>> good morning and thank you for being here. befo i start i want to introduce our mayor london breed, our nt m mcguire. [indiscernible] assistant chief of and president of our police ficer association mccray. thank you all for being here and attending the press conference this morning. first of all, we are here to talk about something very exciting to and that's the introduction of our program in the san francisco police department. before i go further, i like to give thanks to our mayor, london breed and our da for being here, au it is her leadership that got us here proposition e voters passed in march. excited to anounss sfpd

successfully launched our drone program and this is all thanks to drones have truly been a game changer r lice department. think of this, we have been without air support over 24 years the early 2000 and the officers emdous technology at their finger tips other law enforcement agencies regularly use. drones offer major benefits d lieuten want will discuss shortly. benefits inclde, faster response times, situational awareness, ols, more precision, de-escalation, plan, nformation to formulate a officer safety enhanced, avoiding in necessary police chases and integration with technology such as cameras wee putting up around the city as we speak. this truly a force multiplayer and really in light of all r staffing shortages, this could not have come at a better t

our first phase of the drone program included the purchase of drones already sfpd in numerous cases including a sexual assault suspect, automobile burglary, 4th of mahame able to de-escalation and bring to succ and peaceful resolution very quickly, ch icker then previous years, and we also arrested violent and wanted fugitives with help of the drone tech nalg. we have policies in place to insure drones are use and responsibility with safeguards toproct the public. all the drone opraerts have certpl to increase the use of drones in ths th to come to continue to drive down crime in san francisco.

we integrating drones r technology such as the alpr cameras d public safety cameras to effective and efficiently respondto crime. crime is down in san francisco. it is dolower then it has been in the past decade and with drones think we can enhance that more. our officers are working very very hard to makethat this city is the safest city in america and we the help of drones. our violent crime is down 12 percent, crime is down 35 percent, and again, i have to give thanto our leader of our city, mayor breed for making this alpp and now, without further ado, i will introduce mayor london breed. >>chief scott and thank you to our district attorney brooke jenkins, the pla president tracey mccray and others from the san

francisco police department joining us ay this partnership didn't just happen. ned because we worked together. it all started when last year had a opportunity to visit a number r stations in san francisco, our police stations and i had convetions w many officers directly. again is, we time and ti want to do our jobs, but we need more tools tobeer job for the people of san francisco, and they would talk about technology and how other jurisdictions were using this a it was. ar in october, we got together and we made an announcement based that feedback, proposition e was born. and we add alamo square where we know notorious place for car break ins. we stood there to specifically about using technology, not

just drone nopbut surveillance technology and giving offices the tool need in reportings are cameras that can allow them to not only more team on the streets but effectively do the job of that as the chief has mentioned, leads to better safer results. and i couldn't be more happy chnology that we are finally putting out there, whether it is flock cameras which are also known as license plate readersand the surveillance technology that will also be the streets of san francisco to these drones. this isme-changer and i must say that, i didn't think it would beful it has been. it has been a game-changeer for last year san francisco saw the lowest crime rate we have seen 0 years, not including the pandemic. this year we are even 4 percent lower then we were in 2023 and this g

has been a real game-changeer. we are excited about what this we are talking about people who are committing crimes in ouy, who are not arrested in days but arrested in hours, and having this technology has added additional value. e this technology, i appreciate the fact that this department has been working really hard on the retail ft operation, the bait tenenology we have a tool to combat issues plaguing our city and they e seeing early results. we will see mo change as a result of this. but i want to be very when you cross those lines here in san francisco, there will i appreci attorney because she is prosecuting those cases rchlt but we have not abandon values of giving people second chances, providing

a robust amount of programs that get with organizations and h and communities in order to help people. once those lines are crossed, joto do. to protect public safe this city and now with these technology tools, is a game-changeer and more importantly, there is more to come. this is only thg, e the results are already showing very promising impacts in our i am looking forward to see more as we roll out, as i said more surveillance technology, training more of r officers to be certified and use drone technology and making sure that taking advantage of every opportunity to keep the entire city of san francisco safe, so we are really foloard about this and for more to come. >> thank you mayor. now we'll hear from captain

chris and lieutenant tom mcguire. before we start, let me thank them for their leadership. prit in march, and the speed in which we have gotten this programand actually procured a drone, it goes beyond e police department, but it is really instrumental that ese two gentleman along with assistant chief lazar and in the department, their leadership made this happen. before i turn it ovethank the o departments, including r contract administration from the mayor's and the mayor's office staff d who have really did this with unheard of in our city, so the sense of urgency is the poin toog make here. ma this a sense of urge a safe city and do the things in the that sense ople rv of urgency is the reason we are

here now, t even6 months after the proposition passed. we launched the drone program. th at, i'll turn it over to captain dellgandio and lieutenant mcguire. >> thank you chief. i'm crist, the commanding officer of ra myself along with lieutenant tom mcguire over see the drone bram. we'll share success stories with you. this is from july 4, obviously. fireworks a major issue in our city. we are able for the first time drone up overhead and get a visual observation on the ground without pungin danger. whfootage was being streamed to us, we are able to come up with a

strategic plan to get officers in place and disrupt this activity. as you will see you will see thce move in and disrupt the fireworksbeing set and--chases folks out of there to create a environment for folks in the neighborhood. we are able to latthe situation because we had a visual observation what was go from overhead. again, as you can see, the fire works stopped and the folks dispersed. >>diit is very difficult [indiscernible] withthis tool

it enhanced our ability. [indiscernible] drone operators in there bay area and he is able to maintain the footage and we were able to coordinate resos e ground and [indiscernible] embarcadero an are able to do this in a safe effective efficient manner. without the drone it nearly impossible very successful. the next day, that happened friday t,the next night, saturday night and [indiscernible] stolen vehicle, stolen plates. [indiscernible] alerted to the area and some of the officers spotted it out in the area with

individuals [indiscernible] awareness and we are able to coordinate with resources on the ground. [indiscernible] prevent dangerous pursuit and able to get all the luggage back. very pleased and tried to get evwe had a lot of succe with this tool the officers are able to be and efficient and successful early in the game. again, [indiscernible] >> thank you captain and thank you. now i like to introduce to our district attobrooke jenkins. >> thank you chief and i like to thank poce department and ou mayor london breed for working together

make this possible. what you just saw is the wave of the future and sadly san francisco had been far behind the curve in havinge technology that we need as a city to make sure that we can curb and so i just appreciate the two of them working together to make sure san a city has what it needs to not only react once a is committed, but hopefully have a system that ulteto deter future crime, because thats what we want, fewer victims of vime in our city and this is the beginning of able to send a message that if you do things in our city that caught. a part why i'm here is that the two-second and de you saw resulted in a arrest, but resulted in charges d by my office against the individuals who participated in the auto-burglaries. hathe steps of

the process, so yes we want to arrest and weneed nt to have the evidence as a da office to le charges against the individuals to hold them accountable and as a result that anfootage we were able to file burglary chs two are repeat offenders. lawyer, jurors in 2024 expect to see what happened. dt just want to be told by a police officer what they saw or what eir perspective is, they would prefer to have the ability independently evaluate the evidence in a case, and as you just saw, thisto be key evidence that my prosecutors can use in to not only establish for the jury that the correct person was arrested, identity wise and convey and demonstrate to them the specific conduct that occurred and who

is responsible for. that is why i have been supportive of the use of this technology from the very beginning because as prosecutors we have we are prosecuting the right person, and also be able to prove and this technology will be essential in allowing usto do so. again, i commend the san francisco police department not being a bureaucratic agency that took n figure out not only how to get and acquire this technology but how to use it. r being on top of things and getting right to it and helping work together and i think that's also the messanger do we have divided leadership in the city, we are e same page where we want san francisco to go and that is to be a r city for its residents and for its visitors and business owners and we ou way there. thank you. k you da jenkins. in closing to sum up what yo

heard here today,b two of the three incidents we welved people breaking into cars, which plagued our city cade as we speak today, we are 56 percent down in . about 5700 or so car eathis time last year, well over 13,000. this technology is goodly as the people who are willing to use it and effectively and ly, and all thanks for the use of this technology the people in front of you. the lieutenant and captain and ralso the officers, because they have embraced this and as thor said, they asked for it, they embraced and are putting to good use. we believe, we believe with l our hearts this is the game-changeer we told you it and is and crime it is lo we haven't seen in over a decade that we can to do crime

and drive it down further. director crime strategy ryan in the room. ryan we have to be strategic what we do and how we use tenology and director and his team are part of strategy to make sure we are using effective and in a way that meets your approval, the people of san francisco and also make sure we can continue to dwn as i said earlier, we have a sense of urgency here and we are taki this extremely serious and we believe this is a gamean technology so thank you mayor, thank you da and everybody hereand we'll open this up >> quick question, my understanding in had the historof san francisco aerial support unit [indiscernible] what are soofrisks using drones--it is obvious because cities don't realize san

francisco doesn't have a helicopter support prog can you talk about the risk of aerial support from drones [indiscernible] >> well, there are risks with any piece of equipment. drones can crash. the technology is very advanced. some of has collision avoidance technology where it is all most impossto anything. you also we have to comply with f a a rules. there is flight have to be concerned with, those things thank tuesday the diligence of our team, we oked done a lot of research and at policies and counties and cities around us. done other cities, so we believe we have taken the risks into account and policy reflect that. we unit orders and believe we have taken that into account. there is always risk with ones are fairly safe.

not unlike a helicopter, if drone crashes it could cause injury, but you are not investing nearly as e equipment. you are talking about few thousand dollars if that opposed to 7 figures or more for a helicopter and i in helicopters, but short that, this technology is really really wha need. >>you give [indiscernible] deployment. are these officers staged around problematic areas in the city and that is where you are deploying ones or how do you respond quickly? >> the investigation prop d calls for, if we can use pursuit, mitigating pursuit. one of the cases you just saw, we were able to avoid a pursuit because officers were able to spike str the suspects tried to run, they . that is what it is all about. we want to prevent as much we can crime and pursue suited from

occurring, but in the event wecan't prevent them, it is effective and the bottom apprehend the people doing the crimes. we use for investigation of doing crime and at the end of the pursuit or some situations maybe during thes if it meets the specification what the drone is capable of th's what the proposition called for and how we have >> [indiscernible] problematic areas ones? >> it is driven by the lieutenant mcguire poe you just the ock alpr alerting the stole vehicle is driving around the ve the officer spotted the vehicle and the drone saw the hiable to see committing more crime and apprehended

them. that is how effective the drones can be >> [indiscernible] this violates state law, ab41 abnotification on surveillance technology? >> we don't believe we areviting state law at all. we believe we are in compliance with state law. bmitd a ordinance to board of supervisor june the ordinance is still pending. state law and city and county ve a year basically to put this program in place and will be evaluated and approved, so when the next year's 481 report comes, this fothe e in it because we report previous year. we believe we are in total compliance with state law. >> for those concerned about privacy issues, to veese drones are not surveilling passively. that is my i also have a question about how long the video is stored once video is captured and where is it stored? >> yes, servers are secure and as far

as the drone policy, we do have a retention. if it is first amendment type of g that is up necessitating the deployment of drowns of crowd management and crowd control situations. unless there is crimes committed we don't store and save that. if it is inal situation like what the da spoke about, we save until crime and case and resolved. her is it--30 days. 30 days e the information, unless we can tie it to a crime. >> the drones surveilling and not just launched to watch over, unlethere is a [indiscernible] >> that's correct. we are not just hovering drones over the city just for purpose. when we deploy these drones it is connected to d or some critical like you saw on july with fireworks, that situation was getting out

e type of situations we deploy. we dont just passively fly around looking for something. there are c mission focused on specific crime or critical incident. >> two more questions. [indiscernible] recent surfacing about the new foot pursuit policy? >> it wibehelpful for sure. we don't have the benefit or did not ve e benefit of having aerial support, and especially in a foot n you are trying to set up a perimeter. that is a game changer. i use thatrdit is true, because what happens when you don't have that type of support, you are much quicker to go mod you try to chase the person till you catch them. when have the luxury of aerial support you can slow things down,can t up the perimeter and these tems of re very effective in

doing that. the operators know what they are looking for, we get the perimeter set, it is safer all around and effecive and it is big deal. we enhances our foot pursuit >> how much is this program overall cost the city? >> i had that right now. i we are-- let's see-- >> we'll get that >> yeah. yeah, so total cost so far has been $35

thousand. and that--in our budget this year, ksmayor we plan to purchase more, so that cost will go as we purchase drones. >> last thing from the drone conversatithclaims made that in regards to-all the encampments being cleared right now that there has been people ar jailed. is there-can you comment on that or is thre uptick of arres anything like that? is this a drone ques separate? >> separate. >> okay. , even though it is not a drone question, our been instructed to support the law. now the supreme court made ecision we put out department notice what we can and can't do, what is the law, so the officers have been instructed to do

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