Maybe a week later and i told my colleagues who share the same station and they have not heard at all and that is just, the board of supervisors but when it comes to, the actual community, taking part and having any role in what the qualifications or the qualities of a captain and that is something that is complete disconnect and i think that it is an essential part of where the Community Policing can actually grow and strengthen in San Francisco and that is creates a greater relationship and buyin for the community for what the police are involved in and what their work is by having some kind of a role in stating what type of service and what type of qualifications that you want to have from a department and from a station and a captain, and when you have your thoughts are about, you know, the greater ways that that level of involvement from the community can be applied . To be clear, as we presently exist, a commission itself does not have a mandate or a role in the actual assignment
To public comment. Do you have any last words . No i dont, other than the facts that i would like to say that serving on the Police Commission it is serves to the community that i think is highly valuable. And it is a passion of mine and i have enjoyed that service, and as hard as it is sometimes, but it is something that i want to because i think that it is valuable work and especially during the times that we are having right now and i would appreciate being returned to that commission. Thank you very much. Appreciate your last statement. Okay. Is mr. Frank here . Okay, we can open this item for public comment, i dont have any cards, but the people are welcome to come and line up along the wall here, by the doors. To come and speak. Thank you supervisor avalos, and cohen and tang and im tom mazzucco and i have served with turman for two years and he is an incredible and honorable man who truly is interested in the community, and you know we have had many and he was my Vice President
Couple of questions, and you mentioned Community Voice, and helping to increase the Community Voice and i am very interested in how that, can be enhanced and increase and perhaps, system, and how can we actually have greater Community Voice and where do you see that voice having the greatest impact within the Police Department . One of the, and what, and well, the way that it has been and it is done now and i think that one of the most effective ways is that we are a commission that travels, under both president mazzucco and loftus and we travel, one meeting per month to all of the neighborhoods in San Francisco and we sit and we listen and we hear the concerns of those specific neighborhood and we hear the feedback from the captains and the individuals going on and the issues that need to be addressed there and we need to work to be sure that those issues are being address and that is the important aspect that we do already as a commission and many of the commissioners work with group
Heard, and i think that, i think that, i think that, the captain that, the persons that are sharing it in a particular district is an important choice that the Community Needs at least, from the very beginning to weigh in on, to talk to the chief about you know wha, qualities that they see in their captains and what are the specific needs, and how they need to see the leadership interact with the public. And so, i, i would urge, and at that point, it is only, urgent that the Department Look at maybe, when in the community and an evening before the captain, and actually introducing which there is an announcement made that there is going to be a leadership shift, and perhaps, have the candidates up for review and perhaps you would have those leaders meet with those candidates, and talk to the issues and maybe sure that the folks that were ultimately will be selected have a thorough understanding in the community that they are stepping into. Yeah, and i agree that sometimes, there is, you
All right. Next up we have supervisor jane kim. [cheering and applauding] [speaker not understood] is obviously in the house today. [laughter] [inaudible]. Thank you. I want to reiterate what my colleagues have already said. And black history is our history and black history is american history. applause as someone who has benefited from that history, i just want to acknowledge how important it has been to all of our live. And on a board where most of us are members of communities of color and or the lgbt community, we have all benefited from the struggle of the Civil Rights Movement and of many African Americans over the last century and a half in this country. And it was with a [speaker not understood] movement. The actions we forget between ghandi and Martin Luther king and the Nonviolent Movement that was happening throughout the world, from communism which was spreading in the third world to connecting to what was happening, to the Civil Rights Movement, it was also interconnected