>> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come.

he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who lly spport each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner.

so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel

like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that.

>> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide

range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to

do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh, this is awesome. oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪

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so i want to say first of all thank you all for being here today and i would like to start today to take a brief moment of silence in respect of our former police commissioner julius turman who was a great champion of public safety and a true friend to the city. so if you would please first join me in a moment of silence. >> [moment of silence] >> thank you. our thoughts and condolences are with his friends and family during this time. he's absolutely missed here in the city of san francisco. so i want to first do a round of thank yous. there's a number of individuals and organizations who helped lead us to where we are today. first of all i want to thank our

police chief bill scott. i want to thank our police commission, we have police commission president tip pi here. thank you. members of the board of supervisor, jeff seehey and katheri katherine stefani here today. our city departments, our controllers office for tirelessly working to find the right amount of staffing that we need right here in our police department. you know, since taking public office i repeatedly stressed that i believe we have some of the best men and women in our police department here inside of san francisco. proud of all of you do who are here today in front of us. i am not afraid as the mayor of the city and county of san francisco to say how proud i am of the men and women of our police department. every day they are putting their lives on the line for us as san francisco residents, they deserve our respect and our gratitude.

when we are so fortunate to have such dedicated men and women on our police department, we simply don't have enough of them today. san francisco is an ever changing city with ever changing neighborhoods. we cannot be bound by antequated staffing levels that do not reflect today's reality in our streets and in our neighborhoods. that is why today i am very proud to announce that my budget plan this year will include the addition of 250 new officers being deployed on the streets of san francisco. -- san francisco from our business department. in the fiscal year alone we will graduate 80 officers in the current academy classes, add 50 new academy recruits. we will also increase opportunity for promotions and shift highly trained civilians into positions that are

currently being staffed by sworn members to allow them to be out patrolling the neighborhoods of our city. these new officers will act as a catalyst and be the building bs of our 250 officer plan. when these officers join the department they will be working on existing initiatives that have been undertaken to strengthen our police department. i have been proud to partner with police chief scott on innovative new public safety measures which include increasing our city wide foot patrols, adding investigative teams at district stations and expanding our burglary and serial crime units. as we know last year was a very difficult year for property crimes here in san francisco. over 30,000 alone in our city. an absolutely unacceptable number. since undertaking our initiatives we have seen property crimes decrease by over 17%.

we will not rest on our morals in san francisco, we will not let that be the new standard. we will continue to move forward and press ahead on reforms that make our streets and our neighborhoods safer for the residents of san francisco. it's also important to note that these increased officers will be more more than just a deterrent to property crimes. they will be reassuring presences in our neighborhoods of san francisco ensuring that people feel safe and securing the communities they live in here in san francisco. they will have the tools and the training to work with our communities and within our neighborhoods here in san francisco. these new officers will also be supported by additional investments in our equipment and resources.

my budget package will also include $7.5 million over the next 2 years to purchase over 130 new police cars that are needed in our department. it will include over $3 million to equip our police officers with tasers. in addition my budget will include $1.7 million to help support police reform measures. we will continue to support and fund on going efforts within our police department to make sure all 272 recommendations offered by the obama department of justice are fulfilled. when i've talked about my priorities as mayor of the city and county of san francisco blic sety has always come first. today's announcement is a reflection of my commitment and let me repeat, i am so incredibly proud as mayor of this city of the men and women that serve us in our police department.

these words are not empty, they are not a political game, they are the truth. they are what san francisco will follow. it's impacting the public safety commitments reflects the needs of our entire city. we are pushing forwrd with a bold new vision for public safety in san francisco. i am honored to be here with all of you today to see these efforts through and to make sure that the future of san francisco is a safe and secure one for every single resident in every single neighborhood in our city. so thank you for having me here today. again, i'm honored to be with all of you. with that i would like to introduce the chief of our police department, bill scott. >> good morning. let my start my comments by

thanking mayor ferrell and his team. she is invested in the future of the city. recruits that we have in the team today represent our future. the budget presented today represents a significant commitment by mayor ferrell towards their future and towards the future of their police department and the future of this city. the budget envisions the sfpd as a more responsive, more productive and better equipped police department to face the challenges of modern policing and enables us to build our successes by creating the program tha programs that we know has a powerful and positive impact. the mayor talked about foot patrols and the increasing the foot patrols. we would like to sustain that. increasing the burglary and serial crimes opportunity, seven day staffing, support 4 our healthy street centers which we see tremendous progress and

addressing the many issues that face our city regardless homelessness. the expansion of our psychiatric emergency response team to help these experiencing mental crisis. it also means that we can continue the important work of carrng ouour usdoj recommendations for collaborative reform and improving our department to become even better than we've ever been. this plan allows us to bring in an additional 250 police officers and it will provide increased opportunity for promotions including 20 new sergeants and two new lieutenant positions. the budget provided by mayor ferrell allows us to shift highly trained civilians into positions that have been held by sworn members enabling us to redeploy those sworn members to the field and also provides as we stated badly needed resources including 130

new police vehicles to help our ageing fleet. we've been working really hard in the strategic frame work and it centers arnd safety with respect for the public and our members. this budget will empowe us to increase our collaboration with our city and community partners to address safety challenges, to improve our responsiveness to the public, to find the future that we want for the sfpd and more importantly for the saf of our city. we want to be a modern and inclusive police department that provides safety. i'd like to thank mayor ferrell and the people of san francisco for their support of our officers. with this commitment the hard working men and women of our police department can continue to rise to meet the challenge of the growing needs of our city.

thank you very much, mayor ferrell. now i would like to introduce the president of our police commission. >> [applause] >> thank you chief and thank you mayor ferrell. this is not part of my prepared e -- remarks but if julius was here today he would take a look at this crowd and say he is proud of you. in fact, we ask all of you to live up to his expectations. two weeks ago on wednesday night he stood in front of the police commission, barely was able to stand for the pledge of allegiance. then after when he was being honored he said something very important for you-all to hear. i'm very proud of the men and women of the san francisco police department. so behalf of julius i share that with you tonight. i would like to thank mayor ferrell, the supervisor stefani and sheey for recognizing and addressing the crisis that we are facing with staffing.

i've been on the police commission for a long time as both a state and federal prosecutors here in san francisco so i'm aware of the need for policing. given the current state of our criminal justice and mental health systems, our officers can barely respond to the calls for service. they are busy dealing with repeat offenders and people in mental health crisis. by adding these police officers to our police department it will make the street safer for our citizens and those who visit our city. there's days when i walk from e parng garage to my office and i see the things that we all see, unsightly things of people in crisis, people shooting up. it's not acceptable and the only way we can address that is adding to our women power and men power of the san francisco police department. this is a great move. we as a commission thank the mayor and the board of supervisors for putting this forward. with this it will give our

officers more of an opportunity to be involved in community policing and, yes, proactive policing. so mayor ferrell, thank you on behalf of the citizens of san francisco. this is great and this is long over due. thank you very much. >> [applause] >> thank you. with that i'd like to bring up two supervisors who have been talking about public safety since literally the day they came into office, jeff sheehey and supervisor katherine stefani. >> thank you, mayor ferrell. welcome to district 8. i'm so proud to have the academy in my district. it's a source of joy for me. i want to thank mayor ferrell for his leadership in putting this forward. so last year as i came into office one of the things that i identified almost immediately was a gap in public safety resources.

i raised this with the budget and finance committee and was the voice in the wilderness. so i am so grateful that mayor ferrell has put this initiative forward. i'm also grateful to chief scott. some of the innovations are tied to our need for additional officer. the tactics that have reduced police officer involved situations have calmed down but those tactics require more boots on the ground. the second thing is foot patrols. so in my district we now have foot patrols on the castro. i know those guys, those folks. it's great the see them. people in the community know them. we had an incident at twin peaks. four officers assigned to -- so after the incident at twin peaks before the -- before the incident at twin peaks, the murder, we had ten car break-ins a day. after officers were assigned

there for the following month one. so presence is prevention. in dolores park we had an incident. the chief, other city departments, officers have been assigned to dolores park. every single neighbor surrounding that park talks about how improved that situation is. this is by having forces there, people there. it makes our neighbor safer. every day i talk to people in my district saying when can we get a foot patrol, have officers we can see. this will make that possible, not just in my district but across the city. i want to give a shot out to folks here today. i have been to graduations of academy classes and i have so much respect for the work that you're going to be trained. it's amazing. you put in such hard work. i am so proud, i wanted to shake your hand when you get that

badge pinned on you. i'm even prouder when i see people who had a badge pinned on them, whose hand i shook and see them walking the beet in my neighborhood. thank you for stepping up and protecting the citizens of san francisco. you are outstanding. the more we graduate the prouder i'll be so thank you. i'd like to introduce my colleague, supervisor stefani. >> [applause] >> good morning, everyone. i held my public safety forum in district 2 because the bottom line is people don't feel safe. whether it is because of our past crime epidemic, reports of a 7th grader being mugged on his way home from school or the ramped trueiram

ramped drug use we see on our streets, we must do more to keep the people of san francisco safe. i believe that we have underinvested for years. today's announcement by mayor ferrell is a huge step in the right direction. what i love about mayor ferrell's approach is it is thoughtful and designed to saturdays -- address san francisco's current needs, to help the homeless delivering help to the city's operation center and to equip our police force with the resources they need like working patrol cars to do their job and to help keep us safe. our focus should be on recruiting the best and the brightest by training our officers with all of the reforms that we've all been trying to implement. i have been so incredibly lucky in my 12 years of public service in this city to work with some of sfpd's finest, captain dylan,

commander manox, captain silverman, captain yep, officer matt loray and so many more. these individuals have truly helped shape my view of how incredible our police department is and how much talent we have here. i just want to thank all of you for stepping up and doing your part. i've also been a prosecutors and i've worked with so many police officers that have always shaped my view that police officers are good and we need them and i can't thank you enough for your service. i want to thank the mayor, chief scott and the command staff for their hard work and thoughtful analysis on the invests that we as a city need to make in the department. i just want to tell one quick story in my direct. so many times we hear the

negatives. the other day someone said i have to tell you what happened to me with a police officer. i got a pounding on my door at 7:00 in the morning and i went out there and i saw a police car and i was so nervous. they open it had door and the police officer said -- opened the door and the police officer said, dpd is going to do some care and towed your car. they asked them to move their car and saved them $600. there's so many stories about how important your work is. it's my hope as we increase our force we also do so in a way that bridges any divides with our communities and that we work together to create an environment where everyone feels safe and cared for. that is what san francisco is all about and i absolutely thank you for your service to our city. thank you. >> [applause] >> thank you, vooup --

supervi supervisor. as mayor i want to thank you for your service. we are proud of you. we look forward to years of service ahead. so that's going to conclude our press conference. we'll be in the side room if any media wants to talk to us after wards off camera. thank you all for being here today. >> [applause]

>> vp commissioner mazzucco call roll. [roll call] you have a quorum present mr. paul henderson and chief of police william scott. >> ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday june 20, 2018 san francisco police commission meeting please call line item one. >> reports to commission discussion. a, chief report, report on recent police department activities including major

events. >> before we go forward i forgot to say at the beginning, we have lengthy closed session agenda. we're going to limit public comment to two minutes >> line item one, report of discussion, choose report on recent police department activity weekly crime including staffing current staffing levels and overtime and announcements. >> good evening chief scott. >> i will start off with crime. starting with violent crime. homicides specifically. last week i reported that we had between homicides year to date. it was actually homicides. there was one that was actually out of the city resulting from an i want that started in the

city but ended up with a death outside of the city. that is actually not homicide. should be on our statistics. year to date, we have 19 homicides as compared to 33 this time last year which is 42% reduction homicides. shooting victims we have total of 70 gunshot victims and that is a 17% reduction from last year. we had 84 at this time last year. with firearms we are nine compared to 23 for last year at this time. which is a 61% reduction. of homicides with firearms. those numbers will continue to try to craft our strategies and going into the middle of the summer. hopefully we can continue with the same type of progress. we're down 1.3%.

that number has been driven by aggravated assault. which is the fairly large number. we're 5% up in aggravated assault. which equates to about 65 crimes more than we were this year. rapes we're down by 5% difference nine below. at this time last year 180 compared to 190. robberies we're down to 6.3%. 1396 this year compared to 1491 last year. with aggravated assaulted that number is 1230 this year compared to 1165 last year. human trafficking reported incidents are up significantly from this time last year. although it's a small number. significant percentage increase. we have 37 this year compared to 12 last year. we believe that our policy

change that we had this past year with our sex workers that we worked on with several of the advocacy groups, we believe that's actually making a difference. we believe more people are coming forward. encourage people to report violent crime if they are victimized. particularly sex workers who often time gets victimized. we're asking officers not focus on the minor crimes and the sex crimes that might be associated with them becoming victim of violent crime. we believe that is making a difference. i know it's anecdotal. these numbers are significant. although we're talking about 25 additional crime is significant in that regard. hopefully it is making that difference we think it is.

it's very hard to deal with the problem. in terms of property crime, we are 12.09% below where we were at this time last year. in terms of number about 3500. as of year to date. compared to 28,748 this time last year. our auto burglaries which has been a focus of our department for this year were 20.98% down. that is a difference of almost 3000 crimes exactly. burglaries we are .82% down. small number about 20 crimes difference from this time last year. motor vehicle thefts, we are almost 600 car thefts down. bottom line on our crime numbers we are very pleased we're going in the right direction.

we'll continue to craft strategies and make adjustment where is we -- adjustments where we need to. terms of major events this week, this seek pride -- this week is pride week. pride a rai -- pride parade on sunday. we have robust department. we're working with the organizers to ensure that we have coordinated security plan with the organizers. there's couple of things i like to report on. today there was an incident in the tinder lawn which an officer assaulted solo officers was assaulted by unknown person who threw a bottom th bottle and hie

head. he was taken to the hospital and he is doing well. i spoke to him before the meeting today. we don't have a suspect in custody. i know there was a story of interest. lot of people wanting to know how the officer is doing. he is doing well. we are still investigating to try to determine who the suspect was who threw the bottle. just one other incident to report. this was from an assault that got quite a bit of media attention couple of weeks ago on may 24th. about a month ago. when a 38-year-old homeless man was lying down on the sidewalk by mcallister. the subject approached him and viciously kicked him in the face and head area. it was captured on a surveillance video and it was shown on the news. we do have a person in custody

on that case. 58-year-old male and our investigation revealed that he also participated in another provoked attack that happened on may 29th. both of those cases have been filed by the district attorney office. our officers who actually recognize the suspect and made the arrest and was actually a really good police work. we're very pleased we have this individual in custody and off the streets. >> president turman: it shows good police work. it's a sign of the frustrations in the community and see somebody do something vicious like that, it's type of crime that we deal. it's unprovoked. we need to take care of it. >> thank you. one other thing part of the report was on staffing. just on our staffing in terms of our ftes, we're currently 1816

full duty ftes. that's below our 1971 minimum staffing number. we do have a recruit class to -- that started this week. we have 50 recruits in that class. we have 37 officers and ftos. we'll continue to try to build on those numbers. as far as overtime, we're winding up the year. we are still very much within our overtime bunch. i'm happy to report that. we had ten days to go. we'll encourage overtime expenses for our pride department. i know that was of interest to all the commissions in particular to dejesus. we are below. our folks have done good job managing overtime. that concludes this portion. >> any questions for the chief?

please call next line item. >> line 1b, dpa director's report. report on recent dpa activities and announcements. >> good evening director henderson. >> thank you. we are at -- i like to start off with the stats. we're at 279 cases open this year. just by contacts, we have surpassed the number of open cases from last year already at this time. which was 267. we have closed 220 cases. there's still in my open cases are 290 as opposed to 401 open cases from last year. we are still holding at 23 cases that are past 270 day mark of those 23. we still have a number of positions i won't repeat the same ones from last week that have still in background. we've been having series of

meetings with my chief of staff and with the department on amending trying to streamline our backndgrou process. those conversations in that meeting will continue the first part of next week. wile keep the commission updated. there was a big issue for us. one of the solutions is likely to include us independently doing our background with structure and guidance from the department. that will be a budget item for me. which brings me to next issue. we're in the middle budget. i testified last week the department did what the board and meeting with the board again tomorrow. i believe the department is as well on the budget. i'll share the final budget once it's finally approved. we have been continuing to expand our connection with

community and doing more events and partnership with public agencies. last week, we were at the june celebration, juneteenth celebration. we'll be doing the same thing this week at the pride festival where we'll have a booth both saturday and sunday. i would like to close by saying one of the things that we met -- we did this week was sit down with d.o.j. and they are here. i'm excited to seeing the boots on the ground such as it is. to welcoming them into the collaboration and the partnership to address some of the concerns from the report that we are all working on. i'm here today along with one of my senior investigators, sarah, as well as some of the interns from the office. we'll answer any questions as

necessary. >> director henderson, number of complaints are up to more than what we had last year. any reason or rationale for that >> lot more people are learning about who the agency is and what we do. one of the things that was real challenge for us was along access. so folks that were coming into the office that spoke any other languages had some severe challenges including death and hard of hearing. those challenges have been for the most part, resolved. we have ways of communicating through our networks now. we didn't have the equipment that we should have had at the front desk to answer questions from folks walking in from off the streets. we had closed off the doors

inadvertently to folks that wanted to talk to us and ask us questions. >> commissioner hirsch: anything further for director henderson? >> line 1c commission reports, commission president's report, commissioner's report. >> thank you very much. we had a busy week. it started with last week myself and commissioner attended the graduation sunday night. graduated 36 brand new officers and suffice to say, it was an incredibly diverse group. it was great to see their families. it was great to see the new members of the sfpd. you just look at the whole dynamic. you look at the award. going from markmanship awardeds to awards crises intervention

training. deescalation techniques. force options training. just strength of chasing and running physical fitness. there's combinati o ability to do physical fitness and react appropriately. the awards have changed to certain extent to represent the changes that this department has been going through. that was good to see that. thank you both commissioners for joining me at the graduation. if you make noise you have to step outside. you got one warning. next, we had in addition to that, the academy graduation. i attended yesterday as representative from the police commission and medal of valor selection committee. the heroism we saw from many of the officers young and old, men and women of the san francisco police department was beyond belief. i can't wait for commissioners to see and hear the story. proud to be part of this. additionally, during the course of the week, i was interviewed

the fei in san francisco, going through their inspection. i think it's important that the interview police commissioner about our thoughts about the fbi and i being former assistant u.s. attorney. it was natural for them to ask. i have to say, question was asked, why are you not in the jttf. i said because the people in san francisco have no confidence in the united states department of justice. when i was first working on that, i had confidence in the u.s. department of justice. it doesn't exist anymore. when you have an attorney general quoting from the bible, citing why we should keep children separated from their parents, very hard for me and other commissioners to convince the members of the public to have confidence in the department of justice. hopefully things will change. it's ironic that that supervisor came -- interview came before this happened. i want to share with you, i do

think the men and women of the fbi that work here are incredible. i dealt with many of them. lack of confidence and things that happened with director comey, the assistant director and things at the d.o.j. put us in a bad spot point to stay that,ecause represent the public. i felt very strongly about that. that's our activity throughout the course of the week that i was involved in commissioners. commissioner hirsch. >> commissioner hirsch: and i t was the first meeting of the state ag working with the state and the department meeting was overseen by the d.c. conley. we spent little over an hour talking about the roles people would play and the what the organizations will be doing --

thank you. >> i attended the townhall last week regarding the ois, the officer involved shooting that occurred in north beach which was about three blocks from my house. i had both professional and personal interest in it. i wanted to stay that i thought -- i'm obviously not going to be commenting on any of the substance of the presentation. as far as the presentation, i wanted to say that i thought that chief scott and the department did a really good job in keeping the presentation neutral. coming to this is somebody has been on the commission for only a few weeks. i had concerns about the manner

in which other investigations and other departments have prejudged investigations, acted as advocates for their officers over the objectivity of the investigation. didn't see any of that during the townhall that i attended. i want to commend the chief for that. >> vice president mazzucco: com. >> commissioner dejesus: we went to the use of force meeting. we met the people from hilliard, diane reagan, i can't remember the other person day. diane and denise were there. deborah, sorry. whatever. they were there. it was really good. first time i've been able to attend. there was a really beneficial

question and answer period for all of us and as well as the community. i think that was good start. i'm looking forward to working with them. >> i wanted to follow -- >> commissioner hirsch: the working group that i attended with commissioner dejesus and commission el e-- elias. we got a lot of feedback from community that was present that really appreciated the manner in which the working group was led. encouraging questions and providing responses and having an actual working group pip heard concerns that hasn't always been the case. i wanted to acknowledge that this working group was done in a way that really courage --

encourage the community. >> vice president mazzucco: i want to encourage our commissioner. they have jumped in speed ahead. it's not us on wednesday nights. it's us on monday morning, monday afternoon and everyday pretty much. i appreciate it. thank you for jumping in. i was on my way to the use of force. i was quorummed out. that's the first time. there was three commissioners. after spending most morning there, i went back to my other job. so thank you. >> vice president mazzucco: line item d. >> commission announcements and schedule of items identified for consideration future commission meetings action. >> vice president mazzucco: any announcements? >> yes the commission to the general public, the commission will be dark on june 27th and the fourth of july, the next meeting will be here room 400,

july 11, 2018 at 5:30 p.m., city hall room 400. i like to make an announcement about the crisis intervention team award ceremony open to the public on june 21st between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the scottish wright auditorium. >> vice president mazzucco: i like to have at least one commissioner present. anybody available to go? i will be out of town tomorrow. >> i will be attending. i don't know if i'll make the whole time. >> vice president mazzucco: agat you've seen when you hear the stories of the deescalation techniques and lives saved without using force. it's tribute to those officers too. great. please call next public comment. >> we're still on d.

>> commissioner dejesus: one of the things we did discuss at the use of force, we went through lot of the different recommendations that made. it was refreshing some of them we kind of forgot. coming out of that meeting, there was a discussion about clarity and giving information as much information as possible. being as traitor -- transparent as possible especially when it came to our discipline report and our firearm discharge review board. it was brought to our attention. los angeles and other areas give much more detailed information. they are guided by the same principles we are under the copely act. they give information about the event, the discussion, the how they reached the decision that they reached. they are very detailed.

we should provide a copy to all of us. what we like to do is we would ask that the commission put it on the agenda so that we can change at least two reports to provide more detailed reporting similar to lapd board of police commissioners. which enable the public to understand the complexity of the circumstances, the type of investigation the police department conducted into the i want and the basis for the civilian police commissioner findings. we believe this is critical to fostering public trust. that's something other departments report do. ours are like one photograph. it wasn't really lend to the strategy -- not the strategy but the transparency how we reach decisions what we reached and what we were looking at. it's something we like to agendize and change that. [applause] >> vice president mazzucco: ple.

commissioner hirsch. >> commissioner hirsch: we had same issue come up at accountability. we're taking similar -- i asked the city attorney's office to look at what los angeles is doing and to give us an opinion, their opinion as to why we couldn't do something like or closer to that. that will come back to accountability. sounds like we're working on the same thing. >> commissioner dejesus: we're all governed by copeley. >> vice president mazzucco: com. >> . commissioner elias: i think that one of the things that was evidently clear and the use of force working group was that the fact that the public really

wants transparency. i think that we are all in agreement that is something we also want as well while respecting the laws. >> just to brief follow-up. i think everybody said it already. i know that even before i came on the police commission, time and again, people in the community have addressed concerns with the way the disciplinary process, isn't transparent as it could be. nobody is suggesting that the commission taking any actions in violation of settled law, copeley etcetera. just to follow the lead of l.a. and other jurisdictions, who have taken actions.

i would join in the request for to agendize it for discussion and a vote. >> initially the calendar should be for advice on what basically, what other police departments are doing and what's within copeley and the law. >> the san francisco sheriff's department is also doing it. >> i don't know that for sure. the city attorney office did receive the request. we are working on it. >> vice president mazzucco: obv. july 11th may not work. let's go with july 18th. there's clarity for the public

and commission so we're in sync what other police departments are doing and in accordance with the law. >> if we're going ask for advici would go little further. we have a sample already what te sheriff's deputy does. >> i sent sheriff and the l.a. county to the city attorney use office last week. i'm hoping in the next week or o we'll get a response. >> vice president mazzucco: putt on for july 11th. if there's an issue with it, wel move it to the other day. >> it's marked on the 11th so if there are any issues we'll deal with those and move the action. >> vice president mazzucco: we'l see what we need to do on the 18th. >> i want to make sure that whee get that memo that dpa about gea copy of that advice