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present i would like to take roll please. >> commissioner clay mr. benedicto president. commissioner jonas as a commissioner you hear vice president carter overtone is excused. president elias you have a quorum. also tonight we have chief scott from the san francisco police department and executive director paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> okay, great. thank you. welcome everyone to our february 19, 2025 meeting. this is our last meeting of the month with that sergeant you want to call the first item line item one 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 or personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. alternatively you may submit public comment in either of the following ways email the secretary of the police commission at speed commission and as if comport 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 would like to make public comment please approach the podium. >> q thank you. good evening guys. okay. i really don't know when i'm going to talk about here. it follows the meeting of mta yesterday so i put that some nay here trying to explain because i think the last time we saw each other i mean two weeks ago i vaguely mentioned to you something called the budget revolution which i started. it's a revolution. so i want you to understand what the name budget means because otherwise you're going to find yeah, it's about money dollars no, no budget stands for the name of the f■:ous dog from the famous books from famous jack london native of

san francisco called the call of the wild. >> so the future of humanity is about reconnecting itself with its fellow creatures that is our species. >> business is over. it lasted for i don't know how many centuries but it leads to destruction we can't see either. so it's going to be beautiful because i'm looking for beauty. beautiful. following the rules from this guys which i'm ordered to follow. >> so orders it but it fits in there i think because we are talking about basically animals which we are i think veterinarians which are going to have an essential role to play and i think the police in the future is going to have to make sure that nobody attacks the veterinarians see not it's

about health some hope of course, but. >> so step by step i don't know any way is to get you out of the traps you are you know we are all in including me except i'm working for this guys is big difference. >> step by step. so yeah, i have a handle. thank you. for the record, my name is christopher klein. some of you know is army is sergeant klein from the united states marine corps active duty. others know me as an investigator who has brought some serious concerns to the police commission tonight i'm introducing myself as the ceo of a nonprofit called paving stands for prejudice and violence in style. and we do a lot of educating on reducing prejudice and violence and bringing the communities together with the police department, the police commission and others.

we're all part of a healthy community. we do that with strong individuals for stronger families form the strongest communities not just in this community but the community next to a san mateo alameda and so on and so on. part of this is we're ready to announce some awards for san francisco. you'll see a section called legion of leaders award. read through that go to the website and take it back to your own where you wear your other hats. if you know somebody that and meets that criteria, we're looking for someone that's a community leader that bridges the gaps between communities bringing them together that has dedicated a large portion of their life to helping communities, helping youths in other areas but also law enforcement. if there's a law enforcement officer that is a little league coach that may be maybe a perfect candidate. so again there's at the very bottom there's some other categories that we have we have some scholarships that we offer to ucsf, northeastern university and university of maryland and we're expanding through the midwest and here in california as well sacramento

and l.a. and if you have any questions, my contact information is at the bottom and i look forward to working with the police commission and the police department going forward. >> thank you. >> good evening. i just wanted to i was thinking about last time i was here concerning sojourner the trip and people down in the trip. >> i do think that if we don't know are history we're doomed to repeat it. >> so who's ever listening this journey of truth helps community, community and police to so that you know, i was just thinking about how when we were there when i was there that how the community came together and how community and police came

together. >> so i'm hoping that this happens again and i'm hoping some of you that haven't gone will go a go back again and some of the police officers the may the mayor the the district by supervisors we need to do that. we need to go back go back and see what happened to us, what happened to our families because again, moderate day is just moderate day now and it's still happening. >> so i do hope this happens again and please if we don't know our history we are doomed to repeat it and we need to know this no matter what nationality you are, what color you are all of us been hurt so we need to know our history and not down it the holocaust all of that people have been hurt. we need to know about that

different national are these different different people so journal truth is the place for us to go to learn i never knew about this before. >> i never knew my history and being there made me know my history. >> i could teach my teach my children and my grandchildren what i learned there. >> thank you. that is the end of public comment for line item two we are removing the grant from the san francisco police community foundation. i want them to consent calendar receive and file action electronic bias audit for third fourth and end of year 2024 and a $5,000 grant from the national association of victims of crime act administrators motion to receive and file on the first two items listed in the last item would be removed. >> all right.

second, any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding the consent calendar. please approach the podium and there is no public comment on the motion. commissioner clay how do you vote? yes mr. clay is yes. commissioner benedicto yes. mr. benedict it was yes. >> commissioner young. yes. yes. mr. young yes. yes commissioner ye yes. >> mr. years yes. and present. yes. >> the minuses. yes. you have five yeses. line item three chiefs 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 chief scout thank you sergeant youngblood. >> good evening president elias commissioners executive director henderson and the public. i'll start off the report this week with just the general overall crime trends year to date overall port one crime is down 4,434% and that's broken down by a 13% reduction in violent crime and a 37% reduction in property crime. some of the worst driving this

crime reduction is there is a 56% reduction year to date and our break ins which continue the trend that we saw last year there's also in terms of deaths in general it's over 30% reduction in thefts and general . >> so that's really driving the overall crime part one crime numbers down in terms of our violent crime are shootings year to date are actually up 5%. however, our homicides are down. we're at one year to date. we had three this time last year in our gun related homicides or a third of what they were this time last year. >> and we also have we've cleared some older cases so our clearance rate is right now at 300% for the year because we've cleared more cases than we've had homicides this year. so the homicide investigators are doing some really, really good work clearing some of the

unsolved cases and i know we have a lot of work to do and hopefully if we can continue this trend it does give our folks time to work on those unsolved cases in those cold cases and spend more energy on those so that that's how we plan to use some of our resources moving forward in terms of significant incidents this past week, i just want to highlight the nba all-star game and the chinese new year parade and all the work that went into that total team effort for a number of city departments to make sure we had success to basically very significant events. we had pretty much everybody working over this last couple of days over the weekend but we had no significant incidents associated with the nba all-star game, no crimes that we know of associated with the nba all-star game. very high praise from the down from the commissioner of the nba to the security teams that we work with had very high

praise for the city of san francisco. what they're seeing in terms of a resurgence of the city as it was described by commissioner silver from the nba, just the energy that they saw this week. so it was very complimentary. but none of that happens without the people doing the work. so my hat's off to all of our officers and other city employees. they were out there all weekend making sure the city was clean and everything was coordinated and that we had it relatively incident free weekend. on top of that, the chinese new year parade went off without a hitch. very well attended, no drop off. and in terms of the security and policing for that event, no really crime incidents to speak of there were some medical calls along the route but it was a very, very good event as well. so just want to thank everybody who participated in that and the commissioners who participated as well. >> as far as incidents over the

past week, there were three nonfatal shootings resulted in three victims wounds on the 12th feb 12:46 p.m. sunningdale and sawyer two groups of individuals actually shooting at each other when a stray bullet struck an uninvolved victim. the victim was transported to the hospital in stable condition. there was one arrest associated with that shooting and that investigation is ongoing. on to 1325. we don't know the time because we haven't been able to determine the time a victim who was self transported to the hospital claimed that someone he knew shot and robbed him. the victim was in stable condition and the suspect's identity is still being investigated. so no arrest at this point on that particular case. it happened according to the victim in the area of polk and larkin. on the 16th of february at 12:30 a.m., etc. in polk in the northern district, officers responded to the hospital for another victim who was self transported with a gunshot

wound. the victim advised he was in the area of sutter and polk when he heard a gunshot when he heard a gunshot and felt pain. no further information was provided. this investigation is also ongoing. no arrests at this time. >> there was an arrest made on a 2022 homicide case victim and on august 1st, 2022 shot multiple times in the unit block of brookdale. the victim later succumbed to his injuries. during the investigation evidence was located. two years later, investigators received information from that evidence that identified the possible one of the possible perpetrators. on 12 of this year, february 12th, that suspect was located and arrested. the arrest is being handled through the juvenile justice system as the suspect was 16 year old was a 16 year old at the time of the incident. in addition to that we had a

robbery the 3300 block of fillmore avenue on valentine's day afternoon. the victim was at work when the suspect entered pointed a gun and demanded property. that suspect fled on foot and was located, detained and later arrested by our our responding officers. >> also a assault with a knife that occurred in the 2000 block of mission on the 11th of february 4:30 p.m.. the victim was followed into this location by a suspect who brandished a knife and attempted to stab the victim if a struggle ensued over the knife causing lacerations to the victim's hands. the victim was transported in stable condition. that suspect was also arrested at the scene. see this want to report on some of the sites for activity in the bay area that happened over the weekend. first of all, i want to clarify

some of the information that had gone out through various media outlets. there were no sideshows in the city of san francisco. however, there were there was a sideshow about 230 in the morning on the bay bridge. that was handled by chp with the assistance of one of our officers a cpd officers. but it was a busy night around the bay area at 9:30 p.m.. we were advised by it outside police department that sideshows were occurring outside of san francisco. and we started our coordination with many agencies including the california highway patrol. at that point we were advised that a small group of cars were actively involved in the sideshow and they went across the bridge bay bridge headed toward the city. the group was basically disrupted by the california highway patrol and they actually turned around and went back east. >> as a result of what we thought would be a busy night with sideshow activity, our not

driving response unit was activated. that unit reported scouting cars throughout the night. and basically our strategy was to get to the hotspots and prevent these events from happening before they could set up. we were extremely successful with that. we did not have any sideshows in the city. we basically were at the right places at the right times. however we did assist daly city pd about 2 a.m. when hundreds of vehicles ended up in daly city our unit and daly city pd quickly disrupted that particular sideshow and flushed those vehicles from that location. fireworks were set off vehicles poured onto the freeway including headed toward the bay bridge. with coordination with the chp. that's when the larger sideshow in the bay bridge occurred at around 2:32 a.m.. so that was broken up but and there were was at least one

arrest and i think there were two at least two cars impounded associated with that sideshow. bottom line on all this, it took a lot of coordination. we were able to prevent these events from happening in the city of san francisco, but it did take a lot of personnel hours and a lot of coordination. but i want to thank california highway patrol and all the other jurisdictions who work with us to do what we can to coordinate and make sure that not only in san francisco but across the bay area that we try to stop these sideshows from happening. and that is my report for this evening. >> thank you. each chief commissioner. >> i was just say just great report chief. we appreciate hearing all this information and obviously all the public service safety officers and the teams at work this past weekend and doing a wonderful job of having this city shine. and i guess from that we have we convinced at least one celebrity to understand the way san francisco is moving in the right direction and how

beautiful this city is. but he wrote a $250,000 check. i just thought that wasn't at that. sir charles barkley who's trash our city now is we're back. so if he says we're back, i guess the world should know we're back. so that's great job and keep doing what you're doing and hopefully we can continue to assist you in getting you the stuff that you need to do your work and your jobs. >> thank you commissioner. that did get preceded by that op ed from alex bastian that had a wonderful outline clarifying what the issues were for mr. barkley. but i think they go hand in hand and it would open the door to the conversation and the follow up. >> commissioner thank you very much, mr. president. >> sincerely. i just want to echo what commissioner clay said and you report it. i want to thank the police officers and your team the command staff putting together a concise and i guess precise, you know, safety plan out

there. you know, you had the chinese new year parade i guess there's probably over 250 to 250,000 people in attendance let alone to stretch that across to san francisco and also the nba all star events that happen around the city. >> wow. i'm just saying it's just a grand affair and he really hit it off. i also want to also thank the other first responder. i saw the sheriff's out there too as well and i want to thank them too also. >> there was a shooting on the post triangle i think about a day a day ago i can. if there's are any updates i guess you reported next time around. yes, sir. we do have some leads on that particular case so hopefully we'll will be able to report some good news. but we do have some leads. >> thanks again, chief for excellent job and to your

command staff and all to officer. >> thank you. >> thank you, sergeant. if any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item three the chief's report i would like to follow up. >> sorry, i have a hand up. sorry about that. >> i'm sorry. that's okay. it's always challenging. my apologies is thank you for that report, chief. and i really want to convey my appreciation to all the officers that worked. you know, multiple shifts i'm sure this weekend making sure that the city was shining and that the rest of the world could see that san francisco's not only back i don't think it's ever gone anywhere. we've always been a great city. just a quick question regarding the six feet the sixth street jesse project. we received the letter from the treatment on demand coalition and the safer inside coalition with the latter kind of raising some questions and i know

there's been some coverage i assumed incorrectly last week that you may include that in your chief's report. but do you have any update information for the public about what the purpose, goals and outcomes that we expect for that site on sixth street and the tents and the coordination that's taking place there? >> yes, sir. commissioner. the overall goal is to improve the street conditions on sixth street. a lot of the open air drug sales, drug usage there's other just street condition issues cleaning and that type of thing. so it's a really a continue station and an extension of the collaboration that we are doing with our drug market agency coordination center. it's all the same departments except for this effort would be focused on sixth street so that the triage site the triage mobile triage center is

basically a parking lot that the city now has has leased a portion of and we have all the city agencies that are part of this were basically sharing their parking lot to bring services to people that need them. there is a portion there where police officers can do what they need to do in terms of if there is a for instance you know, the if processing or that type of thing. but really it's about engaging with the public, particularly those folks that we engage with on sixth street that need help. you know, this is two weeks in the making and one of those weeks there was really had a lot of pause on everybody's personnel for the nba all-star and the chinese new year parade with this really i would say this week is really kind of a test of what this is going to look like. some of the collaborative partners are public health corps homeless and supportive housing. the human services agency

journey home has a has a table out there. if people want to reconnect to their support, you were at whatever city they're from. of course public works the fire department sheriff's p.d. we're all we all have a stake in this. >> so far there have been hundreds of engagements. there have been just in one week there was i want to say the number is somewhere around 270 engagements where people were connected with, you know, some type of medical services including treatment on the streets, addict of services, that type of thing. there is an enforcement component of this when people are dealing drugs and or using drugs in the streets, you know there is for the youth there's several avenues. you know, we're trying to get people to help just like we did with the mayor. but for the blatant open air repeat at use we will enforce and we have enforce we've arrested drug dealers in this effort and we have a dedicated group of officers that are out

on foot beat to support this effort. so so far what we're seeing and what we're hearing is there had been some street conditions, improvements. we're very early on this and i want to just emphasize that this is not just a police thing. this is really a whole holistic approach and i know, commissioner, you've been very, you know, very down in on what else are we doing besides enforcement. so that public health touches is a big part of this and so far we've had like i said in one week we've had over 200 people. i think the number is to 70 to 70 range that actually have had that public health touch. so that's very, very encouraging and i think we're going to see how this works. and the whole idea is is nimble enough that if it works we can replicate this in other parts of the city as is the hope. >> and are there specific

outcomes or treatment beds that are being allocated to this effort in addition to what is already made available through the different partnerships? >> yes. yes. in the in the sense that for instance some of the homeless outreach teams that are working in that sixth street quarter and that includes mission in that area that has some challenges too. >> so they have been able to place a number of people and get shelter beds for them and you know, we have these in other parts of the city so i say yes and i'll put a asterisks by that but they definitely when they're out there they have habit beds available for people that are willing to take advantage of that. so they're also what mayor laurie i believe just last week announced that there's a new stabilization center coming online is not a is not a significant amount of

beds but it will be a help to have another now facility where people can go when they need that type of service. so we're hoping that that will be online in a month or two no later than to hopefully but that was announced last week as well. but so we've had some some some good fortune with beds being available at this point that's really positive development there. i appreciate the update. i do know that we had postponed a conversation around the partnership that it has with some of the dispatch teams and some of the support that you provide to those folks that are doing enforcement and citations for, you know, the public benders. and so i would love if we could to lapse this new effort since it seems similar as far as interdepartmental collaboration efforts and i will submit a request and hopefully we could

get a presentation on this to not only understand better what the recent impact has been but what the long term goals will be and if there is going to be some replication. i know that 63 the mission would be a site where i think there is a lot of support to be offered so thank you for that update. >> those are my only questions. appreciate it. is there any member of the public has any public comment regarding line item three do you support please approach the podium. >> beautiful. so about from jesus the report was good. yeah it's concise everything considering the tripura you know of course. >> so what do we get? it's interesting because you mentioned the chinese new year is very interesting because i declare the the big revolution started on the last day of the year of the dragon.

i didn't know i guess yeah, that's it now we are on the year of the snakes so you better make sure because somebody is going to have to take care of the snakes and there are plenty of them so that's very i'm not too good with snakes. i don't know because every one of us we're going to have to take care of a specific species and it's done for mandate of five years. no exception is by drawing you get this one about sorry now if you committed crimes you see you're going to have some animals which are not necessarily attractive but we have to take care of all of them anyway so that's making it sort of a joke never mind but it's important because this is the future you mean i like to use the overhead is always i

come here concerning my son aubrey at macassar jr who was murdered august 14, 2006 i am glad to hear that homicides are down now and that the tension can be put on our children on cold cases and unsolved cases. i am praying that and i'm believing one of my son is one of those persons. i do have my investigator but i know he was bring these names oe people that former mayor gavin newsom say he know who killed my child. he nes addresses, names and one is thomas hannibal paris moffet, andrew badu, jason thomas, acneunr and marcus carter. >> one is deceased. i bring these pictures of unsolved homicides that are not

solved. i bring this picture of my son that i stand over thinking about one day will i get justice for my child? >> this is what the perpetrators left me a lifeless body versus that smile you saw earlier on the other paper people ask me why did i so these pictures all the time but if i come in here and i didn't have these pictures and talked you wouldn't understand what i'm going through. >> so i show you what i'm going through. he has siblings, he has sisters, he has nieces, he has nephews that he will never see the nephews and aunt they would never see their uncle again. i will never see my son again. this is all i have. this is all they left me with. so i'm hoping that things will change and that max carter over

stone with that that initiative or the unsolved homicides and pain tipsters will follow through. >> thank you. >> notice the end the publicport ncements executive director henderson thank you. >> as you know the audit is an ongoing process so there will be periodic updates on the audits that have happened in the past but for audits that are coming in the future that are audit director steve flaherty has sent out notifications both to the chief and to the commission secretary this week to announce the new audit that's coming up on use of force. the regular use of force audit is as you know, mandated by

charter and that process involves us reaching out to our stakeholders including the police commission to ensure that relevant perspectivesways l continue in that process. but that's what it is. that's the notification and you'll hear more about it in the future as that process unfolds as it has in the past specifically with use of force. >> we also brought inhr interns now for the spring semester. they've been integrated into our investigation teams and with our policy unit as a heads up we are accepting applications now for the summer internship program award winning summer internship program and would appreciate commissioners for you guys and the department to spread the word a information if you have interested parties that are interested in working with us this week and our investigator and our investigations unit opened 18 new cases and closed 15 cases since tmison meeting. the top allegation this week

was for conduct unbecoming i think in the notification we se there's an error and what that classification was so it's not neglect of duty. it was for conduct unbecoming. again, these are allegations that came into the office. we currently have 19 investigations that have been open for more than 270 days and of those 19 investigations, 16 of those investigations are told there are currently four cases that are pending with the police commission waiting for resolution and 103 cases that are pending resolution with the chief's office here this evening. and the commission room is a senior investigator who is available in case there are issues that come up during this evening's folks need to get in contact with dpa directly the website is s.f. gov dot org forward

slash dpa and the phone number is (415) 241-7711. this concludes my remarks and i will reserve my remaining commentary to agenda items that may relate to the work at the dpa okay sergeant any member of the public would like to make public comment regar a l item for the dpa director's report please approach the podium. there is no public comment line item five commission reports discussion and possible action commission president's report commissioners reports in commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting commission commissioner benedict thank you president elias just a few

items from my report. >> first i wanted to wish my fellow commissioners member the public black history month. there's a lot of great programing happening by the city and various organizations and i'm proud that our city continues to recognize this important recognition. like chief scott said last week i was over the weekend at the chinese new year parade we had great turnout, great weather and people were in really good spirits and i want to commend the department for the exceptional staffing challenges for the parade and the all-star game and additionally i'll be■fú mmenting on the next line item for district boundaries so i will save my comments for that one. that's my report. . >> any other hands on the dais? all right, sergeant i two quick things so that's okay. >> we're looking for the hand. great i my report will be

brief. chief, i wanted to follow up on an email that i sent. >> i've been looking for the community policing annual reports on the website and i cannot locate them and i don't believe the commission has received one in the last couple of years. >> is there a status update on that? no. commissioner, you said you sent an email on that. >> oh yeah. i certainly mailed to a i believe is a civil czar may have been pretty yourself prior to meeting with them when i had a conversation around measurable objectives and some of the metrics that have been referenced in both the dgo revision and the strategic community policing plan which makes references to those annual reports but we have not received one and since my time on the commission i'll follow up with you i mean i'll follow up with the commission on that.

>> thank you. you know it's really important obviously as we are in an evidence based kind of world to to publicly and transparently help the community understand what it is that we are intending to impact upon when we invest our resources in whatever direction you do. >> and i know that those community policing of both the district plan and the efforts that go on behalf of the community engagement division are important in our engagement with community, improving our relationship to and obviously as we know the more ears and people we have on the street to have confidence in our department to report both incidents and to contribute to solving crimes i think is is one of the reasons why the community policing dgo and strategic plan are so important. so i would love to obtain that

information and once that dgo is up for a vote i hope that we can have some community input into that process. the other question i had was with regard to input as i was working on the investiga into social media dgo previously janell heywood and now jermaine jones working with the brennan center and many partners in the community around this social investigative social media dgo they provided some feedback that went to the legal department and i believe we are expecting some kind of comments or feedback is there a projected timeline for when that will be provided to us? >> commissioner my understanding is there is a video being written that i have

not seen yet the department was working on its video. my understanding there was another video being written and i don't know who who all is participating in that but i have not seen it. so the comments i don't know if those are the same comments that you're referring to. >> i'm assuming that they would be i know that jermaine jones provided that feedback at some point and maybe up tobar of last year and we were waiting for or we are waiting for the legal department to have an update on whether any of those recommendations are going to be incorporated adopted or whether there are any concerns with the recommendation. so any information that can be provided to either jermaine, myself or the comssion would be really appreciated. i know there was a of work that was put into that effort in meeting with community partners to obtain those best practices and those are my two

main questions and updates any i know that i sound like a broken record but you know in i believe december of 22 when i first started working on the digital 701 the juvenile dg and we started talking about the pre-booking program you had optimistically mystically projected a three month completion timeline. we're now in almost year three. do we have any update on a launch date for a pre-booking program? well what remains i think you mentioned last week that there's going to be another meeting with judge chin. we actually have the draft of the mean at the draft. we've written everything it's been sent out to i think you as well as the collaborative

partners on what we want to go with basically and as you stated last week, you know just in at some recommendations that i believe we can incorporate without many changes being made. so i don't think that's going to be an issue that slows it down. i don't know that we got total agreement with some of our partners such as juvenile probation, but we have a draft that we're comfortable with that we want to move forward with. thank you for that. my understanding is that judge chen does not necessarily believe that the judicial branch of san francisco actually needs to be involved with the program. that was my interpretation. he offered to meet mainly to discuss how we can incorporate some of the traffic court referrals for juveniles into that. so i don't know whether you are saying that that's the reason we're not launching or is the

launch not taking place because the juvenile probation department and community partners haven't necessarily agreed to the terms that you the proposed mou? >> no, i'm not saying that the judges or the hold up at all. i did part of the reason we wanted to make sure we talk to the judges we do believe that the courts has or the judge has some insight that can be valuable. as you know, we've consulted with other cities who have successful programs including los angeles and one of the things that they recommended to us is make sure that you sit down with the juvenile court, the presiding judge to pick their brains and get their insight and in l.a. i know they meet with the judge at least nuallyaybe similarly annually to just give a status on what the program is doing, how if any eects on the courts and other things.

so that was the spirit behind talking to the judge. the judge is not going to hold the program up one way or another but we did feel that it was in the best interest of what we're trying to do to sit down with the judge and have that conversation in terms of the juvenile probation department and there's just some some issues not not deal working issues but some issues that we just don't agree with but it should not stop us from going forward. at the end of the day they get to handle their cases as they handle them and we get to do at least our part of this the way we think we need to proceed and i don't think there is whole lot of conflict with that. it's just we don't agree on some of the the back end stuff that we had suggested that they don't agree with. and as you know it's taken a whole lot of input and process and back and forth to get to this point. but i think we as far as we can take it before we launch perhaps we can agenda is this

and have a more thorough discussion because i think it seems like it's right. thank you. yeah i'd appreciate that. thank you for tha uate ief. i lookforward to that conversation with judge chen and hopefully we could clear any of the remaing hurdles and get this program launched for our young people. thank you all. so that's my report. thank you, sergeant. >> any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item five please approach the podium. there's no public comment line item six presentation and discussion speeds district boundaries discussion and possible action. >> commissioner benedicto thank you president elias i'm going to tee this up a little bit and then i hand it over to director mcguire for my fellow commissioners, as you know we're required by city charter to consider revised maps for speed district boundaries on a regular basis. so this was the undertaking of

that process. i wanted to first thank and acknowledge the many people who worked on this process for a while over a year they were divided into a number of different groups. i do encourage members of the public to look at the posted under consideration. first i want to acknowledge our bridge consulting and training which was the vendor that assisted us with the logistics of this process. in addition there were a number of teams that were assembled that were very integral toskingt committee. in addition from the department of emergency management we had executive director mary ellen carroll as well as director robert smuts. we had sophia hayward from the office of the city administrator natasha mitchell from the comptroller's office from sfd, catherine mcguire pete walsh david was our and the chief. so i want to thank the members of the steering committee and the people who filled in for them when they couldn't make

it. additionally there was an internal technical group there was a subject matter expert working gup composed of deputy chief julian ng, commander nicole jones, commander derek lou commander derek jackson commander urban tero captain jack hart and captain chris canning. and finally the sfpd project team led by director zach director mcguire who is here with us tonight as well as director diana roach, jason cunningham, carl nikita and maria accountants who wanted to make sure to acknowledge those folks and also to set the stage of what we're going to be hearing tonight to my fellow commissioners, this will be the first of a number of of meetings and solicitations will have on this subject after speaking with our deputy city attorney. i want to talk a little bit about process. so under the process we're required to consider the report and recommendations which is what we are all doing tonight to kick off the process and our required to forward the proposed the proposal adjust

any boundaries to the mayor and board of supervis the proposal e commission office outside the commission's regular meeting location on the city's website and send a copy to the public library. so the conclusion of the presentation tonight i'm going to make a motion that we do that we're not making any final adoption decisions that we're simply forwarding the proposed report to the board of supervisors and the mayor and posting as required by the charter that will start a 90 day clock which again after consultation with the deputy city attorney will run from our vote tonight. so final action can be taken until 90 days from our action within those 90 days the commission is permitted to hear public comment which i'm sure we'll here tonight and over the course of the 90 days hold additional hearings as needed and make revisions to the map as needed. and starting at the 90 day mark we can finally adopt or continue to discuss as already there's been i know there's some people here for public comment tonight. i've spoken to multiple members of the board of supervisors that would like to make either

written or spoken public comment along with members of their community to be heard as well in the course 90 days. and i also want to acknowledge we received the commission's already received some correspondence from different organizationsuhñz including the lower polk community benefit district as well as a joint letter from the central city sro collaborative u.s. law staff the tenderloin community benefit district laura polk neighborhoods and the latina. and so i want to thank those organizations for being heard. >> i spoke to d■kector maguire is going to have this presentation. i think the goal is for this presentation to be a little bit high levelnd then we'll bring this back for fellow other publi commenters and to answer any follow up questions. so there's anything that you want to hear from exactly. director mcguire please raise it or shall have it ready to take back when we come to a subsequent presentation. so well with that i'll hand it over to executive director mcguire and we'll make a motion to forward when we're done with that.

>> one other thing it's my understanding that the consultation the consultant that worked with the department ■pon this project is also available via zoom currently so if any commissioners have any questions or want any follow up that is also available to us in addition to director mcguire's presentation you all are just covering my presentation for me thing i think you go ahead. >> good evening president elias members of the commission director henderson, chief scott members of the public i'm catherine mcguire. i'm the executive director of the strategic management bureau of the to present the analysis and process efforts of police district to station boundaries and the resulting proposed recommendations. i'm going to start with just kind of a high level what this presentation will talk about this evening and again we can come back and talk more about more of the details as you all

would like to hear more. i'll give you a little bit of background although commissioner benedicto did pretty much cover the legislative recap on this effort. >> the mall talk about project store goals structure the methodology we used all of the data input that we gathered and then show you the draft recommendations and why where how they evolved and where we landed and why and then we'll talk about next steps. >> next slide. thank you so first a little bit of background. >> this is some of the language from oh sorry back on this is some of the language from the san francisco administrative code. i won't spend a lot of time on this. the work plan we needed to submit last year to the commission we did and then a subsequent one subsequent year

later there is an official report which is what we're talking about tonight and then the additional information in the administrative code it included required data and factors to consider and those are listed there on the slide and they are available in the report online project goals again from the legislation boundaries should operate to maximize the effectiveness and of police operations and the efficient use of police resources and so from that the project had primary considerations of equitable resource allocation stakeholders engagement and data driven analysis. >> as you can see we had sort of these five inputs as we were moving through this these data an analyzing it. we had an executive steering committee and sf pd working

committee and the community kind of all working with these iterations of maps and which were input from the arc bridge consulting team and the usb pd project team and as commissioner elias president elias mentioned that arc bridge consultants are online this evening and can answer any questions you might have about the mapping work that they did . >> so going you all have seen this slide before in a previous presentation. this is just sort of what our work plan was and sort of shows all of the various bodies and this iterative process of talking about how we produced a map went back to the groups, got feedback, thoughts changes, produced another map and etc.. >> so moving on to the methodology.

stakeholder interviews were a bigirst step and we the project team sat with every member of the board of supervisors at the time every district station captain, members of the command staff and we got external agency input and lessons learned from things like the supervisory redistricting effort and previous iterations of the district boundaries analysis and then we are our ctors gathered a very large amount of data and they started mapping so they mapped population data new new proposed developments calls for service data incident data, neighborhood maps and cout gis maps of streets and those were also mapped and so you'll see these slides are

small obviously these are not intended to be maps that you can actually read. >> they're just intended to give you a flavor of how many different inputs and what all of the information that we absorbed was so as you can see there's a population by majority race population by dispatch, by police dispatch, by police district excuse me plan developments and on the next slide we looked at the top 20 local locations of calls for service heat map just lots of slices and dices of the data to just see make sure that nothing popped out out of the ordinary and then on the next slide although this is not a map you have to map the data to then create this table so thiss amone

districts among the police districts for 2019 through 2023. and so i don't want to say finally because throughout this we were getting community input on the consultants website. they had set up a website dedicated to this district boundaries input process and and so the public could actually go and create their own map and we got a couple a few of those and took them into consideration as you can see we also and so you can see that screenshot of the map on the top there on the top right and then below that you'll see a community survey that was also translated and one of the translations that's shown as a screenshot there. so we included community meetings of course you all were helpful in engaging the community by announcing it

commission meetings and station newsletters contained information for each of the districts asians and we asked our board members of the board to announce it in their newsletters as well. >> we also had a few focus groups some additional public hearings that were both virtual and in-person and then of course as i mentioned the map making input from the website which brings us to the maps. >> so there was an initial map there which was an iterative process in and of itself between a subject matter and working group that met with their cpd project team and art bridge consulting and talked through all of that input data and came up with this series of maps that then after discussion and back and forth in

discussion with the district captains in particular they landed at this patrol preferred map and then from that went to the the executive committee and the executive committee had some concerns in particular about southern station's workload going up. >> and what you don't see on the calls for service map or really the incident data is the level of activity in southern which is that the calls for service sure they have a fairly large volume and maybe a fairly large volume of incidents but what you don't see are the two major sports venues there that increase the population by 20 to 40,000 any time there's an event. >> so that is a huge increase in population that's a huge

increase in service that's demanded of southern station and so the executive team didn't feel like that was a$way to that that was going to serve southern station or the community there very well was expanding their scope so significantly and so when and we'll talk about this probably at the next meeting i'll show how the calls for service would have changed had that had the southern taken all■'■a of that look, those calls for service you just see that then southern becomes the most busy station of all the stations and then you add on top of that the to venues and it just would have been too much for one station and so going from from the patrol preferred to the recommended map there was an effort to distribute that workload a little bit more not only from southern but

balancing park a little bit more and just trying bit more equitable across the stations. >> and then finally see the proposed map really was a function of after that iteration with the semi working group and the captains and everyone began to feel like even the recommended map was a bit much it was it may have balanced workload a bit better but ultimately without when we are so low on staffing and having to rearrange staffing and reshuffle it so much that it would it would not necessarily benefit the department or the districts to feel like they had less on the other side of this anasis and implementation.

so these changes benefit the department but don't require resources adjustments and that is what the final map represents. okay so you'll see the final map there with five major changes and then which we can sit with for a second or move on to next steps. >> pause. i think you should move on to next steps and then we can ask questions as we make presentations not to disturb your flow. >> okay. and actually commissioner benedicto already covered this so we don't even need to cover it he's very helpful like that. that's it commissioner. >> he thank you very much there presidents and allies are just going to have a question though. >> i know the mayor made an

announcement 12 days ago regarding the san francisco hospitality zone task force and and the downtown district. what impact would that play on this map here? >> so on i'll answer that. so thank you. is there a commissioner? none. none really. the hospital his own rightow is two components to that. one part of that zone is assigned to central station and that's the union square part and soma piece of the hospitality zone is actually assigned to southern. they have to communicate in order to coordinate their work and make sure that they're on the same page in terms of you know what what they're doing which is addressing a lot of the street conditions and problem solving it has been proposed that that zone be made a district station that

actually came up in some of the community conversations but did not we did not move forward. that is just right now that the department could not absorb a new district station with the staffing challenges that we have and facility challenges that we have and the like so it won't impact it at all. i mean that task force can be moved if those problems go away. the task force can then be absorbed into the rest of the department or the stations that they're at to maintain the effort because i'm looking at that that zone it's you got central station sutter and thend then northern i mean that that's the end i guess different captains involved and then different resources. >> so are you is it just a combined the resource of officers and 2 to 1 unit or is

that going to divide it back into different stations? >> yes. bass yes, sir. they still report to the captains so the captain of southern still has the reach of you know, the control of those officers and what they don their work. but they're coordinating with the the central station component of the task force. so the work is coordinated and that those officers that is their job to be dedicated to the that those that specific area. so we have to coordinate in order to make it wk b it's working right now and it won't it won't impact any of that boundary analysis work that's been done. would it be possible to have a commander in regards to that handle that hospitality zone too as well? >> yeah, there is the commander that is in charge of the the metro division which is commander derek jackson is very involved in the overseeing of

the work. and then there's also you know ,another piece of this you know, we have to coordinate with the whole direct command because a lot of that work just flows from the demak areas to the hospitality area. so it all has to be coordinated and there's a commander over that too, as you know is that commander derek lou? >> and then a final question is how many more officers will be added to their hospitality zone? i have a figure in my ear right now. >> we've already had it, lieutenant. a sergeant and seven officers for the central component the inmates are for the southern component of the hospitality task force. the central component has a lieutenant, i think sergeant and 14 officers i believe. >> and that can be adjusted depending on what is going on like for during the holiday season we increased the deployment in union square

during special events like we did on this past weekend. we increased the deployment in the summer with the mosconi event so it can be adjusted depending on what's going on. >> thank you very much. thank you very much there chief. i know you're going to do excellent job on this. >> thank you. thank you, sir. commissioner clay, thank you, madam president. first of all, excellent job. i mean you took a lot of time and to put this together i'm taking a look at all the things and so what i'm looking at and you said based upon your final proposal, this map, it's not going to require any adjustment in terms of resources although you did lengthen or you widen or enlarge some of these districts. so that's got to be when you look at where it started for the command wanted you have and you come to here and the resources are going to still be equitable but you've enlarged districts so in that in that composition of things how did

you come to these? how did the conclusion in terms of how the resource is would be well so this is more of a of a our our districts are currently not i'm not equitably distributed with their their workloads but we are staffed we're we've set the staffing and settled kind of the dust has settled on where the staffing is for those districts and we change them all the time and the assistant chief and fob chief are constantly reviewing that every every transfer they're looking at where staffing is for every dissertation these adjustments are kind of just pain points mostly that are or just good good sense. so for instance in park station this is labeled change e park station in richmond there are some permanent concrete barriers that make it harder

for richmond to respond to that section of the park and so we just shifted it over to park. it's easier for them to respond so we put it just moved the boundary a little similarly northern oh the change labeled d i believe this is where the facade of a building sits. the address sits in one station and the actual building sits in the other station and so we just change that to have the whole building sit in the one station so things that are minor that don't really require a ton of staffing actually the d change may actually require a little bit of adjustment there but that can happen, you know over time in a transfer rather than a big hefty analysis that has to happen with every change and every

district and all the sort of churn and and turnover and turmoil that would go wit those kinds of changeso]. >> but this this will suffice for now. so as it's set up as we go forward and hopefully we start getting more officers on line, the chief and staff command staff will readjust and yeah patrol people out to these different districts will need that additional help. >> yes, sir. so it's all set up that way, right? we can change boundaries as we need to. this is this is mandated a minimum ceiling, a floor not a ceiling. >> and so the final question as we look at this here and it's going to have the posting period in this 90 days madam president, will we each week have an agenda item for people to talk and ask about this? you were saying and commissioner benedicto about that is that going to have a calendared spot every every week so someone they can have public comment on this posting as as the weeks go by?

it's a good question. i don't think we've worked out the exact mechanics. i would expect that most weeks it would not be agenda as a line item and thus would be eligible for general public comment. since general public comment you're allowed to address for anything not on the agenda if there's a specific take back question that's anyoneanted director mcgui to come for we the agenda is it or if there was let's say there was a flurry of community intt and interest and elected officials such that like i said i think i want to explicitly calendar at least once sometime in march because i do think some of the groups that wrote and then some of the elected officials want to organize a response at least one to that nine days it will be agenda is i don't think we need to agenda thatut but members of the public would be welcome when not agenda is to comment on general comment or to provide written comment or maybe in the posting we should include that and for the general comments section this is available for general comment section until we have an a specific agenda item on for the week.

>> yes ilan t agenda is it for the next meeting in march? for the first meeting in march so to either be first meeting or second meeting inarch as an actual agenda and gender ized item so that we can discuss it because my understanding is there are a few questions outstanding. >> additionally this has been posted on our website so the community can comssion website with any questions or concerns. i don't believe that we've received any thus far but if we do receive one the commission office will collect them and then notify the commission. okay. >> so they can they can post on the website versus coming to the actual meeting and doing that but that we make that available to them they can they know that i think we may even want to if we could posted to social media our commissions social media to see if there are any additional public comments or chief are you going to be have you done social media outreach on this? >> we did, yeah. >> yes. a while back. yeah. yeah. thank you. thank and mr. benedict

obviously making a motion. >> oh, yes. okay. all right. i'll make my motion then we'll go to public comment mr. allen okay. >> all right. thank you very much. executive director mcguire. i do want to highlight some things that director mcguire said which was that there's been public comment throughout this process. there was not a large amount of public comment i would say, but it was definitely vigorous and it was it was incorporated every stage of this process. so i'm going to make a motion before we go to public comments. also i emailed the written version of this to commission staff so you don't have to try to take down my fast talking. so my motion is that pursuant to section two a .86 of the charter the city and county of san francisco the commission has considered the chief's report and recommends actions as summarized and agreed to and

the speed boundary analysis of district stations project reports specifically the proposed map on page 84 of the report and hereby forwards this proposal to the mayor and the board of supervisors to adjust station boundaries. >> the commission will also post the proposal at the commission's offices outside the commission's regular meeting area the commission section of the city's website and will send a copy to the public library. public comment shall be open for a minimum of 90 days and final action shall be taken no earlier than may 20th 2025. >> okay. one thing i did want to clarify before i went to public comment is that for director mcgowan, the chief i was correct there it is the proposed map on it on page 84 which is the chief and the department's recommendation that we adopt, correct? >> i believe so. one second it's also in the presentation and that very last slide. >> yes. yes. page 84 and it's correct.

>> right. and thank you commissioner clay for second the motion. >> thank you. if any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item me line item six please approach the podium. >> good evening commissioners chief scott paul allen. during this process i had submitted comments urging serious consideration of moving part of the castro from mission to park. for reasons that we don't need to go into. >> indeed that was that particular recommendation was part of was included in three of the recommendations within the report before you including i believe the penultimate one and then in the recommendation and the recommended one that falls off. but my point is not too much to critique that because i don't really feel competent to do so. rather the reasons stated for that and i draw your attention to the last page of the of the full document which is page 89

i guess or 86 where there is a simply a declaration from the consultant that the reason the final recommendation is for the proposed one is before you essentially boils down to resource is that we don't have enough officers and therefore we don't think we can adjust boundaries. to me as a declaration that is not persuasive passive i think we need a fuller explanation of why that is a case. you have a deficit of x number of officers. they obviously could be shuffled around to just a different district stations along with an adjustment of those district station lines. again, i'm not advocating for that because i don't feel competent to judge that just as i don't feel competent to judge whether it was right to not move part of castro from mission to park. but i think the we're entitled to a better explanation, a more fulsome explanation of the nexus, if you will, between the

deficiency in the number of officers on the one hand and the unwillingness or reluctance to change boundaries among district stations. >> thank you for i thank you commissioners for thank you. my name is chris sharman lower port community benefit district. thank you for acknowledging our letter submitted yesterday and thank you for acknowledging the letter submitted by a number of organizations that i'm proud to be part of working with the status quo is not working for the tenderloin and the tenderloin in adjacent communities such as myself and laura polk. the proposed map as we acknowledged in our letter, does not work for us. while there are some small tweaks that that that make some incremental improvement overall we we found a much better match with the with the with the recommended map in previous

iterations we you know to find to find to to build towards equity and improvement it takes work and it takes effort and you know it'll take some redistribution of resources and to get there we need to work together if i can have the overhead real briefly this this is the this is the heat map and it shows right here we have the intersection of three police districts in this corner of the tenderloin and lower polk northern central and and tenderloin and that's where the highest crime area the highest 911 call areas are the community has to work with three police districts and that's that's a tall order that's both calls the three districts have to respond to but that's three districts that the community has to interact with. larkin streets a border that's problematic. there's alleys that have two police districts you know, just

moving it to post street doesn't accomplish our needs. i look forward to interacting with your honorable commission over the next 90 days will come up. we'll advocate we look forward to working with you. we look forward to you. listen to us and thank you so much for for for taking the time to hear from us and i really do look forward to advocating over the next 90 days. >> good evening commissioners. i'm alice rogers and i am a 30 year resident in southern station. >> i too did send you a letter which wasn't acknowledged but i and other neighbors from our southern district did address you. >> we strongly support your final report. we want to commend your staff for the work that they did. our direct contact was maryam

mcgowan and we especially want to appreciate the depth of information that she brought to the public hearings that she conducted. >> we were quite distressed. >> did i say that i am the president of the south beach rincon mission bay neighborhood association which comprises much of southern district and we were quite distressed by the first map for the reasons that director mcguire laid out. i won't reiterate but we were thankful through the public process which we engaged in and which we the neighborhood association broadcast to our constituency. so they could individually interact with your maps and give their input. we were very pleased to see the maps moved to the final iteration and feel that it they more equitably addressed the workload and our southern

station captain martin seems to agree. >> thank you so much for your work on this. >> thank you miss rogers. i didn't want to fail to acknowledge your correspondence as well as well as the correspondence of bettina cohen as well that was sent to the commission. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is pretty but again i work for children housing clinic. >> i always see three programs central city sro collaborative levels latina and see a program. >> i remember being here ten years ago. in fact 11 years ago fighting for equitable district tenant blue station district. we did not win that battle last year. last time because we had to compromise we were asking until up to larkin. >> we were trying not to have a westfield mall and saw the market but we did get all that

. >> and as chris shulman pointed out, i mean i don't know why we are seeing what we are doing right now the calls of service right now. >> but i think this is a ten year map so we have to look for the future how the district will be for the future and including the present but the future also and we are seeing movement of issues that is in different parts of the district surrounding tunnel and station. and i would highly encourage we are not happy with the last iteration based on calls for service. you have gotten all our concerns. >> so i would highly recommend you reach out to us because we are not happy with what was proposed to you all today and recommended rather we prefer the map that we recommended in our in our letter. that's what we think and we have reached out to several community members. not all community members have access to internet and tell them and calls and coming here

so you should definitely do your part of reaching out to people who live in the community rather than just expect them to reach out to you. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners and chief scott. my name is eric roselle and i'm a long term resident of the tenderloin and director of safe programs at the tenderloin community benefit district. i'm here to express strong support for spd's proposed tenderloin station boundary changes outlined in the past map integration and the patrol preferred map that yes the tenderloin has seen some progress but challenges remain especially late at night and early morning. as clearly indicated in the heat map, the current boundaries and recommendations stretch too far east and south encompassing encompassing areas like westfield mall and soma. this pulls tenderloin officers away from the core of the tenderloin where they're needed

most to address serious crimes like shootings, assault robberies and our party's persistent open air drug market. shifting the boundaries to north to market street to north to sutter street and west and east boundaries between mason and vance will allow officers to focus their resources where crimes are occurring most. the tenderloin furthermore the current northern boundary at geary street is insufficient. illicit activity has simply shifted north to sutter street creating dangerous pockets of lawlessness in the alleys between larkin and van ness. the proposed extension to venice has shown in the patrol preferred map and final proposed map is crucial and eliminates the confusing and ineffective larkin street border which currently splits blocks and alleys between precincts and hindering effective policing and response times. this change will finally allow

for coordinated policing efforts and streamline responses and the critical areas. these boundaries adjustments are not just lines on a map. remember this please. they're about equitable and effective policing. they're about allowing the tenderloin to truly serve santana. >> thank you. >> faster than you think. yeah. >> good evening. my name is greg johnson and i'm with csr c central for city sro collaborative. i also know chief scott there. good evening. i'd like to echo the comments by petipa taki which csr see we have to look towards the future . things are changing. previous provisions that i'm sure may possibly may not have been taken into account of what services the city wants to dump in our area mental health etc.

. all of these things have to be considered. i mean that's what a committee at what you're implying is all about equitability. >> we can't just nilly do what we're getting ready to do. we're talking about ten years here. that's a long time. thank you. >> thank you to those that made public comment, something i wanted to say is that i think every single commissioner here takes very seriously this responsibility and and will want to hear from as much of the community in this 90 days as as we can. for anyone who knows me or worked with me on when we did our projects ops policy i had a policy and a commitment president weiss knows this that i said yes to every community

meeting that was taken whether it was zoom or in person a group of 50 or 3 people at a community center and i will make that commitment on this too. i know there are populations that we're not reaching here. if anyone here or anyone who considers this would like to and as president likes to point out, the two minutes goes fast and the concerns of your community are way too big to be limited to two minutes and so if any of your organizations if any member of your organizations, additional members of the community want to speak to me, i will commit that i will say yes and we'll find the time to hear your concerns and i will be the department to sending someone to come along to see dr. mcbride raise your hand. she may live to regret that but we will come to those meetings. we will hear you out. i can't promise. in fact, the one thing i can promise is that not everyone's going to be happy the end of this we passed a policy last week where president last rightly asked judge clay for that for the adage that, you know, a good compromise is when everyone's disappointed about the same amounts but i promise

you will be heard and your concerns will be taken seriously and if changes need to be made they'll be made and if and we will look very closely at that. so please. my email address is on the commission website and i individual commission email address i will i will say yes to any meeting so that is true. >> thank you also to i as you see when you send letters to the commission staff they're excellent. they make sure that we get them and they catalog them and keep them in that place so you can also send it to them as well if there are additional questions you have clarity you want we have the department, we have the consultants and we will ask the questions that you want answered or want answers to so feel free to just send them in as the commissioner benedict of state stated, this is the first of a few that we will have any hands sergeant all right on the motion commissioner clay how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is yes. commissioner benedicto yes. mr. benedict to us.

yes. commissioner young. yes. yes. mr. jones. yes, commissioner. yea yes commissioner. yes. yes. in prison elias present license ? yes. you have five yeses and i see one one housekeeping item we are taking off line item ten closed session tonight so therefore line item eight nine and 11 are also taken off line and seven discussion and possible action to approve department general order 1.06 duties of commissioned officers for the department to use a meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law discussion and possible action. chief okay thank you. >> so did you a 1.06 is duties of commission officers is that this was one that i believe commissioner president last that you sent back for reworking so we did that definitely collaborative effort

with all of our smitty's on this and depay's input on this. so we believe we have a pretty concise thegrio it's not all inclusive. let me just start there. it's not all inclusive for everything that a commission officer has to do with the general guideline of what we expect of our our commission officer so if there's any questions i'd be more than happy to answer. >> dr. henderson did you have anything to add? >> nope. and thank you. i think we we i was told we didn't have any comment. the work was collaborative and so because of that we have no comment and we agree with the direction that the dda was coming in. >> so that was that's what i meant by no one. thank you. oh well i will note it is an improvement so thank you for taking the suggestions and feedback from various stakeholders and other people that came late to the game so i appreciate that. >> i know it's often difficult to have the johnny come lately come and throw up prized work

so i appreciate that. >> i think it's yeah it's improved. >> i'll note this dojo was last updated on august 24th of 1994 so in my keep right on time and my continued quest to eradicate alter egos that are from the 90s i'm glad to see this one be i still think there's too many i i'm going to ask you a for a count one of these days but i know we've gotten that down but there's still too many that date back to the 90s i gave priority to the 90s i was on the list of drugs to work i agree. >> yeah but there were too many there's too many but yeah so i will thinking president elias and the chief for this work i will move to approve department general order 1.06 for the use in meeting conferring with fact that bargaining units consistent with our labor relations resolution 23 dash 30 i'll second any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item seven please approach the podium. >> there is no public comment on the motion.

commissioner clay how do you vote? yes commissioner clay yes. yes. commissioner benedicto yes. >> commissioner benedict it was yes commission yes. yes. mr. janusz is yes commissioner you yes. commissioner years. yes. and prison lice as nice as yes you have five yeses line item 12 adjournment yes. >> oh four minutes over i thought over four minutes over seven. >> you know madam president

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ocean. maintenance was not met, and the pool had to close. in 1999, the pool was filled with sand and gravel. in 2000, the space became a spot for the san francisco zoo. these are some memories that many families remember swimming at flyshaker pool. - >> we are doing is filipino and mexican cuzeen. the main component the filipino style meat originated. we grew up on that. the most popular items are

burritos. we have really something for everybody. we have a salad, we have tacos, we are natcho s and-trying to create something quick and casual, something you can get anything any time. for me i love food and didn't want to be a chef. i was in the business side of it and bring something special to san francisco so why i reached out to my business partner gil and he wanted to partner for food and we share a passion for food that comes from our parents cht it was a honor for us to be able to do this for ourselves and also for our parents and you know, our families. for us to have a business as thriving here in san francisco, such a honor and makes me feel proud of myself and of my city as well. just to be able to add to this city that is so special.

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excelsior district for 11 years. the idea behind excelsior coffee spouted 6 years ago out of the need for community space and coffee. excelsior coffee to me is a cornerstone of the neighborhood. next to this iconic mural on excelsior along with the legacy businesses. we decided that this corner of san francisco on the southeast side of the mission is the place we like to be. i know you see a lot of eththetics of motorcycles behind us. a lot of people ask, what's up with the motorcycles behind you? motorcycle and classic cars are a big yite of our upbringing so the idea was to connect to this neighborhood from classic cars to low riders to motorcycles and my husband is is a high school teacher that teaches

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welcome to sfgovtv in person i am jeremiah estep. your host today. and we are here at the united players clubhouse. and we are celebrating their 30th year anniversary of serving the community, specifically the south of market here in san francisco. and united players is a san francisco based youth development and violence prevention organization and i'm very happy to be here to talk to rudy and the rest of his staff. so let's introduce ourselves. hi. my name is vanessa. i'm one of the program managers here at united players. hi. my name is brandon jackson. i'm a program

coordinator for middle school. hi. my name is maria fabia. i'm a k-2 coordinator and i'm rudy corpus, better known as the gorilla pino, aka rudy valentin. i'm the edd of up. cool, cool. so can you tell us your journey and mission, how you got involved with united players? so originally when i started united players, it wasn't even something that i thought about doing. it was it just all kind of happened organically. i was hired at a nonprofit organization in san francisco called bernal heights neighborhood center, which is in district 11. i got hired as a filipino gang prevention counselor, and so my mission was to go find the filipino gang members, right? in that district 11. there's 11 districts in san francisco. and so i knew who they was all at. i'm born and raised in san francisco. i was appointed at lifestyle, so i knew they was all that went to balboa high school, which is in district 11. in 1994, it was off

the hook. and so upon being up at balboa, sure enough, they're all there. big fight ensued, right between different ethnicities. and from there, nobody was able to learn because of the violence that was going on. between the big fight between filipinos, blacks, samoans and latinos. so myself and several other people, andre alexander, right, shouts out to andre alexander. he was the coach of the football team at bao. there was a brother named late. you remember late big samoan. excuse my language. around six four. you know what i mean? from frisco, north beach, one of my partners. he was a hall guard. and he had, you know, a lot of good credibility with the youngsters that was up there at bao. and so at the time there was a filipino principal, their name was mr. montevergine. she was looking for solutions and the police couldn't stop it. nobody could stop it. so i got what all those dudes, they was

able to come in the room they wanted to meet. and from there they wanted to make a club because they came up with all the solutions and the answers to stop the violence. the kids did. the youth. and so they said, hey, we should name this a club. this is our this is in october of 94. and i gave the power to the people. i said, what do you guys want to name the club that we got right here? because everybody was getting along in the room, you know what i mean? and so united players up october 1994 was born. and that's how the name came. and so boom, fast forward. we're here in 2024 in october. so they're celebrating 30 years 30 years. yeah yeah. worldwide baby. yeah it is worldwide. you have so many people supporting you like kaepernick and yeah steph curry everybody right. they they they yeah they they they all seen i believe the spirit of what we do

and what we're about you know which is based on love. everything that we've been doing from day one way back then. way back then we was at balboa high school. right. so i met that guy at balboa. right. these two sisters right here from the neighborhood that i'm from, you know, i ain't from district 11. i'm from district six. born and raised south of market tenderloin. and so all over the world. and people saw that the love that the youth. right. yeah. who were involved in it, spread it. and you know who don't want to get no love. yeah. so they all part of it i'm thankful. yeah. that's dope. so how did you get involved? well, so i'm born and raised here in south of market area. so, you know they had the rec center over there. and so that's where all the youth would come and just gather. just everyone from the hood, you know, would just play basketball, you know, meet up, hang out after school. so i was in the third grade and i joined basketball for the first time. i was garbage, like

totally garbage. didn't like i was not the best, but i had this mentor named tim and he. really. yes. and he really motivated me and kept me focused and really kept me in the game and say, like, you know, keep going, keep practicing. you could do this. so by the time i got to fourth or fifth grade, you know, i was balling. yeah. you know, and so without his guidance i wouldn't have made it you know that far in playing basketball. but you know rudy he's like the neighborhood hero. he's at the rec at the rec. you know he chopping it up with everybody. and you know he just made everyone feel welcome. and that that was even before there was like a headquarters to even be at, you know. so it was just the rec. that's a public place to be. and so, you know, he just built community there. and, you know, i just felt at home and you've been there ever since, and i've been here ever since. and she's still balling. she's still balling. and yeah, we got to play ball then. so and you started when did you start? i started in sixth grade. i

started going to bessie carmichael for the first time. i didn't know anybody except for like my neighbor. and then i got introduced to united players by bqe. he was my mentor. may he rest in peace as well. he really introduced me to this. he pushed me out of my comfort zone because i was very much like a loner. didn't know anybody, i didn't i wasn't very open to being social with other people. but when i came here, he was like, go introduce yourself to everybody. like left me alone to go introduce myself and i did exactly that. and i mean the rest is history. it's like super fun. everything's cool. so i love it. and you've been with him since how many years now? i don't know, i think maybe 2009. that's amazing because that's when i went to sixth grade. yeah, she was a participant and

now she's a staff. yeah. but just just real quick, thank you for bringing up e. so eric, eric also is one of our staff who worked with us, who passed away, and tim was a mentor of mine. these are all filipino cats that we're talking about, the south of market. we're in here has over 120 year history of filipinos. so as you can see, right, it's filipino too, right there by heart. it's black, filipino, black filipino. you know it's filipino. we was black before we came right. but but but everybody they mentioned is actually been a part of the fabric with the love. tim was love, eric was love. and that's all they did was give out love. and look what we got here now. love, love. all right brother, when did you get involved with. i was at bell back in. oh four, and rudy wanted me to be a part of up. but unfortunately, due to, like, the gang culture i was a part of, i couldn't. because basically the people that i really didn't get along with was already in u.p. so it was kind

of like i couldn't be a part of up even though i wanted to. but due to stuff that transpired, i was just like, i can't do it, i can't do it. you know? and then how did i end up getting the job here? shout out to my mentor, mike brown. may he rest in peace. i got a call from mike brown. he asked me, was i open to working with kids still? because i was working with kids over there in my neighborhood and i said, yeah. and then he was like, call this man named rudy. and i was like, rudy. i'm like, i only know one. you know, one rudy in the city. so i happened to call rudy and then did an interview, and then i got hired down here, and i've been here for 12 years, and it's a blessing. it's a blessing to work with kids. you know? you a blessing, bro. to be a part, to just be a part of a positive environment. yeah. coming from a negative environment, to be a part of a positive environment is a blessing. yeah. you want to talk about that negative environment. negative environment was just growing up being a part of a neighborhood, you know, doing things to feel accepted. you know, not getting the right nurturing love at hom.

so you step out your comfort zone to go get it from friends or you know, to when you just want to be loved, bro. it don't matter what environment you're in. it don't matter if it's positive or negative because love can come from either environment. it's about what environment you choose that you feel like you can succeed in. and at the time, me being a negative thinker at the time due to my way of living, due to my environment inside my household, i chose a negative environment. yeah. so how did you what attracted you to want to come to up at that age? because it's hard for teenagers at times. it just seemed like a fun thing to do. like if i could, if i could go back in time, i think i probably would have been a part of up. but it was just like, you know, when you have to go there and then you still have to go back to your neighborhood and they're like, oh, you was over there with them. like, what are you doing hanging with them? like, you know, that type of stuff. so it was just more like chose a side as a kid. as a kid, i chose a side. and it was like to where i was from. but when you, if i can take it all back again, be honest with you. my message to the kids, it's okay to be the kid that get along with everybody. yeah. that's right. like, you know, it's okay to be that kid to be different and you can get along with

everybody without choosing a side that's real. yeah. hey, i just want to add this right. and it's based on a true story. brandon, when i first met him, didn't really want to be a part of anything but what he was doing. and he was caught up in that negative cycle right of the turf life, that death life, that money back and murder life. it was arrested development. but growing up now, you know his mindset has changed. he really wanted to get with our organization. when he was at bal, i used to try to get at him, but he was hardheaded, you know what i mean? he'd be in the gym shooting three pointers for money, you know what i mean? he was gambling and that's how i would get with him. i'll stand over there with him and chop it up because i come from the same cloth. yeah, but he was one of them youngsters, man. if he would not get involved in something, he'd have been dead or in prison. yeah, with that elbow. yeah. and look at him now. yeah. look what you mean. helping out the kids from neighborhoods that he had rivals from? yeah, on my mama and she in heaven. so, you know his his his mindset has changed. and, you know, i'm really proud of

all three of them. what they stand for and what they do for the people. yeah. is it because up is very relatable like rudy as opposed to other teen groups? you want to explain? yes. you know, you don't see too many people who look like you, who you know, talk like you, maybe dressed like you that are like walking a positive path. right? sometimes a lot of people are just like, you know, like, who can i look up to? right? and you know, kids, we embrace, encourage kids to take pride in their individuality. right. and sometimes kids are just lost and they don't know. they don't have any guidance. they don't have that guidance at home. i was fortunate enough to have two parents, you know what i mean? but not a lot of kids, you know, in this world have that, you know, or they do have two parents. one is just don't have the time or attention to give their kids and so i feel like we fill that void for them. you know what i mean? is it because the community is i mean, it's

the parents are too busy workin, so sometimes they kind of not around their children sometimes. so they don't have like, that kind of loving upbringing at times because they're so on that grind and hustle. yeah. my parents were on that grind and hustle. i felt like there was some gaps that i felt like they didn't feel for me. but then growing up, i also understood what they were like hustling for. that's right. and so and so like i've accepted that as i've grown older, but with some kids, you know, some kids, they have parents who, you know, who are like, you know, who are on drugs. you know what i mean? who are absent, who are not there. you know, some people are raised off love and some people are raised off survival. right? and so really, they're, you know, it's just kids trying to navigate their own lives. and sometimes they don't have that with their parents or their guardians or, you know. yeah. and that's where you, sharp girl stay sharp. big facts. yeah. and

that's where up comes in. you guys bring it out. you guys are the bridge that brings the families together. and you guys are kind of. well, you look at the name we're uniting players, right? and all players is people who are coming together who are doing something positive, productive for their people in the hood. right. you got united players and you got united haters. some people don't want to connect and get together and that's cool too. that's a part of life. yeah. but we choose man to live. we'd rather live than die. see, our whole thing is based on making it fashionable, making peace fashionable. right. and as vanessa was speaking, you know, most of us filipinos, we grow up right. i'm first generation, our parents, the way they show us, they love us is they out there grinding? most of them don't tell us they love us. they just do it. and you don't understand that. you know what i mean? till, like you said, you get older, then you realize why they was doing what they was doing. because my mom and dad, you know, they grow up. they ain't never told me to this day. and they both of them, you know, passed away. they didn't say it out loud. right. and so you won't love if you ain't hearing

it. you going to find it somewhere. yeah. so i was not i was even on the sidewalk on the porch. i was on the street at an early age. but all that time they was showing it by their actions. and now that they're gone, i understood. and now i know what they love was the way they was giving it to me. that's all filipino people was raised. that's true. my parents, my parents were like that too. but you said it very well, though, and that's why i felt you. that's real talk. thank you. yeah. with that said, how has this program evolved over the years since you started? i'm going to let them answer that. sure. so how has it evolved since you were evolved since you were a student and now you're a teacher? it's evolved a lot. like when i was younger, i wasn't, like emotionally, like prepared or like, knew what to do in situations where like, i was like lost or going through some things. i feel like now in the program, like we have us having training with the trauma

based intervention or trauma based relational intervention. yes. and a lot of letters on yeah, it's tbri basically in other words, what is that? can you explain like it's like a trauma based where like you, you're like repairing the bond that you have and like learning to like navigate through those emotions instead of like suppressing them or acting out against them. and i just feel like that is very helpful in today's like, age with the kids that we do have. and it's like a life skill that we're teaching them to take along the way. so they're not like acting up, acting out anywhere in the world. they can at least do it here with us in a safe space where we know how to, like, help them and give them like resources. and i think that's like the major change that i've seen so far. and, and the

community outreach that we do, we i mean, we did community outreach when i was in middle school, but i feel like we've, we've do we've done more now. yeah. and like even during like the pandemic, we were serving like the seniors. we were serving like the senior graduates, like when they couldn't walk the stage. we did a drive by. i think it's changed a lot in like a positive way. yeah. do you want to talk about the mental health part of it? to me, the key of our mission is to help them identify emotions and feelings, because if you can't identify emotions and feelings, if you can't identify it, it's like, how could you control something you can't identify? yeah. you know, and the key is that if you can get the kids to identify it, the younger they are, the better off they will be in the future. you know, it's kind of hard when you get when you get a high schooler and try to restore morals, identity, self-respect and stuff of that

nature. you know, like it's kind of harder. so to me, what i identify doing this work is if we can get installed in them at an early age, the better off they will be when they become adults. say that, then say that then. and can you explain, like the changes you've seen in the kids you got in the beginning to how they became later adults? yeah. so i just want to go off on what rhia was saying about trust based relational intervention. so that is a trauma informed approach to vulnerable youth that we serve who experience adversity and trauma in their lives. right. and so that consists of three main principles. that's empowering. connecting and connecting. so with that, that's our investment into our youth is taking delving in deeper into their lives. right. trying to trying to identify like why they moved, the way they move, why they talk, the way they talk,

why, you know, learning about their upbringing. right. and then identifying those factors, like brandon was saying and then being able to nurture those, nurture them where it's needed, you know, meeting them where they're at. and then you know, being able to transform their lives to where they can be better people, you know, into the world. and so i feel like when we instill those factors like risk, respect, you know, integrity and all that, when we see that translate into our kids and they're showing that and they're ending up teaching their siblings and, and showing you know, you see, you see something that you teach someone and they're actually, you know, putting it into action that's that's rewarding. like, you know, that you're doing the right thing and you know that you're staring them in the right path like beautiful. and man, i love my staff. i love y'all, you know what i mean? they are frontline soldiers, boots to the

ground. and they deal with this every day. yeah, right. you guys articulated it so well. and what y'all just said. you imagine us when we all grow up. we was taught not to cry. we was taught not to express how we feel. right. and when you grow up, you got to express what you feel. and you say, right. and if you do right, you get your ass whooped. you better not cry right. and so if you really think about it, man, our people, our black people, our brown people, way back in the days, we was the ones who cultivated all this, but it was kidnaped from us. and now, you know, you have people who are putting it into letters. but this is something our people always been doing from day one. it just got kidnaped. and so this is really natural for us to give out love and to give it back. yeah. and love ain't no soft word, you know what i mean? it's really spelled no. right. and so the things that we're that that we're learning, i'm still learning it and that they're

learning, we're learning from getting trained to teach these young kids who are growing up in a world full of hate. yeah. we winning. and you. right. that is what we have to do. install those values again because we ain't got them. and this is raising our kids. that's true. you dig what i'm saying? and whatever they scrolling through and they seeing. right. it's the soundbites. yeah. right. what do they call that when you go through there and it keeps coming back. the ads the algorithm. algorithm. no, the algorithm algorithm. right. if you're watching fights all the time and i like fights, but i know it's entertaining to me. i'm asking the little kid who's getting and he's seen it. that's all he's thinking, right? and as in brandon in your head, it's true. it's true. and so it's important that these letters that were taught that's already in our dna from way back in the days in the philippines or in africa, right, or whatever country you come from, or people been having this installed in them. that's why we're receptive to it, you know what i mean? and so when we're learning, we teach this. it's our duty. it takes the hood to say the hood. it takes us to teach our people the

truth, right? with the spirit of everything that our people, where we come from, for us to get by. because this world, man is toe up every day. it gets worse and worse. turn on the news. you see it. you know it's full of hate. and so man, i love what y'all do. y'all frontline soldiers. hearing them speak like this, i ain't used to seeing them speak like this. you know what i mean? yeah. now spitting game like that. that's why i talk about making peace fashionable. right? yeah. we making. we really making it happen in real life. and so man. and that's what makes us so, like, genuine and pure. because even us, we're still dealing with our own trauma, still trying to heal from it. and, you know, but at the same time, you know, we're helping others. we'll help. we're helping you deal with their own traumas and also helping them heal. and so i feel like that that feeds off of each other. and so, like, you know, heal people, heal people who say that, then what? heal people, heal people, man. healers need healing. man. my brand is coming out soon, y'all.

y'all go cop that i ain't lying. you know the crazy part is, yeah, the kids feel like they need us, but they don't know we need them more than they need us. ooh, beautiful. yeah. that's fire right there. true. i'm gonna explain. it's just like we can be having a bad day. but when we come to work, the kids uplift us. the kids, like, you know, take us out of a certain mode and put us in a higher spirit. yeah, spiritually, it don't matter if we play with them, if we laugh with them. play a pick up game of basketball or just crack jokes with them. it's just the interaction you feel me can take our mind off something we have going on outside of work, you know? and then it just put us at a peaceful place. yeah, yeah. kids is medicine true? true. we got we got cats who are coming home out of these penitentiaries who've been going 25, 35, even 45 years straight. right. and they're coming back and giving to our community. but what they fail to realize is what brandon just said. the kids is actually bringing life to them. their medicines to these cats. right. and so, yeah, man, you know, shouts out to all them young

kids out there, do you want to talk about big kid? do you want to talk about that program you do with visiting the juvie juvenile juvie? and you can speak on that. oh, so, so what's big for us is we have a reentry program, right? and right now we have we connected with the justice department at at juvenile, and we got two we got two caseworkers and both the caseworkers are lifers that came home from doing a lot of time in jail based off of making a rational decision, not being able to control their emotions and their feelings. so i think it's kind of big. when we got lifers coming home to connect with the kids in juvenile, and they don't just connect with the kids in juvenile, they come to the they show up at the middle school, they show up at the elementary school. they go to high schools and talk. they go to city college and talk. and it's just like, you got to kill the pipeline, man. the elementary to the penitentiary pipeline has to be killed. and the only way to kill it is people that actually been through it. because the people that been through it know how to kill it, know how to attack it.

it's like a tree. you look at the branches and you think, those are the problems? no, it's the root. what is the root of the problem? and that goes back to tbri being able to help people identify and control their feelings and emotions. yeah. so how did you guys start that program where you go this partnership with like the different jails to be able to talk to the inmates and change their lives and stuff like that. how do we start that? yeah. how do you start that was locked up in there with them. right. and so you know, that's our people. you know what i mean. and accountability is very important. you cross that line. and like beretta said back in the days you do the crime, you do the time. i come from that school. and so a lot of guys who are stand up cats who come home that we know who we've been incarcerated with, right, or we go back in there and we talk to them. they know about what we do because, you know, the streets is really inside them penitentiaries. so they know what's happening out here on the ground and they see all their people. right. who's out here putting in work? that's why i always take pictures, you know what i mean? with all the

homies, when they come together and we're talking about cats. when brandon was mentioning the two dudes, you're talking about a adamu and a kiwi. them dudes, man. when enemies. wow, right. and they're not even from out here. they're from southern california. and so we get all these guys together, north and the southerners, others, right. blacks, whites come together and they take pictures and it spreads everywhere. and so people want to be a part of something that's working. that's winning. yeah. they want to be a part of this player stuff. you know, it's that medicine man. yeah. yep. it's free to shoot. you pay for that. no it's free. come on man, how it's going to be on a shelf in a minute. diversify your portfolio man. that's what 40 taught me. how big is up at this point. shoot. tell them about it. how big is up at this point. how big is you p0i mean we have a headquarters here. i mean what do you mean how big. like it's worldwide, right. like you have philippines. you have other

places. yeah. one in new york, one in the philippines. am i missing any we in africa? yeah. you know what i mean. hawaii, baltimore. south. south bronx. yeah, yeah. how does that make you? good? god is good. god is good. how does that make you feel to see it? like, start from balboa to 30 years later? yeah, man, it feels really good to know that, you know, what started from the people, from the youth has blossomed and blew up, man, to go everywhere around this world and to touch people. yeah, yeah, it's amazing. that is amazing. and you're doing god's work and like. but why do you or why do youth join gangs anyways. i mean it's different now than it was back then, but it's almost the same. like, why do they join like, gangs? i mean, to be accepted. yeah. to be loved. it's more about acceptance and love. i mean, i can't speak for like as a whole. i can ask you, i can tell you why i did it. it was because i didn't feel loved at home. yeah,

my daddy did. 16 in the state. my mama raised four kids by herself, and i had the type of mom that go to work, bust her butt, come home, pay the bills, and it's like, have my house clean. but it wasn't like helping me go over my homework. it wasn't like the nurturing, the nurturing part didn't didn't come. you know, i love her to death, but the nurturing part didn't come. you know? so i ran to the streets and didn't get it there either. yeah, truth be told, didn't get it there. but that's what i was looking for. yeah. acceptance and love. you feel me? yeah. and i think a lot of kids just. it comes from making rational decisions. like, it's like, man, i don't feel the love inside the home. so let me go try to get it out here. and the whole time when you're out there, you're getting manipulated. you know, it's like manipulation is heartache. it's losing friends. it's bullet holes. it's doing stupid stuff. it's jail. it's like, you know. yeah. but to piggyback off what you said, i think it's just acceptance and love. when it comes down to it, you want to be a part of something? yeah. no

matter if it's positive or negative. just wanting to be a part of something. yeah, yeah, yeah, they definitely just want to have, like a sense of belonging and like feeling like they have some purpose. like if you ask the kids right now, like, you know, where do you see yourself or you know, what's your future like? all of them just want to, like, get money and like, you know and have and like have a good life, good, stable life. they just want a good job, you know, have a house, whatever they had, have food on their table. really. that's all what they really wan. and so we try to strive to, you know, push them to their highest level. you know, some kids will say like, you know, i'm only going to make it to high school. but with us being here, like, you can go to college. yeah. you know what i mean? like, you can be bigger than that, but but it's just the simple things that they want, really, is to just be able to, you know, have a good life. yeah. that's true. and how do you explain to the parents or tell them what the signs could be, if that these kids want to join gangs or anything? i've

never been in a situation where a student would want to join a gang, but if it ever had to come down to that, it would just be a simple. it would be like a check in and like, show them like that. the actions that they're taking where it could possibly lead. and you know, and like the resolutions that we could do to prevent that type of stuff going down that road is very is very dangerous. you you never know what's at the end of that road. and, and your life could be cut short when you, when you do those type of things. and i definitely think it's just, just that extra support and the extra, like love and showing that there's a positive side instead of having to join like a gang for just a sense of belonging or, you know, i think they also probably joined for like protection or like, like he said, like no love there. and they find it out there, but it's

really not real love. it's just for that moment. yeah. and i think that's the best way we could do it. just set up a plan and maybe take them out and see a different world. other than, you know, the street life. yeah. what other effective strategies do you guys have for to help the youth stay out of trouble? like, maybe it's not gang. maybe it's not gang life. maybe it's like, yeah, go ahead. just helping them identify their self. a lot of kids like when you when you're in middle school, high school like you lost. like you're trying to find your own identity, you know, and to interact with them. it's like it's more it's just having a conversation. it's one you being a mentor or you being older. you open up to them and get them to open up. it don't matter if it's like just a quick check in. if it's a i'm coming up to your school bringing you lunch, or if it's after school and we're running a boys group, or we run a boys group at at school during school hours, it's just as far as just checking in, helping

them identify their self, you know, and letting them know like you're not alone and you're not the first person that's going to deal with this issue, nor will you be the last to deal with this issue. so when it come up, we help them deal with it. so when they come up and you become in high school and you see a peer dealing with it, you can help them and walk them through the process. yeah. is it and it's not like it's like kind of like a 24 hour job, right? oh yeah. we get calls at night too. when we're at home i get i get calls, i get like for therapy, like i'm gonna get real for therapy. a lot of kids, y'all gonna laugh, but they call me at nine, 10:00. tell me. jump on the game. let's play madden. let's play twok. like that's therapy. yeah, yeah. you know, like that's really therapy. that's the fact that they feel comfortable even calling you after hours and telling you, come on, let's jump on a game. let's play. yeah. you know that. to me that's a form of therapy. you know, it's like. or if they just calling it can be calling like, man, i'm dealing with the issue. it's 10:00 and i'm dealing with an issue. or could you uber me here? i'm stuck. i'm stuck outside. could you uber me here or. i'm at home. i ain't got no food. could you. could you uber eats me some food, like all that is therapy, bro. and

it's comfortability. i want the kids to be comfortable to call me because we're humans. we just don't deal with a 9 to 5. a 9 to 5, okay? it intensify after 9 to 5. i learned that from big dog because after 9 to 5, when the sun go down, that's what it's lights, camera action. yeah. real talk. that's community. big facts. community. right. 24 seven 365 baby. yeah. so speaking of community, like how have you worked with like, the city, were you working directly with the city to help keep up alive or working within that partnership with the city to help you guys with your program? so what i learned doing this work is it's important in anything you build is relationships. yeah. right. and so having a city relationships is important. they can get you in places and doors where you can't get right. i used to hate the police and i had a reason why. but now some of the police, i hold them accountable. when we

work together because they work for us. just like, you know, our whole thing is about safety and prevention. of course you're going to need them. it's diplomatic to have them at the table with you. right. and some of them dudes who i met now were officers became cool. you know, some of my best friends. the chief is my partner. yeah. yeah, you know what i mean? and so i learned about relationships and having to build in order for us to get what we need to get, especially in the neighborhood and area we're in. it's important to have those relationships. yeah. you know, i'm trying to build bridges, not walls. yeah. you know, and at the same time, if there's city departments or people who are funders who are not with the mission or our movement, they're not going to miss them altogether. man. like the hiv virus, bro. yeah. you know what i mean? yeah. i'm for real about what we do. we are not no sellouts, you know what i mean? we are for real. we are here. our boots are on the ground. you know, we make sure. i make sure as an ed, no matter if it's the mayor, the supervisor, whoever everybody's being held accountable because we are the

people we elect them to work for us. you understand what i'm saying? and so i want to make it real clear, you know what the city departments and all them who's in action, they're all part of that chess board that that's on the table that we all need each other to make things work. yeah, i mean, they collab with you. they do. they collab with you when you do the gun buyback program, you want to talk about the gun buyback program? sure. i mean, the gun buyback was started 2012, i believe, when sandy hook happened. right. and so y'all know sandy hook or anyway, from that point, there was people who wanted to figure out how to get rid of guns without having to go into all the red tape. and so the first monday that i had was able to get didn't even come from the city. it came from dispensaries in the neighborhood and district six. we got the most dispensaries, and they was willing to put their money up. and so we got that. but when it started working, we had to build relationships with certain organizations to make it happen. i can't just get a gun. you pull

up and give me a pistol and you know, i'm an ex-felon. i can't i can't even own a gun. and so i had to get the right, proper people to do that. who was there? it was the gun range people from sfpd. so they jumped on board. i got the mamas who lost their kids to gun violence. right? i got ex-felons who did life sentences. we got the youth. we got all the pieces on the table to make it work. and now we've been getting over thousands of guns off the streets and destroying them. yeah, the number one killer right now in america for 19 years and younger are gun violence, suicide. right. domestic violence, black on black crime. brown on brown crime. a lot of people don't even know, man. how y'all was talking about the regulate their emotions and their feelings. right. first thing they do is go pick up a gun. they don't even know how to have a conversation with a woman when they argue and they just knock down, you know, and the number one rate of people growing, you know what culture is demographic is asians. is it. yeah. because, you know, a lot of asians are

getting robbed. that's true. they getting beat up. so they going to buy guns to protect themselves. get a gun. get a gu. protect yourself. they get the gun. but no. nobody tell them man. you got to put it in a safe lock. or when you get mad how you regulate your emotion, your feelings and guess what? when they get mad, they go right over and get their pistol man, go kill their wife, or they go to work and kill everybody at their job. yeah. so the high rate man of asians then rose up from gun violence, even though you're buying the gun to protect you and your family, you actually destroying your whole family and your community. wow. you know, so that's where the mental health comes in. like y'all doing the social emotional learning how to regulate everybody. we're all humans. we going to feel something. but how you going to deal with your feelings and your emotions when somebody makes you mad? yeah. you know how to go man. you know girl get you mad. your wife get you mad or your kid get you mad. you mad. you didn't worked all day. you upset and you, man, i'm going to go get my pistol. look at road rage, man. people going crazy, man. they follow you all

the way home. you know what i mean? and so? so it's a real high of mental health going on right now. that's true. do you want to talk about how how violence has evolved from. i feel like it was what was different because we're almost the same age, like physical and still physical, maybe. but now i feel like it's more mental. you want to talk about that? yeah. so yeah, i mean, you know, mental health is it's different because before you would just fight it out. so i don't think they do that no more. i feel like just it's like more mental. you make fun of each other, then everyone will gang up on that one person. it just messes up the bullying. the difference, the difference between the two is back in our day, right? like it's bullying, but it's only like 4 or 5 people. so if we fight only three, four people, this before the phones and stuff. yeah, yeah. only three, four people. then it's word of mouth. yeah. it intensified due to cyberbullying is i can be picking on vanessa, but now 50 to 100 people seen it. yeah. you feel me? then word of mouth spread and then a video. go viral, you know, and then it's

like, okay, now back, just go back to the tbe trying to identify emotional feelings. so now, i mean i'm more embarrassed because now you post a video of me up, now everybody can see a post of just one high school seeing it, and it's spreading through one high school. now, all the high schools in the city can see it because it's a video posted. right? so then that intensified the hurt, the anger. and then it's more like, man, how could i go get even how could i, how could i go get my lick back, you know, opposed to back in our era? it was just hard. we fight, we squabble. word of mouth. who won? he can say he won. i can say i won, but it's no. and it's just. all right. it gets swept under the rug. and then. and then you got a gun. you got access to guns where they're everywhere. you can make them off the computer. now. you got ghost guns, right? yeah. and you got war weapons. now you ain't got just regular the 38, you know what i mean? with the five bullets in them. you got something, man? with a clip in it and a switch, and you pop that thing, man. you gonna knock everybody down in this room with one squeeze of the

trigger, right? but i want to be real clear, though, jeremy. i am not against the second amendment. you got the right man to bear your arms. if somebody man runs up in your crib or harms your family, you got the right to protect you and your family. by all means. i'm not trying to say i'm getting rid of all guns. if i had a wand around this world and could do it all at one time because america got more guns here twice or triple times than we got people, i'd do that. but the reality is there's guns everywhere. that's true. you might be sitting on one. yeah, i might be. yeah, i feel i feel something. so for y'all like how has the experience of working. like what will you take with you for the rest of your lives working here and being a participant? would i take with me for the rest of my life, your life long lessons? i mean a lot a lot. you know, standing on your principles. you know, being true to yourself, you know, not selling your soul. you know, just being standing on your

toes. you know, standing on your ten toes, spreading love. just moving with the spirit of love. always like not operating off your ego and your pride and, you know, just spreading awareness and just being mindful. yeah. how about you? you. i'm a firm. i'm a firm believer of you're a product of the environment you choose. so by me coming over here, it was more of the family environment. i enhanced. i embraced it because i didn't have it growing up. you know, to a certain extent, i didn't have it growing up. so it's more of like the family atmosphere of it. the, the, the it takes a village to save it, to save a child like, you know, to raise a child like that's real. like, you know, because it's like when you're out there, you you can, like, get cold hearted because you're living in survival mode, not off love. you know, when i came here back in 2012, it was more like, damn, this is a nurturing environment. this is

love. like this is love. this is where people going to hold you accountable. people going to call you on your stuff, people going, people want what's best for you and people going to push you to do what's best for you. the key to it is pushing you to do what's best for you as a staff. if y'all pushing each other to do what's best for you, it ain't no doubt in my brain that we're doing the same thing for these kids. yeah. you know, and at the end of the day, those who control the kids mind control the future. it ain't no doubt in that hell. it ain't no doubt in that those who can control the kids mind control the future. rap songs and stuff that they listen to at times they control the kids brains and you see what the kids do. gang culture, pick up guns, shoot guns, ride around in groups, you know, and do that type of stuff. so i just feel like as far as here, what this has done to me, family atmosphere helped me stand on principles. morals helped me gain confidence in myself. not just in the kids, but confidence in myself and actually pushed me to actually want better for myself. my kids

come to the program with me. it was beautiful, like, you know, like beautiful. my kids come here with me. of course, if i, i would, i would always want my kids to be a part of something positive. you know? and due to the fact i made the wrong decision by not in high school, by not choosing it ain't no way in hell i'm going to let my kids do the same thing and make the same mistake i made. fax. that's beautiful. big facts about yourself. i think they all had such amazing points and i agree with that. i, i definitely also want to say like empathy and compassion. i feel like like everyone goes through some things and like, and that's oka. and just continuing to move with the spirit of love through everything. and, and that's, that's really it. and speaking of the spirit of love, how does religion play a part in if any? and you guys rule? i feel like that religion and believing in

something within this kind of like community always is very strong. i feel like it don't matter if you pray to allah. it don't matter if you prays to god. it don't matter what god you prays to because to each his own. but it is a god. you feel me? it is a god. and god woke us up this morning. god put us all on the same page and god bring us together collectively every wednesday to have staff meeting here based off for the kids. it all comes down to for the kids, you know, and spiritually. spiritually, you can feel the vibe. you can tell when somebody's vibe off based off body language, based off being able to read the room based off, oh, he acting different today. now let me go reach out to him. yeah. hey. how you doing today? you need help. you need a hug. you straight? how can i help you? i can tell your vibe off. and when you do a staff member like that, or even with the kids like that, that just let you know you're loved. yeah. feel me? so when you pay spiritually, it's just about being loved, you

know? and that's going back to what we talked about before. everybody want to be loved. people make decisions based off of wanting to be accepted and who don't want to be accepted by love. yeah, i'll speak on that. like difficult times. and how does religion like it seems like people go through really difficult times become really closer to god. yeah. so to me, religion is a terminology and word that i feel is something i can't relate with because i've been through a lot of different religions, whether it was raised as a catholic or went to the kingdom halls, or even studied with the noi. right? i believe it's about a relationship with a higher power. like you said, there is a god. jesus christ is my lord and savior, straight up 100 million. that's who i accep. and to each his own. like be said, you know what i mean. some people serve man, you know, the moon or the sun or the devil as

my savior, jesus christ, i believe man that's. and i know for a fact that's what put me in a position where i'm at now with my purpose on this planet. and i'm very honored. i'm very honored that i'm very that i'm in a position i know where my purpose in my life is because you got to have direction. yeah. and it gave me life. it gave me direct. this is my life. saved my job no more. yeah. this is my life. all day, every day. you know what i mean? yeah. 365 24 seven. i live it, i breathe it, but i thank god every morning when i wake up and at night before i go to sleep. and many times in the middle, you know what i'm saying? and thank him and honor him when it's good and when it's bad. yeah. and so from the beginning, when all this transpired, you'll be surprised what i have seen god done to evolve the evolution of what up is now, you know, i'm a cat from the south of market who come from the trenches, who now has

an organization. i used to. i used to be the leader of my gang in this neighborhood. we had a little gang, man. we were colored like this burgundy with skulls on the back. little kids all coming up. but i was the leader and i always ran. i always led with passion, you know what i mean? and i always led man with that spirit. yeah. and to this day, even when we started back october in 2000, i mean, 1994, we always prayed with all the thugs. that's who jesus was with. he was with the thugs. he was with the killers, the robbers, the steelers, the prostitutes. that's what the whole bible, the story is. bible basic instructions before leaving earth. that's the manual of life. and that's what he did, man. he gave the spirit to the thugs and all them. and they wrote that book the best selling book that's out that is free, that most people don't even open. see, we all guarantee one thing in life with two, pay your taxes. and guess what else to

die? because while death, life has no meaning. and if you do not have that spiritual food because you got people walking all around there, you see it. they alive, right? but they're not living. you have to have some spiritual food in your life because man can't live on bread alone. man, y'all got me sound like a preacher up in this camp. you know what i mean? but all the way from the beginning, jeremy, we praying in. and to this day. what do we do when we have our wednesday meetings? we pray in and we pray out. come on, man, it's always been god, god, god, the biggest gangster on this planet. because what's his name? start with b jesus christ g. god. yeah. that's why we're. that's why you're so blessed, rudy. and you're so blessed to have you. not a place i'm blessed, you know. and prayer really works. god is real. i've. you know, i've prayed. i don't go to church, but my relationship with god is what's important to me. my relationship with my ancestors

is more important to me. but like i've seen my prayers manifest into real life, and so just having that faith in god just keeps me going and keeps me blessed. amen, amen. you ain't sitting on a gun. you sitting on a bible because this is actually what we have. our service in this room. yeah, i can feel it on my mama. she in heaven. and speaking of that, like so, uncle rudy, how much has uncle rudy made an impact in your lives? i ain't uncle hold up, man, i ain't that old yet. hold on. i still outrun everybody in this room. i hear people call you uncle rudy. so i'm. yeah, i ain't gonna. i'm gonna say he touched more lives than you can imagine. more lives than you can imagine. and mine based off just being there for me, giving me opportunity. give me a second chance, you know, to work with kids, you know? and me working with kids helped me regrow my heart. so i don't even like

adults. i'm a kid. i don't like adults. adults are manipulative. adults are conniving, and adults can can be very misleading. as far as kids, i feel like the kids can't do no harm for me. the kids can be corrected and i feel like it's a blessing. he gave me opportunity and i took it and ran with it, took it and ran with it. i'm forever blessed and, you know, just just having a positive person in your life, you know, you can be feeling down and you can go have a conversation with him. you're gonna leave out that room with high spirits. you feel me with high spirits? yeah. he's just based off the message he give you. yeah, he helped me a lot. he helped me a lot. and i'm very grateful. it's beautiful. far from appreciative. far from unappreciative. yeah. it's beautiful. yeah. yeah. uncle rudy, he's always be speaking life into me, into everybody. and i feel like, you know that

that really does take me to a higher place when i feel really down and stuff. and i feel like, you know, you give everybody an opportunity to, like, reinvent themselves and to be able to, you know, be a brand new person every day. and that, like you, you don't even like, look at the past of, like, who you used to be or who they used to be. you just see the greater good into people. and i feel like, you know, everybody's here for a reason. and you see exactly why. and like, yeah, like you've just been there. you be there when i'm down and out when i'm up and happy. even my mama call you sometimes, you know, you know it's all love all the time. you got the flip phone flip i want that call. yeah, yeah, i like that. thank you. thank you for your kind words. awesome.

beautiful. so, i mean, what would that said? like seeing how many lives you change. what are your what is your hopes for the future of united players? and do you have any other upcoming like works coming in like more partnerships with like what do you what's your hopes for the for up 30 more years to eternity for life by more buildings, by more buildings, maybe have our own recreational center one day so we can have our own creator up high school. oh yeah. you know how to play high, higher. that'd be cool. take a more global. that's right. yeah. wherever god takes us, that's where we're going and keep leading. so what i've learned from this, this conversation is that there is a definitely there's a definite future for the youth with you guys as the leaders and the of our community, especially soma. and you're in good hands with rudy. i wish they had this when i was

young. they didn't have that when i was growing up in in the east bay, like near richmond, vallejo, hercules. i mean, we had a lot of gang violence, and i had a lot of friends that were also, like affected by gangs and didn't make it out of their their teenage years. so it would have been beautiful to have that. so i'm so thankful that just for our community and for just for life, that we have something like up, because we didn't have that growing up. and to know that there's an organization like this that's going global, it's being recognized by everybody. yeah. and you're saving lives. i mean, there's still people that are going to fall through the cracks, but you guys are doing your very best to catch them. and so i'm very thankful to have learned from each of your stories here from everybody. definitely feel the love and just thankful. next time we do this, we'll have like a lechon and lumpia. we'll do a dinuguan. thank you for having us. yeah. thank you, thank you, thank you for letting our voice be heard. yes. let me phrase it that way.

yeah, well, thank you for being a voice for the community. it's beautiful. so. yeah. thanks again. for. >> >> >> >> >> my name is bal. born and

raised in san francisco. cable car equipment, technically i'm a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car (indiscernible) and been here for 22 years now. i grew up around here when i was a little can i. my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the

emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. joking. this is called a barn because everything takes place here and the powerhouse is -- that's

downstairs so that's the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a title there saying the barn. since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now it's electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. yeah. >> i am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. and we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and that's causing the little extra noise we're hearing now. we have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. then with have two in storage. there's four gear boxes. it's gears of

the motor. they weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. we did the whole barn that year so it's difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brand-new. engineer's room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. that sound you heard there, that's a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. the cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. the cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the cable. it's a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and they pull it back. the cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so it's heavy, emergency

pulling it offer the hill. if it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and it's a billion pushing the grip which is pushing the whole cable car and there's no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. a lot of maintenance. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪

>> rail was considered to be the old thing. rubber tires, cars, buses, that's new. there were definitely faster and cheaper, there's no question about that. here at san francisco, we went through the same thing. the mayor decided we don't need cable cars (indiscernible), blah, blah. we can replace them with buses. they are faster and cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. he was right. >> back in 1947 when they voted that, i'm surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. that was the headline. that was the demise of the cable cars. >> (indiscernible) came along and said, stop. no. no, no, no. she was the first one to say we're going to fight city hall. she got her friends together and they started from a group called

the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. are we going to keep the cable cars or not? head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. this is just a bunch -- the city came out and said basically, 3-1, if i'm not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. and literately if it wasn't for them, there would be no cable cars. people saw something back then that we see today that you can't get rid of a beautiful and it wasn't a historical monument at the time and now it is, and it was part of san francisco. yeah, we had freight back then. we don't have that anymore. this is the number one tourist attraction in san francisco. it's historic and the only national moving monument in the world. >> the city of san francisco did

keep the cable car so it's a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of san francisco. and obviously, everyone knows san francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of san francisco, but thank god it didn't. >> how soon has the city changed? the diverse of cable cars -- when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the first cable car. we have three or four being a grip person. fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. >> i want to thank our women who

operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. we have wonderful women -- come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what it's about. continuing to empower women. >> my name is willa johnson is and i've been at cable car for 13 years. i came to san francisco when i was five years old. and that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a christmas tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didn't ride again until i worked here. i was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a change. some people don't do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came

over to cable car in 2008. it was a general sign up and that's when you can go to different divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. there were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a different division and cable car was it. i do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to represent the cable car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so it's exciting to know you can go from

not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. >> i have some people say i wouldn't make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. it's a good division. and i like ripping cable cars. i do. >> i think she just tapped into the general feeling that san francisco tend to have of, this is ours, it's special, it's unique. economically and you know, a rationale sense, does it make sense? not really. but from here, if you think from here, no, we don't need this but if you think from here, yeah.

and it turns out she was right. so.... and i'm grateful to her. very grateful. [laughter] >> three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] >> did i -- i did that on purpose so i wouldn't. ♪ [ music ] ♪

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