. >> can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance. >> president turman: okay. >> clerk: presidenture man, i'd like to call roll. >> president turman: okay. [ roll call. ]

clrk clerk presidenture man, you have a quorum. also with us is the police chief and the interim director of accountablity, paul henderson. >> thank you very much, secretary kilshaw. >> president turman: members of the public, welcome to the december 6, 2017 session of the police commission meeting. we'll jump rite? >> clerk: item 1, request and file action. request from the chief of police to accept $6,000 in gifd cards from target to help 40 under privileged and disadvantaged children. >> president turman: commissioners, are there any questions or comments on this particular consent item? if not, i'll move in favor. >> move. >> all in favor?

>> president turman: any opposed. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: [ inaudible ] presentation of safe place initiative. >> good evening, chief scott. >> good evening, commissioners. commissioners, presidenture man, vice president mazzucco. i'll start this week with crime and then talk about some significant events that have happened over the past week. start off with our homicide rate. i know that's really been a huge issue for us this year. we are at 56 homicides year to date. last year, we were at 50. we ended up 2016 with 58 homicides, so we have seen a downward trend in homicides in the last couple of months, and we are hoping that we can hold the ground to keep from having an uptick by the year's end.

in our sheetings, we are actually down 8.4% from year-to-date. this time last year, we had 152 shootings year to date, last year, we had 166, so it's about 15 less than this time last year. so again, that's a good sign, and i think we've deployed some good strategies to try to keep the homicide rate at bay for the remainder of the year, so we have three weeks left to do that. there are some significant -- at least one significant. we had an arrest on a homicide that occurred on september 6th of this year. it was a stabbing, homicide with a knife. we had a suspect that was arrested on the 28th of november . his name it gregory speech. he's an african american male,

35 years of age. he was charged -- he was booked for 187 (c) murder and charged with that offense, as well. so that is good news to report, and hopefully, that case will be prosecuted successfully. there is actually -- there was one significant event and that was a shooting at the 1600 block of sunnydale. one male was shot with life threatening youries. he is expected to survive. this thing happened at about 7:22 in the evening on december the 1st, and we do believe there may be some gang involvement in this particular crime, and so our gang task force is investigating, and that happened in the i thingle district, and that's it for significant crime for the week.

the most significant event we've had this week is an officer-involved shooting that occurred this past friday, and i'll read the details. on december 1st, 2017 at about 1:30 in the morning, san francisco officers responded to the 1800 block of 3rd street regarding a carjacking. a female lottery employee was assaulted and sustained nonlife threatening injuries during the lottery. a second vehicle observed as a gold suv was at the scene and is believed to be involved in the lottery. state police officers saw the lottery vehicle and the suv traveling closely together in the bayview area district. the vehicle sped up and the vehicle was stopped in the area of ingelside and were detained.

officer pursued the suv and eventually an officer was involved in a shooting. body cameras from the officers involved in this incident have been retrieved, and the area was canvassed for other video and evidence. the san francisco police department robbery detail investigating the carjacking and the robbery, and the san francisco police department homicide detail, along with the san francisco district attorney's office, the san francisco police internal affairs division and the office of police accountablity, and the office of the chief medical examiner were also called to investigate this incident. anyone with any information about this incident is asked to call the sfpd tip line or text

a tip to tip411, and begin the message with sfpd. you may remain anonymous. tomorrow, we will have our town hall meeting at 1800 oakdale. it'll be at 1:00 in the afternoon involving our practice at town hall, which we try to have it at the same time the shooting occurred, unless it happened in the morning, so we will have that at 1800 oakdale, and it's open to the public. >> police, i'm going to ask you to schedule that town hall to sometime in the evening. 1:00 p.m. will not give the

public enough time to attend that meeting, especially in the middle of the day. so please work with your staff to come up with a 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. start time, please. >> we will fulfill that request but it might put it off to another day. >> president turman: i would rather put it off to another day than not have the public have access, so that's fine. >> and the other events this week is traffic safety operation plan for -- >> president turman: could you hold one second before you go further, chief. commissioner d commissioner dejesus, is this along the same line of what you just said yes. i think it's important that the community and the public be able to go, and so i'd ask that it be moved from 1:00 in the afternoon. >> president turman: thank you. chief of police, please proceed. >> thank you. the police will conduct a

traffic safety operation on december 12th, 15th, 18th, and 28th that will focus on bicycle and pedestrian safety. over the past three years, the department has identified areas where significant numbers of pedestrian and bicycle related collisions have occurred and responded by deployed additional officers to those areas in an effort to prevent deaths and injuries. special attention will be given focus on the following allegations: speeding, failing to signal for right-hand turns, as well as any other dangerous violations, and that is the -- my report for this week. >> president turman: thank you, chief. did you want to call the next item on your list, chief? >> yes. so we have commander david lozar who will make the next

presentation. >> president turman: good evening, commander. >> good evening. members of the commission, chief scott, i'm david lozar from the police chief commission. i'm here to speak to you and present to you a new program and initiative that we're initiating in the san francisco police department called the safe place program, and officer navarro's going to get that up on the screen here. so briefly, i'll just give you the background what our objective is, the implementation and our key points, our goals, and plans moving forward with the safe place program. so a little bit of -- on the background is that there's an officer by the name of james ritter in the seattle police department, and in 2015, he created the safe place program in seattle, and it was essentially created to address the lgbt community issues -- >> president turman: we've had

this part of the presentation. can you get to what we're doing? >> yes. okay. here's our plan, and i just will say this: in 2013, the san francisco police department under chief sur started a similar initiative, but it was just relegated to police stations and the will lgbt community. we're starting this in january . we'll have an officer who was be engaged in the liaison division. we're going to message this program through bill boards and press conferences and social media and any way possible to get the word out. we've created our own symbol to recognize san francisco safe place initiative. that's new branding decals, but a 6 by 6 sticker on the window. anyone who's willing to participate, they'll get a little bit of training and

we'll be grateful for their assistance with the public. as you know, the goal is to help the public, anybody is in need of police services, if they're fearful, if they need help, they will see this sticker, they will see this symbol, and they know they can go into a business and be helped. our phases will be in four phases. one will be schooled, followed by community facilities, followed by businesses, followed by faith-based organizations, and of course we're rebranding our own brand. is essentially, the plan, we're going to exceed the seattle police department's model. we're redesigning the logo. our pilot program will begin on february 1st, 2018, in the mission and the bayview districts, and then, based on surveys, and our interaction with the public, we'll make adjustments to the program and essentially roll it out citywide by the fall of 2018. in terms of the community engagement division and the tasks, we're going to look for grant funding and other federal

grants and donations to roll this out. we're going to do internal training with the department by putting out a bulletin, letting every police officer know that we have this program. we're going to work with our community officers at mission and bayview. we need their support and officers and buy-in to roll this out in two districts, and we're going to have the officers on foot beats and have every officer we can to promote the program. each station will be marketed, and we're going to get success stories on how it works. we'll put it on our department website, and we'll promote it any possible way that we can. i know tonight i thanked you for approving the $6,000 grant from target. that's for another program, but target now has agreed to provide $2,500 to help us kick this program right away. that'll be a consent item that comes to you down the road for

approval. on the last page, i'd like to reference the decal, if you have it in your handout. thanks to officer yolanda williams and tory grady. each part of the star has a symbol: compassion, justice, honesty, integrity, respect, and this purple star will be placed, four by six decal, in the windows of these businesses. we're very excited to roll this program out. last note, i'd just like to note that we made changes to this presentation and powerpoint from the original one. it's been amended for the public that may have received it on the internet when the commission posted it last friday, and with that, i'll take any questions that you may have. >> president turman: commander lozar, i want to say, i meant no disrespect. it's just i'm sick and i've got a long agenda. i just want to get this.

>> it's okay. >> president turman: commander lozar, thank you for your dedicationtu dedication. >> president turman: chief, do you have anything you want to say? >> i just wanted to say i thank officer lozar for putting this together. >> i just want to say i am so grateful that i am to have a program of this type in the city and keecounty of san francisco, and i assure you we're looking forward to making this a model that other cities will also want to tailor. >> president turman: thank you very much. it should also be known that we took seattle's program and modelled it outwards. thank you for taking the first step. thank you so much for your hard work.

commissioners, do you have any comments? >> commissioner melara: officer lozar, i've been waiting for this for a long time. i was involved in the initial conversations with the seattle program, and so i want to extend my help because when i -- we started talking about this here, bank of america, who's very involved in seattle, and has expressed interest in contributing here, so i'd ask you to follow up. >> thank you. >> president turman: commissioner dejesus. >> so thank you for expanding it. this just for lgbt or anyone? >> it's for anyone. anyone who needs possible assistance, they need help. they'll see this and know they can go into a business or school or faith-based organization, and they'll know they can get that, so we're

promoting that. >> i think it's a great idea, and i'm looking forward to seeing it put out there. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> president turman: all right. chief? >> commissioner, that is all of the chief's report. >> president turman: don't you have one more on the -- or is that on a separate line item? >> i think that's on a separate line item. >> president turman: thank you so much. all right. inspector sergeant kilshaw. >> report on present dpa announcements, report on the 2017 statistical reports, presentation of cases received, mediations and complaints, adjudication of sustained complaints for october 2017, and companion reports. >> president turman: director henderson, we have your reports, and we have had a chance to read them. what else can you offer in your

reports. >> i presume you don't want me to read them line by line. they are scintillating. understood. but you also have the monthly stats, and you also have the third quarter october 2017 reports. i will point out just the highlights of these things, the three cases where discipline was imposed on cases investigated by the dpa this month were also consis tetent,d we agreed with the discipline administered by chief scott. there was a lot of discussion about the cases last month that we did not agree, so i just wanted to point that out. >> president turman: good. >> i will say in the last year, we received 380 cases and closed 545 cases.

at the end of the third quarter, moving to the third quarter report, the highlight is the 270 cases remain pending, compared with 418 cases that were pending in the last third quarter of 2016. the other highlight combining the information from these two reports is that 55 of the cases were sustained in the third quarter of 2017, compared to 43 in 2016. theum other informati the only other information i want to share is we've reopened the final negotiations with the district attorney's office for ongoing negotiations. i'll keep you updated as we moving along. t we've introduced software to

our office for better customer satisfaction from the community, and we've also started with our public records training so that all staff will now be trained in terms of how to accommodate and respond to inquiries that come from the public. our new computers are out. that training is take is place. also present with me today is senior investigator sarah monder, and my chief of staff, sarah hawkins, and they are available if questions come up during the meeting that they can respond to. that's it. >> president turman: commissioners, any questions for director henderson? commissioner dejesus i just wanted to say, we talked about the training fund, it's a little bit low for your investigators, and so i'm wondering if you can just speak to that. >> sure. it's one of my top priorities. the training budget allocated

for the department is $4,000. that's about three books these days. and the work that the investigators need to do, the work that the lawyers need to do, the work that our policy people need to do really means that they have to be exposed to a broad number of current topics in order for us to follow and define best practices, so one at the very top of my list of priorities, when i meet with the budget team, and i start meeting with them next week, is to address the training budget. up to now, we've been addressing that by having and making calls, and having friends coming to do the training, but that's going to run out, and i'm going to need funding to get the training going. i'll keep you upgadated, but ie

already spent my $4,000. in the first three days, i spent it. >> thank you. >> president turman: all right. any other questions for the director? >> president turman: commissioners, do you have any reports? commissioner merle? >> commissioner melara: yes. not sure if that falls under that or their future scheduling for the commission. >> president turman: are you asking for something to be scheduled? >> commissioner melara: yes. >> president turman: then it falls under future scheduling. >> commissioner melara: okay. >> president turman: commissioner's report. >> clerk: item 2-d, scheduling of announcements, and announcements of items introduced at future meeting. >> president turman: commissioner merle? >> commissioner melara: just

to ask that the cid policy, the new draft be sent to the commission and be scheduled for the january meeting. >> president turman: any other -- any other scheduling requests? secretary kilshaw. >> clerk: commissioner, we have public comment on items 2a through d. >> president turman: members of the public, is there any comment on item 2-a through d? >> good evening, commissioners. i'm not sure, in your report, did you talk about the fatal officer-involved shooting? okay. so i'd like to -- last week,

when i was here at the last meeting, i brought up the report of the civil grand jury on fatal officer involved shooting and all the recommendations that the grand jury made, and i would like to submit this to you and ask that you agendaize this for future meeting, that you talk about what is the implementation status of the grand jury recommendations, and we ensure that the investigation of this officer involved shooting is in compliance with the grand jury recommendation. >> president turman: any other public comment on items 2-a through d? >> good evening, officers. i would like to also address the killing that happened. you know, there's a line from a

bob dylan song. steal a little, and they put you in jail. steal a lot, and they make you king. in this case, steal a little, and they kill you. you know, we're dealing with a lot of poverty and a lot of tragedy, and i don't think someone carjacking, suspected carjacker deserves to be killed. they say that they don't know if he had a weapon yet, or they're not reporting yet, but they kind of know that it's always reported if they do, so this seems like another tragedy that wasn't necessary, and i think we need to think about why people are stealing, and why we're living in such desperate times. true tragedy, and i feel like we need to really work on -- i mean, if that was your mother or brother, would that policeman have shot to kill? how come we never hear about people getting wounded, taken

down by being shot in the leg or in the hip or anywhere that doesn't kill them? i feel very sad about this happening again, and i want you to consider that we're living in very difficult times, and stealing is not a death sentence, and it's no duty of an officer to determine guilt and to therefore kill someone. well, he stole a car, and therefore, the officer had to kill him. it's not simple what's happening in this world. it's a tragedy, actually. thank you. >> any other comments on items 2-a through d? okay. seeing none, public comment is now closed. secretary kilshaw, next item.

>> clerk: general public comment. the members of the public are free to comment on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda. under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police commissioners no, sir officers are required to answer, and should refrain from entering into any debates or conversations with speakers in public comment. comments are limited to three minutes. >> president turman: thank you, secretary kilshaw. public comment on items not on the agenda. good evening, mr. sellhorse. >> good evening. happy holidays and all of that. sergeant kilshaw, police commissioners. i don't have anything prepared.

i want to say a couple things. i don't have anything prepared, but i want to say i think the new chief is doing a much better jonathb than his predecessor. the officers just do their job like professionals are supposed to do it, and i thank our new chief. he's done a great job in instilling a professional ethic in a department that has always been good, but has it a plhad of flaws under the previous administration, police chief sur. and if you don't think we have a problem, i invite you to look at what's happening now, peter strzok, and all those politicized agents. that was where we were going under chief sur, and it took

that poor woman who was shot in a moving vehicle, it took her death to finally get this commission to get off its buttocks and do something about that corrupt little man and get rid of him. it shouldn't have taken so long. now, the next issue that i want to bring up, and it's still a chestnut. there are still officers that think that chuck limbert, a former officer who's no longer in this department, but they still hold him in esteem. they think that's the way you get promoted. that's not how you get promoted, and i want to congratulate you on promoting una bailey. she's a captain in the mission station. she's the one that had the courage to call out former officer limbert on his latest

shenanigans or crimes in 2013, that led to his dismissal. i appreciate her not being fired, as greg sur tried to do. my time's running out. i want to wish you all a happy holidays. i want to welcome the new commissioner. i congratulate you sir. i think you're doing great work. one final point. i never agree with the -- corrupt -- what the union is called. i never agree with them on anything, but i agree with them on the stun guns, and that person who spoke earlier, finding a way not to kill people, that's called a stun gun. please get with it. thank you. >> president turman: any other public comments on items not on

the agenda? >> as you well know, i sent you all a letter you received about cure and correct because the vote on tazers was illegal, according to the brown act. and also, by the way, it does say in the brown act as well that you can address employees of the -- of the city during meetings, as long as it connects to the work that they're doing, so at all these meeting when you keep saying that you can't do that, it's not true, and i hope you look that up. this is what the brown act says: the people of the state do not yield their sovereignty to people. the people in delegating authority do not give their servants the authority for them to know what's good for them to know and what's not good for them to know. presidenture man, i sent you an

e-mail. i appreciate very much what you stated at the meeting, and yet, i have to have strong objection to the way the meeting was conducted. you were allowed to clear the room. you did not clear the room, you deserted the room. you did not tell us where you were, you did not inform the public of where the meeting was going. we found out, but that is not our duty, your duty is to inform us, and people in that room left, did not know that the meeting was going to be continuedi continued upstairs, and yes, i know it says in the brown act, after a disturbance, quote unquote, that you can change the way people come into a meeting. but that does not include locking down city hall, which you did. and in fact, in the report, there was testimony that i gave from a woman and a man who were both told they could not enter the building, so therefore, you conducted a meeting that was

not open to the public, and these are violations of the brown act, and you're going to have to look at this because if you're going to set a precedent of having tazers on an illegal vote, you're asking for lawsuits for whoever's first hurt by that tazer, that they said that that vote was not even legal. and i also want to say that our newest member, who i spoke to him, and many of us did, i never heard him speak from the heart, and i didn't, nor did anyone else. if we can lose the fact that this killed over 1,000 people. we were told like cigarettes, it does nn't harm -- it's not leethal, a lethal, and only in the last year, we learn that it's lethal.

deescalation has to be implemented before any final vote goes further on this, and it will be voted down. thank you. >> president turman: any other public comment? >> on a lighter note, i just want to say i participated in the community police academy training, and it was wonderful. it helped me change a big stigma i had about the police department, primarily the tenderloin station. i was so fortunate to have that, but again,ed tenderloin police have screwed it up. they have put me in great, great danger. the last report is i have a restraining order, and they consulted with a manager. it's at the human rights

commission. it's under investigation. nobody asked me. the officer said it looks like you instigated the problem. this has been going on for 2.5 years. he's in purjory of court for several things. this individual has threatened my life since july 31st, 2015, and for the police to tell me that he did violate the restraining order, but there's no arrest going to be made, prior to even taking the report, they told me, the d.a.'s not going to do anything. he's just going to throw it out. look. there's four officers that have belittled me as a woman, treated me so horribly that from 19 -- from 2016, i have such a fear for them, that now, i just finally called november

15th, and they told me that i instigated it. it was too much. i called sergeant lutki, and he said i'm sorry. you did so much, and it wasn't in your favor. they interviewed the officer, the person with the restraining officer, and they interviewed the manager. i said, you didn't ask anyone what happened on my end. we don't think we have to. i have given ten weeks of my life. i've lived here for 32 years, and i want to be -- i was so excited about being on cit, a drug and alcohol counselor, and, you know, this has prevented me from continuing with my master's at ciis due to this individual stalking. he lives in my building.

it's not a pretty thing, and now, i have no allies. the building's against me, the mental health support in there is against me, and now, the manager's blatantly lying saying i ran after this individual. >> president turman: chief, could you ask one of your officers to please speak with this woman. she obviously has some unresolved issues that i'd like the doept epartment to follow . >> i will. and i have my investigators here, as well. >> president turman: thank you very much. >> good evening. my name is paulette brown, and greetings, everyone. i hope you had a good holiday, a good thanksgiving, and

whatever else is coming up. but for me, i had an empty chair at my table. that is my son, my only son. i'd like to use the overhead. why? >> president turman: if you want to use the overhead? >> how would i know? how do i even know it was on. >> president turman: all you have to say at the beginning is you want to use the overhead. >> well, you know i use it all the time. >> president turman: go. >> i don't appreciate that. i really don't, and it's not fair that you treat me like this. >> president turman: okay. >> i don't do that to you. i lost my son. see, this is making me upset, and i really don't like this, but my son was murdered august

14th, 2006. to this day, his case isn't solved. i had a call from his inspector, spelin, and i have not heard back from him. he said he had something going on with the case, and as i say every time, i had an empty chair at the table this -- this thanksgiving, and it wasn't really nice for me and my family. and i just want to bring up again back when mayor gavin newsom was mayor, he said i know who killed your son. the d.a. know who killed her son, the police know who killed her son. they can identify individuals and even list home addresses, so if you have all this, how come no one's been caught with

this, and it's been 11 years. how come i keep having to bring these pictures and saying the same thing over again and get disappointed or getting a hand waved at me and saying i don't have enough time anymore? this is what i have left of my son. hi mother standing over his gravesite, of his casket. he has a mother, a mother and a father who raised him well, and this is what i'm left with. i show you, and you may be tired of seeing it, but i'm not. this is my child. i'm not blaming anyone, but i want justice. i'm still hanging my pictures up, and people are still taking them down. i know i only stand for my son,

but i stand for other mothers who have lost their children to homicide, and i will continue to do that, and all that i've asked and every time that i've come here is for you guys to help me. not get a waved hand at me, like i just did. i rushed myself down here with my grandbaby every week, and i shouldn't have to. i want -- >> president turman: next speaker, please. >> my son's case number -- did.

>> president turman: next speaker, please. [ inaudible ] >> president turman: next speaker, please. hearing none, public comment is now closed. next line item, please. >> clerk: item 4, discussion and possible action to recommend that the board of supervisors through the budget and finance committee approve a budget modification to add unanticipated revenue and overtime expenses to support new police services to the transbay joint powers authority. discussion and possible action. >> commissioners, thank you for having me this evening. my name is kathrin mcguire.

i'm the chief financial officer for the police department. there are two items in front of you tonight and we'll talk about the first one. the first one is the transbay terminal, as you well know, will be opening in 2018. with that opening, the transbay joint powers authority has requested the police department to provide supplemental police services to the transbay terminal. the annual budget is about $2.4 million, and this -- this initial fiscal year budget is $770,000. in the future, we will be requesting the 2.4 million to go through our budget process, so you'll see that request in that process. this -- because it's a midyear adjustment, we -- we are coming to you to authorize us to go to the board of supervisors for an accept and expend, so we accept the revenue and place the expenditures in our overtime budget, and at this time, i can

take any questions that you may have. >> president turman: commissioners, any questions for the director? >> clarification, so we're asking for an advance. we haven't spent this money? >> that's correct. >> president turman: commissioner hirch? >> commissioner hirsch: i have two questions. unanticipated revenue, what does that mean? >> that means that the transbay joint powers authority will transfer it to us, and then, we will spend it. it will come into our budget. >> commissioner hirsch: and i notice it's earmarked for over time regular expenses. why is it earmarked for overtime? >> that's a great question. this is supplemental services, and this is intended to supplement our regular police services to any area, and we'll be using overtime in the first year because as you know, it takes 11 months to hire an officer, and so if we added

positions to our budget, we wouldn't have those resources available right away. >> president turman: commissioner dejesus. >> well, she did answer amy question, so i think i'm okay. i did see in the newspaper that mta says it's opening in 2018, and transbay people are saying 2020, and it may be delayed to 2021. >> i'm not sure. i'm not familiar with the details, i'm sorry. >> i think there'll be initial opening, commissioner, and then, it'll scale up. i mean, the plans really include a whole lot of other things that will go beyond what we'll see in 2018. >> that's it. thank you. >> president turman: next line item please, sergeant kilshaw -- i'm sorry, public

comment on-line item 4. any public comment on-line item 4? good evening, mr. sellhorse. >> just a couple of points of clarification. i believe the building opens in 2018. the transbay portion of that terminal is 2020. i think the thing you're talking about is the extension that's being built up to chinatown. when i was walking up to the apple cart today, there's a police officer assigned to a private store, apple, that's right there by union square. and it's like they're private security, only they have sfpd badges. and i'm wondering, what's the name of that business that's going to be there? why another private company is getting public funding security

services provided for them? that seems unethical, perhaps even corrupt. >> president turman: what is the 10-b program, secretary kilshaw? >> the 10-b program is a program through the city where private companies can contract out through the department, but they mpay for the services. i'm sure the chief or our cfo can answer much better than i, but that's the gist of it. >> president turman: okay. do you have any comment on that? >> i believe that the apple store does work with our department to pay for additional police services. >> president turman: thank you. all right. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. next line item, secreta.

>> secretary ionin: -- >> commissioner, i think he's looking for a line item motion. >> president turman: is there a motion? >> okay. [ inaudible ] to fund anticipated overtime in excess of the adopted bow jet at the airport bureau, discussion and possible action. >> good evening, director. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you again. so this item is due to a midbudget cycle request from the airport for additional police services or for increased police services at the airport. the airport bureau is requesting a surplus transfer

from salaries to overtime, so just a reminder, this is nongeneral fund moneys managed by our airport bureau, and we're requesting your permission to advance this to the board of supervisors. the total is $926,000 from savings and permanent salaries to overtime. and deputy chief schmidt is here to answer questions that are operational in nature. >> president turman: any comment, deputy chief schmidt? good evening, chief. >> good evening, mr. president, commissioners. >> interim. >> interim. i know. i did want to say that. sergeant -- no, this is just a -- this is allow -- stretching this money from the salary savings to the overtime fund will allow us to continue providing some high visiblity patrol and other security measures we've adopted to ensure the security of the

airport. thank you very much. >> president turman: so we're not asking for additional money, this is a reallocation. >> correct. it's a reallocation of salary savetions. >> president turman: okay. any questions for the chief or director. >> i would just move to accept and thank the chief for the wonderful job she's doing at the airport. >> second. >> president turman: public comment on item 5? sorry. okay. hearing none, public comment is now closed. okay. commissioners, move by mazzucco, seconded by melara. all in favor? any opposed. okay. thank you. you have your budget reallocation. thank you. secretary kilshaw. >> item 6, presentation by the department on the coalition of homelessness on the status of responding to calls for service

on individuals with mental health service. >> good evening, commander lozar, i believe you're back with us, correct? 1 v . >> i just want to clarify a few terms that we're going to be talking about today. i want to be clear, we're only discussing the infractions given to homeless related crimes, so we're not talking about property crimes or violent crimes that homeless people might be involved in, and we distinguish between homeless laws, a term used by

the u.s. department of justice as defined here that those laws that prohibit life sustaining activities which homeless people have little or no choice to engage in public, so this includes like sitting or resting in public, things that you'd only receive a call or ticket for involving those who are living on the streets. we'll also talk briefly about the impact of quality of life ordinances, so these are i think thises like drinking in public that might involve other types of people, but disproportionately affect homeless types of people, as we found. and here, the first thing we want to highlight are the citations that have been given for quality of life or tdinanc, which in the year 2017 are projected to be at 10,800. of those that were categorized as homeless laws, this is

almost 6,600 citations peryear. i think something to highlight is that since 2014, where it was about 15,000, that they have been reducing 30% year on year, which is something very positive in reflection to the findings we're about to present, and we encourage the officers and commission to continue strategies to reduce those numbers in line with the u.s. department of justice and hud's suggestions. after the coalition put together the report, supervisor melara analysised a budget report to understand the cost of enforcing quality of life ordinances specifically against those experiencing homelessness and found that this resulted in $20.6 million a year out of the san francisco budget, of which

90% of these costs were incurred by the police department, so this is very costly. and want with tha and with that, i'm going to turn it over to my colleague, delara yarborough. >> hi. i worked with the coalition on this report. i'm delara yarborough. so just briefly, we'll review some of the key findings about the ways in which these laws and enforcement affect homeless people. so these findings are from a survey of 351 homeless san francisco residents. our survey was conducted in downtown neighborhoods where the majority of homeless san francisco residents reside, and it's the most representative sample possible. so this chart that you see

shows the percentage of our respondents in different living situations who experience each time of interaction with police in the last year, from being approached on the streets to being forced to move to being cited. as you can see, many were cited more than five times. why do we care? so sometimes, we hear that these laws don't impact homeless people in general, but that they're just used to address the behaviors of problematic individuals. this is false. our survey show that these laws affect the clear majority of homeless people. people living on the street and camping experience the most severe forms of enforcement, with almost all of them forced to move, and about half of people camping or in parks receiving five or more citations in the last year.

>> president turman: what type of citations? >> antihomeless citations, so as chris went over briefly, this includes sit-lie, this includes sleeping, resting, etcetera. yeah, all -- all of those, yeah. so here, you see that 70% of our respondents were forced to move by police or by city officials. because there was nowhere else to go, the majority remained in public space. most of them simply moved down the block. 22% moved to a different neighborhood. we found that even -- >> president turman: just to clarify. >> yes. >> president turman: is this the police department making the move or is dph making them

move and having them enforce this? that might be a better question for you -- >> yeah. the majority here are -- >> president turman: hold on one second. [ inaudible ] >> president turman: yeah, i'm talking to him. hold on one second. >> okay. >> i think what we're just explaining is dph is we're enforcing -- >> president turman: the dph order. >> yes. >> president turman: okay. i'm sorry. so you're saying, sir, in the back. [ inaudible ] >> president turman: so the police officers are carrying out the order, but you don't know who initiated it, but it's dph. okay. that's what i was talking about. >> right. the experience of the survey respondents, when we asked who asked you to move, the person they most often see in front of them, asking them to move, is a

police officer. >> president turman: have you guys had this discussion at all with dph? >> yes. >> president turman: okay. >> yes, and we're going to get to that, you know, policing. part of why we're presenting this tonight is that we don't think that police should be called and dispatched as much to respond to these sorts of issues. >> president turman: i would agree with that. >> yeah. and so -- so what's happening, then, is that there's this constant churn, right. so as individuals are driven from one neighborhood to another, the overall numbers of homeless people in each districts and in the city overall, obviously, remain consistent, so instead of a reduction, there's a constant movement. this is something we know intuitively. we see people getting pushed from block to block, shuffled between neighborhoods. it's important to be honest with the public and to let them know that calling the police is

not the solution to homelessness. so if moving people around isn't making them leave public space, what does it do? this placement, even in the absence of a citation, can have serious affects on health and safety. so, for example, while we didn't ask participants in our study about rape or sexual assaults, some women just disclosed over the course of the study that they were rained after being forced to move to an unfamiliar location, so not only is it ineffective at getting people out of public space, it can be harmful. 59% of transgender and gender variant participants said they felt less safe after being forced to move. okay. so what this slide shows is it's not possible to police

people out of public