SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Police Department has become the first police department in the county to produce an “It Gets Better” video, part of the nationwide campaign to end suicides among LGBT youth, and to bring awareness to bullying of of gay kids.
“Our Police Department joins the nationwide campaign to end bullying of LGBT youth by producing a heartfelt video that provides a message of hope and encouragement that it will get better,” said Mayor Ed Lee.
“San Francisco is a city that prides itself on embracing equality for all and this video is another great example of our commitment to reinforcing our City’s values.”
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“This is a first of its kind video for the SFPD and for any law enforcement agency in the United States,” said Police Chief Greg Suhr, in a statement.
“I hope this message of encouragement will give hope to anyone who might be bullied because of who they are. The members of the SFPD will continue to work with all young people and reach out to the communities, as mentors and role models,” Suhr said.
Seattle-based activist and author Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller launched the “It Gets Better Project” in September 2010 in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or perceived by their peers as gay.
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congrats SFPD!! :D
Who Really Gives A Damn Do Their Jobs Right And Then Maybe I will Change My Mind Just Saying For Me.
Nothing to do with the video mam
Thats a very rude thing to say. Who really gives a damn? That they made a “it gets better video”? I give a damn. I think thats a great show of support.
Josephine, you make me sick. One day you will need the cops. Because you hate them, or think that they don’t do their jobs, but when you need them, and you will at some point, they will ALWAYS be there. As for your irrelevant negativity on a totally post about equality and positivity, you should be ashamed. Thank you SFPD for your support. You may not have everyone’s support, but you sure do have mine! Thank you for what you are doing!
Do their jobs right? The way the police treat someone is in direct reaction to how the person behaves. Act like an animal; get treated like one. Act like a civilized human being; get treated as such. A majority of the police “do their jobs right” but get faced with such open and unneeded hostility by some that it’s hard for them to treat those same people any differently than they’re being treated. They’re people, too. This is amazing, and I applaud the SFPD for their support. :)
WTG SF :D
Also, don’t base your opinions of the SFPD on the Oakland PD…completely different worlds, they are.
SFPD made an ‘in gets better’ vid?…..that doesn’t surprise me….lmao
Thank you so much, SFPD, thank you.
Thank you SFPD!
THAT is cool!
Wow . . . first tear started a 5min, 40 seconds . . . a sob broke loose at 6:50 . . . damn!
This is fantastic. This country is making more and more progress every day towards truly upholding our constitution, instead of making fake exceptions for the people they don’t like.
And remember not everyone has the same experience with the cops . . . but they are like anyone else . . .except there is more power to it when they go bad . . . in THIS case however there’s more power when they do something really, really good . . .
What difference does your exp with Police have to do with school bullies.Good job SFPD B-)
Try it again .Your past Police experience is not on topic.Applaud SFPD good job.
Great job SFPD……that was just perfect. Thank You!