of what's in the matrix of and what their options are. >> and who's the owner of pitch? or who's helping you to kind of project manage. >> oh, that would be the site team. the ultimate owner is me. >> okay. >> yeah. >> okay. great. any other questions or comments? all right. thank you very much, superintendent. >> thank you. >> section i, the consent calendar items removed at previous meeting. we have none tonight. we've already done section j, we've already done section k, section l, our board member reports, standing committees, we got a report back from rules, we got a report from curriculum, and the joint ad hoc committee on -- with sfusd and city college. we had updates on free city, our homeless youth program, safe routes to schools and transportation, and our dual

enrollment process. another good meeting. board delegates to membership organizations, anybody have any reports on any of those? all other reports by board members? anything? no? not even commissioner murase? no? okay. calendar of committee meetings, so although the schedule of up coming meetings is posted on the agenda, please, this is your time to announce any other dates or times of your particular committee meeting. just to note that our membership in or the committees may be changing up, so we're going to be d-- i'll be sendin you an e-mail asking you what your preferred committees will be. there will be no committee meetings in july, is that right, and the revised committee meeting schedule including who will be chairing and the members will be posted on the district website in august. so section m, other

informational items posted on the agenda, with the exception of gifts, of gifts, monthly report. section n is our memorial adjournment, and we don't have any this evening. at this time, we'll take speaker cards for those that have submitted speaker cards for closed session, and we don't have any this evening. so next section is closed session, which we'll go into closed session. those that are fortunate to leave tonight, have a great evening, have a great summer, and the sooner you . >> we're just following up -- or just getting out of closed session, so we're resuming our regular board meeting. the board by a vote of -- i'd just like to report our actions in closed session. the board by a board a a vote -- oh, wow.

the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent, walton approved the contracts for four supervisors. the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent, walton, approved the contracts of two program administrators. the board by a vote -- oh . the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent, walton, approved the contracts of four principals. the four by a vote of six ayes, one absent, walton approved the krarz of six principals in the matter of under board truck driver's griefance, the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent ratified an agreement to absolve the agreement. the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent, walton, gives

the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amendment on three matters of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. that is the report back. section q is adjournment. this last meeting of the school year is now adjourned. thank you, everyone. happy summer.

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>> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, i'd like to call roll. >> commissioner mazzucco: please do. [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, you have a quorum. also with us tonight is paul henderson, the director of the department of police accountability and acting assistant chief moeser on behalf of chief scott. >> commissioner mazzucco: and chief scott is on his way. >> clerk: yes. >> commissioner mazzucco: and do have a deletion on tonight's agenda? >> clerk: yes. we have item four. that will be placed on a later agenda. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. well, ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday, july

18, 2018 san francisco police commission meeting. without further adieu, please call line item number one -- actually, we're going to have -- the first matter would be the chief's report, and he's not here. >> clerk: well, do you want me to take it out of order? >> commissioner mazzucco: we'll take it out of order and go to the d.p.a. director. >> clerk: item 1(a), chief's report. item 1(b), d.p.a. report. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening, director henderson. >> good evening. that's a lot. we have a lot on the calendar tonight and a lot from d.p.a. specifically, so i just want to do the overview in terms of cases open and my staff's, we are at 346, so we are at a

higher number now than we were last year, when we were at 306. we have 296 cases that are pending versus last year, we were at 363 cases that were pending. and cases that are mediated, i do want to talk about that a little bit because we are at 12 this year, and we were at 14 last year. but as you know, i've been revamping and expanding the mediation. i've hired two specific employees to focus on the mediation. those numbers are going to go up, but i want to talk about that just briefly. right now, we have 40 cases in the pipeline that are in mediation. they're just working their way through the process. those numbers will hit throughout the rest of the year. it's a pretty high number, and they're coming in the pipeline, but i wanted to talk about it a little bit because they're -- these are some of the things that we talked about last year

that i said that i wanted to do, which was to expand mediation because they are our highest rated cases, in terms of satisfaction from the public for things that people appreciate and want from our department. because i had the new staff that i hired make presentations to the investigators and so the referrals went up over 100% since we started doing that, so those numbers will start bearing out well for us, i hope. in terms of the hiring, we are still in the process of hiring, you know hiring is a long process. we're in the middle of interviewing for many of our investigative positions and the attorney positions. we are already at capacity of space, so that's another issue

that we're starting to work out now in terms of where these folks are going to go. i'll keep you updated as i make the new hires and as people start joining the staff and doing the work. in terms of outreach, we have been doing a lot more outreach than in the past. the past few events have been the safety fair at the elementary school here at shared school yard. we also did a town hall. we were asked to speak by assembly man david chiu, and then, this weekend, we had booths at both sunday street fairs in the mission. and then, with here me today is my chief of staff, sarah hawkins, my director of policy, samra marian, as well as my senior investigator, steve ball. and as you can see in the audience, as well, my trusty

interns who have come in to work with us during the summer, and i am really excited about this, and they are really excited to be on tv. here is marshall hamons from hastings university, camille bridge from u.c. berkeley, cocozoo from u.c. berkeley, and enrique zau, and they're going to make presentations for you about the work that they did during the summer. i will also add one more thing. i have the annual reports are here and finally printed and ready, they weren't on the agenda because i didn't give notice so i'll put them on the agenda for our next meeting, but i have copies, as i promised for today that i'll pass out. i also wanted to add one thing

that was new that we were going to start doing or have available now are the fliers that we had -- the old fliers which we've had since 1972 have finally been redone -- 1982, actually. they've finally been redone and revamped, so the information is much more clear about how to make a complaint, what the office does, how to get in contact with us, and i will start bringing these at every meeting so that the public can take them and have that information. they will be setup there. i will say one of the things that we've done is make them compliant, so these are in six different languages -- seven? six. six different languages, and they are available. these are going to be distributed, along with i.d. cards about how to get in touch with d.p.a. and the station. here are the interns, and we're

ready. >> commissioner mazzucco: well, thank you very much, and welcome. >> i'm a rising 2-l at u.c. hastings, just down the road, and working here for the summer has been an absolutely invaluable experience. i worked on language access and the mediation program. for language access, i adopted our current policy, or previous policy, which was very short and not very comprehensive on compliance with section 91 of the city ordinance as a language access ordinance, and so i drafted, implemented, and reviewed our current policy, reached out to ocea, bounced some ideas off of them and really flushed out our policy so it's really in depth. it meets ocea's requirements and the department is moving onto the next step of printing all of the signs and the things that we've worked on, and you can see that in the brochures

and the things that we've given out today. the second project that i worked on was the mediation. expanding our mediation policies program. i dove really deep into our current policies, procedures, steps, etcetera, looked to outside agencies, made a lot of phone calls and kind of got a feel for what works and what doesn't work to increase these mediations so when the recommendations of paul and sharon our director of mediations, i was able to draft a very comprehensive mediation policy with proposals that would very shortly increase the number of mediations, dropping that number in the pipeline down to a number we could mediate. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. next presenter. >> good evening, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. my name is mar cucus grimes.

director henderson -- [inaudible] >> -- to take part in this vision as i tern with the d.p.a. -- intern with the d.p.a. i've worked on three particular projects, but the first i'd like to share with you. this is particularly important to me just because i see that it showcases the different and diverse areas that the d.p.a. tends to impact with the city and with the police accountability with the city, so i feel like it's really important for us to have a document that showcases exactly what we do as a department. the second project that i'd like to speak on is a language access ordinance training that marshall and myself have worked with which we'll be giving the training tomorrow. tion he not sharing the policies and standards that

have been created within the language access ordinance and how the d.p.a. is complying with esthose -- with these standards. we'll be teaching the staff and just opening ourselves up to help the limited english proficiency clients that we deal with. and the last project that i wanted to speak on is my work with the launching of the twitter account that we have, which is -- you can follow us at sfdpa. we're looking for more followers because we just opened up. that's a way for us to connect with the community, and that is an important goal for us, because director henderson wants to have us conglomerrate together. all of these measures will have a lasting effect on the department for the city of san francisco. last week, i was able to do a ride along with two officers and witness just how officers

can impact the community as they take on their job. it was really important for me to have that experience, and i think a lot more people should take that experience because it does help you to see exactly what the officers do. and this emphasized the importance of director henderson's vision as the d.p.a. continues to grow and you know, mature as an organization. so i look forward to seeing where the d.p.a. is after my internship, and i hope that we can continue to progress. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening. >> good evening. members of the commission, my name's frank myron nunez. i want -- i am a 3-l, at hastings school of law.

i saw this opportunity and i wasn't aware that the department even existed. i've always been interested in civilian oversight, so i wanted to take advantage to learn what actually happens with change in the department. i've been assigned a variety of projects since working with the department of police accountability. i was tasked to research federal and state disability laws and provide a summary and recommendations for when the department -- when the department hires somebody who has a disability and what they need to do to provide the correct accommodations for that person. i was also tasked to perform legal research on the police officer's bill of rights, and -- and provide a memo and recommendations on what the department of -- department of police accountability can -- what information they can provide from investigations. my research gave me the

opportunity to learn how limited the d.p.a. and other civilian oversight agencies in california are when it comes to disclosing information because of the statutorily confidentiality protections for peace officers in california. i also had the ability to take part in two separate investigations for body cam -- body wearable camera videos and apply and create summaries of those videos and work with investigators who taught me a lot about what to look for during the review of body cam footage and whatnot to look for. i would say i can recommend this to anybody that has the chance to do it because you are given a lot of variety of projects to work with, and if you're interested in city government, i would recommend that, too, so thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. >> good evening, everyone. my name is camille.

i'm a junior at u.c. berkeley. i study political science. i was interested in this internship because it gave me the opportunity to see how government and law and policing work in real life outside of the classroom every day, and i really enjoyed the experience. i've been focusing on outreach, so we've been working on accessibility, so we want to make sure there are no barriers to access or resources, and so the fliers have been a big part of that. we have them in different languages and they have information about how to file a complaint, where to file a complaint, what else our agency does, the mediation program, things like that? and next week, we have plans to start distributing them starting with police stations, city agencies, community organizations. we already have some at the law library, for example, and -- yeah, so that's really exciting, and we have them in different languages, like director henderson said. we also have been working with different organizations, so

we're hoping to develop long lasting relationships with these organizations in the city to again work on accessibility to these resources? we've been present at different events, we've been at pride, juneteenth, sunday streets. we have different projects lined up with the mayor's office of economic services, but we have a template of annual events and regular events and contacts that we can use for years to come and add to as we go along? and yeah, i've really enjoyed this internship. i think i've learned a lot, yeah, so thank you very much. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening. >> good evening. my name's coco, and i'm a rising junior at university of california berkeley, majoring in media studies. like camille, i'm working as an intern outreach for d.p.a. i would like to characterize my

experience as a combination of my academic preparation and my interests, which is something that i was looking for. this internship led me to doing some things that i already enjoy and good at doing, which is media communication and informs others but also led me to exploring areas that my future career interests may lie, which is law. the first thing i was interested in doing was the translation the our brand-new brochures. as camille just mentioned we now stand in the critical phase of reintroducing ourselves to the public and it's extremely important to us that all community members have equal access to our service? so we are offering the brochure in six more languages in addition to english because chinese is my native language, i got to become the second pair of eyes that helped fine-tune the chinese brochure to ensure fluidity and delivering our intentions. this is an example of it? it's, like, my baby. in addition to brochures, the other major part of our

outreach efforts is to engage the public directly and build relationships with san francisco's community-based organizations. and we've done that in the past through going to outreach events, such as the san francisco housing expo, juneteenth, and a college and career fair for high school students. in addition to outreach efforts here at d.p.a., i've had the chance to be exposed to the legal realm. i've helped investigator review body worn camera footage, and a project i'm currently working on is helping our policy attorney compose a new know your rights brochure for use after the state of california passed a new welfare and institution code. i'm extremely about -- excited about the fruition of this project because it's a product that informs the public that is informative but also is legal related.

as i mentioned before, it's a combination of media and law, which are two of my biggest passions, and i'm very excited about how it will turn out. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening. >> good evening. my name is britly salter, and -- brittany salter, and i'm a 3-l. i chose an intern for the department of police accountability because i want to be a part of building a better relationship between minorities and women of color. i have witnessed how minorities are treated by those who have the authority to enforce laws. while working with the d.p.a., i have been able to see all of the hard work director henderson and his staff do to improve these interactions,

particularly with the mediation program. i've also developed a new found appreciation for the work that the officers do, and realize we have many of the same goals, which is to ensure safety for the entire community. i worked with the investigations unit. i reviewed body worn camera footage which gave me firsthand knowledge of how police incidents unfold in the real world. i did legal research and prepared memos on legal issues such as felony stops, searching a person of the opposite sex, and use of force. i also helped create a presentation on the use of force by police officers which director henderson presented at the regional training in june. working with the d.p.a. has given me the chance to see there are many ways to better the relationship between community and the police. the d.p.a. is not focused on finding reasons to ferm-nate officers, it is -- terminate officers, it's about holding these officers accountability and changing policy work. i've grateful to be given this

opportunity and hope to continue this work into the fall semester. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. >> so i just want to say thank you guys. also to thank danielle, who is here today, who has managed many of these projects and personally is responsible for getting these big documents out that you are going to get, which is the annual report, and just is really responsible for making these new documents and brochures look all slick and fancy and all of the great words that are in them. so that was a big deal. i will also just say, just as a reminder, i know mark has talked about it, but he will be fired if approximate we don't get -- we don't get new followers on the twitter. so everybody should be following sfdpa to learn about the new changes and everything that is going on with police oversight and civilian oversight. and i was going to mention as

well just as a follow up to some of the things they introduced, the website, i will have on the website next week the annual report that we will discuss next week. the new annual report i think is user friendly. you can understand it and read it. it is 20 -- it's under 30 pages. last year's report was 130 pages. well, you'll see them. they'll be on the website, but i think the new reports, as i've revamped them are much clearer, easier to rt read with the same information compressed with charts and data that is more palatable with more information. i think that concludes my report. i will say as a precursor, we do have the sparks report, so i'm looking forward to have the conversations about that. >> commissioner mazzucco: well, thank you, director henderson. more importantly, thank you

interns for spending your summer away from your law and graduate studies. we really appreciate it. the most important part is i heard a comment that we're looking at things outside of the classroom, and i heard some conversations about we understand what the officers go through. we went on a ride along. we heard the necessity of looking at the law about search and seizure. this is so refreshing. you know, many times, we say the differences will come from your generation, the youth, the future lawyers, and the future college graduates. so i thank you, it's great to hear your perspective. director henderson's done a great job for the d.p.a. i'm a little biased, because i know him, but he's done an excellent job. you know, it's important -- you'll ask any police officer, it's important to have accountability and the trust and respect of the public. i want to tell you, for many of us on this panel, public service has been our career.

there's nothing more rewarding than public service. you've gotten your first taste of it. continue to serve your community any way you can, 'cause this is so refreshing and it's just so great to see. thank you. commissioners? >> i just want to say thank you. i enjoyed your reports tremendously, especially mediation. i think you can see how important it is to try to resolve this not only with the department but with the citizens so they can get a better understanding of what the officers are going through in this healing process, so i'm just looking forward to seeing that expand much more. but it sounds like you did a lot of work. the brochures looked slick from here, much better than they were. so thank you. thank you for your hard work. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. >> thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: please call -- go back to line item 1(a), please. >> clerk: item 1(a), chief's report, report on weekly trends, crimes, and analysis. evidence and reporting of

results to sexual assault victim report percommission resolution 16-28, adopted april 20, 2016. >> good evening, chief. how are you? >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, and director henderson. >> good evening. >> so sorry i was late. lieutenant yamaguchi had to clear a traffic hazard on the way in, so that's why we were late. i'll start off with the first portion of my report, which will be the update on crime, and i'll finish with the request that commissioner dejesus made last week to have a public report to the commission on the arrests that were made on july 9 in front of the federal building on washington. so i'll be very brief with the crime report, starting with violent crime. homicides, we are down --

>> commissioner mazzucco: excuse me sir, you are out of order. you need to take a seat. sorry, chief, for interrupting. sir, you need to take a seat. take a seat. you're interrupting the meeting. that's your first meeting. please take a seat. sir, please take a seat. >> your office has already pulled guns on me. you think i'm scared? you think i'm scared. >> commissioner mazzucco: sir, you're disturbing the meeting. >> stay calm after you try to murder me? you think it's only cops, and you move on. >> commissioner mazzucco: calm down. just slow down. you can't do this. in time, we'll do that. >> i need my documents as received. >> commissioner mazzucco: why don't you take it easy, take a seat, and calm down. now, calm down, take a seat. >> can i get my documents signed as a receipt? >> commissioner mazzucco: no. why don't you calm down and take a seat. >> you've got plenty of guns here. why don't you shoot me now?

no. back up. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. slow down. why don't you sit down. if you don't sit down, i'm going to ask you to leave. >> well, i want my documents received, stamped as received. >> commissioner mazzucco: i'm going to ask you to leave, please. >> no. once i get the documents, i'll be happy to give it to you outside. >> why not? why not. >> one more minute. they can't do it right now. >> commissioner mazzucco: they have to look it over. you're interrupting the meeting. >> well, it's one page. she has a copy right now. >> commissioner mazzucco: why don't you go outside and talk to sergeant mcray? >> commissioner mazzucco: no, no, no. at this point, you're out of here. >> can i get my document's received? >> commissioner mazzucco: sheriff, he's out of here. [inaudible] >> commissioner mazzucco: you're out of here, sir.

take your stuff and leave. >> we don't trust you. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. chief, you may continue. >> thank you. thank you, commissioner. so homicides, we are still in the negative 39%. we have 23 year to date, compared to 38 this time last year. our shooting victims, we're 3% where we were by last year, by two, 69 to 71 last year. homicide by firearms, we are 56% below where we were last year. we have 12 homicides with firearms compared to 27 this time last year, and our total gun vials victims were 17% down. 81 currently, compared to 98 this time last year. our violent crimes in total, we

are 1% but low where we were -- 1.98%, almost 2%, below where we were this time last year. that's a difference of about 64 crimes. and in terms of property crime, we are 12% below where we were last year, a difference of about 4,000 crimes. of interest is our auto burglary statistics. we are still 20.64% down from where we were this time last year, a difference from about 3,500 auto burgs, so i'm definitely pleased with that. we will continue our strategies and going into -- now we're midway through the summer. we are actually looking pretty good compared to where we were this time last year, and we'll continue to make adjustments as we need to on that. okay. i don't have any other significant events from this week to report. i'm going to go back to the arrests operation that we had

on july 9. so first, let me start by saying our mission always is to protect public safety and to do that with respect for all san franciscans. we're committed to facilitating the first amendment expression for anybody that wants to exercise them, but we have a duty to maintain peace and public safety for all of our residents and visitors and protect property. in terms of this particular operation, it occurred on july 9, 2018. the past monday -- not this monday, but the past monday. and basically, we were called and received numerous calls throughout the week from july 2 until july 9 regarding a shutdown of the 400 block of washington street. now, it initially started as a first amendment activity in front of the federal building. that's the homeland security-i.c.e. building at 444

washington. after the 2nd, the streets were blocked off by some of the involved individuals, and they were blocked off using pallets, fencing material. there were vehicles at some point, and some our city has specific -- >> commissioner mazzucco: excuse me. let the chief speak. please don't interrupt while the chief is speaking. it's your first warning. thank you. >> -- again camping on the sidewalks, and as the week went along, there were several tents that were encamped on the sidewalks and both sides of the street. on the night of the incident, we -- after we cleared the -- the streets, there were approximately 25 tents that were tagged and bagged by the department of public works, so i said we had received numerous complaints by the public, including public urination,

cooking on the sidewalks, and numerous incidents of disturbing the peace. starting on the 2nd, our officers and central captain went to the location and admonishments were given by a central area sergeant to advised the people that were camping in the streets in the tents that it was against section 647 (e) and that continued action could lead to their arrest. that started on july 2. it continued throughout the week. almost all of these admonishments were captured on body worn cameras, but there were a few that weren't. but the majority of them were. and also, these incidents were documented via incident reports. midway through the week, we had the 4th of july holiday, and one of the things that i think

was a good thing was traffic was much lower during the holiday and the holiday week because a lot of people were outside, so it didn't impact traffic as much. we knew that on monday, july 9, that traffic would be back to normal, and the encampments grew throughout that week. we were monitoring it. our central offices were monitoring it. starting july 7, our sergeants went out and gave warnings every two hours, and those warnings were captured on body worn cameras as well as documented in an incident report. and basically, the warning was -- i'll read it to you, actually. the warning basically -- was

read by a sergeant and stated, after the sergeant gave the name, you are in violation of 647 e of the penal code for illegal lodging. you are subject to being cited or arrest. please breakdown your tents and leave the block. that was done about every two hours from the 7th to the time we took action on the 9th. in addition to the warnings, we requested that the department of public health go out and do

a health assessment as far as the potential hazards to health. now, i will say that there were no health hazards noted in terms of needles and that time of thing in the streets. however, there were two portapotties that were in the street, that was urination that was complained about, and that led to our decision to take action on this particular encampment before things got worse. as we monitored during the week, it started to grow by the day, basically with the numbers tents and everything that was going on. so on july 9, which was monday night around 12:30 in the morning, our officers were assembled and action was taken to basic plea -- basically breakdown the encampment. the address was given both by public address systems on the

police cars and officers to members of the encampment. and those that refused to leave -- some people did leave. those that refused to leave were basically arrested, and there were 39 arrests for 647 (e) and there were a number of arrests that had additional charges for 148 pc, interfering or resisting arrest. there were five use of forces when this took place. the use of forces basically consisted of bodily force, physical control holds. the extended range impact weapon was used on one individual. there was a kick, and a baton strike. four of the individuals that -- who force was used on were arrested, so we were able to identify the fifth individual ran from the scene, and we were not able to identify that person. body worn cameras, like i said, were in use during the entire operation, so everything that was done was captured on body

worn cameras. i do have a few photos if the commission would like to see, just to give a picture of what the encampment looked like and the road closure, and we can put that on the overhead. >> commissioner dejesus: i'd like that, please. >> just put a couple up. so basically, what the photos will depict, what you're going to be looking at is washington,

and i think that's looking from battery, looking towards sansone. and basically, you can see that's washington street that's totally blocked, barricaded by the wooden pallets. you can put the next one up. this was taken, as you see, that's washington and sansome. those barbecue pits, although not in use, they had been in use in the middle of a public roadway. the federal building, as you look at that picture, is on the right -- on the left, i'm sorry, your right. and then, where the green and white tent is, that's across the street from the federal building. there are businesses there on the other side of the street. and again, the portapotties went up about midweek, but you see the two portapotties on the

side. that's washington boulevard there, as well. you can see the tent encampments from a previous picture starting to grow out in the street. this is the other, and i believe this is on the sansome end. and you see the wooden pallets. and those wooden pallets were also at some point during the -- during this -- this action, this protest, they were stacked up against the building -- the federal building, as well. so that is the summary of -- of the operation. as i said, there were 39 arrests, they were all misdemeanor arrests, and those that were citable and releasable, i think everybody ended up getting released, but that is basically the summary of the activity. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, chief. >> commissioner dejesus: i didn't see any barbed wire in there.

>> it doesn't show in the picture, and there were some of the pallets that had barbed wire. it doesn't show in these photos -- in the photographs, but the officer saw them out there. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: chief, a couple of follow up questions, and again, this may reflect my newness on the commission. why was this done late at night in the dark? >> two reasons. less of an impact on the community in terms of -- other than the noise. to do this type of operation, and then, this was learned from experience during previous occupy movements, during the daytime, it causes a much bigger distribution to the -- distraction to the community. we not only end up dealing with the encampment or the issue at hand, but you end up having to manage large crowds during the operation as well, so from a

tactical standpoint, it's a lot safer to do that when you're not going to have those issues. we learned that here in san francisco and when i was in los angeles during the time of the occupy and other movements. we learned from our mistakes. doing these operations at an optimal time is really important to the success of the operation, and it's safer. >> commissioner hamasaki: and as far as -- you stated that every two hours, even into the night, warnings were given. were these -- you read basically to disburse, and this was also unlawful. my question was were these warnings also given into the night up until the clearing of the camp? >> yes, they were, and that's well documented in the incident report in terms of the times they were given, and the incident numbers, so we can go back and track the body worn camera that was captured -- that captured the actual

warnings. >> commissioner hamasaki: great. and you mentioned that there was five documented uses of force. were these incidents captured on body worn cameras? >> the incidents were captured on body worn camera, and the -- the force incidents are all being investigated. they were -- all the notifications were made that night, and again, the one individual that ran away, we were not able to identify that person, so it was reports, but we couldn't identify that person nor attempt to interview that person. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and finally, i understand that you mentioned some property that was seized. was that returned to the people or to people -- were pima allowed to come claim them later or how was that dealt with? >> yeah. so the process with this or any encampment where we have lodging on public streets or sidewalks, the department of

public works is requested and basically, they tagged the property, they store it, and the individuals who the property belongs to have -- have every right to go and claim their property. and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. and that's the process -- that's the process for every time of operation like that where we clear an encampment. >> commissioner hamasaki: and i'm sorry. commissioner dejesus reminded me, and this might have come at public comment last time. but were any of the tents taken down using cutting implements or in any way damages during this operation --

>> chief, i'm wondering, did the city provide those portapotties or barricades or were those all provided by the protesters. >> no. i don't know who the origin of those portapotties were. some of the barricades that you saw were d.p.w., public works barricades, but they weren't authorized to be used, so they were basically taken without authorization and placed there. >> commissioner hirsch: all right. i also saw, i think in the first picture, there was a fire department there -- fire station. were they locked in because of the barricades? >> they were able to get out because there were some emergency calls. because as a matter of fact that night, there was an emergency call. so they were able to get out. it was definitely not an ideal situation, but i can't say they were blocked in. it -- it did -- it did create a problem, but it didn't prevent them from getting out of the fire station. >> commissioner hirsch: thanks. >> commissioner mazzucco: all right. thank you, chief.

i know that was requested last week and thank you for filling us in. it was thorough. extremely thorough. if you would continue with your report, please. >> thank you, commissioner. so as far as the rest of my report, there is actually no significant events to report for this week. there are just a couple of other items of interest. so we had -- in addition to the crime i reported, we had a fatal traffic collision unfortunately yesterday at slope and 36th. we had an elderly individual that was crossing the street at 36th and sloat.

he was struck by a vehicle. although there were c.p.r. -- c.p.r. was performed at the scene, unfortunately he did not survive his injuries. so we are committed with vision zero, and we do, from time to time, unfortunately see pedestrian accidents a lot of times involving elderly individuals who can't get across the street quickly, and this is something that we definitely continuing to focus on. one of our traffic violations that we focus on are our pedestrians that cross in the crosswalks, so our focus is -- this is still a very big part of our strategy to reduce traffic collisions. last year, we did very well. i think we had the lowest number of traffic deaths in many, many years in san francisco, so hopefully, we can continue that trend. but to the public, i'd like to say, you know, we all have to

do our part, and pedestrian violations oftentimes, we see people that totally ignore traffic signals, and a lot of the pedestrians that do end up involved in traffic collisions is totally avoidable in my opinion. it's tragic that we have to report a death, but for those of us that still have to use our roadways, we need everybody to do their part in terms of pedestrian safety. and that concludes this portion of the report. the next portion we have a report on are d.n.a. testing, and we have captain dominick yen. >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, captain yen. >> good evening, president mazzucco, chief scott, and director henderson. between the january 1 and june

30 this year, the special victims unit has collected 167 sexual assault evidence kits, and only six did not fit within that five-daytime line, and i wanted to explain those six in person. so out of the six, two were actually collected on one particular day but weren't booked in so that s.v.u. could go and collect those. and if you count those, that means four out of the six actually surpassed that five-day timeline. one out of the other four is based on the fact that another police jurisdiction had actually booked it very, very late, so by the time s.v.u. was notified, it are already exceeded the five-day limit, and the others were booked on the legal holidays in confluence of a friday and aymond, and on those two, we

were only late by one day. and i want to assure the commission that even though we book it in one day late, it doesn't change the efficacy of the results and it doesn't effect the turnaround time in director john sanchez's group in conducting or doing the d.n.a. testing. >> and thank you. this commission took the lead and actually we were one of the first jurisdictions to put forward our department general orders in our rules about having all the kits tested, so thank you for doing that. obviously, the numbers are not perfect, but there's an explanation why they are a day or two off that's acceptable. i also want to take this opportunity -- you said s.v.u. for the members of the public, that's special victims unit. there's a pending case, but i think you did a good job on the arrest of the lyft driver of

the pending multiple assaults. you did a lot of work to solve these four very, very terrible incidents. i was going to thank the chief for thee efforts of the inspectors. it's a good display of the police work that we do. >> well, thank you, commissioner. i'll take that book to the troopers and let them know the appreciation of the commission. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner elias. >> commissioner elias: thank you. i was reviewing the charts that were included within your report, and it seems to be within a 30-day turnaround time. >> for most cases, that's absolutely correct, and that's due to the good work of director john sanchez. >> commissioner elias: okay. and then, the other question i have is i noticed on the case status, there were sort of 94 inactive cases. is that of the 167 that you had

reported that were collected and submitted to the crime lab? >> yeah. >> commissioner elias: and what does the inactive status exactly mean? >> so that means at times in the investigation we can't get ahold of the original victim again or they change their minds or there's actually nothing found or maybe there wasn't a real hit in codis, so that's why they're deemed not active. >> commissioner elias: and i would assume that doesn't count those that are being prosecuted because the number being prosecuted are actually one-third of the open cases. >> that's correct. >> commissioner dejesus: so i have a quick question. so this has been in the paper recently. i think there's some legislation being proposed in sacramento regarding kits and turnaround time. i don't know the exact number, but i'm sure whether you're on top -- you're on top of it, but do you know whether we would comply with the proposed

legislation on that? >> i think we're way ahead of the game. >> commissioner dejesus: thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: anything -- >> commissioner dejesus: i'm sorry. one more thing. i noticed on case status, on the cases sent to the district attorney's office, 15 of those were discharged. >> am. so the d.a. -- yes ma'am. so the d.a. does their own review, and based on the policy that they have, and reinterview of the victims and such, sometimes, the victims choose not to go forward. a lot of that is both the police department and the d.a.'s office take a very victim-focused, victim centered approach. we're very trauma informed when it comes to those, so instead of retraumatizing the victim, sometimes we have to take that step back. >> commissioner dejesus: and we don't toe -- >> commissioner elias: and we don't know what the conviction rates are in these cases. >> no, because some of those go on years and years and years. it would take us much longer to

define those numbers. >> commissioner elias: thank you. >> if i could comment to commissioner elias, we were in the process of putting together a more robust case tracking mcment system, ought mate -- management system, and hopefully, that'll help the investigators get a better handle on tracking those kinds of things. >> commissioner elias: great. i think that would be good information for the public to have. thank you for that. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, captain. anything further? thank you, captain. >> thank you. please call line item 1(c). >> clerk: item 1(c), commission report. commission president's report, commissioners' report. >> commissioner mazzucco: there's nothing for me to report this evening. commissioners, anything you'd like to report? commissioner ally as? >> commissioner elias: thank you. today i attended the c.i.t. training, and i have to say

that i was actually -- in addition to the awards ceremony that i attended, that commissioner hamasaki and i attended last month, i was actually very impressed with the c.i.t. working group with the efforts they've made and the efforts that they're making to roll out more c.i.t. training available to officers and have more officers at each district station that are c.i.t. trained and can employ deescalation tactics. two other announcements i did want to make were with respect to the bias working group, it's my understanding that the group hasn't met since march, but we are reconvening, and we will be having a bias work group meeting on july 26 -- you okay? you need some water? >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah, i'm good. >> commissioner elias: i got choked up on this, too. so in any event, the bias

working group will be on july 26 at 10:00 a.m. at police headquarters, and i would invite people to come and participate in that working group. also, the accountability working group will be held on july 25 between 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at police headquarters, and again, an open invitation. >> commissioner hamasaki: -- >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. for the record, i'm choking on these mints. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: i'm the representative for the website redesign. so i went yesterday, and they're going to have the department redesign and our redesign. working with the commission staff, we found some areas that we didn't really think belonged with us, so we made some really good recommendations, what they'd like to say. i'm going to have sergeant kilshaw type up, what it looks like right now, but that's not how's