it leaves us with a sense of pride and hope and trust in the type of officers that we're going to have in our streets in addition to of course the diversity. >> thank you very much. dr. marshall. >> yeah, i just want to say i think this is the first meeting since the gun buy back chief and again great operation. it was very smooth that day. you did it at the boys club and the gun buy back and i think even more impressive on that day in four locations around the state of california, san jose, oakland, san francisco, los angeles that collectively we collected 1500 guns. >> wow. >> to get off of the streets so for the state and our participation it was great and april we're talking about doing

the next thing. i don't want to spring on you but the next one in april and continuing these and thank the mayor's office and the everyone and the more guns off the street the better so thank you. >> please call line item 3d. >> commission announcements and items for future commission meeting. >> announcements. >> there is not a regular meeting next wednesday but thursday january 16 at 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. a joint meeting with the board of supervisors public safety committee to discuss pedestrian and bicycle safety and in the board of supervisors' chambers at 5:00 p.m.. and we might want to talk about scheduling the community meeting in one of the stations, either parker or southern station is up for it. >> next is southern or parker.

>> i believe it's balboa park station. >> chief, do you have any preference you would like to see next in order, balboa -- >> >> balboa -- balboa park station it is. >> >> >> park. >> february correct? >> yes. >> commissioners i know we have a pretty packed agenda coming up here including thursday. is there any items that we need to add to future agendas commissioners? >> just a reminder and i am gathering that in part inspector monroe is staying on top of this. we have a number of items that are on the january list for our scheduling resolution and we want to make sure that they get calendared for those appropriate

meetings -- nights like tonight when we're a bit crowded things maybe shuffled around a bit but we don't want to lose track of the items for the month anyway. >> okay. inspector monroe you have a list of the items? >> we do. >> all right. are we ready for public comment on these items? >> yes. >> i am edward hasbrook and member of the san francisco bicycle coalition and never owned a motor vehicle in my life and as long as i have lived in san francisco and the majority of my life i have the bias of motorists against bicyclists and the police repeatedly against bicyclists. you will hear more about this next thursday but i

want to speak to the deficiencies in your statistics that hide and prevent you from seeing that pattern of bias. you have statistics. most assaultings on bicyclists fortunately don't leave the bicyclists in the hospital or mouth and no collision and just swerved at us and terrorize us off the road. those don't show up. if people were coming repeatedly saying there is a pattern of bias on the ethnicity or gender of the victim you would say the police need to track the gend or or the ethnicity of victims or complaisants so you can see that. you have no statistics. the traffic complainants or am victims are pedestrians, motorists or bicyclists.

offenses against bicyclists are not a specific category. you can't tell failure to yield to another vehicle or bicyclists. you can't tell because it's not track. the police probably want to tell you they're not biased against bicyclists. if that is true they would want to collect the statistics and come back and show you that the percentage of calls and complaints resulted in the same percentage of citations issues of criminal charges brought of arrests of convictions of jail time when there was a bicyclists or another motor vehicle but without those statistics you can't do it. given the seriousness of allegationses of bias which i believe are founded and same if ethnic or gender community. mandate the collection of that data as a

categorization of these cases. secondly i would urge you secondarily as a best practice already practiced in other jurisdictions to log complaints even if no action is taken by license numbers. you can see if there is a pattern against a vehicle but that is a secondary matter but if you want to address the issues of bias and enforcement you have to have data to support it. you are not collecting it. you need to modify the data bases to do that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>i am not texting and walking. i have no -- [inaudible] >> that's all right. >> my name is eric teffal and a program manager with the san francisco bicycle coalition and i appreciate the report from the police department. i want to

acknowledge chief suhr and issuing a incident last year and proper reporting and investigations of bicycle related crashes so i want to definitely thank you and thank commissioner loftus that we're a partnership and collaborating on going forward and work at this time to improve the situation. so the main points that we're really -- the three main things that the bicycle coalition want to make sure are addressed and full and complete reporting is happening that people walking and biking when collision it's reported and no bias and acknowledged. that training -- proper training for the police and commander ollie touched on that and chief suhr. we have been working with captain lazzaro on doing video similar to what was shown and good

footage to show scenarios how police should be behaving and working with captain lazzaro and pushed to get that done hopefully in the first quarter of 2014. it's pretty quick and also we want to see -- you mentioned the focus on the five. it seems unclear what the strategy is for enforcing that. it seems when we talk to captains in different departments understanding how the five and what's the strategy for doing that? how is it going to be enforced, reported back to the public to say these are the five major things. these are the five causes and intersections and how we're going to tackle the issues so those are the points i want to make today and nice next week and the one issue talking with the point board of supervisors and neighborhood services and public safety committee and there were two other member but

they had to go and we have dised indicated members that are passionate about this issue and bad incidents with reporting or collisions and it's passionate for our members but they couldn't stay but speak but thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> i will try to keep this under three minutes so thank you commissioners for your time, attention and devotion to the issues and i want to thank the sfpd on these issues with public safety and the data driven report on focus on the five is a great example how to use information to make the best most sound and efficient decisions for allocation of resources. i also really want to point out the emphasis for the db related to the language change from the word "accident" to "collision"

and has a meaning and words have power and convey something to people that hear them and a key change that will have a positive impact of the lastly as december as commander ollie pointed out seven people died. the only good news is two of the drivers involved in the fatalities were the cited and charged with vehicular manslaughter and a positive sign from the period and i want to personally commend commander ollie but i think he left and working with nicole snyder and i worked there as well and worked with them and extremely responsive to solve these problems but there is still work to be done and quickly to sum up what they are. we want to see all collisions reported by the sfpd. i know it's hard work but it needs to

be done so we need to know what problems to solve. we need to investigate the collisions and not just report them but investigate them. officers should be trained on an ongoing basis. the lessons you learn you keep. it takes 60 days to form a habit, not what they tell you in school. and it's important to enforce the traffic laws that have the biggest impact adversely on the most vulnerable road users. that's key as well. and if we're doing that enforcement and transparency in the monitoring of the activities and act smartly how we're enforcing the law so i look forward to seeing all of you or some of you at the next meeting and i thank you for your service to the city. >> thank you very much. >> i want to speak to the speakers and the way the focus on the five works and if there

is a sixth intersection and not just limited to five but at each intersection there is a primary collision factor and the violation that contributed to the accident to make that particular intersection that much less safe than others so when the officers go out and focus on the five they're also told what the primary collision factor is and look for that for the citation to modify the behavior for folks to go away for the unsafe violation, whatever is the case so as the last speaker spoke to it would be good that is part of it. that is part of it. >> further public comment? >> yeah. it was good to note the domestic violence and the elderly abuse as we start to have more of an aging

population in san francisco those are going to be problems. with that i do appreciate it but i'm also wondering we have -- what i just looked up we have 112 languages instead of like the 10-15 on the list, so i guess i'm wondering what do you do when you have someone speaking a language that you don't have an officer for? and also what are your chances of recruiting people who speak like other languages from nigeria? we have a small percentage of people that speak that as well. and i think regarding the public safety and the traffic i think it's just how do we get people to be more mindful of what's happening in -- i mean it's a little bit

difficult on everybody because people just getting into their own mind set and go where they're going. i mean you don't need a cell phone or a mp3 player or physical device to distract you. you could be somewhere else. you could be meditating on where you have to go or something. >> thank you very much. >> i just want to comment on the video on domestic violence and elder abuse. i think it was a good video. i was thinking maybe they could have a video on how -- on homicide, how to detect those, how to talk about how to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the

community so that people can talk, you know. have a video on something like that. i brought videos here before, and now that i know that the sound works maybe i will bring some. i also wanted to say that -- i'm kind of getting out of what i was going to say. yeah, well that video was a good video and i really think that something needs to be made up on that also. this is what i remember. the last time i was here we were supposed to talk about the cold cases and that we were supposed to get information on the cold cases. i hadn't heard anything from anybody yet on the cold cases that they were supposed to checkup on it and i haven't heard anything. i haven't gotten a call. i am out there trety much doing it myself. i

would like to hear. i would like to hear about my son's case and the other mothers want to hear too. these cases are still out there. >> i will have someone follow up with tomorrow. >> please, please, thank you. >> thank you ms. brown. >> hi. i love how the numbers just magically fix themselves to three. speaking of numbers i really appreciate the fact that i am in san francisco and not in oakland and not even in my home town of berkeley california. san francisco really is the city that knows how to do things correctly where law enforcement is concerned, and i really needed to say that. i sat here and i listened or tried to

because some people just didn't make any sense to me. there's only so much that the police can do. there's a lot that people need to do taking responsibility for the fact that they want to engage in criminal activity with impunity. they want to engage in stupid activity with impunity. i am on the mack community which the multi-model access advisory committee of mta, and mta had the keep your phone down and your eyes up campaign to get people who are riding on muni to pay attention to the fact that you're not in your own bubble. there's a real world out there and evil does exist and evil is out there and waiting for you to not be attentive. that's on you. you

are to pay attention to what is going on. be it that you're going to cross the street and hopefully bicycles not on the sidewalk where you're going and the to pay attention to what is going around you, pay attention to the people around you. you're not supposed to sleep walk through life. i sat here and listen. i wanted to thank the commissioners for getting here and on time so we have a imorrum and stop. i appreciate the chief being here. he's got the wink action going down. hello to joyce and those of you that are here and participated in the production of the video because there is a lot to be said about domestic violence.

[inaudible] knows about that one and a lot to be said about elder abuse. there's a lot going on out there and i see san francisco being on top of it. although i am a mills girl stanford dolly combo you couldn't pay me to live in oakland again ever. keep up the good work. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. please call next line item. >> line item four discussion and possible action to appoint john fitzinger as patrol special officer or take other action if necessary. >> commissioners you have in your packet -- would you please come forward officer fitzinger and our patrol special liaison. we will start with our liaison.

do you have a report for us? . >> i don't know if specifically is a report but a memo they wrote i would recommend that he be approved. he has met all of the qualifications to be a patrol special. the only problem there is a current investigation going on which ebb had been completed but it was for administrative issues only for paperwork not turned in. the paperwork has been turned in and this has taken several months. i don't see that is a problem or any reason he's not appointed to a patrol special for that reason. >> commissioner chan. >> thank you for putting together the information in the

packet. i was trying to understand and i was going through the packet and different than the ones i seen before and application that the person fills out to be a patrol specialists. is that missing? >> that's separate and he's already one and that stuff is already done so that is if somebody wanted to be one and not part of the program so that is done, all of the fingerprinting, all of this took place prior to that. >> how old is that application, the prior one to be assistant patrol specialist? >> 2002. >> 2002? so that's a long time ago. >> the packet, there was the fingerprinting done. i did a check through our system and was clear. the only different stuff perhaps if there is an address change or things like that that are different from that.

>> the reason i am looking for the application generally i look closely at the application and i noticed in prior ones sometimes that will bring up a little flag for us to look into previous employment history, any concerns at all i have seen so i feel uncomfortable voting on this without the information and i think for 2002 that's an old application and make sense to ask for a new application or updated application to moved from assistant patrol special to patrol special and given all of the problems that we had and compliance and make sure we're thorough and that's where i am when i saw the packet so i will vote no on this or ask for a continuance. that's where i am. >> commissioners any further questions? commissioner loftus. >> presumably you reviewed his application and maybe you just want to talk us through the

steps that you took and presumably you couldn't come and recommend him unless you looked into his background? >> past history and other complaints that have happened in his service history since now, problems like that. i looked into. that's why i did it. normally it's not done that you reprint and i did another computer check since that and use the lexus system to find minute things and i didn't find anything and normally for the application it's not required when coming from assistant to a patrol special and maybe that's the confusion. >> what about employment history and i think i know what commissioner chan is talking about and employment history can show a complaint and working

here exclusively? >> [inaudible] >> come to the microphone please. >> sure. prior to being a appointed assistant patrol special i worked for the same company for 25 years. >> i think what the commissioner's question is this your primary -- >> yes it is. >> this is what you done since 2002? >> yes. >> so in other words a new application would show this is what you do? >> yes. >> yeah, so it's not like you worked in best buy in 2004 and the manager had a complaint about you? >> no. absolutely not. >> commisioner dejesus. >> and i have to say there are assumptions that i read that he was a current patrol specialist and this is like a promotion he's getting and you had done updated check on the fingerprint and complaints or anything like that so i didn't have a problem moving this forward because he's employed by this agency and

he's been monitored by the department and recommendation of the department is to move forward so that's how i saw it. >> back on the rooster here. a couple of things and the city attorney can stop me if these are questions i shouldn't be asking but i can ask how many internal investigations there has been? >> i think just one -- current one that is before the commission. >> since 2002. >> i find absolutely no occ complaints or internal affairs investigation prior to the one i am going through right now since 2002. there was one allegation of -- i believe calling a restraining order violettor over the radio and arrested and turned out the restraining

order was rescinded and not in the computer and i received a internal affairs totally clearing me of all charges. >> that's a different investigation? >> right. but i never had a citizen complaint or anything on my record while in this position. >> got it. and the reason i ask for this information just sometimes i think the department what they do in terms of recommending an applicant is just checking off the key pieces. do you have the insurance, all of the things the officer worked hard providing us with, but i want to look at the detail and see everything for myself so even if we don't require an update application and do one i would like to see everything before i vote on it so that's still i am given the concerns with these positions. >> may i ask what was the

complaints issue? again it can't be disclosed and for the public they're patrol special officers and not san francisco officers or peace officers but we have supervisory responsibility over them and they don't have the same police officer protections as the police officers bill of rights and we had compliance problems with the patrol special and what it here and how was it resolved? >> these are minor compared to the others we're having. it wasn't providing current guard and firearms card to me and a question about the liability insurance, having the city listed as additional insurer and both have been cleared up and the investigation is closed. >> commissioners any further questions? no. okay. is

there a motion? >> [inaudible] >> i second. >> let's take a vote. >> president mazzucco. >> aye. >> commissioner marshall. >> aye. >> commisioner dejesus. >> aye. >> commissioner chan. >> no for the reasons i stated earlier. >> commissioner kingsley. >> aye. >> commissioner loftus. >> aye.. >> the motion passes five to one. >> congratulations and set a nee trend of compliance. >> and be safe here. >> i have to call out officer brown and you have been

spectacular and when you come to the podium i have full confidence and officer fitzinger god bless you for having few problems in 12 years and officer brown keep doing what you're doing. >> i second that. >> great. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> best of luck. >> thanks. >> all right. please call line item five. >> public comment on items related to item seven below closed session including public comment whether to hold item seven in closed session. >> public comment regarding item seven that involve disciplinary matters. seeing none please call item six. >> vote whether to have item seven in closed session. >> i move we go into

. >> president mazzucco we're back in open session and you have a quorum. >> do i have a motion for non disclosure. >> motion for non disclosure. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> and the next item. >> motion for adjournment. >> thank you very much.