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story rather than just a document. we do not want to make it an expensive production, so we would put an electronic version on our website. this is not any thing the department has done. this is something people are going to want to see versus something that is just required. we now have the template, so it was actually done in april, but we want to bring it to the commission for your approval. we are hoping to have it done in february as soon as the statistics for the prior year become final, but this will basically be the template. before we move on to the next item commoem, i would love it id have approval. >> this is just a discussion item, so it would have to be an
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action item. good >> i am going to put this out. >> i do not believe it is required to approve it before the chief finalizes the report. >> that is right. >> i want to thank you for this report. it is a great report. it has crime statistics. it has everything here from medals of valor that were awarded, retirements from the police department. it has an explanation of what the divisions do. this is incredible. it harkens back to the days the police department use to do a year ago. this is incredibly well done. it is very impressive, and i do not think you need our permission to adopt this.
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it is great, so thank you for your hard work. >> for the public, this will be posted, if not today, then tomorrow, for download. i see someone from the public is leafing through it as we speak. good i will go to the firearms discharge review board. >> i thing commissioner kingsley had a question for you. >> first is to congratulate you. it is beautifully done in general around the police department in addition to providing necessary steps for next year. i appreciate that you're good i think members of the public are going to enjoy it and learn from it, too. thank you to everyone who
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contributed. it is beautiful and colorful and professionally laid out. there are not going to be a lot of hardcover copies of this. who is getting hard-cover copies, and how does it relate cost wise in terms of what has been done in previous years? >> there is no expense of producing it, and it was all done by fifield. i believe we printed 100 copies and were pretty much giving them to community groups, business groups, board of supervisors, commissioners. there is actually a list, in an effort to have little or no other costs to the public, we figured it is downloadable from the website, depending on your
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printer to your good -- on your printer. >> the data usually on the report, what might be missing from this? i did not pull out last year's. >> since it is finished, hopefully nothing, but if there is something missing and an administrator noted, this is the first one done in a while. if we miss something and you let us know, we will make sure it is a next year's federation, and hopefully it will get more developed as we go forward. >> all of the categories with reports historically are in here as well? >> i believe so. >> a wonderful educational tool. thank you. >> thanks for sharing this.
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we appreciate the chance to c-- the chance to see it before it goes on-line. this is extremely impressive. the visuals are great to convey what happens to the police department to people of all different backgrounds. i think for the future it would be great to have a small piece, so i think the department is setting a model for the rest of the country, especially with the progress we make each year. i think it is a great achievement, and we will highlight its next year. >> absolutely, and anybody else who has an item, we would be happy to put it in and develop it and work with you. it is easy for everyone to taken. >> i appreciate the focus on
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policing in the report and the issues throw of the brochure. i know that youth issue is a priority. vice president marshall: who thought of this? are you the brains? >> i wanted it to be something for you to look at. >> this is great. >> i was always better at picture evokes. -- books. >> it is greatly appreciated. >> sure. >> discharge and review board.
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>> good evening, commissioners. i will be presenting the report from the first quarter, 2012. the meeting convened on march 20 of 2012, and the voting members of the board or the acting share, chief chen and chief smith. we reviewed three cases that day. of the first case we reviewed and was 10-013. it occurred at buchanan and feld street.
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the vehicle was suspected of a large amount of heroin. he attempted to get away from the vehicle and literally had to lean on the vehicle to prevent getting run over. during the course of that, another partner officer discharged his firearm at the driver of the vehicle. it did not strike the driver. it struck the vehicle. the soldier sustained injuries. the driver fled a few blocks later. the driver turned himself into police one or two days after that. the finding that was excepted was in policy. the next case we reviewed was 10-015. this occurred on december 29,
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2010. uniformed officers responded to an assault. it was updated, and the officers made their way to baker street. they encountered a large number of people present. they first asked if there had been a stabbing. they got negative response, and after eliciting more information did determine stepwhere the sust was located. uniformed officers made their way down a hallway. the suspect was inside a bathroom. he came out of the bathroom, and rather than walk away from the officers, he walked towards the officers, armed with an instrument the officers retreated, but they found themselves back into a corner with 15 juvenile so and adults
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in a room that was scattered, and they discharged fire arms in self-defense. the suspect was struck and died later on in the scene. gooit should be noted this cases reviewed by the state attorney general's office to to the fact of cheese became district attorney, so this was reviewed by the attorney general's office. the last shooting we reviewed was on january 4, 2011 on howard street triggered officers responded to a call of a man in a wheelchair causing a disturbance and wielding a knife. the officer called for backup units when the suspect refused to put down the knife. backup officers arrived and attempted to verbally persuade
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the suspect to drop the knife. he failed to heed their campaign -- not to heed their commands. one of the officers was stabbed during the encounter. as the officers fled, and two officers discharged their firearm since the fence of self and others. i will be happy to take any questions you may have before i go to the next report. >> thank you for your support. just for the record, you have is dated as december 29, 2012. it is in fact 2010. is that correct? >> 2010. that is correct.
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>> you might want to make that correction. >> yes, sir. >> thank you for your presentation and your work on this. i talked with the chief about these cases, and i would like to suggest that two things happen. one is the mention of of the
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suspect. mental health involvement in >> in both cases involve mental health issues. the department has taken significant steps to launch training and that is certainly a resource for these officers, so they can have that additional tool. it is a matter of making this -- is my suggestion sound of
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katy you? >> lights out on the review board, and i do have to say that the injury to the officer will be pretty significant. it was a very significant wound and they had a different view of the video. the person in the wheelchair move to really, really fast. it can open your eyes when you saw that, why couldn't we wait? it made a difference. i am glad we have the mental health crisis yet. i want you to know that we got a little more in-depth and it was interesting how quickly the wheelchair moved around the officers. >> this is all of training experience, thank you for your
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efforts and your comments on that. >> i will give you the status of the investigations right now. in the last quarter, we like to keep you updated. these cases were completed, and you have all received a summary letters that have been completed since the last report. the total cases that are pending today that our current r seven total cases. all of these cases still require the d.a.
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we can move fairly rapidly. we hope to get more cases. and lastly, the board is scheduled for second quarter 2012, scheduled for june 21 of this year. >> it is important for the public to know that whenever there is an officer involved shooting, the homicide division and the occ looks into them. the investigation, as he said, we competed -- completed the investigation. it is good for the public to
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know that there is not just one set of lies, there are different agencies. >> we look at some of these cases, the department looks at them. >> thank you for keeping the numbers down at one point. those cases were three and four years old. >> and the last presentation? >> ha one quick question. the next firearm discharge review board is june 21? >> commissioner turman will be sitting on that one.
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>> good evening, commissioners. you have the document protocol report in front of you, so i will allow that to speak for itself. there are a couple of comments i would like to mention on that. they work very well with the occ, especially in the last half of 2012 to make sure that the document protocol was adhered to better that it had in the past. i appreciate the letter that director hicks said the regarding the cooperation and how the numbers have decreased. i wanted to make sure that you knew that we r working on that. with that in mind, if you have any questions about what we are
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doing, how would be happy to answer any of those questions. commissioner kingsley: was the occ going to comment? i appreciate your report, capt. we have a good relationship with the police department, and when i could see the department took it for free. it will increase and things will move around slowly. >> we are talking about this document protocol, and we will
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tell the public exactly what we are talking about. >> over 100 documents from the police department every month. and the protocol was adopted back in 2003 that provides the way in which the documents need to be received. the process that they need to be turned over by the office. part of the process is a quarterly report to the commission asked how the process is going. most times, is going quite well. >> it is great to hear that it is going quite well and it is important for us to facilitate what we need to do. >> for the delayed turning over documents, i am wondering if there was a finding as to the reason why there has been a pretty sharp increase in the lead in getting documents and how it can be stressed in the future.
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>> there have been a couple of reasons for that, there were changes in personnel at the legal division over time, and there are always times where it is a little more education that needs to be relayed to the units. and what the time is. some of those have occurred in the last few months where it be there was a to their responsibility to provide its or it just didn't provide it in a timely manner. that is what allowed the process to get better and have the number of non-compliance is diminished. >> this helps.
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>> as long as you are happy, we are happy. we think you -- and we figure that if you are not happy, you will say so. >> we now go to the directors' report. >> good evening, members of the police commission. i am presenting the 2011 annual report. we deliver this in february, and it took us longer to gather the statistics. the staff that assisted, most particularly to my immediate left that is the office of
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citizen complaints. he is the person that gathers and develops the and the annual report. members of the management team are out here in the audience. we have our chief china -- attorney. another attorney on our staff who had buzzed out reach in mediation. one of our senior investigators , i think i have covered
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everyone. our principal clerk and pam thompson, my executive assistant. the topics of discussion this evening will be organizational development, san francisco police department and other hot statistics. investigations, policy analysis, mediations, out reach, information technology, document production, performance measures, and the controllers audit. the history is that it was
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created by a board of supervisors initiative charter amendment in 1982 that was adopted by the voters. we became staff and operational in 1983. we are under the jurisdiction of the police commission. and also to make policy recommendations and this is my fourth full year leading office of complaints. the cuts were not made. we had investigators on the extended leave of absence that we were able to hire new
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investigators and they were under training last year. it is a flat organization more than half of the staff is investigators. the remaining balance of the staff is comprised of clerical staff. they investigate complaints of police misconduct. when we lifted beat declining --
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but there was a 6% decline between 2005 and 2010. the information we obtained is that there was a 19% decrease in the call for services. finally, in a survey that was done by david binder, it was found that there was a 72% satisfaction rate with the sentences go police department. in california, there has been a% decrease in conduct complaints since 2008. nationwide, complaints have dropped in new york city, oakland, washington, d.c., and san diego. we have seen an increase.
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it is led by the investigator. they received many complaints. we actually closed more cases than we opened. we closed all but one case. they continue to fall of the strategic plan, and they participated in community outreach. we require them to participate in community outreach each year. looking at the caseload summary
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, the 84 complaints received -- represented a 19% deviation from the baseline. it represents an 11% deviation from the baseline. the 59 complaints represent a deviation before the base line. the sustained rate is 8.8%. looking at demographics of looking at demographics of complaint and, caucasian's