Madeline albright. Black stones president , tone know james, and well cap it off with dpaer white along with Actor Matt Damon. So we have a lot to do today. Lets talking about breaking news overnight. American fighter jets going into syria and bombing isis targets. The u. S. Did warn american fighters in advance. Five arab partners are involved. The pentagon confirms they went after 20 targets. Fuel depots, weapons spots and traini ining sites. Israel shot down a fighter jet after it entered air space. Oil prices are rising. Joining us now, retires u. S. Army current jack jacob is here. On the set with us, chief washington correspondent john harwood. Colonel, i will start with you. The implications of this coming much kicker than i think some people expected, no . Yes. Its developing relatively quickly. The problem with syria is the entire armed force system has been under pressure that it is totally incorporate nated. It is possible the syrian aircraft lost its way. It doesnt make a l
Its several hundred officers above that and i hope that the department and the Mayors Office and board will not stop once we hit that number and i want to put that out there i know we have talked about this many times before but i really want to encourage you to try to accelerate the hiring because its not happening quickly enough. I can assure you its a priority of the Mayors Office, of myself. As i said when we come back for the next presentation hopefully there will be more to give you in the way of concrete numbers. I would say this three classes if i am not speak out of turn on the Mayors Office and i know the want is to hire more classes and the officers you were talking about the beat officers and the school and resources officers and the task forces we put together to tackle the burglaries and other issues and thats what we would do and we have been working with the Controllers Office to figure out the number for 2015 and a fully staff Police Department as well. I would ask whe
The academy four classes maxed out . We will talk to you next time. Its not lost on the Mayors Office as all. Its one of the top priorities. Got it. How do you feel about lateral hiring versus academy clazs . We hire laterals and there is interest in the bay area to be members of the San Francisco Police Department. We try to be judicious who we hire from other departments because we dont want to take officers that might not be a good fit in San Francisco and over the last i guess since 2012 we had a Lateral Academy class. About a year its 10 to 15 officers per class and maybe 10 to 15 attrition of those classes but were making sure that we get real good officers again and benefited in 2012 because others were forced to layoff and the officers that were free agents if you will. They didnt come upon being available at their own doing. It was a matter of seniority. They let the most Junior Officers go and they few have been stand outs for us in San Francisco. Even if you bring laterals i
Retirements out paced the hiring of three classes and working with the Mayors Office we were able to identify salary savings thanks to director gannon and other staff and acknowledge they did a great job on the budget and able to get us back on track to meet the projected hiring and back to full staffing in june 2018. Chief, as it relates to that and i know supervisor wiener is doing work on this topic in particular in terms of the Academy Classes whats the max you couldnt put anymore officers through the Academy Every year . How many classes would that entail just from a logistics perspective . Working with ms. How to find out that number. Howard and what that number would be and the Mayors Office. Are hoping when we come back i can answer that. We have three going and we in the process of adding four so were determining what the capacity is. Yeah. Thats what it is and is it what is possible and the academy four classes maxed out . We will talk to you next time. Its not lost on the Ma
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