evening everyone. looks like we made it another year. i want to welcome you all to the regularly scheduled police commission meeting for january 5th, 2022. my name is malia cohen. i m president of the commission. we ve got a full house today and a fairly full agenda. i d like sergeant youngblood to call the roll. secretary: yes, ma am. [roll call] president cohen, you have a kor quorum. president cohen: can we say the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god in divisible with liberty and justice for all. secretary: president cohen, i believe you are muted. president cohen: please call the first item. secretary: line item one. discussion and possible action to adopt findings for the police commission to continue to meet via teleconferencing technology per assembly bill. discussion and possible action. and i just need a motion and a second. vice president elias:
all right. president cohen: good evening everyone. looks like we made it another year. i want to welcome you all to the regularly scheduled police commission meeting for january 5th, 2022. my name is malia cohen. i m president of the commission. we ve got a full house today and a fairly full agenda. i d like sergeant youngblood to call the roll. secretary: yes, ma am. [roll call] president cohen, you have a kor quorum. president cohen: can we say the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god in divisible with liberty and justice for all. secretary: president cohen, i believe you are muted. president cohen: please call the first item. secretary: line item one. discussion and possible action to adopt findings for the police commission to continue to meet via teleconferencing technology per assembly bill. discussion and possible action. and i just need
that san francisco has to focus on quality of life issues. right now, we are drowning in a cess pool and we worried about emergencies in the tenderloin and so on and so forth. and what has the commission done legislators to legislate coming to the meetings and telling us what they propose to do maybe 50 years from now. you commissioners need to get a grip on your life because the divisiveness in our city has reached a breaking point and the [ indiscernible ] are doing what they please. [ indiscernible ] a few other statements, but i ll write to him personally. and now i m asking ya ll that the people from the tenderloin who have the wisdom to be at the table to all the real plans you have made. secretary: thank you caller. good evening caller, you have two minutes. caller: as we look back on 2021, what can the police commission say that benefits our black founders. i m going to call it what it is into blackness when it comes to the ice of force, arrest, and racial profili
appropriate role for congress is to consider what is that right ecisio combination between leadership, management and resources and nt lik makee a responsible decision. not rush to judgment like the democrats did last wednesday and then play politics with what is a national tragedy. i think it s samehameful that they did that and hopefully cooler heads will prevail and we ll gton make responsible decisions. ye there s aar piece in the priva washington times about the privatization of amtrak.yo should that u happen?ing of i would like to see amtrak privatized. i don t know that we re there yet. you have to go back to theiv beginning of amtrak. the reason we have amtrak is in ics of p 1970 private rail service was completely failing. the financial model, the economics of private rail service given the interstate highway system and the growth of airlines, by 1970 the private b rail system was collapsing. it was a bailout. amtrak was a bailout.f the act that congress passed a
tool. so they cannot accomplish systemic reform. and so if, for example, we do not have a policy addressing a ban on racial profiling, for example, and that continues to be a factor in law enforcement in a particular community, it will defeat the purpose of the body-worn camera if that purpose is to help reiterate law enforcement and the community together and their approach to law enforcement. i really appreciate all your answers. again, i m grateful to the chairman for calling this. as the co-chair of the senate law enforcement caucus and someone that worked closely with law enforcement in my previous role, it is my hope that some of the different organizations you represent will work together to help develop some model guidelines and some model policies. it should be locally driven but not every community is going to have the resources, time and effort. i think body-worn cameras are misperceived as an easy solution to very complex and deep-seeded problems. they can be a