. >> president loftus. here. >> vice president turman? >> here. >> marshal, excused. >> mazzucco. excused. >> dejesus. >> present. >> wo ng. >> present. >> commissioner melara excused. >> you have a quorum, with us this evening is the chief of police gregory p. suhr. >> welcome to everyone, to the ingleside to the meeting and thank you all for taking the time to be here and in particular, i want to thank the folks of balboa high school and the is assistant principal and thank you so much for the school and the captain and everyone else and the community members and this is for the folks to know this is the road show that we go on once a month and we have two meetings at our city hall every month and one meeting. and it is an important time for us to get out here and what is happening in the neighborhood and what is working and what particular strategies and communities are employing, and the various on whether it is working or not and it is important and it helps us do our jobs. and to hear from you guys about what is happening. and to not make folks have to come to city hall, bec

. >> president loftus? >> here. >> vice president turman? en route. >> commissioner marshal, excused. commissioner mazzucco? >> present. >> commissioner dejesus excused. >> commissioner wong? >> present. >> commissioner melara. >> present. >> madam president you have a quorum. >> welcome to the september, 24th, community meeting, in the central station in a very special place, we are as we all know, at gordon lou elementary school and i see a lot of faces in the audience that i suspect are students. is that right? >> yes, so this is a beautiful audience that we have with incredible food and lots of energy. welcome to what is the greatest joy for myself and my fellow commissioners which is a chance to come out to the community, talk about the issues, that are effecting the police department, the issues that are effecting the neighborhood and this is what we love to do. so thank you for hosting us here. and i would like to start off with thanking a very special principal that you all have dr. dennis chiu, where are you? thank you so much sir.

. >> president loftus? >> here. >> vice president turman? >> marshall? >> here. >> mazzucco. >> present. >> commissioner dejesus excused. >> commissioner melara? >> here. >> madam president, you have a quorum and also with us is the chief of police, gregory p. suhr and the director of citizen complaints joyce hicks. >> welcome to the commission meeting and i appreciate that everyone recognizes that we delayed the start of this meeting in honor of this being the first day of domestic violence awareness month of october and we just left the steps of city hall where the chief gave a rousing speech because we all believe, now more than ever, there are plenty of examples of how much work that we have to do to explain, what domestic violence is and what it looks like, and how systems can be held accountable for serving victims and really understanding what is a very difficult crime. so, thank you everyone for your accommodation, and i also know that the giants are playing right now, for those of you watching at home you are committed to the police commission a

. >> hi, president, loftus, and honorable commissioners. chief suhr, my name is rueben good man, and recently the homicide hit way too close to home. and a young man who shares the same sur name as i do ronnie goodman was stabbed to death just outside of 889 cap street i would certainly hope that the public will come forward so that we can identify the perpetrators of this crime. from what i understand, a couple of the friends of the victim he was not a gang member but he was in standing among the bad company. when his group was chased. and his friends managed to run and escape, but ronnie goodman was unable to escape and was killed by a cowardly assay lent and whatever we can do to get the public to respond with information would be greatly appreciated. thank you. >> and we can also give, i don't,... do we have the tip line handy, anyone know what the tip line is. >> yeah, i do. >> okay. >> 575-4444. so, thank you. >> hearing no further public comment, and sergeant, please call the next line item. >> line item two, reports and announcement

. >> president loftus? >> present. >> vice president turman? >>vice president turman is en route. >> commissioner marshal? >> here. >> commissioner mazzucco? >> present. >> commissioner dejesus? >> present. >> commissioner wong? >> present. >> commissioner melara? >> present. >> we have a quorum, madam president and also with us this evening is chief of police, greg p. suhr and the office of citizen's complaints joyce hicks. welcome to the meeting on october 8th, and we have a robust agenda, as we know that we talked about last week that there are a dow mist i can awareness and so there are a number of agenda items that talk about the police response and new policies that will be before this commission tonight. and we also have exciting certificates of appreciation and some acts of heroism and bravery, and so let's get right to it and thank you for being here and inspectors call the first line item >> presentation of certificates apraoeshs, action, mr. john girade and mr. kyle mizokami. >> and i will refer to my colleague, commissioner mazzucco

address the commission on police activities in the central district. [ applause ] >> >> president loftus and vice president turman, members of the police commission, chief suhr and members of the department, members of the public. and i'm captain david lazar and the commanding officer of central station and i would like to welcome you to the district for this evening's meeting in the heart of china town, before we begin this evening's presentation, i would first like to thank dr. dennis chiu, principal of the elementary, and for inviting us into his school and for partnering with central station to provide this evening's dinner, i hope that everyone had an opportunity to eat. before we begin, i would first like to invite to the podium at this time, miss grace owl fourth grader to make a special presentation to the commission and to chief suhr. >> thank you. >> okay. >> good evening, everyone. and thank you for coming to my school this evening. my name is grace owl and i am a fourth grader. and i will like to first welcome president loftus vice president turman and commissioners mazzucco

. >> thank you, president loftus and members of the commission and chief suhr and captain and members of the community, i am joyce hick, the director of san francisco office of citizen complaintser in addition here from the occ is very investigator sherry hall in front and it is a pleasure to be here this evening to speak with you about the functions of the office of citizen complaints. we are also known as the occ. and we are the third largest of the oversight of law enforcement agency in the united states, only surpassed in size by new york and chicago. the occ was created by a board of supervisors sponsored charter amendment in 1982, and we became fully operational in 1983. and that makes us 32 years old. we were originally an office in the san francisco police department, but later we were placed under the direct supervision of the san francisco police commission as an independent agency separate from the police department and the police commission and also a civilian body, and the function of the occ is to assist the police department in building trust with the community. by bein

president loftus? >> aye. >> vice president turman? >> aye. >> commissioner marshall? >> aye. >> commissioner mazzucco? >> aye. >> commissioner dejesus? >> aye. >> commissioner wong? >> aye. >> commissioner melara? >> aye. >> motion passes, unanimously. >> thank you, colleagues, thank you advocates, thank you chief.

president loftus? >> aye. >> vice president turman? >> aye. >> commissioner marshall? >> aye. >> commissioner mazzucco? >> aye. >> commissioner dejesus? >> aye. >> commissioner wong? >>

president loftus? >> aye. >> vice president turman? >> aye. >> commissioner marshall? >> aye. >> commissioner mazzucco? >> aye. >> commissioner dejesus? >> aye. >> commissioner wong? >> aye. >> commissioner melara? >> aye. >> motion passes, unanimously. >> thank you, colleagues, thank you advocates, thank you chief. and thank you poa and everyone this is, and it is really important the moments when you do something when no one is watching and not m response because it is the right thing to do. >> we did it in october. >> and the giants are in the world..., they are in the national league championship series. >> i got ahead of myself. >> and that is all right. >> line item 8, public comment on all matters pertaining to item ten below, closed session, including public comment on vote whether to hold item ten in closed session. >> ladies and gentlemen, we will go into closed session to deal with matters that are protected by the provisions of the california law, is there any public comment on that. hearing none, we will go into closed session, thank you everyone. >> thank

and i also want to echo what president loftus has said, and testifying to not only the expertise and the dedication of the women that were mentioned but they are not just local leaders and expertise, we have national model problems here and so what we are discussing today, and in terms of what types of policies, and what types of practices, that we want to have implemented in san francisco, and under the command and the direction of our chief, we know that it will not only have impact here locally, when we all work together, collaborativively as a community and we know that we have the great local impact and we also know that it has incredible impact beyond san francisco. so, that is something that we should all be mindful of. and very quickly, i just want to also make known that i chaired the justice and courage oversight panel on domestic violence for the types of policy reforms, that we are discussing today, for the past 12 years, and just encouraged the panel has existed and focused on the san francisco response to the domestic violence, and i am also the former president of the

. >> president loftus. >> aye. >> vice president turman? >> aye. >> commissioner marshall? >> aye. >> commissioner mazzucco? >> aye. >> commissioner dejesus. >> aye. >> commissioner wong? >> aye. >> >> commissioner melara? >> aye. >> the motion passes unanimously. >> okay, thank you, colleagues. >> and we have to, and as what alluded to we have another policy that is on the same topic and so that is the next item, on this agenda and inspector call the next line item. >> line item 7, discussion and possible action to adopt department general order 6.20, member-involved domestic violence, or to take other action if necessary. action. >> do you want to take a break? >> okay. >> and so, we have the next item before us, which is the departmental general order 6.20, member involved domestic violence, this is a completely new policy, and it is the best practice, and in policing to have a policy that is specifically calls out how you investigate and handle the officer involved domestic violence, and the chief pointed out that there are provisions of this that prohibit anyone from b

loftus, and commissioner and chief suhr and members of the audience, this evening i will briefly describe the naco conference that occ staff and i attended, and kansas city, missouri two weeks ago. and this is the annual training conference that naco has. and it is three and a half days of courses including investigation techniques, civilian oversight role in police training, mediation, and body cameras, and language access, and lgbtq persons and police interactions. and constitutional issues and recent development in the law. this conference is attended by civilian oversight staff, board and commission members, attorneys, community members and law enforcement. it is the only conference of its type, and this year, is conference was record breaking in attendance and they were over 300 at the conference and we had internationals, and we had them travel from mexico and jamaica the united kingdom and the past conferences and the attends from africa and from ireland and this year, two, two occ, staff members in that training sessions, including investigator jason who led a session on the inves

. >> president loftus? >> present. >> vice president turman? >>

. >> president loftus? >> here. >> vice president turman? >> marshall? >> here. >> mazzucco. >> present. >> commissioner dejesus excused. >> commissioner melara? >> here. >> madam president, you have a quorum and also with us is the chief of police, gregory p. suhr and the director

against women and, we are joined tonight by the first female president of the police commission, loftus, and many others, help me welcome police chief greg suhr. >> thank you and on every marked police vehicle in the san francisco police department there is one bumper sticker and on the back of every single car as you see the police vehicles traveling around and it simply says that there is no excuse for domestic violence. and because, there is not. and much has been made in the national media about how come this happened and that happened and how about just no, there is no excuse, period, for the domestic violence. >> and the san francisco police department is a critical piece of that as we respond to any calls for domestic violence in san francisco and as the mayor pointed out, we did enjoy a period of some 40 plus months where there were no dow mist i can violence homicides in san francisco. and now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that have occurred in san francisco, have