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friday on the 1 o'clock 33 new police cadets will graduate from this academy in partnership with the p l this makes them eligible to at that particular time in the other programs for future police officers and i have to acknowledge the instructors who facilitate this program and that concludes my report. >> before we move on i have to say the san francisco police department has a history of being one that has a lot of firs. when you're a police officer in the men and women in blue who you are in your personal life it's is one that accepts people
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when i hear of the lgbt folks we have the first open gay officer sgt. frank and this was decades ago. that's where it starts. the cleave gets a lot of credit he anyway's it's an acceptable department and one of the things i'm proud about is their way ahead of other folks so thanks chief and a please call line item if 3 b >> oc director's report the review of recent activities for the fiscal reports for the period of january one through june 13th and 2012.
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the complaint of reports and awe adjudication of sustained complaints and the presentation is first >> good evening president and members of the police commission. as for the june comprehensive statistical report the occ had 32 hundred complaints down from 2013 that's a 12 percent decrease. the occ sustained some complaints compared to june 20, 2012. the occ mediated report down through june 2012. there are four awe jury
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instructions the first thing what the sustained obligations failure to take action in astonishment of the officers and the sergeant. the second one is the fourth case with the policy finding i'd like to table that report for a later police commission meeting because i'm in discussions with the chief about the viability of the organization cc policy recommendations. the third one is the neglect of duty the officer was astonished. the next one was failure to collect traffic stop data the officer was suspended because of this officer had previous sustained allegations for those same offense. moving on to the first quarter
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report because i provided those reports the first quarter 2013 statistical report is posted on the website. i'm have the second one no august that will give you a picture of the organization cc operation. i'll answer any questions you have >> commissioner khan. thank you for your report. i was actually going to ask you about the force and neglect case where there are a number of they seem like thoughtful detailed recommendations about tactics firearms and discharge of the review board and crisis intefrm
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>> thank you very much commissioner khan we need more time to flush them out with the chief and to understand really what's viable and what's not. >> commissioners any questions for director hicks? >> thank you very much director hikdz and you're welcome members of the commission and a please call item c-3. >> commissioner president's report and i have nothing to report commissioners you have anything to report? >> i'd like to say it's been a little while i think we have not met since then but i did attend commissioner kingsley's function i don't i guess i didn't see
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commissioner khan. very, very - what's the name of the group. the law center to prevent gun violence 20th anniversary >> very, very nice affair and i want to give you commissioner kingsley your induction into the founders circle very, very appropriate and given all the work you have done with the organization and obviously the personal loss at the 101 california i was very, very proud to be there and share that with you. it was it was a very impressive crowd.
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so once again congratulations and a thank you commissioner marshall >> i want to report back that i went to the academy and got some information for the benefit that we play as policymakers. i wanted to say that part of the role as a commissioner go like myself i was a prosecutor previously there's a danger there's so many shows about police you can forgot what you know and it's really great that this department has offered us this opportunity. so i wanted to thank the sergeant who is amazing if you ever see this officer on the street thank him and bill and jim who are retired officers.
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it was very helpful to me in terms of reasoning on the d go. and again understanding what our officers are dealing with. i think i did better than excepted. >> i didn't crash. >> and there were no cones or fatalities. a car did hit me but it was their fault. i want to say that while commissioner was he highlighted in the car at the pride parade on behalf of the department i want to thank police department association we sat with the police department and part of the fess tilts and the pride
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alliance officers welcome me and be grateful for the commissioners leadership and finding a role for all of us thank you >> commissioner. >> in this report, i was at the place of the firearm event it was really the whole city was there to celebrate. i was extremely proud to see our commissioner here inducted into the hall. it was great to see senator feinstein there and they talked into the night. as i could tell that gun prevention was not a short-term thing for them. i left that dinner and felt great about it.
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i was quite impressed >> and we went to the driving training that happened i don't know what you call it. >> the training and i know the department lacks the fancy equipment so i was surprised when i went to the county i won't say which room but it's coming from our posts it's big equipment it trains you how to drive in those complicated situations pr we got is a great presentation from the commissioner. he knows exactly know what he's talking about. he always had a quick answer. i got a deeper sense of what's
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good morning. i had even better 12 - better sense of the balancing test the route that's there's a big balancing test officers have to taking into consideration whether to engage in a pursuit or not. the crimes that's at stablg tons of things. at the same time they're doing that they have to report in. i just got in the car and did the driving part i cut off a fire truck. i went very fast i sped up to 60 mile-per-hour on a residential area i you showed up at the
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crime scene before the emergency vehicles >> i just want to pouty shared that experience that sergeant put together with us with the two retired officers. it was an excellent experience ail around and i appreciate all the origin they put in to providing us with this experience in the evening. also want to thank the chief for in the mid of all the pride activities of the last weekend of the month he did make time to go to the anniversary dinner and kickoff the reception before he went off to a gay wedding.
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i appreciate his continued and very apparent dedication to the gun reduction in this city which surpassed 8 hundred people in attendance. i was in the gay pride with the mayor and i missed the police department as i commented to be with that but happy to see that the commission was well represented this year with the police department contingent in that activity and it went well >> the commissioner will have to have you in his car he enjoyed that very much. what kind of a car is it >> it's a 1931 lincoln.
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>> thank you commissioner please call line item d for the consideration of future meetings. >> commission announcements for future commission meetings. >> any announcements commissioner. >> well next wednesday we're dark on the 17th by the wednesday after the 24th we'll be in the other district at 3151 or tag school any dmiments for the public and those are concerning public protection issues. >> with reference to scheduling of future issue for our meetings it's not issue so we spoke about this we'll have the officers from the airport present on the
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24th and i want to commissioners i spoke with deputy attorneys kathy regarding the general order that's a work in order. it's a large issue on the officers obligations on public agenda. we'll, work on this complex issue. and the deputy is working on that right now so we'll have that briefing in august. we're making progress on that. then also i'd like to schedule for consideration it's sort of a two prong report if you have a report on the san francisco reserve officers. we have the largest number of reserve officers in the history of the department and maybe who
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we have in the reserve this moves into the second prong the specialize. we were approached and the commission and city attorney's office and what their abilities are in buying a - it's a combination of what the patrol issue so if we can schedule that when is a good time for chief? >> end of august. >> okay. perfect thanks. >> commissioner. >> yes. i'd like to acknowledge contacting from the city attorney's office from 230u7 with another issue the
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officers are working with outside agencies for what the community wants to see so thank you. thank you deputy for bird-dogging that in terms of calendaring issues love to find out from the department a breakdown what we're doing in terms of here i go in demographics whose coming in the academy and their background. i've heard that folks are being hired that look like san francisco. i i know there's waves of hiring >> maybe we could do that in september. >> september okay. a date in september would be great
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commissioner >> just want to remind the commissioners that we do have we're still working on this the scheduling resolution. i know that deputy city attorney and myself are trying to prepare and get the recommendations out for you but we haven't actually decided on when to return but we should get that scheduled in the next couple of weeks so we can have a date certain. i want everyone to know it's still open your agenda we'll believe circling back with you >> it's now time for public comment on items abc and d.
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>> vote on whether or not to have this in closed session and for the administrative code section action. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen, what happens is we'll move into closed section those are private issues and their confidential litigation matters. so any public comment regarding this okay no one it's closed call the next item >> line item 67 we go into closed session. >> and we want to vote on whether or not to go into closed
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session action. >> can i have a motion. >> all in favor. >> session. >> we're back in open session and you have a quorum. call a line item >> all discussion in closed session california code action. >> do have i have a movement foreclosure or non-disclosure. >> the last item is adjournment do r i have a motion. >> all in favor? thank you very much we're adjourned
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i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban
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setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim.
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it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this
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park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take
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to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,
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