>> clerk: -- and please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> clerk: commissioner, i had like to take roll? >> okay. [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner, you have a quorum. also with us tonight are chief scott of the san francisco police department and director paul henderson from the department of police accountability.

>> president hirsch: okay. good evening, everyone. this is the november 6, 2019 meeting of the san francisco police commission. we do have a long closed session agenda, so we'll allow two minutes for public comment, and with that, we're ready for the first item. >> clerk: line item one, adoption of minutes, action for the meeting of october 2, 2019. >> president hirsch: is there a motion to adopt? >> so moved. >> president hirsch: all right. any discussion? we need comment on that. any public comment on the adopt of the minutes, the motion? all right. seeing none, all in favor? opposed? carried unanimously. >> clerk: motion passes. line item 2, consent calendar. police consent disciplinary action third quarter 2019. >> president hirsch: all right.

is there any discussion on this that we need to have? all right. can i have a motion on the consent calendar item? >> so moved. >> second. >> president hirsch: i need public comment on the adoption of the report, third quarter disciplinary actions. seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor? opposed? that carries. >> clerk: line item three, reports to the commission, discussion. 3-a, chief's report. crime trends. produce a report on crime trends in san francisco including sexual assaults. chief's report will be limited to a brief report of the significant incidents. discussion will be limited to describi describing an incident for a future meeting.

commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for future meetings. staffing and overtime, status of current staffing levels and over time. >> president hirsch: okay. thank you. >> thank you, president hirsch and commissioners. overall, part one crime, overall serious crimes, we are down overall 6%. our total property crimes are down also 6%. we continue to have few you are reported incidents in all categories of property crimes, includi including auto burglaries which are down 20% compared to 2018 and 19% when compared to 2017.

in terms of violent crime, we're down 8%. specifically, we have 33 homicides to date. we've had no homicides for the last week, and the last reported homicide incident was october 26. we had four homicides in the month of october, unfortunately, and three in the month of september. 22 of the 33 cases have been cleared, 21 cleared by arrest and one cleared by exceptional clearance. looking at our gun violence, we are at 112 victims of gun violence and that includes two shooting incidents. this represents a 12% decrease from 2018, so we're really pleased that we have a reduction in gun violence, as well. of the 112 victims, 20 have

sustained fatal wounds, 20 with a firearm to date. which is a small reduction. we had 21 last year. when you look at the five-year trend in firearms year-to-date involving a firearm, this is the lowest in the last six years, actually, at 20. our year-to-date homicides, when you look at the trend line, this is the lowest amount of homicides that we've had this point in the year the last six years. we hope to keep that trend going in the upcoming year and beyond. there are two shooting injuries in the last week that resulted in injuries to victims. one occurred at an unknown location which the victim was self-transported to a local hospital. the victim provided no information as to where the shooting occurred, so police are still trying to investigate

where that shooting occurred. the other incident involved a robbery attempt that occurred at navy and griffith in the bayview area. that victim was injured but is expected to survive and that incident is also under investigation. halloween last week, we had a very heavy deployment for halloween. it was a peaceful night with no major incidents. we had good weather and very few problems. five districts that are particularly very busy were the areas that were most impacted by halloween crowds. there were a total of eight felony arrests, one felony arrest warrant, one served for 647-f of the penal code, which is public intoxication. 19 medical calls for service and one arrest for driving under the influence halloween night. during this past week, we also had three major injury traffic

collisions resulting unfortunately in one fatality and four injuries. the fatal incident was a vehicle versus pedestrian which occurred on halloween after evening, actually. it was about 330 in the evening at south vanness. in this case, a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle as she tried to across the street. the driver stayed at the scene and the investigation is ongoing, but unfortunately, the victim did not survive her injuries. the major events this week, we have already 30 events around the city this week highlighted of course by the chase center where the golden state warriors kicked off their season last week, and they will be back in town next monday against the utah jazz. there have been no major concerns, although traffic continues to be a challenge. and again, that's evolving.

as the season wears on, we hope to straighten out some of the traffic calendars in conjunction with m.t.a. other major events include cirque du soleil which kicked off their season in the parking lot of the oracle park. with again, the concerts and events creates traffic congestion but no major events associated with the event. quickly on staffing and overtime, for the first three months of the fiscal year, we spent, according to budget, about 25% of our budget, so we're right on track if we continue to -- the spending trend that we're seeing for the first three months of the year. we do have a few preplanned events, including new year's eve, and we do have events

toward the end of the fiscal year, which is pride. halloween is the third largest event during the year, so we're reconciling those numbers. i would like to point out our mutual aid requests for the w sonoma fires, including a 24-hour a day, seven-day a week operations center in support of the logistics and the deployment of our 227 officers. preliminarily, we expended 3,333 overtime hours, and we do expect reimbursement, however, as this is a reimbursable event, so we'll keep on top of that. in terms of staffing, we are at full duty sworn staffing of

1,859 officers, which is 112 positions below the mandated 1,971. we just had an academy class that graduated last friday with 28 recruits. we also had a new class that will be starting on december 12 of this year, and that will be class 269. and then, we have class 270 that'll start on march 23, and class 71 that'll start on june 15, so we're excited about that and hopefully, we can increase our attendance in the upcoming academies to our recruitment efforts. the last thing i want to update you on on our staffing is our union organization efforts. as you all know, the budget that was passed this year included 25 civilian positions. of that, we have filled 13 of

them. six of the positions were officially posted last month, and we have six positions where we're still working on examination analysis materials, and we still have the posts. so 13 filled, six that we just posted, and six that we were still work being through the examination materials to actually see the new positions that we have to actually create requisitions for, so we're in that process, as well. and the last thing in this portion of my report, i want to speak to a news article that i think it was friday in one of the local papers regarding j f jttf. most of the information was taken from a blog site. the article highlighted a document authored by the f.b.i., and for us, just want to point out to the commission and the public that we are

still not actively involved in the jttf, and as you all know, the commission -- any jttf discussion will be brought before the commission, at which time if we decide that that's the direction we'll go, working with the commission and the mayor's office and the police department. we are working to make the best decision in the interests of the city. that's where we are and what i can comment at this point, but i just want to make sure that the public understands that our position has not changed, and that's where we are at this point. and that's it for this portion of the chief's report. >> president hirsch: thank you. any questions? commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: thank you. i have several questions. on the classes that you mentions, 269, 270, 271, do you have any idea of what the class

size is going to be? >> we're still in the process -- part of budget process this here is they actually cut down the class size that we were authorized, so we're hoping, you know, in approxima the mid30's, but up until we fill that class, that process really goes until the academy starts because we're always having classes. sometimes we lose some, sometimes we gain some, but we're hoping we are at our authorized number, which is 30 for those classes. >> commissioner elias: and then, my other question was regarding the sort of articles that came out. so i was wondering what -- i was wondering about, in the articles, it mentioned sort of a white paper, and i'm wondering what -- you know, if you know what this white paper is and sort of some of the stats that were mentioned in

the article that cased that -- that indicated that the police department had, that those stats were being provided to the v.p.a. so they could be included in their reports because i understand some of their reports are blank or don't have these records, but it's because they haven't been provided the records. so i'm concerned or maybe wondering these records, if they exist and are not being provided to the d.p.a. >> yes. in regards to the first part, i am aware of it or was aware of it. there is still investigation on that matter, so inappropriate to go into detail on it at this point. in regards to the second question, there -- and that's part of the issue at hand in terms of what can be turned over to d.p.a. and what can't.

everything that was connected to those investigations, from my understanding, that was before i arrived in town here. but everything that is connected to those investigations are classified and cannot be turned over and was not turned over to d.p.a. i think that's part of the discussion connected to as we evaluate 810 and d.g.o.s related to that issue. >> commissioner elias: and then, my third question, am i question in understanding -- i know you had said a few years ago there was an m.o.u. that you it signed regarding a drug task force in the tenderloin. is that the only operation that sfpd is engaged in with the federal government in terms of sort of law enforcement activities? >> there are operations ongoing, and they, in terms of our work with, whether it be

the d.e.a. or other -- f.b.i., other federal agencies. the department was provided with a copy of our m.o.u., so there's hundreds of m.o.u.s. so in terms of your question, are there other m.o.u.s with the federal government, there are some, but i don't -- i can't list them all off the top of my head, but the commission was given copies of that when we -- the commission passed, i think 2.04. >> commissioner elias: right. and i know when we asked for all those m.o.u.s, that was prior to your announcement that you had resumed sort of working with f.b.i. on a task force. and i guess my concern is i want to make sure -- i know that they have different interests than sf papd and tha

has led to lawsuits in terms of best practices, so i want to make sure that things like that don't happen again. >> some of the best practices don't involve m.o.u.s, but like any operation, we have to abide by city and county policies and police department policies. so that's the first safeguard. we have to abide by our policies. we can't get around that, nor do we want to. you can rest assured in terms of any immigration issues or those types of things, that we are very mindful and careful of that when we engage in any operations with any federal agency. and you know, that's high le l levels of reviews that we have in our d.g.o. required for interagency operations. it's actually a protocol that we have to follow when we do an interagency operation. so there are levels of reviews to safeguard against our

officers not following sfpd policies or getting into a situation where that might be a risk to that. so good policies in place, and you know, we do follow them, and i think that protects us from that concern. >> president hirsch: commissioner mazzucco? >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. thank you for filling us in on staffing. we've heard that san francisco police officers are lateraling or looking to transfer to other agencies. i've heard that from several different sources, so i'm worried about having enough officers go through the academy and making their way through, and wondering why officers want to leave. >> we have lost some officers, and we do conduct exit interviews with those officers because we want to know why. some of the answers we've heard lately are commutes.

a lot of issues, the officers live far away. they get offers closer to home, and it's more desirable for them. some other officers leave for different reasons, including discipline. some officers leave for better pay. some officers leave because they're just dissatisfied, you know, with either the department or policing in the city, so it kind of runs the gamut, so we do a lot of work to try to determine why officers are leaving when they lateral out, and those areas that we can work on and fix, we try to mitigate those. but it's hard to contend -- the other reason, just one other, is family reasons. we had a few officers -- and these are mostly newer officers to the department, that they leave for whatever their family situation is that makes it not, either timing wise or just not agreeable to their family

situation. >> commissioner mazzucco: one of the issues you just raised, officers with discipline, hopefully, these police departments understand if officers have discipline events with us, that information is given to other departments. >> their background investigation, depending how thorough they are, they do follow up, and there's a process for that. >> commissioner mazzucco: and then second, i notice that commander perea testified before the board of supervisors about the number of traffic citations that the officers are issuing, and there was a concern that there's not enough citations being issued, and he gave an explanation, so i just might add, i met with a couple young officers and asked how long does it take to write a citation now under the new format, and it's literally a 15-to-30-minute process because they have to synchronize their

clocks with the body worn camera. i think it's important for the board of supervisors to know that they're following what we asked them to do. and also, it's kind of hard to make traffic stops when you have calls for service that aren't being responded to. you don't have time to make traffic stops, so i think that was good to make that classification from the boots on the ground -- clarification from the boots on the ground. >> thank you for that. we are always looking for improvement, but that is one of the areas where information to the public and education to the public, there are a lot of administrative tasks that officers have to do that they didn't have to do three years ago. the department didn't have body-worn cameras three years ago. the department didn't have the racial profiling act three years ago. all of those administrative tasks, they do the work on the back end.

and we are looking into how that impacts our deployment, which it does have an accouimp. we're going to do the best we can, but it does have an impact, and they do take time. >> commissioner mazzucco: i just wanted to get that out there. >> president hirsch: commissioner dejesus, and welcome back. >> commissioner dejesus: thank you. i just wanted to get some information. you said in your report, the department wasn't involved. did you say with the f.b.i., under an m.o.u. >> with the jttf. >> commissioner dejesus: you said in your report, the department's not actively involved. >> commissioner elias: i think he said actively involved in jttf. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. thank you. thank you. and then i guess going back to the article, when you first came on board, i think you suspended the jttf that was in place. >> correct. >> commissioner dejesus: i'm assuming that m.o.u. has

expired. >> yes, it has. >> commissioner dejesus: and you mentioned that if any new contract came with a jttf, it would come in front of this commission. >> yes, as well as any new contract with a d.g.o.-10. that's one of the things that regardless of how jttf goes, that's one of the things that we are looking at, as well. >> president hirsch: for members of the public, there was a civil grand jury that was convened in 2018-2019, and in the summer of 2019, this year, they issued a report, and it focused on the police department's lack of involvement with the joint terrorism task force with the f.b.i., and a response was required from the police chief, from the mayor, and from myself. my response is posted on the san francisco police commission website, and i think i made it as clear as i could to the grand jury and to the city that

we are not -- the police department is not part of the joint terrorism task force right now, and if that ever becomes a ripe issue where the city seeks to participate again, i committed that i would make sure that the civil rights organizations that helped draft general order 810 will be part of any working group along with the f.b.i., along with the department, along with other interested parties in working through the many issues that existed, and there are issues, and there's a reason why the department hasn't participated in the jfft for the last 2.5 years, so that's available if anybody wants to read it. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. chief, you may have covered this before i arrived, and i apologize for my lateness. traffic here is lovely. and i had actually e-mailed you, requesting that you address the articles in the white paper that it come out

regarding the department's past participation with jttf. and the things i wanted clarification on are all of the incidents and all of the issues that were discussed happened prior to the department leaving jttf. there's no conduct that was alleged that's occurred since we withdrew from all participation in jttf under your watch. >> that is correct. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and so it's -- it's -- there's some issues there. it's not that those issues are in the past, but if there ever becomes a point, like president hirsch says, where we are to consider rejoining jttf, i think those issues in the articles would certainly become relevant. but i think a couple people reached out to me concerned that there was still conduct that was ongoing since leaving the jttf, and you just clarified that that is not the case >> that is not the case.

>> commissioner hamasaki: okay. that's all i wanted to clarify. thank you, chief. >> president hirsch: vice president taylor. >> vice president taylor: hi, chief. >> hey. >> vice president taylor: not to pile on, but i wanted to clarify a bit of what commissioner mazzucco was saying because i've heard from members of the public who are desperate, for lack of a better word, for police involvement, kind of boots on the ground in their neighborhoods, and there does seem to be a real issue in the city and neighborhoods that are underserved because of the lack of -- of officers right now and folks leaving the department. i know just -- we have a brand-new class, and i was very happy to be at that graduation last week and have the ability to speak, but it's a problem, and i hear more and more from community members all over the city so i wanted you to have a

little bit of an opportunity to tell us what we're doing in the future to help folks feel safe in their city. >> yes. first, let me frame this in a larger context. myself and many other members of our department attended the international conference for chiefs of police in chicago last week. this is a national challenges about recruitment challenges, and the challenges we're facing. we're not alone, but some of the things that we're doing in terms of trying to make the situation better, of course, we are recruiting nationwide. of course we definitely focus and try to encourage people that are interested in policing that live in the city -- i mean, we want to get the home-grown talent first.

but beyond that, regionally and nationally, we are recruiting all over the country. that includes military, colleges. we have made some modifications to our testing process. one of the things, 2.5 years ago that we worked with the department of human resources was our -- at some of the entry level physical testing. for instance, we used to do a trigger pull, and a higher degree of women were not -- could not basically perform that test, so the h.r. worked with us, with the experts in that field, and we ended up doing a strength -- a grip test rather than trigger pull, and what we found was the rate of women -- number one, the test is more amenable to the job. and secondly, that test is no longer a barrier to women, so we have seen a number of

candidates that are recruiting and going to the academy. so that's one of the things that we're doing looking at the background process. i think part of our challenge is we compete with other agencies, and oftentimes if an officer has applied to several different agencies, they may hold out to work in a bigger city like san francisco, but oftentimes, they're going to go to the first department that offers them a job because they don't want to pass up an opportunity so we have to be competitive in terms of how long it takes for us to finish a background process. [please stand by]

and like i said when we were

telling the same story and it's a tough time right now. >> i don't understand why is our back line process so much longer than other cities? >> well, i don't know how other cities do it. part of it was staffing. you know, we've increased the background units. we have part-time employees. but that's something that we've increased and part of it is that and the captain who is in charge of staff services is honed in on than. all those things and we've also researchers actually look at our processes. that is helpful too because a lot of the recommendations that

it's part of the challenge. >> something that the commissioner raised that i wanted to clarify. he asked whether the police department, when it comes to lateral transfers whether the background check is done and i wanted to know whether when we do background checks for lateral officers that come to sfpd, do we get both allegations and outcomes of discipline cases because i know that a lot of indications with some of the cases we see where an officer has a disciplinary case before it can be heard and the outcome is reached and the individual retire and i'm wondering are those materials provided to us when we do background checks and secondly, do we provide those

materials to the new county where an officer seeks employment because it's my understanding that sometimes officers will retire here from here there's a pending disciplinary case and they're seek law enforcement ploy knees other countries so when it comes, we provide them with the allegations or just the outcome. >> let me answer the first part of the question. when we recruit as a part of our background and how much information they disclose and it's important to us and and we're legally appropriate and the same for us. when an officer quits or rescience, we makresignswe makef they're eligible for rehigher and it's disposable. if we went background investigators come to our, we

don't release disciplinary files but they'll follow-up on the reasons why and we release what is legally appropriate to release. it's important and as much as we can be transparent with that information that we are but our background investigators seek out that information. >> i think commissioner was talking about this when we talked about the article on the white paper and the litigation and all that other stuff. i want to point out that it's an important point and have not been uncover or talked about that i think at the worst, it talks about behavior from the article that violates local laws, rules and regulations but it at the least, this speaks to the on going behavior. we have some mandatory reporting independently not just to d.p.a.

but to the commission as well and those are the quarterly first amendments that gets reported here and we don't have the conversation about it. i'm just clarifying what those issues are because we have direct reports of that information that we're supposed to be getting if that behavior was on going. you raise the the issue of were these things happening beyond just what was happening in the paper but i wanted to clarify and articulate what those reporting issues were and -- i want to thank you director henderson. even within hn there's requirements. is that what you are referring to? ok. and are some of those things still working and -- some are working there way through d.p.a.? >> they're supposed to be turned

over through d.p.a. but independent -- we both present to the commission d.p.a. presents a report and the department presents to the commission as well. we haven't received any -- the department hasn't articulated anything and any reports since i've been in the position nor that i've seen since the chief has been here. i guess that stuff was in litigation so we -- i still haven't seen the white papers s- >> it's online. >> and i wanted to follow-up on commissioner comments. i know that there's this

threshold that was set 100 years ago for officers in the city. have we fallen below that level? >> we've only reached that level. >> i've always heard the discussion around that. and let me, you know, if someone who just spent six months trying to hire a legal assistant, we're in a booming economy right now and how much one has to pay anybody to know any work in san francisco right now is ridiculous. we're one of the best-paid or finance the best-paid northern california department aren't we. >> wore competitive. >> we're not the top -- >> it's way more than stansislaus. >> i guess, right, if you want

to work in stanislaus or handle some fishing game cases and then that's a different type of officer than we need here in the city. that's fine. i wanted to ask a follow-up, remember a few meetings ago there was a discussion about the civilianization of law enforcement and now we're having uniformed highly-paid and highly trained officers doing tasks that are generally the positions so this budget cycle we authorized for 25 new civilian positions and there are six that we posted jobs so we hope to get a good applicant pool for that

and there's another six we have to create because these are positions that didn't exist. we have to create positions. there's a process through d.h.r. human resources where we actually have to create the test and create position. we're in the process for those remaining six. part of the spirit of this was as we get to civilian employees in, they with work operational positions so that is a process and it will happen. but there's a transition. >> city governments moving things -- i know we went through this process with our new policy person. [laughter] >> yeah. i sat on those interviews and i understand how long and ris rugs the process is but it's how we get the best people working in

the city. >> great, commissioner. >> following up on the staffing, being one of the senior commissioners here that, 1,971 full-time officers was created in 1971 on a cocktail napkin in a restaurant in the tenderloin. with no scientific data whatsoever, this is where many great things happen. we did not have orical park chase, south beast, a whole new neighborhood. we didn't have treasure island and we didn't have the sales force tower and we didn't have 200,000 additional people in the city and even before we probably should be equivalent to other department with 3300 officers that was then and not opposed to 1,900 # 1 so we keep what we're going to hear is the population

is grown and the areas to cover have grown so we're probably going to need many more officers than 1,971 so people need to be realistic and we keep chasing the number with no meaning so i wanted to make that clear. >> vice president tailor. >> we need someone for the first time and the context that is totally divorced from anything here and they find out i have anything to do with the police commission and it's like, you know, so i think we're at a really dire point so this is the neighborhood that is -- i know for taro is hurting one now and i hear that all the time and i can go on and there are other

neighborhoods where i just hear from people constantly and i hear this more and more. >> commissioner. >> just one final thought on that. taking along with that, there's a couple of additional points. one, i think we should all be thankful and grateful we live in a city with bottom crime rates we should all celebrate and appreciate that that the worst most san franciscans have to face is a broken car window. realistically. not to anyway diminish the people who are actual victims of crime but you know thankfully the city is in a great place crime wise at least compared to our history. and the other point just triggered my memory was the discussion we had a few weeks, months ago and about hsoc and shifting the non crime related

duties again. i really appreciate the work that all of the departments that appeared here were doing doing but we're sending without a criminal aspect to the conduct outside of what not and i think -- commissioner dejesus justice perdita felicien in my ear waste of resourcewhispered . we do not need our officers doing social services and those are better tasks for the agencies that are properly trained and qualified to handle those and so there's a real need to push on other city agencies to handle their caseload or their what falls within their area and not put the whole burden on the department so just

something that we should be thinking about as we consider our involvement with hsoc and how to best utilize our officers moving forward. >> thank you. we're going to move to the next agenda item. turn your phones off. i've heard three phones now. turn them off. next item, please. >> clerk: b3, bpa director's report on bpa activities and announcements. the report will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. it will determine whether the calender any -- >> there is one other part of the chief's report and it's the follow-up on requests from vice president taylor. so we have commander and captain chin just to give that update. >> i thought i was chopped liver over here. >> not at all. >> this is actually a follow-up from the october 17th report that you got.

good evening, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. so i'm just going to go overview of the report that you already have. you have the written document. i won't go into a lot of depth on the details but i will follow-up with some of the questions that you had us look into. so on the follow-up report, you will see that trends and sexual assault and the definition for sexual assault is within that report and you will see within the city there is a drop of 9% of sexual assault and then if you look at survivors that were not able to provide a location there's a drop of 6% reduction if you look at 2017-2018. sometimes the out of city or

survivors that can't provide a location, some of the out of city are referred to outside agencies and those agencies do investigate it. 100% of out of agency reports are referred to outside agencies and we don't hold on to if we can identify a location. if you look at the 2019 report, year to date, and the scope is january 1st to september 25th, you will see a city wide drop of 22% -- >> excuse me. we have a request. is there a way to put this on the overhead so folks can follow along? >> no, i was told to give a verbal report. >> put it on the overhead. >> and then, another part of the

report we also look at is the age. so when we -- if you lock at the age, we look at different between minors and adults and between the 2017-2018 over all report there was a reduction of the 11.5% and for adults it's a reduction of 5% of sexual assaults that are reported. year to date, if you look at minors it's a reduction of 30.4% and for adults it's 45.3. and then one of the things you asked us to look into is you will see in the report there are maps. the areas that you will see

concentrations of where we see in increase or a concentration of sex you assaults is downtown, tenderloin, south of market. i know the commission has asked if we can look at specific vulnerable population such as tourists or specific occupations such as hotel workers, restaurant workers, we were unable to look at it as a total data to look at that but we did look at locations where hotels, you will see areas in red are identified as hotels and were making the inference the victim is a tourist and then you also asked us to try to separate the report and look at other vulnerable populations such as lgbtq and unfortunately we can't do that as an over all report

but what we do do is the specific case investigators the assigning officer and the cases that are assigned. they do look at that as part of their investigation. we work really closely with advocates, not profit advocates and we have the on going m.o.u. and relationship with casa de las madres for over 12 years and we look with department of public-health and c.p.s. to further evaluate those cases and make sure that we are assessing the needs of the survivors. we look at things such as language access, medical services, house, counseling, and some of the outreach that you asked us to look at is how do officers, how are they trained. they're trained at the academy level but when they get to be investigators, we also

specifically train our investigators in general crime investigations, domestic violence, sexual assault and a specialty on child abuse. and child sexual assault. so those are our specialties. i have also i wanted to introduce captain chin who oversees the special victims' unit. if there are questions i'd like to just open it up to that. that's generally what we looked at from the last report. captain chin. >> well, let's just get the full report and then we'll have all the questions. >> good evening, commissioners. just reiterate what the commander has stated.

cold cases and financial crimes and crimes against children and human trafficking. so it's an array of 11 different disciplines. so, at the present time, we have only about 20 investigators investigating domestic violence and child abuse and sexual assaults. so that is kind of like an overview of the special victims unit in that respective areas. we would like to if there's any questions, from the commission, we would be happy to answer them. >> thank you. good evening. i think and commissioner taylor asked for this reporting and i appreciate you presenting it here today. i think one of the primary questions was and i don't know if i missed it in this report was what degree of the crimes

were actually resulted in arrest and closing the case and in prosecution? do you have that data off hand? >> i do. >> ok. >> can you -- is that in here? >> >> so in 2017, our numbers are a little bit different because we take our numbers from our own data base and we have assigned 435 cases we have cleared 145 cases. this is 35% clearance rate. out of those cleared cases from

the ucr which is the uniform crime reporting system by the f.b.i., 34 of those cases were closed one which is 33 of those cases referred to outside agencies. it says on the report. six of them, 72 of those cases were results of an arrest. and 40 of them were close to 13 exceptional clearance. of which 29 of them, the district attorney declined to moved forward with the case. and cases discharged by the district attorney was 35. >> > what were the 40? >> 13 exceptional clearance. >> is that a code? >> correct. >> what does that mean?

>> exceptional clearance. we have to have four different criteria and certain situations where elements of beyond law enforcement control preventing us from making the arrest so bringing the department to justice for prosecution. so we have to meet four of these criteria. the offender's location has to be known where we can effect the arrest immediately and we have probable cause to bring this offend error arrest them and charge them and bring them to a court for prosecution. the fourth is if we encounter any outside circumstances which prohibits us to make an arrest. for instance, if the offender passes or the victim refuses to cooperate fully cooperate with the investigation. so that is when we can close 13 exceptional clearance.

>> those are -- so there was 145 of them were closed which was 35% of the total of 435 of those 145, 33 were closed by code one. >> code one which is referred to an outside agency. >> seeing it happen in another jurisdiction. >> yes. >> and then, 13 were closed for exception at circumstances. i recall that term because it came up before in another case we discussed. >> you have code six. >> code six is when we made the arrest so there were 71 cases where we patrol or investigate through the investigation made an arrest of these offenders. >> the 35 referred to other agencies and 71 arrests and how many exceptional? >> exceptional clearance were 40 but 29 of those were d.a.

definition of any warrants. >> so, can i ask -- is there any particular reason why all of it is concentrated in this certain downtown area tenderloin, soma, are there any trends that you are seeing there that are helpful? >> we can't really pinpoint whatever factors may be. if you look at your report, in the mission district, you see a high number of reports more than any other district and i believe that the fact is that a lot of resources like s f-4, lgbt services, women's inc, sfgh, where a lot of these individuals go to get treatment or get their sexual assault kit done and and they get the reports done at that location so it's in the mission. we believe that's the reason why

the mission is higher than any other numbers. >> just one final thought, you include sexual battery in here and does that include like misdemeanor sexual battery like -- can you give us an example of your days at the public defender office. someone grabs someone's part of someone's body. >> usually for our internal spread sheet or data base, these numbers are pulled and i've spoken to b.i. that pulled these numbers for the commission. sexual battery is not in there and it's all sexual assaults which is the rapes and oral cop layincopulaying.

>> i understand now. thank you, very much. >> it would be nice to have -- there's a lot of additional information that you provided as the commissioner asked questions that i asked for. it would be nice if it was all in one report so we can digest it all together. so i'll give you the reason why i asked for this, one, is it's subject i care about but also, more importantly, community members have come up to me, scheehereis what i understand. there is vulnerable populations. the data shows that for example black women are more likely to be victims of violence and sexual violence in particular as are lgbtq are the transgender population. immigrant workers. i mean, there are communities that are particularly vulnerable and i have heard reports of, for

example, you know, hotel workers not feeling safe and not feeling safe to be able to report to law enforcement because their immigration consequences so these are to help our fellow citizens feel safer in the city so i wanted to get the data to see where this stuff was coming from and hear what we're doing about it and i regular the department might not select that data by think that is a little bit of a missed opportunity because if we have certain populations that are likely to be victims and we know that and we know that on the national level and we know it's happening here. i think that we should make the extra effort to make sure that we're actually reaching out still in populations. i saw working with -- but we're

not just talking about intimate partner violence or domestic violence which is a cause that's very important to me. we're talking about rape and sexual assault. that's a very broad umbrella and people who perhaps don't feel safe and coming to law enforcement and don't feel when they come to law enforcement that they're treated in a compassionate way and they are able to, you know, become empowered in ways they should be and so it was concerning to me and i wanted to know if this was on the department's radar and what we were doing about it to make sure our vulnerable victims feel safe in this city just as safe as if there were not lgbtq, minority or a hotel maid or january ter. that's the information that i was hoping to