but also, the entire ipm program we have talked about the pesticide stop when i want to say, it was at that meeting that i really realized what a very small part of everybody's worked at the pesticide work is. which had a deep impression on me. we only think about the pesticide part, but in fact, it is, as i said, a small part of the ongoing programs and learning about those programs. it is really fascinating. on september 17th, we address the pesticide program and we approved the resolution that you all approved earlier tonight. we also heard a presentation from jesse and troy on the 2017 greenup report, what you all approved earlier tonight, as

well. that is it. >> commissioners, any questions? is there any public comment? next item, anthony. >> the next item is item 11, future agenda items. we have a speaker from the policy affairs. >> good evening, commissioners. and the chief policy and public affairs officer. i will be briefed although we do have a couple of action-packed meeting is coming up. our next special commission meeting is october 24th. is a special meeting. it starts at 4:00 pm. we are still working on the location. this is the joint meeting with the commission on the status of women. director raphael, the director of the commission on the status of women, at the president, and their president, that they met last week, or last month to plan and there are a couple of presentations and development right now in a joint resolution that is being drafted.

but we are still looking for a meeting location. if you have any leads, it needs to accommodate 15 commissioners. if you do know of any place, let anthony or i know and we will investigate further. november 27th, that is our regular meeting time in november will be doing a deep dive on blocking and the implications on the long-term sustainability goals. we will also be conducting the director's performance review in that meeting as well. the next policy committee meeting is october 22nd. and the next operations meeting is october 17th. >> any questions? any public comment? seeing none, next item. >> thank you. we skipped an item. we will move back to item ten.

announcements and items for discussion. >> any announcements from commissioners? [laughter] >> i'm giving everyone the opportunity. any public comment? on item ten? ok. we will go back to the next -- the last item. >> the next item is item 12, adjournment. the time is 7:04 pm. >> thank you, everybody. thank you for being here and congratulations to all the new folks. [applause]

ladies and gentlemen, the chair has called the meeting to order. can you please turn off your electronic devices, as they tend to interfere with the equipment in the room, and can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance? >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> secretary: vice president mazzucco, i'd like to call roll. >> vice president mazzucco: please do. [ roll call ] commissioner hamasaki is en route.

commissioner mazzucco, you have a quorum with us tonight, chief of police william scott and for the department of police accountability, their policy director, samarra marian. >> vice president mazzucco: thank you very much, and ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the october 3rd san francisco police commission meeting, and although we have commissioner hamasaki on his way, but tonight is the first night since may of 2018 that we have a full complement of commissioners, so i would like to thank the board of supervisors and the mayor for their appointment and confirmation of our new commissioners, but before we start, we have our newest commissioner with us tonight, commissioner taylor, who's sitting to the right of me, and commissioner taylor brings a lot of experience to this police commission. commissioner taylor is a former assistant district attorney here in san francisco, where she served for two years after leaving private practice in both new york and san francisco. she's a graduate of yale law

school, and undergraduate of boston university. from there she went to the d.a.'s office, served in the domestic violence unit and in the special victim's unit, and also matriculated to the united states attorney's office, where she ended her career after six and a half years, i think, as the deputy chief of the organized crime unit. she's an experienced prosecutor. she knows how the system works, and from all accounts, we're really fortunate to have her here. she's currently a partner at a firm, international law firm specializing in white collar work and internal investigations. actually, very similar to what i do, so welcome. do you have some things you like to add or share with the public? >> no, just i'm honored to be here and excited to get to work. >> vice president mazzucco: great. also before we go forward, i'm going to do two change in the agenda, given there's the interest in line item number 4, which is department general

order number 5.22, interacting with transgender and gender-variant, we're going to move that to the first item on our agenda tonight after the presentation of certificates of appreciation and also due to -- we have a very, very lengthy agenda tonight, including a very lengthy closed session agenda, so due to the length of the agenda and complexity of the agenda, we're going to have only two minutes of public comment, so without further adieu, i'm going to start -- please call line item 1 and then we'll move into the department of general order. >> secretary: item 1, presentation of certificate of appreciation, presentation to galls, a uniform retail establishment for their participation and partnership with the sfpd and sfpoa on the pink patch project. >> commissioners, i'd like to have sergeant ray padmore and tony montoya from the p.o.a. to come up to the podium and

present their certificate. >> good evening, sergeant padmore and good evening tony montoya. welcome, good to see the president of p.o.a. at the police commission. >> good evening, commissioners, if you permit me to read the narrative of this incredible award for galls for their certificate of appreciation, san francisco police department recognizes galls san francisco in deepest gratitude for your support of the san francisco police department's pink patch project, to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. your generosity is greatly appreciated by the city of san francisco and the san francisco police department. awarded on the third day of october, 2018, signed william scott, chief of police. [ applause ] for members of the public, galls is the uniform store that provides our officers with all their uniforms and equipment,

and they've been doing so for decades, so thank you. thank you very much. [ applause ] also to fill in some of the blanks for members of the public, you'll see that most of our officers are wearing the patches that galls had, this is our san francisco police department patch, although you'll notice it's pink in honor of cancer awareness month, and we as a police commission actually had to amend the department general order in order to allow the officers to wear something that's not part of the uniform that's required by the department and other

department general orders, and a lot of police departments are doing this. it's no easy task, but so many members in our police community and our commission community have been affected by cancer and breast cancer and it means a lot to a lot of the folks to show our support for those individuals, so our police department's doing it, the nfl has done it in the month of october, i do find it more significant that our officers are doing it, so i want to thank galls and i want to thank our officers for doing this. it shows, again, part of our commitment to the community. please call the next line item. >> secretary: we're taking item 4 out of order, discussion and possible action to adopt new department general order 5.22, interacting with transgender, gender-variant, and nonbinary individuals discussions and possible action. >> vice president mazzucco: thank you very much. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, members of the commission, director marian and chief scott, here from the policing bureau, in my bureau we

have the written director's unit who manages the department general order process and policies related to our governing policies, and tonight i'm here to introduce sergeant gary buckner, who is a project manager and subject matter expert, also broderick ellison, to discuss the department general 5.22. >> thank you very much, deputy chief connolly. good evening, commissioners, i, along with officer elton, are pleased to be here this evening to introduce to this commission the newest department of general order 5.22, which is titled "interacting with transgender, gender-variant, and nonbinary individuals." this has been a very long process to get to this point, and we're very happy to be here and pleased to be here to present this. the process was collaborative, it involved a lot of different

stakeholders, internal and external to the department, sworn and nonsworn, and we believe what's before you now is a solid policy as it relates to how we treat our transgender community with respect and professionalism. i've -- just a very brief four points of the policy highlights that this general order covers, first, the policy as is always been, is now in writing and on a general order to treat all persons, custody or not, to respectfully and professionally, and that's really what it's always been, but now it's in writing as it relates to the transgender community. secondly forbids discrimination or harassment of any kind based on actual or perceived gender, gender identity, or gender expression. third, it provides our membership with clarity and

definition on the issue of -- on this topic, and finally, it provides our members with procedural clarifications regarding identification, name usage, investigative stops, searchs, transportation, privacy, and juvenile interactions. so, we're asking the commission this evening to adopt the policy. it's gone through concurrence. it's been looked at and approved by various entities, including the human rights commission, the department of police accountability, thank you, samra, marian, for your involvement and support of the policy. the san francisco police officers association, thank you to tony montoya and his team for their support of the policy. all the deputy chiefs, the assistant chiefs, and chief scott, all have concurred on the policy and what's before you now is the final product. and finally, i want to say thank

you to the gentleman next to me, officer elton, who without his support, without his personal commitment, his personal and professional commitment, many, many hours, probably a dozen, hundreds of hours of research and work on this product. if he hadn't been involved, we wouldn't be here today, so the department owes him a great deal of gratitude for his great work on this project. and with that i'll just turn it over to officer elton for a few words. >> thank you, officer elton. thank you for all your work. i've heard about it. >> thank you, commissioners. just wanted to say a few things. starting off with over the following years i have worked in various capacities, especially in the hate crimes unit, which afforded me the opportunity to conduct outreach and listen to

concerns of various individuals in the transgender community and stakeholders. it became apparent that a substantial shift had occurred in relation to policing during this time. along with shifting societal views and antidiscrimination laws that had been changing and were changing since the initial policy implementation in early 2000s, leading to a revisit of this groundbreaking policy. i was given the opportunity to have conversations with local members of the transgender, gender-variant, and nonbinary individuals communities, such as lyric, which is a youth group, lgbt centers, topics range from fighting transgender violence and sexual assault to outreach and youth perspective. extensive research with the national center for transgender equality, the united states department of justice community relations services, and round table discussions transpiring with a wide variety of participants. along with our local lgbt forum and collaborations with the lgbt

concerns here with the witness programs and education. with review and the collaboration with the human rights commission and later developed with the department of transgender initiatives to consolidate, update, and expand on these policies. the original sfpd policies were the first of its kind and set a respectful precedent that many departments have since expanded on and codified into their own general orders. the intention of the department and community all want to ensure our members have the safest and most current guidance on how to provide safety with respect. the department has recent comprehensive reviews conducted by the doj and the blue ribbon panel, which specified and specifically noted clarification relating to police interactions and searching into specifically which we addressed. and finally, the language of the proposed bill builds on the same language and intentions of the

previous department bulletins in addition to new laws and regulations and best practices. the written policy in front of you and in concurrence with captain flaherty, we have developed a roll call training to be distributed to district stations concerning this proposed general order. an internal guide is also in the developed final stages relating to the unique challenges that transgender, gender-variant, and nonconforming officer as face, and the guide will be available to all the members to clarify and re-enforce expectations within our department. if i may, i would like to submit a letter to be read by -- from former president of the police commission, teresa sparks. >> vice president mazzucco: sergeant kilshaw? there will be a copy for each commissioner, and i'm going to read portions, if not all a of the letter. one of the things everybody

spoke about, you know, this is a model for other police departments, and it's not about being progressive, it's about being respectful to our entire community, and this all started with former president of the police commission, teresa sparks, who was a very prominent member of the transgender community, and commissioner sparks, president sparks, as i'll refer to her, is an incredible woman, and she wanted to talk a little bit about she participated in this and has done so throughout the years, and part of what's been passed out to the commission right now and copies will be made available to the public, deal with some of her concerns about certain assembly bills that are not as advanced as what we have done with our department general order. so in respect to commissioner sparks, who's clearly a pioneer in the field of transgender law and the san francisco police department, what other major

police departments are led by a transgender other than the san francisco police department and teresa sparks? so i'm going to read this letter into the record, if i may. thank you. "honorable members of the san francisco police commission, over the last few days i have been reviewing the draft of dgo 5.22, interacting with transgender, gender-variant, and nonbinary individuals. my opinion is that the draft dgo is well written and completely in sync with today's trans culture, although keep in mind that culture is continuing to be reimagined. there's only paragraph 5.224.0-h that gives me pause, not because its necessary use in the dgo, but the confusion it's likely to generate due to bulletin from 5-31-18. more to the point, sounds like teresa, very concerned with the requirement officers use perception as legitimate means of data collection as mandated

in the assembly bill 953 and subsequent board of supervisor legislation adopted in ab-953. it is very confusing for officers that in an active departmental bulletin it describes one way to identify much-maligned communities, including individuals perceived to be tbn for being a necessary dgo 5.22 to explain that the best practices described therein shall not be applied in this case. it must be kept in mind that the interactions triggering reporting in ab-953 are merely interactions the officers will have with this community on a daily basis. being someone who has worked on the interaction between law enforcement, lgbt and tgn communities for more than 15 years and one of the individuals introducing implicit bias training to the sfpd and the city at large, the contradiction between the concepts of

self-identification and identification through perception, ab-953, puts at risk decades of mostly successful efforts to confront possible discrimination and normalize relations between law enforcement and historically disenfranchised communities. it could be actually re-enforced in officers' tendency of implicit bias, from doing years of training and understanding. it is a direct contradiction of the nationally recognized best practices of implicit bias training in addition to sfpd's current efforts to adopt the recommendations of 21st century police and report issued under the obama administration. rather than inserting an explanation in dgo 5.22 as to why in most interactions with the public officers are to ignore best practices, those which have successfully addressed discrimination and reduced tensions between the sfpd and tgn community, the commission might consider inserting a paragraph in

department a bulletin 18105 instructing officers to ignore instructions of ab-953 to utilize perception as the means of identification and substitute the known best practice of self-identification. in summary, i wholeheartedly recommend adoption of dgo 5.22 by this commission, although it will create substantial confusion to the officers with its implementation, in addition i strongly recommend considering asking the city attorney to request a possible injunction to stop the implementation of ab-953, determined if the requirement to use a concept of perception rather than self-identification possibly violates local, state, federal nondiscrimination legislation. thank you for your time, teresa sparks." now, former president sparks is saying that our department general order actually requires our officers to ask for the individual to identify, whereas in the assembly bill, it

requires the officers not to ask, but to speculate. with their perception. and i think everything here that former commissioner sparks has said is entirely accurate, and our department general order has taken the step further, the more respectful step, of allowing individuals to identify. so, commissioners, if there's any questions about this or any feedback from the department, please feel free to chime in. i know commissioner dejesus, you spoke with commissioner sparks. >> commissioner dejesus: i did, i spoke to commissioner sparks and knew this letter was coming and i knew she was recommending adoption, but i have to tell you, i did go on the website and i could not find bulletin a-18-105531-2018, but i do agree, we should implement the best practice and allow self-identification. there's no reason not to do that, and it would be interesting to talk to the city attorney and see if there's

anything that we can do, because the way the state has it written, it's going to violate not only d.g.o.s and the best practice, but city ordinances against discrimination that we already have on the books, so it's a contradiction, something we can think about and maybe talk to the city attorney. but with that, i would be willing to pass it, but i think the training's going to have to be very clear, especially in the bulletin that self-identification is really the way we need to go. and i guess when you do the reporting, i'm not really sure how that's going to work. is it mandatory reporting under the state law, is that right? >> vice president mazzucco: yes, it is, correct. >> commissioner dejesus: so i don't know how when it comes to the mandatory reporting how the department's going to handle that particular issue. >> ab-953 requires perception, as commissioner mazzucco stated and the letter states, we have to follow that, you know, state law, but as far as our policy,

as you stated, you know, self-identification is the way we're going with the policy. somewhat of a different set of factors, but i do understand the concern here, and that's been raised. state law is state law. >> commissioner dejesus: okay, and i think i read an article in the paper today, they also raised another concern that -- about -- that the supervisor can -- when the member has a reason to doubt the custody's detainee self-identification, the member shall defer to the watch commander for final determination. and when the watch commander overrides the identity statement of preference, we're talking about strip searchs here, so i was just wondering, there was a concern that if a watch commander can override that, then what protections does the individual have?

>> if i can just add, i had the same question when i read this. i didn't understand what that provision was for. >> so these would be articulatable reasons, different reasons that a supervisor would intercede, based on safety concerns that would be articulatable. >> this has to do with a strip search, and it's when an individual identifies him or herself and identifies what gender officer the suspect would prefer to search. and i don't understand the significance there. >> correct, because you have people except in emergency situations, we will take people's declaration as truthful, unless there's compelling reasons. for example, you have nonbinary

individuals, we don't have nonbinary, necessarily, officers available to search that individual, so we'd have to make a discretion and make a decision around that, so a supervisor would have to do so. >> commissioner elias: what is the commission the supervisor would make at that point? >> as it stands currently, whether there will be a male or female officer to conduct the search. >> and if i ask for a nonbinary person and the supervisor is not available, they'd be able to override that? >> correct. >> you're not overriding the identification of the individual. >> no. >> of himself, themselves, herself. >> correct. and also someone could identify, for example, as male, right, for example you could have someone who is signed female at birth, but identify as male, and they identify as male, you use the pronouns he and him, but for a searching process they may feel more comfortable with a female searching them. so this is not -- we're not just

going based off gender identity, we're going another layer beneath, as well, to accommodate what they truly are asking for in a safe and reasonable fashion. >> commissioner dejesus: but it says when they have a reason to doubt, the watch commander can override that. why would they doubt the person when they are self identifying? >> i could give you an example. say there happens to be people at the bars drinking and they are out having a night, men out there, and there's nothing about them that suggests that they might be a trans individual and they say, hey, that's an attractive female officer, i want her to search me, so it could be misused as people not identifying as trans or in that space. >> commissioner dejesus: helpful for me. and you say articulable reason, documented in some fashion in

case a person has a complaint? >> correct. >> commissioner dejesus: i assume it would be reviewed by the next supervisor up? >> correct. we'd bring that forward and take it up the chain. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. >> commissioner elias: regular complaint-type process or special procedures set up for complaints with respect to the situation, these kind of situations? >> commissioner dejesus: i had two things. once a commander overrides it, it goes up the chain of command, someone reviews what was overridden on its own, or does it have to have the complaint? >> happens the night of the event, because you're not going to keep someone a day or two days, you're going to take it to the watch commander there and they'll make a determination based on the circumstances and

the totality of the issues whether the person was displaying fighting behaviors, things of that nature, as well, are also taken into accord, in addition to presentation, explanation, and the circumstances. >> commissioner dejesus: you had a different question, somewhat different. >> i guess my question is, what is the procedure that's been put in place for any complaints with respect to this procedure? just sort of a normal they have a complaint and go to the police department or are there extra layers of protection for individuals? >> any complaint once we generate it would go through the same process, taken to a supervisory personnel and/or department of police accountability personnel would take that complaint. >> vice president mazzucco: further questions? >> thank you. >> vice president mazzucco: thank you very much, and i want to thank former president teresa sparks for all she's done throughout the years and her input at our looking into this department general order. i do agree that i would like to enhance this by putting the language requested by president sparks, if we could do that, and

we could sort of find the appropriate place to put that in. >> i'm going to defer to sergeant kilshaw here. for the record, sergeant kilshaw is not only the department secretary, but she's been in the department putting together the general order. >> vice president mazzucco: okay, department department

general order will stand on tonight, and the departmental bulletin we'll put the language requested by former president sparks. okay, perfect. it's now time to open this to public comment. >> secretary: commissioner, before we start that, i'd like to add the letter that commissioner sparks submitted was presented to you, the commission, and we have copies for the public here. we will post it on the commission website tomorrow. >> vice president mazzucco: perfect, thank you. thank you, sergeant, thank you, officer. any public comment regarding department general order 5.22? >> i have a question. will you also post the bulletin -- the one that she refers to? because i couldn't find it, the a-18-105. >> vice president mazzucco: if it's not posted, we can get it

posted. >> commissioner dejesus: great, i couldn't find it. >> i could provide you with that now. >> commissioner dejesus: no, no, i think it would be good. we have a section where we post bulletins, i just couldn't find it in that section. i figured we'd just post it in case people are curious and want to go to what we are talking about. thanks. >> vice president mazzucco: any public comment regarding this? good evening. >> hi there. i'm from district 11. i agree, we should have best practices in this regard. i would say my concern is after tooling around the internet and taking a look at general order 5.01, use of force, looks like a very well, thought-out document, somebody put a lot of work into it. however, you can say this is how you conduct yourselves. it's not the same thing. there's a number of folks in our

community who believe that this document just isn't consistent with reality. i think it's great to have a document, but when you have an inability to, say, test for compliance, for instance, the police officers association, the p.o.a., is steadfastly against, say, auditing body-worn cameras. there's no desire for any accountability in that front. it's very difficult to have a population, to have a total universe of what conduct looks like when you have all this pushback in any way that you might determine there is compliance, and that's one of many. so i just feel that there's a number of instances where it's not about the documentation, or it's not about the policy, it's about execution. >> vice president mazzucco: thank you, any further public

comment? hearing none, do i have a motion? >> motion to accept. >> vice president mazzucco: a second? all in favor. direct reflect, passed unanimously. thank you very much for all your hard work. again, this shows that this is just more than a document, the members of our department from the transgender community, many different communities, participated in this and they will fulfill this obligation, because if they don't, that's what the police commission is here for in terms of discipline. we take this seriously, so thank you very much. please call next line item, number 2. >> secretary: consent calendar receive and file action, request of chief of police to accept a $100 donation from ms. belinda chin to be deposited to the community engagement fund. >> vice president mazzucco: members of our commission, any gift over $25 ends up in front of the commission, whether it's a donation from an old coast guard cutter, to a $100 gift, which we gratefully accept, to furniture, so we have to approve that. you have it in your packet.

any comments or questions? hearing none. public comment? hearing none. public comment is now closed. all in favor? >> secretary: need a motion, commissioner. >> vice president mazzucco: second? all in favor? thank you. passed. please call line item number 3. >> secretary: item 3, reports to the discussion 3-a, police report. crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco and the trends in those offenses over time. significant incidents, chief's report will be limited to a brief description of significant incidents that have occurred since the posting of the agenda. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for discussion or action at a future commission meeting. pink patch project month, provide an update on the implementation of the commission-approved use of the pink patch for breast cancer awareness during october 2018. fleet week, provide an overview of sfpd preparation for planned activities for october 5th

through october 8th. status update regarding environmental testing at building 606 located at the old hunters point shipyard, and presentation regarding rules governing missing persons. department bulletin 17-086, missing persons assignment criteria, department general order 6.10 missing persons. >> vice president mazzucco: thank you very much, good evening, chief. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, commissioners. >> before you start, point of order on the agenda -- [ inaudible question ] -- we can have a discussion on these items. i don't understand that paragraph. >> so any of the items that are specifically outlined, pink patch project, fleet week, those are items you can have significant discussion on. anything else not specifically

agendized, you can ask to put the item on an agenda at a future meeting, but shouldn't be discussion on that item either from the police report or from the commission. >> can you define significant discussion, please? what would be significant? >> so it's not, as we discussed previously, there's not a formula that i can give you. it depends on a number of factors, but anything in general that's longer than a twitter feed should not have a discussion. >> we get 140 characters? >> the significant incidents should be reserved for items happening after the posting of the agenda. for instance, if we had an officer-involved shooting over the weekend, no way the commission could have anticipated that, so that's something you can ask questions

about, try to get information, if there was a burglary or something significant the chief would like to report on, then he can do that, as well. so we are required to post items 72 hours in advance. if we know that ahead of time, it should be on the agenda. >> i have a question, and that's what i was curious about a. we have a mass shooting the day before we meet, i would imagine we could ask questions on that. can we also have, when it comes to the commission part, can we also have a broader category of discussion of significant incidents that have occurred since posting the agenda? does that make sense. if we have a mass shooting, he's going to report on it, but we also have a standing kind of prong under the commission that, you know, to discuss in depth any significant -- >> so it shouldn't be in depth. let me clarify. any significant issue that's happened since the posting of the agenda is meant to give the

public and the commission and the chief the opportunity to ask questions about that or give information out to the public, but it shouldn't be in-depth discussion. that is sufficient information so that the commission can make a decision whether to put the item on for the next agenda. so those are the parameters and the rules that we operate from given that we have brown act and sunshine ordinances we comply with. >> vice president mazzucco: gone astray on this topic itself. members of the commission, we were briefed by the city attorney's office two weeks ago, and i think you're all available to speak with the city attorney's office about the parameters of this, so please call the chief's report. chief? >> thank you, commissioner mazzucco and good evening commissioners, director marian. i'll start with crime trends, and i'm going to give an overview of year to date, how we compare this year to last year

for the major crime categories, particularly violent crime, and also give you an update on how we fare over time, over the last five years, in these categories. i'll start with homicides. we are currently down 26% in

homicides year to date. 37 this year, as compared to 50 this time last year. over the last five years, the only year that we've fared better year to date is 2014, so we're below four of the five years, we're below where we were this time year to date, which is

really a good thing. in terms of our gun violence, we are down 23%. we have 112 total victims of gun violence year to date, compared to 145 last year. this is the lowest year for gun violence at this point in the year for the last five years. homicides

-- brings unique challenges for public safety. we partner with our public safety agencies, brother and sister agencies in the city, to make this happen, including the department of emergency management, the fire department, and all the partners, u.s. navy, u.s. coast guard, there's a total partnership to make this happen and to keep it safe for all of our visitors and residents. it's also a special time to pay tribute to our military personnel, the men and women that serve our country to protect our nation.

there are soldiers all over the city, marines, naval personnel, coast guard personnel, so we're asking the public and everybody to thank them for their service when you see them. i know i do it every time i see a soldier, but we really appreciate them being here and really appreciate them doing what they do to keep our nation and our borders safe, and we want to thank them for their service when we see them, so we'll pay tribute to them while they are here, and hopefully they have a good time in our city. we're fully staffed this week, all hands on deck, we have foot patrol, bicycle patrol, motorcycle officers, marked cars all over the city. we'll be patrolling the bay with our marine unit, and we also have had a chance to visit the naval vessels, which is always a good thing for our people to be able to interact with the navy and visit the ships. it's really a fun event and the navy has been very accommodating. as always, our mission is provide safety with respect to our residents, but another thing

about fleet week i want to point out, it gives us an opportunity to train and for emergency preparedness, there's a senior leadership seminar that happens during the week, and we can never be too prepared. we can never train too much for catastrophic events or emergency events that might come our way, so fleet week, although it's a fun time, it's also a serious side of that, it gives us an opportunity to train and interact with our local and federal partners and much of that week is spent doing just that, so everything is going well to this point, and i'd like to thank, again, all of our partners that have been a part of this. couple of tips for the public that i'd like to point out, and we said this in the press conference earlier in the week, it does take a lot of coordination, but also we know that traffic will be heavy during a lot of the more popular events like the air show, so please allow extra travel time to get to your destination due to those anticipated crowds and

traffic. if possible, we're asking that you use public transportation, b.a.r.t., san trans, the ferries are a great way to get around the city, and once you're in the city, get you where you want to be. if you are driving, make sure you park smart. we have talked about that all year of not being a resilient city and not allowing people to victimize you, so make sure you park smart. don't leave valuables visible in your car, take your valuables, cameras, that type of thing, laptops with you if you can, or lock them up if you have to leave them, and keep an eye on your smartphones and cameras. again, there's a target-rich environment for people that want to take advantage. park smart, you'll see the park smart posters and placards throughout the city. we've distributed them to these locations, so we're asking for the public's help on that. also, make sure you have a

reunification plan, particularly if you're bringing your kids to some of the events. sometimes kids and adults get separated from their families and groups, and it's always good to have a reunification plan, pick a meeting spot and make sure everyone in your group knows where to go and meet up in the event you get separated. and finally, with large crowds we always want the public to be vigilant and resilient, so if you see something suspicious, please say something. if it's an emergency, call 911. call 301 for nonemergencies. if you see something that just looks out of place or suspicious, please report it. there will be plenty of officers out there, parking enforcement officers, park rangers, police officers, so if you don't have a phone, flag somebody down and make known what it is you think is suspicious. and with that, that is it for my portion of the report, so if there's any questions, next items. >> vice president mazzucco:

chief, i want to thank you for your report regarding the crime rate and the homicide rate. that's very significant, and that couldn't with done without the hard work of the men and women in the police department who are taking proactive measures, but are working with the community to make sure that gun violence goes down. i know a lot of these homicides have been domestic violence related, unfortunately, so i want to thank the men and women of the police department for their hard work. they are the ones responsible for those numbers going down. also with reference to fleet week, thank you for your presentation regarding that. i want to say fleet week has special meaning to our family this year, because my 19-year-old niece lexi bardini is currently serving on the u.s.s. reagan somewhere off north korea, so we take special pride in the men and women serving our country, because our little niece is out there doing that, so special week for our family, too. commissioners?

>> next item for the chief's report is commander robert o'sullivan to present on the status update regarding environmental testing of building 606 located at hunters point shipyard. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, commissioners. >> vice president mazzucco: welcome back, commander. >> thank you, it's good to be back. marian, chief scott, as mentioned, i'm here this evening to provide you with an update on the department's efforts to ensure the safety of our members who work at and visit building 606 in the hunters point shipyard. in late july the "chronicle" issued efforts of building 606. in anticipation of the article, command staff and members of the

san francisco department of public health occupational health and safety and environmental health divisions met on july the the 27th with employees assigned to building 606 to discuss concerns they might have. as a result of the discussion, the department deployed a plan to test the water, air, and soil at building 606 for the presence of biological heavy metal, petroleum, and radiological contaminates. it was deputy chief moser who spoke with you regarding this plan on august the 15th, so i'm here to give you an update regarding the status of the testing, and i'm very pleased to say there has been progress and we have some, but not all of the results. the way the plan has been categorized, as i mentioned, is in three different disciplines, it's air, it's water, and it's soil. our partnership in this endeavor includes the department of public health, as i mentioned, as well as outside contractors. so specifically with regards to

the air sampling, mr. kevin molani, the department of public health industrial hygienist assigned to the police department and has been for some time is covering this part of the testing for us. on august the 24th he did what are called direct readings, and i will say up front, i'm not familiar with all these terms, but i will do my best to answer your question if there are any technical ones. with the direct reading, what he measured were the particulates, both outside the building, 606, within the main bay of the building, as well as within the crime lab. and what he found successfully was that there was a 50% less reading of particulates inside the building as compared to outside, and 25% -- only 25% of the particulates measured outside were measured inside the

crime lab itself. what this means to us is that it's a good indicator that the ventilation system is working, it's filtering and preventing particulates from the outside air from entering the building. furthermore, he took additional air sampling within the building and was -- those particular samples tested for both asbestos and lead and came back as non-detect. there was no asbestos or lead that was detected. those samples were taken from the period august the 27th through september the 7th. and finally with regards to air, mr. molani did swipes of dust that was on equipment within the building, and those particular swabs have been sent out to the vendor that i mentioned earlier, an outside vendor. testing on that will include radiological -- looking for radiological substances, as well. we anticipate those