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 in october 2017.

the man rides by and reaches up my skirt and keeps riding away. he was wearing a hoody. i could not get a description. i was terrified and felt violated to the point i felt paralyzed to walk any further, to go two blocks to my apartment. the police officer should know this is occurring on chestnuts. they need something to protect residents. they should be on the radar so this did not happen to anyone else. thank you. >> good evening. i am david jan ne. i live between bay and north point. i am retired army veteran. i am reading a statement from eric kingburse re. i am concerned about the increase in properties time. on the way to work i saw the

broken glass add cut bike lock on the polls. it is getting more and more prevalent. it seems it the moving past stolen packages. it is inside our homes. i have seen this first hand. in january my building was broken into. the man kicked in the side door, wrenched the block and broke into the garages and found our bicycles. at 1:30 a.m. he took out a grinder and cut the lock on one of the bicycles. luckily, that is all he took. it is still quite a jarring experience for the residents in the building. we cannot prevent all crime and no one is asking that. we must do something about the property crime in san francisco. people should feel safe in cars, neighborhoods and homes. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good evening.

my name is michael and i have lived in the marina with my life for 29 years. i live on bay street. it is platently clear to me the quality of living and safety has done nothing but go downhill in the past several years. last year there were more burglaries, auto break inalso, more trash in the streets. words were in worse condition, more homeless, more traffic, more used needles on the streets. i could go on. i find it difficult to see how living in the marina has been enhanced by the cit the city le. i have heard from the past supervisor and authorities the police department is under staffed. could you please tell me the total number of officers employed and the total number of

officers on the street? next, can you tell me how many more officers the city needs and how quickly take city can get to that number? i read where there is a request for 288. i have seen different numbers. we are aware the population of san francisco has increased by over 100,000 people in recent years. i think that needs to be taken into consideration. with the city budget at 10 plus billion dollars, unemployment at an all-time low and rip roaring economy. i don't see how it can get better for the city coffers. can you enlighten me your action times and tim timetables? what can we do to help? thank you. >> next speaker.

>> good evening. i am nicole address. i live in central hollow. my family is associated with commercial and residential real estate. i want to bring up about the merchants on chestnut street. just last thursday one of the merchants was attacked by a homeless person and there was over $800 worth of lost items to their store. the smal small businesses on chestnuts as well as the city cannot afford the losses and endangerment of lives. we need at least 35 new officers at our station and we want to work with you lobbying city hall to make this happen. as a side note we appreciate giving us captai captain engler.

thank you. >> good evening. i am erica sandberg. i live in knob hill and city on the community advisory board on homelessness. i am here to talk about propositions 47 and 57. primarily 47 and the impact on this city specifically. it has bell boldened criminals and put citizens in danger and make officers work harder with no results. the city is in chaos. if you go to any safe way in san francisco you will watch thieves pluck out whatever they like, walk out of the store. i have personally chased them down for fun. i volunteered services. i will help you out here. it is insane. i would like to focus on drug dealing. if we focus law enforcement attention to pressure on street

sales i i very much believe many of the city's pressing problems under 47 and 57 will dissolve including the incredible problem with needles on the streets, i sweep them up every day. i just watched somebody inject in his ankle on the way here. any related crimes that have to do with sales. we can debate whether there is an increase in crime, the heightened drug problem is obvious. on that note, i would light to promote reducing crime and keeping california safe. it is a statewide coalition of business owners and public safety leaders to add it to the november ballot. i am a huge supporter. i would like you to be. i would like to reverse the damage the laws created to san

francisco. i want to offer a warning. i have heard more people who are democrats and liberals say i am about to vote republican. a word of interesting warning there. >> i will tell you what happened in november. we have many homeless on the corridor. one morning in november at about 3:00, we heard someone crying and screaming in the parking lot of my neighbor next deer. the crying and screaming got worse and worse. i called the police 553-0123. 45 minutes later they weren't there. called again. 45 minutes later they came. the thing is by the time they

came, the person in question was so agitated that he started getting food from the bins in the restaurant next door to that house and started throwing the food against walls. okay. the next day being concerned for a person who has a mental illness and needs help, i called homeless outreach team. they said they don't deal with those situations to call the police, but the next time something like that happened, if it happened before 11:00 at night, call the mobile assistance unit. i called the unit and asked them what to do. i am taking the phone numbers down. they said call the police 911. i called 553-0123. we have called 553-0123. they told us to call homeless outreach. what i am trying to get at here

there seems to be little coordination among the agencies that serve the homeless. there are regulars in the stream, homeless people need homes, mental health assistance, and nobody know. the police come out and they bring them in, take care of them. they do 51-50 on them. the homeless outreach team has no idea they exist. >> thank you very much for coming. we know that the police are underpaid and under staffed at this time. you as a commission can do something. one, change the law about the streets, number two, a police officer was knocked down by a car, no people around but he

could have shot out the tires. he is not allowed to do it. you have got to consider modifying your rules concerning that. number three, coordination of departments. i brought this up at marina school over four years ago. no one is doing it. this commission needs to be proactive on getting this coordination going. it will help you and save a lot of time. number four, 911, 311, 553 all need to be improved. they are telling people different things for the same item. number four, we desperately need to work with you as a team. we are not here to pick on you. we are here to try to change the system so that we can have a better issue. we have 40 homeless dumped on us

in two place in the marina from san quentin every week. it is a very hard thing to deal with the mentally ill. this commission should make a big statement we need to improve the mentally ill programs in the city. number four, i can give you good information. the homeless that was chasing people around with a knife took six weeks to serve. he has a refraining order at the corner of lombard. the homeless person attacking the gardeners. >> thank you, ma'am. >> any further public comment regarding line items 3a, b, c, d? i will respond briefly if i may. no further public comment regarding those items.

with reference to the cameras, i will talk with the captain and the chief will do the same. those are controlled by park and rec. it is important to get that done. we know every saturday and sunday you hear the car break ins and sirens and chases. we have in a struggle on baker by the palace of fine arts sunday afternoon. the officer was injured and so was the suspect. with reference to the safe way store in the marina. some safe way stores have a 10b officer. the marina safe way doesn't have it. it is a mental health institution. you go there someone is walking out stealing everything. they help themselves to the food. don't take food from the take out. they put hands in there. my mother does not like to go to

save way. she is strong but we don't want her to deal with those issues. it is time for the neighbor to talk to the marina safe way about a 10b officer like the other safe ways have. with reference to staffing and a beat officer. i have been told we will have a beat officer on chestnut street because the homeless and mental health issues are not too dissimilar to other districts. it is picking up. they are stealing from merchants and they are scaring people with young children and the elderly. i was told we will get a beat officer. i was concerned under the last catch continue be didn't get a beat officer because apple pays for a officer to be there because they get ripped off when the officer is not there. i was told we are getting one. officer pond is his name. with reference to coordinating with mental health. we are doing that.

our officers 60% of calls for service are people with mental health crisis. that takes them off the street. when they deal with that person they are off the street for a while then they let them out. one officer said somebody was 5150 three times in a day. you need to put pressure on the supervisors and the mental health profession about letting them out. i have seen them on chestnut street, yes, they are dangerous. with reference to staffing it is 1971 full active duty police officers without including 200 to 300 at the airport and 200 to 300 on maternity live, administrative leave, military leave and unable to work for a certain disabilities. those are not active duty but

they exist. they can't be on the street. staffing supervisor yee is looking at that. that is a study done and cities similar to san francisco should be apartment 3300 officers not 9971. one of the ropes we are okay with that we are such a small city it is easy to get to point a to b. that is impossible because of traffic. that is an issue officer yee is working on. we are taking this seriously. we need more help on chestnuts street. the squeaky wheel gets the degrees. it is good to see you here tonight because we have been ignored. commissioners, anything? >> next line item. >> do we need to vote? >> i had a first and second on the motion to add that matter to

the calendar. aye. >> it passes unanimously. line four discussion to bulletin 18-035 court appearances by members. action. >> good evening, sergeant. good evening. i am sergeant gary buckner with professional standards written directives. the item before you is department bulletin 18035 which was issued by chief scott on february 22, 2018. in the spirit of keeping the commission up-to-date on any changes that we make that change or amend department general order we submitted this to you. there is nothing significant about it other than procedural

changes. >> line out those for us. . >> are four items. first, one it is clarifies what a successful court appearance actually is. before there is confusion what say court appearance actually was, and we had to define it within the bulletin itself to indicate the beginning and ending of the court appearance and what it was. next it clarifies the overtime rules with regard to members that are off-duty. third there is a new form that the officers when use when they are asking for a continuance, and fourth one is it changes

procedures for stand by with the sf district attorney with regard to how officers check in to standby sup. previously they were doing it by telephone now it is on a website. >> mr. henderson and i are former das and are familiar with this. police officers make arrests in the evening, called to court with the subpoena during the daytay. there are issues do they attend, how long do they attend? that is what this is addressing. there is still the salmon card, right? >> they have to check in and sigsign in to ensure they did appear. >> having looked through this, i think it is perfect and works for the prosecutors and defense and for officers to have clarity. times have changed.

officers don't live in the city. they need to sleep. this addresses all of those issues. any questions, commissioners? >> commissioner hirsch? >> how does this change the general order? does it conflict? >> it doesn't really change the general order, rather it clarifies procedures. if that is considered a change to you, there are procedures and changes to the order. this is really procedural. procedural clarifications, but as far as changing something in the general order itself, no. >> what happens an officer says i wasn't there because of this. this is clarification. they sign off on every department mental bulletin saying they read it and that is the rule. that is what this does.

anything further. >> do i have a motion to accept the changes? >> so moved. >> second. any public comment regarding the department general order? >> public comment is closed. all in favor. aye. unanimous. thank you very much. >> line five general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding the items that do not appear on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speaker shall address those remarks as a whole not to any personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment dpa personnel or commissioners are required to respond.

individual commissioners and dpa should refrain to any debates or discussion during public comment. >> time for general public comment. good evening ms. brown. how are you? >> good evening everyone. i was wondering last time they were going to write a letter to the dw. has anyone did that? >> commissioner turman was going to check with the commission staff. >> we did draft a letter under president truman's name waiting for his signature. >> if he is unable to sign it, i will sign it and change the name. >> we have it here. >> i would like a copy. again, i am here to talk about my son who was murdered

august 14, 2006. we were at a meeting yesterday with chief scott, the mothers and myself on evanss street talking about unsolved homicide also. i brought up again about the posters and the murders still going on. the point is that we keep reinventing the cycle. these mothers are still talking to people about unsolved homicides and stuff. then our filings back up again. we are sitting at the meeting. i walked out. the cycle goes on. nobody is doing nothing about it. it is bringing the mothers there to keep talking about their crime and no one is doing anything about it. i was just, you know, with chief

scott maybe w we can put action instead of talking about it. what are you going to do for us now? okay, it is okay. we are going to talk to the investigators and do this and that. yeah, he is not here today for me to address it. thank you anyway. >> if anybody has information regarding the death of aubry. there is a tip line (415)575-4444. for those in the public miss brown comes every week to talk about the murder of her son and give more information than she -- tonight she didn't give as much information. they know the suspects but not enough evidence to charge them with the brutal murder of her son. thank you for coming. any further public comment. public comment is closed.

please call next line item. >> line 6 public current on all numbers pertaining to item 8 belows. closed session. >> public comment about the closed session matter es. they are confidential under the california constitution and case laws. please call the next item. >> vote on whether to hold item 8 in closed session including vote on whether to assert the attorney client privilege with regard to item 8a san francisco companied section 67.10. >> i move to go to closed session. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. we will now move to closed session.

. sion. >> 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