. a special shout out to my husband, greg smith. there is quite? there in the back and my sister, eileen a christiansen who got very early to fly in from portland to fly in today to be here today. who represents a loving family elsewhere. but, this is a pretty major decision and having greg's support in all this is key. i certainly could not have even consider this without him. so, it's that the medic 28 suffragette and these have lots of years of practice i'm afraid. but, but also to all of you. really guys, this is our date this is your day. a lot of us have worked together for a couple -- >> [applause] georgia signed sealed delivered. >> signed sealed delivered. so we work together. some whispers long as 20 years. i think that's -- nothings going to change about the way we do things. we have search for opportunities. we have solved problems. we have, in a civil and respectful and progressive

manner dived into the really tough questions for our district and whether it's making clay tower accessible or providing adequate levees services with or whether it's creating the kind of open space we want to keeping our streets safe, keeping lombard from being crushed by falling ficus trees we know how to work together and we done it well and the victories of our efforts are all around us. my hope is we have many many more to come. because of a powerful lever in city hall now and you know all worked very hard for you. so, thank you all very much for your support in the past. i'm going to need it in the future and thank you to the mayor into the city family for their support. thank you all. >> [applause] >> thank you so i think julie is to get some well-deserved congratulations and kisses from her friends family. and if

there's other questions i can take them to decide. thank you very much for being your ticket by day in san francisco. thank you. >>can you please turn offer your electronic devices as it tends to interfere with the equipment in the room and can we please rise foertd pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> that dam president, i'd like to call roll. >> please do. >> president loftus, here. vice president turman, here. commissioner marshall, present. commissioner mazzucco, present. commissioner dejesus, present. commissioner hwang, here. commissioner melara present. >> you have a quorum and also with us is the chief of police, gregory psera >> hello, everyone, and welcome to the january 14, 2015 police commission meeting. inspector please call the first line item. >> line item 1, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not

to individual commissioners or department or personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment neither police 94 occ personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and occ personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussions with speakers during public comment . hold your comments to 3 minutes, please. >> any general public comment? approach. >> good evening. >> hello, don't have your -- hello, my name is mike petrellas and i'm here to discuss several issues the first of which is i made an immediate disclosure request on december 22nd to chief greg looking for information how much the department was spending in any way to send

officers to the funerals of the two new york city police officers who were gunned down in december. i received a response on january 5th from the department saying that it needed an extension of time to look for documents. i really find this inexcusable that the department cannot within 3 weeks tell me how many officers went to these funerals, did the department pay for their travel or hotel costs in any way, and if they were paid for any duty and they were considered on city time while they were in new york city. while the department has not been able to give me this public information, the department was able to post photos on sfpd twitter feed showing at least 8 sfpd

officers in the city. i'm going to give you a copy of the exchanges between the department and me on this. the next is the officer shooting of matthew hardy at the station. i have filed a request for the tapes and i have been denied access because there's an active investigation going on. however, the only narrative we have about the killing of matthew hoffman is what the sfpd is saying about this mentally unstable man who had presented himself as troubled prior to eventually showing up at the parking lot. it's very convenient that sfpd had access to a cell phone where there supposedly was a note excusing -- excuse me -- absolving the police department for shooting him. you wasted

no time in releasing date ta from his cell phone absolving the department of respond for killing him, yet the surveillance tapes at the mission station cannot be released. something's not adding up here. when you are not willing to release the surveillance tapes of what happened that day outside the station, i grow skeptical and have been skeptical anyway that the note absolving you of responsibility for his death may be legitimate. everything has to be questioned because this man was emotionally disturbed. so let me pass along this exchange for the president, please. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> ladies and gentlemen of the audience and commissioners, good evening. >> good evening.

>> very briefly, i'm here today to honor a new path to bring more exposure to this commission. we have a couple writers in the crowd, the san francisco examiner, at times report what happens here at the commission but do it impartially or do it partially instead of reporting everything that takes place, rart *fr report what they feel they should write about. i'm going to give you a copy out of the san francisco examiner where breed picks city hall, the new shift, and i wish you luck. but also an article written by jonah owen lamb, a writer of the examiner who wrote on last week's commission hearing and left out information inadvertantly to make his article more palatable or more pasteurized foertd public at large. i think these hearings are for

the public. i think the reality is you should speak more about items that actually take place in this city like shoot-outs, numbers of killings and mayhem, those types of things that affect the public at large, and not just to have reporters report about what a union leader said at one hearing or amos brown on what his opinion is and no one else counts. i bring forward also today is that we've had a number of homicides in the city and county of san francisco like anywhere at large. i think for the most part the police department does a good job with homicides. you are talking about for the most part. every now and then we have a problem and those problems come up when our officers shoot the public or shoot somebody in the city and county of san francisco that's unjustifiable or unjustifiable in terms of

people at large. i bring up also the same paper, the san francisco examiner, that according to them there were 45 homicides last year in san francisco. 45 is a number. we have a problem with the newspapers and the media at large claiming that white officers shoot black assailants or adversaries more often than not and i would like to have some sort of rationale from this commission to identify whether these murders in san francisco were black, white, yellow or otherwise so we can have some definition here in terms of how crime takes place in this city when we have a city basically that is basically turned into being non-white so you are going to basically look at the majority of crimes in this city are going to be non-white. and i'd like the statistics on those. i thank you for your time in this matter. i have copies

here for you from jonah lamb and the paper it came out of. i thank you for your time. >> next speaker. >> first of all, let me collect some numbers here. there were third homicides last year, sir. 192 gun-related crimes and, sir, if you need the answers to deployment of of officers to new york, call marty at the poa, he has all statistics. okay, according to my issues, i was a victim of domestic violence -- domestic violence -- i was a victim of a violent crime last week. it wasn't -- i'm not going to get into specifics but i'm going to tell you something. san francisco police showed up, i was bleeding, he said, you *r you're not going to bleed out. i said no sir, you can't bleed this out. he said, okay, what

do you want us to do? i put tape on it, i went downstairs where i live, there's a young man who is the assistant manager. we have video. i said, hey, the cops need video. he said, clyde, i just started here. i don't know how to use this machine. i said give me computer no. 2. so i sat down on the computer, i said stand behind me. i said this is how we do this. he looked, he said, wow, i just started, clyde i said this is how we run the tape. he's going to come in here about 5 minutes and they're going to review the tape. maybe they want to do it themselves. show them how to do it. and he smiled he said, i always wanted to teach a cop something. you know? it worked out great. i'm fine, you know, i got full (inaudible) and it was a learning tool. you got to take a negative and take it into a positive and chief, sir, we

have had a rough few weeks. we have a rough -- i was at that murder scene -- not murder -- that shooting. 50 feet away, i was on church view when it happened. i walked right by the cab and the police were laughing and joking. what's going on? nothing. i banged right on leafenworth, i got on there, bam, bam, bam, bam. what upsets me is the guy put the gun -- walked right by the police and no one saw it. you can verify it because there's a video going up the sidewalk. i'm sure id will get it. good news. the unions commissioner, they have stopped the slow down in new york. commissioner brad worked with the unions. the slow down is over. hey, have a great evening. >> next speaker. >> hi, commissioners, chief,

sir. diane kirpio i have been following up on the cit workshop and watching sfgovtv and seeing that there is some progress with the cit training program, which i think is wonderful. i was wondering if the workshops, they are held monthly, if they are open to the public or not. okay, so basically two years ago to last night i was -- i challenged an unlawful order and ended up in handcuffs and ended up with a 5150. it's been two years, i did a presentation which i sent to the commissioners which there's a couple of new commissioners that may be interested in seeing the immediate impacts of

what a 5150 and if police use it as a tool in their toolbox versus as reality dictates, the impact on the individual. so i would like to attend a workshop and present two years later the progress or lack thereof and the impacts of a single parent with two pets who was thwarted into taking the sf general with false statements to doctors so right off the bat there was prejudice being taken in. but i'd like to put something together to give you that perspective because i think it's very important with all the propaganda of mental health issues and what not. i mean we all go through stressful times, we all, you know, are either dealing with divorce or schools

or bankruptcy or whatever, parking tickets, and these million little things can add up in people's lives. but honestly that night i was trying to help somebody else and get them the help they needed and unfortunately one of the officers was giving me an unlawful order and i challenged that and i put my hands out and i said if you're going to arrest me, arrest me, and he cuffed me but he didn't give me a reason why. i spent 25 minutes bent over the hood of a sfpd car while fwo -- two other cars showed up. it's wasted time and money and it's an important facet aspect to the cit training that i think will lend another perspective which we can't have too many of because we're all individuals going through different things. so thank you.

>> thank you. we'll pass your presentation on to members of the mental health working group. >> (inaudible). >> yeah, we do. if we don't we will contact you. do you have her contact information? any other general public comment? good evening, miss brown. >> i'm back again concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006, through a

semiautomatic gun. still today no judges -- i just want to keep his case open and keep the awareness that these cases are still unsolved. my son's case is still unsolved. and there's a $250000 reward. i was just wondering, you know, the reward is there but nobody's coming forth. if there was another way that we can change the law that people can tell what's going on without being in fear of being retaliated against or i feel if there was a better way to keep people safe maybe they will come forth and say something. a lot of people are scared to say things and in the meanwhile our children's cases are still unsolved. and parents are still hurting like myself.

all i can do is continue to come here and keep my son's memories alive and show people what i have to deal with, how i have to deal with my son's death and how his mother stands over him during the time of death and what parents like myself go through. i feel for those four young men that were murdered on the 9th. i feel for them. i feel for their parents. i watched their faces that night and all i can do is cry. it brought back stuff for me. i don't know what these young men did, but i don't care. they have parents and their parents are hurting. i still want people to remember what i have to remember every day, my son laying on the gurney, lifeless.

he was full of life and it was taken from him. and i just want these cases to be solved, especially my son's case. i always show elsa casea's son because she stands with me all the time. we talk all the time and when she can't make it i'll stand for her and this mother's son also. she doesn't speak very much english but she stands there too. i don't know all the men's mothers around here, but i stand for them in their absence. but i do want people to remember my son and not forget. i want closure. i haven't any. and i will continue to come back here until i can get -- this is my

therapy. this is therapy for me. thank you. >> thank you, miss brown. do you want to share the phone number if anybody does have any information about this case? >> again, as we've spoken too many times, thank you, miss brown, the tip line is 575-4444. if anybody has any information on this case, certainly on the case that miss brown referenced that occurred on friday the 9th at page and laguna and any other open homicide case we would appreciate anyone coming forward, 415-575-4444. >> thanks, chief. any further public comment? welcome, lucy >> hi, my name is larry

edmond, you call me juice , i want to remember this man right here, martin luther. he said black and white should be on the constitutional keyboard and i go over to the waterfall all the time at 4th and mission. i have added bad bootylicious basic black, tell trouble white is on the constitution keyboard. today we know we live in a world that's big and small and with this being martin luther king weekend, by him coming here in 56 and speaking on that, i think that he said also no violence or non-exist stepbt. i've been up to mount davis to look over the city, i know san francisco, it's a beautiful city. i know we can make it through this

year but if anything should ever happen to me, i am proud to be a black saying general love and gay men, i fight for a lot of things like this here people. so racism and the homo phobia and sectionism, this is my shirt that it didn't get burned, but last week you were talking about explosives and in our apartments and hotels in this city the mission hotel, on that sunday before christmas someone wepbltd in my room and lit a fire. i understand this is going over in the city a lot, you know, and my building ambassador, the last time i came in here a lady had cracked my hand, that was in september, they took the cameras out of our building after november. so we don't have cameras in the building so we can't really see who in the people's rooms or what's going on. i know we got

it coming up, chief, on the 28th at kelly corn, the next meeting after the police going to be in the tenderloin, which is a tndc building, and i'm looking forward how to invite my visitors and neighbors out for the neighborhood. but i think if anything you remember me to fight, i fight and walk every day for -- against racism, homo phobia and sexism. this is where we're going this weekend, which is march. and in san diego the police, the black police department foundation and the firemen's, they lead a parade in san diego. i've been here 25 years so when you think of bay bridge, think of edmond who just arrived. >> thanks, juicy any further public comment? public comment now closed, inspector please call the next line item.

>> line item 2, reports and announcement, 2a, chief's report discussion, review of recent activities, presentation of the department's training video in regards to dgo7.06, children of arrested parents, pretdation of the limited english proficiency services annual report and an update on body cameras. >> chief. good evening, commissioners, director hix, public, i'm going to be relatively brief because i know we have 3 presentations and some of them could go long we have people who want to get to those. a couple things that were spoken to with regard to the officers that went to new york city, 8 officers went to the first funeral, 7 went to the second funeral and as i have stated publicly, no department expenses were spent on any travel, hotel, the officers were either sponsored or went on their own moneys. the department did afford the officers what we call a detail if they were scheduled to work

some of the days that they were there we considered their time spent in new york city work days representing the police department and the city of san francisco at those respective funerals. there was also a question as to how many homicides there were last year. i want to be clear there were 45 homicides last year. what one of the other speakers was speaking to is there were 30 homicides by gun. so 45 homicides, which is the only time in the last 50 years there have been 45 or fewer homicides in san francisco. 30 of those by firearm. then lastly i do want to speak to the events of friday night that miss brown spoke to. at about 10:00 at the 200 block of laguna street there was a vehicle double parked and suspects approached this vehicle, fired into the vehicle

and killed the 4 occupants within the vehicle. it is, the car had been stolen, there were two firearms recovered from the victim vehicle and there were other things contributing to the fact that maybe the folks in the victim vehicle may have been about to do something or not. however, that was interrupted by the other suspects the suspects have fled the scene. i will say that at the very least the passenger in the victim vehicle does not appear to have ever been involved in any gang activity as spoken to understandablely very broken heartedly by his mother at the vipblg i will the other night, he was actually on a lunch break from his place of employment and got wrong place, wrong timed in this incident. so we're actively looking for the case. again that tip line for aubrey for this case and for any other open case

415-575-4444. regardless if only -- i mean even if 30 homicides by gun is low by big city standards, it's still too many homicides in a civilized place that we have a gun problem in this country and we have a gun problem in san francisco. so anybody that also knows the whereabouts of a firearm, nobody has to get arrested. if you call that same tip line we'll go get it and it will just be one less gun on the street. we'd appreciate it. i will defer the rest of my time to the 3 presentations and ask for the secretary to call the first presentation. >> presentation of the department's training video with regard to dgo7.06, children of arrested parents.

>> good evening, president loftus, commission, chief, sir, public. my name is greg ian, captain of the training division of the san francisco police department and i'm here to present the training video for general order 7.04. children of arrested parents. that general order took effect on may 7, 2014 and the goal of it is to minimize the disruption to children of an arrested pairpbltd by providing the most supportive environment possible after an arrest, minimizing unnecessary trauma to the children of an arrestee and to determine the best alternative care for the child. to deliver this training our members worked with the office of citizens xlaipblts, project wud, san francisco children of incarcerated parents partnership to create this video. at this time i'd like to show the video to the commission.

>> please.