care of that problem. director henderson. >> i'm happy to be sent on vacation again, if you want to send me on out of here. i take orders very well. so, good evening, everybody. thank you, it's also good to be here. i, too, am a native san franciscan, fourth generation. so i grew up here in the bay view, and i attended st. ignatius college preparatory for young christian men and women, although it was just men at the time, which tells you about how long it is. i know i look really young. but it was just men at the time when i went here. and this is -- i'm so excited actually to be back here and see so many of you in the audience, to see the kids hearing and learning about not just how the criminal justice system works, but how policing and public safety works.

i think it's really an important conversation and subject and doesn't work until we all understand it. we can't fix what we don't talk about, so seeing so many faces in the audience of the students here is really a big deal. it makes me swell with pride, especially since it's from the school where i attended. so, i actually tried to stop by the bookstore to get another little wildcat sticker, because i don't have my jacket anymore. i do have a little pin. i should have worn my s.i. pin. i'll wear it next time i come. anyway, i'm excited to be here. like i said, my name is paul henderson. i went to this school. i went to undergrad at ucla, you know, i guess i probably could have gone to uc berkeley, but that means living at home. so i was really eager to go to l.a. to get my education. and let's just be honest, ucla is the best school. in the state.

i was happy to go there. i came back, i went to law school at tulane in new orleans. i came back, and worked in san francisco as a prosecutor. so, i was a d.a. here in san francisco. one of the very first people that i met that helped mentor me at the d.a.'s office was tippy, right here, one of the first few people that i met when i came back as a prosecutor working as a lawyer. so i worked at the district attorney's office for 17 years. don't do the math. it was a while ago. and i ultimately rose up from being a trial attorney and management, and i was kamala harris' chief while i was there at the district attorney's office, while she was the elected district attorney. and when she left the office, i left and then went into city

hall, where i worked with our previous mayor, mayor ed lee, and i served as his deputy chief of staff. and i focused on public safety and did a lot of the work in conjunction can the police commission. until very recently, when i became the executive director for the department of police accountability. for those of you that don't know what that agency is, we are charged here doing investigations of complaints with the police department. we also make policy recommendations to the police department, and we audit the police department. and so the agency now as it exists, it used to exist as the office of citizens complaint, and we changed the name, we expanded the jurisdiction, and that's the agency that i am the head of now, and so i sit on the

police commission, but they don't let me vote, sadly. i always want to vote, because voting's important, but i don't get to vote. so i get to give input, and i have reports, and i'll give you the brief report now of some of the information that i have about the organization and what we've been doing recently in terms of the cases. so, people come to my agency, and they make complaints. i have a whole team of investigators and of lawyers that work for me and for the agency to manage the work. it's pretty exciting stuff. we are one of the foremost agencies that manages civilian oversight with the law enforcement agency of san francisco. and that's actually best practices. we have found as a nation that best practices indicate that if you have civilian oversight with law enforcement agencies, that's how you get the best results. so here's what's going on in san francisco in terms of the

numbers. we have opened so far and d.p.a. this year 517 cases. last year we were at 414 cases at the same time last year. this year, up to today, this month, we have closed 456 of our cases, and we have sustained cases, 33 cases. there's a difference in numbers in terms of open cases now and open cases of last year, 113 cases. in cases past 270 days, and so we have a timeline when cases are open, when cases or complaints are brought to our agency, there's a one-year statute of limitation. so i track specifically cases that have required investigations for one reason or another beyond 270 days, because

i try and close the investigations as quickly as possible, but of the cases that have gone beyond 270 days, i currently have 24 cases. of those 24 cases, 16 of them are being told. and by being told, that means the statute of limitations is suspended, because there could be a criminal investigation, there could be a civil case going on. there's a number of legal reasons why a case is being told, but we have 24 cases that are beyond 270 days. this time last year there were 41 cases in that category. it's one of the things that i'm trying to do with my expanded staff, is to keep it staff fully with investigators and with attorneys, so that we have fewer numbers that go beyond that 270 days, so that i'm closing cases quickly and efficiently with the department. i want to talk about the recent trend with the numbers being

down. those of you, especially on the commission that are tracking the numbers, the numbers have gone down for the past six years in terms of complaints that have come into the office. and that's reflective of both statewide agencies and nationwide other agencies, numbers have been going down in terms of complaints that are being made. i will say, just to address the spike that we've experienced in the past year, this year will be the first year those numbers have not gone down, ending the six-year number getting smaller. i think it's in large part because of the outreach that's being done here in san francisco. so more and more people are learning about the agency or hearing about the agency and having access to our agency now. like i said, we're already 113 over where we were from last year, so those numbers will be reflected. they are being reflected incrementally in our quarterly reports, but you'll see them in the annual report, as well.

here's some of the things that we've just done in this month in terms of outreach, where my agency and the folks that work for d.p.a. go out into the community to talk about what d.p.a. is, how we provide service to the community, and what we do. we had an event with juvenile probation department, where we did a community forum. this was all in october. we also attended san francisco state conflict resolution class to talk about our mediation program. we were present for the resilient bay view neighborhood festival in district ten. we participated in the san francisco adult probation forum. we participated in the latino heritage month celebration at city hall. and my employees attended both the ingleside station and richmond station community meetings. what we're trying to do now is partner with organizations that already have a community presence and make sure that we

are on those agendas and we make our presence known to folks that they know and understand who we are, mow we work, and how we get in contact. i am here and will be here for the rest of the meeting. thank you so much for having us here and hosting us. and also present is one of our new senior managers, christina. christina, where's christina? there she is. if issues come up, folks have a complaint, something they want to talk to us about and i'm unavailable, one of my investigators is here to speak to us, as well. thank you guys so much for your time. it really is a pleasure and honor to be here with all of you and inspiration that so many of you have come out to spend your evening learning a little bit more about public safety here with the police commission. thank you. >> thank you, director henderson. ladies and gentlemen s what we're going to do is reserve public comment until after captain yick's report, and when we do get to public comment,

this is quite a large crowd, so due to the size of the crowd, public comment will be two minutes this evening, so i just want to let you know that in advance. now is the time for the main event, which is captain yick. >> not to interrupt, i'm so sorry, but i wanted to echo just briefly because of the audience here what the chief said about human trafficking, and so i want to direct it really, because there's so many young people in the audience. as commissioner mazzucco mentioned when he was at the u.s. attorney's office, i was a supervisor in the organized crime section of the u.s. attorney's office, which means i did a lot of murder cases, sex trafficking cases, and so much of what i saw was young people the age of people in this room, young girls in particular, who met boys who were older and fell in love and then got involved in things that caused their life to take a terrible and traumatic turn. it's so important, i want to stress what the chief was saying, talking about law

enforcement, if you have friends whose, you know, for whom things have really changed. they might be on the internet the way they've never been on the internet, caught up in these relationships, it's so important that you report it and tell someone. oi see faces in this room that are not different from faces i interacted with as a prosecutor. it's hugely important, especially as this crime is up, everyone is vigilant and involved and taking care of our youngest people. >> vice president mazzucco: thank you, commissioner taylor. captain yick. >> good evening, everyone. my name is robert yick, and i am proud to say that i am a fifth generation san franciscan. my family has been here since

1865. i am a stewart hall alum, sacred heart. only vice president mazzucco knows why i didn't graduate from sacred heart, but i am a bellerman bell and proud to be one. that's why father reese is so dear to me. but good evening, vice president mazzucco, commissioners, chief scott, members of the community, and s.i. students. awfully quiet. again, thank you very much. i will be providing an overview of the district, including staffing, crime statistics, events, community engagement, district priorities, and moving forward from that point. specifically, i would like to thank s.i. for allowing us to use the choral room. i would like to specifically thank william gotch, the dean of

students, mary beth mcfarland, director of security, and father edward reese, the president. i'd also like to thank support from my members, and, of course, we also have assistant district attorney here with us, as well. okay, i stated, the chief had mentioned, the taraval district is one of ten police districts in san francisco and encompasses about 10.8 square miles. it's 23% of the city, and it's divided into six patrol sectors. as you can see, the district boundaries extend north to lincoln way, south to the city and county of san francisco border, and east to 7th avenue, laguna way, portola drive, ocean

avenue, 280, and san jose. and the district has a bunch of vibrant small business corridors, including inner, outer, taraval street, ocean avenue, west portal, and, of course, stones town galleria. additional noteworthy locations in the district include, and i didn't know this until just the last couple of years, the 16th and marraga steps. if you haven't been, please, walk up and go all the way to the top. it's an amazing view. grove, the zoo, scottish rite, the irish cultural center, harding park, lake merced and the golf course, and, of course, the gym rec center in the district, the recreation center. and if you didn't know this, there are 64 schools in the district, well over 30,000 students that come into the city

or are residents through the the day, and that would include san francisco state, six high schools, 17 elementary and middle schools, 12 private catholic middle schools, and 28 preschools. per the doj collaborative report, in 2016, the taraval district's population and demographics are as follows. there are a total of 159,647 residents. the city population at the time was 824,834. therefore, the taraval district is approximately 19.3% of the total city population. and as you can see with the demographics, approximately 48.8% of the district is of asian descent. many are of cantonese descent

and are mono lingual speakers. and i will speak more about that a little bit later. next slide. i'm fortunate to have four supervisors within the district, district 4. supervisor katie tang, which has the sunset park side and outer sunset. supervisor brown, district 5, she shares a small portion of the inner sunset. supervisor norman yee, who has 12 districts, including st. francis wood, and, of course, the most populated areas, lakeside, lake shore, and park merced, and supersivisor safai s the southeast portion of the district.

taraval station personnel. we have a total of 106 sworn members in the -- at our station. there are four p.s.a.s, police service aides, and police civilians. as a breakdown, we have four patrol lieutenants, 12 patrol sergeants, and 85 officers assigned to patrol, of which includes our s.r.o.s, our school resource officers, two homeless resources officers, and five beat officers, of which constantly patrol irving, ocean avenue, and west portal. and the other officers that are assigned to sector cars are also required to cover the other business districts, which include noreaga, noreaga, taraval, and also stones town.

we have one acting lieutenant currently, four investigators that's assigned to him, and also a video retrieval officer, who is also responsible for assembling crime bulletins, videos, and his name is officer michael fang, and i'll give a big shoutout to him, because he's amazing. taraval station demographics. as a breakdown, if you can see, we have a total again of 106 officers, and the breakdown is 95 males, 11 females, and 35 caucasians, 18 latins, 40 asians, ten african-americans. and this is pretty much reflective of the community that we serve, so i'm pleased to report that. as far as language proficiency, we have six officers that speak

cantonese fluently. there are two that are assigned to our foot beat on irving, which is very helpful and resourceful, and they are constantly called by other districts to assist with translations. i have other officers that speak cantonese and mandarin, but aren't certified and that would also include myself, given that i'm fifth generation, i've lost a lot of it. we also have one officer that speaks french, two mandarin, one russian, six spanish, and i'm pleased to state i have one sergeant that speaks italian, german, french, and spanish. specialized training. we currently have five field training officers, and they are currently used for re-entry, which would mean if an officer has not been working for over six months, that they still need

to come through our field training program, so that allows for us to keep our f.t.o.s fresh to be able to train other officers. i have two f.t.o. sergeants, which are field training officer sergeants, which supervise the program within the station. the next column, if you can see, 76 officers are c.i.t. trained, and that's 75% of the total amount of officers that are at the station. the remaining 25 officers are signed up for the training. they have currently attended the 20-hour course and are awaiting for the full, completed 40-hour course at this time. i have two specialist sergeants, of which work two different shifts, and it's great to have them, because we can use them and utilize them for active-shooter training. we can also use them to assist with barricaded incidents, of which we have had a few within

the district. and i also have two hostage negotiators. community partnerships. i'd like to highlight a few in this list, in respecting the time. i would like to acknowledge sitting in the back here, if you want to raise your hand. they wear many hats and take time out of their busy lives. they work with our current program, which is our kids' safe zone, but they also respond to a number of events and have been involved in a number of other ventures throughout the district, of which we'll give that shoutout to harris in just a few. the next would be the irving street merchants association. i'd like to acknowledge president bill barnacle. he's also v.a. commissioner, and he has been at his post for a number of years and it's been

great working with him. o.m.i., al and mary harris, please, stand up if you could, please. they are members, but they sponsor a number of events, including national night out, the turkey giveaway, the toy drive, and were instrumental in the renovation of the recreation center, which is just an amazing facility, so please give them a hand. and lastly i would like to mention stonestown. and acknowledge the senior general manager deron iverson. it's been very easy to work with them. they started a program given that we were -- the pilot program for averting property crimes at the beginning of the year. they started a program for, if you've noticed, they have the lock, take, and hide a-frames, they've stepped up their security, they've increased their patrols and changed their patrols as a result, and i'm

pleased with the results. my taraval neighborhood team has been working with them and we've seen the number of larcenies drop and auto burglaries, as well. if you weren't aware, macy's space confirmed it will be a whole foods, regal cinema, and sports basement, which is pretty exciting. excited about the theater? because i have to have reserve seating, i'm sorry. next is crime statistics. as far as our calls for service, within the same time from january to september of 2017, our calls for service were 29,090 calls for service, 5,594 reports were taken, which equates to a report rate of 19.2%. in 2018 the numbers had dropped

a bit to 25,934, and 5,636 reports were taken, but yet that ratio has gone up a little bit more, a couple percent, so it equates to 21.7%. if you look at the crime statistics themselves, the first two columns are the calendar years, and then the last two columns are the january to september comparisons between 2017 and 2018. the values represented that are in the last two columns i'm pleased to state they are in green, therefore, when they drop, the only increase that we had were the unfortunate homicides that we had in the district, all but one have been closed. the last homicide case is still open and active investigation. if we move down, rapes are down 23%, robberies 41%, aggravated assaults down 7%, and that

encompasses the violent crimes. in regards to property crimes, burglary down 3%, auto theft 18%, theft from vehicles 21%, arson 53%, larceny 17%, and the total property crime drop as an average was 18%. our biggest challenge are, of course, property crimes, including residential burglaries and auto burglaries. as i'd mentioned before, we are one of two stations, both mission station and ourselves, are a part of a pilot program to avert property crimes. i'm pleased to state that working with a number of other departments, including our investigative bureau, our burglary detail, our robbery detail, working with our neighbors both in the richmond district and in ingleside, that we've been able to reduce these numbe

numbers. as chief mentioned, it's not easy. there are a number of crews working together that are very well organized, that are committing these crimes, including retail theft, auto burglaries, and residential burglaries, and we have noticed when arrests are made, our numbers drop, and sometimes they tend to go back up again, so it's ongoing, it's a challenge, but it's something that we are proactive with. our taraval station investigation team. the acting lieutenant is lieutenant douglas arnold. his responsibilities are fairly broad. he needs to know the working knowledge of the crime trends within the district. he reviews and assigns cases to the investigators, he participates in a daily call with other lieutenants and the investigative bureau, and he's also the property crime liaison and works with my admin sergeant, who wears a number of

hats, and that would be sergeant lynn pomado, so, please, raise your hand. [ applause ] if i didn't have her, a lot of things would be falling apart, so, please, she's amazing. and i also have a taraval neighborhood team sergeant, and that he, lynn pomado, and doug arnold, put together the operations orders, develop strategies. we work with my patrol lieutenants in order to respond, and that's based on statistics that are provided from downtown. it's complex, it's always moving, and it's something that we're always trying to get ahead of. what else did we do? i realigned our taraval neighborhood team that were primarily on the southeast portion of our district.

however they are deployed, depending on what different types of crimes that we're having, they are responsible for watching out for trends and patterns. they are either in plain clothes or in b.d.u.s or sometimes they are detailed to other parts of the district. they are the heart and beat of my need for addressing specific issues and different locations of the district. what we also do is we provide a weekly intel, which would consist of our weekly operational plans. the previous week's notable incidents, crime mapping, the wanted bulletin specific to our district, the current week's community engagement plans, and the current week's planned permitted events. and i'd like to acknowledge -- where is he? is he in the back?

there he is. anyway, benny puts together all of our statistics and is instrumental in getting all of this to work. it's important that when the officers, they generally work a seven-week work cycle, and they are working for four days and could be off for three days, so when they come back, then they are made aware with these packets to be able to note what has been going on, on their days off. so it allows for seamless movement of information, and it allows for discussion, and it keeps them appraised as to what's going on specifically within the district. vision zero s.f. of course, the goal is to reduce traffic fatalities to zero by the year 2024. taraval station traffic enforcement continues to be a priority in the district, and we have identified areas to focus

on, and our focus on the five violations are listed above, and that would be yield to pedestrians, red lights, yield to approaching vehicles, stop signs, and speed. what we do is we varied our locations depending on our statistics. our most recent example would be 19th and slote, lake merced, and brotherhood, lake merced and sunset boulevard. brotherhood and arch, but we're always focused on ocean avenue, slote boulevard, sunset boulevard, and 19th avenue, given they are major thoroughfares. to date, the officers have written 4,177 citations to date.

let's move on to the goals for 2018-2019. overall goals, crime reduction. of course, that's first and foremost. reducing both violent and property crimes. second would be traffic collision reduction, as i mentioned, we're engaged with the focus on the 5 initiative. we're going to continue to focus and also conduct enforcement with m.t.a. in areas of the district, and that would include especially small business districts around schools for the morning and afternoon commute, and any area that any resident may have concerns. i'm constantly receiving e-mails from residents because people are running through stop signs. it is a large district, but it's something that i'm happy to take note of, and we can always provide some enforcement. training. if i were to pick one, that would be c.i.t., getting the 25 officers through the 40-hour course. that's first and foremost.

and community engagement and relationships, i'll move on to the next slide. community emersion and youth outreach is a high priority for me. there's a number of neighborhood events hosted by the merchants and residents, and i'd like to highlight several events that have been hosted within the district. first, i'm sure you're aware, and familiar with national night out. we hosted them at two different locations. the first was at mini and lovie ward recreation center. i'd like to thank jackie battle, the supervisor. it was a great success and janice ng, the associate director of ymca. we had a number of attendees. the t.n.t. officers barbecued. we ran out of hot dogs, they had to run out and get more.

there were hundreds of hot dogs that were handed out. backpacks by the "y" were given out, too. it was just an amazing event. the second location we had national night out was at the beach, and that's at 43rd avenue. i'd like to thank san francisco probation and san francisco state for also attending this event, and if there was one big hit, that would have been the magician. i know the kids loved that. the next would be coffee with a cop. we've held them at a number of locations. i prefer trying to use small business venues, so we had them at a number of small businesses throughout the district. it's something that we do every other month. it allows my officers to engage with the community. there's no agenda. we just want to be able to sit there and talk to you about anything and/or if you have concerns, we're happy to answer them, as well, too.

so if you haven't had the opportunity, please come to coffee with a cop. so based on coffee with a cop, thank you to san francisco safe. what we did was, i noticed our community meetings, there was a number of monolingual speakers, i was using a translator to translate to cantonese, therefore, we spun off of that and we started dialogue, which was a great success, especially because i wanted to be able to get the word out in terms of for safety tips and awareness, a number of seniors also attended, and the chinese media was invited, including ktsf, world journal, so it allowed me to be able to reach out to a number of people at each of these events. it's something that we're going to continue doing quarterly.

the next was how we spun off with coffee with a cop, it was milk tea with a cop. it is the a.m. event, equivalent, whereas violent over dim sum is over evening hours, so we can reach out to different members of the community, depending if they work in the day or night, and it's another event that we're going continue doing, and it was beneficial for us, because we'd always be able to reach out to a number of community members. holiday toy drive. hundreds of toys are given out to children during the holidays and this is done at minnie and lovie ward recreation center. i'd like to thank bill barnacle, if you can stand up, bill. amazing. he's been doing this for years.

he collects hundreds of toys. [ applause ] and what we do is, i will throw out there, shaun imhoff is typically our santa claus each year a and the t.m.t. officers are elves and hand out the toys, but thank you very much, bill. youth outreach. our school resource officers, they conduct school visits throughout the year. we participate in safety wellness fairs. we do active-shooter training, as i had mentioned before, but i would say my favorite by far is being able to participate in sunset elementary school's read-aloud day. and if you haven't heard of it, it's usually done on dr. seuss' birthday, so i had the privilege of being able to read a couple of books of my choice, so, of

course, my favorites were "green eggs and ham" and "go, dog, go," so it was too much fun to do that. i want to thank principal lee for organizing this. it's been going on a number of years and i hope i'm invited again next year. monthly meetings. meetings, we meet the first wednesday of the month, and as i mentioned, we're still working on our kids' safe zone, provides a safe zone for students in need or crisis, so what we've done is we've been working with the schools and merchants who have been identified. there's a placard that's available to put in their storefront window to know the merchants are aware of the program and it's a zone close by to a school for children in need to be able to respond. our community meetings held every thursday of the month, and looking forward to hosting our

next meeting in the ocean view. and also other parts of the district. i do want to be able to move it around the district, so other community members will be able to attend. and, of course, our chinese community meetings, our dialogue over dim sum, and our milk tea with a cop events will be continued to be held quarterly. okay, in closing, i'd just like to say i look forward to working with our community and our partners, and our business districts, so they can remain vibrant and continue to make sure that the residents feel that they can go out for a walk and feel comfortable within the district. crime is low, but yet it's never low enough for me. it's something that i will always continue to address. i would like to thank the commissioners for selecting the taraval district, so we could host this at this great venue.

thank you very much. i'd also like to thank the chief and the command staff for their support. and i would also like to thank my staff for assisting me with putting this together. i'd just like to say that as a kid growing up in the richmond district, i never would have thought that i would have the opportunity to do something like this. it's been a lot of fun. thank you very much for the opportunity to work in this district, and i just have a lot of great memories. if all of you recall, i drive by slow and see the doggy diner head and just remember of going to the zoo and then going to doggy diner, and i will be honest with you, yes, i still have my elephant key. i don't think it works anymore, but i still do. again, thank you very much, and it's been a privilege. [ applause ] >> vice president mazzucco:

thank you, captain yick. now it's time for public comment. before we start, especially because we have the students here. you keep hearing the term c.i.t. do any of you know what that is? okay, let me tell you a little bit. that's one of the things this commission has done in collaboration with the police department. it stands for crisis intervention training. which means that our officers are trained now to de-escalate situations. as you're well aware, many of their encounters, probably 60% of their encounters now, are people that are in mental health crisis. and our officers instead of going physical and going hands-on, have learned techniques to de-escalate the situation, to have a conversation, to ask how the person is doing, and these de-escalation techniques that the officers have done have saved lives. violent situations where somebody really doesn't understand where they are at, and their natural reaction is to fight with the officers, or to injure the officers. and so now with this training

that our officers have embraced, and i want to tell the captain, i'm very proud that you have 76 of your officers c.i.t. trained and the remaining officers signed up. that's a great number, but it tells you that police work is changing a bit and you're starting to see where the officers are trying to reason and deal with people, because it's a very difficult situation for the men and women in this police department that serve right now in san francisco. there's an opiate addiction, there's an epidemic, there's people, a lot of people in mental health crisis on the streets. one of your own recent graduates from here was shot by one of them, officer kevin downs, who's a true hero, who was playing football in that field, what, five years ago, six years ago. so it's a new issue that we have to deal with, and the officers work with it. i also want to point out the undercover officers from the t.n.t. team, guys in the back there, they are the reason why a lot of the crime is down in this district, so i want to thank them. before i go further, i want to thank the officers. [ applause ]

so, now we're going to move into public comment and questions for the captain. so, sergeant kilshaw? >> secretary: ladies and gentlemen of the public, public comment is now open. please limit your comments to two minutes. >> vice president mazzucco: okay -- >> secretary: come up to the podium, line up. >> good evening, my name is mary harris, president of all my neighbors in action, and i'm on the taraval cpab. i rushed up here because i'm actually supposed to be at a board training, which was supposed to start at 6:00, and i've asked the board members to start at 7:30 so that i could get the board training and not miss it, so i'm sorry if i -- anybody here. i'm usually the first person to complain if something isn't right, so i also feel i should be the first person to appreciate and ask, you know,

show gratitude, when things are going right. and we have a great captain. our love our taraval neighborhood team. i love you all, and the officers at taraval. as a member, if we come and meet on wednesday and mention to the captain an issue, be it homeless, be it trash, be it blowing stop signs, whatever it is, we get the appropriate response immediately. and he makes sure that attention is given to whatever that issue is. i also want to thank all the people that came to international night out. mayor, chief scott, it's really important my neighborhood knows that they are available and responsive to us, because if there's going to be drama in the taraval station, homicide a lot

of times, unfortunately, it is in the o.m.i., which is the ocean view, ingleside, merced heights. so i also want to thank sf safe. their partnership is invaluable and also the d.a.'s office, maggie is wonderful. together with the community if we see something, we need to say something. it's a good partnership, so i wanted to come up and say appreciation and thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. good seeing you again. i think last time i saw you guys about three or four years. it's nice to see you guys. i'm bill barnacle. i'm the commissioner for veterans affair for city and county of san francisco. i did not go to s.i., unfortunately, i went to abraham lincoln high school. i'll share that with you. mustangs. here we go, mustangs. been over three years when

captain lynn was here. i want to compliment captain yick for his many accomplishments in his short tenure at taraval station. as he mentioned on the board there, he's done merchant walks with me. we haven't had a captain for some time that's been on a her che merchant walk for a long time. he does this probably once a month. coffee, monthly coffee with a cop. i commend him on that. local coffee shops, as well as -- you know we have a lot of places on irving street. district cleanups on saturdays, we've had two district cleanups. captain yick has been with us on saturdays cleaning up district 4. monthly open houses at the station, dialogue over dim sum, weekly news letter, and most importantly, we are getting cameras on irving street in the next couple months. captain yick has been very transparent, he has an open-door policy at his station.

we have two beat officers, officer desmond dunn and officer john ying. annual toy drive i've been doing 15 years and i'm the only association in san francisco that does an annual toy drive. last year i had flavor, united states marine corps with me delivering toys to kids with cancer. my association delivered over 4,500 toys. when this was over, we've been doing this the past five years, and captain yick gave certificates of appreciation to merchants thanking them for their support of the toy drive, and this was huge. got a lot of phone calls and the district 4 supervisor goes to the store, as well as the captain. >> thank you, sir. >> done? >> you're done. >> thank you. thanks. >> thank you, bill. goes by quick. >> good evening, chris carlton, i'm a student here at s.i., and

i just have three pretty small questions for you, and first of all, what do you do day to day? how often does a commission like this meet, and then how many people are in the commission? is it just people that are present, or do you guys have, like, a force? i don't know, a commission force? i'm not really informed about this. i just want to know. >> i guess i'll answer the question. there are seven police commissioners. you have the full complement tonight. four are appointed by the mayor, three appointed by the board of supervisors, but all seven of us are confirmed by the board of supervisors. we meet every wednesday night, generally it's at city hall, it's televised. we review all policies and procedures. we meet with the police officers

association, we meet with members of the different peg groups. we meet with the department of justice, there were forms recommended, different task force, deal with implicit bias, deal with recruiting and hiring, we selected the police chief. we basically interviewed the 61 candidates and sent three names to the mayor and the mayor was able to pick from those three names, so we basically go out in the community. ordinarily we report out, but we go to community events. just this week alone, several of the commissioners went to an academy class graduate, we had 28 new officers graduate down the block here. they went to the graduation. we do many, many community meetings, we talk to folks, see what their concerns are, discipline. discipline part we deal with on a daily basis. officers have rights. you heard from mr. henderson, where officers are accused of things. you know, ordinarily when officers arrest people, it's not a really good way to start a

relationship, starts out bad when they put the handcuffs on you, so there's complaints. we deal with the complaints. if the officers need discipline, we also look for the officers' welfare. our officers are expected to see the worst of the worst ten hours a day. they see dead bodies, they are in domestic violence situations, they argue with people, they struggle with people. [ please stand by ]

se i'm a no-nonsense mother. i did well by my children and i am no qualm of being the mother i am. i am fighting for my son and he is six feet down at a funeral home and now i am his voice. he was shot 30 times with a semi automatic gun. he died saving someone else's

life. he said run. my son was left. so they shot him for opening his mouth. i don't know if that's a snitch-culture thing but my son didn't deserve to die. he was only 16-years-old. it's sad. i've been coming to the police commission to see that if someone would know something, to solve my son's case. i've been out here 12 years and no mother had have to do that. my son should have been burying me, not me burying him. i have three daughters left. he was my only son. i come and i talk with my pictures. i bring these up. i can't talk unless no one was going to know how i was feeling unless i show pictures. i'm not just fighting for my son, there's other mothers and fathers out there losing their

children all their lives. and the next thing i want to show is what -- >> thank you, ms. brown. >> had a mother and father. this is what they left me with. my son's dead body on a gurney. no mother wants to go through this. >> thank you. >> i just want people to hear what i'm going through. >> thank you, ms. brown. ladies and gentlemen, ms. brown does come to our police commission meeting every wednesday night. her son was gunned down because of warning against other gang members in the western edition. unfortunately the d.a.'s office has not been able to bring a case although they know the suspects. ms. brown has their names. they're out and about in the community. one is dead already.

and they can't make the case unless someone is willing to testify against the shooters who killed her son, who was a good young man who graduated from saint dominique school before heading off to high school. if anybody has any motion regarding the murder, san francisco police department anonymous tip line is (415)575-4444. and there's a retired investigator assigned to this case. no murder case ever goes away. there's nothing more we'd like to do, to see the police department, than to take those murderers to justice. unfortunately that's a reality that the officers and people in the street have to deal with. many kids don't get a chance to see it. thank you, ms. brown. next speaker. [applause] >> my name is mike. i want to suggest to the commission that when crime

reports, statistics are given that given the prop 47 changed a lot of the rules and definitions. there should be a comparison of maybe two years before prop 47 went into effect and two years afterwards. in private accounting, if someone changes accounting methods they have to report what it would look like under the previous accounting methods. for instance, expense change methods yo you have to purport t it would look like and finally i see many spirited faces here, i know after the thrashing of saint i guess in a anxious takes friday night from my alma ma der it will be black arm bands and glum faces and a mood of sadness. i don't apologize but as someone said, i feel your pain. thank you. [laughter] >> next speaker.

good evening. >> good evening. my name is chaz. i am a senior here at saint enginasious high school. i think th the deescalation tacs and i appreciate them implementing those readily. you brought up earlier, bias training. has the commission implemented any implicit bias training policies? you don't mind, i would like to take notes? >> that's a great question. currently we are redoing the bias dgo so it's a department general order. sort of the rule book for the police officers to follow. what to do in certain situations and we are currently redoing the bias d.g.o., which i think was done in the '90s and it hasn't been revised since then.

we're currently working on that. part of that is having a working group where we have people from the community where we can implement in it the d.g.o. or the rule book so we can acknowledge the bias that happens and what to do in those situations. hopefully, we'll have it within the next few months. there's a long process in terms of getting it drafted and having people review it and ultimately the commission will vote on it to i am not it. that wilimplement it.>> i want . we offer an eight-house bias training for every police officer. in addition to that, the department of human resources in san francisco has an additional 40 hour course on bias which the officers either have gone through or will go through.

i think the department is serious about it. >> thank you. >> if we have actually several of us have gone through the training and it's pretty amazing. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening. my name is wendy wong. i'm the spokesperson of the san francisco coalition for good neighborhoods. i'm so happy to see you all here. seven police commissioners. i would like to take this opportunity to thank our captain. every single meeting, i went to the meeting and i got the report of the crime report and i can compare to the previous month. not that i enjoy it, i am very informed, i get the information of what is happening in our neighborhood. talking about human trafficking. it happened to my neighbor on my block. being alert, myself, because i

attend a meeting every single month, i know how to watch these people. i report it to our police station. that has been taken care of within 48 hours. i have to make a big part to our officer working on the case. and secondly, i would like to ask questions that i look around. we have seven police commissioners and i don't know whether we have chinese police commissioner, we have 35% population in san francisco. do we have the representation in this commission? i just want to know whether you will have this similar culture interaction in the chinese community. i look around and i don't see it. i just want to bring it to the mayor london breed because she

got elected and she was highly supported by the chinese community. >> i can address that to some degree. good evening. my name is john. i am asian-american although i am not chinese. i have -- the seat i was in previously was filled by bill hang, who is a u.s.f. law professor. traditionally the police commission has had an asian representative on it. that has been a -- for the last three at least that i know have been chinese. i will say this, there isn't one right now but i was familiar with one in the mayor's outreach and looking for candidates. i will say they did interview a number of chinese candidates and they spent a lot of time in a very long complicated process

before selecting the new commissioners that are seated tonight. mr. taylor and mr. brooketer but i know it's very much on the mayor's mind. it's on the board of supervisors' mind as well. i have, in my role as a commissioner, tried to be a bridge to the broader asian community. that includes the chinese community. i have been involved in a number of events in the chinese community including chinatown, at some of the events that have been involved i've attended. like the a.p.i. council. which is a organization that is made up of different asian-american organizations. i think you have a legitimate concern. i'm trying to fill the role as best i can. i do think ebo