poundin pound [pounding of the grasm] all right, good morning and welcome to the rules committee meeting of april 14th, twf i m katy tang of this committee. to my left is malia cohen. we ll be joined shortly by supervisor eric mar. per his request. i with aant to announce first you have that oo he d like us to start with item 3. with that, mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? clerk: please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. any documents part of the file should be commit smipted to clerk. clerk. thank you and i d like to thank sfgovtv and our clerk derek evans. with that if we could call item three first. item testimony 3 is a hearing to point wum member to the shelter monitoring committee. there is one seat and one applicant. is katrina hall here? would you like to come up and make a quick presentation? i m katrina hall. my qualifications is i m a formerly homeless parent with a homeless child under 18. i had been in a homeless shelter
my qualifications is i m a formerly homeless parent with a homeless child under 18. i had been in a homeless shelter two years ago. if elected to the committee, there is a lot of things that i would like to accomplish that i ve seen fall in the shelter seven and a half months. these things were like related to the program areas, such as the conditiomons, simes the areas didn t really promote, you know, a safe and decent environment. for program activities to be conducted. the children sometimes played, you know, on things that broken furniture, staff would watch or if the children were going to fall or get injured or something, no one said anything. that s the main focus. another area that i would like to see improve would be reporting deficiencies like if there was an incident they didn t report it if a child was injured. the staff wouldn t file a report. it would look like maybe the parents did something. they wouldn t say your child got injured on a chair or got a scra
the department of health and human services for the office of general counsel. i was relieved from the san francisco jail last week after spending two months for felony charges after making criminal threats and just from being frustrated with the police that refuse to do anything and now i haven t seen my son in four months. i saw him before his dad bit him in the face and there was a witness and the person made cps reports and they haven t done anything and the police haven t done anything and i think it s convenient that greg suhr left and heard the important things that people had to say and he took charge of this case and ignored it thank you. and i think the police department is shameful thank you. [inaudible] next speaker. hi. i am christopher hite and with the san francisco public defender s office and chair of the racial justice community and san francisco public defender s office. what i see is occurring right now in san francisco and plays off of rev
suggestion of going forward have been reiterated and spoke of. in particular i would like to address the patrol specials, particularly under san francisco police department. i personally had an experience where there is bias there as well. i surface this and sent it directly to the internal affairs committee about five years ago and i haven t heard from it. there was a statement that was questionable by a person under the auspices of san francisco police department. i will follow up with that but i do congratulate the committee today. thank you. thank you. next speaker. hello. with a bay area organization. i m going to talk about three stories which i think exhibit both structural racism this the system, dehumanization of clients in the system and implicit bias. as far as racism one of the things the community can do to understand what is going on is literally walk into any of the departments in the hall of justice and look at the individuals coming out and question wheth
because no other police officer will say something and the thin blue line will hold fast and even officers that don t like it that do not like hearing it that it s like a punch in the gut is not going to say anything because to talk out of turn jeopardizes their future, their promotions and so forth as not being a team player and what the department has to understand and just as they ask us in our community when we see a crime we need to tell the police about it. when they see crimes of this nature, social crimes they have to tell somebody about it and do something about it. that can not be a one way street. there has to be cooperation from the departmentand i don t think the chief s actions have been strong or swift enough. we tried to tell him a year ago and when this happened i thought how much greater would have been if the chief said yes we have some problems and we implemented a community policing program that we implemented sensitivity training and that we implemen