encourage you and the mayor's office to really push in terms of adding as many academy classes as the academy is able to handle. i also just want to say that that 1971 number that's in the charter my understanding is that number was a number that came up when senator fine stei -- fine stein was mayor in san francisco and was in the charter and i don't know why it's in the charter and it lets us easy and hopefully when we get to that number and hopefully sooner than 2018 and i think there is a temptation let's celebrate and get out the champagne and we got back to 1971 and the city is so much bigger for all of the reasons i described. 1971 is not full staffing anymore. i suspect

it's several hundred officers above that and i hope that the department and the mayor's office and board will not stop once we hit that number and i want to put that out there i know we have talked about this many times before but i really want to encourage you to try to accelerate the hiring because it's not happening quickly enough. >> i can assure you it's a priority of the mayor's office, of myself. as i said when we come back for the next presentation hopefully there will be more to give you in the way of concrete numbers. i would say this three classes if i am not speak out of turn on the mayor's office and i know the want is to hire more classes and the officers you were talking about the beat officers and the school and resources officers and the task forces we put together to tackle -- the

burglaries and other issues and that's what we would do and we have been working with the controller's office to figure out the number for 2015 and a fully staff police department as well. >> i would ask when you come back in june and i don't know what you're going to propose and i hope it's four or five classes instead of three and we will see what the mayor and the department propose. i think it's useful for the public in terms of the 2018 and hit 1971 by that time and what it means in terms of the year when we hit that number so people can see concretely what the choices mean. >> we will make sure to have an updated graph depending what we come up with. >> thank you. >> sure. >> okay. so the sworn hiring

update want as you can see this is the mayor's and my ask and the board supported it 100%. we hired 183 officers in 12-13. 157 officers in 14-15 and by the time we add this fourth class we will have 172 officers in 14-15. again the problem was that in those years that's when the drop program was sunsetting so retirements were just about even with what we were able to hire so now that the drop program is over with it should be number and numbers and numbers of officers coming back, and the captains will be having those beat officers and other officers available for deployment. again we're working with the mayor's office on potentially accelerating the hiring plan. we have spoken about that to get

out in front of 2018 and have an updated plan for your consideration in the june hearing. i know that this recivilianization is another priority when supervisor chiu was the chair of the budget committee this was something we needed to gut police officers out doing police work and civilians trained that are less expensive doing civilian work. at the time there were 53 positions identified. we've filled 43 of those. 43 officers have gone to the field and the other 10 positions are in the hiring cue right now. it would be as soon as june when that process is completed. that is an equivalent of an academy class and getting those 53 folks outside and i would remind you this board was supportive in 2012 again not having officers

coming in we met and conferred with the poa and put the scheduling plan back the way it was intended to be from 1986 where the police department was never intended to be on the 10 hour day so better than 500 officers who were in administrative position both civilian and sworn went away from the 10 hour day and went back on the eight hour day or the nine hour day if they're in a specific training assignment like swat or motorcycles. that was a net gain of about 66 full time police officers that left administrative assignments and went back to the streets at no cost to the city which is about a $10 million savings because that is better than an academy class so just those two measures aloned picked us up 100 officers which off set not having two academy classes at this point and time so as low as we have been it could have been a lot

worse. this is a slide on overtime. we have been able to do what we have been able to do with about half the overtime we had in 2007-08. when you think about having three world series championships, a three month occupy operation and on and on it's pretty impressive that doing that bandaides and bailing wire thing that we were able to be fiscally responsible when it comes to how we expend overtime and as we move into 15-16, 16 is an even numbered year. things seem to happen at at&t park during those years. we have a large football came coming to san francisco in the first week of february and on and on and i don't know where that will leave

us being as low as we have in expending overtime but we will do the best we can and that's another reason for getting the classes situated and we want the officers out on straight time before february so not everyone is working the super bowl is on overtime. another slide if you look at how bad it was in those middle years in the 2000's for fatal homicide down the officers -- the focus is on violent crime and the trend has been nearly half of what it was before that and again going back to the work we do with the community and non-profits. no way we take credit for this just as the police department. it's working with the school district, the community, the non-profits that has made a big difference and hopefully the new normal from san francisco is going to be lower than this when we get

back to full staffing. >> chief, if i could talk about this for a second. obviously there's great numbers and see violent crime being down. the question is around property crimes, quality of life crimes. there are things i hear about all the time. have since on a semi regular basis certainly in my district. can you talk about -- because i think it's important for the public to understand if the police department is at low staffing levels today they're policy implications whether realignment, prop 47. . >> >> things that hinder the police department in some ways to be effective with the small staffing levels and can you touch on that a bit because i think it's important for people to understand and make sure people know the police department is doing what it can with the staffing levels but there is things that happened

outside the city that had a large effect on the property crimes and quality of life crimes in the neighborhoods. >> sure. there has been a lot of commendary in san francisco. >> -- commentary in san francisco that narcotics is down and now they're doing property crime and and violent crime is up a bit but that's mainly because robberies were down 22% last year. it's hard to stay 22% down so that has -- robberies have our violent crime up a bit but the big thing is the changing landscape. as you said ab 109 is the early release of non

violent offenders and another word is property criminals and last year prop 47 reclassified grand theft from a different level and it became a miscellaneous and felony crime will be down but misdemeanor crime will go down. >> >> because when the officers come back because you can never arrest your way out of anything and just the presence of officers on commercial corridors will be a deterrent to crime and we will get it figured out about there has been legislative change with the classification of crime and not again trying to arrest or incarcerate away -- out of crime which explains the record low jail population at county jail and juvenile hall. >> can you touch quickly being booked on a felony versus a

misdemeanor what happens in the process and once you're brought in by the officer and we heard of people with misdemeanors and so forth and i talked to officers in the city that say they have arrested someone but they're out relatively short thereafter. >> right. on a misdemeanor the maximum penalty is a year in the county jail and for good time work time you do just about five months but if you have identification you don't go to jail at all. you get a ticket so if you don't have id or a warrant or something like that you do get taken to jail but once the identity is established or put on calendar then you get a ticket for pretty much of a misdemeanor crime you don't spend much time if any at all in a custodial facility. on the felony the bookings are required and there is bail, so when

someone commits a felony obviously that is an aggravated offense. you will spend some time in jail. if convicted the punishment is a sentence usually in state prison. although ab 109 reclassifies that for some felonies you do that time at county jail. >> thanks. >> we have several requests of it projects, continued funding for the smartphones which we're one of the only departments in the state that has that and additional efficiency that keeps the officers out on the street about 40% more so they're not in the stations on computers. so i know that was something the mayor's office was able to give

that and the department in the state able to get data on the phone and i believe l.a. just got it and we were the only department that got it and a huge get for us and better for the officers. we're hoping to get e citations on the smartphones and go away from paper tickets and they would be a help for us because it would in real time populate to our data warehouse not only all of the demographics of anybody that get a ticket and where they get a ticket but what violations are happening and makes it safer with vision zero and we can spot the violations and where. we have continued expansion of the wear warehouse and like every department in the country ongoing conversations with the mayor and how and when and how

practical or possible can we get body cameras for the san francisco police department? that's an ongoing discussion. again major initiative it is for us, vision zero, both for enforcement being up over 50% across the city to try to get to zero pedestrian fatalities within 10 years of last year. the e citations and the cadet program and youth engagement and we could probably add to that working with president loftus and the commission and the mayor to be the first major city police department to come into compliance with presi -- president obama's recommendation on policing. >> >> if we could jump to the cadet program so our program supervisor yee to go to your point how do we get them in?

we just hired nine more. they're mainly college students between 18-25. they have to be full time students and can apply -- says after reaching 22 but they can apply once they're 20 and they just need to be able to pass -- need to be 21 by a certain point in the police academy. next year's budget we will expand the program from 30 cadets to 60 based on the public private partnership. mark bennyof from sales force went to selma on martin luther king day and engaged with the young people and they liked our description of the cadet program and thought it should be more, so he's agreed to put $500,000 a year for the next three years up conditional on a city match so that we can basically double our program so we thank him for

that. our future grads program is the next slide and this is also something -- this is our summer jobs program that we actually do the job. we actually have the kids. we are almost -- we're over 900 jobs that we have done over the last three years. that 2010 number is jobs we about at bay view when i was the captain there but the others are city wide jobs and that's why the numbers jump and when you total it up about 97% of the jobs is going to young men and women of color and 60% going to african-americans so that they see police officers and police officers see them differently and hopefully a bunch of these young people will want to be police officers down the line. and then the next slides speak to some other programs about youth programs

and then obviously the easter bond. some of you were there when we opened the new public safety campus. i see my partner chief joanne white and on mission and it's a beautiful facility and self sustaining and the most earthquake safe building in san francisco so we can perform anything we can do on a regular day even after a disaster. we appreciate the voters passing the bond for the crime lab and traffic company and medical examiner's office over at evans and tolan and i believe they hope to have completed by -- i'm not going to guess at that, but it will be finished. that

concludes my report. >> okay. colleagues any questions for chief suhr? supervisor yee. >> thank you. chief suhr. >> yes. >> the graduates program seems like that would be sort of a natural pool of young people. >> yes. >> to get them maybe interested in the cadet program. >> yes. >> because that would be the next step, and i am wondering are there like some company -- approach to either expose them or when they reach a certain age to recruit them into the program. >> yes. great minds think alike. we actually help them fill out the application. that's exactly what we do. >> okay. >> we have a handful of cadets that were pla and unpaid and they're all city kids and volunteered their time and when

they came of age we put them into the paid program and they're terrific. >> i want to say thanks for the report and like supervisor wiener i would be supportive of having accelerated rate of academies, so we could actually get our police officers to at least the old 1971 figure quicker than 1918 so i also want to thank you we asked a few questions about safety and we had a hearing not too long ago, a fews ago, specifically talking about property theft and how are you going to be addressing it, and i thought what you -- the presentation then was very good and how people in the community should also be doing their part, and i know you're working closely with the da office in terms of their computerized

systems to make things happen a little quicker so thank you very much. >> i appreciate the support. >> okay colleagues if there are no other comments chief thank you for being here and presenting. i am without a doubt lend my voice to supporting as many academy classes we can put in. i believe public safety and the shortage of police officers is one of the big issues facing the city so look forward to talking more during the budget process. >> if i could i need to give a shout out and this presentation was done by maureen gannon and ms. welch and christine and she's terrific and ben rosenfeld and kate howard with the things we're trying to get done with the police department right now. >> thanks chief. okay. up next related joyce hicks real quick who is head of occ to come

speak on her doesn't which i know -- department which is under the police department but integral part of the public safety infrastructure here in the city. . >> good afternoon chairperson farrell and members of the budget and finance committee. i am joyce hicks and i thank you for the opportunity to address you. we are getting the powerpoint loaded up on the screen.

>> why don't we get going because we have a number of other presenters and i want to make sure we're respecting people's staff time. >> certainly. i will quickly run through the presentation, the topics that i will discuss with you will be the history and the mission of the occ, organizational developments, our budget, investigations, legal unit, and information technology. the history and the mission of the occ is that it was created by a board of supervisors initiated charter in 1982. the occ became fully staff and operational in 1983. it is under the jurisdiction of the police commission, not a part of the police department but part of the police department's budget. the mission of the occ is to investigate civilian complaints and impartially and we make recommendations on police

practices provided by charter, and in terms of promptness of investigation. in 2007 the city controller issued a highly critical report of the occ prior to my beginning and -- the title of the report was poor case staff management degrade the quality of occ investigations. one of the find negligence that report was that best practices for investigators is 16 cases per investigator, but in in 2007 the case load ranged from 20 to 45. that's still not the case but the case load is i will outline a little bit later is still too high. for 2014-15 under organizational developments staffing was constrainted by the adjustment and long-term absences.

currently the staff vacancies include two journey level investigators and one senior investigator and those positions have not been filled because of the $300,000 attrition and step adjustment factor and we have long-term absences which cannot be permanently filled. we have one clerical and one senior investigator. moving quickly to the budget chart and again the mayor's office still has the occ's proposals under consideration, but for this fiscal year the total budget 5.1 million dollars projected for next fiscal year 5.1 million dollars. with the proposed enhancements it would be $5.7 million. however there would still be the combined step and

attrition of $266,000 which would cause the occ to hold positions open because we're over 90% staff comprises 90% of the budget so the total ask from the occ is 634,000-dollar but again that would really only allow the occ to fill its vacant positions. we are asking for a journey level investigator, senior level investigator, an information services technician assistant to help our it business analyst because we only have one information technology staff person. a point 25 attorney to make whole the attorney position that is staffed for mediation and

outreach, and then finally an additional attorney for additional policy work that the occ is providing. you have before you the occ's staffing chart. it is budgeted for 34.75 f.t.e.s. the occ's -- its largest unit is the investigation unit which has 21 full time equivalent positions. last calendar year the occ received 728 complaints. we investigated and made findings for 706 cases. that means when we close less cases than we receive our backlog is increasing, and we closed 54% of the 2014 cases that we received. looking at the investigator's

case load the median case load for investigators last calendar year was 24 cases, but only 13 journey level investigators had full case loads at the close of 2014. two of these were acting 8126's so two of the journey level investigators were acting as supervising investigator and i indicated 16 per investigator is best practices according to the 2007 controller's report. the occ continues to receive cases of note high profile cases and require more investigator time and meaning a investigator that receives one of these cases whether an officer involved shooting, a death in the hospital, the bicycle's case involving the bicyclists killed in a collision with a truck and

those have the case load reduced to focus on the high profile cases which means that the other investigators accumulate higher case loads. >> >> in addition to these cases we also called to investigate the valencia gardens incident and we had a complaint from the sexual assault victim who was dissatisfied with the amount of time it took to complete her case in the complaint was specifically about the crime lab and in december of 2014 the occ discovered evidence of racist text messages among san francisco police officers and this evidence was forwarded to us after the federal criminal trial and we have a complaint

in our office regarding those messages. just to briefly tell you who was filing the complaints and ethnicity and race. twenty-seven% are caucasians. 26% are african-americans, 11% latino hispanic, asian americans comprise 6% and 26% declined to state and this was all from our 2014 statistics and looking at language english was spoken by 97% of the complainants. another 3% spanish. less than 1% cantonese and russian and korean. and we have investigators that speak a variety of languages. we have non investigative staff that speak other languages. in 2014 the types of allegations we received unwarrantied action

33%, confluct with action, -- and here is listed all of the rest. the findings we made of the allegations we received last year which came from the 729 cases we received, 2024 and [inaudible] allegations and 507 officers received complaints and of the complaints we received the allegations or the findings that we made not sustained were 64%. that means we couldn't prove or disproof the allegations. improper conduct 19%. 6% of the allegations we found misconduct or neglect of duty and those -- that 6%