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.

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>> 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 well. when i say hey, we need to you do this, he tried to consider that. i really do think that it really not only helps the public but it helps the officers, as well, because how when i go and speak with

officers, i'm amazed that they are not aware of how discipline happens. thank you, chief, thank you, commander o'sullivan, and thank you, president cohen, for allowing me to speak. >> president cohen: absolutely. >> what you were just talking about, i'm sorry to jump in, i think the timeline is super important because another suggestion that would be helpful is when that timeline comes up when decisions are made or reviewed for the d.p.a. cases to come over, it would be great if we tracked the timeline how long those cases took because our cases get suspended after we presented them, and it's really inconsistent and across the board in terms of how long we wait for decisions to be made in terms of who's even making when the cases are presented with and to internal affairs. and then, the second part of

that is the 3304 reporting which is mandated by the commission because now that you have all of the cases already there, it should not be a difficult issue to look at the timeline to have 3304 reporting, as well, for internal affairs like there is for d.p.a. affairs in cases. sorry. okay. now, i'll stop talking. >> president cohen: no, no, no apologies needed, but let's let some other people state their thoughts. commissioner byrne? the data

that i'm reading on page 5, line 5, this came to the department's attention five years ago? >> that's correct, because the juvenile is a bit older now. >> commissioner byrne: okay. thank you. >> president cohen: anyone else? none? all right. thank you. thank you for the presentation. sergeant youngblood, could we go to public comment? >> clerk: yes, ma'am. >> president cohen: thank you. >> clerk: for members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item 8, please press star, three now. president cohen, it appears there's no public comment.

>> president cohen: all right. that sounds good. all right. so let's continue moving forward. next agenda item, please. >> clerk: agenda item 9 has been removed. agenda item 10 has been removed. line item 11, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 13 below, closed session, including public comment on item 12, vote whether to hold item 13 in closed session. if you would like to make public comment, please press star, three now. and president cohen, it appears there is no public comment. >> president cohen: all right. great. let's keep moving. >> clerk: excuse me. line item 12, vote on whether to hold item 11 in closed session, san francisco

administrative code 67.10, action. [inaudible] >> vice president elias: second. >> president cohen: okay. motion made by commissioner byrne. seconded by commissioner elias. let's do a roll call vote. >> clerk: on the motion to hold closed session -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have five yeses. >> president cohen: great. thank you very much. that's unanimous. please, let's call the next

item. >> clerk: i will take us into closed session. >> i'll make a motion not to disclose. is there a second? second by commissioner elias. i saw her hand first. please call the roll. >> clerk: public comment. >> president cohen: that's correct. we'll take public comment before we call the roll. >> clerk: members of the public that would like to make public comment, please press star,

three now. and president cohen, there's no public comment. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. a motion's been made and a second. let's do a roll call. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have five yeses. >> president cohen: great. thank you very much. thank you, everyone. have a wonderful week. we're adjourned.

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