commissioner chan, present. commissioner kingsley, present. commissioner slaughter is excused. commissioner terman is an excuse. you have a quorum. president mazzucco: thank you. thank you for being here tonight and welcome to the wednesday, august 3 san francisco police commission meeting. as you see we have four commissioners, barely a quorum and we may lose our quorum at some point we have a lot of business to get through. i appreciate you being here. we will start with a line item 1. we do have members of our community ambassador program that has been given a big lease on life by the board of supervisors and we have a presentation about them.

we will move that up after public comment period that will move to line item 3. let's move on line item 1, the consent calendar. >> item 1 is the consent calendar. the police commission report of disciplinary actions for the second quarter and secure communities monthly audit march through april 2011 and may through june 2011. >> these reports as part of the consent calendar are in your packet. there will be commissioners -- questions about subsection 2. with regard to disciplinary actions, what i joined this commission, we had 77 cases pending and at one point we were probably close to 80. after this evening, we are below 20 cases. if all goes well. i have to thank my fellow commissioners. former commissioner hammer and

the police chief who has been excellent at this new program we have and reaching resolutions and this commission has made some tough decisions on officers but we have made the tough decisions and we are clearing the backlog and we're proud of that. any questions from the commissioners about that in that report? commissioner chan, anything about secure communities? >> commissioner chan: i have a pending question for the folks who put together this audit. statistics on immigration do not match the department pose a statistics. the level one offenses are the more serious. our matches are higher. quite a bit higher for this county. i ask that this be continued and they put on calendar at a later point once we clarify this -- and put on calendar at a later

point once we cannot -- clarify. commissioner kingsley: i would also request that when this report is put together, i liked seeing the term definitions. in addition to the term definitions that are included in the report, if some keys would be provided for some of the abbreviations under resolution no. 2a, that would be terrific. i can guess at some of them but not others. that would be appreciated. president mazzucco: we will move that to a calendar and future items -- to the calendar in future items. i would like to thank the commissioners for their hard work. we had a backlog and now the backlog is no longer a backlog,

it is a dogged. it is good work and good for the police department. i apologize. i -- uselmann the case is with us with this new program and is great for the morale of the department and great for the morale of the acc. commissioner kingsley: i thank the chief and the commission. it is important to resolve these cases as quickly as possible. itit is fair to the complainant and the officers. i thank the participants in this filing will machine. president mazzucco: thank you. >> we are severing -- accepting the consent calendar. president mazzucco: that should be a motion. is there a second? public comment regarding line

item 1, parts and. >> i would like to say that i do not know -- the got the 77 down to 20. -- and they got the 77 down 20. that was one of the things we heard from day one of the commission. that is a remarkable decrease and remarkable turnaround. i want the folks who criticize us and i am not saying unduly criticize us to get that we have done a fantastic job in getting it down. and declining further. it is -- has been a remarkable job getting those cases of the calendar and keeping things moving. i want to pass all laws on the back for doing that. president mazzucco: any public

comment? hearing none, please call #2. i'm trying to keep a quorum. >> this is a motion to except -- accept? you want to split the second one, we will take that up in the next item? president mazzucco: yes, please. >> general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speaker shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or occ personnel. neither police nor personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment.

public comment is limited to three minutes. president mazzucco: taking public comment. >> i got to be brief, i got to meet the new d.a. i would like to say thank you, police commission, about the disciplinary cases. i follow them very close. i licked the name of an officer to the press -- leaked the namahbin of a search to the press. i told -- give me a week. you have a great evening. >president mazzucco: thank you. how are you? >> good evening. i am emile laurence. i would like to bring up the

events of the last three weeks. an issue on the third straight rail. i was impressed by the new police chief. going directly to the bayview and having a meeting and the police route -- work in terms of resolving the issue, who was shot by home. -- whom. i was impressed by that. i do not think that would have happened as rapidly previously. the new choice of police chief is a good one. i would like to bring up we are well aware of the fare violations on many but the taxicab industry has the same violations that go unnoticed. and unpoliced. they have no recourse. it is a waste of time to call on a police officer when someone

takes a cab across town and gets out and flipped to the bird. or holds their crotch for you or make some sort of asinine remark as a get out of the taxi. that is a big epidemic for the baby. i do not know how the police department handles it. i know most taxi drivers just needed -- eat it. you get fare violators on muni, and the taxicab industry as part of the transportation system in the city and it gets the same violations nonstop. it is almost an epidemic of some sort. we do not hear much about it in the police -- the papers. we do not get much in terms of police confrontations. the police are not called for the most part. it is something that has never been reconciled in the city. it is a big problem.

the taxicab industry operates under an honors system. you get in and to pay the fare and the fair is going up again. -- the fare is going up again. violations go unnoticed and not recorded. i would say off the top of my head there are 3% to 7% and that should be dealt with at some point in time. probably with more police on thursday, friday, and saturday nights trying to get cap violations, limousine violations, and that type of thing. i think it should be addressed. once again, i would like to say the new police chief did a helluva job in the last three weeks on that episode. thank you for a time. president mazzucco: thank you. any further public comment? >> hello. i am daniel [unintelligible] i have been wanting to say this

for the last two weeks including the chiefs meeting at the bayview. -- chief's meeting at the baby. i have been coming to police commission meetings often on since 1989, 22 years. the focus of my coming here is the need as i see it to push for reform of the sfpd. i came in response to police tactics against demonstrators from such groups as the original act up! i would as police brutality at the beginning of the first iraq -- witnessed police brutality at the beginning of the first iraq war. and at the beating of rodney king. i saw peaceful demonstrators cornered and beaten and arrested by riot police. i am not talking about letters

and those disposed -- led ooters and those disposed toward violence. a 17-year-old child was shot in the head by a plainclothes sfpd. that girl's name was sheila. the cop's said he was not in danger and they did not follow procedure. they got away with murder. they continue their career at the department without interruption. of course, there has been many unwarranted killings before and since then. soon after the killing there was a ceremony at union square to honor all the slain officers in the city's history. 92 of them. san francisco opposing political elite and hundreds of others were there. -- san francisco's political

elite and hundreds of others were there. i held a sign, those who were killed by the police. there would never be a ceremony like that for them. there are two sets of opinions. one is the police are always wrong. one is the police are always right. of course, that is ridiculous. [bell] however, in the situation and this is from several weeks ago that i held this opinion, kenneth harding. i feel sfpd at sutta properly and correctly. thank you. -- i feel sfpd acted properly and correctly. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. >> i want to address the bayview shooting incident. it is clear that there are some

training issues that need to be addressed. we only have the chronicle and that had five different stories. i went out and took a picture bride by the rec center and by the shooting. -- a picture right by the rec center and by the shooting. the individual was 5 yards away from a children's recreational center. and the kids were playing during that time. being an officer is a very tough job, you wear a bulletproof vest, they serve and protect and every day your life is in danger but what is the law when it comes to the line of fire? if there is a child or an is an individual in the line of fire, the radius, do they discharge the firearm?

i would like the training manual reviewed and hire a consultant to come in and help our police departm the world. right now, even in wartime, individuals cannot shoot if there is a child in the line of fire or innocent bystander. i am recommending that the commission looked through the training manuals. let's review them and have a good conversation about how we're going to receive -- proceed moving forward when an officer has to use his firearms because obviously he did not and he felt his life was in danger but he forgot about the child, and innocent by stender, in that line of fire -- an innocent bystander in that line of fire. if we're going to continue and there are children's rec centers, i recommend it will be

built immediately. a -- a wall be built immediately. i would like to see if muni's film is still available and at the same time, it is very important that in order to have the finest force, there is a big flaw there. a big flaw that needs to be corrected. president mazzucco: thank you. any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. we're moving to line item 4. i will turn this over to dr. marshall. >> thank you. very proud to introduce to the commission, formerly the community ambassador program. they are here and in a moment i will introduce, at turn it over.

let me give you a little background about this. on my time on the commission, there is a couple of times i have been asked to involved -- be involved in things i am pleased to do. both times were times of crisis. the first one was in the aftermath of the rnacanch shootg and i was helped to -- asked to help the board board who usher in a civilian review process. i appreciate that and they have one now her ray lahood the second time was last year when there was some terrible tragedy. the gentleman who was beaten to death, followed almost right and -- right away by the asian woman who was thrown off the t line.

both of these instances involved young black men. a lot of attention in the area in the city. and a few of us got together and tried to do something about it. i want to commend our former commissioner, vincent. we met every week at the boys' club. along with ed lee who was always out there every week. we tried to come out with some ideas in the aftermath of those tragedies. one of the ideas that surfaced was an urban peace corps. i think it was them that might have come up with that but we thought, well, what if we could place a group out there to begin

the work of restoring faith and harmony in the community? there was an additional deployment of officers out there but we knew they could not stay. we thought this might be a way to do it. it was very unique. i do not know -- think anyone else in the united states was doing this at that time. we all the said we can make this happen. -- we all of us said we can make this happen. with the strong support of the board of supervisors, i remember talking to president david chiu. i used lobbying efforts to get funding to make that happen. we were able to do it and the community ambassadors were born one year ago. it was a pilot program. it was evaluated, i felt it

worked very well and exceeded our expectations. the ambassadors are here today in their relaunch of the permanent program. this is sort of ambassador week for them. they have been treated all over the city. they had a press conference on monday which the chief was not along with supervisor malia cohen and mayor lee and president chiu. sunday, they will be on my radio program. i think they aren't -- are a wonderful group. ambassadors is the great word for them -- the best word for them. they have the job and they are willing to do it. i want to introduce the director, -- the executive director of th.

out of who is her office that runs the community ambassador program. she has been the one that puts this group together and makes it happened. without further ado, adrian. thank you for being here. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners, president mazzucco, and chief. thank you for this opportunity to provide an update on the community ambassadors program. this project is a program of the office of civic engagement in immigrant affairs. i will give you a quick snapshot. the to step version of what our office desperate we are multi functional and we do policy development and direct services and we have a lot of program areas, they keep piling it up on

us. everything from language, we oversee access laws and translation and interpretation services, immigrant rights, we staff immigrant rights commission, and a grant integration initiative, community ambassadors program, a census analysis, and education. we oversaw the average efforts for the city for the 2010 census. we do a lot of community average and education on city programs and services and we also administer the day laborers program. i am sure that the mayor will think of five other things to ask us to do in the future. next to me is richard krepowhip. if i could ask my wonderful staff to stand up. there are 12 ambassadors. thank you.

[applause] thank you, ambassadors. you can hardly miss them. their uniforms are thanks to the chief and his staff. they're the ones to recommended getting something visible. you did not know they were fashion consultants as well as excellent law enforcement personnel. just a snapshot. the community ambassadors program is a community initiatives if the program designed to bridge tension in the community due to cultural or linguistic differences. it was conceived last summer following a series of high- profile assaults in the south this sector of the city. it is a street smart approach to diffusing racial tension and misunderstandings that occur when you have large influx of newcomers coming into an area. it has created a linguistic and

cultural differences. our goal is to encourage a safe community. throughout the city. the program has three goals, to reassure residents and promote safety, to encourage cooperation community, and civic participation by role modeling the kinds of positive interaction that we would like to see in the community, because those everyday little interaction can flare-up in, they can go from 0 to 90 with a look or the with a -- or with a tone. they are off and running. also to educate and inform residents about city programs and services. we want our communities to be well-informed. the program provides not only an ongoing 60 presence but it acts as a conduit for information

going to and from the committee. the residents and businesses in the committee stressed our ambassadors because our ambassadors are from the community -- trust our ambassadors because our ambassadors are from the committee. they are assigned to business transit corridors and we have a map here which basically shows you the hot spots, the transit hotspots where they work. along the muni t line and san bruno routes. they provide residents with safety tips, language assistance, bilingual information on city programs and services. along the no. 9 line is potrero and 24th, san bruno and bacon, i am sure these streets and intersections

are not unfamiliar. there in the news almost every week. -- they are in the news almost every week. several hot spots that were identified for us by sfpd and mta. the program was intended just to be a two-month pilot. dr. marshall said they found some funding. i do not know where that funding went. i did get some funding for bilingual transit -- translators and interpreters and we -- you are told to put a program together in three weeks and no money, no people, no resources, you do we can -- what you can to put it together. with the community's help and the police chief and the mayor, we were able to put something together that works. instead of hiring some of those positions, we delayed them and were able to keep the program going for one year and we finished a yearlong pilot in

june and it took about a month to take a break and reevaluate the program and make some tweaks and a permanent program was reintroduced and launched this monday by the chief and mayor lee. this is a result striven program. we build in evaluation tools that the front end because we wanted week -- we were going to have to start applying for grants and resources to keep the program going. i'm going to show you a chart now that shows the interactions by ethnicity. during the pilot stage, the ambassadors locked 22,000 interactions with district 10 residents and their record daild observations. all these interactions were documented in daily logs. they were reviewed at three levels, by a team lethal -- leaders, program staff, and program managers. i would love to say we have the technology that would make it easier so we have a paperless

evaluation system. we're working on apple for that. by ethnicity, the following charts reflect the interactions by language, actually. 77% of the contacts are conducted in english, 20% in chinese, 2% in spanish, 1% in samoan and this is during the pilot phase. the ambassadors also conducted three surveys at of nearly 1000 residents. the assistance -- the assisted sfpd and muni enforcement officers and solve a minor conflicts, kind of cap the kids in line. assisted -- english speaking individuals, seniors, and other residents that needed things. they witnessed an reported crimes, safety hazards, and emergency situations. they responded to traffic accidents, provided medical assistance to those in need, they notified transit operators

of disruptive behavior on mini vehicles, of which there was plenty. m -- unmuni vehicles, of which there were many. also using clipper cards. none of the applications are produced in languages other than english, so there was a lot of community -- confusion out there. committed the response was great. we got a lot of love from the community. we did not do it all on our own. we had a lot of help from the community. community-based organizations, boys club, the police department, especially this year has made a difference since the chief has stepped into his role. we feel like we have a good communication with muni, thanks to some of the leadership there. 95% of our responders that participated were fr