Madam president , may i call roll . You may, please. President loftus . Here. Vice president turman . En route. Commissioner marshal, excused. Commissioner mazzucco . Present. Commissioner dejesus excused. Commissioner wong . Present. Commissioner melara. Present. Madam president you have a quorum. Welcome to the september, 24th, community meeting, in the Central Station in a very special place, we are as we all know, at gordon lou Elementary School and i see a lot of faces in the audience that i suspect are students. Is that right . Yes, so this is a beautiful audience that we have with incredible food and lots of energy. Welcome to what is the greatest joy for myself and my fellow commissioners which is a chance to come out to the community, talk about the issues, that are effecting the Police Department, the issues that are effecting the neighborhood and this is what we love to do. So thank you for hosting us here. And i would like to start off with thanking a very special principal
To divisadero. Those are the primary changes in the neighborhoods and of course wooem well hear your concerns and well tell you what those changes mean. If i could recognize deputy chief staff paul hendersons from the Mayors Office and my colleague Tiffany Sutton from the prosecutors office. Thank you for being here. Good evening, commissioners. Chief suhr, my name is Robert Sullivan with the bayview station. Its an honor to have you here today to talk about the proposed changes. As the chief mentioned there is only a minimal change of the current proposal to the Bayview District. Bayview is one of 10 Police Districts. The only other people that is larger is the taravel district. Our district currently has five sectors, five areas of geography to which we assign the officers. The area that is in question that well talk about tonight is what we consider the bayview one cart. What will happen is we are northernmost boundary which is currently cove when the giants were here, i was at the
City and sales force ceo mark [inaudible] is going to get some additional ones and that is 40. The recruits that are full time students age 18 and over with an interest in Law Enforcement and hold them close until theyre old enough to test to come to the Police Department. What about the Current Academy classes or the ones in formation . One current class is 12 africanamerican and the next class that will start in april starts off at 14 . What about latinos and Pacific Islanders . I believe that is an equal amount, somewhere in the midteens so the focus is obviously the 300 officers that retired in fact i see a couple in the background here are my generation so when we came in there was a hiring decree and so a lot of the people retired when we got old we dont have that but i need to hire back in kind and within the law without using any quotas or variety so the method to achieve the goal is to basically fish in San Franciscos since i think san franciscans make good Police Officers and
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
San francisco and tetd the judge was i believe kevin ryan and we did different iterations of serious fire over time and went to a zone strategy in 2005 under chief heather fong with the deputy chief and john murphy and that was the low year matched last year in San Francisco where we had 45 homicides. I am happy to look at that again. So from what i am hearing there is a ground swell of support growing for desire to see the model that is implemented in boston serious fire here in San Francisco. We do have serious fire meetings biweekly ongoing. I understand but it takes on a different its not quite based after the boston model. Its not as strong as the model that i am referring to. I can talk to the boston model is pairing probation and Police Officers in the evening hours to do probation knock and talks at residences and we do that to some degree but theres not a lot of adult probation officers that work in the evening hours. I am happy to talk with you supervisor and get you to where