test, test, test, test, test, test, test >> thank you and good morning and welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors neighborhood services and safety committee of july 18th i'm david campos we're joined by supervisor eric mar and later by

the committee members supervisor yee. we have supervisor breed. the clerk of the committee and we want to thank him is derrick and thank you members of the sftv staff (calling names) and for our staff from the city attorney's office. mr. clerk do you have any announcements >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic doblths. all documents shall be submitted n to the mr. clerk. thank you very much >> we've been joined by supervisor yee. >> item number one is for

preventing bike theft in the city of is no. >> i want to thank supervisor mar on the committee as well for submitting this item that is co- sponsored by other and myself. >> chair campos. thank you everyone for being here this morning it's actually been planned several months on this serious issue but i be given the data that shows maybe a thee to one bicycles stolen compared to cell phones it's worth to attention in our city is important. many have put their heads together and mr. fred has

drafted an incredible report we'll be talking about a little bit later. but i want to say that bike thefts have been an issue in the city. it's been eating at me for 40 years when i had my bicycle stolen in mid-school first year also in understanding how those steps happen is really important. this hearing is the best way to get a much better system in the city. i've been riding bicycles for 45 years. i used to live in davis california so i see in many ways how bicycling can improve lives and we're trying to increase this is a

the police department according to national studies undercuts the measures by many studies but like thefts have increased in our city at a similar rate and that's been a tremendous increase so bike thefts have gone up singularly as well. if we want to address the bike thefts we have to address that in a significant way. my third aid peter i think it was a couple of months ago had a direct experience and he's been the main person in my office trying to put this together but

his bike was stolen about a week after i called for this report and he getting got a close up look how his bike was recovered but how the system has debated getting their bicycles back and his experience is similar to others we've heard from throughout the city that some police stations do a really excellent job of processing bike thefts and but many of the stations can learn from the best practices and could use support i think from within the department and the community. so a major goal from this hearing is to look at the best practices to share that throughout the police

departments and our city. but the police can't do this all by themselves and based on our research i've also supported the creation of a new bicycle regulatory and theft outreach program which we're hoping it approved in the budget. i want to thank the mta especially neil and mta staff. our planning department and the transportation authority as well that is working on many different bicycle projects but funding for important projects and quickly rolling out our bicycling program throughout the city. that's a key part to allow folks to park their bikes in a safe place. i want to say colleagues if

there are no questions if we could have a few presentations from staff and we're asking the staff presentations to be as succinct as possible after the budget and analyst office presents the finding >> supervisor mar i want to make sure that any of my colleagues if they want to make any introductory remarks. >> i'd like to associate myself with the issue. this is important especially because one of the things the information i've governor from constituents in my districts their bicycles locked in their garages are getting stolen. i want to figure out ways in which to address this problem in

addition to all other thefts. thank you that for taking the leadership in this. like the residents my second bike was stolen out of gage happened in october a few months before any colleagues was stolen. i had it locked in the garage and other residents in my building as well. it's a very sophisticated method of bike theft for our building especially. and thank you. i wanted to say after fred presents the findings of the report we'll also have officer from our local police department and neil to present. i'm pleased we've been working

with supports in our communities on bicycle theft so morgan st. clarg clare is a 37-year-old organizations it that's been working that the police department. and i think sf save has been a tremendous resources. i'm going to introduce mr. fred >> thank you supervisors i'm fretting fred from the budget and analyst office. our office conducted an analysis at the question of the inspire mary looking at the return of stolen bicycles in san francisco. we've objected compute from the mta. we had exchanges about potential

plans for the future. i have a couple of slides and i will start those on the other hand, and go through them quickly. >> i think the slides will be up soon hopefully. >> are they not there? >> i don't see them - there it goes. >> so the first points and i think supervisor mar you hit on most of those the current share of all transit modes is 23.35

percent of all trips by san franciscans were on bicycles. it may not sound like a huge number basing but has grown by 2 thousand since 2005. most important it's been growing dramatically in recent years. and as you mentioned the goal strategy so to increase the share of all trips on bicycles by 2002. the steps we obtained there were reported actual in attempted bicycle themselves theflz in

2012 were 1 hundred and 15. they've come up with a measure of actual bicycle thefts that states that for every one reported there are on average four more not reported so so when you for about that in you've known people who have their bicycles stolen they don't report it but that brings up to 4 thousand and 85. we remember through an experience to attempt to value those bicycles. there's a wide range to a range of low priced bicycles. but we came up with a figure of $4.6 million in value of the stolen bicycles in 2012.

the rate at which the bicycle rates stolen has increased there's a 70 percentage rate reported by bicycle theft folks. the st. pd has recovered 8 hundred and 64 and against this is 2012 data but a very small number of owners recover their bikes it's 1 hundred and 42 this which is 16 percent. the reason is the difficulty in proving ownership by bicycle owners and some don't know to go to the police departments

there's this warehouse full of bikes. quickly distribution by the supervisorial districts. it effects all neighbors as you can see some more than others like district 6. no district went untouched by bicycle thefts as you can see. this table is just the methods we use and the average bike value we've assigned to stolen bikes that were classified as grand theft. over $950 is granted theft. and part of this assignment is looking at the policies and procedures in place that the police department has to deal with stolen bikes. quickly thefts when their

tracked and the police departments crime data warehouse. recovered bikes are under the jurisdiction of the department and the property control division. they store the bikes and records of the bikes in custody are kept separate. >> so can i just say the 8634 is for one year and that's the average. >> it will be going up with the number of thefts because the theft rate is compared took the theft growth. for required is proof of ownership. it's not that common place it

people keep their receipts and they only have their bikes for a couple of years but simply showing up and saying i lost my bike that won't do it >> well, if my two bikes were there i couldn't access them without proof maybe you could go back to the place of purchase and get a receipt but that may not be possible. in terms of investigation of reports of stolen bikes some stations have dedicated resources that are dedicated to bicycle thefts per we were able to get some information but

there's no policy at a point for sprld approach that insures that all stations will have staff daeblgd to this or it's handled the same way at all stations. there is no department-wide approach to educating the public will ways they can prevent bike theft and also how they can come to the police department to recover their stolen property. we contacted the district attorney's office and they said that bike theft is considered merits of the case and the decision is made whether or not to prosecute the case, however, we asked for caseload data to see how many cases were prosecuted and they didn't have any data to indicate their work in that area.

we contacted and got information from the bike police since they've got stations of bikes in san francisco. the same approach there in terms of theft their treated bilk my other crime they take the reports and try to contact the owner. they have the same limitations as sfpd. both bart and sfpd will either auction or donate their bikes.

we have found that san francisco police department they have regular education leaflets and brochures they leave and other material of the most effective way to prevent theft. they have bike racks at most of their stations so pedestrians can leave their bikes and they were reasonably protected and under the surveillance of bart agencies. they have community officers who repeatedly patrol the streets. this is the photo of the day we visited and you can see many of them but it's quite a process to locate a bike in there without

identification. the bike theft in the low level of bicycle recovery this was based on our discussions with the police department and looked at it some literature on the topic and the improper locking techniques but this is the information that owners need to have if they don't know it. the issue of establishing proof of ownership is a vexing problem. i think i hit on that enough but clearly if you don't have a receipt of ownership there will be a problem. insufficient bicycle parking the bart stationary a good example of what could be down. the underground station don't

have those kind of facilities and mta also has in its bicycle plan some aggressive ideas for expanding the number of bicycle racks and facilities on city streets in varies locations. the police department approach the bicycle theft it's another transmitting for about it would be helpful if the police departments took a standard strategy department-wide. sfpd staffing channels is moot matter we found it they have bicycle baiting where they'll you put a best of my knowledge out on the street with a poor

lock and observe thieves but that's not something that can be done and it requires staff resources to do that but it's prove that to be a fairly successful unique. we did look at other cities and a bicycle programs are in place in a number of cities and a an important decision whether it's a volunteer or voluntarily involuntarily system. city of oakland has volunteer programs. predictability in trends where their