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the meeting to order. if you could please rise if you are able for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> president elias, if i can call roll. [roll call] >> you have a quorum. also here we have chief scott from it san francisco police department and diana roseensteen for the department of police accountability. >> thank you. call the first item. >> first item is going to be general public comment. at this time, the public is

now welcome to address the commission up to two minutes on items not on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. comments are opportunity to speak during public comment are via phone calling 415-655-0001 and enter access code, 24828007508. you may submit public comment e-mail the secretary of the police commission, sfpd commission@(inaudible) members who like to make public comment please approach the podium or press star 3. and president

elias there is no public comment. >> great. next item. >> line item 7 will be taken which is presentation by the center of policing equity report and analysis on traffic stops. discussion. can you hear us? >> i could get us started. scarlet and are doing a dual presentation here. can we get our slides up or is that something we have to share? >> we have great technical support so they are on it as we speak. >> beautiful, beautiful. we are not tech geniuses. >> by tech support i mean sergeant youngblood. >> well, we appreciate

sergeant youngblood. >> there you go thank you for joining us. we know you are on east coast time so why we are taking it out of order. >> thank you so much and thank you so much for having us. i'm sharelet resing, i'm the (inaudible) center for policing equity and scarlet is my colleague a policy research manager at center for policing equity and thank you for allowing to present on the fiendings from the recent white paper on traffic safety. these are recommendations to address racial disparities and traffic crashes as well as enforcement. if i can get the next slide, please. so, just overview of what we'll go over today. i'll introduce the organization for policing equity, we will go over holistic traffic safety recommendations. we will do a particular

focus on stops since i think that is most of interest to the folks here, and then have time for questions at the end. next slide, please. so, a little about for center for policing equity. we are research action group that uses science and social science to research public safety system. we work to create sairf communities reducing the footprint of law enforcement and partnered with over 60 law enforcement agencies in 30 states in the united states. we really rely on science and that science says that situations predict bias much more then individual biases. so we developed these recommendations in the most scientific way we can. we use our social scientist on staff and did a significant amount of research into reforms

happening all over the country. we developed the recommendations to address dual crisis that we are currently seeing in the country which are increases in crashes, and also racial disparities and crashes and enforcement. next slide, please. this is kind of a overview of what we will be talking about today more specifically in terms of the recommendations. we will talk about ending pretextual stops. scarlet will go into that more later. investing in public health approaches to road safety and this is really part of a holistic approach improving equity and road safety and that's important to us because we wantarve everyone to be safer in a equitable way. some examples are

things extending yellow lights,b round abouts which are much safer as traditional intersections, limit the use of fines and fees which we'll get into and provide examples later. piloting alternative to armed enforcement. this includes civilian enforcement and traffic violations, which multiple jurisdictions around the country are look nothing to now and also can include things like photos and enforcement that doesn't involve pulling someone over and giving them a ticket but mailing them a ticket and lastly, improving data collection transparency. [audio cut out] is the only way that we have an ability to see what impacts any of our current initiatives have and also see where the

issues lie. where are the dangerous intersections? how can we address those? what are the most impactful way to address those and finally transparency. just improving the way we communicate with communities and make it clear why we are instituteing different approaches and different initiatives. next slide, please. here is a little more about limiting fines and fees these are recommendations from the report. the first is repair vouchers. repair vourchers in case people not aware listening, provide people with a opportunity to go and get things on their car fixed without giving them a ticket. multiple jurisdictions around the country are utilizing repair vouchers including

chasm county georgia as well as the state patrol of minnesota. both of which are partnering with a organization called lights on that help them basically actualize a voucher system where people can come get their car fixed and not have a fine or fee on top of whatever it cost to get the things fixed and this makes our roads safer because we have all these things fixed for people and it makes it easy for them. the second we have reminder notification or income base fee waver for expired registration. the reminder notification would just be a way for government like the government to essentially communicate with citizens about timing of registration being expired or anything else like that and income base fee waver for expired registration would essentially be a system in which we can

address expired registration but in a way that is equitable. $50, hundred dollars means different things to people who make different amounts of money. here we have driver suspension restoration program. durum has a wonderful program that they have started called deer and it helps people resolve old traffic violations and traffic debt that caused long-term driver license suspensions. and so, those are important because driving in lots of communities is vitedal vital to get to work and pick up their kids and these programs can help people who have had suspension for long periods of time or even short period of time get back to day to day activities and solve some of these issues that get them caught in the system. next slide,

please. what are pretextual stops? when police pull someone over for a miner traffic violation in order to investigate an unrelated offense for which the officer lacks reasonable suspicion. next slide, please. and this is just little diagram, very simple obviously. to short of show what pretext stops are and where a lot of disparities exist in pretext stops as well as non safety related stops. as you can see not every equipment license registration violation, sure everyone here is aware are pretext stops but some are and that intersection where there are non safety related issues or violations that are

happening and folks are getting pulled over, that is where we see extremely high racial disparities and who gets stopped, and tend to be inefficient use of police department resources. i'll turn it over to scarlet to get into more of pretext stops. >> is my audio working now? wonderful. next slide, please. so, going to talk a little about who is effected by pretextual stops,er and we analyze policing data from dozens of jurisdictions nation wide and consistently over and over see that white drivers are more likely to be pulled over for safety related reasons such as speeding while black drivers are more likely to be pulled over for equipment license and registration violations that have a high likelihood of

being a pretextual stop. we also consistently see black drivers are searched at higher rates at traffic stops but they are less likely to produce contraband as white drivers. there is research that sheds light on the extent to which pretextual stops have a crime fighting benefit and we see here in this data set from north carolina that the yield of all these stops producing meaningful contraband, enough to jen rate a arrest is very very low,.03 percent of all traffic stops analyzed over a time period. next slide, please. so, our recommendations to address this issue and limit pretextual stops come from a few different approaches,

which i'll talk about in turn. we first recommend that police departments ban pretextual stops and then we also recommend that cities and states pass laws restricting low level traffic stops and kind of aligned fashion and then we also recommend that these reforms are enforced and monitored. next slide, please. so, first we recommend that police departments prohibit stops that are pretext for criminal investigations. and several police departments nation wide have done this to various degrees including oakland los angeles minneapolis and faytville north carolina to name a few. we are seeing evidence that this is effective at reducing racial disparities in traffic stops. one academic study of

faytville shift away from pretextual stops. show the share of non safety related stops as a share of all traffic stops dropped from 56 percent to 32 percent. racial disparities reduced, traffic crashes reduced and crime was not measurebly effected. to be effective addressing the nature of pretextual stops though, we have a few recommendations for any policies that police departments are putting in place. first we recommend that the policy clearly state that it is banning all pretextual stops with no exceptions. we also recommend that the policy encourage compliance with this shift by also stating that officers are not allowed to ask investigative questions or conduct a consent based search without independent cause to do so. basically kind of

defining the implications of the change on police behavior. finally, we recommend that law enforcement leadership communicate intent of this reform. why is it happening and that should center around limiting racial bias and unnecessary enforcement and that can really foster the necessary culture shift to see this change made in day to day practice. next slide, please. so, another approach to banning pretextual stops you might have heard of is legislative option to define certain categories of stops which police are no longer allowed to enforce as has been done in virginia and cities in pennsylvania. this can really help reinforce any police lead reform being made in the department as

well as deincentivize pretextual stops where departments have not yet made that kind of shift. this change ending low level stops is also important for reprioritizing enforcement and are reducing the volume of stops that are made to black and brown people. and while evidence on this intervention is emerging, there has been a report out of virginia showing 7.5 percent reduction in total stop volume, however, the racial disparities in stops remained unchanged and so this really isn't a panacea to rooting out racial bias, but can be a significant step forward. next slide. so, to monitor compliance with any department policy changes we encourage a policy that officers

are required to report narrative descriptions of the justification for each stop and search they conduct that details the reason for doing so, and research has shown this can help increase compliance with a policy change. those reports should be reviewed daily by a supervisor. we also encourage localities to track outcomes of reform made through data analysis to make sure it is a achieving its intended goal. fortunately california has strong data collection stanards that will be helpful in doing so. next slide. that is our brief overview, but for our full detailed white paper on these recommendations and examples and our evidence and rational for making each of these suggestions a

link to the report here is provided and then you can also free to each out to us and we are happy to answer any questions you have right now. >> thank you again for being here and presenting this report. i am a huge fan of your work. i know the department engaged you in other services and it has been a very i think productive and fruitful engagement and you have been able to provide the department with great data analysis and recommendations and this is a along those lines as well. one question i had is based on research and experience in this field, do you think that banning pretext stops will pose a safety risk on the community? the reason i ask that is, in discussions while working on the policy

there have been a lot of concerns from officers who feel that implementing a ban on pretext stops or specifically outlines which stops are going to be prohibited is taking away their tools and their ability to do their jobs and will eventually effect public safety and so hoping maybe you can speak more to that and address their concerns based on all of the work you have done in this field and the experience you have. >> yeah. absolutely. we certainly understand that concern and have heard it from many law enforcement officials we work with and understand that they obviously want to be able to continue doing the important work they do. our view is that the bar being set of having reasonable suspicion to make a stop is really not a

high bar to clear and it sometimes when folks are describing situations that they are worried about not being able to make it is actually not what we are suggesting to this reform. it isn't actually a true pretextual stop. sometimes there is a little bit of maybe gut reaction there that would not be born out in the actual policy change, and i would just say that a lot of states through the courts have actually fully banned pretext stops for a number of years, and there was not any you know, i think it was a culture shift, but not any measurable negative effect on crime in those communities, so for example, washington state banned pretextual stops in

their state supreme court from 1999-2012 and the studies that came out of that showed really a significant drops in racial disirpaties. >> have you been following los angeles? there was a article in the la times recently about some of the outcomes that have been found based on their policy that they implemented with respect to banning pretext stops. >> yes, i actually just read that article today and saw that i think the drop was from 21 percent of stops to 12 percent of stops being pretextual, which seems really promising. we haven't you know, worked with los angeles or followed that too too closely other then the public media reports but it does seem

certainly a great step. >> it also seems in line with your other research and which you described earlier about it not-the ban on pretext stop not having significant effect on crime in terms of by having this ban, so i think that was also promising as well. >> absolutely. to the point of crime in addition to the-that study, the faytville study with no change in crime after the reform was made. there is also a big analysis out of nashville shows how rarely pretextual stops leads to discovery of drugs or weapons so this is taking place across the country and we are seeing kind of

consistent patterns that indicate that there would not be a big impact on public safety that is (inaudible) >> i'll jump in quickly. i think (inaudible) being very low yield rates frequently for pretext stops, i think one of the focuses for cpe is really that we want police to be able to do their job s and clear homicide rates and protect people, and this is a area where based on research we don't believe that there will be an increase in crime as all these locations there haven't been and we are hoping that the volume of these stops being lowered gives police the opportunity to really do their jobs and protect people in communities. >> thank you. i appreciate that because as we are all and think every

profession facing staffing shortages that is one of the issues we need to keep in mind about people being able to do their job with the limits resources they have. i will turn it over to colleagues. commissioner benedicto. thank you again. >> thank you president elias and thank you both for your time and this analysis. grateful for this work. i wanted to ask a little bit about looking at your recommendation with pretext stops you have officers (inaudible) pretext criminal investigation. you have ban stops for low level violations and collect data enforce reforms. why is it important all those be adopted as part of the holistic approach and are not just one or two of the three? >> i can jump in for this one. i where think the holistic approach is important because we want people to be safe on the roads. we want there to be increased safety

and the holistic approach implements road safety measures that are evidence based and actually improve rates of crashes and rates of fatalities in crashes so having that two pronged approach really makes sure we reduce some of the disparities in enforcement we are seeing right now but while also making people safer and implementing things that are evidence based and really can improve rates of death fatalities and crashes as well as crashes themselves. >> thank you. i like to follow up and say look specifically at recommendation 2 ban stops for low level violations. you spoke how that can reinforce the prohibition. can you speak more about why you think that second component is of recommendation? >> yeah. i can take

that. so, first of all, we saw in the little diagram earlier on not every pretextual stop is a low level violation and not every low level violation is a pretextual stop and i think the intent behind both of the reforms is cover as broad a swath as possible of those two kinds of stops that are driving racial disparities and traffic enforcement. and i think it is also recognition of the fact that departmental level change can be -there is 18 thousand police departments in the country, it can be incremental to suggest policy change one by one and when something like the state of virginia enacts this legislative reform

that can really you know, have a immediate impact on a lot of people by taking a lot of kinds of stops off the table and then also incentivize police departments in that state to be reexamining their policies. so, it is two bites of the apple i think and the third recommendation we make about enforcing these changes and reinforcing them and monitoring them again speaks to these are complex issues, these are cultural shifts that will take time and it is important to make sure they are really happening, and we know it is not a light switch, if you will sometimes. >> that makes sense. sorry, please go ahead. >> i was going to quickly jump in and

add the low level stops sometimes there is apprehension what low level stops mean. the report and recommendations are very clear on what we mean by low level stops and these are not safety infractions. these are not things that make people less safe on the road immediately and so we think that there are other ways that we can handle some of these infractions or violations that don't increase disparities and or can aid people to actually fix their cars get these things settled to make everyone safer on the roads. >> that makes sense. it sound like then i think it was described as this all the elements reinforce each other having each element in place. that is very helpful to know. do you think-i know president elias talked about the lapd policy which is focused more on

providing articiable ezrooens for pretext stops but doesn't identify low level violations. is it important that those elements be done together to maximize the effect based on your research? >> which element? >> both the prohibition using stops and ban for low level violation. as i said the lapd policy for example doesn't have anything to say about low level violations, it simply requires information before conducting a stop. >> i think something is better then nothing. either of these reforms on their own are likely to decrease volumes of stop. we see across the country they do and that decreases the burden on black and brown drivers and discrease the disparities in which they get pulled over. doing both together i

think would amplify results and disparities. >> thank you. i wanted to ask pretext stops and serious crimes. in the white paper you have a statement that says pretext stops do not improve traffic safety. would you mind speaking to that a little bit? >> yes. sure. so, pretext stops by definition is one in which an officer is pulling over someone with the ultimate goal of looking into more serious crime. a speeding violation can be a pretext stop and that would be related to traffic safety, but by in large majority of pretext stops are

low level equipment, license, registration violations and by spending so much time enforcing those kind of violations and not doing the enforcement directly related to traffic safety, such as high visibility enforcement for drunk driving or speeding violations, the point is just that it is kind of shifting priorities in traffic safety that are not advancing the goals of dangerous driving and things that are really producing traffic crashes. does that answer your question? >> i can also jump in here as well. just-i'm harping on it, but again, the yield rates of contraband or arrest

rates for pretext stops are extremely low and that is across the board, so in our minds this is not something that is really improving public safety to significant-not a significant amount but perhaps not much at all, and again, as scarlet said, there is other places where we think those resources could be deployed that actually vastly emprove improve public safety. >> thank you so much and thank you to you both for your work. i encourage members of the public, there isn't a lot of public discussion about this proposed policy to look at the supporting documents on the commission website and look at the full white paper that policing equity put out. it isn't long, 27 pages but quite reezable and has a lot of really great evidence based recommendations and it's reassuring to see already our draft policy is in the direction of the

changes and i like something they said about amplifying the effect of reducing disparities by doing multiple recommendations. thank you again both. >> thank you so much for having us. >> thank you. turning it over to commissioner walker. >> thank you president elias and thank you for your presentation. i just have a couple of questions. i too was interested in the los angeles results because it does seem to me they had pretty good results for doing what they are doing which is putting what they are doing on tape, becoming more conscious of that. i know that you are recommending kind of three different levels of action here and i wonder if you have the data that actually supports that using

all three is bert then just using the first one or doing what los angeles is doing or whether-are there cities that have done pilot programs so they maybe look at what is happening by doing three different versions because i do feel like it is kind of like when i have a cold and take three different medications like two different vitamins and also a aspirin and feel better. i don't know which it was and these things as much as i hear that you-the data you have doesn't have consequences, i would not expect it would have consequences of increasing crime, but i worry that it might create different traffic consequences

and maybe crime solving data. crime solving statistics. i also know you are using cities that are not san francisco, so i just-it is kind of all scattered here. it is kind of not separated. to the first question, do you have details that separate out all of these different approaches and which one works or do they work better in combination or is that just theoretic? >> i can take some of this. i think scarlet is more the numbers gal but we do have evidence based specifically for each individual reform. as far as i know there isn't a jurisdiction that currently is doing all of these. scarlet, is that correct? >> i don't know of any. i mean, there might be police

departments in (inaudible) in line with the legislation passed. i don't know off the top of my head. >> for each individually we have seen results in cities that implemented. i love the multiple medicine during a cold analogy. for us each of these we have seen the bias and disproportionate impact that results or at least in terms of pretext stops and low level violation and so we know those individually are things that have a outside impact on black and brown people, and the-in terms of the general holistic traffic safety reforms those have significant evidence base and there are lots of

jurisdictions implementing a lot of those reforms, but-and we can share-we do have more specifics, so we would be happy to share that with the commission if people want the statistics. >> like to see that. i feel like some of the issues we are seeing in some of the more crowded areas have to do with sharing sidewalks and different sort of traffic issues that might be effected by eliminating banning stops all together for low level that are actually being thought of here. it may not be what you all have done. i feel like-i'm interested in the los angeles data because i feel like it shows

potential for really reducing the kind of things we are talking about here. i also really like the information about being able to help people solve the issues they have around these miner traffic issues of like registration and maybe getting insurance. having grants available, having help for that is really i think part of the solution. one concern i have, i don't believe we have infrastructure set up to do these mail in tickets for these kind of things. i don't think it is a good solution to not enforce it all together, but the concept of being able to send people tickets instead of pulling them over for things like registration and things like that makes sense to me. i feel

like that's why i'm sort of interested in the concept of pilot programs to test what works and to make sure a system is sufficient to make it work efficiently. i think it would be really good to sort of think about that if other cities did pilots and then tested different things that might work in different areas or city specifically with our traffic things or traffic issues. >> absolutely every jurisdiction has unique needs and will need unique combination of solutions. i think obviously our report is aiming to seek to multiple communities and ideas for you all to (inaudible) and see what makes sense for

you. i would just also say that the first reform we offer, the police lead banning of pretextual stops would be the most direct way to ban pretextual stops if you will, and that is what los angeles is doing and i think they are having good results because they are doing some accountability measures with asking the officers to document their reason for doing stops, which is what we recommend in the third recommendation we presented on. but again we know this is a tricky issue and a really big culture shift for some agencies and police have been used to having this as basically a crime fighting tool for a

long time, so the legislative reform of low level stops is kind of like the second way to encourage and see this kind of change take place while also communicating that shifting enforcement priorities and traffic violations is also important, because there is a lot of deaths on the road, there is rising traffic fatalities now and pulling people over for these low level issues is not really what we want to be seeing police spend their valuable time on. (inaudible) we do think there is value in multiple approaches here. >> i'll jump in here. i think in particular in terms of not having systems set up that makes sense. we encourage jurisdictions we work with and talk to to have really robust

dialogue with other agencies that can help set up these systems and can let people know what currently exists, what the capabilities are, and a lot of jurisdictions of various sizes have set up these new systems and i recognize that is not nothing, that could be a big ask also why we in our report specifically ask for investment in these alternative systems to make sure that these things are still getting taken care of, but in a effective and more equitable way. just one last thing on this, in terms of some of the particularly voucher repair voucher system, there are organizations out there that have been helping jurisdictions actualize this and make it happen, and i think it sounds like from initial implementation of some of these these

jurisdictions find it sightly easier then they thought it would be. there is lots of unexpecting allies you can have in some of these. there is repair shops and larger car repair organizations and companies that are willing to kind of step in and help with this because of the intense racial disparities that come with classic enforcement of them. >> thank you. >> commissioner walker during our working group these were the ideas that came and i think chief and several officers monte were very informative to the group in terms of resources and what used to be available to residents for these type of violations so we have been working on that front as well. refreshing to know we will-our policy may be different and ground-breaking as

similar past policy like 501 carter restraint and things like that so we are a pioneer of the group. >> good evening. thank you and thank you for the presentation. i have one quick comment or clarification i would like to ask on behalf of the public. i know your presentation mentions banning low level stops, but there is no specific explanation of what that universe is so wondering if you can point us or direct us in the public in the direction of what your universe for low level stops look like so we can juxtapose your research and the infractions or traffic violation that you researched and you talked about for our jurisdiction. >> i would actually say we would not come

up with a list of categories of stops that all communities should not be making. i think we have some ideas based on what other jurisdictions have done. things like objects dangling from a rearview mirror, single broken taillight. the point being i think it is important that each jurisdiction who is thinking about this reform look at their data and their stops being made to identify the ones where they are not seeing a clear connection to public safety benefits in terms of traffic safety and they are also seeing high racial disparities as a initial set of stops to take off the table. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner yee.

>> thank you very much president elias. i is a couple questions. looking at fines and fees. out of curiosity, what do you have set a budget or projected budget for the city of san francisco of our size in regards to the violations that do come through repairing equipment violations? base fee for expired registration and drivers license suspension and a host of others, because i think it pertains to the state mandate for the violations that set forth. i don't know if we do that here locally, add additional fines to that. just out of your investigation

whether you have in california whether we have done that, limit the use of fines. >> maybe scarlet (inaudible) she is our numbers lady. i am not aware-i don't know specifically for california. i would definitely we can share these resources with the commission after this, but i would look at-there is a few organizations that focus on fines and fees, and there is one large coalition called freedom to drive, which essentially is a group of organizations and corporations that are looking to end license suspensions for fines and fees. >> (inaudible) >> okay. there you go. in terms of some of the other reforms, i am-scarlet are you aware? >> i don't obviously

california is one of many states in the jurisdictions within california so not sure the exact nature of fines and fee system in san francisco, but i do know california is piloting a online tool that lets people look up their traffic ticket and request reduction in the amount owed. a payment plan, more time to pay or the option of doing community service instead of paying and that saved a significant amount of money and reduced fines and fees for participants mostly below the poverty line. that is a example we highlight in our report to minimize the burden of fines and fees for people who are (inaudible) >> do you have a idea about amount of funtding funding that would be required to address the issue

regarding the fines and fees? >> it is a really good question and it is kind of tricky often to uncover the extent to which a city relies on fines and fees, so i don't know off hand, but we would be happy to direct you to organizations doing more specific work in that area who can probably shed light on the extent to which that has been mapped out in san francisco. >> i would also just flag that i think again one of the reasons we are asking for holistic reform is there a certain amount of savings that would be associated with stopping pretext stops and low level violations and i think this is not something that we have necessarily-actually again, scarlet might have more info, but we don't have any specific to san francisco, but we view

those-there can be evening out and again, also for a functioning system, hopefully systems shouldn't be funded by fines and fees of people who are involved in the system. that hopefully would be something that would be funded by taxpayer money and by the city or jurisdiction. and i actually-to add on to that, i think one reason why we say that shouldn't be something relied on is because it creates an inverse incentive for jurisdictions to maintain fines and fees and to levy them without things like fee wavers or income based reductions and we don't really agree with that calculus.

we like people to be assess fees in a way that they actually can be able to pay them and again, i think that is adding to our public safety concern of like $200 ticket for different people means different things and for some people that means that they cant buy groceries that week and that isn't a situation we believe people should be in. >> i'll follow-up with last question. alternative to (inaudible) enforcement is that individually civilians stopping vehicles or is that just they see a new technology i guess capturing the vehicles id or license plates? >> we have multiple options outlined in our report. we do have some apprehension

about automated enforcement, specifically they have been rolled out in ways that are not necessarily equitable. lots of cities have seen many more automated traffic enforcement cameras in localities that have higher black and brown and lower income folks, and so that is something we caution. also, there is varying effectiveness in the automated enforcement, but it is something that i think if you can see-if it is evidence based, there is marked decrease in some sort of infraction that is actually a safety violation, and rolled out in a equitable way and also rolled out in a way that doesn't increase surveillance on folks that is something we talk about in the report but think there are

other options. i am based in denver and one thing they do here-this avoids a lot of the surveillance issues that a lot of places see when they do automated enforcement through companies that they contract. we actually have folks in cars that take pictures of people speeding and that is something that is a option. they mail the tickets afterwards and that is alternative to armed enforce: . ment there is a few different areas and don't know if scarlet wants to add examples there. there is a few different. civilian enforcement is something we also talk about in the report and do find promising. i know in california currently that is not something that is allowed by state law, but in line with our-all our recommendations i think that is a option that places should be

looking into. again, to decrease bias enforcement and disproportionate impacts and also maintain safety guidelines and enforcement. >> thank you very much. >> also to let you know commissioner yee in september 2022 this year the san francisco superior court eliminated 50 million in outstanding debt with late fees for traffic court and this was part of state-wide debt relief program under ab199 and signed into law by governor newsom so i think the effort to eliminate fines that are impacting low income and racial communities is there and something we are looking into. >> i hope the state has funding coming fiscal years. i think they may be short this year so hopefully we have the funds set

aside for those people in need. appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias and thank you for the presentation. this is really helpful and informative as we engage in this process of revising and addressing the disparities in pretext stops. as we kind of noticed with the recent election, safety and economy and cost are at the for efront of mind when we make decisions and it is helpful to hear those jurisdictions and states cities that started implementing this have not noticed increase in safety issues in their cities. along those lines, are you aware of any cost analysis of the implementation of piloting

alternatives? there are various ones, but obviously san francisco things are going to cost more. we can make sure we modify, but is there an analysis of what this would cost to roll out if we were to implement those that 3 pronged holistic approach? >> that is a great question. i am not aware of any cost analysis of rolling out these changes. i think departmental level policy changes are pretty low cost thing to implement. it is just kind of a staff training and shifting the practice. it isn't like a lot of new staff is needed or what not. but i would just say on the cost question, we are talking-when we talk

about the volume of potentially unnecessary traffic stops being made, traffic stops are the most common way police interact with members of the public. there is 20 million people stopped for traffic violation a year, so there is so much cost that goes into that would be saved by scaling it down. there is actually recent analysis of the san diego sheriff department data on officer initiated stops for the type of traffic violations most aligned with being pretextual, and they found a third of officer hours which they quantified at $43.9 million were spent on these kind of traffic stops that result in a warning or no action taken. not needing to be made at all. that is just a glimpse of some of the costs we are talking

about here. >> i would also just flag that i think one of the options here in terms of fees is income based fees, which as a net was not necessarily result in any increased cost to communities. i also just want to flag here, there is more then just the financial cost here. one of the things that is the focus of this report and focus of a lot of our work. the cost emotionally and monetarily to members of the community who are stopped is huge number of people in the united states who get pulled over every year is difficult to quantify. again, this is something that we can see if we have any specifics on and can circulate after the

meeting. >> thank you, i won't keep you up too much later but i have one other question. is there or are you aware of any other jurisdictions that started implementing or preventing or banning pretext stops and there being correlating improvement in clearance rates in other areas? in other words, we spend all this time on pretext stops or low level offense stops and our hope is that that level of effort will be invested in other areas of more severe crime. has that been done in any other jurisdiction as far as you know? >> the research on this is very limited unfortunately. that would be a fantastic study for someone to do because i would hope that it would show the benefits of reallocating officer time. only kind of

related study is out of faytville where they are just looking at implications on traffic safety metric specifically and that shifting away from pretextual stops actually reduced collisions quite significantly in their jurisdiction because of the police ability to do more targeted and meaningful traffic enforcement. i'm not aware of any studies about the implications on other kinds of police activity. >> san francisco implements this reform or some of these reforms hopefully you could be the leader here. >> wouldn't be our first. chief can we do a study like that? the department keeps track of and has dat saw on increments of time based on their job. you use it for the staffing study when the staffing

study they came and analyzed increment of time that officer does task 1, task 2 or task 3. >> workload study. >> correct. >> probably could be done. i thrink think it would be very involved. that workload study was huge lift as you all know. >> we can look at a week and extrapolate and make educated guesses. >> great question. >> thank you very much for your time and for your commitment to this effort. >> commissioner benedicto. >> just two quick points. one want to address the (inaudible) about the stops which is i (inaudible) as you look at the white foot note 26 and 27 have the list other jurisdictions have used in virginia and

pennsylvania (inaudible) done a good job compiling those in 26-28. and then the second quick thing is just to reiterate something that just said about that we a lot of questions focus on the monetary cost of this, but there is important to be reminded of the human cost of this about the 20million people that experience stops and not just statistics you had (inaudible) who was stopped 47 times for routine stops before being killed in what was a routine stops so (inaudible) also not without human cost so i think it is important to remember that as we work towards this policy. thank you. >> thank you commissioner benedicto. before we let scarlet and charlotte go i want to give the chief a opportunity if you have questions or comments? >> no questions. i read the report and we have been working so

want to thank them for coming on. i know they are on three hours time difference, but thank you for coming on and we'll be in touch. >> thank you so much. we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having us. >> on the topic for the chief i have a question. just with regards to providing a narrative description and justification. i know a while ago we talked about there are sometimes stops that officers make with no citation. there is admonishment and education there. are we-i ask whether we were capturing that. i don't know if we have a answer but do we have this kind of cross referencing process right now and if we don't how far away will that be to implement? >> the stops or citation isn't written. we still have to fill out the data that goes to the state so that is

captured in that way. our internal systems-that is reported so how we capture it. i don't know if we have done any research to know if we are missing anything but any time we make those stops we have to report that data to the state. whether or not we cite. >> does that include a justification for the stop itself? (inaudible) >> it doesn't have that type of detail. those are things i think as we get better and dig into the things we are working on like dashboards and all that, that i think we will be able to build some of that out. that is the hope anyway. >> thank you. >> alright. thank you again. enjoy east coast time. we will turn it over to public comment, please. >> the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item 7. please

approach the podium or press star 3. good evening caller, you have 2 minutes. >> francisco decosta. normally we have a number of people (inaudible) about this pretext stops. i look at it in another way. we cannot compare la to san francisco. if you take the population. secondly, we should pay more attention to orientation of our

officers where we bring the element of empathy rather then try to compare virginia, los angeles and all these other places. for example, they are not (inaudible) we have many hills. what is troubling is that the violence, the (inaudible) crazy people walking in the middle of the street and then we come here you know trying to regulate something using pretext stops. so, whether we like it or not, and our mayor is in charge of this, quality of life issues

on our streets has gone to the hogs. even though we know that there is biasness with some of the officers, we can work on that. we can work on those things. but (inaudible) >> good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is gene bridges. commission you didn't start the phone participation on the meeting until 545 during the presentation. we have been waiting to comment every since. since 530 over a hour. we are volunteering our busy time to call into these meetings. you cut off general public comment tonight. i'm going to make my item 7cpe comment now. the cpe quotes racism and traffic stops. the

study found over 99 percent of miner traffic stops did not produce contraband in searches. the federal department of justice doj cops report on sfpd called out the need to address racism in policing and stops and searches in several dozen of the report recommendations. the cpe propotes eliminating pretext stops stops for miner traffic infractions which turn into racist searches and violence is a tactic shown to reduce racial disparities in stops so why has sfpd been fighting this? do they not want to reduce racial disparities? is another doj reviewed call for and why are the commissioners allowing police resistance to dominate and derail the combinations in the dgo9.01 process? according to sfpd data a black san franciscans is 5 times more likely to be stopped as a white san

franciscans. 10 times likely to be arrested and 15 times to experience use of force. this is why miner stops by police must cease. recommend officers be required to record narrative justification for each stop. we agree it should be required. they also recommend the enforcement of reforms through accountability. negative consequences for officers exhibitsing racism. we agree. accountability has (inaudible) >> good evening, you have two minutes. >> my name is susan (inaudible) as gene said we were not able to make general public comment so i begin my comment on the cpe report with our usual parrot talk. addressing (inaudible) call what it is, anti-blackness in terms of use of force (inaudible) by sfpd.

tired to talking [difficulty hearing speaker due to audio quality] address the bias unjust certifies. (inaudible) as i said, i'm tired not tired enough to quit but tired of beating a dead horse and tired of concerns falling on deaf ears. (inaudible) i heard discussion about san francisco being unique and special and any recommendations from (inaudible) would not be a one size fits all. we need something special for san francisco. at the same time commissioners are asking for evidence that this works in other cities and other locations in the country. which is it, special are we waiting

for other people to show us the way? i think we are special and need to take the lead on this. (inaudible) thank you. >> president elias that is end of public comment. >> thank you, next item, please. >> technical difficulty we had general public comment was not able to be done on webex, and will call one more time. if you like to make general public comment regarding line item 1 press star 3. good evening, you have 2 minutes. >> sorry, i already made my comments.

>> last call for general public comment, please press star 3. president elias, there is no public comment. >> thank you. >> item 2 adoption of minutes for october 19, 2022 and november 2, 2022. >> motion. >> moved. >> second. >> members of the public that like to make public comment dial star 3 or approach the podium. there is no public comment. on the motion- [roll call]

>> you cannot ubstain under the charter. >> november 2 i wasn't present. >> correct so you can vote or ask for it to be put over for the next agenda meeting. >> it will be yes. >> commissioner yee is yes. president elias is yes. 6 yeses. >> next item. >> line item 3 consent calendar receive and file action. sfpd sb1421 and sb16 monthly report. collaborative reform initiative monthly update. quarterly document protocol third quarter 2022. >> motion? >> motion to receive and file the items. >> second? >> second. >> members of the public that like to make public comment regarding line item 3 consent calendar approach the podium or press star 3 now.

good evening caller you have two minutes. >> hello, my name is susan buckman and volunteer with welths and disparities. california and sfpd has some of the worst racist outcomes of policing in the nation and up to (inaudible) california has been one of the worst in terms of not releasing critical information to the public. (inaudible) and now sb16 to release information on racist and violent policing outcomes must be honored. sfpd is required by law to release personnel information to the public. sfpd biggest issue is refusing to enact accountability measures and statistics around racial profiling via traffic stops use of force and arrest that remain as high as ever. in 2016 up to the present day, what is missing is

accountability. accountability can't be achieved if sfpd is evading scrutiny (inaudible) problem officers in every turn. thank you. >> president elias no more public comment. on the motion- [roll call] 6 yeses. >> thank you. next item. >> item 4, chief 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 a future meeting.) chief scott. >> thank you sergeant youngblood. >> (inaudible) >> good evening president elias and commission and mrs. roseensteen and public. i'll briefly with crime trends. violent crime is up overall 7 percent. the difference of 300 crimes, 311 crimes actually from this time last year. property crime up 6 percent, difference of about just short of 3,000 crimes this time last year. the leaders in each categories in terms of violent crime are robberies are up 5 percent and assaults are up 10 percent. in terms of property crimes, good news is burglars are down 21 percent but overall larceny up about 13 percent. auto burglaries remain steady at 9 percent. homicides violent crime homicides had 32 fire arm related

homicides year to date down by 4 this time last year but overall the homicides are 2 percent up which is difference of 1 from this time last year. weapon seizures we are at 961 guns taken off the street year to date. of those, (inaudible) 163. i will spend more time on significant insdants but there is really good work i want to highlight sfpd officer s. we did have 3 homicides for the week. the first at third and la salle in the bayview a attempted robbery and the investigation revealed the female subject a overnight guest gave 3 suspects access to the complex. they entered the complex and one of the four suspects was shot and later succumb to injuries. our evidence at this point indicate that it was

likely a robbery gone bad and the shooting was taken into custody in this case. the investigation is ongoing. second homicide to report was on november 11 at 949 p.m. 100 block of larken in the tinder loin in front of the main library. (inaudible) reported individual in front of the library who was on the ground and did not have a pulse. a witness later came forward and said he saw the victim arguing with male and female which ended up a fight. the female punched the victim causing him to fall to the ground where he lost consciousness. he was pronounced at the hospital. no arrest made but there is evidence to follow up on the case so will keep you posted as the

investigation develops. th700 block of fulton in northern district on november 12, 858 p.m. responded to shot spotter activation. the victim was unresponsive and multiple gun shot wounds. officers rendered aid but the victim at the hospital succumb to injuries. there is video that captured a portion of the incident and there are numerous suspects in this incident and several guns involved. our investigators located some evidence and that evidence is being fallowed up on so no arrest at this time but a very active investigation is ongoing. we had a series of auto burglaries across the city on november 11 veteran day. the officer observed a stolen vehicle in the area that was believed to be involved in auto

burgly. the vehicle stops the occupant tries to run away. three subjects taken into custody. a large amount of stolen profit recovered and multiple victims believe 9 in all were identified, so really good work by officers in that case. there is also a catalytic converter arrest that occurred. happened october 25. northern officers observed a vehicle lifted off the ground by floor jack and individuals near the vehicle were under the vehicle indicating a catalytic converting theft was taking place. (inaudible) evidence garthered included vehicle and equipment use and catalytic converts case acrauz the city. fire arm not ghost gun was located at the

scene. three individuals booked on various charges including grand theft burglaries and second degree and tampering with a vehicle. one subject charged with possession of firearm. we had rash of catalytic converting thefts across the city and regional thing as well, so much work is being done on these cases. we do believe it is organized but this was a good arrest overnight by these officers from northern station. auto burglaries (inaudible) incorporated has reported that they have been victim of at least 8 auto burglaries between october 12 and october 25 and we believe that involved one suspect. during these incident iphones attached to vehicle dashboard was taken. all were autonomous with no (inaudible) suspect vehicle provided by technology in the

automated vehicle. suspect was identified and taken into custody near the (inaudible) on november 11, 2022 and charged with 8 counts of auto burgly and found to be on probation from alameda county for the same types of offenses. we also had a significant robbery and arrest. 300 block of bay shore. sorry, this is not a open arrest yet but the suspect will be arrested. the victim who is security guard observed two suspects attempting to steal alcohol. confronted the suspect and told them to leave and security guard attempted to stop one suspect as the person exited the store. at that time both bystanders began to join in and several witnesses began to

assist (inaudible) these are good samaritans. a stabeing victim as a suspect arrived at san francisco general with multiple stab wounds. the stabbing victim stated he received the wound during the altercation video does not show the security guard or any other witnesses who joined in into help the security guard stabbing the suspect. we believe that we have identified that stabbing victim as a robbery suspect so once his medical condition is clear we plan to arrest that person. another incident to report and think has a up couple more minutes is robbery that result in arrest. this happened veterans day november 11. two victims and others performing inside the square when the subjects began to

yell at them. the victims started recording one of the suspects who became angry and ran toward the victim and victim ran away. the suspect hit the victim in the back of his head and took his cell phone. the victim called 911 and was punched by the suspect. officers arrived quickly and basically were able to locate the suspect and arrest them very quickly, so this was a really good response and officer both victims were elderly and again this is just ridiculous and cannot be tolerated. central officers who worked at area were in the place they needed to be and resulted in a great arrest there. last thing i'll report is just our safe shopper strategy and deployment started. the macey tree lighting was last wednesday and union square is activated with the holiday

festivities, the ice rink and deployment will be increased not only in union square about corridors across the city for the holiday season. we have ambassadors we rolled on the west side of incity and also ambassadors and officers deployed in union square. haze valley also, the foot beats are very very well received and their deployment resulted in significant robbery arrest this week as well but i know i'm out of time. just want to wish everybody a happy holiday, happy thanks sgiving and we will be out to do everything we can to make sure this is a safe holiday season. >> thank you. amazing 10 minutes. >> i know a couple weeks ago we approved donation of those small vehicles- >> we are get them outfitted so-we have to wait but

excited-very mobile so they at add to effectiveness of the foot beat officers. >> thank you. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you. chief scott want to thank your team for your hard work over this week. it will be tougher going forward as we are down in staff. there is a incident that came out at palace of fine arts. over social media i saw too. just wonder if we have staff out in some of the hot spots maybe palace fine arts, coit towers, these are tourist destinations. seeing your thoughts. >> thank you commissioner for that. we do have a detail overtime detail for tourism deployment. we will up deployment at palace of fine arts. things have gotten better, but because (inaudible) as

we saw with that case we need to be in that area because it goes up and down. places like coit tower, lumbard street, palace of fine arts deployment will be deployed there including north beach, fisherman warf and embarcadero so that will continue through the holiday season. it is good deployment and been able to be effective. in addition to that, some of the plain clothe details working some of the robberies and these car break-insologist also will be deployed across the city. >> thank you. >> sergeant. >> members that like to public comment regarding line item 4, the chief report approach the podium or press star 3. president elias, no public comment. >> thank you. acting

director you have time to beat so maybe can get done in 9 minutes. >> thank you. good evening commissioners, chief scott. i will try to be quick. with respect to the statistics for this week, up to today in 2022, we have opened a dpa 601 cases. same time last year at 695. cases closed up to today this year, 636, last year 781. cases pending, currently 245, last year 274. cases sustained this year, 53, as opposed to 43 last year, and cases mediated this year, 18 as opposed to 36 same time last year. we do have 23 cases that are past the 270 day mark and

20 are told. in terms of weekly trends for the cases we are seeing, we received 15 cases and 36 percent of those cases the allegations, these are not substantiated we are in the process of investigating the allegations. the top allegation the officer behave or spoke in inappropriate manner and second is officer failed to take required action and the several others are tied for third place including officer failing to write a incident report, misrepresenting the truth and driving a city vehicle in a gross or negligent manner. the majority complaints came from mission station and second is taraval. with respect what we are doing in our office with outreach, dpa continues to provide information to the public at sfpd

station community meetings. we expanded information to include information about the mediation program to boost those numbers. also, with us today is nicole armstrong along with sarah (inaudible) of our office provided a national representation for our office at the national association for civilian oversight law enforcement. they presented-they did a very well attended presentation over hundred members attended. it was the virtual annual conference and they provided training about upgrading oversight. how to use business analysis to improve civilian oversight operation. we are also full speed ahead in the audit department. last thursday dpa sent a

draft of the first interim report about misconduct audit for sfpd review and on monday this week dpa and the controller office started the 24 month follow-up on recommendations made in the use of force audit. i will have several comments with respect to other agenda items but i like to end last but not least and let you know that sarah hawkins myself and our director of investigation eric baultzar attended the active shooter training with sfpd members. thank you chief for allowing us to attend. again, it was a excellent training that really hit home for me personally. i don't know how many of you have children here

that are school age in san francisco, but i do, and it really helped me understand the amount of work and courage it takes for the officers to respond to active shooter situations and made me very appreciative of their work. i also wanted to let you know that we were welcomed by all of the different members and including the members of (inaudible) everyone from lieutenant mehan to sergeant (inaudible) there were tactical sergeant there that were gracious explaining the different scenarios to us and it was amazing because again, like cmcr these classes are full and these classes are volunteer based, so these are officers that are going out there and learning how to risk their lives on behalf of our children. i wanted to give them the recognition that they

deserve and are to also give chief scott and everybody that puts on this complex scenario based training where officers are literally opening doors and getting shot, i wanted to give them a shout out. it is important to talk about it. i know they gave commissioner benedicto a shout out so i give them a shout out. i also-in that vain wanted to also give my personal opinion. i don't know if it is possible, but in terms of training these officers are asking for training and volunteering for training so i know there are a lot of questions and contverseries surrounding the budget for sfpd but to the extent funds can be earmarked to improve expand training for the officers they are ready willing and able to participate and i think it is important

for us to keep that in mind. with that, i just wanted to say thank you and last but not least, say thank you for signing our certificates for our interns. i know it is a small gesture, but it really means a lot to them to receive the certificates from the commission. with that, i open up to any questions or comments that anybody may have. >> i think you wowed the crowd. doesn't look like there is any. >> i strongly urge everyone that is capable of going to go. it is one thing to think about how officers respond. monday morning quarter-backing opposed to the 1 to 3 second window they have to make these important decisions. i think it was a very valuable training for all to attend and we hope to send the rest of our investigators

and attorneys to the trainings moving forward. >> scenario based trainings are very intense. i rememberm when i first joined and think i died in every single scenario. >> thank you. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. one question, i was know there was dialogue around the mou development between dpa and the police department. is there any update or progress you can give us? >> we did write it. i wrote it, and i understand that director henderson sent a copy to chief scott and commissioner-president elias, but my understanding is we have not heard a response back. >> chief. yes. >> we did receive dpa's draft and we met with the district attorney this week and got input on the mou,

because we have been directed to present at the same time, so based on what we now know as far as the mou recommendations from the da office, we will go back to this document and follow up with dpa. we probably have a few things we want to iron out but we have the document, it was turned around very quickly and we will be on it this week and hopefully get this done very quickly. >> chief, it was perfect. [laughter] >> thank you. >> thank you for the update and glad that is moving forward because that is a essential element of this transparency. thank you. >> sergeant. >> members that like to make public comment regarding dpa director report approach the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment.

>> thank you, next item. >> 6, commission reports. dish cushion and possible action. (commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting.) - commission president's report - commissioners' reports - commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings (action) >> commissioner benedicto. >> couple things to report. first on dgo9.01. there were two (inaudible) took place last week with the collaboration of the human rights commission. i want to thank the human rights commission, director cheryl davis and dedicated staff and volunteers for helping to facilitate these excellent suggestions. there were two more this week including one wrapping up as we speak where vice president carter

oberstone is as well. the sessions have been tremendous sources of valuable feedback. thank the members of the community that attended the sessions. there is a informative article written last week in mission local summarizing sessions last week. overall i think by my count there have been at least 9 or 10 sessions with these additional ones, which are all most durable the most we have done for department general order which 5.01 there were 4 with one commission meeting held so call that 5. the process hasn't been perfect. i guess my friends in wealth and disparities will point out in public comment i like to provide appreciation for wealth and disparities for attention and work on this process but i do think it has been a significant improvement and a lot of transparency and community feedback and so grateful to members

of community to members of organizations who participated in this process. also last week i attended the cit awards which was a tremendous privilege (inaudible) tremendous behavior by officers adopting principles this commission is reinforcing for the last number of years. de-escalation. (inaudible) each of the 7 insdants lives were saved and you saw our policies working exactly the way they are supposed to so i want to commend all the officers and the awards both go to officers and public health practitioners of department of public health who receive awards for their role on the teams so i want to commend all the officers and public health practitioners both recognized in these awards. i was talking to chief and it is hard to recognize just the awardees because there

are so many incident that resolve through the cip principles so i want to acknowledge (inaudible) called out and awarded these principles play a role in the policing. that's all. >> thank you commissioner benedicto. commissioner walker. >> thank you president elias. i had think all did have updates on the dgo list and everything on the list is moving forward. there is one in particular that we were discussing a working group. the hate crimes dgo that you assigned me. we are going to be moving that forward in the near future. i think because of the holidays a lot is being moved off a little bit but it was helpful to get everybody on board with that with the dpa and the department, so also i know there is a

promotion list out and i sort of looked at how it might be moving us back on women in leadership in the department and just recruiting in general. things we talked about and made commitment with, so i had a conversation and there is a strong commitment to carry forward the 30/30 contract and get going and moving forward i think we need to all work on recruitment doing what we can do to get people to choose this as a career. i'm going to really be active in that moving that forward. i also had meetings with community folks business organizations to help with better coordination between all our efforts to make-help with law enforcement to make our streets safe. the ambassador programs the alchemy groups and discussing possible training partnerships

to have these organizations really help us fill in the blanks we might have because of the fact we are down in officers. i'm excited about that. everybody is supportive of getting not just these groups but all the different departments to work as partners on the in the streets. there are things that really aren't prese jurisdiction but there is no one else to do it, so you know, again this is one of those things you asked me to look into and think there is a real interest from different departments and the supervisors and mayor and our department to really make that work better, so hopefully we can have more information to share. >> that would be great. >> thank you. >> interested in the training they receive. >> they don't very much but that is where we could. >> definitely. i know the 4th amendment civil rights type

stuff is really important so we want them to be trained like our officers and held to the same standard and adhering the mission of the department which is safety with respect. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. i have a quick report. i want to thank everyone on your team for setting up the ride along. i will go on a ride along on the 9 and excited about that. it will be my first ride along and heard exciting things about that. [laughter] that will take place. we did-commissioner benedicto might give a update but i will chime in, we had a work group meeting for the dgo701, the juvenile dgo and that is in-it is rolling. there was supposed to be a meeting this week but there was a need to postpone, so that

is moving along and there we will have a robust conversations because there is work to do there. and lastly, i met with folks from the electronic frontier foundation and that prompted me to remind myself to ask where we are with regards to the development of the outreach plan and messaging around the or the request for video feeds from the community, and what that documentation looks like, because i know the last time we had a presentation on it, they indicated the paperwork was being developed but it would be great to understand what the roll out will look like and i love to agendize maybe at 6 month point maybe in may or june of next year for us to have like a data crunch on how many request, what

the impact has been and hopefully can continue to avail of the impact hopefully positive impact that had on our safety outcomes. >> i think we did agendize-we were going to get the forms together with respect to how we track the data, especially the racial data around this and circumstances. >> yes. we do need to get it- >> okay. you think december or january? >> i like to do it in december. >> okay. alright. sergeant youngblood can take care of that and also do the 6 month. that is a great idea. >> lastly on community policing, the dgo just revised in 21. we will get involved in the development of the manual. i think that is a good way for us to chime in on best practices, so thank you very much. >> have fun on your ride along. commissioner yee. >> thank you president elias. just want to update you on the dgo. met with the staff

this monday right after commissioner walker, so brought me up to speed. looks like they have done a terrific job. looks like most of these dgo has moved forward, so hopefully by the next meeting we can give you more detail status as they update me as well. also want to thank commissioner burns who worked on the cit award ceremonies that went out. we will meet thursday at 1 p.m. i believe to wrap up the final two recipients on there. on regards to commissioner walker's working with all the communities safety and public safety people in there, i am like you, strength in number like the warriors is watt we have to do. if we can put more eyes on the ground keep us informed and

also public safety. looking forward to see it work here in san francisco moving forward. we have so much resource here-including police department we have the sheriff, traffic officers, ambassadors and even residents that can also be our eyes and ears that make it safer in the city so looking forward to that one day going forward. that's all where have to report. thank you madam president. >> thank you commissioner yee and commissioner benedicto walker and yanez for taking the dgo and running with it and giving update. commissioner burn, any updates? >> excuse me president elias. i gave a update at the last meeting and will be prepared to give another at the next meeting.

>> thank you very much. >> members that like to make public comment approach the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> line item 8. prezendation of dpa quarterly report 1, 2 and third quarter 2022. discussion. >> good evening presidents elias and fellow commissioners and chief scott. i like to introduce our operations manager nicole arm strong who put this presentation together and she and i will address any issues you may have. but this will give a better overview of it statistical data opposed to weekly trends. these are trends that occurred over sev sl quarters. >> welcome mrs.

armstrong. sergeant you want to start the clock when she is ready. said with you are ready. not going to cheat you out of 10. if you got it done in 9 (inaudible) >> she is rockstar you will want tohear what she has to say. >> no worries. welcome. >> (inaudible) my name is nicole armstrong. i sound like a frog. still recovering when i was sick from covid. i don't have it anymore but still sound like a frog. if i cough i apologize in advance. i will probably go quicker then normer normal because i don't want to sound like a frog very long. please be easy on me, this isn't my first one in person and might be nervous and might talk faster then i usually do and i say like a lot, i apologize. let me begin. i want to start with highlights because i believe in the bottom line up front give you things we look at

specifically and things we are proud of. one as you know from my presentation we are (inaudible) we were able to dine 9 months. so excited it is working and people are using it, getting good feedback and amazing progress. me made 90 policy recommendations to improve policing. our number one improper conduct is failure to comply with general order or department bulletin and can dpa investigated 68 cases invents captured (inaudible) i don't know if you are familiar, basically we are big proponent on body worn camera because there are cases that we have where we can watch the camera and see the action the officer took was proper conduct and able to close on it face is what we call it so able to close those cases. we are huge proponent of body worn

camera. cases open by quarter. as you note i always want to show comparison of a trend of a couple years what it looks like through the quarters and years and this is the same information presented differently because we have different ways of looking and able to read information. what you can see right now through the different quarters you can see really in 2020 huge spike in numbers when we (inaudible) covid violations as well as the protest cases we had and 2020 more balance and now seeing a slight trend downward but going back up as we go into the 4th quarter. close cases more of (inaudible) you see the way it goes down. at beginning of 2020 when we changed to new case management system and went remote we closed cases like crazy and wanted to get the numbers down (inaudible) you see the number settle until you get to 2022 where we close cases

but a slower rate. this is one i'm excited to show. when we present numbers to the commission or anybody we never want to look at numbers from internally at dpa. one thing we wanted to look at because we noticed there was a downward trend in cases is is it just dpa having a downward trend and what i found when we look at the cases is that it is a national trend seeing cases going down. it was funny because we reached out to agencies and departments they were wondering why their numbers were going down and they are look you are looking nationally and we said we want to understand is it bigger picture across the nation or san francisco specific. we are still looking at the numbers but as what you see on the chart there is significant increase down for all the major kind of operations. you will see some with increase and we found there is increase in places where they had new

legislation. creating organizations. like a recognition or brand recognition, so the people that had more name in the news or seeing more of that agency or what they were doing so a higher spike. we will keep looking at the numbers as we go, but this is just limited information but it is interesting to see and study and dive into the data. i want to remind is we are able to look from a certain level but because san francisco charter for dpa is so expensive so we investigate pretty much any case that gets brought to us other agencies don't but may not be able to compare the information in a robust micro level because some people only get use of cases or some cases that are referred from iad so it compares apples to oranges but will look at it data and compare and contrast and see what is going on. how

did dpa receive complaints? we receive phone and online but we start to see a trend upward of people coming into our office and hoping as we continue that more people will come in and use our new facilities are feel are barely touched because the pandemic happened right after we moved in so excited to use it and have more come into the office to talk and tell what we do at dpa. you see a graph. this looks a little crazy. i want you to see who the complaintant are. the right hand size is ages and left you see our ethnisties. the one thing you notice is (inaudible) highest number on both charts. (inaudible) why we would have such a high number? because we make it so people can pick or choose if they want to provide

demographic data, we do not force people to do it. we also found that sometimes our investigators feel uncomfortable asking questions. what do we do to fix this is how we move forward with these things. what we identified is if we have training opportunities for staff that help increase the numbers information we get and also refor matting how we write why we collect demographics online. we have a very stale -we use for (inaudible) if we change our messaging that makes it user friendly or people read it better and hope it increase the number of demo graphics. [speaker speaking too fast] we are also working on this and working on doing new outreach and targeting different

communities. i know some of the new-really proud of the number of (inaudible) help specific groups target communities we are missing out on. excited to work on these programs and i know as we keep move forward we will find new areas we can increase and help get more people into dpa because we need the name recognition as we saw. we have to find a way to notify people we exist and if they come in we are here to help you. we will keep moving forward as we go along. alright. just want to give a snapshot of allegations. just to understand we have allegation levels which is macro approach how we look at cases and then a micro approach. our macro approach is like neglected (inaudible) micro we go into fine detail to find if it is body worn camera or

4th amendment violation. we look a macro and micro level. our allegations we received by type and quarter number one is neglect of duty. that is consistent across the board neglective duty. failure to take required action. failure to activate body worn (inaudible) conduct on becoming officers making rude comments or behaving in a inappropriate way. let me get to the case findings. as you look between our different quarters and this is quarter (inaudible) see the most recent all the way to quarter 1, you see that proper conduct is number one across the board for us. fallowed by insufficient evidence and-means we can't prove or disprove a case. proper conduct is the highest is something good. i

like when we can identify things with cases and make sure we have evidence to prove one way or another. if i was a plaintiff it would suck to have insufficient goal so our true goal is to make sure we investigate (inaudible) to try to answer the questions to best of our ability. improper conduct, this is macro approach. in these quarters we did 46 improper conduct cases and had 145 improper conduct allegations. as you can see on here, the most common was neglect of duty and unwarranted actions. this is micro approach. we will look at details for what it is for the micro one so you notice neglect of duty i took a snapshot, the biggest we had. i want to see the top 3. it is failure to comply with department order or bulletin. next is failure to activate body worn camera and the other

side is officer behave or spoke inappropriately or made a arrest without cause. mediation. we have 17 cases mediated. one thing to highlight is mediation team is going to roll calls and training the officers on mediation and we paid 80 officers so far and will continue to do that. policy. (inaudible) 10 department general orders analyze lots of-love working with her. 90 policy recommendations and are worked really hard on making sure all these different policy things have gone on. it does have the update so these numbers are a little off but just closed 68 cases. (inaudible) i have seen all the work and pages continue and they are probably some of the hard est working people in our office. audit. already covered those. the draft is out now so this is a little old but we are proud of the audit team and work they are doing and steve is an

amazing person and great it bounce ideas off. internship. we hope have (inaudible) 400 hours of research this year. finally i know i'm out of time and you are looking at me like you better stop talking. excited to let you know again that we presented at (inaudible) it was really great and amazing and an amazing experience. we are now analyzing 5 year trends across national levels and excited to let you know our next project we did complainant portal and working to try to design officer portal to allow the officer tuesday look up cases because we want to make it transparent for everyone and they have access and can goal is make it so it does not cost a penny so waiting for the next bridge and hopefully able to get it for free. done. sorry. >> great job. i like the graphics. >> thank you. >> they were informative and loved the anolysis of the

quarters and then-or years and then the quarters. i thought that was helpful so thank you. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. congratulations on your successful presentation. seems there was a lot of interest so we are trailblazing in many areas. quick question around one of the slides had national trends data around complaints. are those sustained or allegations? >> the national trend is just cases received. >> received. >> part of the future is look at the sustained as well so we have asked for sustained. the number some of--it is apple to orange and try to get the data but because of the other ways the other site agencies review that data might not be able to compare so collecting the information and will let you know what we can do with it. >> with the decline to state, do you do any

follow-up? do you inquire about reason for decline to state is there a comment box because there are many-we can speculate in many different ways about why that happens. i from experience know a lot of people who just fear retaliation. i know that doesn't happen anymore not with our current department but do we inquire about the reason? >> we have a long survey we send at the end. i'm looking to try to revamp it because i know from experience if someone gives me a long survey i will probably only make through the first 2 pages and it does cover data. i think i probably add a box on the online form and start doing that. it also is additional training but don't see why we can't. great idea. thank you. >> if i may-commissioner yanez. i think it is important to give our

complainants a safe space to provide the information. it is already nerve-wracking for a lot people to contact us and why we want to give them the opportunity not to have to reveal their identity or information about their identity. for example, we at this point also take anonymous complaints. sometimes we do have complainants that provide us information and then ask not to contact them anymore. we think that generally speaking as a policy it is more important to provide that safe opportunity for people to make the complaint and follow-up and investigate then it is to force them to answer questions that may make them uncomfortable and worst case scenario with draw the complaint which is a option and does occur not often but does occur. i think that is the rational behind it and the reason why

we don't stress or push very hard on that. >> thank you for the clarification. i think consumer driven approach is very important. and then the last question with regard to failure to activate body worn cameras, as you just said, this benefits everyone both the officers and the community in general and ultimately safety for all. do we have any idea of what the cost would be or what it would take for our department to just activatet their camera as soon as we go on? are there department s - >> i think that is question for chief scott. our office in conjunction with sfpd continues to provide

training to officers and giving them trends and what to expect if they have a complaint from dpa and we give explanations watt what we see as biggest area where officers are getting in trouble and body worn camera is one. i think i said it before, i always tell officers when in doubt turn it on. i think the officers have legitimate concerns and do think there are some jurisdictions my understanding los angeles is one that makes officers turn it on all the time, but i would differ to chief scott on that. we are making every effort to convey to the officers how important it is to turn them on. i want to clarify one thing on that issue. there is the issue of them not turning it on at all, which i believe that issue has gone down. what we are

seeing is the officers not turning it on fast enough, so i would just differ to chief scott on some of your questions. >> if i may, it is very (inaudible) there are privacy concerns with having the camera on all the time. officers have to take restrooms braked and things like that. administrative conversation in stations and things like that. i don't think la turns them on all the time. their policy is similar to ours in terms of when they turn them on. one of the things maybe for the future, this technology particularly in critical incidents (inaudible) fire arms or things that i think will be helpful. we don't have any of that yet but it is out there and something we need to explore. >> right. i think it is important and would

just behoove us to explore that direction given how many of these come up and as she just pointed out, the majority of the time these are going to absolve officers of wrong-doing so as long as dpa is willing to put the time in to look at the footage i think that is a reasonable direction for us to take or that would be what i encourage. thank you. >> if i could stress, i think we can't stress it enough that the trend in our findings also reflects positively on body worn camera footage because since the footage has been instated we are much more likely to give the officers and community definitive answer such as whether the officer acted properly or improperly. our statistics with respect to insufficient evidence findings have gone down drastically since body worn camera has been implemented and we close cases-i don't

remember what the exact number is, but we also stress the fact that there are man y cases now that are closed based on body worn camera footage alone. we kronet to ask officers questions because it is clear that what they did and it is clear that they did what we expect them to do. >> commissioner benedicto. >> thank you. couple questions. (inaudible) numbers vary quarter to quarter. it looks like looking at the case findings by quarter policy failures dropped off completely in third quarter. is there a particular reason? >> we are exploring what the trends are coming up with and what we find is it is really random how-one thing we wanted to look at is do our cases correlate to call of services or anything like that and

what we are looking at so far we don't see a correlation, so it is really just the number of the type of cases that we get and when we are able to resolve the case. because you have to think we might have a case with (inaudible) or case 6 months so just depends when we get it and what evidence we are able to get and time period. the quarters it just rotates about this quarter have a couple more then this one or not. it isn't specific reason. >> got it. another question i had is, side benefit of these sessions (inaudible) members will talk about issues not just related to 9.01 and one thing interesting (inaudible) that have a lot of police interaction that don't know-it sounds like there is a good effort to line up and make sure that officers are aware of the role dpa

plans. is there a plan to do community outreach? >> absolutely. >> i can also take that. i think that directorhanderson wanted to be here to provide you guys with a clearer picture of what we are doing but we are taking these numbers and taking these trends and using the national trends to figure out how we can better access the needs in our community and taylor outreach to address the specific needs of the community, so these numbers are not in vain. we are taking them, analyzing them, comparing them to the national trend and we will be using them to drive our outreach efforts moving forward. >> great. i also wanted for one question that we received at one of the working sessions was about the role of body worn cameras and want

to reiterate everything said about the role they play. (inaudible) 68 cases in the period where body worn cameras (inaudible) that is strong endorsement of the positive benefit adoption of body worn cameras had for this department since adopted in 2016. that speaks strongly. earlier (inaudible) i think it is worth commending dpa for tremendous work and recognition. i am sure if paul were here on a shoestring budget dpa does incredible work and has received recognition from national organizations for its work in civilian oversight and that for those members of the public that want to know what dpa does this presentation is a great starting point and think dpa is to be commended for its great work. thank

you. >> thank you. we appreciate it. i know i'm a (inaudible) for director henderson and his ability to pump us up, but it is definitely-we are here, we are available to the community and we welcome any questions and any complaints no matter how small or large we can be reached online over the phone and again in person, and we have investigators on staff that are able to drop everything at a moments notice and address complaints that the public has. thank you. >> you said shoestring budget? i like that. you got a (inaudible) >> we love doing the dpa (inaudible) i love doing the presentation and there is a lot of people in the office that enjoy talking to

the community and interacting with them so if anybody in the public that wants a presentation or a copy of the presentation or learn about dpa, we are here and we want to do that. that's why we are in the positions. that is why we do what we do because we love our job ares. right? we want to educate people teach people let them know what they can do and how to reach the department. we are here and available. >> one final question i remembered after commissioner yanez. on the national trend slide you indicated overall downward trend nationally on oversight civilian agencies. is that due-you didn't speak to the reason but is it due to reform efforts made nationally and recognition because you said inverse is true. >> we are still looking at the data so don't want to say anything definitive at this time because we just started diving into it. that is

suspicion but as we will look we will let you know the details but don't want to say something and find i'm wrong. if i ruin the surprise what will i talk about for the annual report? >> exactly. thank you, great job. >> thank you. >> sergeant. >> members that like to make public comment approach the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment. >> next item, please. >> line item 9 (inaudible) department of police accountability policy documents for the release of personnel records under california penal code -discussion and possible action. the police commission revising the existing policy to incorporate changes under the law. >> thank you.

commissioner i think the title says it all. the city attorney drafted this policy to comport with sb16. as you are aware we took a great deal of effort when we drafted the sb1421 policy and it was a mirror of the state legislation in that vain sb16 or the edits done to include sb16 were also emirer mirror of the state policy. commissioner-direct henderson. >> wanted to say it would-i know this commission has a history of giving the sf pd and dpa opportunities to weigh in before promoting and accepting policies that effect our departments. it would have been great to see a copy to proof read it before it went to commission because we would have been happy to inform on page 3 we

are listed as the department of public accountability, in fact the department of police accountability so it is great if we could make that change to this document in the future maybe at least get a heads up or opportunity to engage the commissioners city attorney office, sfpd and others in the drafting of documents that effect our protocol. >> if you didn't have a shoestring budget we would probably get your name right. >> on a shoestring budget i can proof read. >> i will ask to make that amendment on the pages you cited with that in mind make a motion to to adopt with the revisions discussed. can i get a second? >> second. >> sergeant. >> members that like to make public comment regarder regarding line item 9 approach

the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment. on the motion- [roll call] >> you have 7 yeses. line item 10. early intervention system. 2022 second quarter prezbitation discussion. >> who do we have? we have big shoes to fill after mrs. armstrong, so and you have time to beat. >> hello again. good evening. >> thank you. you have a clock? chief

you are the only one on time tonight. [multiple speakers] >> alright. good evening. so,

(inaudible) risk managementophilus office and thanks for the opportunity to present to you the early intervention system which i'll refer to as eis and specifically talk about the second quarter 2022. first i like to give credit to the team because the content of this presentation has been provided by lieutenant william toomy. this is sergeant darwin nuvol who does the day to day work. there are two senior analyst wendy (inaudible) and stephanie (inaudible) answer two questions up front. why do we have a eis system and what are the goal snz they are to identify performance indicators. the mechanisms for insuring accountability that may cause liability. extra support during a stressful time and then capitalize underlined before adverse event and then finally to improve

overall employee performance. i doopt to make a distinction eis is not discipline and that's a point we want to drive across to members too. we do not want eis equated in their minds with discipline because that's not the goal. the current performance indicators for eis are on the slide but i'll read them. use of force, officer involved shootings, officer involved discharges, fire arms discharges, (inaudible) civil suits, (inaudible) vehicle pursuits. i will move on. the current alert threshold. based on those events and performance irdicators the thresholds one officer involved

shooting or one officer involved discharge so any (inaudible) three or more use of force insdants in a 3 month period. 3 or more depa complaints in 6 month period. any 5 or more indicators i read previously in a 6 month period. 4 or more dpa complaints 12 month period. any 6 or more indicators in a 12 month period. with all these thresholds these trigger review for closer look at patterns circumstances and really supervisor and member talk about what's causing this pattern with the officer. okay. quarter 2 is going to be very different from all the other quarters that i reported on. i think we should start with talking about our use of force policy and update on that. i know that this is the first quarter where the revision of 5.01

dgo was enacted that eis captures that data. there are three endicators that i will talk about. we believe drastically increased the eis alerts. one is the physical control reporting threshold. essentially with 5.01 that changed to lower reporting standard for physical control. with 5.01, firearm at low ready position is new reporting requirement. i want to mention also the third point, it is inefficiency that with the-during implementation we also implemented a new reporting program in cdw or crime data warehouse and that

made more efficient in capturing the data. it is electronic and use said to have forms that had to be filled out and routed through the station to our office and we would move that data on to a database, so now we have the ability to do that in cdw and that is just streamlined and real time. next we will talk about alerts by type. i think what i want to point out in this is there is a outlier and the second quarter of 2022 there were 2 officer involved shootings, one involving one officer and one involving 9 officers so that is very unusual for any quarter in recent history. the other indicators are pretty consistent with what we see in quarters

previously. the members receiving alerts. 16.2 or 321 sworn members generated at least one report during the quarter. by comparison that number is usually closer to 3 or 4 percent so that is a significant increase. i will move to the next slide because that will show comparison and just kind of outlines increase during this quarter. here we have alerts by quarter and there was a 429.2 percent increase in alerts from quarter 1, 2022 to quarter 2. we have gone back over a year just to show. i'll start from the top. quarter 2 were 50eis alerts. quarter 3, 2021, 71. quarter 4, a hundred. quarter 1 of 2022, 89 and quarter 2 of 2022, 471

alerts. and then just a drilling down further, use of force for the second quarter 2022 there were 1945 indicator points in this quarter. as compared to the previous year during the same time period, only 267. what happens with these alerts? these alerts are generated every month sent to the stations and then let's talk what happens, the dispositions themselves, 132 emerge and that's-i'll let darwin explain. >> or alert system generate alerts every month and we send the alerts out every 2 months so it is if a

member generate a alert, for example march and april and we were to send those alerts out we just send-merj merge the two alerts and snd out to the station rather then sending two alerts for the same person. we will merge those two alerts all the data is going to be still there, no data will be lost. we merge those two alerts to pretty much consolidate and send one alert to the station. >> thank you. and then the other thing i want ed to point out on the pie chart, there are 331, 70 percent active andpeneding review. that means they have been sent out to the various units or departments and supervisors are currently reviewing those reports and whatever is included in the package. okay.

interventions. in quarter 1 of-this is for comparison. quarter 2, 2021 no active or new intervention but one intervention closed in the most current quarter and speaking to which is quarter 2022 there was one active-there is one active intervention, none that were open during the quarter and none completed. outside of natural intervention through sergeant (inaudible) engagement outside eis that include informal counseling, formal counseling and performance improvement plans. i asked for comparison q2021 to q22, 2022 and there is no significant pattern. they are similar enough. okay. and i am about to brap wrap up. i did want to give a update on

benchmark and our work with merging our systems and then moving over to the benchmark system. i will turn this over to sergeant (inaudible) to speak to. >> currently in our current benchmark we are continuing with our data collection. we are gathering data from our aim system, from our use of force system, gathering data from the sheriff department so what benchmark is doing is gathering the data and pretty much validating the data, trying to make sure the data speaks well with their computer programs with algorithms and they are currently returning and assessing data model to see which model works best with our department and come with the best and most accurate results. the next phase with benchmark is set up meetings with the working group to

(inaudible) dgo in line and created and we will be discussing roles and permissions. >> i offer in the future potentially we can have benchmark speak to your directly about the work they are doing. and then that concludes my-say one more thing. i do know the commission has-the department and commission reworked 5.o1 so there could be changes in the eis reporting in the future because of that also so thank you for that and that does conclude my presentation. >> i think that would be a good idea to have benchmark. i heard positive things about them and services they provide so happy to hear we were able to transition utilize them because i think it will be a easier system and easier to understand because it isn't easier to understand the eis system and how it

really helps. >> more technically advanced, more complete and potentially backed by scientific analysis, so intuitively i think our indicators are valid and good,b if we have indicators backed by science and research think that would be improvement. >> we love evidence based practices. commissioner walker. >> thank you for this. i'm trying to understand this is new for me. i haven't been here long enough to see this before. i'm curious of the increase. is that because of a new dgo? is it sort of stricter evaluation? is that what the increase is about?

>> you touched on it after 5.01 i asked to revise it because the feedback was the fact that under the prior 501 we revised there were too many categories the officer had to report so they were overreporting so the number is inflated because of the reason. the department said this isn't working for us, this is one reason why we went back to the table and changed the policy to create different criteria for reporting. >> right. you pretty much answered that. >> i was going to add the high level when 5.01 was revised the threshold lowered so it captured a lot more of the (inaudible) >> that is what i assume about wanted to clarify. great. thank you. >> patterns of use of force are a driver of

eis so any change to that policy will significantly effect eis. as i mentioned in the presentation, it is not disciplinary, officers really don't like being alerted and on eis so when that number went up that has effect on the entire system. >> seems like a very effective in what we are doing here. >> commissioner byrne. >> thank you president elias. it was the same question commissioner walker-what lead to the 472 percent increase and you are saying that there was a lower threshold to report things. saying nothing significant about that 472 increase, if i hear this correctly? >> the threshold for reportable use of force significantly changed with the

old-well, without-the revised. now it has gone through another revision. the version that was in effect in 2-2-2022- >> you say this is a outlier? >> well it was a result of the new definitions and the new thresholds that were put out in 5.01, yes. >> so you expect to see drastic decline for quarter 3, 2022? >> i believe this commission just approved the newest version of 5.01 and that would effect quarter 4 of 2022. we should expect to see- >> it will actually the quarter 1 because we plan to activate december 8- >> they gave [multiple speakers] >> i believe it will

normalize. it will still be higher because the threshold is lower then previously, but because we-feedback it will normalize. it will go down some. >> okay. we'll be back to hear about it. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. thank you commander. i think we are in contact around the eis system and potentially setting up a benchmark presentation. i think that will be beneficial to everyone. just two questions on this report. what does a intervention or closed intervention in-what does the intervention entail and what leads to closure of such intervention? >> i will let sergeant-because he is directly involved in the intervention. >> that is a great question commissioner.

interventions is very unique to each individual, so the intervention plans are created in partnership with the member who received the alart. partnership with the sergeant and partnership with eis unit and we collaborate to work out the best plan to address what the issues are if the issues are time management, the intervention plan could be as simple as giving that member a calendar book and having the pip sergeant check it every month to make sure that schedules are written in that calendar book. it could be if it has to do with use of force the plan could entail setting up private lessens with the staff at the police academy along with taking online training on the post-learning portal. it could entail just

simple as a check in with bsu behavioral science unit. each intervention unique to each individual. what happens is at the-there are checkmarks at 90 days, 180 days and 1 year, so at the 1 year mark the sergeant will conduct a final evaluation and determine if intervention was successful or unsuccessful. they will discuss intervention with the member, discuss with commanding officer and inform the eis unit. >> great. thank you. do these whether pip plans or actual interventions that are documented, do they inform performance evaluation in any way shape or form? >> every time a member receives a eis alert sergeant conducts a

performance evaluation. not sure if that is the same performance evaluation- >> i am thinking more tradition sale set goals for the year, you use these to inform who gets a promotion. it is a system we have to insure that wree are doing a equitable administration of our duties. >> this is outside the normal performance appraisal system. this is in addition to-it doesn't replace it, it is more robust and it would be from the same supervisor, so it would be additional tool in addition to the regular performance appraisal. >> incorporated into the evaluation some way shape or form? >> they are related because both directly are speaking to the performance of the

officer. >> that's the reason why i'm very interested in the issue. not just because i will be working oen the revision of the dgo. i know just the framing and conitation this discipline hasrectomy now it is a negative conitation. i think discipline is something that everyone in the department displays so further discipline doesn't have to have the negative conitation. it is raising awareness and insuring a senior officer or supervisor can help develop and improve performance of a officer. this is helpful and understanding the overall system and i'm excited to engage with you in this process further because i think these are practices that are tried and true all most in any field. bringing things to the attention of someone when there is a need

to improve and it is helpful we know but when the alerts dont lead to performance improvement plans and sometimes the officers may not feel there is anything to improve, so i think it is all interconnected in one way shape or form. >> you hit the nail on the head. this program designed to identify indicators prior to the officer running into discipline issue. the department does spend a lot of effort and time and resources into trying to do exactly what you said. >> thank you commissioner yanez. sergeant. >> members of the public that like to make public comment regarding line item 10 the eis presentation, approach the podium or press star 3. >> there is no pubplic comment. >> great. >> thank you. have a great evening.

>> line item 11. if you like to make public comment approach the podium or press star 3 now. there is no public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> 12. vote on whether to hold item 13 in closed session. san francisco administratesive code section 67.10 action. >> i vote to hold itedm 13 in closed session. >> second. >> on the motion- [roll call] 7 yeses. we are in

>> voted it elecktd whether to disclose closed session. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> on the motion not to disclose- [roll call] >> you have 7 yeses. >> public comment. >> members of the public that like to make public comment press star 3 or approach the podium. you have no public comment. >> fantastic. next

item. >> adjournment. action. >> yea! five minutes larry, five minutes. [meeting adjourned] >> you are watching san francisco rising.

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our parking and transit for revenue. we are not expected to recover them until 2027. this budget takes a one-time federal release funding and spreads that out between now and 2025. and our task is to rebuild trust with the voters that sfmta can actually deliver on their goals and that includes things like making muni faster, more frequent, and more reliable. includes making our streets safer and making everyone feel safe riding the bus. it means taking advantage of the amount of change we're going to experience in order to advance equity so that we invents -- invest the most amount of money in communities that need our services the most. it also means supporting san francisco in its larger economic recovery. basically two years between now and 2024 in order to build trust

with the voters and figure out how are we going to find muni moving forward because it is in 2024 and 2025 when the one-time federal release fund went out. >> are you planning on starting up? >> as a result of covid, we have 1,000 vacancies in the organization. that is why muni service is not fully recovered. this budget allows us to fully staff through 2024, which means we can restore muni service, invest in safety, and invest in other programs in order to make the transportation system work better for everyone. >> can you talk about the mooney service equity strategies? as you move out of the pandemic, how has that plan been updated? i have heard there are elevator upgrades in progress. >> we have been working a lot on equity during muni's recovery. we have been basing our work on the muni equity strategy. this is the plan we update every

two years that looks at the changing demographics of san francisco and helps us direct our transit resources where people need it the most. that means people with low income, people of color, seniors, people with disability, children, all the folks who have the fewest choices. during covid, when we had to strip back the transit system, 13 quarters of the workforce were in quarantine, we directed all of the agency's resources to the equity neighborhoods. places like the bayview, chinatown, the mission, the valley, and even through our recovery, we have continued to deliver the best muni service's so -- to the neighborhoods that need it the most. right now we are still operating more frequent service in core lines in equity neighborhoods than we did precovid.

and the result of that is extraordinarily high ridership. we are finding, for example, by investing in the frequency and reliability on lines like the 22 fillmore, that we are getting 133% of precovid ridership, even when the overall system is only at about half of the ridership recovery. that is 133%. that is on weekends. we are at about 96% of precovid ridership on our main equity lines on weekdays. we're also investing a whole variety of infrastructure projects aimed at making transit work better, particularly for people with disabilities. on the market street corridor, our elevators to the subway station date back to the 1970s and need significant renovation. right now we are busy working on renovating the elevators at the station. we have completed the elevator upgrade for the eastbound platform. we are now working on the

westbound platform. that will modernize the elevators and make them a lot more reliable, and make sure that we can continue to prioritize people with the fewest mobility choices. >> that's great. changing topics slightly, i understand the improvement project is halfway completed. have shared spaces made the product -- project more complicated? >> yes. lots of things have made the terminal project more complicated, including things like covid and supply chain issues. we learned a lot on the first phase of the terra vale project, which rebuilt the street from sunset boulevard to the zoo, including rebuilding all the infrastructure of the streets, the underground utilities, to modernize all that infrastructure and make it more resilient, and make sure that we do not have to rebuild the street, hopefully in any of our lifetimes. we also learned about the importance of collaborating, particularly with neighborhood businesses and residents.

we want to make sure that we are constructing the city's infrastructure in a time that the city is suffering and we are not adding to suffering. we're doing things like partnering with the mayor's office of economic workforce development to support neighborhood businesses through programming during this time. we are also making sure that businesses that create shared spaces in the parking lane, some of those need to be moved out of the way while the utility work is done underneath them. we are making sure that we will either move those platforms and outdoor eating areas back as they were, or help local merchants rebuild them so that we are not adding to the burden of local businesses and that we help everyone recover in this challenging time. >> quite right. finally, many of the sfmta vision zero quick build projects have been well received. can you talk about the evans street project?

>> one of the things we did during covid was dramatically expand the rate of what we call quick build projects, which are fast-moving projects using simple and cheap materials in order to redesign streets and test out new ideas and see how they work, as well as get a lot of feedback from community before moving into a larger capital project that converts all of that plastic stuff into concrete and trees and, you know, curb extensions. what we have been finding is that our quick build safety projects are able to cut severe injury and fatalities between 25 and 75%, depending upon the location on the techniques that we use. so we are targeting streets that have the highest rate of traffic crashes, particularly injury crashes and fatalities. we focused on evans, which is really important connector for

all modes of transportation between the bayview and the central neighborhoods of san francisco. also a street with a terrible track record of severe crashes. on evans, what we are doing, again using paint and plastic posts for the time being, is taking the lanes that are out there right now, and converting them to one lane in each direction plus turn pockets. what we found on streets like valencia or south bend this, or -- south van nass, is a street with one lane in each direction plus a term pocket can move just as much traffic as a street with two lanes in each direction. left turning vehicles mean the two lanes of traffic are never really available for through traffic. these road diets that we do have been tremendously effective for improving safety outcomes for

all road users, without exacerbating traffic. they do make all cars slow down to the speed of the most prudent driver. this week we are getting started in partnership with the department of public works on work to restripe all of evans between third and cesar chavez, and as part of this work will be collecting a lot of data, talking to industrial users in the industrial district and talking to folks in the bayview commercial district and in the mission about how it is working. we will make some adjustments along the way and if it is successful, then we will start another project that is more capital-intensive to make it permanent. if it is not successful, we will turn it back the way that it was, having spent very little money. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show. thank you for the time you have given us today. >> it has been great being here. thank you so much. >> that is it for this episode. we will be back shortly.

you have been watching san francisco rising. thank you for watching. [♪♪♪] >> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families

out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is

here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future. >> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness

scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go

outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together.

>> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to

feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the

same but different. >> driver, bye. >> hi. i'm will b. mixture weltake a walk with me. >> i just love taking strolls in san francisco. they are so many cool and exciting things to see. like -- what is that there? what is that for? hi. buddy. how are you. >> what is that for. >> i'm firefighter with the san francisco fire department havings a great day, thank you for asking. this is a dry sand pipe. dry sand pipes are multilevel building in san francisco and the world. they are a piping system to

facilitate the fire engineaire ability to pump water in a buildings that is on fire. >> a fire truck shows up and does what? >> the fire engine will pull up to the upon front of the building do, spotting the building. you get an engine in the area that is safe. firefighters then take the hose lyoning line it a hydrant and that give us an endsless supply of water. >> wow, cool. i don't see water, where does it come from and where does it go? >> the firefighters take a hose from the fire engine to the dry sand pipe and plug it in this inlet. they are able to adjust the pressure of water going in the inlet. to facilitate the pressure needed for any one of the floors on this building. firefighters take the hose bunked and he will take that

homes upon bundle to the floor the fire is on. plug it into similar to this an outlet and they have water to put the fire out. it is a cool system that we see in a lot of buildings. i personal low use federal on multiple fires in san francisco to safely put a fire out. >> i thought that was a great question that is cool of you to ask. have a great day and nice meeting you. >> thank you for letting us know what that is for. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]

. >> my name is ana renzi. i'm a fire investigator for the city and county of san francisco. the job of a fire investigator is to go after the fire has been put out and to determine the origin and the cause of the fire. so we are the people who after the firefighters have come in and done their magnificent work to extinguish the fire, we go

through the fire scene and we are able to find how the fire started. just showing up, being who you are can mean a world of difference to someone. when someone sees you as an identifiably queer person, an identifiable female presenting person or a person of color walk into their home, they can feel more comfortable and more trusting just knowing that you are around and that you may have some insight into their situation and to their community needs that others may not have. the san francisco fire department i'm proud to say goes out of its way to recruit women, minorities, and to the lgbtq+ community, we are

awaiting you and wanting you to come join us as a san francisco fire department. no one is going to represent us like you are going to represent us. no one is going to care for our communities and for our departments like you are going to come and represent our communities and our departments. i am a proud black queer member of the san francisco fire department and i'm especially proud to be part of an organization that respects and values our diverse communities in san francisco. [♪♪] . >> my name is kathy mccall. i'm director of san francisco national cemetery here on the

presidio of san francisco. this was designated as the first national cemetery on the west coast in 1884.however its history dates back to the 1850s along with the us army presence on the presidio itself. we have 26,300 gravesites that we maintain and thereare 32,000 individuals buried in this cemetery . the veterans who are buried here span all the war period going back to what we call the indian war, spanish-american war, world war i to korea, vietnam and then as recent as operation iraqifreedom . we have 39 medal of honor recipients. more than 400 buffalo soldiers buried here who are the african-americansoldiers who served with the ninth and 10th calvary . there's so many veterans buried

here, each withtheir own unique history and contribution . one of those individuals is all equipment prior. that's not her real name, that's her stage name and she was an actor during the civil war and while she was working she was approached by sympathizers who offered her a sum of money to cost jefferson davis on stage she did this but she recorded it to a union marshall . she was fired for doing this which made her a sweetheart to the local confederates and made her a good spy for the union. she gave information to the union until late 1863 when she was found out in order to be hung by confederate general braxton bragg of the union troops the town . no longer any good she even wrote a book.

she was given the honorary rank of major president lincoln and her inscription reads union spy. >> memorial day is a day of respect and morning for our veterans who have given their all five presidential proclamation it became a national holiday to beobserved on the last monday of the month of may . originally memorial day was called decoration day during the civil war to recognize the veterans whogave their lives . memorial day and veterans day getconfused because it involves veterans .veterans day is on november 11 is a day to honor our veterans who are still alive while at the same time we pay respect to those who have passed but memorial day is a day to show our respect to what was said and honor ourveterans who have passed on . >> lieutenant john david miley was a graduate of the united

states military academy atwest point in 1887 . he was commissioned as a second lieutenant with the fifth artillery regiment with the outbreak of the spanish-american war in 1898 he was assigned an aide-de-camp to major general william shatner, khmer and commander of the expedition to cuba.he was highly trusted and when the general staff fell lieutenant miley was designed to coordinate the attack on san juan hill in his place and would ultimately be the one to give the order that led to the charge of lieutenant colonel theodore roosevelt and the roughriders . a few days later he served as one of the commissioners who negotiated the spanish surrender of santiago july 17. in 1904 miley in san francisco wasnamed in his honor.we know that today as san francisco va

medical center . >> as a young man i grew up in south san francisco right next door to the national cemetery so when i became a cub scout we used to go over there in the 50s and decorate the gravesthat were there. when i got out of the service i stepped right back into it . went out with the boy scouts and put up the flags every year and eventually ended up being a scout at golden gate cemetery for many years. one day a gentleman walked upto me with a uniform of colonel retired . he grabbed me, i wasin uniform and says i need your help . from that day on i worked with cardinal sullivan doing military funerals and formed a group called the volunteers of america who brought in other veterans to perform military service and the closing of all the bases we got military personnel to do all the funerals. to this day i've done over 7000

funeral services and with my group we supplement the military, all branches. i'm honoring a fellow comrade was given his or her life in service to this country. and the way ilook at it , the last thing the family and friends will remember about that individual is the final service we give to them. so we have to do a perfect job. so that they go home with good memories. >> our nation flies the united states flag at half staff by presidentialproclamation as a symbol of mourning . also in va national cemetery flags are flown at half staff on the days we haveburials . is lowered to half staff before

the first burial takes place and ray is back to full staff after the last arial has been completed . on memorial day weekend we have hundreds of scouts veterans and volunteers who come out and placed individual gravesite flags on every grave throughout the cemetery transformation from when they begin to when they conclude and to have that coupled with our memorial day ceremony is very moving and suchappointment reminder of the cost of our freedom . it's a reminderto us not to take that for granted , to be truly grateful for the price is paid not only by those who given their lives but those will have served our country and still pay the price today in one way or another and it's so meaningful to be to work in the national cemetery and see the history around us and to know this is such an integral part of our nation's past and present.

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this is rolled you up we don't this it has chinese sister-in-law and a little bit of entertain sprouts and we love it here. >> there are 6 grilled cheese grilled to the crisp on the outside outstanding salsa and a lot of things to dip it knocks you out and it's spicecy and delicious i was the first person that came here and we were not prepared for this every year we're prepared everybody thinks what they're doing and we can cookout of our home and so the festivals

were part of the group we shove what we do and we w we tried to capture the spirit of xrifs. >> and there from there to sales and the hard part of the sales is 250 assess our market and creating a market opportunity giving limited risks and sales experience to our guys and >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest is katy tang.

[♪♪♪] >> hi. i'm chris manners, and you're watching san francisco rising, the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and revitalizing our city. with us today is katy tang, and she's talk to -- talking to us about assistance and services provided to local businesses. can we talk about the role of the office of small business? many small businesses are struggling to help. how can you help? >> director tang: we are here as the city's central point of information for all things small businesses, so we can help people start, stay, and grow in the city. if you want to start a small business, we can pair you up with small business advisors, who can talk you through your business plan, help you develop

it, whether it's regulatory requirements, business permits, and just help you understand the journey that was up ahead. and if you'd like to stay in san francisco and perhaps your business is facing challenges, we can also pair you with a business advisor who can assess your business needs and figure out whatside that would best help you. so for example, perhaps you need more marketing assistance or you need to be connected to a loan, a low interest loan or a grant program, if that's available. those are services we can provide to you, whether you're starting out or trying to stay in san francisco. and of course, if you want to expand and grow into a new space, we can help assist you with that and help prepare you for the journey ahead. we have a team dedicated to assist you you with all the small business needs, all the requirements needed to help you

establish your small business in san francisco. >> do you have an e.s.l. program for people who want to start small businesses? >> director tang: we have staff that can speak spanish and mandarin and cantonese, and we understand if english is not your first language, it can be difficult, so we want to be as helpful as possible. >> excellent. i know that s.f. shines was created to help with restoring and improvement. can you tell us more about that? >> yes. it's run out of a sister development and it's much needed in the small business community. if you are trying to improve your storefront, whether it's outside, perhaps you want to make some interior improvements, a lot of times,

that involves a lot of cost and resources to be able to do so. for example, you may need to hire an architect to submit drawings so you can get your work done. currently, s.f. shines is offer a pairing of business sign services. you can be paired up with an architect to get your drawings done to help you start to do the actual work. we hope that people will stay tuned, and you can find out more information on our website. that's sfgov.org/osb. >> let's talk about the shared spaces program. it's been a huge success, and outdoor dining spaces are very

popular. >> the shared spaces program, especially during the pandemic, really helped spaces survive. to have an outdoor space where people could safely gather was critical, and the office of small business has been working with these shared spaces during the pandemic. some may or may not have been up to the city's code regulations, so department of public works and other departments have been trying to figure out what violations are and help businesses come into compliance. the planning department and the city have decided that they'll give businesses until 2023 to

come into compliance. also in the meantime, for businesses that want to start new shared spaces, new parklets, that is still an on going program, a new program, so people can always submit their applications for shared spaces regardless whether they started one during the pandemic or not. >> do you anticipate there being other shared spaces programs in the future and how do small businesses go about finding out about them? >> small businesses can find out about it by visiting our website, sfgov/osb or you can call 415-554-6134, and we can connect you with the planning department and other agencies that would be connected with the shared spaces programs. >> over the pandemic,

businesses have been victimized by vandals and other crimes. how can you help them? >> the city offers a program called the vandalism relief fund, and this would allow businesses suffering from graffiti or broken windows to apply with the city through our neighborhood services division, and you could get up to 1,000 or 2,000 if you submit certain documentation, such as a photograph of the damage or a copy of the receipt or document showing the amount you paid for to correct the incident. we are so excited that the city now has a centralized permit center, where people can come and get their business done, hopefully, in the same day

where there are several different agencies, ranging from department of building inspection, planning department, public health, fire department, all here to help people, whether you're building a new business or even new construction, to be able to, again, fit all of your appointments in one day and get things done quickly. so starting in may, our office of small business has actually started working out of 49 south van ness at the permit center, and we have a team of two staff who are dedicated to helping small businesses through their permitting journey. so we do encourage people, you can come to the permit center or you can e-mail us at sfosb@sfgov.org, and you can communicate with our staff dedicated to helping you with your permitting needs. we hope that people will consider consulting with us before you even sign a lease so that we can help you on the path to success and

understanding the journey of setting up a small business in san francisco. >> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, miss tang. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> director tang: thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this show. we'll be back shortly. you've been watching san francisco rising. for sfgovtv, i'm chris manners. thanks for watching.

. >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000

to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant,

75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year, and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. >> we were awarded $43,000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large

by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back

to 1952. my name is david, and i'm the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure

like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the

entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how we're going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant to -- for us, opened the door to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that

the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san

francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is

great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there. ♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪

>> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities

that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all

the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot

of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown.

i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun. that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever

photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew

up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film.

i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used

to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket. and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big

cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids.

and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize

things especially organize my photos. >> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple

for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll

send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p >> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i

was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business

program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment

that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great

chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to

very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian

immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to

be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements.

>> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't

see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music] . >> shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services we help san francisco remain unique

and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. >> my name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and

neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's >> i am iris long. we are a family business that started in san francisco chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. today we follow the same

footsteps of my parents. we source the teas by the harvest season and style of crafting and the specific variety. we specialize in premium tea. today i still visit many of the farms we work with multigenerational farms that produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. it is very much like grapes for wine. what we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. growing up in san francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. i went to san francisco state university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special.

after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the

providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. it is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we have minimal hours because of our small team during covid. we do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. also, visit us online. we have minimal hours. it is nice to set up viewings of these products here.

[♪♪♪] ♪ homelessness in san francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesn't just affect neighbors without a home, it affects all of us. is real way to combat that is to work together. it will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and community members all coming together. [♪♪♪] >> the product homeless connect community day of service began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. what we do is we host and expo-style event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. there's over 120 service providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5% -- to prescription

glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal service providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that service today here it is an actual, tangible service people can leave with it. >> i am with the hearing and speech center of northern california, and we provide a variety of services including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. to follow updates when they come into the speech center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. if they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. >> san francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming

homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medi-cal, what you need identification, you don't have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d.m.v., you go across the hall to the d.m.v. to get your i.d. ♪ today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for follow-up service. >> for a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. we have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that today's event can ensure they stay house. many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medi-cal or learning about d.m.v. services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. >> i am the representative for

the volunteer central. we are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. on a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get t-shirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the different service areas and help them find the different services that they needs. >> one of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and supportive housing is by working with homeless outreach teams. they come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into short-term shelter, and talk about housing-1st policies. we also work very closely with the department of public health to provide a lot of our services. >> we have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. we have folks that help give out lunches in the café, we have

folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. >> participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. we do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. they can bring them into the event as well. we also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. we also have a bag check. you don't have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. >> we get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss,

but they didn't know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. >> our next event will be in march, we don't yet have a date set. we typically sap set it six weeks out. the way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. we always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. >> a lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they don't know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [♪♪♪] learned and expand

it across the city. [♪♪] the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers, and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin emergency initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services, and increase investments in the neighborhood. >> the department of homelessness and supportive housing is responsible for providing resources to people living on the streets. we can do assessments on the streets to see what people are eligible for as far as permanent housing. we also link people with shelter that's available. it could be congregate shelter, the navigation center, the homeless outreach team links those people with those resources and the tenderloin needs that more than anywhere else in the city. >> they're staffing a variety

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

community-based teams work daily to connect people to services, >> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot

of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to

collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant.

it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a

nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that

when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to

teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm

naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost.

>> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a

dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.