first, to the chief, commissioners, and director henderson, i want to tell you how fantastic it's been working with you for the last four years. i'm no longer the president of rfj, but i want to say how much we appreciate your commitment to police reform, your commitment to social justice. it has been reflective these last years, and i want to say the last quarter of 2017 has been the most exciting times for officers of color and also i think for our communities because we really truly feel that you have embraced wholeheartedly the whole idea of police reform and what the doj has been speaking about. and now it is my pleasure to turnover the leadership of the officers for justice to monday g

-- montgomery singleton and trent williams. i will be as supportive of everyone as i possibly can, and i am sure you will continue to move in the right directions and be successful. and thank you chief for your commitment to the members of the san francisco police department. >> thank you, lieutenant will coms for your service to the officers for justice and for the wonderful job that you've done as your long tenure as their president. further public comment? >> i was listening to public radio, and there was a show about tear gas and within it, they discussed tazers, and i don't know if you're all aware of this. i never heard it told at any meeting that i came to, and i would just went to almost all of them, that the information from body worn cameras and the tazers, the data goes directly

to axon, tazers international. so why is a public service group, the police, sending data to a private corporation on the people of this city? if we -- we already have the body worn, and i'm still wait fighting against the tazers. i want to know about that. i want to know why this wasn't discussed. if you all have an issue about it, i hope you do. you know, probably the next thing is they'll want to collate the data and sell it back to us. this is appalling. the brown act, my reading says you can discuss the actions of any employee of the city by name, so at these meetings, when we say we can't discuss them, that's not right according to the brown act. as i now under the brown act,

have filed a complaint that is going to be heard by the sunshine task force. i differentiate what president turman says about tazers, and the action that you took at that meeting. for example, during the presentation, commander walsh twice apologized for going over time. no one stopped him. no one was concerned about it. he was, and i think that was respectful of him to say that. but that the woman that was speaking for us, kristina maria was cutoff immediately and the sound killed at exactly two minutes with no opportunity or respect for her to say, could you wind it up, could you -- other people want to speak. you know you're a respected member of the community. no, she was just cutoff. and so again, there was not -- no one informed us of where that meeting was moved to, and people were locked out of city hall, and that is not legal, so we're going to fight this tazer thing, and we're going to keep

being the best city in this country to not have violence and people being killed or tazered with electric shock that we at first also was never discussing was fatal. and now of course we have to own that that's the truth and over 1,000 people have died from tazers. and by the way, you know, the mental health issues within the police department and with officers in the correctional institutes is three times as high. the suicide rate, three times as high as the general public. are we caring about them? where's the concern about their mental health because they're not doing well living with these things. thank you. >> president turman: any further public comment. seeing none, public comment is now closed. secretary kilshaw. >> clerk: item 6, public comment on matters pertaining to item 8 below, closed session, including discussion on whether to hold item 8 in

closed session. >> president turman: members of the public, we are about to go into closed session to discuss both matters with legal counsel on existing litigation as well as other disciplinary matters. so any public comment on the fact that we're about to go into closed session and we're going to vote on that? sorry. mr. alden stood up on that, and i thought we had public comment on that. all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> clerk: item 7, vote on whether to hold item 8 in closed session, and whether to vote on items 8 a and b, and san francisco commissioners

51.7 section. >> president turman: okay. commissioners, i'll entertain the appropriate motion. >> i think we should go into closed session. >> second. >> president turman: all in favor? all opposed? before we say good night to the public, is there anything you want to tell them about the next two weeks? >> we aren't meeting -- oh. >> we're dark the next two weeks. sorry. thank you, commissioner. we are dark january 24th, january 31st, and we will be

>> clerk: commissioner, we're back in session and you still have a quorum. >> president turman: okay. item 9. >> motion. >> second. >> president turman: okay. all in favor? any opposed? thank you. that item passes. next item. >> clerk: item 10, adjournment, action item. >> motion. >> second. >> president turman: okay. all in favor? thank you, commissioners. we are now adjourned.

>> hi everyone. welcome. we're going to start our program today. i'm captain paul yep. i want to welcome everyone here today. elected officials, department heads and thank you media, i know you're getting wet. thank you for being here. first of all, happy up coming lunar new year of the dog. some characters are loyalty and honesty and principles in helping and serving others, thus they make good police officers, scientists, politicians and judges. the office at central station must be convinced i was born in the year of the dog because of the barking i do at the station but i was born in the year of the monkey.

i had the fortune of taking over the station. i worked at central station for retired deputy chief tom, the captain for the years of the dragon, the snake and the horse. during the dynasties, they worked vigorously to end extortion, reduce overall crimes and increase public safety in chinatown. we work hard to continue to build on their successes and legacy. they built great relationships and friendships in the chinatown community and our city family. chinatown has been known as an underserved community. i want to personally thank officials, the mayor, commissioner peskin for their continued support and dedication to public safety and resources to chinatown. thanks to you, we have more

officers dedicated to you can wassing -- we have more officers working in chinatown. we have improved traffic safety and safety on muni we will continue to work on. thank you. (applause) >> thank you very much. thank you. >> you have to protect the hair. >> you're absolutely right. hello everyone. i'm the new executive director and happy to be back in san francisco. we're looking forward to making

it another celebration of a crime-free lunar new year. when the event was started 21 years ago it was a time when san francisco was often fearful because of the extortion and pick pocketing that was common. until recently extortion cases were in the hundreds and now down to very few. we're thrilled to say the reports of lunar new year related crimes directly related to our work and building connections with neighborhoods and businesses and folks like you in the community. i hope you join us as we walk the neighborhood to visit our neighbors and share more tips while we celebrate the lunar new year. we'll hold another event like this tomorrow at mr. bread. we hope to see you there. to help launch one of the san

francisco great celebration seasons, a native and someone i have known for a long time, i want to introduce acting mayor london breed. (applause) >> thank you. >> no job too big or too small. (laughter) >> thank you commander lazar for protecting my hair today. (laughter) he doesn't just protect people, he protects hair. good afternoon everyone. i want to start by thanking sf safe executive director for being here and congratulations on your new role. this is another incredible event. we host it every year. i want to thank and acknowledge,

i know many of my colleagues are here and will be speaking, thank you to chief scott for being here and carmen chew. this is a good moment to remind people to be aware. the lunar new year brings so many people to san francisco, but specifically to our great chinatown. and the festivities, although we have a good time and love the excitement of it all, it sadly provides an opportunity for criminals. we need our residents to be vigilant and alert. and please remember, if you see something, say something. shortly after mayor lee's

passing i met with a number of chi chinatown leaders and heard some of their concerns and sadly some of the examples going on, including the asian blessing scams that have targeted seniors. to help address the issues i'm announcing today we're adding two foot patrol officers to join the chinatown central station from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. so a total of seven officers walking the beats and in the area during that time. the two new officers will be joining the one sergeant and four officers of the housing units that are already a part of the shifts. and i want to stop and thank all of the police officers who are here today who continue to serve and protect our neighborhoods and i want to thank captain yip and the folks at central station

for the work they put in specifically. by working closely, we'll make sure the neighborhood is a safe and secure place for all of its residents. i wish you have a safe and prosperous lunar new year. (speaking chinese) thank you. (applause) i want to introduce one of our most crucial partners for building connections between san francisco and officers, welcome chief of police mr. scott. (applause) >> thank you. thank you mayor breed. i'm going to be brief and get you guys out of the rain hopefully. thank you to everybody who came here today and braved the rain to talk about safety for the lunar new year.

happy new year. this will be a prosperous year for our city. this is the 21st year that sf safe has given safety awareness tips for the lunar new year and i know our campaign on public safety is really about the people and keeping everybody safe and making sure people don't get victimized. first of all, i want to remind everybody to be aware, we have had some i believe targeting of some of our asian merchants. we need people to be aware of that issue. i'm going to talk about a few tips to help people with that. blessing scams have been an issue in the community and we don't want anybody to fall prey to that. be aware of strangers, if anybody is asking for money or

jewelry or anything like that, you might want to take caution and be aware. don't follow strangers home and don't bring any to your home. don't bring strangers to withdraw money or take out valuables in their presence. before withdrawing large sums of money or valuables, have a discussion with people you trust in your family first. often times people act on emotion and that's what the scam artists and people who prey on this type of person, that's what they do. they play on emotions. so often times when you talk to other people, you have a chance to collect your thoughts and think twice before you act. please talk with someone you trust in your family or a good friend before withdrawing large sums of money. our commitment to providing education for the merchants is ongoing. we'll have merchant walks, i'm going to rollout the calendar, i think over 2,000 of these -- got it upside down -- but i think they'll be given to the

merchants and it has safety tips as well, those will be readily available to remind people what to do to stay safe. also, pedestrian safety is really of the upmost importance. san francisco through the leadership and vision of mayor ed lee has engaged in vision zero and what that means, we want to cut traffic fatalities down to zero by 2024. we believe what was once a distant vision and dream, we're well on our way to make it happen. we need your help. pedestrian safety is very important, particularly in chinatown. it's a condensed area. please don't drive distracted and if you're walking don't walk distracted. those simple things can help reduce accidents and fatalities and be kind to neighbors and

friends in terms of allowing the pedestrians to walk about the street freely without having to worry about distracted driving. one of our commitments is language access. we know we have a lot of non english speaking residents and people who visit and live in the city. and sfpd is committeed to giving language access to those who don't speak english. so our officers are trained, we have translators and access is a huge thing in the community. we need people to report what they see. we need people to feel comfortable talking to us, the police officer and the district attorney's office and other people in the criminal justice sxm access is really, really important for us. our training is ongoing and we're working with a lot of stakeholders from the community to make sure the language access is not a problem for anybody.

i can go on further but i'm going to stop there. i know we have a lot of people who want to speak today. i want to say thank you for your support and it's a pleasure to work with you and let's have a safe chinese lunar new year. thank you. (applause) >> throughout his time district attorney has been a fantastic partner, including prosecuting the people who committed blessing scams. district attorney. >> thank you. and happy year of the dog to everyone. it's wonderful to be here today, even with the rain. we were talking that we've had years here where we have to wear sunblock and today we wear as umbrellas. we continue to move forward for public safety in this community

and other communities. years ago we would be talking about blessing scams and the first jurisdiction in the country to prosecute the cases successfully and they're not what they used to be. but nevertheless, we need to continue to be vigilant. we're still having people who are victimized and we depend on the media, specifically the chinese media because it's a crime that impacts the chinese community mostly, our phone number is 415-551-9595. it's a 24/7 phone. we take cases and we work with our partners at sf safe who are great incredible partners and the police department. but at the end of the day, this is a collaboration and community plays an important role. happy lunar new year and thank you for all you do.

i look forward to the parade and the merchant walk today and i just want to take a moment and i know it's in all of our hearts, maybe if we can take one moment of silence in memory of mayor lee. this is a community that obviously he had very, very deeply ties to it and we all should recognize that. so if you would take a moment of silence please. thank you and happy lunar new year. (applause) >> now i would like to introduce a 30 year district three resident who faithfully represents the businesses and people at city hall, everyone's supervisor peskin. >> thank you. (speaking chinese)

all right! i want to -- first, i want to thank and welcome sf safe for doing this for over 20 years, what she said is right, we have seen the number of extortion cases drop year after year. i'm delighted to continue to do this to stay vigilant. thank you chief scott and captain yip and men and women of the san francisco police department. you can see how important it is, from our acting mayor that every member of the board of supervisors, we take it seriously. let me leave you with one thought to the media to say again and again, report, report, report. if people do not report extortion, we are only as good as the eyes and ears that we have in the community. we have language access as you heard, but please, send the

message that people should feel comfortable contacting the police, contacting elected officials to keep our community safe. (applause) >> she is smart and solutions oriented representative for san francisco, growing up in a family running a small business, please welcome miss carmen chew. >> i'm pleased to be here with everybody as well. i think there's a phrase our supervisor didn't say in chinese. he said them all. he didn't say (chinese) which means have many children to everybody. happy new year. i'm glad to be here. i really think it's important for all of us to get together to remind everybody about the importance of reporting crime.

we talked about blessing scams, i think our district attorney spoke about that earlier. i think people know the scammers are very smart. they figure out new ways to trick people and get access to your information and money. so whether it is pretending to be the consulate general's office or blessing scam, be aware and make sure you don't provide personal information to people. (chinese) (applause) >> someone who has worked closely on the issue and long time advocate for chinatown

merchants, eddie owl. >> hi everyone. good afternoon. on behalf of the chinese chamber of commerce, i want to thank san francisco safe organization for working to create a safe environment in which our small business can thrive. the fight against extortion is extremely important. especially as lunar new year approaches. for over 20 years, will continue support this effort and educate and encourage merchants to report any attempted extortion

preparing for the upcoming new year festivities. we must remain aware and work with our local police to ensure the safety of our community. thank you. (speaking chinese) (speaking chinese) come february 16th and join with us new year day.

thank you. >> next, another ally in building strong connections across san francisco cultures. someone i have been grateful to collaborate with in my career in san francisco. i want to welcome chinese newcomer service director george chan. >> hello everyone. i'm george chan, the executive director of newcomer service center. thank you for letting us join this event. (speaking chinese) (applause) >> okay. our next speaker is someone i

have had the pleasure of working with, we have worked together on cross-cultur cross-cultural collaborations, please welcome sarah wong. >> i want to shout out to all the community based organizations, helping out and walking along in chinatown to talk to merchants about safety during new year. i want to shout out to all the special volunteers. thank you for their work. i wish everyone well, health and happiness in the year of the dog. thank you. (applause) >> now i want to welcome assembly member choy, representing chinatown. >> good afternoon everyone. good to see everyone on a classically sunny day in san francisco. i apologize for being late, i just got here from a floor

session in the assembly. but thank you for being part of the important safety announcement. this is a press conference i have taken part in virtually every year i've been in office. it's so important to not just wish everyone a happy lunar new year but make sure we're safe. i know there have been speakers who have talked about fraud and blessing scams but it's so important to get the word out. i want to take a moment to mention another safety issue that has been threatened to our immigrant communities and that is the recent suggestion and announcement by president trump's immigration authorities that they may be coming down into northern california in the coming weeks and months to do widespread raids of our communities. just this past hour, in sacramento, our attorney general announced we will be certainly

enforcing a law that i authored this past year, that is the immigrant worker protection act to ensure that if ice agents come knocking on the doors of work places like restaurants, that employ many immigrant workers, employers are required to ask for subpoenas or judicial warrants before allowing the ice agents to do raids on their work places. i want to help educate the public about this because we are expecting raids imminently and it's important we are prepared as a community that knows how important our immigrant families and workers are in san francisco and in california. but with that, i want to wish everybody a happy lunar new year and thank you to the organizers and safe for keeping us safe. >> hello. i think we're all going to come

together on the board of supervisors. we want to wish you all a happy new year. (speaking chinese) happy new year to everyone. i'm a proud representative, i'm hillary ronen and i want to wish everyone a safe and happy lunar new year. >> (speaking chinese) i want to thank project safe for doing this and we'll be walking in the second chinatown san francisco doing the same thing with our merchants. happy lunar new year to everyone. >> (speaking chinese)

>> good afternoon everyone. i'm commissioner safai. i want to thank the district attorney and police chief from being here today, i am a true believer on deterring crime and what cameras can do and we saw that firsthand in our community. we've had a wave of home break-ins and one of the things that is very helpful in determining the crime are the home security cameras. i want to encourage people to think about deterring crime. happy lunar new year and year of the dog. >> have much luck and fortune in the new year. i'm jane kim and i'm proud to represent the downtown area, including the market and

tenderloin and treasure island. i want to as everyone else had remind everybody to be safe in one of the most important events here in san francisco, celebrating our new year. i want to recognize sf safe and sfpd for their partnership. this is my eighth year participating in this press conference and helping hundreds of people remain safe during if festivities. good luck to all of our residents. i want to thank and recognize paul yip but our captains working the parades and festivities, darrell fong who is here today, i know will be working closely and from the tenderloin station, we'll be working in concert together to make sure residents and workers are safe as we celebrate the year of the dog. and finally in regards to making

sure that we're all aware of what's going on with the blessing scams, i want to appreciate san francisco police chief for working with our officer and supervisor aaron peskin's office to convene a meeting to make sure sfpd is putting the resources it has available to investigating the scams as well. we want our constituents to report, but we want to make sure we're investigating and bringing people to justice to make sure they are not taking advantage of the most vulnerable in our community. happy new year. (applause) >> okay. so i want to introduce malcolm young from the chinatown community development center. i got it. >> all right you got it! okay. i know, exactly. i'm going to make this quick. all right, so everybody, and the

reverend isn't here but i stole it from him and we're going to do it every year. slow down for chinatown! >> slow down for chinatown! >> one more time. slow down for chinatown! all right thank you. pedestrian safety is key during chinese new year, there will be people every where and it's critical we watch out for people so no one gets hurt. one more time, slow down for chinatown! thank you everybody. >> so in closing, i'm so proud to be here with all these passionate and community oriented leaders. our united efforts can help make san francisco a safer place for all residents. we know a key part of this is being a part of the community, when people know each other they look out for each other. when you stay aware and talk to

your neighbors, you help protect your neighborhood and cities. before closing i want to say thank you to everyone in attendance and coming out in this weather. i appreciate it. thank you very much. ♪ ♪

>> (clapping.) >> in san francisco the medical examiner performs the function of investigating medical and legal that occurs with the city and county of san francisco from a variety of circumstances in san francisco there is approximately 5 thousand deaths annually i'm christopher director for the chief mr. chairman the chief my best testimony a at the hall of justice on 870 drooint street that is dramatically updated and not sufficient for the medical chairman facility i've charles program manager public works

should a earthquake of a major are proportion occurs we'll not continue to perform the services or otherwise inhabit the building before the earthquake. >> we're in a facility that was designs for a department that functions and in the mid 60s and friends scientific has significantly changed we've had significant problems with storage capacity for evidence items of property and also personal protective if you're doing a job on a daily basis current little storage for prirjs are frirnlsz we're in an aging facility the total project cost forever ever commercial is $65 million the funding was brought by a vote of go bond approved by the voters and the

locations is in the neighborhood the awarded contract in 2013 and the i'm the executive director we broke ground in november 2015 and that started with the demolition of existing facility we moved into the foundation and january so pile foundation and then with second construction of the new facility. >> one of the ways that we keep our project on time on budget and we're having quality to have regular meeting and the variety of meetings with construction process meeting as well as cost of control meeting and i'm a project manager for public works the office of chief commercial we want walk the project site when we sign up and also with a contractor insinuates for a change over we

need to verify what or what was instead of. >> the building is 42 feet tall so it is two stories and 46 thousand square feet roughly we're that's a great question to be on time and budget have the roof complete a the exterior moving with the site work. >> and as you can see we've got a lot of the interior finishes installed. >> in an effort of an differentiate the facility that designed to work for 72 hours. >> not taking into account there was a lot of structural updates made into this building not seen in other construction throughout san francisco or other barriers we have friday morning examiners from 8 to one public comment monday to friday because of air circulation we literally have to shut the doors and so the autopsy is done

without staffing being able to come and go or exit the space and literally lock down the autopsy in the new facility we have bio build one door opens and closed behind you you can gown up and go through a second seizures of doors that has its own independent air supply and now in the exterior opt space having that middle space have greater flexibility of staff as they move in and out of the area. >> in the current facility investigative unit has small tiny, tiny place in the area of the new facility is almost doubled in all divisions from the current facility and the new facility. >> the planning we have here

gives them the opportunity to have the pool needs to complete theirs jobs in a much more streamlined fashion. >> we're looking forward to have secured parking to minimize the egress of you know visiting and the members of the public but really to minimize the investigators remaining remains from our advancing and so the facility. >> we have a new visitors area we're building that is a little bit more friendly to families. >> one thing you may notice in the room no windows there is no natural light not good for most autopsy but in the new facility at new hall we made that an objective they want to insure we were able to look up in the middle of exam

and see the sky and see natural lights. >> that's one of the things the architect did to draw in as much light as possible. >> we have staff here onsite we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz to consider to house on site this meant we needed to design and plan for locker room facilities and shower rooms the ability to sleep. >> third of the construction going into the building has been by contributions of small businesses. >> part of the project is also inclusive to the sidewalk have all new sidewalks and new curve cuts and landscaping around the building we'll have a syrup in front of the building and rain

guardian. >> the medical examiner's office has been a several if in their contributions of the understanding the exception and needs. >> it's a building that the chief medical examiner has been looking forward to quite a few of the. >> it is extremely valuable contribution to the, neighborhood address san francisco as a whole. >> the building will allow is to have greater very much and serve the city and county of san serve the city and county of san francisco and the neighboring - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea.

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