i will turn it over to commissioner kingsley. commissioner kingsley: good evening, mr. taylor. state your name for the record. >> [unintelligible] taylore. . >commissioner kingsley: thank you for being here this evening. when we had a conference regarding this case, we discussed the patrol special officer taylors objectives and goals were in the situation with in the specifications on this case. and we came out with some concerns to address with the concerned officer taylor. what had to do with his failure to pass the required mandatory firearms testing. and the other had to do with misleading answers to questions by the department. the patrol special officer taylor at that point indicated that he felt he should be entitled to another retesting because his wife had a serious car accident just prior to his last testing. with that as the backdrop, perhaps you can take it from there in terms of what we came up with. >> the department are arranged for the patrol special officer taylor to make attempts to qualify at the range. unfortunately, the patrol special officer taylor did not

commissioner kingsley: yes. commissioner turman: yes. commissioner loftus: yes. vice president marshall: yes. my understanding is we have a couple of motions to decide first. >> one of the first motions is the motions filed -- vice president marshall: i will give you five minutes to talk about the motion. just say what the motions are, and then i will talk about how we are going to proceed. >> the first motion is part of the record. the second is the motion to review and correct the hearing transcript. the third is the motion to dismiss the final specification. vice president marshall: let us go into closed session and rule on those, and then come back on the motion to dismiss. >> the first is the motion to include sergeant devlin's interviews as part of the record. they are attorneys -- their attorneys of record -- mr. taylor, who was representing me at the time, had agreed that the internal affairs interviews would be exhibits in this case. that is part of the hearing transcript that you guys had, and it is part of the motion i filed. all the investigative inte

. >> commissioner kingsley. >> present. >> commissioner oftus is in route. and with us tonight is the chief of please and the director of the fcc. >> thank you, and welcome to the september 19th. san francisco police commission meeting, please call line item number one. general public comment. >> the public is now welcome to address the commission on items that do not appear in the agenda but are in the subject matter of the commission. the speaker shall address to the commission as a whole and not to individual commission. under the police commission rules of order during the public comment, commissioners are not to respond to the public or make a right of response. the police and personnel should refrain from entering into discussions during the public comment. please limit your comment to three minutes. >> public comments? >> san francisco, open government. on the overhead, i sent you the copy of the constitution of the united states which i feels compels to bring this to a commission meeting. members of the public who are listening, this is a copy of the

comissioner kingsley, here. chief suhr. we have a quorum. >> this is the regular meeting of the san francisco police commission. wednesday, august 15, 2012. this is an area matter. i will move item 62 closed session before

. >> -- commissioner kingsley: you inherited the 2008 audit report by the comptroller -- controller's office. it is a lengthy document with a lot to be reported. i understand that has been cleared of entirely. it is really worth noting, applauding, and congratulating the occ on that. it is wonderful progress, a good accomplishment. the other thing that is very notable, and that everybody should be congratulated on, is the caseload for inspectors, to have that down so considerably in a one-year period. it is very notable. great job. >> thank you very much, commissioner. i would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank my staff, and in particular, the investigators who have labored under heavy caseloads for many years. when i came to the occ -- is almost five years now. it will be five years at the end of november. i asked the staff to trust me that the changes we were going to make would be for the better. change is very difficult, even though staff wanted changes. we have labored through almost 40 recommendations together. i want to acknowledge staff for all their very hard wor

first, at the police commission president, thomas mazzucco, commissioner kingsley, paul henderson from the mayor's office as representing because the mayor was unable to come tonight. also, we have commissioner loftus. also, the command at steep. d staff. deputy chief james that lake, lyn tomioka, leanora militello, and next to lyn commander biel, corrier from field comman. i would like to introduce chief grigory p. suhr. >> good evening, and hopefully lyn still wants to be your boss tomorrow. i know it is quiet and there are a lot of kids in the room. that is terrific. the medal of valor ceremony is the best event that we get to attend. it is when there is a crisis, emergency, extreme danger and takes everything you have to go forward, and everyone else that would want to run away, the people you will hear about tonight not only went forward, but they stood their ground, they saved lives, they promoted public safety, and i have been attending the medal of valor ceremonies as a captain since 1996, and i can honestly tell you the stories you will hear tonight in the roster we are born t

. >> -- commissioner kingsley: you inherited the 2008 audit report by the comptroller -- controller's office. it is a lengthy document with a lot

comissioner kingsley, here. chief suhr. we have a quorum. >> this is the regular meeting of the san francisco police commission. wednesday, august 15, 2012. this is an area matter. i will move item 62 closed session before -- it will be 4, 5, and 6 before we do number three. >> would you please call item no. 1? >> general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or occ personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police nor occ personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and occ personnel should refrain, however, from entering any -- into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. please lim

on stolen vehicles, commissioner kingsley, i want you to understand that most of the stolen vehicles we have in san francisco are older vehicles with a totey, honda-type brands. vehicles almost 20 years old. not the newer high-end vehicles, those are harder to steal. but the older vehicle s are just so easy to stealment i won't get into that on television, but those are the most for joy riding or point a to point b. that's why we recover so many of these vehicles. put your mind at ease, a lot of these are open, unlocked, left parked for days on end and people jump into them and just drive off and somebody will report them stolen a few days later. as far as the asian scam, i know we've done so much with that, so much outreach. one other thing that came to my attention, it was an idea brought from a very insightful asian reporter, that going out, reaching out to the community and finding people that are leaders in the community, so they can go out to their groups. that's what they'll be doing next month. i am working to train, so to speak, a number of people and i've got a number of vo

on stolen vehicles, commissioner kingsley, i want you to understand that most of the stolen vehicles we have in san francisco are older vehicles with a totey, honda-type brands. vehicles almost 20 years old. not the newer high-end vehicles, those are harder to steal. but the older vehicle s are just so easy to stealment i won't get into that on television, but those are the most for joy riding or point a to point b. that's why we recover so ny

poverty jumping from fifteen percent to forty percent between two thousand and two thousand and ten tom kingsley a senior fellow with the urban institute says the entire sun belt has been suffering the percentage of all mortgages that were seriously distressed that means that they were ninety days delinquent or more or in foreclosure in. austin texas was about six percent in miami it was twenty six percent just nothing here now a lifetime's unknown assassin resident darryl minnow says. jobs here are scarce and for many with no access to transportation this is a portrait of everyday life it's sad i mean there used to be an animal clinic to be . dry wall construction and all that stuff gone but i don't know why it's a trend expected to continue in cities across america if serious changes aren't made pushing the poor further and further out of cities and into rural areas with fewer services and opportunities but one for now that's keeping some communities like this one afloat in the notice as of florida christine for south r.t. for all what happened to be on the convention center glass i was joined

but a lot of low income jobs are actually going out to the suburbs so you know tom kingsley hi folks from the urban institute spoke about this and it's good because you know you're getting these more affordable housing out there and you know strip malls are moving out there so they can get jobs that you know the wal-mart or whatever retail store but what you don't have is services services for people who need that extra help you know food pantries things like that those are located in rural areas so. you know it can go both ways really but tampa itself is really interesting because it actually has one of the highest rates of homelessness in any city there's a group called the national alliance to end homelessness and you know as you mentioned in your introduction half of those surveyed said you know this is about you know having financial problems is about businesses that were here no longer being here that means we don't have jobs anymore and of course live as you know the problem with the foreclosure rate florida the second biggest you know the second highest rate after california

. >> commissioner kingsley. >> thank you for your report, this evening. i appreciate it. something i picked up on as you spoke regarding the academy classes that presently there is discussions on whether or not to include an hour of the academy class on cultural diversity and language access. but did i understand that that is some what fluid and that may not happen? and my question is this, we live in such an enormously diverse community that it would seem that cultural diversity and language access would be in a core important component of the academy class and i just wanted to clarify was it just this particular hour with a particular bend? or is there some other portion of the academy class that addresses cultural diversity and language access? >> they will get cultural diversity training and that language access priority training. within the academy classes? >> yes. >> is that a normal part? >> i believe it is. but it is to be expanded. we added additional time to the academy. so that we can incorporate all of the youth things that we want to do that were extra, that

they're actually going out to the suburbs so you know tom kingsley who i suppose are from the urban institute spoke about this and it's good because you know you're getting these more affordable housing out there and you know strip malls are moving out there so they can get jobs that you know the wal-mart or whatever retail store but what you don't have is services services for people who need that extra help you know food pantries things like that those are located in rural areas so. you know it can go both ways really but tampa itself is really interesting because it actually has one of the highest rates of homelessness in any city there's a group called the national alliance to end homelessness and you know as you mentioned in your introduction half of those surveyed said you know this is about you know having financial problems is about businesses that were here no longer being here that means we don't have jobs anymore and of course live as you know the problem with the foreclosure rate florida the second biggest you know the second highest rate after california a much larger state. home

. >>> the republican canid mitt romney takes a difficult and state as both parties campaign in kingsley's states. >>> a look sec a great day to day with a few changes in store for warm sunday things will change midweek the details in a few minutes. >>> thanks for joining us this morning. >>> we have a lot of news and talk to cover the next hour or first the happiest news of the day the giants that en el west champions the front of the chronicle today showing them catching a pop-up tumbling of the defense it's a very exciting day nears the front of the sports section with the celebration. i san francisco was up last night the celebrations continue today >>> it also have willie brown coming talking about sunshine and how important it is for some politicians to sell it in a campaign taking a look at changes in california health laws that affect women greta more in debt and debt to about three strikes law of the proposition on the ballot that could get rid of it. or modify it significant only with both sides of the issue. the sent to cisco fans per parting with a chance heading to the playoff

three people were shot on sycamore around 8:50 and near 9:15, one person was shot near kingsley circle and walnut. the suspects got away and the victims are expect to survive. >>> a 2-year-old was shot during a gunfight in oakland. the neighborhood sounded like a war zone. police counted around 70 casings on 55th avenue between east 15th and 16th street. one witness said they nearly lost two family members. >> i see a bunch of guys running with machine guns and started shooting this other car and i ended up catching two or three shots. >> one shot grazed his 2-year- old son's arm before piercing his car seat. another bullet went through the windshield and passenger seat where his brother was sitting. the man escape with a black eye from flying glass. police are checking a car for clues. >>> police in pittsburg are check leads on the shooting death of a teenager. he was a bay area artist known as mack day. he was shot while filming a music video. his uncle said young siblings saw the shooting. >> they seen everything that happened. and we're trying to get them some counseling right now