we are having a tournament tonight, but we have also used as a jumping off point to explore lots of different ideas. you can find out about rock, paper, scissors as a game as a reproductive strategy. you can interact with a piece of art created by lucky dragon. you can get your hair cut from a cool place called the public barber's salon. they use scissors only. you can find out about local geology, too. >> that sounds like fun. let's check it out. >> this is the most common rock on the surface of the earth. interesting thing is, most of this rock is covered over by the ocean. >> error congested a cool presentation on plate tectonics. tell us about what we just saw. >> we wrapped up a section of a

lesson on a plate tectonics, here at the exploratory and -- exploritorium. >> are you excited to see people here having fun and learning about science? >> the people that come here are some selected to begin with, they actually enjoy science. i teach teachers to have fun with their kids. the general public is a great audience, too. they're interested in science. >> we have a blast every time. they have different names. >> they have a bar and a cafe. everything i need. we are excited for the speaker. >> it is nice to be in the exploratorium when there are not a lot of kids around. >> before tonight, i never knew

there were major league rules to rock, paper, scissors. i am getting ready to enter into a competition. sarah's here to give me some tips. what do i need to do to win it? >> this is a game of chance, to a degree. one of the best ways to bring it home is a degree of intimidation, maybe some eye contact, maybe some muscle. it is a no contact sport. sheer i contact is a good way to maybe intimidate to see if you can set them off, see if they throw something they did not mean to. >> i am going to see what happens. >> i got kicked out in the first round. [applause] >> given up for sunni. the rock, paper, scissors champion. >> what are you going to do now?

>> i have been having so much fun. i got my tattoo. before we go, i want to thank melissa alexander for having us here tonight. how did you know san francisco needed a night like tonight? >> thank you for coming. everybody loves the exploratorium. we are reluctant to push the kids out of the way in the day, so i knew we needed to create one evening a month just for the rest of us to have a good time, the adults. >> absolutely. where can we find out what is coming up after dark? >> that is easy, exploratorium .edu/afterdark. >> thank you. thanks for watching

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president mazzucco: welcome to the wednesday, february 1, 2012 police commission hearing. seated on the dais with us tonight is the director of the

occ. police chief suhr is at a police conference. with us is deputy chief kevin cashman. please call the consent calendar line item number 1 with reference to a donation. >> this is the consent calendar. it is approval to accept a $400 thousand donation from the sfpd wilderness program. >> thank you. in your packet is a letter regarding a donation to the police wilderness program, which has been in existence for 30 years. we take kids from inner-city and take them to places they would not ordinarily see. are there any questions regarding this? hearing none, is there any public comment for the donation to take children camping?

is this about camping? come on up. >> being a girl scout, i survived camping. jackie bryson -- jackee pryson. take the money and say thank you. and ask the girl scouts for money. president mazzucco: public comment is now closed. >> i move that we approve. president mazzucco: unanimous. please call line item number two, general public comment. >> reserve three minutes for your public comment. >> you have to recess this. >> i will do best. >> i am very honest.

>> it was three seconds ago. >> this is jackeekee bryson, left-handed person. i am the girl jakkee. i do not ride bart. i am here to think the san francisco police department for rounding them up and hurting them in, them out of state felons. it has been a long time coming, but we have a change in leadership. thank you, chief surh. -- suhr. there was a time when i send that person is an out-of-state felon. we do not arrest them. why not? because their states will not

take them back. they crossed state lines, didn't they? those chiefs did not listen, and they are not here anymore. thank you, chief. and another thing. i also want to thank the house chief of police for having the balls -- bocce balls. the bocce ball court is back. thank you. in addition -- you are good. you are good. >> thank you. >> there is only one way to do with idiots. do not get in the way of our san francisco police department. i am not going to have the same kind of riotous behavior here. i am so glad you left.

in san francisco that is going on in oakland. i am so glad joyce got out of there before the stupidity started. occupy needs to be evicted off the planet. what happens when you relax the rules is that stupidity takes over and, again, thank you, chief. thank you, san francisco police department, for not allowing stupidity to come to san francisco which should stay in oakland. i did not like it in high school. that was the mayor. high school class of 1964. >> go yellow jackets. president mazzucco: next speaker, please. >> i am back again. happy new year's. long time no see.

hello, assistant chief. we met in august. i was going to go out to the castro and got arrested. against the law. false arrest. all the community liaison folks out there will do anything their clients want them to do to feel legal. the wall street journal of 10 days ago involved in the attorney's office investigating the police forces of 20 cities around the country. we were singled out as the only city police department to be under investigation for criminal charges vis-a-vis the police. we are the only department the u.s. attorney is investigating for criminal acts by the police department. it shocked me. you should be proud of what you are doing. your oversight is working wonders. it has now been 70 weeks since the comptroller's report of august 27, 2010, advising you, the board of supervisors, and

others that the patrol specials are a liability risk waiting to happen. i know you cannot do this by your lonesome. i do not know that you have done a single thing. i am still waiting. it has been 70 weeks, and nothing has been done thus far. speaking of weeks when nothing has been done, it has spent 11 weeks since november 16, when commissioner dejesus, who is not here, not for the first time, agreed to take six weeks to interpret, decipher, and make clear the rules that have been in place for four years governing the patrol specials. it has not been six weeks or four plus six weeks. it has been 11 weeks. i have not seen a single agenda item addressing the concerns raised by the absent commissioner 11 weeks ago.

the city attorney porter, is there any result? i spoke with one of the officers who said they are working out new rules. if you make them minimal enough, anybody can follow them. a four year-old can follow rules that say to smile. you need more rigorous rules than your currently enforcing. that is all i have for now. thank you. have a nice day. president mazzucco: next speaker. >> i have not been here a couple of weeks. i was out in l.a. for a book signing. i had the honor to weeks ago to get a ups package. he sent me his book, "collaborate or perish." inside that was a plane ticket to l.a. and a 2 night stay at the hilton. i do not make a lot of money. i met the mayor of l.a., the

mayor of miami, the former police chief. we sat down. we have a few cocktails. some great conversation. people-to-people stuff. i wish greg could have been there, but he was not invited. on a positive note, i saw the deputy chief cashman this week on sixth street. it is going through a transformation. a lot of good things happen in this city. sometimes you get negative, not too much help. but a lot of good and things are happening. i was in the bayview this morning. i do have a car. i walked in and talked to some people. crime is looking good. great, great job on the cold

case. that is great work. i asked the deputy chief whether it was outsourced or in source dna. that was our own lab that did that. miss harris has 0 backlogs of sex offenders in the state of california. remember june henner brought up those cases a year or so ago? ms. harris went through 20 balance the sacramento backlog. apparently, our crime lab has done the same. have a good evening. president mazzucco: any further public comment? >> come forward. >> i am maria bailey. i see you have here your baseline budget, which is very important. there has been a lot of budget cuts. i would like to see a lot of these addressed back to the fire

department and police department as well. i was at the district meeting in the tenderloin. i would like to submit this copy of a letter i gave to them, and this expanding which i would like you to look at and they be fit into your budget. i'm very passionate about bringing criminals down in all crime. here you go. the letter in there is to command all the officers that stood tall to bring down crime in the last few days. i am very proud of them. i saw them handcuff people. i was just very proud. thank you very much. president mazzucco: public comment is now closed. >> line item number three, reports and announcements. cheeps report. >> good evening. how are you? this week, i am happy to

announce the weekly comstat report. we have had declines year after year. this is even more significant. in the first 28 days of the year, violent crime is down 10%. additionally, property crimes are down 18%, for an overall crime reduction of 17% in 2012 compared to 2011 at this time. worthy of note is the homicide count this year remains at 3. last year at this time, it was at eight. i would also like to address crime prevention operations that we did. most of the boy would be the fugitive recovery enforcement operation we did on wednesday, january 25. the police department coordinated with some outside agencies and over 70 people were arrested in a roundup of fugitives at large.

20 of those individuals were on parole. crimes ranged from narcotics trafficking to rubbery to manslaughter. that was a significant 10-hour operation. it remains a key component to our violence reduction strategy for 2012. tragically, we did have a homicide on generic 26 on regent street. when jenny 329, investigators from the homicide department -- on january 29, investigators from the homicide department but a man for murder. we made a significant arrest in a brutal cold his homicide from 1983. we are confident in our ability to bring people to justice even after 29 years. this was largely due to the fact the we had a grant to bring back some retired homicide investigators to work specifically on cold cases.

inspectors are instrumental in bringing this case home. i would also like to say it was on sixth street this morning that i was on foot patrol, proceeding a press conference in which the mayor did announce that the substation is going to happen. obviously, with the redevelopment issue, it was in doubt for some time. everybody felt reassured, following the press conference. i would like to thank the mayor for his support on this issue. president mazzucco: i am glad to hear about the substation. i have heard of from folks in that whole area. for example, i heard the university of pacific and will school was moving away to a new facility within the next two years, which will bring in a significant number of dental students. but the, the neighborhood is changing. i think this substation is very important. >> it was 30 years ago this week

that i was sent to work at seven stations. sixth street was part of my beat with captain goldberg. we were partners on the beat for three years. it is getting better all the time. it is going to continue to have a lot of progress. president mazzucco: thanks again. with reference to the sweep, i have seen that leads to a significant decrease in crime, based on studies you and i have looked that and worked out before, in a prayer life. a certain percentage of those out there are responsible for a large percent of the crime. the you for teaming up with her role and the sheriff's department. we appreciate that. >> collaboration is definitely the key. we did work with agencies on that. we did want to take it on our terms and not their terms. president mazzucco: you have, following this, the fiscal

event, the budget. we have an update on the budget. after that, we will hear from the otc director regarding her budget of it. >> this is a preliminary budget. we talked a couple of weeks ago. there are discussions we are having with the mayor's office. they have tremendous troubles with the budget this year, city- wide. we are facing the same challenges. baseline budget -- there you go. there are the numbers. $483 million is what our base is. the mayor's office has targeted cuts of $5.80 million. that is honestly a tremendous challenge. it is not like there was a bunch

of money to go around, or places to cut. all of the dollars are spoken for. personnel costs are our largest single item. clearly, if cuts are going to come, they are going to come from personnel. we talked about some of the challenges. the biggest challenge is staffing. we will get into that. ne nichols that we find, any loose change -- any nickles that we find, any loose change is being devoted to staffing. some of the directors efforts have already paid off. she talked about those last week. we have the america's cup and the public safety building. a whole lot of challenges. when we talk about the cuts that are targeted -- that is the

result of having to implement those targeted cuts. this is the line. the red line is the is the 1971 fall to the staffing. -- fall into the staffing -- full duty staffing. if we have 60 officers come in in april-may, we can reduce all those numbers. that is the objective line between now and june 2015. that is assuming no accounting glasses. the numbers are not great. we transpose those directly from the report that was provided, directed to the police commission. if you look at the current numbers at the time the report was done, it was 1909 full duty

officers. we are down a significant amount. the targets moving forward are based on how much time is spent or how much time is available for community police efforts. this is what commissioner slaughter asked about last week. i sent that to them, but i wanted to include it for the commission, just so you have that. just a comparison with other cities that perf provided. this is a screen shot from that report. the targets of staffing levels and how many -- i think what is important to note is that throughout the report, the reported that 456 civilian or non-sworn personnel -- i think we have about 286.