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Peskin joined to my right by norman yee our member london breed is in the nations capitol today and wont be joining us. Madam clerk do you have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones and 21 Electronic Devices and all documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you ms. Major. Fiscal year can we have a motion to supervisor yee can we have a member to excuse supervisor breed. inaudible . That is moved. Madam clerk...

When i come to washington i have to explain a little bit about the states. What you have read in the books and what people think about the states in washington often is not exactly true. So first of all its true all states are sulfur and yet, all states are not alike. Since we are sovereign we have our own ability to create our sovereign government in the way that we choose. Indiana is one of six states that has chosen what is a little bit more conservative path from our history and weve created...

From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Cyrus vance, jr. Is here. He is the only the fourth person to hold the post in last 75 years and is circuit serving his second time in office. Chip brown wrote in some ways and might be the user to be the District Attorney in manhattan in an era where new yorkers are not inclined to do terrible things to one another and yet the da office still handles more cases than the entire United States department of justice. He has recently voiced hi...

American. Most of the tests only involved white and black subjects. Its impossible i think for anyone to try to suggest what the solutions are, but i think we have to start somewhere and how do you legislate away racism or sort of wrong thinking . Thats very difficult to do but i do think we can take a big step by measuring bias, and weve already taken that step to one extent with traffic violations. Sfpd now reports on traffic stops. But we should extend it to detentions whether or not it resul...

Violence in their own community, and the fact that they didnt feel protected by police in some cases causes them not to take the appropriate steps that they otherwise should that a person who is not burdened by those perspectives perceptions or experiences might so i think its very important that we look at the system in terms of the impact on everyone whether its witnesses, whether its jurors. You know its interesting we just had a situation in a homicide case where jurors actually raised their...

And juries from all white jury pools in florida convicted blacks more often than whites and this is a huge issue in San Francisco and from the jury pools we see now were lucky to see a few africanamericans in a panel of 80, 90 jurors so it shows there is a direct correlation between the race of the jurors and the race of the defendant and its interesting they found this this gap was nearly eliminated when there was at least one member of the jury pool who was africanamerican. So how do we addres...

Those decisions are made with the Retirement Department and separate from the Police Department and i dont know what their feeling is and morally criminal with the Text Messages it doesnt cross the legislative threshold so i dont know what they would have other than the fact they would leave the jurisdiction of myself and the commission. Yeah, and i just wanted to say the reason i bring this up is because the fact that were going to have to look at cases involving these officers and comb through...

Actually raised their hand when the prosecutor said something to the effect that you just have to be color blind and there are no africanamericans in the jury panel and the defense attorney had raised that and the prosecutor said Something Like you just have to be color blind and a white juror said thats a racist statement and half of the courtroom applauded and the judge solved the problem by excusing the panel so were definitely seeing people reacting because of what is happening, because of w...

To extend controversial provisions of the patriot act due to expire at midnight. But first politicians from both sides of the aisle stopped to remember beau biden. Theres been an outpouring of grief for the Vice President s eldest son including from majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. The Senate Offers its presiding officer and every member of his family our prayers and our sympathy. Glor beau biden passed away yesterday from brain cancer. His ill, had not been widely publi sides. He is the first c...

Few minutes explaining some of the implications of all of this. But here i am trying to get across the notion that the data factory benefits from unpaid contributions from lots of people and hear, to give the sense that the data factory is actually selling a whole bunch of services, that most importantly allow the purchases of those services to make money for themselves. But you can see now how powerful the position of these data factories has become. So, here is one example in this is the only ...