elsbernd, it will grow to over 40 million next year. we used a budget only $25 million. on top of that, we have a stabilization reserves. a state reserve, and for the first time, we put in rate stabilization reserve to anticipate your water and sewer rate increases that all of us will have to face. the city is looking forward at key investment areas, and we are making sure we are being responsible for the future. i want to thank the partners that have been involved. our own staff, the clerk, the budget analyst, k. howard and their amazing staff, had a special shot out to my aid. if you can join me in a round of applause for them.

they are truly amazing people and if you don't know them, you want to. how to say thank you, and for the mayor, i know you're going to give hence to us, but we should get to this year for the two-year budget. >> the cost of the second pen is in reserve. >> ok.

>> free and. >> that's it. what's next?

>> can we rise for the pledge of allegiance? [pledge of allegiance] >> may i call roll? [roll call]

we have a quorum and with us this evening is the chief of police. and the director of occ. >> thank you, inspector monroe. welcome to our community meeting for july 25 at a roadside station. -- engleside station. the commissioners will introduce ourselves at tell about what we do in the daytime jobs and what we do on the police commission. usually the captain's give us a larger briefing about what is taking place in their district. tonight will be a little bit different in that i have spoken to the chief had wanted to come out to the area near sunnyvale because there was violence that was taking place out here and concerns about what is taking place in the neighborhood. removed our meeting to this location of a little sooner than we would ordinarily have so that we could hear from the community

about what is going on in the neighborhood. i will ask the commissioners to introduce themselves and i will start to my right. >> a good evening, my name is angela chan. i live in the sunset area, but i get to work at the asian caucus as a civil rights attorney focusing on criminal justice reform. i am excited that we have interpretation tonight in cantonese, that is really important to make sure all community members get engaged at this meeting. fire appreciate that. i am glad to be here tonight, thank you for coming out. i am happy to stick around and talk with folks. >> i am commissioner mazzucco. i was appointed by the mayor for a four-year term. i sang at this church when i was

in the choir at saint bernard high-school. the last time i was here was for masson by a graduate of this school. i have three children i have raised in the city. my day job as i am attorney. i am a private practice attorney, assistant district attorney operating many cases of here. after that, an assistant united states attorney. >> carol kingsley, i have been on the commission for two years now. i like to thank commander mahoney at our lady of visitation for hosting us tonight. we appreciate it, and thank you to the residence that came out tonight as well. i am very anxious to hear from you. my day job is a commercial mediator of business disputes.

i have a 20-year-old son that i have raised in the city. i have worked the last 20 years on the board and as an officer for the center for prevention -- and prevention of gun violence that i feel very passionately about. and out of the 10 areas in the city i have lived or worked in five of them. i am interested in learning more about engleside tonight. >> i'm suzie loftis, the recent appointment by the mayor. i am a proud product of our public schools. i am raising my three daughters and give credit to my husband. we are raising our three daughters in the city. i was proud to serve as a prosecutor in the san francisco d.a.'s office.

i did elder abuse cases, domestic violence, and also worked at the attorney general's office for the former district attorney doing public safety policy work. it is my great pleasure to be working on building a center for youth while less in bayview designed to treat his chronic stress and trauma that is caused by community violence for kids and young people to change the outcome had actually give them a chance. i encourage anyone here. we value these meetings incredibly and this is a chance to hear from the community. if there is something you have on your mind that you think we might know, take your time to share with us because it can make a real difference for us to hear it. >> what we usually do is have a public comment at the beginning, but we will put that after the main event which is the

presentation by your district captain. we will move to a line item a first, brief reports by the chief, the commissioners, and the director. before that, we'll have dr. marshall introduced himself. gotten good evening. -dr. marshall, executive director of the boys' club and i have been on the commission about eight years now. thank you. >> of the commissioner did not go on long, did he? thank you for having us, i wanted to thank our lady of visitation for having us here. especially with what is going got out front and the detours and the water, it has probably been a hard day. i will be brief so the acting

captain can speak to those in sunnyvale about the violence that was a particular problem in june. i see kim in the back and i think sharon is around. i think some of what came out of those conversations made for how much quieter july and then certainly we had at the end of march. again, i will let greg speak to that. violent crime in san francisco, albeit an uptick in june, remains down 1%. the shootings, and non-fatal shootings are down almost 10%. however, about 5% more or six more shooting victims this year were killed.

it was also in the end of side district. property crimes are up about 6%, a lot of this we believe is due to a realignment. people getting out on early release for the lion's share working with the adult probation department and the d.a.'s office to try to get a handle on that. fraud continues to be a problem in the city. i know that we have had fraud that was particular in the asian community where asian women were taking advantage of superstitions by saying that if they were having bad luck, they would pay some sum of money that ended up being a lot of money, they could make the bad spirits go away. this is completely false.

we have had three such occasions, teams have worked. if anybody is telling you they can get rid of any superstition or bad spirit, please do that. right on cue. another scheme that is just presenting itself, there is a company representing itself as the british organization called the national lottery. there is no such lottery. they tell them they have $135,000 and send them a check that is nobody for $3,750 they say is the taxes taken out and there is an arrangement by which they can get the balance that they never received. if somebody calls you and says you have one lottery from another country, your first instinct should be, did you buy a take it from another country? that is not something most

people do often. we did have an officer involved shootings since the last commission meeting. thank you, commissioners mazzucco and chan to showing up to the meeting that was open to the press. it appears that a gentleman in crisis attacked another gentlemen. it was a co-worker at the chocolate factory. when he went to attack the man with a sheet rock razor knife, he slashed his upper body. he was cut severely. thethe suspect then went down te embarcadero. officers were called. at one time, the suspect turned on a female officer, backed her into a police car, and in defense of her life, she fired, and the suspect was killed.

any time the officer has to fire their weapons, it is a tragedy. the officer is being looked after. he is in contact with the suspect's family. it is an unfortunate incident. i will be asking the commission for any additional tools the officers may be able to have, as soon as the next commission meeting. inside the department, we had a promotional ceremony. thanks to the commissioners who attended. 63 officers were promoted to various ranks, including our deputy chief. over 350 family and friends were in attendance. it was a nice event. the american legion awarded their police officer of the year awards to a retired lieutenant, a retired sergeant, sergeant gordon, and inspector monica mcdonald, officer joe salazar.

our traffic company received a dui award as number one. after tonight's meeting, i will be conducting the second of this year's meetings, to take the pulse on the rank and file, what they are thinking because of what is going on in the city. this project comes to an end on august 3. the mission education projects and is this friday, and can't choice, where we have two officers assigned, ended last week. last but not least, the over the edge to benefit the special olympics happened last saturday. four members of the command staff, who are now having site evaluations, went over the edge from 37 stories up, at the grand hyatt on union square.

that included deputy she -- chief dudley. that raised funds for the special olympics, truly special athletes. a good time was had by all. i will let you know how the s.e.c. evaluations go, because you have to be crazy to do that. sunday streets was in the bayview last week. it went without any special event, other than being well attended. and national might out will be on august 7. if any commissioners would like to join with the command staff in any particular district, there will be activities in every district, including the ingle said. i will defer the rest of my time to the acting captain. >> i have one question for you. you talked about a realignment. several prisoners have been released from state prison and are back in our system. a percentage of those prisoners

have mental-health issues. >> we estimate that about a third of those released, or about 130 or so, have now demonstrated, through one way or another, that they are homeless. about 80%, or somewhere over 100 of those people, would be of diminished capacity, whether it be mental illness or addiction to alcohol or drugs. >> the state prisons released them, and then the county jail released them to the street. >> yes. >> that is causing a significant problem. it is pretty obvious there is an increase in the number of people in crisis or in mental-health issues. do we have a plan to handle this? >> we do. i met with the mayor's office. we are very close to putting out his comprehensive plan both for gun violence and the response

to and city approach toward dealing with the outflux of prisoners from state prison. >> you might have mentioned this, but no. are we at for total homicides, city-wide? >> 41. >> this time last year we were at -- >> 28. >> the plan for gun violence -- i assume that does not include a stop and frisk? >> the san francisco police department will always detain based on reasonable suspicion and searched for weapons, as allowed by terry v. ohio, 1968. >> thank you. i continue to get a lot of calls from people about that. thank you. >> director hicks? >> line item one b, directors

report, activity review. >> good evening, commissioners. and welcome, members of the ingle side community. i and the office of citizen complaints. in the audience this evening is a senior investigator at edward mcmahon, who is in the back of the room. it is a pleasure to be here to speak to you all about the functions of the office of citizen complaints, also known as the occ. we are the third largest civilian oversight of law enforcement agency in the united states, surpassed only by new york and chicago. the occ was created by the board of supervisors-sponsored a charter amendment in 1982. we became operational in 1983. we are nearly 30 years old.

we were originally an office of the san francisco police department, but we were later placed under the direct supervision of the police commission. as a separate, independent agency, we are separate from the police department. the police commission is a civilian body. the function is to assist the police department in building trust with the community, by being the bridge between the public in the police in matters of police misconduct and police policies. to that end, the office of citizen complaints has a mission to ensure police accountability, by conducting fair, timely, and unbiased investigations, and by making recommendations on police policies and practices, and conducting mediations between complainants and the police. the office investigates civilian complaints against san francisco police officers, and

make policy recommendations on police department policies. in california, law enforcement agencies must have a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against police officers. we serve that function for the seventh fiscal police department. we are staffed by a diverse group of civilians who have never been san francisco police officers. there is a 35 member staff. the majority of the staff is investigators. the balance consists of attorneys and other support staff. when we conducted investigation, we do so 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 information from the police department, in

the form of police reports and other documentation. we also visit the site of the alleged occurrence. we may take photographs and videos of places or persons. we have a goal to complete our investigations within nine months, and with limited exceptions, we must complete those within one year. when we complete an investigation, we make a finding of whether the complaint of conduct violated police department rules or local, state, or federal laws. we use the preponderant of evidence as a standard of truth. that means the probability of the complaint of conduct occurred more likely than not. that is, the probability is greater than 50%. after the investigation, if we find an officer violated a rule, we forward a report to the

police chief for further action. he can come close -- can impose up to 10 days suspension. the police commission has discretion where it is greater than a 10 day suspension. we also provide mediation as an alternative to discipline. last year, we facilitated 61 mediations. this represents 7% of the 846 cases which closed last year. the mediation program allows complainants to resolve issues with the accused officer in person, in a dispute resolution format. the goal is to bring the involved parties together in an effort to achieve mutual understanding. we have a partnership with community boards, which is a non-profit, as well as the san francisco bar association, who provide neutral mediators for our mediation program. our mediation can be and has been conducted in languages other than english.

participation is voluntary, and both the complainant and the officer must agree to mediate in order for the mediation to go forward. officer participation in the mediation program is nearly 90% of those who are eligible. the occ is the recent winner of of an award from community boards, for excellence in adr practices. i will share a few statistics about the complaints we received and how we resolve them. last year, we received 784 complaints. this is an 8% reduction in complaints over 2009, when we received 854 complaints. last year, with sustained allegations -- that means we found misconduct -- thin 7% of

the cases which closed. we found a proper conduct in 25%. we found that 4% of the allegations were not true. the largest percentage of allegations we received were for unwarranted actions, followed by conduct reflecting this credit. unnecessary force allegations were a small percentage, 10%. last year, 28% of our complainants were african americans. caucasians represented 35%. another 18% declined to state their race. complainants also included asian-americans at 5%, latinos at 13%, native americans and pacific islanders 1%, and 3% other. declined to state race or ethnicity or 7%.

the office of citizen complaints is located near the corner of van ness and market. we are easily accessible by public transportation. we receive walking complaints regarding police misconduct from the public between 8:00 and 5:00, monday through friday. any other time, we have an answering service which will take your complaints. we also received complaints by telephone, e-mail, mail, and fax. you can also file your complaints at a district police station, and station personnel will forward those complaints to us. our staff speaks of it -- speak several languages, including cantonese and spanish. two of our investigators are bilingual spanish speakers. this is important, because the largest number of non-english interviews with conduct are in spanish. for languages other than those

of a previously mentioned, we will obtain a -- obtain an interpretation service. last year, we conducted 28 case intakes in spanish, 5 in cantonese, and one in mandarin. if you would like additional information, senior investigator edward mcmahon is here in the back of the room to answer any questions. we also have brochures available. >> are there questions for the director of the occ? think you very much. please call the next item. >> commission reports. the commission president's report. >> my report mirrors that of the chief. i attended, with several commissioners, the promotional ceremony. congratulations to our new deputies and lieutenant

sergeants. it was great to see your family's present. there were very proud. i want to thank the chief for bringing back this tradition. we see these academy graduations, and the families are very proud. it is nice to see the experienced officers being recognized for their hard work. i also attended the press conference and neighborhood meeting regarding the officer- involved shooting. i want to thank the chief again for his transparency. ordinarily, we have a larger community meeting. the neighborhood where this took place was by the embarcadero, so we combined the meetings. i missed the commission meeting after this, because i was working in los angeles. i want to thank the officers who were appear for the breast cancer walk. i attended that event on sunday. i counted about 20 san jose police officers wearing pink

shirts, riding their bicycles, protecting the walkers. they were great. they had a great sense of humor, including the sergeant who was wearing a tutu. it was a great event. thank you for doing that. >> i would like to join the president in congratulating those who were promoted a couple of weeks ago. or maybe it was a week ago. about 10 days ago. there seemed to be a record number this year, this time around. i found most notable the cross- section of folks that were promoted in terms of race, gender, and age, a broad cross- section that mirrors san francisco. it was very heartening and wonderful to see that represti