for the pledge of allegiance. >> pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. mr. president, i would like to take roll-call. [calling roll] commissioner dejesus excused. commissioner turman is excused. we have a quorum. we also have the chief of police, gregory sir. uhr. president is tomazzucco:

thank you. welcome to the tendetenderloins police commissioner meeting of wednesday, june 27. there are seven appointed by the mayor and three by the board seveof supervisors, but we works a unit, regardless who have appointed as. we will tell you about our day jobs, but i want to say we do this once a month, the last wednesday of the month, and is the favorite part of our dog to go out in the community. we're here tonight to hear your concerns about what is taking place in your community as opposed to as being at city hall where we have the usual group of folks but is it doesn't talk about city-wide concerns. tonight is very specific to the tenderloin task force. your audience, police chief. i will start with commissioner

loftus for a brief introduction. commissioner loftus: san franciscan and resident of the northern district area for a number of years, i have some spend plenty of time going to the northern station and making a share the concerns of my neighbors were being addressed by the police department. at that time i was working at the district attorney's office, so i had an insight into the system and work with my neighbors to share strategy so that we could implement and be a part of solutions in the community. i am always impressed that you guys are taking the time to be here, and we always need to hear from you. my day job is i am running a non-profit in the base knew that is a -- that is designed to address the stress and trauma

urban kids face from community violence and other factors that often go unaddressed and untreated. ultimately there is a real connection between public safety and public health. that is what i do, and i am happy to be here. commissioner marshall: you have seen me before, because i have been here awhile. and third time appointee to the commission, and my day job is i run the youth programs celebrating 25 years. president mazzuco: my day job is i am an attorney. prior to working in private practice, i was an assistant district attorney. -- mazzucco. i was an assistant united states attorney. i mandated sentences go, and i have raised my family here.

commissioner chan: the asian law caucus used to be located right in the tenderloin. i am quite familiar with this community and have had a chance to go on right alongsidde alonge earned a lot. learned a lot. >commissioner kingsley: good evening. i have been on the police commission for almost two years. my day jobs is a business contracts mediator. i have raised my son infan san francisco. i want to thank the captain and the community center for hosting us this evening and for being here. i am looking forward to his

presentation, but i really want to hear from you. another activity that i volunteered for is the legal center to prevent gun violence. the gun violence prevention is very near and dear to my heart. thank you all to my heafor bein, and i look forward to hearing you. >> line item number one, consent calendar, receive and file of action, request of officer phillip to accept a gift of commemorative would enjoy reeboks from the united states golf association valued at $75. you have a memo in your packet regarding this did to officer helmer. any concerns or questions? we asked for public comment. hopefully we will save it for after public comment.

>> this officer saved a person's life you had a heart attack at the u.s. open, and this is a thanks for him and his heroic effort. >> also, passing on to officer helmer gratitude for his actions and heroic effort. president mazzucco: motion? all in favor. line 2a. occ director report, commission reports, commission announcements before we go into the main presentation. we will start out with the chief's report. >> commissioners, greg suhr,

chief of police. i spent my first four years in the tenderloin area. i was given night radio car. your captain was three out of 41, not allowed to drive back in their early 1980's for very good reason it yet seen how it is gone since then. very quickly i wanted to talk about violent crime down in the city, 3%. property crime is up about 2%. overall crime is flat. that is good news, considering we continue to go down 200-some odd officers. this past monday a class of 51, 9 laterals will graduate thursday and head out to bayview

station and just finish budget today and the mayor's proposal of three academy class is per year for the next six years past 4 1/3 of that. we will have that in the next two years going forward, as well as 52 civilian high years. that will move inside jobs back out to patrol. all good news with regards to staffing. the bad news is we will lose another 100 officers by this time next year, not to be back up to where we are now until christmas. it is critical we stay on as schedule we are on. beginning 2014, should be all good news as far as adding back a lot of the losses we have had. we appreciate everyone's patience. we know everyone in short, but

that is where we are. as far as recent events in the department, if probably the biggest one to speak to is the pride celebration, as big as it has ever been. friday and saturday nights were quiet in spite of the fact that friday night was hectic and other parts of the city if. the pride celebration was an enormous. huge crowds, problems minor. by comparison, i think a great day of whether showcase to the city. a couple of events of notes with regard to the police foundation. it had the inaugural event at jon's grill. he was our gracious host. he arranged the whole thing.

somewhere over $80,000 was raised for summer jobs this year and going 4 for our rescues and partnership. [applause] then of monday, with the mayor support, the commission support, sf city and hewlett-packard, we were offered 60 laptop computer so that our new academy class will be issued so they need never know a desktop computer, and it goes towards the vision of this commission when we went through the interview process that our officers stay in the field, and only time they come back to the station to prepare anything, it will be to book property or issue a citation. it harkens back to the days when

all of the reports were done in coffeeshops in restaurants and starbucks that did not even exist back then. it keeps everyone out. we gained 3-4 hours per day for officers coming back and forth to the station just across as it on the computer. this will all be on the new web- based data warehouse. everything is just faster and better. i do not know they will all be hewlett-packard as donated. there were very nice computers and there were available in the price is right, but we will be as responsible as we can be to find the best computers and mobile devices fastest for the best price. with that, i will defer the rest of my time to three out of the 41. >> think you. president mazzucco: thank you.

where are we with homicide numbers? >> we are closer to 30, which is closer to the number. one is too many. gun violence, non-fatal shootings are down 10%. the efforts, however strained we are staffing-wise are bearing fruit that we're talking to the right people. >> any questions for the cheap? to ghief? >> i wanted to ask about the nine laterals. my assumption is there is a need for officers there. generally how will they be assigned or dispersed? >> it is a random distribution. we do not have a training the judge and the training officers at every station. not everyone is a training

station, but they will be randomly distributed, including the tenderloin. president mazzucco: now we will move to line item c, commissioner report. >> i am joysticks, director of the office of citizen complaints. -- joy stichs. also here is chief investigative officer charles carmagarmen. it is a pleasure to be here to speak about the functions of office of citizen complaints, also known as the occ. we're the third largest civilian oversight agency only surpassed

by chicago and new york civilian oversight agencies. it was created by a board of supervisors-sponsored charter amendment in became fully operational in 1983. we were originally an office in the san francisco police department, but it was later placed under the direct supervision of the police commission as an independent agency. the police commission is also a civilian body. the function is to build trust with the community by being a bridge between the public and police in matters of police conduct, as well as police policy. to that end, we have a mission to ensure police accountability by conducting fair, timely, and unbiased investigation. we also make recommendations on police policies and practices and conduct mediations between

plaintiffs and police. this office investigate civilian complaint against san francisco police officers and make policy recommendations on the police department policy. in california law enforcement agencies must have a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public. they serve the purpose for the san francisco police department. we are staffed by a diverse group of civilians of never been san francisco police officers. we of its 35 member staff, and the majority are investigators. the balance consists of attorneys and other support staff. we conduct investigations to find out what happened. we follow the evidence by interviewing the person who brought the complaint, the involved police officers and civilian witnesses. we have subpoena power to compel testimony and obtain evidence.

we obtain additional evidence from the police department in the form of police reports and other documentation that the police department generates. the investigators did this at the site of the alleged occurrence of, and we may also take photographs of places or persons. we tried to complete investigations within nine months. with the exception, we must complete them within one year. we have a standard of proof that is preponderant of evidence. that means that the probability that the conduct occurred is more likely than not, greater than 50%. it after we complete the investigation we find an officer violated a rule, we forward a

report to the chief of police for further action. they can impose discipline of to attend the state commiup to 10 . one service that they provide as an alternative to discipline is mediation. last year we facilitated 61 mediations. this represents 7 percent of the 846 cases we closed last year. the mediation program allows plaintiffs to resolve issues with the accused officer in person and dispute resolution format. the goal is to bring the involved parties together so they can achieve of mutual understanding. we have a partnership with community boards and the san francisco bar association, and through the partnership we are able to provide neutral

mediators for the program. our mediation has been conducted in languages other than english. the mediation is voluntary and death completed officer must agree to mediate for the mediation firms to go for work. -- complaintive officer must agree to immediate for the mediation firms to go forward. officers do so in nearly a rate of 90%. also, we are a winner of community boards 2012 excellence and practices award. in 2011 the occ received 728 complaints. this represents an 8% reduction in complete we received in 2010

when we receive 854 complaints. last year we sustained allegations. that means we found his conduct in 7% of the cases we close. we found the proper conduct in the allegations we investigated and found 4% were not true. the largest percentage of allegations we received were for unwarranted action, following companieallegation of misconduc. in looking at the demographics for those who file complaints with us last year, 28% were african-american, caucasian's 35%. 18% decline to state their race. latinos 13%. native americans in pacific

islanders, 1%. 3% claimed other. the occ is located nearby. it is near the corner of van ness and market. we are easily accessible by public transportation. we also received complaints by telephone, e-mail, and facts. we do have an answering service for after hours complaints, and in the most serious complains that occur on the weekend, chief investigator charles carmagalme has been known to do in interview. our staff is very sensitive to language access issues, and we speak several languages.

two of our investigators are bilingual spanish speakers, which is important because the largest number of large- interviews are in spanish. four languages other than the ones i mentioned we will obtain information services. if any of you would like additional information this evening, the chief investigator is here to answer your question off, and we have grocer's sitting o brochures sitting on e table in the back. that concludes my remarks. president mazzucco: thank you. a very comprehensive report for the community to learn what the agency does. >> just one quick question, and

this -- you might feed to look at the data, but i have one question in listening to you this time. one thing that you said is of all of the allegations made, 10 percent signed were unnecessary use of force. do you know what percentage was sustained? >> i do not have that number off of the top of my head. very low, and i do not want to guess, but i do believe it might be of the sustained 2%. i will give you the exact figure, a very low figure. most the sustained allegations are for neglected duty. >> 2c, commission reports.

i have a very brief report. i did attend the press conference about new technology in the police department. the technology is incredible. they did a demonstration of what officers will be able to do have theipad o ipad or laptop in frof them. it took the officer's back on the street 40% more of the time. it is a great time-saving device. it said it will help the prosecutors. i have to tell you, it is a miracle because when i first got on the commission, there was no technology. what i asked the chief three years ago at a hearing about whether officers can log onto a computer to check crimes that stuff, i was told there was no internet. that maybe hard to believe for a

lot of people. we just got e-mail for the department just last year. that was very helpful. any announcements? >> today i gave a presentation to an assembly member's interns. they wanted to know a lot about the police commission, so i let them know about our jobs and what they do, and talk to them about a occ and police commission. >president mazzucco: any announcements before we move into captain ggarrity's presentation. >> july 11, city hall at 5:30 p.m.

president mazzucco: any scheduling of items that we should address of the community meeting? at this point in time, we are supposed to open regarding the brief presentations, but in the community meetings we ask you save it until after the main event, that the captai being can garrity. ace washington is on his way to the podium. >> [inaudible] i have my little camera here. quite incidently those cameras are safe for the record. the public tv channel is the responsibility of my doing years ago. we used to take the cameras, and

now look what we have here. the only thing i see there, and i have been telling mr. chan, no african americans working any of those equipments there. shame, shame. ladies and gentlemen, i am here is as washingtoce washington. i was here a week ago to speak on the african american situation. this district has a lot of concentration of our african american community. lots of them. lots of them. the police department monitors that everybody else comes here. they come from all over the districts and the city. i have been doing a study myself down here, and a lot of the population down here, district 10 and district 5, and i told

the board of supervisors last week they need to get together and come together and assembled together. in district 5 i tried to get a meeting together for some issues. i have been there all these years, and i have not talked with her yet regarding issues. we need to talk about issues coming up with the june and july festivals. i wanted to say that is why i am here primarily, because african americans concentrate here. last night you sent officers to the meeting at city hall. we want lieutenant cahn dealing with this. actions specifically for cahn johnson. president mazzucco: thank you. come on up.

yes, it is. >> it says items that do not appear on tonight's agenda. the reason i am here tonight is a sent a letter to the chief of police and sent a copy to you. in the letter i specifically pointed out that it is incumbent upon the police department to enforce the california vehicle code, and i cited a particular section pertaining to when you ride a murder cycle, you have to wear a helmet. 24 hours, seven days a week, 365. i gave them to notice. i am watching the t d. people are writing up and down market street in a parade with no motorcycle helmet on. what is up with that? i am watching of us that says equality for all of the muni

buses. is it selective enforcement of the law? i sent a copy of the letter to you. did you get that? i can show you where i put you down. 505, postal service, what are you going to do? if the point being is you were the police commission and people here from the office of citizen complaints. i realize the police, san francisco police are all right guys. they see people day-walking all the time and are not going after people with the pencil. -- jay-walking. the back of the matter is if you're going to write a quality for all, -- you have to wear a helmet.