>> october 6, 2021, and yes, this is a regular scheduled police commission meeting. i'm excited to be here. i hope everybody brought their thinking caps, because we've got an agenda that's going to just blow your mind. to all your public commenters -- you public commenters, we're ready for you. i'd like to versus my vice president, cindy elias, c.j. brookter, john hamasaki, and cecil byrne. we've got a host of other folks joining, as well.

sfgovtv, thank you for helping us with this broadcast, and sergeant youngblood, cue does to you for running this operation, keeping us tiptop. so without any further adieu, let's call the roll and get started. [roll call] >> clerk: president cohen, you have a quorum. also present tonight is police

department chief william scott. >> president cohen: all right. if everybody would join me in saying the pledge of allegiance. please rise, put your right hand over your heart. ["pledge of allegiance"] >> president cohen: all right. please, let's call the first item. >> clerk: first item, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department of d.p.a. personnel. call 415-655-0001, enter

meeting i.d. 2493-909-6747. press pound and pound again, and then star, three to lineup to make public comment. if you would like to make public comment, please press star, three. all right. president cohen, it appears we have a number of public comments. >> president cohen: of course we do. welcome. let's hear them. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is david aaronson. i am with the core team of wealth and disparities founded by felicia jones. i'd like to call attention to

[indiscernible] that contained information recommending that sfpd suspend all enforcement of all parking and equipment violations that don't pose an imminent danger to public safety. the presentation cited studies and finding about how ticketing for routine violations can be automated. a black san franciscan is six times as likely to be stopped as a white san franciscan according to the sfpds only reporting for q-1 and q-2 of 2021. given the disparity of antiwhite stops as well as black san franciscans are 11 times more prone to be subject to use of force than white san franciscans, we should be working on passing what berkeley is working on, namely,

no [indiscernible] stops. according to the aforementioned sfpd graph, stops were actually higher in the first half of 2021 than in 2020 and 2019. 62% of all stops are for minor matters like turn signals and traffic lights. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello.

my name is [indiscernible] my public comment is that the san francisco police department has a decades long history of racism [indiscernible] as well as the mission and tenderloin neighborhoods [indiscernible] an officer who was filmed with her knee on the neck of a young black man [indiscernible]

have been turned over to the state [indiscernible] we demand that the city and police commissions have [indiscernible] thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is susan buckland. i live in district five, and i volunteer with felicia jones and the department of wealth and disparity.

[indiscernible] these questions disproportionately target black san franciscans. we strongly feel that nonviolent traffic stops should be halted altogether. there are many negative effects for black people being stopped so often, such as reinforced trauma, pain, and suffering [indiscernible] subject to use of force and arrest. sfpd was called out in a federal d.o.j. report in a report from 2016 for racial bias [indiscernible] not only are african american and

hispanic drivers dispractice -- disproportionately [indiscernible] a stop for a broken taillight or turn signal is not worth the horrible consequences we have seen for black people in these situations across the country. thank you. >> clerk: go ahead, caller. >> hello. good evening.

this is miss brown. good evening, everybody. i'm calling regarding my son, aubrey, who was murdered on august 14, 2006. i am still on the battlefield regarding this and other unsolved homicides. i am just wanting to keep my son in the public eye in the hope that i will get justice for my son, see the perpetrators that murdered my child. this is something that i don't want to have to do, that i'm living with every day, and i'm just hoping that the system, the justice system continues to work with me and other mothers in getting our cases solved so that we can have some kind of closure, so this is something that i'm going to keep coming

to the police commission and other events to bring the awareness of unsolved homicides, and i do think that i'm just hoping that we can get the other done at the police station and the other police stations for our loved ones at other public places, and with that, i'm done. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, miss brown. any members of the public who have information about the murder, you can call the 24-hour tip like at 415-575-4444, and president cohen, that the end of public comment. >> president cohen: thank you very much. please call the next item. >> clerk: line item 2, discussion and possible action to adopt findings for the police commission to continue

to meet via teleconferencing technology per assembly bill 361. discussion and possible action. >> president cohen: thank you. is anyone making a presentation on this, sergeant youngblood? >> clerk: i don't believe it's a presentation. it's just the assembly bill that's included in your packet needs to be voted onto continue to meet remotely. >> vice president elias: i'll make a motion.

>> commissioner byrne: i'll second. >> president cohen: okay. we have a motion by commissioner elias and second by commissioner byrne. let's have public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who would like to make public comment, dial star, three now. madam president, there are no callers in the queue. >> president cohen: thank you. i'd like to say that on september 16, the governor signed a legislation that allowed public bodies to meet

via teleconference but they have to approve it once a month, and i appreciate this. i think this is a good piece of legislation. commissioner byrne? >> commissioner byrne: so we're required to vote on this every 30-days because the delta variant is so prevalent. that's my only comment. >> president cohen: all right. i appreciate that. thank you. so a motion has been made and it's been seconded. let's go ahead and call the roll for a vote. >> clerk: president cohen, there is one public comment that came in. >> clerk: good evening, caller.

>> president cohen: okay. let's hear it. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello. i'm david aaronson. i support this. i think it makes the meeting more accessible especially for people with children and families, so i'd vote for this legislation. thank you. >> president cohen: i agree with you, mr. aaronson. there are some pieces of legislation happening on the local and also the state level that allow meeting via teleconferencing.

let's have a roll call vote. >> clerk: on the motion to allow teleconferencing meetings -- [roll call] >> clerk: that is five yeses. >> president cohen: all right. perfect. that's unanimous. let's keep going. please call the next item. >> clerk: line item 3, consent calendar, receive and file, action. request of officer marissa chung to accept a gift yard from boston properties in the amount of $400 to the original joe's restaurant. request to accept a donation from sfpoa of $5,000 for the sfpd wilderness program. request to accept a donation of

175 sis-stand desks from lyft, inc. , valued at approximately $8,547. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. just want to take a moment to recognize officer chung's heroism. chief, is there anything you want to say about this gift or note? >> well, thank you, president cohen. also, i want to thank boston properties for recognizing officer chung. as you recall, officer chung was the individual assaulted in chinatown by the individual who was having some type of crisis, and she did what she needed to do to survive that attack. she was helped by people outside her apartment, just private individuals. the individual who attacked

officer chung was arrested. it was good of her to fall on her professional training and fend off the attack, but boston properties recognized it, and it's great that an officer is recognized. i just want to that can them and officer chung for the work that she does day in and day out. >> president cohen: yes. officer chung, if you're watching, we are very grateful. i, too, watched that horrific video, and you stayed true to your training -- sfpd training. colleagues, are there any other questions or comments that you'd like to say? okay. seeing none, let's go to public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item number 3, please press star, three now. good evening, caller. you have two minutes.

president cohen, there is no public comment. >> president cohen: thank you very much. let's go ahead and take a vote on this -- i'm sorry. this is all consent. do we just take this all as one vote? >> clerk: yes, ma'am. >> president cohen: okay. i don't know if there's any one item that people want to comment on, but i'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. can i have a second? >> commissioner brookter: second. >> president cohen: seconded by commissioner c.j. brookter. sergeant youngblood, can i have a roll call vote? [roll call]

>> clerk: you have five yeses. [indiscernible]. >> president cohen: appreciate that. please call the next line item, sergeant. >> clerk: item 4, chief's report, discussion. weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. major and signature incidents. provide a summary of planned activities and events including fleet week and preparation for sf giants playoffs. this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief described will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future

meeting. >> thank you. we've got a lot to talk about this week. we're up 13% on violent crimes. we've got 42 homicides year-to-date. robberies are down 6%, and assaults are up 10%, from 1,612 to 1,777. human trafficking is up 20%, which is a difference of four. luckily and thankfully, these are very small numbers, but we went from 20 this time last year to four. property crimes, the good news

in property crimes, we're finally in the good news on burglaries. it's finally in the negative -- it's less than 1%, but it's still a negative. 5,568 last year as opposed to 5,548 this year. motor vehicles are down 1%. we were up earlier in the year in car thefts. 4,407, compared to 4,357. arsons were up by 8%, 240 last year, compared to 259 this year, and our overall loss in theft is up 6%, 19,839 last year to 21,089 this year. now, that includes the categories of retail theft, and it includes car break-ins, which as mentioned in our most recent meeting, that we are really challenged in that area,

so we've got to come up with strategies to address that. 4,054 property crimes last -- 34,054 property crimes last year compared to [indiscernible] property crime picture. as far as our car break-ins, we are up 6% compared to 2020, and that number is increasing, so again, strategies are really important to turn that around, and if we compare that to 2019 and 2018, we're down over 30% for those years. burglaries, we are finally in the negative this year, but we are up significantly from 2018 and 2019. 47% increase from 2019 and 28%

point increase from 2018. in terms of homicides, as i said, 43 total homicides this year, and the gun-related homicides are at 33, so that's an increase of ten, which is significant for san francisco. we did have two homicides for this reporting period, and there's a third that i'll talk

about. the good news, if there is good news is there's 91% on homicides. in terms of firearm seizures, we're still up positive numbers in terms of where we were this time last year. we have 762 total firearms seizures compared to 745 last year, and that is a part of our strategy to try to identify the prolific owners. overall, we've had 115 ghost gun recoveries, and that's still problematic for us. we are definitely above where we were this time last year, so

ghost guns are still a problem. the cases we have, the two homicides during this reporting period, the first one i'd like to talk about was september 27 in the 300 block of golden gate. that's the tenderloin district. officers located a 61-year-old male suffering from a gun shot wound. witnesses say the victim was inside a doughnut store, was transported, and later succumbed to his injuries. we have detectives following up on leads, but no arrests have been made at this time. we also have a homicide that occurred -- it was an assault-related homicide. our department operations center was contacted, reporting that the medical examiner

determined that the death that they were investigating was in fact a homicide. the incident happened on september 28, and the victim was taken to the hospital. he was involved in an argument which turned into an assault on this victim and died from his injuries later. initially, this was not reported, so we were able to go back and trace down the incident through the proper and the appropriate reporting, and a person actually later turned himself in for that particular homicide, so that person is in custody and was booked for 187, you know, the code for murder. we did have another homicide that i want to talk about that occurred at 9 and mission. it occurred on september 27, overnight -- well, actually, it was early in the morning.

we had two shootings that i'd like to talk about. one happened on september 29 at 12:51 a.m. this was in the 2200 block of mission street. our victim was standing in front of this location when a vehicle slowly drove by and the occupants or an occupant got out and started yelling racial slurs. our victim was struck by gun fire but is expected to survive

at this time. no suspects on this, and we are investigating this and the other incidents that i mentioned. if you have information, call 415-575-4444. we really need the public's help on these unsolved shootings and homicides. the second shooting was at 25 and connecticut in the bayview district. the 25-year-old victim was walking his dog and realized he had been shot. he was transported to the hospital and is expected to survive. very little to go on in that one. no arrests have been made in that one. other significant incident, we had an assault with traumatic injury. this happened on the sonoma ferry. the victim was on his home -- victim in his 50s, was on his way home from a giants game and

got into an argument. the suspect punched him multiple times and he fell back and suffered injuries, whether from the punches or from the fall. he was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. the suspect was taken into custody and has been booked for this assault. another assault happened on september 28. a victim returned to his vehicle, his car, and saw that a person was in the back seat of the car. the victim told the person to get out of the car, and the person threatened the victim, and said that the victim would be shot. officers arrived, and it turned into a five-hour standoff.

our c.i.t. tactics were put in place, and this person was eventually taken into custody after five hours without incident. he was not injured. there were less lethal bean bags that were deployed but no injuries to this individual. there was another incident at haight and ashbury on september 23. officers made contact with a suspect who was believed who had been beaten by her boyfriend. the victim had been held down and struck and pepper sprayed multiple times, causing injuries to her face. the suspect also lit the victim's head on fire, so this

was a pretty significant injury to the victim. she was able to escape and stayed in the area of haight and ashbury. the suspect's vehicle was located but was not arrested at the time, and we were trying to find him and apprehend him. no arrests have been made. if anyone knows anything about the location of this individual, please call 415-575-4444. and lastly, september 28, 2:10 in the afternoon, two subjects burglarized a car and stole items worth approximately $3,000. when they fled, they hit the victim with the vehicle as they ran away. no arrests have been made on this, and that investigation is on going, as well. again, public, if you know anything about this case,

please call us: 415-575-444. there were some stunt driving or side show events to report just in this period. on saturday, october 2, our sundt drive response unit responded to several events. one at folsom and masonic and one at [indiscernible] and brannan. five citations were issued. we had 27 officers in total that deployed to these events, and we pulled officers from all ten district stations. so these events impact our

ability to respond to calls for service as we had to pull officers from all over the city to respond to these events. this is dangerous activity, and just for the folks that are involved in these incidents, we don't stop once this incident has disbanded. we actually follow up on anything we can find, and we have impounded a number of callers after the impact when our investigations led us to the identity of the particular car that was involved in these events. so just be aware, these incidents are terribly dangerous. just recently, we've had accidents with members of the public, and we highly discourage this kind of activity. it will not be tolerated. our strategies, as i talked about with our break-ins, a couple of things we have done, we have put investigators in

our central district, the main area where these crimes are happening. that's central and southern district, as well. we also have officers that we are focusing on being involved in this particular, work with protection, and our investigative units to try to take these individuals in custody when we have cases and evidence to prove that they are

[indiscernible] we had additional deployment in our northern district, try to head some of this off. we have had -- our southern

district has the same issue in terms of auto burglaries and car break-ins, and again, our officers have been -- extra officers have been deployed in this district. as far as major events, we also had the heritage parade that would start at 9:00 a.m., and that'll happen at fisherman's

wharf-north beach area, and we will be in that attendance in that parade. the giants begin their wild card run at oracle park this weekend, and chase center events are happening. that is a good thing for our city. we have events this week. we had a luke combs concert, bel biv devoe and friends concerts this week, shakespeare and friends this week. we also have a warriors game starting off. very exciting time for chase center. [indiscernible] will be open and active, which is a good thing for the mission and bay

area for the city. that is it, commissioner. thank you for giving me a lot of time to make the report -- oh, one other thing. this is an issue of public interest, the vaccination status. definitely has the vaccination rate that's the strongest in the nation. every city employee is mandated to be vaccinated. there are different timelines and different vaccination deadlines for different departments. ours is october 13, and to date, we have a total of 181 employees who have not been

vaccinated. of that, 147 are sworn employees. so the deadline is october 14 to be fully vaccinated. we have a plan working with our city attorney's office and department of human resources on how to deal with this situation. i want to assure the public that our core services will continue, our investigations and calls for service, but we will have to make adjustments, and we will have to make adjustments with work flow and other things, but we will deal with the situation as we deal with the public and any other incident, as well. so that is my report for this week, and i will answer any questions. >> president cohen: thank you. colleagues, do you have any questions for the chief? john hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen.

chief, i e-mailed with you about this. the report came out maybe about 1.5 weeks ago about the number of unvaccinated police officers in the city, and i was hoping you could provide us with information as to [indiscernible] the officers that have been dealing with the public and employees? >> well, the department has until october 13 to be fully vaccinated, and that timeline includes the two weeks to be fully vaccinated because the vaccine takes about two weeks

to be fully vaccinated. so we have employees that haven't been fully vaccinated, so we can't count them until that two weeks to be fully vaccinated. for those not fully vaccinated, there are the plan that we vetted, and we will follow that plan. >> commissioner hamasaki: so i guess that's not my question. i understand the city has a process, and they have a deadline of october 13. but right now, those officers that are unvaccinated should not be engaging with the public, should not be putting other people's lives at risk and other employees' lives at risk. have you removed them from engagement from the public? >> no, we have not --

>> commissioner hamasaki: let me be clear. it's not about the disciplinary or anything else. it's simply about a matter of ensuring that unvaccinated people will engaging with people that might become infected, might become symptomatic or might die. not from a policy perspective or a department perspective, but from a public health and safety perspective, why are they still out engaging with the public? >> so we are also concerned with those things, but we are also concerned with removing 100 officers out of our public safety process. so this is why we hammered out this process with our human resources department so when the time comes, we have time to

make those proper adjustments. this is the same process for every city department. there's no city department that would remove people from their jobs prior to the deadline. that was the path that the city felt was the best way to go. it is a process that we and every city department is following, and when that deadline comes, which is now in less than a week, we will take the next course of action. but if there's public safety issues on the other side of that equation, as well, because we have to make adjustments when these officers are removed from the field, there are stations that will be significantly impacted when these officers are removed from the field, and those adjustments have to be made. we consulted with public health. everything that you said, valid concerns. we talked to our d.h. -- department of public health, and the process that we have we believe really addresses both

of those questions. because to remove at one time all of those officers from the field does create a problem on the other side of the equation. somebody has to do the work. somebody has to respond to the calls, and we need some time to process what will eventually happen when these officers remain unvaccinated. they will be removed from the office, and that will happen next week. >> commissioner hamasaki: can't you put them with the horses, in the garage? it seems like the vaccine was out -- i mean, i got it in march. it's now october, and, you know, i don't want to -- like, you know, we've all taken responsibility over this last 1.5 years, and taken all this together as a city, which is why we've had such a good results. and so the idea that, you know,

police officers are on the frontline, engaging with the public, i just -- i don't know how that's acceptable. >> commissioner, those things were taken into consideration, and i'll emphasize there's two sides to this consideration i hope that people understand, including yourself -- >> commissioner hamasaki: it's spreading infection by choice -- [inaudible] >> next week, i'll be able to give a report on exactly where we are because we'll know who's fully vaccinated on october 13 and who's not, and we'll make the plans as called for, and i'll be able to report that. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. i don't want to be, like, the

one beating up on this, but it's just, like, nobody engages with the public like the police do, and the risks are just too high to allow this to go on. so i look forward to hearing from you next week, but, you know, the idea that there's still people out -- are they still being tested? [indiscernible] for the unvaccinated people right now? >> at this point, it's voluntarily, as far as the testing process, and we're following the process as far as the deadline. testing is voluntary, and masking is mandatory. but the reason that there is a deadline, my understanding -- the reason there is a deadline -- and it was tiered. police department is before some of the other departments,

but the reason there is a deadline is for people who have not been vaccinated, so they have a chance to get vaccinated before any type of action is taken against these particular members of our department and other city departments. >> commissioner hamasaki: you know, it's, like, nobody wants to be their action taken or anything taken, that there has to be disciplinary action, but, you know, i guess that's all we can do, but it is really concerns, so i look forward to hearing better news next week. >> yes, sir. >> president cohen: all right. next, we're going to hear from commissioner brookter. >> commissioner brookter: thank you, president cohen. thank you, chief. i'm going to ask you about something that you alluded to. you said we're starting to see

numbers decrease and decline because of the number of officers out in the field. i wonder if you could give us an update of the new academy class. i'm always concerned about what we're doing to get more folks out in the city and county and a decline in the numbers that we're seeing. >> thank you. yes, we have two academy classes right now. i think there's a total of 47 officers in the academy, and we plan to have an additional academy now. we've got to put a caveat in there because with you know what our numbers look like next week. we're going to have to make adjustments and redeployments. i hope that's not the case, but that could be the case. a lot of our conditions in how we proceed with those types of issues -- we plan to run an academy, and it's actually

looking at ways to see how we can deal with that, but what we've done to try to mitigate some of our shortages is we've tried to use our overtime very effectively, so we've tried to use additional officers for staffing, and that paid off in terms of good, and we have to be as efficient as possible. as we lose officers, some things that are critical, we may have to put those in stand

by. there's no work that is as important as patrol and our basic investigative services, and that's where our focus is going to be. >> thank you, chief, and i appreciate the proactiveness. i don't think it's a matter of if, and we're anticipating in proactive. folks have choices, so appreciate that update and would like to see more officers out in the city and county

keeping us safe. >> i'll keep the public and everybody posted. >> president cohen: commissioner larry yee. >> commissioner yee: thank you. good to see you again, chief. just had to run through some of these things that we continue to have, i guess, the car break-ins and stuff, and i'm just curious whether it's the rent-a-cars with out of state license plates that attract these car break-ins, and if you it get a number. i just talked to assembly man -- now city attorney david chu and asked him, wonder if they can do legislation if they can change the legislation.

hopefully, we can change the numbers by targeting individual cars. i guess we can ask our state legislators to ban these kinds of sites or, i guess, pods -- podcasts, whatever they call them these days, so it does not come out where people are inclined to do this. i think the availability of

guns is one of the reasons we're having so much problem in the bay area. regarding the vaccination, i think it's imperative that if the officers are not vaccinated, that they have to take the test. my question is, if it's proof of vaccination, do they enter? so that's a very difficult situation for us all. so those with my comments to you, chief, and i'll end it right here. this weekend, we had a car show in chinatown, this amazing car show that brought a lot of people in. i think a lot of people that

used to come down to chinatown, they did come down there and enjoy the beautiful weather, and go giants. thank you, madam. >> president cohen: awesome. thank you, chief. let's see -- i don't see any other folks. i just want to acknowledge that, in your report today, sfpd conducted a number of high profile and successful operations over the week. i'm glad your team had that effort. that's amazing, and so i don't want to gloss over that. i want to make sure that we're calling this out, our victories, because we do a very good job of calling out our

shortcomings, and i think commissioner yee did a very good job on capturing, i think not only his sentiment, but he shared mine about ghost guns. and commissioner yee, too, you said we do have friendly support in the assembly. we should provide legislation to prevent the governor from moving forward. i do have an update on legislation that the governor recently signed, and i will give an update on that later, but chief, so my usually question, with the numbers that you have, the trends that you are seeing, what did we do differently that allowed us to capture these robbers, these -- these assailants of crime so

successfully in this report versus last month? >> well, i think it's on going. we gave the presentation about our community violence reduction team, and it definitely enhanced our work. there were some good arrests made by the task force, as well, but also communications and cooperation from the public, which is that we're building relationships not only with the public but with our support groups and groups that we support like [indiscernible]. they do another part of the services, but all of these things work together, and i do think that makes a difference.

i believe strongly that makes a difference. also, the folks involved in gun violence really make a difference. there was quite a bit out in the tenderloin. one individual who we believe is responsible for quite a bit of that gun violence, he was arrested this week. our investigators did a really, really good job, and he's been detained. but it's that type of work and that type of focus that is going to turn the corner and continue to turn the corner. the other thing i mentioned is it's regional. some of our seized firearms are related to crimes in vallejo

and san jose, and because of that, we're able to focus on the right people. not only does it have an impact on us in intervening and reducing these types of events, but also in other cities, so we'll continue to refine those is that the strategies to try to get better. the other thing i want to add is the federal partnership -- san francisco was named as one of the six regions that attorney general merrick garland named as a gun violence reduction area, so that support will be helpful with the attorney general. the focus of that effort -- we don't get any funding from that, but what the focus is

making this from a federal perspective. thankfully for us, we were already involved in the crime gun intelligence center and investigations center with the a.t.f., so we already had all that in place, and i think that will help us, as well. >> president cohen: that's awesome. i appreciate that. colleagues, any other questions for the chief? all right. i don't think we have any others right now. keep up the good work. next presentation, please. >> clerk: president cohen, we need public comment on this item. >> president cohen: oh, public comment. let's take it. >> clerk: for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item 4, chief's report, press star, three now. good evening, caller. you have two minutes.

>> hello. >> clerk: caller, are you there? >> yes. >> clerk: you have two minutes. >> i'd just like to say with regards to the vaccination issue that the information that i get over the internet is that people who are vaccinated and people who are unvaccinated both can communicate or transmit the virus. it's just that the virus you get from the vaccinated people tend to be of a higher grade, more evolved, than those who are unvaccinated. as you might inter from my comments, i am opposed to the

releasing of police officers. my name is john jones. >> clerk: thank you. president cohen, that is the end of public comment. >> vice president elias: president cohen, one thing that i forgot to mention is our own district attorney recently filed a lawsuit against ghost gun dealers, so our own public leaders are taking steps in this effort, as well, so i wanted to thank him in addition to the legislators that will take on this issue. >> president cohen: i'm glad you mentioned that because i was unaware. thank you for that. anyone else? all right. let's go ahead and hear a report from d.p.a. >> clerk: line item 5, d.p.a. director's report, discussion. report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements.

d.p.a.s report will be limited to a brief description of d.p.a. activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. >> president cohen: thank you, sergeant youngblood. >> good evening, vice president elias, president cohen, and chief scott. i will be presenting on director henderson's behalf. some weekly statistics to keep you up on date on our cases. we have opened 601 cases year-to-date. this is different in 2020, which is when we opened 628 year-to-date. year-to-date, we've closed 678 cases, and in 2020, we closed

691. we have currently pending 283 cases, whereas in 2020, we had 374. we have sustained cases so far this year in the amount of 38 cases. in 2020, it was 33. currently, we have 23 cases past the 270 deadline that is mentioned in our charter, and in 2020, that number was 31. we have mediated 29 cases up to this point. in 2020, we had mediated 31. in this past week, we mediated one case. 23 of the cases that are past the 270 date -- we have a total of 23 cases and 18 are tolled. we currently have 14 discipline cases pending with the commission, and we have 11

cases pending with the chief for decision on cases that do not involve the commission. we will next week present an update with respect to our audit pursuant to department general order 8.10. we participated in a town meeting at city hall. we had one case in closed session, and with me today is the fabulous senior investigator candace carpenter, and she's here to answer any questions that you may have, and if anyone wants to contact us, our number is 415-240-7711, and you can also contact us via our website, which is

www.sfgov.org/dpa. and that is all i have. we will have a more in-depth conversation about quarter one and quarter two coming up as well as some information on the sparks report, but other than that, that's all i have at this point, and i welcome any questions that you may have. >> president cohen: okay. great. thank you. i have no questions. anyone have anything else for d.p.a. today? i see people shaking their head no. no names -- >> vice president elias: you're much faster than director henderson. >> president cohen: what's that? >> oh, i'm sorry. should i slow down? >> vice president elias: no, you got to the point, in and out. i like it. >> president cohen: all right. i don't see any other names, so we'll take public comment on

the report. >> clerk: members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item 5, d.p.a. director's report, please press star, three now. and president cohen, we have no public comment. >> president cohen: oh, man, you are getting off easy tonight. >> go giants. >> president cohen: okay. let's call the next report. >> clerk: president cohen, we are seeking clarification on item [indiscernible] can we have a motion on governor's

order 54953? >> president cohen: i'm looking to our deputy city attorney for some guidance? >> my computer's not working that well. yes, we would need a motion to revise and to attach the document that's attached to the agenda. >> president cohen: okay. i'll make a motion to revise and attach this document that's attached to the agenda. >> so we would need an additional motion to attach the document attached to the agenda? that's specifically related to the legislation.

>> president cohen: okay. i'll make that motion. do i have a second? >> commissioner brookter: second. >> president cohen: okay. seconded by commissioner brookter. let's go ahead and have a roll call vote. >> clerk: okay. on the motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have six yeses. >> president cohen: great. motion passes unanimously. >> clerk: and president cohen, just as a matter of house keeping, a reminder that line item 11 has been removed from tonight's agenda. >> president cohen: thank you. i don't think we made that previous announcement, so that's good to now. we've got commission reports next, sergeant youngblood. is that correct?

>> clerk: yes, ma'am. >> president cohen: okay. if you don't mind, i'm going to go first because i've got a pretty lengthy report that i want to read into the record. so i just want to first comment on the spirit of recognizing police reform initiatives. you heard my remarks earlier that i referenced governor newsom in the passage of the bill that he signed. i'd just like to take a moment to comment on what that is and how it could impact our community and our work here on the police commission. so on september 30, the governor signeden arrest bill 16 authored by senator nancy skinner -- signed the 'em at bill 16 authored by senator nancy skinner: again, you may

recall our commission recently had the privilege of having senator skinner before us to discuss this. i'd like to congratulate senator skinner on her leadership on this reform. also, the governor signed senate bill 2, and it creates a system within the commission on peace officer standards and training. the acronym is called p.o.s.t., spelled p-o-s-t, so this

legislation also creates the peace officer standards and accountability division and peace officer standards advisability board within p.o.s.t. to review serious misconduct cases. and what's significant is the enactment of senate bill 2 will hopefully serve to end the practice of agencies shopping by officers who have been suspended or fired for misconduct. other bills include a.b. 26. this legislation just requires the requirement that officers immediately report the use of excessive force and require

requires the action to intercede. also want to bring to your attention assembly bill 89, which was authored by reggie jones sawyer of los angeles. it raises the minimum age for a new police officer to 21 is. -- 21 in 2024 and requires that new officers have college degrees. i know that's something that has been talked about and is now state law. i also want to note that a.b. 481 which was authored by our own assembly man david chu,

this establishes requirements that must be met before a law enforcement agency acquires and uses military equipment. a.b. 490, which was authored by assembly man mike gibson, who represents carson. a.b. 490 prohibits a law enforcement agency from authorizing techniques and transport methods that involve a substantial risk of positional asphyxia. in other words, restricting a person's breathing. a.b. 958 is also authored by assembly man mike gibson. it requires all law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy that prohibits participation in a law enforcement gang and makes a violation of that policy grounds for termination. so as you can see, in addition to the work that we're doing on the commission and the work that's being done in the san

francisco police department, a lot of california is working collectively to improve policing practices. our legislature and the governor has also been very busy, and i just want to note that the bottom line for me is we're all engaged in mutually supporting efforts to engage in policing. we want to make sure that our officers are provided with the tools and guidance that they need to serve effectively and in the best interests of justice and in the community. so i'd like to congratulate our friends in the legislature as well as the governor as well as for our successful work this legislative season and also just want to acknowledge our own policy staff that are working in our department. commissioner elias, is there a

report from you? >> vice president elias: not this week. i think next week, we'll have some more information to report on some of the things that we're working on. i will say that with respect to the new legislation by skinner, we will be revising our policies to reflect the new legislation that's going to go into effect, so i'm happy about that, and it'll be a lot smoother transition than it was before. >> president cohen: we're learning from our mistakes. all right. anybody else? i'm just going to go down the faces that i see on my screen. that means you, d.j. brookter. do you have anything to follow it up? >> commissioner brookter: how does anyone follow up on that? madam president, i just want to saw thank you for the random legislation and the work that's been done around here. it's good to see things are being done statewide and

looking forward to speaking on item 9 with my colleague, commissioner byrne, around the awards committee recommendations, which is something that we've been working on the last few weeks, so that is all i have to report on. >> president cohen: all right. i next see commissioner jim byrne. >> commissioner byrne: i agree with commissioner brookter, and i have nothing else to report this week, but hopefully will have some more information on what's going on in the tenderloin. that's where i am right now. >> president cohen: all right. perfect. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: i have -- i don't think i have anything to report, although president cohen always reminds me when i do. but i did enjoy that recap. it's really refreshing to see

the california legislature take a proactive and affirmative -- take proactive and affirmative steps to address that california, for a democratic and progressive state has actually been at the bottom of police -- not the bottom bottom, but at the bottom of police reform that one would secretary. so the tide is turning, and i think we're all happy and safer for it. thank you. >> president cohen: no problem. and last but not least, commissioner yee, anything to report? >> commissioner yee: i have nothing to report, but i'm looking forward to a better next two months and a half reducing our gun violence in the city. that's something that i'd like to focus on going -- looking at it. that's on my list.

>> president cohen: all right. perfect. thank you, everyone, for your reports and your work. sergeant youngblood, i turn the agenda back over to you. >> clerk: yes, ma'am. at this time, the public is welcome to make public comment on-line item 6, commission reports. if you'd like to make public comment, press star, three now. president cohen, it appears there is no public comment. >> president cohen: all right. thank you very much. let's go to the next item. >> clerk: line item 7, presentation of the sfpd-dpa report on general orders-policy proposals-sparks report. first and second quarter 2021,

discussion. >> i'm catherine mcguire, and i'll be presenting the police department portion of the sparks report for quarter one and two, and janelle will be hopping in in a little bit and presenting the d.p.a. portion. we are now fully in join presentations and really eager to continue the partnership. in this presentation, we moved -- so that you know -- thank you, sergeant youngblood. you can go ahead and go to slide two, please. thank you. for this presentation, just so that you all can follow, we moved the slides that provide the detailed updates on d.g.o. status into a separate set of slides, and those are included on-line and in your supporting documentation files. i'm happy to answer any questions that you have about

those or this presentation, but just so you're aware, did not expect to bring them up on screen tonight, but we can do that. so the slide that you're looking at there outlines the process that department general orders follow and the status update is organized into those steps. each year, we identify what d.g.o.s are going to be reviewed as well as those that should include a working group process. the s.m.e. is assigned. a draft is produced, either with the s.m.e. best practices research and with input from d.p.a. or with input from working group and input from the d.p.a. as well as the knowledge of the s.m.e., as well. d.p.a. makes a recommendation, and we discuss those, and the

d.p.a. goes to concurrence. d.p.a. then reviews that concurrence and files a final report, and that's our sparks report. if the d.g.o. goes to meet and confer, when it comes back, it is adopted by the commission, as you all know. the next slide shows the activity on d.g.o.s for quarter two. we held two sparks one meetings, and we divide them up into sparks one and two to really inform where the d.g.o.s are in the process. so the sparks one is the one we hold before the document goes to concurrence. and then, sparks two is the discussion that we have after the meeting comes -- after the

d.g.o. comes back from concurrence. we can go to slide four, please. this quarter and quarter two, we issued 45 bulletins and notices and one general order and no manual. the general order was 5.03 issued during quarter two again. i know we're into quarter four at this point, but we are reporting on quarter two. next slide, please. and then, the d.g.o. talks about what we reported in the sparks one and sparks two meetings and the recommendations that we discussed during those meetings. with that, i'll hand it over to janelle to brief us on the d.p.a. side. >> good evening. i'm janelle, the brand-new

assistant director at the d.p.a. [indiscernible] and other forms of supervised release. so in the second quarter, the commission gave the green light for sfpd and d.p.a. to begin the discussion process. so with regard to questioning people about their probation and parole status. the d.g.a. general order prohibits police from

questioning people about their probation or parole status unless there's a reason or there's immediate threat to officer or public safety. as background, people on probation or parole can be subject to a search class. this means that the police can search them out a warrant and without probable cause as a condition of their release during custody. we're aware that these data trends show that they intend to be disproportionately held against people of color. we've recommended that probation and parole plus be

required, and this means that probationers and parolees can only be searched if there's a threat to officer safety or if there's a nexus to new criminal activity. now, i left that vague because sfpd and d.p.a. are having spirited discussions as to what new criminal activity should be. this is an important area of much debate. we've consulted with subject matter experts in the area, and we welcome community feedback in the area on this point and on the d.g.o., as well. next slide, please. in our policy, we've also requires that officered be

required to verify through official channels that the officer is on probation in the 72 hours before the search. following the officer involved shooting on varney place in may involving a plainclothes officer, the d.p.a. revised recommendations that we made in 2020 around body worn cameras and plainclothes officers, in that plainclothes officers be required to mount a body-worn camera before taking action such as a detention arrest or

search. d.p.h. [indiscernible] created a recommendation trafficking matrix and presented it to the commission in september. we are awaiting sfpd feedback. next slide, please. in the second quarter, d.p.a. researched and provided sfpd 14

specific d.g.o.'s. here, d.p.a. did a very deep policy dive in order to make the process more transparent, inclusive, and timely. in connection with our 3.01 recommendations, we've strongly advocates for giving d.p.a. a stronger voice in regarding whether the police department forms community working groups and ensures that d.p.a. and other important stakeholders are included in our working groups going forward. we are hopeful it will be included in the new d.g.o. 3.01. thank you very much. that's all i have.

thank you. >> president cohen: thank you for your presentation. let's go ahead, and we're going to go ahead for questions. commissioner hamasaki, i see your hand first. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen. welcome and congratulations on your new position miss kay wood, and i appreciated the -- miss caywood, and i appreciated the presentation. i think these are all thing s that we have been ad voe -- things that we have been advocating for for years. one thing that i think is important to me and my fellow commissioners is the importance

that the process of design policy is a collaborative process. we have, i don't know, a disastrous process over the last few years where working t these small groups. i got a lot of feedback and push back that i shared with the chief before, really, ultimately, we need to hear from everybody and come to the best policy that represents the people of san francisco. the top-down approach just has not worked, so i'm glad for this role, and thank you for presenting on these new policies, and i'm sure we all look forward to working with you moving forward. >> thank you, commissioner. i appreciate your kind comments.

>> president cohen: anyone else? i don't see any other names. notes, notes, notes galore. i think it was on slide 10, d.p.a. researched and provided to san francisco p.d. on existing d.g.o.s and provided 57 policy recommendations. is that accurate? >> that is accurate. we have a good little policy

going, and behind every recommendation is a ton of research. we take it very seriously, and i want to give a shoutout to my colleague, jermaine jones. we work well with the policy at d.p.a., and there's more to come. >> president cohen: my next question is, were all the suggestions incorporated or are there more? >> i'll defer to my colleague. >> remember, we get the recommendations right at the front, so we have all of these methods of discussion, and a bill becomes a law eventually. >> president cohen: don't i know that process? this is a perfect example. and then, you pepper it in the public comment, and you have your other advocates and your advocacy groups that are also

part of the process. i also want to say that i'm pleased to see how d.p.a. and sfpd are working on this. i firmly believe that, in the end, it's going to produce the best policy, policy, again, that's going to be exemplary for the entire country. keep in mind that what you're doing is for san francisco, but it's really being a role model for the nation. think about the work that we've done years ago, and people are just now catching up, so keep that in mind that these workers take two years. it's a lot of hands, and a lot of very smart people that are dedicating a lot of hours to this, so i am grateful for this and definitely know how talented jermaine is -- jermaine jones. been wonderful to watch him grow up, generally speaking. >> he's wonderful. >> president cohen: yeah.

so another question. the san francisco police department sparks addendum -- never mind. i won't ask that. that's all i have at this time. i want to make sure that if any other colleagues have questions, please do so. none? none? nobody? >> vice president elias: i will say, i do want to congratulate d.p.a. for their probation search proposal. it is one i think of the ground breaking d.g.o.s that is really noteworthy and i'm really excited to be able to see the final product before the commission. great job on that, and i know your team of lawyers worked on it, and it's really an excellent product which reflects all of the hard work

that you all have been doing, so thank you so much. thank you. >> president cohen: all right. i did find my second page of questions, so i'm back in the game. just wonder, the presentation is based on numbers, so i was wondering if you had some comments around outcomes. in the end, that's what i'm really also equally interested in are outcomes, so is there a way that the report can be less focused on numbers and more focused on outcomes, not just line by line of accomplishments, but on the impacts, and the impacts of these efforts on policing, specifically on public safety. any comments? that's great, in the affirmative. >> yeah, no, i'm happy to incorporate some more about outcomes, for sure. i know that janelle is a little

bit new, so we haven't had the opportunity to see how everything comes out, so to speak, but i feel like the process is productive. you're right. we are producing some of the most ground breaking policy in the country, i think, and it's all part of the bigger process, and i think the big thing that we do as partners is we have the dialogue, and sometimes i wind up translating cop and d.p.a. and kind of meeting in the middle and trying to find compromised language that works. i think that's some of the work that's really helpful, but

ultimately, yeah, the no foundation of having d.p.a. at the table is really important, and ultimately is ground breaking. >> and if i can comment, i can make d.p.a. reports more robust. when we transitioned from my predecessor to me and i become more gelled in my role -- there's more to come, and your comments are well taken. >> president cohen: okay. so i'll just continue on. we're starting to work on d.g.o.s that will need working

groups, and i'm curious --

>> -- some of these are in drafting phase, others have been put on hold, and others are in concurrence. now we currently do not have -- so for instance, you see that the body-worn camera d.g.o. is not listed here. that working group has not been convened yet is my understanding, and the issue is manyfold. the workload has gotten a little bit bigger this year, and so i think we're going to have to revisit as we go into the next year's working group.

there are only so many meetings we can hold, so trying to sort out what the right workload is for the department and the commission and d.p.a. is something we're still working on. >> vice president elias: and i think the d.p.a. has yet to be invited to any of the working groups that you've listed. >> president cohen: so i did have a chance to click back, and i noticed that slide 11 doesn't give any updates on who is participating. can you give us an update on who is participating? >> i'd have to defer to the chief because that is not held by written directives?

[indiscernible]. >> president cohen: chief, are you able to speak on this? >> i can speak on the ones that are on going, such as social media. now with, actually, the public defender's office has been working on that policy and we have not made an actual work group yet because we are drafting the framework for the policy, and that is meant to do a couple of things. number one, some issues have been brought to our attention and our staff, so we started out working with them on that, and this has been for several months now. so once we have those legal issues, this will probably be a notice before it becomes a d.g.o. there's some things we need to address pretty quickly on

that -- i can't tell you the names of the individuals, but i think it's 13 different individuals and/or entities in that work group. i don't have the list in front of me. you name the others, i can tell you what the status are. >> commissioner hamasaki: can i -- >> vice president elias: i can tell you one that's not on this list? >> which one is that? >> vice president elias: it's the [indiscernible] working group. i don't know about it, and i'm

the one that's in charge of dealing with that d.g.o., so -- we have this issue before where we don't have accurate updates on these sheets, and so it's really important -- >> let me just clarify that. d.g.o. department report was a draft that you have on that, commissioner. you are, as you said, the appointed commissioner, but that hasn't gone on quite some time. that working group is actually d.p.a. and the department on that particular issue. this is mainly an certainly process than mainly not open to the general public, so the work consists of d.p.a. and the department, and that's the work that you've had for a while

now -- >> commissioner hamasaki: can i make a suggestion instead of us -- i appreciate that we're going through these, but you know, this is something we've asked about for years since i've been on, i think, for 3.5 years. if the department can just share with the commission and we can share with the community the process and the status, and, like, everything should be geared towards transparency. like, we want this to be an

open process and a collaborative process. [indiscernible] that shouldn't be the way. we should work together, because that way, with the service [indiscernible] policy that came back, oh, my gosh, changed in 87 different ways, and we didn't know, and everybody's calling us. we do this open and transparent, and we'll get to the right place. we generally have it. let's figure out how to do it in the way that best serves the community. >> president cohen: one of the things that i just want to speak to is that when we're presenting in the commission meetings, and we are in this public forum, that all the information that we're presenting is accurate, and

that means, like, no typos, no spelling errors. i want to make sure that we are presenting is truth, the truth, so that members of the public know what the d.p.a.s doing, know what the sfpd's doing as it relates to these policies that affect public safety. i was under the impression that the juvenile group had met months, but this list says that it's meeting, so i just want -- we've just got to make sure that we're putting any information that's out there in the public domain, making sure that it's accurate. and i'm not sure how to interpret your body language. if i'm wrong, please let me know. i see that commissioner elias is next in the queue, so i'll

call on her. >> vice president elias: my comment was going to be about the serious incident review board and the working group. i know we have the policy, but the next step i was told was the working group, and when i asked d.p.a. of the working group, they were unaware of the serious incident working group. you said it pretty eloquently, president cohen. this is what the public sees, and they think we have a working group or we're doing things, and we're not, so, you know, that was something that i wanted to say, and i think your idea of giving more of a real-time update instead of saying in progress or currently in the working group, that

maybe we have more detail and information as to maybe who's participating because i know that some of these working groups are more insular, meaning they don't invite the community, so i think it would be helpful to know which working groups are insular and some work with the community. i know that we get calls as commissioners about what's going on, and it's frustrating when they're told something different. the other thing that we asked for, is i know we use a lot of acronyms, but it would be helpful to let people know what that means, like s.m.e. i didn't know what r.g. means in this presentation, so they say r.g. received from d.p.a., but i don't know what r.g. is.

i think that maybe a legend would be helpful for the public. >> okay. thank you. [please stand by]

>> let's continue to move forward with the next presentation.

>> i'm going to report about compare the number of cases opened and closed during the first and second quarter for the last three years. we're comparing three years because 2020 was a bit of an

anomaly due to covid and the protests. what's important to note is a steady increase in the number of cases and what we have learned from that. what we're doing is we're doing a better job of opening and closing cases more efficiently as you can see from the graph that's labeled three years comparison of cases closed. we did some analysis and attributed that to a transition to a team model approach. the investigations are less redundant and efficient and focused. next slide, please. these charts represent the

allegations closed in quarters one and two. in the areas of active duty, conduct unbecoming an officer, and warranted action. the allegations most the name were neglect of duty, unwarranted action, and unbecoming an officer. next slide, please. specifically within those areas, those big categories are subcategories. neglect of duty is the main category of misconduct within it

is the failure to activate body worn camera. which conduct was found the most in quarter one. in quarter one the improper conduct allegations were failure to activate body worn camera. the second one was officer's speaking inappropriately. the third highest was improper search or seizure. that's for quarter one. quarter two is very similar. the only difference is that number one and two are slightly reversed. the improve conduct allegations weren't based on officers speaking inappropriately.

the third was officers conducting an improve search or seizure. next slide, please. we do try to keep records of the demographics concerning our complainants. the majority of our complainants identify as white between the ages of 20 and 40. why do we track these demographics. it's really important for us to determine if folks or individuals that we have to target with out reach efforts. based on these numbers, we have

to check in with the asian community and the hispanic community. especially the youth and elderly in those communities. they represent the lowest number of people who complain to our office. we're not trying to keep track of people. we're just trying to understand how best to reach out to communities so they feel heard and have the opportunity to voice any complaints to the department. next slide, please. the same is true with respect to gender identity. we also see a similar picture. you have a right to decline to state. we have a lot of people who decline to state. we see that we need to do better, and we will do better and have plans in place to do better with the lgbtgia

community. when they are not represented in the complaints end up as plaintiffs. this has to do with the demographics of mediation. the demographics of the population that offered to participate in our program. remediated 20 cases. we realize we need to do a better job reaching out to minority communities and explaining remediation to them. this is duplicate information to some extent because you just received the sparks report. i cannot do a better job. this is in a nut shell what she

presented to us. if you have any questions i'm happy to hear you out. she just presented for quarter two. we present for quarter one. the numbers are very similar. that is our role, that's all we can do is recommend change and hope through dialogue and research and data driven analysis that we can -- and you commissioners, review the recommendations that we make. sb1421 this slide shows our overall compliance for the cases that have been disclosed under

sb1421 requests. this is the total amount. i can break it down in quarter one and quarter two. in terms of audits, next week is an audit that is mandated. it involves interpretation of

first amendment activity. i tried to keep that interesting and i welcome any questions that you may have. >> thank you acting director. we appreciate your adherence to the ten minute time limit. >> i have a quick question and i'll turn it over to my colleagues. i noticed where it talks about quarter one, improper allegations and quarter one. any reason why there's 73 in quarter one and only 21 in quarter two. >> those are not complaints. those are allegations.

we define complaints as a person calls in about a specific incident. in that specific incident there could be a number of officers that investigate it. there was a complaint that involved 37 officers. when you're investigating 37 officers and bringing allegations on 30 of them in a quarter, that's what it's going to look at. it's really dependent on the cases we receive and the number of officers per case. and the type of conduct that we're investigating. >> thank you for your explanation. great presentation. commissioner, do you have some

questions? >> the body worn camera violations are still in the top violations. are those going through the commission or handled directly with the department? how does that work? >> when we recommend discipline on these types of cases, we do implement progressive principles that are in the new discipline matrix. based on the matrix and the officer's background these types of allegations do not rise to the level of commission cases. they're usually handled at the case discipline level. chief scott and our attorneys

will hash out what discipline is appropriate for each allegation. >> i'm seeing a lot of this progressive discipline. we're not having repeat offenders, if someone comes back and does it again. if it gets more serious and you're developing concerns about why somebody isn't wearing the body worn camera? >> i wouldn't categorially say that. maybe an officer here or there that may have a repeat allegation findings misconduct for not wearing body worn camera. the way the matrix is structured it doesn't always warrant those

allegations heading toward the commission. i don't want to speak on behave of the chief. based on my own perm experience with the chief, he takes these seriously and usually follows our recommendation. >> he does increase the penalties. >> i know this is something we've talked about for years. i know the chief is -- in the beginning everybody needs time to get used to them. four years. in three years into the body worn cameras, i was thinking we would see a little bit of leveling off. hopefully that's happening. >> i think it is. i think that there's been some

changes in what we see happening. what i would suggest and recently came to mind, i've been approaching the training, i had the opportunity to sit in on a different meeting. maybe the best way for officers to understand how important this is and where we are with these allegations is to explain to them that nobody is getting reprimanded or in trouble for overturning on. nobody is saying you're turning it on too much. that's my understanding. they're getting in trouble because they're not turning it on enough. you're not going to get in trouble if you turn it on too much. there is a mechanism where if

it's not necessary, the body worn footage is purged. >> i think that's a great suggestion. that's a thing that we review at the disciplinary review board. we look at trends and what type of offenses are occurring within the department and how to address them. >> great. i heard i'm going to be invited. i'll be happy to share that tid bit with everybody.

>> i wanted to say thank you for the presentation. i want to say congratulations to chief of staff, you're all over social media. i want to put that in the record for everything she does. just a quick question. one of the things you brought up, i love and live in data. we got new information and understanding that under served and under represented communities folks aren't calling in as much. i want to hear what are strategies. on the flip side of getting more officers. are we making sure the checks

and balances, how do we get those communities or what are we doing in those communities to ensure they know about dpa and its function as well too? >> we have to identify the problem. now we have. we have an out reach team. it's headed by zuma, she puts herself in as many places as she can. our investigators are required to sign up for a certain number of community service hours. that consists at being present at community events and staffing tables and presenting noftion information to the community

about dpa. what we're now going to do that we have been tracking this information and analyzing this information, we now know where to go more often. >> that's good. thank you for that. that's right in line with director hennedder son's reports. i want to make sure that when we're at the events, making sure we're getting the information out. encouraging people to reach out and help understand the function of dpa.

>> i just want to eco what was said in some of the communities that are not reaching out to the bpa, the asian, hispanic, latin x. hope to see you out to more events in the community. i don't know how many went to china town, whatever you have. i know there's a form of lack of communication and trust too. i like to see it reflective of our officers reflect the community as we move forward. in the next training or couple training academies that we have. i'm looking forward to seeing

you guys out there at these events. >> definitely let us know. we'll send someone. we have volunteers that are ready to show up anytime or prays and explain to the community what the part of police accountability does. we have many bilingual staff that are available to serve any under served communities including asian communities. i want to put that out there that we do have several staff that are bilingual. if not, we have language learn. we're always available and ready to serve. >> i'm not saying that the aish asiandoesn't report it, they may decline to state too. >> absolutely. there is that caveat. we don't want to discourage

people from filing a complaint because they have to disclose to us what their background is. we would much rather hear the complaint than give them any reason not to complain. >> probably my community doesn't have that much complaint. thank you very much. >> quick question just for clarification. this is referring to slide four. what's the difference between unwarranted action and conduct unbecoming of an officer. >> conduct unbecoming an officer is more in the realm of an officer saying things that are inappropriate. a lot of the conduct unbecoming

an officer are going to be comments. maybe some -- doing something that appears rude or disrespectful. fist bump for example. unwarranted action is more has to do with search and seizure. it's actually, i believe, in our -- we did create a separate report aside from our slides that has a breakdown of all of these categories and what they entail.

misuse of city property. on page five those broad categories are broken down with examples of what each category entails. conduct unbecoming an officer is often words that are inappropriate. racial bias falls into conduct unbecoming an officer.

sexual slurs are conduct unbecoming an officer. misrepresenting the truth. misuse of police authority. unwarranted action issuing citation watt cause. handcuffing without cause. and improve search and seizure. >> okay. i was going to add if can i weigh in, it's not an exhaustive list. it's really any behavior, comment that are not appropriate or unacceptable for the position of a police officer. it might cause discredit to the department. it's a very broad list.

>> i took it as just examples. >> can you describe to me the decrease in unwarranted action. >> i can only speak anecdotally. i think someone who has been in discussions with the chief about our findings in the area of search and seizure, the training department and the chief have taken our suggestions and the issues we have thought of seriously. i'm hoping. i don't have actual evidence that this is the reason. it appears that there's a decline because the department is taking our suggestions

seriously when it comes to fourth amendment search and seizures. >> other questions, folks. if there are none, we can move forward. let's go ahead and take public comment on this. >> at this time the public is now able to make comment on line item eight. if you wish to make comment press star three now. there is no public comment. >> okay. great. let's keep going. line item nine. discussion and possible action to approve the awards committee

recommendation. >> i wanted to chime in. we got the opportunity to work with the chief. a big thank you to sergeant kill shaw, sergeant young blood. always a dandy to work with. i want to thank them for pulling us all together. commissioner berg i think attended in person. i just want our fellow commissioners to know that there was robust dialogue. a lot of conversation. a lot of questions were asked in terms of this recommendation that we propose to push forward. a lot of thoughtfulness that

went into why we recommended these individuals to go ahead and move forward for recommendations for awards. not everybody passed the bar or passed the test. we really want to talk to the thoughtfulness of this list. we had had three or four meetings with the chief. my fellow commissioners that you all would feel comfortable to push this forward. >> we recognize that a number of the officers we're recommending

awards for do not have perfect records. there has been complaints made against a number of them. the ones that commissioner book ner pointed out will need a formal finding so some of the incidents are relatively new and we need more information. we don't want the commission to be involved in people that are involved in racist, homophobic or egregious conduct. certain other incidents involving neglect of duty, we're prepared to recognize their valor and taking risks of their

own life and taking the lives of others. under those instances they are deserving of the award. none of us are perfect. you have to admit, you don't want to be associated with someone with serious violations violationsunder fire bringing co safety. i'll turn it over to the chief. >> thank you. i will add, this is really the commissions work. this policy went through a lot of vetting with the commission. i know she is no longer on the commission. i want to thank her.

i think we have a good process of vetting. it's really in the spirit of what commissioner burns had of. receiving the a washed for the valor but also to address the serious issues in the ways the commission wishes to address that. these reviews take a lot of time and preparation. i want to thank them for that work. and as well as sergeant young blood and reynolds who helped put all these packages together. >> one question to follow-up on

commissioner burns point. has it always been about giving awards what was an open disciplinary case. people make mistakes and everybody is capable of learning. do any of these have open disciplinary cases for the conduct they are being a warred. >> no. that is thoroughly vetted. >> i'm glad to hear that. that was an issue for me before

i joined the commission. i'm glad to hear that. thank you. thank you everybody for your hard work. >> all right. let's keep moving. is there public comment? >> we just need a motion to accept. >> okay. i'll make a motion to accept. >> second. >> let's call the roll. >> the public is now welcome to make comment on line item nine. if you would like to make public comment please press star three now. it appears there is no public comment. >> great. let's call the vote. >> on the motion to accept the

awards committee recommendations. >> (roll call) six yes. >> great. next item, please. >> line item ten. discussion and possible action to issue department addition of training division units to the firearm review board. discussion and possible action. >> i will take this one.

this is one of the recommendations that was made by the u.s. department of justice when they came in and assessed the police department in 2016. we've actually had a member of the training division participate in this process but have not rooted it in policy. to take the matter forward one of the policies that was mentioned in the report presentation will be a continuation of this discussion when we convert to a review board that is more encompassing. the intent is to make this a formal policy. we did it informally for a number of years.

we want to solidify the policy. it's a recommend and a good move for the department. >> colleagues, any other thoughts? >> i think it's great especially since our department is winning awards and setting a trend for the rest of the nation to follow. i'd like to make a motion to adopt. >> i'll second. >> quick question, is there any insight on how amendments are coming through and being made to

the policy? >> as far as how, it depends on how extensive it is. this is something that did not take extensive research. those that are more extensive require more work and research and collaboration, even though it's a bullet in it requires more research and collaboration, commissioners have been assigned and a part of it. it really depends on what we're doing. >> i haven't seen the language of how this will change. is it still being drafted or haven't been circulated yet. >> it's still being drafted.

that is the one we talked about earlier. the dba and department has been working on for a long time. >> it's going to change? >> when it gets to the commission and if the commission approves it, yes, it will change substantially. >> what exactly are we voting on tonight. >> tonight you're just voting on this that will add a member of our training division to the firearm board. >> just quickly give a little more oversight to what is happening. >> as the chief mentioned, it will be -- the specific changes will be from the range

master, to officially include the captain of our trained division and our unit. i know the vice didn't want any acronyms. the field tactics unit. the initial team encompass the range master, the representatives from dba. through your board it will include the training division captain and also the lieutenant the field tactics force options unit. what the position entails, who has been there, and what their

role will be. i thought that was important to add. >> thank you. i appreciate that. you and the chief made good team mates on that one. >> [indiscernible]. >> it's a little hard to hear you. >> i wanted to put in our two cents that the department of police accountability fully supports this department bullet bulletin and welcomes a firearms discharge review board. >> thank you. i appreciate that. let's go to public comment.

if you would like to make public comment press star three. it appears there's no public comment. >> has a motion been made on this? and second. >> let's go to vote. >> (roll call).

vote on whether to have item 14 in closed session. >> let's call the roll.

>> on the motion to go into closed session. >> (roll call) you have six yeses. i will take us into closed >> president cohen: a motion to elect whether or not to disclose the discussion. >> vice president elias: motion. >> president cohen: second. [indiscernible]. >> president cohen: all right. thank you very much. please, let's call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose -- [roll call]

>> clerk: you have six yeses. >> president cohen: thank you. this motion passes unanimously, and ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money.

we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and

gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a

distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were

sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were

under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became

intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a

corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to

gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files

of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb

elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat.

it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

>> meeting of thetransportation agency and the parking authority commission. secretary, can you please call the role ? >>. [rollcall]