increasing challenge for the police department. >> very nice to be here. good morning. let me begin by saying the police department is very supportive of the efforts of the adult probation department and the partnership in their efforts to rehabilitate the prisoners. however, we are a public safety law enforcement organization. when there are people released, and a lot of these folks have committed a number of crimes, felonies. when they return to the population, we would expect to see some kind of direct impact on crime levels. what we have seen to date, from june 2011 to june 2012, it is a 16% jump in burglaries, 14% hike

in the rate of auto boosts. we cannot attribute this directly to those who have been released under this program, obviously, but we do think there may be some kind of impact when we have 400 inmates from state prison systems out into the population. what we're doing to address these issues is we have a unit which is the fugitive recovery and enforcement team. that is a team consisting of a sergeant and four officers whose sole function used to be to pick up parolees who has misbehaved, had warrants issue for them, or probationers. because our staffing levels are lower, we have had to integrate that unit into our violence reduction team, but they do still carry out a lot of their daily duties with respect to picking up parolees and probationers, monitoring their activities. in addition to that, our gang

task force, there is a lot of work with respect to hunting down fugitives who are gang members. gang members, obviously, commit not just gang violence in between gangs, but also a good number of robberies and burglaries in the city. that unit has gone out doing small operations, about 100 times since this program has been implemented back in october 2011. they were close to with a bolt probation. -- adult probation. we work with the sheriff's department, adult probation department, u.s. marshals department, and we run those operations quarterly. we use about 120 of our officers that work with the other agencies. the way that is run is, our fret team will compile a list of

about 200 targets for parolees at large, probationers that have violations on file. they will also do a number of compliance checks. that program has been very successful the last three times we have run it. this year, over 220 arrests. a good number of those felonies. our function is to try and arrest those people who are not going to take advantage of the services being offered by the other agencies. with the public safety in mind, obviously, try to keep san francisco a safe city. any questions? >> i also want to thank you for being here today. i was going to ask, if you remove the issue of the return of incarcerate people to the area, you mentioned an increase in burglaries, breaking into cars and that sort of thing.

have you ever looked at the nexus between the spike in that and the unemployment rate, some of these other things that we are currently embroiled it in? also, at one time, community policing was something that we had. i know a lot of police have retired. i know that we have the police academy class is starting to see more folks still in some of those gaps, but just wondering -- >> to answer your first question, i believe crime actually went down during this most recent recession. crime numbers are down. most of our numbers are still down. we have noticed a mild uptick in burglaries. we are specifically speaking

about people whose reason for incarceration was not a violent crime. it could have been a weapons possession, but a lot of these people are coming out. to your other question relating to community service, we are still very active. we are fortunate in san francisco. our police department, we have moved around some resources, as i mentioned with our fugitive recovery enforcement team. we have been able to observe them into the bonds production unit. we have been able to keep our community policing officers in place and we are very committed to being a partner with our community here in san francisco. >> thank you so much, cmdr. the last speaker before we call a chiefstill back is lonnie kemp from the controller's office.

>> thank you for having me. project manager in the city services auditor division of the controller's office. we provide analytical and technical support to various city departments. last fall, the ccpec asked us to collect data to support implementation of the realignment plan. we were excited to come on board to do that. my office is always looking for projects trying to get at finding efficiencies across criminal justice agencies. we are excited to be a part of this effort. what we are putting together will look something like a data- board, not unlike what the public safety department is already doing on a weekly basis, putting out the numbers of those coming in, demographic information, the various types

of information we are presenting on these slides. we are trying to do that, but from a system-wide perspective, cross-department, as opposed to being by department. we are trying to define this population by the prcs folks, 1170h folks, those in jail for parole violations, and tracking them across the system and departments, try to see what is happening with them, how long is it taking them to get connected, who are they connecting with, and what are the outcomes? we are also going to be able to do that by looking at the demographic information for each population, doing our best to get information like the type of offense that the folks are being rearrested for. we are basically trying to get as much data that we possibly can from the department, throwing it into an access

database and running queries. it has been quite an effort to get to the point where we can create an access database. we parallel to developing this database -- working with our public safety agencies, with business managers in each of their department, to put systems in place so that they can collect this information. realignment is new to us, and our business practices have not had time -- we were not able to respond as quickly as policy- makers were able to respond to realignment. we have been working with folks to get their data systems to a place where they can actually track information that the to be tracked, supporting them and trying to identify the training is that the to happen in order to get their folks to track this information. that has been quite an undertaking. we affectional richer -- referred to the monday meetings with hall of justice to be able to do that.

the added value of this database we are putting together, which is a little different from what public safety departments are doing a visually, i think i said this already, but we are trying to measure apples to apples across the system. the information, in my opinion, is going to be more meaningful, just in terms of looking at proportions and how folks are moving around. the other exciting thing about this is we have been communicating with other jurisdictions about what they are doing in order to track this population. it has been an arduous process to get this data together. it is hard to it -- are coming to know that others are having challenges, too. i do not know if we are completely ahead, as the chief said. she brought us in pretty early. other jurisdictions have been reaching out to us to figure out what we're doing and we are sharing information across

counties. we are trying to collaborate on that level, too, learning from others. as soon as we have preliminary reports, we will continue to share that. >> from the aclu reports, and again, other public safety realignment reports, the place data collection at the top, but it is a statewide problem. it is great that san francisco is sharing with other counties. is there anything that we are doing that is uniquely monitoring policies and programs, to see if they are working based on our data, the others are not? what are we doing different than other counties? >> from what i've seen, basic reports they are putting out that our folks have been doing for quite some time. but will be unique about what we're doing here is, we spend a lot of time defining the variables we are measuring, so that we are measuring the same

variables across the system. developing cross-department of capacities which is challenging. everybody talks about realignment differently, depending on how it impacts their department. and that is fair. everybody talks about it differently, and correctly, but correctly for them. we're trying to get it so that we can talk about it correctly, system wide. the other jurisdictions i am communicating with, their information is sioled at the department level. -- siloed at the department level. the way dph defines a person might be different from another department. when they develop these matrices that measure trends over time, they are not getting -- it is good information, but our information, we are putting in the effort to make sure --

it is a definitional issue. enough to make you care your hair out. we have been working on getting these definitions consistent across departments. >> thank you so much for the great work. i would like, to conclude, to call up chief still to give some closing remarks before opening up for public comment. >> thank you very much for having the hearing today and giving us the opportunity to highlight some of the really great things going on in san francisco, as well as some of the challenges, and point out, this will be on the website at the end of the day, a report of the san francisco adult probation. basically the first six months of realignment and impact on our department. we have provided copies. our next report will be at the 1-year mark. we hope to have collaborative information from all of the department's expanded into the air, but we also ask for your

approval of the official 2012 realignment plan as part of the process. do you have any questions? >> thank you so much. now let's open this up to public comment. is there anyone from the public -- mr. paulson. two minutes. >> ♪ take a good look at public safety if your case looks out of place if you look closer it is easier to trace the tracks of your realignment tiers don't fall into a burning ring of fire

you might go down, down and the bill will go higher the city of fire, the ring of fire because you are mine we want to realign i hope you do fine and we will walk to realign ♪ >> thank you. is there anyone else that wants to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor olague, did you want to make any remarks? >> we are in an exciting time and it is great to see how these departments are working together, that the focus is on rehabilitating the individual and giving people as many opportunities as we can provide, given our limited resources at times. i just think it is exciting work. also, staff is being trained with the appropriate skills and insights to be able to deal most

appropriately with the population in a way that benefits those individuals that are being released, reintegrated into society. i think we still have a lot of things to work out, the cost of housing in san francisco, employment opportunities, stigmas that still exist in society as a whole. i think we still have a lot of obvious barriers that we have to get through, individuals have to get through, but i am excited that collaboration is working. people are really giving it an honest effort, so i just wish us all locked in reaching our goals. so far, it is great work. >> i just wanted to thank chief still and the department

representatives for the challenges we face and impacts on our communities. great models happening here in san francisco. i know the new formula funding helps, but we need so much more. i am really glad that this hearing has raised awareness about the programs, how much more we need to be supportive of them, and how unique san francisco is in keeping the community safe with innovative, out of the box programs, and now with better cooperation and even just communication between departments, and also how we are impacting the rest of the state over all as we deal with the criminal justice and budget crisis. so with that, i will move that we table item number one, the hearing. supervisor olague, can we at you and avalos to #2? >> i can speak for myself, not

for avalos-- >> he did add. >> ok, then definitely. i will make a recommendation. >> seconds. >> without objection. thank you. >> i guess we are moving toward adjournment now. >> there are no further items. >> ok, i would like to adjourn the meeting. >> thank you, everyone.