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and along with the mayor's tenure capital plan which do not include african-american community. i am going to go viral. everything i do here at city hall. ♪ i am telling y'all because i am up in it ♪ i demand respect. particularly for the man that wears a blue and even the sheriff's department. one thing for sure, what was done to me by the mayor's detail is going to cause the police department to come to the top of the list of african american migration report. we have records to know everything we want to know about the african-american migration. going back to the mayor's detailed with holding against a
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wall, grabbing my fingers. we have been told by the chief for someone to hold you back from the mayor. it happened to be the day when the mayor was being pressured about who he will have in the fifth district. it was about black issues. i have interviewed everyone here. who will say that the police or the mayor will hold me back, they will accuse me -- and not some kind of character trying to interview. i know what i'm doing. i am asking for your investigation on that and particular officers. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. any further comment? hearing none public is closed. >> good evening. we have had a busy time since last meeting. we met with the taiwanese
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economic cultural office regarding the cultural exchange in the future. we have an officer exchange going on right now in the philippines. we have a delegation of police officer -- police officers in that philippines -- the philippines. it is a goodwill mission and we take a delegation from the philippines and return later in the year. our community relations participated in a teleconference with occ regarding lapd training and updates. we were recruiting at the vallejo job fair. monday will have our second visit out to washington high school. a group including the deputy chief from their fire department and a commander beale, myself on the importance of staying in
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high school graduation. a better chance for opportunities and better chance to go on to college. the reason we're going as we joined the police department and or the fire department when we had our high school diplomas and we are doing ok. the first time we went it was well received and we were asked back. we are hoping to grow the city wide on top of the grammar school visits we're doing, and biting the young ones into the station so they see what the police are all about. we demystify that. again i spoke to the visitors. we are close to the final product on the career development general order which will establish an addition -- in addition goals and guidelines on testing going forward. once we have an accord with the union, we have reached an agreement with the other employee groups within the police department. katie will take it forward and
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see what can be worked out on a permanent legal basis with a jar and -- hr and cfc because the testing schedule goes out many years. we had a meeting with the board regarding plan for interoperable the around the region for data and pictures, hoping to later be on a 700 mhz system that would connect the entire region. they ask for continuance till next week. i will keep you updated on how that goes forward. i attended the drug court graduation, 20 participants completed the program. there are over 1000 who have gone through in the percentages for success for those who have completed this program is astounding against those who do not. it is a great program. i believe in it wholeheartedly which might seem ironic for an old narcotics officer. it is the best way to go for
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people who are suffering from dependence on drugs. i spoke to the national federation of tourists, they like greater access to the neighborhoods. i said i would represent that to the mayor and i will. we met yesterday with some command staff members visiting from minneapolis and spoke to pretty much everything under the sun from occupy which was not under the sun in minnesota all the way to things like secondary employment. we will continue the discussion next week at the major city chiefs conference. as far as crime, we have had a good january so far. violent crime is down 14%. property crime is down 22%. overall crime is down 21% for the first month of the year, which is especially commendable for the officers and the work we're doing in the community in light of the fact we made good
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gains last year which is built upon the ground gained. as far as events, it was a busy last seven days. friday night, or friday starting at 6:00 a.m. and ending around 11:00 p.m. friday night, we had an all day and into the evening action by the occupy movement. at the -- during the day, it resulted in 18 simple trespassing arrests that were acquiesced to by the group. largely peaceful during the day. a couple of skirmishes at 555 california. one was detained, no arrests were made. it got a little bit more aggressive at the cathedral hill hotel later and after an original confrontation with police or -- where two officers were hurt, one was hit with a brick in the upper side of the chest and the other was hit in the hand, suffering a sprained hand. the demonstrators went back and
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broke out windows of a car dealership. estimates are between $50,000.70000 dollars in damages. we ended up going into the hotel and clearing it as best we could win projectiles, bibles and chairs were thrown from the roof of the cathedral hill. because it is as a busy area with franklin street on one hand and venice on the other, it went back like an all -- object falling at that height comes down as 60 miles per hour. you can imagine being hit by a book or a brick or a chair falling at 60 miles per hour. we went in and clear the hotel. there was one incident i did speak about where an officer was confronted, felt threatened and within policy use, pepper spray and made the force of interest the -- entry. i do not know what degree the
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person was hit with the properties. the officers injured were treated and released. one of the more troubling things that came of it is those officers and morehead their personal information published on the web. claiming credit for the group and anonymous. at least two of the advisers received phone calls all night long which their children and their family found very upsetting that they would be interesting their own home. i would ask for anybody on the occupy leadership, we're trying to work with the group and we're trying to facilitate first amendment but there is no place for terrorizing officers at home. i would ask those responsible cease doing so on behalf of the officers. we're looking at right now finding out what other mechanisms we might have to keep officer information private on the web. the 49 game -- forty-niner game,
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it went better on the field. we had 12 arrestes, all for public drunkenness. one that was for battery on a police officer. a larger male fan attacked a female officer. there was a report that spray hit another fan. the fan went away and enjoyed the game. the suspect was ejected, the 2- year-old was sent home with a mother. there were ejections in 400 calls for service.
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we did broadcast loud and clear all week long for folks to text early and often as to anything we could land. we did have the staffing in place to take care of that. as far as our plans to address -- address officers in giants a tire in hopes of drawing out obnoxious fans, it was the top of the parking lot and of the stadium. the giants fans were fooling around saying they were accused of being police officers and suffered more abuse for that than they would have ever hoped to suffer as giants fans. as we were getting dressed, i was getting -- with the officers when they were dressing in giants attire. several fans joined in the picture thinking we were all giants fans. we got a good polaroid of that.
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i spoke with jim who is a fabulous partner. we will use all the gaines we had. the corners will be in the thick of it for many years to go. we participated with the department of justice in making the combination of the honduran highway, the narcotic investigations, several suspects were arrested all over the bay area. two of the primary suspects were arrested in san francisco. the operation was successful. there were no problems. we made sure all the department general orders with regard to what we can do and how we can do with were strictly adhered to. about a pound and a half was -- of crack was seized. $10,000 from san mateo.
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ammunition which brings another enhancement on one of the primary defendants. several items of other valuables. the dea press office decided against a press conference. there is a press release issued. in seattle, 21 of 23 suspects were arrested. it was a successful operation and we're hoping to impact narcotics trafficking as a result of this action. that concludes my report. president mazzucco: thank you. sounds like an extremely busy week on all fronts. with reference to -- i would like to give you my observations. i walked down montgomery street and i was impressed by the level of professionalism. facilitating first amendment activity. the officer showed great restraint. the people were peacefully
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protesting and some were arrested because they blocked doorways but it went really well. and want to commend the officers for their hard work. i met with a representative of the mayor's office and they are of the opinion officers showed great restraint and were very professional. they did a fantastic job. i called the chief later in the afternoon and saw some not so good first amendment activity in the evening. i was walking home, and i believe in the first amendment, but when you have people having a dance party in the middle of stockton street, blocking the buses from the elderly, in the tunnel, forcing people to get off of the bus with small children and walked, it can be a little bit silly, but that was taken care of. i believe in the first amendment, but when you are holding up the traffic, it was a pretty dangerous situation, and i do not think the protesters realized it was going to be that way, but, again, i appreciate that your officers cleared that.
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that is my observation, and your officers were very professional. commissioner: i want to ask about cit. they did contact us and let us know that they are holding some spots to attend a train the trainer training that i believe is coming up in february, so i wanted to see if the chief says it is possible for us to send someone there. if you can tell us of a about the new liaison. chief: i am not prepared to talk about the liaison. since our curriculum is set, to go to take a train the trainer course is different from our trainer -- our training, it would defeat the curriculum that took so long to design here, so perhaps it would be better to have someone from memphis invited here to audit our next
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training and then see how that matches up. does that make sense? commissioner chan: there are some already sending people there. our first training went well, but there is a lot to be improved. we have eight or more trainings to go, so i think there is a lot of room to include that. we will talk about it. president mazzucco: commissioners, anything else for the chief before he moves into the next item? chief: 7 next would be discharged review board findings and recommendations for the fourth quarter 2011. -- so the next would be the discharge review board findings. >> good evening, commissioners, chief. we are with the officer involved shooting investigations
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team. i am here to present the fourth quarter, 2011, or the powerpoint to, . -- to come up. as you can see, the members in attendance, schmidt, who is in the audience, the chair of the board, according by deadly, others. commissioner jim and was representing the police commission. director hicks was present as well as others. we reviewed three cases.
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in the bayview district, it involved plainclothes officers who were in the area because they were concerned about a retaliatory shooting that was to occur in the area. they conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle during the traffic stop developing probable cause and made an arrest on the driver. it was at this time that the driver who resisted the rest. the vehicle then started and move towards the officer. the officer attempted to move out of the way and was able to do so, and while moving out of the way, of mr. discharged his firearm at the officer. the round missed and did not strike any person. the suspect fled but was later apprehended along with a large amount of narcotics. the finding in this, the recommended finding, in policy,
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chief suhr concurred with the finding, and that was the review of that incident. the next incident that we reviewed was one that occurred on december 10, 2010, in the mission district in the garfield square park. an officer working by himself contacted several individuals who were in the park in violation of various parts could and health codes, as well as having a pit bull in a children's playground. the officer bought himself approached the individuals, and one of the individuals was involved in a long, violent struggle with himself. during the felonious assault, and officers firearm was scrapped.
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he was taken into custody and later charged by the office and pled guilty to various felony violations. there was a finding, and it was sent to achieve -- to ceeief suhr. there was another that occurred in the ingleside district. officers went to a report of a dog on and overstreet. when the officer got there and was interviewing one of the neighbors, the dog actually physically attacked the officer and one of the people in the area. the officer discharged his weapon, an animal control was called prior to this occurring, and they took control. they found a fighting for that,
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and the chief concluded with that, and that included the review of it. that concludes the review board report for the fourth quarter 2011. i would be happy to take any questions before i moved into the officer-involved status report. president mazzucco: commissioner chan? commissioner chan: does anyone else want to jump in before i do? i was involved in the report. there was a 2010 incident that happened. if you notice, it describes the fact that i was asking about it. it's as the officer using his radio became position five or 6 feet in front of the driver's side front bumper, and i had asked if that particular action was a violation of the commission, that discourages
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officers from stepping in front of vehicles. i believe, and let me know if i am characterizing that, the officer did this very quickly, did not purposely position himself in front of the driver, and so, therefore, it is in policy because the policy requires some sort of intention to be in front of a car, so i wanted to point that out that my concern with that interpretation is that it is a broader exception. an officer would normally never put themselves in front of a vehicle. it would most likely be because they are multitasking, and just concerns me that part did not seem to have much teeth to it. i just wanted to share that opinion. president mazzucco: commissioners, anything before we go on to the ois report?
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thank you for the exclamation -- explanation. >> on the screen, ok, since the last quarterly report, we reviewed two officer-involved shooting cases, completed two summary letters that were signed by the chief. we received a d a letter regarding one of the shootings that is still outstanding, which means we will have that case or the next review board, as well as the two cases that are sent to the state attorney general's office that results back in the attorney-general of office, so we will be ready to present those cases, as well. during the last quarter, we had two new cases that came. so as you can see, we of several pending cases that we are waiting to complete. the first one up there is the oldest.
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that went to a board already. however, the board is awaiting the occ findings regarding that matter, and then we will reconvene later to discuss some additional issues regarding that matter, and we have the next three cases that are listed up there, the two left from 2010 will be ready and prepared for the next review board, and we anticipate the first days in 2011 also should be ready for the next review board, as well. and then these are the rest of the pending cases, all in 2011, and as you can see, in most of those cases, we are still awaiting the d.a. decisions on those, and the last two are new cases that occurred during the last quarter, so there are 10 pending cases, one of which is already completed case. we are down to about nine cases right now, most of which are cases from 2011.
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and the next fire arm review board will be scheduled in march 2012 by schmidt, and then we will be prepared to move forward with at least two of three of those cases that you just saw. president mazzucco: ok, thank you, sergeant, and to all of your group. i know at one point, there was quite a backlog, sometimes years been a backlog in terms of investigations. just four members of the general public, any time there is an officer involved shooting, there are several layers of review. the first is a first level to determine whether or not there can be a return to duty. they make an initial review and decide whether or not the officer should be returned, and then that entire incident is brought before the commission, and there is a more thorough presentation publicly about the officer being returned, and then it goes to the firearms discharge review board for more further analysis with more
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experienced officers, a commissioner, as commissioner chan was, and then they come up with a fighting. parallel to the homicide investigation, internal affairs, the district attorney's office has a separate, independent investigation. you heard the sergeant talk about still waiting for the report. they make a report whether or not there is a potential criminal liability, and also in every officer involved shooting, the sec conduct their investigation and gives their findings, just as a public note, there is a lot of public review every time an officer discharges a firearm. any questions for the sergeant? >> you described it better than i could. thanks. >> and then the last piece of my report, as you remember, you
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remember that i asked as a part of my last report to find a way to calculate that our crime statistics are accurate, and they have graciously completed their audit, and i would ask them to come up -- with my thanks, what they found out, and as they say coming here it is. >> good evening, president, members of the commission, and chief. my name is heather mcdonald's, and i am a performance analyst in the controller's office. today i will be presenting the comptroller's office findings and recommendations in response
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to the request for review from the chief. this project specifically focused on reviewing the procedures for analyzing and reporting the 28-day part one profile. in your hand out, we provided an example of this handout, the purple hand out that you have. although many of the issues raised will be addressed by the implementation of the incident report system upgrade of the crime data warehouse projects, we are providing recommendations that would offer immediate improvement for crime reporting by the department. so this slide illustrates part 1, violent crime, as reported in the profile and to the department of justice in the uniform crime reporting or ucr reporting. from january 2010 to september 2011. you can see that this graph
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illustrates that the blue line typically produced higher totals of part one violent crime than the green line, ucr. additionally, the trends do not always the mine, which is called out in the orange call out. the department so intention is for both of the numbers to be relatively comparable. as a result of the comptroller's office analysis into why these lines look different, we identified three key findings that compromise both the accuracy and consistency in crime reporting by the department. first, the department does not have a single system of record for reporting crime statistics. rather, there are multiple data systems that may cause fluctuations that are not the result of underlying crime trends. an example of a data source weakness is that accounts for homicides, rapes, and shootings
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are maintained manually because the other systems cannot maintain their accounting. secondly, the actual development of the profile itself includes complex manual processes by the unit. as a result, the profile is prone to human error. lastly, as shown in the grass, gis reports of part one crime numbers are telling a different story of crime in the city. when they should be the same. the comptroller's office found that the primary driver of these differences in part one crime numbers is the fact that the method by which the department counts crime for the profile difference in the method by which they can crime for the other report. these methods should be aligned. in fact, the difference in reported aggravated assault is the primary reason