the caseload in 2013, that means how many complaints did we receive, 727 complaints in 2013, the year before, in 2012, we received 740 and in the year before that we received, 784 and so the complaints are trending down. the occ investigators closed 722 complaints last year, few less than were opened. and we mediated 59 complaints that is 8 percent of the complaints that we closed. and then, moving quickly to how do you file a complaint? you contact the office of the city or the office of the citizen complaints either in person at 25 van ess avenue on the 7th floor where we are conveniently located on the edge of van he is and market and you can call us. and you can mail, or e-mail or

fax us your complaint. you can file your complaints at police stations and they will forward them to us. we are working on, on-line complaint filing and we anticipate having that available by during this year. in 2014. and that includes, my report. >> thanks, very much director. >> any questions for the director? >> thank you very much. and let's please call line item 3 c. >> commission reports commission president's report and commissioner's reports. >> i just have one very quick report. there were conversation a couple of the prior hearings regarding the backlog of the officer-involved shooting investigations. and there is some discussion about the time that it takes and some issues were raised about you know we don't like, when i first got on the commission there was a very large backlog and the police department has added to its staffing in that area.

and we have experts in that area and so, when we found out that there were 22 cases pending and we wait for is a close out from the san francisco district attorney's office and as many of you know that every officer involved shooting has multiple investigations the police department has the management control division does one investigation, and the homicide division does a separate investigation and then to show that there are different angles that are not affiliated the da's office does a separate investigation to see if the charges should be brought against those who were involved including the officers and then, director hick's group at the occ also responds to every officer involved shoot and once they receive a complaint, they continue with it and start the initial investigation without a complaint and then they move forward with an investigation and so we have the independent investigations and what everybody waits for is the da

office to sign-off on these, there were 22 pending and a conversation about what is taking so long? some of them were close to two years old and maybe a couple older than that, and so what i did was i took it upon myself and with the permission of the other commissioners and i spoke to the da. and i explained this to him. and we do we talked about there is an issue with the time that it takes for the medical examiner to close out and make their findings. and so, that has been one of the issues that we have had to deal with and i think that it is well noted some of the issues in the staffing and the medical examiner's office and given that there are 22 cases and of those 22 i think that only five involved the medical examiner's office and the da spoke to promise to get to the bottom of this and got right back to me and said that he is going to resign the cases out to the other assistant da and spread the work and going to expedite the following reports but he is not going to speed things up for the purpose of getting things done and that is not what everybody has asked for. but, as commissioner loftus said, you are right, it is important for the officers that closure and it is important for

the family members of those involved to have closure, but they are going to do a thorough investigation and having said that, da got back to me and said, commissioner, i promise that i will have between 3 and 5 of the cases of the 22 pending, closed within a week. they are yesterday to be closed and in fact i got a phone call back and in reality at the closed nine cases 7 involving the san francisco police department and two involving outside agencies. and so my report that there has been a pretty large change with reference to this and with the response of the da and so i want to thank him for that and let the public know that we are down with 13 open cases and they are moving forward with those cases so that is my announcement. >> commissioner marshall? >> great job. president mazzucco. >> we can talk to other folks to expedite things. two things, real quick. first of all i want for the chief, as a the university of

san francisco alum and a former trustee, i saw your article in the university magazine and a very nice article and good job and i was particularly impressed by the way that you handled and threw you a curve ball of your salary and said that it was set when i got the job, very good job and nice piece and i want to say that i had and i really enjoyed this and i had officer jason johnson and the young people from operation genesis on the radio show, maybe three weeks ago and just before i don't know, the officer jason johnson is that bay view station and he went to steve suhr with an idea to take some young people on a journey to africa, young african american people back to ghana and the chief said actually thought that you were going to

say are you crazy? and we said let's do it and had those young people and officer johnson on the show >> it was marvelous and they talked about the trip that impacted them and i knew that it would impact the kids but the adults were as impacted if not more than the young people, so a lot of, and i just got to say officer johnson what a great guy, what a great, great gentleman to have on the police department, and i think that it is a great example of the type of policing that you want to do and we want sfpd to do. and for them to do and great, and publicity, and easily for the san francisco police department, and kutos to you for saying let's do it. and they of course, don't want to do it all of the time which is something else but i just want to thank you on behalf of the young people and on behalf of the officers and even if it is just a wonderful move for,

you know, for everybody, concerned, and commissioners i hope that at some point, i hope that we have it here at this commission, to just, for us to the commission to salute them and i don't know how that is going to happen but let's try to get them here as soon as possible. >> i think that it is wonderful. >> fabulous. >> and thanks a lot, chief. >> and he is a special guy. >> thank you. >> i would like to say that dr. marshall had a great golf tournament on monday that for what he does in the day job and i sent forward the young lawyers to the golf tournament to play and all came back and said that the work that they do at the mega boys club is unbelievable and the young men and women they met at the tournament for the boy's club, these four young lawyers were very chaty about things that they had learned for the first time and so it was, you know i want to thank you for giving them that experience and they really enjoyed it. commissioner wo ng. >> thank you, i just have a

couple of quick announcements and i am hosting a welcome lunch to the campaign for the central district tomorrow and if you would like to join, i have invited just a dozen of the local non-profit and hope to introduce him to the community in the district, and june 10th, i will be attending the officers for justice general meeting. and on the 14th i will be attending the asian peace officers district. >> anything further? >> okay, please call the next line item, 2 d. >> commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration and future commission meetings. >> and our next schedule meeting is june 11th, here at city hall room 400. and june 18, we are dark and no meeting on the third wednesday and we are back in the community and in the richmond

district on june 25th. at the studio middle school which is located at 450, 30th avenue. >> i guess that it is now time for the main event, the presentation by the captain mceachern of northern station. >> give me a second to set up the powerpoint, i know that everybody has a copy of it but it will help me to go through

it. >> all right.

>> i think that it worked. >> okay. >> i guess not. >> okay. well, hopefully, we can get this, and we have sergeant on his way. >> we are going to have him set it up and in the meantime, hopefully, you have in front of you copies of the presentation that we can go through and hopefully, the members of the community have copies of it and if they don't there are copies if you would like to grab one as we go through the presentation as he sets it up.

first off, commissioners, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to come before you tonight to present kind of the state of the northern district. as commissioner mazzucco said, we were schedule for last week, but due to some scheduling conflicts, we were not able to and luckily we were able to reschedule it quickly, and have the opportunity tonight to give you a little bit of a presentation on where we are in the middle of the district and also i would like to thank director hicks and chief suhr good to see both of you. mainly i would like to thank, as i start the community that is here and as you can see there are a number of people that are here from the community and probably both positive and maybe hear some of the negative comments, but i support both of those because that is how we are able to provide the better police services by hearing some of the concerns that they have, and so i look forward to the public comment as we move forward and i thank them for coming out tonight to hear this presentation. tonight, the presentation will

be in four parts, but i promise that we will get through it fairly quickly. we don't have a whole lot of slides. but, we will be talking a little bit kind of about the overview of the northern district and obviously commissioner wo ng is new and we want to give him an idea of what we cover in the northern district as well as the community that is here and we will talk about the overview of the officers at northern station and what current staffing is like, and the dem graphics and some of the things that encompass the officers at the northern station and we will talk about the crime and safety and some of the programs that we have with the community and i will finish up with the goals that i have for 2014. and so with that, we will get started. i know that he is working on it and we are moving to the first slide that talks about the demgraphics of the northern station and has a picture of what it is. and northern station covers

about 5.3 square miles of the city, about ten percent of it. and it is bordered in the south by market street, in the north by the water's edge in the marina on the west side by stiner's street which is just about a block from where the police station is and at the east, on larkin street and we also border as we get closer to the marina the procido and as the commissioner mazzucco talked about the officers are required to respond to help out with the federal police and up to the golden gate bridge as there are incidents like we had on monday night where the officers were actually in crissy field on federal property but responded out because we were assisting and generally get there quicker than the federal police who don't have as many resources as we do. we have 102,000 people that live in the northern district and so it is about, 8 percent of the 800,000 that are in the

city. and of that, we have about 50 percent male, 50 percent female, and 65 percent of the dem graphics are caucasian and 70 percent asian and 10 percent african americans and 6 or 7 percent make-up the hispanic and the other different cultures that live within the northern community. are we almost there? >> that is okay. i have heard sergeant yamagucha apologize a number of times in the past, i am used to it. there are ten large neighborhoods within the northern district. and when you get to that it will be the third slide. next one? there you go. and those communities include the lower haigt, and the valley, and the civic center and the little saigon which is just up the street from us on

polk street and the boarders of the tender loin and the western edition and the alamo square which we border with the park station and we deal often with the bay breakers and japan town, a large community there. and the pacific heights, and cal hollow and the marina and within those districts we have approximately 25 community and neighborhood groups ranging in various sizes to large groups of over 2 or 300, and down to just small community groups that i meet with on a regular basis and we have over 12 merchant association as you know we have a lot of merchant corridors in the district, polk street and the lower valley and fillmore, and japan down, and at those locations there are a number of merchant associations that we engage with and enact with often when it comes to events, or other concerns that they may have. there are five supervisors in the northern district, and as

you can see, supervisor scott weiner, who is responsible for district eight, and he has a very small portion of the northern district and it is in the south west corner. and near, church and market. it is a very small sliver as done jane kim and we are actually in jane kim's district right now but a small area that includes, polk street and vaness and up to gear street and it goes up to supervisor chiu who also has a large district within the central and mat jorty of the northern district resides within supervisor breed and supervisor mark farrell's district. breed encompassing the western edition, japan town and supervisor farrell starting up near the pacific heights and cal hollow and into the marina and i speak often with each of the supervisors and i think that we have an excellent relationship with them. and whenever there are concerns that come up, they will call

me, and we will talk about some of the issues that they have from a community group or a specific e-mail that they got and that they forward to me and asked me to address. and just the other day, i had a conversation with supervisor farrell on monday night when we had the incident and because it comes to his district. but the working relationship that we have with the supervisors, is excellent. and did you have questions? >> no. >> okay. >> next one? >> now, we are going to move on to some of the or the second part of this where it talks about the staffing levels that we have at the northern station and how we have changed a little bit from the presentation that i gave last year. currently we have about 139 officers, that are assigned to northern station. and of those 139, there is myself, 5 lieutenants and 23 sergeants who do both parole and investigative and 112

officers, those officers are divide among the three watches, day, and midnight, and they parole the five in the district, and in addition to those officers paroling the sector cars i have an under cover street crimes unit that is in my estimation one of the best that this department has. and has been for a long time. contributing quite a few arrests and we have a public housing officers and we do have public housing in the district and we have four officers and a sergeant that are assigned to the public housing specifically. and a number of schools that are in the district, and we have two school car officers and we have currently, three foot beats. the foot beats have been a question that has come up often, and as i have gone to a lot of the community groups that is one of the main questions that has come up and we are at the same amount of foot beats that we had a year ago, but i am optimistic and very hopeful that those numbers

will be increased to the number that we used to have of about 8 foot beats within the next six months to a year, and i will talk about that as we go on to the next slide, where we talk about the staffing. and as you can see, last year, at this time, when i came and spoke to you we had 96 officers that were assigned to northern station, when i say 96 that is for patrol today we are at 112, but i think that it is important to know that those numbers are in fluke influx i have the officers that graduated about a month ago and another group that just finished training that will be transferred out this weekend and so those numbers, although, i would love to have all of those, it is hard to say that they are going to be at that level, currently but the good thing is that with the retirements that we had and the chief knows the academy classes that we have with the support of the commission and the board of supervisors we are probably at that point just about now,

where we are headed on the up swing and a class that graduates in august. and even though we have made some promotions, we don't have any retirements coming up in the near future and we are hopeful that those numbers will continue to go up and be at a level where we were in 2010, hopefully in the next year and i think that is the same and the chief will probably agree for all stations that have been under staffed as we moved forward. at northern station, 83 percent of the officers are male and 17 percent female and they cover, asian, african and pacific islanders and african americans and caucasian and latin o and the female officers, and the same, and you can see that they speak eight languages, and of the officers that i have 25 percent of those speak portuguese to italy an, and french and german and more, and i have had conversations with the chief and the chief of

staff is that there are certain communities in the northern district that could be better served with someone who speaks a language that we don't currently and japanese being one, and i am hopeful that as we start to get more officers into the department, that we will be able to have some officers that can speak some of the languages of the residents that can serve them if they are under served at this time. but at this time, i am happy with the fact that we have eight languages spoken by the 20 officers that we have. the next one? >> as far as the officers specialized training and i currently have 30 training officers at northern station and 15 of them work on day watch and 15 on nights, and i have ten field training sergeants. and so, about 35 percent of my station are training officers. and that is a good thing to have because with all of the recruits that we have coming through that gives the officers an opportunity to do the training but also to have the opportunity to take a little bit of time off and not get

burnt out. and i am hopeful that we have a number of officers that will be getting out of probation and it will be at that time, where we can apply to be the field officers and those numbers will increase. >> and last year when i was here, i spoke about the crisis intervention training and i know that we talked about where we were at northern station with the number of officers that actually had gone through the crisis intervention training and we were at 7. we have doubled it to know. i am not happen with that number, i am pleased with the number but i think that it can be much better and i am hopeful that we had a number of classes including one that is coming up in june that that number will be doubled by this time next year up to 30. and i think that the other night was a perfect example of an instance that could have gone to a crisis, and luckily the individual did not have weapons that were on him that could turn into a crisis

situation, but you know with the chief has often talked about giving us time and distance when you have someone who is in crisis so that you don't end up having to go to a lethal situation, i watched a video the other night and i saw where the officers performed and it could have been one of those situations where you don't know if it could have gone, lethal. and if you had someone who was trained in the crisis intervention and you certainly have a better opportunity to diminish the chance that it becomes a lethal situation. currently the crisis intervention, officers are disbursed among the three watches, i have about five of them on days, five on the swings and then i have five on, mid nights, i make sure that they know that they have to be spread across the station so that we almost always have a crisis intervention trained officers on duty, i have seven specialist and those are a group of officers that are especially trained in some of the tactical movements kind of

like the swat team and they assist the swat team, whenever there are critical incidents and i have seven of them when they are at the northern station and i have five members who are cert trained and hostage trained, and they go to training quite a bit, and quite often and i am looking to have those numbers, double within the next year too because that is a situation that can arise at any time. we are going to move on to the crime in the northern district and i am going to give you an idea of where we currently stand. currently, northern station is down 23 percent in violent crime compared to last year and i am extremely pleased about that and i know that the chief said that the city was over all 14 percent, of up to, and appreciative that we are 9 percent better than the city is. and but, it still does not mean that we can't get better, last year was a tough year, both violent crime and the property crime and everybody knows the city wide and while it is better in the city i am happy

that it is down 23 percent and our homicides will have one and the homicide that we did have was not gang related it was a domestic issue, and a family issue at a senior care home in the district. and so, knock on wood, we have not had any. yes, it was a murder/suicide and that was at a senior care home where there was a child of a senior that was living at the home that ended up unfortunately killing her mother and then killing herself in that situation there. but as far as the violent crime, related to gang activity, knock on wood that has been down but we know that we are going into the summer season where it starts to get warm and we have a number of events and we are hopeful that it stays that way. robberies are down as you can see and significantly, 33 percent, and i think that that

is akin to a few things and i think that the officers have done a really good job of getting out in the public and educating them when they see them on the streets. and talking to them when their victims are about ways to avoid becoming the victim and i think that a lot of the public started to adhere to the education that has been out there and obviously there are a number of officers that we have had currently from last year, and just increases the number of visible radio cars that you see on the street and with that there, it becomes a deterrent to some of the crime. the one stat that is up, and when is and when you look at this, is how rates are for the year and it shows us up four and 31 percent, and i think that it is important to know that there is a new reporting on the ucr report on what is considered a rape and what is reported and the city went to that and in january of this year. and so our numbers are counted differently than they were last year, when i looked at the reports i don't see a significant increase or an increase at all on the actual

rape that occurred and it is just the ones that we have to report that have changed because of the language and i want to be sure that you were aware of that. again we are getting to the summer months and i am happy where we are on violent crime, but i would like to be at the end of the year, still down 23 percent, because i think that will be significant. >> as we move on to the property crime, this is probably the one that i am most pleased with. and in the northern district. and last year, the property crime at this time when i came and spoke to you, was up 23 percent, in the northern district. and currently it is down 5 percent. and the biggest decrease in our crime which plagued the northern district the most, is theft from vehicles, and we are currently down 9 percent, and i will talk a little bit why i think that we are down, some of the things that we have done and some of the community things but i am happy that those numbers are down because it is the one crime that has been plaguing the northern and the other districts throughout

the city. our burglaries were up a bit, and interestingly enough, we had a rash of burglaries that occurred in the northern district, and in the month of march and at the end of february, we were at 156 burglaries in the northern district. and in 2 months. and from march first, to the end of march we jumped up another 113 burglaries and so we almost went one month the same amount that we had in the first two months, at the end of march we made a significant arrest of an individual that we believe was responsible for up to two dozen burglaries and the district attorney office worked on a prosecution with that individual was arrested. and we were able to track him and tie him to a number of burglaries and the da, followed through on that. and as far as criminal prosecution. and since that time, since that month, when he was arrested, the burglaries went back to 34, and literally it dropped 60 in one month and i am fairly sure that that was why it jumped from 8 percent up to 20 and

then back down to 8 percent once he was arrested. >> just out of curiosity, what are the dispositions like for these types of crimes. >> in this instance here, he was given two strikes and he was given five years probation. and some drug deversion. >> okay. no custody time? >> no custody time. >> okay. >> so, as we, as i said earlier that the property crimes is the one that i am the most pleased with and i think that if we can continue on that trend, that we will be doing much better, than we were last year. the other reason that i think our crime numbers are down is when we talk about the traffic and pedestrian safety. i know that i had a discussion with commissioner mazzucco some time late last year about the traffic and some of the issues that we are having, obviously, late in the year and early in january. th