we believe that very well could have been gang motivated. two members of a rival gang were arrested for the homicide and that case was over -- turned over to the district attorney's office. and then on june 28th, our most recent and last, that occurred out in the allem i -- omi, we had a young man shot down at vernon and hot streak. that was another gun homicide. that is also an open investigation. we have three open, active, homicide investigations in the omi. we are vigorously pursuing leads in these cases. we have realigned a homicide unit in the last several months where we have incorporated

members of our criminal investigations unit and our gang task force together to work in the homicide unit. that has been very effective, because so many of our homicides have a gain access to them. -- a gang nexus to them. and we're approaching them a little bit differently. when a homicide occurs in san francisco, through the operations and investigations unit, we roll a lot of people out, a lot more than we used to in days past. as soon as a homicide occurs, the initial responding officers render aid, blocked on the scene. and when the investigations is notified, whereas in the past, it used to just be a couple of investigators, now we run out eight -- roll out a whole team of homicide investigators. it consists of a gang task

force and criminal investigative units. the homicide is immediately evaluated. and in addition to thinking about trying to solve the homicide case, it is immediately evaluated as to whether there will be a retaliatory shooting or homicide based on what has just occurred. once that determination is made, we have reinstituted a zone enforcement program, which we run thursday through sunday nights. those are the high violence nights. we are able to redistribute our vast resources from the police department to the specific locations where we think there might be retaliation. those resources are also added to assist in a homicide. when i speak of those other resources, i'm talking about tactical units, the violence reduction teams, which is a very large investigative team now.

we have had a lot of success with that. in addition to the police resources that we roll out, the crn's have been extremely helpful for us. we work very closely with dcyf, the department of public health, and the sierra and -- crn has been a tremendous support. especially when there is a large crowd gathering. they have been able to diffuse a lot of problems for us and allow investigators at the scene to do their work and get out. the d.a.'s office has been totally supportive once there is a homicide. the district attorney's office consults with victims services. and as mr. anderson spoke earlier, we have resources to come in and assist with the

victims' families. and a lot of times, information develops on these crimes that we can use later on to help our investigation. in addition, we have been working very closely with adult and juvenile probation. we have federal resources. we have our investigators that are on loan and detailed to federal agencies. we are able to use those resources also to help. that is our overall response from the investigative side. from the side of the house, the district station capt. from the district in which it occurred will do out reached to his neighboring -- neighborhood community whenever there is a homicide and ask people to come forward. we solve cases with the public's health and public support.

we are very mindful of the impact of these types of crimes on a community. these particular open side -- open homicide, the three open homicide in our district, we do not see them as related in any way at this point. but the investigation, as i mentioned, is open and continuing. supervisor avalos: do you believe there is any relationship between homicide that you are seeing in these neighbors with other parts of san francisco? >> there definitely was a correlation between homicide at 158 broad and some of the recent homicides that we have seen in the sunnyvale area. -- sunnydale area. there has been some rival gang activity in that area.

and this is outside the omi. we believe there are outside influences there. which is often the case. we have a number of gangs in the city and we have turf-type of violence that occurs frequently. but overall, we have been fortunate and successful that a lot of our investigation is out in the omi. these three cases we will continue to investigate and we reach out to the public to work with us on those three cases. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> i think commander loftus answered several of the questions, one is that they have been alerted to two other homicides. one of those would have been the

one on verlag is that people a loaded to. -- verlag is that people alluded to. there have been two shootings on brighton and holloway, we believe both perpetrated by the same suspect. we are actively working that case. the person responsible for those two shootings does not live in the omi. we have a name and we are pursuing the suspect as we speak. with regard to the tnt, the tnt is back. six officers, as it has always been. is not the same sergeant. that's arjun, for matters related to personnel and are confidential -- that sergeant, for matters for the to personnel and are confidential, i cannot discuss. however, another sergeant who has a tremendous amount of experience working in the bayview, as he was the housing starts and in the bayview, has been reassigned -- the housing

sergeant in the bayview, has been reassigned to these duties. supervisor avalos: that is good news to many people in the community. that was requested by many groups. i appreciate that. >> thank you, curtis. tnt is the terrible neighborhood team. they work both in -- the terraville neighborhood team. they worked both in plain clothes and in uniform. i know one of their big fans, mary harris, is here someplace. i'm sure she will speak to that when she gets up here. what are their language capabilities? and no one in the tnt has any language skills, however, there are 12 by the officers at the station that they leverage all the time.

and we have a language deficiency program through the city where they can access language -- a language sufficiency program through the city where they can access language assistance. how do we work with the omi residence and labor organizations? we are very responsive to the community. i myself spoke to an assembly of ministers earlier this week. and they offer -- and god bless them for doing it -- to be a conduit. if anyone feels that their identity was known or there may be a trust issue to provide information on any of these cases or for the whereabouts of the firearm, i assure the ministers that if they would relay that information, it would be without attribution. we just want to get the guns. if we get the guns without an arrest, that is fine, too. i know we were affected doing that in bayview. we want the guns off the street.

that is absolutely number one priority for this mayor. whenever we can do to reduce the amount of guns on the street -- whenever we can do to reduce the amount of guns on the street would not be enough for me or anyone in this room. no guns means less violence. >supervisor avalos: we would like to offer help with any of the communications with the ministers that he talked about. we would like to follow up to see how we can help. >> i know that they asked if they could meet with us quarterly, and meet with me personally semiannually. and then they have a big thing at third and paul every year that is a citywide summit that offered to attend. it is to get people out of a cycle of violence. >>the police department found monies to work with other

agencies to help about 525 young people to help give the money in their pocket to keep them busy when they are not working, and also to tucker them out so they are not busy after hours. we have been successful at keeping 5000 somewhat kids safe in this city through the effort of this body. it was a tough june. it has been a much better july. a lot of the inroads we have made have been successful. however, the one homicide that did happen in the omi on broad street did kick off a brutal series of homicides. the response that commander loftus described appears to be enough that july was markedly less violent than june was.

i will take questions. supervisor olague: i'm glad to hear the conversation continues with the ministers on the southeast sector of the city. >> and reverend ames, ms. brown and i are pretty much fallen friends daily. -- phone friends daily. this cannot go away soon enough for him. supervisor olague: i was going to ask -- because i knew we had a conversation a few months ago here with all of them, but can we have a similar conversation with community leaders on this side of town to try to pull folks together? >> absolutely. and i assure you i will be meeting over the weekend with the folks in the southern edition. that suspect was found over the weekend with the gun in his residence. supervisor olague: and that kid

was 13 years old. it is tragic. >> yes. supervisor olague: maybe we can have something similar, we can talk. you know, with reverend brown and others. >> i will be happy to do that. supervisor olague: and the issue that comes up a lot to put people at ease is community police foot patrols. is that something you plan to increase? >> absolutely. and we are grateful because i know both of you voted for the budget. we are currently down almost two hundred 50 officers. those are additional officers that can be on foot. number one response priority for us, we have to answer the 911 calls for service. when we lose 10% or more of our police department, we lose the beat officers to the degree that we would like to have them. we still have many, but not

enough. and that is pretty much exactly what these new hires will be doing, replacing senior officers as they go out and then replacing things like more sro's and more officers on bicycles to route these neighborhoods. supervisor avalos: thank you for your presentation. just a question for mr. henderson again, we talked about the summer youth employment program where you are planning -- were you hired 5000 two -- 5002 young people. we would like to find out how to capitalize on that because we would like year-round employment for young people. where are we getting the use -- what parts of san francisco are we giving them jobs from? >> the chief just talked about the program where he said the youths were out and doing jobs.

i just went yesterday with the mayor to see what they were doing outside the san bruno jail where they are outside in the field and growing. that is supposed to be given to different agencies throughout the city. we personally met with a lot of the kids. a lot of them were from ingleside and the bayview. there were all talking about how transformative it was, not just for them but their families as well. they are paid $11 an hour for the work that they are doing. it comes down to making sure that we continue to build a final aa funnel and a bridge to those communities to help make the salaries. i know the plan is to try to see if we can institutionalize those jobs and make them more than just a summer project to try to have those kids at least stay

with us throughout the year and work during the time that they are -- supervisor avalos: i think that is great. perhaps we can have a hearing on the success of the program and how we can institutionalize that. also, we can look at how we are getting young people from each separate into the jobs available. i'm not sure what is available -- each young person into the jobs available. i'm not sure what is available in my district for the summer program or a year round program. but i think he would be pleasantly surprised. the statistics, at least from what i observed just from yesterday were phenomenal. supervisor avalos: great to hear. >> i would like to bring up next commander loftus. supervisor avalos: he just spoke. >> i think next we're going to hear from -- supervisor avalos: i'm not sure we need to hear from the

captain. we already heard from the chief about changes in the department. if the captain has anything to add -- he is saying no. we also regret to your possibly from commander orks. he is saying no, too. i think we got a pretty good report from the chief. let's move on to the district attorney's office. >> ok, i will bring up charren wu. >> i am the chief assistant for the operations department. the operations department includes both the criminal division as well as victims services. gradin woods is the chief of the criminal division and is here as well. and the chief of victim services is here as well. what is our role when a homicide occurs?

the san francisco district attorney's office response in several ways. as prosecutors, we work very closely with the police department, collaborating with them. we are available 24/7, sr. passed -- senior assistant district attorneys as well as homicide assistant district attorneys. whenever there is a suspect in custody, we this into the interview, the witnesses in custody, to assist them in any way that we can to develop a very strong case that we can pursue any criminal court successfully. we also review all of the cases for charging and warrant requests. in every homicide case, our protocols involves been in contact the next morning with the homicide -- the lead homicide inspector. we obtain all of the victims information, the surviving family information. we out reached to those family

members to provide monetary assistance as well as any counselling assistance required. we work closely with the victims compensation board, a state board, in order to be able to access restitution funds and money for funeral and burial, things that you do not think about right away when something like this happens. the victim services people and advocates are very involved with the families to make sure that everything we can do in terms of the wraparound services are working very closely with the crn's and the crt's to make sure every service is available to them. we also navigate the suspect for the criminal-justice system. whether they are charged or apprehended, we will take them through to the medical examiner's office, walk them through the system. we will tell them what to expect in the criminal justice system if the case is solved and what to expect in terms of the court

process. our victim advocates become a direct conduit for the victim's family, navigating the it difficult system and try to guide them as easily and seamlessly as possible. for victims and witnesses of crimes, our victims services as well as our d.a. investigation are involved in relocation services. those are both for charged and not charged cases. charged cases, we can access state funding through the california relocation witness program. not charge, we work closely with the police department to ensure that a witness is cooperated -- is -- to ensure that if a witness is cooperative, we can get them to a safe location if they are in danger. we are grateful that there are

general funds provided to our offices in order to make those services and funding available. as it relates to the homicides that have occurred in the omi, the statistics have been brought by the police department. three of the incidents have been presented to our office. one on regent street, which is charged. that case is going through the system. of course, the horrendous quintuple on part street. that is through early litigation. and the one case on broad street from the beginning of may, we did not have sufficient evidence to charge that case. we're still working the case with the police department. no cases are virtually declined. we simply consult on a regular basis, our homicide consultant with the inspectors on ways to gather information to charge and

have a successful prosecution. again, the collaborative efforts have been our strong work with the police department and they have acknowledged that we are available to them any time to answer questions and essentially, to guide any of the investigations if possible. we also work on the charged cases with the police department, identifying evidence that needs to be tested, obtaining a forensic analysis on any items that are required. likewise with our victim services, they work with the community groups and departments that are here today to make sure that we have wraparound services. referrals for the trauma recovery center, as supervisor olague has stated, are really key in making sure that there is long-term assistance for these families. the average that we have made --

the efforts that we have made to try to expand our role, we are maybe classic we thought as a prosecution role, but the d.a. felt was necessary for us to come into the community more. to be able to build confidence in the neighborhood and the community, confidence in law enforcement, and confidence in our abilities to keep people safe. we have a standard, our neighborhood prosecution program. there is now a prosecutor assigned to every district station. we have assigned one of our senior people, assistant district attorney ronnie siengh to handle the district where she is a resident. she is very familiar with the area and she has worked with the young people in that area and all over the city. we are very pleased that she wanted to do that and is committed. our neighborhood prosecutor has worked closely with the prop -- the police department, but also

close the with the -- closely with the community. we hope we will see some real dividends from moving people into the community. likewise, are victims services are moving into the community as well. sometimes people do not want to come to the hall. sometimes people at the hall that -- do not want to come to the hall. we think will have more success with out reached if we go out into the community. chinatown, the ymca in the bayview, we have just established relationships in the tenderloin. and we're looking for more. and clearly with all of the activity in district 11, the omi and sunnydale are districts that

we are interested in reaching out to as well. supervisor avalos: thank you. we appreciate your efforts to go into those neighborhoods. >>supervisor olague: and we need services in the western addition and still more. >> we are reaching out to more communities. supervisor olague: thank you. >> there is a question as to whether there's anything additional that the city can do. one area i want to raise has to do with our relocation services and the ability -- many of the individuals on the relocation services are also on public housing or getting public assistance. the conversion from relocating to relocating with public assistance, we could use some help with that. it is a difficult road to navigate for individuals, and even more difficult for agencies. supervisor olague: i have a question.

can you be specific about what type of help you would need in terms of relocating? what are some of the issues that have come up when you have tried to relocate someone either through public housing or public assistance, or both? >> individuals currently in public housing, if we need to relocate them, we got -- generally need to do it with a section 8 vouchers. that list is incredibly full. i'm not even sure it is an open list anymore. individuals will need help, no matter what. and it has to extend beyond cal rap services. we have to be able to transition beyond cal rapi for the individual to be able to maintain its distance beyond that. i'm not even sure what that means, but that the roadblock that we see. supervisor avalos: thank you for

your presentation. next up, we have the department of public health. oh, we have the director, barbara garcia. >> good morning, supervisors. i wanted to let you know that charlie will be doing the presentation, but i came today because i want you to understand that public safety is very important to the department. we have had charlie as our safety coordinator and we have developed our critical response team developed by the police department for any homicides or violence issues that require assistance. our critical response team, i think, is really important. they helped to ss and try to activate the crn's when necessary. we believe this is an important coordination city-wide so we can response to it -- respond to any

incident throughout the city. and we have worked closely with those who fund crn to make sure that they have the adequate training that they need. and they work with us to provide nattily the critical responses, but also the long of four long term basis. many families take time to go through the process and later need assistance if you want to be there for that. time. we're also looking to try to coordinate with other agencies in the city. we have improved our work by working with community groups and community members and sharing their concern. we will also take any recommendations that you have, as supervisors, from the community, to continue to improve the quality of our services. i wanted charlie to come up. he will be our lead to date in

responding. we also have other staff. supervisor avalos: a quick question. has there been an assessment of the critical response team and its role in getting services to victims' families, bringing communities together? has there been an assessment on what could be done -- >> we are in a constant assessment of that. we are doing an evaluative with dcyf but we are constantly looking at how to respond and be better in our services. just recently, i myself got involved in trying to look at how to develop and operations plan for the crn's and crt's. we see that as an ongoing process to improve our services. supervisor avalos: i was not questioning the services itself, but what was in the