as far as stations, those are the two -- actually, capt guarantee was put in the tenderloin g --arrity was put in the tenderloin. -- garrity was put in the tenderloin. supervisor mirkarimi: on average, the captain's seem to be changing every two, three years. it is important to understand, if that is an institutional change, we should be privy to that, too. supervisor chiu: are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? each speaker will have up to three minutes to speak. >> good morning come douglas yetts.

i have lived here for 58 years. i want to comment on the crime statistics of crimes on high profile asian victims. i thought it was interesting the names of both victims were not released so that people like me would have to find it hard to do any follow-up on the effects on the victim families. i understand, one in the lord's park is being done in order to protect the victim, but i still see many cases of assault. victims names have been released in the past, and it would be useful for people like me, to have those names released. in regards to the second oprah file -- high profile case

regarding the rate at san francisco hospital, that victim's name has not yet been released. it is hard for people like myself to try to verify whether the victim's family is getting enough assistance from the chinese community at large. according to my preliminary search, it does not even seem like the difference supervisors i spoke to are aware of any follow-up for the rape victim that the general hospital. since the person does not speak english, they deserve as much help as possible, especially since there is no way to follow up publicly, since the victim's name has not been released. the last thing i want to touch on today is the prevalent no snitching culture that still

exists in high crime districts. according to my experience in city hall, i feel the no snitching culture extends even when the suspect is a senior city employee. i feel like that culture should be eliminated, but it is pretty hard to eliminate it out of a neighborhood, if people like me feel like it exists within city hall. people like colleen fowley. if they felt the wrath of whistleblower retaliation, then people like myself should not feel that special when we are victims just like colleen rowley. supervisor chiu: any other member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is

closed. if we could continue this to the call of the chair. please call item 2. >> ordinance amending the san francisco police code by amending article 2, section 123, and article 17, section 1291, to increase from $500 to $1,000 the maximum allowable fine for the crimes of aggressive pursuit and of loitering while carrying a concealed weapon, where the violation occurs on vehicles, platforms, or bus zones of the municipal transportation agency. supervisor chiu: thank you. this item is brought to us by our colleague carmen chu. i want to thank her for this piece of legislation that addresses some issues that we have been trying to address. supervisor chu? >> thank you. for some time, we have been dealing with the issue of public

safety. in the past year, we have had a number of different incidences' that have happened either on muni buses, trains, or in and around stops. this goes toward the county's associated with crimes committed around muni stops. we know safety is a top priority for many of us, and in particular, we want to encourage members of the public to take public transportation. we also know there have been many efforts under way, including partnerships with the mta and san francisco police department, as well as the city administrator's office, who had been working tirelessly to work on an escort program so that people can go to the bus stop and feel safe doing so. this proposal would add to those efforts that are already underway, and it is only one component of a multi-faceted approach to public safety. the idea for this came from the community members.

our idea here is to try to increase enforcement, to send a message that crime, violce on muni is not acceptable, not tolerable. one thing that we ran into in terms of complications, state laws govern many of the penalties related to crimes. and a also cap the misdemeanor level for some crimes, but we were able to work with our city attorney and we were able to change some of the loss in the local districts.

primarily, what this would do is increase the fines and penalties to the maximum allowable under the state law and would apply to two things, aggressive pursuit, which is a willful, malicious, or following, arrest and of other persons. and two, loitering while carrying a concealed weapon. the purpose of again is to make sure we send a strong message to the community that crime on muni, muni stops, stations, is not tolerable, and we are working to improve that situation. i want to thank the city attorney for their help, but also i want to thank the co- sponsors of this legislation, supervisor david chu, bevan dufty, and others.

i would also like to thank supervisor mirkarimi for cosponsoring this legislation. the amendment is quite simple, actually. from my understanding, the city attorney would not represent substantive amendment which would require a continuance. the three areas -- i will go through them quickly. on page one, consolidated two sections of the police code. section 122, 123. all this would do is put them into the same section with a common label. it does not change the definition, it just makes clear what the definition would be. the second part of the amendment is on page two lines 11 through 14. this is a sentence adding the board of supervisors favors community service or other

services when in violation of these sections. penalties generally applied to adults. if a child or a minor is found guilty of these, the probation officer may decide to charge the parents or the youth. what we are saying here is we would like the court to consider other things, like community service, etc. however, we are not able to mandate what the court decides. finally, the third amendment is on page2, lines 5 through 10. all this is is clearly defining what bus zones are.

in municipal transit agency planform been that shall include but is not limited to a street- level island cannot pay the area of any transit station including any area operated by the transit district. stranded vehicle shall include but not limited to streetcar, a cable car, a trolley coach, or other form of public transit vehicles. this is a fairly simple amendment. i would request that we make the amendment as a whole. of course, we would love your support. before you do that, i wanted to say, deputy john murphy is here with the san francisco police department. i had not asked him for a presentation, but he is here to answer any questions you may have. supervisor chiu: thank you. obviously, thank you, supervisor chu, for moving this forward.

this issue had been hunted before when several incidents occurred in the southeast part of the city. this legislation is a response to the community and advocacy that has happened around safety on our muni alliance. i want to thank the mta and police department for working together to deploy in number of resources across lines in the city, as well as supervisor chiu's office for moving this forward. i would like to open this up to public comment. >> good morning. so happy to be here to thank supervisor chu and all the other board members for this legislation. after i moved to visitation

valley, i was approached by many residents, it addressing safety. i have been doing surveys and other things to get information directly from the residents. this legislation introduced would definitely be of importance to all riders. i have been writing muni for over 40 years. i know how important it is for the people to have some measure of safety. as i said, i want to thank you. i would like the english media especially to focus more on the needs of the sizable non-english speaking residents in san francisco. in order to have an integrated community, all the information should be for everybody.

thank you again for this important legislation. i think with the future deployment of the interpreters there will be better access for all residents to be able to communicate and be part of a community. thank you. have a good day. supervisor chiu: any other members of the public that would like to speak on this item? >> good morning, supervisors. i would like to speak out in support of this item. i feel muni violence has long been overlooked, except when it is serious. unfortunately, our leaders tend to be reactive, rather than proactive. i find it kind of interesting, the earlier statement made on

this item, that the two sponsors sponsored this particular item. according to my memory, in my opinion, the same two sponsors so far have not sponsored a hearing on chinese victims on muni violence. i find it interesting that this item came first, but so far the two sponsors have not called for a hearing before violence against chinese victims. in my opinion, since i have lived in the city for 50 years, chinese victims have long been overlooked as muni victims. i think it is only proper to make the suggestion, if we are going to support this item, maybe we should consider having a hearing to let chinese victims of muni violence get a chance to say their peace.

in regards to increasing penalties, i would suggest we have more publicity for police protection of witnesses. i feel chinese victims had been hampered in the past because many chinese-speaking witness says have not had the opportunity to know, if they speak out to report crimes on the muni, they will be protected by the police. in addition to increasing the penalties, maybe we should have a section where witnesses of the pilots are given more information as to what is available to protect them as they speak out against the perpetrators. lastly, in regards to this item, if we are going to increase penalties, we need to increase

advertisements in newspapers. maybe the newspaper should have a section dedicated to climb up on muni. if they had bad in the paper, it might encourage more victims to speak out so they know that when they do speak, it will be publicized in the paper, so that way, there will be more publicity, and maybe that will stop the violence. supervisor chiu: thank you. any other member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public item is closed. >> i would like to invite deputy chief murphy to see if he had any additional comments to make. he may want to add a few comments to this presentation. >> just a few comments.

when i first went over to work at the sfmta, the mandate that chief gascon gave us was not only to reduce crime, but to reduce the fear of crime. we want to focus on the crimes that create that atmosphere of crime. those crimes are weapons possessions. if people feel like other passengers may be armed, they are the ones creating the atmosphere where a crime may be committed. in short, these ordinances give us a tool by which we can use to basically in force htthe law strictly, as well as laws already in effect. >> if i could come up again,

thank you for taking the time to see this item. again, i want to thank my colleagues who co-sponsored this. thank you for your support. if i could request that the committee send this out as a committee report, that would be great. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to thank supervisor carmen chu for moving this forward. just a quick question, and this is related to public comment. do you think there would be any level of the efficacy posting what this law would be on muni itself? i know it gives law-enforcement another tool, but the question of deterrence, which is often

the problem. as we do with other crimes, trespassing, loitering. if we were able to publicize on muni buses that these crimes will not be tolerated, these are the consequences of such -- >> absolutely, that is a great idea. we have been working to get the word out on the enforcement that we have been doing. this is just one more thing. i agree with you. if we can deter the crime before it is committed, first of all, there would be no casualty, and it is cheaper. supervisor mirkarimi: just for consideration to the two authors, to yourself, the mta, if there could be a publicity

campaign that uniformly speaks to what the law is as to concealing a weapon, what the violation is, like the other advertisements that we put on mta for everything else -- you think twice. i do not think they would want to lose $1,000 or worse, be in jail. >> it just so happens our pio from mta is here, so i assume she is taking notes. supervisor mirkarimi: 5 would just recommend something that would highlight on muni, where is conspicuous to ridership, and

any punk who wants to violate the laws knows what the consequences will be. supervisor chiu: thank you. could we have a motion to adopt the amendment as a motiowhole? without objection. the amendment will pass. if we could forward this to the full board as a committee report. without objection. that shall be the case. thank you, supervisor chiu. item three. >> hearing to present the commission on the status of women's justice and courage oversight panel report "courage to change," documenting two years of work by city agencies to address gaps in the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence. supervisor chiu: thank you. this is a hearing that i have called for to examine the work that has been done in recent

years, and how we as a city, can create a much more seamless response to domestic violence. in number of years ago, the justice and courage oversight committee was created in the aftermath of a tragic death of a woman. it highlighted the breakdown and coordination of various criminal justice agencies. this panel conducted an audit of the system and discovered gaps in our city's response to domestic violence. in 2007, we issued a report which has 67 recommendations for various criminal agencies. there was an audit implementation committee that was created to work with these various departments as well as community providers to move forward with these findings. what i wanted to do today in the hearing was to go over the recent findings of the report

that was recently released over the audit implementation committee to talk about the successes of the work as well as the work we still need to do. i want to thank the advocates in the city as well as in the community. without this partnership, we would not be where we are today. i feel comfortable we have made a lot of strides but we still have a number of miles to go. we have a number of people here today to assist with the presentation, starting with the head of the department of status of women. >> thank you. good morning, supervisors. as you know, the police department handles about 4000 cases of domestic violence per year. this is not a small problem. we believe any one of these 4000 cases could become a homicide. but today, i have bent over all

good news story to share. our department invest directly in services to victims of violence. we thank you for the steadfast support of the budget money, especially in these tough budget times. we focus not only on meeting the crisis needs of women, but also on long-term institutional policy reforms in the criminal justice system. that is what i am here to share with you today. i know your office is dedicated to improving the language of access to victims. i think you will appreciate some of the reforms we are about to talk about. i want to introduce a few members of the panel. i will be introducing our policy analyst as well who will be providing details of the latest report.

following ms. marshall will be a our newest chief probation officer. we are committed to continuing the progress that the adult program has made. she will be followed by the district attorney's victims unit manager. we also have with us police captain jon ehrlich, who is responsible for the domestic violence response unit. so i want to introduce ms. marshall who will give a presentation on the report. >> good morning, supervisors. i provided some materials for

you. supervisor chiu: if we could turn on the overhead, please. >> thank you for allowing us to provide this overview. i wanted to add a few more details. in the audit conducted in 2006, released in 2007, there were five primary gaps uncovered. risk assessment, stalking, the language of incumbency, battery, and complexity of risk. how do we do with those victims with complex risk factors in their life but are not standard, being homeless, substance abuse issues come lgbt community, other things that create challenges for the

criminal justice system. the 68 recommendations were designed to address those primary gaps. the audit implementation committee had been meeting monthly since 2007. it had representation from all of the criminal justice department's, so it was a collaborative effort. all departments provided quite a bit of time and energy through the process. there were a number of accomplishments based on this work. stalking is a very significant risk factor, in terms of the legality of domestic violence cases. the fact that the criminal justice system has not been structured to address stalking was a huge gap. we created many new protocol

that would help to address stalking. we created a new code for 911 so that they can track it from its inception. once a case is tracked, they are deferred to the correct units to better prosecute these cases. there were new trainings developed at the police department, new internet protocols 91. the da's office also released a report to discuss how depends showed drilvictims should deal h instance is ofstalking.

in terms of batterer accountability, the police department has made improvements in how they track batterers, how they are filling the requirements of their probation. so there are new methods of communication between the adult probation department, the court, and better intervention programs. field total cost to increase safety of -- increased safety of field officers. being able to assess risk factors in the field was a huge gap that was uncovered. the police department and 911 created a promised alert in the system so that police officers responding to a call