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tv   Government Access Programming  SFGTV  June 12, 2019 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT

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should the warriors win, which we're hoping for that. department command staff in the northern district will participate this year as we -- we also have training in the northern district, and we will participate as we have in years past. i know there's some community events this week, but we will be this in numbers, and we will have our officers there, as well, and we will deploy for that. we also have the northeast festival for june 14 to 16.
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tomorrow, on june 13, we have our annual crisis intervention team awards ceremony, and i hope some of you are able to make it. it's a really good event that highlights the great work being done by members of the police department as it relates to crisis intervention. it's a really good event, and i hope some of you can make it tomorrow to help us celebrate the work of the officers. let me go back to saturday's events. we also have father's day at oracle park. this is a partnership between community members, san francisco giants, and the police department will provide 50 fathers, daughters, and sons access to the giants game on saturday. officers along with the community members will take the kids. there's going to be a kickoff
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at the atwater tavern prior to the game, and each district station provided the names of fathers and children who awere selected to participate. this is a great event. this is headed by derek brown in our community engagement division. we're looking forward to that. the on -- only problem is it happened at the same time as juneteenth, so we won't have as many people. our pal cadets kicked off this week. we had 23 cadets ranging in age from 14 to 20. it started at the academy, and the purpose of the academy is to focus on skills including leadership, confidence, c.p.r., first aid, crisis incideterven,
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and they also participate in cleanup. following graduation, the pal cadets continue training on thursday nights throughout the year and they participate in community events along with members of the police department and drive -- provide support at district station. it was nice to speak to the cadets this week, and we did a question-and-answer session this week, and we were very pleased that we got 23 young people to participate in this program. the last thing is the chief's community advisory forum. i wanted to provide an update on reestablishing several community advisory forums and to reach out to the many diverse communities within our city, and i'll just run through the list of the forums that we have reinstituted or instituted. we have the hispanic latino forum, which we had our first meeting this week at mission
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station. our interfaith forum, those meetings are quarterly. we meet with the jewish community, the lgbtq community, the limited english proficiency -- those meetings are monthly, merchants and small business forums, the muslim forums, the native american public housing, and the women's forum. so that's a lot of work that needs to be done, and the engagement has been good. i know in the past, commissioner dejesus has asked if we will be making efforts to reach out to groups that don't always see eye to eye, and we will be doing that, as well. we had a very productive meeting with the mario woods group this week, and it was really focused on reform. i felt it was a very positive and productive meeting, and we're going to continue those quarterly meetings, as well, so we'll continue those meeting,
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as well. so this concludes this portion of my chief's report. do you have any questions? >> president hirsch: any questions? okay. we're ready for the next item. >> yes, we have crisis intervention year-end report, and detective molina is here to present that. [inaudibl [inaudible] >> -- and my partners from the department of public health. so if i can have officers stand. [names read] >> so these are the people responding with the police
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department when we have a situation in crisis. >> president hirsch: thank you. thank you all for coming. >> let me start with powerpoint here. tonight we're going to offer you an overview of the program, what we do as a cry i intervention team, the number of calls responded to in 2018, the use of force, and overview of the programs that we have implemented and that we'll continue to carry out during 2019. so to start, we're going to talk about what does the c.i.t. do? so what is it that we do? we're a group of police office officers, clinicians from the department of public health. we have the mayor's office of disability, we have d.p.h., we have the city attorney, we have the d.a.s office, the public,
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advocates and consumers of public health. we meet every month, the third wednesday of every month. commissioner elias has come to some of the meetings. thank you for doing that. and we continue to update the commission as we go along. so what do we do? we do the right thing. it's twofold. so we do crisis response, and we do training. so tonight, you're going to have an overview of both sides. so what is it that the public is supposed to do when they need somebody who's trained in crisis response? so we partnership with nami, which is the national alliance on mental illness. and they talk about how the people can contact the police department when they need somebody to respond. so the caller initially will go and call 911, and they can ask for a crisis intervention
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trained officer -- excuse me. so basically, we teach the public to get in contact with us. when a person's in crisis, it's very important that the person who's making the phone call will describe the crisis, describe what the symptomology is, what the behavior is, so we can send the appropriate resources. so when they're saying hey, my son, my daughter, my loved one is having a behavioral crisis, the 911 dispatcher will know who to call and what unit or what district will respond to that call. so another item that we look at is whether the person has a weapon or is a danger to themselves and others. so all those are the criteria that we follow. what is the goal? well, our goal is to train the entire department. there's 2300 of us. as of right now, we are about
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1,186 trained in the 40 hours of training. we continue do that, and we'll show you some of the numbers that we have so far. the main goal is to deescalate crisis situations. we respect human life, and preserving life is our major priority. we respond to people in crisis. we teach our office how to do that. we put them through the 40 hours training, and we also have an additional 20 hours of training, ten hours of use of force and an additional ten hours in crisis intervention tactics. so these are some of the numbers we had in 2018. they're astronomical. officers in the city responded to 18,225 calls in 2018. 801s, person attempted suicide, 4,121.
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804s is juvenile beyond parental control, we responded to 390 calls. mental health crisis, usually 5150, they're dealing with a specific subject, and they use the code 5150 to describe the call, and the radio call comes out at a 5150, so we have 750 of those. back in 2011 when the commission passed resolution 1118 -- i think it was november 2011 when you commissioners passed the resolution asking the department to implement a crisis response team, we created a crisis response. as explained on the previous page, that's when the dispatchers will receive the call, categorize it and dispatch it, asking for a
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c.r.e. officer to respond. check on their well-being, by definition, that's not a mental health call, but usually, most of the officers who work the streets, so we responded to 26,987 calls in 2018. with a grand total of 50,612. so you can see this is the map, the city and county of san francisco. most of the concentrations for the 5150, so the crisis calls
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come out of the downtown area, market street, mission. some of the other calls come from residential areas, like taraval district, richmond district, and ingleside district. but as you can see, the majority of the calls would come from the downtown area. the use of force, so out of all those calls, 50,612 calls, 113 resulted in the use of force out of 50,612 calls, only 113 were where officers used force. we had 61 uses of force in the mental health detention. we had 39 mental disturbed person and 14 suicidal persons, added to 113 persons. there were 55 physical control, meaning the officers had to put their hands on the subject to
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calm him down or handcuff him, and the person later on complained of pain when the use of physical officer's detention. 13 impact weapons, baton, 7, o.c. spray, five, less lethal, and one was other. there was a total of 131 uses of force on 113 subjects. so the injury regarding the use of force. we had 58 subjects that were injured, 19 officers that were injured. subjects not injured were 55, officers not injured were 162 with a total of 113 subjects
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and 181 officers involved. with the force involved, we had one blunt object, one using a blade weapon, and one using a firearm weapons. when it comes to c.h.d. status, out of 181 officers that use force in 2018 on mental health calls, 95 were not trained in c.i.p. and 86 were, so the fact that you had the training obviously doesn't mean that you're not going to use force the rest of your career, right? so force sometimes is a necessary item, and sometimes force needs to be used when you're restraining a subject. so the san francisco police department responded to 790,299
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calls during 2018. out of those, 50,612 calls as i said before, were mental health related. there were 113 mental health calls that involved use of force, so that's 0.01% of all the calls for service that we responded to. and 0.22% mental health calls for office, so as you can see, it's less than 1% of the total calls for service. 181 officers were involved and 113 people received use of force by officers. when it comes to breakdowns, we have 55 caucasians, 11 hispanic, 22 black. we had 92 caucasian officers,
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19 black, and 30 pacific islanders. as april 2, 2019, this is the demographics of the police department. when you come back and look at the officers' use of force and look at the demographics, it's more than likely it's going to be a caucasian officer responding to the calls because that's the breakdown. in 2011, the commission passed a resolution of 1118 that asked
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the department to pass a response. ever since then, we've been training our officers. at the end of this year -- at the end of 2018, we had 990 officers trained in crisis response. as you can see on the divided table here with all the percentages, we have at least 50%, if not close to 50% of all the units, all the districts in san francisco that have officers trained. we have one deputy chief, one commander -- [inaudible] >> -- with a total of 972 sworn officers, and we have 12
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civilians, p.s.a., and we have nonsworn, 18. as of right now, i can give you the breakdown of where we're at in regards to the training. as june 12, 2019, we had trained 1,040 officers. and in field tactics, we trained 2,186, 2,186. we're about 100 short of training the entire department. >> that's great. >> these are the classes that we had in 2018. we had seven classes, and right below is the classes that we
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are having in 2019. we are adding an additional class. we are actually aggressively training officers from the airport. we have to respond to crisis at the airports. and that's my presentation. if you have questions or concerns, i'm happy to answer. >> president hirsch: what's your best estimate as to the number who will be trained for the rest of this year, and then, how long will it take to train the remaining department members, over 1,000 people? >> so we average about 30 officers per class. that's the maximum that california per certification allows us to have, 30 officers. so if we do the math, so far,
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we've done may, so we have one, two, three, four, five classes. so we had 150 officers lineup for training the rest of the year, so that will put us at 1200. we have 2300 officers, approximately. we average about, i want to say, 300 per year. the reason i say that is we have instructors, the cream of the crop. having the clinicians and doctors and members of d.p.h. come to the training and have our officers understand crisis response is essential. so looking at that map, it's about four years probably. >> president hirsch: it'll take a while.
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>> it'll take a while. >> president hirsch: this is a great program that the city is initiating. thank you. commissioner elias? >> thank you. i w [please stand b
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. >> commissioner elias: on page 3 of your report, the 50,000 calls, do we know if that's increased over the years? i'm assuming that it's yearly you're doing the tallies or do we see an increase, decrease from last year or last quarter? >> thank you for asking that. i already had those answers for you. we see a decrease, as a matter of fact. >> commissioner elias: okay. >> in 2017, we had 14,366 mental health detentions. that's -- 4,366 mental health detentions.
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that that's similar. in 2016, we had similar numbers. in 2018, we had 300 less cases, and that was the first time that we went below 4,000. i know the average is 7,000 mental health detentions from everyone. this number is just from the police department, but you just have to remember it's s.f. police, university police, college police, so when it comes to these numbers, it's only the san francisco police department. we're also seeing a reduction in the use of force. we have at least 25% reduction in the use of force in 2018, and i want to take all the credit, but actually, there's other work that's being done by the police department across the board, and that