>> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are

available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and

adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know.

doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now.today. >> (clapping.). >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school

or nonprofit i've been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that.

>> so nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give

back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to

organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good

cause also. >> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community

more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and

quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a

variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally.

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>> ladies and gentlemen, the chair has called the meeting to order. please turn off your electronic devices as they tend to interfere with the equipment in the room. please rise for the pledge of allegiance.

>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> call roll. [roll call taken] commissioner, you have a quorum. also present is chief william scott of the san francisco police department and director tall henderson from the department of police accountability. >> thank you, good evening, everybody. this is the may 8, 2019 meeting of the san francisco police

commission. we have a long agenda tonight and i have to get better at controlling the agenda. i'm not satisfied with the way i do it. we are packed tonight so i'm going to limit public comment to two minutes and with that, we are ready for -- we'll get there. >> line item 1, adoption of minutes. action, meeting of april 3rd, april 10th, april 17, 2019. >> motion to adopt the minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed? that motion carries. before the motion on the minutes. ok. so, we don't have a vote. any public comment on adoption of the minutes of april 3rd apr

'10 -- 17. in favor, opposed, motion carries. next item. >> line item two, consent calendar. action, request of the chief of police to accept a $10 cash gift from miss belinda chin for the socks for hsoc program. >> we need public comment. >> public comment on this, please. seeing non, public comment is closed, all in favor. opposed? motion carries unanimously. i now want to take item five out of order. and i'll ask that you please read item 5. >> line item 5. discussion and possible action on the release of certain police officer records pursuant to senate bill 14.21, apply to the

police commission, police department and department of police accountability. commission will discuss two policy documents. version a and version b, and decide which version to adopt. discussion and possible action. >> ok. thank you. i've had a request from commissioner mazzucco that this matter be continued to another meeting, they would like somebody present to make a brief statement to the commission and the public just as i think we have somebody from commissioner elias, you have asked somebody be present. >> yes and they are here along with others who have cleared their schedules to be here. what i'm going to ask, maybe bifurcate it, and allow the people who want to speak because they were not put on notice you took it off calendar. and when i requested it be on

calendar it was a month ago. >> i just got a request a couple hours to continue it. i'll let commissioner mazzucco address it as well. >> apologize it, two versions. the only exist that exists from my understanding is given notice to the officers that the information is being released, and today was the figures i heard that there was going to be folks coming to talk about not giving notice. so apparently there's members of the community and members of this commission who do not want to give the courtesy to the officers of five days' notice that this information is going to be disclosed publicly through the press, and before we do that, i think we should have a complete hearing on this. i know it's a side issue but we need to look at whether, what impact this has on the officers, they have families, they have, these are emotional situations and some the officers have never told their families. these happened a long time ago. we need them both prepared mentally and physically in case there is physical safety concerns, prepare their family,

so we are asking for that five-day courtesy and my version of 14.21 that we want to put forward and i think it's the right thing to do. i think we should do the hearing all in one place, i would ask the police department to have somebody from the behavioral sciences unit here to explain the impact of the incidents on officers and their families, and here to talk about the threat assessments necessary, take place, because a lot of the officer are collateral to this. >> i don't want to get into a full in-depth -- this discussion really is now only about continuing, i want to know from you, what is the harm if we allow the people here to make their statements and we'll have a second round where the department can have somebody. i frankly don't want to spend hours and hours on this one issue. i think it's a very small issue when it comes down to 1421, and i have some bigger concerns about our compliance with 1421, i think are much more important that i would like to have

addressed besides notice of the officer. >> and i also think -- >> wait wait, no, do it properly by this. what is the issue if we allow people to go? >> here is my thoughts on this. there are folks that apparently are against giving the police officers five-day notice. maybe they will change their mind after they hear the presentation of the police department, of the behavioral sciences unit, of the professionals as to why they think it's necessary. i'm not a big fan of doing things piecemeal and one sided, best all in one time and one place, a lot of time on a collateral issue, i don't know why we can't give people five days notice. >> the problem is, and i respect that and that's why i would grant the department the ability to come forward with people to talk, but we have already invited folks, they are here and this was a last-minute notice.

a couple hours ago. and i would rather, i think, just have the people make their statement, we'll have -- you have somebody here from the -- >> i do have someone here from the aclu a co-sponsor of the actual bill, the law. additionally, community members have read the 1421 proposal and it isn't just a notice. there are other issues that they have and i believe that's why they are here to speak on that. so i think that it's much bigger than just a little notification, and i agree with you, commissioner mazzucco that it is important to have somebody from the department come and speak and let us know their viewpoint and the reasons they have. all i'm asking, we can do that at a later time and follow up and then if these people want to come back for the second meeting, they then have the opportunity. but they have cleared their schedules tonight, we, when i asked it to be on calendar you were here and i indicated i would be having somebody that had authored the bill come to speak on this matter and that was more than a month ago. >> how about this?

calendared properly -- it's not calendared properly. >> commissioner dejesus. >> look, i just got it a couple days ago, i'm looking and the first thing i saw was notice and i say something we do need to discuss. so, you know, so i can go either way, but i do believe the people here maybe should be able to make a statement, and i do think it's a problem the way we set this up. if we had community members at -- if we had collaborated with the community and had some representatives at the time we were putting this process together this might have come out and been flushed out more with the community rather than have the first time here tonight having the community read it and have to address it. so -- >> commissioner taylor. >> yes, so, i mean -- whether or not we bifurcate, it's my personal preference to hear everything all at one time to digest it all together. that's my personal preference.

if community members are here and they can't return for when we have it on next, i understand that. that's a particular circumstance. but it does strike me that if community members speak tonight i don't want it to be the next meeting, that the same community members speak about the same thing just because they want to speak twice because i think there is a certain amount of unfairness in that. and so -- some process, whatever the process is, obviously i would like to hear it all at one time and have all the information before me before i make a decision. but whatever we deciding it should be kind of fair to all involved and you know, if community members are going to speak tonight they should speak tonight and whomever commissioner mazzucco wants to speak the next time should be able to speak. >> i don't think -- hang on, hang on. i don't think that i or the commission has the authority to shut people down at another meeting and prohibit public comment. so, i also would rather have this all done at one time, but that's not the way it's unfolding, and i'm going to do my best to accommodate

everybody's interest. >> i think president hirsch and commission commissioner elias, on calendar, we are not going to vote tonight on the ultimate policy, so i think the department will have a chance at a later date, whether it's next session to present and then we can vote at that point. but i don't see any harm, and i think it's -- i think it's disrespectful for the people who have shown up to put something on calendar, they cleared this time out of their schedule and say oh, come back another time because we just realized we wanted to have other people present as well. so, i think the proper thing to do here is to allow the people that are here to speak and address tonight. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco. >> i learned about it for the first time, it's not properly calendared, it does not say presentation. it's discussion between the

commissioners regarding version a and version b, nowhere in here does it say any presentation from anybody regarding version a or version b outside of the police commission. so, it's one, it's not properly calendared, it's not fair to the commissioners involved in this, it's not fair to those who oppose it. so, i understand and i apologize to those who came here tonight. it's not properly calendared, not ready for discussion, we should do it all in one fell swoop so we can have a meeting instead of people walking out of here saying here is what we thought the legislative intent was. the whole issue is, common courtesy and the decency of giving police officers and their families notice what's about to go out in the press. and so i stand that we should not do it tonight, it's not properly calendared, do it all together in one night. >> thank you, commissioner brookter. >> i want to be cognizant of members from the community that have come to speak. i think that's only fair, just given that it's the fact that it

is on the agenda, whether properly agendaized or not. but i think the commissioner hamasaki's point, not necessarily a vote that's going to take place tonight. i'm completely ok with it. >> commissioner elias. >> i do believe it was properly calendared. when i put it on the agenda or made the motion, commissioner hirsch was present, all of us were present and i had indicated who i was intending to bring to have the discussion because i think it is a discussion that must be had. additionally, i did ask president hirsch whether, you know, how we would put on the agenda the attorney from the aclu coming to speak with us and i was told she would be given five minutes to present on this issue. so, in my opinion, it is proper and we need to respect the public's time. we as very busy individuals understand that. >> what i would like to do. i apologize to the attorney from the aclu. i would like the subject matter

experts to all appear on the same day and talk to us at the same time. but the public, i'm going to allow the public to speak because they have come and they are here and it was no fault of their own that this was a last minute change. so, i'm going to let the public speak to the point. one other thing i would like to say. i think there are more significant issues involving 1421 compliance than whether notice goes to the officer a few days in advance. for example, we don't have a written protocol yet, and i think the department and the d.p.a. and the commission all need a single protocol that we follow, and i've asked the assistant city attorney to please work with our staff to develop a written protocol that we can follow. number two, the police commission has an independent legal obligation to respond to these requests. and it makes sense to coordinate with the department but i don't think we should hold up our

production in response to a request because the department is still working its way through their documents. they have more files than we do, and i want to make sure that we honestly and accurately respond to requests and out in a timely fashion. we don't have sufficient staffing and that's a real problem. we don't have the people right now to do this in a timely fashion. we are going to do our best with the staff but as people know, the commission does not have the ability to go out and hire staff. don't have a budget, we are working with the department who made a request as part of their budget to include additional personnel to be able to respond in part to 1421 requests. that's it for now. i'm going to let the public comment on this. i would like to do it right now, actually. any procedural problem with that, counsel? having the public comment on this item? >> absolutely not. >> ok.

open it up for comment on item 5 of the agenda. any public comment? >> 1421. >> no, we are not going to have the presentation tonight. i'm going to wait until the department's people are ready as well. >> good evening. these police records belong to the public. we are 128 days into the year and i'm troubled to hear that there's no written protocol without no transparency, there can be no accountability. there are folks who are locked up in the county jail right now who have trials that are pending and these records should be released. we are talking about what is the impact on the officers, what is the impact on these folks' lives who have jail time that is

pending and looking over their head as we speak. the issue with regard to a common courtesy to clients is to release these records. the reason these records are a priority, or should be, law enforcement reviews and redacts police reports all the time. if someone is charged with a case today, in three days they redact the records. this is the law, it should be discovered to the public and what we are concerned about here is officer rights, what about clients, individual constitutional rights. as a member of the public defenders office, you know, we are reasonable, we ask for the 2315 active officers on january 2nd. we tried to work with the city and d.p.a. and the police department and narrowed down to just 29 cases with active cases that are pending trial with 90 officers. the -- this says 28 seconds. >> it's the warning.

>> ok. the district attorney's office released the records. sheriff's department has released some records. police department, the records they released are for retired officers, officers no longer on the force. we need to get our priorities straight here instead of releasing retired officers and these other things, prioritize based off of cases that are active right now. you know. this is a joke. we are 128 days into the year and no plan? really? >> well, i want to clarify something. it's not that there's no plan, there's no written protocol. the commission and the department are going through records right now but i want them to have a written protocol so that everybody follows the same path and gets the documents out. there is a staffing issue all around. anybody else from the public want to talk on this subject? >> you can speak. >> yes. >> you are a member of the public, but i would ask you not to make your formal presentation until we have the other department people here.

>> thank you. >> good afternoon, good evening. kathleen dutyomn, aclu, a member of the public and resident. i am deeply concerned to learn that the -- that the san francisco police department still is working on a written protocol for disclosure of these records. i also understand that the department of police accountability in san francisco so far has not released any records at least to the a kr clu request. deeply troubled by that. the law has been passed since january of 2019. incredibly important to public transparency and to repair trust between communities of color that have far too long born the brunt of systemic police violence. and i don't believe that trust is going to be able to be repaired until these records

start being produced, even on a rolling basis. i am aware in my work that i'm doing at the aclu, we had sent out requests to 400 agencies across the state after january, that many other agencies are responding, police departments are responding even on a rolling bases and accountability groups are responding. it's critical to promote transparency and it is disappointing, for the records of police accountability. and 1421 passage, as somebody who watched 1421 pass and was aware of how important it was that transparency is the first step in accountability, and until there is transparency, there can't be any

accountability. and i am concerned that we don't at this point have records that are necessary to rebuild that trust. >> thank you. any other members of the public want to address this issue? >> actually think probably having it all at once is good, although it seems the procedure was a bit odd. i agree with both of the previous speakers. and you know, when officers sign up to be police officers they know they are public servants and public figures and if there's, they know requirement for the records to come forward so, this is absurd that we are not considering and caring about the police officers when people are in jail, people are rotting in jail because we are not moving forward with these things. so, the police are public servants who have put themselves in that position. the public is in jail without

defense or, you know, transparency, so they can move forward with their cases. and since january, this is absurd. so, i am glad that we are wanting to go deeper into all of the aspects of 1421, but this is just another reason for the department to delay production of records discloseable under 1421 and give the officers an opportunity to object to their disclosure. it's absurd. the laws are there, the police need on the level of protection they need and this is to make transparency. if you want the public to trust, you need to be way more transparent. this is very disturbing to all of us, and we are tired of people rotting in jail and police officers being protected and not, they are not suffering. there are people suffering because there is not transparency, thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public want to comment on this issue? just so it's clear, when this matter is recalendared at a future date, there will be public comment at that time as

well. ok. public comment is closed. commissioner, vice president taylor. >> i have a comment and a question. i wanted to clarify in case there was any confusion. i would prefer for this all to happen in one meeting, of course. i was not intending to limit public comment. public can comment at every commission meeting, can and should. i think it's more helpful for me to have it all at one time so i can consider it all at one time. and so i just wanted to make that clear in case it wasn't. and also a question for commissioners mazzucco and elias. and so i, in just reading the draft of 1421 with the different options, i don't think that it kind of calls for procedure for officers to be able to object to the disclosure. are we just talking about notice? >> just talking about notice. >> i just wanted to -- >> very simple. >> i want to make it clear to the public and the aclu and the

public defenders office. we want the records out there now as soon as possible. our only concern is, the issues you just heard, giving notice to the officers, not for them to object, so they can prepare accordingly, whether it's their safety or their emotional security. we are not -- we are talking about incidents that are very serious in their lives so you as attorneys should both realize and recognize that even they have due process. so it's all we are asking for is five days so they can prepare accordingly. thank you for coming tonight. >> ok. we will recalendar that matter. next item. >> line item 3, reports to the commission. discussion. 3a, chief's report. weekly crime trends. providing overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. incidents, chief report limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. whether to calendar for a future

commission meeting. major event, provide 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 to calendar for a future meeting. community engagement highlights. youth summer programs. summary of the 2019 youth summer programs coordinated by the community engagement division. electronic controlled weapons. update on m.o.u. between s.f.p.d. and modifying different numbers. presentation with the behavioral science unit. >> good evening, chief. a full plate. >> brief on the crime trend summary and the meat of the

presentation. i'll start with violent crime. we are down 14% violent crime, that includes homicide, rapes, aggravate the assaults and human trafficking. specifically homicides we have 13 for the year, compared to 15 this time last year, so we are down 13%. down. there was one homicide last week, talk in brief detail about that. eight of the 13 homicides have been cleared, seven by arrest, one by exceptional, and two suspects in custody and waiting decision from the district attorney's office. looking at gun violence, down 27% over this time last year. our property crime is down 14%, and that's led by 17% reduction year to date and car break-ins. also of note for property crimes, we are down 16% for the year in burglary and this is

following a year 2018 where we were up i believe 12% at year's end, so, very pleased with that progress. significant incidents for the week, i said earlier we did have one home team last week, occurred on the 100 block of bartlett street. officers responded to a shot fired, shots fired at the locations and they discovered a victim with multiple gunshot wounds. the suspect who was seen riding away on a bicycle fled the location and has not been identified. we do have evidence that we are following up on but at this time we don't have a suspect identified nor in custody. victim is a 28-year-old male and if anybody in the public knows anything about this, again, it happened on may one at 4:12 in the afternoon, 100 block of bartlett. please call our tip line if you

have any information. major events this week, we have a bike to workday, may 9 at various locations through the say. i would like to say that anybody that plans to cycle to work, please follow the rules of the road. we have had a significant uptick in traffic collisions involving injuries and fatalities this year. we want to make sure that everybody stays safe if you plan to participate in that. today was the national day of action by uber drivers. we saw some activity here in the civic center area earlier today between the hours of 12 and 3:00 p.m. no incidents -- no disruptions and no violence, and that was intended to be a one-day event. so, things should be back to normal from this point forward. cinco de mayo after action, there were no major incidents

related to cinco de mayo. we were d