We have, you know, reviewed evidence after evidence that shows because theres this myth that tasers are less than lethal, that they often are used more regularly than guns and, therefore, lead to more deaths. We, you know, just from statistics from 1983 to 2017, there are at least 155 People Killed by police where tasers are a primary or contributing cause of the death, and then what we also know, its not only dangerous for the person thats tased, its dangerous for the officers themselves. Because they are ineffective 45 of the time, and when you have to get close to tase someone, so if an officer, instead of creating that time and distance, is getting close to tase someone and its ineffective 45 of the time, its putting that officer in as much danger as its putting the individual being tased. And thats a real, real concern. And then finally, you know, i was just listening to an npr report the other day that said because of the substantial risk to life that tasers cause, because of the
Significant, exciting, and meaningful progress on police reform. We you have lowered the amount of use of force significantly and substantially. The amount of officers that have been cit trained continues to go up, and instead of, you know, what we had had before your arrival, which was a whole series of officerinvolved shootings, what weve seen lately is the regular use of time and distance that leads to the peaceful resolution of crises, often with people with mental illness, that have gotten those individuals the treatment they need with nobody, no officer, no civilian injured. And its just incredibly exciting. Its a tremendous testament to your leadership. I cant tell, you know, to your officers, i cant tell you how many times recently that captains in my district have called me and detailed incidents that in the past could have led to someone getting shot and killed, but instead, through time and distance, and working with dph and deescalation, led to successful outcomes. And its
Evidence after evidence that shows because theres this myth that tasers are less than lethal, that they often are used more regularly than guns and, therefore, lead to more deaths. We, you know, just from statistics from 1983 to 2017, there are at least 155 People Killed by police where tasers are a primary or contributing cause of the death, and then what we also know, its not only dangerous for the person thats tased, its dangerous for the officers themselves. Because they are ineffective 45 of the time, and when you have to get close to tase someone, so if an officer, instead of creating that time and distance, is getting close to tase someone and its ineffective 45 of the time, its putting that officer in as much danger as its putting the individual being tased. And thats a real, real concern. And then finally, you know, i was just listening to an npr report the other day that said because of the substantial risk to life that tasers cause, because of the deaths that this weapon has
Im joined by vice chair walton and Committee Number safai. Together we like to express gratitude to our clerk victor young and thanks to sfgovtv for broadcast todays meeting and today our producer mr. Jason goldhammer. Mr. Clerk . I like to reminds you to silence phone and electronics. Documents provided me will be include part of the file as should be submitted to myself. Items are expect today appear on the supervisor agenda on october 31, 2023 unless otherwise stated. That completes my announcements. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Call item 1. Item 1 Charter Amendment. To amend the charter of the city of an fran establish Staffing Levels sworn officers of the Police Department requiring a period of 5 years the mayor and the board of supervisors appropriate funds to meet Staffing Levels establishing a Police Full Staffing fun for a period of 5 years the purpose of facilitating minimum staffing and allowing a temporary froze on appropriations to the funds in the budget and economic emergency a
Goldhammer. Mr. Clerk . I like to reminds you to silence phone and electronics. Documents provided me will be include part of the file as should be submitted to myself. Items are expect today appear on the supervisor agenda on october 31, 2023 unless otherwise stated. That completes my announcements. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Call item 1. Item 1 Charter Amendment. To amend the charter of the city of an fran establish Staffing Levels sworn officers of the Police Department requiring a period of 5 years the mayor and the board of supervisors appropriate funds to meet Staffing Levels establishing a Police Full Staffing fun for a period of 5 years the purpose of facilitating minimum staffing and allowing a temporary froze on appropriations to the funds in the budget and economic emergency and election on march 5 of 2024. Thank you. Item one the Police Full Staffing Charter Amendment. We began working on last march. Some of you may recall i anouned this publicly last april after San Franciscos