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Allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all madam president id like to take roll and please do inspector. Commissioner president loftus commissioner turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus is in route commissioner mazzucco commissioner president fong commissioner melara madam president you have a quorum and with us is the chief of police kwhoufr and joyce hicks. Good evening to everyone and those watching welcome to the april 8, 2015, Police Commission meeting inspector the first line item. The consent calend...

To public comment. Do you have any last words . No i dont, other than the facts that i would like to say that serving on the Police Commission it is serves to the community that i think is highly valuable. And it is a passion of mine and i have enjoyed that service, and as hard as it is sometimes, but it is something that i want to because i think that it is valuable work and especially during the times that we are having right now and i would appreciate being returned to that commission. Thank you very much. Appreciate your last statement. Okay. Is mr. Frank here . Okay, we can open this item...

Couple of questions, and you mentioned Community Voice, and helping to increase the Community Voice and i am very interested in how that, can be enhanced and increase and perhaps, system, and how can we actually have greater Community Voice and where do you see that voice having the greatest impact within the Police Department . One of the, and what, and well, the way that it has been and it is done now and i think that one of the most effective ways is that we are a commission that travels, under both president mazzucco and loftus and we travel, one meeting per month to all of the neighborhoo...

Have worked already, with the African American Faith Community and the naacp and the other organizations and including the officers for justice, and i also will just appeal on the issues related around these types of issues to make sure that the conversation is ongoing between these organizations, and i believe that we need to elicit these voices because we need to have more Community Involvement around what they think the Community Policing is and what we can see from the officers within each of the many districts here in california. And so take the greater training and the greater diversity ...

You will hear from chief greg suhr and attorney George Gascon. I was appalled shocked and astonished that in this day and age Something Like this could happen in the San Francisco Police Department. Sergeant Yulanda Williams is a 17year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department and president of officers for justice which represents africanamerican policemen and women. Earlier this year she learned her name was mentioned in a series of racist Text Messages exchanged between fellow officers. I take it was not a personal attack on me but on all women of color. At first four officer were unde...