"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. >> take roll. >> commissioner walker. >> here.

>> commissioner benedicto. >> here. >> yanez. >> present. >> byrne. >> here. >> yee? commissioner yee is on route, oberstone also enroute. you have a quorum also with us is chief scott from the san francisco police department. >> thank you, hello everyone, welcome to our april 5th, 2023 meeting. it is already april, i cannot believe it. fellow commissioners and people watching the commission, we have a new agenda item that we will be start froming this point forward. it's called the weekly officer recognition certificate and based on the feedback from the command staff and the great ideas that were generated. we would like to have this agenda item on a weekly basis.

every week so that we can highlight the great work that our officers are doing. not only the commission but the community of the great work and sacrifice that's are made while doing this job. so, this is what we will be kicking our meetings on with from this day forward. i'm going to give you the background and introduce the people. >> thank you, president ally elias, and thank you to you commissioner oberstone and other commissioners for doing this. it's important to highlight the good work that our members and officers are doing in. i know with everybody going on, we don't always hear, you know, these types of things. and it's not always the medal of valor but the day-to-day work that is being done, things like that.

i just really appreciate you all listening. listening to that request and recognize the recognizes and this is a great start so i want to say thank you and i want to take it to our assistant chief. >> good evening, president elias, and chief scott and director henderson. thank you very much for your leadership and all of your commission. i know our officers are very excited to see the officer recognition each week. and i want today be here to kickoff the first one. and without any further, i want to introduce acting captain commanding officer of central station who will present this week's award. >> thank you. welcome captain. >> thank you, president elias, thank you commissioners, thank you chief scott. thank you director henderson. it's my honor to be here and thank you chief la czar, it's my honor.

it's my honor to recognize one of the hardest working cops in the station. incrediblely plainclothes unit, before that, it was a little over a year ago and he fought crime in uniform on a day watch where he consistently displayed the work. i was a platoon commander and i always relied on him to make the big arrest. he was so good in fact, that sergeant matt para, the plainclothes requested the officer be put on his team. officer nords showed his on the plainclothes team to learn and do and always willing to go the extra mile to get the critical piece of evidence or put in extra hours of surveillance. proved that he is determined

and diligent and has a tremendous heart. nowhere was it better than in the month of december 2022. on a december 8, a mother and daughter were visiting san francisco from southern california and wanted do some christmas shopping. she sat down for a bite to eat on market street. the young daughter put her backpack down next to them and they had lunch. during the lunch, they noticed a man sit next to their table. although he was sitting close to them, he thought nothing more until they left to leave. the backpack was missing, it was her beloved stuffed animal named pijy. the girl was distraught and together they called together and showed the man that sat closely to them, took the backpack.

both mom and daughter were absolutely devastated at the loss of the daughter's beloved toy. officers made the report to no avail. the next day, officer nord learned about the incident, he decided he was going to fix this. officer nord was instrumental and distributing the pictures and setforth doing all the follow-up necessary to inquire the necessary leads, officer norton this was not the biggest case but the most important and meaningful, it was to a broken-hearted 13-year-old. and he did all this while he was still fighting the crime that we deal with in the central. the suspect was identified and was a known thief with a long rap sheet, where he was and taken pij' magoo that was going

to take work. he put in and watching and digging until he finally had enough probably cause to get a search warrant for the suspect sometimes laid his head. that was great but the goal was to recover pijy mcgoo, it was a long spot. a stuffed pigeon on a christmas vest has little value. on december 21, sergeant paraupdated me on the case. where the suspect sometimes lived. i told him please text me with the code word if pijy mcgoo was recovered. one word text with the plainclothes unit, geronimo, incredible, other evidence was

recovered linking the suspect to the crime however, the suspect was not there. no big deal, the team knew his arrest was just a matter of time. for now, all that mattered was the treasured stuffed animal. because of his compassion and drive to see justice done in every sense of the word, this heart breaking wrong was righted. many people would ask why an officer would spend that much time, it was much more than that. nord did because this is the essence of being a police officer. he defend thed the defenseless and helped the helpless, recovered an item that was valued to the family and restored the trust in san francisco. pijy mcgoo was differed to the little girl and suspect taken

into custody and officer nord continues to work hard for the citizens of san francisco putting his life on the line, arresting arms robbers, murderers and drug dealers and occasional stuffed animal thief. it's my absolute honor to award this award to officer jason nord on behalf of the police commission and the san francisco police department, the officer of the week. [applause] >> make sure you get the good angle. >> i want to get the officer's few words. >> this is not necessary but greatly appreciated. the reward was definitely getting the stuffed animal back for that little girl anything beyond that is not necessary but i appreciate it. thank you.

>> thank you. i think that obviously we want to thank you for your courage and heroism, i know central station is one of the busier stations so i can only imagine the dands. also captain, i want to thank you for highlighting this officer for the tremendous amount of work that he put into this case which i assume is the type of work that he puts in all the cases. i know you want to do a photo op but i want to turn it over to my colleagues while you do that. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you, president elias, and i want to thank you for adding this to the regular agenda item. i think it's a great addition, and to thank those in command that provided as command staff tha. was a tremendous story actually told back from captain farmer. and i think it does, something you said really stuck out to me. it wasn't, the biggest case for

an officer but it can be a big case for the individual of the public. it's so important that biggest or the worse things in the lives of people who make the calls for our service. i've been highlighting that was very important. celebrations officer nord and i hope accept our gratitude and captain farmer who has done tremendous job at the central station as well. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner walker. >> congratulations officer nord and thank you for your service, for all of your service. i also want to thank the commissioners who, who is bringing this to start every meeting. it really is important to just emphasize the hard work and good work that all do.

thank you again, congratulations. >> thank you. >> commissioner yee? >> thank you, very much. >> quick on that trigger finger. you be on it. >> i know these gentleman for sometime. thank you very much for your service and recognition for all the hard work that you get done throughout the city and the community. thank you captain farmer and and assistant chief, i want to thank you all again and continue the hard work that you've all done. thank you very much. >> thank you, commissioner yanez. >> thank you, elias. i think it's important. it's important to hear the narrative. we read a lot of stories that don't present us in the green lieutenant. --light. i appreciate the enthusiastic presentation by captain farmer

and officer nord you're doing a great job out there and we really appreciate your service. >> we welcome you back captain to come back and present. people never meet their time lot so we'll definitely get back. >> my boss is in the room, i've got to do it. >> exactly. >> and also officer, jason nord, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> if members of the public would like to make public comment on item 1, please approach the podium. there is no public comment. >> next item please. >> general public comment. at this time, the public is allowed to address the commission that are within the subject matter. during public comment, neither police nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response.

you may submit the public comment the following ways. if you would like to make public comment. please approach the podium. >> my name is yolanda pa chaco. i worked as a teacher from elementary to high school and i was a here in the city. [ indiscernible] i was reading your agenda and it says you're going to discuss stuff that is not on the agenda. so where is our freedom of

speech, freedom of press, where does it say, that we are the ones that vote. we are the ones that pay the taxed. so i would like to ask you why, why that is? i heard that you think we're a leadist, we're not a leadist by coming and providing public comment. i don't know if i can talk about card. i just want to say that whoever gets the money for the response team, most of the unhoused and homeless do not work. they cannot work. if i was, i would not be able to sleep in a tent. so whoever gets the money, please make sure that they work with the house. i've seen people with one

organization urban alchamy *. and they're going to be called to crisis situations? >> good evening, ms. brown. >> good evening, i would like to use your overhead. i'm here for my son who was murdered. his birthday is next month, april 6th. i wish that he was here and i can celebrate but now i've got to go to a gravesite and paste

a birthday card to the dirt. i still want to thanking d.a. brooks. his stone is being appropriated now. and i sent her a copy of it and she says she is always going to be there for me. i just wanted make sha issue. because again, still worried about this is, me, i'm still grieving over my baby. where is the money at for the rewards? where are we going to solve these unsolved homicides? this is something i'll be doing for the rest of my life. i still cry. i still hurt. it does not matter how many years, the body keeps the score. my mind is keeping it. my body feels it. every time. one less child, i had three children. two girls left without a

brother. this is what they left me with. this is the only way i can talk with pictures. they don't see what i'm going through, they will never know. who wants to deal with this? what mother, what father, what auntie what uncle. these homicides need to be solved instead of me standing on the poll--pole for somebody to tear down the picture again. thank you. >> speaker: good afternoon, first of all, condolences to the man that was killed just recently.

i would like to say, condolences to all the families that had to go through the grief of losing a loved one. throughout the whole nation, with san francisco especially. i would like to say that my name vonn foster and i had the worse experience on 6th street. and even though it's been a while ago, i don't know if the police ever got reprimanded by i saw seen the other day. and there is no room for bullying anywhere, no matter where you are in the nation, especially in san francisco. so the same officer that i had the altercation w road by me, because i was at the jenna sister ant office with a smirk on his face. but make sure he turned back around. illegal, illegal turn with police officer. and they drove and made another smirk.

i spoke to chief right here, i spoke to this chief about it, scott, yeah. scott. and i don't know whether because i'm vaughn foster this was already addressed device from the o.c. c. i received a call, that said mr. foster you're a very honest person, what you say is truthful. it's not a question about who is honorable and who is not. but when you take a job to serve as a servant for the people, you're there for the people. your oath that you gave upholds your oath. excuse me. i'm sorry.

>> thank you. >> any other public comment, please approach the podium. >> all right, there is the end of public comment. item number 3 consent and calendar. >> motion to receive and file. >> second. >> sergeant. >> any members of the public that would like to make public comment online item number 3, please approach the podium. no public comment on the item. commissioner walker. >> yes. >> benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne is yes. commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone? >> yes.

>> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have 7 yeses. >> line item 4, adoption of minutes and action. >> can i get a motion after reviewing, i'm assuming there is no edits. >> motion to adopt the minutes. >> second. >> members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 4, adoption of the minutes, please approach the podium. there is no public comment. commissioner walker. >> yes. >> benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne? >> yes. >> yee. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have 7 yeses. >> item line 5, weekly crime trends and public safety

concerns including brief summary of narcotic enforcement operations. provide a brief overview of information sustained pending at the chief's hearing and requested by the commission. chief scott. >> thank you, thank you, sergeant young blood. good evening, commission and president and executive director henderson and the public. i'm just briefly, i know the crime trends are posted but just to highlight some of the more significant trends, we're up to homicides, we have 12 year to date, actually 13, including one this week that was outside of the reporting period. and there was 10 last year at this time. 8 of our homicides have been by firearm so that is something that we want to get on top of. our clearance rate is fairly

high, we have high 60s, almost 70%. and we do have a lot going on with our homicide units some of which i'll talk about in a second. another just note of piece of positive news in terms of our crimes, our overall crimes, serious crimes are down 10% which is a difference of almost just short of 2000 crimes. so that is actually about 1200 crimes short from last year. so that is a piece of good news and that's lead in reduction of burglars and property crime is driving that decrease in our crime numbers. significant incidents, i have two homicides to talk about. one within last week's reporting period. this was on april 1 at 1:04 p.m. in the tenderloin district. the victim was shot by a

suspect who was yet to be identified. the victim was transported to the hospital and did not survive his injuries. this is on going investigation. no arrests have been made at this time. outside of the reporting period, yesterday, there was a homicide that has gotten a lot of attention. and before i give you the summary, let me say, because we have, we have protocols with the medical examiner that we wait on their lead in terms of announcing the name of homicides victims, just prior to this meeting, we have not gotten that okay yet. although this information is out in the media, i will not release it until we get the thumbs up from the medical examiner for many reasons including medication. but on april 4, the victim called 9-1-1 stating he had been stabbed and bleeding but did not give his location. the dis tafper determined that

the victim was on main street. officers located the victim who was unconscious by this time and on the sidewalk. our officers rendered aid until sfpd paramedics took over. the victim was transport today a local hospital and later succumbed to his injuries. this is on going investigation that has included officers canvassing the scene, locating evidence and there is been basically around the clock investigation on both of these homicides. and there is a lot of work to be done. that is all i have to report at this time for this particular homicide but i do want to say this, and i, we have, a grieving mother homicide victim that is here every wednesday. these types of case that's get a lot of attention, we just need the public to know that our investigators investigate these just as we do any other loss of life.

and yes, we have units such as our night investigation and any other homicides that happened at night. we have our homicide unit, we have our video retrieval officers, there are a lot of resource that's are poured into this and every homicide. i want to say that because sometimes the appearance of these high provide get a lot of attention i just want the public to know that all the cases get a lot of attention. we will do all we can on that indicate and on the case of golden gate and on every case that we have in the city where somebody loses their lives. there are three shootings to report. first on march 299:40 p.m., officers respond today shots and located a victim who revised, heard loud bangs and

realized he had been shot. the victim did not see who shot him. at this time, no arrests have been made and investigation on going. on thursday march 20th, at 11:14 p.m. in the area of will o and van eyes, a victim and witness were in a vehicle when a person fired a gun at the victim. following the shooting, the victim struck a buy standard with his vehicle as the victim was trying to flee the scene. the victim was transported with a gun shot wound not life threatening. on saturday april 1, officers respond today a shot fired in the 11th block of scott street. a juvenile victim was found

with a gun shot wound to his leg and near his resident when he was shot. we are investigating that as well on going, the victim's mother was arrived at the scene and transport withed non life threatening injuries. and that is on going investigation. come of notable arrests. the homicide that occured, in which a victim suffering was located on the 300 block of la grand avenue. an arrest was made on that case. there were 10 to 15 people including the victim that were involved in the incident. and our investigators had to sort a lot of stories and investigation out. they got the necessary evidence to offer a search warrant which was served at the main suspect's resident on march 23rd of this last month, of this year.

at which time the suspect for the homicide was taken into custody. the suspect also confessed during interviews and booked during the homicide and other charges including criminal threats. so that was really good work by the investigators on a pretty complicated case with the number of people. another notable arrest, this one involved an invasion of privacy on march 25th, a victim went to a dry-cleaner and a dressing room had a secret recording device. the investigation related in identification of another victim from this clock that was recording victims as they changed in this business. during the course of

investigation, the suspect was identified on march 25, 2023 search and warrant was obtained and searched at the business locating evidence. as a result the suspect was arrested on six misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy. very good job of our investigates putting this together. and lastly with the last two minutes, i want to talk about some of the strategies that are notable. tenderloin, narcotic arrests are on going. and i know this is a follow-up from commissioner elias about the number of buy bus, 2018, we did 117 buy bust, 2022, 97 and year to date 22 buy bust. one of the things i mentioned is our tenderloin officers have received plainclothes train anding they have been actually

deployed by captain sergio chan in enforcement. and just last week, they made 18 arrests last week alone. comparison the narcotic unit, they had some on going investigation. but we believe that the strategy, we will get a better handle on enforcement and holding them accountable. so those are the numbers for the past four years actually. past three years, i'm sorry. and that's on going. just a note, fentanyl seizures has increased 169% compared to 2022 and 823 compared to 2021. 7 percent of our seizures have been fentanyl and that's a tremendous increase from previous years.

and the last thing is talk about our commission strategies, 16th and mission 24th and mission have been a real issue for the city and department. there is a lot going on, including illegal vending sales, stolen property, some nor cot i can usage. so we do have officers posted, 7 days a week on both of those intersections two at each and they will be working that until further notice. and we will keep track of that. it has made a difference but still more to follow. and i heard the buzzard so my time is up. >> well you're missing the staff that i asked for, which is chief hearings. >> i have that. >> oh i'm out of time, i cannot talk about it. i know that trick. >> there is a lot. the chief hearings real quickly, commissioner, president elias had asked for m.

so we have this investigation. six cases, two of them are dpa, four are sfpd, 2019 cases that are pending hearing, three. all three are dpa, internal affairs, 2020, 26, and that is split down the middle. and cases, 2021, there are 53, 29 from dpa, 24 from sfpd internal affairs, 2022, 15, 11 from dpa, 4 from ied. and the total is 103 over the last four years, 58dpa, 45sfpd. >> okay, let me, i'm going to work backwards.

so on the chief hearings in 2018, the six that are remaining, are those told? what are you prioritizing? >> so once the officers serve, once they serve the notice of discipline, then the totaling stops at that point. so yes, we are prioritizing trying to get the oldest cases done. >> i guess i mean are they on disability? i know that ads to the clock? or, let me see if i have that commissioner. is know there are some of these case wz officers on disability, but let me see if i have this in this actual write out. >> i guess, we should agendize this and talk about the numbers more in depth. i do appreciate you providing the numbers. i think we have these high totals and we need to clear these out. baz the other thing and i don't know if you have this status out of the 103 total, how many

officers have multiple cases. i think that one of the situation that's we're running into that may be problematic is if an officer is waiting for the chief hearing and picks up a new case, it prohibits you from implementing progressive discipline. so i think that it really is, does a disservice to you and the department and fellow officers who are not part of disciplinary system. >> yeah, i don't have that information. but that information is easily obtained. so i can follow-up with you either through an agendized discussion or however you prefer. and i do some thoughts about that. >> yeah, and we have emailed too about how to solve these come up with solution to see solve the backlog. thank you for the numbers. i think we'll digest and get back to you. is want to turn to the buy

bust, last year there were 18 arrests. that 18 part of the 22? that's in addition by narcotics. >> so 22 buy busts, which includes four from last week. the tenderloin officers are now making, doing narcotic investigation, they do scotting operations. so there is 22 total, this past weekend. four of those were buy bust. >> okay, and again we need to agendize. i know this is been a crisis, givener the fentanyl crisis it would behoove the department to show the new innovative ways in terms of tackling this problem. rather than relying on some of the antiquated tactics that have been used for more than a

couple of decades. not not to say that they don't work but it would be helpful how affective these practices are and what you know, it's like sports, you cannot be using the same plays from, you know, the 2000s when in you're 2023. i think we'll have to agendize that pretty soon. i don't see anybody on the dais. i was about to close it out. vice president carter oberstone. >> thank you, president he lie as. --elias. chief, you mention that fentanyl case right side up, he announced a large single seizure. so i'm wondering how much year increase is due to maybe a couple of large seizures like

that raising the number year over year or are we seeing more seizures, more small seizures as well contributing. >> we're seeing most small as well. large will add to the total but we have large seizures as well. but we are seeing a lot of what we are, what we're seizing particularly in the tenderloin. and maybe, because of the command, anecdotely, i can say that, but fentanyl is pretty much the substance of the day right now. and just, note too, there are concerns about hitting the streets of san francisco. we do have some confirmed deaths in san francisco. we really hope that we cannot see that invade our city like fentanyl. we're seeing the mixture.

the percentage of what we're seeing has gone through the roof. occasionally we get a large seizure but most of the day-to-day stuff is fentanyl. >> you're getting to the second and last question, i was going to ask if we have any data on pervasiveness of drank, how many drugs are contaminated with it? >> yeah, i'll look and see what we actually have. but what the medical examiner is accurate, but we have not really run across a lot of it in our seizure. but i will research and get some numbers for the commission and the public. >> great, thanks chief. >> commissioner benedicto. i remembered my question. can i ask the chief. are the shootings included in the assault members that you include in the weekly trends? >> well, the shootings are included in the overall

assaults but we break out shootings. >> i see at the bottom, you give us the weekly shooting. i was received a lot of notifications about a lot of shootings. and stabbings that have been going on. so i was wondering where those would fall if they're included in the assault category of the weekly crime trend. >> we are included in the assault numbers. >> unless it results in homicides. >> it's another example where we do that, is the car burglars that are included in the numbers but we break it out, because it's a topic of interest here in san francisco. it's inclusive in the total numbers. >> sorry, commissioner benedicto. >> thank you, president elias. on the chief's hearing question

i know we decided that we're going to agendize it into a separate discussion. i know we had spoken about some of the efforts that were taken like being stricter with continuances and expanding shooting officers. is that create a dent in the backlog? >> yes, i do, but we have to do more things. it's, prioritization of the older cases. you know, some of the cases that are related to commission cases. sometimes we have to untangle that and we have a whole list of strategies that we're either employing or have employed to try to deal with this issue. as best as we can do this. i know there is a lot of conflicts with everybody's schedules but once we commit to

the time, absolute emergency, we are trying to hold people to the days they commit to. >> is know, that it's very early to have, there is not that much information on the form street homicides, we don't know on whether we think if the shoting was random. >> nothing to share yet. of course, we have discussion buzz every homicide but nothing that we can share because we don't want to be premature and don't want to speculate. we'll put out what we can put as soon as we can. but that's of interest, people tend to get a lot of anxiety rather than personal disputes. as soon as we have enough information to put out, we will. but we're working closely with deputy chief and homicide unit,

lieutenant sanders in that group. so we're working that one as well as the last one in the tenderloin. >> thank you, chief. i just want to say for that homicide on the fourth and and main street, to express my condolences to the victim and to the families of homicide victims who don't make it to the front page of newspapers. as well i know the chief said that the investigation is on going, you know, any violence particular homicides are acceptable and terrible. and i know that police is working on them. i do feel compels to comment on what we're seeing, i do feel like some people out there on the media and social media that are exploiting this horrific incident for political gain and this was, this was a tragedy

and a crime, and it's under investigation you heard it from the chief. yet so much of the coverage in this short amount of time has been significant amount of misrepresenting facts, of fear mongering and trying to exploit this tragedy. we don't know all the facts. the department will update the commission and public when we do. i find it prema sure and distasteful to try to fit this horrifying act of violence into a preconceived narrative and use it to advance a political agenda. i ask people to read the moving tribute about the victim that was written by his father, very moving tribute that were covered in the chronicle written by the victim's friends and family and to share their condolences that way and discourage people from reading the fear mongering and

publication on twitter. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner benedicto. commissioner yee? >> thank you, madam president. i guess my question to the chief to the drug overdose in san francisco especially in the tenderloin corridor. i'm looking at the report by the chronicle. and since 2020 which was the most which was 725 report of the accidental drug overdose in san francisco has come down in 2021 to 640 and then last year was 647. usually these things prom gate and rise up there. you can look at all the other

deaths in san francisco fentanyl death related. the drug buy back would that play a part in reducing the overdose out there? and additional training on the narcam and make it available for our residents. it's no laughing matter for one parent and child. that's where i'm trying to get at. >> i know that this is the use of phone lockcam.

we do have quite a few reversal where officers deploy narcan and life saving come through this commission for approval. >> i think the fda approved nor narcam so there will be a lot more in the streets. a lot of urban alchemy and those types that do street out reach also have narcam. i think that has a positive affect on saving lives. it does not address the problem but it saves lives. >> thank you very much, chief. >> sergeant. >> members of the public that

would like to make public comment on item number 5, the chief's report, please approach the podium. >> i was thinking about it, i heard that people that make a lot of money, they order steak dinners and they don't eat them and they just throw them away. i got to learn the parents of the students that i educated. they go to museums and operas and symphonies, they go all over the world and i traveled throughout europe and africa. the poor have that option, they have drugs and i'm not condoning drugs or guns okay, but the thing is, we got to address the reasons why people are using drugs. a lot of times people don't

know that they've been laced with fentanyl. why are they using drugs? and it's not that anybody is on their own but don't blame it on the poor, i've been to two meetings on the unhoused and most of them are homeowners and business owners, they hate the homeless, they hate the drug addicts. and they say, don't bring a tiny home village because it's near the school. what are the homeless suppose to do? die? i've seen women that they will continue bending so they can eat and buy food. that's what is going to be addressed. and the pharmaceutical, they sell opioid overdose where are they getting this? and there was a store that was

selling laced legal food laced with fentanyl. quit using the poor as escape goats. they're suppose to serve the people. >> hi i'm back again. i just wanted to address i was talking about the unsolved homicides. i carry his picture all the time and i was talking about mothers coming to the scene. i was not able to make it to the scene to my son but i did make it to the hospital. so i was talking about all of these, these people on here and these families and the mothers and fathers of these young men, the cases are not solved. it seems like our case gets pushed to the back. we become the, what do you call

that? our stories, our stories become old. is had a few mothers call in and now they cannot even call in with public comment. because only people with disability can call in. we have mental disabilities, mental disabilities, why can't the mothers. i had a few mothers that tried to call in and they can't call in because that's no longer happening. it's not a physical disability, but it's a mental disability, we're suffering from our children being murdered and bloods being washed down the street, they want to speak. and maybe they don't want to come here.

they should have a chance to speak on public comment over the phone. the that is a disability. that is a disability, something needs to be done about it. my son's case number, anyone knows anything concerning my son, his case is number 060862038. i want my son's case solved. thank you. >> any members of the public that have information on the murder of aubrey casa, can call the tip line. president elias, that's the end of public comment. >> thank you, next item. >> item number 6, dpa director's report, commission discussion will be limited whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meetings.

director henderson. >> thank you. let me start with happy passover, i want to make sure that we allow that. we currently have 278 cases pending and we still have 22 cases who's investigation have gone beyond the 9-month period, 17 of those case right side told. in terms of case that's we have, and we still have 91 cases, now the number has gone up for case that's are pending with the chief. one of the things that i want today explain but i didn't want to interrupt is how the numbers are calculated. these are cases not officers. so that's part of how there is a misconflation, we're in the

process of outlining. so we can correlate and just noticed when you were talking about the cases, you talked about the case from 2018. but ours go to 2018. that is going to help--with us talking in the weekly conversation. we'll talk about some of the those things in more debt because i know this is going to be one of the topic that is included in the spark report that you'll get next week. so whenever that date gets scheduled to focus on this issue, we'll have the more in debt report available. in terms of the weekly trends, in terms of the cases that came in through through dpa, the number of allegations were for officers failing to take

required action 18% and 12% for officers alleging that sfrd behaved or spoke inappropriately with the public. again the full list is online for all of the complaints that came in. in terms of the break down by precinct, the largest two precincts in terms of the allegations for the past few weeks were 7 of the complaints that came from the mission, mission station and five complaints that came in from tenderloin station. again a full break down of these allegations and what they included is online. in terms of monthly statistics, i'm not going to read all of the statistics they're all online if you want to track and review all the details because i only have ten minutes. but i'll mention the top ones for january. the highest number of allegations 26% of the allegations were allegations of

officer failing to take a required action. and in, i also have the sheriff's information not that anybody needs to compare them but they're public now as well. and those were 50% were for failure to take required action. that's for january. for february, for the police department, 33% of the added, 33% of the allegations involved an officer speaking or behavior inappropriately with the public. and the full break down is posted and online if people want to look at them and review all the percentages and all the allegation that's came in from a monthly basis. in terms of out reach, our legal team chief diana rosenstein, met this week with deputy director of king county

in seattle. they're oversight agency, we've been working with them to help create a broader infrastructure and procedures for their oversight agency, their just diction was just expand asked one of the things that they're working on is trying to look at san francisco's model of coordinated parallel investigations with internal affairs. so looking how we do that practice and trying to build a best model. the other things that we're working on to try to support is their sustained proof in terms of their operations and a review of our team model approach to the investigations which we switched to about 45 years ago, five and a half years ago. and we'll continue that and i'll give you updates on these and other counties that we're collaborating with. in terms of audit for the past

few weeks on march 20th, dpa issued a report, on san francisco's monitoring of departmental communication. i'm flag iting now. i know we're scheduling it for a broader presentation in april but i want to make sure that if people want to look at the report, it's available now. and it includes 4 key solution that's will help and support the police department and the commission to welcome for efficient and effective about the monitoring. and the report is available on the website. i just want to point out the solutions, because i want it not to have the critical review. and i will say and in terms of the big news, this was the big buildup and why i saved this one. march 28th, the auditors announced that dpa's audit of the san francisco police

department compliance with dgo8.10 received the night award. so that's the national award that dpa has won for its audit review which exemplary that we have this review for the police department. i just want to acknowledge again the team, my audit team that works to get this work done. but steve and cat who do a really good job clearly to get this type of recognition not just once. this is a second knight award na they've won. it's not a common thing and it's a big deal. don't worry, you'll keep hearing about it if i cannot carry it on the desk. but reminder of what the focus is, there is a report was

issued on december of 2022, it's also publicly available at dps website as a reminder, this is the audit outlining the finding that the sfpd did not implement. the key recommendations made by dpa and the prior year for the audit of dpgo8.10. and using social media services for investigations and missing opportunities based on advances of video technology. so super excited about the award. not sure when the award presentation is coming but i

got confirmation that we won the award for the audit. and i look for the robust investigation on the audit and follow-up conversation on the items enumerated for the item that won the award. dpa has nothing in closed session this evening. present in the room today, is chief of staff, sarah also senior investigator alley who is available if there are issues that came up in the room to be addressed by dpa. also present is our newest employee, rowena a bad who is replacing pam thompson who retired and she will be our newmanagement assistant. thank you, super excited that she is here. she came to us from the public defender's office and we cannot wait to continue working with her.

i also noticed that two of our interns have come to our commission without being asked to by me and we're excited that you're here. thank you for coming to participate. >> what is your name? >> hi. >> i'm mckayla. >> mckayla and fabian are their names. >> thank you. >> i don't know if people can hear you. they've been doing great work. i'm super excited that they're here to see the tie-in to their work. a lot of project that they've been working on and doing diligent work. this is the first time that an intern has come on their own here, just the significance of that, is because dpa and occ has never had an internship but it's important that we open this process of what we do and having conversation buzz law enforcement tying it to young

people. it's a big deal that they're here. i could not be more excited. i'm so appreciative and you'll hear more in term. --program. >> and it's my understanding that she runs a tight ship and produced quality interns at the end of internship. >> and karen turner who is helping put the program together. >> welcome. >> okay. i don't see any questions for you, directer henderson, sergeant? >> for any members of the public that would like to address the commission please approach the podium. there is no public comment. item number 7, commission reports.

commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussions will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission. >> thank you, this week i attended the disciplinary review board. and the cases that were reviewed were interesting and i cannot wait until they appear before the commission so you can see the trends from that board. i also want to when that presentation appears before the commission, i think that my understanding that dpa has been going along with ia to provide training on some of the trends which is extremely helpful. my know that myself and fellow commissioners have attended that training and spoke very highly about it. i hope that that continues.

and i think that is all the announcements that i have. i'm going to turn it over to vice president. >> i'm going of a few things to report on. it was a event at a temple and it was a well put together event promoting recruiting and being proactive about, you know, recruiting at different spaces. and also attended a mission town hall meeting that i'm appreciative for the chief for also being present. there was a lot of community input and feedback around the same challenges as the chief addressed earlier on the 24 street corridor. a lot of activity that was taking place on cap street

ended up from what we understand, being pushed out into these two areas where they are already experiencing a lot of challenges. there is a lot of fencing going on in the corner. and i really want to commend the chief and the department for responding immediately. i noticed, i live not too far from one of those bart stations. i noticed the two vehicles stationed near the bart station and that alone has created a deterrents, you feel the difference. it's a palpable difference. and i think that that is something that the community requested and i think that they are benefiting from it, we are benefiting from it so i appreciate that effort. we also, we had our final

meeting around dgo701 commissioner benedicto and the team at headquarters. we accomplished a lot, had a lot of tough conversations and i think we have a really good draft of juvenile general order that is going to bring us into, you know, 21st century policing approaches with trauma, with youth development kind of concepts embedded into the policy. so i think that is going to be something that takes us into the right direction when it comes to juvenile direction and interactions. and then there was one other item, conversation around diversion in general. we've been talking about the

juvenile, we've been talking about having best practices as we're considering a prebook alternative. the chief is very invested in putting this together for our city. it's a practice that we want to embark on. which means bringing all the parties and getting all the information on what is going to work for our city. we do have a diversion intervention in place. and we are looking forward setting that presentation up. and also i had a meeting with bench marks around the progress for the new the new eis system. and i think we'll have a

presentation because they should be going live sometime around may and we don't want to agendize that yet because i'm going to get an update when the actual launch will take place but we're excited about that development. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner benedicto. >> thank you, president elias. just a cup of things, as commissioner yanez said, we'll have it's now going through the concurrent process and hopefully making its way to the commission. i particularly want to thank the subject subject matter lieutenant and executive sponsor and all those who in the directives, for their great work on that department order. it was a very collaborative working group and one that, i'm

very proud of the participant and the dialogue and the outcome. tomorrow, the first work for the department general order 10.11 is starting, that's the department on body cameras, that's department order the majority of dpa cases, the vas majority dealing with body worn footage, it's a huge piece of transparency and accountability. so i'm very much looking forward to that robust working group and ensuring that the department policies on body worn cameras are modern and up-to-date. i know that commissioner walker has been meeting with the take overs on innovative to do body camera view, so she will continue to work on that.

finally as the commission liason, i met with steve flaherty, congratulations on the audit team, twice winning audit team. to discuss the presentation on monitoring of communication for bias which will be agendized later this month. i got some questions answered. i'll be reaching out to the chief in sfpd to figure out how we can implement some of the solutions. one thing that makes me feel optimistic is the solutions seem very achievable and looking forward to implementing those and working with the department on getting those so we can turn some of these yellow lines into green check marks on audit. and that is my report. >> thank you, commissioner

benedicto, vice president carter oberstone. >> thank you, president elias, just two updates from me. first is that the working group for dgo 8.10 first amendment surveillance activities is going to be starting towards the end of this month, april 28th so looking forward to that. and i know that dpa's twice award winning report will feature prominently in the working groups discussions. also just wanted to provide an update from a couple of weeks ago, myself as well as president elias and commissioner benedicto attended a meeting of command staff couple of weeks ago just wanted to thank command staff again for inviting us. i think it was a good and open discussion. i appreciate the chance to hear

command staff around how the commission functions. i don't think there was a ton of agreement necessarily. i think command staff and i have a very different view about what the commissions rule is in our system of government, what it means to provide accountability and oversight and transparency. but the agreement was never the point. the point was to have an open discussion and i think we accomplished that and i hope it's not the last one. that's all for me. >> mr. walker. --commissioner walker. >> thank you, president elias, as commissioner mentioned, we were both attending the recruitment day at the scottish rights temple, the command staff, thank you. it was a great job. i think that we've seen some of

the videos on different tv station that's wiefb seeing. and it really is important to recruit from community. so i just want to acknowledge how the out reach went and how much there were a lot of folks from the community who were there and interested in helping. that was amazing. and in the commission meeting, there is a lot of tension in the mission and i want to allowed you commissioner, he was asked to translate's everybody's testimony and, i really appreciate it because it was, there was a couple of hours. and chief, i feel like we've been hearing from the mission for a while. i've been talking with them about the conversation, the need to better coordinate.

to communicate with folks out in the frontline, a lot of folks in the mission are part of that conversation. so it's really an opportunity to work with the community on how to help those issues. every neighborhood is different as we know. and it's really important and very supportive of the community to acknowledge that and to be able to, you know, respond to these kinds of meetings because we were there to listen. and i've been meeting with as commissioner benedicto said, some folks who are working on new technology for camera control. we met with the department today and it was well received.

looking the body worn camera more transparent to a agree and secure and to help. i'm really excited about that. but thank you very much chief again for the mission meeting. i know it was really well received, so. >> chief are there translators usually? >> it's roberto. >> usually are, but there is a meeting coordinated by community members so they used the commissioner to translate. but when we set them, we have some. >> you're making him earn the $100 a month. we barely make the $100 stipend. commissioner yee. >> thank you, very much there

president cindy elias. i got two community events that i attended in late march. first one was march 17th, 2023. we had brandon shade monterey park hero that took away the gunman's assault arrivele and came up here and spoke to our association, ccba. he spoke day before in japan town and he was very down-to-earth person. he talked about what he's done. there is a few that he's really a hero. it's just it came to him at that time. and it was a lot of hate he talked about afterwards, how we can help people do mental

health. second event was march 25th, 125 anniversary for the birthright that chinese took on. it wept through supreme court that if you're born here, you're a citizen. and regards to the 14th amendment verified that is it is. so for those born here, we are all citizens. and we thank you for all you've done. that's all i have to report. >> thank you. commissioner byrne? >> thank you. just an update on the dgo's that i've been assigned. dgo103 is with dpa, they

believe they would have reviewed the draft for the meeting on the third week of april. is should be able to give an update in may. dpa is in their final stages and i'll be able to give an update on that one on april 12th. the other issue is at the last meeting, vice president oberstone indicated that it a committee had been formed by president elias to interview for analyst and it was in the final stages. i'm wondering myself and at least one other commissioners is not informed of this panel and of the interview. i put it to the chair, the

chair is not here now. are there any other committees that have been formed that other commissioners are not aware of? i believe it's indumb bent to all members of the commission. i understand that there is a group of four there is a violation of the brown act. it's incumbent to inform the other commissioners what is going on. i understand that the rules that apply are very lose. in all due fairness, i believe that we should and must be informed, thank you.

>> for members of the public that would like to speak, please approach the podium. >> next item please. >> line number 8. proposal of reducing police as a primary responders for homeless calls for service. >> this is chris presenting on this. can people see and hear me? >> yes. >> sorry what was that? >> just one second. >> hold on one second, we can hear you, yes. >> terrific.

>> okay, chris, we can see and hear you. >> great, as far as presentation, will you be going through slides there or is there a screen sharing that i should be doing here? >> we can do either one, which would you prefer? >> actually, just that you figure out the screen and maybe if you can present the presentation and if there is a way to see it on the video, i can say next slide. >> okay, give us one minute. >> otherwise i can--sure. while we set the tech up, i do

want to thank jessica wagoner,--jennifer, sorry, for meeting with us and helping put together this presentation. i know that you have been very involved with this process and it was very helpful to me to understand what role the police commission played with this. i when i came on board, i met with a group of folks from cart and wanted to make sure that this stays on our radar and find a way to support and activate the cart program. since many of the commissioners were not on the commission when that presentation last taopg a couple of years ago, we thought it was a good time to presh and support this. >> before we begin there, i'm going to recall the previous item. i did step out to use the bathroom.

and i do want to address commissioner byrne's comment with respect to interviewing the police commission analyst position. the position has been open for more than a year. we've been trying to fill it and i've made numerous announcements about it and at no time did you inquire being part of the panel or participating in the panel. this is within my per view. if you have any questions, i'm always available for to you contact me at any time so we can discuss the matter. >> i didn't get any email or anything that anybody was being interviewed. >> okay, i said it during commission announcements. >> i spoke to another commissioner before i made the comments and he was of like mind, he had not heard anything either. and i think something as important as this, should be a public announcement at the beginning of the meeting.

and again i asked the question, are there any other commissioners that commissioners are not aware of. >> i checked with the city attorney and rules. i'm not sure what other commissioner, allow me to finish, don't interrupt me. is did mention it at commission updates. so whether you or the other commissioner missed it, it's there and we have an amazing police commission staff who always give notifications and you check in regularly as do the rest of us, so at no time were there any missed opportunities to know that we were moving forward in this matter. commissioner walker do you have any? >> i just didn't know about it either, but i have not been there as long as as the rest. it would be great to weigh in or know what is happening. >> and this is the common practice that has been going on

for several selections of this position. >> so my other question was are there other committees that have been formed that other commissioners are not aware of. as i said when you were out of the room, i was not aware that interviews were going on until vice president carter oberstone indicated that the analyst was being interviewed. and apparently, i was not alone in that. i'm not saying that anything was done deliberately but i think something as important as that, should be mentioned and arguably agendized so that other members of the commission and the public are aware of what's going on. and again, i repeat the question are there any committees like that involving issues. and because you were outside of the room, i indicated that the rules are not set in concrete.

but i think to be frank, it's common decency that other members of the commission be aware of this and again, i to the chair, are there any other committees out there of three people that are looking at other issues that we other commissioners are not aware of? >> i think that's a question for the city attorney so we'll let her answer that. but i will address the other two comments. they were announced during my commission announcements if you were not paying attention, then. and commissioner benedicto also mentioned it in his comment which was also in social media. but i'll turn it over to the city attorney to address your question which again, you could have contacted prior to this

meeting and had that conversation. >> deputy city attorney, alicia ca bre ra, the commission president has the power to appoint committees. but, based on the agenda item number 7 and ask for action on item if there is any disagreement. >> but to the city attorney, how can we disagree or ask action when we're not aware of it? >> city attorney: i understand that's your concern and that's a matter for policy to address. >> and even if the chair has the authority, in common fairness, we ought to be aware of it. and i think it's easy for the commission staff to say these committees exist, these people

are interviewed so we have an update. and, as i said, it's just a question of fairness to all members of the commission. thank you. >> vice president oberstone. >> i'll be brief here, i do recall president elias noting in a public meeting that the commission was looking to fill the position. the commission office posted publicly the job posting, commissioner benedicto retweeted, i think i may have retweeted. i don't think that we need extend this conversation much longer than it's been extended but i do want to say for the record, at least from my stand point, there is nothing happening in secret. i think it was open for a very long time and in the public domain for a very long time. and as commissioner byrne's acknowledges, we cannot have

more than three commissioners in a room doing this. and the idea that we would agendize the hiring of a civil service employee, that's probably out of step with civil service law it's out of step with historical practice. i don't think that anything untord happened. >> i thought it was common decency that the other members of the commission be aware that the committee was appointed. commission was informed on 9.07 that a committee of three had been appointed many times at the meeting. all of a sudden, this thing, yes, there was hiring but there was a committee of three appointed to do the interview. and i was not aware who was on the committee. and with all do respect, i'm not on twitter so i don't follow what is twitted. but it would be easy of an

email was sent to us that a three people. and my question again, are there any other committees of three doing any other type of work that other members of the committee are not aware of. >> well we have the brown act, if a committee has been form, we cannot form. that's why i did it in public in commission reports. i'm not going to debate back and forth. again this position has been open for more than a year, we did more than one round of hiring. >> my question. >> we know what the question is. the city attorney answered the question. commissioner benedicto. >> again, i don't mean to be

labor this. it's a position that had been promoted for a significant amount of time. and just to provide few historical context since i worked with prior commissions. this position has been filled two prior times and neither of those times has it been agendized as an item and neither of those items, and knowing my presence in the commission. filled by a combination of commissioners and staff.

>> but we were not informed who was in the committee. >> yes, just because did not hear it. >> i was not the only one. >> and others were saying they didn't. >> others were saying they did. >> so my question is are there any other committees that are out there that we are not aware of? and if the city attorney says she does not have to answer the question. but in common decency, members of the commission should know what other commissioners are up to. not in meeting, not in violation but what other committees are out there. >> madam attorney, do you have any responses? >> city attorney: can you clarify what the question is. >> the same question, he asked before. >> the question is, there was this committee that was formed to hire an analyst.

i and at least one other member of the commission was not informed of the committee to go out and hire the analyst. my question was, are there any other committees out there for any other reason that the president has appointed and are we entitled to know? not necessarily what they're up to but know the existence of what they're issue they're looking at and who is on the committee. and i don't believe that comes close to violation of the brown act. >> no the brown act requires that you have a publicly discussion of any of those items so you can ask to place that matter on the agenda and ask to be discussion on what other committees have been formed. >> so we have to ask for it to be agendized. >> correct, you can put it on the agenda.

>> thank you, i'll fill out the thing. >> commissioner walker. >> thank you president elias. i know that i'm relatively new, i heard, i heard an announcement that the interviews were happening. i didn't, i don't think i was here to hear the origination of the committee or that we were looking. i feel like, i feel like the interviews are happening and it is a situation where maybe. is is it able to be reviewed in closed session? i get the issue, we all like to be part of certain things and some that we can't be part it. >> so typically, whenever you have a hiring for the commission, it's usually in the

context of a commission secretary. so in that, you have to have an open session of the criteria and about the qualifications that you're looking for in open session when it comes to interviewing individual candidates that will be done in open session. this the criteria is discussed in open session and job postings can be discussed in open and separate step if it's an individual candidate that it cannot be discussed in open session. >> okay, i mean, in the commissions i've been on, the commission hired the director of department and we do it and we interview as a process and then we go into closed session to make decisions. >> and just to clarify, the criteria to develop the job description and qualifications should have been done in open session but when we're talking

about specific candidates that should have been done in closed session. >> okay, so it's an option, especially if there is a recommendation? might be a good thing. i feel like, we're stronger together, does that sound like a poem. and just to know and not feel left out. and i don't think it's intentional, people feel that there was a carry over memory, i know that i heard it in the announcements, the process, i just want didn't want to assume that i was the only one that didn't know. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you, madam chair. my, i guess my remarks is transparency making sure that you're open to all. i'm just saying, you have the same three commissioners on the, it was on the 9.07 and now on the hiring phase. so i'm asking that question, is

it practice or something that you know, this commission is going forward? so it would be good to be inclusive. and ask if you would like to have the interview. i don't think we have the opportunity, that would be my question to you. >> okay. well i take offense on the transparency because i have worked extremely hard and made more progress than other commissioner president, as far as transparency. i mentioned it to the chief when the budget came up because there was a hiring freeze and it was also braupt. i know that it also mentioned in the matrix that dpa had covered. so it was out there in terms of the ability to volunteer, to sign up, to ask to be a part of

it. we did one round of interviews where the department hr manager felt they were not part of candidate. so we had to repost this position. so again, it's been going on for more than a year. and there are rules that we have to follow with violating brown. and i know you had made a comment on 907 as to why you can attend and there was a violation of the brown act when we first joined the commission, we were given a binder which outlines all the laws and rules that we have to adhere to. so i think that that is something that i'm cognizant on and what we've done. >> absolutely, the meeting before the meeting at the commission, i announced that i like to attend. i was not told in this commission that there was three

commissioner attending and that you'll be asked not to attend. wait. you give me the consideration to hear the arguments between our community regarding this 9.07. i'm not against it, here, i guess the changes on there. i just want to be included. that's the thing i'm saying. if i say, no, you're not included well then say it right. just say, we're not included. and this is the way you're going to rule. that's how i'm saying it. >> in all fairness, the three assigned commissioners to the working group were doing substancetive work like the 7.01 that the commissioner attend every working work so

they can do. i understand what you're saying, and commissioner walker said it, sometimes we're permitted to be there and sometimes we can't. we all understand our obligation. >> i agree with you on that, but if i came before this meeting and asked you on a commission, you can say we have three on there and commissioners on there, if you like, we can tell you what is going on. >> we did that. >> who sat down with me? >> i cannot sit down with you, if there is three of us, i cannot have a conversation, that's a violation of the brown act. so that's why we came every commission meeting to give you updates about what with updates. this notion, we were not being transparent or trying to keep things or not being as open as

possible, i gave updates, commissioner benedicto, commissioner oberstone gave updates. we cannot have these private conversations that's not permitted by law and not allowed. >> if i may be heard. >> i didn't point, if it's not nothing new, we should move on. >> the point is, at the meeting, the commissioner wanted to go to. one of the commissioners had abstained from going on that meet involving the chinese community which mr. commissioner yee is connected to. that was not violation as it was an open meeting, they were here, you were there to hear public comment. >> i'm not going to interject because 9.07 is not on the

agenda and this discussion is out of rail. and if folks have comments on 9.07, but i don't think we can think we can speak of as a separate item during commission reports. >> we need to get back on track. we should go to the cart presentation. we have the presenters ready and waiting. >> since we recalled line item 7, for members who would like to make public. please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item 8, chris are you still with us? >> yes, yes, i am. >> sergeant reynolds is going to run the power point for you. it will be up on the screen, if you don't mind saying next slide. >> thank you so much and thanks for the commission, having me present. i was last in the commission in

2019 when the commission houseds a resolution to end policing the first responder to homelessness and while progress, was made. and how it is that the commission will continue supporting this. so just introduced myself i'm an assistant processor of sociology at ucla but any research was in san francisco where i was a researcher in uc berkeley. so please, next slide. so, i want to begin just reviewing the problem as it is with responding to homelessness in san francisco through sfpd.

over 9,000 homeless related calls, it says 2019 and it was actually higher in 2019 but in 2022 resent budget analyst found this. and i want to be clear that this is not all the crime that individuals may be involved in but quality of why, related violations such as bylaw, encampments and trespassing that are considered homeless related. this is costive and affective. that's when officers were addressing homelessness. that number went up in terms of resources.

and consensus that that is not affective and many found the work demeaning demoralizing. i spent a lot of time with the housing unit and alley crews between 2015 and 2018 where i didn't realize how much that these officers and workers did not want to be doing this. they talked about this job being ineffective being made service for healthy homeowners who are calling them and for unhoused folks being cleaned and there was a lot of demoralization among these workers. next slide please. so this slide shows an analysis that i did, it is done by the department of emergency management. but this shows, a great

increase in homeless compliance, these are on a monthly basis between 2011 and 2018. this is in the red line, it increased only 8% between these years. but the calls for a police dispatch increased by 76%. the date went up to 14,000 calls a month according to department of emergency management. and subsequent years and then reduced that down to current between 8 and 9,000 dispatchers a month for these homeless related calls. so unfortunately, not much has changed. but this is to show that even when homelessness is not changing in terms of what we're seeing on the street that the response is being complaint driven by residents and business that's are calling on the police to do this work. next slide please.

government analysis, a budget analyst report that was by initial initial did. and i don't know the person who we called upon is called on arrival. move along order and outcome in the community base study where we surveyed 350 unhoused.

we have 91% of the times when asked what do you do? those who did move inside were in buses. and services are rarely renders. the situation is changed since we first did this research but at this moment, it's important that volunteer shelter and the federal court ruled and just affirmed this ruling that sfpd does not have enough shelter when carrying out their current enforcement. next slide please.

many colleagues that have found that policing can result in negative impacts and health and human services. so the camle evictions result in medications. we have doctors reach out to us that they're clients were using so much medication that we needed to reform these policies but taking survival gear to follow-up on their client. this is one of the reasons that the cec line on this research, put a moratorium on these evictions at the beginning of the pandemic. we also found ways to decrease public safety.

without placement amplifies conflict and staff and violence by forcing people to move into unfamiliar areas and straining relationships on the street. you're moving into encampments with other folks, it makes you seem as a threat because you're a threat of. and i'm a, i turned 56 nights in the streets of san francisco and saw the ways how they follow orders created a lot of tension between those in the streets trying to settle. there is also property confiscation, important paperwork, tools for work and a number of personal. next slide please.

in a number of citations were given and about 8%. at one point, i'm happy to say that they helped in reforms that have happened next to the financial project and d.a.'s office but this still creates problems for people. a moment where the african is 5%. 25 of those people experiencing homelessness are african-american. but we also found in our survey

that african-american xaoeshsing homelessness reported more frequent and more intense policing than their white counterparts. so a past torres losing that we should not use police as first responders to homelessness. and the program that i'm going to talk about now is compassionate alternative team or cart. and this seems to create a future of non criminalization. next slide please. the expectation of this program is that in the policing process, it will not increase problems, and not end homelessness but it will end

the policing to homelessness. under that, the formal began for inclusive process for united community advocate including myself along with key city departments from elected officials. as well as initially the mayor's office. to facilitate a collective process. and from the start the group

was intentional about center unhoused individuals in the design of this alternative. this is the foundation of this work that went forward here. and another response team instead of chart. and i'm happy to talk about the differences. but it is different and it does not fit the fidelity in a number of ways. next slide please. so the golden outcome are eliminating the police in first responders. increasing safety for unhoused

people and reducing and building community by empowering to more compassionately response to the unhoused neighbors. working the in teams of two. so they will respond for people not calling 9-1-1 but also transferred calls not going into 9-1-1. and by funds from the police budget.

so this is just to be clear. we have the squirt and also swirt which are addressing these medical and mental health calls which i'll talk about and has proven successful in evaluations and we're excited about. another 9,000 calls a month which they're not touching at all is what they will be responding to. next slide. i think we can go ahead and move on to the next slide.

so this is really key. and they're going to be trained and interpersonal conflict. and medical services, steps addiction referral resources. and thsz based on a lot of research about the models which i'll mention at the next slide at the end. but it also includes another prong approach which is this community strengthening services. and offer training. next slide.

we had a team looking at existing models, and at the time, there was really one group that had a lot of coverage which is the first one here. and there which has been service for a long time, they found it reduces responses, significantly. currently 15% of all 9-1-1 calls are these homeless related ones, so it's similar. only one percent of the cases did they have to bring them back to the police. since then there have been two other programs which have been

initialed which i've been following. that would match more of the court model and here they found that they left serious crime. that is about 500 cheaper for each to send the star program rather than police. similar things have been found in portland. the thing to highlight is that is reduce the amount of welfare checks which is a common problem here. and out reach activity so speaking to the program. and next slide.

and i'll put this up and i'll go over any questions. one successful model, we should bring up is the skiter here in san francisco. rt here in san francisco as they move forward in the budget act to expand this response. and i'll leave it at that for any questions you may have. thank you very much. >> thank you for your presentation and the pamphlet you gave to the commission, it was very informative.

i'm going to turn it over to commissioner walker. >> commissioner walker: thank you for the work that you're all doing. a couple of questions, alphabetic group and also the hot team. which specifies the and this involves the 800 calls.

medical calls. the hot team is, under the department of public health. they are team with h sock so encampment resolutions they will go out and do initial out reach and work with clients doing shelter and also doing a number of casework out in the streets. they are not tied however to 9-1-1. and most all are going to dpw

or police. they are not driven by callers they're more based on working on statistics. and they're pretty new. and that 8 to 9,000 calls a month, skirt and hot will have no response to. >> yes, and i think a lot have been on ride alongs where there is a lot of issues that come up. it seems that those three groups do respond when the police are called out or asked to come out and resolve

something and they don't do it because it's not their venue but they bring in these other teams. if you factor in the various neighborhood groups what we need is to coordinate all of this stuff. i'm hearing the same thing from some of the folks in the fire commission. i think it would be a good idea to do an all party's meeting on

this and figure this out. i think everybody is frustrated because there is a lot of interest and groups forming. and i'm saying that from the outside so bear with me. now it cart is really responsive to connection from both folks who need the homeless folks who need assistance as well as neighbors? and is the service provided in place? or is there an effort to try and bring people into triaage? i guess i would ask those questions. >> thanks, first i would like to say that there are multiple attempts both with the integrated homeless department

and now with h shock. and that should condition, that being said, we have seen evidence base programs where where you just remove the call first going to police. i agree, it's not going to solve homelessness but it can and it has shown that you have these outcomes that you presented. we know that there is a huge shortage of shelter, housing and resources and that's always going to be the bottle neck. there is a greater chance of people meeting their immediate

needs and getting say, the being willing to go into a clinical setting. they're approached by a professional rather than a professional that may be able to speak to them in the way. that would try to, worry about, trust issues from past experience. and even if those initial contacts of being able to bridge people into at least medical settings that are not taking it. but yeah, i think without more shelter or housing, we're not going to see people moving into the bottle neck.

just to i think ms. freedmucker knows this, at the department of building inspection, we were ahead of resolving tentative issues. violation of building code or planning code that would put a tenant at-risk. and we did an out reach program. and creating a violation so to steam the violation.

making sure we're hooked up into it. being really clear to define what our outcome is is really important in those things. >> and to be clear, the outcome is to reduce the number of times that a police officer is dispatched to to respond to an encampment or homeless complaint. >> from that policing. >> yeah, i think it's important to i understand the negative impacts that affect the both the folks that are homeless as well as the community at large. it's an important part and i

think this is really good. >> thank you, commissioner yanez. >> thank you for the presentation, this is great information. i have a question, i believe it's page 6 maybe, slide 2-4, there is a statement about policing prolongs homelessness. can you elaborate how you came to this conclusion? >> so this is the survey, the survey of 350 unhoused folks about the frequency and experience that they had with policing. and also my own research over 5 years in san francisco, spending time out in the streets and all individuals who were experiencing less.

with the move along orders and people losing belongings either shifting from one place or the other or taking that property when people were not there. i saw people lose expensive and life saving medicines. losing ids and paperwork where they had to go back and get this paperwork to be able to get in the process and eventually they were able to get housing or into shelter but this is the latest citation for people in debt. at some point they were working

to work on but they were so weighed down from unpaid citations from their time being homeless or other court fees. people who lost tools for work. i knew people who were, even if they were scheduled they would have to i know people who lost jobs in those cases. i know a number of people who lost going to the hospital. they knew that it would be under threat of being taken. they would avoid going and getting care for, you know, critical i could go on and on of these circumstances but it

turns into a barrier. or if they were trying to get drug treatment. even if you were not incarcerated, san francisco is great at reducing incarceration but these move along orders all of these things create barriers from moving on from homelessness and even when it's scenes by some of the officers, we're just asking people to move. oh these citations, they cannot handled by the coalition. you don't realize the cumulative affect.

creates situation that push people back from escaping homelessness. >> thank you for that. and you also noted that there have been some improvements from 14,000 citations per year 19, obviously we're limited as far as what we can do as far as policy. what our department can do when they do respond to the call. >> you know, this is tricky because there have been improvement in under gas con there was some improvement, unpaid ietizations not going to warrant dismissal some of these unpaid citations.

we're still not clear on the impact of citations now. and the courts are not no longer reporting how many of these citations are being given each year. having that data can be useful to monitor and it could help organizers understand the impact of that helping us gather this citation data would be one thing. the tricky part i say, the main issue is going through sanization work where police are escorting and property is being taken. and this is the aim of the federal lawsuit right now. and i'm happy to think through this. but the biggest thing that we're finding is reduced the need to reduce the negative impact of stolen property by

the city that is depriving people of their belongings. >> chief would do you have any comments on what the action the department would be able to reduce or minimize that impact on unhoused people? >> commissioner as far as the last issue with the department is not, engaged in confiscating of property. one of the things that the department of problem works who does the bag and tag when property is restored, it's about coordination, just commission pass the resolution that you can push the needle and our main role is to make sure that these situation right side peaceful if we're called. but as far as the property

itself, two things, if property needs to be stored or needs a place to store and of course the record keeping to make sure that the people get their property back. there are systems, and i know there have been hiccups that have been documented. but it really does take all of these entities working together, i don't think any of those can do these alone. we all have a little bit of stake in this. it's not just unhoused people, a lot of times there are issues where it's appropriate to be there. but sometimes it's not and communications and working together when we do that we're more affective and not having these property lost.

it does take partnership across the board. >> and to the second point, with regard to collecting citation information. if the courts are no longer capturing this and we can determine whether we're improving, that something the department will be able to do? we collect the information and we report before that. we can capture that information and we can track that and we do. >> i know that was one of the asks in my meeting with the cart folks, that data point is very important. that way we know that the department is responding to the resolutions that this commission passed, right.

so i would encourage us to collect that or maybe he can frame that for us to be better informed. and the last question i would have is what else can this commission do to be supportive cart program. they've been proactive in disengaging because of the fact that there may be drugs or violence. it was a surprise to me that the city awarded a completely different program that does not require the training that this cart program is has as part of its model.

that was one of the things most impressive to me. adheres to this program model. so what would we be able to support whether it's a proposal or another resolution, i'm not sure what the next step would be. >> part of the presentation i think it was mentioned calls from members of the community drive a lot of response. and i'm not those calls started to happen with crt. i'm not exactly sure, i know i met with ms. freeddom boker

about how that is going to be handled. i think that is something that we need to delve further into it. then what happens, how are we track iting? there is more to be discussed. and also listening. i know the commission has listened to the public, the not only the

>> thank you those are my questions. >> last time, there were some issues with the department being non responsive but it seems those have been resolved. >> sorry. >> meaning the police department, i'm not remembering, i'm so sorry. >> i know,--so apparently not an issue. >> good job, chief. >> okay, thank you about that. >> okay, i'll leave it alone. we do have conversations. we have had many. >> the last time that they

presented that was one of the things, between you and the department it's been more than a year, i think. >> at this point, things are at dem and everything has been stalled, actually two years. so having the support of the commission to you know, whatever, you're the mayor, et cetera and really, i think this is a great way, there is been a lot of talk about the police departments workload and it's a great way to lighten the workload and address some of the other things. i think this department can play an important role in making this happen. and i think the idea is to make sure that all the issues are resolved and it would be part of that, the cart report, making sure that the issues are on both sides.

and also the public has their expectations managed as well. that they're educated and engaged in their solution so we decrease the 9-1-1 calls. that's a big part. and you alluded, we really, it's, a lot of times neighbors can help each other whether they're housed or unhoused without involving 9-1-1. >> i know when i go to the district stations, that's one of the concerns that officers have. and not within the their wheel house which takes up time from their ability too. commissioner yee. >> i have a question, is chris still on the line? >> uh-huh. >> yeah, on the page of cart program design and and then you have the response team. is there a certain number of

teams that you're looking to have for this program? >> i would have to go and look at the report itself. but we base the 6.8 million cost. on how much it would cost, other teams to cover the apartment of calls which at that time, we were looking at about 60,000 calls a year. i guess to get an idea would be that there were 21 full-time officers responding to the 9-1-1 calls and other that were

homeless related. that was with police response. they began as a pilot program and they continued to expand and there is a lot of research scaling up. but hopefully they can use some sense of how it may start and where it may stop. >> i guess on the, 6,825,000 is that in mixed wages. how many people to house and how is your service? i guess you would have for us to look at? >> yes, i can go back to the

original report. i know we were looking at the amount of calls to get to that number. >> my other question is the time frame? what is the time frame to be fully activated? once the funding is approved and it does involve, you know a training. i know that in the two cases i presented on in denver and in portland, that once those contracts were approved that the initial teams and they were smaller pilot teams began with that, began between 3 to 6

months in both locations. and both positive evaluations were approved for more funding. but they were launched on thed streets during their approval. >> sergeant. >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 8, please approach the podium. >> hi i'm jennifer with the league of women voters of san francisco. i've been coming to commission meetings for about six years. we've participated in a number of working groups and i'm here today as a member of the cart coalition and i wanted to express that this is a robust process kicked off by you. so in terms of talking about who needs to be involved, you've done that. i admit that many of you were

not here then, but the cart coalition is eager to talk to you. cart is not asking you to fund me or any of the rest of us. to have somebody fund today do the work in the cart plan and then held accountable through that process. so again, it's not that i'm here to ask you for funding, i'm asking you support the city provide that as originally intended. thank you. >> i'm going to step on delicate ground, when i read the report, it said there were at least 10 organizations in san francisco community organizations that were supporting cart.

the police were on six of them that were unhoused. one of the guys i wrote a poem about him, it was published, he had a machete, i know people say, he had a machete. the guy did not speak english, the police got there, the hot team is the one that called the police or maybe when she called, i read that she called the police. louis was there within 10 or 30 seconds, more than 30 bullets were fired and he was killed

instantly, he was walking and lost his job and ended up unhoused. that is a fact, if you look at google, twitter, google, amazon, 28,000 electronics sales force, that's just about 5 or 8 or 9 companies that have lead up, ,000, 4%, 28% tech workforce. why people are homeless? they cannot afford the rent. >> thank you, ma'am. >> jennifer on homelessness. thank you for engaging in this process. i see, i'm really excited. there is a lot of possibility to do, if you just feel like,

things are coming together with this in terms of there is a lot of struggles, there is an opportunity to do things differently. and i want today highlight one element of the cart program that i think is important and that's the commitment to hire peers and folks that have the experience with homelessness. you can do it where you have designs where there is geographic assigned teams. so you can have a commission that has spanish speaking members and you can have castro team, that is members of lgbtq community and all of that, and a huge part of that is having very extensive training of the peers.

and that's where we see it work really well. where there is adoptive spending and responding and reviewing what happened and what worked and what didn't work and learning from that and changing. i just wanted highlight those areas of stuff. and the chief has been mentioned a lot collaboration and that's a key part of these. you can shift the rest of the system up from there and redesign. and they can be connected with the team. thank you so much. >> and there is no other public comment. >> thank you. thank you again for the presentation.

we look forward to another one, it's been more than one year. that's kind of a lot. next item. >> item number 9, adopt resolution, urging the board of supervisors to authorize chief of police to accept and expend a gift of nalox zone through the distribution project which is funded by the substance abuse and administered by the department of services. it will be used to combat opioid overdose related deaths. discussion and possible action. >> good evening, president elias, members of the public, my name is patrick, i'm the chief financial officer for the police department. tonight we're requesting the

commission approval for expense just a couple's numbers from everything. everyone, the number of noloxzone, we had 168 incidents in 2022 and year to date as of yesterday for 2023, we had 52 incidents with the application of nalopzone. so with this grantor kind gift, we'll be able to restore what we have in the department. and if there are any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> thank you, commissioner byrne? >> one question. what does it mean to retro

active. >> when we submit our application and they process it, once it's approved by their administrative folks, they send it over. so per mia mrikation they've shipped the product that's why it's retroactive. >> so you got it, and you want to come to us and recommend that you should get it. >> yes. >> okay, thank you. >> great, celebrate. >> can i get a motion. >> public comment. >> pardon me. >> public comment. >> we can do that right now, look at you, you seasoned vet you. >> he's been in so many meetings. >> members of the public who want to make a public comment

online item number 9, please approach the podium. seeing none, commissioner walker. >> yes. >> benedicto. >> yes. >>ian necessary. >> yes. >> byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president carter o behr tone. >> yes. >> >> president elias. >> yes. >> 7 yeses. >> i was trying to get you out of here fast. you're welcome sir. next item. >> line item 10 approve a resolution drafted by the commission that will provide labor negotiations for the department to use when meeting and conferring with the affected governoring meetings as by law. >> commissioner benedicto. >> thank you very much president elias. colleagues i've been mentioning that this was coming for a couple of weeks now. as you know when this

commission considered 9.07, we received a letter of san francisco, it was not the first time that we received a letter like this. in fact, they date back to 2016 about meet and confer and some practices causing delays. and ensuring that we're complying with the law and proceeds as expeditiously as possible. to that end, and each of those that we have presented since then, we have read instructions that have been, i think now unanimously adopted by the commission but to stair, i know

that this wuz consistent with prior practices both with cohen did versions of this during their presidencies. so i've been work withing the deputy city attorney ms. cabrera to draft this resolution. so it should move things along more efficiently and i'm happy to answer any questions on the resolution. >> thank you forget thising drafted and before a commission. i know, it was not an easy list. commissioner byrne. >> to the city attorney, are there any differences that were in the previous resolutions?

is this the same as what was done before? or are there differences? >> deputy city attorney alicia cabrera, the same as we've been discussing. >> and no differences. >> no differences, this is consistent. >> thank you. >> i'll make a motion to adopt the resolution as drafted. unless there is a change that needs to be made? >> yes, i want to to correct the non substancive like grammer and errors. >> i'll make that motion. >> sergeant. >> members of the public that would like to make public

comment online item 10, please approach the item. no public comment. commissioner walker. >> yes. >> commissioner ben dick o. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have 7 yeses. >> next item. >> item number 11, physical evidence and crime scenes for the department to use with the affective garbing units. >> good evening, deputy chief swaney, good evening president elias, commissioners. i'm here as a spon sore.

2.0d g.o. is crime evidence. the newer dgo is updated from i believe 94. and this d g.o. has an easier flow that is consistent with the rest of the d g.o.s. it does update evidence and how evidence is collected and how its integrated with the ballistic information network for casings. and who i have behind me is mark from forensics. and acting lieutenant, and she also goes out actively as crime

scenes and pros crime scenes. this new dgo is preventing contamination and collection. thank you, if you have any questions, i have my subject matter questions. >> i do have a question, on page 4, this is a clean copy regarding collecting evidence. i know that the language was changed from senior investigating officer to, responding officers present. but i think that what officer will be responsible for it? are we talking about the reporting officer who writes the report, the senior investigating officer, the most highest ranking one? where does that responsible lie? from that language, it's a little unclear. >> we did discuss that and linn, you can fill-in on this. i believe the intent was the

initial responding officer is responsible, that's how we looked at it. there are times when you would have a second or third is that is more senior but they came in after the fact. >> i'm just concerned because i think about it in a disciplinary context and they say, like, you know, the three of us respond which one is going to be tasks with collecting evidence? do you see what i'm saying? >> i do. >> how do you reconcile that? >> i'll read it again, referring to. >> it's the first, the first sentence in h, collecting evidence. it's really the last portion which says the physicianest rest with the responding officer's present. >> right, i think that was put in there, because originally it says first responding officers or the highest ranking officer and that's. >> senior.

it was senior senior investigating officer present. and that's on page 6. >> i feel like, who is it? when you say responding officers? present, that's multiple people, who does that task lion? >> if i can jump in. the reason it's written like that, is not appropriate in terms of chain of evidence to use the senior officer language. for instance, two junior officers, it's their scene and their investigation, and chain belongs to them. senior officer shows up, they wouldn't make a whole lot of sense nor do i think it would be the right thing to do as far as processing. for them the senior officer to be responsible for collecting the evidence. the same if i got the call, it

does not matter my tenure, we didn't want to confuse the issue. there are language in other dgo's of senior officers being responsible, chain of evidence is a different issue. >> right, but you have chain of evidence covered in the dgo as well, for the chain of custody, it's outlined in page 1 and 2 and then there is a whole section on the chain of sud. --custody. this is the collection part. the responsibility for proper collection of physician evidence rest with the responding officers present. so if there are five officers on the scene, what officer is going to be tasked with collecting the evidence? how is that determined? we've seen cases, situations before where officers drive on scene and they said, i thought it was the other officer's duty.

>> yeah, and in those cases, i think we're able to vet through that. but we're not talking about a non major crime scene, you name the crime. >> auto burglary. >> so you're holding both of them responsibility disciplinary if they fail to collect evidence. >> one officer, will collect the evidence and baokt evidence but both officers. >> but that's what i'm saying, one officer is going to collect the evidence. the way this policy says, rest with the officer, both of them would be responsible and liable. >> in this situation, it could be. but the way it works, when the officer responds to a call, they communicate, you got

books, i got cover and contact. those decisions are made depending on who has the responsibility. i don't know that policy should dictate that piece of the evidence collection. the officers will be held responsible. elias, they call, i don't believe that it's, that it's makes sense to prescribe that in the policy. ultimately, they're all responsible. i think we're able to vet those through, because both officers are responsible. and if there is a senior officer in other parts of other dgos, they have the responsibility. >> oh and sorry. >> go ahead. >> and also in a scene, the reporting officer, we can tell

by body worn camera what kind of direction is being given. you can have multiple reporting officers right, one collecting casings, another one might be collecting a firearm, another one. >> right. >> so there may be multiple that all have equal, that have equal responsibility. >> right. i assume that it's not going to be laid on one officer. >> my question is the person to delegate that. i hear from officers that want clear policy and what they could be liable for. you know, the prior language had a designated person in terms of rank and who would take charge in the situations and then you changed it to a plural officers without designation. and the other reason i bring it up is because on the disciplinary review board there was an incident where an

officer had taken home rather than book it and there, it was more of a policy failure that you had indicated rather than discipline chief in terms of this officer and those circumstances. so the situations like that, also come to mind when i read this policy. i don't see in this policy that officers if they do collect evidence they're to book it within a reasonable time period rather than take it home and do it the next day. >> yes, so. >> and you said it was a policy failure. >> this is the policy. >> as far as the collecting evidence, so that one is, you know, example that deputy chief pointed out and the sample i pointed out, the senior officer has the responsibility from the leadership stand point. you and i are handling a call, i'm senior to you and you

booked the evidence, i'm going to be held accountable for my part in this. but let's say you don't book the evidence, you know, you mishandle and you don't book the evidence, you have a responsibility for that. those are decision that's appropriately should be made in the field because you do swap off. not every officer is going to book every piece of evidence. and senior officer are going to have in leadership. but to prescribe it, it would be not practical. where senior officer has the responsibility. to me this is something different because you have the complicated scenes often times where there is multiple people collecting. >> will we be addressing the

failure for failing. >> i think there is some language. >> 6.15, noi he it says in number, i got my numbers mixed up. it goes into the category of evidence and chain of custody. but i think there is any collection where when they collect it they have to book it to preserve. >> and again i bring it up because you said it was a policy failure and this is the policy, we should--hi.

that's right. >> there is another dgo. >> will that address the policy failure. >> that's what we're working on. >> we'll try to make sure it's in at least that one. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> at this, commander jones. >> thank you, president elias. i had a couple of substancetive questions. so first page section 2-a., the last sent anssinger, i think there should be the word and inserted.

is a major crime scene and includes not only the area where the, where the criminal or non criminal account occured but also approached. on page 3, 2 f1, sorry, this is all clean copy. i think it should be flur al scenes. and this one is a question on page 9. >> you're saying all crime tape. >> all crime scenes and major incident scene. two and one. >> okay.

>> page 9, this is a question, not sure. and of course i forgot to circle this. and on page 4, the second paragraph section g. in the first sentence to gloves and every refers to fresh latex or nitrile gloves, if not we should change it with that to be consistent. >> that sounds reasonable.

okay, so page 5, gunshot residue. >> gsr, do we know if that's right? is there a legal decision saying that the exception applies to gunshot residue? >> i would have to come back and look at that. >> so we did have that research and look at that, that is correct.

>> this came up in another policy. in 2017, the u.s. supreme court said there is for taking blood in a situation. in the fact that the blood alcohol dissipates overtime, i don't know how gun residue dissipates, than the alcohol in your blood, but i'm not aware of a kind of controlling decision saying that. i have not researched it either so i'm not saying it's not out there. i would have to hate this as a policy and then it gets thrown out. i think you could say that you can take a custodial at rest.

but if somebody is not being arrested, it's not obvious that it would apply in every circumstance. >> that is, you are absolutely connect but we cannot without a custodial situation demand that people's hands are tested for residue. that is correct and we can, we can actually modify that. yeah, because if it's a detention you don't have the requirements.

>> i had a very basic question, this could be a dumb question so brace yourself. so section, question document. what, i mean all the documents on this list, all the things on this list are documents, what makes them questioned documents? >> that's the technical word that is used in law enforcement. >> i warned you the question

may be dumb. as it relates to the gunshot residue, chief, do you want to put this over and amend it? >> yes, yeah, i think we should. we should put it over and amend it and make sure that we have the case law solid and we clarify and note that i just wrote. >> that's everything for me. >> henderson. >> this is a policy that has been around and revised since 1994 and, it's a big deal that we're getting important things like this it's a still but also

of the police commission so i wanted to acknowledge that and also the team that worked on this, january he will and jermaine and nicole and just to make sure that this does not get lost. that we talked about extensively on the dna references that are collected from victims and witnesses are restricted to be used for forensic evidence. this is where it's been codified and made into a rule and thank the collaborative inclusive of the commission and department for moving this and getting this done. it's very timely, it's been a long time coming and it's a big

deal that this is happening now. >> can we bring it back next week, does that give you enough time. >> i'm not going to be here next week but you'll have a representative. >> i'll give you a copy friday morning. >> yes. >> but you'll be here next week. >> no, but i'll have somebody here. >> do you want me to put it over until you come back. >> you can, it's totally up to you. >> i think we can, i think we can do it next week. >> and director henderson, if you can thank your team. >> thank you to the department for their work as well. >> all right, sergeant. >> for members of the public, please approach the podium if would you like to make public comment. no public comment.

on item 12, discussion and possible action to revise 9.07 stops in meeting discussion and possible action. >> thank you, vice president oberstone. >> thank you president elias, i'll be very brief, we discussed this many times with this commission and we voted to send this policy to meet and confer on january 11th. at that meeting, chief indicated that he could support the policy if we made some changes that indicated and clarified what the policy always did which is to deprioritize certain stops, while leaving open avenues for endorsement and chief and i worked on some language to that affect.

i really appreciate the which chief and i were able to work on it collaborative. and i just want to thank him for that. and i will leave it at that. i'm happy to answer any questions or partake in discussion if commissioners decide to. i didn't want to be presumptuous. >> chief scott. --commissioner >> the language and also explaining the situations where officers can enforce and really clarifying some of the language. i think was what i asked for, i

do support this policy and as written and just want to thank commissioner and the rest of the commission for hearing us out on this. >> thank you, chief. i also want to commend vice president oberstone and the chief who worked together they found language that was satisfying to all and that's how we're here now. it demonstrate the collaboration that can happen and how we move things forward. i'm going to turnover to commissioner benedicto but i know we killed it all the thank you, but i want to express thank you to officer jones, not only am i convince that you memorized the traffic laws but i want to recognize and commend you for your tremendous contribution to this process, not only during the working

groups but the private conversations, email and research because we didn't have a policy analyst to do this for us, you picked up the ball and helped us with explaining the traffic code, telling us what the traffic laws are, really helping us understand if it's not included in this policy or how we would word it because of the various traffic laws that you've memorized. not only that, i think it speaks involves to who you are and i think the work ethic you have. because when we went to the various groups and had discussion wz patrol officers and even higher ranking officials when your name came up or when you spoke, it was clear the amount of respect and grace that people had when it came to the awards that you spoke or your suggestion. i want to thank you, because i don't believe that we would be here without your invaluable input which i know we relied on. thank you very much.

and i'm told 9:01 is coming which is another policy you worked on. hopefully have you back here. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you president elias, i want to echo everything that president elias said about officer stone and commend vice president oberstone and chief. it was a late night and we were proud of that policy and these, not which again this is for the chief and being able to produce a version that, you know, we set it i hope that versioned unanimously but it didn't. but i hope this version passes unanimously. it's a policy that should commission can be proud of,

comprehensive and policy that is reasonable and that is a policy that we'll significantly improve and achieve the goals that we've set out to achieve with this policy. also something that i know vice president oberstone mentioned last week, this includes minor edits. so, happy to make a motion to approve the revised general 9.07 for the department to use with the bargaining units. along with the attached language but yet unnumbered labor resolution as well. >> thank you, commissioner byrne? >> chief, thank you. chief, when i read the revised version, the main change to me

put into purpose of use so that would be the first paragraph. so why did that change the department's mind on stops? >> the discussion about using specific language as to deprioritization rather than ban that was one of the issues that i raised. and then the other thing in the policy, clarifying in section c, i believe, it's where those changes. i know we went back and forth about where the language would live. but the other part i think in section there was some

clarifying language there as well. in particular the exception right before 4 or 5 where it says nothing in this section of actions as long as it does not result in an investigative. and i don't have the copy but there was some clarifying language to be more specific on snz officers with enforce, even though we're deprioritizing in certain occasions. and under what conditions they can enforce.

the policy of this enforcement. and there was some previous versions where that language was pretty much did say that. >> and is their position still the same? >> i cannot say that every member is going to agree or feel the same way. but sme that worked on it including officer jones, we went back and forth and try to come up with language that people can understand, understand what they can and can't do. to make it clear, one of the complaints that i get from officers, that our policies are confusing what they can and can't do.

that was part of the focus. >> i'm sure you understand better than i do, the importance of getting a buy in from the department of rank and file. in order to make the policy affective, buy in is really critical. change comes easier when people are open to it. >> i do i understand that. and even though i was not part of the commission out reach, they want today hear from the south sider. officers. officers did attend those sessions and changes did come from those sessions. for instance one of the early hang ups that officers were upset about was tinted windows was included in the list. after hearing from the officers and listening session and private that was removed. and plus, i think some data

kind of was another reason why that was removed. did everybody get everything they wanted in this policy, no? can i say every officer agrees in no, but we made every effort to hear the officer's concerns. and we need to move on. >> thank you. >> thank you, i also want to reiterate and thank everyone involved in discussions to get to a version that we can all support. i would like to reiterate that there is concerns, i think we heard from some of the folks from vision zero around

pedestrian safety and some concerns around seniors. we need to make sure that we take enough data. that there are consequence fz our officers are not making these stops. when we getting presentations, we didn't have the data about consequences. as we're collecting data and dpa can look at this too. we need to make sure that there are no consequences. thank you again for all of you working together. working together to make this happen. >> you know we were one of the

principal people that made the policies i absolutely believe and commend all the folks that participated in these not so easy negotiations to get this to final draft, i'm 100% certain that this policy puts us on the right side of history and i think that's important. i want to make sure that this is why we collectively worked so arduously and we didn't agree. i don't think everyone got what they wanted but i'm confident that we moved this in right direction and affirmed as having made the right decision

collaboratively, that's it. >> thank you president elias. i do think that we will be on the right side of history as director henderson said and there will be a right side and wrong side sooner than we know. i did want to address commissioner walker's point about impacts on pedestrians and on the disabled community. i want to note for the record, we did meet with the mayor's office of disability and the mayor's office of aging to hear specific concerns. we also made sure that they were not part of the collisions on the roadway. the point is well taken that we will have to look at how the

data shifts. but as of the current data, there is no recommendation. >> we adopted some of their recommendations. >> we did adopt, that is a good point, and we did adopt some of their specific recommendations. there is a motion already, i will second the motion. >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment on item 12, please approach the podium. no public comment on the motion, commissioner walker how do you vote. >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> commissioner yee is yes. vice president. >> yes.

>> vice president oberstone is yes. and president elias. >> yes. >> you have 7 yeses. >> next item, item 13 on whether to hold item 15 in closed session. if you would like to make a public comment, please approach the podium. item 14, vote on whether to hold item 15 in closed session including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regard. >> motion. >> second. >> on the motion, commissioner walker how do you vote. >> yes. >> benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone. >> yes. >> president elias. >> yes.

>> you have 7 yeses, we will go into closed session. [police commission in closed session]

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wine. what we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. growing up in san francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. i went to san francisco state university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to

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hi, sandy, how are you? >> hi, fine, thank you. how are you? >> good. i want to ask you what inspired

you to be a paramedic? >> that's a good question. you know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. >> can you give me a break down of a typical day for you? >> i come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to e-mails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. can we hire more people. what kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems. >> what does it take to be a female paramedic? >> you know, it takes quite a bit of schooling, but also required somebody who's empathetic. it can be a very stressful job and so we want people to be able to hand that on a

day-to-day basis. >> so what's your greatest satisfaction in your job? >> trying to make sure that the work that we provide and the services that we provide to the community is the best that we can in ems so that when we go out to see you if you call us for an emergency, that we'll be able to treat you in the best way possible and that you get the care as quickly and as effectively as possible. >> why is it important for young girls, women of color to see women in these roles? >> i think it really is important for us to be able to get into these roles because we are effective, we are able to reach out to the community. we are able to do the job in a very effective manner and to be able to relate to the community and be able to do that is one of the best things that we can do. and people of color and as women of color, you know, we are in a great position to be able to do that.

fire department ems at station 49. i was born raise in the oak land my dad is mexican my mom is black i was playing soft ball this hayward and directly behind our soft ball field is an empty field. and almost every day at practice i saw this tiny woman leading the big people in work outs and eventual low i look in the and found out she was teaching how to do physical trin to get people red to work in the fire department. that peeked my interest. the oak lan fire department was the first fire department i did. i did a firefighter one training program there. that got me into fire whim start the paramedic school i went to city college and fell in love with the city.

i did nile internship at station 49. it was wonder. . i learned the san francisco wave doing things. like the wild, wild west, every day. i loved it was a family environment here. that made mow say san fan fire department, that's i didn't want to be. i avoided science my entire education up to becoming a paramedic. i failed my first time taking my emt registry. i hope well is nobody out there that gets discouraged if this happens. you have opportunity to take again. i d. i came back. took it, passed and continued to paramedic and pass the my registry the first time. being a woman in the fire department i am a minority here. a minority in multiple aspects. i'm a woman. biracial i'm the only black

woman paramedic in the ems position. it is insane and i hope i encourage other women to join this profession that does not represent the city of san francisco. i love to show up on a scene and i can see the comfort in member who men looks like me or my family members they see me and they are comforts. i hope there are women that see me and see themselves in me and know they can do this job limp i have a 20 month old daughter at home. i would like to teach my daughter it is okay to say no as a woman and have and voice that opinion. and i did a good job of that already. >> i really hope that anybody considering this field schedule a ride along.

go to your local deputy or knock on an ambulance window can ask to schedule a ride along. that is irrelevant how diit my first couple ride alongs i saw things that blew my mind and said, that's what i want to do with my life. [music] i worked on the it for 16+ years and i workeded an endless cycle of people going to the emergency room. i wanted to address those unmet needs. i have a satisfaction when we make a real difference in our

clients' lives. we were getting people housed, connecting them to treatment, and seeing them through sobriety. don't be afraid of failure. i have failed at things in my career and they are opportunities to continue on. it's important for women and women and people of color to see representation matters. when i first started my career 25 years ago, there were not that many other women. so it is amazing to respond to meetings and go to meetings and see other female leaders and learn from each other. this career is my dream job from working on [ indiscernible ] to being the chief and overseeing a division. it's been challenging and rewarding and inspiring.

>> my name is tiffany cobb and i work for the san francisco fire department. i was raised by a single parent. i grew up with a very strong work ethic mental ity. i would like to compare it to a bar back and anticipated the needs and the call. you will

provide the needs and complete the call. >> the favorite part of the job is when i can actually connect with a patient and utilize your people skills as a human being. sometimes it's not a medical need. they just want someone to talk to, someone to listen to and want to be seen as a person and want to be recognized and see them as they are. those are my important calls. i remember being a seven or nine year old girl and never seen anyone like me in a fire engine and that gave me hope that i can do that. there are people like me that can do that job. sometimes people need to feel nurtured and feel safe. i feel like i can bring that to my patients.

>> you maybe feel afraid. just try it out. that's what i did. just never give up. i was told no. i failed the fire academy. i'm still here and i never quit. just learn from your mistakes and never give up on yourself. i'm in station 49. eventually i would like to utilize my skills as a fire paramedic and hopefully become an officer some day. >> for san francisco, i said this in my interview, it's like the new york of the west coast. it has everything i wanted to be a part of. it has ems and has a rich history and blue collar history which i absolutely love. i want to be a part of that.

[music] i'm angela romero a lieutenant with the san francisco fire department. i'm a san francisco native. went to an all girl's school st. john and the grammar school prior and went to san francisco state. where i got a degree. and i am fortunate to live in the sdpae raise my family here. i received a degree in international marketing. i thought, i will be a buyer and travel all over the world. it did not happen like that. i went in business in retail but felt like i had it in mow to help others. when i decided to do a career

change, it was my husband who said, hey, you are athletic and you care about your community and the city that we live in. go with me and get an interest card for the fire department. it is caring for my community and the citizens of san francisco does not matter what their make up is or their situation. that is most important to me. taking care of the citizens. i like teaching now. i like sharing my knowledge in the experiences with the young generation coming in new recruits. as a latina, i'm proud of when my culture can bring to this job. and that is a sense of family. which this is my second family. it was and started with my class. the 97th class. that's hai tell my recruits.

you learn to help each other we cannot do this job alone. i already had a family i was married and had a family when i -- began to pursue the fire department. it was a lot of work. took me away from my family. but if it was not for them, i mean encouragement i received, i don't think i would have made it through. so, very happy that i had a family like that and happy that i joined this family. because i have met and worked with very incredible men and women of all walks of life who helped me to get to where i am at.

>> he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. brought this department together

like never before. i am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the san francisco fire department, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome, jeanine nicholson. (applause). >> i grew up total tomboy, athlete. i loved a good crisis, a good challenge. i grew up across the street from the fire station. my dad used to take me there to vote. i never saw any female firefighters because there weren't any in the 1970s. i didn't know i could be a fire fighter. when i moved to san francisco in 1990, some things opened up.

i saw women doing things they hadn't been doing when i was growing up. one thing was firefighting. a woman recruited me at the gay-pride parade in 1991. it was a perfect fit. i liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. in terms of coming in after another female chief, i don't think anybody says that about men. you are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. i understand why it is asked. it is unusual to have a woman in this position. i think san francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful.

be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. i worked my way up. i came in january of 1994. i built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. working out of firehouses. the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they

understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a while. part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know what they need to be successful. >> i have known jeanine nicholson since we worked together at station 15. i have always held her in the

highest regard. since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. she is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. i appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the fire department today. >> there is a retired captain who started the cancer prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. he started looking into it. in 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the san francisco fire department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. it was a higher rate than the general population.

we were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didn't have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. the turnout gear was covered with suit. it was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and helmet. the dirtier you were the harder you worked. that is a cancer causeser. it -- casser. it is not -- cancer causer. there islassic everywhere. we had to reduce our exposure. we washed our gear more often, we didn't take gear where we were eating or sleeping. we started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. going back to the fire station

and then taking a shower. i have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. it is not if or when. it is who is the next person. it is like a cancer sniper out there. who is going to get it next. one of the things i love about the fire department. it is always a team effort. you are my family. i love the city and department and i love being of service. i vow to work hard -- to work hard to carry out the vision of the san francisco fire department and to move us forward in a positive way. if i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids,

find people to support you. keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. you never know what door is going to open next. you really don't. [cheers and i'm chanel joyce i'm a firefighter for the san francisco fire department. i currently am the station 4. in the mission bay districtism lived in san francisco in noe valley. grew up with my mom and i went to high school in san ma te'o. after high school i went to mississippi where i played volleyball in university of southern mississippi. what got me going after college was i was applying to place related to fire and police i loved my experience but my family is home.

i grew up here and could not be far from my family anymore i came back. >> i have been a firefighter for 4 years the transition to the fire department has been seam tells is the same. team work and coming together. transitioning to the job med me comfortable that i made the right decision to come become and work for a fire department that is big in diversity and equality and becoming a fell. i got to be a member at a few different fire stations. each station has their own culture. i worked in places that are xroem and with a young crew and had the most seniority have 3 or 2 years in whatever it may be. learning stuff when people have been in the job for 20 plus years and learning from people got in it grew me to adopt and

work with everybody. >> a lot of people will come up to mow and say, thank you for your service noise to see a woman in the fire department. you are doing it. it is nice to see kids waiving look a woman firefighter. they get excited i love that part of the job seeing the excitement that people see. you are a woman you can do this job. every person has a good experience with the fire department. no one ever spokous they say, they are here. they're do this work and everybody loves them. not everybody gets that in their job. i don't do it for the recognition but niez nice to see people that respect had you do and know you did a lot to get here and you still do to work and you set your life on the line for other people. it is cool.

hi, sandy, how are you? >> hi, fine, thank you. how are you? >> good. i want to ask you what inspired you to be a paramedic? >> that's a good question. you know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. >> can you give me a break down of a typical day for you? >> i come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to e-mails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. can we hire more people.

what kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems. >> what does it take to be a female paramedic? >> you know, it takes quite a bit of schooling, but also required somebody who's empathetic. it can be a very stressful job and so we want people to be able to hand that on a day-to-day basis. >> so what's your greatest satisfaction in your job? >> trying to make sure that the work that we provide and the services that we provide to the community is the best that we can in ems so that when we go out to see you if you call us for an emergency, that we'll be able to treat you in the best way possible and that you get the care as quickly and as effectively as possible. >> why is it important for young girls, women of color to see women in these roles? >> i think it really is important for us to be able to get into these roles because we are effective, we are able to reach out to the community. we are able to do the job in a

very effective manner and to be able to relate to the community and be able to do that is one of the best things that we can do. and people of color and as women of color, you know, we are in a great position to be able to do that. [music] i'm angela romero a lieutenant with the san francisco fire department. i'm a san francisco native. went to an all girl's school st. john and the grammar school prior and went to san francisco state. where i got a degree. and i am fortunate to live in the sdpae raise my family here. i received a degree in international marketing. i thought, i will be a buyer and travel all over the world. it did not happen like that. i went in business in retail but felt like i had it in mow to

help others. when i decided to do a career change, it was my husband who said, hey, you are athletic and you care about your community and the city that we live in. go with me and get an interest card for the fire department. it is caring for my community and the citizens of san francisco does not matter what their make up is or their situation. that is most important to me. taking care of the citizens. i like teaching now. i like sharing my knowledge in the experiences with the young generation coming in new recruits. as a latina, i'm proud of when my culture can bring to this job. and that is a sense of family. which this is my second family. it was and started with my

class. the 97th class. that's hai tell my recruits. you learn to help each other we cannot do this job alone. i already had a family i was married and had a family when i -- began to pursue the fire department. it was a lot of work. took me away from my family. but if it was not for them, i mean encouragement i received, i don't think i would have made it through. so, very happy that i had a family like that and happy that i joined this family. because i have met and worked with very incredible men and women of all walks of life who helped me to get to where i am at. [music]

>> my background is in engineering. i am a civil engineer by training. my career has really been around government service. when the opportunity came up to serve the city of san francisco, that was just an opportunity i really needed to explore. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] i think it was in junior high and really started to do well in

math but i faced some really interesting challenges. many young ladies were not in math and i was the only one in some of these classes. it was tough, it was difficult to succeed when a teacher didn't have confidence in you, but i was determined and i realized that engineering really is what i was interested in. as i moved into college and took engineering, preengineering classes, once again i hit some of those same stereotypes that women are not in this field. that just challenged me more. because i was enjoying it, i was determined to be successful. now i took that drive that i have and a couple it with public service. often we are the unsung heroes of technology in the city whether it is delivering network services internally, or for our broadband services to low income

housing. >> free wi-fi for all of the residents here so that folks have access to do job searches, housing searches, or anything else that anyone else could do in our great city. >> we are putting the plant in the ground to make all of the city services available to our residents. it is difficult work, but it is also very exciting and rewarding our team is exceptional. they are very talented engineers and analysts who work to deliver the data and the services and the technology every day. >> i love working with linda because she is fun. you can tell her anything under the sun and she will listen and give you solutions or advice. she is very generous and thoughtful and remembers all the special days that you are celebrating. >> i have seen recent employee safety and cyber security.

it is always a top priority. i am always feeling proud working with her. >> what is interesting about my work and my family is my experience is not unique, but it is different. i am a single parent. so having a career that is demanding and also having a child to raise has been a challenge. i think for parents that are working and trying to balance a career that takes a lot of time, we may have some interruptions. if there is an emergency or that sort of thing then you have to be able to still take care of your family and then also do your service to your job. that is probably my take away and a lot of lessons learned. a lot of parents have the concern of how to do the balance i like to think i did a good job for me, watching my son go through school and now enter the

job market, and he is in the medical field and starting his career, he was always an intern. one of the things that we try to do here and one of my takeaways from raising him is how important internships are. and here in the department of technology, we pride ourselves on our interns. we have 20 to 25 each year. they do a terrific job contributing to our outside plant five or work or our network engineering or our finance team. this last time they took to programming our reception robot, pepper, and they added videos to it and all of these sort of things. it was fun to see their creativity and their innovation come out. >> amazing. >> intriguing.

>> the way i unwind is with my photography and taking pictures around the city. when i drive around california, i enjoy taking a lot of landscapes. the weather here changes very often, so you get a beautiful sunset or you get a big bunch of clouds. especially along the waterfront. it is spectacular. i just took some photos of big server and had a wonderful time, not only with the water photos, but also the rocks and the bushes and the landscapes. they are phenomenal. [♪♪♪] my advice to young ladies and women who would like to move into stem fields is to really look at why you are there. if you are -- if you are a problem solver, if you like to analyse information, if you like to discover new things, if you like to come up with alternatives and invent new practice, it is such a fabulous

opportunity. whether it is computer science or engineering or biology or medicine, oh, my goodness, there are so many opportunities. if you have that kind of mindset i have enjoyed working in san francisco so much because of the diversity. the diversity of the people, of this city, of the values, of the talent that is here in the city. it is stimulating and motivating and inspiring and i cannot imagine working anywhere else but in san [bagpipes playing]

>> welcome to mayor breed's balcony here at city hall. for those of you who don't know me i'm joann haze-white and i'm happy to be host of flag. the flag has played a role

including building, engineering, science, mathematics, education, and public service. my father emigrated from ireland in 1949 and like so many immigrants here to california specifically to san francisco, he found opportunity and a very warm welcome. he also found the love of miz life, my pom patricia haze, a native san franciscan but her parent. so my siblings and i have been raise withed a great pride in san francisco and also in our irish heritage. i'm happy to be joined by my sister patricia haze and she was 1991, rose of trolly. so let's get on to the program. first and for most, the reason we're here today because she is wonderful leader also a native

san franciscan, i would like to introduce the 45th mayor of san francisco, mayor london breed. [applause] >> mayor breed: thank you so much chief for stepping in to serve as our mistress of ceremony in this irish flag raising ceremony and it's always a tliet delight to have you here every year. in fact what i notice every year when we do this flag raising, you start really really early and you don't leave until city hall closes. liam, it still trying to understand what that is all about. but it reminds me of my family when you don't see each other for a long time, it does feel great and one of the other thing that i appreciate about

this time of year is it feels like spring is coming. we're start to go see the sunshine, people are coming together and able to celebrate like we were not able to do during the pandemic. so we appreciate it so much more than ever before. when we talk about the rich irish history, i cannot think about the great water that we are able to drink because of hetch hetchi and san francisco has the best drinking water without a filter anywhere in the country! and thank you so much for that contribution to san francisco because it saves me a lot of money on purchasing bottled water. but also, i just want to express my appreciation for just the support that i've received from this community. you know when i first became mayor under very challenges circumstances, so many of you supported and embraced ed lee

and when we lost him and i became mayor, this community truly embraced me. and i was really excited and honored, i still wear this even when it's not saint patrick's day to celebrate the irish in san francisco. but in 2019, pat, i can tell you this because you can appreciate it. when i agreed to serve as the grand marshal i committed to every single responsibility that i was required to do and liam said, well you don't have to do everything. and i said no, i'm taking my role seriously, i'm going to show up to all the events and activities. so pat, it's your serve serving as one of the prestigious grand marshal it's an honor to do so. not just because of the great parade but also because you have an opportunity to represent the community in so many amazing ways.

this community really truly represents public service. making sure that the shut in are not forgotten and that the community is supported. i'm looking forward knowing you are the chair of the famine memorial committee and now that you're grand marshal, we're going to work hand and hand to make sure it gets done in san francisco. [applause] and i'm really excited that, although i miss robert drisco, he was so great. we welcome you, we look forward to our continual relationship. our new council general, if you have not met him i would be

surprised because he's making sure na the relationship between the san francisco and bay area and irish community and ireland continues to exist. we know so many of you, many many years ago, your families migrated here for a wonderful opportunities. and at a point in san francisco's history, this represented a significant part of our communication and what chief alluded to, really helped to shape the city through engineering and mathematics and so many other marvelous things. as we celebrate and uplift this community, it's a chance to reflect on that history and make sure that we're doing everything that we can to carry on the legacy of the people who came before us. so with that, it is my honor to truly thank you all for being here. and to ask council general

smith to come forward as we, celebrate today's flag raising, i want to also say that tonight city hall will be lit up in green during the day of the parade in san francisco, city hall will be lit up in green and on st. patrick's day, officially march 17th, city hall will be lit up in green to honor that history and on behalf of the city of san francisco, i officially declare an irish-american friendship and heritage day in san francisco. [applause] and i have one more proclamation for pat unique, i want to ask you to come on up and thank you for your work

with the treasure island soccer team and so many other great things that you do in the community. we appreciate your advocacy and i know that your children, you have many of them, that they will carry back the legacy of the work that do you and give back. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, i officially declare patrick martin uniak day in the city of san francisco. [applause] and with that, everyone enjoy the festivities, enjoy your city hall but please don't get in trouble. i want to make sure that you all get home stavely as you all have a really good time during this flag raising ceremony and all the other great activities that will exist in san francisco over the next couple

of weeks. and we turn it back over to chief joann haze. oh, liam is crashing the ceremony. thank you. >> so last year liam gave me a shamrock crystal, it is absolutely beautiful. this year, it is the american flag. very beautiful, thank you. [applause] all the way from ireland. where waterford crystal is made. so thank you again. thank you deny to dormont or sister city and i know the pandemic stopped me from going to ireland. i cannot be the first mayor in the history 1984 of the sister

city relationship to not go to ireland dermont. i'm looking forward to working on a trip sooner than later. thank you all for being here today. [applause] >> thank you so much, mayor breed for your remarks and for your leadership in our city. at this time, i would like to introduce the relatively new consul general from ireland in san francisco and ironically, the office that i work in is one floor above yours. so i'm down and it's a beautiful place. woiz like to have consul general approach. thank you. >> just look around, my first few months in the city, this is truly amazing. this will really do your heart good. i want to thank mayor london breed for being such a friend of ireland, of the irish and of

irish-america and in my short time here, i see what you do for the people of san francisco, thank you. and we will have you in ireland in the next few months, i can promise you. i thought that was for me behind me. keep it going. today we raise the flag for irish flag in san francisco and not just the heritage but the city that has been a melting pot, the people from all over the world, a community of values and diversity and inclusion and acceptance. this is long been a home to the irish, this is a city that the irish helped built and shape and it's a city where the irish have forjd multi ethnic, friendships and unions. for st. patrick's day this

year, we celebrate 100 year in support of peace and international order. i want to recognize, the fact that artmiss the international community for the past 100 years. member of eu and ecc for the last 50 years and with and sign with the help of irish america. we also celebrate the fact that it's been nine years since the consul opened here. it's a great privilege for us mayor. we also marked the first just resent rethe first anniversary of russia's invasion, the further invasion of ukraine. the u.s. continues to stand with the people of ukraine and we also support as people flee the country, we welcome them to ireland and we support in and

imposing sanctions upon russian a. i want to recognize the consul general. i ne the people here of irish-america has been supportive of you. slavi ukraine'. thank you to liom frost and the board of directors, i know the work that they do every year throughout the year to ensure that st. patrick's day is celebrated across the city. thank you. i also like to recognize the grand marshal pat uniak and his wife, great people and his initial that lead on many initiatives an honor could not be better deserved. thanks, pat. [applause] i should also recognize and

thank the mayor's team and maroon, mark, sean, i know is not here, thank you for all of your support. merriam, chief of protocol thank you for welcoming me. as it flies along the stripes, it's the irish flag is 1 75 years old this year. its history france ireland and u.s. tomas france mayor, a young irelander, brought material orange white and green to ireland. this young irelander finished his days in montana and both u.s. and ireland. i leave it there, but all i can say is, look forward to enjoying this st. patrick's month ahead. by the end it, i will look ten

years older, but i'll have a great smile and big heart. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, consul general smith. and i think we're going to be treated to the murphy irish school of dancers for their performance and while they're setting up, i would like to acknowledge the consul general of ukraine, thank you for being here. and also a friend to many people and excellent city attorney, david chu, thank you for being here. so i leave it to irish dancers. [irish music playing]

[applause] >> thank you to the murphy

school irish dancers, let's hear it again for them! [applause] next up i would like to call liam frost, president of the united irish society of san francisco. >> thank you joann and thank you for stepping up and being the mistress of ceremonies for us. i do want to welcome everybody to the 172 st. patrick's day season, thank you all for coming. i want to thank the san francisco bagpipers and murphy school of irish dancing for entertaining us. those kids are going to be the ones out here either at the podium or sitting where you are continuing our traditions. so it's great that we see them out there and that they're supported in every way that they can be. thank you again. i want to thank the mayor for

host hading the flag raising and making us feel welcome. every year we come here, whether it's the covid or we have to move, it's great to get us back in this area. it's amazing what the flag being raised and everybody being able to come here to enjoy this. i want to thank kevin birmingham and ma rhone from the mayor's office for putting this together. i get a couple of phone calls and they make everything work smoothly and it's amazing. and i do want to welcome our new consul general, niehal, his wife, claire, sorry, the brain thing. and the vice consul general, jennifer chadwick, thank you. i want to thank stephani and

the one person that helped her put it on adrian roach and sponsored by the soe, of realtors. so thank you. [applause] putting on the parade and the festival is a lot of work and i get up here and get the opportunity to get the accolades but it's all the people behind the scenes, my board but especially for parade, kathleen, teresa and james quinn. [applause] and then closing down san francisco to allow us to have that parade, we need the help of a lot of your city agencies, and they do a great job, bill scott, his station, my good friend captain doug and derek and then the man with the boots on the ground, sergeant tobey moore. they do an excellent job for us.

[applause] and i want to thank and congratulate our grand marshal, pat uniak, and all the families of the honorary grand marshal. it's definitely a honor but it's also a commitment and as the mayor said all the events with her busy schedule, we can hope that she leads the way and you can follow. but we appreciate it, your wife una and pat is getting all the accolades but we know you'll be helping him out, so we get it pat. as well as all the families of the grand marshals. thank you. [applause] so it is the season to be irish, we invite everybody to be irish come out and celebrate with us. especially the irish from san francisco, those are two great traditions. the irish traditions are faith, family and community and by all

your support, that's what it's all about. let's move forward and hurl into the future. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, very much liam. we're all looking forward to the parade next weekend. next up, i would like to call, you've known me since i was a little girl. we have retired deputy chief and he served with distinction. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed, ladies and gentlemen, we are very very happy again to be here with you in this great beautiful city hall to welcome everybody to the st. patrick's day celebrations. and to see, for so long there,

we've always taken the mayor back so you are our next candidate to go to ireland. as far as the celebration is concerned this year will be as good as ever. going way back the first parade was in the 1860s along kearny street. at the time the paper said, and the consul general would appreciate this, that it was lead by a group of is to lar irish men carrying custodycudgels. they were carrying curling sticks. he's also a fine fine athlete coming from ireland. if any man knows how to handle a curling stick is pat and he helped to field the fields. wonderful wonderful candidate

and we applaud him and thank him for being the grand marshal of this year's parade. thank you very much and have a great great. >> have something for you. >> thank you merdent. and i would like to present a certificate of honor you've been involved since the beginning. thank you so much. [applause] >> and next i would like to ask the bagpipers band to come up and receive a certificate from

mayor breed. [applause] all right, i see brendan o leaery. come on down, the irish pipers. thank you to the irish pipers. and finally for their wonderful performance today, the murphy school of irish dance. [applause]

so just to close things up, thank you to mayor breed for her welcome into city hall. and saving the best for last, our grand marshal patrick. i know patrick that you knew my father and i always say, big city small town, i went to school with his daughter teresa who is here today. and the uniak family, pleasure to know you, but our sons, your son and my son are good friends. that's what the irish is about, building communities and friendships. please come out and honor the grand marshal next weekend, march 11, the start of the parade 11:30. thank you. with that, there is a reception for to you enjoy and continue to communicate with each other and celebrating irish heritage. all right. >> are you ready?

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