handle on the pedestrian and traffic safety. and we want to keep our focus on violent crime as a police department and as the 300 officers that were short right now, come back, you will see all of those beat officers, bicycle officers, and school officers, and park officers and hopefully that will also give us a chance to make a bigger impact on property crime, which is up and that is my concert refrain is do not leave your belongings in your car in plain view. if there is nothing in the car, and all of the burglar will go to the next thing and if you are going to use your cell phone, try to step into an old phone booth to do it and don't just walk down the street and not pay attention and fall victim to someone taking it. and although we are better this year than we were last year, our cell phone robberies are still a problem across the country. so i am going to yield the rest of my time to the captain.

>> before we start with you, we will go through a kick report from the occ director and the commissioners. >> good evening, director hicks. >> good evening. >> good evening, president mazzucco, commissioners, chief suhr, and captain and members of the mission police district, community. i enjoy the director of the office of citizen complaints and in fact, here this evening from the occ is senior investigater edward mcmahon is standing up in the back of the room. it is a pleasure to be here this evening to speak with you about the functions of the officers of the citizen complaints. we are also known as the occ. we are the third largest civilian oversight of law enforcement agency in the united states, only surpassed in size by chicago and new york. civilian oversight agencies. for historical purposes, the

board of supervisors, sponsored a charter amendment in 1982, to create the office of citizen complaints and we became fully operational in 1983. and i have been the director of the occ for almost 7 years now. and the office of 32 years old. and it was originally an office of the san francisco police department. but later the occ was placed under the jurisdiction of the san francisco police commission. and in the agency separate from the police department, the police commission of course is also a civilian body. the function of the occ is to assist the police department in building trust with the community by a bridge between the public and the police in matters of police misconduct and police policy. and our mission is to insure the police accountability by

consulting fair, famely and unbias investigations making recommendations on police policies and practices and conducting medations. in california, law enforcement agencies must have a procedure to investigate the complaints by the member of the public against police officers, or peace officers. or the occ serves that purpose for the san francisco police department. and the staff of the occ is diverse, and it is a diverse group of civilian whose have never been san francisco police officers. there are 35 employees, budgeted for the office of the citizen complaints and the majority of the employees are investigators and the balance of staff consists of attorneys and support staff. our investigation process is that we conduct investigations to find out what happened and we follow the evidence by interviewing the person who brought the complaint known as

the complainant and we also interview the involved police officers, subject officers and the officers and the civilian witnesses. we also have the power of the police to obtain evidence, and we on tain the additional evidence from the police department in the police report and the documentary evidence that the police department has generated or received. we can also visit the site of the alleged occurrence and we take photographs of places or persons and obtain video footage if it is available. our aim is to complete our investigations within nine months and with the limited exceptions we must complete these investigations within one year. when we complete the investigation, we make a finding of whether or not the complaint of officer violated any police department rules or local or federal laws. we have a standard of proof that is the preponderance of the evidence which means that the possibility that the complaint of conduct occurred

is more likely than not. that is a probability is greater than 50 percent. if after an investigation, the occ finds that an officer violated a rule, we forward the report to chief suhr for further action and can impose discipline up to a ten day suspension, if the discipline could exceed ten days, then the police commission hears that case, they have jurisdiction over the most serious cases. and in addition to investigating complaints, we are very proud to say that we have one of the most successful medation programs in the country and that is an alternative to discipline, last year the acc facilitated 59 medations representing 8 percent of the cases that we

closed last year and the medation program allows them to resolve the issues with the complaint of the officer in person and in a dispute resolution format. the occ does not conduct the medations, so we have mediators who do that. the goal is to bring the involved parties together in an effort to achieve mutual understanding. we have a partnership with community boards and the san francisco bar association who will provide us with neutral mediators, they are conducted in languages other than english so that if needed we will obtain interpreters. medation program is voluntary, both the complainant and the officer must agree to medation in order for it to occur. last year, 89 percent of eligibles officers participed in the medation program and the

medation coordinator is donna salazar, and she was last year's recipient of the president's award from the association of dispute resolution of northern california. i will briefly provide you with some statistics about the complaints, the office of the citizen complaints received in 2013, and how we resolved them and some dem graphics. and in 2013, the occ received, 727 complaints, that is a 2 percent decrease in complaints that we received in 2012, when we received 740 complaints. we sustained allegations in 6 percent of the cases that we closed we found proper conduct on the part of the officer in 25 percent of the allegations that we investigated. and we found that 2 percent of the allegations were unfounded or not true. the largest percentage of allegations we received were for neglect of duty followed by conduct reflecting the credit

and then, unnecessary force, which comprised ten percent of the allegations and we did sustain, five allegations of necessary, of unnecessary force. how do we receive complaints? well, let me back up for a moment and talk about demographics which i skipped. in 2013, 28 percent of the complainants were african americans, caucasians comprised 30 percent of complainants. 19 percent declined state fair rates. and complainant included asian americans at 6 percent, latinos at 12, and native americans and pacific islanders and 2 percent at other. the occ staff is a diverse staff and we speak several languages. two of our investigators are bi lingual spanish speak and hers that is important because a large number of non-english interviews are in spanish.

and for the languages other than the ones that i mentioned we will obtain the entertation services. last year we conducted 25 case intakes in spanish and three in cantonese and two in mad rin, and one in (inaudible) and one in korean and one in russian. you can learn more about us, at our website at www.sfgov.org/occ. how we receive complaints. we located on the 7th floor of 25 van ness avenue. accessible by public transportation. and we received walk-in complaints regarding police misconduct, monday through friday, between 8:00 and 5:00 p.m. we also receive complaints by telephone and as of today, on-line, on our website, by e-mail, mail, and fax.

we have an entering service, for after hour complaints. and you can also file a complaint at your district police station the station personnel forwards those complaints to us. and if you would like more information this evening, about the occ, and as indicated earlier senior investigater edward mcmahon is in the back of the room and he will be happy to speak with you. that concludes my remarks thank you. >> thank you, commissioner, director hicks? chief, yes? >> you are welcome. >> thank you. >> before we get into captain, this is going to be a commercial break, so the san francisco police department annual report is out, and available. this is in the unbelievable product. and it is all, all of the credit goes to sites for the men and women of the police department, tho those civilians and the one that did the work

and also chris teen fountain who is my office manager and her husband phil, this is an act of love. they take ownership of this thing and it looks like it should cost one million dollars and they do it in their spare time just because he and she are that good at it and so there are not that many hard copies because we wanted to keep the expense down, but anybody interested in having one, can go to the san francisco police dot org it is on the website, and you can look at it and if you want a copy you can download it but it is worth looking at and the pictures in it are unbelievable and of course, that has made the cover. >> great. >> thank you, chief it is a great job and thank you to everybody who has been involved in that. >> just before get on to the presentation by the captain and are there any commission reports? >> actually one. >> sure. >> just this is a follow up. and to the state about the jobs and i just want to commend the mayor's office, and you, and

anybody else who has been created or put these kids to work. and actually i see more kids just working and it is just great to see. and internships and jobs, and some of the things turning into it and there is no better way for the people to spend the time during the summer, than working. and so, just kutos to the mayor's office and to you chief and it is great to see all of these young people doing it. >> yeah. >> commissioners? >> anything else? >> okay. without further adieu, i think that it is time now for the main event. captain? >> good evening, captain. >> we got to move. >> right? >> president mazzucco. >> this is up a little bit here. >> good evening, for everyone, and president mazzucco, and vice president turman and chief suhr and director hicks and everybody, from the mission

district, that came out. and officers buckley and cowel. sorry, i always miss pronounce, these are for people who don't know these two officers back here. these are two very fine examples of the type of police officers that we have in the mission station. so, we will go to the powerpoint here and this is of course, a picture for those of you who can you see it and it is the mission. and on to our next slide. our logo, and our mission, and our motto. and this is mission station, and not today. but in one as it was originally built, in 1902 at 17th and treat and that building still stands today and for those not familiar with the history of mission station, for this station in 1950, mission station moved to 1240, alantra

street which is a station that i started out at 23 years ago. and we are now, at the building, 630, and the lower corner there on the left. and take a moment here. the commissioners in..., and... >> i have a story about this building, as well. commissioner marshall. i have never been up here but i have been in the basement when i was in high school, they had a junior achievement, i don't know if anybody remembers junior achievement. and so i came up for junior achievement and then i did not turn out to be a business mogul but i got a better job. the mission district, that the slide was there left and that is where we are situated 2.3 square miles and i think that at last count, we were at 53,000 residents and that is not counting the people that work and visit the mission district. and on the top right corner you can see how we have our

district divided up in six patrol car sectors and then underneath, within the sectors we have various foot feet assignments the valley and the castro and the 41 there on the top which runs from castro street and that is one of the largest that we have, and the 44 on the 24th street. and 43, along mission and then the 45. so our district supervisors for the mission district, we have supervisor scott weiner who represents district eight and a portion of that is the castro district and market street and we have supervisor campos is down, the lower part of the mission. and supervisor cohen who is just on the border of our police department. i guess the relevance of having this is that the district

supervisors are very involved in the things that go on in the district and often times, they are constituents will go to them with information and concerns about the particular issues that require the police attention. so, i wrote what i think is a good working relationship with all three of the supervisors including the aids for each of the supervisors who are contacting me by e-mail and or will address the specific issues. and it is a good tool to help us to connect from the community for the people who are not others, reaching out to the police with the particular issues, most commonly they are around encampments and areas where people are sleeping out on the street. so mission district, we have over 18 public parks, you see

that there is a delores park half of which is closed currently for construction and it is certainly one of the nicest parts in the mission district and one of the largest and it is one of the jewels in the park or rec system and it is a popular place on the weekends for people to gather, and any day of the week where there is good weather out there is going to be people out in this park and it also hosts or serves as a starting point for a lot of events, and most recently in june, we had a transmarch which started out there, sort of an early day event and led into the march which we managed traffic safety for down to the tender loin and then on the pink saturday, there were festivities that went through the mission district and back up into the castro. we have a significant number of schools in the district.

and i had added this up before and so i would not have to do it on the fly, but i am sure that it was 33. and it is 33. 19 and 14. 33 schools, and we have a number of school resource officers whose mission every day, during the school year is to focus on these schools and the three officers that we have, who have this assignment have had it for a significant amount of time and the advantage of that has been building a rapport with not only the school officials but with the kids who go to the schools. and you know, they get you know, the chiefs and, one of the chiefs messages, about one of our goals is very clear in connecting the police officers to kids and it is very important and it is one of the things that we try to do every day, and it is something as simple as saying hello and providing stickers and engaying in the activities that are going on in the district and

this is one very important tool and those officers not only build credibility for themselves and for the men and women in uniform. so organization chart, for mission station, we have 146 members, 141 sworn, and 5 non-sworn and so the sworn members are police officers, the captain and the lieutenants or the sergeants and our police officers, and we have folks decided up in the top left-hand corner on the investigation team and we have one, and that handle the majority of the investigations from the police reports, and arrests that occur in the mission district. there are times when there are specialties that there was a hate crime which fortunately we have not had many of in the mission since i have been there in march that will go to the

different division but the majority of the investigations are handed by the team. one of the advantages of having the station investigation team located at each district station in my opinion, is that these sergeants have a lot of investigative experience and one of the things that we do at mission station i know is done at other stations as well, is the sergeants will go up to line up and address issues about investigations, what is needed in the police reports, and what can be done, when individuals are arrested for different crimes. and there is not always a sergeant available able or around to do an interview. and one of the things that we encourage mission station is that everybody gets, or everybody dives in and gives it a shot. you know? and we are not going to have a patrol officer who works midnight investigate a homicide. but if we get somebody who is

broken into a car or into a store, we encourage our officers to conduct interviews by recording it and by the statement and that is good information to have the right of the investigation and it is good for the development of the police officers who worked, you know, days and nights and the swing shift because these officers are potentially, and they are the next round of sergeants and the lieutenants and the captains and leaders and so it is important to us that they, they give us that opportunity and we have the staff to a cap staff here tonight. and who without, thank you by the way, without their efforts, and what you see here, today, would not have happened. the day shift, and the night watch two lieutenants on either side and so there is a lieutenant on the station on the day watch from 5:30 in the morning, to 3:30 and, from 3:30 to 1:30 seven days a week,

managing the patrol officers, and the sergeants and leading the operations. we also have at this moment, we have, you will see in the lower right corner, we have the recruit officers and the mission station and it is an excellent place because we have a little bit of everything and i don't think that there is any type of crime, or event, or a public safety issue that we don't address that is a good place to get experience for new officers. this slide with skills and experience. and we want to speak a little bit more about who the men and women are at mission station. currently we have 131 members who are male, and 15 of them are female. and ethnicity and cultures we cover these three, african american, italy an, filipino,

korean, spanish chinese and german, language abilities when i gathered information about this presentation, i had to learn how many officers that we have that are bi lingual but also the number of languages that they are fluent in, including spanish and german, and korean, and igbo and i mighting mispronouncing that, chinese, french greek, and sayan and we even have one officer who is fluent in american sign language. that group of officers that we have, each one has a very good base of framing and experience, and we also have a group of officers who have a specialized skill sets. and the most importantly, at the top the crisis and intervention trained officers and we have 15 of those, drug recognition experts and 19, and

22 field training officers, and two coalition trained officers and officers that are bicycle trained to have experienced robbery abatement to peer support to paramedic and the san francisco police officers at mission station and then one officer who is also trained in video retrieval and that will be used most commonly when there is a crime and we will always look for cameras if there are any recordings and we also try to get that video evidence as soon as possible. traffic safety, of course, is very important. it is a big, big part of our public safety mission. and having 32 members who are collision investigation trained and it is very important. i was going to do a graph for the years of experience, but it looked kind of goofy and so i figured this was a better way to explain it. we have officers, and we have a

significant group of officers who have experience. and all the way up to five years, and our senior member has 48 years of police work, and we have a lot of years of police experience at mission station and so what is notable to consider is that we have officers, sergeants and lieutenants who have a very big variety of experience from investigations homicides, gangs, narcotics, robberies, fraud, internal affairs, emergency vehicle operation, and forensic sciences and csi and violence reduction team and certificated post instruct ors. all of this experience is just, it is invaluable really to all of the officers that we have working at mission station,

because every one of these types of investigations or pieces of experience are going to be touched upon in investigations and incidents that occur throughout the district on almost a daily basis and it is really helpful for officers and sergeants to have will lieutenant who was actually the service and criminal who can speak about the dna and the evidence, and you know the same thing goes for you know for gangs, and narcotics and all of these other pieces of experience here. and it is beneficial to everybody who works at the station and for everybody who lives in the district that we serve. and we are host, and the mission district and over 200 special, and that is probably more than 200. and it runs the gamut and we have the park at delores park and we have the street fair and

24th street fair, and it was the caesar parade and festival and the festival that is coming up in november and the dike march and the film festival that runs in conjunction with the pride and valley walk which is coming up very pop popular event and halloween, of course, and the food festival which is a pop lawyer event in the lower part of the mission district. and we should probably save the southeastern part of the mission district is a better way to describe that. pink saturday, the post pride celebration and sunday streets. quick look at our our computerized statistics of the part one crimes in the district as the chief mentioned in the district, and we have four homicides, and one that

happens, many years ago, the person died as a result of his injuries and i believe is... that is one of the statistics this year and the remaining three homicides of the chief said that we had one arrest which was a shooting at 16th and vanelcia and we had arrests earlier this year in the shooting that occurred on 15th street between minute and mission. and the investigation into the final homicide, and proceeds in earnest and if you look at the other percentages, the change between 2013 and 2014, and every category had the crimes which is something that we are happy to see. and over all, we have for the percentage change, with the 7 percent, decrease in all of our crimes and underneath in the auto theft, you know, burglar and auto theft is one of those

vexing crimes that we have in the mission district that we deal with and we have had an increase as you can see, it in it here and over all, those property crimes underneath, we have a 5 percent reduction. so, the mission district is a great place and nice parks and great people and good cops but it is not all sunshine and flowers, so what do we do about all of this and we have a lot of crime fighting strategies that we use and all of the lieutenants run the operations, and as i pointed out earlier we have a lot of specialized experienced here and so we drove on, and under cover operations a lot of booths and we have, and until recently, he was recently promoted one of the premier caterers in san francisco, one of the sergeants but that information is passed along, and one of the things that could be work on the mission station every day is to communicate and we want to communicate with each other and

we want to communicate with the public and we want to reach out to the partner and the groups that we have to problem solve as well as other officers and other divisions, and units in the police department. and in the lower corner. the traffic enforcement. and one of the things that we discuss on the mission in regular basis, and the traffic enforcement really helps to significantly improve, the traffic safety which is why we do. the traffic enforcement operations and we have focused on the five, and we are vested in that and committed to trying to do our part, for that vision zero so that we reduce the number of pedestrian accidents by sickle accidents and vehicle accidents and we want the people to be able to get around safely in the mission district and we also like to point out that criminals drive too, and so, we need the people to do traffic stops, when somethin