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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. it is, again, 8% fewer than the prior year. in 2011, occ investigators closed more cases than they opened. this exceeds open cases by 62. the 19-year average of closed cases is 954. during this 19-year period, the occ as only close more cases than it opened 32% of the time -- has only closed more cases than it opened 32% of the time.
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the officer participation rate remained high, 92%. the ocxc -- occ had 7% of the cases closed that were sustained. in 2010, the sustained rate was 10%. currently, we have 367 pending cases. we have opened three cases this year. the pending cases that we have include 363 cases from last year and one from 2010. our 2010 case is an officer- involved shooting investigation, where the statute of limitations -- we expect to close the case this month. as i indicated at the beginning of this report, you will receive a detailed written report in the form of our annual report in
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february, and that includes a report for this evening. president mazzucco: thank you very much, director. the good news is you have a new investigator, so thank you. >> we are very excited to have number 16 for the occ. at one time, we had a high of 17 investigators, but 16 investigators in this economic climate is great. president mazzucco: commissioners, any questions for the director? secretary lt. falvey: item 4c, first the commission president's report, followed by the commissioners. president mazzucco: we started off on december 12 at the temple. there was a ceremony for members of the police department
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recently promoted. several members of the command staff, which were seven, officially sworn in with their families present. there were four captains sworn in and 24 sergeants and others. as many say, the sergeants are the lifeline of this department. congratulations to all of them. mayor lee spoke at the ceremony, and, again, thank you, chief, for speaking. we had the matter of valor ceremony that was attended by the commissioners -- there was the medal of valor ceremony. for their duty above and beyond the call of duty, so i just want to briefly name them in the record for those who got the medal of valor. we will start for the syllable -- with the silver medal. the bronze. some others, including charles august.
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we want to congratulate them for their valor, and we want to offend the chief for putting this forward. the new campus down by the ballpark. again, it was great to see officers and their families. it was amazing. i think for the first time, their families realize what they had done to get the award, and it was a proud day for them. moving on to december 16, i had the pleasure of meeting with mayor lee and others to discuss the budget for fiscal years 2012 and 2013. with the change in the proposition, we now do a two- year budget. the mayor was very gracious and straightforward, and as you know -- we have a 5% budget reductions and a 2.5% contingency. that is what the mayor is looking like -- looking at.
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a deficit this year and thereafter, but there was some good news on the financial front. the city brought in a new of employer that will bring in jobs. the major shared that with us. the mayor -- the mayor shared that with us. unemployment is down to 7.8%, which is a significant drop. that is some good news, and hopefully that translates into better budgets for the occ and the police department. following that meeting, there was a press conference regarding the officer-involved shooting in northern, which i attended with the chief. again, it is about transparency. the chief shared with them some information, in how the family
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was actually concerned about the well-being of the officers. it is a tragedy than for them and the officers, but, again, chief, thank you for your transparency and for sharing that with the community. and last but not least, i attended the 21st or 22nd memorial, which was the fifth- year anniversary of the death of an officer who died while chasing a parolee, who was shot in a gunbattle. his family works for the police department. his wife is a police officer. this will be the last year of this ceremony, but it was a first-class ceremony. thank you, sergeant, for putting this together. the honor guard and all of the men and women who put that together. it was a cold night. in march. he was an exceptional young man who gave his life. it was an honor to be present for that.
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it has been a busy time for the commission, although we have not been at the wednesday meetings. there is a lot of good news in these events that took place, and, again, i also want to thank the mayor. he was really forthright, and he is going to work with us on the budget. commissioners? dr. marshall? supervisor avalos: -- vice president marshall: i just want to again say, just hearing the numbers from the department, during the numbers from the occ, not that we know why, but when the numbers are higher, people will say something. i just want to say that the coordinated efforts of the department and the occ to work on these issues seems to be bearing fruit, again giving credit to the citizens of san francisco and also the efforts
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of the commission. we do not talk much about what we do, but the reduced caseload is just an amazing thing, down to where we are now from where we were. homicides, they were up there, so to get these numbers down, i just want to say thanks to everyone in the coordinated efforts to do our respective jobs as best as we can. it does not mean it cannot get better, and it does not mean -- but i think that the hard work of everybody is being borne out in these numbers that we see, and i do not think anyone should take their foot off of the throttle, because when you do that, things go back up. a good year, and let's continue to do it in 2012. president mazzucco: commissioners, anything else? thank you. could you please call line-item 4d.
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secretary lt. falvey: item 4d, items to be considered for future commission meetings. commissioner: you make it look very good, so i appreciate that. i want to talk about the budget. i know we want to give more advance notice. last year, i think we were way after the fact. we have talked about this before, but already on our schedule for january or february or if we have to set a date for that? president mazzucco: there will be an update in march, so that update probably reflects some new revenue streams, hopefully,
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but as the mayor said, there is some concern about where the money would be coming from outside of the city, so there will be adopted, and i think i should turn to the chief on this because there are some changes in our world. maybe you can discuss those. >> one director has decided to work for the board of supervisors, so she told us rather unexpectedly 10 days ago. thankfully, captain john goldberg, who managed the budget for years when it was a sworn position, has not rode off into the sunset yet, although he will in june, so he, along with a new hire that took the director's old position -- and i met today with the mayor's office, and they asked me to give them a five-year hiring plans to offset the departures of the nearly 400
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officers that may or may not leave at the current contract, so i will be giving them that, but as you say correctly, you know, the going away of the redevelopment agency along with many other things that are happening in the state will well impact the city budget, and as we put it together, the discretionary part of our budget is very, very strong in proportion to the costs, which will also be affected by the five-year hiring plan, but we will have that by the end of january. commissioner: when would be a good time to schedule the budget presentation to the commission? we normally have one, but we had it pretty late in the game. >> may be the first week in march. president mazzucco: let's do that.
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commissioner: ok. president mazzucco: commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: i will defer to the other commissioners and the chief and a director, but it was my understanding when we met in december that we were going to start talking about the budget, and i thought that we have tentatively scheduled a day for a preliminary a look at the budget with the occ for some time this month. did we not do that? >> the cief announced the departure of one person -- the chief announced the departure of one person -- commissioner kingsley: with the other commissioners and others find it useful for an earlier dialogue, earlier than march, to
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talk about the various aspects of the budget and get an allover better feel for the components of the budget? >> i am happy to do an overview percentage wise of where our current budget is. presidential elections are not light on the overtime budget either, depending on how acrimonious the demonstrations might be leading up to that, so absent something unforeseen, as occupy was, the lean budget that remains going out for the next six months -- i can give you a state of the state on the budget, if you will. >> commissioners, under the
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charter, the commission is required to approve. i think historically, the mayor has asked departments to submit their budget by the end of february or early march, so traditionally, this is not how you have to do it. i believe the department has seen the budget the department intends to submit to the mayor, and that is what the commission has reviewed and approved prior to the submission by the department and they -- and the occ. submission by the department. commissioner kingsley: thank you for that information, ms. p orter. what is a realistic date? the last week in january? would that work? >> commissioner kingsley, i thought we would present reports
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this evening, so i did, in fact, prepare a report i submitted to the police commission last week for this week's agenda, but i was a advised that it had been put over to next week, and, again, as the chief said, these are rather rudimentary budgets, but the way i prepared the report, and i will be doing some revisions to it, i indicated what our target was, because the department had provided their target, which was 5% for each year, as well as a 1% staff reduction per year for five years, so 5% staff reduction, and in that report, i did point out what little discretionary money the occ had, which means
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that any cuts had to come from personnel, because there is nothing else to cut other than personnel, and the positions are filled, so it would require layoffs, and as the deputy city attorney porter indicated, it has been in the past that before they submitted their budgets to the controller, the police commission has a look, and i cannot remember off of the top of my head, but i think the latest that we have submitted has been in february. probably the latest, mid february. president mazzucco: so what we should do is submit this earlier. i agree with commissioner kingsley.
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we could move forward with the occ presentation. >> did you speak up, please? -- could you speak up, please? president mazzucco: this would give us time. commissioners, the second week in february for the police department, and in the next weeks for the occ? >> is there a date? >> i think the departments would know that. >> as long as the second week of figurines is before it is submitted. -- the second week of february is before it is submitted. >> i am happy to look and that and see. individuals may be can get that
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information. president mazzucco: in the event that we have to expedite back -- back, -- that, it is human resources, not buildings, so we have to look at that. commissioners, anything further? great. any public comment? any public comment? that is what i said, public comment. secretary lt. falvey: public comment on items 4 a, b, c, and d. >> i would just like to comment on items for future commission meetings. we have items related to donations, the amount of police
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in golden gate park, and also a resolution to upgrade the maritime police force. making a boat not bulletproof but explosion proof. i have not gotten any accountability relative to the grant that was given to them 15 years ago or accountability of where the money went, and two, i did my own inventory on what was bought. they have half of that still in their supply, and half of those are not new. there is no accountability. coming back to the maritime situation, i am out on the bay
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almost every day. i watched the coast guard and the homeland security and the sfpd just crews back and forth. it seems that we have an oversupply. i am not saying they do not do anything, but now we want to spend money to make them explosion proof. i do not know if that is needed, and we still have a budget in this city which is going to be three times the deficit of last year, and i think that this should be taken into consideration with this commission that costs should be controlled. even in the police department. we still have an exploding pension situation, things that are not necessary, and i am going to get a copy of the
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police chairman mirkarimi that mr. hennessy never gave me relative for the cost of tasers that we have yet to what that that will come up again this year, so i just want to bring up to this commission that there are a lot of costs that should be talked about and not just rubberstamp and saying it is ok -- not just rubber-stamped. where is the money? i think you for your time. president mazzucco: thank you. anymore public comment on line items -- anymor more public, and online items 4 a, b,
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