Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240712

Policing, its never been an Institution Designed to keep us safe and used as a tool for those in power to keep the marginalized people from rising up, going all the way back to the slave patrol. Sharing im the policing unfairly targets marginalized communities, injects massive amounts of people into the prison system. We heard about reform from chief scott today, but all those measures ignore the fact that reform is not effective. We need to defund and sfpd and invest in our communities immediately. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. It cannot force you to create money in a budget. Cut the budget and cut the numbers of police and Fund Services that help humans. End the violence against black and brown people that is built into policing. I disagree with supervisors assessment of what his constituents want. We want services, not Police Officers. I have heard on this call that over time sfpd at the airport, the focus of sfpd and the mandated reforms are not well understood by sfpd in the city. We all know the rest of the city budget is severely underfunded. We can defund education. We can defund supportive housing, the unhoused population, but we need to hold the line on sfpds budget . No. Cut this budget and focus on human health and safety. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, can you hear me . Yes, we can, caller. Please begin. Hi name is daniel and im a Software Engineer living in district 6. Research shows that a living wage Educational Opportunities and housing are far more successful at reducing crime than police or prisons. As much, i demand more financial supports be directed to those aids. Many Community Organizations can serve as alternatives to policing. Do not forget our poor communities and communities of color who are disproportionate targets to Police Violence. Justice will only be served when the police are reformed, and this will not be possible until we defund them. I would like to take a moment of silence for those slain by cops in an unjust system. Please reflect on who and why we are fighting. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, this is shaun pack, and im a resident of San Francisco district 1. I just want to reiterate basically whats been said on the line previously. I want to mention that basically the fact that were actually here discussing this today speaks a lot to the tone deafness of our Political Leadership here in this city. The fact that were talking about draconian cuts to the School Budget and budgets to assist the unhoused while adding more money to the Police Budget is just mind blowing. Id like to say and support that we immediately defund and divest from the San Francisco Police Department, and again, investing in communities, particularly communities of color, black, indigenous and people of color, the trans communities, and the unhoused that we step up our funding for schools in this city, stepped up our supports for the unhoused, assisting these populations. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, supervisors, hi name is kaelin rushknorr and i live in district five. I like everyone else on this call have been waiting for five hours since the start of this hearing to leave a oneminute comment demanding that sfpd be defunded. I truly hope our demands are not going ignored. The city must defund sfpd in this years budget and instead invest in Public Health, education and social services. Resources that actually uplift our Community Members. While reforms may be well intentioned, antiblackness is not something we can reform or train away. The city has implemented in the past and sfpd continues to disproportionately target black and brown communities. The supervisor already mentioned [indiscernible] from last year about sfpd such as a use of force against black and brown residents. It is evident that Police Reforms are a flimsy band aid on top of the deadly infection of the Police System and the only true remedy is to defund and disband sfpd. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, im calling along with the 400 other people on line. Moderator, can you let us know if the supervisors are, in fact, on the call . I find it, like, complete and utter bullshit that weve all been waiting on the call for five hours and we cannot see any of them, or the police chief. Moderator, im speaking directly to you in this moment. To the caller, this is Public Comment. This is your opportunity to help provide us with your insight. Im pausing your time. There is no dialogue in the middle of Public Comment. So ill be restarting your time. Im leaving my Public Comment for the people on this call, and i have no idea if they are actually there or listening. We are here and we are listening. We have been waiting for five hours. We are here and we are listening to every single caller. We are here. Thank you. Supervisor ronenan, were all here. This is supervisor lee. Were all here. Thank you. Supervisor fewer, are you still there . [indiscernible] 200 people [beeping]. Thank you for your comments. Hello . Next caller, please. Hi, my name is michael. I live in district 3. Im calling to echo the demands to defund the police and refund Public Health and Public Housing. The unjustified killings and brute liesations of unarmed people is entirely predictable. A police force is operating under these current rules and responsibilities. Some percentage is going to be overtly racist. 100 are going to be subject to unconscious biases. These cannot be trained away. Under the Current Conditions it is inevitable that the killing of people of color is going to continue. The budget you put forward reflects your values and it should reflect the values of your constituents. Currently its not doing that. Defund the police this year, reinvest in Public Housing, Public Education and the unhoused. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please hello, caller . Caller, are you there . Oh, hello. Hi. My name is brittany. I live in hi. Im an rn with the department of health. I know the city has been planning cuts to funding to all the departments and yet the sfpd is exempt. I think that is unacceptable. Yes, our communities are not safe, but safety does not come from more policing. We know that safety comes from having our basic needs met. Shelter, food, health care for a start. Working for the city i have seen far too much suffering. It needs to stop. We must first fund our priorities. Once our health care and educational systems are funded, once everyone has secure housing and affordable, free, accessible Public Transit, once the streets are free of needles and human feces, once everyone has food and a living wage, once every child has a beautiful park to play in, then sfpd can have what is left over. If the sfpds goal is truly safety in our communities, then of course they will agree. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is camilla, and ive lived in San Francisco my whole life. Sfpds chief scott spoke a lot about building a 21st Century Police department with institutionalized reforms. This will not stop street violence we are witnessing in our communities. We do not want reforms. They have not worked. Reforms is what has created this system in the first place. Not a Single Person in the Public Comment has asked for Police Reforms. Every Single Person has zd to defund, disarm and disband, and to be clear we didnt want to replace it with a model of Community Policing. The Police Department just calls themselves the guardians of our community. Nearly half of the sfpd use of force cases last year involved black people. Violence and weapons will not keep us safe. Supervisor, i am your constituent, and listening to your comments today to completely overlook we will vote you out. Defund the police now. These alternatives already exist. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is natalie, and i study and work in San Francisco. First off, i just want to say the sfpd is the most useless asset of this city. It makes me want to throw up knowing that the tax money being taken from a poor learn like me goes directly to racist murderers. How is it that the average sfpd compensation is almost 200,000 a year . That can easily put 433 children in Daycare Services. Youre telling me that sfpd will receive a 43 million increase when schools are facing 26 million in cuts . Alone had over 300 classes cut. This budget issue has been prevalent ever since. To the officers that can make a change but refuse to do so, and even bigger you all. Youre all going to burn in hell. Donald trump. None of you deserve anything nice in this life. Defund, disband and dismantle sfpd. Bye. I am a graduate San Francisco state Public Health program. I am calling like everyone else to demand the defunding of the police and in addition to that we need to do criminal [indiscernible] in the first place and prioritize Harm Reduction and safe injection sites. Our priority should be to support families. [indiscernible] issues if we address the upstream issues and prioritize housing, education, Mental Health and Public Transportation, we will eliminate the need for a police force in the first place. We need to police only protect racial capitalism and the needs of the elite classes. We need to Defund Police and reallocate resources so that black and brown people can thrive. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, speaker. Hi. Im a part of a resident of district 8, and im asking to redirect the funds from sfpds budget to go to Public Health, housing and other targets of policing. Im asking for the funds that would be allocated to sfpd to be allocated to communities and other organizations that are trained to be able to handle the issues. Sfpds budget does not correlate to our values. Sfpds budget comes at the expense of housing and social services, resources that create Public Safety. [indiscernible] policing in most cities, but at the same time our education spending per capita is half or less than other major cities, and it makes not any sense for sfpd to get an increase at all while schools are facing 26 million in cuts. As discussion of this meeting. Sfpd officer compensation, 188,000, hundreds of children can get Daycare Services with the same amount of money as one officers salary. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Yes, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Please begin. Can you hear me . Yes, speaker. You may begin. Hello. Thank you. Thank you very much. I just want to say hello to all the people that have diligently waited on the line to share their view that it is time to defund, disband, abolish the San Francisco Police Department and redirect these wasted funds to things that the community in San Francisco actually needs. My name is jeremy miller. Im a district 11 resident. I echo this, and i also, despite the fact that we would support a complete defunding now, [indiscernible] our elected representatives are wanting more incremental approach. So i will say this four years ago in 2016, former Supervisor John Avalos put candidate introduced an ordinance to put on hold thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, im calling because its time for San Francisco to be a leader, and we the people have been telling you that all of us here on this call, San Francisco residents, like myself, i grew up here, dont want or need police and that reform doesnt work when the reforming had an origin had the intention of controlling slaves. So we dont want to reform the police, and we have the right to reimagine it, which means getting rid of police and starting over completely, creating a new system. And so if youre not on board, ask yourself why and what racist ideas youre too afraid of to let go. All cops are bad not because they are bad people but because it is impossible to have a position of being a cop and be good because in itself cops were originally created for patrolling police. So its thats all i have to say. I yield my time. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is natalia and i live, work and study in district 4 of San Francisco. I urge the board to make racially motivated 911 calls illegal. These calls are so dangerous because the sfpd is juriously violent towards brak people. The hearings to reform and how you brush off ethnic cleansing, murder and exorbitant costs of specialized units such as mounted, motorcycle, marine, homeless, narcotic and gang units, all of which have failed to address homelessness and have only succeeding in tracking, controlling and incarcerating black and brown youth. Recently Text Messages between the mayor and the police chief show the mayor to tell them to clean clear and fix areas of unhoused people. They dont have the empathy or training. We must reimagine what Public Safety for all looks like. You can find our complete concerns at thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, supervisor mandelman, and everyone on the board of supervisors, thank you. Im a Public Health researcher, educator and esf member. Im calling to urge you to work with the San Francisco board of education and uesf to reallocate funds from sf Law Enforcement agencies to San Franciscos unified. They are taking 3 cuts off health and supportive services, we look forward to a 3 cut of sfpd, which is over 20 million, and would be allocated to aur 27 million deficit. In 2018, american Public Health Association Found investment to reforms, including implicit bias, do not mitigate harm or increase accountability. However, Public Health interventions to address policing in marginalized communities include divestment and investment in Public Education and [indiscernible] communities, as well as implementing communitybased alternatives to addressing interpersonal harms and preventing trauma, including Crisis Response thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, i live in district 1. A couple of weeks ago i was sitting in my car at a red light and someone wandered into the street. They were lifting their shirt, disoriented, perhaps under the influence, and they didnt have a mask. They walked towards my car and tried to open the door, and i didnt let them in my car, but i also wanted to help them, so when i asked myself who can i call, the only Public Service option available to call is the police, and i was afraid to call the police because of the history of Police Brutality and racism. I wanted to call someone who could find this person a safe place to be and give them access to services. Its heartbreaking that there are no Public Services i can call without fear to help someone in my community. Please listen to what your Community Needs. They dont need reforms. They dont need police. They need access to services. Please defund the police and invest in your community. I cede my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors. My name is ali. I live in district nine and i work for the city. Im calling for defunding the San Francisco Police Department this year in the interests of Public Safety. As a city resident, like the previous caller, i am afraid to call 911 because i have witnessed enough Police Violence and harassment towards black neighbors that i know Police Presence actually threatening their safety. As a city employee, i am outraged to know that San Francisco spends more money per capita on policing than most major cities. Because, as sfpds budget has risen astronomically and promised reforms that havent materialized, certify workers in other departments are increasingly being classified as temporary workers. Child care, Youth Programming and health care. We have caps on our hours, limiting us to parttime status, unlike police who do not receive overtime, health care or retirement benefits. This includes and classified as essential. The outbreak at laguna hospital earlier this year. Many of these workers are bipoc and because they are also poor thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is heidi. Im from district 5. [indiscernible] we specifically need money on housing and muni and services that are more appropriate than our current situation, including the coronavirus emergency. Things like parks and rec, libraries and entrylevel jobs for our many unemployed. We have been transit first since 1973, visions of 2014 and the Police Department hasnt enforced either of those. Ive spent years asking for better enforcement of the focus on the five and vision zero, and now im asking no enforcement. Im asking for defund because it doesnt work. Weve been asking for accountability. Weve been asking for reform. It hasnt happened. Traffic enforcement should go to muni. Libraries are providing Necessary Services right now. We should ask Police Officers to be contact tracers but thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello . Hello. Hi, my name is anna and im a resident of district five. Im calling to demand the defunding of sfpd in this years budget and ask that it be redirected towards Public Health, Public Housing and reparations to communities that have been more sfpds budget is about 736 Million Dollars and social services, resources that create real Public Safety for all. Why should sfpd get a 43 million increase while schools are facing 26 million in cuts. What does this budget say about our values . Which do you think is more important to a healthy city . Educating children or policing poor people. For less than half of the sfpd budget, 320 million, we can house every single unhoused person in San Francisco while still having money left over to invest in health care, free Public Transit, education, universal child care and alternative safety programs that actually keep us all safe. Defund sfpd and refund our communities. Your time is up, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, im calling to urge the supervisors to defund sfpd. Sfpds history of behavior has been unacceptable. They have had more than enough time to address this and dragged their feet every step of the way. Four years after receiving the recommendation to reform, sfpd has completed a mere 22 of them. By this standard, it would take at least another 18 years to address all the recommendations which will have been almost 25 years old by that time. This is absolutely unacceptable and gives me no faith that chief scott promises of reform will yield any results especially since past reforms have failed many communities again and again. As they have been disproportionately stopped, arrested and killed by the police. Sfpds over 7 million of funds should be redistributed to other measures that address the root of the major problems of Public Safety in sf as opposed to responding merely to the symptoms of violence. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I am calling to advocate that we replace Police Funding for funding for Public Safety and social services, and as a result defund the sfpd may have been trying to scare us when they said not cops but social workers should respond to crisis on the street. Thats exactly the future we deserve. We could invest in Real Solutions with the money we save by defunding police. A 43 million increase for sfpd is obscene, especially in this moment as many of my colleagues on the phone have decried. Black and brown people are heavily overrepresented among those arrested, cited and killed by police, despite being underrepresented in our community here in San Francisco. I was disgusted and ashamed by the racist Text Messages that have been discussed earlier and horrified by every innocent life taken by the sfpd. We deserve better as a community, and i expect that our supervisors will deliver a Better Community for us. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Before i call the next speaker, lets see, there are 205 listeners and 148 in the queue. Your participation is important to us, so we do appreciate your patience. If you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Next speaker, please, hello, caller . [please stand by] eight minutes and 46 seconds as an incident and not as murder is exactly why reform will do nothing and why the sfpd should be defunded and disbanded immediately. If we are talking about the infrastructure needed for crime prevention, lets talk about funding our schools, instead of cutting their budgets by 26 million. Lets direct city funds to the Small Businesses in our black and brown communities that are holding the most. Lets fund organizations by t. L. C. Thank you for your time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, supervisor, i am Kaitlyn Galloway in district nine. I wish i could see your video feed, i know this is a long meeting. I care a lot about this city and i want to child in to demand the defunding of sfpd, not incrementally but now. The budget increase proposed is unacceptable. Its honestly wildly inappropriate given not only the budget disaster our School District is facing, for example, but also given the racialized violence that is foundational to police, this department included. And given the lack of alternative services available. And i am hearing argument that reform is expensive and i find that unacceptable. A nationwide demand for police defunding, not expensive Police Reform is here. Its not going away. We need s. F. To be a bold leader here. We are your constituents and we want a visionary rethinking of Public Safety. Were counting on you. Thank you, supervisors. Clerk thank you, miss galloway. Next speaker, please. Hello,caller . Caller hello . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller ah, yes. Yes, thanks for listening to me. My name is brian, im in district district 6. Yeah, and im also calling to ask for the vote to reject the sfpd budget. I understand that the sfpd have a really hard job, a difficult job in general, and i also think that chief scott and the sfpds intent intentions for reform are legitimate, however, i think that a better and safer approach would be to pursue restorative justice. If we were to allocate that to communities instead and to build them up, it would result in a safer situation for the community as well as for the police, and black lives, and i think if we were to reduce that funding and focus on nonescalating approaches to our daily emergencies that happen in the city, that i think that in general it would be a better place for all of us. Yeah, thank you very much for hearing us. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . Caller hello . Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller hi, i am ionni, and i live here in San Francisco. And all over the city and on this phone call, hundreds of people have said what i am about to say. The time is now to Defund Police throughout the city. We demand the defunding of the Police Department in this budget and to redirect it towards trust and housing and for communities, including black and indigenous and people of color, trans needs and these marginalized communities will not be indiscernible and we must consider all of us. So we must defund sfpd and refund our community. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, im eric douglas, a renter in district 5. Im calling in to demand that sfpd be defunded and that the money be redirected towards muni housing and other Public Services. Events around the country have shown that police are not concerned about all of the public when thinking about safety, in general just property owners. And policing wont feed the hungry or find people jobs. Muni is to have a revenue loss of 500 million over the next four years as reported in the chronicle. Theyll likely have to cut most transit lines which essential workers and the rest of us need. It is essential to a clean and healthy city and the Police Budget has enough to pay for munis losses. Please redirect the budget to save our buses, thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello. My name is anise, im a resident of district 11 and an alumna of sfpd. I demand that you completely defund sfpd in this years budget and to redirect towards Public Health and education and transportation and reparations for communities that have been most targeted by imprisonment. Its clear that the countless reforms made in the past do not work. Sfpd ped goes towards violence h results in the murder of our most vulnerable citizens and residents, which is unacceptable. We must defund the police now. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller my name is mateena and im the executive director of eviction programs. And i think that the messages that you have heard are clear. The question is really not if, but how how does the city reinvest these funds into the community . Last year the city invested more in settling civil rights lawsuits involving police than the representation act, a law that guarantees the right to counsel for every San Francisco tenant facing eviction. As you know, African Americans only make up 5 of San Franciscos population and yet represent 30 of the people seeking our services during shelterinplace. And yet represent 69 of the people seeking our services during shelterinplace. It would take half of the sfpd budget, and wed still have money left over for health care, free Public Transit, education, universal child care and alternative safety programs that keep us all safe. Clerk the speaker time has elapsed. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller good morning, supervisors. I am jen and i live in San Francisco. As someone who has personally experienced Police Brutality firsthand, a few weeks ago sfpd a few weeks ago i say that the wrath has been indiscriminate. I have heard a lot of talk about reform and policy changes in this meeting and to be quite frank, thats not enough. How many times must history repeat itself before you learn . Police tactics are based off fear and oppression and hurt black and t. O. C. They are rooted in racism and cannot be reformed. They lack accountability and they need to be defunded and disbanded and should not be given any budget increase. I dont know why this is up for discussion. Thank you, i yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller caller can you hea . Clerk yes, we can. Caller hello . Hi. Good evening, supervisors. I live in district 5. I am echoing everything that everyone else said, calling to defund and disarm and dismantle the sfpd. Its ridiculous that we spend over 700 million on sfpd last year alone. There was over 11 million spent on policing, and i think is absolutely ridiculous. And so im calling on you to not talk about more reforms or anything of that nature. We know that doesnt work. We need to completely abolish the sfpd. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good evening, supervisors. My name is tori liceon and im a lawyer for the civil rights in the San Francisco bay area. And San Francisco and nationwide need to disfund and disband the police. My record as an attorney supports the rights of those with homelessness. Sfpd should not be part of it, and its a way to ensure that citys unhoused communities are not indiscernible and so for the noncriminal activity of being poor. Further, the sfpd spends time and resources towing cars, and the driver owes the debt to the city for unpaid tickets and unpaid registration. It stems from poverty and yet results in the loss of their own shelter. The sfpd does not keep our Community Safe. We call on the board of supervisors to cut the budget and to restore the justice model that prioritizes the safety and health and for communities of color clerk the speaker time has elapsed. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is kailee and i work in San Francisco. Were demanding sfpds budget to be defunded and go towards Mental Health and housing and reparations for our black, brown and trans and unhoused communities. Most targeted by police and imprisonment. Blacks account for 35 of our unhoused population, 54 of our jail population and 40 of people who are killed by police. Police and prisons exist to uphold White Supremacy and not to keep us safe. 320 million could help every unhoused person in San Francisco. We could have money left over for education and universal child care and alternative safety programs that actually keep us all safe. We know that reforms are infective. We want the sfpd disbanded. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . Caller hello. Hi, my name is brena marktello and im a resident in district 5 and i work here as well. And im calling like so many others to defund, disarm and disband sfpd now in this years budget. I find it absolutely ridiculous that black people make up 5 of San Franciscos population, but account for 35 of our Homeless Population and 54 of our jail population. This is absolutely insane when we live in one eve of the wealtt and progressive cities in america that we cannot find a way to defund the police and redirect that money to housing People Living on the street, especially during a pandemic. This is something that we need to figure out immediately, and it is inhumane and it is disgusting. And i demand that we defund sfpd immediately and redirect this redirect the budget to housing our most vulnerable communities which tend to be black and brown people. Black lives matter. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. My name is johnny cothier and i work for the city and county of San Francisco. I have a privilege to be a member of 121. Police dont protect our communities, they harm them. Police reform does not work and balloons our citys budget during a time when our city is struggling. The time is now to defund sfpd, and reinvest that money interest a Just Recovery for our communities around economic justice. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . Caller oh, hello. Good afternoon. My name is Matilda Moore and im a resident of district 9. I vote in local elections and pay property taxes here in San Francisco. I stand behind those who have spoken early on this call for abolishing the sfpd. As often said, a budget is a moral document and sfpds budget, over 700 million, comes at the expense of housing and social services. Today less than 5 of sfpd calls are in response to Violent Crimes. Most are related to unhoused people, traffic and noise complaints. Sfpd is not a tool to address these issues. The time is now to defund, disarm and disband sfpd. This is what the people are calling for. This is not a time for mitigation or further attempts at reform. We demand that defunding of sfpd in this years budget. The funds must be directed towards health and housing and reparations for communities clerk the callers time has elapsed. Thank you, thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. Im a constituent in your district. And im here like all of the other callers today to say that i dont think that sfpd makes me safer. I dont think one cent of their money makes me safer. And heres the reason why i would like to articulate why. I think that the priority is entirely out of order. I think that they beat and politically oppress us. I think they show up in protests in rapid order, but i dont think they have the money for masks and i dont think they have the priority or the care to deal with a dead 6yearold. Certainly, not the Homeless People. They dont do their jobs. But what they do do is politically oppress us. They show up at the protests, they beat us mercilessly. They are brutal, they are part of the police state that is in this country and destroying what it means to be an american. Their brutality is evil. Clerk speaker time has elapsed. Thank you, thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, caller, you may begin. Caller hello. Hi, my name is sabinna shaw and i work in San Francisco and im here representing the trans advocates for justice and accountability. Im speaking today because black trans women and trans women of color have been harmed by sfb, and ticketed and jailed on trumped up charges. Trans women of color have never relied on police for our safety and they have assaulted and outed and harmed our community. We live in a city where Police Receive a larger portion of the budget than any other vital city service. Whereas the other services serve our community and help to keep us safe. The budget cuts being proposed for sfpd are actually 23. 2 million increase over last year. We need investment in trans communities and we need investment in black communities and we need investments in communities of color, not police. We demand that at least 50 of the sfpd budget to be reallocated and into services that our city needs, with violence prevention clerk thank you, the speaker time has elapsed. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good evening, supervisors. Im in district 9. We demand the defunding of sfpd and to be redirected towards Public Health and housing and reparations for communities. Less than 5 of the sfpd calls are for protection, it is clear and evident that sfpd has been called to many situations and only 5 are in response to Violent Crimes. And the response from everyone who raided this question continues to advocate the fact that sf pd are not equipped and not subject Matter Experts in Mental Health and deescalation and everyone who continues to highlight this extremely important fact, they have all pointed to the solution of defundinfunding and reallocatine budget back into the community, especially black and brown marginalized communities. We are asking for Public Safety for all. We must defund sfpd and refund the communities. I yield my time. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Caller hello . Clerk yes, caller. Caller hello. Clerk we can hear you. Caller hi. Clerk hello, caller, you may begin. Caller sorry, i was muted. Hello, my name is jessica and im a resident of district 5. I live and work in San Francisco. The sfpd disproportionately harms black communities. Black people make up just 5 of San Franciscos population but account for 35 of our Homeless Population. 54 of our jailed population. And 40 of people who are killed by police. If black lives matter, lets house black families, not murder them. Thank you. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, my name is lawrence jinker and i work near bernal hill where Police Killed alex. Im calling for the complete defunding of the sfpd and to use these funds for Critical Services that s. F. Residents need. Its clear that the supervisors are merely paying lip service to the act of protecting the budget instead of needing to focus on protecting the city from the sfpd. Our Police Department is a racist organization and they protect those in power and the wealthy and the white. An organization like this will never provide actual Public Safety. Again, defunding sfpd and to vote out any elected officials who do not support this mission. Its also ridiculous to see the supervisors confirm they are listening but havent turned on their cameras. Thats just a cowardly act. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . Caller never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How they be the initiate yailtors if they themselves are the sponsors of violence. There would be no oppressed had there been no prior situation of violence. We have a simple message, we are the working poor. We run this kitchen. Come cook with us. Or be eaten. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is bonnie fisk and im a resident and i work in San Francisco. Im calling with the rest of my colleagues on the line to demand that we defund San Francisco Police Department in this years budget. And im askin asking that we ret the funds towards Public Health and housing and reparations for communities that have been most targeted by policing. The proposed budget for sfpd is an awful reflection of our values, for less than half of that money we could give every unhoused person in San Francisco a home while still having money left over to invest in health care, free Public Transit and education and universal health care. Excuse me, universal child care and alternative safety programs. The sfpds budget has increased by 76 over the past 12 years and i want you to imagine what the impacts on our beautiful city would be if we had invested in other things. But as weve also heard from so many clerk speaker time has elapsed. Thank you. Thank you for your call. Next speaker, please. Caller indiscernible and redirect indiscernible for the communities most affected by policing. indiscernible sfpd budget allows. indiscernible 43 million increase. indiscernible so less than half of the sfpd budget could house every unhoused person in San Francisco. Free Public Transit. indiscernible . Clerk speaker time has elapsed. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Caller i live in San Francisco in district 5. The current budget should be reevaluated to defund and disarm and redirect the funds towards housing and social services, hit an health and edu. I agree with the comment that we must reimagine Public Safety for all by scrutinizing this budget and evaluating what the needs are for San Francisco. The current Budget Allocation and the funding allocation of sfpd versus health, Education Systems and social services exposes disparity and the weight and importance of the values of the city. This is alarming. The proposed Police Budget has an increase of a percentage that is higher than Human Welfare and neighborhood development. This is a decrease. The city and county budget increases that 1 whereas the total force for Police Protection is at 6 . This is problematic. There were issues with homelessness and Mental Health issues. Clerk the speaker time has elapsed. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, i am Jason Wiseman and im a resident of district 10. We need to defund and abolish all police, including sfpd. Just today it was admitted that the mounted unit is a 2. 2 million p. R. Light item, the honda unit is a unit to the tune of 3. 5 million. And will be reallocated though theres no m. O. U. And at 11. 1 million to homelessness response, a. K. A. Harassment. You cannot reform corruption. Please defund and abolish sfpd so we have the will and the resources to reorganize for society and Center Giving land back, reparations, housing, Public Health and healing, true and whole accessibility, education, joy and leisure and art. Thank you. And turn on your cameras, please. This is really disrespectful. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Caller hi, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller hi, everyone. I am sydney and i grew up in San Francisco and i live here in district 11. I would like to reiterate what literally everybody else said, that the sfpd needs to be defunded and not reformed. We have seen time and time again reforms dont work. Something that stood out for me is in 2019, black students made up only 7 of the sfpd student body but accounted for 43 of children cited or detained at school. On top of that black people make up just 5 of San Franciscos population but account for 40 of those killed by police. Black lives are important and thats why we must defund and not reform. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good evening, i was born and raised in district 1. And it is time to defund and disarm and disband the sfpd. As someone who grew up in this city i never felt that police keep us safe, but more importantly, my whole life i have known that the sfpd disproportionately harms black communities. Attempts to reform sfpd have failed miserably. In 2019, 76 of all force were against people of color. We are not asking for reforms and we denounce the 43 million increase in the Police Budget that chief scott was defending earlier today. Reforms dont work. Its time to defund, not reform sfpd, and to refund our community. This is a plea for Public Safety for all. Black lives matter. I yield my time. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good evening, supervisors, i am anna goldoff. And im calling to demand defunding of sfpd in this years budget. And imagine what the city would be like if you invested in anything else as much as you invest in police. Police officers trying to respond to people who need drug therapy and rehabilitation, not violence. People who need a place to sleep and feel safe, not violence. People who need food to eat and water, not violence. And those who need counselling and support and not a life within the criminal justice system, and going through the prison pipeline. People are met with violence at the hands of police and end up in jails and prisons where they will experience more violence, dehumanization, and during this pandemic, exposure to covid19 with little or no health intervention. And your view is having armed guards roaming the street and threatening violence. Safety for all. Now is the time clerk the speakers time hashas elapsed. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, supervisor, im julia ferris and im a resident of district 9. I call to urge the board of supervisors to defund sfpd in this years budget and to redirect the funds towards things that truly make communities safe. Public health, housing, Mental Health, housing, transportation, and recreation for communities that have been the most targeted and disproportionately harmed by policing. Supervisors, you have an unprecedented opportunity right now to reimagine what Public Safety for all looks like in San Francisco. And to actively to work to dismantle systems of policing that have been long been rooted in ideas that are antiblack, antiimmigrant and antilatin x, and under racist assumptions about whose safety matters and whose lives matter. We need to truly ask ourselves if we contribute to safety in our society and city and give funds accordingly. Its unacceptable that theres 43 million for sfpd. The time for incremental reform has passed. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Caller im a resident of district 3. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller oh, hi, i am Lauren Church and im living in district 3, as well as working in San Francisco. Im here to echo and lift up the urgent demand that we have heard from the Community Today and particularly from directly impacted black people and people of color. We demand that you, our elected representatives, defund, disarm and disband sfpd now in this years budget. Funds must be redirected towards housing and reparations for communities that have been most targeted by policing and imprisonment, including black, indigenous and people of color, trans communities and the unhoused. Police dont keep us safe and they harm our communities. We must reimagine what Public Safety looks like for all. We have identified the cuts that you could make right now to defundsfpd. Com. I yield my time. Clerk next speaker, pleas please. Hello . Hello, caller . Caller hi, im ann koch and i live in district 1. We need to defund and disarm and disband sfpd now. And it can only be addressed by completely dismantling the Current System and put in a new way of taking care of our fellow citizens to keep everybody safe. We must reimagine what Public Safety looks like for everybody. Police do not keep us safe. Reform is not the answer. Policing cannot be reformed. I think that putting all of this money into the sfpd and nothing has come out of it but more harassed and killed people in our community. And everyone is supporting their practices of intimidating and torturing and killing people who are already discriminated against, where are your morals . How do you sleep at night . Defund sfpd. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, speaker . Caller hi, hi. Good evening. Thank you for having this hearing. I am malan. And im a resident of district 5. I want to say that black lives matter and the time is now to defund San Francisco police. I want to really draw your attention to gender violence as it relates to defunding. Racial bias and misogyny go handinhand and these biases are endemic to the culture of our Law Enforcement. And in San Francisco victims have repeatedly and publicly decried Law Enforcements incompetence in responding to rape, Sexual Assault and other gender violence. Lawsuits, public hearings, news articles and the department of justice have failed to result in reforms. Sfpd is a total nightmare for our community and 85 of federal funds for Domestic Violence goes to Law Enforcement and the criminal justice system. That money could be used to redistribute it to support survivors. Clerk thank you for the comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is freddy. And im a housing organizer at disability action and a native of San Francisco. Im glad that this is being taken seriously now. African americans have been protesting and fighting for this since enslavement began. 150 million is a good first step in reimbursement and repayment. I think a good redirection of police funds would be into housing for all African Americans, and into Community Programs and Decent Health care. That can start to heal and restore our collective and individual voices. Year after year we have seen officer after officer kill unarmed black women and men just for being black. And our cries for justice have gone unheard, unsolved, unpunished and ignored. They have gotten lots of money to kill, maim and oppress us. We need that money, redirect it, back into our African American communities to undo and fix the harm that has been done to us. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, i live in district 5. Theres widespread calls to disarm and disband police. Police reform is not effective against the institutional racism in our system. indiscernible the first step to doing this is to Defund Police and reinvest in our communities and services that treat our citizens and community so they dont become potential criminals. The militarization of police does not enforce justice. You cannot claim to care about communities. And the government should focus on uplifting targeted communities. Comparing the sfpd budget to other cities is not relevant when were trying to address this across america. We have the opportunity to set an example for the rest of the country as a major city by fighting the system that discriminates against oppressed communities and the unhoused. Defund, and disarm and deband the police now. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller i am a sa San Francisco resident in district 8. Defund and disarm and disband sfpd now, in this years budget and give it towards communities most targeted by police, including black, indigenous, people of color and trans communities and unhoused. And they account for 35 of the population, and 30 of people who are killed by police. If black lives matter, lets house black families, not murder them. And 320 million we could house every unhoused person in San Francisco and still have money left for free Public Transit and universal child care and programs to keep us safe. Supervisor mandelman, listen to your constituents like me and disarm and disband sfpd now. I yield the rest of my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello . Clerk please proceed. Caller hi. My name is alicia and im a resident in district 5. Im a social worker and Pediatric Health care. I have been waiting on this call for hours to add to the demand to disarm and disband and defund the sfpd this year. Its unconscionable that the budget is massive compared to other investments that could increase the wellness of our community such as education, Public Health, Public Transportation and Public Housing, to just name a few. Its unconscionable that we continue to disproportionately fund and arm Police Forces that is never held accountable for the deadly overpolicing of black and other marginalized communities. San francisco likes to believe that it doesnt have a racism issue, that it doesnt have an overpolicing issue. Im a black latino person raised in the southeast and im here to tell you that my experience with racism here in San Francisco clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, i am calling on behalf of indiscernible who was murdered by sfpd on april 7, 2016. Im also calling on behalf of the family who are spanishspeaking workers who face barriers to participate in this Public Comment call. No less because there was no interpretation available for this crucial meeting. We demand that the board to immediately and significantly to defund sfpd and the racist and violent institution. Transfer the funds from sfpd towards new and alternative Public Health and Public Safety solutions that actually serve the black and brown and poor of this city. In the name of those murdered by sfpd who are disproportionately black and brown and poor, defund sfpd. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, i am beth and i live in district 8. Im calling to urge you to defund sfpd and invest in communities most targeted by policing. Including our black, brown and indigenous and trans and unhoused communities. This is the only path forward to truly making our city safer for all of now is the time to invest in housing and health care and transit and Workforce Development programs and child care. Supervisor mandelman referred to his constituents concerns about neighborhood safety. As a district 8 resident i reiterate that policing does not create safety. Its a way of addressing safety concerns, and we pit neighbors against one another indiscernible and we all know that our city cannot be safe while so many neighbors do not have their basic needs met. We must disarm and dismantle sfpd and reinvest in our community. Now is the time to redefine Public Safety to include all of us. Supervisors, now is the time for both action and support of black lives. Your constituents demand it. Thank you. Black lives matter. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller i am jackson and im a resident in district 1. During the Public Comment i think that the supervisors and sfpd police chief should be required to leave their cameras on and its frustrating that we cant see the reactions or responses to all of these peoples cries for defunding and disbanding sfpd. Sfpd has killed and harmed too many people and we need to invest in social services and support the unhoused populations and black communities and communities of color. This is a moment for radical change and sf pd has to be part of this. We must redirect to schools and services and housing and thats just a start. They uphold White Supremacy and there must be a system to handle issues of social unrest. Police brutality is not the answer. Defund and dismantle sfpd. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, i am crystal hadley and i live and work in San Francisco. Like the other 200 callers that are protesting across the city, i call for the city to disarm and disfund sfpd. Theres 294 million in cuts that could be made in year. This is the least you can do to cut the budget this year, but know that we will not rest until theres a full defunding of sfpd. And sfpd is not protecting our citizens. When my brother was arrested for riding a muni bus, and he sad handcuffed on the curb and trying to protect a reaction and they want to pull out their tasers or guns. Police reforms do not work because the police are not about protecting anyone, theyre about protecting their jobs and protecting their power. Sfpd is antiblack, that is not something that you can reform or turn away. Black lives matter and lets protect it. The only way to do that is to get rid of the armed agents that are clerk thank you your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes. Caller good evening, supervisors. I am live in the outer sunset. We must defund and disarm and dismantle sfpd. The board of supervisors, hundreds of us have spent the last six hours to ask questions and to make our comments heard. Before the meeting started you considered cutting our time to one minute, that is fucking bullshit. If you can listen to us, we could speak the two minutes. Its irresponsible to approve of increase in the disproportionate budget. I support the public demand for the defunding of the sfpd in this years budget and to redirect towards housing and reparations for communities. That have been most targeted by imprisonment and including black and brown people of color. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller i live in San Francisco. And i just want to say that theres no good cop in a racist system. Police dont keep us safe. You had mentioned that the police reduce crime. Crime is an invented category. Like it takes more indiscernible and neither of those are considered criminal because theyre not done by poor people or by black people. Also the sfpd crime rate is abysmal. So the ideal version of sfpd is still indiscernible and if you dont throw people in boxes, police indiscernible and hurt black communities by allowing a system defined on society and our world. The cruelty is the point. So defund the police as the first step to abolishing police and the first to abolishing the prisons and defund and allow us to live better lives. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller thank you. Im a resident of district 7 and a mother of two kids in the system. And i want to make two quick points. First is a few people during the meeting, especially supervisor fewer, refers to claiming that sfpd is understaffed. And i want to make sure that she understands that report is based on other equally terrible Police Departments and the only baseline that we should compare ourselves to is the minneapolis Police Department. The second point is that this is not a normal time and indiscernible and to make a nominal cut to sfpd. Voters are watching especially carefully right now because were hearing it in ways that have not been happening recently. When you are not doing things that make a difference to our lives education, health, homelessness, all kinds of other stuff. Theyre so much more important. So please dont make small cuts, make real cuts and reinvest in communities that need it most. So we can all come out of this pandemic healthy. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello . Clerk hello. Caller hello. Hi, thank you so much. So can you hear me . Clerk yes. Caller hi. My name is ines beverly and i live in district 7. I think that its clear what the people here want. We are calling to defund, disarm and disband the Police Department. Listening to the entire meeting today, the budget is ridiculous. And we need we need this money going into muni and education. Theres so many things. Theres this money allocated to a gang unit, the biggest gang in San Francisco is the sfpd. So i think that its pretty clear, people have said what im going to say so i allocate the rest of my time. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is christine and i represent the San Francisco chan chapter of te aclu and i ask to disarm and defund the sfpd. The brown people are most targeted by policing and incarceration and including black and brown and trans and poor people. And we need to defund the police. And the only way to reduce violence is to reduce Police Presence. And San Francisco spends more on policing, we need that money to go to communitybased programs and for the such. We have a lot to build. indiscernible we have communitiecommunities that haven waiting for support for a long time. This is within our reach. We urge the board to create community investment. Please defund sfpd. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hello. Hello, supervisors. My name is brian and i live in San Francisco district 5 for over a decade. All across the city, the people have spoken. And the entire world has woken up to the bias and danger that police pose. Today i was embarrassed to hear the police chief tout the city of being at the forefront of reform. San francisco needs to set an example for the rest of the country on how to Defund Police and create new departments to better serve the community. This movement is only growing. Change is coming. San francisco should be on the right side of history. The time is now to defund, disarm and disband sfpd. We must reimagine what Public Safety looks like for everyone. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please . Caller hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller hi, i am elizabeth and i live in district 8 and i have lived in San Francisco for over 20 years. During that time i have seen a lot of Police Reforms attempted but nothing changes as a result. So im asking like everyone else for you to radically reimagine how we protect and care for people in this city. And im asking to you disarm and disband and defund sfpd in this years budget. I want you to redirect that money for services that will support people instead of brutalizing them. Particularly our black and brown neighbors targeted by sfpd and vastly misrepresented in the citys jails. So i ask all of you, especially supervisor mandelman to listen to your constituents and do the right thing. Thank you. Clerk thank for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello . Hello, please proceed. Caller the budget affects those in the city and county. But this reflects the contempt for human rights that appears to be inherent part of Law Enforcement, they are accountable to no one as the discussion with the problems during this hearing shows. It seems that the budget of this department reflects the values only of a group of armed authoritarians who are stealing our money and pointing their guns at us in order to keep it. Disarm 100 defund and disband the racist violent contemptfilled department. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Yes, we can hear you. Caller hello, can you hear me . Hi, im a brown youth living in s. F. District 10. And since my time has been cut in half i echo that Police Reform has never worked in sfpd and its ridiculous theyre used veiled reforms as an excuse to ask for more funding and it is ridiculous they should get a 43 million in funding while sfpd is facing cuts. We need to ask ourselves what our priorities are. Police chief just tried to convince us that adults prancing around on horses are more important than educating black and brown youth. And sfpd has shown time and time again that overpolicing black and brown youth is more important to them than their future. We ask for Public Safety for all. We must defund sfpd and reform our communities of color, and race and racism was not mentioned once. Dont fool yourself into thinking that sfpd is changing. Disband sfpd now. Black lives matter. I yield my time. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, im phil and a resident of district 4 and i want to say that its laughable that during your pointpoint, chief, you mentioned having the mayors approval, who is early to endorse Mike Bloomberg for mayor and who texted you about the homeless. Strong endorsement, chief. So im calling to demand that you and the city and we all disarm and defund sfpd. I dont even understand how were talking about this now when 40 muni lines have been cut. It targets black, brown and poor and queer people. And that cannot be reformed. We must Defund Police because black lives matter, black trans life matters and if there were any good cops they would have resigned a while ago. Thank you. I yield my time. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear yo you. Caller i am nina parks. Speaking right now currently as a Community Member and as an activist working to strengthen the communitys damage. Further data and in the equity report we have proof of disproportionate policing and the effects of red lining. Its in the report and thats how we created the program in San Francisco because we know that theres disparities and we have data. So that being said, we do need to protect and be guardians of that, of knowing this. So i support everything that everybody is saying, defund the police, redirect funds into Virtual Health care that you guy are all working on, right. And implement i mean, you guys have a Community Policing order and after you put that in place we saw the most egregious evers and they were clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Next speaker. Caller hi, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller hi, i live in district 5 and im an immigrant. I encourage everyone waiting on this call to first ask their supervisors to check in at any time during the call. Supervisor, are you still there in say yes at any time during my time. I have not heard a call for anything to disband the sfpd and im demanding the same. I will have tear as a Domestic Violence counsellor here. 40 of Police Officer families experience Domestic Violence because police are violent. The world looks at San Francisco as an example of a progressive city of action and solutions. You have the power to do the right thing and to be on the right side of history. Your decision is beyond you and the city because the impact is nationwide. I hope that you understand the weight of that. Set an example for the world. San francisco can do this. Defund the sfpd and stop their terrorization of black and indigenous, and people of color. And feel our communities. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comment. Madam clerk, how many people are in the queue . Clerk yes, madam chair, i believe that there are approximately 116. Commissioner fewer okay, thank you, madam clerk. Clerk youre welcome. Next speaker, please. Caller yes, hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Caller hi, i am david chen and im a resident in district 8. Particularly to supervisor mandelman and to all of the supervisors, i think that the will of the people has been made exceedingly clear at this point. We want the sfpd to be defunded significantly this year, in this budget. So, again, to supervisor mandelman and any other supervisors who support the sfpds request for an increased budget to over 700 million, that is a slap in the face to your constituents. It is your job to carry out the will of your constituents and if you fail to do so we will vote you out of office. Defund the sfpd now. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is mel and i live in district 7. Our city spends more on sfpd than the department of children, youth and families, the environment, Homelessness Services and Human Rights Commission and the Public Defenders Office combined. We must invest in care, not cost. I demand justice for alex and the others murdered by sfpd. And i demand that you disarm and defund and disband sfpd this year. Shame on the board of supervisors for not showing their faces, for your constituents its disrespectful and cowardly. And shame on chief scott for calling the murder of george floyd an incident. Black lives matter. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear yo you. Wells the intense trauma at the hands of the police. I watch those cops enter our programme and escalated our clients who were in Mental Health crisis and and i also witness our social services as our budgeted about cut leaving highly trained professionals without compensation and they are given from Mental Health budget cuts versus what i heard today with the pd budget cuts. Given this, im shocked to learn how enormous the sfpd budget is at the expense of all these essential services and it shows this is a issue. Not speaker time has concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is a resident of San Francisco. You are disrespectful for hiding behind this ridiculous. You are cowards. Just in case you didnt know the public caring is meant to the public can be heard. It has been four years since they died since a hunger protest. Absolutely nothing has been done about t im sorry we did deal with six out of the 54 reforms so i guess its something, right. It disgusted me that all of you think what is best for the great city of San Francisco is to have a domestic military and if you think calling the sfpd is a domestic military, he was shot 48 times by the sfpd and alex lived in San Francisco his whole life and had no police records. Apparently just the color of his skin is enough for the police to spray 50 bullets in his direction. Defund, disarm, disband the sfpd remove from their budget if not completely abolish. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Can you hear me . Good evening, supervisors. My name is janet and i live in district 11. I, along with hundreds of others on this call demand the defunding of sfpd and ask it be roredistricted for communities that have been targeted by policing and inprisonment with communities, indigenous communities, people of color in the city, trans communities and the unhoused. Decades of attempts to reform sfpd have failed. Officers point their guns 2. 4 times everyday and only 14 of those 868 times are in defense of self or others. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, its ma maxiene. I work as a prostitute for 30 plus years and i live in district 6. Im calling into owe polls any increase in the polices budget. I support defunding the police. You know the San Francisco task force on prosecution recommended in 1996 that the police stop enforcing the prostitution law and the money they spend on arresting people which is an average of 300 a year. Be reallocated into the social safety net so i need supervisors to start listen to go the people and enforcing the will of the people. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, excuse me. Hi, thank you to the council members. Im calling into say that the underlining problem is the military industrial comment plex and that arm of the police and o do so in the process. If you dont believe me, think about how police are so powerful while other unions are busted up by corporations so, the culture is imported at the iraq water and its unjust and that that are bringing home so, yeah, we need to Work Together so thank you to all the callers and black lives matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im out here in San Francisco and i think and i like to shout out for all residents for waiting for six hours out here. Im here, just like the other hundreds of speakers asking this arm defund and demilitarize the San Francisco Police Department now. Its ridiculous that you are asking to increase the budget during the time of a pandemic while the schools are being put in half. Theres no need to increase Law Enforcement to enforce masks its unnecessary and its disgusting that you found a need for that. You are all spineless and i give my time. Next speaker, please. Hello. Yes, we can hear you. Can you hear me . My name is marry ole and i live in district 4 and i work in organization for people with disabilities and i fight for the lives i work with. Police do not know how to deescalate and make us feel safe. We talk about reallocating money but what will it do if police are hurting black, brown and trans communities. You need to dismantle the police. Reallocate all the money into education, publichealth, housing, community and reparations. Schools are facing budget cuts and organizations such as mine who work with marginalized communities are facing millions in cuts jeopardizing the services. The city and state should advocate for communities by putting money into services that aid in the community. Instead of putting more money for reform put it in places that are doing their part in the community and know their community. Reforms do not work and defund the police immediately. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. Hello. Yes, welcome. Hello, supervisors. My name is cam and im a resident and chief scott i dont know if you are still here but, in your presentation you said that San Francisco is leading the nation in Police Reform and Police Reform is not enough and thank you supervisor preston for your words that echo it. Also i have witnesses the sfpd officers treat our unhoused neighbors, despite what you said about police being trained to provide services, supervisor mandelman, too many Police Officers are uni equipped to provide support and black lives matter defund the police. Hi, my name is yes, speaker. [ speaking spanish ] mr. Clerk, is there spanish translation available . Yes, i have a summary. Thank you, very much. Yes, i live in you cut out there. Can you please repeat yourself. Oh, sure. I have been living in San Francisco since 1994. I live in district 5. Its unthinkable for me to Police Department on social services. I think that we need to do something about this and the supervisors need to listen to the people and we look at the budget to social services instead of the police. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is marie. Im a social work student d5 residents and our Police Department is not keeping our Community Safe. Reform is not an option. We need to defund sfpd. We spend more on sfpd than homeless services, courts, libraries, Workforce Development and these are programs that actually serve our community. Reimagining Public Safety would end reliance on police. And the poa black lives matter, thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Yes, my name is mall cue clint and i live to district three. Reducing Public Comment to one minute for person is unacceptable. Beyond that i am here as another voice to call for defunding the San Francisco Police Department. A couple of points, first on reform its all well and good as the Police Department has decided to point their guns in sit sense life. They still function to project the interest of the wealthy and to harass those who are not well off. One specifics example is homeless. Providing more funding to police so they dont kill anyone while harassing the powerless and this is the point. To go to publichealth, housing, and reparations for communities that have been most targeted including black, indigenous, people of color, trans communities and the unhoused. Second, the fact there are 6. 6 million worth of patrols in Public Housing is unacceptable. Thirdly, on the airport, for the city to expand expenditure from the general fund by moving airport Police Officers into the city goes directly against the calls were making today. They result in less money from the general fund going to the Necessary Services and more money to the police. Hi, my name is inaudible . Can you hear me. Yes, we can. Thank you. My name is caro line smith and im a resident of district nine and im calling to ask that San Francisco is defunded and the fact it received as much money as it is is completely ridiculous and the fact that the average officer received 188,000 a year is insane. They dont need that money. It should be reallocated to fund our schools, Public Transit and there are so many better uses. With the Current Services the Police Perform should be reallocated across social services and i ask that you defund sfpd. Thank you, i yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi there, my name is claudia and i live in San Francisco district nine and like others im concerned it focuses on reform whether its doubling on on Police Training or shifting airport responsibilities from the police to the sheriff and theres Significant Research pointing to these types of reforms are not effective for realizing the transformational change that we are all in the streets dough mending, specifically defunding the police in this years budget demilitarizing our communities and investing in schools and community selfgovernance, Mental Health services, housing, the list goes on and in the future, push these conversations to be about transformative change and i really appreciate how supervisor preston framed it and we need to reimagine what Public Safety means to us and how to get there. Thank you for your time and i yield your time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, i live and i work in San Francisco. I would have to say the public stance on the consistent and violent dysfunction of sfpd is clear and we want sfpd dough funded. Its a complete insult the Budget Allocation provides additional funding to sfpd and its more disturbing that the proposal is presented alongside cuts to our most Important Community ser visions such as education and housing assistance. The Police Department will never be the correct department and has general Public Safety and it values property over people. Additionally, years of Police Propaganda began da attract violence cowards who join the police force solely to assert power over there peers. The public could be anymore clear on our stance. San francisco has the opportunity to lead true reform and not just within the Police Institution but within our entire community. Please consider if you want to be part of the future or part of the past. Thank you for your comments. Before i call the next speaker, your participation is important to us. Current li there are 135 listens and 85 are in the cue. Please be added to the cue. For those already on hold. Please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments then. Next caller, please. Obviously its always caller. Hello caller, are you there . Hello, is it my turn . Hi my name is amelia and i live and work in San Francisco. Im a educate error seven years and im demanding we defund, disarm and disband the sfpd now and redistrict towards publichealth, education, housing and reparations for communities that have been targeted by policing. Calls are for violence crimes and decades of reform have not worked and black communities are harmed by sfpd. Police harm our communities. Ive seen the damage policing and schools has done at my majority School Admissions and get police out of schools and off our streets. Why should sfpd get a 43 milliondollar increase while schools face 36 million in budget cuts. What does this say about our values and imagine if we invested inhousing, transit, education and childcare instead. We must reimagine the Public Safety looks like. Were not asking for chaos but Public Safety for all and we must defund and refund our communities. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Thank you for taking my call. I just want to echo what everybody is saying that we should be defunding, defarming and debanding the spfd. Its crazy in this environment were having this discussion and it seems obvious if we coin vest in schools and housing and education and Public Safety it would help protect safety until the city more and im a resident of district 8 in the city and i just think that if folks are being driven by something that is about fear for their own selves, like, take a step back and think about how much safety you are really getting from a police board that is arresting black and brown folks at such a higher rate. I just think, you know, a lot of other people have talked about cuts and i just hope that individual supervisors that you all can think personally about whether this is being driven by your own fear of a reality that wont exist if due have the police, well still be safe walking down the streets. If we have social workers rather than police arresting people, we mighmight be able to help folks. Take a moment and think about how thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. Caller, are you there . Maybe next speaker, please. Yes, madam chair. Next caller, please. Hi there, i am a resident of San Francisco and the advocacy lead at the Saint Anthony foundation. I stand in solidarity with all those fighting for justice and that strongly support moving police funds to invest in our communities and especially the lgbtq plus communities and other communities of color. The message of the public is abundantly clear. We must address the least problems from a place of radical compassion and publichealth and that humanizes and seeks to address police be and deepens trauma. Now is the time to actualize our demands and reimagine what a Safe Community truly is and not one status quo of police but rich in social connections and resources that enable human fleur issuing and black lives do matter. We need Affordable Housing, goodpaying jobs and building ecological help in that climate change. Lets prioritize justice and prosperity not violence. Stu so much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. At the, my name is tommy and im a teacher and resident of district 9. We must defund and abolish the sfpd police. Our Community Needs housing and food not hefty salaries with insufficient training requirements. Our Community Needs justice, not system at ikely racism increasingly militant institution and we need justice and an opportunity for our community. Please save lives and defund and abolish the sfpd. Use that budget to cover tour rent. I controlled my time. Next speaker, please. My name is kobe and a im resident of the Commission Community organizer with the Sunrise Movement and for justice im calling to demand we defund inaudible . The numbers have been and im just going to inaudible . I dont know if theyve black people make up 5 of our citys population and 30 of our Homeless Population and 50 of our jail population. Every year, walking innocent people of color are targeted by police. Are you hearing those numbers . Are you ok with that . Are you ok with that . I dont know how anyone can be proud to live in this city and this is our racist reality. Its shameful. Yall are ready to cut 40 muni lines. The whole world is watching. Which side are you on . Defund sfpd and black lives matter, disarm, disband and defund the police. Thank you, i yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we can, im a black resident of district 4 living in the outer sunset. Im calling you to urge you to defund, disarm and disband sfpd. There are low income children in San Francisco that are on a wait list for childcare. Over 500 of these children are black. We must completely defund and invest in our communities. Black lives matter mean nothing if you refuse to make the real change necessary to keep my Community Safe. I have heard you all mention george employed yet you refuse to get rid of the system that lead to his death and is that the message of a system that has slave patrol when you cannot dis fund and disband the police and the police is the only way and you are telling me, and black people that your safety is rooted in my oppression. We will not stand for that anymore. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, i am a receipt residef district 11 and this is land originally yalomo before all of us took it over and so i just want to say i work at two public colleges and everybody is nailing it on black lives matter so i want to remind you, under friendlies, you work for us. The first line of your mission says you respond to the needs of the people of San Francisco so you better respond to us. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. My name is wyatt and these reforms are thats a fully institutional problem and sfpd stops a division with open hearings and 1979 and it was known then the sfpd has bias against blas, hispanic, queer and unhoused people. Every decade since you can see the sfpd will have a new list of priorities of Community Relations based reforms to target these biases, it happened really consistently. 10 years after that on police the sfpd announced a new community Police Officer program in order to better serve communities of color and the Police Commission stated changes will take seven to 10 years of leadership commitment in 199 they announced reforms to Better Service communities and we have these problems. Why should we trust the sfpd with our taxpayer money. If you cannot see reforms are not Strong Enough actions you are choosing to be blind on this issue. Sfpd has a long way to go and black lives matter. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Can you hear me . Yes we k. Please, begin. My name is anthony and i live in district 8 and we need to defund sfpd now. I am sick about the sfpd to the sheriff and just because they have a different name does not make them any different than what they are. The presentations in this afternoons hearing are concerning. Reform is not what were asking for. Sfpd tried and failed and were asking to defund sfpd now and when i saw the presentation the increase of police costs i felt my soul leave my body. Those increases were for reforms and this is by reforms are not what were asking for, its beyond reform and we dont want to they go anymore money to sfpd its in a time when the City Departments need money because of covid were asking where is that money coming from . Get that money from sfpd and lets reimagine Public Safety and defund sfpd and refund our communities and do it now. Black lives matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comments, next speaker, please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes we can,. Hello. Hello there, my name is alexis and i live in district 11. Im calling for the immediate abolishment of the sfpd and to relocate the local communities funds. In particular, trans and queer drag artists. Last, as a Health Process that spending money on our wig is a more responsible use of taxpayer money than policing. Not preventing crime and killing black lives in the process. Black lives matter, i yield my time. Before i call the next speaker, just updating everyone there are 126 listens and 82 in the queue so we appreciate your patients and thank you for sticking with us. Next caller, please. Reforms do not work. Five out of five officers who sat mar row woods had undergone crisis intervention training and the reforms have failed. In the Fourth Quarter of 2019, 76 of all uses of force by sfpd were against people of color. More money does not lead to Public Safety. Sfpd is anti black. This is not something to reform a long way and black lives matter and must be protected. Its your job and our representative to support the new reality that San Francisco no longer see policing as solution to our citys problems. Supervisor fewer, this. The leg is bruised and it hurts, you dont look at the color of the bruce and beat it to heal it. The racism and harm done by the Police Department is similar to that beating. Theres an action issue our community we need the investment from sfpd and we are allocating those resources to housing, education, publichealth and other services services. The citys budget is the peoples budget and the Public Comments before me the people have spoken and defund the sfpd and black lives matter and refund our communities. Thank you committee members, you are elected as representatives of the people and heed to the calls of the people you represent and embrace that word through your tactics and reimagining what Public Safety looks like. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I think the l you hear the pain and understand the very human desire that we are asking for and no other position when you murder someone you just get the city to pay for it and i think we demand better and the only way to do that is because well defund the place and black lives matter and i yield the rest of my evening, my time. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is jason. Can you hear me . I live in the Mission District and like so many others, i came to ask my leaders to defund the police and instead they have a budge wet no money for schools, publichealth or housing the homeless and the cops get a raise. As if you dont see what is going on . As if you havent heard, clearly, from hundreds of people this evening and from thousands of people in the streets for the last month what we want. As if you are not elected officials. This is the budget you come back with . Absolutely unacceptable. Back to the drawing board. Money away from the cops and back to the community and you either get with the program or you are in the way, i yield my time, f12. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Hello caller. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. First of all, its a little rude you are not pretending to be paying attention by turning on your cameras like the lapd and we know mayor bred will have a proposal that will be taken up by you guys. We ask you not policen to your bias and the supervisor mandelman but listen to your community because this is our tax money and we deserve a say in how its spent. The budget was cut so we want a cut of that as we have identified 36 line item cuts that can face 295 million and anything else. You guessed it. Its 2. 2 million you spent on horses and if anyone is wondering we bring 0. 6 million a year and i would yield my time. My name is mary and im resident of district and homeless emergency providers association. They echo the calls to defund the sfpd and redistrict the resources to communities of color and organizations led by people of color who have been targeted by police and the complaintdriven culture that prioritizes removal of resolution over people and our rights. We need to talk about racism instead of reform and how we can deploy public funding to counteract inequality and poverty and racism. We can house and support them all and we redefine and resource publichealth and housing. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we k. Please begin. Well, thank you. Im definitely g not going to repeat what people are saying and its clear i really hope you are all listening and i do want to invite you and the basis system and america is still on and i believe that you do have to practice when you face real crimes everyday and what if instead of asking police to cure homelessness, Mental Health being traffic accidents, airport safety and what if we invested in essential unprofessionals service thats specialize those in instead. I cannot accept your system and what it stands for if you still cant see the sense of killing, race sis and to the local organizers and that when we lowered the sfpd budget yall take that money away from the programs that we have been set fourth as a car ot in your car ot and stick game in your own officers know you make the cuts and you talk about want to go gain before we get them. That is garbage. 1,971 officers to meet this is the number of officers you need you asked callers to remain civil. What is civil will murdering and targeting black, Indigenous People of color. What is civil about budget cuts to education, layoffs of teachers and lack of supporting unhoused people. The possibility of 40 out of 68 muni lines being cut permanently and the most vulnerable and citizens and the Police Force Budget is increasing by 34 million. They do not prevent crime, they harass communities of color and police and our unions are bully and San Francisco is a progressive city but a louse this disgusting to exist and im calling to abolish and not just cut from the budget. You work for us, the citizens of San Francisco. You do not care about our priorities and demand and sf deserves better. My students deserve better. All black lives matter, fuck you guys. Before i call the next caller, we seem could be getting a trend of some colorful language. Please, keep your comments appropriate. Thank you. Next caller, please. My name is alex and im a member of the socialist caucus of the sfdsa and i live in district 6. Im calling to defund, disarm and dis end and from public and to reform the sfpd have failed because you cant fix a racist and violent institution. Black san franciscans make up only 5 of the citys population and black people account for almost 40 and yet black people account from 40 of all police searches. The sfpd is antiblack and its something you can reform or train away. Black lives matter and must be protected. Its expensive and defunding the sfpd is free. Its 736 million budget comes to the expense of social housing and social services. Resources that create real Public Safety for all. Our budget reflects our values. Invest in our youth and providing black and indigenous communities is more important than paying Police Officers to harass us. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. This moment has created when i see a 700 milliondollar budget proposal, you ignore momentum and making marginalized for justice and services that have a loose. We know reform doesnt work. You want to build trust with the community but that is cannot happen with the system. Police should be guardians and not warriors and the police have always been guardians of wealthy white people and their property. I seen the way you harass unhoused folks who are people of color. We need new systems that project everybody, not just privileged. And health and communities that have been most targeted by policing and including black, indigenous and people of color and sfpd and we must reimagine the Public Safety thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please . Hello, caller. Yeah, this is David Elliott louis, waiting a long time for my minute. Ive been a longtime member of the Police Department crisis intervention and working group and im not here to call for defunding the police but i am here to call for shifting calls and its a Mental Health and homelessness the police should not be involved. We need to create an alternative way to respond to these calls that dont involve Public Safety but do involve social work. The police should not be doing social work. Community Response Team or a system to Transportation Services on demand and while its needed on the street and that could help reduce the Police Budget and take police out of social work which again they shouldnt be doing and actually most police that i spoken to support this program. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, im, im marion and im a resident and voter in district 9. Im supposed to be talking to ronen. Im calling to dease fund in this years budget and redistrict it for black Indigenous People of color and black people are under resource and staff and its no accident. Police in the United States are a racist institution and the fact that the Police Commission suggests that putting up black lives matter is infewer indicating of what the reforms would be. Superficial and enabling the violence. In the Fourth Quarter of 2019, 76 of all uses of force were against people of color. And 2019, sf Police Officers play their guns at residents 2. 4 times everyday. Allowing sfpd to exist is violence and cutting essential resources like education, transit and housing is violence. And anything short of defunding sfmd and reinvesting into our communities will continue killing the people of the city. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is marianne and i live in district five. I believe its unacceptable that budget cuts put public transport are being made and this results in permanent closure of bus routes, depriving transports to their jobs and schools and defunding Public Services and education ta proves that city officials are not investing in the people. Theyre promoting systemic racism and over policing of property and unnecessary force and goes against the notion of Public Safety and unless by Public Safety, you mean the prioritizing of property and this is protection and sf needs to invest in social services to exemplifies real inclusion and uphold sanctuary which is what our community represents and expanding Police Budget and not only wasteful but immoral. We must invest in and demand housing for Homeless People and social services. Thank you for your comments. I grew up in oakland and San Francisco so they campaign on the idea of progressivism without doing anything progressive. My friends have been gentrified out of the fill more and targeted by sfpd and have Family Members who are still incarcerated at risk of death due to covid in san quinton. Outside of the bay area the city has a reputation as a city that is hateful. You have the power to change this and now is the time. The sfpd say golden egg for you, defund asking a solution to the budget shortfall. Take the horses off the payroll. Why would the sfpd get 43 million increase while schools face a 26 milliondollar cut. We hold nonprofit in city health and housing agencies accountable to their line items to allow sfpd to say why have the exact number of that during a budget meeting. Everyone calling in has more information on the Police Budget that came out of this meeting. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. Hi, i have throw thing threeo say. You guys are just shit. You are awesome. Thank you so much for calling in. And secondly id like to address the supervisors. Were all awake right now and were watching you. He need to understand if you do not defund the police we will vote you out. Thirdly, ive been on the line for hours and im so grateful to have a chance to speak. Thank you to everyone else. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello caller. Hi, my name is kaitlyn and i live in San Francisco and im taking the call to echo so many other and well continue to say that it is past time to defund sfpd and they need to do it this year and putting into the things the San Francisco community clearly values and i will also say it is a slap in the face that the life side of the city and for those of us who cant afford you ser facing a serious crisis due to lack of funds that millions of being spent on a Police Department that criminal allieses, murders and imprisons our Community Members. We are demanding to defund and abolish the sfpd because it does not work in this city or elsewhere. We know the problem is theres an over arching violent culture and inthe Police Departments across the country and including sfpd based on their racist history, the techniques and increased militarization. There are a lot of people doing the work in the city and are telling you what thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, im a student of city college San Francisco and resident of district 10. As a person of color, ive never felt safe around the police. Its interesting because i didnt understand why until i learned about the historical roots of institution. We cant pretend it doesnt contain the sanctions violence on black, brown, trance and Indigenous People. It cant ignore it criminalizes the poor and it drains our resources. Imagine if it was going to combined. Please, a polish the police and reinvest in our community. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. Hi. My name is charlie and living in district six and im calling in demand inaudible . I dont understand what defunding the police meant but inaudible and i believe this is the best move for the city. And education and the publichealth. Set the stage and show them what the city is all about police. Police help us out. Thank you and i appreciate it. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Hello. My name camille and im a resident of sf district nine and im calling on the city to defund and disband the police with a 1. 7 billion deficit its both immoral and logical to continue to increase the Police Budget by 43 million in what our Community Needs is safety Via Community care and restorative service and what echo the sentiments and i want to provide additional scrutiny around specificlow hanging obvious cuts and some Budget Research conducted by the defund sfpd now coalition. First, we should eliminate officers this cost money per year with 40 officers and the police are creating a culture of criminalization and this is happening targeting people of color in our very own homes. We should reduce staffing by 48 million a year reducing Airport Police Division Staffing to 2,018 levels and an additional 50 . Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hell oh my name is and im an immigration attorney and i live that district three and im calling to ask supervisors to defund disarm and dis pandemic the budget and redistrict its towards publichealth housing and rep ration for communities that have been targeted by police and people of coloring and can we imagine what Public Safety all looks like and the attempt to reform sfpd has failed and i know its scary to try something new and to do something that hasnt been done before in this city or this state but sf has been a leader for progressive ideals and social reforms and its been a first social justice for police take a leap and do the right thing and defund the police, i yield the rest of my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. My name is elise and im a Healthcare Worker and in San Francisco and living in district one and it has been decades of failed attempt to reform sfbd and im calling to defund sfpd for this years budget and it should be districted to public heath housing and education and the communities for decades and theyre various racist has to end and black San Franciscos make up 5 of the citys population and they account for 35 of our Homeless Population and 54 of our jail population and these facts are not new and the city is continuing to drive out and hurt people of color and lgbtq communities and our unhoused population. We have a chance to make San Francisco the open and progressive city it claims to be. Im asking for Public Safety for all by defunding sfpd and refunding our communities. Thank you. Thank you for your comments next speaker, please. Hello, can you hear me. Yes, we can, please begin. Hi, my name is lisa and i will eye resident of district 11 and im a social worker. Ill calling to ask you redistrict funds to our community. In my seven years working with social workers with San Franciscos unified School District, ive been assigned for over 1,300 students with their families without overtime pay. Over this time, i have never witnessed police help those children and no other families members. People serving our teachers, para educators, survivor advocates and Grassroots Community based and Police Police cause harm and i have not yet seem them provide support to my students and i have seen them harm and the Police Impact in the Elementary School was two years ago and when the police shot and young Family Member of five of my students. This what the police provide. Deep trauma to the next generation. Why should violent sfpd get an increase while our schools are facing 26 million in cuts. Every dollar given to the police is a resource from our children. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, can you hear me. Yes, we can. Hello . My name is alexis and this is in district six. For over 10 years, im just inaudible in this city and if you do you should know what we need. We need Affordable Housing, education, we need Public Transportation and healthcare. So, lets keep those funds away from the police who frankly all ive seen do in the 15 years i go here is harass unhoused people and direct them into the youth that will actually help the most marginalized in our communities and in help their city. I hope you do the right thing. I think you guys know what to do so well be watching. Thank you and i yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. And theres a power house new ideas for the rest of the world and that includes this radical idea to defund the police. I believe in San Francisco. The very philosophy of San Francisco has a city is one of change and it can be now with the Police Department. Lets defund the police and move to Mental Health, housing and bring up our communities not put them down. Reforms havent worked and we dont want to reform a racist system. We want to remove a racist system lets move the funds to education healthcare for informed and happy citizens. Were not asking for chaos and we must defund the sfpd and refund our communities. Black lives matters, thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hell oh i am a resident and work in district 3. Im in favor of defunding the police and i would also like to add that a week ago, i was harassed by a officer and i approached the coffee shop i noticed him harassing a black man just sitting down outside. He told him to quote go home and the man did because he was threatened. Then he followed me into a coffee shop avoiding social distancing six feet. I asked him to stay six feet away and he verbally harassed me, calling me a racist, and saying he was a christian. When i pulled the phone out to record t. He called me a racist. So i got his badge number and walked out. As i walked across the street and he crossed the street avoiding me, he yelled, you are a racist, im christian, work on your racism. I just saw him again two days ago sitting outside so i crossed the street terrified. This is an example of why cops dont need. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Please. Hell oh caller. Maybe we should move on, mr. Clerk, to the next speaker. Yes, madam chair. Next speaker, please. One moment, please. One moment, madam chair. Im having some trouble. Can you please make an nounsmennounsannouncement. Yes, madam chair. To those that are still on the line, please excuse our technical difficulties. We realize that it is a latenight and thank you for your your patients. At the top of the hour we have 67 callers still waiting to speak. Again we a apologize for the technical difficulties, please, stand by. Is this something that can be remedies or fixed . We believe so. Please let me know if we need to call a recess in order to fix this. Well do, madam chair. Hello, caller. Across the city you disarm, disband, defund the police fully in this years budget. The time is now and we must invest in community support. I represent undocumented immigrants and i see how the police and i use clients have been charged with racist crimes and and this is not a conversation about reform and anti bias training and new policies regarding use of force and we invested more resources in the Police Budget without any verified results. The sfpd and and cuts taken throughout the Response Network with Community Members reports of attention a deep lack of medical and Housing Support to the covid pandemic and this is all and and education and in San Francisco were investing in their incarceration. They make up 5 of San Francisco population and 64 of the jail population. Im a vote ner district nine of San Francisco. I would like to say i hate how r treating it like this is something yo you you have to en. Im here to disband the sfpd. We dont need violence and thats all the police is good for. I dont give a fuck about your jobs. If you need a job in a home take a black or brown person and have your labor exacted for free. We need a and we dont need them and i yield my time. Next speaker, please. Im just calling to let you know this is more than just about defunding the police and sfpd has a long history of being racist and killing people and being murdered on the streets so its more about defunding and its about abolish them so and pleaded with you over and over again. Fund the police and the next step is to abolish them completely. How do you inaudible . Defund the police and no justice and no and fuck you with censorship. I can cuss because i pay money, i vote in this city and i go to the streets in this city and fight for black lives just like all of you should be doing and and i dont yield my time. Lilet the silence fucking ring. Next speaker, please. Helhello. My name is gaylynn and thank you, we voted for you because you are the city voted for good reason. Were here to abolish the police and defund the police. I am deeply saddened that they cant see the police for actually hearing and i would like to say that everybody has done incredible. My name is deanne and i live in district 5. This is a collective officer and we can defund and ive seen other boards uphold budgets because it was the easier thing to do and they didnt want to go back to the drawing board but do the work and respect our demands and invoke change and there are better and more Effective Solutions that are out there other than the police and around 95 of sfpd calls are about publichealth and complaints we should not row lion ill equipped and Police Officers who threaten and incite violence to handle this session and theyre trained social workers who are qualified and unarmed to hand over the policy instead and the actionable item you can test the people of sf and up lift marginalized and to defund the sfpd, prioritize publichealth, Mental Health and educational and inaudible . Please make change. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Yes, we hear you. Hello. Ill just call eye demand the defunding and the aberration of the Police Department. No one has asked for reform because weve seen it and it doesnt work. Who wont even turn on the cameras and during the time of covid. I demand the cuts go towards housing on housed black and brown and people who are the most and i demand this money goes towards loans and grants and they are how olding the financial burden of this crisis and towards sfmta so we do not have to cut essential public and supervisors, i implore and i yield my time. Thank you for your comments . Next speaker. Please. I live in district 3. Dan su3. And i urge you Te Department and leave hundreds of millions of dollars towards publichealth, housing and reparations for our neighbors who are black, inbest of my knowledgeindigenous andpeople o. This is outrageous to me considering not less than 5 of sfpd Service Calls are in response of Violent Crimes. The other 95 of calls that can be addressed by Community Supports that arent police. The sfpd budget is way too huge and its a reflection of our values. They dont deserve a modern the race. We are black, brown, trans and unhoused neighbors deserve better and we must defund sfpd now and the community. We have resources and criminalize, harm and punish. We need a solution that center the wealthy involved San Francisco. Defund and abolish sfpd. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors, my name is Larissa Meyer and im a Postal Service researcher and i live and work in district 10. Ill calling to remind us all the Mental Health disorders are a publichealth and not a criminal justice how. Others much, the rational response is particularize youth and possession of current illicit drugs and increase access to Harm Reduction and treatment services, in San Francisco nation wide, black people and people of color have been disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs. Drug policing has no future. Reallocating Police Funding to strengthen our communities is the future. We must invest inhousing and education, that connect people to nature and to each other to reimagine compassionately what Public Safety for all it looks like. Thank you for listening and for considering to defund is the fpd in this years budget. People of the city are hurting and low income people of San Francisco and the city is to invest in our communities and especially the hardest hit by this pandemic and this inequality in our city. And if you think it make substantial cuts to sfpd because money is needed to implement reforms is perpetuates the problems and sfpd cannot be re formed and the budget should be cut to the door over 50 at least and the safe funds should be invested in our communities and this means more than programs to defund and we need a new Public Safety the question is the board listen to the people or move message the pla. The pla thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Can you hear me. Yes, we can. Please begin. Hi, my name is i live and work in San Francisco. Sorry i was, running. Im also a proud member and i work at a bar in the tenderloin where i see firsthand how police do not keep people safe. Ive seen sfpd harass, and trance people of the streets and they target black and brown people and the lgbtq community. Wife seen sfpd laugh unhoused people to their faces, they do not operate with kindness and theyre dangerous. The hundreds of comments tonight have made it clear what sf has been we demand that you defund and abolish sfpd and it Means Nothing to say black lives matter and the actions of our elected official and the budget of our city don reflect that statement. Take the millions they are using and terrorizing our community with and reallocate and its unto terrorize police. Thank you for your job, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Hi, we hear you. Sorry. Hi, im one of the organizers or coordinators of no justice no peace and im a resident of district 6. As a San Francisco native and student of sfusd schooling im calling on my City Government to defund and abolish sfpd and they are and Violent Crimes and please give operations to black communities and in our city by funding Public Programs that unlike sfpd do not criminalize survival but encourage it. Please check out sfpd. Now for more. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is mur yall and im an organizer with the Sunrise Movement bay area and i live in district 8. Just down the street from where the fresco 5 held their Hunger Strike in 2016. To all the supervisors especially rah yal rafael mand, reject this budget and defund the sfpd and reinvest this money in Non Violent Community services and especially when were facing budget cuts or shortages of essential Services Like education, housing and Public Transit and the proposed cuts to muni lines and its offensive and ab occurred to consider increasing the Police Budget. Its well documents that Police Reforms regardless of Good Intention do not work and to pass this budget would be an act of racism. By contrast, if you reject this budget and instead spend the money on housing Green Infrastructure and investment in reparations in black and brown communities, you would be part of this visionary moment in American History where we start to reimagine what our communities look like, invest in Strong Communities and thank you for your comments. Next speaker, pleasement. Good evening. My name is sarah and i live in the mission and please amend the charter and get away from San Francisco pd and invest in the communities of San Francisco with communitybaits health and Safety Initiatives and Affordable Housing production. Work alongside the bay area associations government to solve homelessness and housing crisis this decade and instead of kicking that ball down the field. Integrate vulnerable communities and into high opportunities, white lines and neighborhoods like forest hill, with affordable, high density multi Family Housing and shelters. We are looking to you for a vision of genuine leadership and black lives matter, trans lives matter, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. My name is veronica and im an sf native and resident and i wanted to call to look like my support to defarm and disband sfpd as well as defund. Its ludicrous theyre arguing theyre under funded when we know we can all agree for a fact that the sfusd system has been under funded for decades and yet theyre facing a cut and sfpd is asking for more money. We should invest in our future, which is our kids an. Just like they say, im a resident of districts 11 and i just want to remind all of you supervisors right now, it doesnt real see seem like you are getting it and you work for us. What do you think you are doing . Hundreds of calls here tonight and you are doing the opposite of what all of your constituents want. You either get on board with defunding the police and eventually abolishing them, or we are going to eat you up and vote you out. We are tired. We are so tired. If you think you are tired after seven hours, that is nothing. We will find you. We will come to every meeting. You will not get away from us. You will not hide. We will not surrender. Were done. Were fucking done. Dont tell me how to talk to you. Next speaker, please. This is directly impacted by the criminal injustice system. Im disgusted by sfpds presentation today asking for more money to reform. One decent human being get White Supremacy and the plos thin blueline bullshit. Training in Police Commissions dont train a racist system. All five officers who murdered mar row wood had undergone crisis intervention training and still walked free. Sfpd does not keep us safe. They put us there and inaudible at risk. We keep us safe. Every other City Department and they contend to 15 of the budget mean less Youth Programs and housing. Chief scott has the audacity to ask for an increase. Black lives matter more than salaries. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, police. My name rebeca and im joining the call to inaudible . [please stand by] as a black year woman, i know in a city where the police are not keeping people like me safe, they are there and doing active harm on our communities. In our website our entire team has identified 36 cuts to the s. F. P. D. Budget. Those are a start. We demand 100 defunding of s. F. P. D. We demand you defund now and black lives matter. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you. Next caller, please. Hi. I am a lifelong San Francisco resident. I have never had a single positive interaction with the s. F. P. D. Every interaction has been marred by rude officers. If you do not actively pursue defunding s. F. P. D. I will vote for someone who will. A fucking takes this on the work phone. They must hang. I yield my time. Next caller, please. I am peter in district 5. Not increasing the Police Budget. 40 million out of the budget and wipe out the hsh. 9 million wipe out the status of women to help Domestic Violence and address workplace gender equities. 90 drop in fare revenue. 158 million this year. That is a quarter that they propose to spend on police. 5 million and 10 million here. That is 700 million budget. Supervisor ronen complains. The board should said fuck the p on. Ppoa. It is to protect the public. Defund the police. Reimagine Public Safety. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I am tim. I am a resident of district 8. We demand complete defunding of the s. F. P. D. And redirect to Public Health. We must reimagine Public Safety. This is one way. Half than half of the budget we can house every unhoused person. Why should s. F. P. D. Get the increase while schools get 26 million in cuts . Cancel the upcoming Youth Program to cost 2 million that is peanuts compared to the Police Budget. Defund and disband the Police Department. Under be the brown act you cannot censor. Fuck the police. Thanks. Next speaker, please. Hi, i am didi. I want to say what they have been saying all afternoon and evening. Defund, disarm s. F. P. D. Now in the budget and redirect to public house, and those of col color. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Before i call the next speaker, we currently have 122 listeners, 55 in the queue. We appreciate your patience. Next caller, please. Hi. So there is a boy who died on july 4th. He was 6 years old. His name was jason. You are asking to raise the polices money. That is unacceptable when there are children dying on the streets. You are asking for more money. Are you serious . I yield my time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. Next caller. [ inaudible ] i am elizabeth. [indiscernable] can figure out what we should do. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] next speaker, please. Hi, curtis, district 11. I see comparisons to the local 700 million Police Budget to the federal military budget. Increases every year with no assessment if what we are funding is keeping us safe. How radical it is to not support defunding the police. If you accept that we need police, they should be abolished. You should see how over bloated the Police Budget is. We should defund the police because it is racist that cannot be reformed. You cant reform the police because it is like you cant reform White Supremacy. It must be abolished. What is your legacy. What will your position look like 10, 20, 30 years down the road from now . A side note. None of the cops wear their masks. I see them at the farmers market. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am charlie of district 5. I echo what people are saying about de funding the s. F. P. D. Now. We need more funds for Public Transit. Reparations for communities. People of color. Thank you so much for listening. I urge you to please listen to the people talking and to the protest movements. There are so many that is choice is clear. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I am jordan harville resident district 4. We will defund, disarm and disband s. F. P. D. The budget raised 76 in 12 years. Now when your constituents suffer you want to raise by another 43 million. We demand defunding of s. F. P. D. In this years budget and redirect to Public Health and housing and reparations to people of color and transcommunities. We have identified cuts right now. Defund s. F. P. D. Now. Com. In 20 years we will remember what side you are on. We look forward to seeing you at the ballot box. Fuck the police. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I live and work in San Francisco. I want to echo what everyone has been saying about abolishing the police. Folks said Police Target people of color and trans people. I think a shout out to mandelman from one gay person to another. It is time for you to show up as a gay person for our black and brown Community Members. Police are terrorizing them. Shut the fuck up. Please invest in black folks, queer and trans. As a young person we are watching. You need to pick it up. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am lindsey williams. I live in district 6. I agree with the facts that have been said in this hearing tonight. We should get rid of the s. F. P. D. I call for the defunding, dismantling and abolishing of the police. Black lives matter, poor lives matter, indigenous lives matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Defund, disarm the s. F. P. D. I have been here for 22 years. I have been around so many so killings. I avoid calling the crimes. They will escalate the situation and someone could end up dead. I want to lead in a city with the lowest numbers in the nation of homeless and incarceration and highest numbers of high school graduates. Civic engagement. This would mean a healthy and thriving city. For everyone to be the best they can be. We can take a step by taking this moment of power and leadership by the movement for black lives. Invest the money in housing, transit and education. It is the community that San Francisco wants and needs. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Please begin. I am district 5. Supervisor mandelman i voted for you. I want to relay a message for a member who did not want to call in for fear of harassment from the police. To expect support every set of of the reinvestment of funds to people of color in the city. The fact this person is afraid to speak at a Budget Hearing indicates the facts the relationship between the s. F. P. D. To protect is broken. Defund and disarm the s. F. P. D. Black lives matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. This is thomas omalley. Member of the San Francisco Police Department Airport Division. I just want to address the disrespect that the Airport Division has gotten. You think 260 officers. This last year i ascertained six vehicles stopped in the passenger dropoff zone. You think it is funny people might transport marijuana from San Francisco to los angeles. What if they go in the airport bathroom and panic and put the leg in the toilet and now they have a blue dial. Thank you very much for voting for the budget and increases. I need the overtime to buy a nice house so i dont have to live in the city any more. Keep doing what you are doing. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I am gavin meadow in district 5. Calling to defund, disarm and disband the s. F. P. D. And redirect it toward Public Health for communities targeted by Police Including black, indigenous, people of color. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Cool. Hello. One of hundreds to a abolish the fucking police. This is stolen land. Channel the money towards supports instead of murdering women of color and trans women. I would lik like you to reflectn the hundreds of calls to demand you at minimum defund the police. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am brook williams. I am a member of socialist. I live in district 6. I am calling as a black queer woman do urge you disband s. F. P. D. Now and redirect it towards Public Housing and reparations for communities targeted by policing including black, people of color, transcommunities and our neighbors. We have identified cuts. We made it easy for you. You can take a look at those at defund sfpd now. Com. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Yes, i afafricanamerican woman in San Francisco. I want to echo the call of people to defund the police. I myself personally feel unsafe leaving my house at night. I feel like that is a horrible feeling to have. I want to echo what everyone else says. Defund the police. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am emma agnew. I am a social worker living in district 2. I work with communities and families of color in San Francisco. We knew never to call the police when we needed help where a kid or family in crisis. If the police were called it would lead to harm or death to clients. We would never use the police. That is tragic. They do not help. I am here to demand defunding and bottomlishing of the s. F. P. D. Put the resources into communities where they can help. Thank you. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I have something slightly different to say than anybody else. Put down your phone for 30 seconds and stop playing candy crush. Listen. Outside there is a protest. It is not a movement. It is a revolution. You are on the wrong or right side. Defund the police immediately. The outcome of tonights meeting is going to determine what people see you, vote, whether or not you can leave your home. We will be there. We out number you. We out number all of you. I yield my time. Good night. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am lilly, educator and resident of district 1 and member of sunrise bay. I am calling you to defund s. F. P. D. And support our communities rather than oppress and harm them. It is immoral the budget cuts proposed for education and transportation but s. F. P. D. Is expected to use 736 million to tear other rise our black terrorize our black and brown. Black and Indigenous People of color and transand unhoused neighbors. This is a problem that cant be involved by reform. I urge you the board of supervisors to listen to the people you represent or we will vote you out. Now is the time to be bold and to build a future where people dont live in fear of being murdered for existing. Black lives matter, black translives matter and defund the police. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am katie. I am a social worker in district 8 in San Francisco. I am calling to ask for the defunding and disbanding of the s. F. P. D. From experience this is not safe. It is difficult for anyone invested in keeping the Community Safe to talk to the police. They act violently. They cause problems. Thank you very much. I yield my time. Defund the police. Thank you. I am charlotte quinn, i grew up San Francisco and went to Juvenile Hall at 16 for sleeping on public property. The residents of San Francisco live in fear of the police and unavoidable interactions with them. The resources are under funded and giving away our homes. Defund sfpd now to learn how the city can use my tax dollars by abolishing s. F. P. D. Now. The existence of s. F. P. D. Provides harm. They have settled 665 litigation claims at 33. 4 million to taxpayers. This is top of the budget. In the past 13 months we paid out 14. 7 million to settle lawsuits related to racism and sexism and Police Brutality. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors. I am kelly peterson. I love the city. I am disappointed by the failure and leadership in the budget presentation. I am calling to urge you to defund the s. F. P. D. With intention of abolishing. Proposal for 40 million while cutting 26 million from education is disrespectful. The dollarrance of police tolerance of police is unfunded. Any other form of reparations with neglected to adequately serve for decades. Reform is not an option. Police will not be the solution to problems they have created. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is. [ inaudible ] i work in Housing Services in San Francisco. It sickens me that increasing the budget 43 million is even thought of when there are 10,000 People Living on the streets and not having basic needs met. I demand defunding and dismantling and abolishing of s. F. P. D. I think that if nothing changes after hundreds of San Francisco citizens voiced their pinto defund the s. F. P. D. We do not live in a democracy. Thank you. I yield my time. Next caller, please. Hi. I am a resident of district 6 calling to defund and disband s. F. P. D. And redirect toward reparations by people of color and trans. There are a cuts a s. F. P. D. Today less than 5 of the services. [ inaudible ] 95 are not. When police speak in code public does not have people. [ inaudible ] officers who murdered in the crisis. Every unhoused person in the city with the s. F. P. D. Budget. Defund s. F. P. D. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am naturalli nat natalia. There are so many things that the Community Needs other than s. F. P. D. Millions of dollars for Public Transportation and Mental Health and medical help for people of color and low income and also an education. Reform. We want t to defund s. F. P. D. It is terrible to see teachers providing for students because there was not enough funding for Community Events and programs and take into consideration the community requests. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi there. I am Michael Garcia district 11. I tell people that San Francisco is where the future