benefits per sworn officers this includes entry level up to the chef the salary and benefits is 175,000 per year which is the highest in the group we compared a cost of living taking into account the economic benefits in the area we're third highest below austin and seattle. aye few other staff spending metrics san francisco falls in the middle of the range for overtime spending and workers come senuation is -- compensation which is third highest. >> the cost of living aspect is not of course sadly not prizing

every single person all walks of life in san francisco experiences this the fact that you have a dramatic drop of a cost of living speaking values about where we are with san francisco today i know with salary and benefits you have to rely on the surveys chshgs is a smaller group it's unfortunate the other higher cost cities have not responded the cities are dramatically lower cost than san francisco hopefully we can get them to respond and have a broader perspective >> we just got washington d.c. so we can add it to amend them >> you looked at the same year? >> fiscal year 2013-14 >> what you looked at is general funded over time or all overtime paid for including projects that

are paying for awesers to be around >> i believe it was all overtime i will have to go back and check >> and i'm curious to see while we have actually had much higher uses of over time especially by the general fund earlier 4-5 years [backup singers]:back that has been reduced i'm curious to see if the reduction is below the same our authorized strength maybe the police chief can talk about that when he's here. >> thank you. please continue >> on slide ten here these are actual costs 2014 how do we compare for salaries and benefits for sworn officers you can see arret and daytime individual we're at the top of the range so residents pay $457

per resident of san francisco for sworn benefits and salary. another indication of workload is priority calls for service so here we just selected a and b call tell us which are the general emergency response calls for arret or someone during the day calls 911 so here we fall in the middle of the range of a and b calls per sworn officers what that would mean is each officer is responsible for fewer emergency priority a and b calls than in other cities what this doesn't take into account is not all sworn officers are responsible for responding to these calls if you would like more detail the police chief can speak to that.

finally in our survey we can asked for the racial make up of police department staff what looks like a complicated slide is easy to understand. anything above the middle line means that rational category starting in white on the left hand side there are more officers than are white than the population you can see for a police departments this is characteristics the second is latino san francisco is the only department in our survey that had slightly more hispanic officers than our population the third is asian or pacific islander that make up the second largest in the police department we're behind in the difference between our resident population. and that concludes my presentation. >> so it looks like in terms of

caucasian african american latino there is a higher percentage in the police department than in the total population with a pretty significant for asian/pacific islander a low percentage of the api >> correct a larger percentage even though it is the second large the community. >> in terms of african american and latino it's higher than the percentage of the population >> correct. >> thank you. >> do you have data on civilian levels in the population san

francisco >> we have .14 officers per civilians that is another strategy to deploy officers to the street to free staff for any given civilian staff. >> thank you. back on slide 11 i'm kind of curious about slide 11 you mentioned we have fewer officers than even say boston per i think by chart that supervisor weiner talked about we also have fewer slightly lower number of a calls per officer so if we had -- what

does that data tell you? we have slightly number of priority eight calls per officers >> i would like to defer to the police officer on this here it's telling us the number of sworn officers we have smaller number of a and b calls as a city we have fewer a and b calls >> that's how i would interpret it. >> i have a quick question for you what stood out to me is the significant amount of moneys in police hours in special events do you have any idea what proportion are reimbursed for events and what amount we're allowed to cover? >> one second. so san francisco does have a

program in place where we contract with other agencies to provide police services that are directly reimbursed the police department has to cover a lot of events that do not fall under that program i think the police department can can speak to this program i don't have the numbers with me what the law enforcement services budget is. for this analysis the police department did come up with an estimate we're trying to understand what might be those costs for the events that are no reimbursed for fiscal year 2013-14 it was estimated again this would require additional deeper analysis there were about 36,600 additional hours at a cost of $2.9 million. which is above and beyond those

law officer services that are contracted out to the giants. >> supervisorer weiner? >> it's interesting we have through the 10-b program when possible and appropriate we're going to requiring them to do ten b for aren't the giants games and larger especially for profit events it is interesting actually a sad statement about the lack of police staffing that one large event in a day can pull in so many police resources that you have other parts of the city like my district or supervisor cohen or supervisor tang's district that have truly the minimum police staffing at the time that is sort of scary

it's the public safety version of what happens when all of the muni light rails are pulled down to the part of the city on game day and we don't have lrv's or few on the western half of san francisco. so it's a very real issue whatever the solution is in terms of requiring more ten b or that kind of cost recruitment the fact is if there are physically not enough officers there >> available to staff a large event and -- oh, by the way provide public resources for the rest of the city, that is a dramatic problem in my view that is a statement not a question. >> thank you mrs. mehal the next spooeker and presentation will be chief sir. i also want to recognize we got representatives from the chef's department chair as well who

will have the opportunity to address this body and the public on any of the topics discussed today. one quick question before as the chief prepared mrs. mehaul quick question does your report -- do you solicit staffing for other agencies or is the just the police department >> for benchmark studies? >> correct >> we have previously looked at a number of departments we looked at health compared to other jurisdictions i will have to see the last time we looked at staffing you can find the reports sf controller controller.org/performance for our series.

>> thank you chief. welcome back to the committee. >> good afternoon thank you for having me. i think it's important -- we prepared a power point if i can get it up that is going to speak to where we are so a lot of the questions the committee has asked where we are right now i would tell you i would echoes the comments you made earlier i heard everywhere i go when do we get more police officers i appreciate this board supporting the mayor and staffing plan back in 2012 had you not done what you did would be far worse debt now and we can beat that ambitious goal by a year. with that this lays out if it moves -- it moved. >> there we go. >> this lays out where we are

with regard to sworn staffing in 2009 airport. supervisor weiner addressed things not including ffrment mla long term disabilities on and on. >> i'm sorry madame chair we have conversations >> i'm a translation >> so the gold bars are where we are. as we are right now in 2015 we are some where just above the 1668 number that we were at the end of june in 2014 striking a balance if you would between retirement and hiring. >> i'm sorry there has been confusion about the numbers.

so this says in terms of full duties sworn that is officers available to do police work in the seven by seven not at the airport it says 1668. i heard the number 1730. can you clarify that? >> the 1730 would be where we're at at the time you asked that question in early june. june is our highest retirement month because it's the end of the fiscal year so right now that 1730 number is around 1700 even. and rounds down. >> so we have 1700 officers available for duty? >> yes. >> in terms of the higher number can can you explain what is not counted towards that approximately 1700 police officers? >> there are usually between a

fluid number of 200-250 officers, at any point in time overtime not on full duty they're limited duty not at work at all or not out on the streets at this time. >> so for example if someone's on some sort of leave or disability or suspended or for whatever reason there is not able -- >> exactly. >> that also is the airport >> that is all collusive the darker gray number is the full duty officers many that bar chart >> thank you. >> the next chart shows where we are with regard to calls for service and full duty staffing if you look at the sal id line at the top that is 1971 you can can see we have not been at that

number or close since 2009 and decidedly lower than that number since my time as chief. i think it's important and i know supervisor kim is asking questions about cry lent crime the last time we were at a dip like this is the mid 2000 where sadly we were upwards around 100 homicides a year and 100 shootings i with have commend the men and women in the lead ip ship behind me our focus is on violent crime and we have been able to have both of those numbers our average is closer to 150 than 200 which is far more thanes we should be experiencing and shootings closer to 200 however many it's too many for us to be having but it has been our focus you can see as the calls for service has gone up

that is consistent with the amount of people in san francisco that goes up over 800,000 people meanwhile the number of officers to answer those calls for service has steadily declined to around 1700. the next slide is going to speak to our priority a calls for service. again you will notice the full duty sworn number goes down 14% at the same time the population has gone up 13% the priority eight calls has gone up 4,000. and ri response time having less officers to respond to the calls is up almost a minute. that being the case just under a minute. >> so priority eight are the most serious -- >> right those are in progress violent crimes we need a police

officer now. >> in 2009 the response time was on average three minutes and 49 seconds today it's four minutes 48 seconds? >> yes. again i know -- i have said it many times you don't arrest your way out of crime but a detorrent to crime is whether or not you will be caught so that extra minute is whether or not we can make an arrest or not. >> there are statements today even perhaps suggesting that there is really no linkage between the number of police officers available and crime levels or crime detorrents prevents crimes many things prevent crime including housing and education all the things we

need to make successful people in our community in terms of giving them the tools they need. can you comment on this motion that police staffing levels really just don't have any relation to crime levels or crime detorrents? >> i would agree with the comments that education is a tremendous priority for us in the police department that the number of people falling into victim crime are not graduating from high school that is focus of this department anybody that is called for a police officer said they got there sooner than they wanted is untrue most people think it's taking too long but this chart lessers -- officers is a huge deterrent to

crime where people can walk up the pers study was referenced that spoke to more officers than 2200 they factored in the community engagement time the amount of time the officers have to engage the public to talk to them to explain sit weighings provide direction give crime prevention tips around security as the light it contributes all and all to a better feelings of security. the next slide speaks to b priorities. again the staffing going down. there is an anominee you will see it on the b and the c priority when it pops up there say significant up tick to 2013-14 that is when the new some pewter dispatch kicked in 911 captured the data

significantly. we're trying to figure that significant up tick you can can see property crime is up and the b response times are up a minute half those are lesser accounts that just occurred need a police officer we're still under nine minutes that's a long time waiting for a police officer. as you can see on c priority calls we sea another up tick significant up tick from 13-14 >> i'm sorry to interrupt you -- can you define an a priority call from a b and c.? >> a priority called just a aoccurred with a suspect maybe there is an injury that call will get you a call less than

five minute a b priority call hey i just returned to my car something is gone i can't find somebody. somebody's missing whatever then if the question is are you injured? no i'm okay but can somebody come right away. then a c priority call is going to be hey i was at work today when i came back to my car my car had been burglarized. >> ab and c it's all a minute for increase in response time priority a a minute and a half increase in response time for priority b and over two minutes from 10-and-a-half to 12-and-a-half for priority c.? >> right that is strictly less officers po respond to more calls

>> there is a suggest made earlier there is no correlation between crime and mrufrs this next slide shows that is not the case as the police officerses has gone down our part one crimes are the felony property crimes had steadily gone up that ounce of prevention police officer presence walking beats faster response times helps responses the static line up there is 1971 >> we have a quick question for you supervisor kim. >> perhaps r is less of a question and more of a statement. there is a lot i can show that correlates with crime we can say because of climate change has gone up and crime has gone up

with it in san francisco i think it's hard to say put two stattistics next to each other and see there say consequence between the two i need to say for sure there is 100% connection that sole crime has gone up i think the reduction of the police officers -- >> i would like to reiterate that i don't want to cut you up. >> i don't disagree with you the example is spot on the also doesn't rain in san francisco the way it is any more with the weather being the way it is. >> tuche on that. >> there is aye crime sale and violent crimes the more people act out the warmer in san francisco there is more crime in san francisco. >> i think there is a correlation in police officers

and increase in crime i want to be careful with that statement there is not a direct link seeing this a outcome leads to b outcome there are other factors involved too there is growing equity there say sector rising tremendously a segment that is stagnating or doing worse than they did 4s ago that is creating for tension that is pushing for crimes of opportunity as well. >> right i would say there are other contributing factors but certainly less police officers and warm weather would be two of them >> supervisor avenue loss >> i apoll jeez -- apologize for jumping in i'm not saying there is no correlation it's more than that if you see police officers

in the street you will see where crime is especially on that one street where that happens if there are no police officers i would expect that crime would happen the idea is if we were to increase the number of police officers in the street where we see a corresponding decrease that's where i'm getting at. if we're looking at we get to the 1971 minimum staffing level we can get to if we had moved forward on these five classes then three classes next year that i actually support to get to that number we could actually see that we're going to find a fine balance but we add more officers on top of that number my statement is that we don't necessarily know where that is going to lead to a decrease in the crimes we're talking about today we don't sense a direct correlation to get to a certain level of policing is my contention >> i would agree for where we are right now again the the comments made earlier about the

population will be up another 150,000 hunters point naval shipyard will be built out treasure island will be built out the basin will continue to grow vertical units will continue to grow again having 1971 officers is a place i have nitrogen been before if we have another 12 or 13% more people with the already 12-13% more people might not be a bad idea either. >> i anticipate that response and having a strong multidimensional support it could make sense based on the data we're deploying differently and we are having the same impact on crime and prevention combine with other approaches besides policing we have a resolution saying we're going to increase with the increase in

population size we support increase in police staffing is not necessarily one i see that is worth supporting at this point. >> fair enough >> please continue >> the next slide. speaks to where we are right now this is january to march so you can continue the part one crimes just over 14 to 15 are up in the first quarter again. that said the help is on the way i can't -- in making this presentation i don't want to seem unaappropriative of the board to get us back to the 1971 i'm just trying to paint the picture of where we are. there are questions asked about civilization we look it as a recivilianzation when money got

tight in this city sworn staffing continues to hire and civilian strafing stof but a lot of the tasks needed to be done as officers would be on various substantialings of modified duty would come if inside do that work and those people stayed for long periods of time when supervisors chu was on the budget committee she had a plan id's planning sessions this is the 12-13 budget that is akin to an entire academy class to the discounted rate of the nonsworn personal versus the higher rate of the personnel the other ten are in the position of hiring

process as we will be able to make good at least on that budget hopefully by the end of this fiscal year. supervisor avalos asked about being what we can being deployed as efficient as with can. when we hit the recession that was in place when i got here one of the things ha happened over time when the ten hour day became the industry standards in 1986 for principal a lot offed police department gravitated to that that say hit in staff from outside we took 500 officers about 25% on the ten hour day wasn't assigned patrol and went to different schedules with eight our nine hour day with specialized training that is akin to getting 66