday s protest. some were also wearing camouflage, bulletproof vests and gas masks. there were al
valley will join us live ahead of this weekend s season premiere. we will discuss the potential impact on the real silicon valley will have on that show. as we await earnings after the bell today from intel and yahoo among others david faber spoke with jeff smith earlier. he joins us with more on that fascinating tale. people are so focused or at least many publications are very focused on yahoo s potential sale of its core business but there doesn t seem to be quite as much focus on the impending fight that s taking place with starboard, the firm that owes 1.7% of the shares of starboard launched an attempt to take control of the board of directors of yahoo, but it s interesting, the conclusion of that proxy fight will come after the conclusion of the process to sell the core business. so i asked mr. smith wouldn t it be better to try to settle and get on that board now to potentially influence the sale process as opposed to be there when it s over and done with? if we