Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
Committed, and then, the hate crime is added onto that. So generally, the Police Department will charge the felony if possible, but its based on the initial crime thats committed. Supervisor fewer and so what is your criteria in your the measure that you use that is a hate crime, what is the criteria . So we look at basically, its the penal code. Its the motivation. So was this the extent of the crime, and then, we look at what what the penal code will allow us to charge based on that. And then, we work very closely with the District Attorneys Office to make sure that we can get obviously the stiffest punishment and the most the strictest charge we can based on the incident that occurs. So i given that youre the only representative from the Police Department, i was, you know, very sad and not surprised, but sad to see the data from the Human Rights Commission that over a third of the lgbtqi people do not trust the police, and im just wondering how the Police Department is addressing th
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Very helpful because it lets us see that its not in any one neighborhood, but that its in every neighborhood, and it definitely goes underreported, or we seem to think its only happening in one community. But thisll give us a better snapshot of where its happening and we can do better preventative work. Supervisor fewer do you have any data from sfusc. We have a hearing coming up on the 25th, and the school district, the Fire Department and the das office have all been invited to come. One of the things is how do we collect data in a better way. Ive been working to try to get a better handle on data. We have a better anecdote wial. Were going to do some work with the counselors next week. Theres a twoday retreat, and well do a workshop with them. Supervisor fewer theres a Risk Assessment that they do every other year. It really talks about lgbtq students and what they are experiencing in our schools, around violence, also. And i know the numbers are pretty high. While i was there, i wr
We called this meeting, and it was postponed. It was not on the spur of the moment. We knew it was coming. I also think its unfair for the city to put you because i know in your unit, you have this certain purview in your unit. But i also think if we so we would like to also know, like, what are the kind of data could we suggest that the Police Actually collect and share with us that really gives us a snapshot of what wis happening on the ground . So this is just a hate crime, but also how many lgbt folks are victims of violence, and those type of things, i think, are really important. And then, we should also get data from the office of citizen complaints to find out what kind of complaints are we also hearing about the police force, too, just in the light of trying to protect this community at this critical time, especially when we know nationwide that deaths of transgender folks have been increasing, the incidents of antilgbt organizations getting boulder and stronger. All of these