>> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, it's 5:34 p.m. may 12th. i'm calling the san francisco police commission into order.

could you please call the roll. >> absolutely. [roll call] commissioner hamasaki will join us in 15 minutes. i'm not sure about brookter. [roll call] you have a quorum. >> great, thank you, very much. all right, ladies and gentlemen, let's begin our meeting with the pledge of allegiance, please, if you can stand and place your right-hand over your heart and repeat after 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. all right, everyone, let's go ahead and get started. sergeant, please call the first item. >> clerk: my apologies. joining us tonight in chief william scott's absence, because he is attending a meeting, is d.c. e. and we also have from the police accountability dr. paul henderson. first item is public comment. so general public comment at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission. for up to two minutes that are

within the subject matter and jurisdiction of the police commission. under rules of order, neither police or d.p.a. personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions, by the public, but may provide a brief response. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone by calling (415)655-0001. and enter access code 187 813 7530 and then press pound and press pound again. dial star 3 if you wish to make a comment. this will advise the moderate or that you wish to speak and add you to the queue. best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down any devoices in the background.

you may submit public comment by the secretary of the police commission at sfpd.commission at sf government.org or written comments may be september to the public safety building at 1245 third street, san francisco california 94158. and also, another note is that since the board of supervisors meeting is still currently going on, the stream is at sfgov tv.org/watch. we have quite a few in public comments. i will queue them up in just one moment.

good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: hello, commissioners. my name is katie collie and i'm a resident of district 2 here in san francisco. i am writing to make you aware and ask for your help in the troubling and i believe unlawful activities of a private security firm pacific heights security operate north my neighborhood. i am aware of this company is patrolling our public neighborhood streets and all of their securities guards carry concealed weapons. one neighbor has shared on next door that a security guard

followed her 12-year-old son, took photos of him, and verbally harassed him. this is a child of color. as a parent raising four children in our neighborhood, two of whom are black and therefore more likely to be the targets of racial profiling, i am here asking for your help. since november of 2020, i have been in constant communication with supervisor stefani's office regarding this issue. i have reached out repeatedly but no action has occurred. so i am here to now make you aware of this company's activities and ask for your help. i have also discovered that there are city laws, article 25 of regulations for the private protection of security services

enacted in 1972 that specify our police department should be overseeing any private security firms. i have learned that the police department is not following the obligation. examples have been forced that call for under article 25 >> for the california department

of justice most recent deadline of april 30th, 2021, by that date. as offs 24 morning, only 64% were marked substantially compliant on the sfpd progress website and we do not have assurances that what the sfpd says are substantially compliant since most have not been terrified by a third party. in the past was common for sfpd to submit recommendation as complete which they rejected and returned as not compliant or complete. there's no third party to report to support the claims of the sfpd making the progress they say they are. they're very troubling and consistencies between what the sfpd has reported to this commission verse what's is reported on the sfpdcr website versus with what the cal doj is

reporting. is the police commission going to address these inconsistencies and by our analysis, at least 33 of the 272 reform recommendations have been sitting in externally view status for four months now. with policing diverse population and homelessness practices, public communications and transparency, citizen complaint processes and officer violations. we have several questions. after four months in review, why are they not reviewed? also who are is certify substantial compliance and how? is chief scott counting these as complete even though they're not. we ask long ago for letters from the sfpd showing a formal approval of substantial compliance from the state and we have not received them. we must insist on third party over tight of the completion of this process. if not by the state, then by the sf police commission or a third party who is not the police

department itself. >> thank you, caller. >> clerk: good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: good evening, i also volunteer at the core team of wealth and disparities for black community. we want spicks on what sfpd is doing to address the on going, unimproved black versus whites since 2016 in terms of use of force, stops and arrest. some of the most key department of justice cost recommendations sfpd is assigned including the first one regarding understand the reasons for dis pratt use of deadly force in progress. since 1.1 and specifically that's how officers use force on black people more, how and why is not addressed and when will it be? there are recommendations related to buy as issues that have been external review status for many months now.

why? these include 27.4, 29.2, 29.3, and related to buy ass and black drivers this traffic stops, 30.1, 32.1. all these other reported is under rehave you months ago why are they not yet compliant? why is the chief counting these at his completion merge numbers. above all, the police chief and sfpd city and state leaders and the police must know what is being changed to eliminate the on going racial disparity and policeing and we have third party oversight. we have community issues the sfpd april 21st and april 27th that have yet to hear back by our concerns. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller.

we have a few more waiting in the queue. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: my name is susan buckman and i live in district 5 and i volunteer with felicia jones and the disparities in the plaque community core teams. sfpd was through the department of justice community oriented policing recommendations and also known as the collaborative reform initiative by april 30th. at least 94% of them as chief scott said this year yet as of last wednesday, april 28th, two days before the deadline, sfpd's own c.r.i. website showed only 64% of the recommendations marked as substantially compliant. chief scott claims that a large portion of recommendations are

complete. complete is not the same as substantially comply apartment. a recommendation has undergone and passed and external review. many recommendations according to the police commission months ago as being under external review are still listed adds being under external review on the sfpd d.r.i. site. sfpd must complete all external reviews to achieve compliance on the forms this year and the majority of them, chief scott's 94%, must be completed immediately asper the plan. black san franciscans are paying the price for the lack of progress. there's talk in the national press of a federal consent deirdre with the on going racism policing. despite the sfpd's work on these reforms, meant to address racialinequity it's one of the t

police departments for antiblack racial dis prairie in arrests and use of force. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: hi there. my name is ashley speaking on behalf of the league of women voters of san francisco. i'm a stakeholder on the executive sponsor workgroup on bias and also the workgroup on use of force. in this role, the league has friendly advise on policy reform that this body has taken up and unfortunately we have found this process to be frustrating to say the very least. therefore i'm here today to make public comment, noting the league of women voters is submitting a full statement and would like the commissioners, d.p.a. and chief to read this full statement. in 2016 the d.o.j.'s assetment of san francisco police department noted a commitment to fair and impartial policing

starts with how recruits and hires is all facets of training and reinforced through policies and accountability. for act north accordance with the values and standards of the department. furthermore, in partial policing requires proactive efforts by all sfpd members to identify and eliminate negative impact of implicit bias in their interactions with the san francisco community and with their fellow employees. as the commission is set to discuss finalizing department general orders, the league of women voters imparts the importance of adopting policy that reinforces the level of training members receive and accountability measures that district members to be proactive in identifying and eliminating biases in their engagement with the community. the league urges this body to bridge the gap between training, practice, and policy for the members. and strongly recommends amending the department general 5.03 in

order to strengthen the language and clarify the proactive efforts of eliminating bias as a directive. i will reserve the remaining comments for the agenda items. thank you, very much. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: my name is francisco decosta and i strongly recommend that the department of justice send a civil rights body to san francisco, not cops. community oriented policing services which is a non-entity deactivated by the former administration. for four years, y'all have been pussy footing around. for this commission gets an f minus and the new members who come under this commission and better wake up and stop kicking

the dan down the street. the san francisco police department has been under the consent to create fort longest time then any other police entity in the nation. and as police commissioners, you are wasting time talking and talking and talking and no action. no solutions. a lot of the talk that y'all do here, y'all should take off line. er have some person who is educated on issues to teach you all about the issues. san francisco's quality of life issues is worsening. there are assaults, the car break-inns, breaking into businesses, it just goes on and on and on.

so, commissioners, or on this commission to do a job. no one is saying that it is easy. think outside the box. and serve the people. and you individuals stand tall and rap sent with your heart in the right place. thank you, very much. >> thank you, caller. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening president cohen, vice president elias and commissioners, i believe deputy chief yee is there in place of chief scott and my salutation to director henderson as well. my name is angela jenkins, i appreciate hearing comments from health disparities and for the league of women voters, it's crucial that we hold san francisco's police department accountability. i do want to thank people for

the reform updates. i'm noticing how highly skilled the media team is in the promotional videos such as the new work dough tailing the progress of the collaborative reform initiative rcri, the title sfpd and police reform. i like hearing that sfpd is the first in the nation to no longer release suspect's mugshots and other cities are following suit. our bias stakeholders' teams raised this problem and persisted until july of last year when chief scott announced the department would no longer disseminate the mugshots. our group also noted how dangerous this habit was because innocent people, not yet convicted, were paraded around media and suffered threats of

violence and yet did nothing wrong. but what is there to prevent blameless people's images from ending up on next door or crime watch portals. how do we keep everyday citizens from shopping around images of innocent people they think are suspicious. well this practice be so over zealous we'll have to contend with another case like that in atlanta but here in san francisco. just always concerned about how the community contributes to buy as policing. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. looks like that concludes public comment. president cohen. >> thank you for the public comment. thank you angela jenkins for your comments. i want to acknowledge the commenter from the wealth and

disparities team and just acknowledge that we have had several meetings scheduled, i think a total of three that have been canceled between myself and the district offer police accountability, paul henderson and the wealth and disparities team. we will continue to schedule meetings accordingly but we do need to get the work done, so i'm hopeful the next time we schedule that we will be able to keep those meetings, i'm not sure who is canceling, which party is canceling but i know that it's been on my calender three times and it's been canceled throw times. so i just want to make sure that the record reflects that we are not running from any meetings. i understand that we're scheduled for this friday by also heard there's a rumor we might be scheduled or canceled again. so i'm hopeful that it does not

get canceled and that we can actually meet to get the work done. all right, enough said on that. what is the next item on the agenda. >> clerk: chief's report, weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco, major and 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 whether though calender or future meetings. >> good evening, president cohen, commissioners, executive director henderson. my name is greg yee sitting in for acting chief scott tonight.

today's weekly crime trends as of may 9th, over all part one crime, part one violent crime, which includes homicide rate, robbery and assaults are down with human trafficking up 22%. part 1 property crimes burglar reece are up and addition motor vehicle theft or son and the over all violent crime is down 12% year to date and over all property crime is down 16% year to date. gun violence is up -- moving back, homicides are down, any homicide is too many. we did have a homicide last weekending 5/9. the total of 13 homicides in

2021. gun violence is up significantly to 48% resulting in 62 incidents resulting in 82 victims. seven were homicide victims. the homicide this past week occurred on may 8th, at about 1:40 in the morning. the victim was a 25-year-old latino male and the victim left a baron the 1200 block of poll being street and stopped by van ness. subject had been standing outside the bar with a group of people who walked up fern street and approached the vehicle. the subject fired several rounds striking him in the head before fleeing westbound on fern and appeared to enter a possible dark newer model chevy which drove eastbound on fern before returning the wrong way on fern

towards van ness. the victim was pronounced deceased at the scene. there are also three shooting events this past week injuring four victims and the first one being on may 7th. we're on the unit block of brooke dale and santos. two females suffered gunshot wounds. one victim was struck in the rear end it looks like. and two had wounds to both the wrist and for arms. the preliminary information is watch tower video gathered in the area when they got into a verbal argument. shots were exchanged between the drivers and two males standing on the walk. multiple shots were ex changed and over 20 spent casings were recovered. both victims were transported to san francisco general where they were listed in stable condition. all shooters are outstanding. the other shooting occurred on

may 8th at 4:00 p.m. and unknown location where the victim walked into hospital stating he was shot in the left foot. he did not recall the incident. may 9th was the third incident it happened at 7:55 in the morning on black dale. a vehicle with two unknown shooters drove up to the area on the 100 block of black dale. they got out of the vehicle and fired 30 rounds at the victim and his cousin. they fled inside the residents after being shot. the shooters fled northbound on blithe dale. they have unable to identify anybody at this time. watch tower video was requested and a crime report was e-mailed with photos of the suspect vehicle. the victim was eventually released from san francisco general with one gunshot wound to the leg. so in response to the gun violence, the bayview district is increasing the foot and

bicycle patrols as well as high visibility passing calls and third street will have two foot patrols and third street at oak dale two foot patrols, third street two patrol cars. in the single side, sector patrols from cars and the housing units and they're also a fixed post on sunny dale for the next 24 to 48 hours starting on may 9th. there's also planned increases of patrols in the sunny dale housing area. over all firearm seizures, 391, not including ghost conditions. guns, that's 75. year to date total this is 2021. over all 983 guns recovered in

2020. hot prowl burglaries that see an increase in hot prowl and burglaries, uniform officers have been directed to patrol calls in the areas and other targeted areas to mitigate criminal activity in some cases districts that have areas in common that have been identified such as the mission, richmond, park and southern and bayview and they're all working together to identify any patterns that may be linked. and district staff with foot beats such as the corridor officers are engaging with business owners who have been experiencing thefts from their businesses and they're stressing the importance of reporting all crimes that occur so again any similarities can be identified and investigated. officers are also discussing the best way tone sure the businesses have sufficiency occur tee measures in place such as proper lighting and locks. the captains will continue to include information of their

weekly news letters and community meetings how to prevent become a victim and san francisco safe contains play a major role in these efforts. as of may 9th, there were no fatal traffic collisions to report. there were five crimes where asian-americans were victims. the first occurring on may 4th d stockton.

the punch and kick her until the victim fell into the fetal position. the victim lost consciousness and an employee came to the bathroom and escorted two subjects out of the bar. another assault occurred on a muni bus on may 9th at 12:30 in the afternoon. the rider was on the bus, the subject was playing music on a speaker at one point the subject bumped into the victim asian male 65 years of age which sparked a verbal argument between the two and the verbal turned into physical and the subject threw the victim to the ground. he is in stable condition. the officers located the subject and an arrest was made. the subject has a assault case

dated from april of this year. there was a robbery at 700 block of post in the central district and may 11th at 7:15 in the morning where an elderly victim placed her bag down when the subject walked up and grabbed the bag. the subject reached in and grabbed the bottle and walked away. subject walked into the alley through another bodel of log at the victim but missed. subject stated that to the victim, and witnesses keel following me and i will stab you. subject continued where he was apprehended. the last incident was may 11th d laguna, subjects approached an elderly female and i kicked and hit her multiple times and robbed her of her purse.

they tried to hold the suspect down but he fled on foot. he was found and the purse was recovered. no racial was heard as korean-speaking victim stated. i'm trying to read this right. as victim korean-speaking language lying translation. sorry about that. that wasn't written that well. other significance, there was a may 6th, at the 2300 block of van ness there was a aggravated assault robbery of an elder abuse and subject came to the store with an empty bag and loaded the bag with bottles of wine and stole alcohol spirits. the victim con fronted the subject stating him to leave the store and leave the bottles of alcohol. the subject refused and swung it striking him in the right arm. the subject left the store with the stolen bottles.

stunt driving. there were no stunt driving events to report as of may 9th. major events and updates, community outreach, community liaison unit has assisted in 90 cases year to date and these involve home invasions and homicides, traffic collisions, related deaths, assaults, elder abuse, robberies, burglar he's,d hate crimes. they have nine case this is month and six cases involving asian americans and the outreach efforts are the wilderness program has hiking plans on thursday may 13th and community walk that the police department is invited to on this friday, may 14th between 2:30 and 4:30 and the units will attend. no major events. no sporting events, no major events but the giants' fans have

been welcomed back to 22% or 9,000 fans. home game is against the dodgers may 23rd and the chase center has a season well underway with 6,000 fans being allowed to attend the next home game is this friday, the 14th against new orleans pelicans and against the 16th against the grizzlies. no domestic terrorism. will are no for seen threats to the city and some of the additional information, narcandy employments within the city and we've had 47 officers have administer narcan 47 times throughout the city year to date. 24 of those administrations occurred in the tenderloin district. at this time, that's it, commissioners.

>> thank you, very much. i appreciate that level of detail. very informative. i'd like to recognize commissioner hamasaki. >> thank you, president cohen. i think i am having a hard time following all of that. why were we hearing about alcohol thefts and stolen -- i mean? what was all of those individual crimes? it seems an extraordinary level of detail. >> well, commissioner hamasaki the department can pro a lot oft of detail. he just set the bar and i hope that we can get all that detail about earlier intervention reports and anything from internal affairs and budget

breakdowns and annual reports and d.o.j. reforms and thank you for that. >> that was a great list there, president cohen. i just -- that was kind of, i'm sorry, i don't mean to be -- i know you are just filling in deputy chief yee and i don't mean to, i just didn't understand where it was coming from. >> the significance of the aggravated assault on 2300 block of van ness was it was an elderly victim. and you know, my thoughts are that the seniors in this city, for are afraid and scared and i think we should know about the senior violence against seniors that are occurring. that's i didn't picked that one to bring to your attention. >> i guess, right. i go back and fourth and i'm really conflicted about this because i think there is and i think i mentioned this in the incident involving the mentally

ill man and the stabbing on market street, i don't want to scare mind lesley everybody because it's really alt-right now and so when they're targeted by this incident, i think that's important but when we start -- if wore going to breakdown crimes by every victim, race or classifications and gender, it's important when there's a trend to show the trend and discuss the trend and but i guess i'm a little bit conflicted but i appreciate what you are trying to do, but i just don't -- i think people have so much fear right now, commissioner yee, addressed last week that i'm not sure what the right balance is really. i'm struggling with it. i don't know what the right answer is. i don't want people to be scared

to leave their house and feel like and not safe in their own city. i respect the you informing us -- long day. us of this. so thank you and thank you for the clarification. >> i appreciate that. the balance. so, you know, first time doing this and too much too little, let me snow and we'll go from there. >> you did great. >> i love every detail that you gave, thank you, very much. i think that it's incredibly important for us to give voice to the criminals that are the cs city and the uptick of the crime and the fear within the a.p.i. community is very real and should certainly be articulated with the same urgency that we bring to all crimes in the city.

>> we should have a report that isn't gone over the presentation but gets submitted to the commission for just general awareness and information so we don't have to jump through hoops to get the information. i thought a lot of that information was helpful and maybe we can have a -- maybe it opens the door for us to have a conversation about what type of information are we going to be reporting on, even if it just mirrors the information that d.p.a. presents every single week, every single month, every single quarter, every single year that gets summarized or codified somehow with some of that mirrored or ancillary information from the department. i think it would probably be

helpful, especially as it relates to the on going work for, like many of the callers have said, many of our comments are, as it relates to the reform agenda from the department. and so while i have my own specialized information that comes out regularly, some of the things president cohen talked about would be phenomenal that have ancillary or correlated responses from the accident as well. that's my suggestion. i don't want you to apologize for presenting all of that information. i just would like to -- it's not a context if we don't have a comparison from what it was last week or what it's going to look like next month. and while things are changing, with the pandemic, and populations and all that stuff, evaluating that stuff is hard when it's out of context. my vote is to encourage more of

it rather than less but let's define it and build structure around it. that was my comment. >> thank you. i appreciate that. that's a really constructive comment and i'm going to be texting to see if we can begin to incorporate this. deputy chief, i don't know who wrote your talking points but they are welcome to every week because it was fantastic. are there any other folks that would like to comment on the report? i've got a couple questions. where did you go? there you are. i was looking for you deputy chief. perhaps you can answer this. >> it's deputy chief gregory yee is deputy chief. larry is the commissioner.

>> president cohen: right. ok. i said deputy chief to keep it simple. and if you can't answer the question, then, please, you can defer, hello. it's good to see you. thank you for joining. i have two questions. the chief has been tied up because of the budget hearings at the board of supervisors and the budget legislative annalist provides an independent perspective on budgetary issues. this is an incredible resource to the city of san francisco and the b.l.a. and the board of supervisors both asked about progress related to the civilianization efforts at the department. i was wondering if you had a brief update on how those efforts are unfolding?

how will you feel the nine civilian positions the board of supervisors added back during the last budget cycle? >> thank you, good evening. i walked into answer your question. i apologize, i've been multi tasking with the of supervisors. on the civilianization, how we are faring, the positions that we were budgeted to fill, there was 39 in total and we filled 32 of them, seven of them are still vacant. we were in the process of some of those when it covid struck us and everything was put on hold. so, we definitely feel that we provided to continue to have the funding to fill those positions and we still intend to fill them. the 14 21 positions we were also in the process of on some of these candidates going through

backgrounds and a process of hiring those candidates as well, that was also because of covid and the budget freeze. if we can get the approval to fund those, we intend to pick back up on that process. i know there's some interest with many of what we believe to be qualified pool of candidates, as we sit here today, i can't tell you how many have already gotten jobs, if any of them and are still interested but i know, i know they are still attorneys that are interesting in a employing for those positions. if we get them in our budget, we'll pick them up and make suggestions. >> president cohen: what should be prioritized in the future? >> well, that definitely should be a priority. we have a lot of priorities. one of the things, and i don't know that we will get it in the budget, we're going to ask, is

annalists. with all the annalists and i.t. meetings that we have, we have to have annalists to work the data, to do what they do and analyze the data and all that and we've had it there for a long time. we've asked for budgetary support. we have to prioritize things. it's becoming more and more critical as we finish and wrap-up our c.r.i. work, that issue is becoming more and more critical because with all the data requests, and the annalists that also help with the public records, act request and all that body of work, we're far short of where we need to be in terms of having the ability to keep up with the capacity. same can be said for 1421. i know the commission gets called all the time about the backlog of case that's we -- it will take us multiple years to get through it. even with hiring the people that we're asking for, it's going to

take some time to catch up. so, those two are definitely priorities. >> president cohen: i appreciate that. here is another question for you that you probably -- i know you just got off the hotseat at the b.o.s., but here is another one for you. the b.l.a., the budget legislative annalist had a report, asked about the healthy street operations center and the street violence response team. i was wondering if you could provide us a brief update on how the coordination is going? how have they been working with sbrt, is it going well? >> yes, the -- let me back up. the scrt pilot is actually going well. there's 14 up and running now. however, you know, in terms of the percentage of call loads they're handling, it's still a small percentage. we're still responding to that category and those calls.

as this experience and the plans go forward to expand the number of teams, i think that the immediate goal is 10, i believe. 10 teams. and then we really have to dig into the data and see how that really impacts our call loads. a couple things to consider that are being considered right now, it just came up in the conversation with the board of supervisors today, is what is the back up plan. we have to take into considerations and several factors and it's more complicated than just counting the number of calls because i would imagine there's a response goal we will probably have with how quickly that we want to respond to these calls for our category a, b and c calls, you know, we have different levels of appropriate goals for response, if you will. and one of the issues that came up today and i think we have to be thoughtful about, what is the back up plan? if all of these teams are busy

doing what had he do, and the public is still calling in, then who takes those excess calls? is that the fire department, police department, d.p.h., combination of? those things haven't will be vetted outright now because those calls are still coming to the police department. deployment is not as simple as counting numbers and doing division exercises. we have to factor in what the city and the public expectations are as far as response times, what happens when all the units are tied up on calls to service which happens quite often. calls spike. depending on times of days and these are all thanks that have not been settled yet f we think through this and do this thoughtfully, i'm sure we'll come up with the right answer but all things are up in the air right now. >> president cohen: how long have this program been deployed? >> since the first of notch. the first unit of last year of

2020. the first unit was deployed and the person i believe the second unit was added i want to say in march. and then the last two were added just recently. so four in total. >> president cohen: do you anticipate jury staffing priorities changing? or have they already changed? >> they haven't changed because we're still getting the calls. hopefully, the division is these calls will go to entities that are better suited to handle them without the need for an armed officer to handle them and ultimately, we want to troy to do what we can to eliminate the outcome because these things going sideways and turning into officer-involved shootings or some other type of force that has whatever affect it has on the public and the people that need help. as we transition, and i presented this to the commission in the past, and i'll say it again and i said it today, we

already know we're short of officers. we're under deployed and the data and the research and the consultant has given us a report, the city a report on this. i hope that, as we reenvision and siphon some of these calls from policing to other entities, that we can then take those f.t.e.s, those full-time equivalent officers and plug them into other needs that we have that we have problem fulfilling right now. look foot beat and addressing our crime issues and those types of things that we know we struggle with because we're under deployed. that is a position that we have and on the department and away want to see this be a success. it's the right thing to do and it's the right time to do it. if it works and does and i think it can, it will relief for the police response.

>> president cohen: all right. i need to cut you off a little bit. let me hear from the other commissioners to see if they have any questions from you on the report. if not we'll go to director henderson. anyone else? commissioner yee, go ahead. >> yeah, thank you, madam president. chief scott, you mentioned that, i guess you are under employed and you are short on staff. what is your goal or the target of, i guess your force of your patrol officers? >> well -- >> how short are you? >> in patrol, we're about 265 officers short. now, part of that is based on workload and if some of that workload gets rea signed to other departments, we have o to

factor in what is the need. the idea, hopefully, you know, there will be a need for less officers to do those types of calls. and that number doesn't totally account for expectations from the community. for instance, foot beat. we get a lot of calls and requests for foot beat officers across the city. if you just base that on call load, it really kind of undermines the idea of community policing, engagement, prevention, a lot of times presence and prevention because officers are on the beat and in their beat and you have less things happening and then we have the research that -- limited research. we have some research to back that up.

we've got to try to balance all this. we hope that this shortage, if we're successful with giving these duels other agencies, which hope that this shortage and some can be filled with whatever savings we can get there. over time. we have time. >> yeah. >> so my next question is, the script team. currently you have four? is that managed by the police department or other agencies whois going to oversee the scrit team? >> the fire department. public heath is involved. we have 360 health and couple of other -- at least one other, i believe, that would be involved in this ultimately. 3640 heath is a public c.d.o. that started the pilot and the

fire department, i would say from the city stand point, is a lead with coordination from the mayor's office has been involved in making this happen. i would say fire department helped us lead this effort. >> president cohen: any other completion? commissioner. i didn't see you, ok, please, go ahead. >> chief, when these programs start increasing, and becoming more widespread through out the city, how is that going to expect the age stock unit and the other units that were created to target homelessness. >> we've already reduced the footprint of asock, at its height, we had 44 sworn personnel assigned to that and they were down to 14 now.

there's still, you know, vice president elias was about better coordination and it was one of the you ones of substantial coordination. the police department played a leadership role in that and we did that. it wasn't meant to be a police response. it was more about coordination so that coordination is still happening and they have a manager and now that works for the department of emergency management that coordinates the response. we are still a part of that response because there are still needs for us to be there. and that footprint has been greatly reduced and we still have some of the stations also have their team, the '70s units as we call them, that also respond on a local level, those types of crimes, not crimes, they're not crimes. in all cases. but they respond -- [please stand by]

>> so we can have some stability with our deployment so we can meet the expectations of the community and the workload. >> commissioner: do you mind if i follow up on that?

>> president cohen: yes. please go ahead. >> commissioner: that's a good question by commissioner elias. and i think we're having, you know, resource issues with deployment and police are still going out on noncriminal homeless related calls, you know, and we're having as was described as spiking gun violence, isn't that a point where we'd want to allocate those resources towards violent crime as opposed to, you know, helping with dph and homeless calls. >> that's an excellent question, commissioner hamasaki. we do do that when there's a need for officers to pull off

of whatever they're working on to address spikes in violence, we do exactly that and that's what i said earlier about stability and deployment, but the other side of this equation is we have tens of thousands of people still calling the police department because they have nobody else to call to respond to what they think. there's a person saying i can't get out of my driveway. we're so supportive of this, but we do have to address the needs of the public and i know the commission helped us write a resolution to get out of that. we can't call other entities to do that. you know, the staffing is not there for h.s.h. to do it. and i know that's a work in

progress. the structure's not there for s.e.r.t. to do it. it's all about pushing this work forward and transitioning, but to your question, absolutely, we'd rather be putting officers in mogss to prevent violent crimes and things like that. we get thousands of those calls and somebody's got to go to them until we come up with better solutions. >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah. and i think we've discussed this at length. sometimes, it's what we want to hear, the police commission and the police department, we depend on other bodies the board of supervisors to act and some of this was being rolled out, there was a press release yesterday and so those are all good steps, but i think we really need to ramp that up because, you know, having

police officers responding to somebody sleeping on the sidewalk just seems like a really poor use of resourceses for the city. next time call director henderson to come out in a situation like that. he's always ready to lend a hand. >> absolutely. thank you for that question. you know, as we work through this, we had a high level of overdoses at general city and we talked about whatever we transition to, you know, the one thing that i think that i would like to say is we've had to administer narcan.

i just don't want us and i don't think we will forget that because of the police officers are out there and engaging with that and those folks in our communities, we've been able to save a lot of lives and unfortunately, we're at a time where people get so used to it a lot of people don't check on people down and out on the sidewalk. and if we don't stop to check on people, a lot of people wouldn't be here today. so if we transition to whatever model we come to, we've got to make sure we keep an eye on that. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. >> president cohen: does that complete your questions, commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: yes. thank you, president cohen. >> president cohen: anyone else? all right. okay. thank you very much, chief. we're going to keep moving forward. next, we're going to hear from executive director paul henderson.

you're muted. paul, you're muted. so please start from the top. >> i like to do that every week. i just wanted to be consistent and do it again this week. so i'll start with my statistics. this week, we are at 279 cases that have been opened. this time last year, we had spoken to 281. they seemed like the numbers are the same, but let's keep in mind they're trending up and these are more cases than we've had over the past few years and we're kind of keeping at that pass. we have both are close. 339 cases. this time last year, we've closed 378 cases in 2020. we have 299 cases that are open and pending. this time last year, we had 337. we've sustained 23 cases already this year, this time

last year, we have sustained 15 at this time. and this was right about the time that we had done the shelter-in-place for the city and a lot of the numbers are looking at that and numbers from last year. in cases that have gone, investigations that are still ongoing past 270 days, that is 27 cases. this time last year, we were at 40 cases that were at that same level. again, these are cases that i am watching carefully to make sure that we do not miss any cases or deadlines for the 3304 deadlines which, as a reminder is a rear. we've had no cases that have failed the 3304 deadline since i took over and i plan to continue working hard to make sure that that doesn't take place. of the 27 cases that we have of whose investigations are going

on over 279 days, 19 are criminal, civil charges or action in the court and those cases are suspended in terms of tolling, time being tolled. for cases mediated, we have 11 cases that have been mediated so far this year. this time last year, we were at 16. in terms of outreach, we had a couple of outreach events on the calendar. continued participation and megameetings and also, this week, i made a presentation to stanford's lead program with a number of folks from students in the business world from all over the place. they were interested in talking about reform. also, all of the outreach is in case people want to see them or participate them and many of

them are live streamed as well. we talked about this last week, the up coming award presentation for d.p.a. and that took place on may 5th and that was at the alga, the association of local government auditors and, again, for everyone's memory, we received a knighton award. and that was given to the controller's office. the audit title, the police departments need clear guidance and more proactive governance. that won the award and then we

talked about the audit team and the work that they've done in the past but it was refreshing to receive that award at a national level at the national conference for the auditors. as a reminder, the audit is available on the d.p.a.'s website and if folks want to read and see the award directly, that can also be found on algaonline.org. so we're very excited about that award and the work that's being done. also, there were 37 recommendations, i didn't want to leave this out. there were 37 recommendations that came from that use of force valuation and those recommendations can be found in the report as well and are also online. later on in the day in this meeting, we have d.g.o.5.03 which we'll talk about. we have two cases that are in closed session that are just

for reassignment, but we're here and ready for those. for tonight's meeting, my senior investigator's meeting tonight is candace carpenter who is taking notes for all of us and is available in case callers has needs or d.p.a. needs that i can't handle online and, once again, all of the information that i've provided as well as ongoing and past reports are available online. and also we are available 24 hours with the phone number (415) 241-7711. that concludes my report for the week. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you very much for that report. let me check with my colleagues. anyone have any questions for director henderson? >> vice president elias: i have a question. since we were talking about

things reporting to the commission. i think it would be useful if you start reporting trends. i think you can actually just provide those to us when you provide us the written numbers on a weekly basis. but i think it would be good to hear about the trends and the types of cases d.p.a. is facing and some of the solutions to the challenges you as a department are facing as well. so i think maybe that would be helpful to report to us because we hear numbers all the time. >> yeah. i'm happy to and maybe one of the ideas is to have a correlation from the department as well for some of those same cases. as a reminder, the department sometimes has ancillary decisions maybe if we heard that same report. i'm happy to do it. let's just talk about what those parameters are and both of us can present on that. that would be something easily that we can talk about.

like even if we just did it at a very high level, like the kinds of cases that came in that week and what category they were falling under, it might be interesting for you guys to have access to the information knowing they were body warn camera violations versus use of force violations versus or whatever. so i like that idea and i'm happy to work something out with you and the commission to start presenting and to shift the presentation. >> vice president elias: yeah. that would be great. i think trends and issues that you guys are faced with would be helpful. >> love it. >> vice president elias: thanks. >> president cohen: colleagues, anyone else? i don't see any names. okay. thank you, director henderson. you might be off the hook. there aren't any other questions for you right now.

thank you, director henderson. we appreciate your presentation. we will continue with the next item. line item 2c commission reports. >> clerk: commission reports will be limited to a brief discussion of activities and announcements commission discussion will be limited to determine whether to calendar. commission president's report, commissioners' reports commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. action. >> president cohen: fantastic. i'll go first. i just want to report back to the commission that i reached out to john aldon over in alameda county. i'm going to invite him to come to the commission and present to us what our neighbors are

doing over in alameda county specifically what they're doing in oakland in terms of reform and see if there's some symmetry that we could forge partnership if it makes sense. so when sergeant youngblood gets back to work, i'll ask him to reach out to john aldon. and that's all i have to report on at this point. excuse me. we'll also be reaching out to the public defender to make a presentation again to the commission just to check in and forge a stronger relationship between these entities. colleagues, are there any other reports? commissioner yee? none. commissioner elias. >> vice president elias: no.

i think commissioner brookter had some. >> commissioner brookter: so mine is actually an announcement for my colleagues and members of the public. i got a phone call from a former police commissioner joseph marshal and i'm happy to be apart of the discussion that's going to take place on sunday alongside the chief and, also, we will be accompanied by the oakland police chief laron armstrong as well as oakland police commissioner chair regina jackson just having a conversation about all of the good work we all have been doing here in san francisco and just having a very open candid conversation about police and policing in our communities. so i wanted to let my colleagues know, that is 8:00 p.m. on sunday and also for members of the public, i think it's going to be live on facebook and it's posted. >> vice president elias: dj, can you provide commission office with that info and the website for the public? >> commissioner brookter:

absolutely. >> president cohen: thank you. commissioner hamasaki, anything from you? i can't hear you. >> commissioner hamasaki: i'm sorry. i said not this week, president cohen, but thank you for checking. >> president cohen: okay. no problem. commissioner burns. you're muted, sir. >> commissioner: sorry about that. nothing from me. >> president cohen: okay. let's continue to move on. please call the next item. >> clerk: public comment regarding line item 2. looks like we have a few people in the queue here. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> the commissioners 2a was the chief's report and the chief

wasn't there to the best of my recollection. the deputy chief was there and he made a beautiful report and then when the chief came, the topic changed totally. is that allowed in the brown act? i thought what is on the agenda has to be spoken to and then, you know, somebody just can't come on the chair and the chair herself initiates a topic that the deputy chief did not mention to the best of my recollection unless the deputy chief was speculating in german and i was not listening. so when a topic is spoken especially on all the attacks that are going on in the city and people are listening to the

police commission and then, you know, the police chief comes and they'll speak on another topic. this nonsense must stop. don't act like little kids. read robert's rules. read the brown act and do the right thing. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> yes. hi. i'm calling concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. to this day, this case isn't solved and i haven't heard anything more from my investigator. what do we do? i'm going to say the names of the perpetrators of the persons that were there that murdered my son. thomas hanibal, harris moppet,

andrew vadu, anthony carter, jason tom manslaughter, marcus carter one of the deceased. these are the names of the one who is were down there who murdered my son. i don't know why it takes 15 years for them to solve a case and for them to say no one wants to come forward. we have a 250,$000 reward and i don't understand why nothing else is being done. the people that were, you have, i believe something can be done, why mothers like myself have to continue to be in this prison that i am in for all these years. i wouldn't wish this on the prerp at any ratetor's mother and i wouldn't wish this on anybody. my son's case number is 060862038 for anybody out there that may have known what

happened to my son who murdered him, i wish somebody would come forth and give me some closure. i don't have any closure. i've gotten to know everybody pretty much on this police commission. yesterday, i'm not here to entertain. i'm looking for some closure for my son. i know half of you have children and you wouldn't want to go through what i'm going through. i wouldn't want you to go through what i'm going through. i need help. i need someone to investigate this case more than what they're doing. >> clerk: thank you, caller. >> thank you for listening to me. >> clerk: that concludes public comment, president cohen. >> president cohen: thank you very much, sergeant. please call the next item. >> clerk: line item 3. presentation of the monthly collaborative reform initiative

c.r.i., updates, discussion. >> good evening, commissioner. i'm going to do our report this month the collaborative reform initiative and i'm definitely available for details and i'm just going to cut to the chase of where we are first and i'm going to go into a few details and open it up for questions. we had made some predictions several months ago about what we planned to be at the end of april and so as we said tonight where we are is we have 175 of the recommendations that have been found by the california d.o.j. to be -- i'm sorry. let's go to page 1 briefly because that shows this on the chart and then let's go to page two. >> clerk: just one second,

chief. >> i'm sorry. >> clerk: no problem. just one moment >> and so while sergeant reynolds is putting that up to make it larger for the commission and the public, i want to explain some of the processes that will make sense hopefully, well, the commission understand its, but members of the public may be hearing it for the first time. part of our process, one of the refinements we made over our time in doing this over the last four years is we instituted a prescreening

process and what that is as we do the work because these recommendations don't happen sequentially. a lot of work has been done at the same time on various recommendations, but what our processes are, there's meetings between the california d.o.j. and the department members that are assigned to recommendation and when we get to the point where we believe is at a level that will be found in substantial compliance, we have what is termed a pre-screening process where we sit down with the consultant several times and members of cal's d.o.j. and review it and we go every everything that's done. with the documentation and we go over the compliance measures because each recommendation has a set of compliance measures and that's how it's determined by the california d.o.j. whether or not we are substantially compliant. so we go over the work and if there's something missing, it's

caught there and the department will go back and sure that. up. as opposed to earlier in the work, we would submit california d.o.j. and hines do what they do. so we basically eliminated the kickback and the back and forth and we streamline that process. the reason i want to make that point known and the reason that's really important is the pre-screening process is just that. that as we go through the compliance measures, we have a very good sense of whether or not when we submit it, whether or not we're at the level where it's in all likelihood going to be found in substantial compliance. so when i talk about how many are in review and how many are in the hands of cal d.o.j., please keep that in mind. we believe based on this process and our track record with this process that everything we have submitted

would be found to be in substantial compliance. when you hear the term "completed recommendation" completed means everything we've submitted and i'm going to break down which ones are substantial compliance. which ones are being reviewed by the evaluator and which ones are in the hands of the california doj. so the chart on this page is just that. you can see the bar chart, 175 is the top line, substantially compliant and then you see the other two lines and this graph is as of may 5th. we submit this to the commission on may 7th and daily, these things are rolling in. so i want to go to page 2 because this is where we were on may 7th when we submitted to the commission for the rules. page 2, the next page. so, where we are at the bottom of the page, 175

recommendations have been submitted, gone through the total review process and have been found in substantial compliance by the california department of justice. in addition to that 175, 36 recommendations, we've gone through that pre-screening process. we've deemed them to be completed, the work has been completed in terms of the recommendation and compliance measures. those are in the hands of hillard heinz the consultant who is apart of this collaborative reform work. in addition to the 1 z5 plus 175 plus have gone through. we fully expect that those 36 plus 42 which is 78 recommendations will be found in substantial compliance

because of our processes and our track record with substantial compliance. once we get through the pre-screening process. now the mlu that's signed is that california doj gets 45 days to turn it around and let us know whether or not it's substantially compliant. they have a lot of work on their plate and i know they're working very hard to meet the 45 days so and everything that had been turned in, the 70 recommendations we hope within the next six months or so that we will have the final answer of substantial compliance on those recommendations. so, in total, we have submitted 253 recommendations which was 93% of the 272 and i think our prediction was 94%. we're a little off there and we're 93% done with the work being submitted.

when i say "done" let me be clear about this. the recommendations being completed is still only part of the work. a lot of work still has to be done, the recommendations and the work that went into changing policies and protocols and procedures had to be sustained and we still have 19 recommendations that we are down the road on in terms of the work that still needs to be completed. the i think the majority of those 19, there is going to take technological support by way of funding and enhancing our technologies to get to substantial compliance. we've made that the

things we put in place. i know commissioner elias is really strong about what are are the next steps and the next solutions: i know when we do our 96a report we're going to talk about what some of the solutions are. the recommendations and the implementation of the things that we put in place, we believe will help us get to a better place in terms of addressing the disparity issues, the bias, the things that have been problematic for us the next category that will go into this final next phase, if you will. two of the following require technology. some of them require just further development and policy development, but two of the five. so the next is accountability. seven of the remaining 68.

i mean there's 68 in total in the accountability category. seven will remain after this the california doj in evaluating and then the last of the five categories is recruitment, hiring and retention. there were 32 recommendations in total. all 32 have been submitted. so recap. of the 19, there are i believe 9 in total where technology plays a part in this and some of them, there are other things that had delayed the implementation such as i'll give you an example of the majority, here's one of the recommendations that remain. this is a use of force recommendation and i think this is the only one where

technology does not play a major issue. the recommendation, the findings was the majority of deadly use of force incident involved persons of color and then there are -- this is a compliance standard and a lot of this goes to research, the academic partnership and things we would develop and put in place. now we have to let that work develop. so we really understand kind of what this means and what we have and how we can make this better. so that's really the high level nutshell of where we are. i will say a lot had to happen this past year as i think president cohen mentioned in this last meeting, we went from 251 to 253 in the space of a year all while we had a pandemic where half our people had to stay home in terms of a lot of the support staff and do

work from home. we had all the protests that we had to respond to. the bottom line is we stay focused on this work because it's that important to us and the community during all the craziness of 2020. i think that is an accomplishment and i'm proud of our members for doing that and it's what we expected and what we owe the public. we still have work to do though, i want to make sure that's clear. that we have work to do and it's not over. it's never over really because some of what we have to do is continually touch our policies and there's still a lot of work to do and we have some successful outcomes, but we want to get better and sustain the success that we've had and that's why we cannot let the ball drop on this. so that is the report for tonight and i definitely will welcome all questions that you may have. >> president cohen: okay.

thank you for the presentation. colleagues, i'll just start with you first. any questions? i can't see people. i can't see the chat. i don't see any names in the chat. all right. i'll get started. first, do you know when hillard heintz is going to release their phase three report? >> yeah. hillard heintze when the usdoj pulled out and we wanted independent oversight and independent validation of our work. that could happen sometime later this summer. by mlu, they have 45 days after submission. they did give us more days. there was a handful of recognition we were working hard to get in by april 30th.

we got permission to get those in last week. so everything i have mentioned is in their hands. >> president cohen: that's good to know. i know phil milhouse is listening. do you happen to know, chief, the point person from his office that is assigned to this? is it nancy barcetti? >> nancy. the civil rights division of the california department of justice is who is working with us and overseeing this part of the work and the city attorney in charge of that is nancy bennenoti. >> president cohen: well congratulations on completing the 90% of the recommendations. that's huge. very exciting news.

congratulations to all the people involved. even the past commissioners that aren't here that have just been pushing. so, chief, your staff deserves to be recognized. thank you. question: how do you plan to keep the community updated in the up coming months and years on the progress towards the remaining 19 recommendations and on the sustainability and continued implementation of the recommendations that have been completed? >> well, ideally, you know, i said this before to the commission, we would like to continue the work and the collaborative partnership with the california d.o.j. and hill add heintze. once we figure out, you know, what the budget is going to look like for us, i think we'll have a better idea of a realistic picture of when we can get these technology based or technology dependent

recommendations through and to completion, but i believe that we owe the public that process to continue having outside and attention oversight eye on this work is really important. also, we don't want to go back wards we had some good outcomes on reduction. we had some good outcomes on many areas and we don't want to go backwards. if you study reform across the country, there are some departments that have. even after doing all that work. not that we want to have this collaborative partnership forever, but we still have 19 recommendations that we would finish and i think i've spoken of this. i think the collaboration and the technical expertise and the report that we get from the consultants with who we bring

to the table and the california d.o.j. is really important to this work. i'd like to continue that until the work is finished. we'll get a better idea on what the budget looks like and how long that will take. we still have a sense of urgency and we should have. we can't let this linger on for years. >> president cohen: true. speaking of the budget, i was wondering, do we need to consider a budget supplemental to ensure that we complete the recommendations? >> well, we're in the process of working with the mayor's office, so that stage of the budget process as you are aware of. we have a few more discussions to have before the budget goes to the board. we are asking for support to continue this work but i do think it's really important and i think we have a chance to be a leader in this work.

and not to say we have all the answers because we don't, but we have processes in place that put us in a really good place in terms of identifying when we have issues and having processes in place to address them and deal with them. >> president cohen: okay. i have a couple more questions and then i'm going to pivot to commissioner elias. i'd like you to speak more about the dashboard system. again, this is on page 6. how would the dash board help the department and also, if you could speak to what the corrective and remedial absence would be pursued once those problems are identified? >> so part of the dashboard is

identifying all the different bodies of data that we have to identify starting with outliers and outliers doesn't mean there's misconduct or anything like that. the outliers point you in the direction you need to go to. so the first part of this work is, you know, to address the recommendation is to actually implement that dashboard around traffic stops and so that's what we've done and that's apart of the work that we've completed and we've submitted. now, what happens with that data? as i said, it points you in the right direction for outlyres

outliers this is the same data that the california d.o.j. uses in their r.i.p.a. report which in a way can factor in things like not everybody that we come in contact with lives in the city. so traffic collision and it's random and if you involve who you're going to capture people that don't live in the city that come here to work and whatever they're here for. that's another set of data that ke we can compare our stop to. then we get to whatever stops. are they equipment violations, are they pretext stops. are they their own type of stops and so those types of things have to analyze and then we can get to a much more granular level detail in terms of if you have an officer that all that leads to, what the discipline history's like.

do we have fourth amendment, things like that. all these things are going to help us really get to the intent of that recommendation. if we have an officer that is number one is it implicit bias? is it exsplit bias? that's prohibited and we have policies to address that too. or are there and if it leads to a misconduct, the process will not change. so that's handled in the same way. >> president cohen: so with all this information, this dashboard can be indiana

credibly valuable tool. will the dashboard will available for the public to review? >> the dashboard right now as it stands is aggregate information. it's not -- we have text with the aggregate information to all of the levels of granular detail. it's not public. >> president cohen: it's not going to be public. >> well, it's not a public document in other words, it's not on the website right now, but there's no reason that prevents it from being a public document. some things that we are working through because this does trigger meet and confer. definitely particularly if it ends up in the lane of disciplinary action and that type of thing. but e.i.s. had to go through the whole process of how is this information going to be looked at it was a totally justifiable and legal things that we have to sit down with

the um, police officer associations and go through that process because this will definitely meet that. >> president cohen: so the dashboard information, it's not in a form for public consumption, but the potential for the public to review the data is there at some point you would make that public. i'm confused. >> so the aggregate data of the dashboard. if you want to particular watch that's tracking. part of the build-out is is having the platforms to make it public. right now, the raw data exists in some southerlies in the 96a report. >> president cohen: let me ask it a different way.

is there harm in releasing the raw data? >> there is not harm if we go through the processes. again, this is work that will or could potentially impact officers. so there's a legal process we have to go through. i'm not being evasive in your questions. theish is if we got the dashboard, we still have to go through that process about how this information will be used for individual officers it could potentially be disciplinary and all those things as it relates to traffic stop and we know have that ability. >> okay. so here's a general question.

how you're going to redeploy the resources. the financial resources. the human capital resources the core group of folks and then the dollars you have allocated for this work. >> yeah, that's an excellent question. the reality was we improved our infrastructure with some of the positions that we put in place. you all have seen the structure. but how we've been able to really dedicate them to this work. and we step it up at the end of this summer of two thousand twenty. we pulled three of the operational commanders away from their operational

assignment. the commander and they also brought with them the appropriate staff. we pulled sergeants out of patrol. we pulled police officers from administrative assignment and this became their full time job so part of the question was answered in this way. those officers will go back to their assignment. the commanders will go back to running operations because part of bha made this work is the commander was like pete was doing the work of three commanders for the better part of nine months.

we have to keep. >> president cohen: i'm going to take that as you're still thinking about it. >> no. >> president cohen: i don't know. i'm still thinking about it. haven't figured it out yet. >> that's not the answer to your question, president cohen. strategic management where this work still exists. there's sergeants that work there and they will remain there. we brought in other people to enhance the speed of which we can do this work. you dedicated a lot of time and dollars to this. as we're winding down, i want to know what we're going to do next and it sounds like you're still figuring it out and that's fine. i've got to move on.

i need to recognize commissioner elias and then i'm going to recognize commissioner yee. >> vice president elias: thank you, president cohen. i just wanted to follow up on my question dash board that some of the bias was going to be made public and so i guess i'm still trying to understand why we wouldn't be able to provide this data to the public. i mean, given the history with bias in the department that there is some problems with bias, why we wouldn't take a huge step to allow this information to be available to the public and i think that like we do with other reports where we sanitize information and don't give out identifying information but allow the data to be acceptable. i don't understand why we can't do that in this situation because i think that when we talk about transparency and

building, you know, public trust, we have to be willing to take these steps to make that happen and i think that by providing this data to the public in real time and allowing them to see in the department i think is a huge step in that direction. >> there's two things that we're developing for the 96a or we refer it to qdar. that will be a public facing dash board. that will collect some of the same data. you know, you can look at different stations. whatever anomalies we see so that we can try to get to an

understanding of what's at play here. that was always designed to be an internal management tool and part of the discussion about, you know, we've had the discussion about it's separate from our e.i.s. system but a lot of it's the same conversation. we take this data, you have an officer that had an outlier type of data, then we've got to figure out why then that could lead to issues that are labor issues so we do have to have that process to determine how we're going to use this data, what we can in public and that piece is still ongoing and about to happen now that we have this per se. there's also more work to be

done tools to this dashboard. right now, the recommendation just speaks for traffic stops. it makes sense that expands this to other areas of our work where we have disparities to see if we can get some of the same answers. but we're talking about two different things. we are in the development, in the later stages of the development for the dashboard of the 96a data that will say some of the same things, but this dashboard that will allow us to drill down to the officer level. it could go to different types of situations, so we have to respect that process. >> well, that sounds a little better because i think as long as the bias information and the numbers in terms of what we're reporting and seeing especially how it impacts communities of color, i think that's important

and it's also important to recognize that, you know, while we have e.i.s., that model isn't working for us. so i hope when we build this out that it actually works for us and is it built off the e.i.s. system that we currently have which is working. but i want to move on to the other question i know several months hillard heintze partnership. in some of the questions that were raised to you is what happens when hillard heintze so

my question is and i think the answer wasn't clear is what happens when hillard heintze leaves? how are we going to monitor the progress of sfpd especially when we report it out to the public i'm hoping that the process is as transparent as can be. >> i want to make sure i understand your question. what happens when that collaborative is no longer. as it stands right now, you know, we have an mlu, so everybody we all have work. that's why the preference is until we finish the

recommendation that we keep that structure in place. now? things should change because the actual recommendations have been implemented. but then there's the process. how are we tracking on disparities. how are we tracking on those things that really the recommendations were put in place to address. the reporting process of that and let me, you know, if i can remind everybody that almost all the recommendations have continuous improvements which includes either, you know, how do we follow up to ensure that things are being done and continuously being done and what things should we audit, that type of thing and those things, what i will tell you if

we plan to tell you how we're tracking to the commission, those are the things until we finish the work, i'm strongly advocating i'm asking, not strongly advocating that we keep the structure in place. we believe this was the structure for police reform today. it's voluntary. the department acknowledges that it has problems and issues. we're asking for help and the structure with the consultant and the d.o.j., you bring in the people who could help. we have a commission, we're structured the right way. we have civilian oversight, everything's in place. >> continue to work with us for free?

>> it's not about working for free. this work cost money. in my opinion it's a small price to pay to get to where we need to get to. >> vice president elias: at some point, we need to learn how to fish by ourselves. >> well, the consultant work started in 2016 under the we didn't have to pay a dime. the reason we're paying for it is because we're the only department that says we're not done with this work and if we need to get it done, we've got to pay for it ourselves. we can't afford it. and what i'm submitting to you is we should not do that. if we're really, you know, if we're really serious about carrying this work forward, we have to pay for the work. the reform is not cheap, it's not. and it cost to bring the right people in, it cost to, you

know, and we've spent far less money than many other departments. that's why the d.o.j. introduced this type of reformalize let me ask you this way. i think hillard heintz has ben and i guess my question is whether we can continue this whether we can hold ourselves to the same standards ensuring that our work product is at the same quality as it would be if as if they were there with us and we were paying them and submitting them to

. >> vice president elias: i've met some of those people. they're incredible. i think that you i guess at some point, we have to be able to learn to fend for ourselves. >> i agree. and i'm not saying this configuration lasts forever. i'm saying we finish the work and then we fend for i'm going to use fend for ourselves, we sustain the work in smart ways. and part of it is i can't control, you know, what the board does with our budget. i can't control, nor can you or this commission whether we get the support that we need. if we don't get support. >> vice president elias: that's why place a plan b. we have to figure it out ourselves. >> you're asking my opinion as a person with a 31 year career,

17 of those 31 have been doing this type of work, reform. so you asked my opinion. what i'm submitting to you is that it would be a mistake to do that at this point. >> vice president elias: okay. fair enough. i'll allow my colleagues to ask any questions. thank you, chief. i appreciate it. >> president cohen: chief, we appreciate you. commissioner yee, you're up. >> commissioner yee: yes. chief, i think they believe in transparency. i think we need to provide the data to the people and the public and make sure we are in compliance with this c.r.i. and but going forward, i think my question is how much cost is involved in retaining hillard heintze to complete our

outstanding compliance. is there a dollar amount? >> well, we haven't negotiated a contract yet. at the last extension was the executive director mcgire, i believe it was 700,000, around there. kathryn, executive director mcgire -- i think, i'm sorry. 425,000 was the last extension, which got us through this point, you know, framing out the work. there are some areas that we definitely need to keep an eye on to make sure we go in that direction and i'm not saying that we need them to keep an eye on the work, but part of the technical expertise and the technical assistance that has been very valuable from the d.o.j. and hillard heintze is really helping us craft that work and that's why you hire

consultants. bringing in outside opinions and technical expertise helps. 425,000 i think is what that contract extension was to get us to this point. i don't have an answer for you because it's less work than it was last year when we know. will say it would be a mistake.

we are estimating based on what remains to be done and we're estimating that's probably going to be about a $400,000 ball park. again, we know how many recommendations we have to do, we know so many areas of recommendations that we need to work on in addition to i think everybody's point here is that we really want to be tied up on sustaining making sure we have the right structures in place moving forward. that's a ball park. we haven't negotiated a contract. at best, that's what i can give you right now. better insight and she was better involved on this. executive director mcgire, if you want to weigh in. >> evening, commissioners. yeah. we did amend the last contract

amendment which was about $425,000, that got us through phase 3. it was a little under a year. and so we are and yes the work would be less on an annual basis going forward with hillard heintze i suspect and so that would kind of determine the budget. so i do expect it would be less than 425 because right now we have multiple weekly meetings with them and so we will be doing far less than that. and so that is the current status. so i would imagine the chief's estimate there is about

$400,000. that's pretty good. that's going beyond the annual amount. >> commissioner yee: okay. my second question on technology funding to be in compliance. that we have to go back to the board and how much will that cost is there a dollar amount on that technology side? >> i'll refer to the chief on this one. >> absolutely. the technology needs for this fiscal year are approximately $3 million and this is an on going conversation it's not a new conversation. you know, this department has had technology assessment. earliest i got my hands on in

2007 and this is the same conversation. we have some significant deficient technology and so we're approximately about $3 million budgetary assets this year. let me also say this. there are a lot of things happening in the technology world right now and the justice system that's under rebuilding we have the d.e.m. in the process of the c.a.s. system and we have our records management system that we really need to, you know, part of that process is all tied up into the same issue we've got grant money to move us along from the federal government. we also have to convert our

reporting, our reporting to the national incident based reporting system in the next couple of years which that drives technology demands as well. but where that all leads us is to what the recommendations speak to in the first place. the upgrades in our technology in order for us to compile the data, to organize the data, to collect the data, to store the data in a way that we can use it and really help move this work forward. so we're talking about $3 million. >> commissioner yee: and then my last question is can we go after the federal government the cost going forward and so that's something i guess you don't have to respond to that

but that's what i was looking at. also have one concern is that since the hacking of the pipeline on the east coast and also on the washington, d.c. police department just want to maybe something to think about as care can be for us as we hate to be hacked in. so i just want to leave that. >> president cohen: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah. i just want to briefly follow up. i know there's a lot of concern among the commission about the costs i was set in on that

group before and went to the meetings and went through the files and i think it's worthwhile for the other commissioners to also engage in that way because there's a lot of work being done. it's not just as easy as checking off a box i think it's been a pretty, i won't say it's been a perfect process, but i think it's been a pretty thoughtful and engaged process. i know there's been pushback between all of the different agencies trying to get to, you know, what would be substantial compliance for the reforms, but it's the parts that i witnessed a ton of work was going on. honestly, you know, whatever

the future of sf tv and assignments and who goes where and who does what. i think it's important that we complete these reforms and ensure that, you know, everything that was asked by the u.s. d.o.j. has implemented and then i think as the chief said, it's not just at the end, you know, we're done because things change and, you know, change has to change, implementation. if you want sf tv to be a department that is a model department, i would be hesitant to pull out of this process

short of the feds coming throwing in lots of money for us paying everything would be absolutely lovely. i think we let this process work its way through and i would, you know, i was pretty skeptical in the beginning and i would encourage, you know, the commissioners and even the ones that have been on with us to contact director mcgire and the chief and maybe sit in on some of the meetings where they discuss this because it is a thoughtful process. it has taken a bit too long but it's a lot of work that's been done. i would just ask him to keep that in mind. >> i think, for me i want to make sure that what

commissioner yee is at the forefront of our minds, chief. so continue to pay for this because one of the things that commissioner elias brought up i love in terms of us being our own fishers is we also have to be careful in term officer who's teaching us how to fish. so not breaking that relationship that's already been established and being able to see it through because it's something that i just wanted to put out there. at the end of the day, commissioner hamasaki tells me the work that's being done, you know. we look at the amount of reform however, things are getting done. could they be done quicker. i just want to put that out there. thank you, madam president. >> president cohen: thank you. any other comments. >> vice president elias: i just want to make sure i

understood correctly what commissioner yee was speaking. so the grand total as of february that we paid hillard heintze, have we paid them anymore money since february or is the $1.2 million and change the grand total? >> that was their total for february, they have sent invoices for march and april i believe now. >> i don't have those invoices in front of me. we can certainly get that to you. >> vice president elias: i know you mentioned $400,000 as a reference. they're requesting another $400,000 to get the 19 recommendations that we have outstanding. >>.

>> we are requesting that we are continuing with the reform. hillard heintze aren't requesting anything from us. we asked the question. you asked the question about what my thoughts were on that. we are requesting that this collaborative configuration with hillard heintze and cal d.o.j.. so that's not their request at all, that's us. it's not funded. >> vice president elias: i guess i agree with my fellow commissioners, but if we don't have money to pay for it, that's the question. what do we do then, really, you know, that's what i'm trying to understand, what are we doing if we don't have the money? >> well, i think this is one of the things where 400 -- if the amount is $400,000, i know the

city does not have unlimited funds, but i don't think there's anything more important in the world of policing right now than real reform and and where our priorities are. that's the real question. if the department's priorities continue to finish this work and put us in a place where we are meeting the public's expectations, at least in terms of this issue of reform. so, you know, we -- since i've been here, we've never had a budget where we've had all the money to do anything that's required of us and we always have to prioritize. i guess ma i'm saying simply is this is a priority. >> vice president elias: thank you, president cohen. thank you, chief. >> president cohen: all right. appreciate that. all right. folks, we need to keep moving

forward or otherwise we'll be here all night. >> i had a question. i had it in there. >> president cohen: go ahead. >> i promise it will be very fast because we might not have an answer for it but two questions about just going back to the substantive issues about what's coming out and the fact we're going to have a portal with public information. one is that dashboard before it's released going to have any input from community about what it's going to contain or what it's going to look like either from the community or the working groups and, secondly from that is that dashboard going to include a component for d.p.a. to play a role as they're building it? >> director henderson, you're talking about the 96 dashboard tool or the management tool dashboard? >> both.

>> it will be internal. depending on where we go and meeting and confer and what we use the information ultimately for. that might change, but right now, it's internal. the other one the 96a, i think there has been work groups if that's what you're asking. but there's been definitely calls for certain types of data and, you know, consistent as you know, paul, with the white house data initiative, you know part of putting this out on a dashboard so the public can initiate the data and run it different ways and have to go through a bunch of processes and craziness to do that. that's one of the features that we're aiming for and being consistent. we do want to be responsive. >> it and my suggestion as you guys are building that, if we have a component in it where we

can put our forward facing information as well related to what you guys are releasing, it might be helpful so people don't have to go two or three different places to go to the police commission or go to d.p.a.'s website or the mr. president, if you're going to build a public portal, it would be more efficient if we have a component in there. when you get to it. thank you. >> president cohen: all right. we need to continue to move forward with the agenda. so the next item, sergeant. >> clerk: public comment regarding line item 3cri. it looks like we have a few callers in the queue. >> president cohen: okay. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes.

>> they never put my hand down. >> president cohen: yes. thank you. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. caller? i'll come back to that one. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> commissioners, there's something going on here. i don't know what's going on, but if i'm on, i have this to say. i participated back from the inception and all the shootings and killings were going and when cops came there was one

person on the commission that had a meeting at one of the schools and did not do the outreach and we had a movement at that time and we would go to all the meetings and the cops found out they couldn't hoodwink us but that's going to some focus groups and getting some questions answered and we took them to task and we were promised that the 272 recommendations, a big fuss was made about it. in fact, we couldn't even go to the federal building. i couldn't go because i had clearance but some others couldn't go. and we had the documents and we are beating around the bush.

people at home are hurting who lost their loved ones listening to you all just as if you know it's like some sort of nonchalant issue. get serious. people died. at that time now there's a little bit of an improvement. and you commissioners should put yourself in the shoes of the victim. >> clerk: thank you, caller. >> don't talk about these platforms -- >> clerk: good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> thank you, commission and thank you chief scott for the

update. the report that was presented by the cal doj and by hillard and heintze were now claiming there were perhaps 177 based on the c.r.i. website today that are substantially compliant. however, there is no public report of that. the wealth and disparity has asked for letters from the cal doj and i'm really happy to hear about the pre-screening and the other things that give a higher degree of confidence. what is submitted will be deemed substantially compliant, but i'm asking for a verification from the third party which i believe is the cal d.o.j. of the substantial compliance. right now, of the 175, we only have 40 that have been validated in a public report by

a third party. so i'm wondering when the reports will be made available to the public from cal d.o.j. or another third party that will validate the substantial compliance of the d.o.j. reforms. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. >> president cohen: just let me comment to the caller. it's highly unlikely that cal d.o.j. is going to respond to wealth and disparities in the black community directly. i don't think that's how they're set up. they'll get their verification when the report's released this summer. so, next speaker. >> clerk: that concludes public comment, president cohen. >> president cohen: all right. that's good. i appreciate the public comment. next item. >> clerk: line item 4, presentation of secondary employment annual report,

january 1, 2020, through december 31st, 2020. discussion. >> president cohen: who's making the presentation for item 4? >> hello, commissioners. president cohen, my name is lieutenant pat mccormick and i'm presenting the secondary employment listing to you. i believe this was on a calendar previously. there are some questions regarding it and so it's in the documents that i've presented to all the commissioners. just to touch a little bit on it, we do have a general order that discusses secondary employment. we do have a department bull 10 that also not only touches on it but expands a little bit on department members and expectations of department members and we do track it.

we do have a spread sheet that we track secondary employment and we keep it up to date as far as the department members presenting their secondary employment paperwork to us at staff services. it has a process that goes through different levels on concurrence within the department. the chief's office is the final signoff on it. risk management also looks at it, personnel looks at it as well as the commanding officer also looks at it and signs off on it throughout each process. so i'd be happy to entertain any questions you have regarding this. >> president cohen: mccormick, thank you for the presentation. my question was what exactly is that process. so i think you laid out four of five layers of scrutiny of people that need the signoff on

this proposal. i'm curious to know, i'm assuming a lot of the work that's done is moonlighting, doing security. do you find any other areas or line of business? are they i mean, i don't know, are there any other. what other work are officers doing? >> you know, it's a very diverse list of secondary employment. everything -- a security, i would say there's enough overtime in the city where officers are requested to work that that officers are not necessarily looking out or working security as opposed to working at a a lot of officers also work as property managers. some expensive city to live in and in some ways to mitigate that, they actually are live-in

property managers in the city. so as you look through it, it's a very diverse list from working for the san francisco 49ers as a secondary job to major league baseball to self-employed legal, we have some lawyers in the department who do legal work on the side. >> president cohen: thank you. has there been any occasions when the chief as denied request for secondary employment? or revoked permission for secondary employment? >> i don't know any specific examples of being denied, but there is specific criteria where a member would be denied and it's in general order, you know, we can't own a bar in the city or work in a bar. work for a taxi company or a tow company. those would be denied outright. but it would be really

encumbent on the member before they sold out their secondary criteria application. >> president cohen: and do officers have to certify they review d.g.o.11.2. >> yeah. secondary employment application, it is in there specifically to review department d.g.o.1102. >> president cohen: i don't have any other questions. >> can i just touch base with you on one of the questions you asked. would there be an occasion where a chief would deny or revoke a member's secondary criteria if a member had adjudicated misconduct.

that's. >> president cohen: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen. i know this is in the general order i believe on the amount of time that they can be working for an outside job in addition to working for the city? >> that's the d.g.o., commissioner, 20 hours a week. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and so what is and does that also limit their weekly hours with sfpd a general shift week is. >> 40 hours roughly give or take. >> commissioner hamasaki: and so they're going 40 hours a week and they're also working their own business of 20 hours, does that limit them from doing overtime? >> i haven't seen that

occasion. we don't really have an ability to track between secondary employment and overtime. overtime is tracked and we do track that within the department but we don't have the members submit a time sheet to track their secondary employment and it's not every week that a member would be doing secondary employment. >> commissioner hamasaki: and so you do track when they are doing secondary employment. >> we track they apply to have secondary employment and the member's also required to notify the department when they end their secondary employment. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. i guess the concern always one of the concerns would be that we don't want people stretched too thin. obviously, this is a job that requires a pretty high level of focus. we want people well rested, getting enough sleep, getting enough rest. getting some time off.

i would make sure, you know, they're not working full-time. overtime, 20 hours a week and, you know, basically we have situations where we're going to have burn-out where there might be poor decision making or other problems and the city obviously. >> commissioner, beyond the members testing they're going to adhere to the 20 hours a week especially as secondary employment a lot of times, it may be out of county or at home. we really don't have a process to track that portion. we track internal portions like overtime and hours worked in the department but we don't ask the members to submit a time sheet for secondary employment. >> commissioner hamasaki: could that be part of the process where they could attest

that they will not work over 20 hours a week including overtime because then the over time if you're adding on another 8-hour shift then you're implicating of overworking staff, right. >> that's definitely worth a discussion and to include all the stakeholders in that discussion. >> yeah. if i can jump in commissioner hamasaki, that's a great point. and i don't have the d.g.o. revision schedule maybe lieutenant mccormick, if you don't have it don't worry. i think we should make note of this and depending on when the d.g.o. revision comes up, if it's soon, we can incorporate that into the discussion. if it's distance, we can talk about having the discussion now and maybe bring something before the commission because that is a great point and i think it's something that we really need to put on the

table. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and, then, what is the firearms? is this a gun dealer. >> i belief a member has a federal firearm license. so they can sell firearms or be the middle man between a member or between a individual buying a firearm and getting it from another entity. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. i see a few of those, actually. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen. that's all i have. thank you. >> president cohen: no problem. colleagues, any other questions? nope. perfect. let's go to public comment. >> clerk: public comment. if you would like to make public comment, please call

(415) 655-0001 access code 1878137530 and press pound and dial star 3 if you're already on the line. see if we have anyone for public comment. and, president cohen, there's no one waiting for public comment. >> president cohen: great. next item. >> clerk: line item 5. discussion and possible action to adopt revised department general order 5.03 investigate detentions. meet and confer draft was approved by the commission on december 10, 2020. >> president cohen: thank you. i want to recognize and congratulate all the hands and minds that made this possible. i want to recognize our own vice president cindy elias who's had a significant hand in

bringing this over the finish line. so congratulations to everyone involved. this is a big deal. >> vice president elias: thank you for that. i really would like to get this thing passed. >> president cohen: okay. enough said. we'll make it as quick as possible. chief, you had an incredible team. >> i want to thank commissioner elias. commissioner taylor was apart of this. it was long and pain staking but i really do think, you know, this is one of the policies that we think will start to change the narrative on some of our stops and search issues and also let me go back to our prior conversation and thank cal d.o.j. really

commissioner elias, i can't thank you enough for your passion on this issue. >> commissioner hamasaki: i was just going to add as well that commissioner vice president elias worked long and hard with the chief to get over three words was the three month process. had some pretty strong positions on the other side, but it's impressive that through, you know, doing the legal research, leading with the chief, understanding the practices, i think they came together on the right language and i would move to adopt it. >> president cohen: before we

take anymore, we got to take public comment. >> vice president elias: the other thing i forgot. i'm so sorry. i want to thank dpa, the san francisco bar association the public defender's office and the working group because they really were instrumental in getting us over the hump and getting the right language with respect to the pat search issue and they worked really hard and did a lot of research and, you know, they were able to convince the chief, you know, so i think the huge thanks goes out to them. thank you. >> that's what i was waiting to say, girl. thank you. >> vice president elias: i was getting there. >> okay. i was waiting to say. i did just want to say some of the names of the folks because it was in addition to sharon woo and janel kaywood, it was reflective both of the organizations but also from the bias working group gave a lot of input as well and those

working group folks had a lot of input. thank you for including the evidence based policy recommendations that went into this final draft. >> president cohen: excellent. i appreciate that. anyone else we need to acknowledge, to that. recognize? okay. let's go to the public and hear their thoughts. >> clerk: public comment. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> good evening. my name is ashley ravacay. d.g. finding 28 noted the san francisco's mr. president failure to adequately address incidents of bias police conduct. the legal from the voters strongly recommends that d.g.o.5.03 is recommended the language and clarify the proactive effort of eliminating bias as a directive.

specifically, we request amendment under section 3 procedures. duties of the team member include the duty to report bias misconduct that occurs during the investigative detention. i'm well aware this is not an easy ask to make in regards to timing and process. nonetheless, the duty to report misconduct must be part of this reform and this is the only time to review the draft that's before this commission today. our working group reform d.g.o.5.7 to specify that members are trained on specific obligations of peace officers and preventing, reporting and responding to discriminatory or bias practices. furthermore we reform d.g.o.11.07. concerning member to member engagement with clarified and strengthened. we have also drafted a bias strategic plan for the department to achieve. however, we do not include a

specific obligation by the member to report bias misconduct and interactions involving communities and therefore there is no accountability. as stakeholders, we need to help the members build on their transparency through policy. we have an obligation to the community to ensure that the d.g.o.s provide a level of accountability that our community deserves. respectfully i ask this commission to amend to include a duty to report bias misconduct. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. that is the end of public comment. >> president cohen: appreciate that. is there a motion. >> commissioner hamasaki: so moved. >> president cohen: all right. so motion made to accept the revised d.g.o. by commissioner hamasaki. seconded by commissioner cindy elias. let's take that roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion to adopt revised d.g.o.5.03,

commissioner brookter, how do you vote. >> commissioner brookter: yes. >> clerk: [roll call] president cohen, you have seven yeses. six yeses. sorry. >> president cohen: next item, please. >> clerk: next item, line item 6. discussion and possible action to adopt draft resolution honoring asian american and pacific islander police officers and personnel and direct the san francisco police

department to proclaim the month of may as asian american pacific islander heritage month. action and discussion item. >> president cohen: so it's with great pride and solidarity with my colleagues. i think this is an excellent and very well written resolution. i want to give commissioner yee an opportunity to speak to this before we take a vote. >> commissioner yee: it gives me great honor to bring before you a resolution honoring the asian american and pacific islander police officers, and personnel and recognition of the asian american and pacific islander heritage month. earlier police officer i guess in particular, of course, chinese american police officer was instrumental in turning my life around when i was a young

kid growing up in chinatown. he took me out on fishing trips many times and i guess, at that time, i guess we are going through our changes in life so it opened my eyes up and quite a few other disadvantaged youth and young adults in our community also to chair or chief of police also fred low and when we serve at least over 37% of our population in the api community. and so i just want to make may in recognition of the officers a.a.p.i. officers and

personnel. i proclaim it for asian heritage month. so i come before you commissioners in moving this resolution forward. thank you very much, madam president. >> president cohen: absolutely. thank you for drafting this. colleagues, is there anyone else that would like to speak to this. commissioner elias. >> vice president elias: yeah. thank you commissioner yee. thank you. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. any other folks? henderson? is that your name i see in the note. >> that was from the previous item. >> president cohen: got it. let's take public comment. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening commissioners.

first of all, let me just say good evening to everybody. i want to thank commissioner yeah for drafting this legislation and i want to urge the commission to approve this resolution making may a month honoring our api officers. i can say that our a.p.i. officers and our officers in general in chinatown has been a model of what community police look like. they're truly part of the community and i hope that they can be a model for the entire city. so thank you again, and that will end my comment. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. hi commissioners, chief. my name is wilson chi.

i'm also speaking in support of this resolution. i believe that a lot of the officers that we have been interacting with including the community the liaison units and many of the other asian officers have been extremely supportive of the a.p.i. communities and some of the challenges that we've been facing over the last several months and within the pandemic. i would encourage you to adopt this resolution. i think that is a great way of giving thanks to the officers, the a.p.i. officers that are in the force and then to also raise the moral that's also been challenging times for them and for everybody on the force and i would encourage the committee to adopt the

resolution. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. and that concludes public comment, president cohen. >> president cohen: all right. that's great. let's take a motion on this entertain a motion. >> commissioner hamasaki: so moved. >> president cohen: thank you. a motion moved by commissioner hamasaki to pass this resolution. is there a second? >> commissioner: seconded by commissioner burns. and if we can take a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion to adopt the draft resolution honoring asian american and pacific islander police officers and the personnel, [roll call]

you have six yeses, commissioner. >> president cohen: great. unanimous. congratulations. may is asian american pacific islander heritage month. this is great. let's continue moving forward. >> clerk: line item 7. public comment on all matters pertaining to line item 9 below. closed session. including public comment online item 8, vote whether to hold item 8 in closed session. if you would like to make public comment, please call (415) 655-0001. access code 1878137530. press pound then pound again or dial star 3.

seeing no public comment, president cohen. >> president cohen: great. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: so we are going into closed session. pardon me. we need to vote to go into closed session. >> president cohen: is there a motion to go into closed session. >> vice president elias: motion. >> president cohen: motion by commissioner elias. seconded by commissioner brookter. thank you. a vote on that. >> clerk: [roll call]

>> clerk: you have a unanimous vote to go into closed session. >> commissioner hamasaki: i don't think i voted. >> clerk: i apologize. >> commissioner hamasaki: no worries. you're doing great tonight. commissioner hamasaki, yes. so now we will go into closed session. >

the celebration of our a.p.i. community goes on every day. but i'll say that a.p.i. heritage has become a bigger and better event effort each year. more partners, more appreciation and attention locally and nationally. and more recognition for the role asian americans and pacific islanders play in the life of this country in this very city. we're proud to welcome you to

the museum to start the celebration. the asian art museum celebrates asian american culture, a place to explore, to discover and to be inspired by the power and the meaning of art and inspiration is the key to connection and connection is what this celebration is all about. so i'm thrilled to introduce claud chen to tell you more about what's in store. claudian is a supporter of asian art culture and she has been the organizing force behind this celebration for 17 years. and she also serves on the board of the asian arts museum foundation. i'm so grateful and delighted to welcome to say a few words, introduce today's program to all of us.

claudine. >> thank you. is it almost afternoon yet. thank you everyone for coming. every year, we would like to make sure the public learns about what we have planned for asian heritage month. this year, our theme is celebration theme is celebrate resilience, uplift voices. we all know the tremendous challenges that the a.p.i. community has been facing this past year whether it's with covid-19 or with the anti-asian hate. however, it is the consensus of the community that we want the celebration of this month to be positive. we want to show the world that we are proud asian pacific americans and we are proud being americans. so, as you will see, throughout the month, we have many programs over 50 programs that show case the art and culture

of asian pacific america. later on this morning, you will hear from the best museum of the world of asian art museum, the best public library in the country, the san francisco public library as well as the largest asian american film festival in the country. i was told also in the world. so what's different about this year? we want to be relevant. we are very concerned about social justice issues that asian communities are facing with. so this year in addition to arts and culture so this year's program to talk about what it means, what racism means. how do we achieve equity. what does solidarity mean. so we and public safety, very

important on everybody's mind. public safety. and, in addition to that, what's new this year. we are going to for the first time have a multi-cultural program. we live in a diverse society and a very multi-cultural society. so taking advantage of asian heritage month, we are putting together the first anti-asian program that will be featuring artists from diverse programs to talk about cultural identities to talk about how they achieve social justice through art. there's some activities and programs for everyone to enjoy. we encourage everyone to find out what they can do in the month of may in san francisco. at this time, i would like to warmly welcome our mayor, mayor

london breed. there's no other better champion that the a.p.i. community has found in this past year through the challenges that we have. we note that's one person we can count on who cares about us, making sure san francisco is the most multi-diverse city in the country. so here's mayor breed. >> thank you so much claudine. it's a little windy out here today. i can't wait until we can get back indoors for these press conferences. i don't know about you. but it's now overdue with over 70% of san franciscans receiving their first dose of the vaccine so far. so san francisco is doing an incredible job with the vaccination process and, today, as we kick off asian pacific american heritage month in san

francisco during the month of may, it just reminds us as to how far we've come as a city. last year, this celebration was held virtually. we didn't let this pandemic stop us from celebrating and uplift our asian pacific islander community in san francisco and i really want to take this opportunity to not only thank claudine chang for founding the committee that founded a.p.i. heritage month in san francisco, but continuing to elevate the conversations that are so important to build the bridges between the a.p.i. community and others in our city. we know that this community has had a really challenging time over the past few months. with the xenophobia and discrimination ever since this pandemic began perpetrated by even leaders of this country that i am now happy are gone.

it is up to us to make sure that we don't allow that to infect san francisco in a negative way. and so the work that claudine is doing to bridge that gap with communities not just in this moment, in this festival, but what she does year around is very much appreciated and very necessary in order to make sure that we drive out the hatred that divides us and we bring forth our history and culture and all the things that unite us. just think about it. all of us want a safe place to raise your families and take care of our parents and live a good life and how do we talk about our differences and how do we talk about our similarities in a way that supports and uplifts one another. api heritage month is a time

where we pause and we recognize the contributions of our asian pacific islander community here in san francisco. when we recognize how significant they are to building this city, to building this country. here in san francisco, we make it very clear that we will not tolerate the hate and division. we will do everything we can to make not just the right policy changes and investments, but the right program attic things that are needed in order to bridge those gaps and so we all stand united putting forth a program that in some cases will be in person, but we will do so safely. but as we prepare for next year where we're really going to show case the performance or the events because yes, i don't mind the zoom and video stuff that you watch online.

we adjusted to that, but now it's time to start opening the doors and come back together again and i can't be more excited to do that by kicking off api heritage month here in san francisco right across from city hall at this incredible asian art museum right next to the library. we have our city librarian michael lambert with us with some amazing programatic plans for this month. if you haven't been to cam fest, you are missing out big time. make sure you take advantage of the programs and the events. so many great act its, so many ways in which we can celebrate and uplift our a.p.a. community here in san francisco and with that, i'd like to introduce our city administrator car men chiu. >> thank you very much, mayor,

for the warm welcome to everybody who is here today and of course to claudine and jay for hosting this event today. my name is carmen chiu. we've all had a difficult year dealing with not only the pandemic on our hands, but some of the racial violence and challenges we've seen not on here locally, in the bay area and in san francisco, but across the country. i think it's worthwhile to note especially someone who has grown up here as an asian american woman that xenophobia and some of the challenges we are facing in our community is not something that's new. it's not something that just came about because of the pandemic. but it's something we've seen embedded within our history here in the united states. whether it was the people who were discriminated against when they came to work on the railroads or the chinese exclusion act among all of the other different discriminatory acts that we've seen, we've

seen this play out through many different ways whether through legal action or the subtle ways where people are excluded or treated or always as a perpetual immigrant in this society. i have to say i'm very excited to be here to kick off our apa heritage month and the reason is because this is an opportunity for us to take all of those challenges and that pain and that hurt and to turn it into something that is different and positive. to begin to turn the leaf on what we think our country should be to live up the ideals of making sure we have an inclusive community and inclusive society. i want to thank claudine and all of the folks because it's an opportunity for all of us to engage to remind everyone that asian american history is american history. that when we start to open up

the conversations, we start to make ourselves vulnerable to talk about our hurts, our pains, our experiences. we start to build those connections and bridges between our communities to make sure what we are advancing where we are. so, again, i'm very excited to be here for that reason because let's not forget that we've always been a community of resilience. my parents, many people before them who've immigrated with nothing, we've been a resilient community. we're going to get through this together and the way we start is by uplifting our voices, making our voices be heard and sharing all of those experiences that help to bring our communities together. thank you very much. with that, claudine. >> thank you, city administrator. so the mayor just now talked about we will have a kickoff celebration in japantown on saturday. of course, the event will be in compliance of san francisco's

public health guidelines. at that event, every year following our tradition, we will be honoring some exceptional organizations for the significant milestones. we will be honoring this year the 60th anniversary of the san francisco soul. we will be honoring the san francisco and also the national japanese american historical society for 40 years of contributions. this year, because we always talk about we are the san francisco bay region. we are also -- we give special recognition to two special organizations that have brought bay area compact. the national japanese chamber of commerce of northern california for being around for seventy years and, of course, world journal, one of the premier newspapers in the country and of course in san francisco bay area providing news and information to our

chinese american community congratulating them on their 45th anniversary. so, hopefully all of you will be there when we celebrate all these milestones and, now, i would like to invite our celebration partners to tell you the highlight maybe just one or two of what your organization is offering in the month of may, maybe starting with the largest asian american film festival in the country. and the director of the festival. >> thank you, claudine. hello everyone. i am the festival and exhibitions director at the center for asian american media. i want to thank claudine so much for letting cam participate in this wonderful month of celebrations and i'm surrounded by so many amazing

people, it's quite it's the nation's largest film festival that celebrates asian american stories. we will be presenting over 100 diverse films, over 50 unique events. mostly virtual, but also at fort mason center, we will have three wonderful evenings of screenings of films. half of those films are local films about our asian american communities. as everyone mentioned, there's a lot of anxiety in the world, there's a lot happening. and we wanted a festival that represents that moment. as we all know in this last year, media's so important. being able to connect. being able to have some levity to be inspired by films and stories is so important. so we do hope we can do a lot for our communities, not only

let you all know about some talented creative folk, but hopefully to inspire people to heal communities. camfest.com is where a lot of our screenings and programs will happen. one of the great things is we have film makers from all around the world who will be participating being able to connect with you all. so once again, claudine, thank you so much. i do hope this year, i know it's going to be fabulous, but in my brain, i'm thinking about next year. i'm thinking about my 40th anniversary festival and i dream of being back at the asian art museum opening night. i hope to see you all there this may, but then also next year as well. thank you. >> and, so we have our city librarian michael lambert. michael. >> thank you, claudine. and thank you, madam mayor, for your leadership in guiding us through this past year. i'm really excited that this is

the 60th anniversary of the soul sister city committee. i was born in sol and i want to thank mayor breed for appointing me to be the first asian american city librarian in san francisco and the first asian american to lead any major urban library in the country. it's truly wonderful to be here at the asian art museum to celebrate the kickoff of asian pacific american heritage month. this year's theme celebrates resilience and uplift voice social security really the perfect inspiration as we're on our way to recovery and healing. i want to thank the apa celebration partners and particularly claudine for your passion and ongoing commitment to celebrating our culture and heritage in san francisco. apa heritage month is all about celebrating community. honored to be one of the cultural institutions that helps to highlight the important contributions of our

aapi community to the richness and vitality of san francisco. we have an incredible lineup of programming this year and i encourage everyone to visit the website. apaheritage.org and take advantage of some of these programs. we've got incredible authors. i saw chef martin yan is in the lineup. i'm excited to welcome our community back inside the main library on monday and to our chinatown branch and a couple weeks after that. the books are back and we are well on our way to re-opening our library system and i so look forward to seeing everyone back in the stacks soon. thank you. >> jay, do we have anything to add for the museum? >> thank you, claudine. i would be delighted. claudine, with our mayor, commission administrator, and

program sponsors and of course our media friends. thank you for spending this beautiful nevertheless windy museum. asian art celebrates asian american art in the heritage center and we're also playing a leading role in raising our collective voices in fighting against anti-asian racism and violence. so after this press conference, i'll encourage you to all go to the other side of our museum to see the murals outside the museum. we really have turned the museum inside out. we express ourselves from our internal values to our external audience's engagement and these are the works by asian american women artists. very powerful in raising their voices through the voice of art and for this particular month, apa heritage month, we also celebrate connections amongst this very diverse community and

their cross cultural impacts and those connections are beyond not only within the asian american api communities but also beyond with all diverse communities. so let me just highlight three programs. our content involves visual arts, of course, but also food, but also music. one program is called artist panel, environmental resilience and asian pacific american leadership. the topic that transcends all boundaries. in the program, food at the table, afro asian art. asian art museum has been exploring very active partnerships and other museums of other communities all along. one of our strongest community partners. and we continue to explore the cross pollination and collaboration.

the third program i'll just highlight is called "celebrating asian futures" in music conversation with venn and voo and friends with a wonderful american vietnamese asian artist. and asian american heritage every day. so come to enjoy the museum and also advise us to tell us how we can do better. thank you very much. >> thank you, jay. so, apa heritage month is really a big community celebration. it's coming back together of our apa family. so i want to really thank many of the volunteers that have been able, that are coming together to make this happen that are not here today because everyone is working, but i just want to take this opportunity to acknowledge all the volunteers who serve on our committee and our board.

we could have not brought this together without our sponsors. this is a big collaboration between our city, our government, and business communities. we have many sponsors with us this year and including but not limited to anthem blue cross, ramo and for many years the golden state warriors and, this year, we have three amazing presenting sponsors. kaiser, amazon, and u.s. bank. two of the representatives are here today and i really want to thank them and maybe they have greetings to share with us and jane pang from u.s. bank is here. jane. >> good afternoon.

on behalf of u.s. bank, i am so proud to be part of today's official kickoff. i'm jane pang, vice president and business making leader with u.s. bank. this past year has been an especially difficult one for our community. at u.s. bank, we have pledged to do our part to combat racism and anti-asian hate in the community. diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of everything we do and we are committed to stand with you during apa month and beyond. just last month, u.s. bank helped deliver 3,000 personal safety kits to our customers and community groups. in chinatown and other asian american neighborhoods across the bay area. and, last week, our employees volunteered to help distribute meal vouchers to vulnerable seniors in chinatown. u.s. bank has also announced additional financial support to aapi organizations including our incredible partner here

today, asian pacific american heritage foundation. our work and support of aapi communities is critically important and will continue. thank you. >> thank you, jane, and last but not least, i think apa heritage month, from amazon, sally kay. >> thank you, claudine. and, thank you, mayor breed. and all the members of the apa heritage committee. i want to applaud you for many years of devotion to ensure the api community has been celebrated in san francisco. amazon is here today to celebrate asian pacific american heritage month along with our employees, our customers and our neighbors and friends throughout the city. it's wonderful to be here today with the optimism of spring and to gather together with a new hope. this last year, the tragic events that have happened have

made this celebration even more important. and, with that in mind, amazon music which has a large number of employees here in san francisco has highlighted play lists, new music, short films and more to highlight visibility for api artists. at amazon, we stand in celebration and in solidarity with the api community and we are committed to help building a country and a world where everyone is free from fear and can live with dignity. and amazon is committed to advancing social equity and justice throughout san francisco. thank you so much for having us. >> thank you, sally. and, thank you, mayor breed for your time and thank you all for coming and hope to see you all on saturday, may 1st in japantown.

>> good afternoon. we're today for a virtual town hall that talk about a shooting. between jack alley and 3rd street in the south of market neighborhood in san francisco. before proceeding, i'd like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that we have sign language interpretation services here this afternoon to assist persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. this town hall is also being translated into spanish and cantanese. today's presentation will include details from an officer-involved shooting incident that resulted in nonlife-threatening injuries to mr. xavier pitman jr. we

recognize the dramatic impacts officer-involved shootings can have on our neighbors and communities. to any of our viewers experiencing trauma from this incident or from information or images presented during this town hall, please know that help is available to you. you may contact the san francisco department of public health crisis line at (415) 970-3800 for trauma services. after our presentation, we will allow one hour for public questions and comments. we estimate that this town hall will end at 5:30 p.m. so here's what we'd like to accomplish today. first and foremost, we want to continue to earn your trust and legitimacy by being transparent through this presentation. we will be releasing facts known to us at this time about

the incident in a manner that is informative and impartial. i'm departing from our normal town hall protocols and we'll make a statement regarding this incident based on what we know at this time from the evidence and facts of this case including video evidence, witness, and our member statement. based on our analysis of the facts and evidence we have at this time, the shooting of mr. pitman quite simply should not have happened. i'm deeply sorry that mr. pitman was shot during this incident and i'd like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to mr. pitman, his family, and his friends. i also want to say to the public that i'm truly sorry as i know and we know and we know

how traumatic it is to see these types of incidents especially when they should not have happened. shortly, commander robert o'sullivan will discuss the facts of this case, but before i turn it over, i'd like to emphasize this is an ongoing investigation. as such, there may be some information that we cannot release at this time either because the facts are not yet clearly established or because of the release of certain information is prohibited by law or could compromise the investigation. next, unlike most officer-involved shootings in town halls in recent years, nobody on camera footage was captured in this incident. that is because the san francisco police officers involved in this incident were working a plain-clothed district assignment. allow body warn camera exemptions for officers working certain plain-clothed

operations. this particular operation met the body warn camera exemption. however, with that said, business surveillance camera footage in the area and the immediate vicinity of the officer-involved shooting captured various portions of these videos. those videos will be submitted during commander o'sullivan's presentation shortly although we've been committed to transparency with our officer-involved shooting investigations for several years now, this level of transparency is consistent with california's police transparency law that was implemented with the passage of senate bill 1421. all the footage or all the information we will release in this town hall including video footage and audio recordings will be posted on sfpd website at sanfranciscopolice@org.

next, san francisco police department's directives mandate we release the names from the officers of officer-involved shootings within ten days of the incident unless safety concerns argue against exposure. in this manner, pardon me, in this matter, no safety concerns have been identified and the name of the involved officer will be released during demander robert o'sullivan's presentation of the facts of this incident. we've conducted a thorough safety assessment in this case and we have identified as i said no safety concerns. next, i'd like to explain the investigative services for officer-involved shooting. san francisco has a multi-agency response to officer involved shootings and each agency's investigation is independent. when an officer-involved shooting occurs in san francisco involving an on-duty

san francisco police officer, the following agencies are immediately notified, the san francisco police department investigative services detail and the san francisco police department internal affairs detail. the san francisco district attorney's office, independent investigation bureau also known as "i. oovment b." is also notified as well as the san francisco department of police accountability also known at d.p.a.. all notifiedings agencies immediately dispatch investigators and appropriate personnel to the scene to begin their respective and independent investigations. as far as investigative processes related to the o.i.s., there are five general areas of investigative responsibility. first, sfpd's investigative services detail is the investigative unit responsible for investigating any underlying criminal activity that led up to the

officer-involved shooting. in this case, the underlying criminal activity being investigated by sfpd's investigative services detail is a series of auto burglars that occurred in the city and county of san francisco involving a gray mitsubishi. second, internal affairs. our internal affairs vision is responsible for conducting an administrative investigation to determine if the officer or officers responsible for the o.i.s. are in compliance with the standards and responsibilities of sfpd policies. although the investigations of both sfpd units run in parallel, each has a distinct investigative view in focus. each maintains a strict fire waul to comply with legal standards and requirements. third, the san francisco district attorney's office is

the lead investigative unit responsible with investigating whether the officer or officers involved used deadly force or any associated force and that that force is legal and in accordance with the criminal laws of the state of california the district attorney's investigations and findings are independent of the san francisco police department's investigation and findings. based on the findings of the district attorney and investigation bureau, the district attorney of the city and county of san francisco is authorized to determine whether or not the involved officer or officers have violated criminal laws and accordingly whether or not to file criminal charges against the officer or officers. the fourth independent investigative process is the san francisco department of police accountability also known as d.p.a. san francisco voters created d.p.a. as a successor to the office of

citizen complaints with their passage of proposition d in the june 2016 election. d.p.a. investigates all sfpd incidents in which any of our officers discharge a weapon within the course and scope of their duties whenever that results in an individual's injury or death. the 5th and final investigative process is that of the san francisco office of the chief medical examiner or ocme. the medical examiner taking custody of a deceased person in any officer-involved shooting that results in a fatality. in tragic cases that results in fatalities. the ocme is responsible for conducting an autopsy to

determine the decedent's cause of death. accordingly, the san francisco medical examiner has no investigative role in this incident. as i said, we will allocate one hour for public comments and questions and conclude this town hall at approximately 5:45 p.m. and, before we move on to commander o'sullivan, i just want to reiterate i'm truly sorry to mr. pitman and his family, his friends and the people of san francisco that this incident occurred. i will return after commander o'sullivan's presentation for some final comments before we open it up for questions. thanks again for joining us and tuning in.

>> good afternoon. the officer-involved shooting incident that occurred on may 7th, 2021, at barney place and jacquelyn was proceeded by six separate incidents. the incidents consist of the following. five auto burglaries which occurred 11:44 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and the richmond and central police districts of san francisco and one instance during which the suspect vehicle fled from a neighboring police agency during the traffic stop attempt. the officer-involved shooting incident discussed in this presentation involves plain-clothed members of the san francisco police department assigned to the central police district. the plain-clothed officers were

conducting an auto burglary surveillance and arrest operation when the officer involved shooting occurred. the precise chronology is currently under investigation. the times presented are approximate. the following is a summary of the events as they are understood as of today, thursday, may 13th, 2021. at approximately 11:44 a.m., witnesses observed an auto burglary near the japanese tea garden. this is within the richmond golden gate park in san francisco. the suspect vehicle was described by witnesses as a silver mitsubishi eclipse cross. a license plate was provided and later deemed to be stolen. the suspects were observed breaking a vehicle window, stealing backs from the vehicle and fleeing the scene in the mitsubishi. the u.s. park police observed

the same mitsubishi in the presidio area of san francisco. the vehicle accelerated a high rate of speed and drove over a median into on coming traffic and fled the area driving the wrong way. u.s. park police subsequently called central police station and notified the central plain-clothed officers of the traffic stop attempt in the evasive maneuvers by the suspect's vehicle driver. at approximately 10:12 p.m., a witness observed an auto burglary at levinworth and jefferson streets in the central police district. the witness in this incident heard glass break and observed the suspect entering a window and retrieve a person bag. the suspect then entered the silver mitsubishi which left the area. the vehicle had the same license plate as the vehicle described in the golden gate park auto burglary.

at approximately 12:20 p.m. an auto burglary occurred at pier 35 in the central district. a witness described the occupant of a silver mitsubishi enter a vehicle. a witness flagged down a passing university of california police department officer who later reported this information to the sfp d. at approximately 12:31 p.m. the department of emergency management broadcast information about a silver mitsubishi with the same license plate number as those previously reported casing vehicles in the area of pier 35. casing is a term used to describe suspicious suspects loitering near vehicles for the suspicion of auto burglary. plain clothed officers ban searching the area.

at approximately one thousand two hundred thirty-five p.m., two plain-clothed officers observed the vehicle going southbound on embarcadero approaching washington street. the officers conducted mobile surveillance of the vehicle and its occupants to observe their actions. the officers observed the occupants of the mitsubishi case a parked vehicle. the officers momentarily lost sight of the suspects and then saw them remove bags and items from the parked vehicle. the suspects got back into the silver mitsubishi which then drove away from the area. at approximately 12:43 p.m. plain-clothed officers observed the suspects. the vehicle continued southbound on the embarcadero and was seen double parked near an audi which was parked on the street. the officers briefly lost sight of the mitsubishi.

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. >> the suspect vehicle then collided with a stopped and occupied vehicle as it proceeded west on barning place. the suspect vehicle was last

seen fleeing north on third street. an officer broadcast a request for an ambulance and additional services to the scene. subsequently, an ambulance arrived and transported mr. pittman to a local hospital. the plainclothes officers involved in this incident were not wearing body-worn cameras,

often referred to as b.w.c.s. current san francisco police department policies allow b.w.c. exemptions if working various assignments. additional video is being sought by officers, and additional witnesses are being sought by investigators. witnesses have been interviewed related to the auto burglary incidents, which, as described, occurred prior to the officer involved shooting. as mentioned, the subject involved in this officer involved shooting is xavier pittman, jr. with a date of birth of january 26, 1998. mr. pittman was arrested by the

san francisco police department and booked in the san francisco county jail on the following charges. auto burglary, five counts. 182-a-1, the california penal code, conspiracy, a felony, five counts. 496-a of the california penal code, possession of stolen property, a felony one count, and 12022.1 of the california penal code, committing a felony while on release, one count. the officer involved in this officer-involved shooting is officer zachary mcculloch. the san francisco district attorney's office and the san francisco department of appeal are conducting an investigation into this incident. the san francisco department of

police accountability is conducting a separate investigation. the sfpd will provide 911 calls, surveillance video, still photos, crime scene investigation photos, maps, and related visual aids. a presentation today consists of relevant known video and audio at this time, but is not intended to provide all photos, videos, or testimonial information related to this investigation. i will now provide a chronological presentation of

this incident using these multimedia resources. the majority of video shown are in their unedited form and are shown as presented to sfpd. at selected points, the video has been enhanced to allow for better perspective of this incident. please note, this incident, the original video, and the enhanced video, will all be available on the sfpd website immediately after this event. prior to the video, i will orient the viewer to the time, place, and location shown. please note that personal identifying information such as names, license plates, and phone numbers have been redacted for callers and

witnesses. redactions will be represented by a relevant [bleep] over the certain information. we are still in the very early stages of an investigation that can take months to complete, and our understanding of this incident may change as additional evidence is collected and reviewed. we do not draw any conclusion as to whether the officers acted consistent with policies and the law until all the facts are known and the investigation is complete. a word of caution, the images and information you are about to see and hear may be disturbing. when a police officer uses force to arrest a suspect or defend against attack, the images are graphic and may be difficult to watch. in addition, there may be strong language used in some of the videos. viewer discretion is advised,

especially for young and sensitive viewers. we encourage those in need of help to contact the san francisco public health crisis line at area code 415-970-3800. again, that's 415-970-3800.

>> this series of incidents included 911 calls, as well as the dispatch calls for service over police radio. this was provided to the san francisco police department from the san francisco department of emergency management. d.e.m. provides dispatch services for the fire and police departments in san francisco. i will now play 12 separate audio clips which consist of 911 calls and police radio transmissions related to this incident. please be advised that you will hear reference to the police radio code 852 several times throughout the following radio

transmissions. 852 is sfpd radio code for an auto burglary or car break-in, and is used by officers and dispatchers during radio communication. the first audio clip is a 911 caller reporting an auto burglary by the japanese tea garden park. >> 911 medical. hello? >> yes. what was that? >> san francisco 911. >> there was a smash and grab on a car. >> where? >> did you get the license plate in golden gate park? hang on a second. [inaudible] >> yeah, the whole group of us saw it. the license plate of the car that took the stuff was [bleep]

and it's a -- can you tell what it is? a silver eclipse. >> can you give me phonetics on the license plate? like b, as in boy? >> yeah, the bs were boys. do you have it? >> yeah. i just need to make sure i copy it correctly. >> so again, it's [bleep]. >> so any weapons? >> yeah. did you see any weapons? they had something to smash the window. >> how many individuals? >> how many? there were three or four. looks like one was in a gray hoodie with black pants with white stripes on it. >> gray hoodie, black pants and

white stripes. >> and a black head covering, balaclava. >> okay. i have an officer on the way, but i need to confirm your location. you're on martin luther king drive? >> is this martin luther king drive? right across from the botanical gardens -- yeah, just north of the japanese gardens, on the right side. >> north of the japanese tea garden. okay. listen, i have officers on the way. which way did the car go? >> i'm sorry -- oh, the car went west. >> on martin luther king drive? >> yeah. >> okay. and the vehicle that they broke into, can you give me a description? >> sure.

it's a [bleep], and their license plate is [bleep]. >> and what color is it? >> it's black, and they broke in the back window. >> so i see that you are near the water. is there, like, a little lake there? are you on the side of the lake or the other side? >> oh, i don't know. is there a lake near here? we're on the road. >> yeah, i think the parallel street is [inaudible] drive. i just wanted to make sure that you are on the martin luther king side. >> yeah -- yes. >> okay. >> if you have a number that the -- i can text the photo? >> unfortunately, i don't have ability to receive texts just yet, but the plate is going to be more than enough, and we can

have the name and number if they need to get the text from him. otherwise, i have the information, and we are broadcasting the information for all officers in the area. did you happen to see the race of the subjects or no? >> no, i didn't see the race. >> or any age at all, how old they might have been? >> age? no -- oh, hang on a second. he's looking. do you have your name and number that she can take down? [indiscernible]. >> not very tall. it looks female, maybe? yeah -- oh, i can't tell the age. >> that's okay. >> but not very tall.

the height of the car, so not very tall. five-something? man, she's looking right at you, yeah. so what's your name? >> my name is [bleep]. >> and your phone number? >> [bleep]. >> okay. and how about your name, sir? >> okay. my name is [bleep]. >> okay. and your call back number? >> [bleep]. >> and you also saw it? >> yes. >> okay. my last question, what did they take from the victim vehicle? >> what did they take from the victim's vehicle? i couldn't tell. could you tell, what did they take? i couldn't tell. they knocked in the back windows and the side windows, so i think -- they just pulled up their car, smashed, grabbed, and left. >> okay. thank you so much for calling. i just want to confirm that

it's a silver eclipse [bleep]. >> yeah. >> thank you so much for calling. we're in the area, and when we get there, we'll be looking for the victim vehicle. >> okay. thank you. bye-bye. >> three audio clips related to audio burglaries near leavenworth and jefferson streets. the first is a 911 call reporting an auto burglary, and the second two clips are dispatch transmissions. >> 911. what's the location of your emergency? >> hi, there. i just saw a robbery happen? do i happen that via you? >> so why don't you tell me exactly what happened? >> i'm sitting in my car in -- near -- around fisherman's wharf in san francisco, and i

was just sitting in my car, on my phone, and i heard a car glass break, and i looked up, and i saw this car parked next -- double parked next to a [bleep]. the guy ran in, broke the glass, reached his body all the way in, and grabbed a purse inside the car. >> okay. where was it exactly? >> okay. let me look up exactly where i am. >> what's your phone number while you're looking? >> [bleep]. >> go ahead and give me the location where it happened. >> yeah, i'm currently on leavenworth street, about midway between jefferson and beach street. >> hold on. let me see here. >> give me the location one more time. >> on leavenworth street,

between -- let's see...i have to move. i was sitting [inaudible] double parked. i was between beach street and jefferson street, about midway on the street. >> and how long ago was this? >> minutes, maybe two minutes ago. >> okay. hold on. one second here. i'm just going to get the officers there now. okay. and were they in a vehicle, the one that broke in? >> yeah, and i took a couple of pictures of the vehicle. >> okay. what's the vehicle? >> sorry. if you don't mind giving me a moment, i need to get a place where i can pull over. >> do you remember from memory what color it was? >> yeah, it was a silver s.u.v.

i don't know -- >> okay. >> i don't know the model. >> that's all right. you might have the license plate, right? >> i have the license plate, that's right. >> okay. okay. and which way did it go? >> it went straight on a street, and there were two other guys on the street who [inaudible]. >> okay. >> but i was trying to call the cops, and i didn't pay attention to what -- >> okay. were they on leavenworth? >> yeah. it was on leavenworth towards the water. >> okay. on leavenworth towards the water? >> yeah. >> okay. hold on a second. and then, the vehicle they broke into, what color was it? >> it was a [bleep], yeah, yeah. >> all right.

>> and i have that -- i have that. >> okay. >> whatchamacallit. >> okay. where are you now? >> i am turning around because the u.p.s. truck was beeping at me to leave, but you'll be back there in just a moment. >> okay. all right. what kind of car are you in? >> i'm in a [bleep]. >> i'm just going to let them know you're coming back.

>> yeah. i don't see them. >> you don't see them? >> no. >> okay. you're on leavenworth? >> yeah, i'm on leavenworth between jefferson and beach. >> okay. i'm letting them know because they were nearby. they got there pretty quick >> yeah, i don't see them, which is pretty odd. >> what's your name? >> [inaudible]. >> they're one block away. >> okay. >> you're still on leavenworth, between beach and jefferson? >> yeah, that's right. >> okay. put your hazard lights on and flash them down when they get

there. hang on one second. do you remember who broke into the vehicle? like, do you remember their race? white, black, hispanic, or asian? >> [inaudible]. >> yeah. was it a male or a female? >> it was a man, like, a tall man. >> a man? how tall? >> i would say between 6 feet and 6'4". >> okay. what was he wearing? >> he was wearing all black. >> okay. what was he using to break into the vehicle? >>, like, honestly, i saw him, like, after he broke into the vehicle? it seems like he was, like,

ready, like, they were prepared, like, to do all of it. >> okay. what's your name? hello? >> sorry. can you hear me now? >> sorry. what is your name? >> sorry. i absolutely muted myself. there's a police officer coming up. my full first name is [bleep]. >> okay. all right. i'll let them know. you see the officer? >> yeah, i do. >> flag them down. >> okay. they're right in front of me now. should i hang up and talk to them? >> yeah. yeah. okay. hang up and talk to them. >> okay. thank you. bye-bye. >> central two, central three [inaudible] leavenworth and

jefferson. [inaudible]. >> -- between jefferson and beach, silver suspect vehicle. trying to get photos. last seen going towards the water. >> 15-charles [inaudible]. >> all right. victim vehicle's a [bleep]. >> [inaudible] updated suspect? >> go ahead. >> it's going to be a mitsubishi s.u.v. >> white or silver in color? >> correct, silver in color s.u.v. >> slips are related to pier 35. they consist of one 911 call

and three police radio transmissions. >> [inaudible] 10-35. they're in a gray mitsubishi [bleep] last seen heading northbound on the embarcadero. >> 15-charles, info [bleep] so the plates have been switched. [inaudible]. >> can you look in the area of pier 35 and look for the suspect vehicle that's on 15-charles' run? >> copy. >> it's going to be a silver mitsubishi s.u.v. the plate on it is [bleep] [inaudible] 909 at pier 35 area. >> only central four 852 cases.

they're in a gray mitsubishi, last seen heading south on embarcadero. info only. >> san francisco 911, what's the exact location of your emergency? >> yeah, no. i'm right in front of pier 35. >> okay. what's the emergency? >> there was a group of dudes they're looking in cars and driving around, checking every car, and yeah. they were cussing at some dudes that noticed that they were looking in their own car, and they were cussing at them, and they drove off. they were four guys dressed in black and had masks on. i have a picture of their license plate so if you want to run that. >> hold on. so they were all in one car? >> yeah, they were all in one car. >> what kind of car was it? >> i think it was a pontiac.

i have the plate if you want that. >> yeah, i'll take that in a minute. what color was the vehicle? >> hold on. so it's a mitsubishi. it's a gray one. >> gray mitsubishi. >> and it's an eclipse cross. >> an eclipse cross, you said? >> yeah. >> and what's the license plate? >> the license plate is [bleep]. yeah, i have a picture. i'm looking at it. >> did you see any marks on these people? >> no, but they were super obvious what they were doing. >> did you see what race they were? >> well, the dude that got out of the car, he was black. >> and you didn't see the other

people in the car. >> no. i saw four people in the car, and they were all dressed alike, in masks. the one dude that got out, he was looking in all the cars. >> did you want to leave your name and phone number? >> yeah. [bleep]. >> okay. and did you want to meet with officers or are you okay? >> no, i'm okay. i'm not from here, any way. >> all right. well, thank you very much for calling in. i appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> by the way, do you see what direction they headed off to? >> they went to -- i'm not very good with cardinal here? >> do you know -- >> they went away from pier 35, yeah, they're on embarcadero. >> heading southbound on embarcadero. thank you very much. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. bye-bye.

>> the next two audio clips consist of police radio transmissions related to audio burglaries at washington and drum streets and washington and the embarcadero. [inaudible] >> go ahead with the model and the plate. >> i'm at the embarcadero, with a gray or light blue mitsubishi s.u.v. >> i think i saw this before. [inaudible]. >> go ahead. >> okay. i think i have a second victim. it's going to be on embarcadero

just across from the fair building. it's right on embarcadero. it's a gray audi. >> is that in the parking lot? >> negative. it's actually right by [inaudible] it's actually parked on the street. >> go with the plate. >> [bleep]. >> the victim is inside the vehicle, copy. >> hey, can you give me a call? >> copy. >> the final two clips consist of radio transmissions made by sfpd officers after the officer involved shooting. >> [inaudible]. >> adam 37, what's your -- >> we've got a silver

mitsubishi s.u.v. that just fled [inaudible] third and we need a 408. >> adam 37, copy. varney at third. >> there's a suspect here, he's got some uncontrolled bleeding from his wrist. varney and jack london. >> varney and jack london, copy. adam 37, do you have direction of travel? >> [inaudible]. >> yeah, we need a code three, tourniquet applied. >> copy. .

>> gray mitsubishi, silver in color. >> [inaudible]. >> 201, i think they just broadcast that car getting on the freeway. >> yeah, last call we got the car was heading to the freeway. last call we got, adam 37 was saying varney towards fourth. >> yeah, we're going to need some units to block off traffic, here at varney and jack london, please, both ends of varney. >> copy. both ends of varney. [inaudible]. >> 201 and 105 or 98.

>> 201 and a 105, copy. >> yeah, 15-charlie on two. [inaudible]. >> adam 15, copy. >> and f.y.i., it's going to be a d.s.w. that's going to give us a hand. >> [inaudible]. >> yeah. coopy, -- copy, can you [inaudible]. >> copy. >> jack london from brandon. >> jack london from brandon,

copy. >> [inaudible] taking commands. it's going to be an o.i.s. >> copy. affirm. it's going to be coming to you guys. >> probably going to be off of bryant. >> [inaudible]. >> yeah, going to give you guys a hand. >> i will now play videos related to the officer involved shooting. the first surveillance video was obtained from a stationary surveillance video. the t-intersection on the right side of the screen is varney place. this is a fixed, video only surveillance camera that does not record audio.

>> i will now play the video from a different point to enhance the parties and location.

>> next is video from a fixed

video only camera located on the north wall of varney place facing east. the suspect vehicle will come into view and park near the wall on the right side of your screen.

>> i will now play the same video, enhanced at certain points to identify the

participants, equipment, and location.

>> the next video is from a fixed camera on the north wall of varney place. this video captures the suspect vehicle fleeing westbound on varney place. a hit and run vehicle collision occurred as the suspect vehicle fled. [inaudible]

>> i will now play the same video which is enhanced at select points. [inaudible]

>> the next video is from a camera on varney place pointed north towards third street. the mitsubishi is seen fleeing north with the rear hatch open, turning north towards third street. >> i will now play the video,

which has, again, been enhanced at certain points. >> our next video is surveillance video showing the suspect video fleeing north onto third street.

>> the next video is the last video. it has been enhanced at certain points. >> i will now display three photographs taken by the crime scene investigations unit during before and after processing. this is a prospective photo of the scene from the east side looking west. the second photo is a photo of the victim vehicle in the hit and run that occurred as the

suspect vehicle fled west on varney place. the third and final photograph is a photograph of officer mcculloch's department-issued firearm. this map, as shown throughout the presentation, marks seven incidents that have been discussed in this presentation. my presentation is complete. we will now hear some additional remarks from chief scott.

>> thank you, commander o'sullivan. to the public, i'd like to point out that we take feedback very seriously. based on feedback we received on officer-involved shooting town halls, we will take information and answer questions as we are able to, understanding that the incident involve on going investigations. we've already received questions from members of the media asking if this shooting was unplanned or accidental discharge? i will address some of the questions now so we can use the time we have for other questions. as i said in my opening remarks, although this investigation has not reached a

final conclusion, i can say that based on what we know at this time, the evidence and the facts of this case, including the video evidence that you saw, witnesses, and our member witness, that the shooting of mr. pittman should not have happened, and i want to say to mr. pittman's family and friends that i am sorry that mr. pittman was shot in this incident. beyond the sorrow that i have expressed, officer mccolloch has asked, through his attorney, that we post his apology in this town hall. the full text of officer mcculloch's statement will be

available on our website at sanfranciscopolice.org. officer mcculloch asked me to convey how bad he feels for this incident. he did not intend for his gun to go off and shoot mr. pittman and wishes mr. pittman a full and speedy recovery. as to the question of whether or not this shooting was or was not intentional, that is a determination to be made by the internal affairs and san francisco office of the district attorney. the shooting, whether unintentional or not, is adjudicated administratively

through the lens and standards of our use of force policy, general order 5.01. that standard classifies a use of deadly force which can be only used as a last resort when reasonable alternatives have been exhausted or not feasible to protect the public or police officers. in summary, an officer is authorized to use deadly force when the officer has reasonable cause to believe that he or she or another person is in immediate danger of death or serious bodily injury. i'd like to reiterate that during the investigation of an officer-involved shooting and at the investigation's conclusion, we look at the facts and evidence through the lens of standards set by our use of force policy and from the lens of our training guidelines to reach an administrative conclusion.

those standards are purposefully set very high, and our use of force policy is considered by many to be a model policy. at this point in the investigation, we are focused administratively in looking at this case through the lens of our use of force general order, as i mentioned, 5.01, general order 8.11, as well as our arrest and control manual and regard to the physical control tactics and physical arrest of mr. pittman. for any persons that are following this case and would like to compare the facts as we know them today to the use of force general orders or any other general orders, all of them can be found at

sanfranciscopolice.org. now i would like to say a few words to the san francisco police officers. i and the administrative staff expect a lot from you. sometimes even perfection. as a chief, i realize how difficult your job is, especially during this time in policing. our city has been plagued the last several weeks by car break-ins. the work that has been doing concerning car break-ins was exactly what i and the department expects you to do. we, the san francisco police department, and all of its members, owe it to the public and ourselves as committed professionals to our profession to continue to prevent, detect, and solve car break-ins and all crime in our city and vigorously pursue and hold

accountable those who victimize residents and visitors to our city. to the sfpd officers, we still have a job to do. please keep your heads up and your spirits up and continue to do the great job that you do day in and day out. lastly, before we take the public's questions, i'd like to update on you what steps we have taken to update our policies and training. first, until first notice, i have directed all operations in plain clothes to continue their office operations but not

conduct plainclothes operations until we can look at the policy. [please stand by] >> our assistant chief met with all districts and explained

these steps to them and explained to them why we are doing what we are doing. and i need to let the public know that our command staff, the district station captains, the plain-clothed supervisors are on board and we will now take questions from the public. >> the public comment portion of this town hall will now begin. the length of time for public comment will be one hour. to call in to the meeting, please call 1 (669) 900-6833. again, that's 1 (669) 900-6833. please enter meeting code

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ask now. >> hello, is that me? >> yes. >> okay. i noticed that chief scott [inaudible] if he apologize to the officer who was put in that position who does not know whether his life is in danger or not. that is my question. >> i'm sorry. can you repeat your question? >> can i ask my question now?

>> it appears that caller disconnected. however, we have another raised hand. >> hello. >> go ahead with your comment. >> hi, this is xavier pitman's mother. when can i speak? hello? mother. >> can i speak?

>> when can i speak? hello? >> hello? can you hear me. >> we can hear you but it sounds like you're standing next to a broadcast and it's catching feedback. >> oh, okay. so i'm calling, i first of all would like to thank the chief for his excellent broadcast today. i also would like to say that my son was shot in his wrist which shattered his wrist. he has pins and rods in his wrist. he was also hit in his main

artery. he also was took into custody. after he was already obtained and detained by the officer. we have no evidence that my son even exited his vehicle due to the fact that your officers were on stand by on the side of the building. so my son actually appeared at

court today for this matter, so basically my son is disabled for the rest of his life due to your officer accidentally shooting his gun. discharging his firearm. this kid is 23 years old and will never be able to work for the rest of his life.

due to your officer accidentally discharging his firearm on a car burglary suspect. when does that ever go on? >> i'm going to try to address your question as best that i can. as i stated in the presentation, we have not adjudicated this case yet and the reason that i apologized to you and your family and your son was because we believe at this point in the investigation, this shouldn't

have happened. you're absolutely right. it should not have happened. we still have some investigation to do and, thank you so much for calling in and it gives me an opportunity to say this to you. i'm truly sorry for what happened to your son and as far as the criminal justice system, a case and the evidence will go its course through the criminal justice system in terms of the car burglaries and, you know, we'll see where that lands, but in terms of the officer-involved shooting which is the reason we're here today, it should have not have happened and we are sorry. >> we have another raised hand. >> please mute the broadcast while you're making your comments so that we can hear you clearly. >> yes.

i'm curious how after reported of six, seven incidents where a crime is committed in our city and action is being taken to resolve that. but, of course, it was an accident, but at what point do you support the officers? they are putting their life on the line and it seems like a simple mistake, but these people were committing crimes and they were stealing and they were being reckless in our city and they come from another city. so when do we harbor our own identity for safety? >> thank you for your call. and, again, going back to what i said earlier, our officers day in and day out do an outstanding job and they do

exactly what we ask them to do to address this issue and they were doing that up to the point where this incident turned into an officer involved shooting we do need to support our officers. at the same time, we have to hold ourselves accountable. so at the end of all of this, we will measure the officer's performance in the lens of the use of force report. we'll take into account all factors and we will make the appropriate decision, but thank you for calling. officers do need to be supported. this is a hard job and they have to make split second decisions and for anybody who's listening in the audience, i'm not making excuses for officers doing their job, but what i'm saying is when we do our job, public expect us to do it right particularly when we use a firearm and we have to make sure that we use our firearms

when we have to use it through the lens and the standards of our use of force policy and that's ultimately thousand this case will be measured. but i know our officers do a good job because i see the work day in and day out and you're absolutely right, they do. and they were doing what we asked them to do in terms of addressing the car burglary problem in this city when this incident happened. >> we have another raised hand. >> so once again, i would like to thank the chief again for his phenomenal broadcast today. i also would like to address a couple of the other situations,

so i am all for protect and serve. i do not agree with anything that's going on as far as criminal activity within our city. let's get that straight. so my thing is, you know, from what my understanding is, an officer is only supposed to discharge his firearm if his life is in danger. now, if my son was already apprehended by his partner and another officer gun was accidentally discharged, how about if he would have shot his partner on accident. and, you know, i hear all these people coming on here, you know, regarding the officers and the officers did what they're supposed to do, but if this was your child, you'd be saying the same thing as well. here we are again. i'm totally with protect and serve. i'm an honest person of the

community and i do not agree with anything that's going on as far as crimes and everything being committed. i do not tolerate it. i do not indulge in it or anything of that nature, but at the same time, you have to remember this 23-year-old child that was shot and it's a very sensitive situation. so we are coming out here glorifying these cops that discharge their firearm accidentally, i feel some type of way about that. i hold no malice. i hold no grudge. shit happens in the world. for you to glorify a police for shooting a young african american child when this is going on normally, it's not

okay. >> okay. we have another raised hand. >> yeah. i agree, i understand the sensitive subject of the matter, but at the same time, these are the people that keep us safe. if people are committing crimes, and they're being

reported and there's numerous events of illegal activity, then something needs to happen. and it's unfortunate that what happened happened. you know, but it's -- the streets need to be safe and it's not safe with the stuff that's going on. so you need to keep that in mind when we go through these issues. it's about accountability. >> there are no more raised hands at this time. >> at this time, we have no hands raised. i will read the instructions to call in please call

1 (669) 900-6833 enter meeting code 848 4423 3181. enter pass code 773 772. we have no additional callers. we will end the broadcast in one minute. >> we have a raised hand. >> hi, chief scott. as you said multiple times, this shooting should not have occurred. regardless of whether this was an accident or the result of

criminal negligence, it seems that this will likely result in the panel of significant settlement by the city to the victim. do you support taking these legal pay-outs out of the sfpd budget or do you believe that violent misconduct settlements are simply the cost of doing business? thank you. >> thank you for your call. the city, it comes out of the city's budget, the general fund and definitely that as you mentioned if this case goes in that direction and comes out of the city's budget. it impacts the city's availability of funding and those cases are settled in court and by a legal process. so we don't know what's going to happen on this case, but i can say to your question as best i can answer it, it comes out of the city's budget and impacts our availability of funds. thank you for your call.

>> at this time, we have no hands raised. in one minute we will end the

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hi everyone. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and it has been a very, very challenging year for all of us in san francisco, but i've got to tell you, we're coming alive again. we're starting to open the city again. i see you urban alkamine. thank you for all the work you do to keep us safe out here. we are here today because we are taking an additional step further to get the city re-opened. i'm joined by a number of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our

librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they more than almost any other department have been working as disaster service workers to help address this pandemic. they've been down at covid command at mascone center showing up every day doing whatever it takes. organization. going out to our hotels where we are helping to support our homeless residents. going out to the community hubs to help support our kids. preparing virtual lesson plans and reading time. i did a reading time for kids during this pandemic as well virtually, of course. doing so many incredible things to help get our city going during a very challenging time. i know many of us, we wish we didn't have to go through this this past year, but what we

should look at is the sacrifices we made and where we are now today. san francisco has vaccinated about 60% of the residents here in the city, more than the state and national average. and, over 85% of of those who are over the age of 65 have been vaccinated. we are on the road to recovery. yes, covid is still here whether we want it to be or not. yes, we still have to do our parts and distance and wear a mask and not get too comfortable because the last thing we need is another surge and the need to shut this city down again, but the fact is san franciscans, we are on the road to recovery. we are on the road to building a stronger san francisco. and, that gives me hope for the

future and, today is not just talking about our recovery. it's also looking at re-opening our city. re-opening our libraries. of course, we're going to start with the main library and then we're going to head over to chinatown, mission, and a number of the community libraries and i don't know if you know this, but i grew up in san francisco, and, at that time, there wasn't all this computer internet stuff that we had today. we had to actually go to the library because we would get a look report assignment and the western edition library was my library of choice. i went to ben franklin middle school. and we had to go through a card catalog to find the book, it was in alphabetical order and

that's how we did things. now it's all computerized, it's easy. and, in fact, i still have a library card and now i download my audio books and other things for free. so all those books i forgot to bring back, they just disappear after they expire on my phone. a lot different than it used to be. no excuse for those of us who want to take advantage of reading, of using the computers and other things in the library, we're finally opening and i just, i can't be more grateful to this department and what they have done. all of its employees. all of the people of san francisco, we did this together. we made this happen together. yes, we have our challenges like any other major city. we still have so much work to do to unaddress the inequities that continue to exist in our

society. but we're in a good place right now and we should be proud. we can take a moment. we can take a moment to enjoy this time and to recognize the fact that we are here, that we have an incredible opportunity, and we have a future to look forward to. that's what today is about. it starts with our libraries. the giants and the warriors are now able to play with fans. i saw folks out there soccer leagues, a bunch of kids playing in soccer leagues. i went to the tennis center in golden gate park, packed with people. of course, being responsible, i saw folks walking their dogs and doing all kinds of fun stuff in our amazing parks system. so we are on the road to recovery and i am looking forward to the day when we can finally throw these masks in the area and wave them like we

just don't care because i don't even know what any of you look like anymore. so, with that, thank you so much. today is about opening our libraries as a first step in our road to recovery along with other many of our incredible city assets for the public to enjoy and, with that, to talk more specifically about our library and the work that we're going to be doing to move our city forward is our city librarian michael lambert. >> thank you so much. it feels so good to be here. thank you, madam mayor. thank you, so much for your leadership for guiding us all through this past year and welcome everyone. today is a special day. i'm so honored to be here with mayor breed and announce the

books are back and your san francisco public library is re-opening. as our mayor mentioned, she is a power user of the library's collections and we appreciate all her support for our institution and our library staff. i also want to acknowledge the president of the san francisco public library commission, dr. mary wardell garduzi and library commissioners connie wolf, dr. aronia lopez and commissioner john lee and the executive director marie zapella. thank you all so much for your advocacy and leadership on behalf of our library system. also here, is carol eisen. i have to say carol has been a

tremendous partner this past year working with our staff who have been activated as disaster service workers and more recently helping us to recall staff so we can re-open the library. thank you, carol, for your partnership. it's so excitingtor here at this moment and i am beyond thankful that we're finally able to re-open our libraries for in-person services. it's been a long, hard 13 months, but now we're in a position to safely re-open our libraries for brows and bounce. patrons will be able to experience browsing our stacks again something i know they have dearly missed. we'll also have our public access computers available for printers and high-speed internet access. and, it's really fitting

we'll still be offering spl to go and next week we're going to open the patrero branch and the west portal branch tuesday. we should have all of our branches re-opened by the fall before the start of school. and i really want to thank the community for all your patience and support. you've hung in there and i just really appreciate all your patience as we phase this re-opening and the coming weeks and months ahead. at this time, i'd like to introduce our city administrator carmen chiu. in 2019, city administrator chiu partnered with the challenge initiative to compile a woman's book list to inspire the next generation of women leaders. we're so fortunate to have her support in getting our libraries re-open.

city administrator chiu. >> when i was a little girl, i can remember going to the library. i maxed out every single book i could possibly get with my library card. it was always some kind of a cartoon, garfield or whatever it might have been at the time. and, i have to say how important it was for me to be able to access the library. my parents didn't have a whole lot of money. it wasn't as if we could go to a store and pick out a book or the latest edition we've been hearing about or reading about in school. for me, and many people like me in my community, being able to go to the public library was the one place you got to go where you had the opportunity to get the books you saw in school. you were able to borrow and bring it home. take to your bed or read it on the couch. it was a place that created opportunities. the opportunity to dream and

the opportunity to learn. and i think for so many san franciscans, being able to see the libraries re-open, our public libraries re-open is a blessing. i think san francisco has among the best library system in the entire country and i want to thank michael lambert, our city librarian and all of our commissioners, our friends of the library, our mayor for your support of our library system. today, when we think about this announcement, why i'm so excited, you know, covid-19 has not been kind to people. it's a disease that has required that we went against every single nature of our being staying away from our friends, our families, being disconnected from one another, being isolated and, in particular, for people who are seniors, for our kids. and, so, when we think about bringing back our libraries, it's more than just being able to access books free and wonderful library services and education, it's about coming back together as a community.

and, when i think about how exciting it is that not only the main is opening but that chinatown branch is opening and mission branch is opening, it makes me proud because we're also thinking about the communities that are underserved and not only that, but the community that is live in the most community residential neighborhoods. so i want to thank the library for not only being a place where we can learn but being a safe place for our community to come back together. i want to thank the mayor for all of 0er leadership. i can't imagine a single meeting with the mayor that she hasn't thought about what are we going to do about bringing people back together. what are we going to do about mental health and i want to thank her because she has been constantly pushing not only for us to re-open, but to do it in a safe way, to remember that at the end of the day, we have to make sure we keep our community safe and to do this together. so i want to thank her for her

leadership. and, finally, my last thanks really goes to the workers, the staff of the public library. at its peak, there were 600 san francisco public library workers who were deployed as disaster service workers. the folks helping to pass out food at the pantries. the folks coming to the command center coming to help with all the things we needed. now, we still have 150 who are still deployed. they have been a critical part of our whole response and i just want to thank them for not only the work they continue to do in our emergency response, but for all the work that they are going to be going as we re-open our branches. today is a great day. the sun is shining on us and we are so thrilled. congratulations to the library system. >> thank you. speaking of the san francisco public library staff, we want to thank shauna sherman for joining us today. she runs the african american center here at the main, but

she worked as a contact tracer and we really appreciate people like you and others for the work that you continue to do to uplift the community. and so, i know that and, again, carol, thank you for getting all of the staff back to the library because, let me tell you, i know it was hard work but because many of the library staff felt so dedicated to the work of helping to support the city, yes, they wanted to come back to work, but they also wanted to finish the work they were doing to address this pandemic. so, again, we want to say thank you so much for your hard work and all that you did to help this city throughout this pandemic. and, unlike carmen chiu who probably returned her books to the library when she was a kid, thank goodness i waived all those fines and fees of the past because i'd be in real trouble right now. forgive me, library.

forgive me. [ laughter ] but, with that, thank you all again to the commissioners, the friends of the public library. so many incredible people who care deeply about making sure that people in this city have access to books, that they have access to educational materials to computers and all the things that can help nurture and grow your mind, but also a really good for your soul. so, with that, i want to open it up to questions. do we have any questions? no questions. easy. easy day today. all right. thank you all so much. take care.

public utility. i'm so may maxwell. will you call the roll police. [roll call] >> commissioner jeremy will join at 2:30 today. we have a correspond rum. before we move on i'd like to make an announcement. due to the covid-19 health emergency and public health recommendations issued by the department of public health and what the governor have lifted the meetings on teleconference. if you are watching the live