we can find out what the police department is about. there are several other agencies and selected by the states. at the international association of chiefs of police. the other media interests are rounded. it is merely a consolidation of all of them. they maintain a standard case

load during the daytime. they will park at the station closer to the beach and if we have made of them down town, they will come down town. this is actually why they were born 35 years ago. half the complement is downtown, it really comes in handy during the summer. again, it's about locating there if we have need for violent suppression versus having them travel after the travel time.

and we're working towards getting our special victims in a together with his a -- which is an efficiency plan recommendation. it appears we have found one on the fifth floor, and to be on the floor. it is a bit of a sanctuary. that concludes my report. commissioner kingsley: good evening, chief. thank you for your report.

i like to go back to the horror regarding drunken-driving. i was not quite sure what we gave to america and the award. how can you expand on that elevator? >> we were first in the state, so the office of traffic safety awards grants for various enforcement project. in this particular grant, who we were charged with trying to get 24 media hits as far as people refraining from the driving and one of our federal partners said that the public information was that the point where they decided to stay home on new year's eve.

media coverage is outstanding, and doesn't cut the above, we have less accidents and 10% less alcohol-related fatal injury since the grant was in play. commissioner kingsley: that is fabulous. how is the grant going to impact our program? >> we will apply it again and we will do it again. >> thank you for your help full and thorough report. i wanted to ask you about the department bulletin. i understand it is just another day of another fiprior card.

they are all quality of life, but i want to make sure that all of that, along with the reference guide, the officers focus on the low level of quality of life issues in the enforcement way rather than focus on prevention. >> please tell have the outreach teams and we try to get resources or a ford resources, -- afford resources. last night, they were talking about brother ohood way. we will go in for three days of with public health and see what services we can get folks to excess of four we go and clean of the encampment. about 75% compliance, people decide to allow us to help them into resources, or they

relocated on their own. everybody else is either in the middle of moving in to help with a big mess to clean up. commissioner marshall: thank you very much, chief. >> the director's report, review of recent activities and reports of the statistical report and monthly comprehensive report for july 31, 2011. >> commissioners, members of the audience. i will discuss highlight from the second quarter statistical report. they opened 418 complaints for police misconduct or failure to perform the duty. we also needed the 33 complaints.

the cases that we open during the first six months of 2011 represented a decrease in cases open during the first six months of 2010. while we are stature torelli mandated by the charter to have an investigator for every 150 police officers that would equal 15 investigators, they closed in the second quarter with only 13 journey level investigators. we will have three new investigators on staff in september. we were fortunate cannot have lost any provisions in the u.s. the budget. in spite of these challenges, the investigators managed to avoid a large backlog of old cases during the second quarter by closing 203 cases compared to the 230 new cases that we received during the same time.

we resolved some of our -- a percentage of our cases in nine months. in spite of our challenges, staff did show and a determination for investigating civilian complaints of police misconduct or neglect of duty promptly, fairly, and impartially. cases continue to increase over previous years. in the second quarter of 2011, and% of the cases were sustained. which is higher than the historical average of 9%. and higher than the sustained rate of 2010. of the 20 cases sustained, and of them were for unnecessary force or conduct which is generally a more serious allegation.

none of the sustained cases were commissioned of all cases. zero were for neglect of duty. seven were for failure to collect traffic data and the other complaint was sustained for contacting emigrations had customs enforcement about the complaint on an administrative warrant in violation of refuge ordinance. allegation was also sustained and another complaint for failure to issue a certificate of release. for failure to properly processed properlty. the investigator caseload shows an increase over 2010. the average caseload was 28 cases per investigator. that is double the best

practices caseload of the investigators the investigating police misconduct complaints. as of june 30, 2010, the average was 26 cases. the caseloads are increasing and that is really due to the shortage of investigators that we hope to remedy in the fall. the chief investigator who is in the audience in the senior investigator took a very active role in monthly case reviews and assuming investigative responsibility in select cases. in the area of mediation, 15 cases were mediated during the second corps with a total of 33 cases he did during the first half of 2011. these are the equivalent of the

investigator's caseload. the participation rate for san francisco police officers is the highest in the country compared to other mediation programs from seattle, denver, chicago, and new york. it is through the continued cooperation of the board and the san francisco bar association that our mediation program continues to thrive. we were active in the presentation. the women of color collective reception, the police academy and a 7 it is city college in

juvenile procedures cast. and an instituto familiar. we also staff booths at community events in the bayview district. and that the resource fair. in the area, our policy analyst attorney continued the policy work with the police department has a member of the crisis intervention teams. she also continued to meet with the police department on implementing provisions of the department's juvenile protocols. that concludes my report. commissioner marshall: anything for the director?

commissioner chan: you have also been very busy doing community work which i always appreciate. i wanted to ask about the sustained case about contacting customs enforcement. can you let us know if there is any policy or training recommendations that would be developed? is that being contemplated and down the line? >> in can be complemented -- it can be contemplated for the down the line. it is a training issue. it has to do with the minister of warrants and when an officer should or should not contact ice. commissioner chan: and for the

administrator of warrants that are criminal in nature, that may not be something that we want to focus on. >> that is prohibited. commissioner marshall: anything else? >> also on the agenda, which is part of your packet, the monthly comprehensive statistical report for january 1, 2011 but unless you have questions, i don't have a report. commissioner marshall: good work as always. >> first, the commission's president report. commissioner marshall: the commission president can't report.

commissioners, the have anything? >> i think commissioner chan and i have the same thing on our minds at the moment. we completed the training earlier this week. i t as a post program. commissioner marshall: i won't ask what your spurs were -- scores were. >> we did get valuable feedback and we recommended that all commissioners attend this training. we found it very valuable. one of the main aspects of this, when we are looking at policy issues or revealing discipline cases, it helps to have any least just little bit of and walked in their shoes

kind of experience. and albeit in a very small way, it did give us that in terms of response timing, procedures following procedures, the human reaction in terms of what you see and what you hear under intense circumstances, and it was insightful. and very helpful. at least i recommend it to the commissioners that have not done it yet, by all means, do the training. by the way, we are both very grateful to the department for providing us with this opportunity. and we want to thank them. commissioner chan: i agree.

i appreciated the chance to go through that training. there were high-ranking members of the department of their helping us understand the fourth options trading. the computer simulation was quite helpful. i could see that there was one involving a woman hallucinating holding a knife, one that looks like a veteran trying to commit suicide by cops. those are perfect scenarios we can use. i can see exactly where the escalation if it's there, because among the various options available at the time, the extended range, there is a whole of verbal and the escalation component in the eye could see him in there and expanding upon the tools available to officers in dealing

with those types of situations and other ones that are very related. no one was injured and i did not injure anyone else, which was good news. commissioner marshall: i remember when i did it. i of think it has changed, but i will do it again. anything else under item 2d? yes, we move to 2d. >> scheduling of items for future commission meetings. commissioner marshall: any announcements? >> the posting of the meeting.

commissioner marshall: we will take items b, c, and d. >> i have a very brief comment. i will not get to the report. i will bring up something i have brought up in the past that doesn't seem to be appropriate at any given time. it seems to be underutilized and not used. i have a background as a journalist and a reporter. it turns out reporters by the

hundreds. they are not used in the investigative division that is understaffed, and there are people that aren't paying $150,000 a year to do clerical work. i have objected to that nonstop, even last year when the police commission is very well organized. i don't think we need a lieutenant commander making $175,000 a year. those are the types of jobs that go for $15 an hour. begin the facts out of cases and turning them over to investigators. to save a lot of time.

the reporters are city reporters and down the road, we are looking for real jobs. having jobs for the sfpd and the occ. nobody has ever utilized them. on the complaint i have against officer would where he assaulted me for a minute and a half in front of 12 witnesses, i was interviewed by telephone. and that was in. and then it got lost in a reshuffle. no one person came up to me an interview me at all. i did my interviews later by talking to people in the same room. 12 other hall of justice employees, no person can now to talk to them. those are just things i would like to bring up that can not only save money for the police

department, but also can bring journalists and reporters out here doing a job for you. to help out. because reporters are trained in writing police reports. i have taken a few courses myself, i know what a police report is. so do a lot of reporters and journalists. commissioner marshall: further public comment? lieutenant, you can call item no. 3. >> occ director hicks. commissioner marshall: you have the priority list.

you have the tiers about how to adjust . if we so choose, the priorities on this list. commissioners can all join in. >> thank you, mr. president. we will see if there are any that he became. -- need to be changed. and get feedback from the public, and get things on the list or not ont he list -- on the list that they live like to

see the commission give its attention. and then, beyond this, as an individual commissioner, i would like to throw out that the commission, once we set our priorities, we take a systematic look at certain areas within the department and occ to first educate ourselves as well as to get an update on how those divisions with the department's -- department and occ, how they are working, and there are crisis items that come up from time to time, and i would like

our commission to spend some time thinking about how we as a condition went to handle that. earlier this year, there was the surveillance camera rolls -- cameras that came down, and in some of these events, they are being investigated by various departments and various agencies, but i do not think that that should necessarily preclude the commission from doing its own investigation or looking into those kinds of events. the other matter was the number of cases, like 36 cases megapixels -- 38 cases that da gascon has taken out due to lack of evidence. things of that nature that come

up, i think that as a commission, we should decide what we are going to do about those things, in terms of our priorities, as well, so -- vice president marshall: we have 3 tiers. can we take away those things? forgive me if we have already done days. . of language access, the things that are there you see. so i believe we a pretty much taken care of the discipline cases under the procedural rules. with that come off of the case? >> mr. president, i think that has been addressed for the time being, but the second part of that is yet to come, but i

think there probably is not anything that the commission can do at this point in time. but i would not take that moment off of the list. vice president marshall: you would not take it off of the list? you would move it down in the tiers, but you would not take it off of a list of >> -- take it off of the list? so the suggestion would be to move into a different tier? let me just make these suggestions. >> you can keep on the blue note -- keep it on the blue boat -- blow -- blue tier. vice president marshall: --

>> this commission has not done much on language access. i just looked at the equal access service compliance report that adrien gave us last week, and the department, while good in some places, is not good in other places, language access, so i think we need to have a hearing about implementing this general order. vice president marshall: do you want to leave it? >> yes. vice president marshall: mental health issues? leave it on the top tier? this other one, we know where we are with that. >> do we want to move that to blue? vice president marshawn: -- marshall: getting with

commissioner mazzucco. >> i would say to leave that until we can get with commissioner mazzucco. you have been at the commission longer than i have. vice president marshall. -- vice president marshall: that is fine. we all noted for these groups. nightclub violence? personally, i would not move that one, myself, but not everything can be on the top, so we have to make some decisions. commissioner: why do we not get something from the chief on that?