thank you. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. we're all excited when commissioner elias shows up anywhere. >> i agree. i feel the same way. >> commissioner hamasaki: thanks again, captain falzone. >> president cohen: thank you. i wish people were excited. >> i'm excited. you know i am. >> vice president elias: no, i had a great time. thank you. >> president cohen: great. we'll deploy commissioner elias to the p.o.a. i'm sure they'll be excited to see her there, too. >> good choice. >> president cohen: all right. i'm kidding, tony. please don't text me or call me tomorrow. sergeant, what's next on the agenda? >> clerk: we now have public comment. the public is welcome to call in and press pound, three or dial star, three to make public comment. looks like we do not have any callers for public comment. so the next line item is line item 7, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below: closed session, including public comment on item 8, vote whether to hold item 9 in closed session. >> president cohen: any public comment

commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: yes. thank you, president cohen. there was a couple of issues that i wanted to raise and put on the department and the chief's radar that have been -- kind of came up to me over the holidays, and it's -- it's regarding the department's relationship with the district attorney. i know there's definitely been some disagreements, but where that has impacted public safety, i think it's an issue that we need to look at and kind of put behind what are those differences are so that it's a healthy working relationship because it's a codependent relationship. each side needs each other, and if we're not working together well, it's something that needs to be brought up to the city. somebody reported a property crime said they were told, well, you can file a report, but the d.a.s not going to do anything about it because it's -- chesa's a radical or whatnot. and i've spoken to another individual, and i've heard that has been -- that's not a single incident, so i don't kn

commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen. just to follow up, actually, on everything president cohen has said, i always have mixed thoughts about the auto burgs because i do understand how resource halfy it is to actually investigate a pile of broken glass on the side of the road and also the fact that this is -- what we're seeing here is pretty much consistent numbers with other similarly situated cities in california. is that accurate, chief scott, as far as the rise in auto burgs? >> yes. so i'll break it down real quickly. as far as the pandemic, we are seeing similar trends, as well. actually, over the last couple of years, where our auto burglaries have decreased, some of our surrounding cities have actually gone up, and some have gone up significantly. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. good to know. yeah, this is always good to know because it's such a nightmare for the residents to come out and find a pile of broken glass and things missing. if anybody here, it hasn't happened to them, you're very lucky, but it's certai

thank you. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you.xcited when commissioner elias shows up anywhere. >> i agree. i feel the same way. >> commissioner hamasaki: thanks again, captain falzone. >> president cohen: thank you. i wish people were excited. >> i'm excited. you know i am. >> vice president elias: no, i had a great time. thank you. >> president cohen: great. we'll deploy commissioner elias to the p.o.a. i'm sure they'll be excited to see her there, too. >> good choice. >> president cohen: all right. i'm kidding, tony. please don't text me or call me tomorrow. sergeant, what's next on the agenda? >> clerk: we now have public comment. the public is welcome to call in and press pound, three or dial star, three to make public comment. looks like we do not have any callers for public comment. so the next line item is line item 7, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below: closed session, including public comment on item 8, vote whether to hold item 9 in closed session. >> president cohen: any public comment? >> clerk:

commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen. just to follow up, actually, on everything president cohen has said, i always have mixed thoughts about the auto burgs because i do understand how resource halfy it is to actually investigate a pile of broken glass on the side of the road and also the fact that this is -- what we're seeing here is pretty much consistent numbers with other similarly situated cities in california. is that accurate, chief scott, as far as the rise in auto burgs? >> yes. so i'll break it down real quickly. as far as the pandemic, we are seeing similar trends, as well. actually, over the last couple of years, where our auto burglaries have decreased, some of our surrounding cities have actually gone up, and some have gone up significantly. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. good to know. yeah, this is always good to know because it's such a nightmare for the residents to come out and find a pile of broken glass and things missing. if anybody here, it hasn't happened to them, you're very lucky, but it's certai

. >> president cohen: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president cohen. i just wanted to say a big thank you to everybody that was involved in this. i know i spoke to members of the working group during the process when things got a little bit sticky at times, and there were things put in place for a stronger and more fuller d.g.o. the fact that the manual is equally enforceable as a policy, i think, is something that was a concern earlier in the process, but what you're saying now is it's the exact same thing, commander. is that accurate? >> yeah, that's accurate because as the police department adopted d.g.o. 6.01, that's a department policy that must be adhered to. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. i saw in the use of civil stand byes, which are pretty standard to keep no further incidents from happening. it's a role that the department plays in keeping further crimes from happening again, so i'm glad to see that in there. i don't have any questions. i just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone. this is a domestic violence investigation, and it is in

hamasaki. >> thank you, president cohen. i just wanted to fall up on the chief's comments and notes that i think there's a lot of public concern about the increase in property crime over the years and if you look throughout california, this is happening everywhere and it's not too hard to draw a correlation between covid and our wonderful and failing to provide working for us and that this property crime wave has been happening. i appreciate everything is doing and this is not a local issue. thank you,. >> all right. is there any other comments? >> i appreciate it, chief. >> 11 minutes, not bad. including questions and comments. not bad. >> you are off to a good start. >> thank you. >> let's see if there's any public comment. >> public comment comes right after line item 3. >> got it. >> and we will continue with the d.p.a. if you would like me to read the d.p.a. portion. >> yes, please, i would. >> d.p.a. director report. report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements and they will be limited to a activities and annou

hamasaki. >> thank you, president cohen. i just wanted to fall up on the chief's comments and notes that i think there's a lot of public concern about the increase in property crime over the years and if you look throughout california, this is happening everywhere and it's not too hard to draw a correlation between covid and our wonderful and failing to provide working for us and that this property crime wave has been happening. i appreciate everything is doing and this is not a local issue. thank you,. >> all right. is there any other comments? >> i appreciate it, chief. >> 11 minutes, not bad. including questions and comments. not bad. >> you are off to a good start. >> thank you. >> let's see if there's any public comment. >> public comment comes right after line item 3. >> got it. >> and we will continue with the d.p.a. if you would like me to read the d.p.a. portion. >> yes, please, i would. >> d.p.a. director report. report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements and they will be limited to a activities and annou

hamasaki. >> thank you, president cohen. i just wanted to fall up on the chief's comments and notes that i think there's a lot of public concern about the increase in property crime over the years and if you look throughout california, this is happening everywhere and it's not too hard to draw a correlation between covid and our wonderful and failing to provide working for us and that this property crime wave has been happening. i appreciate everything is doing and this is not a local issue. thank you,. >> all right. is there any other comments? >> i appreciate it, chief. >> 11 minutes, not bad. including questions and comments. not bad. >> you are off to a good start. >> thank you. >> let's see if there's any public comment. >> public comment comes right after line item 3. >> got it. >> and we will continue with the d.p.a. if you would like me to read the d.p.a. portion. >> yes, please, i would. >> d.p.a. director report. report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements and they will be limited to a activities and annou