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is more than the gross domestic product for most nations states. if he wanted to save $476 million, you can go ahead and cancel this commission. at this point, take a look. the evidence will show that the defendants mazzucco and marshall and others are guilty of fenocic - -genoci -- genocide. they are guilty of treason
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of the united states constitution. they are also guilty of conspiracy to commit these. in the 2010 report demonstrated that there is a disproportionate number of people filing complaints against the 7 it is police department. -- against the san francisco police department. conspiracy is this agenda. the constitution of the united states provides a disclosed
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[chime] president mazzucco: your time is up, thank you. public comment? may i call item number three? >> the occ director's report. possible action to provide instruction to the department and the 2010 first amendment compliant thought it pursuant to department general order 8.10. >> on february 2, i presented a letter to this commission outlining newhall the budget instructions as with every other
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city departments. we were asked to provide a 10% budget reduction that amounted to $235,000 to propose another $235,000 for contingency reduction. as i advised to end the annual report as well as the letters i provided on february 2, those reductions would be the result of personnel reductions. for the first round of cuts, should they be taken in by the mayor and the budget office, it would result in the layoff of a couple of clerical positions as well as a vacant investigator position.
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any reduction in clerical staff would increase the workload of the investigators already have an extremely high caseload as compared to a best practices caseload. as a result, the study that we did where investigators documented the time they spent on various tasks, the reduction in clerical staff could result in the voting 25% of their time. with regard to the contingency reduction and, another position would be eliminated and we would have to eliminate the mediation program because we have to lay off the attorney, leaving me with only three attorneys, two of whom are dedicated to
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prosecuting cases before the police commissioner, during sustainability with drafting a sustained reports. the third attorney that would remain as the attorney that provides a policy analysis to the office of citizen complaints is a charter mandated activity where they are charged to a providing policy analysis that would serve to enhance community police relations. and the attorney that provides a policy analysis is also engaged in providing a sustainability when and addressing your report. it concludes my report with the police department and other city
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departments. this history of this commission and not approving the budget of the department. this commissioned in protest to a possible budget cuts they would have to take chose not to endorse the budget. how about i was obligated to submit it. that concludes my remarks. >> director hicks, your budget in total is a line-item. >> that is correct. >> can you help us understand a little bit more how your total number comes about in terms of being part of the total department's budget?
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how that determines if? >> this is the budget that was adopted. it was some years back with some fluctuations dependent on whether additional investigators were added. there is no guaranteed percentage of the police department's budget. there is a floor below which investigators cannot fall. that is one investigator for every 150 police officers. that would only be a minimum staffing levels of 15 investigators.
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also in the 2007 controllers thought it, they pointed out that having a this for probably was not the best tool to determine staffing needs. what should be looked at is the number of cases per investigator to determine what the staffing level should be based on a and. i would say that the $4.2 million budget compared to a $445 million budget is woefully small based on the importance to the police department's disciplinary process. i would also say that in ideal circumstances, there would be
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additional legal staff because they only have a couple of trial attorneys to appear before you. there is no other way to slice and dice the other attorney to have him present cases to you. we operate within our budget hough and we are going to provide the best service and quality services that we can. commissioner slaughter: when you were here last presenting year budget, you had charts that showed how many cases over time were being filed and cleared. and you know how many cases per investigator you had over time? and how many cases for attorneys you had?
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some years you were operating at 1000 cases a year, and i was wondering what be staffing situation was? >> in past years, we had as many as 17 investigators. the caseload was 21 cases per investigator. the difference was in the year that there were only 21 cases, the clearance rate was higher. investigators devote additional time to cases to sustain them. it takes time to write the report and developed the evidence that their caseload increases.
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as i pointed out at my presentation last year, it was a uniquely difficult year because a number of experienced investigators were out for extended leaves of absence. in prior budget cuts, they had to give up much of the temporary salary budgets and so i was not able to backfill positions. when you have a staff of investigators experienced like that, when those investigators go out on leave, they have accumulated those benefits, so there are no savings. commissioner slaughter: you had a chart that was year by year. >> one of the charts detailed
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how many cases were being filed year by year. as i understand the budget and the department in general, you had significantly more cases and i suspect it supports all that you are saying. >> i will do that. >> i remember when we get more of the protest, which of things you can lose that amount of people, one of the reason our disciplinary process has been moving is that we have not only then having to resolve things, but hearing our back a little getting reduced. in the discipline will be swift. i think it is very serious.
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i am not prepared to pass a budget that will decrease the staff and given the thought it that we have that shows that we don't even have the appropriate amount of personnel now. i think your department is a significant impairment that is needed. president mazzucco: can we move to the second item on the occ director's report? hone >> this is the consent item of sfp records pursuant to general order 8.10. president mazzucco: do you want to comment? or can we vote on the --
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>> president mazzuccrshall and members of the commission, there is a chief investigator and others in the audience that did conduct the audit over the course of two weeks. they are available to answer questions. >> is charles here? >> they're both here and are approaching the microphone. >> they are one of the ones that i want to amend.
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we had a couple of meetings and i think we need to get that back on track from the department. one of the things i need some glaring neon, when -- clarity on, when they are doing that type of thing, is there - a report that allows you to tell us if they're complying with the laswws or hoemland s -- homeland security act? wireless taps without subpeonoena? >> good evening. to enter your question,
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commissioner dejesus, it has to do with any first amendment activity. there are particular guidelines and it is a particular part of the audit to look at the agency assessed. >> i guess i don't know if you would see it. had the a that you would see it? they cover those kind of first amendment activities. there are some different rules on the federal level. how would you know? >> they would know what they are looking at, and perhaps a representative can answer your question about what they include in those binders that the staff
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reviews. >> this is to adopt or pass the consent item. your inquiry might be a little bit beyond the scope of what they are reporting on. >> these are hot directly under the purview -- these are directly under the -- >> we saw things approved up to the chief's level. >> i move we accep ttht the report. president mazzucco: public comment. on item number three, hearing none.
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>> assignment the disciplinary charges against sergeant ernest tachihara to a commissioner for evidence taken. >> i represent a special patrol officer tachihara. >> commissioner kingsley, i turn it over to you. commissioner kingsley: i think that we ought to have a telephone conference to get the procedures rolling. if you gentleman with a coordinate with the lieutenant, he will coordinate with the
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three of us. we will get the ball rolling. thank you, gentlemen. president mazzucco: public comment. hearing none, item number five. >> commission announcements. tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m., some of the commissioners will gather to receive public input on characteristics and traits people would like to see in the next chief of police. lee will be at a similar meeting and will be in the process of scheduling a joint meeting between the police commission and the public safety committee.
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of >> who is covering tomorrow night? president mazzucco: i am. commissioner chan. >> parent teacher conference. >> we left one open for you, i thought. >> item number five publeic comemnt. -- comment. item number six. >> closed session disciplinary cases, including the public comment on whether to hold the item in closed session i.
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>> we will come back into open session to handle some more matters. any public comment on items in closed session only? is this public comment on how atoms in a closed session? >> i request -- i understand weakene can request open sessio? i just voice my concern that it should be held in open session. >> item number seven. >> so moved.
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