an earthquake. and if they're anchored in more numerous locations, that whipping won't cause a breakage that will cause a flood. >> i've heard water damage is a major, major problem after earthquakes actually. >> it is. that's one of the big things. a lot of things falling over, ceilings collapsing. but all of this can be prevented by an expert coming in and assessing where those problem areas and often the fixes are really, really cheap. >> who do you call when you want to have that kind of assessment or evaluation done? >> the structural engineering community is great. we have the structural engineers association of northern california right here in san francisco. they're a wealth of information and resources. >> what kinds of things might you encourage tenants to do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenants should do? >> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for

them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of the building, whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and bandages and know how to use a toilet when there's no sewage and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank you so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for joining us >> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there.

>> since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is

relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. >> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of

signs restored just on eddy street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get

those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. >> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey

bogart film filled with neon in the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. >> one of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing ririt rita hayworth with neon signs

in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. >> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make

the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were. it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it just

shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine

in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting

local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.

>> you know i've always wanted to do this job that drives my parents crazy we want to help people i wasn't i did not think twice about that. >> i currently work as cadet inform the san francisco sheriff's department i've been surprised 0 work within criminal justice system field i had an opportunity to grow within that career path. >> as i got into the

department and through the years of problems and everything else that means a lot i can represent women and in order to make that change how people view us as a very important part of the vice president you have topanga you have to the first foot chase through the fight are you cable of getting that person whether large or small into captivity that is the test at times. >> as an agent worked undercover and prevent external and internal loss to the company it was basically like detective work but through the company from that experience and the people that i worked around law enforcement that gave me an action when i came to be a cadet i saw i was exploded to more people and the security he was

able to build on that. >> unfortunately, we have a lot of women retire to recruiting right now is critical for us we gotten too low faster the percentage of women in the department and us connecting with the community trying to get people to realize this job is definitely for them our community relations group is out attempt all the time. >> in other words, to grow in the fields he capitalized any education and got my bachelors degree so i can current work at city hall i provide security for the front of the building and people are entering entering but within any security or control within the building and checking personal bags is having a awareness of the surrounded.

>> there is so month people the brunet of breaking into this career that was every for easier for me had an on the with an before he cleared the path for laugh us. >> my people he actually looking at lucid up to poem like he joe and kim and merit made they're on the streets working redondo hard their cable of doing this job and textbook took the time to bring us along. >> women have going after their goals and departments line the san francisco sheriff's department provide a lot of training tools and inspiring you to go into the department. >> they gave me any work ethics she spider me to do whatever he wanted to do and work hard at the intersection. >> if you're going to make change you have to be part of

change and becoming law enforcement i wanted to show women could do this job it is hard not easy. >> finds something our compassion about and follow roll models and the gets the necessary skeletals to get to that goal with education and sprirmz whatever gets you there. >> if this is what you want to do dream big and actually do what you desire to do and you can go vertebrae far it is a fast job i wouldn't do anything else. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> they tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i would say from 10-15 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the

cars, it helps.

>> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, i'd like to call roll. [ro

[roll call] clerk cle>> clerk: commission have a quorum. also with us is chief scott and the director paul henderson. >> thank you very much, sergeant kilshaw. welcome to the january 9, 2019 san francisco police commission meeting. and ladies and gentlemen, we do have a lengthy closed session calendar, so what we'd like to do is limit public comment to two minutes due to the complexity and length of the closed session matters we need to deal with. >> and i'd also like to address the agenda before we begin. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: i'd ask that we continue item four until we have a full complement present. this was given over the holidays, and a lot of us didn't know this was going to be on.

i think we need to have a discussion how we want to have it setup and how we want our officers to look like. i think we should do this -- take something off at the beginning of the calendar and -- [inaudible] >> commissioner elias: it was my understanding that the elections were going to be at the end of the month, not the beginning, so i would join in that request, especially because commissioner hamasaki is not here. since we waited for the elections to have a full body. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioners, we noticed we were going to have these elections our first meeting in january maybe a little over a month ago. maybe folks weren't paying attention during the holiday season, but we did notice it and this was put on our regular

schedule. ironically, the schedule should be in april. let's put it this way. i have no iron in the fire because i've been vice president and president and it's time for me just to be a commissioner, so the last thing i want to be is the president or the vice president. but i'm saying we do have -- we have scheduled this, and i apologize if people didn't see it, but technically, the elections are to be held in april. the reason we didn't hold the elections, we had the death of commission president julius turman. i continued to be -- without being called to president, to continue to be the president and vice president since commissioner turman's death. we went through the full complement of commissioners, leaving three veteran commissioners, so to speak. but it's been scheduled, and i'm just willing to listen to what other commissioners have to say. commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: i need an agenda. i don't have an agenda.

that's item number one. item number two, commissioner mazzucco just showed me commissioner hamasaki's message to the commission or to the vice president saying that he got off a plane late last night from miami so he's not going to make this meeting. he sent that nine minutes before the meeting was to start. i don't like the way that smells, and i'm not going to play games as a commissioner. i know this is a highly politicized group sometimes, but i don't think this group should be politicized. i know the mayor's and the board of supervisors may politicize issues, but we should not. a commissioner cannot send an e-mail nine minutes before. what it appears he's trying to do is game the system. that's not right for the public

and it's not how we should run the commission mauz mauz commission -- >> commissioner mazzucco: >> commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: it doesn't matter why he's not here. he's not here, and we should have a full complement. i do not like gaming the system. i have been on this commission over ten years, and i get done every single time where it's done behind closed doors, where it's done with the mayor's office and the commissioners who are appointed by the board, you make the decision who's the next leadership, and that's not fair. here's what i thought we would do is we would have a discussion on the election, and we would talk about what is fair, how do we want this commission to look like? when this commission first started, it was, like, bilateral. it was somebody from the mayor's office in an elected seat, and we had somebody from the board of supervisors, and

we went back and forth, and we always had two. then, it blew up, and everyone seemed to know how they were voting, everyone seemed to know how they were voting. mayor's office seemed to pull the strings, and you seemed to know who was going to be president, vice president, and it seemed like you were gaming the system. also, our by laws say it's 30 days after april. the election is in may. we don't have a way to bypass the bylaws, so you want to be technical? the election is in may. >> commissioner hirsch: actually, it doesn't. i have a copy here. it says first meeting after may 30. >> we should have had a discussion how we want it to look like. instead, it's a holiday weekend, if it goes off at 2:00

or 3:00 on a friday, god fore bid if we don't see it, but we've been told that you have worked it out with the mayor's office. we should have a full complement, and this should not go over until we have a discussion how we want the commission to look like, how we want this to proceed. >> commissioner mazzucco: may i make a suggestion. let's move into our agenda and continue this conversation when we get to line item four. i think we can do it then and make decisions -- >> commissioner dejesus: well i think we need the city attorney. if we were going to take something off, we need the city attorney. >> these are our parliamentary rules, and these are not legal issues. these are left to the body to decide. >> commissioner hirsch: as a pending motion i suppose -- we don't have to vote on it this second, but we do have to vote on it because there's a motion that's been seconded, is that

right? >> commissioner dejesus: that's correct. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner elias. >> commissioner elias: first of all, i want to say thank you for stepping in to the role of president. i do want to thank you, and i know that you probably want to be done, but i think that a week continuance at the very least is not going to break you, hopefully, and in fact, we could probably send you off with a party or a cup cake. b b but let me say this. when you did notice it in november , you did say it would be on in january . my understanding was you said the first -- when we came back for this first session today, the agenda was full. there was no date, so my assumption was it would be at the end of the month because the january 9 date was full because of all of the stuff that we had that was being put on that had priority.

so i apologize if i misunderstood you or if you did say january 9, and i don't remember you saying january 9. but i am asking, i just -- again, whatever reason commissioner hamasaki is not here, he's not here. i think we kept putting it off, you know, because we didn't want to do it and move forward without all seven of us. and i do agree with commissioner hirsch that as a body, we need to -- i think that we have to have a unified front, and i think we need to do that. >> commissioner mazzucco: i think everybody, what we need to do is hold it until we get to line item four, and we'll have further discuss when we get to line item four. let's get into our agenda, and when we get to line item number four, we can move forward under

the heading. we can make a decision and there's a decision whether to vote or not vote. so let's get into our agenda and let's think about this and do this logically and consistently. please call the first line. >> clerk: item one, reports to the commission, discussion. 1-a, chief's report. weekly crime trends, provide an overview of the offenses occurring in san francisco. significant incidents, chief's report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future commission meeting. major events. provide a summary of planned events and planned activities and events occurring since the previous meeting. this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities. the chief describes will be limiting to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. commission -- community

engagement division highlights, provide an overview of recent activities coordinated by community engage the division. report regarding the sworn promotional process. >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, chief. >> am i on? good evening, vice president mazzucco, chief, director henderson. i'll start off with the crime trends with a short summary of how we ended the year in 2018. for the year 2019, total, we are -- it's early in the year, so these numbers will fluctuate pretty widely in the first part -- or the first month of the year, but we are down 34.02% in violent crimes this year. that's 33 incidents fewer than last year. total property crimes were down by 435 incidents or 45.8%, and overall crimes were down by

44.7%, which equates to 468 fewer incidents in the first week of 2019. auto burglaries were down 40.8%, which equates to 40.9% fewer incidents than last year. we had two homicides for the first week in january , and i'll go into a little more detail about the homicides. we ended 2018 with 46 homicides, which was an 18% decrease in 2017. 2017, we had 56 homicides. of the 46, 18 were cleared. we also cleared several previous-year homicides last year, so we ended up with a very high clearance rate for

2018, almost 100%. shooting victims, this year, we've had one shooting, none fatal, and that's five fewer than this time last year. that is good news, so that's an 83% change, but as i said, it's early in the year, and these numbers tend to swing greatly when it's early in the year. how we stack up to past years, we ended the week with one shooting, which is, when you look at the past five years, it's not uncommon to have one shooting in the first week of the year, so it's good that we are there. total gun violence, again, we are only at one. in terms of the year-to-year comparisons for 2018-2019, as i said, we're tracking good the first week on auto burglaries and we are continuing our

efforts to keep that number down and continually reduce the auto burglaries, so we're asking the communities to help us in that regard. don't make yourself an easy target, and we believe that the public safety and public awareness campaign did help us in 2018, so we're going to continue that in 2019. in terms of our major cases, i mentioned that we had two homicides already this year. the first one occurred at -- in the tenderloin. this was on january 2, and the summary is we had an individual who we later identified as our suspect who got in a fight with his girlfriend. it occurred at alice and leavenworth, by the way. our suspect tried to intercept, and our suspect stabbed here. she was transported to san francisco andity la later succ

to her injuries. if there's any good news, it's that our suspect was later arrested that same day by our patrol officers, and he has been in custody since with charges filed. our second homicide was in the central district at 908 post street. that was on january 7, a couple of days ago. it involved two individuals who had some type of incident. our victim was stabbed in the head and neck area. he was transported, and he later succumbed to his injuries. our suspect in this case attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of a three-story window. he was severely injured, and actually we were notified today that he succumbed to his injuries, so we believe, you know, this eventually turned into a murder-suicide, and those were the two homicides for this year. in emergency room its of -- any questions for the crime before i move on, commissioners?

>> commissioner mazzucco: no, i just want to -- you know, people talk about homicides, and throughout my career, we've talked about homicide reduction. you never want to put out the statistics and say it's going to be a great year. you saw what happened in oakland. people need to know there's certain things you can do to stop certain homicides, but there's other homicides you just can't stop. >> yes, sir. we talk about this in the miracle context, but we are sadly reminded these numbers represent victims and their families. so 46, although it's lower than past years, that's 46 victims and 46 families that were impacted by this horrible crime. significant -- going on with significant events, an update on new year's eve, actually was a very peaceful new year's eve over y'a overall. we ended up with no significant

events. i and most of the command staff worked that night, and i personally went to every -- all of the ten police stations and really thanked the officers for the work they've been doing, and it was a good night, so it's good news to report. upcoming events this week, we have the hot chocolate run at golden gate park and the grate highway. this is saturday, january 13 from 8:30 in the morning to 11:30. there will be a 5k race followed by a 15k race, and this was running. >> commissioner mazzucco: why did you look to me when you said this was running. >> that was just inadvertent. >> commissioner mazzucco: it's okay, chief. >> there will be a music vest festival after the event. no issues or concerns, and we will be deployed for it, however. i also want to talk about a

significant event that happened actually yesterday -- or january 8, which is yesterday. at approximately 6:50 in the morning, san francisco police department officers responded to the 1000 block of visitation avenue in the ingleside district regarding the call of a burglary, and during the course of that investigation, a witness located a victim who is an 89-year-old woman who was suffering from numerous injuries about her body. the victim was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, and she still remains hospitalized. i want to point out that this is an act of an ongoing investigation, and we're asking for anyone with information that might help us figure out what happened to this victim to contact our investigators. the -- via our anonymous tip line at 415-475-4444.

our officers are diligently investigating this incident and we'll continue to canvas the area for additional information related to the crime. so to the public or anyone listening, if you have anyone that could help us figure this out, please call us. again that number is 415-475-4444. next, i'd like to -- >> commissioner mazzucco: commission commissioner? >> chief, where are we on residential burglaries? >> residential burglaries, we ended up the year 6% up. so far, year-to-date, first week, we are -- actually, we have 32% decrease the first week. we still have some issues, though, identifying some of the crews that we believe are

serial burglars, and we have some that we are trying to fit the pieces together that we believe are serial burglaries, we ended the year less than -- and i believe it was, like, 8%. i don't have it in front of me, but we ended 8% up. >> sex trafficking? >> sex trafficking, we're looking at some of our policies at how those incidents are classified. and one of the things that we're looking at is whether or not they're actually being classified properly. between 2017, i believe, and 2018, we made some tweaks to how we classify that, so part of our review of this is looking at our classification, so i am not prepared, at this point, until we finish that review to give you a briefing on that part of it, but i think

that's going to explain some of the significant increase from 2017 to 2018. >> the classification is now more inclusive than it used to be? >> yes. >> okay. >> communitien gainment highlig highlights -- community engagement highlights, in the month of december, our department was involved in many community engagement highlights in the month of december. i'll just go through the highlights. included a wilderness program. there are actually three hikes coming up with three of the elementary schools in the city. we actually have martin luther king holiday, which we're scheduled to participate in a march on january 31.

we will have our first annual black history month celebration, and we will announce our details of that in the next police commission meeting. in march, we will do our annual project genesis where we take young folks to ghana. officers also participate in that trip, and it's a really -- it's a program that was started under another chief's tenure. it's a life changing trip, and i invite any of the commissioners to participant in the send -- participate in the sendoff because it's a really nice event for the kids. we have a little program in the morning before they go to the airport, but it's a really good program for the kids. we also plan toen happens our social media engagement through youtube and some of our social media outlets in this coming year, and we plan to increase

our intern program with future graduates, like expanding to additional companies who will participate. as of december, we participated in several tree lighting events, highlighted by the december 6 tree lighting event at golden gate park. i attended, along with many other department heads and the mayor. we had our annual give away, and commissioner taylor attended that with me on december 7. we gave away 26 bikes in partnership with the global children foundation. that is also a very -- oh, commissioner, sorry, commissioner brookter that was there, as well. sorry, commissioner. that was a good event, as well. thank you for attending. december 8, we participated in the brave to bay where we participated in an event to help the make-a-wish foundation. i and many command staff jumped in the waters of the bay and

participated in a 5-k walk, and we also participated in a cable car pull. coffee with a cop, we had several of those in december, including a very well attended one at southeast station on december 9. we participated in december 10 in our city's annual native american heritage celebration to honor local native american heros, and we had several annual toy give aways and tree give aways at joseph lee rec center in the bayview, where over 200 participates. december 16, 400 trees were given away in hunters point. december 17, northern station officers along with other city agencies provided over 50 tree and see 200 toys to residents in the western addition. december 19, we participated in a toy give away in del plaza. also, we participated on december 18 with heros and helpers, which was a

partnership with the target foundation where over 80 youth were actually given gifts and -- to help celebrate the holidays. and on december 22, we participated in the wonderland ice skating event at the embarcadero center, and many of our officers participated and ice skated with kids, and all, and they basically closed the rink down or invite us and any of the young folks that we're engaged with in the morning of december 27, so it was a very nice event, as well. the last part of my report is a report on our promotional process, and this was requested, i believe, by commissioner hirsch. so what i intend to do tonight is we go through how our promotional process works and then open it up for any questions that the commission may have. included in the agenda and made available for the public is a department bulletin that was

issued earlier this week that outlines the promotional process, and it's a four-page document, and three of the four pages are frequently asked questions that come up over and over again, so we could go through each, but i'll just go kind of an overview for the commission and the public of the actual process, and the steps to get a sworn promotion for q-50, q-60, and q-80. q-50 is a sergeant, q-60 is a lieutenant, and a q-80 is the captain rank. the first is to apply at the human resources website. i'll read this for the public. the first step is apply through the department of human resources, d.h.r., through their website, following directions provided on the exam

announcement. the exam announcement is distributed by department bulletin. you can also sign up to receive exam announcements under job opportunities on the d.h.r. website. your application or the interested applicant application must be received by the deadline. second step is the interested applicant receives a notice from d.h.r., telling him or her whether they're qualified to take the exam. third step, if they are qualified, they receive a test preparation guide 30 days before the exam. fourth step, the individual may have an opportunity to schedule themselves for the exam. if not, d.h.r. will actually schedule the individual. fifth step, d.h.r. will send confirmation to the test time, the exam time, at least ten days before the test day. sixth step, take the exam. typically, the exam has more than one