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. are in open session

the full quorum. >> now we are. >> okay. >> we are back in session, please call item 4 b. occ director's report (discussion) - review of recent activities - presentation of the occ's 2013 annual comprehensive statistical report - presentation of the occ's statistical reports and summary of cases received in february 2014 & march 2014, mediation of complaints in february 2014 & march 2014, and adjudication of sustained complaints in february 2014 & march 2014 - presentation of the occ's outreach strategic plan >> thank you, and good evening, director hicks and i apologize for the delay, but thank you. you are welcome. president mazzucco, good

evening. good evening, vice president turman and members of the police commission, deputy chief, and chief, and members of the audience, and most of whom are my staff. so there are several months worth of reports on the agenda tonight. and i am glad that we are finally able to proceed with them. but, to spare you, i will not deliver every report this evening as an example. in with your consent and with the february and the march statistical report, i could just do briefly, the community out reach strategic plan and i can wrap into the annual report. and but if you have questions, of course, i am happy to answer those and then next week, i will be delivering the occ, first quarter 2014, report so

that is going to be resume in january through march of 2014. so, tonight i am presenting the occ 2013 annual report. and i would like to give and we have a powerpoint. that needs to come up and while it is, i would like to recognize chris, chris has been here before and every year he comes. and he is the occ information system business analyst, and is responsible for our information technology and monitoring on-line complaints, filing projects, and anything electronic. also in the audience this evening, we have the occ attorney staff, and i would like for you to stand up, and before i deal with the attorney

staff, of course, the occ deputy director and chief of investigations eric baltazar appointed to that position in august and fairly new in the position but not new with the city, the attorney staff led by frankle, and also, included is forbes who is a child attorney for the occ, and earlier this evening you have heard from sam romerian and the policy and the analyst attorney and then last but certainly not least is donna salazar and we also have in the audience, two senior investigators and one acting senior investigators and so they are all senior investigators and please stand up and we have dennis in the front and ed and sherry fletcher and i think that i have included everyone. thank you very much.

everyone, here and those who are not contribute to the success of the occ. and contributed to the statistics that are here and the report that i am going to deliver this evening. this evening, we will talk about several topics and we can move on to the next slide. the history of the mission of the occ, the organizational and budget matters and investigations and state and national trends and law enforcement and policy analysis, and medations and out reach. i know that the police commissioners have heard this many times from our monthly community meetings, but the occ was created by a board of supervisors initiated charter amendment in 1982, we became

fully staffed in 1983, we are under the jurisdiction of this police commission. and our mission is to investigate complaints or neglect of the duty, promptly fairly and impartially and also to make policy recommendations. this is my sixth year leading the occ. and we had challenges with our budgets, and because of step adjustments and that is a factor that is used for all city departments budgets while positions are budgeted fully budgeted then what is given is taken away by the step adjustment factor and the vacantcy factor and in fact, it is total 270,000 dollars for us, and caused us to have to

keep positions vacant. and in addition, the occ has been constrained in hiring permanent 8124 investigators because of the volume of work that human resources has. and the fact that we get to cue up and we have been working closely are human resources and i will talk about that in my first quarter 2014 report. and where we are about to launch, an announcement. and the charter requires that the occ maintain the minimum staffing of line investigators of one line investigator to every 150 police officers through by using temporary investigaters we have managed to squeak by, and but, that is not the whole story and i will

get into that a little bit later. and well, the whole story is that controllers audit and in 2007 prior to my tenure, and indicated that 16 cases per investigator was the ideal, best practices for civilian oversight investigator and so the formula to the charter does not really answer the question for the occ. and let's talk about the occ personnel, and we only have two managers in the occ, the deputy director/chief of investigations and more than half of the staff our investigations and the remaining balance and attorneys and technical and clerical staff. and in 2013, of the investigation, unit, led by the deputy director eric and received 227 complaints and investigated the findings on

722, that means that unlike in some prior years, we did not close as many or more cases than we opened, but we didn't fall too far behind. and then we closed all but 22011 and by 2012 cases those cases were the henry and julian hotel cases and officer involved shootings just to talk a little bit more about eric, he is occ first deputy director. and i appointed him in august of 2013. he is a 19-year employee of the city of san francisco and 15 of those years have been served in the office of citizen complaints. and moving to the caseload summary, for 93 to 2013, 727

complaints in 2013, represented 24 deviation from the base line meaning that is lower. and than the average. and the 21-year average is 950 cases and the 722 cases n 2013 represented 23 percent deviation from the 21-year base line and the average number of complaints is 936. and in looking at the types of at the cases, the actions that we took on cases 43 complaints had at least one sustained allegation in 2013, and again, that sustain rate is 28 percent deviation from the 21 year base line and 6 percent for the sustain rate and the 2013 and 2012 rates are comparable. the occ, has in 2013 several cases of note, meaning