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we have meetings in the evening and we have day jobs. so we have working groups and community efforts and part of what we're describing for you is what we do in addition to what we do here in these regular wednesday meetings. so as part of that i'm on the serious incident review board and also on the bias working group and there's a working group surrounding getting victims of domestic violence, elder abuse, access to police reports and we can get temporary restraining orders against abusers and it's also under d.g.o. 16 and we got agreement from a broad based community group and i'm on the use of force working group. that's dealing with officer uses of force.
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the body one camera working group. the firearms discharge review board and also stepping back a little bit there was an analysis, a report done by the united states department of justice assessing the san francisco police department generally and made a number of recommendations we're all working to implement. a lot of these go to the recommendation where's they found the department had work to do. on a collaborative working group start the department of justice and a lot of stakeholders in make sure we implement those recommendations. >> hello everyone. i'm on the bias working group and we're in the process of having it reviewed by the cal d.o.j. and i'm work the chief to get that done to resume the working group and hopefully have a draft ready for the
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commissioner to vote on and implement. i'm also working on revising the report and which is really important i think especially for us as commissioners and our efforts to be transparent and let the public know what exactly happened because in disciplinary proceedings the public is not privy and there's things we can share so the report is useful fot community to let them know the information we can share. i'm also working on a serious incident review board. we currently don't have one. we have a firearm discharge review board in instances where there's officer involved shooting and we're trying to expand that to include not only officer-involved shoot but other serious incident by the police department that create a board that reviews it similar to the
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firearm discharge review board and in addition i've worked on the charter amendment for the discipline and creating an appeals process that commissioner hirsh described as well as working on the disciplinary matrix. >> thank you. >> commissioner kind of stole my thunder a little bit. so d.j. brookter and i get to talk to some of the young people in the daily basis but this is another role i play for us here in the city and county of san francisco. i'm excited to see them here. i know they were nervous walking in today but now they know they're amongst friends. in terms of what i've been doing, focussing on community policing and engagement and spending time on various events an peace marches held. functions going on in china
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town. ensuring we look at how law enforcement is engaging communities and one thing we say with officers it's safety with respect to making sure we're implementing that. working on the president on president yee's staffing workforce group. i haven't met yet but i know there's meetings in the work and part of the crisis intervention training working group and looking at the training we utilize in crises situations and time and distance with officers and alternate for the bias working group we have and also the liaison to the department of police accountability and spend time with director henderson and a lot of what we're doing overlaps. it's been a pleasure working along side colleagues ensuring, one, we have alternates because we can't do all the work alone and making sure we do it together. it's what i've been working on
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and doing. >> commissioner: thank you. you can see we're all busy. we do more work away from the meetings than at the meetings and we do overlap but we also do our own things well. i thank everybody for that and we're ready nor next item. >> this is where the typically is invited for public comment. >> did we pass the agenda item because i want to add something to the agenda? >> clerk: before we move on some of you have maengs mentioned it before but i want to make sure we're adding the california family code section 6228 to an agenda and in the very near future as soon as we can. >> it will be early may. >> i believe may 8th meeting. >> thanks. >> clerk: the public is usually now invited to comment on line items 1a through 1c. this time under the circumstances of the meeting we encourage you wait until general
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public comment. and a couple other housekeeping items, the next presentation you'll see from captain mathews. there's copies of her pour point in the back and there were corrections made late however, they're back there and the one last thing is next week the police commission is dark and the following meeting for the police commission is going to be on may 1 at city hall in room 400 at 5:30 p.m. >> commissioner: thank you. thank you, captain for having us. >> my pleasure. good evening, commissioners, command staff and community. it's our pleasure to have you here. my secretary is kind enough to be working the power point for me.
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and we stre commanding officer in the evening on one side of the watch. >> we should probably turn around. i believe you have a copy each in front of you of the power point so it's optional if i'm talking too loud, let me know.
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>> it's good these happen now because usually it only happens in court. it's good to know it happens to other people as well. we went over this before the
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meeting. >> okay. we'll go ahead and get started. we're going to be discussing the district station facts an crime trends and strategies and traffic enforcement and community partnership and engagement and what we stand
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for. in terms of our district overview, it's broken up into six neighborhoods. p portrero hill and bay view heights. it's approximately 9.3 square miles and have 10 schools, one hospital, five public housing facilities and our overall population is roughly 72,739. the breakdown is asian pacific islander 36% and african american 28%, hispanic, 17%, other is 3% and white is 16%. you can see the bayview is a very diverse community.
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it's changed a lot over the years and i'm unfortunate enough to work with two outstanding supervisors. supervisor walton is the district 10 supervisor. he handles approximately 90% of the district. we work together quite a bit and attend meetings together and meet to discuss strategies to improve the district, to solve problems and then supervisor hilary ronen is the district 9 san francisco and her portion is bayview and we work with the monolingual community and in terms of dealing with community issues. my staffing is broken down to myself as the captain and three officers and two civilians on my
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captain staff. there are two lieutenants on day watch, four sergeants, 57 officers and two police service aids. on night watch there's two lieutenants, nine sergeant and 76 officers and two police service aide. then we have the station investigation team which consists of a lieutenant, five sergeants and two officers. under station investigations would be our plain-clothes une out and on the side you can see we have these in the corridor and the dog patch and potrero hill area.
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now, listed is a staffing demographics of the district. showing with supervisors. 18% of the district as far as the officers go are black. there are 15% white officers, 11% hispanic officers, 7% asian officers and 14% other. that's for supervisors. the see the break down on the right for 19% and you see the breakdown. wick languages it's two cantonese, two mandarin, two
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russian, 20 spanish. it doesn't mean we don't have others that speak languages but these are the officers certified as being translators for the police department. our four top concerns are violence and we focus on the hot spots meeting with our crime analyst unit to determine what areas have crimes that have peaked and then we work with the station in terms of my lieutenants the officers at lineup to come up with strategies how to address the crime that may arrive and work to reduce it with the community as well. other crimes would be focussed
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on our patrol areas. we have patrol officers assigned to sector cars each day that are out in the community managing a certain part of the district and they work in combination with the community, with the plain clothes and housing to address crimes that arise. and homelessness. we work diligently with our unit to address homeless issues that arise in the bay view. for quality of life issues, we work with outside agencies such as the department of public health to come up with plans to address the needs and officer services for people in the community with quality of life and/or mental issues.
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listed is the breakdown of our part one crimes for the year. overall they're down 9%. the total violent crimes are down 15% and property crimes are down 8%. our ought owe burglaries are down 30% in the district. for traffic enforcement, working on our focus on the five, as you can see, you condition look at the chart listed, in 2017 compared to 2018, 2017 we had a more aggressive approach i have added two officers and others and their goal is to work on
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traffic and work with officers on patrol they're encouraged to work on traffic enforcement to ensure the safety of the bayview community. this say picture from our partnership events. we have d.p.h. and brothers against guns and the healing circle present and there's a couple of church members. we were out in the community praying over an area where we've had a lot of violence occur and it was a combined event with the community. some of our partnerships include the boys and girls club, united players, bayview hunters point,
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ymca and sf safe awareness and brothers against guns and healing circle. and much list of those we work with in the bayview. we have several monthly meetings but the ones i'd like to highlight are those litted here. i have a captains advisory board and there are 13 people in the community on the captains advisory board. we have community meeting the first monday of every month and the next one will be on tuesday may 1, 6:00 p.m. we have a bayview hill nursery
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association and they meet on the third wednesday of the month. the pe -- potrero dog committee meets and that's to name a view. this is a picture of another engagement effort in the bay view and because our district is so big we want to go around to the different areas of the district to address our community. this was an event in the potrero portion at goat hill pizza. it was a pizza with a cop event which was a great event. we had pizza available. officers available. the community came by and had a slice of pizza and engaged us in conversation and asked questions about the community and district. it ways great event.
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and have a police hub and the purpose is to specifically work with our monolingual community. in the bayview we have a large monolingual community roughly 38% and sometimes because of language barriers they only always report crime. they don't all feel comfortable coming into the police station. it's our responsibility to meet them where they are. two days a week they can come in to the police hub and do translation and give advice and talk to them about their concerns that may arise. operation genesis is a program that's gone on for the past six
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years. officer jason johnson now assigned to community engagement but initially worked in the bayview has a program that take children to ghana every year. they've gone the past six year for 64 children that have been able to participate in this amazing trip. there's a total of 150 students that are involved in operation genesis. and not all of them obviously have gone on this trip but there are several events throughout the year they participate in. these are all students from the bay view and 96% of them have graduated high school. this program is doing great things in the community. this is a list of events we've
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done in the bayview. some have already occurred and some are coming up in the near future. next big event coming up will be our gun buyback next saturday 9:00 am to 12:p.m. in conjunction with this being gun violence prevention month. we understand there's a lot of people that won't want to give police their gun but there's people in the community who have a family member who that is no longer here or had an old gun in the closet or somebody's grandfather or someone who doesn't know what it do with the gun. we have an opportunity to turn the gun in and depending on what type of weapon it is, they'll be paid a stipend. this is no questions asked. this is done in less than five
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minutes. you basically pull up in your car and hand the officer the weapon. you're handed the stipend for turning in that weapon and drive away from the area. it's a great program. we've partnered with grace cathedral and they've been kind enough to partner with us as well as the healing circle and mothers against guns. that's another great event and we had meet the beat. the officers passed out 350 donuts and coffee to the community. it was a rainy day but that did not deter the community from coming out and talking to the officers and myself and enjoy donut and some coffee and because it was in mendal plaza it ways great event because there's been a huge renovation in randal plaza and supervisor
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walton will be there as well as myself and there will be music. there'll activities. it will be a great opportunity for everybody to come out and come to mandel plaza and see what is happening there every thursday, friday, saturday. it includes music and you can audition and sing and play instruments or you can just come and play games if you'd like it play checkers. if you would like to play dominoes or cards, it's just a great place to come be part of the community because the whole area has changed and it's a family friendly environment and if you're free come out around 4:30. this is showing more flyers and
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individuals for some great events we've had and the pizza with the cop event. we had dim sum with the cop event on san bruno avenue which was a great well attended event. i actually even ran into people before i was in the department when i used to get my hair done on the san bruno avenue. it was well attended. everyone loved it and more important, it's officers getting involved with the community in different parts of the district. we did a bayview takeover and that event consists of me being able to send as many officers as i could spare to attend a church
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in the district. i held a church breakfast with the ministers in the district. one thing that came from the breakfast where we all got aquited was -- acquainted. they wanted parishioners to see police officers not just when a crime occurred but wanted to fellowship with officers and have them come to their place of worship and engage them in a positive way. i sent several officers tout churches and the community loved it and appreciate the effort. then the prayer vig you'll we had cornerstone church took the lead and for the next six months i asked church to volunteer. cornerstone church was the first to step up and then five others stepped up for the next five months and what we're doing is
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we're picking an area where there's basketball -- been a history of community violence and praying over that community as church goers in the bayview. it was well attend and we'll do it against next month and the information is listed in the bayview now's letter coming out. you'll be able to get information on the time, location and what church is taking the lead initiative in that prayer vigil. we had the first african american read day. that was in conjunction with black history month.
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we had officers that read and played games with the children and had a great time. the other events are powe toe -- potello area. we stand for public safety with crime reductions. our numbers are good and have decreased in terms of crime but any crime committed is too many crimes. earlier today at 10:00 at bayview station i had a meeting with the church ministers and their designee and had 46 churches participate to talk about crime in the bayview and
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how we can work together with sf safe and the captain of the burglary unit as well and our station assistant district attorney to work collectively, answer questions, give advice, set up appointments for different churches and work together and get on the same page. that's how we're working to reduce crime. it's not just the police going from call to call and being proactive. we want to engage the community. we want to reduce their concerns and fears and provide them with information so the community can help us to help them. regarding our homeless, the quality of life issues in the bayview and concerns, we're meeting regularly with hsoc and department of public health to
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address concerns we have two officers work full-time at bayview station assigned to homeless outreach. we're actively in the community every day addressing the community offering service, making referrals to help improve on our homeless concerns in the community. then with the trust and accountability reform, i think part of that is just with us talking the community. our foot beat out every day talking to the merchants in the community. they are out in the street and go into businesses. our officers are out talking to people within our housing project and engaging the community and trying to reassure them and make sure they understand they're being heard.
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with our resources, i think we're ahead of you but there's always room for improvement with technology since it's a fast-growing thing. then with diversity, the district is diverse. and we want them to know we understand them and can meet them where they are and can all work together. that is the end of my presentation and if there's any questions i'm happy to answer them.
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>> on the part one crime statistics, i want to know if i'm reading this right. the homicide year to date last year was five and year to date nine. so there's been an increase in this year over last year. then for burglary and autotheft and i'm concerned about the homicides and the rate obviously. i want to know if bayview has the resources and help you need to be able to address this. >> since i've been at bayview station we have had three homicide. so you know, at one point i worked in homicide as sergeant prior to my assignment at bayview. i was the captain of major crimes and overseeing the
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homicide unit. i'm very passionate about any homicides in the city and particularly in the bay view. yes, i am getting the resources i need. the chief is concerned and the command staff has been available in giving me resources which have been deployed on a regular basis each week to help address crimes and to be the visual deterrent. and i don't expect moving forward, god willing, that our numbers will continue to increase. >> thing on the human trafficking, is that -- i don't know what that means? it seems like these are really low numbers and seems good but i don't know if it's difficult to track or means something different. >> i think it's somewhat difficult to track. in order to track it, it has to
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be reported. as we all know with human trafficking it's one of those things rarely report. it's more so reported in downtown where there's -- they're more visual but here when it happens it's not on the streets. don't typically have people walking around that you can engage and have conversations with so if people don't call the police we're not aware or given information it's possibly occurring. >> thank you for the presentation and the work you're doing. >> my pleasure. >> any other questions from commissioners? >> thank you for the presentation. i thought it was great. i want to go back to the staffing on page 5. i was wondering what the captain's staff, the three officers and two civilians do, what their role is as the
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captain's staff. >> well, two of the civilians for example, one was my secretary that was kind enough to work the power point presentation. she's one of the civilians on my captain staff. the other civilian is the station's facilities person. he deals with things involving the station and assisting us with events and things like that and solving problems. then the three officers moin captain staff, they work directly for me. they assisted with putting together this power point. they help with all the events that we have in the district they deal with community issues. they work at the pleasure of the captain helping you as a captain facilitate whatever have you going on in the district. >> my other follow-up question
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is respect to the plain clothes officers, there's seven of them. is that number high? i remember going to other district stations and they amount they had was lower? >> well, each district is different. as you know, when you look at crime as a whole in any city but particularly in san francisco, it's important to staff your officers in positions that reflect the needs of the district. so in the bayview, for example werk have five areas of housing projects. our plain clothes officers are actively working those projects with housing officers. the plain clothed officers in the bayview get more guns off the street than in any other part of the city and also assist our gang task force unit, our homicide unit and when we have acquisitions from other cities that come in to san francisco a
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lot of times their cases relate to the bayview. and that's why we have six. it's just based on the needs of the district. >> any other questions from commissioners? >> on page 9, the focus on the five and looking at 2017 at 40% and 2018, 28%. i'm trying to understand how to read that. >> it mean in 2017, 20% of the sites done were in the group on the focus of the five.
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the police depend's priority is on the lights, stop sign and failure to yield and failing to yield when make left turn. that's what the numbers represent. what i will say is if you look at the chart, you will see, yes, a lot of more tickets were written in 2017 but we've worked to correct that and why we have three officers assigned specifically to do traffic enforcement. i expect our numbers will be increasing greatly with that support.
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[off-mic] >> i understand the difference. when have you spikes you bring traffic enforcement officers and there's like a militia feeling into the community. i get that. i thought focus on the five was seven to eight and where people will work on the traffic lights. i thought we were aggressively enforcing that and wondering how to interpret this. is 28% a good number or one that needs to be improved on. that's what i was trying to get
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a handle on. [off mic]
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>> i understand. some were down by one-fourth. >> how we enforce city wide is a concern. we've been fortunate in the bayview. we've had one serious straight traffic collision but even one is too many. anything we can do to keep traffic collisions down and save lives we want to work hard to do that. >> one other question. on page 6 for staffing demographics you have 28 supervisors and 18% black and 14% hispanic. how many black supervisors and how many hispanic does the 18%
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and 14% represent. >> you can tell me offline. >> good evening. i wanted to follow-up on one of the points you raised with the
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strategies on page 7. it seemed like or that homelessness and quality of life and mental health are there a substantial portion of what you're dealing with now and if so has it increased? since come back to bayview, it has increased but i think there's a lot of reasons. we're working hard with the community and with other agency to address homelessness and mental health issues. >> okay. you think you're having success in working with the other agencies in addressing the issues? >> yes, we've had great success.
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one current success i can talk about is the san francisco produce market. it's a huge market that serves pressure produce all over the city and it was a large encampment and we've worked together on how to clean up the area and remove the homeless how to secure it and we had meeting and came up with a plan over a month so outreach can take place. we never want to just displace someone so the plan was to meet with them and try to figure out who wanted to go to a navigation
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center. what was in need of what services and were children needed to be considered. they were told we'll do an vacci evacuation of the site. we came in with hsoc and d.p.a. and clean up the whole site. to this day that site is still clean. we don't want it anywhere but you have a business dealing with food and it's important things are sanitary, it was concerning. that was a great combined effort project. that was one of many. >> is there a navigation center out here?
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>> yes, in bayshore. it hasn't been here long and it's been successful and we have people who regularly go to mother brown. when she can't take you in, she's specified to me she has people that fix 350 sandwiches at night. say you show up late night and you can't come in but you're hungry. you can at least get something to eat. that's amazing because it shows kindness because no one should be hungry in the city. >> thank you very much. >> my pleasure. there's the church across the street and that feeds folks well. first and foremost, captain, thank you for the presentation. i want to commend you for your work and step kneeing station and you've been -- stepping into the station and you've been visible and i want to note that as a redent in the district --
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resident in the district. 84% of the people in the district don't identify as white and 62% officers tlaetd station who identify -- at the station who identify as being white. when we talk about ensure diversity inclussive -- inclusive workforce what are we doing? that's one part and the second part and this you addressed the community is relationship based but how's it look nor -- for the 62% of folks involved in the process and hope we're not utilizing the 38% that reflect the community. >> anyone who comes to the
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bayview and works is a really unique officer. bayview is not like anywhere else and once you work there they say you can work anywhere in the city. everyone here is officers who want to be here. i don't want you in the bayview if you're not going to be fully engaged in the community. if you're not comfortable with people who don't necessarily look like you and if you're not fully committed to participating in activity in the bayview. we're still striving even through recruitment to get more diversity into the department which is a challenge but we're still striving to do that and striving to improve our numbers with people of color and people from the monolingual community to come to the bayview. there's room for improvement but with what we have, i think we have great officers and it's going to be a continual work in progress.
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>> absolutely. that in reference to the 96a report we've been reviewing thoroughly. thank you. >> i do have a question for you also. it's about the advisory board. the captain's advisory board. i'm curious, who's on there, how they get selected and what issues come up and how do you deal with the issues raised at your advisory board? the captain's advisory board work at the pleasure of the captain. they're assigned to work on projects i deem are important within the district. i have a total of 14 people on the advisory board. it's a very diverse advisory board when covers the district in terms of what part of the district they come from.
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my requirement was people willing to work and attend meetings. i doesn't want somebody signed up but doesn't have the time to come in and do the work. it required a commitment from those individuals and then what they do is when we have a meeting, it could be talking about national night out. they've been working on several things within the district. some of them are concerns of mine. some are things they may have mentioned or a thing community may have brought to my tension. so we meet and they have sub-commitees that work on the project. they're selected by me, basically.
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>> thank you so much for the presentation and hosting us. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> ready for the next item. >> clerk: line item 3, general public comment. public is welcome to address the commission with items on the agenda and items that do not appear on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address the commission as a whole and not individual commissioner or department or d.p.a. personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment neither police or personnel or commissioners are required to respond but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and personnel should refrain from entering into debate or discussion with speakers during public comment.
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>> anybody want to make a general public comment? this is the time. please come up to the mic if you don't mind. >> i'm alonzo walker. life time resident of bayview hunters point. it's a pleasure to be here. i get on the internet and do some research and i was born here and i live at 57 building 18, 57 section d.
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i was hear when the riots took place in 1966. when the national guard marched down third street here in this opera house and there used to be a pool hall here. they shot the opera house up and i wasn't shot but a friend of mine. i knew the individual who lived in the house that got shot. i've lived in bayview hunters point all my life and passionate about the opportunities made available to the residents in bayview hunters point but when you spoke about homelessness, these are things i became aware of through my research.
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trying to hold the redevelopment agency san francisco housing authority and hud to what they're supposed to do for upholding the interest of the area they go in to make the changes for the community. the department of public works. the department of housing and urban development, excuse me. the san francisco department of housing are in violation of three various codes that require them to do certain things. one is 33334.3, 33334.4. these are requirements where the
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department is supposed to have a database up for public review to show where the available of housing put into development for the agency and now the office of infrastructure and community development an investment. to take a long story short, the homelessness you talked about in report 34171.1. it's a requirement for the office of infrastructure and investment and the department of
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housing to ensure the percentage of housing required through legislation be made available and occupied by those individuals that is specified in that particular legislation. >> commissioner: i have to ask you to wrap it up. we have a three-minute limit. >> okay. when you spoke with the homelessness, the mayor's office of housing and community development hasn't extend the funding made available and extended the money towards homelessness. there's money there and more than willing to work with anyone from the police department or
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commissioner for oversight or one who holds those entities account and for the people in the community and for the people to realize the benefit they're entitled to and not just a bunch of smoke and talk. >> commissioner: okay. thank you. any other speakers? members who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. next agenda item. >> clerk: line item 4, adjournment action. >> commissioner: we have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> commissioner: all in favor of adjournment. >> aye. >> opposed. >> we are adjourned. thank you.
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>> good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 15, 2019 meeting. seated to my right is rules committee vice chair shamann walton, and to my left is gordon mar. substituting at clerk is linda wong -- thank you, linda. and i would like to thank jason and jesse at s.f. gov