tough to endorse against someone that you are sitting with. they were there from the very beginning and i'm so proud to

have supported sandy fewer and hillary ronin in their campaigns, they have been such extraordinary supervisors. if they would be willing to come up and sort of keep me company as i get sworn in. and then the other person i would like to invite to stand with me is the former supervisor for district 8. [applause] devin has been a prince over the last year. he has been so helpful with so much good advice. it has been sometimes rough road, this campaign, but he has been wonderful and calling me almost on a daily basis since the election with more helpful advice. thank you.

i wanted to have city attorney herrera swear me in today because he is a an an exemplary public servant. i spent my life working with and for local governments and the last three years was the deputy city attorney in oakland. i have so much admiration for the work that the folks in our city attorney's office do. whether it is defending tenants against the worse of the worse landlords doing terrible things to standing up to trump, to ensuring that we enforce sensible regulations of new industries to all the other things that dennis herrera and his fine office do.

last but not least in anyway, oh, by the way, saving city college. [applause] so, i wanted to have dennis swear me in today. he knows how to do this a lot better than i do. i'll just put this up here. >> just make sure everybody can hear. >> all right. >> everybody here? all right. here we go. raise your right hand and repeat after me. >> all right. >> i, rafael mandelman. >> i rafael mandelman. >> do sol emily swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. and the constitution of the state of the california. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. and i will be bear true faith and allegiance. to the constitution of the united states. >> to the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of the california.

>> and the constitution of the state of the cost. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without any reservation or purpose of ovation. >> and that i will well and healthful' discharge. >> the duties which i am about to enter. >> during such time. >> and during such time. >> as i hold the office. >> of member of board of supervisors. >> and san francisco transportation authority. of the city and county of san francisco. >> of the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations. [applause]

thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. a few brief remarks. they will be brief, i promise. very brief. one thing i want to make sure i do is acknowledge some of the extraordinary public service talents we have in this room. my incredibly able staff to be as given me a list. i want to start by acknowledging gina masconi who is here with us. thank you so much for being here. [applause] for your wonderful children and for all that you represent for san francisco. thank you for doing me the honor of being here for this and thank you tom horn for bringing your good friend here this afternoon with us. we also have with us assembly

member phil tang. [applause] assembly member david chu. [applause] >> supervisor fewer, who you just saw. [applause] supervisor peskin. [applause] supervisor jane kim. [applause] i left out katy tang and i left out katy tang. [laughter] [applause] and catherine stephanie. hillary ronin we just saw. and i do want to thank president cohen for opening her office for us for refreshments afterwards.

for allowing us to use this room. i want to thank our sheriff, vickey hennessey. [applause] and a day like today is a major challenge, i know for all, for the sheriff and the deputy sheriff and i want to thank you for all that you've done with us today. our treasure jose. [applause] >> our district attorney george gascone. [applause] our public defender jeff adache. [applause] we have -- our bar director, of course. [applause] we have our chancellor from city college mark roacha. [applause] and our board president --

>> right here! [laughter] >> brigitte, not to be unacknowledged. [applause] our vice president alex randolf. [applause] past president sia sellby. john rizzo. carmen chu, i didn't acknowledge carmen chu. thank you for being here. do we have school board in the house? matt haney is here, thank you for being here. [applause] our former mayor art agnus. [applause] i think they like you, art. and i think that is it. have i gotten the former city

college christie timwolfbridge. our first gay city college trustee tim, who paved the way and our constitute trustee simmons is here as well. there are some folks who worked on this campaign without whom i would not be here. they are led by my campaign manager, kyle she'lly who is going tsmealie.mckenzie ewuing d director. brendon shucard who did great work for us. and our fantastic interns i hope many of you will be coming into city hall with us. i know some of you are. scott carlson, john tell,

jackie, jock steinberger. amelia -- i can't say her last name. and then i also want to acknowledge mark leno's campaign manager who will be coming in as another legislative aid in our office, aaron mundy. [applause] and last but not least wrapping up his business as a small business owner, bar owner, tom te mprano could not be here but starts next week, he will be my third legislative aid. [applause] i am not even going to try to acknowledge ever single neighborhood, leader, c.b.d. head, labor leader, so many folks, the leaders of alice and milk and there are so many

fantastic folks in this room, i'm going to stop there. but thank you all for being here to share this special, special day with me. i also have another cheat sheet i have to check. we are so lucky to have an amazing city clerk, angela calvillo. [applause] and her staff, not only the sheriff, deputy sheriff but a clerk office. a day like this is a lot of work and you have been so accommodating to us so thank you all for that. so i wouldn't be here without a couple of folks who are sitting out here. i just gott got emotion a two pe who took me in when i was a kid and i did not have a place to live. that is bernie and elinor burke.

[applause] >> they're pretty great. i'm very lucky to have you in my life. to have you two in my life. but i do get easily re. i would like to acknowledge and talk a little bit about two women who are not here today, but who have influenced my life in profound ways. my mother was a very important character in this campaign. i talked a lot about her. she died actually during the course of the campaign. my mother struggled with mental illness for most of her life.

the reason i did not have a place to live as a teenager was her struggles with mental illness. many of you know this, you read the heath nights story or live in strict 8 and had her show up at your doorstep, she spent time in a homeless shelter. when i was older, i was able to intervene in her life and get her into a slightly better place. a much better place. the experience of having that person in my life and seeing the reality of the mental health challenges to folks struggle with has left me with a real certainty that there are people in this world who cannot take care of themselves and it is our job to take care of them. [applause] housing is necessary but it is

not sufficient. and so one of the first things i did after being elected as supervisor was to go up to sacramento, along with our mayor elect to testify and say we're 1045 which is a bill that will expand conserveto rships. it is a tool. it's controversial and complicated. my colleagues have different feelings about it and i look forward to engaging in conversations with them overtime. i do believe if we chose to implement this tool locally it will call our bluff. it's not enough, of course, to say we're going to do conservetorships. do you make the resources available to ensure you provide care for the people who need it? we know and the folk folks who e concerned remember that when we institutionalize on a mass basis people who were different or

unwell that is not a history we should be proud of. i think the san francisco in 2018 can do better. i think we can do better than we did in the 50s and we can do better than we're doing now. [applause] that is a strong commitment of mine. the other person who i think got short shipped in this campaign was my grandmother. my grandmother, esther, is the strongest person who i have ever known. she was a holocaust survivor. when the war broke out she was young. she had a child three months before the war broke out. that child was my dad. somehow my grandmother kept herself and my dad alive through those six years of hell. at the end, her parents were dead, her husband, my grandfather was head and most of her brothers and sisters were

dead. she lost her home, her farm, everything. she had lost basically her whole life except this one little kid who she loved very much, my dad. after six years in displaced persons camps in europe, they came to the united states and my grandmother had that typical american immigrant story where she worked and scraped and saved and built a new life for herself and her family and ultimately for me. i learned many things from my grandmother. i learned about and this corny but the promise of this country and what it's meant here in the united states and around the world to so many people. i also learned she loved this country. she was also very aware of its challenges. she con understand as a county as wealthy as this country and a country she loved so much could have so many poor people. this was at a time when the gap

between rich and poor in the united states was narrowing as opposed to now when it's expanding. those values have been passed on to me from my grandmother and they're very important to me. the most important lesson that i think was the experience of my grandmother's generation shows us is that the fabric of civilized life of decency and civility and human beings treating each other well is surprisingly tenuous. it requires people working really hard ever single day all of us to keep this thing together. now we know that there is a world around san francisco and around california that is getting stranger and stranger and more and more chaotic and hostile and difficult. and i believe, we heard a lot from the mayor elect this morning about the need for san franciscans to come together to get beyond historic difference

and to try and make a future based on the vast majority of the values we share and we do not share with some of the stuff going on out there. i really believe in that. and i take from my grandmother's life and her experience a real commitment to working every single day to try and take the values that we share and make them real and make sure city actually a shining example of what we want this whole country, this whole world to be. i think we can do it and i'm excited to do that work. and i'm looking forward to joining the folks up here in doing it. i have worked, as i said earlier, with a lot of elected officials in my lifetime over the last 20 years, folks around the bay area at city council and lots of places. this body is well above average. [laughter] [applause] >> this is a very impressive set of folks. they don't get treated necessarily always so well.

as people and their commitment and their intelligence and their passion, i've seen elected official who's don't share those great talents, so my pledge to all of you is to be someone who you can trust, who is reliable. and who is a good partner for you and the work we want to represent our diverse constituencies and the city we love. to our new mayor, i want to extend my great congratulations and enthusiasm for her mayoralty. how extraordinary this city is going to be led by an african american woman who grew up in the projects. [applause] >> it was everyone out there this morning could feel a pride in this city and a pride in what we're going to represent in this era that unfortunately will be known as the trump era. but i am so excited.

i know we are excited to work together to solve homelessness and build more affordable housing and give san francisco the 21st septembe century transm we deserve. to the voters of district 8, i want to give them my extraordinary thanks for being willing to take a second look. [applause] >> and taking me at my word when i said i wanted to try to get beyond the petty differences that seem to have divided our city politics for too long. my pledge to them is to everything i can to make good on that promise from the campaign and keep true to that. that's what i'm going to do. thank you all so much for coming and being part of this and i

know there are people who i forgot to acknowledge and i shouldn't and i apologize. i hope you will join us over in president cohen's office for some beverages and some fine foods. thank you, everybody. [applause]

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francisco as exists and fascist as the people that i think inhabitable habit them the bay area continues to change for the better as new start up businesses with local restaurants and nonprofit as the collaborative spaces the community appeal is growing too. >> what anchors me to the community i serve is a terminal connection this is the main artery of the southeast neighborhood that goes around visitacion valley and straight down past the ball park and into the south of market this corridor the hub of all activity happening in san

francisco. >> i'm barbara garcia of the wines in the bayview before opening the speculation we were part of bayview and doing the opera house every thursday i met local people putting their wares out into the community barbara is an work of a symbol how the neighborhood it changing in a a positive way literally homemade wine that is sold in the community and organized businesses both old and new businesses coming together to revitalizes this is a yoga studio i actually think be able a part of community going on in the bayview i wanted to have a business on third street and to be actually doing that with the

support of community. >> how everybody reasons together to move each other forward a wonderful run for everybody out here. >> they're hiring locally and selling locally. >> it feels like a community effort. >> i was i think the weather is beautiful that is what we can capture the real vibe of san francisco i love it i can go ongoing and on and on about the life in the

for the pledge of allegiance? [pledge of allegiance] >> clerk: vice president

mazzucco, i would like to call roll. >> vice-president mazzucco: please do. [roll call] you have a quorum. also with us tonight, chief of police, william scott, and the director of the department of police accountability, paul henderson. >> vice-president mazzucco: thank you, sergeant crenshaw. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, july 11, 2018, san francisco police commission meeting. this is our first police commission meeting, where we should change the heading and have mayor london breed. so congratulations to mayor breed. we'll hear more about that later from commission er hirsch. we have a very, very closed session agenda, dealing with litigation, disciplinary matters, procedural matters, that is done in closed session and will take most of our time this evening. due to the complexity and length

of the closed session items, we're going to limit public comment on the other items to 2 minutes. would you like to say something, commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: would i like to dedicate tonight's meeting to our 45th mayor, london breed. i've known her since she was a teenager. sheff's a remarkable person. we're lucky to have her as the first african-american female mayor of this city. i'm proud of her and look forward to working with her. >> vice-president mazzucco: i agree. please call item 1. >> clerk: adoption of minutes, meetings june 6, 13, 20, 2018. >> vice-president mazzucco: i want to thank the police commission staff for all the time and effort they put into those. any corrections or changes you would like me to make to the minutes? hearing none, do i have a motion? do i have a second?

any public comment regarding our agenda and the minutes. hearing none, now closed. all in favor? next item. >> clerk: line 2, consent calendar, 1st and 2nd quarter 2018 san francisco police commissioner report of disciplinary actions. >> vice-president mazzucco: i know there's been some talk about how much more we can say or what we can say in accordance to the law, but for purposes of tonight, you have these in your packets. is there any questions? is there anything you would lake to ask about this in its current state? hearing none, do i have a motion? do i have a second? any public comment regarding this? hearing none, public comment is closed. all in favor? please call the next line item. >> clerk: item 3, reports to the

commission, 3a, chief's report. report on police department activities, including major events, weekly crime trends and announcements. >> good evening, commission. my report is fairly brief. i will start with the weekly crime trends, beginning with violent crime. our homicide rate is still very go good. our total gun violence victims are at 15% down from last year. 80 compared to 94 come -- compared to last year. 68 shootings compared to 70 this time last year. homicide victims by way of firearms are down by 50% from this time last year. 12 currently, compared to 24 this time last year.

so that is, i think, all good news and, again, we'll keep our strategies going and make adjustments where we need to, going into the rest of the summer. in terms of total violent crimes, we are 1.14% up, which is the difference of about 36 crimes from this time last year. that's being driven by our aggravated assaults, which are up 6.85%. we're looking at 1357 this year compared to 1270 this time last year. in terms of property crime, down 10.82%, being led by a reduction in motor vehicle thefts by 24.94%. about 600 crimes less than -- sorry. about 600 crimes less than this time last year. and in terms of our car break-ins, down 23.4% compared

to this time last year. that's a significant decrease, almost 3,000, little over 3,000 less car break-ins compared to last year. there are really no significant events to report this week, this coming week. i would like to report one of our major crimes of last week was a homicide with a gun, which occurred on july 2 at fitzgerald and aurelis in bayview section of town. the victim, who was shot to death, was actually a security guard that worked in the area. we were able to make an arrest on that particular case and our suspect, who was i.d.s as coleman mason, has been booked and murder charges have been filed on him. the investigators worked really hard on this case and we were able to make the arrest pretty quickly. so they did a really nice job on this one. we also had a fatal traffic

collision at mission and 16th street. it was a pedestrian versus vehicle. it occurred on july 7 at 6:44 p.m. tragic incident. our victim was transported with traumatic brain injury and he ended up succumbing to injuries in the hospital the driver that stayed at scene is cooperating. she's a 26-year-old female from san francisco. again, it was an accident. traffic collision, but tragic situation nonetheless. and one case to update you on. there was an accident involving petty cab that occurred on 6/27 of this year. the other in the petty cab died and we still have the suspect outstanding in that one. it was a hit-and-run collision and our investigators are working hard to try to identify

the person. if the public knows anything, saw anything, that will help bring this matter to closure, that would be much appreciated and our investigators -- we don't have a license plate number to report, but as we get more clues, we'll announce them to the public, so hopefully we can solve this one as well. and that -- that is it for major crimes and crime trends. nothing else significant to report. >> vice-president mazzucco: thank you, chief any questions for the chief? i want to thank the officers at the bayview station that made the quick around in that homicide. it was excellent police work on their part. and i know that with summer -- being a former procedure, there is always concerns about additional criminal activity. what steps are we taking to make sure that people have summer jobs? we should explain what we're

doing out in the neighborhood to make sure that people are doing good things instead of bad. >> thank you for mentioning that. there are a number of engagement programs that we have going. the garden project is still going on. we also have summer jobs at the police department. i don't have the exact number of jobs, but many of our teams, it will be kids from areas of town where they haven't gotten opportunities to work in the industries as interns and get to learn a little about it, so that has started as well. in addition to that, we have a lot of activity with our boys and girls club. matter of fact, two nights ago, i went to the screening of the ghana film, which was really, really good.

former chief accompanied the trip and the parents were there. and that engagement with the kids -- first of all, the trip from talking to many of the kids that went on the trip was transforming. they are very appreciative that they had the opportunity to go. many of them said that they see things a different way now that they've gotten a chance to go to ghana. many of them see how fortunate we are in this country to have the opportunities when have. but those kids are in constant engagement with our officers. and it gives them things to do, activities to do. so our officers and our community engagement and our distri district captains are doing a really good job engaging with the youth this summer. we're hoping that that makes the difference. >> vice-president mazzucco: perfect. thank you. commissioners, anything further? thank you, chief.

please call the next line item. >> clerk: item 3b, d.p.a. director's report, report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements. >> vice-president mazzucco: good evening, director henderson. how are you? >> thank you. doing well. a couple of things. we have 330 cases open and we do see a slight uptake from this time last year when we were at 295 at this point last year. right now, we currently have 297 cases that are open and pending as opposed to the 368 that were open last year. on cases that are over 270 days old, we're at 25 -- 26. 15 of them have other issues tolling them and that time frame, versus last year we were at 106. we have a couple of things to announce or talk about this week from d.p.a. one of the most significant

things is we had a series of meetings with deputy chief mozer and sergeant rightmire on the background issue. and we've shifted to agree to work with the private contractor to do the background investigations. that's a big deal, a big deal. backgrounds before were taking 4, 4 1/2 months to get people approved and we were losing candidates that could not wait that long after receiving potential job offers. so this is a big deal. and we've asked for the amount of what we will pay for that private investigator to be in our budget. a lot of the stuff had to wait for us to get through the budget process. that's a great important. i want to thank the government for working with us to approve what that process should be. in terms of the hiring now that the budget has cleared for the upcoming year, we've started the interviews for some of our

investigator and senior investigator positions. those interviews started last week and will continue and i will keep everyone updated for when we make offers and we're able to bring some of the people in to the staff. we're trying to expand because we have the audit union coming on-line and that work has begun even before we made the hiring, but we need to move them into the department. the team is still meeting with us regularly and we're giving updates. we're sending follow-up requests with the department. as a reminder, the report on that information should be out before december of this year. a couple of things from outreach we did. the department had a table and we did outreach about the new d.p.a. what we do in our role with the community. we have tables set up for the pride festival. pride, as you know, is one of san francisco's largest events for the year.

1.8, i think, folks come into town for that. we also participated in the -- in an outreach for community safety fair in the community of san francisco. and i gave the speech presentation for use of force on investigation and oversight in seattle last week as well. also, just a reminder, the interns we've had for the summer will be presenting next week on their projects. they gave me an overview today. it will be brief, but it's really good. [laughter] they've done a lot of good work in helping us get started. here in the commission today is my chief of staff, sara hawkins and present senior investigator susan gray, in case issues come up during the meeting that we need to talk about. i will also acknowledge that president of the board malia cohen is here in the audience. thank you for being here.

and that's all i have. >> vice-president mazzucco: thank you, director henderson. question for you -- how many investigators do we intend to hire? how many cases are investigator do we have now? and what are our best practices? >> i think what you are referring to is a report a couple years ago because we were out of compliance because the investigators had too many cases on their caseload. per agreement from a review that was done indicating that investigators shouldn't have more than 16 -- i was going to say 17. 16 cases per their caseload. with the new investigators, as you know when i started in july, the first thing i did was start hiring to bring people into the pipeline. i think the caseloads are now -- [inaudible] thank you. i don't know if everyone could hear that. but they were at 30 per investigator and now are down to what was recommending, which is 16 to 17.

>> vice-president mazzucco: that's good news. we as a commission didn't realize that a lot of the cases were literally falling through the cracks because of the one-year statute of limitations and we were hearing complaints from the police department and d.p.a. that disciplinary cases were lost because of this. that's important that we do that. thank you for doing that. keep us apprised. and explain briefly to folks so the public knows that in terms of police accountability we're far ahead of the curve. >> very far ahead of the curve. it's the national civil oversight agency here in the united states. there's about -- a little over 17,000 law enforcement agencies. of the 17,000, about 200 of them have civilian oversight, which is recognized as best practices for oversight and most of those agencies are active and we do a

series of trainings almost quarterly. and it's big trainings. every year, i spend a lot of -- and you have heard from them because the investigators and staff from b.p.a. and o.c.c. was very active and participated in the trainings where we all sit around and talk about best practices. san francisco is typically one of the featured agencies speaking at these oversight conventions because of how far we've already come. how we do it here is one of the primary models of where counties and cities are trying to go to and we know that this is factual because a lot of the oversight -- when you see the federal government come in and do oversight and take over jurisdiction, a lot of the methodology that they use and employ are some of the same things that we do here at d.p.a. so it's a big deal to be asked to participate regularly and we always encourage our staff and myself to appear as often as

possible so that other people can learn and do this training as well. i will say just referencing the information you were talking about before with the caseload for the investigators, the new investigators that we bring in are going to bring that caseload down even lower. so we're at where we've been recommended to before, but we want to raise the standards in terms of the quality of the work that we're doing, so that we'll be able to spread out and have even lower numbers there and i will say just in speaking to the 3304 reference you were making, that we've stopped, i've stopped 3304. so when i came in, we have not had more 3304s falling off the cliff, which are aged cases that go beyond a year of investigation that have not been completed. i will continue to work very hard to make sure we have no 3304, expired cases from investigations that were started that could not be completed within the one-year statute of

limitations, which is partially why i explain at the beginning of each meeting how many cases i have that have gone even past 270 days. so just to explain it all. >> vice-president mazzucco: thank you very much. i appreciate it. any -- commissioner? >> as i understand it, there's a spark report that's forthcoming. when shall we be expecting that? >> i just approved the final draft of it yesterday. the only reason it's not on this calendar is because we didn't give notice for it. if i'm not mistaken -- [inaudible] >> right, right. it's finished. >> i've been looking forward to that. the other question -- and i may not understand this, the background issue that you raised, is that on hiring of new

-- >> everyone. interns, secretaries, para legals. >> for the departments? >> it goes through the department. >> this was the issue identified in the d.o.j. in there being a murky or -- it wasn't a quite focused process that we would like to see. as part of this new -- new contract with the private contractor, what procedures are being put into place so that we don't have any of the same issues arise? >> one of the things that we've done. my chief of staff is here and can talk about this more, but we figured out what are the standards. so it's no longer ambiguous as to i don't know what's expected of me and what's allowed and not allowed. we have standards set by the department for what they were checking for, but now it's all defined, so that when the third party, independent agent does that review, we can say, here

are the standards. if you meet the standards, you are allowed to come in. if you don't meet the standards, you're not allowed to come in. in addition to ongoing and open criminal investigations, we have an added layer of personnel records from the department that have to be evaluated and folks are exposed to. yeah, that's why we have to coordinate something and make it collaborative and get the approval from the department, who previously were doing it themselves, but it was kind of catch as catch can. they have their own process and folks that they're bringing in, civilian and noncivilian. and when ours would come in, it wasn't being prioritized or as efficiently as this model will work. >> and just to understand -- the third party contractor will take over all of the hiring from the outside and do the oversight and follow -- >> and just to be clear, this is not a whole new creation.

the department uses thinks third-party vendor themselves. it's just now we don't have a middle man doing it and we can go directly to and through them and they set the standards to be evaluated and then we can make the hiring. i think it will speed things up quite a bit or at least we'll have someone specifically and directly to be accountable for it, not this one that one and this one this week. that's the big fix, but this is a big fix. >> right. thank you. >> vice-president mazzucco: anything further for director henderson? before we move on, we have the president of the board of supervisors president, supervisor malia cohen. would you like to say a few wor words? no? welcome. next line item. >> clerk: line 3c, commission reports, commission president's report, commissions' reports. >> vice-president mazzucco: we

were dark last week because it was the fourth of july. i've attended the firearm discharge review board and went through several of the cases involving discharges of firearms including a self-inflicted wound by a police officer of suicide. so those were tragic, all were tragic, but we reviewed them for best practices and what we could do differently. so we did that. throughout the course of the week, we've had numerous conversations regarding disciplinary cases that we need to handle. so even though we have not been in session, it's been quite a busy week and a half. and commissioner hirsch. >> commissioner hirsch: i met with chief and commander walsh and the d.p.a., mr. henderson, ms. hawkins, and the staff of the commission. we're reviewing and rewriting the disciplinary grid that's used for the police department. the goal is to make it clearer.

we're starting from scratch. we threw out what we had. it's not a workable document. it's 24 years old, i think. we're going to make sure that serious violations, serious misdeeds, are met with serious penalties. and we're going to make sure we consider mitigation and aggravating factors as we go forward with discipline and we want the officers to know in advance by having a clearer chart and clearer statement what's expected, what's a violation, what's not a violation? that will go far towards accountability with the public. >> vice-president mazzucco: thank you. there's always been conversation about standard disposition and there are defense attorneys on the panel and you don't want to hear about standard disposition. we need some guidelines to follow. thank you for doing that. thank you for doing that.

>> it is a growing crisis and you never know who is suffering from it. which i thought was a great story he shared and very brave of him. i was happy to see the cit

trained officers and learn more about the program. the goal is to defuse or prevent crises before they happen. they utilize de-escalation tactics, time, space, at rapport and using these sort of tools so that the outcomes of these volatile situations are resolved safely for the officers and for the individuals involved, rather than leading to incidents of legal or deadly force. so i was very happy to learn more about the program. i was also happy to learn that currently there are approximately 872 san francisco police department members who are c.i.t. trained, which i think is very important. it is my understanding that cheap scott and the police polie department are going to expand that number and really try and roll out c.i.t. training to more officers and more -- more of the

departments so that there are more officers trained in the actual departments in the various districts. >> thank you. i'm glad you had a chance to go to that. it -- i have to say, to hear there are 872, i knew that number that when we first started this process, it was first mentioned, let's do c.i.t. to hear that, 872 basically represent the men and women of the sfpd who are on the street responding to calls and, you know, i think the public should be aware that, i don't know if it is 50% or 60% of our calls involve people in psychiatric crisis. >> seventy-five% in 2017. there are many mental health related calls and 75% of those involved one of those -- somebody who was mentally disturbed. having officers and people who come into contact with these individuals and having them trained in de-escalation tactics and how to handle someone who is suffering from mental illness or

in crisis mode is vital so that we don't end up in situations that are very disturbing and unfortunate. >> just to follow up, i don't want to repeat anything, it really is incredible to see the work of these officers are doing. this is the work that is addressing a lot of the community's concerns about use of force, but it saves lives. i mean a genuinely khaki lives have been saved. we saw a video of an incident where it was clearly a life or death situation where through the training and procedures that have been implemented by the department, yo, you know, we've taken situations that could have ended up -- with the use of deadly force pack justified use of force, and having a situation where everyone goes home safely. that is something that the community, the city, we should all applaud and it's inspiring, i think you all of us to see that. it was wonderful to be part of

that. >> i have -- there was initially pushed back. there was complete buy-in from the officers. they take pride in wearing the c.i.t. buttons in their training because they see the results. as one of those things, as a commission, when you put your head down to pillow at night, you think we have done something that will save lives. but it starts like everything we do. it starts with the push back. a lot of conversation, a lot of collaboration where people agree to disagree but agreed to meet each other in the middle. we get that. i'm glad you get a chance to see that. i am proud to see that number is so high. it does save lives. and the officers, especially. and the officers, especially the younger ones, really like it. >> i'm not sure, but i think the commissioners and i, since we last met, we met with the consultant that are working with the d.o.j. and we got a better idea of how they will go forward in terms of reviewing the other

d.o.j. recommendations and how they will work to with the police department. i think we will continue to work with them. >> i appreciate you doing that. >> ok can you call agents reach uniquely. >> commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration of future commission meetings action. >> any announcements? >> test our next meeting will be here in room 400 at city hall. next week on july 18th. we will begin at 5:30 pm. >> thank you. is there anything regarding agenda items. i know our agenda starting to get full. >> one thing i did notice, when we were here on june 20th, one of the requests that the commissioner had requested along with myself and even other commissioners was that we would have on the agenda today,