>> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. ♪ ♪

>> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. and that's what this little neighborhood support center is for. >> that's right. >> what are some of the services that might be provided in a neighborhood center like this? >> yeah. so, we think of the neighborhood support centers as really being homes away from home. so, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. people are going to need to try to meet up with other people. they're going to need a lot of information. so, a lot of what the neighborhood support center is going to provide is that information. basically we're going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help,

information, et cetera. what you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walki-talkies. this helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. we're really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. i know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. and everybody should, but there's going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. so, that's what we've got right here. >> so, this neighborhood support center, this doesn't look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. it can be a small commercial space, even somebody's garage as long as they have the

information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. >> that's right. >> thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. and probably be operated by volunteers. >> volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. so, if there is a structural engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. >> here we are with some of the things that you might find in a neighborhood support center. one thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. we say here's a charging station tied up to the generation. the essential coffeepot. >> yes. >> maybe a computer, you can check your e-mail with. >> yes. we have our charging station here. and then over here you can see

we've got a whole variety of things, including the all-important different tags. so, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags? >> sure. people want to know what do these tags mean. is my building safe or unsafe. these are the city owe initial tags. staying in your home doesn't require that you get a tag. it just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether it's a safe place to stay. >> you might want to know because regular city services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. also in the neighborhood support center, that kind of information would be available and we've got a little of that up here. >> trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. >> that's right. >> please mark your human waste. >> that's right. >> so, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their

neighboring communities, what else is happening city-wide. and, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. my cat is missing, call me. >> exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if you're really trying to save some of your precious energy minutes, et cetera, or it's not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people. and, so, that's what we're showing here. you can see people are going to be looking for their pets. they're going to be looking for rides. people are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. another thing that you can see here is they're going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be able to stay safer within their homes. so, we're just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here.

but then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. so, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these neighborhood centers are and help deliver some of these supplies. >> they could come from a neighbor, maybe not. thank you so much for allowing us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for >> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after

an earthquake. and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about things you can do you don't have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. >> i want to talk about things a homeowner can do. we have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in. let's look at windows. >> let's assume this window is broken in the earthquake. we have wind and rain blowing in. one of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. if you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, we're going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. what i'm going to have somebody do is they're going to have -- this is an old piece of

shingle. you might have -- everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. it doesn't have to be fancy. they take out this rusty screw begun, and hopefully you have one of these. >> there is one at the neighborhood support center. >> at the neighborhood support center. you're going to wrap this plastic around this board, take your screw. and then screw that in. >> you need a permit for this? >> you do need a permit for this. and you can contact the former head building inspector to get that permit. that's it. now when the wind blows, it's tight and it's not going to pull through, having a single point of contact. >> great. what about this door? take a look at this door. what can you do? let's say it doesn't shut tight. what can you do? >> for the sake of argument, we're on the inside. i can't lock my door at night. i have a very similar, very similar idea. i'm going to take my 2 by 4.

i can put it across the jamb in the door. one. two. maybe i want another one up here, maybe another one down there. but i can go to sleep. and that quickly, i can get it off in the morning. >> terrific. what about the roof up here? we see people throw blue tarps over their roof after an earthquake. that seems reasonable. >> i think the blue tarp is reasonable. the things that people want to know that they need to know is if you have multiple tarps, how you overlap. starting from the bottom and moving up so that you're overlapping this way. so, rain running down doesn't slide under your tarp. >> right. >> and the same technique we did over here, as silly as it may sound, wrapping the end of that blue tarp with your board and then securing that if you can underneath, if you have to on top is fine. but making sure that you don't have an area where the wind is going to get under and bill owe that tarp.

>> the wind can rip it right off. >> and then you're back up there again. >> let's go inside and check out what we can do inside. >> old fun. here we go. >> so, ben, i see you have nails, universal tool right here. >> man's best friend. duct tape. let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an earthquake. this window right here, because it's off kilter, we have open seams all along. i have a lot of air coming through. i want to stay comfortable at night. i want to keep that air out. it's as simple as that, all the way around. >> excellent. >> now i don't have any air coming in. let's say this one is one that would annoy me. everything is a little off. my doors won't stay closed. i take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. and at least it will stay out of my way when i'm trying to live throughout my day. if we're not talking about pressurized water, we're talking about just the drain, sometimes they're going to get a crack here. >> right, sure. >> and you're going to get a leak.

duct tape around that is going to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. let's say we only have electricity in one room, so we're running extension cords across the house. if i'm going to run an extension cord from one room to the other, i don't want kids tripping on it. i don't want to trippon it. i take my trusty duct tape, tape it to the floor, and i don't have to worry about it getting kicked. >> great, great. look at this. let's look at the duct tape here because we see a big -- >> yes. in the event of an earthquake, i don't think we're going to have too many -- too much debris that's safe to put into a plastic bag, even as strong as it might be. these are called vice bags. this is what they use to put rice and things when they ship it. this is something where i take my glass, i can take broken pieces of wood, i can take anything sharp and fill it. and it's not going to puncture and come out. it's not going to fall all over the floor. i've not going to have it sticking out, maybe scratch myself, cut myself or anything like that.

these are a great thing to have. >> you have a little go-to box for emergencies. that's great. thanks very much for joining us, ben. it's really been interesting. and i want to thank you all for joining us here at the spur urban center. and we'll see you again >> i would like to take roll call. [ roll call ]

>> thank you president turman. we have a quorum. and we have prosecutesident dpa. >> thank you. members of the san francisco public, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending the wednesday april 11, 2018, regular meeting of the san francisco police commission. because of some lengthy discussion i believe we're going to have as well as other items off the agenda i'm going to afound announce some squabblichanges. we'll take general public comments right away. item two discussion possible ite items. issuance of bullen tin 18-30e 5

that will be rescheduled. 18-305 will be rescheduled. >> you have that? >> yes, sir. >> you may call the first item. >> general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission on items that do not appear on the agenda but are within the subject matter. speaker will address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individuals or dpa personn personnel. under police commission rules of owner neither police nor personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions but may provide a brief response. police and personnel should refrain from entering in deba s debates. >> because of time constraints and the linength of certain ite.

we will limit items to two minutes. public comment. >> okay. public comments. okay seeing none, closed. >> next item secretary? >> line one. 1a chief's report. report on recent police department activities including major events, weekly crime strands, including staffing over time and announcement. first quarter 2018fdr findings and recommendations and ois summari summaries. >> thank you, secretary. >> good evening chief scott. how are you this evening? >> president turman, i am well thank commission, director

henders henderson. >> good evening. we have a big agenda. i will start with the crime stran strands. starting off with our violent crime we are 38% down on homicide this year. which is really good news to report. we have had 10 homicides year-to-date compared to 16 this time law last year. none fatal shootings down. homicide with firearms down 58%. 12 this time last year compared to 5 this time this year. our total gun violence victims are down 34%. 56 last year, 37 this year. in terms of our property crime, we are also doing well. at this point of the year. sorry. burglar riese down 9 --

burglaries down 9%. motor vehicle theft down 32% which is almost 500 crimes less than this time last year. >> wow. >> down 13%. which is almost 1500 crimes less than this time last year. autoburglaries down 18% year to date and that number represents dw -- i'll do the math, about 1500 crimes less. really good news to report. we will do everything in our power to keep this momentum don't going. i would like to thank many member of the community that work with us to -- with the recommendations and awareness to help us at least get to this point at this time this year. we are in terms of over time.

i asked the commission last week if i could hold it to this week because they caught something last week they had a question about. i have the over time report for this week. as you recall, last month the board of supervisors approved our over time budget adjustment and direct came and reported on that for the general fund and that was due to the northbay fires that caused a high dull degree of over time and the airport had issues that caused the high doegree of over time. the airport needed to increase over time to address the increase in service requests by san francisco international airport and to back fill some position vacant sis at the bing of the fiscal year. many have been filled. we are doing better staff wise at the airport. the general fund related to

participating in the north bay fires that caused the response this past october. we're working with sonoma county for a cost of about 1 .1 million dollars and we do expect it to take time. wh hopefully we'll get our monies as quickly as possible back into the city coffers. we expect that beyond the close of this fiscal year. 3 million for the airport and 19 .2 million for the general vapid -- fund we are 73% into the fizz cal year and -- fiscal year. under expenditures and we're on target as far as our expenditures in the general find. we are managing our over time ni nicely. we have a few months left in the fiscal year. our command staff and captains have done a good job managing over time. i know that was an issue last

year. we have fly week at the end of june. we're monitoring other areas to make sure we stay within budget by the end of this fiscal year. as far as our staffing, our full duty staffing, sworn staffing, is 18-794 .67% below our mand e mandated level. we are 1% higher than we were this time last month. class 259 graduates in june. that will add 38 uniformed officers on the our streets. these gnarlnumbers will help our all staff. we do anticipate requirements in -- retirements in joiune. >> items of interest for this yick woke -- this week

>> this saturday april 14th the seizure chav chavez parade and festival to 4 24th and folsom from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and april 14th and 15th a cherry blossom festival in japan town. we expect about 35,000 to participant in that. there are also three peace park events that will happen at rec and park facilities from april 12th to april 14th. the programming for peace park is with rec and park address having our young folks in the city have programming at the park to keep them engaged and give them something to do. we have officers deployed at the

parks. they're real mission aside from public safety, is to engage with the public, the youth and we think that will pay dividends down the roads in communicati communicationests and give -- efforts and giving kids. it's getting off to a good start. that will include barbecue, free fo food, swimming, health fair and the other parks young blood, coleman and patrero rec center. and that is it for the chief's report. >> okay. i do want to comment on, and congratulate you and the members of the department especially the 31% reduction in auto burglar s burglaries. it's been an issue that has playied san francisco and spotlighted us across the

country as an issue we need to face and your efforts increasing foot patrols and other tactics are paying off. i hope that continues. thank you to yourself and to your command staff and to the officers on the street. what you're doing is making a difference and most appreciated. >> thank, sir. >> questions, comments for the chief? >> all right. let's move on to the dpa directo director's report. >> 1bdpa direct director report -- >> i'm sorry. >> chief, did you want to do the firearms discharge review? >> yes. we have that presentation. >> i'm sorry. before we move to the director's report. one moment. >> no problem.

>> before you begin sergeant crudo, i want to make people entering this room aware ric, because they weren't here previously and they didn't see the monitor because they were on the way here. public comment has already taken pla place. likely whatever you're going to say may be appropriate under the chief's report after this report. general public comment has already taken place. you hear that, frank? did wiyou hear that, ms. brown? good. all right. go ahead sergeant crudo. welco welcome. >> good evening. president turman, chief scott i'm sergeant -- i coordinate the ois investigation team on the admin side. i will give you the 4th quarter 2017 combined with the 1st

quarter 2018fdrb report and an update on the ois investigations. the last time i appeared before you to give an update was november 8, 2018. this is an update from that last appearan appearance. the fdr brick convened twice december 11, 2017, and march 2, 2018. you are have the materials that were dribistributed from the ch with the letter also on the table. they give you a break down of the different issues we're ta talking about today, including a snapshot of where the different investigations are. the fdrb that i just mentioned, first quarter, fourth quarter covered review the following four investigations. 14005, 14007 and 16002. i'll briefly review those three

incidents. ewald 14 -- oiled at at the intersection of california and batteri batteries. a roll over car collision at battery and california. a good samaritan went to assist the driver, the driver fired at them. officers attempted to persuade the armed suspect to vendor but he he emerged from his car po t pointed a firearm at the officers and six officers fired fatally striking him. this was an inpolicy oil officer-involv officer-involved. . >> four plained clothes officers suspe suspected a hand to hand narcotics transaction. two officers approached the subject. the subjects. one of the officers