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 is.

this is the raptor. i went by the place where they sold it. gee they have moved. no forwarding address and so i am going to run around the city to see if i can find where they sell these again, this is 31 dollars, this is much cheaper than the other that you people have. >> it does not cost me as much as the gun that you have. this is a a lot of growth in the directory and i called it it is not my naum and i called it. i find out through a friend it is registered to my ex-inlaws. down on caesar street. i was wondering isn't that against the law for them to do something like that.

and the nitwit does not want to pay alimony but he will because he is make shoinger that no one can get in touch with me. i think that he is silly >> be careful with your taser. >> thanks. >> expect speaker? >> my name is vick preo from the marina and i think that the police do a wonderful job and thank you for making yourself open and available to us and the commissioner as well. we all have concerns, and one of those that we have is that they are trying to open the restaurant going on the up on the top, and it has a potential to attract a nuisance and what the police are going to do if this place opens up in a homeless move from the park to the marina green and what is going to happen now. probably once a month i will

find sleeping on the street and the homes. we have had concerned and a cook of break-ins on the car and we did not walk in. and obviously we cannot get in the city. what we look forward to is when this place an attractive nuisance for the homeless and for anyone else. one of the big destination points is the mystery, and the bars and restaurants and the people come from all around and invite and they hope to do it from chest nut street and from all around the bay area. and what is going to happen here in this nice area and the restaurant in there, what are we going to do now? what are the police going to do when we get these limos with the cars pull of people who want to drink and enjoy them up on the marina green, where are we looking for?

the future? for protection? as home eners? we paid taxes and that is why we lived there. and they are not cheap. and i would like to know, you know, because my (inaudible) is back, the fact that we are playing high taxes i did not live there for free. i look in the future. you see? >> thank you. >> the next speaker? >> patricia, neighborhood merchant. we have several issues coming up, number one the homeless issue that was discussed, our

dear procidio (inaudible) trusts the police officers and all of the homeless that they ran up in the morning out on the lumbar gate and not on the procidio, gate, we should be able to share the wealth. they dump all of us to here. okay? number two, and i think that we need to work on a system where (inaudible) was over at that and (inaudible) was here, and i think that it was along the (inaudible) one of those with the others, they worked out a system where they contacted (inaudible) if they saw a pattern like and they worked it out. and there needs to be more (inaudible) to the trust. number two, we have, or i have 60 percent of the merchants now have the green, no trespassing signs with the buildings that have the indented signs. and i have to go back to northern and get them copied. but we are doing something

about the people sleeping and in the middle of the doorway. but it takes time and you have to get the manager and if it is a corporation and it is a corporation ration, it is very long. we have a new problem on our hands. we have corporations who are lying to the planning submission saying that they are not going to formula retail and recently we are losing one of our best. who has been here for 30 years, is being chased out by pete's coffee and the rent was increased by $5,000 a month to $20,000 a month. and so, we have this problem coming up, we need more help among the people here in this room, to help us to help us to start looking at what is really happening and we like to set up to set up a committee. and we have a police issues.

(inaudible) weiner wants to put food trucks and (inaudible) trucks within 50 feet of existing-like businesses. in other words, the coffee roasterry could have a coffee food truck in front of crutch. we are working very hard and it was done behind the scenes and they tried to bring it up and this goes into the potential of not all food trucks are bad. but this is potential of possibly dealing out of trucks like they have right now downtown. we need to look into this. number five. pedestrian ans say that greg are you here? one saturday i heard about saturday traffic on chest nut, and i drove it three times and it was outrageously scary. the pedestrians do not stop, period. and what happens is you start to go in and you think that it

says and they just run right in front of you. someone is going to get hurt and i almost hit somebody because a lady had five children under five and did not have them holding hands and one of them ran right in front of me and while i was watching to make sure that they are corraled before i moved. another one from this side tried to walk in front. and this is something that we have to work out about how we are going to solve this problem and have a problem. it was very, very, very scary. number five, is the break-ins, i have talked to greg and the break ins, and some of them in the robbery so i could worn the lady was robbed. on the far send of chest nut now they have never had any experiences out there except for once every ten years, but some of our friends that the famous hotels that we are trying to clean up moved down

to the sister motel and i believe that some of this is coming from there. and what else? have i forgotten anything? for the merchants? anything from the neighborses? have i forgotten anything or the restaurant. for three years, (inaudible) worked on this restaurant issue and did not tell the neighbors. we presented it to the public as a take out in the take out room. and it has been expanded to approximately 2500 square feet larger. it is not a take out it is a full restaurant and what is disturbing me more about this issue is the one thing that it has been wonderful about the marina is that the people from all over the city or on weekends come and i actually took about three or four years ago was camcorder down there

and interviewed them from omi, the western edition. china town. tourists. and then this it is a wonderful melting pot. what i am seeing is that middle and lower middle incomes are being chased out of it by the park and rec commission and this disturbs me. i talked to someone from asl hutch and he said what do you think about the projects in marina green, don't do any more i bring my child with cerebral palsy to come down and have a nice night in the event and be on time with him and to come down now. we have to look at what we want for this city. and i am very concerned about this particular restaurant, because of what one of the partners said. and oh, we want to go down there so we can serve a lot