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Past months. Now women make up about 8. 5 of the force. Alfonzo says she believes the departures will hurt recruiting. We do have a diverse department. We do have opportunity here but as staffing is depleted the opportunities become less and less and less. Reporter city hall and the union agree that the impact is making it worse. People want to leave, and other departments are taking advantage of that. We certainly need more women officers. We need more men officers too. Reporter but it hasnt brought the city and union any closer so alfonzo, bosh and raised in san jose is leaving. I was humble...

City and sales force ceo mark [inaudible] is going to get some additional ones and that is 40. The recruits that are full time students age 18 and over with an interest in Law Enforcement and hold them close until theyre old enough to test to come to the Police Department. What about the Current Academy classes or the ones in formation . One current class is 12 africanamerican and the next class that will start in april starts off at 14 . What about latinos and Pacific Islanders . I believe that is an equal amount, somewhere in the midteens so the focus is obviously the 300 officers that retir...

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 hand when the prosecutor said something to the effect that you just have to be color blind and ther...

San francisco and tetd the judge was i believe kevin ryan and we did different iterations of serious fire over time and went to a zone strategy in 2005 under chief heather fong with the deputy chief and john murphy and that was the low year matched last year in San Francisco where we had 45 homicides. I am happy to look at that again. So from what i am hearing there is a ground swell of support growing for desire to see the model that is implemented in boston serious fire here in San Francisco. We do have serious fire meetings biweekly ongoing. I understand but it takes on a different its not ...

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 cases and possibly let people out that probably shouldnt be out on the streets and in some cases le...