the same location my [inaudible] of a further lease extension by the building management. in order to stay on the same block it became part of my family we decided to move 80 across to 522 sutter street in a bigger place. i would like to continue my business and thrive even more than i have in the past. thank you for your time. >> thank you. do you want to say something? >> yes. i'm going to say good afternoon david and mr. yee. nice to be back home again. mr. yee, i /sr-pb haven't seen you in a couple months. david -- i've been in that

neighborhood for quite some time and [inaudible]. nick don't know he's raising a family, but he has raised more than a family in that neighborhood -- the nurses, the doctors, the dentists, the /kapbld /-l stick make /-rs -- everybody goes to nick. he is a family man. >> just want to -- we -- this is the opportunity for the applicant so maybe you can speak -- >> nick done know i missed my train. i have something to give to you -- and i'm asking you david and the board of supervisor, we don't want to

see him leave outta that neighborhood because i can be dragging in the field and i can have quite a few peoples with me. first thing he say come on in, have a coffee and have a sandwich. and i wind up getting in trouble because id do work in the field. just like now i'm here with nick because i want to be here with nick because i don't wanna see him leave and he has college age children and they going to my hometown which is new york and then they will be a part of my family. they'll be going to college there. i thank you all in advance. >> thank you miss stacy. there's miss stacy rule here at the board of supervisors so we will now call upon our police department, inspector fong or

keller. >> good afternoon, i'm [inaudible] on behalf of [inaudible] has filed an application with the california department of alcoholic beverage control seeking a type 21 general license for 522 sutter street. from december 2011 to december 2012, we have one police call for service and no police report. notification date for the [inaudible] on november 6, 2012 and the notice to the public was post on [inaudible] and this plot has 380 police report recorded for 2012 and the applicant premises is located in a high crime

year. this premises is located on [inaudible] with population of 3833. the officer [inaudible] three and the [inaudible] so the applicants premises is currently located in an [inaudible] concentration area. we have one letter of protest reported with the california [inaudible] the department recommendation would be no opposition from central police station if the applicant agrees to the recommended condition, alu concur. condition one is [inaudible] dated 10-30-2012. the sales of

[inaudible] spirits in sizes smaller than 20 milliliters is [inaudible] no malt beverages shall be sold with an alcoholic content greater than 5.7. loitering is prohibited on or around this premises. it's my understanding that inspector stockwell and the advocate [inaudible] agree to these conditions. >> thank you very much inspector. supervisors, any comments, questions. why don't we open it up for public comment? is there any other /phebl of the public who had not spoken? my

understanding is that this is something given that there is a positive reck /phepbl /tkaeugs that there has been outreach to the community. i know the district supervisor is supportive. i would support moving this forward with a positive recommendation if we have a motion. we have a motion by supervisor yee to move this item forward we can take that without objection. thank you very much. congratulations. if we can call item number four. >> item four is a hearing to discuss recent events of spry /hrepbls to the transgender /skphaoupbty. ty community. >> thank you. this is an item that i introduced -- the hearing request. and let me

begin by saying that one of the most disturbing things that i have seen as a district supervisor in the last few years are some of the incidents around the violence targeting our transgender community and it pains me that the concentration of that violence has been in the mission. the mission is a very welcoming place and diverse neighborhood. but in this neighborhood that embraces people from all walks of life, we have a group of human beings are being targeted and being targeted for physical abuse. i am proud of the transgender community of the women who have come forward to speak about difficult

situations. the /purpl of this hearing is to /pwrepbg a level of gravity at i belief this herb sure has not received so that we as a city can make a concerted effort and commitment to make dealing with this issue, this violence against the community the priority that it needs to be. that's the point of this hearing. and the hope is that out of this hearing we will not only have discussions and we will get information, but that there will be action, a comprehensive strategy by this city to make sure no woman, no transgender woman or member of this communality feels unsafe in san francisco. so with that, i have a number of speakers [inaudible] and i'd like to /tkpweupbl by calling on rebecca from our dis/trebgt attorney's office and i want to note that our district attorney

has a long history of supporting this community and of making i want clear that we in san francisco are not going to tolerate any kind of hate crime against the transgender communality. with that i'll turn it over to our assistant district attorney so she can present. >> thank you. good afternoon yee. thank you for /eupbl serrating the district attorney's office [inaudible] working on for some time so we welcome the /hr*epb, we have a hate crimes unit where our prosecutor has specialized training. he has successfully prosecuted transgender hate

crimes. with respect to the transgender community and hate crimes, since 2010 we've had 11 cases and we've been able to file on nine of those. six of those cases resulted in /haeutd crime convictions. we strive and continue to strive to improve relations with the transgender community [inaudible] with the mayor's office and with any other neighborhood community or government organization that will work with us on this to improve the transgender community and law enforcement. those meetings will continue until we see what needs to happen happen, which is good

/khrab /raegs, reporting when crimes occur and successful prosecution of cases when that is merited. to improve the safety at 16th and mission we have attempted to organize the community on patrol similar to that of the castro community. we've participated in the mayor's office meetings about 16th and mission to make sure we were reviewing all the cases in that area. we want to make clear collaborationings aside that we offer victim services for any and all who has been a /srubg tim of crime in the mission dis/treubgtd. people with go to the women's building every wednesday from 11 am to 1 pm. obviously our goal here is to make sure that /efrpl, regardless of genre, identity

and orientation feels comfortable reporting crime and we will prosecute it when we can. >> thank you. any questions? why don't we now call upon our police station captain, captain moser of the mission station. the police department is a very important player when something happens they are the first agency this they interact with. and i see sergeant [inaudible] is here who has a long history of serving or lgtb community well, not only in the department, but throughout the city. i'll turn it over to you captain, but the question that

has come up for me in terms of the police department is what's the level of sensitivity to this community. what we have heard repeatedly is that they feel there is a disconnect, that there isn't a level of understanding that makes many of them feel welcome to move forward and to come forward and report a hate crime and that at times when a crime is reported, it is not treated as a hate crime. and that of course, this creates disincentives for many of these women to come forward. you know you care deeply about all of our residents and i wan to thank you for always being proactive and so those are the kinds of questions that i think need to be /tkeuls cussed as we're talking about this relative to the police department. >> certainly. thank you. good

afternoon supervisor campos, supervisor yee. as you mentioned we're here to talk about crimes against transgenders in the mission and at 16th and mission. we've had three reported cases involved transgender victims. one occurred on january 26, an assault; another occurred on march 30, that was also an assault; and the third occurred on april 8 and that was a robbery. on those three cases we've made arrests on two of those -- the robbery and one of the assaults. as a representative, the population of crimes in the area of 16th and mix, in that same timeframe we've had approximately 375

incidents and of those, three were involved transgender victims. with the level of concern and the talk of the up tick of crimes of transgenders, this speaks to a possible reporting problem, as you mentioned, being that we have three crimes out of a total of 375 incidents. there's a few things that we've been doing to improve the general safety of the area and second, to improve the relationings between the law enforcement and transgender community. 16th and mission, we've tried a different

strategies to address safety concerns down there. we conduct a joint operation specifically targeting 16th and mission with bart police, robbery bait that we've done to really build a bridge with the transgender community and encourage that reporting of

crime, which is really what we want to get to because as we see when we do have the crimes that are reported, our officers are going out and we are successful in making arrests and that's what it's really about is bringing these individuals to justice. one thing that we've done is the department has created an lgtb safe zone. it is at all district stations, including the mission. signs are up to show the people that the police stations are a safe zone where if you are a victim of crime you can come in and be treated fairly and justly. [inaudible] with the sisters of perpetual

indulgence to get the word out again that these stations are lgtb safe zones, places where you can come to report and feel safe. we are trying to get the community around 16th and mission involved in a similar safe zone project where we want to get businesses to come forward and become safe zones for the transgender community should they feel they need a place to go into where they can feel safe, where someone can call the police for them and offer them assistance. we want these businesses around that area to become involved in that as well. we've conducted roll call training regarding or department policies involving

interactions with transgendered individuals as i've said in other forrums regarding crimes against transgender, we really want to encourage that if somebody reports a crime and if they are a victim and feel they're not obtaining the best service, i've always asked them to have a sergeant come to the scene because we want everybody treated fairly and appropriately in the way they should be. >> thank you very much. supervisor yee, you have a question? >> just a quick question. in regards to the three this year or the 11 in previous years

total, i'm curious when -- let's take the three this year. two were assaulted and one was robbery. were they tar targeted because they were transgender or they were just assaulted randomly, i guess. >> these three cases it appears that these were not specifically targeted as being crimes specifically against transgenders. what we do when we have these crimes is we contact special investigations /tk*e detail who have the hate crime unit and we run these crimes past them. they have a hate crimes unit that looks at these cases. i was just talking to lieutenant grace, they also have our transgender

liaison for our department. he's working with the hate crimes unit to actually further look into any /eufrbl shoes that we have regarding transgender cases. >> this is general question for the da and police whether or not we have an effort to, as you were saying, sort of bridge that understanding of the transgender population with those that don't understand the population. is there some effort being made at this point whether it's through your department or any department in san francisco. >> as i mentioned -- i assume you're talking with the communality? as i mentioned, and i'll speak to the police

part and i believe rebel /ka you can speak to the da's office. one thing we're working towards -- the lbgt safe zones. >> district attorney's office. >> thank you for the question. we've had trainings for the office and [inaudible] victim services advocates as well as our prosecutors on these issues. we have had a conversation about doing a /p-b lick awareness campaign and will continue that conversation.

>> is that conversation inclusive of the school district? a: yes. >> yes. >> if you don't mind, we have a number of young san francisco citizens who are visiting our chambers today. welcome to the committee. can you talk a little bit about the interaction with and the role of the hate crimes unit. what's the role of the mission station and what's the role of the hate crime's unit.

>> when we get a case, especially a case like this that's involving a transgender victim, we look at the elements of the case, look at the facts of the incident, call an individual from the hate crimes unit, review that case with them and proceed from there. if it is a hate crimes case, that unit would take that case and proceed further with the investigation. if it is a case that doesn't involve hate crime elements, as did our robberies and assaults then we would investigate it at mission station. >> if someone from the hate crimes division can come up and introduce yours. yourself. if you can tell us a

little bit about how what your role is. say there's an incident that happened that there are allegations that it could be a hate crime, where do you get involved and how does that work? >> we get involved that night or day through communication with the district. we either go on scene and speak with the witnesses, victims, or we get assigned the case later the next following day and what we do is we reach out to the station in communication with whoever investigated. we communicate with them, discuss the case, see if there's any further information. we then go to the da's office. we consult with them in regards to

the case and seep where we stand and we then go and interview nibble that -- either the suspect or the victim and then we either charge or we do that not. >> can i ask you at what point do you speak to the victim here? >> either that night or the following day. >> so can you tell us a little bit about the kind of outreach that you do to the transgender community. out reach -- a lot

of it has been listening. we've been trying to listen and also make ourselves available to the community. >> okay. thank you. the point that i want to make sheer is this and this is not a personal point against any /phebl of the hate crimes unit. i appreciate that people have a job to do and we appreciate the work, but this is part of the frustration here. but i am grateful that we are talking about the mission station because captain has repeatedly proven himself to be very responsive to the residents of that neighborhood. the problem

i have with the hate crimes unit is that i have to say it hasn't been, in my view, engaged in the level that it needs to be engaged. until now that captain said that they were here, my office had not even heard from them that they were coming. i had to call chief [inaudible] yesterday and ask them to make sure that they were here because i think that it would have been embarrassing if the hate crimes unit hadn't been present for this discussion. i don't think it's meaningful out reach to the transgender community and i think this is a big part of the problem and i really hope that the situation changings. i know that [inaudible] is committed to this issue, i know

captain is committed to this issue, but i think that the presentation as we saw speaks for itself. there's a lot to be desired there. so with that, let me call only the department of the status of women. i want to thank our executive director and your staff for your responsiveness on this herbal issue and it's good to have you here. >> i'm director of the department on the status of women. last night i was [inaudible] it really did reaffirm the importance of inclusiveness and that's the kind of inclusiveness we like to demonstrate at the department for or transgender sis.