i know this city will know how to work that. i am here to volunteer my service. thank you. and come out to city hall friday. we have a president obama town hall meeting from 5:00 to 9:00. the first one that is going across 15 states at city hall this friday, september 30. thank you, police commissioners. [applause] >> good evening, commissioners. president pro tem, president, and commissioners. i am a native san franciscan, born and raised in the mission district. i grew up here. we have lived in sentences go all our lives. we have spent a great deal of our adult lives making sure we

improve a lot for our community. first, i want to thank you all for coming down to the mission district. i want to thank commissioner chan for reaching out to the latino committee every time there are issues. our issues these days are the surge of violence taking place, and that is the reason why we have come to the mission to say that we need you to come down and meet with the community. it is good to see you here. a lot of good things that are happening here. i came to ask some questions. but to be honest with you, captain corrales did such an excellent job of providing all of the answers for my questions, particularly one of the top questions i was going to ask and i should have known at the response, and that is the staffing. because when we have seen these surges in violence, the stabbing has not gone up. in fact, the stabbing has been under what we think it should be. there has got to be a police

presence out there when these things happen. we just sat union officials, and from sacramento and stockton. they wanted to come to the mission district and go to 24th street. i was a little hesitant. i thought, maybe we should be of to showcase our communities and our culture. so we took them down. spent about an hour and a half. they had dinner here. did not see any police presence. but let me tell you what i did see. i do not see any crime, and we felt safe. i think that is the result of the fact that we have got a chief who has done some amazing work. he did it when he was here as the captain. we watched him carefully. when he was in the bay view, he did the same thing. chief suhr does not just spell community policing, he lives it every day. under his command and under captain corrales' command, we have the type of community

policing that gives people that have worked in the mission district entire life the confidence and trust in the officers. because when you saw these guys, it is because folks in the committee stepped forward and said i know what happened, i saw what happened, and i know you need to speak to. you cannot do without the involvement of the community. i want to thank you all for being here. we need you here from time to time. it is nice to see that the police commission does not have its hearings in the hall of justice, because folks do not always feel comfortable there. even city hall, as beautiful as it is, it is always nice to have you in the neighborhood. welcome to the mission district. please do not let it be the last time. thank you, commissioners. [applause] >> good evening again to the

commissioners, chief suhr, and captain corrales. my name is rita, and i would like to speak on two issues. i have always been a beat officer supporter, because i think it is very, very important to have them around. i would like to recommend for the beat officers of 24th straight that they work at 12:00, at noon. because of the work up to midnight, i think there's a lot that goes on during the day. there are a lot of kids on the street. we know there is not that many officers, but i think 24th street should deserve beat officers in the afternoon. also, i would like to strongly recommend that the beat officers have cell phones and give them out to the merchants. because of something is happening, the merchants can

call the beat officers and they can get there. i would like to say we do have a wonderful beat officers, excellent beat officers. otherwise i would not be here supporting them. i do not know what the process is, but i would like to ask for the support of the commissioners, the chief, and the captain to see that 24th street does have beat officers beginning at 12:00. another thing i want to talk about, and that is why i am very proud of chief suhr, and again, i want to thank all of you for supporting him to become the chief, because he is very community-minded. he does work very well with the community. we are taking -- i run an after- school tutoring program on 24th street, and we are taking serious -- students over to san bruno. that is the garden project.

that gives these city kids an opportunity to go out, plant vegetables, take vegetables, come back home, and have something to show. because the kids i work with do not have that opportunity to go out to farms and do things like that. and i also appreciate sergeant steve toma. he is a very good committee officer, and i would like to see we continue those kinds of things. because catherine, who runs the garden project, she has troubled youth. she pays them, and they're getting an education while they are getting paid. and i think we need more programs like that. thank you very much. [applause]

>> good evening, commissioners. chief suhr, captain corrales -- i am l. little nervous today. i got overwhelmed with a conversation i had a little while ago with chief suhr. some of you might know me from my son, alberto, who was shot and killed at 13th and folsom almost five years ago, january 7, 2007. but why i am here today is i addressed you last week in regards to my mother, my 68- year-old mother who has a replacement -- an artificial valve and a pacemaker. she was a salted on 9/11 double the she was assaulted on 9/11

at 2500 hours. chief suhr give me some feedback from our last meeting, and i was happy to hear that he told me that he is still looking into the situation. i am hoping that something does work out with that and that we do hear from gascon's office. but i am here today to also let you know at the mission statement -- station that the perpetrator that insulted my mother lives one block away. he is a marine. he is getting away with assaul ting my mother, left her face black and blue. because he was a marine, the district attorneys originally dropped the charges. i think that what they are saying to me is that they dismissed the charges because he has head trauma to the ia.

i am sorry, but i have head trauma, too, from losing my son. but that does not mean i can go out there and find those who killed my son and shoot them, too. he was in iraq and blew up in the clubs in a fight and to get out on everybody around and hit my 68-year-old mother. he needs to be held responsible for that. i am not saying they need to put him in jail. i am not saying he needs to be locked up. but he does need mental health services. i have undergone five years of therapy there my daily work that you know i do with the committee, with the jails, with the healing circle. so this person needs to be referred and action needs to be taken with him. thank you. [applause] >> good evening.

my name is mike daily. i lived since 1980 in that fair? -- thurmont district. i come from the structural steel industry. keeping with the rules of public comment on the topic of tonight, at three things to offer in terms of community service. recently i completed -- one of 23,000 san franciscans who completed the fire department's neighborhood emergency response training. it is an extraordinary program. in my industry, we train our employees, the hard workers in all kinds of rescue and retrieval. that program as well-funded as if it is, looking better than what the fire department is offering to everyone here in the city. the only problem i have with the program as it did not include the police department. the only police presence throughout their entire program and their literature is -- a fellow came by from the credit union trying to sign this up. that was fine.

that was well-appreciated. nevertheless, as we learned in new york 10 years ago, when our uniformed officers are not working together, uniformed officers lose their lives. i really hope that there is a way -- when i asked personnel, why are police not here, there would say that they have their own programs. tonight we talk about community policing and crn. but what they do is build teamwork block by block, neighborhood-they do not try toe work. they tell you when you go through these classrooms that we are counting on you to do all the things we cannot cover in case of an emergency. these glasses go on every month. this saturday there is a full training program right here. -- these classes go on every

month. i would love to invite you all to come check it out and see if it is a good idea. i agree with the work that is being done. every year we go out there and work. the response we get is basically astonishing. people cannot believe the pictures and work that is done there. we heard tonight about 700 people coming back to the system, to local systems. that is an example of something they could be involved with. finally, in terms of these officers, many people in our union live in el paso in san diego. conditions right now are extraordinarily dangerous for uniformed and all kinds of officers, because very dangerous people have weapons that are beyond description. i hope we can all promise to protect our officers.

thing here. -- thank you. [applause] >> any other public comment? there we go. >> good evening. i have been working for many years with young people's programs here in the mission district and after-school programs and youth, and i am currently working right here in the school. i was very struck by the program that you have started, and i was wondering if the commission would consider talking to the mayor's office and board of supervisors to try to extend the program and fund it and look towards having the initial graduate come into to worand dor

the younger children, because even the denver children are being exposed to acts of violence and other influences that also make them afraid, and i think we have a lot more good kids in the mission that not. there is a tremendous amount of talent and intelligence and hard-working families here that really emphasize education for their children, and as someone who has worked in in formal education, i think the youth are terrific. i would be really happy to help volunteer in any way it perhaps the program is successful to give the graduate some sense of pride by having them pass it on to the youngsters. looking at some sort of the internship program that would give them an opportunity to share what they are learning -- what they learned.

if you could consider doing that, i think preventative services that are affirming use will go a lot longer way been crime suppression type activities, which i realize are unnecessary reality, but looking at ways to engage youth before they get into trouble. thank you very much. [applause] 4 >> hello again. i am a member of the police committee advisory board in district 10 and mission station as well. i wanted to publicly recognize this fact that i have. the staff recognize me for the violence we were able to help with, but i have to mention my staff. we had canto sleighton.

this shows their dedication. it was physically removing you from the hot spot areas. it was being on the other side were the homicide and happened, having a presence there. it was also talking to the police captain daly and letting him know for his officers to know we have people out there with street out reach waters that flow in the dark so at night time they can see it. these are the kinds of things that help, and i would like to pass on that really helped four other communities that i'd be watching who will check this out of the internet later on, -- for other communities that might be watching on the internet and check back later on. that helped a lot. it worked a lot. i did not want to except credit

without touching my staff, because we are no one without our teams we operate with, and i think they deserve proper recognition. we have all moved on to different things because of budget cuts and other factors, but i wanted to give praise to those are reach workers were underpaid, and sometimes out there at night and trying to figure out -- and committee members contributed by making donations for pizza and stuff like that. that is a picture of how community policing does work and how we're making progress. chief suhr, do not take our captain away. we have our capt. for almost two years, i think, and his has been an incredible help to be able to work with him in this capacity from and not just me, but other non-profits that were mentioned here, and so i just want to encourage that. thank you. [applause]

>> and the other public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. i forgot, commissioners. fo." >> are we going back to the section were commissioners can respond and ask questions? the kosher. -- sure. i know we gave you very short notice to come to the mission and this meeting, and you do very important work, so thank you for hosting us in setting this up and thank you for the outreach to community members. i think the most well attended community meeting we have had this year, so that shows your connection to the community. think you. i wanted to ask you if your mind walking us through what happens when there is a violent incident in the mission, such as a homicide we of scene and he laid out for us.

what are the steps you take to debrief the community and prevent this from happening? you mentioned the saturation and additional help that the cheap did hear from other areas, but what you do in terms of working with the community and what and other district stations learn from us, what you think can be improved upon to prevent more violence in the mission. he got my first question is was a gang-related, because if we confirm right away with gang- related, then we know there will probably be retaliation. which ever getting was the victim, then we need to flood the resources over the turf of the suspect again in anticipation of retaliation.

that is what happened back in february. they were confirmed gang shootings, one gang against the other. it was a vicious cycle back and forth. at that time, we immediately had meetings with the chief of police and myself. we met at mission station with four or five people from various community organizations, and we had a discussion as to what can we do here? we have to put a stop to this. the people from the community organizations, they were out in the street. they were at spots for the shrines were, because the gang members of the victim gang were there. they were talking to people, trying to deal escalates, and at

the same time we have to bolster our forces. i mentioned earlier the importance of our beats. when something like this happens, the first place it goes is to beats. we put them in the area where we know the gangbangers hang out. it only takes three or 4 week for the word to get out, because we have informant telling us this that there still mad at the other day but the heat is on so they're not coming to the mission for any sort of violence. as time goes by, the acrimony seems to lessen, and unfortunately we have sinned in retaliation, but it was not in the mission district, because the heat was on and the mission. the have shootings in the bayview and then not tapered

off. last month we had an increase in violence for about a week, but it was not then vs gain violence. certainly we do not want any violence in the district, but then verses been silenced produces a long string of violence, whereas when it is our personal grievance, someone shoot somebody because they're mad at them,, it will not start again more. so basically it is important to have those relationships with the community organizations so that they know that the captain is not trying to make them as muc snith,ch, because we realize people working with these guys

have to maintain credibility, and if they are seen as too cozy with the police, then they will not be able to do their jobs, so it is fine line we have to walk, but it is doable. i think the proof of the pudding was march 2 was the last confirmed violent act that we have in the district of one again versus the other. -- one gang vs the other. >> the second half of my question was, what do you think needs to be improved? what are the things that can be done to interrupt the cycle of violence further? it does seem like there are a burst of violence, often times gang-related come and then it is quieter and then comes back again. i am sure you have learned so

much and how to reduce that. take ou \>> the only thing i would suggest, and it is tough with the fiscal situation the way it is, but i like to see better funding of some of these community organizations that are very helpful for us. as far as the police department goes, as i said, the chief provides us with everything we need in the mission district to get the job done. i do not think there is anything else i could ask from the apartment, -- from the department, but some really good people i work with earlier in the year, they're no longer in the position because of budget issues, and i think that is harmful. to go think you. i certainly agree with you. -- >> thank you.

supervisor kim professor kingsley: i want to thank the community members that came forward tonight with very all comments and very terrific suggestions, and i think i voice all of the commissioners' office in terms of repair shooting that kind of input, so thank you. capt., your presentation was also very thoughtful and detailed, and i appreciate that. a statistical question. if there is a theft crime but also involves violence and assault, is that counted as two separate crimes or does one

regio -- >> if the more serious crime takes precedence. >> we have to do that because they will not let me count a drug arrest and a felony arrest. >> thanks. but it is great to have that clarification. -- that is great to have that clarification. the other thing is since we do have a televised audience, this might be a terrific opportunity to address prevention. if there are three or five thoughts you have or ideas in terms of property crime prevention, since that seems to be on the uptick. maybe cell phones, walking and talking on the street or keeping doors locked. are there some sound bite

suggestions that you were put out for prevention? >> absolutely. one that you mentioned is a crime of violence is the cell phones. just about 50 percent of our robberies' every month are someone not paying attention to their surroundings, talking on the phone, and somebody who is pretty certain make an hour on the victim just matches the phone and runs off with it. people really need to be aware of their surroundings when they are using their cell phones. and two things on property crimes. one is the auto burglaries. years ago people used to break into a car to steal their radio, but with technology and all that, that is no longer feasible. the cars the break into now are the cars that have visible --

visible property in the car. if people would not leave laptops, briefcases, cell phones visible in the seat of a car, then that car were not get broken into almost always. the third thing, and i am amazed every day when i read police reports from the night before, these people that go into nightclubs or bars and they put their purse down somewhere and put their code over the packers, and they come back five hours later and they are surprised the purse is gone. this is happening three or four times a night just in the mission district, and i am sure it happens everywhere. people said things down and walk away from them, and are surprised when it is gone. it should not even be classified as a theft. it should be classified as of

rain at something or other. those things as the all the time. and that would greatly reduce those statistics. one thing we do in the mission better read in your report, any business that has a crime take place in that business, someone from my staff will go to that business. for example, we had a gym that the lockers were continually getting broken into. you cannot have surveillance camera and a locker room, but we made it clear, we will have to do something about this. " up, put a security officer in there, do something, but we cannot have every second or third day are report were someone came to the locker and their wall it was gone or purse was gone. every bar were the