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. >> america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all vvptd i'd like to take roll
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please. commissioner president loftus's is excused commissioner turman commissioner marshall in route commissioner dejesus commissioner mazzucco commissioner hwang commissioner melara economic development commissioner turman you have quorum and with us is the chief chief suhr. >> thank you. i'll note that joyce hicks the director is in route as well she'll be here shortly ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday, june 3, 2015 san francisco police commission meeting let's start off with first item. >> item one general public comment
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at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. neither the police or commissioners are required to respond to questions present by the public but any present a brief erroneous all some refrain from entering into speakers during public comment hold did comments to 3 minutes please thank you. >> good evening, sir. >> hello starting off we saying i consider the shooting to our people unarmed hundred and 37
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times is not the behavior of professionals but ill trained gun cowards the vines the politicians e-mail is dean you remember that don't you that's where the cops are caught in racist and homophobic rants where's supervisor wiener or supervisor breed or david chiu especially the mayor they've gotten their marking orders to remove angela she was two concerned with minority issues chang replacement victor wong is
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grateful in the broadly tunnel rose pack needs a new shipment she's running low on puppet strings that appears we'll woe we have politicians like yee and wiener needs sprienl transports if they're to stand up to the san francisco police officers association it take encourage to stand up to the powders that be only mayor there is two mayors george gascon and another were the only when a two mayors that tried to reform the police department you know what
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happened to george moscone so i guess that's why people are a little bit front yard. >> next speaker, please. >> hello in reference to the toolbox scandal that was discovered in december 12th that case goes anywhere you don't bring charges against them within a year we'll forget let's talk about domestic violence i remember a few months ago i addressed one the commissioner now i've been informed don't mind me i got back from above the god bless boston police
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department now we're going to address domestic violence in a command staff i've been informed that there is small business that is promoted to deputy chief suspend a year on domestic violence he's black and big and used to be a motorcycle cop i said talk about aly i said he can't talk about that he rolled his eyes back he said i can't talk about that if we're going to promote people within this department a higheres lesson involved in a domestic violence case he was suspended for a year hello hello i saw sheryl's wife the other
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night she's putting on a play where's the scandal register sheriff all that stuff she said where's the skaunld what happened nothing at the blew it out of portion the deputy chief i'm very disappointed in the command staff for promoting him to that level after being involved in an incident like that have a good evening. > thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm steve i want to address again, the incidents of racist remarks by police officers i think the
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question the commission should be asking will - do those expression of racism manifest themselves in the field in the way that police officers interact with the black population or as a police officer in the jamming police force said the officers were being gold good ole bias and making expressions so whatever side you take my remark do you the a racist can performance the duties of a police officer if not what actions have the commission taxiing taken to stop it within the police department but to include racist from the
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department period thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> any further public comment hearing that being said next line item. >> 2a chiefs report and review of recent activities. >> good evening, commissioners normally i wouldn't speak to what the prior speaker said he's misinformed i'm not go into more it's been a busy week in the police department there's a several questions asked of me about two persecutes that took place i want to reiterate the commission knows this is the audience watch we have a strict pursuit we don't pursue office violators and the supervisor
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weighs directing your attention of a pursuit the dangers of pedestrian safety and vibrant criminals making their escape the pursuit on monday the officers tried to get the suspect before he got to his car they were unsuccessful an attempted murder suspect that vehicle got into a collision and the suspected was taken into custody and we don't know what that person is capable of anybody injured many that pursuant the incident that occurred last time was not a pursuant but the officer activating their lights the person struck a person in the across and the pursuant took
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place after the pursuant that person is going to be okay to seriously injured i'll defer my time to the presentation by the commander on the body camera we have police academy and graduations 9 recruits we're starting another group if anyone is interested carrying a load of 12 unit looking for folks 18 to 25 interested in a career in lieutenant go to san francisco.org to apply for the cadet program hire more in august we kicked off most of our summer
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jobs on monday the garden project the lawyers of our kids and today we started off the fourth year of the program we've partnered with sf city and raised private dollars to put kids in tech companies i talked to 4 of the 40 and we will end up 3 hundred jobs this summer across the board from underserved community providing the opportunity they need for summer employment and officer berringer's from this week is back in washington, d.c. as part of the wormed washington middle school program with 16 itself kids from heros man k-3 middle school and again, a great opportunity with the kids and
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june will be on to offer run and pride weekend is at the last weekend all the officers are welcome tool walk with the other offends and continue to prepare for the office of mayors that's june 11th i'll defer my time it and ask the commander to present how the first meeting on the body worn camera just yesterday. >> thank you, chief commissioners director hicks and chief suhr commander bob from the metro division and co-chair of the body camera working group we've
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established a working group they include representatives from the office of complaints and the san francisco bar organization and citizens representative and representative from aclu and the human rights commission all d hr all 5 of the sf pd groups have a representative and the police officers association prior to meeting we provided the working group with reference materials that included best practices and current policies including the first model policy documents the president obama go jkit and aclu negotiations forebode camera and
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the oakland bart understanding policies and more to come as we move forward and the group requests additional reference material we provided the group with a working document to serve as a start point for conversations and our meetings and that document touches on the main we believe the main portions of the body camera program including the purpose of introduction that policies and procedures terms of reporting and storage for the attention and documents and history of misconduct those are all areas the working group will be covering as executive officer mentions we've had the first meeting the working group p had that yesterday discussed our
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reference materials and actually discussed several areas of you're working document which included the purpose and the uses tools excuse me. training of body cameras and the program administration of body cameras have set regular meetings the next is tuesday june 16th at 12:30 to 2:30 another police headquarters. >> i actually spoke to the group welcome everyone from being there the working group is drafting a proposal made up of recommendations that come before this commission everyone on the group knows that whatever comes from the working group is just that making a series of recommendations
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explained about general orders are and not and that from my understanding from the people that were there i know a couple or 3 commissioners were there the first meeting went well and the anticipation of those the rest of the meeting is are they're not reason to building that future meetings will not go well, whatever comes before this commission hopefully in the 90 days set before the commission a document are recommendations hopefully, some of the proposal will the working group will reach consensus, however, as commissioner president loftus's reasonable minds differ both the range of recommendations maybe on single points for you to consider. >> that concludes my presentation. >> thank you, chief. >> i have questions from commander mosser was to ask the
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process and what's going to happen next thank you for explaining that any questions for the chief or the commander thank you. >> commissioner mondejar. >> we were there as is we've participant and observing i have to tell you it was a great introduction from the chiefs general orders and was impressed with the entire working group i want to make sure that the public understands it is an open public meeting with public comment at the end really nobody from the public or the media to watch this process i thought i wanted to graduate the chief for making this open and the commissioner dejesus and commissioner hwang to kwach the attorneys everybody was there
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you put together a great packet we've started past the line go back. >> commissioner dejesus i noticed people the working group unable to make it i was hoping they could come their get out would be valuable, of course, i had to speak larva i think it is important no commissioners or i people that are watching no one sitting up here including director hicks the ocii are there. >> they're working with a document and input is being taken and there's also is section from the public to sit and monitored and kwach and an opportunity for. and so i think this is a great
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set up it is important we get as much public comment as we can good job and hopefully, we'll get this have a great document from it >> thank you. >> any other questions for the chief or commander moses? thank you commander and chief >> thank you. >> inspector occ director's report and review of recent activities. >> good evening commissioner turman and members the commission and chief suhr and members of the public this evening i'll provide i with a few statistics acknowledge occ cases next week i'll provide a written report on the statistics from may of this year and also i will present the
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annual report finally next week and constituent in next week's packet will be the april statistical report as well as the occs community outreach strategic plan and the occs first report on customer satisfaction survey those all those reports will be on next week most of the information will be incorporated into my annual report presentation we'll not be here tonight hearing those reports this evening keeping in mind the statistics tonight are 5 most the first five most of this interest complaints 2 hundred and 89 parade to 3 hundred plus a 10 decrease in the complaints
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the occ received complaints closed 14 percent decrease in the number of complaints that we are closing and that has a correlation i believe to two things inadequate staffing and it's my hope with the budget the proposed budget there will be relief there on the other part of occ is sustaining for cases that takes more time from an individual investigator and so the occ investigators caseload are at around a medium of 26 cases when best practices is 16 moving on case 3 hundred and 66 have up to date compared to 3
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hundred and 41 june of last year that's a 7 percent increase the bog is increasing the same cases 23 compared to 17 by june 3rd of last year a 17 percent in sustained types of cases sustained rate is 9 percent this year to date compared to 6 percent of june 3rd last year but again 5 months of statistics by the end of the 2014 was 8 percent so things can change mediated cases 22 as of today compared to 25 by june 3rd of last year a ferp or 14 percent decreased in mediated cases and to talk about the conclusion of the statistic portion but to talk about the outreach activities that occ staff have
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been involved in attorney manny and i meet with the members the members of the bar association criminal task force that includes the attorneys from many disciplined as law school deans and judges and looking at was to improve the criminal justice system there are several subcommittees i'm on the civilian oversight subcommittee and annie is on the task force there's a representative from - on the police commission working group on body cameras there's a member from the bassett from there that working group that commander mosser talked about
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and i'm on the working group i'm a representative on the working group i thought that yesterday he went extremely well, there were some key players who were not able to be at the table and the public defender was not there. i don't know whether or not the district attorney has a representative no does not - so anyway another two weeks we'll have another meeting and it is at the 6 page proposed general order we made it threw page one lots discussion and it went well-staffed by the police department commander mosser and
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deputy chief ali and then finally another outreach activity chief suhr didn't mention that that had to do with a webinar it chief suhr and attorney sandra participated in morning hosted by itself urban institute and it about children of incarcerated parents from arrest through pursue adjudication and an all-day webinar that started at 9:30 pacific and went to 3:30 reasonable person so but the chief suhr and sandra are a open
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the first of four panels and there's their panel, of course, was on parental arrests that was excellent i listened to that part of the webinar and it provide resources to organizations that want to move forward so that concludes my report. >> can i gusts an idea of organizations that participated in the webinar just to get you wasn't listening to that one. >> the organizations in terms of the. >> the webinar presented to chauffeuring chief suhr. >> there were 3 hundred agencies on the webinar when i stepped out i don't know if more joined in but law enforcement across the country and anyone that was