engineering for phase 2. you have one more meeting. so i'm asking the chair and tilley whether that will be on the agenda for december 17th? >> chair: mr. finebalm, the way this works is we actually don't, pursuant to the law, answer questions. but ms. chang will approach you, as soon as this gavel goes down and answer your question. >> good. i have one more thing. and i remember at the beginning of the year, chair peskin asked for a report about the siemens l.r.v.s. and the defects. >> chair: we'll be having that early in the new year. >> oh, that will be coming shortly. thank you very much. >> chair: seeing no other members of the public, public comment is closed. the sfcta is adjourned.

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my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in

november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death

that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral

establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she

was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has

a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day.

without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. whawhat do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the a with the enou- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with

dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone

fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for i am doing the right thing for

>> we will call the meeting to order. police silence all electronic devices. please rise for the pledge of allegiance. -- please silence all electronic devices. [pledge of allegiance] >> mr. taylor, i would like to take roll call. [roll call] >> also with us tonight or chief chief scott and director henderson from the police accountability board. you have a quorum. >> thank you. good evening, everyone. this is the december 11th, 2019 meeting of the san francisco police commission.

we do have a lengthy meeting tonight due to items on closed session and the complexity of the issues on the agenda so we will be limiting public comment to two minutes. just a few housekeeping matters before we get started, there are some line items on the agenda that we will be removing from the agenda. line item two is being removed from tonight agenda at the chief 's request so sfpd and d.p.a. can review and discuss. a line item one a is also being removed from the agenda. this is the presentation of the first and second quarter 2019 firearm discharge review board findings. that is an item that is obviously very important and we take seriously. i know many of us received the materials yesterday so we need additional time to look at the

cases and prepare for the meeting. we will be moving that to the january 8th agenda. and then finally, in the closed session agenda, item c. is being removed. >> just a couple things, commissioner taylor. with a the juvenile policies and procedures and fdr, are they both being removed for january 8 th? >> line item two, i will leave that to d.p.a. and the chief. i know d.p.a. wanted time to be able to look at the proposed changes and perhaps talk about it with the department. i don't know the next commission meeting -- >> we didn't. that wasn't from us. >> here's my concern. it has been seven months since the ordinance passed and this issue has been come -- has become ripe. we do not have a bulletin or some policy by the police department on how to deal with these situations.

so i don't want to kick it further down the road too long because i think this is very important and, you know, chief, you and i have spoken about the youth issues and incidences that happened at balboa and how important it is to get something in place. that is my first question. my second question is whether or not the police department and d.p.a. have reached out to the community, including people like patty lee from the public defender's office who has received national awards on her work in juvenile issues, juvenile detention, and miranda warnings. i think has also helped, you know, the legislation that was crafted by the board of supervisors. those are my two issues. then i have an issue with fdrb after that. >> chief, january 8th, will that be enough time? >> i think it should be. >> do we have room on the

january 8th calendar? >> we do. >> we will move line item two to the january 8th agenda. >> my other thing with the fdrb report, we did not receive that until yesterday and i have been noticing instances where the department has things put on the agenda on the calendar and it will hit friday when we have to post it online, but we as commissioners do not receive the material until monday late monday or even tuesday, which isn't fair to us because as you know, we all have full-time jobs most of us read this stuff on night and weekends. the fdrb report is very important. i received it yesterday, because apparently the department did not provide it, and it should have been in on friday. i will ask you, chief, to hold the department accountable and make sure these materials are provided to our commission office by friday at five or at the latest, saturday morning. because it is difficult for us,

who do have full-time jobs, and to use any extra time we do have to read the materials and make sure we are apprised of the issues so we can have an intelligent and coherent conversation about these issues. i'm scrambling at the last minute to try and get this stuff done when it is handed to me at the 11th hour. i'm going to ask you to police personally -- to please hold the department accountable. >> i would agree with that. i know it would be good to have more than 24 hours to review this with a full-time job. >> i understand. we will make that happen. thank you. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> we apologize for the stress that caused you. >> thank you. with that, can we call the first line item? >> one a is chief's report.

weekly crime trends. provide an overview of offences occurring in san francisco. significant incidents. the chief's report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. commission discussion will be limited to determine whether to calendar any of the incidents for future commission meeting. 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. discussion on unplanned events and activities be limited to determine whether to calendar for a future meeting. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. i will start with our crime trends. i will be brief on the crime trends and move on to the rest of the report including the significant incidents that happened over the weekend. with the crime, year-to-date we are down 5% overall for crime.

that break down his property crimes are down 5%, highlighted by 15% reduction in burglaries year-to-date and a 2% reduction in car break-ins. our violent crime is down 6%. we have had a total of 37 homicides for the year compared to 43 this time last year. this represents 14% decrease. we had three homicide incidents recorded last week. one of which was an incident that occurred on december 1st in which the person succumbed to injuries on december 7th. there was also a homicide reported in november with that the victim of an aggravated assault from august of 2019 who passed away from injuries sustained in the august attack. i will talk a little bit more about the homicide event over the weekend when i get to the significant incidents. looking at gun violence, that is defined as number of people

injured shooting -- injured in a shooting incident with a firearm , we have had 103 shooting incidents resulting in a total of 126 gun violence victims. twenty-two of those were fatal and 104 of those were nonfatal. in looking at our shooting victims, we are 5% below where we were this time last year and in terms of our homicides with firearms, we are even with where we were this time last year. the homicides are at 14% reduction from year-to-date, december 2018. significant incidents, i will start with the homicide over the weekend in the bayview district. this occurred and the 1100 block of oakdale on december 7th at 8:10 p.m. luminary information of the victim who was 50 years old, he was at home -- preliminary

information of the victim who was 50 years old, he was at home and other relative saw a suspicious person walking on the other side of the street. as the relative entered the house, is suspect pushed open a door, walked into their location and shot the victim who was shot multiple times. the suspect fled on foot. the victim was transported to hospital and later succumbed to his injuries. investigators have located evidence in the area and the investigation is still very much in full swing. we have not identified a suspect at this time. there were also three shooting incidents that caused injuries to five people over the last several days. two of the shooting incidents occurred on december 10th. within 20 minutes of each other. they maybe related as the vehicle description is similar. the first one, one of them happened in the bayview and the other was located in the terra vale area. the three people who were

injured in the two incidents we believe, based on description of the vehicle which is almost exact on both incidents, that these are related. the investigation is ongoing. no suspects have been identified at this point. also over the weekend, we had an officer involved shooting in the mission district. our first of the year. the officers -- one officer was injured during the incident and the person who was shot was also injured. the person who was shot is still hospitalized. and as we do with all officer involved shootings, we will have our town hall within 10 days of the incident. at this time, that is scheduled for tuesday at 6:00 p.m. at cesar chavez elementary school. we will post that to the public and confirm that address and let the public know if that changes,

but we are set for now for tuesday at 6:00 p.m. as i said, the individual who was shot was hospitalized. charging decision by the district attorney on this case has not been made at this time and remains under investigation. the investigations are being conducted by first the san francisco district attorney's office, the officer involved shooting -- the shooting itself is being investigated by the d.a.'s office. they're independent into the -- investigation bureau. the department of police accountability also has an investigation on this incident as well as the san francisco police department, internal affairs. during the town hall, we explained the processes and how everything works in terms of our officer involved shootings. i would note that this is actually the first shooting in our city under this recently

signed an m.o.u. with the district attorney's office. all parties were at seen on saturday. in terms of major events that are upcoming, this week there are several events at the chase center. the warriors have two home games this week beginning with the new york knicks tonight and the sacramento kings on sunday. there are several concerts that will be held at the chase centre this week -- next week. we are deployed to handle those events. we did not have any major incidents as a result of the event this weekend. a lot of people were out having a good time but no major incidents. there were five arrests for people being drunk in public and five people that were taken to the hospital for severe intoxication. that was pretty much the extent of any incidents related to that tonight. this weekend we are having -- in

conjunction with united players, we are having a gun buyback or we will participate in a gun buyback. located at 1038 howard street on saturday, december 14th from 8:00 a.m. until noon. we encourage any members of the public who have guns that they want to destroy our have destroyed to bring them to the gun buyback. you will receive cash or gift card in exchange for your gun. we normally get very good participation from the public. the more guns that are taken off the streets, the less of a probability that those guns will be used by somebody for purposes that aren't good. please, if you have guns in your house that you don't want or need anymore, we ask that you bring them to the gun buyback and turn them in. this is the 11th gun buyback that we have participated in with united players.

we have had great results that have resulted in hundreds of firearms being turned in over the events that we have already had. that is the extent of the significant events and that is the extent of this portion of the chief's report. >> thank you. chief, regarding the shooting that occurred, the officer involved shooting that you mentioned, is the individual -- i think i saw a press release earlier and i was wondering, the individual that was involved, no charge in decision has been made , so is he in custody or is he not in custody? >> he is not in custody right now. >> and then there was -- did you

happen to see the mission local article this afternoon that recounted some observations from video of the shooting? >> yes. i saw it. >> they seem to conflict with the press releases that have come out. are you still comfortable with the facts that exist in the press release? >> we will be covering that in the town hall. and as we do always, we will make the video available per our policy. i think you'll be premature for me to come in on that, but we have reviewed all the evidence that we have -- that we have taken in at this point, and plan to release everything in the town hall that we can release at this point in the effort to be transparent. i think a lot of those questions will be answered at that point. >> okay. i guess my concern is if there's anything that is outstanding that is based on the review that is currently going on, not

accurate or in some way there is concern in the past about the department and putting out information that wasn't always accurate. and actually, i defended the department to a reporter over the weekend and i was asking -- who was asking for more information. i said wait and see. i just want to make sure that we don't end up in a situation where things come out later that are contradicting and then we are in a position of defending the information that has been released. i attended the last town hall on the ground avenue and i thought that that was done really well. so i'm looking forward to the town hall in this event. >> i appreciate your question. we should do it in the parameters that we set up and i

don't know what video we saw a, but we do have video. we have video evidence and we will release it per our policy. i think the public has a right and a need to know that and we will put it to the town hall. >> and this is the extent that something that will most likely come before the commission. we have to strike a balance of not delving too deeply into facts and opining on things before the matters come before us. everyone obviously has questions and wants to know what is going on. >> yes. thank you for the report. i do want to echo a commissioner from last week. when looking at our trends, a lot of them are trending downwards. i want to commend you for the work that you do to stay on that trajectory. one of the things i would like to see coming into the new year is while the trends are going down, i would like to see how they are per district. i would want to see how the

fatalities and how homicides look in certain districts last year compared to this year. while we see the trend overall in the city going down, i would like to see it in any of our districts in the city that there has been a spike as something we can look at. and also, chief, correct me if i was wrong, but i was reading in the paper today, there was a fatality with a pedestrian who was struck by a car over the weekend, too? >> there was. there was a fatality. it was bayshore and bayview. i do have some details on that. >> okay. one of the things i was going to request is another report on vision zero. so while we have this program, we are consistently saying fatalities rise -- seeing fatalities rise. i want to see what type of solutions we are looking into two assists this number in trending downward. >> yes, sir. we definitely can do that.

on our page on the website, crime statistics are broken down by district, but i would be happy to bring that to the commission as well. >> please. >> i would like to invite community groups, bicycle coalitions, for example, to come and talk about vision zero. is a problem and we all recognize it as a problem. i think we need to put our heads together to figure out how to decrease what is a concerning trend. >> what time is this town hall meeting on the 17th? >> 6:00 p.m. >> thank you. i have been on a long time and we used to get notifications before press releases were done. i have to say, saturday i was getting phone calls and i finally read it in the examiner before i was notified by the department that there was an o.i.s. i just remember when we first got here, we were the first ones

to get notified and now the community notifies me. even after they notify me, i still have to wait. all we get is the press release. i would ask if you can look into that and we can get notified much quicker than that. we get called, as you here, not that we want to discuss it, but we should be informed that some thing has happened. >> we already have. there were some issues with -- doc is under reconstruction, if you will. there were issues with the phone systems on saturday that caused some notification issues and also, we have looked into it. a lot of new faces on these teams and that causes a few of our issues as well. it is something we debriefed on already and that should not be a problem in the future. >> okay. next line item. >> line item one b., d.p.a. director's report. report on recent activities and

announcements. the report will be limited to a brief description of announcements and activities. discussion will be limited to determine whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. presentation of the august, september, in october 2019 statistical reports and presentation of the first, second, in third quarter 2019 quarterly reports. >> okay. i have my ongoing information in terms of the cases. we have talked a little bit about them in the past, the numbers are continuing to go up. we are at 709 cases that have been opened this year which is up from 620 at the same time last year. in terms of cases closed, we have closed 621 cases versus 578 at the same time last year. we have 413 open cases that are

pending right now on our caseload. this year last time we were at 213. for sustained cases, so far this year we have sustained 83 cases. last year at this time we sustained 48 cases. and cases that are older than the nine months are having investigations that have gone beyond nine months. they're 25 of those cases this time last year. we had 22 last year that were at the same level. the mediated cases are also up. we are at 35 so far completed this year versus 23 this time last year. of the 25 cases that we talked about that the investigations have gone beyond or have taken longer than nine months, 11 of those cases are tolled. and i know we received a more in-depth report last week about what that process looks like. in terms of the operation monthly statistic report, you

will get that section as soon as i finish the review. i promise to try and keep that as short as i can. i know we have a long evening ahead of us, but i wanted to point out that we have had a steady increase of the complaints. as of october 301st, we had 637 complaints, which is a 14% increase over just this last year. it doesn't count to the increase that we had the year before that i just want to point out and we will go over it, is our case summaries are much more detailed now in these quarterly reports which you will be seeing. part of that is because of the new case management system. so before we were limited to 50 characters to describe a complaint and now we can actually put in full sentences. again, a large part of it was working with this new operating system which took essentially everything off-line for a period of time throughout the year.

he will have all of that in front of you. that will also be presented because i want you guys to be able to compare what the system looks like in terms of these quarterly reports before we revamped all of them. i went back as far as i could to give you the updated information in terms of 1421 updates, we talked a little bit about -- you had the presentation last week, but i want to give you an update on what has been going on with that. the commissioner had asked for more regular updates about what was going on. since last week, we have concluded our review of all of the cases that were potentially disclose a bull under the category. that was a big category we are working on for a long time and we disclosed one more additional case and request that we received. in terms of the mediation, we continue to have a successful year in mediation.

nothing new to report other than the statistics i have already shared with you in terms of the outreach. we participated in a number of events as an agency. on december 7th we participated in the district five family summit on the 6th of december where we participated in the youth commissioner's mixer. on december 11th, our attorneys will be presenting an overview of d.p.a. for the senior center community. on december 11th we will also be participating in the power of community engagement, the blue-ribbon event at the bayview ywca. we also will be participating in many of the station community meetings and i will report on those as we participate in them. we do not have any cases in closed session this evening. in the audience joining me this evening, in case there issues throughout the evening were

d.p.a. can be helpful and answer questions, is my chief of staff and my senior investigator and our operations manager. also my policy director. >> thank you. >> just one follow-up question. so you have reviewed all potentially disclose a bowl sexual assault cases in d.p.a.'s whole history? >> yes. >> impressive. how many were disclosed? >> if i may, let's just -- >> go to the source. [laughter]. >> good evening, commissioners. this is much ado about nothing. i am unclear. i know that it was not a high number, but i want to confirm before report back to the commissions with specificity so

that exact number will be included in the next commission agenda. >> i appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. >> that's it. thank you. >> anything else? >> we have to -- [laughter]. >> yeah,. >> next line item. >> here we are. >> before we begin, i want to pass out these books. these are what the quarterly reports looks like before.

they're all in the record, but this is what i have converted things from what you are about to be presented with right now. >> good evening. >> good evening. i am here to represent the first , second, and third-quarter reports for the department of police accountability. each of the three reports follows the same format, so all of them contain summary investigation statistics which include the number of cases that we received each quarter, the types of allegations associated with those cases. they all have demographic information about complainants and officers and the outcomes of cases, which includes the cases mediated as well as the cases sustained. those are all broken down by quarter. and a