later, we had a woman the victim of a brutal robbery. she was dragged into the st.. she was kicked, beaten. she had to be hospitalized. witnesses again describe the vehicle. describe the vehicle as a pt cruiser. something very similar to the hhr. the drug days later, a clock in the morning, there was another robbery. this time the victim was pistol whipped. the officers happen to see our red -- a red hhr drive away. due to the traffic on the freeway, they lost the car, but my officers were able to identify the drivers. we recover the weapon, which still had the blood on it, and

we now have a parole warrants and are robbery warrant for the second suspect. the second case happened to be a person rather on the 3100 block of mission. the person had an iphone. everyone's phone seems to be taken these days. they also took his wallet and his property. this person had downloaded the app mobileme on the phone is self. once he reported it to police, the officers happen to have his own iphone, allow the victim to log in, and he loves into the mobile me account and we tracked through gps where the phone was. the suspect was about 10 blocks away. as the officer walked up to the suspect, he hit a button, and

the phone began making an alert ton. we were able to not only did the phone back, but all his property back. once again, it showed both of these cases showed the need for the police to work with the community. if it was not for the witnesses, if it was not for the victim, those arrests probably would not have happened. ingleside, we host our own website, which is one of the best ways we get our mission -- message out. we talk about the crime trends for the district. and make announcements in the district. with access to the daily news letter. it gives us the community meeting schedule, save the flyers, alerts. we have links to our e-mail. rather than having people log on

and get these updates, we find that having a web site is better. anyone can go to the website and have the information in a moment's notice. our upcoming events -- tuesday, august 2, we will be participating in national night out. one of the things in doing this year is taking community involvement to the next level. i am working with my police advisory board. that are co-hosts of national night out. we have people from our mission working with us to planet. we're looking to haven't -- have it with motorcycle officers there. we're going to have barbeque, and basically the purpose is to get out and meet the community, led the community meet us, and

see what we do. the other event, august 29, the 40th anniversary of the attack of ingleside station and the death of sergeant john young. a will be asking our civic leaders, members of our command staff, the police advisory board, members of the committee to come forward and share that day with us. at this time, that includes the presentation for ingleside station. the e-mail address is up there for anyone who has any questions, anything i can do for them. our website is up there, and i can entertain any questions from the commission. president mazzucco: thank you, capt. and tony. that was a great presentation, especially with the examples of things you are seeing. certainly, the commissioners can

ask questions or we can defer until the community speaks. what would you prefer? >> let's defer. president mazzucco: we will start with the community. thank you, capt.. please come forward for public comment. how were you? >> i am it fined. i am president of the albert mission resident association. a just want to say, chief suhr, i have seen more in the last six weeks than in the last six months. we have been at almost every event together. over the weekend, i had the privilege, and i've had the privilege, to be invited to special events including the

funerals for fallen police officers throughout the state, being in parades with the police department, marching with them. is such a high. you see the community clapping and waving and saying -- my job was, you know, i wish we could have that at police commission meetings, to have that kind of thing. i want to bring something back. de vie years ago -- my grandfather turned 100 this year. two years ago, my grandfather was here. he was 98 years old. we went down to the st. patrick's day parade. my grandfather marched the whole parade. it was the highlight of his trip. i just want to say, just being with the officers of the police department, it is a highlight for me.

i am always told when we come to these meetings in the district not to do a lovefest. but it is hard not to do a lovefest with officers at ingleside station, the truly love the district. capt. mahoney, i waited for a few days and i called capt. mahoney, and do you remember we work together years ago? it was a tanning salon, a massage parlor that was pretty much of four house -- a whorehouse. it was operation bill the cage. it took us two years to bring that place down. i also want to tell you something -- i know, commissioners, you get on the

mailing list. week of but two papers to the police department. i steal capt. mahoney's captains message and we put it in the newsletter for people who do not get the website, cannot get on the website. in the post the information, like fun numbers, how you can report certain items -- and we post the information, like phone numbers, how you can report certain items. i am so proud to be part of it. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, captain suhr. director hicks. i am marlene tran, spokesperson

for visitation valley asian persons alliance. while i welcome everybody, i am disappointed at the people coming in. i think there was some sort of computer glitch, because i sent e-mail asking that all the groups be contacted. i do not understand what happened. none of the people were really contacted until i reminded them. so, i hope that we have a better way of communicating with the residence in this community, because we have a terrible communication chasm that is going on, not only because of language, but ability as well. i am currently involved with the community advisory group in ingleside, and i also attend baby meetings. i am also part of the asian- pacific islander police form.

the reason i am doing that is safety has been a problem in district and for many, many years. we know all the problems that are going on. by getting more people involved, we can make this a safer community. before i came here, a took a look at the police website to see if there was any kind of update. i must say, i am pretty disappointed. when i tried to check the chinese website, this is what i get. sorry, i'm -- this url is invalid. and there are gibberish numbers. if this is the kind of access we are providing the chinese members, i do not know what we're going to do. i need to provide much more, make sure that safety and access is for everybody, especially for the diverse community who

live here. visitation valley is home to 60% asians. i could not very well do the work that should be done by the police officers. that is the reason why i suggested that an officer go to talk to the seniors, to take this agreement to the senior group and make sure they are here because they do have a lot of concerns they addressed to me. all in all, i want to thank everybody for being here, but we have much more work to do to make sure that communication is not only done through e-mail. we have to find other ways to help the community. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, members of the commission, and our new chief.

i am the principle of this edition valley middle school, and i welcome you -- i am the principal of visitation valley middle school, and i welcome you to our beautiful school. i want to put the word out for the work that the men and women of ingleside station do everyday. i have been here 12 years. i have seen many changes in 12 years. they are all for the better. a lot has to do with the close cooperation between the police department and the school district and, of course, our kids. i just wanted you folks to hear that. wearing my other hat, and the president of the united administrators of san francisco, representing all the school principals, and we would like to thank you for the great work you

do with us in the schools, with the police officers that are assigned to the various i schools, some of the middle schools where we really need help and support. i know you guys to not get to hear from us too often. i thought i would just point those out. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. next speaker. >> commissioners, chief suhr. i just want to say welcome to the captain of ingleside. he is the best we could have around here. give me my $20 and i will go outside. seriously. the concerns of the residents living near.

citizens do not normally come -- cabs do not normally come out here to pick up people who are waiting. i talked to the captain about that, and these cabs come out in five or 10 minutes and pick up our residents. i would like to see more on the board here with daly city, since daly city does share. so, anyway, i am not as good as steep as a speaker. residents have a choice to call an illegal bad company here. they do not have insurance. they are not inspected. which leaves the residents in these dangerous cabs.

other cabs have the ability to serve the residents, especially the elderly ones. they are the only company that excess payroll transfer programs and carries the same insurance and even harder programs. no. when yellow cab would be there, that is 10 minutes. i do not work for them. i just want to make you aware of what is going on. we want to give our residents -- we want to get a residence in a tampa -- in a timely manner to where they're going. president mazzucco: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening. mary harris. i think the last time i spoke was in the bayview or you were

looking at the attributes of the next week, and i just want to say great job. so, my i came for two reasons. 1 i said before and i am going to keep saying it. it is the request that we did to keep our captain for a year. you have given us great captains at ingleside, but the revolving door happens a little too often. it takes a good year to get to know all those community groups the captain mentioned. and, so, we are very happy to have mahoney, but can we just keep him a little while so we can get some good work done? that would be appreciated? the other thing i wanted to mention is, the other night i

was at the district improvement association, and janet clark from the d a's office gave a report about the work she has done in making restrictions force smoke shops any paraphernalia they sell. there were six different shops in the ingleside and mission. she gave full credit to the great work of the ingleside police making the convictions and getting the work done. i wanted to make sure that the police commission knew that she really appreciates the great work and the cooperation and by working together like that, we will be able to clean up stuff in the neighborhood and make some really serious restrictions on minors, but those materials not being made available to minors, monetary restrictions

if, no, they sell things they are not supposed to sell, stuff like that. thank you very much. president mazzucco: thank you. any further public comment regarding the capt.'s presentation? >> i just wanted to say something because he was talking about the tests. we keep giving to many permits, new permits for new cabs. they go to the airports, they wait for long rides. the people of san francisco do not have new caps. anyone can put something on their car and become an illegal taxicab right now. -- the people of san francisco do not have new cabs. in san mateo county, we have all these pirate cabs. we need to stop giving new

permits in san francisco. and also, i have a best friend at yellow cab. he is telling me there are so many calls a day, most people are not served. never send -- they never send a cab to them. most people wait two or three hours. president mazzucco: thank you very much. any further public comment? hearing none, i will close public comments. now for commissioner comments regarding captain mahoney's presentation. i just want to say, thank you. it was a great presentation. there was exceptional police work in those two instances. these are cases that you do not read about. you have great officers in

english side station. a strongly-staffed stations. we appreciate that. we also appreciate the get together you are going to have on august 29 in reference to john young. i personally worked on that investigation for a year in the u.s. attorney's office that led to the arrest. when a police officer is killed in the line of duty, it is never forgotten. that is a fact. it was an honor to work on that case and thank you for continuing to honor sgt young. commissioners, anything further? >> marlene brought up some good questions about a language access. i wanted to ask, how many bilingual officers are bad angle side -- at ingleside? how are they making sure that they maximize their language tools for the community. going back to translation

materials, what is going on in that area? >> i have been there for five weeks, so i do not have a total number on how many people are on their speaking different languages. i read the reports every day and every time there is someone that is a victim or a witness that need a translation service, it seems every time we have one of our officers to the translations themselves, as opposed to to bring the service. i would have to get that answer for you. as for the website, primarily in english. if we have a need for translation, we have the opportunity. we will work with community relations to get that translated. >> i noticed there were materials translated in different languages. the safety messages at my time. are other materials being developed contemplated and are handed out to committee members also translated?

any gatherings or other rich were community members? i know there is a large asian population in the district. >> everything that goes out to the community, i will recommend that it is translated in spanish and cantonese. if i am putting out a community alert for a robbery series in a certain area or any kind of uptick in crime that i need to post, then i will certainly crime -- contact community relations and work with them, the immigrant affairs, and have it translated and send it out. rarely will you see me and something ought with one language. >> captain, thank you so much for a three presentation on a number of different aspects about the ingleside station. very glad to see such a broad reaching program and operations. i would like to hear more about your distracted driver campaign. you did not actually have any

statistics that one along with that, the way you did with your robbery abatement operations. is there anything you can share with us on that? >> the distracted driver campaign is just part in, still in the implementation phase. i had a staff meeting a week ago where i laid out a number of operations at my officers are handling. that is one of them. the impetus behind it, i am looking at lowering traffic collisions. i plan to use a coordinated approach where i used bicycle officers to ride around different areas because they are sitting up high, but at the same time, not necessarily seem like you would in a black and white with the bells and whistles. identifying people who are talking on cell phones, doing what ever, and then radioing to a motorcycle unit who is close by to make a traffic stop and then citation to the driver for

talking on their cell phone. >> is the program directly targeted at cell phone users? perhaps individuals such as iphone had gone? i see a lot of that while driving. is it directed at that, as well as other distractions? >> it is directed primarily towards the violation of law. you hit the nail on the head. i would love to have california have a law that you cannot read the paper or eat what you are driving. i find that to be just as much as a distraction, but now, they are not a violation. >> if i did not eat and drive, i probably would not eat half the time. i will try to cut down. >> thank you, on behalf of the

commission, for your presentation. thank you for putting this together tonight and think you to the members of the community that came out. we probably need to address the issue with reference to the website. next time they come on here, we will probably have a bigger turnout. language access is important, so we should look at that website to see what is going on. >> we hear this a lot and obviously, there were some other things occurring. chief, if you might say something about -- we get the request a lot more. could you just talk about the factor that do not necessarily allow that? i guess you thought about that.

you have been moved around. just some of the thinking that goes into why someone does not always stay at a station. >> in this instance, lou was a fabulous capt. here. he also had strong experience in crime scene investigation and forensics. the captain who undertook the crime lab recertification and investigation, shepherded that from where it was to where it is, we needed someone who could hit the ground running and keep on going. we consulted with the captain as to who would be a and able replacement. the only person that she could think of a was lou.

it is important to keep the crime lab moving. having capt. mahoney available, it seemed like a great fit. i think it has been. normally, at least as far as i'm concerned, i would but to see the captain see those -- spend those three years that mary is talking about. normally, when someone is promoted, the community is happy for their captain and understands. is when they move around a letter early short of three years that it confound the community. i do not want to do that. >> since i have been on the commission, we like our captains to stay there, but there are a lot of factors that go into the apartment and decisions to move people. the one i generally heard was, we would like to give

individuals different experiences in the city. i just wanted to hear some of the other things that happened. i know you consider that, and it is hard for you as a chief to pass a law, somebody is going to be there for three years. i just wanted to hear, if it can happen, please, but these things that go into consideration when we move somebody. >> [inaudible]

>> knowing that mary harris and mary tran are from ingleside, i thought the transition was critical. and steve career. i did not want to leave you out. -- steve courier. >> the good news is, the heart and soul of the department is not move around. the captains are pretty much uniform in terms of leadership, but you have a strong team out here. >> any further comments? commissioner cahan. >> i just wanted to thank you for the reminder about the language access. we have voted on the language and prayer access -- priority