The department of Human Resources. And we have other officers paying out of their pocket to get individual certification. So this is an issue thats ongoing. You can have somebody from your office who is there so she probably knows better than i do. There was a discussion. And how are we going to move forward. And they came up with a plan. Theres a plan in place they are going to move on. But there may be a timeline with the department of Human Resources setting it up. I say complicated because its tied up with budgeting too. When you get certified you get stipends. Part of the plan is to look into this and perhaps perhaps try to estimate if theres going to be a six month, 18month gap from the department of Human Resources getting it together to certify and that maybe we can put in the budget some training for officers to get outside certification while they are waiting to get certified by the department of Human Resources. The other thing we have is remember the bakery incident we had in the valley not the bakery im getting confused. In richmond station, we have a high need for a language thats not certified. And that we are having we have hinn hindi and arabic. There is a plan Going Forward and ill brief you more on it when i get a better handle of the details. Two other things though is even though we are working on certification and language interpretation, that is different from translation. And we do have instances where the victims were right in their own language, a statement, and those statements technically, i think there was a bulletin out that they had to be translated or at least the gist of it to put in the police report. She said he didnt do it. And we had something worked out but it fell apart. So theres no way to translate what a victim statement is. And many times not be incorporated in the report. And that could be a liability actually for us if a victim is saying i was the one who was attacked, and we charge the victim as the attacker because nobody could read the statement, and it wasnt translated. So thats something that was taken on. And right now thats an open issue. Theres no way to do that. The last thing we have officers who were being used in the Language Access field repeatedly, and theres burnout for those particular officers. So this is some of the things they are dealing with. And i just wanted to report on that and when we get the plan in place ill tell you more about that. Commissioner mazzucco. Thank you. I want to talk about an incident that took place involving our officers in the community that i was a part of. And it tells you how the Community Works with the officers, we can achieve things. We have a close ront on octavia street and very proud of what happened and there was a homeless person who has been there for quite a while. She is not making a mess or causing trouble or screaming, but the neighbors are worried about her. Theyve contacted 311 homeless outreach, they are feeding her providing her with blankets jackets. And this one whom marie who is a friend of my wifes was worried about this person. And she wasnt getting results with the usual channels. And she was worried about her. And marie is fighting her own battle and winning with some health issues. I drove by and saw the woman in the doorstep and she was shivering and i contacted the captain of the northern station and said can we do something about this . The neighbors are concerned. They want to help her. And a car came right away. And the officers were talking to her and she refused to go anywhere. And marie came outside and said maybe if a woman talks to her it will work. And she worked as liaison between the officers and her and she wanted to go to a womans shelter. Shes more comfortable with a civilian than with officers. This woman left and went to a shelter for the first time. So i want to say this is an example of what our Police Officers do on the street that goes unrecognized and when they work with citizens who were truly concerned and giving this woman soup and blankets we have success in this field. Last week i drove by and she was not there. Again in this society we live in and people are saying nasty things the officers do great things working with the community. And i just want to share that with the commission. And thank marie for what she did. Shes an incredible strong woman. Thank you. Commissioner hamasaki. Thank you. Thank you commissioner mazzucco for sharing that story. I think thats as commissioners we see that the homelessness issue is an issue that has to be embraced by the whole city. And its good to hear about all of our friends, neighbors, community and Law Enforcement being a part of a positive resolution not a resolution but at least a step forward of an individual incident. I just wanted to say that im glad that this election is behind us, and i wanted to congratulate our new District Attorney chase bodine on his election. And i know that there was a lot of divisiveness that went on during this election between various actions. I stayed out of the whole election. I didnt i mean, i voted. So i didnt actually stay out of the election, but now that its behind us, i think that its good to see signs that everybody is looking forward to putting that behind us and working to move forward to ensure that our system of justice is functioning in a way that the citizens of this and the members of this city have demanded. And the divisiveness that took place, that shouldnt extend down to the hall of justice. And im optimistic that were looking at a Bright Future for this city under District Attorney bodine and to thank everybody and acting District Attorney and former Commission President for running a Great Campaign and for sitting in until the new District Attorney takes over. So im looking forward to great things. Thank you. Commissioner elias, i have a question for you about something you said. I want to make sure i get it. An officer who is not certified i understand cannot testify in court. Does the certification hurt the officer outside of court . The lack of certification . So we have an expert on this if you can answer. A lot of our officers have technically been recertified for life. And we picked that. They have to be certified now. Let me ask about the noncertified officer. What are the problems outside of a courtroom . In the criminal court an officer not be certified outside of a courtroom. Forget the courtroom. Part of whats going on is under the general order, officers need to be certified through dhr so its an administrative violation if they are not certified and the process is to ensure the officer is at a certain proficient level. And thats part of what the working group is trying to do is right now dhr only provides certification for sworn officers in four targeted languages. But the Police Department has many proficient officers in many languages beside the four certified languages like vietnamese or arabic. And so they could be certified. And thats part of what weve been trying to do is expand that pool. But they run all officers if they are not dhr certified when they are in court, they run into trying to establish proficiency and certification enables them to get over that hurdle. Certification right now must come from dhr. Cant come from a Third Party Entity . Thats an interesting question. We are aware other agencies like the department of Emergency Management they have used outside Third Party Certification agencies. So thats part of what we were exploring with dhr as well. And at the end of the day, weve been talking about it for so many years, and when incidents happen like the orchard bakery incident where theres a need for a certain officer and most certainly the department has those officers but theres a hesitancy to call out those officers because they are not certified. We want to get the tools to those officers so they can respond as they want to respond. And theres other incidents where theres been a need for arabic speaking officers. And we want certification. So officers feel confident, be it when they are doing their interview or in court they feel like they have the certification behind them. Thank you. The dgo says they have to be certified is an unfunded mandate. Maybe you can explain about theres no money to do that. Well, i would say its on the one hand dhr certifies in target languages. But for us to expand to go beyond those target languages i think thats been a challenge and the other thing weve been trying to do and again its our agency and other agencies working with with the Police Department is to be able to do that certification right at the academy so theres no its going to be more efficient, its going to be less costly to be able to certify recruits right there and offer right at the academy this certification so officers know where to go. They are not having to figure out how to get to dhr and take time from recruit officers having to leave the academy to go to dhr to the the certification process so we are wanting a more efficient system. And that was great to have captain hart come to that meeting because now that hes at the academy he is committed to working with the chief and dhr to get these systems in place. Thank you. Next line item please. Thank you. Line item 2e Commission Announcement for scheduling of items identified for consideration at future meetings. Action. Any items from commissioners . Seeing none, next item. The next Police Commission is scheduled for wednesday, december 4, 2019. 5 30 p. M. At city hall room 400. The public is now invited to comment on items 2a through 2e. Public comment on just the matters we have discussed so far. Seeing none, Public Comment sorry. Is this general Public Comment . Not yet. This is just on what we have discussed. Good evening. Im not exactly sure all what was discussed or not. Well, its important that we do that, because otherwise, if this is general comment ill ask you to wait im waiting. But i thank you. Okay. See you in a bit. Next item then. Comments closed. Line item 3 presentation of the dpa report on general orders, policy proposals second and Third Quarter 2019 discussion good evening. Good evening. The department of Police Accountability. I have a powerpoint. It will take me a second to put it in. Its here somewhere. [laughs] okay. You are on. Thank you. Good evening commissioners chief scott, director henderson members of the public. Director of policy from the dpa. Tonight is the night when sfpd and our agency has an opportunity to give you an overview of Department Work that weve been working on for the last two quarters. I wanted to briefly talk about our policy role quickly and get some highlights of that work. This is really more for the general public. We are mandated through the city charter to provide policy recommendations on a quartly basis so we provide them through this report and a quarterly report. When we finish investigative reports thats another time we provide findings and recommendations. For the highlights of what weve worked on, we put together a know your rights brochure we made recommendations for an mou between the district and Police Department. We made recommendations concerning consent searches and we worked on a manual so im going to go over those fouryears. Concerning know your rights brochure when we knew there was a change in state law concerning interrogations of youth and there was a City Ordinance that lowered the age to 17 and below for youth that are in custodial interrogation, they have a right to immediate access to an attorney and need to have access to the attorney before they are interrogated. Because of those kinds of changes we wanted to update a know your rights brochure and get that information out. We worked with the Police Commission. That was the first thing we did. I spent time going to their meetings talking about what they wanted to see, things they wanted to have updated. I worked with a bunch of other organizations. I worked with other youth organizations that provide Legal Services. I also worked with the Public Defenders Office. So we vetted it through those Youth Commission and through those organizations to make sure this is going to be a brochure that included the resources that you wanted to have included. And we are making it specific for youth and their parents. So organizations that we worked with the Youth Commission, the Public Defenders Office, asian law caucus, strategies for youth, Legal Services for children and San Francisco immigration immigrant legal and educational networks. And some of these organizations agreed to include their resources their phone numbers within this brochure. Its available in six languages. Its on our website. Its a little more difficult to find it on our website. When we redo our website, we want to make sure its much easier. Its a brochure that we passed out at all our outreach. We have copies here as well. We have it in six languages. We are working on getting it translated into arabic. As i said, we have many brochures here. Ive also provided those brochures in our materials to the commission. So thats one of the big things that we did that we rolled out, i believe in may we did that. The other thing we did was we made recommendations both to the Police Department and to the School District concerning the mou and we had collaborated with the Youth Commission some youth organizations on the recommendations we made. And we presented them to a subcommittee of the board of supervisors. And our recommendations included we wanted training and you were all just talking about the strategies for youth training. Since 2010 weve been advocating with the Youth Commission that all officers get the strategies for youth training, because its about information about the juvenile brain its about deescalation specific to youth encounters with police. So weve been envisioning this training would be rolled out and all officers would get it in addition to the School Resource officers as well. So we wanted that training to be included in the mou. And we made those kinds of suggestions. We also made other recommendations concerning making sure that the procedure now for interrogations of youth that all of that language would be included in the mou including a 24 7, theres a hotline for the Public Defenders Office so we know that youth parents and Police Officers know what that number is and they are able to call that number before a youth is actually interrogated. And we made other recommendations making sure that not just youth who are limited English Proficient but also their parents making sure there are rules, making sure there are interpreters provided. The prosignificance visions of 7. 01 provisions of 7. 01, we wanted to make sure those aspects are included. To my understanding the mou was in front of the School Board Last night. So we are hoping that process is moving to a conclusion soon. So a third area that we focused on has to do with consent searches. So historically the Police Department requires written consent when theres a consent search of a residence. But building on the 21st century policing, our agency back in 2015 recommended the Police Department now require written or recorded consent if a consent search of the individual and their person. So we made this recommendation studies across the country are showing consent searches disproportionately impact people of color, and they are not particularly effective as a crime strategy. In fact, what studies are showing the data is showing even our own when the department of justice did a study of sfpd data they found that historically and with the data that individual it is of color, they are searched at a higher rate but the rate of return is substantially less than what a caucasian individuals are. So its not an effective crime strategy. And in fact really undermines trust. So based on that, we had recommended that there be if theres going to be consent searches, and there are departments who are now doing away completely with consent searches, because the disproportionate impact and the low rate of return. So there are agencyies we are ad elevating for advocating for a written or recorded consent. Its a proposal under consideration by the chief. Weve written a procedure and we are thinking thats going to move forward soon. And then the last thing that we did in the last two quarters was worked on a number of manuals. We reviewed the elder abuse manual the Community Advisory board manual and the reserve manual. And we appreciate the departments willingness to share those manuals with us and for us to be able to provide that feedback. The last thing that has been really a project of almost three years was we created collaboratively a Domestic Violence manual. And we are getting close to finishing up that manual and hope it will soon be in its last stage and be presented to this commission. And thats my presentation. Thank you. Commissioner elias. Thank you. I wanted to actually commend you on the know your rights pamphlet. I think its really well put together. And i know that you had shown us this in the working group when sfpd was putting together their know your rights manual for the youth and in speaking with a lot of the stakeholders at the meeting they had indicated how sort of hard you had worked and the sort of collaboration and Community Input you received to make this pamphlet bring this pamphlet together. So i would commend you on your work and efforts for that. Because i do believe that the youth are they do like it, and they are benefiting from the know your rights pamphlet that youve been distributing. Your agency. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Commissioner hamasaki. Thank you. I just wanted to follow up and say thank you to you and the dpa for continuing to put together some of the most thoughtful policy changes for both the dpa and then also for the commission to consider for our department. I always find that when i reach out to her for questions regarding certain policies, theres always an excellent resource. And im grateful for the service that you provide to the department. Thank you. Thank you. Ill echo that too. Thank you. Thank you. Next item, please. Oh. We are still part 2. Good evening. Good evening. Executive director . Director . Executive director . Oh, my gosh. [laughs] i dont know whats happening right now. I am so sorry. Okay. Good evening, commissioners. Executive director katherine mcguire. Good evening director, chief scott public members of the public. Im here to present sort of the second and Third Quarter work that weve conducted and with respect to policy. So in the second and third quart we issued 118 Department Policies and notices, 117 were bulletins and one was a notice. We issued two General Department orders, 2. 04 and 3. 01. As you know, during the second and Third Quarter department general order 3. 01 was passed at the commission and issued by the Department Later to the department as a general order. And so we are now operating under a new rubric in which we have no we do have department bulletins and notices. The department general orders that we had that were in progress during the second and Third Quarter include the deaf and hard of hearing, department general order. It is a policy that in which its the policy that members in the course of their official duties when encountering a deaf or hard of hearing individual shall provide a qualified interpreter or appropriate auxiliary aid to ensure effective communication. This has been developed with input from members of the working group that included the department of Police Accountability. Its also been discussed or provided to the Police Officers association in which they had no feedback on it. And then in addition, the California Department of justice has most recently weighed in and we are now going to be looping back with dpa and the working group that helped develop this in order to talk through some of those comments that the california doj may have had. Additional general orders that we were working on in quarter the and 3 include investigative detentions and prohibiting biased policing as commissioner taylor and commissioner elias are well aware. The executive sponsor working group on bias under the usdoj recommendations has been working on those particular dgos and providing a substantial amount of input in developing those revised general orders. And so my understanding is that those are nearly complete and will be coming to the command staff to discuss and then if theres feedback of course going back to the Bias Working Group to talk through that. But otherwise we are nearing a point where we can come to this body with those particular dgos. Theres an additional list of dgos here including 11. 07. This is another item that was in front of the Bias Working Group and has had a substantial amount of review with external stakeholders. And we have started concurrence on that item and will be finishing that soon as well. We wanted to call out a couple of areas in both ggo2. 04 and dgo3. 01 in which the department of Police Accountability is included in communications and sort of talk through a little bit about how weve been conducting ourselves. And this was all consistent with usdoj recommendations so for instance 2. 04, really the revisions that happened there included incorporating all of the charter mandated requirements for complaints against officers investigations that are required of dpa. And also includes the sfpd review of the previous quarters cases and aggregate trends to inform policy and training. And then in addition to that, reviewing any cases to determine whether any policy, procedures or Training Needs to be reviewed added or reissued. And i hope that she feels the same. We have fruitful discussions on a monthly basis in my unit. And weve now asked commander sullivan to join us in that monthly meeting. And i believe that your new policy analyst will be joining us as well. So we are going to be a pretty robust series of discussions Going Forward with all those parties involved as well. And then finally the dpa is also specified in their role with respect to a written Communication System that has been newly established. So many of these things were kind of we had already kind of put in place as good practices in communicating with dpa. This formalizes timelines ask things like that and really helps direct us as to exactly when we are mandated to engage dpa and i feel that we are now doing that and more. And so i think thats the presentation. Oh. No. This is a agreed slide. I forgot about this story. You asked us in a presentation to note and count up the number of recommendations under the u. S. Doj that had policy revisions recommended. We did this review a while back. And kind of did you go it up in some files of an individual who has now left the unit. But we found this analysis. We were trying to track down not track down but trying to review this count and ensure that its not stale. So eventually through the process of usdoj recommendations implementation, we may have discovered actually we have to change a policy to do this one thing, even though the recommendation doesnt necessarily call out that theres specifically a policy change that needs to happen. But there may actually be a resulting change that needs to happen from the work of starting the implementation of a particular recommendation. So we are going to take this back and do a more thorough dig on those kinds of items and make sure that we have a very clear picture of which recommendations are impacted by policy. Thank you. Vice president taylor. Thank you. This last page is good and theres more questions than you anticipated. Yes. When you come back and do that deeper dive can you report on not only what the correct numbers are but of the correct numbers where are we in terms of our implementation of changes . Yes okay. Yes, chief . I would just like to add, those numbers will be a living document as commissioner taylor and elias are well aware of with our work on the bias dgo which led to other dgos that werent necessarily on that list. We anticipate that there will be more of that. Well dig into a dgo and recognize we need to change another one to make that one make sense. So it will have fluctuations on that. A good example of that is 5. 03, as you all know. It was slated in the schedule already, but it made sense to marry the two. Great. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next item. I have a comment online item 3 this is Public Comment online item 3 you said . Okay. Public comment just on item 3. Not general Public Comment yet. Just item 3. Seeing none, its closed. Line item 4. The general Public Comment. The public is welcome to address tonights commission on subjects that are not on the agenda. They shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to an individual. During Public CommentNeither Police or dpa personell nor commissioners are required to respond questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and personnel should refrain from entering into debates or discussions with speakers during Public Comment. Okay. Finely. Thank you. My name is daniel pais. We have a new District Attorney. And you are the board of supervisors. All right. 62 years on this planet, i spent 47 involved in politics, starting with the Mcgovern Campaign in 72. I was also a volunteer coordinator to pass the equal rights amendment to the constitution while living in texas. I am a cofounder of queer nation San Francisco. Politics is my passion. And if theres one thing i know its politics. In all those years ive never seen a more incompetent campaign than that against bodine by the establishment specifically the Police Officers association. They ran a trumplike campaign. Dirty, personal attacks, much like the ones they used against jeff even after he died. Just like Trumps Campaign and attacks against john mccain. It used to be the norm that attacking the dead was considered trashy and low class behavior. But without the poas immature crapslinging campaign and without the mayors appointment as interim da the powers that be would have probably gotten their way. Remember breed only won by a squeaker against jane and mark. Her first big political test this election failed miserably. She doesnt have what it takes to be the mayor. The brains the political astuteness or high character. She is weak. To her allies reconsider your options. The poa is feeding like maggots on the rotting corporation that corporation corpse that is the past. The poa needs higher iq and lower blood alcohol level counts. Next speaker. Any other public speakers . Can i get the overhead . Yes. [off mic] there should be a button. My time speaking tonight is three minutes. And i appreciate all this that i have here. The forum that i have. And speaking about this statue i would like to put up in memory of mario woods. This is a memorial drawing i have to the time that we spend here for mario woods and stuff. And you know, i really appreciate this because when you come down here and everything, when you speak into the mic, when you see the pledge of allegiance, because this is what they are doing. They are pledging allegiance. Its not like the national anthem. But this pledge of allegiance. And we all are americans. And mario is a hero. Hes a martyr. And when mario woods was spoken occupy by can because of the wardrobe malfunction, she said, you know like she said a lot. It was like a pledge of allegiance. So this football hes putting here and mario woods and everything, you know. When i was a teen, what happened in chinatown and everything, you know, i was walking down polk street, and this girl said help me help me and i said no youre crazy people right there by all the homeless people. Why are they looking at me . Im 7 years old. But you know, i was really lucky that i was able to be there because i could do something. She says really, he broke my window, i was just driving down the street and he takes my phone. You know . Its a very dangerous thing to have 100 waving it in front of these people. And i say, you know, i was really afraid for her at that moment, because he really gave her a dirty look. And i said ill take care of it, ill take care of it. And you know, when it comes to the police, youre really lucky to have them around when you need them. You could take this off. Its all right. I wouldnt mind being on the camera. You know . Like when it comes to getting down here and being able to speak to you all and be here. You know . Its so blessed. Its a blessing, you know . So you know, as i walk around the corner following the guy, you know ill take care of it. Who shows up but the police, four of them. Unmarked car. And i say help me, help me, help me. One second we had them down. And you know, they were so good what they did that day. You know . And i was too. Im a hero in my own eyes. Thank you. Your time is up. Thank you. [laughs] just hand it to all right. Thank you. [off mic] all right. We are ready for our next speaker. Thank you. Today is my mothers birthday. Happy birthday to her. [off mic] we need our next speaker. Im sorry. Okay. Good evening. Hi there we need the mic please. With the Public Defenders Office. Im focused on Police Misconduct among other things for a couple of reasons. I want to sort of go back to the basics for a minute. Or ten seconds perhaps. Number one is because Police Misconduct undermines public trust in our systems. Number two, it jeopardizes individual case integrity. Number three, it victimizes the individuals that suffer directly from misconduct. And number four, it devalues the work of so many, many good cops. Last week a commissioner opined people watching the meet would feel unsupported of discussion of the 79 reports of misconduct in the dpas 2018 annual report. It struck me in a couple ways. First its important to note that those 79 cases are just from the folks that had the wherewithal and courage to not only report to dpa to follow up. Second the point of the information is to allow everybody to see it and talk about it and digest it. The third the innocent victims might feel unsupported to hear the commission questioning a relatively short discussion on the topic. And then last its because those honest and wellintentioned and respectful and peaceful and hardworking Police Officers should feel great that misconduct in their ranks is rooted out so that they dont suffer the discredit that comes from it. I wanted to ensure that you all saw the study that was published by the Sacramento Bee and other out lets this weekend. And i have copies of it. This is a problem. The fact that many police have convictions and pending cases and we are not focused on making sure that those criminal convictions and pending cases are disclosed that we have a system for disclosing it, at least in active cases that those police are involved with, is a problem that we all need to come together and solve in my opinion. After personally witnessing all right. I will stop there. You have thirtyseconds. I have 30 seconds . Okay. Thank you. After personally witnessing pd perjury not so long ago the judge put out a call to all of us. He asked how do you protect the integrity of the judicial process to ensure he find that is presented in court is truth . I think this is a call for action for all of us who care about that integrity and that truth. And so okay. Now your time is up. I want to hand out. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. Good evening commissioners. Did you have a comment to this last just quickly. I want to be clear and defend my fellow commissioner a little bit. I dont think anyone on the commission has an issue with dpas report. In fact, we are the one who asked director henderson to give us that report of the 79. We are the ones asking for the information. There was a discussion last week about the way certain things in the report were represented. And thats what the lively discussion was about. But theres no impression we all wanted that information and we asked for it. I dont think any commissioner was trying to suggest that any bidirector henderson giving us that information there was something improper about it. We all wanted it and we asked for it. Commissioner mazzucco you may have missed a point there. I agree with you. The Police Officers one bad Police Officer makes it bad for every other officer in this department. And ive heard that mantra for years. But the officers are not feeling supported. Because they do a lot every day that we dont know about and you as a public defender coming here and you raise these issues because your job is to be a public defender, you raise those before the judge where your client has a case pending. But the constantly are taking this negative nobody ever focusing on the positive. So in order for us to bring change, its difficult to bring change when we are continually hammering on the negative. The negative is recognized. You would be surprised that we do as a commission. But the reality is theres a certain that seems not to want to let it go. You as a public defender represent people who have been accused and sometimes wrongfully. It happens on both sides of the aisle. Commissioner elias. Thank you. I wanted to thank you with bringing up the point with respect to 79 instances because i think i lost sight of that. 79 instances out of a police force of 2,000 what is it 2300 . So you have 2300 officers and 79 instances in one year . The odds are great in terms of theyre not being a lot of instances of misconduct. So it is very low. And so i think that thats why its important for us to take a deep dive into the sort of few instances that are recorded and really explore them. So thank you for reminding me about that. Okay. Well resume Public Comment. Thank you. Good evening commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. Im here to ask sfpd to report to the commission and public about the lead program, Law Enforcement assisted diversion. This program was molded after seattles awardwinning program to refer drug offenders. To Community Based health and social services as an alternative to jail and prosecution. Programs like lead are exactly what we need to improve the Health Status of participants and end the cycle recidivism. So far the program appears to be unutilized and appears to those arrested for low level drug offenses are by and large black and brown people. They dont participate in the same rates in the lead program through referrals or social contacts. I have a chart that illustrates that Racial Disparity. Bring that out. There we go. Wrong way. There we go. The whole thing. Okay. Thank you ms. Brown. Theres a thing on the side. Yeah. Times up. Sorry. [laughter] thank you. Well give you an extra 20 seconds for being technologically challenged thank you. The Racial Disparities are kind of the opposite of what we do expect. So normally onethird of participants are black and nine percent are latin while more than half are white. Similar disparities exist for those referred to lead instead of those who are booked. Recently published at the Public Defenders Office. And i brought copies that push back on the citys representations to the board of supervisors that they were arresting mid to high level drug dealers. The data showed they werent. It revealed 93 percent of people in the operations were black or brown. Weve heard that referrals to lead dont happen after 5 00 p. M. Because of the parole dont work after 5 p. M. I think the data here prompts us to at least should prompt the commission to take a hard look at lead starting by sfpd to present on the topic focused on the Racial Disparities the number of participants compared to the eligibility ones and all validation measures. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner elias. Thank you. I appreciate that. Can we grab a copy . Copies . Thank you. The lead program i think ive spoken several times about the program. Because i actually was the attorney at the Public Defenders Office when we tried to implement this program from seattle. And i had the opportunity to travel to seattle and meet the lead team there who had created this program. And its a nationallyrecognized program and being implemented in other major cities like atlanta, new york different cities like that. So i think it is a great program. And ive spoken to the chief about the Program Prior to joining the Police Commission. And i have to say that the chief actually he was committed to sort of making sure that the program succeeded. I know one of the issues was officer buyin in terms of having a new program and getting them to buy into the program and make these referrals. Because from the officers perspective what they were feeling is its like another drug quarter where they refer people and nothing gets done and they arent seeing people actually utilize the services but rather return on back to the street, which sort of gave the officers they lost hope in referring people to the program. So i know that that was an issue. And sort of the Racial Disparity was an issue in terms of the referrals when i had left the program more than a year ago. So i would ask you chief to give us an update and status on the lead program. And ive said how hsoc resembles that program by taking people and rather than arresting them providing them with services and giving them more hand holding and resources to sort of navigate through the system rather than just giving them a court that says hey, show up here. So i would like an update on the status of the program. Because i know it was grantbased and i thought it was three years. There was extra funding that was unused. They are rolling through that. Do you know what the Expiration Date . The end of this fiscal year, june 30 of 2020 so yeah. As of june 30 you have to reply . What happens . Or if the program is being successful given the evidence of the program, we have to find a way to fund it. The Police Department did not get any funding for lead. So we are on a our own like we often are in terms of that. Its through dph. It was like 2 million. It was a big grant. It was almost 6 million. I know it was a couple. Million. The program. I was like can i get that . The dph would like to support there was a lot of funding because its a multiagency. Its the Police Department dph its glide. Theres other agency. So they were at the table when this program was sort of implemented. So again, i would like an update of status. And i do want an answer or analysis of the racial composition in terms of what type of people are being referred to the program and why there are sort of some Racial Disparities that may or may not be existing with respect to the referrals. And its only in the tenderloin and mission district. So its not even throughout the city. Its two very targeted areas in the city that are participating in the program. Commissioner hamasaki. Thank you. And thank you for bringing this to our attention. I know that commissioner elias has spoken about this many many times. And so i would actually go in the quest for a report on this. It does sound like a new and innovative and potentially productive program. So we obviously all want to learn about things that work, where theres room for improvement and especially if we are coming up on a funding issue in the middle of next year maybe its a time we took a look at it as a commission and heard more about it. Vice president taylor. Yeah. I want to join them. I think the issue is not so much that its a third because you can say black people are a third of the program but given the small percentage of the San Francisco population and given the large percentage of the incarcerated population, that is concerning. I know you shared these concerns when i was talking about the templates. Every little thing we do in terms of how we present who minorities are in the city, all those things we internal lies so to have pamphlets to know your rights that have black and brown people on them, but in the program like lead which gives people a Second Chance you have a relatively small percentage considering the population thats actually in the jails. We can do better as a city. So every little thing that we do as a department, as a commission to instill in people okay, you are either valuable or you are less valuable i think is really important. And, you know down to the pamphlets that we have on know your rights. We should have as many white people as they do brown. Like scholarships should not just have white people on it. So i know you agree with those things. I would like to delve people. We do ourselves a disservice if we are not giving our minority population the same chances. Thank you. Next public speaker. Good evening. Good evening. Drives me crazy i would like to use the overhead again as usual. Im here concerning my son. Can i fix this . Its hard to fix. Other way other way. Dont start my time yet. All right. Lets go back. There you go. Yes. My son was murdered august 14 2006. And i come here every day i mean every wednesday. I am still saying that my sons case isnt solved. And what is it that we can do to get it solved. And its been 14 years now. And im not of resources about what to do anymore. I know i have my investigator. I know i do all the things that i do. But i was wondering if theres anything in the law that can change that can solve these homicides for mothers like myself. So that i wouldnt have to come here like i do every day i mean every wednesday and bring this up. As i say all the time i always bring up not just my sons homicide but all the other homicides because we want a healing circle of mothers and fathers who have lost their children. And some of these people on here are mothers of children of mothers that i stand with all the time. But i want to bring it back concerning my son. I want to let you know that my son had two parents at home. This is his father. This wasnt a one singleparent family. We raised our children well. We did welby well we did well by them. We paid school constitutions. Tuitions. We did what we had to do. Still the world took my son from me. I want you to know he had his father and his father was home with him. We were both there at the funeral home that day. I bring this because everybody these names are down of all the perpetrators who murdered my son who were there that day. I cant say which one pulled the trigger. But i can say all of them were there. They have the names. And i dont understand why the case isnt solved. Because they say no witnesses. When you have former mayor gavin newsom saying i know who killed their son the da knows who killed her son, the police know with the exception of no witnesses. When are we going to get these witnesses . How do we go about getting them . No one comes forth. Is my son case never going to be solved . This is what the perpetrators last name my sons lifeless body laying on a gurney. And i am so tired of it. Thanksgiving is coming. Christmas is coming. What am i going to do . Thank you. Thank you. The tip line is 415 5754444. There is a 250,000 reward. Any other Public Comment . Okay. Public comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 5 Public Comment on all matters pertaining to 7 below, closed session, including Public Comment on item 6 vote whether to hold item 7 in closed session. Is there any comment about the commission going into closed session . Public comment is closed. Next item. Item 6 voting whether to hold item 7 in closed section. Action. Is there a motion to go into closed session. Motion. All in favor . Aye opposed . It carries unanimously. Okay. We are going okay. We are back in public. We are in open session. Yes. Line item 8 vote to elect whether to disclose any items on 7 held in closed session. Action. Is there a motion not to disclose . So moved all right. All in favor . Aye opposed . It carried. Next item. Line item 9 adjournment, action item. Is there a motion . So moved all in favor . Aye opposed . Thank you all. [stand by]