be at city hall. i believe it is in room 205 it. 0. also, charges filed against [inaudible] to commissioner for assignment, and that will be assigned to commissioner kingsley. also a charge against ernest tatahero, also assigned to commissioner kinsley. >> actually, she is been asked to not be assigned to the second matter. if we could a sign that to the next commissioner in order. >> it would be you. >> sorry, mr. president.

> president mazzucco: officer taylor, and you have an attorney? -- do you have an attorney? >> no, sir. president mazzucco: we will give you a call. we will have to have a conversation with them the next week or so. okay? ok. and you are free to go, sir. yes. >> in response to the joint police commission meeting. i am sure the president reported we had a prep meeting and i do have a list of organizations to make sure we are inviting all of the youth-serving organizations

we can think of and in the youth-related organizations or people. just because we're televised in the community, we want to make sure everyone knows it is an open meeting, especially if you work with young people. trevino people that might want to come, it may be egg historic first meeting. that is wednesday, 6:00. the main room at city hall. apresident mazzucco: we usually open it up to public comment regarding the items discussed. then we move to the captain's report. if there is any public comment about these -- is there any public comment about the brief announcements that were made? public comment is now closed. please call the main event, item number 3. >> flight item number 3, captain john feeney, to address you in the police commission on

activities in the park district. >president mazzucco: good evening. >> honorable mentimembers of the commission, and members of the part community, welcome to the park district. i probably stand before you as a commanding officer -- i probably stand before you as commanding officer of the park district. it is an honor to lead the men and women of the park we station and to work hand in hand with the community with that outstanding and highly-engaged community of the park district. tonight i have a brief power point presentation and we will speak about the issues we face. my policing philosophy and my plan. i appreciate the opportunity to present tonight. thank you.

the park district covers an area bordered by gary boulevard, market, and upper market to the south. seventh avenue to the west. it is u a three-square area mil originally the station was built in 1910. it serves the community of coal valley, western addition, 26, the bows and parts of the castro areas. it also has a major parks. golden gate park, albert lake and to tho dubose park. during the previous extraction times, one that just ended, robberies are down 60% this time

this year. a trend that the city is falling as well, overall reduction in the robberies. however, burglaries, as many of you have read, burglaries have been on the increase, specifically with regard to the deaths of bicycles from multi unit apartment buildings. the flip side of having this is also the burglary arrests are of 220% year to date from last year, as evidenced by outstanding address -- addrrress about a guy scratching off the number of a bicycle handle the other day and the search showed that of the things in his possession were stolen. he is going to be going back to jail. his probation is being held and

revoked. excellent arrest. we have made several since i have become the commanding officer of bicycle thieves. we look forward to serving more. the focus of my newsletter is awareness and getting your neighbors and building owners to take measures into securing the entrances. usually it is coming in through the back, and also garage doors that people are sneaking in. we pulled out an automatic garage door. in there was an incident just the other night where the burglar did that same thing. the person's neck and behind them with the garage door and went into the building install a bike. -- the person lifted the door

and the person went in right behind them. auto burglaries. they are down slightly this last time, however it is much higher of a number then i would like to see. again come awareness. do not leave anything in plain sight in your vehicles. a lot of the burglaries are from the east end. golden gate park burglaries as well. leading items in the car. if we could make people more aware about not leaving things out, we could further reduce this as well. we're coming up on the one-year

anniversary of the implementation of the sidewalks. in the previous 12 months we issued 76 warnings come at 188 citations and 14 arrests, and that is predominantly among the corridor. one of the great tools, and i will come across this later on when i speak about the neighborhood courts, the efforts of our recently departed rebecca brokeham, helped with regard to the major offenders. rebecca has been replaced by another neighborhood the dada, y hernandez. i realize this is rather long,

and i wanted to -- this is something that has served as of my personal philosophy for policing, and that's the police of the public in the public are the police. however, with us said, the police being only members of the public better paid to get full- time attention to the duties that are incumbent on every citizen. community engaged policing. it is, as many of you have heard and seen in the news letter coming is the community becoming involved and engaged in the policing of their own communities, as well as engaged with the police department, as well as the police department becoming a engaged with the communities they serve. something i want to a party -- and body with my officers. they are our officers. and community engaged policing

philosophies is back to basics of policing. people were responsible for the policing of their own communities. as we move forward in policing across this nation, many resources are being diminished, and therefore the responsibility for those in the community rest still with their communities. it is very easy here in the park district to talk about community-and gauge policing come up because it is such a highly-engaged community. i was very fortunate to be sent here to have a community as a gauge as they are. what we need to do, and part of the process is to engage back. have officers engaged and to get out of the cars, talk to people more, engage in conversations.

driving around. those things -- when policing first started, there were no radio cars. people were out there walking the beat. you get to know people and see people and interact. you develop the trust and relationship. as we move further along, that is how things are going to get done. and i will cover that later about the networking and relationship building. the park community is engaged. in gauge community is a safer community. a police force in gauge embodies the true essence of policing. the large component now it is

especially here at the park district is the community police advisory board, which is made up of diverse representation of various community groups within the district. collaborative working group committed to coming up with sustainable solutions to the complex problems. when i say complex problems, what i mean by that is police issues in police problems come and other issues we're dealing with about issues are still remaining here. albert lake was an issue then and remains an issue now. in order for us to have long- term sustainable solutions come it will require more than a police response. it will require collaborative work together to find out what we can do to have long-term solutions to the issues so it is not always an issue. aking get to the points where it

is controlled so to speak. the community police advisory board is a sounding board that brings an information and take it back to members of their community group. it is with the district wide focus as well. it is not just about that community groups, it is about working in concert with other groups to make the entire district better. that is the goal. i spoke earlier in mentioned about neighborhood courts. they give residents a chance to resolve non-filing crimes in their neighborhood. the residents themselves hear cases in neighborhood settings using the court of justice procedures. assistant district attorney tony hernandez is assigned. there is also an assistant

district attorney that is assigned to the mission and gave you. we're very fortunate to have the services at the station. the district attorney is there for hours a day in the afternoons, and we're very fortunate. it helps our officers to develop long-term -- more sustainable solutions with the police end that there is answering of a person's crime. the cases that are there, they are sizable offenses. they are not local. not something that the d.a. office will prosecute in the court. these are cases that were not prosecuted at all and the community felt someone got off without anything. now they are held to answer by the community members themselves.

park police districts. and as i mentioned before, albert waklake, carry swords -- very fortunate to have the use of the honda unit. they have great access to the areas of the park in the panhandle and one of this parwhf buena vista park. we of six members assigned to the station. we will be able to do better work with their services. homeless our reach in the albert lake area. bringing in social services, it's expanding beyond the police rome -- from. -- realm.

we need to have the transient population that are the criminal population that are dealing drugs and assaulting other people. we need to have them think about who they are asking to buy drugs as they're walking by. we want to put sense in their mind that perhaps that may be an undercover police officer. we can actually make them feel uncomfortable and hopefully lead this area. he street itself. we have coverage with the foot beat officers. we have officers that will be on bike. we will have approximately 15 hours of coverageof the week. the haight street beat will concentrate their efforts as well. the mcdonald some entrants to albert lake and albert lake

itself. i am going to skip this next one. we talked about bicycle thefts and burglaries. campbell playground is another issue and the issues there with the homeless -- homeless population in members that frequent the clinic close by. we have a mix of student population there from the high school and the school that is right there and lunchtime crowd. it is a mix that our officers received an e-mail today and responded for a large group of people. that is something that we're going to focus on and to make that area safer for the residents who go there, as well as the students that have launched their. we talked about the mcdonald situation, and target

enforcement. any of our target enforcement, whether it is a decoy operation for a pedestrian officer coming in across rock -- crosswalk or other issues we're dealing with, it is all meant to get people to comply with traffic laws, and criminal activity that needs to be taken elsewhere. it is not just moving it around the city, is just that if we can get them out of san francisco, the more, the better. going back to traffic safety. little did i know when i took over park station come i never knew what the way goal waiggle . as i tell people and have written about and have the

opportunity speak of the sanford says go bike advisory committee and members of the bicycle coalition, the whittiggle is hee to stay. we will not include any of the hills for flatlands. the increase in bicycle traffic is planned to increase substantially. therefore we must anticipate the further issues and develop solutions so we can make the streets safer for everyone to travel. one of the quotes is the fact that we are not waging war at park station against bicyclist, pedestrians, skateboarders or motorists. we're waging war on behalf of traffic safety for all in the community. that is something that is near

and dear to my heart, as well as many people in this room. it should be almost everybody, because we're all one of those at one party or another, and traffic safety should be important to all of us. park station plan. some of the things that i would like to try and do at park station, as the captain being my first command, first thing i told them when i got there is expected to change. if we're not changing, we are not improving. and if we're not improving, we are not getting better. i am not a status quo type of person. that is something i hope officer see and members of the station see, because there are so many more things we need to move forward on with regards to policing.

policing in this dynamic city should be equally as dynamic. there are things we're going to try a little bit differently. just like the members of the community are the foundation of the community, the officers and sergeants at a police district station are the foundation. the captains are transients with regard to district stations. we come and go. we are commissioned officers. we have no transfer rights. therefore what i want to build as a strong foundation. park station has a strong foundation of officers right now. what i want to do with the council is actually and all of them more and how the stations run. it is much like the council and getting to do -- actually have decision making abilities. improvements around the station

in the way things are done. when you go on a cruise, they do not change the cruise every time they change the captain. the captain goes on to the ship as it is. they have to rely on the ship itself. therefore, i am relying on the ship itself and the members of the station to be the strong foundation for the community. what i try to do is enhance the experience, enhance the foundation and make sure it is strong, something we can leave a legacy for, just like in the police department. we are a legacy business. years from now the cheap and myself and others in the room will be retired and gone. we need to learn as we learn

from those before us and make the city as a visit can possibly be. we have our estimate annual signups take effect this saturday. shortly after we will have nominations and elections for the part council. moving on, it is great we have community meetings. one major thing missing in the meetings is having a park station used council. nowadays being the father of a 20-year-old daughter and young adults have a distinct ideas on how things should be, and i think in this community is specially, it would be great to bring together kids, young adults come a teenager's, teenas

know how they would like their district police. some of the things i have mentioned is providing them with the voice. also, second saturdays. there is volunteer programs, especially in high schools right now. my son volunteers of the school for autistic kids. there are other things we can do. giving them the ability to develop projects on their own to make their own neighborhoods more livable and save come in for themselves to grow up in. second saturdays is an idea i thought about and written by myself -- grant by my son by bringing the group together for volunteer project. that is something moving forward we will be looking into. i of spoke to -- i spoke to one of the people last week at the

community meeting. the park volunteer program. this is something that' if we're going to talk the talk, we need to walk the walk. i am a firm believer in that. i have already talked to the human resources director to see what we have to do. having police officers actually volunteer to not just -- there is volunteering and outside the job, but there are lots of needs in the community. one thing close to mind is the children's playground. maybe have an officer come in an hour or two hours early and go out there and in iraq and be there, because we do not have the personnel to put in at a city park because of the calls for service and other staffing levels. this is something of us here at

the station giving back to the people we serve and making a -- i know it is all about the kids. we talked earlier about the legacy, the legacy of policing. it is the type of imaging we give to the community so that way when they grow up they're more apt to be supportive of us and the communities. when they have that access to us, it provides great benefits. as i talk about community engagement in defense, i am not talking about replacing a program or anything like that with things that are normally paid for, but officers going out if there is a community event, maybe an officer can go out there before or after a shift in just be there and be an extension of what they will normally do.

there was one other thing with regards to the volunteer policing. it is also something we talk about what officers, and this is part of the idea with a parked station in council. i want the counsel to figure out how they would like to do it and whether or not it is a good idea. all it takes is a few people. once the toe dippers find that it is not a bad idea, they will dive right in the next time. that is part of the plan. there is a few things -- i know many of you have read the newsletters and been to the meetings. there is probably a lot more we will do as we come across it in time. i appreciate your time. thank you for coming. as i said, the part community is

an engaged community and i am very fortunate. thank you. -- the park community is an engaged community, and i am very fortunate. president mazzucco: i want to commend you on two innovations we see, the parks council form and the park station council with officers being involved. those are things i have never seen before cents i have been on the commission. that is excellent. thank you for the subtle italian joke about the ship. i noticed it. >> if there is no comparison between the captain of that vote against capt. feeney. [laughter] president mazzucco: think you. this was an excellent presentation. you did a great job. i know how hard you worked on this and how hard you work as a

police officer. would anyone like to say anything to the captain before we turn it over to audience? >> i want to thank you for the civil sidewalk sta. -- stat. i would like to see this and other districts to see what the other districts are doing here ye. >> if i anticipated being in -- i anticipated being in the park district. i wanted to see if -- >> that is a great stat. the youth group should be invited to city hall on march 7. they will be with us in the city. >> that is next week. they have not been