tv [untitled] July 19, 2012 3:00am-3:30am PDT
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conjunction with the academy for training these future officers to enable these officers to be able to do training on the street, which increases their efficiency. anywhere they are at any time, they will be able to access the crime data warehouse. we are delighted to be able to have the tech nol to that. thank everyone for the opportunity, and hopefully this will be the first of many ways we will be able to partner with the city of san francisco. we'll turn it over to susan to talk about what this means to the department. [applause] >> good morning. when the chief first took his position as chief of police, i think it was his very first day, and he was still moving into his office. he said to me i would like for police officers to be able to enter police reports in the
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field without having to return to the office, and i would like this to be a web-based system. and i want to meet with you an hour a day until we can meet the on stack it is. he did that. that commitment level and the commitment of the mayor and all of the command staff that has enabled this day and success, thanks. the crime data warehouse is our new state of the art web-based portal and data warehouse used to prevent, solve and manage crime. it is a multi-phase project. we have implemented the first two, which are are the most part, starting with search in october of 2011. we baskly loaded in more than a decade's worth of historic alpolice reports with a search capable. we are just finishing the implementation of incident reporting into all of the district stations. we have rolled it out for all
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of the district stations as of june of this year. what does that mean for san francisco? how has that improved the way we manage crime? i want to talk about three things. there are a lot more, but i will go through three, and we will show you the system live. first of all, timely and visible information about crime . so today, because police officers are entering their reports directly into a data warehouse, when a crime happens in the tenderloin, it becomes visible in the mission, the bayview and everywhere else instantly the minute the report is finished. that is huge in terms of identifying crime trend, suspects, m.o.'s, et cetera. secondly, the search capable. as the chief mentioned, you would think we would have already had this type of capable. not only do we have a google
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type search capable, most of them require you search based on a way the city is set up. you can search on hair color, but the person should have blonde hair, black hair, blonde hair or other. what if they have purple or red and black hair? this allows you to search on specific hair color, specific anything. the importance of this search capable became important before we even went live with the city. we were in beta test, and we gave it to our robbery investigations team as a test. one of the lieutenants in robbery -- i asked him to be here, and he couldn't be here. he tells it better than i do. we had a serial robbery suspect, and we only had a nickname for that person. it was you unique nickname, but all he had was a nickname. we weren't even live yet. he loaded the information, did a search on the nickname.
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he found a field interview that an officer had done a couple of years prior with that individual's name. he took that name out to the social site, and that person had posted a picture of some of the property in question associated with the robberies on his social warehouse. we were able to use it before the system even went live. we will show you the search in a moment. the final thing i want mention about this system is it is web-based. the chief through mike homer's recommendation that it be web-based. why is it important? you have to install a particular software on a particular computer and use it on that computer. here it is where you can get access to the internet. obviously there is security involved, but it allows our officers to enter incident reports anywhere.
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that is very cool and flexible, but i think the mayor mentioned we still didn't have computers for the officers. so that is where the significance of what sf-city has done and what h.p. has done. we actually have an h.p. ultrabook sitting here. it is cool, weighs two pounds, titanium enclosed. i keep thinking we should hold it up to see if it would withstand a bullet, but i don't think it does. that allows our officers to have access to the crime data warehouse, but also acksdz to the 24 other criminal justice systems, such as mug shots, f.b.i. most wanted, d.m.v. and all that. essentially they are carrying around a district station in their hand. it was a very important step for us. i want to mention arc-tech's contribution.
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they can do a better job of mobile distribution. by the way, there are many people. i would like to recognize the whole team involved. the project director was leo solomon. he is here today, and he is going to work with the inspector who is responsible for training more than 1,300 officers on the system. [applause] >> thank you. what we are going to show you this morning is a couple of screen shots of the crime data warehouse system which will allow you to see exactly what the officer is going to see either on the street or at their computers they are working on now. so here what you have is the search field which, as you can
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see here, we can search for anything. description, nicknames, tattoos, partial license plates, hair color and et cetera. this search tab basically functions just like a google type search that you would do at your home computer. when you put in the key word, it searches the entire internet. this searches exactly the same thing, but only our police database which has information to 1981. in this example here we typed in giants hat. so if we type in giants hat and hit search, this is the result that we would get from searching the giants hat. on the first part of our screen basically it shows the text portion, which basically searches for any type of words containing giants hat in a police report. to view that incident, all we would do is click on the
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incident number, which would give us the actual police report. in the very bottom here where it says property text, these are all the incident reports that contain a giants cat in the property section. next. and here, lastly, is the report tab, which allows anybody in this system to view any type of crime statistics on a real-time basis. in the past we wouldn't have this capable. we would have the clerical section, the report management section to hand us down the stats for the reports. now we can go in here and actually view them ourselves. our next speaker is going to be adam fingerman, c.e.o. c.e.o. and founder of arc-touch and zach gottlieb will be his capable assistant. >> how do you make it easier and faster for officers in the field to report incident information back to the crime data warehouse?
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to solve this, arc is going to work closely with the sfpd to design a mobile app that stream lines field reporting. we are going to use the latest technologies, surf as nuns, speech to text deck takeses. we are going to use full touch and swite gestures to minimize key board entry. and we are going to have sbe greated photo, video, image and audio collection. all of this is going to be assembled in one place. so all of the relevant information about an incident is together and sent to the crime data warehouse in real time, allowing officers to spend much more time out on the streets instead of writing reports. arc-touch, being a france based business has many employees who live and work in san francisco, and we are absolutely thrilled to be part of this initiative. we would like to thank mayor lee for supporting technology
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companies in san francisco. we would like to thank ron and sf-city for bringing technology companies together so they can do great things for the city and its citizens. and most of all we would like to thank the chief for having the forward-thinking to start this program and make this field recording app, which we believe is going to be a great thing not just for the city, but set the standard for mobile app field reporting for the nation. i would like to now invite scack -- zach gottlieb up here to walk you through some of our product designs. thank you. [applause] >> good morning. so i just want to say how excited we are to have the opportunity to work on a product like this that could have such a huge impact for the
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people of san francisco. imagine if you will the officer has this mobile device on their dashboard while they are driving. a call comes in. we know by their g.p.s. where in the vicinity they are, so we are able to direct to this particular officer and device a call. so it is a code 4-2-1, which is a stolen vehicle, we know it is at 251 bush, and my other information that may be attached. to melissa in dark -- males in dark clothing. the officer receives it. this is where most of the collection of data curse. money of us are used to seeing this type map. the officer is represented by the blue circle in the middle. the crime location is here by
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the red dot. speaking with officers, we also found that they like to know about the location before they get there. using things such as street view already built into these devices, they can gather information before they ever arrive on the scene. in addition we have some information below. we still have the code 4-1-1. we also novak the time that has transpired since the officer took the call. so the officer proceeds to the location. now they get out, and they take the tablet off their dashboard and two into data collection mode. so it brings up their data collection dashboard. having spoken to a number of officers in the field, we know they carry a number of different items. they carry cameras, audio devices, and pen and paper. we are trying to eliminate all of these. the amount of time it takes to compile all this information
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once they get back to the station is huge. so if we can leverage all the technology in one place to make it simple and efficient, that is a win. offense, instead of having to write on pad and paper, i can tap on voice, take an audio note, and if i want, i can have that transcribed in real time using speech to text technology. that is now added to the case file immediately. we can also leverage things like g.p.s. offense, if we found the car several blocks away, the officer could mark that on their map, and that is also attached to the case file. the officer proceeds to the location. they are now able to take pictures that are
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instantaneously sinked -- singhed to that case file. we talked about g.p.s., we have talked about audio and photography. we are also going to lench the touch interface. in this whole example so far, the officer has not had to type one thing. for instance, a date picker. they can select it a very simple easy one, using one finger. we know it is a stolen vehicle. let's add that vehicle to the case file. i could tap on the vehicle plate and use the key board that is already integrated into it. or i could take a picture of the lps plate using recognition technology. i -- license plate using
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recognition technology. it brings back all of the data on that vehicle. i didn't have to type in anything. now we have apprehended a suspect. we can type their driver's license in, run a picture of it, run a crime data warehouse search, and we bring back the suspect. not only do we have all the information about this suspect, but if i so choose, i can see their priors. coming back to my dashboard for my case file, you can see i have assembled all this in real time. it is fast, efficient, it is accurate, and it allows me to do less paperwork and more police work. thank you. [applause] >> mike homer had a vision. i don't think even he saw that coming. but if you hang around people that are as smart as the people over here, and you have a mayor that has the vision to let them run, you end up with stuff like
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that, and we will have a safer san francisco. so we will take some questions right now and then anybody will be available for questions off to the side. [inaudible question] >> right. is the f.i. part susan spoke to, those are field interview card. in those cards they will have known associates. you could pop somebody up, and search for known associates, and it will tell you everybody that was with that person. you could even type in something as simple aspects over six feet, suspects under 5'5" that are crime partners, and it will give you that, too. [inaudible question] >> have you ever seen anything like that before? >> no. >> this is unbelievable. the data warehouse as the director said, there is a lot
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of things that are close, but not as good as this. as far as this app that is coming attractions, there is nothing similar to that, that i am aware of, in the country or in the world. [inaudible question] >> it's a work in progress. i am not pressing them. they are a lot further along than we thought. we just started meeting on this , this calendar year. [inaudible question] >> six months. and my experience with them is they are being conservative, and that is not very conservative. [inaudible question] >> that is the great thing. the cost to the city isoff set a lot by the public-private partnership. but having a web-based server versus a client server, it is probably 20 cents or 25 cents on the dollar.
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the beauty of this system is that susan and her team does all the engineering on it. we don't have to call for help or whatever. it is just a change in engineering or a software change. >> i'm sue desmond hell monday, i'm chancellor here at the university of san francisco. thank you. that's very nice. i'm very, very pleased on behalf of all of my colleagues here at university of california san
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francisco to welcome all of you to mission bay. if you haven't been here before, look around you. here we are, less than 10 years from the time this building first went up here at mission bay and now we're a thriving environment for science, teaching and patient care who are all focused on one most important thing. advancing health worldwide. [applause] i'm particularly -- that's good. that's worth applauding. i want to offer a heart felt welcome to leader pelosi and san francisco mayor ed lee. welcome to both of you. [applause] i also want to welcome members of the san francisco board of supervisors and other distinguished guests this afternoon. we're particularly honored to have leader pelosi here as we are very, very grateful for 25 years of public service. thank you. she has worked tirelessly on behalf of san francisco, the bay
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area and the nation and i particularly want to call out her work as a champion of issues in human health including h.i.v. aids, biomedical research and innovation and so many more of the important areas of science that are so important to all of us here at ucsf. thank you, leader pelosi. this is a great day today for us at ucsf mission bay and the entire mission bay community. the transportation secretary's announcement earlier today of a $10 million infrastructure investment in mission bay is yet another vote of confidence in the great city of san francisco and our dynamic mission bay community. the grant which the d.c. insiders call a tiger grant will drink infrastructure that is critical for ensuring access for program at ucsf mission bay. with respect to point out the
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$1.5 million 550-bed hospital. it will provide aid to women, children and cancer patients. construction is underway directly south of us scheduled to open in early 2015. more broadly, the transportation -- will be a key transit source for the full ufsf campus providing bike lines, pedestrian walkways and transit editions necessary to serve this vibe brant and still growing community. as the second largest provider of employment in the city continued success is key to our city and our nation's economic competitiveness. thank you so much, speaker pelosi, mayor lee and the entire san francisco family for working hard. we really appreciate it. thank you. [applause]
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now i would like to introduce our next speaker and director of the successor agency to the san francisco redevelopment agency, tiffany bohe. [applause] >> thank you, chancellor. good morning, everyone. my name is tiffany bohe. i'm pleased to introduce our speaks for this afternoon. our next speaker is the director of the san francisco municipal transportation agency, ed riskin. ed has served in the this capacity for over a year prioritizing balancing budgets, creating greater first quarter sis in our transit system and investing strategicically in our capital complex with the commitment of improving on-time performance. ed riskin. [applause] >> thank you, tiffany. it is so great to be here. to me mission bay is really a model for the nation of how we should do land use and
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transportation planning and redevelopment. it is a model for us here in san francisco, modeling what will happen at treasure island and down in hunter's point. what that means from a transportation perspective is designing the land use of a transportation to serve people, not just building roads for cars to pass through, but designing and building the public rights of way for people to be in for the benefit of the people who are going to work here, who are going to live here, who are going to visit here. what this tiger grant means to us is one of the final pieces to knit together that part of the puzzle that is integral with making mission bay work the way it was designed to work. putting in the last piece of the pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure and putting in the road way connections to make for first quarter but safe auto travel and maybe most importantly finishing the final transit connections for mission bay, the loop that you see down there, number four, the loop
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that is going to enable us to increase the service on the third street, light rail, the extension of the 22 fillmore on the other side of this building that is going to serve the beautiful new hospital with a zero emission electric bus. these are the things that are needed to make mission bay work and realize its potential just a short anecdote. i was at a meeting a couple of blocks from here to talk about parking management. there are not that many people who live here yet but those ho do are very concerned with parking and this was an area that was designed so that people could live here without having their own automobile or certainly multiautomobiles. as we're starting to manage parking to achieve that goal people are saying you can't ask us to get out of our cars until the transit service good. until there are bike ways and walkways. i look forward with working with the director of public works, with tiffany, with the mar
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major's office and the rest of the city family to get these dollars in the ground, to get jobs created and to really help realize the vision for mission bay. i very much want to thank mayor lee and particularly leader pelosi who has been a strong and consistent and persistent advocate to help make mission bay realize. i also want to acknowledge tom nolan and director jerry lee who got great support to make this work. mission bay is definitely a model for this country and as the chancellor said, a strong vote of confidence for getting this grant today. thank you very much. [applause] >> our next speaker is mike theriot, the distinguished secretary treasurer of the san francisco building and trades commission and worker in the trades commission since 19835.
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mike? >> we in the construction unions in san francisco are very grateful for the jobs that this grant is going to bring us as indeed we are grateful for all the jobs that federal contributions have brought us in what has for us in the construction industry generally been a depression, not a recession. for example, we had doyle drive. we had the train box. we had 50 united nations plaza. those have kept us alive at a time when otherwise we would be in more dire straits. this grant is not in that scale, but it does a very, very important thing. the mission bay district here, as those of you who know san francisco well understand, is becoming a major economic driver for the -- for san francisco. and it has good transportation bones. it has 280 to the west. it has the cal train station just north of mission creek. those bones tie them to the economic body of the complex.
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that's what this project does. it provides the linkage between the bones of transportation that already exists and the complex developing here and i think it serves as an example for what could be going on in the rest of the country. work is turning around here in san francisco in construction. you can see the tower cranes around but it is not in many parts of the country and there we're looking at an commix economist from the university of utah told us a few weeks ago, a five-year ark before the construction industry comes back to its precrash highs. projects like this, projects that have multiple purposes that put us to work so that it can put other to work in the complex s that areserved by transportation are just what we need and so we are again grateful. we think it is a great example for the country and we'll use it well here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, mike. mayor lee has kept a laser-like
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focus on economic development, job creation. doing what it takes to make sure that san francisco keeps investing an infrastructure which is the backbone of our city. please join me in welcoming mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, tiffany. well, mike, i just want to make sure you know all of us own this two-word mantra. jobs now has been something we have all heard and i know leader pelosi has said it time and time again, whether she is here or in the air or if she lands in d.c., we have to have these jobs for the american people. that's what has been our joint mantra. i want to just let you know how thankful and happy i am to join our partners at ucsf. leader pelosi, a good friend, to let you know we were hanging out here a few minutes ago. every time we come together is because we are sharing good news
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about the efforts we have committed to ahead of us and behind us. so we were commenting on that. we have got if keep this in context. less than a decade ago, we were august all looking at a rail yard and people said in san francisco we worked with labor. i want to thank members of our redevelopment agency, the commissioners who are here today that are no longer technically commissioners but they are just as committed today as they were years ago when we had a redevelopment agency because they worked with the city to make sure that this area was not only an area to pay attention to, they were part of the team that leader pelosi and i in my previous days in public works were trying to identify with mohammed about what were the lines of boundaries that we could carve out. what we could do with our infrastructure and how we work with muni
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