just put my life in danger and i don't know anything. now who do i contact? >> ordinarily, man, we don't respond to questions but in light of the situation, this is an issue with the district attorney's office and it's not the police department. and the police department, they have a affirmative obligation in any case to turn over any information regarding any witness whether the witness saw something or didn't see something. your testimony as to not seeing something is equally important maybe to the other side as that of the testimony of seeing somebody. so you need to talk to those in the district attorney's office about this issue and explain to them. >> would you like me to tell you who i spoke with? >> it won't do any good here. >> i live in hunter's point. >> i understand. >> i know what happens to, quote, unquote snitches. now, i can understand if there was consensus, in other words if the people outside said hey, give her name but no, you have

the inspectors outside disagreeing with your d.a.'s saying no, she doesn't know anything, don't give them her name. >> ma'am, the problem is that it's the d.a.'s call, it's not the chief's call or the department's call, it's the d.a.'s call. they're the only ones who can -- had a young lady in a similar situation i work with but it's the district attorney's office calling you, not the department calling you. there's not much we can do about that, unfortunately. >> ok. with whom do i speak? because it's like we have disposable lives and you wonder why we won't tell you anything. >> if you give your name to sergeant yamaguchi, we'll figure out who you need to talk to and broker that. >> ok. you also need to consider this is one of the reasons why the people in my community will not talk to the police. have a blessed day. >> thank you, ma'am. next speaker.

good evening, sir. >> good evening, everyone. as i understand, my name is shawn myers, i'm here with my wife, sarah meyers. >> mr. meyers, speak into -- this is general comment regarding the police department. i know you're here for another matter and are free to talk about any matter. >> that was it. >> we recognized you. thank you, sir. any other general public comments? yes, ma'am. >> thank you. i'd like to thank the commission for allowing me to speak this evening. i had just a couple of questions and i understand that you're not obliged to answer me. i recently had to file a complaint with o.c.c. against a nsfpd officer. i had learned this officer who

harassed and intimidated me had a record of violence. there was an earlier incident in which he beat a suspect who had already been detained so severely that an ambulance had to be called and i only know about this incident because it was reported in the "san francisco chronicle" because i had to file a complaint regarding this officer, i wanted to find out what had become of the alleged victim of this particular officer, particularly because one of the reported injuries, he had beat the suspect around the head, the torso, and the arms. and i've worked quite a bit with head injury patients and i wanted to know whatever became of this person afterwards, did his life ever get back to normal and frankly i felt it had something to do with my own sense of safety and security. i was bounced around after going to o.c.c., i was bounced around from really a very large number of city agencies to get

this information and i kept getting the run-around. ultimately i was sent to the police commission and a clerk, i believe she was a clerk. i don't want to give her name here but i think the clerk, i don't know her actual title, told me that the city attorney had informed them the 2006 copley press decision by the california supreme court was retroactive on the advice of the city attorney. i thought that was rather disturbing because basically that means that the taxpayer doesn't have access to information about police misconduct even when it's an egregious police misconduct and even when they might have valid questions about why this officer was not only reinstated within sfpd but actually promoted and in fact when i look at a report this incident, it's quite possible that this was all a misinterpretation of events and who knows, he wasn't beating the man, he was simply

cuddling him, i don't know. but the point is it this information is kept apart from the citizenry, we'll never know and unfortunately it feeds into a certain cynicism about the police department, and i do feel the taxpayer has an obligation to know and a right to know, and i'm wondering how your department is trying to -- especially in light of the f.b.i. investigation of sfpd, are you making a link between this 2006 copley decision and how it may have fostered a hostile environment for good cops and a nurturing environment for bad cops. can't believe that was three minutes. >> again, we're not allowed to respond but there is the copley decision and the police officers bill of rights so by law we're forbidden, prohibited from discussing those matters, as in any other profession, you said you worked with people of head injuries, the medical

profession, when there's reviews of doctors and hospitals, that, too, stays confidential and is privileged. >> not this confidential, i should note. this is like communist china confidential. it's pretty extreme and i think the citizenry and taxpayers have a right to be concerned. >> you're not alone in that consideration. this commission has talked about that, too. >> thank so you much. >> any further general public comment? mr. grove. >> good evening, my name is barbara grove, i'm a resident of san francisco. i'm quite concerned about the efforts being put forth for the psychiatric profession being -- broadening their scope around this fine city and in fact the whole country, so it's a lot of false allegations that come forth about how good they are. anybody has the ability to think normal. i put on 100 pounds in one

month's time while incarcerated , and the psychiatric profession did that. the psychiatric profession, so my ex-husband doesn't have to pay al moan. we're finally at the end, my inheritance is gone and we'll see what happens to him to be able to back out so he doesn't have to payal mone out of my inheritance instead of out of his own pocket. this is legalized fraud. thank you. >> any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is now called. please call line item it. >> reports and announcements. item 2-a is the chief's report, it's a report on crime statistics and review of recent activities. >> good evening, chief. >> good evening, commissioners. >> as far as crime goes in the city, again, week to week it remains relatively the same. we did have some shootings in

the past week and we put in redeployment strategies. we put the beat officers back on third street as they were last summer. i know that was of tremendous benefit to me as the captain, we've done that. we've asked the task force to spend more time on the market street corridor since some of the shootings down there are gang-related, and gangs not attributed to the mid market area, some have been from divisidero street, alamaney and bay view and we had a quieter week on the street because of that and will continue to redeploy through the summer. i saw director hicks had her half yearly statistics. we'll be reporting ours next week and then also speak more to our summer deployment and second half of the year reorganization, if you will. we had a busy week otherwise in the department, probably the big thing, and i wanted to really commend the p.o.a. and the rank and file for voting overwhelmingly 81%,

approximate, to accept the renegotiated contract reopener from the mayor's office which essentially closes my budget gap for this year which is great. and much appreciated. we continue to communicate with the community regarding the substation, myself and the command staff walked sixth street on monday morning with clyde, actually, at sixth and market, met a couple of the merchants that had been a little bit upset and it looks decidedly better and hopefully it will stay that way, at least the cops will be there. the core development project and the community oriented police department is moving forward. there's a meeting tomorrow morning. i hope the commissioners were made aware of it now. >> it was today, this afternoon? >> it was today? >> right about now. >> oh, ok. >> couldn't make it. >> i'll keep putting it through lieutenant falvey.

first class of cpsa graduate this week, after a little bit of -- if you'll pardon the kerfluffle with the union they finally got out to the stations and will finish and be deployed. we'll talk more about that. we graduated 47 young people from the p.a.l. cadet graduation and also will be going out to the station. that's approximate twice as many kids that went through last year which was our inaugural class and hopefully that program will continue to grow. for anybody interested, there's going to be a rededication of the sculpt chur at seventh and bryant on friday, i believe, on friday morning. the arts commission will be there, certainly if anybody from the commission would want to be there. i'll be there. and then lastly, there's been some reports in the news on ksbs and ktvu an announcement captain garrity made he had

gone from 101 officers to 74 officers in the tenderloin which upset the people in the tenderloin as they feel the climb -- feel crime is on the rise and we rechecked the numbers and sounded strange since i know tenderloin station traditionally has been right around 82 officers, plus or minus. i checked, noticed there were 83 officers, not at 70 some odd. unfortunately he does have eight officers that are at various stages of recovery from disability but as soon as they're back, they'll be back. and tenderloin continues to be a focus of our attention as it's very adjacent to sixth street and will stay that way. i wanted to reassure the people of the tenderloin, there have never been 101 officers there, at different points in time it's perhaps the confusion was the market's foot beats worked out of there originally before they were assigned to southern. it doesn't really matter where they're working out of, they're

working market street regardless and then at other times when we're doing the f.t.o. program there's an influx of probationaries and recruits that then move on but the ebb and flow of personnel over the 10-year average has been 82 officers, and they are currently at 83. >> great. well, thank you, chief. and some of the activity we're seeing with the violent shootings, it seems you had expressed concern early on about summertime and is what you had anticipated about the kids in the summertime and not having programs. is there anything else you're doing with reference to programs? >> well, fortunately they're not kids so far that are involved in any of these shootings. so a lot of the kid are engaged in programs, obviously the 47 cadets. we were able to double up again with the help of the sheriff's office and the p.u.c. getting kids, 94124 kids jobs through the garden project, god bless katherine sneed. the woman's a saint. and more and more and more engagement across the city to

try and give the kids positive choices so that they're busy. these particular crimes that have been occurring are straight up adults doing gang violence and we will attack it accordingly. >> great. thank you. commissioner kingsley? >> commissioner kingsley: chief, thanks you very much for your report and appreciate you giving us a head's up on things that are coming about in the future in the community. also good news on the budget front that you got that support from the department as a whole and congratulations on that leadership, it's terrific. i'm wondering if that will support the possibility of police academy training in the fall. you'd given some guarded, optimistic reporting that may be a possibility. does this make it more of a probability? >> yes, apparently conversations that have happened at this panel over time, discussions with the

p.o.a., and actually the foresightedness of the board of supervisors, they put $3 million back into the police department budget in the spring. by putting it into the budget later in the year, we can basically get an academy class, a full academy class, first one since 2009 at a discount provided we don't have some other calamity occur in this tepid recovery of ours. so hold a good thought that that money stays as originally planned and we get an academy class there and i know that chief schmidt and director landis are working feverishly to see if we can't get another federally funded class which might net us two classes for the year which would be great. that said, we really -- we are really, really up against it starting next fiscal year if we're not getting at least three classes a year. commissioner kingsley. thank you. >> commissioner chan. >> i wanted to ask you two questions. one was about the consent

severance of private residences, the department bulletin that was issued. we have commissioners get the bulletin but the public doesn't get a chance to see it so wondered if you could share that with everyone so they know the changes taking place -- maybe not changes but announcements to officers about forms that are needed to fill out and the second question was to ask you how the building communities trust meeting went. >> the buildings of community trust meeting, i thought it went well. i think that what it was was after the joint human rights police commission meeting much was made of the fact our federal partners were absent, so literally the next week, the department justice and northern california regional information center called and said they would bring this forum to the city if we'd be willing to host it. we did. we had a spirited discussion. mr. crew carried some very

salient points and then there was an agreement we'd continue to meet as the community would have it. the feds said they'd be more than willing to come, an invitation, and we sort of left with -- there was some concern but some satisfaction, gratification we met. as far as the bulletin goes, it's a reminder as to what your obligations are with regard to consent search and after discussions with the district attorney's office, how we would actually document and ensure the consent searches were above reapproach when presented in court and that was the design of that department bulletin. >> so this is the permission of search form, is that a new form? >> that's an old form. >> it's a reminder to officers they need to fill that out? >> right. >> is there anything new coming out of the department bulletin or is it a reminder what already exists?

i'm just curious if there have been any changes as a result of what you might have read in the newspapers. >> i'll look at this and maybe a little later in the interest of time, we could go back to it. >> great. thank you. any further questions for the chief? ok. move to line item 2-b. >> it is the o.c.c. director's report, a review of recent activities. >> good evening, director hicks. >> good evening, commissioners and members of the audience. you have before you the o.c.c. comprehensive statistical report through june 30. it should be on your desk. and for comparison purposes a comprehensive statistical report through june 30, 2010. you also have pending case reports and how cases were received reports. as of june 30 of this year, 92 complaints were filed with the o.c.c.

-- i should say 92 complaints were filed with the o.c.c. in june of this year and through june 30, 2011, 418 complaint has been filed year to date. this is a 12% decrease from complaints filed through the same period june 30, 2010. s of june 30, 2011 the o.c.c. closed 417 cases and we had 427 pending cases. this is a rather high number of pending cases but we have a low number of investigators. we're in the process of hiring additional investigators and hope to have three new investigators in place by the beginning of september. we sustained 36 cases, as of june 30 and that's a 9% sustained rate, the same sustained rate we had through june 30 of 2010. also as of june 30, the o.c.c.

facilitated the conduct of 33 mediations, and as of this time last year, we had only conducted 17 mediations due to the unexpected leave of our mediation coordinator. and thankfully through the budget process, her position was saved. on august 10, at your august 10 meeting, i will provide you with the second quarter to thal report which is more detailed and what i have just given you this evening. >> great, thank you, director hicks. the good news is you said you'll be able to hire three new investigators so how did you fare in the budget process? >> we maintained all of our positions in the budget process. and when i say we will be able to hire three new investigators , that is simply to keep us at

our statutory charter mandated minimum based on the number of police officers and at this point it is 15 investigators that we should have in place. so we have through the first half of this year suffered with a less investigators than we need due to some long-term absences, some retirements and some resignations but we do hope to be fully operational by september 1, and when i'm safely operational, i mean we have the statutory minimum of investigators. >> thank you. any further questions for director hicks? ok. let's move on to line item 3-c. commission reports. >> item 2-c is the commissioner reports. the first is the commission president's report followed by the individual commission reports. >> i have nothing to report

this evening. commissioner? >> just that i'm going on a ride-along soon in the tenderloin and will be happy to report how it goes for the crisis intervention training and want to know what's happening so we can build on it. >> great. i encourage all the commissioners, i know commissioner kingsley has done it but it's a good thing to do to put things in perspective. the ride-alongs are very interesting. let's move to line item 2-d. yes. >> before you move on, the line item to the next line item, i do want to report that on monday night i was privileged to attend the alice b. toklus club where chief and members of the command staff addressed the membership of the club and they started off with a discussion about the perspective between the police department and the

lbgt community and discussed various aspects of how the relationship has changed and some of the current events that happened during the calendar year which police presence is required for some of the events and how the cooperation and relationship had grown and changed over the year. it was an informative evening. i have to tell you that it was much appreciated to see how the relationship between the police and the lbgt community has flourished in a very positive way and i want to commend the chief and members of the command staff that were present there and they enlightened the crowd about procedure, about the history of the events and as a police department and they made sure that people walked away from that meeting understanding that the police department has a great deal of respect for the lbgt community, especially those within the department as well as without and i want to commend the chief and command staff for their presence. thank you very much, chief. >> great. thank you.

nothing further from the commission? ok. let's go to line item 2-d, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration in future commission meetings. commissioner chan? >> i want to see if you want to do the honors. we've been talking for a while about what we should pursue next as an important matter of priority for the commission hand has come back over and over to us again we need to address officer leave especially with regards to mental health and response to trauma and crisis and it is linked but different from our crisis intervention work and is something in memphis they actually have a separate focus point on so when an officer has been involved in an incident it doesn't just have to be a shooting but any incident that could cause trauma or mental health concerns for the officer that that officer, they're debriefed and services are provided the officer. and officers in this department do get services but i think there is a lot of room for improvement and we as a commission, if we focus on that i think it will be quite a

rewarding endeavor if all of us. >> commissioner chan and i talked about it and first came up when we had the folks from memphis here and they have a strong model and worked both sides of it and we discussed what our officers were going through and were going through some serious incidents involving many suicides and all the other issues we're starting to see when we dig deeper and say why did this officer suddenly start doing things like this. and generally there's a traumatic incident at the base of it so we want to make sure our officers are getting what they need because what they deal with on a daily basis, most people don't realize or understand, you do, chief, because you've been in it for 30 years but we want to support the officers so commissioner chan and i had this conversation so we'd like to hear from the department what exactly we're doing and hear from others what are best practices, what can we do for our officers because we expect a lot out of them and want to give back to the officers. commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: i think that sounds like a terrific topic we need to address,

officers' need and we would be supportive in that in following up, though, along the same lines, i'd like the commission to address our priorities, once again, and see how we want to finish the year and go into the next year in terms of our evaluation last october at our retreat, and we did indicate that we were going to do this a few weeks ago but were going to postpone it until people were finished with vacations and able to focus and i'm wondering since most of us have probably given lieutenant falvey our vacation schedules, lieutenant falvey, do you have a date that this item would be -- that it would be good to discuss the item of our priorities and actions going forward in terms of attendance? >> i believe august 10. i don't think anyone here is going to be out. are you?

commissioner kingsley: i'll be here. >> the 24th and 31st of august, the city hall staff are going to be changing the sound system in the room so we're not going to be having our meetings here. we're scheduled for the 31st of august to have one in the community at the richmond district and the 24th in all likelihood will have to go dark. >> the 10th would be good dates for this? is that what we're down for? >> sounds about good. commissioner kingsley: two other items and these may be more appropriate for closed discussion, in fact closed session. in fact i know one s. and that is an item that the city attorney was going to present to us maybe a month or two ago and couldn't for a number of reasons. and i think that that is an important item that we ought to again put on our calendars so that all the commissioners are aware of it and that we can make a collective discussion

and decision around this item. and also for closed session, we have a personnel matter that we are discussing tonight, and it's a bit of an unusual case, and since we can't -- president mazzucco: probably should save that for closed session. commissioner kingsley: except the calendar to take action or discussion at a future meeting since we don't have that calendared in closed session, the discussion of calendarring it, i'm bringing it up at this point so that i think you get, mr. president, i think you know where i'm going with this, so if we can just bring that up appropriately at this point and then say that we're going to calendar it for a closed session in the future. i think that will handle this matter. president mazzucco: ok. all right. commissioner kingsley: what would be a good date for that, lieutenant falvey? >> we schedule closed session

items in closed sessions. commissioner kingsley: that's great. appreciate that. president mazzucco: what date do you think we should schedule this? commissioner chan, we were thinking maybe on the 24th -- excuse me. >> 24th of august? president mazzucco: no. >> what time are you talking about? commissioner chan: i think it's going to be -- >> commissioner turman: i'd like to get a priority list done first. because, you know, the whole thing is to figure out what we're going to do and if we keep usurping, then it become as moot point. so i just -- you know, let's decide kind of what we're going to do before we schedule it. that would be my concern, trying to follow protocol.

commissioner chan: i have a suggestion because i knew that would come up and makes sense to organize our priorities. and knowing the way c.i.t. worked and the way other things worked is that we should first get a presentation from the department, not a long one but a short one, where are we, how much staff do we have, what are the services, it can be a short presentation and after that we can discuss -- after our priorities we can discuss what we want to do knowing what the department status is. i think that's fine. we often ask about the status of various departments and procedures and that's not us taking action. it's just asking for a presentation as a part of the chief's report. commissioner turman: indeed it probably will be a priority because if you're going to put it on august 24 it will come after our august 10 meeting and be there anyway. i'm fine with that. i want to make sure we put it on the list. president mazzucco: i was thinking july 28. commissioner chan: prior to the chief's report. president uc