Groveside. When youre at the site, it seems like this piece of land is already part of the park because we already operate and maintain that piece of the property. However, on paper, this parcel remains a separate piece from under the jurisdiction of ocii. Ocii was formed as a successor to the Redevelopment Agency which dissolved in 2012 and as part of ociis longterm prompt management plan, it guides the dispostion of certain redevelopment property and under the plan, ocii must transfer this addition of adam rogers to the city and county of San Francisco. Staff brought this potential acquisition before prozac back in february of 2017, where they nancy recommendeunanimously reco had. They recommend occi to ensure the department owns the entirety of Adam Rogers Park and title. No cost for this property transfer and Maureen Munsen has joined me today and also available for question. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Janice, just a quick question, we just do this by a resolution . Theres no other documentation related to this . I believe so. Do we have any more information . Marie will have more information about the process going forward. And dreandrew pennick was hes well, but wasnt able to see for the documentation. Theres an item for all of the properties and this is one piece of many that will be introduced as part of the resolution. So our piece is small. Do you want to add on to that . You dont think theres a lot to add, but youre recollection recommendation is youre saying, you encourage them to accept the property and were going to the board of supervisors who will accept about Ten Properties that we have to transfer under our longrange Property Management plan, which is a part of the redevelopment dissolution. Thank you. Seeing no other questions, chair would entertain a motion. Moved of approval . Second. All those in favour . So moved. Item 13, any speakers for general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And were now on item 14, commissioners matters. Commissioners . I dont see any. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and item 15, new business agenda setting. Any new business from the commissioners . I see no one. Any public item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 16, any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is close. Item 17, adjournment. So moved. Moved and seconded. All those in favour and we are adjourned. Thank you. My name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls sports program. When i came to San Francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to Candlestick Park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the San Francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. I coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. I think that is what drives other people to do this. What drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. I use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasnt fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. The moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. You have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. I started the first Volley Ball League and very proud what i have done with that. Being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. Programs offered thraw thirtythree rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. Other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. Couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the Civic Center Plaza on green grass to run and play. You otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. Is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. Real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. Girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a Strong Female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they dont see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. Soccer, poetry, community service. We now have field of dreams. We are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make surei want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] get out there and do it. Who cares about what anybody else says. There will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. That happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. Whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. Go out and get it done. I can be the strong leader female and i love that. [ ] i just wanted to say a few words. One is to the parents and to all of the kids. Thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a Soccer Program in the bayview. Soccer is the worlds game, and everybody plays, but in the United States, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. I coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. It is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. When the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. Only one or two of them had played soccer before. We gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. I think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. I get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. This is new to me. Ive always played basketball or football. I am adjusting to be a soccer mom. The bayview is like my favorite team. Even though we lose it is still fine. Right on. I have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. My favorite memory was just having fun and playing. Bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. They are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. Now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. We want to be united in the bayview. That is why this was appropriate this guy is the limit. The kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. We have some potential collegebound kids, definitely. Today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. This year we have first and second grade. We are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. You know why . Why . Because we are . Bayview united. The Bicycle Coalition was giving away 33 bicycles so i applied. I was happy to receive one of them. The Community Bike build program is the San Francisco coalitions way of spreading the joy of biking and freedom of biking to residents who may not have access to affordable transportation. The city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the San Francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. The partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are transportation dependent. We ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. We make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. Bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. It is not only a form of recreation. It is also a means of getting connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. I really appreciate it. I am very thankful. We teach a class. They have to attend a one hour class. Things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars. After that class, then we would give everyone a test chance chance to test ride. We are giving them as a way to get around the city. Just the joy of like seeing people test drive the bicycles in the small area, there is no real word. I guess enjoyable is a word i could use. That doesnt describe the kind of warm feelings you feel in your heart giving someone that sense of freedom and maybe they havent ridden a bike in years. These folks are older than the normal crowd of people we give bicycles away to. Take my picture on my bike. That was a great experience. There were smiles all around. The recipients, myself, supervisor, everyone was happy to be a part of this joyous occasion. At the end we normally do a group ride to see people ride off with these huge smiles on their faces is a great experience. If someone is interested in volunteering, we have a special section on the website sf bike. Org volunteer you can sign up for both events. We have given away 855 bicycles, 376 last year. We are growing each and every year. I hope to top that 376 this year. We frequently do events in bayview. The spaces are for people to come and work on their own bikes or learn skills and give them access to something that they may not have had access to. For me this is a fun way to get outside and be active. Most of the time the kids will be in the house. This is a fun way to do something. You get fresh air and you dont just stay in the house all day. Iit is a good way to exercise. The Bicycle Coalition has a Bicycle Program for every community in San Francisco. It is connecting the young, older community. It is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. It has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. I have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. Is program. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Commissioner, id like to take roll. Yes, please. [ roll call ]. You have a quorum. You also have with us chief William Scott of the San FranciscoPolice Department and paul henderson. Thank you, everybody. This is the january 15, 2020, meeting of the Police Commission. We do have a heavy schedule tonight, so we will have two minutes for Public Comment. Im going to change slightly the agenda order. Ill ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we move on to the d. P. A. Report. So with that, i turn it over to you, chief. Thank you, president , Vice President , commission, and executive director henderson. I start off todays report with a summary of our crime trends for the week. As of january 13, our overall crimes are down 21 year to date. And i just want to remind everybody we are very early in the year, so these percentages usually change pretty drastically through the year. With that our total property crimes are down 23 . Weve continued to have fewer reported incidents in all categories, with the exception of arson which has increased 22 year to date. Our burglaries are down 31 and our auto burglaries are down 21 when compared to 2019. When compared to year 2017, were down 38 . Our total Violent Crimes are down. Specifically drivewaysing homicides, we had no homicides this past week, and a total of one for 2019. That represents a 20 increase. That is suspects being identified, arrested, and charges being filed. Overall, i would like to report that our homicide clearance, our uniform Crime Reporting homicide rate for 2019 is 71 , which is a good thing for us. We look forward to hopefully putting more cases to closure for the families of homicide victims in 2020. Looking at our gun violence, we are down 60 over 2019. We had no shootings during the past week. There have been two shooting incidents year to date resulting in two victims of gun violence, one fatal, one nonfatal. Since its so early in the year, i wont report on the year to date trends for the past five years, but i will say that we are showing a decrease over this time this point of the year for the past five years, but its very early. We want to keep working with the community and make sure we keep homicides reduced and in check. In terms of our general case updates, a couple of significant series that are happening right now that id like to report to the commission and the public. A robbery detail conducted an investigation into a series of cellphone robberies occurring in the area of poke and hays and hays and larken in december. Following the incident on december 20, our motorcycle solo officers detained two 15yearold suspects in connection with the robberies. The suspects were cited. The two juveniles and two additional juveniles were responsible for all the robberies. There were search warrants issued and four suspects were taken into custody. Weve had school robberies as well. The school at st. Laguna has been burglarized. Computers have been taken and the school has been burglarized. We have been working hard to bring these cases to resolution. We have some good evidence we have been able to uncover, and hopefully well have a suspect identified in this in my report to the commission as this case progresses. Also in the news over the past few days has been a pretty significant robbery Home Invasion that occurred on hannover street. This occurred on january 8, 2020, at approximately 1 30 in the afternoon. Over 30,000 was taken in the robbery before all the subjects fled from the residence. Video was captured of the crime. Based on video evidence, our investigators executed a search warrant and arrested five of the multiple suspects that were connected with this case. Things from the Home Invasion were located, including an ar15 rifle with an extended magazine. Next, we focused on reducing traffic fatalities. Our vision zero is a big part of that. We have had one traffic fatality year to date, and that was a singlevehicle accident that occurred since the beginning of the year. The department will be presenting our safe streets presentation on february 5 with a lot more details on last years breakdown, as well as what we have year to date. 456 traffic citations have been issued by officers for the week of january 6 through 12, focused on vision zero, focused on the five violations. Im sorry, 69 of those 456 were focus on the five violations. Our Vision Zero Team issued 102 citations, with 99 of those focused on the five violations being cited. Thats the 97 of the citations were focus on the five violations. As i said, there was one major traffic collision that ended in a fatality that ended on january 12 of 2020 at 1 30 in the morning near bayshore and sun sunnydale. A person was riding on the side cars and lost his balance and fell under the train. The operator was unaware that the victim had been run over. A tragic situation. So i just want to remind the public, weve had several of these incidents involving l. V. R. S and people either stumbling and falling and getting struck by trains. But please obey the signals and the crossing signals for the train tracks and Pay Attention to your surroundings. That goes a long way in terms of improving Traffic Safety in our city. Also to address Traffic Safety, our officers are increasing efforts to increase bicycle safety. Last year there were 29 fatalities, compared to 23 traffic fatalities in 2018. That represented a 26 increase. Were committed to our overall goal of vision zero over the past three years. Several areas have been identified with a significant number of pedestrian and bicyclerelated collisions. In our effort to prevent collisions, additional officers have been dispatched to focus on the focus on the five, speeding, making illegal turns, failing to stop at stop sign and red lights, and failing to stop or yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk. Now, mind you enforcement sometimes equals education. It takes enforcement and education and good engineering to reduce our traffic fatalities to zero and were working with the m. T. A. To make sure were part of that zero vision goal of traffic fatalities by 2024. We had the warriors home this week. They have four home games this week. They played dallas last night. They play denver tomorrow night, orlando, and utah. Also, there is a concert with chance the rapper on january 17. So far operations in and around the chase center has been very smooth. Weve been able to work out some of our traffic concerns. Although there is congestion, many people are taking Public Transportation to alleviation the traffic congestion. So thats been a good thing for the city. Other large events in the city include j. P. Morgan who was in town for the annual healthcare conference. We also have a number of Martin Luther king junior activities this week. We have a larger event and march on the 20th starting at the caltrain station at 4th and king. Members of our command staff as well as our Police Department will be participating in that march and we invite the public to attend as well. The annual womens mar will be saturday, the 18th. It is usually a wellattended event. It will start at the civic center and will go to the embarcadero center. The 49ers are playing this weekend. We hope we will be victorious. We will be deployed if the 49ers win as well. I want to report on our overtime status. We are about halfway through the fiscal year and currently we are 6 over our budget in general overtime. Several unfunded areas have caused us to be over budget. We are and will continue to try to reel this in, but i want to report on what some of those events were. We responded to a mutual aid request at the kinkaid fire. That was a little over a 300,000 expense. Now, that will be reimbursed at some point, but it does cause our overtime costs to go up. Also, hospital watches, which is an issue that we struggle with constantly when individuals are arrested and they require medical attention and that medical attention is prolonged, our officers have to stand watch at the hospital to make sure that the person in custody is basically safe and that the medical staff is safe. Approximately 380,000 to date has been spent on hospital watches and that expense is expected to be 800,000 by the end of the year. Our hospital at zuckerberg z. F. General does not have a jail ward, so that requires additional pressure on the department to stand watch over the arrestees when theyre in the hospital. Well work with sheriff miomoto and the department of Public Health on that issue. We hope to actually mitigate that in the coming year so hoping we can reduce that expense. Also public records act request, approximately 143,000 has been spent year to date, and that is expected to exceed 300,000 by the end of the year to handle the new transparency laws that deal with body warrant camera releases. We are still awaiting the nine civilian positions that have been approved to be filled. We do believe once those positions are filled were in the process of filling them as we report to the commission. We hope that will mitigate and reduce our overtime costs. Also our Academy Training classes needed a greater level of course instruction, mainly remediation. We are attempting to retain the candidates in the academy that we have worked so hard to get in the academy. A lot of remediation and that takes time to do remedial work. Our goal is to retain candidates so we can get them on the streets to police our city. 250,000 in academy overtime is budgeted, but we expect those costs to be around 500,000 by the end of this year. Lastly, the buffin settlement, to comply with the terms of that settlement, the department will left 620,000 that was left unfunded in the november 2019 supplemental ordinance. So we have to absorb those costs. Then the last thing, our targeted proactive investigations which have resulted in good crime reductions have come at somewhat an additional expense, some unanticipated in our overtime. So again, practices and policies to make sure we manage our overtime appropriately and look for ways to mitigate or reduce our overtime costs. Hopefully we can do that by the end of this fiscal year with six months left to get back in line with our fiscal budget. So that is for this portion of the chiefs report, if the commission has any questions. Thank you, chief. I want to clarify something. When youre talking about expenditures year to date, thats a fiscal year june, june to june . Yes, sir. Thank you, chief. There was a lot in that update, and i obviously wont get to all of it, but i have some questions. You mentioned the disturbing trend in school burglaries. Can you someone has good taste in music out there. Great song, but please keep that off. Anyway, you mentioned the disturbing trend in school burglaries. Can you tell us both obviously there are things you could convey, but where the department is in terms of making arrests. Having that many critical supplies in electronics being stolen was, im sure, crippling for these commissioners. Yes, a couple of strategies that we employed. We actually put surveillance on i mentioned one of the schools that has been burglarized multiple times. We had surveillance units on that. It didnt yield an arrest, but we did uncover a potential suspect that we believe was casing the location. We were able to identify that person. Also, there has actually been evidence that we uncovered that has led to the identity of one of the suspects. He is not in custody at this point, so thats ongoing. But a good piece of forensic evidence and that could be a big step in terms of solving several of these. There is other evidence that we are awaiting forensic results to come back to the scene. Also working with the schools. Weve done surveillance and put extra patrols in the area, particularly for the schools which have been hit multiple times, particularly two of them. Were going to continue to employ those. We dont see this as a growing trend. At least one of the schools, the people responsible did quite a bit of work to get in the school. Quite elaborate in terms of the he testified earlier they took to get into the school. That was one of the bigger hits where 30 computers were taken. Were going to continue to work and i hope we will have one case where we have solid evidence and we have a resolution in that in the near future. Weve identified the suspect. We just have to identify the person. In terms of trying to recover after computers get stolen, do you know if any of these schools have ways for the public to donate or attempt to help or are they being assisted in any way of trying to recover . That im not sure of and i can follow up. In terms of that, a lot of work has been done in collaboration with the District Attorneys Office. Earlier the District Attorneys Office had a joint press office with the d. A. s office, several entities including the sfpd. There was a lot of property recovered from operations. Some of that property has yet to be identified. There was a lot of computers there. Were hoping that some of those computers are in that lot of property several lots of property that have been recovered. We havent identified the owners of all of those pieces of property yet. Also working that angle, the fencing operations, were hoping to do more work with the District Attorney and others to identify additional fencing operations because thats how we recover a lot of the property. In my opinion, when you steel in that volume, youre usually looking to unload it. Were hoping it will turn up through these fencing operations. Weve had some success, but definitely more work to be done. If you can find out if theres a way to dont. Everyone cares about our schools in our city and im sure everyone would want to help as much as they can. My second question is about the Home Invasion. You mentioned there was an arrest. Has that person been charged . Are there additional charges to follow . It doesnt sound like it was a oneman job . It was not. The juniarrest was a day or two. It was multiple individuals involved in that arrest. According to some of the reports weve gotten, that same group of individuals have done the same thing in other cities in the bay area. Were going to join forces with some of those other departments and see if we can Work Together on these cases. If you could follow up about a charging decision and additional arrests. Will do. Commissioner hamisaki. Chief, i wanted to touch on the press conference that happened last week with the u. S. Attorneys office involving the philmore shooting that happened i believe last year. I had some concerns and some of these concerns have come up before this commission about the departments work with various federal agencies and some of the issues with the recent settlement that was in the paper regarding the racial the targeting of racial minorities by d. E. A. Agents and them essentially dragging sfpd into this. So the report that came out of this Police Commission and again, you know, i thought you did a fine job. But the u. S. Attorney decided to turn the moment into a political stunt and started slamming our city for being a sanctuary city. That gives me a lot of pause and were going to have to reconsider the degree to which this department is going to work with these departments if they cant as a Law Enforcement agency respect our local laws, our policies, and our city. And i thought it was extremely disrespectful of the u. S. Attorney to do that with you there present. I thought the department got used like a prop to push the trump administrations agenda. Ill be very clear that if anything like this happens again or continues, im going to push to terminate relations with the federal government because this is cheap politics and taking advantage of what otherwise you know, i have no qualms with working together with other agencies. But when you start attacking our city like that, youve lost your right to speak in that forum and with our department. I thought that was disturbing and i hope i dont see that again. I have a couple things on the budget. You were talking about long medical having prolonged medical. I cant remember if there was a program in place or one where the shrferiffs would take over those watches for us. Where are you with that in terms of negotiating with the Sheriffs Department. If youre at the hospital, they can already do that. The second thing is i remember doing arraignments down at the hospital. When you say there is no jail ward there, that was a little bit disconcerting. Do they not have one anymore or what . There is a jail ward with i think four or somewhere around four beds. Its not staffed with the nurses and medical personnel that it needs. So its basically not operable right now. I know weve had discussions with d. P. H. On that and also with the sheriffs. So thats been an ongoing discussion. And with sheriff miomoto that will continue. They faced some shortages as well, they, the Sheriffs Department, and as i understood it they were trying to staff the jail. It put them in a bad position. It comes down to us working together and trying to get the funding. Thats the three departments, Public Health, the Police Department, and the Sheriffs Department. Hopefully we can come up with a better solution. Until that time, the burden is falling on the Police Department. To answer your question, yes, ive been in conversations for over a year with the Sheriffs Department on how we can come up with a better solution. Were going to continue that. I know in this budget cycle were going to have some discussions about that and hopefully we can come up with a better solution. I have two more questions. The 143,000 for the record request. And i know were going to have a budget presentation tonight. Im assuming youre going to put the in the budget that under the law were mandated to provide these records. So this is a good time to put in for the budget what we anticipate the needs will be. Yes, maam, and our ultimate hope is that we complete the process to get the civilians hired which will alleviate that overtime. But until then we have to comply with the law. I believe we are making some good progress. We have some people in the pipeline to get them hired going through backgrounds. We dont want to have to use overtime funds on that if we dont have to, but well do what we have to to comply with the law. I have some concerns that my colleague had. I read this article and it was very confusing to me. So you know, the newspaper, you cant rely on everything that sits in the newspaper. The way it appeared was that there was this gang case that was very serious. The it appears, the way i read the article, is our department referred it to the department of justice to take the case and theyre now charging the Death Penalty. If i read that correctly, i am concerned because this is way before tessa boudine was the District Attorney. I think at that conference they were announcing the Death Penalty for these individuals. And i just didnt know if that was the policy of the department. I mean, what is the purview of the department in terms of youre the arresting agency and we have a charging agency and i didnt understand if that was part of the policy to ask the department of justice to take over cases. Thats something we cant discuss right here, but i would like to put it on the agenda. I would like to get more information on that. I would like to talk to the attorney if that is a policy issue if you want the department stepping in in terms of the charging agency or if we rely on our own agency. I know its not an agenda item, just to clarify. I dont know what publication you read, but what the u. S. Attorney said what the maximum penalty is the Death Penalty. They didnt say they were pursuing the Death Penalty, but that was the maximum exposure. But did our department refer to the u. S. Attorney rather than the District Attorney . That was my major concern . In this case we have relationships and partnerships with our federal partners and we did take that case to the District Attorney for both the arrest on the homicide and other arnltion which were not followed by the District Attorney. So we did ask our federal partners to take a look at that case on federal charges. So thats what happened. And i would just like to say this in terms of the Public Safety of our city. I mean, this case as you all know from the press conference involves a shootout in the middle of the philmore in which unsuspecting people were spot, one paralyzed for the rest of his life and one of the individuals involved in that shootout was shot and killed unfortunately as well. I think its incumbent on us and im going to say my role im sorry, i found it. Were literally watching it live. My role and the departments role is nonpolitical. What we want is Public Safety for our city. That was a very, very unfortunate and unnecessary incident. So it is in my opinion not in our best interest to turn away from activities to hold those people involved and that incident accountable for their actions. We had nothing to do with the sanctuary City Ordinances of our city. That was not even a part of this investigation. What we like to see is when people shoot up the streets that there is some accountability. The other things that came in, i cant control what other people said in the press conference, but i do know we have healthy and working and productive relationships with the federal agencies and we need those to protect the Public Safety of our city. Politics aside, and i know we have to deal with the political aspects of it, but its really about protecting the city and people in our city. I guess thats what were there for. I guess was it political or not. Not from our perspective. Not from our viewpoint. Yes, i heard that. I want to respond. I know its not agendaized. Having been the state core prosecutor and then federal prosecutor because of the cooperation between our federal prosecutors, we have to put the rhetoric aside. The f. D. A. Bring things to the table to keep this city safe. They have different tools and different agents available to them and they have resources. The bottom line is i dont think this commission has any power to say were not going to work with federal thoroughs. When it comes to protecting this city from violent criminals, there is no Better Agency to jump in than the f. B. I. And the Attorneys Office. I worked with attorney anderson not once but twice. Hes honorable, ethical, hardworking, and i have full faith and confidence in him. It will be where the federal government supplements and works with local Law Enforcement. We would put this city at risk if we didnt. Just one point of clarification because i supervised the organized crime section so i know how cases are charged. All of these types of cases start out as seeking the Death Penalty and the u. S. Attorneys office is not seeking the Death Penalty. The way its charged is its death eligible. All murder cases get charged that way and then the attorney general of the United States makes the ultimate decision to seek death. I have never sought death, the u. S. Attorneys office has not sought death in several decades. I dont know what this office is planning to do, but that is not what the press conference stated and thats how it works. It said Death Penalty. All murder cases are Death Penalty. Its not a murder case. Its a rico case resulting in murder. They all begin as death eligible and the office either seeks the Death Penalty from the Attorneys Office or it does not. Just a point of clarification, if anyone thought this was a death case, it is not. That is a decision that makes by theyre exposed to the penalty. I would join the call to agendaize this because i really have concerns. I dont think its fair to attack the acting District Attorney and former Commission President and suggest that she was able to do her job or wasnt acting in the interests of this city or acting in the interests to protect this city from violent crime. Ill know a very close friend of mine was friends with the young man that was shot and paralyzed. I counseled them throughout the this process, including the criminal process in San Francisco. So i know a little bit about the case. You know, its i if were going to try to control or tell our local District Attorney how they should or shouldnt do their job by running to the feds every time we disagree with a decision, that undermines the integrity of this department and the work we do and our District Attorney and our city. So i think we need to talk a little bit its a policy issue as has been pointed out. I think we need to have a longer discussion about this. What is the agenda item . How do you want to articulate that . Let us know. Vice president. I want to agree with the chief in, first of all, there are different statutes entirely governing federal and state charges. Its not as though theyre the same thing. What needs to be proved is different from another charge. That is a decision the individual officers would make. We cannot be making blanket cherrypicking statements that were not going to work with the f. B. I. That people get killed and shot, especially poor black and brown people in the city getting shot. Black and brown people, especially black women are 65 times more likely to be victims of crime. I will work with whoever we need to work with to ensure when terrible things happen to black and brown people someone cares. Im going to stop this particular conversation for the time when we actually calendar it. Is there a commissioner that has something they want to discuss. I wanted to discuss your question about what to agendaize. That could be the criteria for going to the federal government and asking them to charge these [ overlapping speakers ] we just had a settlement based on targeting black and brown people and arresting them pm. Why dont you work on this and submit it to the staff and well get it on the agenda, rather than just trying to cobble together something now. I wanted to make sure i did echo some of the same sentiments my fellow commissioners had. I want to agendaize this and look forward to that discussion. I just had a quick question to the 330,000 for those folks we sent out on the fires. Whats the general reimbursement time when we send folks out . It varies. A lot of it has to do with our administrative prowess, if you will. If we do our paperwork the right way, its a much quicker process. Weve gotten much better at that because weve had the experience over the last couple of years. I know our Financial Team is in the room. If i could get patrick leon to answer that question. Weve already submitted our claim reimbursement. In terms of timeline, it kind of depends. Once we submit our reimbursement package it goes to the county and they review it and fima has to review it and all that process takes time. For the last fire that we had, it took until the next fiscal year for us to receive reimbursement. On our side of things, weve already closed a loop. Now its up to Sonoma County to go through our claim process. Chief, with respect to the nine positions that youre waiting for for 1421 and the p. R. A. Stuff, i know when you presented before the commission, was it november or december, you said the nine positions were still in the process of being filled. It sounds like they still havent been filled. I know it takes a long time, but if you could give us an e. T. A. As to when some were one of these positions would be filled so it gives the community a sense of how many people will be working on these type of requests. Yes, if its okay with the commission, ill get an update on each one of those positions, where we are in the process, and i can report back for the next week next commission hearing. Thank you, chief. Next item. Were going to item. Line item 4, overview of the report on the Police Departments staffing study will be put over to a future commission meeting. That was at the request of the department relying on the board of supervisors, i believe. Correct. Yes, chief. Im sorry, we also have a report for quarterly 6228 report at the second part i just want to skip that for a moment. Ill come back to it. So its line item 2. Discussion and possible action to adopt a resolution for Effective Response to homelessness and complaints regarding presence of Homeless People, discussion and possible action. Thank you. This is a resolution that came out of a meeting that was held in october of last year with coalition on homelessness executive director jennifer fre freedenbach, myself, and the other member. That was having to do with a response to homeless complaints in San Francisco. So we met, ms. Freedenbach drafted a resolution. I worked on it a little bit. It was approved by all three of us. Its now on the agenda for discussion and approval. I would welcome ms. Freedenbach, if you have anything you would like to say, im thinking positive, but negative too if you want. [ laughter ]. Really, you think im negative . No, i dont. Jennifer freedenbach, executive director of the coalition on homelessness. Really, really pleased to be standing here and really grateful for the thoughtful work of president hersh and the other commissioners for bringing this forward. This was also to add a follow up from the presentation we did several months ago on the healthy streets operations center. So, you know, i just want to point out, ill be relatively brief, but tonight we have thousands and thousands of souls out there that literally have nowhere to go. Our shelters are full. Sthrr about 900 people waiting tonight for a shelter bed and housing, while were talking about thousands and thousands of people waiting to no avail. We stopped tracking turnaway years ago. But what we do know is there are 4,000 people out there that have a Mental Health issue thats serious, a Substance Abuse issue, thats homeless that is not inside care. That portion only makes up a third of our population. Our Homeless Population went up 32 . Its much worse in oakland and sacramento. But 32 is a lot. Weve got rising rents, flat incomes, shredded safety net, divestment from housing at the federal and state level. All of this has left us in this situation. I want to point this out because the response, local governments struggling with not having the tax base that the federal government enjoys, but continuing to shoulder that neglect from the federal government have been turning to the police to manage this humanitarian catastrophe that exists. Were Police Officers, highly trained, weapons, tactical responses, you know, all these different things. We are relying on Police Officers to manage what is in essence a social program. I think its important to point this out to contextualize this whole situation. This response is neither effective, humane, appropriate. Now its not even legal. Its been recognized by researchers, courts, advocates, policy bodies, homelessness themselves. The scoring tool deducts points in the federal grant if it is not decriminalized. It is suggested working with homeless folks, neighbors, with social workers over a period of time, placing them in permanent housing if no housing exists, a temporary location that leads to housing. The department of justice issued an amicus brief, calling encampment removal cruel and unusual punishment and the 9th circuit agreed with them. This came up because the Supreme Court did not take the case, so the decision stood. September 4, 2018, the 9th circuit courts confirmed that the states may not criminalize conduct that is unavoidable consequence of being homeless. Namely sitting or sleeping on the streets when there are more Homeless People than there are shelter beds. Disability, religious beliefs, and other restrictions must be taken into account. This has to be recognized as unavoidable conduct. To punish that conduct is akin to punishing a persons homeless status. Speaking briefly about inEffective Response. In 2016, you guys might be familiar with this, the budget legislative analyst one of the main goals stated was to preserve public space in the city. However, the number of Homeless Individuals considered to be unsheltered has increased, limiting the effectiveness of quality of life laws. At the time of the report, Police Officers were dispatched to incidents related to quality of life crimes at an annual cost of 18. 5 million so that the b. L. A. Recommended that the board of supervisors implement recommending a new strategy that address these issues that shifts responsibility of quality of life incidents from the Police Department to other agencies, such as the department of homelessness and housing. Since then the numbers of Homeless People has skyrocketed, but so has the number of hours the police have committed to responding to homelessness. Back then we had 23 officers devoted to homelessness. Today we have over 80. This takes police away from other activities and response time. I mean, all of this has a lot of effect when youre talking about budget and whatnot. Yet, still homelessness is rising. Based on a study we did with the u. C. Of berkeley in 2016, we found that the response to homeless is a temporary move, where the person returns shortly after theyre removed by police or theyre moved across the street. And then this third point is around an inhumane response. According to the declaration of human rights, everyone has a right to an adequate state of living, including housing. In the u. S. 3. 5 Million People experience the trauma of homelessness each year. A Police Response can be inhumane. This is not blaming individual Police Officer r s, but its inhumane because of the structural response to the approach. Police officers dont have access to housing and treatment. At short, at best, they can move people along. For unhoused people, so much of their time is spent finding a place they can rest out of the way. A place with little stability. When Police Officers move them, that little bit of stability is rocked. That may be worth it if its leading people out of homelessness. When its just moving people from block to block, it can exacerbate Behavioral Health issues, trauma, homelessness, individuals lose contact with social workers who have housing lined up with them, they may lose contact with the community, belongings, survival gear. The great news is there are alternatives. This is what is so beautiful about this. Many municipalities have been moving away from formal Police Response to homelessness, including in oregon. So it gets dispatched to a contract agency. They have a medical team and medical professionals. In San Francisco, developing an alternative, we know this is going to take a long time. This is going to take some time. There are a lot of details to work out. However, the vision is that we can work towards a vision where we have a response to the community. This includes medical personnel, but then leads to, where appropriate, shelter, hospitalization, depending on the situation. Thats basically what were doing with this regulation. Were asking the city and the board of supervisors to develop an alternative response to work towards these results and vision. I want to applaud the chief and just take a moment out for this because this is really amazing and for the commissioners, taking a stand on this and finding alternatives to a Police Response and really moving us closer to that vision that i think all of us, as president hersh pointed out, that we have a lot of consensus around where this needs to go. Im going to pause there and if you have any questions. Thank you and thank you for your work. I just want to say thank you. I mean, i know we brought this in october. You did a wonderful report. There were so Many Community members here that opened our eyes, and then the law changed. I want to thank the chief and president hersh for meeting with you and coming up with this resolution. Many of the d. G. O. S asked us to deal with homelessness. This is a good first step in the right direction. The oregon plan looks like it has a lot of hope. I look forward to finally bringing all the community members, groups, and city departments together to work on this and to explore alternatives to a Police Response, to identify Funding Sources where appropriate, and to recommend necessary system change and appropriate services. I think this is a great idea and i want to thank everybody for picking up the ball, showing some leadership. Im really happy to support this resolution tonight. Its nice when were all marching along together happily. [ laughter ]. But you know, savor this rare moment. I want to join commissioner hays and ms. Freedenbach for thanking everybody. The president , commissioner scott, and everyone working around these issues for, in your case, 25 years now. I didnt realize when i joined the Police Commission how big an issue policing and homelessness is. But since ive been on here, the issues of homelessness and the challenges that arise from it are at the forefront of this city. Having people coming together around us and saying everybody and i agree. I think its not that officers are out there illintentioned trying to setting up to harass Homeless People. But structural issues that youve addressed and policies have created an untenable situation in how we address it. And i think that i hope i spoke to a reporter today and they said, is this just one of those resolutions that you guys pass and then forget . And i really hope that and i would like to be a part of this moving forward, the discussion. Because i hope we can find a way to Work Together to ensure that unhoused individuals on the street are getting the care, servi services, support they need. On the other side of things, ive gone out and seen the hundreds of calls that are waiting up that are related to homeless and houseless individuals on the street. Ive ridden with the officers around and its clear that they were wellintentioned, welltrained officers trying to deal with a situation that they were not the best qualified for. Not that theyre not excellent officers and qualified in every way that we expect from Law Enforcement, but this is a different situation. We need social support, social services, access to treatment, access to shelter. So im a big supporter and im glad that everybody has come together. You know, i know there will be discussions about how best to implement this, but i hope we can all stand together and agree that this is something that this city and this Department Needs to do. Also importantly when were talking about all of the budget strain thats being placed on this department by having to deploy so many officers to deal with all of these calls that are not Public Safety issues. You know, i think if we get out of this Stakeholders Group and come up with some better procedures, well end up saving the city millions and millions of dollars in the long run. Thank you for all your work, thank you to the coalition and all their supporters. Thank you. Vice president. I really want to thank you as well. I remember the presentation in october, it was fantastic and a lot of people put a lot of work coming to this commission on every front. It opened our eyes. Everyone knows how hard this problem is, but its really hard. Its comforting to know there are people out there who are trying to solve it as best we can. Im sure it will take a long time and this is a plan to have a plan, but its moving it very much in the right direction. Im asking that youll come back and report to the commission. Im assuming that this will go and as it gets implemented, i would like to hear and continue to hear how things are going. I would ask you to come back and report to the commission. Thank you very much. Ill be very brief. Ms. Freedenbach, youve been coming here for a long time. Today is literally by 25th anniversary. [ laughter ]. Its great. Our officers should not be responding to these calls. Youve put so much time and effort into this. Ill be brief. You are a modernday saint, for what youve done for the city. [ applause ]. Somebody said, she does this for the money. I turned and said, do you know how much they get paid . Its greatly appreciated. The reason we moved this up on the agenda is i know youre being celebrated for your 25th anniversary and well get you out soon. Is there any Public Comment before we vote on this resolution . Its Public Comment only on the resolution. What was that . How much time do we get . Two minutes. My name is neil shaw. Ive been through the criminal justice system, im sober for four years. I have been homeless. I have a degree. I was also the c. O. Congratulations, jenny. I dont know why you dont mention that alternative that has existed for four years in San Francisco and its called concern. It doesnt exist anymore. It was an alternative for 911 for people. We sent out compassion responders to deescalate. I met with chief scott and im indicting you on this, chief, because we met multiple times to divert calls to organizations like concern. So this plan to have a plan, we already got a plan and the technology. This already exists. Im starting a Community Investment trust to start purchasing real estate in west oakland. Im going to offer Dominik Walker and the two kids that were homeless that occupied a house that the police pulled guns on to get them out of and i already emailed them to get out of as soon as possible. Im using my personal money to do that. Im indicting every single one of you. I pay your salary. Im sick and tired of you patting yourselves on the damn back. So get with the picture. Any other Public Comment . Okay. Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve the resolution . So moved. Second. Yes, commissioner. Really quick. I did want to point out in the third clause, im happy to adopt the resolution. In the first sentence, whereas the United StatesInteragency Council on homelessness issued, we need to need an issued out. And also in the fourth clause yeah, theres two issues. And also in the fourth clause. Whereas the city of county of San Francisco. I think it should be city and county of San Francisco. Thank god somebody can read here. On the question all in favor of passing the resolution . Any opposed . It carries unanimously. Thank you all. [ applause ]. Okay. Were going to go back now to the presentation on family code 6228 quarterly report. Good evening. Good evening, commissioners. President , vice commissioner, director. Greg yee, i have a report tonight pursuant to department general order 3. 16, department providing the Police Commission report that details the departments compliance with releasing California Family code 6228 incident reports. This report will cover the supplemental numbers from september of 2019 in addition to the Fourth Quarter of 2019. On the screen are the september numbers. In september of 3,481 Police Reports requested by the community, 54 fell under the provisions of family code 6228. Of those 54, all those report requests were fulfilled within five days. The majority of the report requests were made in person and the majority of the reports were Domestic Violence report related. On the back of the report of september will show there are no reports that were denied and that the majority of reports were made by the victims themselves and the average time was a little over a day that the department responded to requests under family code 6228. As we look at the Fourth Quarter of 2019, again in 49 reports in october, 37 in november, 25 in