street pole banners up friday. the website is up sf street smart.org it has some of our simple handout that are hot off the presses in the back and then each school also has a banner which looks like that and it's appropriate to the age of the kids this is out the middle schools with very the orderly kids and the kids at the middle school. so be looking for that with that, i say thank you and i'm here for questions commissioners

(clapping.) well, thank you very much captain silverman that was excellent paw he see a lot of presentations that of perfect. i have to tell you this is refreshing i have a young good captain with good officers we've lost experienced officers but the next section is public comment i'll let the inspector give you the detailed so police don't hesitate tell the chief or commission what you are u you think would make your district better and the public is welcome to address the address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. you shall address the commissioner as a whole and not

individually under the police commissions of order to the police or the on the other hand, salesmen they may or may not respond to the questions. and please residential from entering into discussions and can you limit our comments to 3 minutes >> peter go ahead. >> vice president marshall and commissioners and chief suhr and captain silverman and the rest of the police department. i unfortunately 2 1/2 months ago after 2 and a half years of looking closes on a house in the richmond district i'm delighted to see the rointdz here. i first want to 88 thank you for having this meeting i really appreciate it, it's delight full to subcontractor with the folks

serving this community. i just want to say first of all, thank you, again it was great to see all the great important statistics on violent crime being down thank you my family appreciates that and as a new homeowner here in the neighborhood we have a lot of friends who are also young families and a lot of them them frankly are thinking of moving out the city we've urged them not to and vice president marshall give me a lot of good advice not moving to the east bay we're glad we stated we're members find zoo of the academy of sciences i the exploratorium we try to urge our friends to stay as well. one of the concern is crime and the statistics is debris really

want to share them unfortunately, i live on 39 and balboa park what we have seen is a lot of graffiti in the area and obviously this is anywhere compared to some of the crimes but it has this effect we had an open house and a lot of our friends notice that and they draw conclusions i know there's higher priorities for the police but to the extent that the patrols in the outer judiciaries you could looking for that. there's been quite a few of the break-ins in the tourist areas but we're doing what we can to prevent that and appreciate the advise of keeping the valuables out-of-sight. and thank you for the

newsletter. mccain i want to thank you for being here and allowing the folks to comment i'll leave it at that. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. captain silverman it's great to have you in the district. i'm diane i live on 0 the ocean beach committed i'm hearing - sir? i'm representing the president of our homeowner association sally fairchild that couldn't be here this evening bus the conflict. i'm not here to claim we appreciate everything that the richmond station does for us on a daily basis. we have issues like the rest of the city with homeless and

having grant and drunkenness and drug addicts and defecating and urinating on our property. we try to deal with it ourselves when we can't we call the police department and they're there very quickly and it amazes me how boouflg the officers deal with everything we are that he wanted to publicly thank a few of the officers who's names we know and indulge me some have in the at station ii want to recognize raymond chiu and officer matthew chiu and eric mar and dof and bryan campbell and officer moore and for me

fooenl penal officer rose i don't know here last name i used to see her every morning she had a smile and wave and this was great. in addition >> what's her name. >> castro. >> castro yes, of course, she's retiring me miss here. i want to acknowledge another officer i don't know if tetsz he's retired or not mann very well we lose another one he lastly i want to recognize captain sharing she and he when was wonderful and prior to her captain richard thank you for the wonderful job you all do

>> thank you. good evening let me say i mean no disrespect of wearing this hat >> that hat is acceptable. thank you, thank you very much. i'm a colleague i'm ken flowers and i too live on ocean beach condos and serve on the board and would like to objectively our praise for the police department and especially the richmond division they've been very responsive every time we've called so we have no, no complaint with the personnel and fine work i have a concern i voice this for my wife's the safe way is across the way hard next to the corner of the golden

gate park and my wife often says to me, i'm afraid to go to the safeway because of the kind of folks that come from the park after they've been sleeping all night and hang out in front of the the safe way it's a chronic problem i'm sure you're aware of you're aware of it i hope we have a strategy for dealing that that. i know there are laws on the books not been able to sleep in the park those guys disregard those. i want to reiterate that thank you >> thank you. >> where's the safe way? >> hi aim paulette brown and i'm here concern my son.

avery who was murdered august 14, 2006, to a gun thirty round were put into my son because he holder out to save someone his anniversary is coming up august 14th. and there's still no enclosure my sons case is a cold case i'm an advocate for other mothers who have lost their children to homicide we have no enclosure i bring the names of the people thomas hannibal and andrew and jason thomas and mr. hunter and marcus hunter are all the men that walked up that day and the

perpetrators of killing my son ways they couldn't get the people they wanted they turned the guns on my 17 year-old he was die to grate i'm still in pain. what do i do i need some closer i have none this is my therapy to come here instead of sitting at the doctors officer or sitting in front of a thooefrt to hear my time is up are i want those people that killed my son in jail i want them in jail so i can go and show them the love i was going to give to my son i want to talk to them and tell them that. i want it done this is not just

other family members that i carry with me everyday. of those other mothers in i can stand here and do this imagine excuse me. those are the pictures that i took down to city hall and stand on the stairs and watch the mothers and say can you carry my sons picture i say yes give it to me if we can't stand together i can help you i am helping myself. something needs to be done. i'm standing with elsa her son was murdered. those two mothers their sons were murdered. all of our children are leaving us i say a as a mother hold onto

the children when they walk out the door tell them you love them you never know. i'm suffering and i'm tired of crying but i'll continue to do this i may not ever get justice but i pray to god that i do >> thank you ms. brown. (clapping.) >> thank you. my name is marrying tom brown pr before i get into my subject matter i'd like to express my

appreciation for the richmond police station. i think we've had excellent leadership as well as staff. and just to demonstrate how efficient they've been i've been told by save that we have the loaded number of neighborhood watch groups. i'm unable to get anyone in my neighborhood to join in with me for the neighborhood watch group i suspect because there's a southern amount of displaced committee because of our officers in the richmond district. on another note that's probably recommended to the same theme you're all familiar with the incident in southern california

the one the killing prey that involved several killings and san brownish barbie won't go into the details what i want to pose to you i'm going to read - i'm going to submit this as my comment i'm islam to read i the last paragraph i'm going to read it gateways because if you give him give me the stage i'll talk forever the question is the police department is sufficiently trained regarding accident fine line quote/unquote normal behavior and evidence it warrants further investigation as an unstable person having

infancies despite all outdoors appearances, of course, the pollens will not have the training of a psychiatrist but all the technology a background check of a person can be done very easily. in the case in southern california santa barbara when the deputies visited app rogers rogers already work out two handguns that have been entered into the ownership database under his name as regarded with the california's registration law the deputies were unaware of that fact, however, because they didn't check the studying gun ownership database or the police files the information was

already there and if i'm not placing any responsibility i believe that the information had been there a background check could have provided the ground for the police officers to get a search warrant. the guns were there in the killing were right there when the deputies visited the perpetrator so do we have enough training within the police department in dealing with unstable people with mental problems that maybe violent. i'm saying that every mentally ill person is violently prone but if there's sufficient evidence my question are we our officers sufficiently trained to do that kind of analysis. i'd like to submit this

>> thank you. we don't ordinarily respond but the deputy chief who has a lot of experience in the psychiatrist would you mind talking about our trained officers we have in san francisco >> i didn't mean to pick out the chief with you but we have a heightened training some of the officers are crisis intervention trained. >> we have one hundred and 8 departmental wide officers that have been trained in mental illness 2 hundred and 69 citywide we had a graduation is week ago i think the officers are trained to respond and be

able to talk to people and identify the issues the subject is dealing with. so we are trying to train more officers and we have to keep the classes small because there's a lot of interaction and roll playing and in a tune and matter that mitigates the situation and get additional resources there we can provide to the citizens that we serve. so the department-wide we're doing very good we're trying to do more and offer more classes we have a lot of officers that want to take the training weigh-in to provide that training there's other classes that members go to but this is one of the important popular ones we've put a lot effort so

weigh do a good job the younger officers coupling with a lot of colleges degrees and some with psychiatrist degrees we're continuing to moving forward on that >> thank you, chief. my chief has said she has advanced degrees in psychology our department is well trained. >> next speaker and first, i'd like to thank all of the officers and leaders in the richmond police department they've done a good job i'm holy that e hoping that captain silverman will stay for a while we've had a lot of turnover since 2009 maybe five or six

different captains in our district in that time. so we're hoping to not see you in months but years. there's two aspects i'd like to talk about but first i want to respond to her thing i want to thank chief suhr for standing up for the new bores law they're hoping to do in san francisco it's criminal we don't treat people. mental illness just because they're so sick they can't ask for the treatment themselves once their treated they'll usually stay on. but i want to talk about a traffic issue i've brought this at the police department meeting and the mta didn't seem interested but your new program i then is important.

i came down to this school over the weekend and i parked on the outside of geary and when i went to cross the street i waited for the light to turn. and i was crossing from the south to the north. and first, i crossed actually from the west to the east. no problem green light cross over the street wait on the other corner the light changes and the hand goes up well, apparently that intersection if you don't press the bottom you never get a walk the hand goes up. and i bring this up because i wasn't claiming will this intersection in the past i was complaining about the intersection on park presidio. and most of the intersections except the one at park presidio

and fulton that goes to a walk then the count down all of them if you don't press the bottom even if you get there as the light is changing you hit the bottom it doesn't change to a walk. i've had numerous difficulty trying to find out what the problem is why it didn't go to an automatic walk light and the number count down it goes available to to a hand you don't know how much time you have to cross the street. you can staples there and if you don't know the button is not pressed you could be there all day. we need to have a standard i think the police department needs to say this is a problem it's a problem with pedestrian

safety. and that people can get across the street without knowing they have to press the button for so long as they're waiting for the light. thank you >> thank you. >> good evening. >> good evening. i'm dave i'm a 42 resident of the richmond district. i wanted to thank captain silverman for the neighborhood meetings i had the opportunity earlier to raise a question about pedestrian safety on fulton in the avenue of 38 and beyond i'd been corresponding with an engineer anothers sfmta about the same time of making wall and raised a point about the city of seattle having a 20 foot no parking prior to all

crosswalk lines. indisputable to discussing this with captain silverman i'm somewhat aware of the fact there are certain limits in the infrastructure of the police department where they don't have the ability to communicate with sfmta i had a conversation with director reiskin and raised the same issue about pedestrian safety and frankly their no reason that people should be hit on fulton. and edward reiskin said he had a name for it it's called daylight savings time daylighting it's a well known practice within sfmta but they have a construction timeline or schedule they were moving westward and even though

the statistics suggest there are certain intersections on the outer fulton area that have state of california more accidents than others they're not jumping their construction timetables to address those particular intersections that are problem. my request to the commission and i don't know if they have the authority to do it would be to write director reiskin and to the board of sfmta asking them to jump their timeline and address the daylighting issue on certain streets crossings i generally think it's 38 avenue and beyond where the parking goes up to the crosswalks if you have an issue with a large r v

or vehicle there's no oncoming view i've been trapped at the safeway there you are it's an ankle last year distance and 9 out of 10 pedestrians and the drivers can see each other you need the distance i ask you to write a letter if at all you possibly ca can ask them to jump their timeline and address the key crosswalks where there's been accident that item passes >> thank you, david. >> we as the police station have no authority over the mta but captain silverman will be talking to them and i can say i know that his officers are out on fulton streets in the areas of 3 of and knocking them dead

with traffic pull offers so they're doing a job. >> i'm ann and our block 21 avenue started to captain silverman came and i'm pleased to see the street smarter program and one of the things that i feel is really needed i'm mostly a pedestrian but when i drive it seems like so many pedestrians have given up responsibility for themselves and their safety they just step off the curb don't look right or left and just go i hope that is an important part to have your program. thanks that's all. >> thank you. >> hello.

>> ladies and gentlemen, of the audience and commissioners good evening. for the record i'm amelia lawrence i'm i've been a resident of the city and county of san francisco so far 45 years i never lived in the richmond district but worked u s stores on geary back in the 70s i know the areas relatively well. before i guinea want to say this that one of the north america anthropologies gifts whiefr he was a big and great commander he had the power of inspecting authority and picking lieutenant under him well qualified when i asked for the chief for the lapd i didn't expel chief suhr to be

picked but 83 he that i can do picks pollens that have great have you seen. i think the richmond district is like a little city and once again it probably has more a - a greater population than several cities on the senior citizen peninsula i'm a big proponent of the police officer. i think with the sfpd salaries there's room for expanding the special police officer like in the richmond district there's self-sporting and do a go back and they're probably good evening to be increased it will stop the expansion of the over blood clot of the