>> all right. good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the october 24th, 2018 meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am chair of the committee. to my right to supervisor ronan, to my left will be supervisor peskin. i also want to welcome supervisor yee and stefani up to the dais. i would like to thank charles

and maja at s.f. government television for staffing this meeting. mr clerk. do you have any announcements? >> please ensure you have silenced your cell phones and other electronic devices. speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to me, the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the october 30th, 2018 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. i believe our first two items relate to the same report. we will be holding one hearing. mr clerk, call items one and two together. >> agenda item one is the hearing to review the six month report by the police department on the implementation of the copper has a plan and citywide strategy a neighborhood automobile break-ins, bicycle theft and property crime. item number 2 is a hearing on implementation and progress of the police department and neighborhood property crime unit to present information on the structure and practices of neighborhood property crime unit

as well as regular updates of their progress. >> thank you. with that, i will turn this over to supervisor stefani, or you, whichever of you would like to start. >> i will go first. colleagues, today i am holding a hearing, a joint hearing with supervisor stefani on the implementation of the police department's comprehensive plan and citywide strategy on neighborhood automobile break-ins and bicycle theft and property crime. in november of 2017, supervisor ronen and i worked with chief scott to pass a resolution to create this comprehensive plan and citywide strategy. in that resolution, it urges the chief to submit to the board of supervisors a six-month report in 12 month report on planned execution.

describing the department's progress on preventing and investigating car break-ins, bicycle theft and other property crime in the city. including metrics stemming from the department's efforts. after the first year, the resolution requests an annual report to. too many people, including those in this room, have or know someone who has been a victim of property crime or car break-ins. this should not be the reality that our residents and visitors face when they live and visit in our world-class city. from 2016 and until 2017, police data showed automobile break-ins increased 25% in san francisco in some neighbourhoods increased more than 50%. as a city, we must continue to find collaborative and proactive

ways to prevent and curve these crimes so everyone can feel safe to live, work and play in san francisco. today, chief scott and deputy chief will share data from january 30th to september 30 th and compare this with our 2017 data. it will present on lessons learned and the status of the citywide rollout. since january 1st, i have met with the three captains who cover my district in district seven. of particular note, a piece that was the site of a tragic murder last summer, captain bailey significantly reduced car break-ins and much of this is also due to the emergency task force that i created with the late mayor lee and other

supervisors and sfmta and department of technology, recreation and parks and public works. which increased camera surveillance and crime prevention signage. i want to thank my cosponsors for this hearing. supervisor ronen, fewer, kim and stefani. since supervisor stefani also called a hearing on the topic of neighborhood crime units, we will be holding a joint hearing today. i would like -- before i invite everyone, would supervisor stefani like to make a comment? >> thank you. thank you to the chair and the public safety committee for hearing this item today. i want to thank supervisor yee for working with me on this hearing. car break-ins and property crime have become an epidemic in san francisco. when i moved here 17 years ago, broken glass on the street was a rarity and now we see it all the time and it is something we hear about in every neighborhood meeting we go to.

i have had three public safety forums in district two since taking office in january. it is something that people talk about all the time. we know that these car burglaries are run by sophisticated criminals. i went down myself to the garage and called it in and two people went out in a mercedes while i was on the phone to the police, laughing at me. we know -- i know is a former prosecutor that these are cases that are actually difficult to prosecute and i also know that we have to do better. i want to thank the board of supervisors. before i became supervisor in january, for working with chief scott to create a neighborhood property crime unit. what i really wanted to do and what i intended when i called this hearing is to understand what you need from us. what are the resources you need and how are these units working. is there anything else that needs to happen to effectuate change around the property crime epidemic? i also want to thank the captain

from northern station. we have been working day in and day out together on this and we have reduced car break-ins in district two. i am very proud of that. i know we need to do more and i want to learn the structure of these property crime units. i want to learn what we can be doing to help you and to see any challenges you are facing as you carry out what was called for in the resolution. supervisor yee, with that -- >> ok. supervisor ronen, would you like to make a comment? >> i am looking for today to see the statistics and finding out if this strategy of having units in all ten district stations focused on these particular property crimes, has been making a difference and has been having the impact that we hoped it would have. i'm very much looking forward to hearing from you, chief scott and your staff today about that.

>> ok. great. thank you. i would like to invite chief scott and the deputy chief up. they will do the report. >> good morning. >> good morning. good morning supervisors. before i get started, i want to briefly introduce our team behind us. we have all the people that are really getting the work done behind us. you heard from my deputy chief -- you will hear from a deputy chief shortly. we have our commander sitting next to him and we will talk about, specifically, how the commander is investigating -- how his units that we created in the last year plays a part in what we believe to be good progress on the situation. behind the commander we have the captains of mission and terror avail station. and we also have several members

of our team that are doing the work. if there is any operational questions that you might have from them, we brought the team so you can hear from them if you desire. i will give a brief overview of what we are doing vail -- and then i will turn it over to the chief. thank you for working with us. i know your question, supervisor stefani has been what can you do to help? what do we need in order to get the job done, and i would like to thank the board. you passed a very generous budget for the police departments that will include staffing increases over the next couple of years. that definitely -- it will be a help to get us where we need to be in terms of having the resources to staff what we need to do for this very challenging issue in our city. i can say, as a police chief, you never thank you have enough.

there is always more work than there are people. but it is a step in the right direction. we thank you for that. i will give a brief overview of the first slide. supervisor yee said, the resolution 399 was passed in november of 2017. what it called for was collaboration among the district captain staff and centralized units. the development of specific priorities and strategies for property crime reduction. and the reassignment of officers as the department saw necessary to address this issue. also, property crime data. supervisor ronen mentioned the statistics and how we are tracking compared to last year and previous years. i think we are -- overall, we are pleased with the results at this point in the year but we have more work to do. there are challenges, as you will see shortly. and also sharing data with the public. the public awareness, we have learned to be a big piece of this.

people are aware of what is going on around them. people tend to be more vigilant. they tend to do things that are -- that makes sense to public safety. we have promoted the park smart campaign and vigilance equals resilience. we want to be as a resilient city as we can be. we have really stepped up our public awareness campaign on crimes that we have mentioned and with the park more -- park smart campaign. the last thing is submitting reports and reporting back to this board on our progress. this is the first report and we intend to do periodic reports annually to let the board and the city know how we are tracking our property crimes. this is the first was put -- first report which was designed to be the six month report. we sent a report out to the board on july 31st, 2018 with the citywide statistics at that time, including terror avail and mission. you received that but we have

updated stats today to report to you. our goal in this comprehensive plan was to develop a strategy at the district station level that will reduce overall property crimes. we are talking burglary, larceny , theft, motor vehicle theft, with an emphasis on automobile break-ins, bicycle theft and also residential and commercial burglaries. through the assignment of a station property crime liaison officer. our strategies include designating this property crime liaison officer which will -- we will explain in more detail shortly to work alongside the centralized crime unit that we initiated last november. network with our neighborhood district attorney, which we have done and to focus on prolific offenders, which we have done a fairly good job at. also create data metrics that

ensure transparency -- transparency and accountability to the public. at this point, i will turn it over to the deputy chief who will go over and a lot more detail the plan and then we will take any questions that you might have about what we are doing and how we are tracking. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for having us. i will do a little bit about the structure and the flow and what we do with infield operations bureau with the neighborhood property crime staff. one of the things i want to stress to you is we talk about this all the time too. probably so much that commanders and captains and civilian staff behind me hates to get phone calls from myself or the chief talking about this. it is something that has been on our mind for a while. it is something we have been working on a while and we will share those results with some of the data we will share. just to step back a bit about some of the goals, obviously we have talked about the formation

of this and the quarterback or the lead at every station is the station investigative lieutenant we have investigative teams at every station where a lieutenant as the officer in charge. mission station, it is a lieutenant canning his and at taravale station it is captain doug arnold. they work with the captains around the strategy of whether we go to the next slide talks about a couple of things. the enforcement part, the education part, the environment, and then one thing missing is the analytics. really digging deep into what the root cause of what is going on and very district specific. very district specific approach to this. as we see and as was stated by supervisor stefani, we have a lot of cross district crime happening with multiple offenders and chronic offenders. they are working with their partnering districts and i will talk about some things that are being done with these districts with the partner districts.

some of the things that they have put into place. there has been a big increase in foot beats and the talk of foot beats throughout the city which i think everyone -- that has been very positive to the department and feedback from your constituents as well. really working to educate people and in those merchant corridors, putting the foot beats on point to be part of that. as far as the enforcement, use surveillance operations. they will use bait car operations. they are focusing on hot spots where we are putting foot beats in certain spots with the visible presence. we have seen reductions in a lot of places, especially in the northern district. some of the areas that are being hit in the northern are not necessarily retail merchant areas where we put a foot beats but it is a very big tourist attraction as well. they have done a great job in central over the last couple of months. we also look -- one of the

things in the department that we talk about a lot is how do we support the station? that is my job. through our special operations bureau we started using tactical officers and motorcycle officers and other assets to support the district district stations to increase their staffing. when we get to the citywide stuff, i will talk about the centralized investigations and how that is supporting the district stations. so we will start with taravale at first and talk about the captain and the work they're doing there. obviously you can see act based on the numbers up there, they are two different dynamics. taravale is over the first six months. we saw huge declines in numbers and up until this year you can see you have some of the declines that the staff have put into place and have made some great strides.

everything is down except for the bicycle thefts. those are low numbers. nine and 13. any district would take those numbers what we see with that is opportunistic garage type thefts some of the things we see in the taraval, they have been victimized by a lot of these crews that are going around and breaking into -- residential burglaries are a problem. we made great arrests last week through our central investigations central investigations. we have identified one crew that has been working with three or four suspects. three of those suspects are in custody. a fourth was a victim of a crime himself and has somewhat been -- he probably is not doing burglaries anymore. but we should see even more of a decline in the taraval which will spill over to the park as well as the ingleside. that is where the focus area for this crew was. some of the things we are seeing in the taraval, a lot of it, and it also bleeds over to ingleside

and park, is daytime burglaries between 10:00 am, and two in the afternoon when people are gone from home and at work. they are very targeted to certain houses. it appears that the suspects are probably doing some type of surveillance themselves in the neighborhood and on the houses. one of the things that we look at in the taraval is to look at the areas that are being impacted by the crime and running difference operations within those areas. whether it is uniform patrol during traffic, because we see mostly in residential neighborhoods, suspects are in cars. they will switch cars after a couple of days. they use paper plates. they try and conceal their identity. that is something we see in the northern a bit as well, but not as much with the crews but the longtime burglars that are roaming the neighborhoods by themselves and breaking into houses. that seems to be the case in the central, as well. we really look at a strategic deployment plan. we have had some great cases over the past couple of years in

the taraval. one case, a couple years ago, there were probably 15 burglaries on vermont's local boulevard. our centralized investigative unit got involved. is one of these cases, that through analytics, the deployment of the police department, this team did a presentation for law enforcement throughout the country of how they put this investigation together. how the arrest was made. not only did it touch san francisco but it probably touched every bay area city from the peninsula out to the east bay. they worked with their neighboring law enforcement partners. they put a pretty good group of people away on great cases and we did see a decrease in the taraval a year ago when this case happened. there have been two or three other cases that are very similar that we have worked on between taraval, ingleside and park. so that is really a success

story for the centralized investigations supporting the district stations which is the goal when myself and the commander and some of our partners in the district attorney's office talked about centralized investigations. one of the things i would like to touch on is a partnership between taraval and ingleside. captain hard and captain nick saw the crossover as well as working with captain bailey r. for similar crimes were happening. the cars that were being used for similar. they went out of their way to talk to the department of emergency management and make sure that certain calls within the neighborhood were classified at a higher level, at a higher priority. instead of coming in and seeing a priority of a suspicious vehicle captives were coming in s.p. priorities. if the officers weren't aware of what was going on investigative leak, that they knew that if this was categorized as a b. priority, there was a quicker response to the neighborhood. we were trying to get ahead of the burglary happening. that was a successful thing that they -- that they put into play. by the taraval, obviously is doing a great job around this

and collaborating with their partners. we'll talk about the mission a little bit. mission station is a very different dynamic than taraval. even during the day, we will see crime changes within the mission district. we could see property crime issues during the day but then at night time you have the added violent crime situations happening. i can tell you that mission station, if we can't control the violent crime, we can't focus on property crime that much. we need to stay ahead of homicides, robberies and things like that. mission is doing an outstanding job around violent crime. there has been a lot of focus their peer commission has a lot of events where we see increases and up takes in the district. we try to support the captain on putting extra personnel to deal with property crime during his advance. that can be a big drain of resources with large events that mission has to deal with. whether it is during certain

weekends and things like that where we have large crowds, we experience that in the northern and central as well. they are very high and event districts. >> can i ask a question? so what i am trying to figure out and what supervisor yi and i worked on was seeing if there was a difference in search of having this focused unit within the station on the prevalence of these crimes that are really hurting, especially lower income residents in the mission. those events are generally annual events. are we able to compare, year-by-year, the difference? the point of having this focused attention in every single district station was that every neighborhood looks different. there are different issues that

come up. if we focused and smartly address the issue and prepared for the issue based on the dynamics in the neighborhood, then we would be able to impact the prevalence of these crimes. it doesn't -- we are not having the same success in the mission that we are having in taraval. i'm trying to figure out why that is. and most of the events that happen in the mission station our annual events. i am wondering -- these statistics would tend to suggest to me that having this focused attention on this issue in the station isn't making that big of a difference. while we are seeing in taraval it is. that his experiments that we are all trying to evaluate. if this is not working, then what else can we be doing to work better? it seems like there is such a difference in the outcomes in taraval and mission and what is

your analysis of tactically. >> the biggest thing is it is a different district. the calls for service are higher events are higher. there are violent crime issues in the mission that we are always trying to address. i think we have to get away from the department his -- with the investigative teams at the station, they have a lot of focuses. they will work on a lot of things. i think it is good to be focused on certain things. i talked to the captain before coming in here and one of the things, looking and -- that we want to look at is the last part of the year. we get into a time where if we can control some of the violent crime in the mission, we will be able to focus down on the property crime. that is one of the things i want to see. towards the last three months of the year, can we support mission a little more to get these property crimes down? the investigative teams are already there. is a lot more focus than just property crime.

but obviously, this is a pilot. we are looking at different data things and things like that to see what works and what doesn't as well. >> i know. but the reason that that isn't a helpful answer is because, unfortunately, the violent crime in the mission is not new either that is where i would like to drill down deeper. the lack of violent crime in taraval is not new. so we should -- assuming that similar strategies are being used with similar dynamics in both stations, it was actually a good place to pilot. they are such different neighborhoods. that is the whole point. they are such different neighborhoods but every neighborhood will meet your every district station will mean a different strategy. i am still wanting an answer on

what is your analysis of why the focused attention is working in taraval and isn't working in the mission? because we can control for the violent crime statistics in the neighborhood. that will always be the priority but is it that i need to be advocating for additional resources in the mission? we want -- >> the answer is yes. >> but we need you to tell us, with more specificity what is the analysis? because when supervisor yee and i introduce this legislation, it was to experiment and find out, can we get different results with a different focused tax march, analytical attention. the answers i'm getting are not helping me answer that question. >> one thought i have about mission station is the mission,

yes there is a pilot around property crime peer commission is also being inundated with calls from my office -- for my office about managing the straight population. i think that is more over the last year. >> no. in fact, it has gotten a lot better over the past year. >> i will say worse than mine. anyway. >> it is something that is not new. so in the overall station, -- that is where it is working in one station and not working in another. why and what should we be doing about it? >> one of the things we see at mission station is the captain his come up with a monthly plan that addresses -- everything cannot be cookie-cutter. but what we look at is one of the things that jumped out at me in mission is one of the biggest areas we see that there is car

break-ins is the retail theft -- i mean the retail parking lots. there are six or seven parking lots within the mission. i know we are working with retail partners to try and work with their security to get them out walking around more. so people coming in the mission to shop. we could get some support on your end and discuss those parking lots with you where we are seeing this. i think that would be an immediate decline. that is going to be a focus for us working with the captain. and one of the things we did over -- when the kids are out of school is we have a cadet program. they go out with staff from the field operation bureau to do education and those parking lots the captain has met with security to try and make sure they are aware of the problem and what our data is showing us but also that they are deploying security to support the police department and that preventative type of situation. also one of the other things that we see is the corridor is

very popular with restaurants and bars in the captain and lieutenant, one of the things we discussed in our strategy meetings is when southern station -- they have a program that has been going on for years with clubs and things that have happened in clubs. and meeting once a month to talk about patterns that they see is framing that in the mission to talk about the patterns that the lieutenant and captain are identifying around property crime to really put the prevention message out character that is what we are seeing in the mission around the car break and type of stuff. i can't tell you -- last month they saw a decline. they almost had a 50% decline in house burglaries last month. we are starting to see progress in the mission with some of the things they are putting into place. but these are tough things. like i said, we talk about it all the time and we are trying to come up with different strategies from the community. we could use your support with helping the captain with the

retail businesses, the parking lots and getting the message out >> i need to make a comment on this. with the parking lot piece, it is true. it was a high propensity for auto break-ins. and because they upped their security, we have seen a drop. a question i have in terms of the mission is, as you -- if you are putting more resources or more officers in the mission or they are being deployed, what units and what emphasis? and whether or not the energy, the amount of energy or the number of hours that people put into the property crime piece in the mission is the same as taraval.

if you have officers there and they are drawn away to other things, i have to wonder how much emphasis -- the whole purpose of doing this focused property crime grouping at each station, was to make sure that -- because of other issues that -- you don't forget about property crime. i am wondering -- it is a resource issue. even if the two supervisors here manage to get more officers or advocate for more officers in the mission station, the question becomes, are they going to be assigned to this unit or not? >> i want to answer both questions. but to supervisor ronen's question, i like to take us back to where we were this time last year with mission and car break-ins with this conversation

started with the board. we were high in the double digits. it was about 80% increase in car break-ins. now we are at six, which by no means, that is not ideal. i want to make sure that we understand how much progress that is from being 80% up, to six% up. >> from which year? >> from 2016 until 2017, we started this conversation with the board. we were significantly up in the mission. through this work that has been done, we are not at a reduction, but we have reduced it to a six% increase, which is significant. when you say it is not a success , i want to say we need to choose that word carefully. there is success there. it is not where we would like it to be but there has definitely been success in the mission and to the supervisor's point, one other things that the captain has done through the deputy chief and others who have helped

on this, the property crime liaison officer is the coordinator. so when they see what needs to be done, if they need honda or the t.a.c. unit or they need to request additional resources from the deputy chief, that is how this comes together. when we talk about specialization and policing, it is a very extensive way to police. i came from a department that was very specialized. you had -- every station had a auto crime scene at a burglary unit, and aggravated assault unit. a sexual assault unit. what you ended up with was a station, on average, about 50 investigators. we are not -- we don't have that type of size. our investigators are generalists and that coordinator 's responsibility is to take the resources that we have and points them toward how

we will reduce this issue. we have set units and teams in every station. usually it is around five or six investigators. some of the station investigators definitely have specialties where they are good at doing auto crimes. we also have plainclothes mission -- mission has a plainclothes unit and they are very skilled at what they do. the officers were trained when we had our patrol bureau task force. they know how to do surveillance the coordinator, his job is to take those resources and focus them with the units that he has towards whatever the problem is. that gives us a little flexibility. i came from a department that was very specialized. it has its value but it is very, very expensive. we are not going to come in here and ask for 34 detectives for a station. it is not practical in our city. but what we can do is coordinate and make sure we use the resources that we have and focus on the issues at hand.

there is -- this model has been nice -- i know, based on the statistics, it has been a success. we have a ways to go in mission. and we have a ways to go on bicycles, but even that has been slowed down. when we get to the overall citywide statistics, you will see that we were in an increased range last year, year to date with car break-ins. citywide, now, we are at about a 15% disc -- decrease. mission is part of that. it was so high last year and driving the citywide numbers. there has been success. we are not satisfied until we have a reduction. we have -- we still have work to do there. >> both you and supervisor ye have made excellent points. that is a good reminder and that we are going in the right direction. i appreciate that. i would -- i'm sure you don't have this information now, but if there is a breakdown or a

comparison comparison of the amount of time that the officer has been focusing on these issues between taraval and mission, if you can get me that data, i would love to see it. >> i don't think that will be a problem. that is part of what our staff deployment is looking at. we are looking at mission station on the workload of the officers compared to another station. >> ok. >> that is what we are looking at. that is no problem. from talking to the lieutenant, he has ideas about sharing data with you that he is working through that i thank you will start getting on a regular basis it will paint the picture for yourself and supervisors on what is going on in the mission. >> to other points, i will say that lieutenant canning is amazing. i know that i just feel really

blessed that he is assigned to mission station. i want to make that point. i see him in the audience. but then also, if you are finding that this model is successful, has this been spread to other stations? or are we still just a taraval and mission? >> that is coming in a couple slides. >> ok. [laughter] >> we are talking about that. we will look at the citywide really quick and what we are seeing across the city. obviously, you know, four of the main categories are down and burglaries are up. we have seen an increase in residential burglary. some of the things that i spoke on in regards to the taraval district is what we are seeing on the west side of the city. downtown we see more of the career burglars. they are working by themselves. whether they are breaking in for garages or residential. but we have made some significant arrests through the citywide approach with our

investigative units that support the stations that we saw from -- we continue with increases in some of the districts, by the majority had decreases in the last month. that is something we are working on. a lot of that is working in the community on the residential side to get the message out on what is going on. some of the things i want to touch on about some citywide strategies that we use in the department is we really up to the communication even through this program, a lease with the department. on a weekly basis, we are on a call with everyone involved with field operations and special operations. the day-to-day deployment of the city, we are having conversations around crime and what districts are experiencing successes and redeploying those support units in the special operations bureau to support the stations to try and keep it down at a level. we have weekly crime strategies meetings where we bring everyone in and discuss everything going on in the city and how we can do

better. the captain his chair though successes with each other to try and model those in their districts to show what is working. the captains submit weekly plans and ninety-day plans to us. we are holding them accountable for what is going on in their districts. if they are having struggles where they are seeing increases, how can we help them as a department to get those two decreases? we can get in the mindset of focusing on the numbers a lot and what is read and what is green, but we are making strides to get everything down and we are freely focused on that on a citywide level. one of the biggest things and changes over the last year has been centralizing the burglary and robbery unit to bring it back into a centralized and focused instead of leaving all of those cases at these teams. we saw there was a cross district type of crime where somebody would commit multiple crimes in different districts

and we had multiple inspectors investigating crimes and from discussing with the district attorney, the serial approach to bringing robbery and burglary back together to work with the d.a. to put the best prosecution together around crime, if we had a burglar in the northern that went into domitian and went into taraval and went into central, there would be four different investigators assigned to those cases. we weren't strategically doing our investigations while. we have gotten investigative lease marked over the last year in doing that. we have seen that with the cases we put together and the prosecutions and tying all these crimes together to really see some of the drop. that has been one of the biggest successes. and the commander was the brains behind that. and someone from the district's attorney his office who works with our investigations unit has been phenomenal in serial cases. we sat down with him -- with her

when we were talking about this. she had a lot of input. she still works with these units to this day. she was to be a neighborhood prosecutor. that is another positive that has come back in the past year. it is supportive of the stations and reduces their caseload to work on those neighborhood crimes and really support the community. some of the lessons learned that we are looking at and some of the effective and least effective things, at least with -- i will talk about bicycle stuff real quick. i know that has been -- we have seen a decrease in bicycle theft on a citywide level. the downtown stations represent about 85% of the bike theft. the outline stations, it is more crime of opportunity. it could be garage thefts and things like that. southern station is the most prevalent with just a retail space and people leaving bikes outside. that is a focus of the station investigative teams and their

investigators. one positive on that, we are going through the process now of a serial bike thief that was downtown. southern station has been working the case since the beginning of september. they are going through the process of an arrest warrant now this person touches central, southern, northern, tenderloin. that is a case that has come up with that i have worked on very hard. they already have this person for least 13 or 14 bike thefts within the downtown area. it assumption --dash something that happens especially around convention time and things like that. it is something we focus on with the outline stations with house burglaries. some of the lessons learned in the pilot, and these came from the captains. so you can see what mission is looking at. in mission, one of their -- the effective things is a flexibility and adaptability. working with the community and

be more focused with the community business partners and taking feedback in the community and things like that. the least effective for mission from the captain was focusing on one set strategy. it is always moving throughout that district. that could be the same for taraval. one of the things we talk about is if we have success in one area, we have to anticipate where the next area will be where we will do it and what can we put in place to prevent that. on the taraval side, obviously the first thing is very similar. education and meeting with the merchants and the park smart campaign throughout the taraval. one of the things interesting about the taraval is the captain found that his plainclothes deployment was least effective because of the terrain of the district and being residential and things like that. he felt directed patrols with uniformed officers and a more strategic around the serial

crimes is investigative support from burglary being out there putting plans in place to use plainclothes, but a more uniform presence out in the taraval. and that has been successful out in the taraval district. i will touch on the district attorney's office and how we work with them. the neighborhood prosecutor his are a key to the team aspect at the stations. all the captains have neighborhood -- neighborhood prosecutor his. especially around the serial crimes. they are working together to present cases. as i mentioned, when we get a big case where we are seeing multiple, multiple, multiple crimes where we think the same suspect or suspects are involved , that is where we bring in the centralized unit. that we start to look at the case and do the analysis of what is going on. then we back that up with deployment into the district with some of the specialized units. some of the things you can read

what the neighborhood d.a. works on when they are presenting cases. and trying to bring the community in two courts to show the impact of the community that the car break-in or the residential burglary is having. that has been a successful approach for us, working with -- working with the d.a.'s office. it is hard to explain sometimes in court what the impact is in one district. the impact that they are making on the neighborhood, which can be tremendous, as you stated, supervisor ronen, with these crimes. the district attorney's office also has worked with our crime analysis unit and with their strategic unit to put a lot of analysis into the serial crimes that they're presenting in court on a daily basis on the car break-ins and the burglaries, and things like that. i know we talked about this with the resources needed.

i think one of the things that we talk about is thanks to all of you for supporting the department in the recent budget and in hiring more police officers. i think a lot of things over the years that we talk about and some of the strategies we use -- not necessarily does it say that hiring more police officers will put more people in jail. i think throughout all of the communities, you have heard able asking you for more police officers, whether it is being in radio cars, foot beats, being -- working in the neighborhood, school resources and things like that. we will be successful when we get to that point where we are able to staff the cart sectors and staff beats on eight consistent basis. running into the night, especially in the mist and -- in the mission district district. the officers on the beach get off at 8:00 at night. things don't stop then. we have the transition of when the cart sectors are picking up that beat responsibility plus

calls for service. those are a lot of the things we look at staffing. in best case scenario, we have all the car sectors filled and in certain districts we have had beat officers on multiple watches, especially around restaurants and bars that stay open later than a business that closes at 6:00 pm or 7:00 pm. those are the things we look at. we have increases over the next couple of years. the chief instituted a staffing and analysis unit where we are looking at gaps in the department and where we can get more people back to patrol and fill some of that while we are waiting for new officers to come on board. one of the things the department does well is we are always looking that we will work with what we have and have that success. we have to get to that success no matter what and then we are trying to get better and some of the areas that we are working on in these two districts. the last thing i will touch on is the other eight districts. this is a pilot for two districts. this is not something we don't talk about and all the other districts with the investigative team his. there is a focus everywhere on

car break-ins. it will be formalized this month especially where we will be able to staff all the investigative teams with the tenants so we will have a commissions officer in charge. some stations don't have that right now. they'll be submitting plans and they will get in the program that taraval and mission have been on this year. some of the successes that some of you have seen, supervisor stefani in your district, the captain has had a 20% reductions in car break-in throughout the whole year. they are doing a tremendous job. supervisor peskin, i have not seen central. 823% drop in burglaries. i have not seen that since i have been in field operations. they are doing a tremendous job. both of those stations have -- they are -- they have plainclothes teams. they are very active and very involved in the community and work really hard around the car break-ins. emission and taraval, they have done a tremendous job so far.

with that, some of the next steps, the rollout. we have the chief -- they hired it a strategies coordinator. she worked in the district's attorney's office. she is with us today. so we have another fresh eye to look at the analytical stuff and some of the things we are doing. she will be brought into all of our meetings. she has a background as a prosecutor. she will look at us getting better in the courtroom and working with the district station captains and obviously cap next year, will be presenting another report to you and we will see some good successes as we move along with this. thank you, very much for your time today. >> thank you. i have to remember, there's another presentation. hopefully we will make this kind of quick. you have other items on your list. >> if i may, i just want to share -- the kind of e-mails that i get. here is one from this morning. i agree that the captain and the

working men and women of central station have really stepped up their game. this is really more to the d.a. points that you are making. let me read this and i will not use any names. this is happening yesterday at 5:00 am. my wife and i were awakened by the sound of loud footsteps on the roof above our bedroom. as i called the police, my wife looked out the back window and saw 2 feet coming down from the roof as the intruder started lowering himself onto our back deck. i jumped to -- i will jump to the end of the e-mail that says the police were at our door within five minutes with multiple backup cars to close off the street. i went out on the deck and the officer shined his flashlight down into her neighbour's yard and spotted the intruder. they recognized him. they arrested him. he had just been -- they identified him as a habitual

repeat offender he was recently released and they had just arrested him earlier last week during this -- doing the same thing on russian hill. obviously, you are making the arrests is the point i want to make. >> which leaves us -- leads us into the next discussion. thank you for that. we may bring you back up. >> we would like to invite maria mcgee from the district attorney 's crime strategies unit to present. and basically, how the two departments work together.

>> good morning. thank you. i also have copies of the presentation for you. good morning. my name is marie mckee. i'm the principal analyst in the crime strategies unit. i am presenting on behalf of criminal division chief frank who is the head of the crime strategies unit. he apologizes for not being here today. i want to echo some of the themes of the chief and deputy chief's presentation. in order to address major crime problems like auto burglary and property crime, we need to be data driven and collaborative in our problem-solving approach. to that end, the district attorney created the crime strategies unit in 2014 to use data and technology to identify crime drivers and get to the root of crime problems. csu is a multidisciplinary team

of neighborhood prosecutors, analysts, like me, and investigators that use data technology and collaboration to find out what is driving crime, who is driving crime and develop innovative strategies to address the root causes of criminal activity. c.s.u. chief likes to say that the neighborhood prosecutors are the general contractors of the unit. they determine which resources, partners and strategies to deploy in order to address crime problems. the neighborhood prosecutors predate the implementation some of you may remember. they were one of the first initiatives when diego came to office in 2011 with the objective to get prosecutors out from behind their desks and into the community and police districts and work shoulder to shoulder with our law enforcement partners, neighborhood stakeholders, businesses and community members to develop long-lasting solutions to the city's a major crime problems. he built on the success of that initiative by enhancing the

neighborhood prosecution unit with data and technology in 2014 , creating the crime strategies unit. there are currently six neighborhood prosecutors deployed to that ten police districts in the city. they spend the majority of their time out in the field looking for ways to promote public safety through meaningful community engagement and enforcement. c.s.u. also houses the auto crimes prosecutor who was, until last week or two weeks ago, she just left for maternity leave. she has now been replaced by miles campbell who has big shoes to fill but we are confident he is up to the task. just briefly, i would like to highlight the efforts of the neighborhood prosecutors to address the issue of auto burglary. this is a map of the city's auto blur glory hotspots which have been remarkably consistent since i have been looking at them for the past five years. as you can see, many of them overlap with major tourist attractions. this past year, the northern district neighborhood prosecutor

works with an park which is a company that manages many parking lots in san francisco and she wanted to collaborate with them to reduce the opportunity for crime and prevent victimization, which would -- which we call target hardening. this map was created by one of the analysts and it shows which garages, which are the little green squares, are within the auto burglary hotspots which are the red ovals. and by analysing the occurrence of auto burglary is within the parking lots within the hotspots , we found with any given auto burglary hotspots, you are four times more likely to be the victim of an auto burglary inside of a parking lot the parking lots, not surprisingly, are places where burglaries are concentrated. they are easy targets. they are also easier to target hardening because there is very specific interventions that you can put in place to address auto burglary. that is exactly what we are

trying to do with partners. you have an example across the street in the city hall parking lot which is one of the top auto burglary hotspots in the city. you may have noticed it has undergone a recent major renovation. >> could i ask some questions? >> sure. >> why there garages? >> they own a lot of garages in the city and they were -- they came to us and were willing to talk. we are happy to collaborate with anyone who is willing to come to the table but they are one of the property managers that manages the most garages in the city. i think half of the top ten worst garages in the city -- brother and number of large garages in the city are owned by them and half of them are owned by the city. they are a property manager for many city lots.

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>> look at autoburglary crime trends and see what we can do together. that's bolstering the city and the police department's smart park campaign and doing analyzes and things i just described with impark and mta. also referenced, our office has a register your camera portal on our website. we built the citywide maps of cameras that are city-owned or have been voluntarily supplied by the businesses and community that's available to law enforcement. i think those cameras are both preventative in the sense of deterring people, but they provide a great source of evidence and information towards successful prosecutions. lastly, i know we have a full agenda today. what are some of the outcomes

we're seeing with csus data-driven approach. we know that autoburglaries are down overall 15% since last year, and they're down in every single district except two and in those two, it's not as bad as last year. the crime drivers have an out-sized impact. the whole unit focuses on those people doing more than their fair share of criminal activity. as an example, we convicted an auto burglar who targeted strictly tourists, and he is in prison. that's the end of my presentation. i'm happy to take any questions. >> the tourist piece, how does one target the tourists? is it because of the rental cars? and if it's the rental cars, i

thought we took care some of that by having them remove the bigger count that indicated they were rental cars. so how are people targeting it? is it just the area where they know they're going to be? is can it be recognized as a rental car? >> i think it's the fact that tourists and visitors are more likely to have valuable goods in their cars. image you're on your way to the -- imagine you're on the way to airport and you have everything you just bought at your amazing trip to union scare. you don't have anything to stash it. you park at fisherman's wharf to get in the last sightseeing for the day, and those people know they're likely to have goods in their car and where they're likely to go. i think that's where the park smart campaign