>> president cohen: sergeant youngblood is staffing this meeting today. i want to recognize my vice chair, miss cindy elias, and we have a full complement of commissioners here today. sergeant youngblood, could you please call the roll. >> clerk: yes, president. [roll call]

>> clerk: and president cohen, you have a quorum. also here with us tonight is chief william scott of the san francisco police department and the director. >> president cohen: all right. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> president cohen: all right. sergeant youngblood, please call the next item. >> clerk: item one, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not

appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d.p.a. personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police or d.p.a. personnel, nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and d.p.a. personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. for those members that are already on the webex, please press star, three now to make public comment for general public comment. and we have -- public comment

is coming in, president cohen. good evening, caller. >> president cohen: first speaker, you're up. >> thank you very much. hi, police commissioners, this is anonymous, and i wish to speak to you about s.b. 1421 records. i want to paint the police commission for correcting, it appears, the method to releasing s.b. 1421 records. you justify the redactions and tell the public why you won't give them certain types of records. i do hope you can direct yourtion as, the d.p.a. and the sfpd to comply with the sunshine ordinance just as your police commission does. she don't justify why they aren't giving us certain information, and that is a violation of the law. i also want you to consider your consideration of the draft

policy. it states the department may [inaudible] this is not permitted by san francisco law, and you claim that it allows you to redact things like gruesome photographs. you should find another exemption rather than the catchall exemption. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you, caller. >> president cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> is that me? >> clerk: yes. >> hi. yes, i would just -- although i'm talking about my son, but i -- once again, i'd like to thank commissioner de jesus for the letter again. i was looking on the 30-day correspondence, and i see it,

but it's way down at the bottom. so it's 100 and something pages, but it's way down at the bottom, and i e-mailed them to put it on top or under my son's picture. so i mean, i see it's been updated to 2021, but that letter is way down, like, 200 pages down, so i was still asking, could you put it at the top under my son or above him? and i also was wondering, again, if the -- i've e-mailed about the -- if anybody can piggyback off of de jesus' letter, the chief lozar, david lozar and william scott can write a letter as the chief of homicide and the chief of police, you know, can write a letter, too, for me, for -- you know, for the same reason that

de jesus wrote, so i'm just asking for that letter and to get it moved up to the proper spot. i see it's been updated, but i was wondering if it could move up to the proper spot and see if anyone could love to piggyback off of de jesus' letter. and i'd like to go back to black lives matter. during this time, we need to stop stigmatizing our people of color, so i'm just asking for that support. thank you. >> clerk: and president cohen, there are no more public comments. >> president cohen: all right. thank you very much. i hope people, members of the public, can appreciate that we've moved up public comment to the top of the agenda as opposed to at the bottom.

we will still have public comment after every item. ladies and gentlemen, i'd like to take a moment to honor the passing of former police chief earl sadness. it is with great respect that we honor tonight the passing of earl sanders, our first black police chief. chief sanders, he was a ground breaker. he started the path forward for so many of us that are in public service today. earl sanders was a picture of public service and compassion, something we could use a little bit more of today. he was 83 years old at the time of his passing, and i'd like to open the floor to see if there's anyone else that would like to open or leave remarks in honor of chief sanders. okay.

seeing -- oh, chief, please. >> thank you, president cohen. thank you for allowing this moment for us to make comments. i spoke to chief sanders' daughter yesterday evening, judge just to wish our condolences from me and on behalf of the department, and, you know, one of the things you mentioned just was the fact that he was a groundbreaker. i met him when i was working here, and i probably wouldn't be in this seat if it weren't for people like chief sanders who put their careers at risk to help move us forward in the way that we treated people of color in this organization, and it's really sad that he passed, but definitely, his legacy will move on through the work that he and other black people have done in allowing us to move

forward, so thank you for allowing me a few minutes to say that. >> president cohen: thank you, chief scott. next, i'd like to recognize petra de jesus. >> commissioner dejesus: yes. i'd also like to recognize the chief. chief sanders was one of the founders of officers for justice. you know, he ended up testifying against the city, and he rose up through the ranks. he's come before this commission and testified. he was, you know, a pretty amazing man, and i'm sorry for his family, and i just want to say he was a good guy. thanks. >> president cohen: commissioner brookter? >> commissioner brookter: thank you, president cohen. just want to echo what the chief and commissioner de jesus and yourself have said. i didn't get an opportunity to meet chief sanders, but through conversations with folks around the department, he was a trailblazer, and, you know, he

was the first african american police chief that we had in the city of san francisco who did phenomenal work, and we want his family to know that they are in our prayers, and i just want to thank him for all that he brought to the department. >> president cohen: thank you very much. is there anyone else that would like to say a few remarks? all right. seeing none, please call the next item, sergeant. >> clerk: line 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

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. >> president cohen: all right. we'll turn it over to the chief. chief, you have the floor. i think you have to unmute yourself. we can't hear you. >> oh, thank you, commissioner. sorry about that. okay. we'll start off this week's chief reports with crime trends. in terms of violent crime, we are, year-to-date, down 16%. 113 opposed to 134 this time last year. property crimes, we're down 49%, 719 compared to 1416 last year, which makes a total of a 46% reduction in crime. now let me say what i said last week. it's early in the year, and these numbers can vary week to week this early in the year, and a small change can lead to

a large percentage, so things will even out over time, but that's where we are right now. we did have a homicide last week, and i'll talk a little bit about that in a second, but we have one homicide for the year, and we have taken an individual in custody for committing that homicide, and really good work by our investigators and our units that had that case, and we hope to see that one resolved and it's a successful prosecution. begun violence were -- gun violence were up significantly. the numbers were 350%, although as i said a moment ago, the numbers were very small. we had a total of eight incidents resulting in nine victims of gun violence year-to-date, and one of those is our homicide victim that i just mentioned a second ago. in terms of the district stations and the shootings,

southern has one shooting, bayview, one, mission, one, fair view one, and tenderloin, two, and the rest have not had a shooting, and that is -- all those stations are up -- most had zero this time last year, with the exception of tenderloin and southern -- i mean, tenderloin, with the exception of one, they had two this year. so those numbers are small, and it's something we'll definitely keep an eye on, and we want to start off this year right. good news to report. we are now in car burglaries significantly, but on a not-so-good note, our burglaries are up, and our numbers continue to trend up this year. we're up 38% right now, so that's about 60 -- a little less than 60 burglaries more than we had this time last year. as far as the homicide, it occurred at eddy and mason in

the tenderloin. officers responded, located the victim who had sustained a gunshot wound, and that wound was fatal. our investigators were able to get information from witnesses and other evidence and identify the individual who was believed to have committed this homicide, and that individual was arrested and is currently in custody. i also have an update on the shooting of six-year-old jase young back in july. it happened on july 4, a horrific incident. we made an arrest on that case, as well. on this past week, our tactical unit along with officers made an arrest in that shooting, as well, and the district attorney's office has filed murder and other charges on that individual, so it doesn't bring jase back, but i hope

that brings some relief to the horrific grief that jase's family and the community are going through right now. this brings relief to everybody. there were no traffic fatalities year-to-date from this past friday, and the last thing i want to report is the stunt driving events, otherwise known as side shows. we have put together a stunt driving show, and that investment in training and assembling these officers is really paying off as we're able to address these issues in a much more efficient and expedient fashion, and we broke up a number of incidents this past weekend, and i hope the public can appreciate, because i know there was a lot of concern. these are really dangerous events, and i know the

community was concerned. i hope we can continue that, and it was a movement that supervisor safai and mayor breed supported. we want to prevent these accidents from happening in the city to begin with. last week on twitter, it got a lot of news coverage in washington d.c. with what was happening with the president of the united states. there was no issues, and our department was very been prepared and deployed for this incident, so in a major arrests for this incident. as far as the inauguration, we'll be deployed and out in numbers. we'll be coordinating with the sheriffs. we don't know of anything in our city that will be bad for our city, but we have to be prepared for anything and everything, and we will.

with that, i am encouraging the public to please -- we have a lot to celebrate with vice president-elect from the bay area and all of that, something to really be proud of, but please remember, we have a pandemic going on. please stay at home, and please don't celebrate in large groups and celebrate in the streets, and that is it for this portion of my report. thank you. >> president cohen: wonderful. thank you, chief. i actually have a few follow-up questions for you. first of all, you mentioned that car burglaries were down but other burglaries were up. i wanted to know if you could -- are you able to zero in and tell me exactly for what reason are car burglaries down so that we can intensify this so that we can continue to suppress the car burglaries? for me, it seems like it's car

burglaries are down this week, but next week, it might be up. it just seems very volatile and that there's no real science to understanding why our how or what's the nature of these crimes or what perpetuates them or stops them? now i don't want to insult you, and if i'm misstating it, please stop me, but i want to know the analysis behind these trends so that we can continue to suppress these crimes. >> yeah. i'll start with the research that we do have. in 2017, as you might recall, you were, at the time, on the board of supervisors. we have made a lot of investment into, you know, a

plainclothes unit that really did a fantastic job of arresting car burglars, catching them in the act and making many, many arrests, but one thing that we believe is deterrence is very important. putting officers out on the beat, putting officers out on patrol. when people see officers visible patrolling an area, they tend to not commit crimes as much in an area that they're going to get caught. so the only research is when we disbanded that unit and invested in more beat officers, we had the california policy lab that looked at redeployment to see if it had any impact on crime, and what they found was it did have a significant

statistical impact on larceny, which is the category that car burglaries are in, and assault, and so that's the one piece of research that we do saying that that does make a difference in those two crime categories. anecdotally, i will tell you that another big part that the city invested in was putting a lot more emphasis on prevention, being more resilient, and i know deputy chief lozar is on this call. he was a big part in this. we -- we really amped up a campaign called park smart that deputy chief lozar, along with community members, were essential. but we weren't doing that campaign department wide, so we invested in a department wise park smart campaign, public

relations, if you will, crime prevention, to encourage people not to leave things in their car if possible. it's not about, you know, accusing the victims of -- or blaming the victims of being victims, but it's about being more resilient. and i think the connection with that campaign and this pandemic, it's one of the reasons that we were down significantly in car burglaries last year is because there just wasn't the same amount of property out there, so burglaries were down out of cars. now from 2017, when we redeployed until this year, 2021, we've seen a steady decrease in car break-ins, and i think that has to do with the redeployment of officers, like i mentioned. i think that has to do with the current prevention strategies that i put in place, like i

mentioned, the park smart campaign, and trying to put people in the right place. there's no research on that, but there's people that have been in the business for a while. we do know that those things impact crime. 2017, 31,000 car burglaries, which was the highest we'd ever been. i think last year, we were at, i think, 24,000, so we don't have the final year-end numbers yet. we'll have them in the next week or so, but it's been a decrease since 2017 when we implemented those strategies. >> president cohen: thank you, chief. you put the baby to sleep with your presentation. look at that. look at that. i don't know what that says. >> i have a little bit of experience with that, commissioner. >> president cohen: okay. a few more questions. so my next questions are

directed more towards the insurrection last week, and i want to know how we as a city are preparing for the upcoming m.l.k. celebrations, modified celebration, and how we are preparing for the inauguration. as you know, it's been reported that all 50 states should be aware that the potential of crime could be festering, i guess for lack of a better way to describe it. maybe you could tell us what's happening and if there's any indication of trouble. that's my first question. my second question is if there's any indication if any sfpd sworn officers or any other members of the department participated directly in the trespassing and the invasion of our nation's capitol.

it's a two-prong question. >> as far as i know, none of our employees were a party to that. haven't had any reports of anybody from the sfpd being a party to that, what happened in washington, d.c., so as far as i know, the answer to that is no. the second -- the earlier question about what we expect to happen, right now, we don't have any information that anything is going to be happening that is detrimental to the city. however, there's a lot of information, open source information from a lot of people who are spouting bad intentions across the country. that's been broadcast on the news. i think a good piece of that is we don't have any indication that any of that is pointed our

way here in the city and county of san francisco. however, as i said earlier, we will be deployed heavily. we are working with heavy mir -- sheriff miramoto and the sheriff's department for whatever might come our way. one of the key things is information sharing between agencies on both a local, a regional, a state, and a national level. that is happening constantly and daily. we get updates daily from our federal partners, our regional information gathering partners, as well as our local partners, so that information sharing is critical because it's much easier to prepare for what you

know as opposed to what you don't know. >> president cohen: chief, let me interject here. i have a request of you and also of executive director paul henderson, and seeing how you guys are in the mix of information sharing, should the f.b.i. reach out to you, i would hope -- the f.b.i. reach out to you, identifying members of our force, of our police department participating in the insurrection, the trespassing part, if you could please bring it to the commission's attention, i think that's something that we would like to know, and i'm going out on a limb here, speaking on behalf of fellow commissioners, but overall, several people have reached out to me and requires whether or not several members of our department have participated. i just told them it was

inconclusive at this time, but if you do know, is that something we can agree to? >> absolutely. a lot of what we saw on television was criminal activity. we have very good relationships with our local f.b.i. office, and i'm confident if our members were involved in any of that, we would know about it pretty quickly, and definitely, we would make that known to the police commission, so yes, you do have my word on that. >> president cohen: thank you. i want to see if there's any other -- director henderson, you are muted. i couldn't hear you. and commissioners, if you have any questions, raise your hand, as well. >> same thing from me. if i hear of any information related to that type of action,

i would be relaying that information, as well. >> president cohen: thank you. appreciate that. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen. just to follow up, actually, on everything president cohen has said, i always have mixed thoughts about the auto burgs because i do understand how resource halfy it is to actually investigate a pile of broken glass on the side of the road and also the fact that this is -- what we're seeing here is pretty much consistent numbers with other similarly situated cities in california. is that accurate, chief scott, as far as the rise in auto burgs? >> yes. so i'll break it down real quickly. as far as the pandemic, we are

seeing similar trends, as well. actually, over the last couple of years, where our auto burglaries have decreased, some of our surrounding cities have actually gone up, and some have gone up significantly. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. good to know. yeah, this is always good to know because it's such a nightmare for the residents to come out and find a pile of broken glass and things missing. if anybody here, it hasn't happened to them, you're very lucky, but it's certainly happened to me a few times now. but i also understand how resource heavy it is to try to address this, so the -- the other issue with -- that president cohen raised regarding insurrection, i don't feel like we've all settled on

a -- a consistent name. to me, it looked a lot like, you know, domestic terrorism activity, with the ties to white supremacy. and, you know, unfortunately, as president cohen raised, there's been a lot of law enforcement that's been involved and actually involved in these far right groups and these white supremacist groups. as far as oakland, they've had involvement from a former member and then, i guess, some current members were similarly supporting, through social media, these far right causes. as far as the department's reaction, i would like to see not just the passive if we hear anything, but i think the department should be investigating this internally to determine if any members participated, and it was suggested to me, and this makes

sense, obviously, anybody who took time off last tuesday and wednesday, that's probably a good start, and you could probably eliminate pretty quickly from there whether or not anybody has travelled to d.c. my hope is that's not going to be the case, but i suspect it would be pretty easy for anybody from this department to determine if anyone was absent for those days, and you could go from there. does that seem reasonable? >> well, actually, commissioner, i don't know if that's the best way to approach this situation. i don't know if bringing people in and questioning them is reasonable. i will say this, that some of the things that we've put in

place to try to root out electronic bias and things like that are good because if these types of groups are particularly using department devices to be on these websites and send these types of messages that have to do with that, we would be able to detect that on department devices. now if it's a personal device, that's a different story, because talking to several attorneys here, so you all know how that -- people have rite to privacy, but with department devices, at least we have infrastructure in place with our audits to pick up or trigger that type of speech or that type of behavior on other devices. i don't think it's reasonable to start questioning people who took a day off on last tuesday

or wednesday. >> commissioner hamasaki: well, chief, what i would -- if surrounded by the city attorney, and it is acceptable, i can't see any harm, and i'm sure that any members in this department would be happy to participate and say oh, no, i was actually golfing with uncle charlie, and we had a great game, and i shot a -- i don't know whatever you shoot. i don't play golf. >> you're asking anyone who took last wednesday off be brought in to internal affairs for questioning and say what they were doing on their day off? >> commissioner hamasaki: i'm not saying they have to be brought in for questioning, but people who are absent on the day of the insurrection,

obviously, they could leave on tuesday, be absent wednesday, and come back thursday. look, chief, i do not expect to find members of this department involved in that, but i do think we need to give the public confidence and say that is absolutely not tolerated in this department, so that is an idea that was suggested to me, but again, i'm putting this on your plate now. the exact mechanisms to do this, i think, will probably have to be worked out with d.h.r. or city attorney or whoever tells us, you know, what the right way to do this is, but, you know, chief -- and this is something that i'm working on that i think i want

to talk about a little more next week because i'm still early in the research. cell phone audited are great, but nobody is going to text anything on a cell phone anymore -- department cell phone. i've been here 2.5 years, and there's never been -- i know that maybe one time, there was something, but it's just like anything else, any other bad behavior. if you identify an electronic source of which you're going to be monitored, it's less like -- likely going to come from there. i don't want it to seem as though the good members of the department are under investigation, but what i do want the department to do is so be forward facing and say that is not tolerated here, and if it is, we will do everything in our power to root it out, and that's -- you know, that's -- i've seen departments around the nation taking that approach, and i'd like to see our department take it.

i've gotten plenty of feedback and a lot of flak that we've had scandals with white supremacist language, cross burning talk, you know, everything under the sun from members of this department that have been 20-year members that have had chances to infect that poison within our department. are we flushing it out? absolutely. i think we are doing a good job pushing out the people who hold those beliefs. do i think we have a ways to go? probably, but it can't hurt to do everything in our power to ensure that our names are not attached to the mentality and the thinking and the philosophies that attack the nation's capital.

and i'll say one more thing that was sent to me that i assume you've seen by now, but the tenderloin station social media account was following one of the insurrectionists, congress woman lauren boebert from colorado, and god knows why they would be following a far right insurrectionist, but she tweeted out, today is 1776. i think the existence of that is a concerning sign. i want to talk about this more next week, and i think you and i can talk in the interim, but, you know, we need to do everything in our power to make sure that is gone from this

department, so -- and i know -- i know you're on board 100%, but, you know, let's figure out the right way to do this. >> yes, definitely. i will reach out to the in the interim, commissioner. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> president cohen: all right. next, we'll hear from commissioner elias. >> vice president elias: thank you, and thank you, president cohen, for bringing this up because i think that i, as well, join in your concerns. chief, i don't want to tell you how to investigate this, but my only concern is i don't -- it would be unfortunate to be in a situation where we wait for the f.b.i. to turnover its results to you after it completes the investigation because they've done that to the department in the past and have put the department in the precarious position putting the department in a position resulting in lawsuits resulting in

discipline or other things that the department wants to do, so i think that a proactive approach by the department should be done in terms of ensuring that none of the members were a part of this domestic terrorism. i think that d.p.a., while they can do some things, they are bound because they can't investigator have protections against people that are exercising first amendment activities, so i could join in with president cohen and commissioner hamasaki's request that the department be proactive in ensuring that our members weren't part of this, so if you can include that, i would appreciate it, and thank you, president cohen and commissioner hamasaki, for bringing this.

>> thank you, commissioner, for bringing this. >> president cohen: colleagues, do we have any other issues that we want to bring up and address with them? okay. okay. we can go onto the next item. >> clerk: line item 2-a, d.p.a. director's report. report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements. d.p.a.s report will be limited to a brief description of d.p.a. activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. >> thank you. president cohen? >> president cohen: yes, please. >> so we are at a point where 11 cases have been opened this year. last year, we were at a point where 30 cases were open.

we closed out 16 cases so far this year. last year at this time, we closed 38 cases. we currently have 33 open cases that are pending. this time last year, had 433 cases that are pending. we just closed out the year, and we had quite a large number of cases that we went through this year. we've sustained a case so far -- one case already this year. this time last year, we had sustained two cases, and we have 35 cases that are -- whose investigations have gone on longer than last year. we had 29 cases that had gone beyond nine months for their investigation. again, as a reminder, the 3304 date is one year, and we will not miss those deadlines, nor have we, for the past three years. we have not mediated any cases this year, nor had we mediated any cases at this time last

year. in summary of the cases that we have pending, we have 14 cases that are pending with the commission, and we have 38 cases that are pending currently with the chief. we've been participating and continue to participate in our outreach efforts with the organization and with agency. on the 6th, we held an informational session about -- for bay area members to learn about the department how to file claims with us and for upcoming events. those are filed through e-brite and our social media outlets. i try to make sure that the agency is present and active in at least two of these sessions a month. on the 12, we participated, at the request of the ed wood center for children and families, the agency that provides support for youth and families with health and behavioral health issues for us

to come and make a presentation for them, and we did. that presentation was virtual for members to log in to the agency and learn about how to make complaints with us, and we'll continue to do that. i know we have a number of issues on the calendar, but a reminder, there are no cases from d.p.a. in the closed session tonight. >> president cohen: okay. colleagues, any questions for director henderson? director henderson, i notice that oftentimes your report come to us the day of the commission meeting. is there a way that we can get them before -- the friday before, so we can make the agenda public so the public has an opportunity to review your report? >> i'm happy to if possible.

if the lack of connectivity is from my end, i will fix that and make it sooner, but i don't think it is, but i don't want to answer until i looked into it. >> president cohen: i appreciate that. >> but if it's possible, i will do what i can to get the reports earlier, but i don't think that it's me -- it's not d.p.a. that determines when those reports get out. >> president cohen: thank you. i was unaware of that. well, seeing that there are no other questions for you, thank you for your presentation and your time. sergeant youngblood, let's continue with the agenda. please call the next. >> clerk: next line item is 2-c, youth commission report, presentation of the omnibus budget priorities. >> president cohen: okay. thank you. hello, and welcome to the youth commissioners that will be making the presentation today.

very good to have our young people involved in the legislative process. a very important one is the budget process. as you know, our budget is the statement of our policy priorities, so with that, i'd like to -- [inaudible] >> hello. good evening, commissioners. thank you for having us. my name is calvin quick. i'm the youth commission representative -- sorry. you're breaking up. all right.

>> our authority comes from the city charter, where, as you can see on the screen, we are charged with reporting to the mayor and the board of supervisors and department, including the police department and its -- the police commission on our activities, our goals, and the budget priorities for youth. next slide, please. so every year, we do a bunch of work with our community stakeholders and partners, community-based organizations, people that work with youth, youth themselves, to put together a list of budget priorities. we just approved our preliminary budget priorities on january 4, and so we are

coming to departments and commissions and the board of supervisors, as well, to present on those priorities and what they mean for the different departments that we are recommending, too. next slide, please. so the youth commission has three policy based committees. the transformative justice committee is the one that does the most work related to the police department and the police commission's purview, so we have a lot of recommendations that we make to the city at large, but we'll be focusing on the recommendations we have for the police department and the other law enforcement and incarcerated related departments today, and i will pass it over to austin for the next slide. >> thank you for the pass.

next slide, please. so my name is austin. i am one of the staff members supporting the transformative justice committee. i am back up because another commissioner had a family emergency, so i just wanted to do this in his honor -- or in his stead. so what you see in front of you is the transformative justice commission that we had led the past two years. the commission is a group of young people striving to do what the city has historically divested and neglected to do, and what we've been trying in the past three years has been acknowledging that the current systems in place do not serve all of us in an equitable way that addresses justice and

liberation for all, and we hope to start these conversations acknowledging that we're just trying to shift conversations and dynamics for how people can live and thrive, and next slide, please. >> so in general, since last presenting to the police commission, we have been working on decentralizing policing from how we think about safety and focusing on advocating for community-based safety instead. so this includes the fact that all commissioners devote themselves to -- devote their time outside of meetings to attend community events, write resolutions, and try to dive deep into these topics. so for example, on this slide here, you can see a resolution written by the transformative justice committee urging the san francisco unified school district to end its relationship with the sfpd as a supportive effort with community mobilization and legislation and advocacy from

pullman advocates. also on the page is a resolution written by youth commissioners for the divestment of police funds into community-centered initiatives. >> and to jump in, we have recently been doing advocacy against the city's renegotiated contract with the police officers association based on the fact that that contract was negotiated behind closed doors and has serious policy failures in it, given that it grants -- extended the contract duration for another two years and grants officers raises without any policy -- substantive policy concessions in return, and so we were involved in advocacy against that, as well, recently at the board of supervisors, and i'll pass it back over to austin.

>> next slide, please. thank you. so for this slide, with you really want to address that we are in a pandemic, and budget cuts are coming down. the preliminary data from s.f. chronicle that shows that we're in a deficit from the size of the budget from the past years. we also want to highlight the call for justice and black lives matter and how they relate to san francisco's abolition work and, like, how they will be extended and we will keep on pushing on how the city chooses to invest in our communities and our young people. mayor breed had announced a road map next year to fundamentally change the nature of policing in san francisco, and those four priorities in part of that vision was to address the ending of police

response in noncriminal activity, and shoutout to [inaudible] and the crisis response team that also launched late last year, and addressing police bias and strengthening accountability, demilitaryizing the police and promoting economic justice. so the youth commission is coming ahead of, like, the police budget priorities presentation, fortunately, to show our concerns that vulnerable communities will be disadvantaged when programs are cut. next slide, please. >> so in terms of youth led policy and budget priorities, we're working from an antioppressive and youth-based lens, so we're working on supporting youth and families to educate them on the roles

they can play in their community and as facilitators in youth roundtables pictured on the left and as young people. we are currently working on a youth budget town hall, as well, and the details are still to be figured out. additionally, with covid-19, we have been limited in our ability to conduct outreach, but we are still waiting in waiting lines on public comment and attending virtual community public events. as i mentioned, we are hosting a youth budget town hall, and we are collaborating with the san francisco bicycle coalition on traffic policing in the

tenderloin. yeah, next slide, please. >> with that, we hope that what guides us as a youth commission and all of us in the city as youth commissioners is [inaudible] which includes assessing, evaluating, strengthening, and acknowledging where we need to build capacity for. some of those things that the transformative justice committee have been highlighting over the years have been culturally comprehensive training for youth and having a community advisory task force to, like, design the curriculum to build really essential communities to see what works and what doesn't. we understand that we're in this for the long haul, and we hope that as we move forward with the forum road map, that we address culturally competent and informed curriculum and services, arts, and culture,

and restorative justice programs that help young people live and grow. next slide, please. >> so per departments we addressed in our budget priorities, as you can see, the list is long, and that's because the prison industrial complex is everywhere, so we have to consider transformiational changes that address policing, prison, and surveillance in these priorities. and one of these, you can see is the department of police accountability, which we know you thought to create this department, and we just heard their presentation, yeah, just to tie in. next slide, please. so while we acknowledge that sfpd has done some work in making sure reforms and ensuring reforms are made and having more room for young people in those spaces, there is still more work to be done. so we hope from the mayor's road map to reform, we hope we

can keep building on that momentum and find additional ways to reinvest in communities that have been harmed and historically underrepresented and subject to racism. to address all of this, we are hoping that the sfpd would be defunded to the tune of $700 million. [inaudible] and back up teachers with unruly students, which is part of why we hope to divest from the police along with asking them to -- yeah, sorry. that's it. next slide, please. so these priorities are from our defund sfpd resolution, written by our commissioners [inaudible] and santos. several of our resolutions are

taken from the budget asking to take funding from the san francisco police department and fund community centered services as well as -- sorry, such as mental health services, community programs for youth employment, including undocumented and formerly incorrated youth, bolstering social work and trauma counseling in such programs. the resolution sites white supremacy and ongoing racism, and the inability of the police to solve core issues that lead to criminalized behavior in the city discussed before, such as homelessness and mental health issues. next slide, please. >> we acknowledge that, you know, from the department's budget and strategic priorities and balance reduction, training

and [inaudible] the alternative that has been figured from the defund sfpd coalition, as well as the alternative to policing that the human rights commission is also conducting surveys and community insights. we hope that all of these resources will help guide the police commission as well as us on how the sfpd budget looks, and next slide, please. >> so that concludes our presentation. we're available to take any questions. thank you for having us. >> president cohen: thank you very much for your presentation. i'll turn to the commissioners for any questions or comments.

colleagues, do you have any questions for the commissioners? >> commissioner dejesus: i think john's waving his hands. >> president cohen: oh, i'm sorry. commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: i'm sorry. >> president cohen: no, you go ahead. first of all, i want to say thank you to the youth commissioners. it's amazing the amount of work you guys do, and how thoughtful and informed it is. i didn't get a chance to see the presentation. sometimes we get powerpoints beforehand, but i think i'm just going to reach out to you with questions on how to implement some of these things. you threw a lot at us, but i have some questions, but i want to go back and read the powerpoint closer.

>> president cohen: colleagues, anyone else? commissioner elias? >> vice president elias: thank you. i just wanted to briefly say thank you to the commissioners. commissioner de jesus was very adamant to get youth representation here at the police commission, and i have to say any time you appear before us, i'm always amazed at the breadth of knowledge and what you guys present to us, so thank you very much for taking the time for us. i really appreciate it. >> president cohen: i have a question just in terms of priority to the youth commission. you gave a bevy of recommendations. could you prioritize, maybe give me your top two, which you'd like to see implemented here at the police commission?

>> yeah, go ahead. >> you go ahead. i'm not part of your [inaudible]. >> okay. that's tricky. so [inaudible] we haven't discussed laying any specific ones over another, but to the resolution that was written in conjunction with the defund sfpd over the summer, so our first one that we had on our presentation, that the mayor and board of supervisors cut the sfpd budget by a minimum of 50% relative to the sfpd budget for f.y. 20 to 2021 and [inaudible] including, but not limited to, additional mental health, first responders, and

other unarmed deescalation specialists i think really encapsulates a lot of our priorities and a lot of those following -- excuse me, a lot of those following recommendations fall in line with that [inaudible]. >> president cohen: what's the process that you used to come up with your policy suggestions, because the one that you gave is one that we heard all summer. it's not an original thought, so my question is, are you conducting focus groups? are you talking to people? how do you go about figuring these policy recommendations that you're bringing to us? >> in terms of that one specifically, i was not on the commission yet, but i believe this was a [inaudible]. >> yeah, and so just to

[inaudible] it's a mix of a lot of things. we are pretty involved with a lot of community groups, so i know the transformative justice committee has regular contact with young women's freedom center and some of -- a lot of the other community groups like that. i think project what has presented to us, and we hear a lot from community groups and the department, so we hear from d.p.a. and the d.a.s office and the public defender's office on what they're doing, and so the process for us figuring out what we bring to, you know, the board of supervisors, police commission, department for recommendations effectively as

the body responsible for sort of synthesizing what we're hearing and combine that with what we're hearing when we go to community meetings and we hear town halls and sort of cross-reference that we hear from people, saying that there are gaps, and sort of present that in there. so it's an ongoing process. i've been on the commission for three years now, and the recommendation to have bias training and with a specific focus on how to interaction with youth from a trauma informed and youth development lens, that's been on there

since before i've been on the commission, and we've met with sfpd many times about that, and that's been an ongoing process where there was a program set up, and then, it wasn't it was funded but it wasn't i ever willmented, so we carry over a lot of recommendations, as -- implemented, so we carry over a lot of recommendations from prior years, as well. but a lot of these come from when we go to a community meeting or someone comes and presents to us from community, that's where a lot of our information comes from. >> president cohen: thank you very much for that. >> additionally to that, i want to acknowledge the [inaudible] survey that our commissioners have done over the summer, as well as the incoming youth focus group with the traffic enforcement in d-6, and also

acknowledging that they're planning on a youth budget town hall, like, yes, we're planning on budget needs, and we're utilizing our social media platforms, like, heavily to share what's being done and what's being said and reporting back to the community. >> president cohen: thank you. thank you very much. okay. i don't want to belabor this presentation. let's keep moving forward with our agenda. youth commissioners, thank you very much for your time and your presentations. we're grateful. sergeant youngblood, let's call the next item, please. >> clerk: next item is 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 announcements and

scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. action. >> president cohen: all right. commissioner reports. who would like to go first? commission vice president elias? >> vice president elias: thank you, president cohen. first, i'd like to thank the staff profusely for bringing our 1421 up and running on-line. now the police commission records are available under our 1421 guidelines and actually accessible on the police commission website, so i'm really happy about that. i know that d.p.a. was instrumental in providing those records, and the department followed, and now, the police commission is on board, as well. the second issue i wanted to raise, and it goes with president cohen's calls what

was on the agenda tonight, and what would be helpful, when we have updates, we also have information on the department morale and officer buy-in with respect to these reforms. we talk about c.r.i. and all of the reforms that we've been able to implement or cross off our checklist, but it doesn't mean anything if officers who have to do these reforms aren't all in, and i want to make sure that officer morale, we understand what it is. so in the future, i am going to ask that the department, when it reports on the c.r.i. updates, that it also includes those two areas. i also am going to ask the segues into the department -- it's my understanding the department has reworked how the working groups work and how

they are going to be implementing working groups, and in the future, and what i am going to ask is that the chief look into the working groups a little bit more, especially given the d.g.o. and having more people at the table is a good thing. when i have participated in working groups, i rarely see actually rank-and-file officers in the working group. it's more officers that are the command staff or sergeant or above, and i think it's important to have the rank-and-file, the people that are on the ground doing this work in those rooms when we're talking about policy. i also think that it's important to have groups like officers for justice in these working groups, and that a

standing invitation be extended to them. while i've been in these working groups, again, i've seen p.o.a. representation, however, i haven't seen officers for justice representation, and i'm learning that it's not because they don't want to be there. they obviously do, but the invitation isn't being extended, and i am going to ask the chief to personally -- i know that we just did 503, and we are working on the strategic plan for 503, and i really would appreciate, chief, if you could include the officers for justice in that strategic plan because i wasn't aware that they were not invited to the table prior to this. so those were the two things. and lastly, one of the goals that i think is going to -- that i would like to achieve is the creating a data driven policy and issues spotting problems and issues within the department.

this includes the 4th amendment violations, and the hiding of data, and the creation of legislation behind that. we are so fortunate to have president cohen here, who created that legislation, with her wealth of knowledge and why that legislation would even be needed, so i wanted to be able to utilize her knowledge. i also want to look at data driven solutions when it comes to officers' safety and what are the biggest threats to officers' safety and how those are affecting our implementation of new policies and how it's guiding our policies, so i will be providing more information, reaching out, obviously, to you, chief, about those, but those are the thoughts that i've had moving forward and the requests that i've had, so thank you.

>> president cohen: thank you for that. commissioner brookter? >> commissioner brookter: yeah, that was -- it was for the youth commission. >> president cohen: oh, i'm sorry. >> commissioner brookter: i'll yield -- it's okay. >> president cohen: is there anything you wanted to speak on for the goals or to report back to the commission? no? okay. so commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: yes. thank you, president cohen. there was a couple of issues that i wanted to raise and put on the department and the chief's radar that have been -- kind of came up to me over the holidays, and it's -- it's regarding the department's relationship with the district attorney. i know there's definitely been some disagreements, but where that has impacted public

safety, i think it's an issue that we need to look at and kind of put behind what are those differences are so that it's a healthy working relationship because it's a codependent relationship. each side needs each other, and if we're not working together well, it's something that needs to be brought up to the city. somebody reported a property crime said they were told, well, you can file a report, but the d.a.s not going to do anything about it because it's -- chesa's a radical or whatnot. and i've spoken to another individual, and i've heard that has been -- that's not a single incident, so i don't know what the way to do that is, but if, you know, the concerns about

the district attorney's filing policies, i don't think the officers should be expressing that to residents because -- and the people in the city because we don't want to dissuade people from making reports and following through in the process. i don't know quite what the way to deal with that is, but that's an issue. and the second issue is also related to the district attorney's office, and this is something that i did talk to somebody inside the office about, which is the concern that -- i think it was another commissioner and i raised last year about forum shopping, about looking for different venues for cases because of, again, disagreements with the district attorney. and i think there are some cases where, you know, the department is going to need to work with the f.b.i. and the federal government, and that's

a fluid conversation, and i don't have the answers, either, but when it comes to crime in san francisco, i found that officers tried to bring a case to another jurisdiction because it was a juvenile case, and juveniles, there's concurrent jurisdiction in either the city of the incident or the city of the residents of the juvenile, and my understanding was it was because of a policy difference about charging the juvenile as an adult, and it's the policy of the district attorney's office that they were not going to direct file on children, so, again, you know, we're seeing

issues where, you know, i think we're letting politics get involved in our local public safety and criminal justice issues, and i think that's something that we need to address because, you know, all of this division isn't healthy for either department, and it's not healthy for the people of san francisco, so chief, maybe that's something else we can talk about and figure out a plan to address. [please stand by]

>> i want to continue down this road and ask that we calendar each police commission meeting moving forward a report on domestic terrorist activities here in our city. that continues to pose a threat for us. currently on the agenda, the chief report includes language such as major for significant

incidents. that being the chief provides a summary of planned activities and events. i don't think this is too difficult. perhaps you already provided this information. if you can highlight it and emphasize it when you make your presentation, i suggest adding words that include domestic terrorist threat to the agenda item so it stands out and we're able to key into it when we're doing a word search and going through your document. this is just to focus our attention and to send a message to san francisco that we will never welcome nor we'll permit attempt to undermine our democratic institutions.

that's all i have. i will continue the conversation with on goals and priorities. this upcoming week i plan to speak worth mayor office to see what their goals are. commissioners have shared with me some of their goals and priorities. you can tweet or call or e-mail us and let us know what your ideas are. i like to wrap this up in the next two weeks so we are clear what we'll be spending the next 11 months with the commission. i'm looking for tangible and measurable goals as well as deliverables at the end of this year. so we can show our work and show

that we are working and moving the policy agenda forward. also, i want to note that i'm just focused on policy per se but also the budget as well. i want to acknowledge that i'll be reaching out to tony, president of the police officer association as well as the other organization for their suggestions on policy guidelines. this also goes for the public defender and the district attorney's office as well. i'm looking for policy ideas and with that, i will take a pause and check to see if there's any other remarks. let's keep moving. sergeant youngblood, what's next on the agenda?

>> public comment. >> all right, with that said, sergeant youngblood, open up the call lines, let the callers come in. they have two minutes to speak. thank you. >> members of the public that like to make public comment regarding line item 2, please call 415-655-0001. enter access code, 146 768 4167 for those on line now please press star 3 now to raise your hand. commissioners, we have a number of callers. >> hi, i'm calling to ask the chief and the department to investigate the police commissioners for murder and

incitement of violence. i have read report that many people committed murder. i want to be sure that none of the commissioners have not participated. i know it may be investigated by the fbi. i don't think we should wait to find out from federal taking if any of our commissioners have participated. you maybe asking, do you have any evidence or reason to believe that any of the commissioners have murdered anybody or incited any violence. i do not. i'm looking to further my political profile. doesn't that sound ridiculous? in all seriousness, you attempt a coupe was an outrage. those who participated in it must be held accountable. it's important to remember that a police officer was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher at that event. while supremacist online are targeting police, all across the

country as a result of the last wednesday, it might behoove the commissioner, when there's wrong doing, they are responsible for the safety of the department and insinuating that sfpd officers participated is dangerous. it makes us less safe. you can just feel in the room, hamasaki desire for public office. you're just furthering your own political profile. it's really gross.

>> next speaker. >> thank you very much. this is anonymous again. about the commission questions to the chief on the attack on the capitol. obviously the commission is correct that every officer that committed a crime should be charged or if their behavior demonstrates they cannot provide equal protection of the law, they should be terminated. sfpd must investigate any officer who participated in the attack. lot of people in the sunshine community are requesting vacation days that commissioner hamasaki mentioned. it is unreasonable to put police officer under official suspicion for taking a vacation day until they account for their time off. whether or not, police officers, they're still a human being. investigating a person for taking a day off with no other evidence has no ethical basis.

this suggestion by hamasaki, should be rejected by the police department. >> thank you, caller. good evening, you have two minutes. >> thank you. i'm not sure if i phrased this thoughtfully. i want to support what commissioners has been calling for in terms of ensuring that none of our sfpd officers participated in the violence on the capitol last week. i realize that we have surveillance efforts under way to make sure there's no evidence, if there is a legal way to assess whether sfpd

officers supported, the terrorist attack -- make sure officers are trained in the workforce. thank you. >> you have two minutes. >> we were talking about murder. i'm bringing up my son, which was murdered august 14, 2006. to this day haze case is not solved. as a mother, i'm still grieving after 14 years. it's not new to me. i know you can probably used to me saying it. it hurts me everyday about my child. i wouldn't wish this on the

perpertrators or anyone else to go through what i've been going through for the last 14 years concerning my son. i'm asking for your support to finding the murderers of my child. these are cold cases. it's about all of our children. i'm the only one who's talking about my child. he has a mother and a father at home. this destroyed my whole family. he has sisters that are left. he was my only son. i'm just still asking that i get some closure. my investigator to call me. i'm still asking that our children not be stigmatized by the media, by the people trying to say they're in gangs. i raised my son well. i pay tuition for him to go to

st. dominick catholic school. i did whatever i had to do to get grants. i shouldn't be going through this. i should be going to graduations and not funeral. i'm still asking for my beautiful son with his beautiful smile. i want his name to be remembered. i want justice for my child. i'm still asking that the letter be put on the top of the 30-decors on >> that is the end of public comment. >> president cohen: thank you very much. sergeant youngblood, let's continue with the agenda. next item. >> line item 3, presentation of the sb1421 monthly update.

>> hawkins will be doing it on behalf of b.p.a. >> president cohen: thank you. the floor is yours for the presentation. [indiscernible] >> brigade of sb1421 requires disclosure of records. officer discharge of a firearm at a person, officer use of force which results in great bodily injury. the officer engaged in sexual assault involving a member of the public. since january 21t2019, the department has received 206 public records request related to senate bill 1421.

from period december 1st to december 31st the department has received no records. two additional bodily injuries falls to 17 records request. that concludes my report. >> president cohen: we'll hear from -- [indiscernible], then we'll go to questions. >> good evening president cohen, vice president elias, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. as mentioned the lieutenant, senate bill 1421 covers four categories in response to public

records request. the law went into effect in 2019 and d.p.a. continues to go through all archive files. to date, 333 of our archive files have been reviewed and determined to be not disclosable. since our last update on 1421, we produced one new case which totaled 140 pages in the great bodily injury category. that brings our total number of case production to 34 cases, which amounts to 23,750 pages of record. total in each category are as follows. in the great bodily injury category, we have turned over 26 files or 6200 pages. in the officer-involved shooting category, we disclosed eight files, totaling 17,500 cases. no pages has been released from

the d.p.a. in the sexual assault category. because none of our records qualify under that category. in the dishonesty category, we have one case that will be produced shortly. it's currently being redacted. also pending is an officer-involved shooting file with about 2000 pages where we are currently conferring with the city attorney office. since our last update, we received three new requests this brings our total to 68 requests. note about staffing, we are very happy to announce we have a volunteer attorney to work on 1421. we have all of our information available on our public portal. the public can make 1421 request through that portal as well as see all our requests and

disclosures up until this point. that's at sfdpa.nextrequest.com. thank you and i am happy to take any questions. >> president cohen: commissioner hamasaki? [indiscernible] >> president cohen: it's hard to read. >> commissioner brookter: it's just a quick question. thank you both for the presentation. you began to touch on it when you talking about staff. ing. over the course of the last year, there was a lot of conversation and requests to ask about staffing. what i want to ask is what are

the numbers in terms of staffing and also for the same thing for the adapt. >> president cohen: i will say that currently, we have a full-time staff attorney who is working on our 1421 production with along two paralegals. unfortunately the paralegal positions are up for determination this summer. we are working with our budget request in hopes that we can extend those positions. that paralegal work is vital in terms of the redactions we're trying to do. that's our team right now. we are going to fight as hard as we can to hopefully keep that team in tact new mexico we are p

to date. >> the department side. i will ask the lieutenant to tell you what the current status is. in terms of our hiring, it was interrupted due to covid. we were in the process of hiring an attorney. that was all paused because of covid. it disrupted our hiring. we're waiting to see what happens with this year as budget. if i can refer to lieutenant wallace for what she currently has in that unit.

>> sfpd, we allowed someone to disaster service. we currently have three full-time legal systems, another part time employee and few legal assistants who unable to fill the position that they were occupying because of covid. as the chief mentioned, we trying to get an attorney for about an year. we're hoping to do that. we face the same issues as d.p.a. with the budget. we've made additional budget request. additionally have a legal assistant that was supposed to start at the beginning of the pandemic but due to the pandemic and the budget issues, we were

unable to bring them on board. >> thank you for that. we would love next time we come back, that we add staffing in this. so we can see where we were last year and compared to now. just to make sure it doesn't get lost in translation, as we know, we got lot of calls about 1421. we want to make sure that we are on top of getting records out to the public. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president cohen: commissioner elias? >> vice president elias: i wanted to follow-up on commissioner brookter's point and ask ms. hawkins and chief to inquire about the caller

assertion earlier or something wasn't following the redaction guidelines. if chief, you can and ms. hawkins look into that and see if that's happening. if it is, let us know. >> i have an update on the d.p.a. i reached out to my team about that. basically, going forward, we are going to have a reductions, just like the commission does. we had in the initial push to get these records out. we did them without the redaction law. we have changed our practice and going forward that will be the case. all new release that will come out will have that redaction law. >> vice president elias: i would encourage the chief to provide something. >> i can speak to that. we use the same redaction codes

as the commission does. we've been applying redactions to all our releases for a while. we've been going back historically and applying them to releases that were released without redaction codes. it's not currently an issue. it's an issue that's been addressed. all our releases posted online has a table associated with them including the videos that are released for the officer-involved shooting that occurred recently for the redactions made to the disattach and the -- dispatch and the video. >> vice president elias: thank you, i appreciate that.

>> president cohen: seeing there's no other names on the roster -- [indiscernible] >> commissioner hamasaki: commis sioner elias covered most of my questions. it sound like the redaction laws are going to be provided moving forward. the caller had a second part to his question about the use of -- a base for not turning over certainly records. ms. hawkins did you hear that point? can you elaborate on what d.p.a. is doing in that regard? >> i would have to check with the team. i don't know what specific

policy. i know it's a case by case basis in terms of the evaluation of what we do and what we disclose. i do believe in the specific violent crimes, we have not provided those for privacy reasons. in term -- >> commissioner hamasaki: i'll check the tape afterwards and follow-up. i didn't write it now. >> i will check with the team as well for the last update. it's to correct something i said earlier about the staff level. there are two paralegal positions and so two attorney positions for 1421. that is another concern obviously. we currently have another

attorney who is a volunteer, who became pain or the 1421 works. but that is also due to sunset this summer. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. >> president cohen: looks like we covered everyone. i have a question. i want to talk about technology. are you covered? do you have what you need. is the technology up to par? >> it's like a multi-layered problem. we've made a lot of progress. pum of the issues was finals

vint have been pot. one of the things that's an imminent concern is redacting audio files. technology to appropriately accountable reduce those fails than -- to this point we've been disclosing transcripts. when the requests come in, we're in contact with the requesters providing things and asking them to define or request is specific. some of these transcripts are from a very long time ago. setting up us on that technology will be a hurdle.

>> we face the same issues. as far as the cost of that mean means -- we have been working with our vendors and i was exploring. we do need more powerful computers to handle some of the visual redactions and historical video and current video. we were limited. we also understand the budget issues. >> president cohen: we should start talking about that as with we begin to form our budget conversation. i like to know what your technology needs are. the days are gone where we can

take a risk to our car and do our own work. there are computers in cars and computers in airplanes. technologically driven society. i want to make sure you have the resources, the platforms that you need in order to be transparent, to collect data, to report out the data and to analyze the data in a very thoughtful, analytical way. i will plant that sit. we can revisit it later on. i think i saw kathrin mcguire is still on the line. anybody else?

let's keep it moving. next item please. >> public comment on line item 3. members of public like to make public comment, please pretty star 3 now for line item 3. you have two minutes. >> this is daniel harris with the public defender's office. i talked many times about 1421. i'm glad to see lot of attention focusing on it tonight. of course, the progress is still happening too slowly and monthly status report are not nearly useful or could be in their current form. one thing, i don't see a written monthly report from d.p.a. that's posted for the public to

see. that seems to be essential. number two, seems like the report should be a living document so we can see more than just what happened in the last month. we can look over a long period of time as to what's happening. number of officers that have completed the releases on needs to reflect those who are completely done. what we know is that we sometimes get information on an officer in one category. we don't know whether that particular officer may have other disclosures and other categories and we can't consider that officer to be a complete disclosure until we have an answer in all the categories. as for the progress overall, we're keeping track and by our record, sfpd is at approximately 10% in terms of compliant 1421

public record law after more than two full years. that puts on trajectory to be out of compliance with the public records law for close to two decades. one of our goals and we've asked the last commission to adopt at this goal is to complete the 1421 public record this year. >> good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> thank you, this is anonymous again. the commission raised essentially all the points that i could. i praise the chair on technology. she's right, it took me a year or more.

lot of the city is complying with the technology requirements of public records release. unfortunately for this commissioner, under the supreme court case, the city will have to ban cost of redacting all records including audio and video records from earlier. i wish that the d.p.a. had responded cooperatively as they just did to you when i raised the issue a year ago. would have been a lot easier than doing what we're doing now. accepting that you're wrong and learning more about the sunshine laws is the right way to respond to a complaint and not attacking a member of the public for --asking such as those question.

>> that will end public comment. >> president cohen: next item. >> line item 4, update regarding the street crises response team. discussion. >> thank you sergeant youngblood. just an update that the commission asked for the street crises response team. just reminder to the commission and the public. city ordinance 300-19 amended to san francisco administrative code to create new program called mental health sf. the street crises response team or scrt is for this program. it also uses a model of

behavioral health commissions with san francisco fire department. the calls to dispatch and gear and calls that will go to the san francisco police department will instead be diverted to commission so that individuals and behavioral health crises r not subject to law enforcement context and provided the promote subject. the srct and our -- the second team will be rolled out there month. six teams will be in operation by march 2021. as i said to the commission before and prior session, this

is a pilot program. this is a very small in combined month of november and december, 2020, the scrt team had 184 calls to service that 344 14thed for an scrt response. at the same time, there were 3659 calls to serve they were second that have enough resources. it's about 5% of the total call volume. i know there's a lot of excitement about the program.

it's going to take time and it's a very small percentage right now of the call that will actually cam our way. we would love to see this come to tuition and be a involve hopefully we can celebrate that in our city and county. we're going to do everything within our power to do that. right now it's a very small advantage. that is the report and the update if it commission has any

questions. >> president cohen: anyone like to comment? next item please. >> public comment on line item 4. members of the public who like to make public comment on line item 4, please press star 3 now. there's no public comment. >> president cohen: okay. next item. >> line item 5, presentation of the department budget process overview of fiscal year 2022 and 2023. discussion. >> president cohen: yes, my favorite topic. let's roll up our sleeves.

all right kathrin, it's all you. >> thank you president cohen and vice president elias and chief scott. members of the public as well. thank you sergeant youngblood for bringing up the experience. i'm happy to takes -- this will be a short three weeks. tonight we'll cover budget process and how that links up with budget. then part 2 will get into specific details of what we expect to cement for choose.

we will also cover in addition to those things, we'll tape issue -- we'll talk about how our budget landed at end of budget negotiations with the mayor and the board of supervisors in fiscal year -- for this current fiscal year. essentially our budget planning process really starts with an old document now. which is our strategy 1.0. our strategic framework. we asked -- starting in in

asking those folks think. we take budget submission. sort of our what we need to get don't with the budget. we also budget with the mayor suggestions. that goes through a process with board of supervisors. it is finished by.

we have come up with four didn't the first one is production. we had an uptick in shooting. in order no to further our decision is school. and hoping to improve -- this was the outline of our timeline for the budget process.

we have been meeting -- we started meeting with commissioner brookter and added president cohen last week. we'll be sort of asking them to present additional information that we should be providing you ail all. as we move into wednesday and than if you need to have those meetings. on february 3rd, we present our system for you tall -- we continue to through may with negotiations with the mayor's office.

as i mentioned, you all, the commission, plays an advisory role for the budget and to prove dal cap mayor receives -- mayor office provides guidance expectation on budget cuts. the legislative analysis also takes the mayor's budget for

budget. with that i will hand it over to >> the mayor's office budget instruction to all department was that each department should reduce the adjusted general fund support by 7.5%. if you compare it to last year, it's a significant increase. the variant is attributable primarily to proposition c this

-- there's much larger reduction for this year. in addition to the 7.5% reduction target, each department additional 2.5% as contingency in the case that physical conditions worsen due to covid and due to the recession. each department is posed to prioritize core services and there are great reductions to our budget. last mayor's office budget instructions is to continue focus on top priorities, such as managing the covid-19 pandemic

including support for homelessness and mental health investment. next slide provides some context that like two-year budget. second year, adoptive budget becomes base -- the second year for that year is the year -- wewanted to provide context

the, we faced reduction 114.1 full-time sworn positions. also reduction of our academy classes, we were requesting three, we only received one academy class. the impact for it it's really at the effort. approximates 70% of our recruits have been people of color. the impact is long lasting. it represent -- i've been interested to join the department but it was at the moment. lot of overtime -- another

example is hospital watch. last significant reduction was lack of vehicle replacement. this does impact our management of our fleet. half of our fleet is over ten years old. it does represent challenges because cars cost more to

maintain. officers spent lot of time in vehicles and vehicle experiences lot of wear and tear to continue to operate. this slide presents a summary of our fiscal year '21 budget compare to fiscal year '20. the total budget reduction that we had last year was $25 million. our general fund operating budget was reduced by $29.7 million. it is all set by some other categories. there were increasing in our continuing operating. to provide some context to the budget overtime production, this slide provides the overtime budget and natural disaster.

you can see it average about $19 million to $20 million. our overtime actual had -- the adoptive budget reduced the available overtime budget and reduced it to $4.4 million. to provide overview for the department full time position, worn f.t.e. was 157. civilians we had slight increase of eight positions. in terms of between the airport and city, the airport had a reduction of probably one f.t.e.

position. over on the city side, we had reduction of 107 full-time equivalents. another 36.7 full time position. the city did not have sufficient funds to fund any technology project due to the recession, due to covid.

to capital improvements, we did receive $424,000. which is reduction from the prior year. given all the reduction, we do face challenges this year given that $37 million reduction target and the additional 2.5% contingency. with that, chief, did you have anything that you wanted to add? >> no. i want to say, our budget in support sustaining that is really important. we really wanted to get majority recognition this year. the vast majority of it.

some of our training that we put in place, we can do this. >> president cohen: anyone have any questions? >> not so much the question. i want to say thank you to director and patrick. i wanted to share with my

colleagues and members of the public. this was really the first part of a presentation that speaks just to the process around budgeting and the priorities of the department. we're going to have presentations that are coming down the road where we begin to dive deeper into the priorities and ensuring that our budget reflects the priorities of the department. i wanted to put that disclaimer out there for tonight's meeting. this is a very high level, this is a process that we go through. these are some of the priorities from the year before. moving forward, we will continue to dive deeper into what that actually means so there's more transparency for members of the public and for us as commissioners. i want to share that we will be

inviting my fellow colleagues, we'll make sure we don't violate any brown act, inviting folks to some of the sessions that we're having. since i been on the commission, the budget comes before us twice. we're asked to make a recommendation on proposing or passing the budget that we see. i think now, having an opportunity to take more time to sit down so we as commissioners and the public to really understand the budget of the department and how it aliar lines with port is -- important. we're looking at budget cuts, we're looking at reallocation. commissioner cohen brought up, we want to make sure technology

and training, make sure that we have the resources to back up those things within the department. i wanted to put that note out there for my fellow colleagues as you all have your questions, please note that we will take them and also make sure that we discuss them for the next presentation and make sure they are in the presentation. >> vice president elias: i didn't see where -- in terms of timeline when you start to wrangle with harvey roads and his team what time of year -- that's important process, that's

when the board of supervisors tries to squeeze out more money out of the mayor's budget. tell me when do you start that negotiation? >> when the mayor submits the budget on the 31st of may, we have already started getting questions from the budget and legislative analyst office and we have already started preparing those responses and usually we're submitting those initial responses come june 1. over the next two weeks we have those discussions, the final discussions with the budget and legislative analyst have it. >> vice president elias: given this pandemic. this pandemic has created a huge budget gap for the entire general fund.

all these different taxes that rely on, we don't have it. my question is, is the general fund your only revenue source for your budget? if you have other revenue streams that supports the police department's budget? >> yes, but no. the vast majority, it is the vast majority of our budget is general fund. there's a chunk that comes from it airport and their revenue stream. the airport as we all know, is also impacted by this. other source is the sales tax.

that comes to the department. [please stand by].

>> the last -- well, if you look back at the last 12 years or so, those first seven, all of the demographics are about the same. many more caucasian, white people, were hired. the last five to six years has really done a lot of work to diversefy the candidate pool, and it's a much more representative of san francisco's diversity that those folks are bringing in to the departments are really important in diversefying the department, so as we cut

through the academy classes, it makes it harder to achieve those equity goals that director sutton talked about in our read plan. >> commissioner cohen: i don't quite understand. like, how much. i guess, are you spending more money doing more recruiting? i don't understand. >> i -- no -- well, we're just recruiting differently, so it's more -- it's more -- we attend more events that more diverse populations also attend, and this is something that the chief can speak to a little bit better than i can, but yeah, that's essentially what we're doing, is we're just being a little bit more conscious about where we're going and who we're

talking to -- [inaudible] >>. >> -- the amount of officers that we hire, that means the diversity doesn't continue to progress [inaudible] because we're getting our diversity. other departments have the same problem, so it's definitely not

a phenomenon here. >> commissioner cohen: i don't quite see or haven't made the argument of what the connection is between diversity and budget cuts, but i can follow up with -- yeah. >> excuse me. yeah, so 87% of our budget is personnel, so when we cut the budget, it's -- the vast majority of those cuts are going to be in people, and so when we're talking about cutting positions, we're talking about impacting the progress of diversity, so academy classes would be probably the most often as you have experienced maybe on the budget and finance committee on the board, that those wind up being a somewhat painless cut.

however, because we aren't then able to continue to hire, then we aren't able to increase the diversity of our sworn personnel, so if we cut the money, we're cutting the positions, which means no additional people that we have been traditional -- that we have now been recruiting that are diverse candidates. am i getting there? maybe we should have -- i'm happy to have further discussion. >> commissioner cohen: maybe my other colleagues can take a stab at it, but i'm going to relinquish the mic to commissioner elias. >> vice president elias: thank you. following up on your question, director mcguire, i understand how you're saying that the efforts for diversity are usually geared towards up

coming classes for the police department, and i understand your description that that's the easiest -- [inaudible] >> vice president elias: how did this affect diversity when it comes to promoting from within, especially women of color? how are budget cuts affecting that because it doesn't seem to be happening within the department, and i, like president cohen, don't understand the correlation. >> you know, i'll take that

question in terms of the promotions, the diversity is a priority period, across the board. hiring, promotions, all of that. we actually do have a diverse command staff, and when it comes to the silvservice promotions, you can only promote some on the list, and if that list is not diverse, which is a whole other set of circumstances, if it's not, then why not, you still have to only go from the list. our command staff, we have a good mix of diversity in our -- on the professional staff side of our command staff, we have a good mix of diversity, so we actually are, when you look at our numbers, and we put the demographics report out to the public and to the department monthly, when you look at our diversity percentages and all that, we are actually doing pretty well. that's an ongoing effort, and you have to do it within the

law, as you all know, but it is happening, so we continue to strive to continue to do that. you know, a lot of it comes with development, commissioner. i mentioned earlier with the career development, and investing in career development, leadership training, and those kinds of things, sending people off to training when we can afford to do that. that's how people get ready for promotions. if we don't do those things and give opportunities to people to take advantage of those type of career development possibilities, you're not going to really have a chance at having the diversity you want, and that takes money, it takes funding, it takes hiring people and continuing that pipeline of the feeder pool, if you will, so you have a command pool, as

well. >> vice president elias: i think it's incumbent upon the department to look at how these lists are created and what's causing these lists to be demographically the way they are. i mean, some people just aren't good test takers. i'm not one of those people, but i excel in other areas, so i wouldn't be high on the list, i'm sure, so i think we need to take it upon ourselves to start looking at that and looking at ways in which these lists are lacking in people of color, especially women of color, so i think it's incumbent upon us to do that. and secondly, i think you're absolutely right that there may be some diversity within the command staff, but i'm talking about, you know, the lower level, the sergeant, the lieutenants, the captain, where are the women of color in those positions because you have to get to those positions before you can even get to the command staff, right? so i think that you're right in terms of, you know, you're promoting within and you bring

them up along the ranks, but if we aren't seeing the diversity down at the lower ranks then we're definitely not going to see them at the higher ranks. and while i understand having money to do that is great, i also think that we can do or make some changes with what we have, so -- >> yeah, no, and i think i would advise this, commissioner elias, to look at our list and who has been promoted and even go a step further: who took the test, who passed the test? those are things we have to figure out or try and figure out and stay on top of, you can -- the department has an obligation to give people opportunities to grow, to professionally develop, and to be competitive if they choose to take a promotional exam, and the person has to do the work. so it's definitely a conversation that we've had in

this organization and we'll continue to have about giving everybody an opportunity to promote. definitely it's something we need to get better in terms of what we look like in terms of diversity, but it's not because of a lack of effort, so i would invite you to take a look at those details, and make it'll give you -- maybe it'll give you some insight on where things are. >> vice president elias: i definitely well, and i appreciate the invitation because one of the things that i'm concerned about is why aren't people taking these exams? what is the hindrance, you know? i think we need to look at that, as well. >> commissioner cohen: let me just jump in here because we are talking specifically about the budget, so specifically what got me on that portion,

cindy, is there was a line item on the presentation side of it [inaudible] efforts. i was just trying to understand the correlation between how does the budget have to do with delay in diversity efforts. if the department said hey, we have career development, which is a legitimate thing, career development, cultivated, we're dealing with the sergeant so that they can become a lieutenant and become command staff. to that point, you're absolutely right. we need to be paying attention to the bottom and what we're filling in so that we have a command staff, we have a force that is representative of the diversity. i'd like to just really quickly, if we can pivot back to that slide, patrick, that if you could walk us through, patrick young, it was just up, just walk us through here quickly the source of the funding that goes back to my questioning just like you're seeing, so please. >> thank you. so this slide presents --

represents a pie chart of what our sources of funding was from last year's presentation, so approximately 75% of our sources of funding comes from the general fund. we do receive approximately 7% from state revenues. another 14% comes from the airport. there are some smaller amounts from grant revenues and from interdepartmental services, but we do rely heavily upon the general fund for most of our

budget. [inaudible]. >> correct. >> commissioner cohen: and are those grants and those other revenue sources stable? for example, like, the airport? what are we expecting for this cycle budget that we're going to be balancing? how much of it is -- what is the revenues for the airport? >> so these are numbers from last year. we do have to have some discussions with the airport to see what their projections are. the city is behind their budget process this year. the budget system was only

opened last friday, and so we haven't been able to run the numbers, and we haven't had the opportunity to reach out to some of our other peers, so many of these numbers have changed, so we do have to do some work to figure out what the current -- what the current numbers should be, but we will have that prepared for the next budget presentation. >> commissioner cohen: i appreciate that, and i actually -- now, i realize i forcibly jumping the gun, so i'd like to recognize any of my colleagues who'd like to speak.

>> vice president elias: yes, president, i actually have two more questions. >> commissioner cohen: okay. i apologize for interrupting. >> vice president elias: no. i appreciate the information because there were suggestions and requests that were made on prior presentations, and it's going to see them being incorporated. i have two other questions. my first is where do civil rights for sfpd violations, where do those go and how much are they? >> so that -- that -- that expenditure line is in the city attorney's budget. >> vice president elias: i think it would be interesting if you can get the number to us -- it's my understanding we're going to have a few of

those concerns. >> yes. we can follow up with the police department and see what the expenditures have been. it's my understanding that our expenditures have come down, and the news article attributed that to the reform efforts that we put in place. >> vice president elias: okay. i haven't seen that article, so i would like to see that information, and then, my third and final question is this is going to be towards you, director henderson. i understand that d.p.a. has a lot of budgetary constraints especially with the work they want to do, but i think it's good to provide the commission with an overview of your but yet and sort of the challenges that you're facing especially with the budget issues coming

up within the next fiscal years. is he on mute? >> i was going to say our budget is a little different, but we're happy to provide an overview for you. similarly, we present our budget in a public forum typically, as well, so we're happy to present our overview as well as outline some of the challenges that we are alluding to earlier when we were talking about positions and everything.

>> vice president elias: thank you. >> commissioner cohen: okay. are there any other questions or comments? commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: i think the questions that commissioner cohen and commissioner elias raised raised some good issues, but my question, and i think the board looked at cuts last budget cycle, and were any of those cuts considered in forming at least the initial portion of the budget? i know one of the big things that came out is i guess there's horses that are millions of dollars that don't really do anything as far as public safety. can anybody really address how

those board suggestions were taken into accounts? >> the board voted on the budget as they had -- and they discussed -- and they discussed those items and i believe came to an agreement but we came to find out after those hearings that that was voter mandated units, so nevertheless, all of those discussions happened internal to the budget and finance committee and board of supervisors, and their decisions, and what we presented tonight is reflective of those decisions, so the academy class cuts and overtime cuts.

>> okay. i guess, pretty cohen and vice -- president cohen and vice president elias and commissioner brookter identified just walking on the street, i think we're all aware that the city is having a real hard time right now financially, and it's just i'd imagine it's pretty scary for everybody, and we should be prepared to address the coming realities of this -- i don't know if it's a recession for depression, but it's just beating up san francisco pretty badly right now. so i don't have any specific thoughts beyond that, other than just it looks pretty scary out there beyond tax revenues for the city. >> commissioner cohen: is that -- >> commissioner hamasaki: that was it. i'm finished. >> commissioner cohen: all right.

seeing no other folks that want to call on this item, i'm looking to more thoughtful conversation on the budget. remember, we are not your adversary, we are on the same team and want incredibly important things for the budget as well as the community. all right. let's go, sergeant youngblood. what's next? >> clerk: public comment. members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item five, the department budget process, please press star, three now to raise your hand. and president cohen, it does not appear that there's any public comment. >> commissioner cohen: all right. good. let's keep going.

next item, please. >> clerk: next item is item six, presentation of the monthly collaborative reform initiatives, c.r.i. updates. discussion. >> thank you. executive director mcguire will present on this. thank you. >> okay. stacey, if you can bring up the presentation, please. thank you very much. we can go to the next slide. as you can see, we are still making progress on our collaborative reform submissions to the california d.o.j. in the months of november and december, we had four -- four recommendations of december and 14 recommendations moved to substantial compliance. that means that cal d.o.j. has sort of rendered their opinions on the submissions that we sent

through and determined that those submissions are in substantial compliance, and they are in the graphs here. you can see we also sent a fairly large number of presentations to the prescreen process, and you'll remember that the prescreen process really reflects where we feel we're pretty well finished with the recommendations. we had a conversation with cal d.o.j. and hillard hines and the -- and if they feel it's ready for submission, and if they feel it's ready for submission, we send it on in. we've got 16 more recommendations in external review and 41 more recommendations in external validation. at the time at the end of

december, we had 113 recommendations in substantial compliance, and i believe that we have gotten to 130 as of last week. next slide. the use of force recommendations, we've complied with four of those and seven in review with our partners. some of the more substantial accomplishments for the months of november and december had to do with the firearm discharge review board, and both evaluating policy and including training in the fdrb and really looping back that information into the academy course work, so we can go to the next slide. for bias, we have three recommendations to go into substantial compliance, and

there are 12 in external review and/or validation. some of the major accomplishments in the bias objectives were that we had six recommendations go to submission as a result of really documenting our cleaning process for the soft data collection systems data that we -- that all of our officers information. it's a wealth of analytical information that we gather from that data. we also created a couple of roll call trainings for 5.17 and 11.07 after the commission had approved those, and then, the bias investigation protocol was updated and formalized and

then i.a. unit order. next slide, please. for community and policing, with he have five recommendations go in to substantial compliance, and 17 recommendations are currently in review. the academy was able to focus on exhaustive needs analysis across the entire department, so trainings related to accountability, use of force, community policing, and retention, and that got us one recommendation there, and then, we also identified some critical trainings that allowed for an auditing clearinghouse -- sorry, outsiditying and clearinghouse systems are now implemented that allow us to identify trainings. next slide. for accountability, ten recommendations in substantial compliance, and we still have

ten recommendations in review, and we had bulletins that were -- so we implemented a process to ensure that bulletins were accompanied by the appropriate training and supervision, and we've also done a similar process for d.g.o.s, as well, and we have implementation working groups that have been set up for those d.g.o.s, as well. and next slide, please. and then finally, for recruitment hiring and retention, we've one recommendation go into substantial compliance with 11 that are in review. the -- two recommendations that were of note were related to publishing transparent data statistics of sworn demographics, and that d.h.r. and sfpd adapted components of the ph e. tests, so again, the

chief was mentioning this earlier. -- p.h.e. tests, so again, the chief was mentioning this earlier. so with that, i think that's the last slide -- oh, yes, the year in review. the real focus here is just that last section really calling out the work and the progress that we've made in 2020. we had 73 recommendations moved to substantial compliance in 2020. we had 57 additional recommendations that were completed, which totalled 130 recommendations in 2020 alone, so we're now at a total as -- from our internal look of 170 recommendations either in substantial compliance or already in review with our collaborative partners, and that will complete my presentation for c.r.i.

>> commissioner cohen: okay. great. colleagues, any questions for ms. mcguire? please just raise your hand. hamasaki, is that a scratch of the neck or no? brookter? all right. seeing none, thank you for the presentation. i think we can move onto the next item. >> thank you. >> commissioner cohen: thank you, sergeant. >> clerk: so public comment. for members of the public that would like to make public comment on-line item six regarding the collaborative reform initiative, please press star, three now. and president cohen, i see no public comment. >> commissioner cohen: okay. i just want to say in summary, there have been a total of 130

recommendations completed for a total of 170 recommendations as of december 31, 2020, is that right? >> that is correct. >> president cohen: so what is the plan to implement those 170 outstanding recommendations? >> that is a great question. so through phase three, which we expect to be complete this spring, we expect to have 94.48% of our recommendations complete. >> president cohen: by 20 -- this year? >> yes. >> president cohen: okay. that's great.

>> i think the momentum that we continued, we're expecting about 20 to 30 recommendations that will be outstanding after the completion of phase three, and at that point, we'll -- and in the next few months, we'll be working with cal d.o.j. and other partners to really determine how we plan to plan, so for those couple other recommendations. >> president cohen: so you've been around for a while, and you've seen transitions of power from one president to the next. we're getting ready to go into another transition. how do you see the this transition impacting what we're trying to do here in san francisco with these recommendations? >> you know, before 2020, i might have tried to read some

tea leaves, but it is 2021, and i don't think i could even begin to make that prediction. >> i'll weigh-in on that, president cohen. just based on what the vice president and president-elect have said in the last few months, i think you're going to see some shifts back to the usdoj supporting this reform work. it was done up until 2017, and it was suspended, and just based on a lot of what's been said up to this point, it would not surprise me to see that type of support. there's a lot of interest on federal level reenvisioning policing and police reform, and i think you're going to see a

lot more activity from our federal government on being active and pushing this issue forward. >> president cohen: do you think that that active, that heightened awareness and commitment would bring dollars, as well? do you think that there'll be federal dollars that will be able to pour in our budget to achieve these recommendations? >> on the current path, i would say yes because that's how our political reform, that's what the federal government was saying to pay for consultants and expertise and all of that, so if the past is any indication, i would say yes, it will. i think this work is important enough. >> president cohen: okay. thank you. i have no other questions. let's keep moving. >> clerk: all right. line item 7, presentation

regarding the outer vest carrier, discussion. >> president cohen: before we go to item 7, let's take a ten-minute break, folks. we've been going since 5:37, and we'll reconvene at 8:47, so ten minutes. thank you.

>> president cohen: go ahead and come back at 8:48 p.m., and please call item seven. >> clerk: line item seven, presentation regarding the outer vest carrier. discussion. >> thank you, sergeant youngblood. acting captain aaron lozano will make this presentation for the department. >> thank you, chief. well, good evening. >> president cohen: welcome, captain lozano. >> my name is lieutenant aaron lozano, and tonight, i am going to be reviewing the outer vest carrier. i do expect the presentation to

last under ten minutes. i hope to highlight first the injury frechx for our officers -- presentation for our officers by reducing the weight on their gun belt and to present a nontactical look, mirror our current standards and be both comfortable and functional for our members, and sergeant youngblood, if you can just pull up all the items on the -- that would be fantastic. thank you very much. so going right into the slide number one, what is our outer vest carrier solution, it is an outer vest carrier produced by point blank. we custom designed the outer vest carrier to mimic the look of our current uniform standards, being our class b or wool uniforms or class c or d.e.a. uniforms.

in total, we've been working on this project for close to two years now. another component of the solution is our color matched pouches for our equipment as well as ample storage pockets for necessary and required equipment. all officers that are wearing the outer vest carrier will now have the ability to both carry and access a trauma kit regardless of their assignments, availability of police vehicle, etc. and what i mean by that is officer on foot beats or officers on bike patrol or should officers in motorized patrol leave their vehicle in a hurry and not have the opportunity to grab a trauma kit when it's necessary, if they have them on their outer carriers, it will save lives.

these will carry a minimum of two tourniquets, sealing gauze, trauma gauze, nature can, and gloves. so what were some of the -- go back. appreciate it. so what were some of the key factors in us even considering outer vest carriers? well, part of it was officer injury and prevention. the leading cause for officer injuries is the gun belt, and research has shown that the key to reduction in back injuries is the redistribution of both

the equipment and the weight from the gun belt and onto the torso, and then, there is an impact to our department. so annually, about 5% of our department files back injury claims -- workers' comp back injury claims. annually, about 7% of our department is receiving payments to include wages and medical bills, and ultimately, that boils down to less officers being able to work due to back injuries. before we move onto the next slide, the next four slides are photographs, and you'll see the officers do have the outer vest

pouches that blend into their uniforms so you cannot see the equipment. it assists in carrying large cell phones and all kinds of forms and business cards. you will see a reduction of clutter. you're going to see properly fitting uniforms for a professional look, and then you're also going to see a uniformed look for members that are either wearing their body armor concealed which is under a uniform shirt or in an outer vest carrier. so with that being said, sergeant youngblood, if we can go to the next slide, please. thank you. so what you're looking at here in photo number one, on the left, this officer has all of his required equipment, plus he has a cell phone holder and a tourniquet on his gun belt. that's the officer on the left. the officer on the right has

all of the same equipment as the officer on the left but he's able to carry his cell phone in the pocket described as well as his tourniquet as you can see in the pocket notated by the red cross, thus reducing necessary clutter, although he did choose to carry his handcuffs on his back, and that would be the officer on the right. sergeant youngblood, if you can go to the next slide, please. thank you so much. photo number two, you'll see the officer on the left. she has a tourniquet in a holder. her chest pocket, you can see, is bulging from the cell phone. due to her smaller waist, her tourniquet holder and her key holder are covering about 50% of her back region along the gun belt.

the other officer has all the same equipment. she is storing the tourniquet in her outer vest and she also has reduced clutter along her back which over time will reduce and help prevent injury to the lower back. sergeant youngblood, next slide, please. so on this slide, you'll see the officer on the left. he has a disposable glove holder on the small of his back. that officer was also wearing a 511 b.d.u.-style uniform. it fits rather large on the front and the back as it balloons just over the gun belt. the officer on the right there, he has all the same equipment with his outer vest carrier. the officer on the right is able to accommodate the disposable gloves in the trauma kit, thus reducing clutter along his back, as well, and

preventing injury over time, and if you note, the officer on the right is wearing a first tactical b.d.u. vest and pant which helps to promote the professional look that we're going for. and if you look at the back of either photos, you can see the officer's back on the right side, it's much more of a cleaner look, whereas on the left, it's much more of a large fitting shirt. and then sergeant youngblood, next slide, please. and this'll be the last photo we look at. so the officers here, the one on the left, is wearing all of his required equipment on his gun belt. his uniform shirt is too big, and it is drooping over his shoulders. i actually asked him why it is,

he said it is to accommodate the bulky concealed armor that he's wearing under his uniform shirt. the officer in the photo on the right is able to wear all the same equipment plus more between his outer vest carrier and his gun belt, and you'd take note, his vest shirt is properly sized and that goes to the professional look that we're going for. sergeant youngblood, next slide, please. and just our final thoughts. so adding a vest carrier to the contract gives officers the decision to wear soft armor which will be in under the shirt or outer vest carrier. the outer vest carrier will give the officers the ability to carry more equipment in the

vest trauma kit and all of their necessary equipment, and the outer vest carrier will be a new item that officers will be allowed to purchase with their uniform allowance. with that final thought, that was -- that is the conclusion of my presentation, and i thank everyone for their attention. >> president cohen: great. thank you for your presentation. colleagues, do we have any questions? it's pretty thorough, self-explaining. do we have any questions? d.j. is giving us thumbs up. all right. thank you, lieutenant lozada. this is just a discussion item, colleagues, so there is no action needed on this. i think we need to take public comment on this, if i'm not mistaken, sergeant youngblood?

>> clerk: yes, president. >> president cohen: okay. let's go ahead and open up the phone lines for public comment. >> clerk: if there are members of the public that would like to make public comment on-line item number 7, please press star, three now, and president cohen, we have one caller so far. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> hello, everyone. this is gloria berry. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> okay, wonderful. i wanted to comment on a few of the items, and i couldn't get through. it kind of sucks when you're the only caller trying to get through on the draw. on the subject of the vest, i definitely have eight years law enforcement experience and 13 years military experience, and i know for a fact that utility belts have done a lot of damage to my back. people might have seen me walking with a cane a few years ago. it's definy