Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240711

Also we have chief William Scott from the San Francisco department. Thank you. And as always, for the pan elists that will be speaking in the web exmute yourself and put your name in the chat if you would like to be heard. Members of the public please make sure there is no background noise playing as it will interrupt our ability to hear what you have to say. Detective youngblood call the first items. Adoption of minutes action for the momenting of november 4th, 2020. Do i have a motion . So moved. So moved. Is there a second . Second. All right on the motion to accept the minutes on the last meeting on november 4th, commissioner before i do that we have to take Public Comment. Remember that the public who would like to make Public Comment online item one you can dial 415 6550001. Enter access code 146 9128348 press pound and pound again and star 3 to raise your hand. For members already logged press 3 now if you would like to make Public Comment. We have one Public Comment. Okay. Good evening caller you have two minutes. Okay. So i called in at your last meeting two weeks ago and basically to bring to your Attention Police matter that boils down to a cover up. Among other issues. And. Sorry caller this is for the adoption of the minutes only. Can i would ask you to call back during general Public Comment. Im talking about the minutes. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Would you please start the clock again . Are you starting the clock again . Yes. You have two minutes. Okay so last meeting i called in and my comments are not in the minutes. So the irony here is that i was calling reporting a coverup, and now we seem to have a cover up of the coverup. I mean, would you, would any of you be surprised that somebody comes to that conclusion . I mean its actually three levels of coverup. If you recall, im the disabled senior who was yanked out of a safe way store by my feet, on my back, by multiple officers for wearing a small backpack. Ridiculous situation. That use of force was completely omitted from the police report. So thats cover up one. Two, all this was reported to the dpa who completely omitted it from their conclusions. So that was cover up number two. And now my comments in the last meeting apparently vanished. So again, and id like to hear from some of you instead of just getting crickets. Does it concern any of you . That theres three levels of coverup on this matter . Thank you caller. I believe that if you look at page 11 of the minutes for adoption it references your call last week. Well i will let you know later if it does. I just read it i didnt see it. Go ahead i will call back later. Thank you. Are there anymore callers . There are no more callers. Okay. All right on the motion to accept the minutes from novembe. [ roll call ] you have five yeses. Thank you next line item. Next line item. Line item 2 reports to the commission, discussion, weekly crime trends. Provide a overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Major significant enge dents provide a summary of planned activities and events this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. Update on feet beat development, deployment, with the focus on the bayview presentation of the sp1421 Monthly Update and presentation of the initiatives cri updates. Presentation with the critical mindset coordinated response cmcr training. Good evening. Good evening Vice President taylor. Commissioners. Director henderson and to the public good evening. I would like to start off my report this week with an incident that happened last night. Which was an officer involved shooting on marcus street between 4th and 5th. I want to start by saying first of all, as we always do in the San Francisco Police Department, our goal is to preserve life and the sanctity of life is really important. This particular incident the person that was actually shot is still alive and is undergoing treatment at a local hospital. So happy to report that news. Just a basis on the incident, and we put this out in a press release, yesterday, november 17th, at approximately 5 09 p. M. , San Francisco Police Department officers responded to 5th and marcus street regarding male subject in a fight. One of the subjects reportedly was armed with a knife. Four officers arrived on the scene located a man brandishing a knife. During this contact a officer involved shooting occurred on the 800 block of marcus street. San Francisco Police department deployed less lethal weapons and San Francisco Sheriff Department deployed a taser. The subject is a 26yearold male. He remains hospitalized and injuries are lifethreatening. His identifying information will be released once he is at county jail. If and when he is moved to county jail. We are aware of the video that was shared today on social media. And we have forwarded this information to our investigators. And just want to remind everyone when viewing this video we want the public to understand that as that video, officers used less lethal options including the 12gauge and 40millimeter extended range impact weapon, also known as eriws. Which when deployed, are like gunfire. The incident is being investigated by the San Francisco District Attorneys office, independent investigation bureau, the department of Police Accountability, the San Francisco Police Department Investigative Services division and the San Francisco Police Department internal affairs division. Anyone with information is asked to call sfpd at the tip line 800 sorry. Or text a tip to tip411. And begin your text message with sfpd. You may remain anonymous. And lastly i will say as a part of our commitment towards accountability and transparency with members of our community, a virtual town hall has been scheduled for tuesday november 24, 2020. We do anticipate releasing more body camera footage during the detail and Additional Details will be forth coming. Next i will move onto our trends for the week. Violent crime is down overall at 22 . Our total Violent Crimes are year to date year to date is down 22 . For the week its down 4 . Total property crime is down 26 for the week and 25 year to date. Starting with part one cries which include burglary, Motor Vehicle death, larceny. Were down 25 . We continue to see the trend in burglaries. Wee had a significant increase in burglaries this year compared to this time last year. There is a 45 increase in burglaries mainly garage burglaries with tools and bicycles and the like that have been taken. But still alarming and concerning nonetheless. Of note we had an investigation into at least two recent residential garage burglaries which bicycles and other items stored in the garages were taken. It ended up with a subject being identified on november 10th the subject was arrested and at the time he was in possession of one of the stolen bicycles. Our Investigations Bureau continues to work on every lead and all reported cases to curtail the activity of crews that are connected to past events and more importantly to prevent future burglaries. We like to remind all of Community Members of San Francisco, please lock your garages, secure belongings if you have a bicycle in your garage, its a good idea to lock it as well. I know that sounds like a bit much, but it definitely helps and if you have a bicycle, please register it on the sf safe website which you can do and what that does it helps us identify property when we recover it and get it back to the property back to its rightful owners. Next i will go to Violent Crime. There is a report there were no incidents the past week with you we are still at a 30 increase. Homicides were at 43 this year compared to 33 last year at this time. Homicide clearance rate is 67 year to date and for the month of november, we have had one homicide. 23 of the 43 cases year to date have been cleared. 41 by arrests, two by exceptional clearance. And also, weve had prior year homicides that we have cleared this year. So as i stated were at 57 on site clearance rate for the year. Hopefully we will be able to bring more cases to resolution in the remaining six weeks of the year. Looking at our homicide by district, not as much as changed since our last meeting. Ingallside has the most increase significant increase. They have 8 more compared to this time last year. Looking at the other districts, mission, mission, bayview and central all have had increases year to date. Southern is same level they were this time last year. And northern and richmond have actually had decreases in homicides. In terms of our gun violence were up 23 over this time last year. There have been 17 im sorry 127 shooting incidents. With 143 victims of gun violence. 116 nonfatal and 27 fatal is the breakdown. There were two shooting incidents during this past week that resulted in injury to two victims. Districts with the large effort gun violence increases are ingall side with a 150 increase. 8 last year compared to 20 year to date this year. Tenderloin has 100 increase. 11 last year verses 22 in 2020. Mission 79 increase. Bayview has a 28 increase. 36 this year, verses 46 this year verses 36 last year. Metro has a 63 decrease in shooting incidents. 3 in 2020 compared to 8 in 2019. Northern has a 40 decrease. Six this year compared to ten last year. Southern had a 25 decrease in shooting incidents. 8 this year compared to ten last year. So i will pause there if the commission has any questions before i go onto the next part of my report. For the commissioner if you have a question put your name in the chat. I dont see any. I dont see names. Chief. Thank you Vice President taylor. As to other major events there were two shooting incidents that caused injuries to victims over the past week. One was 500 block of alamany in the ingall side district. Our victim was inside a residence. Heard gunshots and realized she had been shot. That one we are still looking for leads and again anybody that has any information please call the tip line at 415 5754444. The second one, 1115 at 4 17 a. M. We dont have the exact location where this shooting happened. Our victim was selftransported to the hospital. It was a gunshot wound by the time the officers arrived the victim was undergoing surgery and was unable to provide any information leading to the shooting. We do have some spot shotter activation around the town of the shooting so we are investigating whether that activation or those shots fired are connected to this incident. That information is yet to be determined and that investigation is ongoing as well. Last thing of significance with major crimes, we had a bank robbery series on 11 7. The subject walked into a bank on grant treat demanding money. The teller gave the money to the suspect and the person fled. On 11 9, november 9th, a subject matching the same description as the november 7th incident walked into a bank on kerney demanding money. The teller complied and the suspect fled from the location. On the 12th of november, officers responded to a call of a person in possible crisis. The subject was threatening to stab himself. Officers were able to defuse the situation and take the person into custody. And that was later identified as the individual responsible for the two bank robberies. So that investigation is also ongoing and if anybody has any information please call us at the tip line 5754444. Lastly with special events where a couple of stunt driving incidents planned over the weekend. Actually planned for this weekend. That has been advertised on social media and we have redoubled our efforts on watching these events that are very dangerous. Board supervisors, supervisor saffai has introduced legislation on this. We have also stepped up our efforts with regionally with other bay area Police Departments as we know, historically that these events can go from one city to the other within a matter of minutes. So the coordination has been really good and thats helped us actually cut off a couple of these events that were headed into our city because we due to communication and with other agencies we knew they were coming and ready and prepared in the area that we believe they were coming to and weve been able to actually put a lot of that activity down and prevent it from occurring so thats really pleasing to report and well continue to work on our internal processes to make sure we do what we can to stop this very dangerous activity. On that note, this past saturday on the 15th of november, there were several events that began at midnight throughout the bay area. Our night captains, weekend captains and command staff as i said because of the sharing of information between the local and regional Police Departments and the california highway patrol, our efforts were coordinated at midnight for the better part of two hours, numerous stunt event shows and stunt driving shows with more than 20 vehicles manifested throughout San Francisco. We were able to prevent some of those from materializing and others that started totalize we were able to respond quickly to curtail that activity. So, we will continue to work on that. Its something that we have brought forth to this commission in the past couple of months and definitely something for our residents of our city who are very concerned about this activity. We would like them to know that progress is being made. Okay. Next part of the presentation is the followup on the foot beat questions that were asked last week, but i will pause there in case there are any questions from the commission. I dont see anything in the chat. So go ahead. Thank you. Also a request from the Commission Just to followup on Vice President taylor i know you were involved in this conversation about improving our procedures to add some type of mechanism in terms of our promotional exams to have a mechanism to test for bias. So weve worked with the department of the City Department of human resources, dhr on this issue. And we have actually through dhr improved, we have everybody proved our Testing Process and improved our Testing Process and added a component. We put out the announcement this week for the q50 sergeant promotional exam and the application period is from november 20th through december. Those qualified to take the test must apply during this period, either they applied for the prior test which was actually halted the process was halted while we worked on improving this process per the Commission Director and for the mayor directive. As a part of this initiative, heres what dhr and the Police Department have come up with. Any applicant with a sustained allegation of misconduct for race based conduct for example, use of racial slurs, racial biased, racial behavior or treatment, or other forms of selective enforcement based on race, may be prohibited from moving forward in selection process. So they will be disqualified if they have a sustained complaint in those categories. An example of disqualifying conduct includes, but not limited to violations of department general order 5. 17, 11. 07 that involves sustained allegations of race based activity. Also, any sustained allegation of misconduct means all for fiduciary matters have been exhausted and at that person the person will be disqualified. And so i think thats actually a status update on your question Vice President taylor that is now in place, that advertisement has been posted and as i just stated, the filing period starts next week. Through december and then the test will be early in the beginning of next year. Thank you. Im going to ask you to comment on that in more of a complete way to the commissioners. I wanted to hear about you know, bias testing at the hiring stage and some of what you just talked about. I would like more kind of complete presentation on that in the coming weeks. Thank you. Thank you youre welcome. And now on the followup on the questions for the commissioner on the foot beat. Sergeant youngblood we have a power point. And we can go to the next page. As followup from the november 4th Commission Meeting when a member of the public called in and commission asked for a update on the status throughout the city with the emphasis on the bayview. This presentation is only a few slides, but there is quite a bit to talk about here. And you see on the slide here, starting with the overall staffing of patrol officers, which we refer to q2s on the slide. What is depicted here is the overall picture of the department deployment from 2012, through 2020. And the reason i want to start here for this presentation is its relevant to this topic as to what drives our decisions on staffing foot beats, how many we can staff and when we have to make a decision to reappropriate or reallocate resources to other parts of the department. A lot of it is driven on this overall staffing level of q2 staffing throughout the operation arm of the department. So what you see here, the top line graph is our staffing from 2012 to 2020 for basically operations. And the starting in 2012 where the 974 it actually peeked in 2017 and then on a steady decline since 2017. There have been a total were down about 7. 7 from the high point in 2017. How that is important, in 2017 we actually did a lot of work to up the staffing, increasing the staffing in our foot beat city wide including the bayview. Looking specifically at the bayview station, for the period that were talking about here the overall staffing at the bayview station is down 11 positions since the height in 2017. Thats a 9. 4 decrease in staffing. Specific to foot beats as you recall i spoke a little bit about in august of 2017, we made a decision to reallocate resources and increase the level of foot beat city wide across all of our districts. At that point we had 78 officers, 78 officers assigned to foot beat and september of 2017, we almost doubled that number and how we did that is we disbanded a unit called the Patrol Bureau task force and many of the officers from the Patrol Bureau task force were reassigned to district stations and thats how we were able to bolster or good beat. We went up to a total of 140 officers at that time. And we were really at our height in 2017. And foot beat deployment. You know the main purpose was to change the trajectory of crime trends. One of the things we discussed in making that decision although Patrol Bureau task force were effective in doing what they were asked to do that was they were making a lot of arrests on suspects particularly car burglary suspects and robbery suspects and the like, in terms of crime prevention, we didnt feel that those arrests were getting the type of traction we hoped for and we felt that foot beat deployment is visible presence we could get more bang for our buck to reduce crime. That was our strategy at that time. We also engaged had an engagement for the California Policy Lab to do research and study whether or not that strategy was effective and well talk about that in a second. But the bottom line is we almost doubled our foot beat deployment in 2017 and we did see significant decreases in both cash break ins, and as you will see from the talking points from the lab report, also in theft in general and there assaults. So from 2018 and 2019, we maintained between 141 and 155foot beat officers in the district station. We can go to the next slide. This depicts our foot beat staffing year by year for district station and if you go to bayview which is they call them towards that is highlighted i think its a fourth station, you can see deployment over the last four years. Thats their foot beat deployment. In 2019, they had ten officers on foot beat. 2019 also went down to nine. 2020 reduced to six for this year. Now we have had deployment other than the six at times where weve had details. But the six is a positive number. Those are the officers that are currently staffed the staff bayview foot beat. Mainly on the third street corridor. And the business district. So, a couple things to point on bayview. Bayview also has two officers that are assigned to the griffith housing development. That Community Engagement officers, they answer calls to service and specific housing development. And we have a lot of this we can talk about in terms of those particular offices. So the magic question is what adjustments . It depends on how many officers we have available to work and fill operations. We still have another arm of the department that we have to set up that is the administrative arm including the officers that we have reassigned to do the tri and perform work. And its a constant challenge to try to keep officers deployed effectively, but as we see in the past few years our overall deployment has dropped and as part of that weve had to make some adjustments with our foot beat deployment. Ideally as we hopefully maintain our staffing, that number will stablize and were looking for ways to actually increase in the bayview and other station where is we know it would be useful and helpful. Thats going to take creating efficiencies in other parts of the department where we can. Where we can cut out activities that we feel arent as how they hire is our foot beat officers so thats a confident assessment and we do that, thats really how they arrive in terms of how we deploy. Next slide. I can let you finish, but i know the commissioners have some questions before we move away from that slide. Would you rather finish or take questions about this slide . The last is just the California Policy Lab and there is just a few points then were done with this part of the presentation. I cant remember what commissioner asked about this report which was drafted by the California Policy Lab in 2018. What we asked for here is for the California Policy Lab to do and assessment of whether or not this redeployment of our officers 70 plus officers was effective in terms of crime reduction. And the bottom line to the assessment based on the statistically relevant data and statistically significant data, they felt that the deployment did lead to reductions in crime in the areas ever assault and death. So, theres a little bit of research to go beyond the strategy. We wanted to understand whether or not that was worth the choice that we made to disband the unit to improve our foot beat situation and the report basically validated that with the data that was available at that time. So that pretty much concludes the report and i definitely will be happy to answer any questions from the commission. If you can go back to the last slide commissioner cohen has a question. Thank you good evening everyone. Can you guys hear me okay . Yup. Good. Chief thank you for your report. Just as a reminder what brought this conversation full circle was there was a caller that called in and specifically asked about the patrol beat as it relates to bayview. Your report actually is very thorough and i want to talk a little about the chart. The chart compares two months basically march and september. I wanted to know if the figures from either month indicate a similar decline in foot patrol. That is a similar decline in other districts or just isolated to district ten . And you mentioned that foot patrol was very challenging. Im curious to know what reason that is the case . Yes. That is, it does, it does look at other districts as well. So, there were overall decreases in the majority of our districts with one exception. The tenderloin district in 2018 and 2019 had an increase of rather significant in foot beat in the downtown area. And that was there was a lot of effort put into un plaza area, the tenderloin district. Because of just real needs in that district. So they did have an increase in 2019. And 2018 as well. But for the most part there were declines in foot beat districts overall over this period depicted. [indiscernible] i would imagine that the individual station captains make those judgment calls. This is not something youre doing from your office is that correct in. The larger deployment like what we did with the Patrol Bureau task force and we decided to deactivate that unit, thats the decision at my level. Okay. Captains do have the ability to reallocate resources depending on what their needs are. What we have asked them in terms of foot beat. I mean there are some areas where we just have to have foot beats. And the captains in the bayview, captain dangerfield currently the captain there has been good about making sure that they have foot beat deployment along third street. It has increased, but there will always be foot beat along third street. The ideal situation is to put them back up where they were at their height when they were at ten. They do still have foot beat. The question was do captains have some discretion they do, but they are given guidance to certain areas we have to have foot beats working. So in other months similar to the bayview in other months, do they also show decline because this just kind of shows march, september. I dont know why those months were selected. What about the other months of the year . The other months, i mean, the numbers are pretty stable throughout the year. There are declines depending on yeah things happen, what we do is basically when we do our deployment we have points where we measure deployment for the budget and what not where we measure deployment and september is the month where we have our changes in our shifts. Our signups. September and march. So those are the months where thats when officers change their shift. And we have how many will be working in those assignments. And they usually stay in those assignments for six months unless there is some type of extenuating circumstances. Okay i want to pivot a little bit and move to the other portion of your presentation. Curious to know if there is a policy or strategic reason that the number of form personnel have declined by 9. 9 this is related to the report. A decline of 9. 9 in the bayview or is it decline simply a reflection of budget constraints. Its a reflection of over overall staffing. Our staffing overall has declined weve lost more officers to separation when it be retirement, resignations, accommodations a few of them. And weve had challenges with getting the numbers back because of attrition. That was a topic we brought before the board when you were president commissioner cohen. And we are still having some challenges there. So some of that is were seeing overall decline in staffing. With state of policing in america right now not only our department, many departments are having recruitment challenges and people retire or separate from service and we can get through the doors in the academy. Which pan out to us having to make adjustments throughout the department. Okay. And then i guess my last question is a little more of a philosophical one. And so maybe you can explain to me how the increase in foot patrol compliments the goal of increasing Community Policing. Thats a really good question. And so, as far as really with the officers one of their roles and one of the visible presence helps, but when you are working a foot beat. You are engaging. Youre out on foot, talking, checking with residents. Business owners. People coming in and out of whatever it is they are doing. You have this Community Engagement piece that happens just with a good feet beat officer. There have been many many studies to show with Community Policing and getting people to number one engage with Police Officers, you build relationships the better opportunities and the better chances that you have to do just that. People cooperate more to feel more comfortable going to the police and talking to the police and when you look around the city foot beat officers typically the ones that have been on those foot beats for a while. They know their communities they know the Business Owners theyre doing the jobs the way they have been asked to do which most of them do and that makes a world of difference. Sunny dale housing development, those officers know the Community Members so you get situations where you know somebody maybe has you know mental illness, you know going in you kind of know what tools to take and how to deal with that person and if not, it gives people somewhat of a better chance for a successful outcome. Okay. I appreciate the explanation and just to the members of the public that are listening and tweeting, this conversation, a lot of my conversation, a lot of my questions are focused on the bayview because of the question that was called in last week which focused on the Third Quarter. You touched on tenderloin also a critical junk tush, but tenderloin tends to have steady flow of foot patrol there and mission, ingleside, they have a different geographic makeup and community dynamic. Madam chair im done thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioner elias. Thank you. Thank you chief for the report. My question was in seeing the chart you had where it had the six foot patrol for the bayview was a little shocking to me given the sort of summaries every week that we receive regarding the crimes that occurred throughout the city and a lot of the shootings and crimes like that that are happening currently in the bayview and the bayview having one of the sort of low foot patrol. Its my understanding that the bayview station has a lot of specialized units. There at the bayview and im wondering given the positive findings from the policy lab, and the study they did with respect to the positive beneficial outcomes of the foot patrol, if thats going to be a factor in bayview at the bayview station and the possibility of increasing foot patrol there. Yes. So, let me address the specialized units commissioner. What bayview have they have a plain clothessed unit. They have investigation team. Sit. And thats and they have their housing officers. Thats pretty much it in terms of specialized units so there is not a huge amount of specialized units at the bayview. What we do tend to do is supplement the bayview with our fellow officers. If we have a crime spike. Other district station officers at times we have done that as well. We have supplemented them with overtime as as much as we can do that and afford to do that. And couple things with the deployment of shooting, around shootings. Third street we dont have a whole lot of shootings on third street. [ standby ] and we just try to have visibility to cool things off. We will put a lot of officers in patrol in the neighborhood where those shootings are happening. You have to sometimes put officers out there to cool things off to people know that youre there, and that they just cant come in in a community and do what they want. Its labor intensive. Thats why it takes so many of them to cover the same amount of ground as patrol cover in a car. Like i said, ideally, we want to have more, and we want to have more than ten in the bayview. But eventually, well have more than ten, and thats the goal. Commissioner elia. The other i had two more questions. One is what the Department Plans on doing with the passing of proposition e, and i think thats something you should probably address and let the public now on how its going to affect the department, and then, the other question i had was what the Department Plans to do to increase foot patrols to increase the goals of the community achieve the goals of the Community Policing, particularly the calls that just passed and the call for Community Engagement by the Police Department with the community. Yeah, definitely. I can definitely schedule, in my chiefs report, some discussion on prop e, and just briefly, ill say until we get to that point, really, what prop e is about, is using metrics and data to determine the need dos the staffing ns of the Police Department. And that data may determine that we need more officers, that data may determine that we needle need less officers. But the whole idea is we need some sensible data behind it. Ill talk more about that when i present my chiefs report. But i know that the department did work with supervisor yee and his staff in helping with some of the language, and so, you know, i think where we ended up with what was passed was with the department input, and we will not argue with that. That was part of what was behind the data metrics report, and president yee was behind that staffing report being commissioned. And i think his office appropriated the money to have that done because we needed a staffing report done that had a solid set of metrics that would determine what our staffing needs would be. Commissioner elias and then, the second part of the question . What was the second part of the question . Commissioner elias the goal isnt to just put more Police Officers in the Community Just to be there, but to actually have them engaged because thats how its really going to work, right . Right. Sorry, i forgot that part of the question. What we are trying to do and working really hard to do, we have to be more efficient with the resources that we have. Sometimes its tough decisions like deactivating a Police Task Force in favor of different type of endeavors, but there also has to be a balance of enforcement where its appropriate to do that, and really, its about efficiency. You know, part of what weve looked at is our staffing across the department to see where we can find efficiencies and put officers back in patrol so we can staff our foot beats. In the last couple of years, weve been unfortunate in our city, where we had Violent Crime has decreased overall, and Violent Crime is, in my opinion, a lot more labor intensive for police because you need police out there to have patrol. At its height, we had 40plus officers, all of which were taken from patrol. Now i think were down to about 20, 21, and those officers are going back to patrol. So when we make movements like that, [inaudible]. So how we plan to do this as we report im sorry. Sergeant youngblood, theres a Collaborative Reform Initiative up there. I may have gone out of order here im sorry. Vice president taylor i think you did. We have 1321 next on the agenda. Yeah, so ill come back to the c. R. I. Report and so i dont mess up Sergeant Youngbloods rhythm, ill go to my Monthly Commission update, so commander osullivan will get that report. Good evening, commissioners. I start with senate bill 1421, which was enacted january 1, 2019. So California Senate bill 1421 requires the disclosure of records and information concerning the following types of incidents. There are four. The first is officer involved shootings, records relating to the recover, investigation, or findings regarding an officers discharge of a firearm at a person. Great Bodily Injury. Reports relating to the report investigations or findings of an officers use of force that result in death or Great Bodily Injury of a person, third, Sexual Assault, records related to a sustained finding that an officer engaged in Sexual Assault of a member of the public and dishonesty. Records relating that the officer was dishonest directly relating to the reporting, investigation of a crime or directly relating to the reporting or investigation of an officer including, but not limited to, destruction, falsefying, or concealing of evidence. Since january 21, 2019, the department has received 204 Public Records request related to senate bill 1421, and for the period october 1 through october 30 of this year, the department received six additional Public Records requests. The Department Also produced 54 new releases, and as a reminder, a release is defined as a production of records and or a determination letter which indicates to the requester that the department has or has not identified records responsive to one or more disclosure records for a public officer. Three Public Record requests were closed this month, two officer involved shooting files were released, and the yeartodate, department has released now over 32,000 pages of documents related to officer involved shootings. One additional Bodily Injury case was released and two additional shooting cases were released this month, and that concludes my report. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item for us, chief. The commission will know, you know, what weve done since the last report. I think the first couple of times we did this, we didnt have the timing down, but from this point forward, were going to try to do it on the second, if the calendar allows, the second Commission Meeting on the month, and that way, we can kind of compare apples to apples from month to month so you can see the progress moving forward. So for this month, as you see on the first slide, first, im going to hit the highlights on here. Since the last report, since last months report, there have been a total of 12 recommendations that have brought or found to be by the reviewers, california d. O. J. , in substantial compliance. And as you look at the bottom of the clhart, you see six in october and six in november, and there have been, i think, four more since then, but november 11 was the cutoff for this report. Also, the prescreening, if you look at the use of force over on the right, whats prescreened, we have [inaudible] try to get us answer either compliance or not, within 45 days, and in the past, what has happened is we would submit the recommendation, they would review, there were times that theyd send it back for further information, saying that wed like to do x, y, sez, in ordero find this record in substantial compliance. What we found is a much more effective use of our resource, our time, and for efficiency purposes, meetings where we prescreen these recommendation packages before we submit them. And what the prescreening has done is we have those conversations prior to submission as to their assessment of whether other things are needed before this meet the mark of substantial compliance. And since weve instituted that mark earlier this mark, we have had none, i think, that have been returned for further information because weve been able to work out those issues before and submit it. So that 45day period is usually a final decision which have all been in substantial compliance. Its just its added a nice dynamic to streamline our process, so i just want to rei reiterate that, and when we talk about 41 recommendations that come out of prescreening, our expectation is once they get through the california d. O. J. For that 45day period, we wont have any problems with them, and thats been our experience so far. So 41 so far, our increased streaming, and the california d. O. J. Is in the process of actually reviewing 33 recommendations. So as you can see, that is going to pick up the pace of the substantial compliance number significantly in the coming months. And were on pace, you know, with the plan or the work that weve laid out, to keep up this pace until the end of this work, so thats very encouraging, and im very happy to report that. So next slide. So as you can see here, theres a what this slide depicts or whats at Hillard Heinz and whats at the its a collaborative process, so were all in conversation all the time about what the needs are, what their assessment is, but Hillard Heinz has 20 that theyre evaluating. Once they evaluate, they move it onto California Department of justice for what you see here is the external allegations. 33 are at the California Department of justice. The expectation is within a short amount of time, 40 days or so, that those 53 will be in substantial compliance because of what i just described with the prescreening process. So that that is very good news. And in terms of picking up the pace, as of this morning, we have 94 in substantial compliance, and with this 53 that are in process, that will put us above the 50 mark, and we have a lot more in the pipeline that are moving, and moving very quickly. And i and i know weve talked about this, and ill just say this, and well get to the next slide, and i think its the last slide or we have a few more slides. Part of what has happened is a lot of the foundational work has been done, so a lot of our our challenges, weve figured out ways with our collaborative partners and our stakeholders to put in better processes, and that has taken some time, i must admit, but i think its put us in the position where we are now where were starting to see the fruits of all of that work and it is very, very encouraging is the position that were in right now, so i hope the commission, as we report in the coming months, will be pleased with the progress that youre seeing with the progress that youre seeing and that youre going to see, and the public. So this slide talks about sustainability. One of the things that we are trying to accomplish with this Reform Initiative is not only the reform now but sustainability. As you all know, police work is a constant evolution, and we always have to look at ourselves in the mirror and determine what do we need to do to get better, and thats what sustainability is all about. Almost every one of our recommendation compliance measures has a sustainability loop built in, whether its what are you going to do to make sure its still working or what are you gooding to do to look at yourself in the mirror to either still be doing this or improve the process. So thats a part of the work, and that part of the work really speaks to sustainability. You know, weve worked with the california d. O. J. , weve worked with Hillard Heinz, and as you can see on this slide, part of what we believe will give us the best chance of sustainability are, you know, policy updates, which the commission is very involved in, and keeping the department very accountable on the d. G. O. S and the d. G. O. That the commission has put forward. Were not where we want to be in terms of staffing, but were set up to do more audits and more complete niqadities than we have in the past. Weve sent our auditors to auditing school, so they know what theyre doing, and those audits help us determine whether were hitting the mark or whether we need to improve. Data analysis, thats a work thats constantly being evaluated, and our data will give us the confidence to where we need to go, what we need to improve on, what we need to work on. And as we continue to work on our data processes, thats going to be a part of sustaining our work. And then, as i mentioned, at the start of this slide, the Continuous Improvement work is really important to sustain the work. So we have our units in place, including the staff inspections unit, our auditing function, our data analysis, with commissioner elias looking at our use of force data. Thats what we have to do to is y you sustain this work long around Hillard Heinz and california d. O. J. Are done with this engagement. Next slide. So the next few slides are just a highlight of each category, and im going to keep this brief. The first is use of force, and you can see where we are on use of force, if you all can see that. We have two recommendations that have determined to be in substantial compliance since the last meeting, and we have an additional seven recommendations that are in external review. Use of force is a category where we have made the most progress in the first 17, 18 months of c. R. I. Work, and we do believe that were going to be able to finish this work. So a couple of highlights to speak of are some of our work with our academic partners, Palo Alto University, to enhance the work of our c. I. T. Program. A lot has been said about c. I. T. , and we believe that c. I. T. Is one of our keys to reducing use of force and having Better Outcomes and the like, but we dont have really any research to support that. What we want is anecdotal and hard data, and someone to look at it and tell us what we can do better. So Palo Alto University is that academic partner, and that is a work in progress. Next slide. Bias is the next slide. Since the last reporting, we have 12 recommendations that have gone to external review, which means we expect them to be in substantial compliance. Also, we have ten additional recommendations that have been prescreened, which we expect, in the very near future, expect to be in substantial compliance. Couple highlights with bias. You know, with our implicit bias training or our bias training in general, theres a lot of work around training in this area, cimplicit bias training. Most of our staff has taken implicit bias training, and thats something that cant be a onetime endeavor. We have to think of ways to keep this in the forefront, so were constantly reevaluating on whether this training is working and changing the training. Its something that were committed to and its ongoing. We do have some training that we hope to bring online in the next few months. Some of it is technology and web based bias training, and well report on that when we get closer to actually making that a reality. We have to go back and revisit the pillars of 21 century policing, interacting with gender varying, and nonbinary individuals. Our officers are constantly training on that, and that will make us better, our biasbased policing instruction, thats an ongoing thoughtful training that will continue also. Principle policing, thats an eighthour block of training that we intend to continue. Implicit bias, thats an eighthour training, and thats also going to continue in the future. And then, our c. I. T. Deescalation training, i talked about that a moment ago. That also has a component of bias training in it or antibias training in it, and that will continue. We also have a block of training called heart and mind of the guardian. Its called its the brand name is blue courage. This training has been very, very popular with our members, and it really really, the idea of it is to win the hearts and minds of the officers. You know, the whole guardian ment mentality that we can speak about, this training is designed to win the hearts and minds of officers as it relates to that topic. Theres a 1. 2hour block of training on heart and mind of the guardian. Theres a bias component in that, and that will continue, as well. As i said, its a very popular block of training with our officers. They really enjoy going to that training, and the feedback surveys that we have had have been very positive about that training. Next slide. Community policing. Since our last update, there have been 12 recommendations that are in external review, and we expect those to be in substantial compliance based on our prescreening process, and then, we have eight additional recommendations that have been prescreened, and again, when they get to external review, we do expect those to be in substantial compliance. So those there are a lot of recommendations that were hands on in the passage of d. G. O. 1. 08, and that sets the framework of Community Policing, our organizational framework, and i thank the commission for getting that through so quickly. That was a big deal, and so theres, you know, Strategic Planning tied to that and the like, and thats a big part of the Community Policing work. That foundational work now has been done, so we expect to move forward regarding many of these recommendations and substantial compliance in the next few months. And next slide. Accountability. Were going to have a presentation from commander flaherty on some of the work that flowed out of commander flaherty and her team, pmcr. But accountability, since the last meeting, 14 recommendations are in the external review process. Again, we expect those to be brought into substantial compliance based on our prescreening results, and 14 additional recommendations have been prescreened. Some of the accomplishments since the last reporting, unit order has gone out to our Investigative Services detail to ensure that they have specialized training in the accountability era. That was one of the recommendations, and it hinges or ties into other recommendations, so that unit order has been drafted and actually put into place. And again, theres a lot of progress with what we have in external valid and prescreening in that particular topic. Theres 58 recommendations in accountability, and 28 of them now have been prescreened or are in that process of external review, so that 28 recommendations, that we expect to be brought into substantial compliance in the next couple of months. Next slide. And last category is recruitment, hiring, and retention. Since our last report, eight recommendations are in external review, and five additional recommendations have been prescreened. Some of our accomplishments since our last report one of the recommendations, 88. 1, spoke to an ongoing review and analysis of the release rates of recruits during the academy. [please stand by] from 2016 to now, shows some of the highlights of where we been and where we are and going. The bottom line on this is, it took us almost 20 months of engagement from the california d. O. J. To get the 40 recommendations. With everything that we have in the external process now and review process, prescreening, were at 143. That happened really in the last ten months. We picked up in terms of getting these recommendations to a level where they are being found in compliance. In the 200 starting range or so by april of this year and hopefully well be above that. We fully intend to complete every one of these recommendations before our work is done. That is my report for this month. Thank you very much for the report. I got so many questions. Where do i begin . I want to look toward the future. Weve got a new administration, weve got bidenharris coming in. Weve all worked with harris when she was the District Attorney and state attorney general and now shes the Vice President. Theres a significant portion of their platform has to do with Police Reform, criminal justice reform. Im wondering what the timeline will be for 2021 to implement the remainder of the 272 d. O. J. Recommendations . Our m. O. U. Ends in spring 2021. Whatever we submit and get review by the california d. O. J. Come this spring, that will be in their report. Well be 230 and hopefully higher than that. Those will be incorporated into the report if we achieve what we believe we can achieve. The remainder, we have a plan of finishing all of the recommendations. The question is, how well report out, whos looking at that including the commission. We always looked the our progress and reform. We expect youll see 20 or 25 a month that will be brought into substantial compliance up until spring of 2021. Well get the report published, wherever that sets. That report will be published. Our plan is to have a plan whatever thats clear to the public and commission. Sounds like, your approach isnt like, okay, quarter one 2021, we want to 15 recommendations. Then by the end of quarter two of 2021, we want to have 30 complete. Its not [indiscernible] our internal strategy and our goal are to have 25 complete. When i say complete, in terms what we are submitting is that theyve gone through the prescreening process. Weve been told by our collaborative partners and advisors everything looks good to go. Once we get prescreening and we kind of get affirmation that everything that we believe we at a point we done everything we need to do, we want to have at least 25 of those a month. We did that last month. If we exceeded, were going to be better off. We dont want to go below that. 200due to the pandemic, lot f our revenue at the city and county has been severely impacted. Im wondering if you will require any more resources in 2021 to fully execute the completion of this list of d. O. J. Recommendations . One area thank you for asking that one area that i want to highlight that we have concern that we may not have resources, this is no fault of anybody in city government, the budget is what it is. Its technology. Weve never really been able to fund our Technology Needs as we need to. That now is even more dire because of covid and what that done to the city financial situation. Were going to work around it as much as we can and be as efficient as we can. Well ask within reason some of what well need. Technology is the one area where that will be on the forefront. Some of the other areas, we figure out, workarounds. My final question requires you to look in your crystal ball and future. Do you think that the 272 recommendations will be completed and approved by d. O. J. In 2021 . By end of the year, if were going going at the pace well get to, well be about 230. There are some that we identified, some of the recommendations where there are some technology and funding needs. Were trying to figure out ways to work through that. There are some that weve identified that we may not be able to get to. We had discussions with the california d. O. J. And part of what they bring to the table is Technical Assistance and advice. We trying to work through that. There are systems that we would love to have. We trying to work through that. We trying to be creative and innovative and work through that. Thank you, i appreciate that. To followup, im on the group dealing trying to reform Early Intervention system and technology is a real problem there and what the group is able to do. Im is that one of the initiatives that you have in mind might not be able to implement everything in time . That is one of them that has been a challenge. Were looking at every possible angle to do within resources that we have. Thats significant. I know thats been discussed in front of the commission in terms of upgrade and our technology in that area. There are upgrades out there. We just got to be able to get to them and have the funding to get to them. I see another question from the commissioners. The next thing we have on the agenda is the critical mindset. We like to give a praise and shot out to commander flaherty and her team. This training has been long time coming. We believe has helped us achieve some Better Outcomes. Theres always improvements that were looking to make with how we do business. Commander flaherty and her team really did good job taking the training and creating training that our officers have embraced. Were seeing it play out in the field in positive ways with positive outcomes. Thank you chief for that introduction. Good evening, we are honored to present critical mindset and coordinator response. You will be reminded of three overarching themes that are outcomes due to leadership and coordination, through self and time reflection. One of the first things students will hear is this training is not a class on our tak tactics. It it is a class on culture. Before we jump into the nuts and bolts of the course and what we have seen, we would like to share with you how we got here. In 2018, i was Commanding Officer in the Training Division. Our officers experienced events that cause us to take pause and say we can do better. With the we were able to see officers making choices that did not prioritize our safety. We saw how officers can impact the outcome of the scene. We found in San Francisco was mental crises. Our officers thrived with intervention. When it cames to crimes in process, those principles where we slow down, hit the breaks and reset or not being exercised. It was created by the team and for the team. Utilizing working group format, we brought together subject Matter Experts that were knowledgeable and highly respected. We brought together the range, professional development staff, s. W. A. T. , internal affairs as well as sergeants and lieutenants from the field. Assessment and reassessment, planning and coordination, leadership, communication and finally the ever important debrief. Critical mindset and coordinator response trains to the concept of discretionary time versus nondisincreasnondiscretionary. When subjects action takes time from us, we are now in nondiscretionary time. It is imperative that we do not become responsible for that shift to discretionary time to nondiscretionary. This training identifies there are many roles in need to be filled for a safe resolution to a high risk incentive. The first is lethal cover. We will never tell our officers how much cover is needed on a scene. That is their responsibility in both their assessment and reassessment of the scene with the understanding that officer safety is our top priority. We have the leadership role. Leadership is not basted based on rank and seniority. The role of leadership should be filled by the person best suited to do so. We have communication both internally at the scene and externally, what information are we telling our resources that are coming to assist. Once we completed the training model, we ask ourselves how we measure success. We can look at tour course evaluation and feedback, our true measure of success is when we see our officers putting this training into application everyday. We have been able to evolve the course and continue to set our path towards the future. These critical mindset and coordinated response did not come easily. We had to earn it. In the end, this is how we changed the culture San Francisco Police Department. Please cue the video. [video] im having trouble hearing that. I dont know about other commissioners. Please increase the volume. I think youre sharing the screen. You have to go into your setting to share audio. [no audio] how long is the video . Its ending right now. I cant hear or see anything. Im sure chief of staff doing a fantastic job. I saw her. I couldnt really hear her. Is the video available for public to view online, sergeant . The video is not. We can put it there. Lets do that. Thank you for the participation. Will we have the same issue with the officer testimony as well . We might. Let me just play the video and see if that will work outside of the powerpoint. Same issue. I would recommend if the commissioners dont object that we keep moving forward with the presentation. At this time, if you please welcome to the conversation critical mindset coordinator. Good evening. Im the lead instructor for critical mindset coordinated response. This was a working group that came together and past two years, has seen fruition of the hard work. Weve definitely earned the growth that we have seen and continue to do so. I wanted to go over the cmcr Guiding Principles for sfpd. Officer decisionmaking when feasible, what actions officers at the scene can take. We all know that the Police Officers respond to complex high risk situations. We want to emphasize planning and coordination. Once we break down the incident, we can break down the variables which priority tasks will take place. The need for leadership must go hand in hand. Weve identified that just like any organization, teamwork is important and communicating that with the goals are and priority need to be at the top of the list. We definitely try to empower officers to do so with the goal of having a peaceful resolution. Like we had mentioned, if adopting of the process and debrief. Positively reinforcing at a positive aspect of any event, whether they ended force or not, whether the suspect is taken into custody or escapes, we like to reinforce the positive things and have an honest conversation how to improve. Course of design were coming to the close of 20192020 cycle in which every sergeant and officer has taken. Theres also a force on force version that Sarah Hawkins have taken herself. Which is twoday course which were conducting applications what we want to see in the field. Reinforcing principles using scenarios which the officer decisionmaking validates what were doing. We see huge change in the field and department and embracing ideas. Thank you. Is there anyone else . Does this conclude the presentation . You will try to play that or go to me . Will i try one more time. Well see if this works. [indiscernible] were having the same issue. I cant hear anything. Can you make this video available on the website as well . Yes. Good evening, my name is lieutenant mike nevin im the officer in charge of the forced officer unit. Call for service and activity gone up in 2019 compare to years past and total use force count has gone down significantly but pointing of firearms has gone down dramatically. Use of force transfers to our principles plot and use of force training. There are numerous factors that contribute to these trends, preliminary analysis suggest that the training revisions are having the desired effect over use of force and client officer involved shootings. The Training Division including my team and members from the Crises Intervention Team meet with Sarah Hawkins of the department of Police Accountability on a monthly basis. As stated earlier, Sarah Hawkins attended our training and so numerous members and other some other training weve had. They are asking to be part of it. Which we are happy to accept. I believe that we have different roles. Through share the feedback, were able to accomplish a bit. The conflict of the officer of subject is now solid i this s different what we saw in years past as final frame analysis. We have another month of that. Our training took effect the same year that that state law did. Were very proud that cmcr is providing force of instruction. As you can see, the sfpd entered this with the department of justice. Ill talk about two quickly. 4. 7, which states the sfpd isntizes the issue and create announcements for roll call on trends. My unit does do that. Weve put together different roll call training such as communication priorities, traffic stop video active attack videotape an video and other. Recommendation 11. 2 states that the sfpd should update existing program to address policy gaps and lessons learned. Commander flaherty everybody spoken, this recommendation speaks to it if the first place. Just in conclusion, commander flaherty mentioned this as well, learning without application is meaningless. Weve been successful. Our officers and front line supervisors deserve all the credit for the success of this training, 25year veterans and officers with 25 months have enthusiastically participated in this force. We believe that this course not only serves our membership, we believe it satisfies the demands of the community that we serve. Thats all i have. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the presentation. I heard lot of positive things about the critical mindset training thats been given. I had a question and then a suggestion. My question is, what type of bias training or what part of bias is addressed in this training, specifically unconscious or implicit type of bias. Then my suggestion is if that there isnt, i know that you mentioned that collaborating with b. P. A. Has been beneficial with you and this program. I think thats really important piece and especially when you flash numbers on the screen of the pointing firearms and use of force. I think thats going to be very important once the revisions are passed which include having these incidents reviewed by your department for the thing that you just discussed. Thank you for the presentation and the work that youre doing. Thank you commissioner. I appreciate your suggestion. We do we have discussed things. In terms of bias, our staff thats part of this, represents every gender, creed and color out there. Were representative of the department and the people that we serve. One good suggestion that came up was to use l. E. P. To have officers work through those. We felt that was a fantastic suggestion that weve been able to incorporate that in our scenarios. Were meeting on a monthly basis. Great thing about d. P. A. Brinings, they keep us apprised of what complaints things surfacing from the community that i might not know. I dont have direct contact with the community. Sarah is able to come and tell us, these are the types of complaints that were seeing. Is there anything we can incorporate within your training that might be able to address and help the officers. Weve been able to do that. I hope i answered your question. Im really glad that you did address to the fact that what d. P. A. Bring to the table thats a very valid point. You sometimes dont get until later on. Its good to be apprised of the Current Trends and issues. Thank you and i continue to i hop you continue to work with d. P. A. Especially surrounding the bias issues that seem to be popping up. Next line item. 2b, d. P. A. Directors report. Welcome director henderson. Good evening. Thank you. Let me give you my staff. We are at 702 cases that have been open so far this year. Were up from last year, we were at 659. We closed 782 cases this year. Last year at this time, we closed 553. We currently have 358 open cases pending. At this time last year we had 409. Weve sustained 38 cases so far this year and last year, we sustained 72 at this time last year. We have 40 cases that are still under investigation past the nine month mark. This time last year, we had throwe34cases still under invesn past the nine month mark. That includes cases where time has tolled. For cases mediated we have 32 cases that have been mediated. The new section is that cases that are pending that have been assigned for hearings, there are 32 open cases that are pending with the chief and at the department and there are 16 cases now that are pending with the commission. We have a session thats on later tonight just for assignment in the closed session. For the 1421, since our last update, w we received five new requests. In terms of our production, we produced new cases and closed for Great Bodily Injury category. Thats a totally 789 new cases that have been released. The new total is 23. 210 pages have been released across the category. All of this information and more details of those releases are found in our public portal. That is on the website. Weve done a number of outreach in training. Lot of that shifted to virtual experiences and virtual participation. We attended many of continue to participate in the mega black meeting with some of the city and public agencies that are coordinating meetings throughout november and i will continue and my staff will continue to participate and engage in those meetings. We participated in a stakeholder engage forum with ucsf on november 12th. We hosted our mediation 101, which is training for mediators november 17th. We hosted Oversight Panel november 17th. For the staff at d. P. A. , participated this sfpd cmcr training in december. We will be presenting on cmcr on what we did already. In terms of our monthly statistical report, everything has been filed earlier. We submitted the report and the complaints continue to be to rain down which are down from 14 from the same time last year. However, were still up 7 here to date overall. In october 2020, we received 683 complaints at the same time last year in 2019 during month of october, we received 637 complaints. That concludes my update and my report. Thank you. Next line item. 2c, commission report. Report will be limited to brief description of activities and announcements. Commission president s report, commissions report and commission announcements and schedule of items identified for consideration at future Commission Meeting. I see nothing in the chat. Thank you. I dont know what this is now. I think we talked about it before. I did want the Bar Association to have an opportunity to present to us regarding the Police Union Contract and the issues they wrote us a lovely letter about. I like to schedule that as soon as possible. I know that process is still going on. The Bar Association has been meeting with the department. Well reach out. Im not sure where they are in the process. I agree they should present. Ill see they rather do so now or later on in the process. Were happy to follow up on that. Thank you. I am going to ask that we calendar bgo5. 3. The working group will be meeting on the 14th. We should be able to have information or wrap up the loose ends on the 14th and have this calendar on december 16th. Other request, im going to ask that the we agendize or perhaps, director henderson can provide an update as to the dante king investigation or the investigation into the allegations of bias. Its my understanding that d. P. A. Was going to be taking the lead on that and providing some guidance or some understanding as to the allegations made and brought to light. I like a report from dr. Henderson as to what is happening with respect to that and or agendize it so the full commission and the public can finally get some answers and discuss this matter as ive been requesting to be agendize for quite some time. Those are the two items i have. Thank you. Thank you. I want to echo about the Bar Association regarding the meet and confer issue that we continue to run up against. I wanted to say speak urgency to that. If we can have input into that, that will be great. We should put it on the following week. I was following up on what commissioner said. Thats been like quite a while regarding donte king. He was willing to speak at some point. We need to hear from director henderson about the status of that. That will be valuable for the commission to hear from. Thank you. Director henderson, you may not be in position to speak about this now. That is something we want to put on a future Commission Meeting. I initiated it at the very beginning. I sat down with donte. Are you ready to do it . We were waiting on your investigation to be i can give an update. The investigation is not complete of what were able to do with what has been done totally. I can give an update and tell everyone what the direction is. I can give an update on donte. He can also speak for himself. Im lething guys know, that weve been taking action and stuff has been done. Maybe it will be good to [indiscernible] who is donte king . Donte king wrote a letter in time during covid. It was april 2020 or 2019 . He wrote a letter in april 2019. He was d. H. R. Employee. Part of what he was charged with doing was implementing implicit bias testing for officers. We wrote a very kind of damaging letter as someone whos implemented the training about i think the words were rampant antiblack bias in the Police Department. D. P. A. And director henderson has been investigating these complaints. What were asking for status update and figure out where they are in the investigation. He was actually the d. H. R. Training their providing bias training for actual officers in the department. He wrote a letter to the chief regarding his concerns over the bias and antiblack sentiments that were running in the department and then the newspaper got a hold of that letter that was sent to the chief raising those concerns. Then we had asked to have that mr. King come and talk to us about that and to get more information as to the rapidity of validity of these claims and his concerns to see whats going on with the concerns and what can be done to address these concerns. Thats right the letter was to the chief. Despite our numerous request, at the time, i believe president hersh sent a letter directing henderson to conduct an investigation. I also ask that the matter be agendize so that the public can discuss it. I believe commissioner hamasaki reach out to mr. King and ask him to come to the commission and talk to us directly. Thats never been agendized on our agenda. We tried to put it on the agenda couple of times. I will ask director henderson about the status of the investigation. The investigation is still ongoing. Thats what weve been waiting for. I never spoken to mr. King, we can have mr. King come before the commission. I like to know the status whatever findings d. P. A. Conclusions come top regardless of the result of the investigation by d. P. A. , whats important that he come before the commission and this matter be before the commission so that the public and the commission can address it. I dont think it should be dependent upon what d. P. A. Finds out. Several commissioners have questions and its a very concerning topic and its an issue that has plagued the department for quite some time. I think thats why theres been several requests by commissioners to have this on calendar, despite d. P. A. s conclusion, which my understanding, they have been diligently working on it. They have their information ready for us. I think its important that we agendize it and we discuss it. We all agree on that. If d. P. A. Is ready, we can put it on the agenda. If someone wants to reach out, it makes since to have mr. King up here before the commission. We can do that as well. It seems little bit choppy. This item is scheduled for next meeting . I would like to hear from director henderson. Is d. P. A. Ready to present on this . Im not ready to present because we havent concluded anything. I can give you an update and tell you what we have been doing. I can tell you what ive heard from donte from meeting with him. It sounds like the folks want to hear directly from him and ask him their own questions and stuff. I dont want to interpret what he was saying for him. I can present an update as to what weve been doing and where weve taken it and summarize where we took the conversations with him about the allegations given to what he said. Status update will be great. You have any sense when the investigation will be concluded . One moment. If you dont, thats fine. Offhand, i dont. We can do status update and take it from there. My request is not to wait until the investigation is over. We should be able to agendize this. Thats what i just said. I think that mr. King speaking to us is separate issue from the d. P. A. Investigation and doesnt seem like theres any conflict based on what director henderson just stated with mr. King appearing and speaking generally about his experiences. Is mr. King still employed by the city and county of San Francisco . No. Did he quit or released . Im not sure if thats true. He might be employed in a different department. Guys were way off agenda now, i wanted to hear from director henderson as to whether or not this is ready to be agendize ag. Lets do that and move on to the agenda that we currently have. I want to circle back to commissioner cohens question, whether or not this will be agendize for the next meeting. Is that a yes or no . We can have director henderson speak about it at the next meeting if he is ready. What donte king is available for, i cannot speak to yet. I would prefer to give the status update maybe towards end of december. Next week is going to be too soon. Its scramble now. Things are little hectic. Were way off agenda. It will be put on an agenda in december and thats it. Next line item. Next is Public Comment on line item two. Members of the public like to make Public Comment on line item 2, please dial 4156550001. Press pound and pound again and star 3 to raise your hand. Members of the public logged in webex, press star 3 now. If you like to make comment on line item 2. So far we have two comments. Im sorry. Thank you commissioners. Thank you henderson. Thithank you so much chief scotr if the presentation this evening. Thank you for following through and bringing that information. Looking back at the numbers that you presented about six officers providing foot parole in bay view valley. As a community member, i dont see them. I heard you saying very clearly about the need to provide balance and to need to pull those officers when other things are happening. While i really understand that from a business perspective, obviously like anything else, the Police Department is a business and you need to manage resources, i get that. As a community member, i dont see those six officers, ever. Im walking in the neighborhood on a regular basis. I need you to hear that from me. I do not see them. I wanted to elevate commissioner elias suggestion a combination between the foot patrol and car patrol. Because again, i heard you. Saying you do need to pull officers as other things are going on or that theres some limitations that foot patrol officers have in responding to things in other parts of the community. I heard that. What we might do is provide a combination of foot patrol and car patrol where even the officers who are in cars, get out of those cars and engage with the community. What happens typically officers that are in cars, they stay in those cars. Only the officers who are bike or feet your time is up. Good evening caller, you have two minutes. Iim a resident of district7 here in San Francisco. Im calling to request that commissioners to meet with our group to talk about in the d. O. J. Report. We sent numerous request to meet with you folks and only heard back with one commissioner, that is concerning when you hold such a high regard. Furthermore, i want to state that were outraged that the d. P. A. Found no consequences to the as far a officers who execud in 2015. Im concerned where the accountability where the police in these cases. Thank you for your time. Good evening caller, you have two minutes. Im a father of two and small Business Owners in the Richmond District in San Francisco. Im also a key member of the wealth disparity in the black community. I like information from the Police Commission and the commissioner hamasaki stated well get information when we can meet with you specifically on the items that the previous caller just discussed about the response of the recommendations in the d. O. J. Report. We like that to be scheduled as soon as possible. I will end my Public Comment there. Thank you, for both callers, the chief gave an update about when he thought the 272 recommendations will be complete. I know that commissioner hamasaki is scheduling a time to meet with you. Im wondering outside of that, in terms of the commission, what else outside of the schedule for the recommendations, im a little bit confused to what the outstanding questions were. There were couple of things. We understand that those we do understand that they feel they are in good shape for those to be completed. But theres no substancuation for that yet. Without that official substantiation, the agency will look at those and make sure they are accomplished. We have concerns that the m. O. U. Signed with the city will conclude in february. If all the findings are not addressed, how we will ensure that gets done if the m. O. U. Is not extended. This is commissioner hamasaki. I apologize that you were not responded to sooner. I wrapped up trial or trial settle and emailed Sergeant Youngblood to set up a pleat meting. Meeting. I like to hear from you and see if i can help. Thank you very much, commissioner. We appreciate that. Thank you. Any other callers . Yes. Good evening caller, you have two minutes. This is Danielle Harris from the public defenders office. You wont be surprised to hear that im calling to talk about 1421421 compliance. This is major statewide Police Reform to address the Massive Public interest in Police Transparency and accountability. We heard a report tonight which is not helpful. It only give us raw numbers, it doesnt tell us what piece of the pie is complied with. My office presented in december, there was only 5 compliance with the Law Enforcement of that law through disclosures last year. We are now at about twice that little under 11 . Thats despite increases. Caller, are you there . Caller, ill and back to you. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Caller yes, can you hear me. [echoing] good morning, my name is Felicia Jones and im the chair of the black community. I welcome to the commission, however, as previously we have stated, its a lot of echo on here. I dont know whats going on. You need to mute your other devices. You need to mute other devices. Caller can you hear me . [echoing] okay, i dont know what is going on. I dont have any other devices. [echoing sounds] caller okay, so try again. So the thing of it is that all of you serve as servants of the people. And, again, i am just really frustrated how the lack of followup that all of you have on the commission and also d. P. A. When we write to you, you seem that what were saying is not important. We had meetings with petra over the years and, you know, this is really frustrating. As the only black social Justice Movement in the city and county of San Francisco, that we have to write to you two or three times and theres no response. And for me, theres no excuses. This is part of what you do. This is your obligation to the city and county of San Francisco. When you take the oath of this seat. So, again, i heard that we are going to be making plans to meet, but i just wanted to be in Public Comment that how the lack of followthrough that you guys have on the commission and d. P. A. And its not acceptable. And so, again, i just want to look forward to meeting with yo clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller hi there. Hopefully technical issues will have abated by now. My name is ben saunders and im a resident of San Francisco and also a member of the black community. I support the members of the staff, but i have a question around reporting and kind of how sfp is using data. And maybe commissioner henderson can share with the community in some statement, but d. P. A. Had released an audit i think on the fifth of october, with recommendations for sfpd and finding issues with how they were maybe not as effectively using the useofforce data as they could and just issues of reporting and where that is fitting with responses to that our how they hope to capitalize on these findings, even if theyre not part of the 272 recommendations with d. O. J. And the second question was that i know that sfpd has circulated a memo about the 96a report on the use of force and being delayed by a couple of weeks. I wanted to check if that for the purpose of per capita data. And we wanted to mention the justice data is a bare minimum requirement for effective reporting. And so i wanted to check if that is something that we could expect to see in the Third Quarter report that is taking extra time to prepare to take in some stakeholder questions. Thanks. Clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Caller, are you there . That was the caller that i told her that i would come back to. So that is the end of Public Comments. Okay. So for that caller, if you would like to try again well get to the general public shortly here. So i dont i want you to keep trying if your needs are not addressed by other callers and youd like to call in. Next line item is line item 3 and were continuing that to the next meeting. And so please call the next line item. Clerk line item 4, discussion and possible action to adapt the general order 5. 04, arrest by private persons, discretion and possible action. Okay, who is presenting on this item . Good evening, commissioners. It is deputy chief here, can you hear me and see me . Yes. Okay. Thank you very much. As Sergeant Youngblood stated, this is a presentation on an update to the departments general order 5. 04, arrest by private persons. I know that youve had a long agenda so ill be brief on the presentation tonight and then to be able to take any questions that you might have. The first thing that id like to do is to recognize lieutenant amy hurwitz, shes on the line tonight. She is the subject Matter Expert who assisted in rewriting of this general order. So i want to recognize her and if theres any specific questions that she might be able to address, we can address that as well. But i wanted to recognize her. This general order, like all of the general orders, are up for revision. And as most of you know, many of our orders go back as early as 1994. This specific order in relation to arrests by private persons was last written in 2007. So we rewrote it this year, so the chief of the Field Operations bureau, i am tasked with about 15 to 17 general orders that were rewriting and this is the first one that i have come to present to you. There are just a few changes to this order from what was written in 2007 to now. And ill cover both of those. Theres not a Powerpoint Presentation on it but i will speak to both of them. You should have copies of the order, both as its currently sitting and with red lines. Ill identify the two changes. The first thing that i want to do before i go into that is that i want to thank the department of Police Accountability. Like many general orders that we are reformatting or reviewing and rewriting, that the department of Police Accountability is oftentimes giving us recommendations on changes to the Department Orders and theres two ways that we generally deal with it. First is that we either agree and we put those recommendations into the policy. And we dont need to have a discussion, but if there are times in more of the more complex policies, that we meet on what we call a meeting. And we ask for the differences based on the suggestions. I have worked with Sarah Hawkins and sharon woo on many of those and continue to. This particular policy did not have a sparks meeting that was agendized as there were only really two recommendations that Police Accountability asked us to make, other than structure and format changes. And we agreed to both changes. So ill just highlight them briefly. In our old policy under the procedure section in line item 8, our policy in the past said that in all instances involving requests for private persons arrest and an incident report shall be prepared. D. P. A. Recommended that we change the language and we add that the subsequent refusal or the lack of cooperation by the private person does not relieve a member from completing and incertificating a report under d. G. O. 5. 04 and we agreed to it. And the purpose is that there were times where the officers would get complaints made against them and would come into d. P. A. During an interview and would not specifically identify that the person either refused or that the person changed their mind. And so they didnt write a report. And d. P. A. Has suggested to us that in those instances that even though the person changes their mind or refuses to cooperate in the investigation, that they still felt that it was appropriate for an officer to write a report. We agreed and we have made that change in this general order. The second one that we have changed was not in the prior general order but the recommendation from the department of Police Accountability and had to do with circumstances and when an officer did not issue a certificate of release. Their recommended language said that except in certain circumstances a member shall issue a certificate of release when a person is not free to leave, even if no arrest occurs. In cases when a member is unable to issue a certificate of release, the member shall document the reason and an incident report. What d. P. A. Said in this is that there were officers who had complaints from the past that required them to go on to another emergency call, or the person had walked away, or there was some other circumstances that didnt afford the officer an opportunity to physically to give the person a slip. And so the officer by the old general order was not required to author an instant report. What we agree with d. P. A. On this is that even in those cases where a circumstance exists and the officer is unable to issue a 49b, theyre still required to author it, and we agreed with that. The only other changes that we had through this were some clerical ones where we removed what we thought was some language that didnt need to be in here when it had to do with different there was language that was expansive and d. P. A. Didnt have any problems with removing that. It had to do with First Amendment rights and had to do with Fourth Amendment procedures and so forth. The only thing that i bring before you today that may change in this order before you approve it is that i did receive an email today that there was an issue that came up from the Commission Regarding some specific language that the commission may want to have in it. And i will defer to the chief if he has any comments on it. I have looked at it and what we would be looking to do and i dont have a problem with making the will change an change and bk is that under section 3 of what is in the current policy, we would add the language before procedure 3 that says bearing in mind the potential for bias by proxy and then determine that probable cause exists. In that case we had the language and reminding officers that theres bias by proxy and we wanted the officers to be aware of that in schnappse instances s and that they should be kog miswrant of that cognizant of that so its in the front of their mind when it comes to arrest of private persons. So i leave that to the chief to speak on it. From my understanding from the email that i got from the chief officer that hes amendable to it. And you can make that change and resubmit it. Those are the only changes to the pgo5. 04, arrest by private persons and im happy to answer any questions or concerns that the commission may have. That suggestion came from me. I mean, so when i see a p. G. O. Title arrest by private persons, alarm bells go off because of the potential for people calling police on racial minorities and, you know, in this instance trying to arrest racial minorities innocence influenced. I wanted to make sure that it was cross referenced and also that the members know that part of their obligation is to keep that proxy in mind and to be aware of pgo5. 017 with arrests by private persons. I have some questions from commissioners, but it looks like the chief wants to comment on bias by proxy. So chief, go ahead. Thank you, vicepresident taylor. Yes, i do agree with your the chief maceacherns take on this. And the only other add to that, added to number 3 is to add d. B. O. 5. 17 as a reference at the end of the document. Vicepresident taylor the commissioners may have questions. Commissioners . I think that you have both covered it. What i looked at it, when i looked at it today, bias by proxy screamed that it was missing. So thank you for putting that in there. And the second thing is exactly what the chief just said. I dont think that its enough to say remember bias by proxy and we should refer them to the d. G. O. So they can make themselves aware so they really know d. G. O. And its a really new concept. In terms of policy for us. So thats it. Im glad that you put it in there and i would say that we should beef it up a little bit more and refer them to the actual d. G. O. Vicepresident taylor i agree. Commissioner elias. Thank you. And thank you for the presentation. I wanted to give a shoutout to sandra, who is not here anymore, but i believe that she was really instrumental in creating and cultivating and working alongside the department with this d. G. O. , especially i think that i know that shes very passionate about providing cards and information to individuals that has been adopted in the d. G. O. So i want to commend the department and you for your hard work as well as giving sandra a shoutout. Because i know that she worked really hard and diligently in this d. G. O. , as she did with many others. So, thank you. Vicepresident taylor thank you. So, yes, commissioner, well make those change changes that e talked about and referring to d. G. O. 5. 07 and submit it back for approval. I dont know if you want a full presentation once that language is done. You can direct me on that, and im happy to come back or we can just submit it. I would just echo what the commissioner said about sandra. The meetings that i have with sarah and sharon, especially on the ones that are more sometimes you have differences we have been able to work through. And i specifically make sure that im a voice in that because we an times then meet with the other chiefs to discuss these changes. I want to be able to present d. P. A. s concerns and why we have changed language and its been a really good process for us as we move forward. Because of these suggestions that weve had for so long, but we havent changed so many of the policies that were now able to implement them. And sandra was certainly a big part of that as well with moving forward. So i echo that. Well make the changes and send it back to you. Vicepresident taylor i tang we can approve the change, the d. G. O. With edits that we make here in the commission. You know, just to not delay the process. We have so many d. G. O. S in wanthehopper that id like to kn a good schedule and moving forward. The first change is referencing d. G. O. 5. 107, bias by policing as one of the references. And then adding that language vicepresident taylor yes. The potential for bias by proxy. And then continuing on under number 3. Vicepresident taylor number one and number three, i would add that responding members need to bear in mind that theres potential bias by proxy. Im sorry, one more time, commissioner . I have under the procedures for three, it starts right now with determine probable cause and we would add the language for that, bearing in mind the potential for bias by proxy determined the cause if the individual committed the crime in question . Vicepresident taylor correct. I would also do it for number one as well. Bearing in mind the potential for bias by proxy okay. Thats fine if you want it added to both. Vicepresident taylor awesome. Okay. As long as youve got that, then were good to go and well send it to the professional standards and have it drafted and completed. Vicepresident taylor what im saying is if the commissioners are ready, we can vote on this tonight. We can adopt the d. G. O. And use amendments with these changes. I dont mean to delay it. I think we should keep it moving forward. Lets get it done and out of the way because theres a lot more coming down the pipe. Vicepresident taylor exactly. And stacy has it up on the screen. So if the commissioners are ready i think that we can go. All right, so i make a motion to adopt the changes as we just discussed and made and to accept the d. G. O. I second it. Okay. Vicepresident taylor i think that we need Public Comment. Clerk yeah. Members of the public who would like to make a Public Comment on line item 4, please dial 4156550001 and enter code 1469128348 and press pound and pound again and then star, 3, to rise your hand. For the members already on, please dial star, 3, now to make Public Comment on line item 4. Theres no Public Comment, commissioner. Vicepresident taylor great, call roll for the vote. Clerk all right on the motion to adopt d. G. O. 5. 104 with amendments [roll call vote] you have five yes. Vicepresident taylor great, the motion passes. Next line item, please. Clerk line item 5, public general comment. At this time the public can address the commission for up to two minutes for items not on the agenda but within the commission. Under Police Commission rules of order, Neither Police nor the d. P. A. Personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions by the probable but may provide a brief response. Its a opportunity to speak by calling 14156550001 and enter code 1469128348 and press pound and pound again. And speak clearly and slowly and turn down devices in the background. You may submit in either of the ways, email the Police Commission at sfpd. Commission sfgovtv. Org or to the Public Safety building at 1245 third street, San Francisco, california, 94158. Members that would like to make Public Comment, press star, 3, now. All right, we have Public Comment coming. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Caller this is David Ericsson again. Based on the analysis that the organization that im volunteering for have done, and the black individuals in San Francisco are 10 times as likely to be arrested or subjected to use of force by the San Francisco Police Department even now than white individuals. And even five times more likely than hispanic individuals. These are based on San Francisco Police Department own numbers and a legacy of the census data. This is unacceptable in my opinion and it is clear that there is bias in the Police Community towards overpolicing and arresting and use of force against our black community. I would like a commitment from the d. P. A. And the Police Commission to take a look at how theyre doing their reporting and start to support a per capita reporting requirement for these types of data, use of force, arrests, and pullovers, etc. And the center for policing equity has stated that this is a minimum reporting requirement as have other organizations and i would like to see that adopted by the Police Commission and the d. P. A. Thank you. Vicepresident taylor thank you. Clerk good evening, miss brown, you have two minutes. Caller yes, good evening. Hi, im calling about my son, arbari who was murdered august 4, 2006. I ask everyone to get the information that i that i had miss youngblood put on the new information and if everybody has gotten it and im still asking for the commissioners here to write a letter to the feds for them to recant their story about my son being in a gang. And ifen read that, i am really requesting that this information very supportive before and if you Read Everything you can see whats going on. And, you know, still to give a shoutout about my son too. But i really would like that letter i remember the former president i forget his name he passed away, but he had wrote a few things for me too. So im just asking if you can write for them to recant their story because theres no evidence about anything with my son. I have been fighting for this last 14 years. And to the complaint of the procedural misconduct that theyre doing based on my son. So, again, i am respectfully asking that and to also to give a shoutout concerning my son being murdered. As a mother i am still suffering about my sons murder. And the family and everyone. And i just thank you guys for being with me all these years. But, please, thank you. Vicepresident taylor thank you, miss brown. If you have any information on the murder of miss browns son, please call the anonymous tipline 4155754444. Clerk good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller hi, the old guy again who was dragged out of safeway by the Police Department. The good news is that im not going to call you anymore about this. Perhaps its sad news ill be turning away from the commission and more to the community. Because of the lack of responsiveness here. Just a quick review of the issues and the use of force problem with no security issue present, indicated bad judgment with the officers. Indicated the officers inability to deescalate what was actually a calm situation. If they cant deescalate a calm situation, what are they going to do when a volatile situation . The yelling and disruption and the violence that were present at the store was introduced by the officers. It sounds like somebody is not muted. The use of force in this situation was omitted in police report. D. P. A. , what about that . And the d. P. A. Ruling, all of this being acceptable behavior, its going to just lead to more bad behavior. Theres no indication of any corrective action. And my group, when we call police to report a problem, they come and say we didnt see it. In this case they didnt see a problem either but that didnt stop them from jumping on me and dragging me out of the safeway. Bye. Vicepresident taylor thank you, caller. Clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes . Caller hello, can you hear me this time . Clerk yes. Caller great. I was the person who wasnt able to speak before. So i was listening to chief scotts report and then the report on the critical mindset training and im just thinking that, you know, they seem very pleased let me introduce myself. I am susan buchan, a resident of district 5 and a member of breaking disparities in black communities. So listening to these people seem very pleased with the training theyve been doing and the progress that they say that theyre making for the Collaborative Reform Initiative. But its less than its just over a month out from the death of Caesar Vargas and hes a perfect example of a situation that this critical mindset could have been used. please stand by good evening, caller, you have two minutes. San francisco administrative code section 67. 10 action. Do i have a motion . So moved. Is there a second . Second. On the motion to go into closed section how do you vote [roll call vote] you have five yeses. All right, we will go into closed session. Line 9. Do we have a motion. Motion. Second. All right. On the motion not to disclose, how do you vote . Do we have to take Public Comment . Yes. Members of the public who would like to make a comment online 9 nine, please call. Press star 3 now to make Public Comment. We have no Public Comment. Okay. All right, commissioner dejesus. Yes. Commissioner elias. Yes. Vice president taylor. Yes. You have four yeses. Next item. Adjournment, action item. Motion. Audible second. Second. All right, on the motion to adjourn, commissioner dejesus how do you vote. Yes. Commissioner elias. Yes. Vice president taylor. Yes. You have four yeses. Good night everyone. Happy thanksgiving guys. We wont see you until december. Happy thanksgiving. All right, bye. Hi. My name is carmen chiu, San Franciscos elected assessor. Buying your first home is a big deal. For many of us, its the single largest asset that well own. Thats why its really important to plan ahead for property taxes so that there are no surprises. A typical question new homeowners ask is what is a supplemental tax. So understand supplemental tax, we need to start with proposition 13. Under californias prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to a 2 growth peryear, but when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we set a properties assessed value to market value. The difference in value between the previous owners value and the new value is the supplemental assessment. How does the supplemental assessment translate to the tax you need to pay . Supplemental tax is calculated by applying the tax rate to the value and then prorating it for the amount of time that you owned it in that tax year. In generale, the tax rate is roughly 1 . Lets walkthrough an example together. Here dan is the original owner of a home with a prop 13 protected value of 400,000. With a tax rate of 1 , he pays 4,000. Dan sells his home to jennie at a market rate of 700,000. In this case, jennies home will be reassessed to 700,000, and jennie is responsible for paying property taxes at that level from the time she first owns it. Many times, people might have already paid their property taxes in full by the time they sell their home. In that case, dan has paid 4,000 in taxes already for the full year. Jennie would likely payback dan through escrow for her share of the 4,000, depending on the proportion of the tax year she owns the home. However, shes also responsible for paying taxes at the higher market value from when she begins to own the home. How does that work . Lets say jennie owns the property for nine months of the first tax year, which is approximately 75 of the year. During the escrow process, shed pay dan back 75 of the 4,000 he already paid, which is 3,000. On top of that, she would owe taxes at the higher rate for the proportion of the year she owned the house. In this case, she owes the amount not already billed through dan or 700,000 minus 400,000, multiplied by a tax rate of 1 , and multiplied again by 75 to reflect the time she owned the home in that tax year. Here, jennies supplemental tax is roughly 2,250. Going forward, jennie will be billed at her new reset prop 13 value. Are you still with us . If this isnt complicated enough, some new owners might receive two supplemental tax bills, and this has to do with the date that you transfer property. But before we get to that, you first need to understand two concepts. First, what is a fiscal year . In california, local government runs on a fiscal year. Unlike the calendar year, where the year begins on january 1, a fiscal year begins in the middle of the year, on july 1. Property tax follows the fiscal year cycle. Second, state law requires property be valued as of january 1 every year, in other words, new years day. The value as of january 1 is used to calculate property taxes for the upcoming fiscal year. This means Property Value as of january 1, 2018 will be usedtor fiscal year 18 used for fiscal year 1819 covering july 2018 through june 2019. Similarly, the value of january 1, 2019 will be used for the fiscal year covering july 2019 through june 2020. Now back to whether you should expect to receive one or two supplemental tax bills. The rule of thumb is that if the property transfers happens in the first half of the fiscal year, in other words between july and december, then you should expect only one supplemental tax fill. If the transfer happens in the second half of the fiscal year or between january and june, you should expect two supplemental tax bills. Heres the reason why. Using dan and jennies example again, dans 400,000 value as of january 1 is used to set the tax bill for the following fiscal year beginning july through june of the next year. Jennie buys the property from dan in october. The taxable value is reset to 700,000 as of october, but the bill issued still reflects dans lower value. In this case, jennie would expect to receive one supplemental or catchup bill to capture the difference between her assessed value and begans fr begans dans from october through june. Because of january 1 we already know of the sale, we would have used the following year to set jennies property taxes and no other supplemental bill should be received. However, if dan sells the property to jennie in march, instead, jennie should expect two supplemental bills. Like before, jennie would receive one supplemental bill to cover the time in which she owned the home in the current tax year from march to june. But because as of the next january used to set the tax base for the following tax year, dan still owned the home, the following years entire bill still reflects the values not updated for jennie. In this instance, jennie receives a second supplemental for the following year covering july through june. After the supplemental tax bills, new owners should receive only one regular tax bill peryear going forward. Remember our office values the properties, but billing and collections are handled by another Organization Called the treasurer and tax collectors office. If youd like to learn more, please visit our website at sfassessor. Org. Thank you for watching. Clerk call to order and roll call. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. I am here, as well. Please call item