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>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> president alias can i take roll. >> please. >> clerk: commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez is excused. >> vice president. >> present. >> president elias you have a quorum and we have paul henderson from the police accountability. >> thank you, hello welcome to
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our april 19, police commission meeting. sergeant can you please call the first item. >> weekly officer presentation to an officer that has gone beyond and above officer mohamed bay view station. >> welcome, good to see you. >> mine too. >> thank you, chief scott, thank you president elias, good to see you again. fellow commissioners and our new acquaintance, commissioner henderson. i'm from bay view station, i want to thank you for allowing me to speak before you tonight and have the distinction to present an outstanding officer to receive this police recognition award. before i begin, i would like to point out that bay view station
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has some of the toughest officers. we have many deserving candidates. i first met officer mohamed, when i was lieutenant working at park station. back then he was assigned to the hardest shift, the midnight watch. shortly after, he was transferred to baby station. like a lot of captains we're having some staffing challenge and i had my mine and one included the third street corridor. it's not an easy assignment. i'll say that again, it's not an easy assignment. it's often a place where a lot of crime occurs, as you will hear. building strong relationships between lawsuit and the communities they serve. foot beat officers have greater
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opportunities to engage with the residents, identify potential problems and proactive lea dress issues before they escalate. overall helped to create safer and more connected communities. one day, officer expressed--he felt he would better communicate and interact with the members of the community and working a foot beat would allow him that opportunity. as we continued our conversation, it became quite clear that officer sueman was the right choice and right person, besides his mild personality and smile, he continues to exemplify, in order to prevent crime, solve
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problems and improve the overall quality of life in our neighborhoods. he's becoming a well-known figure along the wall street corridor. on the corner and nuke and nucom, the person became agitated. officer was able to sprint after the subject and take him into custody with the assistant of several officers despite the attempts to physically resist. an arrest search revealed a loaded handgun with a magazine concealed in the subject's waist band. the handgun was also discovered to be a ghost gun. fortunately, nobody was arrested. and an illegal handgun was
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taken off the street. this is just an example of the work that he does. i'm fortunate that we have hyme and i believe the city of san francisco is very happy to have him as well. >> thank you for the description, you're doing a phenomenal job, but having spoke pen, officer thank you for your service. having spoke tone several business sxz them expressing to me the various challenges that they face with the loitering and things that happen in the area, it's a very difficult task to do foot patrol for that area. thank you for your service, and the fact that you're chasing scooters speaks to another
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amazing talent that you have. thank you for your service. >> commissioner yee. >> graduations being selected for your outstanding duties and your courage making it safer for all of us. taking out that ghost gun, i could have, i guess could have caused more damage in the community. and your commitment really shows. we wish you well and continue keeping us safe and be safe yourself. thank you, officer. >> thank you, i think they want to have a picture now? thank you, again.
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>> we're here every first three wednesday of the month if you want to come back. sergeant young blood won't let us. >> if any member of the public would like to make public comment on the item 1, please approach the podium. they were all dressed up from earlier too.
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>> applause. >> and there is no public comment. >> next item, please. >> line item 2, general public. at this time the public is allowed to approach us. nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. you may submit public comment, in either of the wayses, email or you can submit written comments by postal service to 1235 third street. if you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium.
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>> i want to talk about my son who was murdered, 17th year august 14th, will be the 17th year that my son has been gone. i come here every wednesday and i was just asking about the money that the reward for our children and where is the money going? i'm still waiting for that.
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this is what i live with every day, i talk with my pitchers, this is my son and depth even in life, i still remember, the last time i was here i talked about the five stages of grief which i still go through even after 17 years. i need my son's case solve, find a way to solve the case. find some other way to hire people to solve these cases of our children being murdered on the street. who wants to see shoulder son laying like this? --see their son laying like this? this is me standing over my son. and it's foggy.
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you don't want to do this. you're probably tired of looking at these pictures, but i'm not. grief never ends because love never dies and the love for my son will never die. >> if any members of the public has any information on the murder of aubrey abicasa, you can contact us. this is the end of public comment. >> next item please. >> receive and action, and sp report. >> motion receive and file. >> second. >> if any members of the public would like to make public
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comment online item 3, please approach the podium. there is no public comment on the motion. commissioner walker? >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone? >> yes. >> president elias. >> yes. >> president elias, that is 7 yeses. >> line item number 4, provide an overview of incidents and events happening in san francisco. >> executive henderson and the public. i want to start by saying thank you to the commission for
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attending today's award ceremony and thank you for recognizing the officer of the week in the commission. that goes a long way in terms of just letting officers know that the good work that they do is being recognized and appreciated and i know as we try to dig ourselves out of morale issues, it goes a long way. thank you for that. carter oberstone, it does go a long way. >> thank you for the invite chief, we would never been able to attend without the invitation. the chief's report, i want to give a couple of updates from the last week. we designed a tab for the website, the only thing that remains is we're going to do an introduction so that language, just to socialize this, this is something new. that language is continuing to work on and i'll post it.
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the other update on the department bulletin that should roll into a notice on system update, that expired on april 7th, we did, we did need some claire tickation on what we believe may have been conflicted hang so that opinion, has been received from the city attorney's office. so we're now finishing that and i will update when that is posted as well. those of the two updates, as far as the chief's report, starting off with overall crime trends, to lead off with violent crime which is up 4%, our shootings are turning in the right direction, we're up in 5%. but to put it in perspective as a difference of three which will take but it's not a big difference.
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in terms of homicides with firearms, we're seen with next year and we're trending in the right direction. i would like to highlight the homicide is 85% and, and all over the news but we did make an arrest in the murder of robert lee. just some really good work and hard work by our detectives. we have other homicides to work on and we'll continue to work on those as well. so that's, i say that because these cases that have leads, we will not give up on them. here to date, that's over almost 1600 crimes fewer than this time. so overall crime decrease for part one or is negative 10%,
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that's almost, 1500. twlfs one shooting april 13 at 11:42 am and that particular incident officers responded to the shooting to the tenderloin market and deli. video footage shows they entered the market, one of the suspect wrapped the arms. the victim was able to wrestle the gun and handed it to the third person. all three ran from the scene, one of the subjects can be heard saying where is my money.
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that investigation is on going, we do have video but we have some more work with that. so no arrests have been made at this time. i would like to property a pretty significant arrest on narcotic suspects in the tenderloin, this is beyond the street level work that we do. three people were taken for position of sales of narcotic following a three search warrants, during the search warrant, 4.6 kilogram as well as meth and cocaine powder and synthetic pills along with a rifle with a drum magazine and three pistols were all seized. two of the peopled these crimes
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while we leased on their own recognizant and other narcotic tensions. i and just to put it in perspective, it's fimented that one kilograms of fentanyl has the potential of 500,000 lethal doses and 4.1 kilograms which is when we see has the lethal potential to affect over two million dollars. that's quite a bit of fentanyl taken off the street. as an aside, there is report that overdose is up. we still need to do a lot of work of fentanyl. we still have a lot of incidents to report. this is the 30 victim was
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waiting for the bus after school when the vehicle pulled up. that is still upped investigation and this is on 414 at 745, the victim was at bo lo res park when unknown people approached him. the victim's cell phone was taken. the victim was violated by medic and released at the scene. no arrest at this point and that is still under investigation. the last thing to report we had a number of attempted stunt driving events over the weekend.
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we were able to cut these people off in almost every situation. as they left the city because we went to places that they traditionally go to. we radioed pd and they picked them up on the bridges, so as i said to the commission before, our objective is to stop these things before they happen but if they can't pickup them up, if they're legally, if they're legal' able we do follow-up and sees vehicles. and that will conclude my chief's report for tonight.
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>> thank you, again madam president. i just want to thank you chief scott and your command staff and all of the investigation. to resolve the incident or the murder of robert lee and other case that's are still, 1994 case as well. the reason why i say that is because it's national implication because one in particular is twitter that came out and really ravaged our city and i was appalled that that is happening to us. also on the arrest and seizure of fentanyl, 10 pounds. as you said, pretty close to
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city population of san francisco. so i'm glad that you, your team against this stop and apprehend the suspects as well. and as you know, stunt driving is beginning to ram up up. it's good that we're getting a jump on it, thanks to the award ceremony that you gave to the officers, i know their family and members really truly appreciate it. thanks again, chief for all of your hard work and the rest of the command staff and members. thank you. >> commissioner walker. >> yes, thank you very much, president elias, you know that the statistics are trending good and i was watching especially the street scenes
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were going on. i really appreciate your officers work in managing that, because it can be really dangerous. i guess, these were pretty large crowds. did they come from other areas over here? or did they start here and go? >> they came from other areas and we monitor open source and social media and we communicate with border police department, and chp. this particular most of them came from the areas. and once it gets going on social media, local people may join in. but a lot is coming from other areas. >> and it's so large, it's pretty hard, you look and go surround them. >> right. >> thank you for that. thank you for your following up
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on that. >> thank you, also chief i wanted to thank you for the [no audio] >> thank you for that, there was a lot of hands-on that. it was really good to see the commission there and community and people coming together.
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thank you, it was inspiration to be there. and discussing the recruitment. i really thank you for celebrating. >> that's nice, thank you. >> public would like to public comment, line item 4, please approach the podium.
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>> speaker: good evening, it's not necessarily related to the chief's comments, it's more general, it's informational, i'm french accent, i've been here 20 years. i'm an artist. , definitely you have a tough job i want to lift the spirits. i think the times have come to unite our energy, it becomes a necessity for our city. we must unite to make san franciscan example from now on.
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for the rest and the rest of the world. including my country where i'm going to go, which is admission which is to try to connect whether just sit here to make it happen really. this is very important we must walk, we are working for everybody's happiness, that's it. not my own. everybody, happiness and you use it concept, got beauty. bear with me. >> speaker: good evening, again. we're talking about the cases being solved.
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>> i just remember the case solved, cases take precedence over african-american boys just like this young man that got stabbed, because they got money, it seems like. and our cases are not getting solved. but anyone that gets by a police, case because their skin was white. i keep saying my son was a white boy with blonde hair and blue eyes, is would not be dealing with this right now. i'm tired, i come here not to entertain you, i come here because i want to help. i don't want to be pacified oh ms. brown will do this or ms. brown will do that. i want something done.
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you put on the agenda where the money is going. when are they going to get hired? but still i come with the pictures with my son on a gurney but other cases get solved. it should not be like that. what i do need to be? do i need money? what to i need? what do i need to look like? tell me what do i need to have. >> speaker: first of all i with like to say good evening to everyone. i would like to say that you
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know, every, every city and every state we need good policing. so the police is a good thing everywhere you go. but you know, i had an incident with the police officer and it was a while back. and when you try to move on you try to forget the episodes and incidents you had. but when you continue to see the police officer that you had the incident and you make the report, it should not be no bullying or taunting or no reaction from the police that you made the report on. so this is one of the situations that i'm having with the officer, i made a police department and i tried to go about living my life and try to do the right thing and be a
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productive citizen, but making like bullying. when you ride past me, you see me on the street. then, you make it a point to slow down like you kind of casing me and then you go back, double across to make the u turn to come back across me like you're kind of like hunting me. well, like i said you need good policing and you know, and to say something back would create a situation. >> thank you. >> that is the end of public comment. update on future commission meeting. director henderson. >> thank you. >> all right so currently on
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the dpa, we have 286 cases that are pending and open. of those cases 23 of them have investigations whom have exceeded nine months or still a year but those are the case that's are still on going that have gone on past nine months. and of those 23 cases 19 are toll cases, meaning that they have cases that are active in the criminal or civil arenas so time is not running on them. there are also 7 cases with waiting on decision from the commission and still 85 cases that are pending decisions from the chief. just fyi, a lot of those unpacking the details where the 85 cases are contained in the audit, both what is forthcoming in front of this commission. in terms of the weekly trends for this week, the top trend
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for allegations has been for against officers failing to investigate claims made of the public. and if you want a break down of the allegations as they come in from the public, they're available on our website. in terms of a district break down from allegations coming into the agency, the top two precincts this week are for central station, the top allegation being failing to properly investigate. there were four allegations made in central down from last week where it was five. the second highest was tenderloin station, there were four allegations up one more since last week when there were three allegations made. the top allegation was about selectively enforcing traffic laws. presumably or hopefully some of
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that was made on the d g.o. that we had which will clarify many of these issues. steve flaherty will be given the, i'm not sure if i mentioned it before won an award for the audit. so we won a national award, it's a big deal, it's not given out very often, it's never been given to an oversight agency except for dpa in conjunction with the controller's office, this is the first year that we've been pretty independent and creating and it won an award, i'll try mentioning it again, because i know you want to know. in terms of out reach, this week, both my chief of star and steve we're really excite
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beside this partnership that is going to put work back in the community so people will see us more broadly and we'll be able to host broader events separate from just in the building here on market and vaness. we do have a case this week, later on tonight in closed session and our lawyers are here, stephanie wilson is here on that case. also present tonight with me is senior investigator brent bajin and my deputy, my chief of staff is also here. if anyone would like to get in contact, we're available online, or you can contact us
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on the phone at 415-421-6621 i'll reserve my comments for agenda comment as they come up and relevant to the agency. that concludes my weekly presentation which was shorter than the chief's. >> i see, substantially. >> not that it's a competition, but. >> i'm glad to hear you're collaboration with sf safe because i know before the pandemic, you had done a lot of out reach and host events on weekends and night and they were intense. one of the things that it's going to allow us to do, it's going to allow us to build events where we can host something, we don't have enough space for it in our office. but being able to have access in the facility, allows us to bring collaboratively communities together for
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broadly, so especially for public safety related issues. i think it's going to be a big real. >> yeah, and i've seen the literature, you brought the brochures, the juvenile cards, know your rights stuff that you've done a lot of work and have done a great job in terms of bringing awareness to your organization. this summer when we get the intern it's going to be a relaunch of all the materials that is public facing so it's collaborative did i sim natured. we want to bring the agency that care about it together like the juvenile commissions or organizations that care about these issues to collaborate. you'll hear a lot about it this summer as i launch everything. >> i'm excited, i know thompson does a lot great job with the intern. whatever she says, i'm sure they will do. >> oh you'll see them.
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>> commissioner benedicto. >> on that note, to be able to track, has there been any data or just agile response. >> i have not measured it to track it. we've only received positive information that appreciated and being able to track independently because people have to go in and they don't have to go in and ask, they can check twice a day to see what the status of their case and what is going on. as we have limitations, i have limitations in terms of budget, i like to empower to reach more people and to reach them more effectively and this is one of the tools for doing that.
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it's really tricky with the technology upgrades, because we're a city agency and it has to be structured. we cannot go in and make our own website. so it's, it's small movements like this that make a difference for the department, but i'll ask, my tech people so i can give you more detailed answered become people that use it seem to like it. i know there was a next stage to allow access to better information on that at that time us. >> no. >> that's a goal to supply that. people were not working on i just don't happen to know it right here. but if you give me notice, not
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publicly i'll come and tell you, so i'll have the answer for you. i'll tell you next week. i know there were. >> we will not be here next week. >> i'm going to tell you next week. i'm going to come here. >> i'll give you an update on it. >> thank you very much, that's all. >> thank you for that report, i do have a question in looking at the report, the largest category is failing to do whatever the complaintant wants. i'm going to coordinate with the other departments that may be better served to make those and how we coordinate with it. so i'm going to follow-up with you to go into the details.
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>> it's one of the big issues that people are contacting the agency for when they feel like they want or demand services and the department is not able or does not give them what they're asking for, managing the expectations is a big deal. i would love to sit down with you or share some of the details. >> great i love that. >> the other thing that we can also do in response to what commissioner benedicto was saying was in tracking the cases, another great tool is tracking the tres posity, that tracks daily update of every case that dpa is involved back, having that resprocessity would be fantastic, we still have not built that out and that would be a wonderful tool for us in terms of efficiencies since we're talking about solutions.
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>> perfect. >> thank you no other people on the board, sergeant? >> members of the public that would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. >> so i was saying something earlier, and sometimes it's good to go with the change and try to, hope things get better. but then, when certain situations keep occurring and the investigation, where is there an investigation because if there was an investigation, this officer does not deserve to be an in a uniform. the words that he told me, he said i'm going to either kill you or send you to the
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penitentiary for the rest of your life. i reported this, but not only does this officer feel like he's above the law, on record, well i don't know if it's on record or not, but onsite as humans in the tenderloin, like his area, his beat, he sleeps with prostitutes, he planted drugs on me but i was already on parole for drugs, i got i violation and went to the pent tent re. but when i got home, he had the nerve to follow me and taunt me. i reported this, not once or twice but each time i came across this officer, to my knowledge nothing has been done and that's bad in the fine city of san francisco.
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>> i have somebody here that can speak with him regarding allegations involving the department. >> next item. >> commission reports will be brief description of activity and announcements, whether to calendar any for future meetings, and commission announcements and schedule and items identified in a future meeting. i didn't i mentioned this the last time i was asked. i was asked to attend the women's luncheon at the sfpd, there were several leader
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speakers and commander jones was one of our speakers, our district attorney, honorary chief scott and myself. there were hundreds of folks there. we talked a lot about recruitment. i know we're going to get our 3030 presentation later. i was inspired by all the women there doing the work and it was just wonderful to have our log', that was really excited.
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it was just great, i'm very excited about it and i know it's going to be how we do the 3030. so also i've been meeting on going with some of the folks, i think we're making really good steps towards having something to discuss. that exist and have something to present to the commission on that. i'm really excited about it i do feel like it's going to fill some gaps that we're noticing in some of our neighborhoods. so, i think that is it for now. but thank you, thank you. and it was great to be included in that honoring ceremony, so really happy to be there to
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honor our folks doing good work. >> mriek many of my colleagues i was happy to join the awards. and i waint today recognize all the officers, parkin, roach, dias, and galvez, sambana for their heroic work and inspiring work and was glad i was able to participate or attend rather their commemoration is very well deserved. on the policy update, chief i think you said this in your report, did you say that you were going aiming to post the bureau next week? >> yes, we just need the
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design, hopefully by next week. i will give an update, i anticipate it will be done by then. >> and to be clear, is it the plan for those orders to sunset after the d g.o.s in that respective areas? >> yes, when bureau orders in the past bulletins are replaced by general orders and those get deactivated. >> great, that's helpful. i do want to make clear for the record, i did say this last week, i don't think that's the problem is solved by posting. because i think the underlying issues, the department does not have the authority to issue a policy through bureau orders, so i'm concerned about the precedence that going forward. i'm glad to hear that the plan is to resinned them. that's an important step.
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i think that the commission should and i'm going to respectfully ask that we agendize this for next mobsinger pass a resolution to make it formal that the bureau orders will be rescinded upon the d g.o.s, the underlying d g.o.s. i know with d g.o., the plane clothes d g.o., we're pretty much to the finish line with that, is that right chief? >> yes, it's deep into the development. >> on the social media dgo, do you happen to know where we are on that? >> so there has not been any work on social media. we do have something to start with.
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that needs to be involved as well. there was no investigative media, but i would assume that the commission would want to work on that as well. >> right, i know that this is commissioner yanez's territory and i don't want to step on his toes, if the issue is to issue an order is because there is exgent cc, we should be moving moving full speed ahead. so it would be my inclination that the commission should pass
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resolution to rescind to the order unless the department initiates a working group in 30 days or something of that nature. otherwise we can't have an order out there. i'm very concerned about the precedence that that sets and the damage that it can do to police commission if the department is just issuing your orders that are making new policy. i'm going to ask that we agendize that for next month, thank you. >> thank you very much for my report, last thursday i went over to sf stop crime briefly
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and met w9 people and also dropping by was captain heart to meet with the community members over there that does know him. and also reported that, the report of the 9.07, addition of the chief additional language to it. i appreciate the chief's hard work. i also want to thank the mayor and chief scott for today's event for chorally police officer ceremony as for us and the commission, we have the officers who put their life on the line and hear the great work that they're doing here as well. and i also want to report from the executive--executor of
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philips that passed away, executor michael asked me to say that we recognize him in as we, you know, for his hard work and signing you also, when he came over in the 1973 and started cofunded lark ins use street currently and many of the youth that are out as well. he has a helped many of the police form in the tenderloin, set up the tenderloin task force. i want to thank him for making
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our city safer especially on the tenderloin, that's all i have to report. >> thank you, commissioner byrne. >> thank you, president elias. chief with the bureau orders can they be forwarded to the commission staff? thank you and finally, i reiterate my request are there any committees of three that have been formed and who was on the committee so that we know, so the rest of the commission knows exactly what is going on? and i respectfully ask that the minutes reflect that i asked that again. >> thank you, the answer is no. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you, president elias. >> excuse me, there is no committees or no?
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>> that was your question, and the answer is no. >> just that the minutes are clear, there is no other committees of three people on this board right now. >> no. >> and will the president inform us if committees are form. >> we have a committee assignment so you will receive that information. >> thank you. >> uh-huh. >> thank you, president elias. i want today echo what all the commission said about the quarterly ceremony. i also want to recognize the commanding officers of each of the station for the work that they've done. that is captain and captain martin and acting captain farmer for their excellent work as well. one of the areas where there is
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a current bureau hopefully that will continue to move through the process quickly. i no long term the commission is working on update to department general order 3.01 to streamline that process and clarify things including jurisdiction but in the meantime, the chief questioned resolution at minimum for the publication orders. i'm working on that. i spoke to lerona today yesterday and to get their input as well and i hope to have that for the commission in may. commissioner yanez and i are work oning a resolution reaffirming this commission for
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heart and expect that resolution to be up in may or june. thank you. >> members of the westbound that would like to make public comment regarding commission reports, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. mine item 7, discussion on 30 by 30 initiative updates. discussion? >> i'm commander nicole jones as the administration bureau and i'm here to provide you an update with 30 by 30 efforts. and i want to apologize in advance that i'm the end of a two-week cold that my
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nine-year-old gave me, shout ot moms. sfpd signed on to the 30 by 30 initiative and the ultimate goals *f this program are two fold. recruitment component to increasing the representation of women and law enforcement by increasing the representation of women and our academy class to see 30% by the year 2030. there is also a retention component for policies and success of women throughout their careers. sfpd along with other agencies have agreed to do the following. to take measures to increase the representation of women in all ranks of law enforcement, to ensure that policies and procedure are free from bias, to promotion provincial of women officers and to ensure our culture is inclusive respectful and supportive of women in all rank s and rules
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of enforcement. provide the department with specific guidance for the first months of participation known as phase 1. collect base line demographic data. specific data relates to overall demographic and includes sworn officers by gender and gender in conjunction with other factors including race, age, rank assignment and tenure and data relate today recruits including recruits by gender and gender to race and age. to our information will be collected in late april and submitted in early may to maintain compliance by our 30 by 30 deadline. we're ahead of our game, we collected a lot of this data already so i feel confident that we'll be able to get our information in because we already have it. another is to distribute anonymous survey to all sworn women.
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the goal is to learn about women's concerns and priority and perspective on the opportunities within that department. to date we have had 107 of the 274 sworn swem respond. the next action item was to promoting women strategic women through public statement and internal orders. we have a very good foundation already and we already developed several document that's speak directly to this, namely the strategic plan 1.0 that was developed as part of the recommendation 89.9 and racial equity action plan. additionally sfpd issued a press release in conjunction with women's history month announcing our participation
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and reaffirming our commitment to women in law enforcement. another action item was to affirm zero tolerance for discriminatory practices or harassment. sfpd has a robust policy already, which is prohibiting discrimination and retaliation. we also issued department notices related to the rights and responsibility under the whistleblower laws. also specific action items relate today lactation and nursing mothers, so each of has a designate lactation location. the department schedules flexibility and temporary accommodations for nursing mothers. we have a lactation accommodation that is outlined and all of this overseen by penny c who is the coordinator. the last immediate action item
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was to ensure all equipment for women officers is appropriate and fit to their proportions. so sometimes the equipment have specific options which is our vest and uniform. and additional knee we have a uniform. so we're ahead of game on many of these items and we already had a lost infrastructure in place, but just for the first six months, we're going to fine tune and expand as we move forward in the next 18 months. so in terms of demographic updates in the last six months, we have made a slight improvement on gender demographic fairly nominal in that we had 14.3 preparation when we signed the pledge. and you're going to hear this a lot from me, we have work to do
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and we're very commit today increasing that. i want to give the caveat, we also had one class in 2013. when we get more data, we'll have a better understanding but traditionally in the last couple of years we've had about 20%. so things have started promising, hopefully we can maintain that. in the addition to the immediate action step, sfpd has taken numberous supportive action. our new sfpd websites features women throughout. can you go to slide 8, here are a few example from the website that demonstrate the highlight
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of women. our annual summit was held on march 2, commissioner yanez attended. we reached out for on candidates. of our marketing is geared towards attracting women. we released three videos featuring sworn women. one of the video accompanied our march 3030 redress. the slogan is be the change, which we believe embodies the value. and the kind of what we're trying to attract, women in particular.
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we we make sure that we have ample representation. one female recruiter and we're continuing that trend in 2023. we transitions away from the trigger pool, to a strength grip test which is shown a much better success for women. we have dunaway with a specific height and weight which often impacted women and we worked with our hr to have our testing standards to be in more in line with those we compete with. and physical ability test, we are offering women's workout session one on one personal training, mentor ship is a huge component in supporting women.
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a noupsing our formal participation in the 30 by 30 initiative. and reaffirming the apartment commitment to attention of sworn women. the 30 by 30 was issued by march 15th to better understand their experiences and needs. we have offered many women opportunities including participation in the national law enforcement executive annual conference that is taking place in april. we also offer a very unique opportunity for women to fellowship through an organization called simsee and that has to do a lot environment something unique that we have not done before.
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we're excited about that and helping them support them in the education process. a host of speakers presented including commissioner walker, district attorney brooke jenkins, it was very well attended and very informational and this is one of many more to come. a formalized mentor ship program has been a goal for a while and we're finally there and one of the few agency to see have a structure program like that. so today we have 86 members that have signed up to participate. so these are the things that we have accomplished in the first six months, but we have a lot work to do. in terms of next steps, we would like to form a formal 30
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by 30 committee to get input on future connection. a dpept notice will be issued for this. we're also trying to transition to a firearm. and this transition is really only contingent upon funding at this point. program open to all city employees, preliminary vision is that we would offer monetary incentive, say a 1,000 to any city employee who incentivize women. that will be at the tail end of this two-year process.
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and with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> great job on the presentation, it's really inspiring and heartfelt to hear all the advancement and things that you've been able to accomplish within the 6-month period. and i'm looking forward to the smaller firearm. it's good that there is something being done about that. thank you about that. vice president oberstone. >> thank you, president elias and stephanie for the presentation. do we have a goal of what we want the percentage of gender break down? kind of thinking, we spr a sense of what the retention and kind of, do we have a sense of what percentage of each academy class needs to be women in order for us to get to 30 by 30?
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>> so let's talk about high in the sky, you know, commissioner walker and i were joking that we would like to 50% by 2025 but we're starting with what we can do. i think that not only do we have to recruit to the 30% but the other critical component is retention of the 30%. where we're losing numbers as well, that we don't discuss as much is women leaving the department. we're trying to talk about a many year goal to try to get 30% to try to move the needle
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and then we have to look at how how that is going to offset and that comes in phase 2. there is a deeper dive and i think that's why, we're asked for age and tenure and understanding, it's only so good if we replace this number if this number leaves. we attend today offer around 15% for decades. so we have work to do. >> i understand that we have phase one, but it will be helpful to know what numbers need to be hitting in the recruiting klasz, i assume higher than 30% if we're going to get to 30% by 2030, that's what we need to do. you discussed this, briefly when you talked about the
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convening of a committee 30 by 30 committee but curious what you envision might be potential next steps and usages of the anonymous survey that you discussed. >> we need to get the survey. and what do we do? nothing. so by having a committee, that committee can look at the survey results and decide what those specific action plans are are that may offset what everybody is saying. and i think it's really important to look all around the department and again, discussed this at nauseam, it's not just a committee for women, it's the committee for the 85% of the men as well to be supportive of women and to be able to move the needle.
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so i do think the vision for that committee is to have tangible things to put in place now instead of just talking about it. >> that's good to hear. >> one thing i want today mention is 90% of the recruiting events there is one woman recruiting officer which is great. this can be a double sword, sometimes women, asked to, i'm wondering, how the department thinks about that? if at all? >> yeah, absolutely, so we put out a department notice that officers a notice, so those people who come into our recruitment and are attending these events are people who
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have applied for those, every single time. everybody has put in has done it in their tuition. >> just curious if we've given any thought or head way on expanding the pool of applicant recruiting from non traditional pool of applicant that would have higher percentage of women, folks that would make great officers folks with counciling back grounds, has there been any thought. >> i laugh because we talk about this every day, where do we get the new pools of people. the one thing that i will say is we're at the tail end of recruitment firm to answer questions just like that.
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and i think that we could benefit from guidance from an outside showser and that's what we're hoping to achieve with that. >> great, would i like to see us make head way. increasing the number of officers generally. so if you hit two birds with that, thank you for the presentation. >> thank you. >> i think one of the officers is in your slides is one that was honored today? >> i don't think so, but yeah, i don't think, yeah. i think it looks like lorena. >> maybe not. >> commissioner walker? >> thank you, this is really great. it's a very good start and i
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was at like i said, both recruitment event which was exciting, it was there was problem 100 people. we had some amazing speakers to talk about recruitment in general. there is groups locally, like the league of women voters i met with them to talk about the dgo information that we're going with. but they're interested in helping as much as they can with recruitment. >> we're ready.
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>> give me their information today. and i think it would be good to let people know. i'll help you with that. >> fantastic. >> and i'll be happy to go to any of those meetings with you too. >> and i'll call you. >> and i know you're trying to work on childcare support which i think in addition to the, the lactation needs, just in general, childcare for people doing overtime especially. >> i think the commission would support those efforts and it would be well received too. >> the committee has started the discussion with kinder care.
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ipg it's doable and i think people are very very passionate about that. one of the things that i focused on is encouraging folks who are already with us to apply for promotion to do this, to really be there and take it on and women in general tend not to take the first step. they need to be asked so i think it's really a good issue that was brought up. we need to be asking everybody to participate.
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and asking, you know, sometimes it takes a little extra step. that's part of what this is about really mentoring. i think there is a lot of folks that have left the force and would like to help recruit more women too. >> we already had interested from retired women members to come back as mentors which has been embraced, you know. >> perfect, thank you for this. i'm really excite beside this. anything i can do to help i know how who to call. >> yes. the 30 by 30 is recruit population by 2030.
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>> i think the thought process by 3030 is 30% from recruit class. so it's kind of interchange but it's because one leads to another. that's helpful. and then, the goal is, i imagine recruit classes, not entering the academy. we're collecting the data as we're asking for it, we need to do a look back. those are entering. >> entering, yes. and the expecting looks different. would you be able to create a version that is just for graduation?
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>> to have that provide as a written document. >> yes. >> yes and we can include that in the communication. >> is it about the same. >> i don't want to make a statement that i'm not 100% sure of. but it's similar. we had a class that did not all three women failed at the range and which we had not seen in a long time but we also had classed like i believe and i'll double check my facts tlts been proportional but i'll double
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check. >> and when there are women officers that are either retiring or making lateral moves, has there been any effort to gain extra information to see if there is anything so the exit interview is the standard but i think that's interesting concept of any women related issue that would cause an exitous, anecdotely we have not heard that but it's rell. >> i think if that can be added on the exit interview. and on the next steps on slide 10. is there some kind of approximately timing goals, we can go through them for example to have the 30 by 30 committee
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formed. >> so the department, i would like to see it forms in the next months, but that may be a lofty goal. we want to move fairly quickly, six months is flying. and now it's 6 months later, we're in our first reporting period, so we understand that this is going to fly by and we have a lot of work to do and a lot of work to do fast. >> and at the concurrent phase. >> yes. >> it should be close to being issued. >> okay. >> what about transition to a smaller firearm. >> like all of the inter tern al documents have been approved but really that's going to be contention upon funding. that's definitely the goal, so it's not the case, it would be
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a separate budget request in terms of. >> i think it would be folded into whatever budget we would request. >> you would hope to include it in the next fiscal year. >> we do have some stash and not enough to outfit the department. and >> got it and how about timing? >> i think by november 2024 with the help of this committee, we can all the buzzle places in place. that's going to be a plan because in 2024, we'll still have, i'm committed and that's
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our timeline is to have that plan. >> thank you so much for the presentation. >> for audience that would like to make a public comment on the item 7, please approach the podium. there is no comment. >> next item. >> item 8, if you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. line number 9 vote to whether or not to hold close section, section 67.10 action.
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>> we need a motion. >> motion to hold that in closed session and assert attorney-client privilege in 10c. >> on the motion commissioner walker. >> yes. >> benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> vice president--commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have six yeses. >> all right and we are going into >> we are regard to implement the attorney-client privilege action. >> i will make a motion to disclose factual information for 10 a and 10b in the minutes
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for this meeting, language to be finalized by myself and commission staff and our deputy city attorney and we'll provide to my fellow commissioners and to other not disclose to 10c and 10d. >> second. >> so we're going to see the language before its disclosed? >> yes, to the extent that we'll provide with without violating the brown act yes. >> okay, thank you. >> for members of the public that would like to make a comment online item 11, there is no public comment. commissioner walker. >> yes. >> benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commission yee. >> yes. >> vice president carter oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes.
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>> you have six yeses. line item number 12, adjournment. thank you.
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>> this meeting will come to order welcome to the meeting of the budget and finance committee i'm connie chan chair. and i'm joined by rafael mandelman and then supervisor safai our clerk is brent jalipea i would like to think colleena mendoza from sift sift.