chief suhr. >> before we go to the next thing i would be remiss for the officers and work with young people and get something on the calendar for the next meeting and can be part of my report and we do so much more than a couple of hikes and things like that. the officers have been nothing short of heroic and i saw these guys walk in now and is cool but you're wearing sheriff's stars. you need police stars. >> he has a lot of them in the pock disblet we have a focus on have young people graduate from high school and all of the numbers of the justice system or someone that falls into the system and all of the numbers are from graduation of high school and not that college isn't for everybody and as many as possible but that's about successes and more lawyers and doctors on the panel right now but to that end we do a lot of summer employment and break employment so what a lot of people don't realize and since this is on tv tonight a lot of the summer jobs the city does for dpw, puc and park and rec which do most of the jobs they close in mid-february for the online applications so anyb

chief suhr and joyce. welcome back. this is 2015. i expect very good and positive things of this commission and of this police department. i have been in san francisco since 1998, and no where, and i lived all over the bay area, have i found access to be able to raise questions about police activity to have people listen to respond and implement programs to incorporate and include everyone, and i expect that's going to continue and i am looking forward to the commission coming up to the tenderloin on january 28. i'm like straddling two areas now because i have been moved to the sixth and howard. i am so thrilled but i will be there on the 28th if i am still alive. thank you. >> thank you so much. welcome juicy. happy new year. >> i am edmond juicy and i live in the tenderloin too and the first guy talked about moscone and harvey milk but before that san francisco natives have been taken here to [inaudible] and people were killed and we don't talk about that. i come in the spirit of others and black and gay. i tell people that black l

. >> good evening president and commissioners and chief suhr and members of the audience. happy new year. next week i will provide you a written comprehensive report containing the december statistics and on march 11 i will provide you the occ annual report for 2014. this evening i will give a snapshot of 2014 of the occ received 727 complaints in 2014 and the same number we received in 2013. we closed 705 complaints. we sustained 58 complaints in 2014, 35% increase over the sustained complaints in 2013. the sustained rate 8% compared to the rate in 2013. both the average and median sustained rate over 20 years through this time is 22%. we mediated 50 cases compared to 59 mediated cases a year before. in 2014 94% of officers agreed to mediate. that's a high acceptance rate and complainants did that also and higher than the past. the mediation rate in 2014 was 7% and that concludes my report for this evening. >> thank you. any questions for director hicks? no. inspector please call the next line item. >> reports commission and discussion and president's report and commissio

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police chief greg suhr says he is is grateful because it gives people more of an understanding on what happened. hoffman was blocking their patrol car from leaving the station in the mission district when officers ordered him to show his hands. he lifted his sweater and reached for what appeared to be a handgun. the officers shot hoffman hitting him three times and he died at the hospital. the gun he had turned to be a fake either a bb gun or pellet gun but it did not have an orange tip which indicates that was replica. >> when you come across a situation where one of these weapons are displayed, you literally have a fraction of a second to determine whether or not it's real. >> police chief greg suhr is holding a town hall meeting tonight to discuss the shooting. >>> police in indianapolis and chicago are sharing a warning for people about trying to make real guns look like fake gun. these are real assault rifles and handguns. they are painting them bright colors to make them look fake in order to confuse officers. >>> san francisco police say hours before sunday's deadly police shoot

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. >> madam chair, members of the commission chief suhr, if there were an earthquake is there a second of size and proportion of seven or an eight. this citizenry and the leadership would do the sensible thing. deal with the emergency. the african-american community, the brown community, and under served communities find it very interesting that with all the tension that is going on in this nation around relationships with police departments. unfortunately in san francisco we have not responded with a sense of urgency. for instance, one year ago naacp, the african-american faith communities spoke with the leadership of this department regarding three simple things that now president obama and mr. eric holder have said represent the best practices that would possibly improve relationships. number one training with those that are cad ats and all officers and the nuances and the distinctives of the communities they serve. number two, make sure that all police departments reflect the demographics of the community and equal opportunity is provided for all. it's just saddened all of us that

the chief suhr says the man reached for his waistband and drew the weapon. it turned out to be a bb gun. the suspect approach the officers earlier today and asked about which weapons they used. amy hollyfield will have more on the story at the top of the hour. >>> vallejo police are sending if this man who forced an officer to open fire. 21-year-old hawthorne is considered armed and dangerous. he arrived at 7:30 on saturday night for a call of two men fighting. the officers were told that hawthorne went to get a gun and jumped off a two her -- two-story walkway. he ran off, stole a car and tried to run over the officer before crashing. the officer opened fire at the car which was found abandoned. he is then to live in the area. >> more violence directed against police in florida. the sheriff deputies in orlando are looking for the person who fired shots at them overnight. a large perimeter has been set up and a sheriff helicopter is flying overhead sending for the person. no one was hurt. >>> jury selection will begin in half an hour in the trial of boston m

at last night's meeting, chief suhr showed a photo of hoffman's weapon which turned out to be a pelletan opportunity? should they have seen something they didn't see, at the same time they navigated a life-and- death situation that after they find out it's not a real gun. >> a search of hoffman's cell phone revealed three suicide notes, including one to the officers who shot him, saying they did nothing wrong. >>> on the same day of the shooting, hoffman approached officers on two separate occasions, asking about their weapons and their ammunition. back in february he sent text messages to an officer in connecticut, asking what police would do if a person pointed a fake gun at them. police say hoffman recently moved to the bay area from connecticut. he was upset with how his life was going, including a new year's day breakup with his girlfriend. >>> baltimore police officers are on high alert after a man walked into one of their stations with a loaded gun. police say yesterday morning 29- year-old jason armstrong came into the station smelling of marijuana. officers searched him and fo

at a public meeting last night, police chief greg suhr says it appears that 32-year-old matthew hoffmanad been planning the deadly confrontation for months. on sunday night hoffman confronted two officers in the mission station parking lot and refused to leave. chief suhr says he showed the officers what looked to be a handgun, pulled it out and pointed it at them. the officers fired their weapons, hitting hoffman three times. at last night's meeting chief suhr showed a picture of hoffman's weapon which turned out to be a pellet gun. >> they're second guessing themselves right now, i'm sure. did they miss an opportunity? should they have seen something they didn't see, but at the same time they navigated a life- and-death situation that after they find out -- then after they find out it's not a real gun. >> a search of hoffman's cell phone revealed three suicide notes, including one to the officers who shot him, saying they did nothing wrong. on the same day of the shooting hoffman approached officers on two separate occasions asking about their weapons and ammunition. and back in febru

at a community meeting last night, police chief greg suhr says it appears 32-year-old matthew hoffman wanted to die. suhr says hoffman approached two officers in two separate encounters asking about their guns and when they used them and then showed up at the mission station pointing out what turned out to be an air soft pistol at officers. police said hoffman left suicide notes on his phone telling officers mott to blame themselves. critics say officers should have called the crisis intervention officer earlier when hoffman was asking about the guns in the first place but suhr says at that point he wasn't a threat. >> his questions were odd, but, you know, the officers contend with folks all the time that are a little bit not just so and it doesn't mean that you're home sidal or suicidal. >> two police sergeants who shot and killed hoffman are currently on paid administrative leave. >> it's 5:49. bay area medical clinics are being warned of a so-called botox bandit. "today in the bay's" stephanie trong joins us now with more. >> reporter: good morning, laura, the hope this morning is

police chief greg suhr will hold a townhall meeting about the shooting tomorrow evening. coming up. a life-saving restart-- after a teen collapsed during a basketball game at an east bay gym. plus -- workers at a san francisco restaurant received a nice tip. the generosity of an anonymous donor going viral online. also -- the countdown is on -- other ways you can get around during the golden gate bridge closure this weekend. next. 7 the golden gate bridge is shutting down this coming weekend. and preparations for installing the median barrier are well on their way. this is the area where the new center median barrier will be installed. the bridge will close at 12-01 saturday morning. and reopen by 4 a-m monday. this animation shows what the area will look like with the new barrier in place. officials say this new barrier will prevent head on collisions. commuters are advised to use alternate routes such as the richmond bridge or the bay bridge. golden gate transit bus service will be allowed to cross the bridge. golden gate ferry will be offering expanded service this weekend. still

if this is an event this commission and city wants we're going to try i mean one thing about chief suhr i've never known him to hit a threshold it's something the city wants he'll do the best of his ability to get it done i don't want people to think this was a way to stretch things out from my prospective from the police department you thought today was primarily about are those the dates and is that the dial and why not thanksgiving or commission or whatever kind of discussion but as far as the policies and procedures down the road that's another dialog. >> we're not trying to step on the toes of the police department i think for mow me i saw the dates but the meat we're talking about is the procedure so i think to call the question we could approve the dates and know kind of have our staff come back with a suggestion on procedures i don't think people want to comment or make a motion beyond approving the dates. >> would that be sufficient to the staff? >> sure again. >> and we don't have to act think it tonight. >> as far as the staff is concerned we'll continue without a problem but

chief suhr says he's grateful because it gives people more of an understanding about what happened. >> bb guns, pellet guns from a distance of 5 feet, 10 feet, 20 yards, it's extremely difficult to tell the difference between the real firearm and a bb gun or some type of retchly cau -- replica. >> reporter: police discovered the gun hoffman had was fake, either a bbor pellet gun. police say it didn't have an orange tip which indicates it's a replica. on sunday night, police say hoffman was blocking their patrol car from leaving the station in the mission district. when officers ordered him to show his hands, they say he lifted his sweater and reached for what appeared to be a handgun. again, it was determined to be fake. the officers shot hoffman, hitting him three times. he later died at san francisco general. police are seeing more cases of people using bb or pellet guns to commit crimes. >> it's very worrisome. as you can see, it looks and feels like a real gun. it's heavy, it's metal, again, officers don't want to have to use their firearm if you don't have to. if you to protect y

now last night police chief greg suhr as well as other community leaders attended a vigil just blocks from where the victims were killed. friday night around 10:00 four young men ages 19-22 were shot while sitting in a stolen honda. more than 100 people marched last night calling for change, asking the older generation to talk to young people about the senselessness of gun violence. >> it needs to be over with. we are in excruciating pain. this is a devastation. >> extremely brilliant young man but now we won't have is an opportunity to see anything from him. >> reporter: police say the victims were targeted. the chief says shots were fired from at least two guns. we'll be sure to let you know if there are any updates in this investigation. live from san francisco i'm tara moriarty back to you. >> thank you for that update. >>> one person is dead after smoke filled a metro subway station in downtown washington, d.c. during yesterday's commute. video taken by a passenger stuck inside the train for more than an hour shows people struggling to breathe as smoke fills their subway car. pas

. >> reporter: police chief greg suhr spoke tonight at the african american complex.tell us, at least two were members of the mack block gang. it's one of a handful of street gangs in the area known for crimes such as drug deals, thefts of cars and cell phones. one police source tells me, the gangs stepped on their turf with a vengeance. >> he died with his work uniform. >> reporter: the mother of 19- year-old yalani chinyamurindi says he was on a break from work when he asked for a ride from a friend to cash his check. >> he wanted to surprise me with some money to help pay the rent, because he knew he had been struggling to pay the rent as a single mother. that is why my son died. >> extremely brilliant young man. but now we won't have an opportunity to see anything from him. >> reporter: the mother ofo lainy says her son's dream of a better life, now dashed. >> . he felt this city was a danger. >> reporter: police chief greg suhr tells me the gang task force is working on developing leads and identifying suspects. he said shots were fired from at least two guns. >>

before we move on, chief greg suhr? >> to be able to finish the process we are able to get our work done and reach the point where the commission believes where we have the final product then we would work with dem to get the new boundaries established and the new maps and the like. dem tells us it will be about 4-6 weeks to get that done so in mid-march, it will be no later than mid-may that the boundaries will take effect. >> thank you, chief. to begin our process of public input, do we have any public comment on our line item no. 4, the presentation of the district station boundaries assessment report. public comment. please step to the podium. >> david elliot louis, commenting strictly for myself as a resident of the tenderloin. i technically live in the northern precinct but i suffer the problem of the precinct. i live in the corner of larkin and valero and there is a honduran rock cocaine that are there. when gang members had a stay away order from the tenderloin they stayed on the larkin street. i don't know if t

police chief greg suhr says the man's gun turned out to be a replica but didn't have the orange tip to show it's fake. he admits officers' safety is heightened in recent months. >>> vallejo police are continuing their search for an assault suspect considered armed and dangerous. he's been identified as 21-year- old stacy hawthorne. police say on saturday, he was involved in a fight at a motel 6 in vallejo and ran into his room to get a gun. when approached by officers, police say he ran off with the gun, stole a car, and tried to run over a police officer. he crashed the car through a locked gate, then ran away. if you have seen hawthorne or recognize him, you are asked to call police. >>> an informational meeting is being held tonight regarding the possible implosion of karndle stick park. the -- candlestick park. a developer says it would be a fast and in expensive way to demolish it. there's a change.org to refuse a permit to demolish candlestick through implosion. tonight's meeting is at 6:00 can p.m. at st. paul of the shipwrecked church in san francisco. >>> a storm assistant cen

. >> san francisco police chief suhr will hold a meeting to discuss a fatal shooting involving officers at the mission police station. a letter written by 32-year-old supports claims that he wanted to be killed by officers when he confronted them on sunday night. our reporters with the first to report on the letter yesterday evening going with "dear officers you did nothing wrong," and he tells the officers, please don't blame yourself, and he wrote to his father and friends of financial troubles and failed relationships. san francisco police officers shot and killed hoffman when he flashed what appears to be a gun outside the mission district station which was an air soft pellet gun. the townhall meeting is at the cornerstone church next to the mission police station. >> a rail yard in the sacramento town was evacuated after a three-car derailment. it happened as the cars were leadershipping for stockton last night. firefighters determined in was this spill of hazardous materials. one of the trucks carried a solvent used to make foam insulation and another carried plastic pellets and c

have to bury four young black men from the western edition that you know about and all that the chief suhr and the police commission it say we're working on leads and it's a shame and i don't think we can continue playing this game this is a good start to have a representation and get to the nuts and bolts of things but if we're serious whatever we're doing is not working and i am telling individuals and organizations it's not working. we have to try something now. the commission just had a report on the war on drugs. where is that going to go? thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors and everyone happy new year to you. my name is maggie scott and as you know i lost a son and nephew to gun violence and a neers to cyberbullying. we had 47 homicides in 2013. the report of homicides in san francisco from 2006 to 2012 was 496. of that number the majority of those 496 persons were african-americans and from district 10, district 5 and the mission district. this is martin luther king's birthday today and to hear about the gun violence prevention task force from the mayor's office is not acceptab

neighborhoods and provided more than 20,000 toys to kids in san francisco and i want to thank chief suhr and everybody from the police department for partnering with us. operation dream was front and center at our holiday tree lighting on december 4, and kids received the fruits of people's good will and good spirit at hertz playground this past weekend. this morning i had the great pleasure of joining the mayor and pc general manager hard an kelly at ocean beach with our secretary and in town on a quick trip interested in the affects on climate change in ocean beach and we are a partner in ocean beach master planning process that spur has been convening with numerous stakeholders and it really is fascinating what has happened to that coast line. in fact usgs was there with us and said the southern part of the beach which is south of sloat to pacifica has lost more coast line than anywhere in the united states. >> wow. >> and you can really see -- we were up at the top of the cliff house and look out at ocean beach and they were pointing out to us where the coast line was a century ago a

>> right, certainly at the risk of my staff killing me, anybody could send an e-mail to chief greg suhr at sppd.org. i think people need to understand that the questions or comments are important. you won't necessarily get a response back from these e-mails but there will be a packet for these to be heard at community meetings and considered. everybody's input will be considered. >> my question in conjunction with the commission if we are holding these input sessions are we collecting these ones to give. >> we are taking any and all commentary to try and figure out what works best. i mean absent, we are trying to have common sensical redistricting. the primary driver of this whole thing is to get the police station in the district it belongs in and when the tenderloin station, when tenderloin task force was created, it wasn't a station. then it was formalized as a station and then every other station in san francisco has a minimum of five sectors and tenderloin station only has three. by giving them this additional run up and down market street will give them more and formalize and make

. >> reporter: police chief greg suhr has asked anyone with information about these killings to come forward. he says that shots were fired from at least two guns. that is what we know so far about this investigation. now sur and other community members attended last nights vigil just blocks from where the victims were killed. friday night around 10:00, four young men ages 19-22 were shot while sitting in a stolen honda on page street. police say they were targeted. more than 100 people marched last night calling for change. asking the older generation to talk to young people about the senselessness of gun violence. >> it needs to be over with. this is -- we are in excruciating pain. this is a devastation. >> extremely brilliant young man but now we won't have an opportunity to see anything from here. >> reporter: police sources tell us at least two of the young men were members of the mack block gang along mccallister street. it's a handful of street gangs known for crimes such as drug deals. now the police chief called the homicides a symptom of a larger problem. the proliferation

police chief greg suhr tnñ?ñ?plans on holding a town hall tonight to sññ?ñ?ear crackdown on massage ÷ññ?ñparlors that are really fronts for prostitution. many living in san rafael support the ban, but legitimate massage therapists say it could cause confusion about their business. >> it would have a detrimental effect on myself and other massage therapy practitioners. >> i personally don't know the answer, but i would like to mçñ?ñ?ñsee them leave downtown san rafael. >> the city has bÑñ?already collected nearly $100,000 in fines from massage parlors since it launched its enforcement campaign. >>> mountain view police are searching for a man who was seen using a smartphone to record people at an 's ó,ñ?ñ?day. the man was also seen in the same area in late october. investigators have only a vague description of the suspect. anyone with information is asked to call mountain view police. >>> two former employees of the san francisco 49ers are suing the team for age discrimination. the lawsuit was uÑñ?ñ?ñfiled by 56- year-old anthony year-old keith ngagi, saying