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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  February 9, 2023 5:01pm-6:01pm PST

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>> my apologies. >> thank you for the question. >> departments are setting dead lines to ensure we are able to provide the necessary support and guidance to pandemic permittees who wish to seek a post pandemic permit we don't want anyone to wit to narcotic the process. some of those feedback mile stones providing feedback to the applicant within 30 days. and notified that the site safety fix have been made. at a site to schedule an inspection with the fire department and public work staff to see the fixes have been made. we ask that operators regarding the safety and accessibility
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treatments to their site, that they implement those within sing days that alus to stagger the large case load we previewed earlier and make the best use of time over 180 day and get everyone a permit in time for the expiration of the grace period. >> on a couple resources this we are providing and fwiedance we are providing to shared spaces operators. equity grants are open. 2500 per parklet site to off set the costs with making the safety and accessibility upigates at sfgov.org and accyst we have been hosting since the summer high touch in neighborhood in language, oven lead by our communication manager, will be continuing throughout rest of the quarter to provide this on
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going support. we worked with sfgovtv to create 3 short public service announce ams. >> staff are here to answer questions. and conclude the item. >> supervisor peskin. >> thank you to planning as well as staff at you name it fire, public works, mta, et cetera . i wanted to as we talk about the extension of grace period i said i'm happy to support employmented to talk bh rules of the game during that extended period. namely around and i think probably all have the cases and mr. a bad is aware of one that
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has been the subject of e mails to the supervisor but there are many others haare, if you will, abandoned or had not been pursued and -- perhaps a property owner made vague noises about they apply or have applied kept it in proper toward is tandem out to abandonment. i want to make sure that to the extent they are eligible for notices of violation and removal that is there is nothing in the phrase period that would stop us in talking to the city attorney i would like to duplicate this file we have to get it out the door and introduce in a future
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hearing language that would be specific to that the city attorney has not drafted and in the same breath, i don't know if you encounters this. our original legislation required ajoining property owners if the parklet was in front of their space there are interesting ones where -- in the district i report i guess i represent the district with the most parklets i have buckets. experience and than i are all one off's where the property owner cannot be located or will respond and so i was thinking i might also in the future offer another amendment that says if the property owner does in the say, no to an extent built
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permits -- parklet that it is deemed to be yes after a president of time and amounts of out reach by a registered mail. we'll make a motion later to duplicate the file to the call of the chair until the deputy city attorney prepared the amendments. >> supervisor preston. >> thank you chair melgar. and everyone if your work i have a district question and thank you for providing the information and a snapshot of the program. i noticed that -- from the information you sent that 75 of the 206 operators applied for the legislative program struck mow as low and when i think you said over all there were about
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with 350 total. had admit applied. first checking i'm talking that these are apples to apples. of a third of those who are not applied are in my district and wonder if you can if i understanding that right why that might be and in terms of out reach, how we move forward and make sure and how our office and make sure everybody knows about the dead line and in they want to apply. >> yes, thank you. we welcome partner help to extend roach and pentrician. we are in the process now of targeting the 350 operator hos had a pandemic permit and yet to submit a post pandemic perimism
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if they are interested in continuing, which in are indicated they don't want to to ensure we drive them toward this permit. submittal dead line is march 31 and we are providing passport for them to do so. with confidence. with regard to the numbers the digit and the brief staff provided it was mid left week the incomes will have to go back and triple check it make surety numbers are you fluid. we receive mrksz every day and revise applications and so i want to go become to the team and get you more updated numbers off line. if folks say they don't want to apply that is one thing if we are not hearing from folks that is an out reach sxsh we would want to partner with to you get
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the word out. thank you. >> thank you, i had a couple questions. so -- to supervisor president pes pel's question. the flip side is in my district there is one abandoned space that is visible in the middle of the corridor. it is a noise one it belongs to a business that is no longer there. the business that is going to lease up the space is trying to merge to you know -- the store fronts and of course, your department takes, lot of time with that does -- with that very long permitting process, i want to make sure that with shared space in front they can also easy low assume it or adopt it
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without starting from scratch. so, would this 120 days allow folks more time to do that? or is this something i might work with president peskin on his language? because you know i wanted to go both ways. if we need member to assume responsibility for something that is no long in use but if we have a that was can adopt it we want to make sure it is easy to do so without starting from scratch. >> absolutely. there is precedent for a parklet that had been stewarded by a neighbor. the department of public ws who admin sters the permits helped with this transition. it requires a formal application of sorts from the business operator and i think we would
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want to work with your office and the operator to get this in before march 31 so we look at all of the parklet assets together as we try to implement our strategy also. we are trying to maintain the universal real time picture whoments to occupy park and who will give them up? on the subject of neglect and maintenance and the interim periods when businesses might be dark for awhile buzz they are struggling to open up or hire new staff through the pandemic, we exercised, let of latitude and trying to help folks be forceful about this. and i think where we do follow up with enforcement activity or had than i are eligible for notice of violation if we see that maintenance and cleanliness, that the
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maintenance and the condition is deteriorating there is more latitude and neighbors feel better if you might be a closed store front but keeping up with where you are parklet the lit and are graffiti and other issues naarise from extended inattention. we get to territory of noise of violation and the steps of escalation that may lead to removal. which we have gone through in supervisor president peskin's district for one site already. i appreciate that. the question is about mta and the strategy is. and adopting to the new world. of shared spaces and parking and -- curb management.
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how we may adopt to this. one things we struggled with in the inner sunset the corner of ninth and irving we have a bunch of parklets the trin that turns. you know often like 2 trains. and people who double park illegally. and then pedestrians or bicyclists and cars cannot get through. i worry if there is know emergency the fire marshall that can be trouble. i worn if we have taken a look and african-american the city of those points where there are several. you written people like on valencia, you know uber drivers stop and people get out of both
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back doors. sometime in on coming traffic. so, you know it credits safety issues but coniestion. i wonder curve manage examine enforce am. mta sf my team is think burglar. so you asked about a high level prop. our agency adopted a strategy the city wide strategically around the issues and credited a hoishg of how we might prioritize needs in commercial corridors. hathat looks like in practice is really a block by block level look hadoes look what is the block needs. is it a parklet in a yellow zone we allow for 2 years approximate
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bring back that yellow zone. we apply that curb management block by block when looking at getting the application miss and determining our all the block needs met? relocate commercial and passenger loading? bring in general loading. a new typology we adopted in the last 2 years. uber pick up and loading needs so the nice wagz you are aware of in that swigz we may say, you need to shift your parklets down have you 3 and only have one. so. you talk about high level and the block i'm aware of and we are making the decision as we approve the footprint for every
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permit this come in. do you need to shift the be removeed bring back the other needs we can't deal without as economy recovers and traffic is more prevalent the loading issues are safety. approximate this is the case. you taken the strategic block by block analysis, what is xhoungz and enforce am mechanism with the businesses they rely on the shared spaces to make it work. so i could see if you are asking folk cus have one instead of 3 that can be devastate to a business what is communication strategic like. >> we wanted not to be a surprise when people submit
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applications months ago we roached out to every hundreds of businesses and completed the assessment you are in the yellow zone you need to shift to one if you want to stand in the program. you have to squeeze to 2. we communicated that over several among and when they do apply the same information already completed we say, this is the situation we point to the regulations and the code legislation does specify vision zero and that communication happens with the applicant through our a member of our staff and some are unfortunate and can be -- a dom myself and reenforce the experience of balancing curb side needs but deal with that case by case.
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>> yea. thank you. >> if there is no other -- assistant fire marshall du want to say something? thank you. >> let's go to public comment on this idea. >> thank you, seeing no other members in the chamber move to the remote call in line we have 2 listeners with zero in the queue i will give them an opportunity to get in the kwu if they like. press star 3 and you will enter in the queue take the first caller. >> hi, everybody this is lori thomas. hello can you hear me. yes, good ahead. this is lori thomas the executive director of fellow parklet owner for [inaudible] i want to real thank president peskin and supervisors preston
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and melgar for wrael great comments i would be happy to support any of those suggested changes. there are issues and everybody on the share's space tome we are trying to amplify and provide a voice to help. there has been great back and forth and out reach but we can see a lot of people submitted application and we are trying to get more in. this extension is a smart way to prop if bee are here to support. thank you very much for the work and working together. it hen a positive the past 6 months as we go toward this post pandemic world t. is important to talk through the issues and help operators as much as possible. thank you. >> thank you very much. that completes the queue. skwoo thank you.
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public comment is closed. i like to make a motion we sends this we duplicated the sdpiel send one of the files to the full board with positive recommendation. >> as a committee report. >> of course. thank you >> on this motion, supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> you have 3. >> thank you this motion passes. do we have anything else on the agenda. >> i make a motion to continue the duplicated item the call of the chair pending amendments i'm happy to i can't share with you but -- >> call of the chair i can we have the same policy goal which is to -- have flexibility rolling. i'm 1 huh percent we had this case in the home cafe they have a parklet and left and went out
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of business i'm -- family cafe i'm sorry but they are trying to sell the property and parklet they equip. so -- as compared to the other one i will not mention the name of where its become a mess. so -- if you take care television witting to convey your interests god bless if you don'tful uh-huh we can dwraft something that says, uh-huh. >> on the motion to continue the to the call of the chair for the duplicate moved by priors peskin. supervisor peskin. >> aye >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> that passes. we are adjourned.
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>> stop the press conference and i'm amy chung and for the elderly and lady senior housing is one of our project build and open in 1990. upon so upstairs 85 seniors and
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this year, mayor, david and brook and they are happy. some of them came down this morning and be with this press conference we know you have a very important announcement to make. welcome to self help and the lady shore senior housing. i want to take this opportunity to thank mayor and thank all of our elected officials while supporting the seniors during the pandemic. you know this self help is concern body our senior safety. so00 mayor when you announce the tax on the asian community, and when the self help for elderly need in order it protect our seniors, i remember this we were at square and asked the mayor to please, give us 30 thousand dollars to jump start a senior project. and the mayor did. almost over night.
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committed the money to us. we hire 2 senior escort people to bring the seniors to doctor appointments and banks. to come out for fresh air. mayor, thank you so much for supporting this project. from the may of 21 when we started the program to january 19, my staff have now served 1437 seniors and totally brought out 19, 455 escourt this is is a necessary program and thank you, mayor. at this time i will turn the program to david chuor city attorney. thank you very much for raul of our guests to attends today's press conference. >> a hand to amy chung! thank you for everything you are doing it is grit on have our
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seniors with us and want to take a moment and thank self help taking care of families, seniors approximate protect them. i want to thank everyone for gathering today for the announcement how our city respondeds to hate crime there is has been communities that reflect the diversity of the world who experienced hate and violence. and we then and there is trough for ap i communities. with lunar new iary upon us we need to remain vigilant about antiasian violence this saturday we mark the 2 year anniversary of the brutal death of [inaudible] last week in an eerily similar attack involving an asian elderly man walking with a came south of market in the morning. visiting his daughter's home who was brutally pushed to the
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ground. last week a few days after the newest art's center was opened. the square was defaced. a few weeks ago a woman was kicked in the stomach boarding a muni bus the violence against our communities still persist. now, san francisco has seen a decrease in reported hate incidents during the pedestrian year. but we are here because we know our work is not done. we know we need to come together to ensure that everyone in our communities are safe. and we need to make sure the community understands all that we are doing together. between our city, agencies and community organizations to keep us safe during this lunar now year build and w by everyone here to address what has been a spike of hate motivated violence that started at the beginning of
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the pandemic. fuelled by racist zebo by lead ergs. i want to thank organizations doing work on the grounds. self help. chinese new comers and chinese sick companies. and of course, the ap counsel, stop hate as well as a new generation of great organizations including asians are strong, stand with asians and dear community. they worked hard with city leaders to increase services to victims and identify gaps in our city's response to hate crimes. this topic was the focus of a lawsuit filed against our city last year. labors the city and county of san francisco. which victims are served and procedures instituted to protect our community.
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>> i want to thank the alliance for asian american justice and my deputy city attorney for working to resolve this case and recognize mr. lei with us today. >> today's announce am stems out of all of these conversations. the 3 public officials who will speak head up an office or administration that worked this past year in conversations with my office on how we can initiate programs, bolster resources and coordinate responses boy city agencies and commune organizations to hate incidents. i will rescue noise and ask to come to the podium someone who needs no introduction but when i was in the legislator, during that spike of antiasian violence before i new i was going to be your city attorney for 2 years, almost every time we spoke, this woman asked me, david, what more san francisco and california
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going to do around antiasian hate. she is the 45th mayor of our great city. mayor london breed. [applause]. >> thank you. david chu and thank you for your work and advocacy on this issue and working in partnership with my office. the da's office and the san francisco police department. you know, when you see these incidentses occur on video, i know that in many communities, not just our asian community, it really hurts. and it touches people's heart and soul in a different way. as david mentioned there are alegality of asian organizations that have stepped and up done extraordinary work. i want to acknowledge the cross cultural rep this continueless to help bridge that gap and bring communities together. and we have street violence intervention programs here which
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has been instrumental in helping to deal with a lot of the violence in the city. especially challenges around retaliation. we appreciate their work with sarah juan and cyc and how they come together to be the eyes and ears and ambassadors on the streets to take care of our seniors. thank you roberto hernandez from the mission and demonstratingior love and support for this community. when we say in san francisco is you come for one of us you come for all of us. we will band together it make sure this we support communities no matter what the issue is. and especially involving our seniors. you know, it has been unfortunate that over the years, there was a disconnect for victim services. in fact, we saw a lot of other people's rights were being
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honored more than the people who were actually impacted by the violence that occurred against them. and i understand there needs to be balance and fairness and justice in our criminal justice system. but victims should in the be retraumatized over and over. go to this discipline this nonprofit and this person whochlt is here to advocate for them? had is here to hold people's hands and to help them through the most challenging time whether someone is a victim of violent crime. domestic violence. gun violence and i want to take a moment she is in the here but acknowledge the work of lynne west low putting our heart on the line to help victims regular low. there are so many different departments and agencies will and part of what we are here today is to say we are working together so this we collaborate
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to provide a better stream lining process so when a victim is in need of services, they get the services they need. they get the support they need. they get the nonprofit appropriate for the issue this occurs. now many of the voters approve prop d. supervisor stefani spearheaded the initiative to create a department of victim service. and our goal is to make sure we are speaking with one voice to address these challenges. working clantive not pointing the if anything are but clantive with the da's office and the police department so that we can really focus time and attention on listening to what the victims are dealing with and to be aggressive advocates to fight for them. and that is what this is b. also we have to been more creative way and programs this will help
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support people. amy chung talk about theed escort program. a mall dollar amount to provide someone who can be with a senior to run errandleds. picking up medicine, grocery shopping or having someone so they feel safe. some of the, programs we provides are education classes
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around banking. we want to make sure that people feel they don't have to carry carbwith them. looking at solutions to help address challenges of this nature. also, providing couchers if people don't feel safe on one mode of transportation this they have alternative modes of transportation so they get around the city. so we are investing in various programes and the great nonprofits we work with to deliver those services are the ones with boots on grounds not with just paid staff. there are so many amazing mobile homes here who have stepped up to provide support to many of our senior in san francisco who don't feel safe and also i want to express my appreciation to the san francisco police department. and those who continue to put themselves on the line to be proactive and engaged with the community and know the community and work with community based organizations. so that we prevent crime in the first accomplice. when a crime happens they are really on the frontline addressing the challenges and trying to make sure that the victims of the crimes get the justice that they deserve so it does not happen to other people. there are a lot of pieces to this puzzle. when you walk away with today is this our different agencies who support not only criminal justice reform, support pushing to prevent crimes in the first
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place, but we support this after hose lines are cross thered is a coordinated response to get to the bottom of the situation so that people are held acounsel abltd and victims feel as though justice was served and get the support and service they need to feel safe in san francisco. that is the goal that is why i'm excited be here today and i want to thank you for your support of the community. after what we saw, on television what happened in monterey park and in half moon bay, it is rocked this community here. in san francisco, our asian community, to the core. as we come in the year of the rabbit which represented kindness and mercy we need that now to really make a difference in our communities and leadership of the city is definitely committed to doing that. i want to wish all of you a happy lunar new year because yes this , is i challenging topic
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and yes, we gotta continue to be vigilent and provide the services and support we need. but we also will not let it take away from celebrating the extraordinary community during lunar new year. >> thank you all for being here today and with that i want to turn it over to our district attorney, brook jenkins. good morning e everyone i will give this fire engine a chance to pull up here. i'm here because the city thought we needed to make sure our residents are taken care of. to develop a coordinated response when a crime occurs the
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types of crimes we have been seeing. that have been targeted toward the asian community in san francisco. we stand today with the a ap i community that has been hurt and deeply impacted by asian hate and other violence that targeted this community. 91 of us regardless of race or ageef hasment today see the videos the mayor mentioned. >> our asian elders attacked on the streets. to hear the stories over and over that they no longer feel safe going to the grocery store. riding the bus to china town to run erands or to go to medical appointments. >> i want to start by thanking ani chung and the other community partners for being here today. and for being willing to work with us. on key issues. i want to express appreciation to those who are standing with
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me today. mayor breed, of course, for leading this charge. city attorney david chu as well as chief scott. each us, i know, are committed to working together to ensure our a ap i community members are safe and that their businesses are protected. we all than again, over the last 2-1/2-3 years we have had significant attacks on this community. and realize we have i language way to go after seeing the events in monterey park and half moon bay. we must use the events as an opportunity to work together to a leaveiate fears and show our support when violence occurs, especially in incidentses where hate was the reason.
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i want to be sure our community members in san francisco and the bay area the san francisco da's office takes crimes against asian americans seriously and hate crime in the city will not be tolerated. >> i worked as the hate crime prosecutor in san francisco. i know specifically that the impact the crimes have on our victims and on the over all community. when something like that happens. i also deeply believe that those perpetrators of hate crimes have to be held to answer for those crimes. since taking over i start a new unit focusing on victims including elders that also handle hate crimes. this team of attorneys and support staff will practice cute hate where evidence supports and makes sure we are doing more for the elder low community in san
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francisco that has become the target of violent acts. i'm proud to announce my vehicle services crafted an information fly they're consolidated resources and information for hate crime victims. >> this form will be translate in the different languages and our goal is this noticer will inform residents of how my office can assist with filing a police department, provide support during the court process and link victims with community organizations and counselling services after something happens. additionally, the division in the da's office has a new process of collaboration in relation to a ap i hate crimes. >> we all then and there is a city of tremendous resources. and that we have community based organizations all over the city who are dedicated to the mission of serving our residents when we had to do was make sure we were
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coordinating efforts. that we were aligning with the mission of providing services to victims in a way that was more efficient and less onerous and better than some to the victims of crime. partnership will ensure victims get response and services from my office. we must uplift voices within our a ap i community to better understand their lived experiences and take their stories in account when we are drafting policy and creating new programs and services. while it is great that our city special honorable our city came together to make sure we had escort services to prevent attacks on the elder low community. i will not be complatant or satisfied with the fact we have an elderly community this feels it has to have an escort service
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to go to the bank or appointment. we as law enforcement in the city are dedicated to making sure we get to the point upon where that is no longer the case. where no matter what you look like or community you live in you can walk outside your door and feel safe. i want to announce today that as a part of this effort we are partnering with the mayor's office with city attorney chu and the police department to credit a city summit we will host in the coming months to focus on providing more information arnold what hate crimes are. how to report them and what services are available to victims. so that our community has more information in the events this something happen and w together to continue to prevent the crimes from happening and this we work on unifying cross cultural to stop the crimes from happening the da's office is
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fortunate to have great relationships and such great partners. and it is my prior that we continue to work close low with each person that is responsible for serving victims of crime so we move the ball forward. i, tooshgment to recognize the violence as i said that resulted in the loss of lives in monterey park in oakland expect half moon bay. roberto hernandez is here, who is a tremendous community stake holder and organizer, and has been essential to bringing together the latino and asian community to support one another. we know, it was both asian lives and latino lives lost amongst the farm workers in half moon bay. i want to thank him for being here today and doing that great work. thank you. i will turn it over to chief
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scott. >> good morning. thank you da jenkins. good morning, everybody. i will start with d ajenkins left awl off expressing my condolences to the victim's families and everyone impacted by the mass shootings at half moon bay, monterey park and oakland. these types of incidents shake us to our core. and the basis of many of the incidents approximate are route in the hate. it is quite simple. they are rot in the hate. so -- it was tragic to start what should be such a great time with the new year and lounar new year with tragedies of this magnitude. as we always have to do, we have to look at each other and ban together and pick up piece and move forward. that's what this is about. this is about how we do it as a community. all of us in the san francisco
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police department value our long standing partnerships and nowhere is that more true than in china town. through this time of year for celebration i'm here to talk about something had is serious. and also want to say a few words hat san francisco police department is doing to strengthen our bond with the asian community and when we are doing to help you if you are the victim of a crime and more important low how to prevent the crime from happening in the first place. our officers here to my right, work to address the crimes against asian community. i want to thank everyone here and we know that -- the pd cannot do it a11 we are stronger together. with people like the leaders standing here to my left and right under the leadership of our mayor issue london breed. we have to be together and work in collaboration to address the challenge this is face our city.
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hate ms. no place in the community it betrays the values the city cherishes and against what the lunar new year is all about. as stated by every speaker, we did see a decrease in hate crimes against the asian community 22-21 a significant decrease. so we are and will never be satisfied with a decrease. we cannot be satisfied until we e eliminate the crimes that is a daunting task. now what you heard from mayor breed city attorney chu and jenkins, the many things they introduce are all in my opinion, lead to the fabric of community. when i look and seat many community members when are not from the china town community but always here for their community but every community around this city when we have to come together. that is what community is about.
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because we are here to protect not only our elders who are sit to my left butt people that worked hard to make china town what it is today. which is an iconic treasure of this city as also to the world we want to keep it this way >> the first step in building the bond system communication. in that regard, the san francisco police department has over 500 bilingual officers. 100 know cantonese officers 20 manualed rain and 20 filipino speaking recovers under the leadership of the mir we stepped update liaison unit. a lot said how important it it is to offer and coordinate services to our victims and families when they are subject to hate related crimes or serious crimes. under the major's leadership we
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started the unit that added value. we worked with the da and her team to make super when services are appropriate we -- collaborate and give people guidance to get to the services and that hen a huge value add to this process that is daunting when somebody is victimized. it is the goal of our community liaison units to across the relationships with the police department and under served people in the communities. people that have been marginalized and many of those individuals and people are from limited english proefficiency communities. our cou officer they coordinate with investigation's bureau to provide support, out reach on prejudiced based incident. hate crimes and life threatening incidents of violence against the members of the communities. they have done a tremendous j.w. we have whether commended staff in crisis to keep the community
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in tact and our commit commitment to you we will have a liaison unit in the san francisco police department because that is a prior to us. we continue is a priority to you all employs our members that we serve. our investigation's unit, especially investigations division is the entity responsible for the investigations of hate crimes they have done that for many years they have specialized training and focus on the investigation of prejudice based incidents. we track all prejudice based incidents i will ask everyone's cooperation to report these type of any types of crime his they occur this is how we get to a better place. and sometimes -- things happen that are hate fueld that may not amount to the elements of a hate crime. we are still asking to you report them. because the basis of a hate crime and the rot of the hate
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crime is something lesser. if we track those incidents feign than i don't amount to a crime and attach a name we can give our da and her team if a case gets prosecuted better ammunition to charge hate crime offenses. please, it is important that you report those crimes. >> a way is to call the tip line. we facilitate the tip line in 9 languages and although witnesses to in progress crimes are encouraged to call 911 and report hayou see immediately. if it is nonemergency or if you think you have a clue that leads to solving of a crime, please, call that number. 575-4444. lastly i will speak with b things that are important and the mir talkod one that is the many ambassador programs the mayor made significant
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investment t. is a shim we have to escort people to the bank but where the blessing is this city has a will and resources to make that happen. we do believe that makes a difference. many of our most vulnerable members are attacked doing lifelike going to the bank to get money. we want to make sure that is done in a safe way and resources are available to make that happen. police department has its own set of ambassadors refired san francisco police officer who is have police radios and trained through long careers. to know what to do when they see whatever it is they are seeing and work with our patrol officers. to make sure we independent to incidents. as they occur that hen a tremendous resource i want to thank the mayor and everybody who hen a part of making that happen. lastly, our presence this this community. after the shoot nothing monterey
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park, i know assistant chief approximate deputy chief. the captain here acting captain, immediately put a plan in action it increase the presence and this community with police officers. the difficulty sustaining that type of increase in presence we are committed to do what we can do do that. if something the mayor talked about and we know we are facing staffing crisis but making when modifications weical to make sure in community in china town, the police officers do a tremendous job. they know the community and know people trust them. often time people call them directly than 911 i don't add sunrise if that's the way you community it we will take it. they built those reps. the officers some here and captain will continue to support this community and than i have
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my and the command starch's backing as well as the unyielding support of our mayor. you will see presence in this community. our community events have been historically well attended boy the members like china town night out. easter egg hunt. toy give awaves and the like. those are events that help us come together before there is a crisis. and because we do this we are better able to handle a crisis when they happen. i will end by saying thank you to everyone here. thank you to the community members from the city and again, for the mayor's leadership. together, we can make this happen and better. and that is our commitment from the san francisco police department. so, i turn it back over to our city attorney david chu to close us out. [applause]. >> thank you. i have a couple closing comments. of course i want to thank our great mayor.
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police chief and district attorney for their commitment when we have done is ensure that off the services, all programs geared in the area than i are alined and connected putting protocols and process together to make sure we are working together as a city and working together with communities. the second thing i say is while today is focused on the issues that we have been grabbling with in the ap i community when we are doing is building the infrastructure to make sure we are safer as a city to protect all our communities we know nahate crimes and incidents impact us whether you are black, latin x or lgbt lgbt a woman jewish, et cetera, well is more weave had to do and part that is what today is about. third thing is obviously the work that has been put in today would not have been done not just because of the leaders here but because of amazing staff i thank from the mayor's office
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ivy lee. policy advisor and mason lee from the san francisco police department. i want to thank david lazar. julian ang and your command staff in the da office willis and your leader ishmael team ana gonzalez. nancy tongue and i will say this this hen in the works for a time. certainly predating the horrific ins debts occurring outside of the city during this past week and everyone here we not only hearts bleed for those no, ma'am members and communities in monterey park and half moon bay and oakland the hope is the work here will be a model in how we address violence. how we take care of victims. how we think about addressing the mental health of communities to make sure we are safe moving forward. with that. i want to thank you for coming.
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i know a number of officials have to leave quickly. what i suggest for the press if you have questions for any of officials just grb us on the way out. happy new year and lunar new year and stay safe. thank you very much. .
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[gavel] >> this meeting will come to order. welcome to the february 9, 2023 regular meeting of of public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am catherine stefani chair of the committee and to my right is supervisor engardino and to my life the supervisor dorsey. the clerk is john john and i would like to thank