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it. >> one of the things i've spoken to earlier the probation parole system challenged a lot when i was out doing regular work if a person got a probation violation they'll get a year they'll do 6 months now the flashing incarceration is 6 today's to the community doesn't get the relief from the person doing crime or crime now, it's days what we've can you think in the past we've bundled miss don't remembers to get to the cases this is important to put the cases together to present to a jury so we can speaking to people if the district attorney's office we need to figure out how to bundle the miss don't rememberdemeanors ab one
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09 says they don't go to state prison but can do the time in the jails we know who the folks are and brings in to a tall i didn't of the cases this is danger in urging the word tacorita there can be suggestions made that we don't do here in san francisco. >> okay supervisor breed. >> thank you. i just supervisor yee asked what can we do i think there are a lot of things we can do i know when we have this challenge in my district it is still an issue but not as bad as it used to be when you look at the numbers in
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terms of the number of break-ins and part of what we tried to do especially with our captains at northern and park police station to provide tips to resident of the kinds of things that they can do to help to affiliate some of the challenges especially the auto break ins not leaving things visible in our car last year, i made that mistake it was nothing but a couple of papers and my car was broken into i was wondering what was i thinking even the smallest things we know that people use spark plugs and at that point the window you don't hear the noise if they see something they'll grab it and take off oftentimes a gym bag
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with dirty clothes but you're stuck with the bill and it is something like not leaving things in ash car and not leaving things 1r0ib8g and not letting people see you put things in the truck we put out messages to our constituents we want to make sure those are the kinds of things that don't happen the quality of life crimes we want to encourage the public to do what. >> can to hopefully being a victim of one of the crimes it doesn't pane it won't happen but i think working with hayes valley association and working with the police station you you know we've cut the crime down in terms of auto burglaries in particular and no, they haven't gone away but not that crime happen as often people changes
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their behavior how they leave items in their vehicles number one that's a part of that but number 2 finding when those crimes are happening and doing targeted kind of hopefully, the policed seeing when this is happening in terms of the time period and doing from my experience kind of in the middle of the night making sure we have a police presence in those neighborhoods there are areas where a lot of the burglaries a taking place and also the bigger issue it dale there has to this consequences so we need those prosecution to happen when people condominium a crime there has to think consequences for people committing a crime especially, if they're the person that perpetrate this crime there are a number of things we can definitely do not
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an eyes solution was you know soold crime exists all over the city whether it's an ate break-in or a home invasion we have to come up with ways to hopefully prevent some of this from happening in the first place. >> you bring up a great point we put on parking meters and so the short answer to how you can do this is not having anything available within view the other piece that's expensive is the broken window we talk about the goods that are taken i lost a jacket because i didn't loan to my own advise but the window
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getting fixed the jacket was not the loss as the broken window address sadly those are the things we spend all our time in san francisco it is railway you see broken glass on the streets of san francisco because we keep our streets in good shape. >> window braekz are the worst if folks will not loaf their digital and electronic devices handy that is really wyoming can folks used to trafficking in electronic devices their tractional and working as a city with the district attorney's office and the officers again, we hire them all back we'll get a handle on this really. >> so actually as i mentioned i
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go to a lot of neighborhood meetings and generally there is probably 50 percent of those neighborhoods meetings small business from the sfpd representing that and talking about prevention and i heard it enough when there is not an officer whether there's what we talk about in terms of of auto thefts or home burglaries when you suspect someone report them of time and even with any of the crimes when i talk to people a big percentage don't bother reporting it. >> it is important when you don't report we have such good system in realtime crime mapping that's where we put the resources the best way to not get - >> i'm guilty of that.
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>> you have to report you have to get that into the system so we can ago gait that data so we know where the lions share anecdotally we know where the auto burglary problems are especially commercial areas we we work with better lighting and cameras and education that come out of commercial like bars and restaurant but certainly in residential neighborhood sometimes that is one person that might be responsible for several ate burglaries but sporadic the sooner we know we'll put officers in the areas. >> that's one thing i emphasize when someone walks down the street they mention that i go back and try to reach a
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councilmember and they said we looked it up and there was no report of anything i have to go back to the same person by the way, such as we know this crime is happening they have no report and can't do anything i think the 09 thing that might be helpful the residents in the community they could be helpful if they stay alert and do the things that police officers do as suggested but also, we know that we can short the police officers for quite a few years i know your attempting to catch up as quickly as possible can you speak to that. >> sure because of the combination of things but the marine accelerator wars the deferred option plan in 2011
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that really accelerated residents to record levels against a period we hadn't hired for awhile we found ourselves 3 hundred officers down and thankfully this department worked with an aggressive hiring plan in 2012 that was fortunately fftd we put that plan in place the aggressive hiring plan equaled the retirement that period is past we're making up ground and the mayor's office approved a class for 2014-2015 so we're going to start an academy class that monday and another class before the end of the fiscal year and another one at the end of the next fiscal year now, it's accelerated this aggressive hiring plan gets up to full name
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staff in 2017 versus 2018 we're working with supervisor wiener and the controller's office to see if 1971 is a number that was when the population in san francisco was in the 7 hundreds for approaching a million we have more construction and bigger neighborhoods and the like it is in all likely hood the seven hundred number is low. >> as we're approaching the 71 number how about the resources putting more. >> the likely hood is one hundred percent. >> the 3 hundred officers enabled us to do itself primary robot so answer the 9-1-1 calls and our proprietor to stay on
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top of violent crime when the 3 had had officers come back those are our beat officers and bike officers your specific enforcement for specific problem details like auto burglary and the like so all that will come back and obviously if there are more officers added it booster our ability to do more. >> thank you very much i don't see any other questions i want to take public comment i have a few cards here (calling names) come up you have 2 minutes. >> first of all, i want to say thank you to supervisor yee and chief suhr and from the woke up if the doofdz i appreciate that
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meeting being organized i'm a homeowner in westward park and supervisor wiener lives 3 doors around the corner i'm here on personal experience he had about one thousand dollars in tools stolen if any vehicle and to the chiefs not so much the value one felt things my grandfathers chest it was probably bought for 25 bucks but can't be replaced and the second level i'm speaking this is more important i serve westward park agency as an emergency partner we formed a committee because of the increased crime in the neighborhood and what's been going on i want to - i'm a handy man serving the west portal and
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west side park this is what i've noticed and this is what i've customers telling me instead of asking me to fix their fuss even though their asking me to put in dead bolts i was checking an alarm this morning and i just want to say i support additional police i support doing what we do it has a direct impact on the community when folks don't feel safe and spend money and needs and not improving their home on a person level my customers be wear it has a real impact. >> thank you. >> i'm linda i live in the
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lakeside neighborhood i grew up here in san francisco and every neighborhood inch lived in in this city up to now my home has been robed at least one time my parent's home i agree with supervisor breed the crime is here and b will continue to happen sins i've lived in lakeside the crimes up there that way are more gifted countless break-ins at the homeowners meeting people are told not to put the valuables in their cars people are carless nevertheless, people get their coarse broken into when there is nothing in them in our block in the past five or six years two
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home break-ins and one mugging next door to our house a month ago there was a home invasion in the daytime one person's car was stolen twice, a a my husband and i were lucky one night someone custodial the police for someone wreaking into a car they arrived in time to get the person they caught him in front of our dining room window that killed our at&t apple it's i've had people cock up to my doorstep strangers and saying their from the water department and had to come in and fix something you don't show up like that but i guess people let them in so we
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have a diversity and part of - >> thank you very much your time is up. >> thanks for coming. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm roger president of the west of twin peaks council i have two comments one is a complaint from a constituent and the 09 a suggestion i received an e-mail from one of the long term homeowners in bottle terrace she was on a field trip with a high school class at the zoo and they left gutter equipment on a bus and when they returned the bus was broken into and $40,000 of equipment they recorded to the terrace station and they found out it was posted on craigslist
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to sell the equipment but for various reasons no follow-up until several days later then the equipment was sold i think it is a good idea if possible to be able to respond to situations like that where the people that sold the equipment is breaking and enteringly sell it to go on the greg's list and track do you think the people and stop them my suggestion being a long term resident near west portal reconstitute having a beat cop over and over west portal avenue i've heard beat cops don't reduce the crime have patrol cars respond so they know when something didn't seem right purse snatching and things of
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that nature that southern and i our elderly residents i'll offer that as a suggestion. >> is there any public comment? chief suhr. >> the one speaker smoking spoke to sometimes, people use a pg&e worker to get into our residents i know this from my time on the police department there is absolutely no reason for any utilize person to go into our how is it should be connected in the exterior point if someone does that call 9-1-1 if you're smart enough to tell them no they'll hit other residents that is that burglar working the neighborhood call
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9-1-1 if someone represents themselves as pg&e or puc they need to get into our house call 9-1-1 that's a priority call for us. >> thank you public comment? come on lisa >> i'm lisa the president of the sunny side association we have hot spots where cars are broken into i think hearing chief suhr talking about call 9-1-1 for a utility worker is a reason to call in our neighborhood people are reticent to call 9-1-1 supervisor yee what you said cars are broken into and it would be helpful to have a list for reasons to call 911 that are appropriate if people knew that we could share that with the neighborhood one
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of the things that happens to our point they don't call it in they don't open the door and go on to the next house the better educated the community members and we as at president of the neighborhood association casca do that and help keep our eyes open we'll turn around and better educate the community thank you. >> thank you lisa chief suhr. >> something made a suggestion to me probably about a month ago there was a staffer of a car and i guess they were told to report it and realized they had to go down to station i didn't know if the suggestion was practical they said it was hard for certain people to get down to
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the station wagon whether elderly or they're working and it there a way i guess the person tried to call it in and they said they can't take the report. >> the 9-1-1 dispatcher might not be able to report but dispatch a person to the person. >> oftentimes which one calls 9-1-1 or the police station they would say oh, geeze i waited forever and they didn't come for two days and if it is citywide plus or minus plus or minus minutes those priorities are somewhere closer to 10 or 15 minutes if you priority calls can take up to hours they are cold calls but no call for a
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service is never more than a few hours. >> thank you for coming is there any additional public comment. >> come on up. >> if there are other public comments please line up. >> yes. hi, i'm from balboa terrace i've worked with terry very well police station the captains on various issues we've s had invasions and robberies between the hours of 34i7bd about 5 my house was hit at 520 in the morning when we were sleeping my alarm went off thank god but when the police officers arrived i had the phone company and having two men in my house
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they tried to break into my car and the next day another housed over o on santa ana and were not successful came back around 425 and broke into the vehicle so all caught on tape tape was sent over to terryville police station but as of yet the homeowners have not heard anything i believe that the terryville police station is short on staff not to say so have so many police officers for the academy i believe that you know you really should have a sting gent program for having police officers graduate if we had nor adequacy on the numbers of crimes maybe that will be able to help thank you. >> chief suhr. >> is that possible to ma'am? can you see is the any
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additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed i want to thank chief suhr and this drew berry from the district attorney's office to come and give their presentation and thank you. the public for come outing for to item madam clerk item 2 >> sorry. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you, thank you again chief for coming by and i want to thank everyone for being here thank you, supervisor wiener for hosting this hearing clearly this is a real challenge in the city i'm glad we're having this discussion and hopefully it won't be the last discussion and take things from the hearing in order to help to address this problem especially where we have a lot of chambers and also one of the important things that the chief mentioned to make sure regardless of size of the country. we report it so we can track this information in order
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to make the appropriate dispatch and changes we need to do especially with the police department again, thank you all for being here. >> marking item. >> mr. chair would you like to make a motion on this item. >> can i have a motion to tennessee this item to the call of the chair. >> we'll take that without objection. motion passes. >> item 2. >> item 2 the hearing on vehicle for the city vehicles and requesting the budget analyst report. >> okay colleagues, i have requested this report of equipping our city fleet with black boxes
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public safety has been one of the main focuses and this strategy has been used no new york as part ever their vision zero policy and proven successful so this is something that when i looked it this should be a fairly no-brainer in helping our getting to our goal of vision zero so i asked the - our budget analyst to do this study and to represent the office is fred to give the presentation on the finding. >> thank you chair yee and supervisors you requested we present on estimate of the costs and other consideration pertaining to implementing a vehicle telling mask system or
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black box system for all city vehicles we've analyzed the purpose and capacities of the telling mask system the costs and benefits associated with them as occurred in other jurisdictions and finally came up with a cost estimate for the city and county of san francisco and we've identified the potential benefits of the system we've included there are one 7, 8, 9 startup costs and maintenance costs potential benefits that appear to be greatly over recover the costs that are occurred and julia the colleague mr. give a brief study. >> the telling masks is the technical term but known as gps
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tracking they have the potential to save the city time and money and potentially lives and allow for the tracking of vehicles and reporting data open their location and history and speed and mechanic studies they've increasing been used in the public sector for example caltrain and city of language and sacramento and here in the sfifblgs some use the vehicle telling masks it does more than location tracking it does have independence day which sends the information to the vehicle but collects value information from the vehicles computer itself this is used data and survivalist data and digging not that i know of data that is triumphed to the fleet
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managers the standard update time is every two minutes but in cases of emergency vehicles and public safety vehicles it can be as price as thirty minutes it spreads across the cost saves and emergency management but they tend to over lap for example, over the past 5 years the city paid a total of $76 million in litigations relate to this but at the same time system collects information on fast acceleration and hard braking i know creates inefficiencies and fuel inefficiencies at the same time this impacts safety so being able to collect that information and curve it saves time and money and also insures safety som