>> good morning, everybody. thank you so much for everyone being out here today. of course, the jug shop for welcoming us to this extraordinary celebration that really speaks to a community

partnerships and the success of our invested neighborhoods programs and neighborhood economic development here in san francisco. we're very happy to have everyone here with us today. and to kick us off with this commemoration of our polk c.b.d. is our mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. i'm so excited to be here today. this is the 16th community business district in san francisco. this is what happens when communities come together. businesses, neighbors, and all of you are an example of how we make sure that we keep our city clean, we keep it safe, and we do it all together. i want to thank you and i want to thank suzanne, for her leadership. [applause] for the past three years, really spearheading this effort and getting it through. this was one of the lowest votes that we were able to get through

the board of supervisors when you had the folks who were the property owners here vote to move this thing forward and i am just so glad it passed. it's going to make a difference. those folks who were not necessarily supportive, they're going to be happy with the results too. i can't wait until we clean up san francisco. this is helping in our efforts to do so. and so we also will have embassadors and people who are out on the streets. we want the businesses here to grow and to thrive. places like the jug shop, which are a legacy business in san francisco. we have to do everything we can to protect our business community. we announced we will be opening another 1,000 shelter beds by 2020 here in the city and county of san francisco. we know we have a crisis on our hands and we know that we have to make smart investments because we see it on our streets every single day. it's effecting the quality of life. it's effecting the business community. we know that many of the people

sadly that are struggling on our streets are experiencing a lot of challenges. and we want to thank you. we want to thank the discovery polk community benefits district for its work and its contributions and being partners in this effort to make sure city safer, to make sure city cleaner, and we know that there's so much work to do. this process has brought so many businesses together and i am just excited to be here today to sign the legislation that made it possible. this is your victory. we're going to get to work to make san francisco an even better place for each and everyone of us. thank you so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, very much, mayor breed. of course, our next speaker is a long-time champion of community benefits. the author of the legislation and help make them possible. supervisor of our district 3,

aaron peskin. >> thank you. so this is the 15th community benefit district in san francisco. as i like to say, all of our districts are created equal. district 3 is more equal. why do i say that? because we have five of the 15 community benefit district. when i first became a supervisor 18 years ago, there was one business improvement district in san francisco. one. the city of berkley had more. san diego had dozens of them and i tred to figure out why was san francisco behind. and the answer actually was because the state law didn't think about places like san francisco, where we had mixed-use neighborhoods. the vibrant communities of polk street, north beach, and so we had to create our own law.

that became article 15 of our business and tax regulation code. that began, what has spread all over san francisco. now let me say, it is very rare that people come together to celebrate the fact that they all voted to raise their taxes. that is exactly what we are doing today. it stays in the community. it does not mean a diminishment of city services. it's services on top. i am very bullish on polk street. it is remarkably a vibrant community. i want to salute the lower polk neighbors and the lower polk c.b.d. which was at the forefront, that gave suzanne and the steering committee the vision that the c.b.d. to be extended in a northerly manner. there's going to be an economy of scale. christian mar tan, who does a remarkable job of running the lower polk c.b.d. is going to be the staff to the middle polk

discover polk c.b.d. this makes a ton of sense. larry stringer from our public works department is going to continue -- you are in trouble. it's all good. it's going to continue cleaning your streets and emptying the trash cannes. thicans.this is a real boone foe city and county of san francisco. i'm delighted. on behalf of all of my colleagues, who the voters passed it by yes, 50.01%, we voted unanimously to allow this c.b.d. to move forward. thank you, mayor breed. this is actually the first time, since mayor breed has become mayor i've been involved in an official signing ceremony and i cannot be more delighted. i want to shout out jaoquin torez and chris corgis who did a remarkable job.

[applause] >> they came in and they brought me a list because they knew the election would be tight. they asked me if i knew those people because we needed just one or two more properties to vote yes and i found one guy who i knew, who actually was on the east coast. he said, yes, that is on my desk. i said, you have until 2:00 on tuesday to get back to the city and county of san francisco, vote that ballot and that is what took us over the top. thank you chris corgis. i want to shout out northern captain joe english ler who has joined us. with that i'll turn it back to jaoquin torez. >> we all know if it wasn't for the hard work of the steering committee, in addition so many community members today, this event today and these resources couldn't be made possible. and it does take leadership, tenacity and commitment and i couldn't think of a person that exemplifies the definition of those words more that dr. suzanne markle-fox who i

would like to invite up to speak to us. the director of the steering committee who made this possible. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so the lower polk, the discover polk community. you can tell i'm nervous. thank you very much to the lower polk community benefit district. it really was not only our fiscal sponsor but also our mentor for all of the process that we went through since may 2015. thank you to debra neman who was another informal mentor. shared her knowledge and experience and we definitely want to follow in her tracks. i'd also like to introduce you to the president of our board, tiffany yang, who is a brilliant young woman who is going to be taking this to the next level. the wonderful thing about this community benefit district is

how property owners, neighbors, business owners and the faith community all came together to work on this. it was an amazing experience for me. it really demonstrates the vibrancy of this community. as others have said before me and will say after i'm sure, that our goals are a cleaner, safer and even more vibrant business community in the discover polk area. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> thank you so much, suzanne. really, congratulations and savor this moment. it really is an anchor for so much incredible work to come. i want to point out, you can sense there's a community here supporting efforts like these. i did want to shout out again, i know exercise peskin and mayor breed also recognized some of the folks from our fellow community benefit districts across the street who have come here to celebrate. it's a strong community of folks

who believe in the leadership and the impacts that this work can create across san francisco. christian martin to support these efforts along polk street. deb neman and her work in san francisco for the c.b.d. and simon bertrand from the tenderloin community benefit are all here to say thank you. congratulations for those who are willing to take on a leadership role to make benefits happen in our communities. but it also takes merchants. as well and their support to make this work happen. so, ray baird supported this benefit district idea early on. providing refreshments at community gatherings. ray, we want to say thank you so much. invite you to come on up and say a few words. >> i'm no politician. i'm not great at doing this. i'm just humble merchants with a

beautiful store back here. it's great we have the back drop of my store in the back there. whoever masterminded that did a really great job. thank you to everybody who came out today. there's a lot of sharp-dressed people from the city that are here. i feel a little under dressed. i'm excited for the opportunity that the c.b.d. brings us. i kind of wanted to relate it to some stories that were in the news recently. there was a horrible story about some crime that happened in the tenderloin and the footage from the cameras that the c.b.d. installed were very beneficial to the police and so i think that's one of the resource that's is going to be of great benefit to us. we need it. i don't want to be a bummer and remind everyone about how hard the streets of san francisco are. we live here and know the reality of that. filmore has beat cops. the news came across, i was watching on the news the next day, we had an incident at the

store where we had to call the police out. i talked to the officers and i said, we want beat cops too. they said well you need an advocate to get in there and stand on the throat of the people at city hall and at the captain's office and things like that. so hopefully, what this c.b.d. promises for us is advocacy for this great community that i'm so happy to be a part of. i'll just wrap it up and i want to say thank you for all the work, all these years. you know what it's like to have to canvas and cold call and do this to grind it out. way to go. [applause] >> that concludes the speaking part of our program. now we're going to do the signing right now. chris, if you can get it set up. i'd like to invite michael from the add cad mow of art academy. suzanne, ray. tiffany, come on up as well.

>> we can invite the members of the c.b.d. leadership to come up. [laughter] >> congratulations! [applause] -

>> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess

fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the

survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure

that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community

what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or

not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store

they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have more

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority,

which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end

up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a

breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a

very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird

idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found

out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it never

>> an i would like to call roll. commissioner. >> please do so. >> present. >> a commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner hirsch. >> here. >> commissioner elias. >> present. >> commissioner taylor. >> a present. >> we have a quorum. also present is filling in with the director to and ladies and

gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, october 10, 2018 police commission meeting. ladies and gentlemen, we have a very large closed session and timely closed session matter, so with that in mind, we are going to have only two minutes of public comment tonight. so without further ado, call line item number one. >> thank you. line one, the chief's report, weekly crime trend, provide an overview of the system occurring in staffing levels and overtime for fiscal 2018-19. community engagement division highlights to provide the overview of recent activities by community engagement division and the update on the division's strategic topic on the international association of chief of police website and will be limited to brief description

of the significant incidents. commission discussion will be limited to calendaring any incidents to describe for future commission meeting. >> thank you very much. and good evening, chief scott. >> good evening, vice president, commission and acting director hawkens. i'll be brief and concise on the cream report and the violent homicides down 25% year to date. total gun violence down 19% and total weapons, gun seizure, up 29%. and how those numbers look over time, homicide is 38 at the yearened a looking at a five-year trend. we are lower than we were the last three years. and we see by where we were in 2014 and week c by where we were

in 2013. so still good news to report. we have three more months of the year, but good strategies are in place and officers who are out there getting the job done and community support. we hope to see this trend continue throughout the rest of the year. in terms of total violent crime we are down.68%. >> all the categories, actually, there is a decrease in crime. where we are up significantly are in the human trafficking and the policy changes have enturjed

people to come -- have encouraged people to come forward that didn't before and working with community stakeholders and that policy change helped us. and we are up in burglarlies by 13% with a 500 burglaries. motor vehicle theft down about 16%. about 600 less than last year. arson down t 9. and larceny down 18% which is 3,000 less larceny incidents. almost 4,000 crimes below where we were this time last year. car break-s in, which has been a big issue in our city, down 14.85% which is roughly 3500

crimes fewer than this time last year. i'll be brief on the staffing and overtime police report that we are underbudget year to date on our overtime by about 1%. we have had some pretty significant event this is past week with the harley, fleet week, italian heritage parade, and we still managed to keep our overtime at or below budget, which is good to report that, particularly to commissioner de jesus who has been very interested in that. in terms of staffing, we are currently at 2,278 total sworn staffing. some of those officers are not deployable in the field. our full duty demroibl ployable staffing is about 7% below the mandated level of 1971.

so we do have an academy class that will graduate this week. that will help. and we have academy classes that have started, and of course, with the mayor's approval and the board of supervisors approval of our budget, we hope to grow the department and get up and beyond the 1971 number in the coming years. the next thing is our community engagement highlights which is a new thing that i want to start reporting to the commission. a lot of good news to reporten o the front of community engagement. so i just wanted to share with the public and the commission some of the highlights of what we have been doing in terms of community engagement. so throughout the month of september, we had a number of community engagement events, but i want to highlight 10 major event this is year. we had the china town night out

on september 4 where 1,200 boxes of food were provided to residents of chinatown and the surrounding area. and these boxes of food came from donations of local restaurants, businesses, and residents. really good community engagement and relationship building event. it's been going on for a couple of years now or several years now. but a really good turnout and really good event. our community policing academy, we had class that began on september 13. this class number 33 and we had 25 members from the community that take a 10-week course where community members learn sfpd policies and procedures and get to know the department. i know commissioner elias has visited one of the sessions and a graduation actually. it's a really good event for community members that are interested to really learn about the department. again, they spend 10 weeks of their time where they could be

somewhere else, with somebody else, their family, and they learn a lot about the department. we're happy that we have our 33rd class starting this month. team up project, this is a partnership through the community engagement division with the san francisco 49ers organization. the 49ers are working with us on community engagement, designed to bring local police and youth together. this event uses football as a common theme to forge relationships. they host a police officer and a child to a regular season 49ers game so the officer can spend time members of the community and the 49ers have been very gracious in sponsoring this event. it is a very good community relation and engagement endeavor. we also had a disaster preparedness fair on september 18. this was designed to prepare the employees of the san francisco federal bank for major event. the alert volunteers assisted

with this and passed out learning materials and brochure. san francisco annual golf tournament on september 20, and again, great cause. the police activities league which funds a lot of our youth engagement events and including our sports teams, and that was on september 20. we also participated in kevin durant back to school event in which sfpd, alaska air and the kevin durant foundation actually surprised hundreds of kids at a middle school, and mr. durant made a guest appearance and a donation of $10,000 to support youth charities, which was great. and this is all to enrich the lives of at-risk youth from low income backgrounds through educational, athletic, and social programs. alert training on september 29. and we also had our old navy fair on september 29. the mad walk on september 29, so that was a busy day. then we participated in the

annual cortolla block party which is similar to the chinatown night out event on september 30. really good work being done by the officers and the district station captains as well as the leadership provided by our community engagement division there. and the last thing i would like to report, we had an article that was published in the police of -- in the international association of chief of police magazine, and it was posted online and probably be in hard print this month as well, but it's article about our community policing strategic plan, and i just wanted to point out and give kudos to commander david lazar who really was the heart and soul behind this along with director david stevenson who also helped on this. really good useful information about our strategy and our

strategic plan as it relates to community policing. as the commission knows, this was a big deal in our department of justice, collaborative reform initiative that was a recommendation that rang throughout the 272 recommendations about strategic planning, particularly when it came to community policing. there was a lot of work that went into this process, and it took almost a year to get this community policing strategic plan done. and the article explains how we did it and gave some kind of a bullet point on any other department, for any other department that would like to undertake this underdoing. a great piece of work by community engagement division and led by commander lazar. really good piece of work, and i am pleased and proud that our department got highlighted by the international association of chiefs of police. nos easy to get an -- it's not easy to get an article published in that publication.

that concludes my report. >> thanks very much, chief. commissioner hirsch. >> chief, i just have a brief questioned. you mentioned as one of the factors that you think contributed to the decline, the 25% decline in homicides is community support, and i am just wondering, specifically what you are thinking? >> well, a couple of things. in many of the cases we can't solve the cases without the community's support, and some areas is very hard to get people to come forward. and we have been working with a number of different forums in the community to encourage participation on cases when people see something, say something. and our rate is really, really high for this year, most of the year over 100%. you can't do that without community support. we have the scientific evidence and fingerprints and d.n.a. and all that, and that definitely helps make the case as you all

know, but really when it comes down to it, you need community support. we have had communities walking through -- community groups, rather, walking neighborhoods with us. we have a homicide and one of the keys to keeping homicides down is trying to stop the next one, particularly with retaliation and gang-related homicides. through the mayor's office and svip which are community members that are now employed by the city, and they go out and help do that work to prevent retaliations, to calm people down when somebody loses their life, and particularly when it's gang related. that's really, really important. all those things, i think, have helped. like i said, we're 25% up in gun recoveries and confiscations. we had a really good turnout for the gun buyback program that united fairs did the heavy lift on that, but the more guns we get off the street, the less chance they will be used in homicide. we are down in 50% in firearm-related homicides this

year, so the community plays a huge role in that, and we know that. we appreciate that. and we do everything we can to incorporate the community in our crime reduction strategies. >> that is great. thank you. >> commissioner elias. >> chief, am i correct in understanding that the staffing is about 2,278 but in the field was about 1829? what accounts for the 400 number difference? >> officers on disability, restricted duty, injuries, bonding, family leave, fmla lever, a number of factors that play into that, but we usually stay around the 10-14% rate of officers that for whatever reason they can't work the field. and that's not uncommon in policing. but something that we constantly work on to try to get better at, but trying to get officers through injuries and recover quicker. and working with d.h.r. and we

have some processes i think that will help in that area. but there's a variety of reasons, but all that amounts to we have over 300 officers that aren't in the field. >> is there a trend meaning each year is it increasing? is it decreasing? is that number usually the same? >> it's decreased over the years. there's been policy changed -- i'm sorry, decrease. there's been policy changes over time that i think have helped. some of the general orders that have been the commission has approved over time have helped. there was a time where officers were kept on restrictive duty forever, and now the commission has had to hear some case where is officers no longer can perform the essential job functions. those officers have to be sometimes released from the

department. so those policies have changed over the years. that does help us. somebody can't work and they end up being pensioned off on disability or whatever, we can replace that with a person that is full duty. we can replace that person with a person that is full duty. it's something we're always looking at and working on, but it's still a challenge. >> i understand this this ability to stay here and replace them with hiring as well, right? >> yes, it does. >> there is also people on military leave. >> military is leave is one of them as well. >> thank you. i appreciate that. i am really proud of the article that is in the paper and lazar has done a great job. that is really good. looking at the new items and how significant event that you bring to our attention to ask questions we might want to schedule for a future thing, one of the things after our meeting last week, besides the good,

there was some negative. there was an article regarding a lawsuit from the aclu regarding discrimination by the san francisco police and citing numerous studies done. and you didn't bring that to our attention, but that happened afterwards, and we should at least know about that. we should mention it to the public that we are aware it is there. and something that we should be looking into. and certainly something that i would like to add whether it's going to be in closed session, or something that the commission should know what that lawsuit entails and what articles they are referring to. i don't know if they are a succession of older articles -- studies, i mean, older studies to newer studies or current studies or outside studies. we should know what the basis of that is. that met with something that was a significant event to me after we left here in the paper. >> i agree. >> i have actually spoke with commissioner elias about that, and we're going to schedule for the next meeting here in closed session a briefing from the city

attorney's office on that issue. and for the record, the commission was -- i don't think you were present that night when that issue first arose, we were briefed extensively like about an hour and 20 minute briefing by the city attorney's office about the issues involved in that case. so we'll be rebriefed for all the new commissioners. >> the lawsuit was just filed last week. i don't know if it's the same or different. but it is a significant event that i think we should bring to the public's attention that we are aware of and know it's there and something we are going to look into. >> given all the interested parties, i think it is very important. >> yes. >> very thorough briefing last time. i think you will be surprised to see what it's really all about. >> commissioner brookter. >> yes. thank you again, chief. i want to piggyback on commissioner de jesus. commander delazar has done a wonderful job around community engagement. one of the things i would like to see if it correlates with the

mummer bes -- the numbers coming back. if we are doing an event in a certain area, are we seeing more calls and less events of cur and happen because we have been engaged an events that have been there to replicate that across communities to say, hey, we saw this worked and in this area. we had this event. we got the officers engaged, involved, community was there, we need to replicate that in another community. i just want to make sure we are cognizant about that as we're having some of the events and doing some of the things to see how it correlates to the numbers. >> you got it. >> thank you, sir. >> commissioner. >> thank you. just one follow-up question to commissioner elias' question regarding staffing and what is it? deployable, is that the term you used? >> full time. >> what percentage or do you have a number of officers that are not able to be put into the field because of brady issues? >> we do have that information, and i don't have it on this

report, but we do have that information. brady and disciplinary. >> significant or small percentage? >> not a significant number. >> we can follow up offline. >> thank you. anything further for the chief? thank you. call next item. >> line 1b, d.p.a. director's report. it will be limited to a brief description of d.p.a. activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meeting. >> thank you. good evening, acting director hawkins. how are you? >> good evening. i am well. i will be brief. we did not have any celebrities at our outreach event. however, d.p.a. has participated in the following recently. on october 5, we were part of the juvenile probation department meet and greet. on october 6, we participated in the resilient bayview neighborhood fest. and today we were part of the fourth annual s.f. adult provision care event. other really positive news is we

have recently promoted four investigators to senior investigator positions. this is exciting for many reasons. one of which is just that we have more senior investigators. also, they have already passed backgrounds so we got to have them start today. one of them is susan gray who is in the audience today. she has been an acting senior since february and is now a permanent senior investigator, so we're very happy to have her on board. >> congratulations. >> she joined brent began, and two others as the rest of the senior investigative team. we're excited about that. we have started the process of hiring new investigators to back fill those spots. that will take a few months. city hiring and backgrounds will have to happen. we also are restructuring just slightly to have one senior investigator completely devoted to helping us develop our o.i.s. protocol and eventually develop the critical o.i.s. response team, so that's something that we will now be able to do thanks

to having adequate staffing. two of our new lawyers start soon. one got cleared from backgrounds today and will be starting october 29, so that's great. and hopefully she will be joined by another second new attorney on november 5. we recently returned six of us went to the civilian oversight conference in st. petersburg, florida, so it was great to be able to have the training and to be part of the civilian oversight community and learn what other agent sus in multiple jurisdictions are doing. and the last update i want to give everyone is regarding our technology. so we have partnered through the city's civic bridge program with a group of consultants from slalom who are helping us improve the user experience essentially. we've got them for about a month. at the end of that you are engagement, they are really taking a look at our technology and our processes and coming up

with a way that we can improve those things so that our services are better delivered to the community. >> thank you. just so it's clear to the community, you talked about critical response team to officer-involved shootings. it is true that the d.p.a. responds to every officer-involved shooting already. >> that is correct. >> you are just enhancing the team. >> exactly. we have been responding to every o.i.s. and investigate every o.i.s. whether there's a complaint or not. we are trying to develop specialized in-house experience that is more responsive and has specific training and a specific team, kind of like a specialized unit at a d.a.'s office or public defender's office. >> thank you. questions? commissioner hirsch. >> i have a simple question and should probably know the answer. what is the difference between a senior investigator and regular investigator? >> that is a great question. the way the investigative staff is structured is one senior manages a team of two to four investigators.

so the investigators do intake and are kind of the on the ground people doing the day-to-day work. and the supervisors handle the more complex cases as well as work with the investigators to develop strategy and investigative plans and follow-up. the senior investigators are also the ones who are on call for the officer-involved shootings, not the investigators. >> anything further? thank you, acting director hawkins. please call the next item. >> 1c, commission report. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities, announcement, and discussion. and commission discussion will be limited to calendaring any issues raised for future commission meeting. commission president's report and commissioner's reports. >> i would like to thank the men and women who participated in the thai and culture heritage parade on sunday and commissioner de jesus who walked

with us in the parade. the italian community appreciates it. and mayor london breed was with us and all things italian. it was a great event. plenty of food and people were very happy. thank you and i was honored to have you present celebrating with my community. commissioner, any announcements? commissioner de jesus. >> an i want to say the first time i went to that a parade. and it was actually pretty exciting. it was very hot. and the police department was real lu well represented -- really well represented and they did a great job of handing out stickers and stuff to the kids and really enjoyed it. i do want to also thank commissioner -- or vice president mazucco for being the grand marshal. he and his lovely wife were riding, the rest of us were walking, but it was great. thank you. >> anything further? >> next line item. >> 1d, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for considerations at future commission meetings,

action. the next meeting will be held and will be a community-based meeting on october 17 at 6:00 p.m. at saint ignatius college. and that will be on 10-17-18. the next regularly scheduled meeting will be back here on november 7 at 5:30 p.m. >> thank you very much for that. and some folks have wondered why it's saint ignatius and not another place, but it's a beautiful place. with reference to matters for future calendaring, i would like to ask to calendar a discussion about what role the police department is playing in this opioid addiction and the problem we're having on the streets. if we can discuss everything from what our role is, what we need to do, obviously c.n.n. is now doing a special on this. the "new york times" did a feature on our street on high street and those all affected by

that. and it is, it's awful. and we're getting national attention. what is our role? and do we start using 11550 and the health and safety code which is a way to get people off the streets and do it right without criminal convictions, but we all know people that are addicted need to be removed from the situation. they can't make that decision. what role are we playing? what role is the drug enforcement administration doing with supply demand? and is there -- i have not read or heard about any major heroin arrests or busts. that is the supply. what are we doing about the dealers? what is the court system that they are getting arrested with large quantities and back out on the street and even violating stay away orders? what can we do to keep those folk in? and do we need to work with the federal partners? it is an issue and causes a lot of homelessness issues that we are dealing with are related to that. just walk down post street the other day and two people that were nodding -- they were like zombies.

we're hitting them with narcan and helps and saving our lives, but what is our role to understand and help better? and calendar that for the first meeting in november. >> so governor brown signed into law a couple of -- two bills. 1421 and 748. one of them is making police misconduct records in certain cases available to the public. and then the other one, i believe, is making the body camera videos available within 45 days of a critical incident. there is no rush on this, but i think we should be briefed as a commission to what exactly does that bill entail. i don't know if we got to the point where we know how to respond to it, but plan to put that on a closed session so we can understand that. or if it's a public session. >> the city attorney is also

preparing some guidance for us on that. >> good. >> that is good. i want to bring it to our attention that we should have something so we can also understand that. >> just as a reminder, we were asked to look into this issue by a number of commissioners, so he will be providing a confidential attorney-client privilege memo. in terms of the new pieces of legislation and working with the department on revising policies and procedures to address them. >> thank you. >> will we get a memo on that? >> it is a two-prong thing. the department will tell us how to move forward in the future and give us a presentation so the public can see it and an internal memo, confidential memo -- >> with respect to police officer records specifically. >> and then the second thing i want to do, i brought it up at the time last week when we revised the agenda. the chief's agenda and a brief description of significant incidences. i would like to discuss with the

city attorney and discuss with the whole commission that maybe we have a catch-all kind of phrase here and if it's a significant incident that we have the ability to have a larger discussion if it is something that happened, like a mass shooting on a tuesday and we meet on a wednesday, i don't want to ask you where, when, how and lever it alone. it would be incumbent upon us to have some type of discussion. i don't know if that is possible, but talk about a phrase that works for us as well. test relevant, significant, something that is really important, not just anything we want to discuss because i understand we can't do that. but i don't -- the idea that we are limited to determine whether we want to calendar it, i don't know if that goes over on a major incident. wanted to put that out there. >> will that be calendared for november 7? >> let's meet with the city attorney and fe if there is any way to phrase something like that so it's limited to something that is incrediby