>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, undergod, indivisible with liberty and justice for all . acting presidentelias, medicaid role ? >> president:please . [rollcall] ... commissioner

hamasaki will be joining us shortly.we have sarah hawkins standing in for director of department of police accountability andwe have chief william scott from the san francisco police department . >> i'm also here too. actually it'snot morning, it's evening. good evening, is equal six . welcome to article 6commission meeting . thank you sergeant reynolds. can you please call the first item? >> line item 1, general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda with our agenda subject matter jurisdiction of the commission . speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a

whole and not to individual commissioners or departments or dba personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment neither police or dba personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and dbapersonnel should refrain however from entering into any debate or discussion with speakers during public comment . you would like to make public comment, please step of the podiumor if you are online , please dial á3. or dial 1-415-655-0001. and start 3 if you wish to mak a comment .

>> speaker: marry bo. i'm sure allof you are familiar with paulette she's actually on her way here , it's her son's birthdaytoday . i am also a mother of the child that wasmurdered in san francisco . i've been incommunication with chief scott . this was my son. his name was alan jacob bo. he was murdered november 17 so it will be 15 yearsthis year . i'm here, it's difficult for me, i'm sorry but i'm here because i'm really upset as far as accountability with the sfpd. i worked for the city almost 30 years and retired, i was a bus driver for 30 years and after i got injured and got arthritis in my knee they move me to whereyou pay parking tickets and get permits . and i say that because the last

time i called an inspector in the homicide division just to get an update on the case. it's a cold case as you know, over 10 years. i was told my son's case was going to be put in a queue, that it wasn't being investigated because there were no funds and i would be notified when the q number was called which to me having retired from a place right down the street where you pay parking tickets, it's kind of triggered me that word q because we put numbers in a queue and call them when people come tothe window to serve them so i thought that was an insensitive, poor choice of words . last year i had to move out of san francisco. thank god my younger son also moved recently because he lived just like his older brother. an unsolved case, they have no leads and to me that's unacceptable.

i tried to contact private investigator and i can't afford it. and want a lot of money to jus talk to me . and what i want and i don't think this is too much to ask, if i don't call homicide, they don't call me . i'm sorry. >> your time is done, your 2 minutes. >> i didn't realize there was a time limit. >> is there anyway somebody from the departments can help or at least give her an update or she has somebody to talk to, live person to speak with . >> i've talked to her and we just had a conversation with the lieutenant and captain yesterday so the case is being pulled so we can assess what we can do and i would advise her, we communicated about a week or so ago that as soon as i have that information i will let her know where we are in the case.

>> please comeback and let us go . >> i had to move out of the country so i'm in mexico right now. >> we are able to take calls, public comment via telephone so before you leave sergeant youngblood can give you that information to call the number to call and our meetingsare the first three wednesdays of every month . >> i appreciate it,thank you chief . >> could we agenda eyes that matter in three months and asked the chief for an update? >> yes. although they're going to tell me to say that when it comes t agenda eyes items >> thank you . >> thank you. >> next public comment. >> we have several callers online , wait amoment . good evening caller, you have 2 minutes. >> speaker: my name is david buckland, a mainstay in the

black community and the following is a quote from our founder . there is an urgency to address the injustices against black san franciscans. i'm going to call it what it is.anti-blackness and use of force arrest and racial profiling in traffic stops by sfpd. i grew tired of talking to the police commission and board of supervisors where is the urgency ? if the tables are turned and these statistics were presented to whitefolks it would be an emergency . when will you take responsibility and address the unjust statistics. you should uphold the law for all san franciscans. as i said i'm tired of our concerns falling on deafears . it's hard enough to find resources for this anti-blackness to be an emergency. at the last meeting i presented a thirdreport . if there's undeserved praise

was hard to listen to. sfpd's ongoing racism has not changed asked the departments on disparity graph shows and in the most recently reported quarter a black businesses skin was six times as likely to be subject to a traffic stop as a white entrance is in, 10 and a half times more likely to be subject to arrest and 16 times aslikely to experience use of force . these disparities are worse than when a doj cop darted six years ago. this report does not focus on outcomes are on more equitable policing.it is only concerned with checking off boxes.yet they declared there has been substantial andmeaningful progress . this is so shameful considering black lives have been completely derailed due to ongoing racism in sfpd. >> thank you, caller.

>> speaker: i am also involved in the black community and the following is a quote, there's an urgency to address injustices of blacksan franciscans i'm going to call it what it is . anti-blackness . as i don't grow tired of talking to sfpd. where is the urgency? if these tableswere turned i know there would be urgency . when will they address the harsh statistics. it's a clear responsibility, you took an oath forall san franciscans . i'm tired enough to quit and we're tired of beating a dead horse. tired of ourconcerns falling on deaf ears . [inaudible] we sought help from attorneys. on march 15 heller heinz

presented the commission with a report to the sfpd.the on nuanced optimism in the report does not make sense given sfpd's ongoing racism at the quarterly report shows new antilock policing and the most recently reported quarter a black san franciscan was six times as likely to be subject to a traffic stop as a white san franciscan, 10 times as likely to be subject to arrest and 16 times as likely to experience reports.these statistics are worse than the reporting started six years ago. phil ponce cannot consider the process closed. substantial and meaningful progress given the horrible ongoing past and present data. their own quarterly reporting and racism has only gotten worse. >> iq caller. >> good evening caller. you have two minutes. >> my name is david aronson, a resident of district 1 and the

following is a quote from your father feliciajones. there's an urgency to address the injustices ofblack san franciscans . i'm going to call itwhat it is, anti-blackness and use of racial profiling , trafficstops . i've grown tired of talking to the police commission . to the board of supervisors where's the urgency ? if the tableswere turned and the statistics represented one full-time know there would be an emergency . when will you address the harsh and unjust physics which are truly your responsibility as you took an oath to uphold the law. as i said, i amtired not tired enough to quit . tired of being a dead horse and tired of our concerns falling on deaf ears. tired enough to look to new sources tofight this anti-blackness and therefore we sought help from attorney general anza . last month as we said lori heinz released a report documenting the reform initiatives.ongoing racism was not addressed and in most

recently reported quarter black sanfranciscans were six times as likely to be subject to a traffic stop . 10 and a half times as likely to be arrested and 15 times as likely to experience useof force. these disparities are worse than they were six years ago . the heller heinz report misrepresents she got actions when he bumped thechain of command and went straight to doj to complain about the mo you . g scott didn't notify the commission let alone the public and instead went directly to tell doj and the press when he unilaterally omitted the mo you get heller heinz report described as transparency and position she got actions as having engaged thecommunity on a range of issues . we must continue to demand equitable policing and reject the false narratives touch as the times report rejected . thank you. >> thank you caller. >> good evening caller, you have to minutes.

>> my name is jean bridges and i volunteer with wealth and disparity black communities . the following is a quote from ourfounder . there's an urgency to address theinjustices of black san franciscans . i'm going to callit what it is, anti-blackness . in terms of use of force and racial profiling by sfp. i've grown tired oftalking to the police commission , to sfpd and the board of supervisors. where is the urgency? if the tables were turned i know there would be an urgency. when will you take responsibility and address the harsh bias and unjust statistics which is your responsibility as you took an oath to uphold the law for all sanfranciscans . i am tired, not tired enough to quit but tired of beating a dead horse. i'm tired of our concerns falling on deaf ears, tired enough to look to resources to find urgency and therefore we sought help from attorney

general bondy's team. on march 16 heller heinz presented you a third doj report. the optimism in the report belies sfpd's ongoing racism. the partners report showed continual anti-black policing and most recently reported quarter black san franciscan was six times as likely to be subject to a traffic stop as a white san franciscan, 10 and a half times more likely to be arrested and 15 times as likely to experience use of force. these disparities are worse than whenreporting started six years ago. stuart heinz is obviously not an objective growth, maybe that explains the lack of focus on black policing .hillary heinz has a stake in the success of sfpd's reform, admitting there's been failure couldher prospects of managing reform and other locales but worst disparity now than when the

process started is the opposite of success . thank you. >> thank you caller. >> goodevening, you have two minutes . >> speaker: blob loblaw. >> thank you caller. and vice president elias, that is the end of public comment line item 2, adoption of minutes. for the meanings of february 2, ninth, 16 of 2022 for the meetings of march second, ninth, 16 of 2022. action. >> second a motion for adoption. the motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner carter-oberstone.

>> and the vote. commissioner yanez, how do you vote? >> yes. >> i'm sorry, public comment. if you'd like to make public comments please dialá3. and there is no public comment. >> commissioner, how do you vote? >> yes. [roll call vote] >> you have 5 yeses. >> next item. >> line item 3, consent calendar. receive and file action. request for approval to accept gifts of $50 gift card to be donated to the cooperative straining orderclaim .

>>: the motion, can i get a second? >> second. >> we will take public comments regarding line item 3. if you would like to make public comments please dialá3. there is no public comment. >> can you take the vote please? >>line item 3,commissioner , how do you vote ? [roll call vote] you have 5 yeses. >> next item please.

>> line item 4: chiefs report discussion. client crime trend provided overview of offenses in san francisco. major and significant incident , provided some planned activities and events. thiswill include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having impact on public safety commission discussion on unplanned events and activities in chief describes will be limited to determining whether the calendar or future meeting discussion . chief scott . >> good evening commission. chief of staff hawkins and the public. i'm going to be brief on my chief report this week just to get highlights of the significant incidents and get through this well within 10 minutes. crime trends are a significant issue. shootings were down double doubledigit percentages year-to-date, that continues to be a good trend . we had a tough week in terms of

this past week we had three homicides and three more people lost their lives. the third was in the bayview district and the second which was a poor person to homicide victim shooting was the 600 block of brunswick and ingleside district on sunday, april 3. and this was after alice jones chalmers , can't save the world , playground which even is as concerning is the fact that two others were shocked. i'm going to go into as much as i can right now about the details ofthose two . in the debut homicide are victim was tending on the corner and from the video evidence that we've recovered it appears he was standing there whenvehicle passed by . a short time later a subjects came around the corner, pointed a gun out and shot are victim which ended up being a fatal.

there are no arrests at this time but we are following up on the evidence including vehicle descriptions and there are other sources of information we have from the community that hopefully will lead to a successful resolution of solving this caseso lots of work to be done on that one . sunday we had a shooting with four people at the alice farmers claim. the video footage that we recovered shows a vehicle passed by the location again involving a vehicle. and circle back and return. a subject got out of the car and started shooting and at the end of it there were four people shop, two of them ended up passing away fromtheir gunshot wounds . officers located four victims, two were transported and two did not survive. a lot of talk in the neighborhoods and communities about what may have caused this and all of that has to be

vetted and sorted out so at this point we don't have any arrests in either one of these cases but we have a lot to follow up on including vehicle descriptions. i'm going to talk a bit about our strategies with gun violence because those strategies will remain in place. a lot of what we're seeing is quite a few of our shootings. we have mainly young men who we have engaged with and tried to get services to and that will continue to be our focus along with tryingto solve these cases, making sure we are deployed in the right areas at the right time . unfortunately or the third blue homicide the officer actually drove by that location about less than a minute before the shooting happens, heard the shots,came back and saw the victim they had just seen on the corner had been shot . sounfortunately we weren't able to prevent that by deployment . but we still need to slow these areas where we having spikes of

gun violence and we will continue to dothat . in terms of the strategy and the work with intervention and others, we have seen good outcomes with the reduction of shootings in the last half of last year and the first part of this year so we do believe that this is the right way to go. in terms of that intervention and we know this is a question that commissioner yanez asked. we've increased fourfold the number of interventions year-to-date . we have over 22 interventions year-to-date i think we had something like 11 and people actively engaging theservices all of last year and that's due to changes in deployment . we added a lieutenant and reassign personnel to assist with those public safety meetings so we definitely will continue that strategy as we believe this is one way to get the violence separate from the enforcement and solving of these cases. so i will keep the commission

posted on that. in addition to thosetwo shootings we have for other shootings the 24th admission , others!we had a shooting armstrong and in the woods and bayview and then on the 500 block of ransom avenue in there was an accidentaldischarge which we don't believe was criminal in nature.on the shooting at 24th admission , the victim hospital, our medical personnel advised this shooting was six days old based on the feeling that had already occurred so we don't particularly know where this shootinghappened we believe 24th admission based on statements but there's no evidence to corroborate that . the other two shootings, the criminal shootings , those two investigations are ongoing as well. and finally, this saturday a significant committee event, the chavez parade and festival whichwe will participatein . we're really excited about that

. it's starts, the festival starts at 10 and we will have a recruiting group there. we're working with our community partnerswith recruitment in the community and also for stars and 11 which we will participate . so hopefully some of our commissioners can make it as well as we evaluate and hope to see the public there as well. that concludes my report for this week and any questions you have i'll be happy to answer is the cpe program going to be helping with the uptake and homicides and shootings that have occurred less than mark you said there were 22 interventions versus 11 last year but maybe you can explain how cpe is company partnerships is still involved in consulting with us on these shootingsand our strategy . one of the things in our meeting last week as they discussed was really a good piece of trend news that the

interventions as i said have gone up significantly in that balance of intervention and enforcement is tracking with gun violence so they are still part of our work. they are working with us when we're trying to secure another grant to keep this work going. it's a $6 million grant application through the state of california and the violence intervention program. we hope we are successful because that's going to allow us to make the higher as the city to some of the life coaches and intervention workers we need. the analysts that we need for the department to analyze and also some of ourprofessional staff positions that grant will help fund that so we're excited we have an opportunity to get that grant . california partnership has been a big part ofthat so i'll keep

the condition andpublic posted on that . thank you .>> question for the chief, commissioner yee . >> thank you madam president. chief, i want to askbecause there's been a lot of shooting of those guns . how many did we have taken in today i guess this year? >> 64 have been constant confiscated this year and 67 was the year to date number this time to last year. at the end of last year we gave a report to the commission and the breakdown of how many of those were evidentiary as opposed to non-evidentiary and the majority of them were evidentiary ghost guns . whether your taking a gun or taking on search warrants or any ofthat situation where they'reconnected to a gun, it's still an issue for our city and we will continue to try to get them off the street . >> thank you keith .

>> commissionerburns . >> thank you vice president chief san francisco chronicle has run a series of articles about the tenderloin recently . the residents of the area are talking about how it is much better in the daytime but that as night falls, the universal complaint appeared to be that the open market drug dealing comes back and obviously as you stated in many of your reports to this commission, the number of violence incidents is still in current occurring largely in a very small area i was wondering just does the department plan on taking any action of it involving this evening time in the tenderloin. >> that's a very fair assessment and criticism because it does, we've seen it

with our own eyes. we have to make more adjustments one of the things that we want to do is the dates, time, early evening hours life. that's when the lincoln center is over open which is a value add that lincoln center closes at 6:00 and they're seeing hundreds of people every day and the people getting rested and enteredincome if they don't have any way to go and up back on the streets and sidewalks . that'spart of the challenge . we're working with our city and family partners on the issue. the other piece is some ofour other communities services like urban alchemy usually go home around 11:00 .they actually start about 911 carefully off the streets. so one of the challenges for us is sustaining consistent deployment. there's about six two-person cars that are deployed in the

tenderloin on average at night. on the overnight hours and we have supplemented that with overtime. wewill continue to do that as much as we can . we are in the process of trying to find moresustainable strategies, shifting our deployment . loans to supplement some of the overtime that we cannot sustain or ever so it's still a challenge commissioner. we need to make further adjustments so we're working on a and we will keep the commission apprised of what that's going tolook like . >> the article seems to indicate there areno patrols in the evening time . is that accurate ? >> it varies. sometimes there is not, sometimes it's just those sets ofcars. after 10:00 for sure . it varies depending on what the needs are.we do have un plaza and other areas of the tenderloin where we put officers because of some of the issues that we've seen happen

there. but it's not consistent like we would like it tobe and it's strictly a deployment issue . >> thank you keith.>> thank you, commissioner yanez. >> thank you vice president elias. thank you for the update. i'm noticing there's just a trend and increase in gun violence across the country. and we know that as the summer , as the heat basically, the weather starts to heat up the summer approaches and usually there's an increase . is there a particular strategy that the department is looking into to maybe be proactive about adding strategies for putting interventions in place to kind ofwork thatescalation or potential escalation . >> the summer time you're exactly right . we see a trend in increased activities withviolent crime so

the strategies that i mentioned on top of that, a lot of the programming that we traditionally done in the summer , youth programming in particular, getting opportunities for all for the mayor's office is aimed at some of the kids that are more susceptible to thatviolence, some of the young people, not all kids but young people . we have work to dowith that crowd , the upper 20 crowd because we don't have programming for that crowd. that's where the intervention piece is really important. that's where the arrest of services are important. to reach that crowd and try to do what we can whetherit be jobs or job training . some type of programming to place some of the activity drivingviolence. that's an ongoing strategy . it will help when we have a consistent strategy with our life coaches . a couple of them have moved on to better paying opportunities which we all can understand but

we're hopeful this grant if we get it this summer will help stabilize that but it's going to take a while to put those place pieces in place if we ge this grant . the other thing is if the deployment adjustment is to make sure the traditional spaces where a crime has occurred and where deployed as robust as we can be deployed. third street and the bayview we've had challenges, third and revere, places like that. the tenderloin is mainly narcotics driven is what we're finding or some other type of activity other than group violence that's driving the crime. that also is our narcotics work with getting some of the drug dealers off the street that's driving that crime and then the other piece of this is single-sided, it's erratic but it's going to goback to the program and wraparound services . >> chris, can we go to public

commentsplease ? >> if you'd like to make publi comments, please dialáthree . mrs. brown. you have two minutes. >> i'll start with the overhead. >> miss brown, today is my son's birthday. april sixth is his birthday. and i'm here again to plead

that he get justice for my son. i can the board of supervisors and i spoke with the president walton about the second phase of getting the digital posters, the display posters all the precincts right now, all 10 precincts and i think thank everyone for helping spearhead that. so i also left an email with william scott and everyone else about the second phase, about getting them at the station so that people can see their victims so what mothers arelike myself can heal. and feel like they're doing something. like i said it's my son's

birthday today . i didn't want to go to the gravesite, he still doesn't have a headstone so i do have to dig up the part where he's laying at and idon't know where it's at right now and i haven't been able to go up there . but i'm so still celebrating his birthday todayhe will be 37 years old . he died at 16. how long am i going to suffer? howlong am i going to get justice ? you have all theperpetrators names who murdered my son . what do we doabout it ? hannibal thomas, terrence moffat, jason thomas, matthew hunter. they're outlivingtheir lives . like nothing ever happened i'm here stuck with this, my son and this is what theyleft me with . thank you.

>> thank you miss brown. let me read the hotline number please sergeant. >> for those of you who may have ananonymous tip call the anonymous tip line , 415575 4444.>> iq. >> vice president elias, there is nomore public comment . >> i want to wish your son a happy, heavenly birthday. next item. >> line item 5, dpa directors report discussion. report on recent dpa activities and announcements. dpa report will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission

meeting, presentation of the january and february 2022 monthly statistical report and we have acting director sarah hawkins from dpa. >> i will start with the weekly statistics. since the last commission meeting dpa hasreceived 37 new cases . in 15 percent of those the allegation was the officer failed to take required action. in 14 percent it was that the officer he hated or spoke inappropriately an 11 percent was that the officer to properly investigate . the next top allegation was that the officerconducted an improper search or seizure . i'm going to talk now about our january and february monthly statistics to highlight some of those. of the 54cases received in january , 37 percent involve officers eating or behaving inappropriately . that is a trend we've been seeing that we have discussed with our disciplinary review

board. and 30 percent of the january cases theallegation was an officer failed to take required action . 15 percent involve officers engaged in unwarranted action. six percent involve officers misrepresenting the truth and six percent actually involved matters outside ofdpa jurisdiction. the total number of allegations we received in januarywere 116. in february , we received the nine cases . 51 percent involve officers speaking or behaving inappropriately at 22 percent failed to take, involve allegations that officers failed to take a required action. that trend showed up at our monthly statistics as well as over the past three weeks. we're addressing that with the department at the disciplinary review board level . interms of our audit division we sent out a notice on april 5 that we will be beginning our

dg 08 and audit for calendar year 2021 . operations lives, we had a kickoff for our civic bridge program which i'm very excited about. it's a project to enable complainants to access their complaints online and access thestatus of where their complaints are in our system . in terms of outreach , on march 24 we hosted a virtual community informational light with p flag, an organization that promotes the health and well-being of lgbt plus persons to highlight dpa's work in those communities and form a partnership with that organization . we have two cases on enclosed session tonight which will be handled by managing attorney diana rosenstein and also present at tonight's meeting is candace carpenter, one ofour senior investigators was present for any issues that might come up pertainingto dpa . >> commissioners, any questions ? no, you're faster than paul.

all right. public comment. >> if you'd like to make public comment dialáthree. >> line item 6, commission report discussion. commission reports limited to a brief this version of announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether that any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. commission presidents report, commissioners report, commissionannouncements and handling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings . >> i know that commissioner byrne requested to generalize in three months the update on i'm sorry, what was her name?

miss bo's case, we should again dies the protocols for victims and families of homicide and what the department does because we've had this concern raised several times about family members who try to ... whose cases are aged and they don't have contact with people in the department so perhaps the department can do a presentation on what services and contacts and resources the provide these victims and family members of homicide victims . so that that way we can have that and put that information on a commission website so that we don't have to make these victims suffer even further. the other thing i'm going to ask to again dies is i think we should have an update on the cbe and how it's working in terms of the shootings and homicide. they came and gave the outline of what it is that they provide

and the services but i think it would be good to see how it plays out with actualcases and the actual shootings and homicides thathave been going on . >> california partnership . >> yeah, thank you. fellow commissioners, let's start with commissioner yee. >> i have nothing to report right now. >> thank you. commissioner burns. >> thank you vice president. i'm attempting to organize with captain canning and evening in the tenderloin to see if i can validate the residents concerns about the change. i'll report back to the commission after. after i've had that opportunit . thank you. >> president: commissioner carter-oberstone.

>> i want to acknowledge briefly that for the last few weeks now i've been meeting with chief scott and senior members of his staff as well as janel caywood from dpa to discuss our dg oh, what our policy will be to address the issue of racial disparities in our stop and search data. i think things have been going really well and i'm encouraged by the engagement that i've seen both from dpa and the department i think we're really listening to each other. we've made a lot of progress and you can see kind of week by week the policy improving so i just want to give the public an update on that and i think tentatively we said we would again dies it for the first meeting in may. so we're working towards meetingthat day to roll

something out publicly but just wanted to get an update in terms of what's happening outside of the commission . >>thanks for the update, commissioner yanez.>> thank you vice president . i want to thank deanna olivo who is the director of policy and public affairs with the police department who reached out and invited me to participate in the upcoming sojourn trip which is part of the race and reconciliation work that's happening. i'm excited about going out there with a cohort of department personnel and the chief himself to really experience this work and see how it will impact and hopefully inform thedirection the department istaking when it comes to addressing some of the challenges we have with disparities . and in addition to that , i did want to kind of on the kind of

on the tail or just on this trend of the increase in police or reports of police not necessarily responding to requests for follow-up and given that there has been a letter written by supervisor ronan's office that the chief had a detailed response to, i did want to move forward with agenda i think that conversation about how we look at policing, about how we can introduce new strategies for police to address those disparities and to also improve our outcomes. i think our constituents deserve for us to have a conversation about what we need to do to look at policing differently and to respond to our communitybecause these requests for these complaints continue to trend upwards . and i think we need to be really proactive in finding

solutionsso i'd like to again dies that for the 20th if possible . and that is my report, thanks . >> commissioner hamasaki. >> nothing. >> president: public comment. >> if you'd like to make publi comments, please dialá3 . vice president, there is no public comment. >> line item 7, presentation of the internal affairs division quarterly reports. third and fourth quarter 2021. this presentation will show the number of internal affairs division casesopened and close for the third and fourth quarter 2021 . discussion . >> that eveningcommission vice

president elias, police commissioners, chief scott . director hawkins, i'll call you acting director hawkins and members of the public. i'm commander paul. of the manager's office and i'm here to present a summary of open and closed cases or investigations for the internal affairs division for the third and fourth quarter of 2021 so essentially the second half of 2021 . i know previously commander woods was commander of the deputy chief robert silva introduced a divisional version of this report andit was the actual first one . for the second quarter of 2021 he described the format and contents in timber 2021. so don't be alarmed, i will no be going over this report line by line because it's close to 50 pages . rather i will discuss the analysis trends and action taken by the department.

as a result the recommendations from commission president elias i will be presenting to you summaries afforded by graphics in a supplemental powerpoint. i'm going to move directly to slide three. okay, slide three of this presentation. provides charts and a graph and bar graphs depicting aggregate numbers of openclose investigations conducted by the internal first division of dph . by months incompares 2020 february 20, 2021 data . there are two items on this bargraph that stand out. they are cases opened in 2021 and i'd like to explain that. so that is when the department took action regarding the vaccination mandate.

that, there's just like there and i know that there were 118 war numbers and i don't have the number for you tonight of the civilian staff for a professional staff but that is clearly why there's a spike. the other what appears to be an anomaly are closed cases for the year 2020 and i talked to the staff in my office and the best explanation i can give you is that this was just the result of a lot of work that month and their ability to review those cases for the command staff and get those settled . all right. so this report is going to look very different from the report that was prevented back in september. i'm going to go to the first five graph is on page 5 are going to start with cases opened in thethird quarter of 2021 . so of 109 cases that were opened, by ied given

third-quarter 20 2115 cases were close in the same quarter. so 94 of those cases remain open at the close of the quarter. the universe of 109 cases we closed 15 within that quarter, the remaining are will be determined but some of themmay have been determined but for future date . the next slide, internal affairs division cases receiving quarter march 20, 2021 bysource type. so of the 109 cases , ied or the internal affairs division initiated 56 of those cases so hello more thanhalf . dpa referred ied after they concluded their investigations 31 of those cases so 29 percent of those cases and dpa also referred ied cases against professional staff or off-duty

misconduct and that amounted to 22 cases. all right, on slide seven are moving on some bar graphs. this will depict the number of allegations by type or category for the internal affairs division cases opened in quarter march 20, 2021. the highest number by far is prospective duty cases which are 65 so 65 of the 109. the second most common case was conduct unbecoming of an officer and then conduct, the next largest number was conduc unbecoming of a professional staff which amounted to 16 . followed by that we have another's life. it's number classification so essentially sworn department members and professional staff.

so those the psa clerical directors.the rest of the department. member classification type for all internal affairs division cases opened duringthe third quarter of 2021, 74 workers personnel, 34 were for professional staff, one was unknown and let me explain the unknown . that is a complaint where we had to identify the department member and it wasn't known if it was a sworn member or a professional. okay, any questions so far? okay. we're going to move to the closed cases for the same quarter, third quarter of 2020 . we're going to start with a bargraph. there were findings in 111 cases so cases closed by the internal affairs division in the third quarter of 2021. the categories of those outcomes are improper conduct

with the category at 64 findings of improper conduct. insufficient evidence for 25 of those cases, seven cases with proper conduct, five were dismissed, five were in policy, two were policy failures, one was an exceptional clearance . on page 11, thanks for your assistance. actions in the 111 cases closed bythe internal affairs division , this is another bargraph so no further action in 40 of those cases and what we mean by no further actions, that did not miss result in discipline and that means for conduct, the case was dismissed. exceptionalclearance , policy failures, unfounded, etc. so 40 of those that was the determination. 25 resulted in admonishments, seen in a written reprimand and

now we are in the disciplining category. suspension, there were 2 suspensions, nine filed with the police commission, seven members retired, for members resigned and one was terminated for an unrelated matter and 2 were science counseling.of note on this in cases where members receive multiple levels of discipline thisbargraph shows the highest level of discipline so there could be multiple levels of discipline in the industries . i'll give you an example. someone that is given a suspension can be given also retraining. so in fact that's usually the case . now we'll talk about the cases closed in q3 bysource type . the internal affairs division closed 53 cases among sworn members. dpa referred 36 of those cases that we close and then 22 were

referred by dpa also for professional or non- professional slide 13, number classification typeand internal affairs division cases closed during quarter march 20, 2021 . of the cases closed in the third quarter idiotwas sworn members, 22 were professional staff . and there was that one item. now we're going to move to the fourth quarter 2021 and look at the exact same type of graphs but obviously different numbers put forth . and i'm going to speed through theseso please feel free to stop me at any time . there were 262 cases opened by the internal affairs division in the fourth quarter and during that same period we close five of those cases during the same period. of the 262 opened five were

closed , the remaining 257 needed to be investigated further by our division. and the number is much more than third-quarter and i explained earlier that was the vaccination numbers for the non-vaccination numbers . okay, onto chart number 16 or page 16. so this is the cases received and what was the source of those cases? the 236 i'm sorry, 236 of the total caseswere initiated by the internal affairs division . . 23 were referred by dpa and three were regarding sworn members andthree were referred to dpa regarding non-sworn members .for professional staff . the number of allegations or allegation type category once again neglect of duty was by

far the largest number, there were 230 second highest was conduct unbecoming and okay. would you like me to continue? >> just finish her sentence. >> seven were for conduct unbecoming of professionals . >> did you have one more slide? >> i actually have about six more. >> i'm going to allow the commissioners to add their question but i first would like to thank you for your presentation . i think the initial list of all these pieces, i know deputy chief sullivan, the chief myself and other members worked really hard to revise the reporting of ia cases to be more transparent and give the public more information which also coincides with dpa efforts as well so i want to commend you on that and i think we should obviously continue with

these excel spreadsheet of the summer and all the cases as well as a summary of the data you provided in the 50 pages so thank you for your hardwork and presenting this to us . my question that i had was what i see in slide five and i think we have an answer but i still don't understand it. this is 109 cases were open, 16 were close on quarter march 20, 2021 but then when you go to slide 11 it says 111 cases wer closed in quarter march 20, 2021. how do we go from 15 cases close to 111 ? >> that's a great question. slide five refers to only that quarter. so we did open 109 . during that same quarter we closed 15 of the 109. but while we were working on those 109 we were still working with the entire universe of open cases. and during that same time we

were able to close many many more cases that had nothing to do with those initiated in that quarter. that's why in slide 11 the number rose to 100 and 11 so in essence we did 111, closed 111 cases. you can subtract 15 from there. and then that's the rest of those cases were not related to the third quarter of 2022. >> so they weren't open during that time. >> correct, that's probably a much easier way to say. >> my second and final question iswhen i look at the 50 page , the line by line, the third quarter 2021, 15 out of the 57 cases it appears that there is insufficient evidence so i'm wondering why there's so many insufficient evidence findings. because i know that you, i guess i'm just wondering why there's so many. is it that they are false

claims? i'm assuming when ia does their investigations they do a thorough vetting process which is similar to what epa doesn't dpa doesn't have any of those insufficient evidence findings. >> i can't answer specifically to the third quarter because i didn't do the research on that particular question but i can to you ingeneral what i've seen since i've been in this division . that is we will make great efforts to find reporting and in many of those cases, reaching out by email we will find multiple times sending an officer to speak with that reporting for either unwilling to us or refuse to us or we just can't locate them. in those cases westill refer video and witnesses but we don't have enough evidence to move forward . that's something i've seen in my short time.

>> usually though art they reporting fellow officers because dpa handles citizen complaints against officers but ia handles reports byfellow officers. >> correct. of those , it's going to be a case-by-case basis. sometimes we look at that evidence very carefully and reveal it and it's hard to come to any conclusion. sometimes it's just really lack of evidence. so it's somebody's word against somebody else's word and very few other pieces of evidence that can help us with this cas . >> if i could interject vice president elias . not all of the ia cases are often referred to as internal initiated complaints. granted off-duty we had eyewitnesses, a good example is psa's at theairport . a lot of our complaints that arise from trafficdisputes , a ticket is written.

it's we can't substantiate away. the department initiated or office initiated, we have another universitycomplaint . >> that would be a good category to break up to let them know how many of the i.a. cases are officer preferred and how many are of the type that you just explained. i think it would be helpful to explain why there'sso many insufficient evidence . >> sure. >> thank you, commissioner yanez. >> one follow-up question. i like to figure out how we can do an analysis of cases that maybe are not substantiated by internal affairs that eventually end up at dpa and and up actually being substantiated and brought to our attention sometimes at dpa and what the difference in those numbers maybe on a day-to-day basis as i've asked

but not the question before, you compare apples to oranges, i'd like to have a set of apples to apples, oranges to squeeze with charges and that will give us information about what point in the process is there a disconnect between what dph is seeing and what we are seeing and what is actually coming up with you all and how we can improvethat process . >> just add one thing and it's something for us to work on but we do work with dpa regularly so it's not by quarter. it's more weekly. there's something called a disciplinary review board. this is very data-driven and number driven where we have a meeting with the top command staff of both of our departments and the one off cases that we discussed in detail and we talk about how to

fix them. is it a training issue? do we needto modify policy or is this one reason that was being made so our presentation is data-driven and there's a lot of conversation on the side but we can get the data and your suggestion also . >> i wanted to make sure i understood commissioner yanez's question. are you referring to cases that we investigate that are dpa cases or ... okay. >> cases that are not dpa cases that eventually make their way to dpa after an investigation hasbeen closed in your department . >> so i'll just take a second and maybe i can get to the root of the question and be responsive. there are some situations where there are parallel investigations like an officer involved shooting or excessive force where were going to investigate that and dpa make

it a complaint. charter gives dpa the authority but that universe where there's parallel investigations that are small because there's much better communication so if we get the case that is a public and planning as vice president elias referred to the will send thatcomplaintimmediately to dpa.if they get complaints , that's not within their charter authority , for instance they have a nonce one person or a outside of the shootingthat's not in the city they're going to refer to us . there are very few situations where there's either a parallel investigation or where eva picks up an investigationthat we can't prove one way or another.very few . >> director henderson, acting to render director hawkins. >> i was going to echo what the chief! was. therehave been instances where there have been parallel investigations we didn't find out about but that's been a long time . and now we generally do always

either if there's a real investigation we have communication about that case or we know which agency should be handling the investigation so it's rare that the case would get through a decision point at the department level and then come to us. >> again, thank you for your presentation. i appreciate you taking our feedback and this is a work in progress. this is the second time we've reported under the new transparent prototype so i appreciate it and i appreciate again the work your department does to provide us this situation . >> if you'd like to makepublic comment please dial á3 . there is no public comment. >> at this time i'm going to ask to take line item 8 out of order and move up item 9 and that we go into closed session because of schedulingconflicts

. >> line item 9, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 11 before, closed session including public comment on item 10. vote whether to hold item 11 in closed session. >> going to get a motion. >> a motion. >> second. >> commissioner yanez, how do youvote ? >> if you'd like to make public comment dialá3. there is no public comment. commissioner yanez how do you vote on line item 10? >> yes. >>. [roll call vote] vice president

elias, you have aunanimous vote . >> go into closed session please. >> moving into closed session.

. >> -- any evidence samples that are in there are only in there for 60 days because their turnaround time is much shorter than they were in 2014, so that's kind of the take home, is that no reference samples in there, and reference samples only monitor for 60 days. and so -- and also, we are not -- any matches we see in that quality assurance database, we're not reporting on, so any matches that we see at the lab will be only codis. so if we see a match, we see if it's contamination and then move on. so -- and then, the other

take-home is there is legislation pending at the state and local level, and whatever happens, we'll, of course, follow it. >> vice president elias: commissioners -- thank you for the excellent presentation. do any of my commissioners have any public comment? can we go to public comment, please? >> clerk: yes. if you would like to make public comment, please dial star, three. vice president elias, there's no public comment. >> clerk: thank you. . >> vice president elias: thank you. next item, please. have a good night.

>> clerk: line item 12, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 11 held in closed session, san francisco administrative code section 67.12-a, action. >> vice president elias: i'll make a motion. can i get a second. >> can i clarify what the motion was? >> vice president elias: not to disclose. >> thank you. >> clerk: if you would like to make public comment, please dial star, three. vice president elias, there is no public comment. >> vice president elias: thank you. i'm going to make a motion not to disclose. can someone second, please?

. >> second. >> vice president elias: roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose -- [roll call] >> clerk: vice president elias, you have a unanimous vote. >> vice president elias: next item. >> clerk: line item 13, adjournment. action. >> vice president elias: good night. >> clerk: yes, good night. adjournment.

>> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now.

george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance.

that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with

apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother

saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of

that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him.

i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not

knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy. >> i am paul, sheriff of san

francisco. [ music ] the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors,

merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there.

>> everything we do in the tenderloin, we urban outfit. here, this gives us an opportunity to collaborate with other agencies and we become familiar with how other agencies operate and allow us to be more flexible and get better at what we depo in the line of work in this task. >> sometimes you go down and it's hard to get up. so we see ourselves as providing an opportunity for the unhoused to get up. and so i really believe that when they come here and they've

said it, this right here is absolutely needed. you can't ask for nothing better. >> the tenderloin is the stuff that ain't on the list of remedies, liked the spiritual connection to recovery and why would i? why would i recover? what have i got to live for? things like that. and sharing the stories. like i was homeless and just the team. and some people need that extra connection on why they can change their life or how they could. >> we have a lot of guests that will come in and say i would like -- you know, i need help with shelter, food, and primary care doctor. and so here, that's three rooms down the hall. so if you book them, they get all of their needs taken care of in one go. this is an opportunity for us here in the tenderloin to come together, try out these ideas to see if we can put -- get -- connect people to services in a

>> 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 never >> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪♪♪] >> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco

unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade. >> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the information? how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v.

and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28, 2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above. but it worked out. >> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that

oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them? let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun. it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my

own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. >> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time with us. it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea! >> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino.

>> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important. the social confidence development of our early learners. [♪♪♪]

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 very important that you do so.

[♪♪] fisherman's wharf, this is a working wharf and it's part of the beauty of the san francisco area. >> before the restaurant, before the t-shirt shops. >> at first the fishermen would go out and do the harvesting. they process the crab. >> it really is industrial. it is fish processors. >> it's a working, living, breathing place. and it's a great place to visit and there's a lot of history. >> i'm a third generation italian fisherman. we're one of the oldest fishing families at fishermen's wharf. my family's been working here since 1908.

my boat's called the lovely martha. sport fishing means when you come out and catch your own fish on the boat. commercial fishermen come out, catch fish, it gets processed and they sell it to a store. they're selling crab off the boat. there's nothing more fresh than a crab. our crab are sweeter and better tasting. the meat is firmer. >> more crab. >> we love crab. we love the people out on the boats. they're awesome. >> what a good meal tonight. >> we just barely got down here in time. we would have come earlier if we knew how much fun it was. >> this is the place to get crab if you're looking for it. >> some of these boats have salmon permits. so every boat kind of does a different thing. you can come down here and have wild caught salmon that was just caught that morning or the night before and there's nothing fresher than that. >> that's the whole thing of coming out on a party boat.

you can catch your own crab, lock cod, halibut, salmon, you can't get that kind of fish. >> now the consumer can just buy here if they want to and take it home which is great. or they can buy it here and take it to one of the restaurants and they can have a glass of wine and enjoy the crab we just brought in for them. >> come on over. it's great. nice and beautiful here in san francisco and the port. definitely come. >> our fishermen are super excited. it's great to have the public come down here and interact. >> it's a whole experience for the family, where they bring the kids and interact and say wow, the crab's alive. it's going to claw me and everything. >> they really get excited they're coming down here and posting their recipes or pictures of the food. or their kids picking up the crab. they're making a whole experience out of it. >> it is going to give the locals a part of san francisco

that was taken away from them. >> now i have a reason to come back. >> i had a guy the other day come and say he hasn't been down to fisherman's wharf in 10 years. he said i'm going to come down here every weekend. i forgot >> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese,

hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪)

>> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions

only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and

anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks.

>> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco. lea it across the city. [♪♪] the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers, and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin emergency initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services, and increase investments in the neighborhood. >> the department of homelessness and supportive housing is responsible for providing resources to people living on the streets. we can do assessments on the streets to see what people are eligible for as far as permanent housing. we also link people with shelter that's available. it could be congregate shelter, the navigation center, the

homeless outreach team links those people with those resources and the tenderloin needs that more than anywhere else in the city. >> they're staffing a variety of our street teams, our street crisis response team, our street overdose response team, and our newly launched wellness response team. we have received feedback from community members, from residents, community organizations that we need an extra level and an extra level of impact and more impactful care to serve this community's needs and that's what the fire department and the community's paramedics are bringing today to this issue. >> the staff at san francisco community health center has really taken up the initiative of providing a community-based outreach for the neighborhood. so we're out there at this point monday through saturday letting residents know this is a service they can access really just describing the service, you know, the shower, the laundry, the food, all the different resources and referrals that can be made and

really just providing the neighborhood with a face, this is something that we've seen work and something you can trust. >> together, city and community-based teams work daily to connect people to services, you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is jeff tumlin. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you're watching san francisco rising. the show on starting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects