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. along with sworn staffing, we have a significant deficit of non-sworn staffing. but the mayor's office has asked us to do is look at our staffing pattern and tried to get away from the stabbing

pattern of essentially the roller-coaster. we panic. we hire. we have great staffing. then we simply stop. this is a pattern that has been repeated in the police department. there is a step in part to the will project this out into the future so we avoid this. the red line is 1971. depending how aggressive the hiring would be, the numbers are there. the number that would get as the quickest is the most aggressive pattern. five classes next year, three the following year, and the 1971 full duty officers. there are less aggressive patterns there. they would still get us to 1971.

this was done at the direction of the mayor's office in consultation with chief suhr. the next slide talks about the cost. i apologize for changing the covers -- the colors. i made a mistake. the blue line shows the purple line from the last one. the colors associate with how much it costs. these fears are cumulative in addition to our baseline budget. that is to get to the full staff. we want to show the comparison between the impact of the staffing. we chose homicides. i am limiting the minds to a couple. as even see in 2007, when stuffing was relatively low --

in 2006, steffan was relatively low. in response, the city hired people. as we hire the officers, they got experience and settled in. our staffing levels have been down. the homicides have been down. now we are down in our staffing. the question i would present to the mayor's office -- which way do we want that chart to go? are we looking at protective hiring people to try to keep a lid on crime being proactive or reactive, which in for things to happen? the other issue is simply on overtime. there is some overtime involved

in police work. we can talk about that at another time. we talked last time about the chief and the command staff. over time, it is just hours of labor. if we do not have on duty personnel to do the work, we have to do it on overtime. beyond staffing, there are a few other critical needs. the chief is working with the mayor's office to try to come to some resolution. it is instrumentation for the crime lab, try to bring the crime lab back on board, rebuild it and reenergize it. also, it is part of building up

that stephan -- that staffing, which we have to move out of hunters point 4. -- hunter's poing for. -- popint for. -- point for. with the america's cup, there have been issues as far as staffing and funding. hopefully, that will be resolved the next time we meet you. that is positive. bringing up the lack of training funds because we lost our affiliation with city college, captain barrett at the academy has been working diligently. that went forward. particularly critical as you move into hiring -- we hope to be hiring. each of the classes to go through would be a tremendous

source of revenue for the department and offset general fund costs. with that, there is not any resolution to tell you. i do not have a budget to present you to tell you what you need to vote on. it is still in a state of flux. we are trying to come to some kind of resolution for how to do that. we will see what they have to say. president mazzucco: i appreciate your report. there is a 5% cut, and a 5% contingency in our budget. about 95% is personnel.

you talk about this crime rates announcement. in "the wall street journal," there was an excellent article on how to stop crime without jail time. it is excellent. it is by a professor from uc- berkeley school of law. he wrote a book about new york city. what has changed the level of incarceration and substantially increase the crime rate in new york city was the hiring of more offices. the presence of the officers reduces crime. not only does the crime rate go down, but the expense over a tenure time -- nationally, the rate went up 6%. new york city went down 28%, not to mention an 80% decrease in homicides. it is an excellent article. i will probably be buying the

book. he is an expert in his field. it is nice to see there is not just anecdotal evidence that homicide's increase as numbers godown. the reality is that police in uniform can be proactive and it tends to make for a safer community. that means fewer people in jail, less expense. it is better for everybody. it dovetails perfectly into what you have brought forward tonight. i want to thank you for the report and for working with the mayor's office and the chief. i know everybody has to give a little. i appreciate what the mayor's office is going through. this is good evidence here. >> commissioners? commissioner chan: thank you for this hopeful presentation. i noticed on the second to last slide, additional budget requests -- i know it is the discretion of the department. but i think additional budget requests for language access.

one of the constraints always is there is a not -- there is not enough money for the cell phones. i know there were problems with the forty-niners game and officers having access to the phones working well. i do not think it is a huge budget request. i am pretty sure the mayor's office and the board would be pretty receptive. >> i have been speaking with officer fong, who does our telecommunications. it is not just the cell phones. it is the ongoing telecommunications problems. we are trying to resolve that. the direction is to the budget office and the finance office. we are going hat in hand, begging for the funding.

commissioner chan: i understand it is the monthly service fees that are the issue. that should be a yearly cost. thank you. president mazzucco: anything further? thank you. again, appreciate your efforts. >> line item 3b, occ director's report. president mazzucco: director hicks, how are you? >> before i discuss the budget, i will discuss a complete activity in january and training in january. since i will be away from the office on february 15, i will provide you with detail of the march 7 meeting.

in january, the occ open 66 cases, which is fewer than were opened in january 2011, when we opened 68 cases. also this january, investigators closed more cases than the open. the occ currently has 362 pending cases, compared to 439 last year at this time. we are doing much better at being able to manage our caseload because the number of complaints being filed are fewer. in january, the occ mediated 6 cases, 9% of the cases it closed. it also sustained six cases, giving us the same mediation and sustained weight. we have 362 pending cases.

61 were opened this year. 300 are from last year. one is from 2010. moving on to training. on friday, we hosted all day training on fair and impartial police and, conducted by dr. frudekkm -- fridell, former director of research at perf, a nationally-recognized expert on racial profiling. commissioner turman attended the training. chief suhr greeted the attendees. internal affairs division members attended, i did the bart independent police auditor, the deputy chief of police of art, members of the citizen staff, and the director of bayview hunters point mobilization for a lesson growth in our community.

-- for adolescent growth in our community. the doctor has conducted training several times in san francisco and at the national association conferences. two years ago, attended the training hosted by the palo alto police department. but also at -- also included some members from the san francisco police department. the training addressed foundational issues, such as what police and stakeholders think about biased policing. she discussed rethinking biased policing to use social and psychological research on human biases, and to refrain the issue. finally, she discussed intervention such as recruitment, supervision, and training. that concludes my report on recent the cavities. -- on recent activities.

commissioner turman: i was planning on addressing this later. >> , then i will move on to the budget. you have in your packet a report dated today, substantially similar to the report on january 11. really, nothing has changed. we have a budget target with a 5% reduction of $124,920, both for 2012-13 and 2013-14, and a contingent to target of $62,000. all of these will be personnel cuts. really nothing has changed since my last report. president mazzucco: thank you. any questions?

getting back to the budget, we are going to be your biggest advocates. we believe strongly that the caseload of your investigators meets the national average. that should be doable. a good occ makes for a strong police department. it is just a matter of getting that message clear. we will be an advocate for you. anything further? please call the next item. >> line item 3c, commission reports. >> there is one more report, department general report 8.10. on december 29 and january 20 of this year, a chief investigator and attorney met with a lieutenant who is the officer in

charge of the special investigations unit to conduct the annual audit of the san francisco police department records, pursuant to department general order 8.10, the audit of law enforcement activities. the audit requires my staff to receive records that are listed in the dgo, which include the authorized investigations. there was one authorized investigation in 2011. the request for investigation was submitted and approved in november. procedures delineated in dgo 8/10. the investigation involved open source viewing of what material having to do with occupy sf and black block, an

investigation of violence. there were no requests for investigation that were denied. there were no records that indicated the department relied on undercover officers to monitor this investigation. there were records getting authorization to videotape the evacuation. there were also records indicating the monitoring of public websites specifically for the investigation. additionally, there is documentation that the actions of the members were in compliance with gdo -- dgo and had been approved under the order. there were no records of arrests or prosecutions as a direct result investigations conducted under the guidelines. there were no records of requests made by members of the public express the pursuant of the guidelines for access to records, resulting in do