Defender and the 10. Program is a good place to start. The hiring process in the department of Human Resources within the Police Department with vigorous screening of applicants and weed out those with biases but ongoing screening so we can pay more attention to those issues continually screening for bias within the department. I also believe that the task force called for our District Attorney George Gast Ron is a good first step but independent investigation as the sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and public defender have called for is also in order. I also wanted to say that data must be gathered and i know some of the comments brought up today is not only the traffic stop data but perhaps stop and frisk and detention data maybe necessary to understand the depth of issues of dais and lastly whether its academies or the Field Training within the department how we look at how ongoing trainings for practical trainings on conscious and unconscious racism and bias maybe necessary to move forward a
Will ensure we dont come to this ugly place again. I am anxious to hear from the departments on how were going to continue to Work Together on ensure that the incidents like this are discovered if more exists, and how this sort of behavior affects past cases and how its going we can prevent it in the future so with they believe supervisor avalos you have a couple of things you want to throw in there . Lets have a hearing. All right. Thank you. I did want to first read a short statement from the office of just and i think it captures what happened in the last weeks since the revelation of the text and i want to thank Yolanda Williams and one of the founding members Marianne Jackson and Rodney Williams and other officers for justice and after the text were revealed they wrote an immediate statement and said they were outraged and disappointed that there are sworn members of the Police Department that are engaging in these despicable racist activities and conversations. At this time we wa
Defender, and office of citizen complaints and District Attorney to report. Thank you and as our speakers from the last item leave quietly i wanted to say were joined by our president london breed and malia cohen and supervisor avalos is staying and david campos couldnt be here with us, but very briefly so we can hear the Public Comment and the presentations the five of us supervisors are responding to the recent reports of the racist and homophobic texts that were reviewed in the San Francisco Police Department. We called for this hearing and engage the Police Department and the city organizations to address the issue. I wanted to thank officers for justice and the leadership here and Many Community based groups being here with us. I wanted to acknowledge we will hear from the public defender jeff hi darby and thank you to chief chief and others that are here and staff for the District Attorney George Gaston and the chair of the Human Rights Commission and many others. Thank you to re
Golden gate recreation area, with San Mateo County as well and other agencies to help move this forward. I actually do i heard several theme thases were part of this hearing. Collaboration was key, especially under scored at the very end of the hearing, but of course that we actually move forward responsibly opening access without dosens, but doing so in a way that we can look at having a strong stewardship program, one that can maintain the trails that dont need to be constructed wholly but in need of care and the habitat that is there and the sensitive species and i am excited that were seeing that coordination happen and i think urgency is going to be really important especially when it comes to the east west connections, not just from the ridge trail down to the ocean pacifica, but east west connections that could cross the watershed areas as well that could create the kind of loops that would not mean that you have to go from one end to the other completely but shoulder trails to
From the office of just and i think it captures what happened in the last weeks since the revelation of the text and i want to thank Yolanda Williams and one of the founding members Marianne Jackson and Rodney Williams and other officers for justice and after the text were revealed they wrote an immediate statement and said they were outraged and disappointed that there are sworn members of the Police Department that are engaging in these despicable racist activities and conversations. At this time we want all members of the San Francisco Police Department who are responsible for the texting publicly identified as it is an apparent officer safety issue for our members and citizens of San Francisco. The limited Text Messages we were provided identify association with the klu klux klan, white supremacy, ideally and threats to kill in bred children and derog tors to minorities and including hispanics, africanamericans, lgbt et cetera and others and in addition to references as women as b