Their guns. Many told me they dont necessarily need tasers. And they have nowhere to place it. So i dont see the need for that. And i and, of course, they have their guns. I just want to make sure that Police Officers are following procedures and following commands of higher officers. Moderator thank you very much. Ms. Omeara. Well, i definitely agree that there is there is theres a requirement for intensive Police Training and perhaps introducing some new measures or a new way to look at things. But there definitely needs to be a training thats different from the past. Ill give an example. Racial profiling, as we know, do happen in the city, it happens a lot, even in neighborhoods that use to be highly dangerous. Maybe they need to look at the current curriculum that the police has and it needs to be on a whole refresher course. Thats one instance. The second one is i want to share with everybody about two weeks ago, i was invited to a nancy pelosi town hall meeting. And i joined a womans organization there called moms demand action. Its a very powerful organization. Its larger than the National Rifle organization. And i think im learning from them. I got a call from them today. Theyre very effective in educating the public about gun laws and enforcing stricter gun laws, et cetera. Moderator thank you very much. Okay. Moderator mr. Preston. Yeah i started my legal career in the late 90s, representing victims of police misconduct, both in the east abatement and in San Francisco. And that was before most things were caught on videotape. I have been regularly out protesting Police Shootings and joining the hunger strikers, who were demanding the resignation of chief sur, back in the mission district. And let me say i think this is one where our races interact with the District Attorneys office. I think we need a District Attorney who is willing to prosecute Police Officers, that shoot and kill people. And i also want to say i support the kind of training that were hearing others support. But i want to be clear. Theres also a Harm Reduction side for the community, which is limiting the police contact. Forgive me if i dont have faith in a department thats been so deeply racist for so long, that from my perspective, the more we can have nonpolice units interacting with people of color in this city, the more likely we are to avoid Police Shootings, as we continue to train Police Officers. Moderator thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] still in the speaking of in the area of crime. Were going to start with mr. Lam. What is your position on openair drug sales and how would you crack down on drug dealers. Openair. Okay. So again police i support police enforcement. I support the funding of police. But other than for that everything thats illegal in open saling of marijuana, open sale of Illegal Drugs, i want to make sure that theres a crackdown on that. Could you be more specific about your question. I just read it as its written. Okay. Sure. Sure. I want to make sure its not here in San Francisco. Moderator okay. Thank you very much. Ms. Omeara. I think having lived in the different districts, i have learned a lot about my current d5 district. And it comes with a whole history that needs to be reevaluated and understood. Having lived in the fillmore and whats now called the lower haight. Its interesting. Its interesting that of course, im concerned about open drug sales. Obviously i dont want to be exposed to it. I dont want to be around it. I dont want my children around it. Its a problem. But what we need to reevaluate in a sense is historically what went wrong postcivilcivilcivil. We know there was a war of attrition between people trying to progressively get their rights their constitutional right to be acknowledged, to have good programs, so their children could have a better education. And that movement was stifled and was repressed back in the late 60s and 70s. And we know that whether it was the Panther Movement or the different womens movement, a whole slew of organizations, particularly here in San Francisco, that came about as that. So when you start to look at the problem of drugs and drug sales, take into regard what happened before that. Moderator thank you very much. Mr. Preston. Yeah. I mean, i think we cant look at this without looking at the history of what was alluded to. Were looking at decades of a failed war on drugs that resulted in mass incarceration. You know, if youre looking for appear supervisor thats going to further the mass incarceration by pushing for arrests and long sentences for streetlevel drug sales, i may not be your guy. I mean, i think that the reality is if were going to focus our prosecutorial resources on our police, we should be focusing much higher up in the food chain, of the folks that are bringing the Illegal Drugs into our streets and not punishing. A lot of folks who lack Economic Opportunity and are engaged in streetlevel dealing. At the end of the day, similar to my previous responses, we need to offer Something Better to the folks who are selling Illegal Drugs on the street. So that they optimistic opt into that, as opposed to thinking punishments and sentences will solve it. Moderator thank you very much. This next question. Well start with you, ms. Omeara. Its a changeup. Im sorry. Thats okay. Moderator oh, no, its not. Im getting ahead of myself. Thank you, audience. Ms. Brown. Yes. You know, regarding the criminal rings that come in and bring the drugs, theres a real problem. I know ive been talking to supervisor haney about it. Because the tenderloin is on fire with that. You have the criminal rings coming in. And i definitely feel Law Enforcement should step up. Absolutely. Then you have the street dealing. How this is where we need to have programs come in and take people aside and get them into programs, whether most of them have their own drug abuse issues. We need to be able to get them aside, get them into programs and then give them opportunities. You really have to work handinhand. You cant just go out and do hardcore enforcement, without giving you want toos. And this is something that the city has been looking at and been working on. , but we definitely need to go after the criminal rings, because they actually they actually are predators to our people on the streets. Moderator thank you very much. Okay. This next question. Were going to speak of something near and dear to my heart, aging. [laughter] and were going to start with ms. Omeara. How will you support those aiming and living aging and living with their disabilities here in San Francisco . You mean when im supervisor . Moderator yes. Okay. How would i support . Well, the current status of the aging, as i have observed, i worked in mental health. Dual diagnosis programs. I have a varied clientele in that population. Its a difficult one. But its critical to the city that we provide housing to our seniors. They are less able to move around. And i think interest in our elders is a connection from the past to the future. The youth being the future. The elderly being the one that park on that knowledge. Its very important for a collective kind of consciousness. So my my sorry, my take on that is its one of its not just a moral imperative to provide housing and disability to them. We owe it to our seniors. Moderator thank you very much. Mr. Preston. Yeah. We have certainly have a housing crisis, affordability crisis for everyone. But we have an affordability crisis for seniors, that is really acute. We a little have a crisis in terms of longterm care in the city, where folks there are simply not enough beds for folks or places for people to stay and people end up moving to different counties, disconnected from their communities. So housing and safe shelter. Absolutely essential for us to seriously invest in that for our seniors. But i also think that there are a number of other issues that disproportionately impact seniors. Certainly Pedestrian Safety is a huge issue for our aging population, with most of our serious injuries and deaths in district 5 from folks walking on the streets. Folks or seniors near Senior Centers. I think we need to look at not just the housing issues, but the safety and stability of seniors as a top priority for any supervisor in San Francisco. Moderator thank you very much. Ms. Brown. Yes. I mean, seniors are the Fastest Growing population in this city. So we really have to really look at what we need to do. We also, besides housing and on the housing bond, the 600 million housing bond that i actually worked on, there will be money for senior housing. We need appropriate housing. I talked to many seniors every day. And one of the things they say is like, look, i have rent control. But i have you know, 50 stairs up to get to my apartment. And i have a hard time managing that. So we have to build the right kind of senior housing, so people can actually have elevators with Senior Services on site. This is something that were doing with prop a. But also we have to look at transportation, because a lot of seniors give up cars or, you know, or they actually start using transportation a lot more. We have to make it safe. Unless we have safe transportation and its reliable, muni is reliable, seniors, most of us wont use this, especially seniors. So theres a lot of things that we need to do. And thats what were pushing for. Moderator thank you very much. Mr. Lam. Yes. One of my priorities is safety, as i mentioned. And with my intensive Infrastructure Improvement plan, i want to make sure that streets, lights and timers are provided near Senior Centers. I live near two Senior Centers with no timers. You just sort of just talk across the street. And something bad can happen there, because a senior on their wheelchair could take more time than the average pedestrian. I want to continue the pensions and benefits that seniors receive, given by california and the city and county of San Francisco. And i want to make sure that everyday activities, seniors going to buy groceries at the market, or going to the park, i want to make sure theyre accessible. That means having senior accusations on transportation. Moderator thank you very much. Miss omeara. Theres one thing that everybody left out. It got me thinking a little while back on the senior issue. Like i would like people to hear it and know how you respond. Wellness centers is one thing i associate with seniors. I know this from personal experience, because having lived with my inlaws a little while back hold on. Ill be real quick. The Wellness Center is critical to the well being of seniors, when you have a pool. Moderator thank you. A gym, a jacuzzi. Its Critical Condition the Affordable Housing range. Thats something that needs to be implemented. Thank you. Moderator thank you. Thank you very much. I went out of order. But you had answered already. But thank you for that information. Thank you. Moderator it was spoken about when dealing with seniors that traffic is an issue. Crossingthe streets can be an issue. So starting with mr. Preston, what is your plan to address traffic problems until district 5 . The question being crossing octavia by foot is dangerous. Yeah. The streets are incredibly unsafe, despite the visionzero plan, were five years in a tenyear plan to eliminate if the fatalities for pedestrians. Theyre not going down. We have a lot of work to do. Im an everyday muni rider. I have been for the last 26 years. I believe that we need to be investing in Public Transportation. I think we also need to be standing up to uber and lyft, who have privatized and congested and made our streets far less safe. Ive never ordered an uber or lyft in my life. I dont plan to. I object strongly to ubers Business Plan, which is to take people off of Public Transportation and put them into private vehicles. They have admitted that that is their Business Plan in the s. E. C. Filings. So i think these things are what are congesting the city. [applause] again if you privatize Public Transportation and if you can make a lot of money, privatizing Public Transportation, youre going to see the results, which is a congested city, thats unsafe for folks who are cyclists and pedestrians. Moderator thank you very much. Ms. Brown. Well, yes. And i mean one of the things with vision zero is a lot of times we get pushback from neighbors. I mean, thats really truthful. We want to take out a parking space so people can see you on the corner. Theres a lot of things to do with vision zero and push forward. We need to really look at not having people turn right on a red light. I think thats something. And then also on if the larger streets, like visadero. Thats one of the reasons that a woman an 80yearold woman was killed on the road, someone was trying to rush through the traffic, the two lanes of traffic and hit her while turning left. So these are the things that we need to do. We need to do those fast. But i think that we are the board of supervisors has said we want to push vision zero much faster. And we need to do that. Its not only for pedestrians, because whether you ride a bike, youre a pedestrian. We really need to do this kind of work as fast as possible. Moderator thank you very much. Mr. Lam. Yes. So i agree. I think for bikes and doctor bikers and pedestrians. If you put a sign or a light up, its going to stay there for over 20 years maybe. And just you have a sign there and you cant turn right. People know. Hopefully we reached vision zero some day. And if you want better more people riding Public Transportation, instead of driving, i think we need to incentivize that. I think we need better transportation and more people will flock towards Public Transportation. So that means paying muni drivers better, that means instituting the improvements that bart has been making on bart. Theyre adding new cars and making sure that the Public Transportation arrives in a timely manner, without it being completely packed with people and rush hour. So improving Public Transportation will have more people riding Public Transportation. Moderator thank you very much. Thank you. Ms. Omeara. Oh, are we just attributing this transportation problem just to the octavia corridor . Moderator no. Traffic problems in general. Well, i think i talked to some of my neighbors last week about this transport situation in the city. And these are these are occasions. I understand the need for bikers. Im a biker myself, et cetera. And that there are changes. One thing i want to share with you, what my constituency said, who are these people that are hired by city hall, when the person comes from washington, d. C. And what do they know about the streets in San Francisco or how they design them. Or what kind of outreach is being done by sfmta. Some of the, theres not enough consultation or none. In fact, we need to reexamine that by asking the question, if sfmta is the one responsible together with vallies job as supervisor, then they are not doing their job. They are not theyre not connecting with the community or advising them. Moderator thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Again i know or ive heard in watching, if i watch tv all the time id hear it constantly about uber and lyft in the city. The question is how can the board of supervisors influence the Planning Department and the sfmta to consider the impacts of uber, lyft and the commute buses that go through the city. And ms. Brown, its your question. Well, weve already had those studies. We know its a huge impact. We have around 30,000 uber drivers a day in this city. So what we have to do is we have to make sure transportation works. So when i first got into city hall, i called a hearing because muni wasnt working. You stand on carl and cole and people waiting for a bus and you see the time keep going up and up. All of a sudden people pill off and are taking uber and lyft. So if it doesnt work, its not going to be used. One of the things that the hearing showed was that were 400 drivers a day short. We spent millions and millions of dollars on buses and trains, but none on the drivers. So one of the things and how can we have reliable muni we dont have operators. One of the things i did was i worked to make sure that the muni operators had a fair contract, they have a fair contract. They just had the first class a few weeks ago with the new contract. And we had 80 people in this class. Before it was only like 20 people. Because muni wasnt making enough money. We were training the drivers and then they would leave after 18 months to go get a better job somewhere else. So we have to be able to have drivers to have a reliable muni. Moderator thank you very much. And mr. Lam. How about you repeat the question, so that we stay on track here. How account board of supervisors influence the Planning Department and the sfmta to consider the impacts of uber, lyft and commute buses. Well, im sure they do know the effects of uber and lyft. Theres obviously proposition going on right now, i believe its proposition d or f. I forget. We cant hear yo