>> the chair called 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 a important part of your 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, ppy 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 moay morning ond. 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 receiveby 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]

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i'm currently an h2 firefighter for the san francisco fire department. i served active duty in the navy. i wanted something that was going to be in the medical field, but not necessarily stay in a hospital setting and i didn't want to stay in an office and this job kind of combines everything i was looking for. everyday's different. there's always something new and to learn.

and my first introduction to the department was being surrounded by people of the lgbtq community. and so we were able to get, you know, it just made things a little more comfortable that you could talk to people about things that people necessarily wouldn't understand. i've had to hide myself. able to come out. being able to understand many his and being able to do things in had that sense, it's very liberating to be able to speak like this, this city in particular, it's a mecca for the lgbtq+ community. you know, there's so much history behind it and being part of this community that now accepting us for who we are and what we do, we're able to just be ourselves. any time somebody finds out i am a member of the gay community, i don't get anybody talking about me, nothing at all. it's just oh, cool. you have a partner? like yes, i do. they start asking about that

and how my life is. you become part of the family and here in the san francisco fire department it really is just one big family. you know, it was my dream to be a san francisco fire department member and i'm here. >> for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and

community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have

many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all.

>> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

>> san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors & parking authority commission and ms. silva this meeting is held in hybrid at city hall 4 hundred and we welcome the public's are participation during the public comment period the phone number public comment call-in: 415.655.0001 access code: 2498 299 4934 when promoted identical star three the public has three minutes please speak clearly. we thank you for joining us and on item 2. >>