one of the best i've had in a long time. you know it's delicious b i have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. we're behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. and we've got a whole array of pastries here. honey and nuts and cinnamon, all kinds of great ingredients. this is amazing. here's another yummy pastry made with filo dough. oh, my god. really sweet and similar, it's lighter. this is what i like. we have a lovely row here. looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. i'm going to bite into it. here we go. um. this is great with armenian coffee.

now we're making some incredible armenian coffee. >> we buy our coffee, they have the best coffee. they come from armenia, specially made. and would you like to try it? >> i would like to try. >> would you like sugar or no sugar? >> no sugar today. i'm so excited. really earthy. you can really taste the grain. i think that's what makes it so special. really comes out. i hope you try it. we're having a great time at the armenian festival. we ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. i don't know about you, but i have to go down to the food. check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums

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. >> welcome. good morning, everybody. thank you for coming out on another amazing sunny day here in the city of san francisco. i want to thank you here for being on this critically important topic. you know, last year was a very challenging year for our residents here in san francisco and for our visitors and

everyone else who parked their cars on the streets of san francisco. nearly 31,000 cars were broken into in 2017 in our city, which is a crazy number. a total of 25% increase over the year before. and let me say i'm going to be the first to tell everybody and to make sure the residents of san francisco know that we believe that this is completely unacceptable. the status quo on our streets is completely unacceptable, and we have to do things better. our city cannot continue to thrive if people are afraid to leave their car unattended when they're here to live, when they're here to work, when they're here to shop or visit any of our amazing attractions here in san francisco. as i said many times before, parking your car in san francisco should not be a game of roulette. and i will say that since becoming mayor and previously as a member of the board of supervisors, i was the first one -- one of the first people to point out the problem and to acknowledge the problem, though, and i think it's

critically important. and also to acknowledge the work that our police department has done in response to this epidemic that we are seeing and we have seen in our streets beginning really in earnest last year. and the first to commend our police department for the efforts that they have done. you know, chief scott did not point fingers or blame others or make excuses. our police department went to work. last year at the end, they doubled our foot patrols here in san francisco, creates a unit specifically to deal with property crimes in san francisco, and we dedicated more resources at our district stations to report and investigate these crimes. and today as you've seen in the papers, we're proud to announce that there are results from some of these efforts. for the first three months of 2018, we have seen an over 17% decrease in our auto break-ins. we are seeing real progress. but again, the status quo is

not okay on our streets, and as a city, we are not going to rest on our laurels. we have a ton of work left to do. we will continue effective, targeted campaigns to address this challenge. so today, we're doing a few things. first of all, we are rolling out officially across the entire city of san francisco, our park smart campaign. what you see on the bus behind us, it will provide more informational resources to our residents and to our visitors. we are canvassing our car burglary hot spots and posting public messages throughout the city of san francisco that if you love it, don't leave it. and i want to thank in particular kelly nice and his entire team for their work on this advertising campaign. we do not want to give thieves the opportunity to take possessions in our cars. and i want to say this is a very coordinated effort between

our police department, numerous city agencies, our community partners, and officials from the tourism industry. this initiative is a key part of our effort to make sure crimes don't occur in the first place, and i'm going to quote chief scott in saying a crime prevented is much better than a crime solved. we are complementing these efforts as well with greater resources fore investigative teams. today we're expanding new efforts to expand fingerprint training at our different police stations throughout the city of san francisco. some three dozen members of the captain's staff from all police stations will have fingerprint training. they'll be joining our officers on the force who already have these skills, and by expanding these services and this training, we're going to expand our fingerprint database, providing new resources to crack down on car break-in offenders, and particularly those who are serial offenders,

and we've seen some of them being caught in our papers over the last few weeks. we know these measures, however, together are simply not going to solve the car break-in epidemic here in san francisco, we they are important next steps and important next steps to residents of the city, to visitors of the city to make sure they know and everybody knows that we are moving forward, and we recognize the issue and we are going to continue to do more. this approach is also going to include additional staffing in our police department. earlier this year, i asked chief scott to conduct an internal staffing analysis within the police department so we can determine the resources that we need within our police department to make sure we tackle this epidemic. let me say this very loud and clear: we have some of the best police officers in the country. the men and women that serve us in the san francisco we should be incredibly proud of, and we need to give them our respect every single day. they put our lives on the line

to protect us here in san francisco, but we need more of them, and i am committed to funding additional increases in our police department as we roll through our upcoming budget season here in san francisco. i am also urging our criminal justice partners, our judicial branch, our public defender and district attorney to work together on our proposal to have one judge specifically dedicated to auto break-ins. we need to make sure that there are consequences to the actions that are happening on our streets. like the other major issues facing our city, we are not going to solve this alone or with one single solution. by exploring a wide range of options and by collaborating together, we are going to make -- and let me say this, we are going to continue to make significant progress in this area. i want to close by thanking a number of different people and groups who have been

involved -- first of all, chief scott, to you in particular, to the entire police department, many of which are behind me today, to our 311 department, to the office of economic and workforce development, to our department of emergency management, to our office of short-term rentals, sf travel, and the partnership with our tourism industry, our community partners today, like troy from our fisherman's chafsh community benefits district. i mentioned kelly nice, but i'm going to mention him again, from nice advertising. thank you for their incredible help. and everyone else in the entire city family and every single resident that is demanding that we make san francisco and we are working to make san francisco a much safer place for everyone. so thank you all for being here today, and with that i would like to introduce the chief of our police department, chief bill scott. [applause]. >> first of all, let me say thank you to mayor farrell for the leadership that he's providing on this issue. as you stated, collaboration is

the key. it takes all of us working together to fight crime. to my left, i have some of san francisco's finest, our police officers from central station. we have our community, troy, and members of our community. we have our parking department here. it's a collaborative effort. no one entity can take on this issue alone, and we are so proud that we do have collaborative partners in this city. we're thrilled to be working with our fellow city agencies, our community ners, our leaders in the tourism industry, and we as a police department, as i said, we can't do it alone. that said, the news that the mayor just reported is very encouraging. but in addition to that, i'd like to point out, too, first three months of this year, our homicides are down by almost one-third. our burglaries are down, and we know as the mayor stated that our auto burglaries are down, and we will not rest on our laurels. those of us that have been in

this business know that we have more work to do. now the mayor has outlined some steps that we have already taken, but i want to put some context to what that means in terms of the drop in auto burglaries. we're talking about 17% for the first three months of the year. that's over 1,000 less victims, 1,000 crimes that we believe were prevented. doubling our foot patrols, we know that especially hads deter crimes, and these officers standing behind me are some of the best in what they do. we've reallocated resources towards our property crimes. last week, those investigators put together a spring of investigations that led to the arrest of several serial burglars in our city and the region. i want to go back to something that the mayor said and something that you'll hear me

say over and over again. when we talk about crime and particularly auto burglaries, prevention is the key. prevention is the key. we're asking people not to make themselves easy prey. make no mistake, we're not blaming people for being victimized. that is not what we're trying to do here. this is about doing everything possible to keep your property safe and to avoid being an easy target for somebody who's willing to take your belongings. the park smart message isn't just a reminder to drivers, it's a reminder to those that want to prey on others that we still have police officers that will make arrests. we still have undercover plain clothes officers doing surveillance. we still have a district attorney that are going to charge those crimes. we still have prisons, and we still have jails. that is a a part of law enforcement that will never go away, but we want to turn the

tide a little bit because those things are very important, and we will continue to do them, but we have to put more emphasis on prevention. we talked about the fingerprinting, and the mayor mentioned this. you know, we've had a lot of good arrests, and we know we need to increase our fingerprinting capabilities, so as the mayor said, we're training 36 personnel to do just that. we're encouraging people if they do have an auto burglary, go get your car fingerprinted. we need to get those fingerprints in our databases so we can help solve some of these crimes. in addition to that, with the mayor's leadership and guidance, we hope to have more officers in the field. we encourage the public, if you see something, say something. we encourage you to call us when you see these type of crimes or any type of crimes being committed. together, we will continue to make this city safer for everyone. again, i'd like to thank mayor

mark farrell for his support and his leadership on this issue. we could not do this without strong leadership, and that's what it's going to take is leadership from all of us to turn the tide on these crimes and make our city safer. thank you. [applause]. >> and with that, i'd like to introduce actually one of the two people that helped create the park smart slowigan, and that's commander david lozar. >> well, i want to begin by thanking our mayor, mark farrell, and our chief david scott. a little history about park smart. back in 2014, i served as the captain of central station, paying very close attention to all the auto burglaries that are that were taking place, and as the chief has mentioned, arresting those responsible is a primary duty of ours, but

what's equally or more important is prevention, the message that those that come to our city, who enjoy our city, the mer chapters and the residents and the visitors to simply keep their car empty. it was back then, supervisor mark farrell, district two, we worked together on putting ambassadors up on lombard street, and they had a goal of messages all the visitors coming through about leaving their cars empty. i'm sure mark farrell, you remember when we worked on that, and thanks to you, we got the ambassadors up on lombard street educating everyone. but i went to my police advisory board at central station about needing their help, and the community is very important in education and crime prevention messages. and i went to troy campbell who's the executive director of the fisherman's wharf district. and i said troy, we have to get a message that catches people's attention as they come through.

we thought about park smart, and so locally here, we put up our signs, letting visitors know they need to keep their cars empty while visiting san francisco. we're excited today because our mayor and our chief have decided to roll this out citywide, and inviting the marketing person -- marketing people that definitely contributed, the nice marketing firm, as you see the bus behind us. we're taking it to a whole new level in 2018. so we're grateful, we're grateful for all of our community partners. we're grateful that we're able to get the message out on crime prevention, and as we work on getting the message out of crime prevention, you can see the results that are taking place. with that we'd like to invite up our community partner, the executive director troy campbell, who was behind this from the beginning, to say a few words. thank you very much. [applause].

>> good morning. so again, another round of thank yous, but thank you, mayor farrell, chief scott, commander lozar for making this a public service announcement. i would also like to thampg the d.a.'s office because we were awarded a neighborhood justice fund grant last year that helped us produce more of those materials. when park smart message was skeeved by the central station police community advisory board, it relied on cid, dic's, community organizations, all to put up the money to produce these materials and share them in their respective areas, however the goal was always to get this to be a citywide initiative and have it proliverate across the city. so for me, this is a great day. this psa is something that everyone can help do to help curb this issue. fisherman's wharf alone, we had

45,000 people a day that we're turning over, so just handing outpost cards with this message is not sustainable, so having it in static locations on signs, on meters, on buses, i think is going to do a lot in helping get this message out. will it solve this problem? no. it's one cog in the machine with the d.a.'s office, with the mayor's office, with the police department to help curb this problem. and i just want to ask everyone out there listening to me, to make it part of your vernacular. when you're talking to visitors, friends, anyone you run into at a cafe, the importance of this he is a message. this is something that people need to know, to park smart. thanks. [applause]. >> so thank you, troy, for that and again for all of your leadership here, and thank you all for being here. we're wrapping up right now this part of the press conference. what i want to do is direct

everyone. commander lozar is going to lead everyone there on a fingerprint demoto see what we're doing, so if you have any questions or want to see that, go over there. i just want to thank those behind me, and all of those who made this happen, in particular, our police department and the men and women who keep us safe every single day. thank you for being here.

>> (clapping.) >> in san francisco the medical examiner performs the function of investigating medical and legal that occurs with the city and county of san francisco from a variety of circumstances in san francisco there is approximately 5 thousand deaths annually i'm christopher director for the chief mr. chairman the chief my best testimony a at the hall of justice on 870 drooint street that is dramatically updated and not sufficient for the medical chairman facility i've charles program manager public works should a earthquake of a major are proportion occurs we'll not continue to perform the services or otherwise inhabit the building before the earthquake. >> we're in a facility that was designs for a department

that functions and in the mid 60s and friends scientific has significantly changed we've had significant problems with storage capacity for evidence items of property and also personal protective if you're doing a job on a daily basis current little storage for prirjs are frirnlsz we're in an aging facility the total project cost forever ever commercial is $65 million the funding was brought by a vote of go bond approved by the voters and the locations is in the neighborhood the awarded contract in 2013 and the i'm the executive director we broke ground in november 2015

and that started with the demolition of existing facility we moved into the foundation and january so pile foundation and then with second construction of the new facility. >> one of the ways that we keep our project on time on budget and we're having quality to have regular meeting and the variety of meetings with construction process meeting as well as cost of control meeting and i'm a project manager for public works the office of chief commercial we want walk the project site when we sign up and also with a contractor insinuates for a change over we need to verify what or what was instead of. >> the building is 42 feet tall so it is two stories and 46 thousand square feet roughly we're that's a great question to

be on time and budget have the roof complete a the exterior moving with the site work. >> and as you can see we've got a lot of the interior finishes installed. >> in an effort of an differentiate the facility that designed to work for 72 hours. >> not taking into account there was a lot of structural updates made into this building not seen in other construction throughout san francisco or other barriers we have friday morning examiners from 8 to one public comment monday to friday because of air circulation we literally have to shut the doors and so the autopsy is done without staffing being able to come and go or exit the space and literally lock down the autopsy in the new facility we have bio build one door opens

and closed behind you you can gown up and go through a second seizures of doors that has its own independent air supply and now in the exterior opt space having that middle space have greater flexibility of staff as they move in and out of the area. >> in the current facility investigative unit has small tiny, tiny place in the area of the new facility is almost doubled in all divisions from the current facility and the new facility. >> the planning we have here gives them the opportunity to have the pool needs to complete theirs jobs in a much more streamlined fashion. >> we're looking forward to have secured parking to minimize

the egress of you know visiting and the members of the public but really to minimize the investigators remaining remains from our advancing and so the facility. >> we have a new visitors area we're building that is a little bit more friendly to families. >> one thing you may notice in the room no windows there is no natural light not good for most autopsy but in the new facility at new hall we made that an objective they want to insure we were able to look up in the middle of exam and see the sky and see natural lights. >> that's one of the things the architect did to draw in as much light as possible.

>> we have staff here onsite we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz to consider to house on site this meant we needed to design and plan for locker room facilities and shower rooms the ability to sleep. >> third of the construction going into the building has been by contributions of small businesses. >> part of the project is also inclusive to the sidewalk have all new sidewalks and new curve cuts and landscaping around the building we'll have a syrup in front of the building and rain guardian. >> the medical examiner's office has been a several if in their contributions of the understanding the exception and needs. >> it's a building that the chief medical examiner has been looking forward to quite a few

of the. >> it is extremely valuable contribution to the, neighborhood address san francisco as a whole. >> the building will allow is to have greater very much and serve the city and county of san

they tend to interfere. can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the 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. .

>> good evening. i would like to take roll call. (roll call) we have a quorum. also present the director of dpa and standing this is as assistant chief. >> welcome to the wednesday, april 18, 2018 san francisco police commission meeting. the items before we start with reference to the closed session which we have a busy closed session. line item a taken off for further evaluation in light of the koss sell ladecision of the united states supreme court. with reference to public comment we have a large closed session

calter and busy. public comment will be two minutes to facilitate the calendar. before we proceed, sometimes we adjourn in the memory or honor of san francisco police officers who have passed. we recently lost lieutenant chris martinez. 1525. we will add june in his honor tonight. nobody is around when we do to adjournment. i know that lieutenantnent chris martinez was close with the police commission secretary. i will tell you about the lieutenant chris martinez. he was star 1425. he joined on december 2, 1991 as member of the 170th recruit class. she at taped rank of master sergeant. you know that is the general of the enlisted. she became a police officer.

her first assignment was at the bay view station. he also worked as field training officer, appointed to sergeant in 1998. she served at central station, richmond station. at park station as sergeant, she was responsible for main taining the lineup and taking care of the troops. she liked it to be very busy. when she was working. she was well respected by the men and women who served under her. she was known as a working cop. she was promoted to lieutenant in 2010. she served at bay view station. soon she was tapped to take over the field training office, responsible for training many, many new officers. probably close to 800 at that point. in 2013, chris was transferred to the san francisco

international airport and provided strong leadership to the night watch officers and worked closely with her good friend deputy cleave dennis smith. throughout her career she was successful and thoughtful. sheep was a true friend. she cared about the deeply about the safety of the cop and people of san francisco and wanted nothing more than to come back to work with her friends for another shift. the police commission sends condolences to family and spendses and to st. louis, missouri and to the wife of five years. we have lost a gentle warrior who kept us all on our toes may we keep her in our memories and her wife. she was a great police officer. many don't understand our department is one big family and she was part of that family. it is irrelevant who you are.

iit is the men and women who wer the blue. we will add june in her honor tonight. [applause.] please call line item one. >> adoption of minutes action meeting of february 21, 2018. >> any corrections or changes you would like to make to the minute? >> yes one correction that in the general comment section. anna's last name is different. it is duck corit dickoreles. i will send it to you. >> we can add don' we can adopt.

any public comment regarding adoption of minutes. all in favor. thank you next line item. >> motion passes 5-2. consent calendar request donation totaling $300 from the chinese chamber of commission, new asia restaurant and far east restaurant for the san francisco police activities league. >> you have the request in your packet. any questions or concerns? hearing none. >> i move approval of the consent calendar. >> second. >> any comment with the donation? hearing none public comment is closed. all in favor? aye. >> it passes unanimously. 3a. discuss chief's report on recent police department activities including major events, weekly

crime trends and announcements. >> good evening, welcome. >> good evening vice president and commissioners and director and members of the public and assistant chief here for chief scott who is out of town on a business trip. my report will consist of crime trends and statistics. these are good. gun violence and homicides. homicides down 31% compared to last year. shootings victims down 26% compared to last year. homicides with firearm down 58% compared to last year. total violent crimes down 2.8%. property crimes down 15%. auto burglaries a topic of discussion in recent months, and i am pleased to announce

year-to-date 2018 compared to 2017 down 20%. a lot of enforcement to put the patrols and undercover activities are paying dividends and crime is dropping in that area. that concludes my report. i would like to thank you commissioner for recognizing lieu tenant martinez she was a dedicated member of the police department. it is a great loss to the department. >> any questions for assistant chief? hearing none please call next line item. >> 3b, dpa director's report. report on recent dpa activities and announcements. . >> good evening. i will keep it brief, thank you. right now just in terms of staff, we have 254 pending cases, down from 417 last year at this time. sustained cases this month is

actually up higher. up to 25 sustained cases. we were at nine this time last year. we are down to this week 32 cases that we have been investigating beyond 270 day mark. that including the cases that are being told for criminal or administrative issues and dependent of our investigation. this time last year we were at 114 cases that were in that category. in terms of new personnel issues, we have 28 candidates forwarding to the senior investigating position. it takes a long time to hire to bring the investigator staffing up. i had a new attorney joining us this week from the san francisco district attorney's office

replaced inez frankel, who retired. we have a new investigator joining us next week to handle and manage the mediation coordination. wwe are still trying to bring in a new it coordinator. i am here for the evening and supported by one of the senior investigators. right here. if anyone has any questions or issues we can help with during the commission tonight. someone is available to meet with him. thank you so much for being here. >> you are hiring amid dation coordinator. we have the mediations? >> they are ongoing. i am bringing in a cordnator because a want to expand or mediation program. it is one of the most -- it is one of our highest rated programs in the agency. i want to do more of it. >> for the members of the public

the dpa has amid dation program where someone says an officer was rude or didn't treat me like i thought i should be treated. they bring them both in the room. the officer hears i didn't realize my voice sounded rude. one of the first levels of the use of force is our voice. the reason we weren't looking at your eyes, we are trained to look at your hands for safety. the people in the room and they say now, i know why that person did that. the officers get a sense, okay, maybe you can see the older officers are more user friendly. it is a great program. i will make sure it doesn't stop. >> part of my point is to establish restorative justice throughout the process. not just cases to mediation. it is restorative for folks that

may complain so they have a better experience with the complaint and dealing with the department how the complaints are resolved. >> any questions? >> i want to know where he bought that suit? >> i would tell you a crazy story about neiman marcus. i have to be honest. marshalls. >> thank you. you are the best dressed guy up here. >> commissioner's report. >> commissioner turn man is unavailable. we do things as commissioners. wwe go to the public meetings.

i had a great opportunity in the change of society is coming from the youth. i had the opportunity to go to the university of berkeley and meet with the football team. as one of the football alumni to it is there and have a conversation with 65 young brilliant men about what is hatching in society and about policing. it was refreshing. they have interesting viewpoints. when you hear from the older crowd that comes here, these kids that come from impoverished areas, impacted areas have a different perspective. it was a great dialogue. i did that on behalf of the police commission. it was great. they want me to come back again. next time i will bring more bodies. that is what i did on behalf of the commission last week.

doctor marshall. >> this sunday i am on the radio show that you have been on. sunday night 106. kmel. i am going to do -- we are going to tackle the topic of explicit bias. you know i am the commissioner for the bias portion of the d.o.j. recommendation. we are going to have assistant chief chaplain, lieutenant williams, director of training and bias training at the acade academy. sam romarian, and dante king for the city. we will clarify what bias is all about for the public. then we will talk about what the

department is doing currently. i think it will be insightful especially in light of what happened at starbucks. >> it is great. he did the implicit bias training for the department. >> i have heard good things. we will explain what bias is and talk about the department's efforts and talking to people there, looking forward to hearing about that whole subject. i will send a notice out. i will send it around to everybody so they will know. >> thank you, doctor marshall. >> next line item 3-d please. announcements and schedule of items for future meetings. action. >> i want the commissioners to know i have reached out to

commissioner turman to put on the agenda an item for a presentation for wealth and disparities for the black community. they have met and they have crime stats -- i am drawing a blanco that. they have all of these numbers and figures as it relates to san francisco and crime in the black community. they would like to make a presentation. i am working with commissioner turman to put that on the calendar. i am drawing a blanco that one thing. >> if you thought about getting hrc to host it and put a forum together. >> we could host it here at the appropriate scheduling. >> census numbers, crime stats, how it affects the community. >> that is fine. thank you. >> any other announcements? >> i would like to add to the

general public information the police commission will be dark on wednesday 4/25. next meeting on wednesday, may 2 at 5:30 p.m. city hall room 400. >> all right. now it is time for public comment. >> i wanted to ask why we don't have the agenda the vote for the dg. 5.02 that we had requested to vote on it with the correction. >> i don't know. >> commissioner turman has asked we put that off after may 2nd. >> for the commission's information if you would like a particular item on a particular date, you need a motion and a

vote to override the rules of order. >> if you like an item on the next agenda if you have a motion and vote for a particular time you want that item to be heard, you can have that done. >> then we need it on the agenda for the vote? >> no. >> can we take a vote? >> you you can do that. >> i thought it was unanimous if we put it back. >> that is discretion to the president of the commission. they can derm what order, when and how that getting on the agenda. to overcome that it would be a vote from the commission as a whole. >> without being on the agenda? >> correct. it would be under future agenda items. you can put it on there. as long as the whole commission has the specific time and date that is certain when you want that item it will be placed on the agenda. >> okay.

unfortunately, we are not sure if we have a quorum on the first day in may. i would say it has to be on a future agenda, and it has to be a future agenda item. i move we do that. >> the second week of may? >> let's agendize it. >> just to clarify that is to put it on. did you want to have the whole commission vote on that? >> absolutely. >> before we do that. we will take public comment before that motion. you can do that on this agenda. it is for scheduling purposes only. >> i am sorry. for clarification that is the date commissioner turman said to put the meeting after may 2.

it is may 9th. >> okay, fine. >> now it is time to go ahead, sergeant ware. >> line 4 department bulletin. >> line five public is welcome to address. >> no, we still have -- that is reference three a, b, c, d. >> we are not on 4. >> we haven't got to 4. general comment on 3. >> do we have a motion for public comment? >> it is not public comment. it is public comment on those items. >> it is time for public comment with line items 3a, b, c, d, the chief's report, director's

report and commissioner's reports. >> you have a motion on the floor for the second week of may. >> 5. 5.02. it is a scheduling motion. can somebody second it? >> i second that. >> now public comment. >> i am a resident of san francisco. i am going to introduce you to the group from the marina district here to inform you about vital concerns for the marina cal hollow district. our concerns are almost directly opposite from the statistics that you just heard. everything is on the rise in our neighborhood. in this presentation we will discuss the discrepancies and the solutions that need

implemented we feel need implemented. the following issues will be addressed by our neighborhood residents. leaf will give an over hood, alexa will address the need for cameras at palace of fine arts. joe will speak to seniors in danger. barbara will give a statement. david will give a statement on behalf of eric. michael will present the need for more police and vehicles. nicole speaks about businesses in danger in our neighborhood. erica about prop 47. shirley addresses the lack of communication between parties. patricia will give concluding shots and summary. each person has two minutes. i hope that they won't be interrupted by a cell phone. each person has two minutes. i hope you will keep this quote

from edmond burke in mind. evil succeeds when good men do nothing. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening. my name is leaf deautsch. i am an attorney and commissioner. i am here to support my fellow residents who have been working and organizations to combat property crime in the neighborhood and she. i want to thank the commission and department. it is hard work for little pay. i appreciate your efforts as it pertains to car break ins. we heard statistics about 20% reduction this year over last year. it is great work. we hope we can keep it up. we need to keep that momentum going. my wife and i had our car broken

into in october. i have been beating this drum about auto burglaries. it seems we are starting to see results. that said we are at three times as many now as in 2010. we will take the good news of 20% reduction. we need to redouble the efforts to build on that momentum. i want to talk about two things. the department staffing and safety. on the staffing piece, when i talked to officers particularly captains. the consensus is they need more officers. the numbers 200, 300, 400 more officers. while the foot patrols are great, it is taken out of one hand putting it in another. if we have the foot patrols we need to increase the overall size of the department. thank you very much.

>> we moved to san francisco six years ago and noticed a significant increase in crime. i am not here to complain when the home lanman -- homeless man tried to enter my home or one threatened me and dropped his pants as i hurried away. terrified. the countless car break-ins daily in my neighborhood. i am here to demonstrate the community is mobilized. we welcome the new captain. we recognize the number of changes including more patrols and beat cops walk the street. we applaud the changes. they are crucial. we hope that our effort to show up at hearings are recognized as

change. we intend to be more active and look forward to working with all of you for a better outcome. i will share a message in the neighbors who fought for cameras for five years at the palace of fine arts. we were successful in the back and raised money for the front. they have not been provided. we need your support on this issue. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good evening commissioners. i am retired army veteran and resident of the marine cal well district of san francisco. i am here to discuss the commission's policy about street blocking during an active time. the safety of tourists and police and elderly are at stake. the palace of fine arts suffered the high esbreak ins in the city

and 70 veterans. is at risk for a tragic accident killing a b bystander or police agent. the active jeopardizing law-abiding citizens by limiting the apprehension of police officers is not the answer. this policy will exacerbate the expanding need for police protection in the city bursting at the seams in population and struggling with increasing crime. start with police protection of our most vulnerable area of smash-and-grabs and reinstate the policy of street blocking during an active crime. thank you. >> you mean straight blocking meaning allowing the police to chase suspects? >> i am referring to the policy of not allowing the police to

block an eptrap or ex -- entrance or exit with the vehicles when the criminals or bad guys are trying to escape. >> like saturday and sunday after they break into cars, yes. okay. thank you. >> for full disclosure i am a marina cal hollow resident. i am happy that patricia has people speaking about our neighborhood and what we are going through. >> good evening. i am barbara jennings resident of the marina. i am reading this on behalf of whitney. my garage was broken into on four occasions. my road bike was stolen and car damaged. i witnessed an extremely blazen smash-and-grab on chestnut on thursday in december at 8:00 p.m. two men pulled up in a car.

one runs out with a baseball bat and smashes the back window of the car and glass was all over the ground and on my feet. he grabs the duffle bag and the car speeds away. it was clear they knew what they were doing. they were part of an experienced organized crime group. this is frightening because of the baseball bat. it appeared they had no regards for harm to pedestrians. is it possible to place tiles a tracking tile in duffle bags in cars so police can find the groups responsible. we live in the center of technology and innovation. we should be using the technology here to improve the community we live in. third incident. i was assaulted by a man on a bike while walking down chestnut in the evening