bill scott chief scott, who i know is very resourceful. what he has told you about redeployment.ng is for the interests of the public can make everybody safe. um i truly hope. dad the officers say, hey, we don't want to do this. we understand this, but the shortage is going to cause an impact. we already know nationwide. homicides have gone up in this country. ever since this pandemic. we don't need crime too slowly or rapidly started increasing and i think this is an absolute, um great plan by him to redeploy re ship realign. and get the horses out there because the bottom line is truly to protect the public upon whom we have all along, enforcement, taking the duty and an old to perform. all right. let's talk big picture about about the vaccination issue when it comes to law enforcement. you know the rates of officers being vaccinated in our bay area departments relatively high. we should point that out. but there are a lot of other cities as you well know, across the country where those vaccination rates are extremely low. according to the national law enforcement officers memo

folks who have been really on the ground addressing these issues for decades, our police chief bill scott who is with us as well. we just had a very productive discussion on how we can continue to combat hate crimes by working together. we know that there's no short cut to this work and finding the root cause and solutions will require a continuous work in these and continuous conversations of sharing of ideas not just when something happens, but also proactively when something isn't happening. to address hate crimes at their core, we need buy-in from local community support from law enforcement and a commitment from all levels of government here in san francisco. we're steadfast in ensuring that every community is heard and protected. whether it is work around violence, prevention, and racial justice, our partners have experience and have worked tirelessly and collaboratively with 1 another to combat these issues. today, as i said, we are in visitation valley because we remember when grandma wang as she was brutally attacked almost two years just a block away from here at the visitation

today the mayor joined police chief bill scott to talk about a new plan to crack down on retail theft. the mayor warning if you commit a crime like this, there will be consequences. our reporter kate larson is breaking down the new strategy. kate: when it comes to rampant retail theft, the mayor said not to mistake san francisco's kindness. we cannot continue to allow what we see as lawlessness to dominate our city. we are better than this. >> the mayor and police a man who has since been arrested shoplifting a garbage bag full of items from a walgreens. >> people then start fearing crime even if they haven't been victimized. >> the retail crime you -- unit has been expanded from two to six full-time investigators. when filing a there will be an opportunity to include a suspect description. >> in the meantime, a lot of it is the eye test. if you are out shopping or doing what you do in this city and you are seeing these things occur, we want you to see less of it. we don't want you to see it at all. >> surveillance video shows helpless store employees watch the steel $10,000 worth of

police chief bill scott's has extra officers are now patrolling chinatown and are seeing improvements>> a lot of that increased deployment has been over time staffing. the good thing is is where the officers have been deployed, crime has decreased. >> police gave out advice, prizes, and food. those attending say this night out was just what was needed. >> there is a lot of fear in the community, worries, a lot of seniors afraid to get out of their house. that is why it is more important we are at this type of event. >> an organized event like this only gives us hope. >> j.r. stone, abc 7 news. >> now to today's covid-19 headlines. vaccine developer nora vax is testing a combined flu-coronavirus back in in australia. united airlines announced those without -- religious exemptions will be placed on temporary unpaid leave next month. staff granted medical exemptions will be played on temporary medical leave. the who is calling on rich countries to hold off on offering booster shots until the end of the year. to make more vaccines available for or countries. all nine bay area county healt

chief bill scott is now preparing to reshuffle assignments ahead of the pd's october 13th dealine for other city workers the vaccination deadline is today. a live look at sfo this midday. air travelers may soon face new covid restrictions on domestic flights. this is just in time for holiday travel season. last year covid spiked during the holidays and this year millions more americans will fly. the hope is to end the trend and senator dianne feinstein says in a quote, in part, i introduced legislation requiring passengers on domestic flights to be vaccinated, test negative, or be fully recovered from a previous covid illness. that bill now has to work its way through congress before the faa establishes new protocols. >>> the changeover now complete in san francisco. this is where san francisco's city attorney's office, assembly member david chu has been appointed to replace outgoing dennis herrera who served 20 years as city attorney, moving out to lead the city public utilities commission. chu plans to vacate his seat the end of the month and a special election will be held within 1

sfpd chief bill scott has been supportive of alternative responses, but he doesn't want to see his department's budget cut for it. the chief told me this needs to be a conversation about police and reform. not one or the other. so we've lost. we've lost more officers than we've been able to hire, which is a challenge for us and. our budget. um it we. had some of our budgetary cuts restored. not all the some, which was encouraging for us because last year as you might recall, you know, we had money that was re re three funded to support the african american community, which i said, man, and i say now. no that was definitely necessary. um we lost more officers than we thought we lose. and you know the overtime cuts, although you know we had to make the adjustments after the budget was cut. as to where these cuts were. some of these decisions were made for us. um this year we advocated to restore some of that. you know, like overtime. we we've seen increases in crime this year. violent crime homicides. we were up last year in homicides and. we started the year off in a really, really bad place in

we have chief bill scott. michael lambert, our city librarian. our board m.t.a. board of directors sharon lye. linda sue. rafael. we've got a ton of women leaders here i just wanted to recognize. maggie wheeland. and virginia don hue. thank you so much for being here with us today. [ applause ] now, it's getting hot so please bear with me two mr. speakers and you're going to see it's worthwhile. two speakers. the first one is going to be kimberly ellis. she has started with the city not long ago as leading the helm on the department of status and women. she's no stranger to the women's empowerment. kimberly. [ applause ] >> each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women those, of course, were the words of the incomparable maya angelo. the women here today stand up for ourselves, for each other and for all the women who will come after us. good afternoon everyone. i'm kimberly ellis. i'm the director for the department of the status on women. our mission is to promote the equitable treatment of women and girls and nonbinary people with a part

folks who have been really on the ground addressing these issues for decades, our police chief bill scott who is with us as well. we just had a very productive discussion on how we can continue to combat hate crimes by working together. we know that there's no short cut to this work and finding the root cause and solutions will require a continuous work in these and continuous conversations of sharing of ideas not just when something happens, but also proactively when something isn't happening. to address hate crimes at their core, we need buy-in from local community support from law enforcement and a commitment from all levels of government here in san francisco. we're steadfast in ensuring that every community is heard and protected. whether it is work around violence, prevention, and racial justice, our partners have experience and have worked tirelessly and collaboratively with 1 another to combat these issues. today, as i said, we are in visitation valley because we remember when grandma wang as she was brutally attacked almost two years just a block away from here at the visitation

police chief bill scott's has extra officers are now patrolling chinatown and are seeing improvements>> a lot of that increased deployment has been over time staffing. the good thing is is where the officers have been deployed, crime has decreased. >> police gave out advice, prizes, and food. those attending say this night out was just what was needed. >> there is a lot of fear in the community, worries, a lot of seniors afraid to get out of their house. that is why it is more important we are at this type of event. >> an organized event like this only gives us hope. >> j.r. stone, abc 7 news. >> now to today's covid-19 headlines. vaccine developer nora vax is testing a combined flu-coronavirus back in in australia. united airlines announced those without -- religious exemptions will be placed on temporary unpaid leave next month. staff granted medical exemptions will be played on temporary medical leave. the who is calling on rich countries to hold off on offering booster shots until the end of the year. to make more vaccines available for or countries. all nine bay area county healt

we have chief bill scott. michael lambert, our city librarian. our board m.t.a. board of directors sharon lye. linda sue. rafael. we've got a ton of women leaders here i just wanted to recognize. maggie wheeland. and virginia don hue. thank you so much for being here with us today. [ applause ] now, it's getting hot so please bear with me two mr. speakers and you're going to see it's worthwhile. two speakers. the first one is going to be kimberly ellis. she has started with the city not long ago as leading the helm on the department of status and women. she's no stranger to the women's empowerment. kimberly. [ applause ] >> each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women those, of course, were the words of the incomparable maya angelo. the women here today stand up for ourselves, for each other and for all the women who will come after us. good afternoon everyone. i'm kimberly ellis. i'm the director for the department of the status on women. our mission is to promote the equitable treatment of women and girls and nonbinary people with a part

the bill is authored by state senator scott wiener. it would address the city's overdose and methamphetamine crisis it would provide drug sobering centers and treatment. when they're at this meth, sobering centre. they're just not going to be at this sobering centre sitting alone by themselves. there'll be people there to provide moral support to provide counseling to provide alternatives and to try and help them get back on their feet. there's no word on whether or not the governor plans to sign the bill into law. the san francisco board of supervisors will vote next week on a controversial housing development. let's get this building up, don't you think? yeah city planning commission approved plans in july to renovate the grubstake diner on pine street near polk. that project would include constructing 21 units of housing above the restaurant owners that her neighborhood condo complex are appealing, saying the building will impact their light and views. the owners at the austin all scientists closures that stated the grubstake would

bill scott says extra officers are patrolling time -- chinatown. julian: san francisco city leaders are encouraging you to get back on buses and trains. the mayor joined elected leaders and transportation officials and community members to kickoff transit month. townhall members are brainstorming ideas on how to make public transit more efficient. the mayor says she knows there is room for improvement. >> we know it has been challenging to deliver to san franciscans the service the city deserves. we are saying take public transit and use public transit but we have to make sure it is reliable, safe, clean. julian: transportation officials expect community service to return to 85% of pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year. -- is trying to cut covid-19 risk for students by having them do power lunches. starting this week, from the time students sit down until they leave, they get a grand total of exactly 14 minutes to remove their mask and eat their lunch. 15 minutes, stricter state light -- guidelines for quarantines kick in. the adaptation was

also here tonight, we have chief bill scott from the san francisco police department and director paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> president cohen: thank you. all right. let's jump right in. item 1. >> clerk: item 1, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa personnel. members of the public who want to make public comment, dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146-755-8477, press pound, and pound again. at this time, if you'd like to make public comment, please press star, three. commissioner, we have a number of public comments. >> president cohen: excellent. let's hear from the public now. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, commissioners. glad to have you back. i'm calling in to talk about the conduct, actually, of one of your commissioners. commissioner hamas

with that, i want to introduce our chief bill scott who can talk more about the program and answer any questions. >> thank you mayor breed. as the mayor said, we've been challenged and these retail theft crimes, they impact us all and you don't have to be directly impacted by this. you go into your favorite retailer whether it's a community business or a large national brand retailer, your experience is important and if you shop in the city, if you live in the city, if you work in the city, if you play in the city, your experience is important. it's important to this mayor. it's important to us. and it's important to the people that we've talked to. so i'm going to go into little bit of detail how we intend to make things better. as the mayor said, we first of all had to sit down and had to really make a plan to rise to this occasion because it is challenging and when these things happen and they get captured on cellphone video, they do go viral and then it makes it even worse because then people then start fearing crime even if they haven't been victimized and we have to address that

francisco's visitation valley neighborhood battle was joined by mayor london breed police chief bill scottught a plans to hold 13 discussions like this across the state on the subject of hate crimes. he says that he wants to develop strategies to address the problem and improve law enforcement response. this right? no community is immune. as we know, we certainly are well aware of the huge increases in a p a anti ap i hate violence and hate crimes, but our black community our latino community are sikh community. muslim community jewish community are lgbtq community, our community disability community have all suffered last year, california experienced a 30. the 1% increase in reported hate crimes. but today we learn more details about president biden's upcoming trip to california next week, according to the white house. he is scheduled to travel to sacramento on monday to discuss the state's damaging wildfires, and that he will go to long beach to rally support for governor newsom visit comes the day before the recall election. newsome told reporters that he is humbled the president will c

they'll get immunized only severing them from city employment as the last option to police chief bill scott last week, saying the city would be going ahead with disciplinary action against eight employees who failed to disclose their vaccination status in august, and he's standing by city leaders. in urging his officers to get vaccinated. we're gonna global pandemic where over 600,000. people have lost their lives. we all have to do our part. and again, you know our leadership, the mayor. has been very clear on what she wants to see from all of her departments. we have reached out to san francisco police officers association. in a statement, president tony montoya said quote the san francisco police officers association is meeting and conferring with the city on the impacts to officers stemming from the vaccine mandate, and this includes religions and medical exemptions. and the process to grant or deny them. we believe the best solution is for employees to either test weekly or get vaccinated. those discussions are ongoing. we're live in san francisco christian captain ktvu, fox two news.

just this morning, police chief bill scott said the department will commit more officers to help stop the crime. the department will use off duty officers to provide security at stores with the most need. it will also expand the community ambassador program and increase its retail crime unit from 2 to 6. full time officers. to increase that unit from 2 to 6 investigators. uh, it will do wonders. because we have more capacity to investigate these cases and we have some really good investigations going and we expect really good outcomes in terms of arrest from these investigations that we have ongoing. the department is also implementing new ways for victims and businesses to report these steps. the chief says. that will allow the department to collect more data to know where officers are needed. the most. sanders a firefighters are investigating a deadly house fire. the first engines pulled up to a fire on sherbrooke way right near farrington drive. just after eight o'clock last night, firefighters were able to get this one under control in just about an hour when they later went insid

bonjour was joined by mayor of london breed police chief bill scott, another city and community leadersold 13 discussions like this one all across the state on the subject. of hate crimes. he says he wants to develop strategies to address the problem and improve law enforcement response. no community is immune. as we know, we certainly are well aware of the huge increases in a p a anti ap i hate violence and hate crimes, but our black community our latino community are sikh community. muslim community jewish community are lgbtq community, our community disability community have all suffered. last year, california experienced and alarming 31% overall increase in reported hate crimes. things are about to change in berkeley with new covid mandates going into effect tomorrow. coming up here on the floor, we'll talk live with berkeley's mayor about what everyone will need to do before entering some businesses. president biden announcing new vaccine mandates and his latest plan to combat the coronavirus, some more in blanchard in washington, more on who he's your eyes. beautiful on the outsid

they'll get immunized only severing them from city employment as the last option to police chief bill scott last week, saying the city would be going ahead with disciplinary action. against eight employees who failed to disclose their vaccination status in august, and he's standing by city leaders in urging his officers to get vaccinated. we're in a global pandemic. we're over 600,000 people have lost their lives. we all have to do our part. and again, you know our leadership, the mayor. has been very clear on what she wants to see from all of her departments are we have reached out to san francisco's police officers association. in a statement, president tony montoya said quote the san francisco police officers association is meeting and conferring with the city on the impacts to officers. stemming from the vaccine mandate, and this includes religions and medical exemptions and the process to grant or deny them. we believe the best solution is for employees to either test weekly or get vaccinated. those discussions are ongoing. in san francisco christian captain ktvu fox two news. a new su

they'll get immunized only severing them from city employment as the last option to police chief bill scott last week, saying the city would be going ahead with disciplinary action. against eight employees who failed to disclose their vaccination status in august, and he's standing by city leaders in urging his officers to get vaccinated. we're in a global pandemic. we're over 600,000 people have lost their lives. we all have to do our part. and again, you know our leadership, the mayor. has been very clear on what she wants to see from all of her departments are we have reached out to san francisco's police officers association. in a statement, president tony montoya said quote the san francisco police officers association is meeting and conferring with the city on the impacts to officers. stemming from the vaccine mandate, and this includes religions and medical exemptions and the process to grant or deny them. we believe the best solution is for employees to either test weekly or get vaccinated. those discussions are ongoing. in san francisco christian captain ktvu fox two news. californ

state attorney general rob bonta mayor london breed temperatures go police chief bill scott and otherleaders are participating in the discussion happening in the city's visitation valley neighborhood this kicks off a series of discussions led by the attorney general across the state on this topic. climbs to says he works to develop strategies improve law enforcement response to it thank you for calling. no community is immune as we know are we certainly are well aware of- the huge increases in apr anti api hate violence and hate crimes but our black community our our latino community r. r. c. community muslim community jewish community are are- lgbtq community. our community did. community have all. suffered last year california experienced an alarming 31% overall increase in reported hate crimes i north bay tradition is back for many hiking to get a pancake breakfast on top of montana pies is a much love tradition and well worth the effort the pandemic but the pancakes on hold but this sunday the griddle will be hot once again ktbs claudine wong takes us to the west point in for this

they'll get immunized only severing them from city employment as the last option to police chief bill scott last week, saying the city would be going ahead with disciplinary action against eight employees who failed to disclose their vaccination status in august, and he's standing by city leaders. in urging his officers to get vaccinated. we're gonna global pandemic where over 600,000. people have lost their lives. we all have to do our part. and again, you know our leadership, the mayor. has been very clear on what she wants to see from all of her departments. we have reached out to san francisco's police officers association and in a statement, president tony montoya said quote the san francisco police officers association is meeting and conferring with the city on the impacts to officers. stemming from the vaccine mandate, and this includes religions and medical exemptions and the process to grant or deny them. we believe the best solution is for employees to either test weekly or get vaccinated. those discussions are ongoing. we're live in san francisco. christian captain ktvu fox. two

folks who have been really on the ground addressing these issues for decades, our police chief bill scott us as well. we just had a very productive discussion on how we can continue to combat hate crimes by working together. we know that there's no short cut to this work and finding the root cause and solutions will require a continuous work in these and continuous conversations of sharing of ideas not just when something happens, but also proactively when something isn't happening. to address hate crimes at their core, we need buy-in from local community support from law enforcement and a commitment from all levels of government here in san francisco. we're steadfast in ensuring that every community is heard and protected. whether it is work around violence, prevention, and racial justice, our partners have experience and have worked tirelessly and collaboratively with 1 another to combat these issues. today, as i said, we are in visitation valley because we remember when grandma wang as she was brutally attacked almost two years just a block away from here at the visitation valley playg

we have chief bill scott. michael lambert, our city librarian. our board m.t.a. board of directors sharon lye. linda sue. rafael. we've got a ton of women leaders here i just wanted to recognize. maggie wheeland. and virginia don hue. thank you so much for being here with us today. [ applause ] now, it's getting hot so please bear with me two mr. speakers and you're going to see it's worthwhile. two speakers. the first one is going to be kimberly ellis. she has started with the city not long ago as leading the helm on the department of status and women. she's no stranger to the women's empowerment. kimberly. [ applause ] >> each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women those, of course, were the words of the incomparable maya angelo. the women here today stand up for ourselves, for each other and for all the women who will come after us. good afternoon everyone. i'm kimberly ellis. i'm the director for the department of the status on women. our mission is to promote the equitable treatment of women and girls and nonbinary people with a part

folks who have been really on the ground addressing these issues for decades, our police chief bill scottst had a very productive discussion on how we can continue to combat hate crimes by working together. we know that there's no short cut to this work and finding the root cause and solutions will require a continuous work in these and continuous conversations of sharing of ideas not just when something happens, but also proactively when something isn't happening. to address hate crimes at their core, we need buy-in from local community support from law enforcement and a commitment from all levels of government here in san francisco. we're steadfast in ensuring that every community is heard and protected. whether it is work around violence, prevention, and racial justice, our partners have experience and have worked tirelessly and collaboratively with 1 another to combat these issues. today, as i said, we are in visitation valley because we remember when grandma wang as she was brutally attacked almost two years just a block away from here at the visitation valley playground. grandma wan