presentation of the o.c.c.'s 2010 annual report. status report on preparation of o.c.c.'s 2011-2012 budget. >> we are delivering the annual report which i will deliver now. director hicks: this evening i will present the officer of citizen complaints 2010 annual report. you have a copy of that report in your packet. the report is also on the o.c.c.'s web site at www.sfgov.org/occ. this was prepared by the o.c.c. staff but i would like to give special recognition to chris wi cznewski, the office of citizen complaints. he is our technology person and all things digital. so thank you, mr. wizcewski. tonight i would like to talk about the history, organizational development, policy analysis, mediation, out-reach, information, technology, and document production. the office of citizen complaints was reated by the board of supervisors initiated charter amendment adopted by the san francisco electorate in 1982. the office of citizen complaints became fully operational and staffed in 1983. it is under the jurisdiction of the police commission. the mission of the o.c.c. is to prom

your thorough report reflects the hard work of the o.c.c. this year despite du difficult circumstances with personnel matters, and i am glad to see complaints are down, sustained rate is up. that is obviously more time for your investigators to focus on the lower case number. i know in the past you were clearing prior quaste cases from years past. you should be commended, your entire staff here today, for your work. it has always been our belief, those of us here at the beginning, that a strong o.c.c. means a strong police department . you have created a level of accountability and respect between the two agencies and you have increased the public trust. thank you. i know you are doing it under difficult standards. i don't know how much longer you can pull this off, but we will try to support you in that regard. the mediation is my favorite thing where the officers and plaintiff sit down and understand how each other's feel. why the officers do what they need to do. y prosecutors have been your p excellent. i have to tell you ms. vargus and m

while the o.c.c. has 15 8124 investigators, the o.c.c. also has three 8126 investigators who are considered -- you have journey-level investigators, sprfering investigators. it would mean the senior investigators would have to take on even more cases and do resting provisions. i have to meet the contingency target to get to $235,000, another investigator position, as well as an attorney position. we would -- we would have to eliminate our mediation program. because the charter mandate, we have two prosecuting attorneys. through charter mandate we make policy recommendations. it would be a terrible shame to eliminate the mediation out-reach program. then more would fall on the investigators. so that concludes my budget presentation. president mazzucco: thank you for your review. we'll see what we can do to extend the budget. commissioner kingsley. commissioner kingsley: to make sure i understand the numbers, it looks like your baseline total is formally $210? director hicks: yes, that's correct. commissioner kingsley: that suggests to me h

and require the chief of police, the o.c.c. and two commissioners report back to the commission with their findings within a time that you think is reasonable. that's my motion. >> what about the cost? >> that's part of -- >> hold on for a second. s that proposal. when you make a proposal, you look at everything starting from the cost to the time frame of implementation and the manner of implementation. i think we're getting too lawyeristic. i like your language but -- >> i'll finish. in my mind cost is absolutely one of the factors, which means whatever this is going to cost, looking at the officers here now, we have a limited budget. we're going to have to dede-side as a city, if we're spending money, we're not going to spend it on something else. there are many things we wanted but i'm not going through them. >> commissioner? >> i just still like the clarity of what -- when -- what is the time frame you put on and what's going to happen in that time frame? >> again, i think 30 days is too ambitious but i leave it up to the co

s or tasers along with working with the o.c.c., along with working with the two commissioners, along with working with community groups to see if in fact that is the tool that we're going to have to -- that we're going to use. i think it's abundantly clear. we need something. there's something in the middle between they stop using their baton and pepper spray and when they revert to the firearm. we're leaving all the options for the chief if he does go out. we've heard about flats, cattle prods, we've heard -- about flashlights, cattle prods, we've heard about a lot of things. if it comes become to tasers, that's where we're at with it. but it also has to deal with the implementation of the program. that's why we want commissioners to work with the chief. his proposal will include the ground rules. it's not my turn to talk yet but what we heard in the audience was concern. i'll get to that later but it's about putting together a proposal for the use of tasers and/or other devices. i'll turn it over to the commissioner. >> there's so many things here, some of the things were covered b

i was part of a working group in 1996 that was brought together by the o.c.c., by members of alternative criminal justice alternate sentencing, very much like the kinds of things that you are seeing and talking about now. we started doing this work in 1996 and put together a program called -- at that point it was called many pirc. the psychiatric illness response club. where the person encountered was killed by the police as opposed to aided by the police. the first thing we needed to understand is there has been such a fractionalize zation between health and law enforcement. the need to take a look at the issues as behavioral issues on both sides. we spent a lot of time talking about what might work. we looked at a lot of techniques, and some of them were pretty wild. they involved spiderman guns that put a sticky web around people, we looked at tasers. and we ruled them out, because there is a high zens of -- incidence much -- of police responding to people who do not respond to police control and then police using tasers. we came up with an identical program that memphis has, identica