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i've been to this empathies community meeting in the past to talk about the occ so bear with me if you've heard this before. the occ is the third largest civilian oversight of law enforcement allocation in the united states only sewer passed in size by new york city and chicagos civilian oversight agency. the office was created by a board of supervisors sponsored chart amendment in 1982 so it was adopted by voters to have an office of citizen complaints. we're thirty years old we're became fully operational in 1983. we were originally with the san francisco police department but placed under the commission
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straight from the police department. the police commission is also a civilian body. the function is to assist the trust for the public by being the bridge in matters of police misconduct and police policies. to that end the mission is to insure police accountability by kicking fair and timely and unbiased investigations making recommendations on police policies and practices and kicking mitigation on the matters. they investigate civilian complaints against san francisco police officers and make policy recommendation on san francisco police department policy. in california law enforcement agencies must have a procedure to investigate complaints by the
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public. the office of citizen complaints serves the purpose for the san francisco police department. we're staffed by a diverse staff of individuals who have never been police officers. our 35 members are majority investigators and the balance of our consists of attorneys and support staff. we conduct investigations of complaint to find out what happens and follow the evidence by interview the person or persons who brought the complaint and the involved officers. we have superpower to obtain evidence. we obtain additional evidence from do police department by way of police reports generated by the department first year we
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also visit the site of laejd incident and while we are investigating that site we may take photographs of places or persons or videos. we aim to complete our investigation in 9 months and we must complete those within one year were when we complete an investigation we make a findings of whether or not the police officer violated imply police department rules or state or local law. the standard approved for our investigation is the prepens of evidence maybe greater than 50 percent. if after the investigation the occ finding is followed up to
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the chief. he can accept our finding or not and he has the ability to compose discipline up to a 10 day suspension. if the occ recommendations that the suspense would exceed 10 days then the police commission has jurisdiction over those cases and the ability to impose discipline greater than 10 days first year in addition dots discipline side we provided mediation services. last year in 2012 we facilitated 62 mitigations that represents 8 percent of seven hundred and 99 cases we closed last year. our mediation program allows the complainants to resolve the
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issues to input that form. the goal of the mediation is to bring the parties together to achieve a mature understanding. we have a partnership with the american bar association who provides us with the meters. we conduct our mediation in other languages other than english. it's volunteer so the officer and the victims must agree. i'm proud to report that last year 90 percent of the officers eligible for mediation agreed to participate in the program. also the officer of citizen complaints last year was the winner of the brfrd ward. additionally our mission court
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reporter was this year's recipient of the president's award of dispute resolution of northern california. finally i'd like to share a few statistics we got in 2012 and how we resolved those complaints we received 4 hundred plus complaint and this is a 67 percent reduction. last year, we sustained leakages of 6 percent of our cases that we closed. we found that proper kick in 31 percent of the engages that we investigated we found that 4 percent of the allegations were not true. the largest percentage were for unwarranted action followed by conduct reflecting misconduct. and 9 percent of the allegations
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that were received we didn't receive any allegations of unnecessary force. the demographics of our climate ants were african-americans comprised 26 person and caucasian were counted and latinos had 12 percent and pacific islanders 3 percent. our staff speaks several languages including cantonese and spanish. two of our investigators are bilingual spanish speakers which is important because the largest number of interviews we conduct are in spanish. for languages other than the one previously mentioned we'll get
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those services. we have intakes in spanish and 5 in cantonese. we're located on the corner of van ness and marketed. we're assessable by public transportation for walk in complainants but we receive complaints regarding police conduct from 12 calls by e-mail and faxes. we're open monday through friday between 8 and 5 and on the off hours we have on a answering service. you can file a complaint with the district station and they'll forward it to us. if any of you would like additional information i'm
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previously introduced a senior member ed and he's hear to hear your concerns. thank you >> thank you for your presentation. you know, we're very lucky director hicks has really turned the organization around it went from having low credibility to annoy one that has respect that are, in fact, it was very notable there was not a sustained allegation of excessive force by another police officers. considering the number of officers it is the credit goes to the staff and police officers. we're not - we're community police officers we get out off our cars and talk to the folks.
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i think there's a great deal of credit that goes to the captain and hicks. it's important to build the bridge of trust. part of reason we have assurance about his leadership is abused director hicks and your team keets the facts and data you've got tape flight vofrdz who investigate those cases and it's the same thing in the criminal justice system officers can keep moving on about their careers. i'm appreciative. president obama said one of the ideas in the wake of the zimmerman verdict when is a topic of another decision his
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work in illinois to begin to track any racial profiling to stop the folks and that's a useful tool in chicago. and certainly absolutely we're on a collaboration to the leadership we've been able to get good data about what's working and not working and take movements to be proud of in 2012 no officers had a complaint of excess i have force. it's not as if you're hiding in the basement somewhere and you do incredible community outreach so thank you director hicks >> thank you, very much. to
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the police commission. i want to acknowledge the staff of the officers of complaints that works very hard and they're fair in the face of some adversity in the past. the caseload is much lower and i want to give a big shout out to the staff that's been so diligent so thank you and a thank you >> please call the next item. >> commissioner reports the commissioners report. >> i have one item to report because we want to get to the captain. yesterday the board of supervisors reapproved the commissioner jose to rejoin us she's the second senior to dr.
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marshall and we've missed her and thank you very much commissioner. commissioners anything else you want to announce >> the commissioner announcements and scheduling of items to be considered in the future. next week we'll not have a meeting the next will be august 7th. >> at the next meeting frail we're going to go dark next week because there's 5 yens no july. and with reference we're going to have a special august meeting we're going to be presenting a special presentation to the police officers who were on the oingo have that
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presentation on the 7th in case you're interested >> when does the honors sermon. >> it's september 4th at the legion of honor 6:00 p.m. >> okay without further adieu call the main item fire department. >> captain to address the commission on a police activities in the terryville district discussion. >> good evening. >> good evening. you want to use go sit in the audience captain? and a yes, than
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thank you. >> good evening supervisors and members of the commission and members the examined staff. i'm the commanding office of the police district. the car value police district it the largest district we have 1 hundred and 63 people living here there's several neighborhoods westportal and st. francis woods and ocean view and
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oceanside terrace and the merced triangle and many more. >> we have 4 district supervisors in district 5 we have london reed and district 4 katie and district 7 he has a large part norman yee and supervisor avalos this is his area. our major transit routes are the 28 muni and the m ocean view among others. our major traffic routes are slope boulevard and sunset and 19th avenue and ocean avenue and others. our commercial areas are
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westportal and ocean avenue and others. we divide our districts into 6 car sectors. this is one one car sectors of bored are 7th avenue and 19 avenue here our two car sectors the border are sunset boulevard and those are the 3 cars basically to the beach and there's the skyline and other. our 4 car sector 19th avenue and saks on and others over here. our 5 car is daily city border and the ocean car on the side.
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our demographics our population agencies compromise backing black 4.3 percent and white almost 40 percent. almost 16 percent are 65 and older and almost 17 percent are 17 and increase. i have a one hundred and 7 sworn officers at the states and that includes me. for the captain staff i have two sivendz it's my clerk and on day office. i have 3 sergeant's and two sivendz. the two sivendz are station duty officers. in the thirty officers i have 3 school cars and one homeless outreach officer.
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i have two lieutenants and 40 officers at night and the two sivendz again are station d officers and that comprised my swing shift. on the investigator team i have one officer and that officer is the video retrieval. i have one sergeant and 8 officers here. and generally they stay in this car sectors the 6 car sector because historically that has the most crime and they work plain clothes. i have 15 percent female officers the rest over 5 years
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of '73 percent of officers have modern 5 years. apologizing empathize 33 percent and the district population is 45 but when you add the filipino officers it's goes o close to the 45 percent black officers 45 people v. and latino 8 percent and district population is about 1 unlawful and the white officers 40 percent. our officers speak korean and spanish and cantonese and others. our part one violent crimes rapes are down and robbery is up and aggravated assault are down. our property crimes for burglary is down.
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auto theft is up auto whether is up and arson is down and other thefts are up. our violent crime arrests compared to last year and the date we're using is june 30th. we haven't made in homicide arrests this year our robbery arrests are up and our aggravated assaults are up. our burglary incidents arrests are down but burglaries are up. larsen is up and arrests are up. our community police advisory board we meet one a month and what they do is advise me on the crime and quality of life things
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that are important to the community. we developed a kind of like a postcard regarding distracted walking for people who are crossing the street or people who are going to be robbed because of being sdrashgd. we do a lot of community engagement. we do the college involvement. we have a lieutenant and a lady from the school district got together and that was to find a way to getty kids into cologne college. the chief said to expand that we had 25 stated from balboa and lincoln and other districts they were chosen by their teachers
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and sf state opened their doors to us and provided the instructors also and the kids were tact the college process what they neat to do to get into college and the experience of what it's like to be in excellently and the chief spoke we having had lawyers and computer designers and the kids were put into programs. we do any affairs and block parties. the police officers go camping and hiking with the kids. we have another evident on august 6th at 5:00 p.m. that's a
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occurring. we have a map officer we're having him look at trends. we average about 15 robberies a month and last year, it was 20. some are more violent. beginning this year people were being hit instead of asking the victims for the money first. and now they're hitting folks again. so some of the good things h that are happening is the arrests you saw actually going up. captain did a pilot program and she had a large screen tv up there you could watch video. i'm going to help my captain
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real quick. the terryville is a no different than the rest of the city's. there's a cell phone iernl involved in more robberies in san francisco if i sub transacted those crime would be down singularly. we're working hard to come up with a michelle they're using in other countryside to as far as the auto burglaries go and auto thefts go 890 mros plus all these are recovered and arrests of up the cars themselves are not routinely stole for long. just like the cell phone robberies if you don't leave
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things in plain view in our cars the robberies are small. again they're looking for electronic devises and their left in plain view in the cars. i'll give it back to the captain but i don't want you to think that people are getting cash stolen out of their hands but guard our electronic devises and make san francisco a a safer place. >> i see a public education campaign in your future. >> actually, we do the education campaign. we development those cards as the distracted walking yeah. people learn to guard their
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wallet you know how can i ever you are an atm machine. thank you for the information. it's a constant reminded. thank you commissioner do i have a question >> thank you president. captain long for r thank you for your presentation. one of the things that's most expressive is the community work and collaboration. your workout work with youth and education and encouraging them to go on to college and helping with the process and career you, you know, some career education going on there and jobs. it's, you know, one of the best things we can do in terms of keeping our streets save. is to keep youth challenged in e
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positive direction in their life. as you know i'm a resident of the terryville area in the west portal section in particular and raised my son here. so it's of particular interest the safety and well-being of the terryville area. this card is terrific by the way. for those of you who worked hard on this. and on the pedestrian safety and bicycle safety are there any areas you want to highlight, you know, in the terryville area where people should be particularly cache about whether bicycle accidents
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