conclusion, and argumentative and objection and move to strike and so we instruct that and so we are going with the collision and the department, you know, is already committed to, using data driven, policing to really focus on those five factor and just to point out to my colleague, commissioner wong, this came from the mta, and collision data, where they looked in san francisco from 2006 to 2011, and using the integrated traffic record system, where, what the five primary causes were and from that data, we came together, and with our community partners and commander ali looked at what data do we need to continue to track in order to have a sense of are we doing better or where do we need to change and pivot and see in this, we are tracking specific things, and the number of citations given and anybody in san francisco can tell there is a whole lot more. and i drove down sunset

boulevard one night and there were i saw four people pulled over in this span of 12 blocks. and so the department will continue to provide this information to the stake holders monthly and we are looking at the percentage of the collisions attributed to those five factor and so continuing to drill down on the better data in closer times, and then the number of people receiving arrests and citations passed the scene of the traffic collision, verses the number of collisions, and i want to credit, walk sf, and nicole snyder at our meeting bringing the case of stevens a woman who was hit and severely injured on our streets and not only was her life in sham bells but she had to deal with the reality that the person who had done that to her had not received a traffic citation and no finding of fault despite there was clear fault there and so the chief at that point, after the meeting itself, announced that the department is taking a different approach to that

issue and issuing citations if the officer has probable cause to arrest and sometimes on these issues, that is a big distinction, that is what the chief has called a seismic shift in policy and i think that it is to prevent some of these things that have happened like stevens where we wait for a district attorney decision and there is not actually accountability in that case. so the other issue that i think that will be of interest to my fellow commissioners is we are going to track the number of operations around the school facility and senior zones because we heard loud and clear from a number of our seniors who came to the meeting that it is really scary to be on the streets and there is a lot more activity.

this is giving us the tools to continue to monitor how the department is doing and hopefully we will see a decrease in the fatalities and we don't want the attention to go off the enforcement that get us there and with that i will ask for them to say a few words, we are going to be biking and we don't want to be late. >> hi, everybody, my name is niekol and i am the executive director of walk san francisco and i want to thank you for taking the time and thank commissioner loftus and commissioner tturman and dejesus, and especially chief and the commander who have been wonderful partners. you know, we are really excited to stand here today with this resolution, and i think that it

is really clear evidence that we are moving in the right direction this is a huge shift and in what we are seeing on the streets just as you were saying, more enforcement i walk down market street every day and it is incredible the number of people that i see. and pulled over for not turning right when they are supposed to. and you know the dangerous driving behaviors that we are seeing, and they are being enforced and we are really happy about that. and you know, this is important because we are having a crisis on our hands and we have a public health crisis that is preventable and so we have more people getting hit by cars, and involved in hotly and, three people getting hot by cars every day in san francisco, and we have had eleven traffic fatalities so far this year and 7 of which were pedestrians and most of those are seniors. and they are happening on the same streets, and 6 percent of our city streets account for 60 percent of all injuries, and

fatalities. for pedestrians. and many of those are the most dangerous streets for the bicyclists as well and need to protect the victims, and it happens in tender loin and china town and soma and this is not only a safety issue it is an equity issue and i have heard the stories of the residents who are afraid to cross the street and they are isolated and that raises a whole new set of issues and so again, it is on and i want to thank you for taking this issue seriously and i know that commander ali has been working closely with the department of public health and mta to share the data and we are really, you know, as you are saying, commissioner wong, this is a really important issue that we understand, that the root cause is and we know that enforcement is the stick, but there are a lot of carrots but we are certainly pushing the mta and

the dpw to pursue those carrots by making the streets safer in the first place and the enforcement piece is important until we get there because, it does take a long time to rebuild streets that were designed for speed, and not safety. >> i think one other thing, you know, i think just continuing to emphasize that goal of 50 percent of citations going towards the focus on the five, and we saw, a slight increase from 22 to 25 percent i believe, and over... and from last year to this first quarter and we love to see that grow even more. and i want to point out that you know, we saw a very steep increase in the number of citations to pedestrians, and of course, we have to enforce all traffic behaviors and i also want to point out that you know, we want to urge you all to also think about the impact

that you have on other people, so, when we get behind the wheel of a vehicle, we take on a new level of responsibility, where we are operating a vehicle that has the ability to kill another human being and traveling at fast speeds and so, while a pedestrian might be violating a law, and they have the, and they are putting their own life in danger and whereas we have to also focus on the vehicles, that have the ability to kill another person. so, we really, you know, i can and i would like to understand, i guess, where those pedestrians citations are going as well and making sure that they are really focusing on the violations that are putting people's lives in risk, and at risk. and again, we are really proud to collaborate with you all on this and i look forward to

working through that specific kink and continuing this enforcement effort and glad to see that the over all injuries are down, and that is a huge accomplishment. and just given that we have been on it for a few months and so thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners my name is leah and i am the executive director of the san francisco bike coalition and thank you for the opportunity and thank you for recognizing that tomorrow is bike to workday and we are going to be riding with many of you and may is bike month and so enjoy the entire month and great timing for this and i want to commend you all and your leadership you really are you may not be the first department taking the vote but you were credit you chief on the first department to come out publicly in support of vision zero and there is universal embracing of the idea, of course of lowering the traffic deaths and eliminating the deaths and we want to see

that no doubt, but i really credit you chief and the department and thank you, particularly commissioner loftus for being up front there and really i think showing the initiative that the city has been and the other departments have followed and we have really great momentum and obviously this is the beginning and an important and a first step and we support the resolution and i hope that you will support this today and work with you as partners going forward and i want to thank the chief and commander and all of the folks on the team for spending a lot of time with us and being transparent and probably taking far more calls from us. and we thank you for that. i do want to say though that i will be honest that i am surprised by the numbers here. first i am surprised that the quarterly report, and this is the first it is great that you are doing reports that is the most impressive thing. the intent and you are now following through with the updates and the status. but a lot of the issues and data that you are calling for

and speaking of, were a data driven approach and in this resolution are not here and i am not saying that they don't exist and i expected them to come forward with in report. and what am i talking about, things like number of operations around the school facilities and how are we doing on that and percent of collisions attributed to one of the five factors and but very clearly showing what those percentages are. back in the last like it was january or february the big hearing on this issue and we also talked to you and committed to go back over the year and look at the cases over a year to see how it may be given in cases where they should have been and it really brought that point, and i am not going to go through all of the items but there were a series of 6 to 10 very specific data points, and some listed here and some elsewhere, that i am not seeing here. >> if i could, commander ali in

his haste to be brief, skipped his last slide, that said in 2013, we went back issued 240 citations and in the first quarter of 2014, we have issued 364 citations that resulted from collisions where there was an injury to another. >> it is on the last page of his powerpoint. >> great going back and looking at that thank you. thank you, so i think that we want to understand the numbers here and i said there is probably more that we want to see, this is the first report and so we are not expecting you know everything to be perfect here and there is more that behope to be continuing to see and i will highlight again and if i could put this here, i think that it is worth noting again, if i could. the violations citations given to the violations for the pedestrian and bicyclists are by far the greatest increase, and they are not the greatest

number, but the production and case is right up there. and at least that from the start and i have been public about this we are not against enforcement. you should be enforcing dangerous behavior and i think that is all about what the focus on the five is. just raises the question of the resources that are going towards those significant increases 350 increase and 191 percent increase and is that the best use of limited resources? >> right. but if you look and you have to total all of those other violations. so the pedestrian violations and bike violations were done bundled into one total category of just all bike violation and all ped violations and the vehicles by 92 percent get all of the tickets and the pedestrians get 6 percent, and bicyclists get the fewest tickets two percent. and in the aggregate and so everybody has gotten a lot more tickets in the aggregate and

you are just looking at it by percentage and if you look at it by 100 percent of the 34 some odd thousand tickets and they are the most dangerous and 6 percent to pedestrians and 2 percent to bikes. year to date. >> percentages of over all citations. >> everyone is getting more. >> people walking and biking are getting greater. >> i would suggest that the people in san francisco might expect the bikes get more than 2 percent. but that is the fact. >> i am just curious, and just help me this, a violater is a violater to me, that is just to me. and i know that some of the reports that i have read that i have seen just announced from the joint meeting that we had

that the primary cause of those either a and i remember the percentage, 60 or 40 percent, and this is..., and these are called by vehicles. >> and actually, of the first deaths this year, 4 were caused by a vehicle and three were caused by the pedestrian being at fault and one was caused by a bike. and there is plenty of responsibility to go around. >> i am just curious on a percentages, if the violation even percentage wise are caused by all three categories, why would not the all be cited just from your point of view. >> right. >> putting everybody at risk at some point. >> yeah, and one of the great things about decision zero it gets away from the blame game. >> this is not a blame game, this is accuracy, and i am not blaming anybody and i am looking at the numbers and seeing, all responsibility in

some way. >> that is great question, and i will share one answer, and one scenario, last year, 2014, 4 people were killed while biking and they are dead none of those cases were the drivers cited. i was not there i don't know what happened. but a major component of someone who witnessed that crime, is dead. it does not surprise me that there is not information that would then give the full story, and very much on something that we are attended to in the media, there is a losing end and it is often the people who are not surrounded by a steel box and they often don't have a story to tell. and citations we have seen we don't think are given at the high enough rate. >> i am looking at the number of the pedestrian or bike, or if i am doing something that no

matter what i am doing, why would i not be... >> people that are endangering others and breaking laws should get citations, unfortunately we are seeing a case where we see, citations are just disproportionately withheld when a driver is at fault, and involved with the bike or a pedestrian. often times those people sometimes are rarely killed there is no story afterwards i am giving the extreme cases. >> i don't want the viewers at home to be confused in a fatality, the citations is not issued because it could create a double jeopardy situation and the da has to make a decision, in the clarification is that when the da makes a decision to not charge, if they charge, obviously that is going to be a criminal case, if they decide not to charge we issue the

citation and we went back last year and issued citations to anyone that the da did not charge. so antedotally what you said was true at the time of the hearing last year, but since, last year's omission has been corrected and going forward this year, there has been 360 some odd plus tags given in the first quarter to vehicles. or whoever was at fault. >> those things that you point out, you know this is a challenging issue, there is not a simple solution and i think that this he is resolution will reflect the department commitment and the commitment to the policy matter to deal with what is in our lane and enforcement and education and to be transparent to the point where, i don't think that, i think that given that the chief could have put a set of data up there that suggested that bicyclist gets two and the pedestrian get 6 and cars get

the other ones and that data is true. but to say 359 percent increase, everybody needs to know that enforcement is happening if i am a pedestrian and i am doing something that is against the law i could be jeopardizing myself and i think that the important part of this data is that we are speaking the same language going forward and i hear what you are saying, the quarterly report that we get next quarter after we adopt this report is going to look different and you have my commitment that i will work with the department to make sure that the data reflects this resolution and that we keep this conversation going and the dialogue going and learn more about how to work together on these issues. because the commitment is certainly there if not the challenge is. >> although, there and we are explaining the numbers your point is well taken, we need to take a close look at the

proportion of pedestrians and bicyclists also getting cited and we will do that. you have our commitment to do that. to make sure that the situations are treated in a fair manner, okay? >> so we probably do this, is there any public comment regarding line item five and we will shoot back to the chief's report and the occ and the commission reports is there any public comment regarding this? >> come on up. >> hello, juicy and i leave that safe streets for all is a good start because i think that the streets are safe then your

buildings are safe and i think that this is a good way to work because, it seems like i am not going to get what i want in my buildings sometimes, but i think that if you could and to me i live... >> excuse me, stay on the bikes. >> just on the bikes. >> yes. >> the bikes, bicycles >> and streets. >> and my uncle was riding a bike, and as a police officer, and bikes in 73, but i think safe streets on bicycles and where the police or the people, it is very important because you can get run over, and in the night or daytime, i think that you should bike in the night to get more correctness because there is not a lot of cars out there and you should not go walking late at night, and i will do that, and

>> and sometimes you will know that when, and who is riding on the sidewalk. and you know, i think that all people should know that streets are for bicycles, and i think that the sidewalks actually should be 23 different colors, and you know you want to walk in this way and one going this way and the turn around and that will have the bicyclists as well as the pedestrians, you know, and the pedestrians will walk correctly and they can do the bad things like a bike and around and notice that, and that is why i normally have a whistle. and i blow a whistle and i have it and treat the people that will block your way as you are coming through and you will say stuff and they are texting and

stuff and so i think that it is a lot of work, around state street, and on the sidewalks and the pedestrians, and i hope, i am here and i feel like i want to live and i come up here today but today i am going to do and i am going... she said that she felt comfortable with the men in blue. ... so i feel great. thank you for letting me be here and i have known that i am here for a reason, and you that i need to be able to carry on some of us have to make it through this life. thank you. >> thank you. >> you want to call this matter for a vote? >> okay. >> comment, come forward. >> my name is eric and i am also with the san francisco

bike coalition and i am the program and design and i run the education and safety work and stow a lot of the rules of the road. i want to thank the police commission and the chief and the department for their leadership on this. commissioner has responded to e-mails about questions and actually just today we spoke in front of captain's line up, and both two the different shifts to kind of just talk about the issues that we are seeing, and bridge that relationship with the police. and also we spoke in front of... who are walking the streets of mid market as well and the captain and really great and we have also had the communication with captain... (inaudible) of the traffic, division too and it is great and we had great progress to that. and we also thank the department working on the training video and so that should be coming out this

quarter and maybe next. and we are working with the walk sf as well, to create a training video for sfpd to know how to enforce, bicycle and pedestrian issues and make sure that they are properly reporting when there is a collision and things like that, and looking forward to getting that out and it will be mandatory for all officers to watch as well. i just want to thank you in support of the vision zero and it is a data point and i think that what leah was trying to point out about the increase of that five focus on the five top collisions that i just put it over here but the five top ones don't have as high of an increase, and we have said that we are pushing toward the 50 percent goal of focus on the five for the traffic citations and you can see that they are much lower than the other growth where there is a lot more growth on the pedestrian side, and the focus on the five is where we are trying to get to 50 percent and it was a two percent increase from last

quarter. and i think that seeing more progress there in the five dangerous behaviors that are causing the collisions that result in a severe injury or death. >> thank you. >> and that is why we have this resolution, and so that you can argue the data. >> sit down. >> you said something about the training video? >> the academy and we had a video that we worked on in 2007 sfpd and the san francisco bicycle coalition and created a training video and focuses on the bike issues and we are not sure why it stopped being shown and he saw it in the training but somehow in the last few years it got lost and so now with this energy we are redoing

that video >> just the training is referenced in the resolution as well, and the chief had already taken the lead on that as soon as these issues came up and started to work with walk sf to get that going. great, i will ask. >> public comment is closed. and i will ask if there is any questions from my colleagues if not, i will ask for a motion to approve the state streets for all. >> so moved. >> second. >> all of those in favor. >> aye. >> do we need to do a roll call? >> no. >> okay great. >> great, thank you. >> go and get the rest for the bicycle tomorrow. >> i have to say why we are clearing the audience, someone in the audience who was riding his bike in the morning and

people usually run the light and he actually stopped at it. and i saw him riding on sunday morning and so it was good. >> since march >> and i got to go to bed. >> so we are going to take a recess before we move into the occ report.