>> i want to recognize the vice chair of this commission, miss cindy elias, and we've got paul henderson, director of police accountability. recognize my commissioners.

we've got john hamasaki, john lee. stacey youngblood, you're looking good. call the roll. >> clerk: yes, ma'am. [roll call] >> clerk: president cohen, you have a quorum. also here tonight, we have chief bill scott from the san francisco police department and director paul henderson from the department of police

accountability. >> president cohen: thank you. all right. let's jump right in. item 1. >> clerk: item 1, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa personnel. members of the public who want to make public comment, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d.

146-755-8477, press pound, and pound again. at this time, if you'd like to make public comment, please press star, three. commissioner, we have a number of public comments. >> president cohen: excellent. let's hear from the public now. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, commissioners. glad to have you back. i'm calling in to talk about the conduct, actually, of one of your commissioners. commissioner hamasaki tweeted out a video of somebody kicking out a stack of milk crates, causing him to fall to the ground. it looked really painful, and commissioner hamasaki's comment on the video was, okay, i sometimes complain about police, but i fully support any

cops who want to try this, har, har. i'm wondering why it's okay for the commission to cheer on violence against police officers? one might assume if someone called for violence against a commissioner, they would be in trouble. i'm going to call on president cohen and vice president elias to do something about him. we've seen the sexism, we've seen the misogyny in these meetings for a long time from commissioner hamasaki, and now his violence cheering on against the police officers, how is the public supposed to feel like he's a fair arbiter of the closed session items? how is he cheering on violence against police officers?

look at him five days ago on twitter. so you have a professional accountability to hold commissioners accountability. you have a duty to do something about him. if you can't get him off the board, you've got to talk to him about his conduct and the way he presents himself to the community. once again, i ask any of the commissioners who are listening putting commissioners who care about the community instead of self-aggrandizement. we need commissioners on the board instead of people like john hamasaki. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller.

you have two minutes. >> in this era of accountability and police presence, it appears that rules do not apply to some members of the commission. [inaudible] san francisco charter, san francisco campaign and governmental code, san francisco sunshine ordinance, san francisco police department general orders, and department bulletin. commissioner hamasaki has flouted police department policy for over three years. his twitter page touts his position as a police commissioner, potentially using his position as a public official to influence his decisions and actions on the

san francisco police department, one who demonstrates a bias and animus towards members of the police department. commissioner hamasaki has violated rules of the commission on his own social media accounts. unfortunately, this behavior has been tolerated too long. who from the department, whether the department is police accountability or the police department will call this out for what it is? who from the city attorney's office, controller's office, or ethics commission will confront this? all tweets of commissioner hamasaki should be reviewed under the san francisco sunshine ordinance. the city should waste no expense to do a thorough examination of these tweets to demonstrate how blatantly

biased commissioner hamasaki is towards law enforcement. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is michael petrellus, and on july 8, outside manny's cafe in the mission, where chesa boudin was speaking, i was assaulted. and the police have opened an investigation. sergeant nick pena has been investigating this assault that i suffered. he has obtained video from manny's showing the man who assaulted me. i have made verbal and written requests to the police department to release details of the assailant or video of the assailant so i can have that documentation to put out

to the public to ask for their assistance in identifying this assailant. the police department has not given me the information. they've not given me the video, they've not given me the photos. and i would ask the police department put that video out for assistance to identify this assailant so we can bring accountability. you guys have not done that, and i'm asking the police commission to look into why the department will not issue an alert with the assailant's photo to help me. if the police department won't do that, i believe they should give me the video or photos of the assailant so i can put that out on social media to ask

people's assistance to identify him. i really would like the cooperation of the police regarding this attack that happened outside manny's on july 8 when chesa boudin was the speaker at that meeting. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening, president cohen, vice president elias, commissioners, chief scott, and executive director henderson. my name is tony montoya. i'm the president of the san francisco police officers association. earlier this week, i submitted a letter to the mayor and the commission asking for the removal of commissioner hamasaki from his position. i did not take this step lightly, but enough is enough. mr. hamasaki routinely attacked police officers in his comments on social media. pretty much daily he describes

his -- [indiscernible]. >> -- as a commissioner, he is responsible for imposing discipline on police officers and setting policy for the department. based on the history of his actions, i question his ability to act in this position. to be effective in policing and police reform, you must create internal procedure justice. you must create an atmosphere where law enforcement officers feel respected and will be treated honestly. at the end of the day, he represents all of you as a

commission. is that the type of behavior you support because if you fail to address his actions, it will be viewed as a tacit endorsement of his behavior. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is susan buckman. i live in district five, and i am with a core team of fairness and disparities in the black community founded by felicia [inaudible]. when officers are allowed the discretion to choose whom to stop for routine traffic infractions, their bias leads them to stop a disproportionate amount of black individuals.

? san francisco, it shows a number of history racist stops. according to sfpds only reporting, a black san franciscan is six times more likely to be stopped as a white san franciscan. the disparity is higher in the first quarter of 2021 than it was in 2018 and 2019. i draw you to page 38 of the sfpd quarterly report for 2021. the graph titled reasons for stops indicating that a whopping 63% of all stops are for minor matters. for those reasons, we call on san francisco to eliminate routine traffic stops by officers because of the injustices perpetrated by san

francisco police officers. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is jean bridges, and i volunteer with felicia jones and race and disparity in the black community. tonight, there's a presentation about traffic stops and routine traffic presentation. there are many down extreme negative effects for black people being stopped so often such as reinforced trauma, and stress of always being targeted for racial profiling.

sfpd was called out in the federal department of justice community oriented policing service or d.o.j. cops report in 2016 for this antiblack bias. recommendation 32.2, one of the last reportedly addressed by sfpd says not only are african american drivers routinely searched following traffic stops, but they are less likely to be let go as drivers.

>> -- still, to this day, no one has come forward, and as a mother, i'm still looking for justice for my son. i want to thank also chief scott for coming out on the 13 to help celebrate my son's anniversary and the media department of the police department and all of those -- i just don't remember their names right now, but i just want to thank everyone that came out and supported bringing awareness to unsolved homicides and people that are suffering in silence, and thank you for

media that's at the police stations they saw what happened at my son's, and i would like to give that to my investigator and to chief scott also. i don't have his name, but i -- i didn't even know he had gaven a license plate number, so i'm hoping that my investigator and everyone will checkup on that and talk to this witness, and with that, i pass.

thank you. >> clerk: president cohen, that is the end of public comment? >> president cohen: sergeant youngblood, could you please call the next item? >> clerk: yes, ma'am. line item 2, adoption of minutes for the meetings of may, june, and july 2021. >> commissioner hamasaki: so moved. >> vice president elias: second. >> president cohen: okay. a motion made by commissioner

hamasaki and seconded by vice president elias. can we have a roll call vote. [roll call] >> clerk: you have five yeses. >> president cohen: thank you. the vote is unanimous. please call the next item. >> clerk: line item 3, consent calendar, receive and file, action. second quarter 2021 safe streets for all report. the items on consent calendar are considered routine and for information purposes only. if any commissioner would like to discuss any of the items on the consent calendar, please notify president cohen that you would like to place the item on a future calendar. there are going to be no discussions on the item. >> president cohen: i understand there are some

questions on the presentation. is there someone on the line that can answer my questions? >> clerk: let's see...i do not believe that there is, commissioner. >> president cohen: okay. that's not a problem. i'd like to make a motion to accept. >> vice president elias: second. >> president cohen: okay. motion is made by myself and seconded by commissioner elias. please call the vote, a roll call vote. >> clerk: on the motion to accept -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have five yeses. >> president cohen: thank you. please call the next item. >> clerk: next line item is going to be line item 4, chief's report, discussion, weekly crime trends.

provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. major, significant incidents. provide a summary of planned activities and events. this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. >> thank you. good evening, president cohen, director henderson, and commissioners. i hope you had a good vacation. i'd like to start this up with weekly crime trends. homicides are up by two, that's 17%. robberies are down 9%, 1621 to 1473. assaults are starting to tick

up. they are up by 9%. 1377 compared to 1303 last year, and our human trafficking is up by one, 5%, 19 versus 20. burglaries, we're actually at a 1% increase, but when you look at how we compared to 2019 and 2018, we're up significantly from those years, so 50% from 2018, 28% from 2020. we're working with all of our district attorney -- with all

of our offices. one of the things that we're seeing is some of our things that will help prevent some of these burglaries from occurring. boy bye [please stand by]

. >> -- so that continues to be a problem that we will work with our partners at the district attorney's, federal partners at our crime intelligence center to see if we can continue to seize guns and get those guns off the streets. there was an effort recently announced by the united states department of justice to focus on those types of guns and gun related crimes in san francisco. with san francisco, we will get the benefit of federal money and federal partnerships with san francisco and the bay area. no homicides to report this week, although we did have a busy month of august. the good news is we solved a

number of those crimes and we have arrested some of those crimes. however, one we have not solved was a 16-year-old in the bayview, 16-year-old young lady shot and killed, just minding her own business, hanging out with her family and friends. we need the public's help on that particular crime. we will need the public's help on that particular crime.

[inaudible] >> -- and the victim was actually pronounced deceased at the scene. that's another one where we will need the public's help. we do have some leads that we are following up on, but if you know anything about those, please call 415-575-4444, and you can report anonymously. in terms of the district strategies to address some of our crime issues in the tenderloin, let me say i definitely want to appreciate commissioner byrd who has spent some time together in the community, and i know we'll have conversations on what we can do to improve life in the tenderloin, community partnerships with our community

ambassadors, our community benefits district, and city partners. we are tracking work in the public and some of the efforts going on with this increases deployment to date. we've had roughly 4600 positive contacts. we've had 149 fights and arrests. we've had 4,568 contacts with -- regarding well-being checks and unhoused types of situations. and just to clarify, we are not doing enforcement on unhoused people for being unhoused, but our officers are out there, engaging with the population that needs help, and one of their responsibilities is to try to get them help, get them out of their position, which is exactly what they've been doing and what they've been tasked to do. in the northern district, we had six officers deployed to

bike patrol around the palace of fine arts so we could get around auto burglaries as well as japantown. there's on going presence with our housing unit, and doing extra patrols on the hayes valley, churchill, and polk street. we're seeing extra deployment out there. we have seen some improvement in the slowing down the rate of car burglaries, so we do believe that is helping to make a difference in that regard. in the mission district, we've employed two additional teams in the castro. there are also traffic operations in the castro and on going uniform presence by way of passing calls at the 24

street corridor, 15 street and mission, 14 street, with fixed posts on saturdays, particularly when the flea markets are occurring. focusing on robberies and burglary enforcement. on third street for the last -- end of the summer or august and part of july, we've had increased deployment on third street, particularly on the night time weekend hours. we do believe that has helped. we have seen less gun violence along third street, so that's a good strategy, and that will continue. significant incidents: ingleside, phone spoofing. on august 22, at ingleside station received multiple calls from the public stating that they received calls from a number, 415-404-4000, with a

subject identifying as a san francisco police department officer. the subject was informed that the person had violated some type of law and would ask for some type of identifying information or financial information. i want to tell members of the public that this is a scam. please do not give your personal information and/or financial information to anyone who claims to call and says that they are with the san francisco police department. this is a scam, and a number of people have received those calls. so we put that information out to the public. at this time, thankfully, they have no financial loss or anyone divulging personal information, but please be aware that those types of scams are out there. social media posts, we have informed the public about this type of scam, and anybody who received these types of reports are encouraged to make police reports when it comes to their

attention. we had a burglary at the 4600 block of mission, at the wells fargo. subject handed over an a.t.m. card, asking for all of the money. the teller thought he was asking for money in his account, but then, he did some things that indicated he was wanting to rob the bank. bank security notified an officer working next door on an overtime detail, and the officer being in the right place at the right time was able to detain this suspect or subject inside of the bank without incident. this subject did have a history of this type of thing and actually had a warrant from the u.s. marshals for this type of thing, so that subject was arrested. central, burglary of vehicles

in the central district, subject stole two pairs of keys and two cars with a value of over $80,000. no arrests have been made in that incident. in the central district, the bulk of our deployment is 26 officers, and we have made a difference. we're seeing a significant decline in car break-ins since this deployment has been put into the central district and other places, and really getting some good results, so my hat's off to sergeant ying and the other members working on that. another assault, unprovoked

attack. the victim hit the back of her head when she was knocked down to the asphalt and suffered injuries, serious injuries. she was transported and is in serious condition. we don't believe those injuries are life threatening, however. an arrest was made in that particular situation by responding officers. at turk and 180, an elderly male was crossing the street when a vehicle accelerated and struck him, throwing him to the growing. the vehicle then fled and the driver did not identify themselves. the victim and the witness

believed this to be an intentional act. the victim was transported with possible fractures but no other serious injuries. at this time, the case is still under investigation, and no arrests have been made at this time. our stunt driving detail is still working pretty much every night. the lieutenants are still doing a good job in coordinating. we did not have any this month, but we did have some last month, some of which were shown on our local news channels. we did respond and were able to break those events up. i do want to reiterate to the commission that one of our objectives is to collect as much video footage and evidence that we can, and if we have probable cause or a legal reason to go and see the

vehicle involved in this activity. we're going to old people accountable in our city. we did have people that were hold -- held accountable, and we're working with law enforcement in other cities so we can try to change this in our city. it's very dangerous, and we need to put a stop to it. our fatal traffic collisions, none to report this reporting period. we did have one on 8-28, however, at 2:06 a.m.

24-year-old male was being followed by a suspect vehicle when it pulled beside him. two unknown suspects each pointed a gun at the victim from the front and rear windows. the victim intentionally drove off the road, through a fence, and hit a building. it was not a fatal, i'm sorry. he was transported with serious injuries but is expected at this time to survive. cup of other things of note. our victim liaison has continued to support victims and families, and to date has visited with 138 cases. 43 of those are crime limited to officers, victims, or their

families who needed services, and we provided those. 25 of these incidents were hate crimes, and there were 86 of these cases involved aapi victims, so that reported service has really been a value added to, when people go through the trauma of being victimized, we're there for them through the process to get them the help they need. we have some promotions, and those won't go into effect until november. we wanted to keep the station

as it is until early december, so that'll all happen then. i would like to say congratulations to our newest member of command staff. very talented pool of people. we have a process that we have nefr had before. we had a very thoughtful process, something that we've never had before, and i want to ensure that people who get promoted are aligned with the police vision, the chief vision, the reform that we're doing, and this process gives them an opportunity to explain how they're doing that, and it was a very thoughtful process, so i'm happy to report about

that. miss paulette brown brought an idea to the department that i wanted to highlight. murder that happened many years ago, and she worked tirelessly with the community and the homicide division to try to bring that case to resolution. the idea that she brought forward was having a venue or a way to put rewards into the district station where the public can see them all the time. so we have gun the process of putting video loops with rewards, announcements on the monitors in our district stations. at this point, bayview and northern each have that in their -- on their t.v. monitors. we plan to have that in all of our district stations.

very well received by the community. we want families who have cases unsolved that we aren't going to stop working for them. i want to thank miss brown for bringing this idea to us and working with us and others to get this started. i want to thank miss brown because if you go to northern and bayview, you'll see that information on the t.v. monitors. on that note, we had a reward for a homicide that happened in 2016. that reward was $60,000. it's been that amount for quite sometime. it will be increased to 100,000.

it happened at the intersection of plymouth and broad on october 27, 2016. the victim's mother, miss paula jones, has requested the increase. we've worked and granted that request. we hope that will stimulate some information to resolve and follow this case, and we've basically run out of leads, and we hope that the public takes another interest and looks at this case and if anybody knows something, please come forward. also, the homicide that i mentioned earlier, the 16-year-old female, officered located two shooting victims, 16 and 14, who had been privately transported to a local hospital. despite life saving efforts, the 16-year-old succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced

deceased. the 45-year-old is expected to survive their injuries. the san francisco police department is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects involved in this. please call. you can remain anonymous, and hopefully somebody will take us up on the offer to help solve this case. last thing, sergeant moran has sector cards and is addressing issues that occur with the flea markets that take place. this next event is on the 14 or 15 of september, and we will continue these polls as staffing allows or continues. we've had a lot of concerns at this particular plea market,

drug dealing and just quality of life issues, and we do believe this appointment will help us get there. the giants are going into the home stretch, and still in first place this weekend, and our officers will work, as we always do, with the giants organization and with our other city partners to provide help in and around the event. the chase center events, we'll start with a series of five city events, and eventually, we believe that the concert [inaudible] will come back on-line, include happy hour on fridays and movie hour on

saturdays. no terrorism related issues to report at this time, and that is it. thank you for allowing me some extra minutes for a thorough report. >> president cohen: sergeant youngblood, i'd like to take a moment and thank the chief for implementing a thoughtful process for prioritizing unsolved crimes. i think you're doing a good job getting your command staff together to work on what some would consider forget encases, and also want to acknowledge miss paulette brown for her leadership in this area. thank you. >> thank you, president cohen. >> president cohen: one more thing. i think you should also note that you have also put together

a most thoughtful and stringent promotion process to define your leadership team. you kind of touched on it a little bit in your presentation, but you presented what i thought was a very holistic approach, making sure you promote those that have the same values as you have, as the san francisco police department has, so thank you. good work. >> thank you. thank you, president cohen. thank you for that. >> president cohen: sergeant youngblood, is there any other comments that we need to hear from members of the public?

>> clerk: yes, we have public comment next. >> president cohen: thank you. seeing that the colleagues have no other comments, no hands up, let's go to the public. >> clerk: for members of the public that would like to make comment regarding the chief's report, please press star, three now. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hi. this is miss brown again. i want to thank the chief and [inaudible] for their acknowledgement. i finally found the information concerning the witness. his name is todd cooper, and his phone number is

415-265-0279. he said he was there during the incident that -- when my son was murdered, and he said that he gave the police the information, and to this day, they never called him, so he came over during the visual of my son, and i just happened to find a number. his name is todd cooper. 415-265-0279, and he is willing to talk. he gave me the number, so -- and he doesn't live far from there. he said he saw -- i don't know what you can get from this, but he gave me the number and i'm giving it to you now. please check into it. he said he gave information already years ago, and he still remembers. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. >> clerk: thank you, miss

brown. and president cohen, that is the end of public comment. >> president cohen: all right. great. thank you very much. let's hear from the next report. >> clerk: d.p.a. director's report. discussion. report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements. d.p.a.s report will be limited to a brief description of d.p.a. activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. >> good evening, folks. thank you so much. before i begin, i just want to introduce my acting chief of staff, diana rosenstein. welcome. she's doing a great job, and she may be jumping in on the

call from time to time. she has a lot to say, and she's not shy, so we welcome her voice and effectiveness in the process. this was her first police commission role, and we're really excited to have her. that being said, i have a couple of things to share with folks. we are at 539 cases that have been opened this year. this time last year, we were at 528. we still have 392 pending cases that are open. this time last year, our numbers are up, we had 316. we mediated 34 cases so far this year, and we have 27 cases whose investigations have gone on through nine -- longer than nine months. of those 27 cases, 18 of them are tolled, and just as a reminder, that's still seven less than the cases that we had

compared to this time last year. we have 14 cases that are pending with the commission right now, and 12 cases that are awaiting chief's decision. in the weekly trends, we have a total of 14 cases this week, with 24 allegations. 8% of them are for officers that failed to take required action. 8% of them have officers displaying threatening, harassing, or inappropriate behavior, 4% of driver inappropriately, and 14% of them are still involved, investigations need to be done or further information from the complainant that's just been received. just as a note, it's not on her, and no one has asked, but in terms of the monthly trend, they'll be presented at the

next meeting. they aren't on for tonight, in case anyone was curious on it. we gave an update on d.g.o. 8.10. we hope to have a final draft for the commission by the end of september. the other thing that i wanted to mention was this -- it is september. in august, the d.o.j., department of justice top office released a report entitled top civilian report on law enforcement, and so naco was the lead drafting agency for that report, and they drew from a database of 97 civilian oversight programs to identify core issues in the field. right now, my staff is going

through that report to determine whether or not there are best practices that we can adopt to confirm our progress with that report. it's a publicly available report. i've shared it with the chief and the commissioners in case you want to look at it before we talk about it at some point in the future. yesterday, d.p.a. launched its new website, so i'm really happy to announce the new website that went live yesterday, and i'd like to give a special thank you to the city administrator's office and her digital services team. their assistance and expertise helps us bring both clarity, functionality and support to the website in ways that we did not have in the past with the website that we had. but ultimately, all of those efficiencies speak to benefits for the public and for our

commission, as well. the new website consists of features such as report breakdown, pages. the information about know your rights after the police officer can be found there, as well as a dashboard, which is a new level of transparency to the d.p.a. level of authorization, and also, people can go to the website to make complaints, ask questions, apply for internships. everything is on the website, and we're super excited about the website. many of the challenges that we've had in the past, and oftentimes, the commission's asked me about outreach and why the numbers are growing so quickly and what we can do to

expand the role from d.p.a. i think a lot of it has to do with the outreach, but a lot of it has to do with the efficiency and the ease with which the public can access our services, and i think that's always our responsibility and services at d.p.a. so this website, the new website, i think goes a long way in allowing folks to reach us more easily without having to show up in person if they have limitations or they can't, and also to get information about the work that we are doing, which is now more important than ever for people to understand in my opinion. in terms of outreach -- and thank you. i want to thank my team internally that worked on this. nicolle armstrong in particular did yeoman's work in putting something something that could work with the city to present the website in the format that

is now going to be mandated for all of the departments, so excuse me. very excited about the website. in terms of our -- we -- in early august, we continued our virtual speakers for our internship program. i'm just wanting to highlight it because part of our program includes not just access to the important work that we're doing but access into making sure

that the young and diverse folks that touch our program are able to use this program as a stepping stone. people come in to introduce careers in public safety and for next steps academically. so from high school to college, college to grad school and from grad school, entering public service. you'll hear more about it in the intern program. our interns also worked with the public defender's office about the know your rights campaign that we do with colleges and universities in

the bay area. that was also in conjunction with the public defender's office and some of the people that i know over there, as well. i've been getting calls for months now about new and existing agency heads from all over california, and we came together to talk about common challenges, accomplishments and goals at a very high level, and we plan to meet for more substantive meetings in the next few months, just to plan and share resources when and if we can. currently, we have no

[inaudible] scheduled for closed session tonight. folks in the audience can always contact d.p.a. through our newly launched website at sfgov.org/dpa. and also, the phone number to reach us is 415-241-7711. i will wrap up with that. we have a couple of issues to talk about on the agenda, but i will wait until we get there before i talk about any of those issues; and i think that concludes my update from the last meeting that we've had. >> president cohen: thank you. does anybody have any questions? well, welcome to your new chief of staff. congratulations for filling

that -- that information. there she is. >> thank you. >> president cohen: congratulations. how exciting. any questions? commissioner hamasaki, did i see something coming from you on the chat? >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah. it's probably internal. >> president cohen: okay. got it. got it. okay. let's hear the next report. >> clerk: at this time, the public is now welcome to make public comment regarding the d.p.a.s report. you can press star, three now for public comment. president cohen, it appears there is no public comment on that item. >> president cohen: oh, i'm surprised. okay. let's continue moving forward with the presentations, then. >> clerk: line item 6, commission reports, discussion. commission reports will be limited to a brief description

of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. commission president's report, commissioners' reports, and commission announcements and schedule of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings, action. >> president cohen: would anyone like to start? commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: yes, thank you. i just wanted to -- and i'm a little bit hesitant here, but to briefly address the comments earlier, and the reason i'm hesitant is because i don't quite know how to address something that appears to be a completely dishonest and

disingenuous attack on me. there's no assault on any police officer. my post was intended actually to encourage police to get out in the community. if you look at the video, people are out in the community, and the officer is participating in a game called the milk crate challenge. i thought that was actually kind of cool of him. i don't know how it's been twisted in this way, but that's not the -- the case. that was not my intention. if you have other issues with my role on this commission, then maybe we could take that up through policies, right? my concern, really, is that our

members follow the rules, do their job, and that we have an upright and respectable department. and i think we've made some really positive progress, but i think there's others that are going to disagree with that. but there was nothing about that post that was intended or it would take a lot of creative interpretation to be read in the way that the police union suggested, so i think that's unfortunate, and i do understand you may have disagreements with me on policy, but let's leave it there. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you very much. appreciate that. i just want to cut you off

because it wasn't on the agenda, and we've got to kind of stick to the agenda. this was on the advice of our attorney. colleagues, do you have anything else that you'd like to add? if not, i'm pretty anxious to continue and get senator skinner on board. oh, commissioner yee, i see your name. >> commissioner yee: yes. thank you, president cohen, commissioners, and chief. i just want to say august was a busy month for me. i had a lot of stuff in the community, but i was happy to, i guess, attend national night out, get to meet up with the chief at balboa station, balboa park, and then pivot on that and went down to central station and saw another crowd over there, as well, and at the north beach salinas boys and

girls club. it was great to see the community out there interacting with the police, so it was great, great day. also, on thursday, august 3, we also had attended a class ceremony of 273 academy graduating. this -- how do you say it? i couldn't be happier that we have 19 officers -- i mean, into the san francisco police department with one coming out of, i think, u.s.l. so i can see that it is impacting our community where they are now being deployed. i want to thank the chief for his outstanding practice of the promotions of command staff, and on september 8, we have

chinatown night out. it's at the [inaudible] square. it's from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. it's been happening for seven years at one of my teachers, rose pak, has put forward on this, and it's now happening -- we'll probably have about 500 people, thereabouts, and you're all more than welcome. thanks again. hopefully, our crime -- gun violence is headed in the right direction, maze up of captain davis maron out in the bayview. had a little discussion, and as they would say -- all captains would say, they need more staff. and probably more training, too. thank you very much there, madam president, for letting me speak. >> president cohen: of course. thank you for your report and for your work in the field.

i see no other names on the list, so let's go ahead and pivot to the next portion of our agenda. i think, sergeant youngblood, we have to take public comment, is that right, and then, we can go onto the next item? >> clerk: yes, ma'am. >> president cohen: all right. let's do that. >> clerk: members of the public that would like to make public comment on the commission reports, press star, three now, and president cohen, there is no public comment. >> president cohen: okay. okay. please call the next item. >> clerk: line item 7, presentation by senator nancy skinner reporting s.b. 16, peace officers release of records. the senator is on here with us. we've had a few technical difficulties, so we will be able to hear the senator. she able to see everything, but we will not be able to see her.

good evening, senator. >> hi. how are you. can you hear me? >> president cohen: yes. thank you. good evening, senator. i have a few remarks that i want to open up with, so give me a second. so thank you for joining us. ladies and gentlemen, you're hearing the voice of nancy skinner. she is a state senator representing several neighborhoods in the east bay. senator, thank you for taking time from your very busy schedule. it's the end of session, so we're very grateful that you can come before the commission to share your views about the bill. we are very interested about learning more about senate bill 16. for members of the public, senate bill 16 is to make complaints on all use of force, wrongful searches or wrongful arrests, public. senator skinner and i both believe that transparency is

essential if we are to achieve our goal of police reform, and i just want to also acknowledge that senator skinner understood and understands the importance of transparency in policing when she authored senate bill 1421. you've got some fans on this commission of 1421, and 1421 lifted the veil of secrecy on policy conduct. so because of senator skinner's work, our commission receives monthly senate bill 1421 reports, indicating the department's response to a couple things. indicating the department's response to public record requests, to officer involved shootings, and also discharge

incidents. sexual assault cases, dishonest -- dishonesty cases, and officer assault. without the transparency and records of misconduct, bad apples, officers can engage in jurisdiction shopping and get jobs in other agencies, and

there's a danger that these officers will carry their misconduct tendencies with them to different agencies, so 16 makes jurisdiction shopping more difficult, and i am a fan of senator skinner, and i applaud her work. it's not been easy on the state level. she has been committed to reform, and she has my deep respect. and i also want to say that i applaud the commitment of our own officers at sfpd who will conduct themselves with the highest level of integrity, professionalism, each day in open and transparent environments. so with, that i will welcome senator skinner to join us. stacy, how much time do we have for this presentation? >> clerk: i believe the

senator's office was told ten minutes. >> president cohen: okay. senator skinner, the time is 7:00, and the floor is yours. >> thank you so much, chair cohen. appreciate having the opportunity to speak with the commission and with the public. as you mentioned, i carried a bill, which was signed into law back in 2018. that law was s.b. 1421, and as you described, it lifted a veil of secrecy that california had on the -- the public was completely unable to access any records on police conduct. now if you contrast that, in california, we have a very liberal, what you could use a different word, a very open public records act so that any other employee of san francisco, of the city and county of san francisco, almost

any action that they take, you and i, you and i and every member of the public, we can ask for a public records request. we can get e-mails, and so much information. there are very few restrictions on all other public employees. whereas our public safety employees, our law enforcement employees for whom community trust is essential for them to do a good job, and we could find nothing.

i think we would find, and certainly, you would get the reports, that it's very few officers for whom records were released because just as you pointed out, chair cohen, most officers, they approach their jobs and do their jobs with -- when i say integrity, i mean it is rare for an officer to discharge a weapon. that's rare -- while shootings and such are in the news a lot, it's rare. and the other type of misconduct that the records bill allowed, it's rare, but it's still -- we deserve to see

it. and it's few officers, but any way, it was also a very narrow category of misconduct that we allowed in 1421. and in fact, there's other activity that each of us deserve to know about our officers in order to hold our agencies accountable, so my new bill, s.b. 16, which, good news, the assembly passed today, 57-13 -- 57 yes votes, only 13 no votes, that new bill builds upon 1421, and what it does is it adds a few new categories of records. so officers who have engaged in based and discriminatory behaviors, so in other words, there are sustained complaints about biased and discriminatory behavior, officers who've engaged in unlawful arrests or searches or officers who have

engaged in excessive or unreasonable force, all of these complaints must be sustained. the bill was amended in the assembly so that all of the complaints must be sustained, so it can't be frivolous. now we would be able to access those records. now, when i say now, the governor would have to sign the bill into law. we know that any time you open a new category of records, you're going to get a flood of requests, so we built into it a delay so you and i, if the governor signs the bill into law, and it goes into effect, you and i can make a request on january 1 for these new categories of records, but our agencies would not have to respond -- if it's an old complaint, they would have a lot longer to process those records. so rather than having the timeline that they have to release everything in 30 days for these new sets, they would

have until july. and the benefit of that is it's a little more time to process. now if it's new complaints -- let's say the complaint gets upheld in 2022, and the request is from 2022. but if the complaint is from 2018, and my request is in 2022, the agency has a lot more time to process it. so that's how we built it in. and then, chair cohen, your point about officers jumping around from agency to agency to avoid -- let's say if an officer engages in certain

conduct, the agency starts to investigate it, and the officer just quits, what the bill requires is the agency to establish the record. what we found is officers were moving on before the agency could establish a record so they could move on without any blemish to them. and when you -- later, when things come out about an officer's past behavior in another jurisdiction, the agencies -- they had no idea. they were never given that

information. it only comes out in the lawsuit, and we want to be able to protect everyone. agencies, law enforcement officers, and know in advance. so that was that part of the bill. that was a good description, and i'm going to stop because you may have some questions because we still have a few minutes. >> president cohen: thank you for that brief overview and getting that bill one step closer to the governor's desk. >> absolutely. >> president cohen: i'm going to pivot and check in with my colleagues at this time. i don't see any names on the roster yet. oh, vice -- vice chair cindy elias is first to raise her hand. >> vice president elias: vice something. i wanted to come and thank you for speaking with us. i also wanted to thank you for your heroic work in this area. it really changed the game, and i'm really excited about senate

bill 16, and i think the more transparency we have, the better, and not only it helps keep officers accountable, but it also helps keep the department accountable because if the department is still employing officers with these kinds of instances, we know to to -- need to know. i just wanted to say thank you for being a trailblazer in this area. >> thank you. appreciate that. and i just want to mention that i was very, very -- you know, the first bill, 1421, it really gave a lot of our rank-and-file officers a lot of heartache, and i hated to be in that position, but it was negotiating around s.b. 16. i can understand how our

different officers, associations like porac, the peace officers association across california, they could not fight the bill, gave some very constructive suggestions for how to improve it, and i think this was a really good indicator of the evolution of just policing in our state and our communities; that there is more communities reaching out to officers, officers reaching out to us to try to bridge those gaps of understanding and to achieve the type of real trust -- it's going to take time, but the type of trust to

achieve -- it's going to take time to achieve the type of trust that we all want. >> president cohen: thank you. we've got commissioner hamasaki and director henderson. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. i think i've been a fan of your fair work in this area for a while. it's really so important that we've started to make these dramatic strides forward in ensuring public safety to ensure that the officers that wear a uniform are fit so. and that, you know, the other big issue of officers going through the discipline process and then happening from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and bringing their problems with them, that was one of the

things that i raised when i first joined the commission, so they had a file that was basically a blank slate in that regard. so thanks to your work, it's helping to keep the community safe. thank you, and we'll continue to look forward to more great bills out of your office. >> thank you. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. commissioner yee? >> commissioner yee: thank you, senator skinner, for all of the work that you've done for the police department and making them more accountable throughout the whole state of california. my question would be, with this

bill passing, is there any additional resource to a local police department or the funding of the staff where additional data or information that needs to be processed out -- so if there's, say, 1,000 requests, that means that maybe our -- i'm looking if there's any additionals that can be had by our department in san francisco. >> well, i appreciate that. they'll get a flood of requests. it's opening up three new

categories of complaints that are sustained misconduct that are now available to the public -- or would be, and because they had a history going back -- once that volume is met, there will be a workload in the beginning, but we've given a good amount of time. after that, the workload's not very high because when you think about it, a good agency does not have many complaints of the nature of actions that the bill covers that are sustained, so the records will be a lot less because you don't have to release any records of the officer that didn't engage in any behavior, and you don't have to release any records unless it was a sustained finding of a complaint.

i do appreciate that the reporting will initially be large, but it will not be soon therefore, and i think just like the public records act, it's part of local government's responsibility. >> commissioner yee: thank you very much, senator skinner. okay. >> president cohen: thank you. director henderson? >> thank you so much for your work of accountability. i separate the two, and based on the legislation that you worked on in the past, i appreciate the attention and focus that you've given these important topics that obviously

those of us here care deeply about, and i personally have found it very helpful to hear the legislative intent behind a lot of this work, especially 1421. my comment is twofold. one, i wish there were measurement tools that were used so that agencies like our own at d.p.a. could show their work and reflect the commitment that they have quantified in some way, especially with perspective of what's going on in other counties and other offices and how much at least our commitment is being reflected in the work. so for instance, here in san francisco, we have four full time employees doing 1421 then -- and that number is reflective of more than some offices have even doing the investigative offices. i think currently, we'll get a report on it.

i wish we had the report from today, but d.p.a. has released over 31,000 documents thus far since the passing of the legislation. obviously, we're committed to transparency. we can't fix what we don't talk about, and you can't talk about what you don't know. and having this information is really important, and so i thank you and applaud your work and would love to make myself and my staff available as subject matter experts. if you plan on doing anymore legislation, that we could help plan and draft or come up with solutions, especially with the cost as it related to outline, ancillary, supportive measurements and ideas or future legislation or ideas to help you and your office. we would love to be able to do

some of that. d.p.a. is in a unique sort of position because our documents go all the way back to 1982, so -- [inaudible] >> when you mentioned 31,000, i was, like, oh, but going back to 1982, that's close to 40 years. >> there you go. even a small shift means we have to go back to 1982 searching for these documents. in unique ways, we get a lot of these things that were handwritten, and there's redactions, and some of them are on tapes. but i thank you for your work,

and you can use our agencies to expand what the public can know and should know about the agencies that they're funding. >> thank you for that offer, and we definitely will talk. >> you're muted. >> i said thank you for that offer, and we definitely will talk in the future. >> president cohen: so senator skinner, before we let you know, i'm wondering how you see police oversight bodies, public oversight bodies like the san francisco police commission, how do we complement your effort? >> i think it's a good

question. san francisco, you're in a good way that you've kept records for that long a period of time. we have other agencies that do their best to destroy records so we can't know, but their burden under 1421 wasn't at great. it's, again, that issue of building trust, so certainly, at the commission, what the design of our disclosure may have been -- may have been -- what's the word? particularly burdensome? the purpose, particularly my purpose, i knew it was going to be a burden for agencies. i'm not going to try to be naive, however, the purpose was

not to create an undue burden but to create that type of public sunshine. and i know that some agencies -- and i don't mean just law enforcement, i mean just because of the public records act, different cities knowing that they're always under this, have revised their policies and procedures in terms of responding to the public records act. i don't know if 1421 was written in a way to be too rigid to give sfpd the ability to do that or not, so i'm happy to get any kind of report after you all have gone through this process if it wasn't

particularly onerous. >> president cohen: so we also have on our call chief bill scott, and i wanted to see if he had any questions or comments. >> thank you, president cohen, and senator skinner, thank you for your work. let me just start by saying that the transparency that's been created by your legislation is a good thing. i think the transparency and how it gains the public trust is a good thing. however, there have been some challenges with the backlog that you just talked about that you expected with some agencies, particularly, the larger agencies whose records go back many, many years.

-- those things are not insur mountable, but they're going to take staff, and they're going to take time, and they're going to take money, quite frankly. i know that's the challenge, and i think that people didn't realize, especially for agencies as large as us, how long it's going to take to get those things caught up with. i know we're going to work with

the commission and it understands kind of the challenges, but that's one thing moving forward that we have to reconcile. to get through the process as you just stated, there needs to be a process getting through that backlog until we're dealing with real-time situations, which is a much lower caseload. >> okay. well, like i said. i do welcome, if the commission or your department wants to prepare any or outline any ways that would achieve the outcome of the law but lessen the burden on the agency, that would be helpful. >> thank you. thank you for that. >> sure.

>> president cohen: senator, with the robust state budget, do you see any dollars being able to go -- to be kicked back down to jurisdictions? >> well, not this year because we're about to end session, but certainly, it's something we can talk about for next year, we certainly could. >> president cohen: okay. have you heard from other jurisdictions, maybe l.a. or san diego -- >> they haven't asked -- apologies. i am the budget chair. as most people know, we did have record high revenues this year. >> president cohen: yes. >> and i will say that we used those record high revenues for some great things. all of our k-12 school children in san francisco and everywhere else get free meals, two free meals at school, so we have no

kids going to school hungry. they get two free meals. they do not have to prove that they, you know, the forms to have the lunch shame, whether i am on the reduced lunch program or not. we obviously provided golden state stimulus funds to our low-income households and a great deal of money to our small businesses who were hurt by the pandemic, so we did some great things with our report high revenues. but i will say, we did not get a from from l.a. or san francisco to get the money for the police records. i have no idea what our revenues will be like next year, and i have no idea what kind of thing we would face, where if you get some money for some jurisdictions, will some

jurisdictions fall through, but i'm certainly willing to talk about it -- more than willing. >> president cohen: okay. that sounds great. i don't see anymore names on the roster, so senator skinner, very grateful for your time. thank you. >> you're welcome, president cohen, and we'll see you later. thank you all. >> president cohen: do you have a couple of minutes to stick around and listen to public comment? >> sure. >> president cohen: you don't have to respond, but i would love you to hear what they have to say. >> okay. >> president cohen: sergeant youngblood, could you open public comment? >> clerk: if you have public comment, please press star, three now. hello, caller. you have three minutes. >> hello, president cohen,

commissioners, and senator skinner. my name is [inaudible] from the public defender's office. i want to implore this commission to invest more opportunities and resources into transparency that senator skinner provided the people of california. s.b. [inaudible] from d.p.a. and sfpd are now relegated to the consent calendar, not discussed or reviewed by the police commission. my office is still awaiting word on whether or not there even are records to be disclosed for 85% of sfpd officers. we've been waiting for so long there's already nearly another law authorizing the release of more records. i hope senator skinner's efforts will not be in vain,

but without greater priority by the commission and priority to enforce 1421 and s.b. 16 provide, the public records will sit on a shelf for years along with other records that the public is entitled to have disclosed. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. president cohen, that is the end of public comment. >> president cohen: okay. great. thank you. senator skinner, a couple of general questions for you before we let you go. what is your overall commitment to this? what inspires you in this area? >> well, there's a lot of aspects to criminal justice, but california, until recently, was what i'd call the poster child of mass incarceration. we had the highest number of incarcerated people per capita

in the u.s. and most every country in the world other than saudi arabia, i think. there's just a few, and our numbers of people that we jail, similarly, and while we've seen improvements in public safety over the last ten years, that high levels of incarceration and jailing and such has been going on for 30 to 40 years. and at least a lot of research would indicate that the high levels of jailing people or incarcerating them has not been the thing that improves public safety, and it's very costly and it's very disruptive to families and neighborhoods, so certainly, we need to get people off the streets who are a danger to others. however, to use our prisons and jails as mental health facilities makes no sense neither for the staff at the

facilities nor those people. this is something that we're grappling with because unfortunately it's -- there's not been enough alternatives for the folks who are in mental health crisis, but we need to approach that. [please stand by]

our cost per person in a state facility per year is about $90,000. when you think the cost for a mental health or even an effective treatment that is far less than 90,000 a year.so it's partly a resource issue for me. it greatly a really improved public safety and lastly, the fact is no matter where you go anywhere incalifornia or across the country , our criminal system has got a racial bias. and you are farmore likely to be arrested , stopped and incarcerated or jailed if you are a person of color or a low income person and if you are a

white person of need and that every bit of data shows that, supports that. so how we feel that racial bias back is not easy. it's pervasive. that's anotherlens that i come from . >> i appreciatethat . that fall response and approach. when you look atthe state of california are there any jurisdictions that are getting it right ? is there anyoneelse doing as good a job as we ? >> there's many many communities that are grappling with this and that are for example, many communities are now exploring how to have an alternative to police response in a mental health call. and we are trying to provide funding on a statewide ... from

the state to support such things. not authorized yet the type of plumbing would allow every single community to switch over to a different type of response but it's certainlysomething that a lot of communities are exploring and i think would be very helpful . we also passed legislation, the racial justice which is requiring our courts to look at the cases that come before them through a racial lens to see whether is there evidence that this may be forced because of a particular racialbias because we know how pervasive it is so that was fast . but we do ask about, i think many many jurisdictions are really grappling with this. many police departments are an they're working on it . i don't think it's really fair to say oh well, there's this one that's brilliant or many

have been doing good in one area and not so good in another but i think lots of communities up-and-down the state are workinghard and that's , that gives me hope. >> that's a very diplomatic answer. thank you. when i was on the board of supervisors i offered legislation that changed a bit of a policy in the police department and that had to do with the collection of data and reporting and i wanted to know what your thoughts are around data collection and exposure and particularly how does data collection and disclosure , how do you believe it improves public policy? >> the data collection and exposure was essential for us to truly accept the fact that there is a racial bias inour criminal system . i mean, there were many people who asserted it and you can assert it but the data can't be

hidden from andthe data shows it .so, that helps us in a funny way, the data is without bias . the data is just there. it's on us to take that data and then use it to inform our revision of practices to address it. so the data is very important and if we use the police records example, i think you're 30,000 records maybe more difficult to achieve this but i would imagine that in most of the sort of quote unquote what someone might consider egregious officer behavior you have very few officers for whom he will have disclosed records

about the benefit is that allows you to see okay, we have an officer who's had repeated activity in this area, repeated sustained complaints, and we appropriately disciplined ? andif not , should this officer will be on our course? should this officer still be patrolling thecommunity ? have they shown themselves to deserve that role? and that's one thing that disclosure does. the other things, i mean, data. if we take juvenile and in san francisco i would say has been a great model in terms of the juvenile justice model. you've done phenomenal in term of the cars really are juveniles and giving them alternatives . what we know aboutbrain development and impulse control , i'm sorry. if you're under 25 really is

what theresearch shows you don't have as good of impulse control.your brain is not fully developed and told of 15 or 14-year-old accountable for an action in the same way we hold a 30-year-old accountable is not appropriate . it serves as a great model for what you've done in that area and the datashows whether in the juvenile set you have treateddifferently and not incarcerated , what's happened? you can track and see were you successful in some of the data shows that you have to be successful . >> parting words ,regarding the senate bill 16 . do you have any further thoughts on how implementation or what steps you think we should be taking, take in anticipation of the compliance? >> we've given a lot more time and you know what records it

coversthat allows the agency to know what to expect . >> president: thank you for your time and advice. we welcome you to come back anytime if you want to talk about the legislation you're working on . >> thank you goodbye. >> miss youngblood. are you okay with taking a break, stretch your legs, get some water? take a mildbreak ? go ahead and take a10 minute break. we will resume at 7:48 .

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>> ... >> sergeant youngblood, please call the next item. >> line item 8, presentation regarding the department's fieldtactics force option unit discussion . >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> this is lieutenant nevin. where not on video now because ibelieve sondra reynolds will get the powerpoint for us . >> i am pulling it up now, lieutenant.

>> first i'd like to thank commissioner elias, sergeant karen and i spoke to commissioner elias i don't know, maybe six weeks ago or so and she was very interested in our training. i'll let her that but we are very excited to have the opportunity to spend some time talking to her about some of the things we're doing and she asked some good questions, very specific essence, once it's in the details so we spent time talking about some of the training we are doing in the department regarding use of force and some of the different classes that we are talking about so it was her idea to invite us to the evening and we appreciate the invite and we will go through a quick powerpoint but we look forward to having a discussion with you all tohelp describe some of the great work that we believe our members are engaged in .

just going through the powerpoint, in may 2019 the field tactics force unit officially launched. there were some of us that got into place within the training division prior to that but in may 2019 is when we really started going gettingmoving . it was in part in response to a department of justice recommendation from me recommendations and also i should point out it's a lot of discussions thatmembers of this department have had for some time . i investigated an officer over a decade ago and one of the things that continue to, was when we looked at investigations and looked at tactics and looked at what our members were engaged in, it felt back then we needed to do a better job of closing the loop and what i mean by that is we needed to make sure the lessons we're learning from an

investigative standpoint made its way to the members in the field so they can learn lessons, understand best practices and we could really close the loop and make sure our training was relevant and timely with regard to the real types of events in their everyday duties. that really was an exciting opportunity for me professionally and i feel that throughout my career this was a good spot for me to be in and i'm just honored to be surrounded by such talented individuals within the department and it's not just the folks that have worked in the unit suggests sergeant karen and myselfbut also the ambassadors we like to call them throughout the department of enforcement , the folks that by theend of our training continue to spread some of the lessons that were trying to emphasize to members . just moving through the powerpoint, that's a lot better than i could say.

the next slide please, thank you. the focus of the unit is we really got two main functions. where responsible for use of force training over the oversight of that training, making sure it's consistent and applicable to the force tactics and options used by our members out in the field so we have a variety of tactics were going to highlight a few of them today and we have so many classes that we would take way too long for us to describe everything but to create classes based on member feedback, recommendations from the chief and his office and command staff and things they want us to focus on. we put out rollcall training in those as well and another part of what ourparticipation is in reviews and we do analysis and make recommendations from a training perspective .

there's a criminal investigation that happens with a lot of these andthere's always an administrative investigation . it's time to the administrative investigation but we look at it from a training perspective we ask ourselves what are we doing good and what can we do better and how can our members and the public benefit from updated training. i'll let mister guerin talk about our primary courseswhich is critical mindset response. next slide please .>> critical mindset response, it's been fully embraced by the membership and cmc are, we, a complement towhat the membership is doing . and a lot of the courses objectives as i said really are a cultural growth or change and members are growing and it's

aboutkeeping them safe and keeping the members in the community safe . there's an emphasis on bigger picture analysis and officers are beginning to see that. the critical response is being pushed out about 500 members and multiple outside agencies are providing feedback and that's the training they're putting out there. >> your selling yourself a little short. what justin didn't tell you is the california peace officers standards and training has recognized this course as a course that has been posed certified so what that means is when members take our 20 hour course they get credit towards their training which is extremely valuable and last year we did a presentation on

this and you're aware of the fact that this was presented to the international association of teachers in the 2020 exposition they have their so the objectives justin has, these are the focus of the critical decision-making. there in teamwork, leadership, the debrief which is again what do we do good and what can we do better. next slide please. so another one of our flagship training courses now is on you course . senator skinner was on earlier and it came into existence right around the same time as 392. assembly 392 changed these standards in the state of california and the senate bill 230 is a course that's designed specifically so that everybody in our unit hastaken in terms of data training . it's required for every member and basically california law enforcement so we probably have

done the most training and the entire state in this course and we're pretty proud of it. the audit of our force less than a month ago, when they came and did our class, they audited the instructors we passed which we felt good about butmore importantly , the auditor had such great things to say about the members that took the course on that day and how they interacted with one another and how they interacte with the scenarios , it was really impressive how she came away with that. this is a facilitated class what that means is there's no death by powerpoint. there's only about three powerpoint slides that have about three times as many in this short presentation tonight . it's based on facilitated learning so we focus on these training objectives as you can see on the screen.

that's directly from post and is mandated by statelaw. we focus on every single bullet and what we do is that the students are engaged in it it doesn't matter how much notes because we spent all day thinking and talking about this stuff . itmatters that the rookie officer, the officer with two years on the streetworking midnight , they understand . so we've gottensome good reviews .like i said, all the members that have taken it, their eager and thirsty to learn and understand what the rules are and how it applies to them in their day and as you keep giving them objectives discovers why so many objectives that are so important in law enforcement and starting at the bottom completes legitimacy. if you don't have legitimacy w cannot serve the public at all . so it's so important for our members to articulate that and we give examples and run them

through scenarios dpa has participated in the training . sarah hawkins was one of the first in the lieutenants class and we got some great feedback from that. this isbeen an important class and we will continue doing it forward . now moving on to the next slide . >> there's an emphasis on transparency and from the beginning you see the work of lieutenant nevins. but we built great working issues speaking about what our training needsare . what they feel the needs are, we willwork together . i know acting chief of staff rosenstein, i hope she has some comments afterwards. validates what we're trying to do as a training division and

also in our effort to be transparent. >> next slide please. as you can see, the reform initiative has three different recommendations that tie directly into what our unit has been doing . either talking about creating announcements for rollcall, that's what we do on a regular basis making sure we are addressing any policy gaps and lessons learned as you can see from 1102 and finally the last one on the next page , 6.1 we need to adopt a formal learning needs assessment. two design ways that we can efficiently identify what's the priority of treatment so with this unit we're achieving chief scott was the one who watched this unit and we are fortunate to be here and be a part of it. and then i'll just end with this and we're happy to talk about some of ourcolleagues but of course i like to say

students and you can go to the next slide please .training, we're not in it to waste anybody's time. we believe training needs to b relevant and needs to be timely and the members , if they can't walk out of the classroom and apply it to their jobs like immediately, i don't feel like they get the best bang for the buck and luckily that'snot the case with the training we've been offering . most important to me and what's most important to our chain of command is constantly doing our feedback so we reviewed with our training and diana might recognize the first quote up there, not to throw her out there but she attended one of our trainings and we actually looked that up in our office because we were so impressed by the feedback she gave us. you can seethat quote up there again , sorry diana. i'm embarrassing her but there's other things there. i'm starting to lose seem we will save many lives.

that really hit home with us. that's really whatit's all about for us , to make it safe and it means something to us, safety with respect . we're looking to make not only our members safe which is our focus and emphasis but members of thepublic . we're happy with what we're doing up here and we feel we've been given a golden opportunity and i guess you justhappy to take any questions and talk to you in any more detail you'd like .>> i see a name. commissioner elias, anyone from commissioner larry meeks. >> i want to thank lieutenant nevin and paulgiguere and for presenting tonight . i was fortunate enough to receive a very condensed version of this two day

training and i really do have to say i was in all. i was amazed at the concepts and adjust the training that these 2 were providing the department. i was also inspired cause their dedication and passion to their work was evidently clear. and i think that really changes the tone and landscape when presenting these types of trainings to the audience, that will be receiving it. i want to take my hat off to both of you but thank you for your dedication and passion to this work and this training. 2 things i want to point out is not only is this training, i'm so happy officers will be receiving it and we're rolling it out department wide but what's important is that i think lieutenant nevins doesn't give himself enough credit but

this model is being used by other jurisdictions. we've received a lot of, when i say we lieutenant nevin and his staff have received awards and recognition and being used by other jurisdictionsas a model for this type of work so kudos to you and your department's . it's an amazing training, i'm excited and i would encourage my fellow commissioners to sign up andparticipate in it .so thank you again and i don't know if the chief wants to also elaborate on some of the awards and some of the great work tha lieutenant nevin and his staff have been doing . i know he's been used as a subject matter expert in other jurisdictions. there's so many great things coming from this and again, it's just really evident from his passion and dedication to his work so thank you for giving us the condensed version. >> we will come into the chief.

>> thank you vice president elias . i'll start with lieutenant nevins,sergeant mcgavran . commander denise flaherty who was the captain training when all this came to fruition and there are a lot of people that put this model of training on the mac for the police department but i also want to acknowledge as commissioner elias stated, we have gotten some national recognition and we were asked to present on our cf pr and these concepts and last year international association of chief counselors listed conference from the police department's from all over the world and it's really difficult to give a presentation accepted that presentation there, we got acceptedand we presented last year . nevin and sergeant garrison and

flaherty and myselfpresented but it was them that didthe work. thelieutenant commander started it . the other thing is more importantly , i want to say this . officers can't seem to get enough of this training. it's one of the most popular training modules that we have. i've heardofficers personally tell me how this is really changing the way they do business . slowing things down and it's not only about thesafety of the officers but equally important it's about the safety of the community we serve . we want the best outcomes this is a method and a formal training that will help us get their outcomes consistently. so my hats off to lieutenant nevins, to the officers for embracing this training and to the commission for letting us highlight this to the community and to the dba for playing a pivotal role with lessons learned and things that they

bring to the table like their input and the things that we learned when we don't have good outcomes or when we have investigations that we need to do things differently so dba has been a critical part of this as well so thank you all. >> next i'm going to recognize commissioner larry yee. >> i want to know what the chief has said and also vice chair elias. as i called the captain lawrence today, he expressed one of the things that you can do that can help you or your members out in the field, your fellow officers. he saysas a matter of fact he says this . if we have more of this training, it would go a long way so i'm just echoing his concerns and for the people

that are front liners,i'm going the sameget more of this training out to all our members as soon as possible . i'll leave it at that . >> diana rosenstein. >> good evening commissioners. president colin, vice president elias. i did want to say a few things briefly. i took the full course, a few days of standing out their morning noon and night and i'm happy to report it was definitely mind blowing. it gave me an opportunity to see things from the perspective of the officers . the adrenaline and the thought

process and the emotions that they go through in these differentscenarios. i want to point out it was a completely judgment free zone for the officers to talk . they were allowed to say whatever they were feeling and nobody was telling them how they should feel, how they should think. everything was accepted and i think that created an environment for everyone to be heard. to be honest and to truly think about how to change certain outcomes that could be detrimental notjust to the officers but to the public also . so i love that , especially one specific incident comes to mind where a young woman officers started talking and just a sergeant started talking over her and sergeant mcgavran said let her speakand she got to speaker piece and it was empowering i think . and it was really eye-opening that everybody's opinion there counted. what i feel like at theend of the training they didn't tell me , afterwards i looked out

and i said these scenarios that the officers are practicing in real time , in the real world with real bullets are absolutely scenarios that have occurred on the street . and if we give them an opportunity to practice and debrief in those situations after they've gone through it and talk it through and come up with good solutions, solutions they can live with where they can be safe and the public is safe there really is no better outcome so i applaud both lieutenant nevins and sergeant guerin and all officers and i thank you guys for welcoming us and for giving us the opportunity toparticipate and give you input . it was really a wonderful experience and i encourage everybody who is in the business of dealing with police policy or police discipline or

anything related to what sf pd does to if they can to take the course. it was really eye-opening. so iappreciate it, thank you everyone . >> i have a question, what's the difference between okay. what's the difference between the 10 hour and the 20 hour training? >> the 10 hour course was a condensed version and it called ao, advanced officertraining . a lot of them are concepts and honest discussions about our spaces in the culture and expectations aboutthe community . the 20 hour course evaluates that and uses course training which is projectiles are used

and decisions are made that can either like i said, you can lead to a shooting or not to, it's based on the decisions made. so the 20 hour course is reinforcing those concepts because we can imagine the scenarios all daybut to feel it, live it , feel those emotions andtalk about how it went , that's really where the gold happens and it's why the staff continues to support and it's so important for the numbers. >> thank you. commissioner elias of going to turnthe meeting over toyou for a brief second . i'll be off camera listening . >> commissionerhamasaki . >> can you hear me? >> you guys are making it soun super interesting, when the next one coming up ?

>> the next onescheduled for september 21, that's a monday and tuesday starting at about 7 am . >> how do i do that live condensed version? >> will be happy to set something up for the youngblood and take that. >> commissionerelias and i did this when we started on the commission . it wasn't nice what happened to civilians in that case. it was an unfortunate exercise but i like to do it. it sounds like i remember doing it, it was super interesting to do and it definitely gave you the perspective that you don't really get on this side of things so. >> i'll be happy to facilitate. >> thank you sir. >> anyone else? thank you again lieutenant

nevin, sergeant wereally appreciate .i will again invite my fellow commissioners tosign up for the condensed course. i think it's really beneficial and congratulationsagain on the awardsand recognitions . sergeant youngblood . >> members of the public that would like to make public, , recitation of the field tactics force please press star 3 now. vice president elias, it appears there is no public comment. >> item. >> presentation regarding dba' internship program discussion . >> president: miss thompson.

long time no see. so great to have you. i guess we will turn this chair over todirector henderson or should i go straight to the source ? >> you're trying to jump over me. i'm trying to lay the foundation of how great she wa . >> she needs no introduction, let's be honest. >> this is all good work and i'm super proud of it. i want to talk about the program before i introduce her because this is something that the office of complaint never had interns. dpa have never had interns and always thought that having an internship program would show young people the actual work, specifically intended to address opportunities for women, for communities of color for immigrant communities or handicapped committees all the disenfranchised communities to see a place at the table of th definition of safety .

i'vealways thought that's been important and it's been a part of dpa since i came here .i brought internsto the program . i have the same internship program at the mayor's office and they had one inside the mayor's office and this is the same program that was built and expandedat the district attorney's office as well . that our fearless leader from internship programs came from, that's where she first came to us. it was a real honor and i knew that i was putting it in the right hands but just as a sign today on the important work that we're doing when we heard from callers referencing the work that we've done this summer by young people who are eager to learn about police accountability and law enforcement, it's a big deal and i couldn't be prouder of the work and leadership that we have with the program so

without further a do i will introduce the head of both the hiring, recruiting and internship program. i've got to come up with a title for her . but ourfriend and yours , canada thompson. the stages yours. >> thank you director henderso . i don't know how i'm going to follow that with my own presentation . good evening president:, vice president elias andchief scott, executive directorpaul henderson, members of the public watching or listening. i'm beyond proud of our intern program . our goal is to prepare a pipeline , a diverse pipeline for teachers in public safety here in the city and county of san francisco and i want to be able to provide special development to represent segments of our public service

and public safety so that women, persons of color, the lgbtq+ are exposed to various careers of public safety and public service. our internship programs apply to college, graduate schools and careers of public service and it's why we work so closely and can't have collaborated with mayor breeds program with director davis and lisa win at the human rights commission . we focus on resume building, building social networks or in this day and age as you although future employees either employer for the first time on social media. proud to say that a alumni and former dpa interns are now in longhorn in our former public service state starting his first year at berkeley school of law and dpa's summer intern of 20/20 angelica lee is starting her first year at

hastings school of law. in addition our summer 2019 intern marcus grimes is a third year at uc hastings. this year our class contribute so much to dpa. they summarized 48 hours of body worn camera footage . the time it takes to drive nonstop from san franciscoto new york city . they summarized 20hours of investigative interviews . people watching the titanic, that's seven times. a review to 54 hours of police commission meetings, equal to listening to war and peace on audiobook unabridged and researched 300 cases that directly affected policy proposals which is equal to the number of cases heard by the supreme court of the united states for two terms. thank you to our wonderful speakers including commissioner brockner, president walton of the san francisco port of

supervisors, the young adult board of the san francisco superior court, aaron brown of usf, bes fda's office in public defenders office, federalpublic defenders office and adult probation juvenile probation and the san francisco police department google and left . this series provided valuable tools as well as networking for our interns. it was truly a highlight of our program especially these virtual times. a huge thank you to those that made this program happen year after year with their dedication and support. the police commission director davis and lisa lynn and opportunities for all, our fearless leader executive director paul henderson , our project manager and the whole armstrong operations manager and the entire dpafamilies for supporting our interns this summer with insightful and engaging projects .and without further a do i present our epa'ssummer 2021 intern presentation . these interns were tremendously

hard and got so creative i couldn't be more proud of my additional kids that i did not get to claim on my tax return so withoutfurther a do , sergeant. >> you've got great pictures. is someone supposed to be

talking? is there a date we'resupposed to belistening to ? >> click on the speaker . >> sergeant youngblood will take it. >> these honorable guestsfrom a diverse array of organizations . >> are you not hearing it. now you can. >> if you can start over if that'spossible . >> i feel like wemissed some insight . >> this is your internship summer 2021 program. welcome to thedepartment of police accountability law and justice reform 2021 presentation .throughout the month of june and july dpa

interns have had the ability to analyze body worn camera footage to inform policy proposal and trial preparation and much more. some interns were able to participate in opportunities for all programs thissummer which connect young people to state employment, job training and mentorship opportunities . >> every week dpa participated in a speaker series with honorable guests following diverse array of specializations. during each presentation, we had the alternative to ask questions and learn from leaders indifferent legal fields . >> my name is cortez, i'm a native born and raised in the industry. i'm currently attending freedom high school in oakland california and i am a senior at

florida high school. >> and a joshua hernandez and i ama sophomore . >> my name is meyer king and i'm a graduate at eglin university. >> i'm melissascott and i am an epa graduate . >> my name is mattie kiernan and i'm asenior in michigan . >> my name is monique adams and i am a senior at the la university . >>. >> my name is jesse smith and i'm a law student atgolden university .>>. >> i am athird-year law student at uc hastings . >> dpa interns participated in weekly talks to discuss doctor jennifer everhart's side.

this eliminates unconscious racial biases and communities of the criminal justice system. doctor everhart conducted her own experiments to examine the neurological components of unconscious racialbias and its manifestation in everyday occurrences . interns explored some of doctor everhart relationto curbing and unconscious biases strong effects on policing . i can also go into detail about theeffect it has on the course of our normal daily lives . at the ever explains everyone is expected by bias whether or not they believe it. implicit bias is not only to call someone a racist but it is a distorted lens thataffects the way people see the world and everything in it . this lens is caused by both the way our brain is wired and to society. in bias doctor everhart discusses how implicit bias can

be dealt with as the first step in ourselves, and stereotyped byreality . >> these quotes in chapter 4 stood out to us because they explained the struggles there are for trying to reach out to the police and how people in different communities see police and their city. they show us the perspective of those that have sustained for themselves against police and need help from their communities and other public offices. >> doctor everhart conducted a federal probe of the police department in 2015 after the fatal police shooting of michael brown. african-americans made up 57 percent of ferguson's population accounted for 85 percent of the stock and 95 percent of citations. this year the san francisco budget legislative analyst reported african-americans compose working percent of the cities prison population but 18

percent of police traffic stops and 34 percent of thepolice ask for violations in 2019 . the investigation and ferguson concluded disproportionate burden on african americans cannot beexplained by any difference in the rate of which of different races violate the law . rather these disparities occur because of unlawful bias against african-americans. >> the proposed that the meeting be a quick with a limited version ofautomatic license plate reader . limited to these vehicles exclusively. the lbr recapture the license plate, make, model, speed and direction of travel for each vehicle within its range of view but unlike most lpr's these will not aggregate and utilize hotlist functions and we would be restrictedthe

enforcement of the violation the immediate option of this technology is that the enforcement of equipment and parking violations be suspended . it is not a novel idea to utilize algorithms and artificial intelligence to help make this unpredictableelement out of these interactions. these attemptshave often been wrought with political and constitutional

>> it is likely that the duty of safeguarding against this would likely fall to sfdpa. after this presentation, you'll

receive a packet of case law. >> use the automation can be a great tool in confronting bias, however, it can lead to a bias outcome which we are trying to avoid. for example, we learned about a compass risk assessment tool that is used in 40 of 58 california counties. from our reading of the book, we also learned about the inability of facial recognition to differentiate nonwhite people, which can lead to negative consequences if used and not addressed by law enforcement. any implementation, then, of automation and technologies should work to minimize its

effects. bias affects everyone, not just law enforcement. we can have all people that believes in a police force that truly values all people and that the community trusts in return. >> [inaudible] is nothing short of a treasure trove. i'm also grateful of some of the friends i met along the way. >> and the most interesting part of the summer for me was the summer feature series. i was able to talk with successful people every week and get a understanding into the leaders, assessing public comment and tips for

professional development. >> i wanted to understand the inner workings of d.p.a. what goes on behind the scenes, and i was able to do just that. the staff and attorneys were willing to go above and beyond. >> i love the different career paths and public interest law at the d.p.a. >> my favorite part of the internship was discovering ways effective police reform was conducted on the local level and working amazing lawyers and leaders in san francisco. >> i love the attention that we were given throughout the internship. the projects that we worked on were significant and allowed me to contribute to [inaudible] that i loved and a great team. >> one of my favorite things about being an intern at the d.p.a. was definitely the

experience of working with other people and definitely learning about how to take the the right path and the path to get into law school. >> it was an amazing experience for myself and it was an amazing environment full of positive people who worked together. >> president cohen: thank you so much. >> vice president elias: great. thank you for that presentation and thank you for your dedication and commitment to the internship program, which seems extremely valuable and beneficial to our youth, so thank you, miss thompson and director henderson.

>> president cohen: i want to echo. it's been quite nice to see how the internship program has matured over a period of time. i particularly like how the students used their own voice, and the report really highlighted some of the painful truths that we know. african americans and other latinx community members feel in san francisco, but i just wanted to say thank you for a meaningful internship experience. i started as an intern. >> i did. >> paul, you started as an intern and most of us started our careers as an intern. and now that we've started our careers, we know how an intern can shine and produce a valuable work product, and i know you guys benefited greatly from having a whole project

done by them. if there isn't anything else, i think we could go to public comment. >> can i just thank you guys for allowing us to make the presentation? thank you. i know how much work it's been to put the program together, but honestly, it's -- that's why we presented the work so you can measure the work and see that it's not a vanity internship where people don't just answer the phones. it was particularly challenging

work this year where we were all working more remotely than not to get them in to have a positive experience. so thank you, guys, for your time and attention, and thank you for your time for tonight. >> president cohen: thank you for all of you in cyberland. >> commissioner hamasaki: this is when i miss the in-person meetings, when you'd get them all lined up to say something. it's nice, the presentation, but we'll be back in person someday. >> well, you can see them. they're all lined up.

>> commissioner hamasaki: as handsome as you are, we'd like to see them. thank you. great presentation. thank you for sharing it. >> president cohen: mr. dante king presented this summer, also, and they were so engaged and had a thoughtful engage of ideas. thank you, mr. king, for your presenter series. it rounds out everything that we do at d.p.a. thank you so much for your hard work, miss thompson. it shows. and thank you to the interns who will go back to school and pursue their degrees. let's move forward. let's take public comment on this item. >> clerk: members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding d.p.a. intern program, please press star, three now. president cohen, it appears

there is no public comment. >> president cohen: all right. okay. well, we will continue to move forward on the next item. thank you. >> clerk: line item 10, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 12 below, closed session, including public comment on item 11, vote whether to vote item 12 in closed session. any public comment, press star, three now. and president cohen, there is no public comment. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. let's go into the next item. >> clerk: line item 11, vote on whether to hold item 12 in closed session, including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regards to item 12-a, san francisco administrative code section 67.10, action. >> president cohen: do i have a

motion? >> vice president elias: motion. >> second. >> president cohen: okay. motion made by commissioner elias, and second made by commissioner -- >> byrne. >> president cohen: oh, byron. roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have five yeses. i will take us into closed session. >> president cohen: thank you.

>> president cohen: please call the next item. >> clerk: item 13, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 12 held in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.12-a. >> so moved. >> second. >> president cohen: we have a motion and a second. roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have five yeses. >> president cohen: excellent. thank you. motion passes unanimously. please call the next item. >> clerk: line item 14,

adjournment. action item. >> president cohen: thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. thank you for your service today.

>> candlestick park known also as the stick was an outdoor stadium for sports and entertainment. built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview hunters point where it was home to the san francisco giants and 49ers. the last event held was a concert in late 2014. it was demolished in 2015. mlb team the san francisco giants played at candlestick from 1960-1999. fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open

ballpark. an upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. there are two world series played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. during the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. candlestick's enclosure had minor damages from the quake but its design saved thousands of lives. nfl team the san francisco 49ers played at candlestick from feign 71-2013. it was home to five-time super bowl champion teams and hall of fame players by joe montana, jerry rice and steve jones. in 1982, the game-winning touchdown pass from joe montana to dwight clark was known as "the catch." leading the niners to their first super bowl. the 49ers hosted eight n.f.c. championship games including the

2001 season that ended with a loss to the new york giants. in 201, the last event held at candlestick park was a concert by paul mccartney who played with the beatles in 1966, the stadium's first concert. demolition of the stick began in late 2014 and it was completed in september 2015. the giants had moved to pacific rail park in 2000 while the 49ers moved to santa clara in 2014. with structural claims and numerous name changes, many have passed through and will remember candlestick park as home to the legendary athletes and entertainment. these memorable moments will live on in a place called the stick. (♪♪♪)

>> hi, you're watching "coping with covid-19." today i'm going to the pharmacy. [music playing] now i'm not a medical professional or a doctor of any kind. sorry, mom. i'm a video guy. and this is my personal story. i have a family member who's in the at-risk group so i'm the one going to the pharmacy. to get the most detailed and up-to-date information about the virus, go to sfgov.org. there's a really good f.a.q. there. i've been taking a plastic bag from the house and putting a sanitizing wipe and for this trip, i feel safer wearing latex gloves. i'm taking the smallest number of items with me. my debit card, i.d., the gloves

and the wipes. and that means there'll be fewer items to wipe down later if they come into contact with shared services. when i get to the pharmacy, i put on my gloves. my goal while i'm inside is to not touch any common surfaces and try to keep at least six feet away from anybody else. this is my second visit of the day. the first time i came, there was a huge line so i just left. this time there is no line-up. i'm very careful after i use the p.i.n. pad to pay for my purchases. this is a point of contact that many people have touched, which is why i'm wearing the gloves today. i thank the pharmacist for her important work and leave. on my short walk home from the pharmacy, i'm careful not to touch my face. i keep the gloves on and until i get to my recycling and trash containers, where i remove the packaging from the medicines and i put them in the recycling. now we don't need the instruction for these particular insulin medications because we're already very familiar.

as soon as i get through the door, i wash my hands for at least 20 seconds. then i'll wipe down my debit card and i.d. and, as an extra precaution, i wipe down the medicine's packaging and anywhere where they have touched indoors. then i wipe down the front doorknob and, finally, i wash my hands again. that is it for this episode. i hope you enjoyed my story. thank you for watching.

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for

lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable.

(♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge.

nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part

of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco. yesterday was my birthday and i was out a little later than normal. it was nice to really celebrate a birthday for a change and i celebrated in ashia sf in san francisco where -- oh, my

goodness, the performance was amazing. the food was great. the drinks were wonderful, the people were wonderful, but what i most enjoyed about being at asia sf is that they require everyone who comes through the door shows proof of vaccination. and so i felt a little bit safer when i was there last night and today's announcement is really about making sure that people feel a little bit safer in our city, but most importantly, what we're seeing now with this virus is very challenging. and of great concern to me and i know many of you as well. but let's take it back just a little bit. the fact is that we should be proud of san franciscans. when i asked you all over a year ago to shelter in place

and basically change your entire lives to support one another and ensure this virus didn't spread. you answered the call, you stepped up, you did your part. our health care workers showed up to the hospital to take care of those who unfortunately contracted the virus. but ultimately, we saw the best of the people of this city. and now, we need just a little bit more. and, again, going back to where we are. we've seen in this city 78% of people in san francisco have been fully vaccinated. that's still more than any place else in the country. and i know the rest of you all are coming kicking and screening, but let me explain why this is so important. it's important because kids

under the age of 12 cannot be vaccinated. so we have to make sure we're protecting them. it's important because there are still people who are elderly and sick and those with underlying health conditions that may not be eligible for the vaccine. we're doing this for them. so the reason why we're here today is because we're actually following the lead of small businesses and in particular, many bars in san francisco that decided on their own we're going to require proof of vaccination before you enter our bar and the reason why we're here at vericio is because the owner, wherever she is, there you go. janet clyde, she took it the extra step. she took a lot of heat for it. she said i want to keep my

customers and my employees safe, so i'm going to do this despite how challenging it was. how it impacted her business because she put the health and safety of the people of this city and her customers and her employees before anything else. that's what being a good san franciscan is all about and so we appreciate you letting us be here at this historic location to recognize that we really are in this together. and because this delta variant has been so brutal i don't know about you, but when the virus first happened and over that time period. i knew less people at that time who actually got the virus. and there are a bunch of folks that i know how who have in some cases been vaccinated that

have contracted covid because the delta variant is just that more contagious and we are not out of the woods as it relates to covid, we're still going through it. yes, we're sick and and tired of it, but it's not tired of us it's still coming back with a vengeance. we're seeing 263 new cases and those people are younger in some cases than what previously existed and dr. cofax said if i'm going to get covid anyway. it's a difference being home every day or being in a hospital on a respirator where

you can't breathe and this is real and it's hard to understand when you don't complooeld see it, but in some cases they can't talk where in this past year and a half, there have been people who died who have not been able to have funerals. when we think about those sorts of things, how can we not do our part to get better, to get vaccinated to make sure we're protecting one another. to make sure we're protecting our children because they can't get vaccinated. so why are we here today? well, part of it is we're taking our steps around vaccinations just a little bit further and starting

august 20th, you will need proof of vaccination in businesses for your customers in high contact areas like bars, restaurants, clubs, theaters, entertainment venues. indoor gyms and fitness and large indoor events with more than a 1,000 people. by october 13th, employees at these establishments must be vaccinated as well. all of the employees need to show proof of vaccination by october 13th to their employer. now, to be clear, this will not include people or kids who are under the age of 12 because they can't get vaccinated. so what we don't want folks to think is a family of four that you can't go to a restaurant, you can. because we know that your children cannot be vaccinated and will not have the ability to show proof, but the parents

will need to. and, this does not impact those who are coming to pick up to-go orders. a lot of folks who do the deliveries. so this won't impact that. as i said, why are we doing this? it's to protect the workers. it's to protect kids. it's to protect those who can't get vaccinated. it's to make sure we don't go backwards. it's to make sure that i never have to get up in front of you and say i'm sorry we just re-opened and now the city's closed again because we are seeing too many people die. so to find out information about getting vaccinated go to

sf.gov/vaccinated. you can call if you have any questions or need additional information, but this is an important step towards our recovery. i saw on the news hamilton just opened and people were there with smiles on their faces. underneath the mask, i saw the high cheekbones. i know you guys know what that looks like and it felt good. i don't know about you but when i went out to asia sf, the women who performed there to be out in a city, to go to a restaurant, to see people again, there was a time we could not do this, so if we want to continue down this path if we want to make sure people are healthy to make sure we're

in a good place as a city from a public health perspective so that our economy can really recover to its fullest extent, then we all have to do our part. we need to get vaccinated. we need to make sure that we are respectful to the businesses that ask us to put on our mask, or to produce your vaccination cards. we need to continue to have grace as we deal with one of the most and count your blessings and let's make sure it isn't anyone else in the future because that's what this is about. making sure that now that we

have a vaccine that we take full advantage of it because that's going to make the difference for us. and i want to thank a couple of folks here joining us including rodney fong from the san francisco chamber. thank you for being here. sharky laguana, thank you for your work and advocacy. thank you. and we have a couple of other folks joining us. i think ben blyman is going to say a few words representing the bar owners here today. you know, it was not -- asia sf is somewhat like a bar. it's a bar, performance, food, they have it all. so it's like the perfect bar space where you get everything. anyway, ben is here to talk a little bit about that.

mary ellen carol is here from the department of emergency management to answer any questions. and, i think um, who else is here? like i said, it was a long night. and, right now, i'm going to call up dr. grant cofax to talk a little bit about the specifics of our health order, what the plans are and just thank you all so much for being here and thank you all for continuing to do your very best to comply with these very complicated sometimes numerous health orders, but they will keep us safe and they will save lives. thank you so much. well, good morning everyone. and thank you, mayor breed, for your steadfast leadership. as we continue to navigate covid-19 as a city. and thank you, janet, and

visuvio for your important efforts as we recover from this pandemic. and i want to thank our acting health officer who worked hard on these orders and for director marry ellen carol for your ongoing partnership in this response. the business community has been an important partner in our efforts ever since the early days of the pandemic which is now well over a year and a half. from capacity limits to masking requirements to everything in between, you have responded and adapted to the many new ways of doing business throughout. and, for that, we thank you. i look out at all the new outdoor dining pots and walk-ups these days and i'm so pleased to see the way san francisco has adapted and come bang to life. even in just the last few months. the difference is palpable. our ability to adapt, change and respond will service well because even as we beat back

this disease. we also know that covid-19 will be with us in some capacity for the foreseeable future. we are now in a new phase of the pandemic. and even as we see a surge of cases, we have the powerful tool to fight this disease and keep ourselves and each other safe. the vaccines. let's use them. the updates to our safer return together health order are designed to make sure we can continue to keep businesses open and enjoy our lives in san francisco safely even as we face the delta variant and other variants to come where people are at close range. breathing heavy indoors. it's simply common sense. it makes sense to require

vaccinations in indoor settings where food and drink is served like restaurants and bars and where aerobic exercises happen in gyms and fitness establishments and where many people gather like at indoor venues of a thousand people or more. we believe we will continue to make a major difference in lowering the spread of covid-19 with the common sense solution of vaccines. the vaccines continue to work remarkably well especially and dramatically lowering the risk of hospitalization and death from covid-19. the vaccines are our armor. they are our life jackets. they are parachutes.

d.p.h. launched a vax to you campaign last week that will bring a mobile vaccination team to your home or business if you have at least five people ready to get the vaccine. we ask businesses to please take advantage of that and you can go to sf.gov/vaxtoyou for more information. you can continue to get the vaccine from your health care provider or at a farmee or many of our drop-in sites across the city. we are also ready and in hand to have the new tools to implement the new vax even requirements. while today's announcement applies to these specific kinds of business, we also encourage all businesses in the city to do their part and require their employees and patrons to get vaccinated as soon as possible. for anyone who is on the fence about getting vaccinated or hasn't made the time, we very

much hope that the incentive of eating at your favorite restaurant in san francisco or grabbing a drink will remove any barriers that you may have for getting vaccinated. the vaccine is safe, effective, and appointments are readily available. and, just a reminder, that even if you've already had covid-19, we in the city strongly recommend that you get fully vaccinated. thank you, and, with that, i'd like to introduce ben blyman, head of the san francisco's bar owner's alliance and an early leader in requiring vaccinations at bars and encouraging others to join. ben, thank you. >> thank you. first of all, i'd like to say happy birthday to mayor breed. happy birthday. second of all, i just want to thank mayor breed for her leadership throughout the pandemic.

for many of us, it's the worst year and a half of our professional lives and i can't say how grateful we are to have somebody in the highest leadership of san francisco who actually cares about us and doesn't just help us when it's politically expedient to do so. time and time again the mayor's shown she truly cares about our issues and is willing to go to the mat for us. thank you for that. i just wanted to call that out. about three to four weeks ago, the san francisco bar owners started to notice alarming cases of break through infections with staff members of ours. these are vaccinated individuals working in bars who suddenly were coming down with covid, thankfully, none of the cases were serious. there were no hospitalizations but it was enough to give us pause and have a robust conversation. in that conversation, three things came up that i noticed and it was a very robust conversation. one was how scared we were for the health of our staff

members. specifically, we have a lot of staff members who have young children. we have a lot of staff members who take care of elderly parents and the idea they could bring something home and put them in danger was scary for us and real. we have a sacred obligation to our staff members. we know that. we feel that way, and that was really first and foremost in our minds. the second was the impact it was having on our businesses. if somebody comes down with covid, even if they don't go to the hospital, they're out for at least ten days and we're having a staffing shortage already across the u.s., so this has a serious impact on our ability to do business. i myself had to close a bar for a night because my bartender got covid at a different job of his and we were unable to find coverage. and the third thing that came up was the frustration that we felt as a community. for the first year of the pandemic, we were fighting an uncontrollable virus. it could be sort of managed,

but it was kind of out of control and we kind of had the sense of fatalism. but that was no longer the case. and the bar owners were veryis a sievous and it was something that came up and we floated the idea what if we just don't let them inside. after a poll we did, over 80% of our membership responded that they would like to go through with that and they declared we would only allow vaccinated individuals to hang out indoors at our establishments. in actual practice, it was a little bit of a nothing burger. if anything, almost every single person was happy about t. they were thrilled. they were thankful. they were safer. the pushback we got was online from a bunch of remarkably

right wing trolls whose trolling was so bad hopefully i could teach them about how to troll correctly. that said, we've gone through with it. it works. it's helping to decrease exposure to our staff members. we know that unvaccinated individuals are eight times more likely to contract and spread coronavirus and we need to make sure that we keep them from exposing our staff and their families as much as we can. even though there wasn't much pushback, we still kind of felt like we were on an island as a group. we didn't do it thinking other people would follow. we didn't do it to change hearts and minds. if hearts and minds do change, that's fantastic. but we did to to protect our staff and families. but the fact that san francisco is doing this now is a huge thing for us. we're not alone anymore. the city is making a bold statement if you want to participate in our society fully, if you want to be able

to cough into the mouths of other people around you in closed tight areas, you must be vaccinated indoors. the fact that we're not alone is a huge benefit to us and i thank the city of san francisco for going through with this. it's a giant deal for us so thank you very much, thanks for having us. >> thank you, ben. and, thank you to all the bar owners in san francisco. thank you to the vasuvio and janet in particular for your leadership and work and advocacy. as i said, the bars did this a couple weeks ago and the city is following their lead which i think is truly remarkable. the example that they're setting what we're doing to keep people safe is most important at this time. and, with that, i'll open it up to questions from the press.

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