>> creating place where people can be active and lead, active, healthy life styles that are going to just stay with them for life. >> welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode we'll show you how 0 retroactive you're home let's go inside and take a look.

>> hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt we'll talk about plywood. >> great thanks. >> where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood

we've got to wind block between the studs and we'll secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. >> i notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking we'll a xoich attach the plywood. >> the third thing we'll attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized

tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the forces. >> so you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next

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>> my family's starts in mexico in a small town. my parents are from a very, very

small town. so small, that my dad's brother is married to one of my mom's sisters. it's that small. a lot of folks from that town are here in the city. like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for us. my dad came out here first. i think i was almost two-years-old when he sent for us. my mom and myself came out here. we moved to san francisco early on. in the mission district and moved out to daily city and bounced back to san francisco. we lived across the street from the ups building. for me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at night. when i was seven-years-old and i'm in charge of making sure we get on the bus on time to get to school. i have to make sure that we do our homework. it's a lot of responsibility for a kid. the weekends were always for family. we used to get together and whether we used to go watch a

movie at the new mission theater and then afterwards going to kentucky fried chicken. that was big for us. we get kentucky fried chicken on sunday. whoa! go crazy! so for me, home is having something where you are all together. whether it's just together for dinner or whether it's together for breakfast or sharing a special moment at the holidays. whether it's thanksgiving or christmas or birthdays. that is home. being so close to berkley and oakland and san francisco, there's a line. here you don't see a line. even though you see someone that's different from you, they're equal. you've always seen that. a rainbow of colors, a ryan bow of personalities. when you think about it you are supposed to be protecting the

kids. they have dreams. they have aspirations. they have goals. and you are take that away from them. right now, the price is a hard fight. they're determined. i mean, these kids, you have to applaud them. their heart is in the right place. there's hope. i mean, out here with the things changing everyday, you just hope the next administration makes a change that makes things right. right now there's a lot of changes on a lot of different levels. the only thing you hope for is for the future of these young kids and young folks that are getting into politics to make the right move and for the folks who can't speak. >> dy mind motion. >> even though we have a lot of fighters, there's a lot of voice less folks and their voiceless because they're scared. taylor.

[pledge of allegiance] >> clerk: commissioner m mazzucco, i'd like to call

roll. >> commissioner mazzucco: please do. [ro [ro [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, you have a quorum. also with us today is the chief of police, william scott, and the director of police accountability, paul henderson. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the january 16, 2019 meeting of the san francisco police commission. without further adieu, please call the next item. [agenda item read].

>> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. before we proceed, just so you know, line item one is off calendar, the adoption of minutes. >> clerk: did i skip it? >> commissioner mazzucco: no. we can take it off calendar. >> clerk: no, no, it's okay. item one, adoption of meeting minutes of december 5, and

december 12, 2018. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioners, in your packets, you have your minutes -- although i don't see them. >> clerk: no, they're there. >> commissioner mazzucco: they are? >> clerk: yeah. >> commissioner mazzucco: any questions or concerns about the minutes? hearing none, public comment? hearing none, public comment is now closed. let's move onto the next item. you don't need to read it. [inaudible] >> -- will present the sexual assault rape kit to our report.

trends for this week, part one, crime, we are down 33% over this week last year, and year to date, we're down 33%. total volume crime, we're down 33%, property crimes, down 33%. and to break that down, auto burglaries are down 43.9%, which is 416 incidents where we were last year. again, it's still early, but the numbers are trending in the right direction. we have had four homicides year-to-date, which is disturbing. that's an increase of one more than what we had last year, which was three in 2017 this time year-to-date. two of the four cases have been cleared, one by arrest and one by exceptional circumstance. gun violence is down 64% over

2018. again, because we're only two weeks into the year, the numbers are small, so these percentages will -- will vary greatly in the next few weeks. of the gun violence, though, we have had two fatal shootings, both this weekend, and we've had two other shootings where the victims are injured. so i'll go into a little bit more detail with the homicides over the week -- over the weekend. the first one occurred on saturday -- or friday, i'm sorry, and it happened at the 1700 block of lasalle. our victim was a 24-year-old male of hispanic descent, and he did not survive the shooting. our second victim was also a 24-year-old male. officered responded to a shot

spotter activation, and through their investigation, they discovered that one had been shot. one suffered fatal gun shot wounds and was pronounced deceased at the scene. the second one suffered gun shot wounds to the arm and upper body. our suspects who have not been identified at this time fled the scene in a dark-colored vehicle, and our witnesses are reporting that the vehicle actually fired into a crowd of people that were outside of a resident in the 1700 block of lasalle. again, we have not made arrests on this case yet, and as always, we ask for anybody out there in the public that knows anything that will help lead to the arrest of these particular individuals to call 415-475-4444, and you can report this information anonymously. the second shooting occurred a day later at the same hundred block of lasalle. our suspects at this point have not been identified. our victim, the deceased

victim, was a 40-year-old male who was a resident of san francisco. our second victim was a 27-year-old male who was also a resident of san francisco, and he survived nonlife threatening injuries. and the details are officers again responded to a spot shotter activation, and they located one victim at the scene. this victim had suffered a fatal gun shot wound to the chest. officers attempted to -- they did c.p.r. but were unable to revive the victim. he was transported, and he was later pronounced deceased at san francisco general hospital. our witnesses -- some of the witnesses that seen -- actually saw our deceased victim talking with an occupant of the suspect's vehicle, which was a white audi right before the shooting. the second victim was

transported to san francisco general with nonlife threatening wounds and listed in stable condition. again, we don't have a whole lot of information at this point and we're asking for the public's help. these incidents happened on the same block, a day apart, so we're hoping that somebody can help with information that might lead to the arrest and shed should light on what happened in this case. again, the number is 415-475-4444. if anyone has any information, please call, and you can call anonymously. we have a little bit of an update on the indicate that i reported last week in ingleside where the 89-year-old woman was attacked and beaten. we released the forensic sketch yesterday, and is this based on witnesses' description of the suspect. our suspect is described as a black male in his 30's,

approximately 5'6" with a skinny build. he was wearing a hoodie, and we have a team of investigators working on that case. it was a particularly brutal and heinous crime, and we need to bring this person in. so again, we're looking for the public's help on this. that sketch went out, so if anybody seize any familiarity with the person on the sketch, please call us. last week, we had one traffic collision that occurred in the 3000 block of san bruno, and this one, actually, the injuries were not fatal, but it did involve a pregnant woman, 27-year-old, and she was injured. our suspect in that -- and this was a hit and run. it was a 24-year-old man, and he was driving a 2010 dodge charger, so we're looking to investigate and hopefully bring that case to justice, as well.

we also had a hit and run at st. charles and palmetto in the taraval district. this was at 4:30 in the morning. the victim was walking in the crosswalk when they were struck by the suspect's vehicle. the suspect left the scene on the southbound 280, and we did have a witness that attempted to get the plate of a vehicle and actually gave us information that was helpful. the driver has been actually identified in this case, and was ultimately booked on felony hit and run charges. our victim in this case was a 64-year-old female. so again, to the public, we're asking that you be aware, number one. this was a hit and run, but be category a cognizant of your surroundings. we're still focused on vision zero and we're trying to

eliminate these types of traffic collisions, and the public can hear by being vigilant, and the public can help by paying attention to your surroundings, as well. so fortunately, nobody died in these incidents, but they just illustrate the uphill battle that we have with vision zero, and we'll continue to focus on five and work toward zero traffic fatalities in 2024. major public events this week, the big public event this weekend is the women's march for life, and that will be this saturday. crowds have been estimated to be up to 25,000. it's a highly attended event, and we will be fully deployed for that event. tomorrow, we also have a public safety press conference with the mayor, mayor breed, at 11:00 a.m. -- i'm sorry. let me back up. on -- on friday, january 18, at 11:00 a.m., there'll be a -- the 22nd annual s.f. safety

press conference, and the mayor breed will be there. this be the kickoff to the l lunar new year. deputy acting assistant chief mike redmon will represent the department. the march begins on 4th and king at the caltrans building. no issues or concerns at this time, and usually it's a very festive event, so we're asking that the public come and join us. and that is the significant

events for the week, and actually, that concludes this part of the chief's report. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, chief. any questions for the chief? commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: chief, i do have one question, and this was about the ingleside attack. there was a suggestion by some of the people who spoke that maybe a substation could be setup there, and i've seen other suggestions about a mobile unit. is there any thought, does that make any sense? >> well, the substation, we have to put more thought in that because the substation has to be staffed, so it gets into deployment issues, and we've opened a couple of interest substations, one in san bruno, one in chinatown. we're definitely open seven days a week, but we have to work out the staffing part. the biggest thing, this crime happened early in the morning, around 6:00 in the morning. the biggest thing is captain hart in ingleside has done a good job of this, getting out to the public, making sure the

public knows we're out there. a mobile kmant post can serve that purpose, but more importantly -- command post can serve that purpose, but movie importantly, making sure that that block of visitation, it's really the consistency of the patrols that's important at this point. like anything, when we have these issues, the mobile substation does get attention. like, we have one here at u.n. plaza, but the important thing is we have the deployment to go along with it. so the officers are there in visitation valley. we don't have the command post yet. it's a future consideration. right now, two things. we want to get this person in custody, and the second thing, we want to make sure there's the officers that have a presence there. we want the public to feel safe that they can go to and from where they're going and not have to worry about being attacked, particularly at 6:00

in the morning when people are walking in the park and that type of thing. so captain hart has done a good job with that. he's also done a good job in community meetings and rallying the community in this, as well. i attended one such meeting yesterday. the community actually has some plans on working on their resiliency, and i actually -- a system that has worked in other neighborhoods to do just that, so those are the type things that i think will get us some progress in that area. and we will deploy, continue to deploy. a substation's not off the table, but at this point, we haven't done it. >> commissioner hirsch: thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, mr. president. how are the staffing levels at ingleside? i heard some concern -- i also spoke with some community members over the weekend, and i heard some concern that staffing levels at ingleside --

well, there's some concern that they're inadequate at this point. i looked at it on the map. i understand it's a pretty challenging geographical district because it's very pretty outdoors and officers having to move from one end to the other can create challenges. what are your thoughts on the staffing levels right now? >> well, i wouldn't describe it as inadequate. would we like to have more officers in every station? yes, the answer's yes, and with this hiring plan, we'll hopefully grow the stations. inadequate, i don't think it appropriate -- or the -- is appropriate -- or the appropriate word. it's what we do with the officers we have. every community in this city, and i say this in all -- having been in every community in this city, everybody wants more cops, every wants more foot beat. >> commissioner hamasaki: i've heard that. >> but we only have so many,

and we have to use what we have. we make adjustments where we need to. we often supplement -- for example, we put the specialized units, the hondas, the solos, the specific deployment to enhance the area that's there, but i don't think the deployment is inadequate. >> commissioner hamasaki: you'd like more if we had them -- >> right. >> commissioner hamasaki: but based on our current city staffing. >> right. so now, we have to balance. we're always looking at constant ways to do that. in this past year, we've really developed our staffing and deployment unit. we have a much better handle where all of our officers are before we got this in place. we track or equipment in and out of the -- our equipment in and out of the stations. it's just a matter of being

smart where we deploy. i was just going to say, when we have an issue, we can make adjustments, and a lot of times through those adjustments, they're not necessarily permanent adjustments. it's just like what we're doing in other parts of the city. we had a homicide in bayview, we put a fixed post in there. it's what we have to do at this time, but it's not a solution to the problem. as this department grows, thankfully, we got the budget approved last year where we will grow the department, and we just have to, as we grow the department, deploy appropriately. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: anything further for the chief? chief, i checked with the chief about the homicides, too 'cause i was concerned, and i was to thank captain hart, and actually, supervisor shamann walton has been pretty

remarkable. hopefully, something will take place on what happened in the ingleside and the homicide incident. >> and now, we have captain dangerfield who will report on l.e.p., l.e.p. report. [inaudible] >> -- members of the command staff, chief scott, director henderson. i'm commander lozar of the community engagement division. this evening, i'm going to briefly present to you, make the annual presentation on the limited

. >> the manner in which interpretation services are provided, so by department interpreters, bilingual members who were not certified as bilingual members, 762. and then, bilingual certified members, 413. the method in which we delivered limited english proficiency services by telephone, 5,374, that's by using our language line or in person, 4,456 mainly by department members, and then, oral interpretations at public meetings, five. in terms of complaints from the department of police accountability over that fiscal year reporting period, we had a number of seven. that was broken-down into five

sustained, two not sustained. in terms of our department language access complaints, we're doing a lot of work around policy, around training, around how we deliver services. certified bilingual members are receiving eight hours of training on how to be an effective interpreter. what we're excited about, it's about continue years overdue, and we started having this training, trying to do it on a monthly basis because we know as a bilingual officer, those are per yishabishable skills, need to make sure that the officers are up to date on those skills. we are emphasizing the importance of language access on the ability to provide language access to the community so that recruits are

prepared when they graduate to address this issue. and then, we're also, with the recruits, working on policies and procedures that we incorporate in all potential aspects of their training, especially report writing. so when they graduate and they go to the field training program, they're ready to address this issue. operationally, we released a bulletin, 18-185 that prioritizes access to bilingual individuals. it's a great summary of 5.20, and it summarizes in three pages everything officers to need to know. we've had language access services tracked in our report writing system. that's how we're now able to give you an accurate picture as to the 3,385 instances in which a report was written. technology wise, we have a remote interpretation services available at every district

station, the airport and special victims unit. it's like face time. you go to a station, and you state what language you speak, and you click a button, and we're able to get the interpreter and do it by video chatting. what we're really excited about this year is the pilot that we're rolling out at ingleside and in the mission districts, and that is by way of our smart phone. every member has a samsung smart phone assigned to them. the main pilot is ingleside station where every officer has an app, and they're either able to hit the app and make a phone call to an interpreter, or in the cases of hard of hearing, they could -- or our deaf community, they're able to, by way of face time, get an american sign language interpreter, and for lack of a better way to describe it, face time interaction. that's at ingleside, and as we

continue throughout the year, we're going to work to continue to roll that out on officers' phones. and then, my last -- i want to end by saying that we will continue with our monthly meeting because we make a lot of progress in meeting with the community on this particular issue. we are working with the department of emergency management to get better at getting bilingual officers to the scene. we figured out a way to traffic our response time. hopefully we'll have some data for you next year on how long it takes to get a bilingual officer to the scene. i mentioned the deaf and sign language services that we're using. we're making sure d.h.r. provides testing to the recruits in the academy so that when they graduate, they're certified.

and then, the last part is to identify this year liaisons on limited english proficiency at each of the district stations so that they can be a resource in terms of policy and technology to all of the other officers that work within their station, so that's one of our short-term goals coming up in the next couple of months, and that concludes my presentation. >> well, thank you, commander lozar and captain. one of the questions i had was does dispatch know who's available each night and each shift? do they get a list every evening or do they do a callout, who's a certified cantonne cantonese interpreter. >> i think what we're trying to do is trying to get away from dispatchers calling out and requesting available bilingual officers to respond.

instead of asking, we'd rather them use the list, identify that officer, and ask them to respond, and that's the difference that we need to change in 2018. that's been a challenge, a d.e.m. in terms of getting their employees to operate in their manner, but i think we've made a little bit of headway, but we need to continue that. because the technology's there, and they know exactly what's working. >> commissioner mazzucco: that's what we discussed last time. director henderson -- >> i just marked it because sandra is not there this week. i just wanted to thank commander lozar who's worked really closely with us over the years on this program and presentation. there were a couple of things that i wanted to point out because the notes are already in there. all of this work that was being done was the most collaborative, and by collaborative, i mean the work

that the commission directly was involved, back in 2000 -- last year in making this a working group, so that made it more collaborative with many of the groups that are here and with the audience tonight and some of the other groups in making sure that this has remained a priority. i would point out there are also continued recommendations from the agency that evolved out of this working group to be found on page three of the notes. a lot of the work that was done with language access has come not just from the complaints that have come into our office from members of the communities, but from the working groups themselves and the agencies that we're working with, the affinity organizations and the groups that are here tonight. >> well, it has been collaborative, so thank you. commissioner hamasaki.

>> commissioner hamasaki: commander lozar. >> good evening. >> commissioner hamasaki: good evening. i just had a few follow up questions. so the working group is still ongoing, and you're meeting how often? >> we meet every wetwice a mon. i think it's every second tuesday at the conference room. and the participants are not only the stakeholder groups, but also the captain and lieutenant from the special victims unit since they're working very closely with the victims and captain dangerfield and our staff at community engagement. >> commissioner hamasaki: mind if i join you? >> you're welcome, yes, of course. >> commissioner hamasaki: so i had a -- a couple calls this week. one, i -- you know, i know you from your time in district three, you know, excellent -- excellent -- you did excellent work there in addressing a lot

of these concerns with the community there. i know this is something you care deeply about and have worked, you know, really hard to -- to -- to move the ball here, and i think that everybody is grateful for that. i wanted to check in -- there were questions that were asked of me. where are we on the recertification of officers? >> so we're doing the training on eight hours once a month, and we are trying to have those classes consistent because our bilingual now, we're up to 400-plus, so we're trying to be consistent and doing that on a rotating basis. in terms of the recertification process, the testing, i'm going to defer to captain dangerfield who's been working with d.h.r. on that part of it. >> in the new m.o.u., they're allowed to retest.

we haven't decided if it's going to be every year, every two years, but they'll have to retest to recertify their skills, and we haven't started that. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. you haven't started that. are there plans to begin that this year hopefully sometime soon? >> yeah. that is the plan to start it this year. we're just having conversations with the department of human resources about the logistics of handling that. the only thing we got through with our later m.o.u. indicating if an officer does not pass the recertification, they're not entitled to the compensation, but really, the goal is if they're not up to par, we need to get them back up to par, and that's what those eight-hour classes are talking about. we need to recertify, get the recruits certified, and all of that. that's where we're at. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay.

and as far as the training, the training is because a number of these officers are native speakers or have learned a second language, but there's special skills that are involved in actually interpreting for either a crime victim, a witness, or another party. >> yeah, it's a special skills. we talk about, for example, the victimology -- like, the concern about a person who's maybe monolingual speaking. they're the victim of a crime, the suspect talks them out of reporting the crime and trying to defend themselves. we talk about handling calls for service, interpretation versus translation, what's needed, department policy. we just try to get our bilingual certified officers completely up to speed as to what they need to be doing. we train them per that bulletin that i referenced, but

everything's perishable. that's why we put them through that training. >> commissioner hamasaki: so where are we on the training -- the certified officers now, where are they as far as being -- going through the eight-hour training. >> so we started our classes last year. we put a few -- [inaudible] >> so 90 so far out of the 400, and so our plan is to continue to push through 2019, to get everybody -- into 2020, perishable skills, kind of reuped on the eight-hour training and make sure everyone's current. the other thing is we really want to continue to test and get as many people certified as bilingual officers as possible. you can see we have a lot of people that are bilingual that aren't certified. so again, back to d.h.r. and working with us to make that happen. >> commissioner hamasaki: and what's the liaison or below you leading this effort?

>> so we have an officer by the name of officer carr. the reason we're here before you this evening is because she's assigned to the community engagement division, and her full-time job is to really take the spreadsheet with all the things we want to do and all our wish lists and make that happen. she teaches at the academy, the basic class. she's involved in the recertification process, she coordinates with dmpl.h.-r, bu that is her job with this, to make sure that we're moving all the d.h.r. plans forward. >> commissioner hamasaki: one of the other concerns -- was that there's some language used by populations in san francisco including hindi and toisun, in

which we don't have a testing or certification in place. can you explain what's going on there? >> well, we have to meet with the department of human resources and talk with them about this. the other thing i want to mention about d.h.r., the department of emergency management uses a public company to certify their personnel. so we have to look at options, maybe using a private vendor, continue the conversations with d.h. d.h.r., but we have to work with people and continue to certify people in toisunese. >> commissioner hamasaki: that's pretty much our chinatown community there. it's distinguishable from cantonese, to my understanding, from somebody certified in

cantonnese, there's going to be -- i think there's going to be some issues with interpreting and communication. >> yes. now -- no, that is exactly it. and we've had issues before the department of policeability over issues versus cantonese and toisunese. it's time to look at d.h.r. or the private vendor to make sure we're certifying more officers. >> commissioner hamasaki: and i heard that d.e.m., didn't they go through the private vendor for certain certifications? >> yeah. they don't use the department of human resources. they have their own private vendor through language line. they use language line to certify all their employees. so we just in the last two weeks have had the conversation about exploring that, as well. >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah, i would encourage you to do that if that ends up being a

hurdle. so thank you. i know i had a lot of questions tonight, but i spent some time on the phone this week, and i did want to give the community's concerns a voice out here. >> well, we'll see you at the meeting, and we'll have this conversation. >> commissioner hamasaki: i look forward to it. >> commissioner mazzucco: any further questions for the commander or the captain? thank you very much. and thank you to the community members who participated. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next, we have deputy chief connolly and director john sanchez. >> good evening, deputy chief connolly. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, members of the commission, chief scott. mike connolly from the bureau of investigations. with me is director john sanchez from the forensic services department. he's going to be reporting out

semiannual reporting out of replies commission resolution 1648 and we report out semiannually. the data collection period for this report commenced on july 1, 2018 and concluded on december 31, 2018. the number of central assault evidence kits collected during this period was 162. there were 12 late submissions to the crime lab, and again, the resolution calls for the kits to be submitted within five days. the reason for these late notifications -- excuse me -- to the crime lab were primarily due to outside jurisdictions and federal holidays, so we had outside jurisdictions submitting evidence outside of chain of command, but that didn't impact the testing period. the number of sexual assault evidence kits processed by the lab was all of them, and they were within 120 days. the average turnaround time for the kits was 45 days.

it was a significant improvement over when this resolution was drafted. there were 55 kits that resulted in foreign matter -- in other words, a different profile from the victim, and of the 55 profiles developed, they were submitted to codis, which is the national database that the offenders are loaded into. the number -- again, qualifying for d.n.a. was 55. of the foreign d.n.a. samples submitted, 19 were entered into codis, and again, these documents are in your packet. there were 19 profiles that were identified through codis. there were 79 profiles that were not developed. of the number of s.a.e. cases collected, the number of

survivor cases made were 103, and an additional 44 survivors declined to be notified or refused notification. of the total number of sexual assault kits collected, the number of outside agencies was 12 as i mentioned in the first part of this report, and the number of sexual assaulted collected and the attempts notifications were three. so out of all the notifications, there were three attempts with negative notification. there was no situation where there was no notification made. the case status of the total sexual assault kits collected, the current dispositions are inactive cases, 81, cleared cases either by arrest or other means is 33, and there are currently 48 cases at that actively remain open. the number of cases sent to the district attorney for charging and/or prosecution was 16. of those charged of the 16, 12 were charged, four were discharged, and we don't have a conviction rate by the district

attorney. and i'll open this for questions for myself or director sanchez. >> commissioner mazzucco: just for the members of the public, this all started when there was concerns by commissioner -- former commissioner jim hammer, a former prosecutor, when we learned that there was so many of these kits that were not being tested. and this commission, and the chief at the time, we've taken the lead. actually, we are the national model, if i'm not mistaken, for putting together the timing and the efficiency of testing these kits because of concerns from the community. in fact we weren't testing kits when we knew kwho the known person was in the assault. now, we test those any way. and thanks to public health -- help, who was involved in that, too. we moved forward, and our police department, i'm so proud to say from the day that was

brought up by commissioner hammer to now, we were the national model, and i think the community can feel very safe in hiring more people to work in the crime lab to test the d.n.a., which is not cheap, but it's the best thing we do have done. i think we've doubled the number of testing in the lab of the d.n.a. i think the drar commentirecto it's a timely process. i'm quite proud. obviously, the numbers in these report are excellent. i want to say that the number of cases submitted to the d.a.s office are great. for the commissioners that haven't been there -- commissioner dejesus and i have been here, this is something that the department and i can be very proud of because this supports the community and the vulnerable victim, to thank

you. commissioner taylor? >> commissioner taylor: hi. i've got a couple of questions. so 162 samples collected and sent to the crime lab. only 55 filed into the codis. tell me what the gap is. >> the gap is there's not biological material that could not be identified. >> only. so only 40 -- okay. got it. and then, what does inactive mean? >> inactive means exhausted all investigative leads until new material comes in. >> and that's different from open because open means there are still investigative leads being pursued. >> and of the 40, the district attorney charged 16? >> yes. >> commissioner taylor: and were the rest declined? >> i don't have their filing rate, but we can attempt to

find that. >> commissioner taylor: okay. that -- that would be interesting. do we -- so -- so -- just to follow up. so of the 162 total, 16 were actually ultimately charged by the d.a.s office. >> correct. >> commissioner taylor: and it looks like for a lot of those, there -- there was no d.n.a. profile that we could ascertain, there were no -- >> correct. >> commissioner taylor: all right. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: hi. so i'm looking -- i've got a real basic question. looking at the disposition codes, they list variations of one, six, and 13. what does that mean? >> it's the uniform crime

reporting index. six would be arrest, 13 is an exceptional clearage, and i don't recall what one is. >> commissioner hamasaki: what is an exceptional clearance. >> exceptional clearance, usually we would associate that with more of a homicide where the homicide suspect was -- he also was -- chief? >> so exceptional clearance would be where a case is cleared when the suspect has been identified, and something beyond police control prevents an arrest and prosecution. perhaps the suspect is dead. you can clear that case by other, exceptional clearance. there are cases where everything is exhausted, the district attorney declines to file the case, but we've identified the suspect. so those per the standards set by the f.b.i. are considered

exceptional clearances. >> commissioner hamasaki: i apologize. you actually mentioned that in your report. that was the individual that jumped out of the window. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner taylor? >> commissioner dejesus: no, i'm still asking. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. >> commissioner dejesus: so i'm looking at page one, and this may be an exceptional clearance, but the third from the bottom up, it's 18-0866, and in looking there, it says, the d.n.a. profile, yes. codis hit yes, arrest, no. then, there's no code, so i don't know what that means, and then, it says victim was notified, and it says said. so if you have d.n.a., and you have a codis hit, no arrest, i'm just wondering what happened to that case. >> that's still an open case. i don't have details on that case, and i'd be precluded from discussing that case, but it's still open. >> commissioner dejesus: no,

that's what i want to know. if it's no arrest, it's still open. >> i can't remember. >> commissioner dejesus: and just, i want to go back to the second page, notification and outcomes. you talk about providing the notification to the survivors. 103, does that include -- that victim bills of right, that allows them to get copies of the police report. is that the one we've been discussing the last few years? >> that is correct. >> commissioner dejesus: since we know there's been a problem, has your group ever helped the victims get copies of their police report, i mean, in terms of follow up, have you ever helped them? >> commissioner, that's an ongoing discussion. our inspectors work with the advocates and the victims to get them whatever services they need, so generally speaking, i wasn't prepared to report out on that aspect, but i can get

that information. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. yeah. i'm just curious because that's come up the last couple of times you've been here, and i'm just wondering -- >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. commissioner taylor, you were still -- >> commissioner taylor: yeah. i just want to commend you for processing these cases in a timely fashion. i know we have problems processing them in a timely manner in other places in the country. 162 only leading to -- >> 12. >> commissioner taylor: no, no, 162 evidence kits leading to 12 charges, and i just think about the victims out there that have, you know, no resolution. is there any way next time you come before us that you can report on what the d.a.'s office did, if we can get that information, what cases were

declined and the declined number. >> yes, i can get that. the turnaround time is pretty quick. that's due to the staffing and policies and materials that were implemented by director sanchez and his management team. it is the intend of staff and lab personnel to decrease the turnaround time, so i hope to report out the next time, next reporting period, that we've reduced to 45 days and continue to report on testing. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. >> if i can, deputy chief connolly, i want to go back to commissioner hamasaki's question. last year, the commission directed that the department work per a resolution put back

and forth by the board of supervisors, that we put together a task force, and part of that is we have a carr in place that will -- [inaudible] >> this company has a lot of experience. they've worked with a lot of different police departments, large and small, so i think it'll help us greatly in terms of answering our questions as well as some of the questions that the commission has raised about staffing. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. call the next line it