tv [untitled] April 27, 2014 10:00pm-10:31pm PDT
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what are is vice presidents responsibilities. i see we have 23 positions and 23 officers going into the field and is that a one-on-one mandate. the mandate >> the mandate was one-on-one we want a sworn body outside so we followed through on that commitment and making the schedule go change for the 66 out that wasn't at issue so there is in charter mandate it's for the sworn. >> i really appreciate the movement on that it has been many years in the making to see it come to fruition it's still in progress. >> we have some positions a
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police has to take care of they're told going in ate an 8 hour day they're happy to have it so as people have dropped and left we had some of the positions filed if we can make a civilian position that's the case. public safety building there is it, it's coming along if you get a chance to go bye we're going to have a new i am not talking about a neighbor to the south its interesting the warriors on one side but for the frame of reference it's south of lot a the park it's just a block and a half north of the sight of the new warriors stadium.
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they've done a great jimbo bob job it's been weather tight and their beginning to populate the inside of the building in the midsummer their completely affirmatively committed they'll have us in the building the first of november that's the time they'll come in on schedule. so i t projects this is the technology advances we've made that have been many over the last 3 years made up in the lack of personnel. i know that the smaurldz one of the role outs was last year we're not going to get the project done puts a smaller in
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the hands of each officer it has the internet capacity a gesture made by general harris. i don't know if the lapd has it but the cops have been making great cases and better evidence and make us smaller and keep the cops on the street 40 percent more because they don't have to traffic back and forth to the station it's long overdue. in addition for those folks who are curious about the other benefits it has google language over 80 languages on the phone. additionally talk to text so the officers can complete their work more quickly by saying that and cleaning it up for phenomenon
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physics. the pedestrian safety is at the top of my list right after keeping violent crime although it is critical we believe to get now that we have the phones rather than getting more hardware we want to make the smart phones give electronic citations so if you use a ticketing for the phones it will make it cheaper and we want to be able to have an opportunity for the folks to get the e-mail citations >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you chair farrell. on the it projects are we say
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the department operating off the strategic plan off it we're going to phase in >> i have a chart from director gifrn i have a copy it literally lists all the citation we substitute in and director has been hero ethics how to pay for this stuff and stay within budget. >> are we able to the evidence will then show non-general fund sources is that a common thing. >> it's mostly general fund we jam to get whatever we can we work closely with coit.
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>> how is it through the grants. >> the grants are that diminishing more and more and in fact, people speculate as to when it the sunset. so we don't count on the was i didn't for computer stuff >> we did get so there would be regional information sharing the data crime house was $2 million they were working closely with your regional partners we put into the fbi and the desk and expect that to be shared but there's speculation that the other agencies want our information more we don't want jeopardy our standards. >> a couple of weeks ago i
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asked for information on body mounted cameras house that with the policy with the department on body mounted cameras and is that in your strategic plan. >> we have a draft policy that would be a pilot of 50 cameras that a that are on plain cloethsdz supervisors to whether or not it was probation entry or a scott wagner so we have a draft policy we're going back and forth it's made up of several best policy practices of smaller departments that have used those things. the 0 problem is the storage of the data as i told you is 75 and $100,000 a year.
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roadway 17 hundred police officers have those smart phones they'll get the body mounted cameras. again, if it's not lost on anyone in san francisco we have a robust debate about cameras at all so the police department is prohibited by policy which you it as to when you can and can't ice cameras with regards to the frment there's a big debate about outside bars if we could find the two or $3 million a year to store the data and find a place to store the data we're not prohibited to use the cloud. i guess there's a lot of policy work and existing policies that are prohibitions against us at a
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point things and, of course, 17 hundred walking public safety cameras both inside and outside people's residents and on the street that are running. so again, i think a lot of the smaller departments have begun to this it would be cost prohibit active but certainly the cost obviously everyone in this room has been in the conversation about cameras and i just - >> i'll ask for a hearing when we get the information with the deputy - and sure we're working on that. >> i want to talk about the body mounted cameras i'm not clear if they're the right way
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to go there could be a cost analysis incidents of dispute around police brutality or there could be cost savings i'm willing to have a more thorough conversation. >> thankfully as was reported your complaint are now u adopt and the cameras have shown that the complaints almost disappear because once people see how people talk to police officers since the officers are wearing them they know it and conduct themselves as i hope they do without the cameras. happy to have the conversation we're doing the background work >> i really appreciate it. there's a lot more combairs of
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the mount cameras this is anecdotally what i hear it's notable to say that >> again happy to have the conversation. >> supervisor mar. i know the former chief talked about the tazers and will anything b be coming forward for the use of training on tasers >> mr. prolong lost his license after the assault in the chocolate factory so i took place the argument but when we went to have the conversation about the policy it became so cumbersome when the community
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that came to the meetings i don't know if it was the majority of san franciscans it became so cumbersome on the officers that large people and thin people and people with a drug problem and wet people and people in bicycles people in high places the california includes what so much we were only asking for one hundred cameras someone was going to get hurt one way or the other so i abandoned my ask. if someone wants to bring it up perhaps it could happen but at the time it wasn't something that san francisco was wanting to have so we only have a stick and the next thing is the gun so - >> i'm really pleased to see
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the use of technology to help the officers and department and looking forward to seeing how much they cost the different apps. you mentioned the smart phone officers in year two what percentage of officers have the smart phone are they android device >> they have to be android quiz by the attorney general. but the ios is okay. the system we have is good we put out two android phones and an i o s system and the officers picked the android phone. we want them to use it and know they have input so at least in the first reiteratetion.
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the phone we have another 2 hundred phones from the airport officers they have not gotten those in year 2 the officers majority will be retiring and the academy officers get them and we'll make sure that the airport gets the phones as well >> the smart phones are on top of the other communication device. >> yeah. i don't want to say that my radio is in the car and my phone is next to it so that's no more than that they have a sleeve and put that in there it has the video and text it's obviously a phone they can get their e-mail and check for
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wanted suspects and facebook and twitter for bike thefts and so on. >> supervisor breed. >> chief thanks i know you have a little bit more for the prosecution i was hoping we as a city would your police department and fire department would hire more kids in our high schools her in san francisco and have hire more young people from the neighborhood in order to address certain issues. i know when i was growing up her there were a lot of cops living in san francisco they knew the neighborhood and folks it's the difference between reactions that can lead to someone being arrested. so i wanted to know what you're thought are is there anything to move the department in the
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direction to hire locally >> sure the reason as you and i know when you yeah. - (laughter) so you're joining with supervisor avalos. so in 1981 and before you had to be a city resident before becoming a police officer you knew everyone that lived in san francisco so the homegrown folks. so over time that was proved to be unconstitutional as a condition of employment. however, i share with your belief i really think people need to have skin in the game have would or gone to school or currently live in san francisco to know the folks in this
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neighborhood it's giving you a better handle on the traffic issues. i'm in the schools reggie was in the schools lecture and i'll be in the schools tomorrow. we talk. i constantly tell those kids and thankfully dpw and muni and rec and park have come with me so it intrigues a lot of the young people those are the same kids that were given jobs last summer and some of the kids we started with in 19784 are currently san francisco police officers we can't be a police department that goes in and out we need to be there all the time if
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something happens we're doing wasn't we have to do like the fire department every time they come they're going to save somebody we want to get the same image but we're struggling to get that. so, anyway it's all about the kids in high school and express upon the kids we want them to be police officers and firefighters and teachers in nurses in san francisco so this online hiring thing i meet the folks and will be tracking their progress. so capital improvements so we have golden gate park are in
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tremendous disrepair a lot of leaking and the horses need places that are dry and lake merced is down with some things that weren't done correctly so renovation is needed and in 2014-2015 the mission security fencing again roofs are leaking and the parking lots could last longer the occur air - the continued improvement to the counter fenway and academy we are trying to consolidate property storage. so the next slide is about
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vehicles. so what we should be doing to keep up with what we have and not fall into we're out of warrant and upkeep and the price for fuel for less efficient fuel we should be doing about one hundred and 38 cars last year, we have one wagon that was a 1995 still in the fleet. we have an exemption because there's emergency vehicles but we still shouldn't be trying to get there. this year, the fiscal year 2014-2015 for 60 cars which overwhelming sound like a lot it is half and supervisor wiener years of score you're not catching up so we've asked a
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additional 39 motorcycles vehicle. at some point we're going to have to spend the people on the new cars or it's going to be more expensive to keep the old cars. this is something that's ticking and sometime we're going to have to take care of that. next mislead is overtime we're proud we're managing the mire makes this appropriate as recently as 2008 we spent $3 million in general overtime we've been knocking around $10 million it's cheap. when you think about the event we have and how short we are on staffing to try to make it work i'm proud of the captains and
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for the staff for making that work when it gets tight we spend a little bit of money over the weekend for the park we figured out. but some folks are experiencing tough times we're not trying to rely on overtime. some people about talk about the $10 million for 10 b it's privately paid for by other folks that are not taxpayers >> supervisor breed. >> do you think that i know we recently started to beef up additional officers in the department but clearly there looks like interests on a significant decline over the years even before we began to a hire new officers. do you think that i guess we can attribute the decline in some
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ways to the increase in officers and can we expect to see numbers lower than what we're looking at now in the future with the increased officers >> you have to have a certain amount of overtime this is as low as it goes the officers work shifts and for instance, when the 9/11 experience comes here before the super bowl. we have to fund the footprint we've never funded before the only thing that's close to the long endeavour it's important to have a certain budget so you can make sure you have enough to put
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people in places without taking away from baseline services in neighborhoods. so once we get to our full compliment of officers the first thing to go away are the foot beats so back at webb take care street or more officers on the west portal people get used to have them there you have an event and hate to see them go 11 people are going to call me and ask where are the officers. >> supervisor avalos. thank you >> thank you conceive i want to commend the department on the production overtime and i do remember the years we were well above 17.5 million in 2007 and 8
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it represents a change in employment you deserve a lot of recognition for that process. >> we try to stay on top of that thank you. the next slide it demonstrates the work that the officers are doing; right? so in 2008, as of this date there were 33 homicides in the city of san francisco and 2009 was the last time we were at full staff this time on april 23rd there were 4 homicides in san francisco. we're still struggling with shootings and shootings are the bellwether because everybody that get shot the shooter intends to do them harm this is a testament of the jobs programs and the community partnership and the efficiency like the smart phones and getting the
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right people the prosecution's the 3 of the 4 shooters are in custody. we're pitting the cases together and sending them down the line and doing this with a less amount of officers. this is everybody in this together. it wasn't that a long time in 2008, there were 33 at this exact at the same time. that happened in the neighborhoods it's not the same there's 5 that count someone was hurt just this year and the way they count the numbers but the actual injury unhappy there's 4 in san francisco. you know the support of mayor's office and the support of this body and the support of this
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commission and everybody pulling together to engage young people to make right choices. and i'll take any questions >> thank you, chief. and congratulations on those statistics on homicides >> thank you, chief. we'll see you. at this point we'll open this up for public comment, please step forward if you have a comment >> good afternoon, supervisors thomas. i appreciate the police chief presentation in colorful grafts a couple of points regarding the 2014-2015 budget there are only
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be receiving $2 million in federal revenue seems like they could do a better job in getting additional funds from the federal government. perhaps a grant writer would be money well spent. regarding our recivilization it's a great word. you had budgeted 53 positions but only 23 filled. i want to see the police department fill those in a much more rapidly pace. regarding the statistics regarding homicides. we all know homicide rates rise and fall with the economy so although the police department is doing a great job i believe the homicide level is decreasing
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based on the economy. there's one other point. i don't recall is now. thank you >> thank you very much. anyone else want to comment on item one seeing none, public comment is closed >> colleagues can i have a motion to file item one. we'll take that without objection.. okay mr. clerk call item 2, please and item 2. hearing and receiving an update it on the fire department for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. >> okay. thank you very much welcome chief joanne haynes-white. >> welcome i'll be joined shortly by my chief advisory
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officer. but short of that i'd like to acknowledge the ability to talk about the budget for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 >> i want to acknowledge our chief operating officer as well as the budget analysis and right now the budget analysis has an audit going on in which they're looking at our staffing on little ems side brought before conceding we're all looking forward to the audit specifically to staffing. labor they did an audit on overall departmental operations but more with our ems staffing. so we'll be going through slide number one. and
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