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 something looks wrong. so, some of our problems solving partners this is a park with the snakes there on the 24th street, between york and bryant, which is a great kids park and we work every day with the department of public health and the homeless out reach team and we have two officers, currently and we are going to bump that up to four to deal with the number of encampments that we have and the district and we know that enforcement and an important component of trying to address the issue, but we want to work and we do work with dph to try to get the people to service and try to get them to some kind of a program to deal with whatever substance issues that they might have and try to get them to some kind of housing so that we can try to help them bribing the cycle for themselves and the mayor's office of street violence and the intervention

program, we attend weekly meetings, and i speak with deana alecaroache. everybody mispronounces my name and so i give myself slack. careo is one of the sbip folks from the mission district and he is fantastic and we talk all of the time and most relentcy the homicide there was a little bit of concern if the community, and we hear by working with the partners that we have, we hear things that maybe we otherwise might not be told, because we are police officers. and the department of public works, laerry stringer, great guy, i am going to skip that one on the top there, the tender loin housing clinic are folks that we just hooked up with. they have worked with captain in the tender loin and they run, three different sros in our district. and we want to work on the relationship that we have, the police have with the staff, at these sros and also with the

people that they serve, and the people that reside there, and help to reduce, misunderstandings that might lead to complaints, and also, just develop the better work ship. and the mission neighborhood. and the mission resource center they just started the program with the community ambassadors and they are going out to 16th and mission, and by their own admissions former, people without a residence, sleeping out in the street so they have instant credibility when they get out to 16th and mission, in particular to talk to folks and try to see if there is underlying issues that they can address, that they don't lead to quality of life crimes like drinking or public urination or escalate into fight, and other types of crime. and sf safe, and san francisco

safe, is something that it has to be one of the best groups in the city bar none and john shepherd who is here has been an absolute for instance to me and i appreciate your help. and aside from getting information on personal safety, and for your residents or your business, and i have been able to connect with a lot of neighborhood groups, because john is one of the people that helps to organize a lot of help for the neighborhood watches and lives up the street and a lot of the names escape me for a moment and without those invitations i might not have had the opportunity to connect with those groups, and the people seem to be happy that we have the opportunity to speak. and so thank you. >> thank you, john shepherd for that. >> one of the things that we do. also, with that sf safe, is the bicycle theft pretension workshops, most recently we have one at the sports basement

and the sergeant was one of our leaders here, to talk about the proper way to lock your bike. we encourage people to sign up for the bike registry, because one of the most frustrating things that we run into when we encounter the people with the bicycles or parts and we don't have the number that we can identify to connect it to a report that is stolen. and but, what the diagram of the lower left is the suggested one of her, and the best, suggested lot strategy from sf safe and one of the things that we do at the mission and i don't have a copy of the flier here, but safe has three-page fold out as well as a big, diagram like that and so if anybody comes to the station or reports, their bicycle being stolen, we give that to them, and it is, we are not trying to lick salts in the wound or point a finger of blame, we want to help them prevent that from happening again and in the workshops, they also discuss the information about what are the best types of locks and

other prevention strategies. and this picture here, is from bike to workday and they had a stand set up, across from the mission station, and it was very popular and a lot of people that went out and talked to them and they were spreading the word for us about the safe as well and safe bikes. >> and the community advisory board members and i want to thank each of them and probably can't get the cameras on them which they might like, but, it was a great group of committed engaged people and i want to thank each one of them who came out here tonight, because they were all, you know, business owners, or they have their own profession and they have other things to do and so i will start with pete, who is the miss district business owner who is here tonight and moore, district resident and phillip who is from the merchant association and marvin who is the editor and chief of the bi

lingual newspaper and lindsey sweetnum who is a community services manager for (inaudible) and i forgot to check my notes, to see if i get everybody. i got everybody. okay. so some of the other folks that we have, tay and we called frat, and sam moss who is not with us this evening and, morgan saint claire who is from safe, who is at our meetings every month without fail. and they had started a progress, which addresses chronic enebriance and it has been moving along at a great pace and officer steven keith is on the staff and he has been helping to lead the charge to get this thing happened and we are looking to roll that out to try to engage the merchants and the people in the community to help assist with identifying it and trying to direct them to

services as well. engaging youth. as i mentioned earlier, this is one of our biggest jobs every day. and we have i think, the number is somewhere, and it is more than ten and less than 18 as i counted the police officers who are volunteer coaches. and in all sports, basketball, baseball, soccer and flag football. we had officers who coached flag football, and were involved with the youth and community and engagement unit, at garfield park. garfield park is may not be the biggest park in the mission district, but it is very important. you know when i was a kid growing up in san francisco, probably like a lot of people here, wherever you grew up you go to the park all day long and my biggest worry on a saturday was that i had to be home by dinner by five, if my mom is watching and i did my best to get there as often as i could on time f your parents couldn't find you you knew where you were at the park, it is a

beautiful park and there is a lot invested in the soccer field and just the facility itself. and you know, we through the efforts of the chief, and that unit, have reclaimed that park and we are going to keep that park and it is not ours, it belongs to the kids in the neighborhood. and that, the youth and the community engagement unit has had a lot of events while i have been there, and they ran to the baseball league out of there, flag football and they had a movie night most recently, and that park that is what it is there for. that park was there today as compared to what it was when i started 20 years ago, i went to that park a lot when i started at the police department and when i worked at mission station and narcotics but it was not to go there to coach basketball or baseball, because there were not a lot of kids there but today there are and that is one of the things that we are committed to holding that ground for the kids in our

district. and our school resource officers, this year, were, hooked up with a garden project, and we had officers, who are or tried to branch out to the schools within the district to safety presentations to, some of the younger kids, who loved the police officers for the most part, and so it is one of the, it is one of the best things that i get to do is when someone asked me to go to a school and especially with the little kids they love us and it is a great experience for the police officers to see that, you know, to see that, in the way that kids react. and it is a lot of fun, little kids for those of you who don't have the little kids and there are folks here who work with the kids. and at the enld of the presentations, we saved time for questions and everybody has the hands raised and it starts the same with the question, and this one time, and they tell you the story, but they like to tell the story and they ask you what should i do and should i try, 911? we want to test it to be sure

that it works and so we get information not to do that. every year, mission station has our holiday toy drive and we have the officers who work on that and we work with a lot of the merchants including the merchant association, to get funding for that, and we work with operation dream every year, and one of our officers at santa, and provide the toys, and it is again a great thing. >> one of the, or there is a couple of programs that we work with very closely, or started to, and i have started to any way, while this has been going on for a long time. the first is nothing and for which of you is don't know what it is, mission education project incorporated and the director is actually with us tonight, rita alviar and last week, they celebrated their 40th anniversary. and there were a lot of people

that came out to honor the efforts and the service that rita and that organization have provided to the kids in the mission district for over 40 years and you set that data to go for anything for 40 years, must less to have to find the funding in ways to entertain, and keep those kids going year round, we got connected very closely to summer and they go to garfield park and also on the park of 23rd and street and so that we make sure that they are clear and the safe passage and we want the officers around in the park when they are out and being engaged and the kids see us in a lift light and the kids are going to grow up to adult and talk to their friends and they are going to see us, and hopefully as a resource for somebody to work with, as they get older. >> yesterday, we had our national night out at the boys

and girls club. and we had kids from the neighborhood and the people from the community, who came out to help us, with the event, and it was successful and everybody had a good time. the district neighborhood partners and the association, there are two groups in the castro and the cbd and the merchants which is the cma and you will see a lot of other merchant associations and neighborhood watch groups like elizabeth street and ford street and we are work with the mission neighborhood resource center and their parent group. and the mission neighborhood health center, which is two blocks down on 16th and shaw. these are the groups that we work for and there was one group on here that i did not

place and i apologize because i know that brian hill is here from ccop which is the castro community, on patrol. and we work with brian and with glen, and with ken craig who is from dc, i think. and okay. he is the boss from the ccop and we worked closely with ccop, in a lot of things that are related to the castro, including pride and it is a volunteer organization and they are a great group and they work with us and the people in the community and they do a lot of training for the people in the neighborhood, about the self-defense, and the public safety. and we have also had a good relationship and they have been kind enough to get out the information, and we have had a few incidents in the castro and we are looking for witness and we want to reach out and they have a sizeable e-mail group of people that can get the information to and so we work with them as well. to get the information out. and one of the things that is

not included in the slide portion of this presentation is we would like to get as much information out as we can to the public. and we use and we have an account on twitter and we have our station page and we are able to connect with people for social media and the internet and we have a lot of community based organizations. we have met and we have had meetings with some of these groups and we have a long standing relationship with the remainder of the groups on this list, and i meet with anybody who asks to meet with me. and so there is anybody in the audience that i have not met with, who would like to, feel free to contact me, we are, i meet with everybody, and we listen, and our goal at mission station is to provide the best service we are going to do the best to tr