which continued as we moved

through the department. from the moment luciano stepped into the san francisco police academy, he became everyone's favorite pesky little brother. he had an uncanny ability to make everyone around him feel like family, often lightened the mood with his humor and infectious energy. that was just who he was. someone who could bring people together and remind us all why we do this job. being a police officer was more than a career for luciano. it was his lifelong dream. his parents, glenn ortega, a retired motorcycle officer, and jackie selinger, a current sfpd lieutenant, tell fond stories of how luciano grew up immersed in law enforcement. as a child, he would visit police stations, captivated by our specialized units, particularly the four boys and the horses. he would attend the annual police and fire games as a spectator and supporter of his family, soaking in the pride and camaraderie of the profession. it was clear from the start that this was where he belonged. as he got older, luciano

transitioned from watching those games to participating in them. he played with the sfpd baseball team, bringing the same passion and energy to the field that he brought to his work. he was also active in his rugby team, another outlet where his competitive spirit and team oriented mindset shined, whether on the field or on the streets of san francisco. luciano approached everything with dedication and a deep sense of commitment. luciano served at southern park, ingleside, and mission stations, and the community engagement division, serving with a sense of duty that extended beyond the badge. he embodied the san francisco police department's motto safety with respect every single day while on the job. while walking the beat in the mission, he connected with the community, offering water bottles to the homeless, taking time to talk to people, and making sure that everyone felt seen and heard. officer ortega could frequently be found at 16th and mission, 24th in mission, and on patrol

throughout the district, embracing the vibrant cultures that make up his final district. for him, it wasn't just about policing, it was about truly caring for the people that he served. luciano also had a way of bringing joy to the most unexpected moments. it wasn't uncommon to see him strumming his ukulele while on duty, bringing smiles to the faces of those passing by or singing alongside his partner, officer reuben rhodes. while in the car and sometimes on the street with random citizens. his presence in the community was larger than life, and he had a gift for making people feel at ease, even in the most difficult of times. a value which is undoubtedly bestowed upon him by his loving family, which, as you see behind me in his community at home. to those of us that worked alongside him, luciano wasn't just a colleague, he was family. he treated all of us with kindness, humor, and the unwavering belief that we were all in this together. he lifted us up and challenged us to be

better and made us laugh when we needed it the most. on behalf of luciano's family, i want to extend our deepest gratitude towards the san francisco police department, the poa mayor, london breed, and you all esteemed commissioners. your kindness and support have been a light during this incredibly difficult time. luciano may no longer be with us in body, but his spirit will forever be a part of this department. this city, and our hearts. his memory lives on through his wife, cynthia, his parents, his siblings, and his four amazing nieces, which you see behind me today and his dedication, his joy and his love for this community will live on in all of us. rest in peace. officer luciano ortega, star number 2449. officer petula, i want to thank you for giving a great,

synopsis of how special and amazing this officer is and what he really meant to the force and to his family. so thank you for that description. you did a great job. to his family, i want to obviously extend my condolences, thoughts and prayers, but i also want to thank you for sharing him with us and allowing him to do what it seems like he was meant to do, which is serve the city. and he did it in a very respectable and amazing way. i am very sorry for your loss. i also want to send condolences to his extended family, his colleagues, who obviously also feel, i'm sure, a huge void, but thank you for being here. thank you for allowing us to take this opportunity to celebrate him. and i'd like to give you a moment, if you'd like to speak or say anything, you don't have to, but if you want to, you're more than welcome. before i turn it over to my colleagues.

commissioners, thank you so much for having us here, it's been quite some time since we lost lou. and a little bit less since we buried him, as i know, some of you probably have lost somebody as well, it gets harder as the days go, and as people seem to somewhat forget, when they're busy with their daily lives. so it means a lot to come here and to honor my brother one more time, on behalf of the family, we really wanted to take time to thank people that meant everything to us, particularly chief scott and the poa, specifically tracy and mike. petula. along with mayor london breed. they've literally done everything for us and we're so grateful to have them in our corner, i was encouraged to speak on lou's character as a

person and as an officer, as an older brother, i can't really speak too much about him as an officer because i didn't get the chance to work with him. but, i can at least impart a little bit of some of his experiences, one thing about lou was he was huge on helping people, and one of the things that we keep getting from people, both colleagues and people in the public, people, random strangers that we've never met before. we've heard at least over 100 stories about how he's helped people and so he would come home, sometimes torn from the job because he would deal with victims that had a just a horrible day. and he took this job extremely seriously, and he took the privilege of serving san francisco seriously all the way to the very end. and, as far as the person i couldn't have asked for a better brother, he was the most amazing younger brother. so much so that

he just blossomed into the most amazing man. more than just an equal. just a phenomenal person. and he was a second father to my daughters. i always, when people ask about lou, i have now dropped everything down to about three c's. he was all about cynthia. he was about cowboy hats. and he was about comic book movies and if you knew lou, those were the things that he was into, partially because of me, but mostly because of the amazing man that he actually blossomed to become. thank you guys. so much again for honoring lou and honoring our family with the time here, we appreciate all the love and support. well, thank you again for sharing him with us this this evening. chief oh. i'm sorry. please, no. no. please. please, please, please, please, i just wanted to say

thank you so much to everyone from the department. the po chief, all of you. you have shown my family and i so much support and love during this devastating loss. thank you for honoring my husband. he loved and protected his community with so much pride and devotion. every day waking up next to luciano, he had a passion to help all of those that he came into contact with. no matter how small or how big he showed everyone love. he preached and he lived by the words of it costs nothing to be nice. in fact, those were the same words he told me on our first date. and he lived by them every day. from complimenting a stranger on what they were wearing or going out of his way to make someone laugh. and i just want to say to everyone in the department that

you guys all have a very challenging task of showing up and helping people on their very worst days. and during those times, just please remember the words that he lived by, that it cost nothing to be nice. thank you guys. thank you. and again my condolences. one of the things that i think that you said, which is really important to highlight, is the fact that having a job as a police officer is so stressful, and the fact that you can compartmentalize it and still be nice and learn how to handle that stress, especially when you go home, because most people were human and it's hard to turn that off or compartmentalize it so that you can then be present with your family and your friends and the things that you do when you get home, which most people aren't able to do. so the fact that you explained that he was able to do that and do it with humor and grace and just kindness, i think speaks volumes to the person that he is. so

thank you again for sharing him with us, both throughout his career and again tonight, chief. thank you, president elias, i just want to say thank you to the entire family. the grace and the love that you all project and promote and that you're about. it's, it's a reflection of who lou was and who we knew him as. and i can say from everybody that i've talked to everybody that i've talked to, nobody has anything but kind words to say about lou. and i think that's a reflection of the family and the love and what you all are and who you are is what he became as a man and as an officer. and as you can see, just by the respect of all the members here, including some of his classmates who were here, some of his partners, he was he was loved. and i just want to thank you all for letting us

come into your family, it really means a lot to this department and to his partners and thank you. and we're deeply, deeply sorry for your loss. and our loss. so thank you. commissioner benedicto. thank you, president elias. thank you, officer, for that presentation. and thank you to the family for coming. obviously, as all my colleagues want to share my condolences. you know, from everything that i've heard from talking to members of the department about officer ortega, it really was such a model member of the community in every possible way. and hearing that, that it cost nothing to be kind is such a good reminder. and it seems like that everywhere that officer ortega went, he brought a little bit of light with him. and i think that something that we could all hope to accomplish by the time our time is done is to leaving our world a little brighter than we found it being a little bit of that light. and

it sounds like that's what officer ortega was able to do. and that's evidenced in the amazing the turnout tonight. i remember i was able to fortunate enough to be able to attend the memorial service that was just a day or two after his passage, and that was just 1 or 2 days. and the number of people that were there and the overflowing love you could feel there. really was a great example of the impact he's had on the community. he could have done so many incredible things with his life, and he she chose to serve, and he chose to serve the public, to live that legacy of service in his family and continue bringing that forward. i think whenever one of my favorite parts of being on the commission is talking to the next generation of officers, talking to younger officers, going to academy graduations and the people that choose to be officers. now in this modern era and this very challenging and different era do so because they are wholly committed to doing good and to serving and trying to make their community better. and that's something that that officer ortega did and that that legacy will be present in our

community forever, you know, my hope and my prayer for the family and for the friends. here is the adage of grief that, that a time will come where the thought of them will bring a smile to your face before it brings a tear to your eye and it's not going to be today, but each day you'll be closer to that, and that time will come. so my condolences and thank you for sharing these wonderful stories. madam president, to officer ortega's family, i want to thank you for being here today. i want to thank you because you have thanked us, but we have to thank you for sharing him with us in this city, the city of san francisco, the people who live here, who come here, they appreciate what he has done in his service to us, his colleagues, who are all here today, who also appreciate having him a part of their lives. and this will go on day in and day. you will think about him, you will come back and all

those memories, the holidays, all those great things. but you can see by hearing you today and embracing what you say, how good of a person he is and how good of a family he's been around. and that spirit will always carry and all those members here from the police community and people here, they will always remember this and they'll know what he is about through you. so thank you for being here today and thank you for sharing him with us. commissioner walker, thank you so much, president elias, and thank you for being here, it's a huge loss for those who worked with officer ortega and family. and i was listening to the your his brother speak. thank you. i lost my sister a few years back, there's just something that will always remain a hole, and. but i am. i'm comforted in my own sort of feeling of loss that there is so

much of her in me because we were raised together. so the family really carries that forward, and thank you, to the family and the nieces, you still have you have your, your uncle there who can, live your memories with you. so, it's really a huge loss. i live in the mission, and i was familiar with with officer ortega's work. and i have to say that i have been i have been contacted by my neighbors as this happened and they read the stories, and so many people's lives were affected in such a positive way throughout the whole mission. so i, you know, it's, it's really a testament. and i really thank you all for being here. commissioner yee, thank you very much, president cindy elias, i want to offer my condolences to

the family, i know it's a tremendous loss. not only to your family, to our family in the san francisco police department is a rich history that he has in the city. and his love for us to. so we can remember that and keep it in our hearts. so wherever you go, he will always be with you and wish you the best. thank you very much for coming tonight. thank you sergeant. thank you. for any member of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium. good evening, i just wanted to give my condolences to jackie and his wife. we were on the trip, and i didn't even know she lost her son. we were sitting together and she shared him with me, and we became really close. because

both of us are lost. our sons. and i thank you, jackie, for being around. and now i know his wife, his beautiful wife and family. there's so much love in this family. you can tell. and so i just say, my condolences. and his spirit is still here. his spirit is right here. now and i feel it. i see him and, just keep keep the love, you know? that's all we have left is his spirit and the love that we're not going to let go of. just wanted to say that thank you. that is the end of public comment. chief, are you going down? all right, line item two.

general public comment. at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission under police commission, rules of order. during public comment, neither police nor dpa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. alternatively, you may provide public comment in either of the following ways. email the secretary of the police commission at sfpd. commission at sfgov. org or written comments may be sent via us postal service to the public safety building located at 1245 third street, san francisco, california. 94158. if you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium. good evening again. as always, i'm just wanted to. i'm here. i'd like to use the overhead, and, i'm here concerning my son aubrey, who was murdered august 14th, 2006. this year will be. it's almost 20 years, but it's

18. i've stopped counting, but i'm just saying this because i hang these pictures up on poles and it doesn't matter if it has a police logo and say don't remove. people are still removing my baby's picture from the pole, and i'm having to go and put it back, i don't mind. it's a piece of paper, but, they're still removing it. and i just want to thank everyone for coming out, chief, and everyone for coming out and supporting me on awareness for gun violence. and it it turned out pretty well this time, and i'm so glad everyone showed up. and i just want to thank the chief, because all the chiefs that i've been through, chief scott, you've been the most attentive to us mothers and fathers. and i need to say that, it's not because of anything. you just have. and i'm

pretty sure a lot of mothers can attest to that. so i wanted to say that i still carry the names of the perpetrators that was involved with murdering my son. i'm not going to even say their names, but they're there. i just want justice for my child. oh, i just want to also say on the on the. they're having a they're going to name the street after my son dean preston of district five. and please, i need your support to come and let and let them know that this needs to happen, because i fought too hard. thank you, i'll pass them out to everyone. any member of the public has any information regarding the murder of aubrey rubricosa. you can call the anonymous 24 over seven tip line

at (415) 575-4444. commissioners, that is the end of public comment line item three. consent calendar. receive and file action. sfpd second quarter 2024 audit of electronic communications semiannual report to the police commissioners. sexual assault evidence kit. safe streets for all 2024 second quarter sfpd family code 6228. quarterly report. internal affairs quarterly report, second quarter 2024, and sfpd's npas document protocol report for second quarter 2024, as well as the 2023 sfpd department awards certification and the sfpd and npas. i'm sorry, just sfpd's sb 1421 and sb 16 monthly report. motion to receive and file. second, for any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item three. please approach the podium. and there is no public

comment on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is. yes, commissioner walker. yes, commissioner walker is. yes. commissioner. benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes commissioner yanez. yes. mr. yanez is. yes. commissioner yee. yes. commissioner yee is. yes. and vice president carter overstone? yes. vice president carter is. yes. and president elias. yes president elias is. yes. you have seven yeses. lie item four. adoption of minutes. action for the meetings of july 10th and july 17th, 2024. motion. motion to adopt the minutes for july 10th and 17th. second, if any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item for the adoption of minutes, please approach the podium. there is no public comment on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is yes, commissioner walker. yes, commissioner walker is. yes. commissioner. benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes.

commissioner says yes. commissioner yee. yes commissioner yee is. yes. vice president carter overstone. yes. vice president carter is. yes. and president elias. president elias is. yes. you have seven yeses. line item five. chief's report discussion weekly crime trends and public safety concerns provide an overview of offenses, incidents, or events occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities. the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for future meeting. chief scott, thank you, sergeant youngblood. good evening, president elias vice. good evening, vice president carter, executive director, henderson commission and the public, i will before i get into the just the general crime trends. i'll start. this week's report with the incident that happened over the weekend, with the attempted robbery and shooting of, the 40 niners player ricky pearsall. and just a brief summary of the shooting. it happened about 3:37 p.m. on saturday, on geary in

union square, about 20 yards east of grand avenue. and basically the summary was the mr. pearsall was walking alone when he was approached by the victim. i mean, the suspect. and the suspect attempted to rob him a struggle ensued after the suspect pointed a gun and a couple of shots were fired. several shots were fired, and mr. pearsall and the suspect, who turned out to be a 17 year old, were both shot. officers assigned to the union square detail heard the shots. they were about a block or half a block away. got there within within a minute and began to render aid and put out the information about the crime and the suspect description. other officers responded within another minute, and they were able to locate and the suspect and detain him. that incident was it evolved very quickly, but

thank goodness the officers were in the area. and although we could not, we did not prevent it from happening with the deployment, we were right there as the suspect tried to run away. and if we had not been there, i don't believe we would have caught the suspect as quickly as we as we did, mr. pearsall, had some serious injuries, but he has been released from the hospital. the suspect has also been released. the juvenile has also been released. and the case has been filed by the district attorney. several felony counts have been filed and the case is now in the hands of the juvenile court, i just want to say to the officers, and there were a lot of officers that ended up responding, but to those initial officers, their response was was critical in terms of handling this situation appropriately. and responding as quickly as they did. and again, we weren't able to prevent it from happening, but we were right there. and thank goodness we

were able to render aid to both parties and arrest the person responsible. there's still a lot of investigation to go, so even though charges have been filed, the investigation is ongoing. and again, there were a lot of officers that responded and i won't name them all, but, everybody from our icu unit to the crime scene investigators to officers that came out to locate witnesses and video evidence an, other evidence, it was a it was a very well coordinated effort. so that's pretty much where we are on that particular case. there's been, as we can all imagine, a ton of interest from around the world on that particular case. so that is where we are on the case. and i will keep the commission and the public updated as appropriate. if anything else develops from this case. so with that, i will go into this week's where we are on crime over the break. we are still in a very good place crime

wise, year to date. i know these types of incidents tend to really it's a punch in the gut for the city. however, i do want to say that we are still down significantly in all major categories of crime, and crime is down 33%, including 13% reduction in violent crime, 35% reduction in property crime, homicides. we are about 40% down. we have 23 year to date, 38 this time last year. shootings are down almost 28%, robberies are down 22%. burglaries are down. let's see. car break ins 56%, below where they were this time last year. so there is a lot of good work being done today, this year to date with with crime statistics. however, with all that said, we still have a lot of work to do. i mean, we still have a lot of

challenges with our staffing and deployment, and we're moving people around and there's a little bit of a game of whack a mole, but we're making it happen. and i think our officers are working very, very hard. a lot of overtime and people going above and beyond in terms of doing what they've been asked to do. so i just want to acknowledge that work. and again, i know crime statistics does not tell the whole story, but it is a step in the right direction in terms of what we need to do and try to do to make our city a safe city. as far as the incidents for the week, we did have, a homicide over the weekend. it was a stabbing with a suspect that was taken into custody, the victim and the suspect were related. and although that suspect is in custody, that is still an open investigation. and we have i believe the charges were filed in that case today as well. so, our clearance rate is around 90% year to date, which is really,

really good. it speaks to the work that the homicide investigators are doing. and we still have some cases that we are close on but have not solved them yet. so that work continues. there were four non-fatal shootings during this past week, resulting in four victims, one occurred on the 1900 block of mission. there has not been an arrest in that case. a witness heard a gunshot, as they were walking on the sidewalk and realized that they had been shot. the victim was transported and is in stable condition and, have not has not provided a whole lot of information at this point. so that investigation is ongoing. on september 1st, at 3 p.m, a victim who was unfamiliar with the city advised that he was shot in the area of possibly six in harrison, when a vehicle stopped alongside his vehicle. he said the two suspects got out of the vehicle and demanded money. he was punched by one of

the suspects, and then the other one fired a round and struck him with the bullet, the victim sought treatment outside the city and then was referred back to sfpd when he told the medical staff that he believes he was shot in san francisco. that investigation is ongoing. no arrests in that case as well, i've already talked about the union square incident, another incident that happened was in the unit block of chicago. chicago street in the ingleside. this victim was or is 11 years old. and, officers arrived at the location. the victim had a gunshot wound and there was not a whole lot of information as far as who fired that shot. so that investigation is still ongoing. and no arrests at this time, but ongoing investigation. we had several significant arrests over this period. while the commission was out. we ran

quite a few retail blitz operations, and we continue to be committed to addressing shoplifting in our city, dozens of arrests have been made with these retail blitz operations. and for the public, our blitz operations are basically when we put officers in plain clothes in retail. establishments. and if they observe a theft or shoplift, they take action when the person leaves the store and they make arrests. so we've made hundreds of those arrests over the past year, and that will continue to try to curb the tide of organized retail theft and retail theft period in our city, ingleside officers developed a shoplifting and retail theft abatement operation in the 3300 block of mission, the 800 block of market, the 5200 block of diamond heights, and the 2300 block of 16th street and those areas were chosen due to the high number of shoplifting incidents that these businesses were experiencing. so between

may 13th and july 29th, there were a total of 61 people arrested, including one who was booked for robbery, one who was arrested for second degree burglary and grand theft, and also a probation violation. nine of these individuals had outstanding warrants, so they had charges already pending and then 52 others, were cited and released for theft related charges, which were misdemeanor charges of stolen property, was recovered and returned to the businesses in those operations. there was a collision yesterday that resulted in a fatality. this happened at the now closed cliff house restaurant. it involved two vehicles, one of the vehicles had been parked in the area when the second vehicle came around the bend at a high rate of speed and collided with the parked vehicle. both cars went over the cliff and the driver of the parked vehicle sustained non-life threatening

injuries. the driver of the other vehicle, the one that came around the bend at a high rate of speed, did not survive the injuries. this investigation into this collision is ongoing and is being handled by our traffic company. we've had, a couple of hate crime incidents over the last couple of weeks. and tomorrow there will be a basically a press conference and a rally against hate at the third baptist church led by community members. we will be a part of that, along with other law enforcement agencies and community members. so we want to make sure that we are very loud and clear about our stance against hate crimes. as far as the crimes themselves, they are under investigation and we will do everything in our power to investigate these cases vigorously and bring these suspects to justice on these cases. okay, that is pretty much the highlights of this week's

report. there are several event, this week and ongoing this weekend. chinatown night out was today, commissioner yee attended that along with us and the central station captain and officers, some of our board of supervisors members, the mayor and many community members and other department heads. a very well attended event. and this was the 10th annual oracle park. we had the giants playing this week and we are deployed for that chase center. we have concerts on the sixth and the eighth. we are deployed for six and then a fifth anniversary block party on the eighth, and we will be deployed for that. and we have our presentation on our drones tonight that we're looking forward to presenting that to the commission and answering any questions you may have. and as far as the dmac work, that work is ongoing with still arresting a lot of narcotics sellers, and we still are doing enforcement on people using in open, i will say, and i

know this is a item that the commission has asked about, but the partnership with dea is really blossomed. d.p.h now has a program where they have medical doctors on call 16 hours a day. and for people who are suffering substance abuse disorders, they actually when the navigators or officers refer them to the doctors, they call, they can get basically a prescription for medication to deal with their addiction. and that has been a very, very successful program. it's about two, three months, two months, actually, that they have been doing this. they plan to expand it, this month and again next month. so it's been a very popular program, and it's a resource that we've been talking about in terms of the partnership, something that provides a service that is very, very helpful to hopefully drive

down some of our overdoses and our overdose deaths. so this has been a very, very popular program and very successful up to this point. according to what we're hearing from our partners at d.p.h. and that is my report for this week. thank you so much for all of that, it's been a long month, and it's there's been some really good, stories that that we, we see because we haven't been meeting, showing the good work you're doing. i have a question about what you just talked about with the, department of health partnership or response. i think that that are those is that service available like in the jails as well? because i think that some of the issues that have happened around violence in jails was, is related to mental health issues like that, or addiction, mental

health. yeah. so right now it's mainly for the street outreach and the people that, either street outreach workers, clinicians or some of the nonprofit service providers code tenderloin, urban alchemy does a little bit of it, but it's really designed for and officers to have a resource to guide people to when they need help. so the jail does have health services available when they go to jail. particularly at the beginning of the whole dmac configuration, there was not a whole lot of people that were taking advantage of the services, but the amount of people that are taking advantage of this who are out in the street, has been my understanding, has been very, very good. and the follow up has been good as well, at least what dph is reporting that a lot of these folks are going back to secondary appointments. that's great. a high percentage of

them. so this is a very, very promising thing. and this is kind of what this partnership is all about. so as i said before, it's not all about arresting and policing, but some of these other services are starting to come together. and that's a very good thing. yeah, totally. it is, is there a connection in that? this program with the care court process as opposed to the court systems per se? i mean, just curious. not this part of it, i mean, the care court can do things to get people to services, but this is really about engaging people that are out in the streets who need help, before, before we even get to that. so i mean, if people are willing to go and get help and, before it gets to that, i mean, that's that's a good situation for them and for us. great. thank you. thank you, commissioner. thank you chief. thank you for your report and those those statistics are really good. it's good to see that happening. but, you know, i come from a background of being

a trial lawyer and a trial judge. and so i kind of watched things and noticed things. that's very important to see what's happening. and most recently during the last month and a half, it's been a real change of the psyche, of the mindset of our realtors, the retail stores and the people. interesting enough, and i last week i did a sort of went to a place that i go to a particular retail drug store place, big one, and all the shelves are full. i looked, i said, i can't believe this, and people started saying, look, there's all this stuff over here. they were filling all the shelves and normally you've been seeing these. they won't put anything on the shelves because certain things people just steal every shelf was full. so i said, wait a minute. you know, maybe this is an anomaly because here's where i went. so i went to two other same branch. they were full also. so the mindset is changing. people are starting to take notice and they're getting it. some of the people these interdictions you're doing, the people who do the do that, they're starting to say, well, wait a minute, i might get set

up. and so that changed. the mindset is good for the community, good for everybody to know that it's happening. you know, it may run its course and maybe they'll go back. but if you keep it up and keep it, letting people know about it, it really changes the set of what people think and what they think is going on. and a positive thing of how the city is being policed and what what people can do and what they cannot do. so, you know, that's a great report and i hope you guys keep it up. but it is a change. people are thinking differently and i'm hearing people talk about it. so thank, thank you, thank you. commissioner. if i could just add just real quickly, the there in our opinion is definitely a link between some of the retail theft and the drug market. what we see here in the tenderloin, you know, un plaza, market street in the mission on mission street, 16th and mission 24th, mission 24th and mission where there is a lot of illegal vending going on. and we oftentimes working with public works because they can write the administrative citations on that. we find a lot of property

that we are pretty sure is stolen, and some of it still has security tags. and the magnetic sensors on it. and so we've been doing the narcotics enforcement, the public health piece in conjunction with the vending enforcement and, it took us a while to get to this point where we're pretty much doing vending operations most nights of the week, and we're recovering a ton of property that we believe is stolen. trying to get it back to the owners. we haven't made a whole lot of arrests because proving that it's stolen is, you know, still a challenge. but people are oftentimes abandoning the property when we come with public works. and then we have like the other night, there were over a thousand items that people just walk away from because they don't want to take the chance of being caught with it. that will continue and we will refine these strategies. but what we're finding is a lot of the people that we come in contact with do have substance

disorders. and when they are honest and they talk to you, because i've been out there talking to some of these folks and they will tell you, you know, i'm doing this to be my habit. so the vending piece, we have to do that in order to get to some of the other things that we want to get to, to change some of the street conditions. but i'm glad you brought that up because it is a part of this equation. vice president kamala harris chief, thanks for the report, recently there was an article in the standard that covered a retired officer that we had rehired to do background checks and the article disclosed that through public records and court filings, it turns out that the officer that we'd rehired had some issues in his own background, including check forgery, wage theft, potentially assault and battery. i wanted to ask, whether a background check was performed for that officer

in this case or not. we performed it and it just missed these things or performed it. we caught these things and we nevertheless, it nevertheless met the criteria. and then just this is going to be a two parter. and then the second part is just if you could just speak generally to what the background check process is like for lateral hires, i think that would be helpful. yeah. yes sure. yes. background checks are performed on all of our highways and matter of fact, there's a requirement by, the peace officers standards and training that we have to do background checks. it's not as robust as the background checks that we do for people coming into the academy, definitely. it consists of a live scan, a criminal history check. in order to be hired back as a prop for 960, they have to have retired honorably. and so all those things were met. and, you know, i can't go into the personnel

records of these employees, but, if somebody has and just generically may have had, discipline or may have even been arrested and those cases weren't resolved in terms of a conviction, and particularly if they have retired honorably, then that's where we start. so we do check, we're confident that the people that we hire that, you know, that they're worthy of being hired. and if we find out something that we didn't know when we hire them, then we can make that adjustment at that time. that's helpful. and so, just to be clear, the things that were covered in the article, those things were known to the department at the time that the hiring decision was made. well, i, you know, this is somebody or if you if you don't want to answer that, then can you just say if someone were to have those things discovered at the time that the hiring decision needed to be made, what would that meet our criteria for hiring at sfpd or or not? it

depends on what it is. so for instance, if somebody has been arrested for you, name the dui or even if it's been a some other type of criminal matter in that case, that case was not prosecuted. that's step one. the other thing is because we're dealing with retired employees, then there's another process, the administrative process that they would have gone through. and if it's a serious charge, it probably would have been before this commission or a previous commission. so we're able to look at those things and determine the weight of what we have based on what happened, the outcomes of those cases. so the point that i'm making here is if somebody was arrested doesn't necessarily mean that they're guilty. and if they retired honorably, that case has been vetted through the department of the commission. then we look at that and see what it is. and if it's something that we don't think is a good fit for 960, we won't hire them. but we do look

at these facts objectively in general. and then we go from there. okay. thanks. that's that's that's it. on that on that issue. that's helpful. so it just it sounds like if something is not been fully adjudicated, there's no bright line rule. if someone wasn't found, you know, for example, guilty in a in a criminal case or liable in a civil case. anything short of that we kind of exercise our our judgment about whether it's a good fit or not. that is pretty much it in a nutshell. we have to exercise judgment and look at the facts and see whether it's worthy of non-selection or not. hire okay, great. thanks, chief, other thing i wanted to ask you about. mission local ran an article about an incident in which an officer made a stop for jaywalking, and when the when the individual when she didn't, i think, hand over her id, officer made a custodial arrest, and in the process was reported that, he separated the woman's shoulder and caused her to have concussion, i wanted to ask you

if you have any reactions to this. generally but also just if what you're understanding is specifically under state law, if sfpd officers should be making stops for, jaywalking, i do, and that is a d.p.a. investigation. so i'm going to be limited in my response. but yes, i do. i have seen the story and seen the video. as far as the stop itself, of course, state law is very specific as to when jaywalking is a civil offense. if it, is likely to cause a collision. and that's kind of my interpretation. my paraphrased interpretation, that's what will be looked at in this particular case, at least when i get it. and i'm sure probably i can't speak for d.p.a, but that's what will be looked at, probably by

dpa as far as the rest of it. definitely. it will be investigated in terms of what happened after the stop, but the law itself, there are instances where jaywalking tickets can be written. and i think the question for this particular case is that the facts of this particular case fit that requirement. so that's kind of where we are. and i can, you know, i know what i know, but i don't think it's appropriate. well, there's a dpa investigation on the comment on, on on that part of it. great. thanks, chief. and then just setting this case aside completely, you know, we hear a lot about the consequences of the staffing shortages at the department. and, you know, you you get a lot of heat from a lot of different constituencies about why the department isn't focusing on a number of different things. we've essentially abandoned traffic enforcement for focus on the five. we don't do, foot patrols

in any meaningful way. our serious crimes unit is understaffed. we're about to hear from sit today. i'll be curious to know if they have more than four officers, which i think is what they had the last time, is especially in this time of critical understaffing, is making stops for jaywalking a good use of this department's scarce resources, it depends on whether those stops will stop a injury, collision from happening. i mean, jaywalking, a lot of our injury collisions are pedestrian fatalities. so it is appropriate in those situations to still enforce the law in that manner, of course, the law is very clear. it's a right to walk state now. and if there's no traffic around, the officers should not be making those stops. if somebody's got to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting somebody, i think that's a perfectly appropriate stop. and

also, i just want to point out and this was an article too, but these are the facts that our traffic enforcement has tripled since this time last year. so the strategy that was put in place is yielding some dividends. and even though we are short staffed, the traffic enforcement is tripled so that is, that is a step in the right direction in terms of that traffic enforcement issue that we have brought before this commission. great. thanks, chief. just one other question for me. today, president elias and i received a letter or sorry, received an email from a woman who was a victim. collateral victim of a crime in the city. she. she said that she was driving her car with her young child in the back seat. and there is a police chase. the suspect in the course of that chase hit the back of her car and, there were no serious

injuries, but it hit the part of her car where her young child was and could have been a lot worse if, you know, the circumstances were slightly different, she also wrote perhaps you or various other, members of sfpd, but but she also forwarded it to president elias and myself, and i think she was upset both by what happened and upset that, you know, the way it was handled in the aftermath, essentially. and she stated a question in her email to us, and i just wanted to read it to you so that you could respond if you had any thoughts, she says first tonight. i'm so thankful that my daughter and my husband were not harmed, in this hit and run accident. but i keep returning to this question. if my four year old daughter or husband or both had been injured in this

police pursuit during rush hour on busy arterial streets, is sfpd's perspective that the risk to them would have been worth it so that officers could recover a stolen jeep wrangler. i don't see how sfpd can expect san francisco citizens to feel safe when they are at risk of becoming collateral victims of high speed vehicle pursuits, and i ask that question because, as you know, our vehicle pursuit policy is now changed to become more liberal, to allow a lot more chases in circumstances where otherwise it would not be permitted. and we already had the highest collision rate in the state before that policy change. so i just wanted to ask, this one citizen's question, who reached out to us and get your response if you have any. yeah, i do, first of all, i'm sorry that it happened. i don't know the circumstances, so i can't comment on that. but what i can comment on is right now, the policy has not yet changed, so we're still under the previous

or the current policy. is the old policy, and our officers and our sergeants. here's here's no matter what the policy is, we have a responsibility by law and by moral obligation to assess the risks. when we're pursuing somebody. and by law, you have to have due regard for safety. we just had a pursuit. yesterday was today. today is wednesday. i think it was monday, actually, monday morning, pretty horrific pursuit where a person was driving very recklessly after stabbing somebody and all that. and as serious as that crime was, the officers called the pursuit off didn't stop the person from driving recklessly. and but we found him later, in another part of the city, and we ended up making an arrest of that individual. the point that i'm making here is when you're in these situations, and i've been in many of them, you have a

you have a responsibility to assess how dangerous and whether the risk is worth the reward of arresting that person. we all have that responsibility, and that's what we expect of our people, our supervisors. and even if a supervisor is not at scene, the officers. so whether or not the policy changes, the voters voted how they voted. but we still expect our officers to exercise that responsibility and we've been talking about this ever since the passage of prop e that that responsibility does not go away. and if somebody is driving down a, you know, street for if it's just a stolen car with no other crime, even if there is another crime, it could be a robbery. we have that responsibility to exercise due regard. so yes, we still expect our officers to do that. i don't know the circumstances of this case, but it's definitely something. when i get the letter, it might be in my email. i haven't seen it yet that we'll

look into and see whether we exercise the due regard that we're supposed to. thanks, chief. that's everything for me. thank you. commissioner, thank you very much. there, president elias, first off, chief, i want to thank you for norton station officers, a colleague of mine's, you want to thank the officers at norton station for helping his neighbor find his child, it went missing and then panic. erupted in the family. and within ten minutes, found the child across the street, so, it's one of those things when it does happen, it's, it sometimes gets unreported. so thank thanks again to the chief. and looking at the police report for, for the ninth month in a row, crime is down in san francisco. i want to thank, chief and your team and, all the officers and who

who's keeping crime down in san francisco, had a busy weekend in chinatown, and i just want to share it with you and, the staff that worked, chinatown, north central station, and also the tower rail station when they had the second, sunset night market, beautiful day. and, beautiful event again. people are happy they're out there enjoying the, the public. nice weather and safety that's out there. i just want to make sure that they know that also in chinatown, we had chinatown nights, the car shows, which. again. thanks. for your participation in that. and trying to recruit, hopefully new officers coming out of chinatown. but i also want to talk about our, north america

chinese international volleyball tournament. we had over 5000. or let's say it this way, 3000 players, volleyball players that were active, 100 women know, 100 men and 80 women playing, competing at a high level and along with the family. so i'm guessing it's probably about 6000 or thereabouts. i was there, it was great to see so many people come out to the city and, rejuvenate and put back into the south of market community, they felt safe, i saw your officers out there and want to thank them, too, as well as the southern stations, keeping it safe. so again, overall, overall, this weekend, i was very thankful for the police to be out there, keeping our community safe. again, thank you very much, chief. and to your

command staff and all the members, thank you. thank you. which is your you've been called if you want to make a comment. thank you very much, thank you, president elias. and, chief, for your report, it is very promising, right, to, to see crime numbers go down, to see all the different strategies having a positive impact in reducing the numbers, especially considering that this is all happening in the summer. right when normally, usually, sometimes there's an increase in incidents. i did want to ask a question, a follow up question regarding the ability to activate, field clinicians, from

d.p.h, is there a separate number that the community or a member from the department needs to call to be able to reach these field based clinicians, for lack of a better term? yes, commissioner. there is, and i don't have it, but i will bring it for sure. next week or i'll get it to you before next week. d.p.h actually, had a public campaign with a number that the public can call for these, these doctors and i apologize. i don't have it with me, but i will get it. it's already an active number, and it's a publicly facing number, so it's available for the public. thank you very much for that. that'd be a great. i mean, if we could post that on our website, both sfpd and the commissions, i think that that would be very valuable information for people to have and for ourselves to have whenever we see these incidents. right. because i think, as was

mentioned previously, often times, people suffering from, you know, co-occurring disorders, substance abuse and maybe a mental health condition that they're treating with substance abuse, is sometimes better addressed through some treatment. and i'm really grateful to see that development, gain some traction, my next question is, regarding, the, the policing strategies in the tenderloin, i know that there has been, you know, an impact on addressing some of the homeless encampments. the larger ones, and the substance use, but along with the impact that, i assume has been, you know, minimizing incidents in the in the tenderloin and south of market, i have noticed the correlating increase in both homeless encampments and, you

know, street vending in the northern sector of the mission district that i am assuming is, a result of some of that displacement, as you know, due to the enforcement strategies in the tenderloin. is there a plan to increase, foot patrols, policing strategies, in the mission, as a result of the impact that that strategy has had on this kind of adjacent district? yes, yes, there is. and, before i answer that, the number, thanks to, laura, lieutenant, acting lieutenant colleen, she's in the room our our city oic. that number you asked for is (415) 970-3800. i get that right? right. okay. thank you, thank you. so, yes, the strategy for the mission. yes. a couple of things. so

there's a new captain in mission, and that's captain liza johansen, who actually very familiar with the mission, grew up in the mission. so very familiar. but one of the things that we are doing, and i think doing better at is she's reinstituted the foot beats, but we also have officers assigned to public works, what was happening was our public works workers were basically being threatened and attacked when they were doing their vending enforcement, when they were not accompanied by police officers. so between us and at times, the sheriffs, who are also working with this dmacc partnership with us, we have assigned workers to work with public works whenever they're out there doing cleaning. and in these in these markets that you're talking about, it has been very effective. you know, we had some struggles kind of with the

consistency of our deployment. but we have that worked out. we have some overtime shifts, we move officers around to make sure that we have those shifts filled. so that has really worked well and is going well, so that if we clean up an area or we address it like 16th and mission, where we've had a lot of issues with street vending and narcotics use and things like that, if that gets cleared out of that type of activity and they move somewhere else, those officers and those teams will go to that new location, it doesn't solve the bigger picture problem because, you know, we're dealing with people, we're dealing with substance disorders, we're dealing with a lot of social things. but to bring these, resources to the problem is part of what this dmacc collaboration is all about. so yes, that is happening. it's happening better than than it has been because we had trouble sustaining the deployment, but we've been able to stabilize that just by better use of our overtime and moving

officers around when we need to move them around. so that is the plan, we're also going to do i know you didn't ask this question, but i'll say, you know, capp street, we've talked about that with all the, some of the issues that the community has been really loud about complaining about on capp street and shotwell and all that. so we are working on those issues as well. we've increased our deployment, but we're going to try some new strategies there. and actually, we probably will ask president elias to do a presentation on that so we can talk about that in more detail. great. thank you. last question. i believe it was reported either mission local or maybe the standard, that there, you know, there's a shotwell kind of homeowners association that has, i believe, you know, brought a suit against the city. we're not

going to i'm not going to ask you to comment on that, as there may be some, you know, following litigation. but in the reason that this article or the focus of the article was the increase in, sex work and the ensuing kind of activity that happens when there is a sex workers neighborhood. and obviously the strategy that was implemented last year around putting barriers on capp street to contain some of that activity, has led to, you know, that activity kind of migrating down to south venice and further on into shotwell and even folsom street, and the article reported that there was a consideration and maybe even a commitment to place license plate readers and barricades in a similar fashion

as what has happened in on capp street is there. is that true? will there be such a an enforcement strategy that is going to be adopted for the shotwell corridor? the license plate readers will likely happen. i'm not sure that the barricades will happen. i mean, that's one of those types of issues that we definitely want to or actually is going to be mta, get community input on. i'm not so sure that that's going to happen. the license plate readers is very likely to happe, we are still installing those license plate reader cameras across the city, i think we have 186. i think out of the 400 that we plan to be get up and running. but so that work is ongoing. so that will probably definitely happen in the very near near future, what? i'll just say this. and when we agendize it, i can talk more about this, but we also want to address some of the demand with the sex workers and the demand.

you know, there's some strategies that we've seen other cities successfully implement that has addressed some of the demand. and we're going to try to roll that out within the next couple of weeks as well. so i'm looking forward to reporting on that. but the license plate readers, yes, that probably will happen. we think that can be a deterrent to that type of activity, that type of criminal activity. and, this strategy includes rolling out a new website, which we already have ready to go, where people can call in when they see this type of activity, and if they happen to catch a picture of vehicles or people engaged. we're talking about the demand side, then the department can follow up on that, not necessarily with a criminal violation, but at least following up with contacting that person to notify them that their car was seen loitering in these areas where there the sex

worker trade is, is flourishing. so that's one of the steps that we will take to try to address the demand. and that should be up and running pretty quickly. and i think you may be alluding to the department notice that was sent out regarding the report john program. right. yes, yes, that's exactly it. i did, go through that. and i guess my last question actually has a little bit to do with, the increase in the last maybe i'd say 3 to 6 months in the number of department notices that have been distributed, you know, via email blasts. there have been, you know, i'd say hundreds maybe. right, that have been posted and that officers are expected to absorb, sign off on and then begin to implement it. is there a reason why, in

addition to these, you know, large numbers of department notices, we're also starting to receive emails with images of suspects or victims, has there been a change that has been decided at at some level, along your lines and that the leadership levels to, to begin to, you know, send this large number of emails, considering the fact that in addition to the emails, you know, with images of potential suspects or potential victims, the fact that these department notices are coming fast and furious, right? and it is something that, for me, is concerning given the number of changes that, officers are expected to now implement as a result of these notices, being updated. well, there's a lot of

things in the air right now. there's a lot of movement, there's a lot of change with technology and prop e and with the general orders that that are changing and being revised. i mean, that was already happening. but now, i mean, we just had to do, what, 6 or 7 general orders and a couple of months. so we're trying to make sure that everybody is on the same page. and i know it's a lot. it's a lot for all of us to read, but we need people to read it and understand what what the changes are, what the rules are in terms of the other part of that, you know, with the advent of our, our, our camera system, now we're getting some really good leads on criminal investigations. so, you know, we have our siu leadership and some of them in the room tonight. and they're going to present on on the drone program. but there's a lot of information coming through about wanted cars and wanted people based on just the

technology enhancements that we've seen in the last six months. so, i mean, crimes that are happening not only in the city but in other parts of the bay area, these cars are showing up in san francisco. and if we get an alert, you know, our officers, they put that out. if they got a picture of a person responsible for or believed to be responsible for the crime, they put that out. so there's a lot of information flowing. but it's good information in terms of our bottom line of trying to get to the bottom of some of these crimes. so, you know, at the end of the day, we hope that this improves our clearance rates. we hope that this improve improves our solve rates and, we catch people that are, that are, that are committing these types of crimes in the city. but it does cause more information to be put out, the good thing is, you know, i think this generation of people that are coming into the department, they're used to technology and getting things by cell phone, and more so than my generation. so i think, you know, we have

the right people for this change to be happening because they're already used to the use of technology in that manner. so we're just kind of catching up with a lot of other agencies in terms of this type of thing that we're doing now. great. well, thank you for. that. i mean, if it is improving our outcomes, i'm going to assume that it is, working, it just it seemed like sometimes it could be overwhelming. but i'm glad that the notices are getting out there, that we are communicating effectively and that the younger officers or the newer officers, are capable of absorbing all this information because it is, you know, it's critical information. and i'm glad that you seem to have the confidence that they're going to continue to be able to receive this. and implement it, in an appropriate fashion. thank you very much for that report. thank you. thank you, commissioner. members of

the public, i'd like to make public comment regarding the line item five. please approach the podium. good evening again. i just wanted to talk about. and thank you for bringing up the, amos brown tomorrow at 11:00 about the crimes. that's been happening in our neighborhood. and i definitely will be there, but i wanted to also bring up about the last time we were here, we were talking about how to pay tipsters for unsolved homicides. and i, you know, i showed this picture about, $0 have been paid out for unsolved homicides and, you know, trying to get more evidence. i was wondering what's going on with that and if they found anyone, anyone to come forth to, to other cities that are doing

other things to find unsolved homicides. and last time i read, neither city officials nor their families are allowed to receive rewards, nor their nor their to help or for a plea bargain. are people that want it for by by the law. so if we can change some of that and have them testify, i mean, what can we do? i'm still waiting for justice for my son. and not only that, others, other unsolved homicides that i bring with me and show these pictures of all these other. there's more than this. so i was wondering what is happening with the part about getting people to come forth to pay tipsters to solve our cases. i know we have our investigators

are retired investigators, but nothing's happening. i haven't heard anything. my investigator is calling me, but with no with nothing. so what can we do more? and that is the end of public comment line item six d.p.a director's report discussion report, report on recent d.p.a activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. executive director henderson. good evening. i tried to push the request to speak thing, but we were going a little fast. i know we have a lot on the calendar tonight. i just wanted to renew my request. we had received this in the consent calendar. the report from iad, and there's more

information about the incidents and the reports that we received. but there's no information about the outcome of the cases. so i'd again request that we get that information, otherwise it's hard to compare ancillary cases, both. from d.p.a and for the public's interest about the cases and all of the hard work that's being done on these cases for accountability without something specifically enumerating the outcome, even, up to the date when these reports are filed. so i just wanted to renew that request for that, it was been mentioned several times already about the case that was in the news. with jaywalking. and that is an open case with d.p.a, as was referenced. i would ask the commission commissioner, ulverstone, for that letter, specifically if there's something from the public about that incident, so the d.p.a can fold that into the ongoing investigation for us to review. also to remind the commission

and the public, that the investigation that we are conducting will also do a thorough review as to whether or not there is a policy failure, even if that's something separate from the incident that took place that will be evaluated as well, in terms of what's been happening with the agency since we last met, we've opened up 80 cases and closed 89 cases since the last commission meeting, we've continued our three month trend of taking the time during the summer period when we weren't meeting, reducing our open cases thanks to the hard work and efficiencies from our investigation teams. and we hav, been working, with bringing our stats down. here's the stats. i'm just going to run through them briefly, we've opened up 477 cases to date, there are 200

that are under investigation right now, and we have closed 593 cases to date. we've sustained 36 cases so far this year. and we have 12 cases that are have been mediated this year as well. we have 21 cases whose investigations have gone over the 270 day, investigation period. again, the deadline is one year for the 3304 deadlines. and of those 21 cases, 17 of those cases are tolled. we still have a number of cases pending final adjudication. i'm just, forewarning and raising the issue again that, cases that don't have a final adjudication are not cleared for 14, 21 disclosures, so there are 115 cases that have been closed from dpa that are still pending with the chief and there are 12 cases

still pending with the police commission. in terms of the, overall statistics of the cases that have come in, complaints that have been received from dpa, the highest complaint category has been for conduct unbecoming. officers behaving or speaking inappropriately with the public. 16% and the second highest allegation is for use of force for officers using alleging that officers used unnecessary or excessive force. again, these are the allegations that have come into the agency, the two highest precincts were southern and tenderloin, that both had ten allegations during the time period since we last met. i have a couple of updates very briefly on some of the interior divisions, one from our award winning audit division, i let everyone know already that we're going through peer review, this process takes place every

three years, and we're doing it right now to keep up our certification, during that review, our team that was based in colorado, it just gets assigned to different places and did finally make the determination that our internal control systems are both effective and in compliance. and our auditor here received the highest level of assurance from the external team, how that relates to the ongoing work, which is our second update, the stop, stop data audit is now with the controller's office. and so they are reviewing the work and will provide our feedback. we intend to send that report to sfpd after we incorporate the feedback that we get from them, our policy division has also been hard at work reviewing deago 5.20, the language access service, and i know commissioner yanez has been involved in that work as well, he'll probably be commenting on it. and that's our work trying to implement administrative code, chapter 91, that is still ongoing, our mediation division

has also been working with our mediators during the august recess. they attended the cit presentation by lieutenant donnie anderson. the crisis intervention team, to include an overview of cit and de-escalation training, which was really helpful for our mediators. several of the mediators also followed up and took advantage of the opportunity to go on a ride along with the officers to have a better understanding of the department's operations day to day. and the mediator, the mediation director, ali schultheis schultheiss, is consulting with sacramento's police department, internal affairs division, who is looking into setting up a mediation program as their as well as the oakland community policing review agency, which is also developing a program modeled on the dpa program. and mediation.

finally, the mediators have also met internally with some of our internal groups. the dpa audit group, the policy and the legal divisions. and i think that is all that i have to talk about right now, other than to say the interns have wrapped up their projects, we've seen them. we're looking forward to making the presentation here, the work that they've presented so far has been really good. and we're excited about getting some feedback from the rest of the commissioners about the work that they've done, we have six cases that are in closed session this evening, we have here in the hearing room tonight, senior investigator brant bagian. and from both our policy and legal team, jermaine jones and janelle caywood. and if folks have information that they want to

contact dpa about, they can contact us on the website sfgov, forward slash dpa, or you can contact us through the phone (415) 241-7711. i'll reserve the rest of my statements for the agenda items as they come up. you know, when you're in a ex-leader like this month or next. i thought it was, but i wasn't going to say it because i know the schedule has been the agenda has been moving around. so okay, but we're ready. okay. i mean, i saw the presentation, so we're ready whenever it can fit in the schedule. i'm excited. it's good. it's really good. every year i say it's good and this is the best, but it really does get better every year. and i think the previous years, every time they come, they review the commission to hear and see and then they make changes. i really do think like this year is going to be the most professional and the most direct policy presentation with

a lot of work done by the kids that you've seen. and isn't this your biggest class, tiff? this is our biggest class. this was also done in partnership with hrc and with the hbcu, trying to get, a global perspective from the rest of the country, from kids and youth at various levels of their educational process, involved in policy, public safety, law enforcement, civilian oversight, all the above. it's going to be good. thank you, sergeant. all right commissioners september 18th will be the dpa intern presentation. thank you, for any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item six, please approach the podium. back again, i was bringing i'm bringing it back up the way to pay tipsters. i know last time, a couple of times that i was here, they were talking about having dpa

partnership with ways to pay tipsters and the way that they investigate police shootings. so i'm still wondering what's happening with that, i may be off. off of what? i'm saying, but i just remember dbi supposed to be involved, and, i still thank you. carter. commissioner carter, if you can still help out with that, you've done a good job. and i'm and i'm i'm very hopeful that, you know, you can keep this going because mothers like myself, we depend on you. we depend on all of you. and i need your help. we need your help. as mothers and fathers and families out here that are losing our children and our cases aren't solved. so if we can find ways to partnership

with dpw, other cities to pay tipsters minds has been 18 years and people still know what happened to my child. they have all in the names of the perpetrators that were there. they're still walking the streets. they're still living their lives and doing what they want to do. and so if we can find some way to pay them money talks. if you give them something, somebody's going to tell. so if we can find next time when i come here or somebody get this started again, because i am very hopeful and i'm very i need this to happen, not just me, but other families needs this to happen. please make it happen. thank you. that is the end of public comment line item seven commission reports discussion and possible action. commission president's

report. commissioners reports and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting. commissioner benedicto, thank you. president elias, just a couple of items to report from the time that we were in recess in august, along with chief scott, i was able to attend the event that miss brown helped host for victims of gun violence and unsolved homicides and was a really tremendous community event and opportunity for members of the community to connect, also, there was discussed what miss brown had talked about earlier, which is the proposal to rename a portion of that street after aubry and look forward to seeing that proposal continue to advance as well. i do want to thank the chief and the department in august, we had the piston parad, which was the filipino cultural parade and festival in san francisco, which is the largest celebration of filipino culture outside of the philippines, the largest in the united states. and around the world, thanks to

sfpd's help, we had a very successful parade and festival with over 50,000 people that had come through the festival at yerba buena gardens. so thank you for that support as well, what else? as the liaison to th, sfpd traffic company, i had a meeting with, commander nicole jones on the continued collaboration with the mta and sfpd. i think that continues to be one that they're building out, and we're seeing positive work there that that that was started after the publication last year of articles about stolen cars getting ticketed. so i think that we've, there's been progress made and continue to make progress on that collaboration. additionally, along with the chief and some other members of the community, the steering committee for redistricting met. i'd like to thank maria qanon and all the team at sfpd. they're working on redistricting, and hopefully in the coming months, we'll have that sfpd redistricting map to share with the commission. and that concludes my report. thank

you, ladies and gentlemen, organizer or grand marshal of the filipino festival. oh, yeah. well, they tricked me to be the grand marshal in 2022, and now i'm just a volunteer. so it was it was a but it's wonderful to help organize the event. thank you. commissioner yee, thank you very much, president elias, i just want to add to that on august, august 13th, with 175th year anniversary of the san francisco police department, i want to thank all the officers who served throughout the years. you know, making the city great and continue to do so. so congratulations to 175 years of successful policing in san francisco. i was joined by commissioner walker and commissioner benedicto and our great chief. thank you, sergean, from excuse me, from members of

the public. i'd like to make public comment regarding line item seven. please approach the podium. stacy. oh, i'm sorry, commissioner young. i did have my hand up. go ahead. commissioner. great. i'll be brief with my report, we did have a meeting. with the chief and apd commission president margaret brodkin, around 0701. and the pre-booking, program that we are developing in partnership with the community assessment and referral center, there's some significant progress that i'm proud to report. we have we're nearing the finish line here. i think that the chief has given his commitment to embark on this, pre diversion program. that's,

you know, modeled on, on the program that he actually helped implement in los angeles. and so i'm really grateful for his commitment to this effort. and i believe that we should be, able to generate and hopefully complete that memorandum of understanding with our community partners to initiate that program before the end of this year. and as we had left off at our last meeting, commission president elias had asked for an update, which we are coordinating and planning, some community partners to come and present around, and as director henderson alluded to, i have been actively engaged in the, working group for, language access services for lep persons that is now on the third session. and i do have a question for you, chief, as you're aware, the ordinance, the chapter 91 e ordinance for the

city had some substantive changes, and i just wanted your opinion about one specific element of this that has, you know, kind of been discussed. and i'd like your input, for us to have clarity moving forward as we are revising this dgf, the definition that currently stands in our policy, which, by the way, you know, was published on october 17th of 2007, which is the reason why we are in this process. i think it's long overdue, but the definition that is in our dgo currently says that a limited english proficiency person is indicated or are individuals whose primary language is not english and who have a limited ability to read, write, speak, or understand english and sentence the new

ordinance language has a more, evolved kind of description or definition of limited english. proficient persons or p persons, and it goes like this. any p persons shall mean an individual who does not speak, read, understand or communicate english is otherwise unable to communicate effectively in english because english is not the individual's primary language or prefers to conduct the interaction in their native language. chief would. would you agree that there is a substantive, change in that definition, the way it was written in the new ordinance, i would agree that it's a lot more

involved. and that's substantive substantive from the 2007 definition. yes and as a result of, you know, the working group processes that we have undertaken in revising other dgos, there have been instances where, such as in prop e or with prop e, language that was approved either by the supervisors or the voters, has been directly cut and paste verbatim from the language approved by the voters or the supervisors. and pasted onto our newer dgos that we have revised. would you have any objection to this particular definition being verbatim? included in our new revision of the language, access

dgo is it for any media? yeah, that's for that's for the one that the work group is working on now. right correct. correct. yeah. what i would like to do, i mean, i heard your definition is read it before i gave you a definitive answer, but just generally i don't think that's an unreasonable thing. but i would like to read it and circle back with you. i know the work group is working on that, but yeah, let me read it and then i can answer that question either publicly or offline. agendize it. and then get it and then get an update. also on the working group status. correct. we can do both. is that a question for the chief or for myself? both, i think, why don't we? i can put it on next week or the following week. i think, next week might be a little premature as a result of the working group is

only going to be in its fourth session, i would prefer sometime in october once that process is concluded and we get a better sense of where we are with this. okay. in the meantime, can you send them the definition? i will send you the definition, chief. and thank you for acknowledging that there is a substantive change and that it could actually have an impact on our improving our efforts to address language. english proficiency persons as needs, the last question i will ask you about this particular dgo, there is an exclusion, a major edit that i'm not sure how we got to this point, you know, normally when we're revising dgos, we're working with the previously authorized, dgo as a starting point. correct yeah. normally

yes. normally in this case, you know, i don't understand or see why we wouldn't be starting from the previous authorized and vetted dgo, which was in 2007. and the reason i bring this up is that there was there is a whole section of around the procedures for identifying and specifically speaking to the members being expected to provide a language identification card to aid in the process of determining an individual's primary language. is there a decision made at a level that included you to remove that language from the starting point for our work

group? no, but i can say the work group and the smes, i don't have the insight as to why that was done. it could be a number of things, as well as including an outdated procedure or a more efficient way to do that. you know, now that we have phones and better, better technology, but i can get some insight on that. i don't that was not a decision made by me, but the work group probably has some insight on why. well, maybe again, since we're agendizing this in october, we can have those answers, for us as well as any other questions that he has. yeah. with respect to the progress of the work group, i really do believe that the purpose of, revising dgos is to improve the processes that we're expecting our officers to adhere to. and that omission really indicates that we're taking a

step backwards. in my humble opinion. and i thank you for, prioritizing this and setting it on the agenda for next month, president elias, because it is something that is of concern. and i just wanted to make sure that i brought it to the chief's attention. thank you very much. that's my report. thank you, sergeant, for members of the public, i'd like to make public comment regarding line item seven. please approach the podium. there is no public comment. line item eight presentation on the crisis intervention team city 2023 annual report discussion. good good evening everyone. good evening, chief scott, members of

command staff. good evening, president elias and vice president carter oberstein, commissioners director henderson, thank you so much for having us here this evening. i am sergeant laura. colleen. excuse me, i'm sergeant laura anderson. that was a that was a change, so i, i keep forgetting, but i am the oic of the cit unit, and i have here with me sergeant elizabeth prelinger. so that's a new development from a few months ago, so we're excited for her. and then i also have, officer matt nazar and doctor zhivago from the department of public health. so we'll, we'll mention we'll get back to we'll circle back around to her, shortly. so while we're pulling up the powerpoint, just in the interest of time, and i know it seems like you have a lot on your agenda this evening. i'm just going to start here. i know we provided a 40 page end of year report that is typically authored by sergeant prelinger,

so i've asked her to join me here today in the presentation because i believe in giving credit where credit is due, and she is a phenomenal part of our team, even though she is now at a district station, so we'll also circle back around to staffing as we get there, but there are four components of our of our team and of our of our unit. and that consists of training. that's one piece of the puzzle. that's our four day and our one day training. we also have a field unit. that's another piece of what we do out there. and then we have the city liaison program and the cit working group. and so we'll circle back to all of those in momentarily, just very quickly from the stats from last year. and again, all of this is in the 40 page report. but in the interest of your time, we'll we're happy to answer any questions that you have as they come up. but we're just going to give you the down and dirty, so the as of the end of last year,

we had 72% of our department trained in the four day cit certification course, of that, though, when we break it down just to patrol, that's 78%. and there are five district stations that have 80% or more of their people trained. so typically on any given call for service, you know, eight out of ten are going to be cit certified of our one day course. again, just the same as last year. there are 100% of our department is trained in that course. and of course, as always, we know your schedules are busy, but we welcome you to both the one day and the four day courses. and just as we offer to our members of our command staff and our captains that this course can certainly be taken in pieces because that's hard to do four days in a row. so we understand that. i'm going to hand this over to sergeant prelinger to discuss some of these other components of our of our team. good

evening. i'm sergeant prelinger, thank you, president elias, director henderson and chief scott, i'm just going to be speaking on some subtopics here that are very much pertinent to the kind of overriding arc of what we do at cit. first and foremost, i just wanted to say that crisis intervention really does embody, i think, the aspirational goals of 21st century policing, inasmuch as it really is all about safeguarding human life and treating people with dignity and respect and so this program is just integrated so much into the patrol work that people are doing every day, because crisis is just unfolding, you know, at all minutes, at all times in the city. and i think that will be evident when sergeant anderson speaks more towards the actual stats of incidents that we respond to. what i'm going to speak towards initially is our collaboration. again, that's a

part of 21st century policing. one of the great collaborative models that we're building upon is our relationship with the department of public health. we've really been able to forge, i think, truly meaningful partnerships with experts who have clinical background to able able better to address situations with people in crisis oftentimes than law enforcement itself. however, because a lot of the things that we respond to may involve a danger potential or a violence potential, it's really important to create safe armatures for those clinicians to go out and make direct contact with subjects. so part of what i'm going to speak on here with this partnership is the fact that our field unit goes out daily to deal with subjects in crisis, and we do that with the sort of tremendous, integral support of a dph clinician who i know, sergeant anderson will speak and

address later. but what's great about that is each time we're able to deal with people in crisis, we have to weigh out all the factors of what that specific encounter requires and everybody's different. every individual is different. every circumstance is different. and so each time we go out as a team, we are operating with a pace plan. we have a primary plan, an alternate plan, a contingency plan, and an exigent plan because we want to be able to adapt to everything as it's unfolding with the most appropriate level of care and consideration for that subject, and i don't want to expand too much on how all of these things unfold, but i will say that there's a tremendous amount of value to this partnership that we've been able to develop with department of public health, specifically, comprehensive crisis, the next piece of

collaboration i'm going to speak about is our cit liaison program. and again, that's sort of more of an internal collaboration with our own members on patrol. we have this program that's set up specifically so that each district station has two representatives who take on the auxiliary role of really looking into the crisis related issues of the district level so that they can very kind of effectively deliver that information to us at the cit unit. and so we can build an engagement strategy with those subjects very prudently. so that's another part of another collaboration that we really have been expanding upon in our model. another piece of the collaborative model, which is essential to the growth and effectiveness of this program, is our civilian cit working

group is comprised of civilian stakeholders. everything that they bring to the table is things consisting of lived experience or even expertise. in another realm, or a passionate attachment to topics that are very prudent for us to consider. at cit. so the civilian working group has been essential in helping us develop critically informed programs. and again, i say that that's a very important piece. these are not people who are just agreeing with our best practices or our version of best practices. they're critically giving their feedback. so that when things can be improved, we're going to know about it. so this group consists of lots of different entities, whether it's our national alliance of mental illness, department of police accountability, our mental health alliance of san francisc, as well as the va and other groups. so just want to speak to

the fact that they're a huge part of the way we've been building out at cit, another thing that i just wanted to dip into statistically, because this is going to come up later as you look at more facts, is it's a very important to recognize that one of the reasons why cit is so incredibly important to san francisco and the communities here, as well as this department, is that i believe it's directly associated with a diminishment of use of force, which i know is a shared goal for everyone here, one of the things that i wanted to bring up here is that we have our mental health calls for service, that we've done some data analysis o, of what you will later learn is approximately 33,733 total calls related to some type of cit work, there were 85 incidents where there was a reportable use

of force. now of those 85, i just want to specify that 80% of those were physical control holds only, and another 10% of those were detention with a firearm, which is an implied potential use of force. but in of itself is not an active fulfillment of a force right. so what's important about that is there's a very few, there's a very small percentage that involved an application of chemical agent or, or an impact weapon or, other types of use of force. with that being said, i'll hand it back to sergeant anderson. thanks, lily. so then just the last couple of slides that we wanted to point out as, as sergeant prelinger mentioned. so we're at 33,734 calls for service in relation to mental health. now, of course, this number is down from previous

years, but it's still almost 34,000 calls for service that the san francisco police department is responding to, despite all of the other organizations and non-law enforcement. and non-law enforcement, programs that have come into san francisco or that have developed. so i just, you know, we want to make everyone just sort of aware of that, that these are continued numbers. and while we see them sort of trickling down, this is an extent this is an extensive number for especially for the staffing that the san francisco police department has now. so the officers out in patrol are doing solid work. right now. and we're all on the alert. missing adult. so the final, slide,

should i we're getting a lot of attention. that's. yeah. yeah hi. give her more time. give her more time. give me more time. continue. thank you. so this last slide is basically what we put together at the end of, last year. and what we would hope to see in the cit unit and to vice president carter oberstein's question, we have as, as is standard, when someone gets promoted, they leave the unit that they are currently in. and so we have lost sergeant prelinger. we are a solid team of three for the entire city and county of san francisco, but we are passionate about what we do and i have two full duty officers in the unit. and then of course, myself. so, the good news, as we look at sort of expanding the unit, is that the cit working group, who is a they're amazing advocates for our program and for what we do.

they get to meet with chief scott quarterly, and he has agreed to additional staffing for our unit. so last week we conducted interviews for officers. today we conducted interviews for sergeant for a sergeant position. we have made our selections. and so that is a process that's moving forward. so we're thrilled. i'm beyond thrilled about that because if, you know, without lieutenant molina and lieutenant donnie anderson, it's, you know, we rely on them a lot as well. but, time wise, what we do is very consuming. so i wanted to mention that and to thank chief scott and our chain of command. for the unit's chain of command. so we're grateful for that, and then also, as we look at the sort of the collaborations between d.p.h and ourselves and the san francisco fire department, i want to thank

director stephanie felder over at dph's comprehensive crisis services that css, director felder has stood by our team as we've stolen one of her members of comprehensive crisis services. and again, that's doctor zhivago. she's our clinical psychologist that now works in our office a couple days a week, and is very involved in everything that we do. and we i don't know how we actually managed without her previously, i would say that it would be wonderful. and i know that dph's staffing is down as well. chs has a limited number of clinical psychologists and crisis workers, but i have to tell you that day in and day out, when we call them for crisis calls, they are there and they deliver and so the collaboration is phenomenal. and then moving into, of course, the fire department, i want to acknowledge section chief april sloane, who's in charge of their

community paramedicine teams, and that's crt and ems six. the collaboration among all three of our teams has been phenomenal. and having spoken with director felder and section chief sloane, as we sort of look at the future of what cit and what a co-response can can manage and the things that we've done together on calls for service. we would love to see a co housed model down the road as we sort of move into that that realm. but so we're very excited to be working with our partners and then the final thing that we had mentioned in here was that we were looking to expand not only expand the unit staffing wise, but to move into a more centralized location, there we've given the example, we've had this discussion with the chief that there have been calls for service, that we have responded to, and it's taken us 40 minutes to get there. right, because we're traversing across

the city. and that's that's challenging to do. so with the approval of our chain of command and of course, chief scott, we will be moving to park station, which is a more centralized location in the city. and as staffing allows and as time allows for us to be able to go out and respond with patrol and get to the areas that we can get to, in a more expedient manner. this will allow us to hopefully take some of that load, albeit, you know, in the beginning, maybe not that much. you know, i want to be realistic about the expectations, but as we move into that, hopefully that frees up patrol on calls for service. that would normally require an extended amount of time, where we then can devote that time and we can free up patrol. so that's sort of our goal and that's what we're moving to. and i just since they're here, i also want to thank our partners at gpa who work just amazingly on policy with us. and that's janelle caywood and jermaine jones. this is jermaine still here. there he

is. so i just want to say thank you to our crew. they have been phenomenal as well. so we're very lucky. so we just again thank you. we'll if anybody has any questions we're available. thank you. good presentation. as you describe small but mighty is the probably a great slogan for your, unit. i am a huge fan. i think the sergeant molina was the one that introduced me to it. and the amazing work that you do. i'm very happy to hear that we're at 70%, because when i think you first came when i first came to the commission, it was like, it was like 10% for the four day, and they were just trying to get through the one day in terms of having officers trained. so this is great news and i'm really happy for you, and again, i'm just a huge fan. whatever i can do to help move this along, please let me know, because i think it's a great, asset to the to the department. and, and i did a half a day, and from what i did see in the half a day, i was just blown away by

the results. and what an impact cit makes, i think, on the policing. so director henderson, thank you. president yeah. i just wanted to say, to thank the team for coming and making the presentation and also for the ongoing work, you know, the team at dpa has been working with you guys for so long, i think it's fantastic. i wanted to point out specifically, and some of the data transparencies that cit puts together, i think is a model for even the rest of the department, specifically how you've been intentional and including race data associated with the work that you guys have done. i think that is where we all are headed as the public is demanding more transparency. the fact that you guys are already doing that, i think is a model of how to do it accurately and correctly. so i just wanted to commend that, we're happy about the centralization and the move to park, and i would encourage the department with the new

dollars being allocated to have some commensurate work, to readdress staffing and training with cit specifically, i have a suggestion because i know now sergeant prelinger is around. you said you were looking for a sergeant, and i know a sergeant that, has been wonderful at cit, and we have a long history going back a long time. she was great in that department. and we'd love to see her participating actively. that's what she's interested in these days. but, if there's anything more that we can be doing at dpa, my staff is here in the room and we're happy to continue helping and supporting this work that we think is really important, not just for the department, but for the rest of the city as well. thank you. thank you so much, director. we also would like to see sergeant prelinger back. could we vote? vice president

carter. so, chief, why didn't you laugh at that joke? yeah, yeah, i'm laughing, on the inside. thank you, thank you for the presentation, acting lieutenant anderson, you said that you were getting more staffing. could you say how many more people? you're. i think it's two for now. and then, what i've promised is, as we get more people in through laterals and academy classes, we'll expand to get them back staffed up. and what does staffed up look like, i think at one time you all had eight, i believe, or. yeah eight. yes. but let's be clear. even even that is probably not what it should be. but even if we can get back there, i think that would be a huge so. and the current folks that are being interviewed, do we know when they'll be actually assigned or.

i'm sorry, the folks that have been selected, when they'll actually be assigned, yes. we've selected members through staff services. yes so, i believe the next personnel order would be not this friday, but next frida. okay. they should if everything is done as far as the interview and selections, they should be on the next one. okay. yeah. i mean, i guess i'll say when i read my first cit report, i assumed that the work was done by a small army of dozens of officers. so when i discovered, you know, last time that we only had four sworn members, i really couldn't believe it. and now you're down to three, and i guess we'll be back up to five. but i just want to really thank every single member of the cit team for the work that you do. you handle some of the most volatile and unpredictable situations, and you have such a commitment to excellence. despite being chronically overworked, and we just really

appreciate the work that you do. it's so important, responding to incidents, training, you know, informal consultation with officers, liaising with the community, i really don't know how you do it all. and also just want to thank, also, acting lieutenant anderson, for your leadership, because none of this can, can get done without without great leadership and a great team. so thank you. thank you very much. vice president and again, i would be remiss if i didn't you know, i wanted certainly point out that lieutenant mario molina and lieutenant donald anderson get dragged back in, fairly consistently, just solely for their level of expertise and knowledge in this area. and i think they really believe in it when you see them, they really believe in it. and i think that that just speaks volumes. and now that vice president carter is questioning, i'm sure your staff is going to exponentially grow. thank you. yes. so the chief doesn't have. yeah,

exactly. so the chief doesn't have to answer his questions any more. democracy. commissioner walker, thank you so much. thank you for this report. and i just want to say i just yesterday had an occasion at south of market to watch the training in, in effect essentially. and it was a situation that, had a lot of citizens really nervous and it could have escalated and didn't. it was really handled. deescalated and, and managed and, you know, the, the folks in the community really appreciate that. so the training you're doing is also, visible there, not just in this, you know, comprehensive report and the statistics, but in, in fact. so thank you. thank you. commissioner. commissioner benedicto, thank you so much. just a couple of questions and then some comments. so you said that you're getting two additional. that's from the three. so the total number would be five staff wants. is that the

number chief. yes okay. so now there's two commissioners asking about it. and then you know the plan to the plan to get it hopefully back to eight or where it was. would you hope that that's is that a one year or like how many years away are we from that chief, would you expect it to ballpark it it if we hire who with our projections it should be within the year. within the year. okay yeah, we were we were slated to get, you know, 50in the academy. and even though we lose some, that's a huge improvement from where we've been. so, if it keeps going at that rate, it's going to be. and we're getting a lot of lateral, lateral hires. so things are things are actually moving in the right direction. so it should be within a year. sergeant, i wanted to ask. i saw we were up to 72% in the 40 hour. and you said if you limit it to patrol that 78. i was

trying to find last year's cit report. can you do you have that handy as to what that the year over year increase is? i don't have that in front of me, commissioner. it's roughly stayed the same though, just because of, you know, members retiring and, transferring and that sort of thing. so it's actually stayed roughly the same this year simply due to the, the, our staffing numbers within the unit, we were only able to conduct two cit trainings. we have the second one is next week, but as we look into 2025 and getting the additional bodies, we're actually looking at 6 to 8 trainings next calendar year. that's very helpful. yeah, that was my sense too. that didn't go up. and i think you sort of anticipated my question is with the additional staffing, is that what's holding back. yeah. just simply it's hard to pull my entire team in for a four day training and then have nobody doing field work or answering the calls. and typically we receive calls from the chief's office directly from members of the chief's office,

from command staff, from officers, from cid, from the department of public health, from the fire department. and so there has to be people also in the office and available to answer those calls and to do the workups and then to go out with our clinical support and address the field, the field visits. so yes, this is this has slowed us down a tad, but i'm confident that we can push those numbers back up. you mentioned the long term goal of sort of co-housing with some of your partners. and that's something that a lot of members of the commission, myself included, have been calling for, for a number of years. it's nice to see that coming. as part of the annual report. what sort of needs to happen for that goal to become closer to reality? what are ways that the commission could be of assistance in that? because i do think there is such strong support for cit across, you know, across the department, across the city. thank you. i think that our, our, our staffing numbers within the department overall have to increase and we need to support

our partners over at comprehensive crisis services, as i know that they are understaffed as well. so in order to really make a program like that work and then successful in the long term is to have an appropriate amount of staffing and on all realms, and i, i'm not 100% sure where community paramedicine is right now with their staffing. however, i it's across the board. i think that our just numbers are down across both agencies. and so that's it just poses a challenge. absolutely. thank you so much. i do want to echo my fellow commissioners in the in the praise of the cid program, i've said this to miss caywood before, we've attended the cit awards together for the last couple of years since i've been on the commission, and it's absolutely one of the highlights of the year. just to hear those the stories of the incredibly challenging situations, the cit team confronts and is often able to resolve without injury, i'd remark to the chief of the last cit awards that, you know, ten

years ago, half of these or more would have been ois. and the fact that i think in the last one, none of them were, and they were all successful de-escalation really is a testament to the success of this. as i said, small but mighty team. so congratulations to you to sergeant berlinger, to sergeant molina, to lieutenant molina, lieutenant don anderson, to janell caywood and jermaine jones at dea, director henderson, as well as going all the way back to one of your predecessors to san marino, dpa, who helped really push cit into the awareness of this commission, almost ten years ago. so over ten years ago. so thank you to all of you for that work. thank you. and thank you. there's a couple of you mentioned the patrol officers there doing the work. it is them out there on the day to day calls and they that's the that's not really the sexy news that you'll hear. you know, on at 10:00 on, you know, whatever news channel it is. but they're out there and they're doing it

and they're doing amazing work. thank you sergeant, thank you. for members of the public, they'd like to make public comment regarding line item eight. please approach the podium. there is no public comment. line item nine presentation on the early intervention system is first and second quarter 2024. discussion. and oh, it's a pdf. it's not a powerpoint. okay. i'm going to

open it with a powerpoint or no. no that's okay. that was a powerpoint. that's right okay. all right. all right. good evening commissioners. good evening chief scott. good evening, director henderson. i'm sergeant darren ovalle, and i'm going to be presenting q1 and q2 of our eyes, of 2024. as always, i'd like to give recognition to my team. lieutenant beauchamp, stephanie swallow and wendy leung. so as i always like to do a quick refresher of the performance indicators, what we track in our eyes are things like use of force, ois, oiprd, complaints on duty collisions, vehicle pursuits, and civil suits and tort claims. so we're going to look at the indicator

points by quarter. here. you can see q1 and q2 of 2024. the total number is 641 for q1. and 467 for q2, compare those to last year, q1 of 2023. you can see the use of force indicator. we see a drop of 5.4%. and comparing q2 to last year, we actually see a 58.1% drop. indicator points by station, the first quarter, like the trend for previous, presentations, i've done mission and tenderloin have accumulated the most indicator points mission with 90 and tenderloin with 146 for the first quarter. for the second quarter, again, mission and

tenderloin are leading the pack, mission has 65 and tenderloin has 99. so for the alerts generated for q1 of 2024, 135 members generated at least one alert, and that totaled 204 alerts in q2 of 2024, 95 members generated at least one alert, and that totaled 114 alerts. now, comparing that to last year of q1 2023, that was a drop in total alerts of 32.2%. and comparing it to last year, q2 2023, that was a 60.3% drop. again, breakdown by the station of first quarter mission had 50.33, and tenderloin had 55.33, and the second quarter again mission in tenderloin, mission had 25. and tenderloin had 34

alerts. interventions so q1 we did start that quarter with three interventions, but i'm happy to say in q2 we were able to successfully close out one intervention. so currently we have two active interventions. this is a timeline right now of our current project with benchmark. back in july, our pilot program was approved and we started generating eas alerts through first sign. right now the pilot program is being conducted at tenderloin and northern stations. i'm happy to say that we've already begun meetings last week at northern and today at tenderloin station, so we will be, proceeding with that pilot program probably for the next three months, soliciting feedback from all the participants to try to be able to mold and create the new

system and make it to where it will be, helpful for all the members. and that is the q1 and q2 of 2024 iihs report. happy to answer any questions. for any member of the public that has any public comment regarding line item nine, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. director henderson, very briefly, i just want to say that, both nicole and deanna are continuing to work with eyes, and we are optimistic that we will find some middle ground to work with the area, with what benchmark will be ultimately presenting with us. so it will communicate and conform with dpa's systems as well. so we don't have to recreate the wheel and recreate work from the department. we could just share information and be more transparent with each other. so i didn't want to not

mention that. thank you. line item ten discussion and presentation on department community engagement process for the department's use of equipment policy prior to submission to the board of supervisors. discussion good evening commissioners. good evening, president elias. vice president carter ulverstone. commissioners. chief scott and director henderson, sfpd. and city colleagues, members of the public. my name is doctor deanna roche, and i'm the director of policy and public affairs for the san francisco police department and today i'm accompanied by carl nishida, who is our principal legislative analyst for the policy and public affairs team. and by the way, i want to say that he's a tremendous asset for our department and has done a lot of work with the board, recently in this last year. we're here to report to you on ab 481. just as a reminder, before we get started on the actual

presentation and where we're at, just would like to remind the public that on on july 17th, we came before the police commission, the san francisco police department and the policy development division to report, in general, our compliance on assembly bill 481. since then, a couple of things were requested from the san francisco police department. one was to make sure that we completed community meetings and gatherings to ensure that we had actual public feedback coming into the department to ensure that we fulfilled our obligation with assembly bill 481. today, we're here to share with you that although it is not our unit who conducted these community meetings, another unit from the department, the policy development division, alongside with captains, did complete that task. and that directive from the police commission. and so the first slide, what you see here in front of you are a series of community meetings. and before i actually go through

just a general synopsis, i do want to emphasize that shortly after the july 17th meeting with the police commission, our role internally was to really work closely with the chief at the chief's directive to really to look at a press release to ensure that we were doing as much outreach as possible and to ensure that we were informing most of our board colleagues on the process of where we were with the reporting requirements that were due at that time. having said that, we completed a list of meetings. what you see here on the left hand column, you see the series of meetings that were completed by the policy development division. there were most of the meetings were leveraged just with existing forums. so we had a captains community meeting at ingleside station at mission station, at park station, and we had an advisory board meeting that we ended up leveraging. we also had a recent bayview station captains community meeting and a richmond station captains community meeting that

will be forthcoming to ensure that we get a full, rounded response. all the responses. what you see here is approximately how many community members attended. i will share that alongside with those that were invited and decided to come and attend and be a part of this process. we also ended up reaching out to the interested groups and parties that actually came to the police commission. the policy development division worked really closely to ensure that as much as we could, we would meet the timeline and we would also ensure that there was a participation from the interest during public comment that that was actually addresse. participants were asked questions at each meeting, and the department will post all the responses publicly on our website. as it complies with ab 481. having said that, i'm going to go ahead and turn to carl nishida, our principal legislative analyst, so he could explain to you more details and what the future holds with ab 481. carl thank you, doctor

roche, president elias, vice president carter. oberstein, commissioners. chief scott, director henderson as diana said, i'm carl nishida, principal legislative liaison for the san francisco police department, and i'll quickly cover the remaining legislative steps for this 2023 annual report. and then share our anticipated timeline for completing the 2024 report, and then all annual reports for ab 41 moving forward. so just quickly, here's the language from ab 41 requiring approval of the annual report from the governing body, which in the case of san francisco is the board of supervisors. the governing body shall determine based on the annual military equipment report, whether each type of military equipment identified in that report has complied with the standards for approval. so what is the legislative process for approval? so following this meeting, the 2023 annual report will be submitted with a resolution to the board of supervisors to review and

hopefully approve the report. the resolution will be scheduled for a government audit and oversight committee hearing, which staff will present and answer any of the committee's questions, and the next gao committee, as it's called, is thursday, september 19th. the gao committee can refer the resolution to the board of supervisors, the full board of supervisors, with or without a recommendation. they could amend it, or they could continue it to a future meeting. once the committee refers the resolution to the board of supervisors, the board will then vote on whether to accept and approve the repor. as you know, this is an annual report. so this slide shows our anticipated timeline for completing the 2024 report and the annual reports thereafter. so beginning in october through december of this year, the department will compile the information required for the report by the end of the year. and then in january 2025, the department will post the 2024 report on our website within 30

days of that posting date, we'll hold at least one well publicized community engagement meeting where community members can actively engage, ask questions, provide feedback and discuss discuss the issues. and then in february 2025, we would like to present to the police commission on the annual report and the results of the community engagement. and after that, we'll submit the annual report to the board of supervisors with a resolution requesting approval, and go from there. year after year. and that concludes my presentation. we're happy to answer questions. vice president carter oberstein, thank you for the presentation. just a quick question on the list of public or community meetings that were listed on that one slide, were those those were all open to the public? is that right? correct. and were those each of those is your understanding complies with ab 481 requirement that it be well publicized? yeah. so that was

the standard in ab 41. i'm sorry. just the reason that i asked is i think i heard for one or a couple of them, there was an existing meeting scheduled for a separate purpose. but then the issue of the department's report on on military equipment was raised at that meeting. so i just wanted to clarify, it was publicized that that was the purpose of the meeting and that it was open to any member of the public. that's correct. yes. so we did use the existing captain's community meetings, but we did publicize both the press release and social media and also reaching out to some of the board of supervisors offices that ab 41 would be a topic on those agendas. great. and then last time that we had this presentation, it was it became clear that the department was six months late in submitting its report to the board of supervisors. under state law, it seems like, at least based on your timeline, i don't know how aspirational it is, but based on your timeline, you don't

anticipate that there will be delays for next year's report. that's our intention, definitely, yes. and do you? you said you will hold at least one well publicized meeting, which is what state law requires, this year you held many more. do you do you have a sense for what your plan is for next year? we did discuss potentially having just one or at least one community meetings specifically for ab 41. i'm happy to take suggestions or feedback on what the commission would like to see next year, but, i think that's still to be determined. great. and then just last question. i think i heard doctor roach say that some the feedback would be compiled in some way that was received at these meetings. is that right, or did i mishear that? no. that's correct. okay. to make sure that there's public notice and at the same time, a public document that expresses the summary of the actual meeting in and when will we be getting that and what form will that appear? we'd have to get

back with internally with the policy development division and understand. but pretty soon i'm sure we will try to work as quick as we can. okay, great. thank you. may i just add. oh, sorry. go ahead, vice president carter, we, this methodology that we use, we believe we're touching. at least we have more of an opportunity for people from different parts of the city to be to weigh in on this. so, i mean, we definitely will have at least one meeting, but i don't see us not leveraging these, preexisting meetings to touch more people and get more input. so that's probably going to be the way we do business moving forward. yeah. thank you, madam chair. that that was what i was going to piggyback on. the issue is notice is important for the community. the idea of having one meeting that's the standard that the state statute says. but the idea to go into each of

these communities like this and at least give them that input opportunity, if they take it, they do, if they don't. but that that would be very important because, yes, you got to give one, but do more than you than you have to help this message out. right. and at the end of the day, the board of supervisors is going to make that determination whether or not sufficient notice was given for them to take it up. but we'd like to see that. that's all i see. all right. thank you, commissioner sergeant, for any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item ten. please approach the podium. thank you. there is no public comment. line item 11 discussion and presentation on the implementation of the drone program. discussion. hey. how you doing? good. how are you? thank you. did you need this? good afternoon, president

elias. commissioners. chief scott, good evening. my name is tom mcguire. i'm the acting captain of the strategic investigations unit. with me is acting lieutenant eric batchelder. officer catherine cook is also part of the team that started up the drone program, i'd like to go through this powerpoint that we are going to go through quickly. and then i'd like to set some time for any questions at the end. we also want to take an opportunity to invite any commissioners gpa, anyone that would like to come and see our drones in action. you're all welcome to please get in touch with me. any member of the team would be happy to have you. thank you. chair. well, we'll bring our drones. yes, please, so, following the passage of proposition e, the

department procured six drones, these drones are first air support in 24 years in this department, all drone operators are part 107 faa certified with licenses. we use these to be more effective and efficient responding to our crime, we're integrating the jones with other technologies, such as the automated license plate readers. alpers we deploy them throughout city and county of san francisco, during sfpd operations, as well as outside san francisco. when allowed, the benefits are obvious. they include faster response time, situational awareness, awareness, more precision de-escalation, officer safety and primarily pursuit mitigation, which we've had some success with, as well as being a force multiplier during staff shortages, we have policies in place to ensure the drones are

used responsibly, with safeguards to protect constitutional rights and privacy of the public, under the strategic investigations unit is the technical services unit. that's where the oversight of this program, along with coordination with our tactical team, is taking place. and we're ensuring compliance with all laws, as spoken about with ab 481 as required under government code, the department has submitted, the use and equipment policy to the board of supervisors. the proposed ordinance is file number 240636, and it's tentatively scheduled for discussion before the government audit oversight for september 9th, some authorized uses under prop e, the sfpd is authorized to use these drones, along with or in lieu of vehicles during pursuits and to assist in active criminal investigations. under the policy submitted to the board of

supervisors, drones will be used for training and simulations. critical incidents. exigent circumstances, search and rescue, missing persons, crime scene investigations. investigations during suspicious device assessments. planned operations and disaster respons. deployment responsibilities during the phase one, pre-planned crime prevention investigation operations. spontaneous criminal investigations at the discretion of the program manager and response to major and critical incidents, including those with our partners from sit in situations where we can utilize these for de-escalation and bringing people safely into the help they need, department owned drones and their accessories or features shall not be used to harass, intimidate, or discriminate against any individual or group to monitor individuals based on their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or membership of any protected class for non-law enforcement related matters or

in an unsafe manner, and it shall not be equipped with any weapons of any kind and shall not be used as a force option, one is being flown. operated operators will take steps to ensure that the cameras focused on areas necessary to the mission, and will minimize the inadvertent collection of data about uninvolved persons or places. some data and reporting data retention video footage with no evidentiary value is deleted within 30 days. recorded data that's found to have evidentiary value relevant to a criminal civil, or administrative matter shall be retained for a minimum two and a half years. it should be noted that most other evidence is consistent with our body worn camera policy, to make sure that evidence is not deleted before any statutes. a recorded data is not collected or retained for protected first amendment activities. data sharing data may be shared with law

enforcement partners, law enforcement purposes, and the department of police accountability. it also may be shared with media outlets sfpd social media, with the approval of the police chief and standard reporting, sfpd will report drone deployment on its website that has been posted already that posted last week. the inaugural report is due 90 days after the first recorded non training related deployment, and will be updated monthly thereafter, equipment and use of drones will be reported, and ab 481 drones already have assisted in some very important incidents, specifically, we utilized it during the apprehension of a sexual assault suspect arrest, several auto burglaries. 4th of july disturbances, and the apprehension of some violent and wanted fugitives. there were

some two incidents that were highlighted recently in the press. july 26th with the dirt bike riders committing auto burglaries along the embarcadero and again on july 27th. that very next day, some individuals committing more auto burglaries along the embarcadero who were able to utilize the drone, get situational awareness, prevent a pursuit, utilize tire deflation devices, take the suspect safely into custody, and return the luggage to the, tourists that were here. we're going to play a quick video just highlighting some of these things. i just mentioned this. the sexual assault suspect, try to go back to that. this was actually in san jose. this is one of our first deployments, he violently attacked a young female in the central district, we were able to investigate and track him to san jose. and really, all this shows is just some of the situational awareness that we gain, again, trying to mitigate

pursuits so that we're going to call in for an arrest. we make sure that he's safely out of his car and not going to engage in pursuit. the 4th of july incident. things got very dangerous very quickly, but sergeant batchelder here, very talented drone operator, was flying that night. you can see what he was able to capture. we were able to relay that situational awareness to our tactical units. they were able to move in, understand the, size of the crowd that was there. and this was the dirt bike riders along the embarcadero. the drone was able to respond. obviously, it's very difficult to follow motorcycles with vehicles, so we were able to follow it until they pulled off and then we were able to call in for that safe arrest, this was the next day after that. this was another auto burglary along the, one of the lots. it's also very good

evidence in court, district attorney has great evidence we're able to utilize to deflation devices and make safe arrests, some important things to note that i think would be helpful to the commission. we've documented about 65 flights up on our first report, and just, i think one of the big concerns is trying to reduce vehicle pursuits. that's one of the biggest things we're trying to do. they're very dangerous, for the public and for all involved. we have had about five incidents where although we can't predict one when a pursuit was going to happen, we do believe we've prevented about five pursuits. out of those 65 cases, as the ones you've seen where we were able to get those tire deflation devices out, those were very helpful. we've also, in the 65 incidents made about 18 arrests. not all those arrests were directly because of the drone. they were for other matters. and the drones used for various purposes, but those were some

statistics. overall, i'm not certain yet. how we're able to analyze has the drone been able to reduce overall pursuits through the city? we're running a very small program right now with six drones, so it's a little difficult to measure that right now, but certainly something that we're attempting to get a hold on. obviously, prop e, the big point that the voters wanted was a reduction in these pursuits. any questions from the commission? yes. vice president carter, he beat you to the punch. that's fine. thank you, captain, for the presentation. i wanted to ask about the last topic that you raised. vehicle pursuits is have. so we'll just correct me if i'm going to say a statement

and you tell me if i have this right, that under faa regulations, there has to be a line of sight between the operator and the drone. but law enforcement agencies can ask for waivers of that requirement under certain circumstances. so do i have that right? and have we asked for or do we plan on asking for a waiver? it's true. we have to maintain visual line of sight of the drone to get that exception. you got to apply for a waiver. although we have a coa that we've applied for and received, it doesn't we do not have the waiver in place, and that application is ongoing, it's sergeant batchelder is leading that, application for those specific, beyond visual line of sight waivers. and we're trying to get those and very helpful, obviously, in a pursuit situation. right. so that's what i was going to ask if you could just describe for us and members of the public, if you do have to maintain line of sight, how what what are the benefits? what are the limitations, i guess, or

benefits of using a drone if you know some of the pursuits we read about, go on for an hour and extend all over the city, i assume, but i don't know. i really don't know if you have to maintain line of sight. a drone wouldn't be able to stay with a suspect vehicle for a chase like that, but so just curious kind of what are the use cases in a pursuit situation? yeah, i think generally speaking, the there are some limitations. one is the faa requirement of line of sigh. obviously in san francisco there's a lot of terrain and topography with hills and valleys and things of that nature. high buildings, there's also some speed limitations with the current drones we have. they fly about 35mph maximum. there's other drones out there that do fly faster. we'll look at those for the future, there's also, you know, some radius there. if a vehicle were to pursue over the bay bridge, we'd clearly have some difficulty with what we currently have with

maintaining a drone that could fly that far. so there's limitations, there's solutions. i think in the long term that we could build as we expand the capabilities of the drone program, but currently it's relatively small. okay, great. that's helpful. you actually answered to my other questions about range and speed. so that that's helpful, but sounds like there's early promising signs of, of them being helpful despite the faa regulatory and technology limitations, we've definitely had some success. yeah. chief, i just wanted to ask you are us, you know, using drones in this way i think is relatively new. why? why now? why why haven't we sought to use them? you know, earlier. oh, we actually have had this on our radar for at least four years. yeah, probably more. well, not only the funding is just,

timing. you know, some of our conversations were that, you know, you might want to wait on that type of thing. so we're trying to time this to where there was a willingness to allow us to have them. other departments in the city have had them for a while, but i think the sheriff's department has sheriff's department and i think the fire may have them as well. but i guess i seem to remember a budget hearings in the past where you said that the sfpd had not requested budgeting at all for drones in years past. yeah. so a lot of these discussions that happened before we actually get to the public phase of the budget decision, you know, we try to negotiate what we need, and sometimes we are successful, sometimes not. but drones have been a part of many previous year conversations, just the timing and the climate was not favorable for the sfpd to have drones. so now it is. so we were able to get this program up and

running really, really quickly because we had done a lot of the research and homework. and, in previous years. so it's not a new topic within the department. it's just the climate is favorable right now. all right. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for oops, thank you for the presentation. curious, are you do you follow in a car when you do these or are you one fixed location and then until you can not have line of sight, you can remotely follow in a car with a drone in a compartment? yes. compartment. that. at which point you choose to deploy, you would dynamically deploy that drone at the time you think would be best to the advantage of the situation. so you could drive around with it. yeah so are they are they located in specific districts just based on what you anticipate needing? i mean, you probably have a number of car chases within each

district. so do you focus on that type of thing? we're just kind of going where we can best where you can implement those right now. yeah. it was really interesting to see the video. during the august month, the, the ones that you're you included here, it does provide a lot of evidentiary information, and hopefully will lead to less accidents and car chases. it seems to you know, i, i always bring up the issue of la that they have like a whole cable channel just for car chase from helicopters. they, they use the news helicopters to, you know, because they have so many freeways and, you know, they seem to be obsessed with it down there. but, because they have a lot of news, helicopters and freeways. but, it's very different in our city because it does it's denser and sort of more compacted. so i look forward to seeing the next set

of reports. thank you. thank yo, mr. yee. thank you very much. president elias, i just have a question. how many drones, is available to the san francisco police department on a moment's call. there are six drones in the department. six drones. okay, so do you have them? stagnated? as, commissioner walker said throughout the city, or is it, one central location? yeah. sometimes they're out and about remotely, in different parts. it depends what's going on, so with the six drones, you have six operators ready. we actually have ten currently. okay tender. so they're ready to go at a minute notice and stuff like that, so the officers receiving the are they receiving the live feed too as well? yes okay. that's great. okay. yeah i did see the one word, on on the

embarcadero, which i think also apprehending the three suspects. you retrieve, i think as pd has displayed is three firearms at substantial. so, i guess we're looking for more of these technologies. i support it, i know we're we're behind as, vice president carter robertson said we should have been earlier, but maybe the time is right. and we'll push it due to the will of the voters on property. so thank you very much and hope to see you more of this. thank you. all right. thank you, madam chair. so we have six now what's the anticipated next group that we're getting? how many more are we getting? sooner than later we're going to try to get 20 more. and do you have a timing on that, hopefully immediate. you know, in this property,

chief, what we're talking about here. and i implore all my commissioners here, if you really want to see what's happening within the community regarding technology, you go to jury selection. right now, they're asking you, do you have a video? do you have a drone? we want to see this. and a lot of people say, i can't believe you don't have that. and i don't know if i can. i don't know if i can convict someone or i can make a finding on facts because i don't see it. so that's where it's going. this next generation expects to have the visual, and they're expecting you to do as much as you can to get it. and if you don't, you've got to explain it. and it's you know, the thing is, it works both ways because defense lawyers say, well, they don't have a drone, so they didn't have the evidence because, you know, they should have one. and so everybody is expecting this. so i hope that the department will do whatever they can get the funding, move along as fast as you can, as get as many as you can. people who can actually operate these things. and whatever the regulations are, make sure you comply and get it done. all

right. thank you, commissioner. thank you. i think most of my questions were asked by my fellow commissioners. so you said you had six drones and ten operators. does that make for like are there hours that there isn't drone coverage in the city? like what does that look like in terms of timeline? yeah, it's certainly not sufficient to cover the whole city by any means when with the goal of purchasing the additional 20, is there also a goal to get additional operators? i assume these are existing officers that were getting certified or trained in correct. is the goal to have 24 over seven coverage? yes is there a timeline you expect to have that both between operators and drones. so we have an immediate ask for 20 more drones. we have a department bulletin out which is soliciting for people to apply to get their faa part 107, and then also to receive the required training to fly the drones. that's due on september 22nd. this year, at which time we want to immediately move on selecting those operators. they're not going to come and work in a one centralized location, but they will be trained and throughout

the city at various district stations, they'll remain in their role, but they will be trained to go to the station, pick up a drone when in need, or have it in the trunk of their car and be able to deploy one when it can be helpful. okay i think those were all my questions. thank you, thank you. can i just miss one thing? just, acting captain mcguire mentioned the website that's up and running. we invite anybody who's interested because we also post the missions and the purpose for the mission. like, if it's an investigation. so i was able to jump on there a couple of days ago, and it's up and running. so we want to be very transparent in terms of what we're doing and why we do what we do when we do it. what can i get my amazon orders? so today. thank you very

much. i just wanted to thank, acting deputy chief rachel moran, who's here and has been very supportive of us and the program and giving us everything we need, ac dave lazar and chief police, thank you very much. it's gotten a lot of support and we appreciate it. and the commission and like i said, come on out and see the program. we'd love to have you. thank you. for any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 11. please approach the podium. there is no public comment. line item 12 discussion and possible action to approve revised department general order 2.07 discipline process for sworn members for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law. discussion and possible action. thank you. good evening, commissioners. hello. my name is stephen betts. for those who have not met, i was assigned to be kind of the chief lead on redrafting 2.07, so i'm happy to give a quick overview of what we

changed and the kind of the design philosophy for this, so what was broken about the current one? the current one, the current 2.07 basically is a series of definitions that are helpful, but they don't really describe our process from beginning to end. so the design philosophy here was to try to take state law local law, dgos other commission processes or rules, combine it into one omnibus policy that explains what what is the process for chiefs level case? what is the process for commission level case? what are those things? what are other principles like double jeopardy and so forth and so forth, i'm getting some smiles. i guess there's something going on behind me, and, and the policy. yeah. and so to that end, this is not a particularly creative policy other than just the, the, the, the, i guess collecting it all it is a, an attempt to just call all these sources of law and

policy and put them into one document that is easily readable and followable, the only exception to where we added onto where we don't already have policies. we've talked a lot about our chiefs hearings and the timing for that, working with dpa and other members of the department, we came up with a policy. we have 180 day requirement now that we're the chiefs hearing has to occur, we've also put in some short, or minor tweaks to try to make sure that these hearings move forward whenever an officer now receives a notice of discipline, a chiefs hearing will be scheduled for them. the officer, if they choose to have want to have a hearing, they have to submit a written response stating the reasons why within 30 days, and then they can have the hearing whenever it's scheduled. so, i'm happy to answer any questions, but that's the general philosophy with 2.07, thank you for the policy. i think you did a good a good job was done in terms of explaining the process, because i'm still amazed at how

many people do not understand how discipline works in this department, especially actual members who have who are subject to these, to these rules and to the public, so i'm glad that it's actually there and laid out. one of the questions that i did have was, i know that there's a backlog of chiefs hearings, and i know that you have put time, timelines in the new policy. but how does that address the backlog of the existing cases? so if this policy would not affect the backlog of existing cases, obviously, the to address that, it's really been on the operational side. i have not been in internal affairs for some time now, so i don't know. i'm probably the wrong person to answer that question, but, so i don't know the numbers. i don't know how they're coming down, but, i think it is trying to get more deputy chiefs who are involved. we have more commanders who are involved to be hearing officers for low level cases. that was one of the huge reasons why, so our our attorneys are able to schedule

more than they were. so i think it's really just trying to get them done. but that's that's the extent of what i know about the backlog. well, i'm going to let you phone a friend, director henderson or the chief. i will say i think they're both on the dais. so you i'll go to my boss first, but i think the real answer in terms of the backlog is that, passing and approving it will cut down the pipeline that's building the backlog. so it won't proactively change our retroactively address the cases that are already in that pipeline. but having these deadlines will diminish greatly how it stacks up. and when they stack up and will give them a more timely outcome, which is the big deal. and i know deanna rosenstein did a lot of work on this with betts to get us specifically to address that issue, but i don't know that there's an answer that it will fix the number that's already in the pipeline, unless the chief

has a different answer. yeah. so i do think, if you look at 2.07.03 particularly, be the written response, this is one, i think, that you and i talked about. this is meant to be, really a kind of a, i say preventive to if we can get to a resolution and an agreement with an officer before we have to schedule a chief's hearing. that's why that's there, we have had some success with that. basically, if we know, basically have an understanding of kind of what, what the issues are on the table. and this provides the officer the opportunity to write a written response so i can review those responses prior to a hearing. and if it's something that's reasonable, that i'm willing to sit down with the officer and we can come to an agreement, then it doesn't have to go to a hearing. so i think that's going to be huge in terms of preventive, because there are times where by the time we get to and through a chief's hearing and i look at the arguments, i'm

like, you know, we probably could have settled this a lot earlier because it's reasonable. it's within it didn't take a chiefs hearing if we could have just had a conversation. so the written response doesn't circumvent. the officer still has a right to have a hearing if they choose to do so. if there's not an agreement, but that's meant to be a little preventative measure that some of these cases may not need to even get that far. so we won't have a backlog if it never gets to a chief hearing chief's hearing. and we've been we've been doing that a little bit now with officers that are willing to do it, to try to get some of these backlogs off. and we have had some success at chiefs level discipline. and i've seen that i've seen, you know, being in settlement conferences where we have had cases that, but i will commend you because i think the one thing that is, very useful for you is that you're sort of position is that unless there's something new that your team hasn't discovered already, you really there's nothing really t, that's going to move you. and i think that's a sort of a good

position to have given all of the work that your team does, to get you prepped for these, these hearings, saying that, i guess my other concern is that, there's i think you've been pretty steady on discipline, but my concern is that what if it's not you, that's in that seat? this the way this is worded, would allow discipline to happen without a chiefs hearing that would maybe ultimately come to the commission. i think it's really, in my opinion, it's sort of the same outcome if you know, whoever is the next person sitting in the seat, because they can always, you know, with the chiefs hearing, make a decision different than the original decision. we're just trying to get to that. if it comes to that, trying to get to that point quicker. so as you all know, sometimes, you know, we may miss mitigating factors or things like that. and that's

usually the case. it's usually it's not really any over you know, really new evidence. but it's we've missed mitigating factors. or there's something that we didn't consider i didn't consider. so i think that consistency can still be there and should still be there, you know, some of these settlements tend to sometimes veer off the course of patterns when there's not a settlement. but, you know, that's kind of the nature of the discipline system. so we just want to look at them in earnest and make sure that we consider and give the officers a fair chance, you know, procedural justice. you were on that that recommendation. so we want to make sure that we practice that and make sure officers are heard and sometimes when they're heard, they do bring new things to the table in terms of mitigating factors that may change the decision. so director henderson, did you want to go again? okay. i mean, i'm happy to talk. i've always got yeah i know exactly that was a horrible thing to ask you, chief. did you want to say anything else? no,

no, just take my name. all right? i'm clearing the board. let's go. commissioner clay. so. so, madam chair, as it relates to that, i saw this. it's sort of like a no time waiver or a trial where you're going to expedite the process and having got my cases assigned to me and some of the built in fat that i see that, you know, let's set this thing. i don't need to have this conversation again, but this is going to make you put up or shut up. either we're going to do it or you're not going to do it. and the sanctions may you may may be dismissed or you're either going to do this or not do it. but this is a good thing because you need to do it. i mean, even if the god bless you, you're not here. i don't know how that looked, but whoever gets in that seat, so you better be ready to run because you're not going to get the idea. well, you know, i just got here. you got to go to work. so you understand the process. and that's good. it's good you got to change things. all right. can i just make one point? because i do think that it makes a difference. you said clear the board. it isn't. but i just want to point something out that i

think is helpful here. and having those standards where the chief will say that it's only going to be reviewed with new evidence, automatically eliminates all the wasted appeals that come in for people just delaying things. and that is a big problem that's going to get resolved just from that simple rule alone is going to change. i think it's going to be beneficial to have the mitigation evidence up front, because you go through all of this, the attorneys go through all of this in terms of preparing and prosecuting these cases. and then mitigation is presented late later in the game. and it it yeah that's that that's helpful. yeah. let's please consider this now. but let's do it right up front. yeah that's great. yeah yeah. commissioner i'm just making a motion. yeah, i will make. what are we on? sorry i'll make a motion to approve the draft. dgo2 .07 for use for meet and confer pursuant to our labor relations resolution 23. dash 32nd. members of the public, i'd like to make public comment regarding line item 12. please

approach the podium. there is no public comment on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is. yes, commissioner walker. yes. commissioner walker is yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. mr. benedicto is. yes. commissioner young. yes. yes. commissioner says yes. commissioner yi. yes. commissioner yi is yes. vice president carter overstone. not here. yeah. not present. and president elias. yes. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 13. discussion and possible action to adopt revised department. general order 2.06. vehicle crashes involving employees. discussion and possible action. hi. good evening, captain perdomo, for the training division. please, no questions from here. any.

yeah, it's my understanding. i was here for, just training, implementation and not presentation of the actual dgo. okay. from my perspective, a simple department notice would help. just let the members know what the changes are to the dgo for this particular dgo. okay, that makes sense. so i'm assuming we're going to go line item by line item and talk about the training implementation. right. no, no. you're good. no we're good okay. perfect. all right. all right. motion to adopt revised general order 2.06. are we doing the standard? how many days for. what is it you want, 9030? just a standard 30. this one's very simple. okay, okay. there's not a lot to talk about. 30 days implementation for dgo 2.06 second. oh, no. go ahead, go ahead. good what. go ahead. speak now or forever hold. okay. i just had a suggestion. it wasn't necessarily about this, but it kind of tied into the last thing too, about raising the stuff with the discipline. but it relates to training. why can't we just have something at training that goes over discipline? as part of the

training to address the ambiguities about the things that keep coming up over and over through our drb or discipline review board. yeah, i meant not us. the cadets, the staff. that's a whole different conversation. it is. i just came up because you said about the training. so i had said it was a side comment about. but i will say on the last line item, as part of the admonishments that you typically see issued by the chief's office, there is a component that is training. so, for example, for a use of force incident, it's not uncommon for our field tactics and force options unit to do retraining on something like that. but do they have it as part of the training that cadets naturally go through where they understand and learn how discipline takes place, both with internal affairs and with agencies like dpa? it's supposed to, not the cadets themselves. or if you're talking about the police cadets, the civilians, or are you talking about the recruits that are in the police academy? academy? okay. the recruits that are in the police academy do have a block on internal affairs procedures related to that. as well as eeo, but i think to your point, which

is what your staff did with ia, which is go to each district station and give them a breakdown, an overview of how discipline works, i think was extremely helpful because i sat in on a few of those, and i saw the members responses that they were not familiar with this process, and these were veteran officers. so i think that's what i was speaking to. so a practice like that needs to continue. i mean, could dpa give its dpa one on one training at the academy? could that is that something we could arrange for the dpa training or. yeah, the dpa sort of one on one training. i believe it's code done with dpa and ia. i attended one as well. that is correct. i think that can be very helpful. if it was only like an hour or hour and a half. i know the academy has a busy schedule, but i think that's a really great idea to integrate that into the academy so that regardless of what is happening out there, there's so much misinformation about what the actual processes are and how the process works. i was just trying to speak to that, to try and figure out if there's some

way to reintegrate that more helpful to do the district station to the veteran officers, rather, because i think the cadets do get it in their training block. and previously, director hawkins, she put out a webinar video with jack hart. and this was about 3 or 4 years ago describing the disciplinary process. also, dpa has always been invited to come to our promotional classes to speak to sergeants, lieutenants and captains so that they're aware of disciplinary trends as well as the disciplinary process. so the training has been incorporated and we can rerelease the video. if you'd like. yeah, we can update it now. okay. so let's look at it and see if there's a way. i'm just trying to be creative because i know the information is helpful to the officers who know. and clearing up the misunderstandings about how the discipline process works. only conflates problems all around the board. yeah, i'm going to agree with president elias, though. i think at the district station, when you're in the academy, i mean, you're taking

it to like, water through a fire hose. so, to your earlier point and comment, i mean, one of the reasons that so few people are not familiar with the discipline system is not very many people really receive discipline in their careers. so the numbers are really small in terms of the number of people that actually receive discipline, particular major discipline. so i think it's probably more effective at the district stations when you're out in the field and then you're exposed to these issues more when you're in the academy, you're taking in so much. i just don't know if it would be as effective there. so that makes sense. there's a motion on the floor, and i think i think just one other point, i'm going to ask for 45 days just because of the volume of what's coming through right now with the dgos, 45 days to train. is that going to be for all of these or just for this one in particular, for right now? because there is just it's we got a huge volume, as commissioner young has mentioned, all the bulletins, i

mean, the notices and the documents that are consistent. so that's for all of them. yes, yes. you ask for 45 for all the ones we're adopting today. okay. and if it's something really complicated, you know, we need more than we'll ask for. but as a standard. okay, well, then i'll revise my motion to adopt, 2.06 with a 45 day implementation period. second, for members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 13. please approach the podium. there's no public comment on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is. yes, commissioner walker. yes mr. walker is. yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. mr. benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. mr. yanez is. yes. commissioner yee. yes. commissioner yee is. yes. vice president carter overstone is not present. and president elia. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 14. discussion and possible action to adopt revised department. general order 5.01. use of force policy and proper control of a person. discussion and possible action. on behalf of the

training division, what we'd like to do is issue a department notice and with that we'll have a quiz, we will create a video, and on the video we'll explain the changes to deago 501. we also have some laminates that are being processed for those portions of use of force incidents that have to be recorded on the body worn camera. we're finalizing those, we're also going to put those laminates on a cellular phone. so that should take about 45 days to complete. and we will also incorporate this into our advanced officer training, which occurs weekly. yeah. i had one question. first actually, and i'll ask it for this one. and for the subsequent two just so we'll speed it along. so for 5.015.04 and 5.06, these are the ones we approved before our august recess. they were there were no changes made in meet and confer. right, chief? correct. okay. just wanted to make sure of that. okay, with that, i'll make a motion to adopt revised

general order 5.01 with a 45 day implementation period. second. members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 14. please approach the podium. there's no public comment on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is. yes. commissioner walker. yes. mr. walker is. yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is yes. commissioner young. yes i will give my vote. but i did have my hand up just because i had one clarifying question, in the section where it talks about when multiple officers are responding to an incident and only one has to report, what will the training be to determine how and who is identified as the reporting? officer, the one that actually has to generate the physical report, the language right now says that it's the person that

is, what is it? witnesses the one that's. it just didn't seem clear. doesn't seem clear to me how that process and who that how that officer will be identified. and i just wanted to know whether that is going to be clarified in the training elements, because i could i could foresee some officers not wanting to go and be the person that has to document the, the, the report on behalf of all those that are present. was that something that was considered before, this was written up? yes, yes. i'm sorry, chief, go ahead, go ahead. okay. i can speak to the training portion. so for the training portion, that's going to be encompassed within the supervisor's role. so when they're at the scene, they're supposed to conduct an investigation while they're there. and then when they are there, they will identify the

officers, especially the officer that's in the best position to then write the incident report or write the statement that goes along with the incident report. so that's how i envision the training will be, and that's how the discussions occurred. perfect. that that clarifies it. thank you. i vote yes. commissioner yanez is yes. commissioner yi. yes. commissioner yi is yes. and president elias. yes president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 15. discussion and possible action to adopt. revised department. general order 5.04. arrests by private persons. discussion and possible action. okay. seeing this come out of our july resolution with no changes for meet and confer, i will make a motion to adopt 5.04 with a 45 day implementation. do you also want a general order for a notice for this one? yes. we'll do a department notice for this training as well as we'll incorporate this into our advanced officer training into our legal updates, as far as the actual arrest portion that has to be narrated on the bwc, we

will also create laminates and upload those onto a department phone. okay. all right. second, any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 15. please approach the podium. and no public comment on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is yes, commissioner walker. yes. mr. walker is yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. mr. benedicto is. yes. commissioner young. yes. yes. commissioner jones is. yes. commissioner yee. yes. commissioner yee is. yes. and president elias. yes. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 16. discussion and possible action to adopt. revise department. general order 5.06 citation. release discussion and possible action. anything for this one? yes, for citation release. we will also release the department. notice. will incorporate this into our advanced officer training and our legal updates. also, there will be a portion that's narrated on to the bwc as well, laminates. and that will be uploaded onto the department's cell phone. so 45 days is appropriate. okay, chief, on this one, you were also going to

suggest the language right on, citation release. no citation. i've seen it. is this 503? nevermind. sorry citation release. yeah, yeah. 5.0. all right. in that case, i will make a motion to adopt revised general order 5.06, with a 45 day implementation period. second, any member of the public like to make public comment regarding line item 16. please approach the podium. no public comment on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is yes. commissioner walker. yes commissioner walker is yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner janez is yes. commissioner yee. yes. commissioner yee is yes. and president elias. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 17. public comment. and all matters pertaining to item 19 below closed session, including public comment on item 18. vote whether to hold item 19 in closed session. if you'd like to make public. excuse me if you'd like to make public comment regarding closed session, please approach the podium. there's no public

comment. line item 18 a vote on whether to hold item 19 in closed session san francisco administrative code, section 67.10 d action. motion to hold item 19, in closed session. second right on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is yes, commissioner walker. yes commissioner walker is yes. commissioner. benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is. yes. commissioner yee. yes. commissioner yee is yes. and president elias. yes president elias is. yes. vote to elect, whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 19. held in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.12. a motion to not disclose the closed session items. second, if any member of the

public like to make public comment regarding line item 20. please approach the podium. seeing none. on the motion, commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is. yes, commissioner. walker. commissioner walker is. yes, commissioner. benedicto. yes, commissioner benedicto is. yes commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner says yes. commissioner. yee. yes. commissioner yee is. yes. and president elias. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 21. adjournment. all right. thank you. thank you all. that wasn't bad. that wasn't ba. breaking me. how are you, young lady? i'm good. complaints and

not (indiscernible) that concludes today's overview. thank you for your time. >> what happens after a complaint is submitted? when dpa receives a complaint, the first step is it to assign it to a investigator. if the complainant provides contact information, they receive a letter telling them knoo they assigned investigator will be. if the complaint is submitted anonymously they will not receive further contact from dp. >> what happens when dpa finds a police miscucktd? >> the dpa find misconduct, meaning sustain a complaint, the next step is to determine how serious the misconduct is and what discipline the dpa will request

(indiscernible) the dpa does not itself impose discipline and can only recommend discipline in a sustained case. >> what happens if a complaint turninize to a chief nonnob >> if the dpa decides to recommend 10 days suspension or less, the chief of police is the final determner of both whether misconduct occurred, and if the chief agrees misconduct occurred, what the disciplineitary penalty will be. in those cases if the chief disagreewise dpa, the case is over and dpa does not have any recourse. if the chief decides that misconduct occurred, and to impose discipline, an officer has a right to a hearing before that decision is final. >> what happens if a dpa complaint turns into a

commission level case? >> if the dpa determines a 11 day suspension all the way up to termination is the appropriate outcome for a misconduct case, a trial is held in front of the police commission. normally, one commissioner presides over the trial, then the entire commission will read the transcript and vote. if the commission determines misconduct occurs, then the commission also determines what the penalty will be. if you are stopped by a police officer you should follow the officer direction, keep calm, keep still, and do not make sudden movements do not reach for anything, especially in your pockets, keep your hands visible at all times. you have the right to remain silent. this means you do not have to say anything. tell the officer i want to remain

silnts. you have a right to a attorney. tell the officer i would like a attorney. if you are arrested do not talk about your case or immigration status to anyone other then your attorney. do not sign anything without your attorney. do not lie to law enforcement officers and if you are property are being searched make sure i do not consent to the search. do not challenge the officer, you can file a complaint about police services later, if you are not comfortable speaking english you can ask for a bilingual officer who speaks your language and also ask for a interpre >> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest, carolyn mante. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watching san francisco the stow about

restaffing rebuilding and reimaging the city. the guest is carolyn manteto talk about the organization is helping to preserve the city cultural heritage and architecture. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me e. >> good to have you here. >> can we talk bat the history of your organization and the mission. >> sure, thank you. san francisco heritage started 51 years ago and the main mission is to preserve and enhance the architectural and cultural identity of san francisco. when it started out the focus was really on the buildings, historic landmark listings and really concentrated on downtown area with all the development happening. our organization was raising a reg red flag with historic landmarks in danger and victorian mansions so a hallmark of our organization is moving these

victorian mansions in the way of development to inwestern addition neighborhood and other areas to get out of the way of development and preserve them. our organization was around before there was the historic preservation commission of the city so we were at the forefront drawings attention to historic preservation, landmarking and over the last 51 years we have seen how there are more then just buildsings in safeguarding the city cultural resources, there is also small businesses and the different neighborhood icons that make a neighborhood special, so our outreach has really-it is really come full circle in a way because it moved downtown into the neighborhoods and now with the covid epidemic it is really going back to downtown again looking at how we can play a role in the economic recovery and revitalization of downtown san francisco. >> that's great. so, now i understand your

organization is also responsible for maintaining a couple properties. could you tell us a little about those? >> yes, our non profit was gifted in 1973, the historic (inaudible) house. it is now a historic house museum but this was a family since 1886 built this victorian mansion in the same family year after year and one of the last resident of the family when she passed way gifted the mansion to san francisco heritage so since then we have been running this historic house and the home of our office. in 2018, one of the long time members nor aa lasten gifting a building on the e h-as hate polk

became a commercial corridor after the earthquake, the owner at the time, he raised the house and put 6 store front underneath in order to take advantage of the commerce so we are in charge of the house on the corner and it has been a wonderful way to get new numbers, new audiences interested in the work of our organization. during the pandemic, we have been using it as a artson residents and partnering with different bay area artists as well as cultural institutions, cultural districts and then one of the storefronts we converted into a pop up galleries so gives a opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of the art and cultural resources in san francisco. >> that's fantastic. so, now, let's talk about legacy business. what does the designation mean? how does somebody get add today the legacy business registry and

what benefits does being named a legacy business? >> i love this program. it was started by san francisco heritage and adopt ed by the city and run by the office of small business but the program looks what are the businesses really contributing to san francisco and the neighborhood. when we started the first focus was bars and restaurants but over the years it exb panded to include other businesses so these are places that contribute to the character of a neighborhood, so sam's grill downtown, the amazingarian press in the presidio. book stores like city lights oergreen apple recently named. this year we had a lot of attention on the legacy business program. we put out a contest to the public of what you think should be the next legacy business and one of the businesses that

was recommended was the club deluxe, jazz club on the corner, and 2 or 3 days after we launched the contest, the owners announced they would have to close. the rent was driven up, they couldn't afford it, coming out of the pandemic so we worked at speed to get that application submitted with them and that status convinced their landlord to negotiate with them a lower rent and this way they have been able to stay, there was a lot of social media support around this, so when you become a legacy business, not only do you get marketing and business support from the office of small business, but you also eligible for grants and we work closely with the legacy businesses as we do our work for san francisco heritage. >> that's great. so, apart from architecture and buildings, you also work with cultural districts, and the

castro theater strikes me as a place that is both. a beautiful building and cultural hub and center. what has been happening with the recent acquisition by new owners; >> it is leased to another planet entertainment and been in contact with planet entertainment by the castro theater is historic land mark building. it is recognized as a very important architectural monument. one thing-one of the main activist organizations of the preservation of the theater we work together with supervisor mandelman on a interior landmark historic landmark designation for interior, but what happened over the is summer

and people learned is there is a lot of concern not just by san franciscans but people all over the world, movie directors, stars who are very concerned about the risk to the lgbtq and film programming at the castro theater. another planet hosted community stakeholder in august, and it was so moving to see the number of people who took the microphone-everyone had two minutes to say their testimony of what castro theater meant to them and those testimonys showed this building is contributing not just as a architectural monument but plays a role in the lgbtq community that is irrelaceuble able. >> it is beautiful theater. >> it is. my involvement in the theater raised

awareness to not only the castro theater to be emblematic of the lgbtq culture and history but also there are many other sites in the city that also contribute to the identity. that is why so many people come to san francisco as a place of freedom and diversity so in my previous work i worked at the world heritage center, so when i joined san francisco heritage i was thinking why isn't san francisco a world heritage city? for the architecture alone it could be inscribed. golden gate bridge to name a few but the city is so unique in the architecture, the mansioned and historic landmarks so hoping to start a conversation on that with city stakeholders this year. >> that is great. let's talk about your relationship with other agencies. you mentioned economic and office of work force development and

planning commission. how do you unt integrate to them? >> these relationships are essential. we are working with office of small business for the legacy business program and the planning department is really one of our most crucial relationships. we meet quarterly with them and we really see how we can support not only historic land mark listings and historical cultural context statements, strategy for culture districts and city survey among many other activities that really are of concern to both of us. for the office of workforce development, i attended a etmooing recently that the chamber of commerce organized with them on the downtown revitalization and a key goal in that meeting and in the downtown revitalization is to make sure that the city

historic culture resources play a key #r0e8 in the economic recovery and revitalization especially after the pandemic. the office of workforce development has the city build program which is admirable program where youth are trained in construction techniques for rebuilding and especially with the new housing legislation, and we really want to see how can that workforce be expanded to include training in historic preservation. we have so many victorian homes, historic buildings and other places that really need a skilled labor force to make sure that they are preserved and that they help keep the special identify of the city. we really value these relationships, we meet quarterly with the various organizations and we are really grateful for grants of the arts we receive and other supports so definitely that is a key relationship for san francisco heritage. >> the city build is great. i like that a lot.

thank you so much for the time you have given today. appreciate you coming on the show. >> thank you so much raising awareness about san francisco heritage. we hope the people watching will join us in the mission to help keep san francisco special. thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back shortly. i'm chris manners, thanks

>> i want to welcome to grand opening of 921 howard street. this beautiful building right up here. this is 18 stories of hundred percent affordable housing. happens to be the tallest affordable housing in san francisco. our tallest building in our portfolio and it is a modern sleek building and really appreciate everyone who was involved in the process and all the people who live here. we will celebrate this accomplishment today, but we can't do this without acknowledging the work and the collaboration from some of our partners here. this includes sharmain