But just in the context of this hearing, id like to point out that the board has been so far, from what ive heard, asking a lot of questions about identifying sort of superfluous elements of the Police Budget such that can be cut, particularly in the light of this budget deficit. And these are only symptoms of a much broader problem, and lets not forget that the Biggest Issue with the police is that this is an institution that directly targets black and brown people and that the time has concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is ryan. I live in district 4. I urge for divestment of the sfpd. [indiscernible] and how education and Community Empowerment are how societies grow whereas reaction during punitive and literally oppresses people and holds bias for those struggling in so many areas in the city that needs massive homelessness, education, come full front. That is essentially all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is can iara lafayetter. Im a San Francisco native and in my 23 years of living in this city ive never had a positive experience with the sfpd. Now is the time for you to take responsibility and defund, disarm and disband the sfpd. Im asking that you take drastic measures to defund the sfpd in this years budget and redirect those funds towards Public Health, education, housing and reparations for communities of color. Black people make up just 5 of San Franciscos population but account for 35 of our Homeless Population, 54 of our jail population and 40 of the people who are killed by police. The sfpd is clearly antiblack, and that is not something that you can reform or train away. The only way is to provide Public Safety for all by moving the armed agents taxed with arresting and killing my black and brown neighbors. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is melissa hogan. I live in district 5. Im calling to urge you to make our city safer by replacing policing with Community Programs. The vast majority of calls are not for Violent Crimes, instead traffic stops, noise complaints, complications of homelessness, the list goes on. Involving the police does not solve the situations, but it does introduce violence. We need intervention system that is full of well trained experts, not heavily armed Law Enforcement, and we could invest in Service Services that prevent crises in the first place. All of this can and should be paid for by the funding of sfpd. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . Hello . Yes, we can hear you. Good afternoon. My name is pamela. Im a proud latino woman and a San Francisco resident. I think its clear to see that the city is speaking loud and clear that the time to defund, disarm and disband sfpd. We need Public Safety for all and that means defunding sfpds budget this year and redirecting it towards Public Health and communities including black, indigenous, people of colour and trans and communities make the right choice, defund sfpd and show your community that you actually care about them. I know that black lives matter, but your decisions on this budget will show what you truly believe. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. My name is ben. Im a teacher in sfusd. We are currently facing a 27 million budget cut. This will primarily be taken from the special Ed Department affecting our neediest students. Sfpd has 3,000 homeless children. Any cuts you are taking from that will hurt them. Take it from the Police Department. They are the ones that are not protecting our children and are harassing homeless families. Defund the sfpd as much as humanly possible, if not get rid of them all together. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Yes, we can hear you. Okay. Hello, i live in district 5. I am calling to demand the defunding of the sfpd and ask that the money be put towards education, Public Health, housing and specifically youth to aid communities of color. Sfpd search arrest and kill people people of colour in our city. This is not something we can ignore or expect to change. This is how the police have always acted, what they were designed for, and without radical changes it is how they will continue to act. We need to use this moment to redefine our priorities as a city, and we should start with the budget. My hope is that you take every dollar possible from the Police Budget, drastically reduce the size of the police force and use that to Fund Communities that police have been harassing for years. Reforms are not enough. Policies are not enough. We need to disarm the police, defund the police and give that money to the community. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Before i call the next speaker, we do appreciate your patience, there are approximately 184 callers in the queue, so if you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments then. The next caller, please. Hello. My name is sam. I live in district one. Im calling on this committee to defund and disband San Francisco police and redirect the funds towards Public Health, housing and reparations for xhubts that have been most targeted by policing and imprisonment, including black, indigenous and people of color, trans communities and the unhoused. With the majority of police calls being for nonViolent Crimes, the calls should be handled by different public departments. San francisco does not need Armed Dangerous police roaming the street harming its citizens. Defund sfpd now. Thank you. And i yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im a resident of d10 and im calling to demand that you defund, disarm and disband the sfpd. First let me say we have 200 patiently listening to you all for hours, cutting our speaking time to one minute and then blanking out your cameras during comment. Thats frankly cowardly. The fact that defunding the police more than 30 years ago it was said everyone is out to get the gay vote. Politicians want our votes, but its Just Lip Service as long as we remain criminals and nothing is done to change it. The board of supervisors say they cant do anything about it, but they can cut the balls off the Police Department of course harvey was murdered by an officer after which there were also reform and then when sfpd beat down labor leaders, breaking a rib, there were calls for reform, and when they murdered mario wood, there were calls for reform, but these reforms never change the fundamental nature of policing of sfpd. They know they never need to change. After all they will keep getting funding for more reforms. In minneapolis we had to burn down time is concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im a citizen in San Francisco county. The citizens of San Francisco have spoken. The time is now to defund, disarm and disband sfpd. The Police Department is at this meeting referencing Band Aid Solutions for policies built in the 70s, grasping for evidence to defend Police Presence and their jobs. Were here to defend our lives and the wellbeing of our community. You are not hearing us. Your platitudes are stale and your words are tone deaf. The policies were written at the height of the criminal justice shift mass incarcerations. They are designed White Supremacy. You cant use those tools to defend yourself and tell them that racism is fixed, that youre here for us. Your department is built on violence. Nearly half the force cases involved black persons yet they make up just 5 of the citys population. Black and brown people are not criminals. Police are seeing criminals where they are told to. This is not a coincidence. These are numbers, facts and this is just one of them. The most vulnerable parts of this community have suffered institutionally sanctioned violence for long enough. We demand defunding of sfpd in this years budget, and we ask that it be redirected towards Public Health your time is concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is mika modelano. Im with an action group and the justice coalition. As a latino woman im angry to see year after year city budget cuts to funding for schools, parks, library, Affordable Housing and other social programs while increasing funding for police. Why dont you care for our communities . Do you really think that a Community Engagement commander will make San Francisco safer . We are at a turning point in our history, and you can make the right decision and commit to equity. We need housing, health care, education and employment for all. Defund sfpd now. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Defund, disarm and disband sfpd now in this years budget and redirect it towards Public Health, reparations for communities that have been most targeted by policing, including black, indigenous and people of colour, trans communities and unhoused. Weve identified cuts you can make right now. Police dont keep us safe and harm our communities. American policing begins with race patrols and and today less than 5 of sfpd calls for service are in response to violence crimes. Most are for Public Health and traffic. When the police talk about Public Safety, they are speaking in code. The words are not referring to [indiscernible] mario woods or louise its refers tol slave owners, the wealthy homeowners. Policing cant be reformed. All five officers who murdered woods had undergone crisis intervention training. Were not asking for chaos but Public Safety for all. Defund sfpd and refund our communities. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. The people of my community demand the sfpd is defunded, disarmed and disbanded. The year they stopped and searched 735 trans and nonbinary people in the same year they announced that the officers who murdered mario woods were acting within the policy. These officers include charles d. August, antonio santos, nicolas kuvs, and scott phillips. We cannot fund a department who publicly execute black people. As long as the sfpd continues to terrorize the city we will continue to fight back. May mario woods rest in peace. Defund, disarm and disband. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Hi, [indiscernible] increased sfpd over the past decade and the city is unsafe. We give money to teachers, people dont continue to be uneducated. When we put money towards Health Care People dont continue to feel sick. Im sure sfpd a couple years back because the officers for reasons and [indiscernible] investigated those people would still be on the force and funding individuals called them monkeys and halfbreeds and other racial slurs. A reason that they all feel comfortable sharing those ideologies and it speaks to the culture of the entire department. [indiscernible] have never and will never fix racism. We need a complete change, a complete defunding. [indiscernible] just because it is uncharted territory. People are dying while we wait. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, ive lived in San Francisco for 35 years and im a member of dsa San Francisco justice community. I want to say i agree with the previous speaker who said it was unconscionable that we couldnt see any of the supervisors. How do we even know that youre listening to us . You must stop the abuse of meet and confer or the poa will use it to delay the defunding of San Francisco police for years. The people have spoken. It is time to defund sfpd now. Do not let either the p. O. A. , which is not a legitimate labor union, or d. H. R. , derail the intent of the people. Dedo not want cops realigned to other activities. [indiscernible] defunding sfpd in this years budget and we ask that it be redirected towards Public Health housing and reparations for communities that have been most targeted apply policing and imprisonment speakers time is concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, can you hear me . Yes, please begin. I live in district 1 and i work for nonprofits. As a San Francisco resident im calling for the defunding of the sfpd and ask that the funds be redirected towards Public Health, housing and reparations for communities that are the most targeted by Police Including black, indigenous, people of colour, trans communities and the unhoused. The sfpd budget has grown in the last years. We could house every unhoused person in the city with the budget. Defund sfpd now. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, i live and work in south africa San Francisco, and i ek echo the xhondz to defund sfpd now. Why should they get an increase while schools are facing cuts. What does that say about our values . Which do you think is more important to a healthy city . Educating children or harassing poor people . Less than half of the sfpd budget, 320 million, we can help every unhoused person in San Francisco while still having money left over to invest in health care, free Public Transit, education, universal child care and alternative safety programs that actually keep us all safe. Black and indigenous residents make up 20 of the population but accounted for 78 of all individuals [indiscernible] in 2017. Meanwhile, sales force is celebrated boosting the profits of whiteowned pharmaceutical companies. We spend 6. 6 million a year on a District Housing unit that specifically patrols the time is concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im born and raised in district 10. Im a Public Health service collector and also an Educator Service Provider for lowincome youth in San Francisco not only rejected the budget but raised an end to defund, demilitarize and abolish sfpd. This historical moment shows that we as a city cannot and will not allow our city budgets to be balanced on the backs of working class families. We know sfpd has about 736 million to continue to traumatize, criminalize and kill members of our communities. Let me say this loud and clear, cops are not essential and are a huge threat to our safety and neglect the Public Health needs of our most marginalized communities. We just heard chief scott repeat reform about a hundred times. We dont just want cuts and divestment from sfpd. We want to abolish sfpd. Its unacceptable that this budget has ballooned in the last two years by more than a hundred million speakers time has concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Please begin. Hello . Hello. Umm, my name is Denise Coleman and i work in San Francisco. Im calling to urge you to defund sfpd and invest in our communities. By reimagining the 700 million proposed budget that the police have, we can do so much for our communities of color, our young people, our seniors and the unhoused folks. This includes investing in Affordable Housing, health care, communityled Safety Measures and more. Each of these stand in stark contrast to the ways sfpd has unjustly targeted people of color. Why should sfpd get a 43 million increase when our schools are facing a 26 million in cuts . I mean, what does that say about what is and what is not important to us . I join thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, there. I just wanted to pretty much reiterate what everybody else is saying. I think the sfpd should be defunded and i think that something around 50 million is not nearly enough. It needs to be around somewhere like 50 of their existing budget because when you defund that thing and then you put it into other pieces of this local economy, say putting it into education, putting it into social services, making sure that people dont, you know, sleep on the streets, then crime will go down. So thats it. Have a good day. Thank you. Next caller, please . Hi name is tory erhardt. I live in district three. Reforms to prisons have been inefficient and ineffective. The complete abolition is the only route to go. The police exist to hinder selfsufficient, personal choice and mass incarceration which all results in overfunding of the police and underfunding of everything else. Sfpds budget has increased by 76 over the last 12 years. Imagine if we invested that in housing, transit, education and child care. Beyond the official bust the last year alone we have had to pay out slr 14. 7 in la