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, 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. commissioner mazzucco, i'd like to call roll. >> please do.

[ roll call ] also with us tonight, commissioner, is the chief of police william scott and the department of police accountability paul henderson. >> thanks very much, sergeant kilshaw. and ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our october 17th, 2018, san francisco police commission meeting, and it's great to see we have a big crowd here. good job, captain yick. just to give you a little background, we as a police commission meet at city hall every wednesday night at 5:30, and we deal with the same crowd of folks that show up. i think some people live outside city hall and they come in for our meetings, but once a year for each district station, there's ten, we go out to that district and we meet with their community to see what's going on in their community and give

their captain an opportunity to make a presentation and talk about what's happening and hear from you, the community members. what are your concerns in the taraval police district? so it was taraval's turn on the wheel here, so takes a lot of work to bring the television station here for everybody, and all the commissioners, i have to tell you, from my perspective as a commissioner, this is the best part of the commission, because we go to ten different districts during the course of the year, and you really learn a lot at those meetings, so we expect to hear from you, what you're concerned about in the district, in the taraval, but we also do things a little differently, too. ordinarily we just go into our meeting, but when we're out in the community, we have the commissioners introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about what we do in our day jobs. this is allegedly a part-time job, and the term allegedly is a big job. we like to give the community background about what we've done in our careers and what we do.

and being we have so many new commissioners, there's four new commissioners tonight who have their first neighborhood meeting. i ordinarily start at the end, but i'll start with myself and then move to commissioner dejesus, and they'll give us an idea what we do. >> had to throw that in. >> vice president mazzucco: so i'm commissioner mazzucco. i'm uncomfortable tonight, because i'm in complete enemy territory. however, i will say my son, thomas mazzucco jr., is a graduate of st. ignatius, he's a wildcat and now an attorney in san francisco, so i do have some st. ignatius connections. i'm born and raised here in san francisco. i raised our two children here. my wife is a native san franciscan. careerwise i served as an assistant district attorney like you for ten years in the san francisco's d.a.'s office and after that an assistant united

states attorney in the united states attorney office, recruited by bob mueller, kind of a popular guy right now, i served under him. and i served under kevin ryan, a graduate of st. ignatius high school, who is u.s. attorney. in addition to being police commissioner, i'm a partner in a law firm, so it's a honor to be here and i'll turn it over to commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: okay, that's a tough act to follow. i'm also a native san franciscan, i'm not a wildcat, but my son is a wildcat. i forget how big this school is. and i live in the mission, i'm an attorney, i was in the public defender's office for ten years. i do -- i do -- now i do -- i'm trying to think about it, workers' rights, workers who are dying from cancer, caused usually from their employment, so that's what i do now. that's it. i got the longest tenure on the

commission, is what he was trying to say. >> vice president mazzucco: commissioner hamasaki. >> good evening. i joined in june of this year. i am not a native of san francisco, but i've been here for 24 years, so i get a little bit of a hometown credit at this point. i think i've earned it, slowly. in my life, i'm a criminal defense attorney, primarily private practice. i work in san francisco and practice throughout the bay area, and i'm also really involved in our local legal bar associations. i'm the president-elect of the barristers club of the bar association of san francisco, and also serve as the treasurer

of the asian-american bar association of san francisco. i have a 4 year old that i hope to follow in petra's footsteps and send them to this lovely institution some day. beautiful school. >> vice president mazzucco: thanks, commissioner hamasaki. commissioner brookter. >> commissioner brookter: i actually go by d.j., d.j. brookter, currently the deputy director of a nonprofit organization, where we design programs to help folks in uninsured communities get back to work and sustainable careers, and we also dabble in education to help folks further their education. i actually got the opportunity today, i was at john o'connell high school all day today and got the opportunity to speak to young folks who are juniors and seniors in high school about college and actually about workforce development. been on the commission now for about two months, so probably

we're the definitely the most junior on the commission, but it's definitely been a lot of fun. i live out in baby hunters point, originally from fresno, california, and moved here in 2010, so been in the city roughly eight years and doing work in community, around community, and for community for those past eight years, and really i want to say thank you for allowing us to be here today. >> vice president mazzucco: thank you. commissioner taylor. >> commissioner taylor: the most junior and the latest. hi. my name is damali taylor. my day job is i'm an attorney. i'm a white collar attorney at a law firm here in the city, and if none of you know what that means, most people don't. so i spend about almost ten years as a prosecutor here in san francisco, both first at the d.a.'s office and then at the u.s. attorney's office as a federal prosecutor and then i

rejoined my firm last year until what i do now is helping businesses and individuals who are in trouble or not in trouble, but just want advice on criminal, legal, regulatory issues. so that's what i do for a living, but i love this city, and have worked and served the city for a long time, and i'm excited to be able to do it as a commissioner. >> vice president mazzucco: thank you, commissioner taylor. commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: i'm not a native san franciscan, i grew up in lettuce and broccoli fields, first came to the area when i was accepted at uc berkeley and have been here ever since. currently i work in the labor division's office, enforcement division, so what i do is i basically go after employers who do bad things to their employees, by not paying their wages, cheating them out of money that they have rightfully earned, when they are not able

to take sick time because they are sick or the employer doesn't have a policy, the labor commissioner comes in and forces certain labor laws, well, various labor laws, to make sure employees are treated correctly and with respect. so that's what i do during the day. prior to joining the labor commissioners office, i was a public defender for nearly 11 years at the san francisco public defender's office, and i think that's all i have for being a lawyer. in addition to joining the labor commissioners office about eight months ago, i also recently got married, so there's a lot of new, fresh things that are happening. so i'm trying to figure out what to do in a new job and a new marriage, so any pointers or advice is probably greatly appreciated, so i am happy to be here tonight and look forward to meeting you individually and

listening to you. >> vice president mazzucco: commissioner? >> commissioner hirsch: my name is bob hirsh, i'm also a lawyer. that makes six out of seven. we have one regular person on the commission. i grew up in new york city, but i came out here to go to law school many, many years ago, and i've been in san francisco for about 40 years. i've been a lawyer here for 39 years. i was a labor lawyer for many years representing unions. i then became the general counsel of an investment firm in san francisco for many years, and for the last 11 or 12 years i've been an arbitrator and mediator, which means i'm on my own. i function as a private judge or a mediator in labor disputes, in commercial disputes, securities matters, depending on what it is, and i've been active in law enforcement matters for many years and joined the police commission a year and a half ago. the late mayor ed lee appointed me, and i miss him. >> vice president mazzucco:

thank you, commissioner hirsh. so, especially for the members of the criminal justice class, you'll see that we as a police commission are the liaison between the community and the police department. our responsibility is for the department general orders, their policies, their procedures, we deal with discipline when officers are in trouble. we sit in a judicial capacity like a judge, and there's hearings as to whether or not the officers have committed the offense they've been charged with. you'll hear from the dpa director, who's a st. ignatius grad. it's like a courtroom setting, so we're in charge of determining whether the officer should be suspended or terminating. we're responsible from hearing from the chief, who you'll hear from later. those are some of the roles we have in the commission. there's a very diverse background. we have public defenders and former prosecutors all on the same commission, and that gives us the opportunity to look at things from many different perspectives, and that's how we function as a commission, we understand the criminal justice

system. it's a very hard job for the new commissioners. they are starting to realize that, but it's worth it. we're here to hear from you, the community. without further adieu, we'll move on to our first line item. and again, the difference between this meeting is tonight you're going to hear from the police chief about recent activities, you're going to hear from captain yick, and then there will be a lot of questions and we expect to hear some questions from you. sergeant kilshaw, by the way, sergeant kilshaw's son is also a graduate of st. ignatius high school and she's a graduate of mercy high school and i think her husband is in the audience and connor is now working in washington, d.c. yes, and also the anniversary -- sergeant ware, who is here, his son -- you're also a graduate of st. ignatius, and his children graduated from st. ignatius high school. >> sergeant ware's anniversary, too. >> vice president mazzucco: wedding day. [ applause ]

they sent their daughters to sacred heart cathedral. very smart people. you'll also notice our officers are wearing pink patches like this. it's for cancer awareness month. in the san francisco police department, many members have chosen to change their patches to represent that, so you'll see a lot of our officers with pink patches. and just to tell you how we work as a commission, that took the full commission to meet to determine to change the uniform regulation just for one month. it required public comment, it required input. the police officers association was involved, the uniform makers were involved, so that's just one of the small things that we do. so that's why you'll see the officers wearing pink tonight. so now let's get into our meeting. >> secretary: commissioner, items 1, reports to the commission, 1-a, chief's report. weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. significant incidents. chief's report will be limited to a brief description of

significant incidents. commission discussion will be limited to determine whether to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future commission meeting. >> thank you, and good evening, chief. >> podium just for you. >> good evening. commissioner mazzucco, commission, director henderson. i will -- actually, can i start with a brief -- >> vice president mazzucco: please, do. >> so, it's a pleasure to be here. thank you guys for hosting us. i just wanted to give a brief introduction of myself. oftentimes you probably read about the police department and maybe see me on the news from time to time, but it's really important to know who your chief is, and i'll introduce a couple of our key people that are here, as well. so my name is william scott, or bill as i've been called since i was a child. i have been the police chief here since january of 2017. before me moving to san

francisco, before i moved here, i was in the los angeles police department for 27 years and about three months, where i ended there as a deputy chief in the lapd, so spent 27 here and really applied, i think, 61 people to be the chief here applied with me, and very competitive process, and i was very, very fortunate, blessed, and happy that i was selected to be the chief of the san francisco police department. so, it's really a pleasure to be here and serve you as your chief of police. i wanted to introduce and my right-hand man, i'm going to give an overview of the police department, but sitting next to me over there is our chiefs of staff, hector, who is also a native san franciscan. and the way the police department is structured, just like any large organization, you really have to have somebody that's got their eye on the ball

and the business at all times, and i am responsible for that and accountable for that, but i am in meetings from the time i get to work, to the time i get home, so while i'm in the meetings and doing the community meetings, and meeting with the mayor and city hall and all the things i have to do, somebody's got to really be paying attention and getting the work done and driving the things happening in the department and coordinating. and really the chief of staff is one of the main people that actually helps me as a chief get that done. we also have another assistant chief, tony chaplain, who's not here tonight, but he coordinates our operational side of the department, which is over half of the department. he has the airport bureau, the still operations bureau and special operations bureau, so if you see the s.w.a.t. officers or are flying out of the san francisco international airport, that's all under our operations side of the house. we also have five now deputy chiefs, we'll have six shortly.

five deputy chiefs, and we have a deputy chief in each of our bureaus. so operations bureau, special operations bureau, airport bureau, the administration bureau, the professional standards and principle policing bureau. am i missing one? no, five, there's five. i'm sorry, five. hopefully, six one day, but five for right now. so those are all the bureaus that take care of all the business in the department, and we have roughly 2,300 sworn employees and about over 300 non-sworn employees, so everybody that works under the sfpd umbrella works in one of those bureaus that i mentioned. it's a very large organization with a lot of moving parts, takes a lot of coordination. and in the operations burro comes the real heart of the department, which is district stations. we have ten district stations, you, this school, and most of you that live in this area belong to the taraval station, which captain robert yick is here, and he's going to talk

about what taraval is doing to keep the community safe, and he is one of ten district stations. and really that is the life blood of our organization. with any police department. we always say the patrol officer, the patrol sergeant, the lieutenants and the captains are the backbone of the organization. and i truly believe that to be the case. not to minimize the administrative part of what had to be done, the investigations and all the other things that have to be done, but when you call 911, you're going to see a patrol officer. when you call 311, you're going to likely see a patrol officer, so that's really where the work gets done and it's the biggest part of our operation. so that's an overview of the san francisco police department, and i will start out my report with just an overview of the citywide crime trends, and then captain yick is going to talk about taraval on a more granular scale about what's going on in taraval. so, citywide, i actually come to report good news. we -- and i'll break it down in violent crimes and property

crimes, because the way our crimes are reported, for those of you that are interested in criminal justice, what we call part one crimes, those are all the serious crimes, and every law enforcement agency in the nation has a report to the fbi what their crime statistics are at the end of every year, and those are the part one crimes that you see, the chronicle does a story on how san francisco is tracking, it's usually going to be on those end-of-year crime statistics. so those crimes are murder or homicides, rape, robberies, assault, burglaries, motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, or theft. overall, our city, we're down in violent crimes and total crimes, and property crimes. so our total crimes, we have had 50,060 for the year, which is a large number, but we're down -- sorry, that was this time last year. we're down to 46,280 crimes year

to date, which is about a 7.5% decrease in crime. now, that's the difference of about just short of 4,000 or right around 4,000 crimes. when i stand up here and talk about statistics, it's really important that everybody really understands we're talking about people and people being victimized, and sometimes when we talk statistics and percentages and we're down by 100 or down by 500, it's easy to lose really the point of this, is that these are people that have been victims of crime, so i don't want that to be lost on anybody. so when they talk about numbers, think of people. think of your friends. some of you have been victims of crime, so it's really important that we do keep an eye on what our crime statistics are, because that really drives how we patrol, where we put our officers, how many officers do we get. so these numbers represent people. overall we're down. so in terms of our violent crime, our homicides this time last year, we had 52.

right now year to date we have 39, which is a 25% decrease in homicides. our rates are down. we had 341 this time last year, we had 322 year to date. our robberies are down. we had 2,607 last year. year to date, 2018, we have 2 2,496. and our assaults are down to 2,118 this year. where we're up in crime is human trafficking, which, fortunately for us, is a small number, but still an unfortunate number, because again we're talking about people that suffer some very, very serious crimes in terms of being human trafficking victims. we had 97 year to date as opposed to 51 this time last year. so that's something that we definitely want to get a handle on, but we're definitely up in human trafficking. our overall property crime, we are actually up in burglaries by almost 500 burglaries, so that's not good news.

we have 4,002 this time last year, we have 4,501 year to date. motor vehicle theft down to 3,437, reported arsons are down from 210 to 188 this year. and our larceny thefts are down from 36,522 last year to 33,172 year to date. now, we always break out when we report our larceny. we break out car burglaries. car break-ins. that's a huge issue in the city, and really it's a huge issue in this region. and i don't know how many people here have been either suffered car burglary or you know somebody that did, but it's a huge problem for us. and the big scheme of things, a lot more people get burglarized and victimized on that

particular crime, so we have been really focused on reducing that number and bringing those that we catch to justice over this past year. last year we were up. it was almost a record. it was a record year for us. 31,000 car burglaries, which was about a 25 -- over a 25% increase from the previous year. so from 2016 to 2017, we have put together several strategies and measures in place to try to curb that number, and one of the main things that we wanted to do was really get in front of it and try to prevent these crimes from happening. one of the primary roles of law enforcement is crime prevention, and when we aren't successful at preventing crime, then our next priority is to apprehend those that actually commit these crimes. car burglaries are very difficult crimes to catch. citywide, the numbers of people we catch are low in the grand scheme of things, 2.3%, which is

a big number, however, what we know and what we've seen and our experiences and the people that we have caught, there are very few, we believe, amount of people. and some of them do this for a living, they commit a lot of crimes. so we try to focus on those individuals that are prolific and we've had a lot of success doing that. being strategic with our plain clothes operations under cover and focusing on the crews we believe going from community and community and victimizing people. and we've had a lot of success with that. so we're being very strategic and surgical, and as a result of our crime prevention, if you guys haven't seen it, you probably will see either a poster or on the back of an mta bus a placard that says "park smart." and what we are asking the public to do is to don't make yourself an easy victim when it comes to car burglaries.

oftentimes, you know, we get lax and don't think it's going to happen to us. we leave our purse, computer, backpack in the car and that is a crook's delight. that's who they want to go after, so people that make it easy for them, because they don't like to work for what they get. they want the easy targets. so we really have been pushing the public message of park smart, don't leave property in your car if you can avoid it. lock it in the trunk if you have a trunk, but make it difficult. make it hard for people to victimize you, and so that messaging, along with increasing foot beats, along with deployment strategies we've used in different parts of the city, we've gotten this number down by 15% year to date, so i'm really happy to report that. and last thing i'll say before i turn it over to captain yick is, you know, policing is very labor intensive, but anybody that wears a uniform will tell you,

we cannot do our jobs without the support of the community. the officers that are standing in the room, the sergeants, we can't do our jobs without the support of the public. we do only what you all allow us to do, and we have to do our jobs right. we have to be respectful. we have to be professional. justice is just that, we have to be just in how we carry out the laws, but we can't do it without you, so the most resilient communities, our communities that are tight and stick together and communicate and communicate with us about what your needs are, and we want to hear from you. the captain wants to hear from you, and i want to hear from you. so, again, i'll finish this where i started, it's a real pleasure to be here and thanks for having us and hosting us tonight. and in the back of the room, we have a lot of our operational command officers there, deputy chief mike redmond, mike, raise your hand. mike runs operations, field operations. then we have the commander who

works -- works under chief redmond, but she's in charge of five district stations, including this one, so that's where a lot of the executive work gets done in the department, so mike and ann, thanks for being here. and i'll let captain yick introduce taraval officers. >> chief, can i ask a question first? i want to ask about human trafficking. do you have any sense that there's actually an increase, or are we just now learning more and getting more data? >> i believe there's an increase in reporting. we did, working with some of the advocacy groups this past year, we actually implemented with the commission a policy that really the purpose and intent was to enlist the cooperation of some of the folks that are out being trafficked. and a lot of these folks are people that work in the sex

trade, and what ends up happening is oftentimes they are reluctant to report the violence that happens against them, because they are afraid that -- if they report it, then the things that they are doing to make a living, like working in the sex trade, is going to come back and bite them and we are going to arrest them for that. so basically, we in working with the advocacy groups, our policy now is, if you're being, you know, brutalized by the person that's trafficking you, we're not really worried about the misdemeanor sex violation or the low-level thing. we want you to report it. and ironically after that bulletin got put in place, we saw a spike in the reporting of these crimes, which is exactly what we wanted. because these are really, really heinous crimes, and people are -- it's a really, really heinous crime for people to be trafficked, and some of the things that happen to them when they get trafficked. so we believe that's part of the increase, that people are reporting it more because they

feel comfortable coming in and reporting it. so we'll see if that trend continues, but nonetheless, we have to address those crimes, because they are terrible crimes. >> thank you. >> thank you, chief. briefly, we have the director of the department of police accountability, paul henderson, here. i thought he was going to be on vacation. he is what handles all of the investigation of a lot of the discipline against the police officers, so i'm going to let paul speak for a few minutes. also, the human trafficking thing, that started -- we as a commission wanted our officers to treat the women and sometimes men that were trafficked as sometimes victims. when i was in the u.s. attorney's office, we had a takedown of massage parlors where women were trafficked from overseas in asia and held hostage in massage parlors and what happened is brutal, it's terrible. it's not a victimless thing.

so that's one of the things we do as a commission, and you'll see that's why the numbers are up and hopefully we're taking 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