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Posttraumatic stress was activated in the early 90s, and she attended a Community Clinic for over a decade. She was a known patient at this facility. And a volunteer. And she had a psychotic episode at this Mental Health facility down in southern california, and the emergency dispatch called this place from the clinic to the local station where two officers were dispatched. And this is an agency that does not have a formal Crisis Intervention Training Program or any sort of Training Program that deploy deputies that are specifically trained to approach a situation with known or with individual...

Along. But we have quite a ways to go and we have a huge Mental Health crisis in San Francisco and like it or not, Police Officers are very often the First Responders to those crisis, and it is often times the very first interaction with the system that someone is having in psychiatric crieses and sets the stage for that lifetime and that person and help to relate to the recovery and further traumatized and whether they are developing trust in the system and they are engaging in the treatment and so the Police Officers do really play an absolutely Critical Role in that and, and so that kind of...

That despite this, in my immediate circle, and you know, i am grateful to you commissioner loftus and to you commissioner for inviting me to share this story with the entire submission tonight that the lesson that you are learning here is that this is just a first step. And i am one of too many stories. And that this work will hopefully contribute to the greater likelihood that the members of our community that will be profiled because this is an illness that is invisible and it is agnostic and it hits every dem graphic and every orientation and every race, and it also impacts our officers, no...

Its not a pick and choose. When you go in there, theres not a lot of animals you would ever expect to see in a shelter, types of animal you see there. And they dont turn nina way. So, we need to make sure we have the capacity. ~ turn anyone away the appreciate what the City Administrators Office did. I hope at the board level were going be able to make up the difference between what the mayor is proposing and what the city administer recommended. Thank you. Moving on to the positions, again, i think we went through all the added new positions. And then lastly, just major initiatives, again, th...

Good morning, supervisors. Good morning. Folk get us queued up, i also want to have a chance to say thank you to everybody that helps the department out and me personally. Budget is never a strong suit of mine, so, it takes a lot of work and a lot of help to get to us this day. Specifically, the boards assistance, especially with the staffing plan from two years ago, but starting this summer we start to go positive marching back to the charter mandate in 171. The Police Commission is always supportive of certainly mayor lee for his leadership, and that of his budget office. Kate howard, the bu...