>> that was cool. >> i will. i just said -- vice president marshall: 3a.

clerk: item 3a, the chief's report, including a presentation of this a to the appreciation, the report on crime statistics, the review of recent activities, the presentation of the second quarter findings and recommendations of the ois investigations status summary, and a presentation about the resources available to officers exposed to dramatic incidents. >> i thought i would bring up capt. -- do not be worried, amy. nothing has changed. >> he let the cat out of the bag. good evening, commissioner, chief. you have got two of san francisco's finest sitting behind you. we are all safe. that is exactly what we did.

talking about collaboration, a fine example of what happened. on friday, the 22nd come a cab driver dropped a fear of, -- a fare off, and he sees that a crime is taking place, and so he gets into the cab, ves her his throne, and he said, "i see the guy. we will follow him." she was so traumatized, she did not feel that she could come here or to the police office complex but she will acknowledge what he has done, as well, in her own way. anyway, he had the victim get into his cab and the presence of mind to give her the cell phone, tell her to call 911, which she did, and they followed him, and we google mapped the route. he ran 1.8 miles before we were

able to taking into custody. this is a very humble, a veteran cabdriver, and i was impressed with what he did. he came to the chief's office, like we already said, with his daughter, and we gave him a certificate of appreciation. the amazing fein about the whole event is it was all captured on a video camera, and you may have seen it on the news the last few nights. it is pretty incredible evidence. the guy that night did confess, and it looks pretty good as far as the prosecution. that is it. any questions? commissioner: thank you very much. commissioner: he is russian, in he was fantastic, and with the presence of mind, he said he had been in the russian army prior to being a cab driver, so that

explains it a little bit. >> the report on recent crime statistics, again, year to date, actually, we have had a pretty good last 30 days, which now has are violent crime still trending downward about 7%, and, actually, we got a little bit better handle on property crimes, and they are down -- up by 2%, overall crime is literally flat this year, regardless of the economy, staffing, and everything else, about a 1% bump. but with that said, with the departure of former chief gascon and the incoming chief, with oakland, they pretty much brought us up to speed, and they are not going to be around anymore. i thought i would ask the

controller's office to make an audit. now that it is about two years along, and since we have become better at it with regard to making it automated, just so whatever are baseline is going to be going forward, we are sure that it is accurate. we will see what that audit uncovers, but i thought it was important, that we know where we are going forward. a review of recent activities. obviously, the big story has been what went on with the officer-involved shooting. i tried as best as possible and got tremendous cooperation from the department as far as putting information out, getting it quickly, and, of course, the big piece of information came, i believe it was on thursday, that, indeed, the officers had shot the man, who was a parolee in san francisco, with the rather extensive history that i will not go into. i know that we have a presentation later, but we believe accidentally had

mistakenly taken his own life, and there has been much about it, but that will be presented later. as far as hard backfire on discharge review board, recommendations on behalf of the presenters to come up and do that? i guess, martha. inspector juarez is figuring that out, and when she gets that cued up, we will go forward. commissioner: somewhere in the ballpark of about 100 days. it probably seems like forever. would it be possible for the commission to get a review of the statistics which have taken place in the last six months, the last 100 days, where you have been, and where you anticipate going in the future? so i would like, with your permission, to schedule a presentation of the statistics and see where we have gone,

maybe at our commission meeting on august 17, and pot -- if possible. if we can schedule for the presentation to see in my of these statistics in your first 100 days. would that be possible? >> sure. i explained to give a breakdown, but everything was sort of dwarfed by the happenings of a couple of weeks ago, and i think they would have been lost in the presentation, so i will be happy to do that on the 17th. commissioner: where are the homicide numbers this year? >> we are at 29 now. i believe we were at 28 last year, and just to put it into perspective, 2008, we were getting close to 60. commissioner: the reason i asked that question, i heard today i think that oakland is at 78 homicides. no homicide is a good homicide, but to be at that level, i

think we're maybe at the level of richmond, a much smaller town. there was a bit of a spike early on of the typical homicides that we can prevent, but it looks like we are doing a very good job preventing the preventable- type of homicides, so i just want to thank you for that, think the officers for about, and learn more about the statistics on the 17th, if possible. >> i appreciate that, and, again, we cannot do it ourselves. the other agencies. there has been a lot of talk about the bayview community. that continues to be a hope we will be a record low, and that is all about the partnership with the community and the help we get city-wide from folks like the joke and we just gave the appreciation, and we do not make that robbery arrest if that cabdriver does not help us out. commissioner: great. president mazzucco: commissioner

chan? commissioner chan: i just want to make sure about -- president mazzucco: we can put that at the front to do a quick presentation. i think we need to do that. >> -- vice president marshall: we do not need to schedule that now. commissioner chan: in regard to the bayview, i wanted to make sure that we keep that communication open and public, and i know that you have done a great job. >> the gentleman spoke in the line of fire. the line of fire would be looking between me and you. there were no children in the line of fire.

this is to the east of where the shooting happened, but the shooting happened actually as you look through mandel plaza and a cross through the parking lot. it is about 20 yards versus five off to the right and just up the hill. obviously, the officers would never return fire if they thought anybody, especially children, were in danger, and they would not fire if they did not believe their own lives were in danger. none of the rounds that the officers fired found anybody other than one round hitting the man. and then there was also a question about the muni cameras. there is actually a structure that is on the west side of the plaza that would block any cameras from muni from shooting where the foot chase or the

shots were fired from. commissioner chan: thank you. president mazzucco: you have shown great leadership. we went out, myself and dr. marshall and a commissioner, and we did not have a quorum, but you showed great leadership in a very, very difficult situation, and i was very impressed by that, and i know dr. marshall was, too. think you for your leadership, and think you for your transparency. it has been very helpful, and obviously, we saw some concern in the community, and it is obviously a much bigger picture. i really want to thank you for your leadership. >> and i know the officers appreciate the community support. it was lost on everybody how many people were there that

night. thank you to dr. marshall. i got to be a radio person last sunday night. it was fun for me, and i very much appreciated getting out of the dialogue with the community. president mazzucco: great. thank you. sergeant? >> good evening, president mazzucco, commissioners, others. i am here to make two presentations, the first one being the second quarterly report of the firearm discharge review board. we convened on an june 23 this year. there are the members shown as listed. we discussed three cases that were brought up on that day. but first case was the officer- involved shooting that took place august 28, 2010.

bayview police of a sears responded to reports of a person with a gun. the man fired at the opposite is, and one of the officers fired in return. the second two shootings that were presented that day were officer-involved shootings, one taking place on september 19 last year involving an off-duty officer who discharged his handguns, suffered self- inflicted wounds. this case has been referred to the police commission, and this is not in policy at this time. the second one was found not in policy. this occurred on october 6, 2010, in los alamos. an officer discharged his weapon, causing self-inflicted fatal injuries. that is the report for the

second quarter. do you have any questions? ok, the second presentation has to do with our status report as of july 29. we met back on march 30, 2011. there have been two completed summary letters. we brought, again, three cases to the firearms discharge board. to review, in 2010, we have three summary letters, but as of this date and time, we have one less, because right now it is working its way through the chain of command. we have four active cases in one referred to the office. the cases we have for 2011, the first one of the year, that has also been referred to the a.d.'s

office and internal investigation. we also have the three new active cases that we now have that have now emerged, so a total of 12 cases, three completed investigations, and nine investigations. the next will be the third quarterly meeting. we will need some time in september at a date to be determined at some time. president mazzucco: commissioners, any questions? commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: thank you for your report. i have looked over this, and with the history, going back to the year 2000, 2003, the statistics and number of shooters -- officer-involved shootings, and some years, there

are just a few, and in other years, like 2010, there are many, and i wonder if either you or did she have any analytic comments you would like to make regarding trends or why in some years there are so few and in other years so many, you know, if any sort of analysis has been done in connection with these statistics? >> i mean, i would love it if there were none. the officers are active. they are where we want them to be. shootings this year are actually up. firearms seizures are up. firearm seizures have been high for several years now, as the fatal violence or the fatal homicides go down, so, again, i mean, a lot of folks that wyngate just in a gunfight i

would suggest might be people who would do shootings or homicides were they not engaged with us, so i think that one of the larger reasons we have a reduction in homicides is our officers are talking to the right people, and when they are talking to the right people, especially over the last couple of years, those same people who may be want to do homicide's choose to do that sort of violence towards us, and as i said a couple of times, we are going to shoot back. >> and also, i cannot tell you what year it was, but we did change the definition, so at that time, it may have been investigated -- it may have been listed as an officer-involved shooting. commissioner kingsley: thank you. present m -- president mazzucco:

thank you. as we move to the next part of the report, officers exposed to dramatic incidents, and this is something that commissioner chan and i have talked about, and additionally commissioner dejesus. you can see how chaotic and traumatic the situation was. the look on officers bases that were involved in this case, and we of concern about what we do with officers that are involved in these situations which are very painful and difficult situations, and we were looking at our crisis intervention team, so as we sit here, we hear a lot of concern about what is going on in a community, what is going on with the suspect, but not often do we year, hey, how are the opposite is doing, because this is a big event in their life. it is very important to us that the officers are taken care of,

and more importantly, we as a commission see a trend. we see disciplinary cases. quite frankly, all too often, without any this is the case described, we are hearing about an officer involved in a traumatic episode, traumatic stress disorder, and it does not come up until we have a disciplinary process. we want to have a process and do more. so we asked the chief for a brief presentation. we know you guys do a great job out there, but let us know what we can do for these officers in the short term and what we can do? we think we can do more. we understand, too, it is the attitude of the police department. men and women join the police department because they're interested in serving the community, but also, there is a bit of munchies note -- a bit of machismo.

somebody has to say, "look, we need to get a handle on it." commissioner chan? commissioner chan: i actually agree with everything you just said, and i am looking at the calendar. president mazzucco: sergeant? >> i have been with the department for 25 years in the behavioral science department. if i can go over what it does, it is a confidential unit which provides psychological support to members and their family. we provide referrals to a group of licensed police specialty providers. the train themselves with a simulator.

they are licensed clinicians who are committed to dealing with police of a sears and their families to make sure that they are culturally competent in law enforcement issues. the chain of command, the impact, we try to minimize the impact by a conducting it debriefings post incident, such as officer-involved shootings, but not only those but any incident that could suck allegedly impact an officer, such as witnessing a death or a multiple casualty incident, a fire, anything involving children, which can be dramatic, even close call situations, but so what we do specifically in regards to critical incidents, we think that we recently passed out a card for you which we call the blue card. officers are given this card from our critical incident response team when they are involved in shootings so they

have a better idea of what to expect, which lessens some of the feeder and the unknown around the investigation like this, -- which lessen some of the fear and the unknown around investigations like this, which helps. within 72 hours, what we do is conduct a critical incident debriefing with the officers, which is a formal process, not a tactical debriefing. we do not discuss the incident or the details of the incident, but we have a debriefing. our chaplains are involved in this process as well as clinicians brief it is your driven, and i am the one that usually conducts the process. the officer who is a shooter or involved in the shooting, it is mandated that they attend that debriefing, which i think is a great idea. it forces them to be involved. the critical response team that

we have set up consists of on call teams, 30 officers involved who volunteer their time to respond to officers involved in critical incidents. they are available 24/7, and they can be gotten a hold of by contacting the center. there is what we call psychological first aid, and they are there just to act as partner officers to get them through the incident. if they respond to the station or the scene, it insures that the officer sort of diffuses from the scene and sort of goes from the high crisis state to a safer place, which we call homeostasis, so that they can art of the process with the critical response team is they are responsible for maintaining follow-up with that officer. the one-year anniversary of the incident, they communicate with them.

after the incident, they checked in by phone or call -- or meet up with the officer. what was proposed was to have two of our license clinicians do what we call sort of an interview check in with the officers as part of the deep breathing process, and that way, because they are licensed, they are able to assess that and make sure that we help mitigate some of the trauma that the officer may be experiencing after an incident, and, again, at a six- month incidents have the offices check in again with the clinician to see how they are doing, and that is something we are currently working with right now. a little bit about, as of july 1, we just went through a new contract with a group that allows each member in each dependent attend free visits to a condition of their choice, which is confidential. they can either do face-to-face

visits or using web videos. sometimes officers are stuck in a possible or are in bed or cannot get out, dealing with a catastrophic illness or dealing with small children at home, and this allows them to the counseling for free through web video. it also includes a 24/7 line, free advisers as well as child and elder care assistance. it also offers a free anger management program, and this is something i think is very beneficial. we currently use our clinicians on hand for anchor management, and i think this is an additional benefit for officers who get in trouble or have issues. piperidine we also have a benefit. this brochure that you might have a copy of. this was written into our contract, and, by the way, this is officer pat buerhle.

this is a contract that in our mou that states the officers will have this confidential benefit. they can now use this residential treatment for first responders for free. five of our officers to this treatment program. it is run by first responders for first responders, and we currently have about five or so officers that have gone for the last years, which is confidential and on their own time, but this is a huge benefit especially for officers who have been exposed to critical incidents. or officer-involved shootings. this is one of the most comprehensive units in the country and has been identified as a national police motto, and

we have agencies from all over the world asking us how we run our program. it has been in place since the late 1970's, so it is one of the oldest programs, and it has been successful because we have a body and from the administration, such as the chief, who has always been a supporter -- because we have buy in. -- ins. one of the reasons you may not hear about it or know about it is because it is very confidential, and we are covered under the confidentiality section, and we have people using it constantly, and it is our goal to make sure that we take care of our officers, and i know, i think you have been given a list of our programs before hand, so if you have any questions, please just ask.

commissioner: i have a question. what percentage of our officers take advantage of a whole panoply of these services? >> i would say the majority of them. in the old days, you would just get back on the horse and go back out there, in you are still fresh with the incident. having the 10-day investigators period or five-day, depending on what the issue is, allows the officers to detach, to feel safe, to get resources, to get the body functioning back to a normal place, which then gives them back to work. we do not want to lose people through disability or three stress. our job is really to get them back up and running, and to make sure we intervene as much as possible not just with them but with the family members to love them. commissioner: how often do intervene with family members?

>> all of the time. commissioner: how many of them stay in the program aside from these check bins that you were just talking about? >> they are privileged to confidentiality, so we do not check back so that they say so and so gave you a call, but they won't pull let you know. "i am still seeing a clinician. i like seeing him." so they check in with us and let us know. it has been very beneficial. most of the time, officers will use short-term crisis counseling more than they will long-term therapy, but now since we have 10 sessions as opposed to eight, and we of clinicians may come on board to do jenkins, we are covered in the bigger picture, and i think that is why we have most agencies coming in to say, "how do you do this? how do you set this up? "