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Clearly saw the need for because of our community partners. Anyway, it got published, the article was published in this months article, in this months magazine so hopefully it will be used as a model for agencies across the united states. They can take our order and use it as a basis or a template for doing what they do and seems to be working here. So i appreciate the recognition. Thank you. Thanks, rachel, and thank you, deputy chief tamioka, well make sure we get copies of that magazine if pr...

Good evening, my name is jaimie gerber, i am the project coordinator for project what, thank you for having the space here tonight for us to talk. Thank you for all your hard work on dgo 7. 04 and thank you so much for taking the time to include youth voices in this process. Project what is really excited and really grateful to know that the chief is designing officer trainings on trauma and its effect on children. We feel that this is a really important opportunity to continue to include youth ...

Out who they need to talk to the person to. None of us have to talk to each other any more face to face. My take away. I guess the push one thing i would stress is if theres a way to increase the number of direct bilingual officer interactions, i dont know if thats staffing. I dont know if the phone lines are like the at t operators, ive used those before, they tend to be very business oriented so they are not translating every day language, they are translating at a higher level and not using t...

You guys keep setting examples and, yeah, thank you again and progress like this is really important and it helps ensure trust between the community and the police. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. Hi, my name is Kathleen Daly and i work for sf cip and im really pleased that the video exists and that the dgo passed. Our organization has been working on getting that general order passed for 10 years and i cried the day that it passed, so thank you. Also i just wanted to reiterate how important i...

On the phones. Have to wait for the sergeant to come with the phone so they can call the Language Line. Now every officer has the phone so they are using it, which is what we want. And the phone has google language on the phone so they can figure out who they need to talk to the person to. None of us have to talk to each other any more face to face. My take away. I guess the push one thing i would stress is if theres a way to increase the number of direct bilingual officer interactions, i dont k...

Audience and commissioners, good evening. Good evening. Very briefly, im here today to honor a new path to bring more exposure to this commission. We have a couple writers in the crowd, the San Francisco examiner, at times report what happens here at the commission but do it impartially or do it partially instead of reporting everything that takes place, rart fr report what they feel they should write about. Im going to give you a copy out of the San Francisco examiner where breed picks city hal...

Contact those officers by using dem or contacting dem directly and finding out who is available that has that skill set. As i look at it, it looks like theres a decrease in the number of sort of bilingual officer contacts. In 2013 it looks like there were more sort of face to face interactions between a bilingual officer and a client. In 2014 the vast majority of the contacts were through the phone interpreters, about 2700 out of the 2954, right . So there was an increased use of the phone lines...

Can you please turn offer your Electronic Devices as it tends to interfere with the equipment in the room and can we please rise foertd pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. That dam president , id like to call roll. Please do. President loftus, here. Vice president turman, here. Commissioner marshall, present. Commissioner mazzucco, present...

Manner dived into the really tough questions for our district and whether its making clay tower accessible or providing adequate levees services with or whether its creating the kind of open space we want to keeping our streets safe, keeping lombard from being crushed by falling ficus trees we know how to Work Together and we done it well and the victories of our efforts are all around us. My hope is we have many many more to come. Because of a powerful lever in city hall now and you know all wo...

Iacp international chief of police was asking for an article on the steps that we took to develop this policy and she asked if i would step forward and be do it, i said sure, thinking, you know, ill do a couple paragraphs on it. Then after i committed she said yeah, its got to be about 2,000 words and i said, oh, i feel like im back in college. Anyway, i worked really hard on it, had some help from some people in our department and just described the collaborative effort where it started back in...