Violence in their own community, and the fact that they didnt feel protected by police in some cases causes them not to take the appropriate steps that they otherwise should that a person who is not burdened by those perspectives perceptions or experiences might so i think its very important that we look at the system in terms of the impact on everyone whether its witnesses, whether its jurors. You know its interesting we just had a situation in a homicide case where jurors actually raised their hand when the prosecutor said something to the effect that you just have to be color blind and there are no africanamericans in the jury panel and the defense attorney had raised that and the prosecutor said Something Like you just have to be color blind and a white juror said thats a racist statement and half of the courtroom applauded and the judge solved the problem by excusing the panel so were definitely seeing people reacting because of what is happening, because of what happened in fergu
And juries from all white jury pools in florida convicted blacks more often than whites and this is a huge issue in San Francisco and from the jury pools we see now were lucky to see a few africanamericans in a panel of 80, 90 jurors so it shows there is a direct correlation between the race of the jurors and the race of the defendant and its interesting they found this this gap was nearly eliminated when there was at least one member of the jury pool who was africanamerican. So how do we address racial bias in a Justice System system . Its access to point fingers and its you or that department or that department and thats certainly not my point here. Obviously when we have officers who are engaging and exhibiting expressed racial bias like we do with the texts they shouldnt be on the force. I think everybody here well, when i say everybody here, but certainly everyone from the chief to the Police Officers association, officers for justice have expressed that sentiment, but the bigger
Africanamericans early where in california and i have a copy of the report attached to the report i gave you. Africanamericans are 6 of San Franciscos population actually less but theyre seven more times likely to be arrested than whites who represent 41 of the citys population. This is from the California Department of justice. Africanamerican female youth and this is insane account for over 40 of the felony drug arrests of africanamerican arrests in the entire state and remember our population is under a million and this is the same report and have rates 50 times higher than others. And despite the disproportionate arrests and study after study that shows drug use and abuse that africanamericans and whites use drugs at the same rate and if you look at the people that over dorsed in San Francisco and 62 were white. If you look at the San Francisco jail population under 6 now of san franciscans are africanamerican yet 56 of jail inmates are black. Whitings make up 22 and 42 of San Fran
Actually raised their hand when the prosecutor said something to the effect that you just have to be color blind and there are no africanamericans in the jury panel and the defense attorney had raised that and the prosecutor said Something Like you just have to be color blind and a white juror said thats a racist statement and half of the courtroom applauded and the judge solved the problem by excusing the panel so were definitely seeing people reacting because of what is happening, because of what happened in ferguson and stalt an island and with the black lives matter movement. So i going to ask if the members speak at the Public Comment time so we can get to the chief of police and a few other speakers so the next speaker is greg sure our chief of police and the District Attorney and the Human Rights Commission and joyce hicks from the office of citizen complaints. Chief sure thank you for being here. Thank you. Good afternoon. I think as reprehensible as the texts were my stomach i
Right. Have a good afternoon. Must end now. President trump is using his twitter account to demand that the investigations looking in to his possible misc conmisconduct. The president has been reacting to all the controversy awaiting him here at home. Michael cohen is expected to return next week to talk more with lawmakers because there is more to discuss according to the House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff. The committee is also planning to call in other Trump Associates to testify. Well have more on that in a moment. And now the House Oversight committee, the one that had the hearings on wednesday, is looking into a new report that says trump actuallieded officials to give Jared Kushner top security clearance despite his previous denials. All of the controversies have trumps orbit on defense today. Put it all out there. How about dont redact anything. If im even a subject of this thing, perhaps one of the initial cat lialysts of it. Isnt there is a memo from john kelly