>> taking roll call of the commissioners. commission president thomas mazzucco. >> present. >> commission vice president dr. joe marshall. >> en route. >> he's en route. >> commissioner petra dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner angela chance? >> present. >> commissioner carol kingsley? >> present. >> commissioner james slaughter. >> here. >> commissioner julius terman. >> here. >> you have a quorum and joyce

hicks at the o.c.c. and commander tim tomioka. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, july 6 san francisco police commission meeting. ened we'll have commander tomiaoka sit with us until the chief arrives. dr. marshall is en route. tonight's calendar, we have a lot of closed session matters we'll be dealing with in closed session at the close of the calendar. they're disciplinary matters. so we'll start with what we need to do at the beginning which is line item number 1 >> the approval of minutes, an action item for the following meetings, june 1, 8, 15th, and 22nd of 2011. >> thank you, lieutenant. commissioners, you have those minutes in your packet with the caveat we had a discussion regarding the fact these commission meetings are recorded and the best record of these meetings will be the recorded version as opposed to the minutes that we have 250eu7ed -- typed.

but there are any changes? commissioner chance [ >> i have a minor one. the spelling for, june 22, 2011, the first page, just -- i'm familiar with michael. it's michael gause, he's at the mental health association and spoke on behalf of the crisis intervention training work and sistil connor is a sponsor for dore clinic. >> commissioners, any other changes you'd like to make? hearing none, public comment reguarding the minutes? any comment regarding the minutes? hearing none? do i have a motion to accept the minutes. >> i move to accept the minutes. >> in favor. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> thank you very much. let's move on to line item number two. >> item number two is general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission with items that don't appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction before the speaker shall

address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not the individual commissioners or o.c.c. personnel. under rules of order, during comment, personnel or commissioner are not likely to respond but may provide a brief response. police and o.c.c. personnel should refrain from entering into debate or discussion with speakers during public comment. please limit your comments to three minutes. >> thank you very much, lieutenant. any general public comment? good evening. i haven't seen you for a while. >> i know. fortunately i'm down here tonight because i would rather discuss this matter with the captain and the chief but july 4, in the evening, i got but one hour of sleep because the fire cracker was obnoxious. i called the police, dispatch 152 informed me that the police captain, night captain was not

responding to those complaints this evening. that i find unacceptable because it was my understanding illegal fireworks are illegal. they were putting on a show better than the one at christy field. i didn't want my house to catch on fire and had to hose it down because ashes were falling on top of my home. and i expect the police chief and the captains to work with me. and when they get chewed out over this matter i don't want them to call the mental health office on me like captain chief stanford, when he was my problem but now is in richmond. i hope i made myself quite clear. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> members of the economies

police commission, my name is rick arkstricker. since we passed the july 4 weekend, one thing in doing the pledge of allegiance, what goes through your mind when you look at the flag and put your hand on your heart and pledge of allegiance and do the things in that pledge? because i've come here before you and seen and had myself and seen other people being told there were certain things they were not allowed to talk about when that flag up there and that flag up there both guarantee we have the right to do so. and with six of seven out of you being attorneys, how you can let someone actually sit there and tell some member of the public you're not allowed to talk about that or you can't talk about our policies, you can only talk about actual substantial items in the chief's report or whatever it happens to be is beyond my belief. now, i took to the sunshine ordinance task force and got a

unanimous decision saying you violated my rights when you said i couldn't question you going into closed session. if i feel you're doing something which is affecting the public in a negative light or denying them the right to come to you and talk to you about things which they feel you need to hear, then i have the right to do that. in fact, i have a responsibility to do that. when i joined the united states navy, i took an oath. i swore to protect and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. to bear true faith and allegiance to the same, so help me god. there were some other things in there about observing the uniform code of military justice and obeying the order of the office appointed over me but that was an oath on the day i took it, i realized i would never be able to put down. now, i know some probably think i'm trying to be a pain in the butt and i'm not. i do not think any citizen of this city should have to come before any board or commission

and fight with them for the right to speak to them. including matters about which you don't want them to speak because you don't want it heard and you don't want it considered. the fact i would have to take you through that process to make something which is so patently obvious a matter of public record i think is an embarrassment in itself. and your process 6 rearranging the agenda when you look out and don't know what it is you see, too many people who want to talk and you say this would be more convenient if we just rearrange the agenda and go into closed session and the time we come back they'll all be gone. but i tell you one thing, if you want to see some interesting things, watch yourself as you come back from that closed session when the members of the public are all gone, you say some really, really interesting things because you think nobody's listening. >> next speaker. clyde?

>> good evening. missed you all last week. missed you at park station, too, in that shooting. i heard the chief did another great job explaining the officer-related shooting. a friend of mine was there. i'm bringing up a topic, i was told this afternoon, i heard it, some of our on-duty officers are harassing people collecting signatures for the adache petition. it was reported in the news and i went out and verified it and talked to two people and i said are officers bothering you, are they in uniform? he said, clyde, two of them did it to me today. i think we really need to look at that issue. if they're on duty, they have a right to express their opinion off duty but when they're on the clock that's kind of a little over the top. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners, my name is daniel hertado from

the benefit district. we're a nonprofit community based organization that provides services and programs to improve the safety, cleanliness and quality of life in the central market area. pedestrian safety has always been and continues to be a priority of the central market community benefit district. it is one of the reasons why our organization contracts with the san francisco redevelopment agency to administer the sixth street community guides program on sixth street. the community guides provide much needed social service outreach along the sixth street corridor as service eyes and ears for the community. we also work closely with our community partners, resident and merchant community and problem solving and working together to create a safe and vibrant neighborhood and improve the quality of life in this district. the san francisco police department and the mayor's office of work force development and other city's departments and agencies recognize making merchants and residents safe is a central

issue to help revitalize central market and the sixth street area. there have been numerous community meetings addressing the issue of pedestrian safety and the recent large turnout at supervisor jane kim's community meeting shows the depths of people's concerns as well as their willingness to come together to make the neighborhood safer. the multiple shootings in central market are a big setback for the community and has us all deeply concerned but even more determined to assess the city and our community neighbors in making the central market area safer for everyone. i'm here to thank you and the police department and the captains for their ongoing commitment to making central market safer and can't thank you enough for the recent police presence along sixth street for the mobile command unit and for your response to the recent violence in this neighborhood. i'm here to urge you to continue to support efforts to make the area safer from drug using and shootings and other

forms of crime which have crippled this community. i also urge you to move forward with the police substation on sixth street. its existence would allow for more effective deployment strategy for area hot spots in this neighborhood. the added benefit of police presence would be an increased feeling of security for the neighborhood residents, merchants, workers and visitors in this area. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners, my name is maria costinara and am here to speak on my behalf and don't have an attorney to represent me here today. there's a lot of issues i want to address to you. unfortunately, my problem is with housing but on the memorial weekend, i called 911 and i called because i thought i could get assistance from the san francisco police department and so i did make a phone call

and two officers came and one of them went to speak with the landlord gervin and the other went to speak with a man who was actually being verbally abusing me and also on that day he threatened me, i'm going to kill you or my uncle is going to kill you. so with that in mind is why i called the san francisco police department so they can get a report. but since without no report i don't even have a way of taking this to court. until this point, that day i flee my house, commissioners, and i been living in another situation -- well, whatever the situation is. but my point is that i didn't get assistance from the san francisco police department that day. and this goes back in the year

2000 when i used to make complaints about domestic violence from my ex-partner. i remember very clear i went to san francisco police department on 17th street on valencia and i was complaining about my perpetuator, my ex-domestic partner so i was making a complaint about the domestic violence. one of the officers told me, maybe you got beat up because you deserve it. if san francisco police officer inside the station told me that. can you believe it? of course not. but that happened. and i was given the report to one of the -- it was an asian police officer, i remember. so when he told me that, of course i left without giving me the report because i said, this coming from a san francisco police officer so why am i standing here? so i left. then they went to my house where i used to live and took the report from the perpetuator. then instead of him being the suspect, i was the suspect.

because he was lying, of course, a man who was being violating you in domestic violence for many, many years, of course he wants to defend himself. so this is been a nonstop police misconduct for many, many years and i'm tired of it and i'm asking to be done something about it, you know. at this point all my belongings are in there from the place where i sleep where this man threatened me and nothing has been done about it. so i would like someone to properly advise me what can i do about it? maybe i ask the police commission -- >> chief. >> i'm sorry, i don't know your name very well but i'm urging you to help me and assist me in this issue. thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. next public speaker. hearing none, public comment is now closed.

please call line item number three, please. >> item number three, are reports and announcements. 3-a is the chief's report, a report on crime statistics and review of recent activities. >> good evening, chief, how are you? >> i'm well. and you, commissioner? >> good. >> well, to report, over the last period, the last month, robberies are flat, believe it or not, dead even, aggravated assaults are down about 10%. overall year to date, violent crime down about 7%. part two crimes down about 4%. overall crime, again, relatively flat within the margin of error at 2%. so we're still doing well. that said, we did have some violence over the weekend in the bay view. we've put a summer beat plan together similar to last year where we augmented the existing beat by putting another 10 officers to work during the

week -- not during the week, seven days a week coveringthe third street corridor where it seems to be the area of concern. additionally there's going to be permanent officers through the summer placed at men dell plaws -- at mendel plaza where julie jim is and a few other nonprofits. and the other point that was mentioned earlier is sixth street and market street. we've put the command van there until we can get the substation open. we have talked with redevelopment. one of the issues was the signing of a five-year lease, a compromise was reached which was the signing of a three-year lease with three two-year options to follow that. it's going to happen. it will be a storefront. again, there was some confusion over the definition of what a substation was. the confusion being that the redevelopment was actually building a police station, and i don't think it's lost on this commission. we don't have the staffing right now to put it to open an

11th station, especially one that's in between two existing stations so close. but we will staff that and that will be a place where officers come to and from and can cut down the distance from them having to go all the way to southern or tenderloin. recent activities, we're just about completed with our list for the communities of trust that will be at the public lieary on the 12th at 4:00. i met today with the delegation of taiwan which is really nice. we're sending a san francisco police uniform to be in the largest police museum in the world in taipei. we continue with our bay regional law enforcement summit which i believe will be on november 8. community policing general order working group is moving forward. career development, general working group is moving forward

. we will have the cpsa graduation, i believe that's on tuesday. i'll have to get back with the dates. but the cspa graduation and the cpl graduation is something i can get to lieutenant salvy if the commissioners would like to attend they can. >> on the cpl cadets i understand there's an unusual large number of students. how many do we have? >> i don't know exactly but it's approximate double what we graduated last year. >> and the p.l. cadets, we pay them and they do functions a the station and we give them training at the academy? >> we actually don't pay them, they're all volunteers so they do the summer cadet academy to keep them busy. again, positive choices. we're able to get a lot of kids, extra kids jobs this summer at 91424 through private

inn, public enterprise, positive choices. and then our hope is that then we deploy these young people all over the police department wherever we need help and however they are making a positive role model image of the police department and hopefully we can get some cops out of that group down the line. >> great. i saw some of the cadets last wednesday at our community meeting. they were just great. incredible kids. so whoever doubled the parlts operation should be commended to that. >> i have to give the credit to lorraine woodruff long, the director of p.a.l. and the more space we give her at the academy, that would end up being a p.a.l. academy if lorraine had anything to do with it. so she really does a great job. i spoke to the kids when they came in on their first day, and there's really a broad cross section of young people all over san francisco, and i mean, that's been the goal. we've talked at this body about

having our san francisco residents become cops, our san francisco young people being engaged, and i think that that p.a.l. cadet program is a great example of how it's supposed to work. >> great. thank you. dr. marshall? commissioner marshall: commissioners, when you were speaking chief, we used to get those daily reports, crime reports, it happened every day. are we still -- am i off the list or we're not getting them anymore? i'm not sure? do you know what i'm talking about. >> are you talking about the daily recap? commissioner marshall: yeah. >> we get them in bunches with, not each day. commissioner marshall: it kept me abreadth of what's really important. can we get those again? when you mentioned the bay view, i would have known if we had gotten the daily recap. i'd appreciate getting it again. president mazzucco:

commissioner dejesus? commissioner dejesus: are we having an increase in illegal fireworks in the city because my neighborhood was rocking from dark until almost midnight and i'm talking they had their own show going, the exploding sparklers, i thought it was lightning but it was exploding stuff and big bombs and it was really disturbing how long it went. president mazzucco: so is the question do we have an increase in fireworks around the fourth of july or more fireworks this fourth of july than last? commissioner dejesus: more professional. i was priced what people were putting up. president mazzucco: i'm impressed the professionalism is going up but i don't know increases in arrests were made. i know we had a lot of media interest around the various stings we were trying to do in and around chinatown and we didn't have a lot of luck at it this year but we are out there every year trying to buy illegal fireworks and so i can tell you, though, that i know that there was a lot of media

interest in other cities that there were -- especially where they had a decrease in the police officers, that some of their firework shows were pretty spectacular and went on for a long time. we did not have that in san francisco except on one of the police commissioner's blocks which we'll have to look into next year. commissioner dejesus: it was loud and long. president mazzucco: commissioner chance. commissioner chance: can you remind us what the july 12 trust is? president mazzucco: the national regional intelligence center, the federal government, they set it up and they come in. we just establish the venue and guest list and then it came from the joint session with the human rights commission when actually commissioner terman was on the other side of the podium and it's an effort to be

as transparent as we can be and have the feds come in and tell everybody as much as they can tell them and there's a good back and forth setup for questions and answers and we tried to make the invitee list, if you will, something where there's a lot of broad cross section so after it happens the word can get out from there as far as any questions that were asked. commissioner chance: you mentioned the human rights commission, is that leading to a later discussion whether or not we're going to convert into a comportment style resolution? >> no. commissioner chance: or a community discussion? >> a community discussion around what is. commissioner chance: then with the budget that was just approved at the next stage, there's a mention of possibly adding an academy class. can you tell us what you know about that? >> i understand the board of supervisors added back some moneys to come in in the spring where -- to hire an academy class that late in the year

would be the discount because we would only have three months left and so the hope is that depending on what we're able to work out in the p.o.a. contract giveback and however the economy does that if we're in a position in the spring, there would be moneys there and we would be able to hire an academy class late in the year, late in the fiscal year with general fund dollars. commissioner chance: general fund back dollars? >> no, no, no. it depends on what they ask us to give back. like this year they asked for a 10% giveback at the end of the year. if they asked thousand give back 10% again at the end of the year, then that's money that we would have to have a conversation about. but for today, it's in the budget and we would use that money to hire a general fnd academy class at the end of the year, fiscal year. commissioner chance: my next question is the community policing efforts, is it these

standing monday and tuesday meetings? >> i believe they are. yes. did everybody get a notice on the last one? some did and some didn't. that's perfect. consistent. commissioner chance: the next one on monday or tuesday? >> i'll find out and make sure the lieutenant has that for everybody tomorrow. president mazzucco: thank you. any further questions for the chief? >> i have one quick one. would we have a list ready to go for the academy class. >> we have two lists set to expire and were extended and we believe we can get as many as two academy classes from the existing list and we've been in discussions, depp any schmidt with h.r. in the early fall to hope that next fiscal year there's money we can t