Agency. She responded to public reports about a Facebook Group in which Border Patrol agents wrote inappropriate jokes of migrants and members of congress. This is two hours. Today we welcomed the chief of the Border Patrol and would note she is the first woman to hold this important position. Thank you for being here today. First, i want to acknowledge the men and women of the Border Patrol have faced a multitude of challenges this year with the high numbers of migrants that have been seen coming across the border. I know they have worked long hours and have been asked to do work that they never imagined would be part of their job. I continue to believe the majority of your personnel carry out their mission in a professional manner and to treat those in their custody with humanity. I have significant concerns about the reports of the treatment by some Border Patrol agents. Im also concerned that the Border Patrol culture may be tolerant of the actors. Understanding the challenges faci
Captioning performed by vitac and its taking my men and women away from their primary mission of border security. Just as were thinking about how to deal with this, i would just ask the members here to, you know, consider, once again, i want these these families and kids in either Family Residential centers or in health and Human Services. My time is up, but we did add money or we are proposing to add money for entry level positions so your men and women can do what they need to do and then we will get those folks to do the changing of diapers and all those things. Thank you. Yes. Mr. Rutherford. Thank you, madam chair. Chief, i almost want to apologize for the position that this congress and previous congresses have put you in. As a Law Enforcement officer myself, i know how frustrating it was for me back in the 70s when i was dealing with Domestic Violence cases and the law precluded me from putting people in jail that i knew had broken the law, that had abused women, and i couldnt d
Really a violation and of course, i understand her reaction to this issue and so that means we have to work harder to make sure that we have more Police Officers on streets, that we are addressing some of the causes of crime in the first place and investing in the right programs and doing everything we can to deal with these issues. Reporter we shared the mayors response with angela. What do you think . Im glad to hear shes taking seriously and addressing the root causes. I would love to see the statistics that show car breakins and crimes are down because that doesnt really match with everyday experience. And im glad to hear shes thinking about it but i think we need really specific plans. I want to know exactly what the plan is. So about plans, angelas city supervisor said the city made significant investments in place and drug treatment and pretty hopeful the changes will help turn things around in the next few years. Ls hope yeah. All right. Thanks. Crime is one issue that drives p
Shop. Like so many people in San Francisco, she and her husband are being priced out. Going out just around the community will be, youll spend 100nd a weekend which is something that personally i cant afford to do that. Reporter she works for a nonprofit teaching english to adult refugees. She earns 25 an hour. I want to teacher forever. I cant see myself doing administrative jobs. Reporter she reached out to her neighborhood communitys social network asking for help how to get a second job. I have done everything from dog sitting, housekeeping. Reporter city hall has heard more off its share are of stories like that one. The city maintains the only way to keep people like her in San Francisco is to build more Affordable Housing. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development set a goal of 10,000 affordable units by 2020. As of last december, the city had completed 7,300 and 86 units and now it has confirmed that 2,827 units are in the pipeline expected to be completed by 2020.
We have, you know, reviewed evidence after evidence that shows because theres this myth that tasers are less than lethal, that they often are used more regularly than guns and, therefore, lead to more deaths. We, you know, just from statistics from 1983 to 2017, there are at least 155 People Killed by police where tasers are a primary or contributing cause of the death, and then what we also know, its not only dangerous for the person thats tased, its dangerous for the officers themselves. Because they are ineffective 45 of the time, and when you have to get close to tase someone, so if an officer, instead of creating that time and distance, is getting close to tase someone and its ineffective 45 of the time, its putting that officer in as much danger as its putting the individual being tased. And thats a real, real concern. And then finally, you know, i was just listening to an npr report the other day that said because of the substantial risk to life that tasers cause, because of the