know disdain, and that's not that long ago. when i started off by saying i'm not impressed with those statistics, it goes deep. at supervisor sheehy mentioned, targeting of sex workers, immigrant, trans-latinas who don't feel safe talking to the police because of immigration status. this is a major issue and problem in our city, and i just completely agree with supervisor sheehy that it just doesn't feel like the department is taking this seriously with the way that you've come here today and addressed that, so i just want to back you up, supervisor sheehy. i completely agree with you. >> supervisor fewer: yeah. i just want to say i support supervisor sheehy. we called this meeting, and it

was postponed. it was not on the spur of the moment. we knew it was coming. i also think it's unfair for the city to put you -- because i know in your unit, you have this certain purview in your unit. but i also think if we -- so we would like to also know, like, what are the kind of data could we suggest that the police actually collect and share with us that really gives us a snapshot of what wis happening on the ground? so this is just a hate crime, but also how many lgbt folks are victims of violence, and those type of things, i think, are really important. and then, we should also get data from the office of citizen complaints to find out what kind of complaints are we also hearing about the police force, too, just in the light of trying to protect this community at this critical time, especially when we know

nationwide that deaths of transgender folks have been increasing, the incidents of antilgbt organizations getting boulder and stronger. all of these things feed in a culture that is anti what san francisco desires, and what the lgbt community of san francisco deserves. it's not fair to put it on you, but i guess it's sort of to the messenger, but i think that a deeper comprehensive look with the police department. we are not going to actually get a handle on this until we actually work collaboratively with the police department because i actually feel like we really depend on your services, actually, to help keep this population safe, too. and are we all working together at the same goal? i think also that we should continue this hearing, and we

should also request certain data so we're prepared to actually get a true snapshot of what's really happening on the streets of san francisco for this community that has, as we know, has also been under attack, not just by our federal government, but by organizations and individuals of organizations that believe in a hateful ideology. so thank you very much. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, and i agree with your suggestions. because if someone waits outside bars in the castro for people to go home and then robs them, that's not necessarily a hate crime. but it's a crime of opportunity. you know, so the violence against the community, it can be -- or people who prey on trans sex workers, knowing that they're very unlikely to report violence for a whole host of reasons. you know, i think the level of detail we need to have on

violence, and it should be violence against the community in all of its aspects. the narrow focus on hate crimes -- and again, i agree with my colleagues. it's not fair to hold you up here or lieutenant o'cone or to hold you up. i feel that the castro is less safe than it has been, and i don't feel i'm getting very much responsiveness from my interactions from the department in terms of safety in the castro. so i'm just reaching a level of frustration. i'm on my fourth police captain in the castro, so we actually haven't been able to create any kind of coherent, meaningful, you know, progress moving forward or strategy. i mean, my -- you know, it just seems like -- like i said -- and it's not to you guys, but

it doesn't seem like there's the adequate level of respect from my community within the department at this time. thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor sheehy: and then next, i'd like to introduce christine dubarry from the district attorney's office, d.a.'s office.

>> i'm technically challenged, so i'll do my best here.

thank you, supervisor ronen, supervisor sheehy, supervisor fewer. i'm here on behalf of d. d.a. gascon. in our office, we have an individual within our general felonies unit that's dedicated to hate crimes cases, and that person, unfortunately, rotates at our rotations through the office rotate. i invited brook jenkins to be here with me today, but she's actually picking a jury on a hate crime case, so she was unable to join us. but the d.a., this is an issue he's taking very seriously, as his predecessors, and we have taken the time to try to amplify it in the office to make sure that all the communities in san francisco know that our office is here to

protect them when they are a victim of any crime, particularly when they are a victim of social location. there is a question earlier how we define a hate crime, and in our presentation we have the penal code 422.55, which describes to you what are the parameters in deciding whether something is a hate crime. it can be anything from a misdemeanor theft or a vandalism all the way up to very serious felony conduct. and then, below that, you can see the different associations an individual can have or characters an individual can have, such as -- as a vulneraby that can make them a target. we have seen a lot of targeting of communities in our country

in particular the last year, year and a half, and unfortunately, san francisco doesn't have a wall to keep that type of activity out. these are some of the groups that we see being victimized frequently in our own city. it's not unique to san francisco. unfortunately happens around the country. some of the earlier presentations indicated from the southern poverty law center indicated increases in hate crimes across the country, and we've seen that here in san francisco, as well. >> supervisor ronen: what does it mean that victims are an example of a group targeted by hate crimes. >> so we've seen an increase of people being targeted, like muslims and people in the arab community. >> supervisor ronen: right,

but... >> i think the descriptor might have fallen off of that. we do every time we speak on this issue, want to emphasize the hotline that we have. there was a discussion by director davis the difficulty of getting people to come forward. we experience that as well. one of the things that we setup after a lot of the targeting of immigrants and then in the muslim community by then candidate trump was to emphasize the hotline, so we do have that hotline available to all victims. we do offer language services. as you can see here, we take calls in english, spanish, cantonese, mandarin, russian, arabic, and tagalog. anyone who would like to report

a crime can do so on that line. if they speak another language, we'll obviously get assistance to help them with that. there are no immigration consequences for calling this number and reporting a crime. the d.a. has done a lot of outreach to different communities to reassure them that our office was here to be supportive of them