Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240713

Vice president would like to take roll call. President hirsch is excusessed. Excusessed excuseed. [roll call] you have a quorum. Also president are chief scott of the San Francisco Police Department. We also have a cantonese translator in the back for those that need it. Good evening, everyone. This is the february 19th meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. We have a special meeting in the ingleside district, this is my Police Station so im really happy to be here. We dont have too full of an agenda tonight, so well allow three minutes for Public Comment. With that, lets get started. Call the first item. Line item 1a. Chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents in the chief describes for a future commission meeting. Thanks for welcoming me to ingleside. Im going to be brief in my report today. And ill open it up for questions from the commission. Basically i will discuss our crime trends for the week and for those of the folks in the audience who have not attended a Police Meeting weekly, i report the crime trends to the commission and then they ask questions, depending on what is reported, they ask questions from there. So ill start with the crime trends. Overall, part one crime, it is defined as a serious crime such as homicides, rape, robberies, aggravated assaults, Motor Vehicle theft, arson and larceny. Those are all part one crimes. And this is what i report to every week. Our part one crime overall is up 1 . Its still early in the year. But this trend is something that we take very seriously, and we are going to try to wrap our arms around it and make sure that we continue the trend weve had over the last several years of Crime Reduction. The breakdown of our part one crime is broken into Violent Crimes and property crimes, our total property crimes are actually down 1 . And property crimes make up the biggest percentage of our overall crimes in terms of part one crimes. When we break down our top property crimes, it breaks down as follows burglaries are down 1 , Motor Vehicle thefts are up 7 , and just to put it in context, our burglaries, we have had 638 reported burglaries year to date, compared to 646 year to date in 2019. So thats a 1 reduction. Our Motor Vehicle theft, cars that were stolen, we have 551 year to date compared to 516 this time last year for a 7 increase. And that is the majority of our property crime increase, our Motor Vehicle theft. Our arsons are up by five. We have 26 year to date compared to 21 this time last year and thats a 24 increase. In our larceny or theft, they were 4,884 reported this time last year and 4,882 this year. So its a reduction of or increase of 2. Our total property crimes, we had 6,099 this year, and 6,065 last year, so 34 crimes above this time last year for a 1 increase in property crimes. In terms of our Violent Crimes, good news on our homicides, we had three homicides year to date, this time last year we had sick sixth so thats a 50 reduction. Our rapes are down. We had 65 reported this time last year and we had a 58 reduction. Our robberies are up. We have 397 reported year to date compared to 354 this time last year for an increase of 43 robberies, thats a 12 increase. Our assaults are up. We have 266 year to date compared to 239 last year for an 11 increase in our Human Trafficking are down, its a very small number to begin with but we have had three reported Human Trafficking cases year to date compared to five this time last year for a 40 reduction. So overall, its a 1 increase in crime year to date. Captain woon actually will speak directly about ingleside, your home station. But that concludes that portion of my chiefs report. I want to just add one thing with our major vehicle traffic collisions, we had three major injury vehicles this past week. The most significant one was at 23rd and mission where a vehicle was traveling westbound on 23rd street, turned northbound onto mission and struck two pedestrians before continuing along mission street. The vehicle drove into the sidewalk and struck a muni bus and a passenger who was on the bus. The driver and passenger initially fled from the scene butted to the but but returned to the sustain and were retained. One was transported to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries and Bus Passenger complained of pain and was released and detained. The investigation is ongoing but luckily we didnt have any fatalities. Year to date on traffic fatalities we have had fouryear to date and none for this past week. So that actually is it for crime and traffic. I wanted to speak a little bit about whats been happening around the country in terms of Homeland Security and mainly i. C. E. Agents. There was a news article that agents would be assigned to San Francisco. From what we know, the agents have been assigned to the bay area, not just the city of San Francisco. As always sfpd will stand behind the citys sanctuary City Ordinances and we will not assist on civil immigration issues at all. We are not a part of any of those operations. So we just want to make it clear to the public that we want people to call us when they need it. We dont inquire about immigration status, we dont enforce immigration status, and we dont enforce that, and we want to let the public know the sfpd is not a part of the federal actions and Immigration Enforcement. The mayor and i put out a joint Statement Today which will probably air on the news tonight but its a big teal for our city and we want the public a big deal for the city and we want the public to feel safe to call sfpd and not worry about Immigration Enforcement. That concludes my report. Thank you, chief. I dont know if any of my fellow commissioners have questions, but i have questions about the Crime Statistics. So we are used to sitting here and getting news to you about general Crime Reduction when it comes to part one crimes. And tonight we are here, and we have Motor Vehicle theft up, arson is up, and robberies are up, assaults are up. It would be interesting to know if this continue, i hope it doesnt continue, but what you attribute this to and what you are doing to stop it. And by you i mean the department. Yes. And that is the discussion that we have daily about number one, stopping this trend. Robberies are very concerning. Some districts are up more than others. What we believe at this point, some of it are people that have been the criminal justice involved or people that we have arrested. Thats another issue. We had a very good meeting, our command staff with the d. A. s top Leadership Team on how we are going to work together. Some of it is enforcement, some of it is what we do in the back end after we make the arrest. But we will work with the d. A. s office and our officers to get a handle on it. Robbery is a significant concerning. Our shootings and homicides are down but robberies and car thefts are going up and we need to turn that around. When you say Motor Vehicle theft, you are talking about stealing cars . Actually stealing cars. Our car breakins are down, we are down 2 on car breakins, they are down for the year. But we havent been up in Motor Vehicle thefts in a few years so we need to get a handle on that. Thank you. Commissioner dejesus. I didnt see your statements on the i. C. E. Raids, potential i. C. E. Raids, but thank you for putting that out. Two questions on that. They talk about bringing in extra forces, tactical people. I had two questions. One of them is do they notify the department when they come to do a raid. And secondly, when they did do raids a few years ago they wore a big jacket that said police, which misled the public, and the public was very upset that the police were participating in these raids. We had talked about how to do it, but they are not police, they have a different title. I want to know how you can handle that or what you can do about that. Yes, maam. To the first question, when they are doing an enforcement action, they dont always notify us. If there are issues concerned with deconfliction, in other words they dont want to come in and do an enforcement action and us not know about it, and it has the potential of blue on blue as it is called, type of conflict. So we have in the past gotten basically notifications right when these actions were taken, but not advance notification. When weve had instances in the past, some of them have these things get in the community, and people get very anxious about them. We have asked for notification. Its up to them to honor that. And they have in the past, but its usually right before something actually happens in terms of an enforcement action. As far as the jackets, the raid jackets as they are called, with police on the back. We did voice that concern with leadership that was there at the time. They changed leadership too. They have a different special agent in charge now than they had. What we did see is the lettering on the jacket, although it said police, it did say i. C. E. Or customs enforcement. So that helps because they were able to distinguish from Municipal Police department. I need to revisit that with the current staff. That person just got into place, so we will revisit that so we can have an understanding. But we did get a little bit of traction on that. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Whoa, too close. Good evening. I had a question or a followup question to commissioner taylors, regarding the its a little bit early in the year to draw any conclusions about a statistical bump in certain crimes and what it means. But can you and again, i think my view is that theres only so much the department can do with certain types of crimes to prevent them. However, on the back end of that, closure, how is the departments closure rate on the more serious part one crimes . Well, i can quote homicides, they were 68 percent clearance rate on homicides. I have to follow up with you on the robberies and assaults. Thats going to be a lower number usually but ill follow up with you and have that for the next commission meeting. In terms of closure property crimes, your car break in is very difficult. Still hovering in the single digits, about 2 in terms of arrest and closure on those cases. Auto theft is higher than that. But ill follow up with more specific clearance rate numbers for across the part one crimes. Right. Okay. I do understand the challenge with investigating a pile of broken glass outside of a car window. The other question i had was relating and i saw a headline today about Immigration Enforcement raids in the bay area in the courthouse. Are you familiar with that . Yes. And obviously for all the anybody that works in the criminal justice system, the impact of Immigration Enforcement in the courthouse tends to deter victims, witnesses, basically can potentially shut down the criminal justice system. Do you have any concerns or in what way can we ensure that our courts are kept safe so that victims and witnesses and defendants can attend Court Without fear of Immigration Enforcement . Well, i saw the sheriff put out a statement yesterday similar to what im telling our public tonight, the Sheriffs Office will not assist in those civil immigration issues as well. I dont know of anything that happened in our court, which is a good thing, but i know the sheriffs are prepared. And again, they are just like the rest of us in terms of their values of this city. They dont plan to assist. Cant guarantee what they will do. Thats a Different Branch of government yes. But they will definitely not assist. And the sheriff has been very vocal about that. Cant guarantee, but we are going to do what we can to make sure our folks are, as much as anxiety as we can relieve, at least reassuring people that we are not participating. Thank you, chief. I want to second commissioner hamasakis call for hopefully this wont continue, but if it does, what follow up we can provide. So the city clears what happens with those pieces so they go forward with the d. A. s office. Yes. Just to followup, we can take a look by district. I think theres a trend that would be good for the public to know the trends we see in terms of vehicles that are being stolen, where are they being stolen from so we can alert folks in those areas to be more vigilant so we can have our eyes open as well. Thank you. Next line item. Line item 1b, dpa directors report. Report on recent dpa activities and announcements. The d. P. A. s report will be limited to a brief description of d. P. A. Activities and announcements. Commission discussions will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission. We welcome Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Good evening, director henderson. Good evening. I made it. I dont want to tell you how long i was at the front door ringing the doorbell because i didnt see the sign up here and walked that way, but thats okay. I have a couple updates for you on what the department is working on and where we are with our numbers. So right now at the department of police accountability, we have opened 102 cases so far this year, and thats up from 80 cases which is where we were this time last year. In terms of cases closed, we have closed a record number, 169 cases so far this year, and that is up from 83 cases this time last year that we had closed. In terms of the cases we have pending, theres still that uptick in cases we have experienced over the past 18 months. So we are at 366 cases that are pending right now. This time last year, we were at 278 cases. In terms of sustained cases so far this year we have at seven. This time last year we were at 12. In terms of cases that have ongoing investigations beyond the ninemonth mark, we are at 29 cases. And this time last year there were 25 cases that were taking longer than nine months. Of those 29 cases that we have going on, 14 of those cases are told, meaning that they are not the time deadline isnt running out for 3304 deadlines. In terms of cases mediated, we have done seven cases that have been mediated this year versus three the same time last year. The biggest news i wanted to talk about today was our move that is coming up. We have been talking about it for a while now, but now its actually about on to happen. So the department is moving its location. I say going kitty corner from the current location. The restrictionses on restrictions about the public going to our location so there werent a lot of places in the City Real Estate areas where we could just pick up and go when we are moving. Our location is being taken over by d. P. H. They are taking over the current property and bumping us into this other property. Relocation is more easily accessible by public transportation. Its 240 feet away from the van ness muni station. So the new location will have a big welcoming, both for the public and for the commissioners and everyone else as well, the whole whole city family. The new space has four interview suites equipped with Video Conferencing equipment finally, and this is going to help us with our various groups, so complaints that are unable to easily travel to our office and expansion for folks that are multilingual. The rooms will have a. S. L. Translation services so we can continue to reach folks that dont speak english. And the lobby will have a computer terminal built in so people can fill out complaint forms and review some of the public reports. All of that is being built into the new space. Another couple things just in terms of overview, well all have the same phone number so no one has to change the phone numbers. Only the Mailing Address will be changing. The new address is 1 south van ness avenue, the eight floor, those of you familiar with the e city family may remember that was the old executive level for s fm ta. So we will be in that space. The move is taking place the last saturday of this month. Yes, the last saturday of this month. Anybody wants to come and help and carry some boxes, just let me know, after you sign a waiver. [laughter] no one is carrying boxes without signing waivers. We are also updating our brochures and signage. We are going to be getting the word out including contacting our Community Partners and online announcements through twitter and our website. But its happening pretty quickly now. Its been delayed two or three times during the construction and the update of the new space. So thats my update so far . I also wanted to say the 18th we participated in the tar very l community meeting. We also participated in the black History Month celebration which had delicious food. Here in the audience is senior investigator steve if any issues come up and someone wants to talk to my investigator. One of our new attorneys is here and my assistant Mary Ann Mccormick is here. So thats it. Thats my update. Thank you. I see no questions from commissioners. Really quick. Thanks for that, paul. As you know, im the liaison for the d. P. A. , we didnt get an opportunity to speak today. I want to apologize for that. I want to see what your thoughts are around our uptick. We had 102 cases versus 83 from last year. What do you attest that to . Do you think its Human Capital . Technology . Process . I think its all three of those things. Over the past 18 months or since i came into the position, more and more people are learning about the agency and hearing and seeing what it can do . And i think many of the restrictions that people had in coming to the offices, those barriers have been removed. And so now even easier to access the agency through the website on your phone, by calling in, the technology has drastically improved so we can receive that information from outside an external sources in ways that were not possible in the past. I will say another big transition, i think, has been having access to the language lines and having our information redistributed and printed in various languages throughout the city. So having the seven languages, the principal languages identified in San Francisco, for folks to be able to get that information is a big deal, and having that information is a bigger deal, compounded by the personnel that are focused on doing outreach work, both to identify how the agency works, the voice that we represent for various communities and passing out information. I think thats what led to it. And i think that its still growing, theres a groundswell that isnt reinflictive of an uptick in more bad behavior or something happening. Its just more people understanding how to use agency and coming to the agency for help questions or input about things that they are seeing, experiencing daytoday. Thank you. Any other questions from commissioners . I see none. Next line item. Line item 1d, commission reports. Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. Commission president s report, commissioners reports, report from each commissioner on status of assigned projects. Any reports . All right. Im excited to see the presentation today. So unless theres objection, i want to dive right into captain woons presentation. One second. Sorry. Captain woon, im being interrupted. Dont want to ruin the surprise. Scratch that the next Police Commission meeting is wednesday, march 4 at 5 30 at city hall room 400. The public is invited to comment on line items 1a through 1c. I guess im just if you have comments on any of the line items we have discussed thus far, the podium is yours. All right. No one is rushing to the podium. Public comment is coming. Line item 2 is captain christopher woon, Commanding Officer of ingleside station to address the commission on Police Activities and the ingleside district staffing, Community Policing and ingleside station demographics, discussion. Good evening, everyone. Vice president koppel. Commissioners, chief scott, the command staff, director henderson, members of the community, welcome. I would like to thank the principal of Visitacion Valley Elementary School for allowing us to have this opportunity to have this presentation here today and also for her support. I would like to thank the members of my team for this support as well. In addition to my staff, sergeant, officer brandt, officers for helping me organize this presentation today. Not that im counting but this is my fourth month, 24th day, 18th three quarters of an hour being a captain at ingleside station. [applause] now, the reason i bring this up is because i want to give a big thank you and shoutout to my predecessor captain jack hart for his dedication to the job. Its under his leadership that most of these programs im going to discuss came into play and are very successful. So thank you to captain hart. Before i move forward with todays presentation, i want to give an instruction of myself. I was born and raised in ingleside district not too far away from here. I went to Public Schools in the neighborhood, attended San Francisco State University as well. This is my fourth time at ingleside station, started here as an officer, came back a few times, came back as lieutenant, 25 years later, im back now as the captain at ingleside station. Im so honored and grateful, and i want to thank command staff for giving me the opportunity to serve as the captain here where i was born and raised. I dont think too many people can say that. I have a variety of assignments during my career at the ingleside station. I was doing patrols, investigations, doing administrative work as well. I was a robbery decoy. That was very interesting and also i was a canine handler. So my favorite partner of all time is my canine friend. I brought my canine home every night. That was very nice. However, the one bad thing was my wife was very jealous because it was a female dog, and i think my dog saw me more than my life. But thats another discussion later on that well have. [laughter] but im very grateful for the position. Lets move forward with the presentation. And tonight ill be talking about the overview of the district facts of ingleside, crime trends, strategies, Traffic Enforcement, Community Partnerships and what we stand for at ingleside. The next slide, please for district overview. And one more slide, please . And one more after that. Moving forward, district overview. The ingleside district has six car sectors. The boundaries extend from the north side, cesar shaves street, the south, the daly city border, the east east shore boulevard and the west, saxon avenue. Im fortunate to have five supervisors from the district. Yee, district 8, supervisor mandelman which includes the glen park and Diamond Heights area, and also district 9, supervisor ronen, district 10, supervisor walton from the Visitacion Valley and sunnydale area and the largest district 11, supervisor safai, which includes excelsior and Outer Mission areas. I have 34 schools in the district which include balboa high school, leadership, reardon, city college. The population is roughly 139,000. Desk grams are africanamericans 4. 2 percent, asians, 21 percent, latin, 25 percent, other is 12. S 31. 3 percent. On to the next slide. Staffing overview. I have 128 in my personnel of which 120 are sworn, five are p. S. A. , Police Service aids and three civilians. I have five lieutenants, 20 sergeants, 90 officers, four recruits. Currently i have one s. R. O. , a School Resource officer, i have two foot beat officers, one on the Mission Geneva corridor and one on leeland street corridor. I have hopes of increasing one more foot beat to the cortland area in the next cycle. I have two officers assigned to Homeless Outreach. And for investigations i have one lieutenant, lieutenant kevin, an amazing leader. Im grateful to have him. He has four investigators assigned to him. I have a plain clothes team led by sergeant lopez. Hes a great resource. Hes very knowledgeable. And essentially a plain clothes team is a Problemsolving Team for me so that i can send to address specific concerns of the area. Primarily, there are plain clothes. However they can be in uniform depending upon the assignment. I have 19 Field Training officers, they train the new recruits. I have nine Field Training sergeants which oversee the officers in the program. In addition i have 72 crisis intervention trained officers which are approximately 80 percent of the officers at the station. And other officers are in line to be trained as well. I have four specialists at the station, they are utilized for training for active shooters, a great resource for incidents and demonstrations. I have one hostage negotiationtrained officer, officer francisco, he is also my School Resource officer. He is a bright, young officer. Im grateful to have him as well especially when time is of essence. As far as certified languages, i have eight cantonese, one togalo, two mandarin, ten spanish and im grateful to have officer johnny wong who is also my foot beat officer on the leaden street corridor. He speaks two dialects of chinese, portuguese and spanish. Very fortunate to have him. Staffing overview. I have 26 supervisors. Four percent are africanamerican. 65 percent are white. 12 percent are latin, 15 percent are asian, and four percent are other. Of which 88 are male and 12 are female. Moving onto officers. 10 are africanamerican, 18 are white. 22 are latin. 28 are asian. 12 are other. 81 of those are male and 19 are female which is generally reflective of the community that we serve. Moving onto next slide regarding crime trends and these are our top concerns and strategies. Oftentimes we get concerns of increased crime in the area. How do we address that . In ingleside . We are very proactive. We have enforcement operations. Officers are in uniform. They are in plain clothes. They do surveillance. We have operations with our motorcyclist traffic unit as well so that they can conduct Traffic Enforcement at certain locations that increase our visibility in the area. In addition we have officers in unmarked cars dependent upon the time of incident that we have to try to provide extra patrols in the area. In addition, we have foot beat as well, that we could have officers go out there to provide increased visibility in the area and also increase calls for having officers go to certain locations to increase our visibility. And we conduct datadriven enforcement. We look at crime trends, we look at patterns, we look at the crime mapping. We see whats out there so we can effectively put our personnel where they need to be to address those crime issues. In addition, we utilize the copier theory. That is a Community Policing strategy where we have random, 10 to 15minute patrols in a certain location once every two hours, and pretty much what it comes down to is we address this by putting officers at the hot spots. It optimizes deterrence of criminal activity. Studies have shown crime has decreased to as low as 4 when we implement this strategy. We are utilizing that as well. We have an outreach, San Francisco safe is a great resource for us. And we appreciate them very much. I want to give a big thank you to worthy from s. F. State who helps us with the Crime Prevention strategies to help us with the Public Safety seminars as well. Its much appreciated. And also with our fliers. What we use in the Diamond Heights area. We had an increase in auto burglaries. We passed out park smart fliers to inform the public about whatnot to do. Dont leave items in view so that they could decrease their probability of being a victim. In addition, we outreached to the public through Community Meetings, Public Safety meetings, neighborhood watches, to inform them what is going on so that they are empowered to know what is going on and to become less vulnerable to crime. In addition, we post things onto twitter next door and our ingleside newsletter regarding how to prevent themselves from being a victim. Moving on to the next issue. Quality of life. Oftentimes we get issues regarding increased quality of life issues in the area. Im fortunate to have two officers, officer lou and chris, they are great people persons. So they go out there, they are assigned to increase the quality of life issues. They have great rapport with the people who need services and the organizations that provide the services to individuals in need. We work collaboratively with the operations center, the hot teams, d. P. A. , public works, parks and rec. Traffic safety. Oftentimes we get issues regarding increased traffic safety, people running stop signs, red lights, thats a common theme, and we focus on the five violations. We know the folks are very important because they are contributing factors to the traffic collisions that happen on the street. In addition, oftentimes we have a traffic car, which is specifically assigned to make Traffic Enforcement stops at certain locations to increase our efforts on the streets, in addition we worked with the traffic solo companies which conduct pedestrian sting operations. Its pretty much officers in plain clothes going into the field and other officers that are nearby waiting to see if there are going to be any violations. They act appropriately and make the enforcement stop appropriately. For the educational component with that, we outreach to social media, we go to the Community Meetings, neighborhood watches regarding Public Safety meetings like we had at Diamond Heights regarding auto thefts. We had a Public Safety meeting there, a group of people went out and we had a great discussion regarding how to empower themselves and not be a victim. So that was very informative. In addition we use our radar trailer. Depending on the traffic conditions area, we placed it out there to inform the public of how fast they may be going. Oftentimes we find out people are not aware, not paying attention and thinking about going to school, going to work, and they dont know if they are going past the speed limit. So thats helpful as well. In addition, with the traffic stops, when the officers make the traffic stops, they dont cite people necessarily, they have conversation with them to educate them about what traffic concerns that we have to have a better understanding of what they can do better in the future to prevent incidents as well. Collaboration with the m. T. A. , we work with them regarding common measures, regarding speed, volume and traffic conditions as well. So the next area of concern, the areas of focus we have which are working collaboration with different agencies, working with city attorneys office, the district attorneys office, the department of public health, fire department, in an effort to compel owners as much as as much as possible to comply with law and ordinance. Thats very effective. We meet once a month with ingleside station with different organizations so we can strategize as much as we can to see what we can do in a collaborative effort. Moving on to the next slide with part one Crime Statistics. Going through the chart, we see homicide part one, Violent Crimes, 2018 toll 2019 down 60 percent, rapes down 24 percent, robbery is down 14 percent, assault is down 14 percent, Human Trafficking to zero percent. Total Violent Crimes a change of negative 15 percent. Property crimes, burglary, 2018 to 2019 down 29 percent. Vehicle theft down 7 , arson down 44 , larsen and theft, up 12 , auto burglaries up 20 , and total property crimes pretty much 0 change. Part one crimes total negative 3 . So ingleside is not immune from auto burglaries. The number of of organized teams do their research, they were well organized, very quick to go in, they go out. Its definitely a challenge. Its no big secret that its a change for the Police Department especially for the ingleside district. However we are very proactive. We have a plan, we have an operation, we work with the community collaboratively whether it be through educational effort, informing them like the park smart and also working with s. F. Safe to provide them Crime Prevention strategies. We work with our stations lieutenant, lieutenant kevin noble and we are looking forward, we are trying to anticipate as much as possible, looking at the trends, looking at the crime mapping, looking at the patterns so that we could sufficiently and effectively address these crime issues as much as possible to get the resources out there. The next slide, our Traffic Enforcement. One of my favorite duties as an officer was conducting Traffic Enforcement, and i feel thats important, because it provides dividends, we are out there providing high visibility in the public but also making enforcement. We are talking to people regarding traffic needs in the area. Ingleside station, we are committed to Traffic Enforcement. The focus on five violations, you see that red light violations were up 36 , 66 for stop signs, pedestrian right of way, 23 , negative and speeding negative 88 , failure to yield with turning, negative 16 . The focus on five violations, 5e for those five violations which are significant violations that contribute to collisions in San Francisco. You see that with pedestrian right of way, we have a negative 23 and my vision for the future is to increase our pedestrian sting operations so we can increase our enforcement for stings. And also for speeding is negative 88 . So with that, my plan is to increase with our training of officers to have more officers trained so they can conduct the speed enforcement. We have two officers in line to have that training in the near future. Next slide, Community Partnerships. Community partnership is so, so important. And im a big believer in that. I went to acknowledge members of my team for their dedication and hard work. I dont know how they spend the time doing what they do, but i appreciate them very much. My cochair, please stand up. Where are you at . Thank you very much. Give her a big hand. [applause] she is my cochair and president of the Outer Mission merchants association. She is an amazing woman. I dont know how she has the time to do what she does and other members are sharon, chris, debra, jennifer, drew, kerry, marlene, rex, megan and adam. Thank you very much for your support and your help. Partnerships of the community, i named a few here, but theres quite a few that we are working with. The boys and girls club, we have two boys and girls clubs in the district, one is in excelsior, one in sunnydale. Two of the directors are in my team, ms. Jennifer snyder and matthew henry. Matthew is here. Thank you very much for that. Next partnership is sunnydale crisis intervention team. So under reverend brunswick we work to help the community provide extra resources to sunnydale area. Also for Asian Pacific American Community center under rex, thank you very much. We provide extra resources to the asian community, and that is very grateful for that. In addition we have office hours at that location which i will discuss shortly. Monthly meetings are on the third tuesday of every month. Its at 5 30 and the current projects we are working on are National Night out and officer appreciation day. Our Community Meetings are on the same day at 6 30. Our office hours are times and places are officers reach out to the public and get in conversation with the public and Community Members to engage them and see what kind of concerns they may have in that specific neighborhood. For ingleside district, we have threeyears. We have Visitacion Valley, here, and also in the excelsior. So for example, in the Visitacion Valley, we have office hours although Community Centers and senior centers. Primarily the speakers in Visitacion Valley are cantonese speakers. Im very fortunate like i was saying, i have foot beat officer johnny wong who is bilingual. He reaches out to the public, speaks to them in cantonese, sees what their concerns are and how he can help in the community. He also, if needed, completes incident reports out in the field regarding the individuals needs. He also reaches out by providing Public Safety seminars and Crime Prevention strategies with s. F. State so im grateful for that. Its a Great Program. In addition, we have the Visitacion Valley Elementary School reading with the kids program. So this is right here. Visitacion valley, we establish this new program here with officer brittney lewis, gordon brown and cal, great partners in the community. They read to the kids there. Its a Great Program like i said. Its getting better. Very nice program. Another program we just started up, which is the kids horses and cops program. Program at the ranch in the peninsula that essentially what that comes down to is we get kids off the streets and onto horse lessons and horse management. So kids, they exchange good grades and Good Behavior for the opportunity to go out into the ranch to ride a horse and learn about horse management. When i was growing up, i dont think i had that opportunity or remember that anyway. But Great Program, very happy with that. Coffee with a cop program. I think we are pretty familiar with that program. A great event where we go out to the community and reach out to the Community Members over a cup of coffee and just speak about everything and anything and then theres no agenda. So its a Great Program that we are reaching out to different communities in ingleside. The boys and Girls Club Basketball with kids, cops program. Again, this is another program that we recently developed. The boys and girls club at the excelsior boys and girls club under jennifer snyder, a team member and with my sergeant jake, under their inspiration and dedication that we developed this program. So essentially what this comes down to is that where we have the interaction with the kids, we have the interaction with the officers over a competitive game of basketball, very competitive i might say. A big shoutout to jennifer and jake for establishing that program. The Jackson Family day and parade, a great family event in the sunnydale here hosted by mercy housing and my team member drew to Bring Community together and have that barbecue, that car show, have those games out there for the kids to interact with. Its a great engagement for everyone. You see photos of some of that activity. Next slide, please. Crime reduction. We know from the statistics i reviewed earlier the part one crimes are down 15 percent. But what does that really mean . What it comes down to is if crime happens to you, its 1 puckers percent, because it happened 100 percent, because it happened to you and you feel vulnerable. Even though our Crime Statistics for last year compared to this for for last year is low. We still have to understand that we have to be conscious and aware, we have to look at our surroundings and just be conscious of that fact, and we note that its not just a number. Its a person thats involved. And we have to do better to reduce crime. Quality of life. Two officers are signed to the issues in the ingleside district. I spoke to the officers not long ago how its coming regarding getting individuals off the street and into the Navigation Centers and more permanent housing. And one case that he did mention to me was that its very notable, he got a pregnant woman off the street. She was unsheltered, and he helped her into permanent housing. So thats really, im very grateful that happened. It takes a special person. It takes the rapport to talk to people, to help with the resources, to get out there and provide that and for them to accept it as well. So im very grateful for that. Community engagement, very important, rewarding. My vision is to continue this with the public to reach out as much as possible with our reading programs with our kids, outreach to office hours and to have that with the public to engage at the senior centers, the Community Centers so we can have that conversation and then discussion regarding what we can do better, what we could improve on, how we can help find out regarding whats going on in your specific community. Resources, as you know with any major organization, we note that we scrutinize our resources as much as possible. At ingleside we try to do that as well. What i try to do is look as much as possible the datadriven enforcement. We look at our data, look at the crime mapping, the trends, look at our patterns and see and try to anticipate as much as possible so that we could move forward in a positive direction to delegate and deploy our resources as much as possible to make an Effective Response to an issue. In addition, to utilize Crime Prevention substantials like i mention strategies like i mentioned where we try to maximize deterrents of crime in a certain area. Traffic collision, moving forward, i want to increase pedestrian sting operations in collaboration with traffic companies, motorcycle units and also as the officers become trained with speed enforcement, we are going to increase our enforcement on that end as well and continue our outreach to the public, informing them through social media, fliers, traffic stops, informing them of the safety need we have as a city. In closing, im a strong believer in developing the partnerships with the community. As we increase Public Safety, you must know that we must feel safe as we walk down the street. Thats what it comes down to. So thats my objective. And i want to thank principal bridgette for allowing us to have this presentation here today and for the support of the Police Department. I want to thank the members of the Police Department at ingleside station, because they are the ones that are doing the work on the streets. Also would like to thank chief scott and the command staff for giving me the opportunity to come back to ingleside where i was born and raised to service the captain. Not too much people to serve as the captain. Not too many people can say that. I want to thank you for the opportunity. Thank you very much, [applause] commissioner elias. Im so excited to be here as a district 10 resident. This is one of the things i was most looking forward to aside from the Bayview District meeting that we had. But i wanted to tell you, excellent presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Its evident you have a knack for public speaking and are great at presenting things. So congratulations. I also wanted to congratulate you on being captain of this station, because its very rare to have a native come and sort of lead the district in the station. And so its evident just from listening to you and seeing you and speaking to you that your love and passion for this job and community that you were born and raised in and grew up in is so clear. I want to commend you for that and i want to commend the chief and command staff for recognizing that. Because it shows that your passion and love for this community really does benefit the members on a level thats sort of, its sort of just i want to give you congratulations and keep up the great work. Thank you. There were three questions i had, and i want to keep it brief. [laughter] i promise. On page five, you show the foot beat. Am i understanding this correctly that those are sort of the areas where the foot beat patrol . If yes, do you have foot beats on san bruno avenue . Because i frequent san bruno avenue a lot, and i dont usually see a lot of foot beats there, so i dont know if thats an area that our foot beats are Mission Geneva, thats one, the other is on the leeland street corridor. I hope to have very shortly a cortland street corridor. San bruno avenue is not a corridor within ingleside. I believe its in the bayview. Oh, okay. There are. There are . Okay. [laughter] [off mic] i was trying to look at the map but it was so tiny, and im going blind so i think its on here. I need my glasses. Okay. So that eliminates two of my questions. So third and final question, the captains policy Advisory Board is so great to see sort of the Diverse Group of people coming together and sort of providing input. The one thing that i was wanted to know if there was sort of, if there was room for additional sort of Community Members, because i think the Public Defenders Office would be a great asset to your board. I know they do a lot of community events, the magic program, the backpack giveaway, all the programs that are actually in this district. So they may be sort of a resource that could probably be added to your board and be really beneficial to you and the rest of the board. So i think thats we were just talking about not that specifically but i was trying to take toll of who attends my meeting, who is active, not active, and i was talking to joel about possibly seeing we can do with that and depending on the attendance, if they are holding a spot and not doing anything, dont show up, then thats a possibility regarding that. I think that would be a great idea, a great resource as well for everyone else. Thank you so much for your presentation, again, congratulations, its clear that the community is very fond of you and your long tenure. Thank you very much. Any other questions from commissioners . I just have one. Im also i grew up in vernal heights. So welcome. You did a great pentation. Im glad you are here. One of the things on the Language Access they talked about is theres a couple different chinese languages. I cant remember. And theres hindu or arabic . Im wondering if youre seeing a rise or a need for interpreters in those particular dialects. [please stand by] [please stand by] i look at it. Thats the other thing too. Its what it looks like. [laughter] thats the other thing too, when i go off to the Community Meetings, thats what i like to do and how to prevent t. Right, because, after the fact, its a way to do what we need to do to prevent things and prevent being a victim and so fourth many of thats important. The community does appreciate that and i go out there to Community Meetings and reach out to them. Often times we do this. We see it all the time but the public does not. If you are a surgeon, you do taughdo itall the time. We see the crime and the strategies that criminal use, more often than not, theyre very savvy and theyre very resourceful and we need to be the same. Absolutely. I want to congratulate you on being the captain and i think its been very rare that we get to hear someone who was born and raised here in the city is actually serving in the district. Kudos to you and to your team. Thank you. Any other commissioners . All right. Next line item, class. The public is now welcome to comment online item 2. Public comment. Should they lineup over there . If you have a question or comment. This is just on the captains presentation if you have comments. Any Public Comment o comment one captains presentation. Do you want to go to the podium . Thank you. Good evening, my name is jennifer hanlynn and im a resident. Its an honor to be here this evening. Id lick to acknowledge the captain, thank you for your presentation. It was enlightening. I have brought this concern before the captain as our past cam tin, captain jack heart, who we miss dearly and i just wanted to acknowledge the stuff being taken inform keep our Community Safe and protected, to the best of sfpds ability and as a community and as a very strong community. It has been for a very long time. One of the concerns that i wanted to bring to the attention is in regards to Public Safety on the roadways. It has been mildly but it is still a significant concern that on a daily basis, as i am selfemployed and i work from home, sometimes i am on leland two or three times a week and ive observed where cars are being very laxed with the laws of the stop signs. We have a very busy corridor where kids, seniors, adults, all ages, sizes are in harms way because cars are disregarding stop signs and theyre flipping people off so i want to know where the standing is in regards to keeping our communities safe as well as upholding the agreement that the speed bumps are required should be required on leland avenue and as far as im concerned, rutland could use it as well due to the fact that cars keep on disregarding others. Theres been multiple accidents in the past six months as well as ive been witness to several harms way because cars disregard the stop sign. I just wanted to ask if something is being done about that. We were told we were next slated for those speed bumps but have not heard anything since then. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, my name is gina and i live in the neighborhood object peabody. Ive had a number of experiences seeing Homeless People on leland and since captain mentioned there were two Homeless Outreach officers, how are they utilized because its not clear and if this isnt the right forum is it explained on the website . We have a list of questions for the captain. Is the question inappropriate at this time . Its your time for Public Comment. Im just not sure how the Homeless Outreach officers differ from any of the other officers that come out to attend to a homeless concern . If the captain has answers to these questions, yes. Im sorry. The Homeless Outreach officers are speak duties are to on the issues to help individuals on the streets that may not have a place to live so they have that repour with the individuals so im not sure regarding your situation specifically, we can talk about that afterwards to address those specific concerns and get what is needed out there. Also, chris anderson, theyre assigned to handle those types of situations specifically. All the other officers they do handle as well and this is their particular duty that they focus on and they have the repower and the connections regarding specific organizations and have the direct line to those people to talk to them and often that you have that network of the individuals and things come a little bits year and people might be a little bit receptive to take a extra step to the next level for that transition. Well talk about that. My name is fran and im with the green way. I dont know if this is i should wait until general but anyway, here i am. This is the followup to what gina was asking about. I want to be a little more specific on the green way, theres homeless person who has been arrested many times. He is threatened us, he has come after me with a stick, threatened me with fire. He has done this to other women here. I know throw o three or four ins room that have reported him. Just recently, were an outdoor classroom and one of the teachers was bringing a group of kids from the boys and girls club and he accosted them ex frightened the children. So now they dont go through our plaza anymore because theyre frightened of him and just recently the same teacher was accosted by this same guy and had to run to a male walking by. He has chased me. So, its like a revolving door. The poor man is mentally unstable. When we call the police they come and take him and he comes back. Its like a hopeless situation. Were kind of being told that we have to be laying on the ground bloodbloody before anyone will o anything. I know its complex and its not necessarily a police situation. Something needs to be done. I dont know what else to do. Anyway, we were being held held hostage and we cant go into our park and feel safe. Im going to ask the captain to talk to you after this or during this session. Obviously, someone threatening our women in our district say problem. Is there more Public Comments . Online item 2. Good evening. My name is hazel lee. All the commissioners and the chief scott, im your neighbor. Before actually a long, long time ago belongs to district 10 but now san bruno avenue belongs to district 9. So nice today i can see a lot of commissioners here. Mostly the commissioners must be in the city hall. This is the first time meeting here. So i would Say Something, i am asian, im association president. Because everyone is talking about highly filing a more chinesespeaking officers to cyst community. What we also need to promote more chinese and bilingual officers to the decisionmaking positions so all the stations can have a different strategies and the solution to stop the Violent Crimes all over the city. I hope one day we can do hire more chinese bilingual speak to go do the strategy things. Decisionmaking. Thank you, very much. Thank you. Next line item. Loin item 3, general Public Comment. The public is welcome to address the commissioner regarding items not on tonights agenda but within the subject matter. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners. Under Police Commission rules of order during Public Comment the commissioners are not required to respond to questions presented about the public but may provide a brief response. Commissioners and police shall row frank from entering into debates or discussions with speakers during Public Comment. General Public Comment. Good evening, welcome everybody. Im marlene tran. Over 3030 years ago and maybe of any non english student speaking and neighbors were victims of crime but could not make police reports. Unfortunately, tonight asian participation is relatively low because of concerns with the coronavirus. The beating and death of grandma wong from our own community has brought a lot of fears especially to the seniors. Accidentally, years ago, grandma wong was my citizenship student. Her daughter was my esl student and one of our granddaughters were our elementary students. This shocking crime was especially hurtful to us. In the interest of time, let me briefly mention a few asks. Even though i retired from over 35 years of teaching adults and students at San Francisco city college as well as the unified School Districts. I am really very concerned about help for our youth. So, one of my asks is that we have to work closely with the School District and our youth. Last night at my meeting, the commander said most of the push snatchings are by 11 to 16yearolds and the balboa station has the highest incidents. We want to see an increase of chinese bilingual officers. However, Promotion System must be uniform for all ethnic groups. Our community is very appreciative of our wonderful officer johnny wong who speaks five language and working in the San Francisco for 30 years. Our Community Homes he will be promoted soon. Another thing that is of grave concern as to bring a better communication between police and residents, is to initiate radio and services to keep more asians timely informed and to solicit the input. Right now, the news letters are english only. So what good is it to the residents if they can read it online. I know some of them can be printed but this is a big gap. We have to do something to really outreach to so that everybody is informed. In the interest of time i think that empower people through education. I worked with many, many victims before, especially the non english speaking. I brought a note book from october 29th 2019 i was the witness of another grandma who was, as you know thats three minutes. Im just saying that you know, she Needs Services as well as the other victims as well. Thank you for coming and i hope to improve our communication so everybody can be eyes and ears of officers and keep our san franciscans safe. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Yeah, absolutely. Hi, everybody, my name is Danielle Harris and im with the Public Defenders Office. As you all know, by way of introduction the Public Defenders Office represents over 20 to you people a year from all parts of San Francisco including of course, from this district. And we are very, very vigilant about protecting the rights of those we represent, some of whom are innocent and some of whom are never charged with a crime and some of whom are acquitted or see the charges against them dismissed. This specific thing i want to talk about in this regard is a few weeks ago, it was mentioned, i believe by commissioner hamaski the Commission Look into sfpd should stop posting mugshots on the internet and otherwise releasing mugshots. My office wholeheartedly supports such a move. We think the privacy consideration this is this early phase when think person hasnt even charged there hasnt been a determination whether theres a basis to charge a person outweigh any Public Interest in those mugshots and of course times have change so significantly in this regard. To quote a 2018 paper on the subject, the internet has transformed mugshots of ordinary citizens into commodities posted for entertainment and commercial gain. This com odd indication of Government Data is rentseeking behavior that adds little social value. On the other hand, this is enormous and charges our society core belief because someone can be a wrongly arrested. The mugshots on the internet and they can end up not charged or vindicated, exonerated and that mug shot is there forever when they apply for a job and just any scenario. Several states see mugshots can if den shall. A 2016 study found 60 of a sample of news outlets were not publishing mugshots and perhaps most interesting, the United States marshals will not release mugshots. They will even by written policy also on the internet, they will not release mugshots and theyll even move to quash subpoenas. We wholeheartedly support the commission to look at that and join the sfpd to join the us marshals by adopting a policy prohibiting members from releasing mugshots. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, good evening. Im the translator english only a little bit. Thank you. We can use a translator. My name is her name is janice. Its a community and organization shes involved very much. She lives in visitation for over 30 years. She knows that it can take a long time to develop the visitation fairly early on. Right now, visiontation area is more peace of th peaceful th. Its not enough cops. Im sure not everyone knows its our country and its saving however in Golden Mountain we just in San Francisco theres a lot of speaking people especially they really node help in their community because the most Vulnerable Group in the community. Its a tying language so no one speaks it. And even the new chinese like myself, dont really understand it but we try. And 66 raymond they usually have a regular gatherings, all the old folks gather together and have fun, dancing, eating, communicating, socializing. Its almost 80 seniors participating every time. Unfortunately, theres a lot of people who want to come because of the crime and all the robberies and stabbings, all these kinds of things so theyre very hesitant to participate. She grows with the earlier speakers regarding the homeless problem. Theyre a threat to the older people, like what theyre talking about and they are very moody and they can spit on you and Say Something bad to you and theyre extremely disturbing. They are always in a dire straits situation because by the time anything happens, you cant find no one. I always said when you need the police theyre never there. When you dont node them theyre always there. So, the thing is, they do need some police men around the neighborhood. So again she wish the community would take a serious lock at this situation and highehiremore people and speak e language. There was an accident almost 10 years ago that was a shooting and someone died. There was an asian and that really bothered her for a number of years, trauma and sleep and depression. What happened is really stirred up the old wounds and she is really disturbed about that. She dont want that. She has to be the next person the next victim. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker. Good evening, commissioners, chief. Assistant chief redmond. Thank you for coming to our neighborhood here in visitation valley. I want to acknowledge the captains amazing work here. He made it seem less. Were worried because the transition happened so quickly but he was up and running right away and either he mentioned earlier the office hours, the officer at 66 raymond at our Community Center and i cant express how important it is for our community as you heard today, many of my Community Members only speak one language, maybe two dialect. Cantonese and its really important to have those folks here because in the past, what theyve done is when theyre victimized they usually come to our office and we try to encourage them to call or go to visitation up to ingleside Police Station but if can you imagine, for folks who lis doesnt really speak english and to make the trek from here, it may not seem really far for us but to them, its quite a trek for them. By having the officers here in visitation valley, it really makes it convenient for our community, as you can see, 26 are asian and many of them do speak english i would be row miss not to thank captain heart for starting up the officer hours and again i want to applaud the chief for supporting our captain here. Thats all i want to say, thank you. By the way, captain, thank you for translating our fly ner chinese because it made it really easy for our community and i believe that it was officer phillips that did the translation. Is that correct . [laughter] thank you, very much. I see no one else online for Public Comment. Theyre end particular for you. Before we adjourn from that, i want to say as commissioners we enjoy coming out to the district stations. As a couple of you have mentioned were kind of trapped at city hall most weeks and i know that its a hard trek for people to get there and