Robinson, you probably recognize her because shes the former assistant attorney general for the office of Justice Programs both in this administration with president obama and also in the administration with president clinton. And to professor robinsons left is Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, and to those in the district who also recognize him hes been the Police Commissioner for, i want to say, six years and was the District Police chief for eight, almost nine years and has spent time in chicago. The way we will do this today is we will have a series of a panel of experts that will provide testimony to the task force, and that testimony will then be considered by the task force as it goes into deliberations. Let me say this. For the witnesses we have today, one, thank you for being here. For the first time of the task force, were also going to have several witnesses come in through and im going to get myself in trouble because im not a tech person so i apologize ahead of time thro
You also further testified here as well that a large, rather large increase in suicide is seen in officers with 1519 years of service. The question becomes there is a population of Police Officers that are going out, particularly those they might age group okay. We are in the twilight of our careers, and much of what youre talking about, much of the research i assume has been validated pretty much on this population, on my population come if you will. If we consider the fact that theres a younger population of young men and women that are coming our Police Departments today, entirely different generation, 21, 22 years of age anecdotally they are much healthier, they grew up in a time when they become more Health Conscious because the parents more Health Conscious. They are less likely to drink, smoke, hang out, do the police club clique club that introduced a lot of these illnesses that we are very much familiar with. But whats really striking is the fact that for many of these young p
Ever that might occur as risking a shift in Market Expectations for the beginning of policy firming toward an unduly narrow range of dates. As a result some expressed the concern that Financial Markets might overreact, resulting in undesirably tight financial conditions, i. E. Higher Interest Rates there but whether or not the market might force rates higher or they would start to raise rates, the minutes say quote, many participants observed that that a premature increase in rates might damp the apparent solid recovery in real activity and labor Market Conditions and that if that happened, they actually might have to reverse themselves and lower rates to help keep the economic recovery on course. The minutes show that they are struggling with how to communicate to investors and to markets about the timing and about the timing of raising Interest Rates. Their next meeting is in march. Cheryl, back to you. Cheryl a lot of discussion in the studio already what theyre saying and kind of t
Be logo listed but moving forward the testing of the system and the implementing of the system will be a very necessary and appreciated. So compared to where you are with your funded 3 funded right now and 350 additional rec unfunded what is your estimate right now well talk about if what youll need moving forward in those this is an important priority for the city and certainly this board of supervisors that respect through a lengthy legislation progress to enact the law those of us who supported the law expect it to be followed we need to make sure we have an effective enforcement staff to make sure everyone is on the same page. I think moving forward certainly we have that positions that are funded of the two staff has hired one and in agreement with those and taking resources from other parts of the agencies to process those and 3 additional positions will be helpful manpower is only part of the difficulty ann pointed out there are legislation changes to the ordinance that makes it
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