administration's emphasis on disaster preparedness for disabilities as a civil right. the team that came from san francisco included ben ames from the human services agent si. rod stengel from the department of emergency managements. carle and jill from the mayor's office on disability. they highlighted not only the wonderful things the mayor's office is doing but also collaboration with so many community groups and nonprofits to have a really grassroots ground-up approach to preparedness. i thought you'd want to know that. >> very good, thank you. other? yes. thank you for sharing that. i just wanted to record that it's the 22nd anniversary of [inaudible] the neighbored

emergency response team is always a great option for people to consider investing about 1 hours of their time. it's a wonderful program and on october 14 there will be a large-scale drill at fisherman's who i have about 8:00 until 9:00 and on the 16th, there will be drilts throughout the city for members who have gone through the program and to bone up on and practice their skills. thank you. >> thank you, chief. yes? >> harold of the american red cross. this is her first meeting so i want to introduce meredith who is replacing aaron, who has gone to the dark side. he's now a fundraiser with the organization. >> hello. >> happy to have you on the team. >> is representative bart here? >> yes. >> ok, so i wanted to welcome mark lewis, member of the

disaster council. if you'd like to introduce yourself. >> good afternoon. i'm the deputy chief of r.p.d. >> we're thrilled to have you. thank you for coming. thank you. other comments from disaster council mexico? any announcements? -- council members? any announcements? ok, how about public comments? supervisor farrell has joined us. actually quite a while ago. we were not able to introduce him at the beginning of the meeting. anything you would like to say, supervisor? supervisor farrell: i'm fine, thanks. have a good weekend. >> if there's no public comment and no further comment, this meeting is adjourned. thank you all so much for coming.

>> ladies and gentlemen, the chair is calling the meeting to order.

if you would please turn off any cellphone or pagers so they do not interrupt with the meeting. would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> the queue. we will not take a roll call of commissioners. commission president thomas mazzuko? >> present. >> commissioner dejesus: is in is ien route. you have a quorum.

also today we have chief grigory sir, san francisco police department. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, september 28, 2011 san francisco police commission meeting. this is our monthly meeting in the committee -- community. we define community by district stations. this is the mission district turn. on the agenda we pumped up two spots in light of some of the recent activity. we spoke to the captain about that in advance, but before we go forward with the meeting, of like to introduce the board of supervisors to cover districts. one of the most famous polis -- police commissioners, supervisor david campos, and scott wiener [applause] . [applause]

both of them will share thoughts about the activities in the neighborhood. what we usually do is -- i know for me it is very exciting. i love visiting different eraars of the city. when i was in high school we sang in choir at a different city. before we do that, we have commissioner dejesus was a native. so i want to do something a little unusual. i want to turn the microphone over to her, and she will run this committee, and she has no idea it is about to happen. [applause] commissioner dejesus: i do live in the city, but i work in oakland. exci grew up in the burrow heights area. i went to local schools.

i am happy to be here. i am always happy to be back from especially since all of this issues in the mission. i am happy to hear from community members in the chief about what we can do to try to keep a lid on it and resolve it. i am happy to be here. thank you very much. and i am sorry again. commissioner germaturman. commissioner turman: i am probably the newest commissioner, and the new as commissioner. i am a former resident of this district. during the day i am a lawyer at a law firm downtown. i am very active in this community, care very much about what you're to say tonight. i am looking forward to hear from the chief, as well as from the captain. so, share your thoughts and

ideas, because we would really love to hear them. thank you. commissioner dejesus: before we start from icy supervisor mirkarimi is coming to join us today. -- i see supervisor mirkarimi is coming to join us. i understand we have interpreter services available if anyone needs them. if you need them, come up to the front or raise your hand. and there is anyone that needs spanish interpretation, raise your hand, and we will help you. commissioner mazzucco i am the president of come commission, but tonight i am turning it over to commissioner dejesus. for 9.5 years i served as the assistant d.a.. another 8.5 years as the assistant united states attorney. i have spent a lot of my time and career in law enforcement working cases in the mission

district. i have lots of familiarity of the area. i am a native san franciscan. are raise my family here, and my family still lives here. this is a lot of fun to come out to the neighborhoods in here with your concerns are. commissioner chan: good evening. i am very happy to be in the mission, because i come here at least once a week to work on immigrant rights sanctuary city issues, and i know this community is a strong community and engage community, so i would have the money there would be a great turnout like there is tonight. thank you for taking time out of what must be a very fun day with this great weather to come and be engaged in talk about public safety and violence. think you. -- thank you.

commissioner kingsley: my name is carol kinsley. it is a pleasure to be here with you tonight. we appreciate your involvement in policing activities. it is of the four most of our priorities with the police department. i have lived in san francisco and a number of communities for over 30 years. and i have worked in a number of locations in san francisco for over 30 years, so i consider myself close to being a native. my son was raised here. i am a full-time neutral. i practice law -- i have practiced for over 20 years in the city and our resolve disputes in the commercial business arena. i live infertile heights for a while it very much enjoyed it. -- byrtle heights.

the mission is a terrific community. barry involved in active -- very involved and active. pleasure working with this community. >> supervisor campos, we will start with you to say a few words. supervisor campos: thank you very much into the entire police commission. more importantly, they do to all the members of the community that have come out to this meeting. i also want to welcome my colleagues from the board of supervisors, supervisor mirkarimi in supervisor wiener.

let me just say this, i think this is a very important meeting for us. nothing is more important than public safety, because public safety -- if public safety is not the reality, it affects everything else. that is why it is so important for us as a community to have a meeting to talk about some of the incidents that have taken place, but more confident -- comprehensively to talk about the efforts that are going on in our community to address the issue of public safety. having been a member of experf e police commission, i know how the police department works, and i know the role they play in the life of a community. i want to think officers, because they have a very tough job, and they put their lives on the line literally every day. that said, we always have to

make sure there is accountability to the committee, and that can only happen if we have these kinds of forms where we can hear directly from members of the community. what that -- what i can tell you is that as a supervisor, the moment an incident happens, i am in close communication with the police department and not only with the cheap, but the district captain. i want to recognize the capt. because he has been very responsive to make sure this district has the resources needed, to make sure they have what it takes to do their jobs, and he has been a strong advocate for making sure that those resources are provided. i want to thank chief sir for making that happen as well. [applause] it takes more than just police presence to keep things safe. but barely -- a very informal capone is violence prevention. there are people in this room

who put their lives on the line -- the lives on the line every single day. there are groups that on a daily basis are working with youth to make sure they stay out of trouble, to make sure they have options and choices. what we've seen in the past few months and past few weeks is a very strong collaboration between this violence prevention workers and law-enforcement, because it requires everyone working together to make sure we maintain the safety. the other thing i would say is the community involvement is also key, because it is not just about the police apartment doing its job. it is not just about violence prevention workers doing their job, it is about citizens being involved. as you can see by the presence of the community in this room, the community in the mission is involved. that is what the community involvement is. i want to thank each and everyone of you taking time out of your busy schedule. the last thing i would say is i

am very proud that my office has been working closely with chief sir. we have introduced a community policing legislation. the idea is to codify community policing and to what happens within the san francisco police department. i want to think cheap search for beginning the implementation before the legislation is passed. i think this is a demonstration that this department under his leadership is truly committed to making sure when we talk about community policing that it is something tangible and something we see on the ground, not only officer walking the beat, but connections across the board with residents and merchants. i'm very proud to be part of that effort now i will turn it over to my knowledge -- my other colleagues. thank you for being here and i look forward to what you're decide. -- to what you ahhave to say. [applause]

supervisor mirkarimi: thawienerd evening, everyone. supervisor campos and i went to law school together. i am very pleased to work with him in this capacity. i am proud to represent a significant portion of mission station. we have a lot of different public safety challenges in different parts of the district, and we have seen some of the violence in and around the mission recently, and that is something we need to address and have a lot of confidence in the police department's ability to work with the community to address that.

in the castro area, even though we sometimes use the area as a bubble, it is not. there are quite a few robberies and assaults and other crimes that do not get reported, and people are sometimes embarrassed to report. it happens, and the community needs to be aware and we need to work with the police department to figure out how to take care of ourselves and be safe and be aware. we also continue to have hate crimes. periodically one will get a heavily publicized, and we say wow, there is a spike in hate crimes, but we have to understand he crimes have never gone away. they have always been there. there are always been people who view the neighborhood as a place where you can devise --

victimize gay men in particular, and that is something we need to focus on as a community, and people need to take care of themselves as well. one of the things i did before being on the board of supervisors was to organize a neighborhood walking patrol where we try to educate people about being safe. finally, i just want to focus in the castro area on the issue of youth, and we have a challenge in the neighborhood where we do not have enough's for young people to do that does not involve alcohol. we end up not providing any real opportunities. so kids are on the street and they have nothing to do. we need to do a better job providing state and activities and opportunity for kids, and we need to make sure we are providing housing for them as well, especially pretend edition

-- for a transition-age youth. thank you for all of your great work. [applause] supervisor mirkarimi: good evening. i am the supervisor of that the district and also the chair of the board of supervisors. the uptick of violence touches our attention deeply, and we want to respond as throughly and effectively as possible. it is critical and important nbc community meetings like this, because it speaks to many of the initiatives that we have taken about installing community policing tactics. sourci think that when you havee

kind of engagement you have here, you see a report that is not reporting the crimes, you see all the crimes that are not reported. for years what we been talking about is currency that needs to be built between the people of this community and law enforcement so that relationships are developed and that fosters the level of cooperation and trust. i think the police department is sensitive to that. i believe city government is becoming more sensitive to that, and we know the community is very sensitive to that. i think when we're able to develop that level of relationship, perpetrated by community policing, then we will be sending a signal that those crimes will not be perpetrated. i think that is that level that

is often missing. there are many comparisons of what is going on here, so that is why even though we operate by districts, we think city-wide come and it is tearing us apart. the second thing is an important milestone. this saturday is the beginning of state prisoner realignment. 32,000 prisoners are retaining -- are returning back from the state to local government. our share in san francisco will be 700. we will have the lowest in take -- intake and we're the most prepared. that could tax and stress public safety and the police department if we do not manage the population correctly. we know people coming out of the

jail system come back to the same communities like mission, soma, clicking will side, like a sunny day. -- like sunnydale. this is why this kind of meeting tonight is that much more important so that we are ready to see the challenges before us and the ones that are forthcoming. think you. [applause] -- thank you. >> item number one, reports to the commission. and1a 1a, the chief's report, review of recent activities. >> good evening, commissioners.

mission community, members of the board, others gathered, we continue to enjoy a respite from city crime city-wide. i will defer my comments to capt. paralysis, because it is substantial, and he has been captain of the effort with his folks and those folks that i've been loaned to him from downtown that had a good effect. there are lots of people out as we were going in on the playground. this is a great night in one of the best weather districts in the city, so it needs to be a safe night. mention was made of community policing. tonight we are back in the mission where we started our community collaboration on the community policing in general that will hopefully come -- become department policy that will govern the whole police department that will now be

codified. i want to bring you back, because there are many people in the room tonight that were here and contributed such a big help off towards the opening night. again, supervisor campos and mercury me and all of the members of the board for collaborating and lending ideas and making sure basically that it is all in there. with regard to realignment, i know that was brought up. we're fortunate the population coming back to san francisco is smaller relative to other countries. we have been working for months with chief probation officers come to committees. in we think we are prepared, and officers are ready. i do have to remind everyone that most of these folks want it would have been released from custody anyway. they would have been released to san francisco, just over time. we will have a good plan. the san francisco police

department is committed to keeping the city safe. i[applause] >> we have you done as no. 3. we call item 1b. >> preview of recent activities. >> good evening, commissioners. supervisors compos, mirkarimi, and wiener. chief sir, capt. paralysi caralm joysticks, the director of office of citizen complaint. also hear from office of citizen complaints is the senior

investigator, as well as the legal intern, emily shannon. it is a pleasure to speak to all of you this evening about the functions of office of citizen complaints. we are also known as though otc. it is the third largest civilian oversight of law enforcement agency in the united states. it is only surpassed in size by chicago civilian oversight agency. this office was created by a board of supervisors sponsored charter amendment in 1982 and became operational in 1983. we are nearly 30 years old. and it was originally an office of the san francisco police department. it was later placed under the jurisdiction of the san francisco police commission. it is an independent agency, separate and apart from the police department. the police commission is also a civilian body.

office of citizen complaints investigate civilian complaints against san francisco police department and make policy recommendations on sentences go police department policy. in california law enforcement agencies must cover procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against peace officers. the otc serves that purpose. our office is staffed by a diverse group of civilians who have never been san francisco police officers. the office of citizen complaint is that 33-member staff, the majority of which are investigators, and the balance of this faq consists of attorneys and sports -- support staff. to that end, office of citizen complaints mission is to ensure police accountability by conducting fair, timely, and

unbiased sourcrecommendations. we -- when we conduct an investigation, we do so to figure out what happened. we interview the person who brought the complaint, they all police officers in civilian witnesses. we obtain additional evidence from the police department in the form of police reports and other documentation generated by the department. we also visit the site of the alleged occurrence and may take photographs of persons. our aim is to complete the investigation within nine months and with limited exceptions, we must complete our investigation within a year. and once we complete an investigation, we make a finding of whether the complaint of officer -- the complaint officer violated our role or local state or federal law. the standard of proof is the preponderant of the evidence,

which means that the probability that the complaint of conduct occurred was more likely than not. other words, > 50%. it after investigation the otc finds that an officer is violata rule, we forward this to the chief. in the otc additionally provides mediation as an alternative to discipline. in 2010 the otc facilitated 53 mediations. that reserve -- represent 8% of the cases be closed last year. the mediation program allows complete install resolve issues with the accused officers in person and a dispute resolution format. the goal of the mediation program is to bring the involved