sarah hawkins, sorry. good evening, everybody. i'll start off today with the crime statistics' update. please report again overall violent crimes down 17% and total violent crimes -- i'm sorry part one violate crimes down 17% and total violent crimes down 19% and homicides are down and we had eight this time last year as opposed to five last year to date. our last homicide reported over a month ago. four out of five homicide cases have been cleared. and respect to gun violence, we have had a 25% reduction in gun violence, so shooting incidents, anyway, 2018 over 2017. our property crime is also down. we're 17% down and property crime and this includes burglaries, motor vehicle thefts, including auto burglaries and arsons. auto burglaries are down 22% in 202018 compared to 2017 and we'e focusing on that issue in terms of focusing on the hot spots around the city where auto burglaries occur accordingly. overall, the crime picture is looking very pleasing and we will keep our eye on it and keep the strategies going that we deploy. i

[roll call] filling in is sarah hawkins. commissioner, have you a

[roll call] filling in is sarah hawkins. commissioner, have you a quorum. >> commissioner: thank you. good evening everyone this is the march 6, 2019 san francisco police commission meeting. we have a reasonable agenda so we will allow three minutes for public comment. with that we're ready to start. >> line one, adoption of the minutes for the meetings of february 6th, 13th and 20th action. >> commissioner: can i have a motion to adopt. >> so moved. >> second. >> commissioner: any comment? hearing none all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed? >> clerk: the motion passes unanimously. line two, a chief's report for and a brief description of the significant incident. commission discussion will be limited to determine whether to calendar the incident the chief describes for a future committee meeting and planned events or planned activities and events since the previous meeting. include brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion the chief de

steve ball, two of our attorneys, stephanie wilson and tanetta thompson and my chief of staff, sarah hawkins, in case there are issues to come up in which we can be helpful or the department can be helpful for the audience. >> mediation does not seem to be very popular and yet, it's actually very effective. what can we do? >> what we have done is just recently, we had the entire mediation team go around with the chief and speak to all of the command staff, talking about what the system is and how it works. and i doubled the staff that was this that department, because i, too, think that the mediation stuff is really important and i'm trying to make it more robust. it's one of the highest rated elements in the agencies and it constantly gets the best feedback out of all of our operations. people really value participating this the process and i think it's beneficial to the department, as well, specifically since it gives the officers an opportunity to hear directly one-on-one from the folks they are interacting with on a daily basis and vice versa. the community feels like they are given a vo

he and sarah hawkins around -- are working together rkts getting a standing agenda and also working on a reporting template to provide to the rest of the body here as we do our work with d.p.a. >> president hirsch: thank you. okay. ready for the next item. >> clerk: item 3-d, commission reports, commission announcements and scheduling of items considered for -- scheduled for consideration at future meetings. >> president hirsch: commissioner brookter -- is that elias? yes, commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: so this is for the chief. you reported on this, but i was wondering when you come back, if we can schedule -- i noticed you -- there was a bakery owner that waited four hours after calling 911, and you made an arrest in that case, but it sounded like -- to my attention, when i read the article, it sounded like there might be a language issue, a person had a broken hand, had a robbery, and waited four hours to get service. i'm hoping you can update on what went on. you said you can two supervisors -- you had two supervisors in the district, and hopefully, you can update u