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sorry, so the primary bulletin that exists has helped the police officers and children and parents alike and i really appreciate this commission, as well as the police department for having something like that and i think that is kind of revolutionary. but, i think that making this a dgo, is an institutionalizing this is really a way to make it serious and help even more people in years to come and so i would again like to reiterate that this is a huge step in the right direction and an opportunity for the police officers to be the positive impact on the youth that we want them to be and so thank you for your time. >> thank you for your work on the commission. >> commissioner turman? >> i have a question for captain, or maybe miss marion. could you elaborate on the training video and what its intent is? >> any time that we have a new develop general order, we have training in that video, and miss marion who is the expert is actually on the panel for it
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will be able to explain a little bit more and any general order that gets readopted, there is roll call training for all officers so that they adopt and they learn that policy, from the get go. and they have to see the chiefs messages and adhere to them and so this happens in all in general. >> i am aware that have and one of them was more concerned, and more interested in the content of of the training. >> happy to share with you the content. >> we are almost done with filming, you just heard from mckency and she is one of the youth that is in the roll call training, we have put together would scenarios one where the parent is arrested in the traffic violation and see a booster seat in the back and asked the driver because there is a warrant and they ask her, whether or not she is a parent at first she denies that she is a parent, which is typical, they are worried that the children are going to be taken away, yes i have a child and they get the information about
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the child, and are able to get in a responsible adult who picks up the child at school and the second is officers come to a home, and they arrest the father and a young teenage boy who is the son, and role play about how do the police talk to that teenager, there is a lot of myth about of course, if there is a toddler or an infant, the police are going to find out who is going to take care of that, but i think that on the first glance, people will think that a teenager can stay home alone, for many of these children, youth their home for months and months and so it is to really also to remind the police officers that teenagers need that assistance and they need a responsible adult and someone in the home and there is the two, and wo ven with the stories from the youth whose parents have been incarcerated and there are other individuals that have worked with our agency and the department and we are hoping to
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get it out in the next month. >> thank you. >> commissioner luis urzua? >> yes. >> and as a surprise to known, i am thrilled with this proposed dgo. and i want to commend the chief for his long standing commitment to prioritizing kids and really changing the relationship, between police officers and the department and the kids across the city and i was listening to him give a speech at the graduation, never miss a chance to teach to a child and this is the way that the way that the officer will interact with a child and what an important moment to do it right. and i, congratulate the chief and the sergeant who cares about all kids and so thank you, and so your work shines through here. and we know that it was a team
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effort and we want to say that in my day job, at the center of wellness, we talk about adverse childhood experience and how much it hurts the kids, in their long term health out comes for disease and, for doing well in school and one of those adverse childhood experiences is the incarceration of a parent. and so, sort of what we talk about is that there is not a lot of things and sometimes you can't prevent something from happening, an adverse child experience happens, but boy can you make a difference in how you handle it and the significance of even going from a bulletin to a dgo, this is the cops and this is not a surprise, also, and it is a para military organization and so it is an order from the chief. and the significance of it is it can't be understated and i have come to appreciate it on the two years on the commission and so when this says that the policy is to minimize the disruption to the children of an arrested parent, that is like a shift in the mind of anyone, like i think that you said, the mind of anyone,
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because what happened to their parent this is shifting that from the moment that you interact with an officer and they know that it is not your fault and know that they have to prioritize how they deal with you and report that they show you. the fact that officers shall inquire about the presence of children and make the attempt to make the arrest away from children, if that is safe and allow the arrested parent to assure the child that they will be safe and provided for. logistics, executed if you can, not at the 5th grade graduation and we did not put that in there, but it is required, some general reasonableness. i want to congratulate the department and the hard work and the collaboration with the occ and the community this is a complete reflection of the san francisco values and we should be leading the way and so it has my full support. >> commissioner wong? >> and i want to commend the department as well for having the bulletin in place for a number of years and also the folks who have worked hard to
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make this a general order and i had two questions and i support this and i have two questions, one is that you know, having looked at a lot of search warrants recently and reviewed a lot of the booking, i don't know that i have seen any reference to the bulletin before and i am wondering if there is a ramp up in the training to be sure that all officers are following this. and i remember when i was looking this over, it may not come have come to the cases that i looked at and ever seeing the name of the adult with whom the children was left or anybody ever following sort of the protocol and so this was new to me and surprisingly good and it was new to me when i looked at it and i don't remember when i reviewed the search warrants and ever looking at a provision that said that we want to do it at nighttime and we know that the kids will not be there to assure that the kids would not be involved. so would i want to follow up on what the other commissioners said in terms of how do we ramp up the training and maybe it is part of the implementation of
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the general order that will see a wrap up. >> as, commissioner loftus stated with the general order, it is an order by the chief. and so they have to adhere to the protocols within the order. and additionally while they are doing it, in the days where i have gone through the department there was not that much oversight of where the children were going and you could leave them with a neighbor and you don't know that neighbor's history. and so you better, be sure that this person is well taken care of and we don't know, and in dealing with the child protective services or the family and children's services and they are able to once we have connect with them, and tell us if this person i am leaving them with is a secure individual, that that child is going to be safe and that is basically what we are looking at and whoever we leave that child with, and on the days that i was on patrol and it was some of it is things where we had a responsible party en route and that sometimes is an older brother or sister but now you are actually going to take responsibility for that
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specific officer to make sure that kid is safe. whether there are teens or not, that that kid is going somewhere where they are going to be okay and we don't have to worry about them because we don't want another crime occurring while the parents are incars rating and now you are putting the liability on that officer to make sure that the interaction that the chief has stated the importance of children. that is the facet throughout the career is the chief and what about the children, they are our future and you see the two bright young women before you and our other youth commissioner, and fantastic what they are doing and several of the people out there in the streets, that can learn from the people like this and this is exactly what this order is all about. and is making sure that they have the opportunity to be safe at least for the week, and the night, the week and maybe the month. and whatever it might take, as marion said and so it is a long term plan it look at not just dropping the kid off to get him out of the way to make the
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arrest it is looking more at the long term effect of it and that is the basis of why the chief and the dc really want this. and i think that it is the new beginning for the police work. and as commissioner loftus said that we are preparing the military organization and we have responsibility of all victims, and not just the suspects that we capture on a daily basis, but also the children that are up behind that are often times not heard of. and we forget about them and we are taking responsibility for them. >> great. i had a second question and this might be too knitt picky or lawyerry for this discussion and i think that as mckency was presenting her scenario, has the drafters considered the impact on miles am miranda violations in a domestic violence, acknowledging that this is their child that could be an element of the offense and throw out other statements made at a later point, or if the person who has been arrested has been asked to
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explain to the child what is going on and make an admission in front of the officer how is that going to play out? >> the miranda is going to be arrested person and not the children, and db is another issue altogether that we are addressing in our new upcoming general order and i am glad that you brought it up. and so we are meeting with the same parties and additional parties in review of that domestic violence order which does have a whole section about children in specific to this. and like i said, this is kind of the first step in generating all of the arrests here in the city and dealing with the children on the basis of it and i think that it forces the officers too, to look at miranda issues and whether they are doing, an arrest warrant later, or whatever might happen there is a notification that has to be made that if you are let's say after an incident occurred a month prior and now you have a warrant that has been through the da's office and you do have to take into consideration those kids. >> sure. >> it is addressing their needs
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also, including a warrant or a search or any other thing when you go on a premise, and so, we are at the first step here and we still have other work to do on the general orders and you will be seeing those, hopefully very soon. >> thank you very much. >> i do have the situations and all of that. and the things happen like boom boom boom, and so, for you to tackle this, factoring this, and the safety and why you are making, you know, these arrests with folks, some of whom don't
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always have their children's best interest at heart but i know that. and i mean that chief i admire you for taking this on and looking out for the children no matter what the situation of the parents are because, so this is, this is required training and sensitivity and all that have and while at the same time just discharging your job in a difficult situation and so i know that it is going to be you know, a lot of training and rethinking and all of that, but again, thank you for tackling a very difficult, difficult thing that puts, you know the officers in the situation where now this is going to be on them to do. so, kutos. >> thank you. >> commissioner dejesus? >> thank you, i want to thank everybody for the presentation and it was wonderful. and one of the things that i want to commend the chief for is just we certainly have a modern police force and we have a commitment to policing and this is just another aspect of the community policing and taking care of the children in
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the community and it clearly, the police department has been doing this with the bulletin, and it so, but it actually surprises me that it was not codified in the general order and i want to thank the chief to taking the leadership in this and putting it in place, because as i said, in terms of community, policing our children are very important and the police officers, doing the task of the arresting are the first responders that handle the children. and i like the idea that you know, if you are going to leave it with someone that you are going to do a background check and make sure that they are protected with the people that they are staying with and that it is referred to and i can't remember the term and the department of social service person and to make sure that there is follow up and a check. and so this is wonderful, and i am glad that it is codified and i am surprised it was not earlier and i want to say thank you and i see this as an wonderful aspect and attribute to the community policing in its best form. >> thank you.
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>> and sergeant, is there anything that you like to add, i know that you have worked hard on this. >> anything? >> commissioners i just want to thank our community partners and they worked really hard with us, and i know that it took a while, but with the chief, and chief and they made that commitment when the community partners came to us and asked us to do it and we moved and under their leadership. thank you. >> thank you. >> moments like this, before we have public comment and vote on this that make meself feel very proud to be part of this police commission and what this police department does ask looking out in the audience and seeing the collaborativive effort from the police department and the occ and the youth commission and the children that are actually involved and the experienced community advocates and this is very amazing, and so, you know, this is kutos to everybody and so thank you very much. >> if your... is or the departments have anything like this? i am just curious?
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>> there are a few, but i do want to highlight that the urban institute has contacted the chief and the agency as well because they want to have san francisco be a study sight and it is a national issue and so they have identified san francisco and two other cities because of how innovative this program is. >> great. >> now that is even great. >> great. >> thanks. >> is there any public comment, regarding this new department general order which i am going to pass pretty quick. >> the children. >> yes. >> long time no see, how are you? >> hello. >> so my name is larry, edmonds and if you can see this right here, i think that i am here today, and it is because i think about growing up in arkansas, and as a child and the police, and sergeant in arkansas, and there was a sheriff, and west and in
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arkansas there was doors that lead or to the sheriff. and then, as i went to chicago, my uncle officer william love, and i look at my life born in 61, and i seen the movies scared straight, it did something for me but now i find myself in the world where you cannot be the criminal but you can be have the side effects of the criminal and why sometimes for the people that does not take the criminal and not robbed and killed and shoot. those things are instilled in me and i find out in the city and i just found out from the nwc, p, and wal-mart is now taking over bad people coming out of jail and giving them jobs in the south and so the
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commander and even this city. >> you need to stay on track with the general order. >> and i want to know, and i am still a child. i still believe that your child you are a child and you are a child of god and so what i am looking at today is where those people really never been a criminal or you have been a victim but you are treated like that is one thing that children should know. and as me growing up with a young person, and i didn't turn the back and i could have had and i brothers and sisters who were harder than i was, but i still think that we need to have generations of people out there, telling people about scares straight, and not to do the wrong things, it helped me and that was about the guy going to prition on, or something and so why i am not a criminal and why i don't do the things that people do and my mother and dad never went to
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jail and it is about where you grow up, if you never see them go to jail you become that. that is what i would like to say to the children, you can always change but also, we need to pay and give respect to those persons who did not do those things who went on to be like you and i feel like now, in this life, this coming for me to the police, and i want to have a police pageant and a fireman pageant because you work a lot and like to give you all time off. i am glad to be here because i don't know what i am going to do at the end of the night but coming up on the fourth floor the commission is here. >> any further public comment regarding this? >> hearing none, do i have a motion? >> i move to pass or to approve djo7.04. >> i second that. >> monroe? >> president mazzucco?
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>> aye. >> vice president turman. >> aye. >> commissioner marshall? >> aye. >> commissioner dejesus. >> aye >> commissioner loftus. >> aye. >> commissioner womaning. womaning. >> aye. >> the motion passes. congratulations, thank you very much. >> call line item number four. >> four, 4 a, chief's report report and announcements discuss recent activity and presentation of the first quarter 2014 fdrb findings and recommendations and ois investigative summary, and status update regarding traffic enforcement programs and actions. >> good evening, chief. good evening commissioners i will keep my comments short because i know that we have two presentations and we have been going a while. as long as we are going to
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present on the first quauters findings i will give a crime update in the first quarter of 2014, violent crime is down 14 percent, and including robberies are down 25 percent, and the property crime is relatively flat, but the over all crime in san francisco is down, three percent. and there was some mention of us doing pretty well with regard to homicides, and homicides are down about 50 percent this year as compared to last year, which was the second best year in at least ten maybe longer. and we believe that this year we may be actually at a record. and going to the year to date for today, and we have had seven homicides in san francisco to put that in perspective, in 2008 on this same date we have had 39 and so, we definitely have made the inroads and we are at half of the shootings that we were in 2008, but about the same as we were last year, and so there is
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work to be done, and i think that it is big distributor factor to this reduction in homicide are all of these partnerships and all of the help that we get from the people outside of the police department. certainly general hospital being the trauma center that it is, and saving the lives of some of these shooting victims that get there. there is no way that we get this done without everybody else. and and probably the largest factor will be the jobs program, for 7,000 kids from the summer are getting jobs verses getting into trouble. we did have a tough last week, we had two homicides, and this past week, we had the one that was spoken to earlier on the 900 block of mission. and that suspect is in custody, and then last night, at about 6:00 at night, there was a shooting from car to car in the bay view, and at cargo street where one victim was struck and he did not survive his injuries and he passed today. and so, again, general as great
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as they are they can't save everybody. i know that commander ali will be making a presentation with regard to our traffic performance. but, in looking at the first quarter numbers, all of the numbers are trending down. with the exception of our citations which are up tremendously. and so i think that again, our partners, walk sf and bike sf, and certainly those in the city hall and the mayor's office as wells the enforcement campaign, and i wish that the numbers were down more but at least they are trending down to some degrees, as far as other items of interest, we went to the peace officer memorial, and the annual memorial held this year it was mced by the attorney general and the governor spoke about 40 minutes from the police department went up. and very sadly last year there were eight officers killed in the line of duty. 105 nationally which was actually the lowest amount in the last 30 years. so far this year, we have lost,
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38 nationally, so more than we lost, and 38 nationally, which if you take that quarter will be more than last year and seven so far, just year to date in california, where we lost 8 in all of last year. so, again, dangerous job that the officers do a great job at it and it is impact the violent crime here in san francisco and today was the they did a prescription drug summit led by the u.s. attorney, and we participated with the dea last saturday. for take back day. and we took over 730 pounds of unused and unwanted prescription meds and through the san francisco division over 20 tons were taken back as prescription drugs that are a huge problem in this country and since if you combine it with the 7 previous take backs there is over, 1700 tons of pills taken in on these
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respectful take back days that will not fall into other hands. and so i think that a lot of work being done and a lot of partnership and a lot of good. things that where there is no way that we can get it done by itself. >> i think that another word for that is collaboration. i stand corrected and i will subin collaboration. >> and so *, with that, i will stand down, and in the interest of time and bring up the next piece of the chief's report for the fbrb report i believe. >> and also we are going to do and just so that the audience knows that tomorrow is bike to workday and so we have another agenda item that requires our folks for bike to workday to be up tomorrow morning at 6:00 on your bikes and once we finish this portion of the chief's report we are going to move into that and the occ's
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from the internal affairs division and i am here to present the sergeant review board from 2014, as well as the status update on the officer involved shooting investigations. before i do, i just kind of want to go over this real quick, the packet that you received with all of these, you know, quarterly for these reports i just want to make sure that you understand the information that i am providing to you. in addition to this chief's cover letter, there is a couple of documents, that one, is a summary of the officer involved open officer involved shooting investigations so you get a quick summary of that and another is just a list, since 2009. of the status of officer-involved shooting investigations and you can see sort of just kind of get a brief summary of where they actually are. in a real quick snapshot. and then the third, item is just a list with a brief
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narrative of the officer involved shootings and dating back to 2000 with the one line of what the out come or what the finding was or whether it is an open investigation and so you have all of that material and we are going to focus on the fbrb and the officer involved shooting investigations. first with the fdrb, the fire and discharge review board met on march 25, 2014. and we had two complete investigations to present. and one was oid, 0114 and the other one was oid 0214. and the fdrb was composed of the deputy chief of administration, and the chief serving as a chair as well as chief loftus and smith and works as the voting members. and our advisory members director hicks was there and as was commissioner marshall. and in addition, we had captain
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from the risk management and the captain was off in the academy and the sergeant from the ranch. and with regard to the two cases, the first case, 0114, was presented by the administrative investigator, sergeant, and in this case, it occurred on january 25th, 2014. and 1700 block of connecticut and in this case, a couple of bay view officers were following up on a trespassing complaint. and in the course of that, the subject that they were dealing with released his pit bull that charged at the officers, and chased one officer and tried to climb a fence to get away and fell, and fell to his back and the dog continued to charge and he fired one round at the dog fatally striking it and stopping the attack and that was found to be in policy. and the other discharge occurred, january 28th, 2014, in the golden gate park and there is a small meadow on 25th
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avenue, between martin luther king and it occurred in that meadow there and in this particular case, the officers responded to a couple of priority calls at 25th and lincoln and one call is regarding one woman screaming and regarding a fight in progress and possibly involving dogs and as it turns out there were a couple of dogs attacking some homeless people in the park there. and they were circling and a couple of people and when the officers got there was one man on the ground with the severe dog bite injuries and there was a woman and a good samaritan who had suffered a dog bite. and the officers attempted to contain the two dogs, and animal control arrived and they were unsuccessful in capturing the dogs and they believe that the dogs were a danger to th public and they needed back up to get the dogs, but the back up was ten to 20 minutes away and when the dogs escaped the
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perimeter the officers tried to set up, and got in, and got away in the golden gate park. and it was decided that the other dangerous dog that was still there, had to be put down. and the dog was shot one time by up to it was set and the backdrop was cleared and the dog was shot one time with a rifle from a distance. and the dog was rithing in pain and when they closed in to check on the dog was in such pain that it was put down for to prevent further suffering with a hand gun. and so that was also, found to be in policy. the next firearm discharge review board is tentatively schedule and i say tentatively because it has to go to the administration bureau and the sergeant will be putting that together, but, it is schedule for friday, june 14th and there are issues with the police olympics and the availability of
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