Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240712

Good evening and welcome to the june 3 meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. Will you please call roll. Yes. [roll call] we have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. In the last few weeks, we watched the barbaric murder of george floyd by vile, racist Police Officers. We watched Ahmaud Arbery get gunned down by white spr supremacists. Study after study shows that white people and black people are not only more likely to commit crimes, they think that we feel less pain. We have a less nuanced feeling, and less worthy of protection, so we often have to fend for ourselves. Racism is definitely a police problem, one that is as old as our entire nation, but lets be clear no ones off the hook. Racism is an america problem. Trayvon martin, Ahmaud Arbery were killed by citizens. The overwhelming number of hate crimes are committed by ordinary citizens. Every Single Member of this commission is committed to rooting out bias in this Police Department, and after seeing the murder in minneapolis, after seeing the recent video circulating of what appears to be neck restraints used here in San Francisco in january, i have questions that are more urgent than ever, and im sure my fellow commissioners do, too, as well as the public. But before we get into the chiefs report and those questions, i want to talk about where we are in the reform initiatives because some of what ive heard circulating is just not correct. To date, sfpd has substantially completed 61 out of 272 d. O. J. Recommendations, not 40. Now 61 is a drop in fact bucket of what needs to happen, but the 61 completed recommendations are all in the use of force training, Police Accountability, and policing. Theres a reason that the obama administration, the u. S. Department of justice made their recommendations at the end of 2016 is because San Francisco Police Department asked for this audit and this report. Sfpd has been on the forefront of recognizing the need for change in Police Reform. Some because of sfpd, some because of outside agencies that are required to be a part of the process, some because of the police unions, and frankly some barriers because of california d. O. J. Itself, who took over when trump decided or after he became president and decided that Police Reform didnt matter. Since the d. O. J. Made those recommendations in 2016, the Police Commission has completely overhauled a number of sfpd policies, including the use of force policies which expressly banned kneetoneck restraints and has since november 2016. So for those of you that have questions about that, kneetoneck restraints are not permitted in our useofforce policies. The sfpd has also overhauled a number of other areas, including bias policing, which includes bias by proxy because we all know part of the problem is people calling the police on black people. It includes discrimination and harassment within the department. We overhauled that policy, as well. The commission created a discipline matrix, a policy governing disciplining officers. The policy governing how citizens file complaints against officers, a policy making sure that the public has access to Police Reports, the policy refusing to enforce federal immigration laws in San Francisco, requiring officers to wear Body Worn Cameras, and the policy around Police Interaction with transgender, gender variant, and nonbinary individuals. And as many of you know, black transgender youth are often disproportionate victims of violence. And were keeping track on the pace of reforms, from asking the police to do a few more things. One, id like you to report monthly to the commission and to the public on the pace of their reforms. I would also like the chief to institute bias testing within the department. Now i know theres already implicit bias testing, but im asking for testing at the initial stages so we can weed them out of the department and then later on in the department. San francisco needs to pave a way that assures its free of bias, with a feeling of empathy and respect to the communities it deserves. At the end of this meeting, i will ask for a motion to adjourn in memory of george floyd and all those who have lost their lives because of racial injustice. I hope that what has happened recently will cause a reckoning that reverberates throughout this country because we cannot waste this moment. Thank you. Now to the members of the public who wish to make Public Comment tonight on items on the agenda, the phone number is 8882733658. The access code is 3107452, and id ask that you make sure that youre in a quiet location so that we can hear you and the public can hear you, as well. For the members of the commission and any presenters tonight, if you havent already done so, please mute yourselves to minimize background noise and, of course, unmute yourself before you speak. If you wish to be heard, please type your name or whatever emoji you wish into the chat box, and i will be sure to call on you and to recognize you. Thank you. Sergeant youngblood . Thank you, commissioner. For members of the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv. If youre interested in making a Public Comment, please be sure to call in at the time the item is read. The at the appropriate time, the chair will ask for the phone lines to be opened. If you wish to comment on a particular item, you will be prompted to press one skb then zero. The prompter will say the callers are entering questionandanswer, but this is actually the Public Comment period. You will be queued up in the order you press one and then zero. There will be an automated voice telling you its time to speak. I will start the two minutes when you begin speaking. When your time is up, i will say thank you, next caller, please. At that point, the moderator will put you back onto mute. The number to call in is on the screen. Members of the public can also email members of the commission at policecommission sf. Org. Vice president taylor thank you. Now we have a full agenda and a lot to discuss tonight, so lets get to it. Im going to give two minutes for Public Comment because i anticipate a lot of comments. First item, please. Adoption of the minutes for the meeting of may 25, 2020, commissioner hamasaki im a sorry. So let me where is my friend . There he is. Vice president taylor commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki thank you, commissioner taylor. In reviewing the february 5, 2020 meeting, i have an amendment. The under item lets see. Reports, commission d, commission announcements and scheduling of items announced for consideration at future meetings, it says commissioner hamasaki asked about the gang database. That was also the same meeting that i introduced the initiative regarding mug shots, and thats not in the minutes, so id like to amend those minutes to include that. Otherwise, with that amendment, i would move to adopt. Vice president Taylor Sergeant youngblood, i confess i dont know enough about the minutes and what gets included and what doesnt, so i dont have a strong feeling one way or the other. Perhaps you can tell us. Okay. We can make that amendment, and then, if you want to make a motion, then well pass and make the amendments. Vice president taylor does anyone have any questions. Commissioner elias i think commissioner hamasaki make the motion, so it just needs a second. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk okay. So i need to d roll call vote, commissioner. For line item 1, and the approval of minutes [roll call] clerk commissioner taylor, you have five yeses. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk okay. So line item 2, consent calendar, receive and file action. Approval to accept gift of 80 from members of the community to be donated to the Police Activities league. Approval to accept donation of 70 to 80 cases of water from hint company to the San Francisco Police Department for use during the covid19 pandemic. Valued at approximately 8 840 o 1440. Approval to accept donation of 1,000 surgical masks from the fibrogen corporation for officers to utilize during the covid19 pandemic. Values at approximately 1,715. Vice president taylor mr. Clerk, i presume theres no presentation on these items . Clerk thats correct. Vice president taylor so i need a motion. Commissioner elias ill second. Vice president taylor can you call roll for the vote . Clerk before we vote, commissioner, we need to take Public Comment. Vice president taylor thats right. Clerk moderator, are there any Public Comments online item number 2 . Operator not now. Clerk okay. Roll call vote for line item 2 and accepting the donations [roll call] clerk you have five yeses. Vice president taylor okay. Next line item, please. Next line item, 3, reports to the commission, discussion. 3a, chiefs report, weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco, significant incidents. Chiefs report may be limited to a brief report of the significant incidents. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes to a future Commission Meeting. Major events, provide a summary of plans activities and events occurring since the previous meeting. This will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. Commission inquiries, provide a brief follow up to inquiries made by commissioners during previous meetings to include sb 1421 requests. Presentation of the audit of electronic communication devices for bias, First Quarter 2020, presentation of the family code 6228 quarterly record, january 1, 2020 through march 31, 2020 and presentation of the racial and identity profile Advisory Board 2019 annual report and the Fourth Quarter 2019 and First Quarter 2020 reports in compliance with administrative code chapter 96a. Vice president taylor chief, i think youre on mute. Good evening, Vice President taylor, and commissioners. Id like to begin by commenting on a video that was posted on social media of San Francisco Police Officers arresting an individual on atoll circle. Given whats going on in our country right now over the death of mr. Floyd mr. George floyd, we at San Francisco Police Department are committed to a thorough investigation of the incident. Secondly, full transparency with the public, and thirdly, a review of our policies and procedures to determine what gaps exist and so we can immediately address those gaps in our training and our procedures and arrest and control protocols. I want to say a little bit about the incident in a Public Statement that ive already issued, but i want to make it known to the Police Commission and the public what weve done up to this point and the Public Statement that ive issued on this. On may 29, 2020, the San Francisco Police Department became aware of a video clip posted on social media that recorded a portion of a january 25, 2020 arrest of a man by San Francisco Police Department officers on atoll circle. The video on instagram and facebook depicts four officers taking an individual into custody for making criminal threats against the same and for threatening a peace officer. Several comments noted the similarity of a hold by a female officer to minneapolis officers that resulted in the death of mr. George floyd on may 25, 2020. I immediately ordered a review of the social media video and the Body Worn Camera video. The San Francisco Police Department internal Affairs Division is conducting that investigation. Our San Francisco Police Department Training Division is also conducting a review of the prone handcuffing techniques to determine if any changes or updates to training are warranted. In addition, i immediately contacted the executive director of our San Francisco department of Police Accountability and asked for an independent investigation by d. P. A. Of the arrests and the incident depicted in the video. The arrest the bodyworn camera footage of that video had been posted on our San Francisco Police Department website, at least the portion that came to the arrest, and they have been released publicly. In addition to the transparency, there are a few things that are ongoing. As commissioner Vice President taylor stated, our Current Department general order, 5. 01 prohibits the use of a carotid hold or neck restraint hold. We intend to immediately draft clarifying language that also clarifies [inaudible] im sorry . That also clarifies that pressure to the neck that controls is also prohibited. That will come by way of a bulletin that will come to the Police Department for approval as that bulletin will amend general order 5. 01. As far as transparencies, our goal is to maximize accountability through transparency. Ive also, as i said, directed our Media Relations unit to post all five videos from the officers involveds Body Worn Camera footage, and weve done that. We also posted the Instagram Video on our website, as well, so the public has a full perspective of all the camera angles that we have in our possession. As the commission knows and the public may not know, this investigation is active and ongoing. I cannot make a determination at this time as to what how this investigation will conclude, but i want to assure the public that our investigation will be thorough and that the independent investigation of the department of Police Accountability also adds another layer of accountability. Id like to also ask the public of anyone wishing to report information or evidence regarding this incident, they may call the San Francisco Police Department tip line at 4155754444 or text a tip to tip411 and begin the text message with sfpd. You may remain anonymous. Anyone listening here tonight in our audience who wishes to contact and report information to the department of Police Accountability, you may call 4152417711 between the hours of 8 00 a. M. And 5 00 p. M. , monday through friday, and you may also file d. P. A. Complaints online at https sfgov. Org dpa . That information is also posted on the San Francisco d. P. A. Website. And again, id like to tell the public, the San Francisco Police Department is concerned and very committed to transparency, so accountability, and that accountability goes to me as the chief of police. We have an independent Police Commission for that purpose that is a civilian oversight body. Our system is such that theres several layers of accountability, and we want the public to have confidence that those layers of accountability are effective and they work for the people of the city and county of San Francisco. Next, i will move onto weekly crime trends, and then, ill im sorry . Vice president taylor before you move onto weekly crime trends, i think theres a couple of commissioners with questions. Commissioner dejesus, did you have a question about the chiefs report . I think youre muted. I think youre still muted. Commissioner dejesus okay. How about now . Vice president taylor yes. I can hear you. Commissioner dejesus the little mute button keeps disappearing, and i cant find it. I want to thank you, chief, for your statements, but i had a couple of questions on the d. G. O. Use of force. One of the things that we deleted and took out was the carotid chokehold. There is a section in there i dont have it in front of me because im working from home, but theres a section in there about using body parts to make arrests. So im glad you brought this up about the video we saw about the knee and some of the paper, the reports in the paper talk about the knee was not on the neck, it was on the back, they were using their body parts, so i think we need clarification how the department interprets the use of force d. G. O. Regarding body parts in making an arrest. And in terms of interpretation, if theyre using body parts like an elbow or a knee on the back of the neck or a krcaroti hold. If theyre being taught that in the academy, if theres any reference how mauch theyre putting on or a time length that they can use their body parts . I think we need a clarification on that because it sounds like theres some type of gray area in terms of the d. G. O. Vice president taylor can i just jump in because i have the d. G. O. In front of me. Chokeholds. Officers are prohibited from using the following chokeholds. The carotid restraint, chokeholds, choking by means of pressure to the subjects trachea or other means that prevent breathing. Commissioner dejesus yes, and thats all on the front of the neck. Im concerned with the back of the neck. So is there any room in that d. G. O. That theyre interpreting that they can use the neck, the shoulder blades, or the back of the neck, so i just need a clarification on that. And you brought out that this is the first time it was brought to your attention and this happened in january. The other thing i want to bring out is how how how how can we how can this come to your attention sooner . Like maybe if they do if they are using body parts to hold down people, perhaps in their incident report, they would have to detail that, because how would that come to you or the sergeants attention that this kind of tactic was used in the field, especially for resisting arrest. Yes, commissioner, let me address the first question first in terms of the body parts or applying using body weapons to apply pressure to the back of the neck. The d. G. O. Does not clarify that particular issue, so thats the purpose of the amendment that were working onto bring to the Police Commission to be absolutely Crystal Clear about that issue. Although we havent finished the language on that, the idea that we want to convey is pressure to any area of the neck is prohibited. So that will clarify different from the carotid hold, which is actually a different thing that some type of neck restraint or what we saw in the incident. But we want to be clear so theres no doubt in anyones mind about what can and cannot be instituted by way of force to the neck. Commissioner dejesus how are the officers trained . I think when i conferred with you, you talked about thats not how officers are currently trained so can you talk about how officers are currently trained . What the training arrest and control manual said, when we train our officers, if you have to control an individual, the knee goes on the back, the shoulder blade area. Again, as part of a revision of our arresting course for basic control, in that manual, we want to clarify in there, as well, exactly the point that commissioner dejesus just brought up. It needs to explicit as far as what is allowed. When people are moving down on the ground, we want to be certain that officers know the importance of what is allowed and whats not and make that Crystal Clear. One other issue on that is the recent passed departmental general order that the commission passed last year, in the manual thats being revised, number one, it goes to the department of Police Accountability for feedback and input, and most importantly, any manual section thats being revised will come to the commission for approval. So youll all have an opportunity, when it comes to our arrest and control manual, to weighin, and ultimately, you get the decision as to whether thiss approved or not. Commissioner dejesus what about the time frame . That should be expedited, not something we should have to wait six months for. We want clarification of what were talking about. Commissioner, its being expedited, and as far as that amendment to the d. G. O. , it will be amended. The arrest and control manual is more work, but its being expedited also, already underway. Commissioner dejesus and the second part of my question is how can it be brought to your attention sooner instead of brought by civilians . If they use a knee to the shoulder blade or some way else, is there going to be a way to bring it out to the sergeants by way of a report or some other way . Yes. Its state [inaudible] in our systems, in our oversight systems is whether there are any gaps as it stands right now, and the way our general order reads, reportable use of force, that level of force, this body control weapon, body weapons, that kind of thing, control holds, wrist control holds, that type of thing, if theres no injury, it has to be categorized, but its not a reportable use of force. So the things have to be documented, but if its whats believed to be a minor type of control hold, a knee on the back, that type of thing, its not considered a use of force. So some of the things that we have to look at in this investigation is whether a gap in our oversight, in our policies, and in our procedures in terms of that issue is to make sure that the right things are looked at so we dont have this type of situation. Commissioner dejesus okay. So you will consider it because now that were more aware of the shoulder blades and the neck, its the back area. Maybe we should look into this being a reportable use of force, and you will look into that. Yes. Vice president taylor commissioner elias . Commissioner elias thank you. Thank you, commissioner taylor for listing all the work that sfpd has done and praising their progress, but i think during this time and where we are right now, we need to do better. We need to work harder and faster, and these delays just cant keep happening. Commissioner dejesus expressed a lot of my concerns that i was going to address, but i do have a few follow ups. My concern was that this incident of this video happened in january 2020, and weve only learned about it because its on social media six months later. And i understand that there are secondary use of force laws that sergeants review after the use of force, and its disturbing to know that as you categorized, minor control holds are not use of force, but those definitely should be logged in, and im very concerned about the secondary review process and, again, why this wasnt caught. So i dont i think that in addition to your review of that policy, chief, there needs to be a review of the policy that just because if theres no injury, then we dont report it. That cant be the qualifier, and that really needs to be looked at. The other thing that im concerned about and i dont know. I guess a lot of the questions that i have will be answered later, after the full investigation. Im reserving any sort of judgment because i think an investigation does need to be done, and itll be very interesting to see what happens. My other suggestion would be that in drafting this Department Bulletin that you just mentioned, i think that given commissioner dejesus experience on this issue, and given that she was the only commissioner around when this d. G. O. Was revised, i think that she should be consulted in the language of how the d. G. O. , the Department Bulletin is going to be revised because i think that her input and expertise are going to be of great use to the department in drafting this. Yes, commissioner. Thank you. We will include commissioner dejesus in drafting that language. Vice president taylor commissioner hamasaki . Youre on mute. Commissioner hamasaki and thank you, commissioner taylor. Chief, we emailed about this previously, and im glad to know that theres a department is it a Department Notice or a Department Bulletin . A bulletin amends a d. G. O. Commissioner hamasaki okay. So thisll be a okay. A bulletin yeah. A bulletin amends a d. G. O. We also intend to remind everyone of the current policy, but an amendment is what is needed to amendment a department general order. Commissioner hamasaki so we can get the order out within the next few weeks, and then the bulletin it doesnt seem like this is a big complicated amendment. I think all of us went back through d. G. O. 5. 01 after the George Floyd Killing and make sure that nothing like this happens in our jurisdiction, in our city, and i think the language that did that could or did could potentially create confusion where commissioner dejesus referenced under section 3. 1. Sb3 does prohibit section b3 does prohibit the carotid hold and the chokehold restraints, and youre going to clarify that rapidly. A couple of other points, and i did i think that this is this is this is this is the the the frustration that i think we are feeling constantly as commissioner that cindy expressed and petra expressed, which is we never learn about these things until theyre in the news, and this obviously was just you know, i understand this this may become a discipline gamthing, ive had nothing to do with the actual incidents, and i havent reviewed the videos, to be honest because i want to be able to be neutral if and when the matter comes before us as a commission. But can i ask, in this situation we had this issue, and this issue reminds me of the blue lines matter, thin blue line mask, did any of the officers come forward and report this potentially deadly conduct to the department in a way that the department could be aware that somebody had potentially used a use of force that could be deadly . If your question, commissioner is did anybody report this as possible misconduct, that is that is a no. All the officers wrote statements as they are required to do regarding their part in the arrest and what they observed and whatever else relevant information thats appropriate for an arrest report, but again, this was not reported as a use of force, and all that will be a part of the investigation not will a part of the investigation, is a part of the investigation, so your question will be looked into, depending on where the investigation leads us. Commissioner hamasaki right, and i have no doubt. This has been an ongoing complaint that weve had from the Community Since i mean, even before i was on the commission, there was this image that the police never report misconduct by officers and are protected from discipline from misconduct. I think the question as to whether appropriate deescalation techniques were used in this case is part of the investigation. I think its good that you released the Body Worn Camera footage because that was a concern, and any sunshine or transparency to me helps with the accountability and it really helps the public to know that theres no hiding going on. Its an important first step. Is it also possible, as part of that process, to release the Police Reports . Yeah. There are actually requests to release the Police Reports, and as all of our Public Records account requests, we send those requests through our legal department, and if there is if its legally permissible, those reports will be released. That p. R. A. , i think we got at least one or more today, so, like every request, we run it through legal, and if its releasable, we release it. Commissioner hamasaki no, sorry. That wasnt my question, and im sorry if it wasnt clear. Its not a matter if its not a Public Record, its just like you release the Body Worn Cameras which show the incident, can the department is the department legally permitted to release the reports in a situation like this where there is this degree of concern by the public . [inaudible] yeah, so there are legal we usually consult with the city attorney, as a practice, those reports are typically released by request. We dont just routinely release Police Reports, and i understand the Public Interest in this one. If its releasable and legally releasable, we will release it. We have no problem with that at a all. Commissioner hamasaki okay. I would ask thats a commissioner that if its possible, after consultation with the city attorney, to release the Police Reports to help the public feel that this matter is being taken seriously and every effort to accountability and transparency is being followed, that if its possible, they should be released, just like the with appropriate redactions as required by law but with along with the Body Worn Camera. Thank you. I have nothing further. Commissioner elias yeah, i agree with that, and i want to be as transparent as possible with this. Im going to read another quick provision because i think it was commissioner hamasaki or commissioner elias who mentioned this. It says, when in a position to do so, officers shall intervene when they know or have reason to know that another officer is about to use or is using unnecessary force. Officers shall promptly report any use of unnecessary force and the efforts made to intervene to a supervisor. So i want to make sure that the public knows, these are all available to the public, and so its important the public knows what the rules that guide the officers. This is 5. 01 use of force. Commissioner brookter . Broo commissioner brookter i would be reprized and remiss and i didnt say its the inequality of justice that weve seen across this country for centuries. And the conversation that i constantly get from communities is why wasnt this investigated in january . And i know that we shared the reason as to why, but i think folks are thinking that it took another loss of a black mans life to have this conversation about things that have been going on for centuries. We need to look at is the officers are just as guilty as those individuals that are out committing these crimes against our people. And so as petra said, and as commissioner elias said, we just have to do better in terms of being proactive. I think also just to add, in terms of commissioner elias, in having commissioner dejesus look at term 5. 01, i think it would be good to have a junior commissioner with fresh eyes to take part in drafting that, as well, so i would be happy to work with you on that, petra. I wanted to share that with you chief, but it wasnt a question, more so a comment ta. Vice president taylor thats great. Commissioner dejesus yeah, thats great. Id love to have your eyes. Commissioner brookter thank you, commissioner. Vice president taylor okay. I dont see any other questions, so chief, do you want to move onto the crime intend inte trends . Yes. So ill quickly go onto the crime trend because i know theres a lot of interest from the commission and the public about the escalation of civil unrest, including in our city. So let me just quickly go through the crime trends and let you know where we are. 18,528 this year, year to date, compared to 21,529 last year. The breakdown is a 14 reduction in property crime. 16,507 this year, compared to 19,529 last year, and a 12 reduction in Violent Crime. 2021 Violent Crime this year compared to 2300 Violent Crimes last year. The breakdowns of those two categories, in terms of property crime, we are up in burglaries by 25 , and that number is an increase of almost 600 burglaries. 2609 burglaries in 2020, compared to 2,085 burglaries this time last year. Our Motor Vehicle deaths, we were trending up before the pandemic, and last year, and were still up to 2,059 vehicle thefts this year compared to 741 last year. By the way, that is a state and National Trend with increase in thefts of Motor Vehicles this year. Arson, we are up by 39 . 116 this year, as opposed to 83 this time last year. And our larceny events, we are down 20 . Included in larceny and theft are auto burglaries, and were actually down 28 in our auto burglaries. 6,655 this year, compared to 9,293 last year. So Violent Crime breakdowns, we are up 6 in homicides, and that is going in the right direction. We had 18 this year, as opposed to 17 this time last year. In terms of race, we are down 48 . 85 this year, compared to 163 last year. Robbery, were down 6 , 1,067 this year compared to 1132 last year. And before precovid and preall the shelter in place and staying home orders, kwerp trending up in robberies, so its good thats in the negative. Human trafficking, we are down by 40 . 9, compared to 15 last year. We had no homicides the weekending may 31, and as i said, theres a total of 18 homicides. Weve seen a trail off in our shootings. Shootings had started to spike about three weeks ago. Our shooting victims were down 27 . 27 this year, compared to 37 this time last year. Our homicides with firearms are also starting to trail off. Were still up 22 , however. 11 this year, and 9 this time last year. Total gun violence victims, 17 this year compared to 46 last year. Going to talk about now our Critical Incidents of this past week, including the citys response to the civil unrest that has occurred around the country and in our city. You know, first of all, i really do want to thank and express on behalf of all the Police Department our gratitude to all san franciscans during this unprecedented time. These are from the shelter in place order to what has happened over the last week after the tragic death of mr. Floyd, these are unprecedented in our generation. We know theres a lot of things going on. Businesses are closed, people are out of work. People are sick with covid, so its really a trying time for us. And just to have the publics cooperation in what were asking of them and what we as a city are asking of them. I want to thank san franciscans for that because i think that makes our job a lot easier. Along with our events in covid19, everybody is sacrificing to minimize loss of life. This last week, weve had civil unrest all across our nation following mr. Floyds tragic death. Weve been through a lot this past week, and through it all, our city and our Police Department is doing everything we can to keep peace and order, number two, to keep order, and number three, to keep people from losing their lives and losing their property. Ill just give a connectictext what happened last week. Last week, as news immediately spread across the country, the city of minneapolis started to see protests, many of them peaceful, and they also started to see violent protests, just by peoples anger and outrage, and that spread throughout cities across the nation quickly. Protests across the nation, many of them started out peacefully for the most part and turned violent. What the trend that weve seen, not without exception, t for the most part, the protests during the day often times started out very peaceful. With the protests that went on as night fell, there were escalations of violence, escalations of incidents of burning structures, assaults on Law Enforcement personnel, looting, and the like, and that was a nationwide trend. In our city, we actually fared well in terms of there were protests, but we didnt have any incidents of violence and that type of destruction until this past saturday. On saturday, we had several protests around the city. Some of them went on for many hours very peacefully. As night fell well, ill say peacefully for the most part. There was a lot of hostility and anger, and people were expressing that, as they have a right to do. But with the exception of windows broken here and there, they were peaceful. Then as night fell, they became increasingly more hostile and violent. By saturday night, around 8 00, we started to get an influx in the violence of protests, particularly the ones in and around the civic center and downtown. Within a couple of hours, it really multiplied to looting, overtaking the westfield mall, and throwing molotov cocktails in the mall, attempting to light fires, burning businesses, smashing windows, massive looting. And as that progressed, we started to get more and more people coming to the area to participate in these activities. It was a very challenging and quite frankly overwhelming situation for our officers. It resulted at the end of the night, we were able, at the end of the night, with the help of our fire department, to put out the fires quickly. Officers, with the help of fire, were able to put fires down at the westfield mall. Even though we had officers posted around the mall when people breached the security and got in, the breach of that security and the looting and the fires, resulted in a massive deployment to secure the mall to try to arrest the looters that were inside the mall and to put out the fires, and that tied up a significant amount of our resources. Meanwhile, the looting and t incidents started to escalate in the union square area. Our resources were overwhelmed, quite frankly. So that night, the mayor directed that we work on language with the City Attorneys Office for a curfew, which we obliged. That curfew was implemented sunday evening at 9 00, and it goes now from 8 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. The mayor asked for help through the state from the state department of emergency services, so sunday, we began to receive aid from Law Enforcement officers around the state. By sunday, we had 208 officers deployed to San Francisco from stations allaround the state, and those officers were deployed to help us secure areas around the city as we dealt with what was to come sunday night. [please stand by] to work at all city departments that night to make sure that sunday morning when residents woke up and we didnt have images of the city in shambles. With all of the broken glass and graffiti and everything that happened tonight, the department of public works and their director, the acting director, got up out of their beds to clean the city up. All of the trash was cleaned up and as much as they could they cleaned the city and they accelerated the boarding up of the windows and the businesses and by sunday morning, although you could still tell that the damage was done by the boarded up windows and the ones that remained to be boarded up at that time, the city particularly the part that was hardest hit was clean. And it really made a difference in our resiliency and people knowing that, you know, were not going to allow these things to occur and these images to linger in our city. So i want to thank the other city departments, many of them, who participated in helping our city to get back on their feet after that night. Sunday night, very minimal damage. We have had now and on wednesday its been peaceful in our city since that time. And for those who had not seen, our mayor has rescinded as of tomorrow morning at 5 00 a. M. , the curfew will be rescinded. And that is that is part of what you want to report to this commission. Now i reported on the arrests, and i want to we received a lot of questions about the demographics of the people who were arrested and the types of arrests tht we made. We ha to bsically create an administrative response to analyze and to bring all of the data and make the reports of all of the Public Records and Everything Else that were getting for these arrests. But i want to give you what we have so far. And this is ongoing, so these numbers will change as we get more information but this is as of the information that we had as of yesterday. Of the arrests that we made for the curfew violations, and the incidents of looting, 5 were asian, 26 were African American, and 22 were hispanic, and 37 were white, and 8 unknown ethnicity. In terms of looting, 42 of the structures that were looted were large and corporate type of buildings and were talking about the malls and safeways and places like that. One was a mixeduse facility. And 33 of them were Small Businesses. We dont have a demographic breakdown at this time in terms of whether those businesses were ethnic businesses like in a chinatown or mission or anywhere else for that manner, but we have been asked for that information and we are in the process of getting that information as well. D use of forces during the civil unrest incident, there were 16 incidents youth force. And out of that that equated to 45 reports. 19 were eirw or weapon deployment impact. And 14 were pointing of a firearm. One body patrol. Three personal body weapons. One was a physicald one was pep. In terms of the ethnicity of the use of force, 0 asian, 48 African American, 9 hispanic and 18 white and 48 im sorry, 48 unknown, im sorry. And lets see 11 female and the rest were male. Im sorry, chief, can you say that again. I got confused. 48 African American or 48 unknown . 48 African American. Okay, what were the percentage of unknown . 24 unknown. As far as the age range, lets see, we have 14 42 listed as unknown. 3 , 5059. And 0 , 4049. And 5 , 3039. Im sorry, 15 , 3039. And 32 , 1829. And 2 , under 18 or 6 , im sorry, under 18. And that that is the demographic. I know that theres been a lot of debate about the need for whether or not a curfew is the right thing to do or the need for it. And as i told the board of supervisors in their public hearing yesterday and i said in our Media Briefing about this issue, it was my recommendations to our mayor to implement a curfew. And it gave us the ability to restore order in our city very quickly on sunday when the civil unrest repeated itself. And i know that the mayor was very thoughtful and deliberate and it weighed very heavy on her. And we as a Police Department wanted to make sure that we did not abuse this law that was or this emergency order. The majority or the vast majority of the arrests with the curfew were in those volatile situations. And they were sunday night. The vast majority of them were sunday night. Or after all of the activities that occurred on saturday night. So that is the extent of what i have to report here. I know that theres probably going to be questions. So i will stop there on this part. I have one other a couple other items to report but ill stop there if the commission has any questions. Chief, i have a question. So i asked you to report on the demographics of what was going on in terms of the weekend because when i watched the news, what i see i see the people and the looters and its generally black people. So i wanted to know what the demographics were and i watch the news and read the newspapers like everyone else, and i was, you know, it is significant to me in terms of percentages that the majority of the people who seem to have been involved in the violence over the weekend, 37 white. That is not what you see when you watch the news. Thats not what you see. And so those those statistics are i think are important because for whatever reason thats not what is getting out. Now ive also read about, you know, rightwing kind of anarchist groups inciting violence all throughout the country at protests. And i dont know if the department has been keyed into that, or aware of that, or has any sense if thats come into play in San Francisco . It might be difficult because theyre doing it so secretly. But you just you hear less about that when we watch the news, the liberal news. So its just interesting to me the large percentage of white people, frankly, who were involved in this violence. Yes, commissioner. And i dont know if that was a question but as far as the the question that i got out of it at the end was that a lot of the information is out there on the in social media. Theres posts about White Supremacy and other posts about what has been described as domestic terrorist type of extreme mass liberal organizations. Some of it is believed to be fake. Some of it is believed to be provocateurs and we have to determine, you know, which is difficult to do, what is real and whats not. I cant say and at least up to this point none of what we see on the website about people coming to our city, shooting up the city and raiding residential neighborhoods, that type of thing none of that has panned out. But we always have to take these things cautiously, particularly in todays world. And to take them seriously. So it really put us in a position where we have to be ready, we have to deploy i didnt mention that that we cancelled all days off until further notice. We wont have this forever and its a daybyday thing and if we have continual peace theres a likelihood that we wont have that assistance, and understandably so. So we have to stay vigilant and well stay deployed at least for now with all off days cancelled and were fully deployed and ready to help the people of our city to stay safe. Vicepresident taylor commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki i see that she has a comment first. Vicepresident taylor sure. Commissioner dejesus. Mute, mute. Vicepresident taylor youre good now, youre good. Commissioner dejesus i got this from the newspaper. They showed a mat of map of the looting areas and they talked about the presumption and the strategy that the looters had and perhaps a lookout so they knew where you guys were, so where they could go. I dont know if that is true or not, but im wondering in terms of strategy for next time, i mean, have we studied or learned anything from this in terms of how to try to protect and i mean, you know, to protect property or to protect things in the future . Thats number one. And then i have a second part. So for number one to answer your first question, yes. We are looking at everything. Our analysts are looking at everything locally and you have a regional component to this. Definitely we believe that whats out there on social media that there was some organization to this where kind of flash mob type of looting and lets go here to this location and they overrun the location and they leave and they go hit another place. We do have evidence of that. And that occurring. We saw it on saturday night here in our city where we saw what we believed to be organized activity. You know, people showing up in cars and it looked very synchronized in terms of looting a store and dumping the merchandise in the car and going to the next store and some other people dumps and we saw what appeared to be a very synchronized and organized action. On top of that, i think that a lot of the people that we saw were just opportunist. The later it got, at least saturday night it seemed that more people started to come just to get what they can get. So we believe that a lot of that is just people posting on social media, hey, its happening here and others saying lets go down there and get what we can get. Nationally its been kind of the same trend. Commissioner dejesus and im assuming im assuming that, you know, for whatever cameras were out or anything like that that i assume that your department will be investigating in terms of trying to, you know, get the perpetrators . Yes. Thank you for bringing that up. This is far from over as far as the people who we werent able to apprehend. Because thankfully a lot of our businesses have very good Security Systems and theres a lot of footage and private video from around the city that our residents are providing to us or giving us an opportunity on the backend and hopefully to identify some of these folks and bring them to justice. Commissioner dejesus and then the last thing is that i was watching the board of supervisors last night regarding the curfew. And the mayors curfew was an indefinite curfew. Did you recommend indefinite curfew . Or not . No, no, i didnt recommend the indefinite part. The way that played out is that the curfew is drafted. And sunday nights event happened or saturday night, im sorry and the City Attorneys Office said that its a daunting task, they had worked through the night to get a curfew order done. So the goal was to get the basic language that we needed to keep our city safe. And as of as i understand the rules, the board has to concur with that emergency order. Theres two parts theres the emergency order and then the actual curfew order itself. They are actually two documents, but they work handinhand and thats what the Board Meeting was about yesterday. So the indefinite part, the goal and my recommendation is to lets see how things progress, you know, for us and, fortunately, we had peace after saturday nights events. And nationally it seems that it was peaceful yesterday, and for the last day and a half. So the recommendation from the start has been to see how things are going and then i would make my recommendation to the mayor and she did ask me for my opinion when she decided to lift the curfew order today. And i agreed with that. And thats how the system works. This is so fluid and so unprecedented that its really a daytoday thing. You know, somebody can Say Something that stirs everything up and thats happened a couple times and we see a spike in violence nationally. And then we have to react to it. So its just very fluid right now. I mean, people are very angry and very upset. We still have the covid issue that were dealing with and its just a really trying time. So to answer your question, it was never meant to be indefinite. We just wanted to get it going so we could keep the city safe and reassess as needed. Commissioner dejesus okay, i have one other part. I noticed that in washington, d. C. , they have people showing up without their insignia or their name plates. Are the people that are assisting us able to be identified as to where they come from, you know, or are they blocking any insignia that they have . No. So our and these are all folks from like from agencies around the state. So we have a deputy chief who daily debriefs whatever personnel that we get not debriefs briefs. He has a briefing presentation. They brief and they give him kind of what the rules of what were doing here. And we put them on post. And most of the assignments for the folks that are assisting us, if not all of the assignments, have been security to secure like some of the businesses that i had mentioned that had been looted. And to not patrolling our city. San Francisco Police officers are patrolling our city. Every squad or unit of outside resources that were using, theyre supervised by the the sn Francisco Police supervisor. And we have to do that for many reasons, including our communications. So nobody is out there just patrolling our streets from a different agency. Commissioner dejesus thank you so much. Thank you. Vicepresident taylor commissioner brookster. Commissioner brookter one so it was a followup, chief. I would also like to see as commissioner taylor was receiving the demographics on race if we could receive the demographics on cities and counties that folks are coming from and which were making these arrests. So id like to see if people are coming across the bridge to our city in order to protest and to provide some of this vandalism in the city during this time. And you actually answered the one question that i did have in terms of seeing and hearing that the curfew has been lifted. So i was going to ask if you feel that theres any recourse thats going to come because of it . I know that San Franciscoians had felt that folks were voiceless and we were unable to go outside and to voice our opinions and you stated that the curfew itself was a suggestion that came from the department, what would be another suggestion should we see another spike in protests, you know, over the next couple of days . Well, we always in this city to try to go with the least restrictive way to do business. And, again, we know in this emergency nobody can remember around here when the city and county of San Francisco received mutual aid, within the department right now, nobody can remember. It may have been in the early 1990s. But its rare. And that gives you an indication of the level of emergency in our city. To your question about how we proceed. I mean, what our plans are is, number one, we have to constantly adjust based on what is going on. You know, when things were very, very violent and volatile, of course were going to wear personal protective equipment and the like and theres a high likelihood of that. But oftentimes we can deescalate just by the equipment that we show up in. And if theres no known reason for us to expect violence or theres going to be a peaceful protest, we police that in a different way than we would a protest where we expect violence. So showing up in helmets and rsonal protective gear, people automatically go to a high level of anxiety. So our goal is that we to not to, and take it down a notch if we can. But its based on the intelligence. And the other thing is this, as i said earlier, people in our city have been really good in terms of cooperating. It started with covid and thats why we did as well as we did up to this point. Even with the curfew. By and large people did what they were asked to do. And i just, you know, i think that we have to rely on the goodwill of the people of our city and that is why its so important for people to trust us. For us to do our jobs in a way that people would trust us. We have emphasizing and reemphasizing the safety statement that we have. It means something. And i know that we are not always perfect. We dont always get it right. But that means something. So that goes a long way in terms of how people react to our mere presence. And, again, you know, as much as we can try to do things without those type of restrictions, we will. And the National Picture also plays an issue in it. Because what is happening at the end of last week nationally, i mean, this was happening all over the country. And i think that we have to Pay Attention to whats going on around us as well. You know, things are happening in east bay or the peninsula, and eventually they come to our way as well. So we cant make decisions in a vacuum. We have to look at whats going on around us. We lift our curfew and everybody else has a curfew and, you know, were probably going to get more people in our city. But from what im hearing anyway, i havent had a chance to watch the news today, i am hearing a lot of the cities are reconsidering the curfew and whether its still needed. So its a lot better when we work in unison. But were going to do everything that we can to be as the least restrictive as we can, with our recommendations and with our actions. Vicepresident taylor commissioner hamasaki, i apologize, i forgot the order. You had a question . Commissioner hamasaki yes. I am a little i dont know maybe i have a pretty different perspective than some that has been expressed so far, but, you know, i did follow the board of supervisors hearing yesterday. I have seen a fair amount of the commentary and i heard the commentary from Small Business owners who after being decimated by covid are decimated by the curfew and their inability to work and for the Small Businesses and the restaurants that rely on or trying to stay alive in the Delivery Services and people to eat. And i think that a curfew is a last, last, last resort. It is taking away our civil rights, our Civil Liberties of our citizens at a time when the country is horrified. Our country is disgusted. And the country is appalled at another police killing. When we shut down without enough cause and keep it indefinite curfew in place, i have zero i just dont respect that. And i respect i understand the westfield mall got trashed and i understand that there was, you know, a fair amount of pretty appalling behavior, but by yesterday, you know, people are hungry to get back to life. We have all been locked down and struggling and when our government shuts us down and locks us in our houses, there better be a good reason. And i havent seen one in the last few days. And i got to say that im pretty disappointed to see you there yesterday encouraging it. I know, you know, i understand that safety and security, those are great things, those are the foundations of what we need for liberty, but, you know, when people want and need and the pain that ive seen the pain that weve all seen, you know, on the streets, in the streets, and on the social media and on the in the news, and then to have our government come down on top of it and say go back in your homes, youve had enough freedom for now, theres some bad people over here and we cant handle it. And i think that moment was gone a few days ago. I think it brought great disrespect to this city, to our freedoms, and to our department because what it said to everybody is that we cant handle this. We dont have it together enough to handle this at this point. I understand the night that it got hot and heavy and things were pretty bad. But i have been in this city for 25 years now. Ive been through i dont know how many protests and how many of the rallies that have ended up in acts of looting and acts of property destruction and breaking, you know, bank windows and so forth. Not my thing. I understand. But, you know, its really it was really i thought that yesterday that i thought that the curfew should have been lifted and i thought that, you know, its costing a lot of people a lot of money in this city and the people in this city dont have that money anymore. And im glad that the board of supervisors took action and forced the hand of folks. But it if this ever comes up again i think that you should reach out to the commission because i think we have very different opinions on the points that were willing to give up and sacrifice our liberty and our freedom and our ability to make a living in this city. And so im not happy about it. I think that well talk offline about it, but im glad that its being lifted now. And i hope that we can all, you know because the protests theres just so much thats been pent up over this year that came out. You know, people are done. People are tired. People are beaten down. And we just dont need anymore of it coming from the government. Yes, may i respond, Vice President taylor . Vicepresident taylor yes, yes. I wanted to respond to commissioner hamasakis question. For the commission, for the public, i too take Civil Liberties very seriously. And i know that my role as chief of police is to return the daytoday operations of the Police Department. That is not respectfully thats not the commissions role at 12 00 at night when we have massive violence in the city, and the mayor asks me my opinion on what i recommend for the order for the city, im going to give her my recommendation as to what i think is the best thing to keep people alive, to keep peoples property safe, and to keep our city safe. I dont think that anybody expects me to call the Police Commission before i make that decision. I respectfully, respectfully ask you as your chief of police to allow me to do my job. Vicepresident taylor chief, i i i dont think that you should call the Police Commission to make those decisions. I think that we all ask that we make them carefully and, you know, considering all of the impacts on the citizens of this city. I think that it would be helpful if you would explain to the commissioner again and the public one of the things that i have heard is that there were molotov cocktails being thrown at property, at officers, and also at just civilians on the street, people on the street. And so when youre talking about the situation from looting looting is one thing and vandalism is another. Butcoordinated efforts, organized efforts, you know, throwing molotov cocktails at people is something that i have never seen in this city or any city. So and then talk about how you came up with this was not a general curfew, it was a curfew from 8 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. So how you came up with the timing of the curfew. If you could walk us through some of those considerations, i think that it would be helpful. Because it wouldnt be possible or efficient for, you know, a good idea, frankly, for the commission to be consulted on every single decision that you make in an emergency situation. But i think we want the comfortn based on the right input. Yes, absolutely. Well, the trends that we have been seeing well, at that time the violence and other parts of the country, in the region, was happening after hours of dark. The looting, the majority of the looting and the majority of the structures that were set to fire were happening after the hours of darkness. Most of the protests, as i stated earlier, were peaceful. Particularly during the daytime. There was some violence during the daytime but most of the protests were peaceful during the daytime. And even here in San Francisco, we had sporadic vandalisms and the like, but what we saw saturday night was a quick escalation of violence when the night fell. Let me say this typically with mutual requests and you can see it now and its happening right now, we have seen it in the past, that typically the cities get aid after the fact when the city is in shame bells. Shambles. So my recommendation and it was the mayors leadership on this is to get in front of it. Why wait until we have structures burned down and lives lost, and Police Officers killed or hurt, and then ask for help and then implement the curfew type of restrictions so we can restore order . That is the respective that i was coming from. I dont think that anyone here wants to see a loss of life. And i dont know if you all realize how dangerous the conditions were. Here in our city on saturday night. We were very lucky, very lucky that we had no one seriously hurt or killed but it was extremely dangerous. So thats the root and the basis of the recommendations. I was here for all of those hours listening to the officers screaming and yelling on the radio when bricks and molotov cocktails were being thrown at them and people were almost getting hit by cars and it was chaotic. We were very lucky that we didnt have more damage. That is the basis of my recommendation. I know that its easy for all of us to sit here when things are peaceful and say what we would and wouldnt do. We have to make decisions at the moment based on what we think is the right thing. And, again, to the commission, hopefully you all know me by now and i dont take that responsibility for granted. But i have to be i have to be able to make decisions based on what is going on and my best recommendations as to how to secure and keep the city safe. So those are things that went into the fact pattern that guided my recommendations. We were seeing friday night just across the bay tremendous violence that ended up in a death. We saw it in southern california, tremendous violence. We have seen it all around the country. You know, so our goal was not to wait until things happened to try to get in front of it. It really was to try to get in front of it and to prevent it, like we always talk about anything else that we do whether it be preventative homicides or burglaries or whatever. Prevention is better than reaction. And i realize how serious it is to limit somebodys Civil Liberties. I do. I take that very seriously. And it was never meant to be an indefinite curfew. What it was meant to do was to stop what was going on as quickly as we can and restore order to our city so we can get back to normal and let people to enjoy their lives. But if we didnt get this under control and keep it under control, thats going to be delayed even further. So that is how my rational pattern of thinking happened. Vicepresident taylor thank you, commissioner dejesus. Commissioner dejesus so, chief, just to be clear and i cant speak for commissioner hamasaki, but i dont think that were telling you how to run the department because you are the Department Head or how to give advice to the mayor. I think that i brought it up more in how it was framed as an indefinite curfew. And more importantly last night i didnt get to see the whole supervisors meeting but i was wondering if you were supporting at that meeting an indefinite curfew . And that to me if we had calm days and you were supporting an indefinite curfew, that does bring up a lot of civil rights connotation, especially if its not really needed. So im really glad that the mayor withdrew it today, but as of last night it was the issue that was burning and i wanted to know if you were there supporting an indefinite curfew and the question would have been why. But you told me that you didnt write it that way and didnt put it as indefinite and i dont know if you were there last night supporting it as an indefinite curfew. And three days after things calmed down thats why i questioned why would you support an indefinite curfew at a meeting last night. So i think that were just getting a little bit confused. Were not telling you what decision you made, but im wondering after saturday night were you still supporting an indefinite curfew . Yes, thank you. So the issue on the floor for the board as i understand it was to vote the idea was to vote to support the emergency order or to rescind it. And there were several if you heard the whole hearing there were several things that came up. There were recommendations from the board to take action either to let it go through the weekend and if the board took no action then it would have expired on saturday night. That was one option that was recommended. There were options to modify it. And there were also options to craft language that would give us, the city, a couple more days of curfews. And my recommendation is that if you watched the whole hearing was to give us time to make an assessment. We knew that we had big protests going on today that was intended to be peaceful. We didnt know what was happening in the rest of the country at that time yesterday. So the recommendation was never for an indefinite curfew. Supervisor peskin had made a recommendation to take no action. And maybe let it expire at the end of the week and it would have been expired anyway. And there was talk and debate about whether that would give us one more day or two more days. So i just want to be clear on what i said and what i did at that hearing. Because i never said that it was meant to be indefinite. There were several options on the floor and i gave my recommendation based on the options put on the floor that gave us the most flexibility to do the job that we needed to do. But it was never said by me that it should be an indefinite curfew. Commissioner dejesus okay, thank you. Thats my focus. Thank you. Vicepresident taylor commissioner brookter. Commissioner brookter im glad that you asked that with the clarification from you, chief. I want to thank you for your leadership as a leader during times like this. There are unprecedented decisions that we have to make that are realtime. That are extremely hard to make. And you made it. And youre standing by it. I want to commend you for that. And i also want to state that i think that its a little bit unfair well, i dont think, nor should you have to call every commissioner when there is a crises that is taking place, but we did receive updates. We did receive updates from the Commission Office that came in on sunday. So i want to make sure that is clear and that is not true that we werent receiving information and updates. Vicepresident taylor now, we received hourly updates for a while this weekend and i want to thank the staff, and from your office, chief, it was helpful to know what was going on. Commissioner elias . I think that youre on mute. Commissioner elias thank you. Actually, i think that commissioner dejesus addressed my issue. And the other kind of comment that i have is that while i understand, chief, you and i had several discussions about rights and Civil Liberties and oftentimes we dont agree, but i know that you are cognizant of it. And i get my request would be that in the times of calm when we do have an opportunity to reflect that we dig deep and we figure out where we are and take that assessment. Because i think that oftentimes when were in the mode of chaos or were being reactive, that we dont have time for reflection. And i think that is really important and it should be taken into consideration. Because i too didnt agree with the indefinite curfew. Thank you. Vicepresident taylor commissioner hamasaki. Commissioner hamasaki yes, and commissioner taylor, ive had a request to speak up since she was speaking most of the time i reinforce it, so i ask to you please try to respect that. Vicepresident taylor wait, wait,. Commissioner elias let me apologize to and you im looking in the chat box and its a live chat box and i see a request from you and its hard for me to indiscernible so i respect your right to be heard and everyones right to be heard and were all doing best we can here. So please go ahead. Hamasaki thank. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Chief, you know, you i know that you are doing your best under difficult circumstances and i respect that and i have expressed my respect to you repeatedly on and off line numerous times since i came on the commission for the work that youve done. But, you know, my background, my life, is civil rights and Civil Liberties and our freedoms and thats what i have fought for and thats what i have dedicated my life to. I have dedicated my life to keeping people out of cages and not putting them in cages. And i fought for people to be free and fighting for people to have the same rights that we should all have. When you say statements like, you know, as long as when we have a curfew everyone is safe, thats true. Its absolutely true. And we could extend it and it could be a longer curfew and wed be even be safer. But theres a balance there, right . And i wasnt talking about saturday night. I understand that. Nor was i even talking about sunday but there was still fair time to assays reassess it. Because there was a movement to lift what was an indefinite curfew barring action by the board of supervisors within seven days of its inaction to lift it. And, you know, would it to become once we start to give up those rights and i think is a problem of perspective in that youre focused on keeping us safe and i know that you care about civil rights and Civil Liberties, but i just its just been hard to see everything that has been going on in the streets and to see our liberties being curtailed more. I dont want to belabor the point. I will say that, you know, i dont i didnt appreciate the comments about the Police Chiefs role and the commissions role. Our role is oversight. Okay . And our role is who gets to be police chief. And, you know, ill tell you truthfully everybody thinks that youre a good man. But we we need strong leadership. We need this city needs you, needs you to be strong and fight for all of us, especially during these difficult times. And for our freedoms. And so ill leave it at that. But and well talk offline. But i i just you know im it may and theres theres beautiful images going around today of all of these young people out there in the streets doing what makes this country great, which is standing up and fighting against injustice and fighting against oppression and that is something that i am never going to stop fighting for. If were going to butt heads on that, thats a point where were going to butt heads. But i dont i didnt question the weekend. I just questioned what happened yesterday. And im glad that its being lifted and if it comes up again where we start to feel that, you know, the people are getting too crazy, too active in the streets, everybody is too angry, thats not a reason to shut down a city. Violence and a certain very high level that you can no longer control, then we can talk. But its a last resort. Because this you know, i cant think of another time that weve had in my time an indefinite curfew in place in the city. So ill leave it at that. Vicepresident taylor thank you. And we can and perhaps we can agendaize at some point the discussion about the Police Chiefs role and the commissions role. It is clearly that theres a document that clearly defines that and were authorized to do and what were not authorized to do and maybe at a future Commission Meeting we can talk about that. But maybe sergeant youngblood, call the next line item. Under 3a of the Police Report and its the updates. Chief scott, is it being done by yourself . Sorry . Vicepresident taylor no. Yes. Okay, thank you. So our update for the week and the commission sent the report and ill go through it. A total number of requests for this week is 142, which is a difference of an additional one request from the week before. Or a total number of releases increased by 208. Theres a total of 1,916 releases. Our total number of closed p. R. A. Requests increased by 3, went up to 70 from the week before. And our total number of cases identified, 122 for this week and it was 121 for last week so that was a difference of one. Our total number of officerinvolved shooting cases identified or released, im sorry, officer involved shooting cases released, 54 this week and 489 49 last week. And the number of officer involved shooting documents released, 27,826 o. I. S. Documents released or pages of documents. And a total of 24,418 last week. That was a difference of 3,408. The number of officer involved shooting and response to Public Record request act, 315 this week. And 292 last week. A difference of 23 additional responses released. And the next category is Great Bodily Injury cases and the number of cases identified as Great Bodily Injury cases were three additional cases this week. So theres the total of 13, compared to 10 last week. And the number of Great Bodily Injury cases released, there was no change from last week. The number of great bodily cases released, no changes from last week. And the number of productions and response to p. R. A. S, no change. And the number of determineation letters sent, there was an increase of 64, 416 to compared to 352. And the number of officers reviewed, 236. Compared 196, for an increase or difference of 40. And the officer notification letters sent, and the cases assessed. 2,175, and a difference of 477. And that is that is it for the 1421 report and if the commission has any questions. Vicepresident taylor i think that commissioner elias has a question. Commissioner elias i do. First of all, thank you, chief, for providing this 1421 stat update and i appreciate it and i appreciate it in written form because it allows us to sort of see. I was just trying to understand the form better because i didnt see the yeartodate totals on here. I was a little confused because the total number of requests received from april and may, 41 in april and 142 in may so what is the yeartodate total . What we have done to try to streamline this, there were a lot of duplicate requests from several agencies, so we actually were working or we are working with those agencies to actively identify like if one agency had the same request 20 times and wed send that agency a document. So these numbers represent the yeartodate totals and so thats a total as of that date. Commissioner elias the 142 . Yes. Commissioner elias because last year you told me that there were like thousands, thousands of requests and now thousands have turned into 142. A lot of those were duplicate requests. If you had an agency or entity that requested every record for every San Francisco police officer. And then you had that same agency make a request based on a specific incident where there were 10 Police Officers. So the question our staff went through the requests and worked with those agencies in a mutually agreeable format to streamline and so theres a true count. So, lets say the Public Defenders Office had five public defenders all asking for the same officers information. And streamline that, and once that record goes out and then it goes out to the five im using that as an example. So the original report that lieutenant whalen gave was before we went to that process to consolidate all of the duplicate requests which weve now done. Commissioner elias so using that example, say that five people asked for files on officer x and you count it as one request in the 142 number, am i understanding that correctly . If its the same set of records, that is correct. Commissioner elias okay. Vicepresident taylor i want to clarify, the same set of records or coming from the same all from the public defenders, is that why . If it was the Public Defenders Office and, i dont know, like a newspaper, would those be different requests. Right, those would be different. Those would be different. Vicepresident taylor coming from the same agency okay, got it. Commissioner elias and then my other thing is for the 142, i thought that i understood it that there were 141 requests in april and another 142 in may but thats not it, its yeartodate 142, am i understanding that correctly . Okay. And so if thats the case that theres only 142 requests yeartodate, how are there 1,916 releases . The releases are were doing rolling releases. So like for officerinvolved shootings and, lets say its a voluminous volume of records. And what we have been doing for really quite a while now with rolling releases, we release a portion at a time. So you can have a file that has multiple releases. And so one request can have multiple releases for that particular record. Commissioner elias explain that one more time. I dont understand. So you have a volume of information. We have to release volumes of information. We have been doing rolling releases where we release a portion of the request at a time. When we did a request. If we have to go through and redact all of the videos or redact the information that cant be revealed from videos, that takes a lot of time. So we may release the portion of, say, the written report and then we release the video and then we release the audios. And so the records are broken down to where its manageable. We want to keep the requests going but if we wait until everything is there, it would take even a longer time. Commissioner elias okay. So youre saying that one request for officer x, so theres five different sort of releases, like body cams, Police Report, all of those things are considered a release and accounted for separately than the one, is that right . Correct. Correct. Oh, if i could just add then one request could be for multiple officers in each category. So its sort of complicated. So you could have a request that it could be one request for a category, lets say, dishonesty. And it could be for multiple officers. So the requests are coming in all forms and formats. So were trying to manage it and streamline it and were working with the requesters to do it in a way that mutually is beneficial to everybody to make this as efficient as possible. But im sorry commissioner elias im so sorry, chief, i thought theres a delay. Im so sorry. So the 142, so the example before that its like five people request one record of officer x, right, you consider that one sort of request . Five people request one record for officer x, if its coming from the same organization commissioner elias right. So what if theres another like they request officer x and officer y, do you count that as two . Or is it still the one even though its the same agency . You see what im saying . Yeah, that scenario, the two officers, and one use of force and they requesting for a single officer or requesting just a use of force incident. It depends how the request comes through. So could some of these categories, theyre multiple officers and so lets say if somebody was interested in a use of force. That resulted in a seriously Bodily Injury and theres 10 officers involved and they just ask for a specific officer from the incident. Theyll get the whole report and thats one request. If they ask for two officers, if they ask the city asks for officer x and officer y in the same request, thats one request. But if they break that up, it would come in as two requests and thats why we have been working with the people that are making these requests to try to streamline that. So we send them the information in the most efficient way. Because sometimes information will trickle in. Somebody will find out that a certain officer is involved in an incident and theyll want a report for that officer. And they ma have already requested a report for the incident itself. So theres a lot of duplication in the request. Commissioner elias okay. And then the other question that i have is the 1c, the p. R. A. Request where you have 70. And is that 70 from the 142 yes. Are you still there . I think that you froze up, commissioner. Vicepresident taylor maybe shell jump back in. Does anyone else have questions. In the meantime until commissioner elias rejoins us . The commissioner didnt ask the question but to point out the complexity. We have requests like every officer in the department and it might be four different categories. So those things are very, very complicated. And that would be 8,000 requests but we try to streamline that to where we can be as efficient as possible to get the information to the requester. Vicepresident taylor i wonder if it makes sense to move on and then we can circle back when commissioner elias rejoins us. Oh, here she is. Welcome back. Wait, i think that youre on mute. Commissioner elias thank you, im so sorry. I dont know what happened. Vicepresident taylor the chief said something while you were gone so you may repeat that, chief. Commissioner elias you know, thats okay. You and i can do it offline. I dont want to prolong the meeting any longer than we have to. But i want to say thank you for the numbers and i think that theyre helpful for us to understand where we are. And then i guess that one final thing was the dishonesty and Sexual Assault numbers, theyre not on this. Does that mean that there werent any categories requesting those documents . Because i see officerinvolved shooting and g. B. I. But the other two, 1421 categories are the Sexual Assault and dishonesty . I dont think that we had any but we should be reporting on it anyway, whether we have any or not. But we could add that. Commissioner elias thank you again. Thank you. Vicepresident taylor next line item. So the next line item is going to be the presentation of the audit of electronic communication devices for bias, First Quarter 2020, thats done by commander osullivan who is here with me. please stand by number 1 is department general order 10. 08, use of computers and peripheral equipment. Second Department Bulletin, 19. 01, which is titled sfpds members expectation of privacy and use of equipment. We have a unit in the department and the jenna fares, and that gets into the specificity of which, when, and how we do the audit. The audits do capture electronic messages that are transmitted from personal devices from personal devices to department devices. The three systems that are audited are as follows number one, level two, commonly referred to as clets, an acronym for california Law Enforcement transportation system. A program is searches all entries into the system using an established word list. The audit is passive and nature and happens continuously. If a member uses one of the hit request hit words, it goes to a file. Those determined to be potentially biased are investigated. The level two audit process has been fully operational since december 2016, so this has been in effect for over three years now. First Quarter Results are as follows from january 31 to march 1, there were 28 hits returned from the program. After review by i. A. D. Members, none of the hits were determined to be potentially bias oriented. Our second system, department email. All emails are sent and received, internally and externally through our Department Server are audited using a department word list. The audit is passive in nature. If an email contains one of the identified words on the li list, again, a hit is generated. Staff analyzes every hit, and those determined to be potentially biased are investigated. From january 1 to march 31, there were 213 hits generated by the program. After investigation, none of the 213 were determined to be bias oriented. And finally, the third system. Text messages Via Department issued ce issued cellular phones. Investigators are trained to conduct active audit determined by cellular provider at t as well as the San Francisco Police Department Information Technology division. Every 30 days, a search is done of all text using an established word list. Additional terms can be used, as well. Staff analyzes every hit to determine the context in which the term was used. Those hits determined to be potentially biased are investigated. All false hits are saved by at t, meaning they can be retrieved at any time. From january 1 to march 31, there were 23 hits from the program, and after review by i. A. D. Members, none of the 23 were determined to be bias oriented. That concludes my presentation with regard to the First Quarter. Im happy to take any questions, listen to comments. Vice president taylor i dont see any questions from the commission, so lets call the next line item. Thank you, commander. Clerk okay. The next line item under the chiefs report is presentation of family code 6228, Quarterly Report january 1, 2020 through march 31, 2020. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioners, chief scott, and executive director lost my train of thought. Anderson. I see you right there in your nice sport coat. Any ways, any ways, greg yee, the former deputy chief of the administration bureau, but any ways, family code 6229 is a report first 6228 is a report First Quarter. Background general, the family code 6228 requires state and local Law Enforcement agencies to provide, upon request without charge, a copy of all incident reports to the victim or victims representative of a defined crime such as Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, stalking, human trafficking, and elder abuse. The incident report needs to be made available within five working days, and this report, this First Quarter report gives a summary of january, february, march 2020 where the San Francisco Police Department received a total of 10,397 requests for Police Reports. However, of those 10,000, 128 of those reports were classified under the 6228 provision. Of those 128, the vast majority of those reports were requested in person, and 95 versus 25 by email, and eight by u. S. Mail. Of the 128 reports requested under 6228, all the reports were fulfilled within five days of the request, and the last majority, 93, were for Domestic Violence, and 28 were for Sexual Assault, six for stalking, and one for elder abuse. Going to the back page, there were no delays. Of the 128, 112 were made by victims, and the average time out or processing of a Police Report was 1. 2 days, so most of these reports were provided or made available the same day. Of those reports, 115 report requests wereadnglish, 12 in spanish, and one in chinese. In light of covid and the Department Closing its front counter at the Public Safety building on third street on march 20, signage was also placed on the facility to direct people or the community to go to the southern station, which remained open, and we were able to continue to provide the service through southern station. In addition to that, we placed the instructions and notice of how to collect access and that Police Report. That banner was made available on the face page of the sfpd website. In addition to the ongoing practice of providing service to the community through a district station to request those Police Reports, the department is in its final stages of formalizing and distributing the how to request a Police Report protocol to call members assigned to all members assigned to district stations. All reports include those requests under 6228, and thats it. Vice president taylor thank you. I dont see any questions from the commissioners. Im particularly happy about this report because as many of you know, i, along with commissioner hamasaki, were part of the effort to make sure that Domestic Violence victims, elder Abuse Victims get fast access to the Police Reports they need so they can get restraining orders against their abusers, so this is this is good progress. Oh, commissioner dejesus . Commissioner dejesus oh, i couldnt see if i sent it or not. Im actually pleased with all this, too, considering all the years that we werent complying. The issue that there was a contentious issue, and i couldnt remember if they had to go in person or what, but did any of those come up in this threemonth period or was this a straight inperson or email request . I cant remember what the issue was, showing i. D. Or proving who they were. Did any of these issues show up in this threemonth period . There was no issues providing the report whether by phone, by mail, or by email. The public is able to verify their identity at any facility in San Francisco or statewide or at the nation. As long as theyre able to provide their i. D. , we make arrangements to provide the report to them via email or in person. However they chose to receive the report, we accommodate them. Commissioner dejesus okay. You said the banner you put up the station was closed, but the banner you put up told them how to get the Police Report . Yes. The banner that we put up, it tells them how to get the report. Its right up on the face page of our website. Commissioner dejesus wow. After everything we went through, its good to see that its working. Thank you. Thank you. Vice president taylor thank you. Please call the next line item. I think youre on mute, sergeant. Clerk so the next one under the agenda is going to be the presentation of the racial and identity profiling Advisory Board 2019 annual and the Fourth Quarter 2019 and First Quarter 2020 reports in compliance with administrative code chapter 96a. Good evening. Ill be providing a report, while providing descriptive events, incidents, arrests, and so on. This represents our 96a report. Finally, through that half of the presentation, ill provide you with changes that weve made to impact disparities on communities of color while ongoing efforts we are making to continue to improve in this effort. First, let me say that we have not solved the problem of disparity in policing. However, sfpd is making progress, and i hope to outline this progress and point to some data showing that progress. And finally, i also want to say that reform is an ongoing process and not something that will ever end. If we end reforms, we finish reforms, we will become stale. The whole point is even when we get to that 272nd recommendation, we always must have ongoing efforts to change, ongoing efforts to meet those an and so therefore, reforms never really end, so i wt to make sure as were going through processes of changing, we have to make sure were continuously improving the department and our policies and our processes. Okay. So i do have a presentation. Let me just make sure okay. I want to provide you an overview of some of the things that have come into my sphere recently including obama made a series of recommendations today in his task force in which he outlined some of the high level things that Police Departments can do the 19,000 Police Departments can do to implementery forms, and those things were implementing the 21st Century Police task force recommendation, changing their use of force policy, being and also being a my brothers keeper community. Those three things are all true in San Francisco. In addition, looking at the data and Science Behind disparities in policing, they outlined an evolution of thinking on reforms to prevent shootings and uses of force, from Body Worn Cameras being a potential solution to using that data or that information in Body Worn Cameras to inform training, and then finally, really looking to data and policy revisions to really make a difference in uses of force. And so what they said in that podcast is Body Worn Cameras dont change behavior, and they talked to police in oakland, and that this wasnt explicit bias but implicit bias. What dr. Phillip goss said while implicit bias training has been studied, but without the data and Science Behind it, can we point to implicit bias training as the solution . Rather than, the biggest thing you can do to change the hearts and minds of officers is changing policies and reducing the use of force in all instances which then reduces uses of force for African Americans. And then finally, he also says that you identify and change those policies that maybe inadvertently encourage them. So as a bit of background, youll notice that in the most recent 96a report, there was information from academics that have studied bias in policing, and the report provided an academically based structure around nine approaches that can be taken to address the issue. They include training, they include policies that change sorry. Collecting data, improving technology, racial providing, diversefying police force, and rotating police assignments. So some of these things, many of these things we are doing is are in place in San Francisco. So i just want today give you a little of academic background and then ill just dive right into the data. Im sorry. This part of the information is not in the presentation, but i did want to kind of cover it high level. It is in the report that we issued to the commission a few weeks ago. Its a quarter 2 quarter 1 2020 96a report that we issued to the commission and the board of supervisors, as well. So all of that information is in there, and we also kind of talk about how San Francisco is doing on many of those things. So with that, what i will cover today is the racial and identity profile act, some background on what they looked at, best practices, comparisons, data collected, and findings foralornia compared to San Francisco. And then, ill walkthrough the 96a report and provide you a San Francisco, the quarter 4 summary, and the quarter 1 summary, and some data as well as some arrests that are contained in the 96a report. The report in 2020, as the 2019 report, actually covered data for the last six months of 2018, so july 2019. So the report includes the report found best practices in San Francisco which includes the report from the department of justice on the stop data. Youll see on the subsequent slides how how San Francisco really was a best practice in their reports. The ripa, the first wave agencies were eight agencies in california, including c. H. P. , l. A. County sheriff, lapd, riverside, sfpd, San Diego County police, and the San Bernardino county sheriff. And so in the ripa Data Collection and submission process, you you will see that im sorry. Im running two computers here. So youll see that the officer will enters the data, which is every stop that an officer takes, they collect a series of a number of data points that they have to enter that information in an online data, and then, that information is collected by the california d. O. J. Sfpd every year downloads the entirety of that data. The Business Team here in the professional Standard Unit downloads that data set and scrubs it for potentially identifying information and reuploads that data. And then, once that data is back with cal d. O. J. , the department or academics or california d. O. J. Can analyze and report on that data. Next slide, please. Okay. So ripa has the excuse me. The ripa report found that sfpd has the lowest amount of profiling complaints. The bias complaints in the 2018 report, again, the latter half of 2018, were 21 bias complaints as or profiling complaints as opposed to and that represented 3 of the total complaints reported, and that was the lowest number of bias related complaints. Ripa found the San Francisco complaint process was a best practice and met all four of the criteria or four of the criteria that they looked at, and sfpd was one of the three Law Enforcement agencies that met all of those complaint form requirements. And then, as we move into looking at our bias policy, sfpd met the most criteria over any other agency with respect to its bias policy. And the one item that was missing was a component on racial and identity profiling training. However, i believe with the new i believe that the training that we we actually do this. We just dont we dont have we didnt have it specified in the policy. The other items that the ripa report recommended was the other agency follow the policy Development Model that sfpd undertook around the update to d. G. O. 5. 17. And then finally, the ripa report specifically called out the sfpd as the first agency that will have a bias proxy policy in the state. Okay. And so we are now at slide 9, and so hopefully, were following along now. The Data Elements that are included in the so remember when i mentioned that our officers have to collect a lot of data . These are the elements that they had to collect, so its information about the stop, whether there was contraband seized or what the result of the stop was, and also information regarding the officers perception of the person that they stopped, and then, finally, information about the officer themselves. So to give you a sense of what data is what the data looks like, from those first eight agencies, as you can see, c. H. P. Skew c. H. P. And lapd skew the data considerably because they represent about 1. 4 million stops of a total of 1. 8 million. And then, when we move to comparing sfpd data to california, youll see that our stops are fairly comparable until you get to the hispanic and latino populations, the African American population, and the asian population. Okay. And then sorry. So vehicle stops are consistent with driver demographics, so one of the things that the ripa report did is often, our often, population data is not consistent with who you might stop on a regular basis, so they did make an assumption that maybe maybe stop data could be compared to driver information, who drives in a city . So maybe you can get at that, and one of the things that they came up with was looking at the notatfault data. So the collision data that they collect. So essentially so theyre moving with the idea that somebody whos not at fault of a Traffic Accident, thats very random. The person whos driving who is at fault may not be as random because they might have some consistent skewing of their data in some way that might result in skewing the data, as well. Commissioner elias wait. Can you repeat that . I dont understand that. So ripa was looking at a way to provide stop data to the general population. So when youre talking about the stop data, they looked at vehicle stops and said okay, who is the driving population . So they look Traffic Accident data and looked at someone who was not at fault because someone who is not at fault in a Traffic Accident is pretty random. Youre driving along, and all of a sudden, somebody hits you, and its random. You want to randomize the drivers because that is a more close representation of the population at large who might be stopped in a vehicle stop. And so what this data shows is it compares San Francisco police or San Francisco vehicle stops with notatfault drivers in collision data. Commissioner elias thats page 11 . Thats page 12. Commissioner elias okay. Because okay. Im on the right place. And so what does that mean . What do we take from this . So instead of so when we have talked about comparing to the population in San Francisco, when we talk about African Americans representing 4 or 6 of the population in San Francisco, and you see that they are 13 of the drivers, so it just means that if youre looking at vehicle stops alone, and potential drivers in the community, that our stops are still disproportionate to a agree of who was actually driving. Commissioner elias okay. Sorry to interrupt. Go ahead. No. The whole point of this is really trying to get at the trouble academically and from a Research Perspective of who are you comparing the population to . How do you compare who youre policing with whats the population youre comparing to . Okay. So im going to move onto the next slide. So the next slide shows that sfpd searches and finds contraband more often than the rest of the california agencies that were recorded, and so as you can see, theres a total search rate, so we search more often. We also yield more often, and we have fewer high discretion searches, also known as consent searches, but we yield more in those consent searches. And then finally, when we also conduct a much larger proportion of lower discretion searches, and those are searches that involve a search warrant or theyre an incident to an arrest or theyre the vehicle inventory after an arrest. And even those result in a higher discretion or higher yield rate than the than the rest of california. So this is the frequency with which San Francisco finds contraband, the frequency with which we actually conduct searches compared to the other seven agencies that were collecting data at this time. Okay. Okay. I can pause here and take questions about the ripa report if youd like, or i can dive right into the 96a portion. Vice president taylor i think it might make sense i mean, i have questions, but i think it would make sense just to wait until the end. I realize that other commissioners might have questions, but i think we should plow right through it. Okay. Id like to talk now about some of the things that sfpd is doing to change training and policies. So on the policy side, as you know, we are in the meet and confer stage in the policy prohibiting bias policing, and this is really a state and National Lead with respect to bias by proxy. In addition, the investigative detention policy, that is another topic that you all are working on, that having the documentation piece in that investigative dissension would be helpful in continuing analysis and continuing to support documentation and motivation and those sorts of things. And then, 11 of 7, as you know, prohibiting harassment and discrimination was a really key policy in getting it finalized. And then, on the training side, as you know, many trainings that we have implemented include equal Employment Opportunity and harassment training, implicit bias training, which is implemented in the Leadership Academy and institute, bias, all of those things are addressed in the department right now. Okay. So now, were going to dive into data, as if this hasnt been nerdy enough. Lets just go ahead and jump to slide 17. As you know, these data include quarter 1 of 2020, and i just want you all to be aware that as we move through the quarter 1 and quarter 2 data in the future, that these will be outlier quarters because of covid19 and now because of the protests that we are in the midst of, that those two things will create an anomaly in the data, i suspect, and well see some of that tonight, but we wont know the bigger reach to which is an anomaly until its over. So with that, though, the quarter 4 data is actually pretty similar to our quarter 1 data, which is on the following slide. And just a reminder that about 1 of our total uses of force sorry. About 1 of our calls for Service Result in a use of force okay. Im going to jump to slide 19. As you can see, in the stops column of the table at the bottom, youll see that African Americans in the last year, that that has decreased by 4 four percentage points, from 27 to 23 , and while this is a marginal decrease, it is the largest decrease among the various demographics here. And then, the same thing goes when you compare quarter 1 2020 to quarter 1 2019, and then, the same the same trend applies to searches, as well. Okay. And then, im going to go onto slide 20. So what this really shows is a continued reduction of total searches, and so this really it shows a 37 reduction of total searches, and the same table is shown here below, but its youre able to see quarter over quarter for each of the demographics what the percentages are in the chart there. We can move onto slide 21. So in and so searches again, searches are down for all groups, but the required searches in 2019, in quarter 4 2019, using the same data for the ripa report, accounted for 8 of all searches im sorry. That is actually consent searches accounted for 8 of all searches while the sort of required searches accounted for 46 of all searches. And so all searches are down, as you can see in the required trends there. Okay. Im going to move onto slide 22, and so you can see high discretion searches, so these are consent searches, are down 32 in total, and as you can see for African Americans, it is, in quarter 1, lower than it is for whites. Okay. Im going to move onto slide 23 because thisll take a moment to explain. In 2017, the usdoj found that not only were African Americans stopped, searched, force used against them at a higher rate, but the searches yielded less contraband than any other population. So the litmus test is swipe, and thats no longer true. The 2016 finding by the usdoj is no longer true, and what were seeing that with consent searches and with required searches, that the rate is either comparable or higher on yield rates for African Americans than it is for whites. So if you can see, in quarter 4, for African Americans, 42 of the time for a mandatory search, there is contraband yielded, and then, for whites, its 39 . And then, the 31 for African Americans for consent searches versus 32 for whites. And we went back and looked at the data or rates that were in the 2016 usdoj report, and those yield rates were much, much lower. Now i dont i cant attest to their methodology specifically and what they used, but their yield rates were below were in the 15 range for all demographic groups, with African Americans being about 12 , and so this is a very different, very different look. And again, i still think the quarter 1 data is very odd, so im more the quarter 4 data is more consistent with what weve seen. So this is one of the areas that we feel that sfpd is making progress. So im going to move onto slide 24. And one of the things, well move onto use of force. Some of the significant changes to policy and training that has reduced force in the last three years include 5. 01 use of force policy revision in 2016, which was prior to the california legislation, the training that we put in place with respect to training, and then, the improvements that we made and continue to make is the forced field response unit, which involves officer involved shootings which we continue to make improvements in training. Onto slide 25. So use of force continues its downward trend, and we are seeing about a sorry continued reduction to the tune of about 50 . 48 , i believe, over the total collection duration, but in the last quarter, virtually no reductions in the last quarter of 2018 or 2019 with respect to these quarters. However, i would like to point out the reduction in [inaudible] on African Americans in quarter 1 2019 versus quarter 1 of 2020. And then im going to move onto slide 26 that shows the total uses of force compared to holding a firearm. Its down 26 since 2016, and pointing a firearm down 60 since 2016. On slide 27, we are taking a look at the officer involved shootings, and there were no deaths in the First Quarter of 2020. And slide 28, these are just the arrest data, again, the reduction in the arrests of African Americans has come down. So slide 29, and just talk more about our next steps. So our next steps are to continue the Trend Analysis and interpretation of data and trends and really bringing in that academic approach and outlining how we are implementing our changes in the department in the academic rubrick, and really sort of bringing a strategic approach to those changes through an academic lens, and were working to determine what sort of measures and trend analyses and with the metrics, well provide the best indicators for the department. So with that, i will take your questions. Vice president taylor thank you. So i will say one thing, and then, i will turn it over to commissioner elias, who has a number of questions. Thank you for including the data that includes that black people were searched more than any other racial group for contraband, and less contraband was found on them than any other group. That just who are identified and made me so any, and so it is horrified and made me so angry, and it made me so happy to see thats lessened. This report has a number of good positive signs. A lot of the metrics are down here, which makes me very happy reading this report. I do have questions regarding this report, and this is my main question. Even though stops are certainly down, it still seems like African Americans are still searched at a higher percentage than other groups, and so i dont know if theres a reason or justification for that, but Everything Else is largely down, so i want to give you kudos for that, meaning the department, but i dont unpack that data for me. Yeah, commissioner, again, this is, you know, the good news and bad news about data. The good news is we definitely are encouraged, and we get to share trends and learn more from the data. As i said at the very beginning of the presentation, we have not solved the problem. Theres some encouraging data, for sure, but these are some of these indicators that show that we just havent solved the problem yet. And so no, you know, kind of the why piece is a really difficult question because what were talking about is the summation of the hearts and minds and or motivations and or very individual incidents over this big data fest, and so we cant come to some conclusion of why without, you know, very large russianlike models with data that we dont have even right now. So, for instance, additional study might be required on infrastructure and investment within a particular community. For instance, if we stop African Americans in their community or we have a Traffic Enforcement operation at a particular intersection, and we identify intersections in the city that are most dangerous, those intersections may well be underinvested, meaning, d. P. W. Or the city has decided not to invest in that particular intersection, and so therefore, its unsafe. And if there is a tradition of underinvestment in that particular community, then, we might be targeting that particular intersection in a community that is already a community of color. So you can see very quickly how these things can kind of build upon themselves, and that might be one explanation, but there might also be another explanation of we dont have access to jobs or we dont have access to food, or we dont have access to education or we dont dont you know, the social safety net is a big part of this of increasing the likelihood that any individual might come in contact with the community. So this is this is this is sort of a theory that dr. Phillip goss talked about in his talks, and hes one of the people at the centers for Police Equity that weve been working with. He talked about the kinds of social impacts that might drive certain demographics to appear in Police Contact more often, in addition to policies and hearts and minds and all of the things that we worry about, and in the Police Department, were really trying to address those hearts and minds things, through policy changes and reducing the discretion that officers might have but really still making sure that they have the training in place to enhance their discretion. Vice president taylor i think i want to let everyone know i think the chief and everyone knows that there is a process thats happening and has been happening today, and i understood was largely beautiful and peaceful, but circumstances may have changed, and the chief needs to leave. And so if youre still on, chief, we get it. Thats fine. Go and do your your job. Commissioner, i am, and im going to i have assistant chief mosier with me, so this portion will be over. It looks like a couple of commissioners have questions, but i will excuse myself after whatever questions commission have for me. Vice president taylor okay. Great. If youre able to stay and answer some questions, that would be fantastic. I do want to commend you for some things. Sfpd has the lowest number of bias complaints in california. Sfpd meets the criteria for fighting bias. But maybe at some point, you could comment why African Americans are still being searched more, even though the stops are down and the data is down. Those were my questions, but commissioner elias, go for it. Commissioner elias thank you, Vice President taylor. When commissioner hirsch was on the commission, this was one of the requests that i had made to him, to have you do a report on the 96a report so we can understand, and the ripa report because its very important. While i thank you for this presentation, im a little concerned that we were asked to provide the Police Department several questions about the 96a report and what we would like the Police Department to cover, and commissioner hirsch and i responded with about 20 questions that arent necessarily addressed in the presentation. But then, id like to start with the presentation, and im going to talk to you well, i have questions about the 96a report, and im going to ask if we can start on page 6 of the presentation, which says that sfpd has the lowest rate of profiling complaints. Now, the data is very confusing and seems like it seems like it needs to be sort of labelled better because it seems a little misleading. For example, were comparing ourselves to seven other agencies with respect to how providing complaints are received, but how does sfpd define profiling complaints . Because i cant imagine the way that we define profiling complaints is the same as the los angeles Police Department or the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department or the california highway patrol. So its hard for me to sit here and say oh, these numbers look good on this chart when im sitting here and cant see what we consider a profiling complaint. So thats my first question. Number two is how do we go from 678 complaints down to 21 . What happened . How did we go like, how did we get from 678 to 21 . Are they all i mean, does that is that to me, that means so, you know, only 21 complaints are really valid, and the rest of the 650 are not . Commissioner, to your second question, the 678 represents the total number of complaints, and the 21 represents the profiling complaints. So that 3 is the percentage of the total. So 3 of the 678 were profiling complaints. Commissioner elias okay and out of the 3 , that 21, what were the outcomes of that . Because if were looking at that, we have more profiling complaints than San Diego County . Because if they you know, if or i mean i guess, my question oh, im sorry. Go ahead. Commissioner elias im sorry. I misstated that. My concern is were being compared to county that are geographically completely different from us. We are a sevenbyseven. San diego, San Bernardino, and riverside, they are huge. Theyre miles and miles bigger than San Francisco. Additionally, their demographic is way bigger than ours, so i dont know why were being compared to those counties. So what ripa does is they took the i think it was seven or eight largest agencies in the state, and that was the first group of reporters in the ripa report. When you compare us and the San Diego County sheriffs, the difference between a Police Department and a Sheriffs Department, a lot of differences with a Sheriffs Department is typically custody. So depending on how many incorporated stations they have in that county, that may make a difference. Some counties have Sheriffs Departments, like, for instance, in sacramento county, they have a large patrol jurisdiction with a lot of the unincorporated smaller cities. Other county sheriffs may not. Im not sure what the san diego sheriffs county, what their total patrol jurisdiction, but that could be a reason why they have so few complaints. It depends on what their patrol jurisdiction, so the comparison i mean, ripa decided which agencies to include, and my understanding is the first round of mandatory reporters to ripa were these large agencies across the state. And again, youre right. Everybody has different sets of rules in terms of how they report and what they report, but thats the information that the state collects to report that comparison. The report does not go into detail about outcomes. Bi commissioner elias but the report, doesnt it breakdown the report of the profiling complaints . I have the report in front of me, and ill look at it while i talk let me go to that section. Commissioner elias and the other question i have is on page 7, where it talks about San Francisco complaint process, a best practice, okay . And again, i think this chart is a little misleading because it says that San Francisco has a check mark all on all four categories, whichbut i think te need to be clear because in order to submit a complaint online, when you go to the San Francisco Police Department online website to report a complaint, its you cant report it to the sfpd. It directs you to d. P. A. So d. P. A. Is the one that has the ability to have an online complaint it has the ability to have a complaint submitted online. Additionally, the multiple methods of submission, thats also not entirely correct because again, when you go onto the sfpd website, the only way you can make a complaint against the officer is either you go into these stations, and you speak with a supervisor at that district station. So im the multiple methods of submission i dont think is completely accurate, and i also dont think that the available multiple languages, agai agn the website, when you file or type in a complaint against an sfpd officer, the only way it happens is it diverts you to d. P. A. , which is the department of accountability, or you have to go into a station. So its a little misleading for San Francisco to have all four boxes ticked when were not complying. Well, its the california d. O. J. S evaluation of us. Weve just reporting how they evaluated us. Thats not a selfevaluation, and i do agree, there are areas that we can get even better in terms of our reporting, but what this report represents to the commission is how we were evaluated by the state on those issues. Definitely, we can get better, and there are things that we can implement and get better. I dont know how they scored us, but this is how they scored. Commissioner elias chief, i know you have to respond to emergencies, and i know you want to answer questions for us, but i just dont want to keep you from doing your job. Ill try to steam line these, chief stream line these, chief, so we can get through these. Yeah. I can answer a few of these and then, i have to go. Commissioner elias and we can reagendize this. This report says were doing a good job, and i disagree with it. Vice president taylor commissioner elias, we can continue this to next week. I mean, i have additional questions, too, and i dont want to cut short this process. This is an important item. Weve all been waiting for this report, and i dont want to rush through it and get the clarity that we all need. Commissioner elias look, i think we do especially when were seeing numbers that are saying that theres a 37 of toting reductions since 2019. What theyre saying is quarter 1, and three months out of 2019, were been sheltering in place. Vice president taylor this is 2018. Commissioner elias but even then, theres an increase. So again, i think that i appreciate the presentation. We need to unpack it. The data isnt i dont think it compares correctly the 96a report. Quarter 4 is 100 and something pages, and quarter 1 is 100 and something pages. So while i appreciate you trying to simplify it for us, we have questions because the numbers, they arent going down. Yeah, so commissioner, id be happy to talk in detail at the next meeting about all the questions that you have about the numbers. Vice president taylor lets do that, chief. But in the meantime, if you could have deputy chief moser or whoever you have plan to answer your questions, available to do that. Okay. Thank you. Vice president taylor thank you, chief. Chief moser will be sitting in the seat. Commissioner elias Vice President taylor i think we should table this until next week. Commissioner elias i appreciate that because theyve already if you could let the office know to repost the 96a reports, and they were in last weeks posting in that huge dump, so i think it would be good because we can let people know exactly the reports that were digging into. Vice president taylor o y okay. Lets do that. I think before we move to the next item, we need to move to the next line item. Clerk no Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Thank you. Commissioner hamasaki Vice President taylor, director henderson has had his thing up for quite a while. Vice president taylor yes. Thank you for the opportunity to speak, and youre muted. Yes. Part of it is my own ignorance. Ive been raising my hand all meeting and then i realized im on a completely different microso Microsoft Team string so part of that was my fault. Any way, what i was going to say and again, i dont want to go into the weeds on the 96a report, but we have all the experts and staticistician that can go through this. The data is coming from the ripa report. The difficulty is in looking at their data, when we record other jurisdictions, its how ripa represents the jurisdictions. So the problem that youre saying, as commissioner elias was pointing out, they dont take the number of offices by agency, and thats why you take skewed data. If you correlate in for that and translate the same data per 100 officers, then, youre comparing apples to apples, and were not even doing that. Thats why we have all these skewed questions. But you cant even raise the question if were not comparing pure data. What id like to offer is to sit down with commissioner elias with my audit team to go over what the standards are so we can change this and chair the same things rather than saying okay, its what ripas reporting. It is what ripa is reporting, but there are algorithms that are best practices that we can use that we dont makeup before we can get to the difficulty of analyzing what the y is. I think we can do that because i think that will help. And rather than have the department defend what ripa is presenting, lets start coming up with some of these solutions so we dont have a third party translator analy translate or analyze the data that we have now. I mean, im happy to have staff work on that. Vice president taylor can i ask that its really difficult for me to following the chat, and theres conversations happen the chat. If you want to get in the chat, you can put your name in there. If youre putting in a full sentence and i have to figure out whats just chatter and who wants to talk, so im just going to ask you to follow either put your name and nothing else or put your p penguin or teddy bear emoji of choice. So can we check for Public Comment now . Clerk we go onto 3b, and then, we have Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Lets go onto the next item. Clerk item 3b, d. P. A. Directors report. Report on recent d. P. A. Activities and announcements. D. P. A. S report will be limited to a brief description of d. P. A. Activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any issues raised for future Commission Meeting. Okay. Let me just raise some important stuff because we have some other important things to talk about. For the number of cases that we have opened, we are at 322. At this point last year, we were at 299. Thats still much more, but its even more significant because were getting still a high volume of cases that hasnt dipped off considerably even with the quarantine. So in terms of cases closed, this year, weve already closed 423 cases. This time last year, weve closed 260, so my investigators are continuing to do their work while they are working from home, telecommuting in part. In terms of cases pending, we are at 337, and at this time last year, we were at 329. We are at 18 cases that have did not sustained that have been sustained so far last year. Of the cases that are past the 270day mark but still within 3304 deadlines, we are at 35. This time last year, we were at 25. And of those cases, 15 of them are tolled, and the other cases that we have, the majority of them are delayed because they require extensive more extensive investigations and because of the shelter in place order that has restricted some of the work that weve been doing. Of the cases mediated, were at 16 so far this year. We were at the same number last year, 16, as well. I want to talk about some of the cases that have been coming in because we have had a number of cases that have come into the department, including the case that we spoke about earlier that was in social media and its on the Police Departments page. Im excited that we are talking now about beyond just the open case that existed with d. P. A. , and i wanted to touch on this because i had a number of calls, police in the Community Reaching out to me beyond the chief just reaching out and asking the agency to do the investigation. I know he talked about making the amendments with 4. 01. I think thats great and fabulous. I just want to make sure that d. P. A. Are able to play a role in those drafts. I think our participation can improve the process immensely, especially if were talking about the Department Bulletin, so i look forward to that. We have received a number of complaints that have come in regarding the protests, the rallies, and riots. Theyre both singular and group related. Im only talking about that specifically because i want people to know and understand that the agency, even though the doors arent open for people to come in, they can still reach us. Weve expanded our phone access so that people can call us 24 hours a day. People can still email us and send us mail complaints. I just want to say that so even though they know, they know that their cases are continuing to moving forward even though we are still sheltering in place. In terms of the mediation, weve had a steady flow of referral cases that have continued throughout the shelter in place. Ive asked the team to try and prioritize the older cases to make sure we dont run up against any of our deadlines, especially while we are here on the quarantine. One of the things that weve done in the time period that weve been in the shelter in place is work on creating an online mediation Response Form for the complainants. Ive told you what the numbers were. I want to pause for a moment just to thank commissioner cindy elias. She raised some questions at the last Police Commission whered she go . Oh, there you are at the last Police Commission that i followed up on about the lack of information, and you, of course, were correct. There was very sparse information about the program that was available online. Folks can go online now to see. Its been put up on the website that has a much more information thats on there right now, including an introduction to the and their role with the trainedon outlining the objectives for the mediation team, the types of cases that can be sent to mediation, as well as a road map outlining exactly what the mediation process is, and links to resources about mediation and the complaint process. And then at the end is an f. A. Q. About the mediation process and the website. Its just the first step, and were still working on the policies manual, but thats a much bigger lift, especially right now, but i wanted to acknowledge it because i do think that it makes a big difference in terms of the public having questions about what the program is and what the project is, and id encourage commissioner elias to look at it, and, again, thank you for raising the issue for it and pointing it out so that we can fix it during this time while people have questions. And i want the website to continue getting better. We still dont have the full rollout of the website, but as things come up, im just adding it to the pages so that people can find information that either theyre googling or going through our website to find. I think its important that people know that they have access to the process that d. P. A. Is providing for the city and for the different communities here. In terms of outreach, a lot of the information has shifted online, obviously, and weve been participating in numerous virtual communities and workshops to make sure that folks know that we are still actively engaged and connecting to a number of different communities. Those include working with the o. F. A. Thats the opportunities for all Employer Engagement workshops that have been participated all throughout the city. Thats been related to many of the internship programs. A lot of them have fallen by the wayside in the city. I think its important that as many agencies as possible continue to do that work, to invite and have young people learn about the roles of Public Service and the role especially of Public Safety, so we are committed to continuing our program, and weve been reaching out, both to the ancillary organizations that are supporting the program and to the participants in a lot of these virtual workshops. Were also working with ucsf dealing with Community Organization leaders, talking about the Community Roles to target specifically black and brown communities, addressing covid and resources for communities that are affected by the stayathome rules that we have in the city and how to reach out to city departments and city agencies to connect to services or get and or provide information. Weve also participated in and this was in may an open Virtual Forum on open virtual equity, discussing programs and plans for youth, and our interns are going to be working with that program, as well, throughout the summer. Also, outreach has continued to distribute the new know your rights brochure in seven different languages at the various stations throughout the city. From this time of the last Police Commission to today, the stations that we participated in to make sure that they have updated their brochures were central station, southern station, police headquarters, and ingleside station. We monitor where people are collecting their information so that if and where information is missing, its replaced, so that we take on that responsibility. We have the youre going to get a program a presentation from us shortly from our policy director, thats tamara. I would ask, though, that when we get to the d. G. O. S, i would ask that the deaf and hard of hearing General Department order, if we Commission President , if we could take that first. Im asking because many of the Community Participants that are here for that, i dont know how this happened but the translators are only here for that item, so for much of the rest of the meeting that is really important, i dont know that theyre getting the Accurate Information to hear the information that were all talking about, and since theyre all waiting for this item, id ask if we could go out of order when we start addressing the d. G. O. S just so they can leave their comments, give us their input, and then move onto the rest of the issues that we have to deal with. In terms of the 1421 in terms of the 1421 update, d. P. A. Continues to work on their 1421 related discovery. The shelter in place has obviously slowed down some of our document review because most of our case files are paper and in the office, so the telecommuting process is a little difficult for us. However, we do continue to work on the tiles during the shutdown, and were filed during the shutdown, and were moving towards an online portal so that the documents can be easily requested and provided digitally. Right now, were attempting to implement a system but its somewhat of a slow process with the City Contracting rules and the situation that were in with our budget. I have the names, but i dont think im allowed to talk about the names of the companies that were looking at for the portal, but were continuing to do that work to expedite it and make it as clear and transparent as possible so people can see it ongoing and not have to wait for the weekly meetings to hear and know what were doing with our 1421 work. Our paralegals are coming still june 15. Theyve been delayed because of the slow downs caused by the shelter in place order. In terms of the numbers, the actual numbers, we have the total number of allegations reviewed so far are 2,126. The total files that have been produced and turned over have been 54. The number of officerinvolved shooting files produced is four, and those pending production is about 47. In terms of onsite files that are pending the secondary review, thats 208, and for storage files pending the secondary review, that is 2,575. In terms of our mediation investigation, i have my chief of staff, sarah hawkins, here, to talk about what is going on with our ongoing investigation. Sarah, the floor is yours. Am i on . Yes. Okay. Good evening, commissioners, a. C. Moser, director henderson. Commissioner elias, you had asked about what impacts covid19 had had on our ongoing investigations. I am quite proud to say that our team did an excellent job transitioning quite quickly . You have to remember we just literally moved into our new space and the shutdown happened two weeks later, and our crew moved rapidly to ensure that our work continues. So we have been able to get online complaints and expand our access as director henderson mentioned so that we are still getting complaints regularly that shows that there hasnt been a dip in the number of complaints. We also have been able to change our interview practices so that were conducting interview process via zoom and via the phone as necessary. Weve also worked with our officers to conduct their interviews in that format. If our officers require a conference room, we have set up up with social distancing, and weve tested all of that with everybody wearing masks, so that component took a little bit of time to develop, but i am proud to say that we are able to complete our investigations. When director henderson did speak about our statistics, he did say some of our cases have had a little bit of a delay beyond that 270day shutdown. We are doing very well about being able to complete things within the 3304 deadlines. As you know, Governor Newsom did issue an executive order that extended that 3304 deadline for 60 days initially, and then recently, we extended that for another 30 days . Our priority is not to use that extra extension and to still be within the 3304 deadline . There might be circumstances out of our control which will require us to rely on that extension, but i think theyll be very few and far between . And so our work is continuing. We are, while not able to take inperson complaints, we are open for business. The investigations are getting done, and we really pivoted in a way that i think im very proud of for a small city agency that has really struggled with technology in the past. Vice president taylor thank you. Now commissioner hamasaki, i think thats a mistake, your emoji. Did you want to speak or not . Commissioner hamasaki no, no, no. That was in when you were discussing how people should signal, i wanted to demonstrate Vice President taylor excuse me. Commissioner hamasaki no, no. I wanted to i think its i think its an easy way for you to see, so thats why im confusing it like that. Vice president taylor i do appreciate that, and commissioner elias and trying to test my vision with her new emoji, so ill call on her. Commissioner elias no, im sarah clarified it for me, so Vice President taylor okay. Okay. Are you done, sarah . I am. Okay. Also in the audience is one of our investigators, brent. Oh, there he is. Last week, when we had a question from the audience, i was trying to get to someone who had called in for Public Comment, and i have one of our senior investigators. He will be here and available. Its hard to loop him in to respond to the questions, but i want to announce and articulate what the phone number is to d. P. A. If anyone has a complaint or a question. The phone number is 4152417711, and we have an investigator here thats available. If people cant get to a phone and would like toend information through the internet, the website is sfgov. Org dpa , and then, you can just click on complaints to get in contact with us and to send this information. And again, both the number is live and the website is live 24 hours a day. I will ask, when we are done, i would like to schedule a presentation from the interns when they come do we mention that now or mention that at the end, the things just to follow up . Vice president taylor yeah, thats coming. Okay. Well, ive said it now. Ill be asking that, and to reiterate, my other asks are, one, to participate in the 501 amendment, in the early stage of that process, to coordinate with the 96a process before its put back on the calendar, and to move up the deaf and hard of hearing d. G. O. To address the concerns of the vulnerable communities that are here with us tonight, waiting to be heard. Vice president taylor why dont you work that out with commissioner elias. I was planning to continue that to next week, but that may or may not make sense based on what you discuss. Love it. Love it. Im happy to counter. Clerk commissioner . Vice president taylor yes. Clerk i have to make an announcement. We lost the audio bridge for Public Comment, so if anyone was waiting to make Public Comment, youll have to call back in. Youll have to call 8882733658, the access code 3107452, press pound, and then pound again, and to request to speak, press one, and then zero. Vice president taylor okay. Well, thats unfortunate, but we sometimes experience difficulties. Okay. Can you call the next line item until they call back in . Clerk were going to go to line item 3c, commission reports. Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be estimated to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission hearing. Commission president s report and commissioners report. Okay. No comments . Commission commissioner dejesus no, i cant find my Vice President taylor okay. Did you have a report . No, i cant find my [inaudible] Vice President taylor okay. Commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki i just want to briefly follow up on where we are this week and where things are at with us as a commission. I really you know, i do appreciate commissioner taking the time to put together a statement the statement she read at the beginning of the meeting. I think the events of the last week have made me feel like i have failed, like we have failed as a commission. Even though it wasnt in our jurisdiction, you know, i think that we all need to do to i wont tell you what ive been doing, because thats not my role to tell you what we need to do, but some real soul searching what we do as a commission and how we do it because for far too long, this commission has been seen azrieas a body of injustice to Police Reform. Its not my intention to call anybody out tonight any more than calling myself out tonight. [inaudible] commissioner hamasaki ive held myself back because i wanted to keep the commission functioning in a way when ive made compromises that i think havent benefited the city,