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we do assist from time to time when they might have a planned or unplanned demonstration. but it does make sense, i believe, that that border might go as far as down as mariposa because the new uc hospital. the southern most portion of that a butts 17th street. that being said, we know in the bayview there is currently a tremendous amount of growth and there will be continuing to be a tremendous amount of growth with the park being demolished we know there is going to be a 50,000 square foot shopping center with the greenhouse and it will be connected to the shipyard or over the cos way. when it's built out there might be an additional
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30-40,000 people per day in the shipyard when we account for the commercial and residential retail. and they will go to san francisco as well to the ferry building. so i do expect that should again should the current proposal be adopted that it will have a minimal effect on us. certainly the services that we provide with residents to the bayview and with the bayview police department it will remain the same and the addition of more calls to service in those areas. with that being said, randy mcclure is here with the office and others with the committee we got together and looked at the data and the maps and eventually we forwarded handful of maps to the chief for his review. i think randy is going to take us through. he has a
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powerpoint presentation and the process and data he serviced which i know a little about. those types of numbers, randy can assist with that. >> thank you, captain. >> good evening. my name is randy mcclure. i'm a project manager at the controllers office. thank you, chief, thank you commissioners. i'm just going to walk through the presentation that we've given this past month giving an overview of this project, some of the drivers, data points and variables we looked at and as we came to at this point where we are considering proposed line changes for the 10 districts in san francisco. so as you can see some of the drivers were as the chief mentioned the new southern district police
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station. population growth throughout the city not only in bayview but other parts of the city. work flow differences between the districts and board of supervisors legislation that requires an analysis of redistricting every 10 years. approximately a year ago the police department and the controllers office hired an expert consultant called public safeties strategies group who came out several times over the past year to compile information and work on a methodology where by face ilitated with their help with the staff and police department sat in a room and looked at data and looked at the variables that they thought were important and considered many different maps and different line changes to a process to come to a series of maps that they passed along
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to a steering committee that including the chief, a member of the department of the emergency management and controller which then led us to november and december as when it was presented to the police commission as the final map that you see today. a final map that's proposed. >> the project structure, we had a cities team which included controllers office members as well as a captain of the police department and then the consultant with safety strategies group went out to speak to different stakeholders on the department through their many years of service. that was passed up to the working group which consisted of 8 members of command staff through the police department and went through all of these iterations of maps and data points who were passed along to the
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steering committee who made this final proposal map decision. project timeline. we've been working for the past year on this project and we are currently in the far right zone where it shows december to march, the 90-day public comment period where it shows the proposed action on the table. some of the objectives considered throughout this project were to achieve greater work load parody among the officers throughout the city to minimize response times for calls for service and incidents. to preserve the integrity of the neighborhood and other natural boundaries and operational conditions within the district and provide more logical alignment with districts where possible and to create facility constraepts -- constraints
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in the short-term. what you see here is all the data variables that is considered. you see on the top left a mention of kad and able. that is important because that is two of the key data sets that we have that we consider throughout the working group and passing along the option to the steering committee. the selection process as we mentioned focus groups proposed many multiple line changes throughout the city. the consultant then came up with a preliminary map which they had combined some of the line changes that made the most sense given the variables and construct from the driver's and the work edited with many of those maps to come up with a group of final recommendations which was passed along to the steering committee to get us here today. the final piece i'm going to add today. this is the proposed
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map in front of you. this is released the consultant's reports which underlies all the maps and changes within the maps. there is one on the controllers website and you can look through it. we also have these little cards that you can take with you. you can find it on our website and it list exactly the website address to locate the report. with that said, i would like to thank everyone for their attention and pass it along to the commission. >> okay, any questions, referred that presentation to other meetings. any questions for the consultant now? okay. >> so commissioner dejesus has pointed that we would like to hear your questions. i will reserve the commission's right to ask questions. first i would like to move to
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public comment. city clerk: public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission within the subject matters jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not the individual commissioners, or personnel. under the police commission rules of order during public comment, police nor commissioners will be required to respond to questions to the public but can provide a response. personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussions with speakers under public comment. please limit your comments to 3 minutes. thank you. you can come up to the opposed why you mean -- podium when you are ready. >> hello, my name is steve lindsey. the police department has a big problem in this town, it's
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me. i lost my incident report card, but last thursday night at stones town i was a little too happy. so the police there decided that i needed to be taken down a bit. i sent to somebody there that i still had something from some other store that i still had in my hand and had to take it back. apparently that became the basis for the service call. i got the walk and i was screaming. you know what, it's probably all on audio and video. so mr. chief suhr, you can get your officers to get on that now. thank you. so they sat me in the back room, of course for about 20 minutes and in
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a stress position. it wasn't much of a stress position. they had me stretched out and you know what i have blood thinners. i started with this hematoma. so, i write to joyce hicks on wednesday february 25th, i don't have the incident report number. you know how the process works, they won't e-mail you your incident report. you have to go in person or request by mail. why is that? they don't want to be scrutinized. you discourage people from before and you see what happens to them. why is it not right to them, the people who get screwed and stepped on to know they can be stepped on. they can click a butt on and
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say file the office to the citizens of complaints. it's not that easy. of course it's not that easy. except for me, they kind of got the wrong guy. i'm the 50-year-old white guy with a masters degree instead of the black guy with a high school degree. i'm in stones town. so i have been to the emergency room a couple times. i wroo it to joyce. i say, read the incident report. it will be an embarrassment and i'm planning a major action and i am sure she didn't call susie loftus. my process was to recommend an emergency meeting. get that incident report. city clerk: thank you, sir, your time is up. >> my 3 minutes is up. 3 minutes rules everything. thank you very
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much. you have a big problem. >> thank you. next speaker? >> hi, everyone. i just have a question, how many people are here from public housing? that's my point. so, i thank you guys for not taking the officers away. i live in potrero hills. i can only speak for portrero hills. i live in the public housing and i'm always proud to say i live in public housing. when you do this redistricting from what i was seeing, tell me if i'm wrong, there was nobody a normal person like us whether it's black and white or chinese that live in the low income community at the table when you were looking
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at the redistricting and during these public meetings. i understand that you have to do this every 10 years. the second thing is that nobody will in portrero hills, nobody knew about the redistricting. if you have to do this every 10 years, then this is something that needs to be changed. i'm going to tell you why. an incident just happened today where a young lady very upset hit an sister and pulled out a knife. she's still alive. you know why? because the officers from the community know the community. he's one of the officers designated in portrero hill. he was able to knock her out, but at the same time he didn't shoot her. but to make it even better is that it wasn't no big incident accident where everybody could have been really bad, but because everybody knew officer thompson, it went in a different direction. this is
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the reason why it's important for the officers to get out into the community and get to know people in the community. then the other thing is, i know somebody is going to be hell mad when i say this. tasers. i understand this was brought up 4 years ago and these groups said it was a bright idea for officers not having tasers. but 4 years later if you look at the officer involved shootings where if they had tasers it could have went another way. if you get tased, you have a 98 percent chance of living. maybe one of those 2 percent because they have a heart problem or pacemaker might die. but if you get shot, you have a 98 percent or 99 percent chance of actually dying. i think we might want the lesser of two evils. that's what i call it. i think it needs to be brought back to the table of
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the san francisco officers having tasers so they have that other option of being able to use their tasers as well as their collapsible billy clubs. i think that needs to be brought back to the table because now you have a lesser of the two evils. that's my 3 minutes. thank you. >> commissioner, chief, captain, i'm with the neighborhoods association. i have two comments from the bayview station that have been drawn first. i completely support the moving of the eastern most border between the southern station and bayview station down to mariposa street to 16th street and consolidating ucsf to a single district. the second issue deals with the west portion of potrero
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hills. the area bounding between 16th street portrero and highway 101. right now it serves between the bayview and mission district. 101 that area highways a lot of problems under the freeway and with cal trans. right now when we make calls, people call the other side from bayview and from mission and they see as a benefit for general coordination. it hasn't worked as well as we would like. we kind of like that area to the part of the bayview station. that area gets represented by potrero hill. i live in that area. it's portrero hill in every way except for who
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polices it. it should be brought together. we polleds -- polled people in the area. everyone says they would rather be in the m igs district that they love. now that we have the at some point to consolidate all of potrero hill in the district. we should. thank you. >> did you submit any of these in writing to us, sir so i know my notes. thank you. next speaker? >> thank you very much. thank you my name is andrew king. i grew up here in san francisco, born and raised. i work for the city and county for years and i was able to retire and i was blessed to buy some property here in the city. but it was some things that i want to truly share about my area, but there
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is something that is more important. my heart is still aching right now. someone who i love and cared for son was murdered. there has been so many unsolved homicides in san francisco especially with african americans. something needs to be done. i'm not saying the police department is not doing their job, the inspectors are not doing their job. but the fbi must be involved. something is wrong when i'm afraid my son may lose his life if he's going to work and his life be taken out and we are so fast to say that it's gang related. we honestly, this is a state of emergency. okay, we truly need help right now. i know they
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are close to someone, who i love and care for. to see her cry and pain and work for all of this community. her life will never be the same, my life will never been the same. it is a tragedy. something truly needs to be done. i respect joe marshall. he's done a lot in this community. this is my first time speaking. something needs to be done because i'm always concerned about my son who can be minding his own business and someone can take his life and there is so many unsolved homicides. it not right. somebody is not doing a job. somebody is dropping a ball or truly we need the fbi, the feds to come in and find out who is killing our
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children. who is killing our kids? this young man was on his lunch break. okay? he wasn't hanging out. he wasn't selling drugs. he was on his lunch break and he lost his life. whether he got in the car with the wrong people. he didn't deserve that. my heart is aching right now. it's aching so bad. so i just hope and pray that i know we have a good chief here, okay. i know we have one. he used to be in bayview. please, we need help. okay. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. thanks for taking the time to come down. next speaker? >> my name is colette brown. i lost my
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son to homicide. when he talks about unsolved homicides these are young men that their case is not solved. i carry this with me all the time. i say this because my son's case is unsolved. i son is arbory. he was murdered. his birthday is coming up next month. i'm in a lot of pain right now because i can't celebrate his birthday next month. he was killed by an automatic gun. he said run and they take his life. they took my son's
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life. his first name is -- [ indiscernible ] his name means anything that comes must ache. but he's gone. i carry these pictures because i want people to see what i have to go through. this is my son and he's dead. i need justice. i need some closure. i need my son's case solved. i always say i'm tired of coming here doing this. but i will be doing this for the rest of my life. no mother should have to go through this. no mother should have to bury their child. look at my son. he's
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here on a table. bodies riddled with bullets. a 17-year-old boy. i had to walk across stage to receive his diploma. it's a shame. he has two sisters left that are without a brother. i want people to see what i go through each day. i'm tiring. i need justice for my child. it will not sof the pain but it will give me closure. how long are we going to suffer. i'm not ashamed to cry. i am in pain.
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>> for anyone who is watching at home. there is a tip line. especially for the men in january who were murdered and this case or any other unsolved homicide. 575-4444. please share information. i know there is a $2,000 reward for abry casa. next speaker? >> i'm from portrero hills. i want to explain why our northwest potrero neighborhood would like to have the border of the bayview district moved up to potrero avenue between 16th and portrero. this area that they are talked about. we have just
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started a strong homeless connect community organization and we really need most of the homeless problems which we would like to help the city solve is bordered along the freeway because that seems to be the place where people feel comfortable. we need to work with the police and other city services because it's not primarily a police problem. but if we can have that 101 freeway be in one police district that would make it a lot easier for us to work with everybody. i just wanted to support that idea. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> my name is saula chandler. my son was murdered on january 9th.
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the homicide. he went to cash his paycheck and he said i won't to -- want to contribute to the household. it was something that he wanted to let me know he wanted to do at 19. he also and theed the city college program under the speaking and writing working with former mayor willie brown and found district attorney george is also connected to that project. the reason i'm here is they do know who killed my son, however we need some
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witnesses to step up. i was told the reward program was now discontinued. we are requesting for a reward to be acknowledged for the four capital crimes. the northern station, captain is communicating with diana from the mayor's office and chief suhr has been very very kind and so has lieutenant chaplain but they did admit that chaplain and sergeant sanders said they did need help and if a reward can be manifested to make that happen as soon as possible. i just want to read to you this letter, a part of this that my son wrote. it's in the newspapers. but he did say, i think we should be paying attention to
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the mental destruction of black culture. i think it's a dishonest and lack of integrity and honor and wisdom and knowledge to know that we lack knowledge that we perish and i cannot accept this knowing that there is 75,000 black children that have died in the united states of america and the majority of these cases is unsolved. this is truly a state of detrimental shock to me that these boards will allow paulette brown has been coming to you for years many i read recently that mayor knew who killed her son and also the police department knew who killed her son and that $250,000 reward and i don't see why you are not going for it
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and trying to help her solve this case by even raising the reward. thank you. >> i just feel the need to respond. we certainly, if we had the power to give monies , that's not within this board's authority. we don't control these funds. i don't want anyone here to leave with the thought that the people that sit here listen and do not listen to what ms. brown says every week. i have seen ms. brown here for the 4 years that i have been on this commission. and i have noticed and heard the three times that you have been here now before this commission. i hear your pain. and if it were in my power to have people step forward to solve these crimes, i would
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make that happen. it's not just about knowing who committed these crimes. it's about having the evidence to prove it. remember the police department is in charge of investigating and arresting, and gathering that evidence. we need participation. we don't prosecute. unfortunately we are not the people who provide the monies for these programs. that needs to be taken up with another department. if you would like me to go with you and say give this money, i will go with you. that to me is an individual question. please don't think we don't want to help you. >> i don't really think that. i'm trying to understand the purpose of these meetings and coming to you. that means you possess some type of power and influence. even to