>> can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the united states of america, to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. call roll. >> yes, please. [ roll call ]

>> you have the quorum also present is chief william scott of the san francisco police department and a for the department of accountable, sarah hawkins. >> thank you. good evening, everybody. this is the may first, 2019 meeting of the san francisco police commission. we do have a long agenda tonight. both an open and closed session. i'm going to have to limit public comment to two minutes. with that, we are ready for the agenda. >> clerk: item 1. reports to the commission. 1a, chief's report. weekly crime trends. provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. significant incidents. chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents.

commission discussion will be limited to determining whether the calender any of the incidents that the chief describes for future commission meetings. major events, provide a summary of 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 limited to determining whether the calender for future meetings. >> thank you, good evening, chief. >> good evening, president hirsch, vice president tailor, commissioners and director hawkins or acting director hawkins. this week's chiefs report will start with the crime trends for this week starting with over all part one crimes. we were down 14%. our total violent crimes are down 17%. specifically as it relates to homicides, we're at 12 for the year, actually, as i was walking in the door we just got our 13th compared to 14 this time last

year. so we're still down. i don't have all the details of the one that just happened a few minutes ago. there was one homicide last week. one suspicious death two weeks ago that was also ruled a homicide. i'll go into more detail on friday's homicide in the city. looking at gun violence, which is the number people injured in a shooting incident, we're down 25% over 2018. total property crime we're down 14%. and this includes burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny and arsons. we continue to have fewer reported incidents in all categories compared to this type last year. we are -- except for motor vehicles we're 2% higher this year to date this time last year in motor vehicle staffs to we'll work to correct that trend. burglar he'burglaries are down d

to 2018 and down 30% when compared 2019 when we began to revamp our strategies to combat auto burglaries. i want to talk a little bit more detail about last friday's homicide, which occurred on the 1100 block in the bay view district. our suspect was actually causing three homicides. first a couple hours before our san francisco homicide and then a couple of hours later he committed another homicide in berkeley. and our homicide, he was in an argument which turned into a physical altercation with our victim and then he pulled out a gun and shot the victim. in the oakland homicide, he shot and killed his first cousin and then the berkeley homicide, he drove to people's park, got out of his vehicle and shot and

killed a victim in the park. he was -- we put out information, including a photograph of him once we confirmed what we had. we worked with the other agencies involved with the other homicide in berkeley and oakland. the result of that was our person was spotted in south lake tahoe we are engage trying to evade deputies there. they ended up pursuing him. it was in an officer-involved shooting in which a deputy was injured. the deputy was released later the next day and talked to the sheriff and douglas country and the deputy is recovering well. so we really have to take our hats off to all the departments that work with us on this and our team here at sfpd worked on this case to put everything together and it was very dynamic

case. so, fortunately there was not more death and more killing and we'll see what will happen from here. he is still in custody in nevada and the san francisco county district attorney as well as the alameda county district attorney, at some point will coordinate when it's time for him to be extradited. i don't know which county he will go to first, that will be determined at a later time t our second incident happened on april 19th. a couple of weeks ago. our victim, who is 59-years-old, was located at 24th and mission. he was bleeding after falling down. while in route to hospital he provide a statement he had been pushed by our suspect. the medical examiner came back this week and ruled that a homicide. a victim had some other health issues that he was suffering from. from the medical examiner at the altercation actually was the cause of him expiring.

so that suspect we actually have some good leads on that suspect. we have photos of him. we're trying to locate that person and hopefully that case will come to a successful conclusion. in terms of the other things that are going on in the city, traffic, we have five major injury collisions over the past week and again, we need to improve in terms of making ground on our injury collisions, we're still focused on the five major violations. our traffic injuries were one was -- two were hit-and-run and one was a solo motorcycle and two of them were vehicle versus pedestrians. our officers will continue to enforce and educate the public on there and we can try to turn around what's been a very busy year in terms of traffic incidents and traffic deaths. in terms of major events, we had cinco demio on may fifth.

no issues reported. reported last year. we don't expect any this year. we'll be stacked up to handle any festivities that will happen may fifth. usually that night there are pub crawls and we knew this year. that will occur on saturday. we'll be deployed for that as well. another event that we expect about 30,000 is the how weird fair that happens on howard street. it's a pretty festive event. no concerns there. to youth engagement. we have a hiking expedition at mack clarren park on may second. which is tomorrow. and tomorrow we also have a saling trip planned with students from san francisco middle school and that will be hosted by our community engagement division. so those are the major highlights of this week. if you have any questions, commissions. >> any questions for the chief?

commissioner brookter. >> thank you for bring up what transpired of friday on last week. just wanted to let folks know, i received phone calls from community members and there will be three events taking place in bayview at 260 2600. one is taking place as we speak. it's a candlelight vigil from 2:00 to 6:00. tomorrow there's a cross cultural community gathering from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and on friday the third, there's a community healing circle that will take place from 2:00 to 6:00. so really, it's been great to see communities come together and host these events. i wanted to make sure the public knew that these were taking place this week. >> thank you, commissioner. >> any other questions for the chief? >> next item. >> clerk: line item 1b, d.p.a. director's report. on d.p.a. activities and announcements. d.p.a.'s report will be limited to a brief description of d.p.a.

activities and announcements. commission discussion will be determining whether the calender any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. >> chief-of-staff hawkins. >> good evening commissioners and stev chief scott. our complaints are up 24% compared to this time last year. so we are at 225 versus 182 this time last year. our closures are up 29%. so we've closed out 207 cases at this point versus 160 last year. and our sustained piece cases ap 200%. as opposed to 10 sustained cases last year. i'm proud of those statistics. operationally, the consulting firm who we've spoken about before is still embedded in our office work to go create our content management system as i think we've said. we want to reiterate, getting a new content management system

will make each investigative steps in our case process more efficient. it will enable collaboration between investigators and lawyers enhance with complainants and over all the hope is it helps us effectively deliver our services to community better than we've been able to in the past. we also have our mediation statistics. we closed out this month with a total of four mediations for this past month. bringing our year to date to nine pieces and this point versus nine cases last year. our mediation team has been continuing to visit line-ups and roll calls. the stations they visits sod far have been mission northern and engelside station presenting at roll call about our mediation program. it's been well received. this is followed the meeting where we presented the command staff. that's been going well and we hope it increases the collaboration of our mediation program. in terms of outreach, on

april 23rd, d.p.a. staff gave a d.p.a.101 know your rights presentation at the san francisco main library in the african american center to a diverse group of community members. on april 25th, i participated in youth advocacy date here at city hall presenting a panel for policing and the public. on april 29th, d.p.a. project manager danielle motley louis and mary polk met to finalize the materials for our youth know your rights initiative. that will launch in may and we'll include partnerships with the schools and local organizations to host know your rights workshops with will include an educational component on the brochure as well as a juvenile jeopardy game. we'll really excited about that. here tonight are brent, a senior investigator. if there are any issues that come up during the course of the evening, speak to him. we also have two new d.p.a.

staff members who are our legal assistance. veronica marie he is and mar polk. they're legal assistance who have been working with us on sb14-21. >> great, thank you. welcome to the new staff members. any questions for our d.p.a. representative? next item, thank you. >> clerk: line item 1c, commission reports. comes reports will be limited to a brief discussion of activities and announcements determining whether to calender the issues raised for future commission meetings. commissioner president's report will be followed by commissioner's report. >> i don't have a report this week. >> i don't either. >> any commissioners with reports? commissioner brookter. >> not really a report. so, i had my by-weekly meeting with the folks over at d.p. a. liaison. they're now part of the deal jay

calls which is something that has been asked by d.p.a. even before my joining the commission. it was really happy to hear about that. we also talked about scheduled presentations that will come from the department on future agendas just about some of the things they're working on. they want to make sure the commission is highly and thoroughly aware of what they're working on. >> i just asked those be submitted through the office so we know what is coming up on the agenda. commissioner hamasaki. >> on saturday i attended a japan town memorial to be -- it was not a memorial but it was a celebration of jeff adachi by the japantown community and knew him in the context as someone who grew up in the buddhist and japanese community and it's a much older crowd, as san francisco's japan town as

dwindled. i will say concerns continue to be raised by the japantown community about the issues that have come before this commission and the investigation administrative and criminal that are still pending. >> any other comments? any other matters? next item. >> clerk: line item 1d. commission announcements and schedules of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings, action. >> any announcements? >> yes, commissioner dejesus. >> agenda items. >> so, i sent an e-mail but i want to let the other commissioners and the public know the department, a couple of weeks ago, did a presentation on the homeless and how they're acting -- reacting but how they're handling the homeless. the homeless coalition, we've invited them to do a presentation here at the commission similar to the presentation they did at the board of supervisors.

i believe the department was present for that. it's important that they actually present their side and how the department can go forward working with them on handling that issue and i think i've asked if we can schedule it for june 12th or june 19th which works best for the commission's calender. >> the first is probably the best date. the 19th we may be out in the community meeting, is that right? >> june 12th, that works, right. >> ok. next item. >> one last thing, the next police commission meeting will be held here at city hall on wednesday, may eighth, 2019. in room 400 at 5:30 p.m. public is invited to comment online items 1a through 1d. >> public comment on those first four items. >> good evening.

>> is the microphone on? we can't hear you. >> am i on now? >> start the clock over. >> good evening. i'm magic altman and it was my understanding at the last meeting when commissioner dejesus asked about the tasers because she heard talk about possible implementations that the chief was requested by president hirsch to speak on this. i did not hear any comments in the chiefs' report. i want to mention the sunshine task force is continuing to prepare the document that will

be sent to the board of supervisors to the d.a. and to the ethics' committee and it's about time that the sunshine task force people of the city and state are respected under the brown act. >> these are really off topic items. these are not on the first four items. it's the chief's report and i was following up on the taser issue that was brought up last time and i thought you would want to know the status of what i know about tasers and now i would like to know what you know. >> thank you. any other public comment on items 1a through d? ok, hearing none. public comment is closed. >> is it possible, i forgot under commission announcements, i just want to let the commission know that last week i watched supervisor's haney's hearing with input from every facet from the public defender's

office to members of the community and i have to tell you, i've been on this commission a while, it was one of the best board of supervisors hearings i have seen was really frank discussions about what to do with the concerns of the community and it was very balanced and i've never met supervisor haney before. i really want to lot him for what he did. he is saying let's get things done and have solutions and i want to add that. i forgot to do it earlier. i watched the hearing and it was very impressive and very impressed with what is doing and the members of the community in the tenderloin are doing and the officers, by the way. >> if we're going to have an update on the tasers that we have it calenders so people have notice that it's coming. >> can we get a brief update on your report. >> public comment is closed. next item. >> clerk: line item 2.

collaborative reform discussion. >> thank you. san francisco entered into a co-operative agreement with the u.s. department, the justice department. the justice department would come in and do a top to bottom review of the police department. that occurred. they hired, as a subject matter expert, hillard hines, a private company. they came in and did the audit with the police department. the u.s. justice department eventually backed out of the relationship after the change in the president administration. the city of san francisco went to the state attorney general's office and the state attorney general's office stepped into where the u.s. justice department had been and the san francisco police department also retained hillard hines to continue their work in reviewing

the audit that was done and basically the 272 recommendations that were made in which the city committed to implement. which we have been in the process of doing for the last two plus years. so, we're at some mid point now where we're ready for an interim report. i think hillard hines will release an interim report in a couple of weeks. i've asked the department and hillard hines give an oral report tonight to the public and commission just on the status of where they are and what they've done and where they're going. we open it up and i guess the department is leading it off. >> good evening. >> good evening, commissioners, president hirsch, members of the commission, chief-of-staff. i am here this evening to present to you both an update on c.r.i. in general and i think hillard heintze will do a

presentation focusing on process and how we're working together and things like that. i do want to take a moment and introduce the executive sponsors who really do the hard work of coordinating many, many, many members of the department in implementing these really rigorous compliance measures. the executive sponsors are commander walsh, who oversees the use of force objective. commander lazar, who is coordinating the community police be recognize tiv objectid commander yee, and commander -- who do i have left -- o'sullivan who has the highering and hiriny

objective. with that, thank you for having me. the overview tonight encompasses making these changes. i'll talk more details about the summarizing each of the specific areas within the categories outlined bit u.s. d.o.j. assessment. also the program-wide efforts we've been making as well. throughout the process, sfpd and the city have remained proactive moving forward with the changes in the field of policing nation wide. when presented with change, san francisco has moved a bit faster than even the state. so, really, thinking through that proactive near a o nature r

work. some examples, and i've placed them up on the slide. the use of force policies which emphasizes sanctity of life, time, distance and deescalation and that was really passed and implemented as you all know. in 2016, even at the state, those legislation -- that legislation is being contemplated now. the i am not station of crisis intervention training or critical incidents training began in 2012. the ride eve slide says 2015 ist really started to expand. in 2012 we really started that. it became mandatory post training in 2017. sfpd collected demographic data electronically in 2016 and that was replaced by a state mandate and collection that began in 2018. and finally, in 2018, sfpd went

through collaborative interacting with transgender non binary gender order. sampling the things where we aren't waiting for change to come to us. and furthermore, sfpd and the city of county of san francisco was proactive about the change of policing. i sort of presented a timeline here of how things have played out in the last three years. sort of san francisco reached out, meaning the chief requested they the usda conduct the c.r.i. process in san francisco and then after that assessment, the department began work immediately on developing internal processes and implementing recommendations. after the u.s. d.o.j. and the

communications involved the relationship, the mayor's office and the commission as president hirsch pointed out proactively thought out a replacement structure. none of the other agencies that were involved in c.r.i. with the u.s. d.o.j. have taken such a normalized stance in their implementation. the u.s. d. o.j. -- so moving onto the progress, the u.s. d.o.j. organized their recommendations into five categories. use of force, bias, community policing, accountability, hiring recruitment and diversity. i'll be discussing the progress made within those changes, however, there has been additional work that cuts across multiple c.r.i. program categories and benefits the department as a whole. program wide, we have undertaken a strategic planning process or

an initial strategic planning process and created the framework for a broader effort at strategic planning in the coming years. the process involved -- in one of the out puts is a strategic statement and you might have seen a little bit of press on the safety routes respect motto going on police vehicles and i believe the first 50 or those are being deployed soon. sfpd, so, safety with respect to motto that was developed through six internal focus groups, which pulled 70 -- over 70 officers from patrol, included a dozen non sworn members and the sessions were really focused on what the members believed they work for. i.e., what do you deliver to the public? the resounding response was quick responses to threats to

safety. community feedback from a team of external experts which included the naacp president, the sf bar association and the sf interface council. they received a similar question. what did the public wish to receive from the department? the responses nearly the same but with the delivery of that safety in a fair, just and impartial manner in a community policing context. and hence respect. additionally, the motto isn't just safety or respect provided in a one-day direction covering safety between members of the department and respectful given and received by the department with members of the public and each other. in addition, we completed -- there's a safety and concluded

in the strategic plan the initial strategic plan for the following tenants collaboration, improving responsiveness, measuring and communicating, strengthen the department and defining the future. in addition, the department chief reorganized the command structure which included the professional standards and principles leasing bureau and now unit which includes the staff inspections unit. the staff inspections unit will be responsible for -- it's our audit unit, essentially and will help conduct reviews and evaluate the effectiveness or evaluate whether reforms are continuing beyond the scope of hillard heintze's contract. we also completed the revision of d.d.o.3.01 streamlining policy development and communications about policy changes to members. it will also formalize the

process by which d.p.a. provides input to the d.g.o. development process. in addition -- [ please stand by ]

>> the training really stand out department integrating the concepts into form and approach to training that is consumable to all sfpd personnel. we heard by members of the assessment team as they went through the implementation, sfpd needed to make these recommendations our own and implement them in ways that worked in san francisco. as a result, use of force is down 30% since 2016. this slide shows a demonstration of that reduction. moving on to bias. we had couple of presentations on what is happening surrounding

training and bias. in addition to the training the department implemented auditing of departmental electronic communications with automated notifications to internal affairs. partnerships are in place in being pursued with academia to understand the root causes of the higher representation of people of color and uses of force. thanks to the sheparding of commissioner, we look with d.p.a. has been in process of developing a draft policy on the

prohibition of bias policing. in addition to that policy, the department has -- is in process seeking to improve inclusivety with immigration law and deaf and hard of hearing policy. in community policing, we've been working with the controller office and sfpd developed a strategic plan with the working group. the purpose really was to identify goals and outcomes to align more closely with community policing value with focus on problem solving, communication, education, relationship building, sfpd

organization and operational leads in community policing efforts. to get to this plan, a variety of i believe pu -- input was sought. they conducted 15 working groups between may 2017 and may 2018. 90 people were invited on a biweekly basis. 36 jurisdictions reviewed best practices and survey of community members conducted in which the controller office reached out to over 500 representative organizations and received 195 responses. in addition, 103 members of the department were reached out to for the internal side of the survey and received 66 responses from those department members. this is very good survey response rate. increase police presence also is

another item of in which the c.r.i. has progressed. the city has grown, nearly tripled. we have event worked with an academic partner to determine the effectiveness of those foot patrols and the effectiveness in larceny and assaults was statistically significant. in addition, the department has increased community interactions through both citywide events and station level events.

that work is under way now. turning to accountability, again, we talked about this already. the electronic communications auditing, the department deployed body cameras to 100% of our officer, sergeants and lieutenants. we have implemented a document exchange system with d.p.a. in which the system routes notices to appear and member response forms back and forth to from d.p.a. members. it replaces less reliable paper interoffice mail system which also probably closed down the process. in addition, the staff inspections unit was established as i mentioned, that unit will be charged with helping to ensure that our property really

is moving forward with recommendations. in addition, d.p.a. has engaged with the controller office to audit our use of force reporting processes and that work is ongoing now. finally, the department has recently signed an m.o.u. to investigate uses of force that result bodily injury. finally, our hiring recruitment and diversity objectives, the department expanded recruiting to grow the department and increase diversity and i are come back to that item.

in addition, department partnered with academia to look how retain our workforce to increase success and quality. recruits did not make it through the academy, those recruits has harder time with scenario-based training. this resulted in the department doubling the length of our evoc program and academy and also changing our scenario-based training which drove the failure rate to nearly zero for that particular module. then in addition big change was that the department consolidated recruiting hiring background units under one plan. the recruitment unit traveled across the country for first time in 2018. which really allowed them to expand their reach and expand the potential diversity and the recruit they took not only the

recruiting pitch to the other communities but also allowed for candidates to take the physical abilities test and other tests without having to travel all the way to san francisco. they were able to take that with them. with that i will take questions or any of the commanders will take questions. >> you like to hold off on questions until we heard from hilliard heintze. >> good evening. i'm deborah occu kerby. i've been working iteration of this reform. with me tonight is michael durden who has been with the project since 2016.

he's retired executive from the police department. with us is our new project manager is lindsey morgan. lindsey has been an integral part of this process not only for san francisco but across the country. she ran our project management responsibility since the initiation of the program. lot has been talked about in terms of history. i think it's important to recognize that when this first took off in 2016, many of you were not on this council. there was no d.p.a. we have a new chief. there's a variety of other issues happened within city of san francisco that we don't claim to have full knowledge or recognition of. in 2016 as a result of some significant events happening in the community and as a result of community concerns being raised, the department and the city actually reached out for collaborative reform systems

from u.s. d.o.j. this came with some responsibilities. back to the department. we had very public and open process in terms of where we engage significantly across the community. lot of issues and concerns were identified. this culminated in a report, 272. recommendations, october of 2016. our members of the team here today supported that process. it was one that was owned, driven and reported by the department of justice. you all know, that once that report was published and you started to work on the implementation, in the summer of 2017 we start to saw little bit wobble on that. in september of 2017, the u.s. department of justice withdrew from the program. again, to the credit of this commission the city and department you recognized have been forward-leaning. you made commitment to our residents and you are also putting yourselves out there in terms of being able to drive through the reform that was recommended by the department of justice. also within that context, i'm

here to give you the larger picture, the department of justice brought with it financial support and technical support. they were army to tap into a national select group and bring a team of people here to help with that assessment. you committed and under that iteration of collaborative reforms san francisco was only police department that had a published report. you were a front runner in that regard. that commitment to follow through on that resulted if us being here. what happened between september 2017 and february 2018 was a significant amount of change within the city. i'm not here told you your history. in february 2018 the new collaborative reform initiative began anew. you had the agreement from the

california department of justice and sfpd. they had changed the approach and started to move it towards more transparent process by the stakeholders here in san francisco. we see that as a key change in this time. we feel that it's one that's going to bode well for the department going forward. in june of 2018 our team was hired by the city to provide support to the department. we really want to make clear here, while we have report that was published in 2016, you have a team here we had intimate knowledge what happened in that report and able to inform not only the department but what the base basis of the report and all those information and files were retained by department of justice. some ways we had to report. our role under this report is significantly different. we are tasked primarily with preparing three independent reports. as president identify, we have one coming up within the next few weaks to identify what we're

calling phase one. what were the activities and outcomes of the reform process here under phase one. many of you participated in phase one work. we look forward to share that information with you clearly. under phase two, we have two other reports. phase two report which will be due in december 2019. phase three due in may of 2020. with anything else, reports is a piece of paper. challenge here is to identify and develop the framework not only for reform but or ongoing transformation and really transforming the san francisco police department into the department that is committed to be and to the department that it wants to be. our role here is not only to the reports we're helping with plans, policies and procedures for providing technical assistance to not only members of the department but to the commission as well as we work through this process. we are also providing technical assistance to the california department of justice.

what we've seen since our time of being contracted in june of 2018 to now, we really truly seeing a collaborative relationship start to develop. phase two, the d.p.a. will be part of this and active local way in terms working on those policy recommendations under accountability and we look forward to really starting to take this process forward in a way that starts to speak and be driven by local residents as well as the department. process is boring. we can talk about the flamework but it is the foundation to making sure that this city, it department and its stakeholders are able not only identify what is it they want in terms of outcome to able to hold the department and stakeholders to account. what we managed to do is different what was happening with the department of justice, we identified and agreed to three diverse stakeholders what we're going to be measures for reform.

each -- that's been agreed upon by department of justice and by the department and we anticipate that these standards will set that norm going forward in terms what we're doing. also additionally as we've identified these compliance measures what they will do, they will start to translate across the five areaings o areas of re. the process is really one of relatively straightforward. the department works on the file, the recommendations all the work that catherine identified and as they build upon it, esubmit the file to hilliard heintze. we review the file. whether or not it comport wass the requirements are for the

recommendation and whether or not comport what we know national practice to be. once we determine the substantial compliance to what the department had submitted then that file is submitted to the california department of justice. we review that file. that file is deemed close. close is an arbitrary term because we know for the department to continue on it path and to continue to grow, that is predicated upon commitment to continue to work on that recommendation. what we'll see is that lot of the recommendations are supported by a need for what we call the continuance improvement group. as stated we are currently in phase two. what we are seeing coming out of phase one is the foundation. we set the rules.

we set the standards. we created a new process for the city to go forward. as we are on phase two, it is about revving up the engines making sure we're able to support that framework and we're showing the commitment and capacity to move forward on the recommendations and the way that's appropriate, transparent. as we come out of phase two with the report in december 2019, our goal is to make sure that we have calibrated and assisted the department in moving towards transformation. we've been able to build it, we've been able to show that it works. now we're able to move it forward in way that is comprehensive and demonstrates with transparency to the community what this department can achieve. as we stand here before you, this is where we're at. i know that under the initial collaborative reform process,

there was lot of different process and lot of strong community engagement. what we're looking at here is that assessment is easy. it's always easy to point out the faults. actually committing to reform from an internal process, it's challenging. if problems are easy, they would have been fixed. worrying within -- working within this framework and bringing in the stakeholder support in coordination, it helps for stronger process. i sit here tonight to tell you that we've been here basically since the beginning. we have seen as a result of this site visit, significant changes already in the department. we are hopeful and we believe that this process is working. we have committed engagement from stakeholders. we have seen progress. we're -- we're preparing to publish our report next couple of weeks. from the process perspective,

the distinction i hope i made clear to you and what our goals are under phase two and phase three. it remains to progress the reform and to continue to measure and monitor the recommendations and provide technical assistance as needed to you, the department and the california department of justice. on that note, i'll open to questions. >> i have a question for you. that is could you -- can you tell us -- describe the measurables that you identified? how is you're going to measure success? >> compliance measures is kind oboring. certain standards have been to be met. part of the challenge that you have with an operational organization is that you have --

i'm blanking on any single recommendation. use the force reporting, you will have a standardized use of force report that will be completed by each supervisor following officer-involved shooting. we took what is required. standardized use of force report, completed by a supervisor following each investigation. then for a lot of these recommendations, there's a report. there's the audit, the validation, which is an area this department struggled with early on. our measurement would be are they doing that? is it happening and what is the way the department using to validate it. for each the 27 272 recommendats our role is to look at that and say have they've been able to do that. for challenge maintaining the

arbitrary measurements at some point know need to meet. we're doing that and this. it's not coming through on the standard reporting process. that's what we're doing. under phase two, this whole week we've been meeting with the executive working group sponsors and really identifying what are the priorities, where are you within the file and how can we better integrate what's happening if the field what is the measures of compliance. how we get that in the files so it's documented and reported. >> any questions from commissioners? either hillard heintze or the department? >> commissioner dejesus: i'm sure you saw the letter from the california department of justice indicating 6 or 13 recommendations were sent to them. they wrote back saying, the department is not substantial come compliance. what you're taking, they talked

about they continue to have information and review. it didn't look like there was any audit it is place. how do you know what you're accomplishing if you can't measure it or failing? how do you know where you're failing? that was one of the things that was brought to our attention and some of the recommendations are the community posting information about the community, policing plan and stuff like that and what was the outreach. it was limited to department's own infrastructure, their own website or facebook page. then the captains. the captains do have an impressive outreach. lot of them are merchants and really concerned community members they belong to their community groups. there's lot of different communities within a community. i'm sure you have that letter. with the communityout reac commt

you did, i would be curious to know if it's just the outreach within the department. one of the criticism is documentation, lack of documentation. this is the kind of things in stage one or two. >> what you raised is the critical issue. how we're able to document and understand our role in this process is different than it was initially. initially we were listening to the issues of the community. now we're transforming into actual reform. the department is leading that reform. there's two things here. under the reporting methodology those issues are real concerns. they are not translating back to us. that's not identified within the framework. you have to have the documentation of xy and z. we are working with the

department to help them better identify and better implement the processes for recommendation. i think you raised a second issue, this week we don't go out into any structured outreach. it's working with the department to identify where they have. we the opportunity today to observe the community policing, executive working group. we saw community members working with the executive and actually identifying what needed to happen under certain recommendations, directed towards community policing. there was some frank conversation about who was at the table and not. there was also conversation about how is that community policing being done. if we can't be part of it get back to the command staff, then is that true community policing. not a perfect process, we were

able to observe. there's a process, one that's improved since the last time we were here. recognizes those challenges. there's work ahead of us. what we've seen is commitment to that work. but there's challenges to remain as ability to document what is happening with the department. >> commissioner, part of the answer to your question is -- that's the strength of this pross that has been formulated in the second phase of this collaborative issue. we have really concrete standards. when we're evaluated by the hilliard heintze california d.o.j. it's specific what we're doing and not doing. that putting puts us in positioo address the issue.

i think that keeps us really in a better place. also, as she mentioned, the issue of continuous feedback, we don't get into mentality and we turn in a package and we move on. work has to continue. putting those systems in place is a part we assess the package that we looked at the first go around, that we really saw lot more work that we needed to do. in the long run that will put us in much better place to sustain the packages once they are found to be in compliance. it's a much more robust system. >> some the criticisms that i hear from the community is that we have excel spreadsheet and

we're checking some boxes and we're saying percentage of use of force is down. we're not seeing any kind of cultural change. we're not seeing anything pointed to a cultural change. some of the criticisms are too slow. it's been over two years and three years at some point. some of the -- when you're talking about community, i like to know the captains are putting down how many times they cancel foot beat. how many days are we having foot beat or community program. officer-involved shooting we talked about the district attorney office. d.a. had an interview where me

said, it's still broken. our system is broken. police are investigating their own officer-involved shooting. they're all part of law enforcement. what i found curious here, very early on in the investigation, they shape the scene. they shape the investigation when they get there. that's not a good thing for the department. that doesn't build faith in the community that it's a real independent examination. when you get to that, talking to the attorney general, what are we going to do to remedy that. they say, -- [indiscernible] >> the issue you that you raise is one that's national. in terms of the reform recommendations, there are lot of very concrete rece