commissioner slaughter: a couple of questions. the brief synopsis is very useful for us to see. i notice that these are following up on our prior conversations about mental health issues. sometimes, it is clear that there is a suspect -- it may be mental health issues. i would just encourage you for future reference is as we go forward to hearing these reports to make sure that we are informed that the synopsis are clear that these incidents include mental health problems, because i think that will be critical information for the commission to consider, so if you can keep an eye out on that, i would appreciate it. and then, just two comments. and i do not expect you to

really have a response to it, but it was striking to me looking at the reports about the increasing number of officer- involved shootings in 2010 versus prior years, more combined officer-involved shootings in 2010 than in 2008 and 2009 together, and there may be a reason or not, but i think there is certainly something that we should be aware of. we have been focusing a lot, as we should, on mental health issues, but i could not help but looking at the 2010 statistics about the number of accidental or otherwise self-inflicted wounds suffered by officers, and in my view, it is just a heartbreaking issue of there, and i don't know the appropriate way for the condition to focus on that and to consider that,

but when you have two or three self-inflicted wounds by officers in the course of one year, we cannot ignore it, so, sargeant jackson, i appreciate this. president mazzucco: commissioner kingsley? >> thank you. to go one step forward to identify when it has resulted in a death. " thank you. president mazzucco: i just want to thank the commissioner for bringing that up about the self- inflicted wounds. sometimes the public does not appreciate that, given what

offices see on a daily basis, and we pay them to work a ship where they only see mental health issues. sometimes, you have to wonder what the correlation is let's be candid about it, so, again, i commend commissioner slaughter for bringing that up. thank you for bringing that to our attention. president mazzucco: any further questions? let's move to the occ directors' report. i appreciate it. secretary falvey: the occ report. >> this evening, i will discuss occ 2011 statistics and also

give you a statistical report, which i will discuss what i give the annual report. we also have on your desk the december 2010 statistics, and they're also copies available on the table. to date, in 2011, the occ has closed 22 complaints. we have mediated one case. we have pending cases, 402 from 2010 and 31 from this year. for the year and report, -- the year-end report, we had opened fewer than we did in 2009, when we opened 1018 cases. this is a decrease.

cases closed, 960. i will discuss all of this in the annual report on february 2. in 2010, 812 cases were closed. last year, we wrote the numbers down. this was a 35% increase in cases with the same allocation. we closed the year 2010 with only 11 investigators as compared to 17 note in 2009, at the close of 2009. we have hired two temporary investigators, and two investigators have returned from extended leave of absence, and

so currently, we do have investigators in place, but one investigator is going to be meeting for medical reasons for a three-month leave of absence. also, we have a recruitment going for a permanent investigator, but it will be at the level of 15 investigators. we currently have four provisional investigators, and they can only be provisional four of to three years, so that concludes my report. -- provisional for up to three years peart -- three years. president mazzucco: thank you, director hicks. we need to be able to help you. any further questions for director hicks?

now, we move into the line item c, commission reports, and given that we have to move into a lot of items, do you have any reports to make? commissioner: just one. we would like to remind everyone we have scheduled as an action item next week setting priorities for the commission for the next few months. last month, it was distributed, a summary of the objective criteria for setting priorities as well as the priorities at the retreat, and also to consider any other thing she went to add to the list. and we also want to invite the public as well as the chief and director hicks.

commissioner marshall, commissioner slaughter, do you read anything to add? commissioner marshall: at the end of the day, you forget what you did. one of the things we had was to set a priority. i want to thank you for bringing that to an action item. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you, commissioner. any other comment? we will open this up for the line items, which is the chief said report, -- the chiefs report -- chief's report, the occ director's report, and the commission report.

>> i just wanted to ask about the other? president mazzucco: that will be the next item. >> thank you. i have to say that as an elder and a female, i really do not appreciate the two males on this commission to tell a female commissioner to restrain her feelings and passion. it was common sense. so, please, you know, if you want to do this among ourselves, but not in front of the public. it really does not look good. i am seeking counsel and filing a lawsuit. some of you may see the video that is exploiting the death of

my son as a training peace for the academy, four officers to know how to react under stress. f -- or -- for officers to know how to react under stress. i do not know how another would feel to see the re-enactment of her son's shooting 156 times to train officers on how to react under stress. i am filing a suit. as you know, we had a very large rally about the police and the

disabled. i want to raise my concern about trying to separate the issue of tasers and mental health. to me, it would be like asking a politician to deliver babies. we know that those issues are intimately intertwined, including prop l about to be implemented on the street now. this was the purpose of the rally on monday. the mental health association, the commission on homelessness, and the agencies to follow-up on the policies in general thank you. president mazzucco: thank you.

>> commissioner, i would like to talk about the mental health trading that was discussed previously. to preface this, i would like to give you a little bit of my background. i spent four years on the staff of the commander-in-chief for army-navy and other members and also for federal employees associated with all of those branches. i then went into the private sector and private training for the state of hawaii, and this was implemented the first time they changed their system since 1959. i then went on all seven campuses of the university of hawaii, so all of my training

experience has been in adult education, so i think i would suggest if you're going to look at the training, there are a couple of things to consider. i really do not think i am clear on what training is, which training we're talking about. the officer who was up here talked about a 2000 citation for their training, and i am trying to figure out what does that mean, and they continue to do it through the following years, and as a result, a lot of people received the first training but not the second. i think one of the things that i have been very disappointed about is the fact that it says

only 900 officers and gives no breakdown as to whether these are supervisory officers, line officers, or command staff. in training, what you have to understand is the message about who attends the training as well as what the training is. training like this is viewed by many professionals as being soft training, and, in fact, some view it as something you send people to as a punishment rather than any sort of a desire to build their skills. you show up at the training, and everybody there is a line officer, that simply says that, number one, this is not training that the command staff and supervisory staff have to attend. it is only the troops. and if you get out in the field, and you are one of the troops, and you have this training, but a supervisor shows up who does not have the, they have command, no matter if you have an alternate method, they can override you with no consequence, so i think looking

into those issues would help you to determine the effectiveness of this program. [bell] [applause] >> good evening, commissioners. there were the statistics on murder in the city of san francisco, on january 2 and 9/11. someone was shot twice in the torso in the tenderloin district in san francisco in front of the new century club. is a murderer was identified by cameras and witnesses also identified this man as being the one who shot my brother. to this day, 17 days later, nothing has been done in the way of an arrest to address the issue of my brother charles.

even though he was in the tenderloin, just because you live in the tenderloin, that does not mean that you do not have family who love you and want to see you do well. so charles and his family were stunned by the devastating effect of his murdered this year, and nothing has been done in the way of an arrest for this man. we know that black people are arrested all the time in our communities. but now, here is a man that is just lounging in san francisco. nothing is happening to him. and i would like to know, and the family would like to know, you know, is it being left up to us?

we are law abiding citizens, and we do not want to take the law into our own hands, note? we want to know what is being done to pursue this person who took my brother's life. and if we can have some answers to death, i think that would bring -- it would calm down some of the illnesses if we can see justice taking place. president mazzucco: thank you very much. we do not normally respond to these, but the chief wanted to respond to you and tell me as much as he can. they keep for coming. -- i thank you for coming. >> i want you to come in the hallway, because i want to talk to you, and we do have

information related to the investigation. i am not privy to discussing it in public, but i am with homicide, and i can tell you that things are being done, and i can tell you that leads are being made, and the investigation is going through. those words are coming from me. i can tell you that we are working on it. we did not drop the investigation. we are working on it. i will tell everyone in this room that i have a blackberry that goes off at 2:00 in the morning. members of the ssgs -- fpd -- sfpd respond to these, and sometimes they get confrontational with me when i tell them they have to go home, when they do not want to. i can tell you that the death of your brother has been investigated, and i can tell you that we have leads, but i want to tell you in private, if that is permissible. >> yes.

[applause] president mazzucco: thank you. >> thank you very much for taking the time that has been taken so far. for taking so much of the evening addressing the issue of police interactions with people with mental health issues or disabilities. it is utterly important. i want to respond to just a couple of things. a lot of what i wanted to say has already been said by my partner, so i do not want to repeat or words -- her words, but first of, i want to commend the commissioner dejesus for standing up, because although it does not appear to be a popular position on this commission, as he stated, in almost every

article i have read, as well, and almost every discussion of police interaction with mentally ill people, note it has been used as stomping ground for the sale of issuing police officers with taylor's -- tasers. i just read another one. this was not in san francisco but in seattle, a person shot by police on arms. un -- armed -- unarmed, and, of course, the taser issue was brought up again. thank you. i think these issues have to be addressed in tandem, whatever the auxiliary issues may be. and the other thing i want to respond to is the officer wrote -- is the officer, and you have to forgive me, her name is escaping me right now, but the officer who gave the report on

the training for the sfpd. the issue has been raised about the cost. i am confused, too. i think $8,000 per month was the number that registered in my year. i just want to say that, frankly, one unnecessary debt is too much of the cost. i do not want to hear, and i do not think a lot of the public want to hear, that it is too expensive to give the training necessary to not use excessive force against the mentally ill or the disabled, or anyone. there is plenty of money allocated to the san francisco police department. i think just about every organization on the planet wants more money to do what they want to do, but the money goes to thesfpd, and there is more than enough money to train officers on how to deal with the mentally ill and disabled

public. [applause] >> i am a community organizer from district 6. i also want to commend commissioner dejesus for being a strong advocate for mentally disabled people and not using tasers against them. i also want to say that it is imperative that police officers get this mental health training, and i do not know if it is 40 hours, 24 hours, when is going to happen, and also, having accountability and transparency in these shooting cases so we can do our research and find out what really happens. that is a problem right now. i marched on monday in the martin luther king march on city hall, and it also got into an argument with my daughters dad.

-- my daughter;s dadm -- dad, and he said he was going to the rally, but he was not going to march out of concern for her safety. marching is a peaceful way to deal with these things. he said what this is about in the first place is police brutality. we have to keep our daughters say. i agreed with him at -- we have to keep our daughter safe. i agreed with him at the rally. when people are being shot in the back for having a pocket knife that they are wielding, as you can, they need to stand up, and people in the tenderloin and people all over the city are living in fear of using their right to civil disobedience and public discourse. they are living in fear of

police officers retaliating. president mazzucco: thank you very much. [applause] good evening, clyde. >> as you know, there was a man in a wheelchair that was released on bail for assaulting a police officer. the d.a. is bringing charges. apparently, the d.a. has a different point of view. also, we do not get all of the facts. about four months ago, chief gascon had a conference. the gentleman had called his psychiatrist and said, "i am going to die by cop.

i am going to die by cop." with a 24-inch knife, one swing -- if they and had a taser, maybe that man would not be dead. people, we have got to strike a balance here. just because you are mentally ill does not mean they cannot kill a police officers. thank you. president mazzucco: any more public comment? all right, we are moving to line item number one. please call it. secretary falvey: timelines for selecting nominees for chief of police or to take other action related to selecting others for chief of police. some portion of this item may be heard in close section -- session.

this closed session option is provided so that if the commission's discussion on this item involves an individual employee or applicant, the commission may conduct that portion in closed session. president mazzucco: thank you, lt. falvey. we are talking about starting our selection for the next chief of police in the city and county of san francisco. before we head into discussion, i just want to refresh, we did this process 19 months ago when we selected chief gascon, and myself, commissioner marshall, and commissioner dejesus, along with our other commissioners, we had 32 community meetings and went out to 32 different groups.

what are you looking for in a police chief? what do you think makes a good city police chief? it was an opportunity to go out to the community and hear what they were looking for. and part of that process, we went to every district station, and we went to the airport. we met with officers. we said, "what are you looking for? what are you looking for in the ideal police chief?" and we had a group working with us. we get assistance from the leading bodies with reference to training and enhancing training for police officers. the city has paid them a lot of money. so we spent seven months coming up with what we felt as a commission would be the profile for the next police chief. so there is so much invested in that, and i just passed out to

the commissioners a document that was created by the search committee, the commission, in conjunction with the group that we hired, essentially asking, what are we looking for in a police chief, and there was community policing and engagement. respect for the rank and file of the members, an inspirational leader, not subject to politics, stands up to political leaders, a change agent, a crime fighter, an innovator, somebody with new ideas, a communicator inside and outside of the department, media savvy, respects and embraces diversity, understands the need for career and professional development, and understands immigration issues. so these were the criteria that we had reached as a commission last time we reviewed this calm

and there -- when we reviewed this, and there was a profile. we received over 100 applications. with the assistance of a search firm, we interviewed 25 candidates, and with the 25 candidates, pursuant to proposition h, we gave them names to the mayor. we were all pretty much on the same page with the names that we voted on, so our goal here is, given the parameters that we have to deal with, i think we need to move expeditiously but cautiously. we need to look at each and every candidate. we need to announce that the process is beginning tonight. we need to have some level of confidentiality in this process so that individuals can apply for the job without putting their current position at risk. for example, if they are police chief in another jurisdiction, it would not be good for t