Community meetings ask people sit down and talk to them and get a good idea what is like to join the police force. My name is angle and my recommendation is to do at least one bbq every other month. Angel, i think we all agree as long as we are all invited [inaudible] my recommend is to use social media to make the police more positive word. Thank you stefon. Hi, my name is [inaudible] my recommendation for the Police Department is have a little and big brother mentorship program. Thank you. Hi, my name is tray von and my recommendation is to see more Police Officers doing Community Service whether that starts with [inaudible] because that is what i work on and [inaudible] i figured that is one of the best ways. Thank you travon. Mike [inaudible]. Mine is follow windup qualified candidates and thank you for watching and hope you take all this into consideration of what me and my colleagues said. Thanks mike. Thank you jerry. Thank you jerry and your cohort. Thank you gentlemen. Mr. Wilson you are up and your crew. Good evening, hope everything is good and thank you for taking into consideration all the projjects before us. My group is working on a documentary and took [inaudible] wanted to do police and Community Relations so we created the same thung, a documentary. It is a little lenty, there are 2 sides, one side is giving the Police Officers constructive s criticism and the other is what the community can do. How long is it . Like 13 minutes, is that okay . Ya. Greg suhr, doesnt have anywhere to be. Hello. My name is [inaudible] im part of [inaudible] and in the beginning of the summer we were present would the topic of Police Officers and the community and how the relationship recollect there was a lot of tension and hatred, so we thought of ways to improve this between the community and Police Officers. We went to different districts in San Francisco, fillmore, bay view, Richmond District and while doing that we interviewed pipeal of all age groups and different races. Sorry, i lost where i was. I guess that is pretty much. We did a bunch of interviews and you will hear lots of good advice the people will tell you about and Police Officers that feel accepting to the criticism so hope you enjoy the video. Thank you. [unable to hear video]. Before we started the project our cohort wanted to create a documentary on a issue not a is prevalent in San Francisco and the United States. The negative tension that occurs between Police Department and communities we entered several different neighborhoods around San Francisco and spoke with [inaudible] our objectives is find positive and negative [inaudible] when we asked them what the first thing that comes to mind when they hear the word police, here are their reactions. [inaudible] they dont like black people sometimes and [inaudible] i hear police and the first thing that comes to mind is stress. [inaudible] a little bit of safety. Tension. [inaudible] somebody getting shot. We can see there are all most positive thoughts when people hear the word police and that shouldnt be the case. In order to solve the problem we need to dig deeper. We want on to ask people what Police Officers are doing poorly in the neighborhoods and what can they do to improve on. [inaudible] they judge. Improve on their word, they can improve on [inaudible] there should be a way to communicate. Instead of doing more problem solving and [inaudible] i dont know who i would go to. [inaudible] i feel they are unequipted to bond to communities and dont understand. [inaudible] Police Officers frole the neighborhood a majority of people relate to people in the neighborhoods. We felt more people would be open to [inaudible] bridge the gap between Police Officers and people in the community. [inaudible] we need somebody to work with us and not be against us. We need Police Officers who are trained to use their weapon. [inaudible] active effort to engage in the community. [inaudible] every Police Officer should come outside and [inaudible] at least get a feel of it. People want to do something to help. People dont want police to come in and swoop in and try to save the day. [inaudible] makes it more difficult [inaudible] as the bad guy which they hate. [inaudible] every room they walk into [inaudible] there are the police like i dont want to be around [inaudible] i think the person to talk to believe [inaudible] on foot rather than in the squad cars the Community Relationship improves between Police Officers and locals. [inaudible] before we started doing it [inaudible] they got to know us as people versus just the uniform. It made a huge influence on the people [inaudible] we can walk for a hour at a time and you are just out talking to regular joe blow citizen another issue that needs to be resolved is who we choose to be Police Officers. People woo choose to be Police Officers are background in the military and so on and i think to a extents one of the challenges we are facing is it hard to transition from the [inaudible] if you take a young Police Officers that for example has been in the military for 3 or 4 years fighting for their life and in iraq and they choose to become a Police Officers you need to acknowledge the last 4 years of their life their reaction to danger is use their weapon however thrrks is one Issue Community and Police Officers think need to be improved if we do a better job training the officers than issues about profiling and so forth we believe will [inaudible] military training that they get, the first thing they are told is if you show up in all your gear you are already escalating the situation and guaranteed a violent outcome and dont think that is [inaudible] it is about teaching the officers that you are reacting to [inaudible] the activ ity and not the color of the individuals skins however it isnt just the Police Officers that need improvement, the Community Needs to do their part as well. People said they need to start changing their sevls in order to see change in the community. In order for San Francisco to change lets have police and communities work together. [inaudible] we do need a lot of education, but at the same time the Community Needs a lot of education. Selling drugs, [inaudible] we have a red zone and [inaudible] nobody respects the children. We as individual citizens [inaudible] nobody cares. We need to give our kids and young people [inaudible] we need to get them to understand [inaudible] as a community this is something i like to tell everybody, we got to come together to work things out. Just because now there is a huge divide between the police and communities. I think we start at a very young age teaching kids how to handle problems. We all have problems [inaudible] but it is the way you interact. Sit down talk about it. Dont necessarily go get a gun and shoot somebody. That wont solve anything, it just creates a continuous circle. [inaudible] Community Relations and relationship with the police, about the time we see them as outsiders [inaudible] we need to hold them accountable as well as hold ourselves accountable as far as what is going oon in the [inaudible] it doesnt [inaudible] abuse their power. [inaudible] they look like a suspect and approach them and look like they are reaching [inaudible] understand this is [inaudible] not necessarily a murderer trying to kill a black person, it is both ways. It is a really difficult shot. Right now i think the job isnt necessarily meeting the expectations that society [inaudible] i used to do [inaudible] [inaudible] in the communities talk about [inaudible] dont be afraid to talk or ask questions. We are human [inaudible] i think just say hi, how are you doing, you will bridge that gap. There is only so many of us and cant have eyes on everything that goes on the city. [inaudible] we p you cant accept criticism from the public then we are in the wrong business because sometimes we deserve criticism. [inaudible] start at a young age the idea that police are all bad people with hopefully deminsh. [inaudible] it never likei got to know the Police Officer [inaudible] this guy aint doing it for the camera, he is helping out all the time. [inaudible] closer to them so when issues arise that may be problematic we have a better relationship established already so we get better communication. [inaudible] we have a number of other programs [inaudible] as a African American who grew up [inaudible] the reason i got into the job is because [inaudible] i still cant remember his name helped me out. [inaudible] out doing what kids do, breaking windows and stuff like that and [inaudible] you cant keep doing what you doing. I always [inaudible] there is a lot of work to deeinate only in San Francisco but the United States as well when it comes to community and police relationsism hopefully as san franciscans we can come together with this change. I [inaudible] known for a lot of [inaudible] i love our community to see we are friends and [inaudible] building better relationships in communities of color and the police. I think any city can do it, we can. [music] [applause] how are you doing . [inaudible] my name is leroy [inaudible] a few of my colleagues and i came up with associations with the community [inaudible] one of suggestions that parent come together with policeman and they trade ideas how they can help their kids get up off the streets. Thank you, leroy. Hi, how you doing . My name is Rickey Johnson and i recommend the police to have more big brother and Little Brother Program and big sister and Little Sister Program for the community. Thank you, rickey. My name is [inaudible] and my recommendation is take classes on how to be a more [inaudible] be respectful to one another as well as learning general respect. Everyone should be respected as a individual but no one should be [inaudible] thank you, zang. Hi, my name is novel. One of the recommendations that i have is to have Police Officers should commit to a certain amount of Community Service hours. Thank you novel. Hi, michael [inaudible] i recommend more Police Officers parole foot. Thank you, michael. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is [inaudible] my suggestion is that [inaudible] for the Police Officer s and the community. Thank you thank you [inaudible] my name is con rad lee and for my recommendation is for more Police Officers to approach us in a more passive manner. Thank you conrad. Hello im daniel. Just to wrap everything up we want to thank you for watching the video and hope you take everything into consideration that we worked on and that engagement and communication is a key to best relations so thank you very much and have a great evening. Thank you, daniel. [applause] that was the final group to present tonight. Again, tremendous grat frud the opportunities to work with you all this summer and just in that short time frame of 8 weeks you can see they were hard at work. I do want to give a shout to commander sullivan and commander manx. Commander ocell vun is amazing helping organize the visits and the visit to the academy and tactical and the department made a huge impact just going to the crime scene unit at 850. Understanding it is more than just the officers in the car and getting the connections and getting to knew folks first hands maigs a difference. I want to thank president loftus and chief suhr and also want to acknowledge paul hendertion. He had a cohort that did work around prop 47 and have 1 thousand followers on the social media, so you need to step it up a bit. I would like to ask the commission to gave round of applause to these young people, they did an amazing job. I will let mr. Miller [inaudible] thank you so much. Bl dave us, i know the challenges facing the communities are not solved over night. I want to thank cheer shirr z commander osullivan. We had a middle school group of young man. Commander osul vun thank you so murch. We thank you the partnership of inPolice Department to pry to make the communities safer so thank you all very much. This is justall in all we had close to 70 or more than 70 and that is a picture book to share and take a look at the folks participating and dont know if mr. Hendserson wanted to say anything. Since i vamicrophone. I just want to congratulate the kids. It is great we are hear list toong this but want to congratulate them because i know how hard they worked all summer. I remember summers, it wasnt necessarily what i wanted to do is do work and to be this focused all throughout the summer and come consistently to work with us adults on something i think is important and something they think is important and that is reflected in the idea s we see today, it is a a big deal. I want to thank the kids on the work they did and supporting us and i loved they had thousands of followers already on social media. Hopefully we are friends with everybody and facebook friends and hang out. I think the ideas we got here are really powerful and impactful and will change what Public Safety looks like for the city and communities that they live in, so thank you all so much and the kids. Thank you, mr. Henderson. I want to open up to my fellow commissioners to ask questions or share thoughts. Before i do that i want to thank cheer sure for his leadership, commander osullivan and commander [inaudible] officer jason johnson, shareal davis [inaudible] this literally was such a Family Affair and theo, in particular the kids that you brought to us, the recruitment efforts you did and the way you thought to give had kids the opportunity and the courage it takes. Not everything Police Department in american will welcome youth most ravages with violence and say can you give ideas how we can do better so im very grateful for the courage it takes to ask that question and listen to the results and they have been stunning and know my colleagues probably want to Say Something or ask questions along those lines. Doctor joe. So, i want to thank all the young people for getting involved and the one thing i dont like is whenthis gives you a chance to see the other side, you know . Malcome x once said find out for yourself. When you get involve jd find out for yourself you can make informed decision squz this process is giving you information and allot of folks get into trouble because of misinformation or lack of information so now you know more than before and that is great. I assume it will influence your thoughts and actions and then you will be able to tell somebody else something when they Say Something because they dopet dont have the information you have, but you got to get involved to do that and that is why im proud of you. The process of this tooks you to the next level because that is the process it took me to so congratulations for getting in there and finding out for yourself. [inaudible] i want to thank the groups. It is fun meeting with you before the Commission Meetings and you all learn one thf first lessens why the Police Officers we want to recruit. You want to help others. The ability and desire to help others is what i see come out of the group. Great videos and good to hear what the people are saying. I made this invitations, people have been by the law firm and want to encourage you to become a lawyer so if you want to become a lawyer come to my law firm and ill introduce you to lawyers. There is a lot of competition. Commissioner hwang im so impress would the product you put on today. I have been on this commission about the year and shared with the chief, every week we have folks come here and point the finger and point blame and this is a group that dug deep and looked for constructive criticism and [inaudible] what is going through the back of my head is what is the next step . I think what you have done is kbround breaking for our entire country. This is a problem facing the entire nation so what can we do to take your recommendations and move it to the next step because dont know if anyone is talking about this stuff now in the same way you talk about the issue so really commend you for the important work you have done and moved by the stuff you put together. Can i say to thatchief suhr i will reach out to roena orrisa to see about meeting you because i said specifically to the young ladies if they do a good job and impress the commission there is a look how to keep this going through school year jz move on the recommendations, the bbq and [inaudible] young people to help ororganize and get the right people in the move so hopefully this doesnt die in committee but move forward. Shirly stold my thunder so i would say the old saying is the first outf of the jar is hardest is that a saying . Has anyone heard that . If it isnt than are made it up. Im so impressed how smart and talented this group is in putting together what you put together in the time. I see old friends in the room. One och the offers i make to all young people that finish a summers work is any