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 to talk about prevention and education. let me run things down for people watching. they know they have their cars broken into. number one, take all the keys away from your car.

stop leaving keys in your car like a spare key hidden somewhere. we recommend you dwonet do that. utilize visible security devices like the club or a kill switch so you can't steal the car. automobile alarms and the lojack system are other fools people can use. do not leave the ownership title in a vehicle because a person can write their name in and now they are the owner of the car by way of title. the title of the car. secure the vehicle's registration. most auto burglaries are preventable. do not leave items visible. that's the bottom line with education. if you have to store something in the trunk, put it in the trunk prior to arrival so that people don't see you putting things in the trunk. be mindful if someone breaks in your car, they could hit the truck release and they will get in. you need to maybe have a locking container that's bolted in the trunk. be aware of your surroundings.

note at large public gatherings. we know that suspects specifically target those areas knowing there are a lot of cars with a lot of valuables. so we have to be careful. lock your vehicle. common sense. park in well-lit areas. of course san francisco state is a great resource. you can find them online and get information from them. >> lieutenant, i grabbed a couple things out of evidence there, and these are shade keys. we have some shaved keys here. show and tell. you have suspects that walk around with these keys and they are able to put them in the ignitions of hondas and toyotas and cars like that and easily get in. i want all of you to see what we're talking about.

oftentimes we'll see someone breaking in and we'll add a charge of being in possession of aburg -- of a burglary tool. >> hondas and toyotaas because they manufacture more of those cars than any other in the united states. also because they will run for several hundred thousand miles. once they stick it down, they will put it in the anything in addition and start the car. that's is the two nu number one reasons why that is -- why those are the most stolen vehicles. and the big issue with breaking into the locked vehicle. 25 years ago you broke into a car, some of you probably remember what an eight-track stereo, now with the solid stereo systems, those aren't

stolen anymore. they are literally breaking into the car to steal your items that you left in a car from a laptop. their not stealing anything off the car per se, it is items we neglect to lock up. >> thanks, chief. we talked about prevention. what is the police department doing with regard to enforcement? i'm going to give you a few items we're working on together. number one, i talked about a -- our bait car operations. we have sergeant enforcement. we capture those who arrest, those who break into cars and steal them and those that break in for property. is specifically lieutenant

pliers, they are our pioneers, and they train officers throughout the city on this type of enforcement. we have the auto mated license recognition system. we have 16 police cars in san francisco with cameras on top. i'm sure the public has seen these cars. these are license plates. pe actually received $1 from the registration fee from every vehicle registered in san francisco. that goes back to enforcement. it goes back to our vehicle theft abatement program. as a matter of fact, since january 2010 to march 2011, we've had 106 targeted operations, 108 arrests, and 48 recoveries using the license plate reader vehicle and conducting enforcement operations.

we also have surveillance. we saturate areas. the chief talked about redeploying resources. we're focusing on areas where there are thefts taking place. in the invent of technology, youtube and personal videos, we're tracking those things down now. we're looking on the internet for sales of property. some people have a motorcycle stolen. it gets stripped. parts sold on the internet. at the stations, they are doing this work. the station investigators are the ones handling these cases. we are advising officers about where a crime is happening and being smarter about doing policework and giving officers great information about what's happening.

we're working on a policy with our cases. sometimes a person will report a car stolen and then find it. that is not a stolen item. that is a car that's been lost and found. we have foot patrols in high vehicle burglary areas. we're now fingerprinting vehicles. we never did this before where we had officers come to the scene and print your vehicle. we're doing that now. we have undercover training. i'll give a plug in for captain kariya. auto theft suspect. here's the list. here's the folks in the richmond district. he tells the officers, be careful for these particular individuals.

they may try to break into a car. we have dispatched that broadcast. when you get your car stolen in san francisco, the dispatcher needs to put it on all channels. every officer has the opportunity to put it down on a sheet in their car, the license plate. we're looking at areas where property is fenced. we know there is a place where you get your ipod is teaken, there is a place where many people go to fence that property. and last, we are deploying officers to those large events that i talked about -- 49ers, giants, parades, festivals. we're making sure that we are there knowing that people will be breaking in to vehicles. in summary, approximately 89 --

8,000 cars. a 60% decline over the last 18 years. a 36% drop in all the time owe burglaries in the last four years. before i conclude, i could say there is always room for improvement. our officers are doing an outstanding job every day. i think about the case that happened in the mission on april 1 where officers baca and carter were plain clothesed in the middle of the night and responded to an auto burglary. when they get there, they witness an individual in a 2004 nissan. they go to abhend him. they identify themselves as police officers and get in a big fight, big chase with this individual. that resisting arrest p incident was so violent, one of the officers had to go to the hospital. it is an example of the work that our officers are doing every day to address this problem that many people don't

even realize. last we have an average auto recovery rate. we are consistently ranked with the top five cities with a population of 250,000 or greater in recovering our vehicles. if i could see that last slide. these are the folks i've folken with in the last few days. i have thanked all of my colleagues for providing me with information. they are experts in this area. i could not have done some nice presentation without their input. with that i'll be more than happy to take questions from you. >> thank you commander lazar. as usual your presentations are very thorough. i thought after that ingleside presentation we banned you fo from the power point.

all kidding aside, you've done a great job. it answers a lot of the questions that have been there in the articles from the public about property crimes. it is a big issue. so i think the moral of the story is, the message needs to get out, as i see it, if you walk your dog early in the morning, people leave stuff early in the morning. do not leave stuff in your cars that gives people a reason to break in. people joke about the glass on the side of the road called san francisco snow. we need to not leave things in our cars. i was a former prosecutor, but if it is late at night or early in the morning and a guy is riding a bike with a backpack and he has five teeth left in his mouth and he looks like he hasn't slept in 20 days, he's probably a car thief. people need to be able to call 911 and recognize who doesn't belong in their neighborhood.

who is riding around on a bike with a backpack and no teeth. they are probably going to break into your camplet -- car. >> thank you for your presentation. i don't know if it was because of my comments last week that you did all this hard work, but i certainly didn't intend for the department to spend all this time, but i appreciate it, because it was very thorough. and i appreciate that we're at a period of historic lows when you look over the past three or four or five years. my real question from last week, and the question i will put to you this week is, the property crimes, the auto burglary and auto theft and what's driving the increase this year in property crimes. everything else is flat or declining. yet in this one area, and i appreciate everything we are doing. from your slides it doesn't

appear to be from one area. from my brief understanding there didn't appear to be rhyme or reason about where or when. do you have any ideas about why? why this area of property crime as opposed to others. why are we being more successful in others in property crime but this one spot this year is up compares to everything else? >> i have a couple ideas. one is that we know that quite often one person can do a lot of damage, and be responsible for a lot of auto burglaries and auto tcheft. -- theft. when we capture that person, in the last two weeks, even though his numbers are high, in the last two weeks they made two significant arrests in auto burglaries involving six people. i think we're already starting to see the numbers start to switch. we're starting to see a decline in incidence.

there may be a few people out that weren't out in 2010 causing some of these problems. i also think we continue to market our message and educate the public about recording these instances. i have to feel that there is some impact in that. people that may have gotten their cars broken into at one point and thought, i'm not going to cover it. maybe some of those individuals are starting to report it knowing that we have comstat, we're paying attention to crime. we're deploying our resources. those are two main areas that can cause the numbers to do up. the important point is that i think the san francisco police department is working smarter this year than we were last year . mainly the comstat. they are asked about what are they doing to address the problem. they are held accountable. then a month later, the chief asks them, well, last month you

said you were doing a, b, and vc, and tell me how it is going. >> since it is such aa glaring anomaly with the rest of the crime statistics, i'm sure we will check back. i appreciate all your hard work. >> one of the big issues i run into and the department runs into, it has to be a balance. the balance between violent crime and property crime. in some instances we put so many resources into the crime suppression of violent crime we sometimes don't have as many officers in crime suppression. that is a balancing act we have to look at. we have budget demands. i have to figure out how i can

handle that balance on a daily basis. you have to have some luck to catch someone stealing a car at a specific location at a specific time. we don't have as mr. officers out there today doing this. that also plays a role into it, too. commissioner chan: my question is very quick. i think you might have answered it. the different strategies used by captain is impressive. i'm wondering, where did they speak to each other and share these strategies? >> i think it happens in a couple diffe l