>> welcome you back to the regularly scheduled san francisco police commission and my name malia cohen and i'm chair of this body. to my right is commissioner cindy elias, and i'd like to recognize john hamm and our talented commission staff. with that, i'll turn to the commission secretary and please call the next item on the agenda. >> clerk: we have roll call today. [roll call]

you have a quorum. it's 5:40, let's put your right hand over your heart and pledge. 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. let's start at the beginning. please, call the next item. >> clerk: so, also tonight, we have chief william scott from the san francisco police department and director paul henderson from the department of police accountability. so, today for the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv. if you are interested in making public comment, please dial

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line item 1 is general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or department or d.p.a. personnel. under police commission rules of order, during the public comment, neither police or d.p.a. personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public. may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police personnel refrain however, from entering into any debate or discussion with speakers during public comment. police cohen, you have five people in the public comment.

>> president cohen: good evening. >> hello, can you hear me. good afternoon commissioners and sfpd chief. my name is kip lamb and a victim of the recall sfpd case number 210-33-3471. the theft happened on may 30th, 2021. more than a month since the incident but there's no arrest and the reader of the confrontation between me and the suspect and has a tracted half a million views on twitter. the suspect has been identified by internet users and his employer. i was told it would take a few weeks to reveal the case before they issued a arrest warrant. citizens in san francisco are watching the development of this

case. many people wonder item suspect has not been arrested yet. the former law enforcement officer in hong kong and i know there's enough evidence to arrest ex charge the suspect. the suspect might have committed a felony for signing a fake name on a petition and committed a misdemeanor for stealing signs. he was trying to steal signatures of chinese americans and determining to silence asian-american voices. i believe in the sfpd and i believe sfpd will enforce the law and protect san francisco citizens and please make an arrest in my case. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you, caller.

>> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening. my name is barrie toronto. i am a taxi driver and i just wanted to bring a couple of issues. first, the hilton hotel hires a police officer on 10b. status, i called tenderloin station previously and got support from the supervisor on duty to tell the officer to move his vehicle and there is is an ab tive cab stand and the hotel is busy. unfortunately, the thing is that the officer decided he was going to park his big pickup truck in front of the cab stand and block our ability to serve any guests from the hotel. they're getting a lot more money than i am so to make myself visible and available at the hotel, it's important to provide service to the public.

however, the officer did move his vehicle but put it back about an hour later. there's plenty of a white zone in front of the hotel he didn't have to park in the cab stands and he gave me a huh and puff and thinks he gets to park where he wants, especially if he is getting paid a lot more money to be security there and block our wave doing a job. the second is, i urge you to hold a joint meeting with the sfmta board of directors to discuss traffic enforcement and i can't believe i'm saying this to you as a cab driver but there's been a lot of red light running, a lot of stop sign running and a lot of illegal use of transit lanes that only the police officer has at ability to issue tickets for. beef up your traffic enforcement division and also to have joint meeting with the sfmta to discuss pedestrian deaths, bat traffic collisions, et cetera.

thank you for your time. hope that you will take these issues to heart. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening, everyone. my name is denise hall and i am a board member and (inaudible). we are here tonight to thank phil scott and the san francisco police department or police officers association for both supporting and donating to our mission and our cause. we are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting black and minority-owned businesses

and entrepreneurs in san francisco and the bay area. we have had two fundraisers in the past year both of which were successful thanks to the support of the san francisco police officers association and chief scott. we would also like to give a special thanks to the police commission for their oversight of both the chief and the police officers association. we are looking forward to your continuous support of our mission. again, we are the coalition united for black enterprise. for more information about our organization, our website is cube non-profit.org. thank you very much for the opportunity this evening to address you. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes.

>> caller: good evening, everyone. this is paulette brown. i just wanted to thank everyone, the chief for meeting with us yesterday. mike redman, tiffany sutton and mike fillpod and scott, my investigator and starting the homicide digital homicide permit that was developed. and i'm actually calling for my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. next month will be the anniversary date on the 14th. it's really hard, but i just wanted to keep awareness of our children's unsolved homicides. he was murdered at 3:00 in broad daylight 30 rounds of bullets left a semi automatic gun into my son for saving someone's

life. i just wanted to give his case number which is 060-86-2038. i know young men, he usually says it for me so i'm just saying it now. just to bring awareness to unsolved homicides. i'm a mother still suffering and here it is 15 years. my son was still a young boy full of life and i still miss him. i just pray that everyone will come out on august 14th in the board of supervisors and a police commission come out and support mothers and fathers like myself in front of the thing on grove city on the 14th of august. i'm looking for your support and other mothers and fathers also. with that i thank you for listening.

>> thank you, caller. >> this is the president for the office of the justice and vice president of the naacp. i just want to make an announcement and make everyone aware that we have made history within the san francisco police department. the department started in 1849. black officers have been in the department since the 1940. out of all the promotional examinations that have been given, the results of the sergeant's police exam reveals that ranked number one is held by black female brittney louis, ranked number two is held by a black female kristen back, and number throw a black male, ryan jones, all three who are members

of the officers for justice. this time, we have numerous black officers who have made the first page of this promotional list so again, i want to say when a test is given, that is not compromised and a test that is based on ones' knowledge to think and communicate orally, we have done the job and i thank you for your support and changing the format of what previous police examinations had been. thank you. >> thank you, kale. >> clerk: president cohen. that concludes public comment. >> president cohen: great.

can we move onto the next item, place. >> clerk: reports to the commission. chief's report. weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco, major and significant incidents provided 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. commissioner discussion on unplanned events and activities that the chief describes will be limited to determine if whether to calender for a future meeting. >> thank you. sorry about that. good evening, vice president elias, president cohen, commissioners, executive director, and the public.

i think i'm going to make this in 10 minutes tonight at the request from our last meeting. i'll get through this quickly. starting off with this past weekend, we actually had a very peaceful weekend in san francisco in terms of the shootings and didn't have the violence that we had last year and 6-year-old was killed and we had two shootings but we were well deployed and good job by our officers and our com commanders.we had a peaceful hoy weekend. my hats off to the public and the officers for working together to keep san francisco safe over the weekend. and in terms of our violent crimes, we're 5% over all down from this time last year and robberies are down by 12% and

assaults are up by 5% and that is 30 or so assaults, more than this time last year. property crimes, burglaries go down and 4% year to date and above where we were this time last year and that's way down from about 52% of just a few months ago. motor vehicle theft is up 3% and that also is continuing to go down. arsons are up by 15% with 23 above where we were this time last year and larceny and theft is down 9%. over all a property crimes is at a negative 5% and our total crime is down 5%. auto bug larrys we are going up. this is the bad news. -- burglaries. we have plans and strategies we are putting in place. we'll enhance those strategy to get a handle on that and we're up by 9% year to date. we're still down from this time 2019 and 2018 but we're up from 2020 which is concerning and something that we have to get a

handle on. as i stated, our violent crime is down in terms of our gun related crimes, we are up pretty significantly, 105% in gun related crimes so that is far above where we were last year so that's still and we hope to give an update, a full update on that report in the coming month or so with the commission, probably early september since we're in recess in august. as far as the staycations, southern is up, bayview is up, on both gun related homicides and shootings.

tenderloin is even on homicides and up in shootings and eagle side is up in homicides -- actually down in insides and so we still have some work to do there. our gun violence strategies, and the gun investigations and intelligence center focusing on serial shooters, guns linked to multiple shootings and the people that have those guns and we believe a lot of our violence is group involved as we said in our presentations and we confiscated a number of guns through search warrants. we also solved a couple of homicides and several shootings with this one group. that work will continue and that strategy will continue to focus

on the group we that we know are active and the people we know are active and it has paid off dividends and it helped us really keep our shootings at bay. our deployment as i mentioned, our tourist areas is where a lot of our car break ins are happening and fisherman's wharf, seven day a week coverage in all of those areas. union square, foot beat and i'll talk about the nieman marcus accident. when we have good coverage we have far fewer of those types of incidents so we need officers out there and on foot posted and we know it makes a difference. sustaining it is a problem for us so we'll do everything we can to sustain this type of deployment where we're having issues and spikes in crime.

san bruno from dewhite seven days a week from 11:00 to 9:00 and on 20th street to indiana, third street from 20th to indiana, two days a week, and we scattered the hours but those foot bets will continue and eagle side, we are focused on geneva and mission, portland and we're not deployed everyday but we move that around and for the same reasons to make sure that we are not predictable and then our mission station is the castro from 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. two officers the 16th and mission that corner and we've had problems on its a daily foot beat deployment as well and those foot beats will continue and our tenderloin, vibrancy

plan continues and we really make head way there and in con individuals with our foot beat deployment and the tenderloin, and our narcotics efforts, we've seized over 11 kilograms of fentanyl year to date, which is more than we did all of last year and all of 2019 and so we're on pace to really seize fentanyl which we believe will save lives and give an overdose issues in the city over the past year and we've also made 300 arrests and we've confiscated $122,000 of cash and the we believe it will make a difference if we're able to sustain it and we're working with other city entities on clean up and service for the people that need help and it's

going well so we will sustain that strategy as well. moving back to guns and coast gun related statistics, we have confiscated 91 coast guns near to date it's triple the amount we've seize the last year and the year before. we only seized 164 in all of 2020 so we'll be close to doubling that if we continue at the pace. total firearm seizures we're at 521 which is 4% more than last year and again, getting some of these illegal guns off the streets we think is the key to keeping the gun violence at least mitigating the gun violence we're seeing in our city and across the region and throughout the country and ghost guns are a problem and we have to get a handle on that and so hate crimes at 22nd and tennessee and our victim was a

black male walking in the area and attacked by five white males who yelled out racial epitaphs and he did not need to be transported but it's being investigated as a hate crimes so hopefully we can make progress on that and again this was at 22nd and tennessee on july 1st and about 10:00 p.m. and other significant incidents we have a lot of stunt driving or side show activity at ingleside and mission. we impounded eight cars. we cited six people involved in the stunt driving activities. all of the people cited were out of the city. sacramento, merced, tracy, california, pittsburgh, california. we're seeing a lot of that activity are not people that necessarily live or work here

and they are from outside the area and we will continue to respond to the incidents and force. we had over 200 cars at this particular incident and those incidents are very, very dangerous. very hard to get enough deployment quickly to take care of those situations and our stunt driving response unit is actually doing a really good job and we have assigned two lieu tenants to that unit and they're doing a good job coordinating the response and working with other cities that have the last two incidents and the nieman marcus has gone viral where seven individuals ran in and broke the security glass and the

cables and they ran out of the store with $43,000 of very high-end purses. this is not isolated. there's a similar accident in palo alto that we believe is probably the same people. we do have some leads that we're working on that we hope will yield arrests on this case. we are definitely committing the resources to investigate this thoroughly and hopefully we can get head way on identifying these people who did this crime. we believe they are connected to other crimes in our city and in the region so we'll keep the public and the commission posted on that. the fourth of july, we had a fairly safe weekend in terms of the shootings and we also dough employed officers specifically to respond to fireworks related calls over the weekend and they responded to 250 calls in a very amount of time and the downside

to that is we just didn't have enough to respond to the calls and quick response time but we did get to all of them and we confiscated 500 pounds of illegal fireworks over the fourth of july night which is very, very good and we will work on those strategies going into next year to make sure we're coordinated with the fire department and district attorney office so we can have some whatever we end up doing next year with this so we did cite individuals for possession of illegal fireworks and large amounts and this was a very good strategy so hats off to our operation folks and under the leadership of the chief and deputy of our commander wallace and ewing and my last announcement that our commander teresa euens was chosen to lead the lincoln, nebraska police department as their chief of

police so her last day was wednesday and she will be assuming her duties pending city council confirmation at the end of august so we definitely will miss her but we wish her well and it speaks well of the department when we have people that go to other cities and become chief of police and other cities. we have a lot of talent in this department and so i'm sure it won't be the last time we lose someone to the chief and very happy for teresa and her chapter of her policing career and again, we thank her for everything that anti-semitic she's done for the city and county of san francisco. that concludes my report. >> thank you, very much. chief for that thorough report. i was wondering if you can give some understanding as to the changes in the crime trends versus this time last year and i've like to get your ideas on why that's the case? >> i believe a couple of things.

last year, with the covid and shelter in place and we did see slights with bug lar he's with the civil unrest and all the looting that was occurring in the months of june and early july which we got a handle on pretty quick and there were many prosecutions with looting. a lot of those cases if not all of them are still pending unless the individual has pled tie charge but i believe last year it was some of anna nom blee in. if we look at 2019. as far as 2019, we're actually in some areas much below where we were in 2019 and in terms of the violence, we are a little bit higher than we were in 2019 and definitely with our shootings we're lying so what we last last year, president cohen,

we saw shootings during covid. some might say that an he can totally mental health and mental health was a part of that and this was a national trend. it was all over the country. we saw that coming into this year and things have cooled down from the first of the year and i'd like to think some are strategies but some of it getting the right people in custody because what we know about shooters is not everybody will go out and shoot people. and a lot of times shooters are prolific. they're involved in multiple incidents so we've made arrests from people we know that are involved in multiple incidents and that may have cooled things down and we're working regionally with our sister cities and oakland and richmond and those cities that have cases that have san francisco connections and we have cases that have connections where their residents and i think that is paying off as well and we definitely want to ex pant as regional cop aberrations so more

will be done there and those things are paying off and the focus, i think, on how we are strategizing and we're down the road on the services that we talked about with the life skills and life coaching and we have a group of individuals that have been involved in violent crimes that we have identified and we're at the beginning stages of that but at least our scip and folks that engage with these folks, these individuals, and hopefully that will make a difference over time. definitely it's along the way. >> let me throw out a question. we've seen all the stories about car burglaries being up 750% this year. in your own report reflects that. we also understand just how hard it is to patrol for such events. so, what i'm interested in is

how do we prevent these events in the future? i've got a couple questions. first, are these car burglar he's part of a pattern? do they occur at my particular hour or certain day, such as the weekend versus the weekdays? is there any evidence that you can disclose, that these burglaries are of an organized activity and they're involving individuals working together or are they just individual actions of people? and when vehicles are used as get away cars, are they owned bit perpetrators or stolen vehicles? >> how did we prevent it? they happen everyday, all day.

weekends have more activities in tourist areas because you have more people visiting those areas on the weekend so it's more of a target-rich environment if you will. one thing that works in terms of prevention is visible patrol and presence. we know this because it is work. our issue is sustaining that. to post an officer at a parking lot or on a block and that's all they do all day. you can't be on every block. our strategies are trying to identify where these things are occurring and put out deployment there and stay there to drive it down and it doesn't solve the problem. yes, it is organized and not all of it is organized and we know that the people that we have arrested that we have gotten evidence on to prosecute and convict, often times are part of crews. we see these crews hit all over the city. they don't always use stolen

cars but they take the license plates off their cars and they put on paper plates. if any plates at all which makes it harder to detect who they are. they will stop at nothing to get away. we've had people hit by cars and we've had them shoot at people when they're cornered so going back to the strategies and we have to have enough deployment in these areas where we're consistent from 2017 to 2018 and 2019 and 2019 to 2020 they went down significantly because we lost our deployment. we have fewer officers so we have to be creative how we do

that. we have to use over time and do special details and we have to be consistent about our deployment. that works. also on the apprehension side and i'll end it here, there's still a lot of work to be done on apprehending these crews and arresting these crews. we have a list of folks that we know do this for a living and when they're in custody and they're out of custody and we track the activities levels, when they're out of custody and when they're in custody, we see a difference. we've seen a difference. so, the people that do this for a living are very prolific and that's what is hurting our city and our region and that's what we need to focus on. that's our strategy. they do it just to survive and we know that's the case. that's not what -- the big problem is the crews and the people that do this for a living. >> president cohen: i don't want to dominate the question time so i'm going to take a look at the chat and see if there's any colleagues.

cindy. >> thank you, president cohen. thank you, chief, for the updates. you know, i'm listening to you give your answers in terms of the how we would solve this will situation or attack the problem, and you keep saying deployment and being tactical and things like that but when i look at the clearens rate for theft and burglary, they're dismal. how are these -- i mean, it seems these strategies may not be working and what else can we do to improve these clearance rates because i'm looking here at our website on clearance rates and i'm not sure where car burglaries fall, if it's the bug larry was it could be residential but in any event, the larceny and theft clearance rate are 2.8% versus 4% from last year in the national

average is 19% and for burglaries the clearance rate is 9.4% versus 13% from last year and these are really low and it tells me that we're not apprehending these individuals. we're not arresting, we're not solving these crimes so i'm not sure how or what other strategies we can or you can explore in order to significantly affect the crime rate and these clearance rates. >> so, i'm not sure what data you are looking at. in my time in doing this job i've never seen a car break in clearance rate close to 10% of the the national average for car break ins is 2% and 4% which is about where we are and talking about general larceny that includes shoplifting and things

like that it's a different story because we are at about 30% to 40% year in and year out in that particular category. what drives our numbers though are car break ins because we have 20,000 plus year in and year out and those rates are low because some of those crimes are just not solvable. you wake up and you see a window broken and there's no evidence and there's no anything and people make reports but those crimes and there's nothing to follow-up on. it's an unfortunate reality of the situation. those we can solve is when we get fingerprints in the inside of the car or d.n.a. evidence, we have people identified and those we do much, much better on because we have something to investigate and so couple of things we encourage to have

people fingerprinted. if there's evidence, d.n.a., you think someone left something in the car that wasn't there, we encourage people to do that. people get frustrated and some people don't make reports at all, we know this. but we have 206 that type of evidence to solve those crimes because quite frankly, some of them, there's no follow-up possibility to them so, that is not a san francisco thing, that's, you go to any city and you will find similar statistics. so i don't know which data you are looking at as far as car break-ins. i've never seen a clearance rate in any city, particularly major cities. >> i said the natural average for theft was 18% and i said clearens rates were from our website and except for the 18th% that was a national average and the other one, from

san francisco police department website there's a clearance rate tab and it breaks it down into categories and i don't know if the car burglaries were in the burglary category or the larceny and theft. i wasn't sure. >> they're larseny theft. >> the national average on larceny is 18%. it doesn't break it down into car break ins and theft from stores or things like that. in any event, in our larceny clearance rates are 2.8% and last year they were 4%. i mean, those are low and we're half at what we were last year i'm trying to figure out why? why? they're difficult to solve and

they eastbound and flow and we're up and they have and that category in san francisco drives our numbers because that is our biggest category car break ins and we've left as one of the number one city and property crimes so we have a higher clearance rate so we want -- >> we need to arrest them, right? in order for the clearance rates to go up, they have to be apprehended and directed. >> yes, that's true, right. here is one of the things commissioner that we want to make sure that we're focused on. we want to do something with the people we arrest. our reality is, we arrest the

same people over and over again and these people are committing multiple car brakens and multiple burglaries and they're not being held accountability for that so if we can focus on the people that we know are prolific, we're going to have accountability, we're going to be in a better position. i can show you those statistics too. we track that. we're catching the same people over and over again. sometimes within a matter of a few months, people have been arrested five times. so, we got to do something with that in order to do something with the arrests we do make. i'm convinced we're getting some of the right people because of their criminal history and we see they're being arrested over and over again. i know those we know about and there's got to be something on

the other end. >> if you say it's true, it's repeat offender and they are responsible for a majority of these car burglar he's and the clearance rates would be way higher because if it's five individuals who are doing this and you are arresting these five individuals everyday, then you would have a clearance rate much higher than 2.8% or even 4%. you know what i mean. and i think we need to get our clearance rates up to at least the national average before we start trying to focus on the

certain few that are committing these crimes. they aren't committing all the crimes. >> i'm not arguing about increasing the clearance rate, that's a good thing. it ebbs and flows and it will go up at some point and go down at some point because that's the nature of this business. i'm not arguing about that. here is the fact of the mat every is, what we know and we saw this when we -- in 2017 when we started focusing on the people that were most prolific and we get traction on the other end of that equation, and it's not a finger-pointing thing, the fact of the matter is, for the people aren't being held in and those people -- these are only the ones we know about but they've been arrested multiple times so look, wore in an era where we in this city we want to

reenvision the reenvisioning of our jail population and the jail population by policy, is designed to be reduced and so, and the prevention. that's where we're going to get the most traction on this issue. i'm not arguing about the clearens rate but it's not our issue. our issue is the people we're arresting, nothing is happening to them. and the other issue is we haven't been able to sustain when we put officers on foot we posted officers through and they stopped. car break-ins stopped. we had to take those officers off, redeploy them and as soon as we did that we saw car

break-ins go back up. we need the tools to do what works and if we're talking about prevention, which is really our priority, which prevents these things from happening, at least in our city. we need the deployment to do that. that's our best measure. it's what worked for us. it what drove them down in 2018 and 2019 and focusing on the prolific. i'm not saying we didn't do better with clearance rates but that's not our issue. >> we'll agree to disagree because i think it's a bigger problem than you may think. i constantly get inquiries or the public commenting that these crimes are happening and they call the police and the police aren't coming out. so i think the investigation portion and arrest portion are very important and those numbers are reflected in the clearance rate to some degree. i guess, maybe we need to start to look how long is it taking officers to a arrive at the scene when the public calls them for help because of certain

situations? maybe we need to analyze other areas of the investigation process other than just sort of working or worrying about a certain few who are repeat offenders. >> yeah, you are exactly right. this was our presentation to the board of supervisors. we had our staffing presentation. both calls you are talking about are priority c calls. we are very, very poor in our performance on responding to priority c calls because of our deployment and our 400 officers shortage. that is why we've been pushing so hard to increase the staffing and to get funded to get enough officers to respond in a more timely manner. this is an issue that we had over the weekend with fireworks calls. you got 300 calls, with not enough officers to handle the calls, you are not going to get a good response time. the data is there to support

that we need more officers to respond to those types of calls so we have a better response time. that's what we've been pushing for this entire budget season for that very reason. >> can we divert the traffic stops, the patrol that you've dedicated to traffic can maybe respond to these 9-1-1 calls? i'm assuming that the traffic stops obviously their clearance rates are wonderful, right, because they stop, cite and or arrest at the same time. can maybe the diverting of resources from traffic stops to having those officers do patrol and or respond to 9-1-1 calls? >> well, redeployment is something that is a part of the reality of what we have to do because we're not staffed the way we should be staffed. in terms of just like to make this strategies happen that i talked about earlier we'll have to redeploy officers. that works until we start getting people run over in

traffic and then we have to redeploy back then so it's a game of redeploying to address whatever the hot topic is today and we just want to be that you feelful when we do that and the bottom line, commissioner elias, we're 400 officers short. that's what we explained to the board of supervisors. we didn't get everything we asked for, you know -- >> you got some stuff, though. >> yeah, we got some stuff. >> you got a few classes. >> we didn't get what we needed. i'm grateful for what we did get and i don't want to sound ungrateful. when we explain and show everybody the data, what we need to do the job, it falls on deaf ears. >> president cohen: we're going to have to move on. we can talk about it all night but i want to get other folks in the queue that have an opportunity to speak. i will go to john hamasaki.

>> vice president elias covered a number of my concerns because you know, i mean, we've talked about this for years now and the answer to whatever the prior problem or crime increase or decrease or moves from one block to the other and you know the answer is always more officers. i just don't know it's born out by -- we talked about the matrix staffing study and class c calls and there's -- you know, i still see social media posts of officers six deep clearing homeless people, right. and so, you know, when we talk about responding to obviously

violent crime is the highest priority, retail theft, car break-ins are a different priority. you know, i guess i struggle with the solutions you mentioned even before commissioner elias jumped in, that the corporations keep from saying we have more retail theft and there was a highly publicized shoplifting incident that was amplified by our friends in the fox news world and far-right and so everybody is talking about shoplifting all of a sudden. [please stand by]

>> commissioner hamasaki: saying if we do this, the results will be this. i think that's what vice president elias is trying to drill down is that if we do these things, i just don't know that there's, you know, the guarantees of results and there's a really high. i still have been watching the budget cycle when there's, you know, i think the police were you know, it's hard. i can't judge whether or not the budget was right or wrong or too much or too little but i think being so reactive to the news and how they amplify san francisco stories, nonthat

that's the best way to drive policy. i will differ slightly from my esteemed commissioners vice president elias. we talked about the break-ins before were like i don't know how you investigate a pile of broken glass and i wasn't, i mean, i mean fingerprints is that something the department's doing now on just a smash and grab car break-in? >> it's just one example and this has happened more than once where a person broke glass and they cut themselves and they were able to make a case from that dna. the person's blood was inside the car.

that happens from time to time, we do get that type of evidence, but otherwise, you're absolutely right, you've got polygraphs in the middle of the street. that's why these cases are happening. >> i don't believe they'll end in the city. but it happens to all of us and i guess, you know, i think commissioner, i think vice president elias covered a lot of it i think it's difficult and we're also kind of um, i don't know that the finger pointing is necessarily the right solution here because, you know, we've talked about this repeatedly that it creates

this distrust in government that, you know, the police and the judges like people are saying nobody should get bailed for doing loitering and i think these are kind of bigger and tougher policy questions. i think obviously when you get to things where people get hurt and you get to multiple offenders, but i think we should just focus on what we can individually do to increase public safety and not direct the blame to the judges or the prosecution or the homelessness or mentally ill. so i don't know. i'm done.

thank you. >> president: thank you for sharing your thoughts. i'm going to pivot to paul henderson. i'm sure he has a question and not a statement. >> i do. did i miss something? are we fingerprinting? and this is my own ignorance because it just happened to me recently and i asked to have the car fingerprinted because to me if we're building some sort of date base especially

for repeat offenders that does seem effective so that it's done and i know because of volume, there's a lot of stuff happening and i just wanted to affirm my understanding of it in terms of these requests made by the department where the department can build out that database to help include arrests for clearance rates. >> yes. >> well, dam. okay. that was helpful. that's helpful. thank you. people are paying attention. that's good to know. that is helpful. thank you, chief. >> thank you, director. >> president cohen: commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: yeah. thank you, madam president. and i just want to that the chief and the staff for the

preplanning of the 4th of july where we had tons of people in the city. i was in one of the planning sessions and i know how previous 4th of julys can go especially across the bay and their share of stuff. so i think the chief and the staff for that because it's been a lot tougher for us here today i guess you've got to be careful about who you want in your car. so my question is, since there's -- we're now in i guess in the era of programming and hi tech, i was wondering if the

police department had what they call predictability matrix program where a certain time of the year and certain time of the day where these things are happening and see if there's data for that the other question i would have is the chief and the department has made up on the number of repeat offenders or how many times they've been i guess arrested and the duration of the time that they're in hope. i know in this post-covid era, once everything opens up, this is what we're getting so there's a big spike they would say. so that's my question. >> yes, sir, commissioner. yes, we do try repeat offenders and every time we make an

arrest, we track that and we are. >> commissioner chung: ing are communicating with the district attorney's office and you and sometimes it doesn't. but we are tracking it and they have that information and we have it and we make sure that we communicate who are our repeat offenders. in terms of our major predictors, there are programs out there predicting programs and software programs, it's run into some civil liberties issues as of late. we've never used it here. you know, my previous department when i was in l.a. they used it they had to shut it down and they had civil liberties and some of the people that are concerned with civil liberties made some strong arguments and they shut it down. that needs more work.

there was some issues with bias that was associated with predicted policing models. so i think it's kind of back to the drawing board for the bigger software programs that developed that. my understanding it's kind of back to the drawing board. we've never used it here, but it is out there. >> thank you very muches, chief. >> commissioner hamasaki: i think president cohen is losing connection. >> vice president elias: commissioner byrne is there anything you wanted to ask. >> commissioner byrne: yes, i was curious about the two homicides up in the public housing and i read the newspaper that the livermore

police department was able to arrest the suspect. and i'm curious, chief, you didn't comment on that. two people being gunned down like that. >> thank you, commissioner byrne for reminding me of that. we did get the arrest by liver more police and in custody. we had two murder warrants for those two cases. so great to have that at this point. it's great to go through the criminal process and the support process, but he's off the streets. thanks for reminding me of that. that's very important to the community. letting everybody know.

particularly people that we have given relationships on that messaging but thank you for reminding me. >> clerk: next item report and director's report. d.p.a. activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. the may 2021 police

statistical. >> president cohen: director, you're muted. >> director: sorry. the monthly statistical board we have all of the information. so we have and this is part of the new presentation. so to date, we have 28 cases that have been sustained this time last year, we were at 20 in cases that have cases where the investigation has exceeded 270 days. we have 21 cases this time last year we were at 33. as a reminder, we will provide the weekly summary of cases provided since the previous commission ruling and so far we received 68 complaints in may which is an increase of 16% from the same period last year and so far an increase of 4% today.

in terms of total number of complaints for 2021, we have 334 complaints this time last year. in may, there were a couple of trends, so in the 68 cases that were received that month, there were a total of 171 allegations that were made from those complaints officers who we spoke to or behaved appropriately failing to take required action. 13% involved complaints outside of the d.p.a. jurisdiction. 7% involved a failure to write. 7% involved an allegation.

6% involved. miss representations of truth. 3% involved the department rule or law and 1%. i have nothing to compare the allegations for the departments for internal affairs to this space stills, but we also are going to start seeing an expanded presentation for me as well specifically dealing with an audit. i think right now given the attention for the national award that it did specifically based on the transparency from the audit. i want to lean into that and provide both for the public reviewing and watching the information coming out of the audience, out of the audit, but also for the commission as well. i think that transparency is

really important. so i'm asking for quarterly updates for the audit to be presented so it's not just a surprise when the audits are finished so we can get an update on the status of the audits, the findings of the audit as they are occurring to the goals related to the audit and this is for both use of force and as it relates because it just came up. i think the chief was just talking about the civil liberty stuff, another audit that we're doing right now. and so i know we have a busy agenda for the next police commission, but i'm asking for this to be placed on the agenda for information to have my audit division just submit a brief report outlining what we're doing with audit as we are doing the analytical work and selecting the information

from the department. i think that will be helpful for the audiences. i'm going to talk a little bit about the outreach that was done recently. a stake holder with the office of transgender efficientives and with d.h.r. with online training about working with our office. as a reminder, the transgender community is one of the most disenfranchised community in terms of reporting abuse and one of the largest groups disconnected from public safety through law enforcement and we really want to reach out to them to make sure we have a voice and what we're trying to do is focus our outreach to make sure that they're heard and understand how to use dpa as a tool to elevate public

safety. that was on the 23rd. also, in june, we started our speaker series with our interns throughout speakers that come to the interns and do a presentation about their work through city related opportunities and internship opportunities to hear from a vast array of diverse leadership. so far, we've heard from public policy director. we also from dante king who spoke and just as an fyi, we invite the interns from the public offender's office to join those presentations and those trainings as well for those summer experiences. tonight, in closed session, we have one case and be also on

this call who is available in case issues. as a reminder for the public, dpa can be contacted or google and that concludes my presentation. >> president cohen: and now vice president cindy elias. >> vice president elias: sorry. i was writing down numbers, but what were the two highest categories of complaints? i didn't catch the two highest.

>> sorry. yes i did. 40% which involved officers who spoke to or behaved inappropriately for the monthly breakdown of what happened in may -- june. >> vice president elias: great thank you. >> president cohen: anyone else have any questions? well, thank you, director. >> director: thank you. >> president cohen: no other questions. thank you for your

presentation. >> clerk: commission report. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. commission president's report, commissions report, commissioner's report. commission announcement and scheduling of items identified for future commission meetings. >> president cohen: thank you. do we have any commission reports? >> yes. opportunity a couple saturdays ago and then the following monday to go down to the tenderloin taskforce the police department is involved in.

i was surprised in a number of ways for mostly young officers. one of the articles well-known in the neighborhood, i was surprised, pleasantly surprised at the inception from the local people. the other part that i could not believe was the children were playing on golden gate avenue between levenworth and jones. i never thought i'd see that. children and laughing and playing on the street in that neighborhood. it was an absolutely uplifting part of the war. the city has set up public

toilets, the person for public works indicated that he needed more narcan. police did not have any extra narcan. golden gate avenue at least in my mind and the police department's mind between market and levenworth is easy to walk on but appears to be the drug activity. it's moved up a block. particularly, we noticed at church and heeud as we walk the street, a number of people moved away. it's important to try to get a full boat between the residents that live there and the

loamless population. an individual that worked at a restaurant by a central building on the corner of church and larkin complained about the drug dealing going on in front. again, police presence i think was very important. it seemed to me they could have used more officers, but i have been going down to that area for a number of years and i was surprised at how clean the streets were and the reception of the police car, they were very welcomed in the area. i intend to go back again in a few more weeks to see if they're making progress particularly along church street. thank you.

thank you, president cohen. >> president cohen: all right. anyone else? thank you. next item please, sergeant. >> vice president elias: one thing. i think is this a time to ask to agendize future items? >> president cohen: yes, it is. >> vice president elias: okay. my apologies. i am going to ask to agendize and maybe broaden our discussions and possible solutions to improving the clearance rate and decreasing some of the categories in which crimes have risen. >> president cohen: is there anyone else we need to bring as apart of that conversation? >> vice president elias: maybe, i'm not sure.

we can reach out to the chief and see if there are other people that need to be part of the conversation. >> president cohen: okay. >> vice president elias: i'll get back to you. >> president cohen: next item. please call the next item. >> clerk: public comment for line item 2. for members of the public who would like to make public comment, please dial star three. one public comment. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> yes. this is yolanda. we're consistently discussing the death and it's been less than 400 offers. 400 officers down, yet

repeatedly, we've seen documentation again, we need to look at the reasons why these officers are being released from the academic and also why there's academy four to seven black officers and women and whatnot and we've seen record numbers of minorities and women. we need to find out what the reasons are for the releases and perhaps focus more closely on those areas maybe we need more time allotted for training, but we should have a policy to try and keep more of the personnel that we recruit and put into the academy than releasing them because we're wasting our money and our resources and we're going to have to get more officers if we're to be successful in what we're sporn to be able to do. thank you very much and i hope we do look into this a little

bit more. >> clerk: that concludes public comment, president cohen. >> president cohen: say that one more time. >> clerk: that concludes public comment. >> president cohen: all right. great. let's call the next item. >> clerk: line item three, discussion and possible action to approve the request of the chief of police to accept furniture donation from madrone to be used to enhance waiting areas and spaces throughout the department. discussion and possible action. >> president cohen: chief. >> thank you. we have director patrick leon that's going to present on this item. thank you. >> president cohen: no problem. >> good evening, president cohen, vice president elias, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson, members of the public, my name is patrick leon. i'm the chief financial officer

for the san francisco police department. tonight, we are requesting the commission's approval to receive a generous donation from a drone. this helps support the city's zero waste initiative and the donated furniture will be used throughout our various facilities and if the commission has any questions, i'll do my best to try to answer them. >> president cohen: i think this is pretty simple. i'd accept. >> president cohen: all right. a motion has been made to accept the item has been seconded. let's take public comment on this item. is there any public comment, sergeant? item 3. >> clerk: for public comment, dial star three to be recognized. there is no public comment. >> president cohen: i'm sorry. what? >> clerk: there is no public

comment. >> president cohen: all right. let's take a vote. please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to accept the furniture donation, [roll call] you have unanimous vote. >> president cohen: excellent. thank you. motion passes. next item, please. >> clerk: line item four, discussion and possible action to approve issuance of department bulletin 20-166, secondary firearms. meet and confer draft was approved by the commission on march 3rd, 2021. discussion and possible action. >> president cohen: all right.

thank you so much. go ahead, sergeant. >> good evening, commissioners. president director of relations for the san francisco police department. the policy of secondary firearms which was approved by the commission as previously stated to go out to a meeting with the p.o.a.. that process has been concluded and there have been no changes to your policy, the language remains the same as it was when the commission adopted it. so the process is concluded and you're now free to formally adopt the policy. >> president cohen: all right. great. and you said our language remains the same. so this replaces section if4, a through c? >> yes, all of the language is the same. there are no amendments. >> president cohen: great. let's go ahead and take public comment on this and we'll take

a motion and then action. >> clerk: if you would like to make public comment, please dial star three to be recognized. president cohen, there is no public comment. >> president cohen: thank you. is there a motion on this item? >> vice president elias: motion. >> president cohen: motion made by commissioner elias. motion to accept. is there a second? >>. >> commissioner hamasaki: second. >> president cohen: seconded by commissioner hamasaki. >> clerk: on the motion to accept the firearm, [roll call] president cohen, you have a unanimous vote. >> president cohen: thank you, this item passes unanimously. please call the next item.

>> clerk: line item five, presentation of the firearm discharge review board and in-custody death review board 2nd quarter 2021 report. discussion. >> president cohen: thank you. you're muted, sir. >> clerk: you're muted. >> president cohen: i think he's looking for it. we'll just hold on until he joins us. all right.

team work over there. >> i'm sorry. >> all right. here we go. good evening. let's see. here we go. good evening president cohen, vice president elias, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson, and members of the public. i'm greg lee, the deputy chief of administration here to present the second quarter firearms discharge review and in-custody death presentation. in the second quarter of 2021, the review board did view o.i.s.19-001. the date was august 25th, 2019, and about 9 -- i'll let the slide catch up. the august 25th, 2019, at about

9:50 p.m. on the 6400 block in south cirrito, california. a san francisco police officer was at home at ingleside station. he also looked out his window. the male was inside the gated common area of the complex on the kearny street side. he did not recognize the male and knew he did not live in the complex. the officer got dressed putting on his shorts. san francisco police i.d. and star and grabbed his flashlight. the officer contacted the male through the closed gate and asked him to clean up his belongings and leave at which time he complied. as the male was packing up his belongings and leaving, the male asked the officer, are you a cop? the officer explained he was an

off-duty officer. the officer began to open the gate and the male immediately charged the officer forcing opened the gate and hit the officer on the head with a rock. the officer attempted to block the strikes using his left hand which was holding a flashlight. the officer was unable to create time and distance because the male was holding on to his shirt, pulling him closer preventing him from leaving. in order to prevent great bodily injury or death from the rock, the officer discharged his weapon twice at the male. the male ran out of the complex and fell to the ground. medical aid was rendered to the male by the medics and he was transported to the hospital for his injuries. the incident was criminally along with the contra costa county district attorney's

office and an administration investigation was determined by the internal affairs commission. a recommendation to the police regarding this officer-involved shooting was in policy. in-custody deaths review board did not have a case presented in the second quarter of 2021. going to the last slide, the commander o'sullivan updated you on many of these at his last presentation, but i will add that for 18-002 that should be presented to the 3rd quarter fbr2 along with 20-002 and 20-003. so we're anticipating three more of these to be presented at our next meeting. on the following sheet, on the last page, the three in-custody

deaths 15-002, 003, and 19-one anticipate that all three of these cases will be reviewed in the 3rd quarter. so we should have six cases. three o.i.s.s and three in-custody deaths at our next meeting and that concludes my report and i'd entertain any questions. >> president cohen: sorry about that. i was having trouble unmuting. thank you for your report. i see no names on the roster. are there no questions for the report? how is the officer? >> the officer's fine. >> president cohen: everyone,

all the parties involved were good. >> yes. >> president cohen: that's good to hear. thank you for the presentation. okay. we'll keep moving forward on the agenda. >> thank you. >> clerk: those who would like to make public comment regarding line item five, please dial star three. >> president cohen: great. >> clerk: there's no public comment. line eight six, public comment on all matters pertaining to item eight below. vote whether to hold item eight in closed session. there is no public comment. line eight seven, vote on

whether to hold item eight in closed session including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regard to item 8a, san francisco administrative code section 67.10. action. >> president cohen: all right. i'll make a motion. is there a second? >> vice president elias: second. >> president cohen: thank you, seconded by vice president elias. can we take a roll for this vote. >> clerk: on the motion to go into closed session, [roll call] president cohen, you have have

>> : second by commissioner barns. can we take that roll call vote. >> : on a vote not to close closed session items. >> : (roll call) you have a unanimous vote. >> : thank you. that motion carries. line item is adjournment. >> : do we need public comment. >> : yes, we do. >> : if you would like to make

public comment please press star three. there there's no public comment. >> : thank you. move for adjournment. >> : ladies and gentlemen we are adjourned. thank you for your service. wom

sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of

having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable

space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone.

>> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the

pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.org my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city

and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to

determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get.

i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab

operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the

equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls.

i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office.

what do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the enough and -- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination

between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone

more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco. >> everybody, let's get into it. (singing) (singing)

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and it goes a little something like this here. you want to get up and dance? huh? come on. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ no one would love you more ♪ ♪ than me ♪ ♪ you can ask the whole world ♪ ♪ surely they won't agree ♪ ♪♪♪

♪ all i know ♪ ♪ is no one ♪ ♪ gonna love you ♪ ♪ more than me ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ she was younger ♪ ♪ but now she grown ♪ ♪ my feelings for this girl ♪ ♪ strong ♪ ♪ my heart is torn ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ all i know ♪ ♪ is no one ♪ ♪ can love you more ♪ ♪ than me ♪ ♪ you can ask the whole world ♪ ♪ i'm sure they would agree ♪ ♪ you all you got to do ♪

♪ is imagine me ♪ ♪ all i know ♪ is no one will love you more ♪ ♪ than me ♪ ♪ nobody loves you more ♪ ♪ than me ♪ ♪ nobody loves you more than me ♪ ♪ nobody ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ nobody will love you ♪ ♪ more than me ♪ ♪ you can ask the whole world ♪

♪ i'm sure they'd all agree ♪ ♪ you don't have to worry ♪ ♪ if you ever have a need ♪ ♪ all you have to do is call me ♪ ♪ all i know is no one ♪ ♪ will love you more than me ♪ ♪ no one will love you ♪ ♪ more than me ♪ ♪ you can ask the whole world ♪ ♪ i'm sure they would agree ♪ ♪ you don't have to worry ♪ ♪ if you ever need ♪ ♪ all i know is no one ♪ ♪ will love you more than me ♪ ♪ nobody loves you more ♪ ♪ than me ♪ ♪ nobody baby ♪

♪♪♪ ♪ nobody loves you more ♪ ♪ nobody loves you more ♪ ♪ nobody loves you more ♪ ♪ loves you more than me ♪ ♪ nobody loves you more ♪ ♪ nobody wants you more ♪ ♪ than me ♪ ♪ nobody baby ♪ ♪ nobody baby ♪ (applause) >> thank you. this is new music that's coming out this year. i'll be performing throughout the summer and into the fall. how about an oldie but a goody?

huh? october 17th i'm going to do a tribute to marvin gay at the sf jazz. do you know the song? just sing along. ♪♪♪ ♪ brother, brother, brother ♪ ♪ there's far too many of us crying ♪ ♪ find a way ♪ ♪ to bring happiness ♪ ♪ to each day ♪ ♪ oh brother, brother ♪ ♪ there's no need ♪ ♪ whoa ♪ ♪ not the answer ♪

♪ you know ♪ ♪ we've got to find a way ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪ hey, hey ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ tell me what's going on ♪

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ (singing) ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪ hey ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪ what is going ♪

♪ going on ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪ what's going ♪ ♪ going on ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ (applause)

>> what's happening brother. what's going on san francisco? put them hands up. we're going to pick it up today. what's going on. are you loving yourself hard enough? are you putting good nutrition into your body, mind and soul often enough? keep in mind, your diet, all the things we read, see and hear every day. look at yourself and ask what's going on. thank you. i want to share this song from the heart. the warmth of other suns. it goes like this... ♪♪♪ ♪ fear and exhaustion from ♪ ♪ having to hide who we are ♪

♪ pretending ♪ ♪ that regrets will make you stronger ♪ ♪ from black pain ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ the -- ♪ maybe we'll find our light ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ maybe we'll reach out ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪

♪ the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ rid the world ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ i just want to be free ♪ ♪ we suffer from black pain ♪ ♪ for white gain ♪ ♪ you don't consider ♪ ♪ all the work we have been through ♪ ♪♪♪

♪ the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ maybe we'll reach our height ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ maybe we'll reach our height ♪ ♪ in the warmth of other suns ♪ ♪ the warmth of other suns ♪ my name is martin luther mccoy

and this has been an honor but we have an excellent program. you're going to see the hard work in the back. it's a beautiful day. i'll see you all in the warmth of another sun. ♪♪♪ >> come on, let's give it up for martin luther mccoy. thank you for coming. you look fabulous. do you feel fabulous? you feeling fabulous? i'm here to demand a ministry of reparations. i want a ministry of reparations now that we have a national holiday.

okay? i want to get paid, baby. i want to get paid as a daughter, a granddaughter of a slave who built this country for nothing. for nothing. i want to get paid. but before we get paid, we have to really, really thank the native people, the native people on their homelands. give it up. as stewards we recognize their duty to honor them and interpretation of ancestry lands. they were all here before we got

here. and as uninvited guests, return their lands. this is an amazing day. there's somebody looking down and smiling, somebody who died who is black, blue, pink, yellow people. you all right? i'll get wild. i will show up and show out. i want to thank mayor london breed for inviting me to do this and all of you for kicking off this juneteenth weekend here in long beach park. but you know it's nice they're giving up the national holiday, you know, don't ask, don't tell.

you know what i'm saying? we can't teach our children about the history in this country of what all this means. we're so happy you can join us for the opening of monumental -- consider this afternoon a monumental reckoning and we have dana king who will break it down to us a little later. an extraordinary artist, sharing her extraordinary art installation that honors the history and resilience of black americans. we ain't going nowhere. we built this country for nothing and still we grin better than anybody. monumental reckonings will reside in the park for at least two years. if somebody you know and love doesn't see it today, make sure

they see it before it goes away. it will allow me to commune with an ancestors and the black experience. we built the white house you all for nothing. i want my acres and a mule god damn it. and what better time to open this show this juneteenth, celebration of our culture and acknowledgement of the struggle that continues today and as of just yesterday, a federal holiday. but before we introduce our poet laurent, give it up again for martin luther mccoy and we're bringing on san francisco's ace

poet laurent. where you at tongo? he's so gorgeous. i'm an old woman. i can't take this, okay? this is tongo. hello darling. thank you for being here. >> thank you. i talk facing away from the dead. they replace me with the change in my pocket. a penny yet to be invented, you have to know how to cut a throat on the way to cutting a throat. after sleeping on a mattress, made from two garbage bags of clothes, i became content with

the small gestures of planation fires. i realized how weird the universe was, so many things interrupt me while trying to dream like your correspondence lawyer. i have 20 books next to a bullet like an old man giving advice before a revolution. explored what is there and found no brain washing, i found africa lord. i have a future, it takes place in the south, modern militancy, i'll walk on a missile for food. i'll be tired face to face with the country. old verse bringing multiculturalism replace me with a chest cavity. stories of travel through other people's stories, my mother remembers africa lord.

she killed on behalf of you lord. i wore a machete all winter and nobody asked what it meant. i read 1,000 books in front of the world. watch people play for post working surfaces and recreations of a governor's desk, find the bureaucrat and some white people scare easier, fantasizing through the art of the poor, trendy lashes locked before god. i hand over my friends lord. lord, i think i'm going to die in the war. like a blue song with no spiritual effect, apartheid white people who give birth to mathematicians, a sunday trip to church, a river mistake for a talking river. violence and drug use made in the image of god of white

abolitionists. chemical assurances they were switched from black worker to white worker. in the same way i think about my childhood. fox hole friday nights. committee points out a plan to a priest. cotton king voluntary. thinking about reassuring the masses we can figure out our fathers later priest reads it before breaking his parallel, i have never before a poet before. little brother watches big brother friends, they leave rifles on walls. it's a simple matter, this revolution thing, to write a poem for god. (applause)

>> thank you. thank you so much tongo. we have the baddest ass poets in the land. give it up again for tongo. martha graham, the great choreographer says people from california believe everything is possible. here we is. here we is. and i wanted to also call this day a festival of bad ass women. we've got some bad ass women up in here. okay? and the next one, my sister, my sister, she is a champion for the black community for san francisco and for the arts. she was raised by her

grandmother in the fillmore where the yearly juneteenth festival was a highlight of her childhood. she would go on to be the executive director of the african american art and cultural complex in the western edition before entering a life of public service. okay? and today, this woman, she is the 45th mayor of san francisco and the first as she's the first african american mayor in the city's history. everybody put your hands together for london breed. i am scared of you. hi miss mayor. it is wonderful to be here. thank you for having me. ladies and gentlemen. and let's give it up for tongo.

>> martin luther, thank you so much for opening up today. what a beautiful day. and i just have to take a moment to pause. we're seeing so many beautiful faces without masks. we have been really through a very challenging time, one that we never anticipated. i want to start by thanking park and rec and the director of park and rec phil ginsburg. we were supposed to celebrate the golden gate park last year. a lot went into making it is what it is right now. sounds and equipment things we may not see. and i want to thank for the work and fundraising done to make this amazing. so martin luther got the first

opportunity to perform and it feels good. we're going to see more activities and events here in golden gate park. but today is so special. i get emotional every time i think about how far we have come as african americans. yes, there are challenges. and those challenges will continue to persist as long as we sit to the side and don't work and fight to do what is necessary. to change the lives of what's happening all over the country. not just here in san francisco. today we celebrate that milestone. now, black people, we always celebrated juneteenth as a holiday. amen? so now, finally, people understand the significance of what this means for us. my grandmother, who wasn't far

removed from slavery, worked as a share cropper with her family in texas. migrated to san francisco. and in fact, in 1951, that was when the first juneteenth parade took place. dr. wesley johnson junior, the owner of texas playhouse. in the fill-mo held the first event there, walked down the streets of fillmore on horseback. willy brown was a part of that group. so many of our ancestors decided on that day we're going to step out proud of who we are and what we represent as black people. juneteenth is so much more than what we see in the celebrations and festivities. it's freedom. it's a new day.

it's a welcomed opportunity for us to grow and to thrive and remember of course our history and to learn from that history. to learn now more than ever how we don't want to continue to see the next generation grow up and repeat that history. we have work to do. and today we celebrate. we celebrate juneteenth as a national holiday and in fact, yesterday, i signed declaration making it an official holiday in the city and county of san francisco. because i gave all city employees the day off, they all left and didn't show up for work today but that's okay. what i appreciate about so many people, they said i want to take this day to learn more about juneteenth. i want to take this day to serve

and to honor the ancestors. dana king and this exhibit monumental reckoning is about honoring those ancestors. it's about the 350 original slaves who were brought to this country by force. just imagine that. now, we know dana is going to talk about the exhibit a little later. i couldn't stop thinking about the experiences of black people brought over in chains on top of one another. we can never forget the pain and the suffering.

and today as we celebrate juneteenth, i know, i know without a doubt that i stand on their shoulders. i stand on their shoulders and the only reason why we're able to celebrate such an incredible milestone in history has everything to do with their sacrifice. i will never forget their sacrifice. i will never forget the sacrifice of my grandmother. i will never forget the sacrifice of our ancestors. so when we pour liebations to call their name, we honor them and make sure we don't forget them but we bring their presence to the surface. this event, this exhibit is so much more to us. it means a rewakening, a renewal of our commitment to reinforce the need to make sure that we

honor our history. we honor the struggle. we do the work to make it better for future generations to come. thank you all so much for joining us here today. let's celebrate! >> again for the mayor, come on, we've got some bad ass brainy black women up in here. okay? before we go any further, let's reiterate and thank our city partners and civic leaders here tonight, thank london breed and rec and park general manager and his staff. they keep the park together.

the park commission and president. director of cultural affairs. arts commission and president. and former acting director of cultural affairs. denise, are you here? i love her. i hadn't seen her. okay. everybody having fun? we still have part of this to do. and additionally, thanks go to these participants who aluminate the monumental reckoning team. is the lieutenant governor here?

okay. i just want to thank you for being here. all right. so we're going to move right along now. i'm an artist, i am just so glad to be up here introducing an artist, a black woman, a visual artist. she sounds scary to me, i love her already. we're going to meet dana king. (applause) dana king, who -- let me see now. dana will talk about -- i can read, i just have to find out which one of these papers this thing is on. all right, dana reveals common threads and shared values and experiences and aspiration and likes to deal with sculpture and knows it helps those alive today

compare and contrast their worlds with that of social pioneers. call on them you all, social pioneers whose commitment to excellence helped create modern society. that is where we are right now, is it not? please, i'm going to ask you all to bow down. bow down, please welcome dana king. dana, where are you girl? dana. (applause) thank you so much for your work. thank you, thank you, thank you. she's an angel, check it out. i'm scared. >> thank you. how are you?

you good? i'm seeing my people out here. it's like a family reunion today. doesn't it feel like that? a family reunion. thank you, thank you for being here. you know down stairs in the basement of this building and there is a pile of roots sitting there. i don't know if they were pushing us through the concrete or why they were there. but they were collected in a corner. it made me think that african descendants had our roots cut. most of us don't know where we come from, we don't know who our

people are. being here, we've been forced to build our own families and create our own environment and our own histories. but we have deep history. that has come with us, though we may not know all the stories. monumental reckoning is a gift back to the ancestors to let them know that though we may not know we love them. we love them, we honor them in everything we do. and we have never forgotten them.

never. there were hands that touched monumental reckoning. part of a new family of friends for me. 12 women who helped make the ancestors we're about to see. and i would love for them who are here to please stand up as i call out your names. i don't want to miss anybody. i did write it down on my notepad. (reading names)

i wanted you to hear those names. we were african descendants who built these ancestors, philippine, chinese, italian american, mexican american, did i miss anybody? we are all family.

all family. i doubt very seriously that our ancestors would want us to buy in to the division and separation that has been put upon us from oppression. monumental reckoning is about the truth of american history. the truth. and that truth is hard. and that truth is painful. and that truth is ugly. but unless we acknowledge it, it will continue to kill us. we weren't taught our history. i'm a product of public education, all the way through

college. i learned last year that francis scott keys was a horrible human being. not only did he own other human beings, he used his power and his prestige and access to double down on legislation that kept us enslaved for generations. he sponsored his brother-in-law to become a supreme court justice who wrote the dread scott decision and says african americans can never be citizens. so he was fully invested in the business of slavery. monumental reckoning is the first 350 ancestors who came over here on the first boatload

of slavery. the business of slavery. when they arrived in 1619, there were 21 on the boat. we will honor the 350 who were stolen from their people and their land, never to return. when something is a first of that magnitude, it would be the same as if we were sucked up into a space ship and taken to mars. they had no idea what was to befall them and what befell them was terror. my hope for this installation is that you come and commune with the ancestors and listen to

them. they have something to say and they have something to do. they will stand here for two years in the space of justice. and in judgment. i hope that you join them and that you bring your written words and recite your poetry and sing your songs and dance with them. i also hope that you take the time to recognize that the space that they have created around a man who wanted them all dead is a safe space.

it's a safe space to speak to people who don't look like you and share your stories and let them share theirs. if we don't talk to one another, this country will continue to be hateful. it will continue to harm. and there will be no way out. we are the answer. we are the answer. (applause) we are our ancestors wildest dreams. wildest dreams every day. and it's a responsibility to be that. but it is the least we can give them. the least we can give back to

our ancestors is to put forward kindness and love. and stand for justice for our people and all people. systems of oppression have existed in this country since our people were brought here. they exist in healthcare and they exist in banking and food insecurity and corporate america. and criminal justice. we need a reckoning in the systems of oppression, right? (applause)

we also need a reckoning within ourselves. yes, we do. so monumental reckoning stands to do all of that and to support us in our efforts, to become whole. to cast aside our bigotry, our hate, our divisiveness and join. join together as human beings. our people were not seen as human beings. today we're going to see them in monumental reckoning. i hope that they stand as a reminder of your personal

stories and the stories of everyone here. i hope you see yourself in monumental reckoning. i hope to see people in monumental reckoning and i hope you see other people in monumental reckoning. this journey began with the -- from the mayor of the city. mayor london breed. when we brought this to her, she said yes. phil ginsburg, your yes has been extraordinary. it's a federal holiday and his people were here, apprentices in the program that teaches them horticulture and they have been helping us for four days. (applause)

ralph remington, our new director of cultural affairs for the san francisco art division. your yes is the beginning of a reckoning within our system. i'm so grateful you said yes. thank you. (applause) it's pretty exciting today and i have some other work to do. i put a bowl here. i've got all this hair, i can't really see. monumental reckoning is bigger than all of us. and i'm not speaking of the ancestors here.

i'm talking about a reckoning in this country. it's time. the time is now. the place that it begins for us is here. (applause) i'm a different person than i was before i got a call from a man named ben davis who asked me if i would be interested in talking about doing art here in this space. i never thought that -- i won't say that we didn't really get here. i knew once we got on the path we would get here. but i want to thank you for your vision, your creative vision

which has provided so much beauty and awe and joy for the people of san francisco from the bay bridge lights to the pink triangle to grace cathedral being lit up, to the beautiful conservetory of flowers. thank you. thank you for letting me do what i do and giving me the space of your grace to do my work. i'm grateful. i'm grateful. i'm full of love. i'm so full and i'm so grateful you are all here to bring in the ancestors. thank you. thank you so much. (applause)

>> we love you dana! >> i love you miss blue. we're a tiny team, tiny but mighty. (reading names) thank you. thank you. i mentioned january 31st. we started a conversation february 1st. the ancestors were built -- i forgot three people. i have to stop right now. i need to acknowledge alex nolen

and john woolworth. rachel arambola. are you here? yes? i heard it. they agreed to do it in seven weeks. it then went to an incredible neighbor named alonso. is he here?

and his business partner ryan. they painted the ancestors. and then the 12 women that i introduced you to, including rachel, we finished the ancestors. seven weeks time. (applause) we are going to go see the ancestors. are you ready? i'm going to ring this beautiful instrument four times. every ring of this gong, this beautiful bowl represents 100

years of slavery. and after i ring that, we're going to ask the elders if we can proceed. we have elders waiting down at monumental reckoning. and i'm seeing their support. the elders have given their approval for us to proceed. we will sing as we march down, lift every voice and sing. and if you don't know, look it up on your phone. there we go. we have -- we have it on paper. i hope you received it. there it is. i'm guessing you all know the song though. it's the black national anthem. and it is a song of liberty and

justice and it is an uplifting song of inclusion. and it's much different than the song written by the man with the song of war and killing. a song that asks the enslaved be put to their graves. we intend to bring a new anthem. lift every voice and sing for america. shall we? all right. we will then be led in the procession and pray on the ancestors with my pastor from heart and soul center of life and the choir from heart and soul center of life and choir of

grace cathedral is in the house. if you can't sing, stand by them. that one didn't count.

(singing)

[roll call] >> all right. having a quorum, the next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the health commission meeting on june 1, 2021. commissioners, having reviewed the minutes, do we have a