And like i said when we were telling the same story and its a tough time right now. I dont understand why is our back line process so much longer than other cities . Well, i dont know how other cities do it. Part of it was staffing. You know, weve increased the background units. We have parttime employees. But thats something that weve increased and part of it is that and the captain who is in charge of Staff Services is honed in on than. All those things and weve also researchers actually look at our processes. That is helpful too because a lot of the recommendations that its part of the challenge. Something that the commissioner raised that i wanted to clarify. He asked whether the police department, when it comes to lateral transfers whether the background check is done and i wanted to know whether when we do background checks for lateral officers that come to sfpd, do we get both allegations and outcomes of discipline cases because i know that a lot of indications with some of the cases we see where an officer has a disciplinary case before it can be heard and the outcome is reached and the individual retire and im wondering are those materials provided to us when we do background checks and secondly, do we provide those materials to the new county where an officer seeks employment because its my understanding that sometimes officers will retire here from here theres a pending disciplinary case and theyre seek Law Enforcement ploy knees other countries so when it comes, we provide them with the allegations or just the outcome. Let me answer the first part of the question. When we recruit as a part of our background and how much information they disclose and its important to us and and were legally appropriate and the same for us. When an officer quits or rescience, we makresignswe makef theyre eligible for rehigher and its disposable. If we went background investigators come to our, we dont release disciplinary files but theyll followup on the reasons why and we release what is legally appropriate to release. Its important and as much as we can be transparent with that information that we are but our background investigators seek out that information. I think commissioner was talking about this when we talked about the article on the white paper and the litigation and all that other stuff. I want to point out that its an important point and have not been uncover or talked about that i think at the worst, it talks about behavior from the article that violates local laws, rules and regulations but it at the least, this speaks to the on going behavior. We have some mandatory reporting independently not just to d. P. A. But to the commission as well and those are the quarterly first amendments that gets reported here and we dont have the conversation about it. Im just clarifying what those issues are because we have direct reports of that information that were supposed to be getting if that behavior was on going. You raise the the issue of were these things happening beyond just what was happening in the paper but i wanted to clarify and articulate what those reporting issues were and i want to thank you director henderson. Even within hn theres requirements. Is that what you are referring to . Ok. And are some of those things still working and some are working there way through d. P. A. . Theyre supposed to be turned over through d. P. A. But independent we both present to the commission d. P. A. Presents a report and the department presents to the commission as well. We havent received any the department hasnt articulated anything and any reports since ive been in the position nor that ive seen since the chief has been here. I guess that stuff was in litigation so we i still havent seen the white papers s its online. And i wanted to followup on commissioner comments. I know that theres this threshold that was set 100 years ago for officers in the city. Have we fallen below that level . Weve only reached that level. Ive always heard the discussion around that. And let me, you know, if someone who just spent six months trying to hire a legal assistant, were in a booming economy right now and how much one has to pay anybody to know any work in San Francisco right now is ridiculous. Were one of the bestpaid or finance the bestpaid Northern California department arent we. Wore competitive. Were not the top its way more than stansislaus. I guess, right, if you want to work in stanislaus or handle some fishing game cases and then thats a different type of officer than we need here in the city. Thats fine. I wanted to ask a followup, remember a few meetings ago there was a discussion about the civilianization of Law Enforcement and now were having uniformed highlypaid and highly trained officers doing tasks that are generally the positions so this budget cycle we authorized for 25 new civilian positions and there are six that we posted jobs so we hope to get a good applicant pool for that and theres another six we have to create because these are positions that didnt exist. We have to create positions. Theres a process through d. H. R. Human resources where we actually have to create the test and create position. Were in the process for those remaining six. Part of the spirit of this was as we get to civilian employees in, they with work operational positions so that is a process and it will happen. But theres a transition. City governments moving things i know we went through this process with our new policy person. [laughter] yeah. I sat on those interviews and i understand how long and ris rugs the process is but its how we get the best people working in the city. Great, commissioner. Following up on the staffing, being one of the senior commissioners here that, 1,971 fulltime officers was created in 1971 on a cocktail napkin in a restaurant in the tenderloin. With no Scientific Data whatsoever, this is where many great things happen. We did not have orical park chase, south beast, a whole new neighborhood. We didnt have Treasure Island and we didnt have the Sales Force Tower and we didnt have 200,000 additional people in the city and even before we probably should be equivalent to other department with 3300 officers that was then and not opposed to 1,900 1 so we keep what were going to hear is the population is grown and the areas to cover have grown so were probably going to need many more officers than 1,971 so people need to be realistic and we keep chasing the number with no meaning so i wanted to make that clear. Vice president tailor. We need someone for the first time and the context that is totally divorced from anything here and they find out i have anything to do with the Police Commission and its like, you know, so i think were at a really dire point so this is the neighborhood that is i know for taro is hurting one now and i hear that all the time and i can go on and there are other neighborhoods where i just hear from people constantly and i hear this more and more. Commissioner. Just one final thought on that. Taking along with that, theres a couple of additional points. One, i think we should all be thankful and grateful we live in a city with bottom crime rates we should all celebrate and appreciate that that the worst most san franciscans have to face is a broken car window. Realistically. Not to anyway diminish the people who are actual victims of crime but you know thankfully the city is in a great place crime wise at least compared to our history. And the other point just triggered my memory was the discussion we had a few weeks, months ago and about hsoc and shifting the non crime related duties again. I really appreciate the work that all of the departments that appeared here were doing doing but were sending without a criminal aspect to the conduct outside of what not and i think commissioner dejesus justice Perdita Felicien in my ear waste of resourcewhispered. We do not need our officers doing social services and those are better tasks for the agencies that are properly trained and qualified to handle those and so theres a real need to push on other city agencies to handle their caseload or their what falls within their area and not put the whole burden on the department so just something that we should be thinking about as we consider our involvement with hsoc and how to best utilize our officers moving forward. Thank you. Were going to move to the next agenda item. Turn your phones off. Ive heard three phones now. Turn them off. Next item, please. Clerk b3, bpa directors report on bpa activities and announcements. The report will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. It will determine whether the calender any there is one other part of the chiefs report and its the followup on requests from Vice President taylor. So we have commander and captain chin just to give that update. I thought i was chopped liver over here. Not at all. This is actually a followup from the october 17th report that you got. Good evening, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. So im just going to go overview of the report that you already have. You have the written document. I wont go into a lot of depth on the details but i will followup with some of the questions that you had us look into. So on the followup report, you will see that trends and Sexual Assault and the definition for Sexual Assault is within that report and you will see within the city there is a drop of 9 of Sexual Assault and then if you look at survivors that were not able to provide a location theres a drop of 6 reduction if you look at 20172018. Sometimes the out of city or survivors that cant provide a location, some of the out of city are referred to outside agencies and those agencies do investigate it. 100 of out of Agency Reports are referred to outside agencies and we dont hold on to if we can identify a location. If you look at the 2019 report, year to date, and the scope is january 1st to september 25th, you will see a city wide drop of 22 excuse me. We have a request. Is there a way to put this on the overhead so folks can follow along . No, i was told to give a verbal report. Put it on the overhead. And then, another part of the report we also look at is the age. So when we if you lock at the age, we look at different between minors and adults and between the 20172018 over all report there was a reduction of the 11. 5 and for adults its a reduction of 5 of Sexual Assaults that are reported. Year to date, if you look at minors its a reduction of 30. 4 and for adults its 45. 3. And then one of the things you asked us to look into is you will see in the report there are maps. The areas that you will see concentrations of where we see in increase or a concentration of sex you assaults is downtown, tenderloin, south of market. I know the commission has asked if we can look at specific vulnerable population such as tourists or specific occupations such as Hotel Workers, restaurant workers, we were unable to look at it as a total data to look at that but we did look at locations where hotels, you will see areas in red are identified as hotels and were making the inference the victim is a tourist and then you also asked us to try to separate the report and look at other vulnerable populations such as lgbtq and unfortunately we cant do that as an over all report but what we do do is the specific case investigators the assigning officer and the cases that are assigned. They do look at that as part of their investigation. We work really closely with advocates, not profit advocates and we have the on going m. O. U. And relationship with casa de las madres for over 12 years and we look with department of publichealth and c. P. S. To further evaluate those cases and make sure that we are assessing the needs of the survivors. We look at things such as language access, medical services, house, counseling, and some of the outreach that you asked us to look at is how do officers, how are they trained. Theyre trained at the Academy Level but when they get to be investigators, we also specifically train our investigators in general crime investigations, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and a specialty on child abuse. And child Sexual Assault. So those are our specialties. I have also i wanted to introduce captain chin who oversees the special victims unit. If there are questions id like to just open it up to that. Thats generally what we looked at from the last report. Captain chin. Well, lets just get the full report and then well have all the questions. Good evening, commissioners. Just reiterate what the commander has stated. Cold cases and financial crimes and crimes against children and human trafficking. So its an array of 11 different disciplines. So, at the present time, we have only about 20 investigators investigating Domestic Violence and child abuse and Sexual Assaults. So that is kind of like an overview of the special victims unit in that respective areas. We would like to if theres any questions, from the commission, we would be happy to answer them. Thank you. Good evening. I think and commissioner taylor asked for this reporting and i appreciate you presenting it here today. I think one of the primary questions was and i dont know if i missed it in this report was what degree of the crimes were actually resulted in arrest and closing the case and in prosecution . Do you have that data off hand . I do. Ok. Can you is that in here . So in 2017, our numbers are a little bit different because we take our numbers from our own data base and we have assigned 435 cases we have cleared 145 cases. This is 35 clearance rate. Out of those cleared cases from the ucr which is the uniform Crime Reporting system by the f. B. I. , 34 of those cases were closed one which is 33 of those cases referred to outside agencies. It says on the report. Six of them, 72 of those cases were results of an arrest. And 40 of them were close to 13 exceptional clearance. Of which 29 of them, the District Attorney declined to moved forward with the case. And cases discharged by the District Attorney was 35. What were the 40 . 13 exceptional clearance. Is that a code . Correct. What does that mean . Exceptional clearance. We have to have four different criteria and certain situations where elements of beyond Law Enforcement control preventing us from making the arrest so bringing the department to justice for prosecution. So we have to meet four of these criteria. The offenders location has to be known where we can effect the arrest immediately and we have probable cause to bring this offend error arrest them and charge them and bring them to a court for prosecution. The fourth is if we encounter any outside circumstances which prohibits us to make an arrest. For instance, if the offender passes or the victim refuses to cooperate fully cooperate with the investigation. So that is when we can close 13 exceptional clearance. Those are so there was 145 of them were closed which was 35 of the total of 435 of those 145, 33 were closed by code one. Code one which is referred to an outside agency. Seeing it happen in another jurisdiction. Yes. And then, 13 were closed for exception at circumstances. I recall that term because it came up before in another case we discussed. You have code six. Code six is when we made the arrest so there were 71 cases where we patrol or investigate through the investigation made an arrest of these offenders. The 35 referred to other agencies and 71 arrests and how many exceptional . Exceptional clearance were 40 but 29 of those were d. A. Definition of any warrants. So, can i ask is there any particular reason why all of it is concentrated in this certain downtown area tenderloin, soma, are there any trends that you are seeing there that are helpful . We cant really pinpoint whatever factors may be. If you look at your report, in the mission district, you see a high number of reports more than any other district and i believe that the fact is that a lot of resources like s f4, lgbt services, womens inc, sfgh, where a lot of these individuals go to get treatment or get their Sexual Assault kit done and and they get the reports done at that location so its in the mission. We believe thats the reason why the mission is higher than any other numbers. Just one final thought, you include Sexual Battery in here and does that include like misdemeanor Sexual Battery like can you give us an example of your days at the public defender office. Someone grabs someones part of someones body. Usually for our internal spread sheet or data base, these numbers are pulled and ive spoken to b. I. That pulled these numbers for the commission. Sexual battery is not in there and its all Sexual Assaults which is the rapes and oral cop layincopulaying. I understand now. Thank you, very much. It would be nice to have theres a lot of Additional Information that you provided as the commissioner asked questions that i asked for. It would be nice if it was all in one report so we can digest it all together. So ill give you the reason why i asked for this, one, is its subject i care about but also, more importantly, Community Members have come up to me, scheehereis what i understand. There is vulnerable populations. The data shows that for example black women are more likely to be victims of violence and Sexual Violence in particular as are lgbtq are the transgender population. Immigrant workers. I mean, there are communities that are particularly vulnerable and i have heard reports of, for example, you know, Hotel Workers not feeling safe and not feeling safe to be able to report to Law Enforcement because their immigration consequences so these are to help our fellow citizens feel safer in the city so i wanted to get the data to see where this stuff was coming from and hear what were doing about it and i regular the Department Might not select that data by think that is a little bit of a missed opportunity because if we have certain populations that are likely to be victims and we know that and we know that on the National Level and we know its happening here. I think that we should make the extra effort to make sure that were actually reaching out still in populations. I saw working with but were not just talking about intimate Partner Violence or Domestic Violence which is a cause thats very important to me. Were talking about rape and Sexual Assault. Thats a very broad umbrella and people who perhaps dont feel safe and coming to Law Enforcement and dont feel when they come to Law Enforcement that theyre treated in a compassionate way and they are able to, you know, become empowered in ways they should be and so it was concerning to me and i wanted to know if this was on the departments radar and what we were doing about it to make sure our vulnerable victims feel safe in this city just as safe as if there were not lgbtq, minority or a hotel maid or january ter. Thats the information that i was hoping to elicit from this discussion. Just to answer your question regarding some of the data so the verifiable data thats pulled from a central Analysis Unit is here. The other data is very fie able but its from a case file so theyre pulling this in a spread sheet and actually verifying it manually just to make sure that we have everything. Thats why its separated because this is pulled from a centralized Analysis Unit. And thats why thats part of the report. Were just complying with the g. O. To keep the report they work with the Hotel Managers and we dont just look at crimes that occur to tourists but crimes that occurred to members of their workforce and to keep the hotel safe. So some of the conversations they have is things such as Crime Prevention for their workers, responding to crimes for their security personnel that are actually going out there including the actual we know a hotel is a 24 hour operation so were looking at not just crimes occurring within the rooms but to and from so those are things. I do know that we actively do participate in those regular meetings with the Hotel Managers and their security companies. It was heartening to see on balance the numbers are going down although theyre going up in certain district stations. Central we have a little bit of an uptick but those are i wonder if you have any sense of the reason for the over all drop. As far as pinpoint what factors can contribute is no, we dont. It may be because some of these, some of the survivors dont report these incidents. And theres a lot of them. Because, ive been into a lot of several Sexual Assault panels were in fact we just did it about a couple months ago the red zone at city college with the District Attorney office and we spoke about Sexual Assaults and what we do to investigate, basically like an education and for the community and in fact i just said o sat on a panel yestt black rock just for information purposes. What can they do and do they come for help . A lot of people dont want to go to the police for help. Even my sergeants when they come into the office theyre continually educating them and giving out referrals like the marcy victim violence crime card and the d. N. A. Bills of rights so they are very well educated and the people that come in. We do what we can with the outreach where i sit in different panels with the Department Status for women and Domestic Violence consortium and so we try our best to get out there and educate everybody. Thats kind of the information i was hoping to get. You pick a vulnerable population right. So for example, transgender population, right, so there are a lot of people not just people who look like me but including people who look like me that wont always be comfortable going to the police. Its important were actually doing affirmative outreach because the worse thing in the world would be for they dont have ta feeling of comfort so i want to hear what the department is doing proactively so you started talking about participating in panels and those kinds of outreach efforts are so critical and that is what i wanted to hear about tonight. Also, commission, earlier today i met with the director cheryl davis of the Human Rights Commission and they just named a director for the sharp office and that sharp office is all about what everything that you are speaking of. Kelly lou densemore and she just started and that office is designed to from a holistic point of view and improve services to Sexual Assault victims including police, District Attorney, publichealth, the whole gamut. Were going to be a part of these discussions and the next step is really sitting down with all the partners that have a stake in this and crafting out protocol thats will improve all of the processes, including identifying some of the concerns that you have. Were very happy to be a part of that. They just named the director so i think that works and well move forward at a quick pace from this point forward . Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next item, please. Line item 3b. Directors report. Report on recent d. P. Activities and announces. The report will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be determining whether the calender any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. Presentation of d. P. A. s annual report and presentation of the d. P. A. System. Good evening, director. Good evening. Ill be brief because i know we have the annual report staff. I want to go over the stats that i present every week and we are at 598 cases that are open now thats up from this time last year where we are at 524. In terms of cases closed this far 525 versus 464. The cases that are pending we have 385 versus 247 this time last year. Were cases at this point are at 71 so far this year versus 36 which is where we were last year. In terms of the cases that are passed, that are older than nine months and the agency we have 27. This time last year we were at 24 and in terms of cases that are mediated, we are at 31 cases that have been mediated this year versus 13 this time last year. Last Police Commission when we met, i reported that we had 39 sustained cases again. Were resolving issues in our new c. M. S. System that is calculating all of these reports. A lot of these things have to be done by hand. I wanted to correct the record from last week when i said that we were at 35. Thats incorrect. We were at 71. Were fixing all of these glitches as we get our reports and hopefully theyll be smoother as we continue both in the weekly reports and in the quarterly reports that we present as well to the commission. Of the cases that are passed the 270day ninemonth tolling that we do, 10 of those cases are told and the i had the cases reviewed and they are in the drafting stage for sustained report coming up and ill monitor them and begin we havent had a case outside of the 3304 dead lines yet. I hope not to have one ever. I will keep continuing reporting on these numbers. In the Mediation Team we had a conference in october and it was hauled here iheld here in the c. I want mediators that are trained so we provide mow professional services in terms of our mediation component in d. P. A. In terms of the outreach, theres a number of events and lift them and not go into much details unless you have questions about them and in aging your way and partnership and the role we play in the city on october 17th and we have a Community Meeting with informational both that we staffed for park and rec that did a form on health and wellness for the community and on october 24th. We went to another Community Meeting with the we are the city family summit with the recchiational center and we had a presentation at the we are the city family summit at the richmond recreational center. We also attended Community Meetings at both the tenderloin station and the mission station since our last meeting. I point out that i just wanted to mention i think i sent it to the commissions but our policy director at d. P. A. Was awarded a recognition by the department on the status of women last month so very proud of the work she continues to do for d. P. A. On behalf of the rest of the city and the agencies and many are Community Based organizations that she works with and many of the task groups we partner with with the commission and the department and nonprofit agencies here in the city. There are no closed cases in the closed session from d. P. A. Susan gray is here as well along with susan and case issues come up and during tonights Police Commission where we can be of service to folks that are here in the community. That is my report. How about the annual report. Are we going to have a presentation on that . Ok. Ok. Page 1. Here we go. So this is the report. Its been online since when it was initially scheduled is that september or october . Its been about a month. Its been several weeks now. Its been online and its also on our website. Joining us as i go through the annual report. I think everyone there are copies on the table if anyone cares to review it. Im just going to go briefly through the things that i think that stand out but i want to point out the distinction that weve made from these annual reports brought the 2016 annual report just by way of comparison. Its an important context for the work that were doing now and reevaluating to make this information more clear for broader audiences and reflects a lot of the input coming from the Police Commission. Many of those things that are contained in the new report are things that i was specifically asked for both by the commissions and the public talking about our data. The previous reports were well over 100 pages. Ive been to those meetings where these reports were just read line by line. Im not going to do that. I presume if people want to dive down deeper into the details, hopefully the report in its current status makes it a little easier to do that. In the meantime ill pass along the old report that im sure will make for scintillating reading in case anyone wants to review it. That said, let me begin and well be available to answer any of the questions that you may have. Page one is just the executive summary overviewing what the approach is with d. P. A. I think the things that are important here are the significant increase in cases and the significant reduction and the time that it takes d. P. A. To investigate cases. I think its significant. What stands out to me from this page is the 293 improvement on completing sustained cases and within the nine month period and to try and resolve as many of our cases in timely manner. Theres a brief overview of the improved report that i think weve taken steps to address the henderson report, the monthly and statistical report both the quarterly and the annual reports. On page 2, just talks about some of the staffing. I wanted to articulate the staffing because it was an issue that took a quite a long time for us to get under control and get folks into the office to make sure we were fully staffed to address the needs of the office. Theres a brief overview of the office and page 3 and page 4 and the 2019 monthly stats its articulated here as well as and these numbers are important because they talked about how its an 11 increase and this is over the 30 increase that we experienced last year so the past two years have grown exponentially in terms of the work thats been done at the d. P. A. In the past they were included and tacked onto the annual report. Ivan alliesed the data and summarized them so the keen report is now there highlighting and graphic so you can see how the length of the investigation takes place. Before these were little circle charts. I thought they were a little difficult to read and this is a much earlier and clearer way to track the lengths of time the investigators are taking but again the keen report, which is about 40 pages is now online on the website as well in case people want to track those records. On page 6, weve included a definition of summary. A lot of the esoteric terms and many of the reports both quarterly and annually contained a lot of verbiage that folks might not have a clear understanding of what they mean and how they can textually relate to the work thats being done so weve included the definition summary and i will continue to include this so that people know what theyre reading as we talk about the investigations, their summary and the findings that the organization has made. I hope it makes it more clear for a lay audience. What were talking about. And how its connected to the work. Our sustained cases. Im actually really proud of our sustained rate for d. P. A. Its at 9 . I think its one of the highest in the nation if not the highest. Its really difficult trying to get this information from the other agencies. A lot of how we collect those numbers is based on how other agencies collect sustained rates both in oakland and in portland. Just to give you more context, oakland a changing their systems and unavailable to share what their sustained rates are right now. On page eight and nine. If im going too fast let me down but i want to try and give you an overview and ill try and answer questions. The new protocols from the sustained rate. I lay person knows and understand what does 9 mean and how do we come up with those numbers . How are we measuring it. A lot of the complaint outcomes here on page nine, we did an manual count to do these things sadly because our systems arenl worked out yet. I wanted to get the report out as quickly as i could. And this 18th month study refers to many of the cases that are listed in the appendix. You can see the appendix and i tried to make it clear on this page and you can see them both at the bottom as a reference and the end of the report. On page 10, we talked about the reporting sustained case outcomes and the analysis of the sustained courts in terms of the decisions this is something the commission asked me to do to include as a reference both from the work thats being done at d. P. A. And what happens when that work is completed and information is presented both to the department and to the commission. I still think theres some real growth there for us to make improvements because theres still somewhat of a disconnection from us getting followup, d. P. A. Getting followup information about what happened after cases and they have to be looked at and correlated. In the future what would be really great is if were able to share that information or have direct access to the departments own records when decisions are made about cases that have been presented to them. Thats going to be one of the topics as we workout the Technology Connections between d. P. A. And the departments so we dont have this gap of communicating by snailmail and emails to try and correlate what happens to a lot of our cases. You can see where im just explaining why we have an 18 unknown. The 18 unknown is we havent gotten information yet about some of the stuff that has been presented. On page 11, its just more discussion about the imposition of discipline. Again, this is something the commission wanted me to include in our reports s reports so peon track that information. On page 12 and 13 we talk a little bit about our policy stuff. I sam arized the key policy points of the things that are important. We make a lot of policy recommendations throughout the year and rather than list them all ad nauseam, we try and highlight those that related most relevant to the work of the things that weve been discussing over the past year and i want to make a note, this is a new thing and were putting them online either from the commission or from the Community People can go onto the website to track and see what those recommendations have been in the past and what they are currently. Thats on page 14 and 15 and theres a link to those policy recommendations. Theres a summary on page 17 of the audit and i think you guys are going to be getting a presentation about where we are with the audit again over the next few months and on page 20, well talk about the overview of the pacific bridge partner and the work tonight so they are here following this presentation. On page 20 and 21, page 22, talks about the training. I just want to articulate the training stuff. Its really important. When i came to d. P. A. The training budget was 4,000. Thats there is an opportunity for improvements there. We have a lot of improvements. We have a training budget and trainings are actually happening and scheduled all throughout the year. We partner with a lot of other city agencies and departments to allow the employees to go and participate in trainings to see what the department is doing in terms of training. The District Attorney office and Public Defenders Office so we can share resources and information about on going issues related to work being done at the d. P. A. And ill also point out that since weve been there now for the first time, the entire staff has been trained. One of the things that stands out when we talk about some of these trainings is we recently had an officerinvolved shooting training that was a collaborative training involving the District Attorneys office, the police department, and d. P. A. All going over establishing some of those protocols for what happens when theres an officerinvolved shooting. Outreach and Stakeholder Engagement on page 23 and 24 theres a list of some of the activities that we participated in throughout the year and theres staff on page 25 and the list of all of the folks at d. P. A. And then on page 26 is when we start the appendix. I just want to point out that there is a distinction here between the allegations by findings and the discipline by officer. Im just making that clear. Are you going to present on that . Im here to answer questions if you have any about the report. Will. Ok. Go ahead. Keep going. Well, that was mostly t the rest of the stuff is just the appendix. Is there any other presentations by d. P. A. Staff . Were here to answer questions. Um, i dont think i have that many questions. So, first of all, this is a fabulous looking document, director henderson. Thank you. Thank my staff. They did a lot of stuff. [laughter] im thanking you on their behalf. Right. I picked the color. What about the font . Just love it. I didnt even do that. Thats all ceremony. So seriously, im joking but it makes it a lot more raid able and digest able and we get a lot of reading to do on this commission so its really nice that its a lot more accessible in this way. So thank you for your work on that. We put a lot of work in these reports. Ive been here to hear the old reports read to us and its difficult to get the information. Thank you. So, it sounds like the d. P. A. In the last year there was investigated a total of 1,524 allegations. It looks like you through a pretty sur owe process and weeded the unfounded ones or what is the other language you used. There are so many pages. Not sustained or unfounded. Or proper conduct. The question i have is on discipline and it seems like a lot of thes are below 10 days. You have a sustained finding where the discipline to be imposed is less than 10 days. Thats a great question. There is confusion about the process. What happens is the d. P. A. Writes the sustained report and that report is then taken to the Chiefs Office and its reviewed by a team on the chiefs side and they send a letter to d. P. A. And myself have a conversation about whether there is agreement or disagreement. If its disagreement about whether or not there should be discipline at all, if its the amount of days. Whether its discipline should be imposed at all its the end of it. It depends. We might recommend the finding be sustained for bodyworn camera and the chief might say it wasnt proper use and i dont see it as discipline but a retraining issue and so that means its not in the discipline track so retraining does not seek discipline. The chief might also say that i disagree with you and i think what the officer did in this case was proper conduct and if that is the case, d. P. A. Cannot proceed any further because its under 10 days of discipline were recommending. Is that by city charter. Correct. Ok. So, if we are in agreement about the fact there should be discipline, then the chief sends a letter of notice of intent to discipline to the officer. Someone from the d. P. A. Goes to a moderating and they present their case and the officer is represented and presents their case and then theres a conclusion from that particular hearing. And from that. Do you feel that by having the ultimate decisionmaking power within the department, how does that impact your work on the 10 days and under cases . I think there are categories of violations where we are asking for certain higher sentences uses of Excessive Force and those are the types of cases where we think its supported by the conduct and the disciplinary matrix that were currently operating under that will be shifting as new disciplinary matrix looked at by this commission. But thats kind of what we gage it by. The structure that we have in place now and the severity of