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as far as collecting evidence from the hospital. commissioner hammer: can we pause, so the public and the commission knows, what gave rise to this was we have been picking so if someone were raped on monday, it may stay there for six days without even starting to be tested. that is one of the reasons for this innovation, so it is now required to be picked up within 72 hours? is that by bulletin? >> the inspectors who work in that unit are tasked with picking that up, so every monday, wednesday, and friday. commissioner hammer: excellent. >> the inspector assigned calls the hospital and says, "do you have any rate kicks -- rape kits?" and if they do, they get them and book them.
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i will explain that in a moment. the stranger suspect cases. those goes right out to the laboratory to get worked up right away. commissioner hammer: when you say "lab," our lab? >> hours. there have been a few sexual assault cases that have gone to the vendors, but they are handled by our staff paquette -- by our staff. those usually get to a laboratory in 24 hours. so monday, wednesday, friday, this will cover the 72 hours for getting the evidence to the laboratory. a third component of the legislation, which is the 14- day rule, to get that evidence tested in 14 days, so we get it
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out to the lab, but we do not wanted to sit, and that is why we triage them. if there is overflow, and we are working, say, 300 homicide cases, they do those, and they go out. commissioner hammer: to put that in context, part of what gave rise -- i worked with supervisor alioto. there was an example where there was a rape case where it went for two years, and in one case, one was raped, and the other was murdered, so it is a public safety issue. can you show us about when samples are received to make sure we are living up to the 14- a protocol? >> that is going to be a spreadsheet, a collaboration system.
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it was from october when we first started working on them until now. there are many fields that are populated. you can look and see when the case happened, when the evidence was collected, by us or by the officers, depending on the type of evidence it was, when that evidence was picked up, when that evidence was delivered to the lab, when the analyst started to work on the evidence, and started to do their analysis, the results of the analysis, whether it was just screaming and was negative or they did the full work up, and it was positive, the name of the analyst, again, and whether there was a profile developed, if there was a profile developed, what happened when that profile, was entered, was there a match, was there no match? if there was a match, was it a convicted offender or a match to an unknown suspect who was in the database?
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those fields will be populated. commissioner hammer: i think you said we started doing that in october, or we started entering data from october? i am not sure what you said. >> we wanted to provide that level of service to san francisco. she modified that program from a program they worked about five, six years ago with the department of justice. the department of justice did their last. they did the analyzing in the examination for us. now, we are doing it ourselves, but we are copying many aspects of the program, primarily taking that extra swab, independent of the rape kit, from the evidence based on the interview with the victim of what occurred, getting back to the lab right away, -- getting back to the lab right away, -- getting -- that to the
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lab, and that is how we are handling strangers suspect cases. commissioner hammer: i discovered when meeting with some advocates in the rape community that, since we had that program in place, the stranger way cases, they were turned around within one week -- the stranger rape cases, they were turned around within one week, and when the funding ran out, they just stopped it. so this is re-starting a program that had been in place in for some time. you can tell the victim that we will give you a quick result, we will get the results to you, and the cooperation goes way up in those cases. >> that is true, very true. commissioner hammer: to follow
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up, do you have this document that the commission can have about monitoring the samples to see if they are being tested with in that amount of time? >> i can. again, it is all being tracked. commissioner hammer: after tonight, if the commission can review that, i would appreciate that. >> yes. commissioner hammer: are we within the 14-day timeline >> some take longer. if it is just a matter of getting a case screens, and it turns out to be negative, yes, but some cases take longer, depending on the number of items and such. some are easier, because they are just the larger swabs. commissioner hammer: i have a question, and perhaps others do. there is virtually no backlog, you say. are there backlogged cases, and what cases are those? >> the cases that are going out to the vendor labs, again, there
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are certain things we have to do before we get them there. we have to get our quote from them, administrative-types of things. these are mostly gun possession cases, and we want to keep our homicides and sexual assaults in house, and robbery, burglary cases have also gone up there. commissioner hammer: i have no further questions. i would ask that in the next couple of days, you show the documents that the department has devised, and i want to thank you for that. -- come if you want to redact the names, so we can see the dates. >> i will have to do that. commissioner hammer: 80. i have no further questions. president mazzucco: commissioner
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kingsley? commissioner kingsley: i understand from commissioner hammer that when we have federal grant money, the process dealing with sexual assault victims is a little different, and that we are kind of going back to that process a little bit. i may have that not quite right, but the question goes to this bill of rights. did we ever have a bill of rights printed up that we gave to the assault, sexual assault victims before? is this something completely new for the department? >> this is something completely new. et -- 680 of the penal code was in existence, but as far as notifying them, we called others to see how they made their notification, and as far as we know, we are being quite innovative. it was not done before that we know. commissioner kingsley: i would
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really be interested in knowing 86 months down the road or nine months or one year, whatever makes sense -- be interested in knowing boat eight months down the road or nine months or one year -- interested in knowing if eight months down the road or nine months or one year, following through, just in general how it is working. i guess the other related question is when the officer assigned to the sexual assault victims interviews them, is there a check-off that the department has? because this is given to the victims, correct? they leave this with them. .-- do we have something that indicates that this was given to them so that we are kind of sure what the process, the follow- through note -- the follow-
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through, in a follow-up to get reaction? >> i think the best way to handle that would be to have the officers and their incident report, have the state that they provided this to the victim, and this is going to be revised, and we can add that. that is a great suggestion. .-- commissioner kingsley: i do not know about other commissioners, but i would like to get feedback on how this is working at some period down a line. commissioner hammer: if i can answer one of your questions, commissioner kingsley. there was that rape kit that sat around while he raped other victims. when victims would ask them, ok, if i do this, when will i get a result of that, and the honest answer they would give it is "do
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not expect to see results." over and over, the women would say, "i do not want to do it." there was a published study that showed how much higher instances of cooperation there was. frankly, san francisco employees had to tell a rape victim's," i am sorry. do not expect a speedy to it, and i cannot even tell you when you will get a note result -- get a result back." commissioner kingsley: so, again, going back to the question -- thank you, commissioner. going back to the question about whether or not this commission would like any feedback, am i the only one? six months? does that make sense? would that work, capt., from your end and being able to give
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us an idea about how well the system is working? >> no, i think i can work with the inspectors to work in the sexual assault unit. they are the ones to work with the victims and probably know them better than anyone else. i should probably able to do that in six months. commissioner kingsley: ok, thank you very much, captain. president mazzucco: thank you very much, capt. ok, next we have a line item 5- b. secretary lt. falvey: the occ director's report. director: i was absent from last week's meeting because i was
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part of a 15-member delegation that went to memphis, including commissioner angelo -- angela chan, looking at the mentally ill and psychiatric crisis. it was informative and rewarding, but i will defer to commissioner chan to give you a more detailed report of the trip. on another note, on march 28, i received a letter from the human rights commission. they transmitted the february 24, 2011, reports, that memorializes recommendations gleaned from the september 23, 2010, hearing, on community concerns about surveillance, racial come in religious profiling of arab, middle eastern, muslim, and the asian community, et -- racial, religious -- racial and
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religious profiling of arab, middle eastern, muslim, and the asian community. to consider the issues brought to light in the hearings, and the mayor requested that she contact me and also other individuals, as well. the recommendation of the human rights commission specific to the office of citizen complaints is that our audit report be more detailed. as you are aware, they govern in the san francisco police department criminal investigations of the activities protected by the first amendment. by requiring first that there is justification for the investigation and second written approval by the commanding officer or the deputy chief or the chief of police. historically, the occ has
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prepared a detailed hotter -- audit reports. chief gascon saw that there were some issues. i have contact with director sparked -- sparks' office, and i will address this with the chief, as well. other dgo's and police practices, which they addressed to the police commission, which i am sure you are aware, and then on another note, i will discuss the specifics, and as your calendar permits on april 27 or may 11, i would like to provide the third quarter statistical report, and that concludes my report.
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commissioner: i also want to comment on that. the middle eastern, muslim, pet and intelligence gathering, just what you're talking about. there are more issues, and they have asked for changes. i have had a meeting with the department and hopefully will have further meetings about making potential changes to those dgo's. there was also an issue about the joint terrorism task force and what is a memorandum, and at that meeting, we were told that we could not get that information. however, but the question we have is that the current
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memorandum be at the police department. there is a lot we have to add to the calendar," as well as, i think commissioners slaughter and mazzucco -- i think we should put on the agenda to discuss the entire report and recommendations that they have made and see whether or not we will review it and hopefully implement many of those. president mazzucco: thank you. anything more for the director? item 5-c./ -- 5.c. president mazzucco: commissioners, anything? commissioner chan: i will talk more about memphis.
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i brought back some popcorn to share. i will give a more detailed report, basically, what i saw was amazing. in previews, i saw an officer talk someone down from threatening suicide. i was right there, and it was utterly amazing. she used purely her power of persuasion and the high level of respect that she gave the order to prevent that from happening. president mazzucco: ok, we will move on to item 5-d. secretary lt. falvey: item 5-d, commission announcements, the scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings, and scheduling of future district commission meetings. president mazzucco: commissioner
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dejesus? commissioner dejesus: we are already at the end of march, and i would personally like to see get a community meeting in each of the 10 districts before the end of the year. we have to get on it and get it scheduled if we decide all of a sudden that is the route we want to go. president mazzucco: we can do that. we generally do not meet in december, so if the meeting is in the last week of the month, which they normally are, the last week of the month, we could plan them out. >> commissioner marshall, the first one we have is january 5, so maybe we can reverse it?
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so that we can free up this part of december in meet in december? -- and meet in december? vice president marshall: where are we? commissioner hammer: we talked about it two weeks ago. it looks like it has been since july 2008 or august 2008. i think it has been more recently. you are right. february. it was one year ago. vice president marshall: we will take suggestions. commissioner hammer: if i could just finish that, it was frankly more in castro than in mission. i was at that meeting. in mission, it has been two years almost, 1.5 years. vice president marshall: a high-
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crime homicide area. commissioner hammer: we talked about that. the mission. commissioner dejesus: there are some districts we have not met in for over a year because the last couple of years, we have only met at 5 districts. there you go. maybe the richmond is a place to start, or use a combination of high crime areas as well as places we have not been to in a couple of years and perhaps give the tenant -- get lt. falvy to look at it. vice president marshall: usually, we have the third
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wednesday reserve for disciplinary cases. the schedule and bring it back to us? >> i would be happy to do that. commissioner hammer: commissioner marshall, that is what i was going to suggest. commissioner kingsley, commissioner mazzucco, lt. falvey -- i am sorry, commissioner. i did not see you. it five or six for the rest of the year, i think it may be ambitious to think we will get all 10, but you have my proxy. you can just set it up and go. .vice president marshall: and if we did that, that would help with the scheduling of the rest of our meetings for the rest of the year. ok. public comment of -- on 5-a, b,
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c, and d. anyone? >> commissioners, did meeting. -- good evening. i just have a quick question. looking at 2008 versus 2009, it looks like you do not meet in certain parts of the city. is that because the crime rate is low? or there are no real issues in those districts? and how you go about making announcements in this districts to let the public know that they are having a meeting -- in those districts to let the public know that they're having a meeting so you can get a good turnout of the residents who live there and the commercial community? i would like to know how that happens, because i have not -- i take the bus in san francisco. i used to drive a taxi in the city. i have not seen one fire anywhere at any given time to
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any community meeting over x number of years -- i have not seen one flyer. i think this is an issue you ought to address with the meetings, et -- meetings, because i think in order to have satisfactory meetings, you have to have a satisfactory turnout of people at those meetings, not just local activists, etc., etc., and that is my comment. vice president marshall: any further public comment? we will try to schedule meetings at all of the district's we have -- districts we have. this just came up because of the rising homicide rate issue. we normally try to get to all of the districts. i note the meeting is
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publicized through the commission office and through the district. the district captain himself. all right, no further public comment on that item? commissioner kingsley: just throwing this out to the last speaker, sir? if you have any specific suggestions of what you think effective outreach is on the part of the commission to get the message out, we are open to any suggestions you have that are specific on that point. to the lieutenant would be terrific. thank you. vice president marshall: all right, a public comment on that is closed. item number six. secretary lt. falvey: did you want to item number four? a discussion review status of the commission's priority list
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and possible action to repriori tize itee -- items. vice president marshall: commissioner, this is your baby. commissioner: this is on the work we did at the retreat. lt. falvey has the criteria for setting priorities and the priorities that we established back in october of 2010, and there are a number of items that we may want to consider, a number of items we may want to add. personally, there are three items that i would like to have us address, in what is a
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procedure which we informally indicated we would pursue haute back in, i believe, january of this year. but we would pursue back in, i believe, january -- we informally indicated we would pursue back in, i believe, january of this year. the third item would be a consideration of whether or not in in what form an audit overview of the department would look like or if we want that type of process to take place, so those are our three thoughts that we have in terms of priorities that we did not address back in october. vice president marshall: we have the top priorities. commissioner: that is right.
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vice president marshall: that particular list right there? commissioner: that is right. vice president marshall: some of these we have addressed. or have we? commissioner: well, we have addressed at least a component of mental-health, and we are scheduled to address the officers' item. i believe that is on the calendar very soon. april 13. language access, nightclub violence, and another, the three areas include -- in red. vice president marshall: commissioner, just to look at this, my thought is have we sort
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of mint in and out of -- sort of moved in and out of viet -- of the tiers? commissioner hammer: yes. vice president marshall: our folks comfortable with that? secretary lt. falvey: the dna portion was presented tonight. so you can check that off. vice president marshall: yes. commissioner: my comment about the discussion principally centered around the fact that we are going to have a new chief in a matter of weeks, maybe a month or something like that, and in my own view of the optimal weight is that the new chief