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 covering the 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 start lining up some academy classes, hopefully three a year at minimum. president mazzucco: great. thank you. line item 3-b. >> the o.c.c. director's report, a review of recent actives. president mazzucco: good evening, director hicks. >> i'm fine, thank you. good evening, commissioners and

members of the audience. i have no o.c.c. recent activities to report this evening though next week i will provide you with the june statistical report and then on august 10 i will provide you with the second quarter statistical report. president mazzucco: any questions for director hicks? moving right along, line item 3-c, commission reports. >> item 3-c, the commission reports, first the commission president's report followed by commissioner reports and discussion and possible action regarding scheduling and election of commission officers. president mazzucco: i have a brief comment. we had a great community meeting in the engle side district last wednesday hosted by captain mahoney. it was an excellent job. i wish we had more public turnout at the next meeting. there's a lot going on in that district but it was great to see the members of the command staff at that station and the officers put together a very good program for us so i want to thank captain mamoney for that and the members of the community that did show up. and we need to get back out

there and have more turnout next time but otherwise it was good. commissioners, any reports? commissioner turman? commissioner turman: thank you, president mazzucco. to follow up on the visitation valley community meeting, what i particularly enjoyed about it was can't mahoney's presentation on the recent activities and initiatives that have been started in his precinct and wondering if there is a mechanism in place, chief, where the captains are able to share those ideas with each other. i was particularly intrigued by his -- i can't think of the name of that program, the program that zeroed in on drivers and who were listening to -- on headphones or texting or doing illegal activity while

they were actually driving. i thought it was an interesting program. he doesn't have any statistics on it yet but it's already beginning to bear some fruit in the reduction of accidents. i thought it would be an interesting program for him to share with other captains in their particular jurisdiction. i wondered, is there a mechanism where they come together to meet and share those ideas as to how they're going to approach these very innovative law enforcement ideas. >> sure. monthly we meet, all the captains and above and we discuss things just like this. actually, i think next week, we brought back the biennial range qualifications for captains and above for many years, captains and above qualified at the same time and then had a lunch meeting discussion team building if you will, and also took care of the fact that captains and above schedules can get very busy so just make

sure everybody qualifies because we do it together. so that will be next week and i can actually have the captain mahoney driving issue as one of the subjects. >> it was a distracted driver program in particular. and to have a line item where they share those ideas and what the results have been might be helpful. >> that's part of the community policing general order that will be a best practices manual that will be a reference guide attached to it and things of this nature will be attached and that would be, for instance, in the traffic enforcement section of that community policing order. >> can i get a copy of the community policing? >> it doesn't exist yet. we're in the process of drafting the first one ever. commissioner turman: you referenced a document in which -- you referenced a document which mandated the creation of

the manual. >> right. that's in progress. commissioner turman: i'd like to see the document that references -- that mandates the creation of the manual. i understand you're building -- >> we're building the document that references the manual and the manual. >> didn't we have an audit on the community policing? we had a report on that a couple years ago, i think. >> right. so in the past whenever you audit community policing, we ask all the captains to tell us whatever they're doing and then they give it to us and we put it in a binder and someone comes and presents. this is actually going to be a general order, a department policy that this commission will actually have to approve that will go into the general order and be a standing department policy and then the best practices manual will be like we have an event management manual, we have various manuals that are then referenced by a governing general order.

and that's what i'm hoping to have to this body by september 15. >> thanks, chief. president mazzucco: any further questions? next is discussion and possible action item regarding scheduling of election of commission officers. by way of background, we usually elect our officers in late may and i was elected to president and dr. marshall to vice president back in october -- november 10, later than i thought. so commissioners, if you want to discuss when you want to have an election. commissioner dejesus? commissioner dejesus: my recollection, i may be wrong but the charter says we do elections in may, or our roles say we do elections in may. my understanding is we continue to elect a president and you declined to take the presidency for several, several months, numerous months so we had a standoff and then when we finally elected it, the question is then i remember there was discussion about the

time of election and elected people but i don't recall saying we're moving the election from november to november. there was an issue it was really only six months left or five months left or something like that. so tech anyly our rule is may. and we need to discuss it. >> the rule commissioner dejesus is referencing is part of your commission rules of procedure, your rules of order. as last revised in 2005, august 10, 2005. rule 2 -- the next one was commended a little earlier the same year. rule 2.3 has to deal with the election of officers and it does say at the last regular meeting of the commission held before the 309 day of may each

year or at a prior meeting, the day of which shall be fixed annually by the commission, the members of the commission shall elect a president and vice president of the commission, each to serve for a term beginning on the date of the first regular or special meeting held after the 30th day of may and ending one year thereof. -- there after o or the election of a new president or vice president. so even though the particular rule you have sets may as the fulcrum point for your elections, it does have an assumption at the end of the rule that from time to time you may not actually abide by that particular date frame for whatever reasons, and that's why it says, or until the election of a new president or vice president. and as of last year, there were some quorum issues and

appointment and vacancy issues and things that were time delayed and not just the elections as commission seats were filled up again. these are the commission rules, so the commission has the power to change the rules. if you want to formally amend your rule it takes 10 days notice but you're always welcome to change your rules. there's also an additional provision in the rules giving discretion to the commission president. when the rules do not address a specific situation or point of order that the president may adopt a contrary rule to address the situation on something not covered directly in the rules. that's the second paragraph of rule 2.1. so they are the commission rules, they are flexible to meet your own business needs, and that's the way they were written now as to the points just raised. >> what i hear you saying is we

do have rules for election of officers at the end of may and if we don't elect someone, the president remains until we elect an officer, but there isn't anything in there that doesn't cover the specific rules as it stands right now. >> it says or until the election of a new president or vice president, so at this point we're in july and you've not yet elected new officers then so that puts on the table how you want to do that. >> that's fine. that's exactly what i wanted to bring to our attention the rules that our election was in may and put it up for discussion because i know we were trying to elect people in may and june and july and it didn't work out for a variety of reasons and it finally spilled over to november but i don't think we ever had an agreement that it would run november to november or we'd change the rules or change the terms so we need to make that clear, i suggest that we talk about it. >> commissioners, we could schedule this matter for an

election. we now have a full commission and can put it on the agenda for when you think it's appropriate and can wait. we're in the summer months. i'll do whatever is right. it's my goal. commissioners? >> i'd like to hear from other people. >> commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: i don't feel strongly about this but would urge the commission to get back on its may annual election. and i'm happy to -- personally, i'm happy to keep our present officers in place until next may, if others feel we should have a -- an election at this point, i'm fine with that, too, but would like to see when may of 2012 rolls around that we get back on to, you know, the schedule that's set by our rules, that's all. president mazzucco: commissioners?

>> i feel the same way as commissioner kingsley. you know, president mazzucco and vice president marshall have served us, in my view, very well in a very tumultuous and time over the past few months and really hit the ground running but if people think we need to have an election, and don't think there's a magic to may but before i joined the commission there were various reasons there was an election prior to that time i don't feel strongly and people want to do some in the coming weeks or wait until next may, that's fine, too. president mazzucco: commissioner chance? commissioner chance: i feel we need to get back on the schedule at some point and are busy until the end of july with disciplinary matters and if we schedule an election we could

end up with the same officers we could do it in august or september. president mazzucco: commissioners, any thoughts on september? >> i think that would be the wisest given the disciplinary matters and vacations we have. maybe we should put this on for september. president mazzucco: i'll do whatever the commission wants. commissioner turman. i didn't see your name pop up. commissioner turman: if we held the election in september it would be from september to may? >> that's the problem we'll have. we have rules saying it's in may and it got lop sided this year and i would have prefered to stay on the may schedule even if we just had the same officers, at least we had the election in may and we were on schedule. maybe we set it now, is it fair to the person elected in september to only have five months. >> i'm sorry for interrupting, i guess i didn't quite understand your last comment right there. would it be your preference

just to keep the officers and wait until next may to do it or to do one before may but make it clear whoever is elected at whatever time would serve until may? >> i would make it clear. i'd like to be on the may to may schedule and follow our own rules. for whatever reason we didn't follow it and we didn't have a discussion in november whether we'd let it run a whole year from november to november. and we're not that far off from may so i was thinking if we had an election the person now could run from may and could be the same officers. it's not an issue but if we have it in september we have the same problem and people have only five months a and i hear people saying he should run to another september. >> would you prefer august for the elections? because we're in july and set the next two weeks or so. the next two meetings. and so are you thinking the next available meeting in august? >> i don't mind if you want to do september. we just need to talk about how to do it. that person will understand we're going to do it again in may or do it from september to september, then we should change our rules?

>> i'm perfectly fine -- i'm one of seven. i'm perfectly fine whenever we do the election to make it clear we're going to get back on a may -- i don't think there's a magic to may to may but if you want to do may to may that's fine. and similarly, i don't think it's necessary we do election in september and to get back to may to may to have our current officers serve until next may and do it then and not necessary we do it in september. but again, if people want to do an election in the fall, that's explicit on saying ok, it's an election in the fall but we'll do another one in september. that's fine. my personal view is it's not necessary but i agree with commissioner dejesus that 2012 on, people, hopefully there will be a sufficient institutional memory to make sure we get back to that schedule.

>> so you want to pick a date in september or -- >> commissioner turman? : >> what are the prerequisites to holding an election? >> it would just need to be included on thea as an action item on the agenda which is usually posted on thursday or friday before your wednesday meetings the following week. >> so just a week's notice? >> the minimum would be 72 hours' notice. you're supposed to try and do a week's notice of your commission meetings approximate. >> is there an actual motion on the floor? >> no. >> no. >> it's just up for discussion. >> just up for discussion. >> any further discussion or suggestion? >> why don't we set it for second week of september and -- >> somewhere in september where

we can fit it in. >> i'd just like to do it next week and get it over with. >> next week is particularly busy. >> we have a disciplinary hearing. >> it sounds like it could take two minutes. >> you'd be surprised. >> my thought is the first wednesday in september is september 7 and the second wednesday is the 14th. >> september 7 is fine. >> how does that sound? >> so let's schedule this matter. but we'll do this underline item 3-d scheduling so september 7, how does that sound? >> ok. >> great. all right. any other items, discussion of possible action items for scheduling for the commission besides this matter? that would be 3-d. >> commission announcements and scheduling items identified for future commission meetings. >> commissioners, anything at this point? commissioner marshall? >> i'd like to ask where our next community meeting was and when? >> august 31, we're scheduling

one in the prison mond district. >> we don't have one in july. august 31. >> and i guess lieutenant falvey, i know what we have next week but it would be useful in our packets we discuss what's coming up later in the month just generally so we can have a little bit of a head's up. so i know we've got a big meeting next week. i don't know what's on the following weeks? >> we put something on last week for the 20th, the community ambassador program. >> i believe you put that in last week. >> all right. >> are there other significant disciplinary matters happening later in the month? thrs an item -- there's an item to discuss in closed session about that. but any other open session, significant open sessi