Skip to main content

tv   [untitled]    March 27, 2014 6:30pm-7:01pm PDT

6:30 pm
-- an investigation we find the police violated a practice, we serve the report to chief sur. chief is you are can impose a suspension on an officer. if it's warranted to termination, then the police commission will have the jurisdiction of the case and they will consider it and hear the matter usually in a mini trial form. this is specifically disciplinary matters. so it's a personnel action against police officers if it is warranted. we also provide something that's very effective which is mediation between complainants and police officers on a one to one. our mediation program allows complainants to resolve issues with an accused officer or officers in person in a sort
6:31 pm
of a dispute resolution form. the goal is to bring involved parties together in an effort to bring achieved mutual understand. not all cases warrant this process. we only offer in limited situations but it is quite possible with the officers and with community members. we have conducted many immediate agencies in many languages other than spanish. our staff speak several languages including cantonese, mandarin, berns, tagalog and spanish. two are our staff are bilingual spanish speakers because a large number of our cases of non-english speakers are spanish speakers. for languages other than the ones i mentioned we will have interpretive services and
6:32 pm
we'll make sure we understand each other. our office is located at 25 van ness on the 7th floor very close to the corner of van ness and market. we are easily accessible by public transportation and receive walk in complaints between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.. we also receive compliant by telephone, e-mail, mail and fax. we have an answering service for after hours complaints. feel free to call us then. you can also file a complaint at the district police station and district personnel will forward us the information immediately. if you would like more information we have brochures here and i believe one of our investigators was supposed to be here. [ laughter ] . the person does show up i will make sure and introduce him or her. in any event thank you very much for your
6:33 pm
attention. that concludes my remarks. thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> moving right along. please call line item 2c. >> commission reports. commissioner and president's report. >> thank you very much. as you heard from the chief, it's been a really busy week. i attended the academy graduation we have nine lateral police officers to join the san francisco police department. those are police officers from other jurisdictions that have decided to join the sf p.d.. we have 9 knew -- new officers that will be hitting the streets. we have a hundred other officers training for graduation and we are hoping to get more officers out on the streets to answer some of your concerns and reach back to our full staffing level. it's great that supervisor kim is here because i have to say that our board of supervisors
6:34 pm
and mayor give full credit to the police department being able to hire those officers. inform are that supervisor kim deserves a round of applause. [ applause ] then, also i attended last night along with several other commissioners the community meeting and we issued condolences to family and friends. i see some of the folks here tonight. thank you for coming. you are always welcome to come to our commission meeting. it's really important. i want to get one message out here. this is the chief and the first to have done a commission meeting after an officer involved shooting. there is no requirement that he does it. he does it because he wants to reach out to the committee. he doesn't do it by press conference. he actually does it in the community. i know emotions are running high and there are a lot of people that
6:35 pm
are very very upset. i hope that you look at the facts that are presented and will continue as i promised that night that we'll look into the the shooting and we will look into every aspect of the shooting. i just want to hope that you appreciate that this chief did it for you and most chiefs won't. please at least appreciate what he did. that starts the process of healing. i was present with the other commissioners and it was quite an event and was a little disappointed with what i heard. some people shocked me with some of the comments they made. but it's part of the process and we'll work with you to bring things back to full circle. commissioners, any other announcements to report? >> welcome, everybody. i'm sorry i was late. i do want
6:36 pm
to comment on the meeting. i saw and her a lot of really good message last night. it was something we need to hear. the community was hurting and i think it showed. we saw a lot of issues and i think really people came out. they were mourning their loss, they were upset about the loss, rightfully so. there was anger about what happened. on the other hand things came out of it like maybe our officers should have cameras and that was a really good suggestion. there are things that came out that are really helpful. they talk about that sanctuary. it was destroyed for people who live there in some fashion and that's something we have to acknowledge and work with. we talked with -- about fear in the community of letting their children go out and part of that fear was tied with mental health. if someone is having a
6:37 pm
mental health breakdown and if that was the response, i think we have addressed that in terms of cit. on the other hand those are real concerns and real fears we heard last night. we heard a lot of other issues that came out at that meeting in terms of gentrification, people not understanding the community, people not knowing the community and the new members getting to know the people. we talked about jail systems and people being incarcerated is that the way? education and violence. there were a lot of good things that came out even though it was a very emotional meeting and i understand it so. we talked about the fear of use for colors. there was an issue about weapons and type of weapons we have and stuff like that and in terms of the investigation. that's something we'll have to wait in terms of the investigation, the coroners report and that
6:38 pm
is on going. this road emotion and there were a lot of things that were brought up and i commend the chief for being here and the officers and i commend the community for coming out. it's through this process that we learn how to move forward. as i said so many good points brought out. they brought out community policing and we we do back and touch up on those things. and the buddhist were there and i thought that was interesting because he was a buddhist and they talked about respecting everybody. cherishing everything and they talked about that he would want us to be positive and move forward and not have violence in his name. i was there and when i left there i had a lot of things to think about and so did the chief. i do want to commend you for being there because everybody gave a message in a different way.
6:39 pm
it was a lot more vocal and the message were there and the people were able to speak and a lot of it came from that. i listened. he listened. his staff listened and i think it was healthy and a good thing to do. that was my report from the meeting. >> thank you. >> a couple of things. thank you, commissioners for summarizing what happened last night. i was there myself and a lot of people in the room that i know through immigrant rights and i know it was a tragic loss and i would like to thank everybody for being there. people can all just get very angry and walk away, but people stayed in that room and expressed how they felt and expressed helpful suggestions, thoughts and outrage and you
6:40 pm
spoke to the city about what can make things better. going on to what we discussed last week, we have a regular language arts working group meeting that we had with -- a session we had with bilingual officers and we asked what their suggestions and thoughts are with regard to being bilingual officers with regard to them using their language on-the-job and the better smartphone technology to improve language access and to address the officers suggestions to the language access cards and used and reminded the officers to use the card to identify what language the people speak. also wanted to bring up that president mazzucco and i met with the internal affairs and to review special patrol rules and clarifying rules and we
6:41 pm
will have afternoon action item on the next few months as we clarify areas to discuss. >> i just wanted to say the meeting last night in the mission for me sometimes the role of certainly we are here at civilian oversight. the occ reports to us and the police department reports to us and sometimes they are nice about listening and talking and certainly that's what last night was to me listening to the initial facts that the department has and listening to every concern of the members community. i think it's important that the chief does that at the initial meeting to discuss what we know. and the danger in that is thinking that's it and that's where it ends. i'm glad that you got to hear from occ about what their role is in their independent investigation that occ has the authority to do as well as the district attorney doing an independent investigation as well as the internal affairs
6:42 pm
division. i know president mazzucco started out that meeting giving those procedural facts. i just want to reemphasize the fact that in doing that initial response with what do we know, but it's not the end of the inquiry. it's really important. the board of supervisors 30 years ago felt we needed a robust oversight and investigative body to investigate misconduct and we have that in san francisco and i think that's important that we have full investigations and know all the facts. i'm glad that representative from the occ are here and i encourage people to answer questions directly. >> great. let's call line item 2d. >> commission announcements and scheduling of items to identify consideration of future meetings. one announcement. next commission meeting will be at city hall
6:43 pm
room 400, april 2nd, wednesday. >> thank you. and we have some assignment of disciplinary charges against patrol special officers tonight. can we go forward with that, please. >> sure. assignment district patrol charges on officer white. case no. 2013-2014 to an individual commissioner for the taking of evidence on a date to be determined by the commission. assignment of disciplinary charges filed against patrol officer calvin wiley, case no. 2013-0305 to an individual commissioner for the taking of evidence on a date to be determined by the commissioner. >> another case filed on dale w, 155 to an individual
6:44 pm
commissioner on the taking of evidence. all of these cases assigned to you, president mazzucco and i will contact the officers. officer wiley said he would be here along with sergeant white. i told him we would contact with the status call. >> thank you. also, we have a new addition. when we do our community meetings we invite the special patrol officers assigned to that district station. this is the second time we did it. we have byron with the patrol specials. alan, where are you? the patrol specials they are the private security where they by beats in the city and they operate under the guidance of the police commission and they offer a service to merchants. it's rare in san francisco. we invited the heart brothers, i invited them yesterday to be
6:45 pm
here. i don't see them here. just so the public knows, those uniforms are different than the san francisco police officers. they also patrol these areas. please call line item 3, the main event. >> captain turn as, the officer in the district. >> we moved public comment until the end for the captains report.
6:46 pm
>> good evening, everybody. president mazzucco, vice-president, turm an. members of this amazing community. it's our pleasure to be hosting this meeting. thank you for allowing us the use of this community event room. the general council
6:47 pm
district known prior to 1906 later the up down district. it got it's name in the topic of contention. so now avoid this. as you can see it's a triangular district board ---er. we don't own them. we do operate within the artery to those borders. approximately 30,000 people live in the tenderloin district with 45400 use. we have the city academy, which are two private schools and the world famous glide and saint anthony's that serves thousands of people daily and
6:48 pm
a number of volunteers come to help our population that live in and outside of our community. we currently do not have a grocery store but i know that's being worked on. open space is that topic that we come to often when we come to meetings and there is not much room in the district. we have a park that has been closed for some time and it's due to open in november and we are excited about that and we also have yearly plaza. i put in these slides the main library which the tenderloin police district recently acquired and i also put in the asian art museum. while some of the art museums rest in the northern, this is the open space where people tend to congregate from our community and we find there is space into another. there is spaces
6:49 pm
that we are working on. we have two supervisor districts in the tenderloin. one is district 6 is supervisor jane kim and we work very closely with the supervisors office and all of our public safety initiatives and on the eastern end of our district supervisor david chiu from district 3 is also in the tenderloin in the lower union square area. we have three special assessment districts. we work closely with the cbbd and the union square improvement district is also in the tenderloin and as is the civic center community benefit district. now, the union square bid recently went from 10 square blocks to 27. you will see part of those 27 blocks, the
6:50 pm
red outline is what is carved out for the tenderloin. we used to have a full time officer who was dedicated to the 27 blocks in the grid. now we share that responsibility with the central district which is north of the red line the tenderloin in the southern district. i think it's important to illustrate one of the social issues that we have in the tenderloin. i push this information out in the week and i think it's important to discuss these issues that challenge this area. there is a red dot that include all the alcohol sale outlets. that cluster there is the tenderloin. this is your core
6:51 pm
of liquor stores get the license. currently you have 24 of those licenses issued in the tenderloin and a beer and wine license. i know supervisor kim, she's worked very hard in making sure that when one of these, if somebody comes into the tenderloin that if they want to acquire this, there is requirements to shelf an additional license. so i want to talk about a little bit about tenderloin station. it started out as a task force in 1991 with the first bicycle patrol and we still have one officer from the central migration from the station. it was a bank building. in the 1990s i remember going to the evaluate and that was one of the locker rooms we used. i know it's
6:52 pm
under construction now and in 18 months it should be open for business not as a bank but will keep some of the charm we experienced back in the 90s. in 2000 we saw the creation of the tenderloin police district and police station which is what houses our personnel to this day. this is another perspective of our police district chopped up into three patrol sectors. we staff the larger boxes there are the car sectors that officers work in a car and the others are our beats. this is the staffing organizational chart. since we are talking about staffing, i want to mention an article
6:53 pm
written today regarding the implementation of a transport unit which is a supporter of something that would relive the stress of officers after booking the prisoner and i didn't mention how much that would affect staff other than it's a positive affect and to have a conversation with the sheriff about this and promoting it. i worked on a working group. we made with the would be deputy chief commander. i know that it's something he is working on and i know the author errored in the article and has since made a correction. back to our staffing. i think people focus on in the last 3 weeks we advanced our homeless outreach efforts from two officers to four. while we
6:54 pm
have to take from somewhere we take from our regular patrol sector vehicles. i thought it was really necessary to consider the population that's out there. you never know when someone is going to seizure the opportunity to take services and we want to be able to offer that opportunity when they are ready to do so. 8 months ago we also advanced our plainclothes operations from one officer to two officers from one officer to five officers and this is dealing with narcotics dealing in the neighborhoods and when we receive complaints in the community. the police district currently has the finest lineup of lieutenants that i have ever seen. we have deven who are my classmates. they are fantastic. lieutenant marino,
6:55 pm
lieutenant pain here, these are lieutenants who fight the good fight, we have lieutenant marine, he's the lieutenant with the most experience in the investigation. he is leading our 6-person investigation team. the number of recruits that we have is dynamic. currently we had eight and just got two of the lateralis that just came in. this helps us significantly as it relates to our staffing issues. this is just a break down of the languages that you will see. we speak 12 languages. we have 10 languages represented at tenderloin station including english. for those of you that are familiar with these trends, fto, our field
6:56 pm
training officers. we have 26 of them which means we can handle more recruits when they are sent out to our police academy and they are from a regular duty if there is a critical incident with special police officers they are called out for perimeter duty or other auxiliary positions like crowd control. we have 11 members of tenderloin that are cit training, crisis intervention, ciu, traffic investigation for collision and we had an officer who was very interested in traffic safety and works on our midnight shift and represents ctiu person and three other officers with our homeland
6:57 pm
security and antiterrorism. so, we have two officers on the right are our new homeless outreach officers. there are a bunch that competed for this position. the two on the far right are peachy and warrant, they do a great job. officer juarez when he was in the marine corp he did drug counseling and treatment counseling and got a masters in education and went out in the field before he came to the police department. his field in this education has served him well as an officer. and we have morris, i really needed to make sure i put a slide about her. she's redefined the position because she really gets involved in a
6:58 pm
lot of the problem solving that we do at the station level, community engagement and people know her in the community. she also handles or neighborhood court referrals. those for you that don't know, it deals with outside of the criminal justice system and gives people an alternative to the criminal justice system. we don't have as much neighborhood court going on here because we have community justice center here. the community justice center has a dedicated deputy district attorney, public defender and judge that offer services and alternatives to incarceration and they are a little bit more taylor made for folks to not be involved in recidivism. more stats. these are glimpse of our status with regard to calls for service. our
6:59 pm
traffic enforcement is way up. you see on the far right. ov stands for on view and this is for activities and officers in the tenderloin are doing more with activities that bring the numbers up. the dm stands for department of emergency management for department of emergency communications and they dispatch to us. those are dispatch calls under dem and activities for the officers. it gives you an idea on the charts, the officers are handling those calls just for service. just a glimpse for the crimes, 2012-2013. we had two homicide in the second half of 2012, 2013. the san francisco police department made arrest on those cases and they were
7:00 pm
random. we did an analysis on those. we found an uptake in theft in vehicles where in the lower union square area near the hotels cab drivers were parking their cars and leaving their electronic devices in their vehicles and using the bathroom and we had people targeting them. we contacted our permanent bureau and pushed out this information and we saw a decreasing amount of cabs being targeted. these are arrest for the district market increase on 2013 on aggravated assaults. these are part one crimes. we are not yet to our first quarter. this is through february.