Because no other Police Officer will Say Something and the thin blue line will hold fast and even officers that dont like it that do not like hearing it that its like a punch in the gut is not going to say anything because to talk out of turn jeopardizes their future, their promotions and so forth as not being a team player and what the department has to understand and just as they ask us in our community when we see a crime we need to tell the police about it. When they see crimes of this nature, social crimes they have to tell somebody about it and do something about it. That can not be a one way street. There has to be cooperation from the departmentand i dont think the chiefs actions have been strong or swift enough. We tried to tell him a year ago and when this happened i thought how much greater would have been if the chief said yes we have some problems and we implemented a Community Policing program that we implemented sensitivity training and that we implemented recruitment. I
We have a situation like the Text Messages or officer involved shootings we have to deal with that swiftly. I know there is process, but it is important to explain to the public what that process is. The chief doesnt have the power to fire someone, the commission has that. How do we deal with that swifter than in the past because it isnt moving fast enough. We need to make sure those thingerize clear and dealt with [inaudible] [inaudible] plagued our city for far too long. So, i have a couple of things that i want to see happen and a lot of these rementdations have already been made both by the former Community Police Relations Board as well at the nacp when reverend brown talked about when we barack [inaudible] the 300 new officers we expect on the streets. We need to make sure these officers are coming from the community and San Francisco who understand the challenge of communities and how to respect while policing in the communities. The other thing is yes, we need cultural training
Continues so inyou want to do something about it you need to listen to [inaudible]iolaunda williams thank you. Next speaker. Good evening im [inaudible] i just want to address something that i heard mentioned throughout not just this conversations but conversations throughout regarding Law Enforcement and the community and we heard a lot about Law Enforcement not being all bad, that there are just a few bad appms. I would say there are more bad apples than we ithink and those that are not necessarily bad apples know which are and are not reporting that. I think that is problematic so when we talk about deal wg Law Enforcement who have actually been caught and engaged in homeo phobic and other behaveers i think we have to think about the culture we need to and that isnt addressed by single out a few folks. The second point is that i believe it was mr. Dauchy earlier that mentioned a requirement for officer tooz report this behavior. I think it is equally important that the consequences
Hello. With a bay area organization. Im going to talk about three stories which i think exhibit both Structural Racism this the system, dehumanization of clients in the system and implicit bias. As far as racism one of the things the community can do to understand what is going on is literally walk into any of the departments in the hall of justice and look at the individuals coming out and question whether this is explicit or implicit bias in arrests or charging or in negotiations or is it a question of putting resources in the wrong area . Maybe there should be more resources in Youth Development programs or things of that nature so young people are not caught up in the system. Dehumanization and imagine a situation where your young son or daughter has been accused of a homicide. A judge looked at the case and said there is no evidence and threw the case out and youre going to trial on a lesser charge and the District Attorney comes in and says sorry i am charging with a homicide aga