. >> that was your interception i never felt pressure from paul henderson or anybody. >> [members arguing] called members of board. you need to stay on the topic of the agenda. >> yea. >> you made an allegation against me and i'm explaining my feelings. called me and said i don't think you have time to search for an inspector general. i thought that was inpresent and object to the fact when his agency hires noncivil service positions they don't follow the best practice. >> okay. >> so we will call the city attorney advice and cut off this discussion right now. i think it inappropriate. and that's where one individual interception of a thing. we discuss third degree in the board openly and we said this before. no one was against using a recruiting firm the problem was youune let irrelevant went out to a recruiting firm and hr referred and we asked them to look in recruiting firm. it made it. >> we made it look like that one you had med it electric like the process was tainted. that's why we decided weed go and thank you very much for the hours i spent having helping to draft and president

let's bring in paul henderson. f now four co-defendants in total taking a plea deal? >> it is a big deal. she is the fourth person, but she is the third lawyer to take a plea. now, here's why this is important because that is a linchpin in the georgia case, but it is also important inome of these other cases as wel because what jenna ellis did was three gs, really. first of all, important because e challenges the validityf his claims of not being able to say that all of these people that were previously taking -- were no longer lawyers. she was so closely tied to what happened in the case. trump will have a real challenge in trying to distance himself from her. one of the things she did was she traveled with giuliani to contested states to ask lawmakers urging them to reject votes. so, all of those communications and all of those efforts are going to come out. and then also really importantly she wrote at least one of the two memos that were given to vice president pence, talking about in a historically factual list

tonight, we have chief scott from the san francisco police department and executive director paul henderson from the department of police accountable city for members of the public line. item one, the weekly officer recognition is going to be postponed until november 1st due to this sergeant is away at training and is not able to be with us tonight. line item two general public comment at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission under police commission. rules of order during public comment. neither police or epa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public. but may provide a brief response. alternative you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. email the secretary of the police commission at sfpd dot commission at sf gov. org or written comments may be sent via us postal service to the public safety building located at 1245 third street, san francisco, california. 94158. if yo

the department of police accountability and i'm sitting in on behalf of our executive director, paul henderson. i have some weekly trends to share with you with respect to what the dpa has been up to in the last several weeks since our cases continue to trend up. in other words, we currently have more cases open this year than we did last year. we have cases that are our closure rate is down very slightly from 543 at the same time last year versus now. we do have more cases pending and we have sustained less than last year, nine less than last year at this time. we have had a number of cases mediate. and so our mediation program is going well and doing a very good job at getting cases, disposition favorable disposition in those cases. and we have fairly the same number of cases passed the 270 mark, which is the mark in the charter by which we are to let chief scott know if some of our cases will be sustained and may take longer for investigation. currently we have seven cases pending with you all, i believe one is in closed session today and we have currently 86 cases pending with the chief at