going down and seeing that really turn around now in 2013 with arrest basically or all crimes basically being down by about 20 percent except for the robberies and arrest up by about 50 percent. that's a pretty stark and remarkable turn around. that's really terrific. except robberies and i guess that's the other question and just like tuesdays, what's going on with robberies up 400 percent. is it something in common with a lot of the incidents? >> certainly, the robberies are up about 25 percent, arrest about 450 percent. the commonality we are seeing an is the president mentioned earlier

we see a lot of cellphone thefts. unfortunately we are not very different from many other parts of the city. certainly, within our i briefly touched upon in, that is one of the areas we are working on and looking at this stolen property and going after the individuals that are buying and selling these electronic devices. that's what we are looking at and also looking at decoy operations with cellphone and electronic devices. it's really -- we see quite a bit of those. what we try to do when we do our enforcement, we use the comp data and where they are going and where it's happening and those locations and try to deploy our resources effectively and target those areas and times. >> pedestrians and bike

accidents how are they in the mission relative to the rest of the city >> unfortunately i don't have that statistic relative to the rest of the city. we are a very busy and densely populated area. unfortunately we do see a fair amount of bicycle accidents. we probably see more of those than we do see pedestrian accidents in the mission. we have a lot of bicyclist, a lot of bike lanes. we try to do again targeted enforcement on the sneksz intersections where we see the accidents happen. we have citywide traffic enforcement where they identify those high priority intersection and we look at pedestrian accidents and bicycle accidents and put

our officers out there on a monthly basis to target those locations and rotate them around. >> the sticks weren't included here but you exiled -- compiled them? >> yes. >> thank you for addressing that. mental health issues in the mission as with other areas of the city, it seems to be an important component to a lot of calls. how many cit officers do you have and how is that working? >> i can tell you we have cit officers on every mission. i don't have the exact number of cit officers now. it's been working out very well. >> you have good coverage?

>> certainly. our officers as you can see by the number of calls for service that they deal with, deal with a lot of people under varying conditions. and they really do so really well. trained officers such as officer keith, are regular officers that have a lot of practices in dealing with individuals in various modes of crisis and they do it very well. >> thank you very much, captain. >> mr. chin? do you want to go first? >> thank you for your presentation. thank you for hosting us and i appreciate the hard work. we have a lot of detail and i noticed that you are the first captain that used specifically as the number of officers that speak each language. usually we get a list

but you have the officers that speak each one and you have 10 spanish speaking officers for the night shift. one is to ask you in terms of outreach to the very large limited english proficiency population you have, you probably have the largest population of that in terms of other districts and how you reach out to them. did you have a list of the community base organization. i saw a list of the rights immigrants groups out there. >> sure, that's actually a very timely topic. a couple months ago we were part of a presentation and i know chief was there by the mexican consulate regarding crime and particularly the mayan community as a result of that, they have been able to partner with the mexican consulate,

working with the mayan community to do an actual presentation regarding crime tips and really encouragement of reporting of crime so we are working together on that. we are hoping, looking towards june to launch that. that's an area that we've been working towards. we've worked with and reached out to supervisor campos office and talked about ways to better interact and encourage that reporting. >> and that list of community organizations, central american resources centers, have you worked with them? >> specifically which? >> because you mentioned the mexican consulate but these other groups that do a lot of work with the community? >> in terms of outreach, we've

worked with several community organizations in terms of talking about what types of services they provided. i met with verizon today and talked about what services they are providing and how we can refer people, if we encounter people on the street that can use their service, how we can refer them to their services and they have the opportunity to come to our officers and talk about with a they do out there. groups like the community response network that we work with very closely to come out to our line officers and talk about what they are doing out there and that's really where we are working towards partner ships and groups like casa de las madres, that come to the

meetings and give information regarding their resources. that meeting we decided to get it out of the station and into the community. we had it down on port trer oh. >> thank you, that's helpful. i want to talk about you give presentations on school safety. i want to ask a little bit more about that? >> sure. of course it's been a hot topic as of late not only in terms of violence that may occur on campus but also tips for kids in terms of keeping them safe. last year we participated in programs with james lak, we did a number of public schools, we did private

schools, the friends school, the days school. some of those presentations were geared based upon what the staff wanted in terms of keeping the campus safe and what their options are and maybe anti-bullying, that type of stuff. >> good to know. it's good to see that you can -- that you have made a lot of progress on the arrest rate. >> as i mentioned earlier, really our primary focus right now is towards robbery and violent crime. so we are in the process of doing our enforcement plan to effect those robberies because that's

where we've seen the spike for this year in terms of crime and that's one push where we are working in terms of a variety of enforcement operations and we also do continual target of enforcement operations in terms of fugitive apprehensions and munis lines in conjunction with the munis task force and bicycle task force operations and we really run the gamete of operations of where we are continue to go go forward on this year and really right now that focus is on robberies because that's where we've seen the spike. >> i'm wondering how you are able to get families involved

in the gang intervention program? >> yes. it's a pilot program we had at james middle school and the chief was actually on board with that with signing certificates for the kids and we met with the kids, 6th graders and talked about what the program is about and what do you know about gangs and what have you experienced and unfortunately a lot of these kids have quite a bit of knowledge about what's going on out there and prevention tips on how to keep themselves safe and we said we are going to do another presentation back tomorrow night if you want to come back and bring your family members you can do so. we got about 20 kids to come back with their family members. it was i believe an entirely spanish

speaking audience and we talked about the same things we did with the kids but also with the parents and giving the parents tips on knowing what the kids are doing and who their friends are and who they are hanging out with and really the focus of it was staying? school and staying with your family. and the people that care about you and that are going to help you keep out of trouble. and it was very well received. so we are hoping to continue that and build off that coming into next year. >> it's great that that approach is recognized by the papers. i need to read that article and i want to ask about 24th and mission, i know 16th and mission i have seen that a lot myself. 24th and mission how does it compare?

>> we certainly see challenges at 24th and mission but not the level of 16th and mission. what we do to supplement that area. we have a dedicated beat down there and the other thing is when we do the enforcement operations, we'll go down and target 16th and mission for a while and move to 24th and mission and utilize some of those resources when we are down there and again allows us to get a little bit more coverage out there. >> great. thank you. >> captain, moezer, first i want to thank you for the very thorough presentation. my congratulations to you and sergeant linberg, your community obviously values you as does this police commission. thank you for that work that you have done. one of the things i did want to point out to you and make you aware of

that i'm actually a legal council to the consulate of mexico and they have commend on how excited they are to work with you on your program. so thank you so much for representing us as well. often times when we come into the community, we get a sense of the ethnic make-up and background of the officers in this station and i don't see see that in your presentation. i'm glad to see the language access points that you have made, but coming to this station, given it's segment of the this population historic connection to the lgbt community, the lgbt force and

also i heard that you are very much valued on how the relationship has shaped and particularly with yourself and sergeant chuck. i would like to hear about your outreach to the lgbt community. >> sure. i don't have the exact number of the lgbt community. they actively patrol in all areas of the mission. they are assigned in the castro. sergeant chuck linberg is in our lgbt area, a lot of comments were a result of his role not only as the lgbt liaison but really building those bridges on what goes on in the castro and in the community. really, it's a matter of having those

dedicated officers and officers that are dedicated not only to the beat but the car second oris -- sectors that are really there day and day out getting to know the people and there for special events and call for service. it's about community policing and the community policing efforts that chief has really put forward and continual work on it and has been very successful up there. >> one of the -- as a member of the lgbt community one of the things i'm often hearing a great deal about is a rise in domestic violence within the lgbt community and how the police and other social services agencies are dealing with those issues. can you comment on that at all? >> sure, i certainly -- i can't speak to the numbers that are specific to the lgbt community,

like all segments of our community we do see domestic violence that occurs there. our officers are very adept at handling domestic violence issues. they are used to it and among all of the segments of our community, they are very adept at handling those. >> would you say we are experiencing a rise and how we are dealing with that? >> i don't think i have been here long enough to be able to effectively comment on that whether i have seen a rise and like i have said we see them in all segments of the community. >> anything further for the captain? >> captain, i want to thank you very much. it was a very thorough explanation. i would like to call our next item no. 5. we are going into a

closed session matter. so the commission will be wrapping up their public section of the meeting and we handle personnel matters in closed session. >> public comments to all matters below, closed section on whether to hold item 7 in closed session. >> public comment is closed. >> next item. >> line item 6. whether to hold item 7 in closed session. >> before going into closed session i want to thank everybody for coming out today. thank you. >> do we have a motion? a all in favor. aye.

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