community. from first responders who donate not just time and energy but donate to this. on behalf of all of the speakers and all members of public safety community and part of the growth of this organization, i want to thank you all for being here and invite you to all come and enjoy the museum at this time. thank you. one more thing. one group photo for all of the people here today that have spoken and all members here.

>> -- to the flag of the united states of america and no to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. acting president elias, may i take role now? >> please. >> commissioner benedicto. >> present. >> commissioner yanez will be joining us shortly. >> a commissioner

carter-oberstone? >> present. >> commissioner burn. >> here. >> commissioner yee? commissioner yee? can any of you see him on your screen? there he is. i see him. commissioner yee is here and vice president elias is with us and chief william scott from the san francisco police department, and janal k. wood from d.p.a. i believe we have standing in deputy hawkens as well. >> great. and welcome to the june 1,

police commission meeting. please call the first item. >> line item one, general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda and are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d.p.a. personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police nor d.p.a. personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public, but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and d.p.a. personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debate or discussions with speakers during public comment. at this time if you would like

to make public comment, please dial star 3. looks like we have quite a few waiting for public comment. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: commissioner, my name is francisco de costa. and i take my time to listen to some of the virtual meetings that are going on at the board of supervisors. and what we find going on on the streets of san francisco more and more is that they are paying attention to quality of life issues. and what i see going on at the commission meetings more and more is that you keep attacking

the chief. and you don't address quality of life issues. so we need to put on the agenda a hearing, a hearing for the people. we the people, we the taxpayers are not satisfied with the quality of life issues, thank you very much. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> first, i want to say that i am schiel surprised there are -- i am actually surprised there are a lot of people speaking tonight because the meeting -- this meeting was not posted on the usual page on the commission page. and i had to google it to find

it. so i believe that is some kind of brown act violation. nevertheless, my name is susan buckman and i volunteer with the black community and the following is a quote from our founders. and there is an urgency to address the black san franciscans and i will call it what it is in term of use of force, arrest, and racial profiling and traffic stops by sfpd. i have grown tired of talking to the police commission and to sfpd and the board of supervisors. where is the urgency? and the tables were turned and i know there would be an urgency. when are you going to take responsibility and address the harsh, bias, and unjust statistics which is your responsibility to uphold the law for all san franciscans. and we have been demanding issuing of racial profiling and their own data proves they disproportionately stopped black people. a black san franciscan is six times as likely as a white san franciscan to be subject to a

traffic stop. many locations across the country have moved to lower their own racial disparities by ending low level or discretionary traffic stops by police includes circling the anti-black disparity rate and to live out pittsburgh, strickland county, vermont, los angeles, seattle, lansing, michigan, and the state of virginia. across the nation, this policy change is being enacted because anti-black racism did the negative downstream effects are so prevalent in data. why is san francisco holding back? san francisco needs to eliminate routine, low level stops by police. thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello. i am david ericsson, a resident in district one and volunteer with wealth and disparities in the black community. the following is a quote from

the founder felicia jones. and there is an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans. i'm going to call it what it is, aebt blackness. in terms of use of force arrests and racial profiling also known as traffic stops by sfpd. and i have grown tired of talking and where is the urgency? if the tables were turned and the statistics remitted white folk, i know there would be an urgency. and to address the harsh bias and statistics which is your responsibility as you take an oath to uphold the law for all san franciscans. i am tired of beating a dead horse and tired of our concerns falling on deaf ears and tired enough to let the new source who is find the antiblackness and urgency and there have, we have sought help from the attorney general. we understand that eliminating low level traffic stops by police is starting to be discussed amongst officials. wealth and disparities in the

black community has been demanding the end of racial profiling via traffic stops by sfpd for months. and a black san franciscan is six times as likely to be arrested to a traffic stop. this is certainly one of the anti-black disparities anywhere. furthermore, since the beginning of the so-called spfd, the racial disparity level has gotten worse andrew teen stops make up the large majority around 2/3 of all stops. again, per sfpd's own data. sfd has proven they have stopped black people disproportionally and arrest even more and is long time to take this out of traffic stops. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller. >> and i am a volunteer with wealth and disparities in the black community and echo what

david has already said. i won't restate the point, but please act with urgency. >> thank you, caller. vice president elias, that concludes public comment. >> line item 2, adoption of minutes. action. for the meetings of may 4 and 11 of 2022. is there a motion? >> i'll move. >> i have a motion by commissioner yee and seconded by benedicto. >> on the motion to adopt the minutes, commissioner benedicto, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commission giannis? commissioner carter-oberstone?

>> yes. >> commissioner bern? >> yes. >> commissioner yee? >> commissioner yee? yes. thank you, commissioner yee. >> vice president elias. >> yes. >> you have five yes votes, commissioner. >> thank you. next item. >> line item three. >> do i need to take public comment? >> i'm sorry. public comment. >> if you would like to make public comment regarding line item two, the adoption of minutes, please press star 3 now. there is no public comment. >> next item please.

>> line item three, consent calendar. receive and file action. sfpd1421 and 16 monthly report. and dpa sb1421 and sb16 monthly report. cri monthly update. and safe streets for all report. action. >> i'll move to receive and file. >> thank you. can i get a second? >> i will second. >> thank you. on the motion to accept the consent calendar, how do you

vote? [roll call vote] you have five yes votes. >> great. can we get public comment? >> yes. if you would like to make public comment regarding line item 3, the consent calendar, please press star 3 now. there is no public comment. >> next item. >> line item 4, chief's report, discussion. weekly crime trends and public safety concerns provide an overview of offenses, incidents, or events occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether

to calendar for future meeting. chief scott? >> thank you. good evening, vice president elias, commission, and acting executive director hawken. i will start with this week's chief report with the general crime trends and i will be brief and within 10 minutes. overall, violent crime up 4%. homicides we were actually down by two, to 11% and 18% last year and we had a rough night and overnight shooting that resulted in the death and i will get to -- and what details i can release at this time. and there was another incident after 10:00 this morning in the tenderloin on jones where an individual was stabbed, and that person also did not survive those injuries. so we had a rough night. in addition to that we had a traffic fatality overnight where a person driving in a motorized

unicycle was struck by a garbage truck. so very busy night and unfortunately, three losses of life. so i'll get to those with as much details as i can provide in a minute, but overall, homicides prior to tonight is down and prior to today were down by two, by 11%. rapes up by 13%. increase in 9 from last year. robberies are down by 3% from last year and assaults are up by 12%, but total of 105. 85 to 990. in terms of property crime, we had some good news with burglaries at this point of the year and down by 26% and over 900 crimes down. and motor vehicle thefts were up 3% and about 70 -- about 67 crimes higher than we were last year. arson was down by 18% and staff

which is driving our crime numbers were up 24% from 10,440 to 12,948. in terms of our shootings, gun violence is down by 13% on nonfatal shootings. homicides with firearms is down by 17% and total violence and 94 total incidents compared to 81 this year. the job in terms of the district station and the mission which went from two and year to date and the other stations had decreases and is down by three. four last year to one this year. and three last year to one this year. and down by one.

and is up by two. and we are having some better outcomes in some of the district stations and the more challenging areas in terms of homicides. year to date 2022 we had 387 total weapon seizures and our ghost guns are inclusive of road guns. i see. the ghost guns are almost where they were this time last year. but they continue to be a problem. we're still recovering ghost guns and being used in crimes and so we will continue to work on that issue. i intend to -- and alcohol and tobacco and firearms and conference regarding this issue about two weeks ago and got a lot of good information. and they are going to be changes from president biden's

administration upcoming on ghost guns and we will look to that and advise when they have been doing and that will put legislation on privately manufacturing ghost guns. and in terms of major incidents, significant incidents, there were no homicides for the reporting period. and as i stated a second ago, there were two, one overnight and one this morning around 10:00. and one earlier this morning was a stabbing as i talked about and we don't have any suspects identified and is not yet identified. and investigators are actively working that case right now canvassing witnesses and looking for videos and those types of things. and the overnight one was an incident that happened at 16 at utah. and that involved a security

guard and a person who reportedly attempted to attack the security guard with a knife. the security guard used his firearm and a shooting into what resulted with the individual of the knife. and there are a lot of investigations that still needs to occur. and the security guard was detained but that person has not been booked at this time as investigators continue to investigate and gather further evidence including video evidence of this incident. we did have six shooting incidents. this reporting period, 500 howard on may 30. the 1,000 block of 1400 block of la salle and bayview on may 25 and the 10th and harrison and the southern district on may 24. and hyde and fulton in the tenderloin district on may 24. and 21st and fulsome on the

mission on may 23. and all those investigations are ongoing. we are following up on evidence and when and if we make arrests on those particular cases. i mentioned earlier traffic fatality overnight and this was at octavia and oak street in the northern district and involved a garbage truck and an individual who was witnessed by people at the scene to have run through the garbage truck and unfortunately that person did not survive those injuries. and investigation is ongoing and all parties remained on the scene including the witnesses and investigators are following up on that investigation. very unfortunate situation. a couple of significant arrests to talk about. how this is from a burglary that

occurred on march 12, 2021 as the 2000 block of sacramento. according to the victim, she and her husband were at home and about to get ready for work when they noticed a light on in the other room. one of the victims went into the room and saw them ransacking the room and screamed and the other victim ran into the room and ran out of the house and injuries. and on may 21, the suspect was identified and that suspect was attained and booked for the outstanding warrant. the suspect was on supervised family probation for burglary at the time of the incident. and another arrest was on a jewelry store burglary that occurred on february 19, 2022. this commercial burglary occurred at jewelry on grant avenue and two subjects smashed the glass pane window and on march 4 and the residential

burglary. and in which a stolen vehicle was used through the investigation and a suspect was identified and a $100,000 warrant was issued for the suspect. that person was located and for the violations of 459 of the california penal code first degree burglary and second degree burglary to two counts of vandalism. suspect was on active supervised felony probation for the california vehicle code from san mateo county at the time of both incidents and is also a suspect in another burglary incident that we are working actively. the last arrest i want to is report an aggravated assault arrest. this occurred on may 8 when the victim was walking at hoke and willow and the unknown subject approached the victim from behind. and the victim tried to fight back with the suspect and the suspect was identified on may 21

and located and booked for assault. the suspect was already in custody for a kidnapping and rape attempt that occurred nine hours after this incident. and investigators have reached out to surrounding areas and agencies to see if there have been similar incidents that the subject may have been involved with. i just want to highlight some of the positive and good work that is being done by our officers and investigators. and the last thing -- or two things from my report. we have had an uptick in the number of covid cases in the department. and as of today there were a total of 58 members that have been quarantined. 49 sworn members in and nine professional staff. of those, 51 are for positive results from covid tests and the other ones are for exposures. so that is an uptick from a couple of weeks ago. we will keep an eye on that.

we are hearing and seeing in the news there are upticks all over the state. we will definitely keep an eye on that and make sure that we have the protective equipment and hand sanitizer and we are also emphasizing to practices and could have a set of public health is emphasizing the last 10 years. and two year, rather. and even though masks are no longer required. and the last thing i will report as far as mayor hints is this week is the beginning of nba finals with the golden state warriors and the boston celtics. a lot of excitement for the nba finals. we did have at least one robbery after the last western conference championship game and we want to make sure that our fans come here and have a great experience. they can go to and from whatever mode of transportation, so we will be deployed in and around

the chase center and along the corridors where people walk to and from your cars and restaurants and that concludes this week's record. happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, chief. i noticed that i actually had a few questions about the town hall. and that i didn't see that you covered in your report. >> happy to answer any questions. we did have a town hall this past friday. and happy to answer any questions. we had in total over 300 people chimed in and over 5,000 -- i think the count is over 5,000 as far as viewers on you tube that have since accessed that channel also. definitely happy to answer any questions i can answer. >> there are a couple of

questions i have received from community member who is thought they had difficulty finding the posting for the town hall. and they were wondering why it was the posting for the town hall was done the day before and there wasn't much lag time between posting when it would be and actual event was heard, so i wanted to give them an opportunity to address that. >> sure, thank you, commissioner. when we are setting the time and for town halls and we tried to do them for our standing policies, within 10 days of the incident, and usually -- well, not usually, but traditionally we have not invested town halls on weekends and holidays. and part of the issue with the way this played out thus far is the california department of justice and investigative responsibility for the criminal

investigation or this officer-involved shooting and working with the california department of justice, we wanted to make sure that we had the evidence and got their cooperation as far as what we wanted to put out because they are conducting the criminal investigation. and also there was a lot of evidence to go through, and we want to make sure we can get it to a point where we can have a town hall. and it's always a challenge to get all that information run through. so we don't want to post and not be ready. and we realized we would be ready after consulting with the california department of justice wednesday afternoon and view it on the video and our team went through the information needed for the town hall and that is when we posted it. and that is not unusual and i apologize for anybody that may have inconvenienced, but that is not unusual. sometimes when there is less

evidence to take a look at and video, we can make that announcement much quicker, but this will take quite a bit of information to go through. and working with the california department of justice, we wanted to make sure we were being a good partner to their investigative needs in term what is they needed to do. >> so you were aware of this on wednesday afternoon. >> we finished our review on wednesday afternoon, late wednesday afternoon. and actually around 6:30. >> and then on thursday morning, we did a second run through and to make sure we were ready and put the information out. >> it was posted on the department's website on thursday at 2:00 in the afternoon was my understanding, which didn't give people a lot of time. it is also my understanding that the social media blasts weren't sent out. the only one that was sent out was facebook, not twitter or

instagram. >> i'll fellow up on that. , i'll fl low up on that. i am not sure why it wasn't if it wasn't. but we usually do. >> also, one other thing is there was a concern that the call-in information did not appear on the posting or advertisement for the town hall to let people know where they can call in and comment. >> as far as the call-in information and we actually post and repeated throughout the town hall of where callers could call in. that information is both on its -- it should have been posted. when i am standing at the podium, i can't necessarily see what is being posted to the viewer, but that is what we do. we post the information and we verbally advise callers where they can call in and how to call in. >> perhaps in the future you can put that in the posting and also share it on social media. i don't think that those avenues

for disseminating the information to the public were provided. and so the public felt like there was a missed opportunity to participate in the town hall. >> i haven't reviewed the videos. everything is supposed to align. i haven't gone back and reviewed. we can definitely have that done and see if that is, in fact, what was missed. what i was told that day was on at least one of the sites and i believe you tube, some of the translations weren't coming out right. that was not to do with us, whatever translation and type of service or -- not translation, but the caption services. i'm sorry. there is some error there. but we have our own sfgov tv is the team that actually does the production for us. but we don't control what they put out on you tube through you tube. i was told there was some errors in some of the captions that

were put out on the you tube video. but we'll go back and look at it and if those issues are true, we will address them. >> right. but when you post the time for the advertising the time and date of the town hall, perhaps you can put the information there on that actual advertisement, so that way it gives people advance notice so it's all in one area. >> yes, that is an easy adjustment to make. thanks for your recommendation. >> thank you. >> i want to turn it over to my fellow commissioners. commissioner yee, do you have any questions? >> yes, thank you, madam vice president elias. chief, i want to thank you for the investigations and resolving many of these cases throughout, i guess, especially the one on grand avenue and then further up some of the other cases, but i want to ask about the ghost guns

again. did you have a total amount for the amount of seizures of ghost guns? >> it would seem -- it was the same as last year. i am just curious. if you don't have that, i'll get it from you next time. >> 387. >> 387 and it is a little bit less than last year. 446 last year. >> 446. >> those are ghost guns that we have seized, right? >> i'm sorry, that is inclusive of those guns. >> ghost gun recovery this year is 80 compared to 79. >> okay, great. and i want to thank you, again, for i guess the warriors and i

guess semifinals and it was nice and beautiful event and no particular incidents i saw and keeping the streets safe for us in the city and hope we have a great turnout for this coming series finals. >> yes, lots of excitement, commissioner. lot of excitement. >> that is it for me, cindy. >> thank you, commissioner yee. commissioner carter-oberstone? >> hi, chief. good evening. >> good evening, commissioner. how are you? >> good, good. i just had a couple of questions about the town hall. i have said this before with our prior town halls. i have followed the department's transparency and -- >> sorry, commissioner. can you speak up? it is a little hard to hear you.

>> hmm. are you able to hear me now? >> yes. >> actually, i have said this before with prior to town halls and appreciate the department's transparency in showing the public the raw video footage, the audio recording, and permitting the public to pose questions directly to the chief. i think that is really important. i just had a couple questions about the facts that weren't entirely clear to me after watching the town hall. so during the course of the incident, there were a number of eriw rounds that were discharged. can you just clarify how many total rounds were discharged and how many of those rounds made contact with the assailant or anybody else? >> what we know -- and i'm -- i will tell you where you can find this information also for the public as well that may have the same questions. and on page 10 of commander's

talking points, what we know at this point is we recovered the two eraw bean bag casings and three .40 millimeter less shell casings along with four 40 millimeter projectiles that had been extended. the reason that we listed it that way is we don't know for sure two things until we actually have the entire investigation and how many. we can count the rounds and one thing that -- there is a couple of questions asked during an investigation. and number one, make sure that the officers and not the 40 millimeters because they can only be loaded one at a time. and the bean bags over the other

bean bags, and the bean bag casings, there's five that can be loaded and we want to make sure that the officers had loaded and took the capacity. and we don't know that until we interview and go through the evidence and i can't answer that. i can tell you what was recovered, which is on page 10 of the commander's talking points. in terms of the contact, we don't know and we can't confirm until we have confirmation from the medical examiner's report if there is injuries. when you review the video, you can see what is believed to be a contact. and that was circled on one of the videos that i believe was video number three. and you can see when the eriw expired, the person's shirt you can see the shirt move. we do believe it is apparent

that that is a contact. and that needs to be confirmed and how you confirm that is through bruises and those types of things. i can't definitively say what the context are at this point. what i can say is what is on video that we believe is a contact. there could have been others but we are not for sure now. at this point we don't have the medical examiner's report. >> okay. thanks, chief. >> the reason why i'm asking about this is just because from the video it seems like several less than lethal rounds were discharged and i am just wondering if you can provide context for the public. speaking for myself, i i have never shot a less thanleyal weapon and i have never been struck by less than the lethal weapon. as a viewer to me, i would expect because of the significant force rounds that hit someone with and the trauma it can cause is it might have

more of an effect on the incident. it may have caused the assailant to drop his knife, for example. so that is just something that didn't meet -- that i was surprised at based on my expectations. i wonder if you could provide context about how these types of less than lethal weapons generally work in practice. i mean, whether you were perhaps surprised that they didn't have more of an effect on the incident. >> sometimes they don't have the desired effect and what we hope is that it would stop the person from doing what they're doing and lead to compliance. sometimes they don't. maybe we have come across this before and other departments have as well. and there is a lot of factors that play into that and again, i'm not making a judgment on this days because we don't know, but level of pain tolerance, level of if the person is intoxicated or on medication.

things like that definitely can affect whether or not the person is impacted by the less lethal to the degree it stops them from doing what it is they are doing. and it is not uncommon often times and they are successful and sometimes they're not. and until we have full toxicology and some type of determination and we don't know what the person's pain tolerance is. and some people have high pain tolerance and less lethal munitions don't affect them like somebody with less of a pain tolerance. and just for context, that wasn't some of the reason why they don't have that desired effect. again, i am not making a value judgment on this because i don't know. and we'll get the toxicology with the medical examiner's and report is given to us and maybe we can have an idea of whether

that impacted this but at this point we really don't know. >> okay, great. thank you. the other detail that i was wondering if we could get more information on was watching all the videos and all of the discussion. i came away thinking that the assailant was in possession of two knives, but at one point in the video, i think an officer appears to be describing actually that the victim also has a knife. and so i was just wondering if you could clarify how many knives were involved and who was in possession of the knives. >> we know -- and this is also on page 10 of the commander's talking points in terms of items recovered at the scene. three knives were recovered. three fixed blade knives. on the video what we can hear, you can see it in one occasion and can't see it on the other occasion. on one of the scenes that we

enhanced and replayed, you can see a knife being held up in the air. you can't see -- we weren't able to determine because of the quality of the video and the graininess, the other knife that was described by the officers. also in the video what we hear is you have more than one officer describing and one officer describing that each individual had a knife. and what was said is that the person in the blue shirt has a knife, person in the yellow shirt has a knife. and then you hear at some point that same officer come back and we believe he saw the person in the yellow shirt with two knives. and then another officer or that same officer says the person in the yellow is holding the blade of the knife, and has an injury

from holding the blade of the knife. so i mean, we can speculate what that may have meant, but at this point we don't speculate. we just know what we heard on the video. there is some information that needs to be sorted out and some of that might be sorted out when we get forensic evidence back as far as d.n.a. and prints and those type of things. there was blood and what appeared to be blood on both knives. two of the knives. two of the three knives, rather. and we will be able to determine whose prints were on the knife, but it is not clear, and you hear officers say different things. they had different perspectives, so like i said, you have at least one officer saying both individuals had a knife. you had one officer or more saying that the person, one person had two knives. so it's not -- it could have been both. we don't know. hopefully some of that forensic work that will happen will determine at least who handled the knives.

we weren't able to -- we can enhance the video only to a certain degree at this point, but there is further enhancement that can be done that may shed some light on who is handling the knife and at what point they were handling the knife. that is what we had at this point based on what we see. and again, i don't want to get ahead of the investigation and start making the tentative judgments on that because we really don't know yet. but that's what we heard in the video. that is what is seen. >> great. thank you for that context. last question, i realize that multiple investigations are ongoing and we can't make any definitive conclusions at this point, but i just wanted to ask if you have reached any preliminary conclusions or as a preliminary matter, whether you think that sfpd policies were followed during the incident by the officers involved. >> i haven't reached any conclusions at this point. it is very early on. i have not even been briefed on

-- there is some investigation and the criminal investigation takes precedent. and we are able after the california d.o.j. or whoever is investigating the criminal and does what they do and to do the administrative compelled statements and that is not done yet. it is really, really early in this investigation. and it would be inappropriate at this point to make any judgments on this policy. and there are some of the callers in the town hall were asking about some of the commands that were given. and again, i'll -- like they did in the town hall and for people that with inquisitive about this to the policy. and options directed by policy to give and deploy the eraw. and you can hear about that on the video, as far as the tactics and the command and control and evaluation that needs to be done. at this point not ready to make that conclusion yet.

>> thank you, chief. that is everything for me. >> thank you. commissioner benedicto? >> and chief, i know that the four officers were involved were done and the 40-hour cit course and two of them had done the cmtr course. i am curious if we could have -- and featuring the dates that completed the training and how long it's been since they have done -- and i imagine the hours is more recent training and like to know they completed their training. >> commissioner, i don't have that handy, but that is easy information to obtain. >> thank you. that is all. >> thank you. commissioner bern? >> thank you, vice president elias. chief, i was down on the evening of may 6 in the tenderloin and

it was -- it was a full complement and i mentioned it previously of six patrol cars out. then i got asked by a member of the community with a father from florida had come out looking for his son. i was down there again on the 18th of may and officers and the son was cited the day before. and living in the tenderloin. and at that time i noticed the increased presence. i noticed stationary controls on hyde street and there were other patrol cars out. and they obviously have taken the interest and confirmed police presence and is all sent down there. could you tell the public and commission what's going on in

the tenderloin in the the evening time now? >> and we redeploy some officers and working through troubleshooting, if you will, and one of the things we started with the increased foot beat presence throughout tenderloin and we are and still are, a lot of the deployment is backfill, overtime. and what was happening is we were getting officers from other district stations. they were back filling at the tenderloin. and since the most recent adjustment a couple of weeks ago and had assigned officers and temporarily reassigned volunteers that want to be there and to the tenderloin from across the city and going

through the districts and backfilling that and those vacancies with overtime with the officers who worked the stations. and we have officers working the overtime and we are not sending officers all over the city. they know their districts and they know the community. and a better overall way to do business and is more sustainable. and the officer that wanted to work temporarily in the tenderloin, they raised their hand and do it and they want to be there. they will get to know those communities. some of them were there before and some not. they will get to know the communities and the people in the communities and we think it is a better and smoother transition and more sustainable and we have to do it with overtime anyway. it makes more sense to do it this way. and then it came from the feedback from the officers. and a lot of them know they were going to have to work overtime to shore up some of the

shortages and they work from the home stations and that works out for everybody better. it was an adjustment that we made. we are able to have more scaleable deployment. we still have to use some overtime in the backfill because we have to fill the shifts seven days a week. so there could be a situation that sometimes there is and we might have to have an officer work from a district station and another district station. tas lot more stable in terms of where people are working. that is working out better for us and able to get enough volunteers where one of the things that was happening with overtime is if officers were -- couldn't work the overtime shift for whatever reason, family emergency or whatever, sometimes we were left short and we're just seeing more stability doing it this way. we're pleased so far with that piece of this chain. and we have seen because of that increased presence and not leaving those other stations

short with this redeployment. >> how long is the redeployment going to last? >> well, for now at least 90 days and going to re-evaluate. we have an academy class starting next week. we have a class graduating in a few months. some officers that will be added to the patrol force, so we'll we-evaluate. this is like zero-based accounting. we have to relook at it periodically and every couple of months or sooner. and maybe sure the need is still there. and make redeployment where is necessary. that is how we are approaching this. >> is this going to last to at least the middle of august then? >> yes, sir. >> and is it just the swing shift, the evening time? or is it the midnight shift as well? i wasn't there as late as the

other time. >> the swing shift they are off at about 11:00. and what we are trying to do is do as much as we can to if they have reports, try to get those reports done during the shift where we don't have people going into the station at the end of the watch and doing reports and nobody is out there. so they have to do reports and they have to do administrative work, but we're trying to manage that more efficiently to make sure that we have people out in the field. we also have made the tenderloin adjustments -- the captain in the tenderloin makes the adjustment where is we needs to not as much as in the swing shift, but shore up the overnight shift, too. we know we have struggled after those swing shift officers and the officers go home, so we're making adjustments where we can. it's not there yet, but it's a constant struggle, but we're making adjustments where we can. >> what i noticed and i did

notice on the 6th of may is that were four foot beats. >> a little bit of both. sometimes they are stationary and kind of depends on what is going on. we want citizen ambassadors and urban alchemy there and they are there not to do the police work, be u to help keep the streets orderly and clean and help people who have questions or whatever they need. and what we were finding that some of our ambassadors and our urban alchemy practitioner, they were getting harassed and they were getting attacked by some of the drug dealers who didn't want them there. we have to complement what they are doing and that they feel like they are safe when they do

what they have been asked to do. and sometimes that is a big sell and sometimes that is a foot beat. and depends on what the needs are. >> and what is from that evening. and i didn't say as long as i did on the 6th. and is it close to between 20 and 30? >> the complement is actually 20. and they don't -- we try to keep them where there were as many as possible working together and then on they are not at work. and the the overtime and the complement of 20 and is what we were working from.

>> thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> can we go to public comment, sergeant? >> yes, commissioner. if you would like to make public comment, please dial star 3. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> can you hear me? >> i can hear you. >> i am calling and good evening, everyone, and calling concern my son who was murdered august 14, 2006. still today and his case isn't solved and is still a cold case. so still looking for justice for my son to find otoway to solve the unsolved homicides.

and i was thinking about my son even though we have a lot of hate crime going on and we said that hate crime against the asian americans and on the other people that may be coming here visiting and my son's case was a hate crime, too. we want to call it black on black crime. and our community violence and it was a hate crime, too. so i was just thinking and they talk about the police killings and the same or more about that. and i know my son's case is years behind. and he is not old news, not to me. i want justice for my boy, my 17-year-old son.

i want justice and i will keep coming every week if possible to reinforce and keep my son's case alive. and still hear from my investigator. and i haven't heard from in a couple of weeks. and i will give them a call and hopefully still answer the phone. thank you for that. >> thank you. if you have an anonymous tip, call the 24/7 tip line at 415-575-4444. and commissioner elias, that concludes public comment. >> thank you. ms. hopkins, welcome. >> thank you. good evening, active president elias and commissioners and chief scott as well as members of the community who are attending. i will start with d.p.a.'s deck. as of today, we have opened 281

cases and this year and we have 257 cases currently pending and sustained 28 pieces and a number that i want to highlight is that we have 23 cases past the 270 day. and this is down from the last commission meeting where we had 32. that is a reduction of nine pieces past that 270 day mark. and commissioner elias, you asked for us to look into this with the nontold cases. of the 23 cases that are pending past 270 kays and 18 are told and of the five that are remaining that are there and they are close to closure and we hopefully will get those closed in the next couple of commission meetings and there are issues where officers on back and approvals and awaiting a couple of outstanding materials and

with the reduction in the number of cases past 270 that are not told. and we currently have 12 cases pending with the commission and five cases pending with the chief in terms of weekly trends, it was three weeks since we last met with the commission. and in that time period, we received 47 cases. 21% involved allegations that an officer involved or spoke in a manner unbecoming an officer. 18% involved allegations the officer failed to take required action. 11% said the officer failed to properly investigate. and 5% were both with the use of force 501 violation and an officer driving a city vehicle in a reckless manner. now turning towards the audit of updates, d.p.a. reviewed the sfpd's 18-month responses to the recommendations that we made in

our 2020 use of force audit. and sfpd has implemented 20 of the 37 recommendations. so that is 10 recommendations and turning to outreach, d.p.a. presented for the department of health behavioral health services and this was a presentation attended by service providers focused on children, youth, and families. on may 25 in our effort to continue to do outreach in various languages in our community, one of the investigators gave a session on chinese radio and the senior investigator is brent -- sorry, my notes are going in and out. if you need to find us, you can find us online at

https:sfgov/dpa. that is all for the director's report. >> thank you. the nine cases that you were able to close out past the 270 days, were those -- how were you able to close those nine cases out? >> so we sat down and really examed what the status of them were. some of this had outstanding issues that the executive team needed to look at and resolve. some it was a matter of prioritizing them. right now our investigators case load is pretty heavy, a sonned we just needed to -- and so we just needed to set priorities to get them closed. they were all cases that had reasons for delay. again, such as officers had been on d.p. and things that are kind of the out of the normal course of an investigation. so our team sat down and really focused on what we could do to get those particular cases and

continue to do that with the untoeld cases. >> thank you. i appreciate you reporting back to us on those cases. i am going to turn it over to my fellow commissioners. any commissioner? i don't see anyone in the queue, so i will turn it over to public comment. >> if you would like to make public comment, please dial star 3 now. >> line item six, commission reports. commission discussions will be limited to determining whether

to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. commission president's report, commissioner's report, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings, action. >> thank you. so i wanted to let the commission know that i have asked commissioner benedicto to be the liaison with the audit given his experience with the blue ribbon panel and it would be a great fit to be the liaison and provide us updates to the d.p.a. audit. that is the only announcement that i have. and i will turn it over to my fellow commissioners. i will start with commissioner benedicto. >> thank you so much, acting president elias. one of the updates is, just as you said, i am excited to serve

as the audit liaison to help be a central point of contact to the commission and the d.p.a. as it continues to understood take their important audit work at a very productive meeting today with d.p.a. staff on the status of audits and audit responses. i am looking forward to keeping that discussion going. also today identification of the chief i attended and the major city chief association and the police executive reform conference is being hosted here in san francisco and able to attend the morning sessions and hope to attend additional sessions of that tomorrow and is very nice to see the department and chief scott and the city take a leadership position and host the mtca conference and the strong brain trust of chiefs and certainly the panels i attended were a sharing of great wisdom

and insights and happy as i was able to attend that. and i would like to encourage members of the public we are watching and a few weeks ago and the commissioner rolled out and the draft policy and on pretext stops and to continue to submit through the online submission process that was announced then and hoping to continue that process and solicit community feedback through the summer as we work to adopt that policy. and also i wanted to ask acting president elias to agendaize the department of cip training. i know that ois has an ongoing investigation and we can't delve into the specifics of that incident. it is very clear that reinforcing the importance of cit and training and making sure the department's policies in general on that are up to date and reflective of the best practices and departments.

and update the department on the cit training including what percentage of the department have completed the full 48 hours and what progress, if any, on the continuing education requirement and where officers are going to complete the refresher and most of the commissioners and are attorneys and members of the bar who have continuing education environments and that goes to the question i asked the chief about when cit was done for the officers. because i don't want it to be the case that this course is completed once for an officer that is an a veteran and five or six or more years and discuss that to get an update on the cit requirements to have that agendaized. that is all. thank you. >> great. thank you. >> commissioner carter oberstone. >> thank you, vice president elias. two updates for me. the first is a couple of weeks

ago i visited central station. it was a productive visit and is great to talk with the officers there and to hear their thoughts and their concerns about what the commission is doing and the state of the department in general. i want to thank captain hayne, the lieutenant, and for hosting me and for allowing me to address the officers and for all the officers who took the time to speak with me afterwards. in particular, i would like to thank officer loretta who gave me a tour of the station and actually proposed a couple of really good ideas for policies that the department could implement. and the second thing i wanted to raise is a request to agendaize something. i would love to agendaize it and presentation from the department on its current efforts to

recruit female officers. this is an issue that i am interested in for a couple of reasons and first is that nationwide women have made up about an eighth of police officers and that hasn't changed in about a quarter of a century. our department is -- i think it's around 14% here so a couple of ticks above the national average. and there is a lot of really good data showing that female officers get, obtain better outcomes than the male peers despite going through the exact same training as everyone else. and higher yield rates and decide to search someone and discover contraband at higher rates and lower citizen complaints and more judicious use of force and there is a great article in science magazine just a year ago on this that did a pretty rigorous

study. and so that is one piece of interest. the other piece of interest is we don't have enough officers and so it would be great to get -- it would be great to be able to recruit more officers and i think increasing the pipeline of female officers could have killed two birds with one stone that way and to agendaize the department and the presentation and hear what the current efforts are in terms of recruiting women to the profession. >> great. thank you. commissioner yee. >> thank you, madam vice president cindy elias. i just wanted to echo what the commissioner said regarding the central station. the commander and captain over there, julian ying, on his work and also on the hiring of more female and i guess more officers that reflects our community. we need more of that, so we can

build better trust throughout the whole of our communities. also want to report on meeting that i attend through zoom. it was public safety and neighborhood service committee. community policing plan is coming forward and passed the commission. i actually -- the committee. and it is for additional foot and bike patrol and also the community and the input and my caveat is additional funding from the board of supes, and i'm pretty sure the police department will surely accept this policy plan as the staff, on the availability of staff. and it is coming out june 7 i

believe and there will be a public hearing. i'll let you guys know more on the next meeting. thank you. >> great. thank you, commissioner yee. commissioner bern? >> thank you. >> i am on telephone chat with the captain in the tenderloin and after my visit on the 19th of may, i want to go out on another evening patrol and see what effect the increased deployment of officers has, so as i mentioned previously i was quite interested on the 6th of may to see how disturbing it was and in the central and tenderloin and understood then the complaints of the residents and [inaudible] and so i'll report back after i speak with captain tan. >> sergeant, public comment.

>> at this time, if i would like to make public comment, please dial star 3. >> vice president elias, there is no public comment. >> great. thank you. next item. >> line item 7. presentation of the fourth quarter 2021. this is disciplinary review board findings and recommendations per ddj drb shall report quarterly policy and training changes it recommends. and the measurement of the success or failure of each change in a manner consistent with individual police officer privacy rights, discussion. and we have -- >> thank you. presenting on this? >> chief of staff sarah hawkins

and acting a.c. o'sullivan. >> thank you, sergeant reynolds. good evening, everyone. my name is robert oo'sullivan and normally assigned as the deputy chief and to present with me is the chief of staff from d.p.a. sarah hawkins. and vice president elias, commissioner, chief scott, members of the public, good evening. before we get started, we have a very brief presentation. for all of us, a brief reminder of what the duty of the disciplinary review board is. the language is enumerated in department general order 2.04 which is titled complaints against officers. the drb shall review and discuss the poll lowing aggregate trend related to dba and internal division affairs complaints, both alleged an sustained, policy failure or training failure cases closed in the prior quarter, the department in

consultation with d.p.a. will select cases from the previous quarter for review to determine the need for training and policy changes. and then the sfpd and dpa provide recommendations. and sergeant reynolds, if you would please bring up the presentation. and if you would advance it one slide. >> can you see the presentation? >> i can. >> you can? >> yes, i can. >> okay. >> one more slide please. >> all right. so for context, the board is comprised and there are three voting members, two advisory

members, the assistant chief of staff and two deputy chiefs and the operations bureau and the administration bureau are voting members and commissioner elias participates as an advisory member and a member of the department of police accountability. usually director enderson or chief of staff sarah hawkins. next slide please. okay. chief of staff hawkins, i believe this is your slide. >> so the aggregate trends that were identified by d.p.a. in the fourth quarter of 2021 is failure to make an arrest, failure to activate dwc and failure or inaccurate comments. while we continue to see the trend of this being one of the biggest types of cases, the number of cases has gone down and one of the things that we will talk about later is a deeper dive to analyze more

specifically what type of violation we are seeing. failure to turn it on at all, versus timing and different thing that maybe we can have more targeted recommendations around that. >> thank you. next slide please. on the internal affairs division side as far as trends go with the fourth quarter, that includes public courtesy and failure to write an incident report and city health ordinance related to covid and several dozen members who elected not to be vaccinated and a number of cases were adjudicated through the police commission with perhaps a couple dozen more still pending. next slide. >> so d.p.a. has one policy failure identified in the fourth quarter. and it involved an officer -- it basically comes down to cell phone searches. and in this particular case an officer attempted to unlock a

suspect's cell phone. d.p.a. found that the policy regarding cell phone searches need to be updated and more specific instruction given based on the most up to date law in terms of what constitutes a search of a phone. because the question was, does just the main screen of the phone not going into the phone, does that constitute a search that requires a warrant? next slide please. >> okay. so neither the department nor d.p.a. had any training failures during the fourth quarter of 2021. next slide. so for recommendations, ms. hawkins, if you want to take the first one. >> sure. d.p.a. recommends that sfpd update the training material to include specific established laws and policies regarding the search of cell phones and other electronic devices if an area, as with many other fourth amendment areas, where the law changes frequently.

and we believe something that is really important to have updated guidance for the officers. >> in regards to recommendation number two, we found what we do during these quarterly meetings is d.p.a. and the department come prepared to discuss anywhere from two to four cases. and in this case one of the cases that we reviewed had to do with the supervisory action of our members at a past officer-involved shooting. and it was during that process that we discovered that one of the supervisors failed to take a public safety statement and instruct the member -- because it didn't happen. what didn't happen as well is the member was not instructed to turn off his or her body worn camera. during that discussion it was brought to the department's attention that the department bulletin covering this topic had expired. this meeting and the fourth quarter meetingk to place the last week of march. by the first week of april the department had reissued that

department bulletin. next slide for chief hawkins please. >> and for the third recommendation is that both d.p.a. and iad provide more in-depth complaint data so that we can analyze what types of bwc violations we are seeing and policy and training recommendations and actions might be most helpful in reducing those violations. >> thank you. next slide. that concludes our presentation. the first quarter 2022 d.r.b. meeting will take place in this month, june 22. >> thank you. one of the questions i had is it seems that the trend and failure to make arrest and inappropriate behavior and courtesy. what other steps can the

department take to start addressing those? can you go to the district stations that line up and start reminding our officers of the trends and what -- i mean, what other substantive measures is the department taking? because given the presentation we had a couple of months ago about the arrest rate and several articles that we have had in the newspaper over the community's concerns for failure to take reports and how they interact with the public, i think that the department should be a little more proactive with these complaints and how to address them. >> one, this presentation along with the power point presentation we use when the board gets together, that information is disseminated across the commanding officers to discuss with the members. and secondly, actually, as part of the third quarter meeting, we had recommended collectively that the department and d.p.a.

collectively go out to line ups and all the district stations as well as the various details. those presentations had been scheduled and we actually had a calendar of events and had to make the decision to postpone those so that we could roll out the use of force training. from the department of general order 5.01 and just as recently as last month actually the middle of the month, myself and ms. hawkins and other representatives of d.p.a. met with our training staff. as they do on a quarterly basis and this topic came up, so those meetings are being scheduled again, commissioner, and it will be at that point that among other things the trend already discussed with the members and set up so that we have equal parts in our presentation as well as follow-up questions.

chief, your stance with body worn cameras, when you realize that people weren't complying with the body worn camera policy, you began taking disciplinary action and became more proactive to try and change the culture, so i am wondering what steps you're going to take to change the culture with respect to these trends that we're seeing and that the community has been complaining about. >> yes, thank you, commissioner. and it really the discipline is part of what has to happen and need to be done when we don't comply with the other part is continually reinforcing the good habits. the use of body warn habits and good for transparency and good for trust and is good all the way around. i believe we made some strides in terms of where we were and policy adjustments over the last

several years have helped and the clarity and the commission and clarified the policy and the department put out bulletins to clarify the policy. over the last three and a half years and have taken away some of the areas that caused policy failures in some respects a couple of years ago that we know is pretty cut and dry now. and so those things help and the other thing, as i said, is reinforcing and i was going to comment on in addition to what deputy chief o'sullivan said to go out and talk about the challenges and issues and trend and to do this with the all hand meetings with the captains that we have monthly and the command staff meetings. we started prior to covid with the command staff on a rotating basis going out to the academy to advance officer training to talk about these types of issues

and get feedback from the officers. that schedule is also reinstated and every member of the command staff and professional command staff. and the fixed day to go out to the academy and talk with officers. and that will give you the consistency and have time to spend with officers and get their feedback in and let them know some of what the trends are. >> and i do think those things will be very helpful, but we have to keep at it. and this is an indicator of morale as well. and we'll talk about that with the presentation and some of the things we do there. we're moving on him because we don't want to see those trends. and we have to not see those trends and do as much as we can to make sure we address those issues.

>> and i fess what your position will be in terms of being more proactive in terms of getting these trends to not be present meaning from the behavior of center policy. and they will be presumably coming before you and you get to decide whether or not you agree with d.p.a.'s recommendation in terms of discipline and what proactive steps you are going to take to address the trends that you are seeing. and to explain that body mark and putting that aside and with the failure to make arrest and public courtesy. >> that is included in the

discussions. but on an individual basis, you have to look at each case as individually and the cause of neglect of duty. if it is officers weren't trained properly or didn't take to the training and didn't adhere to the training policy, that is a different issue than intentional neglect. and intentionality is sometimes hard to prove and sometimes stronger than that and discipline is adjusted based on the aggravating and mitigating circumstances. the bottom line is on an individual basis so that the individual officers addressed that and is always retrained. and when the cases go to december palestinian, and we have had case where is training has been the answer and we have

seen one in particular and this will love the course. and dug into training immediately. and the officers were appreciative. and we taught better performances. on that various show so what we believe could have been done in the investigation. and we have to address them on the individual basis and the overall trends by letting the members know what is going on. so the trends are problematic and address in the macro and the pull carts and the discipline had to go in concert. commissioner carter oberstone? >> thank you, vice president elias. and i had a follow-up question and you mention that the policy potentially needs to be revised

around cell phone searches and whether to simply open the lock screen is itself a search under the fourth amendment. i am just curious, can you talk more about that process? and who specifically who will be charged with conducting the legal analysis that informs the ultimate policy change? >> and the process for policy recommendations comes from multiple inputs and one of the reasons that we started and the drb was going to initiate and implemented is so that cases will be looked at and in the case work and in the dgo revision process and if we have a case to have policy recommendation, we wanted a mechanism where it didn't get lost. and helps to do that.

and honestly to report on the recommendations to let everyone know what the status is. and at one point before the revised 3.01, there was a plan on which d.g.o.s would be revised when and as of right now, we are still in flux and everybody is in flux until that 3.1 is implemented. to be delegating from their side and will dictate who works on it at the department and on our side we will have the bulk of the legal research and go through the process hopefully the 3.01 will be implemented and it will go through that process.

>> i think i was on mute. i'm sorry. i said thank you so much for the clarification. >> thank you. any other commissioners? >> thank you for the presentation. public comment. >> if you would like to make public comment on line item seven, please dial star 3 now. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> commissioners, my name is francisco de costa and i would like you all to pay attention to what i am saying. our police force has now been reduced to about 1,200.

its strength is 2,000. a lot of the police officers are under stress. and we are talking about what is happening with the mistakes done and to change our ways and form a model or models closer to restorative justice. don't treat our police officers and some will make mistakes. and there is a way to deal with them. i know it from experience. i have been following this for the last 40 years. and if you add another 25 year, you get my age, so i over been around. i have also been bored enough to

go into the p.l.a., police officer association, p.o.a., and work with some officers. some of the officers and some of them are on your screen, they know me. i speak to power, but the bottom line, commissioners, is, we have to treat our officers with respect. it doesn't mean we pande to them, but we don't treat them like brats. the public can have their opinion, but we have to learn together really about unity and uplift one another and bring about consensus. if we cannot do that, then we better learn how to speak. don't treat the police officers like brats. it ain't going to work.

>> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> yes, this is yolanda william, president of officers for justice. the chief and i have been discussing this very issue over the last few months. and again, i have to state that i truly believe that our officers are overworked. there is a lot of expectations put on these police officers. they're stressed out and they're fatigued. i think what we need to do is try and find a way to get them within their 40-hour work week some additional down time. we're requesting them to work on their off day. many of these officers are working six and seven days a week because it is to fulfill the needs of the department and of our great city. and i have to take my hat off to

them because they are supplementing the shortage that we now are experiencing. the other thing i would also suggest to you, police commissioners and chief s that we consider perhaps when we do our continuing training, advance officer training, to go on and have a conversation with our officers about this very topic. let's stop just talking around it. let's engage the officers during their training at the academy on what is going on and get some ideas from them as to how we can resolve this. but i think we need to find a way to be able to give our officers some down time so that they can feel like they are appreciated and perhaps they can then continue to deliver the type of service that we expect so that we can remain san francisco's finest. thank you very much.

vice president elias, that concludes public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> line item 8. discussion and possible action to approve revised department general order 8.01, major and critical incident evaluation and notification. for meeting and conferring with the san francisco police officers association as required by law, discussion and possible action. and we have captain gemorina here. >> thank you. welcome, gentlemen. >> good evening, commissioners.

good evening. can you hear me? >> that is captain -- we hear you j.j. >> all right. good evening to acting president elias, police commissioners and colleagues from d.p.a. and chief scott. i am the sf, bgo8.01 and this is major and critical incident evaluation and notifications. this process started in 2020 with the working group headed by now retired lieutenant mike nelson. one more is recommendations from d.p.a. and realize with the and the original in 1994. and this is what define what is a critical and major incidents are.

it gives guidelines on notifications of command staff as well as defines roles to responding officers, sergeants, incident commanders and captains. the original g.o. is a page and a half in 1994, and like i said, we have got into a lot more detail and a lot more references added on here to the d.g.o. myself and the chief are here to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. before i turn it over to the queue, i wanted to ask whether or not the sfpo department -- and i don't know his ranking and i apologize, mike nevin. >> lieutenant. awe thank you. my apology. that they have reviewed this d.g.o.? >> you know, that is above my

pay grade. i send it up. i am not sure where it goes from there. >> commissioner, i will try to answer that question. as captain stated and for members of the public, i am the deputy chief in charge of special operations bureau for the san francisco police department and was the executive sponsor for this general order and i thank the captain and the other individual who is participated in creating the draft that you have before you. our work in this in creating this order was then forwarded through the chain of command and through the administrative process where it would have gone to written directive. i'm not certain if lieutenant nevin has had an opportunity to review this yet. i can certainly get you an answer fairy quickly about that. >> the reason i ask this is because i think that, you know, i want to just thank you for all the hard work that you have done on this d.g.o., but i think

there's more that could be done on it. i think it needs a little more substance. and in light of recent ois, i think it would be better to have some of the steps laid out because it is a little confusing on some of the language when you say take appropriate steps to address the situation, but yet you don't sort of outline what the appropriate steps are. and i think that given the fact that the cmtr training is being nationally recognized and sfpo, i am going to ask that this go to lieutenant nevin and his unit for review because i think that, again, in light of the ois, i think it would be better to have more information or steps laid out in the d.g.o. as to what happens during -- and note it says evaluation and notification of the incidents. and i think that it would benefit for more concrete procedures on what happens

during these critical incidents. that's going to be my request. i mean, i can turn it over to fellow commissioners to see if they have any other highlights or thought on the d.g.o. the other thing that i want mention is on page five where it says the appropriate sfpd unit leading the critical or major incident response and review. my question is, why was this reviewed by sfpo similar to what the use of force d.g.o. does? and i know that was one of if you look at the recommendation matrix, r2, i think the department didn't think that the sfto should be reviewing it, but i want to keep it in line with the use of force, and i think would be beneficial to sort of debrief and figure out what happened after the fact and while i understand the department's concern, i think maybe it can be worded a little

better to conform with best practices in this area. >> for sure. if i may comment on some of your questions and comment? so this d.g.o. is not designed to be a tactical guidebook. so we have the purpose for existence is really the coordination and tactics and those types of things in an incident. and this d.g.o. is really about being initial evaluation of the incident itself and then the notifications to get the proper resource there is and those types of things. but it is really about command and control of the incident. rather than the tactical portion of the incident. they are two different things.

>> i understand. i understand that each incident is when you respond depending on what type of incident you respond to, there is going to be different ways in which it is handled. i get that. but what i am saying is this d.g.o. when you have things like say "take appropriate steps to address the situation." what appropriate steps are there? you can't lay out and communicate with other officers. assess who is on scene. formulate a plan. those are the sort of initial steps in the evaluation and notification process that i think could be laid out. and i also don't know what the best practices are in terms of what -- in terms of how we're evaluating and notifying incidents. and again, when i saw the video from the recent o.i.s., it seemed very chaotic. it seemed a lot of different things going on. and obviously that is what is happening at scenes like that, but i think if we can be a little more concrete in terms of logistically what is the procedure that the department has when people arrive on scene

and how they're notified and what they're supposed to do when they evaluate, i think it's more beneficial to officers than to the outcome and how they handle themselves and the situation when they arrive on scene. >> definitely. definitely we can take it back and do more. but i want to make sure, is there a nuance to what -- >> and i think that you and i have talked at length about d.g.o.s and how you don't like if it is in another d.g.o., you don't want it here. but this is the initial step, right? this is what happens when we notify them and right when we arrive on scene and the other d.g.o.s would probably take into effect. so this is the first step, then i think it needs to be a little tighter and a little more descriptive as to what's happening. because again, i understand your concern when you look at the references, there is all these d.g.o.s that are listed because there is all kind of situations that can arise.

but i think that, you know, in your desire to be consistent and have officers well informed of what to do and the steps to take, i think that this is probably the first point of area that they would look to, right? >> exactly, yes. and the purpose of this is to evaluate and to determine whether it is a critical incident. that is what triggers the notifications and all the things that need to happen in a critical incident. it is not for the officers to say, you need to post on this corner and call five units and get a perimeter. that is not the purpose of this particular d.g.o.. it is to evaluate to determine whether or not we have a major critical incident that then trigers other things that they need to do. notify. those types of things. i just want to make sure we keep those separate because they are separate things. >> right.

>> and i definitely hear you. there is a lot of the d.g.o.s listed in terms of the reference section. but this is a notification and evaluation of the incident d.g.o. rather than what the tactical stepser to response should be. >> right. i get that. i am basing it off the language you put in the d.g.o. take appropriate steps to address the situation. what are those? >> i think it just needs to be a little clearer. >> i understand. >> what are the steps? >> i mean, you talk about how is an officer supposed to know what steps they are supposed to take if it's sort of not laid out and not given any guidance? and i think that that is some of the feedback that we have been receiving on some of the d.g.o.s where some of the language is in there, but what does that mean when it is played out? the officer says, well, i'm supposed to take the appropriate step. how does he know the steps he take are the same steps that another officer is going to take? there is no -- it's -- i think

you just need to provide a little more guidance to the officers. because i understand every situation is different. i understand the sort of the various demands and the chaos. i get that, but i think that the more guidance we can provide them t better off they'll be. >> commissioner -- >> i'm sorry. i can't figure out how to raise my hand. i am just going to raise my physical hand. i hope it is okay and appropriate for me, chief, and i just want to provide a little information for context. to the commissioner or acting president elias and to the other commissioners. and captain j.j. can jump in on this as well because he was involved in the discussion. i totally understand your point, acting president elias, and i want to point out that we had a lot of discussion about this. and the critical incident list was a lot shorter than this before this iteration.

and the whole purpose of this is to achieve as stated is about officers being given a list of critical incidents and given if information that they are when faced with one of these things -- once they identify this is a circumstance that they are addressing, that they need to make notifications. and i totally hear you upon and i understand your point about specifics and whereas that is one direction is kind of general. and all of them are different, but the response to the hostage and barricaded is suspect different than the response to an airplane crash or a fire. and those kind of responses, police officers know what to do in those circumstances by policy, by training, already. and i think that part of the discussions when we work on this d.g.o. was, again, as the chief pointed out, this is about once officers make an assessment and evaluation, they make the notifications so that a sergeant

respond. , a lieutenant, a captain, and they make notifications o to outcome to the department of operations center in the special operations bureau, and then though folks in our operations center will start putting out information to members of the command staff, to specialized unit, requesting different things. and i just wanted to add one other thing just for the sake of context and better understanding for everyone is that in terms of the delivering, i don't think there is any -- i think that language was meant to include or to identify the idea that in the series and in the case of hostage or barricaded suspect and the tactical company responds, they might have the lead on the debrief, but in something like in custody death, that will be handled by somebody else and that debriefing might come from field operations or investigations. sorry for being long winded, but that's kind of where we're going

with this. and we also talked about because some of the other stakeholders and the partners in this interacting this order talked about this as well. and this could turn from a d.g. ovrment to a manual because there are so many different responses to each individual thing that that is what the group was trying to accomplish was these are criteria cat incidents. those are the evaluations or the notification you make. and then everything else in the police department starts to get implemented in existing training and policy and practice. >> thank you. i appreciate your feedback. i am going to turn it over to my fellow commissioners. commissioner benedicto. >> yes. i concur with acting president elias. i appreciate in having been through this from outside the commission for many years that the delicate balance of when to have a d.g.o. be inclusive on

its four corners as referencing other documents and appreciate and i know we went through that a lot with each of the revisions to 5.01 of how much cross referencing versus detail in the document there should be. so certainly appreciate that that is a delicate balance and the d.g.o. needs to serve multiple purposes. i think a little bit more detail on this one might be wanted. even if it's not an inclusive set, so if, you know, under active -- and give a couple of examples and could be given and which doesn't lock in officers or prevent sort of other options from being taken but might provide a little bit more guidance. again, appreciating that some of this will be fleshed out more in manuals. and i also do think i would also appreciate affirmative confirmation that sfpo -- sfto

has looked at it and maybe their input is not to have any other change, but to ensure this complies with best practices from their perspective as well. [please stand by]

the language to express. i don't know what that means. i don't know what that means. so i think that it would help the officers to have more guidance can i also ask. can you provide to us. i love the recommendation grid, but can we get what the best practices are or the other peoples' recommendations of what the department has recommended or what they decided their explanation i

think that all of our effort is going to be to get to a place where we're doing the 21st century policing. so i don't know if d.p.a. or the department can provide a best practices analysis or a list with respect to this d.g.o. and we can move in that direction moving forward. >> [ indiscernible ] if you don't mind. >> police chief scott: we can do that. a lot of the critical incidents are really derived from the incident command system which has guidelines on how things should be handled. it's more general and the local department tweaks it based on their needs, but that's really the guidelines for a lot of this. it's national standards and

training but we can provide that. >> vice president elias: great. i think that would be really helpful. and ms. hawkins. >> thanks. sorry for interrupting. our policy team has done a ton of research on this. we were in the working group and we're happy to lead the department as they're working on this again and the commission. >> vice president elias: i think it will be helpful for me. i won't speak for my other commissioners, but for me it would be helpful to know what those guidelines and those best practices are. okay. any other commissioners have any questions? comments? >> commissioner: yeah. >> vice president elias: sure. commissioner benedicto. >> commissioner: sure. i was going to say thank you, chief for that elaboration. i don't think the goal is to

thurn this into an operations manual you noted on the list of critical incidences under critical steps. there are d.g.o.s under that amount. just like you do there might even be a step in the positive direction. but if we can say we might provide more detail on that to take appropriate steps language. >> thank you, commissioner. appreciate your insight on that. >> vice president elias: i'm sorry, commissioner byrne, did you have your hand raised? or were you just holding your

head? >> commissioner: i was just holding my head. >> vice president elias: all right. let's go to public comment. >> secretary: if you would like to make public comment, please dial star three now. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: what i want to say on this topic is you can take a federal agent like fema and we have incident commanders basically in doing a sound needs assessment it's draining and we have a number of incident commanders in the bay

area that the commissioners can have access to and then tie it to the general order. but the way i look at it present the point of view of the san francisco police department is the chain of command. how deep are they into incident reports and critical incident evaluation and notification from interacting with incident commanders such as we have in fema. and i do you think you commissioners can go too deep into it because for you to understand this, you need to have some training. you can't look at this situation remote control. it doesn't happen like that.

and explaining to the commissioners those who are in charge have to be very diplomatic and it's difficult for you commissioners to understand what this is all about because it's far from what -- >> secretary: thank you, caller. >> caller: -- ya'll are doing. thank you. >> secretary: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: hello. in d.g.o.8.01, they're all task wednesday taking appropriate steps regarding value and reference policy, unquote.

this reference policy i assume is d.g.o.8.02 and incidents. according to the proposed d.g.o.8.01, it appears that the first responding officer or any responding officer has no obligation to be guided by either values or g.g.o.8.02 while they wait for officers to arrive. that's a terrible oversight in the d.g.o.. because i can't resist putting in a date, just what are these department values? judging from the horrible incidents on may 19th where two unhoused individuals were killed by one firing squad, sfpd clearly does not value the lives of the poor or those suffering from mental health issues particularly when those lives are black and brown. thank you. >> secretary: thank you,

caller. vice president elias, that concludes public comment. >> vice president elias: thank you, can you do the next item, please. >> secretary: line item nine, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 11 below. closed session. including public comment on item 10, vote whether to hold item 11 in closed session. if you'd like to make public comment, please dial star three now. there's no public comment. >> vice president elias: thank you, next item. >> secretary: line item ten. vote on whether to hold item eleven in closed session including vote on whether to

assert the attorney client privilege with regards to item 11b and c. san francisco administrative code section 67.10. action. >> commissioner: motion to -- >> vice president elias: yes. commissioner yee's motion to hold item 11 in closed session. can i get a roll call vote. >> secretary: i think i need to take public comment on this as well. >> vice president elias: we already did that in the previous item. >> secretary: on the vote to go into closed session, [roll call]

commissioner elias, you have five yes votes and i w . >> secretary: san francisco administrative code section 67.12a, action. >> vice president elias: can i get a motion? >> commissioner: motion. >> vice president elias: okay. sergeant. >> secretary: meeting is adjourned. >> you've got to vote. >> vice president elias: we've got to take a roll call vote first. then you can get rid of us. >> secretary: thank you. roll call vote. no public comment? on the motion to adjourn or to not disclose, [roll call]

vice president elias, you have five yes votes. line item 13. oh, adjournment. >> vice president elias: okay. we're adjourned. we did it. have a good night. >> secretary: yes. >> commissioner: thank you all.

>> chinatown battleground is something i have always wanted to do because we have never had the chinese americans in the military. our history goes back all the

way to 1861 to afghanistan. the exhibition is two-parts. one is a visual history which is told through the banners. then basically what i wanted to do was make sure that people understood that every one of these objects tell a story. for example, my uncle was one of two chinese american pilots during world war ii. they come planed they were giving baggy men's coveralls to wear. we have a veteran of the war. now what is notable is that he is the first and only chinese american prisoner of war.

we have the met kit. that was the only thing he has for water, rice and soup. he carried for over four and a half years in captivity as prisoner of war. this exhibition is a first base undertaking. also important and i want to take away the big picture that the chinese americans have been involved in united states military since the civil war, over 150 years. we have given service to the country, blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice for a long time. our story of chinese americans are part of the mainstream. chinese american history is american history that is the take away i want to come off with, especially the younger

generation.

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life. >> we definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the customer externals and how

people are richmond to this collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. >> how long has this been operating in san francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of

the best places to get it coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. >> our broadened is we're going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if

scratch people appreciate our work here. >> so you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. >> this is its own the city the airline crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and we've established relationships it feels good. >> when i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like i'm not city. i was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true >> we have a lot of regulars we didn't think we'd find that here

at the airport. >> people come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. >> the food is great in san francisco it's a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. >> i'm impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. >> this is a little bit of things for everybody there's plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. >> tell me about the future food. >> we're hoping to bring newer

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>> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and

shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and

didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san

>> hi everybody. i am san francisco mayor london breed and i am excited to be here today. i want to thank the members of the community college board of trustees for joining us, including the president and other members. then we have the former trustee. this is a seat that we are filling today. thank you so much to john rizzo and a little who are joining us. as well as alex randolph who

stormed on the community college board of trustees. we have our chancellor here. so many wonderful people who have helped to keep this community college running the way that we know it should. i see members of atf, the union, or joining us here today as well. it has been sometime since our member had to vacate his seat to the community college board, but he and i have stayed in close contact because city college is really important to him. it's really important to everyone in the room here today. regardless of our differences of opinions, some of us, and one way or another, have been profoundly touched by the work of city college. growing up, this was the place that most of the people i went to school went. i didn't even know what college really was until i was in tenth grade and fortunately, i was able to end up at a four-year

university, but i was planning to go to city college myself. to not only prepare me to go to a four-year university, but to prepare me for life so i could be ready for any opportunity that came my way. when i became the executive director of the african-american art and culture complex we had so many young people who were in high school, we didn't know what to do, what they were going to do with their lives. we had young people who were over the age of 18 and had dropped out of high school. at the african-american art and culture complex we spent so much time helping people registered for the ged classes at john adams campus. some of them had gone on to not only be part of city college, but to play sports in city college. my brother got his aa degree from city college of san francisco. so many of us have some new stories like that. we know this is an important higher learning education institution in our city and we know how people feel about it.

they love city college. they want us to work together to ensure the longevity of city college, and that's why making a decision like this to appoint a member of the board of trustees is a very challenging one. blending all the needs of what needs to occur was really important to me. so i am really pleased today. i'm actually over the moon excited today to announce that i have selected morel green to serve as the next member of the community college board of trustees. [applause] i have known him, but because he was part of the community i grew up in, and you just know people. you know them from school, you know them from hanging out at the cultural center, you just know them. there was always something very special about him because ultimately, what i appreciated

about him was he was genuinely always a good person. he always made himself available to be supportive of people. despite the fact that he went to washington high school, i don't really hold that against him. we have our friendly rivalries, but at the end of the day, we care about our community. we care about the city, we care about seeing opportunities exist for people like the ones we grew up with in our community. so that is where he -- that is where his drive comes from. it comes from growing up in a community and seeing so many african-american men lose their lives, get lost to drugs and to criminal justice system, and i know, in his heart of hearts, he wants black men like him to grow up being the norm and not the exception. he has spent his entire life working towards that goal.

back in the day he worked for me at the african-american art and culture complex. i was probably his favorite boss of everybody. and what i appreciated about him was his patience, his drive,'s understanding, and how he worked with the young men of the cultural center and how he helps them to think outside of just their environment and what could be possible. they had a lot of respect for him. they said what is college? went to college? you went to clark atlanta university? what is all that about? the conversation he was able to have with them and how he got omega boys club, which he participated in and now serves as a board member, how he got them to be more actively engaged in the work that we were doing. so he has worked at so many colleges, mostly spending a lot of his time helping people with their essays, helping them with applications, helping them and guiding them to pursue whatever

their wildest dreams are and really being a mentor, the big brother, a friend, and advisor, when you think about it, it was, you know, hard to find people who would even take the time to meet with you and talk to you about those things. but he wasn't just sitting around and waiting for someone to talk to him. he took a lot of initiative to work with our kids, to talk to them, to encourage them, to hold them accountable as well, but more importantly, to demonstrate that he was here for them. and that was a big deal. and his entire career and working at places like city college, working at places like skyline college, like milk college, just in the bay area, working in los angeles while his wife was doing her residency, he was a supportive husband. i know he is so proud of that. working in los angeles at that community college and coming back here to work at west valley, you know, everything

that he has done, and all these various capacities in all these community colleges all over the state of california have centred around supporting, helping, uplifting students to ensure their success. so when the opportunity presented itself and i found out that he was back in san francisco, his hometown where he grew up, i couldn't think of anyone better to serve in this capacity then someone i admire, i respect, i trust wholeheartedly. no one more so than him. i want to swear him in at this time. you guys can get excited about that. [ cheers and applause ] are you ready to see your daddy sworn in? do you want to stand by him? you need to hold him -- hold his hand on the other side while he raises his hand. there you go. are you going to help them too?

all right. here we go. please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i merella green do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter, and during such time as i

serve as member of the board of trustees for city college of the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations. [applause] >> it is of traditional african culture that i requested, and i was given permission to address you by my elder, who is my father-in-law. i would like to begin with a moment of silence for both our african-american and taiwanese brothers and sisters who were murdered and others physically and emotionally wounded by the senseless violence in both buffalo new york -- buffalo, new

york and southern california. thank you. i greet you today in a moment of amazement. this is a celebration and i want to acknowledge and honor your presence in time. i won't be long. to the honorable mayor, i thank you for this appointment to the board of trustees of city college of san francisco. to our honorable dignitaries, of both the city and county of san francisco, and specifically the illustrious city college of san francisco, i'm honored to become part of it collective group that takes the time out of our already busy lives to provide service to others. to my lovely wife, dr. janelle greene and my children, corinthian and providence, i thank you for allowing me to share myself with the community and the residents of our home

town. not your hometown, my home town. additionally, to my family and friends, both here physically and in the spirit, thank you for your continued support throughout my life. 's graduation season so this is important. let s. be genuine and thoughtful to the class of 2022 as we see them parade around the city in delight this season. i was fortunate enough to attend my first graduation at the age of four years old. it was in a purple graduation hat made out of construction paper and glue, along with my favorite red and white hawaiian shirt that i graduated from the preschool program at city college of san francisco in 1981. [applause] it was because programs like this that allow my mother to complete her credentials to become a head start teacher and

wally don't remember much about the ceremony, i often look at the photos that were taken and think about how that moment played a pivotal role in my pursuit of education. throughout my time in the san francisco unified school district, and my apologies, madame breed, clearly the greatest high school in the city, george washington high school, i always knew that higher education was an option in my pursuit to becoming a productive member of this society and that is why i am here today. i am someone who is dedicated to the advancement of higher education for all people. to be born and raised in this city and to still be her as a resident is a rarity within itself. i feel that it is my calling to assist those in which i pride myself in my area of expertise, which is educational leadership and management. with a concentration in higher education. what i promise you today is simple.

i promise my attention, dedication, persistence, and advocacy for all students at city college of san francisco. i hope that i have your support, your trust, and your assistance as we all fully understand that it takes a village to raise our children and teach our adults. please know that i take this mayoral appointment seriously, as i understand that this opportunity allows me to further assist in life transformations that not only affect students, but their families, neighborhoods, and our city and county as a whole. with that, i shall close by saying thank you. go warriors, tonight, and go rams forever. [applause]

>> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is mary chu. >> hi. i'm chris manors, and you're rising on san francisco rising. the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and restarting our city. our guest today is mary chu, and she's here to talk with us about art and the san francisco art commission. well come, miss chu. >> thanks for having me. >> it's great to have you. let's talk about art in the city and how art installations

are funded. >> the arts committee was funded in 1932 and support civic review, design investments and art galleries. projects we have are funded by the city's art enrichment ordinance which provides 2% of construction costs for public art. >> so art is tied to construction. there's been a great deal in the southwest of the city. can you talk about some of the projects there? >> sure. our city has some exciting projected in the bayview-hunters point coming

up. one artist created a photo collage. in the picture pavilion, one artist formed a collage of her one-year residency coming together with residents, and anchoring the new center is a landmark bronze sculpture, inspired by traditional ivory coast currency which the artists significantly enlarges to mark that it's a predominantly african american community in bayview hunters

point. >> are there any art installations around town that uses light as a medium? >> yes. the first is on van ness between o'farrell and geary. it's funded with the m.t.a.s van ness geary street project. another project is for the central subway. it is one of ten artworks commissioned for the new line. it's over 650 feet long, consists of 550 l.e.d. panels between the powell street station and the union street station. it's called lucy in the sky, and the lights are patterned with unique sequences so that commuters can experience a unique pattern each time they pass through. >> perfect.

what about the early day sculpture that was removed from the civic center? >> this is a question that cities have been grappling with nationwide. following the removal of early days in 2018, there was a toppling of statues in golden gate park as well as the removal of the christopher columbus statue. we are partnering with the parks department as well as the community to engage with the public to develop guidelines to evaluate the existing monuments and memorials in the civic arts collection and evaluate the removal of a monument or statue but also installing new ones. >> finally, it seems like the

weather might be nice this weekend. if i fancy taking a walk and seeing some outdoor art, where would you suggest i go? >> well, i would suggest the embarcadero. this work was commissioned with funds from the fire station 35. this suggests the bow of a boat and the glass panel surrounding the structure depict the history of fireboats in the bay area. >> and where can i go from there? >> then, i would walk up to the justin herman plaza to check out the work of the art vendors. then check out the monuments like the mechanics monument. also, be sure to check out the

poster series, installed in bus kiosks along market street, which features four artists each year. >> well, thank you. i appreciate you coming on the show, miss chu. thank you for your time today. >> thank you, chris. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back with another show

>> okay, all right, well, this is a very exciting day, everyone. and i want to welcome you all to the opening celebration of our newest permanent supportive housing building. i want to begin by thanking you, mayor breed, for your ongoing leadership and commitment to really acquiring these new buildings and building up our permanent supportive housing stock. thank you so much for your leadership on that. your plan is exceeding its goal and expanding housing options and providing hope for people experiencing homelessness. i also want to thank the partners who are making this program possible. supervisor haney was a big champion of this and now supervisor dorsey, we're very excited to have you onboard and

supporting this as well. and a special appreciation to the provider partners who are partners who are bringing this to life. and we have compass family services, it's a beautiful partnership between three great organizations and super happy to be here celebrating with all of you and we know that this will be a really strong program because you're all here working together. we're honored to be a part of this partnership in affordable housing deliver that provides a pathway out of home littl homeld into hope for families. and today is a very exciting day for us as well, because mayor breed just announced this morning the preliminary 2022 point in time count results. it's great news. i will let the mayor share details but we're excited that the numbers reflect progress that we are making locally to reduce homeless, unsheltered homelessness in our community. our investments in sheltering and housing is showing wonderful results and improvements in the

lives of people who have experienced homelessness in those conditions on our streets so, mayor, thank you for your leadership and we're looking forward to your words. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. first of all, it smells like a new building when you walk through the door, like that new car smell that we all love so much. and i haven't had that new car smell in a long time so this is going to have to do. but i will say that today is a very exciting day. you know, what's interesting is that, you know, oftentimes some of the negative messages that you hear about the challenges that exist on our streets in san francisco are highlighted in a way that doesn't tell a real story about the work that we actually do in san francisco. and this is just another example of working together with federal, state, and local

resources and our non-profit partners, how we can make something great happen for people. and this is important work as we all know because the last thing that any of us wants to see is someone sleeping outdoors when we have places like this available for them to be. and this is the thing that i love about being a mayor. people say, do you love the job and i say well, well, on most days, and today is one of those days. today is one of those days because it's not just about a building. it's about the people who will have a safe, affordable place to call home. so when i think about the challenges that sadly continue to persist in our city, i know that as much as we want to of course, you know, to celebrate this incredible milestone, there's always work to be done. but i just want to say that getting access to this brand-new building of over 160 units, means over 160 people that were

formally homeless will have a safe, affordable place to call home. but more importantly, they'll have supportive services because of dish and because of compass, because we want to make sure that they don't end up back on streets if it were that easy to just house someone and to move on to the next person, we probably would have solved the problem already. but we know that it's so much more complicated and it's not a one-size-fits-all. and it requires making investments and providing the wraparound supportive services that are necessary. what i'm so happy about is that sadly during the pandemic it was challenging but it give us an opportunity to not only cut a lot of bureaucratic red tape to get people into over 25 locations, 2,600 hotel rooms and a number of buildings purchased with project home key and to do all of this extraordinary work -- it meant that we were able to as the numbers reflect

to see a decline in the number of unsheltered homeless people out on streets during the last point in time count. what does that mean? every other county saw an increase and san francisco saw a decrease of about 15% of people who were unsheltered who are homeless on the streets and we saw that number go down. and since i've been in office, we have been able to help not only house 6,500 people who were formally homeless on our streets, but 1,800 people who would have otherwise have been evicted on the streets. we've been able to keep them housed. this is the work that we're doing in san francisco that needs to be elevated. this is the work that we need to talk about. we're doing this work because we know how important it is. it is not just about what people visually see and don't like to see on our streets, it's about individual human lives that we

want to support in this capacity. so this project is so much more than as i said a building. it's about the people that we are here to serve. so i'm really grateful, really excited, because we have other projects like this that we have purchased before, others that are coming online, and my hope is that we are able to continue to move forward as aggressively as possible with getting more of these projects. we're getting more of these projects online. you know how -- not only important it is to get places like this built, but it's also important when we have underutilized properties to take advantage of the opportunity to lease or to purchase for the purposes of being able to house people who are unhoused. i am looking forward to a lot of the work that i know that we have to continue to do. yes, we have made progress. yes, we see the numbers reflect a lot of the work that we're doing, and, yes, today is a good

day for all of that extraordinary work. so i really do want to thank so many of the people that have been actively engaged in making sure that despite, again -- i know a lot of challenges and criticism, the office of housing and homeless services, they have been doing extraordinary work to get these properties online, to make sure that we're providing the resources, to repair properties, and we're providing the wraparound supportive services with the various agencies that we work with. so thank you, charine, for your work and we appreciate it very much. and i want to thank our other partners and i think that someone here is from dish who is going to be helping us as well as compass. our non-profit partners who we rely on heavily to provide those wraparound services. i see that you have a new property manager here. thank you, denise, so much for being here and working with us. it does take a village. and this village has wrapped its

arms around making sure that we continue to support those who need support the most in san francisco. this is a great day for us and i am truly excited that i have been able to work with the previous supervisor of this district, but also i am so looking forward to the work that i know that supervisor matt dorsey and i will be doing to put more projects like this online. so this is just the beginning for him and the best is yet to come and, ladies and gentlemen, with that i want to introduce supervisor matt dorsey. [applause] >> thanks, everybody. so i want to welcome everybody to my neighborhood. i live just like a block and a half away. and one thing that i love mid-market and south of market, this area, is just how inclusive a community that it is, and there's density and market-rate housing and b.m.r. and supportive services. this is really the promise of the city of st. francis, and i'm

just so grateful to mayor breed for her leadership, charine, and compass family services and ucsf, and dish and for fulfilling the promise of what we can do as a city. i think this is officially just the one week mark as we stand here. i've talked about my own personal journey in recovery and a lot of that i think that i emphasized some of the problems that i see. i think that probably i didn't talk enough about the things that really inspired me to want to work with mayor breed. how inspired i was by the leadership that she showed around the tenderloin initiative and the leadership that she's showing on programs like this. so it's not all bad news and it's a lot of the good news and the optimism that i see and i want to be a part of and i'm so excited to be a partner on this on the board of supervisors. to the extent that this is something that you want to rave about or complain about, my door is open and i look forward to working with all of you. and thank you so much. thanks.

[applause] >> thank you so much, mayor breed, and thank you supervisor really looking forward to working with you. so, as i mentioned earlier this is a really phenomenal partnership and we're going to get to hear from some of the partners. we're going to start with allison murphy, who is with city wide, who is that housing program director at city wide. [applause] >> hi, everybody. my name is allison murphy. and i work for ucsf. [applause] i'm a social worker and a program director for city wide supportive housing programs. thank you so much for being here. it's great to see so many supporters of this project. thank you, madam mayor and supervisor dorsey. and ucsf is thrilled to continue

our work here at 1321 mission and we're excited to be part of this innovative collaboration with our new partners at dish and compass, family services. just like with all of our other supportive housing programs, our clinical services are going to be here on-site to work alongside our partners at dish and compass to support the residents of 1321 mission in stabilizing their housing and achieving whatever goals they have. we're really excited to get to work and to provide a stable and supportive community for the folks that are living here at 1321 mission. and we're thrilled to be continuing our work as a part of the terment in solutions of homelessness here in -- permanent work here in solutions in homelessness here in ucsf. and thank you for having us as a key partner in this program.

and to everybody who is supporting this project. thank you so much. get to work. >> thank you, allison. and next we'll hear from denise riggins, the property manager from dish. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to this beautiful celebration of supportive housing done right. everyone experiencing homelessness in san francisco deserves the dignity and a home as beautiful as this one. at dish, we are thrilled to have been selected to operate this site, and look forward to working with hsh, our resident community, ucsf city wide case management and compass family services to provide a safe and joyful and inclusive community. while dish was contracted to provide the property management services, our focus is on fostering community where

residents feel safe, feel valued, and feel empowered to achieve their goals and to put homelessness behind them for good. i have also experienced homelessness myself and had faced structural racism facing this crisis. i'm deeply proud to be here today with my dish family and all of you. the site staff are part of the backbone of the homelessness response system and our continued success is dependent upon investment, in not only beautiful new sites like this one, but also in supporting the workforce, many with lived experiences, not unlike the residents that we serve. join me in taking a moment to appreciate those who show up every day to ensure that our residents get the service and care that they need. thank you for sharing this moment with all of us. we look forward to continuing our work with the mayor and our team at hsh to ensure that all

supportive housing communities can provide a solid foundation of recovery from trauma of homelessness. thank you. [applause] >> thanks, denise, and thank you for sharing your personal story with us. that means a lot, and it really helps to bring home how important this is. so next we have mary kate bacalau from compass family services. [applause] >> thank you so much, director mcfadden for the introduction. i am the policy director at compass family services. and i feel so lucky to be standing here. our executive director erica kisch wanted so badly to be here today and she just celebrated her 20th anniversary leading the agency and she's been waiting for an opportunity like this for the 28 years that she's been serving compass family services for more than a hundred years, compass family services has been helping and supporting the most

vulnerable san franciscans, whatever it takes. and today we have a continuum of care supporting at-risk and home little families, and we -- homeless families and we are so thrilled because this is our first foray into supportive permanent family housing. [applause] 1321 mission is a beautiful modern building in the heart of san francisco with something truly special. 160 units with enough bedroom capacity and community space for 40 unhoused families. that is a lot of families, that's more than a hundred people, most of them children, and we will be able to permanently break the cycle of poverty for those kids and their parents. and i cannot say enough how much that means to compass, and our partners at the city, and in our non-profit partners. when i first toured the building and actually every time that i

walk into this building i'm struck with a sense of beauty and spaciousness and light. and the sense that anyone would love to live here. and everyone who walks through that door with a key in their hand is going to know that they matter to their city. they're going to know they belong to this neighborhood and to this community, and every parent most importantly is going to lay their head down at night knowing they can give their kids the stable, happy childhood which they deserve, which is really the foundation for stable, happy lives. so i am so grateful. compass is so grateful to our partners at the city, and to all of the extremely hard work that hsh has done in partnership with the city to acquire buildings like this and to bring projects like this online and to get families inside -- people and families. so, mayor breed, thank you so much for your remarks. and supervisor dorsey, it's wonderful to have everyone here and to lift up the potential and the hopefulness in this project

thank you. [applause] >> thanks, mary kate. and next we're going to hear from linda lockhart who is a current tenant at the building. linda. [applause] >> hello, everyone. welcome. mayor, thank you so much for everything that you do. you stole my line though because i was going to say it takes a village. it really, really does. it starts with you and then goes down to people like me and when all of your hard work -- everybody's -- city wide never left my side from the day they came to my door and i was over at work -- i am sorry, i get very emotional and i'm very passionate -- your passion -- it just trickles down to someone like me who is just an emotional wreck, but in a good way. it's all positive. and it was funny, when we had a meeting and met the new management, i started crying and

they were all staring at me and i said it's positive, all good. because i'm just so grateful. and it breaks my heart that someone like me have suffered chronic homelessness because back in the 1980s, i owned my own home in sacramento, and look where i am today. but look what i am today. i went to my first giants ballgame and fell in love with san francisco when i was 9 years old and now i get to be a resident here. i'm proud to be here. soma -- i have lived here since 2012, i'll be honest, i spent most of that time at harbor light, which i love, and a lot of it absorbed into me and i will never forget those tools they learned. i have been sober two and a half years and it's funny -- [applause]

a little asterisk. i'm sober but i'm not clean but i'm working on it, and i'm sure and i'm hopeful that you will have programs here that will help people like me, because when you have it right in your building you have to go. i mean, come on, you have to go [applause] i mean, and i -- there's one thing and i will say it and i know that my sister will say this, but i didn't. i didn't go to one meeting and shame on me because when i managed to not pick up a drink that is a god thing -- just a god thing. and i worked with jason, and he's a wonderful man, and we just had such a great rapport and i'm so glad to see you here supporting me and the whole project. i want you to know that you have a lot of projects and a lot on your plate every day, but this one is successful. and i am so appreciative. and it's funny, but the camera does put on 10 pounds because you look fantastic. you do.

you do, you look wonderful. and so with that, i will say thank you for everything. i love my apartment. it looks so cute. [applause] can i go now? >> thanks, linda. that's why we left you for last, to get us all going. so -- so we're going to have -- we're going to have q&a now, so that's good timing. so we have a few minutes for questions and answers and there are a number of people in this room who can answer the questions. so hopefully you're all ready to do that. but let's open it up then. open it up to the floor. you have a question?

it can wait, okay, okay. >> [indiscernible] [question off microphone is indiscernible] >> goodness. i don't know. i'll just be honest. you know, as i said, we were able to quickly move and acquire 25 hotels that we entered into agreements with that helped to house 2,600 people. and we did that in lightning speed through project home key and our relationships with some of the hotel owners and we were able to move quickly to purchase some of those buildings without them going onto the market. and we have been working with a number of people who developed properties like this and we have 100% family housing building

that we're purchasing and a number of other properties that i'm really excited about and that we have been able to move faster than i think that had we not been under an emergency declaration and as you know, we have continued that to a certain extent but there's been some orders that we've had to lift, so as we move forward we're just going to try to do everything that we can to move full speed ahead. but, definitely, the bureaucracy does have an impact on our ability to deliver these projects faster. they also make building these projects more expensive as well so it's really tough. we in the city have acquired a number of actual properties where we know that we can build, but, unfortunately, the challenges, you know, of dealing with building housing in san francisco persists. we have over 70,000 units that have been entitled and they are not necessarily being built in

rapid speed. we're trying to at least commit to 5,000 units a year that are being built here in the city and we have not yet in past couple of years reached that goal. so we're not going to give up, we're going to keep trying, and, you know, my hope is that we are able to deliver faster and avoid the gridlock that makes it difficult to get ahold of buildings like this. thank you very much. thank you. >> so i just want to thank everyone. we have an opportunity for a tour after this and so if anyone would like to see what a room looks like, please stick around but i also want to just thank you all for coming today. this is a great day. [applause]

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