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>> please rise photoeder "pledge of allegiance". i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> president he lias, would you like to take roll. >> commissioner benedicto. >> present. >> commissioner yanez. >> here. >> also with us is chief scott and henderson from the police accountability. >> thank you, welcome every one

to our june, oh my gosh, june 5th 2024, meeting. first matter. >> presentation of an officer that has gone way and beyond. central station and officer marcus star number 1564 from the tactical company. >> hello, come pardon. how are you? >> good evening, commissioners and chief scott. i'm here to talk about officer carl simmons from central station. i first want to start off by thanking everybody here for recognizing one of the hardest working officers at central station. let me take a minute to let you know why a nine-year veteran was selected for this recognition itself. in the beginning of the year, i was looking for a foot beat officer to take over the

fisherman's wharf area. over the last 29 years of my career, i know that, having a beat officer really represents what the values and over what we want to show for the community and building that relationship. when we talk about community policing as a department, the word foot beat officer is always mentioned. i just want to know what the foot beat does for our city. when i started searching for an officer, i asked all the supervisors under my command who would be a great foot beat officer. i realized that there was one name that was really consistent kyle simmons. the supervisors described him as a hard working cop, who volunteered for stuff, never complained and always got the

job done. he's an fto works late evenings and again, consistently helped with all the officers he worked with. but the one thing that i noticed when the officers, the supervisors officer simmons was that he liked to talk to every one, whether the community, the suspects but he talked to every one but most importantly he treated every one with respect and dignity. officer simmons was selected in march as the foot beat officer and since then, he's been basically walking the wharf and engaging with all the businesses in the area. as of foot beat officer, talking to the merchant, i learned that he walked around talked to all the merchant and went as far as giving his department phone number to basically engage with the merchants and say, hey, if you have a problem and call me we'll take care of it.

that showed me, he realized the importance of having that trust and doing that gap between the department and the community itself. so, at this time, i know looking at him, i want to thank officer carl simmons for all of his hard work and again building that trust with the community and, oh on the community. i thank you for your hard work and i appreciate all you do. thank you. [applause] >> officer simmons, we don't let you off that easily now, come on. first of all, congratulations. i want you to give you an opportunity if you want to stay a few words, you don't have to. and then i'm going to turn it over to the chief in a few seconds. >> it's an honor and thank you for the opportunity. >> before i turn it over to the chief i wanted to again congratulate you, i want to thank you and your family i

understand you work late nights and evening which has a toll on the family who has to go forward when you're not there. so huge thanks to them for allowing you to be your best self and coming to work and dedicating yourself to your job. i know na a lot of times we get a lot of complaints about not having enough beat officers and people in the community desperately wanting a physical presence by police officer so it's great to hear that you are there and not only are you there but engaging with them, because we can put somebody there but unless you're really engaging, i think that's what is really important and the word like trust, building, gap and talking to everybody are adjectives that we obviously are happy to hear and what the public has asked for. i also think that it speaks volume of not only your supervisors wants to nominate you but your peers also

recognize your dedication and hard work. thank you for all you do with the city and engaging with everybody you come in contact with. >> thank you, president elias and thank you. i know i walked with your unit a couple of times and just a few things that stood out. number one, you know the people in the community and they love you. and i mean, i mean everything that i talked to the business owners and the people in the beat, they love the cops that's because you and your partners and the work that you do. also, you all take your business when something happens in the community that you walk the beat n you're there to take care of the problem. and again, knowing the people and the players that are out there, both good and bad, really comes into play and i've seen it and read the commentations and walked with the unit and i appreciate all what you and all your foot beat officers do.

>> thank you, chief. >> and central station is a demanding station, they're very vocal when the chief changed captains, we had a lot of central residents come in and voice their concerns, so the fact that they are very happy with you there speaks volumes. president yee. >> thank you, captain kim for selecting officer carl simmons for his excellent work and professionalism and his skill meeting merchants making sure that they're treated with respect including all the merchants and the visitors and suspects and all likes. so continue your good and excellent work, we'll see you out there in a few, and make sure you come safe at the end of the day, thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> commissioner benedicto.

were you? >> i was. thank you. thank you, president elias and commissioner benedicto for having my back there. and thank you officer simmons for having the city's back and for embodying community policing, i think that having run a business at one point, it is heart warming to hear that there is something out there making contact and building bridges and making sure that there is a positive space put on to the service that we provide and as a president elias, we thank your family for their sacrifice keeping us safe. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, president elias and thank you officer simmons. congratulations, i think every time that the commission meets with the community foot beats comes up, no matter what the topic. so it's great to see that we obviously want more of them,

it's great to see the work that you and your colleagues are doing to get that recognition. i think whenever i've had the opportunity to do ride alongs, when you see officers that know their community. it seems like that that is principal that you strongly live so i do want to thank you so much for that and congratulations. >> thank you. >> thank you. i think they're going to make you stick around for some photos.

>> good evening, commissioners, chief scott, captain of the jim o hern of the tactical community and it's my honor to present officer award to officer wells. when you think back of swat, you think back of movies like swat and cool names like hondo and perfect hair and tan. while admit there is a nickname or two in our unit and specialized gear, there is the

only similarity. the testing process is trenous and requires a commitment that most police officers are not willing to make. or violent armor both. they work so residents can remain safe. officer marcus wells epitomized what it means to be a tactical officer. officer wells has over 11 years with the police department. his exceptional work ethics were recognized early on in his career when they received the isaac he espinoza award, fresh out of the academy, he was awarded the bronze medal of valor. i would describe marcus as a quiet leader dedicated to

teammate and unit, he shows restraint, patience, fiscal and mental port tude especially when dealing with people in their most vulnerable moments. you can tell by his unit how much they're respected. >> i want to say to everybody, i'm moved by the speech. all i have to say is, grace is, getting what you don't deserve right.

>> deputy chief. your former lieutenant back there, eric kim and you know, i will not be long winded but i think i told you all how much i respect and admire everything you do and just for the public, you know, this unit and officer wells, they get called into some of the most stressful, situations that one can imagine and they always act with professionalism, their training is to perfection and very very,

very, very, seldom if ever, are there any problems with this unit. and i think that just speaks to the character of the people of unit, speaks to you and leadership of the unit and actually, it's something that the city should be proud of. so thank you, thank you for your work. >> thank you, chief. >> before we turn to you officer wells, i think that you said there were nick names, and you're going to leave that out there without explaining. >> yeah, i'm going to have to. >> oh. i will say that congratulations i'm so happy that you're being honored. you can tell by the your presence and presence of your peers how valuable and integral you are to this department. you not only appear to be humble but very dedicated to this kind of work. and i will say that, i've been to some of the stations and i've seen some of the school stuff that tactical has in some

areas. so one of the things that i didn't learn on early on is how demanding the tactical unit is and how not only physically but mentally strenuous being in this unit for officers and what it demands. as i think, what was outlined earlier which is not only the training that you have to do but physically your unit is the one that comes out for the most egregious circumstances. that requires another level of skill and train thating is not easily acquired. i can tell from the things that has been said about you, and your accomplishments that you are where you need to be because you're a perfect fit for that university.

--unit, we want to thank you for your service. you real other do put your life on the line, thank you so much. >> thank you, president. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you very much, president elias, thank you captain for ecng recognizing offseting officers for this week's meeting. thank you for your heroism, today you're a star, of your hard work. >> commissioner benedicto. >> thank you very much president elias, thank you officer wells and thank you to all the members from the tactical unit that came to support you. and be recognized. we recognize the extraordinary

officers as a way to shine a light on the officers that are doing tremendous work so thank you so much for appearing as well. i've had the privilege two years, of spending the day for the tactical unit, on one of the regular commission that's is critical coordinated response. and which for members of the public, it's a really intense scenario that puts the officers in simulations of the most difficult scenarios that the training staff has can imagine and critique it and work on it so when they face real incidents they're previoused and it was a privilege to see that work and that critical thinking. it's been a model for other

departments that have come to join for all of that work, that you all do, thank you so much and congratulations. >> i think we've also been recognized for the cmc train thating we have and because of the great work that your unit does, i'm so happy that we're here to spotlight what the tactical. often times we have you weigh in because of the policy because of the strategic and train thating you have received. commissioner yanez. >> you know, i just want to the whole team it sounds like, you know, it is a community of people out there especially in your team, i have seen it in action and i, i walk the way thinking how well orchestrated how like a oiled machine that you are when you're out there,

and the city benefits from having your expertise. thank you for your commitment and sack price i can tell that you are a leader and as you lead, you are making this city a better place for every one to visit and live in. i appreciate your commitment, thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> thank you, chief. >> all right. >> if any many would like to, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment.

at this time the public is welcome to address the commission on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the police commission. are required to respond to questions. alternative you may submit comment, email the secretary of the police commission or written comments may be sent via postal is office building to the postal building. if would you like to make public comment, please approach the podium. >> hello welcome back. >> thank you, thank you. you're the specialist of calling me back, because i don't come uninvited, does not come uninvited. i'm going to follow-up on what i said on may 8th, mayor you

still didn't explain what is 49 android fruit, depicting, with gun, it's a white, i don't know if it's i'm not sure. you need to get rid of this. or maybe you are too proud, okay. now to you guys. enemy number one is, of intelligence is called pride. so what is pride? it leads to hypocrisy.

we're going to apologize again, don't speak to apologize, speaking here. i'm on a mission so you better understand what is going on here. it's absolutely ridiculous. >> speaker: good evening, i'm here to talk about my son

aubrey who was murdered 2006. i have stopped counting and i believe it's been 18 years since he's been murdered. i'm still seeking justice for my child. i bring the names of the perpetrator who were involved with murdering my child. hannibal, jason tomas, akme hunter and marcus carter. these are all the names down at 850 brian in his folder of the perpetrators that went and murdered my child shot him 30 rounds of bullets. who does that? i come here with cases have not been involved.

i'm asking for justice for my child. i say this to anyone in the audience, you don't want your mother standing over you wishing you could come back alive. looking at the corpse, this is what they left me with, his lifeless body, 17-year-old full of life and i know i come here every wednesday when i can come and say the same thing over and over again, but this is my child. and i miss him dearly. one son, he was my only son, the difference between this phase and this phase.

>> speaker: i heard you and i responded, i presented last meeting, i said is the kids in the project. you cannot integrity a kid too hard. so i said i developed a program for you. this is your legacy program. it's called, the tracer program for cold case witnesses and you can screen shot and get a general idea of what is going on. you're graduating classes once

they're 18, does not matter when the crime happens does not matter what the crime was, it is a tracer program, you can have it as your legacy chief scott. people used to get beaten upside the head. so george went to apple and went and said, hey you put a kill switch and apple said screw you, that causes a 1,000. so he went to congress and congress made a law and said you've got to put kill switch in.

>> speaker: last week, may 30th, my friend and i were walking our dogs and saw a police officer relaxing on the bike with another man. i made a comment on resources they spend on police and too often i see them enjoy the down time. the cop began cursing me, and two minutes in, he suggest that i fight him. he made suggestions that i either fight him, or hit him or he threatened to beat me and my friend over 60 times, in an attempt to provoke him, and i never reciprocate or provoke him. i asked the officer for his name and badge number ten different times and he did not provide this either.

during the course, he's seen texting and calling another man. another man showed up threatening to fight me and didn't, this officer said that other people will fight me on his behalf. he brought another. the fourth individual did attack me, seemingly under the officer's, he swung once and punched me in the face. he duck behind the officer, i was denied the right to protect myself by threat of firearm and arrest while he protected the individual that attacked me. i was threatened and attacked while this officer refused to identify himself and enable people to assault me. this officer needs to be investigated and terminated.

this officer has been stalking my social media everyday including today. your activity is seen as enabling complicity. >> sir, there are people here in the audience that you can speak with. >> they're representative of the public accountability if they can stand up and let you know. thank you. >> last week may 30th, my friend and i observed a police officer on his bike relaxing. i began regarding, two minutes in, the police suggested we fight him or threatening to beat me and my friend over 60 times. he did not activate his body camera.

one of the men attacked and the police enabled and protected him. he broke no laws. bee raided while this officer refused to identify himself and enable people to assault. he refused to turn on his video cam. this officer needs to be terminated. and i want to acknowledge this woman's son, may your son rest in peace. fuck the police. >> speaker: i would like to say a few weeks ago, i encountered

officer long, on fourth and mission street, i seen him tiktding --ticketing two people sleeping on the sidewalk. i don't know if that's legal. i turned on my video. officer wong came from behind me, talking crap, making threats of violence, saying he's going to cast me if if i don't back away from his car. as i was walking away, officer l.wong said be careful, i know people who will beat you for a money. i just wanted to add that, it's more to it, it seems like the officers can do whatever the they want in the city with no accountability.

>> that's the end of public comment. proto call report, dpa protocol report, estimated value 2000 dollars. >> can i get an action. >> motion received and filed. >> second. >> if anyone would like to make a comment, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. on the motion, commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> yanez.

>> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> president elias is yes, you have four yeses. and for housekeeping item, line item 12 will be removed from the agenda and be presented at a later date. adoption of 4 action meeting. for meeting of may 8th, 2024. >> motion to adopt the minutes. >> second. >> if anyone would like to make a comment, please approach the podium. there is no public comment. how do you vote. >> yes. >> yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> president elias. >> yes. >> you have four yeses. line item 5, chief's report, public safety concerns provide an overview of events occurring in san francisco having an impact in public safety. will be limited to determining

the calendar for a future meeting, chief scott. >> sergeant young blood. i'll start this week's report with overall crime trends, there is the 37% reduction of park crimes that's about 6500 fewer crimes from last year and highlighted by a 38 reduction in hom wide with 13 compared to 21 last year. and we are about 51 percent in car break in, so overall larceny crime is down almost 38 percent. in terms of our gun seizures, that's up from our last year where we had 442. our ghost are at 74 compared to

117, this time last year. so there has been a reduction in ghost gun recoveries. we had four fatal shooting, the other three there was no arrest, all the investigations are still going. so shooting per shooting was on may 27 at 10:00 p.m., the victim walked into a hospital with a gun shot wound, the victim did not provide information. on june the 1th, the victim was found in front of that location or a location found bleeding. victim said that he had approached a suspect and when they start today struggle, the fire went off and the victim was shot once. both victim and suspect fled

from the area and this incident was reported by another location. on the second of june, the victim was shot by a subject officer an argument over merchandise. the witness were able to locate officers identified and arrested. on, june 22 at 11:35 p.m., the victim was dropped off unknown person in hospital and the person did not want to state why or where the shooting happened. we're not sure where that shooting happened or if it was in the city of san francisco. couple of other significant arrests, in the tenderloin where suspect and victim were in the argument which became

physical, and the subject chased the victim and then stabbed them. subject--it was a robbery at mission and jeniva on may 29th, the victim was waiting for a bus when the suspect pulled the victim's phone out of the hands and eventually held to the suspect's vehicle as they drove away. the victim was dragged for short distance, the two suspects were located shortly therefore and arrested by officer. there is an arrest on the 1300 block of yuvana street, the reporting party called 911 saying that their house their burglarized. the reporting said they were not home but they could see the robbery. officers responded and

discovered that the house was a marijuana grow house and were able one of four suspects that were inside the house. switching gears a little bit, on may 30, there was a narcotic operation to arrest drug dealers in the tenderloin. this resulted in ten arrests and 510 narcotics that were seized. we also arrested several people for warrant, during this operation. the operation was coordinated with coordinate record with sfpd officer also known as the threat team, our narcotic expert team, tenderloin and our tenderloin close team. in addition, the san francisco sheriff's office and the army national guardian list who have been working with us for the past year, were instrumental in this operation. there was another incident with

the arrest of narcotic dealers as a part of on going investigation that was pretty significant, our narcotic division ar coined a search warrant, a 36-year-old by the name of jose, ramos and a 3 3-year-old person bit name of jonathan both of open who were suspected of trafficking illegal narcotic, may 23 with the assistance with the d-mac support team and plainclothes officers both suspects were located and arrested in the area in the city of san francisco. they were in position of 1 pound of heroin and two kilos of meth and over 700,000 of currency which was ceased during the arrest.

additional narcotics were found and ceased during the warrant. both were booked on charges that included possession to sell po tesing of meth amphetamine for sale and resisting and operating and maintaining a drug house and that is, major events this year, we're preparing for the pride parade at the end of the week and the pride festivities have kicked off so we will be deployed for that appropriately, that event and our department and members of the pride alliance will be participating in many events. as you can see i'm wearing the pride patches which the pride alliance has available for donation sxz that money will go

to a charity whatever funds will go to charity. and the last thing is a number of stunt events that happened. approximately 40 cars that created quite a bit of chaos across the city. this took a significant amount of resources to get under control during an extremely busy night as most people know, there is a concert that had about 25,000 attendees so we were deployed for that. and also a san francisco giant game that had about 30,000 and several events all across the city. so it was very good and busy weekend across the city and these stunt driver event further depleted our resources. but we were able to disrupt these groups and prevent them

from turning into full scale events. we're also requested to help on the bay bridge because the opportunity drivers took over the bay bridge bringing traffic to a complete stop. so we sent officers to that event to help break that up and get traffic flowing again across the bridge. no arrests were made, but as we have said, we do have said before, any vehicles that we can identify, we do seek court orders to seek those vehicles and we will be investigating to see if we can identify the people in the vehicles involved. and the last thing to report is a vehicle collision on 5-28-2024 approximately 12:09 p.m. at emerald avenue and

castle manner avenue officers arrived at the scene and contacted all parties, one party was transported to the hospital for life threatening injuries. and there was, some drugs and--there was no impairment due to drugs and alcohol so this is a major injury collision followed by a fatal collision that occured on may 23rd at 4:30 p.m. when officers from the tenderloin station responded and sfrd arrived and observed that a commercial truck had struck a pedestrian and that pedestrian succumbed to the injuries and that driver cooperated. no indication of drugs or alcohol factor and that concludes my report. thank you. >> thank you very much. person, thanks again chief and

your department. keeping the crime rate down to i guess less than 30 percent from the previous year, that's property and also violent crime. also want to ask about a female that was shot on you are ving and 15th avenue, this was probably on a may 17th, there about and then she walked herself to the hospital, do you have any updates on that? or anything to report on that? >> yeah, that investigation is still on going. there is no updates but, but there are some clues cluesed or follow-up, information that we have that is being followed up on to determine withr that shooting occured.

that is on going investigation. >> do you know which hospital? they arrived at? >> i believe it's general but i'll have to confirm that. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you, president. i want to see if you can provide any updates on sfpd related to anti palestinian protest. >> mutual aid requests at humboldt, cal poly humboldt, it's now cal poly humboldt and uc berkeley as well as uc santa

cruz, we did send officers to those offices as part of the mutual aid request. >> aside from that, is there anything that they have done? >> san francisco state is within the city, u.s. f has also had protesters >> are you aware of any reportable use of force by police officers? >> not aware of any force. >> thank you, i might given that this protest activity is likely to continue maybe after we return from discuss it makes

sense that we deal a coordinator strategy and that we're being proactive, we saw in southern california there have been some unfortunate incidents use of force. i just want to make sure that we're being as proactive and strategic as possible when it comes to this. >> yes, and locally, we have worked closely with the university of state, we did get an update from san francisco state. the mutual aid request's those are coordinated so depending on what the needs are, if we're able to send officers we will.

>> do you know how many officers have been sent? >> in note al, we we don't know. but we have sent a skad, one was 1 officers and fewer. squad may be anywhere from 8 to 10 officers and a sergeant. >> thank you. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you, commissioner elias, thank you chief for the report. i was walking across the street, going to the park to the lord savior today and there was a protest on valencia street, i guess vice president harris was doing some fundraising and there was a big cohort of police officers and i want to commend them they were trying to deescalate and asking the protesters to move along.

i was in a corner but i was safe and made it home. i saw the decontainment strategy in action and the police officers that were there were respective and responsive to questions which i believe is the best case scenario when we have a development like that. i mention this because the last time we met i had asked because i thought whether there was any investigation, i'm not asking for an update, i know there is an open investigation but the hill bomb is, is right around the corner and i'm wondering if there is any community meetings or activity happening to ensure that there is communication about, if there is going to be a containment strategy that folks are aware so we can communicate so community partners and vendors and to the vendors of that park.

do you have an update to any of that? >> yes, commissioner and i've had a conversation with captain harvey and there has been, out reach to some of the more, i say prominent, i'm not sure if that's the correct word but the people involved in this community and the stakeholders and homeowners that live in the area. there will be communications upcoming. >> if we can have a repeat of those. >> i'm a maybe there, and it would be really really important for me to attend that and participate in whatever shape or form to support.

i also read that there was some straj tee to curtail some of the sex work that was happening on vaness and they moved away and now on to chock well, what is the next step in this containment strategy or is there one that we have identified? >> so part of it, definitely, trying to dough ter tt people that are dismiss thing. another part is trying to get, you know, if they even traffic or being trafficked to get help and we call it rescuing those people off the street.

the solicitation is the big part to try to keep people from coming. it moved it to other locations. that's going on on going thing. we do the commission station officers and captain harvey and his team, they've done operation sxz that will continue. they're going to be consistent so we just need to be consistent and try to deter that activity, because residents are really frustrated. we have to get a better handle on that. >> thank you, i really appreciate that there is attention being paid to this. i don't know what else could be be done to communicate when these actions are going to happen because it does create more traffic and incidents and

they develop beyond the area that it happens. i do hope that we have a long term solution and that it does not lead to more barriers. lastly i know there was an ios that i attended and there was an report, i don't know whether this is true so i wanted to know if you can verify that the shooting, had praoefk been involved in a officer involved shooting? >> and how soon will we be able to get a report on that process? >> i don't know if we're doing it, yeah, next week.

>> thank you for that. >> sergeant. >> for any member of the public ha would like to make a public comment on item number 5, please approach the podium. >> speaker: i'm a retired reform teacher and you'll be seeing from me because i'm a know had all. i want to put down here, i want to put my resume so that those in the public think i'm full of it, you're right but anyway i've got background on it. okay, that's wrong enough for a screen shot. let's go to the topic of the foot patrols.

can we turn that on. i live right here, this is some of the toughest blocks in the city, that's mission and valencia from 14th to 18th, my plan on this and i walked it for nine years and i've never seen an officer on foot, okay. nine years i've been cleaning that up lately with my dog. and we've got the area all cleaned up if you wine examine bit, some things do happen. chief, this is a foot patrol for a month it would take ten officers to cover 365, you have to bill it at 33 days a month to cover overtime examine sick leave.

and here's one for your hookers, we have 55 store front, let's legalize sex and indian gambling, and put a indian casino. one good hooker is worth a whole point load of japanese tourist. thank you. >> sorry to bore you. >> good evening, again, i would like to use the overhead. again, we talked, i'm still talking about how, san francisco police department has paid zero dollars to solve homicides in nearly a decade. you just did a presentation on

may 8th, and you did one that is may 8th, 2024, you did one december 7th, 2022 and i believe there is one for 2023 i just don't have it right here. but how long are we going to keep talking about unsolved cases? i know last time, commissioner, carter was saying about kinding other ways to solve unsolved homicides and finding other way to see pay tip sters to come forward to solve unsolved homicides. how is that going to be implemented instead of talking about it, one action is going to do this. i know that you keep having these presentations and everything.

and i thank commissioner carter and whoever else was involved for having this. something needs to happen soon, something needs to happen sooner so i can have some closures that some can come and safl some unsolved homicides. not just my child. i come here, his name is aubrey habercasa, his case number is 060862038, anyone help me solve my son's case. >> for any members of the public that has any information on aubrey, you can call the anonymous tip line.

that is the end of public comment. item number 6, report on resent dp a and announcements. whether to calendar for future commission meeting. mr. henderson. >> good evening, so this week, our investigation unit has opened 57 new cases and we closed 97 cases since the last commission meeting, overall that's 15 percent reduction in our pending cases just from last week that we've been able to close out, we put a lot of effort into trying to get cases resolved as quickly as we can. we have also reduced our cases this is the third consecutive month that we have been able to reduce our cases that have been on our case loads. i want to thank the investigators for their hard

work and prioritizing their cases that have been closed that quickly. i don't know if i mentioned it in the past, but dpa received the 2024 distinguished knight award from the association of local government auditors for the report on sfdp, the department discipline process. that was me introducing a pause to take that in because they're here, because i brought them here and i a brought along the awards in case members of the commission wanted to take photos with them, so they're here and not to brag but if you want your instagram to be on fire, this is what people are looking for. this is the kiepd of advocacy that people celebrate getting

this work done. so they'll be here and just in case you can't read them as clearly, this is a national recognition and the top award in their field, and invitation, effort from receiving the awards, we also received an invitation to give two presentations at the national conference. so the next audit is on going and practices. we've issued a survey to officers to obtain their perspective because we like to make sure that the audits are evidence base. and that information and those results from the officers that we're speaking with will be in our final audit report. additionally, we hosted a two-day training, which included 15 of the oversight practitioners here in the state

of california. and that, training program included attendance from the president of the national of law enforcement that is snake hol as well as the director from multiple california oversight department. i wanted to thank the department and the chief, the cit unit presented to the group, this is where occasion most of the agencies that do oversight don't get direct access or information from the department especially about how they do their training and the award cit program is one that was very well received from the agencies that came to participate. we also in case you were just wondering what is happening out in the audience, separate from the excitement about me having the awards from our outstanding audit department, are annual

internship and fellowship cohort is here which is a break down of 25 total students, 5 law students and 20 undergrad students representing over 14 colleges and universities, 15 women, 10 men, 9hbus are represented from our students which is in case you're counting, double the amount of h b.c. u last year. we asked them to come with a little bit of school pride today and show off their schools so they are here. this year, 12 separate city agency partners that are hosting the students, that's three more department than we hosted last year. i think it's really important that last year's success was built upon from city agencies and department that don't have an internership program but now do because they're participating in this program. i want to thank specifically

the hbcu cohort that is being funded and funded by james and huj community center. also the ofa program and hrc under dr. davis which funded over 85 percent of the program participants that's a big deal. dpa was also to do some additional recruiting thanks to arc, hrc and the black 2sf program which helped us do some of our recruiting outside of california directly in atlanta in april of this year. some events will include a curated panel at the chase center this year that is hosted with the warriors hosted by my friends that is going to be up this week. and i think commissioners you guys are invited too and chief i don't want you to miss out on. we're also be -- ~>> he is fine.

>> exactly. we'll also be marching with the mayor's contingency for juneteenth and pride month and participating in the parade again this year, also this year we're going the know your rights presentation which we typically but this year it will be lead by the interns here for the summer. we have dps and with that i'll turn it over to our director of hiring and one of the trial attorneys here at dpa, teneta thompson. >> thank you, i'm so honored to be here today. thank you, ms. thompson for being here. first congratulations on the audit award winning recognition. >> they're here. >> i cannot say that the policy has been award winning recently but you can hang on to those.

i want to return to ms. thompson and introduce the people. i'm really excited to hear about it. >> yes, and you've been all been behind us when we took over the program in 2019, we went from from a small cohort to 7 students and now i'm proud to say we have 25 students from all over the country. >> yes, get them in here. you're on tv now. you cannot be on ig if you're not on the camera. it's your time to shine, i'm extremely proud of these people, they have worked hard to get to where they are today. this would not be possible without under the leadership, 20 years ago, i was part of this program from executive director henderson at san francisco d.a.'s office to come

as a child prodigy today so to be here today is full circle moment for me. and i do want to thank our intern coordinator natalie gar tia, the dpa staff my supervising attorney, diane, and this is coming to live like paul said, it gets better and bert. so i want to thank the commission, members of the public and the community watching, that we are here and they are going to introduce themselves to you all and they're going to make it brief but they're representing every wednesday, we do it's either business casual or business attire but spirit so they're representing either organization or their school so. we're all about school spirit and representing who you come from because that makes you who you are. we'll go down the line. ?fm my name is victoria mathews ummmm a rising aoun iar at

howard university studying honored science and i intern here in city hall with the mayor's office. thank you. >> hello every one, my name is rachel i'm a xwrad graduate of arizona state university, this past fall and i'll be working in the department of juvenile probation, and i'm very excited to be here. thank you. >> hello my name is jacob, i'm a ricing, and my whole agency is attorney's office this summer, thank you. >> hello minimum marla, i'm a political science legal communication minor at ha ward university and this summer i'll be interning at the public commission. >> hello my name is easter i'm a senior political communication at ha ward university and i'm lucky enough

to work with the fire department this summer. >> hello every one my name is ashley i'm political science major prelaw and i'll be working at the port of san francisco thank you. >> hello every one i'm alex dra i'm a rising sophomore and working at the san francisco housing authority. thank you. >> hi my name is taylor i'm a rising sophomore and and this summer i'll be working at the port. >> hello i'm katelin i'm a graduate of san francisco university majoring in criminal study and i'll be work withing public utilities commission. >> hello my name is page williams i go to south carolina ant i'm a criminal student and this year i'll be working the san francisco fire department. >> i'm a rising senior at

criminal justice major and i'll be working at the california state controller's office. >> hello my name is gabriela i'm a senior at wellsly college studying economics and i'll be with the dpa part-time this summer. ?fm i'm a soft mayor political summer and i'll be working with adult probation department this summer. >> good evening, every one i'm jaoe ani i'll be working as an intern with dpa. >> good evening, i'm roanyone i study english at poll ikz at nyu and i'll be stationed with the department of cannabis this summer. >> good evening, my name is matthew foster, rising at usf school of law and i'll be working with the office of infrastructure. >> good evening, i'm logan i'm

a rising senior at moore house college and this summer i'll be working here at city hall with mr. shamann, walton. >> i'm political science double from jacksonville florida, rising senior and i'll be work withing dp a. >> round of applause. [applause] >> my babies. >> i see, this is amazing, so amazing to see these amazing rising leaders, you sound all inspirational and sound like you have some really cool places you're going to intern for during the summer. i cannot wait to hear the summer end report and presentation based on your experiences. i'm sad that we don't have anyone coming to the police commission, are you scaring these kids away, chief? how come the fire department has two.

>> we actually can take the project. >> well. the look how excited the chief is. we're going to make this happen. welcome, so we're to glad that you're here and honored that you're here, i cannot wait to see what your results are at the end of the summer and the projects that you're able to work on. and i know one of you is going to be with our past president could --cohen who is now--tell her we say hed, and miss her. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you prefp president elias. couple of questions, is dpa, is there a department that has more than 25 interns in the city? >> yes, the da or maybe even the public defender's office but not where we're working

with so many agency and filtering out, so yes. >> a couple of points, first to the awards thank you for bringing the lovely awards in. we ask you to bring them in and glad that you did, on a serious note, i'm glad that you brought them in collaboration with the department has been extraordinary i'm privileged to be the commission work and the tremendous audit team. and i think it's important that these awards be brought in. for members of the public, these a words don't belong to director henderson or police accountability, they belong to all of you. dpa's charter was generated by a ballot initiative and from there, as transformed into a completely different department and that's thanks to voters of

san francisco, your tax dollars fund the and cooperating our critical to these awed udits being successful. so these awards do belong to every one so i'm glad that they brought them here today. >> there is a third one, but the controller's office has it in their office. they're so excited about it, i just wanted to see in case people wanted to it talk about. there is a third one. >> i think we add a trophy case to the back of the room. >> sure. >> and want to acknowledge the controllers office which plays a vital role. again, i want to recognize dpa for that work. for the interns i want to welcome and you and thank you for coming tonight. it's extraordinary to see this amount of leadership and po teption and energy and enthusiasm in the room, hopefully we have not bored you to death. i want to thank ms. thompson

for running this tremendous program. if i correct one thing that you said ms. thompson, you said that it gets better and better each year, and that is an appropriate use, you make this program better and better eacher mr. henderson makes it better and better each year, it does not happen on its own. i do want to address the interns, i want to thank the host agencies for hosting these intern and i'm sure you'll be impressed. dr. henderson noted the incredible speakers, i'm not as excited as warriors but i do look forward to speaking to the interns. i also know that the san francisco superior court and at least one judge is claming together. at least one judge from the san francisco superior court is going to speak to you all as well. so i look forward to speaking

to you and having a conversation. and, if i can just take a moment to give a little bit of advise and share a story. to say yes to opportunities that you encounter, a lot of my fellow commissioners here became huge leaders and in the community in their own right and that's how they got in the commission and i think i'm unique and i did it by work withing the commission. i was not that much older than the law students just a first year associate as part of a pro-bono case in my law, only the city attorney was working with the commission. so i used to know her as outside of the commission. i was sitting on your side as a young attorney. and protesters shut the halls and i was the only one there. and that turned into a appearing a second time and that's when a third time and

fourth time until i had attended 50 meetings and built an expert sees in this space. you never know where they'll lead in the long term. i would not be spanneding here as a member of this commission if i didn't show up as a sewn yor important having just moved to san francisco earlier that year and i can trace all the way to where i am todayment so say yes, to those opportunities. and last thing that i will say, you will really have a impact here, you'll all work on the present, will be delivered to the commission. i believe the three summers ago, the decision was on three foot and they passed unanimously came directly out of that presentation. you'll be able to say that you helped shaped the policies of this department.

department. so enjoy your time here. work hard, and you'll have a great impact, so thank you. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you very much there, president elias. i want to thank dpa director on your outstanding awards, i know that it's three. >> three. >> there is only two in the courtroom. congratulations to your team for receiving those national awards. on to the intern, i want to welcome you to san francisco. thank you all for helping here and i want to also thank, the recruiter ms. thompson for bringing an out landing team. san francisco is the person of the future of all the policy. again, you're our leaders and

eyes and ears so we welcome you here and continued success. thank you very much. >> thank you, thank you commissioner benedicto for speaking to us year after year and take iting out of your schedule and expanding to the superior court. that makes for better inside for them and increasing that diversity pipeline. >> i've never even been invited to one of those. >> you can come tomorrow. >> you're more than welcome president elias. >> pity invite over here. >> i do want to thank, it's not just the program for the summer and natalie as well, it's more than what you see, the second that the interns leave at the end of the year, the program starts up again in terms of their recruiting, we have folks there during the year and i don't say thank you often

enough from doing the paperwork, coordinating how they can get paid and housing for program is a big deal. i will say it's not a small binge. that this year we're helping our staff which is the wonors people. but doing it with and intention alt to address tie verse ut is an important thing. it just continues to get better. so i want to thank the folks that make this happen and let them know that they're really appreciated. >> also, it's worth noting that ms. thompson, not only guys and teaches them in the actual will you gives them actual shield. i've had fellows that have come out with their foot bank and

they have come out, you need to conduct yourself in business settings. they're all transferable to everything that you do. and i know as somebody who has been a cross the style, there is a lot there for you to lener from so i'll talking to you. >> and also in the hearing today, steve ball senior investigator i wanted to acknowledge them, because they're here in case any other issue comes up for dpa flt >> sergeant. >> if members p public would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. >> speaker: yes, good evening, i just want to commend you young people too. if no has told you that they're

proud of, i know your parents whoever is raising you, your parents, you're aunties, whoever is raising you, i say it in absence of my son, and i'm hoping that those becoming attorneys can help mothers like me solve homicides, i suffer, i still hurt. and i'm so glad to see you, pursuing these opportunities and i hope to see you again down the line helping mothers like myself and be safe out there, be aware of your surroundings. i just wanted to say that and i am proud of you.

>> there is no further public comment. >> next item please. >> possible action president's report commissioners reports and commission announcements and scheduling items identified for future commission meeting. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you very much president elias. reporting is that we attended san francisco police department

281 recruitment graduation, last tuesday. we had 15 new officers added to our department. i was joined by commissioner kevin benedicto, great to see additional officers coming up. wish them, continued success in the department. also, went to visit, tie roll stations. i wanted to thank the team for catching one of the prolific burglars that day, apprehended. again, thanks to our officers keeping a crime, down and keeping us safe in the city, that's my report, thank you. madam chair. >> thank you. >> sergeant. >> members of the public if

would you like to make public comment, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. >> next item. >> line item 8, discussion and possible action to adopt the order, member involved domestic violence, possible action. >> hello good evening. >> good morning, good evening, president elias, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson and first of all happy pride. i'm one of the subject matter expert member involved domestic violence. we were here couple of months ago and made one or two small changes to a couple of words, i think we're here for the final, hopefully. >> yes. so are there any questions from the commissioners, if not i'll take a motion. >> yes. >> i was wondering why you know, a lot of policies have

politician and there was no definition of domestic violence, i know there were references made. is there a reason why we didn't include. >> yes and that's because the definition. we wanted those definitions to live within those documents, because those are more likely to be updated more frequently than this document. if that definition were to change, by not having a definition we would not have to fit this order. anything refers back to 6.09 and that way if those documents, evolve there is no update this order. >> makes complete sense to me, thank you. >> are you making a motion? >> i will make a motion to adopt. >> i will second that motion, i

just wanted to confirm and noted in the agenda that, you issued a waiver from the community process for this department general order consistent with the requirement? >> yes. >> yes, there was no, on that waiver i didn't notice a reference to this dgo, did i miss that? >> the waiver is just language since we have several dgo, that would be the waiver would apply to. >> makes sense. >> this is also one of those dtos that has not been updated since 2014, so congratulations, this is a big step forward. >> sergeant. >> members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 8 please approach the podium. there is no public comment on the motion, commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes.

>> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have four yeses. line item 9, discussion and possible action to adopt 3.12 department training plan, discussion and possible action. >> commissioner elias, on this one the waiver did not get with the pact, i'm waiving the same language and i'll get the letter with the package tomorrow. >> great, thank you. welcome. >> good evening, commissioners and president, i'm catherine holder obviously here at the police department here to figure out d g.o. 3.12 their only change is the email address which you should have in front of you. >> seeing no questions, can i get a motion. >> i'll make a motion along with the non substantive

amendment that the commission was notified about. >> second. >> sergeant. >> for any member of the public that would like to make comment, please approach the podium. there is no public comment on the motion, commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> president elias. >> yes. >> you have four yeses. line item 10, presentation on sfpd disciplinary review board findings and recommendations, third and fourth quarter, discussion. >> hello welcome. >> hello. : guys need a few minutes.

>> yeah, maybe like a minute. >> i'm going to use the restroom. >> okay.

for quarter number 4 were neglected duty for failure to enter data as well as writing an incident report.

there were no policy failure findings for quarter 3. dpa did have one policy failure finding it involved an officer involved shooting that happened sometime ago, it occur in the mission district and it involved multiple officers and a subject that was barricaded in the in the trunk of a vehicle. after doing our investigation and consulting with various experts, we found that there were something lacking in the execution of the incident so we made some recommendations. and as a result, i believe that the recommendation have already been implemented and integrated into the training that is

currently being administered by the field training and force unit who just happened to be here. >> ha. there are two cases that closed with policy failure finding. the first officer establishing a nonprofit organization to fund trips for children toga na africa. during the investigation, ied learned that sfpd does not have an mou. officers participation to outline role and responsibilities and i believe ryan worked on and finished mou for this specific one.

and failure to notify a superintendent regarding the use of force. there were no recommendations since the policy has been updated this is in fwaoen the use of force policies. dp a did not have any training failures in quarter three. there was one. so we did have an incident that involved a probation search of a probationer residents even though nobody was home.

officers had received information that an associate of complaint's boyfriend was in in unlawful possession of a firearm. and when the associate was not located, officers executed a search of the residents, unlocked and opened the front door of the resident prior to officers entering the residents, the complaintant arrived and told the officers that the probationer was in custody examine nobody was home. the despite that officers still entered and conducted a search and left. our complained director was in communication with, with officer who was also here today and we have made appropriate recommendations.

sorry, that's what i was suppose to say, there were no training failures identified. they submitted their review for quarterly report. and they did not find any or inequities proposed on officers and no corrective action was recommended. mou should be created for program that includes sfpd officers and participation in

order to outline the rules and responsibilities. recommendations to the new verbiage was added for aggregate trends, if you want to know that somebody will have to read it because i didn't bring my glasses. the report is with me currently, i have to add dpa's information to the report. i'm doing the job of three people so please be patient, but we should have that to you shortly. it identifies close cases and aggregate trends and disciplinary actions taken.

so they will review the report and determine if we kind any inequities trends. thank you. every one. any questions? >> thank you very much for that presentation, i've often complimented, it's always nice where we have the presentation where the it always makes it easy for the commission. i have a couple of questions to mou, that include for on duty sfpd officers in order to outline the officers roles and responsibilities. as you're likely aware there is been some reporting done about one such organization operation genesis. i know that, that it was noted that there was an m.o. u that is being worked on so first with respect to project genesis specifically is there an update

on the progress for the mou? >> yes, i can answer that, the mou has been completed and outlines the responsibility for the officer as well as supervisor and reporting. are there other examples that mous are in progress. >> there are other proms not like genesis, the difference is, the officer is does a lot of, i'm a full-time is work withing those particular kids that work with the program. so we've allowed the officer to do that, the other program that

is the police activity pal, wilderness program, we have officers that do programming with kids, on duty but not full-time like genesis. although there was an officer, it was not his full-time job. with that said, we still decided that it would be in our best interest to outline mou, so everybody knows what the roles and responsibilities are for these types of assignments. some of the programs have gone on for many many decades, so we plan to do that for all of them. >> have, ballpark of how many such programs? >> wilderness, pal, let's see

there is, we've had officers involved in the pal program that have participated with coaching kids, about to revitalize, the youth baseball league which is going to be some on duty time. there is a sailing program i don't think that has been active for a while. so it sounds like under ten programs? >> somewhere between 5 and 10 somewhere in that range. should have m.o. u finalized. >> okay, then i'll make a note to follow-up maybe later in the year to make sure that we've got that recommendation implemented. thank you, that's all.

>> sergeant. >> any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 10, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item number 11 presentation, annual report discussion. >> you're stuck with me again, again i'm lieutenant and i'm in sarj of the internal affairs commission. i'll start off by saying the first version of this report was like 91 pages, and it's not, and i'm not an analyst, i stopped helping my kids with math in about the 5th grade. this was created by the land, principal analyst and i have with me, managing attorney and again myself.

through internal investigations include on duty misconduct referred within the department. as we know dpa, they get other referrals and they also do complaints by all sfpd employees. citizen complaints of on duty professional staff and referrals from other agencies so like san francisco department of human resources eeo, and we do whistleblower complaints, officer involved shootings and custody death and use resulting in bodily injury' or hospitalization and audits for any violation communication devices, cell phones and emails computers.

so it is our department demographic and it has zero to ten years in. and about 10 percent are in the younger age group so 18 to 39. and we have a break down of race and ethnicity. about 27% are professional staff and 72 percent are sworn members. so these are the demographic of both, so about 77 percent male and 22% female. it's hard to see but there is 371 cases in 2023 and about 250 were closed. so it's about 92 percent of cases, although some may have

been opened in previous years like covid if the people are on disability. the q4 out lieer here is due to a lot, we had a lot of no-call no-show cases from overtime gigs when they were trying to do the wheel, so that's why we have that out lier. so allegations from open cases in 2023. the number one is neglected duty general and neglected duty body worn cameras. the top five make up about 82% of all cases. so conduct becoming almost 30 percent neglected general about 24 percent, body worn camera

almost 18 percent. and then, this courtesy 3.3 percent. of the open cases in 2023, 72.3 were sworn members and 27.7 professional staff. so open cases by bureau, obviously field operations bureau had about 66.9 percent followed by investigation and then, 9.9 percent and then, the airport bureau at 8.8, they're the ones that are more forward facing and then the graph off to the right, is just the number of employees in each assignment, so number 1 is fob followed by admin and airport bureau.

most casing, 93 percent of the total findings 57.47 percent improper conduct. 16.9 insufficient evidence, 10.11 improper and 1.7 unfounded and 3.3 for policy failure and that's 809 of the cases. of the improper conduct findings, that's what this graph is showing here, 66.5.9 percent resulted in some disciplinary action. or the 11-11 program or retired or resigned or retraining and performance improvement plan.

and 33.4 percent resulted in some form of disciplinary anywhere from reprimand to termination. >> any questions? >> director anderson. >> thank you so much, for this report. ipg it's a really big deal, i know you referenced it was 91 pages but i will remind folks when dpa started doing, the reports were 2 to 400 pages each, so it's a big step and i appreciate the math and analysis that is part of it. i will say that this also core dates with dpa trends as well

on gbinging neglected duty leading to allegations, so that is consistent and again we can have this conversation now. is had a quick question were those cases referred bit body cam were discovered or in connection with other cases. >> yeah, the body cam unit they do audits, so it's titling and uploading cases and also if they discover or even if they deactivate too late, all of it. and i did ask the lieutenant in charge, how many recordings we did have in 2023 and it was 46

2000,441. i know it looks like we're not following but we're activating a lot. >> i think that's why it's a great report and i presume that majority were those incidents that were discovered in connection with other cases? >> yes. >> that's what i thought. okay, i think that's just, let me check my notes. i think what would be helpful in connecting the dots just to show more. maybe a summary of the closed cases to know what the summary, i think would be more helpful than not to have that listed even if it's just statistical form, you know, could either be as full as something like how

the openness reports are or did i minute mus as the specifics with names. in fact, since we are here and i have intern, i would get somebody assigned if there is interest from the department to work on that. >> yeah, i can bring it back to the bosses and they can talk about that. >> i think it would be a great, it would be great information for the public to have to track the work like they track in dpa to see the transition from the allegations or the investigations to track what kind of cases are sustained and completed based on those things. so you're tacking about how we have the summary in the back, to have it.

>> exactly. just to connect the dots t validates the work that gets done and the result of how much is being accomplished by internal affairs. in my humble opinion, but i'm right. >> always. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias, thank you for the the report and thank you for not making it 400 pages, obviously. and i mean, a lot of detail and it does really inform the public ourselves on the patterns. and i think those outcomes and seeing how they correlate would be a good ca da* at that point to track. that people coming into the station saying i had an experience?

>> it could be that, a lot of that are police service aids so we get a lot from the airport where they're ticketing people, and the airport has their own complaint system, it could be we put them dp a referrals and some internally generated with co-workers. ?o. in an intense such as the one that the speaker earlier had mentioned, right where maybe there is a question for you also chime in on chief. how do we address when there is this resistance when there was a confrontation that is going to be filmed, if and when theses encounters don't necessarily receive the attention that they merit, how do we resolve that?

because when things are happening on the field, obviously the officers priority is following through with an investigation if there is an incident and in this instance, it was against the same officer which was being requested by the individual in the public. how do we ensure that every member of the community who has this type of concern has an avenue to report? that individual more than likely did not know dpa existed and there are a lost access points, how do we address this? i know there have been suggestions brought to this commission before, based on what you just said, 500,000 of you know, body worn videos is going to be, you know impossible to review maybe even though that is an item that has been thrown out. i believe at some point, stacy may have mentioned that there is an id that jurisdiction used

that can be immediately scanned. are we exploring these types of technologies to be able to improve how people submit their reports? >> well, i'll answer first. i was not aware of that technology so it's definitely interesting, i did not know that existed but it's something that we can look into. part of it is educating the public, i know dpa does a lot and we do as well in terms of telling people how they can get complaint file. if we receive complaint from a community member, our sergeant or whoever receives that complaint some of the psa complaints.

i think the key for now is to continue to educate the public on how they feel like, service was not what they needed to be or feel like they've been they can always report it to a sworn person. officer through the dpa referral but we need to continue to education through some technology that you described and we'll identify officers. if they are, state people making the complaint ask for a star number or business card whatever, officers are required to provide that or if they don't, that is misconduct. so we do have those things in place, but none of that is guaranteed and full proof.

just educating the public is a best bed. >> we do have a robust out reach program at dpa and when we make presentations at the district station or a different community event, we give the public and the community information about all the different type of complaints that they can make. for sworn members as well as non sworn members. the first question to answer the first question when a person comes into a district station and is greeded, a lot of time that is a public service aid. so those are investigated by iad, so department general ordered 2.04 has a lot of information about which of the agencies investigates which type of complaint and we do communicate quite frequently

when sfpd receives a complaint that from a civilian about a sworn member, they know to refer it to us and we know that refer a non complaint member to them for investigation. so you know, it's not a full proof program but it tends to work and we do make sure that the public is aware of who investigates what. >> i will also say that we track that as well. that is outside of the dpa that is going to the department to* just to close on that conversation. >> i'm glad there is a robust system to report. and i may have miss spoke, i'm not sure if it was sergeant young blood who gave me that information about this unique identifier, but whoever it was, speak up and remind me where that technology came from because i think it's very interesting not solely for filing complaints but to also

celebrate our officers when they're doing a good job. i don't know how many avenues we have to be able to submit to the supervisor and chief, hi great service, i had a great interaction, i had a great you know, response from this officer so i would think it would serve multiple purposes if we went in that direction. >> if i may add too, i forgot to say on our website san francisco. org, to deal a complaint and how to compliment an officer there is a link to that as well. if anybody has access to a computer they can do it like that. >> this is helpful in the community. >> and they email the chief a lot. >> and me. >> thank you, next item.

i plane public comment. --i mean public comment. >> anyone wanting to make public comment. please approach the podium. there is no public comment. line 13 presentation on the bola wrap. >> we get to vote who is the subject, right. >> unfortunately, we have a video for you instead. >> well, so captain -- ~>> hold on, you called them all? okay, all right, so yes, sorry. proceed. >> captain with the training division and with me is sergeant bugarin. >> thank you, chief, somewhere else, let's get this power point ready to go.

>> presenting the bo la wrap, when approved, so the answer is straight device designed to restrain a person, reducing the amount of pain, it's a restraint device which is a huge emphasis on our part and the tools part.

force options, and in our uniform presence, all the way to lethal force. and as you can zoo, the restraint device to fall between control holds and our command presence. quick device overview, 6.7, we have an example for you later if you want to check it it out.

obviously, yellow, we can talk about the hand placement very shortly. like i said, individual cassettes, with the actual tether device. this is what it looks like inside. i have these for you to check out individually but again with the barbs and tether cord. here's a way to do t you see the bottom right corner, the it's extremely popular, so we do it in the non dominant side, but there are other options depending on the operator. it's to prevent movement. attempting some sort of escape.

slow mo video, and then the relation to the subject, in that perspective. as you can see the tether goes around and wraps the subject, the two barbs go around limiting any type of movement and that's the intent, i forget of those who experience it, there is a loueding bang, again most stimulate to confuse the subject, interrupting their thought pattern. just timlations less than 10 people, it's not going to have the full deployment area, those are some consideration. created between 5 feet, the velocity that will dissipate, those are all part of our trading concepts to bring up,

as you can see the velocity is a weaker, greater than 25 feet. multiple wraps which is encouraged, just from the more wrap is safer the subject. those are two right there in the lower leg. one top one bottom. >> cool. >> absolutely. preplanned, during high-risk stops with laougt al less lethal element and now with the bolawrap. and mentioned this earlier, with the tactical unit but it's going continue later today. forgive me if does not, again sergeant on scene, we're

creating, cover set up, less lethal set up and perfect world, yellow is the ba lawrap and this is with the subject complaint, the subject is respond rather. and this part of planning process called for resources extra and if, subject there is in red, that will be part of the principals laying continue to add those layers and those concepts to it. getting this person into custody as saferly as possible for every one involved. the preexisting use of force policy, again, type use of force equivalent to handcuffs,

director henderson said did did deminmus. then we'll layer that into training that we're redoing with less lethal role players. we want to give it to 50 tactical to already in the field and document and use its success rate such as activation and loud bang or the overall sense of a new tool that may deescalate the suspect to get

us to a quick resolution. we have tools for to you look at. a spin cassette, the tether the device, et cetera. >> thank you sergeant bugarin for their presentation, i was pref' enough to be present with the department when you presented the wrap, i thought you and your division did an excellent job. i do think that this is another tool about to utilize to deescalate situations and i think that it would be useful and my understanding is that you've solicited feedback from other dhaept have utilized this tool sxl have been positive results. >> light activate for the lay person, that is an intim lating

thing. a loueding bang causes stress and immediately again hopefully another further, successful deescalation. so we're going to be tracking that. >> it's my understanding that officers using this tool have been trained in the 40-hour as well as having completed the csm training. >> yes, special tactic have gone through that. >> and the officer of this device is also receptive from feedback and has been available to the department with any questions or issues that may arise? >> yeah, they've been fantastic, they're great culture of feedback to put the best practice for us out there. >> commissioner benedicto. >> thank you president elias, i spoke, maybe in may when i thought i was going to be absent for this presentation.

i attended a demonstration at the academy by the academy folks. and fwot to be the subject of bolawrap as well. it was just the one but i think it was, a very helpful thing to get to experience that. and i strongly encourage commissioner to look at the sample units that were brought in as well. and in terms of timing, when do you expect the pilot program to be out in the field. >> everything in is in place, it's now just a matter of scheduling work withing the team and getting the detail for ten-hour training in july, because june is most likely booked after that happens, everything is good to go. logistically, we have all the equipment. >> so you think if officers can

start being detailed so we can start seeing this being deployed as early as august? >> the day after, training. >> so even as early as july or august. >> so they'll be deployed after a group of officers completes their training, it's not like you have to wait for all 55 to complete before it roles out. >> just logistically, quantity over quantity, we like to have 2020 in the perfect world of officers trained up. >> that makes sense. and it will be 50, are they patrol on assignment or any specialized? >> it will be 55 units, so 50 specs and 5 tactical members or the whole unit and the five units will be accessible to the

tactical unit, it's in the field, we get called to critical incidents once that may lead to critical so that response is going to be happening rapidly. >> one thing that is surprising is something that we saw, how loud the deployment is and -- ~>> the deployment is loud? >> it's very loud, it's a big bang. >> like as big as gunshot? >> it's compared to the blast of 38, caliber, it's a loud as a gun shot. >> i think it's louder. >> i think it had to do with the wall in our terrain, no different than the device that we're currently using, a loueding bang makes people go in a different direction. >> that's my question, they noted that as a secondary

sometimes somebody may think that they were shot. is there a risk that can also take disadvantage that a suspect may deescalate the situation? otherwise, they may not? >> sure there is an argument for that. but if they're mistaking, being shot as the officers are shooting at as a defense, there is depending on the con text, the bolawrap because their actions were making threats we're preventing them from going further, or attacking officers that is going to happen regardless, so it's our attempt to stop them. >> this is not the first line of defense, i think that's i couldn't present the visual of

various tools and tactics. >> yeah, we did a live action training scenario for the ones not there, we had a subject in a mental crisis but armed with a weapon, we had the sergeant on scene, leading it, a contact officer examine they were attempting to escalate, that subject for whatever reason, goes towards the officers and bolawrap is utilized, the subject drops the weapon and they seem it's same that they go forward. officer is already doing that and it's amazing watch now we're just watching another tool to give them an option. >> and i think that's important to highlight, when you utilize, there are going to be a set of officers that are going to be trained and going to require strategy in terms of when you

arrive at scenes, who is going to yell command. >> i'm glad you caught that, president, they're in this training, it's going to give everybody more of a understanding of what needs to be done. this tool is by no means,--do we have enough assets in place before this tool comes up. that training in and of itself is going to continue to reenforce the training we've been doing for the last five years. >> i know that when we use forced options, our procedure is to assign a teeth al officer and there have been some issues that can sometimes escalate a situation because of the having that lethal cover. the way this is being deployed assign a police officer, what is the role of a lethal cover officer.

>> again, good question, to keep things simple, we're going to have the same set of assets, again, the point of lethal officer even if there is not armed information of arm subject, simply just clean up time. >> just add to that. so the way, the way that the training and the unit order, reads is that the lethal cover officer will be present. so i just want to emphasize that our use of force policy is still a force of policy, so the things that apply, nothing is changing and that is a really good question but in a situation depending on thed level of what the subject is doing, rally kind of determines how far we take it as well. that's how it reads.

>> got t that's really helpful. when looking at the other data from other departments, it seems like the rate of deployment is present' pretty low, and in part because a nair o, the range has to be just right, they can't be against a wall. how much information do you anticipate having in a year, when you look at other departments when they may have had one activation. >> absolutely, a lot has to did culturally department wise they're different from small department to big. and others have utilized, the taser which may be a conflicting issue, i'm not an expert by any means, but more tools i cannot speak for other department and that can be a reason why. our how does this supply, there

is numerous instance to say maybe this would have gone at a different situation. when and where can we have used this? >> absolutely, thank you for that. >> i know with some other, departments and other use they have come up for example for departments of tasers there has been disagreement with the manufacture on how much you can modify, all kinds of hiccups. i know you mentioned have you encountered sort of that resistance or any issues modifying the training or letting our principals on the training? has that been a good relationship. >> great que, again the four hours that said will be done initially and layering ours

after the fact, not modifying but increasing it, members of our unit wented to their master instructor course a few months ago and part of the training was creating your own scenario and we tested some of our scenarios against other law enforcement agencies in the world, members from japan and, portugal, two international agencies there and it was cool to watch different thought processes, et cetera. >> i mean people interesting because those in national departments don't have their arms officers the way we do. >> one was japan. >> yes. >> this is being adopted by a uni order because speck and staff at this time. >> that's correct. >> at the conclusion of the year, you thought that it was successful and rollout that would require modification to a

dgo, would that be 5.1 or different dgo? if you guess? >> it's, not considered force restraint device but i do think that it probably fits into 5.01 because at lower level of deescalation, and of course if it results in an injury, it would be use of force. nothing has changed between the concept of 5.01. that would probably be the best bit. i think it just fits in 5.01 is another tool. >> i see they were trying to pass around. don't say no, look at the device. >> just for you to what it looks like and feels like, this is the actual device, unloaded

for your weight, the color, the hol --hol ster, it would sit on the non dominant. >> fill the probes, they're so wrong. >> this is 6-feet 6-cord. but the barbs have to make contact and stay. >> i think it's important that they manufacture redefined it based on feedback that. >> i was going to bring thaup. >> so the officers would not mistake it for the use of a gunsinger right. can you explain a little bit about that. >> can you repeat your question. >> it was the fact that it was not shaped. >> oh yeah. i mentioned i would do that. notice the way it's designed, it's like the remote control. >> it looks like a leveler. >> leveler, exactly, it's

literally the leveler that would you hold versus other tools that hand grip similar to a firearm. under stress we know the a fexz of stress. that's designed to be a leveler. >> and it has the light. >> yes, it shows you the horizontal line. >> yeah, i think that move by the manufacture is one that i really appreciate. there have been a small number of tragic circumstances where officers officer involved shooting where officers thought they were reaching for their taser and actually reached for their firearm. there have been a number of them over the last many years. i know it's hard to train

after, it's muscle memory and have a device that does not feel like a firearm helps to mitigate that. the probz are sharp so they do cause a little bit of discomfort but when i experienced it, it did not cause a lot of pain. i did wear my favorite pair of jeans and they are undamaged. >> to add to that, we're under the stress level, should be less. lethal coverage is in place, we have a planets, your only role is to be the bola wrap officer. that's part of the stress reduction designated rules. >> i also want to note that, the fto unit which is the field

tactics field option uniter, did i get that right on my first right. already what this unit is you evaluate often times critical incidents and use of force in a critical manner where you try to dissect and figure out in the way that clinicians do. and where this would have made a difference, too often you see departments plement tools just for the sake and not in a thoughtful way. and having, worked very closely and great respect, you've seen that these may have been able to make a difference increase my level of confidence and this is a tool that can be helpful. so thank you for your work on that. >> thank you, commissioner.

>> commissioner yanez. >> thank you, president. it looks like a lot of thought has gone into this. how long this this manufacture been work withing the jurisdiction. >> i'm not prepared for the history of that. i believe like 2016 or 17. >> barely news. >> i do know this is their second version, their original bolawrap had a lot of feedback. this is the bolawrap 1150. >> it feels like a lot of tool that you may mistake for a lethal weapon. do we have outcomes from those jurisdictions that have been using this for period of time?

have they had a measurable impact in reducing use of force or lethal or more lethal weapons? >> the information that is available is how many deployments what was the result, i don't think there was an actual analysis if and what other forces went up or down but it was whether or not the tool was successful or not. >> >> i believe i heard los angeles used but they abandoned it. >> my understanding is they expanded it, they still have it. my understanding is they expanded it, i think they started in their downtown district and then expanded to hollywood which is much busier

bigger station. so i think that's where we are. and i don't know if it's department wide but they expanded. >> i believe it's a two-year period. i've been in contact with their numerous, their equivalent of our unit down there. they have given us our information, they have given us their information and their stats with it. >> and outside of just training and rolling this out after the pilot period what are your concerns? i mean, off from touching it, and feeling the spikes, you know, there is potential for adverse outcomes, just as if with any other weapon right. how do we, how do we avoid worse case scenario, this ending on somebody's neck and somewhere not wearing pants and out there in a state of mental

health crisis. >> those concerns are valid through train aring, they hit all of those topics, we do retraining, once a year but as a agency we with do it more often. these are new concepts, if you saw the unit yet, just like our less lethal options, we just don't add this wrap. and those are all discussions and discussions over. our philosophy and process, it's simply here's another tool and that is going to continue to build the performances. >> and chief what is going to be the kind of evidence that you need to be then move into a permanent expansion? >> we'll be evaluating the he

effectiveness. for instance, they're looking back situations where, we wish we would have of had this type of option that we feel would be affective. so those types of scenario, we'll be tracking how they're deployed, what, actions and the subject was doing, whether it was affective or not, at the end of the day, if we start seeing, and i don't know if the volume but overtime, i hope that we can see trends and reductions of injury, when you have time and distance and don't have to go hands-on right away, the outcomes are usually better, on both sides for the subject and officer. so hopefully overtime, we'll see the trends, but i don't know with only 50 or so, that we're going to have sweeping numbers on this in the first year, i don't anticipate that, but we will be able to say the

tiemds we will deploy whether it was affective or not. so i think that will be a fairly easy, the trends are coming down the line. the other thing is, you know, encouraging let's say by sergeant bugarin, the way we train and the work of the team, it just fofters really what we've been trying to do. those are basic concept and it gives us another tool to keep people from keep the subject from escalating. >> what is promising too, and i appreciate that there has been a lot of taught going into where and who will be using this tool.

i look forward to see how this improves. >> thanks and it's 2018 when they first came on the market. we were very knowledgeable and the information was positive and rally going to be helpful. >> i saw the videos, the chief was having the time of his life. and can survive. >> i did. i did. it's loud, but, you know, i practice on the cheek. >> yeah, it's a lot easier for the president to suggest that she was the deployer and not

the subject. >> if anyone ever doubt's commissioner benedicto dedication, he did not flinch at all, i was impressed. commissioner yee. >> thank you very much, president elias, i have a question on the affect of this. it says less than 10 feet, that's from me to you cindy. and then 15 feet is probably from here to paul henderson there about. i guess when you deploy this, i guess the bolawrap you have to be closer to the subject.

i guess when they're moving, they move away from you, what is the effectiveness? >> once again, they're great considerations and valuable, other tools that we have in place. just imagine this is the subject. like the nation is when the subject is it coming towards us. most of the time it's us reacting to them closing the distance. the wrap itself, that's why it's so great to tractioner the loud bang may deter, the two tethers coming may deter. we're not asking our officers to leave cover and go closer, those are the pros and cons that we're going to go through our units.

if you saw the video with multiple wraps, we would have multiple officers so you would not have such a delay of one officer reloading to one cassette, different angles, have a plan, you take low, i have high, so that way coordinated effort mitigate that time. >> and in my final remark is to go back to the manufacturer and say, i guess the rounds are maybe louder than expected, so you do maybe on a senior, i've seen a video and it said, i thought it was shot. he figured he's been shot and there may be some issues on that.

where you can lower the cartridge the rounds to see if they can do something on that. >> ttsz a chemical reaction. >> those are my thoughts. >> they take volunteers commissioner yee like commissioner benedicto. i'm a pro, i'll do it. you volunteer i'll do it. >> sure, just let me know when. i've seen a video where the person was gloid --deployed and the first expression was, i thought you shot me. >> and if that prevents a actual shot, that is what we want. >> chief scott? >> just briefly, i want to thank captain and lieutenant, i

know that there are others, who is back with us in a part-time, mike nevin, am i missing anyone. they developed this and did a lot of research. thank you all. >> thank you and from what you can tell, we support this endeavor, so whatever you need and what we can do. >> thank you, whoever would like to please approach the poetedium. >> yeah, just thinking about

the inspector, the person thought that they were shot. so that shot they're going to i'm thinking about them ducking and then that think wraps around their neck. and the other thing if they're out and the weather is windy, will it change the direction of the deployment? i know if it gets around the wrong thing, it may be bad like the neck. >> chief can you explain that. >> thank you ms. brown from the question. that's a good question, from where the distance the lether

comes out, it's less than a second, i guess if somebody is really really quick that may be possible but it's very unlikely from the time they hear the sound, it's already wrapped around. it's been tested on me twice and it's like that. you cannot even count to one and it's wrapped around you. >> if the person is seeing the instrument is they know something is going to be ejected and they still duct. >> so i'm just saying, i'm not saying, it's totally impossible, but i think it's very very tiely unlikely. and we give a warning, we want people to comply and not have to go through any of that but

we'll be giving warnings unless it's not feasible to give a warning. >> in the training world, we do have, winds of 20-30 miles per hour, would that change projectory? >> no. because of the speed in which it is propelled and the distance is just set by commissioner yee. there is, there is, when it's not if you're in gale-force winds, i cannot say that they're not going to protect you but we're not going to be out there and use this thing. they had factors to consider when it's feasible. what is when they're near the edge, you would not deploy.

it's not just a willie nil' type of device. i think like kevin said, requirements that they have to meet. >> second generation. so they have made some improvements. >> yeah. next item. >> line item 14 public comments on all matters including item below close session. if you would like to make public comment recording close session, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item a vote on whether to hold close section. >> motion to hold item 16 in closed session. >> mr. yanez is seconding it.

>> second. >> all right on the motion, commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> president elias. >> yes. >> we have four yeses, we will go into closed session.

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martin a recruit in the 130 academy for the san francisco fire department. the fire department what drew me to it to begin is a concept you are always learning. you are always learning something a92. now fire or situation is alike. no med call will be the same, and that aspect is something that is always changing is what drew me to it. when i was 19 i enlisted in the united states army and was in college at the time, so i was enrolled simultaneous in the reserve officer corp training out of leehigh university. i was (indiscernible) and lee high university and completed by bachelors, but commissioned out of lee high university as a officer in the california national guard. when i graduatesed i immediately went to fort (indiscernible) missouri to complete training for being a chemical officer which is (indiscernible) i think my background

in chemical hazmat with the army was beneficial and the department as well. >> high energy,b that is how i categorize julian. high energy and ability. she is very capable. >> she is one of those people pretty much anything she tries she can do well. she is a musician also. she is a artist. >> she is the kind of person that push other people to be the best version of themselves, just because she also wants to be the best version of herself. she is a very dedicated individual, and it was a treat but also a challenge because that is the way she is. very competitive and ambitious. >> emily-i am a recruit with the san francisco fire department. i

remember how do i become a firefighter in a major city? i typed that into google and a lot of things came up. getting certification like firefighter 1, emt, paramedic jz these are things i knew nothing about so a lot of research. for me having lived in california and visited the bay area many times i said to myself, i decided the pentacle for me of being a structure firefighter, being a city firefighter which coming to san francisco. i am originally from new england. i grew up in a traditional town in new hampshire. when can i was a kid i never had fire fighting on my radar. never something i thought about doing. when i in college i studied environmental conversation. i always appreciated the outdoors and really cared a lot about protecting the

outdoors, so for years after college i worked with kids in the outdoor education, so taking kids on backpacking trips, takes kids on hiking trips, and just helping them develop appreciation for the outdoors. it was basically a opportunity to not have a desk job and for years i was chasing that job that didn't involve sitting at a desk and be outside with people which makes sense it leads me to firefighter. next thing i knew i was heading up to alaska to be a firefighter. that was the switch and never looked back. >> emily is a person that very much someone who cares about other people and will put other people needs before her own. she is extremely caring and thoughtful. i also think she is extremely adventurous as well. i remember when

we first met, when we were living in yosemite being in ah of her adventurous side. >> my name is jenna. everybody called johnny for short and i'm a recruit with the 130 academy for san francisco fire department. city girl, born and raised in san francisco. literally my entire schooling has been right here in the city of san francisco, and so that's part of me and part of my identity, and what keeps me so grounded to the city i was raise d in. my brother is a firefighter and he has been a firefighter many years. he is absolutely-he loves his job and always has tried to bring people along with him.

those he loves and that he thinks would be fit for the job. >> i told this lady about this service and about this career path back when she was 22 years old after graduating from usf, i tried to put in her ear, i think you would be incredible at this profession and she said i'll think about it. >> that is always something in my ear, but to be honest, my encounter with the fire department that kind of sparked that interest and the reason as to why i wanted to become a firefighter, because at the age of 15 i lost my mother to gun violence and it was the fire department when they came to my home, it was the reaction of the firefighters that i felt cold. their reaction

to my situation. i didn't feel support. that is just my perspective of the instant it happened, but that is something that stuck with me. i don't want someone like me to go through what i went through because i know how that felt. i took the leap of faith and i said i'm going to change my career entirely, but now i see for myself just within my recruit class that there is a lot of diversity. it was really comforting to me to see that and know that these are the people who are going to be my first family, because we share a special bond. >> she was ready. she was hungry, and she-every drill we did, every practice we did, all the exercising she was doing, she was hungry for it. i couldn't possibly be more proud of her.

>> a real basic building block is just like crawl walk run. our crawling stage is like just putting your gear on. we have our ppe, which is about 20pounds, the packs are 20 pounds. just those two alone you throw on 40 pounds of weight and by the end of the academy we have your ppe on, go on (indiscernible) breathe through the bottle, climb up a ladder, crawl through a window, search fwr a victim, bring the victim through the window and extricate through the window. the progression of the testing ramp up pretty quickly. in the 10 week cycle it seems like a long time, but for the recruit you can ask them i'm telling you it is a rigorous academy and keeps on getting harder. >> academy starts at 8 o'clock. we do our pt. whatever it may be, whether it is running in a

circuit or amazing raise, and are that lasts anywhere from a hour to hour and 30. from there we go to a class room. we learn about the different chapters, whether it is (indiscernible) hose appliances, building construction, whatever it may be. that usually takes us to lunch and from there we get separated into skills groups. >> (indiscernible) how many victims. >> which we have typically about 4 rotations of the different skills we get touches. >> it is still very early in the process. if you envision each class like a bell curve where most in the middle, if you have a class with really long tails those are harder to train, because you have people at the back end who are really struggling. this class seems

to have small tails. i don't see anybody struggling yet. i dont see anybody truly standing out. but again, it is early. we haven't done any testing yet. >> i am learning a lot with fellow class mates. they need me and i need them and the really difficult evolution and training and the first couple days are crucial to understanding like how people react to certain situations because not everybody is the best under pressure. not everybody is the best tying a knot about there are some that are super fast with hose lines. finding everybody strong point and emphasize those and use to our advantage is important in the first couple weeks. >> something that challenged me probably the most and has been probably the biggest learning curve is really focusing on the ability to let go of something when it doesn't go well in the moment and move to the

next thing. that i think has been one of the biggest challenges in this academy, because the realty is you make a lot of mistakes every day. you do a lot of things well too, but you make a lot of mistakes and if you hold on to each one of those mistakes it is just going to snow ball into more mistakes and it will lead to more stress and being hard on yourself. >> i had to learn a lot of different new skill sets. things i wasn't familiar with like chain saws how to hose lines and so getting the technique because a lot of the job is about the technique. it is not about having the brute strength or anything like that, it is using your body mechanics to your advantage. >> when my body cools down (indiscernible)

[music] >> we have the academy set up it gives everybody the opportunity to practice the skill set they need to. san

francisco is its own entity. we pride ourselves on the traditional fire department in the sense we still use brass fittings, wooden latters, surrounded by three sides of water so all risk fire department. you can go downtown busy high-rise, out to the coast for surf rescue. we have a mix of everything and we all have to be well-rounded firefighters and that is our entire job to make sure that we are profeshant. >> as we train our roles will be to evaluate along the way. the role we have is to get them ready for fire house culture. to be a firefighter requires a fair amount of discipline. you have to understand the rules of the game. understand how to behave, how to appear, how to interact with the public and one of my roles is to make sure the recruits understand that and adhere to the codes of conduct and behavior the department lays out. >> okay, today is

monday. the monday after my first big week of testing. two double day testing thursday and friday. we had to do a ems skill, take a written test and 8 different fire suppression manipulatives. we got our report card back today and if you can't tell by the way i'm smiling now, i passed every skill that we had to do. your girl got zero deficiencies, so i am very proud of myself of being able to pass. >> you know, our saying is we dont fail people, they fail themselves. we give them all the information they need. we allow them extra hours prior to the start of class and stay late after hours, and we hope they take advant nl if they need help. they

vocalize when they don't know something and part is ego. if i want to pass the class i need to ask for help. there is no slowing down. once the training is moving it isn't stopping for anybody. you are on the training or off. we don't have time to stop. we want them to pass, but they have to have their heart into it. if they think it will be easy that isn't the way it works. >> i want to speak about what happened on september 22, 2022, which was week 14 i believe. week 14 or 13. there was a big moment for me, because it was the week that i got injured. i had the ladder not completely fall on me, but it put my body in such a way it basically

injured my shoulder. i had a little nerve damage coming from the top of my right shoulder radiating down. from what i remember, the ladder was coming down and a sudden movement it swerveed one way and swerved back and i remember i couldn't feel my right arm. i tried to hold on to the ladder and it just basically just hit me in a certain position, and i fell over, and i remember feeling a combination of so much pain and honesty nothing at all. >> she had a pretty good scare of a injury, and her determination and just the way she goes about things. she is not very demon struative or outspoken but works hards and puts herinose nose

down and just works. [music]

>> so, today is our last day in the academy. i think there is a lot of things going through my mind right now. on one hand, i feel incredibly relieved to be at this point. it has been a long 5 months. it has been great, but it has been really challenging and definitely really tiring, so it feels really relieving to have reached this mileston. >> we graduated friday and just feels really exciting. you know, speaking for myself, i think i'm preoccupied worrying about starting work soon, but i think for my family and my partner, i'm excited for them to be at graduation. this is not just a journey i have been on, but a journey they have been on as well. especially my partner. she has been immensely supportive of me throughout this process. on the other side of the coin, it

is nerve-wracking we go out in the field and do the job. it is mixed emotions for sure. >> super excited. it has been a long long 16 weeks, and at the end i finally get to graduate, get to be a firefighter. i'm looking forward to most is taking our time at treasure island and bring into effect to help people. >> so many things that are going on in my mind at the moment because of the fact today is the last day that we are actually on our training grounds on treasure island. i cant believe i'm actually here and i made it these 5 months. getting in here doing the best i could possibly do, but now it is graduation is just so close. i'm just nervous. i created this family within the

130 academy class where we have gotten to know each other and gotten to do skills together, but now when i go to my probationary home, now i will get to know those people and learn so many more skills and just get all the hands on experience and you know, create that second family. it has been overwhelming. just the amount of support that i have received. my family is my core and is my biggest support system and they have been there and have just expressed unconditional love and support every step of the way. [music] >> good morning 130. i know this is a exciting day for you, and this is just one

of the many milestones in your career. i am really proud of the division of training and i'm proud of you, 130. you took the lead and you worked hard. you worked as a team and that's how we always do it in the san francisco fire department. this is a proud department with a proud history. we fight fires like no other fire department. we are community paramedicine and alternatives to policing. we are firefighter emt, firefighter paramedics, but we are so much more as you are going to find out during your careers. i do solemnly swear, that i will support and defend, the counsitution of the

united states, and the constitution of the state of california, against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> today i graduated from san francisco 130 recruit class, and i became a san francisco firefighter. i feel absolutely amazing. i thought about how i feel graduating, but feeling it is crazy. i'm so so excited to get started. i will be in station 9 in the bayview. industrial part of the city and i'm extremely excited to do everything the truck does. learn how to raise and lower the aerial. get to all the different ladders and practice them in real life and apply them to situations that we are seen in the academy, but to see them in real life will

be a brand new thing. [applause] >> going up to the stage to get my badge, i was thinking about how sweaty my hands were. i was trying not to trip, and but in realty i was just thinking about how special the moment it was, and to be honest, it felt like everything stood still for a second, and it was a special time to reflect on the journey. i feel proud of my class mates making to graduation. i feel a lot of love towards my classmates and lot of respect and admuration towards the instructors. it feels good to be at this point after 21 weeks of hard work. >> i would say i felt an immense amount of pride for what she accomplished.

having been along the ride, before academy, being a part of the journey that lead up to interviews and then academy and getting to this point. i know how much she has overcome and accomplished. so proud. i'm so proud of you. [calling out name] >> to be honest, i am had a ball of emotions just running through me right now. it is like electric energy. to have all the overwhelming support from my family, from my friends, from everybody in the department, and from oakland department as well is truly just overwhelming and very emotional at the same time. >> hoping e-the whole thing is surreal to me. she

pinned the badge on me when she was 15 years old and coming to today and seeing where she is at now, i couldn't possibly be more proud. she has a heart of passion. she has a lot of heart . >> when i saw him up there, it was just overwhelming. i was like, i will not cry, i will not cry. i tried to hold it back, it just couldn't. >> the chief says, who will cry first. >> who will cry first? okay. (indiscernible) >> i'm supposed to be tough. man-- >> the last time i like to introduce the newest bravest san francisco firefighters,

130! [applause] >> so, i'm now at station 9 on the truck. in the bayview. junk yard dog. the day before graduation was to ask questions what we are supposed to do and probationary firefighter instead of recruit. my first day was november 22. it was i was one of the lucky ones. i had my full weekday. i had 4 days after graduation to get my mind right, get ready to go to work. our instructors complaint us in the dark so we wouldn't know what to expect so when we got here, it's how we adapt to a situation, not so much-this is what will

happen. this is what you need to do. i was kind of freaking out before i really haven't been in a fire station before, and every single member was super welcoming here. i think the most important thing is being yourself. knowing when to contribute and when to kind of sit back and listen, because there is a wealth of knowledge around you everywhere. everywhere. i could talk to any person in the station and learn so much. i think i have been able to hold on to what people have been telling me a lot more here and learn a lot more in a lot less time. >> transitioning from graduation to being a probationary firefighters coming with a lot of changes. you learn the tower and skills and information and once you get thin field you realize how all those people come

together in real time, which has been super cool to see how it all unfolds in the field. i have been super lucky. i got placed at station 17 on engine 17 and i have just been super fortunate to have a really great group of folks to work with, who put in a lot of time and energy to help get me up to speed. >> i say with i first started the academy and was nervous and excited. there is a element of nervousness with being a probationary firefighter because you are trying to keep up and learn as much as you can. i say from the academy till now there is also a lot of confidence building that happened. the first two months what really stuck out to me is just how tight nit the station is and how much people really care about the work that they do and really pushes me i think to be better at the job. >> apparently i'm a probationary firefighter for the san francisco fire department, so the

last 5 months i was in the tower in the academy lead me to here of drilling, testing, requiring all the basic foundation skills to become a firefighter. now i'm actually actively doing it, but more specifically at the current house i'm stationed at, which is station 10, i am also the role of emt because we are on a als unit where there is a paramedic so i'm the paramedic backup providing them whatever they need as their assistant, but when it comes to fires i'm the one with the nozzle to put out the fire. me and my main concern is getting through probation because i don't have job security at the moment, because you can be let go any time if you are not meeting the expectations of what it is that they require from you. i want

to be good at what i'm here to do in the position i'm in now. the call volume i have seen during my watchs are 7 to 10 calls within a day, which is pretty moderate. i'm just waiting for my first fire. [laughter]

>> (indiscernible) step on it and measure at the shoulder. >> we talk about being a model to other agencies, again we hire very diverse group. male and female. as long as you meet the standards and are able to take care of the business of the fire department and public safety and being able to get along with your coworkers and all these stressful environments is key. you are not a individual here. we are made up as a team, so you have to be willing to listen. you have to be willing to learn, and you have to be willing to push yourself all the way to the end and you'll be successful here in san francisco. >> people ask, you just go to fires and-no, we go to everything. anything and everything 911 is called. it depends on the person and where

they are at. we invite everybody to come try if they think they can get here, then by all means, we are a great department. large department. busy department, and we have a lot of things to see while working here. best job in the world to this day. >> we prep them as best we can. all the experiences and instructors and myself, we again our job is to see them-we want to see them be successful. we want to hear good reports. it is like being a parent. i are want to make sure when they leave we want to hear good things and if we don't want also want to check and make sure, what happened? i want to hear from now the probationary firefighter what happened and how we can best support them, because they are not recruits anymore. they are professional probationary firefighters and just because they left the tower doesn't mean we are done with them. i'm more invested in them now now that

they are my brother and sister then a recruit because i could be working with them in the field. i found a career i absolutely hundred percent love. it is very rare that you you can find a profession that you can love that much. i'm a public servant. i never want to forget the roots of what we do. we serve the citizens of san francisco. i'm serving the citizen of san francisco now by training new firefighters. by job is best prepare them what they will be going to into the future. >> in the community whether we are driving around, we are on a call, or shopping, the way that the community looks at us and looks at me is kind of surreal, because it hasn't fully sunk in. sometimes i have to reflect and say, you made it here. be proud of yourself. be proud of your accomplishments because for me i want to strive and

do more and be better. [siren] >> i would say first of all, we dont just employ firefighters, we employ everybody on the ambulance. emt and paramedics. firefighters and ems is a great opportunity. it is really important we have people who look like the community we are serving and that's part of the reason many joined this department to create change from the inside and we have done a lot of that and we will continue to do that. there is a place for you here as a ems, as a paramedic, as a firefighter. you just need to be able to put in the work. this is a big deal being in public safety in san francisco working for the san francisco fire department. it is a commitment. what better place if you want to serve your community then the san francisco fire

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good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the june 5th, 2024 meeting of the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor connie chan, chair of the committee. i'm joined by vice chair raphael mandelman and supervisor myrna melgar. our clerk is brant saliba. i would like to thank karina mendoza from sfgovtv for broadcasting. for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? thank you, madam chair. just a friendly reminder to those in attendance to please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices to prevent interruptions to our meetings, should you have any documents to be included as part of the file? this should be submitted to myself. the clerk public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. when your item of interest comes up and