the game was much better. that is what we do here. we call the rules, the regulations, and we call the fouls. turner classic movies had casablanca playing during the world cup and at the end of it, traditional for the ceremony, they had singing in the rain. i also want to remember that mario woods is a sculpture with a five police officers pointing their guns at him. i would like to place that sculpture on the right and left side of 850 bryant. the entrance. when we demolish it, that sculpture comes down. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. after mission -- mr washington can't just pause for a moment. are there any members of the public who wish to address the board during general public comment? please get into line. >> you are welcome to call me ace anytime you like because i

am in new york place. i am in the place people know as city hall. but today you all know it i call it silly paul. i am also here to commend london breed, even though i don't agree. but i am here to support you. they know you know -- >> supervisor cohen: please address the board as a whole. >> yes as a whole. [laughter] my name is ace. welcome to city hall. you have been here as long as i have. i am here to say number 1, i want a total investigation on the pressroom. there is no black mai committeed their. yours truly, i'm looking like a clown. you all know what i do. i have been doing this longer than anybody -- including supervisor peskin. although he is a master politician. so is london, and so is our city and presidents. they are all masters at manoeuvring.

all part of politics. but you know what i call it? paula tricks. you are tricking. it all depends on who you are picking. ladies and gentlemen, my name is ace and i'm here says -- to support anything for our community. particularly in the western edition. our supervisor has 90 days. to prove, not only to me but to our community that you will move us forward, not backwards. i have 29 seconds. tell everybody, ace is on the case to be at city hall if you want to get into contact with me. dial (415)525-0358. thathat is how you get in contat with ace. anyway, my left one is watching. how are you doing, sweetheart? let me say this. i am not new to this. i am true to this. i am here to do just what you

are doing. welcome to city hall speed you think you, ace. neck speaker, please. >> thank you mada madam clerk, s and gentlemen of the board, president cohen, good afternoon, my name is winship hillier. i am an involuntary psychiatric patient in this city and i have been for over a decade. last time i spoke to you about o'connor versus donaldson. fifty years after that in 1990, the supreme court decided a case, washington versus harper. this is about involuntary medication. a number of state courts had concluded that patients who are involuntarily detained because they are dangerous or are gravely disabled, due to mental illness, have the capacity to make treatment decisions. it has since been confirmed by

the largest study ever, the macarthur treatment confidence study, that mental patients have capacity to make treatment decisions equal to or comparable to nonmental patients. other medical patients. so, not all mental patients, somebody has left their phone here. >> i did that three time on my t.v. show. isn't that something? >> as i was saying before i was rudely interrupted. you are funding citywide case management and you are funding forced drugging of patients for not even dangerous -- dangers due to mental illness, let alone lacking the capacity to give informed consent to treatment. this is not compatible with the

rules of law. it is not becoming of you if you pass laws on one hand and then you fund inequity on the other. this is government -- governed by doctors and not bylaws non. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. neck speaker, please. are there any members of the public would like to address support during general public comment? >> i want to make sure i'm talking during the right time. i can talk about the central soma plan. is this later to be talked about? >> that item has been continued to september 4th. >> thank you very much. >> you are welcome. >> supervisor cohen: neck speaker please. >> welcome supervisors. it is a difficult city at times. i am pleased that this occasion finds a democrats and republicans taking one stand, ironically through national opposition against another divisive piece of progressive legislation. i am wondering if local progress is having stripped at the

november election of their own anti- federal initiative ordinance that may leave us to hope that although we may feel deprived of that boat, our representatives may be compelled to announce whatever principles lead them to extend their name and reputation along with 100 offers in a reckless call to abolish a federal law enforcement agency. i believe local political luminaries unfortunately have some explaining to do. i would prefer they would stand by their political convictions if they are willing to and able. otherwise they appear feeble. it looks like hypocrisy. is it any wonder republicans dominate the california housing senate as well as those in washington? >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. madam president. >> supervisor cohen: could you please read the items we are

there any additional members of the public who wish to address the board? public comment is closed. madam clerk, let's please move forward. let's go with the adoption without committee reference calendar. >> clerk: items 34 through 48 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. a roll call vote may enact an item. if they like to have an item severed unkempt -- considered separately, you may do that's. >> supervisor cohen: i would like to sever item 35. any other items to be severed? ok. while -- well, those items can be adopted when the motion is made. is there a motion to adopt? all rights. motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor kim. this is on the balance on the list of agenda items. thank you. could you please call the next

item? >> clerk: item 35 is a motion to approve final map 8615. a six unit residential condominium project located at 240 bush street. madam president queen. >> supervisor cohen: dpw has indicated they need more time to work on this map. may i have a motion to continue this item for one week? made by supervisor yee and seconded by supervisor ronen. i believe that we will take that without objection to july 24t 24th. thank you. i believe that brings us to the end of our agenda. >> clerk: that is correct. >> supervisor cohen: will you please read the in memoriam? >> clerk: it will be adjourned at the suggestion of supervisor ronen on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for mr

carlos gutierrez. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. as to any further business before this body? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor cohen: ladies >> supervisor cohen: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

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>> 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