they can fill it out in their own language and they would understand. i took spanish. i did excellent with spanish written out. i would not want to live in another country where i do not know the language. more help those that help themselves. have we been in touch with the department of education? do they have a listing as to which schools give these language classes -- second language class is? president mazzucco: we have to focus on the police department. >> we need to educate the people. that is what this is about. if we have records from the department of education regarding which schools give language classes, we can make sure they understand english. that is the idea. education is the clue all the way down the line.

thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. next speaker. >> i thought i would add in some points. as a special officer, i have, on numerous occasions, been asked to translate. unfortunately, i can speak japanese and chinese. the range is everything from traffic accidents, some of the cutting somebody, domestic violence, shoplifting. i want to impress upon you, it is important for the person who is assisting the officer or the victim to have an understanding of the culture involved. kolter has a big play in this. especially -- culture has a big play in this. especially in the japanese community. culture has an important way to influence how people think.

president mazzucco: thank you. any further, regarding this issue? hearing none, public, is close on this item. commissioner chan: if i could make one comment. i went through my questions and i have one note. in terms of the budget issue, i noticed that some of the constraints of getting cell phones, updating systems for identifying bilingual officers, he training having to do with budget issues, i want to recommend the department to consider including language to the budget item. i do not think it would be very large compared to other items on the budget. i would commit to advocating the board of supervisors to approve that line item. i want to include that has something for officer ha to report back to us on. thank you for your presentations to night. president mazzucco: please call line item #3.

>> reports and announcements. first is 3a, the chief report. it is a review of recent activities and an update regarding implementation of the dgo. >> we are at 47 homicides for the year. we were at 46 this time last year. we are still at about half of what we were three years ago. with regard to general crime, violent crime is down 7%. after a good. , we are flat at 0%, which is fortunate considering all the other things that have been going on at as a late -- as of late. holiday activity -- we raise about $12,000 for raisedream to

fund underprivileged, at risk kids at the 49er game. we raise quite a bit of money for make a wish. on saturday, we have the tip a cop at when net this the with one of our commanders jumping in the day. it will be very cold. on the exciting news front, a big priority for commissioner chan, the cit first class started this week. i addressed the class. a lot of energy going forward. we are off. i met with the mayor's office on the budget. we are being asked for a 5% cut this year and a 5% cut next year with a 2.5% contingency cut in both years.

with regard to the occupy activity that took place last night at about 1:00 in the morning, the police department, dpw, fire, and sheriff;s department participated in the cleaning of justin herman plaza. there were 86 arrests. 79 of them were peaceful. no problem whatsoever. 4, their worst -- there was some resistance to merited charge but no assault or injury. there were three felony assault on the officers. one demonstrator threw a bottle. another through a garbage can that injured an officer. another demonstrator through a metal chair that struck an officer in the face of his

helmet, breaking his facial. none of the officers were seriously injured. we do not have any reports at this time of timeoccupy people being injured. 10% of those accepted -- of those arrested accepted homeless service on release. additional folks were being solicited. there was a subsequent march today where 2 or 3 were arrested. there is an ongoing march now. i do not know what the update on that is. there were some comments in the media that only five minutes was given for -- on top of the two months for those people to gather their belongings and. it was, in fact, they were told they had five minutes, but per the committee it -- the computer-assisted dispatch law, it was 18 minutes that folks had

to gather their belongings. all but 31 accepted the offer certification -- except the offer to not be arrested originally. over the course of the morning, this would of been from 1:00 to 6:00, i was there and there were two other occasions where the other 55 were arrested that either came down or originally said they did not want to be arrested. they took all the furniture from in front of noah's bagels, furnished them at the business across the street, through them in the street and sat down. they blocked the road re one hour later. there was another arrest. all of this happen largely at that incident. all of the officers showed tremendous restraint and professionalism and patients in

what was a long night. lastly, the update on the implementation of the general order for community policing. every police station has received and hosted at least two copies of these tenets for community policing. each officer has received a copy of the general order 1.08 and signed for that. the community policing is going through the review process. it will be in stations by the end of the year and the academy, which has not had a community policing topic on advance officer calendars has in the past, but not had one and not anticipated until 2013, will going ford until 2012. with that being said, that is

with -- as with all general orders, this is binding on the officers. we will work with the community to develop the mutual training aspect of it going forward. president mazzucco: thank you. i know you are tired. you have been up at 2:00 in the morning. if you are here tonight, i am sure you are pleased about that. >> there is no where i would rather be. [laughter] president mazzucco: i want to thank you and the officers. granted, some people are concerned about the arrests and what they saw. some folks have realized that -- there were no debacles like oakland or los angeles or new york. for that, given what we have seen today, thank you and thank you to the officers for their professionalism. one other matter -- we had a discussion today. there had been ongoing reports regarding officers and the use

of social media, facebook, and twitter. there are some concerns about where do the officers' rights and and their obligations as police officers began? it is a delicate balance. you are on top of that and in the process of working on it. i want to let the commissioners know that that is in brest and your looking into it. it is a delicate issue but thank you for being ahead of the curve on that. >> we did put out one bulletin with regard to social media and we will have one more out within the next 30 days. president mazzucco: thank you. commissioner kingsley. commissioner kingsley: thank you for your report. i have one question under each item. first of all, i wish the best to those that were injured in the occupy activity earlier today. i hope they feel -- i hope they

heal and recover well. it seems that when you read about what is going on in the country, the attempt to clean up the occupy area or clear it out, that it is in the dark. it is the late hours of the night or early hours of the morning. can you help us understand the law enforcement thoughts around choosing that time? >> sure. the code section that is violated is the overnight camping in the park. by its definition, it has to be overnight. commissioner kingsley: thank you carry it that is a logical answer to that. thank you. the other question has to do with the community policing. and specifically, no. 12 on

page 20 around community resources. -- on page 2 around community resources. is that database being compiled at the administrative level in the department? how is that being put together in terms of how it is being generated? what department is maintaining it? this is on the dgo 1.08 no. 12 on page 2. if you could elaborate a little bit more around the data base of public and private resources, where that is being housed, compiled, whether it is in the administrative offices? the second part is, public and private organizations that would like to be part of that resource and database, who should the contact? >> the captain's newsletters

already have many resources attached. we are in the process of coming up with a newsletter that would be a department newsletter. we do not want to let it be a vehicle for advertisement, if you will. we wanted to be a vehicle to the captains that have a working knowledge of the folks in their places, when i was at bayview, i had a significant back couple pages of my newsletter that were resources and events and things that community could avail themselves of. it would be the community relations department. >> it is localized with the district rather than department late organized.

>> i do not have my own newsletter by will. when i do, we will have links to every newsletter. anything that is a city-wide service would be on the chief's newsletter. >> thank you. >> a quick comment on the homicide numbers. and i hesitate to say this but the fact that it is at 46 is the same as last year. >> we are at 47. >> we had very if -- a very bad january. that did not come about because we're all scared and i am hoping those numbers stay flat the rest of the year. >> i am hopeful.

i know that people in the occupied movement have talked about going into some other stage versus the 24 hour thing that require such a heavy commitment of police resources. those officers would be better placed doing violence prevention and working in the neighborhood which we still do. this has been a tremendous drain on resources. >> thank you. >> one of the speakers was commenting on the language access. it was from ap. some of the things she mentioned being not accurately reported or weapons or also to the victim and to language access so there is a double with me. i am wondering if you have the caucus you are talking about

that perhaps you include her office to get some ideas of what discrepancies or issues they're having. there might be a training issue. to remind them of the bulletin. and find out what it is. we do not want not taking weapons and i do not think that is what she is saying. there is some discrepancy. it would be nice to look at that and include her. and to see whether we can rectify if anything that is occurring. >> it is on my list. commander beale is the chair of the asian pacific islander forum. it should be up his alley to address that. >> you are going to -- i have to go back to the occupy raid.

i understand it two months notice. between the mayor and the department and has been. negotiations and could sit down meetings between san francisco and the mayor's office. it has been heartening to know that was going on. why have a raid at 1:00 a.m. when you have other -- if you cannot camp, you cannot -- to have a lot of roles. maybe people feel betrayed, all that good will it have put in were spent over the raid. >> the reason it happened is negotiations stopped. the point person in the negotiation, much of the

leadership he was talking to was not there anymore. e-mail was going on returned. the olive branch, less than half the camp was going to general assembly. even the half that were there could not reach consensus on any sort of agreement. and there was this attack on the officers. one officer was hurt. there was a situation where the folks in the encampment were doing this. having negotiations bay ongoing i do not think we would have moved last night. because the communication as you said there was so good, had stopped and muhamed who has been unbelievable in his devotion to this group and want to work this thing out, it was he that said

in the late afternoon meeting that he believed negotiations have stalled. and something had happened because the situation was deteriorating. commissioner dejesus: that does seem -- people are upset. >> we have to wait until they are in violation of the law if that is the section that we will enforce. commissioner dejesus: they are during the daytime. >> they are. commissioner dejesus: the other thing, people were pushed and injured, they said. i appreciate that the officers that were injured are doing well. or any of the occupiers taken to the hospital, where there is serious injuries? >> not that i am aware of.

the sheriff's department -- a few were rearrested and engaged in further stuff. one tillman said i had a medical but he had played that twice. commissioner dejesus: imagine resources. we have when it comes to the budget, one of the things that the board -- a this is over time. i wondered if you could let the public know how much the overtime we have used in terms of resources in this case and whether -- if we have gone over our limit, if we were close to it. >> up to last night we spend $400,000. it has tax hour overtime budget. that is over time i had hoped to spend on violence reduction and other means. i think we're making headway in

the -- that regard. this was no way sustainable. commissioner terman: thank you. commissioner dejesus board pose the questions -- already posed the questions. >> with the training i appreciate that you kicked off. your leadership at the helm of the work means a lot. thank you for taking the time. new i will be there for the graduation ceremony. thank you for stepping up. and to be our guinea pigs in figuring out how to deal with

the issue. we're trying to recognize that work. i want to thank the community groups that have been donating an immense amount of time to get this b.i.t. training out. -- cit turning out. we have the co-chair of the advisory board. itis good to know that parts are being implemented. i would like to hear more. it was not clear to me when i mentioned it would be included in the newsletter that will come out. i thought with the way it is written it would be its own manual. >> another restores manual but the research guide. it would tell people where they might get language resources. >> would that be on the web?

>> the guide would be resource manual on community policing would be on community stations. resources other people might avail themselves of, we can point them to, that would be online. >> did you let us know what the timeline is for that? >> it has already been drafted. the committee resources and the manual, is that being done in conjunction with the community policing group, they worked hard to put together this general order. >> the manual? >> the menu and the resources. -- manuel and the resources. it is the best practice on meetings. the best practice on softball leagues for kids. things like that. anybody that wants to say this

might be additions would be vetted. anyone who wants to suggest a resource could do that. >> i would encourage further working. there is a lot of people who spoke in support. i would encourage further working with the very invested community members. >> anybody can have a copy. >> in terms of the community policing, there might be training included for advanced officer training. there is a piece in here, that is something you would work on. we will hear about that.

lastly, occupy. i wanted to ask about the barricades. a lot of people are puzzled by that. >> a naked occupier started a woman as he ran down the camp. the deterioration in the camp suggested by the occupiers was our own business that we had taking care of. since it was impacting passers- by, the thinking was if they could put a fence around it. at least people could not accost people that had nothing to do with occupy. if there was objection we would not do it. nobody foresaw there would be an attack or the barricades would be turned into weapons or the

break out the spokes of the barricade and use them as sticks or they would build the sculpture in the middle of the place using the barricades. nobody saw that. on that night, the officers stood down because there was never any plan to go into the egg kamen. it was the occupiers that initiated the attack. >> was there -- what i have seen, it appears there was a lot of confusion. was there any communication? this could mean a lot of different things. was there any communication, did they explain the plan? >> there is a youtube video where an officer is trying to stock of barricade and an occupier comes up man punches him in the face. it was an ugly situation last thursday. >> what is the plan now that justin herman has been cleared?

even if they're taking a position that there were no attempts allowed, it is still a public space. they have an absolute right to use their first amendment rights. is there plan moving forward to draw that line? >> right now the environmentally -- that site is not habitable. it is being repeated by park and rec. it had been declared a public health hazard. they are turning the soil and power washing. park and rec has the park itself closed. we do it as well or better than anybody. we continue to do it. it is not me or the mayor that decided it was unlawful to have the tents over night. that is a city statute that is the law here in san francisco. >> the public comment folks

explained concerns about high level of police presence there today. what they described as an overreaction and assure force. that is being moderated. it is true with facilitating some of the -- being at the federal building. >> they can be in front of 101 market. >>commissioner terman: i wanteda couple of follow-ups on the occupy sf. i am able to view the site, and it is a going through a remediation process. it is being cleaned. if the planned -- the plan is that occupy sf will be able to protest during the day, on market street, in front of the

federal reserve building, there would be no camping or overnight presence. is -- is that what i am to understand? >> everything, the rules apply. the issue all along is the permanent presence and overnight camping. once it is cleaned up, much like has been the case. it is more sent to the next phase, that is more of a daytime operation. we have facilitated marches and traffic interruption and everything all day today. i think right now. >> thank you. could you call item 3b. >> a director's report, review of recent activities. >>