statistics, here is the attrition rate, the drop program is gone, we have no academy classes, and we have no one coming in. and we have small classes. 50 people. maybe we get 35 out of that. i'd like to work with somebody at the police department about putting together a presentation with experts and statistics. and perhaps give that information to the people who control the budget so we can let them know that this is a crisis and they should start looking at it now rather than two, three years down the row and we have no classes and our police department has dwindled. commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner slaughter, i know you have been concerned about this. commissioner slaughter: commissioner dejesus, i think having a presentation about this is a good idea. looking at the attrition over the near and midterm future and anything that we can continue to do to highlight the issue and

bring it to the forefront of the minds of the board, as well as the mayor. i know they're in the process of hashing out the budget, and they understand the importance, but it is one of those stains that you have to keep in front of everyone's mind. i would be happy to work with you, commissioner dejesus, and the captain. commissioner mazzucco: for perspective, may be the chief can give us the actual number of officers who are eligible to be hired today. that will give you some perspective. we have a mandate of 1000 an average of new 1 officers in the city and a couple hundred out of the airport. how many will we lose from the drought program? >> we're going to lose 85, i believe it is, by july 1. but we are charter mandated in 1971. several things have happened

since then which will indicate that that number is low. we will lose, from july 4 of last year until june 30 of 2014, somewhere around 250 officers with perhaps another 100 officers going between 2014 and 2015. summer in the ballpark of 350 to 400 offices that were here at the beginning of last year that will not be here within four years. as you said, that is in ink, so nobody can reconsider. they have already committed to retirement date, going forward in the past when we did not have the sunsetting of sound like this drop program. many would consider staying longer. we are in a unique situation now where that is not the case and we can absolutely plan that 400 officers will go.

and we do need the back. again, the 1971 number was set at a time when we had nine district stations. now we had 10. there was no domestic violence unit. another is. we did not have the responsibilities of treasure island. now we do. there was no hunters point naval shipyard that will soon be in neighborhood. and on and on and on. many other instances. >> one of the things i would like to add to that is, how does it affect the staffing in the district when we continue to move officers and not replace them? how does it affect the zone enforcement that we have done, which is been very successful and reduced the homicide rate? you know, how is all the attrition going to affect the programs, the walking the beat, and things like that? >> since i have been achieved, every unit in the police department is down 10. the decision was made to share in the pain equally, so we said

what we believed we could -- was best case scenario when i first became chief. since then, we have been balancing it so that everybody shares so that no neighbor meadows less than in the other neighborhood. then we have officers who worked at the homicide case that we do place as situations depending on the crisis. i think if you look at our neighboring cities, i know that right now aligned as a meeting in the hills of oakland with chief jordan. there are concerns with burglaries'. they're losing officers. they're getting 40, but they have lost 60. it takes one to three years to get officers up to speed. one of the first things that goes away, and i was fortunate enough to partner with many of the folks in the room, whether they're wearing blue or not. ic espano -- i can see them over

there. you can do the front end work will have the officers. a lot of these other jurisdictions were the have lost a lot of their officers through attrition or layoffs, whatever, they are just responding calls to call. our number one duty as we have to answer the 911 calls for service. but the other things, taking time for cit, in gauging the young people during the high school programs, all those things, again, we have to answer the 911 call. >> thank you, chief. it is a big item. >> these items -- but we will now turn to the inspector and to -- credible is the one thing -- just one thing. i think maybe it is in my mind, only because it was written about so much and was a huge

issue for us for so long, but for you, commissioner mazzucco, and want to give the public the update on the discipline case. we had a huge backlog. i want to tell the public that between the department and the commission we have worked diligently to get that down. i can get the current numbers. i just want you to know where we are with your purchase of as a discipline in the case is still on our docket. commissioner mazzucco: 1 wafer start looking at is, we had about 77 cases pending -- when i first started looking at this, we had about 77 cases pending. we had citizens concerned about how we were handling those matters. i think today we are at, how many? >> we're down to 8. >> that is pretty significant. that is the hard work of your commission, command staff, the occ, and attorneys. that is significant. what we should do now is, when can we calendar this discussion regarding the budget?

>> alabama about four -- let's do it for april 18. >> ok. after an item like this, we have public comment. but most the public, will relate to captain chignell's presentation which is next. if i do not hear any objective, we can move right into captain chignell's presentation. then we will have all the public comment that you won following that presentation. i do not hear objective. colorado line item number two. >> captain chignell, commanding officer of bayview station, to address the commission on police activities in the bayview district. commissioner mazzucco: good evening, captain. >> thank you very much. pleasure to be here, president, commissioners, supervisor cohen, chief suhr, director hicks. welcome to the baby. of like to introduce the officers -- before i do that, i want to let you know that the

southeast community facilities commission moved to their actual regular meeting to last night so the commission could be here tonight. that was a very gracious of them. as the chief said and supervisor cohen said, i have not seen so much foliage in this room for a long time, so that is great. we were provided with some fresh fruits by the market. i would like to publicly acknowledge that. behind me is lieutenant robert o. sullivan, de watch salatin a. lieutenant johnson, night watch we did it. lieutenant michael redman, the night watch a lieutenant as well. we have three lieutenants at the bayview station in control. many of the note lieutenant julia hill who is in charge of our special investigation team. he is on edge again to philadelphia courtesy of the chief. that is just a joke. no one is laughing. lieutenant hill is on a training mission. he is not here tonight.

expresses his regrets to the my captain staff is here as well. we have the officers right here. and my right hand, officer bernadette robinson, the permit officer. she is going to help me with the powerpoint. before i get to that, there are a number of copies of the powerpoint presentation in the back for the public or anyone else who would like to clear arrears at your leisure. the information that is in the powerpoint, everything up here is in front of you. and the commission has had this for a day or two. so a lot spend a lot of time on it. but for the benefit of the public, the most important component of this meeting, we will go through this briefly. there you go. this is is an overview of the bayview station. the table of contents. as you look at the district, you

see there is about 73,000 people that reside in the bay view, but that is increasing by the hour and minute because at mission bay and a lot of the new developments going on there, and that will increase because of the hunters point naval shipyard. we have about a 10% of the city's land mass in the bay view. in terms of the district census data, this is a heavily minority district. 36 these and aged. 28% african-american. 17% hispanic. this district obviously is racially diverse, economically diverse, residential as well as industrial. what is important are the officers and how the reflect the diversity of the district. as you can see, about 45% of the police officers here are either of minority status for women. so that is not as good as it should be, obviously, but it is significant that our district

officers have that demographic. bilingual officers, 25 bilingual officers. but as you know, we have a very specific policy with respect to bilingualism and department policy that is enunciated very carefully and complies with the city directive and others. so we end of the city family obviously are available to provide language services at any time and whenever the community needed to the organization's chart is the next. and you can go over that at your leisure. it basically describes the number of officers and what each unit has. i have given statistics regarding crime. my predecessor was chief suhr, as you well know. under his leadership, there was a dramatic drop in violent crime in the distributor i am proud to report that we're continuing that trend here in the bayview.

we will get into more specifics about that later. but we're excited about the fact that we are making more than a dent in violent crimes in the baby. as you move further through the powerpoint, the homicides -- of the homicide job is demonstrative. as you can see, in the first part of the year 2000's, we were running 25 to 30 homicides a year in the bayview. when chief suhr was a bit, it dropped down to 13, 14. obviously one homicide is too many, but last year we had 11. so far this year we have three. it is unsafe to speculate about a homicide, of is the, the up and down, but there is a trend here in terms of violent crime that we're deeply appreciative about. we moved on to other crimes. you can look. the same principles apply. but in property crimes as well.

enforcement operation, i have a special presentation for you this evening. we're going to have the supervisory personnel from the specialized units here at the bayview give brief presentations about their areas of expertise and engagement and talk about what they do, particularly in the area of diminishing violent crime. as he will stay on the of reisman operation spades, foot beat, housing officers, plain clothes, and some other things we do. what is gratifying to as is the work of the housing officers. that was started in the year 2004 under former captain bruce. it was taken to a higher level again under captain sir. these are dedicated officers who work in public housing. i believe firmly that the work that they have done over the last eight years has contributed to a much better relationship, most importantly between the tenants and the police officers, the housing authority and the

police officers, and other aspects in terms of housing crime. because public housing has been an area where we have had difficulties with violent crime over the years, in terms of gang activity, firearms, and the like. as you move through the powerpoint, you see some photographs of guns, and i will get to that in more detail. and the last couple of pages talk about some of the community endeavors, obviously enforcement is very important for the san francisco police department and all of its members. but what is just as important is the jeep was talking about front end, and the other part is what you do in prevention, what you do with youth, how you encage with the commission -- engage with the committee. there are a number of programs that deal with young folks in terms of the relationship between police and young people. also, doing things that are

different than what has traditionally been done in the relationship between the police into the community. there are three principles upon which we are guided here at the bayview police station. one is obviously our law enforcement mission. that is to do at the call, effective, and efficient policing. at times, aggressive policing. that is necessary when you have issues of violent crime, we have predators in the community that need to be removed and put into the criminal-justice system. and our top priority in terms of enforcement is to get guns off the street. there is a unanimity of purpose in that within the community that we need to get guns off the street. in 2011, 162 fire arms were removed from the streets of the bayview. 120 of those in arrests. what is most striking is most of

the arrests were done in a very thorough basis. they were ready for prosecution, either state side or federally. so we are proud of that statistic. in the last 10 months since i took over from chief suhr, we have had wondered 16 firearms in the last 10 months. 91 of those with the arrests. the community is very supportive of us getting guns off the street. and we do not -- we do not let the guns come to us. we go and get the guns but you'll hear more about that from the presentations from our teams. the other thing we do, i believe, and effectively here is collaboration. under the previous captain -- to keep mentioning chief suhr because he set the table at the bayview, is the collaboration but inside at the station and collaboration outside in the community. we have 4500 people who receive a newsletter three times a week. more than any other station, i believe the subscription numbers are higher than any other

station. that shows the degree of relationship between community members and people who work in the bayview and those of us who work at bayview police station but there is tremendous transparency in those reports. transparency is another word we use here at the bayview. we separate fact from fiction. we put what is happening in terms of crime, what the rest are being made, and we also utilize that as a forum to the committee to make their public announcements and to let other community members to know what is going on. we found that with that communication vehicle, that newsletter is going on constantly and brings the number is closer to the police and brings people in the neighborhood talking about what is happening on their streets, so they can also be part of the crime prevention endeavors. we also have an innovative program of 65 community organizations, some of whom do not particularly care for the police, some who love the police, and somewhere in between

you have liaison to the district station. officers of supervisory rank your the leaves on to those community organizations, who work directly with those community organizations to work on addressing problems, whether they are polite, whether they are crime issues. there's a good nexus with the opinion leaders, community group leaders, and police officers at the station. in terms of collaboration on a we have an innovative program called the ambassador program. a number of crime victims all between the cracks. gasol sure you know that. people are arrested, and then there are victims to go down to the hall of justice and have victim witness programs that are very good. but there are other people that are victims of crime than ever see an arrest being made who had a case where there is no evidence, no suspect, no follow- up. there are too many of those types of people, whether they're robberies or assaults, whatever it may be. at the baby station, our staff looks at these police reports --

at the bayview station, our staff looks at these police reports on a daily basis. looks for vulnerable women. the juvenile, elderly, and we reach out to those victims to see if we can refer them to either public or private services that are available in the community to better their lives. at thing that is very important component of what they view police officers do. we also act as a catalyst here at the bayview station to work with our good supervisors. supervisor cohen -- and her aid and i talk two or three times a day. she has been a great supporter of bayview. and she works with us not just as a buffer, but on a collaborative spaces. we act as a catalyst to the community to expedite things through the city bureaucracy, either through supervisor cohen's office arthur other city agencies to help people in the community. the other day we were in this room with jeff adache and a

group called be magic. it was enthusiastic. we had a group of police officers with a public defender 's group talking about issues of concern. talking about the plaza. i was struck by the fact that under normal circumstances, we would not even be talking to jeff adache unless we were under cross-examination. [laughter] that is is an example of some things we do. the san francisco empowerment center. those two women were here. they were more than constructively critical of me at a community meeting be it today. so i reached out to them for a meeting. we're meeting on april 29. we will have officers who speak cantonese and mandarin and they're so we can do the work necessary to be done because of the robberies that have been occurring in that corridor. those are just some of the examples where we do reach out. there's a lot of other stuff

that we do. we understand that being police officers is not always about putting handcuffs on people. it is about working with city agencies and community-based organizations to try to eliminate blight. this district, for years, no secret, has been underserved by city government. that is changing, as we all know. the mayor's office, supervisor cohen's office, and a host of community-based organizations are making this district better for the people that live here, and the people who live here are engaging in the process, whether it is the t-line or the third street corridor improvements. we have the opera house, the gyms, some of the community groups. institutions that are here. so we are excited. without being melodramatic, most of the officers at the bayview are excited to interact with the community here. there is no doubt that there is

still some in a deal between some members of the community and the police. there are areas where we can do better. but i doubt if we respect the people that we serve, if we interact with them, if we are transparent, if they bring their concerns to us and we act upon those, then things get better. and things are getting better in the bayview and will continue to get better. so that is an overview of how we approach the police work in the bayview district. i would like to have brief presentations. i know this is the main agenda item. but what i have done today is bring together five sergeants who are in charge of the specialized units at the station. we do not want to compartmentalize our police department. we always talk about the violence production team or the special this or special that. the backbone of the police department obviously is patrol force, the men and women in police cars are on the foot beats, for during the yeoman's

work day by day. they're supported by a group of highly dedicated, specialized units that come from those ranks. at the bayview, we have rejected compartmentalization year our specialized units collaborate with the rank and file, regular patrol officers on a day-to-day basis. there is very little jealousy. we have broken down those barriers by having a shadowing of patrol officers and to the specialized units in and out for training. at the when you hear these presentations, one from housing, two from plain clothes, one from our space -- the investigation team. what is the other one? the third street corridor and the san bruno corridor foot beat supervisor peter you will see that it is a melding of police work here at the bayview station. this monologue is about to end. i am sure you'll be pleased with that. i'd like to turn it over to

supervisor hall. supervisor hall is in charge of the housing unit created by captain bruce, brought to a high level by then captain sir, and it is working very well today in public housing. with that, he gets three to four minutes only. sgt hall. >> thank you very much, captain. i appreciate the opportunity to give some remarks about the bayview housing to-i am the sergeant in charge of the housing team. i took charge about two months ago. we have 16 officers assigned to the team. we have four identified properties. bayview end of the southeast community has the largest number of residents the largest number of units, and the largest overall geographic area compared to other parts of the city. moving north to south through the southeast in the northernmost part we have a

potrero hill, under this view, hunters point, and double rock. our goal is with the 16 officers to have four officers assigned permanently to each development. it is creates a working relationship with the housing authority and with the on-site managers. so we have the four same officers and the contras in development creating relationships, building relationships with residents. some of the ways we have accomplished that is the housing authority provides us with funds. it is away from our officers to keep in constant communication with the resident managers, responding at a moment's notice for anything they may need. the housing authority also set aside one unit in every development, and there was a powerpoint picture regarding that. we have some at the side of a vacant unit, and we have computers in their for the officers to write reports. during their shifts, we ask them

to eat their lunch in that substation, write reports there, and encourage residents and managers to come by and visit and to make reports and to facilitate resourced and information gathering. the substation has pamphlets and information on the housing authority researches and -- resources and other city resources. if i was to give the bayview housing to mission statement, and would break it up to two functions. we are trying to provide the same law enforcement function in the housing developments, as we would in any other neighborhood with any other resident. we have identified these developments and these properties as being historically underrepresented. so we're giving the development basic law enforcement services. i think we are unique compared to plain clothes, compared to the beat, and compared to patrol because the second part of our mission statement is reaching out, making connections with

youth, making holidays special. easter egg hunts, the wilderness program, pal, things like this that occur officers regularly shooting hoops at the boys and girls club. i think a lot of the residence and children look up to our officers as role models. you start to realize that that manner woman in a blue suit is actually a real person, because the talk to them every day and get to know them. we're building partnerships. we're building relationships in conjunction with the housing authority. we fall in line and communicate with the other units at bayview station, with school resource officers, with probation, with parole, and with these other law enforcement agencies. we provide the basic traditional level of law enforcement, writing tickets, written reports, arresting people. but we take it a step further when we try to interact with the community by having officers interested in community-related policing, problem-solving,

reaching out to kids, identified at-risk youth. the old man goal is to make the housing authority properties safe and healthy. so that everybody that resides there can enjoy their quality of life. i appreciate your time. thank you. [applause] >> i would like to recognize three officers. shante williams, please stand. one of the housing officers. [applause] we also have officer sue lavin, involved in that light issue of was talking about. -- and the blight issue that i was talking about. [applause] >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> i also wanted to allay supervisor cohen's concerns, a number of these officers that are not in uniform are off-duty. all so unheard ortiz and llama

forward double rock. they are very respected. amazing relationships that they have with the tenants. really top-notch. officer leon jackson is one of our school resource officers. could you stand up? [applause] he has a daunting work because there are only two school resource officers for the district that has 20 schools. leon does a great job. the next presenter his surgery chris schaefer. foot beats have always been an important component of policing. it has been some controversial. here at the bayview, under cryer leadership and current leadership, we have that third street corridor covered each and every day, and we have san bruno avenue covered which is another avenue covered which is another avenuefoot beat area.