City of San FranciscoPolice Commission please stand by. February 10, 2016 , can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President loftus, i would like to call roll. Please do. Commissioner president loftus, here. Commissioner advice turman, commissioner marshall, commissioner dejesus, commissioner hwang, commissioner mazzucco. You also have police chief suhr. Im going to propose we move item no. 3 early i did in the discussion on our agenda and put it under, chief, i know you are going to give a presentation on the item. Next item. Public comment. General Public Comment. The public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speakers shall address their remarks, to the commission, whole and not individual commissioners or department or occ pes nell. Under Police Commission rules of order, during Public Comment, Neither Police or occ personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public, but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and police and occ personnel. Should refrain however from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comment. Public speaker i grew up in the south and the attitudes of the cops in the south were pretty horrible. When i was coming up, a black man couldnt walk the streets no matter how hot it was otherwise you would go to jail. My concern is to whether or not in the south there is known to be a confederate rule and i have noticed the same attitude here in the north with the Police Officers having that southern mentality. I was wondering if it was some sort of way of judging who gets to put on a blue uniform. If they are allegiance with the Confederate Flag should they be enforced or given the responsibility to enforce the law that they fought against. You know. They dont believe that all men are created equal. Should you actually give them that rule where they have to go out and enforce the law and then put on a blue uniform. I dont believe they have the respect for the blue uniform if their ancestors were wearing the uniform. They put this uniform on and they disgrace that uniform. That is my comment. Thank you. Next speaker. Public speaker good evening, my name is michael pet trellis. There could be no relief for the mayor regarding the murder. Yesterday several people were arrested protesting the mayor. The mayor has to get out of city hall and hold town Hall Meetings. He is not going to be able to be an effective leader by hiding away from people and going to events at fancy hotels and avoiding the anger in the community. I want to thank the leaders who have come out and who have set an example for the mayor to follow. I have to repeat it. Mayor lee get out of your office and hold town Hall Meetings now. The second item i want to address. Can you show on your screen. This is the website for not on my watch this is an effort to confront prejudice with the department. It tooks a public records act request to find out that this website and other social media is costing taxpayers 16,000. 16,000 has been spent on this social Media Campaign and you are not disclosing the cost on this website. It is not enough. For you to think that social media, okay, you can stop showing that now. It is not enough to makeup for the lack of town Hall Meetings with mayor ed lee. This is all pr that you are putting on the web. Its not going to lead to justice. The last item i would like to mention has to do with my demand for the past 2 months. That you developed for the department for regulation from social media. I heard from michael in the week that the regs hes drafted for you he wants to present in march. No date was given for when that could happen. There really needs to be this public discussion about the departments use of social media because we are finding out with this not on my watch website, its costing taxpayers dollars, our dollars. I want to know how you are spending your money and with a your rules are guiding your social media because you are not being fair with how you regard mugshots. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Good evening, clyde, welcome. Public speaker lets go to the heart of matter. How long are we going to talk about this . Hey, mary woods is still here. When was the last time you saw someone get killed by a taser . You havent. I talked to you today. Brooklyn. Steve is a Good Neighbor in new york. I said how many times have you used the taser in new york . Thousands. How many people are killed in new york . Common sense says you are not going to taser a 90yearold woman . Why dont we have them . Cmon people. Would it have worked . I dont know. But its a lot better than that that gun. Public speaker from the foundation and from the participation for the last percent in review. I want to speak in particular to the town Hall Meetings that you have organized per district the one in bayview and some of the staff attended the one in the tenderloin. It is a good intent. However the Police Presence was overwhelming. There is a signature and by the time we were finished we were told to vacate the room now. This is not sufficient. As you remember there was a study of policing in 2009 and mark was holding town Hall Meetings, but at the end she was doing the briefing and she would use an analysis of all those readings and what were the trends that were important. This is what you should do and to see from you a briefing and one of these sessions and analysis. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Public speaker my name is harry. I have lived here for more than 30 years. This is the third time that people have been trying to introduce. I find it in comprehensible. When you vote, when you read the news, when someone was tasered or someone seriously damaged, thats on your conscious. All of you need to act and stop pretending there is not a problem with this department. The Police Officers association should not be running San Franciscos Police Policy. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, next speaker. Public speaker good evening, my name is johnson. I think that life and these are failures in the Police Department. What i have seen are totally no one talks about the real thing. And i think this needs to be directly in kind with the Police Department where that do have disabled and they are inclined with dyslexia and i dont think its been studied in the Police Department. I think some of our Police Department have been not underneath positions for that. We had a really good in 2001 and they stole my passport. Now im going to revenue to get my passport back. I found out a little later and it would be a lot better because my mathematics is really weak. Im a lot more improved because of the city college and the Police Department. I know that i have been dropping weight but really healthy lately and really involved with heavy equipment on my back. Im automatic in engineering in college. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good evening, ms. Brown and welcome. Public speaker again, my name is paulette brown. I would like to use the overhead as i always do concerning my son, aubrey abrakasa. To this day, his case isnt solved. I worry about the disparity and race is racism of our childrens cases not solved. Steinles case was solved. Why isnt our cases solved. I always bring up mario woods. I understand, i am with his mother. I understand how she feels. I have been on the battlefield for the last 9 years. It will be 10 years, a decade this year on the 14th of august will be 10 years since my sons murder. I always come with pictures of my son. Because i dont want another mother to go through what i did. I had to watch my son in a casket. I relive this everyday. This is a picture i have of my son. After an autopsy. He has a mother and father that raised him well. I had to walk across the stage to receive his diploma. This is what marios mother has to do to receive his diploma. This is not easy for us. I bring this up because i want justice for my child. I say that all lives matter. All lives matter. Black lives matter too, but i want justice for my child. I have been coming here bringing up the awareness not just for my son, but for all mothers and fathers suffering in silence and mothers and fathers that dont want to come out and speak. I stand for them. My purpose that i got into this is because of my son. He was only 17 years old. A young boy being shot down by community violence. We want the same justice for our children that you are giving to every person. Im a taxpayer. I want the same justice for my son. I dont want to have to see, i want to get rid of these pictures. I dont want to keep carrying these pictures. I will do this until my sons case is solved. I want his case solved. If anyone has any information on aubrey abrakasa, please call police. Public speaker i want to address the Police Commission if i may. I have a couple questions and i will be out of the way. The Police Commission of a shooting. I want to know from the Police Commission can that be possible . In Public Comment we are not able to respond to questions. You can ask a request and well take it down. Its not a question. The public wants a demonstration. A taser gun. How is it used that you will command that and for a new to bring somebody down and kill him. Why not use a taser gun. Did you have Public Comment . There is limitations to what we can say as to Public Comment. Tonight it will be discussed but we are not taking any action tonight. Thank you. Next speaker . Good evening and welcome. Public speaker i dont think i have time to do everything. I hope i have enough time. I have been watching you on tv for a long time and throwing stuff at the television and decided to come down and see if i can offer anything. I wanted to compliment the commission on your work and most recently commissioner hwang for that you published in the San Francisco chronicle. I think it was very good. I come to you as a former city planner and director of Civil Rights Commission and affirmative action. These notes that you see here start to talk about a contextual division of policing that started since slavery. I started as a form of Police Planning as an absolutely connected function to city planning, goals and values. When Police Officers essentially blue collar workers, no pun intended when they are acting in an environment tell people who belong here and who doesnt belong here and acting on that ideology, i have listed some issues that i hope you Pay Attention to Additional Data to review. This the important on who gets killed by whom, what zip codes they come from. The police ought to be living in the community. Thats a 50yearold requirement. Some officers come from areas i wont name them that are known racist communities surrounding San Francisco. Are they impacted by where they live when they come across that bridge. I mentioned police here. Lets say anytime a white person shoots a person of color that its a mental breakdown. When its black on black its criminal. Lets assume that. We need some attention to the health and Mental Health to the officers including a large number of domestic abuses cases in police homes and they come on to the job. You know all about that. Before you get to a shooting policy, you ought to know what you are doing. Here is an edge weapon used on an officer. That man is alive who did that. The question is why . What were the factors. Thank you. Next speaker . Good evening and welcome. Public speaker thank you, my name is andrea. With brooklyn cop watch. Our Police Department does not have tasers. Some part because of the example of San Francisco. I was very impressed with outside of the bay with the reasons for San Francisco not having tasers. I have to say its astonishing. What horrible it is to be on your agenda. How disingenuous it is to look at the death of mario wood to look at the lack of taseers. That is not what killed that man. What killed that man was an incredible lack of sensitivity to the value of black life. Thats what killed him. And its a deeply rooted culture in San Francisco. I have been coming here for 30 years. We used to protest in the mid80s. There is an officer with a swastika in a paddy wagon. He was getting his picture taken and didnt know why the worthiness of the picture. He didnt know that swastika was inappropriate. Whats happening is the department of the police is so deep rooted in the culture in the department. Its going to take a major overhaul. If you want to improve relations in this community you have to fire those officers. You have no absolute understanding of what Real Community safety is about. And you are dominating and controlling and damaging and harming this community. You are inappropriate to leave in 2016 this modern urban city. I would also say this that just yesterday another study came out about tasers that when employed they disorient. They interfere with the cognitive function. When officers deal with them, that officer is compromised fundamentally. If you put any weapon into the hands of a racist, its going to be used in a racist way. I dont care what you put in their hands, if there is not a respect for human life, you are going to have a bad outcome. Police commission, dont consider this item. Dont even talk about it. It disrespect mario woods and his family. Thank you. [ applause ] public speaker good i was going to say i find it offensive and obscene to maintain that tasers are being considered now in order to reduce the possibility of officer involved shootings or in custody shootings. Research across california that after tasers were introduced there was a huge increase in deaths in the first year, in the second year decrease, still it was 150 more than when before tasers were introduced. Whats even more obscene about this is that all across the countries regular Police Training say in a situation when an officer or somebody elses life is in danger, you do not use tasers. You use guns. And the reason for that is because from the cops viewpoint, tasers are only 75 effective and they dont want to have the 25 chance that it might not bring somebody down. So their training is that in a life or death type situation, they use guns. So, to tell us that police are having tasers is going to reduce our being killed is just the an obscene lie. Its also, so how will tasers be used . 80 of tasers used across the country is used against unarmed people and many of them if you go on youtube, you see instance after instance of people being tased when they were handcuffed or hog tied or both. So tasers are not going to reduce in custody death. That is going to be another way to terrify us into submissions. If police cant regulate guns, who is to say they are going to regulate tasers. They are a dangerous weapon. I have a heart condition myself but i look like the hale and hardy person. No police would ask me whether or not i have a heart condition before tasing me. Its absurd to think about it. What we really need instead of tasers what we really need is justice of course. What we really need is a crisis team that can go and talk to people and calm them down. I worked for a hospital for many years. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker . Public speaker my name is nancy. Im a San Francisco resident. I work for the law. When i found out the taser proposal was going to be discussed here, i took off early. Its unfathomable to me that adding another weapon to an arsenal that police when they are out of control is going to solve the problem. Its going to exacerbate the problem. I dont think its a problem with Police Training. I believe the problem is with the policies that allow the police to draw weapons for people who have Mental Health issues, people who are down and out. I work in this neighborhood. Im with the freedom socials party. We see what happened. Its the result of the economic down turn thats forcing people who used to have jobs to become homeless, to become out on the streets, to become potential victims of Police Violence and abuse. Thats not right. This is not the city that i want to live in. I think instead what we need to do is to have an elected Police Review board that is run by civilians because im sorry, what we have here doesnt have the power necessary to make the changes by electing people, our own peers to stand for and be able to investigate independently and have the power to have independent investigations as well as the power to fire and discipline Police Officers if an investigation comes to that. We want a