Welcome to the wednesday, january 14th, 20th San Francisco Police Commission. No, you are not having a flashback. Im filling in tonight for commissioner loftus who along with chief greg sur and joyce hicks are flying back from washington, dc where they spent the last 3 days at a group called perf theyve been back there since sunday essentially looking at what other Police Departments have been looking at in terms of what options to Police Departments have in dealing with individuals who have knifes and sharp objects. Its part of what were doing concerning the use of force, they went back there all three together and we will have a report on that last week. Thats why we are not here tonight, we have 4 commissioners, we worked hard, one commissioner is not feeling well but we really wanted to have a meeting to accommodate all of you. Item 1. Item 1, adoption of minutes, action for the meetings of october 7, 14, 21, november 4 and december 2, 2015. Commissioners, you have the minutes in y
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. Id like to call roll. Please do. Commission president loftus is excused. Commission Vice President is excused. Commissioner marshall is excused. Commissioner dejesus, present. Commissioner mazzucco, present. Commissioner mazzucco, you have a quorum. Also wuls is inaudible representing the department and gregory p. Surr ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, january 14th, 20th San Francisco Police Commission. No, you are not having a flashback. Im filling in tonight for commissioner loftus who along with chief greg sur and joyce hicks are flying back from washington, dc where they spent the last 3 days at a group called perf theyve been back there since sunday essentially looking at what other Police Departments have been looking at in terms of what options to Police Departments have in dealing with individua
January 14th, 20th San Francisco Police Commission. No, you are not having a flashback. Im filling in tonight for commissioner loftus who along with chief greg sur and joyce hicks are flying back from washington, dc where they spent the last 3 days at a group called perf theyve been back there since sunday essentially looking at what other Police Departments have been looking at in terms of what options to Police Departments have in dealing with individuals who have knifes and sharp objects. Its part of what were doing concerning the use of force, they went back there all three together and we will have a report on that last week. Thats why we are not here tonight, we have 4 commissioners, we worked hard, one commissioner is not feeling well but we really wanted to have a meeting to accommodate all of you. Item 1. Item 1, adoption of minutes, action for the meetings of october 7, 14, 21, november 4 and december 2, 2015. Commissioners, you have the minutes in your packet. Are there any
Defender and the 10. Program is a good place to start. The hiring process in the department of Human Resources within the Police Department with vigorous screening of applicants and weed out those with biases but ongoing screening so we can pay more attention to those issues continually screening for bias within the department. I also believe that the task force called for our District Attorney George Gast Ron is a good first step but independent investigation as the sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and public defender have called for is also in order. I also wanted to say that data must be gathered and i know some of the comments brought up today is not only the traffic stop data but perhaps stop and frisk and detention data maybe necessary to understand the depth of issues of dais and lastly whether its academies or the Field Training within the department how we look at how ongoing trainings for practical trainings on conscious and unconscious racism and bias maybe necessary to move forward a
Rolled and next thing i knew we were pushing out the emergency exit and i was outside and there were people screaming and bleeding and we helped them out and theyre okay now. 7 train cars flew off the track. Some cars ending up on their sides. Others landing mostly upright. Rail traffic between new york and philadelphia is shutdown today as the investigation continues. Philadelphia mayor said theres no way that Train Service is going through philly in the next week. Right. This is you know its always horrific and tragic to see this but we all take that train at some point. Its home to everybody. We go to d. C. A lot of us take the train. Yeah we choose the train over the airlines because generally youre far more certain to get there on time. Its nice. This was the regional. This was the northeast regional. Still. Still. Its huge and packed. Same track. We all go through there and baltimore. By far the most heavily travelled rail. This is inevitably going to raise questions about spendi