motion passes 5-0. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> chief, this is a wonderful accomplishment. obviously, there is enormous enthusiasm and support behind this. while we have everybody's attention, maybe you could let everybody know when the department will have this up on the website anti easiest way for people in the community to access this on the department's web site. >> first of all, for everybody that is here in anybody watching on television, which were many that collaborated in this order, i cannot tell you how much i really, really appreciate it.

it was quite a process, and it was a lot of fun, but it was a lot of work. it is huge, and thank you for coming here tonight to support it. i will work tomorrow. i am not a huge computer person, but we have people that are. so i will work as best as i can to get it up. and when it is on the web site, if you go to the sfgov website underneath police, our general orders are available online, and so will this one. >> great, thank you very much. thank you. [applause] ok, item 3. >> item 3, the captain, commanding officer of mission station, to address police activities in the mission district. there will be an overview of the district, review of recent activities, and comments from supervisor campos earlier. >> we should move. you have a presentation. do you have a visual

presentation? >> yes, ma'am. >> before i start, i would like to welcome the commission to the mission district. i would like to welcome director hicks. i would like to welcome chief suhr back to the mission. i would like to welcome the community members that are here. two years ago when i started my second tour of duty as the commanding officer of mission station, i made a commitment and i still maintain that commitment. that commitment is that it is my intention to make every neighborhood in the mission police district safer and enhance the quality of life of every resident. i will do this with whatever resources are available. and those are the marching orders that we operate under in

the mission district. i also want to mention a couple of items in our mission statement, and then i will get into the other items. our highest priority in the mission district is protecting human life. we believe that while crime prevention as our principal go, we should vigorously pursue those who commit serious crimes. we treat members of the public with respect and dignity. we maintain the highest levels of integrity and professionalism in all our actions. we recognize the department members are its greatest asset and assume responsibility to treat them professionally and support their professional development. we are committed to solving neighborhood problems. we care about the quality of life in cities and neighborhoods and believe our services must answer their needs. we maintain open communication with all communities we serve. their input helps to determine police policies, priorities, and

strategies. and we're committed to managing our resources in a careful, efficient, and effective manner. here you see the mission police district broken-down into six radio car sectors. and the beats that we have within the district are there. you will see, according to the 2010 census, population in the district is 89,000. the area is 2.7 square miles, which gives us one of the higher population density is of any of the 10 district stations. on that chart, you'll see what our staffing is. i would like to point out a couple significant things. on the day watch, we have five school resource officers.

i believe that is more resource officers than any other station, and that is because of the priority we place on safety in our schools and in dealing with the youth of the district. i would like to also point out that on d-day watch, which includes the 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. watch, we have 17 foot beat officers. we have a serious emphasis on staffing our foot beats. and we have dedicated officers that work the same beat every day. on the swing watch, we have six more beat officers. you will see that we have serious dedication to be foot beats. among our responsibilities in

the mission district, our 20 two public parks, 19 public schools, 13 private schools, 785 abc licenses, and hundreds and hundreds of other permits which we enforce. in addition to those duties, we have constant special events in the district. among those, coming up sunday is the castro street fair. i hope everybody can make it. it will be agreed, crime free event. we have other events like him cinco de mayo, dia de los muertos, halloween -- and that is a special event. we have to make sure it is not an event. the food festival, independence

day, other weekend events, numerous marches, film festivals, and demonstrations. now we will get to what a lot of people are interested in, what is going on in mission district crime. if you look in this graph, you will see this indicates violent crimes in the mission district year-to-date, and that is a two- step to 24. they are only four days old. compared to the same period last year. you'll see that there were five homicides, the same as last year during this time. rates are down -- rapes are down. robberies are slightly up. aggravated assaults are down. we have a total decrease in violent crimes in the district,

compared to the same period last year. this is another way of indicating that violent crimes -- it indicates a 6% reduction from this time last year. property crimes, we have got some work to do. we're doing well in burglaries. burglaries are down compared to the same time last year. auto thefts are slightly up. other thefts and slightly up. arsonist just about a push -- arson is just about a push. property crimes are slightly up, but violent crimes are down 6%. we are addressing all crimes, be

they property or violent crimes. but of course, violent crimes our first priority. and this increase in property crimes, i attribute it to to the fact that we're educating the public about the cop logic, the online reporting of crimes. we're getting a heck of a lot of automobile bregenz being reported which historically were not reported. but now that the public knows they can make a report online, we're getting a lot more crimes reported. you'll see a rests. robbery arrests are up 38% this year, as opposed to the same time last year. the officers are doing a great job. they are out there every night. and our investigators are

assigned to the station are doing a great job. and the result is this huge increase in robbery arrests. traffic citations, we emphasize traffic safety in the mission district. last year, we led all 10 stations cahow and in writing moving violations. this year, we motivated some of these stations to knock us off. at this time right now, we're only in their place out of 10 stations for moving violations. but we will catch them by the end of the year. compared to the same time last year, we are at 33% down in fatal accidents. 42% down in injury accidents. 39% down in property damage accidents. [applause]

and to the right, you will see that mission district leads all other district stations in dui arrests. we take very seriously the menace of someone intoxicated getting behind the wheel of a car, and we have been very diligent in enforcing that. now, those statistics were year to date. of course, we all know that a month ago, we had three homicides in in the course of less than a week. appropriately enough, it was very alarming to everyone, including me, but particularly the residents of the district. i would like to point out, and these are statistics that were provided to me today at the

meeting. the extraction period for the current comstat was august 28 through september 24 of this year. that period includes the three homicides that occurred. they occur during this time. during this time, a four-weeks, robberies in the district were down 45%. aggravated assaults were down 39%. and although boosts were down 39%. i attribute that to the fact that provided me with all of the resources that i felt i needed to ensure the safety of everyone in the mission district. he supplied me those resources and and told me he was holding

me accountable. what we did with those resources, we saturated the district with uniformed officers, plainclothed officers. yet outside units, such as the gang task force, the technical company, violence reduction task force, and the traffic company saturating the district, as well as other mission district officers whose assignments and hours or changed so that they could be out on the street during the prime time, in the places and during the times where our statistics indicated that there had been violence. and you saw the results earlier. crime went down. we had our monthly community meeting last night, and i was asked -- well, how long are all

those other units going to be in the district? you know, i had to be candid. i said, well, they cannot be there forever. but i did assure them that the mission district, if you saw the staffing that we showed earlier, mission district is completely staffed. we have great staffing levels. and when these units go off to fight another fire, we have enough officers in the mission station to ensure the safety of the residents and visitors of the mission district. again, that is my mandate. if we do not do it, the next meeting you have here, some other captain will be talking to you. the chief made that clear. besides saturating the area, we conducted a lot of adult probation searches, a juvenile probation searches, and they led to numerous arrests for narcotics, weapons violations,

violations of parole and probation. the civil gang injection has been a tremendous tool. since its inception, there has been a huge decrease in gang- related crimes by certified gang members. now, if you'll bear with me, at this time i want to call sgt mario molina, my plainclothed the sergeant, and my two gang officers, dr. cafe and officer stanza forward. sgt molina was a critical expert witness in the recent federal trial in against the gang members in which six of them were convicted.

i think it was his expert testimony that was critical in the conviction of those six officers. additionally, something wanted to mention and i do not know how many of you have heard this news, but the department had a press release put out today. i would like to read it. san francisco police homicide inspectors, with the assistance of mission station plain clothes team, arrested a 15-year-old juvenile in connection with the murder and of the 22-year-old victim who was shot to death early monday morning, august the 30, 2011, while taking a break from his place of employment at 19th and san carlos. inspectors, after a month-long investigation, drawing upon the cooperation of community members and merchants, charged the juvenile with one count of homicide, two firearms violations, and a gang

enhancement of the juvenile was arrested while being held on unrelated charges that the juvenile justice center in san francisco. i want to emphasize, first, that crime was the most heinous crime committed in mission district in my memory, the murder of this poor fellow who was working two jobs to support his family. but the diligent work of homicide, the assistance that sgt molina and his crew gave, and the cooperation of community members and merchants, which is critical, led to the arrest of this scoundrel, and i am sure will lead to his conviction. [applause] now the reason that i asked officer cafe and sans to come

forward, they're the gang car in the district. i cannot go into much detail to protect the people involved, but officers cafe and sans, on their own, develop a program that is in its beginning stages. but they talked to these kids that they are arresting, these gang-bang yers, and most of them are hard core annual market to them. but some of these kids are intimidated into that lifestyle. they think they have no other way out. well, these two officers are resting these gang-bangers, and then they're trying to get them out of the gang lifestyle. with the cooperation of

supervisor campos, and i am sorry he cannot stay. but with that cooperation, they are actively getting some of these gang members jobs through the supervisor, and there are some guidelines that have to abide by. but i think it is amazing and laudable but they're out there trying to save these gang members that they're out there restingarresting. that is officer cafe and officer sans, and i think they deserve a great big round of applause. [applause] again, i cannot go into too much detail about the program because we cannot risk exposing these kids were trying to get away from the gangs. as the press release indicated,

in cooperation with the community is paramount, and we realize that. these are some of the organizations that we collaborate with. you saw four recognized mini that we work with. i am sorry that susana rojas left. but at this time, i would like alfredo to come over here alfr. alfred no has worked with many organizations within the mission. he was a critical partner with us during the early part of the year when we had the serious gang violence that i mentioned in february of this year. it really could have gotten out of hand. but alfredo was out there on the

street every day. he was a tremendous partner. if we recognize some other people and some people were kind of getting the credit for some of the work that alfredo did. so i did not want to go without letting everybody know what a tremendous job alfredo has done and how much we appreciate it. [applause] now, in closing, you heard the chief say he is not computer safi. i, on the other hand, and on the cutting edge -- [laughter] of technology. the mission station now has a twitter account. we have a facebook. we have a web site, and we are

right on top of it. i have to make a serious correction though. when i was talking about that trial, i said six officers. six gang members, six suspects were convicted, not six officers. we have got to get that straight. [laughter] so i will close on us being on the cutting edge of technology. and if any of the commissioners have any questions, i would be glad to field them. [applause]

>> thank you, captain corrales. we usually talk and have a dialogue first, but we would like to turn it over to the community for public comment regarding the captain's presentation. >> item four is general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that did not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter and jurisdiction of the commission. the speaker shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners. during public comment, either police or occ personnel or

commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response to the individual commissioners and personnel should refrain from entering into any debate or discussion with speakers during public comment. public comment is limited to 3 minutes per person. >> feel free to talk about the presentations. >> a good evening, commissioners, captain corrales, chief suhr. my name is edwin stevens, a longtime resident of san francisco, living here over 42 years. into the public schools. i am also a homeowner for the last 22 years. the reason i am coming here tonight is to let the police commissioners know that i want to commend san francisco police department, in particular, chief greg suhr, who was my captain at

the baby station. we had a great working relationship. cap -- captain corrales, as well as the current captain. in particular, this is something that many people do not experience, and i hope they do not experience, on june 6, 2011, there was a shooting in front of my house, and it happened at 10:00 a.m., and their two bullet holes in my garage door. there was a man who was severely injured as a result of the shooting, and ironically, 10:00 is the time i am usually leaving, and it was in the direct line of sight of where my automobile is as they go to my car. the only thing that was indifferent as i checked a couple e-mails as i heard the gunshots ring out, and it sounded like it came out of my garage. so when i heard what appeared to be some running in my building,

i did what any american would do, stayed in my house and waited until i heard the police sirens. the long and short of it was when i went outside, everything was calm. there were police from the mission station. there were police from the bay view. i saw the gentleman on his knees. he hedged it -- he had been shot in the arm and the neck. there was blood coming out of his mouth. but the police said the whole scene tape off. they had a control. they were getting statements from everyone. i was very happy to know that i live where i have that type of police protection. i was a little suspect because chief suhr was -- captain suhr was promoted to chief suhr a month earlier and was wondering if he was trying to tell me something. seriously, it is great, the relationship with the permission station, as well as with the current captain. i do not know what happened, but

the man that was shot did live. so the emergency response team worked very well. i want the police commission to know that i feel very safe in my home because i always see the police in the area. i see them on the bicycles on third street. there's a lot of police presence. there is a good working relationship the police have in the bayview as a result of chief suhr's tutelage. thank you very much. [applause] >> hello, happy september could of the song always says, do you remember in september? this year, we all remember september. there was an eight-week course that committed the united against violence. i live in the sro's in the

tenderloin. i heard good news that people will be working with the sro's in the tenderloin corporations, because bullying and hate crimes, they happen often. i let the police officers know when they come to a hotel, people really do need the assistance, and they do not want to look like their mental, and they really have reasons to call. we live in small spaces. we learned to survive. i love coming here because in their neighborhoods, we go to sleep, and we wake up on the morning, and there are people there, people there. we feel we should get a benefit from people being in our neighborhoods so much. coming here, you can feel that their community police. you have got trees. it is not a threat to ask people were cesar chavez elementary school is. i did some block cleaning in this area.

i think we have to be the america that no one believes in that is not a partisan. san francisco is high on the mountain because it is the last place in america before you fall off into the ocean. so you see how significant we are? community united has been great for me, to have someone you talk -- to talk to when you're dealing with bullying and hate crimes when people think it is normal. don't ask, don't tell made history last tuesday. people will challenge who we are in this country. so i really want us to make san francisco hate-free. pass those hate crimes. make sure people do not worry. that is why people come here from america's cities in many countries. they come here as a refugee