7,000 cases a year gives us an appreciation for what you do. you are true heros, and we appreciate that. to hear the fact that you are the officers that bring in those patients per year, it tells you what our officers have to deal with and we have to prepare them and thank them for what they have to dokeal -- deal with. you deal with that part of society most people don't have to deal with. the ones we walk by on the streets sitting in the corner. i have to tell you, a lot of times you talk to kids, what do you want to do when you grow up? like captain goldberg said, they all come to the police department to do good. i think everybody in their training, you hear about this in the catholic squools -- schools, enter to learn, leave to serve. you all are serving the comminte community. we appreciate appreciate that. thanks for the hard work of commissioner's hammer and chan.

thanks to your hard work you can go to bed and say, you are having an impact on community. people say why are you on the commission? we want an impact on the community. we have done it. it is only going to get better. i have to tell you thank you from the bottom of my heart, thank you. this is something you have done from the bottom of your hearts, so sa you to the mental health community, thank you to the officers, and thank you commissioner chan. commissioner chan: thank you. you will be hearing back from us in two months. hopefully we're on schedule. president mazzucco: thank you. is there any public comment on this? >> commissioners, i'm going to direct this statement to miss e ms. chan because you went on about how the sfpd should be wet nurses to a lot of mentally ill

people. i don't see that as possible. the sfpd has a job that is tough enough as it is. my vant vantage point as a taxicab driver is a lot greater than yours on the street. i see a lot of the mentally ill walking around. it is not their job to take care of them. their job is to notify the proper authorities. they are not doctors. they are not clinical psychologists. they are not psychiatrists. the job is to inform the proper authorities that this person has a mental problem and has to be dealt with. to make a policeman hi wet nurse is totally out of the question. the job is tough enough as it is. if you push the sfpd in a direction it cannot go, you are going to create more problems than you have. you have to understand that. it is a medical problem, not a police rob problem. there are a lot of mentally ill museum -- people on the streets

of san francisco. i see the police talking to them daily. there are problems a lot bigger than you want to talk about. to make a policeman a wet nurse it is not possible and not probable. it is never going to happen. you can talk about it. you can talk about 13-year-olds streaming in here that they don't like the sfpd. well they may not like their mother or father either. that's a big problem with a lot of 13-year-olds hanging around on the streets. i've been listening to these commission hearings, and i'm not hearing what i want to hear. i see all the problems. the financial problems, the mentally ill problems, the crime problems. you name it. and i would assume, ms. chan, instead of spending eight minutes talking about the mentally ill, you should spend eight minutes on something more

constructy. we have a medical establishment to deal with them. we have hospitals to deal with them. we have paramedicics to deal with them. he we don't need the police to deal with them. we don't need you to push them into an area that they can't possibly control or do. they can be nice to the mentally ill, but that's it. i thank you for your time. president mazzucco: any other public comment? >> i would just express the hope this training program will reduce the number of officers that throw out 5150 arrests whenever they don't like what they are doing. my situation, when you don't back down on your insistans that they enforce the law, they make up a 5150 charge to threaten you to make you back down. i have three officers -- matthew rogers, hok nishuda, and

nicklas buckley, all from the deeply corrupt mission statement. all of whom made the threat to me in the summer of 2010. i've never had a mental health issue. i've never had any problems like that in my life, but they didn't like the fact that i wouldn't back down and my insistans that they enforce the law, even in the cavity row, and three separate officers threatened me with a 5150 arrest. that's not proper. thank you. president mazzucco: i have spoken to commissioner hammer, who is spearheading this. >> we asked for a continuance. president mazzucco: we ask for a one-week continuance on this matter for commissioner hammer to work with deputy city attorney maria blitz who is our rules and procedures guru. we will take that off calendar. vice president marshall: is this

the same as we were dealing with earlier? president mazzucco: there has been a question about the hearing officers. this is primarily designed to fix some of those and tighten those rules up in the process, ms. blitz went beyond that. we have one set of rules going forward, and then other minor tweaks we'll talk about next week. we've meat meth and conferred with the p.o. a. which i fanked -- thanked her office for. it is primarily the hearing officer edits. president mazzucco item 7-a please. 7-a. reports and announcements. 7-a is the chief's report on crime statistics and recent activities. >> i'm going to talk a little about the crime stats and then i'm going to ask the lieutenant to discuss homicide clear clearance rate.

then the commander will step up and talk about the property crime issues and some of the things we're doing to suppress some of the property crime issues. as of april 2nd, cry lent crime is down. violent crimes vs. 1,848 last year. we'll still have a slight up-tick in homicides. 19 year to date vs. 13 for 2010. as far as property crimes are concerned, we're down 14%. burglary, the biggest issue we have right now in the city would be property crimes referencing auto thefts and burglaries or breaking into ape locked vehicle. up 14% in auto theft and 20% in burglary theft for motor vehicle. for that reason, we are up in part one crime 2% year to date. many 9,511, but we have 234 more crimes this year than last year.

more importantly, the theft and motor vehicle category, we're up 461 crimes in that category than last year. that is my report on the crime statistics. if there aren't any questions i'm going to have the lieutenant step up first. president marshall: thank you, chief. lieutenant militello. >> good evening, commissioners, vice president marshall, chief godown, ms. hicks. what you have in front of you is a breakdown of the year-to-date homicide statistics for 2011 and a comparison with the same year to date numbers for 2010.

first, you will see that in 2011 we have had 20 homicides compared to the same -- compared to 12 in the same period in 2010. we have closed nine of those cases by arrest compared with five from 2010. this shows the tremendous work being done by the 17 investigators that work homicide and the four that were cold case. it is also indicative of the amount of work they put in durget initial hours after a homicide. you may have heard it referred to as the first 48. i could not be prouder of these individuals. the countless hours they dedicate to their cases, never giving up on them. just this last week we cleared a case from a 2006 homicide. in 2010 homicide investigators cleared a total of 14 cases from previous years.

next you see clearances of additional cases. some of you may recall two high-profile cases we had last year. the first involved an arson involving a body located inside. through thorough investigation our -- the actual homicide occurred outside of our jurisdiction. the second was a stabbing case where a victim was brutally assaulting an individual with a shovel. that individual stabbed our victim, and the district attorney's office deemed the homicide justifiable. if you factor in those two cases, it puts our total case clearance at 12. this shows an overall clearance rate of 65% for 2011 compared to 42% for the same period last year. additionally our investigators have identified the suspects in

six other 2011 cases. those six caste cases need a bit more work to bring the suspects to justice. i think it is important to say of the 19 homicides we've had in san francisco this year to date, homicide investigators along with the police officers of our department have solved 16-19. i have included -- vice president marshall: do you think it has the clearance rate -- do you think the clearance rate has anything to do with work be -- being moved out to the district station? y think some of it could be. we work collaboratively with other investigative units within the department, and i think because of that collaboration we're able to develop information more quickly and it's leading to the arrest.

i can't stress the amount of work that my investigators do in homicide. they catch a case. as many of you, i am sure know, oftentimes, they go and they work on just a couple hours sleep every day. i'm really, really proud of them. i think it is a combination of all of that, commissioner, that is cleaning to just these incredible clearance rates. vice president marshall: we can't say -- >> we can say it has helped. a lot of the credit is due to lee as well as david lazar. the homicide investigators work tremendously hard. when i put the blackberry down before going to bed at night, and there is a homicide at 2:00 in the morning, i know when i

get up at 12:00, they are still working on it. the decentral zation but i think the supervision of the unit, i think that has a lot to do with how it is being run and the quality of the work that we're getting from investigators. 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.