one from the organization formerly called cat. i encourage folks to come the next day. i think it's in a couple of weeks for the nextinstallation unitunits i encourage people to see the process . >> chair bustos: that's race . great. hearing no other questions or comments, please call the next item . >> the next order of business is item10, closed session . the next order of business is number 11, adjournment. >> chair bustos: fellow commissioners, wewould need a motion and a second to adjourn only i have a motion ? >> commissionerscott: i moved to adjourn the meeting at 2 pm .

>> that is your first and your second. >> chair bustos: thank you commissioners and thank you staff for a great presentation andthank you for the members of the public for listening . thankyou everybody . motion to adjourn. thank you. >> thank you everyone, have a greattuesday . >> >> president cohen: welcome to the regularly scheduled police commission meeting. it's wednesday, 5:36 on june 16th, 2021 and we are excited and fired up and ready to go to do our job.

we have a full house of commissioners and we've got a full agenda. with that said, please, sergeant, call the roll. [roll call] you have a quorum. we have chief william scott and director paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> president cohen: all right. we've got a quorum and the police department and dph started. >> clerk: line item 1, general public comment. at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up two minutes not on tonight's agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. under rules of order during public department, neither

police or dpa are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. comments are opportunities to speak during public comment are available calling (415)655-0001 and entering 187 839 7529. press pound and then pound again. dial star 3 if you wish to make a comment. you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. e-mail the secretary of the police commission at sfpd.commission at sfgov.org or written comments may be september via u.s. postal service at 1245 third street, san francisco, california, 94158.

>> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: my name is susan buckman and i am with the core team of wealth and disparities in the black communities founded by felicia jones. tonight, the police department will discuss officer joel babs. throw years ago, we did a press conference and press release regarding officer babs. who filed a complaint against sfpd and the police commission in 20717 after he witnessed numerous racist incidents at sfpd and recorded them. babs' story can be found on the san francisco superior course website cgc-17-561687 filed october 3rd, 2017. here is just one of the allegations. many of which were substantiated by dhr. per officer babs 2017 complaint. a sergeant tom says to officer babs, regarding a 15-year-old

black girl without an identification. quote, deal with your people. end quote, she's getting all ghetto. officer babs stated he objected to and took offense at these comments and sergeant tomorrow'm reported him and racist action are named in the complaint. the thoughts and actions by these quote -- anti black policing in terms of per-capita arrest and use of force. are we to believe this is a problem with individuals and not a systemic one when we already know the latter to be the case. are we then not supposed to be disgusted and alarmed that we've heard nothing about follow-up on the complaints by joel babs about the violent racism in the department and yet we are now

hearing and the whistleblower. >> thank you, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, my name is defend and and in san francisco police department report tonight, sfpd will tell us about progress against the department of justice's community oriented policing services or dha recommendations they have been work under these recommendations for five years for three different mayors and under federal and state attorney general oversight. sfpd seems to have a little to know urgency in completing these measures. and state doj deadline for 230 of the 272 recommendations to be substantially compliant. sfpd missed that deadline having missed 175 recommendations substantially compliant as of

that date. where are the consequence force that? what is the police commission going to do about that? last week in the presentation, community perspectives on policing disparities, the presenters talked about consequences and where are the consequences for sfpd when it fails to do what it's supposed to do? tonight, sfpd has 187 substantially compliant recommendations still fall short of the total. the city of san francisco government promised san franceance the commissioner of all these recommendations, recently chief scott suggested it could now go into 2023 or even 2024 and require more money for analysis and research. research was done back in 2016. and there's been research before that and faced by black san franciscans. when will the sfpd be held accountable for doing what it's supposed to be doing.

another the hands of sfpd. when will the police commission do it's job and holding them accountability. justice delayed is justice denied. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: hi, my name is (inaudible) and i'm with wealth and disparities for black communities founded by felicia jones. the police commission will be discussing officer joel babs and back in 2017 we did a press conference with officer babs to the black officer who was with sfpd for 25 years at the time. officer babs filed a complaint against sfpd and the police commission in 2017 after babs witnesses racist accidents at sfpd and reported them and then experienced retaliation. when he shared something alarming and allegations and officer babs' original 2017 complaint which came during time and the justice had just come

into investigate years of racism and killings and primarily plaque and brown people. for babs 2017 complaint, one officer remarked about yeah, she's got a great body. she's the only black woman i'd do unquote. it describes babs was told about chases and beatings by police of (inaudible) and such as one tale told by lie tenant pain and chasing black citizens including with his car on duty in the bayview and bragged about punch a woman in the face breaking her finger like a twig unphotographic. this is only a small sample. tonight we demand status of police commissions investigations and to the rampant racism noted in officer back's 2017 complaint. before the demand these allegations, many of found justified and accurate is officially noted in the complaint and be considered crucial findings. on going systemic antiblack

racism within the department of the type required by officer babs victimizes the population. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening, this is ms. brown and i'm calling concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. still to this day, his case isn't solved. i recently met with mike philpott and tiffany sutton concerning the digital farm i've been asking for for some years now about getting a venue and loved one in the uninvolved homicide. and we finished the digital form already and the person that mike philpott got and so we e-mailed your secretary chief scott and

trying set up a date so that we can meet with you and to talk about the digital form that is outright now and so we can get that done to get the digital form out there and for the unsolved homicides. i would just wonder what was going on with that i appreciate if you -- i know your secretary said something about july that you are pretty busy but i would just wondering if we can hurry up and do something about it. my son's anniversary is coming up on the 14th. i'm feeling some type of way. i hope you would consider meeting with us to get the

digital form out there and they're going to give me the thing for my healing circle we have every second and fourth thursday so mothers and fathers know their loved ones pictures out there and it won't bring closure but it will bring a sense of comfort that they know the police department is caring about their loved ones. >> members of the public that have any knowledge regarding the homicide of aubry call the 24/7 hotline at (415)575-4444. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: president cohen, commissioners, chief scott, this is zack from the public defenders office. it was refreshing to hear the presentation about the open police commission and the community police for new agencies feature projects. i hope this commission can work together to come up with an

agenda or plan for the next year. every week in the commissioner reports i hope to hearing what is being worked on but i usually hear an event the commissioner attended or which officers welcomed them to visit the station. also last week we heard fantastic ideas about what can be done and changes that would have an immediate effect on the long standing disparity in the way people of color are policed. this list is an answer to the question that chief scott posed two weeks ago in his presentation on the report when we set said police data shows disparities but there's no proven solution. we've all agreed on the problems and we have a pool of possible solutions and it's time to try something new rather than wait for other departments across the country to take bold steps to prove a solution works. the chief continues a list outlines a list of noteworthy or high-profile cases each week and how about a weekly breakdown of traffic stops? a tally of the number of uses of force in a week or modifications to tactics to try and directly address the disparity so we can

start to see what works and what doesn't. thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: hello, my name is jean bridges and i'm an original member of the core team of wealth and disparities in the black community founded by felicia jones. tonight on the commission agenda is officer joel babs and back in 2017, we did a press conference and a press release with officer babs who a black veteran of the sfpd. officer babs filed a complaint against sfpd in the police commission in 2017 after retaliation he experienced from reporting racist incidents at sfpd. we want to share some of the alarming and in many cases officially substantiated allegations in that original 2017 babs complaint which is on the sf superior website. filed october 3rd, 2017.

per that complaint, regarding the doj cops report we are discussing tonight lieutenant pain told officers during an october 2016 morning lineup, per page 8, quote, the doj cannot say the police are racist. they have to acknowledge the problems in the african american communities. also, quote, you are saying cops are racist but maybe plaques are out of control. they are murdering people at a higher rate. unquote. and quote, african american people commit more crimes unquote. this is a small sample of racist remarks reported. during that time warning a sergeant tom allegedly said quote, the black people you are stopping are doing something wrong. unquote. and quote, the problem is those people draw attention to themselves. unquote. babs' complaints cites dhr findings that retaliation and the dhr found that lieutenant pain and an officer subjected babs to racist behavior in the workplace and in other words, the dhr found that babs'

complaints were valid and so where is the action on the part of sfpd and the police commission on babs' complaints to root out the racist in the department or are they more interested in allegations against babs rather than the 2017 whistleblower report which is already been in many respect- >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: yes, this is yolanda williams i'm sure you are aware of who i am and i'm the president of the officers for justice peace association and i have been a whistleblower known to this police department. i can attest to the fact that there has been consistent acts of systemic racism, racist and homophobic behavior and it doesn't surprise me that retaliation occurs when a whistleblower speaks out. it has to stop. it needs to stop now. and i tell you that if we don't see some change, ofj will be

entering into a lawsuit again with the san francisco police department very similar to what we did back in 1973 and i'm sure we will win. thank you. >> thank you, caller. and president cohen that, is the end of public comment. i appreciate hearing you and your concerns. sergeant, please call the next item? >> line item 2, concept calender. receive and file action. sfbd first quarter 2021 sfpd monthly sb14-21 report. dpasb14-21 report. items are routine and for information purposes only. if any commissioner would like to discuss the items under the consent calendars please add voice president cohen that you would like to place them on a future agenda for presentation and discussion.

tonight there's no discussion or presentations on these items. >> president cohen: there's a reason you want to talk about on the consent calender? all right. seeing none. let's take public comment on the consent and we'll take an action item and we'll move this item. >> clerk: members of the public, that would like to make public comment regarding line item 2, press star 3 now. press cohen, there's no public comment. >> president cohen: great. thank you, very much. may i have a motion on this item? >> motion. >> motion made by commissioner elias. is there a second. >> second. >> president cohen: thank you. second heard hamasaki. please call the roll on this item. >> clerk: on the motion to

accept consent calender items -- [roll call vote] >> clerk: you have five yeses. >> president cohen: this motion passes unanimously. please, call the next item. >> clerk: line item 3, reports to the commission discussion. chief's report. crime trends and offenses occurring in san francisco. major significant incidents, provide a summary of planned activities comments. this will include a brief overview of unplanned events and tiffany's san francisco having a impact on police station safety. and will be limited to determining whether to calender for a future meeting. >> good evening, president cohen, voice president elias and commission and i don't see

executive and the evening. >> he is waiting. >> he is there. >> thank you. press. i i will get into some of the details of what happened this past week. we have a 8% year to date and a of difference a little less than 200 crimes and homicides are as of friday would a negative and we did have one since then and so we are actually even with where we are were this time last year and rates and rates and robberies are down and double digit and we are still up in bug lar he's and to a 7% and over

this time last year and stats are up 9% and arson suppose 15% and larceny and thefts are down 14%. which is a difference of almost 2,000 crimes fewer than this time last year. and in terms of our homicides, we've solved half of them, eight of the cases or nine of the cases year to date have been involved but we've also solved previous year cases so our clearance rate is 100%. gun violence is up significantly at 119% increase and again, that's declining from where we were earlier in the year but we still have a ways to go on our gun violence and getting a handle on that. out of our gun violence we've had 9 total incidents with 103 victims total. 12 of those victims were

homicide victims and 91 were non fatal shooting victims. if you look at the five-year trends, from 2016 to 2020, we actually trended downward on our gun violence and year to date and then this year we have a pretty significant spike and it's consistent with shootings. our year to date station report, as far as our gun violence, we have increases in seven of the 10 stations in terms of gun violence incidents and bayview, mission, northern park and tenderloin are all up. the most significant in terms of percentages is mission and richmond and even with where they were and this time last year richmond has zero and shooting incidents and year to date and the rest of the months

are up with the exception of year to date june which were down from where we were this time last year in june. june was a pretty challenging month last year after civil unrest across the country and we hope we can keep things down and moving through this summer. as for the specific incidents, we had a homicide on 6/10/21 at market and jones. our tenderloin units, deployed in the area, actually shots were fired and they chased the subject and were not able to app re end them at that time. our victim was located and suffered from multiple gunshot wounds and even though life saving measures were performed, on the victims, he was

transported and was pronounced at the hospital at san francisco general hospital. crime alert was created and we've actually taken a suspect into custody on that case and those charges have been filed by our district attorney's office. june 10th, 2021 we had a significant narcotics arrest at eighth and albert street. the suspect was active on parole for the california department of corrections for manslaughter. a homicide investigators developed enough cause to arrest him and our suspect was later booked for 187 p.c. record that was our suspect from our homicide that i reported so narcotics was involved in that incident. on june 14th, just a couple days ago, we also had a homicide that was outside of the reporting per idea and it was significant so i will report it. officers responded to the area

of willow and franklin and located a victim, a hispanic male 60-years-old inside of a tent. he had gunshot wounds to his head area and witnesses confirmed that they believe the shooting occurred apparently about 20 minutes prior to the officers' arrival. we do not have the suspect identified in this case, as of yet. our reporting person and reporting people actually were interviewed and that investigation is ongoing. if any witnesses saw anything that might lead to an identity of the suspect in this particular homicide, please call (415)575-4444. and again, that investigation is ongoing. there are two other shooting incidents that i would like to report on june 12th, at 8:24p.m., on magnum street in the tenderloin.

officers responded to a shot and per witnesses located young ladies were yelling at each other and one of the women took out a firearm and opened fire. the women got in a vehicle and fled. the suspects got in a vehicle and fled and as they were driving off, say woman with the gun fired at the vehicle and fled in another vehicle. our dispatch and a victim walked into mount zion and was transferred. that case is on going as well and we do believe where following up on that particular case. on june 13th, at 4:07a.m., officers responded to a shooting at golden gate and the tenderloin. they were located on hyde street

and the first victim suffered from a single gunshot wound to the head and the second victim was identified and suffered from a gunshot wound to the upper body and lower body. the third gunshot victim was located near the corner of mcallister street and hyde and uc hastings and that victim was also shot in the upper body. so witness statements a group of about 15 to 20 people were at the location when an unknown suspect within that group fired one shot at the victim from several feet away. the suspect then stepped into the street and fired five additional shots towards the group and striking the second victim. the suspect then chased another person southbound on i street to mack i will is ter and fired three or four more shots in the middle of the street and the suspect fled in an unknown direction from mcallister street. there were no observed fights, conflicts or arguments within

the groups prior to the shooting. our unit responded and is investigating and we are all following up on evidence on that case so we hope that we can bring that case to a resolution as well. this was at 4:00 in the morning. an individual shooting into a crowd that apparently was unprovoked. strategies, our officers have been signed to our business corridors and will be continuing to engage with our merchants and residents about crime in the area and their concerns. the presence we hope will serve to decrease some of the crime that happened in those business corridors. our foot beats are deployed from irving corridor from 7:00 to 24 during our daytime hours. two officers are deployed daily. officers, one officer is deployed on westportal and from ulloa to sloat and they watch

officers will work that beat in the 6:00 p.m. daily and from ocean and lee to 19th avenue, our day watch officers will be working that beat, two officers until 6:00 p.m. daily and again, this deployment is about engagement and trying to prevent crimes from occurring and being visible. if we see a crime in progress, officers will take action on those particular types of incidents. and the mission district, our outreach team has been contacting residents and fostering relationships with individuals experiencing homelessness to ensure they have access to city services. so, we are actually are trying to engage to help people in need of help and work with our community members and doing so and also on the mission, our foot beats are deployed and the cast tree from 6:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. two officers on each of those

shifts and then 24th street corridor day catch up until 9:00 p.m. we have an officer deployed on foot, 16th and mission, we also have officers deployed and up until 9:00 p.m. and we actually are able to adjust our deployment outside of those hours as appropriate and again it's about prevention and deterrens and presence to cut down on the street crimes occurring in those areas and to engage with the public. in the park district, officers have been conducted burglary hotspots and our auto car break in hotspots because we have seen an unboost in car break ins and. officers also deploy rates and everyday and we are four officers in total and at least two officers are working everyday and sometimes more. and we will continue to do that to address some of the issues

including in our and general and they are distributing burglary prevention information to community members sf safe also did a garage door lock initiative that people can walk out of and they've been a target and those lots will help to deter some of that so, can you contact and either home and section or a lock which you can get at no cost. our guns this year still continues over last week's pace and we've had 164 ghost guns

seized this year compared to 77 this time last year and if you look back to 2016, it's grown almost doubled or more than doubled each year and with the exception of 2018 to 2019. so that is still a focus of our attention trying to get those doses off the streets and we will continue to focus on that through our crime gun intelligence center and oir investigators that are investigating or gun related crimes. just a few other incidents and we had a victim in the bayview station that reported that the car was broken into, a rental car, and the rear passenger window was broken. and a large amount of currency, watches, computer equipment, passports and other items were taken and the resulting loss valued over $200,000 that the victim reported.

so that was significant and again, please, reminder to the public, do everything you can to not leave valuables in your car if you can avoid it. if you have to leave them in the car, please lock them in a locked trunk because unfortunately, some people, when they see property in a car, they will break into cars and take it. so, we can hopefully continue to working with the public on trying to prevent these crimes from occurring but not making it easy to be a victim. we had an and taylor in the tenderloin. officers were called out to a location to assist with a person with an improvised weapon. and they swung a bottle and the struggle ensued down the hall of the reception area and the

receipt department was able to subdue the suspect long enough to place her in the bobbie on her back in the log' and get on the elevator and escape. the officer sustained a laceration to her right, middle finger and they took them into the ground without further incident and the officer is expected to recover fully. other significant incidents. aggravated assault at the 100 block of heroine' way and officers suspected to trying to punch the victim and they made contact with the suspect and handcuffed him and noted that the suspect was not taking medications for mental diagnosis

and the victim was an 81-year-old man who was located in the area and he had facial injuries and complaining of pains to his face and the victim located reported that he was just in the area bird watching with his wife when the suspect walked towards him and without provocation, lunched him if the face and a by cinder helped him until officers arrived and took the suspect into viewed. the victim and suspect were transported to a local hospital. the suspect was released from the hospital and booked at the county jail for assaulting the victims and these victims this was a case that was unprovoked the the suspect was in crisis that led to this crime occurring or this incident occurring. the other significant incidents we had the arrest of the serial wanted burglar this was on june 7th. this is at the southern station

offices on june tenth at 6:02. they found a southern station and sixth and laura street and recognize our suspect who was a 39-year-old san francisco receipt department and placed the suspect under arrest and he was booked at the county jail on several warrants and we think it was a high-end arrest and we have our investigation as led to this suspect is involved in a number of burglar he's in our city and so we will be working with the district attorney office on this particular case there was an incident all over the news in the last couple of days and this was a shoplift and wall greens at the 300 block of go street and the and it

happened at 8:18a.m. and the suspect entered a wall greens store on a bicycle and with a large, black garbage-type bag, our suspect placed several products and items and medicines in his bag and then left the store without paying. he is well-known to officers and he is burglarized this store on numerous is occasions from our investigators and investigate processes we know that the suspect has committed similar acts in that store and he has been identified and we are looking for the suspect who we believe to be local in the city so we'll continue to search for this particular individual and hopefully take him in custody and work with the district attorney office as he as been involved in several incidents involving threats out of these types of businesses.

there was side show event. there was a event at 1:09. 200 vehicles caravaned into the city and they began their activity at barnville and mckinnon and bayview. police officers in the vehicles was closed in by participants vehicles and was unable to move. they threw bottles at the officer and he got out of that encirclement through dispersion techniques by other officers who arrived at the scene to assist. the event was disband and broken up and they reformed at 13th and south van ness. at this location, they participants and there were displays of commercial fireworks while the side show was going on and the stunt driving event was going on. officers responded to that

location and disbursed the group and the group retreated back to the bayview to moran and illinois. officers responded from our stunt driving response unit. they disbursed the crowds and the participants fled to mission and randall before another response caused them to leave the city and go back towards oakland. this happens between the hours of 1:09:00 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. so those four incidents that i described, every time the officers moved into break these efforts up, they moved. we move in and they moved to another location and they finally left across the bridge and left the city. we are investigating and conducting follow-up investigations on these cases and if we have enough evidence to legally be able to take action against either the owner of the vehicle or persons we identified who have been

identified involved in this dangerous driving, we are following up with both car sees seizures and criminal charges being pursued. the rest of my report our june teen celebrations will tick off this week and they're starting tomorrow at city hall at 12:00 p.m. and they're also events at the embarcadero at the ferry terminal plaza on june 19th and also in the fill more at and then sf june event will be on june 20th at gilman park from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and our officers will be engaged and celebrate as a community. fourth of july, the department is participating in the planning efforts for the upcoming fourth

of july celebration. we have have satisfying and and it draws very large crowds and i'm sure this year it will be no different. and participating in these events include a movie night this past weekend. the giants will be in town until 6-20 and the philadelphia phillys and at chase center right now but concerts season will be starting in a couple of months.

and that is it from our report and thank you for allowing me a few extra minutes to be descriptive of everything that happened this past week. >> president cohen: thank you, very much, chief for that turo report out. colleagues, do you have any questions for the chief? anything? chief, did you talk about the public safety night with sf safe? >> the meeting that we just had this week? >> yeah. >> i did not. i can stay a little bit more. >> you can share something on that too? >> thank you, president cohen. yes, we actually two nights ago, we held a public safety really a public discussion about the working together and face the challenges we face in the city. this is actually a continuation of meeting that we started just before the verdict of former officer or convicted officer deric chauvin where we tried to

work with the community to be prepared for what might happen in our city. it's been a very good dialogue. there's about 43 community members. we break into break out sessions and talk about topics that are e and how we solve topics and it's been a good dialogue and we've had some action items put on the table and we'll top follow-up on. follow-up on. what we found with the meeting that we put together for anticipation of the verdicts for the chauvin trial is that we shouldn't be waiting an emergency to engage on a city wide level. i know our directing captains had meetings at their stations not a regular basis but we wanted to have a higher level meeting with command staff and it i am includes the captains

and make it a city wide meeting with stakeholders from the diverse communities in our cities so it was a good meeting and well attended and we'll continue those meetings moving forward. >> president cohen: thank you. colleagues, any other questions for the chief? >> just briefly, thank you president cohen, chief, i appreciate the thoroughness of the report but i wonder if there's a way that -- i mean that was about an half an hour and we have a long agenda and an actual disciplinary hearing. i think it's useful information but i wonder if there might be a way to create a document of it so you don't have to sit here and read for 30 minutes and then you can distribute it through e-mail and twitter and

facebook, snap chat, where ever people may be. this is not a criticism at all of you but i guess to have that long of a recitation of crimes. i want to understand there's a point but for all the commissioners here, we have had a long week of materials and i wonder if there's a more efficient way to do it. you do need to respond. it's more of an observation. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president cohen: any other questions or comments? chief, thank you. we'll continue. >> thank you. >> president cohen: sergeant, please call the next item. >> clerk: dpa director report. resent dpa activities and announcement and the report will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities

and announcement and limited to determining whether to caller did the issues raised for future commission meetings. >> anyone here? >> president cohen: yes. >> good evening. i will run -- >> president cohen: you need to speak louder. it's hard to hear you and you sound muffled. >> let me see if i can raise it closer. how is that? >> president cohen: is that better? >> can you hear me now. >> president cohen: yes. >> ok. so, let me just share with you where we are in terms of the numbers and it's a blend from the new approach with the data and numbers as well as some of the information that we've had previously. so, this week we received 13 new cases with the total of 20

allegations or reminders these are allegations. 46% of them involve officers who spoke to or behaved inappropriately with the public. 15% of those cases were involved officers who failed to provide their star number. 15% of the allegations are officers who failed to take required actions and another 15% of them involved referrals that go to other agencies and this is a frequent thing that we get. where folks are contacting our agency about incidents that don't necessarily involve either the sheriff office or the police department. and we give that information out when folks call in. so far this year we've opened 355 cases and we've closed 436 cases this year. we've sustained 27 cases this year and this time last year we sun taped 18 cases and we have

mediated 17 cases which is the same number of cases that we mediated this time last year and we've had a number of outreach if most of our outreach events are livestream and they can be seen on our website and our summer programs started we have three high school students, three college students and four law students. 70% of that class are people of color and we have a number of events for them and they come every week and get a presentation at d.p.a. and they have various assignments as well. there's a number of other things

we've done this week since last week and this week and i'll run through a few of those. on the tenth we hosted a virtual audit community overview that presentation was done by our director of audit, steve flagger tee and on the 15th, we hosted a 1421 overview presentation with one of the dpa attorneys, sarah monitor. and on the 15th, we were involved with presentations with bayview hunters point mobilization for adolescent growth in our community. addressing public engagement to learn more about dpa and services provided including

opportunities for training and answering questions for community as well. we have one case in closed session tonight that i don't think involves litigation. there's a couple of things on the agenda upcoming that we will have input and specifically i point out agenda item number 6 which is a d. r.b. presentation that my chief-of-staff will be presenting. and present tonight is senior investigator candice carpenter who is available in case there are issues that need to be addressed from d.p.a. and and if more questions or questions they will contact us directly at our website and sfgov.org/dpa or we can contact the agency 24 hours

at (415)241-7711. and that concludes my sum ari of our cases and caseloads for the week. i'm available if there are any questions. >> president cohen: thank you, very much, dr. henderson many of questions for the director? feedback? i have questions for you, i'm sorry i'm just getting to my notes. bear with me. >> ok. >> president cohen: all right. so the question, so the mayor recently released her budget for

fiscal year 2021-2022 and 2023. how has the budget conversations been going for d.p.a.? >> um, they are ok. i mean, it's a little bit tricky. we just went over and we had a meeting about it today. i talked to the mayor's office today and i started preparing for our hearing. those are in front of the board. it's constantly kind of moving but we're not losing the position that we were initially targeted to lose because of the cutbacks that every department was asked to take. >> president cohen: are you talking about the five ftes? >> yes, right. and so, what we did was shift those, i'll just tell you, that most of that shift was allowed to be protected for our dpa augusting about the need for 1421 because that's where the

hits will come. we have to, so many of the other responsibilities are in our charter mission that we can't shift too many more resources but we don't want to loose any of the momentum that we have and it was one of the showers that folks call in regularly, demanding more and broader transparency and we believe that there is legislation and the pipeline fiscal to expand that even further. now is not the time to roll back the commitment that the city has or the dpa has with their bodies and so, those have been most of the conversations back and fourth and it looks like we're moving towards not losing any of those budget items and maybe those ftes at the latest. that's the main part of the conversation right now. there's a couple of issues we're talking about. technology expansions, as the department shifts to be able to share and receive information

from new developments with the department and to be able it share that with the public as well. it's on the issue. some of the audit requirements and the mandates that aren't diminishing or going anywhere and in fact they're being ramped up, those are on going expenses and these are the main conversations at a high level. >> they'll want to know what the specific numbers are for the 1421 and how does it correlate per person? have we considered technology advances saving us money and are we double checking our output to make sure we're not wasting expenses [please stand by]

>> president cohen: have you had any interviews lately? >> no interviews. i did have a statement and thank you for that invitation to member of the public. my comment really goes to when we invite individuals to present to the commission and to the body, that folks are respectable and i don't think that this is a form or platform for individuals during presentations to be disrespectful to any member on the commission. there were comments from last week's presentation. the presentations are great but there are statements that i absolutely did not grow with and especially being an african american male. i don't believe that we utilize this platform to tear down one

another. it's been heavy on my mind and my heart because we invite individuals to present and that's what it's for. to present and have dialogue but there's a decorum in the way we dialogue and work with each other as colleagues and we save some of the other comments for public comment. that's the area for that. >> president cohen: i stand in agreement. there was things i heard too that were mean and personal and let's keep keep everything professional. any reports out? i know commissioner elias has been doing a lot of work. share with us. >> thank you, president cohen. a couple things. i have asked the department and the department head agreed to have the field training, field tactics, ftfo, field training field operations. the ftfo department that is

under the direction of lieutenant nevin to comment the commission and let the public know what that unit is doing. it's my understanding that unit is being used as a model nation wood on all the great work they're doing so they'll be coming to the commission to present their great work and we've been hearing about how they will be incorporated in our dpos and how they will be doing risk assessment and reviews after incidents to on how to handle situations better so i'm looking forward that and with respect to the rentation of internal affairs and cases i'm told that they're still working on the presentation and it's anticipated that it should

before come the commission in august when they will be ready to present the new reporting style were in that they report more information with respect to the cases similar to the level of transparency that d.p.a. has been providing and the public has been appreciating. so those are the two things that are noteworthy today. >> thank you. director henderson did submit the matrix as a follow-up to last week's commission meeting with the great suggestions and ideas and or not how to handle racial disparity and the staff has it now so we'll looking at it and incorporating some of the departments' suggestions as well and then president cohen you can agenized when we deal with the matrix and the progress of that at a later time.

yes. we'll work on together as far as the agenda. >> i forgot the draft that you guys had, i have a more resent draft and i think the draft thaw guys didn't have all the of the suggestions that have come the public and the groups that had presented it yesterday. i reincorporate that into it and i'll send it over to you as well. i wanted to have everything so you all have in front of you the suggestions that came in that were presented last week. >> thank you, the matrix you did provide was very thorough and i think it's going to be a great working document for us so thank you for your efforts. >> president cohen: that's right. it was thorough and i appreciate that. let's see, commissioner hamasaki. anyone? the floor is yours. >> yes, thank you, president cohen. a few things i wanted to follow-up on, i know park was going to present in front of us and i believe that the

alternative -- >> compassionate alternative relief? car low is going to present for us and this is raised a few months ago and i know they've been meeting with the chief. and so, i would like to get that on calender so we can hear from them. i'm sure president cohen is working on this and i can tell. i just see that i've been out of the loop on that one so, that is popped into my mind. the other thing is i would like to hear from the department regarding homeless sweeps. i thought that that was a practice that the department has stopped participating in and that was d.p.w. doing that and there was a video that was

published on social media and it showed six officers approximately participating in sweeps and i don't know where that is. i know there's a lot of transition but i was hopeful that was not no longer something that we were doing as a department but hopefully we can get a report out on that in the next chief's report. i know it's probably not a long presentation. i'm hoping we can get an update on bias and where we are with dr. everhart and i will say that maybe i'm miss the outside on this and i know that part of the open session disciplinary case does have some whistleblower allegations but

there was a civil suit and sustained findings and i am curious about that and it says that i think some of the incidents were recorded and in 2017 which with everything this department has gone through, around let's be frank. there's just a lot of racist conduct. i would like to know a bit more about what happened with that to the degree that we can discuss that publicly and of what steps have been made to continue to or begin to do whatever we have to do to root out that bias, that hate that extremism within the department. that's all i have. president cohen wanted to respond on the card because you

have been scheduling that. >> president cohen: i wanted to comment on asking dr. everhart to come to the commission and i wanted to work with you on that specific request. he is busy and i want to be sure what we want her to talk about. to do with bias and so you know, love your input on that, chief's input on it as well and i'll pivot as well to start to think about what we can do and how we can bring this expert into present and increase our knowledge and understanding. i don't have anything else to report on or any updates for you. >> thank you. >> president cohen: so i think we can keep on moving seeing there are no other reports out there and make sure we're not looking. in the tenderloin lately, how

are things looking? >> as the chief reported there's been those shootings incidents there. one on golden gate that the chief mentioned. two blocks of golden gate where i saw and police acknowledged there was a lot of open air. that was curtailed. it appears to have moved up a block to turk street. they have a briefing every morning at 11:15 and i intend to attend one of those and another one so they give an update because the police work with other agencies and voluntary agencies trying to deal with the problem there and it would be nice to see what is happening on golden gate spread to a few more streets so the area gets a better quality of life.

>> president cohen: i'm glad you are giving a voice and targeting this part of the tenderloin. this is great and i know the department was grateful for your energy moving this forward. so these weekly updates are helpful and it's good to have a good watchel eye. thank you for the update. keep it up. please. >> this is one of the reasons i wanted to be on the commission. >> i'm really glad to hear that. all right, chief, you have a partner over here in commissioner byrnes. so we're going to keep moving forward. please call the next item. >> clerk: public comment. at this time the public is now welcome to make public comment regarding line item 3, reports to the commission. if you would like to make public comment, please press star 3 now. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: commissioners, when the chief of police gives his

report, and it addresses quality of life issues that is what we at san franciscans want to hear. so, let the chief freely discuss whatever is happening because quality of life issues have been compromised in san francisco. the commissioners show the focus on policy making but they like to gossip. and revive it and that nonsense won't stop. we have to have standards. and with this pandemic, people are dying. they're not getting killed, but they're slowly dying from toxic stress which hasn't been mentioned once by the

commissioners. so, i am monitoring y'all. and i need to monitor y'all because i need to write about y'all. then something good happens. we don't need too many guests coming and telling us what happened in oakland and what happens on the planet and we have stuff astute people here who can address it and make changes in san francisco. thank you, very much. >> clerk: thank you, caller. >> there was one announcement that wasn't made, president of the officers for justice and i'm happy to report that the officers for justice has partner up with the african american cultural center and dr. yu and the japanese community and we have joined and sol dar tease and on 6/19/21 at 12:00 p.m. we

will leave from 762 full ton treat and go through all the of the communities and our theme for this june-teenth we are unity in our community and we have a wonderful song that has been written by mice row rissard owe sales of san francisco and it's called "we are one" and you are hear myself speaking and other african americans as well as our japanese and chinese partners and we hope you will support us. thank you, if she can provide the flyer and information for

the event to commissioner staff so we can post it it sounds like a very interesting and great event that i think people should be made aware of. >> clerk: i will reach out to her, voice president elias. >> president cohen: thank you. >> clerk: members of the public, just as housekeeping, line item 11-1 and rescheduled. line item 4, discuss and possible agency panel recommendationment discussion and possible action. who would like to take this one off?

>> while out, incompetenter inch community and thank you to dejesus and myself doing our due diligence to really go through looking at if officers had open cases and to look at actual medals themselves to see what was done in order for them to be and after the due till against

with the chief and rachel killshaw and and you receive those awards. >> thank you, very much. >> president cohen: chief, is there any comment for you on this item? >> i echo the process is a very thorough process and this is one that the department and the commission worked for a long time to get a vetting process and for getting us down the road and retired sergeant killshaw who put a lot of work for this policy and is still working so

thank you. >> president cohen: i don't have any other questions. take public comment? >> clerk: members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item 4, the award have the indication panel recommendations, please press star 3 now. >> caller: i missed the opportunity to call in before and i just wanted to say that it's absolutely a disgrace that that president of the osj was able to come to work at the hall of justice and use her handicapped placard and use a city handicapped space as she went to work. that's a disgrace.

>> clerk: thank you, caller. president cohen, that is the end of public comment. >> president cohen: all right. that's great. thank you. let's go ahead and take a motion for the awards certification. is there a motion? >> i motion. >> president cohen: is there a second? i can't hear you, speak up. >> second. >> president cohen: second by brookter. please, call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to a accept the awards the panel recommendations -- [roll call vote] >> clerk: you have five yeses. >> president cohen: thank you, i appreciate that and i'm glad we have unanimous support on that. i think it's important we honor brave folks for their actions under extreme pressure.

so, this is our way of affirming and appreciating their bravery and exceptional service. please call item 5. >> clerk: line item 5. discussion and possible action to adopt draft resolution prescribing menthol discussion and possible action. >> president cohen: all right. all right. let's see here. so just as a way of background, voters passed proposition e in november of 2020, which removed minimum police staffing requirements from the charter and also set the target number of officers on the finding of a by annual staffing study and proposition e requires the commission to provide oversight and on its menthol des used in

conducting the study and so the resolution before us today for our consideration is meant to comply with that legislation. also i want to note, there was a deadline that is set as of july 1, for the commission to take action. so, the resolution of the staffing task force, which included input from commissioners, to approve the following methodology from the staffing report, non scalable and fixed house so the resolution creates several analytic requirements for the department to consider in its study. and those requirements are four of them, they include the impact of street crisis response teams on the disposition of sworn staff and the impact on department of transferring primary response duties for priority c call to other city

agencies and the third one is relationship between foot beat and vehicular patrols and improved public safety outcomes and finally, important one, opportunities to expand professional staff at the department level. so, this resolution also asks for the chief to provide an update on the department's progress by the end of august. and i want to recognize commissioner hamasaki for his input on this draft. i will pivot to commissioner hamasaki to see if he has any other comments. >> thank you. thank you president cohen. i don't really have any comments at this time. this is the culmination of a long process that began with supervisor yee setting staffing levels and the appropriate staffing levels and we had gone through a series of processes including the matrix report

received earlier this year or late last year. and so all this resolution does is sets fourth some general, fixable and methodology for the department to use in determining what they believe to be their adequate staffing levels. i had been talking with phil lowhouse about some background materials that i have been reviewing earlier this process. we didn't get quite through it in time for the deadline regarding filing this resolution. so, i think this resolution, as it stands, is a good starting place. if there's any other input that comes as a result of the process, i'm sure that the department will be open here and happy to consider it. with that i will move to adopt

it. >> before we take the motion, are there any call tears want to speak on this item. seeing none, let's take public comment. >> the public is welcome to make public comment on-line items 5. if you would like to make public comment, please press star 3 now. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. caller, you have two minutes. >> is that me? >> yes. >> >> caller: good. i mentioned before, about the first report that was done some years ago. two weeks ago you would have given an opportunity to have one

or two town hall meetings for the citizens to give an input on how are we going to have our place. for the long of the time, we did not know how many police officers were needed. now we know more or less. and as we know more or less, we have attrition. how will the civilian or the lay men or the layperson if the data is not made to them. that's what the commissioners do. not all of y'all but some of y'all. y'all talk about mundane stuff rather than that is what pertains to the citizens.

we the citizens pay the money. we the citizens pay our taxes. we the citizens need to have quality of life issues addressed. thank you, very much. >> clerk: thank you, caller. president cohen, that's the end of public comment. >> president cohen: thank you. all right. now i'll entertain a motion to accept. >> so moved. >> second. >> president cohen: motion made by commissioner hamasaki second by commissioner brookter. please, call the roll. [roll call vote]

>> clerk: you have five yeses. >> president cohen: thank you, i appreciate that. the item passes unanimously and next item, please. >> clerk: line item 6. presentation of the disciplinary review board d.r.b. findings and recommendations and first quarter 2021 discussion. >> thank you, very much. let's hear from our presenter. >> good evening, president cohen, voice president elias members of the commission and anderson chief scott and members of the public. i am assistant chief and i will be co presenting tonight with chief-of-staff for the department of police accountability. tonight, we'll be presenting on the san francisco police department disciplinary review board most recent meeting, covering the first quarter of 2021. and stacey, if you can advance the slide for me, please.

next slide, please. ok, the first quarter meeting was held on friday, march 19th. the panel was consisted of the voting members seen on the slide. which is myself, deputy chief greg and greg yee and also present were voice president elias and chief-of-staff sarah hawkins. with that, i'll turn this next slide over to chief-of-staff sarah hawkins to talk about some of the aggregate trends identified by the d.p.n., sarah -- stacey, is sarah on? >> let me check, chief. >> i was muted. [please stand by]

>> we found duties of patrol officers. we had two cases presented were members failed to properly investigate an incident or failed to properly take an incident report. next slide. the next two slides deal with policy failures and training failures. iad did not identify or have any cases during this quarter that dealt with policy or training failures, however d.p.a. did. i will turn the next two slides over to the chief of staff. >> thank you. if we can go back to the previous slide, please.

the first failure that i want to discuss involves an incident where it was an officer involved shooting in which the suspect was barricaded inside of a recreational vehicle. based on review of the incident, they recommended that the incident be updated to include policy for incidents one a barricade is suspect and shoots at officers. one of the things i updated at the meeting was that this d. geo revision was already underway, which incorporated recommendations that d.p.a. made. this commission actually voted on sending it as revised to meet and confer on may 6th. this is a really good example of the parallel work that is happening in the disciplinary

review board as well as the department and other areas revising the d.g.o., and of the presentation before the commission in helping to update and keep track of the recommendations and discussions that we are having. next slide, please. the training and policy finding involved in voss his -- officers called to the scene of persons under the influence of hallucinogenic his. this individual was standing in the middle-of-the-road, exhibiting aggression and delayed speech. medics on scene assisted the person determine they were oriented and off to decline medical treatment. this didn't leave officers with a lot of options. so officers placed a 3150 hold on the individual. d.p.a. found that the training and guidance failed to help officers identify when an individual's intoxication level

may be equivalent to a mental health disorder. we recommend the policy be updated to provide guidance to deal with a situation like this. >> okay. as part of the displayed it -- disciplinary review board, we have recommendations that come out of each meeting. this particular d.r. be we have five recommendations that came out of it. our first one relates to d.p.a. i will have sarah go ahead and talk about that one. >> the recommendation was that we provide quarterly and annual d.p.a. complaint trend reports to the station captains and the captain of the training division so that they can be aware of what the trends are that d.p.a. is seeing. for example, we have our upcoming annual report, which is on the agenda before the commission in july. so that will be sent specifically by myself to the

station captain and the captain of the training division so they can talk with their teen about the trends that are being seen with d.p.a.'s investigation. >> thanks, sarah. our second recommendation was to provide the p.o.a. with the report that details all the training that we are putting out regarding body worn cameras that members received. this is an ongoing conversation regarding some of the trends that we see in terms of failing to activate body worn cameras. it's really meant to provide and educate the members on the importance of keeping their cameras on and keeping that narrative being pushed both on the department level and the p.o.a.'s level. the second -- the third recommendation was to create a component of the police commission meeting where in commissioners could address officers and require officers on certain training days to watch the commission as part of