you about the seawall, i say, wait a minute, i have to work with this challenge. she always brings it back to how important it is not just to protect my district, but to protect the entire city. her leadership along with port commissioner president kimberley brandon that been outstanding. they've been in sacramento, in d.c., they've been all over the place trying to put together the money for this particular seawall and i know with their leadership and the work of all the policy behind me, we're going to get this done for the people of san francisco. thank you so much. >> thank you, president breed. our final speaker is someone who represents the district we're currently in who knows that it is her residence and businesses that could be flooded if we do not invest in the infrastructure. please join me in welcoming supervisor kim.

>> thank you, assembly member chiu. as someone who represented your sister district when we both served on the board of supervisors, we understand the importance of strengthening our seawall, shield that prerkts our residents and workers and many of the tourist attractions up and down the waterfront. mayor mark farrell, myself, supervisor cohen and peskin represent the districts that are along the boundary lines of the seawall lot that we're here about. so much of what we love about our city is just along the waterfront, our housing, offices, jobs, transportation, the giants who i see in the audience today. it is important to make prudent investments today to strengthen the seawall shield and strengthen the unbreakable bond between the city of san francisco and the waterfront we love so much. i want to thank our san francisco delegation in

sacramento, for making sure we're prioritizing the very infrastructure that will keep the city beautiful and running, thank you very much. [applause] >> that concludes today's press conference. again, appreciate everyone coming together around a plan to protect the future of our city and our seawall. any final questions? we will end the press conference and open it up to folks to ask individual questions. thank you very much. >> a please rise for the pledge

of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. commissioner, i'll be taking the roll call. president julius truman. >> he is en route. he will be a little late. >> vice president thomas mazucco. >> present. >> a commissioner dr. joe marshall. >> present. >> commissioner petra day jesus. >> present. >> commissioner sonya molara. >> present. >> commissioner robert hirsch. >> present. >> thank you. it appears we have a quorum. >> thank you very much, sergeant ware. ladies and gentlemen, some bookkeeping before we move into tonight's meeting.

agenda item line 4 -- strike that. make line 9b is taken off calendar with reference to line 3a under the chief's report, the last presentation of the first quarter 2018 firearm discharge review board findings, that is also off calendar. that is not ready for this evening. with reference to line 4, we'll have to separate the two motions with reference to the patrol special and also for the record, i am recused from those matters as i am a client of the patrol special. with reference to public comment, we have a very long and complex agenda this evening. a lot of it is in closed session dealing with litigation and other related matters that are personnel records that are protected. so in light of that, we're going to limit public comment tonight to two minutes. so that we can get into our closed session maters and deal with those issues. without further ado, please call line item number 1.

>> commissioners, thank you. i would like to offer my apologies and welcome chief scott. and also d.p.a. director paul henderson. >> no need to apologize, sergeant ware. this is the first meeting you are running, so you're doing a great job. >> thank you. line one, discussion and possible action to support the youth commission's resolution urging the mayor and board of supervisors to reduce the imprisonment of transitional age youth, implement alternatives to incarceration for transitional aged youth, reject any funding for major renovation, reopening, or construction of jail facilities, and instead invest in programming supporting at-risk transitional aged youth and positive youth development. discussion and possible action. i would like to announce to that the youth commission's power point and letters from the city administrator and human rights commission will be available tomorrow, thursday, online, as it was not made available to the commission prior to the start of the meeting. hard copies will be available at the commission office.

>> question for the city attorney, in light of that, is this still remain an action item? >> yes. >> commissioners, yes, you may have action on the resolution itself. it's just alerting the public that there are two pieces of items not available to the commission office prior to today, and they're being distributed tomorrow. >> great. thank you very much, deputy city attorney herrera. i'm going to turn this over to commissioner da jesus who has been walking us through the process. it's all yours, commissioner. >> all right. i believe this is a resolution that the commission has been working on, so i'm going to hand it to you and explain to the fellow commissioner rs and the public what this is about. >> so we have a presentation ready for you as well to discuss what our resolution is about.

so my name is -- >> can you put the microphone up a little better? there you go. >> i am bob vigil, and i am here to present to you on behalf of the youth commission, specifically the justice and employment committee. >> a my name is kylie huffman and i am the director of the youth commission here in the capacity of running the power point and supporting our commissioner. thanks for having us. >> good evening. welcome. >> all right. so again, thank you for having me here. what is the youth commission? youth commission was made in 1996 for the san francisco voters and basically a body of 12-23 year olds who are with 11 appointed by supervisors and seven appointed by the mayor's office. some of the things that we have worked on with our previous successes were the free muni for youths, voter 16. why are we here? the justice and employment committee is sponsoring the

resolution to address alternatives to incarceration for tran editional age youth -- transitional age youth, t.a.y. for short. we would like the police commission to support us in our endeavors. some background context, this is subsequently unfit and will have to be closed. last december it was announced that employees would be moving out of the hall of justice to accelerate the timeline in our mind for the closure of 850 bryant. the youth commission and board of supervisors have taken stances against further investment in the county jail systems. if we reduce the number of people in jail, we can avoid capital expenditures to retrofit slash rebuild additional jails. some key facts, young people are overrepresented in our county jail system by a factor of three. minority communities are overremitted as well, especially the african-american community by a factor of 10. 85% of people incarcerated in

the county jail system are on pretrial and have been denied or cannot afford bail. efforts to enact similar policies in the juvenile system have been successful with a 37% reduction in the daily average incarcerated juvenile population between 2011-2015. the t.a.y. collaborative court which has had a modest success rate has had to close the doors to applicants three times due to lack of capacity. the district attorney's office has informed us even with the investment to open a second calendar day, that it is expected to reach capacity almost immediately. what is the solution? increased funding for programs like the t.a.y. collaborative court, reform the bell schedule and continuing ability to pay efforts. and increase in housing and behavioral health services for transitional aged youth.

advocate to the district attorney to restructure how certain nonviolent felonies are charged, specifically snatch and grab phone thefts. these are offenses which earn strike, potentially impacting young people for the rest of their lives. prioritize the development of low income supportive housing for justice involved young people. these are some of the nationwide responses. these issues are being debated and other municipalities throughout the country. june 16, the state of vermont raged the age of criminal responsibility to 21. february 2017 the state of connecticut introduced similar legislation. january 2017 the state of new jersey completely eliminates its system resulting in a 20% reduction in the incarcerated population. so our goals. one of our goals is to reduce t.a.y. incarceration and fully

support at-risk transition age youth who come in contact with the system. as civic leader, we firmly believe it is our duty to advocate on behalf of young people of san francisco. as young people who will be paying taxes in the city for the foreseeable future, we don't want our tax money going towards servicing debt for further investments in our justice system. this system is broken and it is important we do more than just say it. so these are some of the key stake holders and correspondents and community co-sponsors including center for juvenile and criminal justice and project what. and matters of support include larken street youth services and office of transgender initiatives and civic institution and the human rights and commission of status of women voted unanimously to support our resolution. we are awaiting the next meeting to request an action item from them as well.

current status, we have met with professor fewer who has supported our request for a budget and legislate i have analysis report. we met with the staff a couple of weeks ago and eagerly await their report. we have published our first draft of our budget and policy priorities. and that will incorporate our funding requests for the budgeting cycle. engaging young people and community stakeholders to create a coalition behind our movement. again, i want to say thank you for your time. it was an honor to be able to be here to present to you on behalf of the youth commission. we ask that you take a vote to draft a letter of endorsement in support of our legislation. if you have any further questions, please hesitate to ask. if we don't have the answers to the questions now, we will email the answers once we get them. thank you. >> just to cap that, i mean, one of the things when i saw this was important, 18 to 25 year old

adults represent 25% of the county jail, and they have the highest number of bed days in the county jail. and important, african-americans remitted over 5 # a% of the -- over 55% of the incarcerated population and only 5.3% of the overall population of san francisco. i want to commend the youth commission for really looking into it. the way i see sit there is four points that you're looking at is to reduce the imprisonment of transitional age youth, to implement alternatives to incarceration for transitional age youth, to reject funding for major renovation of jail facilities, and instead invest inme menmen menment in programmg at-risk youth. and looking into this further, they talked about youth and the juvenile justice system being labelled and coming out labelled and moving right into the criminal justice system. and they have the least resources to get out. and one of the alternatives is a

community court, but that's full at its capacity and it can't take anymore. we're looking for other avenues for diversion, for community courts, more funding for that, and also asking what i think is great is for behavioral health sciences and more counseling. what i find interesting is the warrant. and just missed court and don't have warrants and asking for same-day warrant service to go in and just get it on calendar which is a great idea because usually you have to lock yourself up for three or four days before you get in front of a court. these are great ideas, and i think we should support or we should pass this resolution and ask the board of supervisors to explore all of these things that you have -- that the commissioner has asked for, especially in light of also have the foresight to put in to request a budget and legislative report on financial and incarceration impacts on the strategies. i think that is really comprehensive. well thought out. and i think it would really be

in our interest to advise the board of supervisors to follow through on this. i want to commend you for all the hard work. >> any questions? >> commissioner? >> thank you. for me, it is just a question related to this, and i was wondering if anybody in the commission -- not the commission taking up a position, but if anybody is following sb10 which would change the bail system in california. and would apply bail on the basis of the case itself. the judges will have the jurisdiction over determining whether the person is dangerous to the public. and so i was wondering if anybody is looking into that because that would also help this particular issue. >> i'm not 100% sure, but i can

definitely look into it. >> i can chip in here. the commission on status of women also asked a similar question regarding what is happening statewide and out of san francisco. our response to that is that we can look into stuff like that, but the youth commission's charter duties are specifically around what is happening in san francisco. >> i understand that. i think you could be educated so that the public would know that it is something that would definitely affect the number of people in jails. >> absolutely. so we can also look into that as well. if there is any recommendations or gaps that we're missing, we are also coming to the bodies to get as much information as we possibly can. and it was the commissioner on the status of women that said, hey, we notice you don't have anything on here regarding gender. how does gender play into young people in the jail system? and so we're including that also into our b.l.a. report. thank you for that. >> thank you. thank you very much for coming. one more question? dr. marshall, go ahead?

>> just curious, how long have you been working on this? you can't remember. must be a long time. >> late last year. >> and in all honesty, he is a first-year commissioner and i am new to the director position, although i was staff for a year and a half. and this was not my priority area, so ls a learning as we go with our commissioners. and as far as i know, we have been pushing this every single year, and this is the year that i think we're finally gaining some traction. >> one of my kids is on the youth commission, so if i wouldn't go for it, he wouldn't talk to me. >> okay. he mentioned your name in a meeting. >> voted for him, right. >> okay. >> and thank you very much. there is a change that is happening. it is because of the youth and it is exciting for us older people to see what the youth movement has done. i am speaking more myself, yes. and it is great to see what you

are doing, and on this issue, i think it is incredible. obviously agree with it. and i would like to participate a little bit in the bail issue. i have been following that debate a little bit. and having practiced law as a prosecutor in the state system where there is the cash bail and practicing law in the federal system where it is a different bail structure, not bail bonds people, but based upon criminal history. based upon failures to appear, based upon threat assessment, so there are some familiarity and the federal system a much, much better system because it doesn't concern themselves with affordability or the ability to pay, but the history of that person offending. and also if you look at some. o'er -- why do we have these demographics that are what you are talking about? there are other causes -- education, the school system, the school district, and i am sure you read that article about in "the chronicle" that a young man in the last year of mission high school and got all f's. that's a problem. i look forward to working with you on this.

if you need any assistance especially on the bail issue, and i think it is great. it is refreshing. thank you. >> f i have one commission. >> a commissioner dejesus. >> a since you are asking for suggestions, also, if the youth, transitional age youth get six months or a year in the county jail r you -- are you also looking into seeing whether young adults have programs that they can come out the and get re-established with? assuming they come out of the system and they don't have family in the area. in terms of getting a place to stay, getting employment, or going back to school. >> we have had conversations with presenters around programs like coming out of jail system, and we have definitely touched those conversations. >> thank you. >> commissioner, before you the resolution number 1718, so what i will do is take a motion. if there is a second, we will open it up to public comment. >> an i would like to make a motion to accept the resolution in support of the youth justice reform asking the board of supervisors --

>> second that. >> any public comment with reference to this resolution number 1718? a al06? you can move aside a little bit. public comment. two minutes. >> the clock is running. >> okay. this is directed to the students and the youth. your choice be to deal with symptoms at the core and yet you have the power to shut down all war. we are all under spiritual law whether we under them or not. same is true for law enforcement. and since 1970, neither students nor labor haveme embraced the power of a boycotter o complete economic system shutdown of a strike. the system is broke as many have spoken and the youth and student strike of school and labor slipped through the slaughter house industry that lays down the saber and after a 40-day shi shutdown, law enforcement works for you. first time ever as the corrupted system over law enforcement you truly will sever. truth be greater than facts.

whether they be actual or fabricated. almighty creator sees all. so now it be for all to see, almighty to bless accordingly. the likes of dianne feinstein, the clintons and trump with far more than just a slap on the rump. commanded as well the weld filly's cracked liberty bell and now and ever more forcefully, i truly compel law enforcement to be uniting with california vets under the u.s. constitution to arrest these high up persons as part of the resolution -- >> can we stick to the item on the agenda? >> it is. >> no, it's not. >> becoming the america militia escorting out or unwelcoming fema and ice. the hour of mercy is over and nothing less will suffice. and so for the record, i said this in pennsylvania just the other day that ed rendell ordered the murder of philly officer faulkner -- >> excuse me, sir. come back under general --

>> you are going to wind around. you don't know what i am going to say. >> nowhere near reality. >> i am both the witness and the son of the son of the one. and dianne feinstein, a.k.a. in revelation, be the woman whose drunk on her power, so to the youth i said, rose bud, rose bud, come now to flower. i am, peter. i say it. it is done. >> any further public comment regarding this item? >> that wasn't very nice to interrupt me. >> hearing that, public comment is now closed. next line item. >> please come forward. >> this is my first time here, so i didn't know. >> i just wanted to say i came to actually talk about the taser issue which i know i can do later, but i wanted to say hearing with the youth commission offered, it is very exciting, and i hope it will two through. and thank you, all, for hearing it. thank you. >> thank you and welcome. any further public comment on this mat we are the youth commission? >> hello, mr. bonner. >> good afternoon. >> how are you?

>> very good. how are you, sir? >> an i am very pressed with the youth efforts here. i would like to suggest they consider an alternative to incarceration for the little petty crimes. easily -- you can sit down, kevin. this is just on this. sit down. these little petty crime cans easily be addressed with a photograph and a citation rather than incarceration. and i would suggest they add that to the particular agenda. >> thank you, mr. bonner. >> mr. bonner is a very well-known and prominent attorney from east bay and is very helpful. thank you, sir. >> any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is now closed. let's take a vote. all in favor? it's unanimous. congratulations and good work, commissioner de jesus. >> thank you. thank you, youth commission. >> thanks.

>> item two, consent calendar, receive and file action. request of the chief of police to accept donation of k9 vehicle heat alarm temperature sensor system valued at $8374.28 from the police and working k9 foundation for the use of the tactical k9 unit. commissioners, in your packet, you have a memo regarding this device that they install in the police k9 units because the dogs are in the car for prolonged period of time. and it has an automatic device that turns the air conditioning on so the dog doesn't get heat exhaustion or possibly pass away. >> motion to approve. >> second. >> any public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. all in favor? >> aye. >> please call the next line item. >> item 3, reports from the commission, discussion 3a, chief's report. report on recent police department activities including major events, weekly crime trends, including staff iing.

okay. thank you. including staffing, current staffing levels and overtime, and announcements. and update on supervisor yee's sfpd staffing resolution. >> thank you, sergeant ware. good evening, chief. how are you? >> good evening, commission. i have a fairly brief report this week. i will start with the crime trends. year to date. we are 18% down and nonfatal shootings, which is 39 this time last year. 32 year to date. we are 58% down with the homicides with firearms and 12 this time last year and five year to date. and our total gun violence victims were down 27%. 51 last year and 37 year to date. so i am really pleased with that

news, and we hope to continue that momentum into the summer months. the year to date homicides were also 38% down. we were 16 this time last year. 10 year to date. and we just to go through some of our other crimes. in property crime, we are overall property crime at 13% down. and you all probably know we have been facing challenges with our burglary and theft from vehicles over the past several years. and we put a number of strategies in place, so i'm very pleased year to date we're down 18%. we had 7,748 this time last year and 6,341 this year, and i know the commission was very interested in this topic, and we're working real hard with our strategies and working with the community and stakeholders to make sure we do everything we can to bring these numbers down. so that's good news, but we still have a lot of work to do.

our burglaries, we are down by 9%. we had 1404 this time last year. 1,271 year to date. motor vehicle thefts were down by 32% for the first quarter. 1,385 last year this time. 938 year to date. we're slightly up in arsons by 3%, 3.57%. 56 this time last year. 58 year to date. and our large city and theft were down by 12%. 11,189 last year this time and 9,761 this year. the total property crimes were down by 14.29%. and total crimes down by 13.06%. a lot of hard work by our officers, command staff in working with and in partnership with the community. we are seeing some good results, at least for the first quarter, and we hope to continue that momentum into the next quarter and the summer.

the major events for this week, we have rock 'n' roll marathon on sunday and actually walk against rape on saturday. rock 'n' roll marathon will be estimated attendance of about 15,000. we have no issues or concerns at this time. and then the walk against rape will be from on saturday the 7th from 9:00 in the morning to 4:00 p.m. from 18th street and go through mission district. this is an annual march and we don't anticipate any issues on that as well. if -- i would like to, if it's okay with commission, defer the overtime report to next time. i just caught some that i had a question. and if i could defer that to next week. >> no problem, chief. >> the last part of the chief's report is director kathrin mcgwire who will update the

commission on south korea yee's request for a staffing task force. >> thank you, chief, and welcome, director mcgwire. >> thank you. >> director henderson, chief scott, i am the chief financial officer for the department, and i am here this evening to talk through what is in your packets already as a letter proposing and talking through kind of the approach and the timeline for the staffing task force as recommended by supervisor yee's legislation that was passed about a year ago. before i talk about the actual task force, just to give you kind of the high level overview of staffing analyses in the department in general, as you know, there are three kind of major efforts moving forward right now. one is the budget and

legislative analysts office that works reports to the board of supervisors. they are currently conducting a staffing audit and that work is due to be completed in a report due to the board of supervisors in may. another component is we are working with the mayor's office very closely in developing a budget submission to the board of supervisors due on june 1, as you all know. the -- and so that's another effort that we are in the midst of. and then finally, the bigger, broader effort which includes this task force is identifying and moving forward with an analysis that has a workload-based analysis of our staffing needs and the department as a whole. so that effort has been broken into two phases. the first phase is in the final stages, and the controllers office really worked on that analysis, quantitative analysis of our sector patrol workload, and that workload being

represented by calls for service and the duration spent by individual officers on each call for service aggregated up to city wide efforts in sector patrol only and the controller's office is finalizing that work and should be -- and we are actually in the midst of looking at a draft report and then it will be finalizing that and getting it out to the public very soon. so phase one, again, that stress sector patrol represented by half of the department is in the district stations and about 71 or 72 percent of our officers or our personnel at the district stations are sector patrol officers. it represents a very large chunk of our personnel and the department. that's phase one. phase two is everything else. so including and also includes a

functional analysis, so that is currently underway, and those results should be due at the end of may or early june. the functional analysis is just basically looking at our department and making sure that we're doing what we -- what most police departments do. and comparing us to other jurisdictions and if we're doing something that maybe we don't necessarily need to do anymore, we'll talk about that. and if we're doing -- but then by the same token, are we missing things in the department that other police departments do as a best practice? and what are those and how are they staffed? so that functional analysis is part of phase two. another part of phase two is the effort to ungauge a contractor to review either quantitatively or qualitatively the remainder of the workload in the department that is not represented by sector patrol. and then over the next year we'll put everything together

into -- it will be released in portions by big sections of the department, but at the end of it we will have a total look at what the staffing needs are in the department. so essentially for the task force, their job will be to inform that methodology. and so inform the development of the methodology and take a look and do that gut check on is this the right methodology and was it analyzed appropriately? and what is the next step in going forward. so these folks are really as called for in the legislation or in the resolution by supervisor y yee, their role is to implement a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to determining staff levels, and the membership should be comprised of a cross section of experts and data analysts.

and in order to really determine staffing levels, there is the task force and the contractor as mentioned. the task force we really want to utilize expertise from that group to provide insights on methodology for staffing analyses in general, so as i talk through the membership of the task force, i think you'll recognize that there's kind of a trend -- there's kind of an underlying expertise of these folk folks who have seen staffing analyses in our department and/or other departments. they kind of have a good -- or they are really good analysts as well. so today we're talking about the task force, although i have given kind of a long, make it short now, overview of the fuller staffing analysis. ultimately the task force also calls for community input, and i want to talk about this a little built because i did address it in the letter. the actual task force will not

have a member of the community sitting on the task force. the reason for that being that san francisco is so diverse. and there is so many perspectives. and a task force -- you can have an entire task force just for community input. and we kind of have that already in the form of commander lazar's executive sponsored community group on policing. one of the things that that group has done is they engaged the controller's office, similar team, in conducting some survey work of that executive sponsor working group and additional 500 community organizations. of which 140 of those organizations responded to survey just kind of gauging what the vision and what the thinking is from the community perspective on what community policing should look like. and from that, they are developing a community policing strategic plan as recommended in the u.s. d.o.j. collaborative

reform initiative. and within that survey, one of the things that came out of the survey is that staffing really needs to be a factor and community policing staffing levels. so we will be taking those surveys and that information and having that be the portion of the our analysis that informs the community input piece because we could not possibly do this kind of level of effort and engagement of the community that has already been conducted. and continues to be in place in the form of the executive sponsor working group, which has representatives on that group including the bar association, the homeless advocacy project, members of the business community, religious organizations, the media, youth organizations, and other activist groups. with that, the membership that was suggested in the resolution was included with

representatives from the u.s. d.o.j. task office, and the san francisco controller's office t department of police accountability, and the sheriff and the disability of emergency management. and so we have taken that information and we've -- we have expanded the number of members -- expanded upon the number of members that were recommended and also kind of reduced a couple of those roles as well. so as you know, our relationship with the u.s. d.o.j. cops office is not where it was when the legislation was introduced and passed, and so we felt it wasn't likely nor appropriate to have a member on the task force at this time. we will have commander o'sullivan will be the member of the command staff that would sit on the task force. from the controller's office, we will have the sector patrol

staffing analysis from the controll controller's office, aened she also served on the team that did the fuller soup to nuts review 10 years ago as well. and then from the accountability, we will have samuel omarian join us. and ann raskin from the department of emergency management who has helped us in identifying the right data and the data sets and the kinds of data that we needed in order to do the sector patrol analysis. and we need a number recommended by the police commission as well, and that is to be determined. there are two other members that we added to the task force, and that is gentleman by the name of leonard materese who has done a lot f of staffing analyses and lecturing on police departmens s

who is the go-to person for community policing and expertise from the city-county management association. and then finally we will be reaching to craig frazier who is a police staffing expert as well. as you can see, the composition of the group is very expert driven and the high level timeline that we are expecting for five key points in the project. we expect to have fife meetings. -- five meetings, but they are volunteering their time and we are not trying not to lean on them too much. we will have a kickoff in the

next month or two. the second meeting would include a review of the functional analysis and proposal of the investigations method and that would be this summer and then investigations and special -- and then we would present, so we present the methodology to the task force. they would vet it and come back and present the findings at the next meeting. the next meeting would be presenting the findings of the investigations review and then special operations in the fall and the findings from special operations and the methodology presentation for support functions would happen later in the fall, early winter, and then the final meet iing in the late winter and compile all the information from everything that

has happened in the year prior. with that i will take any questions. >> great. thank you. i know that the supervisor yee requested it and the staff issue deals with everything from where we're deploying the officers, data driven policing to the actual number of officers that we need. and i know that i am glad that perf is involved. for those of us on the commission at that time, the recommendations were that we were probably a good 800 to 1,000 officers short of where we should be to similarly situated cities. and i giggle when i thought one of the expectations is we don't need that because we are a small city and can get around faster. that was prior to traffic congestion we are facing now where the fire department and police department have been complaining about the ability to maneuver around the city. i think it's great and i thank supervisor yee and the police department and look at perf and

how much more to do at the sheriff's department with reference to prisoner transport and hospital watches. and the work with other agencies. mental health professionals to handle which is probably 40-50% of the people dealing with crisis. those are all important factors and we heard earlier tonight the numbers are going down of crimes. one thing that said is the number of officers are starting to increase with the plan the board of supervisors and mayor put forth and we have more young officers out there and we are hiring. there is no surprise there is a correlation between the two. this is a great study. looking forward to seeing it. commissioner de jesus. >> i might be missing it. this is a pretty impressive list of experts that you have put together for the task force, but looking at supervisor yee's resolution and he has community stakeholders and he mentioned cops which i an i degree -- which i agree. and he does say other

organizations including potential the bar association. i don't see community stakeholders on this list. so i am >> so as i discussed the community stakeholder piece if ewith include the number and variety of perspectives that would haver to represented on this committee, we would have a 50-person task force. and still wouldn't -- and i felt like it still wouldn't be a sufficient representation of the kind of input, so we are looking to the executive sponsor working group which has over 88 members that have been represented at various times and that executive sponsor working group is the first place we will gather input, but in addition to that, the controller's office has done a surveying office and over 500 organizations and 140 of those organizations have actually responded to a survey in which

they talked about community policing and how that is affects staffing. >> so i did hear that. what i want to know is you are talking about developing some type of information from the ground floor. how do you get the input from the community on the ground floor level of developing what the number is? it is one thing to have a sounding board. i get it. a community group here with 100 people in there and get sounding and take it to them. but to have somebody in the planning process and a representative, and i guess i am missing that point. it is different bringing something completely developed and saying, what do you think about that? >> an i think that we can tap into the executive sponsor working group as a whole at key opportunities throughout the process. similar to the task force. and providing methodologies and allowing them to give us feedback at the key points. and so -- but i want to make sure it's thoughtful.

i want to make sure we are engaging the community in a way that -- and at a time and at certain times when they are either not working on a community policing strategic plan and in a thoughtful way in which we have developed a good plan for engaging them. i don't want to speak off the cuff and have it be -- let me step back. when we engage the community in the first effort -- or the last time we did this project, it was three-prong approach. it was funded -- it has $100,000 or more attached to it. and we may well be able to devote some resources to that once we engage our contractor. however, i want to make sure that whatever the approach is, it's both vetted by the contractor and proposed by the

contractor. but also we will use the executive sponsor working group as the resource to engage the community. >> let me just -- i am just going to make a suggestion. there are some community groups that are under umbrella. they represent 82 different groups. you might want to give thought about talking to either the bar association who has a particular unit that deals with police and so does the aclu. they participate in the one umbrella organization with 83. see if they would recommend a person representative for the community because i think input from the ground floor sometimes is very helpful rather than bringing or presenting things that are already in place because frankly, i have been here 10 years and i find when you present things that are in place, people get resistant to making changes or accepting ideas, new ideas and things like that. they get entrenched. i saw that with the boundaries of the police department. it became a little fight because the boundaries are put together by a contractor and presented to

the community. they had no community input from the beginning and then the community pushed back. and so i don't want that to happen again. so i think it's important to brainstorm to see if you can get a community representative at least to get some ideas at the ground level. >> commissioner molara. >> i have a similar concern with a different perspective, and that is that perhaps there could be someone from the executive sponsor working group to be representing the group on the task force. i hate to say this, but the reality is even the bar association doesn't represent the community. they are just attorneys who sit somewhere. but they are not community representatives, whereas this -- the group that captain is putting together has a more broader section of community, and possibly having someone from that group on the task force in

bringing back information, and the information goes back and forth, then there is a community input. not just when you -- when you need the community, you go there and rather, having someone from the group that could represent different perspectives. >> i think i like that idea and i certainly we could go to the executive sponsor working group and ask if someone would like to participate. we also do have the controller's office sitting on the task force as well. and they have been a part of that executive sponsor working group. >> they are not part of the community. >> i understand. >> commissioner hirsch. >> i share the concern of the last two commissioners. i think we're making a mistake if we decide that it's so difficult to include community members because there will be 50 or more, we exclude all of them. i really don't think that's the best way to approach it. i like the idea of having one or two or even three representatives from community groups who are part of the

working group. the second thing i would say is the schedule, i would really hope that you can hold yourselves to that timeline because you are giving yourselves about 11 months out. and that seems to be a fair amount of time to get something back to the city of san francisco on staffing. i would encourage you to stick to that timeline. >> thank you, again. i do agree with the commissioners that obviously input from the community. we have had meetings where some committees said we don't want any police officers, we want more police officer, one on every corner, and those are things to juggle. the bar association and haven't invited chief scott to be on one of their boards to discuss the staffing of a major piece of litigation. that is their world. this is the police department's world and the people's world. i prefer that we have actually members from the community that have proven themselves to be very helpful in our other working groups. chief?

>> the input from the police commission and we will come back with some updates on how we can incorporate the feedback into the plan. >> great project. thank you, director mcgwire. this is good to see and i thank supervisor yee for bringing this forward. i have an idea the results are going to be that we're going to need more officers and more assistance. thank you very much. >> is there a budget attached to this? >> we have current year budget, yes. >> good. thank you. >> great. please call the next line item. 3b. >> line 3b, d.p.a. director's report. report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements. presentation of reports, summary of cases received, mediation of complaints, adjudication of sustained complaints for february 2018 and companion reports. >> good evening, director henderson. it is no longer interim or acting and is actually direct

henderson, so congratulation. thank you for your willingness to take on this challenge, and it is greatly appreciated. >> it is a long road, but i am finally here. >> most people don't know, but i trained you your first week in the d.a.'s office. all the mistakes he makes, blame them on me. >> i did. i have been doing that for years. many court records with your name in them. that is what tippy taught me. how we're supposed to do it. so thank you, all, for your support. i am excited about the work, not just what i have been doing over the past six months but the stuff i have planned in the future and laid out and most of the reports that you have seen already. and i know you already have the report, so i don't want to go line by line with all of the stuff. but i do want to highlight a couple of things and give you a couple of updates on some of the stuff that i think is important that's going on with the d.p.a. we are recruiting now for our

senior investigators as we continue to expand the staff. we just had a posting that closed, but we've got over 60 applicants which is great. we have people that are coming to the department now that will allow us to choose some of our best candidates to continue our work. our new investigators have started. and we have spread out the case load. now for the first time we have been hearing this for years about the schedule and the case assignments for our investigators. as of now, finally, the average case load is 16. we have been out of compliance for years with the case loads being too high for our investigators to do the work that we wanted them to do at the standards that we had set for them. so we're excited that we have finally hit this milestone in the organization. i will say over the past few weeks since the last assignment or since the last commission

meeting, we have started or we've attended both the town hall meeting at caesar chavez school on march 12 for balboa high school or both of those town halls that we have attended. and we have had some follow-up both with the community who had expressed some concerns about the d.p.a. and the role and coordinated with the board of supervisors that we will continue to follow up on as well as with the mexican consulate which had reached out and had specific concerns and wanted to be heard to coordinate the role the d.p.a. and with some of the families that were involved in those incidents. we have continued to do that internally. and this is important for my department and for the folks

that wanted to make the complaints and communicate with our office and are actually able to be heard, and we are able to receive the information from them. we had a trainer actually come in to train all of our staff about how to use the language line. specifically, though, that include beyond just language services for the deaf and hearing. that training was great -- for the deaf and hard of hearing. we have more ongoing training related to the new technology which has come in the past six months to make sure everyone knows how to use the new equipment that they have received and all of the new program and software that we have installed in the office as well. statistically, i'll just be brief with this because you have the reports, but i do want to highlight a couple of other things that i think are really important. the case loads are now down. we have been working very hard to close out and to get rid of eliminate much of the backlog,

specifically the stagnant cases. our case load is currently at 249 cases. that stand out compared to the 431 that were open last year at this time. over 42% reduction. we have had nine sustained cases already this year, and this is really important. the cases we have beyond 270 days, and remember, there are a lot of exceptions for cases that go beyond 270 days, but this is before the 3304 deadlines, were down to 28 cases. and most of those cases are cases meaning they are involved in civil or criminal justice system. by comparison, this time last year, we had 106 of those cases that were beyond that statute. so we are working really hard and i am really proud of these numbers which is why i am highlighting them in this

report. i will recognize also here in the court -- in the room with me today are my chief of staff sarah hawkens and senior investigator carlos. so if we have issues that come up during this meeting, my staff is here to address concerns. that is what i've got. >> thank you, director henderson. those are incredible number rs and the biggest concern was the one-year statute in cases and getting the investigators to get the workload down, so excellent. commissioner, anything further for director henderson? thank you, director henderson. please call the next line item. >> 3c, commission reports. commission president's report. commissioners' reports. >> i will fill in for commissioner who may be here this evening. he has other activities along with the role related to a partner in a law firm. my report is numerous things have been taking place since the last meeting. i met today with the p.o.a. and san francisco police department command staff regarding general

order 3.09 which deals with the medal of valor. and i think we'll have a draft that we can present to the commission that will be acceptable to everybody. i want to thank everybody for their involvement on that. i want to thank captain joseph angler. i attended an easter egg hunt on saturday put together by captain angler, the new captain t a northern station. and the police community group and about five days notice they put together a great event with small baby chickens and ducks and it was great to be there with the kids from the western addition. and you and i got to pet a baby duck for the first time. it was a lot of fun. and a great job to that group and captain angler. also with the officer-involved sho shooting. awent to the hospital and officer endo seems to be doing fine. it was traumatic for the officers at the hospital and all those involved.

i want to thank the members of the police department there to support the officer, his father and mother i will, and all though at the hospital including the command staff and the chief. what do we do? we talk about things in the abstract here. in the hospital after one of the officers has been shot in a shootout, and it's pretty dramatic. it has an impact on you. so i want to thank those officers and the men and women of the department and so proud of them that evening. and then last but not at least, i want to bring everybody's attention that, you know, if you want to see why we have an issue in our system, why the system is broken, you need to log onto captain carl fabry's police department at the tenderloin police station. and they list some incredible things. and i just have to note for people that when you look and you see that people are being arrested the same location, multiple times, and in violation to stay away orders and released from custody by the judges. the cases are being charged by the d.a.'s offices, and large quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine, more than the quantities we used

to see as prosecutors, mr. henderson and i, and i mean, federal quantities. yet, they still get the stay away order and are back out on the same corner days later and being arrested. if you want to see why the system is broken, but the hard work of the officers, go to the tenderloin police station twitter account. they handle it professionally and it is well done. it is very frustrating for us who are trying to have the delicate balance of making this the safest city. commissioners? any announcements? okay. public comment on line items three -- >> commission announcements. i'm sorry. i apologize. >> line 3d. >> commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. >> >> action. >> i think we have the same thing in mind. we would like to add a discussion with the city

attorney regarding legal matters rarting the particular -- regarding a particular memo that we received. >> for the record, commissioner de jesus and commissioner molara agreeing to the same thing. >> and not just for discussion, but to put the item back on the agenda. item djo5.02. >> what is our availability look like that when we'll have most commissioners available? >> if i can jump in, i think we need to have somebody from d.h.r. here as well. somebody who is negotiating 5.0. >> but we can have -- we can't have it in open session. there are two things. one is to bring back, to put back on the agenda a vote for dgo5.02. as was originally put on the agenda, but we did not accept it