higher. it's a slant well, where you dig down under the coast and into the sandy layer of the ocean so there is less wildlife restrictions. but you have a longer pipe are-run to get out there. they all present challenges, but no, we don't build one similar to the two-pump stations we have now, because they're grandfathered in from the early 1900s where there were less agencies looking over it. >> thank you. >> president feinstein: yes, commission covington? >> i wonder, madame secretary, do you have a list of topics that have been presented previously? >> well, i have suggestions. i have nothing set in stone for the next meeting or the future. but we have cost recovery for surf, cliff and bay rescues.

slow street. and an update from chief on division of training and status on current academy class. >> okay. i think we have slow streets and also what are the spaces? you know -- >> shared spaces. >> shared spaces, yes. it was also on that. on this, i believe. unless they're two different things. i don't have anything to suggest. i was just wondering what was out there that we have expressed interest in and getting more information about. >> any further suggestions from the commissioners? or command staff? all right. >> there is nobody on the public

comment line. >> president feinstein: very good. public comment is closed. thank you. >> item 7, adjournment. >> i move that we adjourn. >> i second. >> president feinstein: vote to adjourn. >> vice president rodriguez: aye. >> commissioner nakajo: i affirm. thank you. this meeting is adjourned at 6:53. >> thank you. >> thank you, everyone. >> thank you.

>> those are streaming and those listening and those on the twitter sphere i want to welcome you, it's 5:38. this is the regularring scheduled police commission. i'm president of the commission, to my right is vice president cindy elias and i'm happy to be here and before we get too far started, i want to recognize our newest commissioner, mr. jim burn, who is joining us for the first time with sworn in earlier this afternoon by mayor breed. we'll give you a second, after we do roll call, to give you an opportunity to say a few remarks.

mr. youngblood, how are you today? >> i'm well. >> president cohen: let's call the roll. >> clerk: all right. [roll call] >> clerk: president cohen, you have a quorum and we have chief william scott from the san francisco police department, as well as sarah hawkins for department of police accountability and paul henderson is en route. >> president cohen: let's go ahead and rock and roll and

please join my by putting your hand or your heart and saying the pledge of allegiance with me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. before we get to our consent calender, i'd like to ask or offer commissioner byrnes an opportunity to say a few remarks before we get started. >> thank you, president cohen. i'm all new to this. i'm looking forward to meeting everybody. i appreciate the conversations that i had with vice president elias and you, president cohen.

and i'd like to recognize the commissioner yee helped talk me through the process and commissioner dejesus who i met on a personal level years ago, as regards to the other people on the commission, i look forward to interacting with you in the future. i look forward to meeting chief scott and other members of the sfpd and i have a big mouth so it's a long meeting so, i look forward to seeing y'all in-person. thank you. >> president cohen: all right. thank you, very much. we welcome you and we are grateful for the time that you are going to invest and we'll thank your wife because she won't see you for wednesday evenings from now on forward. so, thank you for joining us. mr. sergeant young blood, call

the item. >> clerk: general public comment. at this time the public is now welcome to address the commission to be up to two minutes on items that donna appear on tonight's agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. under rules of order during public comment, neither police or d.p.a. personnel are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. comments or opportunities to speak during public comment period are available via phone by calling 415-655-0001 and enter are access code 187 538 1342. press pound and then pound again and then press star 3 if you wish to make a comment. alternatively you may submit to public comment in either of the following ways. e-mail the secretary of the police commission. or written comments may be postal service to the public safety building located at 1245 third street san francisco,

california, 94158. at this time, if you would like to make public comment, please press star 3. it appears we have a couple of public comments. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: good evening. my name is kit hodge and i volunteer with felicia jones and black communities core team. sfpd's presentation tonight which is on the consent calender, they're reporting their progress in the department of justice recommendations made to sfpd back in 2016. tonight sfpd reports of recommendations that as of marcn out of 272 that is 58% are com ploy ant and the remainedder of validation and in progress. note that in progress means not

done. it's urgent that sfpd finish the recommendation and 94% of the 272 recommendations would be done bit end of this month and in other words, in a week and a half from now. we know from the report with only 160 of the 272, that is once again just 58%, that are compliant according to sfpd as of march 31st. unlikely more than 90% of recommendations will be fully complete by april 30th. in fact, when recommendation have been submitted by sfpd, they're always incomplete and so we must not take external reviews to mean they're off of the list. this has gone on for five years and we condition draft this after april 30th. in 2016, the city committed bid

end of april 2021. that's now. we demand the police commission ensure 95% be done and sfpd report on this in a weekly basis 100 of the 272 recommendations be done and compliant in this calender year. more importantly, sfpd should be explaining how they will eliminate the per capital racial disparity that continues at the same high rate it arrests use of force and traffic stops. sfpd must report to the public -- >> thank you, caller. caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: hello, my name is susan buckrin and i want to finish the last sentence that kit had. sfpd must report to the public and the commission now and on going how the process means real justice and he can witt 50th and my name is susan buckner and

in minnesota and have been in the national and past year and anti black bias in policing is a nation wide problem and it's come under fire for long history and san francisco has under 6% black population and this makes the inequity experience by black san france all the more striking. we have demanded data be included in sfpd statistics. this is something which the police commission has supported and that sfpd has only recently begun doing. through this type of reporting analysis, we know and it has been nationally reported, that sfpd is one of the worst offenders when it comes to racial disparities and arrests, use of force and stops. when calibrating for population,

black is more than 10 times likely to be subject to arrest and use of force by police than white san franciscans and black san franciscans is more than six times subject to traffic stops than white san franciscans. as you listen tonight on the progress regarding the d.o.j. cops process you should demand they complete these recommendations but builds a per nam culture as equity, justice and respect for black san franciscans whereby all san franciscans can expect to be treated equitably by a police force. the end result -- >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: good evening, commissioners. my name is carolyn goosen and i'm the local policy director for the san francisco public defenders. many of us have george floyd and his family in our hearts.

yesterday's verdict and it also shows that accountable is possible within our reach. in that vein, we the public defender office push more more police accountability right here in san francisco. one of the real accountability tools we have is sb1421. which finally gives the public the right to access records related to the discipline of officers. thousands of records of sfpd officers are still stuck pending review at d.p.a. and sfpd. we need those agencies to prioritize the release of these records that the public has a rit to and we continue to be frustrated that as police commissioners, you have yet to set a deadline or even a goal for compliance nearly two and a half years after this law came into effect. across bay, a superior court judge ordered the city of oakland to comply with 1421 record requests there and gave the city six months. the city claimed it would be impossible. the judge didn't care about possible and you have two years

he said, how could you not safe that you can't do it in six months. both d.p.a. and sfpd have submitted their monthly reports for tonight. d.p.a. in march released papers for two spaces and sfpd has also only released two cases as well. i think we can all grow that this pace is fatah slow. set a goal or mandate a timeline for compliance with sb1421, not doing so is denying the public important records about the actions of our police force. thank you, very much. >> clerk: thank you, caller. >> caller: my name is francisco decosta and the previous people have brought to your attention and so have i before, you are failed to fulfill your

obligation when it comes to the 272 recommendations created by the community oriented policing services and outsources to the department of justice and the department of justice today is making some drastic changes and the first thing your commissioned must study is for how long has the san francisco police department been under consent deck rein the past. one of the longest in the nation. and yet your behavior, some of yours, past commission meetings, to pussy foot around and if you

are watering down this commission you will fail. right now, i want to give you some marks and it's an f minus. thank you, very much. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> i could like to com mend and he is looking to over 10 residents near the corner of thomas avenue and katz streets and friendly liquor and increased sfpd vehicle and foot patrols and he assigned rotating officers and two weeks ago we seen dramatic decrease in loitering by a large group that had grown in size over the years. recently, loitering folks have been responsible for vandalizing and spraypainting my neighbor's

and stealing cameras and liting, peeing in our driveways, blocking driveways and double and triple parking in the street, loud music, parties and drug dealing. we know the dealers and they do not live here or want to leave here. hundreds of 9-1-1 and 311 calls were submitted and these quality of life crimes don't compare to the murder and stabbings we've had here. i've been here 40 years. and there's still more to be done to sustain change. but this is the most peace we've had on our block. we need to see few kids playing outside and we need more officers available for our block to sustain change. it's difficult to hold sfpd accountable when they don't have enough officers. we see officers in front of wall greens to protect deodorant but not in where plaque and brown men are dying and that doesn't make sense to me. we have three more shootings in the bayview hunters week this past week that i know of. there's such a focus on trying to stor perform we don't have anyone doing traffic stops to

make sure streets safe. i heard a gentleman propose police reform and solutions to crime but how often do you think he walks down third street? how many times you think i seen him on my block. i haven't seen him. i haven't seen anyone solve problems on our block but sfpd. i heard about structure with sfpd. you should be able to do that while making our district safer. three shootings in our district over the past week on your watch. the commission needs to be held accountability too. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. and press cone, that's the end of public comment. -- president cohen. >> president cohen: thank you, very much to the men and women that have called in and i appreciate that and i also appreciate the folks that have been tweeting at me. they are policy suggestions. which i will be springing to the discussion and to the chief's attention. could you call the second item, please? >> line item 2, receive and

file, action. first quarter 2021 audit of electronic communication devices for bias and sfpd monthly sb1421 report, d.p.a. monthly sb1421 report, cri monthly update, and first quarter 2021 safe streets for all report. >> president cohen: i notice in the report for text messaging and department cellphones, three messages were determined to be potentially bias. my questions are, a few of them. questions are what are these three text messages can be disclosed so that the commission and the public can examine and understand why these messages were determined to be biased. and my second is question is whether the communications are

examined to be -- what are the communications to be examined to determine if certain bias phrases communicated in code or street slang are part of the examination criteria and the third question that i had was can you provide a and make public the word list developed by the chief information officer determined bias. so, sergeant youngblood, i believe i'll direct my questions to the chief. chief, are you there? welcome. >> thank you, commissioner. i am. i'll start with the last question about making the list public. that has been discussed in front of the commission and i think on several occasions. so, the reason that we don't make that list public is because if you tell people what the

trigger words are, we think it will limit the effectiveness of doing the audit. i think in the past, we've offered to meet with a commissioner chosen by the commission of a president to go over that list. it does defeat the purpose to put what the triggering words are and if we're going to do an audit to root out that and that was the thought process behind it. in the past, the commission has understood and agreed with that logic and we have met with a selected commissioner or as many as the commission desires that won't make it a forum where it has to be a public session so that was the thought process and it's the other thought process about that audit. the other part of this goes back to the same question about the words that cause the

investigations now because when we get a word that triggers, then it's examined to see for instance if it's a street name that has a part of the word that triggers the alert in it. we will not investigate that and that is happened in the past. if it's something more that actually indicates there might be misconduct in play, that investigation is open and that incident is investigated. i would ask the permission, how it would like to proceed on that and i would also ask if we can keep those words confidential for the reasons that i stated. we definitely are willing, as we did in the past, to share that information with the appropriate number of commissioners. >> thank you.

let's see. i guess i can't argue with that. i'll follow-up with you to get a better understanding about the words on the list, the phrases. colleagues, are there any questions? >> i do. i have one. i want to follow-up. i did see there t and i understand also the words. not to put them out there but what i wanted to know was there any action taken on those three? were they found to be, you know, in context or were there any actions take on on the three that did show up? >> commissioner, thank you for that question. those investigations have not gone through resolution yet. i will say in these audits, sometimes there's collateral misconduct that is found as well and that has to be investigated

and so it's not a part of the audit per se but there are investigations on those types of issues that have come up as well. >> so maybe on those reports, you can put an asterisk and on going investigation so we know what is going on other than we found throw and it doesn't tell us much. >> thank you. we can do that. thank you, commissioner dejesus. we will do that. >> thank you, madam president. chief, i guess my question would be as to violations. i guess if there's the words themselves, you know, are not, as you said, part of a street sign, but are in fact instances of bias. i do think we should find a

mechanism to disclose those examples, right, because, you know, i mean, if someone is using dough recognize tory slur for asians, he want to know that. it's been -- i've been on for throw years and we've had very almost no actual cases arise out of it but i do think that where there are examples they should disclose that and ye don't havee to find the exact solution tonight. but just in the interest of transparency, i don't -- we should figure out a way. >> thank you. we can work with the commission and to troy to figure out a way and that has been a request or we can work with you whoever the commission selects to try to broker that and find a solution. >> thank you.

>> thank you, commissioner. >> president cohen: are there any commissioners interested in working on this moving forward, connecting with the chief and or his staff? >> i can connect. >> president cohen: thank you, i'll make a note of that. hamasaki. you got a lot on your plate. we're keeping track of you. >> i've got a big plate. >> president cohen: i like that. all right, fair enough. ok, folks, anyone else? anyone else? >> i'll try. >> president cohen: all right. there it is. you are ready. i make a recommendation we receive and file this report before we do so, let's hear public comment. >> clerk: for members of the public that would like to make public regarding line item 2, consent calender, press star 3

now. and president cohen, we have no public comment. >> president cohen: oh, ok. there it is. i'll make a motion to receive and file the report is there a second. >> second. >> president cohen: thank you. second by commissioner dejesus. roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion to accept and file the consent calender -- [roll call vote]

>> clerk: you have seven yeses. >> president cohen: all right. this report passes unanimously. please call the next item. >> clerk: line item 3, reports to the commission. discussion, weekly crime trends provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. major significant incidents. provide a summary of plant activities and events. this includes a brief overview of any planned events or activities occurring in san francisco having impact on public safety. commissioner discussion on unplanned events and activities that the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calender for a future meeting. >> thank you president cohen, vice president elias and welcome commissioner burne and if we have director henderson. i want to start our report this week with the biggest policing issue of this week and that was the verdict in the former

officer chauvin trial regarding the murder of george floyd. so, as you know, we've been preparing for what might of that for quite some time. our preparation including sending all of our officers back to retraining and refresher trainer on crowd management and crowd control to put an emphasis on deescalation like our policy demands of us and just being compassionate and understanding what might happen by way of frustrations that the verdict did not go into way the public expected it. so, in that preparation, we also canceled days off. everybody worked. we started monday to engage with the community and don't be an occupying force but engage. be out in the present and visible and so all that led up to two of those verdicts. which as the world now knows, was guilty across the board on all these charges that he was facing. we did not have any incidents of

violence, any incidents of anybody suffering property damage or vandalism or anything like that in our city that we know of at this point. we were deployed and we did have some crowds that were assembled, really in celebration of the verdict. and that was peeingfully facilitated and people were given their space and allowed to exercise their first amendment rights so the city is in good shape with that. we were prepared of what we saw this past summer and we had cara based and the areas in downtown where we had the most damage and arsons and things like that and so we're still getting information there may be plans, by some, to and we are still prepared for that and we're deployed tonight and the para kids are still there and our

officers working in the area of union square did see what they believed to be caravans of cars circling the areas and based on what we we will be deployed heavily moving forward and we believe in first amendment rights and we want to facilitate that and that's the spirit of what we're trying to do so moving forward, on crime, and the updates on what is happening

crime wise, we are still in a over all negative with part one crimes and we're down across the board except for human trafficking and our violent crimes and homicides we're down and this is one that happened that our suspicious death, two suspicious deaths i talked about because we have to weighed on the medical examiner to rule whether those were actually homicides but 12 this time last year and 10. rate renowned about 40% and robberies were down 200 robberies, 23%, assaults were down ask, 35 assaults which is a 6% decrease and human trafficking we're up from seven last year this time to nine this year which is a 29% increase. over all it's a 17% decrease and part one crime and if we are on

calls national calls all the time, some cities around as well as we are so we're very fortunate to be in the position we're in because other cities are suffering can violent criminals and soldiers and beer up in shootings as i stated and we're still up in shootings so we have a lot of work to do there. we're up 68 shootings and these are non fatal and compared to 17 last year so that is the significant and that's something we have to continue to drive down insides with firearms are down and we're down 44% from nine this time last year to five and total gun violence we're up significantly as i stated, pretty much through out the year and the stations that are up are bayviewing mission, northern park and ingleside and those are the same, tenderloin, richmond, southern and central are even with where they were this time last year.

as far as our strategies, we are still deploying the same strategies and a lot of that has to do with visibility, deployment in the right places at the right time, patrol and we're moving forward with the strategies and the partnership that we have with california partnership to safe communities that we presented to the police commission and i would like to say we invited commissioner elias, she went -- we invited her and she wanted to be there and we're happy to have her there in a meeting that we had with to introduce our work to the public defenders office and i would like to thank the public defender for lining and really understand how we plan to forward with addressing violence and commissioner elias, thank you for being on that meeting. so, those strategies are in place and we talked about with

the communities partnership about life coaches and that's in motion. the long with our consultants are in the process of highering life coaches to start that part of the program which we believe will be huge in terms of addressing some of the root cause and putting people in a better place and not being at risk to either being shot or shooting someone. that is a motion as well as in terms of a strategy and we're going to be presenting to the commission on our whole gang task force and that issue and what we're throwing and a couple weeks in terms of bug lar he's, i would like to i'm glad to announce we're still going down. we're down to 36% which is still not a good thing we're up 36% but we were at 56% only a couple months ago so we're closing the gap and the same strategies are in place in terms of putting off the officers in a places where we are having activities and including changes the hours of

the details who do surveillance and that type of work and wove made good arrests so we will employ best strategies and work with our district attorney partners at the district attorney office and motor vehice thefts are up 13% and it's a difference of almost 200 from this time last year and arson, we're up 20% which is the difference of about 20 from this time last year and actually 18 and theft is down significantly. we're talking about 3,500 fewer crimes and included are car burglars, i know we're going to continue to employ the strategy that we have been 'em employing and that is visibility, working

with the communities to build resiliency and not getting the message out. we're making arrests but not a lot of arrests, we don't solve these crimes but the ones we solve impactful because they are people that are very active and that strategy will continue and moving on with the report as far as significant events, the trial was the big event for this week and we had a community meeting and i know there were questions last week about the community meeting we talked about several weeks ago and we had two of those community meetings. last night's meeting was very well attended with key stakeholders from the aapi community, african american community, as well as many others. a lot of our community based leaders from non profits was at

the meet and we left that meeting with, that's the meeting that we have with myself and i think at one time and and to try to ream' see the mom on the energy we have right now to change policing. a lot of that was discussed last night to takeaway the supporting each other in our work i'm talking about us and the community about keeping the ball on reform and we can't lose the momentum that we have and we gave updates on reform and that meeting and by the way, we are

at 223 completed recommendations of those 175 have been found to be substantial com ployanc compf today and the others are submitted for review and i explained about our pre screening process where we go over the details of these recommendations and the california d.o.j. and they catch what we may have missed to what they think we need more of at that pre screening so those recommendations that have been submitted, we expect them to be in substantial compliance and we're working feverishly to get to what we promised the public in the next 10 days. which i believe we will still meet. we're still on track to meet that promise. one other accident, i know i'm long but one other incident i would like to flag for the commission, that's one of the suspicious death incidents that i reported that i talked about

and this one, sadly, a 7-year-old infant was found unconscious, taken to the hospital. did not survive and we believe that the circumstances are very suspicious. that investigation is in process. we have a person of interest. as we work with the medical examiner to determine cause of death and we should have a determination here shortly and we'll know whether this is a homicide or something else other than a homicide. so, very tragic situation i will keep the commission fed on that case and that concludes this report. do you have any questions december for the. >> i do. >> thank you for that, chief,

and i know, i've asked a couple times over the last few weeks, you know, i'm always concerned about the level of shootings, the shootings are up from last year and they're up from the past five years and so i just really wanted to, chief, in your humble opinion, it might be a restor i canal question, rhetorical question. are we find that they're connected and it's retaliation and it's folks from other cities. just what do you think in your tenure, of being on the force, cause these up ticks in shootings, right? i think about shootings, i think about homicides. and i want to get your thoughts on that. >> thank you for keeping the focus on that. a couple things we believe is going on. some of them are triggered by as our presentation and our

analysis and it social the social network is driving some of them and we have some concerns on a case from a homicide this happened late last year that because everybody is connected and we know who is connected there it may trigger further violence and those things are real in our city and they drive some of the violence, a lot of violence as it shows and so, identifying who those networks are and trying to get to the people at risk is really important and that's what this work is about and in terms of life coaching and interventions and stepping up our work with a big part of this and and i didn't have this information the last time you asked this question, we have to pay attention for ghost guns. these are manufactured at home. in people's originals and they're untraceable and there's

no type of vetting process and they are real guns. and we're working with our partners at etf because part of our work with our gunfire reduction, is we have our gun crime gun investigation center that we set up a couple years ago and part of that is when we get guns in our possession, we work with a.t.f. to trace them, if they're ghost guns, you can't trace where they came from, you can't trace how they came, unless someone confesses, it's a huge problem and it's a growing problem. what we've seen since 2017, is significant increases in ghost conditions that are used in crimes. this is anecdotal at this point. if i can manufacture a gun in my garage and sell it, it makes it easier for people to get guns and that's what wore seeing happening in the city. it's an issue for us and we're

working with the federal partners and our regional partners on but it's an huge and a trend that we're seeing. we're not alone, ghost guns are an issue across this country and is people can make guns on printing machines and guns that shoot and kill people, we have some work to do. this is an emerging area where the technology has out paced our ability to create legislation and laws and to prohibit these things. i know there's legislation being discussed at state level and the local level and the federal level on how we can get our arms wrapped around this but this is a problem. we think it's driving evidence as well commission brookter. those are the two significant things. >> thank you for that, chief. i just wanted, you know,

something that really just a is alarming. we see individuals who just had the war against gun march this past saturday, we need to make sure there's more of that going on and we're all working together to minimize this increase that we're seeing so thank you for that. >> thank you. if i may president cohen and vice president elias, one thing, it's in the report, that went to you all, to talk about the stunt driving events for a.k.a. side shows that happened over the weekend. we had multiple side shows over the weekend. some shots were fired and people were very upset when these things come to our city. we have multiple and we did activate our s.d.r., stunt driving response unit. the good news on this is that we were able to break them up quickly so the response is better and we also were able to site and able to get information

that will lead to i am pouting of cars and possibly if we can a fie the individuals arrests on the back end of of this and one of the things that i'd like to explain to the public in terms of our policies, our city policies on these types of events, usually what happens, particularly with our quick response now. we get the people who are participating they scatter and often times they scatter at high rates of speed, recklessly, and our pursuit policy is very and rightfully so, this is a good thing. it's very tight. it's very restrictive. we don't get into high speed pursuits with that type of driving over those type of incidents because they can lead to a lot of harm to the public. death, and we've seen this in many other places. our officers are not allowed to

chase, pursue in those types of scenarios. shots are fired and we have violence and people shots that elevates it to a level that we can actually pursue within our policy but even those we're very careful about so i say that because i need the public to understand that in our efforts to solve one problem create another problem and i know it can be very, very annoying to the public to see us come and people scatter and we do chase them. we don't pursuit with our lights and sirens on because we believe, and the commission who drafted our systems policy, believes that can cause real harm and put other people at risk. we want to be prudent about how we approach these situations.

we have cited individuals and we have support of legislation that strengthens that. if you get cited in this city, your car will be held of 14 days the first offense and 30 days the second offense. so, we're trying do a lot more in the back end. and we did get a lot of evidence over the weekend that we will follow-up on and we hope to have some good news in terms of holding people accountable but these events are very dangerous and they're very dangerous to police and we had to go into them with the right temperament. we still have to remember the principles of time and distance and taking our time and not rushing into a situation that will cause a police response that will lead it to what we don't want and officer-involved shooting and those types of things and so we're very measured. and we need the public to understand that. and i believe that is what the public is demanding because the other side of that, if we're not measured and we rush into

things, we have calamities we've seen in the past so we're going to do our best and continue to try time prove our response and improve our investigative capabilities on the back end hold people accountable. >> president cohen: thank you for that thorough commentary. i'd like to recognize commissioner elias. >> thank you. thank you, chief, for giving that update. we've been receiving several complaints at the commission about these events and i appreciate your analysis and explanation to the public and the other thing that may be perhaps you can also dispel for me whether or not district attorney is assisting you in these investigations and making the necessary arrests? >> we have gotten commitment 0 the district attorney. you know, we have given the case and that's where these back-end

investigations come into play. we raised that issue when we were really reforming how we approach this work. we did get commitment. our response is much better and i believe that we will make -- >> thank you. >> thank you. colleagues, i noticed in our consent package that we voted on, that there were several reports to actually pretty important reports that we've already taken action on and we didn't have a lot of discussion. and i want to apologize to you

and to the public for that. i want to step back, chief, and talk a little bit about. the deadline is april 30th. so this is the last opportunity that we will have before the project final submission deadline and i want to talk a little bit about what is going on. it may be worth -- it's worth asking you to make a few remarks during this period on how the progress is coming along on the final days of phase 3. and, i think we've got 175 out of 272 recommendations in

compliance submitted for final review, is that right? >> 56, yes. >> president cohen: that is 41 out of 272 not yet submitted with a woke to go. i want to give you the floor to talk about what is happening and my apology for the confusion, colleagues. >> thank you for that, commissioners. we believe we will have approximately, by the end of the month, april 30th, about 15. 17 max. the work on those other recommendations is very much in progress. the pre-screening process i described is happening. hillard hines and cal d.o.j. is doing a site visit and one of the things that i mentioned, i'll just highlight this again, to the commission and the police station in terms of our

processes. the communication between cal d.o.j. and the department and hillard hines is as good as it has been in this process. what it means, is these recommendations that remain, where know where we are. we always are communicating. we have weekly meetings internal internally on status updates to check in with teams about what has been done and about what needs to be done to bring these to a completion for submittal. we fully expect that we will be where we thought we would be. like i said, 15, maybe 17 at the most, if there are one or two things hanging in terms of dashboards and we're -- as i seed we're working feverishly to get done before april 30th but we're in a good space and we have the board of supervisors

who have called for quarterly meetings on c.r.i. as well that means the next board meeting is also coming up and i think it's may 25th, i believe. by the time we have our next police commission meeting, which would be first week of may, we should be able to, we will report exactly where we are. we have been making process and we fully expect to be there. there's a lot of work being done. as i explained to the public, you know, before in the commission, there tends to be a thought process that this is kind of a, you know, check the list one day we have it and within day we don't. you've been a part of this work, this is a process and there's work that is being done all the time on these recommendations and those pieces are still

happening and one of the things that we've done that we added to how we report internally, is the compliance measures that gets us over the, you know, substantial compliance hurdle, if you will. we know exactly how many compliance measures we met. [please stand by]

i guess i should hold my consideration. in particular, i want to note since october 2019, recommendations in the substantial compliance category have risen from 39 to 160 and the report also indicates that 34 recommendations are listed as external review and 27 are listed as external validation and these figures indicate that 2221 of recommendations have moved forward to substantial. this indeed is progress.

and so it's my hope and most importantly my expectation is that this progress will continue and that all 272 collaborative reform initiative recommendations are going to be completed as soon as possible. so my question to you, chief, is what's the expectation for the completion of all the 272 recommendations? what's the expectation? >> well, there are a couple of open question marks and some of it as we talked about, commissioner, in open session of police commission are depending on budget. i know you and the commission have asked for a specific technology need. you know, we've had off line conversations about that as well, but to answer your question in an ideal setting, we'd like to continue this collaborative effort with the california d.o.j. and have a year to finish these

recommendations or at least somewhere around there with these open-ended questions. it has to be closer to the budget to what's going to give you on an answer. but, the ones that are policy, that are other types of infrastructure, we feel really good about. just had to check in with cal d.o.j. today and we talked about these very issues. the short answer is there's some we'll see how the budget plays out in the next month or two that we'll give you an answer to when we have an answer to that. >> so my experience dealing with the budget that you've got to be a player, you've got to be in the game in order to get

money, the budget. and so, you know, i have talked about this almost two months by now, what exactly is the figure? what should we be advocating for to increase the line item shifts on technology? the reason, again, why i'm highlighting this is members of the public just as the memory joggers to increase our efficiency when it comes to analysis. we here on a weekly basis at a per capita basis but yet we hear from the department that the department's hands are full because the technology we have are not robust enough to do that analysis. so what do we need to get our technology game on point?

>> we're looking somewhere in the $3 million plus range, no more than $4 million and that's a number that is -- has some leeway on both sides of that. >> president cohen: chief. don't be modest. >> it's a $3 million investment. the reason i'm being modest is because i want to make sure we are asking for -- we understand the city's position. i mean, we're going to be self-ish, but at the same time, we're going to ask for what we need. >> president cohen: yes. >> and we've been asking for these things for quite some time and we know it's a significant investment, but we do know it will get us to where we need to go with this body of work. >> president cohen: which lied like to note in order for us to

accomplish all of our recommendations, there's a huge component of that has to do with technology and as that technology is tied to the budget. we will never come to zero. we will never come to 72 if we don't get that money in if we don't start advocating and start to purchase the database so we can begin to take those recommendations off the list so that is my driving force. i know you know this, chief, and i know my commissioners know this, but i just want to make sure members of the public know so they don't misconstrue when they hear me advocating for money. i'm not talking about funding the police in a counter intuitive way than what the mayor wants to do. i'm asking to make chose purchase to get the technology that we need so we can complete the d.o.j.'s recommendations and get to 100%. all right. i've taken up a lot of space.

first, i want to recognize commissioner hamasaki and then commissioner yee. first, i'm going to recognize commissioner elias, then commissioner hamasaki, then yeah. >> vice president elias: thank you. my question is because i see, chief, if you can't get the money that's needed to if finish these recommendations, $4 million out of a $600 million department, can we move some things around. >> commissioner, we're going to do whatever we have to do. because it's a bigger picture. there are other things happening in terms of technology and what i think our city director of technology, the department of technology is trying to do what makes sense

these there's a project now for the city to replace the computer aided dispatch system. that's the whole dispatch system that allows us to collect the data that we talk about for those type of things. who's calling in and we need to be much better coordinated on that. but, at the same time, the department needs to reevaluate this record management system so they can talk to each other. that's a significant investment. so there's other bigger ticket items that the city is in the process of working on and that's why i was a little bit tentative on giving a number because we're in the process of doing that and that process has been going on for quite some time as you all know, but it's done down the road now. so we're working with b.t. and others to do what really makes sense. we need these systems to talk

to each other and in the context of the bigger picture, the justice system, everything needs to be coordinated. so that's a huge project and it's a huge investment for the city, but it makes sense and it goes beyond reform. it's what we need to do. >> vice president elias: i've seen some of the proposals that the department is putting forth and i agree. i think the information you want to provide the public is what the public is asking for. we just need to figure out a way and a xaepbility to do it. are there federal funds available or grants that we can look in to? >> commissioner, we have. we actually did get a federal grant for part of this work which the commission proved was $5.8 million which really got us started on some of these investments that we need to make. so definitely that was a help. yes. so we are getting grants.

>> vice president elias: thank you. >> president cohen: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. yeah, chief, i wanted to bring up some points that you raised earlier. you mentioned ghost guns a couple of times in the last month. are you saying these are the guns that are responsible for the shootings that are taking place? >> yes. some of them, commissioner. so we are tracking. like if we confiscate a gun from a crime through whatever investigative processes that allow us to confiscate that gun, search warrant or possession of a crime, those guns that are ghost guns, materialized, home-made, we're tracking them. and it's kind of a new trend that we're seeing. we weren't tracking them, but we've been able to go back three years and we're seeing

significant increases in the number of those types of guns being used in the commission of a crime. shootings, robberies, homicide, we're seeing an increase. >> commissioner hamasaki: do you have some numbers you can share with us? >> i do. i have some numbers. i don't have it with me because i knew this part wasn't agendized. i already have the data. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. then the followup is when you brought it up before, you know, i kind of heard of it on the news, but i did a quick google search and so it's like basically somebody buys a kit for a gun and then assembles it and because they assemble it, there's not a serial number so they're not get interesting from the normal way you bring in guns from neighboring states and so forth. >> yes. >> commissioner hamasaki:

yeah. it's an access to firearms issue and unlawful firearms issue, so is there a way -- i mean,, what's your strategy? are you intercepting them in the mail or something you're finding after the fact? >> well one of the strategies is to try to identify and that's what the work with the reasonable work with our local partners, our state partners is identifying where they've been made. we have made some arrests of individuals that were making ghost guns and some of them were, you know pretty elaborate setups so, and if that's us and others in the region who also made arrests. so that's one of the strategies. the other part of this is because you can't trace them, it's really hard to find the origin of them. like you mentioned, you can order parts in the mail. >> commissioner hamasaki:

yeah. >> you know, you can -- it's very difficult to get our arm, our collective arms wrapped around it. and i know, like i said, if there's proposed legislation in the works to try to do something about buying of the serialized parts. that's all in progress. i do have the information just when you asked the question. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. >> so two thousand sixteen, we confiscated six. 2017, 16. 2018, 51. 2019, 77. and, 2020, 164 and we're on pace -- that will grow in terms of -- let's see here. and, you know, this is probably just the tip of the iceberg because these are just ones

we've confiscated. so kind of indicative of what might be out there. >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah. we can talk. and, again, i don't want to get in trouble with the city attorney here, but maybe it's something we can learn more about at a later time. the other question i had is i believe vice president elias raised or actually you raised the question of fact we got some e-mails from concerned citizens about them. and, you're discussing investigations into the side shows. are these related to discharge of the weapons, or what kind of investigations are ongoing? >> definitely the discharge weapons is the huge public safety risk and we've had some shootings at these events and

the other part of it is because we do have a sensible pursuit policy. so let's say officers get there.

. >> commissioner hamasaki: outside of the discharged weapon, is it being present in a side show? i don't know what the term is? >> it's not a crime to be present at a side show. where we have the illegal activity is the reckless driving as you know, we had an event last month, a couple, where two people were struck by cars that were doing the stunt to whether they were participating or not, i don't know, but they were out when the stunts were happening and they were hit. i think it was more than two people actually. we've had counter response measures by members of these events where they will physically block the street so we can't get to them which is illegal. >> commissioner hamasaki: i've seen "the fast and the furious"

series. i know exactly what happens. >> exactly. boxing in police cars and vandalizing. we've had officers have all kinds of things thrown at them and that's just not a san francisco thing. >> commissioner hamasaki: these are the types of because i would like how -- it seems like a lot of resources just to issue a traffic citation, but obviously if, you know, serious crimes or dangerous crimes or crimes of violence are occurring, you know, that's more. >> yes, sir. >> commissioner hamasaki: i appreciate you making the distinction. thank you, chief. >> thank you, commissioner. >> commissioner hamasaki: i believe there was somebody after me. >> commissioner yee: that would be me. >> president cohen: commissioner yeah.

>> commissioner yee: thank you very much there, madam president. i want to thank the chief scott and your staff on yesterday's community conversation. it was well received and they're looking forward to the next meeting. so i want to go out and thank you for that and also for the proactive safety -- >> president cohen: i'm having a hard time hearing. >> commissioner yee: you're having a hard time hearing? >> president cohen: i'm sorry. commissioner yeah, are you having technical difficulties? >> commissioner yee: yeah. i'm going in to high-tech here. so i want to thank chief scott and your staff on yesterday's compensation of our community.

it was well received and they're looking forward to your next meeting. also, today, as i walk through my community down in chinatown, i was talking to the people there. they were very happy that the barriers were up and again being proactive making it safe. so i hope everything goes well these next few days and thank you very much, chief. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president cohen: all right. does anyone else have anything they'd like to discuss on c.r.i.? no. okay. the other thing that i wanted to talk a little bit about was sfpd's monthly 1421 report, chief. >> yes. i'm still here. >> president cohen: okay. so, again, we filed it, but i'd

like to talk a little bit more about your -- about the data. i think commissioner brookter actually raised a good point about how crime has been increasing steadily, robberies in particular and so my question is -- hold on. let me get to my question. where is my question? my apologies. my notes are everywhere. all right. the chief's report. week to week, burglaries have

been going down, but they're still high and i'm curious if you had any advice that you could share with the public as to what this can do to reduce the likelihood of being targeted for burglaries. and, the second portion to that question is how do police officers weigh whether to submit burglary cases to the district attorney for prosecution? >> well, i'll answer -- if i can answer the latter question first. so a couple things i would advise everybody it's a good idea to do this from time to time. do checks wherever you live. checks on the locking mechanisms. this won't make the problem go away, but some people might be surprised that often times garages because a lot of our

residential burglaries are garages. it's not maintained properly. they can be very easy to get in to. our crime preevengs partner. they do schedule an sf safe. >> president cohen: a safety audit. >> yeah. to do a safety audit. they will come to your house, they will give you recommendations and those are very helpful. again, they don't solve the problem, they don't totally stop the problem, but it makes us more resilient. the other thing is, look out for your neighbors. a lot of people have their own private surveillance camera systems and all that. i will verify this, but i believe the district attorney's office still has the web type of situation where you can send your footage to the district attorney's office. definitely, you can send it to

the sfpd. we can receive that as well. the district attorney's office still has infrastructure that's set up to receive that. we have some legal restrictions of what we can and can't do in terms of surveillance cameras. if a crime has been committed, you certainly can share that information with us. we solve some crimes that way and it's very helpful if you do have one. please keep it working and in good working order so if you have incident it does what you put it there for. we have had some instances where people have not kept things in good working order and then they are victimized and they found out that the camera system no longer works or their memory is pulled so what they believe to be a recording, they hadn't paid for the storage or those types of things. so if you have one, try to keep it in good working order. the other thing i would

recommend, strongly recommend is don't make it easy. you have to be aware of your surroundings. you know, watch what's around you, you know, when you're pulling in to your garage and things like that. some people leave their garage doors open for extended periods of time where people can see what's in there and, believe me. some of the people that we're talking about to victimize the public, they do surveillance. they see a $10,000 bike sitting in the garage, they may not take it right now, they're likely to come back and get it. don't make yourself an easy target. we're there to work with the public on this and i think some of this has everything to do with prevention and resiliency and that's what we try to promote. you can call the department, can you call your district stations. please engage with us so we can

make sure we are doing these things together. >> president cohen: all right. that sounds like good common sense advice. so one more thing. we've discussed some of the dynamics described in increased shootings in the bayview. but there's also been shootings relative in the mission station, as well as ingleside district. is it reasonable to assume that these shootings are also explained by the social network theory that california partnerships discussed about a month ago or is something else going on? >> no, they are reasonable. they are factual. those stations that you mentioned were the stations where we saw those trends bayview and ingleside mission.

northern and so we know that is just based on what we know from these investigations. i mentioned one homicide that happened in the bayview in november. there's a lot of friends and familial relationships at play because it triggered a shooting in another city. so we know that to be factual. so it's more than assumption at this point. what we're seeing this year follows the trend that we're seeing in the last few years. it's not all of the shootings but it's definitely a significant portion of them. >> president cohen: all right. colleagues, any other questions? all right. thank you, chief. i appreciate it. we will get back to you. i want to recognize department

of accountability's paul henderson. you there, director paul henderson? good. why don't we talk a little bit about the 1421 report that you submitted to us. we'll start there. >> sure. i have my chief of staff on here, sarah hoffman who is prepared with that report and she has all the numbers in front of her. i have the members who might have questions about some of the stuff. ms. hawkins, are you here? this is awkward. [ laughter ] i was just texting her a second ago. hold on a second. sarah, are you there. i see her on the line.

>> good evening. i had to switch computers. i had some audio issues, but i think i'm here. are we doing the 1421 report or the director's report? >> 1421. >> so what were the specific questions that you had? >> president cohen: we're just introducing it to see if you had any high level things you wanted to call our attention to. >> sure. a couple of things i wanted to note in terms of the rate at which we are closing files. we were -- excuse me. it was said that we only disclosed two files, but one of the files that we released was part of an officer involved

shooting. and we are prioritizing these cases and on track to keep prioritizing them and be released at this pace. >> president cohen: okay. >> i'm sorry. i thought this was on the consent calendar i was unaware we were going to be presenting on it. >> you're right. it's on the consent calendar and i'm thinking i might try to pull these reports and put them right back on the agenda. sometimes with things on the consent calendar, it can get swept under the rug or overlooked and so that's why we're discussing it. so if you don't have anything prepared today i can understand because it was on consent and maybe you just weren't prepared to speak on it, but i also want to make sure that maybe you have some new information that you wanted to -- and just for members of the public, this is the report on the public records and documents disclosed by d.p.a. relating to officer involved shootings, grave

bodily injuries, honesty and case eligibility review and other records requests. so, if you don't have anything specific prepared. >> i don't have anything specific prepared but i am prepared to answer any questions that anyone has. >> president cohen: okay. i don't have any specific questions at this time. well, here's one. we only were seeing about half the number of cases to mediations. you've only sent about half the number of cases to mediation and this year than what you did last year and maybe you can elaborate the reasons why. >> i can jump in here for some of the stuff. the mediation stuff is a balance and sometimes it just doesn't work. a lot of times if cases aren't appropriate for mediation, they aren't even referred for the process. the other factor that makes that number fluctuate as

greatly as it fluctuates is aminebility both by the complainants and the people making the complaints because sometimes they don't want mediation and that's fine too. and, on the part of the officer and the department itself. so they can choose not to participate in which case, it's still -- the case is still evaluated for discipline. and so, because there's so many of those factors, it's hard to really track that number in a way that changes what the outcome is independent of the independent factors that i just talked about that makes the numbers fluctuate. the other thing that i just wanted to say before we moved on to the 1421 stuff was just in addition to the regularly scheduled meetings where we do go over the 1421 stuff, we keep all of that stuff on our website from time to time. if anybody has any questions or concerns, they can at any time

go to our public portal to see where we are in the distribution and evaluate the information that we've disseminated to the public as well. that's it. i think you're muted. >> president cohen: thank you. let's keep moving forward. if there are any other questions, i don't see any from my colleagues in the chat. so we can move on. sergeant youngblood, could you remind us where we are in the agenda. >> yes. we are still on reports of the commission moving in to the 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. >> okay. so i'll jump in with my numbers this week. we are at 233 cases that have been open so far this year. this time last year, we were at 245. we closed 304 cases this year. last year, we closed 332. we have pending to 95 open cases. this time last year, we had 344. we've sustained double the amount of cases this year so we're at 20, we're not fully double, but almost double. we had sustained 11 cases. we have 32 cases whose investigations have taken longer than nine months for 270 days. this time last year, we were at 35 days again, doing the deep dive into every single one of those cases. the majority of the cases and we talked about some of the reasons why. the largest number of delays are caused by 20 of those cases

are toll, meaning they have cases pending and the second highest delay is coming from cases involving officers that are on vacation or on d.p. disability pay which is slowing down the conclusion of the investigations. again, the big issue is the deadlines which is one year which we have not failed since i've taken over at the agency and i will continue to monitor these numbers to make sure we don't get to even close to any of those deadlines. in terms of the mediation, i know we just talked about it, we are at seven cases. at this time last year we were at 17. if folks have concerns or abr want to know about some of the outreach involving the department of police accountability. that's all on our website on

our community calendar. on the 15th, we participated in the megablack meetings with the city and community groups and individuals from the african american community specifically. i participated in the criminal justice reform group and other members of my staff participated in some of the other break-out groups as well. on the 17th, my agency participated in the mayor's staying together campaign for solidarity which was an event that was put together and i actually made a video of that event as well. i've been doing a lot of conversations, talks, trainings, and appearances talking about police reform and accountability all through the week addressing many of the things that we're doing here in san francisco and i'll continue to do that in the future. i wanted to point out that for today's police commission, we do have a case that's in closed

session that we are ready for as well. also, on the call tonight is one of my senior investigators candace carpenter, who is here and available to take notes. if folks have questions beyond what they hear or see at the commission, they can contact the agency directly. you can just google sfdpa or the following number (415) 241-7711. that concludes my report. >> president cohen: thank you. any questions? >> i forgot to welcome the new commission. we have a welcome packet prepared you should get shortly. >> commissioner: thank you. >> president cohen: thank you.

all right. let's keep moving forward. next item. >> next item, commission reports. commission reports will be limited to brief discussion of whether the calendar any of the issues raised for a future meeting. commission president's report and schedule of items for future commission meeting. action. >> president cohen: thank you. so at this point in the agenda i want to first welcome and recognize jim byrnes. but i also want to recognize

commissioner petra de jesus and she has been a reremarkable resource not only to me when i was a board of supervisors, but also on this commission and i personally am going to miss petra and professionally i'm excited about the transition and how she's going to spend her newfound time wednesday evenings. but i want to give the floor to first any colleagues that would like to say good-bye to commissioner dejesus and we will close out with commissioner dejesus leaving some remarks. so i see commissioner elias first. please, the floor is yours. >> vice president elias: thank you. so, today is so sad because when i first got on the commission, petra was the very first person who welcomed me and she welcomed me with open arms. she was always there if you had any questions or didn't sundays

something so she has been a huge resource and mentor to me and i want to say thank you from the bottom of

. >> commissioner brookter: again, just your willingness to answer the phone and i look forward to what you're going to continue to do. >> president cohen: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen.

yeah. so i just want to -- i mean, petra was the first commissioner to meet with me many years ago when i wanted to come on this commission and has been a mentor and a guide in this process and also somebody that, you know, when we go back to the history of this commissioner's seven years, petra has been and was the radical she's been tagged the radical on the, you know, on the left throwing out policies and procedures and changes and that were [inaudible] kicking scratching along the way, but are now celebrated as the best practices and when the department, we talk about some

of the models that san francisco sets for the country, these are policies that petra was once the lone voice in the wilderness calling out for and so, you know, i mean, it's an honor to have served with you. it's been an honor to carry on the legacy and sometimes when i'm that lone voice in the world, i remember, you know, the stories i've heard of you over the times and it gives me strength to keep going. so thank you, petra. you really served this city, the community, the department is a better department because of you in our community is safer. so thank you very much. >> president cohen: commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: thank

you, madam president. commissioner petra, three years ago, maybe four years ago, i met you at the labor council and i remember you going after that seat and my god your legacy's going to live on past many generations and i want to thank you for your service to our city and make it safer for all of us. so, wherever you go, i wish you well, and, by the way, you're just a phone call away from us. thank you very much. thank you again. >> president cohen: all right. seeing that the commissioners have spoken. let's recognize director henderson. >> director: so i just want to acknowledge petra and i have worked with her as i transitioned both from the mayor's office and now on to the police commission and no one has offered that, but i

wanted to offer her in light of the history with the police commission an open seat at our table every wednesday from now on so she can still come and i'd love to invite her to call in every wednesday too so we can still hear from her and, as a special treat from dpa to the degree we have an influence of any of the working groups, i'd like to invite her to every single one of them moving forward so she can still stay involved and hold a little bit close to her heart when we have meetings in the future and ask her not to be a stranger, but to stay committed and engaged especially to the things she's worked on for so much over the years that this good-bye does not have to be the end for her. and public comment is here for you, petra. thank you for your years of

service. >> i want to see if the chief or anyone else has any remarks. >> i would like to. thank you, president cohen. i'll be brief. commissioner, i want to say thank you on behalf of the department and personally because you are the last remaining commissioner that gave me the privilege and opportunity to be here as the chief of police. so thank you for that and the work that you've done, you know, as i talked on many interviews as well as cnn. san francisco had people looking at us as a use of force and that's thanks to your leadership. i appreciate you being a part of giving me an opportunity and the privilege to be here.

>> president cohen: anyone else? >> president cohen, if i may. >> president cohen: yes. please. absolutely. >> i just wanted to say, commissioner dejesus, it has been a pleasure to work with you. your kindness, your dedication to this job has made this job very enjoyable. when i think i can speak on behalf of everybody at the commission office that we will deeply miss you and, please, if you ever need anything, we are hear for you. thank you. >> president cohen: so commissioner dejesus has really -- is really a institution of knowledge. she has been at the helm and at the commission as i mentioned for the last twelve years. is that accurate? >> commissioner dejesus: it's been since 2006 actually. so 14 and a half years.

>> president cohen: okay. that's a long time, she's brought through this commission a lot of change. change in the use of force rule, changing the considereded restraint dealing with tasers, dealing with the issue of body warn cameras, policy discussions such as when officers are able to review the footage, shootings in cars. you've had your hands on a lot of these modern day policies that we have implemented years ago that the rest of the country is starting to catch up and understand. she's been through many leadership changes. julia turman who's no longer with us. tippy mazuko was also a long standing member. there's just been a lot of work

that's been done and petra is fire tested. she's taken on many heat protests. remember the frisco five. the protest in the mission. there were the "defund wall street" do you remember that? >> commissioner dejesus: yes. >> president cohen: that's right. she's seen quite a few um, waves of change come through san francisco, but also most importantly across the entire country and i think it is no mistake, petra, that you are leaving on the day after the derek chauvin verdict that's come out that's really framed discussion around police accountability and use of force. so i want to just applaud you for sticking with it.

and for those of you that don't know, i've not only worked with petra when i was a member of the board of supervisors and she was a commissioner and then i chaired the rules committee. and igot to tell you, this woman has a lot of committees that stand behind her and that came out and advocated for her reappointment. and so it's just been a privilege to watch you work and learn from you. and, with that, i will turn the floor over to you so you can say some brief remarks. >> commissioner dejesus: thank you. thank you guys so much. you guys are going to make me cry. first of all, i do want to welcome commissioner byrne. i think he is a wonderful addition to this commission. and i want to tell commissioner yee. >> there's a court reporter here who says i've been taking

all this down and i will send it to her. >> commissioner dejesus: anyway. i've got a chihuahua here. so, look, i want to thank commissioner yeah. i do remember that dinner. i do remember that dinner i do remember you. >> commissioner yee: do you remember the keynote speaker was? >> commissioner dejesus: i think. >> commissioner yee: steve ellison. >> commissioner dejesus: thanks for reminding me. keith ellison. there's so many people to thank. i've had wonderful colleagues through the years, commissioner cohen has mentioned several of them. but it's been a struggle, you know, and, you know, i hope

we've done the right thing. i want to thank all of you. you guys have been a great crew and i know going forward going forward you're going to do wonderful things. i want to thank the chief. i didn't realize i was the last person on board to hire this chief and i think we made a really good decision and i am the last of the mohegans. chief, you've been great to work with. we've disagreed over the years and we've agreed on more than we've disagreed and i want to thank you so much for that. i want to thank the community. they have had my back and they have come out for me on many occasions and i'm proud of the work we've done together. i'm proud to stand on a lot of the issues especially the use of force and the cars, theco

rodded restraints. you know, taking on the police union at a time where it was pretty adversary albut it's been a struggle. i want to thank my community for standing with me. i want to thank the commission staff. we wouldn't be here without them. they're loyal, they're professional. they don't ever tell us know. they find a way to make thingses happen and they know how everything works and so they've been a wonderful jewel and asset and valuable resource and i will miss them a lot. they have saved me. many times i have my senior moments and they remind me where i am. so i do appreciate that. i want to thank the dpa and in particular paul and tamara and

staff. the policy that you do and the work has been tremendous. one thing i do regret is we don't have our own policy advisor because when it comes down to the best practices of what's happening in the nation and the world and why you don't see that card. why you don't have the carodded restraints. we got a lot of information from the dpa and i'm really happy with their goal of bringing their own investigating all o.i.s.s without having to have a complaint. i'm afraid i'm missing some people but i can't say enough. the last thing i want to say is yesterday's verdict was a breath of fresh air. it was a relief. it relieved a lot of anxiety,

but i think you all have great policy on paper. you have a great chief of police, and now you really have the will power across

. >> president cohen: i'm going to pivot to you all. we did have a telephone call, he did offer some suggestions on, i should say he offered more context to his public comment. also, want to let you know that we reached out to the district attorney chasa boudine and i'm

looking forward to that discussion. i've asked him to discuss a little bit about the sdrb, the backlog that we discussed. i asked about the rfb and the other things he wants to bring to our attention as well. this is a good time to ask for any questions and as well the members of the public. that's all i have on my list of reports. colleagues, do any of you have anything you'd like to share with the group? >> commissioner: i do briefly president cohen. >> president cohen: please do

commissioner brookter. >> commissioner brookter: so the war against gun activity march takes place april 12th. and just in light of the conversation with the chief, i wanted to share the work that members of the community have been doing for the past 16 years where this march is actually a march against the nonviolence march to spread the message to stop those senseless killings taking place in the community. i want to acknowledge the war against gun activity march that takes place in bayview, hunter's point. >> president cohen: great. thank you. any other colleagues that would like to speak? commissioner elias? or commissioner hamasaki? i'm not sure. >> vice president elias: thank you. this is also when we can

agendize new items. the chauvin trial given all of the information that came from the trial and all that we've learned in terms of police practices, i think it would be a good time for you to present which is the new training that the department had implemented and i think that it had a lot of -- i've been hearing a lot of great things about the training and how it's really based in real life scenarios rather than the what ifs or sort of the fear that sometimes happens in situations when officers come in to contact with the community. so i think now would be a good time to present on that. i'm going to ask you to give the public and the commission more information on that training as well. >> president cohen: is this cmcr? >> vice president elias: yeah, it's the critical mind set.

>> coordinated response. thank you, commissioner. >> vice president elias: right. and, i don't know if you can briefly -- it's the new training. i don't know if you want to mention anything else on it. >> sure. i will have an in-depth conversation, but it definitely helps to coordinate incidents and better respond to critical incidents. >> vice president elias: great. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. commissioner hamasaki. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. i was muted. i just wanted to follow up briefly on the remarks about the conclusion that the derek chauvin trial and, you know, i think this last few weeks have

been pretty impactful for all of us when we've seen a lot of examples in the media of continued police violence and, you know, i'm very glad to not have sfpd in that spotlight recently, but, you know, i think seeing how quickly these issues have arisen and going back to our history of problems around stops and this is the follow up on what i mentioned last week, i do think that, you know, the verdict was good, the verdict was appropriate, but it shouldn't be a moment for us to relax. it should be a reminder that we

need to work harder because, you know, the delays that happened that historically happened that i think we're getting much better on this commission especially with the new blood on here, but, you know, i just hope we'll remember this moment we're in right now as we address the reforms we're making moving forward that we can't let the old ways of delay and delay happen and when so much is at steak. you know, i know we have two new members here and i think the general tenor of this commission has changed but i just wanted to remark that, you know, the pressure is never

released. we have a lot of work to do and i'm glad to be with this commission doing it. that's it, thank you. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: thank you, madam president. i just want to announce may 1st is the asian heritage month. we're going to have -- we invited the chief to come down to chinatown to join us on a community public safety awareness event. so if anybody wishes to join us down there, it will be may 1st, 11:00 a.m. at the chinese consolidate benevolent association and we'll be going through the community and then we'll stop off on grand avenue to make a presentation to the community and the plan to make it safe for all of us. if anybody wishes to joining feel free to contact me and

hopefully we'll be out in the other communities looking at maybe visitation valley on the 22nd working with the president of the board of supervisors, so maybe dj, we can maybe hook up and talk about that off line. okay. that ends my report there, madam president. >> president cohen: great. thank you. all right. duly noted. we will file all of these reports. sergeant youngblood. >> yes, ma'am. >> president cohen: could you please call the next item. >> next item is public comment online item 3. for members of the public that would like to make public comment, please press star 3 now. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> so i have three pointers.

the first is an acronym of very well known to you all. k.i.s.s., keep it simple stupid. the second one is the brown act and the third one is robert's rules. so the chief gave his report and in the middle of the report, you're jumping to the recommendations, the 272 recommendations and waste our time for 40 minutes. now in the chief's report, chief, i would like to remind you as i spoke to you when you first came that what happened

in this civil suit or criminal suit that the whole world saw, we had a community, we had the young girl, tarnell frazer video tape the entire incident. we had the chief of police come and testify. we had other officers testify and that made a great difference all over the world and that's what san francisco should do. stop letting our behinds and let us do things. [inaudible] i backed you up from day one. you know that and i know that. and, at this juncture, i would like to remind everybody that ganged up on another person, her last name was chan and we

couldn't do anything for you petra. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hi, good evening. this is carolynn goose of from the public defender's office. i just wanted to call in and thank petra de jesus. thank you, petra for so many years of service. we've worked for so many years together and i just witnessed you time and time again showing up to do this difficult work. this often thankless work but bringing your heart and your expertise and you have been part of so many of the positive changes that have taken place in the city and you have just been a true advocate for social justice and for change. so thank you very much for your service. >> thank you, caller. and, president cohen, that is the end of public comment.

>> president cohen: thank you. please call the next item. >> line item 4. discussion and possible action to approve the awards certification panel's recommendations. discussion and possible action. >> president cohen: colleagues, any remarks? all right. i'll just say that um, just want to articulate how much we just appreciate with great respect and great gratitude the challenges and sacrifices faced by our officers and this is a new reality that our sf amplifies are facing every day and i'm reminded about a extent that arthur ash said one time. he mentioned true harrowism is

remarkably sober. very undramatic. it is not an urge to surpass all others but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. so we honor the officers who've been recommended for special awards and recognition and they elm body service. i have no other comments. commissioner brookter. >> commissioner brookter: yep. i'll just be very short. i want to say thank you to commissioner dejesus for her time and her work with the chief and their team to present these awards, it's been very many years we needed to

acknowledge those who are doing well within the department and i think with that, for me, i would love to make a motion to approve this list. >> vice president elias: i would second that. i would also like to say something. it's been years since we've given out the award and this was a struggle to put all this together and i'm glad that we were able to work on it on the procedure that's put in place will work, but it's time we give these awards and that we going forward that we stay on some type of schedule so we can give the officers the recognition they deserve and most importantly broaden the scope of the awards which we passed the last week for nonviolent. for deescalation, for all the

different things that we put in there. so i would second this motion. >> you're muted, president cohen. >> commissioner cohen, you're muted. >> president cohen: i was muted the whole time? >> it looked good. whatever you're saying looked good. >> sounded genius to me. >> president cohen: wow. okay. before we take action on this item, we need to take public comment. sergeant youngblood please call public comment. >> members of the public if you would like to comment online item 4, the member awards

certification. please press star now. and, president cohen, we have no public comment. >> president cohen: great. so a motion was made by commissioner brookter which was seconded by commissioner elias. let's take a role call vote on this item. >> on the motion to approve the award panel's recommendation, [roll call]

you have seven yeses. >> president cohen: all right. this motion passes unanimous. congratulations to all the persons that have been involved. next item, please. >> next site, item 5, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 7 below closed session including public comment on item 6 vote whether to hold item 7 in closed session. members of the public that would like to make public comment, please press star 3 now. and, president cohen, we have no public comment. >> president cohen: wow. okay. let's go to the next item please. >> line item 6, vote on whether to hold item 7 in closed session. administrative coat 67.10. action. >> president cohen: i'm sorry. sergeant youngblood can you repeat that. >> yes, ma'am. line item 6, vote on whether to

hold item 7 in closed session section 67.10. action. >> president cohen: is there a motion. >> commissioner: motion. >> president cohen: seconded. please call public comment. >> president cohen, line item 5 was public comment. >> president cohen: thank you. the motion was made by cindy elias and seconded by petra. please call the roll. >> on the motion to go into closed session, [roll call]

you have six yeses. >> president cohen: thank you very much. this item passes. sergeant youngblood, please . >> clerk: line item 8, vote to disclose any or all items held

until closed session, san francisco administrative code 67.12-a, action. >> vice president elias: motion. >> president cohen: what was that? a motion by commissioner elias? >> commissioner brookter: second. >> president cohen: a second by commissioner brookter. public comment. >> clerk: please press star, three if you wish to make public comment. president cohen, there is no public comment. >> president cohen: public comment is closed. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose -- [roll call]

>> clerk: you have six yeses. line item 9, adjournment, action item. >> commissioner brookter: motion to adjourn. >> vice president elias: second. >> president cohen: all right. we're adjourned.

everybody wants to be at chase center, don't they. well, good morning still, everybody. i started real early so i don't even know what time it is. hi, i'm san francisco mayor london breed. really excited to be here with you all today here at thrive plaza, here at chase center, the home of the golden state warriors who for the first time tomorrow will be playing with an audience of fans. what that says is we are well on our way to recovering in the city. we are well on our way to re-opening and gradually taking those steps. most importtl