vice president marshall: thank you. >> i have also broken down the catagories. if first you look at motive, you will see disputes and gang violence make up the majority of our homicides. of our 19 homicides this year, 14 are contributed -- attributed to gun violence compared with 7 for the same period last year. our homicide investigators work delab collaboratively with other members of the department to reduce our violence rate working with gang task force. the sharing of information is critical in preventing retaliatory violence and additional homicides. these units are instrumental in helping us to solve these cases. i would also be remisif i did not mention our allies at state parole, the u.s. allies whose

assistance is invaluable. in closing, i would like to say that where our homicides are slightly elevated in 2011 rvings i am extremely -- i am extremely proud of our clearance rate. thank you. any questions? >> thank you, lieutenant. commissioner hammer? >> i know your work from when i was a d.a. in san francisco and you investigating cases back then. could you talk a little bit just so people understand? you talked about the first 48, why that first 48 hours after a homicide is critical. not just that, but what we're doing now different than what we did some years after a homicide. >> in previous years, we used to work homicides, and it used to be two investigators working a case. they would go on call and take a case every -- you know, every homicide that comes in, the same two investigators were working

those cases. since i took over homicide, i brought in the back-up team. now we have a primary team that goes out, and a back-up team that goes out. on those teams we have basically four investigators rather than two in the past. so that's very important. it allows our guys to develop as much information as possible. the first 48 hours is important because that's the time you gather you most information. it is important to have as many people on the ground running to look for winds, to develop video. to canvas the area.

it is all of those things that i think are contributing to what i think is a remarkable effort by our wlole department frankly. >> i do, too. that's why i want you to have a chance to talk about it. i think the most important thing you've done, i was pleased to hear your motive and position. i know your work agentic when you worked homicides. it takes someone who really cares about solving homicides to make someone else care as much as well. and bringing back this idea of flooding an area with officers, when winds are fresh, when you have a chance to get the bad guy, that's make a huge difference in the clearance rates. i think that's partly responsible for that. secondly, we haven't seen the retaliation gang violence we've seen in the past. if that happens again, it will be important. as you know, one homicide can become 2, and 3, and 4 quickly. >> if i could say, commissioner,

one of the things we're doing is, with our collaborative effort we're able to see the areas. so it is very, very helpful. >> the clearance rate is up. i'm pleased with that. i want to commend chief godown and most importantly, all the investigators who are working 26 hours. with you i want to commind for their work. >> commissioner dejesus. commissioner dejesus: i wanted to ask you clarification numbers. for 2011 there were 10 cases cleared, and this 19 total cases from what i can see.

that 65%, does that include the 10 cases out of jurisdiction? >> it includes those, yes. zpuse seduce -- commissioner dejesus: does that mean they are arrested? >> that's correct. in six additional cases we have suspects i.d.'s but from having an identification to putting it to a place where you can prosecute someone in court, sometimes there's additional work that needs to be done, so in those six cases, we are continuing to do the work. >> if the jurisdiction cases are added to that 6%, does it make it 12 cleared out of 21? >> yes. >> 14-21?

>> 12. commissioner dejesus: i just wanted to know if that was accurate or not. >> yes, it is accurate. commissioner dejesus: i have to say going up last year from 42% to 65%, even with the added jurisdiction cases, it is great. and i do commend you for that. i feel you guys can do even better and hopefully we can get even more ask get that percentage up higher, even though we are very pleased with where it is. i would like to follow up on the suspect that are i.d.'s, because i think we have people come here every week saying that we know who did it, but it is an issue. i understand what that issue is, but i'd like to follow up on that. i do want to thank you. that is very impressive. >> commissioner slaughter. >> lieutenant, just a few questions. do you know comparatively what the clearance rates are in other cities so we have a benchmark a?

do we know what the clearance rates are in san jose, sacramento, that sort of thing? y didn't bring that information with me. but i did a presentation, end of the year statistics, and san francisco was above every other major city and clearance rates for 2010, and i am certain we are well above other major cities clearns clearance rates for 2011. >> fantastic. just a question about the gang homicides. what's the clearance rate on the gang homicides? if you know. my presumption is unfortunately less. >> well, but some of these 19 are in fact gang homicides. and we've been successful. slaught slaught i understand -- commissioner slaughter: i understand we have seven gang homicides this year and 9-19 that have been cleared. of those 9 that are cleared, are

some of those gang homicides? >> yes. commissioner slaughter: and do you know if our rates of clearing gang homicides are higher than, less than our overall rate? >> i don't understand the question. commissioner slaughter: i want to figure out, are we solving gang homicides at the same rate at which we are solving homicides as a whole? >> i would have to say gang homicides are more difficult to solve. that's partly because winds are afraid to come forward and assist our investigators. but i will say since january of this year, and real say since j this year, and really since the latter part of last year are year -- year, i've seen that turn around a little bit, and that's comforting. i think it's showing that i think members of the community are getting tired of the violence, and, you know, they are having the courage to come forward. it shows that when we have a

citizen that comes forward in those cases, we make arrests, and we clear them. and we put people in jail for oftentimes the rest of their life. you know, we just have to keep doing a good job and en-- encouraging people to come forward in those cases. >> thank you, lieutenant. >> dr. marshall. vice president marshall: the gang homicides, that is primarily the sunnydale area? >> no, it is all over the city. it could be the western it could be the western addition, hunter's point. it's really -- >> that's what i wanted to know. >> and the nightclubs? >> yes, a few of those are nightclub related. >> you have two different components that work on these homicides. lee and her folks that go out and investigate the homicides, and then once a homicide occurs,

the wheels that turn in motion on this department for most people that aren't on the police department and even for the commissioners, there say significant amount of resources applied to every run of one of these homicides.

outside of the police department -- >> outside of the police department we have community efforts help us look at these. everybody does a really good job. >> commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: thank you for your report, commander and lieutenant. i appreciate it. it is enlightening to see this breakdown, but also the terrific work that's being done by your unit. just a question. i see there are no homicides in the richmond area. is there any speculation in terms of, you know, what

distinguishes it, the richmond? maybe it is geography, maybe it is the community or the department or the community interaction or whatever? >> i think it is probably all of the above, commissioner. the richmond is probably a quieter part of the city. i don't have an officer as to why we have zero and zero. i'm happy about it. >> commander lazar? >> i wanted to touch on this, the work that the homicide investigators do. the lieutenant's work is amazing. she is the chief's pick, she was my pick. we couldn't think of anyone better to run the unit. i would be remisin not providing

that to the sperkses. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. we all appreciate the work that you have done. so moving onto the next item on the chief's report. is that it for the chief's report? >> no. commappeder lazar will discuss some of the issues. i will discussion stolen item issues. we have unique dynamics in this city where a major portions of the citizens park their vehicles on a side street which makes it a great opportunity for people to come up and take property out of the cars. plus put some of these people into jail. i'm confident that david lazar

is going to explain this to you. >> good even aing, president mazzucco. chief godown. i'm commander lazar. this evening i'm going to give you an overview of the property crimes. at the end, i'm going to give a lot of credit to a lot of people that attributed -- contributed to the situation. when we talk about property

crimes, we are talking about property crimes as listed in the uniform crime report. the uniform crime report lists it as burglary or personal theft or other theft, arson, auto theft, and auto burglary. that's what we're going to focus on this evening. as you look at the statistics, going back to 2008, there actually has been a decline in property instances. we see in 2008, property crimes versus 2009 where we covered 30,000. in 2010 we were at about 639. so far year to date, 7,445. although we've seen a spike, and the chief talked about that, if we were to multiply that by four, we would still come a little short, as we did in 2010. weaver hoping that based on our

strategy and approach we will see a decline in those property crime areas. next slide, please. when we look at total property, i think it is important to see year to date. march 26, 2010 to march 26, 2011. the central district, there is a rise. we see the southern has a slight up-tick. the bay view slight up-tick. the bay view slightly up. northern partly up. in the park a big decline. richmond around the same. engleside slightly up. the tenderloin we see a decline in property crimes.

next slide please. when we start to focus in on the part-one property crimes, we first look at personal other theft by district. we're breaking pretty even between 2010 and 2011 omplee. even -- we're talking about personal other theft. this involves shoplifting, taking of property from other people. that's what this is about. the central there has been a slight uptick. the southern a slight decline. the mission has an uptick. the morne is up, the park is down. the richmond station is considerably down. inning ldstside is down. the tenderloin is down. so slight fluctuations in

property crime. arrests up 14%. we think of burglaries, residential burglaries. the central district is down. southern is up. bay view is down. mission down considerably. northern down considerably. the tenderloin is down for burglaries. so we're moving along at a great pace for burglaries. we need to keep up the great work in that area. flour we move on to arsarsons. arsons lightly up. we're talking about the difference between 59 cases this year vs. 53 cases last year. as you can see, we go through the district. we see central is down, southern is up. these are small numbers. we can see as we go along the bay view has the most reported arsons in san francisco.

the mission slightly down. northern down. it fluctuates. park richmond. inning lside, either up or down. we notice with the arsons there are 50 or 60 arrests every year. what we're excited about is that the district attorney's filing rate in partnership with us is usually about 100%. we have those cases normally charged. there is about a 95% conviction rate. what we're seeing are trash can fires, vehicles set on fire, stolen, taken out to locations, placed on fire, and things like that. the good news is that with regard to structure fires, those fires are down. you may remember in an early part of the year in the castro, you started to see a couple fires, and then it died down. that's our situation for arsons.

moving onto the next slide. >> did you catch the porta-po. ty guy? >> we were doing ok with port a hpootie as far as not having many, and then we had one yesterday. and i believe that there is a car that caught on fire as well. it's interesting, commissioner, that you brought it up, because we're back in the port-a-pottie again. property crimes arrest. as i mentioned, we are arresting people for property crimes. as you look at this chart, you'll see we are down in the central on property crimes. we're steady in the southern. up in the bay view, up in the northern. when you think about, ok, there's a rise in property crimes in san francisco, and there say newspaper articles about this, you will see that we're making more arrests than we were last year in most cases.

park were up, richmond we're up. ingleside we're down, and so we are making arrests for property crimes. rrests for property crimes. >> all right. moving around to the auto theft and auto situation, i think we know of people who have been victim of an auto theft or burglary in san francisco. i want to talk -- i want to focus the rest of my presentation in on this topic. i want you to know that there are 485,000 registered vehicles in san francisco. we believe an additional 500,000 travel to and through our city every day. many cities have two cars parked in front of their homes due to lack of garage space. we know there were approximately 400,000 -- 4,000 vehicles stolen in 2010. in a recent article, the author made reference to a spike in auto theft and burglaries. we know oftentimes one auto

burglary suspect may be responsible for numerous instances. once captured, we begin to see the numbers reduced. we also know with increased public education and awareness, members of the public will choose to report the auto burglary by calling 3 1 -- 311 or filing a report online. as a result, we develop our response. we want to encourage the public to -- to report these crimes so we can make a decision as to when and where these crimes are happening. year to date, auto thefts up in san francisco. 14%. year to date, auto burglaries up 20%. next slide, please. this first slide gives us a historical perspective on what has happened. in 199 , we had 12,610 auto

thefts. >> my dad's car was stolen. until 2002, 6,3 hundred hookup. 2008, 6200. this represents a decline over the last 10 years. i think it is important to understand where we were and where we have come. next slide please. >> according to the california highway patrol, the top 15 stolen vehicles are honda accords. you just put a year on it, and that will be one of the 15 in the can the angry. -- 15 in the category. in san francisco, it is hondas, toyotas, accuras, that hover

around the top that have been stolen. los angeles in 2010 there were 45,000 autos stolen. an 89% recovery rate. in san diego, 13,700. al media, 9,000. they do well with a 95% recovery rate. then there's us in san francisco. 3,929, and we recover about 92% to 93% of the cars stolen. we recover them. >> back to the chart of auto theft by district. this is the snapshot as of march

26. in the central we've seen a significant increase. for southerners an increase. in the bay view an increase. knot northern an increase. in the park a decrease. the richmond down as well. ingleside down as well. the tenderloin we're down. as you can see, ingleside has the most auto theft followed by the bay view district. we'll talk momentarily about our strategy to take care of that issue. all right. auto burglaries. the auto burglaries have declined. there has been a steady decline from a high of 15,276 in 2006 to a low of 10,409 in 2009. this represents a 36% drop over the last five years. these numbers may not mean much to that one individual who has had their car broken into that

there is a decrease, and we realize that. we realize there is always more for all of us to do, and some of those things i'm going to talk about shortly. >> for the sake of time, can we con dens -- condence this a little bit. >> we're coming to the end chief. >> we're coming to the end, chief. >> you promise? >> yes. >> quickly looking at the charts. and i know commissioners, you want an overview. the burglary theft. if you live in these neighborhoods, this is where we are. you have a rise in the central and the southern and the bay view and the mission and the northern. a decrease. so we're seeing more auto break-ins and auto burglaries this year than we were last year. now to strategies. chief, i'm going to talk a little about the strategies for prevention.

this is what the good work of the san francisco police department spearheaded by the captain. i'll go through this fairly quickly. the first item, let's get to it. community police advisory boards. we're using them for help. that's community policing at its best. this is at its best with our -- what we call our -- two types. school-aged kids creating a poster to warn residents about not getting their cars broken into. p in the southern, be city smart. they are trying to market their message south of market where people come to san francisco and they are city smart. we're working with the san francisco giants to get that on a billboard to remind people. next is the bait car.

i think that has some sort of preventative measure. if you are a criminal here, and you watch channel 65, you may think twice knowing we have a bait car. we are putting things out in different languages to warn residents about parking their vehicles and having items in there. we're using newsletters. captain karia has created a flier. he's working with hertz rent-a-car now. when someone rents a car there is a flier that warns them about leaving valuables. he will be talking more with other rental cars as a reminder of people who want to rent a car.

they are warning residents and putting notices on cars to remind them not to leave things out. notes that say, there is nothing in this car, please do not bother to break the glass. then writing in the chinese newspaper in chinese or having it translate sod that in multiple languages we are reminding residents to be safe with vehicles and property. of course we attend various community meetings, and we're working with the rental car communities on embezzeled autos. moving onto the next topic, as we're starting to wined wind down here, prevention and education. chief, if you will allow me