at this event, -- this event, the offices were dispatched -- the officers were dispatched about a possible mental health evaluation. the officers were met at the door by a person with a machete, and the officer discharged a fine european mujica can discharged a firearm. it was also found to be in policy -- and the opposite discharged a firearm. another was found to be in policy. the short synopsis of the event, there were officers trying to make contact, and the vehicle attempted to flee the officers, driving at the officer, i should

say. the officer's life was in danger, and he discharged his handgun. the last occurred july 3, 2010, at broadway street. it was found to be and policy. the short synopsis of the event, the suspect fired a weapon into a crowd of people. >> do you have the status report? >> yes. the second report is the officer involved shooting as of today,

january 18, 2011 -- january 19, 2011. there was the third quarter status report. we had completed four officer- involved shootings, and there have also been five new cases that occurred, five new incidents which occurred, between october and now, so that gives us a tote of 12, a belief -- i believe, and these are open cases as of october 8. those four cases, and we still have six outstanding. five new cases. that gives us 12. 12 open officer-involved shooting cases and one note open officer-involved discharge.

-- and one open officer-involved discharge. and we anticipate that the meeting will convene in march, 2011. we are looking at march 15, 2011. we have not set the date yet, but we are looking at four to five cases at that meeting. >> i am certainly interested in that. president mazzucco: are there any questions? commissioner slaughter? 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