tv [untitled] March 13, 2015 11:00am-11:31am PDT
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>> he's now a juvenile commissioner right down the hall. one of one of the true princes in the police department right there. >> will you be available for questions later? we all have a lot of questions r for you. what was he like? >> he did tell me once if i got to be chief i would have gotten to play more. [laughter]. >> important to know thank you both. >> thank you. >> anything further, chief. >> no thank you. >> inspect tore please call the next line item. >> 5 bocc director's report discussion and review of recent activities and presentation of occ fiscal reports and summary of cases received in january and february of 2015 and mediation in january and february february 2015 and adjudication of complaints and
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the companion report. >> good evening director hicks. >> good evening president loftus and members of the commission chief and members of the audience. as you are aware the chief here has pointed out there is an interim report from the president's task force on 21 st century policing and president obama signed an executive order on december 18th, 2014, establishing this task force because of risks in the relationships between certain police departments and members of the communities that they served and the task of the task force was to develop a road map for best policing practices that can promote effective crime reduction while ensurg and building community
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trust and the task force had 90 days to complete the report and they have actually received input from the organization in which i serve on the board and that's the national association for the civilian oversight of law enforcement and received this input by getting written and oral testimony and the president delivered oral testimony in january held in cincinnati ohio so last week the task force released a 100 page interim report while i won't go into great detail about it this evening it did report on 6 key areas which the report calls killers and i'll just briefly describe the pillars and the first is building trust and legitimacy and deals with issues like
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the constitutional policing. >> officer wellness and safety. the report has two overarching recommendations the first is that president obama should support and provide funding for a national crime and justice task force to review the criminal justice system for the purpose of making recommendations to the country on comprehensive criminal justice reform and the second recommendation is that president obama should promote programs that take a comprehensive look and address the core issues of poverty education health and safety this evening i'll just briefly speak to one of the recommendations from pillar 2 which is policy and oversight. recommend 2.8 provides that some form of civilian oversight
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of law enforcement is important in order to strengthen trust with the community and to meet the needs of the community. certainly the voters of san francisco have chosen a form of civilian oversight for san francisco and it's contained in the city charter section 4.128 for the police commission and the office of citizen complaints to exercise a civilian oversight of the san francisco police department and the first action item is the united states department of justice through its research arm the national institute of justice should expand its agenda to include civilian oversight and the second is the office of the department of justice should provide
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technical assistance and collect best practices and be prepared to help cities create this structure potentially with some matching funds and there's a detailed letter that was provided to the task force with several recommendations and we're very pleased that the task force did include civilian oversight as a key recommendation in its report. i'm now going to move away from that report into some recent activities that my staff and i have been involved in i recently participated in a symposium as a panelist and cosponsors by the league of california cities and chapman university and the panel i participanted i participated on was police misconduct and i
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stressed that a risk management tool is to use civilian oversight to develop policy recommendations as we do in could as we do in conjunction with the police department and the police commission and last week deputy director served as a prerpt a presenter and spoke on the san francisco police department crowd control and this was a northern california regional forum and finally this evening i briefly attended the spur good government reception with our office's attorney
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policy analyst and i nominated last fall to receive an award for the work she did with the police department on their two training videos the one on language access and the other one of children of arrested parents and even though she wasn't chosen as as a winner i'm very proud of the work she did in those two areas and finally you have in your packet the statistical report and the companion report and we received 116 complaints compared to 125 and we sustained 3 complaints compared to 6 last year and we mediated 9 cases compared compared to 12 last year. and then finally moving to cases that the occ sustained and
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where the chief proposed discipline. in january the chief proposed discipline in 3 cases that the occ makes the same finding in. in february the chief disagreed with the sustained finding of the occ and moving first to the january to the january cases the first was for un warranted action for citing a complaint who had marijuana and for wrongful detention of the complaint ant and the officers involved were add admonished and retrained and the second was neglected duty and again the discipline was admonishment and retraining and the third was neglected duty when an officer failed to politely provide his name and star number upon request and
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admonishment and retraining and one involved an officer who removed a complainant's keys and we found the evidence didn't support the officers limited authority to enter the truck and that concludes my report. >> chief, is there anything that you want to say about that? thank you director hicks. >> oh you are welcome. >> the owner believed that the officer turned off the truck and ran down the block to teach him a lesson and not leave his car running. he didn't want to leave the car running and have someone steal the truck and then he would be responsible because he knew the car was
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running so the director and i talked that that it could have gone either way so she was understanding. >> got it. thank you director hicks. >> your welcome. >> any reports or recent activities for director hicks? >> your welcome. >> inspector, please call the next line item. >> 5 c commissioner's report and discussion with the controller's office regarding district boundary assessment report. >> yes i'll start with my report. since it's been a month since we were here the format of our meetings hasn't been such that we can update the community on what we've been doing. . obviously we celebrated black history month in february and excited to have
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congress john lewis come to san francisco and even more significant given the the anniversary of bloody sunday and the attempted march from selma to montgomery and i think that's important to remember at this time the history of law enforcement's role in some real low moments for this country and so i think as we folks around this table and i think who care about san francisco are really thinking about the past forward and i think february certainly gave me a chance to pause and acknowledge the history as we find a path together forward to making san francisco as great of a city as it a city as it can be. on february 23rd i took up the invitation of green she's a project housing resident who
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invited members of the police commission to come and walk up potrero to see what's happening there. it was wonderful i would like to give a compliment to officer bran don and she really highlighted their ability to handle situations and diffuse situations and build relationships with communities and get increased cooperation and that was a wonderful opportunity to get out from behind this forum and out with her and i want to compliment the officers for justice they did a wonderful women's trail blazer event and i was pleased to represent this commission and it was a celebration of of the contribution of many woman particularly women of color and it was to benefit kids and that was a great night. we did have a town hall for the officer involved shooting in the mission on march on march 2nd
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and on march 2nd and i attended that with commissioner dejes u.s. and they shared the information known at that time and certainly a lot of feedback from members of the community and i did go on a ride along in the mission that week and kind of see for myself and i was paired with 2 extraordinary officers. they have been with the department 2 years and i'm interested in how people come to this department one came from the private sector and one was a teacher so that says a lot about the recruitment efforts to think outside the box and folks i was very impressed at the number of ways over the evening that they diffused situations and proud of their ability to do that and i want to thank them. i also did learn from an officer that some of them regularly watch
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the police commission which i think -- i only joke my mother watches it . i did learn an officer said i watch it on wednesdays and i care about the department and i want to see the direction of the department and that was instructive to me and march 6th there was a lateral graduation ten lateral officers joined this department and seemed very eager and excited to join the department and i will say a number of issues came up at the meetings that were helpful and constructive and we'll schedule those in the weeks and months to come but we're going to talk about redistricting in terms of where the boundaries are and the issues that came up as we go forward and the last and final thing i want to share is that we have a twitter account scomb account and i see
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excitement in the audience and i want we're at sfpd commission on twitter and someone congratulated us. we're going to be putting out agendas and i wish the camera was on him right now. [laughter] the agenda and information reports there's certainly one thing many lessons from a lot of this and transparency is really important and we're going to be sharing what what we can on twitter and facebook so colleagues reports from all of you. >> dejes u.s. commission. >> i did a march a march 2nd community meeting in the mission regarding the officer involved shooting and i have to say it was disturbing the amount of mistrust that the
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community has for the department and angry and not only at the ois i saw a lot of angry coming through about evictions in the mission district about the fires in the mission district about the displacement as well as law enforcement. and i haven't seen the president's report. i downloaded it i'm going to read it i did read the ferguson report and other articles keep coming out about community policing and stuff like that but one thing everyone is stressing is capturing data certain areas of data i believe we capture a lot of data but i'd like to to analyze perhaps we should put a committee what data are they capturing and what data do they recommend we capture? and how to analyze that data because i think when we go to these
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meetings if we have a lot of this information, we can share it number 1 and number 2 is looking at raw data can also tell us what proportion of of of the racial make up of arrests convictions and officer involved shootings, whatever data we're going to gather -- what the age groups are etc. etc. and it may show us some areas where we can have improvement or areas for fertile discussion and the ferguson report is showing a certain amount of data showing 63 percent of of the population is african-american but 99 percent of the citations are african-americans so good to have that data and analyze it and looking at it to see if we have room for improvement whether we're having a
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disproportionate impact in the community and i'm putting it out there and perhaps you might want to think about putting a a committee together to look at what is the data we have and how do we start capturing and analyzing it. >> i agree and i appreciate that commissioner. can you by the next meeting give us the data we have and maybe start that conversation. >> yes in fact we spoke to how we collect data today at at the conference and i'm happy to make a presentation and if you think there's other things we should we should be collecting as well i'm happy to do that in fact the woman that's the deputy attorney general actually asked me to fax our data to her so i'll get that presentation. >> great and i hear what you are saying, too there's other experts that can help us because we want to identify the issues and solve those issues. >> and if we even have an issue. >> right exactly. commissioner
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hwang. >> i want to commend you i don't know how you attended all of those events and hold down your day job. last month i participated in an outreach session at tenderloin station. we started a monthly or quarterly forum to limited english speaking communities and he targeted the asian community in the tenderloin had fifty or sixty seniors come out . it was very well received by the audience there. i also had invitations to meet with supervisors eric mar and jane kim separately both of who expressed a lot of issues in the language issues that have been raised here at the commission and i assured them
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that we would take the time at the commission to look at those issues. >> great. >> thank thank you commissioner and there's a lot of thanks that go to president loftus and my mother mother but i did take my daughter so thanks to those folks in case they are watching at home. >> . >> the family violence council in san francisco has released its latest report on family violence and i'm going to send the the link to all of you so you can have it because it gives us a good picture of what happens in the city including all government agencies that handle domestic violence cases in san francisco. the other
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piece was going to the california partnership against domestic violence lobby day in sacramento where we looked at the possibility of somebody doing audits on failure to protect cases that those are the cases that come out of cps potentially where the victim loses custody of her kids because she has been basically in a situation where she has failed to protect her children however there's very little data about that so we have requested newly elected assembly member 2 to request a state audit to see how often these cases happen and why they happen so those are two things that i just wanted to go through. thanks. >> thank you commissioner. anything further from my colleagues on commission
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reports? >> please call the next line item. >> district boundary assessment report. >> colleagues, we have been in the map world, redistricting world for 90 days and we'll orient you to where we are in this process. by way of history we got the proposed map which was the result of a year long data driven process from the department on what the proposed map would be. took public comment through a series of group individual meetings and received e-mails it's really actually i'll say incredibly comforting how much people pay attention to these issues so we had a meeting in
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the tenderloin on on january 28th northern station february 11th and jones methodist church and most recently last week bayview southeast facility commission and i've shared my notes. these were all meetings we were all jointly at with the controller's office to give them a starting point. so we're going to hear from the controller about what i believe and what they believe are the starting points some of the ideas that came from community members have evolved through the conversation and so i think we'll hear about that too. a community member suggested going to polk and maybe look at going all the way to van ness and polk and larkin are big
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areas for some types of illegal activities so we'll hear now from the controller of what we believe the proposed changes are and this is an opportunity for all of us to go back through your notes check to see if there's anything missing here and an opportunity to consider the data when we look at what final map we're going to adopt because now we have the community perspective and want to integrate that and make sure we take the community ideas, understand what the data is and come up with something that makes the most sense so feel free to add anything you feel might be missing so i'll go to the controller's office. >> thank you president loftus once again good evening and members of the public my name is randy maclure e. we have a
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third party expert consultant based out of massachusetts who has been along for the ride along the way public safety strategies group and we want to have them come back at the final stage to address some of these data issues and questions that you that you may have before making final decisions and it tonight wanted to to go briefly through where we are as president loftus said and the objective is to try to come to some agreement to take it back to our consultant in terms of what the line changes that the commission would like to see us run the data for keep in mind every individual line change on its own in a vacuum
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is not difficult to make but once you start making multiple line changes in unison around the city it gets increasingly complex and the data becomes more difficult because there's more iterations and options to consider and that will be something we continue to ask with every additional question and sort of request it may require more time and analysis on the consultant's side. >> and so just briefly, again, for the folks who may not have been at the previous meetings, we took a year-long look at the current lines and we're required every 10 years by the board of supervisors to do a redistricting analysis and ask a working group of command staff at the pd to consider the following objectives in their analysis which which is
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achieving greater workload. >> we've mentioned at previous meetings a great number of data points and the working group certainly considered many, if not all of them throughout the process they spent many hours in the rooms together and worked with our consultant and there are five data points however that ultimately ended up in the data cube cad for 5 years and cable which are incident data for 5 years and population from 20 ten consensus. through the various
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public meetings over the the last 90 days we tried our best to track what some of some of the community members had put forth as idea for line changes based on the proposal presented in december and came up with 7 different options for the commission to consider and certainly this is all proposed. it can be talked about and discussed here today in addition to finalized before we take to our consultant but again, keeping in a sense of time and cost with our consultant we definitely want to make sure we give them one specific ask in terms of the data request. what . what you see in front of you here on this slide is the blue lines on this map are the proposed district boundaries presented in december and the red lines
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the current district boundaries and shaded those 7 areas i mentioned previously where the community or others have provided input along the way during the 90-day public comment period in terms of changes they were interested in seeing and so we're going to drill down into that a little bit on the next slide where you can see the tenderloin northern and central meet on this map and if you take a look at the at the left side of the screen, there's an orange area and kind of underneath that is a bluish area the bluish area represents a move in in the current proposed line excuse me to include a section between larkin and polk and so you see on the map there it cuts over from geary on the north side goes down polk and can you cuts back just where civic is
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at mcallister and a second involved geary street itself and you can see on the map the red northern boundary of the tenderloin district. this proposal was to include both sides of geary in the tenderloin district and the third one is the orange shaded area again dealing with the west side of the tenderloin district and further to van ness all the way south which would include city hall and all the way down to where van ness meets market street is the third option that we've heard. >> i think the chief wants to say something and i do too. >> i don't recall there was ever an option where city center got taken and i thought the blue area underneath underneath there that
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