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request for approval to accept ten different boxes and five surgical masks for miss manita louie for the rotary club of chinatown at $100. we just need a motion. >> second. role call for the vote. >> on the motion to accept the gift for the gift box's at $100 -- (role call). >> can we do this by exclamation? (indiscernible). >> we're on a video conference system and we do the role call instead of the way in person

because it's clear when we're in person. (role call). >> you have five questions and we need take public comment. for members of the public who would like to make public comment, press star 3. commissioner, we have one public comment. >> ok. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. good evening, caller.

you have two minutes. that's all for public comment. >> light item 2, weekly crime trends, offences occurring in san francisco. major significant incidents and provide a summary of planned activities and events. this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities which will be limited to determining whether the calendar or a future -- (indiscernible). >> good evening. i'll start off this week's chief report with the weekly crime trend and overall, port one

crime, we're down 26% -- i'm sorry 17% year-to-date and we've had a 26% decrease from last week's crime statistics. overall, violent crime is down 15% for the year and compared to last week, it's also down 15%. homicides are still up 9% and we have 24 homicides year-to-date compared to 22 this time last year and we had two homicides in july and june was a pretty bad month where we had five homicides in the month of june and 13 of the 24 cases have been cleared and this year's cases have been cleared and 12 have been cleared by arrests and one by exceptional clearance. there have been other clearances from prior years. gun violence is down 2% year to

date with four shooting incidents causing injuries to two victims over the past week. for the year, there's a total of 60 incidents resulting in 65 victims injured from gun violence. and as it relates, property crime is down 17% year-to-date and when we look at last week's property crime, we're down 27% from we were last week. auto burglaries are down year-to-date at 35% for the year and a lot of that is due in large part to our covid response as a city. and compared to 2018, we're 41% down and 2017, we're 52% down. and in looking at our homicide, we have 15 homicides that were

firearm's relate or homicides that were firearms used and that is no change from last year. this time last year, we had 15 and so we are flat there. again, a lot of work to do on our gun violence that's been asked about and pointed out by this commission and we look forward based on commissioners taylor and corey on the strategy we're employing and we'll present a presentation in the next few weeks on our homicide strategies and everything we're doing to reduce gun violence in our city and that will be done by director tiffany of our crime strategy's unit. significant incidents and we stated we had 2 42 incidents ovr the past week. there was a shooting that happened on the 100 block of s irsisca road in the bayview and

this became a public interest from not one of the persons involved in a shooting but a car that stopped after the per persn that was shot was dropped off at the hospital and posted on instagram and caused a lot of incidents. our officers responded to shots fired in the area of kiska and dormitory and this was near the boy's and girl's club. several cases were located but no suspects or victims were found. there was a call regarding a hit-and-run in hudson locating a need with blood but no occupant was in the vehicle and the san francisco's sheriff's office assigned to san francisco general hospital advised a gunshot victim was dropped off and the victim had a wound to the left upper chest.

the victim -- the person dropped off was involved in a series of violent robberies and that person was arrested for the robberies and the robberies, though, as far as we know at this point in the investigation were unrelated to the shooting. and after the persons dropped the person who had been shot off, they, basically, left the location and they didn't bring him to the hospital but left the location. this was observed by san francisco police department officers that saw the person dropped off and they radioed to officers in the area including sheriff deputies to conduct a stop on the vehicle, not knowing whether the people who were dropped were connected with the shooting or not. based on the information, a stop was conducted on the vehicle and a high-risk stop and the occupants of the vehicle were

ordered out. the stop was initial gated by the san francisco's sheriff's deputies and they ordered out the occupants of the vehicle and detaining them. there were three juveniles and one adult in the car. after investigation, it was discovered that they -- that the people in the car had only dropped the victim off and had not been involved in the shooting. and officers explained the situation, apologized and everybody was released. and so, again, the video that was posted on instagram was thee actual video and we reaching out to the family for the juveniles stopped and the adul adult, as ,

to sit down and talk. one of our community entities that we have a relationship is helping to facilitate that and so, that has not happened yet and hopefully, it will happen in the very near future where we sit down as an organization and have a conversation with the occupants of that vehicle. but again, it did get over 20,000 looks when it was poetedd on instagram and it was of community interest. we put out a statement on instagram and social media explaining this and we wanted to reach out and have a conversation about this and see what we can do to help these young adults or young kids, actually, get through this event. and the next shooting i want to talk about is a shooting in the bayview where two victims were struck with gunfire and thankfully, they both are expected to survive the injuries.

and it seemed to be an investigation at this point and it was an exchange of gunfire in this situation and so, we are still investigating that there have not been any arrests made and we are following up on leads on that investigation. and so, again, that appeared to be an exchange of gunfire. the next was on july 9th, on the 2800 block of 26th street. they located a victim with gunshot wounds and the victim advised there was an altercation between himself and the claimant and he a as he walked away, the claimant pulled out a gun and shot hum. he was transported to hospital for injuries and the injuries were nonlife-threatening and there was significant

information on that and we have not made an arrest on that. i want to follow up. i know we have a presentation, but some follow-up, commissioner da, we've had24 meetings year-tf victims of gunshot in the bayview year-to-date and this is through the end of this past week and in 2019, we had exactly the same number and that's nothing to brag about. 24 is way too many, but there has not been a change in the victims from this year to last year and we have a lot of work to do. as we know, we have seen several spikes of gun violence in the bayview and we have a lot of work do. and we're looking forward to a staff presentation to the commission. and the last event that i would like to talk about was a -- it

was an unsanctioned, unplanned event and we had a group of skateborders on the lower street corridor from 18th to 21s 21st street and, basically, we had up to -- estimates are a thousand participants at times on the skateboard, on that particular street. and we had a much of vandalism type of incidents that there was much frustration from members of the community who were victims of vandalism and other quality of life, urination on their properties. the mission district officers along with help from officers from outside agencies deployed, trying to make the event as safe as we could given the gravity of how many people were out there, but it's definitely an issue that we have to get a handle on. a lot of frustration in the community about this event and thankfully, nobody was seriously injured and we did have a couple

of injuries, both with the skateborders and one ederly man who was actually attacked when he confronted a group of individuals that were urinating on his property and that person had serious injuries, but, we hope that he makes a full recovery. and so we will work through this and we have some evidence, video evidence and the like that we will follow up on to determine particularly the groups that were a lot. the individuals in that group that were violent. i will say by and large, it was a peaceful event. although, it disrupted the community. by and large, it was peaceful, but there was a group of people among the many skateboarding that were committing acts of vandalism and the like. so this is not the first event we've had problems with of that nature and we'll work through that and work with our community partners, mta, as well as other city entities to see if we can

work through that and address the community and public safety concerns associated with this event. and that is it for this portion of my report. if you have any questions. >> thank you, chief. i'll ask to add shootings to the table that you provide us every week for the weekly crime trend. >> will do, vice president. >> thank you. >> the public is welcome for public comment on line item 2 for the chief's report. at this time, if you would like to make public comment for the chief's report please press star 3 to raise your hand. also, members of the public who call (408)418-9388, (146)869-1234 and that's pound and then pound again.

good evening caller. >> caller, caller, you have two minutes. >> speaker: i didn't raise my hand to speak. >> so you have no public comment? >> speaker: no. >> there are no public comment. >> next line item. >> line item 3, discussion and

possible action to approve draft deputy general order 5.23 and interactions with deaf and hard of hearing individuals, the police association as provided by law, discussion and possible action. >> i'll lead off with a brief introduction statement with 5.23. there's a lot of people that did a lot of work for quite a bit of time on this and i want to thank everybody individually because we could be here all night on this, but i will thank the groups and i'll turn it over to director henderson for all of the work they did. first of all, as i said, i would like to thank all of those who have worked on this policy, san francisco on deaf and hard--of

hearing issues and all of those that worked so hard. with the efforts of the group, this policy, we believe will set standards for an equivalent level to be provided to the deaf and hard-of-hearing population and i know director henderson and his team, including marion, will name some of the folks, but i want to call out of a couplef people. i would like to thank you for all of the work. commissioner hamasaki, thank you. and the mayor's office and the

district attorney's office and the domestic violence consortium, safe and sound, and a whole host of community members, so thank you all for your work and thank you for pushing us on this issue, the police department. the department is committed to providing the highest level of service to all communities, including individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing. your legal obligations under federal and state law for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing and they are not subjected to unlawful discrimination, nor should they be excluded as segregated or denied assistance. to meet these obligations, this policy implements the necessary procedures to establish effective communication free of charge by providing the resources, tools and/or equipment to communicate. the next steps for the san francisco department include

establishing and solidifying our training implementation plan for the cgo, at least two liaison officers or each district station and securing signing for all district stations. we want to translate the communication cause into the core languages so the populations that we serve here in san francisco and continue to develop the mechanism for the annual reporting requirement as outlined in the ddo. so, again, thank you all who participated in the creation of this policy and with that, i will turn it over to executive director henderson from the department of police accountability.

>> i think this vote has the potential to be groundbreaking for this commission, for this agency, dpa and for the city. and so, samra, i yield my time.

[ laughter ] >> to director marion. [ laughter ] >> oh, my gosh -- [ laughter ] >> i'm here. [ laughter ] >> i just got real nervous. [ laughter ] >> i had a great intro and then nothing. >> his, miss hair on. marion and thank you vice president and thank you, chief, for introducing this general order and all of the the acknowledgements to all who have worked on this. good evening. there are many individuals who have worked on this and some other h2 h2 some who are watchig through youtube. i was hoping to provide some of

the nuts and bolts and director suni, she was going to talk about some of the training aspects. we've had a lot of technical difficulties and really appreciate everyone who has helped us today and currently right now as listed as an attendee and my hope is that, perhaps, after my comments, we could bring her in as a participant or have her go through public comment and have her address the commission through an interpreter and so, bear with us as we try to work that detail out. and as i said, there's so many people that worked on this and thank you, chief, for giving those shout-outs. we started back in 2017, in part, because there's dpa complaints we've had since 2015, we've had certainly complaints and there were concerns that were brought through many of the

different working groups that we have around services for our domestic violence survivors who were deaf and just general concern about how can we come together to work with the department and really enhance services. it's been a great process for the last two and a half years and, again, shout-outs to everyone who came to the table and were to persistent. and sergeant youngblood, do you mine putting up the power-point? thank you. and if you could even advance it to the third slide.

here we go. >> if you don't mind, we could advance this past the acknowledgement of the members and, again, just to give you an overview, we looked at washington, d.c.'s metropolitan pripolice department's protocol because they put so much of

their general order and they are home to the galledet university and they workd with that police department. if you wouldn't mind advancing the power point.

the latter part of the orders sets forth procedures in different settings and that's because throughout the country, there were lawsuits that were brought on behalf of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals where they weren't properly given services and it's might have been when they were stopped on the street or when they were interviewed as a victim and sometimes they were held in custody without having an access to an interpreter. and by setting forth in this deputy general order the different scenarios, it required different communication tools and different procedures and we were able to give officers, again, the guidance so that when they are doing a traffic stop or, perhaps, conducting an investigation, they have clear rules how to communicate and what are the technological

toolsthey have. tools they have. this is something that was put together by the members of the working group and i would like to give a shout-out to inspector florez who is a part of our working group who has done so much work in domestic violence and himself has a daughter who is deaf, who joined us and jessica worked on this terrific communication card to help teach us a lot of really important things. so with this communication card, which other states are using, this is a tool that officers, when they approach a driver or pedestrian or bicyclist, where there's an indication that this person is deaf or hard of hearing, this is a card that the officer is able to show the individual and they can begin to communicate about what's the best way to communicate with that individual. and so, on one side, it's the hello, i am and the opportunity

for the deaf or hard-of-hearing individual to identify the best way to communicate. it might than they are on the road and need help and they're able to communicate what they need right there. the second side is where the officer can provide basic information about what the officer needs and to provide information about why the officer, perhaps, has stopped a driver. this is just the beginning. because what we've put forward in this and worked with the chief on is to enhance tools so that officers on their cell phone, they can access through video conferencing an asl interpreter and that's part of the work that we came together on and to look at what are the technological tools back in 2018 and to see how to enhance those tools and not only do we have a

deputy general order but better tools to communicate with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. if you wouldn't mind advancing to the next slide. so some of the other aspects of the department's general order is that it provides a responsibility to implement this ego and to do the data collection, the reporting and the outreach. this really requires for this dgo, providing responsibilities to the language access liaison individual, which is rooted in a different department general order. but right now, officer core, the language access liaison officer, who has done so much around spoken language, that would now expand to assist in all other responsibilities for deaf and hard of hearing. of course, training is a key

part of this. within four months, the department needs to roll out training on this department's general order and there's a requirement for every tw four ys to provide training. in addition to the communication card, the last aspect is some tips on how to communicate through an interpreter and that's not part of the dgo. as i was saying, the last part of our presentation was that they would speak to training issues and broader issues of deaf and hard of hearing and i'm hoping we could bring her in to the second part of our presentation.

>> thank you in advance for your patience on all of this. obviously, it's requiring a little bit more to make sure that we get all of this presentation, but i think it's really important given the subject matter and given the potential impact of this decision.

>> the interpreters are interpreting everything being said with the meeting but they can't speak to us. they are only able to hear and they can't talk to us.

excuse me. >> i'll send this to -- (indiscernible). >> she's saying her phone is now muted. i'll un-mute this person.

thank you for your patience. first of all, my name is -- i'm a female representative and i have a male interpreter and the letter from nicole from the office of disability and if we could read that and just give me one moment as i pull that up. it says hello to all participants and i'm nicole bryant, department director of the office of disability and like i mentioned in my june comments for the mayor's office of disability, supporting this

dgo group since 2017. and members of deaf community in cooperation with the san francisco police department have been working with this group since the beginnin beginning ano is with this based work. as i mentioned last month, with the start, this is an essential and we are in the 30t 30th anniversary of the ada, americans with disability's act law. and antidiscrimination legislation for people who have disabilities. and our goal is to make sure that all people have an

understanding how to live and communicate with the community. i would like to increase this dgo and how do we implement this for effective communication and other accessibility obligations because it has been mandatory for the past 30 years. as we know, the next critical step will be training the officers. the office of disability is ready to coordinate and collaborate with the police department to work on this training plan and to assist you in whatever way would be helpful and encourage that training plan and that includes any vapin videotaping to show real life examples from a deaf person's perspective because this

training is important that we utilize the actors and learn from the experience of deaf people and please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions. thank you for the support with this agenda. this is from nicole brian, the director of the mod. and so that was a letter from nicole and so this is fil phil orchid and with the dgo, we want to implement this and make it happen because we have -- there's a variety of people in the community. you have the deaf-trans community and deaf people with cognitive disabilities and deaf people from other countries and deaf people without any language exposure who don't know english and so there is diversity in the community. but i have seen a lot of

frustration with members from members of the community, especially as they go through more victimization than usual. where writing on paper and -- or with paper and pencil isn't enough. and deaf people who work or who live here and who visit san francisco, we want to work on this training to help everybody with a better understanding. because oftentimes, the officer would rely on a hearing person and that leaves a lot to be burdened on the deaf person which isn't equal and so there's little things like that.

the technology is always changing and hopefully, and really, developing -- a lot of deaf people don't have exposure to what the police department does and so, a lot of people are hesitant to be a part of that because of the difficulty with communication and that ends up being a barrier. so that's all. >> thank you.

ok, commissioner hamasaki. you're muted muted. >> i just wanted to give a big thank you to dpa and smamr marion. they brought me into this working group and i think it was august of 2018 and they had been working for a year and a half at that time. there can be a model to other agencies around the nation and i

learned through this process of how little i knew about the deaf and hard--hearing community and the challenges and struggles that they face in ways that we don't even think about and so, you know, i'm very grateful for them doing all of this hard work to ensure that our department has, you know, the best planning, the best policy and the best capability to be a forward-thinking, pro active department on this. and so, i want to thank the chief shuttling things through

and he met with us and i thank you. >> before we vote, i would like to say one more thing and i want to give thanks to the california dog, too. and frustrated some that i asked for them to take a look at this policy and their input was

really, really important and i think it added value and you a all. >> commissioner elias. >> thank you. i wanted to thank the deaf and hard-of-hearing community for being patient for getting this passed and getting us to where we are now and i know that when this was last on our agenda, there was a lot of heated discussion about it and a lot of frustration just because we wanted to get this through and, you know, go through the go-line. i'm glad we're here and i wanted to thank my fellow commissioner

and dpa, inspector florez for helping toss do this. helping us to do this. i see no other names in the comments and is there a motion?

>> i'll move. >> and i'll second. >> ok, public comment. >> members of the public are now invited to comment on line item 3, regarding 5.23 for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. you can call 408-18-9288 and for members that are on, hit star 3 to raise your hand if you would like to make a public comment. at the moment, we have one. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> hi, good evening. thank you so the commission for your time. i'm a victim advocate working in the district attorney's office

and in addition to that, i'm a long-time advocate for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. everybody has been committed and worked very hard working towards this goal and one of the things i wanted to add is that while working with this community over the years, the one common challenge that people are deaf and hard of hearing face when contacting the police for emergency and assistance is that access to communication and most often folks just take matters in their own hands to resolve an issue on their own because they feel they would be disappointed in not able to access this like you or i would be able to do. with that being considered, i thank you for the time and i hope we will have positive

results. >> thank you. are there any other callers? >> on the motion to adopt, you wanted to call role for the vote. >> 5.23, interactions with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, commissioner -- (role call) you have five yes'.

>> the motion passes and please call the next line item. >> line item 4, reports to the commission continued, dpa director's report. report on dpa activities and announcements. this will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. commission discussion to determine whether the challenge any issues raised for a commission dpa summer intern plan of 2020 presentation. >> cases closed, we've closed 498 case489 cases and that's ova

hundred more. in terms of cases pending, 409 open cases and we've had 21 cases so far this year sustained versus 39 this time last year. and we are in the process of changing our reported details of the delayed cases and part of the comments that we discussed last week and the presentation that we will be getting providing more specifics about what the delays are and sourcing the delays as a presentation for this commission. and in terms of the cases mediate the, wmediated, we are d this time last year, we were at 24. as related to the mediation program, the mediation director and coordinator completed their training by the siege program and they wanted to participate

in the program so they had a better understanding of what the actual training was for the mediators licensed and working with the agency and we're excited about that and what that will bring to the mediation program. in terms of the outreach, we've had a couple of programs this past week with the san francisco family support network and we had a request from raphael house which is a family shelter to make a presentation about the dpa and services and tomorrow, will be presenting with the american bar association coupled with the national bar association with lieutenant governor from michigan addressinaddressing palicial fo.

the final step is going through the controller's office is supporting evidence before the draft report is sent out and, basically, that process is just providing the reasonable assurances that the audit was conforming to the governmental audit standards and so we should have that to the commission by september. that's what we're looking at. and so we've been a long time coming and just as a reminder, this is the audit that was mandated by voters and it was one of the initial priorities that we started on day one when i came to the dpa. and secondly, another thing we've been working on recently a analyzing our satisfaction survey responses. the agency has collected information like this for years

and we wanted to analyze it and so, it's a small sample because a lot of people didn't really respond in that process in the past, but what we're doing is we feel like that's the information that can inform our racial equity work and outreach efforts and so we're creating a new online survey to better capture some of the results and encourage more responses. you'll see a copy of those results in the website within the next week. so that will be up there and this is one of the issues we've been talking about with commissioner brookter and i wanted to give you an update and was happening because we've had movement recently. you'll see it on the website. the other thing that i think is important to people, you've met with the stamford computation policy lab to discuss future projects and so far they're looking at sfpd's early

intervention report and the 96a report and they are looking to figure out projects for them to do policy projects that they can do to make a presentation both to the dpa and the commission in the future and i'll keep you updated but we're excited about them wanting to lean in and look at some of the work based on what they've seen from the past few police reports this year -- i mean the police commission this year and working with the dpa and so, on a side note, the annual report is in the final stages, as well, and that should be ready for presentation in early august.

what this is leading up to was the agency that i have not so wonderful news for our director of policy and ramarion is retiring in july. and i know this feels like -- >> like this month? >> july this month, july 31st. and so, that is going to be a huge loss for this agency. there's no one that has historical knowledge and

experience that she has that has guided us through the dgo revision process and the concerns. this is not any secret that she is my secret weapon in the room that knows everything and i am not the only one and this agency is not the only one that relies on her expertise, her guidance, input and breadth of knowledge for anything and everything as it relates to policy. and i've tried everything to make her stay and working for the fun of dpa, but, you know, she's ready. it is a loss to this agency that will be felt deeply for all of us. i consider her to be a friend, as i'm sure many of you do, as well. and she is definitely going to be missed. i'm trying to do everything that

i can to make her kind of stay and be connected to all of this and i know that this is work that she has felt passionately about over the years and i think it's a really fitting time to make this announcement on the heels of what we have just done in passing something that is so symbolic of her hard work, her commitment and her passion with the vote that we just had tonight and so.

i yield the rest of my time to her. well, this is horrible news. she has been doing so before people got on board with making reform happen. weaver in a new age where we're pushing this line for many years. >> decades. >> what i would tell you, paul, you better do what you can to make this -- make her stay. i don't know how you will recover from this.

>> listen, if you can have an off-line conversation with her and figure out what i can put on the table, i am happy to do it. there's a blank check waiting.

>> i think commissioner elias, this took the wind out of me right now. i mean, you know, since i've been on this commission, samra marion has been the heart and soul of police reform in san francisco. and that's been the case for many, many years. and all of these dgo's, policies, trainings and procedures for passing, and then for being ahead of our time and for bringing out the latest and greatest and smartest and well thought-out best practises, i

wouldn't say every single one arose from samra manning but close to it. and you know, director henderson, i don't know how you fill the shoes of somebody with the institutional knowledge, but also with the drive, the heart. this is probably the biggest

change that i've dealt with since coming on the commission. but she'll have to change her number, go into witness protection. [ laughter ] >> maybe leave the country. [ laughter ] >> i still know how to reach you, samra. there's nothing i can say to thank you for your service. the community is safer and our city is safer and our department is safer and our community is -- they don't know all of the work that you've done in the background to make us a better community, a better city. and the from the depths of my heart, thank you for your service. >> commission de jesus. >> well, i mean, it sounds like everyone has said it. i'm shocked that you're leaving. you are the workhorse for the commission and for the dpa and we'll miss you tremendously and

we rely on you quite a bit and our general orders, some of them are models for the country and a lot of it has to do with you and, of course, the collaborative effort and a lot of that you put together, bringing the community together and i'm just shocked. we'll miss you. i wish you the best and we might have to track you down. i wish you the best and i'm sad to hear that news. thank you for everything you've done for us. >> i was thinking that this is the last commission meeting. >> that's why i had to announce it. just so you know, i have known for not a long time but a little bit of time and i didn't tell anybody, because i thought, let's give it time and you might change your mind. i literally have let it fester and bring some coffee. [ laughter ]

>> and let's just see, you know, we all have difficult days and different commissions and different periods. we're not going to meet again until it can already happen and i think that's a bad surprise for everybody of life. >> injuryou're legendary and yoa

hard worker and relentless and so knowledgeable and your input is improve valuable and i want to thank you for your service and this is a lackluster way to go out. we should have had confetti or something. >> chief, you can hire her. she will really get the reforms going. laughter [ laughter ] >> you have her in-house. sometimes you have to bring it in-house to get it down.

>> i'm sorry, chief. i'm let chief brooks to go first. >> no worries. i think miss marion, we didn't get an opportunity to work closely during my time on the economic, but any room that i was in, your name would ring bells. i want to say one thing my fellow commissioners have not said to you is enjoy yourself. enjoy yourself and thank you for your tireless service. and i think we should, as a commission, draft up some sort of thank you. i don't know exactly what it is, but we should provide miss marion with something that says thank you for your service to the city and county of san francisco.

thank you for everything you've done and everything you do. >> i just also wanted to say thank you to samar. you've made us better. and your legacy will live through the policies that you were instrumental, but also making us better, you really cause us to look inwardly and some of the systems that we now have in place that i think will make our work easier, quicker, faster, more efficient are because of you and because of you pushing us. we haven't seen the last of mis. on. marion. i know sometimes the discussions are heart-felt and sometimes they're pretty intense discussions. we appreciate you and i appreciate you and you thank you for all that you have done for

this police department and city. thank you, chief. i'm seeing in the chat that there's an important caller on the line. sergeant, is that right? >> yes, we have inspector florez who would like to make a comment quickly. >> please do. >> inspector florez here and i tried to call in earlier and i want to say thank you, thank you to all of you and shocking news that samra will be leaving. we have several other projects and i know for a fact i'm still working on these projects. again, thank you on behalf of the deaf and hard of hearing community and my daughter. god bless all of you. >> maybe she'll say until the

projects are finished. [ laughter ] >> or at least until doj is done. [ laughter ] >> thank you so much. it's been an honor and privilege and it's so hard to comprehend. it's been 20 years that i've worked at occ and dpa and thank

you so much for all of the generous, kind things you've all said and certainly it's incredibly bittersweet to say goodbye and sometimes it's just time to make a change. but thank you and for me that we've finished the deaf and hard of hearing and you voted for it, there's no better send-off for me, quite frankly. so i have really -- i've learned so much from everyone and it's been a pleasure and privilege to work with everyone and thank you so much. >> are you really going to retire? [ laughter ] >> yes. >> the chief will hire her in-house.

>> samra, you're on mute. >> i have a 6-year-old child in canada who i have haven't seen now for -- it will be six months in august and so most certainly, i need to go to the border and self-quarantine and see my child. that's the first on the list and the future -- there's a lot in the future. so what's happened, all the work that i've done with you all has been really phenomenal, terrific and i am most certainly committed to police reform and so, you know, i hope there will be opportunities in the future that i'll get to continue this work. i live in san francisco and so it's a closure right now, but, you know, i think there's so many opportunities in the future. and so, thank you. >> i'm goin sure there are so my people that would want to send you off right and say nice things about you if they knew what was happening. >> the police department has

great vacation from what i hear. you can take as much vacations a you want once the police brings you into this reform. [ laughter ] >> i want to set some opportunities to the people, you know, who have worked with you all of these years and know you have an opportunity to speak. and so, we'll work that out for the future. so i think that's the least. >> let's follow up on the conversation about the future and this is amazing and i love all of the things people had to say, but for two decades' worth of work and two decade's worth of commitment, the accolades go on and on about the milestones that have been accomplished through her work and i think it would only be fitting for us to

schedule something, if for no other reason than to acknowledge the body of work that's been created through this singular person. (please stand by).

>> i know you had been meeting to talk about the report, but are you going to be able to help create the audits that you are going to be required in the future because you haven't done it before and perhaps they could give some guidance on that? >> 100% and it's about to come out and we can publish that, but that's part of the reasons we weren't waiting and reaching out before the audit comes out to partner with outside agencies to

elevate some of the best practices in other areas as it relates to auditing and that's why i wanted to talk to you to give you an indication of the things they wanted to look at and share that with the commission about what the future could hold. obviously they are interested in this work and that's why they wanted to meet about this. in the evolving work that's coming out because that's their wheelhouse and that's what they want to do. i know the touches on some of the work that the police department has done and as it overlaps with some of the things that d.p.a. works on, that's what they want to review. we give them what they want to see, but that is the intent. >> the next item on your agenda -- >> [all talking at once].

>> i'm sorry, i thought it was another item. it is the intern program. just as an introduction to it because we put a lot of work into it. those of you familiar with me know that i deeply care entity intern program and they've been important to me in any position i've had. it was so important to me because so many of the programs have been canceled here and throughout the country because of covid. i thought it was important not to disappoint the young people so have these experiences and to have paid opportunities to work through all the programs to make sure we had a diverse and a paid pool of folks coming here to get experiences. i'm really very proud of this program and the work that got into it.

without further ado, i will introduce my hiring coordinator and my intern director and lawyer. >> thank you so much. good evening, all. i serve as the director, law clerk and [indiscernible] under the vision of the director, we have created and implemented successful summer programs at the san francisco district attorney office and the mayor's office. our select interns ranging in ages from high school are receiving the therapeutic opportunity to observe and

experience private and public sectors. this program is designed to enhance, cultivate, and foster professional development in an agency setting. the internship also provides ample opportunities for networking with multiple now through virtual visits to hear other professionals speak to their path to success in their chosen field. the weekly series allows people to hear about the experiences where they are free to ask questions. some of the speakers are policy makers, judges, private practice attorneys and district attorneys. this allows the participants to

hear these speakers in one fun virtual experience. of course in light of the pandemic and shelter-and-place order, we have had to revamp our program, while striving to ensure all are not missing out on the internship experience. we are 90% virtual with interns coming in, social distancing, wearing a mask, and taking the proper precaution. we have had the opportunity to recruit from the various local law schools through their public interest law fairs through hastings, u.s.f. and other law

schools and universities. we are honored and privileged to be funded by mayor breed [indiscernible] pathway to economic inclusion for our youth. this would not be successful without the support of director davis who provides supports and materials for our program. [indiscernible] -- we are still ongoing with the program that does not end until the first

week of august to have [indiscernible] -- supervisor shuman walton from district 10. we will also be having commissioner brooker speak to our interns as well as chief miller and chief fletcher as well as the long beach oversight

agency will speak to us as well. here is how it looks when we're doing our virtual reality zoom conferences, as you wish, or teen speaker series. we do check in once a week and that is what you see in the upper left-hand corner, this is us checking in. the one to the right of that is when we had director sutton and commander ford. the lower one was when we had a young adult court speak. this is how it looks when we do our speaker series.

they're in a large room socially distanced with their mask on, watching on a big monitor and engaging and able to ask questions and do q&a. here are our interns. next slide. >> are these professional photos? >> yes, we had the opportunity to have professional head shots taken of our interns. if you could play the slide. >> [indiscernible] [laughter]. >> does it have the audio on it? >> yeah, i'm hearing it. are you not hearing it? >> no.

>> you can hear there's something in the background, but you can't hear what they're saying. >> [indiscernible] -- >> i'm sorry, this is as loud as i can get it. >> maybe i can switch and be the host. maybe i can pull it. >> sure. >> if we had deaf and hard-of-hearing beforehand, we would have this audio all here.

>> [indiscernible] -- >> i am a senior. >> i am a senior at u.c. berkeley. >> i am a junior at notre dame. >> i am at u.s.f. law. >> i am at golden gate university school of law.

>> [indiscernible] -- >> implicit bias is not done intentionally, but people can hold biases based an age, height, weight, culture, race.

bias can lead to racial disparities in everything from preschools suspensions to corporate leadership. one of the strongest stereotypes associates blacks with criminality. the author gave an example of how this bias affected her son. as innocent and sweet he was at the age of 5, seeing a man board the plane with dread locks, he likened him to his father who was bald and he said, i hope he wouldn't rob the plane. daddy wouldn't rob the plane. [indiscernible] -- actions. >> one of the most striking experiments featured on bias is

the [indiscernible] -- she exposes participants to a series of black faces were white faces, or no faces [indiscernible] -- the participants needed to press a button as soon as they could identify an object [indiscernible] -- this study shows how deeply engrained black crime is in american study. >> [indiscernible] --

>> [indiscernible] -- >> next store is a popular app that gets users in touch with their neighborhood. this is to warn about good plumb

rers or warn about a suspicious person. next store added a couple questions prior to publishing the post which was successful in lowering racist posts by 75%. when we stop to analyze our post can help in what we're thinking. >> airbnb with millions of user s [indiscernible] -- the company took action addressing these issues in the implementation through the three slides [indiscernible] -- in addressing

the discrimination minorities face on airbnb's platform and the unconscious bias that exists, airbnb acknowledges there is still some work to be done [indiscernible] -- airbnb is an example of a step in the right direction and reinstalling trust in the community. >> what bias offered our team was more than insight into today's problems of race. it illustrated those conflicts and why it is flawed at the most basic levels. we look inward and challenge the most simple elements of culture and equality. the doctor's work serves as a perspective on this monumental

issue so we may amend the laws of an institutional police force and alter the trends. >> i appreciated gaining valuable experience working with career prosecutors and attorneys. >> my favorite internal moment was researching policy for law enforcement practices, specifically researching best use of force policy. >> i enjoyed reading through audit reports to find potential projects for the city of san francisco. >> my favorite intern moment was learning more about the work and effort that goes into making our community a better place for the future generation. >> my favorite moment has been researching and finding friends

in police reform proposals and implementation. >> i enjoyed conducting research on police reform legislation with the d.p.a.'s chief of staff. >> and i would just like to say i am extremely proud of [indiscernible] circumstances and [indiscernible] circumstance s during this time especially with what's going on -- with everything going on in this country, as well as locally. i would personally like to thank and acknowledge our very own d.p.a. staff including our very own director henderson, chief of staff sarah collins, and all the rest on the team or making sure

we can give the interns the full experience virtually. without all of us coming together and getting this program up and running, we would not be able to give this experience at d.p.a. who have given the projects. our legal team has been great. we have all come together to make sure we have had a memorable intern experience. that is our intern presentation. >> thank you so much. thank you all for your patience to the internship program. it is really a big deal. so many of the students were concerned when they weren't sure

if the commission was continue meeting during covid and were concerned about whether this program would exist so i really wanted to commit to it. i'm glad to hear about some of the experiences. we are leading into the bias work and expanding that. we wanted to make sure that would be understood by the groups. i would like to thank tanetta thompson because it's really a lot of work. it's not just executing a program like this. there are hundreds of phone calls and e-mails. you know how much work it is to create a program like this, especially one of the high quality that we're striving mfo.

having programs that are paid are particularly important for our students of diversity and of color so that they can have programs they participate in, in a meaningful way. that's all i have from d.p.a. >> thank you, ms. thompson. it looks like you put together an impactful and meaningful program. >> i just want to commend all in d.p.a. [indiscernible] so easy to say we're not going to have programs for young people because we're trying to figure out how we're going to work virtually. i applaud you as an organization that you guys were able to pivot in shifts and allow young people in shifts that we are experiencing. i think you really hit it on the

head to understand that this may be another source of income for their families while not in school. the fact that you were able to pivot and shift, big kudos. i look forward to a conversation on the 22 because the young people are our future and i wanted to echo that. >> [indiscernible] are you report to us on things like [indiscernible] the discipline cases that you have, the audit that you're going to prepare for us. so please keep that in mind. >> [all talking at once] -- >> [indiscernible] --

>> next line item. >> continuing on line item four, commissioners' reports. [indiscernible] -- >> are there any reports from fellow commissioners? i see no hands. next line item -- oh, wait. >> sorry, yes. i wanted to let the commissioners know that last week i had asked d.p.a. to provide more context for the discipline cases brought before the commission and the chief and what they're working on.

in doing that, i thought it was appropriate to ask the department for the same information and i have reached out to the chief to ask that the discipline numbers be provided so that there's more transparency with how the internal investigation -- how many cases are investigated and how many cases are brought up for discipline with the chief or with the commission so that there is greater transparency. i'm happy to report that i am working with the chief on that request and hopefully it will be available to the public soon. >> thanks. next line item. >> public comment on line item four. members of the public that would like to make a comment, you can dial [indiscernible] -- good

evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> good evening, this is beverly from the [indiscernible] i want to thank you for your vote on the deaf and hard-of-hearing [indiscernible] outstanding group every year and i join in saying how extraordinary it is to do this during covid. it could have been a reason not to and he made it a reason to do it so we want to thank you. my comments really and i'll try to be brief are about our

colleagues. i have to say the domestic violence [indiscernible] the invisible advocates for the invisible. this helped us make our work visible. of course we could never express our gratitude just tonight. of course we're hoping for something bigger. i want to thank femra. she does work you don't know about. i meet with the language access group. we've been together seven or eight years doing all the heavy lifting, organizing everybody, getting the agendas, working with the police department and all the community groups. it's been amazing. then when the deaf and hard-of-hearing issues starting

arising, we formed another work group. and all the d.g.o. work groups. i am doubling committed now that we have to get this through concurrence and passed because this is another core piece of this. it is a pleasure to work with this on a daily basis and wishing you all the best. we'll just keep you in our hearts as you start your next chapter. thank you. >> is there another caller?

>> there is a remaining caller. >> this is only about line item four. >> caller, do you have a comment about line item four? good evening, caller, are you there? all right, [indiscernible]. >> next line item, please. >> line item five discussion and possible action to adopt draft reds loosing expressing support for black lives and direct the chief to install black lives matter posters and signs within the police stations. >> i asked if i could humbly work with the commissioner on this resolution because i believe in it as well.

>> i definitely want to echo that this is coming from community. we've had phone calls, e-mails in terms of updates to this resolution. thank you to the commission liaison in terms of helping us draft this. i want to say thank you to the san francisco black-led collation. i'm going to ask that sergeant youngblood pull up the resolution so i can read it to my fellow commissioners as well as members of the public. i want to be clear that this resolution is merely a small gesture to show that this

commission and our department stands in solidarity of the support of black lives. there are resolutions that have been drafted by the san francisco planning commission. there is also a resolution that's been drafted by the san francisco board of supervisors that declares a war on racism. there are resolutions out there, so i wanted to be clear about that. i wanted to make sure that there were a few changes in terms of conversation that we can make in real time if my commissioners will allow me to as we go through this exercise pm this resolution is expressing support for black lives.

[text on screen] [text on screen].

>> thank you for bringing this to us and raising this issue. i had a couple of points that i thought might be helpful. the one -- and i'm not sure if

you touched on this, but the first line reads unarmed black individuals. i would suggest amending it to strike unarmed. i think we've had a lot of incidents where people with -- that are armed in various ways have actually been killed by police when they shouldn't. i think the most local example is mario woods and others. i would suggest striking unarmed. i didn't see sign in there, i thought it was just poster. to me, i like the more permanent

of a sign or [indiscernible] on the wall. like, i think what we've seen around the country is a lot of painting of black lives matter in prominent places. so i would suggest adding a requirement that it be painted on the wall to address -- there was some concerns about resolution that were raised today that some members were unhappy with the resolution. thank that was well founded, but it raises some concerns about whether or not we have a paper sign that it may be damaged. i would suggest that, but i would also confer to the

commissioner who put the time into this resolution. >> thank you. if i could respond. this can be in addition to. this came from members of the black community that wanted a specific sized poster or design. i think that's semantics, but they wanted it to be prominently displayed inside the stations, so we hoped there would be no damage to these posters inside the stations which are public venues too, but i absolutely hear you. >> it requires that it can't be obstructed or covered over and if damaged, it needs to be replaced. >> i think that this resolution

is definitely a step in the right direction. and i think that more importantly what we should be doing is making a commitment to each other as commissioners and the public that we start creating policies that save black lives and people of color and that we start passing policies and reviewing policies and departments and procedures and general orders with that in mind and we start affirmatively taking steps to be more conscious of how the decisions we take about writing the policies and offering our suggestions really do affect black lives and all people of colour. we need to step up and do more and now is the time to do it and

i'm calling on my fellow commissioners to do just that. i also was made aware of a letter we received from the t.o.a.'s regarding the commission. i hope it was posted on our website so the public can see the letter that sort of objects to this resolution and has a few inaccuracies or areas that i would love clarification on and also i believe the public would as well, specifically the extensive resources and efforts the p.o.a. has taken to examine,

uncover, and address evidence of systemic injustice. i think we would love to know what those specific examples are. and i think would be what would be more enlightening would be the elephafforts that the p.o.a putting into action. in looking at their combined proposals in the reform era, some of them actually coincide with the d.b. 5.01 that is about to come up as well. for me, their reform efforts tell me that they want to accurate report use of force so they can track it. so i welcome that reform from them and i really hope that they are truly committed to reform

and help us push these reform measures along instead of stalling these measures. i'm glad that the letter is posted on our website so people can view it. >> thank you. i want to say a couple of things. one, i agree with you on the commitment. i can't speak for everyone, but that commitment has been made by every single person on the commissi commission. we care about black lives. it's interesting to me to get a

letter about a black lives matter poster. and it's interesting to me that anybody would care or have an opinion that is so strong about a poster that says "black lives matter" that they would send a letter. i don't understand it. i don't get why. the letter talks about being political speech, which is absolute horseshit, if you excuse my french. it is no more political speech than the past. if you have such a visceral reaction to a poster that says "black lives matter," i want you to saernlg your heart and ask yourselves why so manyearch you yourselves why so many officers have heft the p.o.a.

this is why, because this is a statement about black lives matter. i don't get it. i hope and believe they're not speaking for the entire department. i hope that they aren't. i hope the letter was a blip and whoever thought it was a good idea to write it would have a moment of reflection with themselves and ask themselves why they care so much about a poster.

>> when this was originally raised, people raised this as a symbolic issue. but symbols matter. we got calls from members who expressed concerns. i'll leave it in what my previous fellow commissioners said. it's sad that -- i'll tell you somebody asked me or a reporter asked me earlier in the week if we would get any pushback from the p.o.a. and i said, no, they've been making lots of nice statements lately. as the commissioner stated, what it comes down to is action and this is the action they took.

i'll leave it this. this letter is an example the p.o.a. doesn't get it. i hope we can change it. i didn't want to make too much of it because this moment shouldn't be distracted by the p.o.a. thank you to the commissioners for putting this together and everybody for their words. >> may i chime in? >> yes, please. >> the department is fully

committed. we talked and the insight of really a community, the franciscan community in san francisco that is asking for this expression to be placed on the police station. i want to say this and i'll say it because i think it is important. this movement and black lives matter has been around for many years since 2013. the energy that we're seeing now for police reform, as we all know, stems from the unnecessary killing of a black men at the hands of police officers. depending on what data firm you look at 15 to 26 million people that have gotten behind this movement, the biggest in the nation's history by far.

people are talking to us and we need to listen. we need to listen. we are fully committed to this. black lives matter and they matter to the police department. this is about the fact that we have to do the right thing on this issue and the world is speaking to us now. thank you. >> thank you for that, chief.

we had a conversation and the department is behind us. i wanted to make sure we got the commissioner's amend about striking arms. feel free, if we can strike that. i also wanted to share because the commissioner brought it up. i want us to commit to a pin that's black, green, or red to show that black lives matter. i want us to do that in february, which is the shortest month of the year, but it is black history month. >> that's a great idea. >> i would love some kind of patch or button, that would be great. >> i'll yield my time to the

public. [laughter]. >> is there -- is there a seconder for the motion? >> i second it. i think this also helps our black officers who -- >> exactly. >> we already have a problem with keeping -- with hiring people and things like that. this is something that we need to show them that we support them. >> if you're writing a letter, what message does that send to the black members of your union and black officers if you're writing a letter against black lives matter. i don't get it. public comment.

>> can we throw the resolution back up? >> yes. and black should be capitalized. [text on the screen].

>> [indiscernible] -- anti-blackness has been said to be a [indiscernible] and as a mental health clinician, i i am margin of error you not to stop there. the implications on mental health is an additional cause of black health inequities and premature death among african-american folks. i have a client who was pulled

over by the police and did not know whether he was going to be shot. by the time the officer came to the side of his car, he was crying and trembling. i have a black clinician that won't drive into san francisco. he's afraid to drive 45 miles through the suburbs to get to san francisco because he's afraid he's going to be pulled over by the police and harmed. we really must do more. i'm grateful for a pin or a patch. i was thinking of an armband. we need something that shows sympathy and empathy for black people.

>> hi, i'm a member of the nashl coalition. i want to thank the commissioner for bringing this forth, as well i want to say as the commissioner said, there is a need to have more influence on how our communities are policed

since there is more negative impact. a lot of the officers are not from the community or city and not diverse. this is a powerful first step. it inspires me to get more involved. i know a lot of other people feel like there's no point to come to the police commission. this inspires me so you will be seeing me more often and there's other people you will see more often because that's a real big inspiration, like an open door to try to take control of our

department. please just support. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. i am a san francisco native and resident. i am on the leadership committee of the african-american arts cultural district. these have been cultural and systemic issues that we have dealt with for 20 years. it's concerning to me that we are still having the same conversation in 2020 that we were having in 2010 and 2015 on the same subject. i believe this is a very good way to change perception as i go into hi precinct, it will make

me feel safer to show visual acceptance of african-americans and visual acceptance of a recognition of a violence that has been imparted on this community. hear, hear, thank you. i appreciate you. and thank you for seeing what's needed and for having the guts to say what's needed regardless of the pushback. >> secretary ionin: i wanted to make two points in regards to this discussion. i've been listening to

everything regarding the chief. one thing as a mexican heritage person, i don't think when you're saying that black lives matter that you're segregating a certain portion of the population. there are a lot of people of color, not black, but having the same thoughts and feelings, but we're not being represented. the second thing is i know people who are plifs and they've told me they don't like this resolution or whatever you're wanting to call it because we see on the media and the news people with signs or having the black lives matter that say they want to kill or harm police officers. so i don't think if you put a sign in a police station it's going to do any good. that's all i have to say. thank you.

>> thank you for having the courage to do what is necessary and making this a balanced system. >> thank you, next caller. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes.

>> speaker: can you hear me? >> yes. >> speaker: this is gloria barry, the current chair of the black lives matter for the san francisco democratic party. i would like to raise a point that the resolution could not be read on the screen for the public and when i pointed this out last week, so it was enlarged and we were able to read it. next, if you guys could refresh where we could find a letter that opposed the resolution and then my next point is, i wanted to know, is the resolution binding? can the poa and /or a racist officer take it down. i highly approve this being approved and i will volunteer to obtain the signs.

and, also, i would like to not lose focus that the station doesn't take away this commission gave 40 day's suspension to a police officer that killed jessica williams and finally, to people that think other people are not represented by a black live's matter sign, i encourage them to research the data as to whom lives repetitively don't matter across the board. thank you. >> i wanted to let the public know the letter is under the 30-decore spon30-decore upon-dd.

>> speaker: in general, i don't see how a poster will do a lot and also, on the political speech thing, i don't see why a black lives matter poster is ok but other forms of why not -- why isn't the confederate flag -- i mean, obviously the confederate flag is not the same as a black lives matter poster, but why not hang an american indian movement poster? who gets to decide what is appropriate and what isn't? when do certain forms of

political speech come into favor and when don't they. i feel like somi feel like so. >> speaker: my name is michael petrlillis and i question what happened when the rainbow signs went up in the police station indicating that if gay people felt the need to go to the police station that the police

would value gay lives. i think it's very valid to ask what happened with that effort. the next thing i want to address on the agenda for your website under item 5, it doesn't give a link to the resolution. there is no text from this resolution on the agenda for tonight and item 5 doesn't say where to find it. now a commissioner just said, go to the -- first of all, i went to the support's document's section for tonight's meeting and the resolution is not there. the commissioner who said, look at the 30 days of correspondence for tonight's meeting, there is something there from dean preston.

and so, there's nowhere to read the text of this resolution on your website and there is nowhere to read this letter from the poa and this is a great disservice to the public. that we've not had a chance to print the resolution and read it. the same goes for the poa letter. i think you should have given us the opportunity to read both documents before tonight's meeting. and finally, i think the rainbow signs need to be assessed. >> just for the record, i'm looking under today's date, julg documents and the resolution is there, expressing support for black lives. so anyone who is interested, it

has been there since friday. and the poa letter we got this afternoon and we couldn't have posted it before today, but it is on the website. thank you, next caller. >> you have two minutes. >> speaker: good evening. i'm i'm the executive director of the third street youth center and clinic. thank you, commissioners. i strongly support this resolution and at this time in san francisco, we all need to be held accountable and not pit everybody against each other. this is targeting universalism and so when we take care of the marginalized community, we all come up. i also have the ed of sister web armstead on the line having difficulties and support of this resolution, thank you. >> thank you, next caller.

>> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. good evening. this is brian cox from the public defender's office. to be clear, the poster that declare black live's matter is an important step in addressing centuries of oppression. the posteers should be celebratd by all including the poa and everybody agrees that black lives matter but that should be followed up to enact a reform protects and saves black lives and they should happen immediately. reform can't take years and years while black forms are overpoliced. the issue is one of racial equity. how will the commission fully embrace rectifying behavior policing. rectifying overpolici. we need to bring this fruition as symbols can only go so far.

the ego's should happen faster. with discussion the poster raise an important question, will the commission take a summer recess? i heard an oblique reference but i'm not sure. should the commission take a summer break? i'll take that answer off-line. thank you. >> i'm not sure about the oblique reference, but we have two meetings in august and you'll see the agenda in the spring documents as we get there. thank you. >> there are no more public comments. >> i think the -- we were taking the first week of august off, right? >> yes. so we're taking the first week of august off and we don't have a quorum that week, but we will be here on the 12th and the 19th for the regular meetings.

>> there's one more public comment. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> speaker: this is the vice president of the office of justice and i just wanted to chime in to say that i also support the resolution and it's definitely a huge step in the right direction and it can only lead to better things in the future. thank you. that's ali just wanted to menti. >> thank you very much. >> and that's the end of public comment. >> i think we have a motion to adopt and a second. >> yes. >> on the motion to adopt draft resolution expressing support for black believes matters and

install the black lives matter signs within every police station. >> so sorry to interrupt. i think that because of what the caller has stated, it does raise an issue and perhaps we can add a section that says that the penalty for officers taking down this sign is included in the resolution so that it's clear. >> what do you mean? >> meaning that if the sign is taken down by officers, it could be subject to discipline or there's a penalty.

>> it says you're not allowed to cover it up. >> i would ask, then, to ask the chief to adopt the resolution. we'll pass the resolution tonight but in the future, i think the chief should adopt absolute is department bulletin encompassing our resolution. >> ok. i think that the resolution. this is a decree. but we can talk about that off-line but they have to follow it. >> the point taken for sure. , sandy. >> on the motion to adopt the resolutioresolution for supportk

lives matter -- (taking rolerole call (. >> you have five yes'. >> i've known dr. lasir for years and her efforts and countless hours in community ensuring there is access to healthcare is phenomenal and miss eloise patent. that's why we're here, to make sure we echo the voices and make

sure they're heard and i appreciate the community coming out tonight. >> so the resolution passes and let's call the next line item. >> number 6, 5.01, use of force, pursuant to general order 3.01.01e1 and amends a current order. discussion and possible action. >> this is our last week and we wanted the opportunity to read it and i'll let commissioner elias talk about all of her hard work and about this resolution.

>> he went above and beyond to t was required. i'll ask to support this effort with this bulletin and this department bulletin does a few very important things. number one, it's going to change how we report the use of force. currently, our ggo only reports use of force against individuals who are the subject having a firearm pointed at them if the use of force results in pain or injury. it does not include any instance where use of force has been applied wherein in complaint of injury or pain is present. so this is going to widen the net in tems o in terms of how ue is noted. additionally, it will encompass any time an officer un-holsters

his gun, we need to catch that data and this db will allow us to do just that. and so, the db also is going to change how the use of force is reviewed by supervising officers and it's also going to allow us to adhere more to -- excuse me, comply with the current dgo, 5.1, in terms of the reports of the use of force to the commission and the analysis that is required from this data and so, i am going to, again, ask my fellow commissioners to support this db because i i think it is, again, going to really help us capture the data in terms of the use of force and how the police department uses force and allow us to see patterns and practises and trends and give us a better

snapshot of any sort of -- excuse me, any practices or patterns that we see that may be biased or that may target is particular group and, again, referencing the poa's letter and their commitment to the people of -- their commitment that people of color should not be victimized by racist policies and practises is something they fully embody. so i'm hopeful that they have said that, they will embody this db which is put forth to ensure just that. i want to give the chief an opportunity to talk about the db since he did -- we worked very hard on this and the only one thing that i have is a grammatical change that we didn't catch and i apologize. it is on page 2 of the db, paragraph d. the second sentence.

and i believe that it should be our objectivably reasonable facts instead of there is a. >> that's right. >> ok, did you get that? before we vote, i would like to give the chief an opportunity to chime in. chief?

>> input was very instrumental in getting us to where we are now in these policy changes. so i'll just highlight -- i won't repeat all of what commissioner elias said but other features of the policy change will be the reporting of a firearm now including the low-ready position and i think commission elias mentioned that in previous police commissions. but it includes the low raised position, when it's pointed at someone's direction at the low-ready. it's required to having to draw a pointed firearm in an incident report. 5.01 already laid out when

officers -- when we are authorized to draw or exhibit a firearm and what we're doing with this is we are actually capturing that information, notes notnot as a use of force but evaluating that as appropriate. as been demonstrated time and time again with the review of our use of force data and collaborative reform work, the pointing of a firearm or drawing of a firearm is a serious occasion to most people and we need to be able to examine that. this data collection allows us to do that. supervisors are required to deliver footage and force evaluation before the end of watch. there are exceptions because we have sometimes extraordinary cases where there is voluminous

body-warn cameras to look at. we're talking about the evaluation form talking about the officer's zero deputy chief and option's unit from a training division for review. and other features, it changes some of the definitions and deadly fortune, serious body injury, reasonable force and, also, on the section on levels of force, deadly force is the definition is changed to include any use of force that creates a substantial risk of causing death or bodily injury. and then, just to reiterate what commission elias pointed out about our data and the evaluation form is revisions and

the policy that we believe will allow us a more accurate capturing of the data and the more complete capturing of the data and at the end of all of this is that data to make a determination of what direction we need to go for the commission and policy recommendations and how well we're doing as far as progress on changing the narrative of some of the disparities we have seen with the use of force among people of color. we believe these were thoughtful changes and i would like to thank commissioner elias and dba for working with us and the training division is the people reviewing and weighed in on this. the fact we did this in less than a month is extraordinary with how quickly we got this completed. and so, thank you to everybody who had a part in that, including the department of personnel and that's it for my

portion of this presentation. >> thank you. >> one thing i did forget to do or thank was diana olivia roche who made this turn-around happen. i think that the chief just spoke how quickly we could get this together before the commission and make these changes and it was almost, you know, a great deal that was because of her efforts and coordinating and getting all of us there to, you know, add or additions and revisions to the commission and so thank you so much and i'm so glad that she is with the department, but maybe not for awhile. i believe thank you goes to you because you were a driving force

in getting this done, chief. when you tell people to get things done, that's what happens. thank you. >> so it's my turn here and i want to give credit where credit is due. this bulletin, this db, credit is due everywhere. so the chief actually mentioned to me weeks ago that he wanted to do this and i just thought it was so fantastic and ground-break. ground-breaking. he brought this to the commission and i think i gave the chief a week turn-around. every step of the way, i gave everyone a week turn-around and those deadlines were met and everyone has moved so quickly to make this happen and so thoughtfully to make this happen and this is a testament to what we can do. this really shows your commitment to reform.

this is your idea, frankly. and all of the steps that happened along the way with everyone, commissioner elias devoting out the time and energy and the department. accountability and miss marion and director henderson and so, i just want to thank everyone and, you know, this is just an example of what we can do when we're mot motivated. >> i'm make a motion. so moved. beautiful, beautiful db. >> i'm second and public comment.

>> i just echo my fellow commissioners. i want to thank commissioner elias and in that thank you, this came before the commission last week and there were changes that needed to be made that folks agreed upon to be made and i just want to thank you for taking the time to say, it's ok. we'll give it another week and allow this to digest some of the changes that were made. and i want to say thank you publically for that and to chief and as you stated to dionna who has been on the force for maybe two weeks. she just hit the ground running and i want to thank her for her work and, of course, everybody that was involved with this. it's been motion aske motioned l add an additional second. >> i think there might be a third. [ laughter ] >> commissioner elias, nobody is

stealing your shine. you did the hard work on this and kudos. >> we have to roll out the training and we've started to work on training, putting together a package to implement the training so our officers are aware of the changes and so they're training on the changes and we have scenario-based types of training and everybody is on board. and what we are planning to do, i want to bring this to the commission's attention. i believe we can everything done

in 90 days. that's the training, getting the curriculum, getting it out and training the entire department and at that point, this would become enforceable. and i think that's a big part of the proper roll-out of any dbo, something as significant as this. i wanted to bring that to the commission's attention and support on that. >> thank you, chief. when you want to make things happen, they happen. >> thank you. >> any public comment? >> for members of the public that wish to make comment on line item 6 regarding the dgo, 5.1, call us.

and for those who have dialed in, hit star 3 now. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. caller, are you there? (no response. >> there are no public comments. >> to adopt 4-poin this, how dou vote?

(role call). >> you have five questions. >> the motion passes. great. i want to say, so this bulletin goes hand in hand with the other use of force bulletin that we pass as a commission on july 1st and so i'll direct the director's unit to include the content of tonight's bulletin and the bulletin that we passed on july 1st in 5.01 and those changes will be effective immediately. with respect to the other bulletin on july 1st, there was a clerical error this the last sentence of that bulletin and commissioner dejesus neglected to include the words

prone and it should have read an officer shall document in an incident report any time it is necessary to seat or prone an individual on the ground involuntarily. so that change has been made and i direct that the written directive's unit to include the content of both bulletins. commissioner elias, i think you wanted to say something, as well. >> i wanted to clarify when the initial bulletin regarding 5.01, we made a motion with the respect to meet and confer and instructing the chief not to -- that the department bulletin was not subject to meet and confer. i am at this point going to ask to make a motion to revise that previous motion be made, as well as include the current 5.01 db passed today and it's my

understanding because of commissioner taylor's directive, that both the department bulletin for 5.01 before the commission prior and this one will be combined into one and i'm making a motion that all revisions made to 5.01, that the chief be directed to do the following. that with respect to the department bulletin, only -- it should be sent to meet and confer wit with the training and discipline only. all other subjects are not subject to meet and confer and therefore, the only parts of the db that will be subject to meet and confer are those related to training and to discipline. and so, i make that motion and ask my fellow commissioners to

support me. >> i think what you're saying, it's legally required for training but absolutely nothing else should go. >> that is the language that came out of the superior court case. and that is the language that came out of that case, as well as the law that requires what we go to confer. and so, again, i am asking that the chief be directed to then the department bulletin for the limited purpose of training and discipline only to meet and confer. >> if we need a vote, i'll make that motion. >> what? >> were you asking for a vote. >> yes. >> i thought cindy made the motion. >> i'll second it. i'm sorry. >> there you go again trying to

steal my show. [ laughter ] >> so on the motion -- public comment on that? >> the clerical error, just vote on that to be air tight, adding the or prone. can we get public comment on both, if we need it? dido i have a motion? >> so moved. >> i think procedurally, we have to withdraw my motion first and allow yours to go and then i can do mine or we can vote on mine and then do yours.

>> whichever is fine. >> so we've done public comment and we can go into the vote. >> ok. so ther this is on commissioners direlias. (discernable). pai(role call). >> you have five yes'. >> i'm asking for a motion to add the words or prone to the sentence that i read on the bulletin that we passed on july 1st. so the sentence will now read, an officer shall document in his

incident report any time it is necessary to seat or prone and individual on the ground involuntarily. do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> on the motion to add the word prone to the dp passed june 1st -- (roll call). >> you have five question's. yes'. >> next line item. >> 7, general public comment.

at this time, the public is welcomed to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. figures shall address the remarks as a whole and not to individual departments or dpa personnel. under rules of order during public comment, neither police for dpa personnel or commissioners are to respond to the public but may provide a brief response. public opportunities to speak call (408)418-9388, code (146)869-4234, press pound and then pound again and press star 3 to raise your hand. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways, email sfpd.commission.org or send your written comments to the public safety building at 1245 third street, sanfrancisco, california

9458. i'll take the first public comment. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> speaker: i'm john jones. i wanted to speak to item 5 if the chair would allow me to. i was online earlier, but apparently, i miskeyed my request. may i do that? >> ok, go ahead. >> speaker: i wanted to note that i think the resolution was really wholly inappropriate endorsement of a violent political move which is overtly hostile to anyone appearing to disagree with the rants. if you want to address the political speech comments you received, you would put up a second poster next to the black lives matter poster and on the second poster, you would invite to inscribe comments to the

black lives matter movement and the peninsul competence of the f black lives matter. thank you very much for letting me make this comment. >> you have good night. thank you. any other public comments? >> yes. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> speaker: thank you. i as well didn't make it into the number 5 line item. and was looking to speak now, if the commission would allow my two minutes. >> ok. >> speaker: thank you. i appreciate it. as we were discussing black lives matter tonight, i agree with the sentiment, but not the group and their self described agenda or beliefs. if you place black lives matter materials with a capital b, a

capital l and m, you are endorsing a political movement. it'its leaders have actually threatened to destroy the country and have argued that white people are recessive defects and must be mused out and the commissioner attached a racist underpinning awhile ago while sfpd officers were wearing thin blue line masks and he alleged that these were seen as racist. i endorse that black lives do matter. however, they should not be endorsed as a political entity within a police department. if you allow this to go forward, the word black should be

capitalled and anything after that should be in lower case so that it is not being politicized. with the disclaimer against the political group. failure to show such separation would be a violation of the policy on incompatible activities for commissioners and may result in ethic's complaints. please spread the message of love and community, not division such as black lives matter. thank you for giving me the time. >> thank you. you know, correct me if i'm wrong, all the resolution says there should be a resolution with the words black lives matter. just for the record. next caller. >> you have two minutes. >> speaker: can you hear me? >> yes. >> speaker: i'm calling to say that i applaud your work tonight with the resolution updated use

force bulletin and wish with all my heart there's no need to have a heart on whether black lives matter this day and age because yes, they do. all of the previous racist callers to just stay silent and just listen. shame on you. when will they be devoting an entire series to going line by line to the proposed budget of the department? and how will you be defunding the sfpd. i would hate for this department to be caught but in the future when this does happen being prepared to make thoughtful cuts in a timely matter. thank you for your time. >> thank you. any more callers? >> one more.

>> they hung up. >> please call the next line item. >> 8, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 10a below, including public comment on item 9 and whether to hold item 10 and to invoke the attorney-client privilege for item 10a, action. i think we have one caller. >> ok. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> speaker: i would like to strongly encourage the police commission not to hold this item in closed session. i'm very concerned about how the

implications with regard to the brown act, and i am very concerned about the -- just what's going on. and i feel like the corruption -- i just don't feel comfortable with these closed sessions. i remember last week we were told that there was certain attorney/client privilege that needed to be held in closed session and i understand what the commissioners can hear, that the public can't hear. i understand that that the clients might have things they may need to have but i don't understand what secretive information the commissioners are getting and i encourage you to hold the items in public an d

i will be contacting the first amendment coalition with regards to the police commission use of the closed sessions. also, we never -- the police commission last week said that they would be disclosing certain information from last week and i don't know where this information is. so i would like an update as to what happened to the information that was supposed to be disclosed from last week's closed sessions. thank you. >> thank you. >> that information was posted on the commission website. sergeant youngblood, you can direct the public to where it was posted. i want to say what's happening in closed sessions, this is not the brown act violates.

violation. this is having an attorney-client conversation with our lawyers, with counsel. the problem with having that with counsel in the public is that you then would call waive privilege. if you waive privilege, the very organization that we're pitted against and negotiating against gets to use that against us. and so, all that's happening in closed session is a continuation of last week because we didn't get to the items last week and we'll talk to our counsel about the two items we didn't get to last week. the items that we did get to, we posted that on the website. >> i would add that it is always our option to disclose after the closed session. i agree that we should -- i think everybody agrees that we should disclose everything we are legally permitted to

disclose and not hold anything in closed session that is not conference with legal counsel. and so we will disclose after this session and we will ask those to be posted again to the website. >> there was something to be read into the record. dr. commissioners, chief scott and othe others participating, m the director and department head for the san francisco mayor's office on disability. as i mentioned in my june comment, they have had the pleasure of supporting this dgo work group since 2017. as you know, members of the deaf community, along with domestic violence advocates and fantastic partners in the san francisco police department have been involved in this work group

since inception and, fortunately, we have an example on which to base the work. as i mentioned, implementing san francisco's dgo now is of critical importance. we're in the midst of the americans adisability'sability and civil right's, antidiscrimination legislation for people with disabilities and second, as a tool to help all importants understand how to live and communicate together in the community. i would like to reiterate this as written and highlight effective communication and other accessibility communications that have been mandatory for 30 years now. the next step is training. (indiscernible).

thank you. >> thank you. >> next line item. >> whether to hold item 10 in closed session. 57.10. >> do i have a motion? >> motion. >> second. >> on the motion to go into closed session -- (role call). >> at this time we're going into closed session.

>> and whether or not to invoke the attorney-client privilege for that line item necessary. >> it was closed. >> what? >> it was not in the motion. >> so motion on whether to go into closed session and invoking the attorney-client privilege, just to be clear. >> thank you. if we could have that back. >> is there a motion to go into closed session invoking the attorney/client privilege. >> motion. >> is there a second? on this motion -- (role call).

>> you have five yes'. >> motion passes. >> we'll now go into closed session.

>> president yee: good afternoon and welcome to the july 28, 2020 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, would you please call the roll? >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [roll call]