MIN CHARTER 2018-11-09 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -5 November 9, 2018 a threat)—when I was working with Patsy Mink in Congress, our case was Case No. 17 in the Seabed dispute's Chamber which we had to get according to Patsy Mink five natives of the closest coastal impact. Even though we weren't signed on to the law of the sea, Case No. 17 still did go through and this is in particular for an area that runs from California BaJa 2,000 mile stretch. MS. MURAMOTO: You have thirty seconds. MS. MAHI-HANAI: Okay, 2,000 mile stretch to about 500 nautical miles Southeast of the Big Island greatly affecting our pelagic nursery cycles and what not, so please do consider that and maybe some upcoming Charters to stop ocean mining and keep ocean mining ships out of our ports and waste off our lands. Mahalo. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. MS. MAHI-HANAI: And then the next thing that I would like to talk about is having to do with the appointment of the Commission's authority to discipline the Chief of Police and the Fire Commission's authority to discipline the Fire Chief. One thing I do know is that I did speak with the Chief of Police at the last Police Commissioner's Hearing and I asked them if they could please do a ban on neck strikes of juveniles and females which is mentioned on page 6-12. Also that the manual also describes that they are allowed to do. The police department under the authority of the Chief of Police is allowed to do use of force up to lethal force and this is all under pain compliance and I believe that if we were to reeducate and retrain our police department, I believe that the Chief of Police would have a much easier job and there would be less liability going on with police brutality here on the Big Island. I do believe that right now I was told that the Police Commission cannot interfere in administrative affairs but that is a real big problem when you have unconstitutional types of deliberate indifference and other types of police brutality going on and that the Police Commission in hearing all of these complaints somehow can't seem to change things. So I believe that the Police Commission should have authority to discipline the Chief of Police so far as if there is anything that we need to change and I know that this would have come in real handy with our former Chief of Police that even when CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) had told our HPD (Hawai`i Police Department) that they must have a continuum, the Chief of Police back then, Kubojiri— he stated he didn't like a continuum so I asked well what does the no continuum policy mean and I was told by Officer Makua back then that that basically meant that the Officers could go into use of force at their own discretion. Page 12