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From YouTube: Nov 2021 HRC Report on Local Policing Forums
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This video is a recording of the livestreamed Nov. 18 Report-out sessions from the Human Relations Commission on what was gleaned from the Local Policing Forums held in Fall 2020.
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A
A
Conflict
resolution
as
we
move
forward,
I'm
going
to
go
ahead
and
pause
the
music
and
start
it
once
we're
done.
But
again
my
name
is
jose
lopez
and
I
am
the
manager
facilitation
for
the
peninsula
conflict
resolution
with
that
said,
I'd
like
to
pass
it
over
to
our
hrc
member
who's
going
to
be
doing
the
welcoming
comments
and
remarks
for
the
evening.
C
I'm
ida
rose
sylvester,
chair
of
mountain
view's,
human
relations,
commission,
the
murder
of
george
floyd
by
a
minneapolis
police
officer
led
to
some
of
mountain
view's
largest
local
protests
in
history
sparked
by
a
national
movement
for
racial
justice
and
police
reform.
Our
community
wanted
to
examine,
potentially
bring
change
to
local
policing
as
well.
C
In
response,
the
hrc
formed
a
subcommittee
that
launched
a
multi-month
story
gathering
effort
to
hear
directly
what
experiences
a
very
diverse
and
inclusive
group
has
had
interacting
with
local
police.
Tonight.
You
will
hear
the
themes
we
have
heard
and
analyzed
from
these
stories.
We
selected
peninsula
conflict
resolution
center,
the
pcrc
to
collaborate
with
us.
They
have
worked
with
us
to
design
the
forums
professionally,
facilitate
them
and
have
conducted
the
analysis
on
the
themes
we
thank
them
and
their
entire
team,
and
especially
jose
lopez
that
worked
tirelessly
through
this
process.
C
To
make
sure
we
met
the
needs
of
our
community,
of
course,
our
work
would
not
be
possible
without
the
many
community
members
who
shared
their
time
and
their
stories
with
us.
We
are
honored
by
that
time
with
you,
the
community
dedicated
to
this
work
and
the
encouragement
and
help
that
you
gave
us
in
this
process.
So
thank
you.
Thank
you
for
your
trust
and
faith
in
this
process
and
in
us.
C
Also,
thank
you
to
the
mountain
view,
city
officials,
including
council,
members,
city
manager
and
city
staff,
for
being
here
tonight
and
being
interested
in
what
we
have
to
say.
Next
up
is
my
colleague,
annette
lynn,
who
will
speak
to
you
about
our
objectives
and
how
we
engage
with
the
community
in
this
process.
Thank
you
all
and
have
a
great
evening.
D
Hi
everyone
so
for
tonight
or
tonight,
is
the
culmination
of
months
of
work
with
the
people
who
ida
rose
just
mentioned,
and
the
objectives
of
that
work
was
twofold.
The
first
was
to
provide
a
comfortable
space
to
share
personal
stories
that
increase
visibility
and
understanding
of
local
police
interaction
with
the
community.
D
D
We
offered
from
august
to
october
various
methods
to
submit
stories,
so
one
of
them
was
a
series
of
listening
forums
that
we
held
virtually
over
zooms.
A
lot
of
you
may
have
participated
and
we
focused
some
of
those
on
specific
groups
of
constituents,
so
one
was
totally
equal.
English
speaking,
another
was
focused
on
the
youth
community,
another
on
the
spanish-speaking
community
and
another
on
the
mandarin
speaking
community.
We
also
the
city
also
supported
a
website
portal
where
folks
could
submit
written
stories
and
we
were
sure
to
support
anonymity
through
that
portal.
D
Ida
rose
julie
and
I
also
conducted
one-on-one
interviews
with
folks
who
otherwise
weren't
comfortable
or
couldn't
access
these
these
ways
of
submitting
stories.
So
what
you'll
see
tonight
is
sort
of
a
first
look
presentation
of
what
we've
been
able
to
collect
over
this
summer
and
the
fall.
I'm
collecting
these
stories
and
now
julie's
going
to
discuss
the
objectives
of
tonight
specifically.
E
E
This
brings
us
to
the
third
objective
for
this
session,
which
is
to
engage
in
dialogue
about
how
to
improve
negative
experiences
with
the
police
and
how
to
strengthen
community
police
relations
in
mountain
view.
So
I
will
now
turn
the
floor
back
to
jose
lopez
from
pcrc
to
address
the
first
objective
for
this
evening.
Sharing
the
findings
from
the
stories
that
have
been
collected.
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A
A
What
was
specifically
identifying
the
youth
another
one
was
for
spanish
and
then
another
one
was
for
mandarin.
The
total
amount
of
people
that
we
were
able
to
reach
out
to
within
this
virtual
listening
forum,
given
the
circumstances
of
shelter
in
place
and
kovid,
is
87..
So
really
quick.
We
had
online
stories
submissions.
There
was
51
of
the
stories
submitted,
all
of
which
were
in
english,
except
for
one
and
then.
A
There
was
multiple
themes
within
a
story,
sometimes
so
for
the
online
submissions,
because
the
stories
were
long
and
complete,
they
shared
a
variety
of
different
themes,
and
so
sometimes
it
was
positive.
Sometimes
it
was
positive
and
negative,
or
sometimes
it
was
positive
and
need
for
improvement,
and
so
I
just
want
to
let
everybody
know
that
there's
a
variety
of
different
stories
and
mentions-
and
sometimes
the
mentions
were
mixed.
A
The
background
of
the
race,
ethnicity
and
age
was
not
collected.
Unfortunately,
in
the
stories,
however,
we
did
do
the
mandarin,
the
youth
and
the
specifically
with
the
interviews.
We
did
interview
various
homeless
populations
to
homeless
and
or
unstably
house
populations
to
see
what
their
experiences
were
and
so
for
the
mandarin
session.
It
was
overwhelmingly
positive
and
they
expressed
a
a
great.
They
expressed
a
satisfaction
with
the
police
and
what
their
experiences
with
the
police,
but
the
youth.
A
There
was
some
needs
for
improvement
when
it
came
to
interacting
with
the
police
as
it
related
to
their
life
as
unstably
and
stably
housed.
Again,
these
stories
are
181.,
it's
not
a
complete
picture
of
all
of
mountain
view,
but
the
forums
were
shared
with
everybody,
and
anybody
can
come
in
and
share
their
stories.
A
The
online
submissions
were
also
open
to
everybody,
and
then
the
interviews
were
specifically
targeted
to
groups
of
people
that
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
their
voices
were
heard
and
their
stories
stories
were
included
because
they
might
not
have
access
to
technology.
They
might
not
have
access
to
the
internet,
they
might
not
have
access
to
the
the
flyers
and
the
announcements
that
we
made
out
in
the
community.
A
Within
this
context,
and
and
before
I
start,
I
quickly
want
to
say
that
the
questions
that
were
asked
for
these
themes
were
three
describe:
an
interaction
with
the
mountain
view
police.
What
happened
during
this
experience?
With
the
mountain
view,
police
and
what
can
improve
with
these
experiences
with
the
mountain
view
police?
Finally,
so
there
was
four
how
the
experience
affected
your
future
interactions
with
the
police,
and
so
both
in
the
small
group
virtual
sessions
and
the
online
portals,
and
also
in
the
interviews.
A
These
were
the
guiding
questions
that
we
asked
for
the
themes
that
we
received
and
so
again,
starting
with
the
expressions
of
satisfaction.
We
received
a
general
expressions
of
satisfaction
where
people
were
expressing
their
appreciation
and
they
said
they
had
a
positive
experience
with
no
real
contacts,
or
it
was
good.
It
was
great
and
they
were
grateful
about
what
the
what
the
police
were
doing
and
their
experiences
with
the
police
positive
community
relations.
A
These
were
stories
where
police
presence
in
the
community
built
trust
and
left
a
positive
impression
with
the
people
that
shared
their
experiences,
helpful
police
experiences
and
so
for
these
stories.
The
assistance
with
police,
provided
it
helpful
helpful
scenario
where
they
solved
the
the
problem,
or
they
were
very
helpful
in
that
scenario
and
that's
what
the
the
community
expressed
pleasant,
police,
interaction
again.
A
lot
of
these
were
general
expressions
of
satisfaction.
A
A
And
then
we
have
police,
not
the
appropriate
personnel,
and
this
was
mainly
dealing
with
non-emergencies
or
situations
with
dealt
with
mental
health.
And
so
these
stories
is
where
the
police
were
called,
but
another
type
of
help
was
was
needed
or
could
have
helped
this
situation
again,
whether
it
be
mental
health
or
sros.
A
Instances
where
suggestions
of
what
the
police
can
do
to
better
themselves
in
terms
of
personal
skills
and
or
reducing
concerning
police
behavior,
and
so
there
was
35
mentions
for
need
for
police
training.
Lack
of
police
trust
came
in
where
the
people
felt
threatened
by
the
police
or
said
they
don't
trust
and
that
they
they
don't
want
to
contact
the
police
because
of
fear
of
this
situation,
escalating
continuing
with
the
expressions
of
concern
and
need
for
improvement
need
for
so
negative
police
relations.
A
These
were
stories
where
police
interactions
with
people
are
presence
in
the
community,
including
an
excess
of
police
response,
are
created
a
negative
impression
of
the
police,
again
different
from
let's
say,
individual
interactions.
These
were
more
situations
where
people
found
themselves
in
the
community
and
experienced
these
type
of
scenarios.
A
We
can
check
you
can
check
in
with
the
city
of
mountain
view,
in
terms
of
the
details
of
that
and
have
a
better
idea
of
what
these
themes
are.
With
that
said,
we've
we've
identified
the
themes
tonight
and
we've
broken
down
the
themes
into
the
various
groups
that
we're
gonna
break
up
into
in
a
bit,
and
so
these
themes
were
selected
and
hypothetical
scenarios
were
created
based
on
the
story
submitted,
and
so
we
want
your
input
tonight,
and
so
these
these
stories
illustrate
the
themes
and
so
of
these
themes.
A
We
have
several
questions
that
we
want
the
audience
and
the
community
members
to
address
and
discuss
when
we
break
out
into
small
groups.
How
does
hearing
this
story
make
you
feel
and
so
of
the
eight
groups
that
we
have
are
divided
currently
into
breakout
groups
and
we'll
eventually
do
that
in
a
bit?
We're
gonna
have
different
themes
in
each
breakout
room
and
each
breakout
room
is
gonna,
respond
to
these
questions,
and
so
what
does
hearing
this
story
make
you
feel?
A
What
do
you
imagine
to
be
the
perspective
of
the
storyteller,
a
bystander,
the
police?
What
went
well,
what
did
what
didn't
go?
Well,
what
could
be
done
differently
to
improve
this
experience,
and
so,
when
we
break
out
into
the
groups,
these
are
the
type
of
discussions
we
want
to
have
just
so.
People
know
that
these
are
the
type
of
things
that
were
being
suggested
by
the
small
groups,
and
these
are
the
type
of
themes
that
we
want
to
know
more
information
about.
A
There's
some
features
that
allow
you
to
raise
your
hand
in
the
zoom
platform,
but
feel
free
to
just
raise
your
hand
and
just
let
the
facilitator
know
in
the
process
as
we
break
out
into
small
groups
with
that
said,
I'm
going
to
go
ahead
and
allow
for
the
small
groups
to
happen.
We
are
going
to
go
ahead
and
do
the
breakout
rooms
everybody
has
been
assigned,
there's
going
to
be
an
a
notetaker
and
a
facilitator
for
each
group
for
the
city
representatives
that
are
here
today.
A
A
Once
we
break
out
from
the
small
group
sessions,
we
will
bring,
bring
we'll
be
bringing
everybody
together
again
to
be
able
to
share
what
each
one
of
the
groups
have
discussed
when
we
break
out
into
the
large
forum
again,
each
one
of
the
facilitators
and
notetakers
will
share
the
summary
you'll
have
about
three
minutes
to
share.
If
you
can
see
if
one
of
the
community
members
would
like
to
share
the
summary
of
your
group,
that
would
be
preferable,
but
if
not
somebody
within
the
facilitator
and
notetaker,
if
you
can
provide
the
summaries.
A
F
F
Let's
see
what
other,
what
other
things
came
up
in
our
in
our
discussion?
Oh
training,
but
maybe
that's
an
area
where
the
police
should
have
training
and
that
we
should
get
back
to
where
the
policemen
should
be
thinking
somewhat
in
terms
of
helping
making
the
community
feel
good,
rather
than
solely.
Thinking
of
you
know,
catching
people
who
aren't
behaving
properly
and
protecting
themselves.
G
Just
a
couple
of
things
more
and
you
you
started
off
great.
I
think
there
was
an
a
feeling
that
there
needs
to
be
an
alternative
to
calling
the
police
when
it
is
a
fairly
neutral
situation,
but
there's
a
little
bit
of
fear
or
wanting
it
resolved
that
there
should
be
some
alternative
to
calling
9-1-1,
because
it
seems
like
it
goes
boom.
Just
like
that,
and
as
ron
said,
you
know,
four
four
or
five
vehicles
show
up
six
police
all
completely
with
you
know.
G
Somebody
mentioned
that
there
have
all
kinds
of
weapons
on
not
just
the
guns,
and
so
there's
also
something
about
the
posture.
Somebody
mentioned
the
military
posture
and
they're
sort
of
like
ready
for
action
and
that
that
can
actually
create
more
of
a
violent
reaction
than
if
they
did.
You
know,
approach
it
in
a
different
way
and
worry
about
the
relationship
with
with
the
community
instead
of
safety
first,
and
that
there
was
a
one
comment.
G
G
A
I
I
Intimidation
in
having
police
officers
on
campus
really
wanting
to
have
a
better
root
cause
analysis
and
understanding
of
this,
and
some
folk
and
and
hearing
some
folks
said
that
you
know
that
police
officers
are
not
equipped
to
de-escalate
and
others
mentioned
about
needing
that.
What
really
one
of
the
things
that
needs
to
happen
is
really
sitting
that
sitting
together
in
a
room
where
all
parties
are
involved,
where
we
listen
to
each
other.
I
We
there's
respect
and
that
police
officers
understand
that
the
impact
that
this
is
having
on
young
children-
oh
and
also
the
importance
of
having
an
outside
citizen
body
that
that
holds
the
police
department
accountable,
that
it
shouldn't
be
a
police
department
holding
themselves
accountable,
but
really
looking
at
the
outside
and
then
I'll
also
add,
because
I
heard
it
also
came
up
in
another
group
about
there
was
questions
about.
You
know.
I
Why
is
it
that
community
members
are
the
ones
coming
out
here
or
you
know,
being
part
of
these
groups
when
it
really
needs
to
be
the
police
officers
to
really
hear
from
them
like?
What
are
they
going
to
do
or
how
they're
going
to
change
this?
And
I
took
I
took
notes
there,
so
I
have.
I
have
better
notes
on
that
for
you,
but
it's
really
similar
to
like
what
other.
What
another
group
also
mentioned
about.
Well
wait
a
minute.
A
J
Yeah,
I'm
gonna
go
ahead
and
share
what
we
discussed.
Our
scenario
was
basically
that
there
was
a
volunteer
at
serving
meals
and
two
guests
got
into
an
argument
and
someone
called
the
police
and
then,
when
the
cops
arrived,
they
immediately
targeted
a
latina
guest
and
they
presumed
that
she
was
the
one
involved
and
when
they
were
corrected,
the
officers
didn't
apologize
and
they
continued
to
just
be
rude
and
aggressive,
and
so
they
missed
a
chance
there.
J
How
can
we
ensure
law
enforcement
is
applying
such
training
while
out
in
the
field,
and
community
members
should
also
be
trained
in
the
same
skills
to
support
law
enforcement,
and
then
there's
also
dialogue
around
dispatch,
sending
the
right
responding
party
to
a
situation,
so
crt
officers
responding
to
a
person
in
a
mental
health
episode
and
that
sort
of
thing.
So
that
was
what
we
talked
about.
Thank
you.
A
K
So
we
did
not
actually
get
a
scenario,
but
we
kind
of
improvised
and
just
had
a
very
general
discussion
about
many
of
the
themes
that
we've
already
heard
about,
and
definitely
you
know
a
mixed
picture
came
out
there
were
there
were
some.
You
know,
comments
about
rudeness
or
lack
of
sensitivity
in
in
some
instances
that
that
were
observed.
K
Lack
of
you
know
taking
opportunities
for
positive
community,
policing
experiences
and
so
forth,
but
at
the
same
time
there
were
also
a
number
of
very
positive
experiences
and
feedback,
particularly
involving
you
know,
one
case
with
somebody
who
you
know
was
mentally
disturbed
in
the
middle
of
the
night
police
coming
and
and
successfully
de-escalating
what
could
have
been.
You
know
a
very
difficult
situation.
K
They
could
have
that
they
could
have
overreacted
to,
but
they
did
not,
and
also
we
heard
of
a
very
touching
experience
with
an
sro
involving
helping
a
student
who
was
reporting
domestic
violence
and
again
showing
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
sensitivity
to
a
difficult
situation,
so
it
was
really
a
mixed
bag.
We
we,
our
group,
also
talked
about
this
question
of
of
you,
know,
share
you
know
how
budget
and
resources
should
be
allocated
to
police
versus
other
services.
A
L
Sure
so,
basically,
our
group
has
a
very
positive
reaction
towards
the
mountain
view
police
department,
because
they
all
received
very
good
experience,
especially
especially
for
senior
people.
They
they've
been
receiving
great
help
from
the
police
police
department.
We
do
have
a
couple
questions
that
came
up
during
our
discussion.
Eileen.
Would
you
like
to
share
those.
M
Discussions:
okay:
our
scenario
is
about
a
single
mom
to
a
police
event
that
was
giving
holiday
gift
cards
to
low-income
families
was
referred
to
the
program
by
their
child's
school.
The
police
officer
that
single
mom
talked
to
didn't
believe
that
she
was
eligible
to
receive
a
gift
card,
and
then
he
yelled
at
the
single
mom
and
accused
her
of
fraud.
M
So
our
sharing
is
most
of
our
participants
feel
that
was
surprised,
because
that
was
not
what
they
have
experienced
with
police
officer
and
also
they
have
two
questions
for
the
police
officer,
if
number
one.
If
officers
are
allowed
to
wear
guns
or
any
sort
of
weapons
when
they
are
off-duty,
the
other
one
is
if
there
is
any
department
that
people
can
leave
their
comment,
either
for
a
good
good
experience
or
a
bad
one
and
to
have
a
better
communication
with
community.
M
They
also
have
people
asking
that
because
there
is
a
language
barriers
so
when
they,
when
they,
so
they
were
asking
if
police
officer
can
you
know,
recognize
that
situation.
So
when
they
talk
to
people
that
don't
speak
english,
they
can
speak
slowly
or
provide
a
translation,
especially
for
mandarin
speakers.
A
Thank
you
very
much
eileen,
and
that
was
very
hard
because
she
took
notes
in
mandarin
and
she
was
translating
as
as
she
spoke,
and
so
now
we're
going
to
ask
the
person
from
the
hrc
to
help
us
with
the
closing
thoughts
and
comments
in
terms
of
the
next
steps
and
so
hrc.
If
you
can
please
unmute
yourself
and
and
and
provide
the
closing
comments
for
this
evening,.
D
Thanks
jose
and
thank
you,
everyone
for
your
patience
and
for
your
trust,
especially
tonight,
and
throughout
the
past
few
months,
as
we
were
gathering
on
stories
from
all
of
you,
it's
really
been
an
honor
that
you
were
able
to
share
such
personal
stories
with
us.
So
we
want
to
assure
you
that
this
is
only
the
beginning.
There
are
next
steps.
I
know
it
came
up
a
couple
times
of.
When
are
the
police
gonna
get
involved
when
our
policy
is
gonna
get
involved?
D
And
this
is
it
so
we
are
compiling
a
report
with
pcrc
taking.
You
know
everything
that
we've
learned
from
you
all
from
the
last
couple
of
months
over
the
summer
and
into
the
autumn
and
we're
compiling
it
into
a
report
and
we're
presenting
that
on
december
1st
to
the
city
council,
and
it
will
also
be
shared
with
the
mountain
view,
police
department.
D
D
There,
those
are
our
personal
emails,
please
feel
free
to
email,
idaro's
me
annette
and
julie
at
any
time.
We
really
want
to
keep
this
going
and
we've
heard
new
stories
even
tonight,
so
with
that
I
want
to
pass
it
on
to
ida
rose,
there's
another
event
that
the
hrc
is
having
that's
related,
and
so
I
derose
go
ahead.
Thank
you.
Everyone.
C
Next
slide
jose.
Oh
thank
you!
Nope!
Oh
there's
a
little
bit
of
lag
shocking
before
I
before
I
talk
about
the
slide,
I
just
want
to
echo
some
of
what
annette
said.
Thank
you
all
for
your
patience,
but
thank
you
even
more
for
sharing
your
thoughts,
your
time,
your
feelings
and
your
new
ideas,
which
I
think
have
caused
some
of
us
to
already
start
thinking
about
what
comes
next
in
new
ways.
So
thank
you
for
sharing
all
of
that
with
us
tonight.
C
C
We
are
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
implicit
bias,
what
it
is
and
how
it
shows
up
in
a
few
different
forms,
but
we
will
be
breaking
out
into
groups
where
we
work
on
how
implicit
we
work
on
and
talk
about
how
implicit
bias
shows
up
in
ourselves
how
it
shows
up
in
mountain
view,
and
what
we
as
a
collective
can
do
to
combat
that
implicit
bias.
I
know
bias
was
spoken
a
lot
about
tonight
in
different
forms,
not
just
racism
but
other
forms
as
well.
C
So
I
think
this
is
an
event
that
many
of
you
would
be
very
interested
in
hearing
and
also
goes
to
how
we
as
a
community,
can
understand
things
at
the
core
and
work
on
them
together.
So
I'm
very
excited
about
this
and
hope
you
can
all
make
it.
There's
a
registration
link
right
there
please
sign
up.
If
you
can.
N
C
Well,
I've
already
said
thank
you.
This
has
been
a
very
empowering
few
months
for
me
and
for
the
members
of
on
this
commission.
We
have
met
a
tremendous
number
of
people.
We've
heard
amazing
stories,
amazing
in
all
senses
of
the
word.
We've
worked
hard,
we've
we've
learned
a
lot
and
we
just
feel
honored
to
be
able
to
do
this
work
for
our
community.
So
thank
you
all.
I
hope
you
have
a
wonderful
night
and
again,
I
hope,
to
see
you
back
here
again
soon
on
another
zoom.
A
With
that
said,
I
want
to
be
thankful
of
everybody,
that's
here
and
that
helped
us
out.
That
is
it.
For
the
evening
I'm
going
to
put
some
music
on
as
people
walk
out.
If
you
have
any
questions,
feel
free
to
contact
the
hrc
members
for
for
further
updates
and
report.
That's
coming
out
of
these
sessions.
Thank
you.