Good afternoon. Good afternoon. My name is Phoebe Vander horst and i was one of the 39 people that sat through meetings for a year. Since everything has been said so if sufficiently and succinctly, i am just going to add my little comment to this. San francisco does not need a new jail. We do not need one. We need to invest in cooperative housing and Neighborhood Based Services and support transformative justice practices instead of imprisonment. We do not need more police and we do not need a new jail. The population of the jail on this state as 85 africanamerican. Africanamericans his are three of the citys population. We need to address the institutional racism in San Francisco. That sheriff is threatening to send prisoners to Alameda County and santa rita as an alternative but that is blackmail. We have the money for the housing. We have money for the alternative. The fact that the police are not arresting white and asian techies, who are the rising population of the city, building
Please state your name for the record. All right. Who is first . Good afternoon. Good afternoon. My name is Phoebe Vander horst and i was one of the 39 people that sat through meetings for a year. Since everything has been said so if sufficiently and succinctly, i am just going to add my little comment to this. San francisco does not need a new jail. We do not need one. We need to invest in cooperative housing and Neighborhood Based Services and support transformative justice practices instead of imprisonment. We do not need more police and we do not need a new jail. The population of the jail on this state as 85 africanamerican. Africanamericans his are three of the citys population. We need to address the institutional racism in San Francisco. That sheriff is threatening to send prisoners to Alameda County and santa rita as an alternative but that is blackmail. We have the money for the housing. We have money for the alternative. The fact that the police are not arresting white and a
The answer was he asked, about 300 of them had been cannibalized. If you are in a if you are a hotel owner and you can lease those for 1,500 a month or mass release them to the safety, which one would you choose . Those are things that this has got to be a working group of a number of different people who have that commitment over a number of different areas. Not just one person, you know, . Thank you, supervisor peskin. Thank you director waggoner. To the sheriffs point, i want to see the work of the working group continue and it is very hard for me to imagine creating 300 new beds in a prison when we need, very clearly, and that we are hearing from folks at ss general and throughout s. F. Public health department, several and probably an equivalent new number of longterm care beds. Some of those would be serving the same population and may be may be keeping them out of jail. I have a lot of trouble, not to reference supervisor ronens earlier conversation about resources and the need
May be folks can just come forward to. Ok. To reiterate, two minutes each. Please state your name for the record. All right. Who is first . Good afternoon. Good afternoon. My name is Phoebe Vander horst and i was one of the 39 people that sat through meetings for a year. Since everything has been said so if sufficiently and succinctly, i am just going to add my little comment to this. San francisco does not need a new jail. We do not need one. We need to invest in cooperative housing and Neighborhood Based Services and support transformative justice practices instead of imprisonment. We do not need more police and we do not need a new jail. The population of the jail on this state as 85 africanamerican. Africanamericans his are three of the citys population. We need to address the institutional racism in San Francisco. That sheriff is threatening to send prisoners to Alameda County and santa rita as an alternative but that is blackmail. We have the money for the housing. We have money