contribution there is no limit to where you go in terms of rock climbing. i want to reminds myself of that in terms of daily life. >> follow what it is you are interested in, what makes you feel excited about wake up every day. you never know and be open to all the possibilities and opportunity. [music] >> good morning everyone. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i want to welcome you all to alamo square!

alamo square is one of the most beautiful iconic places in san francisco. we get tourist all over the world who come here to stand behind me and hang out with george and other folks who live there at the painted ladies and have wonderful experiences. the other people who also look at this neighborhood and want to be here sadly are people who are breaking into cars and stealing items fraul not only the local residents who live here, but many of the tourists who come here. can you imagine going to a city, a beautiful iconic city like san francisco and all a sudden your entire trip is ruined because your passport is stolen? this has been going on far too long. now, the reason why we are all here has a lot to do with the need to make some adjustments.

over the years, we have seen real challenges in the past between the police department and neighborhoods, and in fact, we worked very hard hand in hand with community and with the police to address those reforms. in fact, we have so many great members of the community actively engaged building bridges and helping to protect the community and helping to curve the violence and it is no wonder san francisco has had one of its lowest homicide rates in decades as well as a huge clearance rate. [applause] so thank you to united players. and thank you to the street violence intervention program. they show up for folks in communities across this city including the folks in chinatown. these african american many behind me, who patrol chinatowns and other neighborhoods to keep the seniors place.

in addition to police there are alternatives to policing and appreciative to the members of the board of supervisors, a number of commissioners, our leaders from all over san francisco, neighborhoods from the richmond to the tenderloin to the sunset to geneva towers and other places, people are coming out with one message, yes, we want reforms to our police department, but unfortunately members of the police commission have gone way too far. some of you remember and we chose this place deliberately, when there was a car break-in and the police were there, and the police and other members of the public disrupted that particular situation, so it didn't escalate, however, when the car sped off, many people wondered why the police could not pursue and make sure that that person is brought to justice. part of some of the changes to policies have limited our

officers ability to be as effective as we know they can. people are always wondering, why didn't the police do this, why didn't the police do that and it all goes back to many of these new consistently changing conflicting policies that have not helped with reforms. they have only made san francisco less safe. [applause] so, now we have to make some changes, and i appreciate the members of the board of supervisors who are here, because as much as we try to work with the board of supervisors, as much as we try to work with the police commission and we have one of-two of the commissioners here today, it continues to be a uphill battle. what we are introduced today is a change that is necessary. a change that recognizes that we have evolved. a change that recognizes that we want safe streets in every

part of san francisco, in every neighborhood. we want to see change in san francisco. we don't want to just hear about it, we want to see the change in our policies and in our investments to get our city to a better place and that's why we are here , for a safer san francisco. [applause] so, let me tell you what this is. we are taking something to the ballot. we are going around the board of supervisors, going around the police commission, we are going straight to the people of san francisco, because we need the people of san francisco to know all the details of the challenges that made it so touch for us to do simple things we know the public wants to see. we are going directly to the voters. i have been visiting police stations all over the city, attending community meetings. everyone is speaking the same

language. whether someone has been a victim of a crime or even people who are former perpetrators of crime want to see change in this city. willing to roll up their sleeves and work with us to do the important work that is necessary. now san francisco is a compassionate city. we believe in second chances. we believe in helping people. we ban the buck so if you are looking for employment, we have all most 5 thousand vacant positions in san francisco. working with us to do something that does want get you in trouble and make somebody feel worse because of the crime you committed. we want change and here's how we'll do it. first, are the tools. safer san francisco will authorize the police to install and use security cameras. many of you thought that was already possible, but no, it is not. [applause] it authorizes them to use drones. to use drones.

modern technology so when that person is trying to get away, instead of in some cases a chase through the city streets, how do we follow them and how do we make the arrest necessary. it will also allow the department to use some of the latest in technology. we can't be living in the dark ages when technology-san francisco is a ai capital of the world. we have technology tools and we need to use them. no more, no you can't, no you can't, no you can't. let's get to yes so we can make our city safer. [applause] second, are the rules. safer sf directs the police to pursue criminals when they commit a crime. that's it. the ability to do their jobs without obinstruction and not micro managed and ability to do their job without having a

complaint go to department of police accountability that is not related to the job, more so then related to basic hr stuff. it also eliminates requirements for unnecessary paperwork. we don't keep sending officers back to their desk when they can be out on the streets. [applause] if a officer revives somebody who is overdosing from narcan and two other officers are standing there, and everyone has their camera on, why does all three of those officers have to do a report in writing? one report, video footage from three cameras, that's efficiency. that is not something that should even be debatable. third, [applause] third, under the charter, the police commission, which is appointed by me approved by the board of supervisor and appointed and approved by the

supervisor, whole lengthy detailed process and people are like, mayor, mayor, are you responsible for department? yes, i am but the police commission is responsible for policies, and they from my perspectivity, many of them are doing things to roll back important things that keep san franciscans safe. it is very problematic. people wonder are people riding bikes on the sidewalk, why can the police not pursue and use surveillance? safe sf puts in place a transparent process so they are not making policy decisions with advocates in isolation. they have to take this to to community. they center to come to alamo square, have to go to richmond and have a transparent and they have to explain themselves to the public why a change of this nature needs to happen and they have to do a basic analysis, so

people understand that how much amount of time is going to take for paperwork and what does this mean in terms of keeping officers off the streets. police officers should not be spending more then 20 percent of their time doing paperwork in order to keep san franciscans safe. this really puts limits on their ability to do so. no more general orders today. general order tomorrow. conflicting general orders and all a sudden the officers are like okay, i got to sit in my office for at least the next couple hours, my captain has to explain this to me, that takes officers off the streets and then it is confusing and are a whole another ball game with no time for implementation t. is ridiculous. it is insane. [applause] so, those are the things that we are changing. the tools, the rules and the

commission and their ability to make policy without informing the public about what that means. because, even though these things may seem simple, they are very complex in terms of what is happening. many of you again, asking the questions, why, why, why. why can't the police do this? they want to, but they have a sworn oath to obey the general orders that get passed by the commission. now we are going to the voters and say voters of san francisco, this is what is happening. these are the basic tools we need to improve public safety in san francisco. support safer sf today. [applause] and let me just wrap up by saying, despite the challenges, our police officers have been

doing an extraordinary job. doing the best they can. [applause] you know, we have done a lot of changes to alternatives to policing. people struggling with mental illness. we have our street crisis response team. we have our street violence intervention programs and other non profits who are on the ground working to deal with some of those challenges. bringing the police and other resources to prevent crimes and to also help with retaliation and other issues, and as i said earlier, san francisco is seeing low record low numbers as it relates to homicides and also high clearance rates, which demonstrates if you cross those lines, we will do a thorough investigation and we will come for you. that is what that means. we have seen the bay car operations work where we have made significant numbers of arrests and we are starting to see those car break-ins continue to decline and we want to keep it that way and we are

out there. you may not see us until you get caught, but we are out there. and with regards to this retail theft, i just want to say, remember when you go into wallgreens and stealing from yourp grand mother and aunts farm pharmacy and can't go to another place to get her medicine, you are destroying the opportunity for these places to be open in your neighborhood, you are creating a health issue for your relatives who rely on these pharmacies every single day so we have retail operations going on as we speak. we have made arrests at walgreens, dior, lululemon and will continue to do this work so you never know what store you might walk in and something may happen where you may get arrested. to be clear, this is not something that we wanted to push for. because san francisco believes in second chances and

opportunities and we will work with you on that, but these lines have been crossed time and time again. our compassion has been taken for weakness, as if anything goes in san francisco. no longer does anything go, despite the lack of tools we need, we are still doing the job. we are still making arrests. we are still following up with our investigations. we are still doing everything we can to bring people to justice to make san francisco a safer city for everybody who lives here and visits here. that is our goal and that is why it is important that when we go to the ballot in march 2024 we need voters to turn out in record numbers to vote for safer sf! [applause] there is so much more i can say about this, but the last thing i will end on is, i grew up in

this community and i'm here with people who i grew up with. times were not easy. in fact, the relationship between me and our community and law enforcement wasn't a good one. would we have liked to see some reforms happen back then to help deal with that challenging relationship? yes. but we are doing that now and haven't give chb up and now those same people who may have been a part of the challenges of the community are now the leaders in the community, fighting for a safer city. fighting for a better san francisco. making change and providing opportunities to see people lives better. that's what this city is about and that's what we will continue to be about, but what we will not continue to allow to happen on our streets is the lack of accountability. we have a police department that is prepared to do what is necessary to make arrests. we have a district attorney who is prepared to prosecute case

s, and we have people all over san francisco who want and deserve better. safer san francisco will deliver better for the people of san francisco. [applause] with that, i like to turn it over to one of the few supervisors on the board of supervisors who actually supports common sense public safety measures, supervisor catherine stefani. [applause] >> thank you mayor breed. it is a pleasure to be out here this morning with community and public safety advot cans and applaud the mayor for this measure, because it is so needed. the other day i was in the presidio in my district at the festival and after i spoke there was a man waiting for me, waiting to speak to me about something, and he came up to me and said, supervisor stefani, do you have a minute and i said, of course.

he said about a year ago my son was murdered and i have been work wg the san francisco police department who have been absolutely incredible. the homicide investigator has been there for me and my family every step of the way, but the problem he is pulled to other details and he is not able to devote hundred percent attention to it because of our staffing shortage. when we are 600 officers short, that has real impacts in our community. it has real impacts for families suffering because they have unsolved homicide investigations when we know our police officers want to dedicate everything they have in them to solve those crimes. this measure is a step in the right direction to make certain we are doing everything to address the shortage. we can't just go out and hire 700 police officers tomorrow, but we certainly can look what the police commission is doing, we can look at the paperwork, we can look at everything preventing the policing, the type of policing we need in this city.

p i'm a sformer prosecutor and have gone to our stations in my district and sat with officers one on one and asked them, what is the impediment to your job? what is the problem? you are being accused of not being out there. they talk about the paperwork and policies that come down that are confusing and conflicting and duplicative and this measure will do everything to make certain we give the officerss the tools they need to keep san francisco safe, so i'm a big proponent of safer san francisco and i want to again applaud the mayor for putting this forered forward. thank you everyone for being here. [applause] >> thank you so much. you know, i really want to express gratitude to mayor london breed for safer san francisco ballot measure. i think this is worthy companion to the work we get and finally deliver on the promise of fully staffed police department. this is a smart on crime

approach. this removes needless inefficiency. san franciscans deserve a police department with the same access to surveillance technology as every other county in california. it makes so sense we have the most restrictive and onerous surveillance technology policies that are preventing law enforcement from doing their jobs. i represent the south of market neighborhood. i live in midmarket. this is a neighborhood where the restrictions on surveillance technology are nothing less then a fentanyl dealer full employment act and needs to end and grateful to mayor breed for her leadership in doing that. [applause] the safer san francisco ballot measure will streamline onerous restrictions on police officers use of camera technology. it will hold criminals and fentanyl dealers accountable. it will make san francisco

safer and most important, it will help save lives. please join me in supporting this important measure and thank you mayor london breed. [applause] >> i'm supervisor engardio and represent the sunset. san francisco police department is a leader in reform and that's a good thing, but reform cannot get in the way of effective policingism we need it, we deserve it. we need and deserve both, reform and effective policing and this common sense measure gets us there. that's why i'm grateful for the mayor to put this on the ballot because we dont have enough supervisors who could put this on the ballot ourselves, so it is important for the voters to have your voice heard and take control and go to the ballot in march and enact this common sense reform so our police can get their job done. out in the sunset everyone asks for more police to be walking on the merchant corridors and foot patrols, but can't do that

if they are stuck in the office doing all this paperwork. this helps free them up to do their job, gives the tools they need and something that we need in san francisco. thank you. [applause] >> thank you and again, i know-i wish we had more support from the police commission, but at least we have two of our good commissioners here, commissioner larry yee and at this time i will ask commissioner deborah walker to say a few words. >> thank you. thank you. thank you mayor breed. i think for appointing me to the commission, but also for this really important effort. i have been on the police commission for a little over a year, and on a weekly basis if not daily basis i'm really frustrated by the current system that allows police commissioners, which should weigh in to have a opinion representing the communities we live in, but none of us are law

enforcement, none of us are training law enforcement and yet we are dictating policy that tells the police how they are supposed to enforce the law on the streets. i spent time recently at the invitation of the department to meet with the new officers who are working on policy creation, and that's where the dgo's get discussed and we were discussing the department general order about writing department general orders and we went around in a circle for at least two hours and everything in it was contradictory as the schedules and who is supposed to weigh in and that is just one. that's the order on writing orders. this needs analysis. we need to actually look at the rules we are talking about and analyze them to the effect it is having oen the force.

i also want to say-i want to reiterate, we are so behind on technology because thof ham strung ability for us to try out policies. we are short in officers. there is a way to use technology to help enforce the law and deal with the issues the mayor outlined and supervisors outlined, but we need to be able to put it in the cars and put it on the-in the cameras and actually make it so the officers dont have to use three hours of time after their beat to do paperwork. i really hope that we all in the city can support it. it will help us all do the job to do reforms in our department. we have one of the most reform minded departments in the country. we are a national model for that, but we need to do reforms as well as keeping our streets safe, so thank you. i totally support this and i hope we can get everybody's vote. thank you.

[applause] >> and thank you chief bill scott for being here and folks from northern station who are joining us. just two neighborhood speakers that i want to introduce. first from the street violence intervention program. i want to ask howard smith to say a few words. [applause] >> good morning to you all. to our mayor and police chief scott and to the community. i think this is-what i say one thing to the commission is this, whenever policy is made, when rules are made, it is made for the most part for the safety of the community. but we have to remember it is made-it has to be made in the spirit of the community. it can't be politics, it can't be self-personal agendas, it has to be made with the spirit of the community and spirit of keeping our seniors safe,

keeping our children safe and keeping our community safe, so i support this 100 percent. i thank you mayor breed for having the courage to stand up and do some things that against the norm. i appreciate that. chief scott, i appreciate you for continuing to battle with us in the community, because when our communities are safe, we have a good relationship with the police department. that is when our communities are safe. i want to say that to the commission. remember, when you make those policies it has to be in the spirit of the people you are trying to keep safe. thank you. [applause] >> thank you howard, and last but not least from the richmond district, i want to invite up to say a few words, mrs. lee. [applause] >> hello.

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[applause] >> hi, i'm leung chow. i'm supposed to do interpretation, but since the mayor talk about embracing 21 technology and with the ai, i'm going to use what she just read with a very common app and i'm going to be translating english and i'm going to push the voice button. if it works, then we embrace technology. let's see how it works. >> good morning, my name is lee. i live on clement street in richmond. shop fest have been happening

frequently in my neighborhood which greatly effected our neighbors shopping and personal safety. last month i attended a meeting at the richmond district police station. that meeting, the police explained to residents that the new guidelines set by the police commission stipulate that police officers cannot pursue thieves and robbers. we citizens are shocked by this ridiculous policy. we are extremely disappointed with this police commission decision and we support the mayor's policy of correcting this wrong. in addition, crime problems often occur where i live. a small number of neighbors have installed anti-theft video cameras. you must have a video system that comprehensively covers every area in san francisco allowing the police department to effective track gangsters. therefore, i strongly support the mayor's plan to make san

francisco safer and this is the unanimous position of the neighbors i know. thank you all. [applause] >> i'm go to lost my job, but- >> don't worry, we got 5 thousand positions available with san francisco. so, there you have it folks. again, thank you all so much for being here today. as you can see, there are so many people from so many different communities. there are merchants here, residents, folks who work in senior centers, folks who work on the streets of the communities. we have to make a change and make a change today. this will go on it ballot march 2024, so when election time comes, we will be out there turning out the votes to get people to show up, to support a safer san francisco and send a strong message. we are watching you police commission, we are watching the

board of supervisors, and dont just say you want a safe city, make the changes to the policies that will lead to the results we need and deserve. thank you. [applause] in fire prevention. i'm very happy at fire prevention because not only am i able to enforce the code and make changes to help the citizen of san francisco be safe in their homes or place of business, but i think my work also make sure that my fellow firefighters and first responders, when they respond to a fire, the building is also safe for them. >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest is brooke jenkins. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watchs san francisco rising, the show about restarting rebuilding and

reimagining our city. ourguest san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins here to talk about theopeioid crisis, criminal justice and more. >> thank you so much for having me. >> thank you for being here. let's start with organized restale threft. some jurisdictions across the country imposed most of the punishment against people shop lifting in groups but that may be applied disproportionately to epipooal and doesn't address the organization behind it all. how can we make sure both prosecute the ring leaders behind the crimes and make sure justice is handed out eveningly? >> making sure we get to the higher level of organizations in the organized retail threrft area so that is something myophilus is very much focused on working the police department on. looking at organized retail threat ringzsx but we have to make sure people are being caught who have

stealing and that is a big challenge in the sit a so we have worked with retailers and small business owners to insure the necessary protocols and procedures are in place to at the very laest catch people who are stealing because they have been running out of the stores and therefore facing no consequence so we have to start there and trying to do more with intervention with the youth who are some of the population doing some of the threfts. many stores have turned to not detaining employees stealing oertrying to stop them and that change in procedure lead to making it very difficult for the police department to capture these people stealing. we have been working with them on a change in their protocol going back to the way it used to be done so we can actually have the opportunity to have people face consequences. >> right. so, let's move to the opioid crisis which had a devastating impact across the community and across

the country, including san francisco. how can your office help address the issue? >> the main thing is going back to where people feel there is a consequence dealing drugs in the city. we can't treat drug steel dealing as a victimless crime. we have ooverage 2 people dying a day from overdose. there are victims of this offense so quha what is did is say no longer the case we decriminalizing drug sales in san francisco as the da office. we have to put consequence on the table and insure the most agregiouss sellers so massive quantityties of fentanyl, some enough to kill all most half the city. sometimes with people with wep ens and guns are multiple of cases with fentanyl are treated differently then thoges with small contties so i ask those people detain in custody. we can't have them on the street hours later, but also

trying to work with the police department and our city making sure our laws are enforced. it is the only people people suffering from addiction will have a opportunity at recovry. imagine if you are trying to get clean and every 10 steps doin the block you are offered the drug you have been addicted to. it is impossible. that is one way we are dealing with the supply side and we are taking a different approach on the demand side, which is to say, if people are publicly using drugs over and over again, that we believe we need to intervene in those situations and so the police are citing them and when somebody reaches 3 of the citations, we then file a complaint, but route them into a treatment court to try to help them get help. >> they have a option take treatment or face charges? >> correct. essentially. we of course encourage treatment because that is what these folks need. >> absolutely, absolutely. san francisco is known for

being forfront of criminal justice reform with initiatives such as community justice center and restoreative justice, how do you plan to build on the efforts and push for aggressive policies insuring we have a fair system that holds people accountable? >> i have been clear accountability comes in many different forms. historically, da office used one form and that is incarceration. the way i functioned as a prosecutor over the years is make sure we are finding the appropriate form of accountability for each and every person for their specific circumstance, and so for some people it may be incarceration, others it is treatment and going through behavioral health to stabilize mental health issue. some it is say ing we toopt see you get a job so we require that you go through a trade program so you can get a skill that allows you to take care of yourself in a different way. for me it is investing in those

opportunities which requires us to be partnering with community based organizations to identify what programs we can send people to, but i'm very much invested in seeing our collaborative courts, which is what community justice center, drug court, young adult court seeing those courts thrive and encouraging the lawyers to explore those opportunities. >> right. what role do you think the da office can play addressing the issue of police misconduct and promoting accountability? >> our job is to prosecute police officers when they commit such misconduct and use excessive force in a way that is illegal so we'll continue to maintain that is our job and our position. we prosecute all crime in san francisco, it is not about what your statue is, what your position is or what office you hold. the law will always be our

standard. we can't treat differently where they come from, whether they wear a uniform or not, our standard is the law. for me, as a black latino woman it is issue very personal to me. we had a death in police custody in my family that i heard about my entire life. i'm raising two black children including a black son who you know, i will have to talk about these type of issues as he grows up. i was out raged long before george floyd. the list goes on and on, but as a prosecutor i have to maintain one standard and it is whether somebody according to the law has committed a crime and so that's what we always look at. >> absolutely. finally, what message do you have for the people of san francisco and what you hope to accomplish during your tenure? >> i want the people of san francisco to know i'm committed serving the function

the da office was designed to serve which is make sure we promote public safety across san francisco. like i said, we have to have accountability in our city. what we see going on in our streets is the result of people feeling as though there was none. they didn't fear even the police walking by as they were committing a crime because there was a belief that even if you arrest me, the da office isn't going to do anything that i'm afraid of experiencing, and so we want people to have a healthy fear of what a consequence will be, but i also want san francisco to know we are a da office that stands by the val aoos we have here in san francisco which is second chances, compassion, responsible alternative to incourseeration bought the end of the day accountability has to be what people said back on the street or community in a fashion where they can succeed. every time somebody

cycles into the system we are thoughtful what the person needs to get back on their feet and not create another victim in the future. >> quite right. thank you. thank you so much for coming on the show. i really appreciate the time you have given us today. >> thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll back for another shortly. for sfgovtv, i'm

>> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the city against the san francisco

county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich.

library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future.

>> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is a blessing.

thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went

on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up.

the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the

storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different. chinatown. >> (music). >> welcome to san francisco historic chinatown a place with a past, present, and future merge with the street culture and cuisine join us as was take you on a journey. san francisco

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that is a 35 community there is so many to see shopping and buy food and suv inferiors and we welcome, everyone to come in and see what is going on here. >> so whether or not you're a history buff foodie an art person or simply looking for a night of excitement san francisco chinatown has something for you come and explore and experience the heart and the i soil of the private

>> today preezentation is a overview how to file a compliant about the dpa. any questions can be e-maileded at sfdpa at sfgov.org. independent of the san francisco police department. investigating allegations of police misconducting

recommending disciplineitary action to the chief police and police commission and suggesting policy provisions when not meeting 21 century policing practice. if you speens or witness police misconduct we have several ways to submit a complaint. file with dpa online asfgov.org/dpa or (indiscernible) in person at the office located at 1 south van ness on the 8 floor or any district police station. there are key pieces of information that anyone filing complaints should provide, including your contact information, so we can ask for follow-up questions, the location, time and date of incident. officer name and star number, and specific details including words and actions by all involved parties. it is important to remember anyone can file a complaint and you do not have to be a witness or

victim to initiate a complaint. this next slide provides a overview of dpa mediation division. mediation is alternative to dpa investigationing a complaint. the goal of mediation are improve the relationship between the community and sfpd. mediation allows both parties toprint perspectives that resulted in a complaint. may request mediation when you file a complaint or referred to the mediation team. mediation is voluntary for the person making the complaint and officer. both must agree to resolve through mediation. unpaid volunteers not dpa employees trained and experiences in helping people resolve differences in a conductive manner. because mediation is voluntary, there is a greater chance of parties want to resolve the problem mutually agreeable fashion. not every

complaint is eligible for mediation. cases can go to mediation include those involvingcocts and not (indiscernible) >> that concludes today's >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's streets and sidewalks. local business communities are more resilient and our neighborhood centers are more vibrant and lively. fire blocks and parking lanes can be for seating and merchandising and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. when pair mets, firefighters and other first responders arrive at a scene, they need clear visual access to see the building entrances, exits and storefront windows from the street. that means parklets should be transfer in the areas above

inches above the sidewalk level. it's best if these areas are totally unobstructed by transparent materials may be okay. you can check with fire department staff to make sure your site meets visibility requirements. emergency response crews and their equipment need to be move easily between streets, sidewalks and buildings, especially when they are using medical gurneys, ladders and other fire fighting tools. that means that parklet structures need a three foot wide emergency feet every 20 feet and 3 feet from marked parking spaces and emergency access gaps need to be open to the sky, without obstructions, like canopies, roofs, or cables and should always be clear of tables, chairs, planters and other furnishings. emergency responders need to use ladders to reach windows and roofs to buildings and the ladders need unobstructed overhead clearance and room to be placed at a

72-degree angle against the building. clearances needed around the ladders to move equipment and people safely up and down. so not all parklets can have roofs ask canopies depending on the width of the sidewalk in your area. please make sure that your electric cables are hung so they are out of the way and (indiscernible) to the structure, they can be pulled down by firefighters. cable connections need to be powered from an outdoor reciprocal in the building facade because hard wire connections are much more difficult to disconnect quickly. these updates to the shared spaces program will ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf dot gov slash shared spaces. 202)

>> welcome to the san francisco city and county board of supervisors regular meeting this afternoon at 2:00 pm., tuesday, november 7, 2023. mc-2 clerk call the roll. >> supervisor chan present. >> supervisor dorsey present. >> supervisor engardio present. >> supervisor mandelman present. >> supervisor melgar not address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction present. >> you supervisor melgar present and murdering not