people. it is a new group to this area. they were not here 25 years ago. actually, they invited me to their ramadan feast the last couple of years. it has been a great asset to have officers helping us out. numbers are numbers. we are a small district, so we should have a quicker response time. but we do a lot of overlapping controls. these are 2011 numbers. and then close to 50,000 cuts last year, calls for service. we have a lot of miscellaneous calls in this area. it breaks down, they give us the

numbers. some of the numbers, i was adding them up. my assistant, who helped with the powerpoint, will i pay quite extensively, my youngest daughter, she said the numbers do not add up, but they are close enough. it is roughly about the same as it was. part one crimes -- we broke it down for you. we had a big reduction last year. everything is kind of in flux on certain crimes. our robbery rate was down last year about 8%, but it is up about 4% this year, and it is probably because of electronic devices. in that with catholic couple of weeks ago -- i met with apple a couple of weeks ago about other problems they were having. otherwise, aggravated assault,

we are down a little bit. we are about 2% violent crime increase. we were down last year, but overall, part one, we are down. we are actually better than the citywide average, and property crimes have been reduced quite a bit. auto theft is way down, and that is because we use our cadets -- we have these police cadets. rather than tie up officers -- we have about 12 of them. we picked up the ones we wanted and with them at work in our stations. i was kind of disappointed. i wanted a couple of them to come tonight. they could take up some of the presentation and it gives these young people public speaking skills. most of them are under the age of 18, sub it will be nice for them. we had an uptick in a car theft. -- excuse me, in break-ins to cars. we found at a seasonal with hastings. we have our hastings program working out, educate them a

little bit. we have a program on security, and we are trying to elevate that a little bit. and bicycle thefts, too, from the library. overall, property crimes city- wide were down. a lot of that because we were running some retail-organized crime seth. that is not something -- we are not talking about somebody stealing a candy bar or a shirt from the retail location. we are talking about organized people taking bags lined with foil to steal things and take the sensors off. we are working with macy's, which was why macy's donated to the national night out. property crimes are down because of that. we are booking these guys. that is intent to go into these businesses, and our arrests for

burglary you will see is up quite a bit compared to the rest of the city. even though our robberies' are up 4%, our arrests are up 49%, so we are johnny on the spot for that. we utilize the violence reduction team in this resources. it is important next day that they have a uniformed presence to come in and have that visibility. that is important. and then last line, shots fired. chief mentioned earlier that overall, shootings are down city-wide, which is great for us in the city, but that number is off now, i can tell you. we are down 43% on shooting victims, so we are down really low compared to the rest of the city. however -- i hate to use the word however. however, monday night, 5:30 in the morning, a guy was shot in

the hand, in his wrists. six shots were fired. they hit him twice. they took his tennis shoes. 5:30 in the morning. no calls. no one saw anything. no video. this was a call out to general hospital. we did a little follow-up on this. his mother said he was home in bed. that was a little different story. he was a young man from across the pond. we still count it as a shooting because he said he was shot at turk and leavenworth, but i think the guy's mom pretty much knows what is going on. he is not really cooperative, but that number is a little skewed now unfortunately. as i mentioned, and arrests. of 49% -- up 49%. remember, you cannot compare apples and oranges with us.

we still do apartments. some of the hotels -- most of ours is retail organized-crime set -- theft. property crime has petered out a little bit, but we are still a little above city average, about 3%. that is as of last week. the shooting monday -- we are going to count it, but it needs to be investigated a little bit more. we have 554 referrals to the community justice center. 554 citations. last year, we were out about 1000 for the year. a lot of it was staffing. trying to defer some of the really lower ones where a person might be a first-time offender or the infractions, some of the

ones that do not meet the criteria. something we are trying to do is to streamline things like property on the sidewalks where we can do a short form so she can bundle some of these. people get upset when that stuff is stolen. another one is a person has a medical marijuana card, that is fine, but we are not going to stand by and let people smoke marijuana in a business or where children are. that is not acceptable. if they have a medical reason, i can see that, but just to do it for recreational purposes, that is not acceptable. they meet the first tuesday of each month at 10:00, correct?

the community justice center has been a big help for us. we are trying to lock in the health and safety code into that 44 referral or over to the neighborhood community court. that is loitering in the area. we have to work with that to bundle it. by the way, do not feel upset the people did it to me all the time at home -- do not feel upset -- people do it to me all the time at home. get up and eat while i'm talking here we have some pizza and water and cookies for you. for adults, we have some over there on the side. next slide. some of the programs we are working with i mentioned before. our police community advisory board. they are great. i cannot say enough about them. they put me in my place when i need them, and that is okay.

robbery abatement program -- i mentioned traffic enforcement. dpw -- some areas need to have washed down, and we try to keep the safe and clean for the community. retail organized crime that -- we have been really good. we are up to about 80 arrests with that. and our d.a. downtown -- that has been a real good program for us. if it is under a certain value, we will slide them over to cjc if they are not a chronic offender. we try to cover these areas. turk and taylor is our chronic problem area. it is important for the officers to have pride and try to keep the same officers. a lot of times, we lose the option sometimes when they get shipped out to other stations. working with the mid-market

officers, we try to work with the with overlapping controls. saturation patrols with the bicycles. i talk to someone -- i will not mention which one it was. they said some kind of guidelines. officers going into hotels, letting the chief know they have problems with officers. we worked on guidelines with some of the sro's reaching out to them. 919 was important, about officers checking registers and working with staff to see if there was criminal activity taking place. working with them. and then guidelines when they

come in and protocols -- would top two officers and staff and management. we cannot control if a federal agency or state comes, but it is important to work out with those sro's. where is commissioner mazzucco? there he is. we have to make sure they hear those 54 words in the fourth amendment. we have to make sure those searches are good when those officers go into those hotels. again, the gang monitoring. we have been very lucky. we have seen a little uptick in the high-speed quarter. we are concerned about that a little bit. we reached out to some of the latino family members in the area about that. i have concerns with that

because we are starting to see an uptick in that. unfortunately, when we give the orders and move people around, in a couple of weeks or a month, we see that someone comes in to take their spot, and that is troublesome to us because we work hard to have the area cleaned up. and with the staley order, which has to be measured -- measurable, you cannot say stay out of the tenderloin. you have to say stay away from a certain area that is measurable. when we have new people come in, it gets frustrating. but we keep plugging along. targeting the area of drugs. with the violence in the area, which tried to keep it up in narcotics, and our team operation -- that is tenderloin enforcement and monitoring --

a.b. 109, the early release and monitoring -- we have been really impacted by that. the three months prior to the implementation of the state's early release in october 2011, we were about 11.96%, and now we are up to 32.52%, so we have seen a lot of impact. our job is easy -- we just arrest them -- but when those individuals were in state prison, they have food, lodging, and were getting medication. a lot of them have mental health issues. that becomes a problem. every monday, i get a list. the chief is talking about ipads, and i cannot figure out

what a hash tag is. i recognize names. we keep an eye on what is going on with the names. we get a list of who is wanted, who is not. i make sure they keep a look at it and it is posted with they can see it. that is important to find out who is committing crimes and what is going on. we actually have a parole agent who comes in, and he has a team in the back. we have that extra resources. i get a list every monday or tuesday. we have the big three hotels, who is staying there. it is a big help if officers know someone is there, or if

they have a baseball team staying at one of the hotels, they know who is there and what group they are dealing with. sometimes, we go out and speak to the group about safety in the area. it is important to know what the occupancy of the hotels are. they are almost like little cities among themselves, and it changes weekly. hyde street, heroin program -- we have had a problem with that. we had before your officers, and now we are down to two -- we had four officers, and now we are down to two. i would like to have for, but we adjust their hours and days and make it work so we can make it appropriate for us to help the area, but i hate to lose that.

in the tenderloin, you are out of the mayor's office. then, i mentioned the 90 unit -- we have taken it to the hot spots. we look at the areas that are busy. we have some very good, experienced officers, and we dedicate the spots, i go over the checklist, and i give them eight or nine spots that i want them to hit. that is all they are doing is hitting those hot spots, and that helps reduce some of the shooting we have had in the area. that is very important. this is nothing new. actually, new york pd did not come by today, but they are here on a cold case. one of the detectives' father was here many years ago, and this is nothing new. so if you just find out where the spots are and try to keep an eye on that, monitor those areas, but you have to have good

people to do it. you cannot just throw somebody out there. you want to have quality performers, and that is what we should 4. i mentioned i check out these lists. i want people who want to be here. i do not want dead weight. you want people who want to be here and want to work with the community. we are about 91% at that point now. mta -- i do not care what anybody tells a. people who get on at the back of the bus, those folks do not pay, and those are the ones who commit those crimes. another thing that is important is bus shelters and bus stops in the community. we had some problems at turk and hide. i will not let that happen again. we have been hitting that pretty good, making sure bus stops get clean because i do not want

anybody hanging around not using those services or doing illegal activity behind their or waiting for somebody to get off the bus, it is important. most people say -- i can understand if it is kids sneaking on the bus, but some of the crooks who report -- they do not want any contact with the driver. when you board a bus, the first contact with the driver may be visual or not -- if you are not paying it in the back of the bus coming to sneak on, like sneaking in to the movies. those are the ones that will commit the crime, and we will crack down on that around here. and cable car turnaround, that is important to keep an eye on as well. again, i mentioned we had the parks. bo decker is going to close at the end of august. there are a lot of seniors and kids that utilize the facility.

we have kind of failed at hyde park. it is an area that is tough. eventually, i would like to see them have a movie on the wall when the weather is nice, but we have a way to go on that, and that stuff. we have barricades'. i am not saying we are successful. nobody is going to be gearing called little -- giving out little bobbleheads with my picture any time soon. a lot of programs take place at the children's playground. we had a program there that is in flux now. we have a lot of programs that go through, and the community uses it. it is a very good park up there. hopefully, it will become something like that as well with the seniors. they had a concert there yesterday with jazz, but their powers are limited right now.

tenderloin, traffic safety program, we mentioned that. that was mandated by the mayor's office in 2010, so we are on the will with the pedestrian safety. violence reduction. national night out, i mentioned earlier. tuesday night, august 7, 2012 in the tenderloin. all districts are going to have that, but ours will be asked -- at bodecker park. every fall, they blessed the taxi cab drivers. that is a great event. they blessed the animals. if you ever go by, there is a plaque there. that was a german national

church in san francisco, the first one. it ever see that, take a look at it. it has been up there at least a quarter of a century. we have the ramadan celebration starting in july. it will go july 19 to august 20 -- or 19, depending on the moon phase. that takes place. the safe passage program -- great program. i mentioned that before. it is really -- that is almost there. it has been a long time coming. we started in january with the physical logistics part. i am a small portion of that committee.

mostly the neighborhoods -- they have done a fantastic job. there is the old padre out their blessing a taxicab. then you have the art of moon festival. that is getting bigger and bigger every year. halloween festival -- we have that at 570 ellis. we have trick or treat spots. the kids can go, and some of the hilton hotels provide hot dogs and food for the kids. this year, we had a tenderloin holiday treat giveaway. they gave us 400 trees. i thought for sure we would have a forest fire in the tenderloin, and we got rid of all of them but 16. it was a great event. we had people from all over the city coming in working on the. that worked out great.

they were nice trees, and i think a lot of community people, especially families, were able to have a tree, and it was great. we had 16 left on monday. we had it on a sunday, so we did very well and i am very pleased with that. i think it is only fair but we did this year. move it around so other families get a chance to do it as well. i think it is important to do that, too. the christmas food giveaway -- we had that. then we had the glide food giveaway and toy giveaway program. the community benefit district -- they have a little festival for kids. they have a petting zoo and so forth. that was very successful. the tenderloin toy drive giveaway with the officers and

also our angel gift program. we partner with some of the service providers, the boys and girls club, and each officer picks a kid and a high-end tollway and donates to that kid. it is like a secret said a kind of thing. you do not know who you are getting. we got about 1/3 of the station acted on that, so it worked out really well. i mentioned before we had our cadets, young fellows and ladies at the station. we worked on our product that abatement program. our numbers were down 47%. you might think we are doing a heck of a job, but we went through all the reports -- i went through all reports, and we have something uniquely different in our neighborhoods. avis, enterprise, hertz. we have rental cars. we determined that some of these cars were not stolen. people read them here, take them up to talk or whatever, bring

back to the airport. they were not stolen. the cars were embezzled. these young folks were able to point that out to me. we were able to fix that, so it helped lower our concept rate -- our car theft rate. i've mentioned earlier, lies and statistics. numbers do not tell you the whole story. you have to look carefully at the bottom line of those numbers. you do not want to hang your hat on to many numbers and to your own horn and pat yourself on the back to much. as my grandmother used to say, you meet the same people all the way up as you meet on the way down. next slide. the christmas tree give away. this is at the very end on sunday. we had a local owner provide

music. we had macy's people helping out. they gave up cookies. we had the whole area full with trees, so this was the very tail end on sunday afternoon. so it worked out very well for us. that is it. i will open up any questions to the commission. go ahead. >> we are going to move in to public comment first, and the commissioners can ask their questions. pete -- feel free to line out at the podium after the captain takes away his statistics. [laughter] or damn lies, whatever you want to say. >> mark twain used to say

there's lies, damn lies, and statistics. >> please come forward. >> good evening. i am the area director for boys and girls clubs of san francisco. i supervise the tenderloin and treasure island clubhouses. i was clubhouse's director here for four years and live in the community. i am part of the safe passage steering committee, which is a very community-base program. i believe we have the highest concentration of children in the city. many people do not know the -- that. because everything is so small year, a lot of our kids are constantly walking in the neighborhood. during the school day, you may have hundreds of kids at given

times coming from the feeder schools in the community as well as between different programs, either to use the park -- one school brings their kids over to salvation army, etc., etc. the reason they started it was to have a role in keeping our kids say. i wanted to acknowledge all the mothers. we have young people, service providers, schools, parks. everybody has been getting involved. if you do not have the right captain who is there providing leadership, it is a whole different situation. i was supposed to be at another meeting tonight. some of our members are out.

others are out today, but i thought it was important to give our appreciation to the captain because he really takes it to a personal level, and i think, as a father, that energy comes through a lot where he really gets involved and as the kids. you do not see him when there is a problem. you see him at all the little bigger things going on in the community, and that is part of safety. we just want to ask you to continue to support our efforts. we have 30 mothers that were trained who will be helping with the kids come off the buses to walk them safely to the neighborhoods. the captain got all the paint donated from kelly more, and if you go through this