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redictate every frame so as we get into this we want to make all our due dates with regards to the compliance with the requests it is a bit unknown the volumes of requests my guess in san francisco it could be significant. >> and then you already mentioned the body camera working group that involves a number of stakeholders departments and representatives is the contract with the will body camera going to be expenditurely bid. >> yes. >> those will be looked at by your staff area working groups is there any thinking of the time perhaps keeping the data less for a short period of time or using in house data servers
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versus a vendor so for that storage. >> the answer all that will be secondary right now the cost of having it contracted out appears to be significantly lower than if we kept it in house. >> i know that supervisor avalos office and the aclu have been in contact with you over the ordinance i don't have the details can you talk about the discussions with the aclu more of oeblts over the surveillance concerns. >> the police commission tests e sets the policy and the aclu was visited invited hoping they'll make their concerns and the police commission will kelly whitcraft set the body camera
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policy and give that the considerations it deserves to everyone is comfortable. >> has there been k from last year they started the conversation we were looking at a small pilot project with train the strong training system but now we've jumped up to 18 hundred cameras any options of sharing of cameras so we're not purchasing them for every single officer as a way of utilizing them and also making sure we are cutting costs as much as possible. >> the best practices the officers are responsible for their camera for the maintenance also after the cameras are used they have to download and it takes hours to download as i understand when an officer comes
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off watch so while the camera is downloading the other officer go out with their camera and and each gaining is how much autopsy one thousand dollars that's what the budget is. >> i wanted to shift to say i think that is this is just shift footing to the cadet class it a great program i'm appreciative we were looking to expand to 57 cadets and the private donors for the next 3 years in 2013 we have 3 academy classes and last year 4 and this year 5 i'm supportive of getting up to the mandate numbers within the department i know how for the academy classes are you wanted
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to connect up the academy classes with the train that is involved i know we had the long hearing the phobic texts within the department and erecting had ms. hicks to the aclu and trainings and systems the department is looking at racial bias and not only in the academy classes but also in field training and other ways to insure we're moving towards a bias free department i know that is systemic in many ways can you talk about the concrete trains and the systems we have to address potential systemic bias within the department. >> sure for starts all captains and above in the police department including myself i s
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had boys training we all have bias whether or not we're police officers or not and basically try to recovery from that, we have racial profiling classes and academy on the ongoing advances officers were in service training we'll try to find an explicit bias trainer not cost extensive in addition to a variety of other training and bring in a bias for the dna lab and the objective application we have the longest academy in the state of california we continue to doing everything we can to make sure that we guard against bias and
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as we can practically to get us to that place. >> from my memory years ago communities united in existence bias the human rights and the aclu i guess the police accountability to work with the department to buildal systemic program but i'm not sure if so is last year or is year before are you saying we've replaced the training. >> post certified grant we've brought that back. >> could you provide the information about those types of training that is helpful on thursday we're going having a followup hearing on the bias and text messaging on the systemic issues within the police
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department could you employed as much of the training that would be helpful to understand what replaced those grants and we have similar strong programs with the community-based institutions to guide some of the training. >> certainly we pay for that out of the general fund budget. >> is the implicit bias for the captains is that similar to the human right commission that started with different departmental heads. >> the implicit yes. >> is that the using the same consultants that the human rights commission staff developed. >> yes. >> that's an unanimous train for the captains and our department heads. >> we did that this year she was terrific kimberly they e she was really, really good but
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she's just her so we have to find some sort of a either a train trainer type of program or more ongoing because she wouldn't be able to do it at the degree we want it done. >> is that implicit bias train built into our budget or a one-time thing. >> we're talking about next years budget we don't have additional budget but a train budget we will do that train with i have to find the trainer or the training. >> you how much does that budget item how much do you know. >> she was 5 thousand dollars for 4 hours. >> i need to find somebody less
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expensive. >> kate howard our mayors budget director. >> kate howard through the chair in addition the police work the chief described the proposed budget is additional bias train that funding is in the department of human resources you heard that on monday and director callahan will be working with the human rights commission and the police department and other front line departments to develop that training and figure out the best way deploy it to do a widespread. >> this is my last question involving is seems like the school district and police officers or sro program you'll be increasing inform full capacity of that program my
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guess a new mou with the police department if that hadn't been done. >> it is signed. >> i know the police commission has a train with community-based groups to create better restrictions and trust between young people and police officers are those types of ongoing there was a community from boston a couple years ago with the mrorgsz and some of our top level staff is that the community relations training built into our budget. >> i will bring you on thursday the kinds of things we do with young people it should be a meeting by itself. >> if you can i'd like to talk about that more on thursday. >> thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. chairman at
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the chief for the presentation today i have a couple of comments on the staffing level i know wore in agreement anything we can do to make the use of current staffing levels whether it is having help if it ain't broken, don't fix it from the sheriff to watch in custody of the prisons at san francisco general hospital more officers other than that this is terrific i think someone if an officer moves back from a deck job that goes up towards 1971 all those things are terrific i think it is important to really keep a broad prospective how deep in the hole we are in terms of police staffing and that even i know there is
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some civiliantion to do more getting the she was involved with watching people at the hospital that's a piece of the hole we're in this one thousand 9 hundred number plus was set in the chapter in 1994 by the heard about this in monday but it was frrmentd in the early 80s. >> it was in the early 80s. >> not a 20-year-old but a thirty-year-old number we were actually 2 hundred thousand people in terms of the population so san francisco population has gone up by 13 percent since 94 or 25 percent upwards that 1971 we begin as staffing it is outdated in terms
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of the city we have a hundred thousand people growth in the last decade 2 hundred thousand since the 80s we have bigger neighborhood more intensity and jobs more of everything more traffic enforcement so many more cars in the city so it is just great we are have this current staffing plan to get back up to 1971 we should have been all along, of course, this resolution pend dating the population and how parolee we compare to other cities and all those things we actually need to set a higher goal and at least 22 hundred that is detriment a number of years ago they suggested 23 hundred really
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important as the city keeps growing that we not just say, i know you're not saying this but okay get to 1971 and we'll take a deep breath and reduce the number of academy classes and retain them to 1971 that's not going to cut it it really is interesting i mean to me to listen to the debates at the board of supervisors i'm going to bet my lunch 11 out of lovingly supervisors say please we need more police officer in police officers in the neighborhood we hear it all the time i'm willing to bet every supervisor at one point say please we don't see enough police officers we need more beat officers we need more
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officers yet at the same time, we have some supervisors that continue to argue that we don't need more officers that is one of quote/unquote the police officers don't prevent crime as the baffling is important to look at the big picture where we are as a city and the needs and make sure that we take a a long time strategy view keeping in mind we should always be looking for the tints whether working with the sheriff's department or civilian in his that will never get up to heed of officers we need to fill this hole. >> i appreciate our comments and you'll get to keep our lunch pretty sure everyone agrees with
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you. >> you you know you can't have their cake and eat it, too and can't say i want more police officers in pie district and calling the captain saying please get beat officers and get more beat officers and come into this building and say police officers don't prevent crime we don't need more police officers. >> i will agree the shipyard we do alice griffith as mission bay continues to go vertical or the treasure island becomes built out those areas don't have a police presence it will have to be additional officers that will be responsible because no matter wholly we'll do the best we can the mayor decides is right and the electorate.
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>> supervisor mar. >> i wanted to respond to commissioner lee's comments yes our working police officers is doing everything we can but we are balancing the budget law enforcement and public safety and human safety we're at a country i don't know if anyone sees the growth wealth gap and suffering and i think security and displacement going on we need definitely need to be fulfilling the may or may not that the voters and communities have set but i want to insure we're spending our money wisely if we're increasing the officers they're going deployed as chief suhr explained to places their need from the zone stream
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strategy to other strategies i see a huge acceleration of the previous goals to reach the 1971 the acceleration of the alleged year faster than before i see a fifth academy class from 2 years ago i see a definitely a very solid budget from the police department but as the budget analyst looked at we're spending our money willows i know that crime has gone down that's the data shared with our office over the past years and police officers rise with the use of body cameras and other technology policing is done in a more effective way so you don't need as many officers you needed 20 or thirty years ago so i want
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a discussion that is balancing human safety net needs with law enforcement how technology changes the over time spending a concern i'll be doing any best to look at that but i appreciate supervisor wiener's comments i disagree it is not only law enforcement but another needs especially human safety net needs with the hockey's we're facing in our city. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chair i appreciate and respect supervisor mar's comments about when you look at the investments we've made every year both the mayor and broadway and in human services we can do more we would like to invest more resources 40 in health and nutrition and
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senior services all including myself has supported that and back to the board to get that done i don't buy into the have the most effective police officers as possible we have a $9 million budget we're a growing budget we can accomplish a lot of public goals and public safety is part ever that vibrant crimes are down but property crime is exploding a significant increase even though vibrant crimes r are down property crimes are exploding you see it down the street with shared glass. >> okay colleagues if no other questions right now why thank you very much chief for being
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here i understand you're working with our budget analyst on their budget. >> mr. rose would it be appropriate to ask the occ to come up right now before you do the full police department i believe the folks are here. >> good afternoon supervisor farrell and members the budget & finance committee and i'm joyce hicks i thank you for the opportunity to address you i'd like to thank the mayor and his budget staff and harvey rose staff for working with me on the budget i'm continuing to be negotiate with mr. rose's staff with the senior
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investigator project not recommend by mr. rose we're norwalk over the start date for various positions office of complaints was created by the board of supervisors in 19982 we became staff and operational in 1983 we're in the jurisdiction of the police commission and independent of the san francisco police department the mission of the eject was to investigate civilian complaints and police misconduct and negligent of duty and to make policy recommendations on police practices i've been the director of the occ since 2007 hired on the heels of a audit report one of the finding was 16 cases
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per investigator is best practices. >> but in 2007 investigators caseloads ranged from 20 cases to 45 that's not the situation now but investigators cases loads are high as of today, the medium caseloads of after eject is 28 cases within the eject in 2014-2015 staffing was constrained by judgements and nutrition and longtime staff absence this current staff vacancies are two journey level investigators and one senior investigator the senior position was vacated by deputy director eir when he was appointed by me to the deputy director position. >> we will be able to fill one journey level investigator position on june 29th that
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individual was scheduled to start. >> investigators caseloads has been a huge issue at the eject we have on our staff 15 journey level investigators seen to be 16 but two are acting as senior investigators current medium caseload is 27 cases with 13 investigators as of the close of 2014 the medium caseload was 24 cases with 13 journey level investigators also at the end of the year a major push to close cases that explains why at that moment in time 24 and now 27 as i said to the journey level
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investigators was has been acting as a senior investigator for two years. >> as i stated 16 cases per investigator what what do they do with 3 senior investigators they oversee 2 hundred and 40 cases annual the senior investigators draft the same reports by investigators in a number of the same cases between 2013-2014 increased by 35 percent the number of major cases between 2012 and 2014 increased from 22 to 10 a satisfaction survey that we began conducting in 2011 candlelight are not satisfied with the time their unhappy no updates with the additional staffing including
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one new journey level investigator and a senior level investigator the occ can providegreater services they review in realtime on the line casework summary on the cases they monitor the investigation plan and insure that interviews with conducted a timely manner in 2014 for all cases it took hundred and 63 days 13 it took hundred and 56 days the number of days to close the cases increased by a week for cases we find wrongdoing or negligent of duty it took an average of 2 leonardo da vinci and 98 days in 2014 to close the
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case by statute the eject has only 365 to close cases if discipline is to be imposed by the chief or police commission and the number of days increased by over two weeks in 2013 it took hundred and 80 days in 2014 it took 2 hundred and 98 days the next slide shows the occs budget without enhancements as you can see 90 percent of our budget for salaries and fringe and another 6 for others moving to the next chart the sum of the occs proposed enhancement given start dates not begin right on july 1st the next chart proposed
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enhancements 2015-2016 are the proposed start times that the occ would like for the journey level investigator the .77 matt haney that at the end of the first quarter the cost is listed out and goes through the senior investigator information technician sausages and the lawyer position with the exception of the 2 point plus attorney the board of supervisors consultants recommended all the positions start in january the occ has a list of journey levels investigators we could hire them did journey investigators in the first quarter and the attorneys they're at w will the occ
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community colleges the investigation i've done in the past he'd our office needed only a limited human resources we'll start them during the first quarter last is the overseeing chart with the current staffing of 4.75 ftes organizing chart reflects two vacancy and two long term absence as i mentioned two journey level investigators and one journey level one will be positions it is the duty of that most the occ has 3 positions or - the inadvertent drops from 27 cases
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ferry investigator to cases per investigator, however since two investigators are acting senior investigators the caseload only drops to 23 cases per investigator that concludes my report i thank you for the opportunity to present this. >> thank you ms. hicks thank you very much mr. rose our report on the police department and occ. >> yes. mr. chairman let me mention mr. chair on occ the romance was shown an page 72 of the report of the proposed reduction of 373637 ambulance the new data the department provides water we'll be withdrawing a significant proportion of that recommendations i wanted to accelerate you to that consistent point testimony that you just heard