because the plan is considering this as a regional asset and a regional center. beyond that, of course, we have things like sea level rise and other things. so, it is a very forward-looking plan, and it includes additional focus as years go on. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you for your testimony mr. olson and your engagement. any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for that update. are there any introduction of new items, colleagues? seeing none, is there any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and we are adjourned.

>> thank you for being here. i can't see anybody. the light is super bright. i'm maggie weiland. thank you for being here. thank you to the staff for putting this together. and the independent. and thank you to you and all their staff. this is incredible. we wanted to do something a little different this time than the library and brung you to one of our venues that we permit. so this is a fun change for us, too. so today -- and i want to thank our commissioners. they're super supportive.

special shoutout to commission er al perez. he put together all of our marketing materials for today. so that was making us look incredibly professional, pro bono owe, which was awesome. and i wanted to thank commissioner laura thomas, who is here today. [applause] thanks, laura. she put together an entire presentation that we'll see today on harm reduction. and, finally, i wanted to thank ray bobbitt, who i believe is here. he helped to donate the donuts and coffee that you are enjoying. so, thank you. [applause] we have a loaded agenda. we'll have a few intro speeches and then we're going to get right into our presentation on active shooters. and then we'll have a small break and we'll go into a presentation on harm reduction. finally, we're ending our presentation here with a

presentation led by steven raspa. and that's a neat one on outdoor events. so if you want to stick around for that, we'd love to have you. at the end of the day, we'll have happy hour. so enjoy yourselves. come and say hi to me at any point. we'll now hear from victor ruiz, with senator scott weiner's office. victor, come on up. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, all, so much for being here. thank you, maggie, and the entire entertainment commission, and for the work you do to keep our city lively, entertaining and fun. i'm the director for scott weiner. coming to san francisco as a young, gay man, he understands the need for our lgbt community

to have a strong nightlife component, knowing that our community was born out of nightclubs and late night entertainment. he understands the need for a great city like san francisco to have a great nightlife culture associated with it as well. when he joined the board of supervisors in 2010, he requested that the city conduct a study to find out the benefits of our nightlife industry is. those of you who have been here in the past, may be aware of the study, so it may be familiar. but i will still go over the numbers, because i find them incredible and speak volumes to what the entertainment and nightlife industry is for the city and county of san francisco. theres been two surveys conducted since 2010 when senator weiner requested the first happen. the first came out in 2012,

looking at 2010 -- the economic impact in 2010. what it found was that the nightlife and entertainment industry served over 80 million customers in 2010, which led to $4.2 billion in spending. and $55 million in tax revenue. now that goes to show us that our nightlife and entertainment industry is not just a nuisance to be managed, but an economic driver, economic force, to be invested in. what we saw when we did it again in 2016 is that the entertainment nightlife industry continues to grow. and you have the firsthand experience of this, like hiring on more local workers, by having to expand your vending capacity, etc. so in the amount of spending that took place, we saw a 43% increase to $6 billion of spending within the city and county of san francisco.

and 45% increase in the tax revenue collected, which was $80 million, again, showing the city and county that we need to invest in our entertainment and nightlife industry, because you are hiring our local workers, you are the ones that are bringing in tax revenue from not just our local folks, but from around the bay area and visitors throughout the u.s. and internationally. so with that, senator weiner believes that we need to invest more and more. and last year was happy to author sb 384, the local act, let our communities adjust late night. it was originally written by senator mark leno, when he was in the senate, but never made it out of a single committee. what the bill would do is it would allow jurisdictions and cities to decide for themselves what sort of nightlife and

entertainment -- what the nightlife and entertainment industry would look like for them by allowing the late night sale of alcohol to go past 2:00 a.m. up to 4:00 a.m. california has a blanket ban throughout the state that every city has to follow and stop selling alcohol at 2:00 a.m. for some cities, that may work out just fine. but as we saw in the economic impact study for san francisco, it could be a driving force for our local communities, both in our local businesses, for our entire tax revenue collected and for our workers. one really interesting fact that we found while talking to supporters of the bill is that a lot of bar owners make 90% of their revenue between 11:00 and 1:00 on friday and saturday. and we're seeing in the lgbt

bars, due to the rising cost of living in san francisco, are having to close their doors. that's something as a city we should not allow to happen. with that, with the bars closing, so, too, does our culture go. now allowing those cities, those bars, to sell alcohol for a couple more hours could mean the difference between staying open and having to close. we got it as far as we could. we were in our final community last year and unfortunately at the very end, it was killed. but we were very proud to have gotten it that far. this year, senator weiner has reintroduced the bill, limiting it to six cities whose mayor supports the legislation. so that includes san francisco, oakland, sacramento, long beach, west hollywood -- and i can't remember the last one.

no, not berkeley. los angeles, yes, of course. so we're confident now that this year with the adjustments, we'll be able to pass this legislation and we hope that you all will support and call folks and encourage them to support it as well. last year at the very end, we tried to do a social media campaign to let more folks know about it. we have no clue how the governor feels about it and get it to his desk and have a petition encouraging him to sign it. the bill is flexible. it allows our communities to dictate their own plan completely. we could have it just on saturdays or just on specific days of the year like pride or whatever. we could go to 3:00 a.m. instead of 4:00 a.m. or limit it by neighborhood. it doesn't make sense for all of san francisco, for example to, go until 4:00 a.m., but may make

sense for soma and the castro to go until 4:00 a.m. and leave the sunset as it is. that bill has been introduced and we look forward it moving it again this year to help to increase our tax revenue and culture here in san francisco. beyond the work he's doing on the 4:00 a.m. legislation, we're asking all of you, next year, we're looking at doing a rehaul of our liquor laws in california. our liquor laws in california have not been amended since they were introduced in the prohibition era. that's where we got our 2:00 a.m. liquor last call legislation from. since you are all involved in this industry, we're asking you to come to us and tell us what you think is not working with our liquor laws currently at the state level. i will leave my card here at the end so you can reach out to me. we're looking at ways to modernize and update our liquor laws and looking to you to give

us that advice, since you are most impacted by this. moving away from alcohol for a second, because we know that our nightlife is expansive and includes more than that. i know you will hear from nicole elliott yet at the office of cannabis. senator weiner at the constituent and local level has been a huge supporter of adult-use cannabis and looking forward to supporting different legislation, including supporting or authoring and passing legislation to allow the cannabis owners to pay their taxes at their local v.o.e. offices. before this, every cannabis dispensary owner had to drive to sacramento with a bag full of cash. it's not safe for those folks and not efficient, so we want to

modernize our cannabis industry and allow them to comply which all of these business owners want to do, but we should not have to put extra burden on them to do so. this year, we're also looking forward to supporting a host of cannabis legislation moving through the state, including s.b. 2020, a special events permit, which would allow us to bring more -- have cannabis sold at different special events, which is something that we currently have people consuming, but we're unable to sell because of the way that proposition 64 was passed, written. and so we're looking to make that fix as well. as well, there's a variety of cannabis-related legislation moving through the state this year that we're excited to support. i believe that senator weiner is supporting 95%, if not all of the legislation moving through this year, which will hopefully

allow our cannabis industry to grow properly here in san francisco and in california. we count on all of you telling us about what is working and what's not and ways we can help out your indust live and look forward to continuing to do that work to be sure that our nightlife industry here in san francisco is that of a world-renowned city. thank you for the work you do and my card will be there if i can answer questions afterwards. [applause] >> all right. thank you, victor. all right. up next, we have nicole elliott. she's the director of our office of cannabis. and a side note. nicole -- i call her nicky, she was my first boss 8 or 9 years

ago. so give her a round of applause, guys. she had to deal with a lot. [applause] >> this is a dream of mine to be on this stage, so i'm excited to be here today with you guys. again, nicole elliott, director of office of cannabis. i want to do a quick overview for you guys of who we are and what we do and i'm very lucky to be able to do q & a with you guys. throwback to 2016. prop 64 passed with almost 75% of san francisco voters supporting it. so there's resounding support in san francisco. i'm sure that surprises no one. and in preparation for that, the city and county of san francisco put in place an office of cannabis. this office is a lot like the entertainment commission. we are for all intents and purposes, a very similar model and for the community, for that

matter. but we're also put in place to help coordinate the city-wide implementation of cannabis activity. for those of you paying attention around fall and winter of last year, we put forward a pretty robust legislative package and that was to basically propose the regulatory system for the entire industry seed to sale. so it was a pretty monumental undertaking at the time. it passed in december and was in full effect january 5 this year and commercial sales of adult-use cannabis began january 6. so it's been an incredibly businessa time for us. we're now turning that existing industry to temporary permits and hope to open up applications in a month or so. and we're permitting the following activities -- cultivation, distribution,

testing, nonstore-front retail and storefront retail. so it's a new age in san francisco and a big task ahead of us. one thing you will note, we're not permitting our events yet. this is something that we'll be taking up with the task force of which we have at least one representative in the room, laura thomas. so i assume that you have a vested interest in the outcome of that conversation. the task force was created by then-supervisor, now-senator scott weiner. he does support these conversations. i would encourage you to participate in those conversations, so that when we legislate regulatory structure, it reflects your voice and priorities. in the meantime, we've heard that there are events occurring in san francisco and at the risk

of being a wet blanket in the room, it's not something that's allowed. so those events can't be occurring for commercial purposes. and for those of you who have abc licenses, it is something that may not be taking place on your premises. so i'm happy to open it up for q & a. if i'm not able to answer your questions, i'm more than happy to get you answers. we want to be a resource for all industries in san francisco, especially when it relates to cannabis activity. so hopefully that addressed many of your questions preemptively. if not, theres a mike right here, if you would like to come down to the front of the stage and ask any questions. or i will drop the mike and leave the stage. >> hello. i ha of -- have a question.

sometimes people are rolling their joints in my bar and i tell them to stop. what is the legal standpoint? can they roll a joint in my bar and not smoke it? what happens if pot is out? >> possession is legal at this point. a joint remains within the possession limits. you are correct, consumption may not occur in public places, only in licensed facilities or private residences. if you rent, with the permission of your landlord. so technically, i believe that they could possess that. they may not consume it. >> and cannot smoke it on the street in front either? >> correct. it is not permitted in public. within 1,000 feet of a childcare center or school. there are a lot of places where legal consumption is not

person permitted. if you are caught, there will be a fine, money that should be spent in our entertainment venues. >> thank you. >> hello. i had a question about -- i've been seeing some different bars doing cbd-infused cocktails. is that something that you need a special permit for? >> you are not allowed to do infused cocktails. >> okay. >> and for a quick refresher. anybody with an abc license is not allowed to have the consumption of cannabis at all on that premises. >> okay. thank you. >> anyone else? >> you talked about dispensaries

taking their money to sacramento to pay their taxes. do you see anything down the line for legalized payroll services? >> there are conversations about this, task force to further them to recommendations, as well as the state treasurer who has commenced the contemplation of a statewide bank. problem is, nothing about that process is moving as fast as the growth of the industry. so it's a challenge, but it's a challenge that many jurisdictions -- the state and a lot of our representatives are trying to solve for. at the end of the day, i know

it's no small statement, but the way that the shift that the federal government thinks about cannabis is what we need to see to secure banking access across the board, but we're trying to create a bridge. >> hi. there's a day coming up called 4-20. >> i knew i would be asked about this. >> it happens to be a friday in april. >> i heard. >> what would the rule be with a venue potentially partnering with a dispensary? nothing would be smoked, served, but to have the names associa d associated, like this dispensary is partnering with, say, mezzanine? is that allowed? >> i'm looking at victor. technically, we want to be sure

we're sending the right message to consumers the success of our implementation locally is important, for many reasons that we are the best at what we do, because we like to be the best at what we do, but also to ensure and comfort our federal enforcement agencies that we're ta taking this very serious ly. the message we send to consumers is important. i'm not going to say yes or no, because i would have to think more deeply about it. we acknowledge that 4-20 is coming and a lot of conversation needs to happen before we allow for anything in the city. so i will have to defer and get back to you on that, but that gives you a general. >> hi. what is the official stance on vape pens? >> it's smoking. >> that's what i thought.

thank you. [laughte [laughter] >> one more question. i'm back. for a private party in a private home, where everybody's invited, but put on by a caterer that wants to do cannabis-infused edibles and things like that, is that legal because they're making money on it? >> no, it is not. that caterer is doing that for commercial purposes. so that's technically not legal under the existing, local regulatory scheme. if you were to invite somebody into your private residence to for free provide you with food and that person -- yeah, that would be legal. other than that, if they're getting paid or talking donat n donations for that service, it's not legal. >> okay.

>> hi there. >> hi. >> so we know that marijuana cannot be -- cannabis cannot be consumed in a venue and i would never do that anyway. >> no judgment. [laughter] >> but every band that has hair longer than mine has a friend who is involved in the cannabis business and they want to bring in stuff, not to sell, but to advertise, and give to the bands that are playing. so where is the legality on that? can they advertise? can they give it to -- as long as they don't consume it, can they offer it to bands backstage? >> there is actually -- the state did a lot of thinking around advertising and also doing a lot of enforcing around advertising. when you are advertising, you need to be licensed to do that. and you need to reflect your

license number on any advertising that you are doing, to being in compliance with state law. you are disallowed advertising on a premises that you cannot prove that 71.6% of the audience is not under the age of 21. very specific, i know. and so it's incumbent that if there is going to be advertising, it's -- you are able to prove you are not within 1,000 square feet of a school, daycare center, youth center, and the audience itself is the appropriate age. it's a high bar to overcome. >> makes sense. i think you answered my question. thank you. >> one more question? okay. thank you, guys, for having me here today. we're excited to partner with you guys, to be a resource for

you guys. we look forward to working with you in the many years ahead as we continue to roll out this industry in a smart, thoughtful way. [applause] >> all right. now we're going to hear from anne cronenberg, director of emergency management. likely during letter speech, we'll see chief scott from the police department arrive and he will join her. so give a big round of applause for anne cronenberg. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. it's a pleasure to be here. i want to thank the enterta

entertainment staff. they're small but mighty. putting on something like this takes a lot of work. so thank you for supporting this, and all of you in the industry. it's a pleasure joining chief scott, who is not quite here yet. but i have to tell you, since he's been here as police chief, i continue to see improvements in our police force, which was always the finest, but really, he really gets it and is really committed and also to the partnership and helping all of us san franciscans be more prepared personally and also in our businesses. as you know, maggie just mentioned, i'm the director of the department of emergency management. under my control, though i wouldn't say control, but purview, the 911 call center,

disaster preparedness and response, and the urban area security initiative, which brings in all the grant funding from the federal government and we manage that. every day we answer many, many calls for help from police officers, firefighters and other first responders in our 911 call center. we have about 160 fully trained individuals there who are answering those calls and making sure that the people who call in are safe as they respond and the citizens and residents of san francisco continue to be safe. unfortunately, we're living in a world where our residents often are afraid. you have to be facing

challenges. and we're here to try to help you with those. [please stand by] -- attacks in paris in 2015 why where suicide bombers got into a soccer match and others attacked restaurants, cafes and concert

as well. these are the kind of issues we have to deal with every day. i wanted to assure you that as san francisco, we are preparing for this, we are training, and we want to work very closely with all of you to ensure that all of our venues are safe. last christmas, i'm sure you read in the paper just days before, well, last december, rather, just days before christmas, the f.b.i. arrested a 26-year-old tow truck driver from central valley who alleged aspirations to carry out a terrorist attack at pier 39 during the holidays. it was a little too close to home for my sense of security. these incidents underscore the importance of preparedness and the value of the a partnerships that we develop with all of you and on an ongoing basis in the city with the other partners in

the non-profit world and first responders. some of the things that we are doing to help us as san francisco be more prepared is additional training and exercising. we brought in a very large awareness workshop series last year, the joint counter terrorism awareness workshop. we secure and deliver additional training, we broaden our delivery of active shooter training to the community, we would be prepared to do that for you today. we have sergeant gardner, and mass casualty plans and anything we can do, things you are putting on that you would like our help for in developing training, we are here to help you and be your partners. in addition to the 911 center,

calls with other city departments and community organizations to manage smaller issues and also large issues. we routinely get together and prepare for large events in the city, be it pride or just a week ago chinese new year, incident management team call got together, everyone planning for the parade made sure we were on the same page, what the escapes routes would be, that we shared our plans and had a coordinated effort. just some of the examples of the way we can work together. looking into the future i think that one of the things that you can do as individuals and also help the patrons in all of your establishments is to sign up for alert sf. a simple but critical step.

if you have cell phones with you now, take them out, please, just take a minute and text alert sf to 888777. this is something then you will be getting the text messages of what's going on in the city, whether or not it is congestion on a road because of a large traffic accident, police activity in some area, or something else. you can also put in your area code as you text that and get specific alerts in your area, but again, alert sf, 888777. we also have mini trainings, in april, on the 10th and 11th at the presidio, second annual epicenter. you are all cordially to invite us at epicenter. a time you will meet other

people involved in the field as first responders and establish those relationships. every year it's my office who works with the non-profit organization planning fleet week. fleet week is huge in october, and at the same time, you have hardly strictly, and you know, the columbus day parade or whatever it's called these days, i guess it's not columbus day anymore, sorry. we have a lot of events in the city during that time, but during fleet week we take the opportunity to train again with our military partners. we have a series of workshops called the senior leadership workshops which you are also very welcome to attend. so, if there's any one that we can better suit your needs, you know, please, i will leave my cards on the table as well. feel free to call. my deputy director, in charge of 911 is here to answer questions. he's going to be on a panel that's rod smuts.

but we are here to make sure that your venues, that visitors and residents of san francisco are safe. so, thank you very much. my partner, chief scott has not yet arrived. oh, you are here, yay. all right. i kept looking at the door. all right. chief scott. [applause] >> thank you all. good afternoon, i'm going to be pretty brief in my remarks as we have sergeant jason garden who will give a power point presentation on active shooters, but go into a little detail on some of the things that anne talked about, mainly the catastrophic incident, specifically active shooter type of incident and thank you, anne, for the description. anne, begin, reemphasize.

her department, the department of emergency management is really the hub of our response, city and county's response to these types of incidents and there are a lot of pretty much all city departments have a role, depending on what the incident is. the department of emergency management that really is the glue that dictates really the success or failure of the coordination of one of these types of events. so, i can't emphasize enough how important her role and the people who work in departments, the department of emergency management, how important their role is. i will talk about a couple of the incidents anne talked about, particularly the paris shooting. i personally, i had the, i won't say good fortune, it was a tragic incident that caused us to go there, but i was able to go there and actually sit down with the french national police for about ten days and debrief the last two incidents in 2015

that happened in paris, france. and there were some striking similarities that i think we pulled out of those between other events that have happened here in the states. sandy hook and a lot of the other incidents and so i want to go over a couple things of how it relates to all of us. not only the emergency responders, but all of us. first thing that i want to talk about is the kind of common challenges to success when you have this type of event and it's only five, as i read down the list, i think you will see how if these things are not done right, we can have major problems. the first one is uncoordinated leadership and that's why i want to go back to d.e.m., and why it's so important that you have a department like the department of emergency management to coordinate leadership of the various city departments when one of these incidents happen.

uncoordinated leadership or failure to coordinate leadership can be catastrophic. it can cause us many problems. failed communication, number two thing. how do we communicate. social media, things go out, pictures, text messages, interpretations of what's going on and if not properly managed, it's not properly coordinated. that can cause more damage than the incident itself. so failed communication, both internal and communicate to the public. third thing is weak planning. we are very fortunate here we have people that know how to plan. we have standing plans. we have protocol, and believe it or not, a lot of cities have them, but often times the exercises that anne mentioned

don't happen. should have done that prior to catastrophic event. resource constraints. a very wealthy city in terms of resources, compared to some other places. so, we are very fortunate here as well that we have tremendous resources to address an issue. and then the last thing that is a challenge to success is poor public relations. public messaging. huge challenge to success. in france, i thought, my opinion, professional opinion is they did a really good job considering the attacks were coordinated and multi-facetted. so, a lot of moving parts but they did a good job. in most case, one of the gaffes at the onset of an incident what gets messaged to the public. because of the speed of social media and kind of the state of communications right now is really important to get in front

of. because once things start going out through social media, and whatever social media medium, if the public messaging doesn't get in front of it, to put out accurate information and reduce the anxiety level you have a harder time, much harder time getting control of the incident. so, kind of getting into the weeds a little bit, but as i again point back to the department of emergency management, all the major departments that will be involved. sfpd, sffd, sheriff's department, public utilities commission, ocme, i'm giving you acronyms, department of technology, chr, and that is not an exhaustive list but the point being, if we have a major incident like what happened in florida last week or a

catastrophic earthquake that we have had before in this city, all these departments have to come together and they have to be coordinated. and the other thing is, because people want to help, that has to be managed as well so with y'all, between the entertainment commission, it's really important that y'all take a look at kind of emergency planning as many of you have already done this, if you haven't, i would recommend that you do that. to know what your response would be, not only your response if something happened in your venue, but your response in terms of your personal lives as well because it makes a huge difference. reunification, what to do, who to call, if there's a relative out of city, out of state if we have an issue, it's those type of issues. if you think about them in advance, they cut down on the number of people requiring emergency services because the truth of the matter is, at the

onset of a chaotic catastrophic event, it's going to take a while for things to settle down enough to where you will get a response. you may be on your own for a little while. if you have not thought about them, start thinking about planning. last point i want to make in terms of our response and the san francisco police department, we were asked to talk about active shooters. i have some statistics i want to share with you regarding at least last year's active shootings in this country. we have had 20 active shooter incidents in the country, in this country in 2017. actually, the last information we had up to date was 2016, so 20. seven out of the 20 were in commerce type of environments. retail or some type of business type of environment. three out of the 20 were in educational environment, and eight out of the 20 were in open

space, for instance, the las vegas incident or open space where you have a lot of people. the reason i point that out is seven out of 20, that's about 35%, 30 plus percent were in commercial environments. common denominator is people, large gatherings of people. and no matter what the venue, usually if it's a big concert or something like that, you are going to have some pretty robust security plans for inside the venue. the issue becomes and sergeant garden will talk about this, soft targets. how do we address soft targets and as much as we can do hard and soft targets. so, if you have a venue, night club, let's say, and you have 200 people lined up outside, have you really thought about what you can do to try to harden up that soft target because those are, those are the issues

that keep me as a security and law enforcement professional up at night. most of the time inside the venue it's not a problem. you have security, sometimes armed security. usually ok inside the venue. people outside the venue, the soft targets. is it set up to where you have barriers, somebody wanted to drive down the sidewalk, have we thought about that, is it set up where you have your, whoever is at your door, at least aware that it is a soft target and what to do in case of an attack. these are the type things we need to be talking about. i know sergeant garden will go into detail but our reality in 2017, 2018, actually, is that nothing is foolproof, and there is no way that we can prevent some of these things from happening. what we can do is do what we can, harden the target, number

one. number two is think ahead, prepare, number three is make sure that the response, if the tragedy does occur, that our response is appropriate, because that is what saves lives. our last major active shooting here was last year with the u.p.s. shooting. and i will tell you the response of the officers that went in, the law enforcement personnel, sheriff's and sfpd, i'm convinced that's the reason that we only lost four people, not more. because had we not responded appropriately, it could have been far, far worse than what it was. also the communication with the people that were on the ground, people that were in there, the people i think reacted appropriate as well because those things have to come in line. the response from first responders and then people that are actually victims, witnesses,

what's their response. and if you don't think about it ahead of time, if you don't start at least having a discussion, what will we do if. you are going to be caught like a deer in headlights, and that's the last thing we want. so, please, i don't want to stand up here and preach doom and gloom to you, but just start to think about those things, if you already haven't, because the response is everything. we can't -- we can't -- there's no foolproof way to prevent it but how we respond is equally important as saving lives. we saw that in florida, and a lot of criticism, particularly against law enforcement. that is everything. sergeant garden, and thank you for your attention. [applause] >> just a quick housekeeping item. bathrooms are to the left, if you have not already seen them. so, feel free to use them at any point. and here is sergeant garden.

[applause] >> thank you, maggy and chief scott. my name is sergeant garden, i'm a tactical sergeant at the san francisco tactical unit. background on myself, prior to the police department i worked on an ambulance about five years. kept my paramedic license and came over to the san francisco police department. did my, after academy, went to southern station, the south market area. so i know a lot of the clubs down there, after duty and on duty, of course. i then went to northern station which is the marina, fillmore and polk street corridor, and then my permanent station, i spend a good amount of time there. and then violent reduction team for about a year after that, and i came back to, went to the tactical unit as operator and got promoted as a sergeant, went

to engelside, and came back with a team leader with the tactical unit. so, we are talking about active shooter, unfortunately becoming more and more frequent as we know what happened in florida and our own city. the definition of an actor shooter, it's going to be an armed person who has used deadly force aggressively continues to do so, access to additional victims, and mass murder is the objective. firearms are typically used in these. sometimes a person uses a vehicle or a blunt object or an edged weapon. the difference between this, between this and purposely looking for a specific subject as a homicide, that's typically after one person. this is -- their main goal is casualties. main goal to hurt as many people

as possible. so just a quick history on active shooter incidents. 1966, university of texas, gentleman walked up to the clock tower with a high powered rifle, shot 17 people -- excuse me, killed 17 and wounded 31 others. the reason i put this up, this is how swat got formed. this is the keynote time when swat operations were formed. first people making independent actions, now we have a team trained with specific tactics and coming up with different plans, specialized in specific tools and weapons and coordinated plans to, to end situations. 1999, columbine high school. 13 killed, 23 wounded. that was a big, big one for our, this generation specifically. the reason why is because that showed how active shooter response for officers were dealt with. i believe columbine's response

plan was wait for swat to get on scene. they found out that's not going to happen, it takes a while for the swat team to mobilize. now it's basically, they turn to small pod officers, from 3 to 4 officers, go in, search out the suspect and then stop the threat. then it became to basically the first two officers on scene go directly towards the threat. that's where we are at now at this point. las vegas 2017, picture is wrong right there, 58 killed -- wrong numbers -- 58 killed, 851 wounded. we knew the guy, the suspect barricaded himself in a high elevated position and shot down with a high powered rifle, killing, obviously, killing and hurting hundreds of people into a very large concert event. other ones that have happened

that are more frequent to this is obviously mentioned before about the pulse night club. that was a big one, another one that hit close to home. venue, person goes in and starts actively shooting multiple subjects. and then there is the paris incident. same effect at a concert in theater, terrorists come in and start shooting at the attendees. ok. basically what's being looked at are soft targets. no company is immune. soft targets are most vulnerable to an active shooter incident. theaters, churches, malls, schools, virginia tech as i put up there. they go after the soft targets because you have a higher profile target, they are more hardened down, more security, more presence. softer targets they can inflict

the most amount of damage without a big resistance to it. ok. so, preparation. so, this look familiar to a lot of people here? this is the type of training that everybody has to go through typically, some type of workplace violence, diversity, sexual harassment, first aid, so on and so on. not a lot of companies are doing active shooter training. it's more prevalent. i'm here today talking to this commission about the active shooter. a couple weeks ago i did a market street business bureau, and before that, we talked to another theater, talked to the orpheum, and their response plan and this is becoming more and more, more frequent now. ok. so, for preparation, the first

line of defense is going to be prevention and deterrent. that's it. first and foremost. if you show that you have a good system set up, a good way of doing things and you have all -- you look like what we call a hardened target, that's going to be the deterrent at that point. so, and then for the prevention, it's the response plan. you come up with a good response plan, it's just like a fire drill that schools go through, or earthquake drills that schools go through, my mom went through nuclear scare attacks, hide under your desk, not that it's going to do anything, but basically what they are drilling, and the plan ready. and good plans you can get from homeland security and other agencies and the san francisco police department, we can help out in implementing those plans. so, evaluate your current

security measures. see what works. see what you have, see what doesn't work. now, you have a door that looks like that, you might want to reconsider what you have going on. back here, so you can see. so if you have a door that looks like that, obviously it may not push anybody out, or if you have your security cameras facing each other, like those two are right there, you might want to reevaluate your actual security system. ok. so, to give a quick example, i was able to meet with the staff of the independent, i came in here just about a week ago or so to go over, just evaluate their security measures and get ready for this presentation here. independent theater, when i talked to their staff, they have a solid plan. they have everything down. they have, what some call the voice of god, one microphone that sounds out everybody in the entire theater, cuts the music off, and tells people what type of situation is happening. the orpheum has it, i was at the orpheum when the fire alarms

went off. the voice of god came over, curtains dropped and told everybody to leave and the whole theater had to leave. and they have redundancy here at the independent. one towards the back and they have one up here by the control center over here, and also have bull horns, too. for the security staff to say this is the situation, you have to leave this direction. so, their plan was solid all the way down. continue to look at their exit points. two original pictures were these two front doors right here. that's the only exit point to the theater. and then we went to the back and looked around. i saw that they had the other exit point. you kind of can see that covered with shrubs, some ivy, and it exits down the alleyway into a dead end over here. after talking with the staff, i said these are my suggestions, i think you should talk to your neighbors, see if you can have an access point to get out for any situation, fire, earthquake, active shooter, so on. just so you can get out and have

a third exit area if for some reason the front area is blocked off. so again, deterrent. harden up that area. security cameras. i know these security cameras are topnotch, i've tried everything to break them, nothing gets through them. security officers, obviously, have them in front. whether you have them in jackets as security, that say security on them or wearing all black which typically security guards are, when i've gone to the clubs, security guard, security guard, security guard, they look like they just left the gym. harden up your doors. you have your doors, you need to have a place locked down, don't use the barn door like i was mentioning. use something like that, where you have multiple locks, something that is difficult, something hard for me to get through and we have a lot of tools, hard for me to get through without keys. and then look at your security system. see how updated it is. is the picture grainy because

the lenses are scratched up or actually close and clear and the computer system is enhanced i can zoom in on a specific person's face. that's what i'm looking for when i look at security systems. and then training and drilling staff members. it's just like what we do. we come up, for us for training, we constantly train so we are good at what we do. constantly know -- i know exactly what each person's job is and what each person's role is. when i go into a thing, i know the person over here on the left, and a different thing and i have my job to do. and it also shows efficiency, so you have your plan, looks great on paper, great on the computer, but when you actually enact it or actually drill it, you say hey, that did not work so well because of a, b, c, and x, y, z. that's why you need to drill. so if you have time, come up with a different day, just to do

a quick drill. whether it's a fire drill, like at schools, or active shooter drill. every member of your facility must know what to do during an active shooter training and they should know other people's jobs in case they are there at that time. and think how you would respond. how you would respond in that type of situation. you know, you have that mindset to know what you have to, that you have to complete your job for the safety of everybody. so, first line of defense for especially clubs and theaters and everything is security officers. like i said before, i come to clubs myself in younger days, i grew up in san francisco, d.n.a. lounge, and that guy looked like he left the gym, a security guard right there. so they are there, in front, and those people are going to be your first line of defense. and they are a huge asset for us. so, with the expectations of the

security guards, they are going to alert facility and occupants to either evacuate or shelter in place. again, the voice of god, grab the microphone, or the bull horn and guide people out to a specific area. render aid to victims. back to that one in a minute. isolate, locate, and limit the movement of the offender without confrontation. you know who the first responding person was who took on the threat during vegas was? actually the hotel security. it was not the police officers, the hotel security went up there and he got hit himself. lockdown, a school, higher education school in san francisco, their security system is outrageous. they can actually -- each student has their own passkey and they have to hit the key to get in. it records who that person is, so if joe smith went to classroom a, they can look up on the computer and say oh, looked up there. and if we want to for somehow

contain joe smith in that room, we can deny his access out. so, contain, that's an example of remote lockdown. [please stand by]