and these are issues to you but the police department has to address other issues i just want to put that out there, these are concerns but it is actually the pleasure to be here to know that these are lower level concerns. >> commissioners? >> commissioner chan? >> sure, thank you. it is thorough. and i appreciate that. and the room was almost packed that you are really great at communicating with the residents here and i think that in and off itself speaks the volumes and i do agree that this district is that it is facing a different level of problems and these are problems that you deal with every day and so we do take them seriously. and how we can address these quality of life issues.

so i want to ask about a couple of things, you mentioned captain that used to have 7 beats before. to ask, how you deploy those two beats and how to decide where to put them and when. >> there were seven beats that were in the northern district, back in 2009, and 2010, the two beats on the officers that were on the beats, that were on the beats in 2008, 2009. some of the beats that got discontinued were officers that left because they either retired or went to other location and we didn't have the staffing to fill those. the current beats, that we do deploy, are in the commercial areas where there is a lot of foot traffic and businesses restaurants and so forth. there are five very important ones that currently that i don't have a deed on that i think as deserving as the ones

that we currently have. we need one in japan town because i get concerns from them we need one in the lower haze and hate street area and i promised that we would address that. there is ones on polk street and the fillmore corridor that needs to be done. we do have one on polk street and one on chest nut. but i need one on union street as well because that is where i hear that the concerns are. so my intention is as the officers increased to look at the ones where there is a high crime area where we need them the most, at the short term, stop them with those and then work my way up to staffing all of them. and i am hopeful by the end of the summer. >> thank you, for telling us where you are putting them now and also where you want to add additional beats when you get the officers. that is good to know. also, thanks for addressing the language access issue and the issue of the elderly and reaching out to folks who are not here tonight and i am sure that it will be interested in

coming at some point and engaging the department. i think that it is a common sense approach to do that. to sit down with the elderly folks in their homes or in the buildings that they live in to talk with them and hopefully to bring in the officers who can meet with them so they can aoe the bilingual officer. >> you mentioned the different language capacities in the districts i wanted to know if there is about, 12 asian american officers and if there are any vaoet vietnamese? >> what i am doing at the at a lot of the communities, is talking to the individuals that are there about some of the languages that are spoken in the area, that they live in, work in, and visit. and i am making those, and what i am hopeful is, is that we are start to have the officers permanently assigned to the northern station who get done with the training that i can lobby to the command stop that

i could use an officer that speaks this specific language, i already have some that speak spanish or cantonese but i could use one that speaks japanese for japan town or i need one that speaks vietnamese. so what i will ask for is i want the officers but i would love to have one that has better bang for the buck, which is an officer for physical value and what that speaks the language to help me to be more productive and that is one of the things that i will speak to the chief about as we start to get permanent officers at northern station. >> that is a great idea. for some districts the officers language ability matchs that district for some other one that does not seem to quite make sense, we don't have enough officers that speak the language so that there is a connection between the department and the community member and i appreciate that you are going to do that and keep that in mind. >> i want to ask you about the crisis intervention and i think that you are the first captain who has mentioned the crisis intervention and mentioned to have the officers trained and

deployed that have the skill of escalating the issues. when asked how many officers that you have trained so far and how they are being used if there are any lessons learned or thoughts of how it is going. >> well, thankfully, i don't have the exact numbers, at northern station. but from walking around, all of the answers to the question have a pin that have cit on it that kind of identifies it. and i counted at least half a dozen, or close to a dozen different officers and i will get you those numbers but one of the things that luckily knock on wood i don't want to ever have to use if that is an intervention officer because there is a crisis that is a public safety concern. but i don't think that i don't think i can have enough crisis intervention trained officers. i know that we talked about the community tasers, and some of the other issues that have coming forward. but, for me, it is not about having the officers that may

eventually be on it because they are working in the crisis intervention program. it is more about having as many officers trained so that there is an event that happens here in the marina i have as many officers that are working on duty that can respond there in a quick and efficient time to deescalate what is there. i want to promote the crisis intervention training as it becomes available. i know that the captain is working with that through the training as well as other individuals. that we can have more trade offs even if they are not armed with the tasers and we end up getting them to have that skill and that ability i think is a huge advantage for us. so it is something that i am wanting my sergeants to tell the officers that i would like to have the station crisis intervention training that just means that everybody that is out there can address those issues when they come up.

>> thank you. >> that approach is consistent with the teachings of the business owners and how to handle the shoplifters and how to be more open all of the time and working with the community. >> dr. marshal? >> commissioner kingsley? >> thank you very much for your really fabulous presentation tonight. you are off to a great start and you obviously have a really good rapport with the community already and there is a lot of confidence in you. i was particularly struck by your mode of prevention, prevention of violence tonight. that is absolutely terrific and it is great that you came prepared with the statements and you know, with tips and telephone numbers and so on. so, you know, numbers up to you and applaud you for all of that. i just have a couple of questions. one is around the auto theft, you have a sense for whether or

not the majority are occurring as the result of just a few people that are well-organized and have, you know, particularly mo. or is it you know just a rash of isolated incidents? i mean what is your sense around that? >> my sense is that it is not a rash of isolated incidents. they are not necessarily criminals that are very well organized. generally, we found that auto break-ins and burglaries are often related to someone who has some chemical addiction, they break into the cars to steal an item so that they can sell it on the street for whatever addiction whether it be alcohol or some other drugs. so, and we know that a lot by some of the individuals that we end up arresting because we see that they have a lengthy

sometimes record for drug addiction and so forth. so i think that what happens is when we feel the need or they have some drug binge they will go out and conduct as many break-ins in the evening or two days that they can to sell items i know that you have had the discussion with chief loftus before and one of the things that we are trying to do all city-wide is to identify those individuals because if we know we need two things and if we can arrest them so it is not always the best solution and they are off the street and unable to commit the crimes and i am concerned that it is a bigger umbrella picture of trying to deal with those addictions to not necessarily through the arrest, trying to get them some other way that they can get, some help with the criminal dependency, and that becomes a mental health issue which is another large

subject that the city deals with and however we deal with it, whether it is through making arrests or through, giving in the help that they need through the addiction and when we take these individuals and work with them in those two areas, we see the numbers go down. so there are areas that are more prolific in the northern district for car break-ins because of the activity that is there. and when we center some of our enforcement actions in regards to that. to answer your questions surely, is that if we take one auto burglar off the street we probably prevent 15 or 20 car break-ins in a day. i hate to say it, but it is true. >> you may not know the answer to the next question because you just took this job a couple months ago but do you have a sense for the history at collisions whether it is auto,

bike, pedestrian, and is this, you know, something that is really endemic to northern that is going on for years and years, or is it something that has become a problem gradually? what is your take on that? >> the accidents, have been pretty consistent throughout the city for a number of years. we see it all of the time. there are pretty much five areas where we see the main causes of collisions and those include speeding, light violations, illegal turn violations, pedestrian violations both by delivers and by the pedestrians themselves. and i don't know if i said stop signs, but, those are we have statistics and we have numbers that show this is where the accidents are and i will give you an example that the people and octavia is the biggest

enter sessions and virtually all of them were related to red light violation and so that is a concern. >> one of the individuals talked about pedestrians and one of the enforcement aspects that we had was lumbar and divisidero it is was not just for the cars it was for the pedestrians so we can advise them that you can't walk across the street on a red light because you will get hit and the cars have the right-of-way. we are able to get those numbers and what we try to do is go out and focus education enforcement on the highest areas and look for those specific incidents that are the highest factors for the collision and if we can do education and enforcement in those two areas then we will look and see tend of the year whether or not that number gets reduced. >> have those areas been assessed by the city in terms of the visibility of the signage and what more could be done in terms of the mechanical

aspect of it aside from the police angle? >> that is one of these, what i am asking for my officers to do as they are out there is not to only look at what the violation and try to identify if there is some other cause for that. and to come back to us, what i can do then, is notify mta, the photographic safety division is the deals with the stops on the red lines and say this might be a street where the speed bumps are speeding. obviously they are not going to put speed bumps on the lumbar street if there are specific areas that we can address, i am asking them to come back so we can forward out and some of the physical things that the city might be tiebl do to change the structure of the streets so that it is safer for the streets of the pedestrian an and the vehicles. >> good. >> text to tip it was great to see it, right? on the front of your presentation, i know that it is fairly new, how is it working?

it is working fairly well. we get actually a lot of hits to our tip line at northern station and want to remain anonymous but give us information but it is a success and something that is evolving over time as we get more involved with social media. because it gives us the information retime quicker than it takes for dispatch to advise us. i am the last one, and so quickly thank you for highlighting the family flight issue. i was just saying to my fellow commissioner. all of the leaders have been born here and there is only 7 percent kids under 18. and so, i think that it is an issue for the city it is the first time that i have heard the department talk about it in terms of policis that we can do that are family friendly.

commend you for that. we did have supervisor ferrel here who was the one in concert with park and rec raised the money to open the school yards during the summer. so you have a great leader here who can bring through the public, private partnership and that has a huge impact. i don't think that we can talk about car break-ins enough. my car was broken in five times in one year and so the personal is political. and encouraging folks and i had the experience to go the northern station where none of these people who are in charge now, i will just put that disclaimer it was ten years ago and i was told don't bother filing a report nothing happens and they would say that the da does not do anything about it.

so that was a not true and b, you know, i am sure that maybe that officer was having a bad day. but i say that to encourage folks that you want to file a report because this is a department that is data driven and it is going to move people on the reports of crimes and they are going to deploy the under cover operation and so i want to encourage folks please file the reports and regardless. it reminded me of the story that the officer said that he could not cite someone for peing on the street, you may want to check that fact sometimes they are just on the end of the shift and maybe a report is not what sounds good at the time. so i would encourage that and i would encourage the captain, are you doing any under cover operations because i do think that the one thing is this is not a sophisticated crime usually. so, we as a community can help to give the officers tips and i know for example, i reported one area in this district that

cars are getting broken into at 8:30 in the morning when people are dropped off at free school, the cars are smash ofed four minutes. it takes, where there are clusters it is easy for the officers, well nothing is easy, but to come in and target an area, are you doing that and are you hearing from the community about clusters of these? >> yes. you are absolutely right that we are data driven as we move forward. crime mapping, now as the department has gone to a system where i can pull up real time exactly, the number of auto break-ins over a period of time of one day or one week, but generated by the reports that are important to make and what i can do is deploy officers to those specific areas where there are clusters. we get a fair amount of the break-ins in the japan town, anyone who has been there, there are great stores and restaurants and there are

individuals or tourists that are going to it. and we do deploy in uniform and plain clothes and i think that in this month, it is month of february and march i believe that we are running no less than 7 under cover operations for auto break-ins in various areas of the city. the chief has been great to give us additional resources beyond what is available here at northern station from the violence reduction teams and some of the other areas. and we give them that information and tell them, these are where our problems are coming and they are coming to help us and the last thing for that is that we are also teaching more officers, and have classes in plain clothed operation and actually following some of the people who are breaking into cars. we have an amount of officers who are coming in that are really just babies wanting to crawl and we need to do a better job of teaching them how

to follow someone who is breaking into a car and how to know what is actually a crime and that is a challenge that we face but there is training that we are doing now to address that thanks to some of the things that the chief has brought into business. i have two that i have brought in and chief that was four hours of over time. they worked plain clothes for me at night when i have this additional staffing and to see them engaged with some of the community members that were there to talk to them about what they do and what they see was really beneficial and i need more that have and as we get the officers that were coming through the training that we will provide and allow us to get the directed enforcement to those areas to hopefully reduce those numbers. >> i hope that everybody hears that you are all community leaders and you tell folks that you learned that the department has filed these police reports and you can file them on-line

and it helps to make the resources that the captain needs to keep everybody safe. >> regardless of what he said that there is not as much crime. he is remaining us of the traffic collisions in the district and so president mazzucco does a great job of representing this district and i know that you know that. thanks. [ applause ] . i want to thank father and i want to thank you, for coming to the meeting and the next motion is for adjournment and as i stated earlier, a moment of silence as we adjourn in honor of bufp baker and liz butler of the san francisco police department. >> do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you, very much.

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