occ director's report (discussion) - review of recent activities - presentation of the occ's 2013 annual comprehensive statistical report - presentation of the occ's statistical reports and summary of cases received in february 2014 & march 2014, mediation of complaints in february 2014 & march 2014, and adjudication of sustained complaints in february 2014 & march 2014 - presentation of the occ's outreach strategic plan >> thank you, and good evening, director hicks and i apologize for the delay, but thank you. you are welcome. president mazzucco, good evening. good evening, vice president turman and members of the police commission, deputy chief, and chief, anmembers of the audience, and most of whom are my staff. so there are several months worth of reports on the agenda tonight. and i am glad that we are finally able to proceed with them. but, to spare you, i will not deliver every report this evening as an example. in with your consent and with the february and the march statistical report, i could just do briefly, the community out reach strategic plan and i can wrap into the annua

and let's talk about the occ personnel, and we only have two managers in the occ, the deputy director/chief of investigations and more than half of the staff our investigations and the remaining balance and attorneys and technical and clerical staff. and in 2013, of the investigation, unit, led by the deputy director eric and received 227 complaints and investigated the findings on 722, that means that unlike in some prior years, we did not close as many or more cases than we opened, but we didn't fall too far behind. and then we closed all but 22011 and by 2012 cases those cases were the henry and julian hotel cases and officer involved shootings just to talk a little bit more about eric, he is occ first deputy director. and i appointed him in august of 2013. he is a 19-year employee of the city of san francisco and 15 of those years have been served in the office of citizen complaints. and moving to the caseload summary, for 93 to 2013, 727 complaints in 2013, represented 24 deviation from the base line meaning that is lower. and than the average. and the 21-year average is 950 case

in 2013, the occ had 305 cases as of may 14, 2013. this year, to date, pending cases have grown to 341 which is a 12 percent increase. the occ has sustained 14 cases to date compared to 10 last year as of may 14. a 40 percent increase. the next report would be our april statistical report. so i'm going backwards in time. those are the most up to date statistics. the april report is has charts attached to it that i won't go over. i will highlight mediation. three 3 cases were mediated in april 2014. the same as were mediated in april 2013. 20 occ complaints were mediated between january 1, 2014 , and april 30, 2014. compared to 15 complaints between january 2013 and april 30th. our mediations are up. with adjudication of sustained complaints in april 2014, these are the cases that the occ has sustained and the chief has made a ruling on those cases. and chief sir adjudicated 8 in april. 1 case involving neglect duty and the officer removed the phone from the person. the officer was admonished. the officer failed to collect data. anothe

and the occ, is investigating that case although, the 3304 statute of limitations is told pending the criminal investigation. and we are closed in 2 officer involved shooting cases in 2013, and neither one of those had findings of misconduct, although, one of them contained significant policy recommendation. other cases of note, one of them, involves as a missing female patient found dead in the san francisco general hospital stairwell, allegations of failure to investigate. and we recognize that there is more than one jurisdiction involved that the sheriff's office is involved and we do not investigate the sheriff's office but we have an obligation and a duty when we receive a complaint to investigate and another case of note is an officer's response to a by stander who was video taping an officer and the gardens incident and unnecessary force and unlawful conduct. and looking at the dem graphics of our complainants, caucusings 35 percent, african americans, 28 percent, and latinos, and hispanics, 12 percent and asian americans, 6 percent of our complainants. and moving to case intak

and the mission of our community out reach is the transparency about the occ services and accomplishments and to strengthen our relationship with the communities that are historically and statistically likely to have encounters with the police to enhance the ties, who are isolated from the police service and to work with the community groups and the other agencies and the police department to find effective solutions to enhance the police community relations and services and some of the examples of that community, elaboration, and the community based organization, and involved juvenile policing, policies working with the youth commission, and language access, and services during the police, interactions, with the limited english proficient individuals and as we saw tonight, children of arrested parents and the way that we do the out reach in addition to collaborating with the community groups, and also includes the community presentations, and nacol presentation and the oversight of law enforcement. and both, tamara and donna and i have done training at the nacol annual conference about o

from the mayor's budget office to determine how they will address the occ's budget needs. we did submit the mandatory budget reductions of one percent and one 1/2 percent. we are hopeful that will not be taken. we have not had to reduce pursuant to targets in the past. so we are just waiting to hear. moving to investigations of cases. in the first quarter we opened 188 new cases and closed 168 cases. we opened new cases and we closed which make the backlog grow. we closed the quarter with 333 pending case. that's 49 more cases in the first quarter of 2013. moving to case loads and disposition cases. there was a 25 percent increase in complaints filed during the first quarter of 2014 versus the first quarter of 2013. it did result in a higher average case load which continues of 24 cases per investigator versus 20 cases per investigator in 2013. i have spoken with you in the past about best practices for case loads disability and oversight investigators and underscore that it is 16. the average surprisingly the average number of days to close cases was decreased by 12 perce

. >> the legal process has not historically at occ has not been followed real tightly. you know in our data systems that the design is there but it is just, >> excuse me. >> the attorneys follow it tightly, but, just makes me not have the data base. >> in the law office, we are, an investigation. if they had adequate technical support to facility that information that you have all been following, but thanks to him help is on the way. >> commissioner loftus you are on the air. >> yeah, just a couple more points here. i am concerned director hicks, the last parts of your next steps, it concerns me because i know that we are out there seeking to recruit talent but with vacantcies which we cannot fill, and sometimes it is just disheartening and discouraging to people and we need to work. and we need the helping hands and so it is a little bit how is that brought down the pipeline? how that has an effect and probably very interested in this. and commissioner turman, and when we, post our job announcements, and the department, and we have and i must find the people to help to

some of the members and volunteers for the committee have received the occ complaints. and the reports, and i would like to show you, the lack thereof. that the reports are not being completely filled out. and if you look at the bottom of it, it just says conduct reflecting this credit, and nowhere, there, for the reports from occ. and on our, is and is it being mentioned that the police used too much force in one of the reports. and in another one, this is my own personal complaint, and it just says that i was complaining about accessive use of force. and accessive use of force and it is an understatement and he was murdered by sfpd. and it just says that it does not talk about the discredit and the defamation that the officers were of his character that was being used. and then, the third one actually says does have both of those things quoted and you could see that they are all different reports. and i also want to let the commission, and the chief and occ know that this past sunday, may fourth, there were some sfpd officers that were present at a cinco de mayo at a

some of the members and volunteers for the committee have received the occ complaints. and the reports, and i would like to show you, the lack thereof. that the reports are not being completely filled out. and if you look at the bottom of it, it just says conduct reflecting this credit, and nowhere, there, for the reports from occ. and on our, is and is it being mentioned that the police used too much force in one of the reports. and in another one, this is my own personal complaint, and it just says that i was compin

i know it has to go to the occ involved, and the police officers association is involved. do we have a time frame. >> i think hopefully sometime this summer. >> okay. thank you. commissioner loftus? >> i would like to schedule in june the cit working group and invite vinny ing to talk about losing his sister. they said they would be ready. >> your call. take a look at the calendar. >> while i'm looking at that, inspector, ms. mahoney i have a same request about the dvdgo? >> that, we are still in discussions on that. i think you will also see that in the summer hopefully earlier. >> by october? dv awareness month. >> june 4 th or june 11th? >> why don't we do june 11th. thank you. >> anything else, commissioners? okay. hearing none it's now time for public comment with reference to line items 3abc and d. good evening ms. brown. i'm here regarding my son. he was murdered august 13, 2006 to , to a semi automatic gun. i would like to say his case number. his case no. 606862038. i'm only saying that because if anybody wanted to or know of anything that happened to my son, that

individual commissioners and police and occ personnel should refrain from entering into any debates orith speakers during public comment. >> any public comment? >> no. >> next item. >> reports and announcements. chiefs report. >> my report is brief as well. crime in san francisco as we close out april violence crime is down 14 percent. property cloo crime is flaut -- flat and over all partner crimes are down 2 percent, homicide are down about 58 percent and homicide by gun are down 63 percent. so it's all the numbers that we are working on are going in the right direction as folks would light to have them go as far as traffic safety. again the numbers from last week collisions are down. collisions involving boys icycles are down and collisions and injuries down 43 percent, and injuries in the aggregate upside on the down side we are at the same amount of fatalities this year as we were last year with regards to bicycles. 9, 5 were fault of the vehicle, 3 the fault of the pedestrian, 1 the fault of the bicycle. as far as recent event we did bike to workday as did many of the city leader

looking out in the audience and seeing the collaborativive effort from the police department and the occ and the youth commission and the children that are actually involved and the experienced community advocates and this is very amazing, and so, you know, this is kutos to everybody and so thank you very much. >> if your... is or the departments have anything like this? i am just curious? >> there are a few, but i do want to highlight that the urban institute has contacted the chief and the agency as well because they want to have san francisco be a study sight and it is a national issue and so they have identified san francisco and two other cities because of how innovative this program is. >> great. >> now that is even great. >> great. >> thanks. >> is there any public comment, regarding this new department general order which i am going to pass pretty quick. >> the children. >> yes. >> long time no see, how are you? >> hello. >> so my name is larry, edmonds and if you can see this right here, i think that i am here today, and it is because i think about growing up in arkansas, and as

individual commissioners and police and occ personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussions with speakers during public comment. >> any public comment? >> no. >> next item. >> reports and announcements. chiefs report. >> my report is brief as well. crime in san francisco as we close out april violence crime is down 14 percent. property cloo crime is flaut -- flat and over all partner crimes are down 2 percent, homicide are down about 58 percent and homicide by gun are down 63 percent. so it's all the numbers that we are working on are going in the right direction as folks would light to have them go as far as traffic safety. again the numbers from last week collins

occ is confirming the recommendation >> thank you supervisor breed a question. >> i have a question under the whereas clause on page 2 line 16 it says the san francisco fire department is budgeted for this purchase of a new type two boat and the majority of the funding is grant funding. i was wondering where it is coming from is it budgeted if the current budget. i'm going try to get clarity open where the fund how are they budgeted >> mr. chair. >> mr. rose. mr. chairman supervisor breed on page 4 of our report we point out that a million 5 hundred thousand plus is generally to be proposed by mayor this is according to the fire department and in the fire departments 2014-2015 budget with our appropriation budget and another $1 million plus in not identified grants or fund is to be obtained by the fire department 2015- 2016 and the mayor's office has pledged to fund the balance in the fire departments 2015- 2016 budget but again that is subject to the board of supervisors you approval and this will be in fiscal year 2015- 2016 >> so is the language appropriate based on the fund not being

i'm available to a answer questions >> thank you very much colleagues, any questions for the occ staff anyone wishing to comment on item 8 seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can i have a motion to send this forward we'll take that without objection.. okay mrshlg item 899 is >> the the resolution authorizing sfmta for the, llc for a term gossiping in 2018 and ending in 2019 for 85 million over the terms of the contract. >> welcome back mrs. reiskin the floor is yours. >> thank you edward reiskin director of transportation. if this is for turgdz on vehicles and real estate it's a result of the competitive process much the same terms asia the contract we have in place and the winning contractor is the same the minimal guarantee so the guaranteed revenues to the mta is greater than than the previous agreement and one difference i think go of interest is our current distract allows up to 15 contracts that will allow up to thirty wraps with my approval. i guess i'll say and i know there's been concern on the issue is generally those revenues are extremely important to the age

to this decision and the occ produce those documents several weeks ago. we received of the fed's documents yesterday. the documents produced by the occ showed there are no reliable data or rates at the time you but there the ifr, are preliminary data showing that double-digit rates in some categories in some services. there's a plan to identify the full extent of harm but they could not get completed. the jew know that? -- did you know that? >> it was terminated because it was decided the process was too slow in terms of its timeframe and its ability to get our money ato the pockets of -- it was decision the occ took the lead withd we went along after looking at the process that was taking place with the independent consultants reviewing these files. outcome. a horrible is a very sad commentary on what happened. i will send you some follow-up questions along with senator warren. >> i would be hands -- happy to answer them. >> thank you for being here today and for your testimony and ask when questioners -- answering questions. we look forward to future he

since march >> and i got to go to bed. >> so we are going to take a recess before we move into the occ report.

ats is her second session the occ so you can see she is -- say she is occ through. seriously, if you get to read that book, you will have great admiration for somebody who acted in congress in the good old days when people acted as though there was a tomorrow. when they had to deal with the same people the next day and sadly, those days are gone. hopefully just temporarily. i am not going to occupy any more of your time other than to say welcome, amy. welcome, senator. welcome, barney. >> thank you. it is really my pleasure and privilege to be joined by senator chris dodd and representative barney frank. they are well known to his audience for many reasons but particularly as the architects of the sweeping financial reform bill that bears their name -- the dodd-frank consumer protection act or dodd-frank. today, we have dodd-frank on dodd-frank. it is a real treat. having worked so closely with both of them and enacting this legislation which is truly historic. senator from a connecticut and he was the chairman of the senate committee on housing and a ring affairs -

and in concur ans with the captain and the commanding officer of the police academy and marion of the occ who has been great and they are developing a training dvd which should be completed and ready for distribution for the district stations within the next few months concerning this exact issue. and some of those community partners that helped in this department general order that you see before you are here today and we wish to thank them for their contributions and their cooperation and their support during this process. and additionally i wanted to add that the one person here who is the most responsible for it with our written directive's unit, sergeant kill shaw and she is tireless on the work on these things and they go on and on they don't take a small amount of time and usually go on for years and so with that in mind, i request that the commission adopt this new department general order. >> commissioners, you have a new general order in your packet and before we go forward i see marion coming forward and would you like to add a few things and i know that you brought a few of th

it was a decision that the occ took the lead in an federal reserve went along with. after consulting closely with community groups and looking at the process that was taking place with the independent consultants reviewing the files. not a happy outcome. >> a horrible outcome. i do not know if you have looked into it, but very sad commentary on what happened. iknow i am out of time, but will send you follow-up questions, along with senator warren. >> a be happy to answer them. >> thank you for being here and for your testimony and answering questions. you have a difficult job. we wish you well and look over to future hearings to come. the hearing is adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> today on c-span, " washington journal" is next.. coverage of the u.s. house. members will consider a bill to make the research and development tax credit permanent and look at a resolution creating a select committee on the benghazi attacks. and 45 minutes, we will discuss the investigation of the

function of the time period the fact that it was a third party conceptual agreement between the city and occ it was really focused on the provision and the fees and 10 year lockout was taken care of with the redevelopment plan >> was it not within the 10 year period it applied to mission bay. >> it was negotiated it didn't it was within the 10 year lock anti period so it wasn't at the forefront i wasn't at the table at the time but based on my review of the parties at the table and we were not at the table when the new seasons apply. >> i appreciate that so i'll make my comments after public comment. >> supervisor breed. okay. all right. no other questions for supervisor breed or the staff anyone wish to comment on item 11? please step forward line up on the far side of the wall except for the first speaker >> i'm the director for the jewish location services i'm pleased to speak in support of their partnership we were founded 40 years ago to support of the jewish community and began our partnership with ucsf as they had you interning and jobs for the sovereign refugees. today j v f serves t

documents reduced by the occ show there was no reliable data or error rates at the time, preliminaryata showing double-digit error rates in some categories and some services. deep dives were planned to identify the full extent of harm that they could not be completed because the imf are was terminated. did you know this when they were terminated? >> the i f r was terminated because it was decided that the process was too slow in terms of its time frame and its ability to get money into the pockets of homeowners who had been harmed. it was a decision that the occ took the lead in and the federal reserve went along with after consulting closely with community groups and looking at the process that was taking place with the independent consultants reviewing these files. it was not a happy outcome. >> it was all horrible outcome. >> horrible. >> i don't know whether you have looked into it but it is a very sad commentary on what happened. i know i am out of time but i will send you some follow-up questions along with senator warren. >> be happy to answer them. >> thank you, thank you for

occ i has reviewed the kitchen in accordance with the review guidelines that includes the phase two design for development guidelines and the document approval procedures and it has this schematic design has been in collaboration with the development this includes the building height and parking requirements and the building is in compliance with the phase two secondary use. the d da outlines the essential project starting with the major phase following by a document and the schematic documents. and usually the passage is concluded by the conveying plan the order of filing major fees and police stations can be adjusted to effect the timing and clarifying of the social benefits like the affordable housing sites and off-street parking improvements and the development and housing assistance and parks. because of the significant delays in the parcels len arrest has not insinuated the parcel design that was anticipated to be the first part of phase two to be developed as you recall from your january meeting the phasing was changed to accelerate it because the parcels won't be available for some

occ is confirming the recommendation >> thank you supervisor breed a question. >> i have a question under the whereas clause on