lives. >> i went to bring my family to the beach and tell them what i did. >> i saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. >> for some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a mentorship program like this, it's they want to surf, and then later, they'll find out that they've, like, made this community connection. >> i think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. >> for kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. >> we go on 150 surf outings a

year. that's year-round programming. we've seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. >> i just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that they're engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how they're doing, like, in general. >> what i like best is they really care about me, like, i'm not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. >> we're creating surfers, and we're changing the face of surfing. >> the feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. it's definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but it's definitely fun. >> it leaves you feeling

really, really positive about what that kid's going to go out and do. >> i think it's really magical almost. at least it was for me. >> it was really exciting when i caught my first wave. >> i felt like i was, like -- it was, like, magical, really. >> when they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know -- their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. >> i was on top of the world. it's amazing. i felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. it was, like, the scariest thing i'd ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after

when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love.

>> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my

community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family

business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000.

it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah.

it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you.

>> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know,

the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community.

>> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a

remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p p p p p p

[♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to

buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [♪♪♪] >> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. >> turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore

forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be. i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and small businesses that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and

pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good. >> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so

you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much.

>> the city has undertaken a pilot program to hook up private privately -- owned hotels. >> the community members say this is helpful for them especially for the seniors and families with kids from seniors being able to connect with the family during the pandemic and too watch the news has been really helpful during this time where they are stuck inside and are not able to go outside. for families it is important to stay connected to go to school, to get connected so they can submit resumes to find jobs during the pandemic. [speaking foreign language]

>> challenges that might seem for the fiber in chinatown is pretty congested. the fiber team found ways around that. they would have to do things such as overnight work in the manholes to get across through busy intersections, and i think the last challenge is a lot of buildings we worked on were built in the early 1900s and they are not fitted with the typical infrastructure you would put in a new building. we overcame that with creative ideas, and we continue to connect more sites like this. >> high-speed internet has become a lifesaver in the modern era. i am delighted that we completed three buildings or in the

process of completing two more. i want to thank our department of technology that has done this by themselves. it is not contracted out. it is done by city employees. i am proud and i want to take a moment to celebrate what we are doing. dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are

today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date.

the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking

opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends

playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves.

it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they

want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually

become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that

teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's

very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this >> i want to invite you and welcome you to the regular rescheduled police commission meeting at 5:47 on february 16th, 2022 we are beginning this meeting. my apologies for beginning the meeting late. sergeant, please, call the roll. [roll call] you have a quorum.

also we have chief will jump scott from the san francisco police department and paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> thank you, very much. we have a full agenda and i want to make sure everyone has an opportunity to speak. so, what i would like to propose is that we restrict general comment to 30 minutes and that we also allow for public comment to last for one minute. sergeant, did i get that right? >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you, sir. would you please call item 1. >> line item 1. >> can we do the pledge of allegiance?

commissioner yee, was that you? >> shall we do the pledge of allegiance? >> commissioner cohen, did you hear commissioner yee? >> president cohen: pardon me? >> my apologies. absolutely commissioner yee. lige, please join me with saying the pledge of allegiance. put your right hand over your heart and rise if you are able. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it hands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for awe. thank you, mr. yee, for that reminder. >> my pleasure. >> line item one, at this time the public is welcome to address the commission for up to one minute on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but

within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. under rules of order during public comment and police or dpa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. as a rewind, general public comment are for comments not on tonights agenda. if you want to make a comment, please call in when that item is read. comments are opportunities to speak during public comment period are available via phone by kaun (415)655-0001 and entering access code 24958723308. press pound and then press pound again. dial star 3 if you wish to make a comment. you may submit public comment in either of the following ways, e-mail the secretary of the police commission at sfgov.org or written comments sent to the public safety building located at 1245 third street san francisco california 94518.

good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> caller: i'm calling to express my rage at the use of biological material from a rape kit for criminal investigations. this needs to be investigated not only internally but externally and the process needs to cease and assist and accountability for those who have practiced this also, i would like to declare that the chief of police or a sworn officer has no right by actor omission to obstruct any minimum investigation into the san francisco police department and no agreement previous current or future should ab ra gate this fact. thank you. >> thank you, caller.

good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> good evening. this is paulina keeping it brief tonight. i'll calling in support of chief scott. we can't ask for much more of our police chief. not anyone has accomplished so much good reform and that's national scale. meanwhile (inaudible) the worst closest law enforcement partner sf has had in at least my almost 30 years here and he has my gratitude. hang in there, chief scott. >> thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> caller: this is mark dedrick and i'm calling to stand next to chief scott and thank him for

developing one of the most progressive reform-minded police departments in the country. i'm a member of one of chief scott's local community station police advisory community police advisory boards and so as a citizen i witnesses firsthand how the tone priorities and expectation effect the local captain, the lieutenant, sergeant and the officers in my neighborhood. the mere existence of active community police reports damaged the chief scott is committed to listening to the community and reacting to its needs. when we call out missed conduct, his leadership team responds openly and transparent low and immediately and it's way ahead of the curve having already i am 7ment the the reform from the department of justice and accountability. i can feel it and i they're and see where it matters most.

>> caller: good evening. my name is thomas and i'm a resident of the tenderloin in d6 and i'd like to give context to my statement when i was in law school, i started a student group with other students at berkeley and open law officers and i have law enforcement officers and i did that work from 1998 up until 2004 and say never imagined we could have a police chief as did he tell indicated from chief scott and the crisis intervention team and the openness and tran person see and the integrity of where he does his job and i would never believe it possible 20 years ago so support chief scott and help him with the work he is doing. thank you.

>> thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> caller: good evening, commissioners, my name is kevin carole i'm the president and c.e.o. of the hotel council but also a lifelong resident of san francisco. i'm calling to support chief scott and behalf of our industries and our employees and you are leading a progressive police department in the country and you have our support and we want to thank you for all that you are doing especially with the limited resources that you are experiencing. so again, i want to thank you and represent from our organization our appreciation for you and your leadership. thank you, very much. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> caller, you have one minute.

>> caller: hi, my name is eric brener and i live in san francisco and i'm calling to oppose the mou to police investigate shootings and violence and we need independent investigations because prior to the mou, data clearingly demonstrated that police cannot police themselves and san francisco's protested and voted for police accountability and our secretary is doing what we've asked, holding police officers responsible for misconduct and thank you forecasting a meeting on what is going on but we need the commission to send a clear message what the department is doing is unethical. thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> yes, i support the mou and

the independence in police accountability. i voted for police accountability and -- sorry to interrupt you. the m outaouais is not on the oa call during line item to make this public comment. >> there was one person that said that before i did as well. >> good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> caller: i am may and i am born and raised in san francisco and i'm calling today because i would like to just point out the importance and need of accountability for police and

they've given the police commission several targets to enforce as well and why see them on our proposed agenda tonight and i'll speak later as well. thank you so much. >> g. caller. you have one minute. >> i volunteer with health and dis tar piece in the black community and the following say quote from our founder felicia jones. there's an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans and i'm going to call it what it is, antiblackness and use of force, and racial profiling and i've grown tired of talking to police commission, sfpd and board of supervisors. where is the urgency unquote. since 96a and doj caps we've spoken to the antiblack authorities and sfpd data. police commission has not responded. why hasn't this commission spelled out this problem and the

report and the commission acted on the recommendations it took from june of 2021 and it demand the routine traffic citations as we have been saying here for months. thank you. >> g. caller. you have one minute. >> caller: my name is nick berg i'm a san francisco resident and business owner and i'm calling into thank chief scott he is preventing crime and enforcing our laws and providing safety and in contrast he should be recalled chess abu teen. >> calling and i would like to comment on the collaborative phase 3 report is this a proper place to comment on that because i see the monthly update is here

and i don't want to detract from my 60 seconds. can you answer the question? >> you may continue. i'm happy seeing the reform. police department and i participated in the stakeholder groups and if the reforms are the removal of mugshots from social media and in the phase 3cri report, the police department towards those new and innovative policy and so a shout

out to nudging the chief to remove the mugshots from social media and our bias workgroup for in concluding bias by proxy, and an exaustive policy. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> yes, this is magic altman and i want to stand with chief bill scott. stand with the one i know that has been respectful, and has always been clear and open in his communications with any of the people he also has done that with you the commissioners. there's always been a respect and a good communication and this is all the problem that comes from the poison us, toxic,

racist poa that tries to convince the chief that the entire police force is against the da and it's just not true. we don't even know how the general police feel. chief scott you could be the greatest chief if you stand strong against the poa manipulative disrespectful tactics and i think that the police commission would stand with you as the people who respect. >> my name is susan back buck man and i'm with the wealth and disparities and this is a quote from our founder felicia jones. there's an urgency to address the injustices facing plaque san franciscans and i'm going to call it what it is antiblackness in use of force, arrest and racial profiling in traffic stops by sfpd. i have grown tired of talking to the police commission, to sfpd

and to the board of supervisors. where is the urgency? when are you going to take responsibility and and sfpd own reporting up to the quarter has shown no meaning for improvement in antiblack racial disparities. this commission must act to hold sfpd accountability and not evade responsibility from the da, the police commission, the city and state and the people of san francisco. take action and you will have it. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> delegate to the party i am calling into support police scott one of the nation's most progressive active american chief police thank you chief scott for your leadership and overseeing the most progressive police department in the city and working with community partners to police departments

nationwide what more do we want or does this commission want in a police chief and the wonderful thing is this no matter how anyone tries to spin it the truth prevails. here we condition escape the truth that chief got is doing a good job. police chief scott, please know hundreds of people stand with you and the sfpd because we honor the truth and we understand facts and those facts and the truth point to a man and a department committed to moving forward with reform. so it begs to question, what are who would be good enough for this commission and it seems to me this is not just a case of allowing the perfect to stand in the way of good or in this case very good which we can all listen to its a collection of people where you excluded and do not wish to concept of the police. as if the hundreds of police officers are one big space less entities. >> good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> hi, my name is jennifer yen and i'm a long time resident in san francisco and i'm chinese

american and sim calling to stand with police chief scott and he was praised as a significant during the pandemic this is been a lot of crime in chinatown and i would express my gratitude for having officers speak cantonese and chinese in the community so chief scott has did not a great job and i would like to applaud that and make a comment on the fact sfpd revised its use of force policy and expanded its crisis intervention team is really awesome so i'm one of the many people in the asian community that would

support chief scott. >> good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> my name is david, i'm a resident of district 1 and volunteer with wealth and disparities and it's a quote from our founder felicia jones. there's an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans and i'm going to call it what it is, anti blackness. in use of force, arrest, traffic stops and.

>> i also have to say it's insult to go hear all this talk about antiblackness when we talk about an amazing black chief in san francisco.

thank you, chief scott. >> thank you, caller. you have one minute. >> caller: yes, i'm calling to say that i stand with chief scott. the commissioners should be supporting him and applaud him for any progressive reform of any city. how many cities have implemented 90% recommendations from the u.s. department of justice? i bet the police commission can't name one. i don't have the time to list the 245 police row form recommendations that have already been in implemented. i am sure you have it. chief scott, thank you for your leadership. i appreciate your dedication to serve and protect our citizens. we have to feel safe. i know you have staffing shortages and many more to come it's not easy to put up with san francisco politics and what you endured last week by these commissioners was disgraceful. please continue to fight the good fight for the law-abiding citizens and continue to stand

up four your mellow men and women who proudly serve our city. i will not be calling in for agenda item 6. i waited five and a half hours to speak. commissioners, you need to limit the amount of time. >> good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> my name is jean bridges in the black community. we recently heard several commenters call into praise the police department which is been under review from the federal doj and the state doj. they provide no data to support there's claims. the following is part of a quote from our founder felicia jones. there's an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans and use of force, arrests and traffic stops by sfpd. i have grown tired of talking to the police commission to sfpd and the board of supervisors and tired enough to go looking for sources who find this antiblackness to be an urgency so we sought help from attorney general end quote. according to sfpd's own reporting a black san francisco is six times as likely to be

subject to a traffic stop than a white san franciscan and nine times to be subject to use of force and 11 times likely her to be arrested. we lean you to look at racial disparity data. thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> >> caller: i'm shannon directing 5 homeowner and public school mom. i'm calling to thank the police commission for their volunteer service representing the people of san francisco. providing oversight to chief scott and setting policies for sfpd. i apologize for the sexist personal attacks so many of my fellow citizens unleashed on you last week. chief scott does not report to gary delanie or tony montoya but to the people of san francisco and you the police commission

are our representatives. thank you for your service. >> thank you, caller. >> commissioners, i want you to pay attention to your chair who always comes late to the immediatings and for gets to announce the pledge of allegiance. and then has the awe dusty to give our san franceance one minute. you are pathetic. at the last meeting the demeanor was pathetic. i support chief scott. he knows that from day one. some of you all have to be recalled. thank you, very much. >> thank you, caller.

>> caller: him nikki and i'm paying property taxes to the police department and education among other things in san francisco. and i have lived here for 20 years and i'm addressing felicia nonstop recordings there's an urgency to address black and asian. if anyone should be put on the stand the police commissioners and i am with chief scott and the sfpd whose hands have been tied and the police commissioners. chase a needs to be investigated by doj. we are your bosses. we are paying you guys. so do your jobs. >> caller: hello members of the san francisco police commission and i'm chuck i'm ringing into say i support chief scott.

so much in this discussion what can get lost is the timeline. a number of years ago after a string of high-profile police brutality cases, san francisco brought in chief scott and engage willingly with the u., department of justice to implement reforms chief scott worked alongside community members and advocates and gotten us to 90% of the guidelines given by obama's doj and we're unite forward reform and chief scott is fighting hard for it. thank you so much and stand strong. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> good evening. this is marie ask san francisco native and mom small business owner and i'm calling into support chief scott and all our

police who have been abused and treated terrible by our so-called leaders in san francisco over the last couple of years. are there bad cops, yes, root them out and supporting the hard-working good men and women who serve and protect us all. substantially increase the police budget for better training and that is the best way to address all of these issues. san francisco police department leads with reform that an fran needs. he is every work to successfully implement 90% of so many other people have pointed out of the 272 policing row form recommendations from the doj that reduced chief of force saying strengthen and expand community policing, enhance accountability and transparency and hiring and personnel practices. chief scott leads integrity and

good faith. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> >> people are for getting the (inaudible) testified under oath and they were with holding evidence that would help the police officer that is currently in trial. i i believe in transparency and it is a two-way street. the da office is not showing transparency with these allegations. chief scott, i support your decisions and we need more transparency in the da's office, thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> hi, good evening. my name is ash walker and i am a san francisco resident and i hear a lot of people tonight calling in and supporting chief scott and we're all in this

together and obviously. i think at the heart of this conversation, and discussion is the issue of accountability and regardless of what side accountability should be all and strive for and what we look forward and support mou i do believe he is doing a good job and we are san franciscans have the right and to speak on those matters and i hope accountability is what we'll be prolonged. thank you. good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> hello. my name is matt roy and i'm an elected delegate to the democratic party and i support chief scott as a victim of a

violent hate crime i'm glad that he and his team is there to protect all of us. i stand with chief scott as he pursues equal justice for all. thank you, chief. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> good evening, my name is stephen calho i live in cal hallow and i'm calling to thank chief scott for his leadership that the san francisco police department for working back with the community and caller, you have one minute. caller, you have one minute.

good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> caller: my name is henry and i am a co-chair of a small business advisory forum that's been created by chief scott. he has done a really excellent job and he has been great for small business and i've gone on walks and ride along with the cop and the police are really getting a black ragged and i hope do you likewise. thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have one minute many. >> thank you for the opportunity to comment during this meeting.

my name is sue core and i'm representing a group of second year pharmacy students from the university of california san francisco focused on immigrant health and i would like to raise some concerns the dgo515 enforcement of immigration laws nowhere in this document does it mention parameters of enforcement and healthcare facilities and it's important to specify healthcare facilities as sensitive locations where assistance of immigration enforcement is strictly prohibited and this will allow immigrants to access healthcare without the fear of detainment and in summary we believe changes needed to be made in the dgo515 enforcement of immigration law document and they access healthcare and develop healthcare providers. thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have

one minute. >> >> caller: my name is chelsea and i'm born and raised in san francisco and i don't think the issue we're facing is about leadership of the department and i think this is about transparency and accountability and staying at the table making sure we're prioritizing measures for that transparency and accountability and. >> that is the end of the 30

minutes of public comment. i'm going to end this one with a ada accommodation and we'll end public comment for now. from hilary maria h ex public defend era liance need to resign or be retired by the board of supervisors. elias has financial ethical and to quote peskin operational conflict. no mou elias leaves 200,000 and elias omitted gray's work with true for less great worked on sean more case for two and elias sat in closed session and how many did gray elias earn from case and settlement and cohen shot a colleague down to shot review of the conflict and deal made for cohen and elias to take leadership roles and elias takes home confidential material and agree has work for burris and

they have accused of office of illegal activity and elias resign now. president cohen, that's the end of the 30 minutes public comment. >> president cohen: thank you, very much. for that public comment. sergeant, let's call let's go with the fact i think item 5 is off the agenda. i'm not mistaken, commissioner burn wants to remove that and we can do at the top of the meeting. this is item number 7 on dgo5.15 and we'll continue it in march, march 2nd. to give the department enough time. and the next order of business is the consent calender. >> line item 2, concept

calender. receive and file action. spfd sb1421 monthly report and sb1421 monthly report and the cri monthly report. >> thank you. do you have any discussions on this item? >> no, i see none. ok. see nothing in the chat. is there a motion? >> we have a motion. >> so moved. >> thank you. >> second. >> thank you, very much. please call the roll. >> on the motion to accept the consent calender -- [roll call vote]

you have seven yess. >> president cohen: great thank you. motion passes unanimously. please call item 3. >> line item 3, weekly crime trends provide an overview of offense that's occur in san francisco and major incidents and planned activities and enters this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events in san francisco having an impact on public safety. it will be limit today determining whether the calender for a future meeting. chief scott. >> great. thank you. just as a reminder let's keep this presentation to 10 minutes. director henderson you would like to keep your presentation presentationto 10 minutes and wo the heavier matters on the agenda. thank you. chief, the floor is yours. >> thank you, president cohen.

good evening commissioners and good evening executive directors and members the public. we want to start off the report this week with a couple of incidents that have occurred in the past seven days. they are important to discuss and bring public transparency to them and the first san incident involving a tweet that was like tweet rather by central directing station and their twitter page and this was brought to our attention and my attention and this has friday february 10th when a tick tock video that highlighted among other things that pays sfpd twitter page liked a social media site that made a mockery of mr. george floyd. this site is disrespectful and disgraceful and i find it offense and disgusting and any spfd social media association

with this site or any site similar to this, is a clear violation of our established social media policies and i had members of our dom around staff twitter page like was removed and it was already removed by the central station commanding officer. we have also initiated disciplinary internal investigations and i contacted call henderson of the police accountability regarding this matter and confirmed that dpa also has initiated an investigation on this matter. this is a very serious matter and it will be handled as such and we're providing those members responsible for social media accounts to avoid accessing these types of social media sites on department of. lastly, i want to say that i apologize to the public mr. employed family and friends for this incident and any wish that it is caused and this matter is

a serious matter and we will handle it accordingly. i would like to report on other breaking news this week regarding say dna rape kit that was subsequently used to identify a person from that rate kit in an unrelated criminal matter and i'm going to be very brief because i know it hasn't been agenized and i welcome it to be agenized but in a statement it made publicly on monday, i committed to san francisco police department to thoroughly review the case at hand. and i promised to engage with the city attorney and others to revise our dna practices and policies and it's underway. update the department of police accountability and the public when i have sufficient certainty about what happened and whether

our proper protocols the current policies were followed. even if they were, this must never happen again. we must never create crime victims and survivors that may prevent them or dis swayed them from cooperating with police investigation. if any practice by the san francisco police does that, intentionally or otherwise i'm committed to ending that practice. i want to make sure that when i respond substantively. that i do so with facts and with certainty. but in the meantime, i can say with certainty is dna collected from rape or sexual assault survivors used to identify and apprehend that person in another crime, must never happen again. i can also confirm at this time that sfpd reported both positive dna because there was another dna from an offender database in this matter that was also used as part of the identity both for reported to the district

attorney office and it's rebooking package in december before the arrest warrant was issued. as i dig into this, we want to ensure that this never happens again but i found facts that i believe down 15% and homicide

are flat and rapes are up 5% and robberies are down by 21%, assaults are down by 7% and rum an trafficking is down 88%. it's early in the year but the trends are promising and our burglaries are down 46% and motor vehicle theft up by less than a percent and our violence

is down 43% from this time last year and other aggravated assaults, other weapons is up 29% over last year and knife incidents are down 22% when i lock at the different stations and the city it's still as is tenderloin is down as well and southern is up by four and the rest of them are relatively flat. as far as significant incidents this week, we have a couple to

report. there was a homicide using a firearm and that occurred on february 10th, 2022 at 12:1am and this is 48th and officers responded to a 9-1-1 call shouting outside the caller's home and located a person with a wound to his abdomen. the person said he was assaulted by a male and a female during the struggle. the male prod a pistol and shot at person and the person returned fire striking the suspect or the victim of the homicide in the abdomen. two other people fled in their volkswagen. another the highway female called 9-1-1 stating her step dad was shot and they were waiting at the intersection in a black s.u.v. our officers responded to that scene and they located a male who was pronounced deceased later with a gunshot wound to his mid torso section.

the female was uninjured and detained for the investigation. the evidence indicates that the lower section of the home where this occurred is a cultivation for marijuana. the person shot or the non fatal victims of a gunshot wound had arranged for another female to make a large purchase of marijuana. the female subject and the homicide victim conspired to rob the person during the deal and the victim has been released from the hospital and the arrest has been made on this incident. other things to report just briefly. we will and i will end it for

this week owes report. thank you. >> thank you, chief. i'm going to ask if my fellow commissioners have any questions for the chief at this time. we'll start with commissioner hamasaki. >> thank you vice president elias. good evening, chief. it's been a pretty rough week as you alluded to or discussed. so the department, i appreciate your calls of support you received and the two areas that have blown up in the last week are two of the areas that we

have been working on since you joined the department and it seems like the massage isn't getting through and we're still having the same issues with racism and social media and texting and we're still having problems with the treatment of and i have real occurrence and i appreciate that you've asked dpa to look into the racist nft scandal and i think that the sexual assault one is has really

impacted the view of the department in a way that brings up everything that happens that is this department and i did see your comments in the media and you weren't aware of this policy is that accurate? >> that is accurate, yes. >> do you know if this was a policy within svu or within the crime lab or where did this originate and i understand that there's going to be investigations and it just seems to unbelievable to people that the police would use a

survivor's most vulnerable moments going to the police for help and getting a sart exam and having the results of that used to prosecute them. and i do think that you have and the department has made efforts to make improvements on this history but i just can't understand how anyone and i think you have the same reaction. you could think this was acceptable. and so, we discussed this and the rules and policies have changed and the culture hasn't

changed. it's how we change the culture but at least as far as the the sexual assault and use of dna and do you think it would be pro pro at here to have the attorney general come in and investigate. >> what i do know commissioner, you asked a question in your statement about how did this happen. what i do know at this point, is that the sfpd crime lab uses an internal quality assurance database and that database also known as a qa database, quality assurance contains staff members and csi members and lab visitors and no contamination profiles and every comparable dna they

are retained forensic scientists to rule out contamination so that's why it exists. the issue and i think the issue in hand for us moving forward is because it sounds to me and talking to our labs, our scientists there's a reason that type of database exists and the issue moving forward what are the policies and the guardrails to make sure that dna used for quality assurance purposes and elimination purposes in other words, make sure there's no contamination and if there is, how do we make sure and criminal matters and unrelated to and the reason that they're in there in terms of the sexual assaults

survivors. that's where the work needs to be done and i welcome anybody who wants to help in this situation. any guardrails and place and that process has begun and we are reaching out because my understanding is that it's not we need policies and we put in a number of areas where the department of justice and the blue ribbon panel identified problems. we put policies in place and who

thought it was ok to do this and we need to have a full and thorough investigation and you know, i notice that you said you would do this internally but i do think that given the scope of this latest scandal, if might be worth calling in the attorney general and i know it's something that you've done recently and maybe this would be a time to do again. >> understood and i understand. i welcome anyone that wants to come in and look at these practices because some things i believe we have to did right away and like the work we're doing to make sure this doesn't happen again and welcome in the investigation and the attorney general and we want to make sure

it happens again. >> we want to find out why it happened. and have we set a timeline on dpa and the racist nft scandal and i see director henderson nodding. is there one in place that we can let the public know about. >> there's always a timeline and open investigation and are those the number you call out and you will hear the numbers and i can't specify the numbers i'm referencing because it's a open investigation. yes, there are specific guidelines and you will hear every week about that case and others as they reach the end of

their timeline for the investigation with a special focus on any investigation that takes longer than nine months. and in those cases, if it takes longer than nine months, i'm provided internally i track what is happening with that case and where it's going. that's the long answer. the short answer is yes those cases are tracked and have a timeline. >> i guess, my question is, i understand that the 33-year-old four timeline and is this happened before with the twitter where they were liking and a year ago and and you know, we need though change the culture. i don't know that's a discipline question. we tried to do it as a discipline question but it hasn't succeeded and i've been

speaking for a moment and there are other commissioners but we need to figure out a way to address the problematic culture that is still unfortunately defining this department. >> thank you, any other commissioners. commissioner yee. >> >> they tracked the social media of their employees because they tried to catch it before it gets out there and identify issues that are happening. we're in in social media

real-time and when someone's stuff gets out there, we reel it back in. do you have any staff that track some of the members on social media. where you put in there, and whatever and it comes up and a flag has been later, you can sort of police it as well. our social media and that goes out there one of the things with

our ability electronically to do audits, of course if there's audits trigger based on use of a department of device that system is in place and i don't think that's what you are referring to and so that is something that we definitely have to dig into to see what more we can be doing to make sure we don't have these types of events happening. we don't have exactly what you described in place at this time. and now when they track and they are assigned to that we have

tough questions and it's a little preventative. if we can probably we'll find it. >> thank you. commissioner elias and good evening, chief, i want to, i've been want to go safe this just to fellow commissioners and the chief i suffer from chronic pain and i'm very jittery and sometimes we'll get up and sometimes maybe 'cause these meetings go pretty long and i just to manage my pain in that way so it's just not to post and so just a quick question and

then i guess a recommendation and there were a lot of decreases. what would you credit that to if there's anything that we can identify that changed that held improve those numbers because i think to document so we can reference moving forward forwary second comment is social immediate why question and i remember in the director henderson's feedback last month, i believe, when they were doing the review of, i believe it was the system and there is a recommendation around maybe formulating a policy around social media and using around

social media and i formally for the department and i we understand the department officers are expected to recommend sent the department even h they're not on duty, i would actually encourage that we extent that social policy to to and just so we are proactive about address north issue. >> yes, sir and it's something that definitely is under consider space there are legal first amendment issues that when they're the it gives the police department the ability to take action on those types of personal social media messages and it's something in the

conversation. >> if you just comment on the positives and nipping that we can note for future reference. >> yes, sir. thank you. so, i'll start with the gun violence which is down significantly and i do think our strategies on identifying the most at risk are having some positive impacts on that and when you look at where our focus is with those strategies, it's in the southeast part of the city where at point, we have our highest reduction. we just had a shooting a couple days ago, two shootings that involved young people and eye chronically a lot of people involved and the young people involved in this and in an effort to identify at risk people for gun violence and not that it didn't prevent it but what it did do, we already had,

if you will, relationships built where we can -- to get to their families and get to these young people to see if we can stop the next one and i do think that is a strategy that is worthy of the investment we're making and we'll continue to make an additional investment so that i. that's where the grant money was focus with bayview and his public safety policy plan and these are aligning nicely so i do that i is making a difference and in terms of some of the rob row reductions, we believe the street robberies, the presence and particularly in the tenderloin, because we have seen it over and over again and we increase our presence and we're engage in a community with foot beats and foot patrols, we continued to see robberies go down and again that's anecdotal and there's a lot of other parts to this with community engagement and we have a very

engage community in the tenderloin and i want to see things improve and we're working with those communities members and they're really committed and so i think those things are making a difference and those things i can really highlight with the murders, i know our strategies are focused on the hotspots and we focus on impact arrests, prolific burglars and we've had success there but we're going to hold out saying that, i think it's contributing to the downward trend in burglar burglary but most evidence and they're doing a good job focusing on these prolific players if you will. and that has, we believe, has had success so those things are important. we still have stubborn areas on some of the issues we haven't moved as much as we'd like to but we'll continue to work on it. >> thank you, commissioner.

anyone else? >> commissioner elias, i neglected to say one thing. this is just 30 seconds, i want to thank members of the department and members of the public who have worked with us on our collaborative re form we got the report from the california do can j and and substantial comply ants and that is a significant milestone and i want to thank the commission for your push and your guidance and the leadership on helping us get to this point and we have a lot of work to do and it's been mentioned today some of the incidents that we want to make sure is that that's what the reform is about so i want to say that and thank members of the and members of the department who have helped us get to this point but we still need everybody's work on this to continue pushing the re form to the get everything done in terms

of the recommendation. >> i think that we should definitely agenized the dna issue because it's that would focus on at least some of the dna stuff and also whatever the regular practices are and all of that would be included in the audit that we would do. >> then you obviously would want your input as well and i think one of the questions is why you weren't aware ever that happening in the department and how do we prevent situations like to from not happening and also you are become ago ware of these situations so that they don't happen. the other item that i think that we should agenized as well and i will ask to agenized is with

respect to the live tweet and i think that the department should let us know the commission and the public who monitors the social media and how this happens and how this could would have happened and why you weren't aware of it and it's important for us to know who is in charge the social modia for the department and how this happened and why it happened and what safeguard will be put in place to ensure that these abuses in social media by the department do not happen again. so those are the things that i am going to request to be agenized. so with that, i think there are no other commissioners who have anything. can we go on to public comment? i see dpa chief-of-staff. >> we did receive a complaint

about the dna issue. so it will be thoroughly and completely investigated both for policies and recommendations and as well as whether any misconduct occurred and i just wanted to let you know that. >> thank you. thank you. sergeant youngblood can you move on to public comment. >> the public is welcome to mick public comment regarding line item 3 the chief's report. please press star 3 now if you would like to make a comment. good evening, caller, you have one minute. >> caller: thank you for your one minute. so, chief, your report was a good report. what we see here and i want to know, if the police commission plays a game called musical

chairs. because i see the chair is missing. she goes down something ex comes back and the vice-chair takes over and another commissioner could give two or three or four minutes and it goes over 10 minutes and then you have the audacity to tell us the public to keep our time. so, i want to know if the police commission plays a game called musical chairs and the chair of the commission is in charge of that game. thank you, very much. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> hello. i'm thanking chief scott for his leadership as well my name is angela jenkins and chief scott was a breath of fresh air when he took over the department in

2017. it was in january and i appreciate transparent and any officer-involved shooting and i do that he is a gifted leader and to policeing and transparency. >> you have one minute. >> caller: with responsible usage of social media and twitter i would like to encourage commissioner hamasaki to lead by example in this area. >> you have one minute. >> caller: i was about to say the same thing. i think that if we're going to hold the police to standards for social media, the commissioner

should be held to higher standards. i'm not on social media and i get cut and pasted all the time from awful things as commissioner hama sack key. it makes you all look bad and if you harp on this with the police you need to follow your own rules and do better for yourselves. >> that's it. >> g. caller. you have one minute. >> my name is jock wilson and i'm member of the community and member of the san francisco office in the black community group and with regards to the racist i think that should be investigated and it needs to be a responsible usage of social media and twitter and that was offensive and it's black history month and it caused harm in the

plaque community and additionally whether you look at the culture of san francisco it's the which that book you understand and i hope we get this mou in place. thank you, all. thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> good evening, this is julie calling and i grow with the chief that this is a good report from the department of justice and is this report came out and the latest --

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>> there has to be accountability, and it has to be handled in an efficient, quick manner. >> hey, hamasaki. what about you? you must not have any asian because you haven't spoken up about black or asian hate

crime. it's pretty laughable, actually, because recall hamasaki and chesa boudin. i used to walk mission in 1990s as a single woman. tenderloin, no problem. now, you've got dysfunctional folks scattered all over san francisco because of yimby and nimby -- >> clerk: thank you. caller. go ahead, caller.

>> hi. i would just like to go ahead and put forward my suggestion that the attorney general be called in to investigate the use of the rape kit that chief scott mentioned. this is flagrant abuse of rights, and there's no excuse for victim blaming especially those who's already in an intense system. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. commissioner elias, that is the end of public comment for the chief's report. i apologize. i failed to call for public consent for the consent calendar. i fail to do so. i will do so now. >> vice president elias: go ahead. >> clerk: for members of the public who would like to

comment on the consent calendar, please press star, three now. >> did you guys mute me in the middle of my statement? >> clerk: go ahead. you have one minute. >> good evening. i have had problems when i tried to press star, three, but i will comment on the chief's report. i think it would be very helpful if the department was very clear in thanking the district attorney. this is a very serious problem that would not be being dealt with at all but for the district attorney bringing it to your attention. and in this extremely political environment, it would be beneficial for you to take it down a lot and realize that you

have an opportunity to do something. in terms of the racist tweet, i want to remind you that the california ripa board recommended a proactive approach to members' social media. that is the sixth time that i've brought up to this department and this commission that they need to follow the recommendation of the ripa. a reactive approach is what we're doing. a proactive approach tells the community that you're taking it seriously. there is no reason -- >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> hi.

this is miss brown. i raised my hand for the chief's report, but i never got anything. i'm call for my son, aubrey abrakaska who was killed, and if anyone can call me and give me some information on my son's case, yeah, and with a that, thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you, miss brown. for members of the public who have any information on the murder of aubrey abrakasa, you can call the anonymous tip like at 415-575-4444. please go ahead, caller. >> i called for public comment, but i didn't get called on. i just wanted to highlight what commissioner hamasaki said that

the comments point to a cultural problem, and for the leader to say that they can have him unilaterally reviewed from the m.o.u., we need to have an atmosphere of accountability coming from the top and that these sorts of things are not tolerated. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. vice president elias, that's

the end of public comment. >> vice president elias: thank you, sergeant youngblood. i don't know if you saw my comment in the chat, the callers are saying that they are trying to comment on a particular item and they're not getting through. can we just make sure that everything is okay and callers are able to get through in the queue? >> clerk: yes, i made sure that there's no problem. >> vice president elias: thank you. can we call the next item? >> clerk: yes. item 4, d.p.a. director's report. 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. >> of cases whose investigations have gone on longer than nine months, those are 31 cases. last year, there were 39 cases that have gone beyond the six-month period. d.p.a. has not missed its tolling on any case regardless of its date, since 2017. of those 31 cases, 20 are tolled cases, meaning, there's on going civil action or litigation with the district attorney's office or city attorney's office, which tolls the case. there are eight cases pending with the city and eight cases

pending with the chief. this week, in terms of measuring the work inside the agency, i'm just going to talk about the first two trends. the first has been an officer behaving allegation of speaking inappropriately to a member of the punl. and then, after that, an officer failing to properly investigate. also, an allegation -- 10% of the allegations were making an arrest without cause, and 10% were for officers using unnecessary or excessive force. i won't read the whole list, but they're published on the webpage. -- webpage if you want to see the full numbers. a full breakdown of every

single precinct is on the website. the top two were from unknown departments which further investigation was to find out where they came from or further investigation of involvement. one involved a pedestrians with a bank card, and there were three complaints or three cases that came there that still needed to be tracked, and two complaints that came from both central and southern, and southern evolved out of an appearance of an officer failing to drive dangerously and an officer failing to respond to a crime occurring. in central district, allegations from an officer --

about an officer yelling or complaining about a member of the public, and also complaints about an officer -- the open investigation for the racist tweet. again, that is an open investigation that police accountability is involved with. in terms of our audit, d.p.a. has one audit in process. this will be our third audit. the second audit, obviously, those results are posted already. this new audit is an audit on how san francisco police department handles claims of officer misconduct, and so that work is in progress right now. it is currently in the plan is phase for each audit, and the

auditors are currently reviewing san francisco police department data to get an understanding of the process, and i will get you an understanding of process as it unfolds. in terms of outreach, we have a an event with sfcasa, court appointed special advocates. and we also had a meeting with women's membership for the same: community outreach and

public process. overseers alliance meeting. that was the meeting of all the agencies in california that do oversight. there are no case does tonight in closed session for d.p.a.s jurisdiction. senior investigator allie schulte is on the call. if anyone wants to make a report or file a complaint, you can go to sfpd.org/dpa, and for agenda item number 8, we'll have some comments, and i think that's where i'll give you some comments that have been raised on the social media policy, but

my input will be consistent with the comments that we've heard this evening from the commissioners, and public defender's office, so when we get to that, i'm ready to give some input.

[indiscernible]. >> clerk: press star, three now. good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> thank you. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> my name is barbara atard. i'm a second generation san francisco. i've worked in liabilities with the sheriff's department specifically in the office of citizen complaints. as director of the police for youth commission and as an

independent counselor, i, too, have had my hand raised for chief scott's report. the d.n.a. incident should be investigated fully. director henderson said this should be part of the audit process. that should happen, as well. with regard to the d.n.a. from rape kits, that should happen, as well. this issue will be dealt with proactively, and the -- >> clerk: thank you, caller. and vice president elias, that is the end of public comment. >> vice president elias: thank you. can you please call the next agenda item? >> clerk: line item 5,

commission reports. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. commission president's report, commissioners' reports, and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meeting. >> vice president elias: thank you. what i would like to do before i turn it over to my fellow commissioners is acknowledge that it is black history month, which we have not acknowledged that. in addition to that, with respect to that, commission reports, i had a meeting set up with the department for tomorrow concerning d.g.o. 301, however, they have requested

that be rescheduled, so that will be reset for march. with respect to agenda items, i'm going to ask that it be agendized since it was cut short, 96-59 and ripa. i think that's definitely that we should see which ones the department had complied with as well as some of the questions, issues, and concerns that were raised by the commission during the 96-a report, so i'm going to ask to reagendize that. another thing i'm going to ask to agendize, i asked for it to be agendized last year, but i'm going to ask again, and that's a report on the morale of officers and what we're doing

to get a response. i'd also like to know what the chief is doing personally to ensure what the chief is doing, not the command staff, but i think it would be good for the public and rank-and-file to know the things that the chief is doing right now. those are things that i would like to agendize. now i'm going to turn it over to my fellow commissioners. we'll start with commissioner yanez, since you're the first square. >> commissioner yanez: thank you. i've always been considered a square, commissioner elias. . >> vice president elias: thank you. >> commissioner yanez: the only thing i wanted to speak to was, chief scott, obviously, we know you are in a very tough

position. you know, last week's meeting and the coverage that has come up since, i know, painted a picture of a really, really chaotic situation. but i want you to know, at least from this point of view, we're all in this commission. we want this commission to be a support for you, a sounding board for you, and we all serve the same committee. what i want to make clear is the community that you are sponge for overseeing is part of our community, and so i hope that, with that spirit, we can continue to have these tough conversations which are very, very uncomfortable for almost everyone. but unless we do, and we confront these challenges and

issues, we'll continue to be stuck in this rut, and i definitely see better things and see a collaborative partnership moving forward. with that said, i did want to ask you directly whether you had any thoughts or response that this letter that was written to you from supervisor ronen's office challenging you in many, many areas, particularly a decrease in resolving rates around robberies 14%, burglaries going down by 9%. what is it? car theft rates going down by

16%, and obviously, this is a concern because i wouldn't think this is a capacity challenge, but i would like to know if there is something tangible that has been happening at leadership level in the department to really analyze and determine what needs to be done to get back to baseline of previous years because we can be called -- and i hate to point to the fact of oftentimes, there are allegations and i myself have observed where there isn't an immediate response to something that i would have assumed required an immediate response from police that are present

and how we can really improve these comments? >> vice president elias: i think we should agendize that item and then, the chief can answer, as well, because i think the chief definitely has the same persons, so we will add that to the agenda and the matrix that the chief and d.p.a. was discussing, but thank you for bringing that up. commissioner yanez, was there anything else that you wanted to report on or wants to agendize? >> commissioner yanez: no. i think that item, it is an on going point of discussion. i think it's better that we do agendize it so we devote the

right time to it. >> vice president elias: okay. thank you. commissioner hamasaki, you're the second square. >> commissioner hamasaki: i'm going to leave that one alone. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, vice president elias. i wanted to follow up on what commissioner yanez said. we're following up on the key points that have been existing for years now, and that's the culture that's existing in the department. i think we saw heather knight, who's a strong supporter of the police, writing an article of the ignorance that's being

shown to the community and the finger pointing and blaming that, hey, we can't do our job because chesa boudin is a radical or whatever. but we brought this thing up for at least two years, and people have called in, people have told us that this is going on, and this is a culture issue, and this is a leadership issue, and so i would join commissioner yanez and commissioner elias, as well, about where our officers -- this is not a majority, but the majority are good people, and then, there's other guys that are over women or whatever that

are, i guess, really dragging this department down, and that culture, it just -- we need to get to the bottom of it. and so let's have a big discussion on it and figure out how to get there. the second item i'd like to agendaice goes to the point that commissioner elias was making. i've seen the chief's statements and also the comments about the morale, that they're feeling very sad, that they're not supported. i don't know where that comes from. you know, we have the highest, one of the best paid police departments in the country, and good policies, and we've all done a ton of work to get

there. but i do have concerns about morale and leadership, and on that point, i do think it would be worthwhile to invite the p.o.a. to join us and to have at least their current leader, tony montoya, come to us and talk to us. but we get these morale things that everybody's very sad, but how do we fix it? it's been the same problems for years. if we can't change this culture thing, all of the position work and everything that we've done isn't going to work. i really encourage mr. montoya

to join us, and i think we can have a good discussion. >> vice president elias: thank you, commissioner hamasaki. we'll have those items agendized, as well. next up is commissioner yee? >> commissioner yee: thank you very much there, vice president cindy elias. i guess just talk about morale among police officers and the department, just to let you know, we in chinatown, we have a celebration. i'd like to invite everybody on the commission and chief and staff to come and join us. we're going to honor some of the chinese american officers

that have been acknowledged. i think on the agenda items is some of the issues that commissioner hamasaki and i have mentioned, maybe make sure we put those in there, as well, to make sure they don't fall through the cracks. >> vice president elias: thank you so much, commissioner lee. we'll make sure those get on the agenda. next up is commissioner carter

oberstone. >> [indiscernible] i thought it was a really productive discussion, and as i told the chief, i was surprised to find out we agreed on more than i thought we would agree on going into it. obviously, details need to be hashed out, but i look forward to working with the chief and the department on this. >> vice president elias: thank you, commissioner. any items you'd like to see

agendized? >> no, thank you. >> vice president elias: thank you. commissioner yee, did you have -- i think i saw your hand. yes? >> commissioner yee: yeah.

i want to thank my fellow commissioner jim byrnes for following up on the graduating class. thank you very much for that, jim. >> vice president elias: sergeant youngblood, if there's no further discussion, can we move to public comment? >> clerk: yes. >> vice president elias: thank you. >> clerk: at this time, we'll move to public comment on-line item 5. if you'd like to make public comment, please press star, three now. caller, please go ahead. >> yeah. i'm a police officer in san francisco, and i think officer hamasaki should look in the mirror and realize he causes poor morale and other issues,

along with the district attorney that doesn't want to prosecute crimes. but yeah, bring the p.o.a. on, and understand how you contribute to this matter of demoralization. >> clerk: thank you. and vice president elias, that is the end of public comment. >> l. simon-weisberg: lie thank you. the next item, item 6, will be moved to the end of the agenda. we'll move to item 8. i'm going to request that item 9 be continued -- or continued

until march because there are still items that need to be addressed. if we could jump to item 8, please. >> commissioner hamasaki: commissioner or vice president elias? >> vice president elias: mm-hmm. >> commissioner hamasaki: so i know that the officers and police union have been heavily promoting item 7 or the item about the m.o.u., so i know that there's a lot of public interest in it, and i'm afraid that if we put it later, then there's going to be a lot of people that aren't able to

participate. >> vice president elias: thank you, commissioner hamasaki. i think it's important that we need to have an important conversation about that, and that will give us time to do that. sergeant youngblood, if you can call that.

>> it is important to note the audits are limited to devices the department owns and not any members personal devices. the audits, however, do capture electronic messages that are translated from personal devices to deep department devices. three devices are audited. for california law enforcement

telecommunications systems, this is a program that was created to scan. i.e.d. staff analyzes throughout the week, and those comments identified to be biased are investigated. the system has been fully operational since december 2016. fourth quarter results. from october 1 through december 31, there were 67 hits returned from the program. after investigation by i.a.d. members, none of the hits were

determined to be potential bias. department e-mail. all e-mail sent internally and externally are audited using an established word list. the audit service is passive in nature. if the e-mail contains a word contained on the list, the e-mail is sent to i.a.d. personnel used during the audit process. staff analyzed every hit, and those determined to be potential hits are investigated. from october 1 to december 31, there were 114 hits from the program. after review by i.a.d. members, none of the 11 hits were determined to be biased oriented. text messaging via department issued cellular phones.

audits are conducted by i.a.d. investigators are contained to track active audits. every 30 days, an audit is used with a determined word list. those hits determined to be potentially biased are investigated. all false positive hits are saved by at&t, so for the fourth quarter results from october 1 through december 31, there were 25 hits returned from the program. after reviewing by i.a.d. members, none of the 25 hits were determined to be potentially bias oriented. that's the report. >> vice president elias: great. thank you. director henderson, i do see your hand, and fellow

commissioners -- thank you for your presentation. my question to you is why -- i see the audit, and i'm wondering if there's a way to include or identify why the central state's liking of the twitter audit wasn't caught or if there's a way to use that information, as well. >> i'm not a computer expert, but from what i have been told is because twitter is a forward facing, outward public platform, that is not something that would have been caught

through the audit processes that we have, and even if we had the processes to capture that data from twitter, it wouldn't be on this report. it would be on the next quarterly report. >> vice president elias: great. thank you. i'm going to turn it over to director henderson and then any fellow commissioners. >> thank you. i was going to say, that isn't one of the enumerated measurements that are calculated or reviewed. part of the problem is that we're only talking about the department-issued deviced, and this does not capture it. as long as i've been on this committee, since 2017, we have never found a hit that has found to be biased. that process, as we all know

already, is already internal, and it seems to fly in the face of the evidence documents and what we've seen through ripa. because the ripa report collects evidence facts and he enumerates race evidence-based outcome, and one of the recommendations i think we should be focused on is best practiced in ripa designed to address bias because that's the concept here, talking about bias. the recommendation is one, they should routinely audit department-issued phones and devices, which they're already

doing. i would also be remiss if i didn't indicate an outline that a social media policy is something that d.p.a. has been asking for, both, and policy recommendations, and i believe those recommendations are in 8.10, if i'm not mistaken, and i would that policy recommendation also came from samra several years ago, and now may be the time to take action. otherwise, we keep having this same report and this same

information every single time. i know we've had this same conversation, and i feel like i'm obligated to have the conversation because the results from the investigation, the internal investigation, again, conducted by the department itself revealing that there's nothing to be found, bias since 2017, almost flies in the face of the other evidence and information presented to this commission. so i just wanted to say that and frame that with an indicated point.

>> i more than welcome to look at those cases, whether indirectly, from the audit, that led to other things, the audit was the allocation of what was heard. in the first quarter, there were three hits that led to internal investigations, and in the second quarter, we had one hit that led to an internal affairs investigation. >> can i say, i think that is fantastic because that is the first time that any of that has been made transparent to me, the commission, or the public. i think that this is an opportunity, that we should have a full report from what internal affairs is doing in terms of the discipline so