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In how we approach this issue but this regarding a fax of how were was happening services go is not a loving approach. I think its the opposite. I think of something that harms people. I think something that harms officers and i think that the poa has every right to be protective of their officers but its actually doing a disservice to those officers. I think we need to it knowledge that Sam Francisco arguably the best Police Department in the country, has issues as well. That even the best apartment those issues exist. We are like the rest of the country country even though we are unique in t...

During my 23 years as a Police Officer from the oldschool you didnt see that but now you do. You see that probably because of social media and more exposures to a bad health can do to you. I think also young officers are more apt to go for psychological help if they need it. Again the oldschool probably not so much. One of the sad things i have seen in my research into ptsd is that when they look up a mortality studies of Police Officers, Police Officers compared to the general population die at a younger age. Some 10 years younger on average than those in the general population. So we are see...

Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated...

We have one on skype. Well start with chief zachery, the Public Safety director woodway, texas, and immediate past president of the International Association of chiefs of police. Yost, good to have you. Thank you, sir. Thanks for inviting me to testify today. My name is yost zachery, immediate past president of the im sorry i wasnt able to join you in person today. I intended to but my flights were canceled. I began Law Enforcement dispatcher woodway in 1979 and im still there today and currently serve as a chief and a director of the Public Safety department. One of my main duties as a chief ...

7. 4 percent our benefits over the last 5 years have increased annually 15 percent we have a had percent increase in the afternoon for our staff 1. 5 percent didnt add up and adding 7. 5 is a step towards that we need a loefrment fix so we dont have to come forward here everyday pass this onto the full board and talk about long term strategies for the challenge. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im nancy Deputy Director of the social services we serve over 22 hundred people in the city that are hopeless the point i want to make the speakers have said things about the long Term Solution ...