>> vice president taylor: welcome to what is going to be the continued meeting from august 19 as well as concurrently the september 2 meeting of the san francisco police commission. as some of you may be aware, we lost quorum at the last police commission meeting due to technical difficulties beyond our control. so at that time, we had

completed the chief's report, the d.p.a. director's report, and line item 1 before we had to adjourn. we're going to pick up tonight where we left off, so it's going to be the presidential report, commission report, and public comment. we want to make sure the public has an opportunity to comment on items from the august 19 agenda. so that's how we're going to proceed, and then after that, we will continue the remaining items on the september 2 and tonight's meeting, and once that's done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. as always, i'm going to ask public commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. if you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. >> clerk: yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call]

>> clerk: you have a quorum. also here tonight is chief w l william scott from the san francisco police department. >> >> vice president taylor: i wanted to say that the public will notice we have a new commissioner, and oddly enough, she's probably why every single member of this commission is on this commissioner. commissioner malia cohen, welcome to your first police

commission thank you very much. so i just wanted to, you know, just straight believe that -- share in my beliefs that i believe in transparency, and i believe in the examining of data and accountability and also support the positive moves toward police reform. and as you know, i'm a

soon-to-be new mother, and i'm aware that we need to do a lot of work in order to create a very safe and stable future for those of us that are not only here today but for future generatio generations. so i just want to say to everyone here, thank you, and thank you to the mayor who had the confidence in me to appoint me to the commission. i'm excited to be here, and with that, commissioner taylor, i turn it back to you. thank you. >> vice president taylor: thank you. okay. so can you please call the next item on the agenda, sergeant? >> clerk: yes. line item 1, reports to the commission, continued from august 19, 2020. commission reports. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. commission president's report, commissioners' reports, and

commission announcement and scheduling items identified for condition at future commission meetings, action. >> vice president taylor: i don't see any names in the chat, so seeing none, let's move onto the next item. >> clerk: item 2, discussion and possible action to adopt the community ambassador program manual, continued to september 2, 2020. >> vice president taylor: okay. item 3? >> clerk: item 3 is public comment. >> vice president taylor: this is general public comment that you weren't able to provide on august 19 because of the technical difficulties. if you wish to provide public comment, please do so now. >> clerk: members of the public are welcome to address the commission up to two minutes on items that do not appear on the agenda for august

19 but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. commission. speakers shall address they remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d.p.a. personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police or d.p.a. personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and d.p.a. personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. so far, commissioner, we have one public comment.

>> vice president taylor: okay. >> operator: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. caller, you are unmuted, and you have two minutes. are you there? okay, commissioner, i will go to the next caller. okay. caller, you have two minutes. >> commissioners, i wanted to call you tonight to ask you to produce a reasoned plan to defund the police as tens of thousands of your constituents are calling for in the street. i understand that what was done before is clearly unacceptable, and now, as we move forward, i would love to see this commission take responsibility solely for the actions of its

brutal and corrupt organization where you have members taking obscene amounts of over time. i certainly don't think there's any reason to be harassing random participants in a band in a park, and yet, we've managed to turn up six cops in riot gear. i certainly don't think there is any reason to respond to levels in force that you guys have to the protest, yet for every individual small group of people, you've managed to surface 30 or 40 police officers. that seems to be the only function that the police department has, and i would ask whether large portions of that task might better go undone. and i don't imagine any other organization has the capability

to recommend which of those tasks shouldn't be done by the police department better than this commission. so i'm asking the commission to man up, do its job, and figure out how to come up with a police department that is responsive to what the people actually want and not abusive as its primary and almost exclusive function. >> vice president taylor: thank you, caller. next caller. >> operator: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. caller, you have been unmuted. you have two minutes. commissioner, that is all for public comment. >> vice president taylor: thank you. next line item? >> clerk: line item 4, closed session. continued to september 2, 2020.

>> vice president taylor: thank you. next item. >> clerk: line item five, for the adjournment of the august 19 meeting. >> vice president taylor: can i have a motion for the adjournment of the august 19, 2020 meeting. >> commissioner hamasaki: are we done? >> so moved. >> commissioner hamasaki: i'll second. >> clerk: okay. on the adjournment of the august 19, 2020 meeting -- [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner taylor, you have six yeses. >> vice president taylor: okay. how do we do this procedurally, opening the next meeting?

i'll leave that to you, sergeant. >> clerk: okay. so for the meeting of september 2, 2020, we are roll call for this meeting, as well. >> vice president taylor: okay. >> clerk: roll call for the meeting of september 2, 2020 -- [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner taylor, you have a quorum. and also, we have present chief of police william scott and [inaudible]. >> vice president taylor: and i don't think you included me in the roll, but i'm present, as well. >> clerk: and commissioner taylor is present.

>> vice president taylor: all the same rules apply. phone number 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146-140-8360. commissioners, put your hand up if you want to make comments. next line item. >> clerk: item 1, adoption of minutes for the meeting of august 12, 2020. >> commissioner cohen: i make a motion to approve the minutes. >> commissioner hamasaki: did somebody move? >> commissioner cohen: yes, i did. >> okay. and second. >> clerk: for line item 1,

adoption of minutes -- [roll call] >> vice president taylor: next line item? >> clerk: item 2, reports to the commission, discussion. chief's report. weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. major significant incidents. 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 bakt on public -- impact on public

safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. presentation of the safe streets for all quarterly report, second quarter 2020. presentation of the fdrb findings and recommendations and o.i.s. investigative summaries, first and second quarter 2020. >> hi, commissioner cohen. >> commissioner cohen: nice to see you. >> i just want to talk a little bit about the training -- i've mentioned it to the commission before. training was created and implemented in 2018, and basically, the course was developed and designed to

reinforce [inaudible] tactics to involve less lethal. as you know, we've decreased our pointings of firearms and the use of force in the chapter 96-a report, but we do believe that this training that we have creates has addressed gaps and really led to more effective leadership in the field. the training actually emphasizes the principles of deescalation which has been embraced by members. it's all about coordination, decision making, response, and effective decision making. we have significantly reduced the pointing of a firearm, which is actually our biggest category of use of force from where it was in 2016, when we started to track this

information until -- to now. there's been almost a 70% reduction in the pointing of firearms. and also, the percentage of use of forces that involve pointing of firearms has gone from -- down from about 70% in 2016 to 44% of our total use of force this year, so it's really a good thing that this training was recognized by the international association of chiefs of police. i think it shows, once again, that our city is on the forefront of trying to make things better in policing, and i just want to give my hats off to everybody. the training unit, commander denise flaherty who was the lead on this, and the participating members. together, we've trained 1,540 members, and we believe it's

had an impact on the way we've trained for critical incidents and leading to better yut comes for critical incidents. -- outcomes for critical incidents. wanted to start with our crime trend. overall, we are down 28% from last week's crime. compared to 2019-2020, we're down 20%. our total property crimes were down 21%. however, we are still up in homicide 23% -- up in homicide. we did not have any homicides this past week, which is good news, but we still have a lot of work to do in terms of our homicides for this year. we had seven in the month of august, and the previous month, in july, we had five. of the year-to-date cases, we've cleared 13 of the year-to-date cases, and we've

also cleared some of our older cases. i know there is a desire by commissioner brookter to talk about some of our shooting incidents. there are several districts that are up. the two that are most concerning are the ingleside district, with an increase of 100% of shooting incidents, and that's six -- 12 in 2020 compared to six in 2019. tenderloin also has a significant increase. there is seven in 2019, 16 this year. we're talking about total shooting incidents. bayview has one more shooting incident than they did last year, and mission has one more shooting incident than they did this time last year. bayview, that number is 29 compared to 28, and mission is nine compared to 8.

of the remaining six districts, everyone else has had a decrease in shooting incidents. the most significant decrease is central, who went from five to one, and that's the individual breakdown of the individual districts. we, again, have a presentation scheduled with our crime strategies directors on what we are doing to reduce shootings and to work not only short-term but long-term, so we're looking forward to that presentation. in terms of property crime, we are still struggling with burglaries. we're up significantly in burglaries, which is alarming. the biggest trend we're seeing are garage burglaries with items like bicycles, tools, small things that can be carried out. we are up significantly, with over 1300 more burglaries than this time last year. our motor vehicle thefts are also up significantly, 900 more than this time last year, a little bit more than 900.

what's driving the decrease in total property crimes are our overall thefts are down significantly, 35%, which is a large number. we're down almost -- over 8,000 theft incidents than we were this time last year, and that includes our car burglaries, which are down significantly from this time last year. overall, we are down, but we still have some significant concerns in terms of our property crime. in terms of individual cases, we had four shooting incidents that i'd like to brief the commission and the public on on 8 -- or august 30, 2020. officers arrived and found a victim down on the 100 block of gonzalez, in the ingleside district. the victim was talking to a

female, and shots rang out, and it was unknown the origin of the gunshots. the victim is expected to survive but was injured. on that same day at 2:00 p.m., a victim stated he was walking in the area when he felt gunshots and felt weak. he was taken to the hospital, and it appeared that there was some sort of physical altercation that the victim was involved in before he was shot, so that one is still under investigation. we're trying to find witnesses for that case, as well. on august 29, at 4:23 p.m., a victim was walking near the san francisco general hospital, when a car pulled up and he felt pain in his leg. he was transported to san francisco general, and no suspects have been arrested in that case. on august 26, 11:33 p.m., two victims were sitting in a vehicle when two suspects

started walking up and started shooting. one victim suffered a graze to the buck and the other a gunshot wound to the leg. they self-transported to the hospital, and both were listed in stable condition. we have some leads on that, but we have not made an arrest in that case as of yet. moving onto major events, we continue to monitor protests in the city. we have not had any significant incidents over this past week. there are -- many of the events are unplanned, and we hear about them either through community members or through second party information, but we have not had any incidents. as you all know, there are still many very alarming protests happening around the country, but thankfully, we haven't had that come to our city here lately. we will continue to monitor and facilitate peaceful protests and keep the commission updated on how that's going.

there was an unplanned march in the taraval district, had about 60 to 70 people. it was in the area of sloat and great highway, and the people were peaceful as they marched up great highway. we had one unit basically trailing the group, closing off intersections in front of the group so they could facilitate the march, and it was peaceful, and that is the highlights for this week. with that, i will open it up to the commission for questions if there are any questions. >> vice president taylor: thank you. commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: thank you, chief. i'm glad that the incident training is going to be displayed at the international police chief meeting because i

had a lot of people comment to me on the critical mindset training, so i'm hoping that you can discuss what the training entails because i think the fact that it's already had such positive responses from community members will be helpful. >> thank you. be happy to do that, commissioner. thank you. >> vice president taylor: that's a great idea. i'm going to calendar that for a future meeting. commissioner brookter? >> commissioner brookter: yeah, and thanks again, chief, for acknowledging what i brought up in the last meeting. but i do want to make sure, from what i was hearing, it sounds like ingleside, tenderloin, the bayview, and mission, homicide was up, and that's a problem. that's a problem. so i want to make sure that as we do these report-outs, and we're looking at the data, and

we're looking at the information that's in front of us, that we are looking at a plan to make reductions in these areas and have the staff that we need in order to see a decrease in these areas. i think that was extremely, extremely alarming. we're looking at a 100% increase in ingleside, so i wanted to make sure we pointed that out and make sure that's on our radar, chief, and we're planning how we're going to see a decrease in homicides in the city. >> yes, sir. i may have spoke, but the shootings are what's up in inglesides, which is just as problematic. >> commissioner brookter: no, point well taken. >> vice president taylor: commissioner brookter actually stole my thought because, you know, when we look at this, it just says year-to-date

incidents. it is bayview, mission, ingleside, and tenderloin pretty much where the black and brown people live. so what i'm going to do for a future meeting, chief, and i told you this would be coming up, but kind of more pressing now, what is the department doing in terms of the bayview. when i look at everything is down but the four areas where minorities tend to live, these incidents, i just want to know what the department is doing to reach out to the community that's clearly struggling here, so i'm going to ask you to present on that at a future meeting, chief. >> thank you for that, vice president taylor. we will definitely put together a presentation on that. >> vice president taylor: thank you. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: so chief, i'm looking at the data

that you gave from 2016, 70% pointing guns down to 44%. that's good. that's a 26% reduction, but i guess for the public to understand, the pointing of the begun, gun, is it still pointed at black and african americans, besides the training, what else can we do to bring it down because it's still quite high, i mean, close to 50%. >> yes, commissioner. it has been reduced in terms of the -- first of all, let me back up. you're correct. there's still disparities in that particular demographic, and definitely, it's less of a disparity than it was four years ago, but we still have work to do on that. so part of this, with training as the cncr and other training

that we're doing is helping greatly in that regard, but we still do have some work to do movement on that issue. and you look at the trainings over the last three, four years, the number has been reduced, and the biggest demographic as far as the pointing of guns have been african americans. so that number has been reduced significantly, as well. however, it's still disproportionate, and that is a concern, and it's something that we're continuing to work on. but this training definitely helps, and that in conjunction, some of the work that we're doing, particularly in the area of bias and the work that the department has recently revised we think will all lead to better outcomes. a lot of work to be done, but i think we're putting the pieces in place to make that situation better. >> vice president taylor: thank you. commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: i think it's important to note, too, and maybe the chief can speak

to that, the use of force numbers are going to be drastically different from this point forward given the use of force bulletin that we just passed a few weeks ago because the new bulletin is going to require officers to account for any time a weapon is pointing someone, including those that don't result in hospitalization or an actual shooting, so the numbers are going to be very coming in the forthcoming months and years, so i think that's something that we should also consider, as well. >> vice president taylor: yeah. i think we should expect a decrease in use of force going forward. >> yes. just to your comment, commissioner elias, how we track, just like we did when we

introduced resolution on use of force, we hope to capture that in use of force policy, use of force on those overcoming resistance, so if we set it up right, we'll be able to track those captured by this policy and be able to track what the changes are. just like with use of firearms. we know how many pointing of a gun use of forces there are, so we can kind of compare apples to apples in the use of force. that has to do with the tracking, and putting together the right mechanism as we roll this thing out. >> vice president taylor: thanks. commissioner cohen? >> commissioner cohen: chief, i wonder if you can give me some insight, what's the plan to

deal with outside groups that come into san francisco with the view of disrupting peaceful demonstrations? >> a lot of it, commissioner, is about getting ahead of it. we track a lot of that information, and a lot of it is posted on-line. we kind of get a feel -- it's not a perfect science, not anything near a perfect science, but we get an idea. also, some of what's being said on-line gives you an indication. a lot of what we saw on-line was a lot of violent talk, saying they were going to come

in and do certain things. we saw trends around us, and sure enough, those trends were in our city. the more information we have, the better prepared we are. now when we get a situation where we have a small group that's trying to create a situation or incite a violent situation, our plan is to deal with the group effectively as a whole. oftentimes, we can isolate, if you understand who it is that's causing violence or causing disruption turning into violence, and isolate on that group and not take it out on the whole group and end up having to deal with 1,000 people when it's only ten that are violent. >> commissioner cohen: so it sounds like you're surveying and gathering intelligence so you're able to pinpoint -- >> yes, thank you.

that's exactly what we're trying to do. we've been able to do that so far, and had some good outcomes. we've spent a lot of time talking about what the appropriate thing to do is. so so far, we haven't had a lot to deal with in our city so that peaceful protesters can get out and do what they need to do. >> commissioner cohen: thank you. >> vice president taylor: commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: chief cohen, to follow up on commissioner cohen's question, there's been a lot of surveilling and monitoring protesters and peaceful demonstrations. what procedures do you have in place to ensure that your surveillance of political

demonstrators isn't inpinging on first amendment activity? who is your department monitoring? are they monitoring protest groups that want to speak out against black lives matter? is that something that they're monitoring? >> we monitor on-line, open source information to know what's happening in the city. but surveillance on those groups or any group that's planning a protest, that's not something that we do. and there is policies and protocols and county ordinances on that. the board of supervisors right now is going to go through coit -- the city office of information technology is creating data under the

ordinance. we are working with coit to get our policies before them, but we monitor open source information. we always will do that so we know what's out there and what's coming. if there is a protest that's unplanned, spontaneous, we will monitor that in terms of actually having officers either in the area or helping to facilitate or something in the area. there is very thoughtful processes to make sure that we avail peaceful protests and we allow them to exercise their first amendment rights in that sense. >> commissioner hamasaki: all right. well, i think this came up last week. there was a release of

documents relating to surveillance at pride and at the fourth of july. we went through this at the last meeting, as well. i think there's some other surveillance activities, and i'll ask to schedule that meeting because there is a bigger item than what we should be covering in the chief's report. thank you. >> absolutely. we want the public's confidence that we're doing the right thing. so we definitely welcome that, and again, working through this whole process with surveillance technology and what we're going through. we welcome that. >> vice president taylor: thank you. next item, chief. >> thank you. next item, we actually have commander correa reporting on

our safe streets for all report. >> good afternoon, vice president taylor, commissioners, members of the d.p.a., members of the public. sergeant youngblood, am i coming through loud and clear. >> vice president taylor: yes, thank you, commander. >> okay. appreciate that. my name is commander correa, and i am the commander of the special operations bureau of the police department. tonight, i'm here to make a presentation for safe streets for all, our second quarter year-to-date update. and the next slide, please, sergeant. so our goals and efforts in our safe streets for all program, to continue to support vision zero, to continue to patrol

citywide uniformed officers from our district stations and motorcycle officers. conduct investigation on area that's have been identified throughout the city as high-injury corridors, collaborate with other agencies and our district stations, participate in community meetings and educate the public. down below, we have vision zero and some of our partners, including san francisco department of public health, d.p.h., sfmta, which is the san francisco municipal transit authority, walk sf, which is a group for safe pedestrians and travel throughout our city and other coalitions. sergeant, if you could go to the next slide, please. thank you. we have a twitter account where we try to get out information to the public about operations that we conduct with our traffic company.

our name or our tag on twitter or handle is sfpdtrafficsafety, and what we have here are slides or screen captures from our twitter account which display a number of traffic safety operations that we've conducted in the last year, second quarter of this year, along the high injury corridors which include the taraval, police district, ingleside, and bayview police districts. next slide, please, sergeant. thank you. in addition to those districts, we've been in the central, the southern, and the northern police districts, which are our top two slides. they are our top two photos. beneath, on the lower left corner and the lower right corner, the program that we

were involved with in connection with getting information out to the communities during the city's response and community response to covid, there were several community caravans that were held to raise awareness in different communities throughout the city, which include the bayview, the oceanview, l.m.i., the southern district, the northern district, and the park police district, and the roll that the traffic company officers played on motorcycles with facilitating the caravan. sergeant, if you wican go to t next slide, please. so this slide, this graph depicts our traffic violation by our individual units, ten district stations and traffic company. 11 reported reports out for the period of january through june 2020. our department wide totals,

9,520 traffic violations. 2,124 nontraffic violations, and our focus on the five violations, 5,211. the percentages in parentheses there indicated we were to report all our citations, we're at an average of 55%. the police department's commitment to vision zero was to meet 50% of all of our citations, so for the -- through first six months of this year, our average is 55%. sergeant, if you can go to the next slide, please. this slide depicts our focus on the five violations percentage by each of the ten district stations and our traffic company. the red line was our year-to-date for 2019. the blue line indicates our year-to-date for this year, and in all but i believe two

instances, our percentages have increased for focus on the five violations. the reason for members of the public, who may not be aware at the moment, the reason that we are focusing on the five violations, it's been identified as a primary collision factor in serious injury and fatal collisions in the city and county of san francisco. our goal is to issue citations and hold -- and make traffic stops for these violations in the hopes of both changing the behavior and raising public awareness in the belief that if we can reduce the instances where these violations occur, we can have an impact on the number of serious injury and fatal collisions. sergeant, the next slide, please. so we have two graphs here, two pie graphs. the first indicates these are

for traffic fatalities. unfortunately, they occurred between january 1 and june 30 of this year. the information relayed there is the type of or method of transportation of an individual who died as a result of a collision, so you can see we have -- for passengers and exterior passengers, we have two individuals. one person on a bicycle, four people walking under the category of pedestrians, three people on motorcycles and two who were driving a vehicle. as a note, the passenger category, where i said exterior passenger, earlier in the year, we had a passenger riding on a coupling between two vehicles

on muni, and that person fell off while muni was making a turn and suffered and died from their injuries. this also displays the ages of victims of each individual category. sergeant, next slide, please. so this depicts our traffic fatalities from january to june of this year. all the blue lines that you see on this map are areas that have been identified through vision zero stating or research in the downtown network. you'll see in the eastern part of the city, the tenderloin, almost every street is on high injury network corridor. the points on this map indicate individuals who died in a

collision. if you look at a location, for example, crossover drive and m.l.k., as well as the method of transportation: motorcyclist, bicyclist, people walking, pedestrians. in some cases, a determination has been made to the actions that precipitated the collision, and those are noted, as well. sergeant, if you could go to the next slide, please. this depicts our fatalities, comparing the same period in 2019 to this first six months of this year period for 2020. pedestrians, we had a change of 64%. motorcyclists, we have an increase of 200%. we had one the same period of 2019 and three this year.

minus, a cut in half percentage of 50% for drivers killed in collisions. and then passengers and persons using bicycles were the same for 2019 and 2020. sergeant, if you could go to the next slide, please. and that's the information that i've prepared for this presentation. thank you for your time, commissioners, and i want to ask if anybody has any questions that i can answer. >> vice president taylor: thank you. i don't see any names -- oh, commissioner hamasaki is waiving his hand. and you're muted. >> commissioner hamasaki: sorry. i feel like i just wrote it in the chat. >> vice president taylor: i don't see it -- any ways. >> commissioner hamasaki: hang on. i'm having a little bit of problem. can you hear me? >> vice president taylor: yeah. >> yes. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. that's weird. you can hear me? >> vice president taylor: yes. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. it's showing my microphone as

muted. commander pereia, just a question. i appreciate these interactions. we all want our pedestrians and bicyclists and everyone to be safer. do you have any data to support that these enforcement actions in the high injury, high accident corridors are effective? meaning, are you seeing a decrease in collision, decrease in injury accidents following the enforcement action or is it more just, like, theoretical, that hopefully if we do this, that this gets the message out? >> being okay. thank you for your question, commissioner. i'll try to answer it as best i can. part of our strategy, we want to raise awareness. whether it's officers just being present in the area in

high injury corridors, or traffic stops, or whether that results in a traffic citation or advisement, all of that helps to raise awareness. all of these areas that we are focusing our attention on identified by the vision zero s.f. committee working out of sfmta, the department of public health, and we get -- also get -- i've had a lot of strong input and feedback from walk sf and the bicycle coalition in terms of their desire for us to be in these areas to help prevent fatalities. hard numbers, i don't have at this point. i don't have any data that i can point to specifically that say things change by the presence of collisions or [inaudible]. >> commissioner hamasaki:

right. i guess i'm trying to be thoughtful about the use -- maybe it's because budget season is stretched, and we've heard a lot of issues raised about use of resources, and we want to be sure that the resources that we're using are being used effectively. so if there is a way -- and maybe this is something that we can think about to track the data to show that these programs are impactful, that would probably be helpful to present down the line and be able to demonstrate with data as opposed to anecdotal effectiveness. >> yes, sir. >> vice president taylor: okay. i don't see any other questions, so wican we call th next item on the chief's report agenda? >> thank you, vice president

taylor. deputy chief [inaudible] will present our findings and recommendations. >> okay. good evening vice president taylor, commissioners, chief scott, chief of staff hawkins, and administrators. my name is [inaudible] and i'll be presenting to you the fdrb findings and recommendations to the board. next slide, please, sergeant youngblood, and then, the next slide, please. so tonight, commissioners, i will be presenting the summary of o.i.s. next slide, please. so officer involved shootings 17-005 occurred september 23 of

2017 between the hours of 2335 to 0330 the following morning. the location of this occurrence, this officer involved shooting was in the [inaudible] block of salmon and [inaudible] in the city of san francisco, september 23 of 2017 approximately 2335 hours, officers responded to the area. officered attempted to persuade the suspect to surrender. the host age negotiation team established communications with the suspect via telephone. during the negotiations, two separate single gunshots were heard coming from inside the residence. after the incident, the suspect

indicated he had shot his wife in the head. the team initiated a tactical rescue. the officers made their way into the room and contacted the suspect. the suspect had a gun in his left-hand and was ordered to show his hands. the suspect did not comply and moved toward the officers in an aggressive manner, lunging up from a seated position. two officers simultaneously discharged their department-issued rifles. the suspect was struck and taken into custody. aid was rendered, and the suspect was transferred to san francisco general, where he later died. the hostages were rescued, and there were no other injuries. the recommendation to the chief of police was that the use of firearms in this incident was in policy, and chief scott concurs.

next slide, please. officer involved shooting 18-003 occurred on march 21, 2018 at approximately 1629 hours, at 949 geneva avenue. san francisco police uniformed patrol and plainclothes offers responded to 229 amazon avenue to investigate a 911 call regarding an i imagine in front of the residence with a gun. as officered were responding, dispatch advised that the suspect had flashed a gun and tried to break into the residence. officers on-scene were directed by dispatch and a resident as the suspect was now at the amazon barber shop, located at 949 geneva. officers observed an individual inside the barber shop who matched the description of the suspect broadcast by dispatch just minutes earlier. as officers entered the barber shop, the suspect opened fire at the officers. the two officers drew their firearms and returned fire at the suspect.

one officer and the suspect were struck by gun fire. the officer and suspect were transported to san francisco general for the injuries. the suspect was pronounced deceased at the hospital. the recommendation to chief scott for this incident was that the use of the firearms by these officers were in policy, and chief scott concurs. next slide, please. the next is an officer-involved discharge 001-19, occurred july 31, 2019, approximately 1542 hours, cero magnum and market streets. officered were flagged down by an anonymous person stating that there was an aggressive dog in the shopping center. the dog's owner was not present. officers requested animal care

and control to respond to the scene with the animal grohling and being aggressive. the animal ran and lunged at one of the officers. the officer sidestepped and drew his weapon and fired one time at the dog, striking it. animal care and control responded and took care and custody of the dog. next slide, please. the following are still open o.i.s. cases, and they list the status active and still pending criminal investigations. and then, the last slide, sergeant youngblood, that's the presentation for this evening. >> vice president taylor: thank you. can you give us a sense of why you think it takes to long -- the first case that you talked

about was from three years ago, september 2017, and i noticed some open items as early as from january 2017, so just educate us and the public, what the process is and why these things take so long to go through the review board. >> it's a -- vice president taylor, it's a combination of whether the -- there's going to be a criminal charge to the d.a.s office, the length and time it takes to review the criminal charges or criminal investigation, the administrative investigations, and any other investigations performed by any other entity, including the d.a.s office. [please stand by]

>> i don't know if we're ready for the vice president. >> next line item. >> next line item dpa director's report.

report on recent activities and announcements. the descriptions of dpa activities and announcements. it will be limited and any of the these issues raised (inaudible). good evening members of the viewing public and chief scott. i'll start tonight with an overview of our statistics to date we have opened 549 cases compared to 495 this time last year and we have closed 595 cases and in compare ton to 430 cases this year. we have 392 cases pending as opposed to 367 at this point last year. we have sustained 39 cases and currently we have cases pass the

2780 day mark. we have 34 of those cases down from 38 at this point last year and the reason they are passed the 270 day mark are because officers are out on disability pay or because they're told for other reasons including on going criminal or civil litigation. or criminal investigations. currently, we are at 30 cases mediated to date as compared to 26 last year. as we will recall a new stat that commissioner ally as asked for was the number of cases we have pending and number of caseses we have pending with the commission. currently, we have 14 cases that are pending with the commission and the oldest was filed with the commission in april of 2019 and there are two other cases currently pending with the commission filed in 2019 and

there are 10 cases pending with the commission from 2020. one of those is an appeal and one actually, as i believe commissioner thomas mentioned earlier tonight, it's set second hearing tomorrow. in terms of cases pending with the chief, we have 32 currently. i did get a request for commissioner alliance in an attempt to on exactly what stage each of those 32 cases is in. i have been working with sfpd and corresponding with ac moeser and with one of the sfpd lawyers. i would rather, if it's ok with the commission, present those pum stats next week and one of the issues istats and they havey officer names so i have an updated list with the officer names and we're working on that. at the next presentation we'll be able to give an accurate report and a fair report of the status of those cases.

>> thank you. >> (inaudible). >> better. speak really closely. it's also my understanding that that information will be more readily available because the dpa and the department are having conversations to streamline documents exchange between the two agencies to ensure it will be exchanged and dpa will provide those reports. >> that is correct.

we are on track to work on automating or more seamlessly sharing the information and in the meantime, we're still struggling with the manual data pools but we will be able to achieve those goals for the commission and for the public. one request was an update on the investigation and what i can say is that dpa opened two cases related to the death of public defender jeff adachi. one of those investigations was regarding the leak of the incident report related to that death. that investigation is open and on going. the second investigation was with regards to search warrants that were issued in san francisco police department's investigations of the leak. that investigation has been completed with dpa and it's currently involved in the process outlined in the city charter for what happens when a

dpa and given confidentiality rules cents th, it's the updatet investigation but i did want to share that information and with the public as well. >> thank you, go ahead. >> go ahead. >> so, i also wanted to share some information about the upcoming release of the reporting on use of force audits. the dpa and the controller staff met with a number of people from sfpd command staff with 37 recommendations and sfpd has a month to respond to those so we had a discussion yesterday, sfpd will file a written response by september 25th and we'll have that report filed by september 30th and are hoping

that we'll be able to agenized that before the commission pending your schedule but hopefully and week remote we do virtual outreach on august 24th, dpa hosted a virtual session on oversight and sb14-21. on august 28th, we held a dpa101 session where one of our attorneys, stephanie wilson gave a presentation about san francisco civilian oversight and the rights afford today seville comincivilians. we have two interns this fall. i'm sure you will hear from them at a future date. we also have another virtual dpa101 on friday september 11th and on thursday, september 15th, we are hosting a talk called police reform and community involvement

and happy to report any questions that you have. >> thank you. >> (inaudible). >> next line item. commissioner will be limit today activities and announcements. commissioner session will be limited raised for future commission meeting. commission president's report, commissioner's report and commissioner announcements and schedule items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. anyone else hearing feedback. maybe we can have folks mute

themselves and maybe it will help. so commissioner, do you have our report for the commission? >> sorry, i thought it was two agenized an item, sorry. >> i see no reports to the commission so maybe we can move on to the next item. so at this time we need to take public comment. >> before public comment, i think commissioner alias has something she wants to agenized and i have something as well. that's what i meant. the next item under this -- we went through the commissioner's report and it's time for the commissioners to say what they would like to act for future meetings. so commissioner, i'll ask you. >> i'd like to agenized dgo5.3 and have that come up before the

commission. we've put it off and i think it's time that we bring it back and see what we can do about it and see where we are since we already passed 517 and they were lumped together. >> yeah, sorry. i agree. we had a consensus from the working group commissioner and changes and they were trying to work through that since then and i hope we can have a product that is ready to go and chief, i'd like for you to report.

>> yes, commissioner. >> thank you. >> next line item, please. >> so -- >> commissioner. >> that's what i left it in the chat route hitting return. chief, i -- not chief, as far as agenizing items, there was a couple of items that i raised a few months ago now that i wanted to get follow-up and from the chief. on the agenda. one of them was for misconduct reporting by the department by officers and there's self-reporting or reporting of other officers and there's always been a concern about the

blue code or thin blue-line and you don't inform or rat on your fellow officers. and so, we discussed having a quarterly report about obviously about whether or not in fact sfpd officers are willing to report misconduct when it occurs in their presence as they are obligated to do so that's one item and chief,oid like you to,o be prepared to follow-up with that and get it on the agenda. we talked about when we came back was the use, if any, of no-knock warrants. this came up relating to the discussion of grandma taylor and i had asked the condition or procedures underway the department does execute no-knock

warrants and i wanted to get a report to the commission on that to ensure that we have the highest standards to protect human life during those if there are to be the use of those type of warrants and and that's the second item. >> thank you, we'll add those and make sure they're added to future agendas. i see no other hands in the check so please call the next line item. >> at this time the public is welcome to make public comment online item 2 regarding reports to the commission. members that would like to make public comment, start now to raise your hand. and at the moment, we have one comment. good evening, caller, you have

two minutes. >> is this public comment? >> yes. you have two minutes regarding line item 2. >> is it public comment for all? >> for line item 2, reports to the commission. >> ok. i'm not sure. is it general public comment? >> no, this is the chief's report, dpa report and the commissioner reports. >> ok. >> the chief's report. so this is public grounds. hi, how are you. >> good, how are you? >> i'm getting out of this noise coming from my phone. i'm calling concerning my son ab rewhaubry who was murdered in 26 and i'm still seeking justice for my son and he was shot, i

met with the police with my investigator today and michael, you know, just try to get some information and i was just glad that i was able to meet with them today. you know, even with all of that i still just wondering what is going on and how we're going to go forward about getting my child's case solved. like i was saying, i also run a service for mothers and fathers who lost their service and healing and i'm considering the cold case and unsolved homicides and i was wondering what we can can do and if you can do a blast out concerning my son. we had the media blackout age and i was glad everyone supported me and who was able to come out on the 14th for the media coverage and the circle for the other mothers and

fathers out there. again, i'm just calling to ask you to do another blast out concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. >> thank you. glad to hear from you but you know, i want to intrigue members of the public if you have any information and please call the non tip line and 415-57-5444 and ms. brown is here every commission meeting asking for justice for her son so if you have any information call that tip line. thank you. >> commissioner, that was the last public comment online item 2. >> thank you. next line item.

>> discussion to adopt the manual discussion and possible action. >> we have com panderer darrell fong who will make this presentation. >> commander fong. >> thank you, chief. good evening vice president taylor commissioners, welcome commissioner cohen and chief hawkins and chief scott and members of the community. my name is daryl fong com commar of the community engagement position, i will present an overview on the embassador program. it's comprised of civilian non sworn members who serve to supplement foot patrol business within business and commercial corridors. the goal of the program is to bridge the gap through partnerships with the distance improvement districts to provide

inkeysed visibility in an effort to reduce crime. the union square area has been identified as the area for implementation of a pilot program for the department's community embassadors with the uni square business improvement district. the goal is to implement this city wide and the program's mission is to provide enhanced safety for the community in retail and commercial corridors for visitors, merchants and residents. to serve between the department and community benefits and business improvement districts and reduce crime and assist in province stopping by using working partnerships with city departments and within the community. the community embassador staff consist of 10 embassadors, which are committed to working 20

hours a week and 960 hours for fiscal year and their proposition at the city charter amendment. the program is facilitated by the department the primary focus is to observe and report. reporting response of the department personnel for any crime in progress and contacting 9-1-1 and cellphones and this quality utilizing fell services are resources and collaborate ing community partners within the community policing and province solving effort and demonstrating mind set. building relationships with merchants in businesses to discuss and resolve reported

issues and to distribute cards for engagement, sfpd safety, park smart, homeless outreach resource and san francisco safety awareness for everyone to educate the community on resource available in hand safety and strengthen partnerships. the product cal for the embassador checking in with a signed district station platoon commander attending lineup for current district issues foray wareness and communicating with the district officer that discusses area issues and and contacting the district sergeant for administrative issues the district supervisors responsibilities involve monitoring conducting and administrative investigations such as on duty injuries,

allegations of misconduct involving our community master. the training for embassadors consist of first aid and cpa and crisis i think soar selection escalation training and time and distance in deescalation and overview of the homeless and healthy streets operation center as known as a collaborative of city agency task with assisting with reported encampment issues. training puts a buy as and procedural justice which focuses on the four tenants of procedure justice of voice neutrally and on 21st and the focus on two pillars. building trust and legitimacy and community policing and crime

reduction. members are signed a jacket with a community sfpd community embassador logo on the back and embassador logo on the front of baseball cash and as well as the canadian embassadors would be wearing as part of their uniform. within the department, the community embassador program is a sign within the community engagement division. and over seen bit embassador program coordinator and non sworn civilians who is responsibilities include assignment, training inspection and scheduling of embassadors. to summarize the embassador program and manual highlights

include, establishing duties and responsibilities of the community embassadors and defining the embassador's role as civilian non sworn members and clarified that they do not possess law enforcement authority and that they are not authorized to use force in their positions. training standards include implicit bias, principle policing as well as working knowledge that the six politifact pillarpillarslisted y policing. there's no guarantee or expectation of employment hours as the employment will continue at the program would be reviewed for budgeting on an annual basis. in discussion with the department of police accountability, the complaint process will also be updated on the department website to inform the public that any complaints involving embassadors would follow the department civilian complaints process as outlined

under the department general order 2.05 apron approval of this meeting. that concludes my presentation. i'm open to any questions at this time. >> i have questions about this but my fellow commissioners might get to them. >> thank you. this is not a question but a request or recommendation. in reviewing the presentation as well as dpa's recommendation about the program, one of the things that i'd like to point your attention to was r2 which is the recommendation that even though the embassadors are not allowed to use force, i still think it's official to have a mechanism in place to a count for that in the event that it does happen. because, you know, i believe that we are moving towards a more data-driven system of collecting data and analysis of

it and i think that it's not fair to require police officers to be able toll record their uses of force and be held accountability to that and yet we're not requiring that from embassadors, even though they aren't supposed to be using force. i still think we should have a mechanism to track that. >> thank you, commissioner. i know that i think the response of the dpa at the time was the embassadors as a non sworn capacity are not authorized to use force because they don't fall at 830 of the personal code which authorization peace officers to use force. certainly there is a process that we try to also outline in the ambassador manual that should there be allegations of misconduct involving such as use in force, there's a clear process in terms of an investigative process or reporting process to follow-up

on the allegation. i wanted to make sure they go through a chain of command or sworn officers so i think we would need to sworn officers to also be able to report and provide that information just as we would expect them to do so for sworn officers. >> thank you. >> >> i think this is going to be a theme moving forward but i'm going to be asking questions about budgeting and costs of programs like than this. you just mentioned the annual budgeting for this. can you tell us what that is? >> as far as the annual budgeted for this program, commissioner? >> yes. >> well, i don't have the figure

front of me and the program costs or employees 10 embassadors part of this community and that is the framework that as i mentioned and they are allotted 960 hours under the charter under prop f and i don't have that in front of me but it's 10 embassadors working an average of 20 hours a week which is a maximum of 960 hours per the school year. >> and what is the hourly cost per ambassador? >> i don't have that available

but i'm happy to look at that and get back to you. >> we're not talking about officer's salaries for this work is i guess what i'm trying to get to. >> it's the rate of a q2 without the french benefits and just on the budgeting, when we first began implementation or planning for implementation we did request in the 2019 budget to get this program started with the -- we were never able to use the money and this manual was supposed to get to the many months ago and we already had chosen the retirees and trained them and we used a budget to do

that and for this coming year, we have not asked for additional money and we have to manage it through our existing budget and it's like we're doing it the proper employees for other components of the police department had h we had to get the manual approved before we can do anything and we didn't asked for money for this fiscal year because of the issues with the condition of the city but we do think think will be a viable program and we have a non arm response to deal with some of the issues is that we face. >> and then my final question on that program, is how you are the embassadors selected what kind of screening process do they go through. obviously, if they're going to be in such a public capacity, the former officers are retired

officers, are we reviewing their disciplinary and personnel files to ensure that these aren't had our use of force. >> that's a great question. one other criteria, this is to scott, commissioners. the people that were selected all had a lot of experience with positive community engagement. this is community engagement and the people who have been on the department established a solid work history and work reputation and knowing how to deescalate those type of things, even before that became a thing. those are the type of employees when they are on the department. most retired by the time i got here but, it outstanding and understanding really the department's mission and the positive community contact out

there and deal with issues without escalating so those are the type of people that we thought to seek out for this position and from everything that i know about the people that showed an interest, there are those people. like joe garrity who really was designed to put the program when he was statement in the den per loin district and carl payne, who you all might know carl payne. he worked for muni for a number of years before coming over to the police department but just community oriented officer when he was in the department so those are the type of individuals that we sought out. >> thank you. commissioner cohen. >> thank you. i actually had my question asked about how the persons were selected. now my follow-up question to

that was, the -- how is the location for the pilot program selected? and then my second question is, are the community embassadors bilingual? are there a few that speak other languages other than english? >> i'll start with that last question. i believe so but as the commander to verify that but with the selection of the location, it was designed to be a pilot and the reason that we started off in union square is because of the infrastructure that union square provides and they have a very robust bid with private security and many of the businesses there and they have an infrastructure with cameras and with the sfpd to try to prevent type of issues and the

union square area so it was really that combination of those things and we wanted to have a chance of success with an eye forward hopefully if it takes off the third steed and those things went into play in terms of our decision to start there and a small enough union square we with can pilot it and hopefully with a chance of success. >> i have a couple of questions, these are all retired police officers. >> yes, commissioner. >> i know they don't have a department assigned where these are all people who carry firearms? >> they will not be permitted to carry firearms during these

assignments at all. >> regarding the use of force, they know they're not supposed to use force but obviously if you are a retired officer, you've had training on uses of the force and the recent training on the use of force so give us a sense of what they're told and how the message is drummed if that they're -- they're training and experience should not make come into play in this role? >> absolutely. the training they've gone through portions or abbreviated crisis and most of them have retired and it's really started to roll out it was around when they were here so they've gone through that training and they've gone through training on the dos and don'ts and the rules are including as commander fung said that they were no longer peace officers and they are not authorized to use force, period. that is part of the training and everybody who agrees to take it

understands that and they're willing -- they're not out there to use force. they're out there to be ambassa, eyes and ears. give directions and put a good face on and also, they know the linger and they know when to call on to resources when things go beyond what they're called to do and they have that training and they know the radio goods and it's a good fit. i attend part of the training myself to greet them when we started the training it's spelled out clearly what they can and what they can't do. >> my last question has to do a the attire. i saw the vest and pants. it's not in san francisco but there have been not in san francisco but terrible examples of programs run by police departments where you have civilians who the public or

children stated police officers. right, so, i know that the sfpd community embassador but maybe it's worth putting something like non law enforcement because you can think of terrible examples and someone thinks of law enforcement and bad things can happen and so it's just something to consider the first line i saw was sfpd. >> thank you for that. and just a little bit more context on some of the models that we looked at when we were creating this the university of southern california has an ambassador program that is a robust program. they call the yellow shirts and they supplement the -- basically they focus on corners around campus and get directions and make students get to and from safely and that type of thing

and we took a good look at that model when we were dividing this and actually talked to the chief down there and the person running their ambassador program. really like that program, it's not meant to be a law enforcement response. it's not meant to be that at all and we will stress that ticken into account what you said about the public maybe being confused they see sfpd on the shirts. we'll take that into consideration and we can make adjustments there. again, it is a part of the police department. i understand what you are saying. i just want to ensure the commission and the public this is not meant to be, you know, a law enforcement tactic or they're not meant to use force, make law enforcement tactical decisions. this is a report and call us if it gets what you are called to

do. call the on duty resource? >> commissioner cohen. >> vice president taylor, i could adjust two things. to address the acknowledgment of the ambassadors, at the last page of the manual, the ambassadors signed acknowledgment of what their role and responsibilities are and it clearly states there are acting as a non form member and do not possess law enforcement powers or use force. it's reinforced there and they sign an acknowledgment as such. to commissioner cohen's question regarding our embassadors, we do not have bilingual embassadors to to the chief's point they have a wealth of experience based on a wealth avenue signments that they side of when they were in a sworn capacity. >> perfect, thank you and i appreciate that. that was my follow-up question and i wasn't sure if i missed the answer. chief, this program actually, i'm excited about it.

i think this is a good pilot program and i hope that it will be successful. you know, i think we're all involved in public service otherwise you wouldn't spend our time here in the evening on wednesdays on a weekly basis. so i can see retired officers coming back and wanting to serve. that seems logical to me. i would like to know what kind of benchmarks do you have in place to determine whether or not the pilot program is going to be successful, how are we going to evaluate this and then i'm also thinking about the future. scalability? how do we begin to move n this into different neighborhoods, chief, you talked a little bit about key things that you looked for when selecting a neighborhood, right. the infrastructure and in terms of a camera network and merchants, neighbors, some level of organizations that you can kind of come back in and sound

like augment or not augment but maybe -- just something that is complimentary. how do we do this? i want to know, so, we all are in agreement. this is successful and we go to the budget process and we try to get funding. what are those established benchmarks, thank you. >> really good question and so first of all, one of the things is to measure the -- whatever the crime in the area. i mean, particularly if there is crimes happening. robberies, purse snatches, even some of the velour leve lower l. people urinating on the streets that are quality-of-life issue. whether they're embassadors or o private security or police officers, we can curtain that

activity. some of it is tracking statistics saying what is happening on the streets. the other part of it though is really, an eye test, is being out there walking around and you can feel when things go better. and a lot of our -- an and i knw it's subjective to that degree but it's a valid way of determining how you are doing when you walk around a neighborhood and you do see the things that drive people to call the police and say things have to change here. so, the eye test is one and statistics is the other and surveying and evaluating from the community members we're partnering with. the union square bid was a big partner in this in terms of working with them to ensure they supported this and they're willing to work on this and they are and they'll tell us how we're doing. they'll tell us if it's working or not working and there are a

lot of, as you know, commissioner cohen, a lot of willing community partners that we just have to put a model out there where we can work with them in the best and most effective ways so all those things in total will give us a sense of whether or not we're successful and really we're looking forward to decreasing crime and a decrease in activities that causes and generates calls for service and particularly the relationship when you see someone that needs help, to get in front of that before it's a crisis where someone is either getting hurt or hurting themselves. those are the things that we're asking and we'll track those things and track the number of engage and the calls and all but we're looking for results. that's the bottom line. result and better outcomes and better feel. you know when an area feels safe based on the activities

happening there and definitely the crime stats are part of what we monitor. >> thank you. commissioner alias. >> thank you, chief. i wanted to give you an opportunity because i think you were going to say something with request to mregard to in thought used to be using it. >> thank you. that's are really an easy fix. if we have a use of force we can track that and report back on that and that is really -- it's not supposed to happen but if we do it won't be counted as department use of forces i just want to make that distinction but definitely something we can track. >> that's fine. as long as it's tracked and we have the data available, that's fine. the other suggestion i wanted to make to you was perhaps we can also include the critical find set training in their training program. i see they received the cit training which is great. even though it's the eight-hour

versus the 40-hour. if we incorporate the critical mind set, which also highlights deescalation, that would be beneficial too. >> we can do that. thank you. >> >> i just wanted to follow-up om thinking about it, some of the questions that have been asked -- so when, say an ambassador is walking down the street and sees someone run out of a retail store with some goods, toothpaste, whatever. what do they do? >> in that situation, they would be the best witness that they can be understanding license plate numbers if they're there or description of the suspect. they're going to have radios. make it a broadcast and calling the on duty resources and we have supplement them and a lot of the businesses hire private security and some hire officers through uniform officers off duty. really their role would be to

report. if they're trained observers by trade. good information will allow us to follow-up because often times, if some of these cases we're able to solve them on the back end when we get the right information and write down license plate numbers and description and with the video instruct we request video and these cases tend to come together. that type of role is what they'll be doing. >> ok. and so -- just a follow-up to one of the previous questions. it sounds like this is not, from everything you are saying, it's not a law enforcement role so potentially if it was a non law enforcement individual who wanted to apply for this, with that be possible? >> that would be possible. we started with the prop s and

960s because we have a pool of people that we can draw from. we're open to -- we can't hire them as 960s so they would have to actually be a more thorough budgetary process to create a position and actually hire them in some other capacity. definitely something that we're open to, if this pilot is successful. it's something we're open to. >> thank you. thank you, chief. >> commander, you have a comment. do you want to be heard? >> no, i apologize. i believe sergeant kinly who oversees our community ambassador program was trying to raise his hand for some comments but i just thought if he just contacted me we could discuss what the concern was.

sorry about that. i apologize. >> with that, do i have a motion to adopt the community ambassador program? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> do we need public comments? >> at this time, the public is welcome to make a public comment regarding line item 3, the community ambassador program. those who wish to make public comment please press star 3 now. commissioner, we might have two question marks. i'm going to open them to see if they are raising their hands. >> ok. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. do you have a comment?

>> good evening, caller, you have two minutes, would you like to make a comment? there is no public comment. >> all call roll for the vote. >> on the motion to adopt the community ambassador program --[ roll call vote ] [ roll call vote ] i think we're adapting the program manual but, yes.

>> presentation of the sfpd and general orders policy proposal sparks report. second quarter 2020 discussion. executive director mcgwire, i think you are on mute. i still can't hear you. >> it looks like we're having

technical issues and this might be a good time to take a five-minute break. so we'll be back in five minutes and hopefully those will be resolved.

>> sorry about the delay. good evening, vice president taylor and members of the commission, welcome commissioner and chief scott and chief-of-staff hawkins and members of the public. i'm catherine mcgwire, i'm the executive director of the strategic management bureau and

i'll present the second quarter report for the sparks report. >> great. [please stand by]

>> so as you can see, the duties of patrol officers, [inaudible] the serious incident review board has a

working group in process, and the field training program also has d.g.o. -- is under revision, so -- [inaudible] >> excuse me. sorry. siri is talking to me. siri decided that serious incident review board was siri, and she was talking to me. the field training program is under revision right now. we did do some work with d.p.a. on that d.g.o. and came to agreement with the subject matter experts in a couple of sparks meetings, so we feel that we've made good progress on that d.g.o., and then finally, as you know, the 3.09 and 5.03 are scheduled for future commission meetings.

and arrest by provide persons, arrests of on will lookers, ar by officers are all under revision, and these are all in the final stages of drafting, so they'll be going to concurrence soon, and then, you all are very aware that the deaf and hard of hearing d.g.o. has been confirmed. the domestic violence d.g.o. and the manual has passed concurrence and are now back to d.p.a. for final look, and then they will be coming to the commission very soon. and then finally, property processing and victims of violent crime are in the final stages of revision or are about

to go to commission. people in custody and children of arrested persons are in process. the hostage and barricaded suspects are in revision right now. the hostage and barricaded suspect was merely to confirm. and then finally, the investigation of officer-involved shootings and discharges is complete and has a working group process, and that is in the final drifting stages, and then, intervention and resource program is also under revision, in the final stages of that revision. that's my update for you, and if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer to them.

>> vice president taylor: yeah. i just want to confirm, 5.03 is not in commission. that's what commissioner elias and i were talking about before. >> yeah, commissioners. would you like me to update this presentation and send it back to the public -- the public documentation? >> vice president taylor: sure. i just wanted to make sure that the public was aware of that because that's not the case, and then, i'll move onto other commissioners. but i do have one other question. you mentioned that there was a working group. >> i'm sorry. for which? >> the serious incident review board, 3.10. >> so as you know, the department has identified at the chief's end and at the time president hirsch had identified certain d.g.o.s for working group processes that then we

also developed and the chief and chief's office developed a working group guidance for the department on how to assemble those works groups, and so this is independent of the c.r.i. executive sponsor working groups. we can bring you all a little bit more information on that in a few tour presentation. >> vice president taylor: i didn't realize that there was a working group. i'm sure that there'll be commissioners who would want to be -- >> commissioner elias: i'm just confused because i'm actually assigned to this -- >> vice president taylor: yeah, that's what i thought. >> commissioner elias: so the fact that there's a working group is news to me and alarming. >> so when we say a working group is in progress, it's been assigned for a working group. >> commissioner elias: okay. >> and that progress is underway. >> vice president taylor: right, but is there a

commission -- if there is a commissioner assigned to that, that's something i should be made aware of. >> yes. commissioner elias, you are assigned. we are reviewing the draft, but it's not quite ready for you, so we want to make sure that we give you a product that's further along, but i think we are close to having something to bring you. >> commissioner elias: and i'm glad to hear you. when i spoke to tamara, that was one of the issues -- as far as i knew, when i spoke with her, she hadn't received that yet, so i think that's definitely something we need to keep on the radar and get a progress report on. >> yeah, sure. >> vice president taylor: and commissioner elias will probably cut me off, but i want

to be clear, on these presentations, i don't want the public to have the wrong impression of what's happening here. when they say a working group, it's not that a working group has been convened so that the public is not thinking that there's things happening that have not been happening. commissioner elias, do you have anything else? >> commissioner elias: no, just what you addressed, and then, i cut you off, also. >> vice president taylor: commissioner hamasaki? you're muted. >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah, so i guess i have a different question, but i think everybody kind of keyed right in on it. you know, the policies for the department are in the jurisdiction of the police commission, and so i think the

earliest contact that should be made when the police are consider drafting it are the police commission because we're going to want to have a say or should have a way in who makes up the working group, obviously. i have this issue coming up on the 7.01 working group, which was, you know, i think put together with a lack of subject matter expertise, and i was able to bring in people that had expertise in juvenile law and criminal law. so i would strongly urge, if you want this to be a collaborative approach, to bring the police commission in. and ultimately, if you're going to be doing this work behind the scenes, and then we're going to have to come back and start from scratch again, i don't think that's very productive, and i don't think

it shows the proper collaborative attitude towards the process. so if you are approaching d.g.o.s, and you are considering revising them, i would consider them or encourage you to contact the commission office and let us know so that we can determine amongst ourselves who are the appropriate commissioners who oversee the process. because one of us ultimately has to come out and be able to work on it and explain it to the other commissioners why it's gone through the commission process. >> vice president taylor: commissioner dejesus? you're muted. >> commissioner dejesus: so i see the d.g.o. that commissioner mazzucco was working on, 1.08, and last i

heard, it was going to the d.p.a. so are we getting it back from the d.p.a. to talk about it? like, exactly where it is in the process? >> vice president taylor: i'm trying to figure out where 1.08 and i actually have a phone call scheduled with former commissioner mazzucco tomorrow, because you're right. he was the one working on it, and there's no one on the board that's currently part of that process. >> commissioner dejesus: what i recall, it was a slightly detailed -- eight, ten pages, it was a slightly detailed d.g.o. and i just want to make sure that if we're going to be voting on it, that the public has the opportunity to review it. i don't know if it's on for next week, if that's enough time. >> vice president taylor: no, it's not on next week. i'm talking to commissioner mazzucco, about who the

stakeholders were to present it to the commission, exactly as you said. >> did i hear you on that one correctly, commissioner, 1.08. >> vice president taylor: yes, 1.08. >> yes, that d.g.o. had a tremendous amount of community input. i know that i had asked for an extension so i could actually have deputy chief lozar who was heading that before he got promoted, there was a lot of community input and process on that. so it's about ready to go. whatever questions we can ask to get it on the agenda, we're more than happy to answer those questions. >> vice president taylor: yes. but there's a lot of people involved, and i just want to make sure that the commissioners understand who was involved. i have a conversation with commissioner mazzucco tomorrow, and i hope to have it on the schedule in two weeks,

depending on how many people were involved and the stakeholders, actually. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. so i have another question. 5.16, search warrants. i'm under the understanding that this is the working group, and this isn't the group that commissioner hirsch and i were trying to put together for search warrants -- or is it? search warrants for doctors or for the privileged type of information? so i'm just wondering, would that groups be encompassed in 5.16 or is 5.16 something separate? >> commissioner, it's separate. you're correct. it's the actual 5.16 revisions, and you were on the wosh group when we attempted to get a work group together on the other part. i gave you a draft on the skill part and other part that we were working on.

i think i gave one to commissioner taylor, as well. >> vice president taylor: yeah, i was supposed to be on that working group, as well, and i'm not sure what became of it. >> commissioner dejesus: yeah, i don't remember the status. >> yeah. the decision was made either by president hirsch or somebody in the commission to separate the two, and so that's why we had a separate draft of the piece about the shield laws and all that that's really ready for feedback. and then 5.16 needs some revision, too, because there's some things that we worked with on the district attorney's office, policy, to make sure we abide by the rules. >> vice president taylor: so when you say revision. [inaudible] >> commissioner dejesus: yeah, it must have gotten lost in covid because i don't recall seeing any draft. if you could send it to me

aga again. >> vice president taylor: i'm sorry, chief. that must be my bad, but if you could give it to us again, that would be great. >> sure. >> vice president taylor: commissioner hamasaki? you're muted. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. i think we're all a little bit confused tonight. what might be helpful, a way to manage this so everybody's on the same plate is if the department can confer with the commission office d.g.o. by d.g.o. and make sure whoever is the representative is connected to that, and if there's no representative, we can look at it and assign commissioners just to make sure that we know what's going on in the area that's in our city-mandated duties -- or charter mandated duties, so that would be super

helpful. >> vice president taylor: [inaudible] for myself or commissioner dejesus, so that would be very helpful. >> am. we will put some processes in place. we're going off of the schedule that the commission passed, the d.g.o. schedule, so as you'll recall, but we can put a reminder there to make sure we have it. >> commissioner dejesus: yeah, but that list was created by commissioner hirsch, so we -- it was sent without our input, so i think we -- you know, commissioner hamasaki's suggestion is correct, that we should have the department contact the commission office and go through what's coming up. >> sure. >> vice president taylor: okay. >> commissioner dejesus: wait. i also recall that we were setting up members for the first amendment rights and others -- the bar association

to go over this with us, and then covid hit, and i don't remember what happened to the working group we were trying to put together. so when you say revisions, i assume you mean the department's making revisions, and we don't have the bar association or the public defender's office or anybody else on the working committee. >> vice president taylor: yeah. i think what the chief is saying they send a first draft to us, after which the working group will convene. that was on my plate. i'm going to ask the chief to rescind it, and then, we can go from there. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. thank you. >> vice president taylor: okay. is that it for sparks? i believe so. [inaudible]. >> vice president taylor: oh, director hawkins. >> just a couple of comments from d.p.h.

on 1.08, it was sent back with -- d.p.a. on 1.08, it was sent back with our comments. >> now just the general sparks report, i don't have any slides. i'm going to highlight a few of the things that we filed. in the second quarter, we made multiple recommendations regarding sfpd policies, some related to the d.g.o. revision process itself, and some were specific recommendations with regard to particular d.g.o.s. of interest is 6.14, which is the psychological evaluation of adults. that d.g.o. is from 1994. one of the key things that we recommended is that the policy incorporates provisions that enable, in appropriate cases, for a mental health response instead of a police response. obviously, that's something that's being discussed locally and nationally, and that's a

recommendation that we made. similarly -- a similarly old d.g.o. 5.07, we recommend that policy incorporate first amendment rights to protection, an individual's right to record, question, and observe the police. another thing recommended was that sfpd create a disengagement policy which would outline and give the opportunity for officers to know when it was appropriate to disengage from a situation, take a minute, and potentially reengage in a different way as best suits law enforcement needs and public safety principles. so those are some of the highlights of the recommendations that we made. over the second quarter, we made recommendations on 15 d.g.o.s. in total, over 150 recommendations were made.

obviously, we're working through department standards and following the sparks process to make sure that our revisions are being made and getting discussed at marsparks meetings and with spubt matter experts. i think one example where the process worked well was with the police force d.g.o. i feel like that was a really productive process, and the result is much stronger for it. [inaudible] >> is that different than time and distance conceptually, and can you explain what that is? >> yeah. time and distance, i think of -- and i'm not the expert -- as a delay. this is a situation where we no longer necessarily need a law enforcement response, so how do

we kind of exri indicacate our from this situation and call in another professional or another type of responder, so it's a slightly different time and distance from our perspective. >> vice president taylor: okay. [inaudible]. >> commissioner hamasaki: did you just call me? >> vice president taylor: yeah. i think you might be the cause of the feedback, so if you could mute yourself. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you for explaining that, miss hawkins. i would just encourage, if there are additional groups that d.p.a. is involved in -- i know this isn't your -- necessarily your responsibility, but i feel like there's been this hole created with samra leaving. and i don't -- this isn't anybody's fault, but, like, i'm getting as good information as where policy stands, so, you

know, if there's -- and i don't know quite where to loop us in, but just if there's a -- a better way from d.p.a. side to ensure that we're involved because again, these policies are ultimately going to come before us, and we're going to have to work through d.p.a. and all the working group commitments. >> that's a wonderful policy, and i think we could work with bill morehouse and tessa mcguire on the d.g.o.s and where they are in the process. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. that would be great. >> vice president taylor: thank you. next line item. >> clerk: at this time, the public is now welcome to make comment on-line item 4 regarding the presentation of

the sparks report. any member of the public would like to make public comment, please press star, three now. commissioner, there is no public comment. >> vice president taylor: okay. next line item. >> clerk: line item 5, general public comment. at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. under public rules of conduct neither police or d.p.a. personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. members of the public wishing to call in may do so by calling

1-415-655-0001 and enter meeting code 146-140-8360. press pound, and pound again, and press star, three to enter the queue to make public comment. anyone would like to make public comment regarding general public comment, please press star, three now. >> vice president taylor: do we have any public comment? >> clerk: no, commissioner, we do not. >> vice president taylor:

okay. next line item. >> clerk: line item 6, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 8 below, closed session, including public comment on item 7, vote on whether to hold 8 in closed session. anyone wishing to make public comment on items 7 or 8, please press star, three now. and there is no public comment. >> vice president taylor: okay. next line item. >> clerk: okay. vote on whether to hold item 8 in closed session, san francisco administrative code section 67.10, action. >> vice president taylor: do i have a motion? >> commissioner hamasaki: so moved. >> commissioner cohen: second. >> clerk: okay. on the motion to hold item 8 in closed session, we n -- [roll call]

>> clerk: commissioner, you have six yeses. >> vice president taylor: okay. we will go into closed session. >> clerk: all right. we are now in closed session.

>> vice president taylor: do we need to have public comment? >> clerk: item 9, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 8 held in closed session, public comment. there is no public comment. >> vice president taylor: okay. roll call vote. >> clerk: on the vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 8 held in closed session -- [roll call] >> clerk: president taylor, you have six yeses. >> vice president taylor: next line item.

>> clerk: line item 10, adjournment. >> vice president taylor: can i get a motion? >> commissioner hamasaki: motion. >> second. >> vice president taylor: roll call vote. [roll call] >> clerk: you have six yeses. >> vice president taylor: have a wonderful night, everyone. welcome, commissioner cohen. >> commissioner hamasaki: welcome. >> commissioner brookter: congratulations, malia. don't get used to this. (♪)

>> you're watching "coping with covid-19." today's special guest is assessor carmen chu. >> hi, i'm chris mannis and you're watching "coping with covid-19". and today my guest is carmen chu, the assessor for the city of san francisco and was co-chairing the economic recovery task force. she's here to talk how about how the task force is guiding the city through the covid recovery and reopening. welcome to the show. >> thank you very much, chris, for having me. >> we begin by talking about the creation of the economic recovery tack force and its purpose and role.

>> absolutely. so i think about our cities with that very first month of covid and the truth is that everything moved so quickly. and i can still remember when i was at the press conference that announced our state of emergency and not only that but very soon after we were in a shelter-in-place scenario where many of us had never imagined that we'd ever see in our lifetime, much less having to deal with a global pandemic. during that time there was a lot going on in people's minds about how concerned and worried that meant for themselves and their families, but almost immediately i think that the city also began to feel what the economic impacts were of shelter-in-place and business closure. remember at the time that all but essential businesses were open so very quickly we saw a lot of businesses who were, frankly, worried about whether they could even come back and open at some point in time or how they'd make it through and we saw quickly a sharp amount of

job loss that happened in the city as well. so we knew pretty soon thereafter that we needed to start doing a lot of work to plan ahead for what economic recovery would look like. so there, alongside with the president of the board, norman yee, had a task force to try to get a number of people together to be thinking about what is it that the city can be doing now to start planning for our economic recovery, to have it successful for the mid-term but also for the long term going forward. so we have a group of people who are just amazing, people who are contributing to our communities. so we've had large and small businesses. businesses from a cross-section of different industries and services, from different neighborhoods. we had academia who are part of this task force as well as different foundations and profit service providers who are all part of the ecosystem that makes san francisco special. so the task force is really meaning to pull together the thinking about how the city

could help us to facilitate going back to a reopening scenario, but how to have different scenarios and policies to ensure that we can be successful during an interim period as long for the long term. >> great. now we've all heard about the economic impacts of the covid-19 had across the country. can you tell us about the experiences in san francisco? >> i mean, i would say that just listening to the businesses and to the individuals and residents. it's been very dire. you can imagine for a business that has been open for quite some time, you know, and they are still continuing to have to other things but meanwhile they had absolutely no income for most businesses that are closed to help to offset that. many of these businesses have taken loans out that they have actually secured with their own assets, like their home. they have secured it, you know,

they can't repay loans, they have to potentially sell or do something with the other personal guarantees they have. locally here in san francisco we have also -- i tried to respond with the local programs that we thank would be helpful. everything from the deferral of business taxes and business licenses, and the grants to support businesses and different community groups to support workers and so on, to try to help to transition. but that being said, it's been significant hardships for individuals, as well as the business side or those unemployed or people who are not seeing that wealth in the sector. >> the particular areas that the task force are focusing on, can you talk about them specifically? >> yeah, yeah. at some point we think about the larger economy. and it's a wide and a big economy. we have so much entrepreneurship and different types of activities and things that we do.

and also it's really important parts of our economy that make san francisco special, our arts and our culture, all of these things help to contribute to the vibrancy that i think is san francisco. when we think of economic recovery, it's broad and it's also something that is going to be very different from sector to sector. so i think this is truly something that we keep in mind is that ultimately the ones that we are able to open, with the economic activity that is really tied to how we individually take responsibility to be sure that we keep safe. and so the way that we're thinking about economic recovery is about, you know, how to make an interim period short of having a vaccine or a health breakthrough for an economy that is resilient. there's a strong recognition that even before covid-19 hit that the economy wasn't doing great for everyone, right? a lot of people were left behind, frankly, from the last economic cycle. we were not just faring very well. and so one of the things that we're thinking about is how do we think about san francisco

with the emergency sectors and how to create more equity, how do we create more opportunities for all of our communities to be able to thrive going forward. so we really are intentional about wanting to think about policies that help to develop san francisco better actually than the way that things were before. some of the areas that we think that we want to put our efforts around are a few areas. so we want to see for jobs and businesses. we definitely to want to think about economic development and how it is that we allow for the right kind of growth in our economy. we want to make sure that we're focusing on our vulnerable communities. so truly thinking about, you know, who has been most impacted, who you do we make sure that when we think about the investments for the future that that economy includes those individuals and communities as well. and finally we also want to think very intentionally about how we support the arts, hospitality, culture and entertainment. this is a big part of san francisco. people come from all around the world to visit our beautiful

city because they recognize not only the natural landscape is beautiful but also the vibrance and the warmth of our communities and the culture that we're able to share here and the food that we can provide and the festivals and concerts, all of these things that makes san francisco so special. and at the same time these are exactly the types of things that are probably not going to come back very quickly. >> and as we begin to re-open, what is the task force helping for local businesses and employment? >> we really want to make sure that the on-the-ground experiences that businesses have and the common sense kind of things that they may be able to do, are able to be incorporated with our public health officials. aside from that we're working very hard to try to find just the solutions that allows the businesses to be able to populate more flexibly. so you have probably heard that the city is opening up outside dining and not only that but we have created and launched the

shared spaces program. this really allows for the businesses to be able to utilize either the curbside space, the street space potentially and the sidewalk space, and allow a path of travel for their businesses. >> yeah. and letting businesses use outside spaces is a great idea, especially since we learned that being outdoors is safer. so what is next after reopening? what are the lessons that we have learned and how can we create a better economic environment in the city? >> yeah, i think is such a huge question because i think that all of us are very much thinking about social equity and i think that there's a lot of opportunity for us to be thinking about doing it better and more inclusive and create more opportunities for our communities who have been left behind. in particular for our black community in san francisco. we know that this is something that we want to focus on and we want to make sure that we're actually creating a better system going forward. >> oh, i totally agree.

so, finally, if somebody or a small business is interested in learning more about the economic recovery task force, where would they be able to find additional information? >> well, i'm glad that you said that. we definitely have heard from -- we have heard from so many people across the city. so first off i want to thank all of those toke folks who have reo us. but the place you want to go is our website at onesanfrancisco onesanfrancisco/-covid-19recover y, that is a website with our information, including our meeting agendas and our minutes, a video reporting as well so they can keep up-to-date. and there's an email and a survey that you can fill out there and you can see it. >> that's great information and i really appreciate you coming on the show. and thank you for the time you have given me today. >> thank you, chris. i really appreciate it. stay safe. >> you too. that's it for this episode and we'll be back with more

pandemic-related information shortly. you can been watching can the coping with ko covid-19" for sfgov-tv. thank you for watching.

[♪] >> i am the supervisor of district one. i am sandra lee fewer. [♪] >> i moved to the richmond district in 1950 mine. i was two years old. i moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here.

[♪] >> when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. it seems so far away. for a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. the stress was storage of the birthplace of that. my father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. it just started to grow very organically. it is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the richmond district. as russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. so parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the russian community and immigrant russian community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [♪]

>> i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. they are beautiful barriers. the presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the pacific ocean. we also also have a national park service. we boarded the golden gate national recreation area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. but really families enjoying the beach and the pacific ocean during the rest of the time of year. [♪] >> and golden gate park where we have so many of our treasures here. we have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. this is why i say the richmond

is a great place for families. the theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. it has been around for a very long time. is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. i moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. we would always go here. i love these neighborhood theatres. it is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the richmond district, but also in san francisco. small theatres showing one or two films. a unique -- they are unique also to the neighborhood and san francisco. >> where we are today is the heart of the richmond district. with what is unique is that it is also small businesses. there is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. and providing for the neighborhood.

this is what we love about the streets. the cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see small businesses even towards 32nd. at the core of it is right here between here and 20 -- tenth avenue. when we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the -- any other part of san francisco. there is traditional irish music which you don't get hardly anywhere in san francisco. some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. and then also, we see grocery stores. and also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [♪] >> we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new

owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. that is a really great thing to see. i don't know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. i like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. the market is the place i like to come to once a year. once i like about the market as it is very affordable. it has fresh produce and fresh meat. also, seafood. but they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. a variety of rice that they have is tremendous. i don't thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. >> hi. i am kevin wong. i am the manager. in 1989 we move from chinatown to richmond district. we have opened for a bit, over

29 years. we carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. we try to keep everything fresh daily. so a customer can get the best out a bit. >> normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. because they have really just really fresh crab. this is something my family really likes for me to make. also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. they cut it to the size they really want. i am probably here once a week. i'm very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier -- cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. we don't speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper

ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. i do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. the staff here is very helpful. i speak very little chinese here myself. thinks that i'm not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need? is this what i should be making? and they actually really helped me. they will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. they are very knowledgeable. very friendly. i think they are here to serve not only the asian community but to serve all communities in the richmond district and in san francisco. [♪] >> what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered.

>> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive.

you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the

day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there.

i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. >> as a friendyou can submit u questions by chat only. please submit your questions as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. we will do our best to receive questions up until the q&a begins. remaining questions can be sent

to des@sfgov.org. and here is the mayor, london breed. >> >> the hon. london breed: good afternoon, everyone. today, i'm joined by community organizations that have always been amazing partners with the city and have really stepped up during covid-19 for our community. i was out with the latino task force earlier this week to distribute p.p.e. for all businesses, and they are doing amazing work organizing and fighting for resources for the community. the sisters for perpetual indulgence are always at the forefront for keeping the sister of lgbtq healthy, always

while having a little -- okay, a lot of fun. and the african american arts and cultural district has been working hard to make sure the community members know where they can go for support, from sharing information about testing, business grants and loans, and working to empower youth in the bayview, and opportunities for all has helped distribute books, activity kits, and technology that students need to be successful this school year, and their terms and fellows have repaired with community engagement and outreach throughout the city. so since the start of this global pandemic, we have always heard and received advice about how we can protect ourselves and others and slow the spread of the virus.

overtime, as our understanding of the virus has evolved, some of that guidance has changed, like face coverings, while other guidance shall stayed consistent, like frequent hand washing. you can't walk down the street, go to the grocery store, listen to music our browse social media without someone telling you to stay 6 feet apart, wear your mask, and wash your hands. since january, our city has launched multilingual campaigns on t.v., radio, social media, newspapers, bus shelters, and bill boards. a team of disaster service workers han been on the streets daily, blanketing our city with posters, multilingual posters and flyers. since january, this team has

distributed more than 3 million flyers. posters, and fact sheets across the city. you can't turn anywhere in the city of without seeing our blue and yellow signs. this provides good information, and many people are listening. however, as we've stretched into our seventh month of this pandemix, we are looking for new ways to capture people's attention to sustain the good work of our residents and communities. we want to be bold and strategic how we reach out to people who aren't wearing masks. we wanted to find out why people might not be wearing face coverings and see if we can change their behavior because we're all safer when we cover our faces when we go out, and regularly wearing face coverings will help us keep san francisco on a path of reopening that we so desperately need.

i asked our team, our city team to start working with people and organizations in our neighborhood to did he vel community led education campaigns and outreach efforts specifically around mask wearing, and many answered the call. our nonprofits arts and faith organizations are on the frontlines impacting communities. because of their relationships, they are often the most trusts and the most influential than the government. i'm proud to say, today, we are launching our first series of community-led campaigns ahead of labor day weekend, and you are going to hear from some of our partners shortly. but first, i want to address why we are launching this ahead of this current weekend. historically, labor day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of

american workers. because of the pandemic, this labor day has a special significance. it is a chance to honor the special workers in our community. we know this virus has disproportionately impacted our frontline workforce, many of them who have to reuse their medical equipment every sipping wisipping -- single day. labor day marks the end of summer, and most years, we have barbecues and cookouts with our families, and i personally wish i could attend one of those gatherings. as we set at the beginning of the pandemic, the safest thing

is to do is for people to stay home, but let's be real. people miss each other, and they're going to decide to get together. so if you do, we ask if you're going to be other with others, keep it outside, make sure everyone is wearing a face covering, and avoid sharing food and drink. we know that oftentimes, when people come together, especially when they start drinking throughout the day, behavior changes. in addition to keeping our friends and our family safe, wearing a mask is one of the most effective things we can do to keep reopening san francisco. let's be mindful what we are doing and how we are impacting the spread of this share. let's share the love, not the virus. and at this time, i'd like each of our community partners to

talk about their campaign and why it's important to protect our communities this labor day weekend and beyond. first, we have dr. scott sampson from the california academy of sciences, which lent their creative and innovative design experts to help our city. >> thank you very much, mayor breed, and thank you for your strong leadership during this challenging time, including in relation to this coronavirus. and warm thanks to all of our partners. i'm scott sanchez, director of the california academy of sciences. the academy has been part of san francisco since 1853, just three years after california became a state. we care deeply about our city, and we are here to putting all of our cutting edge science to keep our community safe. when we heard that san

francisco is so close to hitting an important mask wearing milestone, our organization jumped at the chance to help get the word out. the science is crystal clear, wearing a mask makes a big difference, and we need everyone, especially young people, to mask up. we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that wearing a mask, watching your distance, and washing your hands will help crush the covid-19 curve. this campaign, available in four different languages all over san francisco, is asking young people to take one small step that can make a giant difference helping to keep our entire community safe. whether you're missing outside lands or dinner at your favorite restaurant, a giants game or inspirational evening of night life at the academy,

we are all in this together. we are excited to keep the city's reopening on track so that we can all return to enjoying the many amazing benefits san francisco has to offer. i wear a mask so that we ask safely open the academy and welcome you back for more awe and wonder in golden gate park. thank you, and stay safe. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, dr. sampson. now next, we have up annie chung from self-help for the elderly who will talk about efforts to conduct outreach and education with our asian and pacific islander community. annie? >> thank you so much, mayor breed, and good afternoon, everyone. i'm annie chung with self-help for the elderly, and as mayor said, we've been on the frontline, providing essential

meals and other elder care services to all of our seniors in san francisco. and we're honored today, mayor, to partner with you and to support you in your relentless fight against the covid-19 pandemic, and to educate the chinese speaking seniors and families how to protect themselves once they step outside their homes. mayor breed, i think the seniors are doing their part to abide by the health order. i urge all the seniors and families to remember what dr. sampson just said and practice the three w's: one, wear masks, two, wash your hands, and three, watch your social distancing. i know the labor day weekend is coming up, and we may be tempted to invite friends and family over for barbecues and

gatherings. only invite people that are in your immediate household, and if possible, try to meet outdoors, which will be much safer for you and your family. remember, prevent everyone from sharing drinks or using the same utensils or chop sticks with each other. be aware at all times. protect yourselves and others, and think positive. [speaking cantonese language] >> thank you, everyone, and thank you, mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much, annie, for all the work that you continue to do.

next, we have director glen from the african american arts and cultural district. i understand the district worked with local rappers to produce a music video that we'll see at the end of this press conference. evan? >> thank you, mayor breed. we really appreciate the continued support that the city of san francisco has shown the african american community. it's been a lot of unprecedented work over the last several years, and we deeply appreciate that. my name is evan glen. i am the executive director for the african american arts and cultural district located in the bayview and third street corridor. so it was a process working with fran says zamora, the -- frances zamora, the department of emergency management, making

sure the message put forth in our campaign was representative of the people in our community: our culture, the way we look, and it just resonated with our spirits and our soul, and so that's what you're going to see in bill boards across the city. we also thought it would be a good idea to put a rap together to resonate with the young people. after talking with my codirector, erica scott, she says hey, you know, my daughter's going to parties, and the young people need a message, as well. so we got together with a rap group out of the fillmore, 16-year-old girls called the poppin' twins, and they wrote the rap that we're going to

share for everybody today. with that being said, i just want to send a message out to the community to remain safe because statistically, the bayview has been hit the hardest with covid-19 out of any other area in san francisco. we need to be aware of that. we need to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart from each other, and remain safe. and think about your grandparents. think about the elderly in your neighborhood because their immune system obviously isn't as strong, and so we have to start thinking about each other. but again, i just want to thank the city of san francisco for the work that they've been doing to support the african american community. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, evan, for your remarks and for joining us here today, and we're looking forward to seeing that video. now we also know that the latino community has really been the hardest hit in our city. in fact, over 50% of the cases that have been diagnosed were

people of latino descent, and we have not been able to do -- we would not have been able to do the incredible work that we are doing to support this community and to address this disparity if it weren't for the latino task force. they've been an amazing resource in not only mask wearing but keeping people safe. they're here to discuss the latino awareness campaign in san francisco. so thank you, susanna. >> thank you, mayor breed. my name is susanna rojas, and i am the director of the latino task force. thank you so much for allowing

me to speak and to collaborate dpsh-for allowing the latino task force to collaborate with the city so that our city can feel empowered to take action. the virus is just one more challenge to conquer, to stop the spread of covid-19 and to protect our latino families ahead of labor day weekend and beyond, i'm here to showcase the latino community. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. >> our actions speak leader than words. we can show love by masking up. we can stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly, by not sharing food and drink. now we in the latino community know that food is central to

our interaction. it is the backbone to our community, and gathering with large families is how we show our love. love during the coronavirus looks like wearing our masks, washing our hands, staying 6 feet apart, and protecting our seniors and our young people. hugging in our families and physical contact is something we do on a daily basis, but right now, we have to demonstrate our love by hugging virtually by wearing a mask. and last but not least, we have sacrificed -- [speaking spanish language]

>> thank you. >> the hon. london breed: thank you again, susanna, for joining us and for all the work that you do. i'm so excited for our next speakers. sister, you are one of my favorite speakers, and i am so glad to have you here with us today. the sisters of perpetual indulgence along with supervisor mandelman launched an outreach campaign, focusing on the lgbtq community. the poster that you created was just amazing. thank you, and join me, everyone, in welcoming sister

roma. >> hello, mayor breed. i can't wait to see that video, and of course i'm hungry for some great latin food. i want to thank you for unprecedented leadership during these very hard times. your team is amazing. since the beginning of the pandemic, it's been hard for people in my community to not compare it to hiv/aids, which we all know ravaged the lgbtq community very badly in the early 80s. and the sisters stepped up at that time and were actually leading the fight against hiv/aids with providing information and education. so when this got here, we thought oh, this sounds familiar. when tom temprano approached me, i went back to my sisters,

and we were all on board, and we went back to our methods of harm reduction and reminded our community that it's best to stay safe and stay away from each other. this weekend, people are just itching to get out and dance and see each other. it's difficult, and it'll be trying, and i want people to know that there'll be a time that we can get together with each other and hug and hold each other, like we used to. but the sisters want to let you know that wearing masks can be fabulous. look for us in dolores park on friday, where we're going to be handing out 1500 masks, and then we're going to be heading to the castro for our first friday event, which will be at 5:00 p.m. in the castro. so thank you for including me,

and it's been my honor and privilege. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, sister roma. i almost didn't recognize you without your makeup on. maybe i'll join you on friday. that would be amazing. >> oh, thank you so much. >> the hon. london breed: okay. finally, i want to introduce a leader who has a bright future ahead of her. athena matthews. >> it is so important to demonstrate proper covid-19 behavior, and masks are just one tool to prevent the spread of covid.

bypassi -- covid by catching droplets when you sneeze or cough, protecting those around you. indifferent while understandable is not sustainable. it is imperative that this generation feel empowered to take care of ourselves and take care of each other because we need to be more active and take on an active role in fixing our nation's challenges, even beyond covid-19, so to my fellow general fellow gen-z'ers, let this be a warning not to just be aware of covid-19, but be aware of those around you. tag us on social media at #60s.

>> the hon. london breed: thank you. at this time, i wanted to play the video that evan mentioned, so let's get to it. [♪]

>> the hon. london breed: very nice. thank you so much. that concludes our press conference. i guess now we'll be opening it up to a few questions. i want to take a moment to thank everyone for joining us and really express my appreciation to all the organizations for the work that you are doing to make sure that we are staying healthy, and we are staying safe. i love the amazing posters, the graphics, the videos, and all the cool things that we are

using to really get people actively engaged in this need to finding creative solutions to get folk to see comply with the mask -- folks to comply with the mask wearing compliance. i think about when i was a kid, and talking about wearing your seat belt and the work that had to go into getting folks to wear your seat belt, and today, it's just natural to get in your seat belt when you get in a car. and i remember when i was little, people used to smoke in buildings and on planes, and now, it's completely different. even wearing a condom and the push for safe sex, the conversation about mask wearing, we have to get creative in what we say in the culture and the fabric of this

country. the work that you do in getting the community to trust you to know that twhat they do is important and it saves lives. so we're thankful for your work, and at this time, we're happy to open it up for questions. >> thank you, mayor, and thank you to all everyone who joined us here today. we'll jump right into the same questions. mayor breed, we received multiple questions on this, and this is one question that'll cover it. what do you think about speaker pelosi's decision to get a blowout in san francisco on monday? does she owe the service industry an apology? is ignorance of the health orders an excuse? >> the hon. london breed: well, let me start by saying that it's really unfortunate that with everything happening in

this country, with the fact that we basically have a dictator in charge of running this country, and we have our speaker, nancy pelosi, working day and night to try and fight, again, the challenges we have with the white house. she has spent her entire career working for this city and working for this country. it's unfortunate this conversation has blown up the way that it has and distracted us from the real issue. the fact is we don't have good, solid federal leadership that is helping to facilitate this covid-19, and over 180,000 americans have died as a result of this virus. and had we had what we needed from day one from this federal administration, then we would probably not be in as bad of a situation as we are. our focus should be on making sure that we as a city are

providing also good information. i know that there's been a lot of confusion with our small businesses and operations and whether or not they can operate indoors or outdoors, and so we as a city, and the confusion between the local information and the state information, we have to do a better responsibility of doing a better job around communication. so we can either focus and blaming and saying who should do what, but we have bigger issues as it relates to this country, and i have a tremendous amount of respect and appreciation for the hard work that nanny pelosi does every single day to take care of this city and this country. and that's what we should be focused on because we are dealing with very challenging times, and leadership does matter. i do understand that the industry is suffering, not only

the hair industry, but the masseuses and the salons. i understand the frustration, and some businesses may not ever open again. i understand this is hard for everyone. the decisions that we're making around public health have everything to do with keeping people safe, and unfortunately, the economy and people's li livelihoods have suffered. so i understand that, but i think it's important to get back to the main part of wearing masks, and staying apart, and staying heath healthy, and the city will do a better job of communicating with our small businesses in san francisco as we begin or reopening efforts. >> thank you, madam mayor. the next question comes from cristian captain with ktvu. with the weekend almost here and warm weather for the forecast, what city parks and

impeaches are open -- beaches are open, and what distancing steps are you asking for people to observe? >> look, we know that parks and beaches are open, and it's important for people to socialize and pick up a date or two, but what we also need you to do is comply. there are more parks that are dolores park or chrissy fields. there's other places you can enjoy, as well. so what we're asking people to do is to just make sure that you're using good judgment. if you go to dolores park, and you see that it's crowded and there's no place for you to go with your people and maintain your distance with your mask and so forth, why even step foot in that park?

we will be out doing enforcement more so than we have in the past, but we want people to use common sense because we tend to see spikes in our numbers as a result of the holidays, and labor day, i'm sure, is not going to be any different. i've had people reach out to be to invite me to barbecues, people who want today do a jumpy with the kids, and i'm saying, why are you calling me? i'm going to say no way. it's not that i'm not only going to go, it's just that these are places where the virus could transmit. i'm just asking people to remember, be a part of the solution, and we will do our very best to be out there, to do enforcement. we don't want to have to do enforcement. we don't want people out there, creating more attention than

already exists because of people not being good citizens by wearing masks. we just want people to do their part. we're going to do our part. we hope we don't have to shutdown parks and parking lots and make it difficult for people to get out and enjoy things. we have so many parks where there's no reason why people have to crowd in one or two or three park in san francisco. the beaches have been a lot more manageable because we've opened up more space there. again, just use common sense not only to protect you but the people around you. >> thank you so much, madam mayor, and everyone else for your time. there are no further questions at this time, and this concludes today's press conference. thank you, and stay safe. >> the hon. london breed: thank you.

>> you're watching quick bite, the show that has san francisco. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he

which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those

components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood

there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end.

>> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place

where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here.

>> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick

bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh, this is awesome. oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪

[roll call] >> great. well, i have the privilege of welcoming you all to the september 1, 2020 meeting of the public health commission. welcome to the staff as well as members of the public, and i also have the pleasure of telling you i'm chairing the meeting today because it was commissioner bernal's -- his 50th birthday, and i can't imagine why anyone would want to take their 50th birthday off. however, he's decided to do so, and so i'm sure you'll join me in wishing him the