Peskin joined to my right by norman yee our member london breed is in the nations capitol today and wont be joining us. Madam clerk do you have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones and 21 Electronic Devices and all documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you ms. Major. Fiscal year can we have a motion to supervisor yee can we have a member to excuse supervisor breed. inaudible . That is moved. Madam clerk can you read item 1 and two. Item 1 is a hearing on the recently published entitled San Franciscos crime lab promoting confidence and building credibility. Thank you madam clerk. First i would to thank the civil grand jury for this report acknowledge our interim police chief tony chaplin is with us and with that turn it over to the foreperson of the civil grand jury to present. Thank you chairman. I would like to introduce katherine coffee and Chuck Thompson who are presenting on behalf of the
When i come to washington i have to explain a little bit about the states. What you have read in the books and what people think about the states in washington often is not exactly true. So first of all its true all states are sulfur and yet, all states are not alike. Since we are sovereign we have our own ability to create our sovereign government in the way that we choose. Indiana is one of six states that has chosen what is a little bit more conservative path from our history and weve created the office of the attorney general as a Statutory Office. The other states are all constitutional officeholders but i serve as the indiana Indiana Attorney general under the Statutory Authority and that the distinction is one that i think merits some attention because if you are a constitutional officer you have some of the patriarchs which would allow you to do things based on the need of the population you serve. If you are a Statutory Office are coming you represent the State Government. So
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Cyrus vance, jr. Is here. He is the only the fourth person to hold the post in last 75 years and is circuit serving his second time in office. Chip brown wrote in some ways and might be the user to be the District Attorney in manhattan in an era where new yorkers are not inclined to do terrible things to one another and yet the da office still handles more cases than the entire United States department of justice. He has recently voiced his concerns about Cyber Security and other issues. Im pleased to have him to this at this table. As we were talking about, i knew your father well and what an honor it was to know him. He was such a great public servant. A very good lawyer. I think that was one of the secrets to his success. His i think people trusted his word which i think was you have to have that to be a good lawyer. It enabled him to work well with others around the world as they could trust him. They did not doubt he was a m
American. Most of the tests only involved white and black subjects. Its impossible i think for anyone to try to suggest what the solutions are, but i think we have to start somewhere and how do you legislate away racism or sort of wrong thinking . Thats very difficult to do but i do think we can take a big step by measuring bias, and weve already taken that step to one extent with traffic violations. Sfpd now reports on traffic stops. But we should extend it to detentions whether or not it results in a arrest or not, who is being detained . Who is being frisked and searched . Who is being arrested and tracked for Racial Disparities . We just started doing this. We have a Racial Justice committee and we have a partnership with the center at the university of pencil zaneia and we need to do this and they do this and the chief said and they need to follow up and make sure that the reports when they occur are taken seriously. I think that its important that we require officers who witness
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