Heard and to give input. Currently if you check the Police Departments website, actually specifically under Police Commission, you will have notice of the meetings themselves. And the draft, work and policy of the electronic control weapons general order, as well as a listing of the identified less lethal options that are being evaluated currently. So additionally, each district station captain has sent out, along with their daily newsletter and update and crime updates as well as their weekly newsletters, notices of these meetings and the opportunity for people to come actually and be heard and to give some input as to what direction they would like to see the department move in. Ultimately, in evaluating all of the less lethal options. Any recommendation will be made, one that is most effective as well as the most hum main. That is where we are at this point. We will i beeve that we will have another opportunity to meet between the second and third meetings, so there will be some fee
on wednesday, october 17th, 2012. at 6:00 p.m. comments to the public and southern station, acting captain steven bomo concerning the southern district. i was waiting for the clock to come on so it is still off. so i will speak. i am not going to take two minutes any way. briefly, commissioners, good evening. i just want to make reference to the so-called electronic control weapons that i believe are the tasers. and while we are not calling them tasers, that the public is familiar with. and two, that you are going to have these actual community meetings and schedule will there be posted on buses or newspapers with the media or the people to actually see or will they be listed on the site because part of the problem is the public at large is that when they tis the certain events they put it on buses and put out 1400 posters and get a community to show up. in the past i have seen various police commission meetings where not that many people showed up because they did not know
in the past i have seen various police commission meetings where not that many people showed up because they did not know what was going on and i think that if you are going to put these out, properly, to either post them on the buses or in the newspapers, and two, the properly call them what the public knows them to be which are tasers instead of ecws. ei think that would be more appropriate in my opinion. too is that my biggest problem with all of these weapons is that i don t believe that the sfpd can afford any weapons problem. i don t have any problems actually with the taser outside of the fact that it is a new expensive weapon. i have sent four letters to the previous sheriff to get a cost report going back over a number of years for the sheriff s department that has tasers, and mr. henase was leaving the office and never came back and he never responded to the letters. i have given 6 pieces in support of mr. ross murry coming back and i have sent 17 letters to the boa
operate in silos, yesterday, the board of supervisors made a decision to reinstate sheriff murcarimi who has been convicted of a domestic incident against his wife and on probation, i feel like it was weeks ago that i was commoneding them for what i have viewed over my career to be a true partnership. and i know that the chief is not here, but i hope that deputy chief you can share with the chief that i think that we to as a department reenergize ourselves in terms of out reach to domestic violence, potential victims, and we have got language access issues. i know that there is a new officer who is on the beat doing this. and i know that he just started a couple of weeks ago, but i hope that the chief can give us a report back on the department s efforts to continue to out reach and make sure that the city is aware that this department does not accommodate violence against women that nothing has changed. the safety net that has been well established continues. and i would lik
events they put it on buses and put out 1400 posters and get a community to show up. in the past i have seen various police commission meetings where not that many people showed up because they did not know what was going on and i think that if you are going to put these out, properly, to either post them on the buses or in the newspapers, and two, the properly call them what the public knows them to be which are tasers instead of ecws. ei think that would be more appropriate in my opinion. too is that my biggest problem with all of these weapons is that i don t believe that the sfpd can afford any weapons problem. i don t have any problems actually with the taser outside of the fact that it is a new expensive weapon. i have sent four letters to the previous sheriff to get a cost report going back over a number of years for the sheriff s department that has tasers, and mr. henase was leaving the office and never came back and he never responded to the letters. i have given 6