because that will help us, reduce those numbers. and i will talk a little bit more in just a couple of slides about some of the other things that we are doing, go ahead. >> before i get into it, the last thing on the northern presentation for what we are involved in, even though you see the options the station handles a number of public events throughout the year. we have 25 major events that we are required to police on duty or over time and 50 to 75 small events, whether they are a street closure or a fair or a demonstration, or all kinds of minor things that you may not think need policing services, but we end up being involved in. this summer, we will be in the park in america's cup 34, as most of you saw last year in the marina green and the race will go halfway by district and halfway through the central station ael district as well. and we are also involved in

data breakers and many other large events. so, okay, the last portion of this presentation, is to me what i think is the most important. and this is about the goals for 2013. let's go with the first one. i am trying to get a 5 percent reduction in crime. as you can see right now, our numbers are up. we have a long way to go. we really do. but i can tell you that i am not going to stop until we get to that level and if we don't get to that level we are going to continue to find other ways to figure out how we are going to do it. we will do it like we said through enforcement efforts, community education and hopefully, some increased staffing that we will have coming in the next 6 months to a year. let's talk a little bit about traffic collision reduction. some of you may know, what back in december, mayor lee, had an initiative talking about some of the serious traffic collisions that occurred and each station has a call on what

we focus on five which say focus of some of the problem intersections and problem violations that occur that are the cause of traffic collisions. some of you may not know that we have about 630 accidents a year in the northern district. that is 2 a day. that is 2, too many. northern station, is responsible for about 14 percent of the collisions that occur in the city, there are 10 different station wes are tied with one other station as the number one district in the city when it comes to accidents. we need to do a better job of educating the public and working on some of the things so that we can avoid the collisions >> we are number two in the city when it comes to pedestrian an collisions, we have 15 percent of them and there are some districts that are larger and 15 percent of the collisions that occur in the city regarding bicyclists are involved in the northern district. and 14 percent of them are

involving pedestrians. some of the real problem intersections we have are speeding on the lamb bar street corridor and some of the stops find violations that occur throughout the district. some of the things that we are doing, and we are running enforcement operations five to six times a month where we target specific areas, but the target is not necessarily to go out and give everybody a ticket for just a vai lacing. what i am telling the officers is that part of this is community engagement and so we may stop an individual for a traffic violation and just have a discussion about the fact that they did not stop they stop sign and they were driving a little too fast and there were times that we will give citations but part of it is not to be the hammer to come out and just arrest and cite everybody but to help you be educated on ways to avoid having collisions and the amount that we have. my hope is that there is a ten percent reduction in collisions

i am tracking all from january to january i know how much we had last year, my hope is that we will reduce the traffic collisions in the city by ten percent. the third thing that is a goal to is to increase the training. it is not just in training for the officers but it is training for the public and we will talk about that in a second. some of you may know that school violence has become a hot topic and it will concern, the sandy hook elementary school shooting was one that i don't think that any of us will forget. will you remember where you were when you heard what happened. the last thing that i want to see is to see it happen in this city. the department aworking hard on getting a violence prevention program in the districts. and we have the members that

are out there. not only we will be training the officers, but training the school teachers and the children on the things to do to avoid to become the victim and what to do should knock on wood, hopefully not we have a tragedy like we saw at sandy hook or any other location. sometimes there are mental health issues and i think that it is important that i have as many officers trained in the crisis training intervention because if we can subside, the crisis situation without having to use some level of force, whether it be hands-on, or other type of force, god for bid having to use the firearms and we can avoid a crisis by being more engaged and involved and how to avert that through the crisis training and i think that is something that is important for the officers at the northern station. and some of the other things

that we will be doing is working on some of violence prevention programs is that i talk to you on ways to become to avoid to be the victim. >> some of the most important was community. the khaoeft of police has two things that are near and dear to his heart. if it involves any of the children or the elderly it is some of the most important things for the chief of police. i feel, the exact same way. there are a number of programs that we are going to be working on at northern station in regards to the children and the youth. one of the first things that we are doing or dealing with is there are a number of locations that have after-school programs like the bucanan, ymca and the officers in the northern station will be coaching and working on homework load and

doing fund-raising and partnering with somebody of the individual children through the cops for kids reading program. i went out yesterday and i read to about 15, 4 to 6-year-olds and it was actually the highlight of my day, my wife called and said what did you do today? i got to read 15, 4 to 6-year-old it was the best part of my day and my officers are going to be more engaged in that. one of the things that i am proud of that we are going to be engaged with over the next six months is a partnership with the academy. we have a number of officers that are coming into the police department and one of the most important issues is that we are trying to develop the officers to be more engaged with the public and to communicate with them and become more involved even before they have put this include bl*u uniform on. if david could stand up for just a second. and david is currently the commanding officer of the

academy and david is going to be working with the officers to come out with the officers that are in training to assist the children in after school programs and mentoring programs and reading and especially involved activities as we get towards the summer and that is one of the things that is important for me because it can engage the community and i wanted to make sure that i thanked david for that. and some of the other things that we will be involved in throughout the summer are the chaproning and assisting with the safe kids initiative. where the play grounds are opened on the weekend so that the kids can come and play and i think that i don't understand why they should not be but with the reductions in the past some of the play grounds were closed on the weekends, but if we could open those up and they may not be out to activitis that we don't want them to be

involved with. my officer will be at the play grounds on the weekends and engage in the youth and there to talk about some of the things that they can do to be engaged community youth members. that is something that i am looking forward to. >> the last thing that we will be engaged with is the involvement with the elderly and the seniors in the city. and i know that commissioner chan has one of the things near and dear to here is some of the language access and some of the times where officers will get called and will not be able to have an engaged conversation or dialogue with some of the elderly because they may not feel comfortable with these officers or they may have a language access and we are going to be going to a lot of these elderly and senior homes, to sit down with them and have lunch and have breakfast. talk about some of the concerns that they have. what it is that we can do to help them become safe.

how they can ask us how our day is going and see how they are going, part of that is, having the officers that have the language access to effectively communicate with them. and that is one of the things that we will be working on. the last thing that i want to talk to you tonight has to do with some of the staffing issues that we can address. i spoke to you about the number of officers that are down from where we were a couple of years ago. and i know that supervisor breed was here and i believe that she left, but one of the things that i hear at every meeting that i go to, every meeting that i go to, is that, you know what? , i need, or we need our beat officers back on the street. and i cannot tell you how much i agree with that sentiment. the fact that you have officers that walk up and down your

street and will engage you and talk to you, whether you are a business owner or a merchant or a resident, we need to get back to that, because without that communication there is not that close connection to solve those issues. you know, my mother always told me not to make promises that you can't keep. and i am going to go out on a limb because i told everybody at the meeting, you have my word and my promise, and you will have the beat officers back on here as soon as i get the staffing, and chief that is why i am glad that you are here tonight. because i am going to be begging you for those officers. we had 7 beats in the northern district three years ago and we had two now and that is not acceptable to me. we need to have a beat everywhere that is out there. and that is one of the things that when the staffing level is increased as we move forward those are the first things that are going to come back to the northern district and the last thing that we are going to be

doing is it is a little old school some of you may have been involved in it a number of years ago. it happens that our chief submit and i worked with the then lieutenant sir back at mission station over 20 years ago. and one of the things that we did all of the time was a concern came up from the community, and i would get told officer, you are going to go and meet with the community that you are supervisoring and you are going to go and walk that community with them so that they can point out all of the issues and concerns that you have. that is coming back to northern station. there are other places that do it, but, it is going to be happening here. and springtime comes, every single district, every single community that was up there initially is going to have a walk and you will be notified and you will have the officers from monday nights and myself and my lieutenants and we will be out there with you, walking the streets so that you can say that is a problem, that is a concern, that is something that i want to show to you.

because that helps us get engaged and it has not anything that is earth shattering or best practicing polices that is developed over the years it is tried and true things that have worked in the past that we need to go to and we forward and some of the things in the past were great successes and we have gotten away from and we need to get back to that. i have been to 100 meetings since i have been here and i am going to go to 100 more and i will go to three or four a day. every meeting that wants to address to me and i will be at and so i can't be successful in reducing the crimes and we can't be successful and we meaning the police department and you. without you telling us, what concerns you and what you need from us. we will tell you what we need from you, but i need to hear it from you. if you come up here and you

say, that i am not happy about this, i need this. i am going to hear you. and i am going to respond to you. because that is the only way that things get involved. some people may think that you know what? i don't want to hear it i am going to put a blind eye or close my ears to it, not me. i like to tackle it head on and if you have an issue you can be sure that we are going to hear it and we are going to do everything that we can to try to address it. if one thing does not work we are going to try something new. with that, i want to close my presentation and thanking you for coming up. you are going to have an opportunity when i am done, i believe to come up and make any public comment that you want about things that concern you in the northern, things that concern you in any other district and i am going to be sitting behind you making notes so that i can address those and i am going to be here when this is over to talk to every single one of you individually to talk to you about an individual problem or something that you need to you from us. i look forward to and i don't

know how long at northern station and i am hoping to be here for quite a while because this is one of the most enjoyable neighborhoods and districts to work in. i am proud to say that i am the captain of northern station and i am proud to say that i get to serve each and every one of you and i have to tell you that i am truly, looking forward to spending the next couple of years working with each one of you to solve the issues that is a certain to all of us. i appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. >> he worked on the midnight shift and he actually told me about that when i contacted him

about the concerns and if i wanted to embarrass him, that is his family and we have from the captain any way. this is your opportunity, and just before you go, captain could you just give a few clues and we have all of these break-ins and not telling them about leaving things in their cars, but i walk my dog every way and i walk by and i see the broken glas and there is a lot of asking for it to happen. before we move into the public comment. >> there are fliers out here and there are some that i will give you now but let's talk about the two specifically. the auto break-ins, some of them are common sense, but they bear, repeating and one is obviously you want to make sure that your car is locked, if it is unlocked it becomes an easy tool and easy chance for someone to break into it. if getting out of your car, it

is important to take the items that you don't want to be stolen. if you use the tracker or your phone? the criminals that are walking by, is looking for anything that is worth stealing. if you can take the items with you, you have removed that desire for them to break into your car. if you have it opened, they will not break in and if it is closed there is the intreing of what is in there. and when you have times where you are out shopping and a lot of people will put the jackets and blankets over their items to tell them that there is something under there, because you are trying to hide it, it does not do good to do that. if you have expensive items or things in the trunk, those are

the items that you should put in your trunk nout out in the public, they are out watching when you park the car, they see you get out of the car and take the gps and your phone. they will break into your car. the last tip, and something for us, is that for citizens, we need you to call us when you see somebody that was out that you think is up to no good. whether it is a burglary or a robbery. if you see somebody that is spending a lot of time walking next to the cars, or walking close to the cars, that is someone who is up to no good. if they are walking close to the buildings line or looking into a car or a building to see if there is something available. if you see somebody in your district or somewhere in your community that you have never

seen before and the hair on the back of your stands up and think that this person is up to no good. you need to call us, we will come out, if the person is just a citizen that is walking around we will engage them and talk to them and tell them why we were called out there and make sure and we will apologize for them to having to take the time but if they are a criminal that is an opportunity to tell them that we are watching them or arrest them if they are up to no good. in regards to robberies, there are a number of things that we can talk about. probably the most prolific problem that we have in the city is theft of the electronic devices, every robbery that i see is generally somebody that is a victim of having their iphone stolen. i will give you a perfect example. i told this story at a meeting and patricia who is here heard me say this. but i was at a meeting a few weeks back at a school in the district and every morning when

i come to work i go down into chest nut street and i grab a coffee at my favorite bakery, but i will not give the name, i drive down chest nut street i drive down polk street and work my way through the district. about three weeks ago, i pulled up at the corner of chest nut and laguna and i could tell you that there were no less than 15 people waiting for the bus and what were all 15 people doing? standing there staring at their iphones disengaged in anything else except what was in their hand. criminals look for that, when you are not aware of your surroundings and nobody at that intersection was aware of their surroundings because they were all engaged in the phone, the crim nams see that. now they may not go after your phone or the item that you have because there are so many people, when you are that lone person who is standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus to show up and you are there on your phone you are inviting yourself to become a victim. look around you.

be aware of what is there, if you need to get on your phone to look something up, do that at home or not out in public where you have to pull that item out. there are many other tips on robberies that are outside and i don't want to bore you and i want to hear the concerns, if you want to talk about that, we can do that, those are just a few tips to consider to avoid becoming a victim. >> we will come to the public xhenlt. >> we will start with aces. he is one of our regulars. >> i want to start off by giving a historic background but i want to thank the community and the north this is my first time down here but it is an honor for you to be here since you were born and raised here. >> my name is ace washington and i have been around for a number of years. my relation to the police

department goes back to the frank jordan. i was on the first african americans to join his campaign under jack davis's campaign to elect him. so it is my speaking here is not totally against the police i am working together with the police. having and always will. but there are hiccups going out right now. i just found out that you were 20 years ago and that is when the current chief was coming up in the ranks. so that is enough for the historical value. >> my name is ace and my motto is i am on the case. as you can see i am a african america and you forget about all of that and speaking on that and other things. in the northern station we have a lot of improvements and i know what you are talking about going back to the phase that used to work. off the top and just give me one minute, there are some racial differences with the officers we used to have a few more.

if you go if there and we have three of 100 or so officers there. >> i was just there. >> that is totally unacceptable for the mayor and the females also, let's go past there and i am here to talk about the experiential experiences that i have with the northern station that will relate to my african american community that is engaged in. i have problems with the police officer to interpret the law. we have issues, and you may not know it. there are problems. these developers, and property owners are in default. we don't have the federal agency and so therefore i have been doing this, i am trudeous and the young officers don't know. and so what i am saying is that engage and i welcome you captain and hopefully we can get that on. but for right now, the most important, that i will save my last minute. there is a state of emergency that i am here to say

throughout the studio that we are in african america are in the state of emergency. it is east tore say that. in the north station and i am not a racist person, but the fact is that i am 59 years old. and i have 3 generations underneath me i have been here for my whole life and so i am not going to sit here and tell you my life story but i am on a mission, and i have been with the migration report, all the way back to the agenda and i have been doing this and the police department is one of the issues in which the african american community has to engage. and the last leg that we will mention the engagement is the police, the community policing, i know that you have this advisory board going on here but that is not to the policing and i go back to the family where we have tried... >> excuse me sir. that is three minutes.

>> okay, i thought maybe because this is northern station and i know it is here and we have another minute for the african american history or whatever you ril we can nice it, fine, but i am telling you now, i wish that london was here, we are in the total state of the emergency and we appreciate your comments. but we have three minutes. >> let's just stress that, so that you know. we are on a state of emergency three right now. >> barber shop has been closed and a bookstore is closed. and we are out there working every day and the police are called and i am the terrorist because i am doing my job. captain i want to meet all of your officers, so that they know who i am. >> thank you ace on the case. thank you. >> line up folks for public speaking and tell the captain what your concerns are. >> it is helpful if you can get in the line so we can get an

idea about it. public comment and you get three minutes and inspector monroe will. my name is frank and i live in the marina, i can't help but think that the increased burglaries has a lot to do with the homeless situation in the marina. it just seems like there is an increase in wondering homeless people, certainly on lumbard, as well as on chest nut, i don't think that any one of us has ever gone to the walgreens and not had someone right outside of the store with or without multishopping carts there. they most evenings, after 8:00 or 9:00 and you are walking chest nut, the entryway to some commercial entry will be someone sleeping there. and not every entryway but one or two with sleeping bags, and one time there was a couple.

and the this does not seem that there is any enforcement. it is not a crime to be homeless, but there are quality of life issues. chest nut street is here is now and you are walking by walgreens and there is shopping carts with homeless. and then i have a question, it was in north beach and we walked out of the restaurant and upper grant and it was a narrow street and we were not two feet away from the parking meter and apparently homeless person was opening urinating. as luck would have it a police officer turned the corner, we stopped the car and told the officer we just saw this, we witnessed it. the officer said, well if they have a medical condition, there is nothing that we can do. to me that is the end of civilization.

when basically, that means that you can openly urinate anywhere we are not going to do anything. in front of walgreens, the visidero one, there is a bus stop and a bus shelter. every evening without fail. there is a homeless person who lives there, is it a bus shelter or a homeless shelter and an intervention needs to be done. we live and we live on bakers street close to lumbard from my window we can see traffic walking traffic on lumbard and richardson avenue and just a wondering procession of wondering homeless people. and those are the people, i can't help but think there is a large correlation between the burglary break ins and, and the

break-ins, okay, i think that that covers my list. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> pat, come on up. >> come on up. come on up barber i have not seen you for a while. >> welcome back. high name is barbara growth and i am a resident of san francisco, and i attended the last meeting, of your taser demonstration or on the tasers. i had brought this out, i know that i can't bring it into the city hall which is why i come out with it again. this is called a raptor. sas i sat down i figured that i forgot to say what this