commissioner kingsley, commissioner slaughter is en route, and commissioner turman. mr. president, you have a quorum. we have someone from the office of citizen complaints and someone on behalf of chief suhr. president mazzucco: that is the last time we will be saying lieutenant falvey, as the next time, it will be capt. >> one person has been selected to take captain falvey's place as secretary. he is very recommended. he is very professional and has been with the department 29 plus

years, and he has worked at a number of stations, northern, park, and mission. for many years, he worked on the muni task force. he was a very well-respected. he became an expert in gangs. he became an inspector, and he worked for a number of police chiefs, including cheap sanders -- chief sanders, and we are pleased to give them a try as commission secretary. i am sure that you will like him, but if you do not, let me know. he is an asset to the police department. president mazzucco: thank you very much, commander, and thank you, inspector, for wanting to do this.

would you like to say something to the commission? >> i just appreciate the opportunity. chief suhr talked to me yesterday and offered for me to try out, and i thought it was very nice of them to do that, and i will do my best to fill the big shoes of capt. falvey. i guess he is on monday, and then we will have lieutenant reilly come back to train me. thank you very much. president mazzucco: could you please call item no. 1? secretary lt. falvey: to accept a donation of $200 from maloney security, inc. president mazzucco: commissioners, you have this in your packet.

commissioners, is there anything you want to say about this? i see we have two members of the mounted unit with us. any public comment regarding the $200 donation to the police mounted unit? seeing none -- [gavel] any public comment? thank you very much. call line item number two, please. secretary lt. falvey: item number two, the adoption of the minutes for the meetings of october 12, 19, november 2, 16, 30, and december 7. president mazzucco: do you have any changes you would like to make? commissioner chan? commissioner chan: november 16,

2011, michael, who presented, his name is spelled differently. and then on december 7, 2011, there is someone named heidi who spoke. she is with iplo, the pacific islander outreach. president mazzucco: commissioners, in the amendments? any public comment on the adoption of the minutes? hearing none, do i have a motion for adopting the minutes? and before we do that, i want to thank lieutenant falvey and another for putting this together. it takes a lot of work, and it is greatly appreciated. all in favor? adopted. please call line item number three. secretary lt. falvey: i number

three is general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. speakers set -- shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to the commissioners or department or occ personnel. commissioners may provide a brief response. individuals should refrain from entering into any debate or discussion with speakers during public comment. please limit your comments to 3 minutes. president mazzucco: public comment. first speaker. >> the kit, commissioners, i will try to be respectful, -- ok, commissioners. i have got two issues. when i call the police commission office, i do not expect the secretary, who is

leaving, to tell me i do not get along with nobody. that is my problem. that is unacceptable. and i do have a problem with the captain, a big problem. i emailed the chief about it to see if he could rectify the problem. i do not get follow-ups. i do get no response is. i get nothing. i do have a problem. i have a big problem with bad chiefs and bad captains, and when you have a cheat and a captain that is not doing well, the station will not do well -- when you have a chief and a captain that is not doing well. i do not think that the police advisory board -- somebody who has a burglary every second.

i do not think -- is really qualified to be on the police advisory board, in my opinion. thank you, commissioners. president mazzucco: thank you. next speaker. >> chief, commissioners, welcome dammit 2012. there was an interview -- welcome to 2012. there was an interview. i may run over for about one minute or so, but i would like to do it without being cut off. on the second of this year, and i bring it to your attention that i was approached by two sfpd officers and almost beat up. on january 2, i was approached

by two police officers that wanted to know if i had ripped off a computer one week earlier, and i said, "i did not rip off any computer. i picked up a pamphlet and gave it to a woman." they grabbed me. i said, "hold it, hold it. this is undue procedure." i was jack-booted. to this day, i go to the veterans administration and have myself checked out, i am numb. they had two sets of handcuffs on me. when i was delivered to the police station, my feet were numb. they pulled me out and dropped me out on the handcuffs and

said, "you are out now." i said, "is this a school for bruts?" he smiled and walked away. i was there for two hours. i said, "you have not asked any questions." i was told to shut up. later, they made me sign some documents that i would be in jail for another couple of hours. a notice of theft of lost property. i said, "you have got to be kidding me." and then, badge 124 took my documents and literally threw them in the street, like that, and said, "you are out of here." this is based on something that happened earlier, not on that night. i want to bring it up that i

have seven copies of a letter to the captain that i want to give to you. president mazzucco: you have run out of time. >> i have got 15 seconds. president mazzucco: ok. >> this is no reflection on the chief of police suhr. i see the crime rate going down, etc., but i of a letter also for the minutes under the brown act and the sunshine ordinance -- but i have a letter also for the minutes. i see that crime is going down. this is not the basis for creating more work for police officers. i thank you for your time. president mazzucco: thank you. and, mr. lawrence, i am sure you are aware, being a frequent visitor, you can take your complaints to the sec -- occ. >> yes, and i went to state for

the record that i do not trust the -- i want to state for the record that i do not trust the occ investigations. president mazzucco: ok. >> i just want to share -- where i was jack-booted. president mazzucco: next speaker. >> i am normally very positive, but tonight, i am going to be very negative about the sfpd. i did not like one remarked. put that aside. number two, there was one in the bayview with someone who shot at one of our officers. his name was public within 12 hours. we have a guy in northern who was shot at one of our officers -- who shot at one of our

officers, but it was quiet for seven days. no one says a word. calling the capt. he is white. and i was asked, "how do you know?" "the way you are handling it." the guy in the bayview, wait a minute. he is from seattle. who knew that guy? no one. only the cops. front page on "the chronicle" the next day. chief suhr told me, "in the interest of family." wrong answer. this is perceived as racist. next topic. what are we doing here?

i mean, come on, people. we talk about this, we talk about that, we play all of these games. i read the occ. the quarterly report. i read every page of it, every page. police misconduct. but we also have police on our force who are bigots. right to my face, he walked up to me and said, "like chi cken." that is bigoted. have a good day. president mazzucco: next speaker. >> my name is marie bailey. there was an article in "the examiner," a man shot.

i am really proud of those officers. not only did they not get hurt, but i feel they did what was best in the line of duty, and they took the criminal down. i would like to see more cops addressing the issue of crime and having the guts to do what is right. i also want to submit this letter that i gave to the no. station. -- northern station. please address the crime in the tenderloin. president mazzucco: thank you. any further public comment? hearing none, please call the next line item. secretary lt. falvey: item number four, the chief's report. >> i hope everybody had a great new year. we have had a busy time since we last met. the event such as entertaining

the ministry from the public security at the range, a conference that we will follow up, and it was actually great. the young kids can, with some great ideas about how they would like to have a mentor ship -- the young kids came, with some great ideas about how they would like to have a mentorship, if possible, a graduate from college. there was a benefit for special olympics. we did a giveaway for visitation valley. operation dream. we were all over the city. we did a santa claus event at the mission. we gathered funds and then bought toys at the 49ers' game.

we were other places, and north beach place, christmases all over town. as far as public safety, the reason there was a mention that the name was not put out that quickly, i have to remind everybody that everything we have will be put out within 10 days or less, knowing that on this particular occasion on the shooting in northern, we were not 100% sure who the person was until we got a positive analysis because the injury from the gunshot was to be head, so we had to do it through other means. as soon as we knew that, we put that information out, and we had been in correspondence with the family since they explained to us a lot about what they thought had happened. we attended new year's eve, a 17-day crackdown for a campaign

that attacks drunk driver is. -- drivers. it was a 29% increase over last year's totals of arrests. we had no alcohol-related drunk driving arrests. for the fourth straight year during the crackdown period. this was the award winning program from last year that we will continue again on super bowl sunday and st. patrick's day. our year-end statistics with violent crime, violent crime in 2011 ended down, which was a great year, but if you go back to 2008, our last high gear, we are down 18%. our homicide total -- but if you go back to 2008, our highest last year -- our last highest year, we are down 18%.

aggravated assault was down 9% from last year, robbery down 2%, rate down 12%, burglary down 5%. -- rape down 12%, burberry down 5%. -- burglary down 5%. much of automotive burglary and spikes and theft is due to leading electronic devices in vehicles. there has been a lot of attention about a hill dwellers -- dweller. i think that's commissioner chan -- that commissioner chan would appreciate this low approach we have taken. nor for the fire department to be affected in any way. so far, what we are able to make of this situation is that this

person is a prowler at best and a burglar at worst. we have people at the top of the hill and the bottom of the hill, and when he decides to go in either direction, we will talk to him again, so we will not push the envelope. sadly, and much more recently, the reason i was late, we had a suicide in the back of the hall of justice just before i got here. the gentleman was on a scooter. there was a call about a fireman on the street. officers arrived and actually spoke to the man. he said he did not know anything about it. when officers were part in their car, he walked behind a small wall there -- when officers were parked in their car, he walked behind a small wall and shot himself. they believed he was dead immediately. he had instruction on him that said do not resuscitate, and he

left a suicide note for responding officers, so, obviously, when people get to that, keep them in your thoughts and prayers. that concludes my report. president mazzucco: thank you, chief. on a positive note, i want to thank the members of the police department for making christmas for all of the small children who live in our apartment complexes. i know the great effort that you and the officers from the various stations put in so that the children have a gift at christmas. it is one thing that people do not expect officers to do, but it brings good will to the community and more important is smile to a child's face. it is greatly appreciated. commissioners? commissioner marshall? vice president marshall: let me just say, first of all, i think that is three state -- three straight years that we have had homicides in the fifties?

>> fifty or less. vice president marshall: 1 may be an aberration, but three years in a row, that is drastically down from we have it -- what we had since i've been on the commission, so i want to say kudos. that is cutting homicides in half. and also to hear about the reduced crime rates, that is really something. you see national crime statistics, and you hear a places with much smaller populations with homicides that are ridiculous, so i just want to say thanks to the department and to the citizens of san francisco. 50, we would want it to be one, but it is certainly better.

and the ceremony. i want to thank you for coming over to the boys' club for the press conference that we had when we introduced to the public the second set of community ambassadors that are now pursuing the market street corridor, in addition to what we have in district 11, in the bayview, and they received tablets to help them in their duties. it is great to see that program grow. it is one thing that seems to be universally liked by everyone, so i want to thank you for being there along with supervisor cohen and president chiu. >> they were the really nice, new, electronic tablets. president mazzucco: commissioner chan? commissioner chan: when i saw

you, i think you are running off to be santa claus at the mission, so you are doing your duty. thank you. we had our first graduation, a first-class of officers trained. it was a really great, and diverse -- great diverse group. commissioner slaughter join me. walking out of the training and into the program. an expert came and told us what is different and special about them. not only do you have the training, but you have the program where they use the training on a daily basis. i want to know what steps there are next, if there are any, for the officers that were to arrange -- that were trained. >> using this hillside thing, where the officers established a perimeter, and the engage the

person who is suffering from crisis, -- and they engaged the person who is suffering from the crisis, the sergeant to has been the person making the contact, this will now be -- the sergeant who heads and the person making the contact, this will now be the -- the sergeant who has been the person making the contact, this one now being -- be the cit officers. when we get so many officers trained in cit, the ideal situation would be when the perimeter was set up, one of the original responding officers would always be cit, so we would not always have to call for somebody as we will have to for a while. it would be one in the same. commissioner chan: so those cit, officers, are they now official cit officers, or are

they still in the position of being rolled out -- ruled out? >> they are cit officers. commissioner chan: thank you. i.d. in -- did hear about market. -- i did hear about market. as protesters. -- those protesters. >> is that today? commissioner chan: in the last couple of weeks. there are still protests continuing. >> dili protests, facilitated, first amendment, absolutely -- daily protests. it is cold at night, and we do not want anybody getting sick or getting exposure. commissioner chan: thank you. president mazzucco: commissioners, anything further?

>> one thing that i left out, and commissioner marshall triggered it, my former station, there were 11 homicides in the bayview, which, again, one is too many, but it was not long ago that they were having 28, so this is the lowest homicide number in the bayview that i can remember, and i know i was getting a lot of credit that the officers actually deserve for having 14 in 2009, or 2010, and in 2011, the bayview officers and capt. should know, interacting with the community, working with people like the ambassadors and all of that, unbelievable nonprofits, they go in there with everybody else, they were not close to the single digits in the bayview, which would be something to talk about. president mazzucco: chief, having worked in homicide reduction in my prior life, the

hard work of the community and the police officers in the community help to bring this down. i remember the days when it was over 100. 50 losses of life. you cannot prevent every homicide, obviously, but across the bay in a smaller city, it is more than double ours, and that is obviously our engagement with the community and the hard work of the officers, and that is appreciated. >> we hope to impact shootings by 10%, which we hope that will have a proxy, so we will do a presentation before the end of the month on exactly how we're going to go about that. president mazzucco: great. thank you. please call line item 4d. secretary lt. falvey: i am 4 -- item 4d, commission

announcement. >> i will provide you with a detailed report in february which will be our detailed report for 2011, but before i give you statistics, i would like to introduce you to the newest investigator at the occ, and prior to her being hired as an investigator on december 25, -- in december, she was in one place where she worked since 2003 first as investigator and then as a senior investigator and most recently as investigator attorney. she graduated from the school law in boston, where she obtained her dress doctor, and from the university of puget sound, where she got a degree in sociology -- where she obtained her j.d.

she is a licensed private investigator and a member of the state bar. president mazzucco: welcome. >> now moving to the complete activity in 2011. from january 1 to december 31, 2011, we had 70 fewer or 8% less cases that were opened in 2011. the number of complaints filed with the occ was the lowest number filed annually according to the occ database, which tracks cases filed since 1986. the 784 open occ cases represents a 19% deviation from the 19-year average of those opened annually, which is 973 cases.