he then quickly pointed a handgun toward officer griffin. officer tursi yelled gun.he return fire to stop the deadly threat. the suspect appeared to a bid struck as he stopped firing and continue to drive away from officers. the suspect drove across all lanes and struck parked cars. it took a position of cover, not knowing the suspect had been injured by returned fire. when additional units arrived, it was discovered the suspect had been seriously injured and was found unconscious. officers rendered aide, called for an ambulance, and retrieve the hand and the suspect had used. tonight officers patrick grant and michael tursi are being recognized for their efforts. they are being awarded the gold medal of valor. [applause] >> captain paul chignell, along with officers tastings ahastingd lopez. >> good evening to you all. my pleasure to introduce richard hastings and that lopez. -- matt lopez. saturday, july 16, 2011, officer richard hastings and asked matt lopez were on duty and in uniform. their primary assignment was to be on a fixed post detail on the imminence of

one officer thought he had seen him. >> officer carson is right at that apartment complex and spots the. >> my whole intentions were to make a left-hand turn when the traffic cleared up, but when i saw him, i turned right. >> a chase ensues. officer carson radios in a description of the car with the plate numbers and quickly discovers it's a stolen van. >> i knew we were heading for a one-lane bridge. my dash cam can't show it but i can see a vehicle coming across the bridge. i knew there was nowhere for him to go. >> once on the one-lane bridge, the driver tries to maneuver around an oncoming taxi, but instead hits it. now the passenger side is up against the guardrail, and it seems like these guys have no choice but to give up. >> just when i thought it was over i'm telling dispatch there's nowhere to go. >> but instead the driver puts the van in reverse and guns it. >> i saw wheels coming at my face. pretty much to the point where i saw the wheel coming at the windshield, i didn't know if the car would cave in, i didn't know if i would have a roof when it was done. even when the car

for the officer. and so i just felt ta my duty to bring it forward and let the public be heard. and have the commission vote it up or down on behalf of the department. >> thank you. supervisor mar? >> i know that people are passionate about the patient and i want to make sure that we are reframing from clapping and show the support that way, just to make sure that we have. >> i will be try to be brief because i know that there are a lot of people from the community who want to speak. >> i see commissioner ali and korea for being back here. i know that the police commission is the ultimate decision maker and there is a number of forums coming up in january and so i will be watching carefully. and i think that i want to be supportive of officers having tools to make sure that they protect the public safety and also that their safety is protected as well. and if tasers, if data can show that it might be a good tool for officers and that data shows that it does not violate civil rights and that it will...

have a plaque from the commission or the chief's office. >> chiefs office. >> yes, we do. hold on a second. >> from the san francisco police department-n deepest gratitude for your performance of outstanding bravery in service to others at great personal risk such an example of bravery is worthy of the highest esteem by the san francisco police department we give you this, our certificate of appreciation. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> [applause.] >> mr. halloway, would you like to say something? >> i'm certainly honored, humbled, i should say. i was just doing what i thought was right. >> president mazzucco: we're honored and humbled by what you did. the actions you took were incredible. it shows your concern for the the community. it shows -- when you did the sketch it was incredible. i read about it earlier. that was remarkable. you used your talents and skills to keep a an arist off the stre. i notice a notre dame sweatshirt. is that a family member? >> this one? we're very good friends. >> president mazzucco: congratulations. if you need an excuse tell them why -- c

the officer will get them the service. i want to say that the chief and i especially the chief, he is out there all the time, i work with public affairs and recently we did an interview on the chinese speaking channel on the chinese talkshow. two days ago, i saw the chief being interviewed on a korean show; he is always trying to reach out to all of the communities that we are approachable, we are here to help, we are trying to provide a service to anyone who needs it. all of us are here to help anyone in need. >> i was also going to recommend that perhaps you also engage -- america media, and san francisco-based pacific news service. you can put something in english and each media outlet reports on their language with no copyright violations. >> great idea. i want to get that information from you after the meeting. >> commissioner kingsley? >> thank you for your report. >> commissioner kingsley: my questions may be a little premature. do we have any information, percentages? >> approximately 1800 clients accessed either l

the presiding officer: so noted. mr. udall: i thank the senator from tennessee and i know he is working diligently and we've got some, i think some very positive things happening. i would ask consent to include my full statement in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: and now madam chair, on behalf of senator harkin, i have a resolution which i send to at the desk and ask for its consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report by title. the clerk: s. res. 5, amending the standing rules of the senate to provide for cloture to be invoked with less than a three-fifths majority after additional debate. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: reserving the right to object for the reason i just stated to give the majority and minority leader and other senators a chance to find ways waste to find the senate function more fairly and more efficiently, i object. the presiding officer: objection so heard. mr. udall: madam president -- the presiding officer: the resol

god bless them, they did the lord's work, they are great police officers and to hear the officer that was driving the radio car while the other officer was giving cpr to the baby because they couldn't wait for the ambulance, to hear him say the officer giving cpr was crying and telling the baby to come back, it made me to be commissioner representing the officer and the public. i would like to bring them back in january so everyone can meet them before they go up for their life saving award which i imagine is pretty many a slam dunk. >> i'll make sure that happens. >> on the second part, we are seeing an uptick from schools to having our officers come out and make an assessment. being the husband of a teacher, i know this is first and foremost of the teachers, they spent all weekend receiving emails from school officials how to handle things. how many requests have you had and what have we done and what are we prepared to do other than what you have already said? >> again, we have been working very closely with the unified school district, a lot of requests, some personal, some throug

on that, being the newest member i would like to introduce our language access liaison officer, officer chan, who will give you numbers that he has compiled, he has been with a group a lot longer. >> good evening. my name is eric chan, i've been in this position approximately 3 months. they took away a lot of my thunder because a lot of what they say was what i was going to go over. we are making a lot of headway in the short time that i have been involved. that is a good thing. it is important to know that from what i have seen our department does really reflect our community. we have approximately 400 officers that speak some type of foreign-language. of that 400 or so, most of them, we have 173 that speak spanish, 81 are certified; 91 cantonese speakers, 60 certified; 20 mandarin, 9 certified, 7 russian, 6 certified, 39 tagalog and 5 vietnamese. there is no lag time to getting information on any type of crime occurring. we do use landline with an interpreter is not available, that is the card. most of the language services, including interpretation, we had 1800 calls that required in

he stated how officers are handled with this issue. i just want the public to be reassured when the chief says that's the way it is that's the way it is. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. oh public comment. >> we're still going on presentation now. >> sorry. i didn't mean to -- >> next up is deputy chief tomeka and griffin. >> i will follow where the chief left off. i can't of want to give support to ms. griffin and her team. they have done an incredible job. i know the chief provided you supporting documents on the jttf report that we discussed -- cjcj report from last here but we have come so far with the statistics and reporting and ms. griffin will go when i finish. we are committed to improving this and includes the statistical reporting and we support the restorative justice model. there was a presentation the tenderloin a couple of weeks ago and i know some of you were there to be part of that. for the public restorative justice is a model where we look at the whole person, where we provide the services -- not only the police de

that an executive officer of this body would be working on. not necessarily of any commission but the work that this commission does and do all of that work. you wouldn't have to go through dhr at all and as far as they're concerned by position is covered. >> could there be a selection process under option two along what the members talked about? >> i guess if i resign my position and apply again you could potentially do that. >> i see. ms. miller. >> well, i think -- we're in the process right now of in our budget with sf puc allocating sf puc resources because we do have sf puc money for cca, so there is some latitude to you from a budget standpoint about the position, so in terms of flexibility with option two. i don't think you need to say there is only one position available and we have two positions authorized and we're going to cut the one, and then maybe what you would be saying you want to authorize the other, but with cost effectiveness if you go out figure out in the interview that you could do the two with one you would do that if

office. the clerk will read the names os the firsts group. >> ms. baldwin of wisconsin, mr. barrasso of wyoming, mr. brown of ohio, ms. cantwell of washington. the vice president: please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and that you bear true faith and that you will bearion freely, without any mental reservation or purpose reservation or purpose and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? the group: i do. the vice president: congratulations. [applause] the vice president: the clerk will call the names of the next group. the clerk: mr. cardin of maryland. mr. carper of delaware. mr. casey of pennsylvania. mr. corker of tennessee. the vice president: please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and allegia

but officers there is nothing to stop an officer in at least some of the tasers models from repeatedly deploying that charge. so especially from the accessive use of force cases that you will see is cases in which the officers will deploy, 1, 2, 3, 4, a number of times, on people that are not responding, and that increases that volt each time. >> we also have the use of tasers in san francisco, and in our jails and the sheriff department. has the aclu looked at the use of tasers in the department and what in terms of injury or in terms of even death that may have occurred? >> i don't know that we have looked recently at the sheriff's department but i can look into that. one difference between custody use and the patrol use, they don't believe that it should be used with the sheriff either. but the reality is that the police department are the ones out on the street in parole much more often and those are the ones encountering individuals in crisis who may be acting in a state, and maybe acting overly aggressive and maybe a harm to themselves and so the san francisco police department t

officers arrived. these quick actions prevented a tragedy and helped in the apprehension of a menace to society. the chief will present them with san francisco police department's certificate of appreciation. [applause] >> gentlemen don't go anywhere. i just want to thank you on behalf of the police commission and helping our two officers that night from park station and officers sustained serious jurisdiction by someone going through a psychiatric and episode and we know you didn't have to do it and you worked for the former police chief and thank you and by the way we are hiring so give your cards and again thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you gentlemen. thank you. [applause] please call line item number two. >> public comment. >> huh. >> public comment. >> yes. >> line item two general public comment. any public comment on item one, presentation of certificates? >> oh actually i forgot to do public comment regarding the presentation, certificates? hearing none public scment is closed. let's

one was a police officer. in the area of investigation of cases the occ's case inventory, at the end of the 2012 third quarter, was that up to that point the occ had opened 581 new cases with an adjusted total of 557 new cases, and adjusted total means that merged cases and voided cases are taken out of the number. and the occ also closed 629 cases. during that period, the occ closed 48 more cases than it opened. and we closed the quarter with 316 pending cases. that's 114 less pending cases in the close of the third quarter in 2011. by the end of the 2012-third quarter there were 15 pending cases for 2011 and -- for 2012. in looking at the case loads, the case closure statistics shows -- of having more investigators, lower case loads resulted as well as more timely closures. during the third quarter the occ was staffed with 14 fully trained investigators and the the one investigator who just completed probation for a total of 15. the average case load was 21 cases. however, during the second quarter of 2012,

be it the security plan, officers, or police officers. that is one thing i failed to mention earlier. paramount to training for an event that has enough people to prevent anything disastrous from occurring, you never know what can be prevented, because you never know what you can stop from happening. you never know if people have enough resources to make sure they do not have a problem. >> down to the last few questions, we are running out of time. >> let's see how quick we can get to it. >> ok. >> we will be really fast. i commend the police department. for those of us in the entertainment industry, we have long suffered under this process. one is the allocation program. when will we have centralized 10b dissemination and when will there be an appeals process that when you make your application you are giving -- even your answer and then you have an opportunity for some type of discussion or appeal on the number. currently, that does not exist. it puts promoters in a position where you bring in a cashier's check for this amount or your l

we have seen officers with guns drawn. this is an active man hunt right now for two suspects believed to still be in the area. one person believed to be a suspect is right now being held by police. the highway patrol is helping with some air support. b.a.r.t. police officers are helping in this investigation as well. now just before 6:30 tonight, an undercover oakland police officer was in this area following up on a shooting from yesterday. someone shot at that officer and he was hit in the arm. police say his injury is not life threatening but the chief is warning this east oakland community that the suspects are armed and dangerous. >> obviously with an incident like this, with two armed and dangerous situations still outstanding we want to cast a wide net. because we want to make sure that the community does not suffer any injuries as a result of this. we want to make sure to be very diligent and conducting a very thorough and comprehensive search for these two victims. >> reporter: the officer who was hit by a bullet

it helps when officers can tell clients that they know the language liaison officer for sfpd and he can help them to get where they need to be in a they have an issue they can bring it to the table. it is tremendous. the hour is late. this work could not be done without -- and the team from occ, and the leadership of sfpd to meet with us on almost monthly basis where many of these issues are spelled out every day. it is a pleasure and an honor and a vital goal for all of us. we have to do this. we are doing it. thank you. >> we will call our last item on the agenda, report from the chief, and captain flaherty from the special victims unit, san francisco police department. >> i know that the hour is late. i'm greg suhr, chief of police for san francisco. it is important what commissioner marshall spoke to earlier, and echo about the tragedy in kansas city. we are talking about the 22-year-old mother who was killed and leaves a three-month-old baby. that is with these conversations are about. even though we are in a staffing crisis, the mayor and the people who sit on these chairs will ad

attorney's office and also the district attorney's office. we were very successful last year on a unique case involving food vendors where we were able to identify victims of trafficking from mexico to arizona to san jose that ended up here in san francisco then we brought that case to the fbi and all four were indicted and pled guilty to smuggling charges. >> commissioner loftus was next. thank you. >> well, i'm just so thrilled to hear this presentation. i think you all know, human trafficking is something that is a crime that hides in plain sight. the victims often look and appear like they are prostitutes or they are people who could be working as a dish washer in a restaurant and they are all around us. and so one of the major holes that we found is that people thought human trafficking was something the feds do when actually there's a big swaugt of gang members who are, the term is running girls through cities and no one is seeing it. so i feel like this is really -- and to have inspector flores working on this, someone who is a legend,

the office of the police monitor and the newly formed bart office of the police auditer. in addition to hosting members from other american civilian oversight agencies we also met with international representatives. we addressed the invitation of the police department, the dell delegation of the justices that were visiting th

only a handful of officers oversee the process. >> on most nights there will be two officers in the diningl. there will be anywhere from like 200 to 400 inmates in the dining hall. and there's no guns in any dining hall. and all we have is our pepper spray and baton and our communications skills. >> this is known as mark 46. it sprays pepper spray. controls any kind of disturbance we may have during feeding, after feeding, during escort, inmates coming in and out of the dining hall. >> on this day, prison intelligence has warned officers that a gang-related attack might occur at dinner. >> tonight, we're expecting some type of problems. possibly. so we have some extra coverage tonight to provide security. >> a member of a gang is in risk of reprimand for not fulfilling a direct order. >> they asked them to participate in their gang. if they refuse, they are disciplined. and the discipline being slashed. >> it doesn't matter how much staff we have. they will erupt if it's going to. >> officers are tense, watching for any signs of trouble. pepper spray is at the ready. >> get on the floor! >

there are officers like me and officers hired into my unit that love of job and see the value in it, see the value to the community. so you have got to have that interest or else, again, you are going to have not a successful officer. okay, so now you have found the officer and got him figured out and i talk a lot about officers, but the same applies to civilians and anybody in this audience, because my concept is anybody can be a graffiti expert. and a lot of that comes down to training. you know, where do you find this training? well, for us as police officers, we get a lot of it through approved current training classes and things certified by the state, post-classes and that is fairly consistent within a lot of states that have a group that authorizes what kind of training an officer gets. articles and books is fairly self-explanator y and the internet. if you are curious about anything having to do with graffiti google graffiti stuff. you get on youtube and put down tag crews fighting and you get a whole bunch of videos of tag groups fighting and that is not just battling with p

officer failed to investigate a crime and prepare an incident report. the officer was suspended. on -- discredit, an officer told complainant during a traffic stop if the complainant said one more word the officer would have the complainant's license revoked. the -- did not sustain a complaint. there was a significant period of time between when the complainant filed the complaint and when the incident allegedly occurred. neglective duty for failure to traffic data and the officer was admonished. that concludes my report. >> president mazzucco: thank you again for all your hard work. >> you're welcome. >> president mazzucco: call line item 4. >> the clerk: commission reports and discussion, commission president's report and commissioners' reports. >> president mazzucco: i want to welcome the chief to the commission tonight. i know you were down the hall in another commission. >> i apologize but chief zirpman we work very closely with them on all the ipo violence reduction strategies and he's making a evening presentation os probation officers go through with regard to some of the

we have a police officer who is a member of our board and i have spoken to her and other officers and i have heard their argument and one of their arguments is that tasers gives them an additional tool, a tool that is safe, i mean, why should they just have a firearm, why not have a tool that could possibly save lives and those are examples of confrontations where tasers with save lives and i think that tasers can save lives in the right situation, that that was not why our board passed a resolution against it and that is not why i am concerned about *. i am concerned about it because they are being, the proposal to give them to cit officers that is crisis intervention trained officers, and these are officers trained to use verbal deescalation techniques to diffuse a stressful, mental health crisis. and when you are in that kind of encounter and if you have the choose of talking someone down verses clicking a button and the taser pull really is, a taser fire is like clicking a button it becomes so much more easy to just think about clicking that button, verses talking, talking is stre

officer. officer jones, seeing the threat to the officer and everyone else nearby, fired a shot to protect an officer. almost immediately after that, officer tapang was able to catch up with the suspect and wrestle him to the ground, and they were able to take the suspect into custody and secure the pistol. when they checked the weapon they found it had 22 rounds of ammunition in the magazine. so it was clearly a catastrophe waiting to happen as these officers took action. they could have taken a defensive position. they could have taken cover and employed officer safety tactics, but instead, the move to forward to take action to protect their lives, the other officer lives, and hundreds of others on broadway at that time. clearly what they did was an act of heroism and very courageous under the circumstances there were facing. they were outgunned. so without a doubt, officers tapang and brian jones prevented serious injury or a life that night. for that reason they are being presented a bronz

we have had a lot of officers shot. killed in traffic related incidents. >> how much control do you have over the cameras? >> traffic control. it is mine. i was the commander of the homicide unit back in 1997. 76 traffic fatalities in the city. the population was much smaller and we did not have all the bicycles and pedestrians. we had 19 last year. i am a huge believer in photo enforcement. if you are traveling in a car at 30 miles an hour and you strike a pedestrian or bicycle, they have an 80 percent chance -- 80% chance of living. at 40 miles per hour, and 80% chance of dying. if you slow down, fatalities slow down. that is a fact. the ticket does not feel good. i know. >> you will keep it up? >> i am. >> people think there is a quota on traffic control people, parking. and that you send those people out on their segues to put the people -- segways. >> that is not me. i want to go back about the cameras. the other things cameras do that people do not realize is the majority of police officers who get killed in the l

we have seen officers with guns drawn. this is an active man hunt right now for two suspects believed to still be in the area. one person believed to be a suspect is right now being held by police. the highway patrol is helping with some air support. b.a.r.t. police officers are helping in this investigation as well. now just before 6:30 tonight, an undercover oakland police officer was in this area following up on a shooting from yesterday. someone shot at that officer and he was hit in the arm. police say his injury is not life threatening but the chief is warning this east oakland community that the suspects are armed and dangerous. >> obviously with an incident like this, with two armed and dangerous situations still outstanding we want to cast a wide net. because we want to make sure that the community does not suffer any injuries as a result of this. we want to make sure to be very diligent and conducting a very thorough and comprehensive search for these two victims. >> reporter: the officer who was hit by a bullet

thank you for inviting the city administrator's office. my name is linda young, deputy city administrator. i will discuss quickly the justis project. the transfer of function to the city of ministers administrator's office which occurred in march, 2011. our mission is to support the criminal justice department and need to share information in compliance. the justis project is to provide sharing data get abilities, provide individual case management system to address departmental business needs for the police department, the sheriff department, district attorney's office, public defender, adult probation and to connect the court system. the city administrator is the executive sponsor and will provide oversight and operational decision making .the council provides budget decision-making. the technical steering committee meets on technical issues and we do that weekly. some of the development since the transfer of functions. at the time of the transfer from a staffing perspective the program only had four feel positions out of eight budget it