to say. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. ext. speaker? -- next speaker? >> as a youth, you would not think we would want to be involved in this stuff, but since i don't believe the system is right, i want to be involved. as a youth, i want to be taken more seriously, because we are not. as an example, a couple years back, my auntie got into some domestic violence with her boyfriend for the moment and she was not stable enough to call the police. she had me call them. i picked up the phone, 911, you know the procedure, and they told me the family should deal with it within the family and that i should not call because

it is not an emergency. and i believe it was an emergency. so, yeah. supervisor campos: thank you. thank you for sharing. thank you, mission girls, for being here. make sure that you sign up for that a forum. next speaker, please? >> good evening. i am with united players. supervisor campos: speaking to the microphone. you are doing great. >> i am from galileo high school. >> like supervisor mirkarimi brought up, community policing has been a topic for a while, but i got excited because this is the first time for me that i have heard prevention being part of that equation, so i applaud

supervisor campos for bringing that to the table. i was state university did a study for how much crime costs, and they found each homicide costs society 17.25 million, and i think if they did that same study in california that would be higher. i applaud you and for being part of this process. i also applaud the acting chief. i think he sat down with service providers and said that he wanted to work together. these are all really positive steps in the right direction, and i urge you to keep this going because there is definitely a segment of society that are not criminals but do not feel safe or protected by the police, and there is a segment of society that does, and we would like to see that

gap gets smaller and smaller each day. thank you. supervisor campos: again, thank you. we are trying to hear from the youth who have to speak so i can go home and do their homework. any other youth that like to speak, please come forward. it >> i would just like to say that we are from the western addition. even though there is a lot of police interaction, sometimes it is more negative than positive, and we would rather have more positive interaction, not like harassment, we want interaction, positive. thank you. >> thank you. just as she said, although we see the police interacting in the neighborhood, we like to see more what the youth when we put on summer offense. we would like to see participation from them also -- when we put on summer events.

>> i just want to say that if we're going to depend on the police to keep us safe or rely on them, we should be able to talk to them and be able to trust them. >> hi, i am aiesha, and i think if the police want a better interaction with the youth, they should not harass them. and, yeah. >> hello. my name is chardonnay. supervisor campos: speak into the microphone. >> my name is chardonnay. just as the other girls said about the interaction with the police and the community, just bring more positive energy, and

not so much -- not hostile, but just not being -- what is bridget intimidating. at not being intimidating to the community and making them afraid of you. like, this is all of our communities. we should be able to come together as one actually, you know, be comfortable with each other, each individual community. and thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. is there any other youth that would like to speak? we're going to resume political project general public comment was the presentation is over. this is an opportunity for the youth to speak before they have to go home and do their homework. thank you very much. i want to thank you for coming out to city hall. we saw representation from all over the city. thank you for being out here. your voice is important.

chief, thank you for giving them the opportunity so that we could hear from them before continuing with the presentation. now i will turn it over to you. >> thank you. i hope that everybody has signed up. quick story, when i was 10 years old, i lived at a location near a driving range, and i had an officer on a motorcycle scare me. he thought i had stolen golf balls from the driving range, which did not happen. my point is i know what it is like to have an officer in uniform stand next to you. i know what is like to have an officer have dialogue with you and how intimidating taken before that to occur. that is something we will work on, be it community policing or customer service. one of the statements i have made, if you look in any of the manuals, the talks about ultimately the community is responsible for solving community problems, in partnership with the police

department. it is my philosophy, and i stand by this, when a police officer has to put handcuffs on and a member of the community, the system has broken down somewhere, simple as that. when we place handcuffs on somebody in this city, somewhere in that chain, the system has failed. the eatery social system has failed, but the system has failed. -- peter the social system has failed, but the system has failed. we have to work closer with the after-school programs, over and above just foot beats and answering radio calls. i agree with all the youth that came up here and spoke. i am encouraged by them setting up to speak at the community forum. with that, captain freedom to capt. friedman is going to talk about the power point. supervisor campos: the other one, capt..

>> good evening. board members, commissioners, members of the public, and the youth members, thank you for coming out and sharing your experiences with us. that is what community policing is all about. i am the commanding officer of our community relations unit, and the members of our unit are here today. we have members that represent almost every community in san francisco. we get out in the community and meet the people we work with. the mission statement for our unit is as liaison between the police department and the diverse communities that we serve. community policing has come a long way. i began my career 28 years ago in a community policing unit of san francisco and later on became a police officer, and it is something that is court what we have done year after year. i think it is improving. there is always room for improvement, but community policing is not something that

has just arctic, it has gone on for a long time. the cornerstone of our philosophy is the members of the san francisco police department are members of the community. community policing is the core of who we are, and that is why we are happy the youth members came out because they are the leaders of the future. that is who we need to reach, and we need to partner with them, hear their voice, and work towards reducing violence and all the other things we are faced with in san francisco. today's san francisco police department members are representative of san francisco police department communities. when i was growing up, girls cannot be crossing guards and they cannot be police officers or firefighters. we have come a long way. community policing is an interactive process between the community and the police department. we have to have an open dialogue, and we have to be

willing to sit down and discuss things and agree to disagree to break down the barriers. i think the youth coming forward is a wonderful example of community policing and ford in that mission. community policing is the core of what we are in the branches out into many different avenues. but we have advisory boards, the district attorney's committee course, the problem solving, where police trainees and recruits select community projects, blood drives, problem solving, and work to better the communities, and that is from the very moment they enter the police department. monthly community police meetings, the captain's newsletter, station investigative teams. there are investigators in the stations, in the fields, working side by side with the officers in the community and the members of the community they serve. the neighborhood prosecutor

program. the chief has an annual summit, with all of the forums, so all the groups can get together and discuss the things,. the issues that are in their community. that is really an important -- is really an important forum where the chief gets to hear first hand from those people and the community gets to say what interest. what interests are being addressed. various police advisor reforms to encourage community policing efforts, youth forums, ethnic minority forms, lgbt's, faith based organizations. we invite people to meet with us and the captain said they can break down those barriers and get down to the business of policing san francisco. patrol officers also used 311

systems so we can utilize situation such as the abatement campaign. officers can prefer members of the public to 311, so people are not bogged down by the bureaucracy of the many things they need to get done in their neighborhoods. community policing today is all about working together with other city service providers. patrol officers at some assistance for homeless members of our community in need of services. we also work closely with the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs to acquire interpretation, translation services, and train members of the immigrant affairs for by cultural community ambassador programs. we have a meeting monday where we will share the strategies, explained everything so we can reduce those barriers to communication, and we worked side by side with them translating the forms that we hand out.

patrol officers summoned the community awareness treatment center when somebody needs a sobering center, somebody who is down and out and they need assistance in that regard. we also partner with the state. we worked very closely with her in our neighborhood watch programs, which is merchants and home security. we also participate and due out reach in the committee. most recently, we were out with the chinese new year, helping the nation committee -- helping the asian community avoid crimes in that timeframe. we maintain an open and transparent program. community policing advisory boards allow them to hold regular meetings with the police chief, and this is important

because whatever problems they are facing, they can share with us, hopefully, if -- hopefully before it festers into a larger problem. it is key that we maintain that open partnership. police district cabins have e- mail, they post issues on the internet, and they keep their membership or their committee members updated on what it is that is going on in their neighborhood, crime tips, and tips about crimes that have occurred in their areas. assistant captains have meetings with their stations, they are wheelchair accessible, and encourage all members to attend and have their voices heard. at every police district station has bilingual and multilingual officers to act as interpreters. at each station has public forms translated into common foreign languages. each district station makes available its contact email, including the captain's e-mail

to the public, the committee to relations unit, -- the committee relations unit, to be sure that people's needs are met and handled. officers provide full services to limited english-proficient speakers. we have a telephone based interpreter service, bilingual officers to handle that. we have forms translated into different languages, and we also have devices to assist the limited english proficient community. members of the public have three ways to anonymously give a tip to the police department. there is text, phone, and online forms. community policing plans to update on the community policing efforts and create -- we are currently creating a website some members of the public can

log on to the website, download. information, and see what kind of things we're doing in the different communities. we will be doing out reached, once the website is out, to encourage use to participate. we have not actively recruited through the school district. -- we have actively recruited through the school district. the problem solving form is cumbersome, and we have streamlined that so we can speed up the workflow. we do a lot of community policing, but we don't always let everybody know how much we are actually accomplishing. the police chief and their command staff host their annual summit, and the next one is on may 9, 2011, and i invite the

commissioners, and members of the board, we would be happy to have you attend. community policing plans, problem solving strategies include it committed placing practices tracked so that we can track the effectiveness of our community policing. a department wide unit provides support and oversight for the community policing efforts. that is my job at the committee relations unit. we are staffed by liaison officers who are bilingual, by cultural. ingleside station is one of the only stations where officers have department e-mail addresses. there is currently a gap in our technological. capabilities -- in our technological capabilities. officers have been accretive

working around that. once all of the officers have e- mail, it will be easier to contact members of the public. the department's email system has intermittent problems. you cannot do mass e-mail in credit for the capt. to send out the newsletter, it is a cumbersome process. it is something that really aggravates our community -- our ability to communicate with the public. one of the questions posed in the agenda was how does the san francisco police department proposed budgets affected initiatives. reduction in staff may force the reassignment of officers to other community policing efforts so that we can field cars in the defense stations to respond to calls for service. community policing trading. the emphasis is on the involvement with the community,

inc. at the entry level of training. ispeakers from the community, ad are encouraged to be part of training. continuing education. all officers receive community education, and have a professor and cultural sensitivity. the recommendations direct the form of identity relations unit, and for that we have accomplished -- we have a signed extended by which resources. additional recommendations, not quickly crime statistics accessible on line. and to reassign inspectors from

the hall of justice into the station. that has also been accomplished. each station has a dedicated officer. they publish a weekly newsletter and a staff bilingual officers at the media relations unit. we hold monthly meetings open to the public, and each captain holds their monthly committee meeting that is also open to the public. the forms play a vital role in problem-solving efforts by the police department and the communities they serve. members are stakeholders, and they are told that the onset they need to be part of thought -- a need to be part of solving the problem. the police district captain overseas the group and the advisory forum. there are ground rules, and the forms are outlined in the manual. they act in his advisory capacity to discuss ideas and suggestions to improve san

francisco police department service in their communities and act as a liaison to promote a better understanding of our police procedures. members are expected to connect to various stakeholders throughout their respective committees -- communities, and bring this back to share with capt. and police chief. training for captains to oversee the advisory board are ongoing. an officer of the committee relations unit is a coordinator, and they work alongside with the captain. this capt. is in charge of the youth form. we have different captains in different venues, working closely with the forums. quarterly, or when a situation arises that demands immediate attention, they meet with the chief of police.

community policing advisory boards are initiated by the committee, and they encompass many community groups, such as at risk youth and promote a sense of community ownership and pride. that is what we're striving for. it is an improvement in communications and relationships between the police department and community. the young lady who was from -- i forget the name of it -- we showcased her work. we did a community project with her, or she had members of the committee do an art contest to lower car break-ins. we did that project, it was very successful, and that is just one example where the community

police advisory board participated, had an idea, and did something to better help the youth, lower car break-ins, and get the word out. the advisory board is successful because it means increased communication to tackle issues. community policing action takes place every day. members of the san francisco police department routinely visit critically ill children at ucsf. we have an annual toy drive, or officers contribute their own money and host a toy drive -- where officers contributor own money and host a toy drive. we have a wilderness program, or kids who may not normally get to leave their neighborhood have the opportunity to go with officers into the wilderness to backpack and visit the snow. we participate, coach, and

mentored jr. giants baseball, and we have a police athletic league where we have football, judo, cheerleading, and boxing. submitted the pleasing happens every day in our neighborhood with the cadet program. on the day shift, we feel 43 foot ships and on the night shift we have 40. of the 83 foot beats, 23 are assigned to the market street corridor. officers of the san francisco police department are stakeholders of the community. we volunteer our time, money, an effort to make a difference in the communities that we serve. our volunteerism and the nations are evident in the toy drive, the senior citizens' luncheons, and youth activities.

>> thank you. one of the editions that we're going to make, and supervisor mirkarimi, we talked about this, we're going to start doing in the near future a community policing comstat, talking about the forms, how they are filled out, and what we're doing to impact how we're going out there and solving some of the community policing problems. it is about how the officers are affecting a difference, helping solve problems. one of the other issues is the budget. we could talk about this all night, and this is not a budget meeting, but i think the budget or lack thereof may actually be a benefit because we will have to reach out more to the community to get them more and partnership to help us solve some of these problems as we start to decrease the work force. the committee will be playing a

vital role in helping reduce issues. supervisor campos: keith, thank you. i don't know if you have anything else by way of presentation. >> i know that you have a lot of people who still want to speak. i could show more numbers, but i don't know if you need the time. we're ready to answer any questions. supervisor campos: my colleagues and i certainly would have questions. it is important for us to hear directly from the public. that is an important part of why we are here. my hope, chief, and i would say this as a member of this committee, is that this is the beginning of an ongoing discussion, that this is not the last time that we are going to be talking about community policing and defining that. my hope is that in the very near future this committee, along the lines of what the chairman was

trying to do, could have a joint meeting with the police commission so that both the legislative body and the policy and oversight body of the police department can engage in that discussion. there are many questions i have, but i think it is important to hear from the public. i will be honest with you. having served on the police commission, i remember so many initiatives are around the issue of community policing. you had supervisor mirkarimi talk about chief ribera. in 2006, there was a report on current efforts in community policing. a number of citizens were involved in creating that and had a number of recommendations. i wonder the extent to which those recommendations were followed and the extent to which they are being implemented. at some point, the captain mentioned perf.

that also had a number of recommendations around community policing. the ingles said police station -- ingleside police station was to implement those changes, and i am not clear whether that has been going on. there have been other things that have not happened. you are doing the best thing to implement this, and i saw what you mean by community policing in response to the violence that was happening in the mission. i saw with my own eyes how you were able to bring the community together to talk about interactive ways in which we could respond to the environment. there are a lot of questions that remain. i know my colleagues have these questions. i would like to turn it to public comment period before that, i do not know if my colleagues would like to make any statement before we go to public comment.

chairperson mirkarimi: we can put six studies right here that have been done in the last 10 years. we do not need more studies. we need implementation. on community policing, we have all the data and how to access the police department and the criminal-justice system. we just need implementation. i still put that situation out there and what may be learned from the public in this case. whoever the successive mayor or the next police chief or next captains -- if there is nothing institutionalized, what is to say that does not reset itself? that is likely -- is exactly the married around we are on. i love these great ideas. but if we are striking it rich because we have a generation in the police department right now who are the committed to community policing, who is to