[off mic.] >> all right. >> good morning, everyone i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm here with our public safety leaders in san francisco including our police chief bill scott and district attorney and one of our most advocates from the board of supervisors for public safety new mexico and joined by lgbtq revenue officer mark who will be giving a demo why we're here in the first place i want to express my

appreciation to san francisco voters technology has been a guardroom and proposition e has given our police department the tools they need to not only stop crime as they occur but prevent that that the first place this is what people want to see and more importantly the information that we put into prop e before we put that on the ballot came from the police officers when i had an opportunity to visit the stations get an understanding what they wanted to see and how they want to do their jobs and time and time again proud to be part of san francisco police department but lots of tools the 21st century necessary to be effective no wonder as a result of primarily using technology

like license plates right side and drones and other things we've seen what happened then july and june over the past month 70 percent decline it is the heart breaking has to do with with technology and san francisco fortunately is seeing a record low in terms of crime the lowest crime rates in 10 years but know that what when things happen the results matter we'll continue to do everything we can to combat issues why we're not letting the up and starting to see prepandemic applications in our staffing. and we're exciting what that means right now with our class of 40 and one with 60 that is coming the classes are starting to fill up and anticipate. and within the next 2 1/2 years our department will be filling but

we are also making sure in light of challenges that exist we are still doing our jobs and getting the kinds of results making a significant difference in san francisco today is an exciting time more importantly we have our law enforcement leadership and work handing together and the a factor so many years of the disconnect on the same page pushing for the same kind of results public safety for the entire city and every resident and every corner of our city. so not just one thing or another all of that we are doing that every single day and today is an example of noting with a new tool that will transform how we aid issues around the important thing related to the challenges of that with public safety. including some of the issues

we're dealing with open survey drug dealing and sideshow you name that is any tinge will lend itself to making things better we're looking forward to learning more about that and seeing a deems and just know that is one of many tools we are using to help come battle the challenges of safety in the city we are excited and can't wait and finally before i introduce chief scott what you're seeing with a number of situations that occurred recently in san francisco gotten a lot of attention but i want to just to be clear, whether that was a shooting whether that was retail theft or other issues car break ins our officers made the arresting and in some cases pro-active that led removing people that are removing crimes if our city off the streets time and time again, this is a clear

message all over the behaving san francisco has accountability and we will not tolerate in any situations lawlessness and we'll work together to use every tool to insure way address public safety even better and with that, let me introduce our police chief bill scott. >> those tools are being a game-changer and start with the bottom line what mayor london breed said your crime reduction is phenomenal we have 33 percent below where we were last year our car break-ins have down 66 percent and burglaries and robberies and homicide rate is that one, the lowest levels that

anyone what e can remedy labor of the synergy we have our da here you'll hear from her in a minute and we are working together as mayor london breed said those tools are going handing i want to talk about security cameras you know we're implemented the use of drones and power tools and implemented the use of our councilmember campbell systems and made arrests on really bad people and we wouldn't have been able to do that without the technology that is another piece of technology another tool for the officers we can use in the spirit of having our officers identify crime whether brown that happens we can be pro-active we lose the values of the city but we want to in terms of who we focus

either demonstration on don't wait open and this technology allows us to do that and the the other thing is about lgbtq technology is fwls like a siding mobile camera units and they have sound devices we can give warnings and move from one hot spot to another when we need them additional be more responsive to the community who are calling for safety across the city. again, this is this is huge for us and prop e was thank you, to the voters and the leadership 6 mayor has allowed united states to do this we wouldn't have been able to do this before and we're going to be not thoughtful or going to be goinging the community concerns and ignore privacy concerns

we're being very, very careful how we implement those processes and our local and listening to community and our public safety cameras before we introduce public safety cameras this is not to any community we have community meetings so community can get feedback we want to invite anyone has thoughts an idea we want to do this right and make this right i'm going to the bottom line our bottom line is is a safe city video where we don't see crime we're trying to get to. a note to people that do crime that day is over where you get to come here and live here and regime the streets and vindicate news our community we want to keep that in mind and that is what we intend to do

with the security cameras to our officers to do and get things right and i know this request he will be asked. we plan to after getting a lot of community feedback but there is open air drug dealing and concerns about traffic what is the mission district and another one in the embarcadero area around the plazas where we've been relentless in addressing open air drug use this will aid and then what we intend to do we catch people and give it to the da. who are committing crimes in the city with that, i'd like to turning it over to our district attorney a great partner

district attorney jennings. >> thank you, chief and thank you, mayor. as well as the law enforcement partners for spearheading prop e across the finish line to make sure that the voter understood why the police department and law enforcement agencies use this technology and for making sure that with that finding they voted to passed that piece of legislation and have in the tech capital of the world and have to make sure we're not behind the circle in moving technology we know that, yes, we have been combatting a police department that is short staffed what that means on the ground we have fewer people to respond we have to be able to use technology and a substitutes but of we were putting that as a prosecutor i

want to be able to support them knowing i can prove my case having technology 3 captures incidents and assaults and automobile burglaries so i can give to the jury what happens at the description and they can see we're practicing prosecuting the right person and the appropriate crime that is what technology provides my office the ability to better prosecute our cases that's why i shoond in support of this legislation what that means is that not only you. could to san francisco and conditional use permit crimes that's the first and for the most part but have to make sure that people hear a consequence on the back i understand the only way to make sure we have cases in the district attorney's office. and so, yes, i want to highlight something the mayor said only a few years ago you

may have seen the type initiative and the type of um, tool these types of tools now you see a full partnerships within city hall, between law enforcement agencies and my office to stand firm that san franciscans and everyone who comes here for whatever workforce visit deserve they deserve to park their cars and not be concerned of whether or not the windows will be broken or the car will be gone shouldn't have to be concerned about attacks and assaults and have have to give people functional safeties that's why we work hard and seen the progress that our city makes sure those numbers we don't just highlight data people say they feel safe again that's our goal

thank you for everyone standing up here i will continue it stand with them as we push forward and now i'm going to turn it over to our sheriff tom mother. thank you. happy to be here standing alongside our partners in public safety not justices to make sure that over is safe by the mayor and legislations to make sure we have the support i want to say this is going to equip us to make sure the people in the city don't fear crime. they're going to help us support our deputies and officers must needed in key areas by the police chief and a note the sheriff's office has been using technology for years to make sure our job is enhanced

by keeping places safe and in the hospitals and all the public spaces and we are very happy to see had occur in public safety to help the police departments with that to continue to occur. surveillance footage we'll acquire is helpful to be able to see what has happened but on the time it takes to get other surveillance and this will help us with the staffing levels and putting vision out there when we don't have people out there. i would like to acknowledge the support of the entire community not just business community but the community it that are helping us to embrace this voting on the technologies to make sure the tools are utilized we're excited to partner with the police department to keep

people safe and the units will help us in the capacity out there and excited we're still on the right side to mark sure that everyone in it san francisco is safe and without further ado, i'll introduce the supervisor supervisor mandelman. >> thank you. chief 19 mother and welcome to district 6 i'm expressing my gratitude to mayor london breed for proposition e and other people expressing my gratitude to san franciscans who that made the use of safshgs technology possible and with us on the playing field with an outdoor county don't have the rules that san francisco last this enables us to make our city safer proportion e my district

passed by within the largest masters over 60 percent of voters supported this is the district hyphenated mow downtown, district 6 residents know the kinds of issues this technology will help us solve. are the things human resources under my wife and i our commuters and vegetables and tourist people talk about safety in district 6 if necessarily mean their thinking you save but a recognition things are rob our county and worse of all especially, when it comes to drug market and open air drugs this is unprecedent in our history. we need to do more with technology i'm incredibly grateful to member of the board and as the leadership behind me

i've been in government for a long time i can't think of a time we had federal and state and local partners in the right direction and i've said this 2340er years good news most cities in the america we have issues we need to address we are on the come back i appreciate mayor london breed limp with the congress back and we have further progress to make and this technology will help us get through. thank you very much. and with that, like to welcome lgbtq mark to speak (clapping.) thank you, supervisor dorsey to the lgbtq very proud and excited

to partner city and county of san francisco proud to support our drug and crime reduction initiatives and help property protection and confident that live have you technology as well as county and being able to defer the detract and defend against crime in high crime areas as well in situations like open air drug markets and the car smash and grab that the mayor discussed. lgbtq offers the unique municipal letter for officers and as well as our enterprise consumers you may have noticed the limits around the bay area shopping malls and

as well as mtc on the private side users for years we have many employs we run them a fleet and take care of the abatements and upkeep in the moving of those units and extremely excited for the city and county of san francisco to reduce crime going forward with their initiatives so mayor london breed and her team will be using our flagship products as you can see that is rapidly mobile is secure unit. it runs on solar and it is cellular connected. and using a combination of

security cameras and speakers and to eliminate blind spots and protect property and defer unwanted behavior like to toourngs or to your attention to the units we do a quick deems deferring smash and grabs and bad actors walking in and out or weaving in a parking lot looking in windows and cars before they do a smash and grab it can detect unwanted behavior. >> this area is monitored with security cameras of san francisco. >> few if it didn't scare away the bad actors we give them pause should trigger an alert. >> you're loitering the authorities have been notified.

>> ideally the bad actors runs walmart away with those lights audit that are automated with a we it is 50 to 75 percent reductions in those incidents but have to keep at um, we have to keep at the 20, 30 percent of more determined people we have the facility to assess the cameras in real estate and do a remote live walk down and retrieve eves of a crime that the committed during or after that takes place and another example the mayor and at chief and sheriff described the open air drug market people loitering

in an area a i triggers the response. >> this area is monitored and the security for the citizens of san francisco. >> in a situation the crowd didn't dispersing or individual approach the technology and pick up like drug transactions are taking place do another esz levitation. >> you are trooepg practical leave the area the area is in radio surveillance and this is reported. >> i dealing about defer the dealers in they're i dealing make them leave before a crime is captured at the minimum will capture the crime on camera and authorities now have evidencing to build a case for an arrest

and/or prosecution those two scenarios to provide the technology can bring to the table. for the city of san francisco and another arrow in the quiver for law enforcement. and what at the point i'd like to a thank the mayor and the entire team excite to partner and point your contamination to the tent a deems of our video management system and see the preset of the parking lot and rob over there our architect can walk you through other things and i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, mayor. and the everyone else appreciate it

(clapping.) and i lee others do technology that is reported that we mentioned before to you all the camera technology is 2340r7ks with the drones and in conformance with the less is that camera captures a license plate on a car that committed a crime the officer can put that into the system and that is picked up on the camera not only san francisco but neither bay area but with other technology

we've been able to find one or tow people just by could go that that gains that. >> the beauty of this city of edgewater the mission district within a couple of weeks have the technology now and here's i deal scenario if we resolve the issues been for decades those cameras cabaret located this is i mean to have this type of flexibility is a wonderful thing for the city. >> we have had 3. we have 3 so, yeah the third one to be

determined. >> right behind you. >> yeah. we will deploy that third one just determine when and wrm when that decision has been made. thank you. >> if i can have mark talk about in other cities we did research in other cities but director ryan is one who's the project leader and standing behind you and, of course, the system chief we have done our research and talk about what one of the things. >> and santa clara county one of the biggest thing on the in the public segment santa clara

county public utilities commission particularly for the bart 3 extension. so um, another california counties la county a big yours announcing ammunition with public utilities commission as well. transportation to a couple of example and sacramento users and across the bay a lot of units as well. >> all right. depends on how you configure it but you saw the service like a guard service or a fully loaded officer in hospitals of hundreds of thousands of dollars and, of course, a multiplier before you factor in the return reduction as well so um, i want to add something just for clarity around technology. because this is not the end of what we will

use as a city in order to address issues around public safety. we have the ability to use whatever technologies are available at our disposal as a way to help defer crime so those units are mobile but we also and give i a perspective we have the ability and we'll be installing 4 hundred license plate right side and i believe the latest count is one hundred and 80. and even at the point where we had a hand license plate right side we respectable for example, make an arrest for someone that that committed a crime in santa fe and address issues around car break-ins and other things

here's the thing we put up stationary cameras that provide surveillance in particular areas and we are working with communities to look at those as an option, too i want to just to be clear, this is a big part of all of what we are using to maximize you're use of whatever technology is available to help us combat the issues in the city and should be noted that, you know, the chief talked about car breaks yrtd 50 percent lower than last year but we started to use the drone technology we realized the forbidden what that entails a 70 percent reduction in june of car breaks in comparison to last year and saw a 70 over 70 percent reduction in july in comparison to last

year, we are seeing the change because all the technology combined is making a difference what is excited about adding another important tool to addressing it into the mission um, related to some of the challenging issues in particular prostitution and what is happening in 3 community the open air drug dealing those cameras will be front and center in the hot spots and follow people when they today to move to others location we'll have you think camera and sends throwers our home letting our family know our car was in a hot spot for prostitution we're not backing down to the use of technology norman to address issues burn public safety and simultaneously negotiating the best contract that our police

department has seen that's why people are deciding to leave other law enforcement agencies around the bay to leave san francisco and the technology as interest to wanting to serve in law enforcement in san francisco a combination of all those things we're really exciting and at this time i'll show you a demonstration what that looks going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids. nathan jessica.

going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids nathan, jessica and iva. i was really young. when i had neat, i turned 19. and then two weeks later, he was born. so when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time. all the time and so he would watch with me. he had his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. and then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. i think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i attended the same elementary school there was an officer bill. he would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said, mom, i touched his

gun. and he was just so happy about it. everything happened at five minutes. i would say everything. happened at 4 to 5 years old. it's like one of those goals to where you just you can't you can't just let go. high school. i think you know everybody kind of strays. he was just riding the wave. and i mean, he graduated. thank god. one day i think he was about 20 or 21. he told me, he said mom. i want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. no you're going to be a firefighter. but that's really not what he wanted to do. his words were i want to make a difference. and that was a really proud moment for me when he said that my dad was a cop in the philippines for 20 years. i think a lot of that played a role into his becoming

a cop. my dad was really happy about it. my mom. she was kind of worried, but i just figured i can't stop him. he can make his own decisions. stu. i just want to say what's up? how you doing? good. good. no i'm trying to look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the police academy, mind you this kid was not a very studious kid. but i've never seen him want something so bad when he was home. he'd be in his room studying the codes. he really fought for it. hi. what's your name? i'm nate. nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers. i think that that's a positive influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. once he makes that connection

with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and so that i think will reach people more than anything. you could say you later, brother. thank you. all right, see you. it's a really hard job. i know you. you see a lot of the negative for me. i would not put myself through that if i didn't care. you know, you have to be the right kind of person. you have to have the right heart to want to do that. when people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him he's a cop , and i just feel like i'm beaming with pride. i always told him when he was young that he would do something great. and so to see it. it's i have a moment. i'm very proud of him.

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to fully restore all of our hours. we have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. they are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to san francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. >> can we talk about programs after covid? >> absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. we were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. we doubled our level of programming for personal finance, small business help, jobs and careers. we have a dedicated small business center here at the library. there is a wide suite of programs that our librarian led.

we have a financial planning day coming up in october and we have financial coaches that members of the community can come to the main library and take advantage of their expertise. >> i understand the mission is in the middle of a renovation. how is that going and are there other construction projects in the horizon? >> yes, we have major projects in the pipeline. the historic mission branch library, carnegie library over 100 years old and we are investing $25 million to restore that facility. we are going to restore the original entrance on 24th street, the staircase from the lower level up to the grand reading room. we are going to push out on the orange alley side of the library and expand space for teens and children, we are going to create a robust community room, a

multipurpose space. we are also investing $30 million in the chinatown branch, we are going to upgrade the mechanical systems to the highest level of filtration as we increasingly respond as cooling centers and air respite centers and open access to the roof. it has some unique views of chinatown to create the inspiring space it is. >> i believe you have programs for families that have free and low cost entries for museum and zoos, is that correct? >> yes. it's a fabulous resource. go to our website. with your library cart, patrons, our residents can go to the public library and get passes to the museums, all of the incredible cultural institutions

that we have in san francisco all for free with your library card. >> how are these great free services paid for? how is the library system funded? >> we are so fortunate in san francisco. we are funded for by the library fund and those that taxed themselves just for library services. we also get a dedicated portion of the general fund. that together allows us to be one of the most well supported libraries in the nation. we have the third most library outlets per square mile of any municipality. all of our branch libraries have professionally trained librarians on-site. service that we are able to provide, the collection, we are

a leading library in our country. >> that lead know ask about your biggest annual event in the city. how does the event work and what's happening this year? >> we are excited for this year's one city one book. this is our signature annual literature event. we have everybody in the community reading the same book. this year's title is "this is your hustle" named after the pulitzer prize nominated and pod taste. this is about the population. one nice thing about this selection is that they are both local. we are going to have several weeks of programming, kicking off next month. it will culminate here in the auditorium november 3rd.

so our library patrons will get to meet the authors, hear from them directly, and one other important aspect about this year's selection, we have our own jail and reentry services department. recently the foundation awarded the san francisco public library $2 million to work with the american library association to shine a light on our best practices here in san francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the service model that we are doing here in san francisco. >> that's great. well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. lambert. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, chris. that's it for this episode, we will be back shortly. you are watching san francisco rising. thanks for watching.

>> for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the

tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the

tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among

our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

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