Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
Please type your name and your question exactly as you would like it to be read. Submit before the last speaker is finished. We will read in the q a portion. Thank you for joining us. Today we have doctor grant colfax, the director of the office of economic and work force development. Cheryl davis, james executive director of collective impact. Member of the Latino Task Force and Stefani Garcia. With that i will turn it over to dr. Colfax. Good morning everybody. Thank you for joining us before this long weekend. I just have a brief statement to make with regard to where we are in the covid19 pandemic. It is a Public Health message that is really that we need to send across the city, across the region, across various neighborhoods and communities. This fourth of july, th the saft thing to do is stay home. In San Francisco we have had an alarming increase and significant increase in covid19 infections and hospitalizations of the over the past few weeks, our rates have soared. We are in
Despite investing almost 200,000 in the films, they were never released, but instead sent to a warehouse in maryland. Up next on American History tvs real america, three short training films that were recently rediscovered and digitized by the National Archives. The pilot district project, the development of community control, is a 15 minute film featuring 32yearold marion barry. Who later became mayor of the district of columbia. Mr. Barry this is a peoples movement. Old people, young people, they all live in the district. It is not fair for the citizens to be left out of the picture. Down and out place. People be hitting people in the head. Mr. Barry i dont think anywhere in america people can take this. What do you think about the police . They aint nothing but pigs, man. They pick me up just because i wasnt in school and shit like that. I said, what you going to do to me . He said, i take you to the pig pen. I said, no, you aint. You got to take me to my aunts. He said, all right,
Colleagues, a concern about the cost; the same concern about supervisor waltons and haneys measures. You look at new york, and how its saved so much more than its spent, but of course thats after its been up and running. And i so want this measure to get on the ballot because it is so the right thing to do at the right time, but im wondering if youd considered starting it a little later, similar to what supervisor haney had done for the d. P. W. So it doesnt cost money right away for the city budget where were not facing an unprecedented deficit. I just want to assuage some of my colleagues concerns so that it will get on the ballot. At least thats my hope. Supervisor mar just like all my colleagues, i share a concern over our huge budget deficit unprecedented budget deficit, as well as the important other proposed measures that we heard today. Again, i you know, the actual cost, based on the Controllers Office fiscal analyst is very modest [inaudible] supervisor mar so i think that gi
Im the first to say that we have a problem that we have some services for those people who have the most severe, most complicated needs, that they dont want you know, as many people as we put on the streets say thats not how people want to engage, and thats what i hope we get to moving forward on in these main areas around that Mental Health s. F. Legislation. Supervisor mandelman but i would just point out and i think i have a couple more questions, and ill feed to the other members of the committee. You know, the meth Sobering Center was i mean, what is it many different people on the Meth Task Force had many different ideas what the Sobering Center would be and what services it would have, from a place to get out the streets to more of an altern e alternative to p. E. S. From what ive heard on the streets, there was a real need to reduce pressure on p. E. S. And how a Sobering Center does that i can see stories how it does a little bit on the margins, but unless it has more, unless