>> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild

west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground

writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who

come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage

for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book -

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco fire department division of training. i'm assistant deputy chief raymond williams

>> mr. president you have a quorum. we have the director of office of citizens complaint. joyce hicks. >> thank you very much and ladies and gentlemen welcome to the may 14, 2014 san francisco police commission meeting. we have an agenda to

deal with close session matters and we have a report from ccoc tonight. i want to thank you for allowing the young students to go forward. thank you. >> thank you very much. it was my absolute pleasure to hear from the young people. they were amazing. they were more than amazing. it was really incredible. >> please mention the consent calendar. >> occ status of again orders/policy proposals first quarter 2014. >> are there any concerns, any corrections to be made?

>> no. is there any public comment? no public comment. do we have a motion? >> i move to approve consent calendar. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> city clerk: general public comment. items not on the agenda but subject matters within the commission. during public comment neither police nor commissioners are required to respond but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and occ personnel should refrain

from entering into any debates or discussions with speakers during public comment. >> any public comment? >> no. >> next item. >> reports and announcements. chiefs report. >> my report is brief as well. crime in san francisco as we close out april violence crime is down 14 percent. property cloo crime is flaut -- flat and over all partner crimes are down 2 percent, homicide are down about 58 percent and homicide by gun are down 63 percent. so it's all the numbers that we are working on are going in the right direction as folks would light to have them go as far as traffic safety. again the numbers from last week collisions are down. collisions involving boys

icycles are down and collisions and injuries down 43 percent, and injuries in the aggregate upside on the down side we are at the same amount of fatalities this year as we were last year with regards to bicycles. 9, 5 were fault of the vehicle, 3 the fault of the pedestrian, 1 the fault of the bicycle. as far as recent event we did bike to workday as did many of the city leaders. myself and director riskin and director and the mayor road in from glen park and commissioner loftus road the farthest and supervisor tang and city assess or chiu. it was good.

pala held their basketball tournament and monday night we did the traffic safety event along with oakland and san rafael. chief bishop was here from san rafael ptsd. pd and trying to deal with traffic safety. there is something about the search warrant, the location of the hels angels clubhouse a warrant related to aggravated assault that occurred on 14th street where three suspects and hell's angels identifiable wear assaulted a bar person and the person that went to the aid of the bartender. we were able to identify one of the suspects

and that suspect was arrested this morning at the clubhouse and other evidence was gathered. there was original report that shots were fired, it was not the case. there was a flash bang that we use. nobody was injured, neither suspect nor police officer. finally next week is a big event here in the city for national law enforcement. the major city chiefs and resource form will be meeting in san francisco in the latter half of next week. i know director hicks was sharing she will also be attending. it's good the leadership of the national law enforcement is going to come to san francisco. in my time i don't recall them being here before as far as having one of their quarterly meetings here an hopefully this becomes a regular thing. that concludes my report.

>> commissioner turman? >> are we planning any kind of event or reception or anything for -- >> the police executive form and the major city chiefs are pretty well conzeal organization. their calendar is filled. i fill one of their major events. i can certainly extent the visitation. i'm sure the police commissioners would like to attend any of their events. >> commissioner loftus? >> i just had a question, chief, i think i read today, your water bottle. i read today in the case of alma mull ak that that case was not charged by the district

attorney's office. i certainly want to know what our take is on that? >> the alma lack case is very well publicized collision that occurred at 6th and folsom in which our initial investigation we missed a video camera that captured it. originally it was thought that the collision was the fault of ms. mull ak . that ended not being the case. we apologized for missing the video and we did get it right and we adjusted the report. it was a very good investigation as far as the completed factual analysis of exactly what occurred and the d. a. came back not believing that there is tlz any criminal case being made. a citation issued to the driver for the cause of that collision. >> okay. then i just wanted to say on the enforcement side,

jor yorba boulevard there was a traffic accident and we have lights on there. looks like the city family is making that safer but looks like the police department is getting that fixed. >> we'll get a traffic signal before the end of the summer and there will be police presence. in the abundance of caution we don't want lightning to strike another time. >> thank you. >> anything further for the chief. hearing none please call item 3b. city clerk: occ directors report discussion. review of recent activities. presentation of the occ first quarter 2014 comprehensive

statistical report. presentation of the occ statistical reports summary of cases received in april 2014, mediation of complaints. april 2014 jud indication of suspect sustained complaints in april 2014 and companions reports. >> good evening. commissioners, chief sir and members of the audience. this evening i will discuss three reports. the first one is our recent activity. this year to date, the occ has opened 286 cases compared to 245 -case as of may 2014, 2013. this is a 17 percent increase in cases. with pending cases, it goes the other way. in 2013, the occ had 305 cases as of may 14, 2013. this year, to date, pending cases have grown to 341 which is a 12 percent

increase. the occ has sustained 14 cases to date compared to 10 last year as of may 14. a 40 percent increase. the next report would be our april statistical report. so i'm going backwards in time. those are the most up to date statistics. the april report is has charts attached to it that i won't go over. i will highlight mediation. three 3 cases were mediated in april 2014. the same as were mediated in april 2013. 20 occ complaints were mediated between january 1, 2014 , and april 30, 2014. compared to 15 complaints

between january 2013 and april 30th. our mediations are up. with adjudication of sustained complaints in april 2014, these are the cases that the occ has sustained and the chief has made a ruling on those cases. and chief sir adjudicated 8 in april. 1 case involving neglect duty and the officer removed the phone from the person. the officer was admonished. the officer failed to collect data. another one failure to collect traffic stop data. the officer was admonished and retrained. the

next case, the officer made rude comments to a fair who did not want to pay a taxi driver a tip. the officer received a written reprimanded. >> he made rude comments? >> to the passenger who is also known as a fare. >> not that he didn't want to pay the fare, but he didn't want to pay the tip. >> that is correct. there was some mechanical issue involving the fare's card or voucher that the fare was using that automatically took a tip out and the fare took issue with that with the driver. so the driver summoned the officer saying that the fare was refusing to pay him. so then the officer

incorrectly told the fare he had to pay or he would go to jail and held -- he would regret this and it was recorded and it was a long and let's say misguided lecture by the officer. so the next conduct reflecting discredit allegation was a lieutenant who called the complainant a coward for failing to stop a violent suspect from harassing people. and this scenario was that there's a suspect who was bothering people and particularly women and the lieutenant went to intervene the complainant who was watching. didn't like the amount of force that the lieutenant was using and made comments to the lieutenant and the lieutenant told the complainant, well you are a coward for not intervening and

protecting people. so the lieutenant was admonished and retrained. then, in an unwarranted action neglect of duty and conduct reflecting discredit sustained allegations. these were plain clothes officers who issued the complaint, a traffic citation when there was no evidence of the complainants driving created an aggravated attention requiring the officer's immediate attention. when they are in plainclothes they are not to make traffic stops unless it's urgent to do so in an aggravated situation. what happened with this particular complainant, the complainant was unhappy that this unmarked vehicle which he did not know what -- was a

police vehicle was blocking his way and the officer was involved in detail around muni. they were slow in the lane. in anyway the complainant said things about -- to make this car move along. so then the complainant was followed, was stopped. and the officers cited the complainant for parking in a prohibited area when in fact the officer said the complainant didn't see the meter. there is questions as to whether the complainant had an opportunity to stru meter because the officer stopped him. in addition, the most serious part of this is that one of the officers wrongfully ordered a dmv priority examination of the drivers

license. it appears this was a retaliation for the complainant's attitude. a dmv report is really serious because it causes you to be an unsafe driver. in addition to this citation, the notice, immediately the driver know that the driver must go to the dmv within five days or the drivers license will automatically be revoked. well, the officers did not give the complainant notice that he needed to go within five days and the next thing the complainant knew was that his license had been revoked. that is what happened in that incident. as a result, our

office has made policy recommendations with regard to priority reexaminations and checks and balances and we've been in discussion with chief sir about that. >> i would make a recommendation to find chief is you are? sur. >> the policy we are working on were not in the bulletin today. i will send a copy over tomorrow. >> thank you. the discipline for the officer who ordered the priority reexamination with the 1 day suspension because it's serious too. it caused someone to loss a license. the officer who wrote the incomplete, an officer wrote an incomplete report received a reprimanded. to the next conduct reflecting discredit, this is where an

officer called the jogging complainant a knucklehead when the officer ordered the person to get back from the sidewalk in an open trench and in response according to the officer, the jogger was sarcastic and stopped in the middle of the street. and a neglected duty allegation was sustained and for which the chief gave admonishment and retraining. the officer failed to see the juvenile's son's telephone was lost. that concludes the april statistical report. then i will move to the first quarter report. >> i have one question, director? >> yes. >> i don't often hear and maybe this is just me, one of the incidents you talked about was a lieutenant, that was

the person not being, for being a coward for not intervening. obviously the significance of a lieutenant having an issue versus an officer in their training and leadership role in the department, how is that factored into both the discipline, the retraining is what i'm mostly interested in. >> obviously commissioned officers are to -- held to a higher standard. the retraining is important, for lieutenants, although sergeant by definition trainers, lieutenants are managers but they over see the watch. again, higher standard. >> okay. thank you. >> so i will move to the first quarter report. since you heard a lot about our office last week in the annual

report, i will try to be brief. plus the first quarter report does represent a compilation of the statistical reports that you received in january and february and march. but last week, there were questions about occ staffing and so i will try to address those questions in more detail in this report. in the first quarter of this year, we began training a new temporary ad 124 line investigator. during this period we had 14 permanent line investigators. there were three line investigator vacancies. plus one of the permanent line investigators acted as a senior investigator contained to fill the vacancy when the senior was promoted