>> president hirsch, i'd like to take roll. [roll call] >> clerk: president hirsch, you have a quorum. also present tonight are chief scott from the san francisco police department and director henderson from the san

francisco department of police accountability. >> president hirsch: good morning. we are ready for the first item. >> clerk: line item adoption of the minutes of january 15, 2020. >> president hirsch: is there a motion and a second? >> a second. >> president hirsch: any discussion on this? public comment on the adoption of the minutes before we vote in all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor? any opposed? okay. carries. >> clerk: line item 2, consent calendar, receive and file. action. police reports of disciplinary actions of fourth quarter 2019. >> so moved for adoption. >> president hirsch: all right. any discussion from the commission before we open it up to public comment? no?

any public comment on item 2, consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor? opposed? all right. it passes unanimously. next item, please. >> clerk: line item 3, reports to the commission, discussion. 3-a, chief's report, weekly crime trends. provide an overview of the brief incidents going on in san francisco. major events, provide a summary of planned activities and events occurring, including super bowl. this will include a brief overview of any unplanned activities or events happening in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission on chief's report will be limited to whether to determine to calendar an

inquiry. community and youth engagement update, provide an overview of community youth engagement updates, and presentation of safe streets for all quarterly and third quarter 2019. >> president hirsch: good evening, chief. >> good evening, president, vice president taylor, and director henderson. i'm going to go through a report, brief follow up regarding hospital watches, brief follow up regarding our civilian hiring and the sb 1421 process, and then, commander rob o'sullivan will provide the report of the electronic

surveillance devices for 2018, and after that, the safe streets report will be reported for the third and fourth quarter. i'm going to be as brief as possible so we can get the other presentations on, as well. >> president hirsch: thank you. >> starting with crime and statistics february 2, crime is down. reminding everyone we're very early in the year, so we can have pretty large swings in percentages just because our numbers are small. burglaries are down 2% over last year, and our auto burglaries are down 1% when compared to 2019. total violent crimes are down 2%, reported reaps are down 60% from 2019 -- yeah, 60% -- well,

in 2019 -- year-end 2019, we were down 60%. robberies are up 16%. central had an increase of 30% and tenderloin had an increase of 25%. we will focus on those areas. homicides are down 25% on the year. we had three, compared to four last year, gun violence, we're down 25%. there have been six shooting incidents resulting in six victims in the year. two of those have been fatal and four nonfatal. looking at the five-year trend with our homicides, we are, again, at three this year, which is -- as low -- with the exception of 2016, we're as low as we've been for the last five

years. at this point in 2016, we actually were at two, so we hope to continue this trend we had the last several years, and our reductions in homicides come the end of the year. a couple of case updates. the commission had asked for a couple of questions on school burglaries that i reported on last month, so i have some updates on those burglaries. an arrest related to burglaries at the school of the arts was made, and that case is being presented to the district attorney's office for prosecution. there are thefts that also occurred at balboa high school, and those actually are being handled internally by the principal of the school. this is at the request of the principal, and he has already successfully arranged for a resolution in that matter. there are already a series of burglaries at st. brendan's

school. the school has since installed cameras and an alarm, and additional steps have been taken to secure the school at all times. we have quite a few leads on that case, and hope to hold the person responsible as the case develops. commissioner taylor had asked about donations to several schools that had been burglarized, and the school of the arts did set up a gofundme account, but they met their funding goal so that account is no longer active. balboa high school is looking into possibly a gofundme account, but at this point, it is not up and running yet, and those are the two schools that did fundraisers regarding thoseabthose burglaries. as far as major events this week, sunday was super bowl sunday, and unfortunately, our niners lost to the kansas city chiefs. we did not have any significant incidents after the loss related to the super bowl.

we had some good news to report this week with the opening of a midmarket foot beat office on market at 7th, so our foot beat detail will be available there. not all hours, but will be available to take reports. we believe that this puts us really in the heart of market street, and as you all know, we've been deploying a foot beat there, and we stepped up our foot beats about a year and a half ago, and we believe this gives us better opportunity to build relationships, and hopefully will make a better relationship between the community and business owners. the denver nuggets are here tonight, and orlando magic is

here on saturday night. we continue to work through the issues, and it's been a good partnership between our ours, d.p.t., the traffic control officers, and folks at chase, so things have been going well there, including concerts. commissioner hamasaki had asked to give an update on hospital watches, so i do have a brief update on hospital watches. there is a brief update on this a couple -- on this. d.g.o. 109 is one of the d.g.o.s that governs how we -- our present security protocols and also our absentia protocols. 18033 outlines protocols for

suspects from hospitals and also absentia bookings. members are responsible for each person arrested until the person is a, either booked into a district station or county jail or b admitted by the physician in charge and is booked into the san francisco general hospital jail ward and the officer is relieved by a deputy sheriff which is absentia booking. the jail ward is not staffed currently, which makes that not an option, so the short of it is while under the department's control, they have to staff those details until that person is booked.

we spent approximately $1 million last year with hospital watches, and we had many discussions with the prior sheriff on how to make that work. at this point, the sheriff has not been funded to discuss that, but until that time the department does have the responsibility to staff these watches when our custodies are in the hospital prior to being rebooked. so that's basically where we are on that, and we're always looking for ways to be more efficient, including absentia bookings when we can, but it is a cost, and it is a heavy lift for the department. actually, it's $1.7 million

that was spent in 2019 on both on duty and overtime hospital watches so that's a significant cost for the department. >> president hirsch: do you have an estimate on the number of hours that would entail? >> i don't have that, but i can easily bring that back. >> commissioner hamasaki: can i ask a question? >> president hirsch: commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: i believe the question that i asked, the issue is why is the sheriff's department not taking control of the individuals that are detained or in custody? so is there a position or point where the jail opens back up? is it a point where they properly staff the hospital or what -- you know -- because i

think, in a lot of different contexts, the issue has arisen of the fact that, you know, no matter which issue it is, the captain wants more officers responding to the hospital, and if the sheriffs are tied up, it's a waste of our hours. is there a way to make the sheriff's transfers happen quicker? >> well, there are two triggers on this. the first being if the person in custody has not been rebooked, and they're actually still in police department custody, we're responsible. if and when we ever get to the point where the county opens the jail ward up, the sheriff would -- because they have the

responsibility of security in the hospitals, so that jail ward would be under their jurisdiction. however, it's not necessarily a sheriff's issue, it's a staffing issue for medical personnel, is my understanding. and the jail ward is a small ward. it's four beds, i believe, but it still would be a help. i talked to the director of the public health, dr. colfax on that, and they're having some of the same staffing challenges as everybody' else. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. so it's not just the medical staff, it's checking on everybody that are in custodies. >> yes. it's designed for custodies, so as it stands right now, the custodies are in just a regular hospital room, and we have to have security to guard them, particularly if it's a violent

felony. if they're in our custody period, we have to have security. >> commissioner hamasaki: finally, is that an issue that -- okay. actually, i withdraw. move -- i'm done. thanks. >> president hirsch: so commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: so the last time we met was on january 15, we didn't meet on the 22 or 29. this letter pertaining the 49ers, and perhaps you've already discussed it, closing down market street, using bean bags on some people. i don't know if you've dealt with it because it's been a while, and we've already had the super bowl. one of the issues they raise on this letter was the same use of force, as they see it. was it used in other communities?

was it used in the bayview, union street, fillmore, where there are sports bars? did you have the same force out before people even got there? >> yes, commissioner. we did sit down with some community members for the mission and talked those through. so a couple of things. it did garner some media attention, news reports, as you stated, but a couple of things that you did not state, there were a couple of side shows happening around the city right after the game. and in mission district in particular, there were people excited about the 49ers victory and took to the streets. given the spontaneous side shows and the possibility of cars and people trying to occupy the same space, which is extremely dangerous, the incident commander on scene made the decision to close the

street, which i support that decision. i think it was the right call to make. also, there were rocks -- well, bottles, any way, thrown at officers that night, and it turned into quite a volatile situation. so the safety helmets, being referred to riot gear, is a part of what was keeping officers safe. >> commissioner dejesus: so let me get back to that. you said there were side shows. what streets were the side shows? >> i don't know the streets, but there were several side shows happening after. >> commissioner dejesus: so my understanding is you closed not only the streets, but the block. other people can walk down the blocks, but that community couldn't walk down the blocks, and they have pictures of -- of the police lined up in their riot gear and some -- as people got there. so i just --

>> commissioner hamasaki: you brought exhibits. >> commissioner dejesus: yeah. i just wanted to know when the side shows were there and why weren't people allowed to walk down the streets. and then, you closed off other streets. you closed off mission and then cesar chavez. >> yes, and there were streets in ingleside -- other streets in ingleside close, as well. those side shows pop up. they're spontaneous, and we don't know where they're going to pop up, and the last thing we wanted that night was to have cars and people in the same space with the possibility of somebody doing, you know, things that happen in side shows, so that was the reason. >> commissioner dejesus: how many people were shot with the bean bags? >> i think there was one discharge of e.r.w., but i

would have to check with that. >> commissioner dejesus: the community is demanding a meeting. i don't know if you were aware of that, but they are demanding a meeting. >> i've met with members of the community. we've talked about it publicly and at media events, as well. that was the decision about that behind scene, the reason was for public safety. >> commissioner dejesus: and i want to switch -- diamond heights. you talked about auto burglary and private crimes. there's a spike of car windows being broken and belongings being taken. is that a part of the statistic when you say it's gone down? >> diamond heights was included in that. we had a meeting attended by

the district attorney as well as the captain of ingleside. it's actually happening on a private property. one of our strategies is to work -- in addition to policing and visibility in that area, but to actually work with the people in control of that property to see if we can come up with some strategies together because those incidents that you spoke of actually happened on private property. it's a grocery store parking lot. we' we're most effective in those kinds of relationships, partnerships, public and provide. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. >> president hirsch: commissioner elias. >> commissioner elias: i'm sorry, chief. i want to be clear -- [inaudible] >> ingleside had some similar issues. >> commissioner elias: so they had police officers with weapons and riot gear in place?

>> yes. commissioner, i know you refer to it with riot gear, but that's to protect the officers from objects being thrown, and that night, objects were thrown at the officers. it's not meant to be intimidating, it's to keep the officers safe. having been a commander in those situations many times, you have to make a decision once bottles or rocks or whatever is being thrown at officers are thrown, you have to make a decision to don that equipment. so we're going to make a decision to keep the people safe, including the officers. [inaudible] >> not to that degree, no. >> commissioner elias: okay. what i'd like to see is the number of arrests made during these incidents and the use of e.r.v., how many bullets shot and actually used, and if any

of the ingleside -- >> commissioner dejesus: and the driving was -- what are those called? >> commissioner hamasaki: side shows. >> commissioner elias: side shows. i think we need to put this in context, and i think you understand, when we see the photos, but we understand how isolating it can be. >> sure, yeah, and i can get that information and we can report back. >> president hirsch: vice president taylor. >> just to add on, were there calls for service connected to these particular areas, and if there were, you can tell us where those calls of service came from? >> am, there were. there were calls for service, but when i report back, i'll file that information.

>> president hirsch: thank you, chief. i know you have another item -- or you have a few more items, but you had the bill -- the 1421 hiring? >> yes. so the 1421, the commission had asked for an update on the status of 1421 -- or the civilian hiring. where we are on the 1421 hiring, our legal division has -- so the civilian staffing is -- when they're fully staffed will be two sworn and ten civilians. the two sworn are a sergeant

and a lieutenant, and they're both already in place. the civilians will be eight civilians, one attorney, and a supervisor that's already in place. so we have the senior legal processing clerk. that hiring is in process. we filled three of the eight legal assistant positions. three of them have been filled with internal candidates who applied for the job. quicker and easier to get that done because they were already working with the department. three are pending start date and we have two who are selected and in the hiring process and backgrounds. the attorney actually has been selected but is in the background process. so of the eight -- let me repeat.

three already hired, three are pending start date, and two are in the hiring process and about to go through background, and then, the one attorney is in backgrounds right now, so that's where we are with those civilian positions. the two sworn positions are filled, and the 960 position is filled. >> president hirsch: what do you hope you'll have all ten in place? >> hopefully in the next month or so. background is about a two-month process for civilians, so hopefully in the next month. >> president hirsch: commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: thank you for providing this. i think it's important for seeing the positions and how much money is being allocated for this. with respect to the duties, i know you said a retired lieutenant has been assigned to the unit. i know with the 1421 set up, especially with the d.p.a., all of the materials is set into one specific area and then a

decision is made specifically regarding g.b.i. and other information that needs to be redacted. will you have a same set up because i'm trying to figure out who the person or gatekeeper is going to be once they get on staff. >> the officer in staff is the lieutenant, so that is the gatekeeper. once the attorney gets on staff, we will have the legal person with a law degree actually to help make some of those calls. that person is not on staff yet, but it'll be a similar set up at d.p.a. >> so it won't be the retired lieutenant? >> as far as the -- >> commissioner elias: making the call as to redact certain information or redact information provide to the documents being released to the public? >> there'll be a full-time person. the retired lieutenant is definitely useful and helpful in getting the work through, but the plan is to have the full-time -- the full-time -- a

full-time person do that work, so it's going to be somewhat of a similar set up as what you described with d.p.a. >> commissioner elias: okay. >> president hirsch: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. were you going to provide a report or was somebody going to provide a report on the civilization efforts generally to the departments? is that -- is that calendared -- or i know we talked about it a few meetings ago? if it's something we could have a presentation on, just how many -- you know, what the expectations and goals and positions are. again, this is -- i just keep hearing about our lack of available officers, and so -- >> part of that will be in the budget discussion presentation as it has been in the past, including last year. and i believe it's the requirement -- well, not believe. i know it's a requirement that the civilian conversation is

supposed to happen at least yearly with the department. we usually do it with the budget conversation because it's part of our budgeting process. as you'll recall last year, we identified 50 positions to be civilianized, and we're 25 for the year 2019-2020, and 25 for this coming year, 2020-2021, and that's part of the budget discussion. >> commissioner hamasaki: that's next week. okay. great. thank you, chief. >> president hirsch: okay. anything else, chief? >> no, that was it for my report. so now, we have commander o'sullivan. >> president hirsch: good evening, commander. >> good evening. good evening, president hirsch, commissioners, director henderson, chief scott. i am commander robert

o'sullivan from the office of chief of staff and i'm here to present fourth quarter 2019 audit of electronic communication devices for bias, our audit. so before i begin with the numbers and the details, i did want to provide some background for you as well as for our audience. all sfpd members are aware that the electricic devices and communications systems are audited, and they, the members, do not have an expectation of privacy. the follow describes the department's policies of use of communication and system. there are three. department general order 10.08, which is titled use of computers and peripheral equipment. department general order 13.01, titled officers' use of computers and peripheral equipment and policies.

and finally, internal affairs unit order 18-02. it is important to note the audits are limited to devices the department owns and not any member personal devices. the audits, however, do capture electric electronic messages that are sent from membdepartment devico member devices. there are two systems, clets, e-mail, and text messages via department issued cell -- cellular phones. the audit process is passive in nature and runs continuously. if a member uses one of the

identified words, a hit is automatically generated and sent to i.a.d. personnel via the level two access portal. level two is associated with clets. each hit is printed, scanned, and saved to a file. i.a.d. staff analyzes every hit throughout the week, and those determined to be potentially biased are investigated. the level two audit bias has been fully operational since december 2016. so fourth quarter results, from october 1 through december 31, there were 40 hits returned from the program. after review by i.a.d. members, none of the 40 hits were determined to be potentially biased. our second system, department e-mail. all e-mails sent and received in the department e-mail go through a word list system. the audit system, like clets,

is pass i have been in nature. if an e-mail contains one of the words in the list, they are send to i.a.d., and saved on the server. staff determined the hit and those determined to be potentially biased are investigated. from october 1 through december 31, there were 287 hits through the program. after review by i.a.d. members, one of the 287 hits was determined to be potentially bias oriented, and as a result, an investigation has been initiated. finally, text messages from department phones. investigators are trained to conduct active audits using a program developed by cellular provider at&t in conjunction with sfpd conjunction division.

every 30 days a search is done of all texts using an established word list. additional terms can be used, as well. staff uses every hit to determine the context in which the word was used. those hits determined to be potentially biased are investigated. all false positives hits are saved by at&t on the server. for the december october 1 through december 31, there were 35 hits returned by the program, and after review by our members, none of the 35 hits were determined to be potentially bias oriented. that concludes my remarks. >> president hirsch: vice president taylor? >> vice president taylor: as to the one hit that was found and it's currently being investigated, what can you tell us in terms of timing? did the time -- the time period here, results were from october to december. what can you tell us about the

timing of the investigation and when the department expects to have some kind of decision about? >> sure. so as i mentioned, the investigation was initiated, and i would expect that within 60 to 90 days that we would have a finding with that case, and it will be reviewed through the chain of command, through myself, the chief of staff, and then ultimately presented to chief scott. >> president hirsch: thank you. next, we have a safety streets presentation. is that right? >> yes. yes, commissioner.

>> good evening, president hirsch, vice president taylor, commissioners, director henderson, chief scott. i'm commander dan perea. i'm assigned to the m.t.a. division for the police department, and i'm here today to talk about our results for 2019 in our safe streets for all presentation. before i start this, i want to provide some news because i know it's gotten out to the media, and it's appropriate in light of this presentation. today, one of our motorcycle officers, who's okay, thankfully, was in the area of

6th and mission with some of his partners. they were conducting traffic enforcement when a person who wasn't paying attention from the number two lane made a u-turn across the number one lane where the motorcycle officer was traveling. had nowhere to go, struck the vehicle, and was elected from the motorcycle. now fortunately, that officer is going to be okay, so i wanted to pass that along and keep a good thought for him because he's going to be sore when he wakes up tomorrow morning. i think it just goes to highlight how important it is to really do everything we can as motorists, motorcyclists, cyclists, regardless of your mode of transportation to make every effort to pay attention so that we can all contribute to safe travel in san

francisco. i want to talk about 2019, first of all, department wide, our citations being concentrated in the five areas of -- in the focus area of five violations which was met this year. we established our vision zero enforcement team and doubled it thanks to the leadership of mayor breed and chief scott. our focus in a lot of our traffic enforcement centers on the high traffic corridors which have been identified through accumulated data in between between the department of public health and the police

department. i'm not new to the internet, and i know that twitter existed before i came to the traffic company, but i think it's a very effective tool to get information out to the public. i'd like to thank captain chernis who's the captain of the traffic area now. there's a small little clip in the powerpoint of the information that we're trying to get out to the people that follow us and to the people who are watching twitter. so one of our responsibilities is around providing traffic safety, patrol and focus around senior centers and schools. and the slide here, i've got four of our postings to twitter, tweets, where motorcycle officers were assigned to areas like the areas around taylor elementary

school, m.l.k. middle school, mercy high school, san francisco state, and other areas where we have senior centers or activities where a lot of senior citizens were present. and in the tweets, we had called out to the public to ask them to be patient and vigilant and attentive in certain areas because of the volume of pedestrians whether they were young people or seniors or just pedestrians in general. our next slide was our year-to-date violated for 2019. 2018, we were above 50,000. 2019, we came in at 42,154 citations, but 54% of those, over 21,000, were for focus on the five violations. and i kind of jumped ahead with the information, but there it

is to see. so we did write less citations this year as opposed to 2018, but we did increase the awareness within the department and were able to focus our concentration on the five most common collision factors in collisions that resulted in serious injury or a fatality. the next graph, the next slide shows the results of our vision zero enforcement team that we started last year, again focusing on red lights, stop signs, failure to yield to pedestrians, speeding, and failure to yield while turning. the vision zero enforcement team officers assigned to the traffic company wrote over 2400

citations, and 93% of those, 2,287 were issued for focus on the five. and while it's not on the slide, i did want to mention that from january to june, the traffic company had written 6,455 citations. 3600 of those were for focus on the five violations, and that's at a rate of 55.8%. once the vision zero enforcement team came into existence and was deployed, their totals from july to december were 7,004 citations, which is an increase of the previous six months by 549 citations. they wrote 4,719 focus on the five citations, which was an increase of 1,101 citations, and that increased the overall unit percentage for focus on

the five up to 67.3% for an 11.5% -- or a little more than 11.5% increase for focus on the five. this slide here is for the last quarter -- excuse me. this slide shows the fatalities by the person who was deceased, the primary collision factor, and their mode of transportation. we had 18 pedestrians, seven vehicle drivers, two passengers, one motorcyclist, and one cyclist for a total of 29 people who suffered death as a result of a collision. and if you look on this map, which isn't -- doesn't have maybe the best contrast on the screen as i'm looking at it,

but the light or darker blue lines that you see over the overlay of the city and county have all been identified as high travel corridor locations. you'll see the highest concentration of those in the tenderloin, the central, and the financial districts. where we have people all moving around using a lot of transportation, private and public, and a lot of vehicles, as well. moving onto the next slide, we have the fatalities categorized in ages. the youngest person who suffered a fatality as a result of a vehicle collision unfortunately was 14 years old, and we have them broken out in the different categories from 014 for four individuals from 30 to 39, five people from 40

to 49, three people from 50 to 59, three people from 60 to 65, and from 65 to 86, 11 people were killed in vehicle collisions. the next slide shows the person at fault and the primary collision factor that commissioner hirsch -- president hirsch asked for my last appearance here. that's where this -- this map came from. the persons at fault for these collisions, drivers, 21 of the 29, a motorcyclist one, pedestrians six, and one where the primary collision factor is -- the investigation is ongoing, and the fault has not

been determined. and maps -- i know there's a lot of information, and if there's any questions, i'll do my best to answer them. >> president hirsch: thank you, commander. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. commander, i think i missed a portion of what you missed. so traffic was downsized a while back or something along those lines, and we're back at a decent capacity now? i know those are kind of vague words, but can you tell us the status of traffic company? >> so like everyone in the police department, we'd love to have more of the police officers that we have at every assignment, including -- including traffic. i can tell you from -- from working with them, from training with them, or being trained, i should say -- they're not training with me, they're teaching me.

the traffic company is composed of some of our most experienced officers. they're highly trained, they take a lot of pride in what they do, and it's very personal for many of these officers there. they investigate these collisions. they're often amongst the first officers on the scene, and it's very difficult as police officers, we don't lose our humanity, and it's very difficult to see someone as young as 14 years old injured. >> commissioner hamasaki: i guess i was more asking about numbers. >> numbers? so we have 50 -- 51, 52 people altogether. four people were recently successful in the promotion

process and were promoted to sergeant. we also have to take into consideration that a lot of these numbers th, that we have officers that may be out because they were injured, who may be out on different leaves, and with all of that in mind, they are still responsible -- i mean, traffic safety enforcement patrol, that is march primary mission, but there are a lot of other -- that is their primary mission, but there are a lot of other tasks and assignments that they are given as police officers which does take time away exclusively for enforcement. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. can i ask, on a given day, how many officers from traffic, how many are deployed in the field? >> so that was a question i was asked about two months ago, and i can find the information and

report back because i don't want to guess and give you the wrong number. >> commissioner hamasaki: can you estimate? >> pardon me? >> commissioner hamasaki: can you estimate? >> i don't want to give you the wrong information, commissioner, but i can get it for you. >> commissioner hamasaki: i'm pleased that the traffic division is doing better and they're in the high danger zones or high traffic zones essentially. it's just we're at 41 homicides and 29 vehicle fatalities. it seems like it's a number we can work on. i know the department's committed to it. so is there -- is there -- is there any glaring needs that you have coming out of this report as far as -- as far as what -- what the department needs to succeed, you know, whether that's more enforcement, education, whatnot?

>> yes. and i am going to give you a number, if you'll -- okay. i hope you'll give me a little something like th slack if i'm off a little bit. i believe this is on a day shift or night shift -- we can have 16 to 22 officers on a shift -- or not a shift, but in a day, covering from the morning to late in the evening. the next steps, one of the things that the captain and i have done over the past few months is we've gone around and met with every district station pli police captain to make sure that we are getting from each individual district -- there is a lot of information available from the community, and all the information that's not, you know, always quantified in a graph or chart or in data, so,

you know, for example, captain fabry, one of the densest areas in san francisco, just a large majority of pedestrians, so we're working with traffic company and his station because we want to do pedestrian safety operations. we don't do stings, we do pedestrian safety operations, and those have been effective in the past. with other captains, it's been about getting information to them that they can get to other officers or the officers that work for them in the police departme department. recently, we had better market street that rolled out, so we have no vehicles on market street anymore, so we made sure that we got out information to the police department so that they are aware. we have officers from northern, central, and tenderloin that work on market street regularly, but we also have officers from the hondas, from

t.a.c., from hsoc, from other units, that travel in that area, so giving them that information helps us be more effective and efficient. in terms of public education, that's something that i've talked about with director david stephenson from the p.i.o. office, with one of our videographers about getting out the message to everyone. we have to look out for each other is what we're after. we want everyone to be safe, and we search people and pedestrians or bicyclists in certain areas or people that are certainly vulnerable -- we want to get everybody as much information as we possibly can so that everybody can contribute to traffic safety. we don't want anyone to get hurt for any reason. >> commissioner hamasaki: great. thank you, commander. >> president hirsch: commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: thank you for the presentation.

i appreciate the way you laid out the slides and information. on slide four, the traffic information, i'm wondering were richmond and taraval are so high compared to the other districts? is there any reason, correlation or just more officers that are out patrolling? >> so one of the -- and thank you for the compliment at the beginning, commissioner. i will say, to answer that question, there are certain districts where the demand for police services -- they're not the same across the board, so there are stations too -- that have to be more proactive in terms of enforcement. one of the things that we're trying to get the captains involvis

that we're all involved in vision zero. whatever there are incidents, whenever there are serious accidents, we are putting information out with the help of our p.i.o., with the help of our twitter page and everything to show the people, to show the communities we serve that we're out here, that we're doing the job. i think that in certain areas, again, it's about the amount of free time that police officers have that isn't obligated to responding to calls for service, handling administrative assignments, sitting on persons in custody or that are detained who are at the hospital, so those -- that's why those numbers will var vary. >> president hirsch: thank you. chief scott? >> just to comment on the

information, we were down below 40 since 2017 so we've had several motorcycle officer classes since there, so our goal is to build that up, and we're now over 50. >> thank you he. >> president hirsch: thank you, commander. i live in the city, and i have for 40 years, and i know there's never been as many motorcycle officers as there has been recently. >> we are really going to push hard on the public information piece. i see there's a lot of seniors who suffered -- who were killed in traffic collisions, so we really want to get the word out, and we're working on that internally so we can get the message out to different communities, so the message is received and people are safe. >> president hirsch: thank you.

>> thank you. >> president hirsch: anything else, chief? >> no, sir. >> president hirsch: i want to go back to the sheriff's and the staffing. there's something that's bugging me about that. the fix would be what? is it a budgetary issue for both, s.f. general and the sheriff's, so they have the budget to open what they need in the staff or is that part of it? >> yes, sir. it's part of it. part of it is, per policy, it's our responsibility up to a certain point to provide that security. so unless we revamp the policy -- and that would also depend on the sheriff's ability and willneingness. >> president hirsch: but what

would the city have to do to compensate so we don't have to have the extra $1.7 million or whatever it may be for that type of work because we're not supposed to be doing that type of work? >> exactly. so many hospitals have jail wards, so when somebody is going to be admitted into the hospital, those jail wards are designed to keep them in custody in a safe environment where the medical staff can do their job safely, as well. it's not staffed, and it's not through anybody's fault. it's just been a staffing challenge for d.p.h. and a budgetary concern for all three departments. [please stand by]

>> i would ask for more information. it's all of our issues. >> they have two levels with the

jail ward at sfgh. >> it's like ward 7 and the psyche ward and the medical. >> it's rather large and has facility -- >> yeah, and that's a separate issue from this. you are correct. >> we don't want to mix. >> the jail ward is actually not staffed. >> maybe, maybe mark zuckerberg will give us naming rights to a facility. >> can you take that? can you take that lead to -- >> next item, please. >> line 3b. d.p.a. director's report. activities and announcements. b.p.a.'s report will have a description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether the calender any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. presentation of the interim key issue report, best practices and reporting use of force data. good evening, director handser son. >> good evening. i have a number of updates for

you. we are at 50 cases opened so far this year. we're at 45 the same time last year. and in terms of cases we've closed we're almost fully staffed so we're closing out as many cases as we can and as efficiently and we are at 82 case that's have been closed out so far this year and this time last year, we closed out 34 cases. in terms of cases pending, we are at 395 cases reflective of the uptick in cases that came throughout the year. this time last year we were at 290 cases. sustained cases we are at six cases that have been sustained this year and so far this time last year we were at three cases. in terms of case that's are past 270 days, and is a nine-month mark, there are 25 cases and of the 25 cases, 11 of those cases are told. and the case that's are mediated, we have three cases so

far, six cases so far this year as opposed to three cases at the same time last year. and since the last police commission meeting, we've disclosed four additional files and this is the 1421 and we have disclosed four additional files and the great bodily injury category and they have been released and while we continue our production of cases identifying in the g.b.i. category, we're prioritizing the cases in dishones dishonesty anl have a in-depth update and what we're doing in terms of updates and next week for next week's meeting. >> the total number of records you've released thus far? four additional -- >> i don't know. [laughter] >> i can have it for you by next week. >> let's finish the report. >> in terms of the mediation, i gave you those numbers. for outreach on january 16th we

participated in the sunday street mission fair summit that took place and in valencia garden and january 17th and we participated in the census launch with speaker of the house nancy pillows' and january 21st, staff participated at the -- and we held a table at the ucsf annual anti human trafficking training. also on that day, our attorneys gave a presentation at the san francisco family support network membership planning meeting. we were invited to come and make a presentation about our work and then also, on that day, we participated in the tenderloin fair planning summit at saint anthony's. in addition to that later on this month and in the 27th, we

attended and participated in the bay view summit at cyc bay view. i don't know if that's a typo. we have four cases that are in closed session this evening and the audience tonight is senior investigator brent bayjin and our director of audit steve flarety and supervisor auditor cat scoggins and vilma, our project manager. i'm making sure i wasn't missing anybody. that's it. >> they're going to present. you are going to hear from them. >> i'm about to introduce them. >> ok. >> i was separating it. >> any questions just for director henderson based on his report? >> we're ready for you. >> and like i said, there will

be a more thorough 1421 presentation next with with some of those numbers in details. without further adieu, i'd like to introduce the team that worked on the property audit in rehave you to make their presentation and invite them to come and take the podium. this is steve and cat. >> good evening to you both. >> good evening. >> good evening, president

hirsch, commissionerses and chief to have. i'm the director of audits for the police accountability and i'm accompanied by cat with the controllers office at city services auditor division. we provided you with an overview of performance auditing and the audit of the san francisco police department and how our audit would differ from the 96. a reports. tonight, we'll be presenting with the status update on our department of police accountability audit of the san francisco collection and reporting procedures for use of force data. we'll provide an overview of our interim report that we've issued on assessing the san francisco police department's public reporting of use of force against best practices and overview of the audit's next steps. the scope of our audit is

calender year 2017 which is use of force incidents and use of force supervisor evaluations. some factors that impacted the scope of our audit were changes in the department at that time and including their revised use of force policy which occurred in december of 2016 and the october 2016 united states department of justice assessment report which made 272 recommendations, 21% of them related to use-of-force. as a recap of our audit objectives, our team will be assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of the san francisco police department's collection of and reporting procedures for use of force data. this will be accomplished by answering five questions including our use of force collection and reporting procedures designed to accomplish their objectives, our use of force data collection and reporting procedures consistently applied did the use of force policies guide exercises to objectively review whether a use of force is in

policy and does the san francisco police department provide data in accordance with reporting mandates and lastly has the san francisco police department implemented the united states department of justice recommendations. we chose use of force data as the topic for the use audit because we believe it's vital for transparent see and accountability. there's a component under california code, san francisco police department is required to collect and report out on use of force. use of force is considered a indicator for the purposes of the san francisco early intervention system and reliable data is needed so that the department can identify trends and needs for officer training. so, since we've last briefed you on the progress of the audit, we issued an interim report on best practices and reporting use of force data and this responds to subject number four of our

audit. it's an interim report that we published because this part of our audit was essentially done and we still have a couple other chapters that we're in the process of concluding right now and we wanted to put this information out there so that the department can take any action on the issues we've identified before the final report is complete. the interim report will provide observations with one subject of the audit and we'll address the rest of the objectives in the full audit report. it does not include recommendations or require a response from the police department. in terms of timeline, a draft was issues to the san francisco police department on november 25th, 2019. we asked that it did not containerrors and the final report was issued on december 18th to the police station and the police department.

as part of our review, we looked at what reports the sfpd makes public on their use of force and use of force data. it's the administrative code 96a report published on a quarterly basis and contains information on the demographics and stops, rests, use of force and other officer bias and the other report we looked at was the department's early intervention system report which provides statistical information regarding events and officer actions that may indicate a pattern of behavior that can benefit from non disciplinary action. >> we identified those and we found the 96a and e.i.s. reports have all mandated elements they can put out regarding use of force reporting. these elements come from, in the case of the e.i.s. report, 3.19 and in the case of the 96. a report san francisco

administrative code. so we performed our evaluation of the reports by comparing them to best practices offered by authoritative sources. specifically, we looked at when the e.i.s. in 96a reports contain context to help users interpret the data and whether the reports meet user needs by summarizing data and meeting the needs of stakeholders relying on these reports, whether the reports highlight and help users follow key points, whether they report make pro pro at use of graphics to demonstrate trends or whether they have underlying data available to the public. these best practices will ensure that the underlying use of force is -- and other sub objectives. with that, i'll turn it over to cat who will go into a little bit about the best practices and

our observations. >> good evening. so, i'm a little shorter than steve. for context and user needs, if you look at the interim report we have examples of issues that we saw related to not providing enough context to meet the user's needs. so, one for instance, we have on exhibit 3 in the interim report, which is the on context provided in the early intervention system report. and it shows you a bunch of information but it doesn't really tell you what that information means. both indicators and associated factors are shown as throwing

into this e.i.s. system which is an exly how the system works. it's not really clear what this process really means and what happens at the end of this process. when we were doing this work, the early intervention system report the police department really considers this an internal report they use from their own internal discussions, within the group that administered the intervention system and that being said, it is available publicly and we are in an age where nothing is really internal anymore especially when we look at law enforcement. and, so, keeping that in mind, with this being available to the public the public needs to be considered an audience for it and it's just not understandable by someone who is not within the department. we also, with relation to the same thing to that context,

there's areas where there are statistics that are not explained. there's exhibit 4 in the interim report and it's a graphic from the e.i.s. report that shows that the intention is to show why yo use of force increased because the pointing of a firearm at machin someone was at able use of force. so there was a group of actions that became a use of force that we're not counted as a use of force before. they have something in the report that is illustrate tag to show that if you take out that pointing of firearms, what the trends are of the rest of the data. it's not really explained. if you are not in the e.i.s. unit and you are not aware of that change and the reportable use of force this isn't very

meaningful. additionally, we've even -- we have a quote here from you, president hirsch, that it's not meeting the needs of the commission as well because it's not, there's not enough context and analysis included with it. so up with of the other context issues is there's a lot of abbreviations that are not explained. for example, an exhibit 8, we show a table where there are the department is different divisions units on one side and indicators as column headers and i.a.d. appears in both lists with no clarification about what it means as a row and column. this is the kind of thing where it's something that is very obvious and clear to the police

department, while they're discussing this, but not clear to someone outside of the department. with regards to the 96a report, it has significantly more context. and again, the 96a report was always perceived as a public document because of its origination and the administration code and intention was always for the audience to not be within the police department. so it's very clear it's much more intentional to have a lot more context in it. however, there's still some issues with context there. there's some places where we see that there is kind of interpretation of what the data really means, exhibit 5 in the interim report, shows a table where there's also a statement that is trying to say ok, what does this really mean in the context of the demographics of

the departments? is there outliers here or is this just reflective of the make up of the members. but it's fairly rare. that's only, you know, of the 96a report which is very, very, long, there's really not very much analysis included in it to provide that context which is really needed to understand the meaning of the data. so, the graphic, you will see on the screen, of the e.i.s. report, this is the first page of the report and the context that shows this is what the process is and this might be easily understood by the people working with this on a day-to-day basis but not to someone who is not in that unit. it doesn't define the difference between those performance indicators and those associated factors. it doesn't define what an e.i.s.

alert is. it doesn't define what the thresh holds are for triggering an alert. there's an indicator in the report that lists the numbers by indicator type but not necessarily complete because if there were no indicators of a specific type it wouldn't show up on the list. here is another example. this is the graphic that president hirsch was calling out and the quote we have in the report of not -- there was a lot of questions about what this meant. it looks like there's something really awful going on at mission. and nothing going on at what is the last one, park. because it doesn't have the context of what the workload is. how many people who are living in those areas.

it's not providing you meaningful information. one of the other best practices is it's a separate document. someone picks up the full 96a report they don't have context and information in the executive summary and if you pull it up without realizing that it's very long documented summarizing another document, you are not getting a lot of the actual statistics that you are getting enough to make you think maybe this is the full report. so separating those two does create confusion and problems with that and then the complete absence of a executive summary he to kind of give some meaning

to what is in the report is also an issue. the last best practice is open data. we are an age where transparency is highly appreciated, especially in law enforcement. it is a best practice to make data that underlies public reports available so that other people can slice and dice it in the way that they need to for their purposes. and we're not, by any means, saying release the entire use of force data base that is at the police department to the public but the data can be cleaned and released in a way that is providing -- that is balancing the need for transparency and balancing the need to have data that is not necessarily publicly available at the department would be using internally for their own purposes.

>> so in terms of next steps, we're in the process of concluding our field work right now. this is the part where we're going through and making sure we have objectives making it to support them and we'll arrange a time to go over our findings and causes as well as potential recommendations. in terms of a timeline, it's our intention or it's the controller's intention to provide a draft report to the department of police accountability by the end of march. >> thank you, the draft report will look lick something we're now seeing but just more extensive? what is the final -- >> you will see two additional chapters in the report. one chapter being on the use of force data collection and then the second charter will likely be on the use-of-force data analysis and the third chapter

will be on how the information is presented out to the public. the report will be more extensive. it will contain full recommendations and the report, there will be an opportunity to go over it with the police department before it's published to make sure everything is accurate and given the last opportunity to go over the findings and present any information that may not have been brought to our attention during the audit it and will contain recommendations as well as the police department response to those recommendations. >> you mentioned that you expect to provide to d.p.a. in march? when do you think that the report with the recommendations will be public? >> so, we fully intend to issue it by the end of the fiscal year. but the process of providing it to d.p.a. and also to the police department for their feedback and review so if events occur that we can't really foresee

that causes delays in any of those review processes, and even our internal review processes, it cody lay it but we expect by the end of the fiscal year. hopefully earlier. >> when that happens, can you report back to the commission as to -- obviously what the recommendations were and what -- i imagine they'll be changes that are agreed upon or not agreed upon by the department and d.p.a. just to give us a status update. >> absolutely. >> mr. flarety, you are d.p.a. >> yes, i accepted a position and my first day on the job was monday. my last day on the controllers was last friday. and so -- >> how does this work? [please stand by]

>> commissioner dejesus: you know, it has nothing to do with the use of force, so this is

really helpful. so i -- when you -- when you're doing your work, you're going to continue to include the e.i.s., at least the use of force clause, is that right? >> yes. >> whi . >> commissioner dejesus: while you're doing that, is there any way to determine if this is an effective system? the best practices, 148 and 243 is not included in the trigger, which in my understanding of best practices should be a trigger, but it's not. it's the 148 and 243s that tell you that an officer might need some training or more work with the public. so any way, that's what i'm wondering. >> yeah. so right now, i'm in the process of building an at risk because i imagine once this audit is closed, we'll go right

into the next one. we'll take that feedback and put it into the potential audit plan. >> commissioner dejesus: and the last thing i want to say -- >> i'm sorry. can i also address that? >> commissioner dejesus: sure. >> on the controller's side, we also are beginning our work planning process, and some of the sources, some of the ideas of that -- that potentially get onto the work plan do come from prior audits, and e.i.s. is definitely going to be floated. >> commissioner dejesus: and then i want to be -- commend you for using feedback. we have a report -- we have a ten or 20-minute report, and then, we give the public two minutes to address this, and there's a lot of frustration and anger from the public. so the idea that they can get this report in advance and submit comments on behalf of

the report is just fabulous. i've been here 12 years, and i just think it's wonderful to be able to add comments. >> president hirsch: commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: thank you, president hirsch. i agree with commissioner dejesus -- [inaudible] >> commissioner elias: whether that is a person that needs intervention or doesn't because last time they presented, it resulted in 179 hits, and no intervention because it didn't funnel through, so that's something i think we need to look into or address, so that's the first thing. the second thing, because you're new, the department and the chief have been very diligent about submitting their documents to us on friday afternoon when they're due. i didn't receive this until

yesterday. we didn't get it until yesterday, so i'm going to hold you to the same standard because the department has been really good about providing us with the materials prior to the deadline, so you've got to be held to the same standard, so please make sure you are cognizant of that because as you know, we do this on the weekend -- read the materials, most of us do. and then, the third thing is the audit. it's the audit done and where are the numbers? when will we see the actual numbers? >> that will be included in the full audit report that we were discussing, that we're hoping to have it issued by the end of the fiscal year, and the -- start the review process with d.p.a. and the department at the end of march. >> commissioner elias: published around june, you say? >> that's what we anticipate. >> commissioner elias: okay. >> president hirsch: director henderson? >> as a first commissioner, we

will drill down and get that information and find out when you will receive that information because it was turned in well in advance of this meeting. one, i want to thank steve and cat and the rest of the team, and the folks that are in the audience here that worked on this project. it has been extensive and tedious, but one of the things that i want to point out is the inclusion of both best practices and issues that have been reviewed and adopted in other jurisdictions for us to compare the work that's here and in other jurisdictions. and what i wanted to point out that i think is important is this was a big stop from the prop g from when we all started when this issue came up, and there had been no work done in addressing what the voters had asked for in getting this information in front of this

commission and to a public presentation like this, and we're still getting there. i think we're about to see a lot clearer focus now that the team is in house and moving under the umbrella of d.p.a., but one of the things that i'd like to presentation in conclusion is that issue be assigned to a commissioner either for a quarterly input or review after this process because it's not going away after it's presented to the voters. >> commissioner hamasaki: i nominate petra. >> president hirsch: is there a -- >> commissioner dejesus: i have a lot of questions. and if i'm appointed, i can ask questions and they'll be answered. >> president hirsch: well, how about this? i appoint you the contact person, and you can review.

[inaudible] >> commissioner dejesus: i just have a lot of questions about the process that you might not have thought of. okay. >> president hirsch: chief scott. >> thank you, commissioners. i just echo what's been said. i thank the controller's office, steve and cat, for the work. i thank d.p.h. for taking this on, as well. just a couple of things i want to note. e.i.s. -- this is regarding e.i.s. second quarter of 2019, i believe it was commissioner brookter that we complete executive summaries and add that to the e.i.s. reporting mechanism, so we've done that as of the second quarter of 2019. anything that we can get in improving the system is welcome, but i just want to point out per the general order, the e.i.s. was never meant to be a reporting mechanism of use of force. it's as you stated, one of the indicators. so i just want to state that

e.i.s. is meant to be a performance review, and many of the things that go into these triggers are personnel records. we welcome transparency where it's legal to do that, but i did want to make clear that e.i.s. was not meant to be a reporting system. >> president hirsch: commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: well, i think there can be a lot more clarity in the reports for this commission and the public itself and better understanding of how it's working. so for that, for the reporting requirements, i think we need to move forward. >> yes, and actually, i had that in my report, that we can provide better understanding for the acronyms and better understanding for everybody. >> president hirsch: okay. thank you.

director henderson, do you have anything else on the agenda for us? >> that was enough. >> president hirsch: okay. good. next item, please. >> clerk: item 3-c. commissioner reports, limited to a brief discussion of commissioner reports. >> president hirsch: i don't have a report at this time. do any commissioners have reports? seeing none, next item. >> clerk: item d, commission announcements and scheduling of items considered for presentation at future meetings. >> president hirsch: commissioner mazzucco? >> thank you, president hirsch. this year, we had 49 deaths due to street dealing in the ten r

tenderloin. what's the department doing about that? we've been talking about it a little bit here as a commission, but what is our narcotics division doing about making sure we're tracing where these drugs come from, doing more than just an investigation or a buy-bust? if there is an investigation, are we getting involved or relying on the feds to do that? it's significant. we are were talking about 294 fentanyl-related deaths last year. that's almost one a day, and no one seems to be concerned about that. i think in the police department, there's things you can do in the health and safety code to not just make a buy-bust, not just put a person in the court system, but trace where it's coming from. family members are losing family members out on the street, and again, there even seemed to be a great human cry. i know the officers are talking

about it. you're also hearing them call for the medical examiner's office, and so i think it's time we take this issue on as a commission and ask that our narcotics unit does more than just make arrests for dealing. >> president hirsch: this is a scheduling item, so are you asking the department to come back and make a report sometime soon? >> yes. >> president hirsch: okay. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: i don't know if this is the right place, but i'd like to see if we can schedule a working group or can we just talk about it offline and get it going? >> vice president taylor: i have to decide? >> commissioner dejesus: apparently i have to talk to you to get it going. i have no idea where that came from. let's just get it clarified and moving forward. >> vice president taylor: if i have to decide, i'm happy to decide. >> president hirsch: hang on.

i second a text message out or e-mail to the two commissioners asking what is the status, and i haven't heard anything. i consider this to be an extremely important issue. we didn't convene a working group or start talking about a working group until several months ago. we don't need to deal with it now, but i just think the two commissioners involved need to get the group going. >> commissioner dejesus: well, if i can, the office can't take direction from me. i was told i have to go through commissioner taylor. >> vice president taylor: this is literally the first time i've heard about this. my sfgov has been a nightmare. >> president hirsch: the department can take an order from you. >> commissioner dejesus: i didn't want to exclude anybody, i just wanted to get the ball rolling. >> vice president taylor: i don't know what this is, but if anybody needs a decision from me, i've made a decision. >> president hirsch: well, now we're all in the hot seat.

please get this working group going. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: there's an issue that's come up that is something that i don't have enough information about that i'd like to perhaps confer with the department offline and then potentially convene a working group involving individuals that would be appropriate on it. and the issue is an issue that has kind of come into the media rising out of los angeles where there's been a number of scandals, 20 officers involved in fabricating gang validation information. and my concern is not -- well, it would be a concern if that was happening here, but that's not the basis of my concern. i realized in -- well, actually, i knew this from history, but we don't actually use cal-gang, and that san francisco has its own database.

and i want to determine how the gang database here in san francisco is being maintained, if and when it is being audited, and if there are procedures for individuals to be removed from them. and in los angeles, it was just in the paper yesterday. they had one-year-olds on the gang database, but i really don't think you can join a gang at one, but maybe that's special toddler gangs and, you know juice boxes and whatnot. but any ways, i wanted to put that on the -- i don't think it needs to go to the agenda yet, but i wanted to let the department know that that's something -- and i'll say, also, as an importanattorney, students in one of the top universities who found himself

on -- it's just based on some contacts, and this is, like, 15 years before, and he had no idea how to get off, and i didn't know how to get him off, and so i just kind of punted on the issue at the time. but i do think we need to look into that as a commission and hopefully have some answers. >> president hirsch: okay. >> commissioner hamasaki: i'm sorry. commissioner dejesus reminded me. >> commissioner dejesus: yeah. >> commissioner hamasaki: there's another issue that this is going to be a commission working group, or i'd like to form one with the consensus, president hirsch and my esteemed fellow commissioners. the issue is the release of mug shots and the dissemination of arrestee mug shots. i've looked through the d.g.o.s. i haven't been able to find a policy on it, and i will say before and since i've been on

the commission, there's been constant complaints about individuals who have been arrested but not convicted, their mug shots being released onto social media. there's websites that pull these photographs and put them on-line. they made it illegal last year for the companies to sell, taking them down. but ultimately what this does is brand somebody for life as a criminal, and i was looking into the california attorney general, there is close to 1 million arrests, and over 500,000 never resulted in charges or a conviction. so even when you think about oh, well, somebody that got arrested might have done something, well, more than half of them at least according to the attorney general's records for the year that i looked at, that wasn't the case.

so i am concerned. i think -- i've been approached by people for years with the way that we're releasing and disseminating mug shots and arrestees. and i would like to form a working group, and i would like to work with the department on this, and we can have some discussions on-line and circle back and do the formal processes. >> president hirsch: that's fine. chief, i don't know if you're going to designate somebody that would the point person for the department, but my suggestion would be, commissioner hamasaki, that you get in touch with the point person and you folks figure out how you want to develop the work. >> i will get in touch with the commissioner. >> commissioner dejesus: i want the answers to those questions. >> commissioner elias: yes. can you report back to commissioner hamasaki if you have the answers to those questions? >> yes, please.

>> president hirsch: next item, please. >> clerk: as a reminder, the next meeting is meeting will be held in the ingleside district at visitacion valley elementary school, on wednesday, february 19, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. >> president hirsch: all right. public comment on items 3-a

through 3-d. >> i guess you guys are still on somewhere. let's get started. hi. my name is michael vitrellis, and i want to have the camera for a few moments focused on this article from the january 30 edition of the san francisco examiner. off duty sfpd officer who shot at driver in berkeley took hour to call local police. okay. you can focus back on me with the camera. the reason why i'm bringing this up now is because the chief and the executive director for d.p.a. mentioned nothing about this officer who in september of last year was driving in the east bay and used his gun. he was off duty, he used his gun, he shot at somebody in

another car. this story was very disturbing, that this fellow, michael shavers, a 13-year veteran of the san francisco police department, fired a single bullet at the other driver. he thought the other man may have had a gun. that's really in question as to whether there was another gun, but here, we have an off-duty officer using his gun in daytime, and he doesn't report it. he calls his lawyer, and he calls the union. this was in the mainstream media, and no one has brought it up, after 90 minutes to two hours of listening to you guys -- oh, it did come up? >> i have it. >> she has it. okay. i want my 30 seconds back. there has to be someone on the dais there who's going to tell the public of this. two hours of sitting through

this and none of you brought this up? what is happening to this case? i'd like to know if a -- i just need 15 seconds here. i'd like to know if the d.p.a. has opened a -- an investigation into this officer based on the examiner or if they will open such an investigation as i believe is needed. thank you. >> president hirsch: thank you. any other public comment? this is on items 3-a through d. >> good evening. my name is john jones. i have a public comment with regard to the vision zero we've received. it's been many years since i've had a car. i get around by san francisco by muni, bicycle, and walking, so the issue of getting hit by

a car is very close to me. there are two items that ought to be included in the report. first, a critique of the department of motor vehicles practice and procedures issuing driver's licenses. my opinion is that a large percentage of the drivers on the road are temporarily unfit to drive on the road in an urban environment. you just have to step out and watch it objectively. there's something wrong there. something needs to be done. how you do it is another thing. my second comment is motor vehicle manufacturers are manufacturing cars for street use, with horsepowers in the range of 700. i'd like to call to your attention that the horsepower of a standard american world

war ii tank, the sherman tank, was about 500. i don't understand what these manufacturers are trying to tell us. they get to make $70,000 retail value for these behemoths that they put on the road. i have no sympathy for that. the first car i bought had a horsepower of 20. it was a renault. i don't like to see the state involved in this, but at some point, we have to put a limit on the horsepower of cars. thank you. >> president hirsch: any other public speakers on items 3-a through d? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. i would make a comment. we on the commission do not comment on cases that are under investigation.

we haven't and won't. next item? >> clerk: line item 4, discussion and possible action to adopt a resolution urging the board of supervisors to authorize the san francisco police department to accept and expend a grant in the action of $65,828 from the state of california, department of parks and rec lation, division of boating and water ways for the sfpd marine unit for the project period beginning the date of grant agreement execution through november 30, 2020. discussion and possible action. >> president hirsch: good evening. >> good evening, president hirsch, vice president taylor, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. my name is vee young, and i'm the grant director for the san francisco police department. this grant will help us replace two motors on our marine 3

vessel. the current motors are 300 horsepower motors, and they've reached the end of its useful life expectancy. the grant funds will help us replace it with two 350 output horsepower motors, and with this, it will extend the life of our marine three boat and provide the police with needed equipment to support the water ways and infrastructure. and if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer them. >> president hirsch: are there any questions about this proposal? i don't see any. i'll take public comment before we put this to a motion. is there any public comment on this resolution to accept this grant of about 65, $$65,000,

$66,000? seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. i'll ask the question. all in favor, say aye? opposed? the proposal is approved. next item. >> clerk: item 5, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d.p.a. personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police or d.p.a.

personnel, nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and d.p.a. personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussions with speakers during public comment. >> john jones. there was a moment in president trump's state of the union address. i'd like to refer to the killing of kate steinle. you know how that came down. pier 14. bang, is hit in the neck. she grabbed her daddy, and said help me, daddy, and dies. everybody in the coulaw

enforcement system throws enforcement -- court system throws up their hands and says we're not liable. you're going to go into closed session. i would urge you to make a payment to the steinle family in the amount of $15 million which is very reasonable based on the actions of the city and county of san francisco. you have the power to put that on your calendar. i would encourage you to do that. >> president hirsch: any other public comment? >> good evening, everyone. >> president hirsch: good evening. >> as usual, i'd like to use the overhead. again, i'm back again, and this is a new year, and august 14 will be 15 years -- when it gets here, it'll be 15 years, and i'm thinking about it

already. again, thank you for my new investigator also that -- i spoke with him, and he sounds really nice. i'd like to meet him. he's called me, like, twice already and sent me a couple of e-mails, so i'm glad of that. but i still want to bring that we could still do more concerning our children, and i always bring these other pictures of unsolved homicides, and that's my quest, is about unsolved homicides. not just my son, but every child, recent, past, that we do something about this. i carry this because most of these people i know, and i walk with these mothers and fathers in our healing circle. so the other thing i wanted to say is on the 14th -- my son

was murdered on the 14th, and the 14th is not that great for me anywhere, and february 14th will be my birthday, and i'm not feeling really happy about that because that number is not significant to me anymore because my son being murdered on the 14th. i just want and wish that we can do more about these unsolved homicides so mothers like myself can heal a little bit. i almost didn't come here this evening, but i -- i needed to come because this is my therapy, coming squarely falls

parameters of 1421. and as far as i know, there is not a protocol in place for new incidents that happen that clearly meet 1421 criteria and releasing those incidents, those records under 832.7, 1421

into the public sphere in a reasonable time after so that the public is not learning about this 4.5 months later or who knows if at all. and if we're not releasing these events as they happen, these 1421 events, we are just adding to the backlog, and we are not advancing the public's right to know. so i want to encourage this body and the various departments to think about a protocol for releasing new events that meet 1421 criteria as they happen. of course sfpd, we know, knows about it. i don't know if the commission -- if it's wound its way to the commission yesterday, but the separate bodies would seem to me to need to develop that protocol so we're not just throwing it on the bottom of the pile, the bag

log pile. and i have copies of the article in case anyone missed it. >> president hirsch: thank you. commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: thank you. that brings up a good point. i think what i'd like to do is agendaize a presentation by the department and d.p.a. as i mentioned before, we are working on getting a portal up and running so that the 1421 documents as they come in will be uploaded to this website so the public has access to it. i've been working with tar ahawkitara hawkins from the d.p.a. who has sort of commenced a small group to get us going to figure out how we do that because there are some technical issues with respect -- on the city side, so i think it would be worthwhile to let the public know what's going on and when we anticipate having this portal up and running which is a pretty huge feat, so --

>> president hirsch: okay. thank you. any other comments? >> commissioner hamasaki: i was just going to say -- >> president hirsch: commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: not to belabor anything, i'm sure you're comfortable that we can't comment on any pending cases, but are you asking that they be released as items come in sort of one by one regarding an ongoing investigation? >> so i'm not quite sure about your question. we found out about officer shaver last week, the incident. so once we see that in the news, we make a specific request for it. >> commissioner hamasaki: and i forget -- this was an older -- this didn't just happen last week. >> right. this happened in september. >> commissioner hamasaki: i was under the understanding that this happened right away. >> commissioner dejesus: thank you for the article.

i think we're aware of that. >> i assumed, but if i'm going to talk about something, it's easy enough -- >> president hirsch: any other public comment? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. next line item. >> clerk: public comment on all matters pertaining to item 8 below, closed session, including public comment on item 7, vote to whether to hold item 8 in closed session. >> president hirsch: okay. is there any public comment on item 8? okay. next line item.

>> president hirsch: next item, please. >> clerk: item 9, vote to disclose -- vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 8 held in closed session, san francisco administrative code section 67.12. >> president hirsch: all in fav favor? opposed? vote not to disclose.

>> good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. or good afternoon, rather. and we're glad to show you a picture of how our city did this past year on public safety. in particular our crime numbers, our crime statistics. we have a lot of good news to announce and we're going to share with you the good news and some of the challenges and strategies that we have ahead for this year 2020. but i want to begin by welcoming our mayor here, mayor london breed. she's been incredibly supportive of the men and women of our police department, and the work that we're doing to make our city safer. so wowght further adieu i'd like to introduce mayor london breed. >> mayor london breed: thank you, thank you, chief and to the command staff that are joining us here today as well as all of the members of the san francisco

police department who serve our city every single day. i think that they do an amazing job. and it's one that needs to be acknowledged and today we want to talk about some of the great work they've been able to do over the past year that has gotten our city to a better place. but i do want to take it back just a little bit because i always talk about growing up in the city to give people a perspective of how things used to be. and where we are now. and many of you know that the community that i grew up in was very challenging community and there was a lot of violence. and, sadly, a lot of loss of life to gun violence in particular. when we think about what used to happen in the 1980s and the early 1990s and how things escalated and the number of homicides that happened all over the city, especially in neighborhoods that are in the

western edition and in the mission, the fact that we are at an all-time low in homicides in our city is absolutely incredible. 41 homicides, of course, are 41 too many. but the fact is that this is the lowest number of homicides that we've seen since 1961. it is unbelievable, but we didn't get there by accident. we worked hard to achieve the success that we've been able to achieve. ultimately we want to ensure public safety of all residents of san francisco, and that involves, yes, police presence, but it also involves working together with the community. and so during the time when i worked in the community at the african american art and culture complex, in fact, many of the command staff served as the captain of a northern police

station, including the captain mcgekrin and captain ann maddox who are now deputy chiefs for this department. we worked together on those issues to try and to address not only the public safety challenge, but also how do we do more to serve the community and to give back so that that never happens in the first place. and it's a very well-rounded approach and it's very necessary and we are seeing the results in the numbers that i know that the chief is going to talk about later on today. it does take a lot of hard work, it does -- as they say, take a village. and it does require a relationship with our police officers. and i will say that what i do appreciate about san francisco police department in comparison to any other department in this country is how hard they work to develop relationships with the community.

and oftentimes it's not always acknowledged for things they do to go above and beyond which builds the bridge necessary in order to cop keep the communitis safe, not just around the challenges of what we deal with with violent crimes, but we know that san francisco's largest challenge is homelessness. and we have many officers often times who are the first to encounter people out on the streets. what you don't hear about is when they're spending their own money to pay for hotel rooms or socks or food or a number of other things, when they are providing services which are outside of the scope of what their responsibilities are. they care about the work that they do to keep the public safe. they care about the people of san francisco. and they have a responsibility, of course, to ensure all residents are safe. but they are compassionate. they work hard. and many of the policies that we put into place here in san francisco, including our

policies around deescalation and anti-bias training and a number of other things have really set the stage for so many other departments all over this country to follow. and so i am proud of the work that they have done and they'll continue to do for the residents of this city. it is getting us to a better place as we can see with the statistics. but i know that these statistics don't matter when, sadly, you or your family are a victim of violence or any other crime that exists, which is why we're working hard every single day to ensure that this department is fully staffed. and that continues to be a challenge. but the fact is that we are not fully staffed. and when we are being asked for support for beat officers and more traffic control officers and other things, you know, we don't always have the capacity to meet the need. and i am definitely committed to

continuing to fund more police academy classes and to work harder on recruitment efforts, but this is going to be necessary providing additional officers, especially as the officers retire. it's going to be critical to the success of the future of this city and in keeping people safe. and we have added beat officers where we know that they're needed and the things to help to deal with the challenges that we know that a growing city like san francisco has. and we also are aware -- we're not naive -- that there is definitely more that we need to do and can do to ensure safety for all of us. so i'm grateful and to the men and women of the department for everything that they have done to get us to this point. i know that working together we

will be able to improve upon these numbers for next year and with that i'd like to take this opportunity to ask the chief to come back to the podium and to talk more in detail about where we are with our statistics here in san francisco as it relates to violence and property crime. thank you. >> mayor, thank you. okay, again, i want to emphasize the mayor's leadership and how important it is to have a city leader that really takes a stand on public safety that she does. so thank you again, mayor, for your leadership and for your support. as i said we're pleased with the way that our statistics trended in 2019, particularly with violent crime. the mayor mentioned our homicide rate being the lowest since 1961.

but as most of you probably know, there's a monthly report that provides a snapshot of where we are at any point in time, month-to-month. and you can see on the poster board that we have to my right, your left, highlights from our year end 2019 report. and what it will show you is that homicides which are down 11% as the mayor said, 41 homicides, the lowest since 1961, and the rates down 15%. and robberies and aggravated assaults each dropped 4%. all of this is thanks to the hard work of the men and women of the san francisco police department which includes our investigation bureau and the units and our plainclothes officers and our foot beat officers and also in partnership with many diverse communities that we serve around our city. our officers put themselves at great risk protecting the people of our city, oftentimes without recognition. and i want to thank them publicly today for the work that they do.

none of this could be accomplished without the work of the men and women of the san francisco police department. violent crime is always going to be a top priority. and we think that what you see from our statistics is that we're making steady progress to reduce violent crime in our city. as i said 41 homicide says the lowest since 1961, but to illustrate the point even more emphatically, since 2017 our city had a steady decrease in violent crime as we have shifted resources to impact the areas of the city, of our city that are impacted the most. now this is at the same time that we had tremendous challenges with property crime as well. and as you will hear in a minute we have reduced property crime this past year and we're pleased with the two-year reduction and car break-ins. but the mayor illustrated this and i'll reemphasize this, when you are a victim of a violent crime really the stats and the statistics really don't matter

when it happens to you. and we understand that. and that's why building relationships are so important. that's why our strategies focus on prevention, rather than reaction. and that's why we work so hard to deter these crimes before they happen. we want you to know that for the people of san francisco that we will do everything that we can to prevent you from being a victim of crime. at any event that you are, our job is to solve the crime, to catch the perpetrators so that person can be held to account for what he or she might have done. in that regard, you know, we've had a number of high-profile cases in 2019, and we have solved many of them. and now it's up to the criminal justice system and our jury system that we believe in and our court system to take it from there. but i want to reemphasize when those crime does occur, we will do everything in our power to solve these crimes and to bring these individuals to justice.

and we have done just that. we don't solve them all. we work to solve them all. but we are going to work very hard to make sure that people who can commit crimes in our city are held to answer. with that our homicide rate this past year was 71% deterrence, which is a good thing for us because we do believe that not everybody is committing homicides in our city. there's a small amount of people. and we could solve these crimes and get those people off of our streets, it will make our city safer. we want to be more visible. we want to have more officers on the street. we know that when officers are present, people think twice before they commit crimes. so it's really important and we had a non-profit or an academic researcher that came in and to study our foot beat strategies and what they told us is that there was significant reductions in both larceny and assaults when we deployed foot beats and

we upped our foot beats in late 2017. we continue that strategy and we want that to continue. and that's why it's so important that we're able to recruit and get the finest in our police department to fill our ranks so we can continue these strategies and make them more robust. with that, we are boosting our policing efforts. we all know in 2017 that we took a stand in the u.n. plaza area and we put out a mobile command post there. and we increased our foot beat patrol there is, and it made a difference. we'll continue that with our mid-market foot beats and thanks to mayor breed and her emphasis on community policing with the men and the women that i'll introduce in a minute, our leadership teams, we'll further increase our foot patrols and focus continually on the mid-market area. i talked to many people, business owners, residents and visitors, who have told me

personally they have noticed a difference when our officers are out there. that's why we need our officers out there and we need them engaged and to do the job of preventing and deterring crime. this will also support our deployment to other issues that we have to respond to throughout the downtown area to make the place safer for all to enjoy. the next thing that i want to talk about is education. which is a key part of our crime prevention efforts and we've had our smart campaign for a number of years now, a couple years now, anyway. and we really do believe that that made a difference. but i want to go into detail on how that came about. and we'll have the chief there along the wall and we had many campaigns to reduce property crimes but the point is, number one, it was a collaborative effort. when it was assigned the deputy chief was captain lazar and with the community members it came from the community and we all

helped to foster that but it came from the community. what we intend to do with that message is to be vigilant and be resilient. don't leave your property to make it easy for somebody to make you a victim. lock your doors and don't leave things visible in your car, because you have more of a likelihood of being a victim of property crime. those public education campaigns work, they're effective and we have to do them to work in partnership with our community. this is a community effort, a drop in property crime is a collaborative effort and we have to have that continue. next i want to talk about our gun-related violence. as we know the majority of the homicides in the city traditionally have been firearm related. in 2018 -- or 2017, actually, under the leadership of the then commander greg mccapern we had a crime gun investigation center with. that our focus is really on two

things -- first of all, identifying those guns that are used repeatedly in crimes in our city, not only in our city but in the region. and the second is to identifying the individuals that use those guns so that we can hold them to account for their crimes. last year our crimes gun investigation center led to the seizure of 96 firearms, not 96 in total but 96 from this investigation center. some of which you see on the table to my right. these include unregistered machine guns, short billed rifles and silencers, and their efforts helped to bring about 90 federal and state arrests and indictments and generated over 300 leads to multiple firearm incidents. this has been a game changer in terms of building strong cases to get people who are willing to use firearms against another human being off of our streets which in turn makes our city safer. now this is a key component of our strategic plan and our strategic initiatives which

emphasize the collaboration with other city agencies and community members. in october we also hosted our first gun violence summit which is led by our director of crime strategies director tiffany sutton who is also to my left. in that summit we sat down with the community members to reduce strategies and to reduce gun violence, particularly in the bay view direct that is hard hit by gun violence. each district has specific challenges and we have to be nimble and to work with community-based organizations and community members to address our strategies to each neighborhood across our city. our crime strategy division, they're really doing the work of crunching the data and providing officers with the feedback on how to deploy resources to best meet the needs of our city. ultimately we want to do all that we can to improve our responsiveness and to make our city a safer city. we have a lot more work ahead, we know that. it's been said, and the mayor said it, and i said it and you

will hear us say time and time again, one homicide is too many and we know that we have challenges, but with that we intend to work with the community, we intend to continue to reinvent ourselves and to make the adjustments that we need to make in order to make our city the safest city that we can make. with that i thank you for joining us today. mayor breed is on a very tight schedule and we'll take a few questions and she'll have to depart in a moment but we're glad to answer a few questions before she has to depart. thank you. >> (indiscernible) how many do you need? >> we want to put them in the streets and our charter number is 1,971 and we're about a hundred away but let me explain a bit of detail and that number does include our airport and it doesn't include other issues that have to keep the officers off the street so we're about a hundred away and we're doing to

recruit and to put the people in the academy and to get them on the streets because that's where they're going to go and and the bodies are needed and the officers are needed in the streets and so that's where we plan to put them. >> (indiscernible). >> i know that in previous years we saw something less than 2% of the break-ins. >> if you are talking about car break-ins, that is hovering around 2% and that's a difficult crime to solve. however, what we have done in the last couple years and we have said this publicly is that we try to focus on those crews and individuals who we know are prolific and i think that our officers do a good job of that and we track who we arrest and we also track when they get out and if we get evidence or receive evidence that those individuals are involved in further car break-ins we try to

devise strategies to kept tiewfer them -- capture them again. but the numbers are important in terms of holding people to account. but here's another thing that we all need to try to remember. ultimately, you know, our leaders and our city and in our state and our voters have decided how they want to see things play out in terms of incarceration. the prison population is way too big and everybody has been working to reduce that, including our city leaders, so we have to be strategic and focused on those people that are doing most harm to our city and that's what we try to do and that's what we'll continue to do and we have had success with that so we'll continue that strategy and, you know, even if we were to solve 100% of those crimes, if we're having 25,000, 26,000 car break-ins every year and some are repeat offenders, we know that, we don't have the space in our jails for that type of population.

so we have to think past just arresting people. that's why prevention is so important and the backside of what type of programs they get involved in is so important. and the mayor's programs and the jobs for all and those things to keep people out of harm's way in the beginning, they all come together and they are presenting a strategy. so we need to support that. >> (indiscernible) the practices going forward and looking towards 2020, in other words, working with them. >> number one, it tells us where we need to focus and we always assess what is working and not working. for instance, we made it definite to michael's question about the enforcement strategies a few years ago, we were arresting a lot of people.

but the part that was missing is that we didn't complement that with the presence and the foot beat presence that we know that works. so now we're trying to balance that and when we look back at 2019 and see what works and what we need to work on, we'll make those assessments again but it's the balance of the enforcement side and the preventative side and making sure as much as we can that we focus on the preventative side. that's our job, really to prevent crimes from happening in the first place. so we'll continue to do that and to focus on that. >> a follow-up. looking forward then, and working with the new district attorney, how does that work in templeterms of making sure thate arrests that you make are then prosecuted? >> well, a few things that we have to do -- and i want to -- i want to, you know, to call out and thank my leadership team and our leadership team, and the assistant chief mosher and mcchecker rercen.

and we're all on the same page, we need to provide the best cases that we can provide the district attorney so that his prosecutors -- when it's appropriate to charge these cases can charge these cases. we have to stay focused on our jobs, our job is not to prosecute cases but to -- when those crimes do occur we do our investigation thoroughly and we make sure that we get the evidence there and we give the district attorney and his team the good cases to prosecute. and we need to be open to new ideas. we have to be open to new ideas. and there's been a call for changes in the criminal justice system. and we're one piece of that system but we have to be open to strategies that hold people to account but past that as i said, what next. what happens after they do their jailtime, are they going to come back to our city and be assets and good for our city, or come back and victimize people and harm our city?

so there's a lot that goes into that and it's not just about policing and we have to support those programs that help us to do that. and equity is an issue in policing and we have to be equitable with how we approach our jobs and all of that matters. so it's a lot to look at and very complex but we're up to the test and we're going to continue to push on. >> getting back to auto burglaries. you have talked about prevention. is there more that could be done there, particularly with people from out of town and rent cars and go to places where tourists go. >> there is, and we're questioning -- questioning that and i know that when the mayor was on the board of supervisors they crafted legislation for the rental car companies to make it less obvious by the markings and that on the rental cars. they are big steps in the right

direction and we can't control what happens outside of our city and county but we have been working with the rental car companies on safety messaging. you will see the park smart campaign, posted in the rental cars, and the offices, those things help. working with our consular officers so when they have their constituents coming in from their respective countries that the message is consistent about prevention. people come here to visit our city and their cars get broken into or their luggage is stolen and their passports and all of their papers are gone, that's a big problem for people. so we have to spread that message anyway that we can and those things are continuing. we're always looking to improve them and to evolve in that regard. but there is more -- always more that can be done. >> a couple more questions or one more question and then smaller groups. >> chief... (indiscernible)

this is a national emergency with the break-ins. (indiscernible). >> for car break-ins, there is not a whole lot of -- well, as far as i know there's not any federal prosecutions directly related to car break-ins. and some of the side issues that come from car break-ins and guns are stolen and that type of thing, sometimes it's appropriate to pursue federal -- pursue those relationships with our federal partners to hold to account those type of violations and somebody gets caught with a gun and they're they're a convicted felon and those issues, that it could be appropriate to pursue federal charges on those. which car break-ins, many times that happen.

and we will pursue federal charges when it's appropriate to do so, when we want to use every opportunity, every resource and every partnership to make our city a safer city. (♪) (♪)