>> ready? go. [♪♪♪] >> we really wanted to find a way to support women entrepreneurs in particular in san francisco. it was very important for the mayor, as well as the safety support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. >> three, two, one! >> because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the small business development center. i thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of

their strong values in the community. they really give back to the neighborhood. they are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. >> when molly -- molly first told us about the grant because she works with small businesses. she has been a tremendous help for us here. she brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be up-to-date and redone totally. >> hands in front. recite the creed. >> my oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. it instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. we think it is great. the moves are fantastic. the women both are great teachers. >> what is the next one? >> my son goes to fd k.

he has been attending for about two years now. they also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. they took the kids everywhere around san francisco. this year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. >> he has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. i think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. >> i met d'andrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out -- he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. he decided to reopen this location after he moved. initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been

15 years since i even put on a uniform. my business partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new -- nursing school so you can take over. and she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before -- for a month before she came through. she was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. i was struggling a little bit. and she has been here. one thing led to another and now we are co-owners. you think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself.

>> the self-defence class is a new thing that we are doing. we started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. there's a difference between self-defence and doing a karate class. we didn't want them to do an actual karate class. we wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. then i was approached by my old high school. one -- once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. my old biology teacher is now the principle. she approached us into doing a self-defence class. the girls have been really proactive and really sweet. they step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasn't been any pushback. it is really great. >> it is respect. you have to learn it.

when we first came in, they knew us as those girls. they didn't know who we were. finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. it took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. >> since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. >> we were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. she came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. and i said what? >> martial arts is a passion for us. it is passion driven. there are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. >> we have been operating this program for a little over a year all women entrepreneurs. it is an extraordinary benefit for us. we have had the mayor's office

investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. it has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. >> we hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids' lives outside of just learning karate. having self-confidence, having discipline, learning to know when it's okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. these are the values we want the kids to take away from this. not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. we want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [♪♪♪] ♪ >> welcome to hamilton

recreation and aquatics center. it is the only facility that has an integrated swimming pool and recreation center combined. we have to pools, the city's water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide. >> exercises for everybody. hi have a great time. the ladies and guys that come, it is for the community and we really make it fun. people think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. >> i have been coming to the pool for a long time now. it is nice, they are sweet. >> in the aquatics center, they are very committed to combining

for people in san francisco. and also ensuring that they have public safety. >> there are a lot of different personalities that come through here and it makes it very exciting all the time. they, their family or teach their kids have a swim. >> of the gem is fantastic, there is an incredible program going on there, both of my girls have learned to swim there. it is a fantastic place, check it out. it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities. it is as good as anything you will find out why mca.

parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard.

>> from more information, visit streets. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i wanted to wish you a best wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chinese-american lived in north beach a nob hill community. >> as part the immigrant family is some of the recreation centers are making people have

the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. >> we're united. >> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> allergies welcome to the community fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and let's keep everybody safe and celebrate the biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. >> i grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i

african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer

didn't understand it became no standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. >> and what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.)

>> relative to the current administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants (fireworks) later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i

want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give

. >> president: this is the regularly scheduled police commission meeting. chair cindy elias.

commissioner byrne and commissioner hamasaki will be joining us shortly. i also want to recognize chief henderson. director paul henderson and chief scott. sergeant youngblood, could you please call the role. >> clerk: yes, ma'am. [roll call] president cohen, you have a quorum. >> president cohen: all right. ladies and gentlemen if you're

able to rise and say the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. sergeant youngblood, let's start at the top. could you please call the first item. >> clerk: yes, ma'am. and, before, just as a couple of housekeeping items, commissioner, line item nine the d.g.o.5.16 and line item ten have been removed from tonight's agenda and will be rescheduled at a later time. line item one, general public comment. at this time, the public is now welcomed to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear in tonight's agenda but are in the subject matter of the police commission. neither police or d.p.a.

personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone by calling (415) 655-0001 and entering access code 24897597872. press pound and pound again and dial star three if you wish to make a comment. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. e-mail the secretary of the police commission at sfpd.commission@sfgov.org. written comments may be sent to the u.s. postal building at 1235 post street san francisco california 94518. if you'd like to make a comment at this time, please press star three. president cohen, it looks like we have a number of callers. >> president cohen: to be expected. thank you. please welcome them. let's get started.

>> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening everybody. commission, thank you for having me. my name is steven martin pinto. i am a firefighter in the bayview district of san francisco. i'm here to address the conduct of police commissioner john hamasaki and just want to bring some concerning things to light about his conduct. i feel like he has been unbecoming as a public official and as a person who's under the general order sfpd 2.01 which states that while on or off duty members should treat the public with courtesy or respect. he has violated this on several occasions. some examples is he has

repeatedly mocked victims of crime, even victims who have suffered physical harm and mental harm. he has made unfounded baseless accusations against one of the board of supervisors when she criticized him for his tweet about how guns in the hands of kids will -- is actually can save lives. obviously, that's a very contentious tweet. he also made a slanderous, unfounded baseless accusation against one of the petition gathers for the recall school board. he has publicly celebrated the injury of a police officer in another department. he has made racist statements and i feel as a public official, i really hope that you look at his history and his dealings with the public and ask yourself if this is appropriate for a police commissioner to conduct himself and, if not, i suggest that you

consider removing him from the police commission. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. caller, you have two minutes. >> hello? >> clerk: good evening. you have two minutes. >> hi. my name is kip nem i am an immigrant from hong kong. i'm a victim of crime in relation to recall sfpd case 21033471. i want to thank the sfpd special investigation for working on the case tirelessly and thank police chief scott for taking it seriously. the suspect was messing with peoples voices and interfered in the credit process.

admission of the policies and conduct disciplinary hearing on charges of police misconduct. and department of police accountability is an important job. while i 100% sfpd in enforcing the law, it is equally important for the police commission to serve and protect citizens from police officers who have abused their power. as a police commissioner, the public expects each of you to adhere to high ethical standards. otherwise, you would lose public trust as a watch dog of sfpd. private citizens and the media are watching. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening, police

commissioners. as our public comment was started, i feel i must start as well in personally thanking police commissioner hamasaki for his excellent job at managing to convey and discuss these issues online. in addition, the issue that i want to talk about tonight which is our search warrants. i know that he's available and accessible to be able to discuss these very issues and we can note that when we see in our city complaints from the public defender and complaints from the district attorney, their disgust on the form that it is his political twitter. so i'd very much appreciate it. i think it's a wonderful advance in our city's police commission to have him and to have that twitter available there. but more over on the search things specifically, i think that it is so fundamentally important that we value our

fourth amendment rights and that we as a city examine how police and technology interact at this crucial juncture. there has been strong debate nationwide about the role of police and the role of search in new and emerging technologies and we as a city have an obligation to support the technical growth that occurs here and we can do so best by embracing and understanding what search means to this community. to me especially as well as i am one of the technical people in the city that believes search really matters and it matters for where technology gets developed. so i thank you for taking more time as i note you have already stated that you will in considering this crucial topic that will enable our success as a city both economic and with respect to law enforcement and justice. so thank you very much tonight.

and i'll look forward to the conversation. have a great night. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening. my name is louise whitlock. i'm a long time san francisco resident and the mother of two former san francisco public school students. tonight, i'm calling for the resignation of commissioner hamasaki. labeled and smearing of a private citizen, my friend kit lamb who spoke here in july about the crimes committed against him by a white male while gathering signatures for the recall of the members of the board of education. the perpetrator is still at large. mr. hamasaki deliberately smeared mr. lamb by tweeted out the san francisco chronicle, the following quote. here's when he said, "do you have any concerns about mr. lamb calling for proud boys and capital rioters to get

involved. this type of violent extremism has no place in san francisco, unquote. these are complete lies. mr. lamb has never supported any time of that rhetoric or behavior. i don't know mr. hamasaki's motor vehicle for smearing and libelling my friend. perhaps he's acting as the perpetrator's defense lawyer and is tampering with a potential witness in a possible future criminal trial. we can't have someone on this commission who behaves like this. aside from mr. hamasaki to resign, if you fail to do so, he must be removed from office. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, hi.

this is ms. brown. i'm calling concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. i am still on the battlefield concerning my son and, again, i just want to thank chief scott and president cohen concerning unsolved homicides and i just wanted to make sure that the information that i gave you concerning the evidence of the other person as someone had called him yet, i don't know yet if someone has called him to question the person that i brought up last time. and, again, i'm still concerned about the perpetrators out there thomas hanibal and terrance moppet who were

involved killing my son. those names are the ones i remember the most. harris moppet. i'm in my car and i can't talk much right now and, with that, i'm done. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, ms. brown. for any member of the public who has any information regarding the murder of aubrey avocasa you can call the tip line. as a matter of record keeping president cohen, commissioner yee is present at 1814 hours. and we'll continue public comment. >> president cohen: thank you. all right. let's call the next item, please. >> clerk: line item two. consent calendar, receive and file action. sfpd's monthly sb 1421 report

and d.p.a. monthly sb 1421 report and the sfpd/dpa document protocol report and for information purposes only. if any commissioner would like to discuss any of the items, please advise president cohen that you would like to place the item on the future agenda. tonight, there will be no discussion or presentation on these items. >> president cohen: let's see. i see something in the chat. thank you. all right. colleagues, are there any questions, comments about the items that are on the consent agenda? if not, let's go ahead and take public comment and i'll entertain a motion once public comment is complete. >> clerk: for members of the public please press star three now to make a comment online item two, the consent calendar. and, president cohen, there is no public comment.

>> president cohen: okay. thank you very much. is there a motion to accept? >> commissioner: motion to accept. >> commissioner: i'll second it. >> president cohen: all right. motion made by yee seconded by commissioner byrne please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to accept the consent calendar how do you vote, [roll call] you have five yeses. >> president cohen: all right. motion passes unanimously. let's continue moving forward. next item. >> clerk: line item three, chief's report, discussion. major/significant incidents. planned activities and events.

this will include a brief overview of the 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 future meeting. >> president cohen: all right. >> thank you, president cohen. i'll start the chief's report with the weekly crime trend, the statistics starting with violent crime. we're up in homicide by two. 37 year to date. that's a 6% increase over the 35 this time last year. rapes, sexual assaults are down by 16%. robberies are down by 7% in terms of the rapes, go back to the rapes here for a second. we have 128 compared to 153 just to give you context on the number of victims. in terms of the robberies, 1563

compared to 1,688 this time last year. assaults are up by 11%. that's 1,623 year to date compared to 1,466 this time last year. human trafficking, we are up by one crime. 20 compared to 19 this time last year. the total increase in violent crime, unfortunately is up .30%, so less than 1%. property crimes, burglaries are up. still 1%, which no percentage change from this time last week. the actual number of victims are 5,186 burglary victims compared to 5,145 this time last year. vehicle thefts are down 2%. a number of victims is 4,038 compared to 4,112 this time last year. we're up 7% in arsons. 243 this time last year. and larceny, theft were up 3%

from 19,110 this year. we were at 18,639 last year this time. that is the area where we are struggling with the most in terms of the increases that we've seen this year. total property crime, we are up 2%. that's 28,577 crimes compared to 28,123 crimes and, in total, our combined violent and property crimes, there's a 1% increase. 31,948 compared to 31,484. to be most specific on the larceny category, auto burglaries are what's driving a lot of those statistics upwards. to date, we're up 19% from where we were this time last year when we compare to 2019, we're down 26%. when we compare it to 2018, we're down 32%.

so we are -- i'll get into strategies in a second, but our strategies are continuing. in terms of our firearm related crimes, the good news is that the percentage increase is definitely going done from where it was earlier in the year. we're still at a 71% increase, so over this time last year. our total amount of shooting victims are 130 compared to 76 this time last year. our homicides with firearms, we had 29 year to date compared to 22 year to date this time last year and our total gun victims 159 this year compared to 98 last year. so that is a very alarming and concerning amount of increases in all those categories. in terms of the other aggravated assault, firearms is as i said up. assaults with hands, feet,

fists, they are up 19% from this time last year. assaults with aggravated assaults using knifes or cutting instruments are down 15%. and assaults with other types of dangerous weapons are up 8%. in total, our total assaults were up 11%, again, and that's a difference of 16 -- 1466 this time last year. with our gun related assaults, we are still investigating gun related crime through the reformulation of our special -- not special, major crimes unit. our crimes gun investigation unit fits under that umbrella and we have married that unit up with our community violence reduction team. so the result of that is varied collaboration which is one of our objectives coming into this year which has resulted in recovery of guns, search warrants with recovery of guns,

and actually really good communications with our prosecutors from that collaborative effort. our total gun recovers are 714 year to date, that's a 4% increase over the 686 that we had this time last year. we have recovered 115 ghost guns this year, which is an increase of where we were this time last year and we will probably if we go at this rate, eclipse our ghost gun recovery of 2020 which was 164 last year overall. there are other efforts that are happening in the city including narcotics arrests and particularly in the tenderloin area and i know commissioner byrne is very in tune with that area. a majority of narcotics arrests

are sadly in the tender loin and a significant increase in the confiscation of dangerous drugs particularly fentanyl. substantial increase in fentanyl seizures this year over last year. we hope that there's a positive effect of what's happening. we'll see how that plays out as we continue to do this work. our significant incidents this past week, we had one homicide and it occurred at hate and shrader. i mentioned it last week, but the details are the officers located a victim, a male 65 years old who was suffering from multiple stab wounds. the victim was transported to the hospital and later succumbed to his injuries. we did recover video from the area with images of who we believe to be our suspect and also other images on that video that are being followed up on. however, we have not made an

arrest at this time. anybody from the public knows anything about this particular incident, please call our tip line. you can call anonymous (415) 575-4444. additional significant shooting incidents, we had four this week. first was at erie and mission it & this was on september 7th at 7:00 a.m. the victim 35-year-old male was standing on a sidewalk with a group when he heard a loud bang from a passing vehicle realizing he sustained a gunshot wound to his lower extremities. he was transported and we have not made an arrest on that case. he is expected to survive. on september 9th, we had a shooting at the rearden in the bayview. a 911 call stated that there were seven people with guns in the area. two groups exchanged gun power which included high power

assault rifles one victim sustaining a gunshot wound and was transported in stable condition with nonlife threatening injuries. two subjects were arrested from this and three firearms were recovered. there were approximately 5,200 cases of various calibers that were fired in this incident. we did make an arrest however the investigation is still ongoing. but we were lucky it wasn't worse in terms of the number of people hit with that many shots fired and assault rifles used. 3rd and calou on september 9th, there was a shooting at 3rd and canoe in the bayview. the victim received a gunshot wound and that person was transported. no arrests have been made and we're looking for the public's help on that particular case. and then on september 13th at 2:20 a.m. there was a shooting

at heeud and golden gate in the tenderloin area. a victim felt a shot. stated he did not hear anything. he suffered a gunshot wound to his lower extremities and was transported and no arrests have been made although we are looking at evidence from the area. one incident of significance, a burglary arrest, this is an individual we believe is a prolific burglar. this happened at 4200 block of cabrillo in the richmond district. a search warrant for a subject wanted for a commercial burglary in the residential district. and a residential burglary in the common area of his own apartment complex. the subject is also been arrested inth past of collectibles at the [inaudible] house.

members of our unit made the arrest. he was taken into custody and during the search of the residence, hundreds of highly collectible mint condition comic books were located that had been stolen from a resident in a burglary on june the 11th earlier this summer and that happened on the 600 block of 45th avenue during a high profile burglary. this individual also had a warrant for receiving stolen property out of san mateo county. and, again, these are the type of individuals that our unit is focusing on because we believe that this person is prolific and has caused some damage in our city in terms of committing burglaries, so that case has gone to the district attorney's office and this person will get his day in court. another incident that occurred on muni. this was at mcgalster and gull street in the northern district. two victims, one 49-year-old male and the second a 67-year-old female were aboard

the bus and confronted by between seven to eight subjects. the victim was punched in the back of the head and when he turned around he was sprayed in the face with what appeared to be red spray paint. the victim was sprayed by one of the subjects while on the bus and again when he stood up. as the subject exited the bus, the victim was again hit. we have not made an arrest on this case, but the investigation is ongoing. we do have evidence to follow up please call us at (47) 555-4444. and this attack was unprovocaled and unacceptable. and one victim, 67 years old. a lot incident. we had a 73-year-old riding a bus and victims surrounding him

holding him down while they went through his pockets. the subject took several thousand dollars from the victim and exited the bus. no arrest has been made on that case as well. following up on evidence. a couple of more items of note this past week. our tactical unit assisted in a search warrant at the request of detectives or investigations from the city of carlsbad in southern california on one of their homicides. several sfpd insisted a search warrant for multiple suspects. detectives actually flew up and assisted and it was their investigation, we assisted them. this resulted in four subjects being detained and eventually arrested for this particular murder. and, again, it was -- we often get requests on outside jurisdictions to help when

there is people that they're looking for in our city and we were happy that we at this point came to a successful resolution without incident. there was an incident of a missing, at-risk child that happened yesterday, the 14th of september at 5:52 p.m. i'll save some time here. the subject was or is autistic and that to this is being considered an at-risk type situation. the good news is the child was found by b.a.r.t. police at 16th and mission and reunite wednesday his parents this morning at 7:00 a.m. so that one ended well and he was unharmed. there were no stunt driving events over this past week and there unfortunately was one failed traffic collision at eddie and mason in the tenderloin. this event happened on september 8th. a motorcyclist 48 years old

driving at a high speed left turn on mason street at eddie instead of turning went straight and made contact with a car going left. the motorcyclist was ejected and caused severe injuries and head trauma. the motorcyclist was pronounced after being transported to san francisco general hospital and the motorist remains unseen for the investigation. this is just a sad situation where focused on the speed which is one of those violations that an officer has to focus on because speed kills and here's another incident where somebody lost their life as a result very tragically. strategies. pearville. officers have also been assigned to the business corridor to engage community

engagement, build relationships, stop and talked to the businesses also people see including the people who want to do harm is out there and it has been a pretty effective deterrent. also we have traffic operations in the castro focused on the top five vehicle violations which include speed violations. that increased presence also helps with some of the other issues in that area including the 24 street corridor, 16th and mission, 14th and 15th streets. we have six posts on saturdays. we've had issues at flee markets where there's a lot of street conditions type issues and a lot of people are concerned. also, in the upper market area in the castro, we've increased our department by two officers. we increased it quite some time ago, but those officers are still deployed in that area. this is in addition to the regular foot beat. and, again, that is community engagement, being present,

being visible and addressing issues before they become bigger issues. valencia street, same thing. we've had issues thursday through sunday so we've increased the visibility by one unit on those particular times to address some of the street conditions and be present and visible. in the bayview, the focus and strategy is to reduce robberies and also burglaries which we've had an uptick. traffic enforcement and community engagement efforts along the 3rd street corridor. high uniform presence of passing calls. we have seen a reduction when deployment has been there on robberies and gun related assaults so we're going to keep that going because that has made a difference. lastly, no major events in terms of protests that we know about at this time for this coming week. concert is being held there tonight. we are deployed for that and

chase center will be sponsoring a series of five city events moving forward including happy hour every friday and movie night on saturdays which is a welcomed change over what we've gone through as a community this past year. oracle park, the giants are in there stress run for the tour of the playoffs. the fan base has really increased with the excitement over the giants, so we're deployed for that as well at the stadium and in the area and um, let's see. a couple other things. golden gate festival every saturday has been happening. the marathon is this weekend, the san francisco marathon. we will be present for that. we'll have adequate staffing for that. and that will be this sunday. and then, the sales force stream force conference is happening as well starting on the 16th, which is tomorrow, through the 22nd and this is a

welcome event being that musconi and the conferences have been shut down for over eye year and a half. as a part of our plans to enhance the re-opening of of off city, we plan to be deployed for these events and be there and be present. and the last event is the west wheel biggest group ride ever. this will be on september 18th at 11:00 a.m. at 55 apparel. this is a bike ride. the ride begins at 55 and peril way and it will go to the golden gate bridge welcome center and through the city and through the leaks bar and grill at 2nd. we also will have presence for that event. that is it for special events and for this report. thank you. if you have any question, i'd be happy to answer them. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. that was quite a report. let me see what my colleagues

have to say. colleagues, any of you interested in asking any questions of the chief? okay. chief, tell me -- okay. commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: thank you, madam chair. i just want to make a comment. this saturday and sunday in chinatown we had the return of the autumn moon festival. it's a great event. i think captain julian ing and his officers and the rest of the police department for making it safe for our residents and visitors to this event. it was a great event. i just want to thank you guys. >> thank you, commissioner yee. >> president cohen: thank you. chief, last week, as you look at the trends and numbers and data and kind of tell me what you're seeing, what kind of strategy are you building around the crimes that you

reported to us today? >> thank you, president cohen. the shootings strategy, we are continuing our strategies that we introduced with the california partnership presentation. so a couple things, the group involves strategies. one of the things that we've done with that strategy is really try to focus in when there's a network of individuals or groups that are involved in shootings and we have some history of back and forth. it's really dial in on that and try to do what we can to prevent the next event from happening. some of that is getting in front of this with its cases permit any evidence there with search warrants which we've done quite a few of with some of these groups and taken quite a few guns off of circulation and out of the streets. so that will continue. the other thing with some of what's going on in the tenderloin, some of our robberies and calls last month, we had some nighttime shootings

including a couple of homicides last month in the tenderloin. so we have adjusted our deployment. more officers are actually working in addition to the sector card deployment, we adjusted our deployment to have officers working overnight in the tenderloin in these corridors where drug dealers have been displaced from one area to the next and they're kind of farther north and west and we need to move with them and try to detour them from doing what they're doing. so that adjustment has been made and officers are there. really there to disrupt those drug sales. to be present, make sure we're not having shootings in the middle of the night and further disrupt that activity from happening. it's an effort that we need to stay with because as we know, when they see us there, they're going to try to go to the next point and we've got to go to the next point with them. so that strategy at least up to know curtails some of what was

happening a month ago, but we still have some significant challenges with that issue. so that will continue to go and also our narcotics unit is still doing their narcotics investigations and we've made as i said earlier increased amount of narcotics sales arrests in the tenderloin this year. that will continue as well and it's disrupting the market and we'll get the evidence to the prosecutors and see where that lands us, but we have to continue at that strategy. the other thing, last thing i'll say with the trends in one of the things that i mentioned when i was at the beginning of this report is the burglary from vehicles. what we've seen is the areas that we have deployed and put either fixed posts or a consistent deployment, that particular area, we've seen a decrease in car break-ins. the issue is being able to identify if there is going to be a displacement where that displacement is occurring and

try to get in front of it or try to be there when we identify it to make sure we disrupt that activity. it's a little bit of a cat and mouse game for us. the one thing i will say, when we deploy to these hot spot areas, it does make a difference. we have to kind of chase things around and make sure we disrupt this activity. >> president cohen: and you have the resources to do that? i think i heard you say fixed posts are very resource intensive. >> they are. so we're making the best of what we do have which is we had a restoration of some overtime funding this year by the board and, we have made some adjustments using overtime shifts to put officers in these positions to hopefully have better outcomes. so that's going to continue for now. we definitely always have to watch our budget and make sure

that the funds are there to do that, but it's working where we are able to do that and we'll, you know, continue to have conversations with the budget office and the mayor to try to gain support and the public to gain support so they know what these adjustments are. that is helping, commissioner because we are short. we're making adjustments. we stand out where we can and we haven't replaced some of our motorcycle officers which causes problems in other areas, but right now we really need the resources in patrol and that's what adjustments we've made. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. let me check to see if anyone else has any questions. i see no names in the chat. we can continue to -- i'm sorry. we don't take public comment on this right, stacy. >> clerk: not yet. >> president cohen: okay. so we're going to hear the director's presentation next.

>> clerk: next is public comment and then director's. >> president cohen: let's hear public comment. thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> clerk: for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding the chief's report, please press star three now. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening, police commissioners. i first want to call out the incredible job kit hodge is doing transcribing all of this live to twitter. i want to speak to the war on drugs specifically and why i think it's causing some of the fundamental issues specifically fentanyl that we're seeing in our city. so i want to point to a theory called iron law of prohibition. it's a term coined by richard cohen in 1986.

cohen put this simply. the heart of the enforcement, the harder the drugs. this law of application is the action out effect. the cardinal rule of prohibition and knows it's a powerful argument for the legalization of drugs. it's based on the premise when drugs and alcohol are prohibited, they'll be produced in black market because there are more potent forms, it allows better efficiency in the business model, they take up less in storage, less wait in transportation and they sell for more money. economists mike thornton. because the higher poet ens sea forms are less safer for the consumer. published research showing the potency of marijuana showing that prohibition in the 1920s and 30s. this basic approach based on

the etchem and allen theory added two varieties of the same project e.g. high quality apple and low quality apple results in sales of the more expensive variety. when it comes to drug running, the more potent products become the sole focus of suppliers like fentanyl is today. the greatest added cost in illegal sales is the avoid avoidance of detection. for instance, cocaine users buying cocoa leaves. >> clerk: thank you, caller. president cohen, that is the end of public comment. >> president cohen: great. thank you very much. let's keep moving forward. let's hear from the next person i believe is director henderson. >> clerk: line item four. d.p.a. director's report.

report on recent 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. director henderson. >> director: here are my statistics. we are currently at 550 cases that we've opened so far this year. we have 296 cases that are pending and open currently as of this week. we've sustained 35 cases this year so far. this time last year, we were at 28 cases. we have 22 cases whose investigations have gone past a nine-month period. and, of those 22 cases, 18 of them are told meaning they have other charges either civilly or criminally.

with the commission, there are 14 cases currently pending and we have 11 cases that are pending the chief's decision right now in terms of this past week, we received 11 cases with the total of 20 pending allegations. 36% of them were officers behaving or speaking in a manner unbecoming of an officer. 18% were referred to another department or agency. 9%, the officers had conducted allegedly an improper search and seizure. 9% officers failed to investigate. 9% were mental health related incidents. 9% were officers displaying threatening, intimidating or harassing behavior. language access service for language -- limited english

proficiency. what that is reflective of and this is from the complaints that have come in this week are one a lot of those calls, as i said, it's easy for me to try and gage what's happening by looking at the top percentage of the allegations. and that top allegation being that officers were basically rude. that's what the allegations have been this week. the second one which i think is really interesting and there's actually something to talk about for 18% of the allegations this week, referrals to other agencies, we have seen a spike in that in an interesting way, i think people not just in san francisco, but all over the state, outside of the state as well, but here in the state, people are calling d.p.a. for advice about incidents that happened to them that weren't in the city and county of san francisco.

obviously, we don't have jurisdiction and so one of the things we're putting together right now is a directory for every county in california so we can be more accurate and not just tell people they have to call someone outside of d.p.a. because we've been meeting with the other oversight agencies in the state, it's fairly easy for us to put it together. the more complicated part of that process and that project is putting together and identifying who the oversight agency if at all is and some of the other counties that don't have oversight. and, a lot of those counties, it's internal affairs. we want to be as accurate as we can with the referrals that we're making. that also includes in case anyone is curious, referrals to state agencies and federal agencies. so, for instance, when folks call us and they have an incident on federal land or in the park, federal parks, it's

the park police which is the federal police and we don't have jurisdiction in san francisco so those are the types of referrals we're making. also, for like c.h.p., that's highway patrol which is a different agency that's not in san francisco. so that's just kind of what we're working on this this week based on the calls we're getting. this is a project that started before but this week we got a number of calls in that area, so that's why i'm talking about it. in terms of outreach for the agency, our outreach is on our page. i encourage folks to go back and look at the d.p.a. website. this is the broadest and most transparent website that the agency has ever had that we launched that we talked about last week when we launched it. so all of our reports and information can be found on that website as well as information about the outreach event that is we participated

in on september 7th, which is a very special day. we participated in a virtual bayview station community meeting talking about d.p.a.'s role in coordinating and making complaints with law enforcement from constituents in that area. also, on the 13th, we had two separate events that day. one was with the dream keepers, the job fair hosted by the human rights commission. we were asked to host the table and talk to community members and also, on that day was the restorative justice night event that was held at mission preparatory school in the mission. we have no cases in closed session tonight, but our senior investigator for this evening is brent beijing who is available in case issues come

up and someone needs to speak to one of our investigators either from public comment or throughout the meeting. once again, the contact information for d.p.a. is sfgov.org/dpa or you can always contact the agency directly at (415) 241-7711. i think that concludes my report. i know there's information in the consent calendar that we're not going to talk about, but also that information can be found on our website as well in case folks want to have updated information about either 1421 or any of the other agenda items on the consent calendar. that's it. that concludes my report. >> president cohen: appreciate that. thank you. comments for the director? yes, mr. byrne? >> commissioner byrne: you indicated that 35 cases were sustained. can you give the public what type of cases were persisting?

>> i'm so glad you asked that. yes i do. you will get a summary of all of the cases that have been obtained by my agency and that information will be analyzed. so you will hear who made the complaint, what their backgrounds have been, what district they came from. you'll also hear the summary of the types of complaints that were in there as well as policy recommendations and the reason i'm glad you asked that question is because i think we're going to start looking at some of the internal affairs reports and how they've collected information. that information is both in the annual report and in our quarterly reports from our cases and so, yes. if you look back. if you want to see that analysis, commissioner, you can go on to the website and look at either past quarters or annual reports which come back and summarizes all of the information cumulatively as well. so that's some of the

information that you can find there. >> commissioner byrne: for the public tonight, you don't want to summarize some of those areas where the cases were sustained. >> we do it monthly, quarterly, and annually. i don't do it every week because it changes so drastically week to week. but you can look at the monthly things to see some of them. each broader period has more and more analysis. culminating an annual report which has all of the analysis for all of them and you can see some of the analysis done monthly, more of it done quarterly, and then the complete analysis done annually and i keep talking about the annual one because the annual one also represents what the policy recommendations are have been made as a result of the evidence-based complaints that have been sustained if that makes sense. >> commissioner byrne: thank

you. >> sure. >> president cohen: all right. thank you for the presentation. is there anyone else? no? let's keep moving. >> clerk: for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding the d.p.a. director's report, please press star three now. and, president cohen, we have no public comment. >> president cohen: no public comment? thank you. >> clerk: i'm sorry. one just came in. >> president cohen: all right. let's hear them. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> i wanted to ask a question specifically and i know that this forum isn't specifically created for that, but the question i had was, obviously this d.p.a. report is central to our police department's understanding of its own

behavior and given that and given the controversial nature of prohibition in our streets, i wonder whether we might in data have a conversation or analysis of how effective overall that policy is being. that's all. >> clerk: thank you, caller. president cohen, that is the end of public comment. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. let's call the next item. >> clerk: line item five. commission reports. discussion. commission reports will be limit today a brief description of the activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any issues raised for future commission meeting. commission president's report, commissioners' reports, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified

for consideration at future commission meetings. >> president cohen: thank you. is there anyone that has a report they'd like to start with? commissioner hamasaki, you've been busy, let's hear from you. >> commissioner hamasaki: is this reports of what we've been up to? >> president cohen: it's a commission report. >> commissioner hamasaki: it's not the agenda items, though. is it the agenda items too? >> president cohen: it's the commission report with whatever you've been up to. >> commissioner hamasaki: oh, i've been up to a lot of things. >> president cohen: it's on the agenda. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. i want to talk about things when we're talking about scheduling items, but as far as updates, i do not have any this week. >> president cohen: okay. thank you. do you want to share any

meetings with the public defender's office. >> commissioner hamasaki: oh, yeah. i lose track because there's so much i give every week. so i did have a meeting with, well, the public defender's office, but we also met with our friends in wealth and disparities in the black community to discuss how to reform our traffic enforcement and this ties in to the concerns around bias policing which i think has been a long concern of the department and the commission and so what we've been trying to do is identify ways where we can implement policies in traffic

stops and pedestrian stops and the goal is to get input from groups like wealth and disparities and others and then present it to the department and d.p.a. and the commission to develop policy. so, right now, we've been in a learning mode and have had a series of meetings over the last months and i think that's coming to a close in the next month and then hopefully we'll be meeting with the chief and the d.p.a. and the commission to figure out how to best implement some of these ideas, but thank you for prompting me. i honestly -- >> president cohen: no problem. >> commissioner hamasaki: forgotten about it. >> president cohen: all right. commissioner byrne. i know you've also been active. let's hear what you've been up to. >> commissioner byrne: all right. friday, i meet with the chief

and i believe -- i don't believe commissioner brookter to discuss the appropriateness of some of the awards displayed for the awards ceremony planned for early next year as to whether it's appropriate to give these officers the medals for their service. so that's on the agenda for friday. sunday is obviously the [inaudible] service at the cathedral policemen firemen at the cathedral on geary boulevard, st. mary's cathedral. i believe i have a couple disciplinary matters involving the police office in a couple of weeks. that's what i've been up to right now. and, obviously, i have as i normally do every week, i've been a few times to the

tenderloin to see what's going on, but as the chief pointed out, it's in a period of transition with the deployment and we shall see hopefully in the next month, month and a half the effect on that and at that time, i'd further comment about that. that's basically what i was up to last week and next week. >> president cohen: that's good to hear, thank you. commissioner yee, tell us a little bit about what you've been up to. >> commissioner yee: i guess before the commissioner meeting, i was asked to join the agent society town hall meeting. the moderator was eugene washington. and, we all sat to talk through, i guess, people in atlanta and new york and some of this anti-asian hate about, i guess the police reform.

so i was happy to be in that conversation talking about our situation in san francisco and the asian community and chinatown in particular. working with the city, the mayor, and also the police department. i think we're headed on the right track. hopefully more people in the community come out because i believe it's safer in numbers in our community. let's see, chinatown night out that was last reporting. it was a great event. they also had the merchants autumn moon festival which everybody's coming out. a few things happening in our chinese community, we're very active there and so i'm participating in that as well. so i hope we can bring down the gun violence. i'd probably like to partner with jim byrne and maybe look

at the tenderloin. hopefully. there's too much gun violence in the city right now. those are my concerns and priorities. >> president cohen: sounds good. i just wanted to report back. just been busy staying on top of the d.g.o.s working on the clean-up language. working on grammar. working on spelling errors. working on making sure that when we make changes to d.g.o.s that we have a maybe a more efficient notification system so that people have an opportunity to feel like they participated and that they've been heard and that they've had adequate time and knowledge. so i just wanted to let you know we're making slight changes there and i want to thank sergeant youngblood in particular for helping

spearhead that, that conversation. i am going to be -- i had a conversation with the chief about things that we talked about here on the police commission particularly, but about the data. just trying to understand a little bit more how data will inform community policing, policing strategy, paying careful attention to resources. had a conversation with director henderson about future audits. one thing we look like, any kind of trends that he is seeing within his department. so these were just pretty high level check-in conversations. i also had a conversation with the chief of staff for the district attorney's office about and just making sure that we have a collaborative approach to how we do our business and conduct our business here at the police commission. also had recently had a

conversation with what's the name of the organization julie ton works with? >> commissioner: the bar association. >> president cohen: thank you. also touching base with the san francisco bar association and the work we do on the commission and up coming agenda items. so that's it for me. looking forward to attending the service on sunday. we'll be recognizing sfpd officers and firefighters for their service. i see you, commissioner yee. and, i think that concludes my report. commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: i just want to do a correction on the moderator for the asian society. it was eugene robinson who moderated the town hall meeting today. >> president cohen: got it.

all right. well, sergeant youngblood i think -- oh, commissioner elias. >> vice president elias: thank you. also wanted to announce that today marks national heritage month and i look forward to all the great events celebrating our heritage. so. >> president cohen: thank you for that reminder. i'm glad you're here. this is a perfect example of why diversity matters and why we need to have diverse commissions. thank you, commissioner. let's go to public comment. >> clerk: for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding commission reports please press star three now. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> i wanted to continue to point out that errors of prohibition varies

specifically. there's a final conclusion i think is especially important to emphasize and that is what occurred as we ended prohibition in the united states of alcohol. and that was that during our time in prohibition, we had a strong shift from beer and wine to hard liquor and it parallels the narcotics trade in the 20th century opium with illegals where it became prevalent with a significant risk for disease because of injection of needle. marijuana was also found too bulky and troublesome to smuggle across the border and smugglers returned to cocaine. crack cocaine was a product of the prohibition of drugs. in 2010, the iron law has been invoked to explain why heroin is displaced by fentanyl and

either even stronger synthetic opioid. we even see this today in our teen drinking epidemic. one of the impacts of prohibition of alcohol by minors is teens prefer distilled spirits, vodka, tequila, they're easier to conceal than beer. now, i want to add that i personally look at this system and i see us believing that we can't make things worse when we're in the process of making things worse. i certainly don't think fentanyl, one of our societies the least toxic and aesthetic is the worst thing that can happen in our opium trade, especially not when carfentanyl is increasing presence in our city adding to the dangers we're seeing. i don't think increased enforcement is likely to decrease shootings in the tenderloin. as i think we can see that

immediately after -- >> clerk: thank you, caller. and the president cohen, that is the end of public comment. >> president cohen: thank you very much. just as a reminder to the callers that are cut off, you can always submit your -- write a correspondence, submit a e-mail or written statement in its entirety to the commission. sergeant youngblood, let's continue moving forward. is there another item? >> clerk: yes, ma'am. item six. update on prop e staffing analysis. discussion. >> president cohen: one more time. >> clerk: it is an update on the prop e staffing analysis. discussion. >> president cohen: all right. looking forward to it. >> thank you, president cohen. i'm going to make this presentation and this is an update as required by the police commission resolution number 2160 on our progress toward the property staffing analysis and staffing report.

for the general public, just a brief background. prop e was passed by the voters which eliminated the minimum staffing number and required that the san francisco police department conducts every odd year and analysis on the staffing level required to police the city. and, this was led by at the time president of the board of supervisors, norman yee. and it was endorsed by the commission and so this is part of what the commission resolution called for us to do to give status update and in a few months, actually have a staffing analysis and report to report to the commission what the needs of the department are as to staffing. so, as i said, in mid june, 2021, the police commission adopted this resolution number 2160 and first prescribed the methodologies to be used in the preparation of our first

staffing report under prop e. further resolution, i directed our staff here at sfpd to use the following methodologies as utilized by the matrix which was the consultant that the city and county of san francisco brought in several years ago to conduct a similar staffing analysis. a reminder about that process matrix. there was a task force put in place with members of the community, commissioners, members of the department and it was a very robust process with a lot of community input to establish in many that the staffing levels for the san francisco police department. that led to a public report and those methodologies are what we are going to model for the most part our staffing analysis on, the matrix methodologies. they include workload base data, examples include quantitative methods like

community generated calls to service, quantified staffing required for sector patrols in each district station, racial based methodologies, and examples are span and control. there are established practices established across what span and control officers sergeant, officer, lieutenant, sergeant. and so on. fixed posts required for example, some of what we are doing in the tenderloin and other parts of the city require a fixed post. and in addition, specialized unit such as a k-9 unit and special unit our tech units that don't have workload methodology, but they are a need based unit that have to respond to events as they come up. and then, nonscaleable types of positions such as the structure, command staff structure, senior leadership

and things like that. those will all be included in the methodology. data collection is a big part of what this unit is doing right now to get this information together for this analysis. data collection includes extensive interviews and followup with the units. throughout the department, staff, and every bureau and this is in order to maintain a critical qualitative information and context as well as cleaning and analyzing large data sets that we get from the computer and dispatch system and other data sources. in other words, this part of our analysis is really for those with an accounting background a 0 based approach where we have to talk to everybody across the unit to see and determine that these positions, these jobs, these are still relevant to our needs today. so that's a part of their process that takes a lot of

time. to this date, the project team has collected data for the investigation bureau, the field operations bureau, the administration bureau, strategic management bureau, and special operation is under way as the capacity of this unit that's doing this collection allows. after this data's collected, it has to be organized, cleaned, processed, prior to input in the model which then will utilize the methodologies that i've talked about to generate the staffing levels. a couple of other notes just about the team and how this works as being conducted and who's conducting it. the team was formed in may 2021 before the commission passed its resolution. this was something that we anticipated in talking to many of the commissioners there were coming and so we formed a team to try to get started on collection of some of this data. the team is comprised of personnel from our staffing and

deployment unit and analysts that were reassigned for this project only to complete this work and that does come at a cost of other work not getting done, but we have to deal with the personnel we have and we had to re-assign people to get this done. currently, there's a core team of four analysts and they're responsible for drafting a report and analyzing the data. as of september 2021. we have to make adjustments to that. all individuals were involved in data collection and interviews but are working part-time on this assignment and other assignments that can come up. so we're trying to juggle some of our workload to get this done. the timeline, my ask and the department's ask is we're going to ask for an extension of

about a month of this report was asked to be done in december. we will have a draft in december and then from there as we did with the matrix consulting group came to do their work, there's a process of us actually going through all the data to make sure we didn't miss anything and we anticipate that will take several weeks. so if the commission approves, this extension and we expect that this report will be to the commission early february at the latest. this project is incredibly complex. it took matrix 18 months, more than 18 months to do this project and if we do everything that i'm telling you, we can get this done in about eight months total. this project points on data or data collection on over 600

positions in this project we have to examine these positions or relative to the policing of 2021 or 2022. also, the team must build on the work done previously by incorporating key changes which means collecting information on current and transand how this impacts the department's priorities. the spike in gun violence that i talked about earlier. we had to make adjustments to adjust for that. we need to factor those things in as well in this analysis and that is the update as to where we are now. i can answer any questions as you may have, commissioners. thank you. >> president cohen: all right. colleagues, any questions? okay. commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, madam president. chief, i was wondering and i had asked in the chat, is there

a working document on this or something that you can provide to us that will outline and more substancely more standards. is there something more flushed out? >> with our methodologies, the meat of everything i said is the methodologies of the matrix report and i know that's a very pensive report that you and others have reviewed. there are some tweaks in there, but that is really the guidelines that we're on. so that's really what this group is modelling this work off of is those methodologies

and they're very detailed in how they created the methodologies. but we're really following that model, commissioner. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and i think we discussed this before the commission. how are you factoring in the changes in the e.m.x6 and street crisis response team, the increase in call response by these other agencies that are at least taking up some part of the workload? >> yes, sir. so some of that will be in the actual data collection with the call loads. the other part, we have to kind of predict what that will look

like and we reported to the commission on this, the percentage of calls that scrt, the street crisis response team is kind of in the same vein. we have the data for that. that will be incorporated into the data that we collect on the calls to service data. the anticipation of depending on how that expands, we have to extrapolate that and some of these are going to be policy calls based on what those folks will be asked to do. for instance, when we first started, they only responded to calls for service to the public. they didn't respond to officer generated calls. we asked if our officers observe activity that they put in the equation too in the spirit of what this is all about. so we had to factor those

policy decisions in as well as we get them. >> commissioner hamasaki: so scrt is still not being routed 911 calls? >> they are being routed calls, but those calls are vetted and those were only initially calls from the public which only touches small percentage, a very small percentage of this work. some of our calls, when we look at our calls for service, that includes calls to the public and officer generated calls. for instance, in whatever area of the city, i see a problem and i get on the radio and request. and we would like to be able aside from some of those calls out as well. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and, then, how -- there was a few other issues that we had discussed the last time which was the use of foot patrols and then also civilization of

positions which is something i know you had been working on for some years and then i know that with covid, things kind of slowed down on hiring, but will that be in the report that we get in october or november? >> the foot patrols, yes. the civilization piece, there's a couple things with that. they will be the status of the positions and actually this resolution is about staffing, but as a part of what we're looking at, we have to look at the civilian staff that has to be done and to your point, the resolution doesn't call for it. it is something we are including in our analysis. >> commissioner hamasaki: i guess. sorry. maybe i stated that in a way that wasn't clear. the impact of having civilians take over positions that will

free up sworn officers for patrol and other duties. >> that analysis is in some areas i don't think it's a part of the report but that's part of the analysis because that's ongoing as part of 0 our civilization effort that the commission and the board has called for. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. i don't want to take up any more time. but maybe before the meeting, we can talk about this. >> yes, sir. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> president cohen: colleagues, anyone else? commissioners? commissioner yee, i see your hand. >> commissioner yee: yeah. thank you very muches, madam chair. i just want to ask the chief i guess when you do your analysis of i guess the work flow of what each person does, we've done that in my past company,

we do the work flow. a lot of times, the work flow does cut up a lot of time off of officer that is do not give them the proper time to do their job correctly and safely. so i'm just seeing and making sure that the work flow i guess has extra eyes on there making sure it's the proper amount of time to do the job safely and properly. i also want to know about training. do you guys in fact are into annual training that probably needs to be continued. i know there's training that probably has been through the c.r.i. training and i just want to make sure that it is reinforced again because some officers have probably so many years of the i guess in the training or haven't been trained on the new procedures. so that's the only concern i

have. this one is really convey that to you. >> yes, sir. and in that analysis, commissioner yee, it's a great point. i'm glad you brought that up. we have to have time to train. that will be factored in. >> commissioner yee: thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> president cohen: chief, when will this report be published? >> we hope to add it to the commission early february. i think the resolution called for this report to be done by the end of the year in december. >> president cohen: okay. >> at the rate we're going, i don't -- yesterday, we trying to see if we could tighten up our processes, but the

anticipated time is about february probably about a month after the resolution calls for. >> president cohen: all right. okay. perfect. commissioners, any other questions? all right. let's hear what public comment has to say. >> clerk: for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item six, the staffing analysis, please press star three now. president cohen, there is no public comment. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. let's go to the next item. >> clerk: thank you. >> president cohen: thank you for your presentation, chief. >> clerk: line item seven. presentation of the monthly collaborative reform initiative c.r.i. update. discussion. >> president cohen: okay. who's making the presentation? are you, chief?

>> that will be me. thank you, commissioner. so we have the latest c.r.i. update and then there's a lot of good news to report on this report. so i'll just go through it very quickly. you have the power points and the public has this as well on that. sergeant youngblood, can we put this up for the public's use and go to page two. so this is as of friday, it is these numbers and actually we've gotten more substantial complaints since this report was generated. so where we are as of this reporting, as you see on the first chart, 237 of the 272

recommendations have been deemed by the california department of justice as substantial compliance i just want to show from where we were in october 2019 to now and you see really in 2020, that line started to increase vastly. to get us to that point. we're not done with this work. we still have more work to do. we still have recommendations that we need to get into substantial compliance, but there's been a tremendous amount of work done by everybody including the commissioners and everybody that is works extra to get us where we were on policy development and alike and the california d.o.j. who had to review a whole lot of work in a short period of time. so i just want to highlight that. in terms of the what's left outstanding and you see -- let

me go here first. in this reporting period, we had 46 recommendations moved to substantial compliance and you see the numbers, july, we had 22. august, 16. and september, 8. the reviews are being conducted for what remains to be outstanding and, by the time we do this report again, we should have gone through all of what has been submitted to the california d.o.j., next page, sergeant youngblood. so here's what is an external review. an external review for just a refresher is the number of recommendations that the consul ant hillard heinz forwarded to the california department of justice. hillard heinz has reviewed everything that we submitted. so they had nothing in the pattern in the california department of justice still has

60 additional recommendations that they're reviewing. so by the next recording period, those will be done by the next reporting period. we actually hopefully will have their report which is forthcoming. page four, please. so this is a visual graphic of where we are with the various substantial compliance, what's in progress, external validation. california d.o.j. and this also depicts where we are right now in terms of the number of recommendations. the phase three plus one is plus three is what we're calling it is what i want to highlight. we know that there's 19 recommendations that we did not submit because we weren't at that point to submit them yet. there are seven in use of force, five in community policing, seven in the accountability category. those are what we're calling

the next phase of this work where we hope to continue this partnership with the california d.o.j. and hillard heinz to complete those recommendations. i reported this part to the police commission, but i'll repeat it. there are a couple of those three, at least three of those for technology and the budgeting will play a part in whether or not we can complete toez recommendations at all and when we can complete them. so we'll continue to work on that to see what we can do and work around the support we need. next page, sergeant youngblood. the following two pages, we're going to go category by category. use of force, 88%. compliance and seven in progress. next page. bias. 78% substantial compliance.

42% substantial compliance with 12 and external validation. and some of the one that is will be in the three plus stage are bias recommendations and we're also in discussions with making the whole database, dash board come to life and making sure we have the right measures in place and all that. which is the part of the bias work that's significant that we need to complete as that's a very important topic to the public, to the commission, and the department. next page. [please stand by]

>> the two-year, and then, a

three-to-four-year phase is another six, so, again, some of them are tied into data, some of them are actually structured to supporting this work and getting us into compliance right now. but that's only the first step. you can't just rest on your laurels and say you're done. we have to continue to revise our policies to make sure that they're relevant and make sure that they're meeting the needs of what's happening today and tomorrow, and things change, and i think we are well on the way with the infrastructure to allow us to do that, and that completes the report for this go-round, and i'll happily answer any questions.

>> president cohen: okay. good. i have a couple of questions of just about the bias dashboard specifically. can you give me an update? >> sure. so one of the things with the bias dashboard that we need to do -- and we have been in contact with the california d.o.j. because we're not fully there yet -- one of the plans is to create officers where their responsibility is to review, to give feedback to the operations bureau, deputy chief, assistant chief, the captains on the trends that we're seeing in the bias dashboard and to address appropriately. that person has not been selected yet. that will happen in the very near future. basically, we have to build an infrastructure to build the word. sort of like we do with our

e.i.s. we have, where they do that type of review, and that's one of the things on our plate to start doing so we can actually start reviewing dashboard data. and the other thing is how that will be used is of interest. the dashboard data and the trends that come from that are not meant to be disciplinary investigations. now, if we see a disciplinary issue or racial profiling, that goes to an internal affairs investigation. that's what internal affairs do. they investigate those. there's still a few things that have to be ironed out with the police officers association, so

officers, administration, staff understands how that works. the dashboard was not designed to do that. if we detect a trend that leads to disciplinary investigations, that will be conducted by internal affairs. so those personal that review this need to be put in place, and then, we'll be off and running. >> president cohen: so how will the data be used? >> okay. analysis and trends. let's say we get our data from what's happening out of district station, who's being stopped, trends, and everything. if we see a trend that's causing concern, then, we have to dig deeper into what kinds of stops? are these policy calls? are we asking officers to do

thing that's would lead to these stops. so it could go in that direction or it could go in the direction of, again, an officer doing something or maybe merit an investigation, a disciplinary investigation. so that's how that information will be analyzed, and then, whatever comes of that determines how we will adjust and make whatever adjustments we need to those trends. it's not a perfect science. you know, demographics of the community, demographics of who the offenders are, all that needs to be taken into consideration, but what this is going to do is help us have the data to make the analysis necessary to reduce the disparities that we're seeing in our arrests as much as we can do that. >> president cohen: let me see if i've got this right.

so basically, supervisors are to review to see what's part of the reason for the behavior? it sounds like you're still figuring it out. >> that yeah, we need to still put in place and select those individuals, because the idea is, yes, supervisors have a role in this, but you need infrastructural oversight. for instance, you don't want the sergeant who's giving the direction to be the one saying whether or not that direction is causing this disparity because that person may have a blind spot, so we need to have an on going type of review of

this type of thing, and that's what we're courage putting into place. >> president cohen: okay. i'm going to pivot and see if commissioner elias had any comments? >> vice president elias: no. i think we had a discussion about this earlier. i think once we see it, we'll have more questions and, i think, contributions. >> president cohen: all right. well, chief, you're killing us with the anticipation. all right, everyone. >> we'll get it done quickly. >> president cohen: all right. sounds good. commissioners, anyone else like to comment? all right. seeing none, let's go to public comment. >> clerk: members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding item 7, the c.r.i. initiative, please press star, three now.

president cohen, there is no public comment. >> president cohen: oh, i'm surprised. no public comment on this one. let's continue moving forward. >> clerk: line item 8, presentation of the internal affairs summary report, discussion. >> good evening, everyone. sergeant youngblood, can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> good evening, president cohen, vice president elias, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson, members of the public. i'm here to present our first presentation of the internal affairs summary report. and i want to begin by stating a few weeks ago that i had a discussion with commissioner elias, and she had reached out to the department, asking if

the department -- >> vice president elias: i'm sorry. so sorry, commander o'sullivan. if everyone could mute themselves, that would be great, and commander o'sullivan, if you could speak just a little bit louder, i think that could help. >> okay. how's that? can you hear me okay? all right. so normally what happens on a quarterly basis, the department will produce a report that indicates the total number of cases open and closed by the internal affairs division, the administrative side within the police department. that report, which my understanding has been in its current format until tonight, had been that way for quite sometime and, quite frankly, was very rude rudimentary.

so what we did, we request of the commission, is we designed a quarterly report that you have in front of you that was distributed last friday and the public has access to. what i plan to do tonight is, very briefly, go over some numbers as well as how the report is laid out. as you'll probably tell if you haven't already looked at the document, there are a number of cases here. it isn't my intent to go line by line. certainly, i can entertain your questions, but seeing how this is a new report, i want to take a few minutes to talk about the format. so with that, sergeant youngblood, if you would advance to slide number three,

this is one slide that speaks to closed cases in the aggregate. so what we did here with the internal affairs division is we went back and looked at the total number of cases open and closed for the period january through june 30 of 2020 and 2021, and what you can see is we've broken out the case numbers by month. some total cases opened in 2020 for the period january through june was 118. by comparison, we opened the total of 113 cases for the period january through june of 2021. the bar graphs below are a different illustration so you have a comparison of the side by side month comparison. sergeant youngblood, if you would advance the next slide. and then -- here. so this is -- this is the second of three components of

this report. this particular component runs about five pages, and it speaks to the cases that we opened here in the internal affairs division for the months of april, may, and june. we did not go back with a summary report or an individualized report for the previous months. the january through january was for purposes of a little bit of a historical perspective, but moving forward, we expect there might be some feedback from you all that you might want to see things modified a little bit. but going forward, what we expect to do is present quarterly what happened in a three-month period. i'll go through this. i acknowledge that some of this is self-explanatory, but just for some orientation, the i.d. case number, under neath it, you will see the abbreviation m.c.d. prior to the internal affairs division being referred to as

the internal affairs division, we were being called the management control division, so that acronym has simply stuck over the years, so i would just ask when you see that acronym, that you associate it with internal affairs. if applicable, there is a d.p.a. case number. to the right of that is the incident, and the next column, the date is the incident was received by the internal affairs division. the allegation these are acronyms. n.d. is neglect of duty. c.u.o. is conduct unbecoming. there is a legend at the conclusion of this particular portion of the presentation, and then, i think what is, you know, most significant about this report that is being presented is there is now a summary of what each individual case is about, and that didn't

exist in the prior format. going back to the i.d. case number, the d.p.a. case number, one thing that i want to point out is when i reference cases that are open here in the internal affairs division, those are not only cases that have come to our attention by an outside agency or an internal complaint within the police department, but these are also cases that have either been referred to us by the department of police accountability, and an example of that would be a citizen, a community member lodges a complaint with d.p.a. with regards to one of our police service aides. because d.p.a. does not have jurisdiction to conduct that particular investigation, they will generate a case number, and that's why you may see it there, but they will then refer that case over to us to conduct the investigation.

there are cases, also, with -- within this document here of cases being opened that are cases that d.p.a. went ahead and concluded -- conducted the investigation, and they have findings of misconduct. those cases come over to us, and we assign it an m.c.d. case number. again, that's an internal affairs division case number. very quickly, the sum total of the cases open for the quarter during quarter two were in the low 60s. 30-plus of those cases were strictly opened by the internal affairs division. nine were referrals from d.p.a., meaning, again, i arrived the example of p.s.a.s, and then, there were 19 cases that came over from d.p.a.,

meaning that they had concluded their investigation, had a finding of misconduct or findings of misconduct, and then, we began our process here within the internal affairs division. happy to talk about that a little bit later. with that, if there are no questions, i can pause. i'll go onto the closed case portion of this presentation. >> vice president elias: commander, i think it's best if you finish your presentation, and then, we'll open it up for questions. >> okay. great. thank you. so with that said, let me see here, sergeant youngblood, if you would advance to slide number 14, and again, to orientate everyone to the information here, again, we have the i.a.d. case number, referred to as the m.c.d. number, a d.p.a. case if there

is one, the date that the case was closed, the matter was closed. again, the allegation, the legend is at the end of the closed case report. we have a summary of what the facts were. we have the finding. the first few you see there are improper conduct, followed by insufficient evidence. what action was taken, or no misconduct, it would be referred to as date of notice. so that concludes my presentation. i'm happy to take questions.

>> vice president elias: thank you, commander, for the presentation. i also want to thank you and your team for your effort in really taking and our request to be more transparent in your department and really giving more detail similar to what d.p.a. does, and so i really do appreciate it. i know that the public is going to probably have a lot of questions and comments. i know we're not perfect, but i think this is definitely a step in the right direction, and, you know, we -- i'm sure that the comments and suggestions from my fellow commissioners as well as the public will help guide us to where we need to be to be as transparent as we can -- as we probably can given the legal constraints. so i know director henderson has some questions, so i'm going to turn it over to him, and then, i'm going to turn it over to my fellow

commissioners. thank you. >> okay. i was trying this whole time to try and find the raise your hand button. am i just missing it or do we not have it for this platform? >> vice president elias: we don't have it. >> literally, i've been, like, ten minuting trying to find the button to raise my hand, but let me jump in. i want to start by thanking the chief and thanking o'sullivan for this presentation. i hope it's not lost on the audience how historic this is. this is such a big deal that we are, for the first time in decades -- and i'm going to look into it to try and see where if at all this exists in other areas. i don't know another department that has been transparent with their internal affairs

discipline, so i don't want this lost on that audience. this is a very big deal, and one that i think you deserve a lot of credit for, so thank you, thank you, thank you for presenting this information because this is the information that i think a lot of people want to see, is the information that i think audiences have demanded from d.p.a. and trying to get to the numbers and the data that is held closely by the department, and we haven't heretofore been able to speak in the way that you presented it tonight, and it's just important and significant, and i don't want that lost. i really appreciate this, and i appreciate that you included some of the work that's ancillary or related to some of the work that d.p.a. is doing, and you broke it down already with the nine referrals from d.p.a. and the other 18 with findings of misconduct. i just wanted to make it collar

that those cases are coming wrapped in a bow, and the investigations have already been done from d.p.a., and so maybe, as we move into the direction of where do we go from here in terms of next steps to include both our communications back and forth between our agencies and for the audience, we can talk about what's happening with those cases and what happens with those next steps because i think that's what people kind of want to know. and as we're looking where to go from here, i have a number of suggestions that i think would be really helpful and hopefully not very difficult to do just in terms of mirroring some of the work that's already being done with those same cases on the side of d.p.a., so i'll just run through these briefly, but i'd love to sit down and talk with whomever about some of the ways that we can do it simley so the public

is not too confused when they are -- similarly so the public is not too confused when they are looking at the data. we need to analyze the data to figure out some of the things like who are making the complaints? is it broken-down by gender? are they men or women? are complaints coming from the lgbt community? do we have a racial breakdown of the complaints? are complainants complaining about the same issues by category in those different communities? these are all things that d.p.a. analyzes as the complaints come in, and i think

it would be great if the department do the same analyzing the data in the departments. are certain districts complaining more about use of force than others, for example. that would be really interesting to know once we get a chance to just look at the same data that you've already shared with us with a new lens overlaid by different communities and different areas of the city. the other thing i would suggest it how do you use your complaint data, if at all, to recommend policy changes because part of the issue

beyond just data transparency and data analysis is evidence based because you've got the cases there. and now that we have a complete image of cases and complaints that are coming from civilian oversight and internal affairs, we need to be [inaudible] in what that feedback is [inaudible] i don't want to

overwhelm you with the standards that d.p.a. expects. rather than have you reinvent the wheel, i want to celebrate and clap for this presentation tonight, but also to shine a gentle light of opportunity to walk with the department or shared opportunities to get this out there. congratulations again. i really applaud tonight's presentation, and thank you, chief, and thank you, o'sullivan, for taking this historic step with you. >> thank you. >> vice president elias: thank you, director henderson.

something director henderson said, commander o'sullivan, reminded me that i wanted to ask. i know on your slide there's open and closed cases, and i know the numbers are there as well as the graph, but i think it would be helpful to separate out which ones are i.a. cases and which ones are d.p.a. cases because based on our conversations, it's my understanding that d.p.a. -- when d.p.a. does advocate, they investigate it, and they determine whether or not they're sustained findings or not. so the case is already sent to you and i.a. has it, and a lieutenant in i.a. reviews d.p.a.s case, and an internal review by several layers of management in the department reviews it before it goes to the chief to sign off to see whether he agrees or disagrees with the recommendation. so -- and that's different from

a case where i.a. investigates because theoretically, d.p.a. is not investigating them, they're just reviewing d.p.a.s report, so i think it would be helpful for the public to know which cases are i.a., and which ones are d.p.a. and i.a. is just reviewing, so i think that might be helpful in the future. the other thing i forgot to say, and i apologize, is i want to thank the chief because, you know, he gets a lot of something like that, but i think he gets a lot slake -- he gets a lot of slack, and i think he gets a lot of slack from the commissioners, as