City and sales force ceo mark [inaudible] is going to get some additional ones and that is 40. The recruits that are full time students age 18 and over with an interest in Law Enforcement and hold them close until theyre old enough to test to come to the Police Department. What about the Current Academy classes or the ones in formation . One current class is 12 africanamerican and the next class that will start in april starts off at 14 . What about latinos and Pacific Islanders . I believe that is an equal amount, somewhere in the midteens so the focus is obviously the 300 officers that retired in fact i see a couple in the background here are my generation so when we came in there was a hiring decree and so a lot of the people retired when we got old we dont have that but i need to hire back in kind and within the law without using any quotas or variety so the method to achieve the goal is to basically fish in San Franciscos since i think san franciscans make good Police Officers and
Do we make change . I can tell you how horrified we were and the reaction in my home but if we dont change it we will experience the same problems. The issues that were facing in San Francisco we have insufficient oversight over the Law Enforcement agencies and dont have a culture of transparency around disciplinary actions and problems that maybe brewing in the multiple agencies that we work with. Number two we dont really have meaningful mechanisms to force reporting of misconduct other than obligations we have under brady to turn over potentially excull pitory information and we have limited information on misconduct in the Police Department or Sheriffs Department or any other, and third theres too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct here in San Francisco. Its a rare situation that someone is fired for the conduct. There are few cases reported to us for misconduct and the discipline that is meted out is rare, relatively weak and uncertain, so those issues i t
San francisco and tetd the judge was i believe kevin ryan and we did different iterations of serious fire over time and went to a zone strategy in 2005 under chief heather fong with the deputy chief and john murphy and that was the low year matched last year in San Francisco where we had 45 homicides. I am happy to look at that again. So from what i am hearing there is a ground swell of support growing for desire to see the model that is implemented in boston serious fire here in San Francisco. We do have serious fire meetings biweekly ongoing. I understand but it takes on a different its not quite based after the boston model. Its not as strong as the model that i am referring to. I can talk to the boston model is pairing probation and Police Officers in the evening hours to do probation knock and talks at residences and we do that to some degree but theres not a lot of adult probation officers that work in the evening hours. I am happy to talk with you supervisor and get you to where
Do as City Employees so i am hoping that when you review our request for funding that you will join us with that in that effort. One of the other things we asked for this year are is funding for hearings on structural bias. The relationship between explicit and implicit bias and the resulting structural bias that gets there are issues to address and we hope in conjunction with the board of supervisors to hold hearings so the various city departments can come and things exist that and the people of city and county of San Francisco tell us what needs to done and also the kind of struck uferl issues they have confronted so we hope deeply to work with the board and the rest of the city supervisor cohen. Thank you. Just a quick clarifying question. Could you define for us structural bias . I actually i can give you an explanation that someone that has been given. I think the naacp actually gave defines it as bias is legitimizing a a rare of dynamics and paused . Now racism isnt the only for
Misconduct other than obligations we have under brady to turn over potentially excull pitory information and we have limited information on misconduct in the Police Department or Sheriffs Department or any other, and third theres too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct here in San Francisco. Its a rare situation that someone is fired for the conduct. There are few cases reported to us for misconduct and the discipline that is meted out is rare, relatively weak and uncertain, so those issues i think are the things that within all of our agencies need to be looking at. I think everyone here is earnest to scrub out the behavior and problems and we have to be honest with ourselves it will require systemic change and not saying that we feel terrible and theyre fears that we dont share personally. In our office and you have seen the news that the District Attorney asked for a task force to investigate this and other issues were seeing. We have invited other agencies t