>> i have been living in san francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42 years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down

stairs. it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much. we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in.

i went to quite a bit of the meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot. it's just that i've been here so long. most people that enjoyed their life would love to always retain that life and keep that lifestyle, so it was a peaceful neighborhood. the park was always peaceful, and -- i don't know. i just loved it. i wanted to be here, and i stayed.

>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it

was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city

coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants

and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. you. >> well to the epic center are you ready for the next earthquake did you know if you're a renter you can get earthquake shushes we'll take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode i'm the chief resilience officer for san francisco i'm joined by

my good friends for the earthquake authority we're at the el cap center for the city and county of san francisco started in 2013 to get the community and talk about the risk we think about earthquake if usual great city you'll see one of the demonstrates we've built the model home and i encourage other episodes we'll be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as property owners to employ you work for the california earthquake authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if you're a renter or property owner how the insurance issues. >> i'm the chief mitigation officer or c e a a property line funded pubically managed entity that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile

owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. >> what make the c e a deft. >> we work with 19 participates the insurer that sells you, your homeowner policy you're not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. >> am i covered with homeowners insurance. >> no california homeowners understand their homeowners insurance doesn't cover earthquake they need a separate policy if you're an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. >> so explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. >> irreverent so in the 80s the state of california passed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over

earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye there was so much loss they were going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. >> we're talking about the homeownership's buying the earthquake shiners but 70 percent are renters what's my opposite. >> the option for renter the earthquake be insurance company is affordable i think people don't realize just exactly what it covers it covers damaged property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as emergency repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in our unit that's whether earthquake is important. >> you're title you're the excessive mitigation officer for

the state of california when i think of insurance i don't think about mitigation. >> so as part of public safety mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had $45 million to make a difference for moving and incentivizing and mitigation for california homeowners to structure engineering a unique opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitigate the equivalent. >> whether an owner or renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i go. >> earthquake authority.com not only information about insurance but a calculated figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if

a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their premium as an incentive for the work. >> what does mitigate the home mean. >> strengthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly older to earlier codes and you put in adding streamlining maybe collar bolts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. >> thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the earthquake authority but we'll talk about

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 would like to call roll. >> please do. >> vice president mazzucco. present. dejesus present. hirsch here. hamasaki here.

elias here brookter present taylor here. commissioner mazzucco, you have a quorum. also with us tonight is the chief of police, william scott and the director of the police accountability paul henderson. >> thank you, sergeant kilshaw. welcome to the wednesday november 7th 2018 san francisco police commission meeting. we have a long agenda. we actually have a doublely long agenda for closed session matters regarding collective bargaining. in light of that i would ask public comment be short. item one. adoption of minute action for minutes of october 12th, october 3, 10th 17 2018. >> commissioners you have the notes and minutes from the 12th

of september, october 3rd and 17th that were prepared for us by riza tom with assistance of commission staff. any corrections or changes? hearing none, do i have a motion to adopt? >> so moved. >> second. >> any public comment? hearing none, public comment is now closed. all in favor? please call the next line item. >> item 3, report to the commission. 3a chief's report. recent events activities and announcements. report will include a summary of annual halloween events throughout san francisco and overview of recent promotions. >> number two. >> two? oh, i apologize, sorry. item 2, consent calendar, receive and file action. sfpd occ dpa document protocol, third quarter report.

police commission report of disciplinary actions. third quarter 2018. >> thank you very much, commissioners this is again a consent calendar item. you have the document protocol third quarter report with reference to the documents shared between the d.p.a. and sfpd. are there any questions, concerns or comments? >> just one. >> mr. hamasaki? >> good evening, director henderson. >> good evening. >> this is regarding the document exchange with d.p.a. and the department. i saw there were some requests that were either delayed or denied. were there any issues that you had with those that -- >> a specific concern i could address publicly? >> yes. >> thank you. >> i presume.

>> briefly, we have been, we being the d.p.a. have been drilling down on these beyond what we are reporting. i've been engaged with a number of conversations back and forth with the chief directly on very specific things that either are being slowed down or delayed. i also had a couple conversations with commissioner hamasaki and we are planning to go over some things. there's a small number of cases but that small number are really important issues. each of those documents. i'll have a better report for you the next time we meet because we plan on all sitting down to talk about the solutions for the small number of cases that either are delayed or that don't come to the degree they are affecting our cases and the deadlines. i don't know if that's a full answer. but that's where we are. >> you finished my question and gave me the answer i was seeking. so thank you. basically, we will hear about

it later as to what the issues are. what we need to do and any corrective action. >> absolutely. i want to come up with a solution before i outline what the problems were but i have been communicating on a macro level with the chief the past two weeks. >> thank you. >> commissioner elias. >> thank you. is this the new staff or the way they will look or did i jump ahead? >> i think you jumped ahead. >> oh, sorry. never mind, then. >> i will explain what the differences are and how i made changes. >> commissioner elias did her homework. >> good, great. >> any further comments? do i have a motion to adopt? so moved. second. >> any public comment regarding this? hearing none, public comment is closed. all in favor? aye. thank you very much. call line item number 3. >> we will try this again.

reports to the commission, 3-a, police report, recent events activities and announcements, report will include summary of annual halloween events throughout san francisco and overview of recent promotions. weekly crime trends provide overview of offenses incidents occurring in san francisco. significant incidents. chief's report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. commission discussion will be limit today determining whether or not to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future commission meeting. presentation regarding the opioid crisis, summary of the department's efforts to address the rise in death in overdose caused by the use of opioids. >> thanks very much and good evening, chief. >> good evening, commissioner mazzucco and commissioners and director henderson. i will start with an overview of halloween. very good news to report there. there were no major incidents on halloween night.

we had 17 planned large events across the city and we were fully staffed that night. basically we had, actually not that many arrests in terms of these arrests, one felony arrest, two misdemeanor, seven arrests for public intoxication, one warrant arrest and ten medically-related calls that dealt with the incident. so overall a very good night. as you all recall last halloween the night ended with an incident which an officer was shot. nothing even close to that this evening. i was out along with many members of the command staff late into the evening and people were having a good time and i think the city was well policed. really good deployment that night. the next thing i wanted to announce to the commission, we announced a number of promotions last week and effective november 17th, the

folks that were announced, the officers announced will be officially promoted, that's when it takes effect. i wanted to give a break down of the promotions we made to date with the last announcement. we promoted six captains and 15 lieutenants. demographic break down of the captains, two female, four are male. in terms of race related one white, two african american, two hispanic. two females white, one asian, african american, latino hispanic and one white. we promoted 15 lieutenants, three females, 12 males. of the three females one african american, one hispanic, one white. males two hispanics and ten white. those promotions will take place after the members attend

a two-week orientation which they are in right now. and the orientation consists of expectation of the new roles of mentoring for members of the command staff and training division and their assignments will be made at the end of the two-week orientation. we will have additional promotions, actually we just made some notifications today on sergeant promotions and happy to say that 45 sergeant promotions, we will have a memo out, i think in the morning, we will have a memo out on those but everyone has been contacted or in the process of being contacted this evening, actually as we speak. crime wise overall, still real good news on crime. overall down 7.3% on crimes, that's 3915 incidents fewer than this time last year. violent crime down 1.59, which is 88 incidents fewer. homicides are still down 26%.

15 incidents fewer than this time last year and overall gun violence is down by 30% which is 54 incidents fewer. total property crime down 7.3% which is being led by our auto burglaries which is down 16.3%. 4291 incidents fewer than last year. we had no homicides to report over the past week and of note, 27 of the 40 homicides this year have been cleared by arrests, which is really exceptional and 11 other homicides cleared by exceptional clearance. we are tracking really good on our clearance rate as well on the homicides. we are going to have a presentation in a few minutes that the commission asked for on opioids. but i just want to note one of the things we have been focused

on particularly in this area are impacting narcotic sales, street level sales and some narcotics issues in and around the civic center and the tenderloin area. we have had in the last week 390 persons either booked or cited for narcotics-related offenses. and that's a 3% increase over the previous week. sorry, that's me. [cell phone humming] 15% increase in narcotics arrests the last week. we are addressing this and commander lazar will go into detail when he gives the presentation. i will be able to answer any questions that the commission may have. the last thing of crime, gun seizures, we are up 27% in gun seizures year-to-date. we do believe that does impact our gun violence and we have

done a good job with gun seizures this year as well. as far as significant events this week. we unfortunately had two traffic fatalities this week. the first one was at broadway and stockton. this was on the 11th at 5:57 p.m., motorcycle versus vehicle and that resulted in the death of the motorcyclist which is very unfortunate. then we had another one that same morning, or that afternoon at vallejo and powell, vehicle versus pedestrian that involved a truck and again, unfortunately we had an elderly person that lost their life in that incident. we have made an announcement that we have a class of solo officers in training right now that will increase our

capabilities with traffic enforcement significantly and hopefully we will get everybody through that class and that will help, i think, with this effort. we are still very committed to the vision zero of bringing these traffic collisions down to zero by 2024. i think our increase in fellow deployment and motorcycle officer deployment will help in that regard. that's it for that part of the report. the next part is the presentation of the opioid crisis that we are facing in our city and really across the country. and commander lazaro. >> commissioner hamasaki? >> thank you, vice president mazzucco. chief, i wanted to follow-up on the recent promotions. something we have all talked about and the d.o.j. and others have addressed is the need for more representation from the diverse spectrum that is this city. and i know this was a big concern of yours and something

you have been working on. but these numbers still aren't what we would like to see, right? we have just one african american, and one latino advancing in the lieutenant class. and one as well from each in the captains, only one asian american captain and no asian american lieutenants. can you explain a little about what we are doing to address this? >> yes, first, let me be clear to the public promotions aren't

based on race or gender. there's a stringent process in terms of how we evaluate candidates for promotions, going through d.h.r. and city attorney's office and all that. so that process includes, of course, the testing process. the testing process is done, they are scored and everybody is placed in a rank. there's a secondary criteria that takes into account, experience, training, variety of assignments and many other factors and that goes to a committee and that's evaluated and then the recommendations are given to me in terms of that, based on secondary criteria and what the deputy chiefs who sit on these committees see as value in terms of promotional capabilities. from there, the decision comes to me. one of the things that's really important to note is the candidates land how they land

on the promotional lift. -- list. so you really have to look at the diversity of the list we have to choose from. that goes from a rank of scores. we use a rule of ten with our promotional process which means ten scores are evaluated at a time and the eligible candidates from that band of ten scores could be selected or considered for promotion. how that lands in terms of diversity really dictates how many candidates and who we have to choose from. you really have to start there and look at how the list ended up. and that process is a very thorough and fair process. definitely diversity is important. i will end this part with how i started, it's very important but we have to go through the rules and we cannot use race or gender as a basis for promotions.

>> thank you. and thank you for clarifying the procedure. when you say the list, that's a combination of the test scores, from there it goes to a committee who evaluates the other characteristics you described. >> the second part has nothing to do with where they score on the list, that's the testing process and where they score is where they score. the secondary is all the other factors, experience and training and all the other things considered when we evaluate the candidates for a promotion. >> and are you given a report on each candidate? or is there a score assigned to them by the committee? >> just a recommendation as to

whether the person evaluating, whether they believe that candidate is a good candidate for this particular job they have applied to promote to. >> who sits on the committee? >> all the deputy chiefs. >> the deputy chiefs are the ones who decide how these secondary factors are scored or viewed and then that goes to you for the final decision? >> correct. >> thank you. >> if i may interject, for those who have been on the commission for a while, the testing process in san francisco has gone through substantial changes. it's a written exam that everybody has to take and an oral exam everybody has to take and a practical part where people from other police agencies come to evaluate their handling of many scenarios that they would be expected to handle on the street. those are the three criteria, some are smart and taking exams, we all know there are folks and some that are good at

handling things on the streets. i know there's a move to balance that to get the best we can out there. the secondary criteria issue which we have been through before on this commission, i think obviously we strive for diversity but the flip side too, when people aren't where they need to be they deserve the job, so we need to be very cognizant of that. i think there's been time and effort put in to ensure all these factors are taken into consideration. commissioner book ter? -- brookter? >> thank you, commissioner. i think on the next agenda if we could hear more about vision zero, especially after those traffic collisions, i think it's good if we inform the public of this initiative and what's going on and if we could get up dated on that, maybe in december. >> we actually do that every once in a while and we have people come in and talk about these collisions but i think we are due for it.

i drove by one of those scenes and it was horrendous, captain yip from central station should be commanded, he had to bring behavioral sciences unit on board. it's terrible, and for the victims it's just awful. commissioner dejesus? >> i think the department of justice talked about how our command staff doesn't reflect the diversity. i can't remember how they phrased it. have we completed and had any outside review on our process of the promotion process per se? >> no outside review on the process. the department of human resources review our promotional processes over the past year and so outside of the

department yes, no one outside of the family entity has reviewed. >> is it the attorney general's office in agreement we have with them, are they going to look over the department of justice things that we said we would do and one of them is this issue about promotion? i think it spoke to, if i recall the assessment was, there was a lack of communication, lack of understanding of officers really understanding how the promotional process worked. that was one of the more salient issues of the assessment. >> right, i think looking in, we don't really reflect the diversity of the department doesn't reflect the command staff. there was just some kind of issue on that. i know it's more complicated

but i'm just wondering is that something the attorney general will look now that the d.o.j. is out and make sure we are complying with recruitment and retention and promotion and procedures? >> yeah. actually our diversity in terms of the command staff, captain and up, is pretty close to the diversity in the department. when we talk about what the city demographics are, there are some areas we exceed what the demographics, some areas we are below, but again, i want to be very careful and clear to not give the impression that we make promotions based on gender or ethnic characteristics because that's not a -- >> i'm not saying that. there's procedures where people of color and women can advance just as equally as others. i thought there was a criticism on that.

i will have to go back and look at that. we will have an outside agency review that we are meeting some of the criticisms. >> commissioner taylor? >> thank you, i remember a comment in the report about d.o.j. command staff. vice president mazzucco referenced the number of changes made. have there been changes made after the report that you could speak to or vice president mazzucco could speak to? >> what i would offer the commission is come back and do an assessment on basically the diversity of our command staff which definitely we would be willing to do and see how it compares from then to now.

>> that would be great. my questions aren't designed that people should be promoted because of their race but certainly in our department there are a lot of qualified people across the spectrum, race, gender, etc.. we just want to feel comfortable those things are being addressed. >> i think it's a valid point. there's nine secondary criteria and some are fluency in another language. educational background. things that are all very important factors. so i think they have come a long way on this where someone got a job because they knew somebody. i think those days are long gone but i think it's worth looking at. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, members of the commission, chief scott,

director henderson. i'm lieutenant lazar, i will give you a quick overview what we are doing to address the opioid crisis and issues in our city related to what's happening across the country. >> commander, could i just stop you for one second and just announce to the public that this powerpoint is available online and there are copies here for the public. this was provided to us and we posted it today at 10:45 when it was provided. thank you. >> thank you. >> just to give a quick overview of the country. the 2016-2017 data spoke about 130 plus deaths a day across our country. 11.4 million people who are misusing prescription opioids, but specifically about 42,000 people died over that two-year period from opioid use, 81,000 first-time heroin users and staggering number 15,000 plus

people who died from overdose to heroin. as you look at this chart it talks about 2.1 million people addicted to opioid, 19,000 people dying from synthetic opioids and the numbers are staggering and really huge so in san francisco, according to the department of public health there are 22,500 i.v. users in our city. essentially from 2014-2017 we have ranged from about 186 overdose deaths to 211. what's interesting about this number is although the overdose deaths have remained pretty consistent, the reversals by using naloxone, or narcan as the generic name for that, has gone from 365 reversals in 2014, to 1,266 in 2017. and i would like to note that police officers in san francisco have contributed just

in 2018 to 68 of those reversals using narcan. so that is the overview of what the issue is. our goal in san francisco -- >> can i ask, what is the number of deaths so far in 2018? it's not on the chart. >> i would have to get back to you on the exact number. department of public health has those numbers, i will be sure to circle back for that. our goal in the san francisco police department is to develop a collaborative approach to address the health and public safety issues associated with chronic drug and alcohol abuse. our strategy is two-prong. one is that we want to reduce the supply of drugs in our city and two to assist those consistently using drugs on the streets of our city. in terms of our strategy one, stopping the supply of drugs to the street. so we conduct, we do a few things. number one we conduct ongoing operations to reduce the supply of narcotics by addressing both the street level dealers and

high-level organized inflow of drugs in our city. our narcotics unit is focused on disrupting the flow of drugs in the city. our numbers through september 30th this year, over 125 pounds of narcotics and almost half a million in drug money have been seized. guns and assault rifles have also been located and seized during that period of time. in addition, we have had coordinated sting operations and buy busts at the street level. just for this one period, between october 12th and october 19th tenderloin southern station, narcotics unit conducted an operation in the tenderloin, u.n. plaza south of union area. i know the chief spoke about some of the areas earlier, 158 arrests ranging from drug sales to stolen property to auto burglary, this included 62, which is a lot.

for drug sale related offenses. just this week, $25,000 worth of heroin was intercepted prior to hitting the streets and halloween $3,000 worth of heroin and cocaine were seized from one dealer. a lot of work being done by our officers in this area. in terms of strategy too. first it's assisting those using drugs on the streets of our city, assisting them to get them the help they need. the open use of drugs on our street is unhealthy for those taking the drugs. those witnessing the use and surrounding community business district, we see that happening in our city. our strategy through a multiagency partnership through department of public health, department of homelessness and supportive housing, fire department, department of public works and adult probation. we see three areas one to identify those individuals who consistently choose to use drugs. number two we engaged them to determine their needs and three to refer them to appropriate services. this is work we have