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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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.
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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, 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.
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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. we'll compare them to the part one arrest. a lot of our larceny and theft come out of our retail establishments and a lot of the reports are not done through our police service, but done on line through our comp logic system. i thought it was important to put this up as most of the complaints we get are related to somehow the narcotics activity in the neighborhood. i know people are concerned about this when possession offenses when we go to our
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cgc. these numbers really illustrate where we focus our attention. because you will see the next slide is very different. so, you will see that we have 78 arrest for arrest on fair -- paraphernalia. if someone has a crack pipe, we'll track that number for purposes of this grid. these are our numbers. these are for 6 months and july through december. moving our team from one sergeant to two officers to one sergeant and five officers made a huge difference in the number of cocaine base sales going on in the district. those guys went to work and made a big difference on the activity that was going on. traffic has been a big issue. it's always been a big issue for me. this is a glimpse
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into some of the things we saw in 2013. our one fatality is related to somebody on the street and struck in the early morning by a sunset scavenger vehicle. >> for our traffic enforcement, we believe that engineering and education has a huge role in changing the dynamic of traffic safety. we know we need to do our parts. the tragedity on december 31st, new years eve, we got together with our city partners and we are doing our part. you can see that even in tenderloin station for the amount of citations we are writing around seven hundred in february. these are some arrest i want
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to mention. you will see this article here was about a man who robbed somebody in 2012 and grabbed the person's dog and killed this person's dog. most persons here will remember that. when i got tenderloin station a few months later we got an influx of brand new sergeants who took to brand new investigators. one officer opened this case and found this guy wasn't in custody. she opened up an instagram account and working with u.s. marshals and there was an outstanding warrant for this person's arrest and she executed that warrant and put that person in custody. we have a close team at southern
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station and dea and uncovered an operation in drug traffickers in the neighborhood. this yielded 14 federal indictments, 13 arrest. we got 11 pleas. it's important to note that in this jurisdiction you are going to do 85 percent of your time. in this case 3 years. we are dealing with people who have been a problem in the tenderloin for some time. so as a condition of their release, they are going to have a 6-year stay away order upon release. this is a big win for us. i want to thank the d. a. for working as a team on this. this made a big difference. this is my doctrine right here. while these are inter related, i used this as a
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compass for me. crime prevention for environmental design and problem solving for community engagement whether related, enforcement can only take you so far and really only offer for the most part short-term results. this is the stuff that is going to give us sustain able impact in the neighborhood. >> so blight, we use this part of our crime prevention environmental design and contact property owners with blighted buildings. this project took one phone call to a property owner saying "please paint your building". same thing with property owner 161 eleven worth, while this location is still a problem, a lot of it has to do with the
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system they hold within those properties. if a property owner works with us is just an ask. paint your building, insert lighting. there is lighting up now and we are going to see there is some surveillance and he has agreed to work with us and the leaseees to clean up the act. it's a work in progress. i want to talk about our problem solving program. some of them are inter-related. all problem solving efforts start with a gathering of our stakeholders and organizing them. while i can't take credit, i have to thank public safety, safe and the community. but these are some of the neighborhood watches that have formed in the last six months that are
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actively working on problem solving efforts. the lower part of our slide is a 3400 block of o'farrell. on the side of the church there are three spaces that have been burnett out for six years. we have met with the community groups and they worked and worked to try to get something done about the activity and loitering in front and the disorder. we spoke with the principals' they immediately got to work and put up a construction role and they hired a bunch of kids that did this mural. now, with 3400 block that o'farrell works here. the issues in front of those three locations has been reduced. these are two of the problem solving programs working on the ones on the left includes
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outreach material that we tend to have our officers provide and on the bottom left is material that our community groups can take back for the operations that came out of the community group that has enough of the disorder. when there is a block of golden gate at the community meeting asked what can be do as a community without police to impact public safety. i was at that meeting and they decided they would constitutional -- create a positive spectacle by providing research once a day and they would we convicted in doing it. they do it in at least for a short time they removed the disorder and take back their block. it really enforces their sense of community and they wouldn't engage in criminal activity
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that it's not okay to do this stuff. it was duplicated on the block of turf by clapt iv, their take back operation to work with dpw on that and there is more of a block party with music. they actually demand less. >> captain, we would like to give supervisor kim an opportunity to speak. she has another meeting. [ applause ] >> thank you, mr. president. i also want to thank -- >> can you get on the microphone? >> sure. welcome. good evening. it's great to see all of our residents in the tenderloin. some of the small business owners
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