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>> it's gonna take some work by the manufacturer to make it completely useless and not be able to resold and remanufactured. >> any questions about this? i see chief was gonna chime in there. >> i just want to tell since we have an opportunity here on the tip line -- 575-4744. so the public can report any crime to us anonymously. >> i'm glad to hear the manufacturers are working on it. sounds like what the service providers are just kind of a temporary fix, not what we need, that is making the device worthless down the road. >> thank you for your presentation by the way and i appreciate that you came prepared in terms of having had
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a conversation with the iphone -- with apple and who else did you talk with? >> we had a representative from my unit who's our expert in the area who would be able to inform you better about the communications between apple and the different carriers -- android and these different ones. >> so jen jackson made some phone calls to some carriers. >> correct. >> those phone calls are important 'cause it lets the carriers know that you have the san francisco police department concerned about this. so i think that's -- those calls within themselves are helpful. do you know in terms of timeline [inaudible] of the international you can solve that issue 'cause i myself when i travel /aeu broad i've actually seen that. i've seen it in stores where they do that. people can just go and hire someone to do that and unbrick a phone, which is
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really unfortunate so it seems that technology's important. >> i believe it's gonna be passed christmas for that. i know they're working on this bricking technology that's a standard. we wanna do is see it standardized in all these smart phones. i would say hopefully by christmas that would be available for everybody. the other part is gonna be the cost. i'm sure they're going to add some cost to it to add it as another application that you might have to buy, but after that, i think that blacklisting as i said -- the similar card and the phone marriage -- that, i believe, exists already and some companies however i don't know how widespread it is here in the united states. >> do you think it could be by christmas or... >> christmas would be where they would have the bricking
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available from the manufacturer. >> any other questions. >> i would like to bring up [inaudible] from sf safe in regards to this thing. >> thank you very much. >> my name is arena [inaudible] and i'm a program director at san francisco safe and as a crime prevention educational non profit we do recognize a trend. every year we give about 250 safety presentations and lately our focus has been street safety and theft of electronic devices. lately we also made an extra effort in reaching out to those who are particularly targeted which is employees of tech companies, students, especially those who
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have recently moved to san francisco. our presentations are very interactive, fun, hands on. we have group discussions, we have role plays and we use materials that are also very creative. i'd like to show you just one example. those are some of the materials with series of section messages from stolen cell phones. and we provide this presentations in five languages. so we also work with different community police advisory board groups in [inaudible] diss /treubgt. we're actively involved in their project and one of the projects that one group was
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working on this crime alert that -- and this posters have been distributed all over the city as well as their business side cards. and again, those handouts were made in three languages. we also facilitate city wide community police advisory board committee monthly meetings and actually a couple of weeks ago we had a really good meeting -- actually discussion with chief [inaudible] regarding priorities for the police department and how the community advisory board groups can support the police department. and one of the topics was that theft of electronic devices and actually too soon to say, but i already
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talked to the [inaudible] working on finding more and creative ways to addressing this problem. it's our way -- we will be using apple product iphone and ipads in developing more ways in terms of giving safety presentation and we will be working more with the police department in that respect. do you have questions? >> commissioner kingsly. >> just a comment and thank you for what you're doing in the community. terrific service. glad you had an opportunity to share that tonight to bring it to the attention tonight of more people. >> just curious, who requests
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these trainings just to get a sense of who gets trained. >> everybody who works in san francisco -- those are free trainings in five languages. we're mostly request based but we do also provide some outreach when we know that some of the areas are targeted then we of course reach out to the businesses and schools in the area. >> that appears to conclude this presentation. i wanna thank the police department for their presentation. wanna thank safety for their recommendations. i just hope that through this presentation that some of these brilliant mind that work at the manufacturers really expedite this process in terms of rendsering the cell phones completely useless with no resale value because it is a public safety issue and is immediate and several folks
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have been injured and traumatized by this so hopefully this will be done faster and sooner than later. so thank you and i appreciate your efforts. >> you wanna call the next presentation of the document protocol reports for the fourth quarter of 2012. >> fourth quarter 2012 document protocol reports. >> i'm a captain at the risk management office. thank you for allowing me to speak to you. i'm here to /prepbts you with the fourth quarter document protocol report. this covers the period of [inaudible] through december 31 of 2012. you all have been provided with the report
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already. this document protocol report covers three categories that are common occ written requests. the three categories are juveniles, non are you teen and routine. just to bring everybody up to speed in case you weren't clear on what these items were, juvenile requests are anything that has to do with juvenile -- juvenile booking forms, detention logs, those sorts of things. the routine requests -- we have a form for it that has maybe 50 or so items on it. these are your routine reports, your routine booking forms, those sorts of things that we routinely handle at the station and then the non routine requests -- these are a little more complicated. most of these have to do do with
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officer involved shooting documentation, special detail such as dignitary visits, motor /kaeud routes, those sorts of things. in this period between october 31 and december 31 we received a total of 299 written requests from occ. we had a timely production of 269, which is 90 percent of the documents. we were late in 27 of those documents, which is 9 percent and then we're pending or disputing were 3 of those documents which is 1 percent. the late production -- most of those have to do with officer involved shooting cases. there's just certain documents it just takes a long time to
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get together and furnish to those two see. in the future what we're working on with the help of [inaudible] we're working to establish a liaison between the legal division and the homicide detail so there's a direct line of communication to produce those 9 percent that we have in the past. one other thing we're trying to do is, if we can get a light duty officer, if one's available, we can get that officer detailed just to help out in that area and help out in legal. one last thing we're trying to do is cross train some of the other folks in legal division to help with this issue. so that's what i wanted to cover. happy to take any questions that you may have at this time. >> before we take questions, maybe we should hair from the
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occ, who is your partner in doing this. >> good evening. our agency -- we put together the document protocol report with the police department as well. our concern always are those cases where there's late production. 27 out of 300 -- while it doesn't seem like a significant amount and we're happy about the production that goes well, those 27 cases do result in delays in cases and officer involved shoots -- those are complicated cases and we request documents and expect production as soon as possible. so we're working with the department to facilitate that at a more rapid speed but obviously we continue to be concerned in those cases. some of the officer involved cases -- we do the paperwork, we notify the department and we are hoping that there's gonna be a quicker response after we
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notify them that there's non compliance. >> thank you. any questions for either? >> i do. thank you for this update both from department and from the occ. you had mentioned in a letter from the occ that occ met with deputy beal to resolve the document delays and the production has improved from february. wanted to find out what the steps were for improvement and has that improvement continued? >> yes. it has improved and we put together a tracking device for officer involved shootings so we worked with the department and i think we're see better results in the officer involved shooting so that's one significant change. and i also think that if there's more staffing within the police department -- oftentimes it goes back and forth and things fall through the cracks and i think
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[inaudible] addressed that and we support more personnel that can more quickly deal with these issues. >> so staffing is something that is being discussed? are there plans in the near future to increase staffing? >> there's staffing's a tough issue any way you look at it. we're simply saying if and when the situation rises -- there's always officers that get hurt and are coming back to full duty but before their full duty they are typically light duty so what we're talking about is getting somebody up in legal just to help liaison between these units -- between occ, internal affairs and homicide. that's what i alluded to earlier, that's where most of the delay is. we're also talking with the three
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investigators at internal affairs that handle the officer involved shootings -- three of our sergeants -- to help stress the importance of getting these documents in a timely fashion. >> i recall hearing this problem in the past and so i'm /wopbldzering rather than just waiting for each quarter and seeing this problem again, if we could in the interim before the next quarter report, if there is a problem that we hear from the department or the occ and we address that. if we /kwould -- any interim status reports, please feel free to come in front of us. >> i understand this is a priority to occ and it's important to me that we get this done in a timely fashion for them so i'm gonna make it a priority to make this happen. >> thank you.
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>> okay. >> thank you both of you. >> line item 3b. >> 3b occ monthly comprehensive statistical report [inaudible] complaints in february 2013 and adjudication of sustained complaints in february 2013. >> good evening president, members of the commission and members of the audience, you have in your packets the february 2013 and 2012
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comprehensive reports. from january 21, 2013 through february 28 the [inaudible] this's 20 fewer cases than were opened in the same period in 2012 when we opened 121 cases. from january through february this year the occ investigators closed the same number of cases as were opened -- 101 cases. as of february 28 the occ had 307 pending cases. as of today the occ has 301 pending cases compared to 371 pending cases this time last year. [inaudible] allegations in february, the occ sustained four allegations and nine -- >> you can't hear me?
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>> you're not even up on this. your mic's on. >> the occ -- that's louder -- mediated five cases in february or 11 percent of the cases we closed. in february 7 officers were offered mediation and one officer declined. this year to date officer acceptance rate is 87 percent. that's lower than in /praoefs years where acceptance rates exceeded 90 percent but with the pass /sapblg of only two months this year it's too early to tell if this is a trend. today the occ had mediated 10 cases in the area of mediation i would like to announce that our mediation coordinator donna, is the recipient of other award. the
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[inaudible] northern california of which commissioner kingsly is a member presented ms. salazar. she's been a practicing mediator since 1994. she's a pan /alist for the san francisco court, the first district court of appeals and the bar association of san francisco. she became a community board immediate yeh forin 1997 and joined their staff in 1999. the occ mediation program has consistently mediated more cases than any other officer citizen mediation program in the united states. the occ program is the recipient of the
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12 community board award for excellence as an organization whose innovative work for best practices. lovingly known as the god mother of the san francisco bay organization, donna joined the board in 2012. she brings her experience in labor of relations, business, real estate to the occ. she has touched many lives and truly inspires greater peace in our community. and then quickly moving to the last category [inaudible] cases in february [inaudible] sustained case in february. she upheld our findings of knee /tkpwhrebgtive duty when an officer failed to notify dispatch when making a traffic stop and that concludes my report. >> thank you very much and
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thanks again to donna salazar for her work in the mediation field. little concerned about the decrease in the number of mediations that the officers are willing to participate in and we'll probably have words with the appropriate folks in charge of that 'cause i think it's a great process and saves a lots of time, energy, but it's great for the public to hear what officer felt and vice versa. >> thank you. >> i must say that being there on saturday when ms. salazar received the president's award for mediator of the year for this organization it was a very proud moment to be there, to see her get this award. it was wonderful and was also very gratifying to know that she's ours here at the occ and that we have such a distinguished mediator at the helm of the
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occ's mediation program. >> thank you very much. we feel quite privileged to have ms. salazar as our mediation and outreach /kaordz they tore 'cause in addition to the work she does she manages our office's outreach program. >> please extend our congratulations to ms. salazar. well deserved. i've known her for quite some time and know she does great work. i want to ask about the fall your to collect traffic stop data. just to make sure it's in the framework, but the chief's policy now is to bring those cases if [inaudible] for this case the allegations that's the repeated offense -- the failure to collect traffic stop data. >> this particular case is for failure to notify dispatch when
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making a traffic stop so an officer for officer safety reasons and other reasons is required to let dispatch know that this is what is occurring and in this in/tapbs the officer did not but it is true that it is our policy when it is a failure to collect traffic stop data that he has a progressive discipline approach. first offense -- it's a warning an admonishment, second offense, assuming there are no other discipline issues, second offense would be a written reprimand and the third offense would be the loss of pay through a suspension. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you very much. please call line item number 3c.
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>> 3c commission reports discussion, commissioners reports. >> i just have one quick report. i want to send my thanks to the city attorney's office. recently they've had two high profile victories on behalf of the commission where they represented us, one from the first district court of appeal and secondly in front of the -- please call line item 3d. >> commissioners announcement and scheduling of items identified for consideration of future commission meetings action. >> there will be no meeting next wednesday, that would be the 20th of march and the next meeting is march 27 and that's a community meeting and that will be in the mission and it'll be at 450 church street
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at everett middle school and that starts at 6:00 pm. >> any announcements? >> we have the resolution for organization reporting for an agenda, i believe in april. was it the first meeting in april or the second? the third meeting many april? april 3. okay. good for that. thank you for that clarification. i believe at the last meeting we had mr. lawrence had brought up the topic of our community outreach and letting folks know when and where we're having our community meetings and just in
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general our notifications. and in follow up of that i'm wondering if we could get a copy, inspector, of all of the places that we do publicize meetings and if we could just have that distributed and spend a few minutes going over it so if there's something else we can do that isn't going to cost the department a significant amount of money that's within budget that we can do that as additional outreach on behalf of the commission. and if we could schedule that for any time that's con convenient for you, inspector since you're gonna provide us with the information. >> i'll give you an email and i'll work on it tomorrow. >> for the community meeting that's in [inaudible] i wanted to ask if you could just let the captain know that it'd be great to see community turnout
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at that because my understanding is there have been at least one meetings about recent violent incidences there and there was a good amount of turnout and sometimes i'll notice you have that turnout for those incidents but for the police commission is less turnout. so i'd like to see those community members so make sure the call is put out the same way they put out for those types of meetings. the last meeting we had was really great. >> anything further commissioners. all right. it's now public comment regarding line items 3 a, b, c or d. >> first on the chief's report, in particular the presentation regarding iphone robberies and
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prevention i wanna thank the captain for his presentation. i think it's important that the public be made aware. i think the most important slide was be smart with your smart phone. if you not aware of your surroundings, you're making yourself venerable. also if somebody points a gun at me they've got the iphone. and one quick thing -- the technology you've asked about for these items are available and they've been in use for a number of years in other countries. on the director's probation report. /tkpwepbl, last month martin [inaudible] of the police officer's
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association took exception to some of my remarks. according to him i chose to come here and make dispairaging remarks to other officers in the department. he should get his facts straight. i did file a complaint with occ. i did that during a break the police commissioners meetings. i can understand confusion in the matter since here we are six weeks later and i have yet to receive any acknowledgment of the complaint. no complaint number, no nothing. i wouldn't be at all surprised to hear nothing for six to nine months only to receive a dismissal form letter regarding the complaint. not