the d.p.a. director. >> clerk: item 1(a), chief's report. item 1(b), d.p.a. report. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening, director henderson. >> good evening. that's a lot. we have a lot on the calendar tonight and a lot from d.p.a. specifically, so i just want to do the overview in terms of cases open and my staff's, we are at 346, so we are at a higher number now than we were last year, when we were at 306. we have 296 cases that are pending versus last year, we were at 363 cases that were pending. and cases that are mediated, i do want to talk about that a little bit because we are at 12 this year, and we were at 14 last year. but as you know, i've been revamping and expanding the mediation. i've hired two specific employees to focus on the mediation. those numbers are going to go up, but i want to talk about that just briefly. right now, we have 40 cases in the pipeline that are in mediation. they're just working their way through the process. those

i spoke on d.p.a. at salesforce on august 2, and then, on august 3, i hosted in the office 14 to 18-year-old students from the bayview came in to learn and hear more about d.p.a. these are some of the same kids that came last year that i invite today do an assessment of the services at d.p.a. to give us feedback on reception, our lobby, many of the improvements that the kids had made, so we're doing that again this year just to see and evaluate how our -- how we receive complaints and receive the public into our offices. on august 4, we participated in the mo magic backpack give away, and on august 7, we participated in the national night out event. those were events all over the city. i know it's on the record. again, i'm not going to, unless anyone would like me to read the only annual report, it's only 30 page. >> i'm invoking the julius turman rule. no. >> i did pass them out for everyone. they are available now, and there are copies on the table there. they are also available in full length on the

i do know d.p.a. has the second half of the presentation in conjunction with the sparks report. >> commissioner mazzucco: we can move through the second half and then we'll have questions. >> good evening, commissioners, chief scott, deputy director henderson and members of the community. it's my pleasure to be able to talk tonight about four main policy projects we've been working on for quite sometime, but we took the time to not only give you a cover highlights of those four policy projects but also to give you an indepth recommendations. and a few of them also have action items for this commission, so those four areas are use of force review, interactions with deaf and hard of hearing individuals, some language access recommendations, as well as reports provided to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking and el der abuse. so to start with our number one priority, it involves a robust review of use of force incidents. and when the d.o.j. reviewed the firearm discha

to the agency has been invaluable, and her contributions, not just to the work that's being done at d.p.a. but her contributions to the mayor's office and her work with this commission specifically with the close support that she provided to julius and the rest of the commission during complicated at best events, including d.o.j. roll out, has been invaluable. it seems almost surreal to me that we are having this conversation. i'm not sure if this is a salary negotiation that we're doing here, but i -- i would say that if there is a possibility to keep rania here with us, i will say that there's candy up here if that will make any difference for you to stay, under whatever circumstances, but i do want to acknowledge what a meaningful contribution your work has been to all of our lives and all of this work. we are a better city, we are a safer city because of the work that you've contributed to us over the years, and we are very sorry to see you go. and at the very least, you should extend it at least six months. >> commissioner hirsch? >> i guess i'm the only one that's glad you're leavin

i have to tell you, i'm extremely interested in the d.p.a., particularly as it indicates to reporting requirements between this commission and the sfpd, going forward, i would like to see if there's any real accountability, something that the public can see besides dry numbers. i have regularly attended meetings of the ethics commission and after ten years of attendance don't know of a single thing they have done to improve the ethics of this city government. they shuffle papers, kill huge number of trees and only manage to shuffle events. i've likened it to shuffling deck chairs on the titanic. they have no enforcement power and can only recommend that the offending parties take action against themselves. it's ridiculous. will the p.d.a. actually achieve any level of account ability? that's the open question. and to finish out, i'd like to talk about page seven of the annual report where it talks about mediation. under the old o.c.c., i brought this up a couple times and was told by members of the police commission i was wrong until the last o.c.c. commissioner said no, mr. harts is

d.p.a. just sent out a report and their report for their complaints is .33% of the allegations are race-based complaints out of 2,000 allegations. this doesn't mean that we -- we take that as being, you know, the bar that is set. what we say is that right now the department with the d.o.j. recommendations we're trying to really work towards understanding the data and when supervisor cohen put forward 96a in regards to the collection of data, that really started us on that path of understanding that the need for the collection of the data and analyzing of the data -- >> supervisor peskin: excuse me, can you explain the bars, what about this... >> the sayizations and then -- the citations and the warnings that we give people. >> so the citations a are the r. >> off to the side which does not count into these numbers that you see to your right is the 1548 warnings that the traffic company put out. and we changed our data collection system from crossroads to e-citations and so with that it could

why it is not -- why d.p.a. or m.t.w. doesn't work more with the merchants in the area is beyond me. and if m.t.a. or d.p.w. was a small business, i don't think they would survive with how they act. it's like they do one project, and then, they tear the whole street up again, and they do another project. it should be more concentrated. and since we do have the highest minimum wage but also the highest cost of living, i implore the small business commission to encourage when we're building this affordable housing that a percentage of it goes to people who work in the neighborhood to encourage small businesses to have employees, to keep our costs down, do business better, and ensure that our businesses keep ongoing. thanks very much. >> thanks very much. >> hi there. i'm bob quinones. i'm the executive director of the counsel of merchant organization, and i also run the west portal merchants. we touched on a lot of -- i was on the policy transition team, as well, and we touched on a lot of great points. i just want to highl