it. this is just a level of importance. >> i understand that this is a level of importance. i appreciate your understanding. thank you. >> are there any further questions or comments regarding line item 1? is any public comment to for -- to any public comment? >> i've not had a chance to look through this. there was another report that was sent. the thing that really concerns me here on the general order is the state of the proposal in some of these. when you look at the actual status, this is three years before anything happens in some of these cases. like the very first one, the

department of general order. i assume this is that the department. this was proposed in december of 2003 and it was completed the very next day. the very next thing you see is november of 2006. and there is a revolving door here. basically, i am looking at a lot of these things add by the time it makes any progress, many of the commissioners to probably instigated the review or the request for review are already gone. i would be willing to bet that many of you don't have any idea.

they are all like that in the list. they go on and on and on. we are in 2011. some of these things have been on for 8 or nine years. macau many actual turnovers of the port has been conducted in the time that this has been reviewed? this looks like it just goes to the department of sits around for two or three or four years before anyone does anything with it and then it just goes back and forth. is it worth the effort if it will take four years? you will all be gone and it in your grades by half of the time

that any of these general orders could change. -- you will all be gone and in your graves. this is not even enable the citizens to look at these general orders. we have no idea what it says and if there are things that have been in there for 8 years which are critical. >> if you look at the web site today, an officer was taken into custody. that is embarrassing but this is transparency. that is transparency. i'm sure the chief can explain the details. i don't know. transparency, about which this

board terminated in 2009. i think people try to believe that everything is being hidden. it is not hidden. to our website, line one, officer taken into custody. >> any further comment? the information that is in the packet, is that the outdated information? >> yes. >> some of these general orders have already been addressed. >> the outdated information is bulletin information. as far as the general orders go, that is current. the process of a general order

is lengthy. at some point, we can discuss what the process is. just to answer the question, the general orders are posted online for access and we are always working to update the general order as the laws change. >> thank you. >> do i have a motion to accept? >> i move to accept. >> please call item number 3. >> reports to the commission. the first is crime statistics, recent activities. the budget, then the update and the revised -- >> good evening.

>> as of january 29th, 2011, violent crime is down 3%. private crime -- property crime down 18%. the total accumulation is down 16%. the only increase in crime is in the homicide categoric. we had a 11 homicide victims this year versus five last year. we have had multiple homicides. both of the homicides received a lot of media attention and both suspects are in custody. burglary is down 16%.

vehicle theft is down 23%. arrests as of this year are flat and this last reporting, we have had an uptick in arrests. >> thank you. >> thank you. i just want to ask you follow-up questions. last week, there was a lot of shootings, what are the numbers here over year? >> your today, we had 19. eleven homicide finance. nine were committed find a gain. >> i think the number is significant.

i was a prosecutor in san francisco. the homicide was on the upswing and most of us were shooting retaliatory shooting. whathe there was report ahead a running shootout between two gangs. can you tell us about that. >> i think one gang went down into another kings territory and had started firing shots. of all the victims this year,

there has only been one homicide. a lot has been extremely quiet. the officers out on the field as well as the information that we gathered from these homicides. >> were there any retaliatory shootings? >> no, there has not been any retaliatory shootings and this is because our gang investigators have done a really good job.

we're getting officers out there to be pro-active. >> that is the best news. however, we have 11 dead people. i think that there is -- >> thank you. >> of the 11 homicides this year, you might have said this. how many arrests have been made? >> i don't have the sheets but at least three have been made.

>> i think that we have seen historically low overall crime figures that have been very very pleasing and at the same time clearance rates. you have talked about the tough cases. the would be interested to to keep us up-to-date on how well we're doing on solving these crimes. >> i have been very candid with the new district attorney to make sure that we are getting our cases filed and this always becomes a topic. one issue as far as the

situation where the car was burned, that particular homicide occurred in sacramento. i'm confident that we will be able to continue with the directive approach. >> can you tell us what the homicide clearance rate was? >> this status report on the preparation of the 2011-2012 budget.

>> been there are some things we're doing to be able to respond to the mayor's request. >> i am the interim chief financial officer for the chief. i have some comments about the budget. some of the dates are february 22nd is when we will submit to a budget. the board of supervisors will likely hold budget hearings where they will discuss the budget.

june 1st is when the mayor's office admits the budget to the board. the san francisco police department budget for next year is $476 million. this is $375 million of general fund and the remaining is grants, special funds and a work order payments from other departments. the report from the prior fiscal year has -- and french benefit increases. -- french --

-- fringe benefit. you can see salaries, not personal services which is about 14 million which includes everything from leases, maintenance agreements, supplies for the crime lab. material and supplies, all of these smaller items that any agency needs to run. there are various items for the department of technology and central shops. you can see the breakout is very similar.

there is a reduction target that we get every year. we had this during the current year which we have already given back. we are looking at ways to try to reach that goal. the vast majority is salary and benefits. anything that is a new expenditure will have to be offset. we're always looking for outside

resources. if you have any questions, i can answer. >> i will ask for a volunteer to join me. >> happy to do so. thank you for your presentation. >> as you can see, we have the bulk of the budget and salaries.

the mayor has asked me to make the best presentation i can. i will report back to the commission. these are tough financial times. hopefully we will see the residual in our tax base. i would like to thank you for your hard work. there is concern about the equipment. there are cars which really are not the safe. >> i think the chief had a

fault >> for us to get back to 7.5%, it comes down to $8.5 million. if we can achieve a 10% reduction, this would come from salaries. we are in the range of over 200 today. we have an attrition rate of somewhere like 6 and 10 a month. that will not allow us to have any academy classes. we have one that will come in sometime in april. we will have unfilled vacancies as officers retire. i have instructed my staff to see if we can cut personnel by 10%.

whenever we can do to get officers back into the field. we're looking to cut costs and cellphone usage, cars, trim the fat on anything that i can't to give us more funding in order to have the classes. there was a contingency for an additional 10% that had occurred. we can do this without layoffs but we have to be smarter how we deploy resources from some of the people. we have to look at how we deploy resources and we have to be smarter on how we deployed them. we will do everything we can to

get as many officers back out to supplement. my goal is to get the money back if they're asking from me. >> thank you for your support. a couple of questions, obviously you mentioned the 90% salary and benefits. i'm wondering if you knew off the top of your head what percentage of that was pension- related. >> i don't have the pension numbers. we've been i would say half is related to health and pension. >> if you could be ready on that

when you come back, i would be interested. >> i appreciate your notes and the staffing levels. over the next year is come up to, three years, this is just troops attrition. we need to start planning now. we are talking about very difficult economic times. that goes before our safety mission. this is something that has to be moved.

this is something that needs to -- we need to figure out what our plan is. >> we hae to wonder 57th vehicles that are 5-6 years old, 325 years that are 11-15 years old. -- 325 vehicles that are 11-15 years old. we have 100 vehicles that have a hundred and 24,000 on them. i agree with your statement that they're getting older.

>> there is a reduction and says that there was an additional seven and a half reduction. this adds up to 10%. i am confused that we have to make up for. where is the 10% going forward, what is that based on? >> this is 10%. what we look like was the

charter minimum staffing level. we're looking at the amount of budgets that did not go to that is where the 10% comes from. 10% of what is not a charter- mandated. >> what about the 2.5? >> we have given that back. to achieve the remaining portion, this is 8 and a half million dollars. >> you say you have given that back. what do you mean? >> they have taken the money out of our account. >> when will the budget the coming to us? >> february 16th. >> think you very much.

>> it will be interested to see what happens. my experience is that they seemed to ask for more as a go forward. >> what makes this city great is that this is a very safe city.

>> that there is concerned about -- and there are heavy discipline matters. >> i and a stand. we need to get that in. i don't see this as a large item. there is not much we can say and do. >> the next item. >> i am here to keep an update on the status of -- which is our use of fire arms policy. we are closer to finalizing the

changes to our policy but to tutti protocols, further work needs to be done. this have significant ramifications for the officer. there is a need for it delivered and thoughtful process. just to give a brief time line, in august of 2009, shortly after the chief took over, we had a change and we put out the department bulletin. was -- was put out which restricts the shooting at a moving vehicle on less the person is threatening the officer with deadly force. this is the controlling document for the shooting policy.

on august 18th, we put out another bulletin to clarify that an officer may discharge their firearm in a necessary defense of another person and they are a third party victim and not a recipient of the use of force. the three bulletins' are the controlling documents for the changes. what the rewrite will to take those changes and incorporate another into the document and that is where we are going with it. we also met with the city attorney's office who had some concerns over the proposed changes because they had not gone through the concurrent process. their function is to represent us. they have been doing that for a number of months. since that time, there have been numerous meetings and conversations